sinovels Chapter 37 Sleeping
Chapter 37 Sleeping
Chu Qing tried to withdraw his hand, but failed, Qin Wuzhou held Chu Qing's wrist firmly.
"Know what?" Chu Qing raised his eyes, the amber pupils were shining brightly, without any fear, "What exactly do you want to say?"
Qin Wuzhou stared intently at Chu Qing's bright eyes. After a long time, he let go of Chu Qing's hand and said, "Forget it, pretend I didn't ask."
Chu Qing withdrew his hand, and he stood up. The candlelight in the room shone on his slender eyelashes, and the reflection reflected in his eyes, adding a bit of depth. He looked down at Qin Wuzhou, and said casually, "I hate being tempted." , there will be another time."
"Just get out of here."
After finishing speaking, Chu Qing didn't stay in the room any longer, he walked straight out with a displeased expression on his face.
After Chu Qing walked away, Qin Wuzhou was still sitting indoors, but his eyes were undisguisedly dark and possessive. He held the only remaining white piece on the chessboard in his hand, and slowly tightened his grip.
Outside, Chu Qing's expression was calm, without any anger, and there was no abnormality in his expression. When Qin Wuzhou was testing him just now, he thought about whether to tell the truth, but his intuition told him that it would be dangerous to say it now.
Moreover, Chu Qing doesn't like being forced to do anything. If the time is right, he will not hide anything from someone he completely trusts.
Chu Qing walked and thought, perhaps because he was too involved, he didn't realize that tonight is a new moon, the moonlight is dim, and the night is already deep at this moment, and he can't see it at a place far away from the light of the house.
Probably really confused by Qin Wuzhou's anger, Chu Qing was thinking about whether to ask someone to light a lamp, when a voice came from behind.
"Your Highness the Fourth Prince." Lang Qi's voice was steady and gentle, "Why haven't you slept yet, is there something on your mind?"
Chu Qing didn't want to publicize his night blindness to everyone, so he didn't turn around, but asked instead: "Cheng Xuan, the political envoy is looking for me?"
"It's just a coincidence, Fourth Prince, do you want me to accompany you to relax?" Lang Qi found his chance from Chu Qing's not-so-good tone.
Before Chu Qing could speak, behind the two of them, Qin Wuzhou had just arrived, and he said in a cold voice: "No need, please go back as Cheng Xuan's political envoy."
Compared with the threat brought by Qin Wuzhou, Lang Qi thinks it is more important to seize the opportunity. After all, no matter what, Qin Wuzhou's current status is nothing more than Chu Qing's servant, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Lang Qi ignored Qin Wuzhou's hostility, and then said to Chu Qing, "Your Highness, Fourth Prince?"
Chu Qing didn't turn his head, he said to Lang Qi coldly: "No, you go back and rest."
Lang Qi was not discouraged, he saluted Chu Qing, turned and left.
When Lang Qi walked away, Qin Wuzhou walked two steps behind Chu Qing.
"It's not a test. If you feel offended, I apologize to you."
Chu Qing has calmed down now. Qin Wuzhou in the original book was suspicious and violent, but now the Qin Wuzhou in front of him shows no signs of violence at all. To be honest, he treats him very well, so good that even Chu Qing doubts it.
Instead of answering Qin Wuzhou's words, he turned around and stretched out his hand to Qin Wuzhou.
Qin Wuzhou looked at Chu Qing in front of him with slightly dull eyes, because his night-blind and blind eyes were dazed, which softened Chu Qing's temperament. At this moment, Chu Qing's aggressiveness was not as strong as usual, making him look a little fragile.
Without any hesitation, Qin Wuzhou squeezed Chu Qing's hand extended to him, and led him slowly towards their house.
Chu Qing's joints are not hard, like warm jade, flawless, soft but tough.
Under Qin Wuzhou's control, the two of them didn't walk fast, the world in Chu Qing's eyes was pitch black, and all he could rely on was his hot hand.
Although Chu Qing didn't like being blind, Qin Wuzhou somehow made him feel safe and reliable.
It was not until the two of them entered the room that Qin Wuzhou let go of Chu Qing's hand, and the warm touch still remained in his hand, which could not be forgotten for a long time.
When Chu Qing and Qin Wuzhou were lying on the bed, it was already late at night.
"There are fewer and fewer new patients in the city," Chu Qing looked abruptly, and said to Qin Wuzhou, "The policy of burning corpses has worked. The incubation period and onset period of the plague are relatively short. This epidemic is fierce. It goes fast too.”
Qin Wuzhou took advantage of the cover of the night, and did not hide the desire to occupy Chu Qing in his eyes. His deep emotions seemed to be brewing. When he spoke, his voice was the same as usual: "Someone wants to snatch the results."
"Yes," Chu Qing agreed with Qin Wuzhou's deduction, "The biggest problem now is whether anyone will intervene besides the prince."
"The form of the state of Chu is not optimistic." In the original book, the prince would slander and separate the King of Chu and General Jin, resulting in the tragic death of General Jin. After the death of the King of Chu, the prince became a puppet of the princeling party. It was not harmonious, and there were still many aristocratic families who did not stand behind the prince, Chu State almost completely became a battlefield for ministers from all walks of life to talk about their heads.
This is how later, after the successful reform of Qin State, it immediately captured the capital of Chu State and destroyed Chu State.
The state of Chu has been rotten for a long time, and top-down reforms cannot completely clean up the decade-long festering of the country, so in all fairness, even if Prime Minister Bian asked him to be King of Chu, he would refuse without hesitation.
Right now, He County is basically under his command, but the problem is that the crisis in He County is about to be resolved, and the King of Chu will not die in a short time. If Lai stays in He County, it will be fine for a few days, but after a long time, the King of Chu will definitely send troops directly , the location of Hejun is very important to Jianyang, like a throat fortress.
In other words, after the Hejun incident was over, Chu Qing still had to return to Jianyang.
"It's the defeat of the entire Chu State that dragged you down," Qin Wuzhou spoke highly of Chu Qing, "If you weren't the prince of Chu State, it would definitely be smoother than it is now."
However, Chu Qing disagreed: "The state of Chu is not a burden. The change of times and the rise and fall of dynasties are normal things. Everyone born in it is working hard to live. There are countless people who are in a more bleak situation than me. As a state of Chu Your prince already got more than others, so he has to pay the price for what he got more."
"Because, the gift of fate has already marked the price secretly."
Qin Wuzhou's heart was shaken, and then he was full of emotions. When Chu Qing looked at things, he was so calm that he was almost cruel, and it was quite thorough. Qin Wuzhou thought that he was a human being in two lives, and he had experienced ups and downs in his previous life. In this point, he was completely inferior to It's clear.
The next day, Chu Qing came to the city gate of He County again, this time he didn't want to scold the prince Chu Chen, and he was of course very happy to see His Highness the prince's distraught look.
"Bring me a chair." Chu Qing said to the nearby guards.
As soon as the guard heard Chu Qing's order, he immediately ran to move the chair, as if he was afraid that someone would take his job away again.
Chu Qing couldn't help laughing and said to Qin Wuzhou: "Look, you robbed him of his job yesterday, and you frightened him."
Qin Wuzhou didn't respond, but the expression on his face showed a little helplessness. When he saw the guard's expression yesterday, he knew that it was absolutely impossible to ask him to shout, so he might as well do it himself.
The guard happily moved the chair over, Chu Qing looked at the guard, and said with a corner of his mouth, "Thank you."
"No..." Facing Chu Qing's thanks with a smile on his face, the guards were stunned. The fourth prince really has no airs of being a nobleman, and he is beautiful, "Fourth prince, you are welcome!"
Qin Wuzhou's clenched hands in his sleeves gradually tightened into fists. For some reason, he just wanted to hide Chu Qing in a place where no one could see except him, and enjoy everything about him exclusively.
Chu Qing sat down leisurely, the thousand soldiers below the city tower could see Chu Qing as long as they looked up, similarly, he also took in everything downstairs, the soldiers brought by the prince had completely messed up.
Sure enough, Chu Qing didn't wait long before he heard the attendants coming to deliver the report.
"Fourth Prince, Chai Tanxiong, the Commander of His Highness the Prince, seeks an audience."
Chu Qing said to the attendants: "Ask the guards to put on protective clothing for him, spray him with spirits, and then let him come up. If he refuses, drive him out."
The attendants lead the way.
Qin Wuzhou looked at Chu Qing who was strategizing, and tried hard to restrain the dark and terrible thoughts deep in his heart, but the more he restrained, the more these thoughts grew wantonly like weeds. He didn't understand why, and he didn't know how to let these thoughts go. , will let oneself do something.
Commander Chai under the prince, as Chu Qing expected, agreed to the requests of the attendants one by one, dressed neatly and fully protected. He stepped onto the tower step by step. On the way, he recalled that the fourth prince was not very popular in Chu.
The prince is outstanding and dazzling, the fourth prince is not loved by the King of Chu, and he is gloomy, and he likes men, almost no one is optimistic about the fourth prince, and no one in the court even treats him as a prince.
But now, the fourth prince first questioned the officials in the court hall, but in retrospect, the questioning was still deafening.
Then he donated tens of thousands of taels of gold with his own ability, and now he came to He County for disaster relief. If he read correctly, the disaster situation in He County has stabilized, but the prince who was originally respected was under the influence of the princelings and wanted to be a thief. The thief of the prince's disaster relief results.
When Commander Chai was in a daze, he walked up to the tower and saw Chu Qing, the gloomy and irritable fourth prince according to the rumors. At this moment, Chu Qing was looking into the distance. When he appeared, his clear and cold eyes looked towards She was as beautiful as colored glaze, but with a fierceness that could see through everything.
"Commander Chai," Chu Qing's voice was cold, and Chu Qing had no special expectations for Chai Tanxiong's submission, "What's the matter with coming to see me?"
"I've seen the fourth prince," Commander Chai bowed to Chu Qing first, "I came here to hope that you can tell me about the prevention and treatment of the epidemic."
Chu Qing raised her eyes: "Of course, then please tell me, what price can you pay for this?"
At this moment Commander Chai finally understood the sense of oppression brought by Chu Qing, it wasn't an aggressive killing intent, but it was breathless.
"I..." Commander Chai was about to speak when he was interrupted by Chu Qing.
"Think clearly, I'm only giving you this one chance, I don't think you don't know how deadly the plague is." Chu Qing knocked on the chair, but his voice was silent but put more pressure on Commander Chai.
Commander Chai thought that the conversation between himself and Chu Qing would be a stretch, but in the end both of them took a step back and reached an agreement. At this moment, he realized that it was he who was begging Chu Qing, not the peace talks between the two.
There is only one chance, if he fails, all the thousand soldiers under his command may be infected with the disease, and then die suddenly, this is just the beginning.
Commander Chai no longer thought about how to negotiate terms, all he thought about was how to make Chu Qing most satisfied.
Chu Qing's hand that knocked on the chair stopped, and he asked, "Have you thought about it? My patience is limited."
"I am willing to bring all the thousand soldiers under my command to serve His Highness the Fourth Prince. In addition, I have five hundred soldiers in Jianyang. If the Fourth Prince agrees, I am willing to take them to the Fourth Prince."
Chu Qing smiled, and said decisively, "Okay, I'm still sincere."
"Go directly to the city." Chu Qing stood up from the chair, "The Hejun Barracks has been vacated for you."
Commander Chai was shocked in his heart, the prince was really not even one-tenth of Chu Qing's.
"Yes."
Chu Qing watched Commander Chai leave with his fists folded, and said to the attendants beside him, "Notify the political envoy Cheng Xuan to make him ready. His Royal Highness's [-] soldiers will enter the city soon."
There was uncontrollable admiration in the attendant's eyes, and he excitedly said to Chu Qing: "Yes, Fourth Prince."
The prince is completely different from the self-confidence and fearlessness of the past at this time. After yesterday's incident, he found that although he wanted to kill Chu Qing, what Chu Qing said was right, the people around him only respected him on the surface, but in fact they really had opinions When there is a disagreement, no one is willing to obey him.
After Commander Chai came back, he saw the crown prince sitting helplessly in the tent with a gloomy expression on his face.
"Where have you been?" the prince's tone was quite bad.
Commander Chai did not speak, he directly said to the non-commissioned officer beside him: "Everyone prepare, we will enter the city today."
"I'm talking, do you see me as the prince in your eyes?" The prince couldn't believe it, he was still the prince of Dachu after all, and this person in front of him didn't think of him at all.
Commander Chai said to the prince: "Your Highness, it's not that I don't see anyone, but that you don't take the lives of the Chu soldiers seriously at all. They are infected with the disease one by one, but you still think about how to take credit from others."
"You have achieved nothing here, and I am afraid that you will not be the opponent of the fourth prince in the future." Commander Chai had already decided to oppose the prince, so he simply said nothing.
After speaking, Commander Chai left the camp.
The sound of the prince smashing things came from inside the tent, the prince was furious helplessly, and could only vent his anger on useless dead objects.
Commander Chai looked down on the prince even more.
A thousand soldiers quickly entered Hejun, and only the crown prince and a few staff members were left staring blankly at the scene in front of them.
Chu Qing handed over the thousand soldiers to Lang Qi, and the situation in Hejun was under control. Earlier, Lang Qi followed Chu Qing, and learned Chu Qing's procedures and methods of dealing with the epidemic. He is very relieved.
Four days later.
Standing on the gate of the city, Chu Qing watched the prince leave dejectedly. With a thousand soldiers of the prince, he was driven away in anger. The epidemic in He County basically came to an end.
There was rumbling thunder in the sky, Chu Qing looked up into the sky, and sure enough, it was raining in He County.
Chu Qing would look at some celestial phenomena. He knew yesterday that it would rain today, so he only talked to the officials of He County in advance, hoping that they could make preparations for some infrastructure in He County.
Unexpectedly, no one believed it, and only thought that Chu Qing was coaxing them. Because of Chu Qing's arrival, the drought-stricken He County was not overwhelmed by the epidemic, but it was almost unable to survive the drought.
Until everyone heard the sound of long-lost rain on this day.
Cheng Shangshu exclaimed: "It's really raining!"
Shao Tie's gaze towards Chu Qing became more reverent, even pious.
The eyes of the officials in He County were shocked, and some even dared not cast their eyes on Chu Qing.
Lang Qi looked at Chu Qing with even more fiery eyes.
Chu Qing really wanted to explain to them, but he only speculated by observing the astrology and celestial phenomena, but he knew that he had explained it, and they wouldn't believe him, so he simply didn't say anything.
The people of countless river counties cheered and cried in the rain. At this moment, in their hearts, it was clear that they were no different from gods.
The crisis in He County has been resolved, and Chu Qing's plan for the next reconstruction and appeasement is sufficiently detailed. In addition, He County has also cultivated many capable people during this period. It can also lead He County to gradually return to normal.
At night, everyone sat in the hall where the envoy was announced. The dinner was simple, but wine was served in front of everyone.
"The fourth prince will go back tomorrow, right?" Shao Tie asked, "Xincheng announced that Lang Qi, the political envoy, still needs the help of the imperial guards. I may have to return to Jianyang City later."
Chu Qing nodded, he spent more than half a month here, and if he didn't go back, Prime Minister Bian was so anxious that he ran to him directly.
"There is no epidemic disease in the southern suburbs, but the floods are quite serious. I happen to be out right now," Cheng Shangshu couldn't stay idle. He was very interested in the water conservancy projects in He County and the southern suburbs. "I plan to go to the southern suburbs in a few days."
"I'm leaving tomorrow, and Jiao Nan will be entrusted to Cheng Shangshu." Chu Qing said solemnly.
Cheng Shangshu replied with something in his words: "Going to the south of the suburbs is what I wish for, but you, this trip may be dangerous, it is better to avoid it."
Chu Qing knew what Cheng Shangshu was referring to. The King of Chu would probably die in a short time, and the crown prince would not let him go. However, even if he wanted to stay away from Jianyang City, it was not now. It's not something he can rely on, let alone Prime Minister Bian and the steward of the mansion waiting for him in Jianyang City.
"It's unavoidable, it's better to face it directly," Chu Qing said rather helplessly, "Today's dinner should be a celebration, let's not talk about anything else."
After getting along for this period of time, the atmosphere of the dinner party was quite harmonious, and Qin Wuzhou stopped the wine offered to Chu Qing.
But for some reason, Qin Wuzhou grabbed Lang Qi and drank heavily. Lang Qi himself had a poor capacity for alcohol, and after being forced by Qin Wuzhou to drink a lot of alcohol, he was so drunk that he passed out before halfway through the dinner.
After the banquet, Cheng Shangshu, Shao Tie and others were all drunk and passed out on the table, and the attendants stepped forward one after another.
Seeing that someone was taking care of them, Chu Qing got up and was about to go back to his tent, but Qin Wuzhou didn't respond.
Qin Wuzhou was sitting in front of the table, as if he was about to engage in a serious and difficult battle.
Chu Qing shouted: "Qin Wuzhou?"
Qin Wuzhou seemed to have never heard of it.
Chu Qing groaned inwardly, isn't it, Qin Wuzhou is drunk?
Recalling the amount Qin Wuzhou drank at the dinner party tonight, others toasted one, he drank two, and he caught Lang Qi to drink heavily. Now that he can sit still, it can be called a huge amount.
Chu Qing stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Qin Wuzhou's eyes, and Qin Wuzhou grabbed it in the next second.
Qin Wuzhou stared blankly at Chu Qing for a long time.
Chu Qing wanted to pull his hand back, but he couldn't pull it back anyway. He regretted in his heart that he shouldn't have provoked this drunk guy casually. Who knows what kind of style he would have when he was drunk.
Then, Chu Qing waited for Qin Wuzhou to return his hand to him, but in the end, he waited until the attendants helped the drunken people back to their respective rooms, but did not wait for Qin Wuzhou to return his hand to himself.
This...is a fool drunk?
Chu Qing tried to communicate with Qin Wuzhou: "Qin Wuzhou, let go?"
Qin Wuzhou didn't respond.
"Qin Wuzhou, shall we go back to the camp first?" Chu Qing changed the phrase.
Qin Wuzhou stood up and remained motionless again.
With the other hand, Chu Qing picked up the lantern prepared by the side, and in an awkward posture, led Qin Wuzhou back to his room.
After returning to the room, Qin Wuzhou came to the table, sat down by himself, held Chu Qing's hand, and fell asleep on the table.
Fortunately, after Qin Wuzhou fell asleep, he didn't hug him tightly. Chu Qing finally freed his hand. He finally learned how Qin Wuzhou looked like when he was drunk, inexplicably stubborn and cute.
Qin Wuzhou has excellent martial arts skills, and Chu Qing knew that he would never be able to deal with such a drunkard just by himself. Who knew whether Qin Wuzhou would do something unpredictable after being drunk like a fool.
Chu Qing planned to go to the kitchen to help Qin Wuzhou cook some hangover soup, or to see if any attendant was free, and he could cook it for him. When he sobered up, there was no need to worry about him going crazy.
In order to prevent Qin Wuzhou from grabbing his hand again, Chu Qing avoided Qin Wuzhou lightly, picked up the candlestick and went to the kitchen.
Qin Wuzhou originally had a large amount of wine, but today he held back the wine for Chu Qing, and he and Lang Qi drank a little faster, which led to his drunkenness. Qin Wuzhou, who was dominated by intuition, instinctively refused to let Chu Qing leave him, so he died He firmly grasped Chu Qing's hand, and then fell into a deep sleep again.
In his sleep, Qin Wuzhou dreamed of his previous life. At that time, he had just become the King of Qin. In just one night, all the officials of the Qin State saluted him from a tortured proton to the emperor who ruled the country.
The sudden change in status made Qin Wuzhou, who had just become King of Qin, lose control of his temper and became violent and irritable. At that time, he still regarded the Prime Minister of Qin as his great benefactor.
Qin Wuzhou, who has never realized that he is just a puppet, is so arrogant, as if the whole world has been trampled under his feet.
At this time, Qin Wuzhou, who stood aside and watched coldly, only felt how ridiculous he was at that time.
At this time in the previous life, the first thing I did after I had the right was to destroy the Chu country.
As if to take care of Qin Wuzhou's mood, Prime Minister Lu Xun did not reject Qin Wuzhou's request, but instead decisively sent troops to attack Chu State directly.
Originally, it was just revenge for Qin Wuzhou, so that he would be his own puppet willingly. No one expected that Chu State, which was able to defeat Qin State in the past, would be so vulnerable now. Cheng Jianyang.
Then Qin Wuzhou, who was watching coldly, realized what he was about to do in his previous life.