Chapter III: Conflict (3)

"Brother Zishu?"

“…… Splendid...... Son"

"Brother Zishu? Don't be in a daze! Come and lift the hijab! ”

"Oooh!"

"Huh"

"Xi'er, what are you laughing at?"

"Zishu, are you shy?"

"I didn't ...... Not really. ”

"We've been together since we were children, I'm afraid you treat me as a sister, right?"

"How so?" Nangong Zishu walked up to Mu Zhixi and sat down, "I just feel a little sudden...... I probably never thought I'd be able to marry you. ”

What do you mean by that? Since childhood, this family has been decided, so why can't you think of it? ”

"Uh... No, it's not unexpected. It's a feeling in my heart! Xi'er, who I was thinking about, was sitting in front of me at the moment. She was dressed in a beautiful red wedding dress, and the fragrance could still spread in front of me like a filament through the red hijab, and I was fascinated by it. Like a dream, like a flower blooming wonderful, although the flowering period is known, but still can't suppress the excitement of enjoying the flowers. Xi'er is this flower, I ...... It's this flower admirer. ”

"Brother Zishu, when did you become so able to speak?"

"It's all from the heart."

Xi'er also felt that this flowering period seemed to come a little suddenly. I was looking forward to it, but I was a little nervous when it was approaching. ”

"Life is short, and with Xi'er, there are no regrets in life." Nangong Zishu gently lifted Mu Zhixi's red hijab. A pair of moving eyes flashed with happiness, lightly opened his thin lips, and said: "May you be together and stay together."

Three days later, on the way back, several carriages drove towards Mufu. In front of the Mufu Gate, the carriage stopped. Nangong Zishu got out of the car first, lifted the curtain, and gently helped Mu Zhixi to get out of the car.

"Father, mother. Daughter Mu Zhixi returned home today to be filial to her parents. ”

"Son-in-law Nangong Zishu came to meet his father-in-law and mother-in-law."

"Good, good! Talented and beautiful, a match made in heaven. ”

"Jing Gong! Come and meet your sister, brother-in-law. ”

Mu Jinggong walked out slowly, dressed in a set of pale pink silk outfits, wearing pale pink hairpins, with an elegant face and a dignified posture.

"Little sister Mu Jinggong has seen my sister and brother-in-law."

The two returned the salute.

In the evening, Mu Zhixi had gone back to sleep in the room, and Nangong Zishu was still talking with Mu Zeyu in the hall. Mu Jinggong was not in the room, he went out of the house alone and walked on the bridge to admire the moon. After standing for a while, the watchman had already knocked twice.

"It's so late?! It's time to go back! ”

Mu Jinggong began to walk back quickly, and when he walked outside the gate of the mansion, he saw a trace of smoke floating out of the mansion. She pushed the door with her hand, and with a creak, the door opened. The gate was empty. "It's all sleeping! Where did the smoke come from? She walked along the place where the smoke had drifted out, and suddenly the light of the fire caught her eye. From the living room of the house to the doors of all the rooms and sizes, they were already tormented by the flames.

"Someone! Fight the fire! ”

Mu Jinggong shouted desperately, but no one responded. She ran madly into the palace hall, but saw that Mu Zeyu had already been stabbed several times and fell on the Nanmu armchair. And Nangong Zishu actually hanged himself on the beam of the house on the side! The ground was covered with blood, and Nangong Zishu's face and hands were also covered with blood. A large area of blood lay quietly at Mu Zeyu's feet. A blood-stained dagger stood in the main hall. Wine glasses, teacups overturned to the ground, tea wine mixed with blood, emitting a pungent smell. wood

Jing Gong was shocked by everything in front of him? She suddenly turned around and ran towards Mu Zhixi's room.

"Sister! Sister! ”

She rushed to a place, but couldn't push the door open. She knocked frantically and shouted, "Sister! Sister, are you in there? Sister! No one responded.

Mu Jinggong looked around and happened to see a wooden stick with the thick mouth of a bowl standing in the corner of the wall. Mu Jinggong picked it up with great difficulty, and rushed to Mu Zhixi's door with it. Once, twice, three times...... Finally, the door was slammed open. Mu Jinggong rushed in, the smoke was filled, and Mu Zhixi's bedside was already on fire, but she was still lying peacefully on the bed. Mu Jinggong ran over and was about to pull up Mu Zhixi, but found that there were several small snakes lying next to Mu Zhixi's bed, crawling slowly. There was a strip of cheek that was already close to Mu Zhixi. Mu Jinggong held his breath and stared, but found that the fire had burned out. She tore off the veil and drew some fire nearby, and threw it at the snake. The snake fled in all directions, and the snake that approached Mu Zhixi was frightened and opened its mouth to reveal its snake teeth. Mu Jinggong stepped forward and grabbed the snake's tail and threw it back, and the snake was thrown out. She lifted the quilt, put on Mu Zhixi, took Mu Zhixi's wedding dress, and went out of the room. As soon as they walked out of the door, there was a "click" behind them, and the beams and pillars in the house burned off. At this time, the entire compound was already in flames. Mu Jinggong put on the wedding dress for Mu Zhixi, helped Mu Zhixi to go out from the main door, and when he walked to the living room, there was a sound. Mu Jinggong looked back to see that the firewood room of the nearest wooden mansion had burned down, and what was immediately revealed was a charred corpse.

"Ahh Mu Jinggong's mouth opened wide, and tears flowed down his face. That corpse was the upper and lower family members and miscellaneous servants of the Mu Mansion. A thumb-sized bead rolled down to Mu Jinggong's side, Mu Jinggong picked it up, and suddenly muttered like a fountain of tears: "Mother... Mother..."

Mu Jinggong sat down paralyzed, and Mu Zhixi had also woken up at this time.

"Ahh What happened? How did it come to this?! ”

"Sister! …… Sister! Wood...... Mufu..."

“…… Who did it?! Jing Gong, who did it! ”

"Sister, I don't know ......"

"Jing ......" Mu Zhixi's gaze suddenly condensed into the living room.

"Father...... Kiss...... Father! She stood up and ran to the living room.

"Sister!" Mu Jinggong then chased after him.

Mu Zhixi stood at the door and suddenly didn't move, and Mu Jinggong caught up.

"Sister......

“…… Azusa Shu...... Brother ...... "She choked," Azusa ...... Nangong Zishu! She rushed in and stood in a pool of blood. On one side is his father who was stabbed several times in his body, and on the other side is Nangong Zishu, who has hanged himself.

"How could he...... What about suicide? He said he wanted to be with me all the time. He...... Did he kill his father and then burn down the wooden mansion and then commit suicide? ”

"Sister, brother-in-law is not such a person. You have been friends with him since childhood, don't you know him? ”

“…… I don't believe it...... I don't want to believe it either. He said he wanted to be with me. With that, Mu Zhixi walked towards Nangong Zishu's corpse. On the table next to the corpse was the remains of a wine glass that had fallen to the floor. There are a few words written in blood on the table: life is like an epiphany, death. The words were not finished, but I knew that it was written by Nangong Zishu before he died. Mu Zhixi dipped the wine on the table and made up next to those words: If a mayfly, three words. She stood under Nangong Zishu's corpse, grasping part of the corpse with her hands and shaking it vigorously.

"Hehehe...," Mu Zhixi sneered, "but he wrote it, didn't he!" Life is like an epiphany, death is like a mayfly. Hahahaha! Nangong Zishu! Nangong Cheng! You're down?! What is death? I, Mu Zhixi, can also die with you! Nangong Cheng! Open your eyes and look at me! Tell me what you said to me on your wedding night?! What is the flowering period that makes the heart throb infinitely? It's all! Now that you're dead, what's it? What is this? What are you going to do with me Mu Zhixi?! Mu Zhixi stopped shaking and looked down at her hand, "Look what you've turned me into?" How could a lady say such a thing? ”

"Sister, let's go! I can't get out any later! ”

"Jing Gong, I'm standing in front of Zi Shu in this wedding dress, how can I go? Where? I'll go with him. ”

"Sister, what are you talking about?! Only the two of us sisters are left alive in Mufu now, did you give up so easily?! ”

"I don't want to give up...... But now...... Ha ha...... Life is like an epiphany, death is like a mayfly. Hahahaha! Nangong Cheng? It's so well written! Hahahaha" The laughter fell with tears, and Mu Jinggong felt heartache and harshness when he heard it.

"Sister!" Mu Jinggong ran over and pulled Mu Zhixi, "Sister, don't you want to know who slaughtered my Mu Mansion?!" Sister, don't you want to avenge your brother-in-law?! ”

As soon as the words fell, there was another cracking sound.

"Sister! If you don't leave now, then your father, mother, brother-in-law, and the upper and lower families of Mufu will not be at peace! ”

Mu Zhixi hesitated for a moment and stopped laughing. Suddenly, two people broke in from outside the door, masked but straight towards the Mu sisters. One of the two grabbed Mu Jinggong, and the other grabbed Mu Zhixi, and ran out of the living room of the Mu Mansion together, a set of light exercises, and in an instant, several people flew out of the Mu Mansion......

The Mu sisters were taken to an open field. The two masked women were about to leave when Mu Jinggong grabbed one of them.

"Excuse me...... Who are you? Why save us? ”

"We are monks who cultivate the path of immortals, and when we pass by here and see a fire, we will see if there is anyone who can help."

"Where did you two come from?"

"Suzusenkaku. There are two talismans here, so you can take them with you, so you might be useful. With that, the two of them disappeared in front of the Mu sisters.

At this moment, Mu Zhixi and Mu Jinggong felt a trace of bitterness when they stood on the desolate and directionless dry land. It's been three watches, there is no one around, the cold wind is shining, the two of them don't say a word, the tears have been dried, and there is no extra emotional expression, and it is already wooden.

"Princess! Action. ”

"Results."

"Except for the Mu sisters, the rest of the people were all executed."

"There must be an outsider, right?"

“…… Be! The young master of Nangong Mansion. ”

"That's right."

"How did the princess know there was him?"

"How could he not be there when he returned to the door in three days?"

"Yes! ……… Shen Fan also thought of this, but why would he want to harm an outsider? ”

"Nangong Mansion and Mu Mansion are world friends, and the slaughter of Mu Mansion is not enough to deter Nangong Wei Ran."

"But Nangong Zishu is the only son of Nangong Mansion, I'm afraid that Lord Nangong won't give up."

"So what? Shen Fan has nothing to do with this matter now, although Nangong Wei Ran knows it, but there is no evidence to help him. I have to say that Shen Fan's move is good, killing two birds with one stone, even if Nangong Wei Ran is dissatisfied, he can't do anything unfavorable to Shen Fan. ”

"Will the third prince of Mengfu ......?"

"Don't worry, he won't fall into the hands of Shen Fan. How is the third prince of Mengfu now? ”

"I've returned to the house."

"No one found him, did they?"

"The slave sent people to watch him all the way into the house."

"Hmm."

"Princess, is this the end of the matter?"

"Not yet. Tomorrow this matter will be full of storms in the city, and the rest of it will be talked about later. ”