Rebirth of a Star General - Chapter 228

Chapter 228

The lanterns are ten miles away, and the night is bright and bright.

The river gurgled under the fence, and Xiaoxue silently fell on the person.

The cloak blocked all the wind and snow, and the man’s lips fell on her lips with a light warmth. For example, the bowl of sesame Yuanxiao that I just ate, the lips and teeth are soft and sweet.

He Yan heard his heartbeat, in this snowy area, it was vivid and powerful, one after another. His robe is still cold with the wind and snow, but his posture is gentle as if he treats the only treasure of this life.

It seems that the moment will last forever.

No one will not be moved by the person in front of him.

When the lips left, He Yan actually developed a bit of nostalgia. She raised her head and looked at the other person. Xiao Jue lowered her eyes to tidy up her hair that had just been messed up by the wind.

Ears are already red as well as cooked shrimp, He Yan whispered: “…Xiao Jue, are you not angry anymore?”

Xiao Jue sighed silently.

“Xu Zhiheng…it’s the past.” He Yan thought for a while, and looked at him seriously: “If the past makes you unhappy, I apologize to you. I don’t know that the girl next to me gets along with the person I like. What will I do when I am a man, I spend far more time as a man than a woman. Xiao Jue, I will treat you well, what do you like, I will find a way to send you, what do you hate, I will also help You drive away. If someone bullies you, I will definitely stand up for you. I will not deceive you or hurt you… Is that okay?”

In fact, thinking about it now, even if she was with Xu Zhiheng at the beginning, she actually did not treat her lover like other women. This is certainly because Xu Zhiheng is not a beloved person, but she herself does not know how to treat the person she likes.

When I was a child in the He family, there was very little truth about “love”, and because I was eager to receive the pity of my biological father and mother, he deliberately pleased him. Even then came to the battlefield, this humble was well hidden, but the things carved in the bones, like bones buried under the wind and sand, will still be exposed when the wind blows.

As a general, she learns to control and be decisive. She can take care of people, but she can’t deal with more intimate relationships with them. Those vague feelings made her wonder whether what she was doing was right or wrong.

Xiao Jue stared at her, the girl still held the red candied haws in her hand, looking up at her gaze, full of truth, and a little uncertain and cautious.

I thought it was a liar who came just by opening his mouth, but now it seems that there is no such liar in the world. There are so many people in the world, regardless of whether they are men or women, they are concealed and tempted in every possible way, but they don’t want people to discover their true heart. They always feel that they will lose if they say it. The only person in front of him was frank and straightforward, without any skill, without any means, speaking out straight, and running rampage, just like punching his master to death, making his heart move for no reason.

I was only moved by her.

But… just such a person, who clearly gave himself to him, how could Xu Zhiheng be brutally hurt?

He was not angry because of He Yan’s past taste, but more annoyance was probably due to his miss and Xu Zhiheng’s anger. Just like the doe released in the mountains for a while, its wet eyes fixed on him, full of trust and joy, but Xu Zhiheng abandoned this trust like a stubborn, cut it off.

The better He Yan is, the greater the anger towards Xu Zhiheng deep in his heart.

Seeing Xiao Jue’s delay in speaking, He Yan thought he was still angry, thought for a moment, and said frustratedly: “Or do you have any better ideas, I won’t know how to call piano, chess, calligraphy, and you shouldn’t let me learn. , I can’t learn. It’s okay to help you move a rock and chop wood…”

Before she finished speaking, Xiao Jue embraced her.

“You are you, you don’t need to do anything for me.”

He Yan’s head was pressed against his chin, and he couldn’t lift his head. He couldn’t see what his expression was.

“But……”

“I don’t like singing and dancing prostitutes, and I don’t need to be accompanying me. No one dares to bully me. I won’t touch the things I don’t like, and buy the things I like.” Xiao Jue lowered his head and smiled.

“But… Then, am I not just a display?”

“I don’t like you because I want more than one messenger,” his voice fell, as if they were far away, and as if they were very close, “just do what you want, don’t do it for me.”

“You really… don’t ask me anything?” He Yan asked.

There must be the same, such as observing the law, respecting the old and loving the young, etc. Otherwise, she can do everything, can she go out of the wall?

Xiao Jue let go, looked at the crowd in the distance, smiled, and looked down at her: “It’s not nothing.”

“What is it?”

“If I keep looking at you,” he stretched out his hand and grabbed He Yan’s hand. The girl’s hand was only half his size, falling in the palm of the other person, like a small treasure, “He Yan, you also kept looking at me. Bar.”

He Yan looked at him blankly.

“Miss Heda can’t understand this sentence?” He raised his eyebrows slightly, and the corners of his lips curled up in a warm arc. The lanterns reflected in his long eyes. There were thousands of gestures and all kinds of colors, but it was clear that his eyes were the best. The bright one.

Time seems to be still at this moment, and there are people setting off fireworks in the distance, and thousands of lights fall into the night sky. This is a perfect night of lights.

He Yan lowered his head, concealing the flash of tide in his eyes, holding his hand with his backhand, smilingly raised his head and said: “Today is your birthday, and I agree to everything you say.”

“Xiao Jue, happy birthday.” She said.

I will always look at you, she answered silently in her heart.

…

When they returned, He Yunsheng and He Sui had already arrived home.

Qingmei had already told the truth, saying that today is Xiao Jue’s birthday, and He Yan accompanied Xiao Jue to the night market. He Sui didn’t say anything, but He Yunsheng was very upset, but he had walked back and forth several times in the house in the time of the incense stick.

When He Yan and Xiao Jue went back, their faces were even more ugly looking at the hands they shook.

He Sui asked: “I heard that today is Huaijin’s birthday, so I can have dinner? Would you like to eat a bowl of longevity noodles here before leaving?”

“We have already eaten.” He Yan said, “Just when we were visiting the night market.”

“You are empty-handed…” He Sui noticed that there was nothing on Xiao Jue’s body, and looked at He Yan suspiciously, “Yan Yan, didn’t you give Huai Jin a birthday gift, didn’t you? This kid,” He Sui smiled and said: “I am spoiled and spoiled, and I don’t understand these people’s sophistication, so don’t worry about Huai Jin. I will let her supply you someday.”

“No, Yan Yan has already sent it.” Xiao Jue said.

He Yan remembered the scene at the night market just now, his face blushed slightly, and he didn’t speak for a while. He Sui didn’t hear any implication, although he didn’t understand, he didn’t ask much. He Yunsheng swept around between He Yan and Xiao Jue warily, thoughtfully.

“It’s not early, you go back first.” He Yan said: “If anything happens, I will let Chiwu come to you.”

Xiao Jue nodded, then bid farewell to He Sui and He Yunsheng before leaving the He family.

After Xiao Jue left, He Yunsheng dragged He Yan into the back room. He closed the door as soon as he entered the house, and asked with his head and face, “Hey, He Yan, you went out with him, are you not taking advantage?”

“What’s the advantage?” He Yan knocked on his head. “How can I be so mindful at a young age? Where did I learn it. Besides, I stand with Xiao Jue, who has the advantage?”

He Yunsheng glanced at her, “You thought I was taking care of you freely.”

Seeing that he looked worried, He Yan sat down and poured a cup of tea for himself, “Just because of this, are you so sad?”

“No,” He Yunsheng sighed, “I heard from a few friends in the academy today that it seems that Utuo people are coming to Beijing soon.”

He Yan drank tea, “Who did you hear?”

“It’s spread everywhere. The emperor doesn’t want to fight, and the court doesn’t want to fight. I heard that the Utopians came to Beijing to seek peace. Most of them won’t be able to fight this battle.”

He Yan looked at his expression, “Do you want to fight?”

“Of course I don’t want it!” He Yunsheng replied without even thinking about it. “But if the Utuo were really willing to ask for peace, they wouldn’t have done so many things in Jiyang or Rundu Huayuan before. It was originally now. We have the upper hand and give way to the Utuo.” He was young and vigorous, frowning and said: “If it is me, I will seize this opportunity to beat the Utuo back to their hometown, so that they will never dare to set foot in the big world. Wei step!”

Although children usually act naively and impulsively, they are also somewhat temperamental.

“What do you see me doing?” He Yunsheng asked, “Are you not an official now? Is it clear what is going on outside?”

“It’s not much worse than what you know.” He Yan didn’t want to hide it from him.

“Hey,” He Yunsheng waved his hand, “I really don’t know what the officials in the court think.”

He Yan’s heart is also heavy, not to mention the enmity between her and the He Family and Xu Zhiheng, the feast between Xiao Jue and Xu Jingfu, and the current disputes between the DPRK and China about the parties, is not an easy and resolvable contradiction. With the increasing power of Xu Jingfu, the contradiction between the four princes and the prince will become more and more acute. The prince’s virtue is not worthy. If the prince really inherits the Datong in the future, I am afraid it will be the disaster of Wei Wanmin. But if the four princes are to be… then, the future city of Shuo will inevitably set off another bloody storm.

…

Tonight’s Chu Mansion is also a piece of harmony.

Chu Linfeng banquets at home. These days, all the members of the Chu family are preparing for Chu Zhao’s marriage. As Xu Jingfu’s daughter is the daughter of Xu Jingfu, there is naturally nothing wrong with what he uses. Madam Chu took care of the marriage, but Xu Pingting sent her personal maid, Mo Tai, to often ask the Chu family about preparations for the marriage. Even if Madam Chu wanted to move something and was stared at, she could only give up.

A marriage affair will consume most of the Chu family’s treasury. Xu Pingting asked to be the most beautiful married daughter in the city of Shuojing in the past ten years. Xu Jingfu’s jewel in the palm of the hand, everyone can only offer it.

In this marriage, Madam Chu naturally hated it, and Madam Chu’s three sons also looked jealous. It was probably only Shi Jinbo Chu Linfeng who was most sincerely happy.

The wine was hot, Chu Linfeng was at the banquet, patted Chu Zhao on the shoulder and smiled: “In one month, Miss Xu will enter the gate of our Chu family. I never thought that Chu Linfeng would make it with the Xu family in my life. My in-laws are worthy of being my Chu Linfeng’s son, it’s amazing!”

To please a woman is probably something to be proud of in Chu Linfeng’s eyes. Little did she know that this point of pride fell in Mrs. Chu’s eyes, and it was particularly dazzling.

Mrs. Chu told Chu Linfeng that when she first married, she still had some affection, but this affection had been wiped out long ago when Chu Linfeng was carrying her concubine to the mansion. NS. She knew that she had an ordinary appearance and didn’t want Chu Linfeng to be pleased, so she didn’t ask for anything else, just wanted to take the position of being the mistress of the house.

Over the years, she has done very well. Chu Linfeng has nothing to do with the exception of a skin. If the old lady had not supported the Shijin Boss House back then, I am afraid that the Chu family would have been defeated by Chu Linfeng. He loves and feels pity for beauties, but once he really touches his interests, he hides behind the old lady again, and refuses to pay any more.

A cool and cowardly hypocrite who still feels his love and righteousness.

Perhaps the Chu family’s men’s blood was sentimental, including her own three sons, and only Chu Zhao… Madam Chu’s eyes fell on the young man beside Chu Linfeng.

Chu Zhao’s skin inherited all the advantages of Chu Linfeng and Ye Runmei. It was gentle, but also innocent and fragile. This vulnerability can greatly make people let go of their vigilance, and it is natural to get the favor of others. Xu Pingting has been arrogant and domineering since she was a child, but she has never said anything serious to Chu Zhao.

But Chu Zhao is an alien, not as harmless as it seems on the surface.

When Chu Zhao was carried back then, Madam Chu didn’t want him to live to grow up, but because of the face of the old lady, she didn’t touch him for the time being. At that time, the child in front of her had also been humbled by her knees, begging for mercy like a dog, and then… quickly found Xu Jingfu as a backer, and since then saved his life.

Madam Chu couldn’t catch his handle, and before she knew it, the entire Chu family had to look at Chu Zhao’s expression. She was unwilling to be robbed of everything she had by an illegitimate, so she designed Ying Xiang to provoke the relationship between Chu Zhao and Xu Pingting. It’s just that Mrs. Chu didn’t expect that Chu Zhao was so ruthless, not only did Ying Xiang give the prince to the prince without saying a word, but also personally sent it to the prince’s residence in a carriage.

There is no barrier between him and Xu Pingting.

Madam Chu feels chills. A man who can handle his feelings at will and play with people’s hearts, but he has a cold heart that can’t even be compared to his father. With such a gentle knife, the person who was stabbed can’t bear to complain. Terrible?

She was thinking, Chu Zhao seemed to be aware of her gaze, and looked over, with a smile in his eyes, as always. Madam Chu trembled in her heart, lowered her head, avoiding Chu Zhao’s gaze.

“What else does Zilan need to prepare for his father?” Chu Linfeng asked Chu Zhao with a smile. He is getting older and indulgence from time to time. A handsome man’s skin is no longer there, but his smile shows a bit of paternal care.

“What does he have to prepare?” Grandpa Chu couldn’t help but sneered. “The family is almost vacated for him to get married. Are you going to sell the house to him to get a wife?”

Chu Linfeng glanced at his elder son displeasedly, his tone was also dissatisfied, “If you can marry the prime minister’s daughter, I would be willing to sell the house!”

Master Chu stopped talking.

Their three sons were not as beautiful in appearance as Chu Zhao, and were not as outstanding as Chu Zhao in literary talent, and there was no prime minister, how could they marry the prime minister’s daughter. Chu Linfeng’s eccentric eyes grew from small to big, and now Chu Zhao is soaring, it is lucky, I am afraid that Chu Linfeng will be more obedient to Chu Zhao in the future.

“There is nothing to prepare.” Chu Zhao said calmly: “It’s already very good.”

“That’s Miss Xu, the daughter of the prime minister’s family,” Chu Linfeng was a little drunk, and taught him: “Don’t be negligent. It’s hard for people to fall in love with you… you have to catch it!”

Madam Chu looked at the scene in front of her, sneered in her heart, listening to what it was saying, I was afraid that this was what the old bustard in the Yihong Academy told her daughter to catch a generous benefactor. Chu Linfeng has been famous by women all his life, but now he wants to teach his son how to say it, which is Quan Shuojing’s laughingstock.

“I think your father is drunk,” Madam Chu didn’t want to look anymore, and stood up and said, “Zilan, you can help your father go back to the house to rest. I have a headache, so I’ll go to the back room and sit for a while.” What kind of expression Chu Linfeng was, got up and left the table. It’s done, and now she can’t do anything, but she can’t see it.

When the other three of the Chu family saw this, they also got up. They didn’t want to see Chu Zhao and Chu Linfeng stage a scene of father’s kindness and filial piety here, and left one after another. For a while, there was a mess at the lively banquet, and people took herbal tea.

“Hey, why are you all gone?” Chu Linfeng said with a big tongue: “Come back!”

No one answered him.

Chu Zhao assisted Chu Linfeng to stand up, summoned the little things around to clean up the feast, and helped Chu Linfeng go back to the house by himself.

Chu Linfeng has no longer stayed in Mrs. Chu’s room over the years. The yard of the nineteenth room concubine turned to sleep. Today, Chu Zhao didn’t help him to the concubine’s room, but went to the study.

He is not a gentleman who loves books. The study is just a decoration in Chu Linfeng. There is even a soft roof inside. I heard someone say that it is for the convenience of Chu Linfeng and his maid and his concubine. , Chu Zhao always turned a blind eye to these absurd things about his father. The young man stayed outside the door, he helped Chu Linfeng to the soft collapse, and Chu Linfeng lay down.

He seems to be very happy today, red-faced, already drunk, with a soaring drunkenness, but still holding Chu Zhao’s hand and telling his joy, “Zilan, you really give Dad a face! Dad has four sons. , The three of them…none work. Dad likes you the most. Dad took you to meet friends and socialize with you since you were a child, knowing that one day you will become Dad’s pride. Look… Now you are going to marry a wife. , I’m so… so happy.”

Chu Zhao sat on the soft side and looked at him silently.

“In the juniors of the Chu family, you have the best luck… You will only get better and better with the help of your grandfather… Good luck, not everyone can come across.”

The young man smiled sarcastically. Good luck? Is he lucky? If you don’t know who your biological father is from a young age, your biological mother is sold into a brothel, and it’s good luck to live a life of trembling every day. Living under one roof, I don’t know if I have my own life. It’s good luck to live tomorrow. If I can’t control my life, I can only be a dog under the seat of a big man, like a puppet, and I can’t even have a woman I like is called luck. good……

The good luck that day and next day, Chu Zilan alone had this share.

“Father,” he heard his own voice, “Do you remember my mother?”

Chu Linfeng hiccuped and said drunkly, “Your mother…who is your mother?” After that, he turned over again, facing the wall, and fell asleep.

Chu Zhao looked at his face, and after a while, smiled self-deprecatingly, stood up and walked out of the study.

Xiao Si asked him if he wanted hot tea, but he shook his head and refused.

He walked slowly. When he was a child, he felt that the Chu Family was really big, and every place might be lurking with sinister murderous intent. Now that he grows up, he walks again, and he feels that it is nothing more than that.

The winter in Shuojing City is as cold as ever. Just like when he first came to the Chu family, he saw that handsome man, a little hope was born in his heart, but he was wiped out by his subsequent ignorance and indifference.

It seems that it is as cold as it is now, but now he no longer trembles as he did when he was young, not because of the warmer winter, but because he has long been accustomed to the cold.

Anyone will get used to it.

Chu Zhao walked back to his room, closed the door, and inside the room, the wise maidservant stepped forward and smiled: “The wedding invitation has been sent out, Fourth Young Master.”

He waved his hand and replied softly: “I’m tired.”

A joyful smile appeared on the maidservant’s face and stepped back, leaving him alone in the house.

The Xu family wanted to complete the marriage affair a year ago, which seemed like a rush, but everyone knew that Chu Zhao would marry Xu Pingting sooner or later. Everything about the marriage had already been arranged. Just like when he worshipped Xu Jingfu’s door when he was young, from that moment on, his destiny was destined not to belong to him.

The stove in the room glowed with red fire, and it seemed to have a kind of vain warmth. Suddenly, he remembered that on a spring day, someone had spent eight copper plates and gave him a brown sugar flower basket with his name written on it.

He missed the flower basket suddenly.

A young man came in, interrupted his thoughts, and whispered: “Four sons, the person Xu Xiang was looking for in the Mingshui battle, has not fallen yet, and has been anxious recently.”

Chu Zhao moved his gaze away from the burning stove, and said unhurriedly, “Don’t think too much, those two people must have fallen into Xiao Huaijin’s hands.”

“Ms. Yingxiang has also passed a letter on her side. His Royal Highness is now very fond of her and is quite dissatisfied with Xu Xiang.”

“Those who think they are winning will naturally have a lot of grievances against those who are pointing fingers.” Chu Zhao smiled, “Xiao Huaijin has returned to Beijing. The prince and the Utuo have already formed an alliance privately, and the Xu family is about to end.”

“Congratulations to the fourth son,” Xiao Si said happily: “The fourth son is about to get what he wants. After that, what you want will naturally be omnipotent.”

“What do I want?” He was startled for a while, and then said for a while: “What I want is already someone else’s.”