Chapter 17: The Night of Revenge
The moon was particularly bright tonight, and there was not a hint of wind in the courtyard.
In the candlelight, staring at the map in his hand, Hu Shao was stunned for a long time.
This room no longer resembles a boudoir, more like a dark cell.
Hu Shao is afraid of light, and even more afraid of people's eyes, all the windows are sealed, and the maids around her only serve outside the courtyard, and only the beautiful maid is by her side.
"Can't you sleep again?" asked the maid, dressed and rising from the cot on the left side of the room, with concern.
Hu Shao looked at her blankly, her eyes full of helplessness, despair and envy.
The candlelight shone on the cheeks of the maidservant, and she was exactly the same as Hu Shao! But there was no birthmark on her face, and this was a peerless beauty! Her face was as smooth as promise, her skin was as white as moonlight, her long hair was like a waterfall, her thin eyebrows were like willows, her cheeks and smiles were as clear as clear water, there was no trace of impurities in her eyes, she was full of innocent luster, and her clothes were simple and unpretentious, but it was difficult to hide her graceful posture.
It's just that she hasn't seen a mirror since she was a child, and this servant girl doesn't know what she looks like.
Her master, Hu Shao, kept telling her: "You look the same as me." "It didn't lie to her, it just didn't say she didn't have that ugly birthmark.
So this servant girl always thought that she was ugly and had extremely low self-esteem.
"Miss, hurry up and go to bed, or you'll vomit blood again." The maidservant comforted, and she bent down to make the bed, ready to help the young lady to sleep.
"I've got something to do tonight, don't leave this room. Hu Shao recovered from despair, his eyes showed perseverance, changed into a night suit, and disappeared into the vast night.
The maidservant shook her head helplessly and blew out the candle.
In the south of the village, the Jiang family's mansion covers an area of several acres, although it is not as good as the hundreds of acres of mansions in Hu Mansion, it is also a small landlord with a lot of money and grain, not to mention that the Jiang family has a talent, and his status is higher than that of ordinary people.
Mrs. Jiang asked, "Official, have you closed the door?" The Jiang family originally had two servants, but there was something wrong that night, and they went home, so Jiang Xiucai had to come and close the door in person.
These two large wooden doors are very heavy, although Jiang Xiucai is tall, but he has no power to restrain the chicken, and it took half a day to cover the door to death, and insert the wooden door latch weighing more than ten catties.
Suddenly, in the moonlight, a dark figure stood on the earthen wall, waiting quietly for him to close the door.
Jiang Xiucai closed the door, panted, turned around and saw the shadow on the ground, looked up and was taken aback, and shouted: "Bold thief, get out of here, otherwise I will call someone!"
The black shadow floated to the ground, with a pair of angry eyes, staring at Jiang Xiucai deadly.
Jiang Xiucai was taken aback, and fixed his eyes to find that the person who came was not tall, very thin, with a bumpy chest and back, and it was actually a woman.
The defensiveness in his heart was greatly reduced, and he asked in a low voice, "Who are you, why did you come to me in the middle of the night?"
Jiang Xiucai is romantic, the little nuns in the nearby nunnery have hooked up with each other, and they make a living by opening private schools on weekdays, and they get mixed with a few little ladies secretly when they come to teach, and they know a lot of women, but there is no impression of a woman with such a good figure.
The black shadow said angrily in a trembling voice: "Are you called Jiang Mengyu?"
Jiang Xiucai was quite proud, and said: "I know, you must have read the poems I printed, and came here, yes, Meng Yu is my word, and my real name is Jiang Zhaohui!"
The black shadow laughed wildly a few times, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he said several times, "Okay, good!"
Jiang Zhaohui was shocked, took a few steps back, and said in a trembling voice, "Aren't you crazy?
The hatred has been accumulated for too long, and he has been looking for "Jiang Mengyu" for several years, but today he finally found it, the big hatred is about to be hated, and the bitterness that has been suppressed in his chest for too long is released for a while, and Hu Shao is a little difficult to restrain himself.
"Do you know who I am?" said Hu Shao angrily.
Jiang Zhaohui thought hard, couldn't remember that he had provoked this woman once upon a time, and said with a wry smile: "If I spent the Spring Festival with a woman with a very good figure like you, how could I forget, but I really can't remember!"
Hu Shao was furious and said: "Fengqi Mountain, Wind and Rain Pavilion, you spit on a woman, have you ever remembered!"
Jiang Zhaohui suddenly realized, and then said angrily: "Who do I think it is? It turns out to be you ugly girl, it is really disgusting and disgusting! Now that you are breaking into a private house late at night, are you infatuated and immortal, and you still want me to pity you for Benxiucai! Get out! Otherwise, I will report to the government to arrest you!"
A sword seals the throat, and blood spurts like a pillar!
All the chatter stopped, and in an instant it was still, and the world was suddenly quiet.
Hu Shao had thought of 10,000 ways to take revenge and torture the enemy, but now, she was too lazy to listen to him and dirty her ears.
When he drew his sword, he wiped it dry with Xiucai's clothes, and returned it to its sheath.
The action is extremely fast, clean and exciting!
The moment he put it into the sheath, Xiucai's tall and dirty body fell to the ground with a bang, and a large pool of black blood flowed out.
Hu Shao, who was stunned on the ground, couldn't figure out how a person's blood could flow so much, almost staining the entire courtyard.
Hu Shao cried in a low voice, his voice turned from low to high, and finally he laughed wildly.
Revenge is gone!, she laughed with tears in her eyes.
The moonlight sprinkled on the earth like pure snow.
Madame Chiang rushed out, saw her fallen husband and the laughing thief, desperately picked up the wooden stick and wanted to step forward desperately.
Hu Shao pitied her, a woman who married the wrong person and loved the wrong person.
She was too lazy to entangle, so she jumped out of the courtyard of the Jiang family, and by the time Mrs. Jiang moved the latch, the person had already disappeared.
On the way home, she seemed to have returned to her childhood, where no one paid attention to her birthmark and no one cared about her beauty or ugliness.
At the age of six, she slipped out of the courtyard of the deep house, ran and frolicked with a group of unknown children, barefoot, stepped on the bluestone slabs in the streets and alleys, and trotted all the way home with a few stinky fish and shrimp touched from the ditch.
When I grew up, I could only walk on the street at night and when no one was around.
Over the past few years, hatred has consumed this young girl, and no one understands why a weak woman is so obsessed with the martial arts that only the charlatans have worked so hard to practice.
She has long lost the mind of a girl, has lost the longing of a girl, and when she sees the moonlight as white as snow at this moment, she only thinks of the color of blood in the moonlight, it turns out that there is only a black color, and she can't distinguish many colors under the moonlight.
When she came to the rice fields in the suburbs, she didn't want to return to the cell-like boudoir, so she took off her thick-soled white satin boots and a pair of white cloth socks, revealing a pair of white and flawless feet.
The night breeze blew across her cheeks, and the drums of the three watches could be heard in the city in the distance, and for her, only this moment was free.
The little feet were put into the clear and cool stream, like a pair of white jade, sinking into the water, shattering the reflection of the moonlight on the water surface, and spreading a circle of ripples.
What a beautiful pair of jade feet! If you don't look at your face, only this pair of jade feet is enough to make men in the world jealous, and the man who can hold this pair of jade feet must be an invincible existence in the world!
Suddenly, the quiet night was broken by a loud noise, Hu Shao turned to look, and the fire behind him was soaring, and the smoky flames lit up the night sky.
Hu Shao hurriedly put on his night clothes, put on a veil, and lay down in the grass, watching the fire from a distance.
The footsteps were near, and the two stepped over the weeds and walked towards the rice paddies.
One said: "Master, all the beggars have been killed, and their bodies have been burned and destroyed." ”
Another said, "That little beggar was killed too?"
One of them replied, "The first to kill is the little beggar." ”
"Good!" the man's voice penetrated into Hu Shao's ears, and it was very familiar.
"This is my father's voice! It's actually my father!" Hu Shao was extremely surprised in her heart, she was full of thought that no one knew about sneaking out for revenge this time, and she couldn't imagine that she couldn't escape her father's eyes.
The two did not seem to be aware of Hu Shao's existence.
Hu Yinshan continued to ask, "What about the Jiang family?"
Another replied, "They were all killed, and there was a baby who was crying incessantly, and I was afraid that I would alarm my neighbors, and I found the dead too soon, and died." The tone was calm, and the words seemed to strangle an ant.
Hu Shao was shocked in his heart, and said in his heart: "What's wrong with the baby, it's too ...... Both parents died violently, and I am afraid that when I grow up, I will be full of hatred like me, and dying early in ignorance can be regarded as a relief. ”
Hu Yinshan said coldly: "This time you have to do it neatly, last time you casually threw the corpse of the shopkeeper of the cloth shop outside the south city gate, if it weren't for my friendship with Lord Zhixian Wang, I suppressed this matter, there would be a lot of trouble!"
Another said: "Thank you for not killing Master Xie, and your subordinates will definitely be more cautious in the future." ”
Hu Yinshan said: "Don't take it to heart, this kind of person asked him to come to the door to cut cloth and make clothes, and he was actually daring, and wanted to peek at his daughter, fortunately, he found it in time, otherwise if he peeked at my Shao'er, he would go out and talk nonsense to ruin my daughter's reputation, and it would not be enough to kill him a thousand times!
Hu Yinshan and the two gradually drifted away and disappeared into the endless rice fields.
Hu Shao didn't understand why his father wanted to kill a group of beggars, and remembered that he had only killed Jiang Xiucai alone, but he didn't expect the Jiang family to be destroyed, and he didn't know if it was happiness or other tastes.
Hu Shao was afraid that she would bump into her father by taking a shortcut from the rice field, so she planned to return the same way, passing through the bluestone paved streets and alleys, she found a figure, extremely fast, fast as a ghost, running in the direction of Jiang's house.
Hu Shao couldn't help but secretly wonder, could this be the killer sent by her father to clean up the scene of the murder? Curiosity drove her to follow closely, but she would not be easily discovered from a slightly distant distance.
When they arrived at the Jiang family's mansion, the figure hesitated at the door, turned around and looked around, under the moonlight, that face was a little familiar.
"It's the stinky boy who feeds the horses!" Hu Shao hid in the shadows, secretly observed, and was surprised.
After the old Taoist priest rescued him last time, because Hu Shao thought that he could heal the birthmark on his face, he forgot about his hatred with him, and found him at this moment, and his heart was full of anger.
Hu Shaoxin said: "This stinky boy, last time he took advantage of my picky horse, he deliberately rushed out to see if I was beautiful, but the result must have been that I was extremely ugly, and he actually hugged the horse and didn't dare to turn back! ”
She was no longer the mind of a normal girl, and in a fit of rage, she rushed into Jiang's house.