Chapter 43: The Storm Rises
Li Zhang's time every morning is the time when he is most afraid and afraid, and it is also the time when he is most worried. The feeling of waiting for that person every day is like the feeling of waiting for a stern teacher to call me to endorse it. Every day, he would get up early and put a column of incense on his wife, who seemed to have been dead for many years, and put some seasonal fruits on the table. After that, he carefully cleaned his house inside and out, smoked it with herbs, and put on a new clean dress again, and carefully smelled the smell of his body. In the end, I sat silently in my room, anxiously waiting for that moment to come, waiting to see that person! The feeling of fear these days has become even greater, because the person to wait for is not only the original one, but also another person! Looking at the woman's half-masked face and her exposed intelligent eyes, I always felt as if she had discovered her secret, as if she had smelled the sour smell of urine that could never be washed off her body, and felt so frightened and frightened from the inside out!
Li Ne has been having a good time these days, firstly, he doesn't have to go to the master to practice some strange exercises recently. It seems that the master has gone to train Maxima without knowing where to go. I used to be idle, but now I go to the master every day to practice those strange kung fu, and I still feel a little tired. Now it is just the right time to take advantage of the master's errands to go out to run errands with his newlywed Yan'er, and he can have a good rest! Second, those people who have been ambushing around him and spying on him recently seem to have fewer, and I don't know if they have relaxed their vigilance against themselves, or if they have become irrelevant. But if it doesn't matter, it's even better, and you don't have to do all kinds of nervous precautions all the time. The third is that my wife seems to be really good, and the good ones are almost beyond my imagination! Not only is she gentle, but she is also very inward-looking. It's just that the mask on her face is a little strange, but it would be good to wait until she quietly lifted it up that day to see what was going on inside her. In addition, through the careful observation in the past few days, Li Ne was pleasantly surprised to find that his wife is also very good in other places, especially the way she treats things and handles things, not only can she cooperate with her own ideas, but also sometimes put forward her own unique opinions, so that things can be done more smoothly and smoothly. In short, Li Nejue's wife is very satisfied, so she feels very happy and in good spirits!
When I got up in the morning, after Li Ne and the eldest grandson had washed and dressed up, they came to Li Ne's father Li Zhang's room as a few days ago, greeted him and said hello to him!
Looking at the couple in front of him who were asking for peace, Li Zhang hurriedly rushed forward and picked it up, and said in his mouth: "No, no, you don't have to be so polite every day, it's all your own family, you don't have to be so polite every day!" After finishing speaking, he asked the two of them to sit down quickly, and he also sat on the chair and drank tea slowly.
Li Ne asked, "Father had a good rest last night, but what did you tell me to do?"
Li Zhang replied solemnly: "It's okay to rest, I don't have anything to do here today, you can arrange it yourself! In addition, the money in the account room is ready, you remember to take it yourself! In addition, if you go out today, bring Yuwen with you." ”
After Li Zhang got up and bowed, he left his father's room with his eldest grandson and returned to his own room. Looking at Li Ne, who was dressed neatly and was about to go out, the eldest grandson sighed, and said to Li Ne faintly: "I don't know if the matter that Xianggong is going to deal with today is important, if it is not too important, the slave family wants to talk to Xianggong for a long time!
Li Ne looked at the eldest grandson curiously, and said happily: "I don't have anything important today, everything is arranged by my wife." And I'd love to hear what Madame has to say, what's going on, is there something going on?"
The eldest grandson stared at Li Ne for a long time, and finally ruthlessly, and said carefully: "I know what Xianggong wants to know and see the most now?"
As the mask was removed, Li Ne saw a face that was incomparably beautiful, and the covered half of it may have not seen sunlight for many years, and it looked even more pale. Thinking about the rumors he heard, looking at the almost flawless and delicate face in front of him, Li Ne couldn't help but be stunned.
Looking at Li Ne's surprised face, the eldest grandson seemed to calm down for a moment, and then said: "Xianggong must be very surprised! Xianggong must have thought that the face behind the mask of the slave family was very scary and terrifying, and he couldn't see anyone! But who can know the psychological suffering of the slave family!", as he spoke, a line of tears flowed from the eyes of the eldest grandson. Tears flowed down her cheeks, flowing. Li Ne looked at the eldest grandson, walked over silently, took out his handkerchief, and slowly wiped away her tears, revealing her tear-soaked skin, which looked particularly tender and white! Li Ne slowly patted the eldest grandson's shoulder and nodded to her.
The eldest grandson turned his head, no longer looked at Li Ne's eyes, and said quickly: "When I was very young, my mother left me. When I was seven years old, my brother left me. After my brother left, my father didn't know why, his personality changed so much, and he didn't even know me anymore! Every day, he only knew flattery, and shamelessly patted people's ass! I don't know what happened to him? I don't know why he became like that? I know that my face is very good-looking, and I also want my husband to see my face every day, but after all these things have happened, I want to know why? Later, Yuan Tiangang, the eldest disciple of the national teacher Li Huo, gave me a fate, saying that I was jealous and red-faced, and I had to cover this half of my face for the rest of my life, so that I would turn evil into good fortune and be lucky in death. As a result, on the first day I put on the mask, I met you, and this may be God's arrangement. The first time I saw you that day, I was overjoyed. Xianggong, your appearance is the appearance of Xianggong in my dream, I am so happy. In order to open up my heart, I also worshipped the master and learned some healthy body conditioning methods. For I saw that the men of those days were too thin. I want Xianggong to be healthy for you, and I want Xianggong to always be by my side. Xianggong, I like you so much, I want to be with you for the rest of my life. Every day when I sleep, I will secretly look at you when you are asleep, and sometimes I will secretly kiss you, I am afraid that I will lose you!
Li Ne looked at the eldest grandson in surprise and asked, "What secret? What secrets can I have? I don't hide any secrets from you!"
The eldest grandson was depressed for a long time before he said slowly: "It has been many days since I married into your family, and I find the family very strange. When I met him today, I saw that his hands were shaking very badly when he was drinking tea!
Li Ne said: "That's because my father is a drunkard, and he drank too much cold wine, which hurt his spleen and stomach, so his hands will shake like that!"
The eldest grandson said: "I also found that my father didn't dare to speak first, and before he spoke, he would quietly look at your eyes, as if he was observing your expression!
Li Ne said: "That's because my father expressed concern for you, and I was afraid that I would scare you by being too serious and harsh! Moreover, my father used to suffer from a hidden disease and couldn't sit for a long time, so he sat on half of the chair!"
The eldest grandson looked at Li Ne seriously and said, "Father used 'you' when he talked about you, is there any father in this world who will use the honorific title 'you' when he preaches about his son? Moreover, my father's left beard is higher than that on his right today, which is obviously not the same as yesterday's! Could it be that my father has a fake beard?"
Li Ne silently looked at the eldest grandson and said, "What else did you see, and what else was wrong with you?"
The eldest grandson said: "Incense was lit in my father's room for my mother's tablet, but my father never mentioned it, and never even let me go over to put on a pillar of incense! I felt very strange! But the most strange thing for me was that all the male family members in the family did not have beards, are they all eunuchs? Why are these? Who are you, Xianggong, and why are there such strange families? There are so many strange people in the family?"
Li Ne looked at the eldest grandson and thought for a long time before he said slowly: "What a smart girl, I didn't expect you to discover the secret here so quickly." This secret is my secret, in fact, I am almost the same as you, an outcast! The difference is that your father loves you very much, and you can't even think of what he did for you! And my father, you can't even think of what he did to me!"
Looking at the eldest grandson with a puzzled face, Li Ne said: "Speaking of you, when I married you, in fact, I was just to repay your father for everything he has done to me over the years! In fact, if it wasn't for you, he would have gone a long time ago, and it is indeed better to die than to live a servile life like him!"
The eldest grandson's face was full of tears, and he said even more puzzledly: "Who are you? Who are you? Why did my father do that?"
Li Ne let out a long sigh and said, "I am a man forsaken, and I am a more pitiful person than you. My memory seems to have stopped ten years ago, the memory of the previous one is still there, and the memory after that seems to be very vague, very vague! Before I was ten years old, my father and mother loved me, and I had several brothers and sisters. The family is harmonious and beautiful. Until one day, when I was playing outside, I met a female Taoist aunt. I saw that the lady was kind and very philosophical, so I took him to my father, hoping to give some advice to my father, who was troubled by some things in the court! I haven't seen him since. My personal servant, Lao Zhangtou, has been my father Li Zhang since then! The subordinates around me also seem to change every few months, as if they are guarding against me or something! I actually don't know who I really am? Why am I like this?"
Li Ne said, looked at the eldest grandson, and said: "Over the years, I have lived in a daze, and I don't know anything. I only know that the female Taoist aunt I brought into the house later became the Tang Heavenly Master, and then I don't know why, she recognized me as her nephew! She is now my aunt 'Li Xuanyi'!"
Looking at the eldest grandson's increasingly puzzled eyes, Li Ne said again: "Thanks to your father and Yu Wenhua and others all these years, the two of them have always been by my side to comfort me, educate me and protect me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to make it to this day! But now that I have you, I feel that my life is starting to get better, and I also have the courage to continue to persevere and the determination to live well!"
The eldest grandson hugged Li Ne and cried loudly! Li Ne looked at the eldest grandson and remembered that when his father killed his mother with his own hands, he was hiding under his parents' bed! When his mother was lying under the bed and strangled by his father, the white eyes that turned out seemed to be looking at him all the time, as if telling himself to let himself hide and never make a sound!
In his mother's hand, he still seemed to be holding a note, and Li Ne always remembered the words, 'Success is also the people, defeat is also the people', who is this Li Shimin? Is it the real murderer who forced his father to kill his mother? How kind and caring his parents were back then, just like us now. Thinking about it, Li Ne looked at the eldest grandson in his arms again, his face full of tenderness and smile!