box of hearts

Chapter 174
He took a few breaths, then viciously slammed the mallet into the basin in a Sarai posture, glared angrily, and stared at Zhou Dun who was timidly coming over.Zhou Dun arched his waist, rolled up his sleeves "shua shua", "Master, you go back and sit down, the servant is here, the servant is here."

Zhou Dun washed and threw some clothes, and hung them on the clothesline in the yard to dry.Qi She went to the gate of Qingtian with the pot, gavel and stool in person.

"It's done, what else is there to do?"

Qingtian only took back the things, then pushed the door shut again.

For the next whole afternoon, she stayed at home.At dinner time, Qi She knocked on the door again and asked Zhou Dun to bring in a three-layer food box painted with flower tin and lacquer.There are a dozen or so dishes in the box, all Qingtian's favorite food in the past, cooked by the chef and sent to the mountain.In less than a quarter of an hour, the suitcase was put back in front of the door.Qi She asked long and short questions: "Are you full? Are you still appetizing? What else do you want to eat?"

Qing Tian still drooped his jaw and lowered his eyebrows, and just poured a non-yellow and non-white teacup into the dirty bucket on the corridor to throw the tea dregs.Qi She saw that there was some tea in the cup, like a horse drowning in it, and the moment her heart ached, she had already disappeared behind the door like a silent shadow.Zhou Dun squatted on the ground and pulled out the tin of the food box. He opened the lid of the box and saw that there was only one dish of tribute vegetables and one dish of lotus root scallops, and the rest of the meat was left untouched.He glanced at Qi She cautiously, "Master, it's time for you to eat. Anyway, the empress can't escape here, so don't be in a hurry, come back tomorrow, let's go back first."

Qi She returned to Fufengju, which was the only passable inn within a radius of ten miles, not far from the foot of Shuyue Temple.The entire compound has been taken over, and the plainclothes servants of the Zhenfu Division are all guarding the inside and outside.Qi She's room is a north room with one light and two shades. box.After eating, Qi She opened the box with a depressed expression, and took out the memorial to read.The dragon robe case and the Beijing camp rebellion in his early years made him dare not take it lightly. Even if he was thousands of miles away, he would know exactly what was going on in Beijing through continuous secret reports.At the moment, I look at those papers as boringly as if I were looking at my own palms, and sigh every other page or two.And these sighs are really unreasonable, because the situation in Beijing is very good, it can't be better.

After about a hundred or eighty sighs, Zhou Dun, who was on the sidelines, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and muttered as softly as a mosquito: "I am in Cao Ying and my heart is in Han."

"Huh?" Qi She turned her head from the folder in her hand.

Zhou Dun stretched out both hands to pull out the booklet, and put it back into the writing box on the case, "The slave said that he was in Cao Ying and his heart was in Han. Don't read it, master. After reading it for a long time, I haven't revealed this one yet." .”

Qi She glared at Zhou Dun for a moment, then snorted again in frustration, and put her hand across her face, "Hey, say it," and poked her face out from behind her palm, shaving her mustache with her thumb, "she Isn't it a bit too angry?"

Zhou Dun also sighed vividly: "There are some who are not very temperamental, but don't you just love the ones who are more temperamental?"

Qi She slapped the desk with a "slap", causing a cup of tea on the desk to splash out, "What's the use of me raising you? Talk back to me when you see the sky, and make me angry."

Zhou Dun rubbed the tea with his sleeve, "How dare you make me angry, my slave? This slave treats me very well, just like my master treats the Goddess of Guanyin on the mountain. I don't put it in my mouth, but I put it in my heart, and worship it with a curse." , for the precepts, Amitabha Amitabha." Put your palms together and shake them in front of your mouth.

Seeing Zhou Dungu's extremely reverent attitude, Qi She couldn't help but laugh.Thinking about how miserable the first half of the year was, the only two people who made him feel at ease, one was in prison and the other was in a Buddhist temple, and now one has returned to his side, and the other——Thinking of this, he sighed again .

Zhou Dun went to the back of the chair, raised his hands and pinched Qi She's shoulders, "Your Majesty was framed by others and driven here from the capital with a stick. It is impossible to say that she is not wronged. She has been in the temple again for the past six months. I really suffered a lot here, the slaves heard that the head of Shuyue Nunnery got the order from Nanny Yao, and asked her thieves and nuns to bully the empress in competitions, and specially assigned the hardest and most tiring work to the empress. , and even asked the empress to go down to the river under the plum rain to wash their little clothes and clean the toilet, not to mention whether it hurts the body or not, but she was so angry that she became ill. I didn't see how emaciated the empress looked. Is it? She has a stubborn temper again, so it's inevitable that she will complain to the master, so don't blame the lady."

Qi She smiled bitterly, "If I wanted to blame her, I wouldn't come to her so far away and beg her in a low voice. But she looks like she doesn't know me now, what should I do?"

Zhou Dun smiled heartily, "Anyway, there is nothing I can do about it, only the empress is the only one in the world. I have to show the patience I had back then, and slowly coax it for two days. The empress's heart is not hard. , sooner or later, I will reconcile with my grandfather."

Qi She raised her head slightly, and looked out through the window paper, her eyes were full of thousands of feelings and reasons.

"I hope so."

After a deep night, dawn came again.

Before dawn, Qi She went up the mountain again to Shuyue Nunnery.He Wuwei led the guards to guard the back door, Zhou Dun still placed a bamboo chair and a stack of documents under the corridor, and Qi She sat on the chair and read one by one.Hearing that there was no movement inside the door, he thought Qingtian was still asleep, but when it was almost noon, he saw her come in from the front with a wooden fish in her hand, it turned out that she had gone to morning class.He greeted her with a soft smile, "Have you had breakfast yet? I brought you some. There is also this jar of Longjing. I wanted to bring you Miyunlong, but the water here is not good, so I'm afraid it will be astringent. Qingtian , Qingtian? Well, what do you want from me? Say something to me, can you take a look at me? Qing—”

His nose almost hit her door.

When the lunch came from the mountain, he called the door, and Qingtian opened. It was still the same, only vegetarian rice and meat were eaten.After eating, I put the food box outside, as it should be, and then I came to the yard from the corridor without looking sideways, looking like I was going to pick up the clothes that were dried yesterday.Zhou Dun put it away and folded it long ago, Qi She called to Qing Tian, ​​and cupped it with both hands, without touching him with her fingertips, she took it and left without even saying "thank you".

When she went out again, when the evening class bell rang, she went to the hall alone with a wooden fish in her arms.Qi She couldn't hold back anymore, she stepped forward in three steps at a time, and blocked Qingtian wherever she was hiding, forcing her into a dead corner, just a blow away, and smelled each other.He bent down a little and wanted her gaze in the golden twilight, but she kept it as usual, like a rare treasure, with her eyelids drooping heavily, never refusing to look at her.Qi She was anxious and in pain, and her heart was surging, "Qingtian, can you stop doing this? I know everything, and I came to Yangzhou without sleep, just to-"

He shut up.

With no way out, Qing Tian squatted on the ground, buried his head in his knees, and covered his ears with his palms, looking ridiculous like a child.But Qi She couldn't laugh at all, and he even used a lot of strength to suppress the sourness rushing straight into his eyes.Even if he regretted and begged hard, she would rather stay in this wretched place, grinding her skin smoother than silk into sandpaper every day, taking away the warbler singing the steepest and most twisted love songs. Singing penniless scriptures, handing over her plump youth to a group of hooligans to moleste and humiliate, and never refusing to tie him up again, once so tightly tied together as two hands.Because one of them turned all the caresses it had into a vicious slap, and the mouth that once uttered the most pure words of love told her a word given to her by the world, a word that was meant for her. The words see the scarlet letter that seals the throat with blood.Qi She understands that there is a kind of people's trust that is the most delicate fine porcelain. Once it is broken, it will be crushed. You may bend your head to the ground to pick it up and repair it, but you can't find anything except fragments and cuts all over your hands. Won't get it again.He clenched his fists firmly, wanting to accuse the other party of his heartlessness, but he only stared straight at Qingtian's skinny and naked back of the neck, where the three thousand black hairs that flew around in the past were completely naked.

The sunlight casts a shadow on Qing Tian's huddled body like a hug without leaving any gaps.The shadow began to retreat inch by inch.When Qingtian felt the warmth of the sunset on her back again, she put down her hands covering her ears, picked up the wooden fish from the ground, stood up, flung her single clothes back and forth, and walked away from the people in front of her .

The light is clear and the trees are luxuriant, Zen Guan Qingfan, a red-headed figure in Tsing Yi passes through the narrow road.No one knows why such a serene and quiet picture can make a good man who bleeds and does not shed tears feel so desperate that he wants to cry.

3.
In the next two days, intermittent showers began, and Qi She still went up the mountain in the early morning and left at dusk, and sat on that chair for the whole day.But occasionally when Qingtian came in and out, he never tried to approach him for a conversation, but temporarily let go of the book in his hand, watching her come and go, as if watching the irreversible changes in the world.

When night came, the rain stopped, and the bells rang frequently, responding to the disappearance of the soul of the empty mountain.There are a few sparse stars in the faint, and a bright crescent moon.Qingtian opened the door and poured a basin of water into the courtyard, and scanned the chair outside the door with the corner of his eyes, the chair was empty, he had already left at this time every day.She blinked a few times, turned around, but took two steps back in fright—the man was right behind her.

(End of this chapter)