Chapter 23 second quarter

"Do you have to bet on the world in the struggle between you?" "The world is not a bet, the world is a game!" "I don't want to see you get involved in the chaos of war. Many people have died, and people are still dying! You understand!" "It's not our will!" "Whether you think so or not, you have seen all this happening with your own eyes!" Bai Yi shouted in a low voice. The moon was cold and the stars were sparse, Xiyuan stood in the cold wind outside the barracks, listening to the indistinct quarrel of the two famous generals inside.Ever since they discovered the enemy's secret work in the morning and killed the sergeant and threw them into the pool to demonstrate, Bai Yi and Xi Yan's faces were dark, and they hardly said a word for the whole day.At night, when the coaches of the other countries had dispersed, they finally had a quarrel.If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, Xi Yuan wouldn't have believed that these two hard-hearted people would have been arguing for so long like teenagers.

He asked Lu Guichen to advance ten feet to guard the gate of the camp, so that Xi Yan would not get dizzy from the noise and spread the matter of Tianqu and Bai Yi on the table, which Lu Guichen could hear.Judging from the quarrel between these two people at this time, it seems that all old accounts are going to be brought out. "You General Bai strategized, how much truth did you tell us this time? Why did your army prepare for battle before Ying Wuyi left the imperial capital? Why did the lord of our country know this before me? The big war is about to break out and prepare in advance? How many people are in your decision-making? Who are you behind the scenes?" Xi Yan asked urgently.

"There's no need to talk about this! Xiyan, wake up! Too many people have died! You were born in troubled times, and you held a sword in your hand. Didn't you go to save people, and instead killed people and entered the world?" "This is what I want to ask you, General Bai, you were born in troubled times and you hold a sword in your hand. Don't you want to kill people, but save people? Why don't you become a doctor if you want to save people?" "I just wish I could be a doctor!" "Ridiculous! Really ridiculous!" Xi Yan laughed back angrily, "You are a leader who kills tens of thousands of people at every turn. doctor?"

"Xi Yan, can you really treat the people of the world as pigs and dogs?" "It's not that I regard the people of the world as pigs and dogs," Xi Yan growled, "I am a pig and dog!" "You!" Bai Yi was also extremely angry, but his words froze. "How many people in this vast world know about our dreams and sufferings?" Xi Yan's voice was dry and filled with endless sadness. His footsteps approached the door of the barracks. "It's so old, it's ridiculous to say such things!" Xi Yan seemed to buckle the door knocker, and finally smiled, "It's ridiculous!"

Xi Yan strode out of the barracks, and closed the door heavily behind his back.He looked up at the night sky with his hands behind his back, took a few deep breaths, and suppressed the anger between his brows.Xiyuan stood behind him, and Lu Guichen also retreated from the camp gate, looking at each other uneasily, not daring to go forward.They have followed Xi Yan for some years, and they have never seen him be so angry.In the past, even if he acted occasionally, he quietly suppressed people, and most of them couldn't see it on his face. It was only then that Xi Yan noticed that the two entourages were still waiting outside the barracks, and he felt a little out of control, so he turned around and smiled at the two of them.

Xi Yuan hesitated: "Uncle, I don't understand what you just said to General Bai." "Did you hear that?" "Young Master Chen and I were outside, and I could hear a few words, but I don't know much, I just think you and General Bai are arguing." Xiyuan smiled awkwardly, "We have never seen uncle so angry, and we are afraid of you Fighting... I thought to myself, if this is the case, we don't have to rush in to help uncle..." Xi Yan was stunned for a moment, then slapped his nephew on the head, and scolded with a smile: "You think I'm still Ji Ye's age? I draw swords and fight with people every now and then? It's not the young general of the Jinwu Guard."

The five words "young general" came out without thinking, and Xi Yan was taken aback for a moment.This title seems to have triggered some long-term memories, he thought silently, a little lost in thought. "We're also worrying blindly, as long as it's okay," Lu Guichen said, "General and General Bai are role models in the army. If outsiders find out about the dispute, it's not good." He paused and did not continue.He originally wanted to say that the morale of the army is becoming more and more disorganized these days, but it is only maintained by military discipline. If the leaders are in civil unrest, the situation may become chaotic and out of control.

Xi Yan was silent for a long time, and patted Lu Guichen on the shoulder: "If you hear something, forget it, I really lost my temper today. Bai Yi is irritable and owes a lot. When he was young, he watched He is upset, who knows that this person will not grow up when he is old. However, some of my words are also angry, and I can't take it seriously, but some of them are true, but you may not understand them now. " He sighed leisurely: "It's a pity that I have been friends with Bai Yi for so many years, but in the end we still argue about these things. He never understood what I was thinking."

Lu Guichen froze for a moment, his lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just shook his head. "What are you going to say?" Xi Yan asked. "I... I heard Yu Ran say..." Lu Guichen lowered his voice when he said the name. "What nonsense did that mischievous little girl say again?" Xi Yan became curious. "I said that I always don't understand what she's thinking. Yuran said, in fact, it's the most difficult for a person to understand what another person is thinking. It takes a lifetime to understand." Xi Yan seemed to be chewing on the meaning of these words, silently looking up at the starry sky.For a long time, he seemed to be talking to himself: "Yeah, it's usually just a person. If you understand her, she'll die. No matter what, it's just the flower moon in the mirror..."

The candlelight illuminated the wall into a dark red, Ye Jin wrung out the towel on the basin, and tried it with her hands, the temperature was just right, neither cold nor hot. She walked to the edge of the bed and sat down sideways, wiping Himeno's feet with a towel.Ji Ye's ribs were injured and he couldn't bend over. Ye Jin had to wipe him every day.Lu Guichen was already sound asleep, and his low snoring could be heard from the next bunk.These days, Lu Guichen and Xi Yuan followed Xi Yan closely to deal with urgent matters, and they were so tired that they went back to the barracks and went to sleep. It was rare for them to have a few more words with Jiye Yejin and the little princess.He was originally supposed to be a nobleman with experience in the army, and he only needed to watch the battle without being involved in military affairs, but Xi Yan seemed to have completely ignored his identity and treated him as an ordinary officer.

In comparison, Himeno's life was extremely boring, lying still and looking at the roof every day.Princess Xiaozhou also seems to be a very bad talker, sitting on the bed in her own room with her knees hugged all day long, looking thoughtfully through the window outside the house.So there was no one to order Ye Jin, and she usually sat on Lu Guichen's bed opposite Ji Ye and darned clothes.Ye Jin's handwork is very proficient, Ji Ye watched her fingers thread the needle in and out, as if he wanted to understand the complicated stitches, but he never said anything, Ye Jin didn't ask, the two Personal relative silence can last for a long time, and gradually the sun sets, and the evening bells ring in the barracks. Himeno didn't have a chance to get off the ground at all, and his feet were clean.Ye Jin simply wiped it clean, and took out a sharp knife from the towel. Under the candlelight, a light flowed across the knife very quickly, and Ji Ye shrank vigilantly.His face twitched slightly from the pain, but he stared at Ye Jin without blinking.Ye Jin raised his hand, froze there, and lit the knife under the candlelight so that Ji Ye could see clearly. The two of them stood in a stalemate for a while, and Ji Ye's body gradually released his guard. Ye Jin picked up one of his feet and put it on his lap, and carefully cut off the too long toenail with a knife.Himeno looked down at her hand holding the knife, as neatly as when she was doing needlework.Ye Jin was afraid of cutting the flesh, so she tried her best to lower her head, and by the candlelight, pieces of toenails fell on her skirt. Ye Jin finished cutting the toenail of one foot, then picked up the other foot and put it on her lap. "Doing this kind of work, don't you feel wronged?" Ji Ye suddenly spoke. Ye Jin was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "The daughter of a rebellious minister was captured again, and she said nothing about her grievances. Before serving the chief, the servant girl serving the princess is also serving others." "I'm not a princess, nor an officer." Ji Ye turned his head away, "I'm just a soldier. This rank was raised by the general before the expedition. I heard that if you can't make a triumphant return, you will be demoted back to the country. of." "My maidservant doesn't understand these things in the military camp, but she just takes care of people. The chief is a sick person, so someone has to take care of him." Ye Jin lowered her head and peeled off her toenails, still smiling faintly. There was a halo of light on the hair, "It's not that serving the princess is more honorable, and serving the sick is more wronged. I just hope that my father's sin can be redeemed, and our father and daughter can live a peaceful life." She put Himeno's feet back into the quilt, brushed off the broken toenails on her skirt, put a towel on her arm, picked up the basin to go out, and looked back at Himeno at the door: "And I'm at this age , To say something disrespectful, it depends on whether the officer is still a child." Ji Ye frowned, as if he was about to explode, but his expression froze, a fire of ignorance did not ignite.Ye Jin didn't look at him, and went out with her head down.Ji Ye was the only one left in the room. He lay there blankly, staring at the roof, and after a long time, he slowly closed his eyes. Ye Jin carried the water basin, walked to the door of the barracks, opened the door, put the water basin outside, and then went back to close the door.She is a prisoner, and she cannot step out of this barracks at night. For this reason, she does not even drink water at night, and she is afraid of getting up at night. The room was only illuminated by an oil lamp in Ye Jin's hand, she lightly blew it out, leaned against the back of the door and took a long, long breath, as if she wanted to breathe out the exhaustion of the whole day.Everything was silent, no human voice could be heard, the light of the stars and the moon came in from the window, the little princess who was as quiet as jade was sleeping in the room on the left of her, and the two young officers were in the room on the right, and now these people are all asleep Now, she no longer has to wait carefully to serve anyone. At this time, she is alone, neither a servant nor a prisoner. She squatted down slowly, staring at the moonlight all over the floor in a trance.She slowly stretched her hands to the ground, into the moonlight, as if she was about to scoop up a handful of water.Her hands were shining brightly under the moonlight, and the calluses on her tiger's mouth and fingertips were also exposed.Lu Guichen and Ji Ye never noticed Ye Jin's palms, nor did they notice that this woman never spread her hands in front of others. A black shadow was cast on Ye Jin, and the moonlight was blocked. Ye Jin got up suddenly, as fast as lightning! She saw a figure outside the window.Suddenly there was a pitch-black shadow, that person was shrouded in a thick black cloak, with a hood covering his entire face.The only thing that can be seen is the man's eyes. His eyes are too bright, like two candles floating in the dark. The two pupils in the flames are faintly glowing golden red, as if the metal is burnt. color after melting. Ye Jin didn't dare to move, she felt as if she was being pressed down by a weight of hundreds of catties, and was firmly pressed against the door, unable to move at all.She felt that her blood was cooling slowly, starting from her fingertips, it was as cold as freezing. They looked at each other through a window, separated by a wall.After a long time, the people outside raised their hands and threw a cloth bag into the barracks. Ye Jin felt that the great pressure on her body suddenly disappeared, and she rushed out to catch the cloth bag to prevent it from making a sound when it hit the ground.When she looked up again, the black figure had disappeared. The light of the stars and the moon is still there, and everything just now seems to be an illusion. Ye Jin pinched the cloth bag in her hand, it was real, she untied it tremblingly, and inside the cloth bag was a dagger with a blade bent into a hook, with a bronze-colored blade filled with ancient patterns. The mineral pigment with cinnabar color looks austere and simple.She held the handle, feeling a slight warmth from the dagger.