Pei Gonggui

Jiang Yue's words made Pei Jun's throat choke and he swallowed the fish. Fortunately, the fish had few spines, so he didn't scratch his throat.

At this time, light snow fell sporadically between the sky and the earth, and the people around them were doing their own things—Jiang Xuan, who was seven or eight steps away, was watching over Fang Mingjue cooking fish porridge, Yan Yuliang was sitting on the other side making fun of the doll, and Pei Jun was separated from him. Cui Yu, who was facing the fire, was dragged by the Ministry of Industry to try ice fishing as soon as he finished eating a fish, and he only had time to throw the iron fork back to the fire and left.

No one is looking at them.

Pei Jun made up his mind and let out a sigh of relief, only to feel that Jiang Yue suddenly chose to speak now, the timing was really good, turned his head, and saw that Jiang Yue was holding the fish and looked at him seriously and solemnly, and he was sitting comfortably. He was very serious and upright, so he couldn't help but be more vigilant. He put down the fish in his hand for now, and after thinking about it for a while, he nodded preparedly and said:

"Okay, you say."

Jiang Yue held back his sleeves, bent down and put the fish skewers by the fire to warm up, and when he straightened up, he confirmed to Pei Jun in a soft voice: "I remember, you can say whatever you want."

Hearing this, Pei Jun sat up straighter: "Yes."

After Jiang Yue got this sentence, the expression he looked at Pei Jun became more and more solemn. Under his clear and bright gaze, Pei Jun seemed to be beating a snare drum gradually in his gut, and gradually, even one Old Zhang's face was a little hot.

And at this moment, Jiang Yue spoke solemnly:

"Pei Jun, you and I have known each other for ten years."

These words made the small drums in Pei Jun's accent beating into big drums, and the bang bang was very similar to preparing for a battle. He couldn't help nodding his head in response, and then Jiang Yue continued seriously: "Although when we first met, the two of us were fisting and kicking each other. I was unhappy, and later because of the situation between the courts and China, we became hostile and killed each other, but now you and I are able to sit here on equal footing, there are countless chances during this time... It is really a coincidence of luck."

When he said this, his eyes moved slightly, and he couldn't help moving his eyes, looking at the few people who were digging ice in the lake not far away, and suddenly asked: "Pei Jun, do you trust me now?"

Pei Jun immediately said, "I believe it."

"Okay." Jiang Yue thought about it for a moment, then looked back at Pei Jun again as if he had finally settled down, locked Pei Jun firmly in the snow-colored lake in his eyes, moved gracefully, brightly Voiced:

"I want someone from you."

"...Okay, tell me." Pei Jun's heartbeat became more and more urgent, his throat was swallowed lightly, the roots of his ears were hot, and even the fists under his sleeves were clenched tightly. He was thinking about what to do later. how to respond--

But at this moment, Jiang Yue's clear eyes suddenly turned to Yan Yuliang who was not far behind him, and said solemnly:

"I want to ask you for the vacancy of the official servant."

"..."

Pei Jun's beating heart suddenly stopped, staring at Jiang Yue's still calm expression, he opened his mouth stiffly: "Officials...?"

"That's right." Jiang Yue looked in Yan Yuliang's direction, but didn't notice Pei Jun's expression was different. At this time, he nodded with a smile and said in detail: "After Zhao Tian, ​​the servant of the Ministry of officials, was impeached by the Cai family a few years ago, there have been no official vacancies. Make up, but once the seal is returned to the court and the New Deal begins, the official examinations, verification of promotion and Zhang Ling's "dare to dethrone" will come first, and the Ministry of officials is the top priority. In this way, the Cai family will not If you allow the vacancy of the minister to be occupied by your Pei party, then all your contacts will not be able to get the cabinet's votes, because the Cai family must want to put their own people in. And if the minister of the official department is occupied by the Cai family, then the New Deal Among them, the votes of the six ministries were split. Not only that, but if the Cai family connects the local forces in the future, it is very likely that Yan Shangshu will be gradually emptied, so that the rise and fall of subordinate officials will be passed directly to the cabinet and controlled. Under Cai Yan's subordinates—in this way, Cai Yan will have more ways to find out the past flaws of the six departments one by one, and then use Zhang Ling's method to suppress them... Then he can reshuffle the courtiers and party members several times just by relying on the New Deal. And among the six of you, I'm afraid few of you will be safe."

Jiang Yue said this with concentration, and finally looked back at Pei Jun, but seeing Pei Jun staring at him with a frown, he couldn't help but stop: "Why, did I say something wrong?"

"...No, no, no, I'm right." Pei Jun hurriedly picked up the fish in his hand, coughed lightly, "Go on, I'm listening."

Jiang Yue saw that his expression seemed to be a little downcast, and he couldn't help wondering: "Pei Jun, could it be that you already have a candidate in your heart? Then I—"

"No, no, no, don't think too much about it." Pei Jun denied again and again, calmed down and bit the fish in his hand, only to feel that the crispy skin of the fish had been blown by the cool wind in just a short while. Blow it tightly, although the fish in the middle is still hot, and the taste of the fragrance is half the same, but it doesn't come out at all.

He turned his head and smiled at Jiang Yue: "You just want a servant of the official department? Nothing else?"

"Why," Jiang Yue also laughed, "This won't work?"

"Okay, why not... yes, no problem." Pei Junxu sighed twice, picked up Jiang Yue's fish by the fire and handed it to him again, and patted the snow on his lap for him Slag, "but right now senior brother is playing with Xuan'er, I should discuss it with him after returning to camp at night. Who do you want to fill in?"

Jiang Yue took the fish and held both ends of the branch with both hands, resting his elbows on his slightly parted knees. He lowered his head and took a bite, chewing slowly, "Li Baoxin, the Kansai transit envoy."

"Li Baoxin?" Pei Jun suddenly looked at him, "He is from Zhao Taibao's family."

Jiang Yue lowered his eyes and smiled, and nodded: "It seems that you have seen all the people in the court who can fill this position."

This is natural.Pei Jun moved closer to him, tut-tsk said: "So there is someone in the Zhao family? Hey, I really didn't see it before..."

Jiang Yue, however, remained calm, and only glanced at him: "If you could tell, I would have died eight hundred times." As he spoke, he lowered his eyes and saw that Pei Jun's robe was close to the fire, so he lowered his hands to fish it for him. "Be careful——"

"Be careful!" Pei Jun quickly grabbed his finger and held it in his hand, raised it to his eyes, and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that nothing happened, but he didn't let it go immediately. : "It's a good thing I didn't burn you, otherwise I would have to return the favor again."

Jiang Yue withdrew his hand and said with a sigh of relief, "I didn't ask you to pay it back."

"Don't." Pei Jun refused, and turned his head to him again, "Jiang Yue, we have formed a party, and the relationship should be mutual benefit and reciprocity. Hey, do you still want it? What? Tell me more?"

He looked like a street corner vegetable seller, Jiang Yue looked at him suspiciously, but he didn't realize what was going on, and was about to speak, but he heard shouts from the direction of the forest behind them.

Jiang Yue turned his head and saw that it was King Tai who was waving at Jiang Xuan: "Xiao Xuan'er, come! Come to Third Uncle!"

Over there, Jiang Xuan was still sitting on Fang Mingjue's lap. Hearing the sound, he immediately turned to look at Pei Junlai, as if he was habitually asking for Pei Jun's permission.

Pei Jun and Jiang Yue looked at each other and nodded, Jiang Xuan jumped off Fang Mingjue's lap, and trotted all the way to the side of the King of Thailand, when Jiang Chi, the heir of the King of Thailand, caught a young little hemp rabbit and brought it to him. A pair of rabbit ears smiled and handed Jiang Xuan's arms: "Here, uncle caught it for you."

Jiang Xuan yelled, surprised to take it and hugged it tightly, patted the rabbit's head cherishingly, thanked his cousin and uncle crisply, Yin Tai Wang smiled and rubbed his head, and patted his back lovingly Then he was allowed to run back to Pei Jun with the rabbit in his arms: "Uncle! Uncle Qi! Uncle Chi caught me a little rabbit, so cute!"

He quickly rushed over, plunged into Pei Jun's arms, and dangled the little hemp rabbit in front of Pei Jun's eyes, "Uncle, look, I have a little rabbit."

Pei Jun saw a group of fluffy things kicking his legs at his face, frowned and lifted the rabbit's ears. After taking it to look at the little rabbit for a while, he pretended to think about it: "This rabbit looks delicious. How about we bake it?"

Jiang Xuan's face turned pale with fright, and he quickly grabbed the rabbit and kicked him on the leg bone, shouting: "No, no, no! Don't eat my rabbit!"

Next to him, Jiang Yue took Jiang Xuan over to protect him in a funny way, and looked helplessly at Pei Jun: "Why are you scaring him?"

Pei Jun smiled as he patted his trouser legs that were dirty by Jiang Xuan's kick: "Look at how anxious he is, it's weird to be Coke, I'm just teasing him, who really wants to eat his rabbit."

Jiang Xuan hugged the little rabbit in his arms, hid in Jiang Yue's arms and glared at him: "Big villain!"

Pei Jun was amused by his appearance, knowing that he might really get angry if he teased the doll again, so he turned his head and said nothing, just continued to eat the fish in his hand.

After a while, the round-grained rice in the pot boiled, Fang Mingjue put down the fish fillets and served two bowls of porridge, one bowl was given to Jiang Yue, while Pei Jun was reaching for the other bowl, but Fang Mingjue slapped it away Pointing his finger: "Go, don't make trouble here, this bowl of mine is to honor our Royal Highness."

Pei Jun stared at him: "What about mine?"

Fang Mingjue pouted at the back, "I want to eat it by myself, don't you have long hands?"

Pei Jun clicked his tongue twice, seeing that Jiang Xuan couldn't get the porridge without letting go of the rabbit, so he didn't rush to get up, and said first: "Xuan'er, can uncle hold the rabbit for you, please eat the porridge first."

"No, no." Jiang Xuan hugged the rabbit very vigilantly, "Uncle will eat it."

Jiang Yue, who was holding him, laughed, glanced at Pei Jun who was full of embarrassment, and said loudly: "Then you hold the rabbit, and uncle will feed you porridge, okay?"

Jiang Xuan just nodded, and Jiang Yue asked again: "Then uncle's porridge is for you, and your porridge is for uncle, okay?"

Jiang Xuan reluctantly hesitated, and hugged the rabbit into his arms again: "Then what does uncle eat?"

"Uncle just ate fish, and he's not hungry yet." Jiang Yue took the porridge from Fang Mingjue's hand and handed it to Pei Jun in a normal way, then turned his head and smiled at Fang Mingjue: "It's not easy to cook, and the assistant minister is skilled."

Fang Mingjue enjoyed it very much, nodded and bowed and said it was too good, turned his head and gave Pei Jun a look, then ran back to eat porridge with Yan Yuliang.

After a while, Cui Yu and the workers from the Ministry of Industry came back and said that the lake was very cold, and the fish could not stay any longer if they only caught a small one. They saw that the ice hole was not in the right place, and there were no fish to be seen.

Pei Jun thought to himself that the two men in the military department only shared a small fish, which must be unfair, so he got up and asked them to eat some porridge to warm themselves before he went to the lake to try.

But when he picked up the ice-chiseled wooden barrel and made a hole in the bay, he just squatted down to put the fishing line into the hole, when he looked up, he saw Jiang Yue walking slowly.

It was very cold on the icy lake, and it was difficult to speak, and he was afraid of scaring away the fish, so Jiang Yue just quietly squatted beside Pei Jun, pulled up his ferret, and stared down at the ice in front of him together with him. The ghostly deep lake in the cave is quietly waiting for the fish to bite the hook.

After a while, a cold wind suddenly came from the lake, and the cold air was blown straight into people's sleeves.Pei Jun wrapped his fur robe tightly. At this moment, he glanced at Jiang Yue beside him, but saw that Jiang Yue's ears and the back of his neck had been blown red by the cold wind. Still squatting quietly with him as if not aware of it at all, without speaking or looking up, and I don't know what I am distracted thinking about.

——What are you thinking about?How long have you thought about it?

Pei Jun peeped at Jiang Yue, who was so quiet and silent, who was huddled in a fluffy ferret beside him without speaking or looking up, and felt a sudden soreness in his mouth, so he couldn't help stretching out his hands from his sleeves Come on, rub Jiang Yue's red ears and cover them.

In Jiang Yue's astonished gaze that suddenly returned to his senses and raised his eyes to look at him, he did not withdraw his hand, but only smiled at Jiang Yue: "Is it cold?"

Jiang Yue let him cover his cheeks, and replied suddenly: "It's okay."

Pei Jun added: "It may take a long time."

Jiang Yue stared at him and said, "It's okay."

These words made Pei Jun's eyes feel hot, and he immediately raised his hand to put on the hood for him, pulled off the folds, folded his hands and folded his arms, and looked back into the ice cave.But at this moment, he saw the red rope trembling on the fishing line.

Dazed for a moment, he slapped Jiang Yue's arm violently: "The fish is coming!" He said, grabbed the fishing line and pulled it up, but before he could pull it, the fishing line on the ice had already been caught by something in the lake. Drag it down a bit.

"It must be a big fish." Jiang Yue whispered, and subconsciously held Pei Jun's right arm wrapped around the fishing line with both hands.

The two raised their arms together, got up and pulled it out, only to hear a bang, and saw a big black fish with the length of a human arm suddenly come out of the water, slapped and fell on the ice, and jumped twice alive, the fish The gills opened and closed, breathing rapidly.

"This is a green root. It spends the winter at the bottom of the water for a long time, but today I can catch it." Pei Jun dragged the fish away, and smiled at Jiang Yue, "My Lord Jin is really blessed." As he said, he Turning his head towards the distant shore, he shouted: "Xuan'er, come and see! Your seventh uncle caught a big fish!"

When Jiang Xuan on the shore heard this, the rabbit in his arms came pattering over, chattering around the big fish, praising his great uncle for a while, and saying that he wanted fish porridge.

"If you want to eat, find someone who can cook for you." Pei Jun tied the fishing line to the doll's arm, so Jiang Xuan dragged the fish with the rabbit in his arms, and then ran back to the shore, pulling Fang Mingjue Said: "Fang Shilang, I still want porridge with fish slices."

Fang Mingjue was amused by his appearance of holding a rabbit and dragging a fish, laughed with Yan Yuliang and untied the fish for him, and agreed again and again, then boiled a pot of snow water, poured in the remaining round-grained rice, leisurely Cook the second pot of porridge.

Everyone stayed in the forest until the afternoon, because all the officials gathered together, and they still couldn't help talking about official business afterwards.The Ministry of War and Jiang Yue chatted casually about reforming the system, and it was inconvenient for Pei Jun, a civil servant, to intervene, so he played orders with the others for a while, until there was not much fish left and the firewood he picked up was burned out, so he got up He turned around and patted Jiang Yue on the shoulder, then picked up Jiang Xuan again, greeted everyone and said:

"Go, we should go back."

When we went back, the snow had stopped falling, and the sky was covered with red clouds. Before we got close to the camp, we could see the smoke rising from the camp.

Just after walking through the last forest, Cui Yu and Yan Yuliang in front gradually stopped, and suddenly turned their heads and called Pei Jun with a serious face.

Pei Jun looked along their fingers, and saw a procession of people walking slowly in the open space west of the camp.In the middle of the people and horses is a brocade-covered coffin pulled by a cart, and the four corners of the coffin are hung with soul-inducing spirit banners and royal family logos. From a distance, it looks like a lively scene of gold, silver, red and yellow, which contrasts with the soldiers surrounded by pale linen and horses, but it looks eerie and desolate in the sunset.

"Uncle, what is that?"

Amidst the distant mourning music that could not be clearly heard by the wind, Jiang Xuan held the little rabbit in Pei Jun's arms and raised his head.

Pei Jun and Jiang Yue beside him looked at each other, looked down at Jiang Xuan's bright eyes like deer, thought for a while, and said:

"That's to send your father back to Beijing."

Pei Jun no longer remembered that he knew what death was when he was six years old, nor did he know what the child in his arms was thinking at this moment.Right now, all he can see is his little nephew Jiang Xuan's side face with curled eyelashes and twinkling eyelashes, and a pair of watery eyes under those eyelash feathers.

These eyes are staring intently at the coffin and chariots driving away in the wilderness.

After a while, the child suddenly turned his head back, and asked in a low voice with some fear, "Uncle, is there hell in this world?"

He raised his small face and looked at Pei Jun, with endless fear and confusion in his eyes, as if he only wanted an answer that would reassure him.

Pei Jun looked into these innocent children's eyes, just like looking into a pool of clear and quiet water. Because of the word "hell", he couldn't help recalling that life before he opened his eyes and returned to the sun. The long icy river that has submerged him for an unknown number of years—

As soon as he thought about it, the biting chill and the endless turmoil of hundreds of millions of souls in the water almost still pushed him, and those distant but endless ghosts laughing and crying ghosts were still ear-piercing and noisy.

—Is it the so-called hell?

He raised his hand and patted Jiang Xuan's back, and said calmly: "No. The rumors about hell and heaven are all lies and not credible."

Hearing the words, Jiang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, but then worried and asked another question: "Are there ghosts in the world?"

These words caused a few flashes of self-observation of the head on the execution platform in the previous life to flash across Pei Jun's mind one by one. He looked down at Jiang Xuan for a while, and suddenly pinched the baby's face and laughed: "Silly boy, hell! Not at all, where did the ghost come from? Where do you let the ghost live?" Then he flicked his forehead and said, "That's all for scaring you disobedient little children."

Jiang Xuan shook his head and struggled away from his hand, and slowly smacked these words with lowered eyes, as if he finally felt more at ease, he hugged the little rabbit tighter with one hand, put his arms around his neck and leaned over his shoulders with the other, Finally, he quietly stopped talking.

Pei Jun hugged him and was about to continue walking, but saw Jiang Yue beside him looking at him in a daze, and asked with his mouth: "What's wrong?"

Jiang Yue came back to his senses, smiled gently, shook his head like he was thinking or worrying, and just followed him to the camp, and slowly got up and said: "Tomorrow the hunting ceremony will start, and the royal family will drive to the other side of the mountain together Go sideways, the journey has been tiring for two or three days, and when you come back, it’s time to go back to Beijing, so Xuan’er doesn’t have to follow, you’d better take him with you.”

"Then Xuan'er won't see my uncle in these two days." Pei Jun teased Jiang Xuan's face, turned to look at Jiang Yue and smiled, "Let's wait for your uncle to come back from hunting a big bear."

"It's just winter, so there are so many bears." Jiang Yue smiled helplessly, and only told him that the wound on his hand could be removed tomorrow. Seeing that he had also walked into the camp, he nodded to his two uncles and nephews and the six people farewell.

After taking Jiang Xuan back to the tent, Pei Jun found a tall bamboo basket with a small mouth and threw Jiang Xuan's rabbit into it, thinking that Jiang Xuan must be sweating after running in the snow for a day , So he asked someone to call for hot water, set up a screen, lit a fire, and gave Jiang Xuan a bath with his own hands.

He had just changed Jiang Xuan's clothes, and someone from the king of Thailand came outside to invite Jiang Xuan to play with Jiang Chi. Jiang Xuan had just been picked up, and before Pei Jun could wash and change, Yan Yuliang came to talk to him about the officials on the way back. The list is up.

Pei Jun recalled what Jiang Yue said about the Minister of the Ministry of Officials during the day, and after checking the list with Yan Yuliang, he called him to Fang Mingjue's tent, and then asked someone to invite Cui Yu, and told them that Jiang Yue was going to fill in. The official plan.

The four of them discussed privately, and they all knew that most of the people they wanted to plug would not be able to get through the cabinet, and if they wanted to coexist with the King Jin faction, it would be common practice to give each other positions, so they didn't really object to Jiang Yue's request, but Yan Yuliang said that he needed to think about Li Baoxin again, and it would take two days before he could give an accurate statement, and everyone agreed.

After finishing the business, Pei Jun just got up when Cui Yu called him, "It's still early, how about we have a cigarette together?"

"No, I have to go back and take care of the child." Pei Jun put on a cloak and turned around, seeing Cui Yu leaning on Fang Mingjue's bed rubbing the space between his brows.

He didn't notice it during the day, but at this moment, taking advantage of the night candle, Cui Yu seemed to be extremely tired, causing Pei Jun to stare at him and ask: "Old Cui, why is your face as white as paper, why don't you sooner?" Go back to sleep, shall we?"

"If I can sleep, why don't I smoke at night." Cui Yu waved at him with a headache, "Come on, you go."

Pei Jun was about to sit down again and ask him, when the curtain of the tent was lifted, and Jiang Xuan ran in crying, "Uncle, Uncle, it's bad! My little rabbit is gone!"

The four men in the tent were stunned for a moment, Pei Jun followed Jiang Xuan and ran back into the tent, only to find that the bamboo basket containing the rabbits in the tent had been overturned, the leaves of the vegetables were still inside, but the little hemp rabbit was nowhere to be found.

He put Jiang Xuan on the bed and sat down, coaxed him not to cry, and hurriedly searched around in the tent, but he still couldn't find the rabbit, so he thought it must have jumped out and never saw him again.

Pei Jun sighed, had no choice but to squat down in front of Jiang Xuan, raised his hand to wipe his tears, and Jiang Xuan looked at him with teary eyes, and after a while, suddenly asked in a low voice: "Uncle, did you eat the little rabbit?" ?”

"No, no, how could it be?" Pei Jun immediately denied it, holding his nephew's face distressedly, "Xuan'er, why would uncle eat your little rabbit? Uncle just went out and wasn't with the little rabbit. .”

"Why did the little rabbit disappear?" Jiang Xuan's teardrops gushed out bigger and bigger eyes. At this time, he couldn't stop thinking, so he covered his eyes with his little hand and repeated sadly: "The little rabbit was still there just now." Well... it was still there just now... why did it disappear..."

Pei Jun thought for a while, sighed, patted him on the back lightly and whispered: "The little rabbit has gone home. Xuaner, think about it, we still have a lot of way to go back to Beijing, very tired Yes, the little rabbit is too small, it can't go, so it jumped back home."

Hearing this, Jiang Xuan cried even more: "But, but I will think about it tomorrow, and show the little—little rabbit to my concubine..."

"Oh, little ancestor, you are your mother's little rabbit, why would she care about anything else?" Pei Jun saw how pitiful he was crying, so he hurriedly took the veil on the barrel and wiped it for him face, and tried to persuade: "Then blame uncle, okay? It's all because uncle didn't protect the little rabbit for you, and it's all because uncle wasn't there before, so uncle compensated little rabbit, okay? Or we'll be like this—wait until we return to Beijing , Uncle will catch you a new rabbit, and then I will keep it at home, let Uncle Dong feed it for you, feed it into a big rabbit for you to hold, and never let it out again, how about it?"

But Jiang Xuan pulled his cuff, twitched and shook his head: "Also, I still keep rabbits, so I'm always worried that someone will eat them."

"Then we don't want rabbits," Pei Jun raised his hand along his chest and boasted, "Uncle caught you a big leopard."

However, Jiang Xuan's tears still flowed out: "The leopard wants to eat the baby... the concubine mother said."

"Then uncle will raise a puppy for you, right?" Pei Jun wiped his tears with a handkerchief helplessly. After saying this, he finally saw that the child gradually calmed down, and couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief: "Xuan My son likes puppies, doesn't he? When my uncle returns to Beijing, he will find someone to find you a beautiful puppy. When the puppy grows up, he can protect you. If someone bullies you, let the puppy bite him, okay? good?"

"The puppy can also protect the concubine mother?" Jiang Xuan asked with red eyes.

Pei Jun nodded quickly: "Of course. You don't know that. A good puppy will grow into a big dog. It will be stronger than a wolf. Then it will be able to protect our Xuan'er and Xuan'er's mother. "

After hearing this, Jiang Xuan slowly stopped crying, but he was still sobbing while being held in Pei Jun's arms. He raised his eyes to look at the empty bamboo basket on the ground, his eyes were still trembling.

Pei Jun lifted the quilt, stuffed the child under the quilt, and touched his eyes that were crying like peaches. At this time, he carefully recalled those words just now, and only after a while did he realize the smallness in those words. What is the rabbit? Suddenly, he felt that the child was so young and pitiful. He couldn't help but lay on his side on the couch and hugged him tightly, resting his chin on the top of his head, patted his back lightly, and gave a soft voice. He hummed a misty tune to lull him to sleep, stroked the child's forehead and said:

"Xuan'er is not afraid, uncle is here, and uncle will always be here."

Jiang Xuan nodded with red eyes, and instantly threw himself into his arms, tightly clutching the hem of his clothes.

After a while, the child's subdued crying came out from the fabric of the clothes, and finally died down in Pei Jun's soft coaxing tune, turning into long and steady breathing.

After coaxing the crying Jiang Xuan to sleep that night, Pei Jun himself felt very sleepy.

He was lying on his back on the couch with Jiang Xuan in his arms, staring at the top cloth of the tent. In the dark, he heard voices and hallucinations, not sure if it was sorrow or joy, and he didn't know if what appeared in front of his eyes was the eerie legacy of King Rui who went far away in the wilderness. Or the heavy chariots and horses brought back by his father's blood-stained clothes in the early years——

Suddenly, the scene where he and Pei Yangong's mother knelt down and cried bitterly appeared in his mind, and he also remembered the faces of people from all over the capital who came to mourn and stepped on the threshold holding elegiac couplets in the plains of Manfu.

He thought of those sad words that were true or false in the noise, and he seemed to be in a trance for a moment, and seemed to be stuck in the present moment at the moment, and occasionally he was greedy: when he was brutally killed in his previous life, what happened in that life? Has anyone ever cried for him?

And that shaman's dream, which is still unsolved until now, if it really summoned his soul in the previous life, was the person who summoned him there out of desire or hatred?But can desire and hatred really be so important, that they can live and die with flesh and bones?

He couldn't figure it out, couldn't figure it out, so he couldn't imagine how a child as young as Jiang Xuan would understand life and death—let alone the life and death of King Rui.

Rui Wang Jiang Xi has been absurd and coquettish all his life, violent and indulgent, has never squandered tobacco, alcohol, gambled, never had a day in the court, worked as a errand, and never done anything useful However, the clothes and food have not changed for the rest of their lives, and they even died with a grand burial.When Pei Jun's toiled half life in his previous life ended in a hurry, he still lived a prosperous and absurd life, but in this life, although he died early from a bowl of oolong soup, his death not only cannot be called Pei Yan and Jiang Xuan. Immediate relief, but still make them struggle in the quagmire of misery.

——What about suffering and hatred?

Pei Yan was wronged and separated from her son, all of this was given by King Rui. It is said that her husband was buried, but she still remembered to bury her beloved thing after she was silent; as the son of King Rui, Jiang Xuan kept saying Crying about his father's evil, and seeing his father's coffin return to Beijing, he still asks if there are ghosts in hell in the world, because he is afraid that the ghost of King Rui will do evil, and he will feel sorry for his father going to hell and suffering from the sea of ​​swords and fire .

It turns out that those who are sad and hopeless in this life, and after parting for a lifetime, the cold and lonely emotion still cannot escape the word "husband and wife", and some people who once hated to death, can they really be separated from their fate when they really die?

In the trance of wandering thoughts, Pei Jun gradually became half-dream and half-awake. At this moment, he suddenly felt that his hands were grasped by slender fingers, and the touch was warm and light as if there was nothing.

Not long after, an erratic scent of ambergris also lingered in his nose, and the next moment, a fleeting wetness came to the corners of his lips.

Surrounded by the cool smell of apricot blossoms after the rain in early spring, Pei Jun opened his eyes, and in the peaceful sunlight, he could only see the sparse shadows of peach blossoms and apricots, and with the spring breeze blowing in his ears, he heard the sound of young cowardice request of:

"Help me, Pei Jun, help me..."

The voice flashed across the back of his neck, and when he turned around to chase after it, he saw Jiang Yue, who was wearing a dragon robe, standing in the misty rain of pear blossoms on the palace wall.

This Jiang Yue was imposing, with a mature and cold face, which made him so familiar yet alienated, and at this moment, Jiang Yue's calm voice even overlapped with that of the boy in the dream, and they both said to him in unison:

"Help me, Pei Jun, help me."

There was a sharp pain in Pei Jun's heart, and he woke up suddenly. When he opened his eyes, he saw that the tent was dark and the sky was not yet clear. He turned his head and saw Jiang Xuan still sleeping soundly on the soft pillow beside him, with tears on his cheeks. Looking around, there were tables, chairs, cups and plates as usual.

It turned out that it was just a dream.

He breathed a sigh of relief, frowned and raised his finger, caressing Jiang Xuan's fat-like face in his arms, and tentatively, nodded the small piece of smooth forehead.

This made the child's drooping eyelids finally tremble a slit, and the bright black eyes turned to him for a moment, moved slightly, but closed his eyes sleepily, turned his head and buried it in his arms, and fell asleep again like a small animal.

Pei Jun finally laughed because of this, and closed his arms to tuck him in the quilt. Hearing the trivial sounds of the royal family hunting and gathering outside the tent, he just lay on the bed and remained still until he returned to the camp again. Ning Jing got up and took Jiang Xuan to wash up, took him to dinner, and went to see Pei Yan again.However, when Pei Yan, who was under house arrest, heard Jiang Xuan vividly recounting the joy of ice fishing and grilling fish the day before, she was relieved and shed tears again at the corners of her eyes, but the little Jiang Xuan stopped crying with her mother. He wiped away her tears with his little hand, and told her seriously:

"Don't be afraid, concubine mother, when concubine mother comes out, we can go fishing with uncle together."

Pei Yan burst into tears immediately, and hugged the villain in her arms, and said very moved: "Okay, then the mother concubine will wait."

Pei Jun sat by the side and looked at Jiang Xuan who squinted and smiled in Pei Yan's arms. At this moment, he felt that the rabbit that had been lost from Jiang Xuan's arms last night had definitely disappeared.

He got up and went out of the tent, greeted Xiao Lin, left Jiang Xuan to accompany Pei Yan for the time being, then went back to the tent by himself, quieted for a while, and then took out the medicine box Jiang Yue left the day before yesterday.

Opening the box, gauze, cotton pads, medicine bottles of various sizes were neatly arranged, and the iron scissors of the crane that I saw before were put on the iron cover and placed safely on the side.All of this is as well-organized as Jiang Yue himself, and even detailed to the point that every porcelain bottle is marked with a half-fingered red note. Wang's signature is the same, and it is obviously Jiang Yue's own handwriting.

He frowned and took out Jiang Yue's scissors, and cut open the layers of gauze wrapped around his left arm. For a while, the deep wound pierced by the tiger's claws was exposed again. Although the scab had healed, it was dark red. However, the scars on his body are still grim. I don't know how long it will take to fall off, and after falling off, I don't know whether the old scars will remain for life.

Pei Jun took out a new piece of gauze from the box and dipped it in tea, wiped the waste medicine from the wound, then picked out a small bottle marked "use after recovery" in the box, raised his eyebrows and lifted the lid, smelling Pour it on the wound with a light fragrance, and when the medicine touches the skin, it becomes jelly.

Feeling slightly cool, he couldn't help but think of the phrase "it's okay" that Jiang Yue said on the frozen lake. At this moment, he put down his sleeves and looked at the medicine box beside him. He couldn't help but ask himself solemnly in the silence of the room:

Is Jiangyue a medicine?