Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 75
On the second day, the weather was even worse. The strong wind carried yellow sand, and it never stopped in the morning.Duanmucui didn't return to the camp until evening, and the carriage drove to the door of the main tent. Ami took the maid to help Duanmucui down in front of the car against the wind. Thoroughly full.Duanmucui covered the snow cap of the cloak, and said a word to Ami, Ami only heard the word Yang Jian, and the second half of the sentence was blown by the wind, and she didn't know where it went.When I wanted to ask again, Duanmucui had already helped the maid to enter the tent.Ami followed for two steps, after thinking about it, she turned around and asked the coachman, only to find out that Duanmucui meant that Yang Jian would come later and asked her to prepare the military tent for Yang Jian.

Ami nodded in agreement, let the coachman go down first, stopped after walking two steps, and asked: "Did the general come over for dinner?"

The coachman shook his head and said, "General Yang Jian has reserved food at the other end. I think it doesn't suit the general's appetite. The general didn't eat anything."

Ami smiled and said: "Then I know, the general has been indifferent for the past two days, the general will not like the stewed meat soup at the end of General Yang Jian."

While speaking, he lifted the curtain to enter the tent, and the maid at the front had already supported Duanmucui to rest on the couch.Ami signaled the maids to go down, and said to Duanmucui: "Girl, is General Yang Jian coming later? What are you here for?"

Duanmu Cui said indifferently: "It's nothing. He was afraid that Chao Ge's attackers would act rashly again, so he sent a deputy general to help me guard Anyi. When I left, he originally said he would send me off. Who knows that the prime minister has something to do with me. Just let the deputy general come over, who knows that he will definitely come over to take a look, so that's up to him."

Ami smiled and said, "It's because General Yang Jian loves the girl so much, he wouldn't come here if it was someone else."

Duanmucui also smiled: "I called him big brother for nothing, naturally he should love me more. It's just that the prime minister is discussing matters, and I'm afraid it will be very late again, so why come here then?"

Speaking of this, he suddenly sighed: "Ami, come here."

Ami was puzzled, and hurriedly walked over, Duanmucui held Ami's hand, paused for a long time, and then said softly: "I'm going to marry Zhuchang."

Ami was taken aback for a moment, and then she was overjoyed: "Girl, how did you get married so fast? Didn't you say that you will get married after capturing Chongcheng?"

"Three days later, when the city was attacked, the prime minister said, on the day the city is broken, I will be married to Zhuchang."

"Did the Prime Minister tell you?"

Duan Mucui shook his head: "No, Yang Jian told me. They went to the Prime Minister's tent to discuss the matter of attacking the city. The Prime Minister promised that if the city can be broken, they will get married on the same day. It will be good luck and double happiness."

Ami considered Duanmucui's face: "Girl, why do you seem unhappy when you talk about it?"

Duanmucui withdrew her hand, pulled the quilt to her body, and said indifferently: "What's wrong with me?"

Ami shook her head: "Girl, you can't hide it from me, you don't seem happy, if it were me marrying Zhan... Brother, I don't know what it would be like to be happy."

Duanmucui lowered her eyelashes: "There is nothing to be unhappy about. I promised to marry Zhuchang first. Now the prime minister is just setting a date."

Hearing what she said, Ami didn't know what to say, so she paused and said, "Girl, have you eaten? What do you want to eat?"

Duanmucui closed her eyes lightly, and said in a low voice: "Let the kitchen make some bean soup, don't add minced meat, just plain."

Ami responded, and walked out lightly. After walking for a while and turning around to look, Duanmucui turned sideways inward, as if she had fallen asleep.

For a moment, I was very confused, and my heart was empty, because I thought: The girl is very strange today, why is there no joy at all?

No matter how I thought about it, I couldn't figure it out, so I had to go down first. When I lifted the curtain, I felt the cold air rushing towards my face, so I hurriedly took up my snow cap, wrapped it in a big cloak and went out against the wind.The strong wind blew up the knot at the collar and hit the guard's face, and the jade bell at the knot made a low and crisp sound, and the guard moved aside, still standing upright like a pine .

Ami explained things left and right, and then returned to the tent trembling.The maid was sitting with Qi Mu Yiluo, when she saw Ami coming in, she hurriedly came up to help her take off her cloak, and said with a smile: "It's very cold outside, the girl is wearing this cloak, if she doesn't make a sound, she won't be able to recognize who it is." Who is it?"

The speaker had no intention of listening and the listener had intentions, Qi Mu Yiluo seemed to have a flash of inspiration in his mind, his heart was beating unceasingly, but his face was still foolish.

Ami smiled and said: "I asked the kitchen to make bean soup for the general, you go and watch them, bring it to me when it's done, and then I'll send it to the general."

The waitress walked out after a short wait, Ami stopped her suddenly and said: "Let the cook's hands and feet be quicker, the general is probably asleep."

After thinking for a while, he shook his head and said with a smile, "Actually, when I left just now, the general had already fallen asleep... Anyway, hurry up."

The kitchen's hands and feet are not slow, and after a while, the waitress has come over with a food box.Ami opened the lid of the box, took off the lid of the food tripod, smelled the smell, tested it with a silver needle, then put the lid on the box again, picked up the box to leave, the maid hurriedly said: "Outside It's very cold, I'll send it over there."

Ami shook his head and said: "You can't enter unless you declare, how can you enter the general's tent casually, and the guards will interrogate you, it will be troublesome again, I will just go."

With a sound, the waitress got up to help Ami lift the curtain, Qimu Yiluo turned sideways, from her angle, she could just see the section from Ami to the military tent.

There was a lot of wind and sand, and from a little distance away, only blurred figures could be seen. As Ami said, the guards did not interrogate her, but stepped aside a little, and let Ami in.

After a while, Ami withdrew again, and the maid waited with the curtain closed until she came in. Ami let out a sigh, took off the cloak and put it on the desk, and said with a smile, "It's so cold."

After a pause, he said to the waitress: "The general has already rested. I put the food box on the dining table. You don't need to take it back tonight. You can go down."

I saw Qimu Yiluo while talking. These days, Qimu Yiluo is silent, curled up quietly in the corner, blurred to the point of blending into the background, and Ami often ignores her existence.

Ami walked over slowly, reached out and stroked her hair hanging on her shoulders, and said softly, "Have you felt better these two days?"

Qi Mu Yiluo remained calm, still sitting quietly with his eyes downcast, seemingly not paying attention to Ami's question.

Ami sighed, but she didn't really expect Qi Mu Yiluo to respond to her, she withdrew her hand at that moment, just sighed in her heart, and suddenly heard someone outside the tent say loudly: "Miss Ami."

Ami was overjoyed and blurted out, "Brother Zhan!"

The curtain was raised, and it was Zhan Zhao who came in.It was so cold outside, but he was still dressed in thin blue clothes, his face was peaceful, his eyes were clear, and there was no trace of fatigue.

"Miss Ami, is the general back?"

Ami nodded, the smile in her eyes became more and more bright, and she whispered suddenly: "Brother Zhan, I have something to say to you."

Her tone was extremely hesitant, her eyes wandered around for a while, her face blushing, she knew that Qi Mu Yiluo couldn't hear anything, but she still wanted to avoid her, and said in a low voice, "Brother Zhan, come in for a while." .”

The military tents in the camp are mostly divided into inner and outer rooms, the outer room is for living and welcoming guests, the corner is separated by a small curtain, which is regarded as the inner bedroom, Zhan Zhao saw her walking towards the inner room, he hesitated in his heart, Ami lifted the inner curtain, turned to look at him : "Brother Zhan?"

As long as you are open and upright in your heart, it doesn't matter to go in, Zhan Zhao let out a sigh of relief, and walked in slowly with his lower lapel flapped.

The curtain was lowered, and the hem was still swaying, Qi Mu Yiluo suddenly stood up, rushed to the desk in a few steps, and tremblingly grabbed the fur cloak that Ami had just untied, his slender jade fingers were tightly clutching the fine fur edge, pure white The jade teeth sank deeply into the lower lip, but without any hesitation, she quickly put the fur cloak on her body.

When the curtain was lifted, the cold wind blew in, Qi Mu Yiluo shivered, tightened his fur coat, lowered the snow cap, forced himself to calm down, and walked towards the main tent.

Seeing Ami coming out of the tent again, the guard at the tent door was slightly surprised, but didn't ask any more questions.

When passing by, the wind danced the jade bell on the collar of the fur cloak.

The guard looked back unconsciously, but he was a step too late, and only saw the slender figure between the curtains.

Ami did not speak for a long time, Zhan Zhao felt a little uncomfortable, or, for him, this small room was a bit too cramped.

"Miss Ami," Zhan Zhao deliberately distanced himself from Ami, "Ask Zhan to come in, why do we need to discuss?"

"Brother Zhan," Ami plucked up his courage, "In a few days, there will be a happy event in Duanmu Camp, do you know?"

Zhan Zhao smiled: "What happy event?"

"It's... the joy of marriage." Ami's cheeks were burning hot, "Brother Zhan, I grew up with the girl, and I love sisters. I have always thought that if I could marry the girl at the same time..."

Zhan Zhao was confused when he heard it: "Miss Ami, are you going to leave the court?"

"Out of the court?" Ami couldn't understand.

Thinking about the saying that he hadn't left the court when he came to Xiqi, Zhan Zhao smiled, and asked another way: "Zhan wants to ask, is Miss Ami going to get married soon?"

"If the capture of Chongcheng is profitable, the general will get married in three days, I think..."

"General?" Zhan Zhao thumped in his heart, interrupting Ami's words, "Which general?"

"Which other general is here?" Ami wondered, "Of course it's my girl."

"You mean, General Duanmu will get married in three days?" Zhan Zhao's voice suddenly became strange, "General Duanmu will get married? Who will she marry?"

"General He Zhuchang, almost everyone in the Xiqi Army knows about this. Our general will marry General Zhuchang sooner or later. We just need to set a date. Just now the general came back and said that if the capture of Chongcheng is profitable, the wedding date will be fixed." After three days."

Zhan Zhao suddenly took a step back, his face turned pale: "Did she come back today?"

"Yes." Ami panicked, she was at a loss by Zhan Zhao's reaction.

"Impossible." Zhan Zhao shook his head and murmured, "Didn't she remember it already? How could there be a wedding?"

"Remember what?" Ami was confused.

"The general is in the tent?" Zhan Zhao didn't answer the question, and without waiting for Ami's answer, he suddenly turned around and left, opened the inner curtain with his hands, and strode out.When he was leaving the tent, he bumped into someone head-on, Zhan Zhaozhi acted as if he hadn't seen him, he turned sideways and went straight to the main tent.

He was fine, but Qimu Yiluo was so frightened that her heart almost popped out, she quickly moved aside and took off the fur cloak, and with a little effort, the Ami who was staying there had already chased him out, and said anxiously: "Zhan Brother..."

She also didn't have time to pay attention to Qi Mu Yiluo.

Seeing that Ami was about to chase him out of the tent, Qi Mu Yiluo suddenly said, "Miss Ami."

Ami was caught off guard and abruptly stopped. When she saw the speaker clearly, she was so shocked that she could hardly speak: "Miss Qimu...you, how are you?"

Qi Mu Yiluo smiled faintly, a rare blush appeared on his pale face.

She unfolded the cloak in her hand and slowly put it on Ami: "Miss Ami, it's cold outside."

Ami stared blankly at her, subconsciously surrounded Qiu Yu, her mind suddenly became confused, and suddenly thought of Zhan Zhao, she hurriedly said: "Miss Qimu, I have something to do now, I will come to see you later."

As he spoke, he surrounded Qiu Yu and hurriedly chased him out.

Qi Mu Yiluo's legs gave way, and he fell down on the felt, the empty brass pipe in his arms rolled out.

Before Zhan Zhao reached the tent, he was stopped by the guards. During the stalemate, Ami hurried over, and the jade bell on the buttoned tie jingled: "Brother Zhan, I went in to see just now, the general has already rested." .”

Seeing that Ami was speaking for Zhan Zhao, the guard's face was no longer so stern, but the halberd in front of him remained motionless: "The general has no invitation, and others are not allowed to enter without permission."

"Brother Zhan..." Ami's eyes were worried and anxious, she didn't understand what happened to Zhan Zhao, "Go back first, okay? We'll talk about it tomorrow if we have anything to do."

Zhan Zhao remained silent, and suddenly mobilized his internal energy to write every word clearly, even in this windy night, the words were clear.

"Zhan Zhao asks to see General Duanmu."

After speaking, the group of people seemed to have a tacit understanding, and they became quiet at the same time.

I don't know how long it took, until Ami almost lost his patience, Duanmucui's calm voice finally came from inside: "Let him in."

Ami hesitated for a moment, but did not dare to follow.

When Zhan Zhao saw Duanmucui, she was sitting up from the couch.There is a dining tripod on the dining table next to it, the tripod cover seems not to be closed tightly, there are faint traces of white mist leaking out, and the aroma of bean soup is overflowing.

Duanmucui didn't look at him, but just stared at the graceful mist coming out of the tripod: "Zhan Zhao, why did you come here in the middle of the night to ask for a meeting?"

Zhan Zhao's heart sank suddenly, he paused, and suddenly smiled: "Why did you come here in the middle of the night? Duanmu never talks like this."

Duanmu Cui smiled lightly: "Sure enough, I can fool you once, but I can't fool you a second time. Sooner or later, I won't be able to hide it from you."

Although he had been prepared for a long time, but after hearing her confession, Zhan Zhao felt as if he had been crushed hard in his heart. For a moment, it seemed that his blood was broken when he inhaled and exhaled, and it was so unbearable.

"You said you remember Xuan Ping Ming Dao, are you all lies?"

Duanmucui smiled: "It's all lies. I have never been to Xuanping, and I don't know about the Underworld. I only remember Xiqi."

"Then how do you know about Xuan Ping and Ming Dao?"

"It's just a coincidence."

"The opportunity that the general talked about is more important to Zhan Zhao than anything else, so please let the general speak."

Duanmucui was silent, paused, and suddenly looked up at him: "Zhan Zhao, is this Shen Yuan?"

"Yes."

"You came to find me?"

"……Yes."

"What does the Duanmu girl you know look like?"

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, an indescribably strange feeling filled his chest, he hesitated, "General...seems to be no stranger to Shen Yuan."

Duanmucui smiled faintly: "I know a little bit. Zhan Zhao, I think that what you told me about your background before is not all true. We are not fools, so why bother to cover up the mist with something in your words, you might as well open up and say it."

Zhan Zhao heaved a sigh of relief, strangely, there was an unexplained sense of relief in his heart, he nodded and said, "Okay."

Duanmucui smiled: "Then sit down and talk."

While talking, she removed the lid of the dining cauldron, lowered her head to smell it, picked up the spoon in the lunch box, thought for a while and asked Zhan Zhao: "Have you eaten yet?"

The wind outside the tent was still there, the walls of the military tent were shaken inside and out, but inside the tent was another world.It is rare to be so peaceful and warm, the aroma of bean soup is like mist, through the mist to see Duanmucui, his eyebrows are sometimes clear and sometimes blurred, knowing that she is not the person he is looking for, but he is not disappointed in his heart.On the contrary, I suddenly felt that General Duanmu was also a kind friend, who could talk to her and drink tea with her without burden.

She ate with her head bowed, her jet-black hair covered her face, but she revealed a lustrous jade color on the back of her neck.Zhan Zhao looked away, but his heart gradually softened, and he said softly, "Duanmu is my friend."

Duanmucui bit the spoon and laughed suddenly: "Do you like her?"

Zhan Zhao didn't pay attention to her asking this question, he was slightly embarrassed, and was about to find a topic to change, when he met her bright eyes, he felt that there was nothing to hide, he hesitated for a while, nodded and admitted: "Yes."

Duanmucui let out an oh, very proud, paused and asked again: "Why did you come to Shenyuan?"

Zhan Zhao no longer hides it: "There are people who open the dark way without permission, intending to endanger the world. Duanmu is the god of Yingzhou, and he has a duty to do so. He cannot sit idly by. I entered the dark way together with her. Originally, after a hard fight, closing the dark way is within reach. , Who knows... Who knows that Shen Yuan made troubles, Duanmu fell into the sinking abyss, I hoped to find her back, so I followed in."

Duanmucui listened very seriously: "How long is this...?"

Zhan Zhao didn't understand at first, but he quickly realized: "After 2000."

Duanmucui was taken aback: "After 2000? Is it under the rule of Yin Shang? Or the descendants of King Wu?"

Zhan Zhao smiled: "It wasn't Yin Shang, nor King Wu. After that, dynasties changed and emperors rotated. The number is countless."

"You say that Miss Duanmu is the Immortal of Yingzhou?"

"Yes."

Duanmucui let out a long-pitched voice, and was speechless for a while, took a spoon and stirred it in the dining cauldron, only drank a few spoonfuls, and was lost in thought: Yang Jian also said that I can't become a fairy after practicing for 800 years, so it's all nonsense of……

Suddenly remembered something, smiled and said, "No wonder you don't want to talk about your own background. After 2000 years... after 2000 years, it's not unusual for people to look like this. How come you still look like this?"

(End of this chapter)