txolops Chapter 58 Ice Water
Chapter 58 Ice Water
It was night, and Shen Bing returned home.Although he has been busy for several days in a row, but at this moment, it seems that he just feels exhaustion rushing to his heart like a wave, making him feel almost suffocated.He waved away the servant who wanted to come in to help him wash, and after closing the door, he lay down inside the bed curtain alone, looking up at the bed curtain above his head in a daze.
Uri Geng Tase...can you trust me?
He originally agreed with the peace talks with Dari Achi, but after a quarrel with Xie Jin in the afternoon, he met Uri Geng Dase again, and he felt a little uncertain.
After all, he couldn't see through this man.
Even if he was really despised by the Dari Achi people because of his sexual fetish, Shen Yu didn't believe that such a rich man had no other way to inherit the position of Khan.Today, when he told Shen Bing that he would flatten Tu Mozhong's camp in the future, undisguised ambition flashed in his eyes - such a man didn't want to be the leader of Dari Achi, Shen Bing didn't believe it.
If it was true as what Xie Jin said, Wu Rigeng Dase came to negotiate peace with the Central Plains this time, just to cheat ironware and food, and then turn around and join hands with Tu Mozhong to attack the Central Plains, then it would be too dangerous.
But from another point of view, if Wu Ri Geng Dase is really ambitious, why would Dari Achi Khan let him come to the capital to discuss peace?
Unless Dari Achi Khan is really sick to the point where he is unable to control the tribe?
Or—Dari Achi Khan himself had no intention of negotiating peace sincerely?But this is not right, this Great Khan once had a deep hatred with Tumo Zhong for seizing his wife, killing his father and slaughtering his clan. The grassland people are fierce and bloody. Definitely can't agree.
So...should I trust Uri Geng Tase?
He lay there dumbfounded, thoughts racing through his mind.His mind was like a water plant deeply planted in the mud and sand at the bottom of the water, which was slightly loosened by the unpredictable turbulence.
At this moment, suddenly there was a sound on the window screen, as if a branch was blown by the wind and knocked against the window.
Shen Bin didn't care at all, but the disturbing voice continued endlessly.Shen Bing gradually felt a little anxious, sat up from the bed suddenly, and strode over to break off the branch that knocked on the window.
He came to the window in a hurry, stretched out his hand while holding back his anger, and pushed it with a "snap", but he heard a "bang" sound from the corner of the window hitting a heavy object, and immediately there was a low cry of pain from outside.
Shen Bing: "..."
He squeezed the window sill tightly, staring at the man in the shadow of the tree who was rubbing his forehead speechlessly, not knowing what to say for a while.
Xie Ling said "hissing" in his mouth, curled his lips and pressed his head, and said, "Such a ruthless attack? Does this discourage you?"
"I didn't know it was you..." Shen Bing was silent for a while, "What are you doing here?"
"I quarreled with you so stupidly. If I don't come to accompany you at night, am I still a person?" Xie Ling smiled and said, "Are you still angry? Come and let me in, and I will let you go."
However, Shen Yi didn't move.He stood in front of the window, lowered his head slightly and pursed his lips, and said in a low voice for a while: "Let it be, you don't have to do this. The quarrel between you and me is not because of personal matters, no one needs to apologize to anyone..."
"No, I said something wrong." Xie Jin said in a deep voice, "I shouldn't have said that you forgot the 'Mulan paddock incident'. In fact, I know better than anyone else that you will never forget those pasts, but you are better than me. Mature, unlike me, who confuses state affairs and private affairs just because of his desire for revenge."
Shen Bing trembled slightly, was speechless for a moment, finally let out a long sigh, and stepped aside a bit.Xie Ling raised his lips and smiled, leaned on the window sill and jumped in, stretched out his hand and hugged Shen Bing into his arms.
Shen Yan was about to push him away, but Xie Ling pressed him tightly on his chest, and said in a muffled voice: "Don't move, let me hug you... I was scolded by my elder brother today, saying that I don't understand the whole situation, It’s only impulsive, it’s far worse than you—”
"Brother Xie is back?" Shen Yan was a little surprised, "What did he say?"
Xie Ling pulled him to sit down, and said in a muffled voice: "Brother said, Dari Achi Khan is critically ill, and he has no heirs, so he wants to marry the princess of the Central Plains to give birth to a future heir."
This coincides with what Uri Gendase said to himself.Shen Bing was not surprised, Xie's father joined the army in his early years, and Xie's family's power in the border and in the army was far more entrenched than in the capital, so it was expected that Xie Shuo got the news first.
Xie Ling stared at him: "Did you insist on negotiating peace because you knew that Dari Achi Khan was critically ill?"
Shen Ting was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I advocated peace talks before, and I came to a conclusion after looking at the situation among the grassland tribes. As for the matter of Dari Achi Khan's critical illness... I only heard about it today."
After all, he told Xie Ling all about the meeting with Wu Ri Geng Dase.
Xie Ling frowned and listened, and when Wu Ri Geng Dase explained why he could not inherit the position of Khan, he couldn't help but sneered, and said sarcastically, "Do you believe him?"
"I..." Shen Bing choked.
Before today, Shen Bian felt that this noble envoy was tactful, funny, and polite, which really made people feel good.
But after he saw the ambition flashing in those emerald green eyes, he could no longer say the word "believe" lightly.
After hesitating for a while, Shen Bing finally shook his head slowly: "To be honest, I don't know... He didn't seem to be lying when he said that. But if he is a young and powerful prince, there is no other way to win Khan position, but I really can't believe it. He is an ambitious man, but he doesn't want the power at his fingertips, which is really confusing. Unless he-"
"—Unless the power he wants is greater than the power of the mere Dari Achi Khan." Xie Qin sneered.
For example, the overlord of the grassland.
The two were relatively silent for a moment.
After a while, Shen Yan asked softly, "What's your father and elder brother's attitude?"
Xie Jin pressed his fingers on the table, his eyes were gloomy: "They didn't say it clearly. My elder brother is a deep-minded person who puts the interests of the family first in everything, and rarely expresses his deepest thoughts. Xie's family is in the frontier army. Reagan's connections are deep and wide, and the frontier and the grassland have fought for so long. They have long been bloody enemies, so in this matter, my elder brother and father must not explicitly support the peace negotiation with Dari'achi. But today he privately communicated with I talked about Dari'a Chihan's illness, and guessed about the future marriage, and the tone of his words seemed to support the peace negotiation."
"Then..." Shen Yan pursed his lips and said in a low voice, "You have listened to what he said, now in your heart..."
"I don't believe this Wu Rigeng Dase." Xie Qin sneered.
Shen Bing didn't speak.
"I knew from the first moment I saw him that this man was a typical prairie wolf." Xie Jin sneered, "Don't ask me how I know it, it's just my intuition—his eyes, his attitude, and his unpredictable behavior. This is not the attitude of grassland people towards their brothers... Liangqing, you have been in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and you have rarely come into contact with these grassland people. But since I was a child, I have been surrounded by the sons of generals, and our relatives are more or less They were all defeated by these cunning prairie wolves. They really cannot be trusted."
"I know." Shen Bian was already hesitating in his heart, but when he said this, he became a little more anxious, "But this is a state matter, and you can't help but rely on your intuition—"
"And the reasons he said are not tenable at all." Xie Ling said angrily, "It's so absurd to say that I like men, so I can't inherit the Khan position? I even wonder where he heard about you and me The rumors, deliberately fabricated this set of rhetoric, to lower your vigilance."
"Nonsense!" Shen Yan's face gradually turned livid, "From your mouth, our relationship has become my weakness?"
Xie Ling said angrily: "Why are you arguing again, you clearly know that I'm not the one—"
He stopped abruptly and let out an irritable breath.
Shen Bing sat at the table with a stiff body, staring fixedly at the corner of the table.The two fell silent again.
After a while, Xie Ling's low voice sounded in the dead silent room: "No matter what I say today, it seems to be wrong."
Shen Bing's heart was also a little cold, he looked straight at the candlelight at the corner of the table, and said softly: "You and I should stop talking about this matter."
Xie Ling stared at him: "Then what did you decide to do in the end?"
"What Wu Ri Geng Tase said to me today, I will definitely tell the truth to the teacher." Shen Yan said in a low voice, "The things after that are beyond my control."
Xie Qin sneered and said, "Li Chenfu, a pedantic civil servant, must be eager to negotiate peace with Beijiang—"
"Let it go," Shen Yan interrupted him calmly, "I'm also what you call a 'poor civil servant'."
Xie Ling's heart suddenly tightened.He subconsciously wanted to refute that he didn't mean it that way, but it always seemed like this today. Shen Bing, who was clearly connected with him on weekdays and could understand each other's meaning with just one look, misunderstood him frequently as if on purpose, making He was too disheartened to say anything more.
An empty disappointment welled up in his heart, he had never felt that the distance between himself and Shen Bing was so far away.
"What's wrong with you today." He said in disappointment and depression, "I hold on to one or two words in everything I say, but I try to misinterpret me. Is this interesting?"
"It's quite boring." Shen Yan turned his head away, "So don't talk about it."
There seemed to be an invisible wall of ice between the two of them.
There was another stiff silence.
Shen Yan stood up, still did not look at him, and asked, "Do you want to go back?"
Xie Ling was a little angry: "Why, can't I stay?"
"It's up to you." Shen Yi turned and left, and lay down on the bed alone with his slippers on.
Xie Ling stared at his back irritably, cursed secretly in his heart, took off his coat rudely and fell on the back of the chair, and strode over to the bed, only to find that Shen Ying was already lying on the bed with his back facing him Guilt, it seems that there is no intention to talk to him anymore.
Xie Ling froze for a moment, then lay down beside him with his slippers on.
One of them was facing inward, and the other was facing straight up, with a deliberate, moderate distance between them.
Xie Ling fixed his eyes on the bed curtain above his head, and the thoughts in his mind were surging chaotically.After an unknown amount of time, he exhaled lightly, and stretched out his hand as if making up his mind, wanting to pull Shen Bing's arm.
Unexpectedly, Shen Bing seemed to have eyes behind his back, and before he touched him, he shrank his shoulders and avoided it.
"Go to sleep." He said with his back to Xie Ling.
Xie Ling's hand froze in mid-air, and finally slowly put it back to his side.
And his heart also completely fell into a piece of ice water.
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At the same time, Xie Zhai.
Although it was late at night, Xie Shuo was still sitting at the desk, writing a secret letter with a pen.At this time, I heard light footsteps from outside, and then a young servant came to the door and said: "Master, Master has something to look for you."
Xie Shuo responded, put down the pen, folded the letter he was writing and put it in his arms, got up and walked out of the study.It turned out that father Xie was wearing pajamas outside, wandering around the house a little anxiously, as if he was about to fall asleep and get up from the bed in a hurry.
"Father." Xie Shuo greeted him, "What's the matter so late?"
Father Xie turned around and said anxiously: "No, I have to ask you about this, otherwise I won't be able to sleep... What are you talking about with the third child today? Isn't this misleading him? Why can't you tell What are our real plans?"
Xie Shuo smiled and said, "The third brother never cared about the family affairs. I told him that, which just added to his troubles. He just needs to be himself as usual, that's enough."
"But you said three points, and you left seven points behind. What does this mean?" Father Xie slapped his thigh, "He heard your words, and I'm afraid he thought we really wanted to negotiate peace with the grassland. !"
Xie Shuo asked back, "Father, don't we, the Xie family, just want to negotiate peace with the grassland?"
Father Xie looked at his eldest son and was so shocked that he couldn't say another word.
"Father should know in his heart that although it is still early at this moment, the peace negotiation between me and the grassland is actually a foregone conclusion. How the situation will develop in the future, I also analyzed it with my father on the first day after returning to Beijing. Some things , the third brother knows or doesn’t know, it can’t be changed, so why bother to say more?”
Father Xie murmured, "But if you're like this, you're taking advantage of him to some extent. The third child has such a violent temper, I'll blame you if I find out later—"
"What I told him is not a secret. Even if he doesn't know it from me, he will know it from others." Xie Shuo said calmly, "As for the things I didn't tell him, he shouldn't know . Where did I use him?"
Xie father was speechless.
Xie Shuofu smiled again: "I know what my father is worried about. Is he worried about the fellow who has a good relationship with the third brother? The one named Shen Bing?"
"That's a good boy..." Father Xie sighed, "He's talented, and has a good relationship with the third child... It's a pity..."
"I have heard about his talent and name, he is indeed a wonderful person." Xie Shuo said indifferently, "But he is from a humble family, and I am from a noble family."
There is a difference between cold and expensive.
In this capital city with ups and downs in the officialdom, there are rules that have never been changed since ancient times.
"It doesn't matter what kind of friends the third younger brother makes, whether they are poor or expensive. But when it comes to family affairs, he should also have a steelyard in his heart, and he should understand the difference between closeness and closeness, and the distinction between inside and outside."
Xie Shuo slightly raised his eyebrows.In his deep black eyes, what flows is blacker than the night outside the window.
"The third brother has forgotten this rule for too long. It's good to remind him of this."