Chapter 7 There is no escape
Su Huang knew that Aunt Cui had an accident, and rushed to the scene of the accident as quickly as possible, only to see that Aunt Cui's body had been covered with a white cloth, and only the exposed right arm had festered and lost its original appearance.
Su Huang, who was already grief-stricken, was suddenly shocked, and looked carefully at the thing in Aunt Cui's hand, which was indeed his own white jade hairpin. How did his hairpin get into Aunt Cui's hands?
"Why didn't you bring the white jade hairpin you brought on the day you got married?" Mu Xize said in a very deep voice.
"In... In my jewelry box. Su Huang had a very bad premonition, and his words were not very coherent.
"Let's go, I want to see your hosta. Mu Xize said lightly.
What made Su Huang even more uneasy was that the white jade hairpin that had been placed in the jewelry box before was gone, but it was missing at such a time. Su Huang's heart sank, and he cried and said to Mu Xize: "Xi Ze, it's none of my business, Aunt Cui's death is none of my business!" Su Huang tugged at the corner of Mu Xize's clothes and hoped that Xi Ze could believe in herself, but she saw endless disappointment in Xi Ze's eyes.
"Lord Wang, Lord Wang, it's not good, the guard Xiao He hanged himself!" Zhou An, the chief supervisor of the inner prison, rushed over in a panic, knelt down in front of Mu Xize, and glanced at Su Huang nervously.
Probably thinking that just the suicide of a guard would not make Zhou An so panicked, there must be some other reason, Mu Xize then replied: "And then?"
"A suicide note was found in Xiao He's clothes," Zhou An glanced at Su Huang with great anxiety, and said carefully: "The suicide note explained how he had an affair with the princess, and after the adultery was discovered by Aunt Cui, the two of them killed people. Xiao He felt guilty in his heart and finally chose to commit suicide to atone for his sins. After saying this, Zhou An's face was already soaked with cold sweat.
Mu Xize angrily flicked his sleeves and smashed the coffee table on the table, and said in an extremely cold tone: "Grounding the princess and keeping it under strict care." ”
"Xi Ze, Xi Ze" Su Huang wanted to chase after Xi Ze, but was stopped by the guards. At this time, Xia Qingqing, who had not made a sound, looked at Su Huang, with an inadvertent and eerie smile in his eyes. It turned out to be her.
Su Huang struggled, it seemed that if there were no guards to stop her, she would kill Xia Qingqing to avenge Aunt Cui, but now she could only let Xia Qingqing leave her sight casually and swaggeringly.
Night. Su Huang sat alone on the soft collapse, except for the guards at the door, there was no one in the room, and the heart that was still resentful at the beginning could no longer withstand the waves at the moment, and the only regret was the lives of Aunt Cui and the guard.
Su Huang finally remembered that Xiao He came to Su Huang a few nights ago to ask for a few days off to go home to take care of his sick mother, but he didn't expect to be used by Xia Qingqing, but now he has become a scapegoat for someone's life, and he also lost his own life, which is a pity.
Su Huang didn't expect that it was Mu Xize who came here to visit him first. Mu Xize drank a lot of wine, and he was still holding a wine jug in his hand, and Su Huang smelled the wine before he entered the house.
Mu Xize's mind was indeed very sober, and after entering the house, he sat on the other side of the soft collapse.
"Xi Ze, believe me, I didn't kill anyone, let alone do anything with Xiao He!" Su Huang said in a slightly trembling voice.
Mu Xize didn't answer, just said to himself, as if Su Huang didn't exist, "That night was the coldest night of the year after leaving the country, Aunt Cui because she had inherited her mother's kindness before, she wore a single dress and risked death in the cold night to Yixia Hall to deliver a letter, saying that her father brought Yulin Army to kill her. However, although my mother did not believe that my father wanted to kill her, she still unconsciously entrusted me to her. That night there was blood splattered and corpses strewn all over the field, and Aunt Cui kept covering my mouth, and we didn't make a sound to save our lives. ”
Mu Xize took a sip of wine and continued to say slowly: "When I was ten years old, I was framed by my eldest brother, broke the jade seal, and was tortured with a cane. Later, I opened a house independently, thinking that I could let Aunt Cui live a good life, but only three or four years later, but now I am separated forever. ”
That night, Mu Xize told Su Huang a lot about his past with Aunt Cui, but she didn't defend herself anymore, and he didn't question her. I thought that the most difficult night of my life was finally spent in a calm story.
Early in the morning of the second day, the emperor's personal eunuch Liu came to deliver the decree, which was to the effect that the princess was misbehaving, narrow-minded, and lost the princess's virtue, so Su Huang went to Lingyun Peak to think about it that day. What is more merciful is that the death of Aunt Cui and Xiao He was hidden in the holy decree, and the hat of Su Huang killing Aunt Cui has also become ambiguous. Ning Wangfu claimed that Aunt Cui died violently because of a sudden vicious disease, and Su Huang picked up a life.
Lingyunfeng has always been inaccessible, and the people who live there are palace people who have made big mistakes and concubines who have not been born and raised by the previous emperor, nominally by virtue of the Buddha's light cultivation in Jing'an Temple at the foot of the mountain, but in fact, they have gone there to live this life. What made Su Huang feel very relieved was that Xiaoyu was willing to go to Lingyun Peak with him to suffer.
Su Huang and Xiaoyu simply packed their luggage and walked out of the palace under the eyes of everyone who despised, disgusted, and regretted. Su Huang's mother had been waiting in front of the palace early, and when she saw Su Huang, she couldn't hold back her tears anymore, hugged Su Huang and cried. Seeing his mother like this, Su Huang couldn't help but cry.
Seeing this, the guards hurriedly pulled Su Mu away and carried Su Huang into the carriage.
The carriage stumbled and finally arrived at Jing'an Temple at noon two days later. The leading guard officer explained his intention to Master Miao Zhen, who was in charge, and Master Miao Zhen led Su Huang and the guards to Lingyun Peak.
Su Huang felt that he had been walking for a long time, and the more he walked up, the more cold he felt, and the eerie chill went straight into the cuffs, Su Huang tightened his arms and walked up with difficulty.
Xiao Yu said a little timidly: "Miss, I heard that if there are too many people who die in vain in a place, the ghosts will not disperse, and those souls will absorb the yang energy of that place, and it will become gloomy and cold all year round. ”
Master Miao Zhen said with a little anger: "Buddhism is important, how can you wait for such nonsense!"
"It's my slave who said the wrong thing, and I ask the teacher to calm his anger!"
When the sun was about to set, Su Huang had stopped in front of a dilapidated thatched house that seemed to have not been inhabited for a long time. Master Miao Zhen pointed to the broken grass house and said, "This will be the residence of the princess from now on." ”
Seeing that Su Huang had arrived at the "place of exile" safely, the guards finally followed Master Miao Zhen down the mountain with confidence.
Su Huang, who has been the pearl of his palm since he was a child, has always lived a life of fine clothes and food even if he has lived a very hard life after getting married, and has never imagined how to survive in a broken grass house with no roof, no windows, and dust everywhere.
"Miss. Xiao Yu looked around, turned to look at Su Huang and said timidly.
Su Huang took Xiaoyu's hand and pretended to be very calm and said, "Let's be here for one night today, and then think of a way when it dawns tomorrow." ”
Xiao Yu's eyes widened and said, "Miss, why don't we run!"
Su Huang looked at Xiao Yu with some surprise, "Run, the mountains here are dense, with a weak woman like us, it is time to feed the beast before we run down Lingyun Peak." Su Huang sighed and continued, "We ran away, what should my father and mother do, I will not ignore my father and mother." ”
Then the two hugged each other, covered with the cloak that Su Huang brought from the house, and barely spent the night.
When it was almost noon on the second day, Master Miao Zhen sent two little nuns to bring Su Huang some things to keep out the cold, as well as half a bag of rice, which made Su Huang feel that the next few days would be better than now. Then Su Huang prepared to find some dead branches to prepare for the fire at night, and also prepared to pick up some hay to mend the holes in the roof.
Just as Su Huang was concentrating on picking it up, he suddenly felt a black shadow flash behind him, and Su Huang shouted vigilantly: "Who?"
I saw a person really come out from behind the tree.