Chapter 156: The Way of Life
Su Wenxi suddenly opened his eyes and remembered that there was a corner gate in the backyard, which was where the servants of the family entered and exited the Hou Mansion, and it was also the closest to here, if the nurse was in the backyard, she would definitely escape from here.
Su Wenxi thought in his mind, but he ran out of the half-collapsed corner gate in a few steps.
Behind the corner gate is a deep long street, because it is adjacent to the long street of Ningyuan Houfu, there are many shops and lively, but after the accident of Ningyuan Houfu, this street is also deserted, and even many people deliberately avoid here when walking.
It is located in the east of the imperial city, through a few streets is the Sixteen Princes' Mansion, Yongcheng also implemented a curfew that year, it was already late at night when the incident happened, and the movement must have alarmed the entire long street.
Knowing that it was the Ice Gate dispatch, would anyone help them?
Su Wenxi's slender eyebrows were tightly together, and every step he took felt a fierce pain in his heart, he could understand the panic of the nurse running away with her sister back then, and he could also imagine the helplessness of her sister after being frightened. Where were the streets of the long night and deep in the middle of the night?
"Nurse, how the hell did you go!" Su Wenxi walked slowly on the long street, silently reading in his heart.
The nurse was just thirty years old, and she was a healthy and bright woman, with a gentle smile on her quiet and mellow face. Su Wenxi often sees the nurse and her younger siblings playing under the tree in the afternoon, the sunlight is scattered through the layers of mottled leaves, the light becomes blurry and transparent, and the flowers behind her are stained with colorful clouds, they seem to be playing in a fairyland. The nurse was often tortured by three little naughty eggs and was tired and almost fell apart, but the smile on her face never disappeared, and her hand holding her younger siblings never let go.
The nurse is a young, brave and tough woman, when her father was killed with the infamy of embezzling disaster relief food and silver, she must know that no one in the city will definitely lend a helping hand to them, and if they can't stay in the city, they can only go outside the city.
The nearest gate here is the Chunming Gate in the east, and there is a dog hole next to the corner gate of the city gate.
Su Wenxi thought of the wind under his feet and ran all the way to the city gate, at this time the city gate was closed, and the soldiers guarding the city had already begun to patrol the city tower, but the dog hole next to the corner gate was hidden in the huge shadow cast by the city wall, like a big hole.
Su Wenxi didn't think about it and went straight over.
When I got up again, I had already reached the outskirts of the city, there were no buildings within a radius of more than ten miles, not even tall trees, it was spring day, when everything was recovering, and the originally bare land was covered with a layer of soft grass.
In the summer, the grass grows taller and denser, and in the autumn it is a withered yellow that reaches the sky, and in the winter it is scattered into mud under the snow.
Walking here, Su Wenxi didn't have a clue.
Further west is a cliff, and to the east is Magpie Mountain. There are only two roads in front of the nurse, one is to be buried under the cliff to the west, and the other is to go to Queshan. If it was buried on the cliff, it was normal for Chai Lie to not find the body back then, but if it was Queshan, there might still be a glimmer of life, if they were rescued, then Chai Lie would not have found the body.
Under the night, a few bits of light on the distant Queshan Mountain were like a few lone stars in the night sky, which strongly gave Su Wenxi a wishful thinking: they went to Queshan, or even were rescued!
But he once went to Queshan, where there were only a few families, and there were no children of the same age as Wen Jing in the family, and there was a family that seemed to have been deserted by bandits. It was also a place where the old couple had settled, and when they went, they found that most of the remaining things were some silk threads needed for weaving and embroidery. The clothes that were occasionally turned out were nothing more than the clothes of boys and girls.
If my sister is here, she won't need this at all. Su Wenxi sat in the wilderness for most of the night in frustration, the dew at night wet his clothes, and in the fog, he seemed to see the appearance of Wenjing's sister again, thinking about it, tears fell and wet his clothes.
After sitting until dawn, Su Wenxi got up, stood in the open field and looked back at Yongcheng, who had just woken up, and stepped on the official road to Cangzhou without looking back.
Since the beginning of the year, the two major cases have been solved, and there is no one who should be arrested, but the emperor has not smiled at all, because the two major Shangshu of the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Officials in the central government are vacant, and the affairs piled up there have made the officials and the Ministry of Household servants miserable, and they have asked for the appointment of new officials as soon as possible.
It stands to reason that after Shangshu was dismissed, he was generally directly promoted by Shilang, but these two Shangshu were once the prince's ministers of the humerus, and naturally Shilang was also the prince's person.
The two Shangshu committed unjust cases one after another, and the time was also chosen after he sealed the Zen on Mount Tai, and what made the emperor even more uncomfortable was that Zhuo Yinfeng had committed too many lives in his hands, and he could do it to his newborn children. This is to make the emperor feel cold, and this coldness naturally implicates the prince, I don't know how the prince has chosen people for so many years, and he is naturally no longer optimistic about the people under the prince.
Although the two servants played one after another, the emperor just ignored it.
What about the people who play the king? The emperor is also uncomfortable!
King Yi and the prince have been fighting for many years, and in recent years, it seems that they are converging their edge, but they are secretly waiting for the opportunity, and the two recent cases seem to have little involvement of King Yi on the surface, but every key trigger point is led by King Yi. And the person who finally pointed out Zhuo Yinfeng's testimony Zheng Minzhu was actually brought by him personally, which is really suspicious.
If this time the people in the two parts are the people of King Yi, then the prince will obviously lose power in the court.
Although he is called long live by people every day, the emperor himself knows very well in his heart that his age is not much, if he does not have the determination of Yi Chu at this time and let King Yi rise, in case he dies suddenly, the two sons will fight for the death and death of the court will be turbulent.
The two sons of the prince and King Yi are not bad, they are both civil and military people, King Yi is even more able to bend and stretch, they are both good seedlings of governance, if they can really join forces, it would be great.
But the two sons have been fighting back and forth, this is the father and the emperor Wu Zhou Emperor fought for half his life, enjoyed the glory of a lifetime, and when it came, he thought more about how to hand over the country to the next generation safely.
But the things in front of him made him distressed, and the weather gradually warmed up in the spring, and the flowers bloomed and the catkins fluttered, and the palace ladies were overjoyed, but it was the old emperor who suffered from it, and the stubborn illness of headache flared up again and coughed constantly. After the imperial doctors in the palace went to the old age, the hearts that had just been put down were hanging again.
The crown prince and King Yi entered the palace to serve but were closed by the emperor, and even Empress Gu and Emperor Shu's concubine were turned away. Yuwen and Yuwen Yi, sisters and brothers, followed Emperor Taishan after the New Year's Festival, and after sealing Zen, they were playful for a while.