Strange Tale of Qingluan

He began to pack his bags secretly, and left the palace secretly, arriving at the prime minister's mansion when the sky was gray and gray.Yi Yeqing, who was preparing to have breakfast, was very surprised when he heard that he was coming, and rushed to the flower hall to meet him.

Yi Yeqing stepped into the room and saw Su Zhongming's plain attire, he was taken aback for a moment, and then bowed, "It's early in the morning, what is your Majesty's reason for coming here?" Just as he finished speaking, Su Zhongming Then he asked him, "Have you ever led thousands of troops to fight?"

Yi Yeqing didn't know his intentions, so he answered honestly: "There used to be a leader who captured bandits and barbarians." Su Zhongming stood up abruptly, "This is also possible! You pack your bags immediately and go to Jialing Kingdom with me!" Upon hearing this, Yi Yeqing was shocked, and hurriedly asked: "Go to Jialing Kingdom? What is His Majesty going to Jialing alone?!"

"Don't worry about it, just pack up and go with me!" Su Zhongming didn't want to explain, but ordered him.Not daring to ask any more questions, and not daring to disobey, Yi Yeqing only asked for instructions: "Then... Rong Weichen told Master Ban."

Su Zhongming agreed, let him go down to pack his bags and tell the priest.After a long time, Yi Yeqing came back and put on a armored coat with a bundle tied on his shoulder. He also ordered someone to bring a armored coat, and said to Su Zhongming, "My lord already knows about it, so my minister Protect Your Majesty all the way. Please also wear this armor for self-defense.”

Su Zhongming took the armor, and the servants of the mansion put it on with the help, and went out of the house after carrying the burden.The two of them rode fast horses and set off to the northwest, within a few days, they entered the border gate of Jialing Kingdom, and traveled northward for a few days, inquiring all the way, and found out that the reinforcements and Jialing's army were on the border between Like Mountain and the north. The enemy soldiers of the country were still fighting, so they rushed there.

There is a city in Like Mountain, named Like City, which is used to guard the gate. There are no people in the city, only an army of ten thousand.The two of them rushed to the closed city gate. At this time, the enemy and our soldiers were in a truce. Yi Yeqing yelled at the soldiers on the tower to open the door. Those soldiers were afraid that the enemy was tricking them, so they asked, "Where are you?" The officers and soldiers who came?"

"We are the generals of the Wen Kingdom! His Majesty sent us here to reinforce!" Yi Yeqing responded.The soldier on the tower thought for a while, and replied: "You wait below first, and I will ask the commander in chief of our country." After a while, the soldier replied, "You said it was reinforcements, but do you have King Wen's order? "

Yi Yeqing had already expected this, and replied calmly: "Yes! We have a letter from His Majesty!" After saying that, the closed city gate opened, and a small soldier ran out, demanding something from the two of them, "Letter Where is it?" Yi Yeqing generously took out a letter and handed it to him, the letter was actually written by Su Zhongming on the road, just for this pass.

"You wait here for a while, and I will take it to the commander-in-chief, so that the generals of the Wen Kingdom can identify the handwriting." The soldier said, ran back to the city with the letter, and closed the city gate.He ran to the meeting room with the letter and handed it to the young commander. The commander opened the letter, took a look, and said to the Wen generals in the room, "Everyone, take a look, this is King Wen's handwriting." ?”

Those deputy commanders didn't move, they only looked at Dingxuehou, Dingxuehou stretched out his hand, took a look, and replied: "That's right! This is the real handwriting of our Majesty, and His Majesty is good at drawing these strange symbols." , outsiders cannot imitate." Qianqin, the commander of the Jialing Kingdom and the prince of the Jialing royal family, immediately ordered, "Let them in!"

The soldier got the order and ran back to the city gate. After a while, the city gate opened slowly. Su Zhongming was very happy when he saw it, so he entered the city with Yi Yeqing, and followed the soldier to the meeting room.

In the room, only the four deputy commanders and Jialing's commander-in-chief were left, Dingxuehou left without waiting for the two to arrive.The moment Su Zhongming stepped into the room, the four deputy commanders were so frightened that their faces turned blue, and they were about to kneel down and bow down, but Su Zhongming handed them a smile, and the four men exchanged glances, not daring to speak.

Qianqin didn't know this, and just smiled and said: "I think Jialing Kingdom has never made an alliance with Wen Kingdom, but now it is so generous to help, and the second general will be sent to help. If this battle is won, I will persuade the royal family to form an alliance with Wen Kingdom .”

Yi Yeqing bowed to him, and sat down with Su Zhongming to enjoy Jialing's tea.After chatting for a while, the two of them went out of the house with the four deputy commanders again. Su Zhongming took this opportunity to ask, "Ding Xuehou came with you back then, where did he go today? Could it be... really dead?" right?"

"Your Majesty..." One of them opened his mouth. Thinking that this place is a battlefield in a foreign country, he changed his words and said bluntly, "Dingxuehou is still alive and well. He didn't die before you arrived just now. I have already left, and now I don’t know where to wander, or should I send someone to look for it?”

"No need, I'll just go and look for it with Ah Qing." Su Zhongming replied, and immediately looked around with Yi Yeqing.After wandering around for a long time, he came to a well. He saw Ding Xuehou sitting on a rock holding the letter and staring at the handwriting on the letter in a daze. He hurried forward and took the letter from Ding Xuehou's hand.

As soon as Ding Xuehou raised his head, he immediately stood up in fright, rubbed his eyes, and then realized that he was not blinded by the wrong person, but thinking that this place is a battlefield, he couldn't help but blurted out to Su Zhongming in a strict voice, "You do it!" What! This is a battlefield, is this a place where you can come!" He blamed Yi Yeqing again, "Prime Minister, how can you indulge him like this! How did you become a prime minister!"

Yi Yeqing remained silent, Su Zhongming showed aggrieved face, turned around and left, Yi Yeqing also followed after seeing this.In the evening, Ding Xuehou was a little regretful and stern at Su Zhongming, so he went to his dormitory, and found the door of the dormitory was wide open, so he went into the room and Su Zhongming came out, not giving him a chance to speak, and ruthlessly opened the door to him. closed.

Ding Xuehou hurriedly knocked on the door, but no one answered, so he had to go back in frustration.In the daytime of the second day, he met Su Zhongming again, but Su Zhongming ignored him, and only chatted and laughed with the young prime minister as he passed by him.Ding Xuehou looked back at his back and felt lost.

The sun set in the western sky again, and the night was dark. Ding Xuehou rode out of the city, carrying a solitary lamp, and using a light gauze bag, caught fireflies dancing and feasting in the tall weeds. He caught hundreds of fireflies. , tied the mouth of the bag and brought it back to the city.

He knocked on the door of Su Zhongming's bedroom first, put the bag lightly on the open space in front of the door, and left.Hearing the sound, Su Zhongming came out and opened the door. Looking left and right, there was no one there. It was only when he was about to close the door with doubts that he found the glowing bag on the ground. He immediately picked it up, closed the door, and untied it. pocket.

In an instant, a group of fireflies flew out, carrying a glimmer of light flying around the room.When Su Zhongming saw it, he quickly blew out the lights, lay down on the couch, put his arms on his head, and watched the gentle light like a shining star flying around.

After a night, during the day, everyone gathered in the conference room to discuss strategies to defeat the enemy. Su Zhongming had no experience in this field, so he could only sit on a chair and make up his mind, listening with his ears without speaking.

The man who admired him really knew how to fight. It has been nearly half an hour, he has been talking with Prince Najialing about the situation of the battle and guessing the enemy's next attack strategy.He propped his chin and listened to his eloquence, his heart was very stuffy, a yawn stuck in his throat and he didn't dare to come out.

After the meeting was over, almost at lunch time, Su Zhongming strode forward, and Ding Xuehou followed behind him, seeing that Yi Yeqing was not walking side by side with him, he quickly passed Yi Yeqing and came to Su Zhongming's side Sideways, just lower your voice, and ask with concern, "Yesterday... did you like what happened last night?"

As soon as Su Zhongming heard it, he knew that those fireflies were left at the door on purpose, so he immediately turned his face away and lied, "What? I don't know what you are talking about." Ding Xuehou was stunned for a moment, and followed closely , "Well, it's a waste of my courtship, but it's more beautiful to sit on the grass and watch than catch it."

Su Zhongming looked at him with curiosity on his face, "Are there many insects like this flying around outside the city at night?" Seeing that he finally paid attention to him, Ding Xuehou was secretly happy, and quickly replied, "Yes, there are hundreds of them, like It’s like the countless stars in the sky, you want to catch them all, but you can’t catch them all.”

Su Zhongming was very interested, and said bluntly: "Well, when the night comes, I will go out and have a look!" Ding Xuehou quickly stepped forward, walked up to him and stopped him, "It is too dangerous for you to go out of the city alone at night , It’s better to bring someone by your side.” Su Zhongming replied, “Naturally, I have bodyguards!” As he spoke, he looked back at Yi Yeqing who was behind him.

Ding Xuehou followed his gaze, understood what he meant, and immediately became unhappy, "He went with you just to protect your safety, you are interested in enjoying the beauty of summer night by yourself, how lonely you are. " Su Zhongming looked him up and down, and said straight to the point: "Do you want to go together?"

The man was guessed, he pursed his lips and dared not tell the truth.Seeing this, Su Zhongming was full of open-mindedness, "You can go there if you want, isn't it just to see the night view and enjoy the night breeze? But, good things to say up front, don't blame me for being ruthless when the time comes."

Ding Xuehou turned his head and glanced at Yi Yeqing, and said to Su Zhongming in a low voice, "Can I go without the prime minister?" Su Zhongming looked straight ahead with a calm face, "Look at Leuke, I will sit by the well at the moment of Xu Shi Knock the bucket three times, and if you haven't arrived after knocking three times, you don't have to come, I'll go with the prime minister."

Ding Xuehou silently remembered in his heart that at night, before the moment came, he had already arrived near the well and waited. When Su Zhongming came alone and started knocking on the bucket, he came out from the dark place.When Su Zhongming saw him, he became puzzled, "You really came on time..."

How did he know that this man has been waiting in the dark for a long time...

The two rode horses and ordered the soldier guarding the city gate to open the city gate. The soldier asked him what the two of them were going out for. Ding Xuehou only replied, "Go out to watch the movement, and I will be back in a while", passed the pass smoothly, and rode out. Li Kecheng.

When I arrived at a tall weed, sure enough, there were many fireflies flying around in mid-air.The two of them tied up their horses, carried a solitary lamp, and sat together in the grass, looking up at the little insects carrying soft lights flying around, enjoying the frosty night wind blowing in front of them.

Dingxuehou glanced at Su Zhongming, whose hair was brushed by Ye Feng, by the light of the solitary lamp. After a long time, he asked aloud, "Does the Queen Mother know that you sneaked out?" Su Zhongming kept staring at the glowing bugs , replied, "I left a letter for her, asking her to take care of the political affairs for me temporarily and read the booklet."

"You chose the right person. The queen mother is a powerful woman. When she is ruthless, she is ruthless, and when she is soft, she is soft." Dingxuehou replied.

Su Zhongming didn't say a word, but when he saw one or two small insects flying very low, he stretched out his hand to catch them.Dingxuehou said again, "Its bigu is very hot, it will burn your hands." Su Zhongming turned to him at this time, refuting his judgment, "Nonsense! Don't think I don't understand science, its light is cold light , the reaction principle is related to the fluorescein and energy in the body, and it will not be hot at all.”

Dingxuehou couldn't understand, so he didn't mention this matter anymore, watching him catch a few bugs and release them with his hands, he really wanted to report to him and sleep here.Just thinking about it, in an instant, he remembered the slap he gave him, and he couldn't help but feel that the place where he was beaten seemed to hurt again, which made him dare not act rashly.