Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 152

[Chapter 150]

Little Joe slowly opened his eyes.

Wei Shao suddenly took her hand and got out of bed.

Little Joe was taken to his study.

He went inside and lit the lights.

Little Joe watched slightly confused. He saw him take a box from a secret drawer.

It was the one she knew so well, the one she had just seen just a few nights earlier.

Wei Shao held the box on the case, sat down behind him, skillfully opened the lid of the box, and signaled Xiao Qiao to come closer.

Little Joe walked slowly over.

Inside, it was indeed the old banner she had peeked out the door that night.

Fold neatly and neatly, and placed inside the box.

“Barbarian, didn’t you always want to know what was in this box?” It was my father’s flag. The blood on it was stained by my father before he died. This relic, I have been collecting for many years…”

Wei Shao’s eyes stayed on the old banner and slowly spoke.

Xiao Qiao held his breath and slowly raised his eyes to look at Wei Shao.

His gaze was distant and hollow, as if he were caught up in the memory of the past.

“When my father and your grandfather were ordered by the imperial court, they fought together with Li Su. Li Su was powerful. The two sides made an oath of pre-war alliance and agreed to attack simultaneously from the east and the west. My father, out of trust in your grandfather, deployed his troops in a completely responsive manner. At the appointed moment, after my father sent troops according to the plan, he still believed that your grandfather would be in place as promised…”

His eyes fell on Xiao Qiao’s face, and his hand slowly squeezed into a fist, and several green tendons on the back of his hand gradually bulged up.

“My father who killed my brother and killed my enemy was Li Su, and your Qiao family just betrayed their faith and defaulted.” There is no righteous war, no enemy and no need to complain. But do you know that at that time, if your grandfather had even told him about his pre-war withdrawal, and my father had temporarily changed his tactics, even if he still lost in the end, he might not have lost as badly as he did that day! My father and brother were alone and died in the battle of random arrows, accompanied by 50,000 Wei family soldiers, almost all of which were destroyed, and finally returned, but only a few thousand remnants.

He closed his eyes and exhaled a long breath.

“Brutal, put yourself in the shoes of a man’s son, if it were you, would you be indifferent?”

He spoke word for word.

Xiao Qiao walked slowly toward him, knelt beside the side where he was sitting, held his hand, and murmured, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry—”

Wei Shao’s fist, which was originally tightly clenched, slowly released.

“It’s none of your business, you don’t need to apologize.”

He was silent for a moment.

“Brutal, I don’t want to hide from you, I know that the events of the past have nothing to do with your father, but to this day, I still can’t dispel my hatred for your Joe surname.” Even if I asked Wei Liang to go to Yanzhou in your name that day to give a congratulatory gift to your father, what I thought about most at that time was to make you happy…”

“The culprit of the incident, your grandfather is dead.” I guessed that my grandmother should have seen that I was angry and overly obsessed, and hoped that I would be a broad-minded person, and it was just that your Qiao family asked for goodwill through marriage, which agreed to the original marriage.

“Whether I am right in my conjecture, or whether I have other hidden feelings, and I am brutal, what I naturally ask for is to be happy and vengeful, to do whatever I want.” For you, I can endure. But for me to let go of my hatred completely, it is too difficult for me. In my lifetime, I may not always be able to achieve the same open-minded situation as my grandmother.

He took away Little Joe’s hands and got up.

Little Joe’s hands slipped from the back of his hands, and his eyes followed his figure, and he watched sheepishly as he walked to the window and pushed the window back to himself.

“Brutal, I am not a good person, I know that since you married me, I have been seeking perfection, you have done your best, and in recent times, I have been greatly frightened and wronged.” I also know that if I can’t let go of my hatred for a day, you and I can’t really live forever.

“Let me have more time and think it through.”

He turned his head back, looked at little Joe, narrowed his eyes, and said slowly.

……

Wei Shao left Yuyang the next day.

At the end of July, Wei Shao took Li Diandu as the governor of Taishan, garrisoning Zhangqiu, referring to Qingzhou; Li Chongzhang jiandu oversaw the military forces of Peidi, referring to Xuzhou; He personally supervised the county, the sword pointed at Langya, the soldiers divided into three roads, and the proposed road was attacked at the same time, and each one was broken.

When the news came out, the whole world was shaken, and wannabe did not expect that Wei Shao would openly launch an attack on the Langya Han Room in this way.

In addition to the hasty dispatch of troops and the military to deal with it, Wang Badong Cheng and others continued to write, drawing algae and painting sentences, writing brilliantly, announcing the world, scolding Wei Shao for going against the heavens, for plotting rebellion, denouncing him as the best rebel thief after Xingxun, calling on the princes of the world to serve the king and cut it down together.

In mid-August, Li Dian captured Changyi and quickly cut off the Langya court’s connection with Qingzhou.

At the end of August, Li Chongzhangjian of South Road captured Xuzhou.

In early September, Wei Shao attacked Yangdu and his troops pointed directly at the Langya court.

The final battle is on the verge of breaking out.

……

The war that took place on the land of Guziru shook Kyushu.

The defenders scolded Wei Shao as a traitor, and heaven will condemn him.

In the southern part of Yuzhou Gaizhao, Lujiang Songling, Jiangxia Liu Xiao, Changsha WuPan, many local princes, in just one month, imitated Hanzhong Lezheng and took the opportunity to successively claim the title of emperor and found the country.

The plague in the south has not yet passed, Huangzhou and Pengze are in a famine, and the white rice cannot be bought for a million dollars, and the people are not happy. There was chen ying, a water thief of the Yangtze River, who borrowed the demon Taoist technique, claimed to be the reincarnation of the heavenly king, and entangled the displaced people under the banner of the Heavenly Dao, and all those who attacked a place, such as locusts crossing the border, were all accused of violating the heavenly rules and slaughtered, and even used human corpses as military food, saying “early siege of the city, late eating meat”, so that the subordinates, in just a few months, actually entangled to hundreds of thousands of people, self-proclaimed Chen Tianwang, crossed the Yangtze River to force the rich Huaiyang, a menacing threat.

Great chaos in the South.

But in Yuyang, everything is no different from usual. The people work at sunrise, rest at sunset, and after tea and dinner, they gossip about the prince’s attack on Langya.

The influence of the so-called Orthodox Han Dynasty Liu surname has already plummeted in the north.

Ordinary people’s families, who care about the world and what surname, all they ask for is to be full of food and warm clothes.

During the years when Wei Shao unified the north, local meritocracy was appointed, harsh laws were abolished, and conscription was reduced. In the chaotic world, when they had food to eat and live a peaceful life, they recognized the Prince of Wei as heaven.

It’s a simple truth.

……

In the Daming Temple in Luoyang, there is a famous high monk, Jia Tan, who came to Luoyang from Tianzhu when he was young and stayed for decades, engaged in translating scriptures and preaching Buddhism.

After Wei Shao occupied Luoyang last year, Lady Xu heard of Jia Tan’s name and sent someone to invite him to Yuyang to preach the Fa, and Jia Tan gladly invited him.

September 15, moderateAt the annual festival of the Golden Dragon Temple, the high monks opened the altar to give a lecture, which was more grand than in the past, and did it for seven days in a row.

Lady Xu took Zhu Shi to the Golden Dragon Temple to listen to the Fa.

Little Joe did not go and stayed at home to take care of PhiPhi.

Philippi was six or seven months old, grew deciduous teeth, and starting last month, Little Joe arranged for her to gradually wean herself and start feeding.

Philip was at first very resistant, and after a month, he gradually got used to the new food.

This evening, when it came to The Meal Point, Chunniang brought a bowl of porridge mixed with sheep’s milk, and after feeding Philippi, Little Joe played with her for a while.

When he saw that she was gradually sleepy, he coaxed her to sleep, and he felt tired, so he sent off the nursing mother and maid, and went to bed with the closed door, leaving only Chunniang in the room to accompany the night.

She slept and woke up in the middle of the night.

It was quiet all around.

The daughter slept very steadily, and the sound of Chunniang’s even breathing clearly entered Xiao Qiao’s ears.

Little Joe closed his eyes and tried to continue falling asleep, but he couldn’t sleep anyway.

Although Wei Shao attacked Langya, although at first he was insulted for rebellion, this insult, with his smooth progress and the self-establishment of many princes in the south as emperors, had gradually settled down.

If there is no accident, at the latest by the end of this month, the Langya court will be destroyed at the hands of Wei Shao.

At that time, the world was ten, and seven or eight points of it would go into Wei Shao’s pocket.

What else could stop his imperial hegemony?

Compared with the previous life in her dream, Wei Shao was close to becoming emperor, and this life was really many years earlier.

The day when he wanted to make Philip the princess was probably not far away.

He wouldn’t touch Joe’s house anymore. Yanzhou is now even more stable. Even if the city gates are wide open, no soldier or pawn will dare to commit a crime.

Although my father was still blind in both eyes, judging from the previous correspondence, he was very open-minded and open-minded.

There is also Adi, who is now in the state of merger, and everything is going well.

Little Joe felt satisfied.

She gained Wei Shao’s love and tolerance born of love, sheltered her family, and had a lovely daughter. With the original situation, she could not think of what she wanted to do today.

But tonight, waking up like this, as she had done many previous nights, she was still tired.

But in any case, I couldn’t sleep anymore.

Finally she got out of bed, put on a pair of soft-soled embroidered shoes, and through the white moonlight that came in from the window, came to her daughter’s small bed, looked at the quilt she covered, pulled it for her, and then came to the window silently and gently pushed open the window.

A bright moon hangs high above your head, and the clear light shines all over the world. In the courtyard, the flowers and trees are sparse, the shadows are intertwined, and I don’t know which corner, there are occasionally one or two grunting sounds of autumn insects, which shows that this autumn night is doubly quiet.

Xiao Qiao leaned obliquely against the window, looking up at the round of toad palace bright moon overhead, gradually the jade arm became cold, only to realize that he had forgotten his cloak when he got up, so he clasped his arms with both hands, gently rubbed it, and then the probe was about to close the window, and his eyes suddenly froze.

In the southeast corner, which was only a dozen paces away from the window, a wooden tree was planted.

Under the shadow of the wooden tree, there seemed to be a shadow standing there at this moment.

It was only in the dim light in the corner that she was unaware.

Lady Xu and the Zhu clan went to the Golden Dragon Temple, and it would take a few days to return, and the family guards, Jia Kai, were extremely thoughtful, and they arranged guards to be on duty at night.

But in the middle of the night, in a place like the Inner Courtyard of the WestInghouse, it was impossible for a guard to enter.

This dark shadow must be a stranger.

Little Qiao’s sweaty hair stood up sharply, and he was about to shout loudly, when he saw the black shadow flicker slightly, and he rushed towards him.

Almost in the blink of an eye, he was in front of her.

The moonlight illuminated a half-bright and half-dark man’s face, and his eyes were bone-deep.

Although she hadn’t seen her in a year, she still recognized it at a glance.

It was Wei Yu!

[End of This Chapter]