General Chu

For things like living, when there are too many people, the sense of ritual is heavy, and they are willing to spend more time on managing it. If there is only one person left, no matter how carefully planned it is, it will be like suffering in bitter water.

People in the army often say don't be bored, besides practicing swords in life is reading.In the past, he didn't feel that there was a noisy person around him, but now he was alone and suddenly realized that he was really boring.

He was alone in the general's mansion, waiting for the news that all the entrances and exits of Chu, Zheng, and Suiyong were reconciled and opened.

Mo Wen's hand holding the pen paused, and then dropped a little heavily.

For the people of Chu State and for the peace and prosperity, he stood against countless people, and prepared for his funeral many times in advance.But it turned out that he thought that immortality was a relationship that could be easily reconciled.He was the only one who took the whole chess game seriously.

In the court, most ministers are happy with the current peaceful situation, only a few conservatives remember the days of tightening their belts and saving military supplies just to drive the enemy away.

Mo Wen was so silent that he listened to them. After the hall finally became quiet, he took a step to the right and walked to the middle of the opposing courtiers, and knelt down without saying a word.

Xu Liwenyuan looked down at him, and didn't express anything for a long time, and only whispered something when all the officials became agitated, and then discussed.

That day Xia Chao Mo Wen was very considerate and did not leave first, and Wu Jizhou came to him after a while.

In the Chengqing Palace, the maids came one after another to serve fruit refreshments and then quietly left.

A pure black palace chariot covered with tiger skin came leisurely.Chu Zi, who was full of majesty, was surrounded by everyone and walked into the hall.

Mo Wen stood aside like an outsider.

He didn't realize it until everyone was waved back, but he came back to his senses and handed over a plate of fruit at the table to Xu Liwenyuan, who had a gloomy brow.

"Are you thirsty?" Mo Wen asked.

The person in front of him stared at him motionlessly for a long while.Mo Wen didn't speak out of the idea of ​​not intensifying the conflict, but the less he spoke, the angrier the person in front of him seemed to be.

In the end, the table was overturned and the melons and fruits were scattered all over the ground.

"Did I tell you not to kneel?"

Mo Wen paused for a moment, then said in a deep voice, whether we have acted too hastily in today's situation, can we just cut meat and feed eagles?Uncooked.

"Who is the eagle is still unknown." He was so proud and flamboyant, but then changed the subject a moment later, Mingrong, you blame me for sending Han Shaoqing to test out General Su's death, I admit it, you blame me for agreeing to the settlement treaty so quickly. Yes, but I am Chuzi, and I want to think about the future of the people of Chu.

Mo Wen leaned sideways on the desk, looking down at the ground, covered in lonely frost and snow.He said, I don't blame you, it's just that you don't have such a broad mind.

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help pulling the corner of his mouth.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Suddenly I feel absurd." Mo Wen asked, how would the people react if they knew that their son Chu and the general had such a relationship?

The relationship between them shouldn’t be like this, it’s better to have any other kind of relationship, full of resentment, one that settles the previous suspicions, and it’s more likely to be a rivalry while mixed with sympathy between the strong, in short, any kind is better. Now.

Because among so many relationships in the world, only love has inexplicable and inappropriate over-dependence and high expectations.

After speaking, there was a moment of silence, then Mo Wen got up and walked out.Xu Liwenyuan stood up abruptly, but he didn't say anything.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mo Wen went to bed early at home alone, and dreamed of his mother and concubine whom he hadn't dreamed of for a long time.Like every time in the past, the concubine mother looked at him in the fire, her eyes were full of despair and pain.

He woke up with a start, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, stared blankly at the beam for a while and fell asleep again, this time, it was Su Yingmiao who whipped the horse.The figure was blurry but he recognized it at a glance.Su Yingmiao looked back at him, waving and shouting, what are you doing!Mo Wen thought about it, but roots seemed to have taken root under his feet.Just as he was struggling, Su Yingmiao became angry and aimed at him with the heavy crossbow behind him.

Mo Wen Yizhi, said softly, I didn't do it on purpose.

As he spoke, he began to cry, a tear slipping from the corner of his eye to his temple.The night wind blew the hot tears and turned them cold, Mo Wen woke up, raised his hand to wipe his cheeks, and muttered to himself, why are you crying?

He couldn't figure out why he was crying, for his concubine mother, for his old friend, or for something else.

On the day of Xiumu, Mo Wen went to the street corner to buy two meat buns on the way back from sword practice.When passing by the front yard, he was attracted by a cat meowing, and when he turned around, the fat orange cat was on the top of the wall, ready to move towards the bun in his arms.

When Mo Wen took a step forward, the cat shrank back a little, and when Mo Wen walked over, the fat cat shrank into a ball. Even so, it was still staring at the meat bun in Mo Wen's arms. He would rather die than surrender.

Mo Wen stretched out his hand to grab it from the wall, and couldn't help but wonder, how could the wild cat be so fat?

"Could it be better to name it Fatty?" Mo Wen decided on his own while pretending to ask for advice.

Although the cat couldn't understand what he said, it didn't have any reason to be upset. However, it was caught by the neck of fate and had no choice but to succumb.

Mo Wen walked towards the house with the cat in his arms, but suddenly there were noisy voices in the front yard. Turning around, Xu Liwenyuan was walking quickly, followed by a few court ladies.

"These people belong to the small kitchen and the laundry department. There should always be someone to take care of you." The tone was so natural and trance-like that people thought that the last dispute did not exist at all.

When Fatty saw Xu Liwenyuan approaching, he suddenly struggled violently.As soon as Mo Wen let go, it went into the room.

Mo Wen watched the cat quickly disappear behind the desk and chair, then turned to face Xu Liwenyuan, silent.

Not to mention that he is eight feet tall and is a general of the country, even if he is really a scholar and a few girls, the ones who should be cared about are the girls.Having said that, he couldn't refuse Xu Liwenyuan's arrangement. If he refused this item today, he would have to send other things intensified tomorrow.

If you can't refuse, you can only accept it.

At dinner, the two of them sat opposite each other across a solid wooden round table. Mo Wen held the cat in his arms and fed it from time to time because he had no appetite.Xu Liwenyuan stared at him for a long time, then dipped his chopsticks in the hot sauce and wiped it on the cat's nose.

Fatty bounced up with an "Aww" and ran away.

Mo Wen raised his head to look at Xu Li Wenyuan, who was faintly smug at the corner of his mouth, and said helplessly, what he was making trouble with, he didn't understand anything.

Xu Liwenyuan didn't look at him, and took a sip of the pear blossom wine in front of him as if he was done. He didn't forget to complain that he didn't know who was making trouble with me.

Mo Wen frowned slightly and looked at a certain place on the table, and asked softly, Your Majesty, have you ever had a brother who slept in the same robe?

"The father and the king only have one wife, the mother and the queen. In order to avoid the dispute over the heirloom, I have only one child. The royal family has no brothers."

"What about my friend?"

Xu Li Wenyuan looked up at him, and said in a deep voice, what the Gu Wang wants is the life of the people of Chu and the safety of the people, so naturally he should give up something.

"So, in your youthful ideals, is there no one who stands side by side in your plan to rule the hegemony?"

"have you."

Mo Wenwannian's frozen expression relaxed for a moment.After a while, he asked again, Your Majesty, if I hadn't held the Tiger Talisman in my hand, would you still be willing to spend so much time on me?

"Don't ask! I was the one who was tempted first, and I was the one who chased after you. After we met, I put you in the future plan. Is it too late? What the lonely king gave you is all he can give!"

He tried his best to defend himself word by word, but Mo Wen remained expressionless, and only said lightly, Your Majesty, have you ever thought about it, the nine-foot golden palace is not what everyone yearns for.

"I know, this is not where you want to go. After the death of General Su, you suddenly found out that he is the one you were destined for, right?"

Mo Wen was silent, unable to say anything.What can he say, that it has nothing to do with Su Yingmiao?The estrangement between them was indeed caused by Su Yingmiao. It cannot be said that it has nothing to do with Su Yingmiao, but it really has nothing to do with Su Yingmiao.

Xu Liwenyuan shook his sleeves, walked quickly to the door and stopped before stepping out of the room, turned around and asked, from the beginning to the end, the lonely king was never in your heart, when the lonely king showed you his chest, Mo Qing, in your heart Is there not a moment of intolerance?

Mo Wen sat behind him, five steps away, stared at his slender back, paused, and said, Your Majesty, it's cold, please add clothes.

Xu Liwenyuan sneered, I wish you never treated me kindly.

Mo Wen was still staring blankly at the door until the person walked away, not knowing what he was thinking.

Fatty stared at him from a distance for a while, then walked to the table and jumped up. It probably wanted to jump on the table, but the ideal is very plump and the reality is very skinny. It obviously does not have a correct understanding of its own weight.The front paws grabbed the edge of the table and knocked down the tableware on it, but the back paws failed to keep up in time, and fell down accidentally.

Falling down wasn't such a terrible thing, as long as it got up, it underestimated its own weight again. After struggling for a while, it still lay flat and gave up, turning its eyes to Mo Wen for help.

Mo Wen sighed and said helplessly, you are as stupid as me.Never recognize reality.

Fatty didn't know what he was muttering at all, he was still immersed in the joy of successfully turning over, he followed Mo Wen's legs and was about to climb onto the table again, but Mo Wen grabbed the back of his neck to restrain him in time.

In the Chu Palace that night, a black shadow quickly passed by between guards changing shifts.

Xu Liwenyuan was sitting in front of the case reviewing the memorial at that time, and wrote his opinions on the memorial one word at a time in vermilion ink.He sat for three full hours before he finally felt sleepy.Wu Jizhou tiptoed into the inner hall and cautiously reminded him, Your Majesty, it's midnight, go to bed quickly.

That night, in his sleep, he faintly heard someone walking to his bed with light steps.The man's voice was very gentle, he said, remember, I am your sworn enemy, and I am here to kill you.

Xu Liwenyuan didn't sleep well that day, but unexpectedly fell asleep very deeply. Although he fell asleep, he didn't forget to mutter, no.

The man froze when he turned to leave, and turned around to press a light kiss on his lips.

That kiss had nothing to do with lust or emotion, Mo Wen just suddenly felt that he was not as helpless as he imagined for the rest of his life.Xu Liwenyuan still did not forget to refute his words in his sleep, which made Mo Wen willing to stay by his side for many years later, even with bruises all over his body.

That morning Xu Liwenyuan woke up dimly, subconsciously touched the place beside him, it was cold, and his heart suddenly ached.

At that time, Mo Wen was already outside the city gate, leading the horse and looking back in the direction of Chu Palace.

Back then, he came here to kill Xu Liwenyuan, but unexpectedly, he had stayed in Tianliang City for so many years by mistake, and now he still couldn't do it, so he knew that he really couldn't do it, so that's all.

Better go home.

But where can he go? He is from Tianliang.

After getting out of Tianliang, he went all the way south and passed two cities. Mo Wen sold his horse and set out alone.By the way, there is also a cat.Although Fatty's survivability is very strong, it won't do much to throw it in Tianliang, but Mo Wen still brought it out.I just don't want to say that I came from Yingdu one day when I brag with others, but I can't show any evidence.

Can cats be used as evidence?Of course, cats in other places can't eat like this.

While eating wontons at a street stall, the two people next to them happened to be talking about the notice posted by the state capital today.One of them murmured in a low voice, hearing that the general was suffering from dementia and he ran away and couldn't find his way back. He asked anyone who found the whereabouts of the general to report it quickly and reward him with ten thousand taels of silver.

"Wan Liang?"

"That's right!"

"But who is the general? How tall is he and what is his face?"

The other heard the words and thumped him on the head and said, don't even know who the general is, are you still from Chu?Of course it is Ming Shuai, the general of the Tiger Erosion Army.

"you recognize?"

The man paused for a moment and said in a guilty conscience, could I know him?But I heard that this man is nine feet tall and has a ferocious face, and now he is insane, he must have disheveled hair and a fleshy face, and this person is vicious and bloodthirsty. He treats human life as nothing, and he must have a fleshy face. If you meet one, you can recognize it ,

Mo Wen heard that the front was smiling, but the back stopped laughing, and lowered his head to concentrate on feeding his cat.

The little girl from the owner's house ran out at some point, pointed at Fatty and yelled, "Wow, this man is feeding the pigs."

Everyone looked back at him in unison, Mo Wen explained lightly "it's a cat" and then left quickly after paying the money.

The so-called unforeseen misfortune is nothing more than that, and you can almost be recognized by eating a bowl of wontons.Is it wrong to be fat?

Fatty on his shoulders kicked hard because he was uncomfortable, and the force was exaggerated to say that it was about the same as being hit by a meteorite.

Mo Wen said with a face full of despair, being fat is really wrong.

The girl watched the two strange guests leave with a twist and turn in a strange posture, holding the silver and shouting behind her, hello!Find your broken silver!Don't you want it?

The girl yelled for a long time with a silver ingot, but she didn't wait for Mo Wen to go back. She lowered her head and took a closer look, and there was a bright word engraved on it: Guan.

"The official's money? Could it be the nobleman from Yingdu?"

"Is it the general?"

Several people got together to study for a long time before reaching a conclusion, looking at each other in disbelief.At that time, Mo Wen had traveled more than ten miles.He just walked all the way to distribute money, and when the people in Tianliang City pieced together an exact route based on the traces of the official money, he had already spent all the money. He was helping feed cattle and sheep at a farmer's house, working at sunrise every day. Rest at sunset.