Strange Tale of Qingluan

Dingxuehou got down from his horse and ordered the soldiers beside him, "Send the order, we will not hurry, we will camp here tonight and leave tomorrow." The soldier was slightly stunned, "It's really difficult to set up camp in such a dark day. Ding Xuehou turned his head, stared at him sternly, and shouted a little angrily, "Is it important for the son or the difficulty of camping?"

The little soldier lowered his head, admitted his mistake, and said: "Yes...it's the son who is important..." Then he took the order and ran down.Ding Xuehou looked back at the young man in the car again, "It will be ready in a while, just wait patiently." Su Zhongming stared at his expressionless face, and nodded his chin lightly.

After a long time, the food was brought over, it was steaming hot, Su Zhongming ate it hastily after blowing on it a few times, he was really hungry.After filling his stomach, sitting in the carriage was boring, so he opened the door and got out of the carriage. He couldn't see any scenery at night, but felt the pleasant mountain wind, which stirred his hair. The silk and the sleeves of clothing have become a rare sight in the eyes of others.

Ding Xuehou looked at him from a distance, even when he turned around and found himself, he still didn't avert his eyes.After discovering him, Su Zhongming moved slowly, and stopped in front of Dingxuehou who was a head taller than himself. He looked at the armor robe on his body, and moved his eyes to the waist on the left side of his waist. Saber, the blade was pulled out naturally.

Holding it in his hand, he bent down to pick up the dead branch under his feet, and cut the dead branch with the sword. A piece of the dead branch was cut off immediately, which seemed quite sharp.He threw away the dead branch, held up the sword to look at it in amazement, and carefully pressed it with his thumb. Growing up in modern times, he had never seen a real sword that could kill people.

"Does it have a name? Your sword..." he asked Dingxuehou beside him.The man answered without hesitation, "Yes, it's called Qiu Xuejian." Hearing this, he felt that such a name was very strange, and asked, "How did this name come from?" The man blurted out a line of poetry, " Autumn is covered with snow and cold, ten years young and old."

It turns out... the name comes from a poem...

After looking back, Su Zhongming retracted it into the sheath on the left side of Ding Xuehou's waist, turned around, and walked towards the fire.After all, it was in the dark night when you can't see your fingers. Ding Xuehou was worried about him, worried that he might make a mistake, so he followed him, closely behind him.

The night in the mountains was very cold, many people squatted beside the fire to keep out the cold, the tents behind them were almost fully set up, Ding Xuehou hurriedly asked Su Zhongming to enter the tent, Su Zhongming followed him, entered the tent where he was placed, and Ding Xuehou stretched his face, yawned, and got into bed without even putting on any clothes.

Ding Xuehou glanced at him who had closed his eyes, and walked out of the tent silently.

At dawn, the army continued on their way. Su Zhongming sat in the carriage and could only look at the scenery outside boredly. It was May, and the flowers bloomed in the wild fields in the mountains. , very nice.Just as he was in a daze, he heard a loud click, and his whole body tilted along with the car inexplicably.

The car stopped moving. Su Zhongming climbed to the door, opened it, and looked out curiously. Only then did he realize that the left wheel had sunk into a pothole. He quickly got out of the car and stood on the side of the road watching a group of people busy. Pull the car out of the pit.Seeing how boring he was, Ding Xuehou volunteered to lead him around for a walk.

Stepping on the wild grass and stopping on the bank of a small stream, Su Zhongming washed his hands, turned his head and asked Ding Xuehou beside him, "How old are you? Are you married?" Ding Xuehou was slightly taken aback, and replied, "This year there should be 23 What is marriage?" Su Zhongming realized that there is no word "marriage" in 'here'. After thinking about it, he explained: "Marriage! It means getting married."

"It's almost here, on August [-]th this year, but... it's a marriage bestowed by the imperial court."

Su Zhongming became more curious when he heard the words, and asked, "Who are you married to?" Ding Xuehou was honest enough, and he opened his mouth and said, "Hui Rou, the prosperous princess of Wen Kingdom, in terms of relationship, she should be the eldest cousin of the prince. .”

Su Zhongming's face turned pale with shock——in this way, wouldn't this Ding Xuehou be his cousin in the future?After being stunned for a moment, he finally said, "Then, we will be relatives in the future?" Ding Xuehou sighed unexpectedly, which made Su Zhongming stunned, "What's the matter? Isn't getting married a happy event?"

"Do you know why I married her?" Ding Xuehou turned to him and asked back.Su Zhongming immediately shook his head, expressing his ignorance.Ding Xuehou looked down at the stream at his feet, and said helplessly, "Because she is a reward, a life-threatening reward! If I don't accept such a reward from the Holy One, I'm afraid there will only be a reward of death."

"You don't like her?"

Ding Xuehou acquiesced, and said: "She loves me and has given me tokens several times, but I have never responded to her. Maybe the Holy Majesty has found out about this, so he will help her get married?"

Su Zhongming ignored him for a moment, and blurted out, "You are also a little stupid, she gave you a token and you refused, you rejected her, you accepted things from others without saying a word, the Holy One naturally thought that you two were in love, and issued an edict Marriage is also a matter of course! There is no medicine for regret in the world, so you have to marry at will, anyway, love will naturally develop after a long time."

Dingxuehou was speechless and couldn't say another word.

At this time, a small soldier came to report that the car had been pulled out of the road pit and could be on the road.

When the two heard the good news, they turned around together and followed the soldier back to the team. Su Zhongming got on the carriage again, and Ding Xuehou got on the horse again. The army continued to move forward. After eleven days, they finally arrived safely. To the capital of Wen country - Jinghongdu.That place, just the tide of the market, reminded Su Zhongming of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately the carriage didn't stop in the street, and kept walking, rushing to the deep and harsh palace city, Su Zhongming could only watch helplessly. further away.

"The prince has returned to the palace! The prince has returned to the palace!"

I don't know which eunuch was shouting such a sentence, Su Zhongming heard it clearly in the car, lifted the curtain and looked out, but he couldn't see half a person, only the empty venue and the majestic palace.

The carriage stopped in front of one of the palaces named Changning Palace. The main gate was wide open. Su Zhongming got out of the carriage, followed Ding Xuehou, and was led in by an old eunuch. Suddenly, I saw a woman who was over [-] years old sitting alone on a swing, lost in thought.

The old eunuch went up to her and said to her respectfully, "Princess Rui, the prince has brought you back." After hearing this, the woman came back to her senses, stood up, looked at Su Zhongming, the old eunuch greeted him, "My lord, come here quickly!" Su Zhongming was stunned for a moment, then moved slowly, staring at the woman in front of him with his eyes open.

The woman also looked at him and was extremely happy when suddenly Lou Zhu burst into tears, "My son, my son...is it really my son?" Getting used to her intimacy, she subconsciously sloughed her off. This slough stunned Shi Chaojing, and she looked at the old eunuch puzzled.

"Why is this so, he is not my son?"

The old eunuch comforted her and said: "Of course he is the prince, but it is probably because we have been apart for too long and you are not used to it for a while. Don't be impatient. After a while, the prince will get used to being with you and he will be fine."

Shi Chaojing nodded and calmed down a little.

Su Zhongming stood and stared at the woman in front of him, but he was very flustered: who is she?Is she the Princess Nian'an?She must be Princess Nian'an, she... is really my biological mother?No!She is not, she is not!There is only one mother, and my mother's surname is Zhou, it's not her!

Shi Chaojing wiped the tears from his eyes, and smiled at him, "Come in and sit down! Concubine mother has a lot to say to you." After saying that, Ding Xuehou who had just walked over immediately said respectfully, "My minister goes first Retire."

Shi Chaojing smiled at him and said: "It's rare for you to come into the palace, you should go to visit Huirou before leaving the palace, she just left, maybe you can catch up now, you go quickly."

Ding Xuehou turned around and left, did not follow her words, walked out of Changning Hall slowly, walked slowly along the long street towards the direction of leaving the palace.And she brought Su Zhongming into the tea room alone, and as soon as she sat down, she opened her mouth to tell him about the past. Facing the strange environment and unfamiliar faces, Su Zhongming was very lost and didn't listen attentively at all.

...What should I do? This place is different from modern times. There is no TV, no Internet, and no game consoles. If I stay here, I might be really bored to death. I will be suffocated to death within seven days...

He played back this sentence over and over in his heart, full of frustration and loss, thinking he had reached a dead end, thinking that he had entered a desperate situation and could not get out of it.

There was only one sound, which was very clear and heard, "Zhongming." Su Zhongming raised his head and looked at the woman across the table in confusion.The woman said to him again: "Zhongming, are you tired, do you want to go back to your room and have a rest?"

Because of this sentence, Su Zhongming came back to his senses, shook his head, "I'm not tired at all..." Before he finished speaking, a burst of harsh laughter came from outside, accompanied by the laughter, came in from outside A young woman who looked like a fairy, as soon as the woman came in, she said, "Princess Rui, great joy! Why didn't the prince come back with a banquet?"

Shi Chaojing's face changed instantly, staring at her solemnly, eyes full of vigilance, and blurted out, "Yun Ji!" The woman raised her eyebrows, "Should you call me the queen?" Shi Chaojing was cold and indifferent , "The Holy Majesty hasn't canonized you as the new queen yet, why are you so anxious?"

The woman snorted, not feeling ashamed, and replied: "It will be a matter of time, if he doesn't seal it sooner, he may die by then, and he won't be able to seal it even if he wants to."

Shi Chaojing gritted her teeth, restrained the anger that was about to burst out, and forced herself to be calm, "If the Holy Majesty can't make it through, please return to Taoxia Kingdom when the time comes, and don't hinder Wen Kingdom from choosing a new leader."

The woman laughed a few times, and sneered: "If I don't go by myself, can you please?" Shi Chaojing stared at her complacent expression coldly, unable to defeat her with words, the woman laughed and said Said, "I was sent by Taoxia to marry me. If you go back and complain, Wenguo will be over. Do you... have the guts to bear the consequences?"

"What are you doing here..." Shi Chaojing clenched his fists and asked.Yun Ji looked smug, "I heard that your son who has been waiting for more than ten years is back, I just came to see if the rumors are true." She turned around and took a look at Su Zhongming who was sitting at the table , raised her vermilion lips, "Sure enough, it's Yushu facing the wind, very handsome."

"Man, you have seen it, please go back! I don't entertain you here."

Yun Ji snorted, turned around, said nothing more, and walked away.Seeing that she was gone, Shi Chaojing breathed a sigh of relief, but his vigilance had not yet dissipated, so he said to Su Zhongming: "Zhongming, from today on, no matter where you go, be careful of this woman, she might...in fact, be a peach. The servant sent by Xia Guo!"

The author has something to say:

Those two poems that Li Xuan said were scribbled by me...

Because the river crab crawls, some words are deliberately changed to typos