poisonous woman

Chapter 198
At noon that day, the old lady killed another duck, Rong Zhao refused to let it go, but she couldn't stop her.After five days of cultivation, Xiao Junjue insisted on leaving. Although the injuries on his body were not healed, going up the mountain was not a problem.

I planned to leave on the same day, but the old couple insisted on staying another day.

So, Xiao Junjue had no choice but to agree to stay for another day.

"Your husband is really not talkative. I've heard him say less than ten sentences these days." In the kitchen, the old woman soaked the duck in hot water and scalded it. It was easy to pick up the duck feathers.She was playing with ducks, and Rong Zhao was next to him making medicine for Xiao Junjue. When the two talked, the old lady mentioned Xiao Junjue.

Rong Zhao paused, sighed slightly, and said, "That was before you saw him. Before we got married, he talked to me in one or two words. Now he can say a long string of words." It’s not easy anymore.”

The old woman showed a kind smile on her face, "It's good not to talk, men don't like to talk, I know it well."

"But, it's so boring to face a lump of elm all day long." Rong Zhao still complained about this.

The old woman came from here, and she looked at Rong Zhao with a smile, "If you want me to say, wood is good, and it is safe to hold in your arms."

Rong Zhao also smiled, thinking about it, even though Xiao Junjue has few words, it is really reassuring, at least not like those princes and nobles who are always flirtatious, just look at the Chu Palace, except that she even has a room Not at all, I'm afraid there is no place cleaner than the backyard of the Chu Palace in the entire Changge City.

Seeing Rongzhao's smile, the old woman pursed her lips and shook her head with a smile, she couldn't help feeling: "It's nice to be young. Seeing you, I feel like seeing me and the old man when I was young. However, my The old man was not as stable as your husband when he was young, he had a mouth that could talk, and he babbled endlessly every day."

"Oh? Grandpa was very talkative when he was young? But I don't think he talked much." There was a "cuckoo" sound in the pot, Rong Zhao opened the lid and stirred it with chopsticks, "You don't say that, I It's hard to believe."

"Yeah, he was very good at talking at that time, as if there were endless stories in his stomach." The smile on his face was full, and the old woman's plucking action slowed down, and there was a faint paleness on her face. "However, since the old man died in the battle, his words have become less and less, especially after the second child also died in the battle. He didn't speak for nearly a year at that time. Later, we came here, and he started talking again. Talk slowly, except, he doesn't tell me stories anymore."

The pain of losing a son one after another can be imagined without talking about it. Moreover, Rong Zhao has also lost a child before, so he can empathize with him.

Otherwise, how could the two elders put aside the worldly affairs and come to this place to live in seclusion, or the pain of losing a child?

The pain of losing a child is hard to look back on, so the old woman quickly changed the subject, "Actually, it doesn't matter whether a man can speak or not. Actions are more important than words. As long as he treats you well, it is worth a thousand words."

Worth a thousand words.Hey, what a pity, she didn't hear the thousand words and didn't feel Xiao Junjue's kindness to her, it really failed.Rong Zhao stared at the raging fire in the stove, dazed in a daze, she felt that she was like the fire, while Xiao Junjue was ice water that she couldn't boil no matter what.

The lunch at noon was very rich, and the old man even went to the river to catch a big fish in the morning. This meal was really both fish and meat.

The old man Hai also took out the wine that he had treasured for many years and was reluctant to drink it, which can be regarded as practicing for Xiao Jun and Rong Zhao.The old lady didn't let him drink. Xiao Junjue's internal injury is still not healed, so he shouldn't drink alcohol.But seeing that the old man was in high spirits, he had no choice but to let him go after a few words of dissuasion.

After drinking a few more glasses, the old man's face turned red, he was slightly drunk, and there was drunkenness in his eyes, "The war is hard, the soldiers are hard, and the people are also hard. Who doesn't suffer? bitter."

The old woman saw that he was getting more and more outrageous when he was drunk, so she tugged on his sleeve secretly, and said with a smile: "The old man can't drink, look, drink too much, and talk nonsense when he drinks too much."

The old man waved at her, "I'm drinking too much, but I'm not talking nonsense." He held his wife's hand, exerted a slight force on his fingers, and suppressed the surging emotions in his eyes, "If there was no war, you and I should also The house is full of children and grandchildren."

The words were like a thorn in the heart, and the painful old woman burst into tears immediately.The old woman pressed his hand with the other hand, and swallowed her sobs back after taking a deep breath, "Old man, stop talking, life is life."

"Yes, it's all fate, but there are not a few people with the same fate in this world, not a few." The old man sighed deeply, poured another glass of wine, and poured another glass for Xiao Junjue, and said: "Little brother , I see you, you are not an ordinary soldier." Because of drinking too much, his eyes were red, and he stared at Xiao Junjue, "I heard from the person who came to pick up the mountain goods yesterday that the King of Chu disappeared, and he said that it was from this place. I fell off the cliff. I just guessed that you are the King of Chu. Do you think the old man is right?"

When the old woman heard this, she was startled. She slapped the old man's arm and said in a reprimanded tone, "Don't talk nonsense, old man."

Xiao Junjue didn't care about the exposure of her identity, "The old man has unique insight."

The old woman was stunned for a moment, pulled the old man to stand up, and was about to salute Xiao Junjue, "The poor eyesight of a commoner woman, I don't know that the people in front of me are the King of Chu and Princess Chu, it is really rude."

Xiao Junjue hurriedly stopped them, helped them to sit down, and said: "There is no need to be so polite."

Rong Zhao glanced at him, she felt that Xiao Junjue and Emperor Xiao Jing had never spoken so softly before.In Changge City, no matter who he is facing, he is indifferent, as if all people and things have nothing to do with him, or in other words, in his eyes, everyone is cold.

The old man probably didn't expect Xiao Junjue to admit it straight away, he was taken aback, and said: "Sure enough, no wonder you left in such a hurry. This time, our old couple has done a great deed. I have long heard that the king of Chu is brave and good at fighting. , enough to scare the enemy, he is a great hero of the Great Zhou."

Xiao Junjue said humbly, "I am ashamed of the old man's absurd praise."

The old man waved his hand and said: "The old man does not tell lies." He raised his glass and drank it down, "I have heard about your deeds, more than two years ago, during the North Vietnam War, Anyi was besieged for a month, and food was cut off, but you swore to die If you don’t surrender, you swear that even if the last soldier dies, you will never open the city gate, just to protect the people of Anyi. In the end, it’s you who single-handedly broke into the enemy’s camp, beheaded and beheaded the North Vietnam general, and shocked the North Vietnam army. Only by making them surrender undefeated, Anyi turned the crisis into peace, and the people of Anyi could suffer. Four years ago, at that time, you should have been only fifteen or sixteen, blocking guns for your soldiers, and almost died because of it Death. I have only heard of soldiers serving as cannon fodder for generals, but I have never heard of generals serving as shields for soldiers. Such a good general is really rare. No wonder so many people in the army defend you, so many people are willing to follow you around .”

These are the words from the old man's heart, from the bottom of his heart.Speaking of this, his voice choked up, and his eyes were foggy, "It's not the first time Sunrise invaded my city of Dazhou. It was also suffered once 25 years ago, and it was also here. They are not human beings, they are a group of beasts dressed in human skin. So many people died that year, the whole North Plains was filled with mourning, and corpses floated for thousands of miles."

The old woman covered her mouth and sobbed, her face was full of tears in an instant.

"My two sons were both soldiers. They both died in that battle. They couldn't even find their bones. Later, I heard that the Sunrise Army cut off the heads of the soldiers of Dazhou who died in battle. Make drinking utensils with their heads." The old man is also in tears, this is a past he can't bear to look back on. For so many years, he didn't even dare to mention it, but today he said it out of his brain with the strength of alcohol, "Sunrise people are not People, they're not people."

Wiping tears, he pressed Xiao Junjue's shoulder, Xiao Junjue felt like a thousand pieces of gold, "King Chu, you must drive the sunrise out of Beiyuan, and you must drive them out of our land of Great Zhou." The revenge 25 years ago, the revenge 25 years later, you must avenge the deaths of the soldiers and soldiers of the Beiyuan people. No, the people of Beiyuan cannot suffer the same disaster as 25 years ago. You cannot let more people like us The old couple have also lost their close relatives. If this is the case, the old man will die in peace."

Every word of this is heavy in Xiao Junjue's heart. He is a soldier, he respects every soldier who fights bloody battles, and pity every civilian who has suffered from the disaster of war.

His hands held those thick and rough hands that had suffered from vicissitudes of life, and the voice was a solemn matter from the heart, more like a promise, "I will definitely."

Looking at Xiao Junjue's firm gaze, Rong Zhao froze for a moment in a daze.She suddenly understood why she fell in love with this man.

Compared with those people in Changge City who only know about intrigue all day long, her man is a real man, a hero, a great hero.

In the evening, Rong Zhao took Ah Bao for a walk in the nearby woods. Although it was only a few days, this kind of isolation from the world felt like a new experience, making people feel so peaceful.

The dim sunlight shone in the woods, covering it with a layer of golden gauze, and the dots of starlight shone on Abao's fur, which made people feel particularly warm.

Rong Zhao stroked A Bao's head, Xu Xu said: "A Bao, I'm leaving tomorrow, will you miss me?"

It's a pity that Ah Bao didn't give her face very much, so he turned his head and walked elsewhere.

Rong Zhao snorted angrily, "You really are a wolf."

Rong Zhao had no choice but to follow it, but after a few steps, it stopped suddenly.He stretched his neck and looked around.Suddenly, its eyes were fixed on the east direction, and it made an attack posture, as if it was ready to go.

"What's the matter, Abao?" Rong Zhao wondered what was wrong with it, followed its gaze, and it didn't matter. From a distance, he saw many people in Sunrise military uniforms coming towards this direction.

(End of this chapter)