Chapter 13: The Loss of a Father
A few days ago, Ah Xiu checked the chronology, knowing that there must be changes in the near future, and carefully co-organized family affairs every day, inquiring about the movements outside the city, today Keqiao's eyelids have been jumping and not listening, and I heard that Zhu Yuanzhang entertained Guo Zixing and Sun Deya in front, and knew that there was going to be an incident, so he came out to find Zhu Yuanzhang.
Ah Xiu hurriedly gave him a note, and ordered someone to secretly send him out of the city and throw it to Sun Deya's people. As soon as Sun Deya's army heard that the commander was arrested, they thought that Zhu Yuanzhang had instructed him, but when they saw Zhu Yuanzhang coming out, they arrested him.
Zhu Yuanzhang read a note on the way out, which said "replace people with people", and he had been prepared for a long time, and now he let them arrest him.
Since Sun Deya's soldiers and horses had captured Zhu Yuanzhang, they sent people into the city to find Guo Zixing again. Guo Zixing was secretly complacent at the moment, and was tying up Sun Deya's five flowers on the ground, when suddenly someone from outside came to report that Zhu Yuanzhang was captured by Sun Deya's fine work in the city.
Guo Zixing was stunned, and hurriedly called someone to ask Ah Xiu to discuss.
Ah Xiu heard that someone came to invite, and said in his heart: Time is also fate! If you kill Sun Deya, raise a knife soldier, and ruin my husband's reputation is small, and the sword soldier is together, Zhu Yuanzhang and I are afraid that we can only bury our bones here. Now, I can only sacrifice my father-in-law.
When Ah Xiu saw Guo Zixing, he knelt down with tears on his face: "My father-in-law is so ruthless, Ah Xiu has just become pregnant, so he wants to make Ah Xiu widowed?!" ”
This Guo Zixing was also shocked when he heard this, he was reluctant to Zhu Yuanzhang, but he couldn't give up this opportunity to get rid of Sun Deya in vain, it was already a dilemma, and now Ah Xiu cried and knelt, completely making him lose his mind.
Seeing Guo Zixing hurriedly coming to help, Ah Xiu was even more entangled in his heart, afraid that he would find out that he was fake pregnant with his help, wouldn't he give up his efforts?
So Ah Xiu opened Guo Zixing's hand, simply leaned over to the ground, and cried even more: "The righteous father doesn't need to help Ah Xiu, Ah Xiu's life is hard, the hexagram technique is not refined, and now that he is pregnant, it is even more difficult to get a hexagram, for fear of hurting the fetus, how do you know that the father-in-law took Sun Deya at this time, and the murdered Ah Xiu's husband was arrested, and now I am afraid that he has been killed by Sun Deya's people!" ”
Guo Zixing was completely stunned, and froze on the ground on the spot, neither helping nor not helping.
At this time, it was rumored outside that Xu Da, who was under Zhu Yuanzhang, begged to see him, saying that he had a way to get both.
Ah Xiu heard Xu Dalai, a stone fell to the ground, and she saved herself, she thought.
When Xu Da came in, he saluted, and said loudly: "Generalissimo, Mrs. Deputy Marshal, please don't worry, Xu Da can ensure the return of the deputy marshal!" ”
Guo Zixing didn't know what to do, so he said: "Speak quickly!" "While letting Su Xin help Ah Xiu up.
Xu Dadao: "Change me for the deputy marshal!" When the people are replaced, the deputy marshal and the marshal can directly move the troops, and Xu Da is willing to die for the marshals! ”
Of course Guo Zixing is willing, Ah Xiu thinks that at least Zhu Yuanzhang will be replaced, and then his wife will have the final say, so he is naturally willing.
So he called the messenger of the Sun Deya to come in, and told him that he was going to change people like this and so.
After a while, he changed back to Zhu Yuanzhang, Ah Xiu pretended to go out to greet him, and when Zhu Yuanzhang came back, Ah Xiu hurriedly told him that he must try his best to protect Xu Da's life, otherwise all his achievements will be wasted.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't, so he had to cut first and then play, and exchanged Sun Deya for Xu Da according to Ah Xiu's intentions.
Sun Deya was able to return to the army and fled back to Haozhou with the army immediately. Let's say that Guo Zixing saw the sergeant in the mansion and couldn't help but say that he let Sun Deya go, and he was so shocked that he vomited a mouthful of blood on the spot and fainted.
Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly asked someone for treatment, but there was no improvement in a few days, so he sent someone to inform the Tianxu Tianjue brothers, and sent another person to inform Liu Futong and Han Lin'er, who had just been known as the King of Xiao Ming.
This is to invite famous doctors all over the place, seeking immortal medicine, but unexpectedly, Guo Zixing was in a hurry, and he had already lost business, so day by day, after more than a month, he died.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Ah Xiu couldn't help but mourn and became busy. After taking care of Guo Zixing's funeral, Huilan and Ah Xiu, two real and fake pregnant women, entered the stage of waiting for labor, and all the daily meals were in Ah Xiu's room and took care of each other.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang is still the deputy marshal, and his official rank is below that of Tianxu Tianjue, he has real power over soldiers and horses, so he concentrates more on training troops every day, and wants to completely temper this army into an invincible iron army.
On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang went to train the army as usual, and A Xiuhuilan at home was setting up lunch with Lian'er to eat, but the house slave at the door reported outside the door, saying that there was a woman crying outside the house and begging to see her wife.
Ah Xiu is now stuffed with a huge pillow stuffed with cotton and millet, and she was worried about slipping, so she naturally didn't want to go out to see, so she said: "Since she is a woman, bring her in and talk back at the door here." ”
After thinking about it, he said, "In the afternoon, I invited Tang He and Li Shanchang to say that I have something to discuss." The slave answered and went.
Not long after, a woman came in, Ah Xiu saw her wearing mourning clothes from afar in the room, and according to the rules, she was afraid of bumping into Huilan's child, so she asked her to stand down, and asked Su Xin to move a stool and sit with her on the side of the steps outside the door and wait.
Ah Xiu saw her sit down, looked up and down, this woman was a warm filial piety, thinking that she had just died and passed away her parents, and her appearance was neat, she seemed to be slightly younger than Hui Lan, and her filial piety clothes were very dusty, so she thought she had come here from afar.
When Huilan and Lian'er put down the dishes and chopsticks, Ah Xiu asked: "I see that you are filial piety, and you are a woman, so it is not good to show your face, why did you come to the house to ask for a meeting?" ”
The girl was already timid, she bowed her head and cried, and when she listened to Ah Xiu's question, she raised her head to look at Ah Xiu, but she didn't answer.
Su Xin told her: "This is the eldest lady of my family." ”
When the girl heard this, she got up from her chair, knelt on the ground and said with a sobbing voice: "Sister Axiu, my name is Tianying, and I am the concubine sister of Tianxu Tianjue!" Now that my father and mother have passed away, I came to vote for Hezhou. ”
Ah Xiu was taken aback, and said in her heart: I have never heard that my father-in-law mentioned that he had a daughter, and he was accepted because he only had a pair of sons who had no daughters under his knees, how could he jump out of the ground with a daughter?
Seeing that Ah Xiu's face changed, Lian'er knew that she was suspicious and worried that she was plain and soft-hearted, so she asked with an excuse: "It's good that the girl doesn't have to lie, who doesn't know that Marshal Guo only had a son before his death, so he accepted our wife as a righteous daughter." Now just say that Marshal Guo is the girl's father, but do you have any credentials? ”
The girl listened, nodded and said, "Before my mother died, she gave me what her father gave her back then, and now it can be used as a certificate." As he spoke, he took a piece of jade pendant and a letter from his bosom and handed them to Su Xin, who used his handkerchief to show them to several ladies.
When Ah Xiu saw the jade pendant, he no longer doubted, his father-in-law had given him the same jade pendant that day, and the texture could be seen to be a stone, and he asked Lian'er to unfold the letter and read it to herself.
The letter was written by Guo Zixing, to the effect that it was just a moment of stubbornness to have a dewy relationship with the person who received the letter, and now after thinking about it, there are several ladies in the family and two sons, and she can no longer be accepted into the house as a concubine, give her some silver taels, and a jade pendant to ask her to take care. The signature is full of years.
It seems that she was a lowly woman who had a brief relationship with Guo Zixing, but Guo Zixing disliked her background and gave silver money and jade pendants as compensation. Unexpectedly, this woman's love is deep-rooted, and she has a daughter.
Ah Xiu sighed in her heart that the woman's life experience was drifting, and she couldn't help but say softly: "How did your mother go?" ”
Tianying choked and said: "Although my mother is not accepted, she still loves her father deeply, so I inquired about the names of my two brothers and named me Tianying. ”
A Xiuxin said: It is said that it is an infatuated woman who is a negative man, and sure enough, Guo Zixing was so rich during his lifetime, but he couldn't tolerate a mere woman, which is really sad.
Thinking of this, Ah Xiu called Tianying and others, pretended to go into the house to change a handkerchief, and took out the notes stuffed in the pillow clip lining, and corrected them according to the list of concubines, but there was really such a woman, so she was relieved.
hurriedly came out again, pretending not to find the handkerchief, and sent Su Xin to get it from the mother-in-law who washed the clothes, so he whispered to Huilan Lian'er and said in a low voice, now I have to accept her, otherwise I will run out and damage my husband's reputation.
The two nodded and replied in a low voice, it was all up to the elder sister.
It happened that Su Xin came back with a veil, Ah Xiu took the veil, and asked Su Xin to inform his subordinates to tidy up the house and live with Tianying, and told the marshal to return to the house to salute and accept him as a concubine.
Tianying thanked Ah Xiu and went with Su Xin.
Ah Xiu looked at the two of them and said with a wicked smile: "Hey, if this continues, won't our husbands and wives and concubines be in a group?" When there are more of you sisters, I will abdicate and make way for Xian. ”
Huilan Lian'er was originally a little gloomy, but now when she heard Ah Xiu's words of relief and please, she covered her mouth and smiled: "How is the sister of the Dudao outside gentle, virtuous, dignified and quiet, but I don't know how clever and unforgiving she is in private!" ”
So the three of them laughed together. Very cozy.
In the evening, Zhu Yuanzhang returned home and heard that there was another concubine, and he was very unhappy, but he couldn't help Ah Xiu, so he had to comply, but he didn't go to Tianying's side that night, and only rested in Ah Xiu Huilan.