Chapter 12: Fate
Changshi looked at Murong Chong who fell into a state of retching with pity, and when he stopped retching, his expression was sad and confused, Changshi sent tea, stroked Murong Chong's back and said: "Brother Huang, the past is over, it is useless to think about it, it will only increase your worries, you are now free, think more about the future!" ”
Murong Chong turned around and buried his head in his knees, he didn't want to think about those unbearable pasts, but after three years of living in the Qin Palace, he used to be Fu Jian's "Feng Nuer", like a deep imprint, imprinted on all his skin, and even integrated into the flesh and blood, except for death, he can no longer think of it.
But he can't die, he is not qualified to die, the survival and revival of the entire Murong family, including Dayan, are on him. Although his body has left Fu Jian, he must still live as a pet and accept the favor and favor of His Majesty the Heavenly King.
It has been a whole year since he took office in Pingyang County, and the contemptuous eyes of those petty officials, small histories, and small master bookkeepers in the government can still penetrate the heavy doors and shoot at him, so he hides in this deep mansion every day, and has no courage to go out and face them.
Murong wiped the traces on his lips, walked out without a sound, Changshi was a little frightened, looking at his appearance, he must have gone to find Xiao Fengnu again, is Xiao Nu'er her original name? Why did you give the girl's family such a name, is it for easy support?
Except for Murong Chong, no one knows the identity of Xiao Fengnu, Changshi vaguely guessed a little, but there is no actual evidence, it is Murong Chong's original nursing mother, and the beggar sister-in-law who now takes care of Xiao Fengnu does not know the origin of this child. It was Murong Chong who begged his sister-in-law to find this child in the nunnery, at that time, Xiao Fengnu was only a few months old, so thin that she only had a pair of black eyes left, she couldn't cry or make trouble, she was stupid, you want an infant child, who has been in the nunnery for a few months, it would be good to survive, and you still expect her to look like a healthy baby?
When Murong Chong left Chang'an, he asked his sister-in-law to hug Xiao Fengnu, and raised her in the county guard mansion for a year, and became a different person completely, making a lot of noise, and it took several servants to see her, but fortunately, she was cheerful and smiling, and she looked cute and pleasant, and all the servants loved her like a treasure.
Murong Chong seems to care about this girl very much, he himself uses old slaves and old servants, but he sends the most powerful slaves to take care of this child, and the food and clothing are the best in the entire mansion, but Murong Chong seems to have a natural hatred for this girl, he looks at her gaze, always as if he wants to kill and eat her, he never gets close to her, at least looks at her from a distance of four feet.
But since Xiao Fengnu knows how to know people, he has a natural sense of closeness to Murong Chong, and when he sees Murong Chong, he "giggles" and laughs non-stop, trying to hug Murong Chong, and "babbling" with him to say something that everyone can't understand, and several times Changshi even thinks that she is Murong Chong's biological child.
Murong Chong strode into the pear white courtyard, stopped under the old pear tree, the white pear petals fell like rain, and they floated on his shoulders and eyebrows, Murong Chong raised his head and looked at it for a while, picked up one from his face, took it to him and looked at it, sighed, did not enter the house and turned away, Changshi followed behind him and asked, "Brother Huang'er is not going to see Xiao Fengnu?" ”
Murong Chong stopped, looked at the pear petals in his hand, and whispered: "When the pear blossom grows is not up to itself, and when the pear blossom falls, it can't be caused by itself, right?" ”
Changshi vaguely understood the meaning of his words, and said: "So the flowers bloom and fall are fate, just like the fate of Xiao Fengnu is the emperor's brother!" ”
"Feng Nu - hehehe - I really have a fate with Feng Nu!" Murong Chong was smiling, but his smile was a little cold, and his face was whiter than a pear blossom.
After a pause, Murong Chong said again: "Today, the person sent the playthings in the palace, you choose some good ones to send to Xiaofengnu in Libai Courtyard, so that she can live a good life like a princess in the palace...... Live a noble and decent life! ”
Changshi responded, Murong Chong put the pear blossom in his hand in front of his eyes and looked at it for a while, and as soon as his hand was raised, the pear petals fell into the dust lightly in a circle.
Murong Chong said as he walked: "Changshi, you take me to have a look, I heard that the man sent more than a dozen boxes of treasures, but he is really generous, see what they are?" ”
Changshi led Murong Chong into a miscellaneous room, the ground was full of large boxes, and the boxes were stacked together, Murong Chong nodded, Changshi opened the boxes one by one, there were several boxes of clothes, spring, summer, autumn and winter, the colors were extremely bright, and there were two boxes of mirrors, rouge, gouache and the like, Murong Chong couldn't help but feel like retching, and said with a faint smile: "Changshi, look, Your Majesty treats me really well, really good...... Distribute these clothes and jewelry to the maids from the palace, and ask them to wear them every day, every day, and I will remember the kindness that His Majesty has given me every day, and think about how to repay them every day...... Kindness! ”
As soon as the word "en" was spoken, a coldness came to his head.
There are also a few boxes of all kinds of rare treasures, some of which are given by Murong Chong after receiving grace every time in the past three years, Murong Chong's body stood straight, and after a while, he lowered his body and took a phoenix made of mutton fat jade.
Murong Chong touched the phoenix that was made vividly, made of mutton fat and jade, it was extremely smooth and wet, and the past was pervasive and came to mind:
"This jade phoenix is doing well, it is a tribute, I look at it and like it, aren't you the small character Phoenix Emperor, I will give it to you, Feng Nu'er, your body is as smooth as this mutton fat jade, no, where can the mutton fat jade compare to your body, it is extremely soft, and people can't put it down." One day, Fu Jian stroked his back and said.
Murong Chong resisted the urge to retch, and said to Fu Jian softly: "The slave is the Phoenix Emperor during the day, Your Majesty is not called the slave Feng Nu'er, okay?" ”
"Yes, yes, you are the Phoenix Emperor during the day, and you are the charming Feng Nuer at night, the Phoenix Emperor I like it during the day, and the ...... at night I love it too! ”
"When-" Murong Chong thought about it and was deeply sad, and threw the phoenix made of mutton fat jade in his hand into the box, Changshi was startled, and hurriedly picked it up to see, fortunately, this mutton fat jade was made of excellent material, and it was thrown down by Murong Chong casually, and it was still intact.
Changshi said: "Brother Huang, don't dare to take these valuable things to make a temperament, Brother Huang knows that such a piece of sheep fat jade carved out of the treasure has to be exchanged for a lot of silver, if these treasures are missing a corner or something, the value will be discounted, in the past year, our house has been frugal in the past year, and it is difficult for the slaves to add some powerful slaves to you, with these, it can come in handy!" ”
Murong Chong nodded, thought for a while and said: "Changshi, I want to raise some mansions in the mansion, and I want to ask the master of interest to teach these mansions, how many silver taels are not a problem, silver taels?" For small things, you only need to choose one or two playthings sent from the palace to sell, and you have everything! ”
After a pause, he said: "Changshi, you can remember what I just said, I want you to say the previous sentence to Lian Bi, and the latter sentence to Qilu." ”
Changshi understood after thinking about it, and said, "Understand, Brother Huang, didn't you ask the minions to pick up a lot of orphans in the past year?" Now there are more than 30 children in Chengqiu Courtyard, and there are only a few rough servants in charge, what is the use of these children keeping them? Does Brother Huang have a plan? More than 30 mouths cost a lot of money! ”
Murong Chong looked at the boxes in the room and said, "There are things in these boxes, you are still afraid that you will not be able to support them, I just think that the number of them is too small, you can choose a few older ones in the middle and put them in our courtyard, and you will be educated hard!" ”
The two retreated outside the house, and Murong Chong said again: "The people sent from the palace, you only ask them to do some heavy work, you go and pay attention to it these days, and find me some powerful masters, not afraid of spending money, anyone can find it." Besides, you found "Pingyang Zhi" for me, I want to take a good look! ”