Chapter 208: It's rare to know yourself
Perhaps, when we live to the future, and then look back at our past flowing water, bit by bit, turbulent and rushing, we will find that the people we once admired and appreciated are still as smart as ever, but the most commendable thing is that they know how to recognize and have a clear "self-knowledge".
Only smart people know how to know themselves, can they always keep a sober and calm mind, know what they want, and know their own abilities and advantages, so that they can calmly choose and deal with them at the crossroads of life that seem to be confused and panicked.
But few people can achieve a clear understanding of themselves.
Everything is because of covetousness......
A tree of acacia stands obliquely in a corner of the courtyard, the green leaves are green but seem to be able to exude a calm atmosphere, the verdant leaves contain the large buds of rice grains, only a layer of hidden green, quietly but never noisy.
The buds between the shades of the trees, as if suddenly, were hanging like grapes on the branches, looking like rows of light green dragonflies, dotted with the calm shadows of the trees, a breeze blew gently, as if when it spread its wings and was about to fly, the thin wings were dyed and woven into a dazzling silver under the gentle clouds of spring.
A tree full of silver and white, hanging low, like a waterfall pouring around. The silver bead-like petals swayed slightly in the breeze, but they couldn't block the terrifying and perverted scene in front of them.
Sun Yueru's face was as pale as paper, and she was paralyzed and walked out of the dilapidated house by Sun Zhixiang, who was half hugged and half dragged by Sun Zhixiang, who was strangely excited, although her face was covered with undried tears, and she looked very embarrassed, but she was still slender and beautiful, and her temperament was elegant and moving.
Li Molin only feels that this kind of beauty is a kind of beauty that seems to be transparent. This kind of beauty should not be defiled beauty.
Patient, Li Molin waited for the Sun brothers and sisters to walk out of the courtyard and walked away, before quietly sneaking into the utility room that looked ordinary just now.
Li Molin didn't use his hands, but just picked up a long pebble from the ground and gently pushed the wooden door that looked weak...... Locked.
No way, Li Molin had to turn to the back of the house, quietly observed a circle, jumped up from under the house, turned over to the top of the house, because the sun was already shining down, Li Molin did not dare to delay a moment, quickly lifted the roof tiles, shrunk and jumped down.
The room exuded a disgusting musty smell, and there were wooden strips and niches everywhere, stacked crookedly in various corners of the room that could be stacked, and rows of tables and chairs were placed very neatly, and even the dust that fell on them was neatly covered, and only one place seemed to have been deliberately taken care of.
The house was dim, only the roof tiles were lifted by Li Molin and a beam of light was scattered in, but it only played a little lighting role, there were no windows in the house, and the smell of mildew filled the whole room, making Li Molin frown unconsciously.
He took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose, and his years of martial arts training and training in the ranks of the Royal Forest Army made his eyes very sharp, and he soon observed a place that was different from other places.
He didn't move the half-hidden table, but went straight to the side of the table, and gently picked up the edge of the box with the stone he had just picked up.
A foul smell immediately spread in all directions.
Li Molin didn't bother to pay attention to it, he covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, but he just held his breath a little, but his eyes were magnified when he saw the objects in the box clearly.
With a burst of discomfort in his heart, Li Molin withdrew his gaze. Close the cage and leave quickly.
Li Molin evacuated Sun's Mansion from the original way, quickly went down the back mountain, carried a breath of anger, hit the horse all the way back to the Soldiers and Horses, went in from the back corner door to change his clothes, re-groomed his hair, and then slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, stabilized his breath, made himself look more natural, turned out of the study, went to the front and ordered as usual, and dealt with a few things that urgently needed to be dealt with immediately in the work area.
Recently, the Spring Festival is approaching, and everyone knows that the Terracotta Division is going to send additional guards and build new weapons, so no one in the household department will be surprised by Li Molin's arrival.
Zhou Minhao's little servant Jia Ming heard the news of Li Molin's arrival, and hurriedly went out to greet him, only to feel that his eyes flashed, and a white shadow suddenly rushed in front of him, Jia Ming was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly saluted, Li Molin only nodded with a stiff face, and rushed to him.
Jia Ming was puzzled, but he didn't dare to show a different expression on his face, so he only bowed slightly, and humbly led Li Molin through the corridor, through the fat moon gate, and into the courtyard where Zhou Minhao was resting.
Li Molin had a handsome face and a cold and resolute face all the way, and Zhou Minhao waved him to excuse him, and let Jia Ming retreat.
"What? What did you find? Zhou Minhao put down the one in his hand, stood up and turned to the bookshelf, inserted the book back in its place, and didn't look at Li Molin's cold face, and asked.
At this time, Li Molin's tense face appeared cracks, although he still had no expression, looked up at Zhou Minhao's sideways, and replied: "The person that Cousin Yunyun said should be Sun Zhixiang, but this Sun Zhixiang is obviously already a master of disguise. I didn't go in and out of the Red House or the Green House,"
Li Molin said as he spoke, as if he was disgusted, his throat muttered, and he quickly picked up the teacup on the table and poured a sip of tea to relieve the dryness and nausea in his throat.
Zhou Minhao's expression also became serious, he didn't expect Liu Yunyun's prediction to be so accurate, and asked Li Molin to investigate, just thinking about whether he would find anything, but what he didn't expect was ...... Zhou Minhao sat down and looked at Li Molin's expression carefully, there should be something unexpected that he saw.
Li Molin put down the teacup and continued with a somewhat gray face: "But what I didn't expect was that the Sun family went to Jian'an Houfu to recommend their daughter's pillow mat, which turned out to be Sun Zhixiang's meaning, and, according to what I found today, Sun Yueru was very afraid of Sun Zhixiang, and Sun Zhixiang put a box in the utility room in their yard, and I didn't dare to look carefully in the box, for fear of destroying the original appearance, but according to my observation, it should be rotten corpse meat, which looks like the corpse of a stray cat or dog." It's just that this Sun Zhixiang pushed their corpses up and dressed them in women's clothes......"
Li Molin became nauseous again, and his throat was about to make the same retching sound as just now, but Zhou Minhao said a word, which successfully made him run out and vomit.
Zhou Minhao said: "It is estimated that it is not the meat of cats and dogs, but the meat of people, he should have killed people, cut them piece by piece, and then reassembled them according to the standards in his heart, dressed them, and those who were reassembled should be what he likes in his heart." ”
Jia Ming vigilantly guarded the door, and suddenly saw Li Molin rushing out like a fly, running to the corner of the house, vomiting frantically, and his eyes widened in surprise, what kind of shocking words did the master say again?
Zhou Minhao closed his eyes and pondered.
The meaning of Liu Yunyun's letter, although vague, but he clearly understood that Sun Zhixiang was just a diligent and honest person on weekdays, Liu Yunyun was not familiar with the Sun family, I heard that it was the New Year's Festival, Liu Yunyun would not go to the Sun Mansion to visit, and yes, after all, it was my aunt's foreign family, and she was a concubine, so it didn't make sense to go.
But she is not familiar, but she can accurately capture the details of this person, could it be that she knows something and does not tell herself?
Zhou Minhao shook his head, no! Although she can't talk about complete delivery to herself now, but trust, but it is real, this idea makes Zhou Minhao happy, she knows herself so well, trusts herself, this real sense of trust, makes him feel sour and excited for a while.
Li Molin went back to the room with Jia Ming's false support, looking at the fact that he should have rinsed his mouth and washed his face, Zhou Minhao's eyes flashed with a hint of understanding, and he chuckled, "Scared?" ”
Li Molin sat on the chair and was silent for a moment before he breathed a long sigh of relief, with compassion in his voice, and said softly: "Sun Zhixiang looked at it, he was already aroused to be competitive, maybe Aunt Sun of Liufu was not wrong, he should want to show himself in front of General Wu, General Wu, although everyone calls him Wu Dali, but in the end, he has been a general for many years, leading troops to fight, if his brain is not enough, he would have died on the battlefield a long time ago, and he can still have this status today?" Sun Zhixiang obviously values himself too much, and takes General Wu or us too lightly. ”
Zhou Minhao nodded, agreeing with him.
Li Molin's pale face flashed in his mind, and he looked at Zhou Minhao with a tentative look, but the words he said were hard, and he only heard him speak: "Second Highness, I want to marry Sun Yueru, the second daughter of the Sun family." ”
Zhou Minhao was slightly stunned, looked at him with some surprise, did not speak, and waited for him to continue.
"It's nothing, I just want to marry her, and I can't say why." Li Molin ignored Zhou Minhao's curiosity, directly pleaded guilty, and straightforwardly stated his demands.
"Okay, it's your business, I can only say, I know." Zhou Minhao didn't force him to say the reason, that reason, he thought, he already knew.
Sun Zhixiang's treatment of Sun Yueru will not be said if he kills Li Molin, this is not only about the woman's reputation, but also about the reputation of the Sun family, you must know that even if Sun Zhiping is punished, although the marriage of the daughter of the Sun family will have a certain impact, it will definitely have a much smaller impact than saying that Sun Zhixiang and his sister are intimate.
I have to say that Li Molin's movements are very fast.
In less than two days, Sun Yueru was invited by Aunt Sun to Liu's house as a guest, and she was called to accompany her aunt.
Aunt Sun's excuse is very simple, that is, she is sick and misses her family, so as the only daughter of the Sun family, Sun Yueru went to Liufu, which is logical.
Sun Zhiping is the son-in-law of the Sun family's house, and he is also the grandson of the long house who is most valued by the grandson of the Sun family, Sun Zhixiang, on weekdays, rarely has time with his cousin, but the second room of the Sun family on weekdays is inconspicuous and low-key, but recently, it has attracted the attention of the whole family.
The reason is that Ning, the mother of the second room of the Sun family, took her daughter's Geng post and went to the Hou Mansion of Jian'an, asking Mrs. Hou to be the master, and let the daughter of the Sun family, Sun Yueru, marry Zhao Enhao, the son of the Hou of Jian'an, as his wife.
The second room was like a cupola, and it suddenly jumped into everyone's sight.
Sun Yueru was in a trance because of the fright and depression in her heart that day, and she got out of the depressing Sun Mansion, entered the Liu Mansion, saw Aunt Sun, and after crying bitterly, she fell completely ill.
Liu Yunyun called Doctor Xiang, carefully checked the pulse of Doctor Xiang, and only said eight words with a solemn expression, "Excessive fright, excessive worry." ”
Sent away Doctor Xiang, Aunt Ge helped Liu Yunyun stew a medicinal diet to calm the nerves and gave it to Sun Yueru, this is a heart disease, taking medicine does not have any effect at all, although the medicinal diet is mild, it is the best tool to calm the nerves and nourish the nerves.
Sun Yueru fell asleep for a while, and then woke up faintly.
Aunt Sun was beside her bedside, doing needlework and thread to accompany her, and when she woke up, she smiled and said, "Are you hungry?" ”
Sun Yueru was stunned, and then she really realized that she was in Liufu, not in Sunfu, so she slowly relaxed her heart and shook her head at Aunt Sun, "Auntie, I'm not hungry." ”
"Then wash up first, no matter what, we have to eat something." Aunt Sun's voice was as warm as spring, and she said with a smile, stood up, and instructed the girl to help Sun Yueru fetch water and wash.
In this way, when Sun Yueru came to Liu's house as a guest, it became a small residence.
In order to alleviate Sun Yueru's worries, Liu Yunyun thought about it, and asked Aunt Sun to take Sun Yueru to Baiyun Nunnery, to have a good chat with Master Hengshan, and to relieve her sorrows.
Since Sun Yueru was picked up, Sun Zhixiang's irritability has reached its peak.
The incompetent father and the unassertive mother made his inner sense of imbalance even more distorted, and after the night came, Sun Zhixiang began a new round of premeditation.
During this period of time, Zhao Enhao was busy with a new round of interrogation of the assassin in Dali Temple.
Although the action is slow, but in the end, the assassination of the emperor and the palace concubine is a big thing, and in any case, the emphasis is on evidence, which is the heaviest requirement of Emperor Zhou Sheng's governance.
When the work of collecting evidence was almost completed, and he was just waiting for the best time to present the evidence, he got a small report from his ear.
"What? The Sun family? Sun Yueru? Zhao Enhao just took a bath, enjoying his rare reading time, who knew that after hearing such news, he "snapped" on the table and stood up, his eyes glared, and his face was surprised and incredulous.
Naturally, Zhou Minhao asked him to come, and some time ago, everyone really hid from him, after all, the collection of evidence could not be a little distracted and sloppy.
Zhao Enhao angrily turned around the room a few times, suddenly stopped, turned to look at Yishan, who was far away from him, squinted his eyes and said, "Mother, what did my mother say?" ”
"Back to the words of the prince, Mrs. Hou said, you have to make your own decisions in this matter, she will never interfere with your emotional life, Mrs. Hou said, she is a kind mother, a mother who is considerate of her son, as long as you don't go to kill people and set fires, she will not interfere with you."
Zhao Enhao seemed to be deflated, and sat on the chair dejectedly, "Oh you, what kind of sin have I created, why can't my mother be like someone else's mother......"
"Back to the words of the prince, our Royal Highness said that your mother is really the most enlightened mother in the world, the lady concubine in the palace, that is not even the words, will not speak directly, our Royal Highness has to pass through the communication of Xiao Cuizi, in order to know the words of the lady concubine." Yishan seemed to expect Zhao Enhao to complain, and immediately added Zhou Minhao's original words to him.
Zhao Enhao was silent for a while, and then asked weakly: "What about Liufu, Tingting also knows?" ”
Yishan quickly raised his eyelids, glanced at Zhao Enhao, and visually measured the distance between the two before slowly speaking: "You know...... Right? Miss Sun Yueru of the Sun family is now living in Liufu, and the eldest lady of the Liu family seems to accompany her for a walk or something every day. ”
"Huh?" Zhao Enhao immediately straightened up, looked at Yishan in disbelief, blinked his eyes several times, and didn't understand the key here.
Facing Zhao Enhao, who was not enlightened, Yishan had to continue: "What our Highness means is that if the prince is still confused, why not go to Liu's house in person and ask Mrs. Liu for clarification?" After all, there is really a big difference between our men's thinking and that of women. ”
Zhao Enhao nodded subconsciously, remembering that he was nervous in the face of Liu Tingting, and he actually felt a little powerless throughout his body, and in an instant, Zhao Enhao understood what Zhou Minhao meant.
"Okay, I'll go to Liu's house tomorrow, first ask the rude second lady of the Liu family, the eldest lady is cold, I'm afraid she won't tell me the truth, it's better to be a second lady, what a chic little girl, what to say, this temperament, it's really gratifying." Zhao Enhao said with a wicked smile.
Yishan held back a smile and said that he would definitely report to His Second Highness without a word, so he got Zhao Enhao's permission and withdrew from the Jian'an Hou Mansion.
Zhao Enhao didn't wait until the next day to see Liu Tingting, but called Zhengbei.
"What has little peach been doing lately?" Zhao Enhao leaned on the chair, his legs folded high, looked at Zhengbei and asked.
"If you go back to your grandfather, since your grandfather entered Dali Temple to handle the case, Xiao Tao'er asked for leave, saying that she was going back to visit her seriously ill grandmother, and she didn't come back today." Zhengbei was stunned for a moment, but still told Zhao Enhao truthfully.