Chapter 1205 Chapter 1205: Too old (Part 2) [Asking for monthly votes]
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Shen Tang saw that the war was about to break out, but there was a sound like peeling and cracking in her ears. She knew that this weird dream was about to end. He turned around to leave, but felt a strong puncture and tearing sensation in his chest. She stopped and looked back for the last time.
The whole world is in some kind of distortion.
Only the reincarnation of the spirit pierced through the heart is clearly visible.
The indistinguishable voices of men and women came from the void, and even an invisible body like Shen Tang felt a vague sense of suffocation, and the stinging pain in his heart became stronger: "Do you know what will happen if you betray your god?" 】
The young man said calmly: "I don't know, but I want to give it a try!" 】
The voice did not respond, but a strange answer quietly emerged in Shen Tang's heart: "Life after life, life and death." 】
As a jet-black thunderstorm penetrating the sky and earth struck down, the young man and the figures who were still struggling were all swallowed up.
Shen Tang’s ears also buzzed for a moment.
She suddenly opened her eyes and sat up straight.
The dormitory was silent, and the dim moonlight filtered through the window, and the sky at this time was vaguely visible. Shen Tang panted, his eyes gradually focused, and he lowered his head to look at the thin silk quilt stacked around his waist. Just after escaping from the long dream, everything around me seemed a little strange.
Raising his hand to cover his cold forehead, he felt the sticky sweat.
You actually sweat so much?
Is the heater in the dormitory too hot?
Shen Tang closed his eyes and exhaled, and asked, "When is it now?"
Two voices, a man and a woman, came from above the rafters.
“Back to the Lord, it’s just the fourth watch, the first quarter of the lunar month.”
Shen Tang was stunned for a moment: "Why is it only the fourth watch?"
The span of the dream just now seemed to be as long as a thousand years, and it was only the first moment when I woke up? Shen Tang didn't believe in evil and asked a little uncertainly: "How long did I sleep just now? Did I talk in my sleep?"
Shen Tang’s sleep quality has always been relatively good.
You can fall asleep when you want to, and wake up as soon as your biological clock hits, which is more punctual than the alarm clock. She has a wild sleeping appearance, often sleeping with her head resting on the head of the bed, and may sleep at an angle at the end of the bed when she wakes up. But one thing is worthy of praise. She doesn't kill people in her sleep. She can react faster than the guards at night, and she doesn't talk in her sleep.
The bodyguards don’t have to worry about hearing the Lord talking in his sleep.
It is true, as the elders said, that keeping vigil for the Lord is a good job.
The guard said: "I am not talking in my sleep."
It’s okay to grind your teeth occasionally.
Thinking of the content of the dream, Shen Tang rubbed his forehead and said, "In other words, I only slept for less than two hours tonight..."
Dreaming is also physical work, and I feel a little hungry.
She got off the bed and stepped on her clogs. When the night guard heard the commotion, he brought her a warm cloak and put it on her. Shen Tang rubbed his stomach and said, "I'm hungry. Let the kitchen prepare something to eat."
Shen Tang has never had high requirements for food.
As long as it can satisfy your hunger, just eat in large quantities.
After the establishment of the Royal Court, this living habit was forcibly corrected by Qin Li. Whether she wants it or not, the appearance of the leader of a country cannot be too shabby. Shen Tang could only take a step back and choose a compromise, but the dining room supply was still shabby compared to the previous dynasty. It was already a rare luxury for Shen Tang - she could still eat hot fish soup noodles in the middle of the night. With a great appetite, I could finish eighteen bowls in one go!
The chef making fish noodle soup was smiling so hard that his eyes were almost blinded.
Having eaten and drank enough, it feels uncomfortable to lie down now.
So she went for a walk in the middle of the night to eat.
Wandering around, I arrived at the outer court and saw a building with lights on in the distance. Even in the darkness, Shen Tang recognized where this was. He raised his hand to signal the official on night duty to be quiet, opened the door gently, and the people in the room didn't even raise their heads to chase them away.
Shen Tang said: "Why hasn't Wuhui gone back yet?"
This is the end of the year for the Chinese New Year.
Chu Yao heard Shen Tang's voice and raised his head to look at her.
Seeing Shen Tang's slightly casual attire, he hurriedly stood up to welcome her inside, and ordered someone to turn up the heating in the room to avoid freezing Shen Tang. At the same time, I was also puzzled as to why the Lord appeared at this point. Shen Tang wanted to take off his cloak, but Chu Yao held him down, with disapproval in his eyes. Shen Tang laughed and shook his head: "Wu Hui is he afraid that I will catch a cold?"
Chu Yao said: "It's freezing outside..."
Shen Tang was just about to say that she had the civility and martial energy to protect her body, and it would not be her fault if anyone caught a cold. Chu Yao added: "That's not possible either."
“How does Wuhui know what I’m going to say?”
She could only continue to wrap herself in the heavy cloak.
The cloak was large and furry, and Shen Tang seemed to be trapped in a ball of soft fur when wrapped in it. Coupled with the wonderful atmosphere created by the light and shadow of the candlelight, it made her appear weak and petite. Shen Tang chose an empty seat and sat down. From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Lao Gao's documents stacked on Chu Yao's desk: "It's not an important content. You can keep it for the next year."
There is no need to work overtime late at night.
It seems that Shen Tang, the country's leader, is too capitalist.
Chu Yao said: "There is nothing going on."
He is the only one in his family. Most of the relatives and friends he interacts with on weekdays have their own families to take care of him. He spends the Chinese New Year with his family, so how can he take care of an old man like him? Chu Jie is sensible and won't bother him during the Chinese New Year; Wei Shou is busy saying goodbye to Jin Rui and is newly married, and he also has to worry about the education and marriage of his children; there are two students, Lin Feng and Tu Rong, the former has to take care of the elderly in the house. , representing the Lin family to communicate with various families, Tu Rong returned to his hometown to pay homage to his ancestors and visit his tombs... I guess they would all have to wait until the new year to pay him New Year greetings.
Chhu Yao doesn’t feel that life is deserted and lonely anymore...
There is simply no place for him to visit, only the office is valuable.
Shen Tang looked at the already cool supper next to him and said, "You can't use work to kill time if you have nothing to do. Wuhui can sign up for a New Year tour group and go shopping... After fighting for so many years, it's time to relax. Have fun.”
Chu Yao is not interested in this.
Divert it by randomly finding a topic.
"Why aren't you asleep at this hour, Your Majesty?" When Shen Tang first appeared, Chu Yao noticed that she seemed to be worried, so he asked, "But are you still worrying about state affairs and planning for the coming year?"
Shen Tang coughed twice in embarrassment.
Humbled: "It's not a state matter either."
Chu Yao understood: "Is that a private matter?"
Shen Tang's reaction proved his guess.
Chu Yao couldn't be happy. He had known the Lord for more than ten years. When had he seen her so worried about personal matters? Alarm bells rang loudly in his mind, and he asked sideways what the personal matter that was troubling Shen Tang was.
“…Yao may be able to clear up the confusion for the Lord.”
Shen Tang didn’t say anything clearly, but just asked a strange question.
“Wuhui, what do you mean by life and death?”
"The crane lives a thousand years and swims in extremes; the mayfly lives in the morning and dies in the evening, and enjoys its full life." Chu Yao answered while guessing the Lord's original intention of asking this question, "From the literal meaning, it means that it is born at daytime and ends at night. And die, life is short.”
Shen Tang murmured: "Is that so..."
Chu Yao looked at the somewhat abnormal Lord and felt worried in his heart.
Shen Tang met his concerned eyes, smiled and reassured: "...I'm fine, I just had a weird dream. I was disturbed by the things in the dream, and I feel a little unhappy...I'll be fine in a while."
If it was just a made-up fairy tale, Shen Tang could certainly laugh it off, but these past events seemed to be inextricably related to him... No, maybe they had happened before. Even if she can tell Shen Tang rationally, these **** things have nothing to do with her, at least they have nothing to do with "Shen Youli"!
It is related to the “self” without the memory of “Shen Youli”.
She doesn’t have to care at all!
The more you tell yourself this, the more your emotions will be affected.
An unprecedented feeling of "loneliness" filled her heart - this emotion should be very unfamiliar to her. Since she came to this world, she has always had people around her who she can trust wholeheartedly. Loneliness should be insulated from Shen Youli. Shen Tang suspected that this emotion did not originate from herself, but from the woman in green in the dream. She seems to be the one haunted by loneliness.
Chu Yao said: "Dreams are all reversed."
Shen Tang rubbed his forehead and looked at the gray-haired young man in the dim candlelight: "I also hope it's the other way around...Wuhui—"
“Lord?” “Will you always be here?”
Chu Yao's face suddenly changed. He couldn't figure out why the Lord would ask such a strange question. The Lord today is so abnormal!
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster!
Shen Tang didn't seem to notice his expression, and continued to murmur: "A hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years later, will you still be there?"
Chu Yao: “…”
He didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "My lord, Yao can accompany you for a hundred years. If nothing happens to a literary scholar, a hundred years should be no problem, but for thousands of years... this is really embarrassing for Yao."
“Humans cannot live this long.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Tang's eyes suddenly turned red.
She said: "What if I can? What if?"
That dream seemed to open a secret gap, and strong emotions that did not belong to Shen Tang almost overwhelmed her. The warm cloak wrapped around her body could not dispel the overwhelming coldness. She tried her best to fight against this emotion with reason.
Chu Yao half-knelt in front of Shen Tang.
He stared at Shen Tang seriously and said, "It may be a good thing for all the people in the world, but it will inevitably cause suffering to the Lord."
The Lord will bring eternal peace and tranquility.
Shen Tang stubbornly asked: "I ask, what about you?"
Chu Yao said: "As long as Yao enjoys the Lord's kindness in all his life, he will definitely work hard to come to you and accompany you in all his life..."
After he finished speaking, he noticed that Shen Tang was holding his forehead in pain.
A few tears came out of the corners of his eyes.
This scene almost scared Chu Yao out.
In the eyes of all the officials, the prudent and mature Minister Chu was actually in a hurry, his face was anxious, frightened and frightened, with a vague murderous intention. This murderous intention was directed at Shen Tang's dream! What broken dream could disturb the Lord's mood to this extent? Unfortunately, he couldn't help.
Shen Tang took several deep breaths to suppress the inexplicable pain.
The unfamiliar emotion is like ebbing, and I am pulling away little by little.
She touched the position of her heart with lingering fear.
Turning his head to look at Chu Yao, his face was as pale as Chu Yao had never seen before, and his expression was completely different from usual. Rather than speaking of the Lord, it is better to say that it was a short-lived evil thought at that time: "Life after life... Oh, Wuhui, don't make promises to others easily, especially me. You can't be the master of the next life in this life..."
It’s not that I don’t believe in this promise.
But "she" knows how difficult it is to fulfill this promise.
Chu Yao asked cautiously: "Your Majesty?"
Looking closer, Shen Tang was breathing evenly, and he fell asleep at some point. He was worried and hurriedly asked people to go to the medical department to ask Dr. Xinglin to take a look. After a while, people from the medical department came.
He was surprised: "Why is it you?"
The Imperial Physician ordered Dong Dao to invite this person to join the Medical Office several times, but there was no response. Therefore, no matter how close Jimo Qiu was to the Medical Office, he was still not the Royal Physician of the Medical Office, and he was still white. Shouldn't the person invited be the royal doctor on duty?
Chu Yao stared at Jimo Qiu and checked the master's pulse.
“My lord, is your body in trouble?”
“It’s okay, it’s just a physical effect. I’ll be fine tomorrow.”
Chu Yao hesitated for a while: "This body..."
The Lord’s body is not normal after all.
This abnormality must also be due to physical reasons.
Jimo Qiu said: "It will be okay."
Chu Yao breathed a sigh of relief at first, and then thought of something again: "This body of Lord...what happened before?"
Jimo Qiu was from the Gongxi clan, so he must know something about it.
He said: "I can't reveal too much. I can only say that Your Highness was very lonely before, and her personality was not like this... In the beginning, she was as cheerful and optimistic as she is now. The long loneliness made her become cold and taciturn... Obviously she just wanted to not be so lonely. I didn't do anything else at all, and this kind of selfishness is not allowed..."
Chu Yao was quite puzzled when he heard this.
Jimo Qiu also knew that he didn't understand: "It's probably the same as - Qi Zhongshu has no relatives and is alone. As time goes by, he feels endless loneliness, so he hires a plain merchant and treats him as a treasure. He also loves the house and has many cats. The censor Tai was dissatisfied and felt that this move was not conducive to Kang's plans, so he forced Qi Zhongshu to kill each other. "
Chu Yao: "... Yushitai is not suffering from this disease."
Hateful murders caused by keeping pets.
It would be explosive in any dynasty or generation.
Jimo Qiu laughed and said, "Yushitai has this disease."
As soon as the words fell, a thunder suddenly exploded in the sky.
Thunder broke through the sky and was as bright as day, illuminating half of Jimo Qiu's face. The sound did not drown out his voice: "Yushitai is the most just place in the world, and I would not care about the fate of a cat..."
Chu Yao was almost speechless.
"Even if Yushitai has this disease, Qi Yuanliang is not a vegetarian. If the cat harms him, he can kill all his enemies."
Don’t doubt it, Qi Yuanliang can really do it.
Jimo Qiu did not comment on this.
There was a thunderstorm on a snowy night, and the sky cleared up the next day. It was a rare good weather. Fengluo, the capital of the capital, was covered with red lights.
Every household pastes couplets with the word "Fu" on them.
Shen Tang rarely sleeps until three o'clock in the morning before waking up.
Pushing open the window, she saw the white snow in front of her eyes, and the cold air penetrated her heart and spleen. She was instantly refreshed and her sleepiness disappeared.
“Siha—hot, hot, hot—”
An energetic day starts with piping hot soup dumplings.
Shen Tang pretended to freshen up a little, climbed over the wall and ran out of the palace gate, and disappeared into the sea of people in the blink of an eye. Several personal guards could only shout and run behind him. He watched helplessly as his master entered Chu Shangshu's house.
Shen Tang found Chu Yao in Dongchu.
The gray-haired young man was dressed in plain clothes and said without raising his head: "There are huge fireworks in the east kitchen. Your Majesty, please go to the main hall and wait. It will be ready soon."
Shen Tang’s memory of last night was a little vague.
However, she vaguely remembered that Chu Yao was still working at the fourth watch.
Now I am busy in the east kitchen again, which is too rude.
Shen Tang’s tongue was almost numbed by the heat. Siha took several times to suppress the heat: “Wuhui, here you go, this year’s money!”
He took out a small red envelope with body temperature from his arms.
Chu Yao smiled and watched Shen Tang dancing, and he was full of energy and said that this year's money to suppress evil spirits is a monogram pendant made of pure gold!
Hmm, pure gold?
It’s a big investment.
It seems that the Lord did make a lot of money last year.
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ps: Tanzi Dabao has also published a new book, time flies so fast.
"The Master of the Red Mansion": After entering the red building by mistake, a woman like a female eagle quietly stretched out her wings from the back house.
(End of this chapter)