Pei Gonggui
Chapter 27 The crime 26 · Breaking power (1)
Pei Jun was startled when he heard the words, Jiang Yue also turned his head and looked at him, both of them were surprised.
At this moment they could not make a sound, and the two of them concentrated again, and heard Qiu Yuanzhi say on the other side: "Lord Cai is sincere, I know very well, but the country is still named Jiang. Although the emperor is weak, his determination to establish diplomatic relations shows his strength and means They are all here, given time, they might still be willing to be controlled by the family, and among the descendants of the Jiang surname, there will be no one..."
"The second prince is talking about the Prince of Jin." Cai Yang understood, "Although the King of Jin has a heavy army in his hands and has been spying on the position for many years, and he happens to be of Taiping blood, how does the second prince know that the Prince of Jin is sure to succeed?"
When Pei Jun behind the tree heard him talking about King Jin, he laughed and bumped Jiang Yue with his elbow, causing Jiang Yue to look back at him silently, his eyes beckoning him not to be agitated and expose Xingzang. The smile became quiet, and I heard Cai Yang continue to say: "If King Jin wants to succeed, there will always be opportunities in the past few years, but why hasn't he made any moves? The second prince is so sure that he will rebel?"
Qiu Yuanzhi smiled and said: "Lord Cai, seizing power is like playing chess. Black and white are divided into black and white, and the board is only a square inch, neither more nor less. Of course, whoever occupies the most land will win—even if Jin Wang Bufan, the military power in his hands will not be handed over to others, and the emperor of your country is still protected by the Zhang family and important ministers, and there is still the powerful minister Pei Jun who controls the civil servants, and the Cai family may not be able to gain power in this new deal. Therefore, in my opinion, Taishi Cai only relies on local power and commercial interests to seek great treasures, and the road is long."
As he spoke, he sighed softly and said to Cai Yang: "Your Majesty Cai, you must know that diplomatic relations are exchanges for profit, and it is true that you have to take some risks. It is not that I am unwilling to share interests with the Cai family, and I do not agree to you, but because of this The risk is too great. King Rui's ascension to the throne is already the biggest variable. Even if things happen in the future, the son of the original concubine will be more than six years old and occupy the eldest son. I, Tai Ping, are far away overseas, and Guo Ji is here alone, so how can we ensure that Cai can help her mother honor the world and give birth to a son to succeed her?"
Hearing this, Jiang Yue frowned slightly, and saw that Cai Yang didn't speak, as if he was thinking, but Qiu Yuanzhi raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said: "We have talked a lot along the way, and now the banquet is about to end, we Just go back."
Cai Yang nodded, and then whispered something in Qiu Yuanzhi's ear, Qiu Yuanzhi paused for a while, and replied: "That depends on whether this matter will be successful or not. Please, Mr. Cai." , The two people gradually walked away from each other.
Jiang Yue saw the backs of the two disappeared into the shadows of the forest, and after confirming their safety, he took two steps forward thinking about it, and was about to talk to Pei Jun, when he turned around, he saw Pei Jun squatting on the ground wrapped in a fur robe , was actually holding a thick branch that came from nowhere, and was hoeing to loosen the snow under his feet, as if he was digging something.
Jiang Yue looked at him quietly for a while, feeling a little headache: "...Master Pei, what are you doing?"
"My lord, come and see, there seems to be a—" Pei Jun dug twice again, overjoyed, he stretched out his hand to grope under the snow for a while, and after a while he picked out a little-finger-long root, held it up and pointed at it. Moonlight looked at it, and suddenly laughed: "Hey, this is really lucky, it really is ginseng!"
"...Ginseng?" Jiang Yue stood still, frowning just watching Pei Jun standing up and patting the slush and dirt on the ginseng with his bare hands. What, this is really ginseng. It's a miracle to see wild ginseng casually in the field, and at first glance, you can see that your lord is very blessed."
After finishing speaking, Pei Jun handed the dirty little ginseng to Jiang Yue like a tribute. Jiang Yue subconsciously stretched out his hand, and the little ginseng rolled down into his palm with mud, and gave his hand as well. dirty.
Then Pei Jun suddenly remembered Jiang Yue's cleanliness, and was about to take it back for a while, but saw that Jiang Yue had already stopped and took it to his eyes for a closer look.
The little ginseng under the moonlight is about the size of a clay figurine doll sold by artisans at the south gate of the capital, with thick beards and tails on the hem, and two pit-like reed arms on the reed head, all of which are extremely light brown. , Not half green, even the body is dry, not watery at all.
Jiang Yue squeezed, and frowned with some doubts: "Is this ginseng dead?"
"No, my lord." Pei Jun suppressed a smile, "This ginseng is still young, he just fell asleep."
"...Sleeping?" Jiang Yue held the ginseng, looked up at Pei Jun at this moment, and suddenly noticed that Pei Jun's smile seemed to be secretly laughing at him. The ginseng that has been used is probably dead, and I have heard that ginseng has flowers and leaves before, but I have never seen it."
"Naturally, it's not easy to see in Beijing." The two started to walk back and forth, Pei Jun heard Jiang Yue's frankness, so he didn't care to have a few more gossips with him.
"Ginseng always sprouts in summer, also known as overwintering buds. In the second spring, the buds emerge and grow grass leaves. When it snows in winter, it is too cold, and the grass leaves cannot survive. They wither and wither. The remnant roots of grass blades will form a scar on the head of the reed, and this scar is the reed arm. At this time, the roots are also hibernating in the soil. If the damage is severe, it will take several years, and so on. Well, in spring, another bud regenerates beside the dead bud, and continues to grow flowers and grass. People in the mountains say that this is reincarnation..."
Jiang Yue looked down at the ginseng in his hand, and listened to Pei Junxian talking about the forests and plants with great interest. He only felt that he had seen ginseng in the palace for hundreds of years. of.At this moment, looking at Pei Jun's faintly smiling face under the moonlight, he couldn't help thinking of some things when he was young, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly: "Master Pei seems to like flowers and plants very much."
"Oh, my lord, do you still remember the wall-climbing lotus and the white rose? It happened so many years ago..." Pei Jun sighed secretly that the traitor leader held a grudge.
At this time, there was another cold wind in the forest, so he put his sleeves into his fur robe, and seeing Jiang Yue also turned up his collar, he turned his eyebrows and glanced at him in the night: "Don't you remember it very clearly, it seems I also remembered my vengeance."
Pei Jun chuckled a few times, then nodded: "It's true, both the minister and the prince are people who hold grudges, and we'll have to have a drink in the future." He breathed out at this point, and then Jiang Yue asked, "Actually? Not to mention liking flowers and plants..."
"I'm from a commoner, and I can't compare with you, my lord. When I was a child in Jiangbei, my grandfather lived in the mountains and raised a flower garden." Pei Jun frowned and recalled, gesticulating, "I guess there are two arrows... ...There are everything in it, and there are also climbing lotus." As he spoke, he glanced at Jiang Yue and saw that Jiang Yue really stopped and turned back to stare at him, so he held back a smile and coughed, and continued walking with him, saying: "On weekdays, grandpa is busy in the field. I am familiar with everything in the mountains. In summer, I also do mountain herding, leading people into the mountains to pick ginseng, and keep the seeds I picked back to grow by myself. The good ones can be sold to the medicine shop in the town to exchange for money. At that time, My father has already gone to war, and my mother took the two children alone, so it's hard... Grandpa took my minister up to the mountain to live, helped him bury the soil, dig the ground, and rewarded him with some trivial money at the end, and the minister ran back to buy it for my mother Food... Later, before our family entered Beijing, grandpa disappeared, and there were fewer flowers and plants..."
Jiang Yue asked as he walked: "Last time when I was alone in the Zhongyihou's Mansion, I saw many good orchids in the courtyard, and Mr. Pei personally picked them?"
"What is Haolan? You don't know him." Pei Jun couldn't help laughing at him, and quickly took it away, "They were all sent from various places, and they were said to be expensive. The ones worth 2000 taels can be carried to the market. You can buy a dozen for [-] Wen. Officials do things like this. Gifts are not expensive to sell, but expensive to give...Flower farmers, jade merchants, moon cake shops, all pointing at the gift giver to slaughter Well, when it comes to thousand-year-old ginseng, ancient jade from the Western Zhou Dynasty, even moon cakes with hundreds of processes-how can there be such a mysterious thing? It is because of the word 'greedy', everything is mysterious."
Jiang Yue turned his head to look at him: "Aren't you greedy?"
"Is the prince talking gossip, or is he torturing the minister?" Pei Jun looked at him with a smile, "The minister dare not answer."
"That's greed." Jiang Yue laughed innocently, "If you tell the truth, you're afraid of being caught, and if you tell lies to deceive the emperor, that's why you don't dare to answer."
When Pei Jun heard this, he yelled, and hurriedly put his hands on his head to cooperate with Jiang Yue: "It's amazing, the prince is wise and martial, the prince's eyes are like torches, the minister has subdued the law, subdued the law!"
Jiang Yue was amused by him, and looked up at the few stars in the sky. Ren Peijun walked past him slowly, and suddenly called out:
"Lord Pei."
Hearing the sound, Pei Jun looked back and saw Jiang Yue's black fur and the trees behind him mixed into different shades of dark colors in the thin moon shadow on the snowy ground in the forest not far away. Looking at him seriously, he said slowly: "Today's society is plagued by illness inside, and the crisis is outside. Hundreds of officials are corrupt, people's lives are in trouble, Cai's power runs through the government and the public, and the family is independent. Even Taiping wants to share a piece of this country... Tianxia sincerely Dangerous. There are too many people who eat vegetarian food in the official position, and there are only a handful of people who have a cold heart, and among them, I know that with Mr. Pei's talent and ambition, he is definitely not a snobbish person, and he will definitely hope that the world will change—"
"Then the prince may have been wrong about my minister." Pei Jun folded his arms and smiled at him. "Actually, I don't have any big ambitions. Thinking about it now, if my father hadn't joined the army and his family hadn't come to the capital, what would have happened to me now?" I probably took over my grandfather's flower garden in Jiangbei to plant flowers and plants, and I definitely wouldn't want to come to take the exam... Later, it was just because I came to the officialdom in the capital, and some things happened as a last resort..."
——In the countryside of Xixia, he might live to be full of children and grandchildren in his [-]s and [-]s. When he comes to the capital, although he is extremely rich, he can't even survive without confusion.A person is slapped to death in the midst of its prime, as if the flower at its best was picked up and trampled on the ground into mud. Not every plant can regenerate like ginseng.
To die is to die.
He has never been for the world's changes and fame, but just for one person.
"...Unexpectedly, I followed the wrong person in the end." Pei Jun looked up at the moon under the night, laughing at himself with hatred, "Since ancient times, most of the ministers have been kings. If you follow the wrong person, it's all over. What else is there to talk about?"
Jiang Yue took two steps closer to him, and said in a low voice, "Then what if it's someone else?"
Pei Jun was taken aback for a moment, turned his head to look at Jiang Yue, but before waiting for an answer, he slowly opened his eyes wide: "My lord...behind you..."
Jiang Yue was interrupted by him, and when he heard the words, he frowned suspiciously and turned around, but the moment he saw what was behind him, Pei Jun's belated reminder sounded in his ears:
"...There are tigers."
The cold wind passing through the forest blew past his ears, making Pei Jun's voice seem distorted in Jiang Yue's ears.At this time, in the woods where they came just now, there was really a big yellow-skinned and black-striped tiger walking from the darkness. Its four paws stepped on the snow without making a sound. If Pei Jun hadn't turned around and saw it, maybe this fierce beast would have killed it. They were all unconscious when they came up.
The tiger was only about ten steps away from Jiang Yue, and the wind blew towards the tiger from behind the two of them, making the tiger already smell their fresh scent, and the night was definitely not enough for the lone tiger and leopard to see their prey clearly. Its pair of tiger eyes emitted a dangerous light in the dark night, apparently staring closely at the only two living creatures in the forest.
"Don't bend down, don't bow your head, don't turn around and run." Jiang Yue reminded Pei Jun in a low voice, while holding his breath, he raised his hand and drew out the short sword that was carried on his back waist. He looked at the tiger in front of him resolutely, and said: "Master Pei, hide behind Gu, don't be alone."
Pei Jun is a civil servant, and there are museum servants, courtyard guards or guards everywhere he goes in and out. He doesn't have the habit of carrying a sword with him. He only holds a thick branch for digging ginseng in his hand, but he can't act like a dog. I threw it to the tiger to pick it up, so I held it awkwardly, slowly moved behind Jiang Yue, and asked in a low voice: "My lord, can we two beat this tiger?"
Jiang Yue didn't look back, his eyes were sharp and focused, as if he had already started to look for the most appropriate angle of attack, he only said to Pei Jun very calmly: "Gu Neng, you can't."
Pei Jun: "..."
The shoulder bones of the tiger walking opposite him rose and fell, and when they realized that the two had spotted it hiding, they stopped. At this time, the front paws suddenly lowered slightly, and the body about ten feet long was low at the front and high at the back, making a vigorous movement. The defense before the attack was more flexible, shaking his head and shaking the broken snow on his beard that blocked his eyes, and issued a warning and threatening low hiss to the two of them, his dark eyes were locked on Jiang Yue who was holding a sword in front of him.
A pair of sharp fangs are looming in its half-open tiger mouth. After closing its mouth and rolling its tongue, it opens again. It looks very hungry, because the nearby defenders have already driven away the wild deer, goats, wild boars and other large animals suitable for hunting. The center of the paddock was used for hunting by the royal family. The tigers and wolves who stayed on the outside saw only a few hares and pheasants every day, so it was difficult to find enough food to satisfy their hunger. Jiang Yue and Pei Jun walked west from the camp to the defenders in order to hide from their eyes and ears. In the sparse dense forest, the good luck of the night made them not only pick up wild ginseng, but also met this beast that went out to look for food.
"Fortunately, it's a tiger, just one. If we meet a pack of wolves, it will be over..." Pei Jun frowned and looked around. The method used tricks to lure the tiger into the net, but at this time the only force he could rely on on the field was that he himself did not have enough.So, he leaned closer to Jiang Yue's back, and said in a low voice: "My lord, people say that you hit a tiger to hit its nose, and kill a tiger to stab its stomach. Your sword is so short that it can't pierce its heart even if you lie down. It got stabbed on the shoulder bone and the blade got stuck. If we can't pull it out for a while, we will both die. How about this, after you are ready, I will lead the tiger to come from behind. When it comes, its belly and neck are not Are they all exposed, when the time comes—"
"Just pull it down with a single sword." Jiang Yue quickly followed Pei Jun's thoughts, nodded, raised his hand to signal Pei Jun not to speak, and covered Pei Jun in silence and slowly retreated to a big tree behind him Before, "Wait for Gu's order, you lure the tiger and hide behind the tree, do you hear me?"
Pei Jun nodded immediately, and remembered that Jiang Yue couldn't see him in front, so he leaned closer to Jiang Yue's ear and said, "I heard you." Then he added in vain: "My lord, be careful."
Jiang Yue's ears twitched invisibly, he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Okay, Gu knows, don't worry, Mr. Pei."
The strategy of attracting the tiger is the safest, but also the most dangerous, because Jiang Yue only has the gap to strike from the air. Get up and fight, even if he and Pei Jun are rivals, they will never have a chance to retreat completely. If they are seriously injured and then attract the defenders or camp officials, the secret conversation between the two will undoubtedly be exposed, let alone being caught by Cai Yang. , Qiu Yuanzhi is vigilant, returning to the camp is not returning to safety, but entering danger.
So... one hit kills.
Jiang Yue stared at the tiger, held the sword in both hands, stabilized his legs, and stood upright, "Master Pei!"
Pei Jun who was behind him immediately threw the long branch in his hand towards the tiger with all his strength, and hit the tiger hard. Sure enough, the tiger thought the prey had attacked first. , opened his mouth wide and rushed towards Pei Jun who was throwing the branch, and after throwing the branch, Pei Jun had obeyed Jiang Yue's words and flew to avoid the back of the tree. The hungry tiger howled fiercely, and the next moment he turned around to look, he saw that the tiger leaping behind the tree had been precisely pierced by Jiang Yue's short sword through the throat, and cut open the chest cavity, and fell to the side after losing strength On the snowy ground, dark red and scalding blood gushed out all over his body. After a few breaths, his struggling legs stopped moving.
Jiang Yue crawled on the tiger's body, although he was slightly embarrassed with blood splashed on his face, he finally let go of his breath.At this moment, he was wiping his face and waiting to get up to draw his sword, but behind him Pei Jun suddenly shouted: "My lord, be careful! It's not dead yet!"
At the next moment, the shadow in front of his eyes flickered, it was Pei Jun who had just walked beside him subconsciously stretched out his hand to block the door in front of him, his left arm was blocking the fierce swing of the tiger, and he fell to the ground immediately.
For a moment, Jiang Yue's eyes hardened: "Pei—"
"Kill it first!" Pei Jun covered his arms and groaned loudly.
Jiang Yue froze, immediately drew his sword and stabbed it into the tiger's heart again, and stabbed four or five times with the sword in his hand, and cut the tiger's throat with a horizontal knife. Finally, he was sure that the tiger was dead, so he got up and walked quickly to Pei Jun. Beside him, he hurriedly asked, "How are you, Mr. Pei?"
Pei Jun hissed and hugged his arms, and at this moment he let go a little bit and looked with Jiang Yue, only to see that his left arm had been pierced by the tiger's claws, although the fur robe and thick clothes were slightly in the way, it was still pierced out There was a deep but not long opening, and the seeping blood had already soaked the surrounding clothes.
"Flesh wounds, nothing wrong." He frowned and pulled Jiang Yue's hand to stand up, not forgetting to remind: "Let's get out of here quickly, the tiger blood will soon attract other wild animals, and it will be difficult to escape by then. "
Jiang Yue swiftly cut off a piece of clothing with a dagger to tie his arm to stop the bleeding, helped him up and asked, "Can you go? Or are you alone—"
"I injured my arm, not my leg. My lord, you have experienced many battles, how could you not know this small injury..." The tiger's mouth was out of danger, and Pei Jun was about to play a joke with Jiang Yue, but when he turned his head, he was facing Jiang Yue The more looked down at his face with the wound on his left arm.
On this face, the brows were furrowed, the eyes darkened, the concentration and self-reproach made Pei Jun stunned.
Seeing Pei Jun's gaze from the corner of his eye, Jiang Yue raised his head vigilantly, met Pei Jun's eyes for an instant, couldn't help but give him a pause, coughed lightly, then stood up straight, put down the hand supporting Pei Jun, and walked away Take a step forward, "It's fine..."
Pei Jun leaned closer to him suspiciously, thinking: This Prince Jin is not embarrassed to be rescued by a weak scholar like him, is he?Thinking of this, he couldn't help teasing Jiang Yue and said: "Hey, why did the prince not even help the minister when he heard that he was fine? It really made the minister feel cold. At any rate, the minister saved the prince's life, even if it wasn't Life——the beauty of the sandalwood is true for saving the prince, otherwise, the tiger paw slapped your face like this—” He unconsciously raised his left arm to gesture, and at this time the wound hurt again, ouch Taking a deep breath, when Jiang Yue saw him, he immediately turned around and stopped him: "Pei Jun, don't move!"
As soon as he yelled the word "Pei Jun" outspokenly, Pei Jun's whole body was shaken suddenly, his mind was like a mountain collapsed, and the smile on his face froze: "My lord, what did you call me just now?"
Only then did Jiang Yue realize that he was in a hurry, and he called Pei Jun by his first and last names, and he couldn't help but change his words: "I'm disrespectful for a while, Mr. Pei forgive me. Mr. Pei has been injured, let's go back quickly." Another example is that Yan came to help Pei Jun, but Pei Jun kept staring at his face, until he walked to his side, and said in a low voice: "My lord, your name is Pei Jun, please Call again."
Jiang Yue stopped supporting him, responded to what he said suspiciously, and called out: "Pei Jun."
Pei Jun then carefully compared this sound to the shaman's cry in his dream, and for a moment he felt that he couldn't tell whether it resembled it or not at all, and when he thought about it more carefully, his head hurt.
Jiang Yue found him strange: "What's wrong with Mr. Pei? Why do you call your name alone?"
Only then did Pei Jun come back to his senses, and seeing Jiang Yue looking at him with clear eyes, he was startled, so he could only walk with him to the camp, haha in embarrassment: "Ah, haha, what... the minister is the one. Listen, hey, how come the name of Chen is so nice when you call it by your lord? Hey! It's really sweet and lively, and it's like a spring breeze to smell it. Simply, the lord will call me like that from now on. It's too strange to be called Mr. Pei Yes, don't you think so?"
This sudden and clumsy flattery made Jiang Yue unable to react for a while, and it was only after a while that he felt a little funny and went down the slope and said: "That's true." After walking for a while, as if thinking twice, he followed Pei Jun's words again Said: "Gu and Mr. Pei are considered young acquaintances. Now that we have put aside the past and formed a party temporarily, we certainly don't need to see each other again. It is good that Mr. Pei will also be called 'Jiang Yue' in the future. I will be with Mr. Pei you and me." , Let’s call each other names.”
"You can't make it." Pei Jun quickly waved his still-moving right hand, "How can the courtesy of a monarch and a minister be abolished? A prince can call a minister like that, but a minister can't call him a prince like that, otherwise it would be a crime to say it. I can't afford it."
"Then you can call me that in private." Jiang Yue quickly picked up the loopholes in his words, as if he was very happy that Pei Jun was guilty, grabbed his arm and continued to move forward, in the woods. Xia Yingying laughed, looked back, and tried: "Pei Jun?"
Pei Jun insisted tirelessly: "My lord."
Jiang Yue corrected him: "You should call me Jiang Yue."
"..." Pei Jun remained silent.He will not be fooled by this traitor, and it will be difficult to justify his disrespect when the time comes.
The two continued to walk quickly, but Jiang Yue didn't hear Pei Jun's voice for a long time, and turned his head to look a little dissatisfied, causing Pei Jun to pretend to be sick in a hurry: "I'm hurt, I'm hurt, my mind is not clear, Let's hurry—"
"Didn't you say it's okay." Jiang Yue simply stopped in front of him, folded his arms and looked at him, then called: "Pei Jun?"
Pei Jun clutched his arm, his heart was ashamed, his left arm was still throbbing and hurting, he just wanted to go back quickly to get a bandage to stop the bleeding and sleep, but seeing that today was not going according to Prince Jin's wishes, he couldn't go back, so he finally became cruel One bite:
"Hey, Jiang Yue. Let's go back to camp quickly."
At this moment, he has almost seen the book that Yu Shitai will play in front of the emperor in the future, with three black characters and three red characters written on it——
"Great disrespect", "kill without mercy".
And if he bears the charge, Prince Jin will be so happy.He saw Jiang Yue walking up and down again with raised eyebrows and a smile, supported him and continued to walk back to the camp without mentioning anything about Cai Shichengping. Zhuan Ai cheated him, and walked out of the forest without scolding him for a while, but he didn't know that when he entered the camp, he ran into an unexpected person.
When Pei Jun caught a glimpse of that person from a distance, he was immediately frightened, quickly and vigilantly hid his injured arm behind Jiang Yue, and put his whole body against Jiang Yue's back, as if hiding.This caused Jiang Yue to look back at him inexplicably. Before he could speak, the oncoming people had already seen them, so they quickly stepped up and knelt down to Jiang Yue in a military posture, and said sonorously:
"Chen, Xiao Lin, the infantry commander of the Vanguard Battalion, see Prince Jin!"
Jiang Yue lowered his head and looked: "So it's Little General Xiao, please get up quickly." When Xiao Lin got up, he looked back at Pei Jun with doubts, obviously he didn't understand what Pei Jun was afraid of.
Ordinarily, isn't Xiao Xiao a family friend with his Pei family?How is it like a mouse has seen a cat?
But Pei Jun is staring at Xiao Lin now, and has no time to respond to Jiang Yue's confusion for the time being.
Xiao Lin, who was facing the two of them, stood tall, dressed in military armor and military uniform. He thanked him for his kindness, and looked at Pei Jun behind King Jin, squinted his eyes slightly under the torch of the camp, and deliberately raised his voice. Said: "Hey, isn't this Mr. Pei?"
It would be ironic to anyone, but Pei Jun, who has always been eloquent, just nodded politely and politely at this time: "It's been a long time since I saw you, General Xiao, please come here and be safe, please come here and be safe."
But this sentence caused Xiao Linji to sneer, but because Jiang Yue was present, he didn't say much, he just looked at the two of them suspiciously, and asked Jiang Yue: "The defenders have reported, saying that they heard Lin There are ferocious beasts howling, and the minister is about to take people to have a look, what happened to the prince and Mr. Pei?"
Jiang Yue blocked Pei Jun even more, and smiled kindly at him: "No, no, General Xiao is pregnant."
So Xiao Lin took another look at Pei and Jin, the strange pair of old enemies who suddenly formed a team, but he couldn't say anything, so he had to say goodbye, took two steps and looked back at Pei Jun again.
Seeing him gradually walking outside the camp alone to call someone, Jiang Yue murmured: "Isn't Xiao Lin in Mobei, when will you return to Beijing?"
After Pei Jun came back to life, he hadn't been distracted to take care of the Xiao family's affairs, so he couldn't answer, but Jiang Yue's torture-like eyes fell on him again in silence: "Pei Jun, are you afraid of him?"
Pei Jun quickly shook his head out of conscience.
Jiang Yue followed Xiao Lin's example and squinted his eyes, examining him with practicality and saying: "If you're not afraid, you don't have to hide."
--yes.Pei Junxin said: There is no need to hide, if I hadn't been drunk and picked people's pants ten years ago...
"Don't ask, my lord." Pei Jun hurriedly interrupted the reappearance of his unbearable past, and also interrupted Jiang Yue's words, "Repay the account first, there are gold sore medicine and gauze, don't alarm the imperial doctor."
Healing the wound was important, Jiang Yue nodded and carefully avoided his eyes and ears all the way, and continued to help him back to the tent in the southwest corner of the camp. Prince Jin came back from the outside together, his arm was still injured, he couldn't help being confused and worried, so he hurriedly took Pei Jun from Jiang Yue's hand with gratitude, pushed him on the couch, took off his fur robe, and pulled him up She still asked with red eyes like a daughter-in-law, "Daxianer, does it hurt? There's so much blood here, how did you get hurt?"
Pei Jun scratched the tip of his nose with his right hand and was not very good at answering. He glanced at Jiang Yue and saw that Jiang Yue was looking down at Fang Mingjue's thin monkey paw on his forearm. He felt that it was to save Jiang Yue. Where can the face of this military commander be put in the future?So he thought for a while and said, "Don't worry about it. I just went out for a walk, but I got kicked by the wild boar. Fortunately, Prince Jin was there. Kong Wu was very powerful and brave, and he subdued the wild boar with two blows. Won't you save me?" After finishing speaking, she bent her eyes and smiled at Jiang Yue as if asking for credit: "Thank you, my lord."
Jiang Yue was stunned when he heard the words, and when he saw Pei Jun winking at him, he realized that Pei Jun was protecting his reputation, so he couldn't help but smiled and nodded: "Master Pei, you're welcome."
Fang Mingjue was familiar with searching for medicines in Pei Jun's luggage, and asked in a normal way, "Uncle Dong also brought you a buckwheat pillow, tsk tsk", his face was full of contempt for realizing that his traveling companion was spoiled by his family.
The tent was small, and Pei Jun stretched out his legs and kicked his ass: "I took it, you bit me? Your wife didn't bring it for you, who is to blame?" Fang Mingjue muttered in a low voice: "It's your fault No daughter-in-law!" Pei Jun then kicked him again, "Having is better than you, telling you to find a medicine so much talk, more talk than old lady!"
Standing aside, Jiang Yue quietly watched the two quarreling, being amused by their words from time to time, and knowing that Pei Jun already had someone who could take care of him at ease, he, an outsider, had no reason to stay any longer, so he just made a sound Goodbye.
Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something, so he took out something from his waist and handed it to Pei Jun. He spread his hands, and in his reddish palm lay the little wild ginseng that Pei Jun had dug out.
——He even fought a tiger without losing it.Pei Jun suddenly felt that Jiang Yue, a traitor, was usually very dangerous, but he looked so honest and cute in this way, so he raised his hand and rolled his fingers back, "What a small thing, my lord, take it back and ask someone to wash it and cut it up, soak it in water to warm it up." It’s okay to warm up, and I will thank the prince for saving my life today.”
At this time, Fang Mingjue found the medicine and came over, he laughed at him: "Your life is so cheap, this will save you? It took a lot of effort for the prince to save you."
Pei Jun smirked and threatened him: "Then you want me to promise you with your body? If you don't shut up, kid, I'll sew your mouth shut!"
"You promised the prince, but you still don't like it. Sending wild ginseng will make you tickle. What virtue is there?" Fang Mingjue murmured while covering his wounds. When he looked up, he saw Pei Jun looking at him fiercely. He hurriedly suppressed a smile, bit his lip and shook his head, indicating that the mouth has been sewn shut, and he will not bother his brother to do it himself.Jiang Yue over there lowered his head and smiled when he heard the words, coughed lightly, and nodded to Pei Jun, "Let's talk about it tomorrow if you have something to do. Mr. Pei has a good rest tonight, and I will go back alone."
"Hey." Pei Jun waved to him with a warm face, and laughed: "Prince Jin, go slowly, and I won't see you off."
Jiang Yue nodded and left him, then took the little ginseng in his hand again, lifted the curtain and went outside, looked up and saw a bright moon in the sky, as if it had been hanging there for ages, as if it had been spun The moonlight is surrounded among the clouds, appearing and disappearing from time to time, the light and shadow are faint and cold, which makes people feel that it will go out in the blink of an eye.
For a moment, Jiang Yue felt as if he had returned to the night in the mountain temple on the outskirts of Beijing ten years ago, and remembered that the moonlight as jade that the boy in the forest looked up at that time was also hidden by misty clouds just like this night.
At that time, it had been three years and three years since his sage father passed away. The court official said that people have three souls and seven souls. In the next three years, the gods will be scattered in Cangming, so the sixth year will also be a great sacrifice, and there will be another funeral ceremony in the palace, and his elder brother will be weak after succeeding to the throne, so the palace will make up for the sacrifice ceremony accordingly The ceremonies were all handled by him and the king of Thailand. Finally, it happened that the palace school and the government school went out for an outing every year. The king of Thailand advised him to go on an outing and forget things, but he stood under the pine hill on the back of the mountain temple. He elbowed the person who was messing with the lanterns beside him, but what he asked was still an obsession, an obsession that could not be overcome or overcome:
"Pei Jun, do you think people in the world need the moon?"
At that time, the young Pei Jun was instigated by his mentor Zhang Ling to toss the lantern that Prince Jin suddenly extinguished. He was in a hurry and didn't know what to do. Reaching out his hand, he straightened the core for Jiang Yue, and blew on the torch to light up the lantern.
In an instant, a warm yellow light lit up in the white paper lantern, illuminating the young man's handsome face in an instant.He showed his face and smiled, "It's done." Then he stuffed the handle of the lantern into Jiang Yue's hand, and immediately let the warm fire light also illuminate Jiang Yue.
The young Jiang Yue stared blankly at the lantern in his hand, and at Pei Jun's bright smile, his stern face was inexplicable.But at this time, the evening bell of the mountain temple sounded just behind him. The voice was leisurely, high-pitched, solemn and detached.
Another boy behind him yelled at Pei Jun to catch cicadas. On that hot and humid summer night, Pei Jun pulled his collar to fan the wind. Open and close your mouth.
Yes.Now that Jiang Yue remembered, in fact, Pei Jun did say a word back then.
He said, "What do we need the moon for? Don't we all have lights? Only when the lights are on can we see clearly!"
After finishing speaking, her long eyes flashed and her eyebrows bent, she jumped up and ran towards Jiang Yue, roaring angrily: "Fang Mingjue! If you dare to let my bugs go, I will kill you!"
"What's yours and mine? If you catch it, it's everyone's!" The teenagers over there laughed loudly, "Can you beat us alone?"
But at this moment, the mountain bells stopped, and what echoed in the forest was definitely not the lingering rhyme, but just silence, but in the silence, there was a moist mountain wind that blew through every young man and every tree in the forest, bringing The skirts of the teenagers fluttered and fluttered, scraping the green leaves suddenly shaking and rustling.
Jiang Yue looked like a Buddhist who was enlightened in Zen meditation. He suddenly turned his head and stared at Pei Junling's dodging and jumping figure, and saw the young man with long brows and a smile shouting at him loudly: "My lord, come and catch bugs too! It's fun! !"
He subconsciously shook his head in a daze, but suddenly he couldn't turn his eyes away from the young man in the crowd. At this moment, he felt that the Zen bell that had stopped early outside his ear had already resounded in his heart——
The darkness of the surrounding night, the shouting of people, the lights, the chirping of insects, the coolness of the wind, all these irrelevant things suddenly appeared at this moment, making Pei Jun, who was running, jumping and laughing in the crowd, so dazzling and bright in his eyes, like a star falling on the sky. The tiny star in the mortal world, with just one glance, illuminates him who is independent and has no dark corners.
And this photo is ten years old.
"Come on, tell me!"
Fang Mingjue in the tent finally wrapped Pei Jun's arms, and now he put away his things and sat opposite him, winkingly asked: "I don't believe you met a wild boar, and the wild boar is because of an appointment with Prince Jin to marry you." I was bumped into by you in a private meeting, and it happens to be everywhere! Give me an explanation, or I will sue you."
"See if you can, who can you sue?" Pei Jun glanced at him, closed his eyes and meditated
At this moment they could not make a sound, and the two of them concentrated again, and heard Qiu Yuanzhi say on the other side: "Lord Cai is sincere, I know very well, but the country is still named Jiang. Although the emperor is weak, his determination to establish diplomatic relations shows his strength and means They are all here, given time, they might still be willing to be controlled by the family, and among the descendants of the Jiang surname, there will be no one..."
"The second prince is talking about the Prince of Jin." Cai Yang understood, "Although the King of Jin has a heavy army in his hands and has been spying on the position for many years, and he happens to be of Taiping blood, how does the second prince know that the Prince of Jin is sure to succeed?"
When Pei Jun behind the tree heard him talking about King Jin, he laughed and bumped Jiang Yue with his elbow, causing Jiang Yue to look back at him silently, his eyes beckoning him not to be agitated and expose Xingzang. The smile became quiet, and I heard Cai Yang continue to say: "If King Jin wants to succeed, there will always be opportunities in the past few years, but why hasn't he made any moves? The second prince is so sure that he will rebel?"
Qiu Yuanzhi smiled and said: "Lord Cai, seizing power is like playing chess. Black and white are divided into black and white, and the board is only a square inch, neither more nor less. Of course, whoever occupies the most land will win—even if Jin Wang Bufan, the military power in his hands will not be handed over to others, and the emperor of your country is still protected by the Zhang family and important ministers, and there is still the powerful minister Pei Jun who controls the civil servants, and the Cai family may not be able to gain power in this new deal. Therefore, in my opinion, Taishi Cai only relies on local power and commercial interests to seek great treasures, and the road is long."
As he spoke, he sighed softly and said to Cai Yang: "Your Majesty Cai, you must know that diplomatic relations are exchanges for profit, and it is true that you have to take some risks. It is not that I am unwilling to share interests with the Cai family, and I do not agree to you, but because of this The risk is too great. King Rui's ascension to the throne is already the biggest variable. Even if things happen in the future, the son of the original concubine will be more than six years old and occupy the eldest son. I, Tai Ping, are far away overseas, and Guo Ji is here alone, so how can we ensure that Cai can help her mother honor the world and give birth to a son to succeed her?"
Hearing this, Jiang Yue frowned slightly, and saw that Cai Yang didn't speak, as if he was thinking, but Qiu Yuanzhi raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said: "We have talked a lot along the way, and now the banquet is about to end, we Just go back."
Cai Yang nodded, and then whispered something in Qiu Yuanzhi's ear, Qiu Yuanzhi paused for a while, and replied: "That depends on whether this matter will be successful or not. Please, Mr. Cai." , The two people gradually walked away from each other.
Jiang Yue saw the backs of the two disappeared into the shadows of the forest, and after confirming their safety, he took two steps forward thinking about it, and was about to talk to Pei Jun, when he turned around, he saw Pei Jun squatting on the ground wrapped in a fur robe , was actually holding a thick branch that came from nowhere, and was hoeing to loosen the snow under his feet, as if he was digging something.
Jiang Yue looked at him quietly for a while, feeling a little headache: "...Master Pei, what are you doing?"
"My lord, come and see, there seems to be a—" Pei Jun dug twice again, overjoyed, he stretched out his hand to grope under the snow for a while, and after a while he picked out a little-finger-long root, held it up and pointed at it. Moonlight looked at it, and suddenly laughed: "Hey, this is really lucky, it really is ginseng!"
"...Ginseng?" Jiang Yue stood still, frowning just watching Pei Jun standing up and patting the slush and dirt on the ginseng with his bare hands. What, this is really ginseng. It's a miracle to see wild ginseng casually in the field, and at first glance, you can see that your lord is very blessed."
After finishing speaking, Pei Jun handed the dirty little ginseng to Jiang Yue like a tribute. Jiang Yue subconsciously stretched out his hand, and the little ginseng rolled down into his palm with mud, and gave his hand as well. dirty.
Then Pei Jun suddenly remembered Jiang Yue's cleanliness, and was about to take it back for a while, but saw that Jiang Yue had already stopped and took it to his eyes for a closer look.
The little ginseng under the moonlight is about the size of a clay figurine doll sold by artisans at the south gate of the capital, with thick beards and tails on the hem, and two pit-like reed arms on the reed head, all of which are extremely light brown. , Not half green, even the body is dry, not watery at all.
Jiang Yue squeezed, and frowned with some doubts: "Is this ginseng dead?"
"No, my lord." Pei Jun suppressed a smile, "This ginseng is still young, he just fell asleep."
"...Sleeping?" Jiang Yue held the ginseng, looked up at Pei Jun at this moment, and suddenly noticed that Pei Jun's smile seemed to be secretly laughing at him. The ginseng that has been used is probably dead, and I have heard that ginseng has flowers and leaves before, but I have never seen it."
"Naturally, it's not easy to see in Beijing." The two started to walk back and forth, Pei Jun heard Jiang Yue's frankness, so he didn't care to have a few more gossips with him.
"Ginseng always sprouts in summer, also known as overwintering buds. In the second spring, the buds emerge and grow grass leaves. When it snows in winter, it is too cold, and the grass leaves cannot survive. They wither and wither. The remnant roots of grass blades will form a scar on the head of the reed, and this scar is the reed arm. At this time, the roots are also hibernating in the soil. If the damage is severe, it will take several years, and so on. Well, in spring, another bud regenerates beside the dead bud, and continues to grow flowers and grass. People in the mountains say that this is reincarnation..."
Jiang Yue looked down at the ginseng in his hand, and listened to Pei Junxian talking about the forests and plants with great interest. He only felt that he had seen ginseng in the palace for hundreds of years. of.At this moment, looking at Pei Jun's faintly smiling face under the moonlight, he couldn't help thinking of some things when he was young, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly: "Master Pei seems to like flowers and plants very much."
"Oh, my lord, do you still remember the wall-climbing lotus and the white rose? It happened so many years ago..." Pei Jun sighed secretly that the traitor leader held a grudge.
At this time, there was another cold wind in the forest, so he put his sleeves into his fur robe, and seeing Jiang Yue also turned up his collar, he turned his eyebrows and glanced at him in the night: "Don't you remember it very clearly, it seems I also remembered my vengeance."
Pei Jun chuckled a few times, then nodded: "It's true, both the minister and the prince are people who hold grudges, and we'll have to have a drink in the future." He breathed out at this point, and then Jiang Yue asked, "Actually? Not to mention liking flowers and plants..."
"I'm from a commoner, and I can't compare with you, my lord. When I was a child in Jiangbei, my grandfather lived in the mountains and raised a flower garden." Pei Jun frowned and recalled, gesticulating, "I guess there are two arrows... ...There are everything in it, and there are also climbing lotus." As he spoke, he glanced at Jiang Yue and saw that Jiang Yue really stopped and turned back to stare at him, so he held back a smile and coughed, and continued walking with him, saying: "On weekdays, grandpa is busy in the field. I am familiar with everything in the mountains. In summer, I also do mountain herding, leading people into the mountains to pick ginseng, and keep the seeds I picked back to grow by myself. The good ones can be sold to the medicine shop in the town to exchange for money. At that time, My father has already gone to war, and my mother took the two children alone, so it's hard... Grandpa took my minister up to the mountain to live, helped him bury the soil, dig the ground, and rewarded him with some trivial money at the end, and the minister ran back to buy it for my mother Food... Later, before our family entered Beijing, grandpa disappeared, and there were fewer flowers and plants..."
Jiang Yue asked as he walked: "Last time when I was alone in the Zhongyihou's Mansion, I saw many good orchids in the courtyard, and Mr. Pei personally picked them?"
"What is Haolan? You don't know him." Pei Jun couldn't help laughing at him, and quickly took it away, "They were all sent from various places, and they were said to be expensive. The ones worth 2000 taels can be carried to the market. You can buy a dozen for [-] Wen. Officials do things like this. Gifts are not expensive to sell, but expensive to give...Flower farmers, jade merchants, moon cake shops, all pointing at the gift giver to slaughter Well, when it comes to thousand-year-old ginseng, ancient jade from the Western Zhou Dynasty, even moon cakes with hundreds of processes-how can there be such a mysterious thing? It is because of the word 'greedy', everything is mysterious."
Jiang Yue turned his head to look at him: "Aren't you greedy?"
"Is the prince talking gossip, or is he torturing the minister?" Pei Jun looked at him with a smile, "The minister dare not answer."
"That's greed." Jiang Yue laughed innocently, "If you tell the truth, you're afraid of being caught, and if you tell lies to deceive the emperor, that's why you don't dare to answer."
When Pei Jun heard this, he yelled, and hurriedly put his hands on his head to cooperate with Jiang Yue: "It's amazing, the prince is wise and martial, the prince's eyes are like torches, the minister has subdued the law, subdued the law!"
Jiang Yue was amused by him, and looked up at the few stars in the sky. Ren Peijun walked past him slowly, and suddenly called out:
"Lord Pei."
Hearing the sound, Pei Jun looked back and saw Jiang Yue's black fur and the trees behind him mixed into different shades of dark colors in the thin moon shadow on the snowy ground in the forest not far away. Looking at him seriously, he said slowly: "Today's society is plagued by illness inside, and the crisis is outside. Hundreds of officials are corrupt, people's lives are in trouble, Cai's power runs through the government and the public, and the family is independent. Even Taiping wants to share a piece of this country... Tianxia sincerely Dangerous. There are too many people who eat vegetarian food in the official position, and there are only a handful of people who have a cold heart, and among them, I know that with Mr. Pei's talent and ambition, he is definitely not a snobbish person, and he will definitely hope that the world will change—"
"Then the prince may have been wrong about my minister." Pei Jun folded his arms and smiled at him. "Actually, I don't have any big ambitions. Thinking about it now, if my father hadn't joined the army and his family hadn't come to the capital, what would have happened to me now?" I probably took over my grandfather's flower garden in Jiangbei to plant flowers and plants, and I definitely wouldn't want to come to take the exam... Later, it was just because I came to the officialdom in the capital, and some things happened as a last resort..."
——In the countryside of Xixia, he might live to be full of children and grandchildren in his [-]s and [-]s. When he comes to the capital, although he is extremely rich, he can't even survive without confusion.A person is slapped to death in the midst of its prime, as if the flower at its best was picked up and trampled on the ground into mud. Not every plant can regenerate like ginseng.
To die is to die.
He has never been for the world's changes and fame, but just for one person.
"...Unexpectedly, I followed the wrong person in the end." Pei Jun looked up at the moon under the night, laughing at himself with hatred, "Since ancient times, most of the ministers have been kings. If you follow the wrong person, it's all over. What else is there to talk about?"
Jiang Yue took two steps closer to him, and said in a low voice, "Then what if it's someone else?"
Pei Jun was taken aback for a moment, turned his head to look at Jiang Yue, but before waiting for an answer, he slowly opened his eyes wide: "My lord...behind you..."
Jiang Yue was interrupted by him, and when he heard the words, he frowned suspiciously and turned around, but the moment he saw what was behind him, Pei Jun's belated reminder sounded in his ears:
"...There are tigers."
The cold wind passing through the forest blew past his ears, making Pei Jun's voice seem distorted in Jiang Yue's ears.At this time, in the woods where they came just now, there was really a big yellow-skinned and black-striped tiger walking from the darkness. Its four paws stepped on the snow without making a sound. If Pei Jun hadn't turned around and saw it, maybe this fierce beast would have killed it. They were all unconscious when they came up.
The tiger was only about ten steps away from Jiang Yue, and the wind blew towards the tiger from behind the two of them, making the tiger already smell their fresh scent, and the night was definitely not enough for the lone tiger and leopard to see their prey clearly. Its pair of tiger eyes emitted a dangerous light in the dark night, apparently staring closely at the only two living creatures in the forest.
"Don't bend down, don't bow your head, don't turn around and run." Jiang Yue reminded Pei Jun in a low voice, while holding his breath, he raised his hand and drew out the short sword that was carried on his back waist. He looked at the tiger in front of him resolutely, and said: "Master Pei, hide behind Gu, don't be alone."
Pei Jun is a civil servant, and there are museum servants, courtyard guards or guards everywhere he goes in and out. He doesn't have the habit of carrying a sword with him. He only holds a thick branch for digging ginseng in his hand, but he can't act like a dog. I threw it to the tiger to pick it up, so I held it awkwardly, slowly moved behind Jiang Yue, and asked in a low voice: "My lord, can we two beat this tiger?"
Jiang Yue didn't look back, his eyes were sharp and focused, as if he had already started to look for the most appropriate angle of attack, he only said to Pei Jun very calmly: "Gu Neng, you can't."
Pei Jun: "..."
The shoulder bones of the tiger walking opposite him rose and fell, and when they realized that the two had spotted it hiding, they stopped. At this time, the front paws suddenly lowered slightly, and the body about ten feet long was low at the front and high at the back, making a vigorous movement. The defense before the attack was more flexible, shaking his head and shaking the broken snow on his beard that blocked his eyes, and issued a warning and threatening low hiss to the two of them, his dark eyes were locked on Jiang Yue who was holding a sword in front of him.
A pair of sharp fangs are looming in its half-open tiger mouth. After closing its mouth and rolling its tongue, it opens again. It looks very hungry, because the nearby defenders have already driven away the wild deer, goats, wild boars and other large animals suitable for hunting. The center of the paddock was used for hunting by the royal family. The tigers and wolves who stayed on the outside saw only a few hares and pheasants every day, so it was difficult to find enough food to satisfy their hunger. Jiang Yue and Pei Jun walked west from the camp to the defenders in order to hide from their eyes and ears. In the sparse dense forest, the good luck of the night made them not only pick up wild ginseng, but also met this beast that went out to look for food.
"Fortunately, it's a tiger, just one. If we meet a pack of wolves, it will be over..." Pei Jun frowned and looked around. The method used tricks to lure the tiger into the net, but at this time the only force he could rely on on the field was that he himself did not have enough.So, he leaned closer to Jiang Yue's back, and said in a low voice: "My lord, people say that you hit a tiger to hit its nose, and kill a tiger to stab its stomach. Your sword is so short that it can't pierce its heart even if you lie down. It got stabbed on the shoulder bone and the blade got stuck. If we can't pull it out for a while, we will both die. How about this, after you are ready, I will lead the tiger to come from behind. When it comes, its belly and neck are not Are they all exposed, when the time comes—"
"Just pull it down with a single sword." Jiang Yue quickly followed Pei Jun's thoughts, nodded, raised his hand to signal Pei Jun not to speak, and covered Pei Jun in silence and slowly retreated to a big tree behind him Before, "Wait for Gu's order, you lure the tiger and hide behind the tree, do you hear me?"
Pei Jun nodded immediately, and remembered that Jiang Yue couldn't see him in front, so he leaned closer to Jiang Yue's ear and said, "I heard you." Then he added in vain: "My lord, be careful."
Jiang Yue's ears twitched invisibly, he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Okay, Gu knows, don't worry, Mr. Pei."
The strategy of attracting the tiger is the safest, but also the most dangerous, because Jiang Yue only has the gap to strike from the air. Get up and fight, even if he and Pei Jun are rivals, they will never have a chance to retreat completely. If they are seriously injured and then attract the defenders or camp officials, the secret conversation between the two will undoubtedly be exposed, let alone being caught by Cai Yang. , Qiu Yuanzhi is vigilant, returning to the camp is not returning to safety, but entering danger.
So... one hit kills.
Jiang Yue stared at the tiger, held the sword in both hands, stabilized his legs, and stood upright, "Master Pei!"
Pei Jun who was behind him immediately threw the long branch in his hand towards the tiger with all his strength, and hit the tiger hard. Sure enough, the tiger thought the prey had attacked first. , opened his mouth wide and rushed towards Pei Jun who was throwing the branch, and after throwing the branch, Pei Jun had obeyed Jiang Yue's words and flew to avoid the back of the tree. The hungry tiger howled fiercely, and the next moment he turned around to look, he saw that the tiger leaping behind the tree had been precisely pierced by Jiang Yue's short sword through the throat, and cut open the chest cavity, and fell to the side after losing strength On the snowy ground, dark red and scalding blood gushed out all over his body. After a few breaths, his struggling legs stopped moving.
Jiang Yue crawled on the tiger's body, although he was slightly embarrassed with blood splashed on his face, he finally let go of his breath.At this moment, he was wiping his face and waiting to get up to draw his sword, but behind him Pei Jun suddenly shouted: "My lord, be careful! It's not dead yet!"
At the next moment, the shadow in front of his eyes flickered, it was Pei Jun who had just walked beside him subconsciously stretched out his hand to block the door in front of him, his left arm was blocking the fierce swing of the tiger, and he fell to the ground immediately.
For a moment, Jiang Yue's eyes hardened: "Pei—"
"Kill it first!" Pei Jun covered his arms and groaned loudly.
Jiang Yue froze, immediately drew his sword and stabbed it into the tiger's heart again, and stabbed four or five times with the sword in his hand, and cut the tiger's throat with a horizontal knife. Finally, he was sure that the tiger was dead, so he got up and walked quickly to Pei Jun. Beside him, he hurriedly asked, "How are you, Mr. Pei?"
Pei Jun hissed and hugged his arms, and at this moment he let go a little bit and looked with Jiang Yue, only to see that his left arm had been pierced by the tiger's claws, although the fur robe and thick clothes were slightly in the way, it was still pierced out There was a deep but not long opening, and the seeping blood had already soaked the surrounding clothes.
"Flesh wounds, nothing wrong." He frowned and pulled Jiang Yue's hand to stand up, not forgetting to remind: "Let's get out of here quickly, the tiger blood will soon attract other wild animals, and it will be difficult to escape by then. "
Jiang Yue swiftly cut off a piece of clothing with a dagger to tie his arm to stop the bleeding, helped him up and asked, "Can you go? Or are you alone—"
"I injured my arm, not my leg. My lord, you have experienced many battles, how could you not know this small injury..." The tiger's mouth was out of danger, and Pei Jun was about to play a joke with Jiang Yue, but when he turned his head, he was facing Jiang Yue The more looked down at his face with the wound on his left arm.
On this face, the brows were furrowed, the eyes darkened, the concentration and self-reproach made Pei Jun stunned.
Seeing Pei Jun's gaze from the corner of his eye, Jiang Yue raised his head vigilantly, met Pei Jun's eyes for an instant, couldn't help but give him a pause, coughed lightly, then stood up straight, put down the hand supporting Pei Jun, and walked away Take a step forward, "It's fine..."
Pei Jun leaned closer to him suspiciously, thinking: This Prince Jin is not embarrassed to be rescued by a weak scholar like him, is he?Thinking of this, he couldn't help teasing Jiang Yue and said: "Hey, why did the prince not even help the minister when he heard that he was fine? It really made the minister feel cold. At any rate, the minister saved the prince's life, even if it wasn't Life——the beauty of the sandalwood is true for saving the prince, otherwise, the tiger paw slapped your face like this—” He unconsciously raised his left arm to gesture, and at this time the wound hurt again, ouch Taking a deep breath, when Jiang Yue saw him, he immediately turned around and stopped him: "Pei Jun, don't move!"
As soon as he yelled the word "Pei Jun" outspokenly, Pei Jun's whole body was shaken suddenly, his mind was like a mountain collapsed, and the smile on his face froze: "My lord, what did you call me just now?"
Only then did Jiang Yue realize that he was in a hurry, and he called Pei Jun by his first and last names, and he couldn't help but change his words: "I'm disrespectful for a while, Mr. Pei forgive me. Mr. Pei has been injured, let's go back quickly." Another example is that Yan came to help Pei Jun, but Pei Jun kept staring at his face, until he walked to his side, and said in a low voice: "My lord, your name is Pei Jun, please Call again."
Jiang Yue stopped supporting him, responded to what he said suspiciously, and called out: "Pei Jun."
Pei Jun then carefully compared this sound to the shaman's cry in his dream, and for a moment he felt that he couldn't tell whether it resembled it or not at all, and when he thought about it more carefully, his head hurt.
Jiang Yue found him strange: "What's wrong with Mr. Pei? Why do you call your name alone?"
Only then did Pei Jun come back to his senses, and seeing Jiang Yue looking at him with clear eyes, he was startled, so he could only walk with him to the camp, haha in embarrassment: "Ah, haha, what... the minister is the one. Listen, hey, how come the name of Chen is so nice when you call it by your lord? Hey! It's really sweet and lively, and it's like a spring breeze to smell it. Simply, the lord will call me like that from now on. It's too strange to be called Mr. Pei Yes, don't you think so?"
This sudden and clumsy flattery made Jiang Yue unable to react for a while, and it was only after a while that he felt a little funny and went down the slope and said: "That's true." After walking for a while, as if thinking twice, he followed Pei Jun's words again Said: "Gu and Mr. Pei are considered young acquaintances. Now that we have put aside the past and formed a party temporarily, we certainly don't need to see each other again. It is good that Mr. Pei will also be called 'Jiang Yue' in the future. I will be with Mr. Pei you and me." , Let’s call each other names.”
"You can't make it." Pei Jun quickly waved his still-moving right hand, "How can the courtesy of a monarch and a minister be abolished? A prince can call a minister like that, but a minister can't call him a prince like that, otherwise it would be a crime to say it. I can't afford it."
"Then you can call me that in private." Jiang Yue quickly picked up the loopholes in his words, as if he was very happy that Pei Jun was guilty, grabbed his arm and continued to move forward, in the woods. Xia Yingying laughed, looked back, and tried: "Pei Jun?"
Pei Jun insisted tirelessly: "My lord."
Jiang Yue corrected him: "You should call me Jiang Yue."
"..." Pei Jun remained silent.He will not be fooled by this traitor, and it will be difficult to justify his disrespect when the time comes.
The two continued to walk quickly, but Jiang Yue didn't hear Pei Jun's voice for a long time, and turned his head to look a little dissatisfied, causing Pei Jun to pretend to be sick in a hurry: "I'm hurt, I'm hurt, my mind is not clear, Let's hurry—"
"Didn't you say it's okay." Jiang Yue simply stopped in front of him, folded his arms and looked at him, then called: "Pei Jun?"
Pei Jun clutched his arm, his heart was ashamed, his left arm was still throbbing and hurting, he just wanted to go back quickly to get a bandage to stop the bleeding and sleep, but seeing that today was not going according to Prince Jin's wishes, he couldn't go back, so he finally became cruel One bite:
"Hey, Jiang Yue. Let's go back to camp quickly."
At this moment, he has almost seen the book that Yu Shitai will play in front of the emperor in the future, with three black characters and three red characters written on it——
"Great disrespect", "kill without mercy".
And if he bears the charge, Prince Jin will be so happy.He saw Jiang Yue walking up and down again with raised eyebrows and a smile, supported him and continued to walk back to the camp without mentioning anything about Cai Shichengping. Zhuan Ai cheated him, and walked out of the forest without scolding him for a while, but he didn't know that when he entered the camp, he ran into an unexpected person.
When Pei Jun caught a glimpse of that person from a distance, he was immediately frightened, quickly and vigilantly hid his injured arm behind Jiang Yue, and put his whole body against Jiang Yue's back, as if hiding.This caused Jiang Yue to look back at him inexplicably. Before he could speak, the oncoming people had already seen them, so they quickly stepped up and knelt down to Jiang Yue in a military posture, and said sonorously:
"Chen, Xiao Lin, the infantry commander of the Vanguard Battalion, see Prince Jin!"
Jiang Yue lowered his head and looked: "So it's Little General Xiao, please get up quickly." When Xiao Lin got up, he looked back at Pei Jun with doubts, obviously he didn't understand what Pei Jun was afraid of.
Ordinarily, isn't Xiao Xiao a family friend with his Pei family?How is it like a mouse has seen a cat?
But Pei Jun is staring at Xiao Lin now, and has no time to respond to Jiang Yue's confusion for the time being.
Xiao Lin, who was facing the two of them, stood tall, dressed in military armor and military uniform. He thanked him for his kindness, and looked at Pei Jun behind King Jin, squinted his eyes slightly under the torch of the camp, and deliberately raised his voice. Said: "Hey, isn't this Mr. Pei?"
It would be ironic to anyone, but Pei Jun, who has always been eloquent, just nodded politely and politely at this time: "It's been a long time since I saw you, General Xiao, please come here and be safe, please come here and be safe."
But this sentence caused Xiao Linji to sneer, but because Jiang Yue was present, he didn't say much, he just looked at the two of them suspiciously, and asked Jiang Yue: "The defenders have reported, saying that they heard Lin There are ferocious beasts howling, and the minister is about to take people to have a look, what happened to the prince and Mr. Pei?"
Jiang Yue blocked Pei Jun even more, and smiled kindly at him: "No, no, General Xiao is pregnant."
So Xiao Lin took another look at Pei and Jin, the strange pair of old enemies who suddenly formed a team, but he couldn't say anything, so he had to say goodbye, took two steps and looked back at Pei Jun again.
Seeing him gradually walking outside the camp alone to call someone, Jiang Yue murmured: "Isn't Xiao Lin in Mobei, when will you return to Beijing?"
After Pei Jun came back to life, he hadn't been distracted to take care of the Xiao family's affairs, so he couldn't answer, but Jiang Yue's torture-like eyes fell on him again in silence: "Pei Jun, are you afraid of him?"
Pei Jun quickly shook his head out of conscience.
Jiang Yue followed Xiao Lin's example and squinted his eyes, examining him with practicality and saying: "If you're not afraid, you don't have to hide."
--yes.Pei Junxin said: There is no need to hide, if I hadn't been drunk and picked people's pants ten years ago...
"Don't ask, my lord." Pei Jun hurriedly interrupted the reappearance of his unbearable past, and also interrupted Jiang Yue's words, "Repay the account first, there are gold sore medicine and gauze, don't alarm the imperial doctor."
Healing the wound was important, Jiang Yue nodded and carefully avoided his eyes and ears all the way, and continued to help him back to the tent in the southwest corner of the camp. Prince Jin came back from the outside together, his arm was still injured, he couldn't help being confused and worried, so he hurriedly took Pei Jun from Jiang Yue's hand with gratitude, pushed him on the couch, took off his fur robe, and pulled him up She still asked with red eyes like a daughter-in-law, "Daxianer, does it hurt? There's so much blood here, how did you get hurt?"
Pei Jun scratched the tip of his nose with his right hand and was not very good at answering. He glanced at Jiang Yue and saw that Jiang Yue was looking down at Fang Mingjue's thin monkey paw on his forearm. He felt that it was to save Jiang Yue. Where can the face of this military commander be put in the future?So he thought for a while and said, "Don't worry about it. I just went out for a walk, but I got kicked by the wild boar. Fortunately, Prince Jin was there. Kong Wu was very powerful and brave, and he subdued the wild boar with two blows. Won't you save me?" After finishing speaking, she bent her eyes and smiled at Jiang Yue as if asking for credit: "Thank you, my lord."
Jiang Yue was stunned when he heard the words, and when he saw Pei Jun winking at him, he realized that Pei Jun was protecting his reputation, so he couldn't help but smiled and nodded: "Master Pei, you're welcome."
Fang Mingjue was familiar with searching for medicines in Pei Jun's luggage, and asked in a normal way, "Uncle Dong also brought you a buckwheat pillow, tsk tsk", his face was full of contempt for realizing that his traveling companion was spoiled by his family.
The tent was small, and Pei Jun stretched out his legs and kicked his ass: "I took it, you bit me? Your wife didn't bring it for you, who is to blame?" Fang Mingjue muttered in a low voice: "It's your fault No daughter-in-law!" Pei Jun then kicked him again, "Having is better than you, telling you to find a medicine so much talk, more talk than old lady!"
Standing aside, Jiang Yue quietly watched the two quarreling, being amused by their words from time to time, and knowing that Pei Jun already had someone who could take care of him at ease, he, an outsider, had no reason to stay any longer, so he just made a sound Goodbye.
Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something, so he took out something from his waist and handed it to Pei Jun. He spread his hands, and in his reddish palm lay the little wild ginseng that Pei Jun had dug out.
——He even fought a tiger without losing it.Pei Jun suddenly felt that Jiang Yue, a traitor, was usually very dangerous, but he looked so honest and cute in this way, so he raised his hand and rolled his fingers back, "What a small thing, my lord, take it back and ask someone to wash it and cut it up, soak it in water to warm it up." It’s okay to warm up, and I will thank the prince for saving my life today.”
At this time, Fang Mingjue found the medicine and came over, he laughed at him: "Your life is so cheap, this will save you? It took a lot of effort for the prince to save you."
Pei Jun smirked and threatened him: "Then you want me to promise you with your body? If you don't shut up, kid, I'll sew your mouth shut!"
"You promised the prince, but you still don't like it. Sending wild ginseng will make you tickle. What virtue is there?" Fang Mingjue murmured while covering his wounds. When he looked up, he saw Pei Jun looking at him fiercely. He hurriedly suppressed a smile, bit his lip and shook his head, indicating that the mouth has been sewn shut, and he will not bother his brother to do it himself.Jiang Yue over there lowered his head and smiled when he heard the words, coughed lightly, and nodded to Pei Jun, "Let's talk about it tomorrow if you have something to do. Mr. Pei has a good rest tonight, and I will go back alone."
"Hey." Pei Jun waved to him with a warm face, and laughed: "Prince Jin, go slowly, and I won't see you off."
Jiang Yue nodded and left him, then took the little ginseng in his hand again, lifted the curtain and went outside, looked up and saw a bright moon in the sky, as if it had been hanging there for ages, as if it had been spun The moonlight is surrounded among the clouds, appearing and disappearing from time to time, the light and shadow are faint and cold, which makes people feel that it will go out in the blink of an eye.
For a moment, Jiang Yue felt as if he had returned to the night in the mountain temple on the outskirts of Beijing ten years ago, and remembered that the moonlight as jade that the boy in the forest looked up at that time was also hidden by misty clouds just like this night.
At that time, it had been three years and three years since his sage father passed away. The court official said that people have three souls and seven souls. In the next three years, the gods will be scattered in Cangming, so the sixth year will also be a great sacrifice, and there will be another funeral ceremony in the palace, and his elder brother will be weak after succeeding to the throne, so the palace will make up for the sacrifice ceremony accordingly The ceremonies were all handled by him and the king of Thailand. Finally, it happened that the palace school and the government school went out for an outing every year. The king of Thailand advised him to go on an outing and forget things, but he stood under the pine hill on the back of the mountain temple. He elbowed the person who was messing with the lanterns beside him, but what he asked was still an obsession, an obsession that could not be overcome or overcome:
"Pei Jun, do you think people in the world need the moon?"
At that time, the young Pei Jun was instigated by his mentor Zhang Ling to toss the lantern that Prince Jin suddenly extinguished. He was in a hurry and didn't know what to do. Reaching out his hand, he straightened the core for Jiang Yue, and blew on the torch to light up the lantern.
In an instant, a warm yellow light lit up in the white paper lantern, illuminating the young man's handsome face in an instant.He showed his face and smiled, "It's done." Then he stuffed the handle of the lantern into Jiang Yue's hand, and immediately let the warm fire light also illuminate Jiang Yue.
The young Jiang Yue stared blankly at the lantern in his hand, and at Pei Jun's bright smile, his stern face was inexplicable.But at this time, the evening bell of the mountain temple sounded just behind him. The voice was leisurely, high-pitched, solemn and detached.
Another boy behind him yelled at Pei Jun to catch cicadas. On that hot and humid summer night, Pei Jun pulled his collar to fan the wind. Open and close your mouth.
Yes.Now that Jiang Yue remembered, in fact, Pei Jun did say a word back then.
He said, "What do we need the moon for? Don't we all have lights? Only when the lights are on can we see clearly!"
After finishing speaking, her long eyes flashed and her eyebrows bent, she jumped up and ran towards Jiang Yue, roaring angrily: "Fang Mingjue! If you dare to let my bugs go, I will kill you!"
"What's yours and mine? If you catch it, it's everyone's!" The teenagers over there laughed loudly, "Can you beat us alone?"
But at this moment, the mountain bells stopped, and what echoed in the forest was definitely not the lingering rhyme, but just silence, but in the silence, there was a moist mountain wind that blew through every young man and every tree in the forest, bringing The skirts of the teenagers fluttered and fluttered, scraping the green leaves suddenly shaking and rustling.
Jiang Yue looked like a Buddhist who was enlightened in Zen meditation. He suddenly turned his head and stared at Pei Junling's dodging and jumping figure, and saw the young man with long brows and a smile shouting at him loudly: "My lord, come and catch bugs too! It's fun! !"
He subconsciously shook his head in a daze, but suddenly he couldn't turn his eyes away from the young man in the crowd. At this moment, he felt that the Zen bell that had stopped early outside his ear had already resounded in his heart——
The darkness of the surrounding night, the shouting of people, the lights, the chirping of insects, the coolness of the wind, all these irrelevant things suddenly appeared at this moment, making Pei Jun, who was running, jumping and laughing in the crowd, so dazzling and bright in his eyes, like a star falling on the sky. The tiny star in the mortal world, with just one glance, illuminates him who is independent and has no dark corners.
And this photo is ten years old.
"Come on, tell me!"
Fang Mingjue in the tent finally wrapped Pei Jun's arms, and now he put away his things and sat opposite him, winkingly asked: "I don't believe you met a wild boar, and the wild boar is because of an appointment with Prince Jin to marry you." I was bumped into by you in a private meeting, and it happens to be everywhere! Give me an explanation, or I will sue you."
"See if you can, who can you sue?" Pei Jun glanced at him, closed his eyes and meditated
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