Chapter 8: Love You and Never Look Back
That afternoon, after the funeral of Mo Sijiang, the commander of the cavalry, Mrs. Xu had a talk with his daughter Xu Zixuan. At that time, Xu Zixuan's mood was basically stable, and the Taishi came to her daughter's room and saw her standing in front of the window in a daze, looking at the bleak garden outside.
"Xuan'er, the child that everything will pass," the Taishi walked up to her and said, "Don't blame yourself too much!"
Hearing her father's voice, Xu Zixuan felt a sense of strength, she turned around in response, and plunged into her father's arms with tears streaming down her face, sobbing and saying:
"Father, it was the daughter who killed General Mo!"
The Taishi hugged his daughter, stroked her black hair with pity, and said:
"Don't be sad, child, everything will pass," the master said with a deep sigh, "forget all your troubles!"
Listening to her father's tone, it seemed that she meant something else, so she raised her head and looked at the distant view outside the door behind her father, but she thought in her heart:
"Father, why can't you always treat Brother Wu Shuang with a normal heart? He is a man who stands up to the heavens and the earth, and is a respected hero! How can this be done! I must let you know Brother Wu Shuang thoroughly, and I also want you to agree with my true feelings for him. So she looked up at her father's face and said:
"Father, if it weren't for Brother Wu Shuang and his sworn brothers arriving in time this time, I'm afraid my daughter and Xiang'er would never see you again!"
As soon as Taishi heard Wu Shuang's words, it was like an electric shock, and his whole body trembled, he did not deny that this young man had some heroic spirit! But so what, after all, he is a wandering person, even if such a person is a hero, how can he be worthy of the Taishi family of my dignified court, I can't let go of this matter no matter what, it will be related to the reputation of our Xu family for generations. Therefore, he enlightened his daughter in this way:
"Xuan'er, my good boy, he is now a wanted criminal in the imperial court, and our family is the home of important ministers of the imperial court, for the sake of the reputation of our Xu family for generations, you should also leave behind your children's personal affairs and take the overall situation as the priority!"
"Father!" Xu Zixuan saw her father say this, feeling aggrieved that she and Wu Shuang had been misunderstood, but she didn't know how to change her father's concept, so she said anxiously, "Father, Brother Wu Shuang is not a court criminal at all, you misunderstood him, he and the governor of Henan, Lord Wang, father and son, were both framed by Hu Wei and Gan Shangshu!"
"Xuan'er!" When the Taishi heard his daughter's words, he suddenly became excited, and his tone became more severe, he said categorically, "You must not talk nonsense, such words will be spread, but it will kill people!"
Xu Zixuan saw that her father still didn't believe what she said, and she was very aggrieved, she burst into tears anxiously, and said with a sob:
"Father, why don't you believe what your daughter says?"
"It's not that I don't believe what you say, kid!" said Mrs. Xu, "I am, I don't believe that kid's words. If you think about it, he is a prisoner of the imperial court, and he must know about it, and I have been following it all along! That's why they've tried to get close to my family and try to seek our power to act as their umbrella! That's why they've rescued you and your mother in the Black Wind Forest, and they've been so generous that they don't even want to give him five hundred gold and silver as a reward. All this fully proves that they acted in a planned and premeditated manner, but we were kept in the dark!"
"Father's ......"
"Don't mention him again!" the master shook his hand and interrupted his daughter angrily.
Xu Zixuan was stunned and speechless when she heard her father say this, she clearly realized that her father's opinion of Brother Wu Shuang could not be changed by her words. However, she always firmly believes that Wu Shuang will definitely not be a scheming person as her father imagined; he is bright, heroic and heroic, and he is a man worthy of lifelong trust. She finally said in her heart:
"No matter what others think of him, I always believe in him and love him!"
After her father left, she came to the maid Xiang'er's room, and when she saw her full of face, she took her hand and said:
"Good sister, don't be sad, take care of your health, those who have gone have gone, and we who are alive must live strongly!"
Xiang'er just felt a headache in her heart, but she couldn't say anything!
The next day, while the two of them were taking a walk in the back garden, they happened to catch a glimpse of themselves hurrying out of the courtyard door on the path in the green bamboo forest opposite, carrying a man in a white robe, as if he were a drunk. Later, they saw their father and the old servant Xiao Hua, as well as a fat-faced and big-bellied official, talking and laughing and walking over.
This made the two girls, who had encountered all kinds of strange things in recent days, very curious, so they followed the opposite direction of the path that these people had just walked, and found several hugging houses. The two of them looked next to each other through the windows, but they found no sign that anyone had ever drunk. When the two of them came to the window of the hugging room in the middle, they saw a black-sheathed sword lying horizontally on the table—the familiar black-sheathed sword.
Seeing this, the two girls didn't say a word, pushed open the door of the hugging house and walked in, Xu Zixuan rushed into the room, grabbed the familiar black sheath long sword on the table, and exclaimed in surprise and said:
"Just now, the person they were carrying must be Brother Wu Shuang!"
"How did he come here?" asked Xiang'er in horror.
"There must be a reason!" Ms. Xu said.
At this moment, suddenly a person ran in in a panic, and the two girls turned around in surprise, and saw the old servant Xiao Hua walking towards Xu Zixuan with a smile and saying:
"Third Miss, please give me this sword in your hand!" This is what they remembered when they were halfway through - just now they were in a hurry, leaving Wu Shuang's black-sheathed long sword on the table and forgetting to take it away. Mrs. Xu was worried that her daughter Xu Zixuan would find out, so she hurriedly ordered the old slave Xiao Hua to rush back to get it. However, they were still one step too late!
"Give you the sword!" When Xu Zixuan heard this, she no longer called him Uncle Hua as politely to him as before, she suddenly became manic, and asked angrily, "Tell me the truth, what happened to Wu Shuang?"
Of course, Xiao Hua couldn't say, how could he leak the matter of Master Taishi to his daughter! Therefore, he was very painful, and a very embarrassed expression appeared on his face, as if he was smiling instead of laughing, as if he was crying instead of crying, he muttered and said:
"Little, small, miss, please give me the sword!"
Xu Zixuan knows that since an old slave has something difficult to say, if you knock out his full teeth, he may not be able to say it. Therefore, she snorted coldly at him.
Immediately, without thinking, the two of them rushed out with Wu Shuang's black-sheathed long sword. When they chased to the front yard, the big-bellied official, who was riding a carriage carrying Wu Shuang, galloped out of the east gate of the master's mansion.
This official was none other than Li Chunsheng, who was in charge of the treasury and silver in the household department, and he sent Wu Shuang to the prison in the capital at this time according to the instructions of the Taishi. (To be continued.) )