6. Pearls

Pei Hongli sat quietly outside the pitching Xuan.

The green of July, the green is so rich, the swing on the partition wall has been cold for many days, and it is very quiet all around, only occasionally there will be some sounds, it is the wind moving the swing cord of the partition wall.

Because of the swing, Pei Hongli couldn't help but think of some girlhood...... She grew up in Shangshu Mansion, and behind the hustle and bustle on the surface, she knew how many secret room schemes were hidden...... The father's concubine, the ridicule of the maid Meng Lang, the completely tired look on the mother's face, the whipping and punishment, the grandfather who has always been so neat and serious in the eyes of outsiders, and the noisy men and women prostitutes, the smell of old paint and dirt in the corners of the finely carved furniture...... All kinds of conspiracies, all kinds of tricks, all kinds of vicious plots, small disputes, abortion and drugging...... All of this happened in Pei Shangshu's mansion like that, and it also happened so really in Pei Honglian's eyes.

- Will the third brother's mansion be any different?

She remembered Yanluo.

- How did Yanluo come to Jiangxi? Why is it in the third brother's mansion?

Shen Yanluo was originally a relative of Pei Honglin's mother's mother. Her background is not as noble as Pei Fu, and their Shen family has long been in decline.

Shen Yan fell to the Pei family when she was sixteen years old. At that time, she had lost her parents early and had no stagnation. According to the news, there is a close relative girl at home, who happens to be Pei Honglin's playmate, but Pei Hongling and Yanluo don't have much contact. She never understood why her family had cut her off from her. It wasn't until a long time later that she realized that it was the man in the family who cut her off from herself.

Shen Yanluo is just a thin and delicate woman. Pei Hongling thought that in this life, she had never seen a slender figure like her cousin Yanluo: demure like a delicate flower shining on the water, and acting like a weak willow blowing in the wind. It looks like it's coming out of a painting.

Yanluo herself is like an elf who is not contaminated with a trace of desire, but her light and agile body seems to be able to arouse the desires of many men. Pei's mansion is full of doors, up and down, more than one man covets her, right? Pei Hongli will always remember that at that family banquet, she inadvertently glanced at her eyes and saw what kind of eyes her uncles and nephews had when they looked at Yanluo - so sticky, it seemed that once they were stained, they would never be cleaned.

The men of the so-called giant family are like this, they have always required Tsinghua to be chaste and quiet in the teaching of the women in their own family, but they long for all the women outside the family to be uninhibited.

Yanluo is a watery-skinned woman, and all the subtle touches and stimuli seem to provoke her most subtle reactions. Pei Hongli always remembered that July, she was depressed and bored, so she went to the outer garden. The outer garden is full of summer. Pei Honglian was in the flower room in the garden and saw how the third uncle forced an old mouth close to Shen Yanluo's neck.

Shen Yan turned her head sideways, but the milky neck on her neck seemed to have wrinkled a layer of milk skin under the third uncle's hands covered with old spots. The greasy smile of the third uncle still seems to ring in his ears: "You are such a special woman, no matter how many times you do it, you will always be like a virgin." ”

Pei Hongli remembered how his heart was torn and painful at that time: it turned out that the men of their Pei family were like this! The woman they like in their dark hearts is like that, even after being bullied countless times, they will always show the pain in their eyes like the first time!

Her finger suddenly knocked on the door, and then, she remembered how her third uncle's panicked and contemptible face was, and how Shen Yanluo's helpless face was. Pei Honglian's face was indifferent, as if he hadn't seen everything that had happened. She smiled: "Yanluo, I can't embroider a pattern, you can help me." ”

From that day on, she never let Shen Yanluo out of her side until she left the cabinet. She felt so sorry for such a watery woman in her heart.

Shen Yanluo doesn't like to talk, and the people call her 'Mu Meiren' behind her back. She almost never cries, at least not in front of people. But Pei Hongling remembered that the day before she got married, she came to Yanluo's bedside, and Yanluo seemed to be sleeping peacefully, but she saw that her pillow was wet.

- Thinking of this, two lines of tears suddenly welled up in Pei Honglian's eyes. She raised her hand to wipe her ...... Later, after marrying Yu Zheng for so many years, she has always refused to think about it again. Because, she always felt that it was the deepest pain in Yanluo's heart, that she was helpless and powerless for her, and the greatest respect she could do for her might be to erase what she would rather not happen in her heart forever.

Before getting married, she also went to her mother's side and asked her to keep Yanluo by her side until Yanluo got married.

The mother glanced at herself at the time, facing a daughter who was about to marry, and her eyes had a kind of confession in the face of a mature woman.

- They knew each other that everything that had happened to the cousin of the Shen family, everything that had happened and was going to happen.

But my mother's vision is so weak.

Wasps flutter on the swing rope......

A wasp suddenly swirled around Pei Honglin's ear. Pei Hongli waved his hand to drive it away, but he thought of a word in his heart in a daze, and thought of Yanluo's hand in a daze...... Yanluo's hand was the most beautiful she had ever seen. Are her hands still as dexterous as when she first drew dragons and phoenixes?

Wasps flutter on the swing rope -

At that time, the slender hands were fragrant......

Why did she not say a word after seeing herself that day, except for throwing herself a bag of things, except for a smile?

Will the third brother's mansion be any different from the Pei mansion where he grew up in Jingzhong? Even if the third brother is intellectually round, he is afraid that he will not be any different from his father, brothers and uncles in his own mansion. That kind of smell, that kind of corrupt breath hidden under all the honors, in all the big clans, without exception, has been passed down from generation to generation, and has long invaded the bones of those men.

Pei Hongli quietly looked at the Pei Mansion outside her body, "The Heavenly Immortal Mansion, the Celestial Prime Minister's Family", but Yanluo, her cousin Yanluo, who is slender and Qingyang, has always lived in such a mansion?

They had already met once, that day, after the third brother pushed the door and went. After waiting for a while, she saw the swing on the wall swing again, and a red shadow appeared on the swing.

She whispered in surprise: "Yanluo".

Yan landed on the swing and smiled at her. Then the swing fell, and the smile still hung in the air, in the shade of the tall willows.

Then, the swing rose again, breaking through the previous laughing shadow that was still hanging in the air, but Yanluo's face was flat, and there was no more laughter. She raised her hand on the swing and gently threw a bag of things over the wall.

Then, the swing disappeared again, the sound of sand rustled, and the person on the wall was gone.

Pei Hongli stepped forward and picked up the bag of things. It was a silk handkerchief used by a woman. When she untied the silk handkerchief, she saw several beads in it. She recognized the beadβ€”it was on her own head.

But that hairpin has been lost since that day on the bank of the Ganjiang River, after being besieged and killed by the plague family class and the Qingliu Society. How could he suddenly appear in this silk pala, in Yanluo's hand?

Pei Hongli was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the silk. The silk silk was carefully drawn, and there were faint traces of light.

Drawing silk - this should be the craftsmanship of Yanluo. Pei Hongling opened the silk handkerchief in his hand knowingly, and returned to the room to look at the candlelight. In the faint light of the remnant candle, two lines of words faintly drew out from the subtle handkerchief:

Q: Can you recognize the pearl seller?

The green donkey has dated Yulin.

Pei Hongli took a look, but saw that the handwriting was not neat, but the hook wiped the turning point, which was quite slaughtering. A hook and a pick, are like a steel hook waving.

This is not the word of Cousin Yanluo. Pei Hongli suddenly felt a kind of excitement rise in her heart, and then, she remembered a person - Cheng Fei, it was my fair lady Cheng Fei!

She originally thought that as soon as she entered Pei's Mansion, she would be like a bird entering a golden cage, controlled by the third brother, and it would be difficult to communicate with the outside world anymore.

However, Yu Zheng still has such a pink confidant before his death! She actually dared to sneak into Pei Mansion, the Pei Mansion that made Dongmi jealous - her chance with Cheng Fei turned out to be not only the hook that day, and the fingers rang ten times, I didn't think that she not only dared to take a gamble to save herself in the siege of the plague class, not only dared to ambush and kill the three Qingliu Society masters who wanted to assassinate her, but she hid into this gloomy and thick Pei Du Governor's Mansion with Yue Zheng's entrustment, her sharp steel hook still pierced in sharply, and finally gave herself a breath!

She pondered the meaning of those two few wordsβ€”the pearl seller? It turned out that Cheng Fei took the hairpin on his head on the same day for today's use as a mark. She is really a woman with foresight, who wants to save herself first in case of safety; Then, after she had entered Pei's mansion, she actually knew Yue Zheng's dying entrustment, knew that Pei Ju was mostly unreliable, and knew that Yue Zheng's entrusted person had Ding Xilin selected, and she had already informed him to come for a while.

So, as a pearl seller, she used Shen Yanluo, whom she rescued, to inform herself?

What kind of foresight is this? And what kind of ...... is it for Yue Zheng? Friendship between life and death?

Pei Honglian's eyes suddenly had tears, she only felt the happiness she had so deeply and so deeply until today.

She wiped away her tears gently, imagining how Cheng Fei disguised himself as a pearl seller and stabbed into the dull and overwhelmed Pei Mansion with a hidden sharpness. That night, she slept quite peacefully, but occasionally a sneer crossed her lips: because, in this snowy world, she finally saw the sharpness of the steel hook on the wrist that could cut the ice and snow at the expense of making difficulties.

On that day, when Pei Ju went to the banquet in Tengwang Pavilion, more than half of the guards of the Manchu Mansion accompanied him, and Pei Hongli finally had a chance to see Cheng Fei.

The swing swayed lightly on the other side of the wall, and as soon as Cheng Fei's figure flipped over, he had already flown into the small courtyard where Pei Hongli was locked up.

Pei Hongli didn't know what to say for a while.

Cheng Fei spoke quietly: "There's no way, I can only come in and tell you by myself." Because, your cousin Yanluo can't speak anymore. Since she went to Jiangxi with your third brother, for fear that she would reveal the secrets around her, or just to play with the dark psychology of a weak woman like her, your third brother gave her a dose of dumb medicine, and she can no longer talk to people. ”

Her gaze was gloomy, but there was anger in the gloom.

Pei Hongling's face turned red, and his heart was full of anger, and then, he was ashamed, ashamed, ashamed of what his brother had done. She knew that Cheng Fei wouldn't tell lies, and neither would Yanluo. What she says must be true.

Pei Hongling looked at such a woman in front of her with a ashamed face, and she didn't know what to say to show her hatred in front of her and show her heart.

But Cheng Fei said indifferently: "After the death of Imperial Envoy Xiao, as soon as I heard the news, I immediately did two things. ”

"The first thing is to find Lord Ding Xilin Ding, and make an appointment with him to go to Jiangxi in the near future with the appointment of 'Qingting Xiaoji' that year. With my reputation as a comrade to Imperial Envoy Xiao for many years, I knew that this must be what he wanted me to do. I have now received news that Ding Xilin has arrived in Nanchang within a day or two ago. ”

"The second thing is to take the order of Qingliushe to kill you and come to Jiangxi."

Although she was under pressure, there was still a sudden pain that seemed to be about to surge again in Cheng Fei's frozen Xuehan's heart - she couldn't tell her state of mind when she did these two things, it was almost ...... The last thing she could do for Yu Zheng.

Pei Hongli looked at her quietly, didn't say anything, didn't dare to say anything, but a sore and sore thing that didn't know what it was choked in her throat.

I only heard Cheng Fei say: "It's just that I can't take you out now, Pei Du's Mansion is extremely strictly guarded, although I have Yanluo with me, it is difficult for me to go in and out by myself." ”

Then she raised her head: "However, the Qingliu Society has invited the two masters of Zhong Lingfu, the 'Star Split Wing, and the Earth Connecting Henglu', and they will definitely launch a killing blow against Pei Mansion within a few days." The Seiryu Society will never allow the liver and gallbladder records to fall into your brother's hands. Pei Ju is deeply hidden, no matter how he behaves, no matter how he pretends to burn his liver and gallbladder record, Qingliushe and Dongmi will definitely not rest assured of him. ”

"I have made an appointment with Ding Xilin, and he is now waiting for you in one place every day. And the only chance I have to take you out of Pei's Mansion is the moment when Zhou Yizhen and Mu Henglu launch a killing game. ”

"You've been waiting for a few days...... I think it won't be a few days. ”

"The only question is whether you want to go with me then."

Pei Hongli swept the hair in front of her forehead, she hadn't figured out how to phrase it, but the resolute meaning in her eyes had clearly told Cheng Fei her idea.

Cheng Fei kept talking to the empty space, and she didn't even look at Pei Honglian, but she suddenly had a little respect for this seemingly gentle and powerless woman in her heart. She can't stay longer, she won't allow herself to be friends with her, everyone in the world can, but she can't.

Pei Hongli whispered: "Thank you." ”

Cheng Miaoniang's figure had already turned over, and she turned around and only said the last sentence: "No." Remember, I'm just doing things, not helping you. ”

Five days, Pei Hongli counted on his fingers, and it has been five days since Cheng Fei went.

The news she was waiting for hadn't come yet, why hadn't it come yet?

Pei Hongli stood up and looked at the gloomy Pei Mansion in the thickening twilight. It's time for that assassination to come, right?

The third brother seems to be unable to hide anything from him, but he will never know what he has been waiting for these days, he doesn't know the story of the pearl seller, he won't know the swing, and he won't know - Pei Hongli suddenly has a sound of wild laughter in his heart - his biological sister, these days he has been waiting for such an opportunity: waiting for the 'Star Wings, Earth Receiving Henglu' to strike a killer blow to him!

In such a world, there are brothers and sisters like them, and there are rivals like her and Cheng Fei.

She waited for that moment, and when the killing machine first started, Pei Mansion went up and down, and defended it with all her might. Only at that moment did she have a chance to really escape!