Silent Lover 2 (Tanhua) - Chap 54
Chapter 54 Goodbye, Jun Qiyu
Outside the city wall where missing person notices were posted, people were crowded. They were amazed by the huge bounty, and all of them fantasized that they were the lucky ones.
No one noticed that outside the crowd, there was a man in ragged clothes and in a state of embarrassment. It began to snow in early winter, and now it was even more bleak. He was only wrapped in a broken sack to keep out the cold. next to people.
The man immediately became furious.
“Are you blind? Stinky beggar!”
“sorry.”
“Don’t be next to me, bad luck! Get lost!”
But the beggar apologized gently, bowed, and slowly moved in another direction before successfully walking out of the crowd.
He squatted down slowly against the city wall that could slightly resist the cold wind, and then sat on the ground. He panted for a moment, and tied his messy hair with cloth strips to reveal some of his face.
It was Song Liqing who walked from the capital to Jiayuguan.
He woke up in a coffin.
As for being unconscious for a few days, Song Liqing didn’t know, he only knew that he had a fever and his consciousness was blurred, Jun Qiyu’s voice always sounded in his mind suddenly, he fell into deeper pain, and his body kept falling sinking sinking…
When Song Liqing woke up, there was a person lying beside him, to be precise, it was a wet corpse, because this “person” was so cold and stiff.
Inexplicably, Song Liqing is not afraid at all, he has never done anything wrong in his life, and he is not afraid of any ghosts and gods.
On the contrary, Song Liqing was a little grateful, maybe it was the “man”‘s wet and cold body thrown into the coffin that made his body heat drop.
By accident, this saved his life.
Just as Song Liqing was trying to regain his strength to get out of trouble, he heard a cry at his feet.
It was the faint cry of a baby.
Song Liqing was groping in the coffin, and came across a baby at his feet, not much longer than Song Liqing’s palm, so it must have just been born.
“Who would abandon a baby and throw it in a coffin with the body?”
Song Liqing was shocked.
He smelled the blood in the coffin, touched the slippery blood at the bottom, and suddenly realized.
“This is… this is the birth of a coffin.”
Qi Miao once told Song Liqing an anecdote that a woman who was pregnant with Liujia was murdered, leaving one dead body and two lives, but gave birth to a living baby in the coffin.
And this living baby is not an unknown person, he later became the founding ancestor of the previous dynasty.
Qi Miao said that this kind of thing is not uncommon. If the fetus is full-term, even if the mother dies, it is possible to give birth to a child.
Moreover, this kind of child has a strange fate, and they are often earth-shattering big shots.
Song Liqing held the baby in his arms, and the baby’s crying gradually stopped.
Song Liqing was at a loss for a moment, he couldn’t protect himself now, how could he support a newborn baby who needed to be nursed?
But he would never abandon the baby.
“Sister, you accidentally saved my life, and I will definitely protect your child with all my might in this life. You can rest in peace. If I come back someday, I will engrave a monument and set up a grave for you, and I will not let you be a lonely soul.” wild ghost.”
Song Liqing named the baby Guansheng.
He hugged the newly born official student and left Yizhuang. He was blind, couldn’t tell the direction, and went west in a daze. He waited for a few days to eat and sleep in the open, and then saw someone again, only to know that he was a hundred miles away from the capital. .
“Father must have thought that I was dead, and I would surprise him for a while when I go back, but in the end… I don’t have a long life, so it’s better to just be sad this time.”
Song Liqing thought to himself, in fact, his heart was already ashamed, and his desire to survive was not strong.
What’s more, there is Jun Qiyu in the capital. If he dies on the way to the Western Regions, he will fulfill their promise not to meet each other in this life or the next.
So Song Liqing wandered aimlessly for two months. During this period, he met many bad people and expelled him as a beggar. He also met good people. He was given a little food, a few copper coins, and a hungry meal. Yes, Song Liqing actually came to Jiayuguan.
But the more you go to the poor areas in the northwestern border, the people are actually not rich, and fewer and fewer people are willing to give. After three days of starvation, Song Liqing had no money, so he asked someone to sell his calligraphy, but others saw his appearance. , How can I believe it, until two days ago, an old master who cherished talent stopped.
“I heard your voice and saw your appearance. You are so young, have you encountered difficulties?” The old master asked him.
Song Liqing only replied: “I can’t go to my distant relatives, I’m in trouble.”
“I heard that you are a scholar.” The old master said, “Well, I have a pen, ink, paper and inkstone here. If you can write a few good characters, I can buy them with money.”
“Can I replace it with food? There are… milk.” Song Liqing hesitated and said, “I don’t want money, and I will be snatched away.”
Seeing his blind and sickly appearance, the old master also understood the reason why it is a crime to conceive Bi.
“good.”
Song Liqing touched the rice paper, and he suddenly had the urge to cry. This was the first time he touched a pen and paper after a long time. After straightening it, he dipped the ink in the rice paper with the help of the old master, and began to write on the rice paper.
As soon as the pen was written, the master opened his cloudy old eyes.
He obviously couldn’t see it, but he wrote decisively, and moved the pen with his wrist like a dragon snake. The characters he made were also correct and beautiful, full of aura, and already had a style of a master of his own. It can be seen how much effort he had put in. If he hadn’t been blind, he would never have Is the general generation.
“Can write such characters, how can people be so bad?”
The old master invited Song Liqing to have a full meal, and gave him a bag of steamed buns and milk, and then reluctantly sent him away.
What Song Liqing took out from the cloth bag was the last steamed bun.
He took a bite, then opened his clothes, revealing the official’s tender face, with red lips and white eyes, and round black eyes, he looked at Song Liqing curiously, neither crying nor fussing, spitting in his mouth Play with bubbles.
After Song Liqing chewed the steamed bun carefully, he gave it to the official to eat with his mouth.
He didn’t have enough to eat during the journey, but he didn’t let the officials and students starve and freeze after all. Maybe it’s because Qi Miao said that the life of a coffin child is hard, and this little guy survived the sun and rain with Song Liqing. , and have not had a single illness.
The two of them depended on each other for their lives. In addition to the responsibility of repaying kindness, Song Liqing also had a different kind of love for him, as if he was his own son.
The road ahead is long, and Song Liqing’s immediate difficulty is how to pass Jiayuguan. Jun Qiyu sent many notices to look for him, and the pass between the two countries was strictly checked.
As long as you go outside the pass and enter the territory of Loulan, everything will be fine.
Now that the rations of the two of them are exhausted, I’m afraid they will be desperate…
After feeding the last mouthful of steamed buns, Song Liqing hid the official student in the clothes on his chest before getting up with a wooden stick. The most important thing for him was to find some more food.
However, there are very few people who are as kind as the old master, and all the people who come and go at this pass are businessmen, passing by in a hurry, who cares whether your handwriting is good or bad.
Among the merchants, there was a western region-looking businessman with a wide forehead and beard, and three gold teeth. He noticed the bewildered Song Liqing.
“You want to sell words for food?”
“I can write well, or I will write couplets for you. The end of the year is approaching, and you should need it.”
Song Liqing had never experienced such hardship growing up in the Song Mansion, and he seemed jerky and shy in promoting himself.
“oh.”
The businessman tossed his hair from his forehead. Although Song Liqing couldn’t see his eyes, his eyes were clear and his skin was dirty, but the skin below his neck was as delicate as snow, and the businessman’s eyes lit up.
Song Liqing took a step back warily when someone touched him.
“Don’t be afraid, I think you are not very old.” The businessman looked at him and said, “Is the handwriting really good?”
“I…” Song Liqing said carefully, “I won’t sell it anymore, I’m sorry.”
“Wait…” the businessman said to stop him, “You won’t die from starvation if you don’t eat for a while, what about you little doll? How many days can you be hungry?”
Song Liqing hugged the official student tightly in his arms.
Seeing his hesitation, the businessman said, “I am Wuershan, a native of Loulan, and there is no custom of posting couplets in the Central Plains. How about this? I was doing business in Loulan and Jingguo, but I suffered a lot because I couldn’t understand the Chinese characters. Teach me some Chinese characters, and I will give you food and money, which is regarded as employment. There are many camels in my team, and camel milk is better than cow milk, and can feed your little doll.”
After all, Song Liqing didn’t have much experience in the world, and Pei Xingxu once said that Loulan people are warm and simple, so Song Liqing relaxed his vigilance a little.
Furthermore, the officials and students only fed some mashed buns, so it would definitely not work if this continued.
Song Liqing had no choice but to gamble.
“Can you take me out of customs?”
“Of course.” Wu Ershan said with a smile, “It’s because of this relationship that I can go smoothly every time.”
“good.”
Song Liqing agreed.
Wu Ershan was very straightforward, and really asked someone to pick up a bamboo tube of camel milk. Song Liqing fed the camel’s milk mouth to mouth, listening to his swallowing sound, he smiled relaxedly.
“Come, come into my carriage.”
Wu Ershan personally took Song Liqing into the carriage. When he was leaving the customs, he talked with Jing Guo’s officers and soldiers for a while. The officers and soldiers really let him go without checking the goods in his team.
Amid the sound of camel bells, Song Liqing left his homeland for the first time.
Song Liqing opened the curtain of the carriage, and a gust of wind and sand blew over. The sand and gravel hurt his eyes, and the wind was dry, mixed with only a knife-like cold. It was the desert outside.
I don’t know how Jun Qiyu felt when he came to the Western Regions for the first time and saw the desert all over the sky?
Are you feeling melancholy like yourself?
Song Liqing’s heartbeat seemed to restart, even faster and faster.
He finally felt the wind and sand that Jun Qiyu had blown, and heard the camel bells and geese that Jun Qiyu had heard.
Song Liqing approached Jun Qiyu infinitely, trying to feel what kind of person he was. Would he be unfamiliar with the language of the Western Regions when he heard it for the first time? Will you be timid and afraid when you charge into battle for the first time to kill the enemy?
At the same time, he stayed away from Jun Qiyu indefinitely, and found this place where Jun Qiyu could never find him again.
Goodbye, Jun Qiyu.
The author has something to say:
Please do not link the overhead background with the real place name~
