Chapter 20: The Death of Xiahou Mingyue

"Big brother, our brothers have sworn together, and we swear to follow the big brother to the death and never leave."

"You know I didn't want to do this, and I'll leave tomorrow night. Therefore, you cannot stay, they will not let you go, do not say anything, and if you still recognize me as a brother, you will all listen to me. "Before, Ling Yue planned to leave before the wedding to find Su Yuanzhi, but now Su Yuanzhi is gone......

Ling Yue handed his waist card to the housekeeper, "Uncle Li, I handed them over to you, I must take them away safely tomorrow night." ”

Ling Yue is the general of Pingyang City, and with his waist card, he can enter and exit the city gate at will.

"Okay." The butler's eyes were slightly moist, he had followed Ling Yue for the longest time, and he knew him best, he guessed a few points about Ling Yue's plan, "I will definitely live up to the general's trust." ”

"Let's go out, I want to stay alone, remember, be careful, don't let the people of Xiahou Mansion find out." After a few last words, Ling Yue turned around and stopped looking at them, no one saw that Ling Yue's eyes were also moist.

……

This day is a good day, it is appropriate to get married, it is the day when Xiahou Mingyue, the ninth lady of Xiahou Mansion, gets married.

Before dawn, Xiahou's mansion was busy, Li Chu was woken up by them early in the morning, squinting his unconscious eyes and muttering a few words dissatisfied, Yun Mo covered her ears and held her in his arms, "Ah Li will sleep again?" ”

"Hmm." Li Chu rubbed it, found a comfortable position in his arms and continued to sleep. didn't see the flame in Yun Mo's eyes, and seeing Li Chu fall asleep heartlessly, Yun Mo reluctantly kissed her on the forehead.

Because Li Chuxin wanted to see the princess and princess, she didn't sleep long and got up, because she heard that the royal family would come to attend the wedding banquet, after all, Xiahou Mingyue was Ye Guifei's niece, and it was normal for the royal family to attend, but she didn't know if Ye Guifei would come in person.

Although Xiahou Mingyue's father is not the head of the Xiahou family of this generation, but because her mother is Ye Guifei's sibling sister, and Ye Guifei is the most favored in the harem, the status of their house is not low, and even the head of the family is extremely jealous of their room. Therefore, Xiahou Mingyue has a very high status in this generation, and her brothers and sisters dare not offend her easily.

When Li Chu and Yun Mo appeared in the backyard, they found that the yard was quite lively at this time, not because of the excitement of the sound, but because of how many more people there were.

At this time, Xia Ziheng was pulling Wan Qiyu to chat happily, on the surface, this is true, but in fact, the ghost knows what they are talking about, Wan Qiyu's cold wooden fart can't collapse a single one, Xia Ziheng has been trying to find a topic to talk about, because he really doesn't want to face Murong Yu's nasty face.

Murong Yu came over early in the morning with a few maids in the name of giving Wan Jining an apology, and Murong Yu was a guest in the mansion, and Xia Ziheng couldn't drive her out.

Wan Jining was shaking the cradle of Xiaodouding, Murong Yu kept talking to her, although Wan Jining was annoyed, but he gave Xia Ziheng face, and occasionally replied to her with a sentence or two.

Murong Yu sent a message with a carrier pigeon yesterday, and he should have acted last night, but now he sees that Wan Jining is fine, as if nothing happened last night, and he is annoyed at this time. Seeing that Xiahou Yun didn't care about himself at all, even Wan Jining dealt with himself perfunctorily, the smile on his face was about to be hung up, and there was no news from there. What went wrong, could it be that they didn't get the news from themselves?

Xia Ziheng saw that his senior brother and sister finally appeared, and he was immediately moved to tears, the savior can be regarded as coming, and he really can't talk to Wan Qianyu, this cold wood.

The corners of Li Chu's eyes twitched, these two goods are sick again?

"Senior brother, senior sister."

When Murong Yu heard Xiahou Yun call the two of them, he knew that they were senior brothers, although he looked down on them from the bottom of his heart, but seeing that Xiahou Yun was very close to them, he didn't show it.

Murong Yu moved the lotus step lightly, walked in front of them and blessed his body softly, "It turns out that the two are the senior brothers and sisters of the fifth cousin, and I have never heard my cousin mention it before. Yesterday the rain was rude. ”

Xia Ziheng thought disgustedly, don't talk like we know each other very well, I haven't said a few words to you at all, okay.

Li Chu looked at Murong Yu with a smile and greeted her lightly, "Miss Murong." ”

Seeing that Li Chu seemed to see through everything, Murong Yu's heart jumped, smiled at her a little stiffly, and turned to look at the child.

No one spoke anymore, and the atmosphere became eerie.

Li Chu winked at Xia Ziheng and said two words silently, Xia Ziheng was puzzled and asked her silently: What?

Handwriting. Li Chu slowly said twice with his mouth, and Xia Ziheng finally reacted.

Xia Ziheng was very depressed when he mentioned this, and he sneaked into Murong Yu's room last night, but he didn't find the words she wrote.

"Ziheng, have you finished copying the Buddhist scriptures that Master punished you? Tomorrow we have to give an account to the Master, hurry up. Li Chu saw that Xia Ziheng was not reliable at all, so he went on his own.

When did Master punish me for copying Buddhist scriptures? Xia Ziheng just wanted to ask her what was going on, but suddenly reacted, changed his face instantly, and pleaded pitifully, "Senior sister, can you help me?" You can copy some for me, please. ”

Looking at the second-class junior brother who pretended to be like that, Li Chu raised his eyebrows, and reacted quite quickly at this time, "One thousand taels of silver." ”

“…… Good. After doing a full set of plays, Xia Ziheng took out a stack of silver tickets and handed them to Li Chu.

Well, it's very good, Li Chu put away the silver ticket very satisfied.

"Let's go, copy the book." Li Chu pulled Yun Mo to get up and take the lead in the study, and Xia Ziheng naturally wanted to follow.

When Murong Yu heard that Xiahou Yun was in trouble, he naturally wanted to leave a good impression on him, so he said softly, "Fifth cousin, I don't know if I can help." ”

Xia Ziheng hesitated, wondering, "It's not good, you're a guest, and you don't have to talk to the ninth sister?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with my cousin, let me help you."

“…… Well, then thank you Miss Murong. Xia Ziheng reluctantly agreed.

Murong Yu was very happy, and finally talked to his sweetheart.

In the study, Li Chu was writing seriously like that, but when she looked closer, she was painting indiscriminately, Yun Mo looked at the painting that he didn't know what it was, couldn't help but chuckle, and also cooperated with her, picked up the brush and began to write, Li Chu was curious about what he wrote, and when he turned his head, he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

"Why are you writing this?"

"When I was a child, I couldn't write the word 'Li' well, how do you think it is now?" He was referring to the character "Li" engraved on the jade pendant, which was still young at that time and a little crooked, but later he practiced the character well, but Li Chu was no longer by his side.

"It's beautiful." This is the big truth, Yun Mo's words are fluent and vigorous. Fortunately, Li Chu had learned calligraphy before, although it couldn't be compared with Yun Mo's, the font was quite upright.

Over there, Murong Yu also began to copy Buddhist scriptures conscientiously, but fortunately, she didn't see what Li Chu and the others wrote, otherwise she would have been a goof.

After staying in the study for only a quarter of an hour, Wan Qiyu came in and asked Yun Mo and Li Chu to deal with things. Li Chu retired after success, and did not forget to take his works with him.

Xia Ziheng naturally didn't want to stay alone with Murong Yu, looked at the words she wrote, his eyes flashed, sure enough, it was her, so he casually found an excuse to leave. So Murong Yu was left alone to copy, Murong Yu looked at the thick stack of scriptures, and secretly scolded Li Chu and the others for not being kind, and when he saw that there were no outsiders, he called a maid to help.

"See clearly?" Li Chu asked Xia Ziheng, who came out later.

Xia Ziheng gritted his teeth and said, "Well, it's her." "This woman is vicious enough, she usually pretends to be gentle and dignified, but she is so vicious in her heart.

"What are you going to do?"

"Kill her to get rid of the trouble?"

"The Murong family is also a big family, so you have to be careful not to let others find out."

Although he said so, if Murong Yu died in Xiahou Mansion, it would also be a big trouble, but fortunately, Wan Jining was not harmed, but he also wanted to teach her a lesson.

……

At noon, set up a banquet in Xiahou Mansion to entertain guests, finally waited until the sedan chair came to the door, the crackling sound of the cannon was endless, after all kinds of cumbersome wedding order, Xiahou Mingyue in a gorgeous red wedding dress was hugged by her brother on the sedan chair, and the sedan chair went out in a short time, ten miles of red makeup, the red lantern opened the road, blowing and blowing along the way, and the streets were surrounded by people who watched the excitement.

In the marriage customs of the eastern country, the groom does not go to his father-in-law's house to greet his relatives, but uses the bride as a messenger to go to the woman's house to greet his relatives. The bride's brother needs to travel with the sedan chair, so Xia Ziheng also has to accompany him to see off his relatives.

Li Chu finally saw that there were many children of the Xiahou family, and the young masters of the Xiahou family rode horses one after another to follow behind the sedan chair, and the long line was spectacular!

Yun Mo and the others also followed the sedan chair to Ling's Mansion to attend the wedding banquet.

Finally waited for the complicated worship ceremony to end, Li Chu glanced at Ling Yue, who did not have the slightest joy on his face, and completed the ceremony in an orderly manner, he didn't expect him to be so calm, could it be that he wanted to go wrong?

Although the concubine did not go out of the palace to attend the wedding, she let the seventh prince come, the seventh prince was born to Ye Guifei, and the son was favored by his mother, which shows the importance and love of the concubine to this niece.

After the worship ceremony was over, most of the guests gathered around the Seven Princes to pay their respects, and all kinds of whiskers and horses were patting horses, and saying compliments.

Li Chu glanced at it from a distance, the seventh prince was also a handsome young man, with a moderate demeanor and a royal demeanor, thinking that the genes of the royal family should be not bad, after all, there are countless beauties in the harem.

After the wedding banquet, after Ling Yue sent the guests away, he glanced at Steward Li, who nodded to him and walked away, at this time Ling Yue's face was very calm, so that people could not see his emotions.

Ling Yue stood quietly in the courtyard for a long time, waiting for the Xi Niang to send someone to remind him before slowly walking towards the new house.

In the new room, Xiahou Mingyue was sitting quietly on the marriage bed, and the bride was relieved to see that the groom had finally appeared, and was about to say something auspicious, Ling Yue waved them down, and the bride hurriedly said, "General, this is not etiquette." And the ritual ......"

Ling Yue said in a deep voice, "Stand down!" ”

When the bride saw that the bridegroom's face was not good, she didn't dare to say anything, so she went out with everyone.

Ling Yue sat down at the table, didn't look at the bride, looked at the bright red all over the room, smiled self-deprecatingly, and suddenly remembered the scene of marrying Zhi'er, and fell into memory.

Xiahou Mingyue saw that Ling Yue had been silent, and she didn't remove the red hijab for herself, and her heart was full of displeasure, but she really liked Ling Yue, so she endured it and didn't have a seizure, and called softly, "Husband? ”

Ling Yue came back to his senses and said slowly, "I have already promised to marry you, and Zhi'er was forced to leave by you. Xiahou Mingyue, why don't you still refuse to let her go. ”

Xiahou Mingyue's heart jumped, and he suddenly felt a little uneasy, did he know everything? But she must not admit it.

"I don't know what you're talking about, but today is our big day."

Ling Yue stopped talking, stood up and slowly approached her, listening to the footsteps getting closer and closer, Xiahou Mingyue felt more and more uneasy, and reached out to remove the hijab, Ling Yue's movements were faster than her, a dagger had been inserted into her chest, Xiahou Mingyue exhaled in pain, and said in disbelief, "Ling Yue, you actually dare to ......"

"You shouldn't hurt her." Zhi'er is gone, then let her pay for Zhi'er's life.

"You ......" heart pain sharply, Xiahou Mingyue fell on the bed, the hijab was not removed, and her expression could not be seen.

Xiahou Mingyue soon ran out of breath, and Ling Yue sat quietly for a long time, estimating that it was time for Steward Li to take them out of the city, so he took advantage of the night to quietly leave the city.

The next morning, when the subordinates saw that the master had not gotten up for a long time, they did not dare to disturb at first, but then they slowly realized that the housekeeper and others were gone, and they felt that something was wrong.

Xiahou Mingyue knocked on the door for a long time with the people she brought from her mother's house, but there was no movement inside, so she slammed the door open, only to find that the bride had been angry for a long time.

And Ling Yue didn't know where to go, and there was no one in charge in the mansion at this time, so he hurriedly called someone to inform Xiahou Mansion.

received the bad news, and the Xiahou Mansion was in chaos for a while. Xiahou Mingyue's parents were angry, her mother fainted on the spot, and Xiahou Sanye was angry and took people to Ling Mansion.

Li Chu got up in the morning and received the news, which was from Yun Mo's people.

Unexpectedly, Ling Yue still killed Xiahou Mingyue with his own hands to avenge Su Yuanzhi, but after killing Xiahou Mingyue, his fate can be imagined.

"Do you know where Ling Yue went?" Li Chu was very emotional, this Ling Yue is a lover, it's a pity that this pair of lovers.

"I'm going to find his wife."

Li Chuchu chuckled, it wouldn't be what she thought, but she was quickly relieved. Perhaps, this was a relief for him.

Xiahou Mingyue was killed on the wedding night, which alarmed the entire Pingyang City, Ling Yue and the descendants of Ling Mansion were nowhere to be found, and the murderer was obviously him, and this matter was in a uproar for a while.

This matter even shocked the saint, after all, one was an official of the imperial court, and the other was Ye Guifei's niece, Ye Guifei was even more furious, crying in front of the emperor, begging the emperor to arrest Ling Yue and give an explanation to the Xiahou family.

For a while, Ling Yue's wanted warrant was issued all over the country, and Steward Li and the others went out of the city and were still waiting for Ling Yue to join them, but they received the news that they were wanted, and they were shocked, but they didn't expect the general to kill Miss Nine at the cost of his life to avenge his wife, and he couldn't contact Ling Yue, so Steward Li had to take them to hide in the mountains temporarily, and then find a way to contact the general after the limelight passed.

The wanted notice has been issued for several days, but there is no news of Ling Yue at all, Xiahou Sanye is very angry, Xiahou Mingyue's mother is crying every day, but the people in Ling Mansion have disappeared together, and there is no place to vent, and for a while, the atmosphere in Xiahou Mansion is tense, and everyone is cautious, for fear of getting into trouble.

Only Xia Ziheng secretly ran out to find his senior brothers and sisters every day, and after the wedding, they returned to Yun Mo's residence on East Street.

When Xiahou's house was in chaos, Ling Yue had already found the place where Su Yuanzhi was buried, and Wan Qiyu kindly found a good place for her at that time.

Looking at the simple tomb in front of him, there was no tombstone, just a small mound, Ling Yue said to the black-clothed man beside him, "I'm tired, go back and thank Master Yunzhuang and Miss Li on my behalf." His voice sounded decadent.

The man in black was Yun Mo's secret guard Meng Er, Meng Yi's twin brother, Ling Yue went to find Yun Mo before he left Pingyang, and Yun Mo ordered him to take Ling Yue here.

"Farewell." Meng Er soon disappeared.

Ling Yue knelt in front of the grave, his hands stroking the dirt on it, tears sliding down from the corners of his eyes, "Zhi'er, I'm here." ”

……

Ling Yue seemed to disappear like this, and no one knew where he went, except for Yun Mo and them.

When Li Chu received the news of Ling Yue's martyrdom, it was the day of Xiaodouding's full moon. Looking at Xiao Douding, who was rolling his eyes and looking around curiously, Li Chu didn't speak, but only looked at him quietly for a while.

In the restaurant, Li Chu was rarely holding Xiaodouding and teasing him, Wan Qiyu and his brothers and sisters followed her, and Yun Mo went out to run errands, so the bored Li Chu took them out to visit the capital, well, the main thing was that she wanted to go shopping.

Suddenly, hearty laughter and footsteps came from outside the box.

"Grandpa, look, my brother is bullying me again." A delicate voice came.

"Haha, little Yu'er......"

The sound faded away, and it seemed to be entering the next box.

Li Chu didn't take it to heart, and continued to tease Xiao Douding, poking his face, he giggled, Li Chu thought it was funny, and kept teasing him.

After eating, when they opened the door, the people in the box next door also came out, Li Chu glanced at it casually, and saw an old man among them walking in the middle, two young people, a man and a woman, looked a little similar, they should be brothers and sisters. The entourage followed should be the owner of the few voices I heard just now.

The three of them also saw Li Chu and a few people, and the girl looked at Li Chu and a few people curiously, they were so good-looking. The young man glanced at it and withdrew his gaze, helping his grandfather to leave, but when he saw his grandfather staring at the girl, he was puzzled, and couldn't help but say, "Grandpa? ”

Seeing the old man looking at him, Li Chu smiled politely at him and stepped back a little, intending to let them go first.