Chapter 4 Saving others and harming oneself
Xu Yanluo hurriedly walked out, with mixed thoughts all the way, would her father really say that? It should be, the uncle will not lie and fabricate his brother. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Xu Yanluo then remembered, no wonder in the past month, she always felt that the hawkers and pedestrians at the door of her house always seemed to be a little weird.
So what about the father's righteous killing of relatives? Or is it to avoid suspicion? It's all possible. My father was a loyal and patriotic man like my grandfather, and my father was a cautious person like my grandfather. Grandpa commanded thousands of armies and horses all his life, iron-blooded pride, and countless battles large and small, but grandpa was cautious in his words and deeds in front of Emperor Taizu all his life, so he avoided how many suspicions and secret arrows, otherwise this family might not exist for a long time.
But no matter which possibility is possible, the result is the same, the three cousins are likely to be imprisoned, the aunt will be heartbroken, the aunt, the uncle, who will understand the father? The father has always been loving, and has always taken care of everyone as the eldest son should take on the responsibility of the family, is not the father's own heart bleeding?
Uncle is right, "Even if King Yan pretends to be crazy and rebels, the three sons of Chi'er, Xu'er, and Sui'er are far away in the capital, and it is not a crime to know it?" Even if he is guilty, he should be handed over to the law department of the country to deal with, does it have to be handed over to our brothers to destroy their relatives in righteousness? Flesh and blood affection, how can love be? ”
So what should I do? What can I do? Thinking about it, Xu Yanluo has already had an idea.
"Bang", Xu Yanluo just turned the side door, and collided with a small guy.
"Ah, miss, I'm sorry." The little guy raised his head and quickly apologized.
"Ma He, why are you here?" Xu Yanluo recognized it at a glance, and the person was actually Ma He, the henchman of the original uncle Yan Wangfu.
"Miss, you're sorry that you recognized the wrong person." The man said hurriedly, and then hurriedly lowered his head and hurried away.
"I recognized the wrong person." Xu Yanluo looked at the back of the man who was far away and muttered to herself. "However, it is also possible that Ma He is a eunuch, but this is a small servant. Hey, whatever. Xu Yanluo suddenly remembered that she was still a mess, so how could she care about these idle things.
As soon as Xu Yanluo returned to her home, she went directly to the guest room to find the three brothers Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui. She won't ask her father, because she knows that her father is a principled person, and it is useless to ask, it will only embarrass her father and make her sad, and she may even get angry and scold herself, which will be difficult for her.
The three brothers, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui, were playing chess in the house, and when they saw Xu Yanluo coming in, they hurriedly greeted each other with a smile and gave up their seats to pour water.
"Cousin, cousin, it's not good, I heard that my uncle is sick and crazy. However, some people reported to His Majesty that my uncle was pretending to be crazy and intended to rebel, so he wanted to take you hostage. Xu Yanluo asked the three brothers to come closer and said softly. Of course, she wouldn't tell them how their father would deal with the court.
Saying this, the three brothers were anxious. Zhu Gaochu frowned anxiously, Zhu Gaoxu stood up and rubbed his hands and paced back and forth, Zhu Gaosui's frightened face was like earth.
"Cousin, is there anything you can do to save us?" It was Zhu Gaochi who was the first to calm down and asked.
"Yes, cousin, save us!" Zhu Gaosui begged.
So, Xu Yanluo told her strategy. After hearing this, the three brothers Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui were all happy and hurriedly thanked them.
It's just that Zhu Gaochi asked, "What about my cousin?" ”
"I can only wait for my father to severely punish me afterwards." Xu Yanluo pretended to stick out her tongue lightly and said.
Xu Yanluo had already thought about this result, and let go of the three brothers, it was a fait accompli, she was her father's beloved daughter, and the court did not have a decree of detention, so it was not a violation of the decree, and her father and the court would not kill the little granddaughter of the first hero of the founding of the country if they were angry, at most they would be severely punished. But it was worth it, saving the three cousins, and also fulfilling the love of the father's flesh and blood, both loyalty and righteousness, and the court blamed the father for his lax family education.
The next morning, as soon as the sky was dawning, as soon as her father went to court, Xu Yanluo came out of the back door of the female dependents in a carriage driven by a bearded coachman, followed by a male servant escort and two maids, and the three servants each rode a horse. The maids of Zhongshan Wangfu are not ordinary maids, but they are also familiar with it, they have more feminine spirit, and they are more accustomed to horseback riding. Last night, Xu Yanluo had already made it clear that her mother wanted to go outside the city to make incense and make a wish today, so she set off early in the morning, so she could go early and return early.
As soon as she got out of the house, Xu Yanluo found that she was being targeted, Xu Yanluo deliberately opened the sedan curtain all the way like a lively one, and stretched her head out of the sedan chair to look at the street scene. On the way and out of the city, there were two checkpoints, and his own servants coped with all the checks, and the group went out of the city very smoothly.
After another walk, there were not many pedestrians passing by. Xu Yanluo stopped the carriage and said with a smile: "Hehe, beautiful little sister Gao Sui, come and help the eldest cousin down, quickly collapse my carriage." With that, Xu Yanluo got off the carriage.
Zhu Gaosui, who was dressed as a man dressed as a woman and a maid on the side, blushed, and quickly ran to the woods next to him to change his clothes. And the sound of Zhu Gaochi slowly getting up from the carriage came from the carriage, and he was the most guilty along the way, his fat body was afraid of being seen, so he could only curl up on the sedan board.
Zhu Gaoxu, who was just pretending to be a coachman, tore off the sticky mustache on his mouth, straightened his waist, and said with a smile: "I don't think my eldest brother wants to ride in a carriage anymore in his life, haha." ”
"Zhu Gaoxu, you are too bad, you actually stole my father's three Dawanliang horses." Xu Yanluo smiled at Zhu Gaoxu and complained.
After a while, Zhu Gaosui changed his clothes and ran back, and Zhu Gaochi finally limped down from the sedan chair with his waist twisted slowly and his numb arms.
"Okay, here's the coil and dry food for you, you can go quickly." Xu Yanluo asked for a package from the servant and handed it to Zhu Gaoxu and said.
"Cousin, please give us another ride, haha." Unexpectedly, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly responded, and then turned around and quickly ordered the male servant who accompanied him, and Zhu Gaosui also quickly ordered the personal maid who followed Xu Yanluo at this time. The speed of action and the tacit understanding of cooperation, it seems that they had already discussed it last night.
"You!" Before he finished speaking, Xu Yanluo's acupoint had also been lit by Zhu Gaoxu.
"Cousin, these two servants must be pointed, or they should go back and report the news. You have to come with us, too, because if my uncle catches us, we still need your help, haha. Zhu Gaoxu showed a rogue look. So saying, they threw the two servants into the carriage and closed the curtains. Immediately afterwards, with two neighings, Zhu Gaoxu swung his sword and slashed the two horses pulling the carriage. In this way, even if the servant solves the cave, it will take some time to return to the city to report the news.
Xu Yanluo lay on the bed of the Dragon and Phoenix Gang, thinking back to this, not only remembered his father's comments to his cousin Zhu Gaoxu: "The most scoundrel, not only will he not be loyal to His Majesty, but he will not even be loyal to his father." I can't help but smile bitterly, it seems that my father does have a sense of knowledge.
However, even so, Xu Yanluo did not regret it at that time, because even if they were no longer scoundrels, after all, the cousin was still a cousin, and he should be saved.
And what happened later really made Xu Yanluo heartbroken. First of all, she didn't expect that when her cousin took her to pass by a post station, in order to have a good rest and replenish her supplies, and she was afraid of telling the truth afterwards, Zhu Gaoxu quietly arranged it, and they actually broke out at the same time, killing the three little officials who had just entertained them at the post station, Zhu Gaosui, who was fifteen or sixteen years old, and Zhu Gaochi, who seemed to have always been kind, killed people but they were not ambiguous. That's fate, three lives alive, looking at the innocent and unbelievable eyes that died, Xu Yanluo felt that she had killed them, and she was already in tears, grief and guilt.
Then, she didn't expect that her cousin would really move herself from the front to the back to block the arrows for him when her father led the troops to chase him; She didn't expect her cousin to be dragged down by her in the scuffle and sweep her off the horse with one palm, regardless of whether she lived or died in the crowd; She didn't expect that her father would really order the arrow to be released in order to shoot her cousin, even to give up completely herself.
How Xu Yanluo hopes that this is just a dream, a nightmare, that her cousin is still the cousin who used to talk and laugh and have no guesses, and that her father is still the gentle, loving and peaceful father.
But it all collapsed in an instant, and it never came back. Life is just like when her father and eldest cousin Zhu Gaochi Sven coped, and suddenly she saw the sword and sword shadow under the wind of warmth and humility and gentlemanliness, and this ugly truth, all the swords and swords were cut at her heart.
In one day, all her pride and glory for this family were shattered, her father and cousin, she once thought they were all brave, upright, and iron-clad men, but she did not expect that they would be at the moment of their own life and death, or for the sake of their so-called loyalty and patriotism, and treat innocent lives as if they were their own cousin or daughter. She was ashamed of them, filthy souls beneath their gorgeous cloaks.
Xu Yanluo is like an orphan trapped in an underground ice cave, gloomy, dark, cold and unaccompanied, maybe her father and cousin threw her into this ice cave, maybe she hid in this ice cave at the moment and didn't want to come out at all, maybe this is the only refuge she feels can maintain her inner peace.
was thinking about it, a burst of rice fragrant, Tang Sai'er had already walked in with a smile with a food box, put four dishes, two steamed buns, a bowl of porridge, and a small bowl of soup, and said with a smile while swinging: "Sister, eat a little, we have nothing to entertain on the mountain, coarse tea and light rice, a little dried rabbit meat, we grow our own vegetables, fortunately, Uncle Zhuo also beat a few pheasants today, so I stewed a bowl of chicken soup for you, put on our mountain Ganoderma lucidum, and make up for you, don't dislike my sister and my craft." ”
"Thank you, sister." Xu Yanluo thanked her, and suddenly she had a warmth that seemed to be a long-lost home. Yes, today she is still lucky, she met a good person to save her when she was in danger, the chivalrous and brave white horse and white robe eldest brother, when she lay in his arms, she was down-to-earth and warm, she felt his anxiety, concern and politeness, thinking of this, her beautiful and dignified cheeks couldn't help but flush a touch of pink.
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