Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 61

[Chapter 60]

The three of them left the North House. Xiao Qiao was slightly behind, and Wei Shao, the head of the group, walked side by side with his mother Zhu Shi. When he reached the three forks in the road, Wei Shao stopped, and Xiao Qiao walked up.

“Go back to your room.” I’ll just send my mother back to the house.

He didn’t look at Little Joe with his eyes, said a word, and walked toward the east house.

Little Joe stood at the fork in the road, watching his back accompany his mother, silently turned around, and returned to the West House by himself.

“How could his house, which was so good, burn down?”

On the way, Zhu Shi began to complain, “You cousin, I saw him and he was very nervous!” I don’t know how long I’m going to stay when I come back! Wei Shao’s

eyes were level ahead, his expression was indifferent, and there was no response.

Zhu Shi saw that his son seemed to be absent-minded, looked back, and the servants and women who accompanied him were separated by some roads, gritted their teeth and said, “I will not tolerate him.” It was only since he was a child that when I saw his eyes, I felt a pang in my heart. He was going to fight with you for this Wei family thing! I saw that you had a good relationship with him, and I was just worried in my heart, and I couldn’t say it. This time simply reminds you. The heart of defense is indispensable, and if something really happens one day, it will be too late to regret it!

Wei Shao looked at Zhu Shi and still didn’t say a word. Soon he sent Zhu Shi to the door of the East House, stopped and said, “The son has sent his mother here.” There was something serious going on outside, so I went first. ”

You wait!” Zhu Shi saw that his son did not seem to listen to it, and his heart was unwilling and really anxious.

Her heart harbored a secret from nearly thirty years ago. At that time, she had just married into the Wei family. This secret may now only be known to her and Mrs. Xu. This unspeakable secret, she hid for decades.

With her character, it is really hard to hide. Whenever she wanted to say it to her son, as long as she thought of Madame Xu’s cold look at her one-eyed, she would unconsciously chill from the bottom of her heart, and then swallow back the words that came to her mouth.

Wei Shao stopped and looked back at Zhu Shi.

Zhu Shi opened his mouth, and finally swallowed it back, reluctantly smiling: “Nothing.” There you go. Nothing more than tired and coming back early. If you want to eat the food I made, it doesn’t hurt if you don’t want to come to me, send someone to say it, I’m ready to let people send you to the Westinghouse.

Wei Shao paused and nodded, “Bother your mother.” Mother go in.

Zhu Shi answered, and was surrounded by servant women who came up behind him.

……

Wei Shao left the Wei family and went straight to the Ya Bureau. Gongsun Yang and Li Dianwei Liang and others were already waiting for him.

A few days ago, it was reported that Yuan Zhao of Qingzhou had sent an envoy, and the people had arrived today. Although they had not yet met, it was inferred that it was related to Yukisun’s engagement at Fenshui at this time. After the agreement, Wei Liang went out of the city to greet him. At noon, Yuan Dai’s brother Yuan Dai and his party entered the city.

Wei Shao set up a banquet at the Office of the Imperial Household.

At present, if the princes of the world are divided by region, strong soldiers and horses, and have a prominent reputation, there are only three: Northern Wei Shao, Hanzhong Le Zhenggong, and the land of the middle abdomen, there is Shandong Yuan Zhao.

To put it bluntly, in today’s great drama of chasing deer in the world, if there is no accident, those who have the strength to kill the princes who have the strength to destroy the imperial jade seal of the country are also among these few people.

The rest of the people, etc., were just singing along.

Yuan ochre has been operating for several generations, and has long had the heart to see the world. Xingxun changed the position of Emperor You a few months ago, and he felt that the time had come, and he could not hold back, so he entangled Liu Kai and others in Guangping to send troops to Luoyang, originally wanting to attack Luoyang with a single blow and kill Xingxun to replace him.

But since Xingxun can mix to the point of today’s “Father of the Nation”, he is naturally not a vegetarian. Already strong in strength, the two sides exchanged troops in the area of Shuishui, and there were victories and losses for each other, but now they are facing each other across the water, and they do not move for the time being, but instead they have started a war of words, and their respective texts are flying all over the sky.

In the name of Emperor Han, Xingxun scolded Yuan Ochre for openly raising troops and rebelling, and called on the people of the world to jointly cut it down. Yuan Ochre scolded Xingxun for blackmailing the princes of Tianzi with the intention of usurping the throne, and called on the princes to join him in serving the king. The two scolded happily. Scolding and scolding, Yuan Zhao thought of Wei Shao, so he sent his younger brother Yuan Dai to Yuyang, saying in the tone of an elder, “Old uncle I once gave grace to your father Wei Jing, and now that your father is gone, this person will take care of your son.” Uncle, I’m fighting with Yukisson, and you have to fight with me.

When Yuan Ochre and Wei Jing were working as Zhonglang generals in Luoyang, once Wei Jing took several people out of Beijing, and when passing through the place of Zhongmu, he encountered a group of dozens of rogue thieves, just as Yuan Ochre passed by, the two of them killed the rogue thieves together.

Although this matter is not false, Yuan Ochre relies on the old and sells the old, and Yuan Dai also follows the arrogance, and seems to want to establish a prestige posture in front of Wei Shao, the new hegemon of the north who has not dried up. Wei Liang on the other side rose up angrily on the spot, raised his feet and kicked over the wine case in front of him with a loud “whoosh”, and the wine and flesh fell to the ground. Wei Liang walked over to Yuan Dai, drew his sword and pointed it at his nose, and scolded in a sharp voice, “Zhongmu Zhi’s grace, the first lord has already doubled his retribution!” The lord saw that you had come from afar, and did not forget the old feelings of the two families, and only today did he personally set up a banquet to receive the wind with his illness. Where are your faces, dare to make a big fuss in front of my lord! Behind

Yuan Dai stood Yuan Zhao Gan’er Ding Qu, known for his fierceness, and when he saw the situation, he hurriedly pulled out his sword and drank: “Ding Qu is here, who dares to be rude?”

Wei Liang sneered and roared, and dozens of warriors poured into the door, and in the blink of an eye, Yuan Dai and Ding Qu were surrounded by a group, and the swords were bright and murderous.

After the change of the Wei family ten years ago, Yuan Ochre originally thought that the Wei family was in a slump and did not pay attention to it at all, and a few years later, Wei Shao was in charge of the army, and Yuan Ochre heard that he was only seventeen years old, and he laughed at that time. Unexpectedly, after only a few years of kung fu, Wei Shao’s power soared, first swallowing Ji Prefecture, and not long ago destroying Chen Xiang to win the merger state, not only actually unifying the north, but also having the potential to catch up with himself. Yuan Ochre panicked at this point, hating that he hadn’t completely cut it off when he was not in full swing. This was one of the reasons why he was anxious to destroy Xingxun and replace him this time. The plan was blocked, so he came up with this plan to blackmail Wei Shao with the grace of the elders.

If Wei Shao obeyed, he came to help in the battle, and the rest of the princes naturally followed suit, and then he was justified as an ally. If Wei Shao did not comply, the Wei family would be fortunate to be in the same party and ungrateful. This sent Yuan Dai over.

Yuan Dai originally just wanted to rely on the old and sell the old, and to take the lead in front of this young rising star, and before he first opened the feast, Wei Liang turned his face and did not recognize anyone.

This was Wei Shao’s territory, and if he really wanted to kill, the ten Ding Qu would not be able to protect themselves, and they couldn’t help but tremble with fear and regret, and looked at Wei Shao. Seeing him sitting facing south, he seemed to be outside and hurriedly said, “Junhou Mingjian!” I came to the friendship at my brother’s behest, and all I turned around was my brother’s word. If Yanhou has any objections, I can always pass it back on behalf of you. What is the reason why the two countries are at war and do not hurt each other, and the general is so angry with his sword?

Wei Shao looked gloomy and didn’t move.

There were at least twenty or thirty people in the hall, but at the moment they were dead and silent. Yuan Dai had a cold sweat on his forehead that slowly rolled down, but he didn’t even dare to raise his sleeve to wipe it, lest a single action would invite the disaster of killing himself.

For a moment, Wei Shao flicked his hand. Wei Liang then collected his sword. With the sound of the armor bumping, the sergeants retreated. Another person bent in and quickly replaced the wreckage that had just been kicked over in front of Wei Liang, and the rest of the people talked and laughed as if nothing had happened.

Yuan Daixin still puffed and jumped, secretly glanced at Wei Shao, who was still calm in the middle, and slowly exhaled a breath, no longer daring to show the slightest arrogance.

Gongsun Yang said slowly, “Yuan Lingjun doesn’t know that my lord now seems to have a large number of soldiers, but in fact, the barracks in Jizhou and Hezhou are empty.” Ben was already left and right, stretched thin, and Ben wanted to borrow troops from Yuan Gong for a purpose, but he just couldn’t open his mouth. Now that the envoy has come from afar to open his mouth first, and the two families have old friends, the lord and prince cannot resign their responsibility to help, and when the source of troops is gathered, they will certainly send troops to help as soon as possible.

Yuan Dai no longer dared to show half a minute of hesitation, and could not stop nodding his head in thanks.

Gongsun Yang smiled and said, “The messenger has come.”Skillful. In two days, it will be my Youzhou Luli Assembly, so that if you are empty, you can also go to see it. ”

……

Yuan Dai and his party were sent to the inn to settle down. In the evening, Wei Shao returned to the Wei mansion, and when he entered the door, he learned that Wei Yu had returned from Dai County in the afternoon and had been called in by Lady Xu.

Wei Shao didn’t say a word and went straight into the West House. There were only three or two maids in the courtyard, and when they saw him return, they all bowed down. Wei Shao went to the main room, stepped up the steps to the door, hesitated slightly, pushed the door in, but there was no Xiao Qiao in the house, and he turned his head and asked. A maid said, “The cat just ran away, and the lady was afraid that it would be lost, so she went to find it herself, and Chun Mi also went there, leaving us to look at the house.”

Wei Shao’s brow frowned. Standing at the foot of the steps, he hesitated for a moment, then lifted his feet and strode out. Walking along the Yongdao, walking to a corner leading to the gate of the North House, I saw in the distance that the courtyard wall in front of me, next to the begonia branch, revealed a faint crimson back shadow, it was Xiao Qiao. Beside her stood a few maids and maids, all of whom were looking up at the wall of flowers.

The cat was crouching high on the wall, and he didn’t know how it got up, and it seemed that he couldn’t get off the ground at the moment.

The maid chattered, some said to take a bamboo pole, some said to take a ladder to climb up and hug.

Wei Shao was about to pass when his footsteps suddenly stopped again.

He saw Wei Yu coming out of the north room and walking towards the wall.

One of the servant women next to Little Joe saw him first, ran up, and said a few words to the cat crouching at the head of the flower wall. Wei Yu looked at Xiao Qiao, immediately walked over quickly, came to the wall of the flower wall, looked up at the wall, first took a few steps back, and then ran forward two steps, with the momentum, the person was like a gecko, a move climbed up the high wall, reached out to catch the cat, and then jumped down from the wall, landed steadily, the posture was strong, and the maid and maid cheered.

Wei Yu showed a slight smile on his face, looked at Xiao Qiao, paused, and then walked towards her with the cat in his arms.

Little Joe hurried up to meet him. When Wei Yu reached out to hand it to her, the cat Xu Fang was frightened, and suddenly a claw scratched out, Wei Yu was caught off guard, and the back of his hand was scratched by it, and immediately several long blood marks appeared. The cat also jumped from Wei Yu’s hand and jumped to the ground. The servant maid who was nearby was afraid that it would run again, and hurriedly chased after it.

Although the cat is underage, the hook claws are unusually sharp. The other day I saw it very docile, and little Joe didn’t think of cutting off its paws. I didn’t think about it, but I hurt Wei Yu. Seeing that a few drops of blood were rapidly oozing from the wound on the back of his hand, he was a little too careless to go, and he was busy thanking him and making reparations.

“How? Can you call someone to bandage it?

Wei Yu smiled, “No problem, the small wound is just that, why bother with the teachers.” He said and shook his hand.

Little Joe apologized to him again.

At this time, Wei Shao suddenly appeared from behind and strode towards this side.

Xiao Qiao also saw Wei Shao, saw that he finally stopped at his side, his eyes fell on Wei Yu’s hand, and he busied himself with a brief recount of the process of Fang Cai Wei Climbing forward to catch the cat for himself, and said apologetically: “They all blame me for not being good, I didn’t look after the cat, but uncle hurt his hand.” Wei Shao

smiled slightly, looked at Wei Yu, looked at him for a moment, and then said softly, “There is Elder Brother Lao.” I caught a cat for the brute and played with her. You’ve got your hand caught. I am also brutal on behalf of the eldest brother, and I give a good compensation to the eldest brother. Wei Yu’s

mood suddenly became a little restless.

If, just a moment ago, his heart was still faintly rejoicing because he had been given this chance and precious opportunity to speak with Qiao Nu up close, and even to her gratitude, at this moment, with the appearance of his brother, he looked into his eyes, listening to him pay tribute to his wife with an incomparably affectionate title, and the original feeling of secret joy quickly faded from his heart. In the end, it was twisted into a messy thing with a slight astringency and pity.

His mood also became restless.

It’s a keen intuition. Cannot be described in words. But at this moment, he really felt it.

His younger brother Wei Shao, he was a little different from usual.

In Wei Yu’s mind, at this moment, he suddenly and quickly skimmed back through the day and learned about the fire in the house.

At that time, when he came back to see the scorched blackness, and the most unspeakable secret wall that had originally hidden in his heart also fell to the ground with the fire, his first feeling was actually a sigh of relief.

It was as if he had a carbuncle on his body that could kill him. He couldn’t cut it himself. Now the carbuncle has been cut off.

He even thanked the fire that came a little suddenly and made him unprepared before.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt that the fire was a bit strange.

Wei Yu’s heartbeat suddenly quickened. A layer of cold sweat quickly appeared in the palms of his hands.

He stared at Wei Shao, and after a moment, he finally smiled and said, “A small matter.” The second brother does not have to be polite. Wei Shao

smiled, bowed his head slightly at him, and then turned his face to look at Xiao Qiao and said softly, “Let’s go, we should also go back to the room.”

Little Joe was stunned.

Wei Shao would call her nipple names in the room, such as on the bed, when she was in love.

But when she got out of bed, she never heard him call herself by her breast name.

At this moment, he suddenly and inexplicably said it from his mouth, and said it to Wei Yu.

That’s all, the speed of his change of attitude caught her off guard.

What happened to make him suddenly become a gentle lover again?

Such a Wei Shao, instead of moving her, made her feel unusually strange.

Even a little creepy.

Wei Shao shouldn’t be like this, even when they were most intimate before.

Little Joe suppressed the feeling of discomfort that welled up in his heart, met the gentle gaze he was looking at, smiled at him slightly, and followed him.

……

Wei Yu stood where she was, watching Wei Shao and her side by side with a pair of backs that were gradually fading away until they disappeared at the end of their sight.

The only remaining half of the begonia branches swayed gently in the wind, making a slight rustling sound.

Wei Yu slowly squeezed his fist.

The few wounds on the back of his hand that had been scratched by the cat suddenly seemed to sting.

[End of This Chapter]