[Three Kingdoms] Carnival

The spring breeze blows several times, and the fleeting year has quietly passed away.After another year, when the tangerine blossoms first bloom, the youth of the past has lost the last trace of youthfulness.What happened a few years ago gradually faded into passing clouds, even the face of the past was blurred by the years, even the strange obsession at the beginning was gradually let go and forgotten.

Ren Xiwu tied his blue silk behind the crown, and Guo Jia looked at the face in the bronze mirror that he couldn't see clearly, and began to recall the past.

With Hua Tuo in the past few years, the root cause of his body's disease has not been left behind. Although he is not strong, he will not appear one after another with minor illnesses and serious illnesses.Later, when Hua Tuo saw that he was in good health, and that the war in Yingchuan was gradually pacified and the number of refugees in Jianning Pavilion was decreasing, he started the road of hanging pots to help the world again, but he would still come back every six months to diagnose his pulse.

This is not because Guo Jia is special, but because Hua Tuo, as a doctor, will not be sloppy with any patient. This is the medical ethics of a doctor.

The rumors that spread in the market that year have long been forgotten by people, and even because of Guo Jia's deliberate actions, even the young master of Guo's family has been forgotten by the world, and the front of Guo's house has long been deserted.Contrary to the depression here, is the prosperity of the octopus guard.Over the past few years, octopus guards have infiltrated all over the world, at least in Guo Jia's view, if there are any changes, these strengths are more than enough to protect themselves.

Speaking of octopus guard, Guo Jia couldn't help but think of the child he left behind on a whim.

Years can easily wear down the edges and corners of a person. Although Gan Jiu always speaks sarcasticly, after a long time in a peaceful environment, the thorns all over his body gradually fade away.He often ran to Guo Jia's house silently holding a lot of bamboo slips, sat there for a whole day, and asked Guo Jia directly if he didn't understand anything.Guo Jia was reluctant at first, but later found that the kid's talent in strategy and politics was amazing, at least much higher than his talent in martial arts, so in the end he acquiesced in his approach, and it was all about looking for someone to pay for. Find something interesting to pass the time by yourself.

"Master, it's time, it's time to pick up Miss Cao's family."

Meticulously tidying up Guo Jia's appearance, Xi Wu said softly, calling Guo Jia back from his memories.

Guo Jia nodded, and stood up from the chair. In the bronze mirror, he was vaguely dressed in red, and behind him was a burning red candle.

On weekdays, I am used to wearing blue shirts, but now I am not used to wearing red clothes.

Guo Jia sighed secretly. To be honest, he never thought of marrying a wife in this era.But some things will always exceed his ideas.

"Auntie knows that it's difficult for others, but the only thing I don't worry about is my daughter. I don't ask you to like her, I just hope you marry her home. It's enough to raise her and protect her for the rest of her life." OK, okay?"

Being grabbed by a skinny and terminally ill woman who was only supporting her daughter, Guo Jia really couldn't say a word of rejection at that time.However, since he must marry someone in this era to have children, compared to other girls, it is not a bad thing to marry Miss Cao who has a sweetheart but can't be together, so that she can live in peace for the rest of her life.

"Master, why are you distracted again?" Seeing Guo Jia's eyes wandering, Xiwu knew that he was thinking of other things, and called him, "It's too late, let's go."

"You girl is so anxious to urge me, are you also looking forward to the day when I will be married with a lot of red makeup?" Walking outside, Guo Jia still didn't forget to tease Xiwu, who was used to it. Guo Jia's teasing, directly gave Guo Jia a supercilious look, which made Guo Jia deeply hurt.

The horns were loud and noisy, the guests were drinking and laughing, the wedding went smoothly, or at a glance, it was clear that none of the two people who were obsessed with the red silk was really happy for the wedding, but they were extremely deserted among the noisy guests.Guo Jia looked at Miss Cao's exquisite but forgotten smile face, sighed too, stood up and blew out the red candle.

Seeing that the red candles in the new house were extinguished, Xiwu held on to the lamp, got up and walked to her own room, but within a few steps, she ran into a person who couldn't sleep because of the marriage like herself.

"You've stayed here until now, you're not wondering why you're not the one in the new house, are you?" Gan Jiu sneered seeing Xi Wu's face in the flickering lights, and said with a sneer.

Xiwu really likes this venomous but funny young man. Today, she was in a depressed mood. She didn't know why she was thinking, but finally she sat beside him and unconsciously said what she was thinking:

"I'm worried about the young master. Then Miss Cao... He obviously doesn't want to, so why should he wrong himself."

"Grievance?" Hearing this word, Gan Jiu looked at Xi Wu with a surprised face, "How on earth did you manage to stay with Guo Jia for so long and he still didn't dislike you?! It's too scary!"

With a "boom", the chestnut landed on Gan Jiu's head as soon as it exploded.Xiwu rubbed her seemingly soft hand that could knock down a strong man with one punch, and said: "My mother, if I don't get angry, you really think I have lost my temper?! The young master is right, a child with such a poisonous mouth is really unattractive." like!"

Xi Wu's hand strength is something Gan Jiu can't bear. At this moment, he is clutching his head so badly that he can't even speak. It's a pity that he is really inferior in martial arts, so he can only try to force back his physical tears and tell himself to bear it. , forbearance, can't be tough with a woman who is furious and knows martial arts.

Xiwu saw Gan Jiu was about to cry and regretted it after the fight, and was struggling to make an apology, but Gan Jiu was the first to calm down, enduring the pain and said: "I'm telling the truth, this marriage is really nothing to Guo Jia Sorry."

"As a member of the Guo clan, even if Guo Jia is no longer connected with the clan, as long as the genealogy is not removed, he must at least fulfill the duty of marrying a wife and having children to carry on the family line. The candidate he prefers, Guo Jia can't refuse it both emotionally and rationally."

"And Miss Cao is the best candidate. She was abandoned by her father long ago because of her relationship with the servants. Her mother passed away three years ago and kept her filial piety for three years. No one cares about her. Guo Jia married her. It blocked Guo Yan's thoughts, and because she is just an orphan girl, she won't leak any information about him, and she can still get her father's thanks. With so many benefits, do you think Guo Jia is wronged?"

Be speechless by Gan Jiu's words.Xiwu opened her mouth to argue, but she also lacked confidence: "Maybe the young master didn't think so much, it's just because of Miss Cao and her mother's request..."

"Soft-hearted?" Gan Jiu smiled again, looking at the direction of the new house, his eyes narrowed slightly, like a wolf evaluating his prey, "Guo Jia, the last thing he knows is soft-hearted. If he wants to accomplish something , Even if tens of millions of lives are buried with him, as long as the benefits outweigh the expenses, he will do it. His rationality has long been ahead of his emotions, so how can he do unprofitable things."

"It's late at night, and I'm going back to my room. If you want to stay here overnight, you can do so."

Gan Jiu got up and went back to the house, leaving Xiwu sitting there alone, feeling confused and confused. She didn't care what the young master did or what his intentions were, but she was worried that planning like this would make him too tired.

Suddenly, Xiwu remembered something again.

To Guo Jia, she really had a brotherly affection, she stayed by her side, just worried that Miss Cao would do something bad to the young master because of her former lover.But this Qianjiu, when meeting the young master, mostly sneered and quarreled, and didn't dream of meeting Zhou Gong in the middle of the night, and stayed here until the middle of the night, and that's why.

Looking at the figure gradually fading into the night and pondering for a long time, Xiwu shrugged, expressing that she couldn't guess.

It seems that her brain really doesn't work... She sighed wanting to cry but without tears.

"Oh, he really said that?" Not long after, Guo Jia's eyes twinkled like stars, and he obviously found it very interesting when Xiwu relayed what Ye Ganjiu said to him verbatim.

Seeing that Guo Jia didn't seem angry, Xiwu smiled more and more. She was puzzled, but she didn't ask. She said:

"Awu, do you like me?"

"Master, you, you, you...!!!" Xi Wu blushed at the words, and was so at a loss what to do.She didn't even know if she should go out first to see Mrs. Xin was outside, but she felt that she didn't do anything wrong and was nervous, but...

"Haha." Guo Jia was completely teased and laughed out loud, "Don't worry, I like girls with breasts, you..." As he spoke, his eyes wandered to a certain flat part of Xiwu, who was taken aback for a moment, randomly After reacting, he became angry from embarrassment, and ran out of the room with a flick of his hand.

Seeing the person running out of the door, Guo Jia didn't chase after him. Instead, he eased the frown that was slightly frowned when Xiwu relayed the passage to him just now, picked up a pen and continued to write notes on the history book, but he didn't write a few words yet. Hearing the sound of footsteps, when he raised his head, Xi Wu came back again.

"Sure enough, young master, you were just changing the subject."

"..." The ink dripped onto the bamboo slips, Guo Jia sighed helplessly, and put down his pen, "Do you want to ask Gan Jiu whether what he said is true or not?"

Yugiri didn't answer, but silence already represented everything.

Soaking the ink beads with a towel, Guo Jia wrote again unhurriedly, and said, "You just treat everything he said as true."

"Master..." Xiwu began to blame himself for always having so many questions, always asking the young master to answer questions he didn't want to answer.

"What are you thinking, little girl?" Guo Jia heard the person say two words and then fell silent. He slightly raised his eyes to see the person's face, and smiled lightly, "If I really don't want to say, you can't ask."

"Awu, don't you think it's the most reasonable to do something when the benefit outweighs the effort? What's more, as far as this marriage is concerned, Cao's father and I both got what we wanted, which is what everyone wants." Satisfied with the result."

Satisfied... Xiwu sighed secretly. If he was really satisfied, then why did the young master and the young lady hardly have any words other than basic greetings? Sometimes the young master actually wanted to ease the atmosphere, but was pushed back by the young lady's sneering words .

Is it really a satisfactory ending to marry a living dead whose beloved is dead?

You have to calculate everything and be cautious in everything you do. Is this really the life that the young master who always smiles indifferently has lived in the past few years?

"Let me ask you a question." Guo Jia suddenly threw a question to the gloomy Xiwu, "It's a simple multiple-choice question. Now you have four seriously ill people and six healthy people in front of you. If you want to save those four people, you will definitely make the six healthy people also get seriously ill, if you have the power to decide, what would you do?"

"I……"

"Why do you hesitate?" Guo Jiarou said, but with a chilling coldness, "There is no other way but to kill those four people immediately."

"But..." But that is human life, so why give up on them.

"Four and six, I will choose six; 49 and 51, I will choose 51. If the sacrifice of tens of millions of lives can bring peace in the world, I can kill those tens of millions without hesitation." people."

"But what right do we have to decide the life and death of others, who should sacrifice and who should survive?!"

"Why?" Guo Jia muttered these three words, then suddenly raised her head and smiled at Xi Wu,

"Because I have the power to decide in the topic, don't I?"

It was this kind of smile again, it was so soft that it shone brightly, but it only made people feel the sadness that was so thick that it could not be dissipated, the despair that knew something but could not change anything and could only go along.

"Young master, what I really want to ask is..." Xi Wu said slowly, suppressing the inexplicable sadness in her eyes looking at Guo Jia, "Why do you always do this, always say Some such cold words, obviously, you don’t need to care about those things, do you?”

"... In this case," Guo Jia sighed lightly, his thoughts gradually drifting away, "probably because I have learned a certain knowledge before."

"knowledge?"

"That knowledge told me that there were robbers who killed my relatives and robbed me of my treasures, but I must admit that he allowed me to see the outside world from the closed village and brought me more advanced skills to thank them; There was a sea of ​​blood and deep hatred, but the Ming Dynasty had to smile and be intimate with each other because of common interests; in the end, if the decision-makers want to create peace, the premise is to prepare their hands with blood and use corpses to pave the way to tomorrow's Chang'an."

"How can there be such knowledge?!" Xi Wu was surprised and didn't believe it.

Is this kind of learning... After reading silently, Guo Jia finally wrote the last word on the bamboo slip.His eyes shifted from the flying wild grass to the right, and he was falling on the historical text recorded with the deep traces on the bamboo slips.

Isn't that knowledge just the gossip of fishermen for thousands of years?

"So, remember, you must keep your own strength, and you must not become a victim chosen by those with power." Finally, Guo Jia ended the conversation with a very relaxed tone, and then asked, " You came in just now to verify if I was changing the subject?"

"Ah, no." Hearing what Guo Jia said, who was still thinking hard about the topic just now, it sounded that he had forgotten something.She took out a roll of bamboo slips from her sleeve, "Young Master Xun has sent you a letter."

"Wen Ruo has sent a letter!"

Xiwu looked at the person who immediately leaned over to take the bamboo slips and opened his eyes, and didn't want to believe that this was the same person as the one with the sad eyes and deep eyes just now.