Chapter 21: The Past

As soon as Mu Zixiao raised his foot and moved an inch forward to get closer, he heard a fierce questioning voice from the room: "Who?!" Then a cold light flew over Mu Zixiao's cheek, this cold light left a blood-red mark on the right side of his face, and a silver needle steadily sank into the door frame behind him, leaving only a small hole, fast and steady.

Mu Zixiao raised his throat with a heart, and said happily, fortunately it was not a knife, otherwise this would have been a different place, and his head was divided, Mu Zixiao had not yet returned to his senses, and then heard a trembling voice in the room: "Sister!" ”

It turned out that when Yanfeng threw out the silver needle, it was the woman in the house who pushed him, otherwise the silver needle was nailed into his head at this time, only to hear the woman say in a dumb voice: "Stop, Feng'er, let's go back, okay?" This woman's voice is indeed what Mu Zixiao has heard, but how can Yanfeng call her sister?

Mu Zixiao didn't dare to move anymore, he didn't move forward and leaned on the door frame, for fear of flying out of something again, he just stood firm, and suddenly someone behind him wrapped a strong hand around his waist, and covered his mouth tightly with one hand, just wanted to break free, but a low voice came from his ear: "Don't speak." ”

Hearing this voice, Mu Zixiao's heart trembled and he stopped struggling, put his right hand on the arm covering his mouth, held it gently, nodded, and immediately calmed down, and said silently: "Huo Nanqi." Huo Nanqi saw Mu Zixiao's figure as soon as he entered the corridor, and wanted to take him away first, because he was worried that he would attract others if he made a sound, so he quietly hugged him, and at this moment he lowered his head and pressed against Mu Zixiao's right cheek.

"Come with me." Huo Nanqi let go of the arm around him and stood up straight, ready to take him away, Mu Zixiao couldn't help but want to see his heart, but his head turned too fast, "bang", his forehead hit Huo Nanqi's chin, Huo Nanqi didn't say anything in pain, raised his hand and pulled Mu Zixiao behind him, turned around and intercepted the three silver needles that flew again, and hit it back with his backhand.

Because the speed was too fast, Yan Feng couldn't dodge, his right hand stroked his face, and then said softly: "It's all here, it's better to sit for a while." ”

Huo Nanqi narrowed his eyes, looked at the familiar face that had fought side by side together, and said coldly: "Okay." ”

Huo Nanqi wanted to take Mu Zixiao's hand, but after hesitating for a moment, he grabbed his wrist and led him into the house.

"Please be seated." Yan Feng Dao.

Huo Nanqi didn't look at him and pulled Mu Zixiao to sit aside, Yan Feng motioned for everyone else to go out first, and after a while, only the four of them were left in the room, although the woman in red had red and swollen eyes, she was still smiling, the arrogance on her face was gone, her eyes were gentle, and she whispered softly: "Huo Gongzi." ”

"Miss Wan'er." Huo Nanqi's face softened slightly, although Wan'er was more than thirty, perhaps for various reasons, Huo Nanqi had never called her sister, and Wan'er looked at Huo Nanqi with a little respect, and there was no arrogance like before.

Mu Zixiao bowed slightly, Wan'er nodded in return, handed Mu Zixiao a small black medicine bottle and said softly: "I'm sorry, it will be better to eat this." Mu Zixiao took it with both hands and said in a low voice: "Thank you, sister, I'm fine." Out of trust, Mu Zixiao opened the small medicine bottle and ate two healing pills.

Yan Feng sat next to Wan'er and still had a slightly gloomy face, seeing Wan'er handing over the medicine and shouting in a low voice Sister, Wan'er didn't look at Yan Feng, stood up and bowed to Huo Nanqi, Yan Feng got up and pulled her and whispered: "Sister! What are you doing here?! ”

Wan'er's face was slightly angry, and she knocked off his hand and whispered, "It's not a good thing you did." Huo Gongzi, I apologize to you for Feng'er, all the things in the past, Wan'er knows that an apology can't make up for anything, but in the future, no matter whether you are a cow or a horse, you will rely on Huo Gongzi's orders. ”

Huo Nanqi didn't get up and seemed to ponder for a moment, Yan Feng stood aside and his face was blue and purple, I don't know if he was angry, or with a little guilt, he still said in a low voice: "Sister! This has nothing to do with you, so why should you be low. Wan'er still leaned down slightly and ignored him, as if Huo Nanqi didn't plan to get up as long as he didn't speak.

After being silent for a long time, Huo Nanqi said in a deep voice: "Miss Wan'er also knows that this matter is not something that can be passed by with an apology to me, as for being a cow and a horse, Huo is also a reasonable person, this matter really has nothing to do with you, I just want to listen to his explanation." "Let's just look at the wind of words.

Wan'er was still standing, Mu Zixiao didn't know what was going on, but she didn't seem to be able to fight, so she sat on the side and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huo Nanqi, don't think that if you save my sister, I will be grateful to you. What you Huo family did, I will never forget in my life! Yan Feng couldn't persuade his sister, and he couldn't bear to be rough with her, so he had to stand beside her, his face full of anger and unwillingness.

"Wind of words." Huo Nanqi raised his eyes to look at him, still calm, and said slowly: "The Huo family does things, but they respect the emperor's order, if it weren't for your Chen family's great rebellion, how could you end up with a full house of beheading, do you think my father doesn't know that the Chen family has two orphans?" I didn't kill you all, but I have done my best. ”

Hearing this, his fingers clenched for a moment, and then let go, he pulled Wan'er behind him, and his forehead was already bulging: "Don't say those high-sounding reasons, the imperial order, a good respect for the emperor's order, it was all caused by that cheap woman, and what does it matter to my father?!" ”

"Do you think your father didn't know anything? With Mrs. Chen, a woman's family, how can she cover the sky with one hand? Regardless of this, I will ask you a word. Huo Nanqi held Mu Zixiao's hand and inadvertently exerted force, and said in a deep voice: "Yanfeng, you came to my side just to take revenge, right?" ”

Yan Feng didn't answer, turned his head to Wan'er and said softly: "Sister, you go out with that kid first, I think..."

Wan'er nodded: "Huo Gongzi, Wan'er went down first." Huo Nanqi nodded, and after thinking about it, he also smiled at Muzi: "You guys go out first, I'll come to you later." After speaking, he let go of Mu Zixiao's hand, and Mu Zixiao said in a low voice: "Brother be careful." ”

"Don't worry, you take care of yourself." Huo Nanqi said softly, full of tenderness.

Mu Zixiao followed He Wan'er to another room, Mu Zixiao had already endured the problem, thought for a moment and then opened her mouth, and said: "Sister Wan'er, I shouldn't have said much, but this matter is about Huo Nanqi, I have to ask, what is going on with you." ”

Wan'er was silent for a while, lowered her head and sighed: "Okay, I have never mentioned these things to others, and I have indeed held back them for a long time in my heart, so I will vomit it today." Mu Gongzi, the first time I saw you, I thought of Yanfeng, when I was a child, Feng'er did not have a good life, so that he created his character today. ”

Wan'er said slowly: "As early as twenty years ago, that is, the year Feng'er was born, when I was twelve years old, I learned that my mother was not my father's original match, and my mother only said that my father was very busy, so he was often not at home, but he would give money to the family when he was busy, a lot.

It turned out that his father was actually a first-class official in the DPRK, and he could even be said to be able to cover the sky with one hand, that is, Chen Palmyi, Mrs. Chen, who was beheaded by the whole house later. Originally, my mother and I depended on each other, and my father was still very happy when he came to take care of him occasionally.

Until Feng'er was born, my father, of course, liked his son very much, Feng'er's birth gave my father the idea of taking us back to the house, because the one-room wife in the father's house, and the three-room concubine were all daughters, and Feng'er seemed to have become the lifeblood of the Chen family.

However, Mrs. Chen, that is, my father's wife, had the former queen behind her back, and Mrs. Chen was unwilling to take us back to the house, let alone give my mother a name, so this matter was temporarily suppressed, and me, Feng'er and my mother were repeatedly hunted down, all of which was done by that Mrs. Chen.

We fled for a long time, and my father arranged for more people to ensure our safety, but the turbulent life of displacement made my mother, who was already in poor health, sick, and finally went when Feng'er was four years old.

Before my mother died, I begged my father to take me and Feng'er back home, and my father also agreed with tears, it can be seen that my father still has a deep affection for my mother, and on the day my mother left, my father had a strand of white hair, and it seemed that he was ten years old in an instant. Feng'er and I also cried for a long time, and Feng'er was very dependent on his father at that time, and his father also loved him very much.

My mother died, no one took care of her, and my father was ruthless and had to take us back, but how could it be so easy, Mrs. Chen made a condition to let Feng'er recognize her as her mother, but where would Feng'er be willing, in our hearts, my mother was killed by her.

I remember clearly that day, my father and Mrs. Chen had a big quarrel, and my father even beat her and proposed to divorce his wife, Mrs. Chen was so angry that she gritted her teeth and promised to let us stay in the house, but it was just another identity, a slave of the Chen family.

Although we are slaves, we can be regarded as settling down in the Chen family, my father still loves us, and we live happily.

But after more than a year, hey, my father will always be absent, Mrs. Chen will beat and scold our sister and brother whenever she has the opportunity, and the word wild seed also hit us deeply in our hearts at that time. They were noisy and noisy, which also left a lot of shadows in our hearts.

Until one day, when my father was far away, Mrs. Chen took a group of fierce men in black to separate me from my brother and forcibly take me away.