Chapter 3: The Return of the Tiger (5)
Fifth, Hua Mei was criminalized
After sending everyone away, leaving only Xiangbao to wait, the husband leaned on the couch, supported his head with one hand, and looked at Xiangbao with dark eyes, without blinking.
"Do you want water?" Being stared at by him, Xiangbao asked timidly.
The husband shook his head and continued to stare at her.
"That'...... Hungry or not? β
Keep shaking your head.
"Lie down and sleep for a while?"
Shake oneβs head.
"What do you want?" Xiangbao was furious.
Fucha laughed, suddenly sat up, and opened his arms: "Come here." β
Xiangbao's face flushed slightly: "Don't." β
"Shall I go then?" Fucha raised his eyebrows, "Maybe I still have residual poison on my body, maybe I'll pass out when I come together, maybe ......"
Before he could finish his words, Xiangbao had already hurried to his side. Fucha laughed, stretched out his hand, nephrite Wen Xiang hugged him, and with a slight force, he pulled Xiangbao onto the couch and pressed it under him.
"You...... You're not in good health......" blushed, and Xiangbao whispered.
"Very good." He chuckled and picked at the belt of her dress.
Xiangbao closed her eyes and bit her lip. Feeling his hand stop suddenly, Xiangbao opened his eyes in confusion, and then he was startled, he looked so scary......
Narrowing her eyes slightly, Fucha looked at the wound on her left shoulder that had been simply bandaged, and although the red blood had dried up, it still looked shocking.
"What's going on?" His voice sounded dangerous.
"Huh?" Xiangbao plans to play dumb.
"Someone!" Glancing at Xiangbao, the husband sat up and pulled up her clothes, "Doctor." β
Thinking that something had happened to the poison on the king's body, the doctors rushed over, but they saw the black-faced king and Mrs. Xi Shi, who was shrunk aside like a little daughter-in-law.
Glancing at Xiangbao, the husband frowned: "Forget it, you stand down and pass on the girl." β
When Yue Nu heard the rumors and rushed to the Drunken Moon Pavilion, she wondered if something was wrong, and after seeing the injured Xiangbao, she immediately understood.
"How's it hurting?" The husband didn't look at Xiangbao, and asked himself.
"The wound is very deep, although it has been bandaged in time and the bleeding has stopped, but because it has not been medicated, it needs to be disassembled and re-medicated, otherwise the wound will be difficult to heal." Yue Nu said, "It's just ......"
"Just what?"
"Because the flesh of the wound and the cloth are now grown together, it may tear the flesh when it is removed, and it will hurt a little."
"Huh?" Xiangbao opened his mouth wide and immediately shook his head like a rattle, "Don't, don't dismantle, let it grow, it's going to be good sooner or later anyway......"
"Well, you can dismantle it." The husband nodded, completely ignoring Xiangbao's protest.
"Yes, my lord." Yue Nu nodded, got up, poured some medicinal powder from the bamboo tube around her waist and put it in the cup, and boiled it with water.
"Huh?" Xiangbao's eyes widened, obviously she was the person concerned, why should she ignore her own wishes?
Yue Nu turned around and took the clean cloth and dipped it in the potion, soaking the cloth that wrapped her wound little by little, and the dried blood stains on the white cloth became more vivid.
Fucha frowned slightly.
Yue Nu untied the knot tied to the wound and tore off the cloth little by little, the white cloth and the belt were torn off little by little, and the red blood flowed out at once.
This is a little painful, obviously very painful!
"Ah...... Ah......h......h
Fucha's brow furrowed even tighter, and he reached out to hug her and keep her from moving.
"Ah, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts......" Xiangbao screamed with a white face.
"Let's see if you dare to come nonsense next time." Fucha snorted coldly, but there was a trace of worry in his dark eyes.
That trace of worry fell in Yue Nu's eyes, and she lowered her eyes to hide the subtle treacherousness.
"Woooooooooo......oo Wow...... No...... It hurts......" Xiangbao continued to cry and howl like a wolf.
"Don't cry." The husband was upset by her call.
"Wow...... Why are you not allowed to cry...... Why...... Wow...... When I weep, I cried...... Wow......"
The husband raised his hand and shoved his wrist into her mouth, and Xiangbao bit it and glared at him viciously. There was a pain in his wrist, and the husband couldn't cry or laugh. The blood-stained cloth was finally removed, and Yue Nu applied medicine to the wound and carefully bandaged it again.
"Okay, this wound can't be wet, I'll prescribe some more medicine." After packing up her things, Yue Nu got up and said goodbye.
The husband almost nodded, and looked back at the guy who was gnawing on his wrist like a puppy: "Loosen up." β
Xiangbao glared at him so wide that his eyes straightened.
patted her on the head, and the husband almost slowed down his voice: "It's okay, let go." β
Xiangbao let go of his mouth at this time, and the husband withdrew his hand to see that his wrist had been bitten out of blood, leaving a neat row of tooth marks, and the lower mouth was really ruthless.
"Look, it's all your saliva." Fucha shook his wrist.
Xiangbao's eyes were still straight, and then his head tilted and he fell.
Poor Miss Xiangbao fainted in pain.
I don't know how long I fell asleep, Xiangbao opened her eyes, and saw Si Xiang sitting on the edge of the bed looking at her fixedly, and Ziruo standing beside him.
"Mother?" Seeing Xiangbao open his eyes, Si Xiang was slightly stunned, seemed to rub his eyes in disbelief, and screamed.
"Madame!" Ziruo also screamed.
A little painfully frowning, Xiangbao raised his arm, and found that his whole body was limp and unable to move.
"Don't move, be careful of your wounds." Si Xiang hurriedly pressed her hand.
"Madame, really, such a deep wound has not been properly medicated, don't you see how terrible the king's expression is!" Ziruo shrunk her neck and said with a scared expression.
Xiangbao then remembered his tragic experience, his teeth clenched, and he looked around: "Where is the king?" β
"Well, my father left beforehand, and said that I would come to see you later......" was stared at by Xiangbao's resentful eyes, Si Xiang said busily. I finally knew why my father slipped away first, she looked so scary......
"Humph!" Xiangbao used her nostrils to express anger.
Xiangbao lay in bed for two days, and could barely get off the ground until the third day. Wrapped in a thick blanket and sitting in front of the window, facing the sunlight in the room, Xiangbao squinted lazily, quietly enjoying the rare warmth of the afternoon.
Outside the door, the plaque of the Drunken Moon Pavilion was shining brightly in the sun.
Listening to Ziruo, when the husband saw the miserable white head hanging on the plaque outside the Drunken Moon Pavilion that day, his expression was cloudy, and he actually flew down to take off the hideous head that was almost about to be dried in front of everyone, and threw it into the arms of Wu Zixu who was standing aside without blinking.
This is very similar to his style, but because of this, the estrangement between him and Wu Zixu should be deeper.
"Madam, Madam......" Ziruo ran in, panting, "Madame Huamei has been taken away." β
"What?" Xiangbao was shocked, isn't Linglong's death enough to end this matter?
"It is said that the king thoroughly investigated the poisoning and then ...... Evidence of the incriminating was found in the Lanyue Pavilion. Ziruo said with some hesitation.
Xiangbao stood up and clenched his fists.
"Madame, where are you going? Your hurt ......" Ziruo grabbed her and cried out.
"Go and send her." After saying it in a low voice, Xiangbao pushed Ziruo's hand away, turned around and walked out the door.
Out of the door, along the corridor, Xiangbao walked more and more urgently, and at the door of Lanyue Pavilion, she saw Hua Mei.
Hua Mei's hands were tied, but she was not embarrassed at all. The long green silk was carefully pulled up, a delicate hairpin was inserted diagonally into the sideburns, the moth eyebrows were lightly swept, the red lips were red, and she was wearing a dark red wide-sleeved robe.
Looking up, Hua Mei saw Xiangbao.
"In the end, my sister is still intimate, and I dare to send my sister at this time." Zhu Lips opened lightly, with a smile on her face, she said Yingying, so beautiful that she didn't look like a real person.
Xiangbao had never seen her so beautiful, that kind of ...... It's as beautiful as a moth throwing into flames.
"It's time to go." On the side, a guard urged impatiently.
"Our sisters, let me give her a ride." Xiangbao looked at the guard, took some money from his sleeve and shoved it into his hand.
The guard hesitated, but finally waved his hand and led the man farther away.
So money is really a good thing.
"Really...... Is that you? Xiangbao looked at Hua Mei and asked.
"It doesn't matter if it's me or not, it's my fate." Hua Mei said softly, with a kind of tiredness that saw through the world.
"It's not you, are you? You're just the one who gets sacrificed, aren't you? Xiangbao stepped forward and grabbed her sleeve, "Who is it?" Tell me. β
"Don't be stupid, it doesn't matter who it is at this point." Hua Mei gently pushed Xiangbao away and held her hand again, "Thank you for thinking about me like this." β
"Don't you feel wronged?" Looking at her, Xiangbao spoke a little astringently.
"Wronged, wronged." Hua Mei smiled, "It's the same woman, but I don't have a husband to love and favor in my life, I am named Hua Mei in vain, but no one has carefully painted my thrush for me all my life, it's really ......wronged."
Xiangbao was silent, was she willing to be guilty? Gou Jian, what kind of spell did you cast to make Dehua Mei willing to die for you?
"It's time to go." The guards standing in the distance urged.
Finally, there were tears on her eyelashes, and Hua Mei lowered her head and clenched Xiangbao's hand.
"Sister, be careful." Hua Mei opened his mouth, but after all, he just said something in a low voice, then turned around and left with the guards who were waiting not far away, and never looked back.
In the warm sunlight, her figure left a lonely silhouette in the open space of Lanyue Pavilion. Only Xiangbao remained, standing in place, facing the sun, watching her leave.
The north and south roads are long, and the middle is Zhang. I don't know how many of them went to Hengyang in the smoke? Linglong died, and Hua Mei left...... The woman who entered Wu from Yue was the only one left with her and Zheng Dan......
Watching Hua Mei leave, Xiangbao turned around and saw Gou Jian.
"King Wu ordered me to send Hua Mei on his last journey." Seeing Xiangbao looking at him, Gou Jian said, his voice was so calm that there was no trace of ups and downs.
It's temptation again, endless intrigue.
"Who is it?" Xiangbao looked at Gou Jian.
"What?"
"Who is the poisoner?"
"Hua Mei."
"Impossible." Xiangbao gritted her teeth slightly, "She has no chance to get close to her husband at all." β
"There are some things that you don't know will be safer."
Xiangbao was suddenly very tired, didn't want to pay attention to it anymore, lowered his head and turned to leave, and when he just reached the corner of the corridor, he almost bumped into a person head-on, it was Zheng Dan.
Xiangbao was stunned, how long has she been here?
Zheng Dan pulled Xiangbao into the corner, completely disappeared from Gou Jian's sight, and then let go of his hand and looked at her expressionlessly.
"Do you want to know who poisoned it?"
"You know?" Xiangbao was surprised.
"Yue Nu."
"How...... Probably ......" Xiangbao was shocked.
What role did she play in this conspiracy?
Looking sideways in the direction Hua Mei left, Zheng Dan's voice was faint: "That fool actually took all the charges like this, why?" β
"Perhaps...... It is for the sake of Yue Guo. β
Zheng Dan snorted, looking rather disdainful.
Maybe it's because she has the hardship of having to obey Gou Jian, or maybe it's ...... She fell in love with the man who would never be able to give her a thrush for the rest of her life......" Xiangbao bowed her head, her voice extremely soft.
When I first saw the woman in orange, with willow eyebrows and phoenix eyes, she looked very spicy, she turned around and smiled, and said: "I'm Hua Mei, call me Sister Hua." β
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"yes, that's sad." Zheng Dan laughed lowly, but he smiled a little sadly.
Why Hua Mei is willing to die, only she knows best, but she can no longer say it herself.
"Do you remember the day you went to worship Sicha and Autumn Painting?" Zheng Dan suddenly spoke.
Xiangbao nodded, how could he not remember, so much blood, so many women like flowers withered in an instant, how could he not remember......
"Those killers were sent by the king." Zheng Dan said the truth lightly, with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he didn't know who he was laughing at.
Xiangbao was stunned.
"Sometimes, I really wish I could be stupid, like you don't know anything, don't worry about anything, naturally someone to protect you, how nice." Zheng Dan looked at her, "It's a pity that I don't have that life." β
"How do you know?" Xiangbao lowered her eyes and asked.
"I saw it with my own eyes. Because he saw something he shouldn't have seen, the king also sent Shi Lian to kill me. Do you remember the night I invited you to Lanyue Pavilion? β
Xiangbao remembered that she rescued the injured Shi Lian in the Lanyue Pavilion that night: "You also deliberately invited the king that day?" β
"Yes, Shi Lian is here to kill me." Zheng Dan admitted frankly.
"Did you do that to blame Wu Zixu?" Xiangbao suddenly said softly.
"You're not too stupid."
Xiangbao was silent, and suddenly remembered that hunting, the husband broke into the depths of the dense forest in order to chase the deer, Wu Feng provoked her with words, and asked her to go into the forest to find the husband, but she was ambushed in the forest, she always thought that Wu Feng wanted to kill her, and now it seems that ......
"I think that before we went to the cemetery to worship that day, Hua Mei already knew the king's plan."
"Why do you say that?" Xiangbao was shocked and looked up at her.
"Because she was commanded to protect you. If you think about it yourself, you will understand that when the accident happened, everyone panicked and escaped with blood, what about you? β
It's Hua Mei. Seeing those people dying in front of her, looking at those bloody corpses, she had no strength to run away at all, and it was Hua Mei who dragged her to hide for the first time.
On that day, it was also Hua Mei who hurried to the Drunken Moon Pavilion and told her that Qiu Hui was detained and beaten by Yun Ji in order to worship Sicha. Then, when she was also beaten, the husband appeared so coincidentally and saved her, and then ...... The husband agreed that she would go out of the palace to worship Sicha and Autumn Painting.
At the time, everything was so natural. But now, all the details that had not been noticed before are reconnected, and the truth is about to be revealed.
"That's why I'm so jealous of you, no matter how much danger there is, you'll always be the one to be protected." Zheng Dan looked at her and said.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Dan and Xiang Baoping chatted quietly for an afternoon, perhaps...... It was Hua Mei's departure that gave them a feeling of sadness when the rabbit died and the fox died. When they were surprised, the sky was already slightly dark, and Xiangbao and Zheng Dan left the corridor of Lanyue Pavilion and went back to their own bedrooms, as if they had never talked like this, and they became strangers again.
On the fifth day of Hua Mei's execution, the husband set up a banquet in the palace to invite the ministers, and Gou Jian was also invited.
Under the throne, Gou Jian drank wine peacefully, Wu Zixu had a dark face, and Bo Yao was smiling under the seat of the husband, and the atmosphere was extremely weird. After three rounds of drinking, the husband suddenly put down the wine glass and said, "I invite you to the banquet today because the widow has something to announce. β
Everyone hurriedly put down their glasses, stopped talking, and looked up to listen.
"Yue Jun Goujian, loyal to the widow, widow for the heart, authorized Goujian to return to Vietnam with his wife and retainers." Playing with the wine glass in his hand, the husband was astonishing.
There was silence in the hall, and everyone was stunned.
"The king's grace is like the sun and the moon in the rivers, and the ministers will always feel the great grace." In the silence, Gou Jian's voice suddenly sounded unhurriedly, he got up and knelt down, and put his head on the ground, "Weichen must worship every year and pay tribute every year to thank the king for his kindness." β
The husband raised his lips and said nothing.
"Never!" Wu Zixu stood up suddenly, took a step forward, and said loudly.
"Yue Jun is loyal to the widow, if it weren't for him, the widow would have died today." Fucha laughed.
"Hook this wolf's ambition, please think twice!" Wu Zixu continued to admonish.
Gou Jian still knelt on the ground obediently, bowed his head, and did not open his mouth to argue for himself.
"Wu Xiangguo is too worried." The husband almost sipped the wine in the cup without hurrying, and looked coldly at Wu Zixu's anxious face.
"You! You! You! The shaft is not enough and conspiracy! Wu Zixu was angry, turned around and brushed his sleeves away.
"Tell me to go down, set up a banquet tomorrow, and send Yue Jun back to Vietnam." Seeing Wu Zixu turn around and leave angrily, Fu Cha smiled.
"The king is wise! The king is wise! On the side, Bo Yao hurriedly shouted.
Everyone looked at each other, and then they bowed their heads one after another, shouting in a loud voice: "The king is wise......"
In the midst of singing praises of merit, the husband slowly walked down the hall with his lips raised, and his long and narrow eyes were dark.
Behind him, the voice of "King Yingming" did not disperse for a long time.
Standing outside the hall, the husband raised his head and suddenly said, "Are you also wondering?" β
The figure in the darkness did not answer.
"Gou Jian is a character, he can't be kept, he can't be killed." The husband turned around and looked at the figure in the dark, "Stay by his side, the widow is in the light, he is in the dark, rather than raising a tiger for trouble, it is better to return to the mountain with a tiger." β
"Is it because she's hurt?" In the darkness, the figure suddenly whispered.
Fucha laughed: "Maybe." β