In Chengdu in early autumn, there is often a strong wind blowing, and the trees with dense leaves are blown by the wind in the courtyard. The wind blows through the window and into the room, if there is no back injury, it will be a good autumn.
The injury on the back has been there for several days. Although it has been properly applied and bandaged, the pain is still coming in waves, accompanied by the chest tightness caused by lying on the bed for a long time. Qu Longjun moved occasionally, but after lying on his back for a long time, nothing would help.
In the past few days, Qu Longjun has passed in uneasy fear.
Since following Wen Shoubin to Chengdu, it is not that he has not imagined the current situation: going deep into danger, conspiracy being exposed, and encountering all kinds of bad luck after being caught... But for Qu Longjun, a 16-year-old girl, in the past There aren't many options to speak of.
No choice, in fact, there is not much fear.
When she was young, she listened to her parents' arrangements. Before she could grow up, her home was gone. She was sold to Wen Shoubin after a bumpy ride. After that, she learned all kinds of skills that a skinny horse should master: cooking, embroidery, piano and chess. Calligraphy and painting... These things are not glorious to say, but in fact, since she was really sensible, her life has been arranged by others.
This kind of life is like being driven away on a narrow road. I'm really used to it, and there's nothing wrong with it. Wen Shoubin is not a good person, but if she really wants to say bad, at least she already understands his bad. He raised her, married her or gave her to someone at some point. He was really exhausted. He might not care about her, but at least until that day came, there weren't too many things to worry about. .
Life's hurdles often appear at moments without warning.
A few months ago, the news of the Huaxia Army's defeat of the Jurchen spread, and Wen Shoubin suddenly began to tell them some great truths, and then arranged for them to come to the southwest. Qu Longjun was vaguely at a loss, her future was shattered.
After arriving in the southwest and staying for two months, Wen Shoubin began to make friends from all walks of life, and he began to draw slowly, and everything seemed to be back on track again. But on the night of the 20th, a group of people rushed in from outside the yard, and the danger came again.
Packed up, fled, and then went to the yard of the small Huaxia military doctor in Dena, where people discussed leaving from Chengdu. In the middle of the night, Qu Longjun also thought about it, that's fine, then everything will go back, who knows that there will be such a bloody scene next.
Wen Shoubin died suddenly, and he died so lightly.
The fighting in the yard was also sudden, but it was extremely violent. The explosion shook the room, and the five wounded were killed together with the collapse of the house. Among the wounded, there were even "heroes" of one kind or another, and the fighting outside the hospital was nothing more than an extremely simple confrontation. People held sharp knives. Swinging knives to each other, one person fell down in a blink of an eye, and another person in a blink of an eye... She didn't have time to understand these, neither the killing nor the death, and she also fell.
Opening her eyes, she fell into the hands of the Black Flag Army. In the past, Wen Shoubin, who was not kind but actually provided her with a roof, died lightly and forever.
The sixteen-year-old girl was like a snail with its shell peeled off, and was thrown into the field. She has long been accustomed to Wen Shoubin's evil, and she has no clear concept of the evil of the Black Flag Army and the evil in this world.
But presumably, it would be a hundred times more sinister than Wen Shoubin.
She remembered the sight of blood dripping from the tip of the boy's knife in the dimness of the yard...
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There was always the smell of medicine and human voices wafting in the courtyard outside the house. In the morning, the sun always poured in from the half-opened window, and the autumn wind blew through, making her feel as if she was not wearing clothes.
Lying on the white bed, her back always hurts and her chest feels uncomfortable. If she could move at will, she would rather curl herself into a ball or hide in a corner where no one else could see it.
The day after the injury, someone came to interrogate her about many things. The relationship with Wen Shoubin, the purpose of coming to the southwest, etc., she originally wanted to choose a good one, but after the other party said her father's name, Qu Longjun knew that there was no luck this time. Although my father died because of the black flag, but in the process of dispatching troops, he must have killed many people of the black flag. As his daughter, now he came to the southwest for revenge to make trouble, how could he be caught in their hands? Easy to let go
After a few days in this realization, on the afternoon of the 23rd day, a little doctor named Long Aotian appeared in her room with a straight face and asked her about her injury with a notebook. I answered ten times, my body was so nervous that I didn't dare to move.
This little doctor looks innocent, but in the early morning of that day, she had already seen the scheming and acting skills of the other party, as well as the ruthlessness and mercilessness of killing people. She still doesn't quite understand the reason why the Black Flag Army left her life, but seeing this little doctor, she vaguely guessed in her heart that she might be forced into some kind of conspiracy again.
As for what will happen, I can't think about it for a while, and I don't dare to speculate too much. This young man grew up in the sinister land of the southwest, so he developed a vile and vicious character at such an age. Not to mention Shoubin, even if Huang Nanzhong and Yan Ying were still toyed with by him and applauded, What can a woman like her resist? If it makes him unhappy, he still doesn't know what kind of torture methods will be waiting for him.
"It takes a hundred days to hurt your bones." After asking about his condition, Long Aotian said, "But your injury is not serious, it shouldn't take that long. There is a shortage of people in the hospital recently, I will come to take care of you, you Rest well, don't mess around, get me out of here quickly. That's it."
That afternoon, the other party finished these words as an explanation. During the whole process, Qu Longjun could feel that the other party's mood was not high, and he frowned the whole time. She was so frightened by the other party's warning to "take a good rest and don't mess around" that she didn't dare to move. As for "get well soon and get out of here", she might have to wait until she was well before taking care of herself, or she might be forced to Into some conspiracy.
In this way, the little military doctor brought her three meals a day and fried medicine the next day. What surprised her most was that the other party came to clean up the chamber pot under the bed for her in the morning—it made her feel Such ruthless people are so informal, perhaps because of this, he has no trouble in calculating and killing people - these things make her more afraid of each other.
In the next few days, in order to go to the toilet and get out of bed less, Qu Longjun subconsciously asked himself to eat less food and drink less water. After all, the little military doctor was not so meticulous, but on the twenty-fifth day, he saw that she couldn't finish eating. Half a bowl of porridge muttered, "Have you changed from a bug..." Qu Longjun lay on the bed and pressed herself into the pillow, her body stiff and afraid to speak.
On the twenty-sixth day, she struggled to go out to the toilet while holding something, and when she came back, she fell, causing the wound on her back to open slightly. After the other party found out, he asked a female doctor to come over to clean up and bandage her, and then he still faced her with a straight face.
This is a small episode during recuperation.
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The interrogation's voice was soft and not too oppressive.
"... I killed more than ten people in one night. Are you happy now?"
"Well, I'm fine."
"Before the incident, I guessed that there was something wrong with the person surnamed Huang, I didn't report it, and secretly sold medicines to others. The other side quietly monitored Wen Shoubin for a month, figured out the matter, and didn't tell anyone. Now I'm still helping that person. Miss Qu is the security, you know that her father died in our hands, right? You have also monitored the feelings... "
"No feelings..." The boy muttered, "I just thought she wasn't that bad..."
"You are aware of the discipline, right? You call it fishing law enforcement."
"I'm not fishing, but there's no evidence they've done bad things, they just like to talk nonsense..."
"If you know there is a problem, you should report it. If you don't report it, they find you and do so many things. I also guarantee that I will ask you if you will accept the punishment."
"... If you accept the penalty, you will accept the penalty. Anyway, I'm happy."
With a wave of his hand, a burst of chestnut sounded on the boy's head, but he couldn't escape.
"You have to go back to school after September, you know?"
"Well, let's go to school."
"Before the incident, it's really hard to say that someone with the surname Huang will definitely do bad things. If you didn't report it, we can't say anything about you, but at night, you started directly and became a yard person. Your brother said that this must also be subjective. Wish. Your father asked me to educate you, apart from beating you, I can't think of any good way, but, you are not allowed to go to the errand of the competition."
"Ah... I'm just going to be a bruise doctor..."
"Talk back!"
Waving and dodging.
"…Okay. If you don't do it, then you don't do it."
"Besides, since you've been out for so long, since you're crazy enough, you have to have a beginning and an end. Didn't you kindly vouch for the young lady? She was stabbed in the back, did we get the medicine, did we get the room, the doctor who looked after her and Are the nurses out of us…”
"This... even the captured criminals are ours..."
"And talk back. You are different!"
"Well, it's different, it's different..."
"You can take care of your affairs for me. Since you have made a guarantee, then go to the hospital to help you. The little girl's care is yours. Don't bother others. When her injury is healed, you can take care of your hand. Go back to Zhang Village to go to school."
"Ah, why should I look after..."
"The people her father killed us were also killed by us. You said she wasn't bad, so do you know what she was thinking? You have compassion and want to save her once, give her a guarantee, this is your business Right? What if she holds a grudge and doesn't want to live anymore, and stabs some doctor with a knife? Oh, as a guarantee, you can throw people over to us and point someone to help you settle her, that's not good ... So you deal with her well. When the deal is over, the Chengdu affair will be over. Since you dare to admit the punishment as a bachelor, then do so."
The boy's face was wrinkled into a bun: "Uh... I don't deny it, but why did you say it was the first sister of the first year... "
"What is the task that Mr. Ning gave me? Have an opinion? Or do you want to fight with me?"
"...I think you're taking revenge on her for seducing my brother before..."
"say what?"
"It's nothing... If you accept punishment, accept punishment. I love peace and don't fight."
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The regulations on admitting punishment are so finalized.
Ning Ji didn't have much thought about losing his job at the tournament and taking care of a stupid woman. In my heart, I felt that the first sister of the first year and her elder brother were in trouble and wanted to see their own jokes.
On the other hand, he is just an innocent and innocent child in his teens who participates in fighting and killing all day long, and his parents have long been worried that he is well aware of it. In the past, he used to find a reason to take advantage of the situation. This time, he fought with more than ten Jianghu people in the middle of the night, saying that he was forced to do nothing. In fact, he also jumped between life and death repeatedly during the fighting, and many times the blades were exchanged. But it is an instinctive response, as long as there is a slight error, it may be himself who will die.
It's a good thing to have survived, and it seems to be dealing with it calmly, but this matter has indeed reached the psychological bottom line of the family. My father asked the first sister to deal with it, and he let everyone see a joke. This is still an act of eating a toast, but if you don't eat the toast, it will be quite uncomfortable when you really eat the penalty drink. He cried once, or spread rumors with several younger brothers and sisters that "your second brother is going to kill himself", which made several children howl - with his father's ruthless heart, and his own eldest brother who has his father's true biography , it is not impossible to do such a thing.
That's why, after a little probing, he took up the matter readily. Taking care of a stupid woman who is injured in the back is a bit of a heroic spirit, but her brother and sister-in-law who are able to bend and stretch, informal, and mad and embarrassed. Thinking about it this way, I applaud myself privately with bitterness and joy.
Regarding caring for people in the ward, Ning Ji does not have much cleanliness or psychological barriers. Field medical care has been used to seeing all kinds of broken hands and feet, intestines and internal organs all year round. When many soldiers cannot take care of themselves, they have naturally done many times to take care of them nearby. When the first sister of the first year talked about this incident, she looked like a thief watching the fun, but this kind of thing was really nothing to Ning Ji himself.
Of course, when it comes to getting started, there will be some things that are different from those on the battlefield.
The other party particularly hates him, or is afraid of him, which makes him feel very unhappy.
It seems that after what happened that night, the little dog treats himself as a vicious big bad guy. Every time I passed by, the other party flinched. If it wasn't for the back injury, I could only lie straight on my stomach, maybe shrink into a quail under the quilt, and her voice was the same as usual—when I peeped at her—all. Different. Although Ning Ji was young, he was still able to distinguish such a reaction.
What are you kidding? am I the bad guy? I have nothing to fear!
You are the bad guys, okay? You and Wen Shoubin's old dog ran to the southwest to make trouble and do bad things! You live in that shabby yard and talk all day what those rascals say! I look so decent, how can I look like a bad guy!
Besides, I saved your life in that yard a few days ago!
Ning Ji was a little angry at this ungrateful and ungrateful little dog. But he also wants to save face, and he disdains to say something verbally - there is nothing to say, of course it is impossible to make a confession by peeping at her various things, so speaking, he and the little dog just met by chance. know.
In this way, if the little dog doesn't give him a good face, he is too lazy to give him a good face. Originally considering the inconvenience of the other party, I also thought about whether to feed her, help her to go to the toilet, etc., but since the atmosphere is not harmonious, it doesn't matter after thinking about it, after all, the injury is not serious. , It's not that she can't get out of bed at all, she is different from her men and women, and her brother and sister-in-law are waiting in embarrassment to watch the joke. More things are worse than less things.
Of course, when she fell in the corridor on the twenty-sixth day, Ning Ji felt a little guilty in her heart. Mainly, she was a little embarrassed by the fall, and her chest was flattened. He wanted to laugh when he saw it. This urge to laugh made him feel that he was not acting as a gentleman, and only then did he ask Aunt Gu from the health center to take care of her last toilet every day. Although the first sister of the first year said that he should take care of each other on his own, but this kind of special thing, it is not too much to think about.
As for the fact that Aunt Gu ate a little more after she helped her to the thatched hut, Ning Ji reacted later, and probably understood the reason. The woman in her heart is hypocritical, and the parents of the doctor don't understand the truth.
After leaving the tournament, the hustle and bustle of Chengdu seemed to be a little further away from him. He didn't care. He had already gained a lot of things in Chengdu this time. After experiencing such an exciting fight, walking the world is a matter of the future. There is no need to think about it now. Even on the twenty-seventh day, Yao Shubin, the crow mouth, came to look for it. When he was eating hot pot, he talked about the movements of various parties in the city, the infighting of a group of Confucian scholars, the masters who appeared at the martial arts conference, and even the gathering of elites in various armies, Ning Ji looked like he didn't care.
"Hmph, I've seen it before."
"Oh? How do you see it?" Yao Shubin was full of curiosity.
"I won't tell you."
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Time has passed by the end of July, and the clouds are gathering again.
After the chaos on July 20, the topic of the military parade officially came to the surface, and the Huaxia Army began to release invitations for the military parade in the city. The great scholars and celebrities from all sides have also received formal invitations.
The Confucian scholars in the city debated for a few days about whether to go or not to go that day. People who had not received the invitations slammed it, and some Confucian scholars who had received the invitations called on everyone not to join in, but there were also many people who said that since they came to Chengdu, they wanted to witness everything, even if they wanted to write articles to refute them in the future. , people at the scene can also be more credible, if you decide not to participate, why did you come to Chengdu before
Everyone was arguing again in the newspaper, and it was very lively.
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The sky seemed a little gloomy, or maybe it was because the overly lush foliage blocked too much light.
In the courtyard of the inn named Xiangwu Guild Hall, Yang Tiehuai sat upright, looking at the articles on the newsprint, slightly dazed. There seemed to be scolding in the air in the distance. After a while, only a bang sounded. I don't know who threw stones from outside the courtyard, and there was a sound of scolding each other on the street.
His eldest disciple, Chen Shiguang, was sitting opposite the desk when he heard the noise. He looked at the invitation on the desk and the teacher at the desk, and said in a deep voice, "The black flag is despicable and shameless, killing people with a knife. I thought that the way of heaven is clear, and such a wicked person will not gain power, so the teacher only needs to avoid him for a while and leave Chengdu first, and things will slowly find a turning point."
Yang Tiehuai glanced at the eldest disciple calmly, but did not speak.
After he came to Chengdu, he was one of the most hot-tempered Confucian scholars. At first, he wrote an article on newsprint and scolded him, refuting the various behaviors of the Huaxia Army. After he was able to debate with people on the street, he was stoned on the head. more aggressive. For the turmoil on July 20, he made a private connection and contributed a lot, but at the moment when the riot started, the Huaxia Army sent a letter to warn him. He hesitated for a night, and finally failed to make up his mind. . Up to now, he has been carried out by all the Confucian scholars in the city, and has become the one who has been scolded the most.
At this time, the principle of clearing oneself by oneself is no longer feasible. The more the event fails, the more the participants need to find a person to take the blame. As for who the blame is, it doesn’t matter anymore. After all, if there is no such person, how can fools and fools forgive themselves
The wound on his forehead has healed. After the bandage was removed, an ugly scab was left. The old man's serious face and the ugly scab set off each other. Every time he appeared in front of people, he showed a strange aura. Others may laugh in his heart, and he also knows that others will laugh in his heart, but because of this knowledge, the expression on his face becomes more stubborn and tough, and this toughness is also set off by the blood scab, showing that others know him Also know the confrontation demeanor.
"... for the teacher to know."
It took a long time for he to say this.
The noise and abuse outside the hospital became even more harsh in the distance.
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On the 29th of July, the Jurchen prisoners who had been brought over had been settled in the military camp in the western suburbs of Chengdu.
In the evening, when the wind was blowing, Wanyan Qingjue saw a familiar figure walking past not far away through the fence of the camp—he carefully identified it twice—that was Zuo Wenhuai who had punched him in Changsha. This Zuo Wenhuai has a handsome appearance, and he looked like a rabbit at that time, but at this time, he put on the black Chinese military uniform, and his body was tall and straight like a sword.
"Master Zuo! Master Zuo—"
Wanyan Qingjue clawed at the railing and waved towards him.
He is one of the highest-ranking nobles in the Jurchen Army. He has been arrested once before. He is currently assisting the Huaxia Army in managing the high-level prisoners. Therefore, he has occasionally done some extraordinary things in recent days, and the nearby Huaxia soldiers have not immediately Come and stop him.
Zuo Wenhuai and several soldiers around him all looked towards this side, then he raised his eyebrows and came towards this side: "Oh, isn't this Wanyan little prince, his face looks good, and the food has been delicious recently? "
"Young Master Zuo, I have something to tell you."
"...It's not a good sign to eat and drink in prison. You're not afraid of eating a guillotine?"
Because of Yu Mingzhou's incident, Zuo Wenhuai didn't like Wanyan Qingjue, and he was frightened by saying such words at this time. Wanyan Qingjue's eyes were serious, and her hand almost reached out from the fence to grab him: "Young Master Zuo! I have a business, which is good for you... It is good for the Huaxia Army, please listen to me... You know my identity, it is not harmful, Good, good…”
Wanyan Qingjue emphasized so, Zuo Wenhuai stood not far from the railing and looked at him quietly, after a while: "You said."
Wanyan Qingjue looked around and seemed to want to chat in private, but Zuo Wenhuai waved his hand directly: "If you have something to say, just say it here, or forget it."
"Okay, okay." Wanyan Qingjue nodded, "Young Master Zuo, I know your identity, you also know my identity, and you also know the identities of these people in the camp. Everyone has a family in Jin Guo, and every family has a family. It does matter, according to the rules of the Jin Kingdom, those who are defeated in battle can be redeemed with gold and silver…”
"That's not our rule."
"But it can be considered." Wanyan Qingjue said, "I know that after the defeat of Xixia, you also asked them to redeem people. It was the first time I was arrested, and I was also redeemed. Those in the camp today have some identities. You know, but you are not familiar with Jin Guo, as long as you can go back, you can get far more benefits than you think. I wrote a list here, it is something you didn't know before, I know you can When you see Mr. Ning, you hand it over to him for me... hand it over to him for me... "
Zuo Wenhuai looked at him: "The military parade didn't say to kill you, so you're so scared?"
"It's not that I'm afraid, but anyway, we're willing to pay more, so that you have more bargaining chips, maybe... everyone can go back soon." Wanyan Qingjue's expression was still calm, and she smiled at this time, "The Han Chinese It’s not easy to kill, I know, since the Tang Dynasty, the Xianpu Taimiao has not killed many prisoners. I was defeated in an upright manner on the battlefield. You don’t need to kill us.
Zuo Wenhuai was silent for a moment: "I really like being immortal..."
"But it's not necessary... It's not necessary..." Wanyan Qingjue looked at him over there, "Please pass it on, it's not harmful to you anyway..."
"...you bring it."
Zuo Wenhuai finally nodded, and Wanyan Qingjue immediately took out a few pieces of paper from her arms and handed them out. Zuo Wenhuai didn't take the paper, the soldier on the side came over, Zuo Wenhuai said, "Take a bag, seal this thing up, and forward it to the secretariat, saying that the young prince Wanyan wants Mr. Ning to consider it. The conditions... Are you satisfied? In fact, in the Huaxia Army, it is not much different between you and me."
Wanyan Qingjue nodded, he took a breath, and took two steps back: "I remembered something about Yu Mingzhou, Master Zuo, if you want to know, after the military parade..."
Before he could finish his words, Zuo Wenhuai on the side of the fence sank his eyes, and his murderous aura was already rising: "If you mention this name again, I will personally send you on the road after the military parade!"
Wanyan Qingjue shut up and waved her hand. Zuo Wenhuai stared at him for a moment, then turned and left.
The sky dipped westward, and Wanyan Qingjue, who was in the fence, stood there for a moment in a daze, and let out a long breath. Compared with the other Jurchen prisoners of war in the camp, his mentality was actually a little more peaceful. After all, he had been arrested once before, and he had been exchanged back. He had also met Mr. Ning once. It's not easy to kill, as long as he cooperates with him to finish the process of offering prisoners, the other party is not even interested in humiliating these prisoners - because the Han people pay attention to being a gentleman.
Of course, no matter how low the risk is, they don't want to take it. People are eager to go home early, especially those who have a great career and have enjoyed half their lives, no matter how much gold, silver, and Han slaves they have to pay in exchange. The family will figure it out. That's why, these days, he has been trying to find a way to pass the words to Mr. Ning.
He thought of the next military parade.
Maybe after the military parade, the other party will call him again. Of course, during the period, he will say a few words to him, ridicule him and be arrested again, and then of course will show the strength of the Huaxia Army. He was a little more sincere and fearful, behaved a little humbler, and made him satisfied, and everyone might be able to go home sooner—a man can bend and stretch, and as the person with the highest status among the people, it is not ashamed to suffer a little humiliation...
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