Half blood

Li Xuan came to the Governor's Mansion covered in steam.The lights in the Governor's Mansion stayed on all night.Li Xiuqi was shaking his head in the hall, when he heard that Li Xuan was coming, he hurriedly got up from his chair, "Your Highness..."

Li Xuan's expression was dull, and he said, "I've decided to take your proposal."

Li Xiuqi felt that Li Xuan's distraught appearance was so strange, as if he had never really known Li Xuan, the boy standing on the tree looking at him in panic, now his eyes are empty like a godless cave. "Your Highness, have you figured it out?"

"I figured it out," Li Xuandao, his voice was as cold as reciting ancient scriptures, without the slightest emotion, "You are right. Leading troops to attack Qingzhou is the best way to solve all problems .Firstly, my position can be stabilized. I no longer have half of the blood of the Qingzhou Kingdom. Then I can take this opportunity to take back all the military power in the hands of all the generals, and prevent anyone from threatening the royal family."

Every word of these words is reasonable and well-founded, but Li Xiuqi's heart skipped a beat when he heard it. In Li Xuan's words, there was no longer the people and the world that he cared about every day, but what he hated, the throne, the world, and the world. that power.

"What do you want to do now, Your Highness?"

Li Xuandao: "I'm missing a reason now."

good, very good.What Li Xuan wanted in his heart was exactly what Li Xiuqi had prepared in the past few days, a reason to become famous as a teacher.But at this time Li Xiuqi was not happy at all, a fear surged in his heart, a fear that he was about to lose his true love, but obviously his true love was standing in front of him, but it was as far away and vague as a ray of wind in winter. Skyline.

"I think you should be ready." Seeing that Li Xiuqi didn't speak, Li Xuan raised his eyes and asked.

Li Xiuqi's Adam's apple moved slightly, and said, "Yes, I'm ready."

Li Xuan nodded and said, "Very good." After saying that, he walked out of the room covered in moisture.

Li Xiuqi sat down at the table in a daze, poured himself a small bowl of hot tea, his right eyelid jumped suddenly, his hands trembled a little, he took a sip of the tea to calm himself down.

At this time, a young servant rushed in from the door with a snowflake in his body, and lay down at Li Xiuqi's feet in a hurry, and said sharply: "My lord, my lord is not well."

This sentence is not good, and Li Xiuqi's heart that had finally calmed down raised his throat again. Li Xiuqi held the small wooden ball on the armrest of the seat with his hand and asked, "Don't worry, what happened?" ?”

The little servant replied sharply: "Something happened, something big happened. Empress, Empress is dead."

"What?!" Li Xiuqi exclaimed, "When did it happen?"

The boy said: "It was midnight last night, but I only discovered it this morning. It is said that His Highness Wang An discovered it. When the imperial doctor came..." The boy rubbed his tears and said, "Everyone is cold."

Feng Wenkang, who was far away in Qingzhou, got up from the bed. The weather in the south was still very warm even in winter, but the wind was a bit cool in the morning, so he put a coat over his middle coat, without putting his hands into the sleeves, So leisurely to the window.

Outside the window, there was the sound of birds flapping their wings on the window paper. He was familiar with this sound. It should be that his friend in the capital wrote to him again.

It stands to reason that he is the envoy of Yujin State, and all letters have to go through the hands of Qingzhou State officials.But his friend was a little strange. He used his own carrier pigeon to deliver the letter, and he repeatedly emphasized at the end of each letter that the letter must be burned after reading it.

Feng Wenkang thought he understood, he felt that this was done for the sake of secrecy, maybe his friend would send him some news that no second person should know, but every time he mysteriously opened the bag wrapped around the leg of the carrier pigeon. A small note, but found that it was written on it is just a trivial matter.

It is actually difficult to define what is considered small and what is considered major.Compared with major national affairs, what was recorded in this letter was really insignificant, but to Feng Wenkang himself, these matters were of great importance.

The letter will tell him how his mother is doing, how his wife is doing, and how his two little guys are doing. When he left, he was not at all at ease, but now he is at ease because There is a friend in the capital who will write to him and tell him about his family.He trusted this friend very much, and for his friend, he would go through fire and water and do anything.

Feng Wenkang opened the window, caught the carrier pigeon in, took off the small bamboo tube tied to his leg, and unfolded the three-finger-thick strip inside.He was very familiar with the handwriting on the note. The corners of Feng Wenkang's mouth rose slightly, thinking, what good news is there this time?

But the chuckle at the corner of his mouth froze suddenly when he saw the words on the note, as if this piece of paper brought the coldness of Beijing's winter and froze the warmth of this southern room.This piece of paper said: "Nanyue killed the Han envoys, and they were slaughtered into nine counties; Wan Wang killed the Han envoys, and Touxian Beique; North Korea killed the Han envoys, and immediately killed them. Those who worry about the teacher are unknown, and it is difficult to order the world." Feng Wenkang is a man. A smart man who is also a scholar, he is very clear about the meaning of this article, which is to kill him.

Feng Wenkang stood there for a while, holding the small note in his palm.He picked up the protruding-eyed pigeon and threw it into the sky, watching the little pigeon flapping its wings and turning into a small dot on the horizon.

Then he sighed for a long time, lit a candle, and burned the note. The writing on the note was eaten away by the flames little by little, and finally turned into a handful of charcoal-colored ashes.But he couldn't leave any traces, so Feng Wenkang poured a cup of cold tea, poured the ashes into the water and swallowed it down his throat.

The most indispensable thing in Qingzhou is strange herbs. Feng Wenkang picked half a stalk of Aconitum from the haystack growing wantonly under the wall outside the door, and went back to his room to swallow it.

Five days later, the news of the sudden death of the envoy of Yujin Kingdom reached the capital.

When Li Xuan heard the news, he was in a nunnery.The nunnery is on the hillside of a low-rise hill outside the capital city. There are not many nuns in it, only a dozen or so people. It may be because they eat vegetarian food and worship Buddha every day. Eyes are eyes, the round forehead is covered by a monk's hat, and his hands are clasped together, with a pleasant face.

Sitting cross-legged in front of a mahogany table, Li Xuan sighed and said, "Sister, you really don't want to go back with me?"

The woman sitting opposite Li Xuan had downcast eyes and a small scarlet mole between her eyebrows. "Benefactor, the poor girl has stepped into Buddhism, the four elements are empty, and the six senses are pure."

Li Xuandao: "So you just don't recognize your relatives now, right?"

Li Fei was not angry when he heard Li Xuan's words, instead he smiled slightly and said, "It's not that my relatives don't recognize me, but that I am equal and merciful. The benefactor treats me no differently from all living beings."

Li Xuan smiled wryly, and said, "It's good for you, just see through the world of mortals and leave me alone to roll in the mud."

"Why does the benefactor say that? When was the benefactor alone?"

After finishing speaking, Li Fei took a Langhao pen, handed it to Li Xuan, and asked, "What does the benefactor want to test?"

Li Xuan took the pen over and said, "I don't want to test anything, I just want you to go back with me."

Li Fei didn't answer, but got up from the table and walked out the door.Li Xuan hurriedly stopped, and said: "Hey, don't leave yet, I'll test, I'll test."

Li Fei sat down cross-legged before the case again, and made a gesture of invitation to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan held the pen, his heart was in a mess, he didn't know what to test, and he didn't know what to write.All he knew was that his sister, like his mother, had abandoned him overnight.

He didn't believe it at all. Sakyamuni sat under the bodhi tree for 49 days before he became fully enlightened. She, Li Fei, was reborn overnight?He didn't believe it, not at all.

Li Xuan was holding the pen, and after thinking for a while, he turned his back on his back and wrote the word "far" with water on the case.

Far, Sun Yuan.

Everyone has a name in their hearts, and this name is a string that sticks to the chest like a fishbone when there is nothing to do, and will play and sing whenever there is any trouble, and will not stop until life is worse than death.

And he knew that the name in Li Fei's heart was Sun Yuan.This person she cherished with all the beautiful years of a woman is a person who has become a cup of loess.

There was no trace of emotion on Li Fei's face. She lowered her eyes, looked carefully at the words written by Li Xuan on the case, and said: "Yuan, Liao Ye, Cong Zuo, the sound of 'Yuan'. Poor height, extreme distance, The donor wants to go to a higher place, doesn't he?"

Li Xuan was taken aback, nodded, and said, "Yes, we will leave tomorrow."

Li Fei gave a hum, took back the pen in Li Xuan's hand, and said: "This is a good deed, I wish the benefactor smooth sailing." After speaking, he got up, folded his hands together, and bowed to Li Xuan.Then go to the door.

Li Xuan hurriedly stood up, and shouted behind Li Fei: "Sister, sister!"

But Li Fei pretended not to hear and walked forward slowly.

Li Xuan said: "Master Hong Su."

Li Fei's footsteps stopped, she clasped her hands together, turned around, and asked, "Is there anything else the benefactor wants to do?"

Li Xuan hesitated to speak, his lips moved up and down, stood there for a while, and said, "Sister, take good care of yourself... If I don't come back this time, and I can't come to see you again, you should take good care of yourself. "

Li Fei didn't speak, she lowered her eyes, saluted Li Xuan again, then turned around and walked slowly along the stairs outside the temple.

Wind blows.

Li Xuan led Wang Yuan's [-] elite soldiers towards the city gate.In the long-lost empty alley in the capital, everyone stood at the gate of the city with their necks stretched out to watch the excitement.This is the optimism of those who grew up in peaceful times, because they still don't know how terrible war is.

But there are still some people who know it, that is, these women who wipe their eye sockets with white veils, and the old mothers who hunched over.Their weeping faces were out of place amidst the cheers.

Li Xuan was straddling a black steed. This horse was completely black and without a single hair. It was docile to him, but if it was stubborn to others, it could pull down three big men.The horse seemed to be in a good mood today, even when a brave child reached out to stroke the hair on his stomach, he didn't even grunt.

The mighty army arrived at the gate of the city. Li Xuan turned around. The fiery red cloak on his shoulders was like a flame in winter. I was thinking about something, as if I hoped that Li Xuan could say Zheng exciting words at this moment, like some auspicious words waiting for my triumphant return.

But Li Xuan's mouth is stupid, he is the last to say such words.He thought about it for a while, but found that no words or allusions could express his current mood.He was not a hero at all, he took hundreds of thousands of flesh and blood people to kill a group of flesh and blood people, no matter what high-sounding reason he was doing, he felt that he was a coward.

Li Xuan suddenly clenched his right fist on the horse and raised it high. His figure was backlit and illuminated by a round of warm winter sun above his head, making him look so tall, he really looked like a hero.

The crowd boiled following Li Xuan's raised fists, everyone cried and shouted together, "Waiting for King An's triumphant return."

This slogan is really nice, one after another, the slogan followed the waves of the mighty crowd, spread throughout the entire capital, and resounded through the gloomy winter sky.

The sunlight couldn't penetrate the arched gate under the city gate, and the arched gate swallowed up all the light. Li Xuan stepped into the darkness with his horse's hooves, only to see a white figure waiting for him in the darkness.

Li Xuan held the rope with both hands and listened in front of Li Xiuqi. He didn't get off his horse, but looked down at Li Xiuqi from above.

"Your Highness, do you really want to go alone?" Li Xiuqi asked

Li Xuan nodded, and said: "Yes, let me go alone. Do you remember? You once told me that I have the heart of a child that is unmatched by any aptitude, but I don't have it now. Now, I don't want you to follow me, I don't want you to see me look red-eyed." Li Xiuqi didn't speak, his eyes as cool as deep autumn pool looked at Li Xuan infinitely sad. "Your Highness..." Li Xiuqi called again.

The corner of Li Xuan's mouth suddenly raised a smile, and said: "You will guard this city for me, okay? With you staying here, I am not afraid at all. Because I know that I have no worries when you are here .”

The clatter of horseshoes landed on the bluestone slab that witnessed countless generals passing by, and Li Xuan rode away on the horse.Li Xiuqi watched Li Xuan's fiery red cloak turn into a small dot in the misty winter day, like a grain of cinnabar between the eyebrows of the skyline.

Li Xiuqi stood outside the city gate, obviously he couldn't see anything, but he still kept his eyes open, no matter how unbearable it was to keep them open, he didn't know anything, he could only repeat in his heart Thinking, if he left this time, will he come back?Will you come back?Li Xiuqi felt that he seemed to be wrong, he shouldn't have let Li Xuan go, he was so stubborn and impulsive.He suddenly regretted it. He felt that he had destroyed the boy hanging on the tree with his own hands, tore his innocent heart into pieces bit by bit, and then glued it into a dirty and selfish heart like everyone else's.

A servant came over and called softly beside Li Xiuqi: "Master Li, it's time to light the fire."

This soft call brought Li Xiuqi back from his confusion, he sniffed, and suddenly found two teardrops hanging on his cheeks, he wiped his face with his hands, and said in a hoarse voice: " Well, I see, now go light the fire."

The beacon tower that had been extinguished for 20 years caught fire. This time, no one knows how many days the fire will last.