Jiang Qing

The night was deep, and the candles in the tent flickered for a long time, and finally stopped.

Li An half sat up, looking at the people around him tenderly.

Zhao Yuansheng closed his eyes and was already sound asleep. His exposed collarbone and neck were covered with deep and shallow red marks, and his obviously red and swollen lips were slightly parted, exhaling warm breath.

Li An's eyes were dim, and his callused fingertips slid across the ambiguous traces left by him one by one. His gaze stayed on Zhao Yuansheng's bright red lips for a moment, and his Adam's apple moved.

He leaned over and pecked Zhao Yuansheng's lips, then stared at him for a while, then left a kiss on his hair, tucked in the quilt and got off the bed lightly.

With his back to Zhao Yuansheng, Li An closed his eyes and calmed down. He erased all the nostalgia in his eyes, and opened his eyes again, it was clear.

It's already the fourth watch when there is more noise outside.

Their clothes were scattered on the ground, Li An slowly put on his own clothes, groped through Zhao Yuansheng's clothes, and found the white jade army card that allowed him to leave the customs.

Holding the cold jade card, the palm of his hand hurt slightly from the corner of the card. This is the proof that he can get out of the customs, and it is also the beginning of his departure from Zhao Yuansheng.

From the moment he kissed him, Li An knew that the rest of their lives together would only be two short hours.

Two hours later, the land under his feet will be the border of Jiang Country, instead of his tent in the warm and harmonious atmosphere.

He deliberately angered Meng Ye with his words, in order to suffer flesh and blood, and it was all his tricks.

Even though Yu Liang was gaining momentum in Jiang State, he did not fully escape the name of Li State.

If he simply fled back, Li Chengji's suspicion would be enough to make him difficult.

And what Li An has to do is to put Li Chengji under the scorching eyes of Li's old department, so that even if he has suspicions about him, he can only be kept in the dark, and he dare not make trouble openly to prevent him from returning to Jiangguo.

The news of being humiliated by Meng Ye has already been sent back to Jiang Country, and now King Xianxie'en's old department can see that he is in a difficult situation in Li Country, so they are more fond of him and help him, and he is also because of the humiliation. It wasn't until Meng Ye attacked in front of all the soldiers that he was resentful, full of resentment, and returned home with hatred for Li Guo.

Zhao Yuansheng's affection for him is too obvious. Li An's plan is also to calculate his love for him after he was injured, relax his mind to take care of himself, and then choose the time when the barracks' defenses are weakest on New Year's Eve. Run out of the gate at night.

This bitter trick was killing two birds with one stone. Li An calculated every step, but he never expected to use this most intimate method to make Zhao Yuansheng relax his vigilance.

He had already prepared the drug for fascination. He originally wanted to lure Zhao Yuansheng into his tent, stun him and escape.

But at the critical moment, he still shamelessly followed his own selfishness and did what Xiao had wanted for a long time.

It is not wise to do such lingering things at the moment of severance, which will complicate the relationship between two people.

But looking at the brilliant fireworks outside and feeling the passage of time at his fingertips, he became more and more anxious that he couldn't catch Zhao Yuansheng.

If they hadn't had a relationship, after he left, would Zhao Yuansheng lose his heart for him and be with others?

Just thinking about this situation, Li An felt that he could not accept it.During the six years in Hancheng, he never worried that Zhao Yuansheng's affection for him would fade away, because he deeply understood that his foster brother was a person who would do everything he could to the end.

But now, Li An was shaken.Just knowing how submissive he is to him every day, one can imagine how decisive Zhao Yuansheng will be after knowing that he has escaped.

He will completely forget himself and start a new life.

When he failed to be responsible, Li An still did the most irresponsible thing. When he saw the person under him stained with white hair, he had an urge to remember himself deeply.

Even if he hates him, he still wants him to remember himself, as long as he can remember.

He is extremely selfish, unwilling to let go of Jiang Guo's power, and also unwilling to let go of this person.

The cold winter wind blows in from the gaps in the tent, just a few wisps, but enough to shake the white paper on the desk.

The wind passed through the paper, almost blowing Li An's heart into chaos.

He took a deep breath, stood in front of the table, his pen was covered with ink, and swished on the rice paper.He didn't look at the person on the bed, but the characters in his pen seemed to be copied, extending Zhao Yuansheng's lying state onto the paper in front of him.

The people he paints are always lifelike, but never one that makes him tremble so much, as if it was mixed with his painstaking efforts, eyebrows, eyes, nose bridge, lip curvature, the more detailed the description, the more shocking Li An is. , he could not restrain himself from following the person in the pen, calling the name of this person in his mind over and over again, but the enthusiasm in his heart did not overflow, his lips were tight, the pen paused, a drop of ink Instantly blurs on paper.

Li An's hand trembled slightly when he was waving the brush before he came.

The ink color twists and turns, Li An added several strokes to the painting.

In the painting, Zhao Yuansheng is sleeping soundly on the bed, the dim candlelight flickers and casts his shadow on the curtain, and there is a kneeling person leaning against the bed, with only one back, quietly lying on the bed, watching With Zhao Yuansheng.

Compared with Zhao Yuansheng in the painting, that figure from the back looks much more scribbled and blurred, and it is impossible to tell who it is, or even distinguish between men and women.

No matter who it is, it will not be me.He was no longer qualified to stand in front of Zhao Yuansheng's bed.

Li An hastily stopped the last stroke, sighed long, took out the Prince Sheng's Palace waist card in his arms, and pressed it on the ink-stained rice paper, and never moved his eyes to the inside, nor did he turn his head. Back to the ground out of the tent.

Between the opening and closing of the curtain, a gust of cold wind rushed in, but was blocked by the screen in the middle, and did not let out half of it on the person behind the screen.

The person in the dream slept soundly, unaware that he was the only one left in the tent.

After about a stick of incense, Zhao Yuansheng frowned slightly, moved a little on the bed, the pain climbed from the waist all the way up the spine, Zhao Yuansheng hissed, and opened and closed his eyes a few times , finally woke up slowly.

The dazzling candlelight left blurred light and shadow in his misty eyes, Zhao Yuansheng squinted his eyes and stretched out his hand to touch the side of his side, only to touch the cold side.

With his mind in a trance, Zhao Yuansheng opened his eyes for a while, and then slowly regained his mind, and found that Li An was not in the tent dully.

It's so late, where can he go?Wouldn't it be after doing that kind of thing that you regret it?

Zhao Yuansheng licked his dry lips, bent his elbows to prop up his body, and slowly sat up from the bed. After a while, he moved out of the bed smoothly.

As soon as he landed, Zhao Yuansheng's calf twitched violently. He cursed Li An inwardly, picked up the clothes on the ground and put them on.

The cold clothes were pressed against the warm body one by one, so cold that Zhao Yuansheng shivered. He warmed the clothes next to his body, touched his waist, and his face changed.

Regardless of the inconvenience of walking, Zhao Yuansheng rummaged through the tent. He became more and more irritable, especially after bending down in pain to search the ground to no avail, Zhao Yuansheng's face was already ugly.

His fingers holding on to the sagging side were already curled up, and he almost exhausted all his strength to support himself to stand upright again. He took a deep breath and walked towards the place where they had bathed.

The wooden basin is not deep, and one can tell at a glance that there is no place to hide things in it.

Zhao Yuansheng gritted his teeth and stretched his hand into the cold water, rummaging and searching, he didn't look at the water, as if he was afraid of facing the fact that he could see through it at a glance - the jade tablet was not in it.

He knelt beside the tub in embarrassment, leaning in with most of his body to search, clenched and loosened his hands under the water again and again, only the silent water squeezed through his fingertips, and there was nothing else.

Zhao Yuansheng stirred up the water more and more vigorously. He disturbed the clean water until he couldn't see the wood color of the bottom of the basin. It seemed that as long as he did this, he could lie to himself that the jade plaque was inside, but he couldn't find it.

It's in there, right there.Zhao Yuansheng said to himself over and over in his heart that it was inside, and Li An... must not be what he thought, he must not have left...

He kept deceiving himself like this, until his fingertips were numb from the water flow, Zhao Yuansheng suddenly hammered on the invisible water, and the splashing water splashed on his body, instantly soaking half of his warm clothes.

Zhao Yuansheng's teeth were chattering, he lowered his eyes and slowly stood up, kicking over the standing screen.

Under the dim candlelight, the radiant glass screen instantly shattered to the ground, and the brilliant light flowed all over the ground, dazzlingly bright.

Zhao Yuansheng's feet were numb. He stepped on the debris with his bare feet indifferently, letting the sharp points pierce his toes, stroking away the numbness in his ankles with pain.

After walking through the fragments, he returned to the middle of the camp, no longer had the cautiousness he had just looked for with hope, the shattered screen seemed to open the door in his heart, Zhao Yuansheng ruthlessly wiped everything he could see. It fell to the ground, and clenched its teeth amidst the chaos and crisp or heavy sounds all over the place without making a sound.

After a while, the camp was in a mess, and it would never return to its original appearance.

The crackling noise finally alarmed the patrolling generals outside. They rushed in and lifted the entire tent door. The bitter north wind washed Zhao Yuansheng all over his body. .

The soldiers who ran in froze on the spot, not even letting go of the hand that raised the curtain, letting the howling north wind rush inside.

A muffled sound of "Ding--" broke the silence.

The papers on the table were moved to the corner of the table by the wind, and the tokens pressing them were dragged intermittently to the corner of the table and fell to the ground.

The soldiers who were still standing at the tent door came back to their senses. The captain looked nervously at the cold-faced Prince Cheng who was covered in wet marks, and asked tentatively, "My lord?"

Zhao Yuansheng acted as if he hadn't heard of it, picked up the waist card of Prince Sheng's Mansion that had fallen on the ground, and walked to the table.

He looked down at his sleeping face on the rice paper on the table, took a deep breath, exhaled it, and spoke again, regaining his usual calmness.

"Pass my order, there is only one person in Han Queguan tonight, the patrol outside the pass spread out and searched, and found..." Zhao Yuansheng paused, but still did not say his name.

He clenched the corner of the rice paper in his hand, the ink on it was not completely dry, if he could really catch him, let the people below know that Li An had the intention of running away, it would be bad for him.

"If you find someone suspicious, immediately detain it, no matter who it is." Zhao Yuansheng loosened the piece of paper and continued: "Take two night patrol teams and follow me to Hanque Pass!"

He casually took a thick fur cloak on the side and put it on his body, Zhao Yuansheng strode out without even changing his wet clothes or armor, and led a dozen or so people straight to Han Que Pass.

Even the sky was frozen in winter in the Northland, as far as he could see, it was gray and cold, and the dark tree shadows passed quickly from the corner of his eyes. Between the ups and downs, the galloping wind squeezed towards him, as if To carve a hole through him.

Biting his lips tightly, Zhao Yuansheng was trying to hold back at first, the undershirt that was mixed with water was freezing bit by bit, and at the end, he no longer felt any sensation, his gray knuckles could only rely on his habit to grab the rein and run forward .

All the way is mountains and rivers, there is no trace of fireworks, can't distinguish the dark bumps, tears involuntarily freeze in the eyes, there is no place on the body that does not hurt, but this pain seems to have not been conveyed to his brain, He knew he was in pain, but he didn't feel it at all.

There was only the sound of wind in his ears, and the wind walls in all directions seemed to engulf him into a no-man's land. Only by running non-stop could he break through the entangled wind.

Han Queguan's pass tower is close at Chichi, but looking at the torches and mobile soldiers from a distance, he thought he had been frozen for a long time, and his heart jumped violently.

With a distance of a hundred steps, Zhao Yuansheng pinched the horse's belly, and without any intention of slowing down, he rushed straight towards the thorn fence blocking the road.

"Where is King Xie En!"

"Leave customs before a cup of tea..."

The soldiers blocking the way hurriedly dragged the thorn hedges to avoid them. Just half a step later, the horses had already jumped over their heads, bringing a gust of wind and blowing their ears. Can't tell the whole story.

When they stood up straight with lingering fear, that figure had quickly disappeared outside the pass.

"Your Majesty!" The rapid and scattered sound of horse hoofs kicked up another cloud of dust, about twenty or so armored soldiers neighed their horses and chased after them.

Ten miles northwest of Hanqueguan is the Longxi Shoal, and across the shoal is the Lijiang Boundary Monument.

With the stele as the boundary, the south is Litu, and the north is Jiangguo.

The movement of raising the whip was too fast, the horse under the crotch couldn't bear the long hiss, and the horse's hoof slipped, almost knocking Zhao Yuansheng off the horse's back.

After chasing straight to the south bank of the shoal, Zhao Yuansheng saw a black shadow in the middle of the shoal. They waded through the water, and their horseshoes smashed the thin ice on the shoal, bringing out the sound of water, ringing in the silent night.

"Li Zangyu! Li Zangyu! Get back! Get back!" Zhao Yuansheng yelled at the black shadow with all his strength in his already hoarse voice, and the smell of blood gushed out of his throat almost instantly.

The shadow paused for a moment, but continued to move forward.

Regardless of the slippery conditions in the shoal, Zhao Yuansheng gritted his teeth and raised his horsewhip, stepping into the shoal.

But after running for a dozen steps, the horse suddenly leaned forward, and he fell forward unsteadily.There was a bloodstain on the palm of the hand holding the rein tightly, and Zhao Yuansheng rolled off the horse and landed straight on the stone tip on the shoal.

In an instant, Zhao Yuansheng felt as if a big gash had been cut on his leg, and even his heart qi rushed into the cold water along with the warm liquid, and then the severe tearing pain rushed up, his eyes were filled with white light, Zhao Yuansheng Even the blurred shadow was gone.

The flow of water mixed with ice was extremely slow, like Ling Chi scouring the wound on his leg, and the pain surged more and more intensely, and the fingertips pressing on the wound were sticky, and Zhao Yuansheng could feel the pain under his hands. His skin twitched in pain.

His whole body was limp in the icy water, and he didn't have the strength to go any further. He raised his neck and let out a more mournful roar than before, "Li Zangyu——Li Zangyu——Li An! You bastard!"

"My lord!"

The soldiers who were chasing up saw the tripping rope half-surfacing in the shoal, knowing most of the situation in their hearts, they hurriedly got off their horses to help him.Borrowing their strength, Zhao Yuansheng stood up, and the water mixed with blood dripped down.

His mind was blank, but the moment he stood up, he subconsciously wanted to raise his feet to chase after him.

"My lord! Be careful in ambush!" The strength of Jia Zhu's arm pulled him back, and with this pull, Zhao Yuansheng finally regained consciousness.

He lowered his head, looked at the mud and blood all over his body, looked at his unbearable and embarrassing situation, and felt that he could never be more sober than this.

The world was silent for a while, only the north wind was solemn.

After a while, Zhao Yuansheng stabilized the trembling in his voice, and said in a hoarse voice: "Report to Your Majesty urgently, King Xie En has defected, and I request an order to send troops to Han Que Pass to defend against foreign enemies."

Zhao Yuansheng tightly clenched the hand that fell to the side. He was dressed in brocade clothes, soaked in blood and dirt on the outside, but full of ambiguous hickey marks on the inside.These two kinds of shame that Li An bestowed on him enveloped him from the inside out, and there was no way to retreat.

Slowly exhaling a mouthful of hot air, it condensed into tiny drops of water on his eyebrows and eyelashes. He looked into the distance and stood there for a long time. As far as he could see, everything was black and blue.

The gray in front of the eyelashes suddenly mixed with some white. Zhao Yuansheng regained his attention and saw that the catkin-like snow was falling bigger and bigger, and soon fell in balls.

The first snow of the new year fell in the north.

The people who hadn't slept at night ran out one after another. They cheered and said: "Auspicious snow heralds a good year."

The author says:

The computer actually crashed yesterday, but luckily it was repaired again today!