Chapter 31: The Murder Knife Falls into the Brocade Robe (1)
Cloudy moon, sparse stars, long streets, cold lights.
Obviously, it was still the same scenery as before, but Xia Mu felt a sense of desolation.
When he returned home, it was already midnight, and he originally thought that Luo Kedi and Ah Sang had already slept, but who knew that he had just entered the door, but saw the two sitting under the big mulberry tree in the courtyard.
Seeing Xia Mu coming back, Ah Sang hurriedly took the coat in his hand, and sent the ginger soup that had been heated for I don't know how many times, and when Xia Mu drank the ginger soup, he handed over a hot towel and let Xia Mu wipe his sweat.
Xia Mu smiled, looking at Ah San's gentle appearance, only to see that she looked particularly soft and tranquil under the dimming of the candle flame at the moment, like a white rose stained with blood, pure and charming.
Xia Muzhen hopes that he will be like this for the rest of his life.
keep her at peace all her life, lest she be displaced;
Bless her to grow up happy, so that she will not be helpless.
"Ahsan, tomorrow you can go buy some red candles and have a wine banquet." Xia Mu handed over the remaining fifty taels of silver to Ah San, "I will marry Xiyi the day after tomorrow." ”
Hearing this, Ah San's hand that took the silver stiffened, his expression was a little unnatural, and he forced a smile: "Young master, young master is finally going to get married." ”
Luo Kedi was also happy, but he looked at Yang Wan's old mansion and made a difficulty: "Brother, do we want to live in Brother Yang's house forever, it was good to say before, but now that Brother has become a family, something is wrong." ”
Xia Mu also knows, but the land in Sijiu City is expensive, how much does a house cost! He didn't have much money, so he could only take one step at a time.
Ah Sang put away the silver, looking a little distracted: Maybe the young master and his wife will have a long life. They will definitely be in Chang'an for the rest of their lives......
Xia Mu only felt sore, so he asked Ah Sang to make a cup of tea and send it to his room.
Ah San's eyes were a little red, she liked Xia Mu in her heart, but after all, she was born in a Qinglou, she wanted to do this for a lifetime, but it seems that this is not a long-term solution.
Looking at the reflection of the clear water in the palm of the tea cup like a candlelight, the scenes of these days flashed in front of me. Walked into Xia Mu's room with his thoughts and closed the door.
"The door is open." Xia Mu didn't raise his head, and said indifferently, "I don't know why it's a little boring tonight." ”
The moon after the rain sprinkled the brilliance of Qing Lingling and shone into the west window, but Ah Sang fell unsteadily in Xia Mu's arms.
Ah Sang couldn't control the sadness in his heart anymore, hugged Xia Mu's body tightly, and cried: "Young master, you want me, Ah Sang likes you." ”
Xia Mu looked at Ah San's red and tender lips, only to feel an evil fire rising in his heart, he poured a sip of tea, suppressed the anger, helped Ah Sang up, and said with some seriousness: "Ah Sang, people's hearts are too small, and one person's heart can only accommodate one person." Do you understand? ”
Ahsan raised his eyes with tears on his face: "So, I can't get in, right?" ”
Xia Mu didn't answer, but said, "It's late, let's go back." ”
Such an answer hurts more than telling her that there can't be her in her heart.
On this night, there were few stars and a slight cool breeze.
The young master said that people's hearts are too small, and only one person can be accommodated in a person's heart.
She doesn't understand, people's hearts are small, and it is difficult to tolerate two people. But she knew that Xia Mu had already settled in her heart, deeply rooted, and it was difficult to pull it out.
He is her obsession, she can't forget it, she can't let it go, if she can easily let it go, what is it called an obsession.
In fact, Xia Mu didn't dislike Ah San, but if Ah Sang was allowed to enter the door at this time, what would Xu Xiyi think, and what would Xu Jie think?
On the second day, the morning light appeared faintly, and the eyes were all fiery red, and the entire Sijiu City seemed to be dyed with a touch of fiery red.
Xia Mu put on a flying fish suit, equipped with an embroidered spring knife, and took Luo Kedi to take office for the first time.
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The Southeast Governor's Office.
In the past few days, the southeast governor stationed on Qingyuan Street has been heavily guarded by the Jinyi guard.
But the governor's mansion was in chaos.
At this time, the hall and the corridor, the inside and outside of the house, the east and the west, and the picks were full of scattered objects, Hu Zongxian never dreamed that he would be dismissed, and he was angry, irritable, depressed, and frightened for a while, and he had everything in his heart, but he had no choice but to order his own soldiers and guards to quickly pack up and pack up the softness, and when Tan Lun took over, he would pat his ass and walk.
And Hu Zongxian, in addition to being greedy for money, is also lustful.
It's the kind of horn that "people die under flowers, and ghosts are also romantic".
Originally, when he set out from the southeast to supervise the battle on the front line of the anti-Japanese war, he brought two concubines, and later when he went to Guilin to visit the Li River, he took a concubine with him.
When he really became the governor of the southeast, he felt that the hairstyle of the local women pulling their hair to the side and twisting it in a big bun was particularly beautiful, so he used military music to blow and beat the daughter of a puppet actor to marry the daughter of a puppet actor into the big tent of the Chinese army.
This southeast governor's mansion was originally a place in the middle of Zhejiang's two Guangzhous, and the peeing on the street flowed to the end of the street and then flowed out of the city, and it was a big place.
Therefore, the people with faces on the street are nothing more than silversmiths who make jewelry, and there is no joy in painting bridges and admiring the moon in the smoke and willows. But after Hu Zongxian came, no one knew that the governor of their small place had a four-room concubine and was a merry general.
It was three years ago when he became the governor of the southeast, and he let the four mothers-in-law accompany him to amuse and relieve his boredom every day, which echoed the two poems of the Tang Dynasty poet Gao Shi: The soldiers are half dead in front of the army, and the beauties are still singing and dancing.
Spring goes to autumn and time flies, and it is three years in the snap of a finger. There are only a few Japanese robbers led by Wang Zhi and Xu Hai left, and seeing that the southeast Japanese rebellion has subsided, he is also ready to write to the imperial court to ask for merit, but suddenly overnight, the coastal Japanese invaded in a big way, and actually let the state capital Xinghua fall, and ten miles of lotus flowers were stained with blood!
But it was fine, but there was a descendant named Xia Mu, who actually wanted to avenge Ouyang Shen who died in battle, and suddenly got in front of the saint, and actually made Zhao Wenhua fall behind, but why didn't the news of Zhao Wenhua's martyrdom in the southeast reach the capital?
When the news of Zhao Wenhua's death came that day, he knew that his backstage was over, but it was over, who would have thought that because of a dead man's ledger, a strong wind blew in Gyeonggi.
On this day, Hu Zongxian was supervising the two masters in the duty room to clean up the official documents, which should be handed over, which should be burned, and which should be taken away, he had to decide one by one.
Some documents are rarely turned over as soon as they are put on the shelves and into the drawer, and now they are full of dust and insect feces.
But just when Hu Zongxian was upset, he suddenly heard a woman in the yard howl like a pig: "Goddamn cheap loan, you dare to bully me, don't you just rely on the old man likes your fat ass, do you dare to be so presumptuous." ”
"What about you, a bitche, coquettish all day long, and what a good thing." The other woman's sharp voice was unrelenting.
Hu Zongxian suddenly changed color, and ran out of the door, but he tripped over the threshold in a panic and almost fell.
Fortunately, the guards guarding the door were quick and quickly stepped forward to grab it, so as not to fall and gnaw on the mud.
"What a system! What kind of system have you become! ”
As soon as Hu Zongxian stood firm, he scolded the two women who were arguing.
Hu Zongxian was already upset because of his dismissal, and at this time, he scolded from his head, so frightened that the women didn't dare to speak: "You are so bold, you dare to cry in the heavy military plane, what are you arguing about?" Say, why the noise? ”
The two women, one standing and biting her lip, the other sitting and wiping her tears, did not answer.
"Are you deaf and dumb?" Hu Zongxian spat and flew wildly, then looked around, and called his housekeeper, "Lao Li? ”
"Master, the little one is here." The old butler came out from behind a pile of high-stacked luggage.
"Why are they arguing?" Hu Zongxian asked angrily.
The old housekeeper muttered the reason for the matter: it turned out that after receiving the documents from Tongzhou today, he began to arrange for people to pack up his furniture and luggage according to Hu Zongxian's instructions.
It's just that these four aunts and wives each have a lot of things, and they are reluctant to throw away any of them. Cleaned up, and the inner courtyard was piled to the brim. From the southeast, they all circle the mountain road, and the transportation of the load depends on the horses.
The old butler made a rough count of the bundles that had been gathered, and it was about fifty horses to carry them. He told Hu Zongxian. As soon as Hu Zongxian heard this, he repaid it, if he really let the family property of fifty horses enter Beijing, his crime of corruption would be completely implemented, and the entire Beijing Science and Technology Officials drowned themselves with a mouthful of saliva, so he instructed the housekeeper to compress it to ten packs.
The old housekeeper had no choice but to persuade the four aunts and wives one by one to remove some of the items that were not very important.
The eldest aunt and the third aunt were too good to clear up, but the second aunt and the fourth aunt didn't do it.
As soon as the fourth aunt heard this, she immediately rushed over, and threw the second aunt who was guarding the luggage to the ground too violently, slapped her with a big mouth, and slammed her to the ground.
This governor is next to the Jinyi Weiqian General Guard, and the place is cramped. The front yard is an office, the back yard is an official house, and the two courtyards add up to only about 30 houses.
The aunts and wives live in the backyard, and they still talk about some rules on weekdays and don't come to the front yard to stir up.
Now that they have moved, their belongings have been moved to a slightly larger front yard, and they have come here to take inventory. As the saying goes, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, and now the two aunts and wives are fighting for luggage in front of so many lower-level subordinates of the military academy Jinyiwei, and Hu Zongxian can't hold his face.
At this moment, Yang Qian came in with Jinyiwei, in fact, he had already been outside to see the jokes.
Hu Zongxian saw Yang Qian, the envoy of the Jinyi Guard, his face twitched, but he smiled awkwardly: "Let Lord Yang laugh." ”
"Master Hu, it's not too early, I think we should enter Beijing tomorrow. I'm just here to remind the adults to arrange the funeral, this time to Beijing, but there is a lot of bad luck, and if you can bring these belongings, you won't bring it! ”
"Lord Yang is right." Hu Zongxian said, instructing the hall to prepare tea.
The three of them sat down in the duty room, and after drinking tea for a while, Hu Zongxian said: "As the saying goes, a hairy phoenix is not as good as a chicken, and now I have become a hairy phoenix, the two of you have been friends with me for many years, and you also know that I, Hu Zongxian, am a single-minded fighter against the Japanese, but the two of you also know the situation in the imperial court, and my difficulties ......."
Xue Cheng was honest by nature, and when he saw Hu Zongxian's sadness, he hurriedly comforted: "Lord Hu, don't be too sad, Zhao Wenhua is dead, how to sentence this corruption crime depends on how the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Criminal Department will try it, and you can't say if your lord is fine." ”
"Brother Xue is right." Hu Zongxian laughed dryly twice, and then stopped talking.
It's just that Hu Zongxian knows his own affairs, although he said that the responsibility for the fall of Xinghua was pushed to Yu Daxuan, but Zhao Wenhua's case was really difficult to escape the responsibility, and he couldn't help but think of his staff Xu Wei, so he hurriedly sent someone to invite him to discuss countermeasures.
PS: New book period, kneel and beg for support. The results are so cold, Xiaocao may be going to ask for food, and he doesn't even have the Internet fee, woo......