Chapter 9: The Old Dream of Black Clothes
Su Zhi's face had a smug look. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info After Jinting left, Su Zhi changed back to the naughty and presumptuous teenager. He brought the hot porridge to Fu Xuan's sickbed, but there was cunning in his smile, and he said in an indistinguishable tone: "Green vegetables and lean pork porridge, drink it while it's hot." ”
Fu Xuan leaned on the bed rail, glanced at the porridge in the bowl, and couldn't help but stick out his tongue.
The thin mud in the bowl was green vegetable and lean porridge, and there was no shadow of minced meat, not even the rice grains, so I couldn't help complaining: "This is obviously a deadly green vegetable paste." ”
"Don't talk nonsense! The porridge carefully prepared by this son, is it possible that you have an opinion?" Su Zhi glared at Fu Xuan, "The best porridge is invisible, and the rice grains cannot be seen, which can be called soft and fragrant." With that, the bowl was pushed into Fu Xuan's arms.
Fu Xuan was afraid that the porridge would spill out, so he had to take it quickly, and seeing Su Zhi's eager eyes, he knew that he would not be able to get over if he didn't eat this bowl of porridge today, so he had to frown and taste it reluctantly with bated breath, thinking that porridge was better than medicinal soup.
Fu Xuan's red lips touched the edge of the spoon, the porridge was not hot or cold, at least the temperature was still palatable, swallowed half a mouthful, but couldn't help but shudder because of the hatred of green vegetables, and was about to spit it out, and raised his eyes to see Su Zhizheng beside the bed squinting at him with a cold expression, so he had to bury his head and pull two more mouthfuls with a porridge spoon, holding it in his mouth but unable to swallow it, like a squirrel storing food.
Seeing this scene, Su Zhi couldn't help laughing, but after a pause, he returned to a solemn expression, and looked ugly with a straight face.
Fu Xuan swallowed the last bit of porridge with difficulty, Su Zhi handed over the towel, Fu Xuan wiped his mouth, and said with a bitter face: "I'm done eating, you can say it." ”
After Su Zhi took the porridge, he glanced at the bottom of the bowl, and it was really difficult for him to eat a fine light, so he snorted lightly and said, "You haven't found out what is missing from you?"
"What's missing? It's all in all directions, is it ......" Fu Xuan stopped talking, was shocked, and suddenly lifted the futon to check.
"What are you thinking, what about the pendant around your neck?"
Fu Xuan realized that the relics of his biological mother, Princess Nankang, were missing the pendant that his mother regarded as a treasure.
Her mother left when Fu Xuan was about four years old.
Fu Xuan only vaguely remembered that late one night in his childhood, Xie Mansion was suddenly full of people and bright lights, shouting and shouting and the sound of weapons woke him up from his sleep, and after a while, he was carried to the atrium by the maid, where there was a circle of people in a hurry, through the crowd, Fu Xuan's biological mother Princess Nankang was lying on her back, her face was pale and she couldn't speak, the maid placed the little Fuxuan in the arms of Princess Nankang, Princess Nankang took off the pendant on her neck, tied it to Fu Xuan's neck with great difficulty, and tried to tell something with indescribable sentences, Xiao Fuxuan looked at her mother in a daze, I don't know why the always elegant mother fell to the ground so embarrassed, but saw Yin Yin's blood spread under his mother's knees, but it was a pity that his mother's breath was too weak, and the voices around him were noisy, and Fu Xuan couldn't hear his mother's last advice.
That night, all the killers of Xie Fuxing's assassination were killed, and the guards tore off their night clothes and masks, and the Hu tattoos on the killer's body were revealed, and they were actually killers of the Xianbei tribe!
Wang Xie's two families speculated that these killers were ordered to assassinate the new official Xie Quan, but it happened that Xie Quan was not in the mansion, and only took pity on Princess Nankang, who was pregnant with Liujia, who was tragically affected in the melee, and accidentally fell, with one body and two lives.
After Xie Quan returned home, he was rarely furious, hugging Princess Nankang's body and crying for three days and three nights.
Fortunately, after a month, the Zhao family was diagnosed with joy by the imperial doctor, and the grief of the Xie family was diluted. Since Princess Nankang went first, Xie Quan has not accepted a new concubine, nor has he put the Zhao family in the right position, and the title of "mother" has been reserved for Princess Nankang.
For her mother's accident, Fu Xuan was indifferent at the moment, but as time passed, this pain was like the sediment deposited at the bottom of the river, stirred up by the whirlpool of the storm from time to time. The pain always sneaks into the dream silently like a dream in the dead of night, Fu Xuan dreamed that the lost vegetable garden was overgrown with thorns, and her mother was planting vegetables in it, her knees were scarred by thorns, and the blood kept spreading down her legs, but her mother ignored it completely, raised her head and smiled at Fu Xuan......
In Fu Xuan's young memory, he didn't know what Princess Nankang was, but he was just a mother. Her mother was gentle and demure, dignified and elegant, and she always had a gentle smile on her face. 's mother is kind and generous, and she also takes care of Xie Quan's concubine Zhao like a sister.
Princess Nankang is the sister of the first emperor, and if she is still alive, she is the aunt of the current emperor.
In the previous dynasty, ten years after the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, Princess Nankang was sixteen years old, born and raised in the emperor's family, and was a beauty that everyone in Jianye City knew.
At that time, the twenty-two-year-old Xie Quan accompanied the then reigning and the father of the great Situ Xie Zhang, together with the palace to face the saint, in the back garden at a glance to see the princess Nankang who was enjoying the flowers, although the flowers in the back garden are charming and delicate, but not as good as the Nankang princess hired a lady Su Rong smiled at all, Xie Quan stepped forward and picked up a gold powder peony in front of the beauty's eyes, Princess Nankang raised her uninteresting eyes, carefully looked at the son in front of her, but walked away with a smile on her cheeks.
Xie Quan lost his mind, the son of a generation of great Situ, it was the first time that he was rejected, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stop Princess Nankang.
The princess said gently: "Childe picked the most beautiful and colorful flowers in this yard and gave them to me, and I am grateful for my love and praise." But there is only one flower in the courtyard, and when the son picks it, it is gone, and the people next to him have no eyes to see it, so I am angry with the son. ”
Xie Quan was shocked in his heart, everyone in the world thought that beauties were usually shallow, but the beauty in front of him was so far-reaching and pure, compared to himself being so arrogant and presumptuous, Xie Quan was ashamed for a moment when he thought of this, and raised his eyes to find out what the beauty wanted to say to redeem it, but found that there was no beauty in the sight.
Xie Quan returned to the house in a huff, and ordered someone to find this gold-powdered peony that day, thinking that he would move it to the palace garden to compensate the beauty for a branch, but he sent several capable generals to get it, and he learned that this peony was transferred to the palace from the seedling from Xiliang Country thousands of miles overnight, and the gardener took care of it day and night for several years before this plant could be in full bloom.
Xie Nian is young and vigorous, and he is also a man of temperament, so he thinks about it, can't sleep at night, thinks about this flower, thinks about this beauty, falls in love with this flower, and falls in love with this beauty. Even as he gets older, his mother wants to find a good mate for him, but Xie Quan doesn't want one.
During the Jianyuan period, the political situation was turbulent, and the princes and princes in various places supported their own troops, and the first emperor Sima Jie urgently needed to encircle the two forces of Wang Xie and stabilize the government, so he did what he liked and married the princess of Nankang to Xie Quan.
The golden hairpin is made up of hibiscus, and the ten-mile red sedan chair is written to the Hongjian.
The lights on both sides of the Qinhuai River were brilliant for three days and three nights.
At that time, the bridal maid clearly saw two eye marks under the red cover.
These secrets were all inquired about by Fu Xuan from the already old dowry maid after Fu Xuan became an adult.
The bridal maid is now heavy with frost and sideburns, and she has never married to serve the princess in her life, and the princess always feels that it is her fault after she goes first, and she is in a trance and can't live all day. Xie Quan took pity on her and left her in a corner of the mansion to make ends meet, but the chaos was not displaced. The maidservants who accompanied the marriage were sometimes clear and sometimes confused, and their speech was also reversed, but they only clearly remembered the scenery of the Wang Xie family in Wuyi Lane when they accompanied Princess Nankang to get married.
After more than 20 years of cold and summer, some people went to Wuyi Lane and some people came, but the only thing that remained unchanged was the Qinhuai River that flowed quietly from Wuzi, and the qin song of the warblers and swallows on both sides of the Qinhuai River.
"Could it be that this matter has something to do with my mother's matter?" Fu Xuan's eyes were blinded by the mist, "Over the years, I have been thinking about my mother's assassination, and now that this pendant has been taken away, could it be that the purpose of the murderer's assassination of me is not my life, but the pendant?"
"What's so strange about that pendant?"
"Extremely ordinary Xiuyan jade, smooth as washing, without strange patterns, and of excellent quality, but in terms of value, it is not worth making a big fuss about it and sneaking into the assassination twice. It's a pity that I didn't hear my mother's advice when she was dying. ”
"I've seen your pendant a few times, there are small holes in the circle, dark green, moist and transparent, although it is a personal thing, but presumably there are many close-to-line maids in the house who can see this jade like me......" Su Zhidao, "How did Princess Nankang get this jade pendant?"
It seems that the mother wore it before she got married, and the maid who was dowry back then seemed to mention that the mother had a piece of close-fitting jade. But she is old, and her brain is not clear after the events of that year, and what she says may not be entirely credible. ”
Su Zhi thought for a moment, and then said, "That jade pendant may still be on the murderer." ”
"How do you know? ”
"Fu Xuan, why is your body injured and your mind has become stupid and dull?" Su Zhidao, "If the grandmother of the teaching workshop knows the appearance of the pendant, she can't wait to give you a piece of it for you to work overnight to give you a piece of Xie Gongzi." ”
"Since there are still clues about the jade pendant, then this matter is not a pool of stagnant water. Fu Xuan frowned a little and said, "When I get better, I will work with you to track down the whereabouts of this murderer." But...... The master must be well-trained and deeply hidden, how to find it?"
"If you can't find it along the way, you may be able to reverse it. Su Zhi raised his head slightly, looking confident, "If this matter is really related to the assassination of Princess Nankang sixteen years ago, then it will have nothing to do with the Xianbei people." Tomorrow I will set out with my generals on a northern expedition to Xianbei, and then I will be able to find out the whereabouts of this murderer in Xianbei. ”
"What? you're going to cut Xianbei!" Fu Xuan almost cried out, although his body was not yet healed and he couldn't move, but his soul had jumped up from the bed, "You are going to go on an expedition tomorrow, you have a lot of things to do, but you are still here today to hang out with me, what kind of ecstasy green vegetable porridge will you make me?"
"What's wrong?" Su Yi looked indifferent, and said lightly, "I have the final say on idle and sweet nonsense." It was my father's intention that I went with me. On the bright side, Xianbei attacked the city, his father had the crime of negligence, and the son atonement on behalf of his father, as it should be, and secretly his father was aware of the hidden dangers of Xianbei's siege of the city, and asked me to accompany him to investigate. ”
Fu Xuan frowned, staring straight at Su Zhi, as if he was about to confide a thousand words but pursed his lips, he knew that he had been assassinated, if someone wanted to be unfavorable to Wang Xie, then this person had reached the point of madness, and this trip was undoubtedly dangerous.
Su Zhi saw it in his eyes and snickered in his heart, but his face still looked calm and calm, and he said with relief, "Don't worry, this trip is not as dangerous as before, but the war is changing rapidly, and I can't predict how long it will take, but it's you, it's important to take care of your body quickly." ”