Chapter 3: Acquaintances
"When life hangs by a thread, what can you do with qinqi, calligraphy and painting? When hemorrhage, what is the use of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, even if it is the best in the world? Life is gone, how can we live better? She could feel her lips tremble herself, "I only learn what is useful." ”
Her mother taught her everything well, but she didn't marry a good man.
The master was speechless for a cup of tea, then narrowed his eyes and asked, "According to what you said, what's the use of killing people?" ”
Su Yanshang pursed her lips, recalling that scene, powerlessness and fear welled up in her heart......
If she could have killed someone, then, five years ago, it wouldn't have been her.
"I won't kill people, but you can learn from me to save people."
Su Yanshang studied medicine with her master for five years, but in the end, the other party did not let her really apprentice: "I didn't admit you as an apprentice, and you shouldn't use the medical skills I taught you outside, and if you use it, don't tell others that I taught it." ”
"Because you are not worthy, your original intention of studying medicine is not to cure diseases and save people......"
She also thought that she would only use this medical technique to kill people, and in five years, there was not a day that she did not want to kill.
But Su Yanshang still used this medical skill to save people.
On the way back to Beijing, she saved the third son of the Xinguo Mansion.
There was a rush of soldiers outside the carriage, and Su Yansheng's thoughts were pulled back.
"Your carriage, stop first, let the Houfu carriage pass first!"
I saw a few people dressed as guards stop all the passers-by and force the oncoming carriage to stop.
Two of the carriages that were stopped, when they saw this posture, turned around and left, with a self-consciousness that they couldn't afford to hide.
"Steward Zhang, what's wrong outside?" Su Yanshang lifted the curtain and asked.
"Miss Su, don't be afraid, there are not many people in this capital who can make the carriage of the Guogong Mansion give way."
"Which province's carriage is on the other side?"
I saw a black-roofed carriage much larger than the ordinary carriage, pulled by a black steed with shiny coat, and the red sandalwood door was carved with intricate and delicate patterns, inlaid with various colored gemstones, even on a cloudy day, it also looked shining.
At first glance, it has an extraordinary origin.
"So that Miss Su knows that it is the carriage of the Marquis of Zhenbei, and the Marquis of Zhenbei has only recently inherited the title." Steward Zhang said.
"Zhenbei Hou?" Su Yanshang had the impression that there was no such honor in the capital.
"Oh, now the Marquis of Zhenbei is only five years old, is the only son of the late general Yi Lingfeng, five years ago the general died in battle, the emperor thanked him for his merits, posthumously named the Marquis of Zhenbei, at that time his aunt in the house had given birth to a son, hey, it can be regarded as a posthumous son, the emperor said, let him inherit the title when he was five years old, and now it is five years ......"
The air suddenly stagnates.
Yi Lingfeng died in battle five years ago? Aunt Fuzhong gave birth to a son......
There were many words that reached Su Yansheng's ears, but she couldn't hear them anymore.
After a long time, the housekeeper didn't see the other party reply, thinking that she was not interested, and also accepted the conversation.
The curtain had been lowered, but Su Yansheng's hand still maintained the posture of grasping the curtain. She stared ahead, her eyes hollow.
Did he die in battle five years ago?
She was sure she hated him, but her eyes were still moist when she heard that he was dead, five years dead.
She felt a large empty piece in her heart, as if she had lost a goal, and her whole person was about to crumble.
Although the other party didn't kill her directly, if it weren't for him, he wouldn't have died tragically, and he was more or less an indirect enemy.
She was going to throw the heads of those who had harmed her in front of him, and then laugh at how blind he was and how stupid his brain was.
But now that he is dead, she will not be able to show off in front of him when she will take revenge in the future.
I didn't expect that!
How could he die? How could he die!
Suddenly, the horse seemed to go berserk, and the coachman pulled the reins to no avail, and was about to crash into the luxurious carriage that was coming from the opposite direction.
The coachman was anxious, and Steward Zhang, who was sitting next to the coachman, was even more anxious, the speed of the car was too fast, he couldn't find a chance to subdue the horse with one move, and reality didn't give him another chance.
The guards of the Hou Mansion, who were still imposing just now, were already scattered, and seeing the sudden scene, everyone was helpless.
Su Yansheng's mind was dizzy, and her stomach was tumbling: when she ran away five years ago, she was also in the carriage......
Just when the carriage of the Guogong Mansion and the carriage of the Hou Mansion were about to collide, only a whip was heard, and the two carriages narrowly passed by, and with another whip, the carriage of the Guogong Mansion separated from the horse, the car slowly stopped, and the horse also fell weakly under the willow tree on the side.
"Shizi? How did you end up here? The frightened Steward Zhang saluted and asked the person who saved them.
The person who came was Qi Yuncang, the prince of the Xinguo Mansion.
He didn't speak, his eyebrows were cold, his momentum was overwhelming, and even his dismount was extremely violent.
The guard escorted a person over, and as soon as he kicked his feet, the man knelt in front of Qi Yuncang.
"Why?" The guard asked in a deep voice.
The kneeling man was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and he didn't argue, he held his breath, his face was red to the base of his neck, and his expression was indignant.
Su Yanshang tidied up her clothes and hair and got out of the car.
The guards of the Hou Mansion saw that it was the carriage of the Xinguo Mansion that almost collided with their carriage, and they hid their arrogance a little, and one of them respectfully stepped forward to apologize.
The kneeling young man immediately jumped up, and under the suppression of the guards of the Guogong Mansion, he still stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the carriage of the Hou Mansion and roared: "They deceived people too much, demolished my house, and caused my grandmother to be so angry that she is still lying on the bed, and the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei is bullying people too much!" ”
"Shut up! How do you speak! How dare you be disrespectful to the Hou Mansion! The guards of the Hou Mansion threatened him twice, and then said to the prince of Xinguo in a low voice, "Don't blame the prince, this person will be handed over to the small one to deal with, so as not to obstruct your eyes." ”
"Did they really demolish your house?" A crisp voice rang out.
Su Yansheng's eyes were fixed on the kneeling man.
She is not a person who loves to come out, but the affairs of the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei have never been taken care of when she was the main mother, and now she wants to take care of it.
There was a golden glow in her eyes.
Whether it's angry, mocking, or trying to prove that she's back.
When the people of the Hou Mansion saw that the questioner got off the carriage of the Gongfu, they didn't dare to offend too much, and still scolded the man: "Low pariahs, what nonsense! Collided with the nobles, see how you end! ”
"I'm not talking nonsense, the Hou Mansion of Zhenbei sent someone to break into my house for no reason during the day a few days ago, just because my family lives next door to him, and now they have incorporated my family's territory into his house, and our family can only live in the town outside the capital, and the neighbors are looking at it, which is all evidence." The boy shouted.
Zhenbei Hou Mansion was originally the Great General's Mansion, and the Great General Yi Lingfeng was born in the countryside, but after joining the army, he repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and was promoted one after another, and then took his mother and younger brother from the countryside to the capital.
When the property was purchased, the courtyards near the imperial city had been occupied by powerful families, and not all the royal relatives and nobles lived around the purchased lots, but also ordinary officials.
The father of the young man in front of him is an ordinary Beijing official, who does not dare to offend Xungui, and now he has to go to work in the capital, and he has to set off from the town outside the city every day.
"You mean, you hit the horses of the Gongfu with stones and frightened the horses so that the carriage of the Gongfu would hit the carriage of the Houfu? Using the carriage of the Guogong Mansion to avenge you? Qi Yuncang's guard asked.
"Yes! But revenge can't be talked about, just venting anger. ”
"Did you know that this is the carriage of the Shinkoku Mansion? You can't afford to mess with the Xinguo Mansion! ”
The young man held his breath and did not speak, his eyes full of hatred.
"It's because as long as no one finds out that you startled the horse with a stone, the people of the Hou Mansion who were hit by the carriage of the Guogong Mansion will not dare to do anything to the Guogong Mansion!" Su Yanshang said.
This is power.
Everyone realized.
"How can it be!" The palace guards were furious.
It is really bold to dare to calculate the head of the Guogong Mansion.
"Have you ever thought that the Gongfu is innocent, and there may be children or old people sitting in the car of the Hou Mansion, so they are all innocent people?" Qi Yuncang, the prince of Xinguo, said.
His face was as cold as a stone carving, and he was extremely majestic.
The guards of the Hou Mansion in the north of the town were triumphant.
The general has been away for many years, and the general's mansion almost can't hold on, but now that the young master has inherited the marquis, he feels that the entire general's mansion has turned over, and even the Guogong Mansion has helped the Hou Mansion speak.
"Innocent? Isn't my family innocent? My grandmother was almost scared to death, my family is gone, who is innocent, who is not innocent! The boy said, trying to rush forward.
The crowd pointed and pointed, and Su Yanshang heard the truth from everyone's words.
"The Hou Mansion of Zhenbei is really amazing, you used someone else's land, did you pay the fee?" Su Yansheng's own voice was small, and in order to let the people around her hear, she really deliberately raised her strength.
There was a moment of silence.
At this time, a jade hand stretched out from the curtain of the carriage of the Hou Mansion, and the maid standing beside him led him out of the car.
"It is his honor for the Hou Mansion to use his land, where is there any reason to pay!"
A matter of course.
According to her thoughts, what the Hou Mansion wants, everyone should respectfully offer.
She felt that the Guogong Mansion was the same as the Hou Mansion, they were all nobles, and if they didn't do this, they would definitely not trouble the Hou Mansion because of this.
A woman in her early twenties came down from the carriage, with a high serpentine bun and a few golden hairpins in the bun, and a huge jewel inlaid on her head, and a graceful and luxurious style, which complemented the carriage in which she was sitting.
It turned out to be Aunt Yu.
From the discussion of the crowd on the side, Su Yanshang knew that the current Zhenbei Hou was Aunt Yu's own son.
Su Yansheng's heart twitched.
At that time, Aunt Yu was the first to be pregnant in the General's Mansion, and later she had a miscarriage, blaming her, she argued, no one in the whole house believed her, and they all wronged her for the medicine, and she was kicked out of the mansion because of this.
Soon after, Yi Lingfeng went to the northwest, and there was no possibility for the two to meet again, so it was impossible for Aunt Yu to get pregnant again, and the child was already five years old. So that time, Aunt Yu didn't have a miscarriage at all.
And she took the pot in vain.
Now that Aunt Yu has a child, she doesn't have to worry about everything, but the obvious eye bags and fat powder can't hide the spots, plus the excessively high cheekbones, still make people feel her hard work. Is it the result of constant deliberation?
"The Zhenbei Hou Mansion is nothing more than this, it really tarnishes the prestige of the general." Su Yanshang said.
Aunt Yu frowned and asked Su Yansheng, "Who are you?" ”