"Pavilion Master."

In the study, Gong Yuchen was casually playing with the jade pendant in his hand, and a man in black walked in quickly and whispered to Xiao Qianye about summoning Wei Hongfei.

Gong Yuchen waved his hand to signal the man in black to step back, raised his sword eyebrows and said, "Wei Hongfei? Interesting. ”

Gong Er, who was standing behind him, said in a deep voice: "Pavilion Master, Wei Hongfei came back suddenly at this time, it is obviously a fraud, are we..." Gong Yuchen snorted lightly: "If you can solve Xiao Qianye before he meets him, it will be fine, now that Xiao Qianye has seen him, what should be said must have been finished." Killing him now is just to confirm to Xiao Qianye that what he said is true. ”

"Does the pavilion master know what he said to Xiao Qianye?"

Gong Yuchen said indifferently: "Wei Junmo put him back at this time, what else can he say?" It doesn't matter, no matter what Xiao Qianye thinks, it doesn't matter at this time anymore. Unless, he is willing to open the city gate and surrender to King Yan now. "These days, the second uterus also knows a little bit about Xiao Qianye. It is absolutely impossible to make him surrender to King Yan. I'm afraid it's even more difficult than letting him die.

"Shall we leave it at that?" Gong Erdao.

Gong Yuchen smiled: "Do you think Wei Hongfei will have a better life in the future?" No matter who wins or loses in the end, Wei Hongfei's life will not be easy. "If Xiao Qianye wins, Xiao Qianye will not forget his previous sins because of Wei Hongfei's contribution today. If King Yan wins, Wei Hongfei will be even more miserable. Even if you don't die, you can only live half-dead in this life. Such a person feels very sad when he thinks about it, and when he thinks about it, he feels that it is much more interesting to let him live than to let him die.

Seeing that the pavilion master was like this, Gong Er didn't dare to say anything more.

Gong Yuchen played with the jade pendant in his hand and asked, "How are the preparations everywhere?" ”

Gong Er said in a deep voice: "In a few days, we will be able to prepare." The subordinates guarantee that nothing goes wrong. ”

Gong Yuchen nodded and sighed lightly: "That's good, success or failure is a blow here." ”

"Yes, Pavilion Master."

Wei Hongfei followed the address provided by the chief attendant to the Beicheng Hutong in the outer city of Jinling. This place Wei Hongfei had never been to before. When he followed the first emperor into Beijing, he lived in the most prosperous place in the inner city of Jinling, but here is the poorest place in the outer city of Jinling. In the past, the king of Jingjiang County, Princess Changping's concubine naturally would not come to such a place.

Before he could walk in, he asked, and a thick rancid smell came from inside. Even Wei Hongfei, who had been in cell 1 for several years, couldn't help frowning. The cell was just dark and damp, and the smell was naturally not good, but compared to the smell of something mixed up, it was almost fresh air. The people here are all ragged, yellow-skinned, and thin, and it is almost impossible to believe that this is at the feet of the Emperor of Jinling. This is the place where the poorest and lowliest people in the whole Jinling live, not to mention the inner city, they are not qualified to enter, even the people in the outer city are afraid of them.

Seeing Wei Hongfei, the residents in the alley were not surprised. Because Wei Hongfei's current image is not much better than theirs. After inquiring all the way, he finally found his family in the deepest part of the alley. Standing outside the dilapidated courtyard gate, Wei Hongfei's dry eyes couldn't help but shed muddy tears. This dilapidated and crumbling courtyard was so filthy and narrow that even the lowest-ranking subordinates of the Jingjiang County Mansion were disdainful. But now, there are so many people living in this courtyard.

Since Wei Hongfei was defeated and captured, the brothers Wei Junbo and Wei Junze were soon beheaded after being escorted back to Beijing. The Wei family was originally going to be all assigned to the frontier, but in the end, some old ministers1 who originally had a friendship with the Jingjiang County Mansion pleaded for intercession, so they gave up. It's just that it was reduced to a common people, and the original family property of the Jingjiang County Royal Mansion was naturally all submerged into the treasury. Mrs. Wei had to leave the inner city with her family and go to the outer city to settle down. But this family has been well-dressed and well-fed for many years, how do you know how to live the life of a commoner? However, in half a year, the little money that Mrs. Wei had left was also tossed clean. In the end, I had no choice but to move to the most dilapidated alley in the city.

The children of the Wei family, except for Wei Junbo's wife Shen, who was picked up by her mother's family in an accident, the rest can only follow Mrs. Wei. As for those concubines who do not enter the stream, they have been sold for a long time, and those who have run away are clean. Now in this small courtyard live Mrs. Wei and Wei Hongfei's stepwife Feng. The two concubines who gave birth to children for Wei Hongfei, Aunt Xiang and Aunt Han, the wives of Wei Junze and Wei Junyi, brought a concubine and a concubine respectively, all of them were little dolls waiting to be fed, and the two girls of the Wei family, Wei Fei and Wei Qian. was originally a concubine, and the Feng family didn't worry much about the marriage of the two, but when the Wei family fell, they couldn't get married. So much so that now Wei Fei is twenty-two, and Wei Qian is still in her twenties.

With such a small yard and so many people, life is naturally difficult. Before Wei Hongfei entered the door, he heard Mrs. Wei's sharp scolding coming from inside. is scolding Feng and the two concubines for being lazy, and then scolding Wei Fei and Wei Qian for losing money. Even the two granddaughters-in-law were not spared, scolding the two of them for killing their grandson Yunyun.

Wei Hongfei only felt a burst of pain in his forehead when he heard this. He knew that his mother didn't have much knowledge, not to mention that compared with the old ladies of the Xie family and the Qin family, even the women of the Zhu family, who had always been looked down upon by their magnates, were much more educated than his mother. After all, he had grown up accustomed to his mother as a snarky country woman. Over the years, she has been pampered, and gradually she has developed a bit of cultivation and temperament, plus Mrs. Wei has a good face, and she has always looked like the princess of the county in front of the outside. It's a pity that the poor days of the past few years have been tossed, and the little self-cultivation that has been accumulated with great difficulty is gone.

Finally couldn't help it, Wei Hongfei reached out and knocked on the door.

It was a long time before someone opened the door from the inside. The people inside and outside the door were all stunned, Wei Fei looked at the old man standing at the door in a daze, frowned, and said a little unhappily: "Who are you?" What do you want to do? Wei Hongfei was stunned for a while before coming back to his senses and said, "Fei'er, it's Dad." ”

Wei Fei was stunned for a moment, looked at Wei Hongfei in front of him and didn't speak for a long time.

Wei Hongfei hurriedly said: "I'm really your father, are your grandmother and your mother okay?" ”

"Daddy?" Wei Fei said blankly.

Behind her, Mrs. Wei's angry voice came, "Dead girl! Opening a door can also grind for a long time, believe it or not, the old lady will sell you tomorrow! ”

"Mother!" Wei Hongfei shouted.

Mrs. Wei was stunned for a moment, looked at Wei Hongfei in front of her in a daze, and said in a trembling voice for a long time: "You... Are you Hongfei? Wei Hongfei nodded again and again, kneeling down in front of Mrs. Wei, "The child is not filial, mother... The child is back. ”

"You... How did you become like this? You... Did you know that Bo'er and Ze'er are... Both..."

"I know." Wei Hongfei said in a deep voice, for those two sons, it is false to say that he has no resentment. At the beginning, he wished he could strangle those two rebels, but after several years, the anger in his heart was slowly dissipated. Thinking of his son's fate, all that is left in my heart is melancholy and regret. Fortunately... He also has a son. Thinking of Wei Junyi, who was still in Wei Junmo's hands, Wei Hongfei had a little hope in his heart.

Wei Hongfei's sudden return not only surprised and delighted Mrs. Wei, but also all the women in the courtyard were also shocked. It's just that seeing Wei Hongfei's appearance, the little hope that originally rose in his heart was immediately shattered. Just looking at Wei Hongfei's appearance, you can know that he has lived no better than them in the past few years. Only Aunt Han couldn't help but pounce, grabbed Wei Hongfei's sleeve and shouted, "Master, where is Yi'er?" Where did Yi'er go? ”

In the past few years, Aunt Han's heart has suffered even more than the Feng family who died of her son. Feng at least knew her son's whereabouts, and she could still give her son a stick of incense during the New Year's holidays. On the one hand, she was worried that her son would become a lonely ghost and no one would be afraid to pay tribute, and she didn't dare to really burn paper and incense. If the son had not died, would he not have cursed him? On the one hand, he kept telling him that his son was still alive, but there had been no news for several years, and there was no use except to lie to himself.

Wei Hongfei glanced at the woman in the courtyard shaped like a withered tree, sighed and said to Aunt Han: "Don't worry, Yi'er is still alive." ”

"Still alive?" Aunt Han was stunned for a moment, even if she told her son in her heart that her son was still alive 10,000 times, she didn't hear the shock of Wei Hongfei's sentence.

Wei Hongfei nodded and said, "He's still alive." "It's just that he doesn't know where.

Aunt Han's sallow and haggard face was suddenly full of tears, "I'm still alive... It's good to be alive, God willing......"

After listening to Wei Hongfei's words, Mrs. Wei was also very excited, "Yi'er is still alive?" ”

Although Mrs. Wei didn't pay much attention to this grandson when Wei Junyi was there, after all, there was a smart and sensible Wei Junbo and a likable Wei Junze in front of her. But now, Wei Junyi is indeed Wei Hongfei's only son. Although Wei Junze still left a concubine, the child has been weak and sickly since he was a child, and it remains to be said whether he can raise him or not.

"That's... What about the Yi'er people? Mrs. Wei looked behind Wei Hongfei and was a little disappointed when she didn't see the figure.

Wei Hongfei was silent for a while and said, "He won't come back in a few days, mother, don't worry, he'll be fine." ”

"Great." Mrs. Wei couldn't help but burst into tears. Although she is a bitter old woman, she still values the inheritance of the family as much as any woman. If the Wei family is cut off from her son, how will she go underground to see her husband and in-laws who died long ago in the future? Originally, she still hoped that she and her son could be reborn, but now looking at her son's appearance that is older than herself, Mrs. Wei couldn't help but extinguish this thought. Even if the daughter-in-law and the two concubines are really pregnant again, who can guarantee that they will be sons and will be able to raise adults. If Wei Junyi can or come back, it is naturally the best.

Mrs. Wei and Han were happy, but it didn't mean that everyone else was happy. At least Feng was very unhappy, why did her son die, but Han's son was still alive? It's not fair!

Feng was able to pull Wei Hongfei's heart by his side for more than 20 years, and naturally he was not a fool. No matter how much resentment there was in his heart, he didn't show it at all, "Master, you're finally back." In the past few years, I don't know how much I have suffered? Wei Hongfei glanced sideways at Feng Shi and sighed softly, "You have lost a lot of weight in the past few years, and you have worked hard." "Although Wei Junbo and Wei Junze, the two rebels, made him angry, what else can he blame for his son who has been dead for so long? Seeing Feng's haggard appearance, Wei Hongfei was even more soft-hearted.

Feng Shi bowed his head, "The old man is serious, it is all what the concubine should do." The half-drooping eyes hid the disgust and mockery in the eyes. If the Feng family was greedy for Wei Hongfei's identity and heroic posture at the beginning, the current Wei Hongfei is useless. Even in the past few years, Feng has been a lot haggard, but standing with Wei Hongfei is still like a father and daughter rather than a husband and wife. Since the fall of Weifu, Mrs. Wei has vented all her anger on her, saying that it was because of Bo'er and Ze'er that the Jingjiang County Wangfu fell to this point. In the past few years, Feng's life has not been better than that of the two aunts.

"Father."

The two daughters-in-law and two daughters also stepped forward to salute. Wei Hongfei nodded and let people get up, although it was a family reunion, there was not much joy except for Mrs. Wei. Wei Hongfei is so down, even if he comes back, it won't make their lives much better, and it may even be even more sad. What good errands can an old man find and what money can he make? Maybe I'll have to keep them.

"Fei'er, Qian'er, I've suffered you." Wei Hongfei sighed lightly, the two daughters have not been able to get married yet, and it is he, the father, who has delayed them.

Wei Fei and Wei Qian didn't say anything, just stood silently in a corner. The hardships of life in the past few years have made them no longer the two arrogant and naïve daughters of the Jingjiang County Palace.

Mrs. Wei didn't see this kind of look at all, and pulled her son to ask non-stop, "Hongfei, where have you been spending the past few years?" My mother was worried about death. ”

Wei Hongfei was silent for a moment, "Let my mother worry, I've been in the past few years... All of... Wei Junmo was locked up in the dungeon of Chenzhou Mansion. ”

"Wei Junmo?!" Old Lady Wei muttered this seemingly familiar name, and her voice suddenly became sharp, "Which evil seed is it!" How dare he... How dare you..."

"Mother!" Wei Hongfei hurriedly supported Mrs. Wei, sighed and said, "Don't say it." ”

Mrs. Wei didn't follow, "How can you not say it!" How dare he torture you like this? It's unreasonable, what is that woman in Changping doing?! Will she teach her son! ”

I remembered the last time I saw Princess Changping when I left Chenzhou Mansion, dressed in plain clothes, still with a beautiful face, except for a little more faint traces of time between my eyebrows and eyes, almost no different from twenty years ago. Thinking about Wei Junmo and Wei Junbo brothers, Wei Hongfei smiled bitterly in his heart: It's not that Changping can't teach his son, it's that he can't teach his son.

Mrs. Wei was still scolding angrily, but Wei Hongfei suddenly lost the interest in persuasion and explanation. The joy of family reunion in my heart was mostly dissipated when I saw such a dilapidated and dim courtyard and a group of yellow-faced and thin-skinned women. He couldn't help but wonder if it was right for him to come back, maybe it would be better to die in the prison of King Yan like this, than to come back now and see his defeat with his own eyes.

"Mother, don't scold." Next to him, Feng lowered his eyes and said lightly: "The crime of insulting the eldest princess, our family can't afford to bear it now." "Even if it has reached the point where it is now, Xiao Qianye still did not depose Princess Changping as a princess after all. There are naturally reasons for the advice of the Queen Mother and Princess Lingyi, but in any case, Princess Changping is still the eldest princess of Great Xia, and it is not something that anyone can insult. If they are listened to by outsiders, they don't need to be troubled by the people of the Huang family, and any official under Ying Tianfu can make them look good.

Old Lady Wei's originally high-pitched voice was suddenly stuck in her throat, obviously she had not suffered less from ordinary people in the past two years. Where will ordinary people be on official errands? If you really want to trouble them, they are helpless. Originally, Mrs. Wei would still be angry that these people who were originally lowly in her eyes dared to step on her head. But after a few more times, I knew I was afraid. The dragon was trapped in the shallows and was played by shrimp, and the tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs. What's more, they are neither dragons nor tigers.

At this time, in the entire courtyard, the only one with a smile on her face was probably Aunt Han. Aunt Han didn't care about Wei Hongfei's wolf bèi still came forward as usual, "Master, you have worked hard all the way back." Let's go and rest for a while. ”

Only then did Old Madam Wei react, and hurriedly nodded: "Han is right, Fei'er, you go and rest." In the evening, my mother asked them to make some good ones, and make up for you well, and see how thin you have become? ”

Wei Hongfei had something in his heart, so he didn't say much, nodded and let Aunt Han lead him into the room to rest.

The son is back, the grandson also has news, and Mrs. Wei is in a much better mood, "Look at what!" Why don't you go buy some wine and meat and wash the dust for Fei'er. ”

Feng raised his eyes, glanced at Mrs. Wei and said, "Mother, we don't have any money in our hands, where can we buy wine and meat?" We haven't eaten meat in our family for half a month. ”

Old Lady Wei choked and glared at Han fiercely before scolding and entering the house. Feng didn't care, he had been used to it for the past two years. She knew that Mrs. Wei had gone into the house to get the private money she had hidden. Glancing sideways at the room where Wei Hongfei had entered, Feng's haggard face did not have the slightest emotion or joy. What about coming back? Will the Wei family's life really get better? Will her two sons ever come back from the dead? Glancing at the dirty and crowded courtyard in front of him with annoyance, Feng's eyes became even more insensitive.

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