Heartless

It was an uneasy night.

The rain outside slowed down a bit, and the shower turned into drizzle and tapped on the tile eaves, and there were inevitably some rustling sounds in my ears, like the whispers of everyone, lingering.

Ye Qianlang has always slept lightly and rarely, and if there is any movement around him, he will be forced to wake up. After waking up, he often has a splitting headache, no matter how difficult it is to sleep, so he never allows others to approach him when he is asleep.There was once a young maidservant who thought she was pretty and didn't believe in evil, and sneaked into Commander Ye's room at night, with a pair of jade milk and a navel open, holding an aphrodisiac incense from the Western Regions, and wanted to cook raw rice. Jumped from the ground to the branches overnight.

Unexpectedly, the aphrodisiac, which even the eunuchs can't resist, has no effect. Ye Qianlang was awakened by those lotus steps. .

It was indeed in the year of the hanging bun that the root cause of the disease fell. At that time, Ye Qianlang did not have such a good name. Because he was born on the nineteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, his nickname was nineteenth.There is also an elder sister who is a few years older than him named Ah Wu. The siblings often sit head to shoulder and sleep together. I forgot to pick up some beautiful stones and give them to my sister.Ye A's skillful hands beat the blue yingying stone into a pair of earrings, which she never left her body.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. During the Wanli period, there were frequent disasters, droughts and floods, locust plagues, and plague. The village where the Ye family lived seemed to be empty overnight.

People live in all kinds of hardships, and it is not easy to die happily. If you are not careful, you will be picked up by other hungry people, and it will become the food of others, and sacrifice to the temple of other people's internal organs.

Ye Ah Wu often gave his younger brother a mouthful of porridge, and he did not forget to squeeze his hand and press it against his ear, "Nineteen, don't sleep too hard at night, otherwise you will die."

The white soil in the abdomen was swollen, and the pain was tight. Ye Nineteen was half-ignorant, and just continued to stick to Sister inseparable.

Until A Niang was starved to death, and Dad also fell seriously ill from starvation. One day, he called the siblings to him, and looked at them carefully but without saying a word.

Ye Shijiu heard a sudden noise that night, but he was unwilling to open his eyes because he was greedy for the little pleasure of not being afraid of hunger in his sleep.

When he woke up the next day, he was alone on the bed. Father brought a pot of broth and told him that last night your elder sister was snatched away by wild wolves who came into the village. It was already too late when the villagers rushed to the wolf den. , had to kill the cub of the wild wolf to vent his anger.Pointing to the pot of soup again, this is wild wolf meat.

No matter how ignorant Ye Nineteen is at his age, he also knows that his elder sister has suffered a catastrophe, and his heart is grieved, but it can't bear the pain of not knowing the taste of meat for a long time. The soup was hot, and he hurriedly took the soup bowl and started to swallow it.

It was not until the broth was finished that there was a blue earring left in the soup bowl.

Ye Shijiu was only stunned for a moment, then settled down, took advantage of his father's unpreparedness, put the earrings into his cuffs, knocked on the edge of the bowl with his long chopsticks, and asked his father for another bowl.

It's just that at night, he suddenly suffered from abdominal pain, and before running far from the house, Gu Lu fell into the pit, vomited in the dark, and his face was full of rancid and stinky tears.

It's just that there is a waning moon hanging above the head, which is as cold as a hook and fierce as a knife. Since then, it has been shining so that people can't sleep well.

Tiger poison does not eat its offspring, but if human beings are pushed to the extreme, I am afraid that they will also have to obey what old master Meng said, and they are almost different from beasts.Fortunately, Ye's father had studied when he was young, passed Xiaolian, and bluffed neighbors far and near who were attracted by the smell of meat, but he couldn't bluff his precocious son.

After less than half a month, the father and son were hungry again. Father Ye wanted to kill his youngest son to share the food, but he couldn't let go of the only seedling of Ye's family.

Father Ye was thin and thin before he died, his face was sunken and out of shape, he shed two lines of old tears, Yiyi held his son's hand tightly, and the reluctance and reluctance of thousands of words turned into the last sentence: Nineteen Ah, Dad doesn't hope that you will be prosperous in the future, all you want is for you to live.

After the loss of his family, Ye Qianlang put on his sister's earring in one ear, and because of this, he was lucky enough to escape——

It turned out that a trafficker saw him with handsome features and earrings and mistook him for a girl, so he took him out of the village and planned to sell him into a brothel in Beijing.Unexpectedly, after going through all kinds of twists and turns, he was actually chosen by Wang An due to fate.

Ye Nineteen always remembered that when Wang An summoned him that day, he was shivering from the cold and almost dying of hunger.Wang An was kind, so he sent his servants to steam a basket of Phoenix five-color cakes for him, and told him that not only did he like this cake, but it was also the most commonly eaten cake in the Ming Dynasty.

Grabbing the hot and soft pastry in his hand, staring at the tall mansion and the kind old man in front of him, Ye Nineteen raised his hand and touched his earrings, thanking the dead sister Blessed, Fang seized a glimmer of life again.

Asked his name, the answer was nineteen.

Wang An and Wei Zhongxian, who can't read big characters, are not in the same way. He likes to be close to Donglin party members, and he must also have a rough reading of poetry and books.Seeing that this little baby was born like a beautiful jade in an ice and snow box on the mountain, and he couldn't pick one out of a thousand, he happily gave him the name "Qianlang".

Wang An likes Ye Qianlang, because he likes his seemingly clear and innocent heart, and Ye Qianlang is indeed likable. Practicing and studying in the house, gradually developed a little grandchildren's friendship with the old eunuch.

After Emperor Tianqi ascended the throne, Wang An lost power and was demoted to serve as the Zijing Army of Nanhai.Liu Chao, the admiral of Nanhaizi, was ordered by Wei Zhongxian to kill Wang An, but he was afraid that Emperor Tianqi would ask about the whereabouts of the old eunuch in the future, so he hesitated to do it himself.Fortunately, at the time of the dilemma, the savior came to the door by himself.

Liu Chao deliberately refused to give him a bite of food. Wang An was blinded by starvation for several days. He fell on the ground and dug up all the radishes under the fence.But although his eyes were blind, his ears were more sensitive than before, so when he heard the sound of someone entering the yard, he knew who it was.

It was winter and the sky was cloudy and snowy. Ye Qianlang, who was already dressed in brocade and guard uniforms, knelt down on one knee and knelt in front of Wang An. He ordered his subordinates to put a plate of phoenix five-color cakes on the ground, and called out to him, Grandpa.

Even in a desperate situation, Wang Anqiang couldn't let go of the former governor of the East Factory. Wang Anqiang sat up cross-legged, smiled and said, "You kid is finally here."

Ye Qianlang nodded and smiled, "Grandpa, you look good today."

Although Wang An was blind, he was open-minded. He knew that he was half-human, half-ghost with hunger, so there was nothing wrong with it.Thinking that Wei Zhongxian had set up a net early on, even if this child had great abilities, he would not be able to get under Dongchang's nose freely, so he asked with some doubts: "Are you here to save me?"

Ye Qianlang shook his head, cherishing words like gold: "No."

After all these years of ups and downs in the officialdom, Wang An was slightly startled, and immediately said: "You come to save yourself."

"Yes." Ye Qianlang paused for a moment, "Not only do I want to save myself, but I also want to save everyone in the mansion."

"How did you save them?"

"In troubled times, it's better to be alive than not to be alive. It's just that the word 'loyalty and filial piety' is tightly bound, and there must be someone who bears the notoriety first and leads the flying geese."

With a face of widowhood, although there is no wave or wave and no emotion, he is also honest and honest, only in exchange for Wang An, who was surprised and surprised, smiled wryly: "You...you still have human feelings. ?”

"Ten years of facing each other day and night, living together in the same room, I am not a plant, how can I be ruthless." Ye Qianlang looked up at the increasingly gloomy sky, moved the plate containing the Phoenix five-color cake to Wang An, and said with a voice. There was no intention of urging, "Grandpa, use this pastry while it's hot."

The wind is blowing, the snow is falling, and the world is full of silver in an instant.Ye Qianlang remained motionless and knelt in the wind and snow, patiently waiting for Wang An to chew and eat the Phoenix five-color cake before strangling him to death.

After that, Ye Qianlang got up and brushed off the snowflakes on his shoulders, his face was still as silent and heartless as a wasteland after snow, but the snow melted on his warm face, like a line of tears of love.

The rain outside the inn became more urgent, and there were constant noises in his ears, and he finally woke up completely.

He walked out of the house in the direction of the sound and stopped outside the door of a guest room.Before the door was closed, there was a curtain made of crystal beads hanging at the door. Looking through the bead curtain, Ye Qianlang saw a man and a woman hugging each other in a riding posture.

The room was very dark, except for the smoldering flame of an oil lamp.Across the bead curtain that swayed gently from time to time in the candlelight, it seemed to be separated by the shadow of peony flowers in the old mansion, hazy and brilliant.

He recognized the man and woman in passionate copulation.

The woman faced with a whole bare and white back, while the man's clothes were half uncovered, his long hair was loose, and his face was buried on the woman's fragrant shoulders. Most of it was covered by the waterfall of black hair, only his eyes were exposed, like a smile that was not a smile. looking at myself.

The bead curtains were shaking, and the candles were burning, Kou Biancheng raised his slender index finger to his lips, and hissed with a smile.

Ye Qianlang also recognized these eyes.