Chapter Twenty-Six: A Dream of Desolation
The candles in the house swayed, and the copper furnace carved with the beast was filled with red charcoal fire, burning the dozens of square houses like the warm sun shining on the spring day.
The snow outside the window has been falling for a day and a night, and looking through the lantern hanging under the porch, it seems that the entire capital has been covered with a layer of white white.
Su Yu entered the room with a cup of decoction that had been boiled until it was thick, looked at the person lying on the couch, put his steps to the lightest, got closer, and said softly: "Dream girl, your medicine is ready." ”
The person on the couch was still lying down, not getting up, listening to Su Yu put down the medicine cup, and when he turned his steps to leave, he turned over, coughed twice, looked at Su Yu and said, "I'm going to die, I'm dead, you are the top brand of this Ning Xiang Pavilion." ”
Su Yu paused, looked back at the girl with a sickly face on the bed, and felt a little pity in her heart, and said, "Maybe, you'll be fine." ”
The woman on the couch sat up slowly, her long ink-colored hair was scattered on her back in a mess, her face was a little sick and dead, and her eyebrows were raised when she coughed lightly, gathering a melancholy that could not be dissolved, like a red plum that had just bloomed and was broken off the branches.
This woman's name is Menghui, is the top brand of this Ning Xiang Pavilion, since she was a child, she was sold to this land of wind and moon by her parents, although she has also read poetry books, you can learn, even if she is full of poetry books, it is just to please men, this is her life when she entered this Ning Xiang Pavilion, she has already set.
And this dream is exactly the target that Su Yu wants to kill this time.
The reason why the rich man wanted her life was not because there was a lingering story between the two, but when he turned around, the rich man had her, and he didn't want to admit it, so he found Su Yu to kill people and kill people, but because this dream was repaid, and he was the person behind the scenes of the Ning Xiang Pavilion, the person who held it on the tip of his heart.
The person behind this scene is not small, it is the number one person in the eunuch mansion, Liang Hong Liang Gonggong, Liu Gonggong who wanted to kill Qingyun Village in Bian An, is this Liang Hong's minions.
It stands to reason that for the woman he likes, he is afraid that other men will be contaminated, but this Liang Gonggong has become a eunuch, and he likes to pay for dreams, which is a strange thing, but in the spirit of unpredictable love words, if he likes it, he likes it, it's nothing, but this Liang Gonggong just put the woman he likes in the Ning Xiang Pavilion, and he is the Fengyue guest who is ushered in, and he himself, sometimes he loves and cares, and he does not hesitate to pay everything he has for this dream girl, and sometimes he punches and kicks, and tortures the dream to the point that his body is incomplete.
In such uncertain days of yin and yang, and unpredictable moods, it is difficult to endure dreams, and I can't afford to get sick.
This incense pavilion is the place of the eyes and ears of the Liang father-in-law, there are many dark whistles around, and the dream of a girl who has no power to tie the chicken is also inescapable throughout her life. Over the years, there are also people who love her and want to spend a lot of money to redeem her, but the end of those people is just the end of the death and dispersion of wealth, and gradually, people have begun to avoid this dream girl.
At the beginning, Su Yu dressed up in disguise, and as the rich man found a good trafficker, he was "trafficked" into the Ning Xiang Pavilion, and the mother in charge looked at Su Yu and was overjoyed, but she still felt that Su Yu had a ruffian, so she asked her to start learning from serving people, and then read poetry and books, and be a sensible and obedient, gentle and charming girl.
On the night when she first came, Su Yu groped into the room where she dreamed, and had already pulled out her sword and was ready to end her life, but she saw her in the middle of the night, combing in front of the mirror with a candle in her hand, and after lighting a little vermilion on her lips, she picked up a peach wood hairpin on the table, looked at the sword shadow reflected in the mirror, and said indifferently: "You wait for me to don't put on this hairpin before you do it." ”
Su Yu hesitated for a moment, saw the dreaming girl looking in the mirror, pinned the hairpin in her hand in her hair, and then looked at her sickly appearance, smiled bitterly, and closed her eyes.
The sword in his hand did not fall, Su Yu got closer and asked towards Menghui, "Aren't you afraid?"
Dream smiled, even if he nodded his lips, he couldn't hide the paleness on his face.
"Who is not afraid of death? But now, I'm even more afraid of living. ”
Su Yu thought about the life of this dreaming girl, and felt a little pity in his heart, and comforted: "If you fight for power today, maybe one day the eunuch Liang dies, and your life will be better?" ”
was actually persuaded by an assassin who wanted to kill her, and Menghui couldn't help but smile, coughed a few times: "Even if you don't kill me, my body, I'm afraid I won't survive that day." Besides, even if I survive until that day, what good result can I have as a prostitute? After that, Menghui looked at the simple peach hairpin in the mirror and muttered: "I'm afraid that at that time, he will still take a few sips and scold me for dirty his eyes." ”
Su Yu listened, obviously felt that this dream was very weak breathing, listening to her desolate words, and then looking at the sword in his hand, Su Yu felt that it was always a little unbearable to kill this dream at this time. So quickly, he put the sword in his hand back into its sheath and turned to leave.
"Fish girl." Menghui turned around and looked at Su Yu, who was about to leave, and said, "Even if you are covered with a veil, I can recognize you, because your eyes make me unforgettable." ”
Su Yu turned around, simply pulled the black scarf covering his face, looked at the dream in front of him, and praised: "You can't do it, your eyes are not bad." ”
Menghui turned his face sideways, looked at himself in the mirror, and said quietly: "Because your eyes are similar to what I used to be." ”
Su Yu raised his eyes and looked into the mirror, and sure enough, this Menghui's eyes were so slightly similar to her, especially among them, there was a sense of stubbornness that was born with it, but at this time, most of Menghui's eyes were withered and decadent, while Su Yu was shrewd and smart.
The air was quiet for a moment, and Meng Hui looked at Su Yu and said suddenly: "If I die, you will definitely be the next me." ”
"How so?"
Menghui twisted his pen and traced it on his eyebrows a few times, "When you see him, you'll know." ”
Su Yu saw that this dream was terminally ill, and he was still arrogant, and sneered: "I don't know what will happen to me in the future, but I see that you are dying of illness, it's true!" ”
"Yes! That's not, and it saves you a lot of hands. ”
Su Yu shook his head, "Your death from illness is not the same as me killing you, the meaning is different, I can keep you alive for a few more days, and when you are about to die, I will make up for a sword." ”
The spirit leader of the dream began to slowly retreat, and sneered: "You're not afraid that I will tell you the secret?" ”
Su Yu went over, sat on the dressing table with the sword in his arms, looked at her with lowered eyes, raised his eyebrows and said: "You have a request for me, I won't tell you, besides, you are going to die, and it is not good for you to tell the truth." ”
The smile on the corner of Menghui's lips gradually sank, and he looked at Su Yu and said, "How do you know that I have something to ask you?" ”
Su Yu stretched out his hand, took off the peach wood hairpin on Menghui's head very quickly, played with it a few times in his hand, and said: "When I entered the door, I saw you sighing at this hairpin, and when I saw me coming in, I hurriedly pinned it on my head, and when I collected my killing intent on you, you carefully touched it a few times from time to time, and when I looked at me, my eyes were unsteady and I wanted to speak, this hairpin is just a piece of peach wood, and the workmanship is quite average, compared to the gold and jade jewelry on your dressing table, it is more than a star and a half, you care about it so much, But do you want me to take this hairpin to its original owner after you die? ”
While speaking, Su Yu saw the dreamy expression, and gradually collected all the joy and anger, and then looked at the hairpin in Su Yu's hand in a daze, a pair of eyes slowly overflowed with tears, the tears just came out of the eyes, and hurriedly reached out to wipe them away, nodded, and said a little weakly: "Sort of." ”
Su Yu has always been soft-hearted, and he can't bear to kill another dying person, so he only put the hairpin in his hand in his arms, stood up from the dressing table, and took two steps out before saying: "I should go down, in return, you can let me know when you are about to lose your breath, I will give you a good time!" ”
Menghui smiled bitterly, "It seems that I still have to thank you." ”
Su Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, "You're welcome!" ”
After this night, there was such a strange agreement between Su Yu and Menghui.
Menghui knew that although Su Yu had a hard mouth, she also had soft intentions towards her, so she told Su Yu intentionally or unintentionally that if she wanted to escape one day, which route would be the most suitable route to take, this route was a road that she had planned for many years and failed to embark on, and now it was all given to Su Yu.
Su Yu still stayed in the Ning Xiang Pavilion for the time being, squatting in the kitchen from time to time, boiling a bowl of increasingly thick decoction for the dream, just waiting for her to be hopeless and dead.
And the real intention of Zeng Dacai to kill this dream, Su Yu can probably guess a few points, nine times out of ten, it is that Zeng Da Cai's wings are gradually hardening, or he is the dragon and phoenix among people, and he doesn't want to be the puppet of his righteous father Wei Tong anymore, and wants to get out of the sea of suffering.
But if you want to control Wei Tong, the rich man himself will be hard, but he will hit the stone with an egg, so the rich man plans to use that provocative strategy to kill enough to compete with Wei Tong, Liang Gonggong's heart, and then blame Wei Tong, let them bite the wild dogs, so that he can sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman. Even if this dream is repaid, it is not the person that Liang Gonggong really cares about, but since ancient times, not for feelings, for the sake of face, then Liang Hong will also go to Wei Tong to ask for an explanation, so this plan is beneficial and harmless to the rich man.
As for why he used her again, Su Yu speculated, but it was because the rich man was not sure if there were any spies sent by his father-in-law, but at least he was sure that she Su Yu was definitely not, and it happened that Su Yu was a woman again, and it was much easier than others to blend into this Ning Xiang Pavilion.
In fact, Su Yu was also worried, would she know too much, after the smiling tiger of the rich man Zeng used her, he would kill her like a defeated and abandoned son, but think about it, with the connections of the rich man, it is easier to find the traces of the scholar Zhulin, rather than her aimlessly looking in the vast sea of people, it is better to gamble, believe in the rich man once, and leave her Su Yu Su Daxia is smart and witty and martial arts.