Chapter 25: Farewell
Wei Qing had a calm face, not as usual and squirming, "It's all gone!" His voice was not loud, but it was enough to shut everyone up, after all, he was the prince of the palace, and he didn't dare to offend.
It was quiet, everyone doing their own thing, occasionally glancing at each other.
He silently walked over to her, one hand protecting her from harm.
Zhao Wantong didn't notice everything around her at all, anger and pity were intertwined into a web, entangled in her heart, making her feel suffocated. Such a gentle and kind woman has experienced such pain!
She still remembers that year, the falling snowflakes seemed to freeze her heart, and Miss Liang gave her warmth at this time. Her thoughtful greetings and kind smile touched her heart, and her frozen heart cracked, and she vowed to repay her!
It's a pity that the world is unpredictable, she is late!
As long as she thought of what she had experienced in her life, Zhao Wantong's eyes were cold, and she was cold and angry. Her lips pursed to death, her fists clenched, Ding Qiao she will not let go, and the person behind him does not want to escape!
She stopped walking aimlessly, turned her head to Wei Qing beside her and said, "Let's go find Ding Qiao now." ”
Wei Qing sighed slightly, "Xiao Xue, it's not too early, I'll send you back first, and it's not too late for us to go tomorrow morning." ”
He knew that she was anxious and wanted to find all the evidence as soon as possible to avenge Liang Peiwen, but it was too late today, and she needed to rest well and sort out her mood.
Zhao Wantong looked up at the sky, it was approaching twilight, it was really too late today, she had to give up.
Along the way, in the quiet street, Wei Qing was thinking about the Sun family, and Zhao Wantong was thinking about Liang Peiwen's case, and the two of them had their own hearts and did not speak.
The setting sun stretched the backs of the two of them for a long, long time.
Zhao Mansion.
Zhao Mingyi took off his cloak and entered through the back door of Zhao's mansion. His expression was solemn, and the cool breeze followed, and his forehead was already in cold sweat.
Bypass the lotus pond, and then go west to the end of the road 100 steps there is a small Buddhist hall, which is dedicated to the ancestors of the Zhao family.
According to legend, the Zhao family was originally born as an orion. Just because one day, a certain emperor went out hunting, and the distress happened to happen to the ancestors of the Zhao family to help by chance. got this opportunity and became an official.
The ancestors worked very hard, lived up to the expectations of the first emperor and studied hard, and made the Zhao family prosperous.
As soon as Zhao Mingyi reached the threshold, he smelled a pungent sandalwood fragrance. His eyebrows tightened, and he hesitated to open the door.
Inside, Zhao Sun was kneeling dignified in front of the tablets of the ancestors and ancestors to copy Buddhist scriptures. These months, things are so frequent. Since Zhao Wantong fell off the cliff, the Zhao family was condemned by the emperor, Sun Shiyun also became half-dead, and even Zhao Mingyi was grounded in the mansion. This made Zhao Sun's heart full of guilt, and since then he has not been able to go out, only confessing in the Buddhist hall.
At this moment, the wooden door was quietly pushed open from the outside and inside. Zhao Sun's heard the sound and looked, Zhao Mingyi walked straight into the hall with his skirt and waist.
Zhao Sun was dumbfounded for a moment.
"Mingyi......" she called softly, but she had no confidence.
Zhao Mingyi didn't look at Zhao Sun's and walked straight in. Take a few small sticks of incense from the room on the right and light them in front of the altar. Then, kneeling in front of the tablets of the ancestors and ancestors, the three bows deeply.
got up and said, "Mother, do you still remember the family motto of the Zhao family." ”
Zhao Sun hadn't seen Zhao Mingyi for a long time, and seeing that he had deliberately not looked at himself since just now, he was stunned and didn't answer Zhao Mingyi's question.
Zhao Mingyi, with his eyebrows raised, said forcefully: "One, born in the world, not for fame and fortune, not greedy for money, not obsessed with women, and acting in the golden mean; Second, if others are kind to themselves, they will repay them with the grace of a drop of water; Third, be loyal to the good king and have the people in mind. It is better to die than to save 10,000 people; Fourth, be an upright person, do not deceive or deceive. ”
After speaking, Zhao Mingyi's eyebrows lowered to Zhao Sun's blank but old face.
"So, shouldn't you tell the child the truth about all these years?"
Zhao Sun's body trembled when she heard this, and her face was a little blue, in fact, she didn't know the meaning of Zhao Mingyi's words at all, but she was inexplicably panicked.
"Mingyi...... What are you talking about, Mother really doesn't know ......?"
Zhao Sun's words were so speechless that Zhao Mingyi suddenly made Zhao Mingyi unhappy and frowned.
In fact, when he was outside the door, Zhao Mingyi had been hesitant to come and question his mother in person.
After all, he grew up reading four books and five classics full of poetry and filial piety, although he later fought for many years. When I was a child, my fair face was sunburned into a healthy wheat color. Some weak and high-spirited personalities have also been ground into calm and silent because of the heavy responsibilities on their shoulders.
But inside and outside, he once understood that his mother did good and bad things, but most of them turned a blind eye because of the grace of parenting. At that time, he thought that he didn't deal with those women too much anyway, so be it.
Until April 15, it was rainy. Zhao Mingyi had just returned from Hengyang's rescue and had just dismounted and stepped into the General's Mansion. I heard a commotion in the lobby.
"I, my daughter, how, how is it like this......"
Liang Guogong's eyes were dark, his eyes were slightly swollen, and he knelt at the front of the coffin. He wanted to say something, but because of a corner of his eye, he unintentionally skimmed Zhao Mingyi, who had just entered the hall, with an indifferent expression.
I was stunned, even if I felt that my daughter was innocent in vain, it was hard to say. After all, how can I say that Zhao Mingyi is the master of the General's Mansion, and he is also the husband of his own daughter. But now facing the coffin of his daughter who is still cold before he enters the ground, Zhao Mingyi is indifferent.
Actually, it's just that I've seen too many joys and sorrows for too long. Although the Zhao family's family motto is to be upright, not to deceive or deceive. But for so many years, Zhao Mingyi has been facing inhumane battlefields and cold weapons that no one responds to.
Just wiped the blood-stained sword over and over again, and saw that some soldiers had lost their loved ones and were grief-stricken, he raised his hand to comfort him, and his words were righteous, but in fact his heart was numb.
He's really seen too much.
Therefore, the current Zhao Mingyi is really very remorseful, why he refused to leave a tear for Liang Peiwen in the first place.
The more I thought about it, the clearer the corners of the mouth that was always smiling became in my mind.
Zhao Mingyi said coldly: "I said, Liang Peiwen, do you understand?" ”
When Zhao Sun heard this, he thought that Zhao Mingyi had ignored Liang Peiwen when he passed away, and this was suddenly investigated, it could be that the people from the Liang Guogong Mansion wanted to take revenge. After a few hesitations, Zhao Sun was a little nervous and said, "What? ”
Zhao Mingyi took a deep breath when he heard this, tried to suppress the anger in his heart, and then said: "I will ask you one last time, whether Liang Peiwen's death is related to you. ”
Zhao Sun's cold and shivering eyes at Zhao Mingyi knew that he couldn't hide it.
She said, "Yes." ”
No quibbles, no explanations. Just one word made Zhao Mingyi feel dizzy. He thought, he really failed. Hahahahahaha, Zhao Mingyi laughed, laughing so much that he burst into tears.
He hadn't laughed like this in years, he didn't know. But he was obviously smiling, but Zhao Mingyi felt full of sadness, and clasped his chest tightly, making him speechless in pain.
He was a well-known general, encouraging his soldiers to charge into battle outside, and he was busy every day to reduce losses in battle. As soon as the foreign war ended, he returned to the city to help the people. In the whole world, everyone said that he was good.
He made the world happy and laughed, and he was well managed. And the mess in his house was secretly covered up and killed a Liang Peiwen.
Zhao Mingyi shook his head and said, "Sun Shiyun is also involved?" Or are you alone? ”
"Sun Shiyun cut first and then played, I only found out later." Zhao Sun lowered his head, his face calm and quiet.
She smiled at the corners of her mouth, tears in her eyes. What mother doesn't want her son to be good. She just wants to take care of the house well, so that Zhao Mingyi outside doesn't have to worry about it. But never, unconsciously what he wants is not what his son thinks.
I'm sorry, Mingyi.
After a moment of silence, Zhao Mingyi returned to his normal state and said indifferently: "Then, why did Pei Wen commit suicide?" ”
This question puzzled Zhao Mingyi for a long time. Because he always felt that Liang Peiwen had suffered all the humiliation from the general's mansion, but she still didn't care and smiled with a spring breeze on her face. To himself, he didn't even mention a word. What kind of thing is it that makes her, a white aya, understand herself.
Zhao Sun gritted his teeth and said, "That night, someone stole into the General's Mansion and entered Qingxuan to defile Liang Peiwen. What is the specific situation, Mingyi, my mother can only say that when I arrived, Liang Peiwen's clothes were open, and a large piece of snow-white skin was exposed, and there was a man she had never met before. ”
At this point, Zhao Mingyi's face was still relaxed, but his eyes were almost dull.
It turns out that it's because of this.
The Sun family.
After Sun Shiyun heard the news that the spies she sent to Zhao's Mansion brought back, she twisted the silk handkerchief in her palms and paced back and forth in the courtyard.
Now there is only one person who can help her.
She hurried into her parents' yard, her eyes were a little red, and she was a little embarrassed.
"Shiyun, what's wrong with you?" The grandmother watched her daughter enter the hospital in such a hurry, worried that something had happened.
"Mother, I'm looking for my father." Sun Shiyun heard her grandmother's words, and tears rolled in her eyes a little uncontrollably.
"Okay, don't worry, I'll call your father right away." The grandmother looked at Sun Shiyun's tears that were about to fall, and felt a little distressed.
Well. Sun Shiyun listened to her grandmother's words, held back her tears, wiped them with a handkerchief, and nodded after wiping them.
When my grandfather received the news that my grandmother had sent someone, he walked over as quickly as possible, still panting.
When the grandmother saw her grandfather coming over, she pointed at Sun Shiyun and motioned for him to pay attention to her daughter.
"Shiyun, what's wrong with you?" Father Sun looked at Sun Shiyun's eyes slightly red, and he expected that something bad had happened, he still knew about his daughter, everything was so strong, and now it must be in trouble.
What should I say to my father? Sun Shiyun thought in her heart, a little overwhelmed.
What should she do? Now that Liang Peiwen's death Xiao Xue has suspected her, and she has not dealt with the matter of that year, if she finds out, then she will be finished!
No, no, she must not be allowed to find out, now, only her father can help her.
Sun Shiyun clutched her grandfather's sleeve tightly, tears had come out, "Father, you must help me this time, Xiao Xue was investigating Liang Peiwen's matter back then, and I arranged all the things, but ......"