Chapter 168: Death with You

Zhou Bai's thin face twitched with difficulty, and he wanted to continue laughing, but he gradually turned into a flat plate in the eyes of the old man.

"What did my son do to make my father so angry?" , no longer deliberately pleased, Zhou Bai simply shook the robe on his body and sat upright on the chair.

Since Manyin was raped, Zhou Bai took the initiative to stay in Cultivating Heart Hall with the situation. He was worried that if his father found out the truth, he would find a way to send him down, and it would be safest to live in a place where no outsiders were seen, but to follow his father's diet and keep up with him. Not only the Zhou family, Gao Gong Zheng Ru and his bird friends all know that he is here to serve his father, so he can't be a filial son who suddenly dies in front of his father for no reason, right?

Estimating his father's tradition of cherishing his face, Zhou Bai still has nothing to fear. What's more, it doesn't take long for such a day, as long as the old father dies of oil and lamp in three or five months. Without his father, who can control him again?

Just like in response to the old words of Mo Ruo's father, Zhou Xian's calm voice also began to say: "In the past two days, I asked people to check and found out that you are the most filial among the sons. As early as more than a year ago, every day on the street to walk the birds would walk to Baohetang, and generously lent money to the shopkeeper there, nothing else, just to regularly see the old man's medicine list. ”

"The son is just worried about his father, and he wants to know more about it, so that he can serve your old man." , Zhou Bai supported and replied respectfully.

"Do you know when I will return to the West with my life, so that I can my tail again?", Zhou Xian sneered: "So I stayed a few years ago and heard that the old man could only breathe for another three or five months, so he boldly went to be an accomplice to the Gao family." ”

After beating Xu Ne and leaving. Zhou Xian's body was handed over to Mr. Fang of Baohetang to take care of, because Dr. Fang's medical skills were good. It is also important to focus on whether Baohetang is a time-honored brand or a very heavy medical morality. Zhou Xian's trust was not blind, but for a generous and filial son. Looking at Fang Zi's condition, after the accumulation of human favors, the people of Baohetang did not take precautions against Zhou Bai's reasonable request.

Zhou Xian is very clear about his physical condition, and since a year or two ago, he has rarely summoned his children and grandchildren to sit for a long time under the pretext of recuperation, especially against Man Yun, who knows medical skills. The little girl loves to toss outside, he is afloat, but he doesn't want to come back and guard him every day to take medicine and prick needles, as early as the fifteenth year of Yongde, it was forcibly postponed. Zhou Xian also realized that he was almost alive, and he could only live for about half a year at most, and all he was worried about was a few unresolved children's affairs.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Ze came to propose marriage that day, and Zhou Xian did not hesitate to go down on March 18.

never thought that he was about to use the little time left to arrange the afterlife, but let his son, who had been scheming, target him.

Seeing that the old father was tearing his dough step by step, Zhou Bai was not panicked at all, but said with a smile on his face: "The child is also worried that his father is worried too much." I helped you promote the good things of Gao Wei and Sister Yin. ”

"A good thing? Is this a good thing to be reckless, harm the younger generations, and ruin the reputation of my Gao family? Zhou Xian, who scolded his son loudly. I couldn't help coughing violently, my yellow face flushed for a while, and I was short of breath.

Zhou Xian reached out and struggled to find a small white porcelain bottle from under the pillow. Pour a pill the size of a mung bean into your mouth, then pour the bottle. The bottle was empty.

The old man had no choice but to pull the bellows in his chest and turn sideways. With trembling hands, he opened another wooden box next to his pillow, and in the box there was a small white bottle lying like the empty bottle just now. As soon as Zhou Xian's hand touched the edge of the bottle, a thin but powerful hand reached over and snatched the medicine bottle in his hand.

"The Huiji Tongqiao Pill that the old doctor of Baohe Tang specially prepared for you? When you feel depressed and phlegm swells up in your throat, take three pills at a time? The mouth of the bottle was slanted, and more than a dozen small pills appeared on Zhou Bai's spread palm. Due to the long-term and detailed inquiry, he was clear about the medicine used by Old Lady Zhou.

Zhou Xian pressed one hand to his chest, nodded painfully, and stretched out his other arm towards Zhou Bai tremblingly.

"If Daddy settles accounts with the child this time, where will he imprison me again? Or let the son simply go crazy like his mother? Zhou Bai asked with a sideways face, and the palm holding the medicine clenched into a fist at the moment when Zhou Xian was about to touch it.

Looking at the expression of remorse on Zhou Xian's face, Zhou Bai's long feet hooked the charcoal basin at the end of the bed in front of him, and his clenched fists slowly loosened on the charcoal fire, and a string of medicinal grains scrambled into the basin, waving a light yellow smoke, and the medicine was suffocating.

Zhou Xian dared to call him to question, thinking that he had already found out the cause and effect. Zhou Bai, who didn't want to suffer from captivity anymore, patted his empty hands, with a deferential smile, helped the old father who was more gasping after losing the medicine to lie down, and gently helped the old man gather the quilt.

Zhou Xian, whose lips trembled but couldn't say a word, burst into tears in an instant, crying out like a three- or five-year-old child without any scruples.

"The shame of your granddaughter being used by force, makes you feel very embarrassed?" , The old man's cry pleased Zhou Bai, who was determined to watch his father die, he sat down slowly, and talked eloquently about helping Gao Wei hook up with his niece.

"The in-laws you found for Manyin and Manyun are too ordinary. I thought that instead of being sent away by you at a cheap price, it would be better for my son to find a good place for them to go by himself. Just like the orchid shuangshu who was next to you back then, a pair of twin sisters who looked like Peugeot broke up and married each other, how violent are the heavenly things? Brother Changde was not looking for a beauty for Xiakou Palace, so I wrote to him privately......

When Gao Wei came to me with a reply letter from his brother after the year, my son thought about it, this matter is very good, his Gao family married the daughter of the Zhou family, and I sent the daughter into the palace cheaply. I just wanted to help that kid say a few words, but the Zhou family from old to young people have learned your high and hypocritical dead virtues, and the Gao family kid begged me with medicine, and I will help him be the old man again...... When I arrived at Zuihou, my son never expected that he would be a weak scholar who would work hard like a bull, but he probably didn't expect that I would directly lead someone to block the door to see the current situation, and I don't know if the kid was scared by those bird calls at that time! ”

Speaking of the pride of the day's rape arrest, Gao Bai, who was also flushed with a red face, rolled up his sleeves and clapped his hands. Looks like madness.

"Didn't you think Sister Yin was your niece?" , as if Zhou Xian, who was crying tired, gasped and looked much calmer. Lying on the bed with his eyes closed, he asked in a dumb voice.

"Gao Wei is still my nephew!". Zhou Bai smiled and raised his voice: "Your daughter-in-law Gao and her low-quality husband live separately, although your beautiful son Zhou Tan is a concubine, she has earned a reputation with her small skills, but now their nephews and daughters are rolling in one place, rolling in one place under your nose, and people can see it all, how good is it!" ”

"Shameless!"

"Shameless! Shamelessness is also learned from you! After a roar, Zhou Bai's excited voice became low and sad.

"Daddy! Do you still remember the Spring Festival held by Luojing's maternal ancestor Baoning Houfu? The famous Bangqing Garden on the outskirts of Luojing City, the outer courtyard has its own handsome talents from various provinces in Beijing. There are also many ladies and beauties in the inner house, although there are internal and external guards, but the child was only an eleven or twelve-year-old child at that time, so even if he ran on both sides, it was not hindered.

I remember one day when it was nearly dusk, I went to look for my father on the orders of my mother, and when I turned to the Pillow Xia Pavilion, I heard the cry of my cousin of the autumn cicada. The voice was shrill and strange...... I approached and looked. I saw a man half-off his clothes pressed against her, and my cousin seemed to be looking at me, crying and stretching out her hand to me, and I just wanted to rush to save her. Daddy, you cover my mouth from behind and drag me away. ”

"If I say that it was a chance encounter at that time, and I dragged you away in a hurry to avoid trouble, I don't believe you. But. Do you like Xie Qiuchan?", Zhou Xian sighed. Asked softly. The cousin of the Xie family Qiuchan in Zhou Bai's mouth should have been only thirteen or fourteen years old at that time, a year or two older than Zhou Bai. Thinking about Zhou Bai, he often hated failing to marry a high-ranking girl. Old lady Zhou inevitably asked.

"Like?" , Zhou Bai sneered, shook his head and said, "I forgot about that later." It was only after three or four years that you found out the maid around me and punished me for kneeling in the sun for a day, that I remembered it again. It turned out that a man would be punished for playing with a woman when he had no right or position, but the person who strengthened Xie Qiuchan was fortunate because of his different identities. ”

"I see! If you say that you admired Xie Qiuchan and had the absurdity later, the old man couldn't say that he still respected you and had three points of infatuation. Zhou Xian closed his eyes sleepily, and sneered on his lips. The father and son of the Zhou family said that Xie Qiuchan was the virtuous concubine of Xiaozong and the mother of King Qi. On the same day, Xiaozong Wei obeyed the little girl who was brought back to the palace with great interest at the spring meeting, and when she arrived at Zuihou, she was only a three-foot white silk who died in the deep palace.

"If it is not Gao Wei who has not yet attained the status of your granddaughter today, but the royal family of the Son of Heaven, will you admit it?" , Zhou Bai, who was ridiculed by his father, got up angrily and slapped the table.

"The daughter of the Zhou family is not a concubine, and the same is true for the Son of Heaven. Zhou Jingxuan, you want to wake up from the dream of sending a woman to the palace, what kind of haode is there in that kind of place where you eat people and don't spit out bones! ”

"Who says it's bad!" , Zhou Bai drank again angrily, but then a mouthful of blood turned up his throat and burst out.

"What's so good?" , Zhou Xian looked at his son, who was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, grabbed his shirt and glared at him angrily, sat up slowly, and said sadly: "After three years of Yongde, I don't want to follow Xiaozong Qi Wei honestly, because I know that Prince Xiao is dead, and it is the emperor himself who poisoned him." Tiger venom does not eat children, so what's the good in a place where even your own innocent children can bear to kill? ”

"In your eyes, I, Zhou Xian, am afraid to want power and hold on to my face, and I don't dare to fight for it, the old man admits it! But I also have my bottom line, I once thought that no matter what, I would not do anything to harm my own children and grandchildren. So Xiaozong killed his son, I was scared, and I felt that I wanted to dodge, and the farther away I was, the better. A pair of trembling old hands held Zhou Bai's face who had fallen to the ground, pulled a handkerchief, and slowly wiped the blood on the corner of Zhou Bai's mouth.

Zhou Bai, who still had a little consciousness left, grabbed his father's sleeve tightly, and muttered vaguely, "Medicine!" Medicine ......"

"Jing Xuan, what you want is an antidote?" , Zhou Xian, who was sitting on the ground, pillowed Zhou Bai's head on his lap and said peacefully: "Poison, I'm in the charcoal." The antidote is in that white bottle, and you mistook the Tongqi pill. You could have been saved, but you threw all the antidotes into the fire and burned them......"

The old orange peel put his hand under Zhou Bai's nose and tried to breathe, and after finding that his son, who was still staring at a pair of big eyes, was out of breath, Zhou Xian wiped off Zhou Bai's eyes, and slowly closed his eyes, calmly waiting for the soul envoy to come to the door.

The antidote thrown into the brazier by Zhou Bai is not only Zhou Bai's, but also Zhou Xian's. To be more precise, it was he who divided an antidote into a dozen small pills according to the size of the Tongqi Pill and a few noodle pills, and the one he had taken before only delayed the toxicity, trying to ensure that his son could die before him.

Ling frost incense, sprinkled on the silver frost charcoal without any abnormality, colorless and tasteless secretly kills.

The poison was taken out of the medicine box that Mrs. Zhou married at the beginning, and was originally handed over to Xu Ne for study like other poisons, but the antidote was matched by Xu Ne, and before he left Jiangnan, he transferred part of the poison to Man Yun, but this poison was given to him at the strong request of Mrs. Zhou.

"I originally thought that if one day, the old man was terminally ill, he would die with his old wife, who had turned against him, and he would die in the same cave instead of sleeping in the same cave. Boer! Because of Sister Yin'er's matter, I thought about it painfully, but I was still determined to take you with me, and I couldn't let you hurt the children again...... Even more can't let the stubborn and stupid Sister Yun get her hands dirty and be charged with killing her relatives after knowing the truth......" (to be continued......