Chapter 222: A Woman Who Damned But Not Died
The autumn rainy night was continuous, lingering for three or five days, and the Xiakou Palace on the side of the Tuojiang River was like floating fog, full of moisture.
In the main house of Matsuzaki Temple, Lu Shou tiptoed with the charcoal stove and smoked it around, sniffing like a little milk dog.
Although it rains all day, but after all, it is autumn, and the Natsuguchi palace room is also newly built, and the feeling of mold on people's bodies that grandpa said should be in the spring rainy season, right? Lu Shou's face was full of confusion, and he peeked at the man and beast who were lying on the bed.
Amethyst's expression was sorrowful, as if a long-awaited poison had been brought to him, and it had been stolen away before he could take his mouth. And Lu Zheng, who has white hair beside it, also maintains an almost similar frame to the poisonous pet, and the old eunuch who has been coughing up blood after being injured has his eyebrows paler than before.
Lu Shou's heart was gloomy, thinking about the bunch of weird troubles he had encountered in the past few days, and sighed quietly.
"Good birds choose trees to perch on! Old man, let Xiao Shou'er take you to him in the future! Lu Zheng lay on the bed and read a sentence vaguely, and the amethyst, which originally looked dead, immediately rolled over, straightened up, and put his two front paws on the old man's shoulders, his eyes blazing.
Sure enough, after he left, Amethyst didn't want to stay in this palace anymore. Lu Zheng's eyes crossed a trace of sadness, and he reached out and rubbed the small thing with smooth fur in his arms.
"Little Shou'er! Come here! Lu Zheng waved his hand, summoned his godgrandson who had been raised since he was a child, and explained in a whisper.
The more he listened, the more frightened Lu Shou became, and knelt in front of the bed, with tears in his eyes.
"Just remember!" , Lu Zheng saw his godsun nodding, and snorted in his mouth: "Our family has lived to this age, so we will mix in the Chen Palace from the beginning to the end." But your Grandpa Zi doesn't know how long he can live, and you always have to keep it and serve it. ”
"Xiao Shou'er has followed her grandfather all her life. We are waiting for you! ”
"Follow me?" After sneering for a while, Lu Zheng said, "But how can there be a master in this palace who is willing to follow Amethyst again?" The king of Yue, who was detained by Concubine Zhang's side, was born stupid. And Liu Hou's son, King Lu, is three years old, have you seen him walking on the ground? ”
Lu Shou shook his head vigorously, looking dazed.
If you say that the five-year-old child in Yuzao Palace who opened his mouth to wait for him to vote when he saw food, everyone in the palace still had some impressions. Since he was born, he has been surrounded by Queen Liu and his henchmen, and His Royal Highness King Lu, who has not let outsiders see half a minute, is in his impression a cloth bag in his hand, if someone hadn't heard the voice of a child like a kitten, it is estimated that it would be a fake child.
"But the person who grandpa confessed has nothing to do with it after all...... Lu Shou secretly lifted his eyes and looked at his husband, and his mouth responded vaguely. Even the two youngest sons of Emperor Taiye have problems, but when it comes to blood relatives, there are still two sons of King Qi who were imprisoned in Luojing, and they are the grandsons of Emperor Xiaozong. Much closer than outsiders.
Although he was accustomed to listening to his grandfather's words, his ear and life, who had been loyal to the Qi clan since he was a child, were still in his ears, and Lu Bao was afraid that those obvious words just now were the chaotic life of his grandfather under the combination of pain and anger.
Lu Zheng's injury was a new staff wound this morning.
Five days earlier, the Assassin had fled with the beauties in the palace and jumped into the Tuojiang River, and everyone thought it was the Assassin's desperate attempt to get a corpse. The royal trial of the Stacked Fragrance Building was also hastily concluded after hearing the results of the report from the palace guards.
I don't know what Hu Jin, who deceived his teacher and destroyed his ancestors, tossed something, so early this morning, he revisited the old things and found Lu Zheng's fork. had to recall the secret guard who had been guaranteed by the head guarantee that day, and even asked Lu Zheng to summon all the Qinglongwei who followed him to Xiakou. Verified the body.
Lu Zheng was also stubborn, insisting that according to the ancestral system of the Chen Dynasty, not only Hu Jin, but even the emperor Bixia ordered him not to be allowed in this matter. As a result, he was furious and ordered to pick up the purple robe and jade belt given to Lu Zheng by the first emperor, and he was beaten well.
The old eunuch actually unloaded his skills, and he almost lost his life directly under the cane. Such a suicidal behavior, in Lu Shou's opinion, was his grandfather's desperate resistance after being swept away by the emperor and not trusted. It is full of the desolation of people like them who have no roots.
Lu Zheng looked at the flustered godgrandson, and said with a long sigh: "Xiao Shou'er, if you have to leave the palace and go north to go back to the Luojing Palace to find Jian Huai of Xuanwuwei, you will understand the meaning of our family." ”
Old things. There are very few deceased people who know about it. Jian Huai, who had received the great favor of Empress Ming Zhao, was one of them, and when he saw that he was abandoned by the Son of Heaven and was only left to guard the palace, he became the hope of Zuihou that Lu Zheng could trust.
When he was tortured in the early morning, Lu Zheng was determined to die. In the past few days, loyalty and betrayal have been both fortunately and shamefully entangled together, which has made him unintentionally in love.
A slender plaque that was neither gold nor bronze was stuffed into Lu Shou's cold hand, and the front of the nameplate was engraved with a dragon of soaring clouds, with flying scales and claws, but on the reverse was a star map.
Lu Zheng, who carefully explained the aftermath, felt more and more lazy, and closed his eyes sleepily.
Lu Shou, whose eyes were full of tears, was about to tiptoe, and his clothes were tightly grabbed by Lu Zheng, who suddenly stared at a pair of copper bells.
"Xiao Shou, do you remember the appearance of that Xia Yunji?"
Lu Shou nodded blankly, not understanding the intention of the godmaster to suddenly mention the irrelevant dead person.
"Kill her! When you see that damn slut in the future, whether she is a human or a ghost, regardless of her name and identity, you will kill her directly! ”
The Chen Dynasty was completely ruined by the infatuation of two generations of emperors with shameless demon girls. The woman who jumped into the Tuojiang River did not see anyone or corpse, but as long as there was a glimmer of possibility, the old eunuch Lu Zheng still tried his best to clean up the hidden scourge.
Let's find her and kill her? The amethyst branch lying in front of Lu Zheng stunned two sharp round ears, and his golden eyes were full of confusion......
Compared with the Matsuzaki Courtyard of the Imperial Palace, where there is only one little eunuch crying and crying, the front yard of the Xiakou High Mansion is full of excitement, and the flow of condolences is endless, but there are all kinds of different stomachs and intestines hidden under the mourning face that was changed not far from the gate of the courtyard.
The backyard of the Gao family, which was burned down not long ago, is still in ruins after repair, and the remaining houses are covered by a white cloth curtain that has been pulled up, which is extremely bleak compared to the front yard that can still serve guests.
In front of a ruined wall, the new widower Gao Wei stretched out his hand and pulled the collar of the filial piety dress that was tightening his neck, stared at a tall man in front of him with bloodshot eyes, and asked in a cruel voice: "Just such a powerless woman in the house, after searching for so many days, she still can't find any shadow?" ”
Gao Wei's fierce and vicious appearance frightened the person on the other side not daring to squeak, only peeking at the white cloth strips that were slowly floating in the courtyard. Whether it is looking for someone or a ghost, this young master Gao's persistent request is really difficult for a strong man.
"Luo Guard, you go down first! The second young master is concerned about his deceased wife, and he is stunned! ”
The guards who had been granted amnesty immediately retreated sideways, revealing a middle-aged man who was walking slowly behind him, solemn and dignified.
"Daddy!" , Gao Wei looked at the people around, and said in a sharp voice: "You should know that Zhou Manyin's slut is not dead at all, and she should have left the secret passage of the Buddha Hall when the fire broke out in the house." ”
A crisp snap hit Gao Wei's face, and Gao Gong shouted in a low voice, "She's dead!" Your wife, Gao Zhou, was originally copying scriptures in the Buddhist hall to nourish her temperament, and when Gao's family was on fire, she desperately broke into the ancestral hall next door to take out the ancestral tablet and was unfortunately killed. ”
"It's clear that the slut colluded with outsiders and set fire to the Gao family!"
"So what? My Gao Changde must have a daughter-in-law who is festive, and you Gao Shiwei can't have a wife who fornicates with outsiders! Gao Gong's voice was as firm as stone, revealing unquestionable affirmation. In recent years, the Gao family, which has been unfavorable for many years, as long as something happens, will once again be examined by the world to see if the defeat of his family is a problem in self-cultivation and morality, and he has suffered the retribution of the "King of Gaoyan".
Father and son, one old and one young, stared at the small in the ruins, motionless.
Gao Wei's pale face twitched spasmodically, and he hung his head in a dejected manner.
That night, he was injured by Xiao Hong during the day, and he hid the reason for the beating from his parents, and only went to the Buddhist hall privately to find Zhou Manyin, who was thinking behind closed doors. Because he didn't know when Xiao Hong would enter the game, he only vaguely mentioned that he wanted Manyin to prepare to enter the palace zaijian Manyun to talk about sisterhood.
The damned woman responded immediately, and even when she was rudely pressed on the futon in front of the Buddha, she also accepted it, revealing the sadness of having nothing to rely on, and let herself have the illusion that she was in control.
didn't expect Xiao Hong to enter the palace quickly, and Zhou Manyin, who was locked up in the Buddhist hall, also had an accident on the same day.
In the early hours of the morning, the Gao family's backyard was on fire, and with the concerted efforts of the servants who dutifully put out the fire, the neighbors who watched and helped each other, and the emergency water dragon team in Xiakou, the Gao family survived. But when Zhou Manyin arrived, a servant woman screamed, saying that she had seen Manyin, who was in the Buddhist hall, had escaped, but it seemed that she had thrown herself into the small ancestral hall of the Gao family next door with a wrong eye.
The ancestral hall of the Gao family was burned the hardest in the fire, and it has become a piece of scorched earth.
Before Manyin's body could be found, the Gao family's left neighbor, Sun Daren, who was in charge of Yunzhou Xuezheng, had already sent a sour article praising the name of the Gao family's daughter-in-law, in order to note that this fire was dangerously implicated in the Sun Mansion.
Zhou Manyin is not dead at all! After rummaging through the ashes of the ancestral hall, Gao Wei found the hairpin she had dropped in a panic in the secret passage leading from the side hall to another deserted courtyard in Xiakou.
The timid wife, who has always been submissive, actually set fire to the house and took the opportunity to escape, such a shame made Gao Wei unacceptable, and in the seven days when "Zhou Manyin" was suspended, he never stopped searching for women.
"It's you who underestimate her on weekdays. You think that only our father and son know the secret passage of the ancestral hall, but you never thought that she was born in the Huocheng Zhou family, and she has a father who is good at gardening and building houses. After reading the notes that his daughter-in-law left in the bedroom before, Gao Gong had a new understanding of the second daughter-in-law who had never faced it, and he stared at Gao Wei and said: "But if it's really just her trying to escape, it won't make a whole move to burn the Gao family." ”
Gao Wei's face was blue for a while, white for a while, and the secret curse in his heart did not stop.
Looking at his son, who was getting more and more out of his control, Gao Gongsen coldly questioned, "Why did she run away? And with whom is it linked? Is it a warning from some big man that he almost burned the Gao family? Can you explain these to me? (To be continued......)