Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 145

[Chapter 143]

Little Joe set off for the south.

Except for the replacement of horses in the stopover, the rest of the time, regardless of morning and evening, is almost always spent on the track.

This road was thousands of miles away, and in only seven or eight days, she had already crossed the Yellow River and headed straight for Yanzhou.

On this day, I finally approached Yanzhou, and along the way I heard that The Yanhou army had crossed the border a few days ago, and now it must have driven to Dong County, and I was so anxious that I finally arrived in one breath.

The day she arrived in East County was a clear early summer evening.

The setting sun was setting in the west, and the golden afterglow sprinkled the boundless wilderness outside the East County.

It was also cast on the endless barracks outside the city and the flag painted with the battle dragon waving in the evening wind.

Little Joe did not enter the camp immediately. Instead, he stopped far outside the camp north of the city and asked Qiao Ci to find Biyan to listen to the news.

When Qiao Ci returned, she looked slightly lighter than she seemed at the beginning.

He tells Little Qiao that his father regained control of power and killed Ding Qu. He hoped to clarify the misunderstanding to Wei Shao, but Wei Shao did not seem to accept it.

Bi Yan was worried that Wei Shao would attack the city in anger, so he led his army to take precautions.

Fortunately, although Wei Shao did not see the emissary, he never launched a siege of the city.

This confrontation has been going on for several days.

……

On the way there, Little Joe had imagined many possibilities.

The most terrifying thing was that Wei Shao was furious and attacked Dong County, and his father was killed.

If such a thing really happened, Little Joe couldn’t imagine that even if he rushed over like this, what would be the point of the matter.

Fortunately, the things she feared most didn’t happen.

The moment she heard the news, the string in her body that had been tightly tightened loosened.

At the moment of relaxation, she felt a dizziness, and her body shook slightly, and she was supported by Qiao Ci.

“Sister!”

“I’m okay. You stay, you don’t have to come in with me. ”

……

“The lady comes with me.”

Reiser came out and led Little Joe inside.

On the way, he seemed to want to stop talking, but finally he didn’t say anything, and finally led her to the front of the Chinese army tent and whispered, “The prince is inside.” The moment he

raised his hand and opened the tent door, Xiao Qiao’s mood suddenly became tense again, and his movement was also delayed.

She fixed her mind, opened it, and went inside.

There were candles burning in the big tent, and the light was bright.

She saw Wei Shao standing in front of the weapon rack, with his back to himself.

It didn’t move at all, like a rock frozen there, it had been a long time.

She stopped at the door of the tent, stared at the familiar back, waited for a long time, and finally whispered, “Husband, I’m sorry.”

A gust of wind came through the crack in the tent door behind her, and the candle flickered.

Wei Shao’s enlarged figure that was thrown on the tent wall also shook.

He turned slowly, and his gaze fell on little Joe’s face.

The eyes of the two are facing each other.

Haven’t seen each other for most of the year. He was dark and thin in one fell swoop.

In his look, there was no anger that Little Joe expected.

It seems very calm.

The calm is unusual.

Xiao Qiao’s heart suddenly seemed to be silently pulled by a blunt knife, and there was a dull pain in his chest.

“Thank you, for not attacking East County—”

“Go back, and take care of Phi Phi.” After all, you also gave birth to a daughter for me, and in return for you, I will let Yanzhou go. Tomorrow I will withdraw my troops.

He interrupted her.

The tone was the same as his look, calm as if he could say it.

Little Joe looked at him sheepishly.

After Wei Shao finished speaking, he walked to the back of the case, sat down, casually opened a volume of Jian Mu, and looked down.

Little Joe stood where he was, motionless.

Wei Shao was very calm at first, and kept turning over the Jian Mu in his hand.

From time to time, there is a slight sound of bamboo chips colliding.

Gradually, he flipped faster and faster, faster and faster, and the green tendons on the back of the hand that was holding Jian Mu gradually became prominent.

Suddenly, with a “snap”, the book in his hand was slapped heavily on the surface of the case.

The sound was so loud that the startled candle flame jumped with it.

“You’re not leaving yet?” How else can I be satisfied? He lifted

his head and stared at little Joe, gritting his teeth and speaking word for word.

Little Joe walked slowly to his side and knelt near him.

“Husband, you already know that, don’t you?”

She looked at the lines of his hard, sculpted side face and asked softly.

Wei Shao closed his eyes and slowly turned his head.

The candle flame was cast in his eyes, causing one of his pupils to glow with a cold, almost translucent glaze.

“I’m on my way here, worried that you’ve already attacked the city. Arrived here in the evening and found that you hadn’t yet. That’s when I knew it wouldn’t be because of Biyan. If you really want to take Yanzhou, you will never stop because of Biyan. You must have known there was a misunderstanding, didn’t you? ”

……

Wei Shao didn’t say a word.

Little Qiao looked into his eyes: “Before I came, when I said goodbye to my grandmother, I said to her, I want to come to see you, not to leave anything for the Qiao family.” General Wei Liang’s life and death are now uncertain, and the soldiers who are traveling with him are innocently killed, and everything is inseparable from my Qiao family. Joe’s family is paying for their lives, and it is not enough to soothe the pain of their relatives, which is not my false words. Therefore, when I arrived, I knew that my husband had not attacked the city, and I had no other thoughts but to be grateful. After this incident, I also understood that it was the immorality and incompetence of my Joe family that would give birth to so many incidents again and again. I would ask my father to hand over Yanzhou. I know that this compensation, compared to the faults that have been done, is really insignificant, and you may not even dismiss it. But the damage that has been done, whether it is me or my father, will do everything in their power to make up for it.Even if it’s trivial. Wei Shao’s

expression was still cold, and he slowly shook his head.

“You said so much, there is one sentence, but you are right. I haven’t attacked Yanzhou yet, not because of Bi Yan’s obstruction. “Do

you know why I decided to let Yanzhou go?”

Little Joe held his breath, and his heart suddenly quickened.

Wei Shao looked out of the tent door and shouted, “Bring it in!”

Little Joe looked up and saw a man dressed in a katsu robe being pushed in, and he fell to his knees with a loud thud.

It turned out to be Qiao Yue’s adviser Zhang Pu.

His face was earth-colored and trembling.

Xiao Qiao was taken aback, and quickly turned his head to look at Wei Shao, seeing him staring at himself coldly: “This person, you should know, right?” Xiao Qiao’s

heart skipped a beat, and he looked at Wei Shao slightly dazedly.

From the first words that Wei Shao said to her after coming in, she sensed his abnormality.

Something so big happened. From Wei Shao’s point of view, the Qiao family’s behavior this time was like the entire family once again treacherous.

He only asked her to go back, saying that in return for giving her a daughter for him, he would let Yanzhou go.

When he said this, he was unusually calm.

But her intuition told her that it was by no means a true expression of his emotions at the time.

The more seemingly rational the calm, the greater the anger behind it.

It was just that she didn’t know why he wasn’t angry with himself at the time, but instead had to cover up his anger in such a way that made people feel even more uneasy.

At this moment, she vaguely seemed to understand.

Maybe it has something to do with this Zhang Pu.

But Zhang Pu, what exactly did he say?

Wei Shao got up from behind the case, grabbed the sword that was lying across the table, drew his sword, and walked towards Zhang Pu.

Zhang Pu fell to the ground, crawled back, and kept pleading.

“Junhou Rao–Junhou Rao—”

A sword light swept by, and a head that was still attached to the neck a moment ago suddenly flew out, rolling to the corner of the wall, and Fang stopped.

A column of blood gushed out from the sky.

It splashed on Wei Shao’s shirt and also splashed on his face.

Xiao Qiao screamed in horror and watched in horror as Wei Shao turned around, carried the sword that was still dripping blood, and walked back to himself step by step.

The long-lost memories of the last scene in the dream of the previous life, at this moment, seemed to suddenly rush towards her again.

She gritted her teeth so hard that she didn’t let her teeth tremble.

Wei Shao came close to her, the face that had splashed a few drops of blood sank slightly, looked down at her for a moment, and suddenly “dinged” and threw away the sword.

“This man, Tijoyue’s head came to vote for me. Yanzhou or your Qiao family to keep it for themselves. You’re good to go. He said

coldly.

Little Joe forced his two legs, which had become soft and cotton-like, and barely stood up.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” What did Zhang Pu say?

Wei Shao was silent.

“Husband—”

“Come, send her out to me!”

Wei Shao suddenly seemed to burst out, turned his head and roared outward, and then slapped it, sweeping all the things on the desk between the two of them to the ground.

Jian Mu, paperwork, pen and ink, along with ling arrows and tiger charms, fell to the ground and fell into a mess.

Lei Ze hurried inside, quickly glanced at Zhang Pu’s headless body that had fallen to the ground, and hurriedly asked to pull out with his own hands.

“Send her away for me!”

Wei Shao roared again.

Lei Ze was stunned, and only then did he understand, and looked at Wei Shao in surprise.

He looked gloomy.

Lei Ze hesitated: “Lady Jun—”

“Please ask General Lei to go out first, I still have something to say to the Prince.” Little Joe said.

Lei Ze hurriedly bent down and got Zhang Pu’s body out along with his head.

“Husband—”

“Don’t call me Husband!”

Little Qiao paused: “What did Zhang Pu say to you…”

His lips were still tightly closed.

Little Joe was distraught, and his back was soaked with cold sweat.

She felt that Wei Shao’s anger towards herself didn’t seem to be just out of this Yanzhou incident.

There seems to be something else mixed in.

What is it?

She closed her eyes and tried to recall in her mind.

Suddenly, the whole person seemed to be pumped hard by something.

She opened her eyes suddenly.

“The year after I first married you, when I returned to Yanzhou, I advised my father to be strong and recruit soldiers.”

She looked into Wei Shao’s gloomy eyes.

“At that time, one of the reasons I persuaded my father was to guard against you.”

She said slowly.

When his father was persuading Qiao Yue at that time, it was naturally impossible to say that it was his own proposal.

But Yanzhou made a move, just after he left.

It should be that Zhang Pu, in order to show his loyalty in front of Wei Shao, said that the purpose of Yanzhou’s strong army that day was to guard against himRevenge on this matter.

Zhang Pu may not have mentioned himself.

But Wei Shao couldn’t have imagined this.

Her face slowly turned pale, and her lips faded color.

Looked at him silently.

She didn’t want to cry.

From the day she said goodbye to Mrs. Xu on the road, until the moment before, she had not shed a single tear.

I don’t want to cry.

I just hope that things have not yet developed in the worst direction, and hope that there will be room for turning.

Until this moment.

The eyes suddenly became hot.

She tried her best to endure, and finally forced the gust back.

“I know what you’re hating me for. You hate me for marrying you just to count you out. But the combination of you and me, the beginning is a marriage with different plans, just like a bed and a different dream. At that time, I was afraid of you, I couldn’t believe you, that’s why I persuaded my father so much. I dare not say that I am right, but I cannot say against my heart that it was all wrong when I made that decision. After all, none of us can predict the future, let alone see what the other party is thinking, right? My mistake was that I only advised my father to be strong, but I did not pay enough attention to and guard against the hidden dangers of my Qiao family, which created today’s evil consequences, causing Wei Liang and others to be innocently victimized, and failing to live up to the pressure and promises you had borne for me…”

Wei Shao suddenly laughed coldly, and his smile was a little strange.

“I remember vividly how I chased you all the way south in order to pick you up earlier. You are at Wuchao Ferry and I Qingqing me, it turns out that in my heart…”

He suddenly stopped, and disgust flowed from his eyes.

“You don’t have to say it again! Don’t mention anything about your Joe’s family in front of me! The Joe family has been deliberately marrying you, and you have wronged yourself, so you have served me for three years, the time is not short, and now you have a child. I will satisfy you and let you live in the Joe family. You tell your Joe family not to offend me again in the future, otherwise next time, it will not be like this time. Don’t think I’m going to put up with it again and again because I’m afraid of my reputation. If I want to kill, I will kill. The world comments, what is the matter with me?

Wei Shao wiped the blood droplets from his cheeks with the palm of his hand.

However, it left a dark red drag mark, making his face more vicious.

He turned and left.

[End of This Chapter]