Chapter XXIII
It seemed that he had a long, long dream, and when he opened his eyes, Su Qinghui couldn't even tell the difference between dream and reality, until the birdsong in his ears became clearer and clearer, and his consciousness gradually returned.
She glanced around to make sure that there was no one in the room and got up lightly, through the crack in the window, she saw a woman standing in the courtyard, frowning, this figure always felt familiar, and there was a familiar aroma from the tip of her nose when the wind blew through her nose, it was her. Su Qinghui suddenly remembered where he had seen the people in the courtyard. It was the masked woman I had met on the street corner.
"The girl will come out when she wakes up, Yanyi has made tea, please come and taste it" Su Qinghui pushed the door and walked out and sat on the stone bench, and said coldly: "You said, if I want to know, you will tell me" Yanyi gently put the teacup in front of her, and sat down, and the beaded hairpin on the bun that shook gently with her movements added a bit of elegance.
"Take a closer look, the girl is more like Sister Chengluo" Su Qinghui frowned: "What do you mean" Yanyi took out a pendant from his sleeve: "This is what your mother left you, and now it is finally returned to its original owner"
"You, know my mother"
"Yes" Yan Yi sighed, "The mother is the Jiang family in Kyoto, and Mrs. Shao Yuan of Lin'an" Su Qinghui's breath was stagnant, if she remembered correctly, the Jiang family had been beheaded more than ten years ago.
She stood up and said in a hoarse voice: "You must have recognized the wrong person, I grew up in the Su family since I was a child"
"Su Chong" heard this name Su Qinghui suddenly lost his voice, and Yan Yi also stood up and looked into the distance.
"He's just being asked by your mother's sister to raise you"
"What the hell are you talking about"
"More than ten years ago, your father was still a big businessman on the rich side, and the princes were already coveting the assets held by your father, and they always sent people to meddle in business affairs again and again, and once the businessman was involved in the turmoil, it was equivalent to digging his own grave, and your father also knew this. I wanted to get out of the matter, but unfortunately from the beginning, the Jiang family has become a tool for the royal family to pursue profits, and since they have been involved in this struggle for power, there is nowhere to escape, but it is a pity. ”
Yanyi sighed and closed his eyes: "Your father, he doesn't know people clearly, he mistakenly believes in villains, the day when the national teacher ordered the whole house to be beheaded, you were just born, it was a peaceful sun, Mrs. worked hard to give birth to you, this is the last thing Mrs. left you"
As he spoke, he reached out and touched the pendant on the table, Su Qinghui sat on the stone bench like he lost his strength; "No, why should I believe you?"
"Presumably you yourself have doubts about your own background, Cheng Luo, is the most powerful killer around the national teacher, and is also the sister-in-law of Madame, after being powerless to stop all this, she had to take you away, after placing you, she did not get revenge, and finally died with hatred"
"Why are you only telling me all this now" Yan Yi clenched his fists and hated his face: "The mountain rain is coming, how can you let the ups and downs"
Jinglu looked at the person who came in front of him with a cold air, drank the last sip of wine and slammed it on the ground, and said with a cruel smile: "You are really a person with profound blessings"
Jing Rong didn't say a word and looked at the person in front of him crazy, Jing Yu knew that Jing Lu was going to let him have no return, if he died, it would be in addition to a big trouble, if he didn't die, Jing Rong looked at the scum in front of him, and a trace of inexplicable emotion flashed in the eyes of the person who behaved like a demon. Then the moment he stepped into this door alive was the jealousy of the person in front of him.
He handed the sword to Chang Yuan, took the altar of sake, sat opposite Jinglu, and poured himself two glasses of wine.
After a few moments, Jing Rong pushed open the door and walked out, the door slamming behind him. Locked up a person's life.
When Su Qinghui returned to Lingmiao Mountain, it was getting late, and the sun was tilted on the top of the mountain, as if he stretched out his hand to push, and the behemoth that was still shining all over the ground at noon would fall down the mountain, leaving nothing behind. She swept over the crooked empty wine jar and sat beside Jing Rong, watching the light disappear little by little in her eyes, and her heart felt as if something had been emptied, and she was sad.
She looked sideways at the people around her and whispered, "Your Highness, it's time to go back" Jing Rong stretched out her hand like a child and muttered, "I personally cut off my brother's life today"
"I know, that's not what you intended"
Do you know what he said today? He said, "I hate me the most for being always on top, but I am just an outcast of the royal family, but I want to ascend to the throne"
As he spoke, he chuckled and put his hand on his eyebrow bone, covering his eyes, and his tone was like a layer of mist: "I never wanted to compete with them for the throne, I just wanted to spend an ordinary life with my father and queen mother, but I didn't even have a chance to look at them."
He grew up in Su Mansion as a child, and when he didn't know what dignity was, he was forced to be taught over and over again what was general and distance.
The prince, engraved on his body like two noble imprints, hurts as much as he touches it, he has laughed wantonly, and he has been as stubborn as an ordinary child, but his words and deeds hurt others and himself like an invisible sword.
Because he had forgotten the time when he was out with the boys, he could only watch them being beaten to death, screaming and flowing blood, whipped him like a whip and laughed at his ignorance.
Gradually, he began to learn to be patient and get used to loneliness. When drinking the medicine, he was no longer coquettish and bitter, but drank it without changing his face. Going to and from school alone. Walk all the way alone.
Even if he returns to the palace, he must pretend to be unaware in front of that person, and he must be obedient and obedient, because he knows that if he takes a wrong step, he will never recover.
Su Qinghui was a little distressed when he heard the chuckle in his ears, and remembered that Jing Rong was sent out of the palace to be raised by the Su family thousands of miles away after he was born. During that time, he must have been very lonely.
Su Qinghui seemed to think of her father and mother who she had never seen, remembered the days when she was chased and ridiculed by country children, and remembered the sudden and angry pain when she learned about her life experience earlier, she stretched out her hand to hug the people on the side, Jing dissolved her body for a moment, and her voice was low as if falling into the dust: "Presumptuous" Su Qinghui listened to the undeterrent voice, tightened his hand, and pulled out a bitter smile.
Just this time, she closed her eyes and held back tears, the world lacked her and his embrace, and she came to make up for it.
Three days later, a letter came from Anzhou, and Mr. Su was seriously ill.
Jing Rong looked at Su Qinghui, who was kneeling in the courtyard, and said clearly, "Do you know where I went?" ”
"Anju Sufu"
"If you know, why do you insist on going?"
"I just want an answer"
On the carriage, Su Qinghui looked at Jing Rong, who was resting, and asked, "Your Highness, Shu'er has a question that I would like to ask you to solve."
"Say"
"I don't know if His Royal Highness can know where Miss Su Weichu's leg disease came from"
Jing Rong said: "Why did you suddenly think of asking this" Su Qinghui smiled: "It's just curious, if His Royal Highness doesn't want to say more, just answer me or no" Jing Rong nodded, Su Qinghui asked: "Did Miss Wei Chu's legs happen to me later?" ”
"Yes"
"What Someone Close Did"
"Yes," Su Qinghui said tentatively, "The person who saved her is a person from Su Mansion"
"No"
"Then, that person is still alive" After a long silence, Jing Rong said: "No"
After finishing speaking, the horse neighed and raised its hooves to stop, Jing Rong grabbed Su Qinghui's body and asked, "Chang Yuan, what's going on outside?"
"Your Highness, there is an ambush here" Jing Rong picked up his sword and jumped out of the carriage, stretched out his hand to hug Su Qinghui who was standing on the carriage platform and said, "Find a place to hide"
"Good"
"Chang Yuan, try the left side" Chang Yuan picked up a stone and threw it over, and sure enough, as soon as the stone landed, it was closed in the net. "Your Highness, it seems that the previous road was deliberately sabotaged, just looking at this battle, I don't want to take our lives, I'm afraid it's just delaying time."
Jing Rong said: "Is there still a way?"
"This is the only one"
"Then find out what they want"
Su Qinghui dragged the small bag on his body and vigilantly followed behind Jing Rong, and a few birds in the forest were startled from time to time. Chang Yuan said in a condensed voice, "Your Highness, there is movement"
The sound of leaves in the forest on the right is getting closer and closer. A thin monkey came out of the head and looked around, and then shouted inside, "No mice, come out" After a while, a few strong men came out from behind, and one of them was a square-faced man who said: "Everything on this carriage has been searched, and no one has been found" The thin monkey said: "Then the big brothers have found something good",
"Phew, it's bad luck to say, there is nothing on the car except a push of colorful cakes, like a starving ghost reincarnated."
Jing Rong glanced at Su Qinghui, his eyes were obvious, Su Qinghui wrung his hands weakly: "I've been really hungry lately, so I want to prepare a little, no, don't waste time."
The thin monkey in the distance said again: "Don't worry, don't you say that people are more valuable than those things" said and laughed obscenely: "I heard it's still very beautiful, hahahaha"
"That's right, mountain monkey, go and send someone to guard the mountain road, today you have to arrest people no matter what, and make it a big vote."
Su Qinghui turned his head, and the people beside him had picturesque eyebrows and eyes, a high nose bridge, and thin lips. Well, Su Qinghui nodded affirmatively, what he said seemed to make some sense.
"Have you seen enough" Su Qinghui retracted his gaze, and sighed secretly in his heart, tsk, it's just that his temper is not very good. She moved, and there was a crisp sound under her feet.
"Big brother, someone"
Su Qinghui pressed Jing Rong's hand to draw his sword: "Your Highness, you can't go left and right, it's better to see what tricks they play."
"What do you want to do" Su Qinghui looked at the figure that was getting closer and closer, and whispered: "Your Highness"
Jing Rong was stunned for a moment, and the person next to him stood up suddenly, screaming and running out, he stretched out his hand to support his forehead, which was really not worry-free.
"Big brother, it's that girl"
"Venerable Master, Catch Her for Me"
Su Qinghui didn't run a few steps, but he was grabbed by the thin monkey: "See where you can run, it's really easy for me to find"
"Let go of me, let go of me, if you dare to touch me, my father will not let you have a good time."
"Ha, your father can't keep it himself, how can you take care of others, it's better to go back with me obediently, so as not to suffer some flesh and skin."
Su Qinghui stopped struggling and wiped his tears: "Then you let go first, people's hands hurt"
"Good," said the skinny monkey, reaching out and pinching her face.
A low cough behind him, "Mountain monkey, it's time to go" The thin monkey reluctantly put down his hand and leaned next to the strong man: "Big brother, our master has so many women, and there is no shortage of this one, or"
"Shut up, you can't be stunned, no matter how much it is, it's the master's business, it's your turn to talk more and talk here, go back to the mountain"
At night, Su Qinghui sat on the edge of the bed, and the girl in the room carried the bucket in and out, she was really dizzy when she looked at it. asked out loud: "When are you all right, I have said it three times, I am really hungry" The girl who carried the water shook her hand, and the water fell to the ground.
After washing, Su Qinghui was dizzy from steaming, and he was pushed into a room in a daze. She glanced at the person in the glasses, dressed in red, with green silk slanted up, and a little plum on her forehead.
She looked at it and frowned, feeling uncomfortable all over.
The door creaked, and a man's figure appeared in the mirror, with a square face and a round body, slowly approaching with heavy steps. Su Qinghui immediately got up and stood at the other end of the table.
"I heard that the little lady can't wait to see me, why did I come, but I hid, hahaha, am I afraid" Su Qinghui looked at the fat on the man's face and shook it, and said in his heart, I can't wait to see you, it's just that I want your dog's life.
"Come on, come here, let me take a good look at you"
"Wait" The man stopped his steps, and Su Qinghui showed sadness: "They said that my father can't take care of me, is it true?"
"You will have your happy days with me in the future, what do you want to do, come here, let the master see"
Su Qinghui said, it is really inseparable. The dark incense in the house became heavier and heavier, and the man shook his head and said with a smile: "This fragrance on the little lady smells so good, I have never smelled it"
"Is it" Su Qinghui took off his coat and threw his hand on him: "Then you have to have a good experience"
After tying up the man, Su Qinghui broke out in a thin sweat. When I looked around, the candles were flickering in the room.
"Your Highness, I've seen it, Miss Su is in this room"
The door was gently pushed open, and Chang Yuan said in a low voice: "Miss Su"
A head poked out from behind the bed: "I'm here"
"The girl is fine" Su Qinghui slowly walked out and said, "Okay, okay, oops"
Jing Rong grabbed her crooked body and "looked at the road" Su Qinghui scratched his head a little abruptly: "I forgot that there was still a person lying on the ground."
“……”
“……”
A sudden soft call outside the door: "The master is resting"
Everyone in the room was silent, Su Qinghui reacted and immediately stepped on the people on the ground, and a few muffled snorts sounded. The figure outside the house still hesitated.
Su Qinghui pointed his throat and said, "Childe, ah, don't, don't, people are afraid." Ah, it hurts" Su Qinghui swore that the last sentence was definitely a cry from the heart.
The figure outside the window finally left, and Su Qinghui took out his arm from Jingrong's hand and whispered, "Childe, it really hurts."
"Shut up"
Taking advantage of the night, they stole horses and went down the mountain overnight.
At the foot of the mountain, Jing Rong glanced at the clothes on Su Qinghui's body, took off his coat and put it on her head: "Put it on" Su Qinghui tied his shirt and asked: "Your Highness, then here"
"I've sent a message out, someone will take care of it," he said, holding out his hand "Come up"
Running non-stop, he entered Anzhou City in the afternoon of the second day, and after settling Su Qinghui, Jing Rong took Chang Yuan straight to the courtyard of Old Man Su.