Chapter 17: A Tragic Life
Cixi to Shuangcheng more than 200 miles, fast horses, Li Ji arrived in Shuangcheng at noon the next day. Rushing overnight, he needs to rest here for a while, Zhou Guo is far away, he also needs to buy a horse, double riding to ensure speed.
Li Ji was not worried about the Cixi incident, he knew too well the efficiency of the government in remote towns, first of all, they would look for You You as soon as they found out about the murder, which of course could not be found. The murderer is unknown, You is missing, Cixi's only remaining public servant Qiang Fu Xu Jihai will definitely choose to wait, and rashly reporting to Shuangcheng can only show his incompetence, three or four days later, if he finds that the situation is not right, he will report to Shuangcheng, and Shuangcheng will send a public servant to Cixi to investigate and determine Li Ji's suspicion, which will have to pass another five or six days, and when Li Jixi's case is determined and the picture is pursued, I am afraid that it has been more than ten days away from the time of the crime, and at this time Li Ji has already left the south and left the country, and there is nowhere to be found.
I went to the Shuangcheng Horse Market to buy a key horse for forty taels of silver, and Li Ji generously led the two horses to walk on the streets of Shuangcheng, no need to live in a store, find a food shop to fill my stomach and rest a little, and I have to travel for half a day in the afternoon.
Subconsciously, Li Ji's footsteps walked towards Rongshengfang, a wealthy area in the north of the city, and a sudden feeling dominated him, perhaps it was the residual consciousness of the original owner, there was a trace of reluctance... Li Ji did not resist this consciousness, and naturally walked into Rongshengfang with instinctive memory, turned around and turned around, entered a luxuriously decorated, three-storey restaurant, and instructed the guy to take care of the horses carefully, and then climbed to the third floor, sat down against the window, and looked out, dozens of zhang away, across the street, a magnificent mansion stood majestically, and the golden seal word 'Li Mansion' on the door plaque was two dragons flying and phoenixes dancing.
"Guest, what do you eat? "Xiao Er came over...
"Pick a few of your best things in the store, and then have a good pot of tea. Li Ji waved his hand away from Xiao Er, he was in a trance, after seeing that mansion, some memories buried in the depths of his heart began to gradually become clear, some people, some things... Only then did he realize what a strange tragedy the previous owner was.
The meal was not yet complete, at this time the side door of the Li Mansion quietly opened, and a four-person soft sedan chair walked out accompanied by several guards, an old man who looked like a housekeeper was sending him off at the door, and the owner of the sedan chair opened the sedan curtain as if talking to the old man, and a bright face clearly appeared in front of Li Ji's eyes, it was her... Li Ji's heart was shocked, about himself, about this woman, about this family, everything is not strange...
The Li family is not a family with a long heritage and historical heritage, in fact, the Li family has developed since Li Ji's father, and it seems more appropriate to describe it as a nouveau riche.
Li Mingru, the patriarch of the Li clan, Li Ji's father with this body, was just a poor and down-and-out talent in Shuangcheng more than 20 years ago, and then went to Beijing to take the exam, failed many times, and finally became disheartened, and found a private school in the capital of the south to make a living by teaching children to read. Then Li Mingru began to transfer, this private school, was the nephew of the emperor of the southern country at that time, the home school of His Royal Highness Prince Feng, the old Li scientific examination is not good, but the character is handsome, outstanding conversation, by chance by Prince Feng appreciated, became a guest of the scene, and a few years, married Prince Feng's personal maid as his wife, and since then he has become a winner in life.
But the blessing and misfortune depended, when the second son of the two was born, the palace underwent a great change, Prince Feng was ordered to behead the whole family due to a conspiracy coup d'état peeping into the throne, before the Royal Forest Army entered the palace, there was a moving scene in the palace where the servant died for the Lord, the princess exchanged her son who had just been born and the son of the righteous servant's personal maid to continue the bloodline inheritance of Prince Feng, this event was very secret, Prince Feng left the bloodline, Li Mingru and his family were all loyal to the righteous servant, but no one asked the poor maid's son if he was willing, this unlucky guy is- Li Ji.
Li Mingru and his wife took the little prince to be dismissed with the servants of the Hefu, returned to their hometown in Shuangcheng, and made a fortune by relying on the hidden wealth that the palace had already prepared. The husband and wife are indeed loyal, especially the personal maid, oh, now they are the main mother, and they care about the little prince very much, and they are regarded as out, not to mention Li Ji, who was thrown into the fire pit as soon as he was born, is the eldest son, and his spoiling is far less than the prince in distress. Of course, outsiders don't think so, they just think that the Li family spoils their youngest son.
Li Ji's life is just the opposite, Prince Feng's whole family was beheaded, and he was the youngest left under the knife, it is said that when the national teacher Huadao opened the golden mouth, no one knows what the reason is, maybe it is too young to kill the heavens and harm, maybe the Huadao people have already seen that this is a substitute. Daomen has a very high status in this world, even the imperial court, it rarely refutes their face, no matter what, Li Ji's misfortune is fortunate that he finally survived.
Li Ji's childhood was spent in the deep and closed court, he was sent to the palace Huanyi Bureau, raised by several old and decrepit old palace maids, his quality of life can be imagined, he can grow up stumbling, and he did not die inexplicably, it is really a miracle.
When he was seven years old, the old emperor died, and after the new emperor took the throne, Li Ji's age was not suitable to stay in the palace anymore, so he was sent to the Internal Supervision Bureau to do miscellaneous labor, and when he grew up, he could become a glorious alternative civil servant with a click- Father-in-law, the Internal Supervision Bureau is full of psychopathic physical disabilities, deceitful and intriguing, but the original owner once again showed a staggering tenacious vitality, he spent a critical four years here, when the father-in-law's quick knife will be stretched out to him, the new monarch died again, fortunately, this time the emperor and the prince of Feng have the old, can't bear his descendants so unbearable, although it is impossible to crown him again, but a holy decree, eleven years old he was finally sent back to the old man of Fengwangfu - his biological parents...
The suffering is over? no, the suffering continues ... Li Ji was sent back, but it really scared Li Mingru and his wife a lot, the first thing they thought of was, could it be that the East Window incident happened back then? The imperial court deliberately sent people back to see the performance of our husband and wife? This is the most normal consideration of normal people... The couple quickly decided that they resolutely could not let the group of bad people in the court see the flaws, so Li Ji, who was sent back, continued to be his little servant, and no one in the house looked down on him, except for the full stomach to eat, there was still nothing, no status, no friends, no family affection...
Another six years have passed, Li Mingru and his wife finally found that they were just a false alarm, no one cared about the life or death of Prince Feng's son inside and out, they finally decided to compensate for this biological little son, but they couldn't do it openly, so they declared that Li Ji was the illegitimate son of Master Li Mingru for many years, so he could give him some better treatment in the past.
Things have come to this, Li Ji can be regarded as a positive result, but he is no longer a child when he has reached the age of seventeen, and he is not so easy to fool, and by chance he learned his true life experience, so Li Ji broke out...
I have to say that the original owner Li Ji was not a good person at all, and he had been in the court for seven years, in prison for four years, and in prison for six years.
Internally, the maid and the maid and the servant and the housekeeper are all the objects of his random beating and scolding, who let them bully Lao Tzu before, Lao Tzu is now going to come back... Externally, robbing people's girls, eating overlord meals, fighting, fighting, prostitution, drinking and making trouble, there is no one he does not participate in... Especially the second son of the Li Mansion, who is the real prince of the prince, is the object of his revenge, in his opinion, the seventeen years of hardship he has endured are completely because of this guy, so, all kinds of unscrupulous means, do everything, and finally lead to the whole house, angry and resentful, disgusted with ghosts...
He was wrong, the so-called birth is better than raising, the reason why Li Mingru and his wife gave him the status of an illegitimate child is just to make up for the shame of the past, but not because he really loves him, compared to the second son who has been raised for nearly 20 years, Fengshen is handsome, and knowledgeable, how can his free-range gangster-like character be liked, especially his mother, who regards the second son as if he is the meat of his heart, and grits his teeth with real hatred for what the original owner did... Finally one day, after the original owner molested the new wife of the second son, he was kicked to Cixi to fend for himself, oh, the wife of the second son, is the one who is talking to people at the door of the mansion now...