Zhou Boyan bowed his head lonely. Today's sisters are commensurate, tomorrow's angry eyes are at each other. Yes, in his impression, it seems to be the case between his mother and Aunt Zhou (that is, Zhou Su, because Zhou Su is like a maid and not a maid, and because of the relationship with Sister Jingfei, Zhou Boyan called her aunt when she was a child). As for his mother and Aunt Lan, in his memory, these two people have always avoided seeing each other. Aunt Lan never mentioned his mother in front of him. And his mother, on the other hand, had pressed him in annoyance a few times, asking him who he preferred to spend time with.

At that time, he didn't know the reason, nor did he understand the emotional entanglement between adults, let alone lie. He said his truth directly, he said that he liked to be with Aunt Lan. It was nothing once or twice, and on the third or fourth time, his mother got very angry, and beat him, and drove him out of the river and knelt in the rain. The rain that day was very cold, he was very cold, no matter how much he begged, his mother refused to forgive him and refused to let him get up.

When Dad came back, he didn't feel cold, he just felt hot, very hot, hot and painful. He was uncomfortable and aggrieved, crying all the time. That time, he saw his father angry for the first time. Dad pushed his mother down in the rain and scolded her for being a femme fatale. Aunt Zhou came up to hug him, but her father pushed Aunt Zhou away. Dad scolded Aunt Zhou for instigating trouble, and she had the same femme fatale as her mother.

Dad carried him back to the house, bathed him and changed his clothes, fed him medicine and drank him, and then sat in front of his bed and guarded him. He fell asleep in a daze, and when he woke up, he wanted to tell his father not to scold his mother in the future, and not to lose his temper with his mother. However, before he could speak, his father was summoned into the palace. The good father entered the palace, but he was carried back with a pale face. He asked many people, but no one would tell him who had injured his father.

Two days later, while recuperating, he sneaked out of the house and overheard two maids whispering about his father's injury. Only then did he realize that his father had pushed down his mother and committed the crime of offending the royal majesty, and the queen mother was very angry when she heard about it, and summoned her father into the palace to be punished with a cane. If the emperor hadn't stopped her, the queen mother would have beaten her father to death.

At that time, he grew up a lot at once, began to observe words and feelings, began to pay attention to words and deeds, and learned to lie. Because he didn't want to lose his father. In front of his mother, in front of the Queen Mother, he is as respectful as the following person, he can hide when he can, he can't talk without talking, and he tries to hide all his likes and dislikes with the childishness of a child. In front of Aunt Zhou, he stopped smiling, began to serve the master's shelf, didn't talk to her, and stopped eating the snacks she made. It wasn't until his father recovered and took him away from Beijing again that he dared to let go of his temperament and talk, run, jump and play as he wanted.

One day, the ignorant asked his father: Why do you want to marry a princess?

Dad said: If a person lives, he can't do what he wants, and he can't be perfect.

At that time, he didn't understand what his father meant, but later, he understood and figured out a lot of things.

Because of the emperor's order, my father had to marry a princess. Even if the heart belongs.

Because of the orders of the elders, my father had to keep Zhou Su by his side. Even if I hate her to the extreme.

Whether it's the queen mother or the mother, why didn't you get rid of Aunt Lan, who had been with her father for many years? Because, the emperor did not allow them to do this. What is the emperor not allowed to do? He got the answer to this question when he was seventeen years old.

When he was young, he thought that if his father could be with Aunt Lan in the first place, many sad things might not have happened. If the emperor at that time was not the first emperor, but an uncle, without the decree of marriage, everything would have been different. However, there are no ifs.

In the past, whenever he thought about this, he would always be in a mood depression for three or four days. In other words, it is a matter of a day and a half to feel uncomfortable, because my father is alive in Xichang and guards him from a distant place. Every time he thinks that his father is still alive, he feels much better. Thinking of the fact that he took advantage of this trip to the frontier to meet his father in secret, all the unhappiness in his heart immediately disappeared. He raised his glass, "Mr. Jing." ”

Mr. Lu, who was upset by the name Zhou Su, shook his head and left his seat. When he returned, he had two more bowls in his hand. He put the bowl on the table, "Drink with this." ”

Zhou Boyan saw that Mr. Lu wanted to buy drunk, so he took the wine jar and poured a bowl of wine, and then pushed the wine bowl to Mr. Lu, and he just filled the wine glass in front of him.

Mr. Lu didn't have any opinion on this, raised the bowl and drank it in one go, put down the bowl and said to pour it again.

Zhou Boyan did so.

Mr. Lu sighed leisurely, "Do you remember?" Sir has asked you to kill An Hai Rongcheng. That's a half-truth, but Mr. knows that you will only take him as a joke. ”

Yes, Zhou Boyan did take it as a joke and didn't take it seriously. "And then?"

Before that, the husband had received a confidential letter, in which it was written that Zhou Su, who had been missing for many years, had been dead for three years. The letter said that Zhou Su lived with Li Haitang's mother and daughter for several years, and then was poisoned by Li Haitang. Mr. once suspected that Zhou Su was actually a pawn of someone in the palace. With this secret letter, Mr. thought for a moment. Li Haitang is his person, and the missing Zhou Su has lived with Li Haitang's mother and daughter for several years, so Zhou Su may be his person. Of course, he was still a kid when the accident happened, younger than you. ”

Zhou Boyan didn't speak, he lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.

"Then, his mother or grandfather is Zhou Su's real master. Although Mr. asked you so much, Mr. knew that you would not do such a stupid thing like a mirror in his heart. The gentleman was just not angry at the time. Mr. Lu smiled bitterly, shook his head after a wry smile, sighed and said, "Wu Mulan said to Mr. that Zhou Su had looked for her before she died. ”

Zhou Boyan's color changed when he heard this, and Huo Di raised his head, "What?" ”

Wu Mulan said that Zhou Su was not quite right at that time. Zhou Su said that he was here to say goodbye to her, and by the way, he wanted to tell her his revenge plan. ”

Zhou Boyan's eyelids jumped, "Revenge plan? ”

"Zhou Su said that he wrote a codex and wrote a prophecy in it that would cause chaos in the world." He trembled his hands, dipped his fingers in wine, and wrote the words "Those who win the phoenix win the world" on the table.

Zhou Boyan breathed for a moment, and then involuntarily clenched his fists.

"Zhou Su wants to subvert Da'an, who mistreated her, and she wants to use the blood of the enemy's daughter to open the curtain of this chaotic drama in the world. Regarding the prophesied phoenix, she left the names of three women. Destroying these three women is just a matter of convenience, what she really wants to destroy is the family and their people behind these three women. The first name is," he dipped his fingers in the wine again and wrote down the three words "Gu Qingshu".

Zhou Boyan was shocked and lost his mind, and involuntarily asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Wu Mulan also asked. Zhou Su's answer was that she had a chance to become your father's person, but it was Gu Yunhu who suddenly broke in and took away your father, ruining all her plans. No matter how detailed it was, Wu Mulan didn't ask. As for whether Zhou Su's words are true or false, we have no way to verify. "Zhou Su, Gu Yunhu and Zhou Qiao, who are the parties involved, are no longer there, so they naturally have no way to verify the authenticity of the case. But Zhou Su deliberately wrote down a trumped-up prophecy, and it was true that he wanted to push Gu Qingshu to the cusp. Mr. Lu felt heartbroken.

Thinking of this, Mr. Lu's eyes reddened, "Wu Mulan just thinks she's crazy, doesn't want to pay attention to her nonsense, and wants to drive her away." But she said: In the year of Bingxu, those who win the phoenix will win the world. In the year of Bingxu, ambitious people will eventually make the world chaotic. Wu Mulan didn't take it seriously. However, two months later, she found a letter under the door. It was a handwritten letter left by Zhou Su to her. ”

Mr. Lu motioned for Zhou Boyan to pour wine, and then continued, "Zhou Su mentioned in the letter that Wu Mulan received this letter, which means that she is dead. The murderer will not be someone else, it must be an ambitious and unintelligent girl trained by her. The girl had already bought arsenic and hid it under the jewelry box. As long as the girl dared to put arsenic on her, she dared to drink it. Only when she dies will the girl embark on the path she has laid for her, and her plan of revenge will really begin to be carried out, slowly and silently. ”

Zhou Boyan asked expressionlessly, "Aunt Lan believes it?" ”

Mr. Lu shook his head.

Wu Mulan didn't believe it at first, but in order to prove that all this was just Zhou Su's nonsense, she drew a portrait of Zhou Su and asked someone to help inquire about Zhou Su's whereabouts. By the time she got the exact news, rushed from the south to the north and found Zhou Su's grave, Zhou Su had been dead for more than two years. She found out that the girl Zhou Su was referring to was Li Haitang, so she met Li Haitang's mother, Mrs. Li, as a Taoist aunt. There was nothing suspicious about her typing for a long time, and there was no so-called codex, so she didn't dwell on it any longer.

Until last fall, a friend of hers sent a letter to her, saying that Li Haitang died, and the cause of death must not be simple. She became nervous, trying to remember what Zhou Su had said when she saw her later, and the contents of the letter that she had destroyed a long time ago. Among the three names given by Zhou Su, she only remembered the name of Gu Yunhu's daughter, and the remaining two girls, she only vaguely remembered one surnamed Huang and the other surnamed Zhou, but she couldn't remember the name anyway.

She thought about reminding the ancient mansion, but how to remind her? Could it be that she wanted to say that Zhou Su wanted to harm the ancient mansion, so she wrote a terrible and unfounded prophecy? No one will believe this, only that she is crazy.

While she was worried, she hoped that everything was just a prank left by Zhou Su, and that that would not happen at all. At the end of the year, she couldn't feel at ease, and settled in a small town near the capital, and decided to live for a long time.

Soon it was the season of spring flowers. The news of the attack and death of Peony, the daughter of the famous Huangfu in Beijing, reached the town, and she was shocked that her hands and feet were cold. Because she remembered that the second of the three names was Peony, the daughter of the Huang family. The timing of Huang Peony's death was very coincidental, because in three days it would be the day when Huang Peony and the son of the Prime Minister's Mansion got married. She was scared, because everything seemed to be confirming Zhou Su's words.