"Stop, rest on the spot. ”

Arriving at a leeward slope not far from the water, the Chen family's convoy to Qiu Sui stopped, preparing to spend the night here today.

"It's been eight lifetimes of mold, and today I was almost killed directly by the old man and that bastard, if it goes on like this, what else can the Chen family plan in this life?" Chen Qijiang lay in the carriage, desperate for the future.

"Shut up for me, there are some things that you can't say even if you are killed, the Chen family is already like this, can you still not have the surname Chen? If you anger the old man and expel you from the Chen family, with the identity of the Chen family behind your back, and without the Chen family to take care of you, what can you do now? As long as the Chen family is not completely here, this huge family business is enough for us to live for two lifetimes. Zhang listened to his son's complaints, kicked his son, don't put the rest of the family now, because he has no mouth.

"Mother, why do you always think like this, the Chen family is over, if this kind of life is long, the people who have offended the Chen Mansion in the past should come back to clean us up, you, alas!" Chen Qijiang turned his head, not wanting to see his mother, he was really ignorant.

"Then it's useful for you to complain, you might as well take advantage of the fact that you are idle now and have no official status, go down and have more contact with your grandfather, maybe the things of the Chen family will be yours in the future, don't forget, you still have a younger brother, you go on like this, don't have family property." ”

Chen Qijiang pulled a piece of clothing to cover his head, not wanting to take care of his mother anymore.

Outside, Chen Xuanfei helped set up the carriage and set up a fire with the guards.

"Fei'er, follow me. Chen Wei walked up to Chen Xuanfei, coldly dropped a sentence, and walked towards a place where no one was.

Chen Xuanfei shrugged his shoulders towards Guo Yun and Xiao Wu, who were watching him next to him, and followed.

"What's the matter, old man, this is all out, you still ......"

"Smack!"

Before Chen Xuanfei finished speaking, he received a slap in the face.

It's not that he can't dodge, but he is defenseless against Chen Wei, and he didn't expect this at all.

"Old man, what kind of wind are you smoking?" Chen Xuanfei looked at Chen Wei inexplicably, is he sick.

"How did your dad die?"

"Why are you mentioning this all of a sudden?"

"Why am I mentioning this? There are no fathers and sons on the battlefield, there are no fathers and sons, and you still care about men and women? This is what you call reading useless, and it is better to use your fists? You can't even do it with a woman, and you still want to go to the battlefield and use your fists to get a reason? Do you want to go to your father, or do you want to be angry with me!

Chen Wei's eyebrows were coldly raised, and Chen Xuanfei was a little stunned.

"Old man, calm down, can this be the same? Besides, if I don't go up, where did you come from? One of her maidservants, really dare to kill the young master of the Chen Mansion? And if I kill her, it will not be a dead end. ”

"Heh, you don't read a single book, talk to me about the situation, who are you when you are? Who are you and who do you think I am? I have been an official for more than 40 years, and it is your turn to stand up for me?

I have cultivated more books than you have seen, I tell you, if you pay attention to the difference between men and women, then you should stop your ridiculous idea as soon as possible, I am afraid that I am not dead, you died first, when I dream, your father came to point at my nose and scold me. ”

"Alas, I know, old man, can you just talk about my father without moving, can't you let him be safe and stable?" Chen Xuanfei frowned and sighed, he had a headache, he was kind enough to be a donkey's liver and lungs, and he was punched in front of him, which would be a slap.

"I don't mention it, I don't mention him, can you still listen to a word of what I say?" Chen Wei looked at him with a complaining face, he was really angry, even if he mentioned it, he might not be able to listen to it.

"Okay, okay, I know it's wrong, next time a woman does it with me, I'll punch her to a pulp, okay. ”

"Hmph!" Listening to Chen Xuanfei's perfunctory, Chen Wei flicked his sleeves and went back to the carriage angrily.

"What did Master Taifu say to you, why are you so angry?" Guo Yun waited for Chen Wei to leave, and then leaned over to inquire about the news.

"The old man said that I should not play with you if I have nothing to do, I have no eyesight. Chen Xuanfei glanced at him, and left after speaking.

"Whew!"

......

Shangjing, the Imperial City Harem Autumn Feather Palace.

The Autumn Feather Palace, also known as the Cold Palace or the Lattice Room, has been used since the previous dynasty to place concubines and princes who committed crimes and angered the emperor.

There are not many servants here, they are all deaf and mute, no matter what your identity is, they are only responsible for delivering meals on time, and the people who are assigned here are not qualified to call people, and they are lonely and old all their lives, and no one will stop you if you want to run.

In other words, the people here are all royal relatives and nobles, and the emperor can't bear to kill or punish those close to him, and if he doesn't run, and he is remembered by the emperor and returns to his high position, if he runs away, it is a capital crime, so he has been set up as a cold palace to this day, and only one person has tried to escape, and he has succeeded, because no one believes that the people in the cold palace will give up their identity and flee at the risk of capital crimes.

A man dressed in black and wearing a silver mask led a little girl and walked out of a secret door in the attic on the west side of the Autumn Feather Hall.

The attic was empty, except for a Buddha statue with paint peeled off and an old woman sitting in front of the Buddha statue chanting sutras.

Hearing the movement, the old woman turned her head and saw someone coming, so she turned around and knelt down.

"See Your Excellency. ”

"Where's Yan'er?"

"Childe was reading a book upstairs. ”

After listening to the old woman's reply, the man in black led the girl upstairs.

Upstairs, a little boy is holding a yellowed old book by the window, reading it intriguedly.

"Yan'er. ”

Suddenly, hearing someone mention his name, the little boy raised his head with a happy face, "Yan'er has seen the teacher." ”

After that, he looked at the little girl next to him curiously, and the little girl also looked at him, is this my new master?

"Her name is Wind Chime, and she will be your maid from now on. After speaking, the man in black let go of the hand he was holding, pointed to the little boy, and said to the girl, "Wind chime, this is your future master." ”

Wind Chimes walked up to the little boy and knelt down and saluted, "Wind Chimes have seen their master. ”

The little boy looked at the little girl and the man in black with some strange looks.

"Teacher, why is this? Not to mention that the Autumn Feather Hall prohibits, I'm in the Wuxin Pavilion, and I don't need a servant?"

"Tomorrow you'll be out of here, and someone will send you to a school, and the teacher will find you a new teacher. ”

The little boy is a little in a trance, he has been in this eleven years, born here, grew up here, since he was a child, he started to read books as paintings, he has been reading books by this window for nine years, and now the teacher says that he will send him to the outside world.

The man didn't bother the little boy either, he was locked up in one place, kept with books all day long, and suddenly he could go out, which inevitably required a process of acceptance, and the little girl Wind Chime also knelt in place all the time.

"Can I not go?"

The man was stunned, the little boy's words were a little unexpected to him, no matter how he thought, he couldn't imagine that he would say this.

"A few years ago, you asked me if I could go out to play and see the sun and moon outside the building, why don't you want to leave today?"

"I don't know, I just think that the teacher said that he found me a new teacher, is it that after I go out, I will never see the teacher again?"

The man was stunned, and then laughed, laughing so much that tears almost came out, he was very glad in the past, glad that he was born here since he was a child, and he had never seen the outside world, so he could endure such loneliness, and now he felt very sad, sad that he chose to give up his wish because he could only see himself once or twice a month.

"You've stayed here too long, Yan'er should go and see the outside world, and you have to get out of here, maybe there's a chance, we can still meet." ”

The boy was silent for a long time.

"Do you have to go?"

"Well, you have to go. ”

The little boy bowed his head, and there was silence for a while.

"Can you give me a glimpse of you behind the mask? I don't want to see the teacher in the future, but I don't know the teacher. ”

Looking at the little boy's clear eyes, the man squatted down, took off his mask, smiled happily at the little boy, and put on the mask after a few breaths.

"There is no feast in the world that will not be dispersed, the teachers who should be said have said, and you have seen what you want to see, and I am leaving. ”

After the man got up, he seemed to remember, and he really didn't say anything.

"I really forgot something in a trance, after the wind chime recognized you as the master, she only listened to your orders, and she was locked up like you since she was a child, she didn't know anything else except some martial arts, she protected you, and you had to take care of her!"

"Well, I will. ”

The little boy nodded heavily, this may be the last agreement between the teacher and him.

Then the little boy watched the teacher turn around and go downstairs, he didn't chase after him, he didn't hold back, he just looked at it for a while, until his back disappeared completely.

Looking at the little girl kneeling in front of him, the little boy reached out to help her.

"Get up, Wind Chimes. ”

"Yes, master. ”

Looking at the straight wind chimes standing on, the little boy was a little flustered.

"Sit down. ”

"Yes, master. ”

The wind chime sat on the ground with a "bang", and his waist was very straight.

"Don't call me master. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

......

Although he thought it was strange, the little boy was very sad now, and he didn't want to say anything more.

"Go there and sleep. ”

The little boy pointed to the simple bed not far away, and the little girl got up and walked over quickly, pulled out the quilt and lay down, covered the quilt and closed her eyes, and did it in one go.

Without looking at the little girl again, the little boy went down to the attic, found the old lady who was chanting, and went to sit beside her and hold her arm.

"Mama, can I sleep with you today?"

"Childe, what's wrong? I'm going out, I should be happy. The old woman reached out and took the little boy into her arms.

"But after we went out, I couldn't see the teacher anymore. "The little boy really doesn't want to go out anymore, it's good to read every day, there are still a lot of books I haven't read!

But the old lady listened and thought, there is no us, only you.

The little boy is a non-existent or dead person in the palace, and she is the one who has been beaten into the cold palace, he can go, she can't, she is gone, it is very likely that his existence will be known.

The old lady had planned to talk about it tomorrow, but since she had mentioned it, she told him that it was okay.

"Mama has something to tell you. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Mama can't go. ”

The little boy didn't say anything anymore, just buried his head in his arms and hugged the old woman, what he knew, his words couldn't change anything.

The old lady stopped talking and gently patted him on the back, just like when she was a child and lulled him to sleep.

The man in black, wearing a silver mask, sat on the beam and watched everything until the little boy fell asleep, and then quietly left.

Standing outside the Wuxin Pavilion, looking at the lack of moonlight in the sky, listening to the sound of the wind in my ears, well, tomorrow may not be a good weather.