Chapter 113
Yu Pinyan returned home until midnight, and the lights in the main courtyard were not turned off, and it was seen that the old lady was waiting for him.
"Are you back? When will you go to war?" The old lady supported her forehead with one hand and a crutch with the other, her face was old and haggard.
"I will go to the Cavalry Camp tonight to order troops, and when will the order be completed and set off." Yu Pinyan helped her sit on the soft couch.
The old lady drank a cup of ginseng tea with her hands tremblingly, and asked again, "How many soldiers do you need?"
"The army is 800,000."
The old lady calculated her fingers, her back slowly hunched over, and sighed, "That is to say, you will leave in another half a month?"
Yu Pinyan nodded silently. The hall was quiet. After a long time, the old lady held his hand tightly, and she burst into tears. "You must come back safely! Seeing that Xiang'er's legs are about to heal, you must come back and see her standing up with your own eyes. You must come back."
Yu Pinyan's voice was dry, "Don't worry, ancestor, my grandson will definitely come back and will not leave you alone."
The grandparents and grandson sat opposite each other with their hands holding hands, silent. About two quarters of an hour later, the old lady said tiredly, "Go and see your sister. She prays for you in the Buddhist temple. She has been kneeling all day, and she doesn't listen to her advice."
Yu Pinyan endured his anxiety and replied, "My grandson helped you back to your room and then go to see her. When your grandson is away, you must take care of yourself and don't let your grandson worry about you thousands of miles away."
The old lady nodded and finally showed some smile.
Yu Pinyan waited until the old lady fell asleep before walking towards the Buddhist temple. From a distance, she saw Taohong and Liu Lu wandering uneasy at the door. When they heard the footsteps, they turned their heads and looked back. They found that it was Marquis both showing joy on their faces. They hurriedly went up to report, "Mr. Marquis, you are back. The lady has been kneeling in it for a day. Her legs have just improved a little, so they can't kneel for a long time..."
Before he finished speaking, Yu Pinyan had already passed by a gust of wind, leaving only the tightly hidden door, and two other guards with swords guarded the door.
There were several rows of candles in the Buddhist temple, and there was a faint smell of Zen fragrance floating in the air. The Bodhisattva's eyelids on the Buddha's niche were half-closed, staring at the believers kneeling at her feet with compassion. Her back was very thin, and it showed a lot of fragility in the clear extinction of candles. The mysterious scriptures kept overflowing from her mouth, and the harmonious pronunciation was filled with the most pious hopes.
When she heard the footsteps, she had not turned around, and she only chanted the scriptures for a moment.
Yu Pinyan strode over, kneeled behind her, stretched his arms forward, wrapped her in his arms, covered her with his big hands, and sighed quietly, "Don't kneel, be careful to hurt your legs."
Yu Xiang listened but refused to hear it and continued to recite the scriptures.
Yu Pinyan spread her hands together, took out the copper coins clamped in her palm and threw them onto the cushion beside her, carried her to her knees, and spoke hoarsely, "I will go to the battle in another half a month. I will pack my things tonight and move them to the cavalry camp. I will come back to say goodbye to you until I go to the battle. Don't kneel, let alone recite scriptures. If I hurt my legs, I will feel uneasy when I go out to fight. When I go to the battlefield, life and death will only be in a moment. If I get distracted, I may not be sure..."
A angry expression finally appeared on Yu Xiang's numb face. His little hand quickly covered his mouth and scolded, "In front of the Buddha, don't say anything about life and death. I won't kneel down or recite scriptures anymore. If you like to leave, just leave, think I'm rare?"
In fact, she was so fond of death that she understood why some people wanted to tie up their lovers to their extreme love. She now had the urge to tie up Yu Pinyan and lock them up. She thought that their days were still long, but suddenly realized what the world was changing. The people who were still sweetly snuggled up yesterday were going to the battlefield filled with smoke today...
She dared not imagine how many disasters he would face, and she dared not imagine how she would live after leaving him. It seemed that she had forgotten how she would breathe, and there was only endless fear in her senses.
But she would never reveal a trace of fear in front of him. She hoped that he would set out fearlessly and come back safely. She wanted to say a few soft words to make him feel at ease, but the words changed completely when they were on their lips.
Yu Pinyan laughed in a deep voice, "You don't care about me, can't I care about you? After I leave, you must take medicine on time and exercise on time, but you can't practice for too long, be careful to polish your palms. On the day I return in triumphantly, you must stand on the high city gate to greet me..."
Yu Xiang covered his mouth and smiled in disdain, "You are so confident that I will wait for you? I don't know when you will be back here, from a year or a half, and from a long one to three or five years. How old will I be by then?"
She struggled out of her brother's arms, and wanted to stand up and walk gracefully for two steps, but because she knelt for too long, her knees were numb. After trying several times, she failed to get what she wanted, so she had to sit on another futon, with her slender legs crossed back and forth, supporting the ground with one hand and lazily putting the other hand on her knees, posing a seating position that was extremely confusing.
"Look at me," she raised her hand to twig her hair, which was piled up like clouds, with a arrogant expression. "I don't have to say that my appearance is beautiful, but I am more beautiful than all the other people. My figure is slender, and one point more fat, one point less, and it's just right." Her fingertips slid down her cheeks and neck to her shoulders, and she opened her shirt to reveal half of her snow-white and round shoulders, and continued, "It was a big flaw that broke her legs, but now she's healed, and sooner or later she will be able to grow lotus step by step. Tell me, who is a wonderful person like me, doesn't want to marry? Why do you think I'll wait for you? If you don't come back within two years, sorry, then I have to stop holding the pipa."
After the words came, she squinted her eyes and looked at her brother's expression.
How could Yu Pinyan not know her fault? However, she was still stuck in her heart by her words, "Don't hug the pipa", and she suddenly bullied her, biting her annoying red lips with a heavy face.
The two of them quickly entangled together. A gust of wind blew, swaying the faint candlelight, projecting their figures on the snow-white wall. After the fierce kiss, Yu Xiang felt that his numb knees had regained consciousness. He pushed away his brother who was pressing on him, rode on his abdomen, picked up the copper coins from the cushion and stuffed them into his inner bag, and reminded him word by word, "You must come back alive, otherwise I won't wait for you."
The dim candlelight shone out tears in her eyes, and the fear and sadness contained in it made Yu Pinyan unable to breathe. He pressed his sister into his arms, and after a long time, he replied hoarsely, "Okay, I will definitely come back safely." After a pause, he continued, "If there is something that is difficult to solve, you can go to Shen Yuanqi, and he will take care of you."
Yu Xiang didn't answer, but just rubbed his cheek against his warm chest.
The two hugged each other quietly for a while, and then they opened the door after hearing the sound of gongs and drums. Yu Pinyan bent down to pick up his sister, but she refused, "You keep your energy and order the soldiers. I may not be able to sleep all night tonight." After the words came into the wheelchair, he ordered Taohong and Liu Lu to come and push him.
Yu Pinyan couldn't, so he had to walk side by side with her. Seeing that Jing Fu's courtyard was about to arrive, Yu Xiang suddenly grabbed his big hand and raised his head to whisper, "Brother, I'm actually a lie to you. I will wait for you all the time. If you don't come back, I will die here. You said, I'm a member of the Yu family and a ghost of the Yu family, and I won't go anywhere."
Her eyes were filled with crystal tears, but she stubbornly raised her head and refused to let it fall. Her dark pupils were filled with love and determination. At this moment, the moon hanging in the sky dimmed, the breeze surrounding it solidified, and the sound of frogs and insects in the grass stopped abruptly... Suddenly, only the girl in front of her was so beautiful that she made her heart sway.
He once again deeply realized that she was an existence he could never let down. He opened his mouth and wanted to respond, but found that his throat was choked and could not even be sent a word. He could only lean over, press her on the back of the chair and kiss her wildly, holding her cheeks with both hands, not allowing her red lips to retreat for a moment.
Taohong and Liu Lu quickly covered their mouths and stopped the screams that were about to overflow their throats, then turned around and looked around, fearing that they would be caught by others. Fortunately, it was already three times now, and everyone was sleeping, and there were only trees standing quietly in the garden.
The two were so hard to kiss, and it took a long time to stop panting. Yu Pinyan held her sister's little face and pecked her on the forehead, nose, cheeks, etc., and then picked her up and strode back. Taohong and Liu Lu quickly pushed the wheelchair to follow.
After the group walked away, a thin figure emerged from the rockery cave. The moonlight shone on her pale face, but it was Yu Miaoqi's big girl Baosheng.
"Miss, Miss, open the door quickly, Miss!" She knocked on the door hurriedly.
"What's the noise in the middle of the night?" The girl who was vigilant opened the door and put on a blouse for Yu Miaoqi who was half-sitting up.
"What's wrong with you?" Yu Miaoqi held her forehead, her face full of impatientness.
Baosheng glanced at the girl, Yu Miaoqi knew it, sent it away, and then urged, "Tell me if you have anything, and don't look at what time it is now."
"Miss, I'm so hungry in the middle of the night, and I want to go to the kitchen to get some food," she took out a cold and hard steamed bun from her arms to prove that what she said was true, and continued, "But I didn't expect to meet the Marquis and the Third Miss halfway. Do you know what they are doing?"
"What are you doing?" Yu Miaoqi's impatient expression instantly dissipated. She leaned slightly and stared at Baosheng's mouth that opened and closed.
"They, they are actually there..." Baosheng's lips were more than his, his face flushed with shame.
"Which?" Yu Miaoqi's nerves were tense and she had a vague guess.
"They are kissing, and they are so kissing loudly." Baosheng finished speaking in one breath, lowered his head and covered his face. The scene was really hot, and she felt embarrassed after thinking about it for a moment.
Chapter completed!