Minister

115【Seven years of Jiankang】

"Huh?" Wei Chi had a cherry pit in his mouth.

The spring wind blew across the field, caressing all kinds of green, Saul Hahan buried his fingers in the horse's mane, feeling a little itchy in his heart.

"Will you be an official in the court for the rest of your life?"

"This..." Wei Chi chewed the cherry pit: "I don't know, the people watching the yard will wake up one day."

"What are your plans then?"

Wei Chi looked at the clouds in the sky, and said lazily: "In fact, everyone will not be an official for a lifetime. It's just that I am shorter than others, so there is nothing new in terms of plans. If I can retire unscathed by then, it will be natural. It's about getting old, if you can't get out of your body, then someone else has made the plan. What about you?"

"Haven't I been a princess all my life?"

"It's a princess who can do other things..."

The two horses walked slowly on the country road without anyone urging them. Wei Chi suddenly had the idea of ​​dozing off: "After returning to Beijing, before the Chinese New Year, I had a dream. I dreamed of you."

"I?"

"I dreamed that you were married."

Saul Hahan couldn't help laughing: "Why do you dream of such a mess."

"I don't know. At that time, I was very tired and always slept deeply, but that night I suddenly felt that I woke up in a dream. It was clearly night, but it was daytime outside the window. I knew it was a dream, but Through the study window, I saw you in Monan. I knew it was a dream, but I still ran to the window and tried hard to see clearly. "

"Did you see clearly?"

"No, there are many people walking around you, I suddenly felt that you were going to get married, so I panicked and shouted."

"Why are you panicking when I get married?" Saul Hahan tightened the reins.

"...I don't know, I don't know, it's actually a good thing, but I didn't know what to think at the time, I was lying on my window and shouting and screaming."

Saul Hahan suddenly drove his horse across in front of Wei Chi: "I really want to know what you shouted?"

Wei Chi was amused by Saul Hahan's serious look: "I don't remember, it was just yelling, until the day when I saw you at Honglu Temple, I still vaguely felt that you were married."

"You lied to me!" Saul Hahan snorted heavily.

Wei Chi hurried to catch up: "Meng, do you remember your dream?"

"Of course I remember! One day I also dreamed about you getting married, I will definitely remember it in detail, and then I will tell you." Saul Hahan gritted his teeth.

"Hey! Stop dreaming!" Wei Chi blushed.

"Didn't you always tell me that a female university should marry? I'm a random dream? Even a random dream is you who dreamed of me first."

Seeing Wei Chi's half-joking words, Saul Hahan pouted, and then looked around with embarrassment.

Many times this person is free, but because he is too free, he breaks all the rules and just lives according to his own wishes, so everything becomes lonely.Whether it's King Yan or herself, maybe it's really the few fetters she needs to take care of. When someone who knows the reason and is eager to pull her back into the circle of ordinary people asks her questions about ordinary people, she is naturally Confidence suddenly hides away, and then it is the habit of avoiding, avoiding, avoiding.

Sure enough, Wei Chi said: "How will you marry your daughter in Monan?"

"Your heart is far away."

"..." Wei Chi ignored Saul Hahan's ridicule: "Will you marry someone you like?"

"Who can force me to marry someone I don't like?"

"That's not what I want to ask, of course."

Saul Hahan looked at Wei Chi's doubtful face with a smile.

"Do you know Du Ranunculus?"

"Yes, your good brother."

"he died."

"..."

"He gave me his engagement bracelet and asked me to hand it over to his childhood sweetheart fiancee. I worked my ass off in Fengyi just to bring such news to the person who was waiting for him infatuatedly? For what? Actually, I can't figure it out .”

Saul Hahan interrupted her: "What does this have to do with getting married?"

"I was just thinking... I have never worried about a person with your character, but fate is really impermanent. After Du Ran's death, I often wonder if even you have the same fate in the face of an irresistible fate." A day of grievances."

Saul Hahan didn't expect Wei Chi's crooked heart to be bent to such an extent. Thinking of himself outside the city wall of Fengyi, watching the billowing dust waves covering the sky, he had already prepared the farewell in his heart .Then the situation turned around, and he jumped with joy, as if Wei Chi could live in peace and security for a long time as long as he escaped this catastrophe.

"Don't curse the person I like! I warn you!" Saul Hahan spat the cherry pit on Wei Chi.

"You haven't changed at all," Wei Chi avoided the cherry pit: "Did I become a little sentimental?"

Saul Hahan laughed loudly, and patted Wei Chi's head: "That's true, but, before, I didn't count on you, a little girl who is strong but capable. You are destined to be a person who stands still and waits for someone to come to you. "

Wei Chi shook his head disdainfully: "Is my lord a dog?"

If you are a dog, I hope you are a long-lived, healthy dog.

Saul Hahan said to himself, so that I can take you away calmly.

In order to hide his snicker, Saul Hahan slapped Wei Chi's mount hard.The horse jumped forward, and the wind in his ears became violent.Saul Hahan suddenly felt that the person in front turned into a color, dancing and merging into the field with various greens.

We're all still alive, aren't we?So there is no need to think about those hypothetical questions, Saul Hahan chased after him, since we are all still alive...then...

Saul Hahan whipped the whip, and the docile mount spread its front hoofs and chased after the shadow in front.

I ran past the hills full of cherry trees, followed by endless wheat fields. According to the reminder of the farmer, when I saw the outer wall of Huangzhuang, I had to turn to the main road.When the gray-yellow tiles appeared on the horizon, Wei Chi shouted: "Slow down, slow down, don't run over again!"

Wei Chi caught up and stopped Saul Hahan: "You are so strong after eating cherries? Why are you running so fast?"

Saul Hahan smiled deliberately: "Because you picked the cherries."

"Hmm! Mmm! I can still pick cherries to make a tonic!" Wei Chi got up and looked around: "That should be King Yan's Huangzhuang."

I can't see clearly from a distance, I just feel that the wall is endless.Wei Chi had been here a few times before, so he said positively: "It's really big, and the prince has money to spend, and the repair is better than the palace."

Saul Hahan was disdainful: "It's better than my place? Then you still want to come to my place?"

"This is different. Although these are good, there are differences between monarchs and ministers. Where are you... I can say whatever I think, and it is naturally different."

"Really?" Saul Hahan didn't believe it: "You seem to have an unusual relationship with your Lord Yan, he seems to treat you as a close friend with no exception."

Wei Chi felt that Saul Hahan's words were a bit sour: "He and I are monarchs and ministers after all, haven't you heard that being with a king is like being with a tiger?" Wei Chi rubbed his wrist: "Actually, it's hard to explain, but ... After all, we are different from you and me."

"According to what you said, I really don't feel honored?" Saul laughed hahaha.

Wei Chi looked at the brilliant glazed tiles: "If King Yan and I are on the verge of a battle of Fengyi one day...after the war, I'm afraid we will no longer be friends, but enemies."

Saul Hahan grabbed Wei Chi's reins: "Wei Chi, Wei Chi... If one day you had to choose someone between me and him, who would you choose?"

"Ah?" Wei Chi thought for a while: "This is different, King Yan and I may betray each other one day, maybe never. But you and I have never betrayed, we will never be that kind Enemies in the sense, because you and I are enemies, have always been enemies, but have always been friends. There is no choice for this matter."

Saul Hahan wanted to say that I didn't mean it that way, but felt that he was being abrupt, so he let go of his hand, pouted and turned towards the main road alone.Wei Chi quickly chased after him: "Hey, are you angry? How about I go and steal some cherries for you? This place is fairly familiar..."

"Come on!" Saul Hahan was amused by her: "You stupid fellow!"

Wei Chi has always thought that Saul Hahan's mind is a bit weird, but it seems that real girls have such a weird temper.As for what Saul Hahan said about not being enlightened, Wei Chi didn't quite understand it.The grass-scented wind reminded Wei Chi of Sol Hahan's terrace. On a certain half-dream afternoon, he felt in a daze that someone was coming to cover him with an embroidered woolen blanket, so he turned over and pressed the person who was helping him to tighten the quilt. hand.But it didn't seem to be the terrace, but the big soft bed, the person beside him was holding his waist, and the breath he exhaled was a bit sour.This lack of enlightenment seems to have something to do with that bitterness, but it seems that there is no relationship.

"What are you thinking about?" Saul Hahan pointed at Wei Chi's brow.

"Oh! Oh!" Wei Chi patted his face: "No, no."

"Thirsty! Thirsty!" Saul Hahan yelled.

"Okay, okay! There is a tea house not far ahead, and we will be there in a few steps." Wei Chi said quickly.

"...I can't run anymore..."

Wei Chi saw that Saul Hahan dropped the reins and lay on the horse's back.

"Hey... hey! Such a big girl, even if there is no one on the road, don't be like this."

"No! You used to fall asleep at my place!"

"I've never fallen asleep on the road!" Wei Chi tugged at Saul Hahan's arm: "Good girl, get up!"

Saul Hahan hugged the horse's neck and did not let go. Wei Chi tried to stabilize the horse while coaxing her and wiping his sweat.Seeing Wei Chi flustered, Saul Hahan narrowed his eyes and secretly smiled.

"I've never seen you like this before..."

"how……?"

"Fat!" Wei Chi snorted heavily.

"Huh? Really? I've always been like this!" Saul Hahan changed his face.

Wei Chi got off his horse and walked around: "My good sister, I was wrong, let's go, there are still people waiting over there, if you rush to report to the palace, it will be bad."

Saul Hahan pouted and said lazily, "...Am I tired..."

"Good sister, do you want more cherries? I'll pick them for you right away?"

"Don't, don't! I'm tired..." Seeing Wei Chi looking at her pitifully, Saul Hahan suppressed a smile, "...um... Master Wei just sing a song... how about it?"

Hearing this unreasonable request, Wei Chi twisted Saul Hahan's face: "...You little girl!" Saul Hahan couldn't sit still, was twisted, shook, and rolled off the saddle.

"Oh!" Wei Chi was afraid that she would fall, so he hurriedly stabilized her shoulders, but when he stepped back, he stepped on a lump of dirt, his body tilted, and the two of them fell into the grass on one side with a flutter and roll.

Dandelions covered the field in spring, and a wild rhododendron tree beside the road was in full bloom. Two or three yellow brocade wings were startled by the noise of the two and flew away from the grass, but they did not fly far, and moved up and down a few times. Fan landed on the tip of the grass again, looking at it curiously.Wei Chi felt that Saul Hahan touched the back of his head with his hand, and after confirming that there was no stone that could make her stupid, he leaned back on his body with his arms limp.

"Hey...hey, why are you so lazy today?" Wei Chi struggled a lot, but to no avail, so he had to resign himself to making a cushion.

"Don't talk." Saul Hahan tilted his head, lay on Wei Chi's stomach, picked a dandelion and held it in his hand.Wei Chi sat up and leaned against the wild rhododendron tree next to her. Pink and white petals fell one after another, making her nose itchy.

"What kind of person do you think I am?" Saul Hahan asked suddenly.

"Huh?" Wei Chi was cleaning a flower stuck to her bun.

"Master Wei is so dull today!" Saul Hahan turned over and rested on Wei Chi's lap on his back.

"...You...have status, beauty, power, and ability. Apart from being fond of bullying, what else is good?" Wei Chi thought for a while.

"Bullying people?" Saul Hahan twitched the corners of his lips: "Many people want me to bully, but I can't..."

"Yes! Yes! I feel very honored." Wei Chi threw the flower in his hand to Saul Hahan's face.

Saul Hahan brushed off the azalea petals from his face, grabbed Wei Chi's sleeve and moved himself to a comfortable position.

"What kind of person do you think I am?" Wei Chi looked at the few yellow brocade wings in the distance, watching them grooming each other's feathers, arguing from time to time.

"You're a lonely person..."

"I'm alone?"

Saul Hahan saw Wei Chi looked down at him in surprise, the shadow cast by the cuckoo softened her men's attire: "You are very lonely, you never look back when you leave a place, don't you know that? "

"..."

"Remember the night when I took you to touch the flower festival? I stood under the flower wall and watched you. You walked through the long street and then turned around my palace wall without any hesitation or reluctance. I I was thinking, are you ready to say goodbye at any time, even if you are asked to set off back to Beijing that night, you will not be shaken in the slightest."

"...It's not like that...Maybe it's my habit..."

"Do you have any family?"

Faced with such an interrogation suddenly, Wei Chi was a little at a loss: "No...but it's kind of there, let's say it." Wei Chi straightened up: "I heard from people in the village that my master picked me up on the first day of the new year. At that time, it was the time when there were bandits, and every family was busy fleeing. Who would take in the child? What's more, it was a little girl, so Master had to take me in. But he was a quiet place. After all, men and women are different. It was not suitable for me, so I had to say to the outside world that I was an apprentice, and I barely gave me food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and saved my life. Later, the master went, and the people in the village calculated how much money they could spend on the little land in the temple. Calculate the land deed. I am only five years old, what can I do? Master did borrow some money from them when he took medicine, but there are also some who owe us money, but those people bullied me when I was young, so I got rid of it. I was also a ruthless character when I was young They can't just strangle me right now... My teacher came up the mountain and brought me to the academy, and then I lived in the academy for more than ten years. My master is my family Let's go." Wei Chi sighed: "He took me to the market, and even took me to the river to watch others catch ducks."

"You have lived in the academy for more than ten years, isn't your teacher considered your family?"

Wei Chi was at a loss for words for a while: "...I don't know, when the teacher sprained his ankle when he was traveling in the mountains, he just stayed in our temple for one night. When he came to pick me up, I don't believe he had good intentions. The master knows a lot of tricks, and there are many people in the village who have received help, but in the end, they all turned back? I was forced to go down the mountain by him... Later, maybe he was really kind, but he couldn’t give it to others Hehe, do you know?" Wei Chi paused: "Speaking of which, he is also a person who never looks back. When I was a child on the mountain, no matter where I was or what I was doing, I could always feel that Master's that. The eyes are on me. If I slip my feet, there will be those hands behind me to support me. I can see him smiling at me as soon as I turn around. Although we are masters and apprentices, we are better than grandparents Teacher... It’s hard to say. He was in his thirties when he took me down the mountain. He was unmarried when he was too old. When I was 12 years old, I would braid my hair, and then find a good place to find a good place. I decided not to be a monk for the rest of my life. But the teacher heard that I wanted to study, so he didn’t say much, and gave me a set of square scarves Just let me make such a decision. Before the exam, I persuaded me, but there was only one sentence. At the end, I said, this path is your own choice. Don’t rely on him if you become half-male and half-female. .I don't know what kind of person he is...and I don't know what kind of affection I have for him."

"Little Wei Chi..." Saul Hahan raised his hand to touch Wei Chi's cheek: "Your teacher treats you like this, and you treat me like this?"

"No!" Wei Chi quickly argued.

"Actually, your teacher is very similar to you, with a warm face and a cold heart, but not really cold."

"I'm different from him!" Wei Chi disdainfully said: "He treats everyone well, but he treats me well, and everything is clear. I am the one who chooses to study, not his business, and I am the one who chooses to go to Beijing , don’t do his business, I’m the one who was chosen to be an official, and I don’t do his business.”

"Did you go down the mountain with him voluntarily?"

"..."

"Just from this incident, we can know that he is kind to you, but he is embarrassed to let you know that he is stubborn, and you are also stubborn."

"You're defending him..."

"When I first met you, I felt that you were not from a small family. Although you often complained about money, you never really cared about food and clothing. If you want to waste things, you won't be soft-hearted. Think I want to know that you were spoiled. Your teacher has taught so many students, but treats you as his own child...you don't know."

"I didn't lack anything...but I never asked him for anything. No one in the town thought I was his son..."

"...You'd better find out and see if your teacher and you are really related. They are really a character carved out of the same mold."

"Come on! You just don't know him! I'm nothing like him!"

"...Your teacher, according to your words, what a flamboyant person, and the academy he runs is also very famous. But why is it such a trouble to adopt you because Bo En, who stayed overnight?"

"..."

"Can't you speak?" Saul Hahan held Wei Chi's hand: "What a good person your master is, you like him, so...your teacher also likes him. Teacher and father fill your hearts lack."

"..."

"Would you just pick up a child from the street and go back to raise it for more than ten years?"

"……Won't"

"Your teacher is not that kind of person, so he definitely didn't take you back casually. It's just that your bad tempers are too similar, making you hard-hearted... Hmph."

Saul Hahan stopped talking, and retracted into Wei Chi's arms again.Wei Chi was thinking about that sentence - your teacher treats you like this, and you treat me like this?

Actually... I don't know how to treat you, but I really didn't treat you that way.

How cold is my back?In fact, I never knew.Because I have never looked back, or expected others to look back, I don't know how the person watching my back feels.

I don’t know when, I forgot the soft words, I only remember the faces of those who blocked the door and forced themselves to hand over the land deeds, I only remembered the faces of those who evaded their debts, and only remembered those who stood by and watched the excitement while eating malt candy The child's face, only remembers his helpless and unwilling face.

Don't be like this, can I become stronger?become stronger?

So when I held those hands, I only thought about getting strength from him and becoming indestructible, but I forgot whether those hands carried tenderness or not.

Wei Chi wanted to say something to Saul Hahan, but she seemed to be very tired, so tired that she had already fallen asleep, but she still held her hand firmly and did not let go.

The dim yellow courtyard wall in the distance is somewhat blurred by the lush green in late spring. Wild flowers, birds, and grass waves created by the following spring breeze describe the spring here as the same as all springs.Maybe it's from the prairie, maybe it's from the mountains, maybe it's from the hill behind the academy, maybe it's buried in my heart or in my dreams.

Wei Chi looked up at the canopy of the wild rhododendron tree against which he was leaning, hoping that these flowers would also bloom in his heart.

Is this delusional?Wei Chi secretly asked Saul Hahan in his heart.

Maybe not?

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