box of hearts

Chapter 261 Looking at My Hometown (5)
The guards made some disturbances at first, but then they all stood solemnly, and Sui Xihe yelled and cursed, beat and scratched, without giving way.

Xi He collapsed hopelessly and powerlessly, crying loudly: "Let me out, I want to see him! Tell the third child that I want to see him!"

Yu Ming also burst into tears, and simply knelt down on the ground, "Brothers, our mother wants to see the Prince Regent, even if you can't open the palace to let him go, at least send a message, I beg you, do me a favor, do me a favor good!"

One of the young men with a long nose job is the leader of this team. He looked straight ahead and said sonorously without hesitation: "The queen mother is short of something, or the phoenix is ​​ill. The servants can send the letter to the inner court on your behalf." For Yutai Hospital, except for other things, you can’t enter the door with a word, and you can’t leave the door with a word.”

Yuming shook his waist and legs, begging bitterly: "Brother guard, you have said this a hundred times over the years, we all understand, but the empress has come out in person, you don't look at the monk's face, you look at the Buddha's face, the guard Brother, you just make an exception, just send a message to the Prince Regent, will it work?"

The guard took a step back, with the sun above his head, as majestic as Erlang God guarding the Nantian Gate, "One, word, no, can, enter, door! One, word, no, can, out, door!"

Xi He, who was held by Quan Fu, screamed suddenly, and threw herself forward.The guards formed a human wall arm in arm, the guards were solemn, and the leader drew his knife.

Quan Fu tremblingly pointed at him, "You, you, you dare to commit crimes?!"

The leader still kept his eyes fixed, "Please return the queen mother to the palace!"

"Please return the queen mother to the palace!!" The guards shouted in unison, and the shouts were like knives cutting iron like mud, chopping the sky into pieces.

Yu Ming and Quan Fu tremblingly carried Xi He back into the hall, Xi He was sobbing limply, with dirty tears all over his face.Yuming wept, making a voice of self-hate: "Oh, although we couldn't go in and out in the first few years, those handymen in the palace could still come in and out freely. But since Wu Ran from Ciqing Palace was locked away by the Zhenfu Department last year, this What kind of life is it that even a mouse can't get out of Hegong!"

Quan Fu glanced at a corner of the hall with his eyes, "Hmph, the Eunuch Wu's case was not because of that villain who informed him?"

From this hostile gaze, a man came from all over the place, dressed in Zhaohui, like a sharp sword, and went straight to the seat of the Queen Mother Xihe, "Queen Mother, there is no way for the slave to see the regent, but the regent Whether you are willing to come to see you depends on whether you have a way."

Xihe lifted her face from the tears she was holding, and stared at Qiao Yunze.

Qiao Yun stared deeply at his eyes, the shadow of the sun moved to the west, time flashed by, and Qi She was already looking back at him in front of him.

These two men, no, an eunuch and a prince, had last seen each other, some years ago, at the bedside of their common woman.They looked at each other for a moment, like an osprey diving into the river to hunt fish and shrimp, hunting all the changes of the years on each other's faces.Qi She took the lead to move his eyes away. He drooped his eyelids and kneaded the corners of his eyes. His voice revealed a touch of laziness and deep condescension; Just what attitude.

"The guards guarding the Compassionate Palace reported that there was an internal servant who exposed the empress dowager's secret communication with foreign ministers. Are you the informer?"

Qiao Yun was on the ground with his knees on the ground, his shoulders slightly bent as if he was about to shoot a bowstring, "A year ago, the case of Wu Ran, the adopted son of Wu Ran, the steward of the Ciqing Palace, handled by the Zhenfu Division was exposed by the slave. No, and dare not despise, so I escorted the servant out of the palace and made a secret statement to the prince face to face."

"Then, who is the foreigner whom the Empress Dowager communicates with privately?"

"It's you, my lord!"

Qi She raised his eyelids now, and he saw Qiao Yunze's neat and white teeth, and every word rolled out of them has been cut and resolute: "The Queen Mother summons the prince, and you must enter the palace before the key is released. Otherwise, please prepare for the national funeral for the empress dowager tomorrow." He saw him take out a gold cardamom box from his sleeve, hold it high above the top, and kneel forward, "there are some old things in the box, to be used as the remains of the deceased. read."

There are thousands of voices reminding Qi She not to open this box, all disasters, calamities, catastrophes... all misfortunes are all in this box, once opened, it can never be closed again.But the box had already slipped into his hands by itself, opened the golden back, and opened the belly covered with blood-red silk to him.

Qiao Yun secretly observed Qi She's reaction, "My lord, how should the servant return to life?"

Qi She didn't answer his words, he just stared into the box, blinking his eyes, "You step back."

Qiao Yun quickly swept at him and got up silently. When he retreated to the door, he suddenly stopped.He raised his face slightly, this elegant and elegant posture made his body like glass, clear inside and out.

"Regent, in your eyes, am I, Qiao Yunze, just a slave?"

On the big sandalwood carving seat far away, Qi She sighed, as if the person talking to him was some dirty thing he had just scraped off the sole of his shoe, "I don't see you at all."

This glazed statue was shattered in an instant, and Qiao Yunze's face and body were all ashes, collapsed, and vanished in smoke.Before meeting Qi She, Qiao Yun thought that he would have to desperately suppress the urge to kill him, but when Qi She appeared in front of him, Qiao Yun realized that he didn't want to kill him, he wanted to kiss him, Really, the man's smell is too strong.Through the middle coat, inner lining, girdle, round neck... through the rough sweat and masculine stench, Qiao Yun can still smell the haunting sweetness—that is, Qingtian the taste of.How many times did he dream back in the middle of the night, how many times the night was cold and desolate, how many times, in the low and dilapidated palace room, during the endless hard labor, he suddenly recalled her breath, and then endured the sudden, endless pain without expression. The excruciating pain of castration perceived by man.The knife that cut off his penis and removed his testicles castrated him once a day. In eight years, he was castrated [-] times.But three thousand times they couldn't castrate him, he was always a man, and he missed his woman.

His woman is her, and she will be her all his life.But she, the betrayer who deserved to be struck by lightning, has another lover.The last time they looked at each other, her eyes were as bright as the sun in the sky, the sun that you couldn't even look at if you opened your eyes until tears flowed.

This pair of dogs and men!He loves her, she can't see him; he hates him, he can't see him.They are high above the sky, they blow the wind, they lead the thunder, they want it to be sunny and rainy or rainy, they don't care how the people on the ground struggle to make a living in the exposure to the showers, they can't hear the low and low voice from the ground at all. angry roar.Reasoning with them is like ants and the soaked urine on the top of your head, like a person standing in the downpour with fists clenched and looking up to the sky, childish and ridiculous.

Qiao Yun, on the other hand, stared at Qi She steadfastly, one step at a time, and withdrew from the Harmony Hall.

From the beginning to the end, Qi She never cast a glance at Qiao Yunze, he kept his eyes down on the thing in the gold box: a bright yellow silk handkerchief with double happiness of dragon and phoenix.

The veil is a little faded, very old and dirty, with some mottled stains scattered around, but Qi She understands that this is not a stain, this is a rare pure time in a person's life.On an end road lined with swords, a young, resolute and enthusiastic woman rubbed her bloody tears and blood into the veil, and tied the veil around his wrist with her own hands.

Qi She slammed the gold box shut, but he could clearly see that a cloud of misfortune burst out with irreversible ferocity, and rushed towards the entire sky and earth.

The sunset glow at dusk lingers on the eaves of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and the huge empty courtyard is full of flowers and trees, and the smoke is full of shade.Suddenly, someone broke in from behind the heavy embroidered curtain, "Here we come, Empress Dowager, the prince is really here!"

Before Yu Ming's voice completely dissipated, Qi She had already walked in from the outside, alone, with the sun's rays sticking to the hem of his clothes.Candles were lit in the deep hall, and he stared at his own shadow under his feet, limping in an indescribable panic.He knew why he came, because if he didn't come, she would die for him, and if there was only one woman in the world who kept her word, it was Xihe.But Qi She didn't know why he cared about Xi He's life and death. After all, who was she?Sister-in-law?sister-in-law?mistress?hater?
He really didn't know what kind of face he should face Xi He, so he could only lower his face heavily and hide his bewilderment, "Chen Qishe asks the Queen Mother to—"

Qi She was stunned suddenly, he saw a figure coming out from behind the curtain, kneeling straight in front of him, causing him to kneel down too quickly, "Queen Mother, what are you doing? I can't afford it."

From the corner of his eyes, he could only vaguely see Xihe, but he could clearly hear her hoarse voice, just like the stagnant creaking sound of a door that has not been opened for a long time, "Third Master, there are only you and me here." I, there is no need to put on airs, you and I both know that you are not a 'subject', and I no longer have the authority of the Queen Mother to give orders to you. I am begging you now, just as a mother, please help Honger."

Qi Sheyou glanced down, avoiding the piercing gaze in front of him, "The emperor is recuperating in Nantai, how can we talk about the word 'rescue'?"

(End of this chapter)