General Meng Gushang tilted his head and asked me: "Where did the slap marks on your face come from?"
Even Tian Wang looked at me and blinked, meaning: Where did it come from? Where did it come from?
I asked: "I wonder when General Ji and the others will come back."
King Tian said: "It takes four days to go to Jimo, and only two and a half days to Jida. Including purchasing equipment and hiring workers, it takes three days."
I groaned and secretly calculated in my mind that the envoy of the King of Han had been walking for about two days and had not yet left Jiaodong County. Moreover, since he was returning to the King of Han on his way back, he should not be in a hurry. It would be best to go all the way upriver.
It's better to have fun in the mountains and rivers. The longer he delays, the more time I will have to implement my plan.
Except for me, no one knows that the messenger will definitely go and come back. When he appears again, he will bring Liu Bang's death order.
From what I saw from King Tian, he still didn’t seem to believe that the messenger would come back, so I said to him:
"King, please allow me to take some people down to the cave first to do some work. When General Ji comes back, tell him to stop resting and send the tools and craftsmen directly to the bottom of the cave."
King Tian said, "It's almost noon. There's no need to rush. If you want to go, why not do it early tomorrow morning." I didn't feel comfortable refuting King Tian's face, so I had to agree.
Nothing happened for the rest of the day, so I went to play with Sangou for a long time and walked around the island.
There are only about thirty households with a population of more than a hundred people on the island, and there are more than 300 soldiers brought by King Tian from the mainland. Now they have all taken off their military uniforms and picked up hoes.
I can't tell who is an aborigine or who was a soldier.
Sangou asked me quietly, "Brother, where did the slap marks on your face come from?" I asked him, "Why, can you still see it now?"
"Brother, what do you mean by your words, do you think you were beaten a long time ago? I know, it must be your father who beat you?" He looked around and saw no one, and whispered to me: "Tell you, because of me
I secretly went to Zhangdao, and my mother beat me too." He took off his pants and pointed at his butt, "It's just here."
When I took a look, there was nothing on that plump butt. I don’t know how hard Miss Tian used it. She looked weak, but she beat someone really hard.
When I got home in the evening, "my" dad Tian En asked me about my time with King Tian in the morning. He asked me very carefully. At the end, he solemnly said to me, "We are servants, and if we shouldn't say anything we shouldn't do it to the king."
If you say nonsense in front of him, it’s okay if you say it right. If you say something wrong and delay the king’s important events, it will be a serious sin.”
I ignored him and fell asleep. Maybe I was tired from playing all afternoon. In the middle of the night, I heard someone knocking on the door and was too lazy to move. "My" dad was fast asleep, snoring, and the knock on the door was soft.
One moment, one moment, as if I didn't dare to make a loud noise, I stood up and pulled the door latch, and saw Xiaoyue standing in the moonlight. She was standing there, the wind blowing the clothes on her shoulders, as if there were earthworms crawling inside, I asked her what she was doing.
She said come and see me, and looked at my right cheek with her eyes. I felt hot in my heart, but didn't say anything, thinking that I couldn't see her at night. She raised her left hand, touched my face gently, and asked me, "
Does it still hurt?" I was afraid of waking up my dad, so I motioned her to keep her voice down, took her hand and walked out the door, and gently closed the door.
I don’t know whether it was me pulling her or she pulling me. We came to the rock where I was lying when I crossed over. Xiaoyue raised her head and held my arms with both hands. Her eyes flickered in the darkness. Suddenly,
She burst into tears, and I asked her what was wrong, and she said, in fact, last night, when the lady hit me, she saw my face turned red, and the right half of my face felt burning and asked her, "Why, are you feeling distressed?"
Because I heard Sangou say that she was interested in me, something that even Sangou knew, so it was probably true, but she seemed to be a little shy and hit me on the shoulder with a fist, "You deserve to be beaten."
The shyness in it had a different meaning. I grabbed her, lowered my head to find her mouth, and said to myself, cover it first.
But out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly noticed Miss Tian standing next to me.
Tian Hua!!!
She glared at me angrily, put her hands on her hips, and didn't say a word. Xiaoyue also lowered her head in fear. I went up to him with a shy face and was about to explain, but Tian Hua raised his arm and hit her hard with a "pop" sound.
on the left side of my face
I was startled and woke up. It turned out to be a dream. The left half of my face was still burning, and it seemed to hurt more than during the day. When I looked at "my" dad, he was sleeping like a dead pig.
After a while, I saw the envoy of the King of Han again. He did not find a post to stay in the middle of the night. He and his entourage were riding on two black horses without turning on the lights. They were galloping along the night road.
The horse's butt was soaked with sweat. He could already see Jimo City in front of him, hidden in the night with only a few dim lights.
The envoy and his entourage met General Ji and his entourage on their way back. General Ji and his entourage had large and small vehicles filled with the things I needed. They both looked at each other and did not answer. But the envoy and his entourage suddenly raised their whips.
I drove the mount harder and harder, "Pah, pah..." I woke up after just three strokes.
Another dream!
Cold sweat had already soaked through the summer quilt on my body, and my shirt clung to my body, making me very uncomfortable.
It seemed that I couldn't sleep anymore. I didn't know why I was so worried about the country and the people. I couldn't sleep anyway, so I took a wooden basin, put on my shoes and opened the door. The moonlight was just right outside. It should be the tenth day of the lunar calendar.
The third or fourth moon hangs diagonally on the wall of the palace's side courtyard. The ground is so white that even a grasshopper can see it. A blue brick wall separates the side courtyard from the palace's back house, and the moon gate
It was locked from that side at night. Except for a passage on this side of the wall, there were vegetable fields on both sides. This was the business that "my" father took the initiative to make a living. All the vegetables in the house were produced here.
I walked into the vegetable field with a wooden basin. In the field next to the moon gate, there was a small stone well for watering vegetables. There was a windlass on it. I shook up a bucket of water and poured it into the wooden basin.
It was late at night with no one else around, so I stripped naked and wiped the smelly sweat from my body in the moonlight.
I don’t know what the two dreams just now represent, but I still feel that it’s a great time to take a bath here. Compared with the current situation, it’s a bit out of place, but I can’t tell what’s wrong. I can’t take a bath in the middle of the night.
, go to work in a cave under the sea to greet people? What’s the first step? Who will listen to my greeting? While thinking about it, I felt impatient, so I simply shook up the water and poured it directly on my body with a wooden basin. Then
The sound of splashing water gradually became louder
There were footsteps approaching in the dark night, but I didn't pay attention. It wasn't until the door knocker rang and the door was locked that I discovered that on the other side of the moon door, there was a light swaying slightly. Then there was a "squeak" and the door was opened.
I'm wearing nothing
The well was four or five steps down the corridor to the right of the door. I was standing by the well with water dripping wetly from my body. I saw Xiaoyue standing there facing me with a lantern, a look on her face.
I can’t tell what the expression is.
The wooden basin was still in my right hand. I should have used it to cover it, but I didn't because I just wanted to see Xiaoyue's reaction.
Although it only lasted four or five seconds, I believe she saw everything. She blushed, covered her mouth and smiled, then turned away and said:
"The king asked you to come over immediately." After saying that, he turned around and ran away, hiding behind the door.
It took me a long time to come to my senses, and I quickly went back to the house and got dressed. She was still waiting for me on the other side of the wall. When she saw me coming, she didn’t say anything and turned around to lead the way.