Looking back

"Should I not come back? At the beginning, I swore not to be with you with my mother and my family. I just violated it and encountered such a thing. Do you think it is retribution?"

Yang Kang squatted down and gently hugged her shoulders, "No matter whether karma is true or not, no one knows whether it is inevitable or accidental, whether it is karma or fate. But if it is, will you regret it?"

This is not just a superstition, if even the time-space transformation and the resurrection of the soul can exist, then who can sneer at karma, reincarnation and fate and other strange things, and who can doubt the will of God?

Huazheng stopped sobbing, with only tears left. She looked down at the carpet on the ground. The soft curves woven with gold threads were combined into auspicious patterns such as clouds and lotuses. On it were unknown goddesses dancing in enchanting poses. .

"This is the third time..." Yang Kang wiped away her tears with a sweat towel, helped her to sit back on the seat, recalled slowly, and said, "The first time I found out that Xiaoyi was pleading guilty to Huang Yaoshi. You broke your legs. The second time was when you went to Zhongnan Mountain. You planned to separate from me temporarily. The reason you cried was when the people around you were hurt or were about to be let down by you. And when you were hurt , even if you faint from the pain, even if you know your death is approaching, you won’t shed a single tear.”

"In the future, there will be various situations that you don't want to bear to see. Some people will be betrayed, some will be injured, some will die, and there may even be accusations of betrayal. Those things that may happen, carefully calculate It might even be because of what you did, because of the choices you made, so will you regret it?"

"Will you regret it..." Huazheng asked back, "Then will you regret it? Mei Chaofeng, and Wanyan Honglie? How did you do it, how did you not blame yourself for not being able to save them? If At the beginning, I didn’t choose to go to Mongolia. If you took me to learn martial arts and poison, your female master would not die. You could have asked her to be forgiven by Huang Yaoshi so that she would not be killed by Ouyang Feng. If you hadn’t chosen at the beginning If you help your mother and Yang Tiexin escape, your adoptive father will not run around looking for her alone, and the last person died so tragically in the Western Regions."

"Some things can't be changed. Since you choose to kill wantonly, someone will always come to take revenge; since you choose to plunder for your own selfish desire, there will always be a day when you get it and lose it again." Yang Kang said in a deep voice, " It's like, since your father chose to fight for world hegemony, he left endless disputes and quarrels for his children; your little brother gave up the position that belonged to him as a young son, and he will have to face his brother's vigilance and plotting for the rest of his life; Since the third brother is greedy for power, he doesn't even need to instruct him personally, someone will cut off the threat for him."

Huazheng raised his head in a daze, and there was a hint of eagerness in his confused voice, "I don't need to personally instruct you, you mean?"

"I didn't say anything. Sometimes the truth in politics is hidden deep in the fog, and sometimes it's naked/naked/naked just like it looks at a glance. Too much entanglement in the truth will only make yourself painful."

"Then shall I pretend that I don't know anything?" She laughed at herself, "Sometimes I think, in fact, you are the most ruthless, you never treat people in this world as human beings, you don't laugh for them, no I will cry for them, not worry about them, and not resent for them."

"How do you know that you can't? Do you have to cry into snot like you?" Huazheng gave him a sideways glance, leaned over to the mirror at hand to take a picture, gasped, and immediately called the maid Come and fetch water to wash your face, so as to wash away the tears.Her skin has always been fair, and she doesn't like to wear makeup. This time, the successive funerals, combined with red and swollen eyes, and a haggard look, made her complexion paler. Yang Kang said, "Put some rouge on."

"Don't you also dislike being painted?"

"Where's the rouge we made together last time?"

"It's already used up!"

"It's so unappreciative."

"What does it mean not to cherish it? The shelf life of pure natural is very short, okay? If you don't use it and it breaks, it's a waste, okay?"

After bickering back and forth, Huazheng slowly recovered from her grief and said, "I know, I will be the one who commits crimes from now on. You don't have to worry about me, I will never regret it! "

Yang Kang smiled and said, "Really, why do I remember that you said it many times? I regret this for a while, and regret that for a while."

Huazheng thought about it for a while, and seemed to feel annoyed because she couldn't refute it, so she pushed Yang Kang to practice martial arts, while she took a volume of books and read them carefully under the night pearl.The sky was as cold as water, and the sound of clappers was over the moon, but in the silence, there was a sudden burst of horns beeping.The two woke up from a light sleep, only to hear the sound of the horn one after another, which seemed to be a whisper from the underworld, or a lament from heaven.

Torrey is dead after all.

He died on the way back to his fief, in a hasty mourning from the camp of the garrison.It was complicated and cumbersome rituals again, the overwhelming white, the fluttering spirit streamers, and the smell of spirits permeated the air, as if commemorating the alcoholism of the deceased during his lifetime.Huazheng fetched the robe she wore as a shaman, instigated Lu Heteni to not want to see the big shamans who were involved in her husband's death, and asked Huazheng to preside over the ceremony.After several days in succession, she was so exhausted that she fell asleep as soon as she returned to the tent.

In the early morning after the funeral, the two hurriedly packed their bags and prepared to leave for Helin.Just as they were about to leave, they saw a figure standing at the door of the tent, the slanting morning light cast a shadow on that person's face.Huazheng approached to greet her, and called out, "Sister-in-law Si?"

Solu Woteni stood outside the door.Her face was pale, her eyes were red and swollen, and she was wearing a white mourning dress with no forehead ornaments.Huazheng pulled her in to sit down, but she refused, saying that she came to see him off, Huazheng said, "Sister-in-law Si, you should take a good rest, don't come to see me off."

"I must come to thank you." After she finished speaking, she smiled slightly, "Do you still remember the first time I met your brothers and sisters?" Hua Zheng said, "Of course I remember, Du Shi and I At the engagement banquet, your father brought you and your sister to attend. We were playing Galaha together, and Tuo Lei came to make trouble, and you originally won me by a few points, but he ruined it with one kick."

Soluheteni's father, Zaa Khanbo, was Wang Han's younger brother. After Wang Han and Temujin's battle ended in Wang Han's defeat, he sent his two daughters to sue for peace.Among them, the younger Soluheteni was spotted by Temujin at a glance, and she was designated as the wife of his youngest son Tuo Lei.In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, and it is the absence of people or things. Wang Han was defeated, Genghis Khan died, and his sons began to kill each other.

"I know he did it on purpose. He has always only turned towards you. I was so angry that I couldn't catch up after chasing and beating. Who would have thought at that time that I would marry him later." Recalling the past with Torre So Luheteni smiled sadly, "It's been more than ten years, and I have four children, but Ogotai Khan wants me to remarry Guiyou."

Huazheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Guiyou! How is that possible?"

Guiyou is the eldest son of Okuotai.

This marriage change has its own absurdity. Lu Heteni was originally instigated to be Hua Zheng's fiancé's aunt, and then married Hua Zheng's brother in a blink of an eye.

In Mongolia, like most nomadic peoples, widows must be remarried by younger brothers and nephews. This is the only way to ensure that women are protected and young children are raised.But the intention of Wo Kuotai's request is well known to passers-by. He can use this marriage to adopt all of Tuo Lei's children in his own branch, thus depriving them of their inheritance right.

After being speechless for a while, Huazheng said, "Has the imperial edict been issued?"

Lu Heteni nodded and said, "The edict is issued, but I will refuse it." After a brief pause, she said softly, "You sisters will support me." Hua Zheng understood that she was here to see him off For the real purpose, she nodded and promised to contact her sisters, and Chagatai and Batu, who had already occupied one side in the west, would try their best to say a few words for her.

On the way back, Yang Kang said, "She is a very smart woman. Let me recall the past first, remind you of your brother's love and care, and arouse sympathy for her, and then ask for help from an alliance." Hua Zheng also agreed, "She is indeed a smart woman. But I can't blame her. After all, the third brother is also very kind to me. She just wants to win me to speak for her, so she will naturally have to work hard. As for scheming or the art of speaking, it's up to the beholder."

Yang Kang continued, "And even if it's you, she has to try so hard to win you over, which shows how thoughtful she is and how good she is at dancing." Huazheng said with a "cut", "What do you mean even me!" Then he said, " Among the sister-in-laws, few can win people's hearts from both sides, and it's no wonder that she can snatch the orthodox inheritance right from Wo Kuotai's son."

"Girl, now that you know the gap, let's work hard!" Huazheng rolled his eyes at him with a slight smile, and then his expression became serious again, "That's fine, they'll fight their way, and we'll keep developing, as long as we don't interfere Just fine."

After arriving at Helin, Yang Kang asked Huazheng, "Have you thought about how to face your third brother? It is agreed that he will marry you off." Huazheng's expression darkened, "It doesn't matter, it's just a ceremony. "The two were talking, when they suddenly heard someone announce, "Changchun Daoist seeks to see you."

Huazheng raised his eyebrows, "What's the matter, finally found it?" Yang Kang recalled the agreement they made behind his back, spread his hands, "I didn't provoke this." Huazheng smiled, "Okay Okay, I'll take care of it myself, and you're not allowed to come out and make trouble for me." After speaking, he pushed him to the back door, telling him to go away quickly.

He left with his front foot, and Qiu Chuji was invited in with his back foot.Huazheng invited him to sit down for tea, and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you for a long time, but I'm still as immortal as ever."

Qiu Chuji shook his head and said, "What are you talking about? It's because you can't let go of the world of mortals. As soon as you heard about the princess's wedding, you immediately rushed over. The poor came here not to covet a sip of wedding wine, but just to ask. How many years have passed?" Do you still remember the oath you made before, princess? Don’t forget, princess, you swear by your mother’s mother that you will not come to pester and drag my disciple.”

Huazheng smiled slightly, "If he comes to pester me, what should I do? Can I beat him out?"

Qiu Chuji knew that she was perfunctory, "Then I would like to ask, if the princess wants to avoid it, it's natural, and if she wants to meet secretly, it's not a problem, but why did he make him turn against Wulin?"

"There's no reason. If I did it on purpose, what's the real person going to do?" Huazheng said loudly when Qiu Chuji moved his sword hand, "You have to remember, if someone hurts a single hair of my hair today, tomorrow there will be a hundred thousand dollars." Dajun, flatten your Taoist temple, burn Zhongnan Mountain to the ground, and there are Buddhist temples and churches in the world, but no tiles of Taoist temples are allowed! Do you dare to come and try if I can do it?"

Qiu Chuji said, "That day the Great Khan gave the seal personally, from now on all my disciples will be exempted from dispatch, and I will also grant imperial edicts with imperial treasures on it as proof."

Huazheng sneered and said, "How many of Father Khan's personal imperial decrees have survived in name only? He called us brothers to love each other, told people with the surname Bo'er Jijin not to be executed without trial, told girls under the age of 16 not to marry, and forced them to marry." Those who have sex with each other are all convicted, and now they are counted one by one, what is left?"

"Princess, you don't care about your father and brother, but I don't believe that Kang'er can care about his parents." After Qiu Chuji finished speaking, he led two people in outside the door. Looking at the description, they were Yang Tiexin and Bao Xiruo who hadn't seen each other for a long time.I saw Bao Xiruo had a sad face, but Yang Tiexin's face was as heavy as iron, with a bad look on his face.

Even though he knew that the situation was not good, Huazheng could only go forward with a forced smile and said, "Uncle and Auntie, the marriage is still early, and I will send someone to greet her when the time comes, why did you come here at this time regardless of the wind and frost?"

Bao Xiruo bowed his head and said nothing, Yang Tiexin said loudly, "What kind of marriage! Before, I only agreed because of the deep relationship between the two of you, and it was not because of your noble status that you wanted to cling to each other, so even if you are not married, you will see each other day and night. Skin-to-skin contact, we don't care about such shameless things. But I think that after you get married, even if you can't marry a chicken because of your status, marry a dog with a dog, and serve Da Song together with the Kanger brothers. At least you have to live peacefully in the Western Regions. But who knew that you would let my son sell himself for glory, and enjoy the glory and glory with you! If this is the case, I will never agree to this marriage!"

Huazheng gritted his teeth and tried to keep his tone calm, "Uncle, you don't believe me, that's natural. But don't you believe in your son? Is he a man who can be a domineering person? Why don't you believe it? We can Let the people live better? Do you not believe it, or do you not want to believe it? Because he was not brought up by yourself, and because he was well-clothed and well-fed since he was a child, you don’t believe in his nature?"

She held her head high and continued, "As for the marriage, if you agree, then you will be treated as a family from now on. If you really refuse to agree, then not only will I not have to treat you as parents and elders, I don't even need to agree at all See you."

Yang Tiexin said angrily, "Princess, can you prevent parents and children from seeing each other for the rest of your life? If parents teach their sons to divorce their wives, how can the son not obey?"

"Then he'd better not obey, otherwise I don't guarantee that there will be any consequences..." Huazheng leaned over to Yang Tiexin's ear and said, "No one can take what I want from me!"

The author has something to say: I'm exhausted... how do you look at it? I feel like I dug a hole for myself to jump in. I'm a little confused about what to do in the next chapter, eh