Chapter 373 I Envy You
Pei Lingyun was the first to disagree.
The battlefield is inherently dangerous. When the battle in Chang'an took place before, Pei Lingyun was already very worried when Su Zhizhi and Wu Yingniang went to the battlefield.
Now Su Zhizhi wants to go to the northwest, thousands of miles away.
Not to mention the aggressive approach of the Hunye and Tiele Khans, the journey to the northwest is long, the climate is bitterly cold, and the roads are blocked by ice and snow.
Something could happen on the road.
Pei Lingyun had selfish motives. He had finally reached this position and was unwilling to see his daughter suffer and take risks by traveling thousands of miles.
He just wanted Zhizhi to live happily from now on and give her the best things in the world.
But Su Zhizhi has a stubborn temperament.
She might be persuaded to do something she didn't want to do, such as writing when she was a child and going to academy later.
Once she decides to do something, no one can stop her.
For example, she insisted on reading secret books to learn how to use a whip, and she insisted on going to a martial arts school.
Su Zhizhi: "Ache and I have agreed that I will go and save him."
Pei Lingyun: "Da Qi has thousands of troops, and we don't need you to rescue them."
Su Zhizhi: "With one more of me, maybe we can save one more person!"
Zhizhi has grown up and become a big girl. She has more and more ideas of her own and is no longer the little girl who would pester her parents for hugs.
But in Pei Lingyun's eyes, Zhizhi will always be the child who burns sheep's butts and picks wild fruits in the mountains.
It always makes him, as a father, worry.
Murong Di said during the banquet, "I plan to go this time too. I've already made an agreement with Master to go to the northwest together."
Old Man Qin nodded, deliberately speaking in a relaxed tone:
"I haven't been to the northwest for many years. The last time you went there, my younger brother and I were digging in the capital. This time I'm just revisiting an old place."
As soon as Old Man Qin finished speaking, Qiu Jinyu also said directly:
"If Zhizhi wants to go, then we can all go together and not be afraid anywhere. Although we are no longer members of the martial arts world, the moral principles of the martial arts world still exist.
We have watched Ah Che grow up, and we cannot just sit back and do nothing."
Everyone at the table nodded.
Su Zhizhi became more confident: "Yes, let's go help Che together."
Then he whispered:
"Dad is unreasonable, then ignore him."
Pei Lingyun: ...
Pei Lingyun just felt that his head was even bigger.
Zhizhi's stubborn personality is partly due to being spoiled by the villagers.
Pei Lingyun turned around and whispered this to Wu Yingniang.
Wu Yingniang looked at her husband with a half-smile:
"Who spoiled the other half?"
Pei Lingyun stopped talking.
At night, Su Zhizhi went to Pei Mansion to live with Pei Shu.
After Pei Lingyun finished reviewing the memorial, he went to Pei Mansion to find Zhizhi.
By the time he arrived at Pei Mansion, it was already very late.
Pei Shu came out and said to him, "Zhizhi is tired and has gone to bed."
The night is deep and cold.
Pei Lingyun sighed and smiled helplessly:
"Sister, I finally understand how difficult it was for our parents to take care of the four of us siblings."
Pei Shu: "You were the one who gave me the least worry back then. Xuan'er and I gave me a lot of worry."
Pei Lingyun: "I heard from Di'er that he is also going to the northwest. Isn't your sister worried?"
Pei Shu seemed to have guessed that he would ask this:
"A mother worries about her son even when he's thousands of miles away, so of course I'm worried. But he's grown up and has his own ideas. How can we restrict them?"
Pei Shu poured Pei Lingyun a cup of warm tea:
"Where's Yingniang?"
Pei Lingyun: "She's also tired after a day, I'll let her rest first, I'll go and persuade Zhizhi."
Pei Shu shook her head:
"My second brother is so smart, how could he not understand? Zhizhi's temper is even more stubborn than Xuan'er's, and he won't change his ways."
Pei Lingyun was silent.
Pei Shuqing's eyes were like stars in the night:
"Lingyun, we all know that the battlefield is ruthless and anyone can get into trouble. You don't want Zhizhi to go because if something happens to Zhizhi, you won't forgive yourself. But have you ever thought about—"
Pei Shu paused for a moment, suppressing the light in her eyes.
"Zhizhi and Xue Che have an agreement. If something really happens to Xue Che and Zhizhi can't go, Zhizhi will regret it and resent it for the rest of her life."
Pei Lingyun suddenly looked up at Pei Shu.
Pei Shu smiled gently at her brother:
"Lingyun, we are old, but we were all young once. You know what I mean."
Pei Lingyun's pupils shrank slightly and he clenched the warm tea in his hand.
The clear moonlight spread across the Great Wall.
The whole ground was covered with a layer of soft gauze.
Pei Lingyun returned to the palace wearing soft gauze.
When I returned to the bedroom, the lights were off.
The maid said at the door: "Your Majesty, the Queen has gone to bed."
Pei Lingyun walked in quietly and did not let the palace servants light the lights.
But as soon as he sat on the bed, Wu Yingniang turned over and put her arm around his waist.
He carried the coldness of the night outside, but Wu Yingniang was very hot.
Pei Lingyun whispered: "Why haven't you slept yet?"
Wu Yingniang's low laugh echoed from inside the tent: "I'm waiting for someone to return home empty-handed."
Pei Lingyun and Wu Yingniang hugged each other and said self-deprecatingly:
"You're right, I spoiled my other half. As a parent, how can I be more stubborn than my child?"
"Aren, I understand your worry, and I feel bad for Zhizhi, but I support Zhizhi on this matter."
Wu Yingniang patted Pei Lingyun on the back:
"Before Xuan'er left, she whispered in my ear that she hoped the child would grow up to be what she wanted to be. I haven't been well-educated, so I don't know how famous families educate their children, but I just want Zhizhi to do what she wants. All we have to do is try our best to protect Zhizhi."
After a breath, Wu Yingniang continued:
"This time I'm going to the northwest with Zhizhi. You stay in Chang'an and take care of the family."
Pei Lingyun hugged Yingniang tightly, and light and darkness were intertwined in the tent.
"good."
Inside Pei Mansion.
After seeing Pei Lingyun off, Pei Shu also went back to her room to rest.
When Pei Shu returned to the room, Dongyue was still talking to Zhizhi, and neither of them had slept.
Zhizhi was still pointing at the moon and showing it to Dongyue, as if telling a story.
Pei Shu pretended to be angry: "The child who points at the moon will have pockmarks on his face in the future."
Su Zhizhi turned around and smiled: "Aunt, I'm not a child anymore, I won't get pockmarks. I'm pointing out the rabbit on the moon to Aunt Dong."
Dongyue nodded repeatedly: "If I want to grow pockmarks, let me grow them. Zhizhi won't do that."
"You're not a child at your age." Pei Shu came over with a smile, "It's time to go to bed."
The candles in the house went out.
Pei Shu and Su Zhizhi sleep together.
Su Zhizhi smelled a faint fragrance from her aunt:
"Aunt, have you convinced my father?"
Su Zhizhi said that she didn't care whether her father agreed or not, but she still cared in her heart.
When she didn't want to leave the capital, she had a quarrel with her father.
"Well, your father should agree."
Pei Shu's slender fingers touched Su Zhizhi's face.
A very smooth girlish face, young and full.
"After the New Year, Zhizhi will be fourteen."
Su Zhizhi: "Yes, I'm fourteen. Does Auntie also think that I'm older and more willful than before?"
Pei Shu held Zhizhi in her arms, a huge smile on her lips, and her eyes turned red from laughing.
Her voice was as soft as a dream:
"You are not willful. You are the best girl your aunt has ever seen."
"You are much better than when I was fourteen. I envy you very much and hope you can do what you want to do and go where you want to go."
Su Zhizhi giggled: "Aunt is a celestial being, celestial beings don't need to envy mortals."
The charcoal fire in the house was burning warmly.
Even the moonlight coming through the window was warm.
Pei Shu caressed Su Zhizhi's thick black hair lovingly.
It’s like touching myself who was crying that night more than 20 years ago, across many years of time and space.
She is nearly 40 years old, but still beautiful. Her life experience has made her no longer envious of anything.
She just envied Zhizhi for the crybaby girl back then.
I am really envious.
I envy you for having strength and courage at a young age.
I envy your courage to speak and act.
I envy you for having the opportunity to do something that I regret not being able to do in my life.
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