Chapter 23: The Past
He wanted to ask so much that he didn't know where to start.
I was afraid that the questions asked would poke at Zhan Lu's sore spots, making her recall some bad things that she didn't want to mention.
He hadn't figured out how to ask, so he didn't ask.
"I wanted to ask, but I'm afraid you don't want to mention it, and I'm even more afraid of poking your sore spot."
"Even if you don't ask, nothing will change, I will still help you, protect you, and advance and retreat with you."
"So, do you know the past, it's all the same."
Chiwi said earnestly and attentively.
"Don't you ask whether it's right or wrong? What if I'm a heinous demon and I'm doing something bad? Support me too? ”
Zhan Lu asked deliberately.
Twilight smiled, "You won't." ”
After these two incidents, he knew that Zhan Lu had her own set of standards for doing things, but she would never do heinous and common sense bad things.
"And what if I did it?" Zhan Lu continued to ask, and she wanted to know an answer from Twilight.
"With me here, I won't let you do things that make your conscience feel bad."
Twilight knows that Zhan Lu is not an evil being, and if she does something bad, the most uncomfortable thing is herself, and she will always be condemned by her conscience.
Zhanlu was satisfied with his answer, even though they had only recently reunited, and even though Twilight had forgotten everything about her, he still knew her.
Now that you've got the answers you want, and you've understood how Twilight is going to be with her, there's something she should tell Twilight.
"Okay, let's talk about it for a long time, I'll tell you about the demons and the sea."
Twilight softly responded, "Hmm".
That was more than 200 years ago.
At that time, Zhan Lu and Qian Du were both born in the capital, and Zhan Lu's father was Tobe Shangshu.
He was a very learned man.
At that time, the emperor planned to ask Tobe Shangshu to be the prince's teacher, but Zhan Lu's father was afraid that he would be involved in partisan disputes and implicate his family in the future.
He refused the emperor's invitation, and only did his position as the head of the household with peace of mind.
The emperor has a sister who is married to a general, and Chiwi is their youngest son.
The emperor is the uncle of Qiandu, and Qiandu's father and mother are stationed at the border all year round.
In order to prove his sincerity to the emperor and reassure the Son of Heaven, he left his youngest son, Chidu, in Beijing.
Chiwi is happy to be idle in Beijing, not good at being an official, but he prefers to learn, and he likes to learn all kinds of knowledge.
Because of an article in the early years of Tobe Shangshu, he decided to go to worship Tobe Shangshu as a teacher.
Then Chiwi married the teacher's daughter, Zhan Lu, at the Tobe Shangshu house.
At that time, Zhan Lu was different from other ladies in the capital, she had a good upbringing and rich knowledge, but she didn't like to compete with others.
Perhaps because the thought has reached a certain level, it is difficult to find friends, confidants, and similar thoughts to oneself in Hongchen.
She has few friends among the ladies in Beijing, and she goes in and out of calligraphy, poetry and painting, famous flowers and plants.
Most of the places where women in Beijing go in and out are selling incense powder, embroidery, fabrics, ornaments and other places.
There may be many well-read women in Beijing, but there are very few enlightened families like Tobe Shangshu.
Those well-read and reasonable eldest ladies like to read, calligraphy and painting, but most of them have been cultivated by their families to stick to the rules.
Qiandu has seen a lot in Beijing, and in general, the ladies in Beijing are roughly divided into two categories, one is rude and willful, and they don't learn and have no skills.
The other type is to be knowledgeable, stick to their duties, and stick to the rules.
Zhan Lu is both, she is knowledgeable, but not conformist, she is generous, but not rude and willful.
Tobe Shangshu is a smart man.
He is not like other powerful people, he always wants to send his daughter to the palace, hoping that his daughter can have a place in the harem, so that their official career will be smoother.
He hid his daughter very well, he had already passed the age of the draft, and he didn't marry his daughter into the palace.
If it weren't for the fact that Qiandui worshipped the Tobe Shangshu as a teacher, she wouldn't have met such a woman.
I didn't even know that Tobe Shangshu still hid such an outstanding daughter.
What's more, in terms of naming, the household department can also pay attention to it, the original name of the household department is Yang Yuang, and Zhan Lu is called Zhan Lu, not with his surname.
So Zhan Lu revealed her name outside, and no one could think that she was the daughter of the Hubu Shangshu family.
After meeting Zhan Lu, Qiandu decided to seek a career, he must have enough power and enough ability to protect such a beautiful woman.
Twilight wants to protect her like Tobe Shangshu, so that she can be free and free, without having to hide it, but also without taking into account the different thoughts of those who have a heart.
The royal heirs, most of whom have no one in their sights, are bound to win when they meet a good woman.
Twilight had no doubt that Zhan Lu would have been discovered by those princes.
If he wants to hide his daughter again, I'm afraid it's unrealistic, and he may not even be able to prevent his daughter from being forced to marry into the royal family.
So Chiwi must have the ability to fight with several princes, just in case.
Qianwei was knighted by virtue of her own ability and became the youngest super-grade marquis in Beijing.
Tobe Shangshu is very satisfied with him as a student, and this student is also satisfied with being his son-in-law.
It's just that I have hidden my baby girl for more than ten years, and I was pried away like this, and I always feel a little bad in my heart.
So every time I see Twilight, I can't help but stab a few words.
Blowing his beard angrily and glaring, he couldn't help but admire the person Qianwei from the bottom of his heart.
is young and promising, but the royal relatives are not reckless, and they have no intention of pursuing a career, but they can support a protective umbrella for their daughter to adapt to officialdom.
After Qiandui became an official, Yang Yuang found out that this kid was thriving and comfortable in the officialdom, so this kid was really uninterested in the past, not incapable.
Qiandu prepared the most lucrative dowry in the whole capital, second only to the list of dowries for the royal family, not that he couldn't compare to the royal family, but that he couldn't overpower the royal family.
Otherwise, Qiandui would be able to devote all her financial resources to Zhan Lu's unique dowry.
Originally, everything was very good, Qiandu and Zhanlu were happy, and both families were very satisfied with this family business, but before the dowry was delivered to the Tobe Shangshu Mansion, something happened to the Tobe Shangshu.
The war at the border pass was tight, and the household department paid a sum of military pay to the border pass, and the military salary disappeared mysteriously.
Some people have pointed out that the person who embezzled this military salary was the head of the household.
In the end, the military salary was found in the warehouse of Tobe Shangshu's house.
Everyone didn't believe that the always honest Hubu Shangshu would do such a thing, and the crime of killing the head should have been killed, but in the end, because there were too many people who pleaded, he was exempted from the death penalty and sent to the frontier to fill the army.
Tobe Shangshu went with his wife.
In order to find out the truth of the matter, Qiandu returned the Tobe Shangshu a fair man, and when the Tobe Shangshu was in prison, he went to the southern town where the military salary was missing to investigate the case.
However, no matter how much you checked, there was no evidence that it was not that the head of the household was greedy for military salaries.
By the time he returned to Beijing, the Hubu Shangshu had already been assigned to the frontier, the Shangshu Mansion had been seized, and Zhan Lu was living on the streets.
Then the emperor made the decision to give Qiandu a marriage, the daughter of the prime minister, and after the emperor said that Zhan Lu was a criminal minister, he was not worthy of Qiandui.
In order to refuse the marriage, Qianwei applied to be demoted to a concubine and never entered Beijing, so he begged the emperor for three days before finally relenting the Son of Heaven and agreeing to his request.
After getting the result she wanted, Twilight could finally go back to her home and give Zhan Lu an explanation.
He returned to the mansion and told Zhan Lu that he was no longer a relative of the emperor from now on, just an ordinary person, but he would provide her with a stable situation as an ordinary person.
Twilight decides to take Zhanlu to a small town in the south, where there is the shop he opened in his early years, and the shop is already on the right track.
Over the years, he has hired a boss on the surface, and he has been the boss behind the scenes, and the operation has been booming.
If he is not in Beijing for the rest of his life, he can also give Zhan Lu a worry-free life, and the marquis who came for Zhan Lu, since he can't provide shelter for Zhan Lu anymore, he no longer needs it.
He gave up decisively and without regrets.
In the future, he will take the road of business, and he will always be able to protect Zhan Lu for the rest of his life.
When he was young, he was still too confident, he could control the affairs of the world at will, and if he wanted to seek an official position, he could easily do it.
He wants to be in business, and he can also do it.
But he never knew that there were some things in this world that were not man-made.
It's something he can't control.
After talking to Zhan Lu about his decision.
Twilight asks Zhanlu, "Will you come with me?" ”
Zhan Lu nodded with red eyes: "I do." ”
Twilight wiped the tears that overflowed her eyes, "Don't cry, I will take good care of you for the rest of my life, and I won't let you be wronged again." ”
As he spoke, he hugged Zhan Lu into his arms and hugged her tightly, wanting to use his body temperature to give her some warmth.
Make her feel at ease.
He was still saying, "When we get to the south, we'll have a wedding." ”
Everything was so warm and beautiful.
Then the change happened in an instant, and a dagger stabbed her in the heart from Zhan Lu's back.
At that moment, Zhan Lu almost forgot about the pain, and she only felt shocked.
She looked incredulously at the tip of the bloody dagger on her chest, and then at the unsane, numb, pale face of Twilight who had coldly pushed her away.
She slowly fell, and at that moment she thought she had been deceived by Twilight's sweet words.
But she couldn't say anything, and there was a sweet smell of blood in her throat.
Then streams of blood came out uncontrollably from the roar.
As soon as she opened her mouth, she could only spit out blood foam.
She watched as Twilight stood two steps away from him with a blank face, looking at her with a cold look in her eyes.
She couldn't think of why Twilight would hurt her, and she thought she would die with regret.
But she didn't want to see that after her soul left her body, she saw that Twilight had regained consciousness and ran over and picked up her body as soon as possible.
She saw Twilight's pained expression, and the tears in his eyes.
It was the first time she had seen Twilight cry.
At that moment, she was relieved.
Her flesh slowly closed her eyes, she didn't believe the wrong person.
Twilight never deceived her.