Chapter 40: The Dark Heart
The two stood quietly on the stargazing platform, looking up at the starry sky. The evening breeze gradually rose, and the autumn night was already a little cold, Mu Xiaoran couldn't help but hug her arms. She turned her head to look at Wei Siyu's perfect side face beside her, thinking that if he could untie his coat and drape it on her, then this scene could be considered romantic.
"Hey, I'm cold." Mu Xiaoran touched Wei Siyu with her elbow.
"Cold?" Wei Siyu looked around, and suddenly realized: "Follow me, open your feet and shoulder width, squat thighs parallel to the ground, like ......this."
Mu Xiaoran was embarrassed, Wei Siyu actually taught her a set of boxing techniques in a serious manner, and said: "I don't need to wear a jacket to practice in winter." ”
"I'm back." Mu Xiaoran withdrew her hands and feet and said angrily at Wei Siyu, she is crazy to find romance in him, and even more crazy to waste the beautiful scenery here to squat with him!
Wei Siyu didn't know it, so he sighed with a lack of interest, and jumped down with Mu Xiaoran in his arms, waking up the guards in the audience. The guards were shocked, and the current appearance of the enemy picked up their weapons, and Mu Xiaoran hurriedly shouted: "Stop, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, this is the Third Highness." ”
The guards watched carefully according to the moonlight, and found that the other party was really the Third Highness Wei Siyu, and hurriedly apologized. Wei Siyu nodded slightly, indicating that he accepted the other party's apology, and led Mu Xiaoran away. Mu Xiaoran couldn't help but sigh in her heart, what a picture of bullying, how could she say that she was also a princess and princess in this world, why couldn't she learn it? Hey, it's still too kind.
The two of them swaggered before they reached Fenghua Palace, but they were almost frightened by an exclamation.
"Your Highness! Princess! "Babbling like this, running around in the palace, who else can there be besides Chi An?
Mu Xiaoran had a premonition that a big plot was about to happen when she heard Chi An call in this tone, so she asked expectantly, "What's going on?" Let's hear about it. ”
"Then, that Chen Xuelin is gone......" Chi An said more and more quietly, and in the end it was like a mosquito humming.
Mu Xiaoran mistook the water, who is Chen Xuelin? Is this character in the script? How could she not remember? Since she doesn't remember, it must be an inconsequential little cannon fodder, don't worry. Look at Chi An's panicked appearance, hey, it's so unstable.
"Don't be in a hurry, go back to the palace first, and then slowly talk to us." Mu Xiaoran said soothingly.
When the three of them returned to the palace, Mu Xiaoran drank a cup of tea, grabbed a handful of melon seeds and sat down, before asking, "What did you just say that Chen is missing?" ”
Chi An also grabbed a handful of melon seeds and replied, "Chen Xuelin." ”
"Who is Chen Xuelin?" Mu Xiaoran spit out a piece of melon seed skin and asked.
"Chen's son." Chi An replied.
"Chen, Chen? His son? It's gone? He's going to rob the prison? What the hell is going on? Oh, you're going to say it quickly, when is it, what melon seeds are you still eating? Mu Xiaoran said hurriedly, this Chen Lang is a big villain, seeing that he is about to get a boxed lunch according to the script, don't kill halfway to bite the gold.
Chi An put down the melon seeds aggrievedly, and said in his heart I just wanted to say it quickly, didn't you say that you were not in a hurry, and thought that everything was under your control...... Wronged.
"Hell robbery? Not really. He is only more than six years old, and he doesn't have the ability to turn the world upside down. Chi An said.
"What the hell is going on?" The more Mu Xiaoran listened, the more confused she became.
"Speaking of this, it's like this, in fact, Chen Xuelin is the son of Chen Rong on the surface, but in fact he is Geng Qing's son." In Mu Xiaoran's stunned, Chi An exploded a shocking melon for her. Then he gave full play to the rich imagination he had accumulated over the years by reading the script, and told the story of an infatuated man and a woman that he had heard.
Geng Qing's parents died when he was a child, and his uncle couldn't bear him to be left behind, so he took him back to his house for adoption. My uncle has a daughter named Qu Wan'er, who is Geng Qing's cousin. The two can be regarded as childhood sweethearts, and the two have no guesses, and the feelings between young men and women have always been unreasonable, and they have become deeper and deeper over time.
Originally, this cousin married his cousin, Geng Qing had no father and no mother, and it was also a good thing to join the Qu family, but his aunt beat the mandarin ducks. Although the Qu family is not a big door, Qu Wan'er was born beautiful when she was a child, and she is known for her talents, and she can be regarded as a famous woman in Changqi City.
So, of course, this aunt can't look down on Geng Qing, who is poor and white. At that time, General Yan returned to the court after victory, and the military camp recruited soldiers, Geng Qing went with enthusiasm, and he was bound to make a name for himself to impress his aunt, and then ask to marry his sweetheart.
After Geng Qing entered the Yan family's army, he was quite clever, and he was not afraid of hardships and fatigue, and his martial arts were not bad, so he was transferred to General Yan's side two years later. This is actually a very fast rise in the barracks, and I don't know how many people envy it.
However, when Chen Lane returned to his hometown that year, it rained heavily when he passed outside the city, and the group went to a nearby temple to take shelter from the rain. It happened that Qu Wan'er was also in the temple Qifu that day, and she met it. What a heavenly posture Qu Wan'er is, just one glance into Chen Rong's heart.
Subsequently, Chen Lane invited the matchmaker to go to Qu's house to say goodbye, and even asked the emperor to give him a marriage. No matter how Qu Wan'er resisted and pleaded, in the end she was carried into Chen's mansion by a sedan chair.
That's the story, anyway, later, the two of them had a child, as for when it happened, it remains to be verified, I guess......
"Stop, stop, guess what, how do you know that kid is Geng Qing's?" Mu Xiaoran stopped Chi An, who was still immersed in the story.
"Oh, it's Geng Qing's anyway, do you think, why didn't Geng Qing leave Changqi City? It's not because of people who have concerns in their hearts. Why did Geng Qing not want to report Chen's crime when he knew about it? That's because he knows better than anyone what kind of crime Chen has committed. Once Chen Lane is convicted, none of his wives and children will be spared, so Qu Wan'er and his son can still live? Chi An thought that he had deeply grasped Geng Qing's psychology, and sighed sadly after speaking.
"So, he knew that General Yan was kind to him, but he took care of his beloved and son, and did not dare to make this sinner's crime public?" Mu Xiaoran asked.
"That's right! So he left the barracks incognito, but he was reluctant to leave Changqi City. Chi An replied.
"Wait, what happened when his son got lost?" Mu Xiaoran suddenly remembered, it didn't seem to be on the topic.
"Well, you've been to him before, wasn't he reluctant to testify at first? His Highness ordered me to threaten him with the portrait of his son, promising him that if he could testify, His Highness would have his own way to save his son's life. If he doesn't agree, then we have a way to make his son's death a thousand times more painful than beheading. Chi An replied a little weakly, these things were done before His Royal Highness's mind was damaged, and the princess didn't know about it yet.
Hearing this, Mu Xiaoran shuddered for no reason. So, at the beginning, Wei Siyu actually used this method to persuade Geng Qing? Even such a young child is not spared, the heart is really ruthless. She didn't doubt now that he could order her to be shot to death.
"So, you hid the kid? How does the emperor explain there? Mu Xiaoran asked.
"Well, but the guards just came to report that the child was missing, so I hurried to find you. As for the emperor, he will not pay attention to a child, and His Royal Highness has found a death row prisoner to replace him. The man was a dwarf, and His Highness drugged him in order not to make people suspicious, and outsiders only seemed to be a little stupid. Chi An replied locally.
Mu Xiaoran looked at Wei Siyu on the side, at this time he was seriously playing with the wooden bird she had bought in the market before, with a soft and amiable appearance. I can't believe that there is such a dark heart hidden under such a simple and harmless face.