Sha Po Lang

In a person's life, there is always such a moment when nothing can be let go in the heart except for a certain absurd idea for no reason. The powerful desire seems to be able to swallow the whole soul, and the rationality is stretched out of the forehead. The paw scratching at the door can also be ignored.

For example, many years ago, Gu Yun's mind was burnt to a paste in the wild land of the northwest, thinking about leaving his job and wandering around the world without distracting thoughts.

It's like many years later, when Chang Geng walked out of the palace confinement in the breeze and snow, he wanted to see Gu Yun who was thousands of miles away without distracting thoughts.

Chang Geng ran back to the Hou's mansion without thinking, and the two iron puppets at the door turned around and stared at him silently.As soon as he met the eyes of the puppet glowing with purple light, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

Chang Geng looked at the two iron monsters face to face for a long time as if waking up from a dream, and finally slowly recovered from the state of being almost insane. He sighed softly, reached out to touch the iron puppet's cold arm, and slowly He lowered his head, bowed his waist, and exhaled a mouthful of stagnant white steam.

In the past, when we got together with Gu Yun separately, and when we hadn't seen each other for four years, it seemed that it was not as hard as this time. Chang Geng himself didn't know whether he was becoming more and more delicate as he lived, or he was becoming more and more greedy for Gu Yun. There seemed to be a string in my heart, which began to tighten when Gu Yun suddenly wrote a letter saying that he missed him for no reason.

Every time the report of a thrilling battle in the south arrived in Beijing, the string would be tightened, and every time the situation between North Korea and China became more dangerous and complicated, the string in his heart would be tightened again, until just now, it It broke suddenly and without warning.

At this time, the door opened from the inside, and it was Huo Dan, the general of the Hou family, who came out.

Seeing Chang Geng's ghostly appearance, Huo Dan was taken aback: "Uncle Wang is asking me to find you, Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"

Chang Geng's eyes were slightly red, but he managed to adjust a smile in the fastest time, and stood up straight and patted the snow scum on his body: "It's nothing, I feel a little dizzy from walking in a hurry, what does Uncle Wang want from me?"

Huo Dan is very rough, and he didn't see anything unusual when he heard the words. He stepped forward to help him, and whispered in his ear: "There is a guest who is unable to show up, saying that he has something urgent to report, and he can't I went to the military plane to ask for an interview, so I had to find the Hou Mansion."

The person who came was a man about 34 or [-] years old. Chang Geng didn't know him, but he must have seen him somewhere, and he looked familiar.While quickly adjusting his disordered mental state, he tried hard to recall the identity of the visitor.

Fortunately, the man took the initiative to go forward and explained: "Liu Zhong, deputy governor of the foreign affairs mission, has seen the prince."

The so-called "Foreign Affairs Mission" was created by a group of out-and-out peacemakers from the Ministry of War who somehow joined forces with Honglu Temple. For fear of offending the Emperor Long'an, they didn't even dare to call it "Peace Talk Envoy", so they had no choice but to call it a "peace negotiator". Under the name of a "Foreign Affairs Corps", under the banner of "one article, one military", the bullshit reason of "repelling the enemy through other means" on the front line is purely to add trouble to Gu Yun.

Chang Geng frowned, he had a very bad impression when he saw this person, because he didn't show his demeanor, he nodded indifferently and said: "Master Liu is going on a mission soon, visiting late at night, what's the matter?"

Liu Zhong suddenly took a step back and knelt down, pointing to the sky and said: "If the official's statement today is even half a lie, it will definitely be struck by lightning, and even the parents will not be at peace even under the nine springs."

Chang Geng took half a step sideways: "What is Master Liu doing? Get up quickly."

Liu Zhong refused: "Your Majesty, does your lord know that the chief supervisor of our regiment and the immediate superior of the lower officials was a student of Fang Dashi back then?"

Of course Chang Geng knew, not only did he know, but he also felt disgusted for a long time, if it wasn't for the fact that he was incapable of doing his own thing, he wished he could have picked out Ling Chi one by one of the gangsters who contributed to the foreign affairs group.

"Your Majesty, let me know." Liu Zhongfei quickly explained to Chang Geng what Fang Dashi secretly told the foreign affairs envoy, and said, "Only the Zhengdu's confidantes know about this matter, and they are among the ones who have been dismissed from office. .”

Chang Geng tapped the small table beside him with his fingers: "My lord visited the Hou's mansion late at night, isn't it because of your confidantes?"

Liu Zhongshen made a salute: "The ancestral home of the lower official is Hangzhou. His biological parents died young. He grew up with the elders of the family. Yuan, for recommending me to be an official, it is hard to repay the kindness of knowing you."

Chang Geng raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Xiaguan has a childhood sweetheart since he was a child, a childhood sweetheart, who was engaged, but has not yet married," Liu Zhong buried his head very low, his shoulders curled up, "I wanted to be successful and famous, so I went back to my hometown to ask for marriage, but I didn't wait until this day, and suddenly I was raped." Invasion..."

Liu Zhong lowered his head, wiped his face, and kowtowed heavily to him: "Although the dead are dead, the living are always in distress. Thank you, my lord, for your mercy."

Chang Geng sighed lightly: "Master Liu, get up and talk."

The two spied on for a long time, and when Liu Zhong was sent away, there was already the sound of a watch on the street. Chang Geng stood at the door for a while, pinched his brows vigorously, turned his head and said to Huo Dan: "Please take a look, Commander Chen." Is the girl asleep or not, if she hasn't rested yet, please come here."

Chen Qingxu has been living in the Hou's mansion these days, and is going to try to treat Chang Geng's Wu'er bone, but this will be a very long process, King Yan is always busy, and he may not have time to come back in ten and a half months.

When Chen Qingxu saw Chang Geng, she felt that his face was very strange, and said, "Your Highness, the more you think, the harder it is to control yourself. Are you too tired recently?"

Chang Geng smiled wryly. He intensified the conflict ahead of time. In fact, many things were not prepared in time. Every step he took was like a soldier on a dangerous road. He didn't know when he would step off the cliff.

But he has no time.

He was afraid that his enemies would not give him this time, and that Gu Yun would report the good news but not the bad, and suffer pain that he didn't know in a place he couldn't see.

Chang Geng: "Miss Chen, if it's convenient, you might as well start giving acupuncture today."

Chen Qingxu was stunned: "The process may be very painful. Your Highness is busy with government affairs during the day, can you bear it?"

Chang Geng shook his head: "I don't know, but I always have a bad feeling that the suppression has become more and more powerless in recent days, so it's right that I can't break it or stand it."

An hour later, Chang Geng realized that he still underestimated the "pain" Chen Qingxu said.

Chen Qingxu brought a bowl of medicinal soup in front of him, and prepared the silver needles.

Chang Geng stretched out his hand to take it: "What is this?"

"I'll copy the prescription to you when His Highness is no longer trapped by the Ur bone," Chen Qingxu said, "but it's best not to ask before you drink it."

Chang Geng: "..."

I don't know why, but in his impression, things related to barbarian voodoo have a sinister smell of corpse oil. After hearing this, Chang Geng suddenly had many bad associations, and immediately stopped asking. Curl your tongue as much as you can, pinch your nose and drink it in one gulp.

Chen Qingxu leaned over to light up a soothing powder, and the tranquil cold fragrance diffused in the room. She sat cross-legged three steps away from him, and said solemnly: "Your Highness, after I start the acupuncture, you must keep the spirit altar Qingming, otherwise no one can wake you up, do you understand me when I say this?"

Chang Geng nodded.

Chen Qingxu: "I will do it when this tranquilizing incense burns out. Please use this stick of incense to purify your mind and get rid of distracting thoughts."

At first, he didn't feel anything. Chen Qingxu's needles were steady and accurate, and his hands and feet were very nimble. Chang Geng just closed his eyes and closed his eyes to rest his mind. Suddenly, a chill full of fear rose from behind him—as if he was looking at him unavoidably. When someone else's weapon was raised, he could only close his eyes and wait for the fear. The muscles in his back contracted involuntarily. Although he couldn't move, he made a subconscious evasive movement.

Chen Qingxu's needle couldn't go on immediately, and her expression became serious: "Your Highness."

Chang Geng felt an invisible whip lashing his back fiercely, and there was a murmur in his ears, the screaming and cursing of a woman who had been dead for more than ten years exploded in his ears.

Mixed in those years of nightmares, Chen Qingxu's voice pierced into his ears mixed with Anshensan: "Your Highness, this is the Hou Mansion, can you hear me?"

Chang Geng shook his head violently, and nodded slightly with all his strength.

Chen Qingxu put in the next silver needle, and the second tranquilizing incense had already been burned out. She glanced at the Western clock on the table: "This is just the beginning, Your Highness, do you need to get used to it?"

Chang Geng bit the tip of his tongue lightly: "No, continue."

Chen Qingxu stopped talking nonsense, and the needles flew like flying. The illusion that had just faded came back again, and all the pain that Xiuniang inflicted on him when he was young reappeared one by one.

Chen Qingxu's expression tightened, and she saw an old scar on Chang Geng's collarbone suddenly become red and swollen for no reason, a thin line of blood seeped out, and subcutaneous spider web-like blood vessels split to both sides, very hideous.

"Your Highness, Your Highness King Yan!" Chen Qingxu called out to him.

Chang Geng didn't respond.

Chen Qingxu didn't dare to do anything again. Suddenly, out of the corner of her eyes, she saw a pair of iron shoulder armor hanging on the foot of the bed. It looked like it had been around for a while, and now the steel armor in the army had already changed its style.Chen Qingxu suddenly remembered that when he talked about Wuerbone symptoms with Chang Geng in the early years, he seemed to have inadvertently mentioned that the first time he broke free from the nightmare was when Gu Yun hung a pair of armor on his body beside the bed.

Chen Qingxu swept his long sleeves, and the iron shoulder armor made a clear crashing sound, the sound of gold and stone swept across the quiet room, and Chang Geng's increasingly rapid breathing suddenly stopped.

There are many demonic obstacles in front of him, and they were first trapped in his own body when he was young-sharp hairpins, red-hot fire sticks, dirty riding whips, sharp and sharp hands like women's iron pincers... and the end of everything , there was Gu Yun who was wearing half steel armor, watching him silently after many years.

Chang Geng stared at him like a life-saving straw, struggling to maintain his first-line clarity. I don't know how long it took before the hallucinations like ghosts and ghosts around him gradually disappeared. Chang Geng came back to his senses exhausted, and saw that the tranquilizing incense on the table had already been burned. When it was all over, Chen Qingxu was collecting the silver needles.

Only then did he realize that he could move again.

Chen Qingxu: "How do you feel?"

Chang Geng moved his hand, and saw that there were many small abrasions on his arm at some point, and the scabs had formed quickly, and it was a little itchy.He tried to clench his fist: "It seems to have crawled out again."

After Chen Qingxu left, Chang Geng fell asleep. For so many years, his sleep was like a flat lake, a stone could be crushed. Except for blood loss coma, he rarely felt such a dark feeling, and it was the first time he didn't have a nightmare.

He dreamed of a towering watchtower, with distant fires in the distance, the camp was heavily guarded, and there was a sense of being ready for battle. A group of soldiers returning from patrolling the camp was tightening the reins. Suddenly, the leader turned his head Glancing in his direction, it turned out to be Gu Yun, wearing a glazed mirror that was more fancy than a mask, and the silver edge matched the black armor, and he smiled narrowly at him.

In the dream, Chang Geng laughed and said, "What kind of attire is this?"

Gu Yun stretched out a hand from the horse's back, and lightly pulled him onto the horse's back with an iron arm burning with purple gold power, hugged him from behind, and smiled beside his ear: "Lonely in the army , Hook up a few more beauties."

People are not very good at concealing their subtle thoughts in their dreams, knowing that what he said was a joke, but Chang Geng still felt a little unspeakable grievance in his heart: "I am restless in the capital, lest I make a wrong step, I only I look forward to hearing a few words from you, but I still can't wait."

Gu Yun said helplessly: "Your Highness, you came all this way just to act like a spoiled child?"

After hearing this, Chang Geng thought what he said was right, and he really wanted to play tricks with Gu Yun unreasonably like what was written in the folk tales. Why make a fuss.However, Gu Yun raised his hand and took off the glass mirror on his face, tilted his head and kissed him on the face: "If you don't like it, I won't wear it."

In the early morning, Chang Geng woke up to Gu Yun's terrifying flute sound. He got up and rubbed his eyes in a daze. He always felt that the magic sound seemed to be still ringing around his ears, so he rubbed his numb ears in pain. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

This was really the happiest dream of his life.

Accompanied by Gu Yun's earth-shattering song of weeping ghosts and gods, even if there are really monsters and monsters in front of him, he will be fearless.

What Chang Geng didn't know was that the first night at the front line, when Gu Yun came back from patrolling the battalion, he suddenly had an inexplicable feeling that someone was watching him behind him, and he turned his head involuntarily, just in time to shake off the glass mirror on his face. It turned out that the lens was not broken, but the finely carved lace knocked off a corner of his shoulder armor, so he had to admit depressedly that it was useless, and replaced it with a normal one.

The next day when Shen Yi heard about it, he pointed at him and made a good joke: "Maybe it's some kind of god who doesn't like your flirtatiousness."

"Then this god is really lenient," Gu Yun said brazenly, "Maybe it's because he sees that I'm handsome, so he wants to be my wife."

Shen Yi: "..."

Before General Shen could spit out the overnight meal, a soldier came to report: "Commander, the envoy you sent to Japan has replied."

Gu Yun: "Bring it in."

A batch of supplies for the Western Army was sent from the open sea with the cooperation of the Dongying people. In normal wars, the Dongying people seemed to have been involved in it all the time, but they were cunning and refused to show themselves on the stage, even if they were Chi led dozens of Dongying warriors disguised as monks in an attempt to kidnap Emperor Long'an—it was also out of his personal grievances, and the Dongying people did not really stand up to ask for an explanation for him.

Shen Yi: "How to say?"

Gu Yun shook his head: "It is said that they treat them with courtesy, but their attitude is ambiguous. Whenever the envoy wants to talk about serious matters, he will avoid those who can take care of the matter, and find a group of white-faced dancing girls to accompany the guests... The Dongying people have their own little calculations in their hearts. If the foreigners can take root on our soil, they will be able to eat a bite of carrion, but if the Western warships retreat, they will still live next to us in the future, so they don’t want to completely offend us without making efforts.”

Shen Yi frowned and said: "To please both ends, what is this?"

"Good stuff." Gu Yun smiled, "I'm relieved that they are so aggressive. Wait and see, it will be of great use."

Shen Yi shook his head: "We can't wait any longer. The southern front is stretched too long, and Ziliujin is stretched too tight. Even if you deploy from it, you will inevitably be unable to keep up. Besides, I am worried that if we continue to fight like this, the court will There are noises."

Gu Yun's expression faded.

Shen Yi reminded again: "I heard that the imperial court thinks that we should not just fight, but 'one stick, one sweet date'. Recently, a new batch of foreign envoys is being formed. If these people really come to deliver sweet dates with sticks It’s fine, I’m afraid it’s a special trip to add to the chaos.”

Gu Yun pondered for a moment: "When will you arrive?"

"It's almost time to leave," Shen Yi replied, "It's only ten and a half months—Zixi, what do you want to do?"