girl riding a horse

Chapter 696 Dinner
Xie Yuan threw the stone in his hand hard, and the stone fell into the water with a "boom", so crisp and neat that it didn't even splash much.

She bent down and picked up another one, turned her head to look at Shen Liuzhen, and said:

"Although you and I don't like the adults in the family, but the family is rich and stable, and the adults in the family try their best to be satisfied with what they can have. With poetry and etiquette, the world will know that you are from a wealthy family. How can such a person It would be pitiful, others would not be envious..."

Shen Liuzhen looked at Xie Yuan, his pupils flickered violently, seemed a little surprised, and remained silent.

Xie Yuan put his gaze on the river, and continued:
"But Lingxiu is different. She has never had these environments and opportunities. I have been thinking, what would I look like if I hadn't been born in Xie's family and was sold to be a dancer like her?"

Shen Liuzhen was shocked by Xie Yuan's hypothesis, he didn't dare to think about it, and he didn't want to think about it.

I heard Xie Yuan say:
"I don't think I'm much better than Lingxiu... No matter how talented I am, at most I can dance better. When I was young, I always acted violently and viciously in order to fight for a bite to eat. When I grow up, I am also a mad dog. Hunger and cunning are shining in the eyes....Life is like drifting along the water, and I can’t help myself at all. If I encounter a handful of straw on the way of wandering, I will hold on to it stubbornly and don’t care whether I want to be caught by her or not. , is really hideous...

However, most of her life was spent enduring and struggling to survive... Such a person is calm, wise, and cute?These words had nothing to do with her, nor could they. "

Xie Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the river surface very sadly, and said with emotion:

"... There are a few lucky people like you and me in this world, and most of them are people like her. If she wants to pick me up, let her pick me up, although for her, I'm a handful Life-saving straw. But to me, I am considered a big ship, and I have enough ability to sail on the Haihe River, so it doesn't matter if she picks it up..."

As Xie Yuan said, he leaned down on his side, threw his arms away and threw the round stone in his hand again. This time, the stone jumped several times on the water surface, creating circles of ripples. It finally sank.

Xie Yuan turned around in surprise, and said to Shen Liuzhen:

"look!"

But Shen Liuzhen looked at her without saying a word, those amazing peach blossom eyes were full of affection, faintly filled with tears, seemed to be moved, but also admired, as if he had seen the vicissitudes of life, and passed through the ups and downs of several lifetimes The same profound and indescribable.

"A Yuan..." After a while, he called out in a low voice, as if a little ashamed, lowered his eyes, and his slender eyelashes left a shadow in his eyes, and said, "I'm not as good as you... I never thought These."

Xie Yuan smiled awkwardly, and said:
"I haven't thought much about it. Maybe it's because I'm a girl, so I have more sympathy for women. Usually, whoever thinks about other people's difficulties, they only think about themselves. What is your identity? , no, no..."

She paused, the eyelashes of Dan Fengyan trembled, and said: "...I always feel that in this world, it is more difficult to live as a woman than as a man."

The two of them stood together by the river, on the open grass. Occasionally, a gust of wind blew a little too hard, and the people who would swing were swaying and flying around.

Shen Liuzhen stretched out his hand to hold Xie Yuan's wrist, stood beside her again, and then let go, the two of them were side by side, the wind blew past the two of them, and the hem of their clothes rose and fell together, quite A scene of wind and rain.

The river is wide, and the wind blows out layers of rapidly flashing ripples.

After a long time, Shen Liuzhen said:

"Let's just pick her up, but don't let her push her too hard. She always picks you up. What should I do?"

Xie Yuan couldn't help laughing when he heard that, and said: "...Don't worry, this is just a process. She didn't know where to go because she was panicking, and she was afraid that I would throw her away. After a while, it will be fine."

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After they had traveled a long distance and set up their tents, it was getting late.The emperor took the lead, and a huge bonfire was set up in the camp during dinner. The princes and nobles gathered together to drink and chat, and the official hunting started tomorrow morning.

Banquets of the Xianbei people do not have as many rules as the Han people. Even with the emperor present, their autumn hunting is still like a party outing. Although the seating order is different, the whole family sits together, some with children, It was very lively and enjoyable.

Xie Yuan sat with Shen Liuzhen, very close to the emperor's side seat, as one of the few Han subjects, he was especially eye-catching among this kind of barbarians.

Although everyone was smiling at the emperor, Xie Yuan always felt that the eyes cast on them were repulsive and cool.

Xie Yuan turned to look at Shen Liuzhen, and saw that his expression was as usual, and he didn't look uncomfortable at all. On the contrary, he looked like a fish in water. He couldn't help feeling that Shen Liuzhen had a thick skin and his acting skills were as superb as ever.

There were Xianbei Hu people's musical instruments playing and singing in the middle, and soon many young people gathered in the middle, singing and dancing around the bonfire.

The scene became more heated, and everyone relaxed, drinking and chatting, and less eyes were cast on them.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xie Yuan asked Shen Liuzhen:

"Why are there so few Han people? It makes us stand out too much. All Han officials should come together."

Shen Liuzhen looked at the singing and dancing, and said with a half-hearted smile:
"The imperial court of the State of Wei led the troops to fight, and those who opened up the territory were mainly Xianbei people. The central guards near Pingcheng have no Han army, and there are only a few Xianbei people. And most of them have face in the court. Who wants to come to this kind of scene and be ridiculed by the Xianbei people?"

When Xie Yuan heard this, he rolled his eyes and said:
"Your Majesty doesn't trust the Han army? The population of the Xianbei is not as large as that of the Han. Isn't it a little bit reluctant to rely on those people to garrison and lead the army?"

Shen Liuzhen thought for a while, then said cautiously:

"It's not that His Majesty doesn't trust you, it can only be said that all the Xianbei people don't trust them. After all, the conflict between Hu and Han is so serious... This time, you brought the soldiers of the Shen family over. Before that, there really weren't so many of them. A Han Chinese army formed separately. Those who surrendered from the south in the past were not many in number, and they were all under the hands of the Xianbei tribe.

Xie Yuan looked at the Xianbei people in the audience, then at the emperor Shi Yu Wulei sitting above him, and asked:
"Liuzhen, tell me, Your Majesty has kept the 600,000 troops from being merged, so will you deliberately increase the Han army system and keep pace with these old systems, so as to change the unequal status quo between Hu and Han?"

(End of this chapter)