Chapter 30 of the second volume
PS: Providence does not deceive
Mei Hong heard the knock on the door, thinking that Chen Song was back, so she didn't care about calling the maid, she put a short jacket on her nightgown, pulled her shoes, carried a lantern, and ran to open the door with a spring breeze on her face.
The moment I opened the door, I almost scared to death.
A woman with her hair scattered and her face pale rushed in, like a female ghost coming to the door. Mei Hong's hand went soft and almost threw the lantern away, but almost at the same time she recognized it as Ziyun. The latter stumbled with the cold wind, and without waiting for Mei Hong to make a move, he turned around and tied the door first, and hurriedly pulled Mei Hong to the house.
It wasn't until under the light that Mei Hong saw clearly: Ziyun's clothes and hands were covered with dirt, and there was blood everywhere!
All she had left was to look straight at her, unable to utter a word. Ziyun squeezed out a miserable smile on his face, and said Sister, don't patronize it, make me a basin of water to wash.
At this time, Mei Hong heard the sound of Suo Suo getting dressed and lighting the lamp in the maid's room, it should be the little girl who heard the sound and remembered to take a look. Hurry up and go over and say you go to sleep, a sister came to spend the night, and they all slept at once. The maid answered and lay down.
Ziyun washed his hands and face, changed into the clean clothes Mei Hong brought, drank a bowl of hot tea, and looked a little better.
Mei Hong dared to ask:
"Sister, what's wrong with you?"
Ziyun didn't answer, and grabbed Mei Hong's hand:
"Sister, I'm sorry for you!"
After saying that, tears rolled down.
Mei Hong didn't turn elsewhere at all, and immediately thought that her identity was exposed. Since she saw Ziyun at Guo Xu's house, this has always been her heart disease. Although she had repeatedly told Ziyun to keep her mouth shut on the first night of meeting, she didn't expect the latter to bring the secret to the grave. I just hope that she can cover it for as long as possible, so that she can give birth to the child. The woman spoke. It's to say, not to your girlfriends. That is to say, for the good friend, or for the parents, if there is something in the heart and there is no one to complain, it is to hold back the illness. Although Ziyun and her had the fate of the same palace minister, they were actually not even nodding friends at that time; Later, in Guo Xu's house, she was also considered to have stirred a spoon in a pot, but she was more in love with Xiao Qiao, and Ziyun was not a sister with deep affection, she couldn't ask others to bear their own lives.
At this moment, I heard the phrase "I'm sorry". The heart instantly fell into her stomach, and she involuntarily glanced at Xiao Chang'an's sleeping bedroom, thinking that this little life was about to usher in a catastrophe, and then thinking that her lover Chen Song was about to suffer shame due to the truth coming out, and her heart was full of sorrow and rushed up her nose like a tide, and her eyes flowed out like a dike.
Ziyun tried to grab Mei Hong's hand, but the latter gently but firmly dodged it, an action that made Ziyun want to die on the corner of the table immediately. On the way here, I have scolded myself countless times in my heart:
You're not angry that a madman wants to hurt someone. It's that he will turn his back on you!
If you hadn't told the secret story, there would have been such a human tragedy that stabbed your husband!
You are the initiator of this qiฤ, and you are the scourge of the waters!
People say that the most poisonous woman's heart is you!
God sees through your heart. I also saw through the heart of a madman, so I borrowed your own hand to kill him, this is a bad guy killing a bad guy!
You're hurting yourself!
In the end, she confessed: I have created a sin. I'll pay it back!
If a person wishes, he can pay off a qiฤ debt.
Even if you are destitute or have nothing to offer. There is also the last capital given by God.
Looking at Mei Hong's sad expression, I thought of the madman dying. The most dangerous crisis of Chen Song and Guo Xu has passed, and Xiao Chang'an and Xiao Xi can still continue to sleep peacefully in their infancy, and they can't help but secretly thank this qiฤ for disappearing silently, even if the price is that God used her to plug the breach:
"Sister, don't worry, the person who knows your secret, I have already killed him!"
The words were very light, but to Mei Hong's ears, it was like a thunderbolt. She turned her face and looked at Ziyun in amazement. Seeing the blood on Ziyun's clothes just now, she made all kinds of conjectures, but she didn't dare to think that this weak woman would kill:
"Who did you kill?"
Ziyun finally couldn't hold it anymore and threw herself into Mei Hong's arms:
"Crazy, it's crazy, I'll kill the crazy!"
Her first voice was very loud, Mei Hong was afraid that her crying would wake up the maid, and she was even more afraid that the maid would not come out but eavesdrop on the door, so she hurriedly reached out to cover Ziyun's mouth. At the same time, I was shocked by the news and my hair stood on end. She didn't know what to do, so she could only subconsciously hold Ziyun in her arms, stroke her back with one hand, and say in a loud voice that she is not afraid, Ziyun is not afraid, my sister is here.
Ziyun cried and trembled, buried her mouth in Mei Hong's chest, and said a lot incoherently. Mei Hong couldn't hear it all, but she roughly understood what was going on, and knew that Ziyun was actually a disaster, so she hated, pity, feared and shocked for a while, and finally pushed Ziyun away, sat on the Hu bed in a daze, and let Ziyun collapse on the ground.
Ziyun cried, and said everything in his heart, and felt a lot lighter in his heart. The madman is dead, except for her and the Qingyu of Guo Xu's family, no one can shoot a dark arrow at Mei Hong, and she will never leave herself a chance to do evil like this. Before I wrap up, there is one more important thing to say:
"Sister, I know you hate me, you are killing me now, drowning me in a dung pit, and I will not complain! I killed my sister and my husband, and I was innocent. But you have more pressing things to do. Brother Chen Song and Brother Guo Xu were arrested a few days ago and are now locked up in the Assassin's Mansion. Sister Xiaoqiao can speak in front of Liu Yizhen, you hurry up and let her find a way, I'm afraid that if it drags on any longer, she will have a lot of dreams. โ
This thunder almost knocked Mei Hong down.
This month, she missed Chen Song day and night. Every night, before going to bed, he would write a text message to Chen Song, and he would not send it, but carefully hid it in a box. She would wait for him to come back, and then lie in his arms and read a fief to him. In the first letter, she faintly told him: My heart has been given to you a long time ago, and now my body is ready. For more than a month, she pricked up her ears every day to listen to the sound outside the gate, waiting for the sound of horses' hooves, the sound of boots stepping on the steps, and the sound of the knocker knocking crisply. From time to time, she would secretly scold Chen Song in her heart: How busy can a ruthless dead thing be? How far can it be? You can't steal a day or two. Will you come back and see me? Then he will secretly scold himself in his heart: a dead woman who is ignorant, and a man who is outside the world. Can it be delayed? Your man is a great general, and you have to pray for his victory. Don't always hold him down with caution. When feeding Xiao Chang'an or coaxing him to sleep, she will think that the next child is her and Chen Song's, and by the time this little guy is born, Xiao Chang'an can already run around; When it's time for his younger brother to run around, Xiao Changan can take him to play. Thinking about it, she laughs.
More than a month is a long time, and I don't know how long I will wait next, I heard that in winter, the Han people do not stretch. The Huns were very unscrupulous, and they were afraid that the war would start and they would have to last until the spring and summer of the next year before they could stop their troops.
She never expected that Chen Song would be in Chang'an, three miles away from her, and she didn't expect that he was already a prisoner. Thinking of the torture and abuse that the prisoners might encounter, and then speculating on the unpredictable future of life and death of Chen Guo and the others, I shuddered and burst into tears.
Ziyun was also not comforted. Stand up and walk to the door:
"Sister, don't be like this, no one can help you now, only on your own. It's almost dawn. You have to hurry up and find Sister Xiaoqiao! โ
Mei Hong immediately suppressed her voice, and watched in a daze as Ziyun pushed open the door and stepped over the threshold with one foot:
"Where are you going?"
Ziyun maintained the appearance of one foot outside and one foot inside:
"Where else can I go? I want to go home. The madman is waiting for me to go on the road with me. โ
This voice made Mei Hong creepy. She followed to the door in a daze, watching the purple clouds flutter through the moonlit courtyard. Sleepwalking open the courtyard door. She felt that she would never forget the smile that Ziyun looked back at before she went out in her life. This smile seems to have instantly resolved the grievances between her and Mei Hong. also instantly restored her to the scheming little girl when they first met.
Mei Hongkue sat for a while, and suddenly realized that this moment was the emptiest time on the long street, and Ziyun went back alone, what if she met a gangster. Quickly got up and went to the door, wanting to chase Ziyun back, but when she got to the outside of the courtyard, the street was empty, and Ziyun's shadow could no longer be seen, she had never been to the madman's house, she didn't know which direction to chase, and she didn't dare to chase alone, she hesitated for a while in the cold wind and retreated to the yard.
Finally stayed up until the sun rose, urinated and fed Xiao Chang'an, found the little cotton quilt tightly wrapped, ate two bites in a hurry, and told the maid to call a car on the street, leaving her to take care of the house, and taking the child to find Xiaoqiao by bicycle. She sorted out her thoughts on the way, determined to identify herself to Xiaoqiao, otherwise how could she sort out this bloody mess?
So the first thing she said when she saw Xiaoqiao was:
"Miss Sun, I'm sorry I have been hiding from you for so long, I am not surnamed Mei, my name is Xue Mei'er, I am the palace maid of Emperor Yao Hong of Great Qin, this child is his own flesh and blood!"
Xiao Qiao is like listening to the myth of Zhiwei. She wanted to say don't play tricks on me, if you are really Yao Hong's woman, how can you get mixed up with Chen Song, he and Guo Xu are the people who broke Yao Hong. But looking at Mei Hong's expression, listening to his tone, and then looking at this situation of suddenly coming to the door early in the morning, I don't feel like I'm joking.
But this kind of coincidence is too cruel!
Chen Song, a first-class general of the Beifu Army, took the position of a vanguard, broke the enemy in the battle at Yaoguan and defeated Yao Hong's pro-conquest division; Guo Xu, on the other hand, fought against the water, swallowed the defenders of Chang'an in the first battle of Weiqiao, and let Yao Hong return to the palace alone. Such two nemesis of Yao Qin, one took in Yao Hong's woman, and the other married this woman, and they worked hard to destroy an enemy country, it seems that they are just to save enough opportunities to raise the blood and blood of the enemy emperor, and continue his existence after his severed head.
Mei Hong ignored her shock and said that there is something more important than this now, you need to hurry to the Assassin's Mansion to see Liu Yizhen, otherwise your man and my man may not be able to keep it.
After listening to Mei Hong's relays of Ziyun in full, Xiao Qiao was first shocked, then angry, then sad and anxious, and finally calmed down. She thought that marrying Guo Xu would be the end of her bad luck, but she expected that only a year after the good days, her husband would have this catastrophe, and it was likely that he would never recover.
Her life was given by Guo Xu, and her happiness was also given by Guo Xu, and now she needs to repay him, although it doesn't matter if the husband and wife repay him.
Without saying a word, he immediately asked Mei Hong to take care of Xiao Xidu. Sue her that if she doesn't come back by dark, she will never come back. At that time, please ask Mei Hong and Qingyu to bring their two children, find a place to hide and wait for the last news. Mei Hong wanted to cry without tears. I want to follow, but I'm afraid that there will be more branches. On the contrary, it hurt Chen Song, so he could only say goodbye to Xiao Qiao silently, and saw the latter wearing the grand dress he wore on the day of marriage, as if he had boarded a luxurious carriage called by Qingyu, sitting in a precarious position, without squinting, and went straight to the Assassin's Mansion.
The Thorn Mansion has become a mess.
The patrol found someone dead on the street, lifted the clothes covering his face, and found that it was Feng Zizhang, the governor of the Assassin's Mansion. They don't know how to investigate crimes. Not knowing that this situation should be reported to the officials of Facao, he hurriedly carried the body of the madman to the Assassin's Mansion. Liu Yizhen hadn't gotten up yet, and when he heard from his own soldiers that the madman died on the street, he was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he thought it was the assassin of Great Xia who did it. He glanced at the corpse from a distance, and did not dare to go to it to take a closer look, lest he would have nightmares at night.
When Facao's men arrived, they carefully examined the wound and found that the murder weapon was a hairpin with a blade. He found a few long hairs in the madman's hands, examined the clothes and accessories in the bag under the madman's head, and concluded that the murderer was a woman. The madman was a soldier and carried a sword with him. It was so unbelievable that he could die at the hands of a woman, so much so that they suspected that a madman was going to rob a woman with luggage. As a result, he was stabbed to death in the dogfight.
Although Liu Yizhen has little experience, his talent is not low. After hearing this explanation, he shook his head again and again. The madman may have all kinds of problems, but he has been in the Beifu army for many years. It is possible not to disturb the people, and there has never been a record in this regard. He is now the owner of the building, working in the Assassin's Mansion, and the money is enough to support his family, and the rewards are also very rich, so he can't make a small amount of money by robbing. In the middle of the night, in the middle of the night, the madman takes leave and comes home, why don't you stay at home and run out into the street? What kind of woman, what kind of thing has she done, would entangle with a madman on the street? If it were ordinary, Liu Yizhen would think that maybe it was a girl from a brothel, but firstly, the madman was generous to the prostitutes and never competed with them, and secondly, the madman went home last night, and he had a newlywed lady at home, and the madman would not go to the Qinglou under the banner of going home.
There was an old official Zuo beside him who said that the owner of Feng was gone, so he had to go and sue the sรน family first. The man sent soon returned, bringing another shocking news:
Ziyun, the madman's wife, hanged herself.
As soon as Fa Cao's people heard the news, they already suspected that Ziyun should be the murderer of the madman. When I went to the house and asked the maid, the latter said that in the middle of the night, the lady went out with the baggage, and the owner chased them out, and I didn't see them come back for a long time. After daybreak, Madame came back alone, without saying a word, and locked herself in the house. The maid thought she was going to catch up on sleep, so she didn't bother. By the time she and the people from the Thorn Mansion slammed open the door and entered, Ziyun had been out of breath for more than two hours, and the room was filled with the pungent smell left by last-minute incontinence. Facao's people took out the baggage and asked the maid to see it, proving that it was indeed Ziyun's thing; Then let her see the murder weapon, and the maid said that this was also the hostess.
There were several businesses not far from the madman's death, and when Facao officials came to question them, they admitted that they heard the shouts for help from the beating students and women in the middle of the night, but they did not dare to go out.
At this point, Fa Cao can already close the case: Feng Zizhang, the governor of the Assassin's Mansion, Feng Xuan, and his wife don't know why they had a dispute, Mrs. ran away from home, her husband went out to chase, and she made a big move halfway, and Mrs. killed her husband by mistake, and finally committed suicide in fear of crime.
Liu Yizhen was waiting for the Fa Cao official to return to his life in the mansion, and his own soldiers ran in with a smoke, saying that Guo Xu, Guo Jun's wife, had broken in.
Liu Yizhen had a ghost in his heart, and when he heard that Xiaoqiao was coming, his head buzzed loudly, and he said why didn't he stop it. The soldiers said that the door was blocked, but the lady raised her hand and slapped her, and pulled out the sword in the captain's waist, saying that whoever stopped her would cut whom, and after the cut, she went to Jiangdong to find Song Gong to surrender.
Liu Yizhen couldn't deal with Xiaoqiao by himself, so he asked someone to hurry up and call Mao Xiuzhi. Before the words fell, Xiao Qiao had already broken into the back hall proudly, threw the sword to the ground with a loud bang, and knelt in front of Liu Yizhen:
"Lord Assassin Shi, the prisoner Sun Qiao turned herself in, please assassinate Shi according to the method of joint sitting, and put the prisoner on death row!"
Liu Yizhen is a child after all, where have he seen this kind of formation, his face turned red, and while reaching out to help, he said hesitantly, sister, what nonsense are you talking about? How could you be a prisoner!
Xiao Qiao said Since the assassin said that I am not a prisoner, can I think that you admit that my husband Guo Xu is not a prisoner?
Liu Yizhen was silent, eager to find someone to help, but the people around him knew that Liu Yu took Xiaoqiao as his righteous daughter, so at this time it was close to a family dispute, and they didn't please left and right, so they simply hid away.
Xiaoqiao said, please stab Shi Ming: My husband Guo Xu. And what crime did Chen Song and Deputy Chen Jun commit to deceive back from the front line and be secretly imprisoned? He was really guilty. When the canonical punishment is clear, it will be made public. Kill when you should kill, do hard labor when you should do hard labor, no one says a word. What's going on with arresting people in private like this, and hiding them without seeing the light of day?
As soon as Liu Yizhen heard this, he knew that the paper could no longer contain the fire, but he couldn't answer Xiaoqiao's question, so he could only laugh and say that it was not to punish the crime, but to ask them to come back and clarify some rumors.
Xiaoqiao said, what are the rumors?
Maniac and Purple Cloud. Shut his mouth forever, and now he has the ability to betray Chen Song, only Qingyu is left. But since Liu Yizhen doesn't even have any clues, it is impossible to touch Qingyu, and Qingyu has no need to denounce Chen Song on the charge of "knowing nothing", not to mention that she and Guo Xu and his wife are in the same family. In this way, Xiaoqiao knew that Liu Yizhen had no charges at all.
Liu Yizhen secretly complained here. He knew from his heart that Wang Xiu was not writing the secret letter out of selfishness, and he was definitely not trying to seize power. also knew that it was precisely because of his acquiescence that Mao Xiuzhi dared to attack Wang Xiu. Wang Xiu's death. You have to have a reasonable reason to get past your father's level. Originally, I was counting on the madman to come up with some hard evidence to accuse Chen Song and Guo Xu, so as to prove that the secret letter is not what it seems, and the small cabal is its origin. But now this unlucky ghost died inexplicably at the hands of his wife, making the history of this assassination unfounded.
Xiao Qiao saw that he was hesitant, but struck while the iron was hot. said that the history of assassination must not listen to the villain's slander, Chen Song and Guo Xu are loyal. Fighting a war is ten thousand enemies, and you don't cherish such people. If you are in a hurry, who will give you your life?
Liu Yizhen hadn't spoken yet, and Mao Xiuzhi came in from outside with a sneer.
"Mrs. Guo said who is the villain?"
Xiao Qiao refused to kneel in front of this person, got up slowly, didn't look at him, and only stared at Liu Yizhen's eyes:
"Who is the villain in this mansion, Thorn Shi and Master Sima should know better than me as an outsider. If there is no villain, how can a good person die one after another? There is Wang Zhen evil in the front, and Wang Xiu in the back, whoever has the greatest credit will die and have no place to be buried! If the internal friction continues like this, everything that can be fought will be killed by his own people, and in the future, I am afraid that the villain himself will not have a good end! โ
Mao Xiuzhi has never met with Xiaoqiao, and when they met for the first time today, they only felt that she was glamorous, dazzling in gorgeous clothes, but she was also aggressive when she spoke. I don't know Xiaoqiao's family background, but I vaguely feel that it is not Xiaojia Jasper. If you meet the beckon, it seems that you have taken the initiative to claim the villain's hat. Cough twice to hide embarrassment:
"Madame, don't get excited, some things are not as simple as your women think."
Xiao Qiao smiled slightly;
"I really don't understand the militaristic plan that Mao Sima said. My husband Guo Xu is a blacksmith, and I guess I don't understand. I only know that he is not afraid of death and dares to fight hard. Along the way of the Northern Expedition, he defeated the Xianbei people on the Yellow River, the Qiang people on the Wei River, and the Huns at Chiyang. Not to mention, in the battle of Chiyang, he led the team to lure the enemy, and almost folded in the encirclement of the Huns! If it weren't for his outstanding achievements and invincibility, how could Song Gong promote him all the way, first let him skip from the team leader to the head of the building, and then let him become a military deputy at a young age? Song Gong's commendation has not fallen, he has fallen into his own prison, who will be convinced if he says it? The framed people who lie in the government office rush to the battlefield, those who have no military merits are framed and those who have military merits, when did the soldiers of Beifu become like this, there is no right and wrong, and there is no royal law! Guo Xu and Chen Song are both Song Gong's favorite generals, Song Gong deliberately stayed to protect the righteous and true assassination history, some people fabricated charges to frame them, I don't know if it is really for the sake of the assassination history or to ruin his future! โ
Mao Xiuzhi's face was pale, and he held back his anger. He can be designated by Liu Yu as the Sima of the Assassin Mansion and take over Wang Zhenxi's mess, and the blind can see that he is not an ordinary bird, but now in the mouth of this woman, he has become a shameless and incompetent scumbag who can only be jealous of the virtuous, blind, and deliberately harm his colleagues. His own thoughts of harming Wang Xiu and framing Chen Song and Guo Xu are certainly unsightly, but if he is really reprimanded in person, it will be a great shame. But he also knew that this woman was covered by Liu Yu, and Liu Yizhen had to politely call her sister, he couldn't fight with her, otherwise he would have the upper hand and win, and it would be even more ridiculous if he lost. Looking at Liu Yizhen at this moment, he lowered his head and pretended to be dumb, without the slightest intention of helping, and he was angry to death.
Although Xiaoqiao's words are sharp, no matter how powerful her tongue is, she can't open the prison door, so she thought about it and simply broke the boat:
"I've said everything I have to say, I don't want to waste my time here, please put me in prison with my husband, and I will take care of him. If the assassin really wants to kill him, please kill me together, live with him, die with the same hole, Sun Qiao is as willing as a child! โ
Liu Yizhen hesitated.
Wang Xiu died, the madman followed him to return to heaven, and he was busy for a long time, two corpses, Chen Song and Guo Xu's affairs didn't know how to end. He has already had the idea of retreating, but if he is released like this, he can't find a dignified explanation, and he will hurt the face of the assassin Shifu, and he will never be able to speak in the future. peeked at Mao Xiu, who retreated in spite of the difficulty, don't pretend to be stupid; Look at Xiaoqiao again, the powder is like ice, not angry but mighty. I just wanted to say that my sister would go back first, but I asked them in person and let them go, when I suddenly heard a commotion outside the door, the sound of human bodies smashing on the ground one after another, and the soldiers were in a clamor and screaming.
Mao Xiuzhi went out to see that a tall and mighty man like a god was wearing a helmet and armor, cowhide boots creaked, and strode towards the inner hall, picking up the soldiers blocking the road and throwing them on the ground as he walked, scolding and saying that Lao Tzu didn't have such a hard time seeing Song Gong! It's only been a few days since I came back, and there are so many blind turtle kings in the Thorn Mansion.
This is the person with the highest military rank, the thickest military achievements, the oldest seniority, and the greatest strength in Guanzhong, and no one dares to squint. If he is in a hurry, he will pick up Liu Yizhen and spank him, and the latter will not even dare to come out of the atmosphere except for crying.
This is a bad star, and it is also the savior of Chen Song and Guo Xu.
No one can trap them anymore.
Fu Hongzhi has arrived! (To be continued......)