Exchanging the sword tassel for the jade bracelet was a huge deal. Lan Aoxue knew it was a good deal, but she also felt reluctant to part with it. After all, the sword tassel was the only relic left to her by her father.
That year.
My father personally led the troops on an expedition. When he returned in triumph, he held the three-year-old Lan Aoxue on top of the city and looked down at the people below.
"My world is your dowry!"
My father was stroking his beard and laughing with high spirits, how could he be so domineering?
"Xue'er doesn't want this world, and Xue'er's husband doesn't want this world either."
Xia Lan Aoxue's face was full of innocence, and she muttered casually.
"Haha, you don't want anything in the world, so what do you want?"
Father was stunned for a moment and then asked with a smile.
"Xue'er wants the beautiful sword tassel on my father's sword."
The father looked at the sword in his hand, and then looked at the sword tassel that was already stained with blood. He frowned slightly and looked at Xia Lan Aoxue and said: "This sword tassel is dirty. Wait for the father to return to the city to send it back."
How about you get a new one?"
"No, Xue'er wants this."
Xia Lan Aoxue pouted her little mouth and shouted seemingly arrogantly.
"Why do you want this?"
Father was puzzled.
"With this sword spike, my father will no longer be able to kill people. Xue'er doesn't want this world, and Xue'er doesn't want my father to kill people for the sake of this world. Although the world is beautiful, it is far from the beauty of my mother and concubine. Although the world is big,
, but the larger the object, the more difficult it is to pick it up. Xueer feels that the world is a scourge, swallowing up many people in the world and breaking the waists of many heroes? "
When the civil and military officials on the top of the city heard this, they were shocked. The little princess who was only three years old could actually say such a shocking truth. You must know that many heroes in the world have never understood this truth in their entire lives.
The truth, but at this time, it was said from the mouth of a three-year-old child. It is said that children's words are unbridled, but this unbridled thing is really taboo!
His father's eyes were shocked at first, and then he was confused. After being confused, his father slowly looked at Xia Lan Aoxue in his arms and asked: "Xue'er, did your mother teach you to say this?"
"No." Xia Lan Aoxue shook her little head.
"Then why did you say this?" Father asked again.
"These words just now were seen by Xue'er, heard by Xue'er, and thought in Xue'er's heart."
Father turned his head and looked at the world, then laughed and took off the tassel on the sword and handed it to Xia Lan Aoxue's hand.
The bloody sword spike was held tightly in Xia Lan Aoxue's little hand. It looked funny, but it was thought-provoking. From that year on, Xixia's army never set foot outside the country, and neither did the sword in the hand of the Emperor of Xixia.
Killing another person, until that day, Daliang's cavalry stepped into Xixia, and my father walked out of the palace with the sword without tassels, and never came back again.
When Xia Lan Aoxue grew up, she often thought about a question, that is, if she didn't want the sword spike that day, her father might not have to leave the corpse on the battlefield.
After all, the sword without the tassel is like the man without the soul.
…
Lan Aoxue left, and left the small inn under the escort of the Jinling Cavalry. Without saying goodbye, and without Xixi's words of farewell before leaving, Lan Aoxue left with great fanfare.
Li Longqian didn't go out to see him off.
It's here, I'll pick it up.
Leave without sending.
The appearance of a fairy-like woman in Li Longqian's life seemed like a dream. Lan Aoxue's departure was not the end of the dream, but the beginning of it.
The moment she stepped into the carriage, Lan Aoxue looked back at the inn, which was not so magnificent, and whispered: "I don't know when we will see each other again after this farewell. I hope we can meet again this time."
It's just a ridiculous dream I had when I was young, don't think about it."
Don't say a word, say it to Li Longqian, and say it to yourself.
Lan Aoxue came and left again. It seemed that she left nothing but the faintly visible horse hoof prints on the ground, and took nothing away either.
On the carriage, only Bi'er knew that her young lady put on a pair of beautiful jade bracelets and never took them off again.
On the street, following the impressive driving sound of the coachman, the sound of horse hooves sounded and dust flew up.
In the inn, the waiter looked at the dust outside, sighed lightly, and whispered softly: "I'm afraid I'll never see this fairy again in this life!"
The proprietress who was leaning on the counter also breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that she had taken good care of her throughout the day and night.
And the county magistrate Jia Tiangong, who was sitting in the inn and originally wanted to say goodbye to Lan Aoxue, never had the courage to stand up. He could only watch others get on the carriage before slowly getting up and walking out of the inn.
The quiet town became quiet again, and people's high-spirited saying "A huge beauty has come to the town" has turned into a dejected "A huge beauty has left".
…
Li Longqian sat alone in the room, completely ignoring the shouts of the landlady, and looked at the mahogany sword in his hand stupidly. After a moment, Li Longqian tied the magnificent sword tassel to the handle, and then
Looking at that nondescript appearance, he smiled and said
Said: "If this old slave sees you like this, he will definitely stamp his feet in anger. He is a stubborn old man. He only talks nonsense like swords should look like swords with a straight face. But luckily you met me.
You are so beautiful because you also met her."
"You brat, you can't hear me when I call you, can you?"
At this moment, the landlady suddenly broke in and yelled at the top of her lungs. Li Longqian stood up and was about to explain. The landlady grabbed Li Longqian's ears and shouted into Li Longqian's ears.
: "My lady is gone, why are you here acting like a widow whose husband has died? Could it be that that person took your soul away too?"
"Madam boss, can we please put your hands down and talk?"
Li Longqian was pulled by the ear by the boss's wife, his expression was miserable, and he tried to reason with the arrogant boss's wife.
"Go out and change the water in the kitchen right now!"
The landlady didn't seem to hear Li Longqian's request, and while talking, she pulled Li Longqian to the door of the room.
"Boss Boss, can you let me go first? I have something to tell you."
Li Longqian bared his teeth and spoke to himself in the air in front of him, because he couldn't lift his head when the boss lady was in this position with him. The boss lady was stunned for a moment, then let go of Li Longqian's ears, then clapped her hands and sighed slightly, her face
He asked with some reluctance: "Do you want to leave?"
"How did you know?" Li Longqian rubbed his ears and sounded surprised.
The proprietress looked at Li Longqian in front of her and smiled slightly, then patted the dust on her body, then licked her black hair at the temples, then put away her usual philistine look, and looked at Li Longqian inscrutably.
Said: "Your name itself is not the name of a waiter in a pawn shop, and your appearance is not that of a waiter. You are
Your temper is not that of a waiter. In fact, I know that one day you will leave my little inn and leave this small town that cannot accommodate you. But remember, no matter where you go in the future, you will not be forgotten.
He's my man. If you become successful in the future, you must remember to come back and show me the boss lady's face, you know?"
Li Longqian was stunned and didn't know how to respond.
The landlady looked at Li Longqian's appearance and sighed helplessly, and then continued: "Although I don't know why you went out, I think it's not just because of that woman, right?"
"That's right." Li Longqian nodded.
The landlady rolled her eyes at Li Longqian speechlessly, and then asked, "When will we set off?"
"Tomorrow." Li Longqian replied.
"Let me know when you leave so I can prepare some expenses for you."
"Thanks……"
Before the word "proprietress" came out of his mouth, Li Longqian saw that she had already twisted her butt and walked towards the inn in a charming manner. Looking at the back of the proprietress, Li Longqian chuckled. As soon as Lan Aoxue left, the proprietress looked like this
In fact, you can still watch it.
After the landlady left, Li Longqian returned to the house, thinking about what the landlady meant by what she just said.
Is it possible that because of the grandeur of his name, he is destined not to be a waiter? This idea is inevitably too absurd, even more absurd than playing chess by himself.
"It's absurd, it's absurd. I'm an absurd person anyway." Li Longqian explained perfunctorily, then picked up the "Snowstorm" on the table and said to himself: "This book comes from Mr. Jiang."
I borrowed it from my husband, so I have to return it after reading it today. After all, I can’t take advantage of others, especially Old Man Jiang.”
After saying this, Li Longqian held the book and started reading. But when he read the book again, he couldn't help but feel that the woman in the book was too pretentious and far inferior to the person in Li Longqian's heart.
It turns out that women in the world are also different.
…
Compared with the main road into the city, the small road out of the city is obviously much shabby, narrow and muddy. The Jinling cavalry who originally drove side by side had to change their formation, and the square formation became a long snake. The cavalry itself was a separate existence, but then
The tall carriage was obviously a little cramped on this narrow road, and the road was really muddy, so the carriage went very bumpy, which made Bi'er and the old woman in the carriage unable to sit still.
"Ouch."
After Bi'er squatted firmly, she rubbed her butt with her hands, then curled her lips and shouted: "This road is too tortuous."
"You'll get used to it."
Lan Aoxue held the poetry collection in her hand and replied absently.
"Miss, I think you've been reading this collection of poems for quite some time. Why haven't you finished it yet?"
Although Lan Aoxue is a book lover, the poetry collection in her hand is inevitably a little worn out after being read so many times, so Bi'er is very curious.
"The first time I read it is definitely different from the fifth time I read it."
Lan Aoxue replied calmly, but before she could finish her words, the carriage jolted again.
"This dilapidated road is broad and majestic when entering the city, but why is it so muddy and narrow when exiting the city?"
Bi'er curled her little mouth and shouted.
"I guess you want people to come in and don't want people to go out."
Lan Aoxue whispered back, her tone inexplicably sad.