Chapter 723: Scarlet Long Street (Medium)
There is a long street in the north city of Kyoto, called Heian Road, here is not far from the Imperial City, after crossing the Sanshe Bridge not far in front, you can go up to Suzaku Avenue, it is very convenient to go to the court, for countless years, this street has lived in all the dignitaries, from the previous dynasty to the present, there has never been any change, but with the change of the current situation, the people who live in the house next to the street keep changing.
In the orthodox years, the mansion with the best location on Ping'an Road and the closest to the imperial city naturally belonged to the Tianhai family. After the change of Tianshuling, there was no change in the Tianhai family, but to the east, many houses have changed owners, and the civil engineering has been overhauled, because more than ten princes such as King Xiang and King Zhongshan have moved over one after another.
The mansion in the easternmost and closest to Huaihua in Ping'an Road is the Xue Mansion, as the first person in the Great Zhou military who is most trusted by the Holy Queen of Tianhai, Xue Xingchuan is naturally qualified to enjoy such treatment, and now the Xue family is naturally impossible to continue to keep this mansion, the new owner may be a certain prince or a certain god general, who knows?
Mrs. Xue didn't know who the new owner of this mansion was, but she knew that it was inevitable, and she never had the luxury of continuing to live here, so she had already made corresponding preparations, and all the servants were dismissed, and after the sacrifice was over, she used the original dowry silver to buy a small courtyard on the street outside Baihua Lane.
After doing this, she thought that she could be calm, but listening to the crying beside her, she found that peace was also a luxury after all, and she felt that her head hurt a little, and asked in a deep voice: "Are you crying because of pain, or are you crying because of sadness?"
Miss Xue, who was kicked out of the house by Shilang's Mansion overnight a few days ago, has been staying in Xue's Mansion to wash her face with tears, and after hearing the news today, she couldn't cry even more. Listening to Mrs. Xue's question, she was frightened, raised her head timidly, sobbed and asked, "Mother, what's wrong?"
Her eyes were already red, her voice was a little hoarse, and for some reason, there were many wounds on her face, as if she had been beaten.
Mrs. Xue pointed to her bruised face that had not disappeared until today, and said angrily: "If you cry because you are beaten to the point of pain, it means that you are unproductive and unworthy of being your father's daughter, and if you cry because he is dead, it means that you have a problem with your brain, is it worth crying for this kind of person?"
The news that Wei Shilang of the Ministry of Rites was killed by Chen Changsheng and Wang Po has spread throughout Kyoto. Miss Xue would be extremely angry every time she thought of her husband's ruthlessness and hot hands, and she wanted him to die, but suddenly found that the man was really dead, thinking about all these years, she couldn't help but feel sad, and felt that her life was really bitter.
Listening to her mother's words, the eldest lady of the Xue family also felt that she was really useless, but ...... Why did Dean Chen kill him? Shouldn't he beat that man up and then escort him to the Xue Mansion to apologize to him, swearing to God that he would be very good to him in the future, just like before......
An unexpected roar interrupted her somewhat chaotic thoughts.
The roar came from the courtyard next door to Xue's mansion.
Immediately afterward, there were countless rumbling crashes, and the sound of wind and thunder could be faintly heard, and then, the houses collapsed, and the smoke and dust were filled.
The eldest lady of the Xue family was stunned, her face was pale, and she couldn't care about grief and crying.
Mrs. Xue's gaze fell on the smoke and dust rising next door, and her face showed a puzzled look.
The collapse of the mansion next door did not affect the Xue Mansion, but she didn't know why, she just felt that it should be related to the Xue Mansion.
Many years ago, after the Holy Empress Niangniang gave the house of Ping'an Road to Xue Xingchuan, the mansion across the wall also began to be renovated simultaneously.
The door of that mansion is open in the south-facing acacia flowers, and ordinary people can't even find it, and they will only feel that the mansion is part of the Xue Mansion when they walk on Ping'an Road.
The owner of that mansion is very mysterious and has never dealt with people, until today, Mrs. Xue does not know who the other party is, and only vaguely guesses that it should have something to do with her own family, because she has heard Xue Xingchuan make two corresponding arrangements and the most severe warnings.
She even once wondered if this mysterious neighbor could be the rumored Prince Zhaoming, and of course, this conjecture was later proved wrong.
The house collapsed, bringing up countless smoke and dust, breaking bamboo like a broken bow, and breaking some emerald green bamboo pieces to the garden of Xue Mansion.
Mrs. Xue hugged her frightened daughter and whispered a few words of comfort.
The house next door was still collapsing, and the rumbling sound was incessant, as if someone had fallen directly from the courtyard into the street. Mrs. Xue didn't know why the next door collapsed, but looking at this terrible movement, she thought that even if the person escaped, she was afraid that he would be smashed, so she told the steward to open the door and see if the other party needed help.
It was nearly twilight, and it was a little dark, but fortunately the snow in the street was still so white, so you could clearly see the man covered in blood.
Although the man's blood seemed to be black.
The steward pushed open the door of Xue's mansion, and the first picture Mrs. Xue and her daughter saw was such bloody.
Miss Xue exclaimed in surprise and shouted repeatedly, "Come and save people." ”
After saying this, she saw a very strange scene.
A beautiful woman in palace clothes appeared behind the bloody man, silently.
The palace beauty was also bleeding from her body, and there was some dust, which covered some of her eyebrows, but she couldn't hide her beauty.
Who is she? What's going on? Just when Miss Xue was stunned, the palace beauty raised the broken sword in her hand and slashed at the bloody man.
A stream of blood shot into the snow, not too much, not enough for the bloody man to die on the spot, and not so little that it could not be seen.
"Murder!" Miss Xue shouted in horror, and then her voice stopped abruptly.
Mrs. Xue covered her mouth, her hands trembling constantly, but very hard, not letting her daughter make any sound.
She could see very clearly that the palace beauty was Mo Yu, and the bloody man was ...... Zhou Tong.
It turned out that the house next door was Zhoutong.
She finally figured this out, thinking that Xue Xingchuan had hidden this matter from herself, she couldn't help but be even more angry, and her body trembled even more.
"It's Zhou Tong. Mrs. Xue's voice was a little vague and a little cold.
The eldest lady of the Xue family stiffened slightly, looking at this bloody scene on the snow street, her hands gradually clenched.
Like a wounded beast, Zhou Tong let out a somewhat strange low roar, got up from the snow in pain, and took a few steps forward.
He knew that this was the Xue Mansion, and he knew that the mother and daughter on the stone steps were his sister-in-law and niece, so he wouldn't turn his head over there to take a look.
He wouldn't plead with them, it would be humiliating for himself, and he didn't want to be seen by them like a stray dog.
He wanted to leave as soon as possible, but just then, a terrible sword wind landed on his left thigh.
His muscles were cut horizontally, blood was slowly dripping like porridge from the edge of the pot, and he fell to his knees in the snow, splashing snow under his knees.
Looking at this scene, Miss Xue exclaimed again, but this time, in addition to horror, it was more happiness.