Strange Tale of Qingluan

Seeing that he always didn't answer, Su Zhongming didn't get angry, maybe he was used to his dead appearance, and occasionally spit out a sentence or two, expressing his own feelings.He thought that since he was a son of an official, he must be quite familiar with those things in the officialdom, but he probably didn't understand those schools in the Jianghu, so he resolutely didn't mention the Mufeng Society.

Presumably the mask worn by Huang Yan must be very fun and delicate.He thinks so.In that sect, everyone is equipped with such a mask. As the head of the sect, it is natural to be different and wear a mask that is different from the children under his seat.

I wonder if his mask is made of gold or silver?Or, is it gold inlaid or silver inlaid...

He thought to himself while eating, and soon, there were only crumbs left on the plate on the table.It was just a small plate of snacks, and he was satisfied immediately after eating it. Originally, he was not hungry when he came here, but he couldn't help but slander when he smelled the unique smell of sesame oil noodles from those snacks.

He folded his arms, leaned over the desk, and asked Ding Xuehou on the opposite side of the table, "You have lived for more than twenty years, have you ever traveled outside the country of Wen?" Without any hesitation, Ding Xuehou He quickly answered, "No." He suddenly felt regretful, "It's a pity, there are so many countries besides Wen Country, and every country has handsome young men and beautiful girls. If you only move around in Wen Country, you must have no chance meet them."

"There are three classes of people who can travel, and I am not among them." Ding Xuehou explained the reason.Su Zhongming was very interested in these words, and expressed his willingness to listen to them in detail, "Which third class of people?" Ding Xuehou asked him, "One is homeless refugees, and the other is swordsmen who go around fighting for justice. , and the third is merchants who do big business."

Hearing this, Su Zhongming nodded his head lightly in agreement.

"If I don't have to be..." He wanted to say the word 'supreme', but remembered that he was in the market, so he changed it to another word, "If I don't need to be the lord, I can definitely travel around."

Ding Xuehou disagreed and dismissed his fantasy, "That was when you were young, when you reach the age when your temples are gray and you have to walk with a stick, you have to find a place to live."

"I'm young now, I have to seize this opportunity, and when I get old, I will naturally spend the rest of my time in a quiet and beautiful place."

"There are bound to be wars in every country. You don't know when you will encounter bad luck and you will encounter wars. Wars are terrible. They will wipe out human surnames. Even if you are just a passer-by in that city, you will be plundered away. , and even unfortunately met with a knife."

Su Zhongming became puzzled, his heart was not cold, and he blamed him: "Didn't I go on a trip yet? You always make things so realistic and terrible! You don't know whether my luck is good or bad, and it's so serious. It's more like cursing me for bad luck when I go on a trip!"

Ding Xuehou noticed that he was angry, and didn't know how to coax him, so he stood up and said: "Check out!" and went to the shopkeeper himself.Su Zhongming sat still in his original position, and after a while, he went downstairs with Ding Xuehou, went out to the street, and strolled back together.

At this time, there was already a large thick dark cloud floating in the sky, covering the sun, they were only walking on the street, and had no time to care about or even notice it.After the two reached Dingxuehou's mansion, they began to part ways. When Dingxuehou was about to enter the mansion, he thought that it would not be safe for him to go back alone, so he immediately turned around and chased after Su Zhongming. Torrential.

Before he had time to think about where to take shelter from the rain, Dingxue Houche went up and ran back until he reached the gate of the house and rushed into the courtyard. When people sat in the house, they were covered with wet shirts.

Princess Shengshi came in with two maidservants holding alchemy trays. On the altar trays were two dry clothes. She opened her mouth to complain, "Really, don't bring an umbrella when you go out. I don’t bring an umbrella, and I don’t look at the clouds, I have to wait until the rain falls and get wet before I run home in embarrassment!”

Ding Xuehou ignored her, clawed at the clothes, held one in his hand, threw the other to Su Zhongming, and pulled down the curtain straight away.Su Zhongming took the clothes and looked around, not knowing where to go to change. Princess Shengshi pointed to the curtain and urged him, "Hurry up and go in and change into wet clothes. When will we wait?"

Su Zhongming didn't want to listen to other people's complaints, for fear that she would complain to him, so he hurriedly sneaked into the curtain.As soon as he entered, he immediately saw Dingxuehou widen his demon belt, and the upper half of the dark horse was so lazy, he was taken aback for a while, turned his back to him, and began to pull up his clothes. He had just hung up the wet clothes, and the man behind him The voice sounded, and it was very close.

"Why is there a scar here?" Standing behind Su Zhongming, Ding Xuehou frowned slightly, and pointed at his right flank, which immediately startled Su Zhongming.He hurriedly pulled his clothes to cover the front of his body, and turned his head, "That...that's not a scar, it's just a birthmark."

Hearing this, Ding Xuehou took a closer look and was convinced that it was indeed a birthmark. The shape looked like a newly bloomed camellia, about the size of a baby's fist.

The last time when he had the opportunity to report to him, he ducked him directly. He didn't notice that there was another birthmark like this on the couple. Compared with the surrounding skin color, the color of this birthmark looked pink, like a very The scars left by wounds on the battlefield.

Ding Xuehou stared at the birthmark for a long time, only Pengqiao blinked, and immediately lost the opportunity to feast his eyes again——Su Zhongming put on his robe, let the robe cover it, straightened the front of his skirt, tied it Demon belt.

Su Zhongming was the first to open the curtain and stepped out.Princess Shengshi glanced at him, and said with a smile: "This is his old clothes. I thought it would be longer after His Majesty put it on, but I didn't expect it to be just right!"

Hearing that the clothes on his body were the old clothes of Ding Xuehou, Su Zhongming didn't care at all, and said 'I'm going back' to Ding Xuehou who came out of the curtain, and left immediately.Princess Shengshi gave him a ride, ordered his servants to hold umbrellas, went outside the gate of the mansion, and generously lent her own car.

"Your Majesty's clothes, after the servants at home wash them, send them to the palace another day." Through the rain curtain, she politely said to him.Su Zhongming nodded, carefully got into the carriage, and left.

Princess Shengshi walked back to the mansion in peace, and walked to the room just now without a sound, planning to go in and pack Ding Xuehou's wet clothes first. As soon as she arrived at the door, she saw Ding Xuehou took Su Zhongming's wet clothes first, She saw him unfold the wet robe, as if admiring a treasure, and then looked closely at his eyes, revealing some faint joy.

She was puzzled, she didn't understand at all why Ding Xuehou, who had worshiped the Red Hall with her, would show such a strange expression to another man's wet clothes.

She ate and slept with him, and when he came to live in his house on the second day of marriage, he gave several reasons to sleep with her in a separate room, one of which she remembered very clearly, she remembered that he said that he couldn't have sex At that time, she couldn't believe that such a capable man couldn't have a good relationship with a woman.

This woman, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong. At night, when she was combing her temples in front of the Luan mirror, she looked at her red bellyband and suddenly realized it.She thought: If a man likes a woman, he will also be obsessed with her personal things.And, the wet robe that her husband Ding Xuehou held in his hand was also a close-fitting thing.

The jade comb slipped from between her fingers and fell to the ground, breaking two comb teeth. She looked at the mirror in disbelief, and her fingers quietly tightened into fists.

impossible!impossible!How could such an excellent and majestic man look down on women and only be interested in his own kind?Must be a misunderstanding!Must be a misunderstanding!

She struggled with scum in her heart, and refused to believe her guess no matter what. At this time, the maid who held the lamp came into the room and saw a broken jade comb lying on the ground. She hurriedly picked it up and put it back into the dressing room. On the stage, she said to the eldest princess who was thinking about something, "Eldest princess, it's late at night, so don't be in a daze anymore, sleep now?"

Princess Shengshi didn't move, but said coldly to her, "Get out! Don't bother me! I just turn off the lights by myself!" The servant girl was frightened, and she didn't dare to speak anymore, and immediately walked out of her boudoir.

Five days later, at Si o'clock in the morning, Su Zhongming was called to the Empress Dowager's bedroom to listen to her lectures.The queen mother heard that Su Zhongming had never been to the queen's bedroom since she got married. She was eager to ask for her grandson, so she called him over to give him a lecture.Su Zhongming had no choice but to listen to the words with his scalp reflected, and finally survived the past moment with difficulty.

The queen mother talked for a long time, drank a sip of water to moisten her throat, and planned to continue the training, but God took pity on him. Just when he thought he would be drowned by saliva, a eunuch came into the palace and bowed to their mother and son. , replied directly, "The envoy from Jialing Kingdom is here, and I need to see His Majesty in a hurry."

Su Zhongming was very happy when he heard that the savior had arrived, so he hurriedly said: "Foreign envoys to see us, we must not neglect!" The Empress Dowager was not in a hurry to finish her lecture on this day, so she raised her hand and waved at him .When Su Zhongming saw it, he was extremely happy and hurried out of her bedroom.

On the way, he murmured to himself, unable to restrain his ecstasy, "The envoy of Jialing Kingdom came at the right time! If he came one step later, I would be drowned by saliva..."

As soon as he entered the palace, the eunuch next to him shouted habitually, "Your Majesty has arrived—" The two envoys who had been sitting peacefully on their chairs immediately stood up and bowed to Su Zhongming, "I am sent by Jialing Kingdom. Messenger for help, ask King Wen to send reinforcements to rescue Jialing Kingdom!"

Hearing this, Su Zhongming was confused, "Rescue Jialing? What happened?" The messenger immediately took out a letter and handed it over respectfully.Su Zhongming took it, opened it and took a look, and he generally understood. He frowned, wondering why: "This matter is not decided by one person alone. You have to ask all the officials of the court, and the decision can only be made after a joint discussion." .”

The envoy panicked and begged: "I beg King Wen to send troops! If Wen Kingdom does not help, I will never be anywhere near to ask for help!" Su Zhongming naturally understood very well. It is very clear that the country of Jialing is bordered by Taoxia in the north, Tuluo in the east, and Wenguo in the south. Now that Taoxia and Ge Yun are attacking its city together, and Tuluo is a plateau country, of course they can only come to ask for help. Wen Guo came to help.

"Wen Guo also has to consider its own consequences before making a decision on whether to provide assistance. Don't be in a hurry, the two of you. Our country can make a decision when the court meeting is held tomorrow." Su Zhongming calmly persuaded them.

The two envoys had no choice but to agree, "Then we will wait for one more day!" Su Zhongming hurriedly ordered people to entertain them, while he left the palace with the crumpled letter.