15. Origin
Yin Xiu's memory of Meng Qing now is only what Bai Zhan wanted to show him after he deliberately hid it.
It is useless to continue to stay in the Yin Mansion any longer, and the fact that they have not been able to be rumored out of the Wheel Table is enough to prove that there must be a follow-up to this matter.
Xie Bi'an discussed with Fan Wuxuan, left a few eagle eyes in the Yin Mansion, and followed the route when Bai Zhan Shenjun took Meng Qing away.
Meng Qing's appearance frightened many people on the road, but Bai Zhan Shenjun didn't do anything, probably to let Yin Xiu know what Meng Qing had done for him.
Traces of blood snaked along the white snow, with occasional interruptions, swept away by the snow-sweepers.
Xie Bi'an and Fan Wusu followed from a distance, and saw that Meng Qing's face was getting redder and redder, his breath was getting more and more panting, and the blood was flowing more and more.
This place has already gone out of the city gate, and when he arrived at the path of the mountain where Meng Qing was before, Meng Qing stumbled all the way forward, always stumbling and falling, but Bai Zhan Shenjun, who was holding him in front of him, did not even look back.
"What is Lu Wu's identity?" There was nothing between the trees except the occasional 'fluttering' sound of snow falling on the branches, and most of the beasts did not come out at this time.
"She is the real Miss Li Wu of the Li family, Li Wan'er is the child she gave birth to privately, and was discovered by Li Ge Lao before she was born and stuffed to Yin Xiu. Later, the child was born but was a fool, and after being cured, he followed Yin Xiu all the way to Gusu. ”
"Yin Xiu knows everything?"
Fan Wushou bowed his head, "He is also tired of officialdom, and he has done everything he should do." Although Li Ge Lao is unclear and blindly biased, he is loyal to the new monarch. Yin Xiu exchanged a pair of eyes for his freedom, and Miss Li and Li Wan'er were the hostages he could safe. ”
"I see." Xie Bi'an nodded, watching Meng Qing's steps become slower and slower, "So green ...... Li Wu was so happy when he thought Yin Xiu was dead. ”
"Hmm." Fan Wu said: "Yin Xiu once said that when he wants to die, he can let Miss Li and Li Wan'er go back to Beijing." ”
But Yin Xiu didn't die.
Xie Bi'an looked at the figure on the snow, Meng Qing never got up after lying down, and was silent.
In this cold and snowy place, Meng Qing only had a thin coat on his body, and the shoes on his feet had already been soaked in the snow, and even the blood on his face was no longer hot, and his eyes became cold as soon as he flowed, and then froze on his chin.
Xie Bi'an looked at the distinct step-by-step bloody footprints on the way here, watched Bai Zhan Shenjun turn around, and pulled Meng Qing's soul out of the Heavenly Spirit Cave with a complicated expression.
A pale cyan little nine-tailed fox jumped on Bai Zhan Shenjun's arm in a daze, and hugged him tightly on all fours, as if he was terrified.
Bai Zhan Shenjun hurriedly took out the soul lamp from his arms, and the yellowish soul lamp suddenly enveloped the little nine-tails' body, and Xie Bi'an seemed to see the little nine-tails yawning and revealing the tip of his pink tongue.
Bai Zhan Shenjun put the soul lamp back into his arms again, and then disappeared into his chest, then turned around and soared towards the direction of Qingqiu.
"Let's go back." Xie Bi'an looked at Meng Qing's body that was placed by Bai Zhan Shenjun lying under the tree.
I don't know if he had any sweet dreams before he died, and there was even a faint smile on his lips.
The two of them returned to Yin's house in silence all the way, Yin Xiu's eyes were already intact, and he even felt much clearer than before.
After Li Wan'er fainted and woke up, she kept pestering Yin Xiu, following behind like a fart, holding a box of dim sum and running around.
"Brother, brother, where did Brother Bai go?" Li Wan'er watched Yin Xiu enter Meng Qing's room with her hands in her hands, her eyes lit up suddenly, and she followed with her little short legs.
Yin Xiu looked around at the door, he had also been here, but he was blind at that time, and he was not very familiar with the house in the backyard.
Looking at it now, the furnishings are indeed a little cold.
In addition to a charcoal brazier with some residual heat, there is a bed and a set of desks.
Li Wan'er had already run to the stool that Meng Qing loved to be on when she had nothing to do, first put the baby-like food box on it, and then stepped on the stool with her two fat arms on the edge of the table.
The table was also covered with the picture drawn by Meng Qing, five people, a painting, a house and a group of magnolia flowers.
Li Wan'er screamed inside, looked at Yin Xiu's figure when she walked to the door, muttered and hugged the food box baby on the side in her arms, and said, "Brother Bai left a lot of blood when he left, and he couldn't stop it with a white cloth covering his eyes, and there was blood all the way ...... all the way."
Li Wan'er then looked up at Yin Xiu, who was a little stunned, and smiled, and said, "Brother, are you good to get Brother Bai back, Wan'er gave him Wan'er's favorite candy, and it won't hurt to eat candy." ”
"You just said that when Mr. Bai left, his eyes were covered with blood?"
"Yes." Li Wan'er gestured with her hand, and her face turned pale when Meng Qing left, and she held her mouth and said, "There was a lot of blood, and the mattress was dyed red." ”
Yin Xiu turned around and left with a cold face.
Li Wan'er was stunned for a moment, then looked at the food box she was holding in her arms like a baby, looked left and right, and jumped down with great effort.
This time she didn't stand firm and made her fall, she was about to cry, then gritted her teeth, stood up on her own ground, and said to herself: "Wan'er doesn't cry, Wan'er will wait for Brother Bai to come back and cry." ”
Just before Li Wan'er was about to step out of the threshold by the door, she thought about it, but returned to the table, jumped up on the stool, and rolled up the picture scroll that Meng Qing valued very much and hugged it to her chest, which was more precious than her own food box.
This time she didn't jump, first put the scroll aside, then climbed down with great effort, and then happily hugged it to find Yin Xiu.
Yin Xiu in the room sat behind the table with a cold face, and in front of him was Lu Wu, who was kneeling on the ground, and a few small servants who had gone to chase people before.
"I don't know what Mr. Bai looked like when he left." Yin Xiu suddenly laughed, and gently brushed away a few floating leaves floating in the tea with the tea lid, "Lu Wu, you are getting bolder and bolder now. ”
Lu Wu knelt underneath, his face entered, and he even smiled a little when he looked up, "What is the son talking about, Lu Wu doesn't know." ”
Yin Xiu tilted his head and laughed softly, "In the end, they are all Li Ge Lao's only daughters, but unfortunately, their brains are only limited to how to fight in the back house, and how to return to Beijing to continue to enjoy your glory and wealth." ”
"Ah Chou is your biological daughter, you have never asked her for so many years, the guard who had an affair with you was killed by the cane, and I didn't see you shed a single tear, Miss Li, in your heart, I am afraid that no one is as important as you." Yin Xiu stood up from behind the table, tapped lightly on the table with one hand, looked directly at Lu Wu, whose face was getting paler and paler below, and shook his head, "Take her down." ”
The person who came was dressed in black, and Lu Wu had never seen it before.
She couldn't help but be a little flustered, and looked at Yin Xiu in a panic, "Yin Xiu! Don't you dare! My father is still one person under ten thousand people-as long as I return to Beijing safely, I can enter the palace as my imperial concubine-Yin Xiu-! ”
"Foolishness." Yin Xiu drank the tea, and then a guard knelt outside holding Li Wan'er, whose face was flushed and struggling, and said, "Childe, Miss asks to see." ”
"Let her in." Yin Xiu Shi Ran sat down, watched Li Wan'er's eyes sparkle with her hands pinching her waist and snorting heavily at the guard who was still fierce and stopping him just now, and then turned around and ran to him.
"Brother, has Big Brother Bai found it?" Li Wan'er held the food box in one hand and the picture scroll in the other, thought about it and put the food box aside, "After finding Big Brother Bai, you must call me quickly, and I will give him candy." ”
"What's in your hand?" Yin Xiu naturally knew that the food in the exquisite box on the table had always been Li Wan'er's treasure, but now she put the food box away, and instead took a picture scroll that had not yet been wrapped.
"It's Big Brother Bai's favorite painting." Li Wan'er frowned in distress, and her little hand tightened again, "Big Brother Bai said that he painted his family, but his family is dead." ”
Yin Xiu smiled, "Open it for me to see, maybe I can still think about where Mr. Bai is, and get him back." ”
Li Wan'er hesitated and hesitated, her little eyes kept glancing at Yin Xiu, and finally she finally let go of the paper as if she was finally reluctant, "Okay, but you must be careful, Big Brother Bai's favorite is this painting." ”
Yin Xiu nodded in agreement, watched Li Wan'er stand on the side of the stool and solemnly untie the rope, and then spread it out with her little hands little by little.
Just when he saw the seal in the upper left corner, Yin Xiu's forehead jumped heavily.
It was a not very clear engraving, and there was a flower-like shape on the side of a Qing character, and his hand couldn't help but tighten.
Li Wan'er spread out the scroll and felt that her arm suddenly broke like a pain, she screamed in surprise, and looked at Yin Xiu with tears in her eyes, but she was so frightened by Yin Xiu's expression that she didn't dare to speak.
Yin Xiu looked at the painting almost with tears in his eyes, he must have painted it very finely, and even the big Meng characters on the mansion behind him were drawn.
A woman was sitting among the magnolia flowers and was smiling kindly, and a young, an older man was smiling under a tree as if he were playing.
Yin Xiu only felt bursts of heat surging up in his eyes, he turned his head, looked at Li Wan'er's bewildered face, and asked word by word, "This is Mr. Bai's own hand-drawing?" ”
"Yes, yes." Li Wan'er's tears fell down her face, and then she moved back in fear, and fell to the ground all of a sudden, she didn't care about the pain, got up again, and said with a crying voice: "Brother, brother, your eyes are bleeding......"
Yin Xiu turned a deaf ear, holding the scroll and rushing out of the door directly, "Twelve! Find me someone! ”
A black shadow flashed by the door and disappeared, Meng Qing quickly followed the location of the black shadow and went out, chasing all the way in the direction Meng Qing left.
Li Wan'er sat on the ground, so frightened that she even forgot to cry, and after a while, she crawled to the edge of the table again, picked up her food box and shrank into a corner.
At this time, a person suddenly walked in outside the door, Li Wan'er looked over with wide eyes, and then cried and threw herself into the arms of the person who came, and said in a choked voice: "Grandpa Zhang, Grandpa Zhang...... I want my brother, I want big brother white......"
Steward Zhang sighed heavily, touched the letter in his arms that seemed to be as heavy as a thousand pounds, and held Li Wan'er in his arms and gently comforted her, "Miss, don't cry, the son will definitely come back." ”
Li Wan'er stopped crying with sobs, hugged the things in her arms, and said with wide eyes: "Will you really come back?" ”
"Yes." Steward Zhang pointed to the door, "The twelve brothers who always play with you go out with Gongzi, they will definitely be fine." ”
Li Wan'er stared at the door with wide eyes for a long time, then hugged her food box tightly, shrunk into Steward Zhang's arms, and whispered: "When my brother brings Brother Bai back, Wan'er will give them candy...... It's delicious, it's Wan'er's favorite food......"