Chentan's Memories

No.30 Tea cups in the four pavilions to reminisce about the old days

The first time Li Bang saw Tang Yushu was under the city walls of Chengdu.

I am on duty so stand tall.

That unsmiling expression appeared on the face of a 17-year-old boy who hadn't completely shaken off his immaturity, and it looked a little funny.

Li Bao stopped walking and looked at Tang Yushu.

Tang Yushu, who was on duty, turned his distant eyes back at this moment, and settled not far in front of him, so the thick and thick eyebrows, which were majestic because of his righteous look just now, flattened a lot .The instant expression on which he secretly pulled the corner of his mouth became a sigh in Li Bao's ears.

Following Tang Yushu's gaze, Li Bao turned his head away.

After crossing the street, Li Bao's sight also successfully caught the little girl hiding under the opposite eaves, kicking alternately and smiling at Tang Yushu.

Li Bao took out the rock candy he brought from Jiangnan and gave it to the little girl.

"Keep it in your mouth and don't swallow it—is it sweet?"

"Sweet." With a candy in her mouth, the little girl generously gave Li Bao a share of the smiling face she gave her brother just now.

"Do you know me—to eat what I give you?"

"I know." Qing Yang nodded, grinning so that her missing front teeth were exposed: "You are a general!"

Li Bao also sat on the steps under the eaves and asked her name.

"My name is Tang Qingyang!"

"Qingyang?——Is that your brother?" Because of the conversation with the little girl, his eyes became more confident and straightforward to focus on the young man.

"Correct!"

"what is his name?"

"My brother's name is Tang Yushu!"

Green seedlings and eucalyptus.

"I have seen too many miserable and gloomy faces in troubled times——when I saw them both, I felt like light."

Li Bao drank the tea, leaned out of the window and asked the servants in the yard, "Have you taken Tang Yushu's medicine?"

After receiving the response of "hello", he stuck his head back, smiled at Chen Ni, and continued.

——"I still remember when I was 11 years old, I still didn't understand the concept of giving power to the government and the public, and I didn't understand the meaning of killing chickens to scare monkeys."

"I only heard people jokingly call my father-in-law's work-"Dongliang of the Dynasty". I only know that the pillar of the dynasty means the admiration of tens of thousands of people, but I don't understand what the admiration of thousands of people means. That time the father-in-law took his mother to When I went to the emperor's banquet, I was left in the mansion because of the wind and cold—I cried at that time, but now I think it is... lucky? Oh, it doesn't count—the time when I was detained by the imperial army three times In the well-protected feast in the suburbs of Beijing, how could an assassin sneak in? So my father and mother were killed. When the whole country mourned the next day, I, as the only blood, stood in front of the magnificent mansion. I feel that there is probably no difference between myself and every piece of ghost paper fluttering in the wind."

"Those who were in power were buried under the steps, and the emperor also acted in a scene of tears. Wiping the obviously dry eye sockets, raising his eyebrows, he said to the 11-year-old me: 'I told you to take your father's title—— From now on, you are the youngest general in the dynasty. When you grow up in the future, you will serve me like your father, you know?'——Guess my reaction?——I sneered at him at that time. "

"Then I received Jiangnan with my daddy—my godfather is Zhang Qian's father, Lin Lang's grandfather, the... master of your knife." , with the dim skylight falling in from the third-floor attic of the God of Wealth Mansion, it looked blunt and old.

He flicked the blade away with his hands, and poured himself another pot of tea.

"Whether it's for you, Mr. Lin, or for yourself...you hate me, but I appreciate you."

Li Dao didn't care about the threat of Chen Ni, a boy with a knife, which made Chen Ni's brows tighten even more deeply.

"There are too many people who hate me...I really can't give an account one by one—including him."

Chen Ni knew that the "he" in Li Bao's mouth was referring to Tang Yushu.

"I thought that all the power struggles from now on would have nothing to do with me anymore. After healing my scars, I would spend the rest of my life in the south of the Yangtze River with my godfather, sister, and brother Qian. But at the age of 21, I He was recalled to the capital again—the dynasty has been stable for ten years, but the sudden rebellion turned out to be a group of ruthless people, but at this juncture, no one is willing to go out."

The rebels took up the pole from Nanzhao and went all the way northward, and it took only three months until the fall of Chengdu.

"One day, they remembered that there was me—the youngest general in the dynasty. They sealed me up and rewarded me with gold and silver. At the banquet that sent me to the battle, everyone toasted to me. The people looked at me, and I didn't hear a word of the congratulations in their mouths, I tried to distinguish it-but I understood that what they were saying between their bare lips and white teeth was-die for us."

"I'll die for them. Yes."

"I told Tang Yushu my story, and he was startled..."

Li Dao lowered his eyelashes, Chen Ni saw his expression when he was thinking of Tang Yushu at the moment, he was really similar to Lin Lang.

"He frowned, as if he felt sorry for me. But he was clumsy and couldn't express his feelings. He just stood there for a while and said to me: General, I will be your knife, and I will protect you well." He is four years younger than me, but his shoulders are so broad that I want to rely on him—Chen Ni, tell me: Is his promise just to repay his kindness and loyalty?—I guess so, he also has feelings for me.”

Chen Ni didn't answer.

"Qingyang has a chronic illness, so I sent the doctor who was rewarded by the emperor to help her see a doctor-every time I took the doctor to look for Qingyang, he would look at me with a smile. I like the way he smiles at me, so I I gave everything I could to Qingyang, even though the doctor told me long ago—she couldn’t be cured.”

"Tang Yushu is grateful for my kindness."

"There was a battle in Longquanyi. It was a hard battle for too long, and I was cut off and fell off the horse when I fought in person. It's funny: I shouldn't be advertised as 'the youngest general of the dynasty' - I should be called' The only general in the dynasty who doesn't know martial arts'...I thought I was going to die that time, but after I woke up safely in the military tent five miles away from the battlefield, he slept on the cold ground under my couch, and he guarded me .”

The guards at that time helped Li Bao who was awake, and told him: "Commander Tang searched through the valley where thousands of corpses lay dead one by one, and finally found what you found, and carried it back five miles with you on his back—he I have Broken Blade in my stomach, I just dug it out this morning and came to watch over you... Maybe Mafeisan didn't wear off the effect of the medicine, so I fell asleep."

"When I drove Lin Lang away, Lin Lang knelt down and cried in front of me—he said that since he was a child, few people treated him as sincerely as Tang Yushu. I heard that I was jealous—I thought it was me alone. The tenderness I enjoy. Since I was a child, there are few people who treat me as sincerely as Tang Yushu, so once I do, I will be childish like a child whose mind has not yet developed."

"I reward him with official positions and money—if I were the emperor, I would probably reward him with the whole world."

"I summoned all the soldiers and horses, and I read Tang Yushu's meritorious deeds for saving me on the tower, and my reward to him."

"I don't remember what I was rewarded at all—I only remember my naive motives at that time—to be cherished so much by one person and treat each other with their lives is better than the glory of winning hundreds of wars."

"I didn't know who to show off to, so I showed off to everyone."

Qingyang's disease is a strange disease, the kind that cannot be cured.

Only relying on the various strange medicines Li Bao brought out from the palace to hang her; if she hadn't forcibly fought with the impermanent ghost, she would have died long ago.

"But he has always had hope for Qingyang. Once I went with him to find Qingyang. After I heard their brothers and sisters chatting about the future. Later, I secretly told Qingyang—"If the war is over in the future, I will I won’t go back to court anymore, I’ll disarm and return to the fields, and go to Jiangnan’—Qingyang, if you want to quarrel with your brother, say you’re going to Jiangnan in the future.”

"Jiangnan?" Li Bao still remembered that her eyes were bright when she heard it.

"Yes, Jiangnan."

"How is Jiangnan?"

"Okay - there are sweets, fireworks, misty rain in March, Guangling, Gusu, Jinling City..."

"How are the people in Jiangnan?"

"The general is half from Jiangnan, does Qingyang think the general is okay?"

"Okay!" Qing Yang nodded like pounding garlic!

Li Dao had a bad taste, and asked Qing Yang, "General or elder brother...who is better?"

"It's just as good!" The girl thought for a while and shook her head again: "It's better to be different! The general's is like gentle water, covered in mist, and it's very beautiful; the brother's is like the shore by the water, rough and safe!"

——"She has a sweet mouth, and I like her."

From the original [-] rebels, they were reduced to [-] by this general who had never read a book on war.

The city of Chengdu has been recaptured, and the inner city has just settled down politically, but due to starvation in the floating world, a plague broke out.

Qingyang was infected with the plague.

"She needs to be placed in the outer city—but she will never be treated badly." When Li Dao said it to Tang Yushu, he had mixed emotions.

Tang Yushu didn't act impulsively as expected, and just said yes, "But I want to see her every day."

"Okay." Li Dao agreed: "It's just... you have to remember to take the immune medicine on time."

The rebels came in by surprise that day—the outer city was weakly defended and captured too quickly.

——The horror of eight thousand dead soldiers is no less than one hundred thousand soldiers.

When the outer city fell, Tang Yushu was on the inner city wall.

He watched the refugees anxiously, and finally ran to the gate of the inner city, clamoring to get out.

Li Bao looked at Tang Yushu quietly, and calmly ordered to the guards guarding the city gate: "The city gate cannot be opened."

When Tang Yushu saw Li Wei, he thought he saw a savior: "Just open a gap, I will go out alone, don't worry about my life or death!"

However, Li Bao turned his eyes to other places, like a blank stare: "My knife—are you going to take it out of its sheath without authorization?"

"..." I was at a loss for words for a while because I couldn't answer, but the anxiety in my heart still couldn't be resolved: "But Qingyang is outside!"

Li Dao can always put a smile on his face in inappropriate occasions, even though it is ridicule and contempt.He said: "Heh - don't you have the consciousness to be a soldier? - Can you bear the risk of opening the city gate by yourself?"

"No!" Tang Yushu was angry because of anxiety: "I didn't realize it. I joined the army to earn military pay to see Qingyang's doctor!"

Li Bao knew that this was the truth, but the last thing Li Bao wanted to hear was the truth.

Therefore, Tang Yushu should also know the truth.

Li Bao sneered: "She should have died a long time ago, if it wasn't for me."

Tang Yushu was taken aback for a moment, but still shouted stubbornly: "Let me out!"

Li Bao turned and walked away, stopped after a few steps and told the people beside him: "Tie them up—the rest of the people guard the inner city for me. If these eight thousand people are killed, Chengdu will put down the rebellion!"

These words cheered up the spirits of all the people present.

——"Except for the heart-piercing him."

"Unsurprisingly, Qingyang died in that scuffle—after that, Tang Yushu no longer wanted to talk to me."

"Do you also think I'm disgusting?" Li Bao sat on the chair and rested his chin on the table.Before Chen Ni could answer, he laughed himself: "I think so too—after all, I deprived him of the right to save Qing Yang... or die with Qing Yang."

"At that time, I was morbidly, even a little jealous of Qingyang; she had all Tang Yushu's love, but she was obviously just a burden."

"It's me—I wish I could give him everything I have, but he will still choose Qingyang between me and Qingyang."

"After the war, Tang Yushu said that he had promised a person to bring her to the south of the Yangtze River... that person was Qing Yang. The part where good fortune tricked people was Qing Yang's dream of Jiangnan—that was a false sustenance I gave her , she took it seriously, so he took it seriously, and he left me to fulfill this dream. He heard Qingyang talk about the gentleness of a young man in the south of the Yangtze River, but now he has found his young man, but he doesn't know Qingyang The boy like water in his mouth is me."

"Actually, I'm not a villain in a legendary storybook... As arrogant as I am, sometimes I want to ask for a little understanding from the world--Yu Dayi: I am a general. Although I don't want to, I still carry it on my shoulders." I can't let all the soldiers and people in the inner city take risks because of him alone; selfish: I know the slaughter in the outer city is brutal, once he goes out, he will never stand by my side again. "

"I asked him later—"

At that time, Li Bao frowned, the usual contempt in his eyes was gone at this moment, replaced by a kind of sadness, he said: "Yushu, do you hate me that much?"

Tang Yushu didn't speak.

Li Gang's eyes looked very cold and desolate: "Outside the wall are refugees who are completely infected with the plague, and inside the wall are the remaining military forces. I am the general. What do you want me to do with this decision?——Because I keep her out, you hate me!" For so long—did you ever feel, for a moment, pity for my situation?"

Hearing Li Bao say this, Tang Yushu didn't know how to respond to him.

He only pulled away Li Bao's hand, turned around and walked away without hesitation.

"Little brother, do you believe in fate? - People in the world have rumored that I was young and promising, and some people used me as a blueprint to make up some legendary stories about 'General Jiao'. I have heard it - and I will only laugh along with everyone For a moment. For a person like me, I can’t say that I don’t have things I like, but I’ve understood one thing since the day Tang Yushu turned and left..."

After pouring the last bit of tea in the pot, the conversation also stopped at this point.

The knife in Chen Ni's hand had long since been retracted into its sheath at which point he could not remember.He only raised his head and glanced at Li Bao——on that pretty face that didn't match his status as a "general", there was still a slight smile on it.

Li Dao said: "A lot of things I like...in fact...we are destined to have them."

The entourage rushed up to the third floor of the main hall, and first glanced warily at Chen Ni who was holding a knife.But after Li Dao asked in a calm tone with a slight smile: "What's the matter?", he relaxed, and clasped his fists and said: "Commander Tang is awake!"

Chen Fan turned and stumbled down the stairs, followed by Li Wei, whose pace was not very steady.

Fifteen days from fainting to waking up.