Chapter 6 Auspicious Prayers
The night is shrouded in thousands of miles, and in the same darkness, each place has different loneliness. Chen's house is located in the corner of the deep alley of Longjinfang. The narrow space and high walls make the lighting here very bad; her house is small and low, and it has been a few years since then. The ash beams and broken wooden windows make the color of the entire space very dark... It reminds people of the haunted house in the story.
At this time, Yulian realized the benefits of the Chen man. Yulian was not so scared when he was there. She curled up against the wall, and the more she was afraid, the less she couldn't sleep.
Will there be ghosts after a person die? Yulian seemed to see the body with bloody eyes staring at Wu Shen's eyes when she died. She trembled and whispered to the dark air: "Don't blame me, don't blame me... I'm not right. I shouldn't have hoped for your death in my heart, but I didn't kill you, nor did I be an accomplice! This is all helplessness. I, a woman, really can't stand such a life. If I hadn't been able to live, my heart wouldn't be so cruel..."
She kept comforting herself and finally slept for a while. After all, this was not the most terrifying place, and it was in the Tokyo metropolis; the reason why it made people feel terrifying was that they just died and were in the smelly ditch outside.
What Yulian thinks most scary is the place where she grew up in childhood and in a dream.
When I left my hometown, I was still young, but people would remember the environment I first saw very clearly. The hut was darker and more broken than the Chen family house in Tokyo, and it was pitch black and out of the countryside at night, without a light in the middle of the night. Behind the house was a barren mountain, with many wild graves on the mountain. Yulian still remembered the situation when she was a child that she didn't dare to go to the night when she got up.
I vaguely remember that my hometown belongs to Gaoping, Hedong. I heard the old men chatting and saying that Gaoping was called Changping, which was near the ancient battlefield of the Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao, a long time ago. It was rumored that the Qin general Bai Qi killed 400,000 Zhao soldiers on that land! No wonder the villagers often dug out bones inadvertently. Yulian loved to listen to adults’ idle talk, but after hearing it, she was very scared.
Later, she was finally resold to Li Shouzhen's house in Hezhong Prefecture. She still remembers the densely populated city, the densely populated mansions and the clear houses, and never lacks lamp oil and candles. There were lanterns hanging outside at night. She fell in love with that place at once. At least at first she thought it was a good place with sunshine in the corner.
I don’t know how long she slept, but when she opened her eyes, the clear house disappeared, and what followed was a darkness in reality, with a faint smell of grass and ash in the air.
Yulian widened her eyes in the darkness and did not dare to go to the lamp. The window was airtight, and the oil lamp was shaking even more terrifying. Besides, if the lamp was on in the middle of the night, if someone saw it, she might have gossiped again. At this time, she felt that something was gently pounding her soft breasts. She reached out to grop and found that it was the auspicious talisman I prayed in the Taoist temple a few days ago, and she was tied with a thin rope and still wore it on her body.
Fu asked Shao Ge'er for a few days ago, and there was no life case at that time.
It is said that it is very smart. It has been shining in front of the Bodhisattva, and there are people with high Taoism casting spells and drawing talismans. The runes are painted on a red silk, wrapped in a triangle, and can be worn with a rope. Shao Ge'er said that he will go on a battle in the near future. Yulian hopes that he can come back alive from the battlefield. What else can he do besides worshiping gods and asking for talismans?
The temple owner of the Yuzhenguan was a female Taoist priest. The temple was in the city, so it was very popular among women. Yulian was also very interested in inquiring about the origin of the temple owner. It is said that her original name was Jingniang. She met the imperial guard general Zhao Kuangyin many years ago. Later, she saw through the world due to love and built a Taoist temple in Tokyo to become a monk. Women liked the most about this kind of rumors of love between children. No wonder the incense of Yuzhenguan was so strong.
Yulian stroked the talisman in her palm, hesitating whether to give it to Brother Shao. Tomorrow is the last chance to give it to him early tomorrow morning, and he will return to the camp at dawn.
In his heart, Yulian did not blame Guo Shao for killing her husband, and even secretly felt grateful... Of course, she also looked down on a young man like Shao Ge'er. This person is not only brave, but also not a simple-minded reckless man. Yulian thinks that he has extraordinary knowledge. If he had good luck, he might really be able to make a fortune. But he, a young general at the age of 18 or 19, could he really fall in love with a woman who was equivalent to marrying three times and unable to give birth?
If you act impatiently, you may be a shameless person: your husband will be sympathetic to others before his bones are cold. You are a frivolous woman with water-like poplar flowers, right? Yulian knows very well that if she doesn't respect herself, then others will look down on herself and treat it as an irrelevant thing that can be discarded at any time.
If it were a few years ago, he would have been in Li Shouzhen's mansion at that time... But Brother Shao seemed to be obsessed with Fu at that time, and he was willing to die for her. Even if he really let it go now?
God has never been unfair. Some people are indeed born to be favored by others. Even if they do nothing, some people are willing to give their contributions. Just like Fu, she is born with a noble and beautiful family, and she is a fairy in people's hearts no matter how many times she has married.
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Guo Shao got up early in the morning and opened the back door. He found a red thing falling out of the crack in the door. He picked it up and observed it carefully for a while, then put away the object, turned around and looked into the alley.
...According to the military order of the Privy Council, the soldiers of the imperial guards went to the barracks in advance to gather and report, and they would set off in two days. Guo Shao rushed to the military guards the day before the regulations were stipulated.
Although he was in the military camp for only two days, Guo Shao was really idle, because he was promoted to the position of Dutou and became the ten generals again without sitting in the hot position. There were only 20 people in the fourth team of Dutou, and they were all acquaintances long ago, so there was nothing to worry about.
He sat on the threshold with weak energy and basking in the sun. The spring sun was warm and the flowers on the pear trees in the yard were in bud. The season was suitable for warmth and coldness, so people didn't want to move. He looked lazy when he was fine, as if he was not very energetic. He didn't talk much, so he would never stand if he could sit.
At this moment, a white rabbit emerged from somewhere and immediately attracted his attention. But he still didn't move, just watched it with great concentration.
The little white rabbit in spring is cute but easily frightened. If she hadn't gotten closer, she would have been frightened away immediately... Guo Shao pinched the auspicious talisman on his neck and stared at the rabbit in a daze, with a smile in his eyes.
Unexpectedly, a reckless man rushed over, wearing heavy armor. Without saying a word, the guy ran over and rushed towards the rabbit. His heavy body fell to the ground with a "bang". The rabbit ran away without being caught, but he fell into a mouthful of mud.
"Damn it, Luo Er! Look at you so stupid!" Guo Shao cursed.
This guy is named Luo Mengzi, a soldier from the fourth team. He seemed to have fallen and hurt. He grinned and got up, patted the dirt and snatched, jumped over, took off the bow on his back and handed it: "General Guo Shi, shoot that rabbit quickly."
Guo Shao took the bow and an arrow, and saw where the white rabbit was not scared, so he flicked the bowstring and glared at him, "Good guy, this is a two-stone strong bow, where did it come from?"
Luo Mengzi said: "Two days ago, General Guo was not promoted to the office. Commander Wang rewarded him. You are not in the military room."
At this moment, I suddenly heard a bad voice and said, "I don't know if a ten general has the ability to pull it apart."
Guo Shao and Luo Mengzi looked back and saw Yang Biao and a dozen soldiers carrying a skinned sheep. Yang Biao was big and thick, with a fierce horse face, but he spoke with a sarcastic smell. This guy is now the deputy general of the fourth team, one level lower than Guo Shao, but he was a military general who was a centurion before, and he didn't seem to be very convinced of a boy like Shao Geer. Moreover, yesterday Guo Shao was reduced from Dutou to ten generals, which caused him to be innocent and downgraded again. I'm afraid he wouldn't like Guo Shao.
The Palace Front Office has been very good to the soldiers below because they were going to go to war, and they rewarded the army with money, pigs, mutton, wine and meat. Everyone was in a good mood. Seeing this, they cheered happily and asked Guo Shao to show off their skills.
"It can be pulled open." Guo Shao replied calmly, and happened to find that the white rabbit had just run out, erecting his ears under the eaves opposite the yard. The soldiers followed his gaze and easily found a brightly colored rabbit. The rabbit was not far away, maybe only twenty or thirty steps, but the target was too small. Everyone was looking forward to it, and sighing sounds came from the crowd.
In this situation, Guo Shao was unable to step down. He calmly grabbed a handful of sand from the ground, rubbed it in his hands, and then took out his fingertips to put it on.
The lazy and slow movements were just like his usual style. But suddenly, he took a breath and his whole body became full of bone strength. He picked up a bow and took an arrow, and bent his bow like a full moon. Two-stone strong bows were mostly used for practicing arm strength, and they were hardly used for actual combat. If the bow was pulled like this, he might be able to pull it open with another stone!
The tendons on the long and stable fingers had already bulged, and the tendons made a "cracking" tight sound, as if they were about to break, and it was like the noise generated by the huge twisting force of the catapult cart, which was inexplicably nervous.
Bows and arrows are not firearms, they can aim but reliability is a bit nonsense. Whether they can shoot or not depends on the feeling. From standing to pulling the bow, every move is actually aiming, and looking for the target. This feeling is an intuition formed between countless hits or misses, and it is completely indescribable. Whenever you pick up the bow, this feeling makes Guo Shao inexplicably excited, as if facing a girl in love, she has already succeeded, and she is a little worried about gains and losses, afraid that she will leave quietly, and she can't bear to have any distractions. At this moment, Guo Shao has forgotten whether he is in a modern academy or in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms with the smoke of war, and there are only arrows in his eyes!
"Bang!" A powerful string sound seemed to be in the lingering sound of a sharp edge piercing the air, alarming the onlookers. In just a moment, many people were fascinated by Guo Shao's concentration from his eyes to every part of his body. The string sound finally brought them back to reality.
"Okay!" Luo Mengzi immediately shouted excitedly. No matter whether he shot or not, the force was enough to shock people.
With the response, the white rabbit was nailed to the corner of the wall, and there was no room for struggle.
Yang Biao looked surprised and embarrassed: "I'll make a mistake."
Guo Shao's expression relaxed, and he ignored Yang Biao's words... This is the attitude that his subordinates should have towards superiors? Although Yang Biao was a centurion not long ago, he is now a deputy general of a small team! The most deficient thing in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is the arrogant soldiers and the strong generals. This is not a place where humility and virtues are concerned. Tolerance will only make people think you are easy to bully, and it is a fun bag of anger. Guo Shao handed the bow to Yang Biao: "Come and try it."
The atmosphere that had just gotten up was slightly tense again, and everyone looked at the square-faced man.
Yang Biao is not old, but has a vicissitudes of life and has a dark and yellow complexion. He is obviously a person who has experienced the battle formation for a long time. However, not everyone has mastered the battle formation for a long time and has very few bows and arrows. You can tell from his expression that he is obviously unconfident.
Unexpectedly, this guy was a stubborn character who refused to admit defeat and said, "It's just that you can shoot arrows."
Guo Shao sneered: "I don't even dare to try it? Then it's better to understand some rules."
Yang Biao's face suddenly turned red and white, and he couldn't find any words. With the ridicule of the soldiers around him, he immediately said hatefully: "General Guo's arrows are eye-catching, but the arrows on the battle formation are not eye-catching!"
Chapter completed!