novelraw Chapter 134: Chapter 134
Chapter 134: Chapter 134
In the dark night, everything is silent, except for the rustling of branches and leaves and the tireless chirping of night owls, there is only dim moonlight.
"Lord."
A familiar call suddenly came into his ears in the deserted place, Cao Cao raised his eyes, and saw Guo Jia's smiling eyes, just like two bright moonlights.
"Feng Xiao?" He called out to the person in disbelief, with a tone of pleasant surprise.
"It's me, my lord." Guo Jia rolled up the corners of her lips, and her gentle smile seemed like ink flowing along the paper, suddenly pouring into people's hearts.
"Jia Lai bids farewell to the Lord."
Disappointment and sadness suddenly spread in Cao Cao's eyes, covering the fog of loneliness: "Feng Xiao will stay with Gu like this, don't leave, okay?"
He walked up and wanted to touch Guo Jia's shoulder as usual, but his hand went straight through the latter's body, only touching the transparent air.
Guo Jia smiled bitterly, his eyelids drooped slightly, and the two clear and bright moons were also covered up: "Jia is unwilling to leave, my lord's great cause has not been accomplished, the world has not yet been settled, and Jia has not fulfilled the promise made when I first met you." The promise was made, but it has been fulfilled from the beginning to the end. Jia used to read historical volumes and saw how many ancient people sighed and failed when they were about to die. Time doesn't wait for me, so I regret to leave. In the end, I have betrayed my lord's trust, and I feel ashamed."
Cao Cao shook his head: "Feng Xiao, you and I have long been more than monarchs and ministers, you are a lonely confidant. You know the lonely mind best, understand the loneliness and suffering at this time, if you lose Fengxiao on the way back, the lonely will seem to be lost, no matter how hard it is As one wishes."
"Accompanying the lord for a journey is already a blessing in Jia's life." He was silent for a while, and said sincerely, "My lord knows that you are also Jia's confidant, live me and trust me, and give me half a lifetime of kindness, Jia dare not repay your life." Let's die... nothing more."
Cao Cao finally lost his composure, his eyes were red, and tears rolled down his face.
"Feng Xiao... I don't want you to die, I only want you to live."
"My lord, looking at the sake in the glass in the future, if I can occasionally think of Jia, I will live among these jade bottles."
After speaking, he seemed to have remembered something, and asked: "Have you ever read the bag that Jia gave to the lord?"
Cao Cao was startled, then shook his head: "I have been lonely and sad all night, and I really forgot to open it."
"This is Jia Neng's last strategy for the Lord. It is the last thing Jia can do. I hope you can adopt it."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to take over a piece of hazy moon, and accidentally poured his whole body down.
Tall and tall, his handsome facial features have faded away from the original pale and sickly appearance. Standing in front of Cao Cao is just like when he first met him more than ten years ago.
"It's a pity that I can no longer see the lyrics of the lord's new work. There are so many songs and fus in the world that I haven't had time to appreciate. From now on, Jia can only say goodbye." He sighed and said, "Jia really hasn't heard enough..."
"Feng Xiao, stay here and listen to the Yuefu that I just wrote not long ago. I specially let you arrange the music composed by the musician you admire the most."
Guo Jia was helpless: "My lord is talking stupid again."
"It's like the moon, when can I stop it?" He sighed emotionally, deliberately pretending not to look into Cao Cao's lost eyes, "Jia likes this sentence you wrote very much, my heart is like the bright moon, and I would like to burn this body to the end for Meng Brother De, light up the long road ahead."
At this time, the bell rang in the distance, and the bell of the fifth watch was urging faster than usual, so fast that Cao Cao wished he could order the destruction immediately.
Sorrow flashed across Guo Jia's eyes, but he quickly withdrew it in front of Cao Cao: "Dawn has come, and Jia is looking forward to the dawn of the world. In this way, I can rest in peace under the nine springs."
He leaned forward and bowed again, stretched out his sleeves and said loudly.
In a daze, Cao Cao remembered that he seldom kneeled down because of his closeness, but today he bid farewell so solemnly.
This is the last time.
"My lord, Jia...retire." Guo Jia said, and turned around. There was no shadow of him on the ground, only empty bamboo leaves swaying gently.
"Bong Xiao!" Cao Cao tried to catch up with him, Guo Jia seemed to have heard his shout, looked back at him, and then disappeared at the end of his eyes.
Cao Cao found that although he didn't seem to be walking fast, it was frustrating that he couldn't catch up with the blue shirt that had caught his eyes countless times.
"Bong Xiao, Feng Xiao...Military Master...Sacrificing Wine..."
He could only stare at the direction where Guo Jia disappeared not far away, kept calling and muttering to himself, and quietly wet his forehead with cold sweat.
"Sikong?" the guard next to his ear called him cautiously.
He opened his eyes suddenly, and above his head were still the chi-pattern curtains and bed curtains from last night, the cold and dark wind entered the room, and a guard who had always been trusted.
He suddenly felt very irritable, and he casually grabbed the Yitian sword beside him and was about to swing it at the guard, as if he wanted to vent the disappointment in his heart.The guard was so frightened that he knelt down in a hurry, begging for mercy desperately.
At this time, he suddenly thought of Guo Jia's clear and quiet eyes, so he put down his sword, and slammed a word: "Get lost."
Everyone knows that I like to kill people in my dreams, but this one happens to be someone who is not afraid of death.
Then don't kill him.
Cao Cao thought about it, but found someone waiting outside the door. He must have seen himself awake, and finally said loudly: "Sikong, the subordinate of the coffin offering wine has been ordered by you to send someone back from the west of Liaoning to help the coffin. Sikong means where will the sacrificial wine be buried?"
The man's words were tantamount to bringing him back to reality.
Feng Xiao left.He left after all.
He thought sadly, the blood in his throat seemed to surge up again.After a long time, he said: "Xu Du, Gu Hao often goes to offer sacrifices to him and see him."
The person outside the door promised, but the sound disappeared immediately.
He stepped out slowly, and inadvertently touched the silk brocade pouch in his sleeve.
With a sudden shock, Cao Cao quickly took it out and opened it, but his whole right hand was trembling uncontrollably.
Inside is a note.
——"Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang went to Liaodong, the lord does not have to chase him, if he pursues, he will fight with one heart, if he does not pursue, he can sit back and watch Gongsun Kang kill the two, the leader can be obtained by waiting."
He unconsciously pinched the note between his fingers, Guo Jia's confident words were still in his ears, but he was out of sight.
Everything was as expected by Guo Jia. Gongsun Kang, the prefect of Liaodong, saw that Cao Cao's sudden attack did not go as planned, and he couldn't help but feel anxious. He planned to behead Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang, and sent people to Yecheng overnight.
The moment Cao Cao received the two wooden boxes, he suddenly cried and laughed, and everyone around him was puzzled.
"Bury these two people generously in Yuan's ancestral tomb, show great compassion to their families, don't let them suffer from poverty and disaster, and let the rest go."
When he gave the order, the officials quickly said yes, and they all took the order to do things.
On the side of the table, Cao Cao stood alone in front of the candle, writing quickly in the lamp, and wrote the memorial to Guo Jia's posthumous title.
"Guo Jia, the old army's sacrificial wine, is loyal, good-natured and well-rounded. Every time there is a big discussion, he speaks in the court, handles it in the center, and makes every move. He has been in the army for more than ten years. He rides and rides with him and sits on the same seat. , Lu Bu from the east, took Suigu from the west, cut off the head of Yuan Tan, and the people of Pingshuo, crossed the dangerous fortress, settled Wuwan, shook the power of Liaodong, and used Yuan Shang as an owl. Although it is fake Tianwei, it is easy to point it out. Facing the enemy, carry forward the oath of life, the vicious and the vicious will conquer the dead, and the merits and merits will be honored."
Farewell, Guo Fengxiao.
He wrote two full copies, and stood silently for a long time. He put one of them under the candle and lit it slowly.
Under the orange-red firelight, the dim yellow paper gradually curled, turned gray and black, and finally turned into ashes, lying quietly in the candlestick.
**
The whole of Yuan's mansion was completely white, and the women cried and cried, shrouded in wailing all day long.
Every pedestrian who passed by the door couldn't help speeding up their pace, fearing that they would get bad luck, they all frowned and quickly covered their faces and left.
"This family is really unlucky. The pillars of the family have fallen and there are only a few brothers who are in the wall. It's really over now. Even the remaining two patriarchs are dead. Isn't this the end of the Yuan family?" The woman in the shopping basket passed by and happened to meet a familiar companion, and couldn't help but leaned over to discuss it.
"Oh, I owe it to my previous life to live next to his house. I listen to those women's family members crying all day long. If it weren't for the ancestral house we live in, I would have moved far away from my family!"
"Third Aunt, I advise you to move quickly. If the widows continue to cry like this every day, they may never end their troubles." The woman yelled loudly, regardless of whether the people inside heard or not.
"Hey, look, why are there two handsome young men here?" Suddenly, the third aunt seemed to have discovered something new, and hurriedly patted the talkative woman on the shoulder and shouted.
The gossip woman looked over and caught a rare glimpse of two horses parked at the gate of Yuan Mansion, and two noble gentlemen in extraordinary clothes were stepping over the threshold and entering.
"Ouch," she couldn't help exclaiming in surprise, "it's a strange thing, how can there be people who don't think it's bad luck and run into it?"
The third aunt also frowned and agreed: "Look at those two young masters, they must be quite high-status, could it be that some distant relative from Yuan's mansion came over?"
"Third Aunt, you are overthinking too much. All the men from the Yuan family are dead. Where do you get any relatives?"
At the door, Cao Zhen heard the two people yelling as if no one was there, and couldn't help but whisper to Cao Pi beside him: "Zi Huan, let me tell you, isn't it too blatant to enter the mansion?"
Cao Pi squinted at him: "Counseled?"
"Of course not." Cao Zhen hastily denied, "It's just that I think it's better for us to be more cautious."
"Jindu came in, so why are you being cautious? I am already a brother, and I told you that if my father found out about this, I would have to be skinned by him! Now I will give up my life to accompany you in, Zidan Can you not be moved?"
"I was moved, that was very moved, I burst into tears." Cao Zhen said repeatedly, and then he heard Cao Pi ask him: "Where is your girl?"
"Let me ask." As he spoke, he grabbed a maid who was serving bowls at the front of the corridor, and asked in a pleasant manner, "Please trouble me, where's your young lady?"
The maid suddenly saw two men coming in, and couldn't help but look at them in surprise, and found that one of them looked familiar, but the other was completely unfamiliar, but she didn't dare to offend the two men, so she could only point at them casually: "Here, we The eldest lady is in the garden, as if she is playing the piano."
Cao Zhen thanked him, but when he listened carefully to identify it, the only thing that got into his ears was the continuous crying, so what was the sound of the piano that the maid said.
Impatient, he tugged on Cao Pi's sleeve: "Come on, let's go and tell those women not to cry, it's annoying."
Stepping into the garden, there are withered leaves everywhere on the ground, and the birds chirped a few times desolately, adding a bit of misery.
In the center of the pavilion was a lady in mourning, surrounded by a circle of daughters-in-law and maids, tearing paper flowers and weeping.
Light-colored silk and silver foils fell from the sky one after another, fell into the stagnant pond and floated around. The already lifeless water surface was already full of these objects.
The two looked at each other, and suddenly a young woman in white clothes walked quickly into the pavilion, knelt down on the ground with a plate of steaming food in her hand, and respectfully said to the lady: "Mother, my daughter-in-law made vegetarian food by herself. Soup, please eat it while it’s hot, don’t hurt your body by starving for days.”
"Evil star!" The noble lady looked ungrateful, with brows raised, and suddenly slapped her on the cheek, and immediately the bowl fell to the ground with a "bang", and the porcelain pieces were shattered with the splashed soup. all over the floor.
She immediately glared at the woman and yelled: "If I hadn't married you, the evil star of Kefu, how could my son have died? Ever since you entered my house, our Yuan family has been ruined, and you still have the nerve to beg me?"
After receiving this inexplicable slap, the woman hurriedly fell on the ground and begged: "Mother, you blame your daughter-in-law, and your daughter-in-law is also suffering. I just hope you can take care of yourself."
"Get out, get out! Even if I'm starving to death, I don't need you, a dead star!"
Seeing that another slap was about to slap him, he heard a "Stop!" suddenly sounded.
Hearing this loud shout, the noble lady was stunned for a moment, she raised her head to try to see who dared to stop her, but she saw a young master who was completely unknown in front of her.
Cao Zhen who was not far away was surprised to find that his brother Cao Pi rushed straight up to protect the scolded woman.