Snake Tale

At night, the coolness gradually rises and thick fog fills the air.Qin Wei piyi walked out of the camped queue alone, and walked towards the blood-stained prison car at the end of the queue.In the dim night, the scene in front of me is far less scary than it looks in the daytime, only a large area of ​​dried blood can be vaguely seen; after careful identification, I can find many bloodstains on the wooden railings that were grabbed out of enduring severe pain. scratches.Qin Wei sat on the edge of the prison car and looked inside.The gray and gloomy prisoner was curled up in a corner of the cage, his face hidden behind his disheveled and dirty long hair, and he couldn't tell whether he was asleep, unconscious or dead.He took off the water bag on his waist and threw it in.After a long time, Luo Yi stretched out his hand without opening his eyes, and slowly grabbed the water bag.

Qin Wei looked at him and said with a smile: "It's more comfortable to travel by car than on foot, right? Well, I just want to save Mr. Luo from the hardship of traveling thousands of miles, so I'm doing my best. Please don't take it to heart. .”

For a moment, Luo Yi really wanted to lift the shackles and smash Qin Wei's beautiful and shameless head to pieces.But he resisted the urge in the end, just drank the water slowly and threw the empty water bladder out of the cage.

Qin Wei looked at Luo Yi's bloody and bloody knees with exposed bones tenderly, and said, "I never imagined that you would be willing to do this for him..." He covered his face with his hands, and couldn't help laughing out loud. "You're so cute." He held his rosy cheeks, looked at Luo Yi radiantly, and said with a wink, "If it wasn't because you stink like a corpse, I really want to come in and kiss you. "

Luo Yi turned his ears off, closed his eyes, and just focused on adjusting his breath.However, Qin Wei didn't take his indifference as disobedience at all. He looked down at his swaying toes and said to himself, "However, who would dare to speak out about the affairs of this world? Twenty years ago , when the retainers led me to escape from the clan, I also thought that I was bound to die... The thunderstorm that night was really frightening, thunder and lightning followed one after another, tearing the sky, like a golden python rushing towards me Come. The vassal wrapped me tightly around my chest, and rode my horse to gallop across the wilderness. I knew that the difference between my life and death was only a fraction of a second. My whole body was stiff, and my heartbeat was louder than thunder. The skin on my body was cut by the wind, and my mouth, nose, and eye sockets were full of blood... I don’t know how long we had been running away. Suddenly, the horse let out a whine, staggered and fell to the ground, and died suddenly. I was thrown out and fell hard. On the ground. And the retainer behind me didn’t move—only then did I see that his back was pierced like a hedgehog by a feathered arrow. It turned out that he was already dead. And I, with several broken bones, I had no strength to move, and was crushed by dead bodies in the wilderness. Fortunately, the heavy rain was intermittent, so that I would not die of thirst. The summer was hot, and the body began to rot quickly. Wriggling maggots fell sporadically on my face, and I heard the howling of jackals Sounds, several times, the carrion owl swooped down and almost pecked my eyeball away... I held that corpse for three days and two nights, and I prayed non-stop, as long as someone came to save me, no matter what Who is it, I am willing to drive for him in my whole life——finally, God heard my prayer, and 'he' came..."

Qin Wei was immersed in the memory, with a never-before-seen admiration and sincerity on his face: "At that time, I swore to myself that as long as it was what that person wanted, I would go through fire and water for him." Achievement. He wants me to die, and I can sacrifice my life anytime, anywhere; if he wants me to live, even if I am hacked into pieces and my muscles and bones are broken—I will never dare to die!”

Luo Yi interrupted with indifference: "What does this have to do with me?"

Qin Wei took out the copper coin from his bosom, leaned over and put it in Luo Yi's hand, and said with a smile: "Lord Luo, I congratulate you, you have also found the person who can control your life and death."

Luo Yi smiled sarcastically. "I found it a long time ago." His voice was hoarse and weak, but his eyes still shone with the determination and arrogance unique to a strong-willed person: "No one can decide my life or death except myself."

Qin Wei shook his head slightly, looked at him with a tolerant and mournful smile, jumped out of the prison car and left.

Luo Yi put his hands on his pillow and fell asleep, closing his eyes and enduring another burst of severe pain all over his body.He thought in his heart, could "that person" Qin Wei said be Mrs. Zishuo?Before this, Luo Yi had never expected to see such pure loyalty on the face of the shameless and shameless Qin Wei.Does this mean that the matter of joining Qi will be full of ups and downs?Especially under the premise that he and Mrs. Zishuo are suspicious of each other.However, he remains confident about the leverage he has in the game.Mrs. Zishuo used the hands of Zuiyu to torture and humiliate him all the way. On the one hand, it was to punish him for his previous rebelliousness, but on the other hand, it also sent a signal: the confrontation between Queen Mother Qi and Zhong Lichun has reached a critical juncture. At this moment, she urgently needs a power to rely on, even if she has to use Luo Yi, who has a deep grievance with her.As long as she is around to give him a place to stand, he can lay down stakes, build trenches, and quietly eat away at all defenses—this is how he has survived so far.

Luo Yi kept calculating in his mind, so as to offset the severe pain surging around his body.He slightly moved his limbs that were numb due to excessive blood loss, and accidentally touched the cold coin.

He held it in his hand in a strange way, held it up to his eyes and studied it carefully.The issue of Jin State's new coins presided over by him was aborted due to his sudden "disappearance". There is only one coin of this style in the world, and he personally presented it to Shen Yuzhu when he was in Jiangdu.As for why this coin fell into Qin Wei's hands, Luo Yi didn't bother to study it carefully.His mind was completely occupied by another scene: it was under the ever-burning lamp of Jiangdu's house, Shen Yuzhu next to him looked down at the new coins in his palm, and talked to him about the customs and customs of various countries with great interest...Suddenly he was silent Now, she restrained her naive and longing demeanor unintentionally, put on the indifferent and docile mask again, looked up at Luo Yi, looked at the new scar on his forehead, and said with a smile: "Have you forgotten again?" Are you on the medicine?"

"Lord Luo," Luo Yi will always remember his low and soft tone, and smiled lazily to himself, "You really don't know how to take care of yourself."

In an instant, an unstoppable severe pain crashed into Luo Yi's heart, his viscera almost convulsed with pain.He clutched the wooden railing beside him, his white knuckles creaked, and for a moment, he felt dizzy and his blood boiled like a protracted seizure—for a while, he thought it was because Gu poison in his blood.Now he finally understands that it is not poison.That was his desire.

His temperament was deep and fierce by nature, and he was tortured by the viciousness of the world, so he became more and more violent and irritable.After escaping from the Xia Palace, he begged for food and wandered northward, heading for the deserted and uninhabited northern border.He heard that the barbarians there were red-bearded and blue-eyed, ruthless and drank blood, and only used blood and fire to solve everything.Only in that kind of place, with his appearance and temperament, would he not be regarded as a different kind... In order to survive, he did all kinds of low labor: herding sheep, retting hemp, quarrying stones, tearing up walls, being forced Tortured by hunger and illness, he curled up under the bridge and shivered.He was even robbed by slave traders at one time, dozens of people were tied together like cattle and sheep, sold along the way, scolded and insulted, and let the flying whip be deeply embedded in the flesh... Countless times he struggled with hunger, hunger and cold On the verge of starving to death, until Luo Jian picked him up from the knee-high goose feather snow, he had already forged an extremely tenacious will.Luo Jian has the virtue of regeneration towards him.He not only bestowed him with the status of nobleman, but also taught him to conceal his violent and rebellious temperament, and taught him to bet his hatred and anger into the ambition of expanding the territory, and his understanding and determination also amazed his adoptive father—however There is one thing that Luo Yi has never learned.Fate treated him prematurely with cruelty and viciousness, and rarely showed him any tenderness, let alone let him appreciate the pure and selfless part of human nature.When he became an adult, he continued to flirt with people with ulterior motives day after day, and increasingly regarded gentleness as weakness and honesty as deceitful.If someone shows closeness to him, he will either be on guard or scoff at him, calculating in his heart how to squeeze and use it, and if he can't, he will ignore it and abandon it.He was indomitable in pursuit of fame and fortune, and had no other concerns; he was well-versed in the world, hard-hearted, self-denial and ascetic, and would never be fooled.god

But why is he still tormented by the longing in his blood from time to time?Why is it that just thinking about Shen Yuzhu's eyebrows and eyes makes him feel an irresistible pain?

Luo Yi couldn't answer by himself.Holding the copper coin, he looked into the distance.The silhouettes of the mountains are like black beasts licking their wounds, curling up their scarred backs, resting from exhaustion.He doesn't like to reflect, and he doesn't like to miss.It makes him feel weak.But this night, with the open fields and the howling wind, he was cold and weak, and he had nothing else to do.

Fortunately, the journey was over soon.Frustrated, Zuiyu had a gloomy face, and was no longer keen on torture and torture Yu Luoyi, but only led the elite soldiers and horses to gallop all the way day and night.From the tenth day onwards, the magnificent outline of Linzi City appeared in front of the queue.It was noon when the prison van drove into the palace of the Queen Mother of Qi.The heavy wooden fence was opened, and the inhuman sinner struggled to climb out.His clothes were ragged, filthy, and stinky, like a tarantula crushed by a wheel, struggling to drag its crippled legs and feet, crawling to the Queen Mother's feet, kowtowed, and kissed her shoe uppers with sobs.All the people present believed that there was no more submissive scene than this.