[Prairie Volume Final Chapter 3] Chapter 154 Mirror, mirror!
After leaving the ancient tomb, Wu Ma and Yuwen Jianxue discussed the next action.
Yuwen Jianxue believes that with the death of Princess Yicheng and Qingxia at the same time (others may think they are missing), the Turkic Khanate is no longer safe. Especially as a new prince-in-law who is chasing ducks and seems to be unwilling,
Wu Ma is very suspected of killing Qingxia to avoid the wedding. Therefore, the two of them should leave Turks as soon as possible and wander around the world.
Wu Ma believes that Princess Yicheng and Qingxia left the Khan's Court quietly, and Wu Ma and Yuwen Jianxue also went out wearing cassocks, and there was absolutely no fifth bystander.
Early the next morning, after people discovered the two missing persons, there was no reason to involve the dancing horse. More than a hundred Turkic guards outside the dancing horse's tent could also prove that the dancing horse slept well and did not leave all night
Pass the tent.
In addition, there is a very obvious reason - if Wu Ma leaves the Turks overnight, the Turks can 100% determine that the disappearance of the princess and Qingxia is related to Wu Ma, and Wu Ma is the special envoy of Duke Tang.
This will inevitably lead to the destruction of the negotiation results between the Turks and the Jinyang army. The Turks army is likely to move south and directly attack Jinyang.
Yuwen Jianxue said: "What does this have to do with us?"
Wu Ma said: "Khan Shibi can also put forward conditions and ask Duke Tang to hand us over to die. Although this is very embarrassing, Duke Tang will seriously consider it."
Yuwen Jianxue said: "So I said from the beginning that the two of us will wander around the world and never return to Jinyang."
Wu Ma wanted to ask her if you would not take revenge. Before she could speak, she felt that the two of them had experienced a similar conversation not long ago. What was the answer Yuwen Jianxue gave at that time? Wu Ma was a little confused.
Probably Yuwen Jianxue felt that the Li family could not be relied upon, and it was better to rely on themselves than relying on heaven and earth.
As for the two people wandering around the world and almost eloping, it would definitely offend Mr. Tang, and Yuwen Jianxue didn't think it mattered.
The world is in chaos and wars are going on everywhere. Li Yuan definitely doesn't have time to find two people to settle accounts. It's not even certain whether he can survive until the world is unified. Li Mi and his gang are not vegetarians.
Wu Ma felt that Yuwen Jianxue could not blame her entirely for having such absurd thoughts in her mind. After all, she had not traveled back from the 21st century and of course she did not know that the future world would also belong to Duke Tang. A monk who could escape could not escape from the temple.
In the end, the reason why Wu Ma persuaded Yuwen Jianxue was this -
Wu Ma worked hard in Jinyang City for some time, worked hard enough, and made a great contribution to Jinyang's military cause. However, at present, he has been marginalized on many levels. There is a prejudice that Tang Gong comes from the bloodline, and Li Shimin seems to
Out of the fateful indifference of his love rival, Li Zhiyun wanted to seize power and save his life for revenge, and Wu Ma himself had not made many friends in Jinyang, so he had to risk his life to encounter the Turks.
If he chooses to wander around the world, Wu Ma should give up his mission to the Turks after leaving Jinyang. Why bother with all the danger and trouble?
Dancing Horse must go back, go back to prove something, express something, change something. Otherwise he will lose something crucial.
This idea had been lurking in his consciousness, and he had been wrestling with the reclusive thought that insisted on flying far away.
This kind of struggle accompanied his entire Turkic journey and never stopped. Until the moment Qingxia died, the other party in the struggle suddenly disappeared without a trace. It seemed that when he stuffed Qingxia into the sarcophagus, he also deliberately
Inadvertently, the thoughts of the hidden world were stuffed into it.
Wu Ma had a vague explanation in his heart - for this Turkic journey, to break the curse, and to survive, he made too many sacrifices. He even had a feeling that his sacrifices would
I have been entangled in my life, playing out repeatedly in countless dreams.
Spending such a high price, and then wandering around the world in disgrace in the end, life is too sad.
This will never happen.
As a result, the two people reached an agreement on returning to the Khan Court. But Wu Ma insisted on going back alone, so that even if something went wrong, only Wu Ma would be trapped. Wu Ma's consideration was very reasonable, and
Yuwen Jianxue did not appear in the Khan Court very often during these days, so it would not alarm the Turks too much.
But Yuwen Jianxue insisted on going back with Wu Ma. She said: "Good friends, we are loyal and want to die together. What's more important is that if you die alone, I will have to find a place to bury you and dig a hole."
Burning paper, making stone tablets, writing eulogies, and having to visit the grave every year on the 15th day of the Qingming Festival and the Ghost Festival, it’s so troublesome.”
When the two people returned to the Khan Court, the moon was hanging in the middle, silver light spread all over the place and everything was silent. Yuwen Jianxue wanted to go back as soon as possible, but when he passed by the Qingxia Tent, the dancing horse's heartstrings
I was inexplicably touched and decided to go to the Qingxia tent to have another look.
Yuwen Jianxue had an extremely ominous premonition and repeatedly advised him not to get into trouble, but Wu Ma, whose soul had been hooked into Qingxia's tent, could no longer listen to the advice of others.
He finally walked into Qingxia's tent, followed closely by Yuwen Jianxue, whose eyelids were twitching.
Surprisingly, there was still a warm smell inside the tent, as if it was a living tent.
All the arrangements were the same as when the dancing horse visited last time, except that the owner of the tent was missing - he now had a very strange emotion and feeling, that is, once he entered this tent, he would never be able to mention Qingxia again.
The name can only be replaced by the owner of the tent. This emotion cannot be explained and cannot be understood.
On a hanger in the corner of the tent, the wedding dress of the tent owner hung, propped up with hardwood without any wrinkles.
Further inside, the carpet was filled with the tent owner’s dowry, all kinds of gorgeous clothing, exquisite jewelry, and jewelry... Dancing Horse remembered that the tent owner had placed these in the tent, inspecting, admiring, and caressing them countless times.
In the days of intense preparations, the owner of the tent showed great and real enthusiasm for this wedding that was destined to not go ahead, but Wu Ma looked back and thought about it, this enthusiasm was originally unnecessary——
Because Qingxia knew from the beginning to the end that Princess Yicheng was monitoring them, Princess Yicheng knew from the beginning that the wedding was just a cover-up, and any enthusiasm and preparations for the wedding were just fake actions.
Dancing Horse suddenly understood that the tent owner's enthusiasm for the wedding was most likely to be shown to Dancing Horse.
If Dancing Horse could respond at all to such enthusiasm, perhaps she would be a little more relieved before the decisive battle tonight, or before the tent owner died in the tunnel.
In fact, the owner of the tent might even use an accident to postpone the decisive battle, so that the wedding would have to go ahead as usual, and the dancing horse would have to become a nominal couple with the owner of the tent.
Smelling the familiar aroma in the tent and feeling the remaining temperature dissipate little by little, the dancing horse gradually calmed down.
Or maybe, this kind of enthusiasm has nothing to do with horse dancing, but is just to fulfill the tent owner's last wish before his death, which is to get married, fill the regretful vacancy in life, and leave the world as a married woman.
Or maybe it's enough that she just wants to feel the strong wedding atmosphere.
Wu Ma stood there and thought for a long time, and suddenly felt that his thinking was meaningless. Because all the above speculations still could not explain the tent owner's behavior of seeking death.
Everything remains a mystery.
The dancing horse walked to the clothes rack with ethereal steps, and carefully looked at the charming, brand-new wedding dress, imagining that if the owner of the tent really wore this outfit and appeared at a grand and warm wedding, would it be like a fan in the dark night?
The silvery wings of a butterfly are as dazzling as a butterfly.
In the ears of the dancing horse, the melodious and cheerful joy of Turkic musicians playing Huobisi can be heard, and the shamans in costumes are dancing. The blessing words in their mouths sound exactly the same as the sacrificial incantations that have always been annoying, but at this moment, it is unexpectedly exciting.
Pleasure, comfort and regret.
An illusion began to appear in Dancing Horse's eyes - the owner of the tent really appeared here, twisting and turning in front of the mirror, with a face full of happiness and joy, just like what Dancing Horse saw when he slipped into the tent a few days ago.
She was completely unaware of the arrival of the dancing horse, and was immersed in the unreal expression of satisfaction on the girl's face in the mirror.
Wu Ma subconsciously said: "Do you like it that much?"
"Of course," Qingxia turned her head to look at him, grabbed the hem of her skirt and spun it around, "I loved it when I first saw it in the autumn when I was seven years old. I was there at that time.
I wonder when I can have a dress like this."
Wu Ma wanted to answer her, but the real memory blocked his mouth.
"How about it, does it look good on me?"
Wu Ma vaguely felt that there was something wrong with this sentence, but for the moment he couldn't tell what was wrong.
At this time, Wu Ma noticed for the first time the tent owner's eyes full of expectation and desire.
Wu Ma decided to change the past, grabbed his own throat, and said: "It looks good, it looks great." This was his truest thought all along.
Yuwen Jianxue's voice came from the side: "Are you talking to me?" Yuwen Jianxue looked at the dancing horse, only to find that the other person was staring into space, immersed in another world. She was not embarrassed, just fell into a deep
Lost.
In another world, the voice and smile of the tent owner were even clearer than at the scene a few days ago——
"Mr. Dancer, you said we should start later and get the wedding done first? How did it go? Maybe it will be even more unexpected."
When the tent owner said this, the dancing horse was about to leave the tent, and his hand was already on the door curtain.
The tent owner behind him looked serious and solemn, with a slightly trembling lip.
Perhaps her words were so shocking that Wu Ma, who was still ignorant in the other world at that time, didn't notice the tremor in her voice at all.
Until this moment, Wu Ma still couldn't respond naturally and calmly to the tent owner's words of love, and he finally understood that his stiffness when he heard these words was actually due to the incredible meaning of these words.
sincere.
Wu Ma turned around, Qingxia's expression collapsed in an instant, and the corners of her mouth were raised, but she was even stiffer than Wu Ma's body.
"Look at how scared you are," Qingxia covered her mouth and laughed, "Actually, I'm most worried about those endless, noisy rituals."
The dancing horse turned around and left the tent. The owner of the tent began to fall into a seemingly endless repetition. She invited the wedding officiant over, kept asking about the preparations, listened to the shaman's speech repeatedly, and personally selected the wedding ceremony.
The pieces played——
It was an aria called "False Love", which told the complicated love-hate relationship of a young man from the prairie to a fatally attractive princess who killed his friend.
The whole song switches between anger, hatred, ambiguity, joy, contradiction, helplessness, and desperate emotions. In the end, the young man chooses to die with the princess in the burning fire. All love and hatred are burned, leaving only a puddle of ashes.
The performer repeatedly reminded the tent owner how unlucky this song was. The couple who played "Void" at the wedding ceremony ended up dying in love. The fire they lit burned on the grassland for three days and three nights.
, the green grass in an unknown number of miles was submerged in the endless black ash together with the corpse of the person who lit the fire, becoming fertilizer for the growth of new grass in the coming year.
Qingxia knew this very well, but she insisted on choosing "Fantasy" and went to the performer's tent every night before the wedding to listen to the sad tune over and over until late at night.
The dancing horse stood in place, and some scenes and details about the owner of the tent that he had previously ignored or deliberately turned a blind eye to clearly and touchingly emerged before his eyes.
He saw the owner of the tent being summoned to the Khan's tent, and her aye asked her - since someone wanted to marry his daughter, the Turkic princess??, the most precious girl on the grassland, why did he even pay a betrothal gift?
None. Can such a man be trusted?
The owner of the tent could not explain it, so he was flustered, embarrassed, and ashamed. But he always insisted that he had not misjudged the person.
She plucked up the courage to find Wu Ma and got a reasonable explanation about the betrothal gift. Then she smiled happily and walked out of Wu Ma's tent. Suddenly she poked her head back and asked, "What do you think of the mirror in my tent?"
"Mirror?"
"Well, does the figure in the photo look like me?"
"boring??."
"Ha ha??."
Qingxia retracted her head and closed the curtain.
Mirror...mirror...
Mirror!
Wu Ma suddenly woke up, as if he was hit in the head by a sudden stick, and his whole body was separated from another world in an instant. He came back.
He raised his head, immediately found the mirror at the corner of the tent, and strode over.
He stood in front of the mirror and looked into the mirror. What was reflected in the mirror was his own appearance. Although he was still handsome, he was very disappointed.
The next moment, he noticed a hidden button on the base of the mirror, and he pressed it without hesitation...
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Well, I still need to write one more chapter. After the next chapter is written, this volume will definitely be over.??
A reader in the book review area asked whether Qingxia is alive or dead. I decided not to spoil it, but I can give you a hint - she may be dead, but she is still alive.