Chapter 15 Painful first quarter

Xiang Yu: (violently) Guards! Guard: (mechanically) Your Majesty. Xiang Yu: Bingzhu! Guard: My lord, this is the last candle. Xiang Yu: (Picks up the wine container and pours wine into the large black and red patterned lacquered bowl, only a few drops) Take the wine! Guard: Your Majesty, this is the last bottle of wine. Xiang Yu: (Pushes down the bottle, throws away the bowl, jumps up, kicks over a few. Desolately) The last candle is extinguished, and the last bottle of wine is finished.So, my end has come... Guard: (sadly) Your Majesty... Xiang Yu: (Looking up at the bright moon, sighing deeply) Heaven, heaven!You are unfair!You don't distinguish between good and evil, good and bad, what kind of heaven are you!Say it, (pointing to the bright moon) Say it!

Guard: (horrified) Your Majesty, you are drunk. Xiang Yu: (laughing wildly) Am I drunk? ! (pointing to the moon) You are the one who is drunk!He is drunk!It's heaven drunk! Guard: (submissively) Yes, he was drunk. Xiang Yu: (lowers his head in frustration) He's drunk...you're drunk...I'm drunk too...so we're all drunk...(raises head abruptly) You, why are you still here?I asked you to pick up my wife, my concubine Yu, why are you still here?Don't you dare not listen to my command? Guard: Your Majesty, according to your order, we have dispatched eight men to pick up your wife!

Xiang Yu: Then why hasn't my Yu returned yet?Ah, I see, you bullied me to be drunk, and made up these beautiful lies to lie to me. In fact, you never sent a single soldier at all! (slams the guard up, then throws him out like a child) You think I'm drunk?I also want to get drunk once, but you weak wines like water, you shallow and bitter village mash don't have the guts to let me get drunk!You can't get me drunk!I will cut off your head, so that those who dare to disobey my command will see the fate of the same kind! (Xiang Yu draws his sword out of its sheath and points at the guard angrily)

Guard: Your Majesty, spare me!It is true that eight pumas have been dispatched to find his wife... Xiang Yu: Then why did Madam arrive so late? Guard: Your Majesty, the enemy army is besieged thousands of times, I'm afraid my wife won't be able to get in... Xiang Yu: (Holding a halberd and holding a sword, he staggers and wants to go out, but is stopped by the guards) Guard: Your Majesty, you can't go out... Xiang Yu: Follow me to pick up my wife! Guard: Your Majesty!Then Liu Bang laid a net of heaven and earth, let alone a human being, even a bird can't fly out! Xiang Yu: (Throwing away the sword and halberd, pointing to the guard) Tell me, what is Liu Bang?

Guard: Your Majesty, he is nothing. Xiang Yu: I am the descendant of a famous general of Chu; he is a rascal in the market.I can lift mountains and carry tripods; he has no strength to bind chickens.I am generous and caring, upright and upright, trustworthy in words and resolute in deeds; he is treacherous and cunning, steals from rats and dogs, and breaks promises.Since I raised righteousness, I have fought more than seventy battles, invincible and invincible; he is greedy for life and afraid of death, and has been defeated repeatedly.But, why am I trapped here, with no food and grass, no candles and no wine?you say!what is this! ?

Guard: (timidly) Your Majesty, the sky is indeed drunk... Xiang Yu: (pointing to the full moon) Say it!Since you are the representative of heaven, please speak up! (The moon breathes out the light peacefully) You don't speak, you pretend to be deaf and dumb, you have seen everything, you understand everything, but you don't speak... Yuji, my relatives!where are youI think back then we knelt under the bright moon and made a wish that we would die in the same cave and live in the same quilt, but now, surrounded by iron walls, food and grass are cut off, wine is dry and candles are extinguished, and only me, a lonely family, is left...

A desolate song of Chu came from behind the scenes: the reeds are gray and the moon is shining, the autumn wind is desolate and the white dew is frost.Where are the parents and wives? Zhengfu thinks about his hometown... Xiang Yu: (listening to the song of Chu, panicked) Has the Han army occupied all of our land in Chu?There are so many Chu people singing? Guard: Your Majesty, this is the Han army singing. Xiang Yu: This must be the idea of ​​that villain Zhang Liang for Liu Bang.He wants to let this desolate song of Chu shake my morale. Wei Wei: (moved by Chu Ge) Your Majesty... Xiang Yu: How many troops do I have?

Guard: Your Majesty, many escaped, only about 800 riders left. Xiang Yu: How many Han troops surround me? Guard: Your Majesty, there are three hundred thousand. Xiang Yu: Is there any news about the person sent to look for Madam? Guard: Your Majesty, there is no news. Xiang Yu: (raged) Send someone again! Guard: Your Majesty, the Han army has surrounded us...According to the rumors of the generals, Han Xin has already broken through Pengcheng, and Madam—I'm afraid she has already fallen into Liu Bang's hands... Xiang Yu: (drawing out his sword from the tent wall) Nonsense! Guard: Your Majesty...

Xiang Yu: (slams the sword into the ground, lowers his head, he slowly raises his head with the sound of Chu Song, tears glistening in his eyes) Yu He, Yu, where are you? (stands up slowly) Don't blame the soldiers for fleeing at night, even I couldn't help feeling sad after hearing this sad song.Eight years ago, eight thousand children followed me westward across the Yangtze River. At that time, parents gave off their sons, and wives gave off their lovers.You all wanted to follow me to make contributions and secure your wives and sons, but you didn't expect to end up like this.Brothers, Xiang Ji is sorry for you; God, you bully Xiang Ji; Moon, you are silent, Yu Yu, your life and death are uncertain... It is Xiang Ji who failed you, and I, the reckless man, hurt you your heart.Moon, under your radiance we play games, under your touch we form husband and wife, under your gaze we part with sorrow, can we reunite with your help?Moon, moon, you matchmaker through the ages, can you tell me where my Yu is?Yuelao, Yuelao, can you throw down the red line and attract my precious bride?Yu, I've never missed you like this night, and I've never needed you like this.How I want to rest my heavy head on your smooth knees, how I want your soft little hands to touch my neck, just like a loving mother caressing a naughty son...

Guard: (crying) Your Majesty... Our King... Shouting behind the scenes: Madame arrives—— Xiang Yu: (surprised) Is my Yu here? (Wiping tears, jumping like a urchin) It's my Yu, have you come yet?Yu—— Xiang Yu: (Overjoyed, rushes forward, hugs Lu Zhi, and turns around) Yu, my Yu, my heart, my treasure, you are finally here! (kiss Lu Zhi's head, face and neck carelessly, Lu Zhi remains silent) Yu, am I dreaming? (Puts down Lu Zhi) How did you get here?Did the moon bring you here? Lu Zhi: (slowly lifts the veil) The King of Han asked me to come. Xiang Yu: (in a daze, startled) You... who are you?

Lu Pheasant: (sneering) Don't you know me, Your Majesty?Didn’t you take me as a hostage in Chu Ying for three years?Didn't you, Your Majesty, use me as a bargaining chip to sign a boundary peace treaty with the King of Han, and that's why you drove me back to the Han camp? Xiang Yu: (sober, annoyed) You... Lu Pheasant: (coldly) Slut?Bitch? Xiang Yu: (gloomily) What did Liu Bang send you here for? !Are you asked to be a lobbyist to persuade you to surrender? (draws the sword and swings it in half) You, you have made the wrong idea.Not to mention there are 800 soldiers and horses in my battalion, even if I, Xiang Yu, are alone, I still want the Han army to pile up corpses like mountains and blood flow like rivers! Lu Pheasant: (smiling) It is not your true nature to be angry at a weak woman. Xiang Yu: (remaining angry) What do you want to say? Lu Pheasant: (Looking at the guard) I have something from the bottom of my heart that I want to tell the king. Xiang Yu: (to the guard) Get off! Xiang Yu: Am I still afraid of your assassination? ! Lu Zhi: (smiling) Your Majesty is powerful enough to defeat a thousand troops, let alone me as a woman, even ten brave generals, I can't get close... Your Majesty...your youthful body... (Looking directly at Xiang Yu provocatively) Xiang Yu: (avoiding her gaze, picking up the wine vessel, pouring wine, nothing, throwing the vessel on the ground, annoyed) Talk quickly. Lu Pheasant: (sighs) Unexpectedly, the overlord of Western Chu, who is famous all over the world, has no thirst-quenching wine in his tent—— Xiang Yu: (irritably) Say it! Lu Pheasant: (provocatively) On this gentle night with a bright moon and bright moon, beside the young and handsome man, there is no passionate girl—— Xiang Yu: (raged) You want to force me to cut the sword in your hand on your body? ! Lu Pheasant: (after laughing, serious expression) Calm down, Your Majesty!Do you want to know what Hanwang is doing now? Xiang Yu: Don't even mention his name, I wish I could chop him into a meat paste for this treacherous villain! Lu Zhi: (sneering) No, if you want to know, I must let you know too. (Takes two steps forward, staring at Xiang Yu with piercing eyes) In a safe place outside the enclosure, the tall military tent of the King of Han was set up, with thick blankets spread inside, and a pot of charcoal fire was burning very well.The King of Han was enjoying the fine lamb wine, and there was a peerless beauty beside him. The two of them exchanged cups and exchanged glasses, and they were going to share the same bed tonight—— Xiang Yu: (bored) Shut up, lady, I don't want to hear about Liu Bang's hooliganism. Lu Pheasant: The King of Han likes wine and beauties, and he is used to seeing one love the other, but this time the love is different from the past, I am afraid that the king will be furious if he tells it—— Xiang Yu: (bored, alert) What kind of tricks are you up to, you eloquent woman? Lu Pheasant: My king, my... silly king!Don't you hear my overtones?That beauty is your concubine Yu! Xiang Yu: (like thunder piercing ears, dazzled, for a moment, enlightened, looking up to the sky and laughing) Do you think I, Xiang Ji, is a three-year-old child?Was it Chen Ping or Zhang Liang who conspired against you?You have shaken my morale with Chu Ge, and you are trying to use such lies to disintegrate my fighting spirit.My Yu she is far away in Pengcheng, how could she get to Liu Bang's military tent? !Get out, you woman with a heart like a snake! Lu Pheasant: Don't you know, your Majesty, that Han Xin broke through Pengcheng half a month ago? Xiang Yu: Even if Han Xin breaks through Pengcheng, my Yu she would rather kill herself than serve Liu Bang servilely. Lu Pheasant: (takes out a jade pendant from his bosom, and hands it to Xiang Yu) The king must know this beautiful jade pendant? Xiang Yu: (Shocked) This is the token of love between Yu and me, how could it be in your hand? Lu Pheasant: (sneering) Of course I know this is your token of love, and I also know that you are mad at the moon because you miss her.But, my silly king, when you want to break your heart here, she has already dedicated this beautiful jade to the King of Han. Xiang Yu: (Furiously) Vicious woman!Shameless Liu Bang!You must have killed my concubine Yu and robbed her jade. (draws sword) Liu Bang Nizi, you killed my Yu, and I will also smash your Lu Zhi into pieces! Lu Pheasant: (Going forward boldly, eyes like lightning, staring at Xiang Yu) Your Majesty, if I can die by your sword, Lu Pheasant will smile at Jiuquan, and the King of Han will also applaud. Xiang Yu: (withdrawing the sword) Huh? Lu Pheasant: Do you know why the King of Han sent me here? Xiang Yu: (sneering) Persuade surrender! Lu Pheasant: Then do you know why I came here? Xiang Yu: (looking at the jade pendant in his hand) Spreading rumors, lying! Lu Pheasant: My silly king, you don't understand Liu Bang.You only know that Liu Bang is treacherous, cunning, and capricious to his enemies, but you don't know that he is inhumane and willfully hurt his wife and children.He only has the throne and himself in his heart, for that crown, he can betray his parents.Three years ago, he fled in a light car in Pengcheng, and pushed my two young girls out of the car twice... There are groups of women around him, and our husband and wife relationship has long existed in name only.He sent me this time, obviously to persuade me to surrender, but in fact he wanted to use the king's hand to take my life and clear the way for his beloved concubine to be righted. Xiang Yu: (sneering) Then why did you come? Lu Pheasant: (resentfully) Your Majesty, you don't understand me... I have a woman's heart... Although I am the royal family of the King of Han, I have a fantasy in my heart.Your Majesty, Chu and Han fought, blood flowed like rivers, and corpses littered the field, why?Just for the two of you to fight for the throne?Your Majesty, you are a beautiful man who is dedicated to love, and all the women in the world yearn for you.Although I, Lu Zhi, can't get your body, if I die under your sword, I'm not in vain for a woman. My stupid king... Can't you see it?I came here to love you. I want you to abandon this illusory throne and take me away from home to live a pastoral life where men farm and women weave.I would like to dedicate this thirsty body to the king, and I would like to turn a hot heart into your body. Xiang Yu: (Laughs) What a beautiful lie you made up!How could I elope with my enemy's wife, you half-old woman, absurd! Lu Pheasant: (sharply, embarrassingly) Although I am not as young and beautiful as your Yu, after she dies, I am the only one worthy to be your bride in the whole world. Xiang Yu: (Surprised) What did you say?You said my Yu died? ! Lu Pheasant: (pretending to cover up) No, I didn't say... Xiang Yu: You bitch!Come on, where is my Yu? Lu Pheasant: (pretending to cover up) She...she is in Hanwang's military camp... Xiang Yu: (holds Lu Zhi's back with his left hand, and puts the sword across Lu Zhi's neck with his right hand) Where is she? ! Lu Pheasant: (pretending to be sad) My poor sister, the beauty of the country and the city, she...she has hanged herself... Xiang Yu: (extremely painful, the sword in his hand fell to the ground, his body softened, and he knelt on the ground) Yu... Lu Pheasant: (Trying out his hand tentatively, stroking Xiang Yu's head. Gently and emotionally) King...A Ji...Zi Yu...you poor child...you can't be resurrected after death. My sister's hand, instead of my sister's hand, wipes away the tears on your face, just like my chest, instead of hers, warms your heart... Paging behind the scenes: Ma'am to-- Yu Ji: (does not believe the scene in front of her, in great pain) You——