Chapter 30 fourth quarter

There were thunder and lightning, heavy rain enveloped the Xiangfu compound, and also enveloped the small courtyard where Bai Shao lived.Four female soldiers in coir raincoats stood guard around the small courtyard with their swords pressed.Bai Shao is doing a big thing that must be done for her in the room.She arranged the bedroom as a mourning hall for her father. On the table next to the wall, there was a portrait of her father. Various offerings were placed in front of the portrait. The candles were lit, and the incense burner was also lit. She stood awe-inspiringly, staring at the Father's portrait.Holding something in both hands, Xiao Cui entered Bai Shao's bedroom from the living room outside, she walked behind Bai Shao, looked at the portrait on the table and said: "Miss, this portrait is really well drawn." Bai Shao said to himself: " The day after tomorrow is the anniversary of his father's death, and he will be honored for seven days every year in the first three days and the last three days." Xiaocui said, "Why don't you set up the mourning hall in the outer hall? Prime Minister Cao is not here these two days, so no one will see him." Bai Shao said: "The prime minister went to Qiuchang to order troops, and he might be back in a day or two. Even if the prime minister is not there, it would be bad if housekeeper Zhu saw me offering sacrifices to my father. They all said that I wanted to avenge the murder of my father. Avoid it." Xiaocui said: "You put your father's portrait in the bedroom, so you won't be afraid when you sleep at night?" Bai Shao raised her hand to stroke her father's portrait, and said, "Don't be afraid, my father's remains are here , I’m not afraid.” Xiaocui said, “Well, then I’ll offer this kind of thing here too.” She held up the embroidered lotus bag from Empress Fu with both hands.

Bai Shao asked: "What do you mean by bringing Yi Zhanxian here to offer?" Xiaocui didn't say a word, just put the embroidered lotus bag together with the offerings, turned around and went out, and in a blink of an eye she brought another thing, that Yuchang sword, which was also offered in front of Bai Shao's father's portrait.Xiaocui pretended to be annoyed and said: "If you can't do anything to kill Qiu and sacrifice your father, it's a kindness to offer the utensils here." Bai Shao stared at Xiaocui and was stunned. Xiao Cui stands with her arms tied and lets Bai Shao stare at her.

After a while, Bai Shao sighed, pulled Xiao Cui's hand, and the two left the bedroom and came to the living room. Bai Shao looked at the heavy rain outside, picked up the umbrella, and said, "I'll go to the lobby of the Prime Minister's Mansion to deal with the paperwork." Xiaocui glanced at Bai Shao, and pretended to be thorny and said: "Inevitably, there is a letter from the prime minister, he This little soldier has only been dispatched for a few days, and there is a letter every day." Bai Shao said: "Slap your mouth." Xiao Cuixu slapped her mouth a few times, and then said: "The Prime Minister is not here, the young lady seems to be idle these few days I'm listless." Bai Shao said, "It's better to be busy with something."

Bai Shao walked out of the courtyard under an umbrella in the rain.Four female soldiers in coir raincoats bowed their hands and saluted her, and then two stayed behind, and the other two left with Bai Shao.Bai Shao walks in the rain a little in a trance. Xiaocui stood at the door and watched Bai Shao come out of the yard in the rain, and then closed the door.She turned around in the living room a few times, entered Bai Shao's bedroom, came to the desk, glanced at the portrait of Bai Shao's father, and her eyes fell on the fish sausage sword and embroidered gold lotus bag that were placed with the offerings.She first picked up the Yuchang Sword with both hands, pulled the sword out of the scabbard slightly, a small section of the sword immediately shot out a cold light, and she quickly inserted the sword.Then he opened the gold-embroidered lotus bag containing a dipping fairy, took out the treasure jade box and stroked it, a little fanciful.She opened the jade box a little and sniffed it. After smelling the refreshing fragrance, she closed it again.He seemed to hear a noise outside the door, so he quickly put the treasure jade box into a lotus bag, fastened it, and hurried out of Baishao's bedroom, came to the living room, opened the door and looked outside, there was still only rain, no one was there.I went back to the living room and turned around twice nervously.Once again, he entered Bai Shao's bedroom, walked to the desk, stroked the embroidered gold lotus bag, and fell into a moment of reverie.

Bai Shao hurried back to her small courtyard with an umbrella in the rain.Two female soldiers in coir raincoats followed and escorted her not too far away.When she reached the gate of the courtyard, two female guards bowed to her.She nodded, entered the yard, put away her umbrella, and opened the door to enter.Xiao Cui was not seen, so she called out, but no one answered.She put down her umbrella, picked up a towel and wiped her sleeves soaked in rain, and walked into her bedroom, but there was still no sign of Xiao Cui.I saw the flames of the candles on the table table were still beating, and the cigarette smoke was still curling up on the incense burner.She sniffed and sniffed, feeling a little puzzled, and retreated into the hall again.After thinking for a while, she opened the door and entered Xiaocui's bedroom on the other side, and saw Xiaocui rolling on the bed with the quilt in her arms.

Bai Shao was startled and asked: "Xiao Cui, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Cui hugged the quilt tightly and panted heavily, her face flushed red, she shook her head slightly.Bai Shao sat in front of the bed, touched Xiao Cui's forehead: "Do you have a high fever?" Xiao Cui let go of the quilt, put her arms around Bai Shao, and said, "Miss, I'm itchy all over, I'm going to die." There was a spasm.Bai Shao said: "Xiao Cui, you're going to strangle me, let go quickly. What's wrong with you?" Xiao Cui had another convulsion all over her body, and then let go of her hands, lying there paralyzed on her back, panting heavily: " Miss, I, I..." Before finishing speaking, she picked up the pillow and rolled it a few times, and then completely let go, saying: "Miss, I secretly ate a dip." Bai Shao said: "Take a dip How can a fairy do this?" Xiaocui said: "First eat one dip, then eat another dip, it's spring two dips. I want to try, miss forgive me." Bai Shao sighed and sat down again. Said: "You really scare me a lot."

Xiaocui shook her head and said: "It's over, now I feel that the relationship between men and women is the most disgusting." Bai Shao said: "Do you usually miss men?" Xiaocui paused for a while before saying: "Sometimes." Bai Shao looked He smiled at her.Xiao Cui sat up on the bed, straightened her hair and clothes and said, "Miss, you don't need to think about it." Bai Shao raised her hand and pretended to hit her: "Slap yourself." Xiao Cui slapped herself twice again, and said: " Miss is with a group of civil servants, generals, heroes and men all day long, and she is the chief bookkeeper, and I am tired of seeing men." Bai Shao raised her hand again and said, "Slap your mouth again." Xiao Cui slapped herself a few more times.Bai Shao sighed and stood up.Xiaocui also tidied herself up, got out of bed, and went out to the living room with Bai Shao.

Xiaocui asked, "No letter from the prime minister today?" Bai Shao shook her head.Xiaocui said: "Miss, look at you, the prime minister has been away for a few days, and you will be absent-minded for a few days. If the prime minister does not write for a day, you will immediately feel lost. You still don't understand yourself. I think you should end this matter as soon as possible. Isn't the prime minister coming back these two days? When he comes back, he will come here to see you. When I pour tea for you, I will give him five dips to death. Once he drinks, isn't it the end of the show? Let's close the door Hey, tell Steward Zhu that the prime minister will sleep in your room for a while, we need a carriage to go out for a ride, run away if you talk, run away if you can, if you can't escape, you will be caught and killed, aren't we freed from each other? "Xiao Cui looked at Bai Shao, and said: "If you can't do this, then you just don't want to do it from now on."

Bai Shao said: "But..." Xiaocui said: "But what, revenge for killing your father? Your father died at the hands of Cao Jun, so you must take the prime minister's life?" Bai Shao's eyes are in a trance: "But my grandfather..." Xiaocui speaks eloquently: "Why does Mr. Zheng want to destroy Cao? Isn't he respecting his 400-year-old Han Dynasty orthodoxy? Ms. Kui is still well-read in poetry and books. Didn't the sage Confucius say that the Tang and Wu revolutions follow the heavens?" It should be suitable for people. Without the Tang-Wu Revolution, would it have been the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty? Now it can’t be the Han Dynasty." Bai Shao said: "You Xiaocui, these two sentences are really quite reasonable." Xiaocui Said: "Which of the servants and maids in Zheng's mansion is not arty, and doesn't make poetry and prose? Miss can see everything clearly, but she can't see things that are placed on her own body."

A group of soldiers in coir raincoats escorted a sedan chair through the courtyard of the Cao Mansion.Walking in front is the butler Zhu Si.When the team came to Bai Shao's small courtyard, the four female guards in the rain were about to stop and ask, but as soon as Zhu Si raised his hand, they knew they had to get out of the way.The soldiers stopped the sedan chair, opened the umbrella, and opened the curtain of the sedan chair, and it was Cao Cao who came down.Under the guard of the crowd, he entered the courtyard and arrived at the front of the house. Zhu Si reported loudly: "Master, the prime minister is here." At the same time, he opened the door for Cao Cao in front.

Bai Shao and Xiao Cui came to greet her.Bai Shao looked at Cao Cao and said in shock: "The prime minister is back? Why is your face so ugly?" Cao Cao said: "I have a headache again, and it hurts so much that I can't sleep all night." Bai Shao said: "I didn't see it mentioned in your letter." Cao Cao said: "I'm afraid you are worried." Bai Shao said: "Why don't you invite the imperial physician Jiping Look, in the past, the prime minister’s headache was not always cured by Jiping’s imperial physician at the sight of him?” Cao Cao said, “I have already sent someone to invite the imperial physician to the palace to treat the emperor, so I have to wait until tomorrow.” Then he turned to Zhu Si waved his hands and said, "You go back, and stay here alone for a while." Zhu Si opened the door and went out.Bai Shao and Xiao Cui waited for Cao Cao to sit down. Cao Cao closed his eyes and touched his head, saying, "It hurts so badly. I can't help it. Let's sit here for a while, at least feel more at ease." Bai Shao said: "Prime Minister, when I was at home, I learned a little acupuncture from a disciple of my grandfather. Now that I practice it, it may relieve the pain. What do you think?" Cao Cao leaned on the desk, closed his eyes and said, "From You." Bai Shao walked behind Cao Cao, untied his bun, untied his hair, and then pulled out the silver hairpin on his head, pressed some acupuncture points on Cao Cao's head, and asked, "How is it, Prime Minister?" Can you take it? Does it hurt when you press it?" Cao Cao said in a daze, "This pain is far better than a headache, so let's do it." Bai Shao added more strength: "Is it okay?" Cao Cao said: " You can use a little more force, curing diseases and saving lives is the same as doing things in conquest, you must be able to do it. Yes, use more force." Cao Cao kept telling Bai Shao to dare to attack and use more force.After clicking like this for a while, Cao Cao said: "Yes." Bai Shao let go.Cao Cao said, "I sweated a lot, and my headache has gone away by half, and I feel much better." His expression relaxed, and he said a little dizzily, "It's really much lighter. Just sit and sleep like this for a while, and you don't need to worry about Gu." Soon, Cao Cao leaned on the table with his hair loose and snored. Xiaocui twisted the towel and handed it to Bai Shao, and said softly, "Miss, wipe off your sweat, look at your sweat." Bai Shao saw that Cao Cao, who was sleeping soundly, was also covered with sweat, so she wiped off Cao Cao first.Seeing this, Xiao Cui twisted another towel and handed it to Bai Shao.Bai Shao wiped her sweat again.Then the two sat down at the side, looking at the sleeping Cao Cao.Xiaocui said softly: "You didn't listen to him, you have to be able to do things well." Bai Shao glanced at Xiao Cui, not understanding what Xiao Cui meant. Cao Cao had been reclining and sleeping soundly, and now he groaned: "I'm thirsty, bring me some tea." Bai Shao stood up, picked up the teapot and poured tea into the cup.Xiao Cui suddenly remembered something, walked quickly into Bai Shao's bedroom, took out a gold embroidered lotus bag containing a dipping fairy, and put it next to the teacup that Bai Shao had just filled with tea.Bai Shao opened her eyes wide and looked at Xiao Cui, Xiao Cui also looked at Bai Shao, then untied the lotus bag, took out the jade box inside, picked up a silver chopsticks from the side, and handed Bai Shao.Bai Shao looked at Xiaocui, but didn't answer.Xiao Cui imitated dipping five times with silver chopsticks, then stretched out five fingers, signaling to Bai Shao, "Five dips to die".Bai Shao looked at Xiao Cui, a little stunned.Over there Cao Cao moaned again: "Bring tea." Bai Shao pushed away the silver chopsticks in Xiaocui's hand, put the treasure jade box back into the lotus bag and tied it, then pushed it aside, then picked up the teacup and walked to Cao Cao's side , raised his head and brought the tea to his mouth.After feeding him and drinking, he leaned into Cao Cao's ear and asked, "Do you want more?" Cao Cao shook his head subconsciously in his lethargy, raised his finger to point at his loose hair, and said, "Comb your hair well." Then snore again. Bai Shao turned around and put down the teacup, picked up the comb, and prepared to comb Cao Cao's hair. Xiao Cui glanced at Bai Shao again, hurried into Bai Shao's bedroom, took out the Yuchang Sword with both hands, and handed Bai Shao.Bai Shao looked at Xiaocui again in a daze.Xiaocui raised her chin in the direction of Cao Cao, signaling to attack Cao Cao.Bai Shao stared for a while, put down the comb, and took the Yuchang Sword.Xiao Cui was greatly surprised.Bai Shao gently pulled out the Yuchang Sword, and the cold light immediately filled the whole room.This time it was Xiaocui's turn to widen her eyes in surprise.Bai Shao put down the scabbard, and walked to Cao Cao's side with the fish intestine sword in his hand.Xiao Cui covered her mouth with her hands, afraid that she would lose her voice and cry out.Holding a sword in one hand, Bai Shao gently combed Cao Cao's loose hair, exposing his entire forehead and face.Xiao Cui looked at Bai Shao nervously.Bai Shao picked up a strand of Cao Cao's hair with his left hand, cut it lightly with a sword in his right hand, and that strand of hair broke in Bai Shao's hand.Then Bai Shao came back and inserted the sword into the scabbard.Holding the sword in one hand and the lock of hair in the other, he looked back at Cao Cao.Cao Cao was still sleeping soundly.She quickly walked to the inner bedroom, put the fish intestine sword on the table, coiled the lock of hair, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and put it there.Xiao Cui stood at the door of the bedroom and watched quietly, at this time she slowly came over and stood behind Bai Shao, and said: "I can't cut off his head, so cutting his hair instead is enough." Bai Shao turned her head Glancing at Xiaocui, she said nothing.Xiao Cui had already brought in the lotus bag containing a dipping fairy, and she also put it on the table at this time. Bai Shao knelt in front of his father's portrait, worshiped three times devoutly, and then stood up. Xiaocui said, "Your sacrifice to your father is exhausted." Bai Shao said: "Do you really want me to do it today?" Xiaocui sighed lightly: "I know you won't kill him. If I persuade you not to kill him, you will blame someone for blocking you; now, Empress Fu I advise you to do it, my grandfather supervised you to do it, and I advise you to do it too, if you don’t do it in the end, that’s your sincerity. I want the lady to stop here, and no longer entangle with killing or not. It’s too much to suffer!" Bai Shao also sighed softly and shook his head: "I can't do this anymore. I am determined not to do this matter. Whether it is related to the orthodox Spring and Autumn righteousness of the Han Dynasty, or the admonition of my grandfather, or something else. For more than half a year, I often Thinking about what to do, I found that it was contrary to the common sense of people and the common sense of things. I was determined to follow the common sense and leave the rest to fate. The prime minister’s order should take the world, and he takes his world; fate." Xiao Cui asked: "Other people kill it, you see it and don't care?" Bai Shao squinted her eyes and thought for a while, then shook her head slightly: "I don't care." Xiaocui seemed to hear something in the living room outside, she looked back, listened again, but there was no movement, she gently stroked Yuchangjian with her hand and said: "You said, Mr. Zheng said that the appearance of one person and one thing is not By chance, I cut my hair with this Fish Intestine Sword today, is it used up, and will I still use it in the future?" Bai Shao thought for a while and said, "I don't know." The two came out and saw that Cao Cao's loose hair had not been combed. Bai Shao picked up the comb again, Xiaocui came up to take it, and said softly: "I'll do it." She walked behind Cao Cao, combed Cao Cao's hair neatly a few times. Cao Cao was still sleeping soundly.Bai Shao and Xiao Cui pulled the door and walked outside, closed the door, stood under the eaves and watched the heavy rain outside.Xiaocui said, "Why do I think... this Fish Intestine Sword will still be useful."