Chapter 3: A Day of Sorrow
As soon as the day dawned, the doors of the shops along the street were still closed, and the cold morning breeze blew through the streets, blowing the flags of the shochu shops, and even the dogs guarding the doors curled up under the cabinets where the owners put their miscellaneous items in the cold. The silence of the empty street was eerily quiet, but the silence was broken by a hurried carriage, and the sound of the carriage reverberated in the heart of the silent street, as loudly as thunder.
There were four people in the carriage, two women, two men, one of whom was reclining in the arms of the other. To be exact, this lying man was a dead man -- he was Mo Sijiang, the commander of the Taishi Mansion! Coming out of the Full Moon Inn, Wu Shuang asked She Gang to stop a carriage on the road, and he wanted to send the bodies of the two girls and the horse captain Mo Sijiang, their good brother, back to the Taishi Mansion.
At this time, the carriage was unusually quiet, and their expressions were unusually wooden, and they were all crying and mourning, and they were all immersed in the grief for the deceased. Especially the maid Xiang'er, her spirit was sluggish, her face was as pale as death, her messy hair covered half of her face, making it impossible to see her always clean and bright right eye and forehead, as if the tears in his eyes had long since dried up! She was like that, like sitting in the pavilion in the garden of Taishifu with Mo Sijiang one night, holding one of his arms, snuggling up to him, whispering. At this moment, they are also whispering--they are silently whispering with their hearts--saying the love words of the mountain alliance and the sea oath!
Xu Zixuan's face was also as pale as paper, but between her sad eyebrows, there seemed to be a faint remorse. She felt that all this was due to the turmoil and disaster caused by her whimsical willfulness, and she felt that her mistakes were unforgivable, and she now had a desire to atone for her sins with death. However, when she saw Wu Shuang, she suddenly ignited hope, she hoped that she would be able to follow Wu Shuang in the future, grow old, and take care of his parents and parents for the dead General Mo all her life.
And Wu Shuangmuran's expression was on the way to reminisce about the past, and he recalled the bits and pieces of the encounter with Mo Sijiang, the commander of the cavalry, from meeting and acquaintance, to becoming a good brother in life and death. He was moved by the deceased's love and righteousness during his lifetime, and felt sorry for his free and happy temperament. He could feel that he had already truly regarded this person as his own brother!
But now they are separated forever!
The carriage soon came to the west gate of the Taishi Mansion, Wu Shuang suddenly called the carriage to stop, Xu Zixuan looked at him in shock and asked:
"Are you leaving?"
Wu Shuang looked at her quietly and said leisurely:
"I'm sure I'll be able to explain it to your father soon!"
"Take care!" he finally said.
He was about to step out of the carriage, but Xu Zixuan suddenly stopped him:
"Please wait!"
Wu Shuang stopped, but he didn't look back, because he had already felt Xu Zixuan burst into tears and sobbed sadly. He was afraid that his hesitation would only make her more upset, and he heard her say to him in a whimpering voice:
"Can you do me a favor?"
"Say it!"
"Xiang'er was humiliated by that Coptis man just now, such a person shouldn't let him continue to live in the world......"
"I promise he won't survive today!" Wu Shuang said, jumping out of the carriage. He said to the coachman:
"Let's go!"
The carriage moved, walking slowly towards the west gate of the Taishi Mansion, and Xu Zixuan finally couldn't help it, and lifted the back curtain of the carriage; she saw Wu Shuang walking back, walking towards them alone with his back, the cold wind tugging his clothes, his turban fluttering in the cold wind, and there was a distinct blood mark on his back - it was his wound that had cracked in the process of fighting, and at this moment there was a blood stain dripping down his robe to the ground. He was like that, alone, drifting away in the cold wind.
Last night, Xu Taishi and his wife didn't sleep all night, they waited anxiously in the living room, he didn't even have the patience to sit down, he kept pacing back and forth, he was thinking repeatedly about how to deal with the matter of the third daughter and Wu Shuang, the imperial court criminal. When he thought that as soon as the morning dawned, the Manchu civil and military would know what a great humiliation it would be for his third daughter to run out of the house to find Wu Shuang, a prisoner of the imperial court. What a great humiliation this has brought to his respected family of famous families. Thinking of this, he was really ruthless about this person named Wu Shuang. He thought that he should mobilize elite soldiers and strong generals as soon as possible to arrest this person as soon as possible. As long as you catch him, correct the Fa on the spot, and slowly enlighten your daughter in the future, I believe that she will slowly change her mind!
The decision has been made, and he thinks that the best measure at the moment is to get rid of this thief named Wu Shuang as soon as possible.
Before they knew it, the sky was already bright, and suddenly the couple heard an uproar in the courtyard outside the door, and he was about to send someone to ask what was going on, but a little guy ran to him in a panic and said:
"Master, Miss, they're back!"
When the Taishi couple heard this, they were overjoyed. The old lady chanted Amitabha Buddha repeatedly, and the Taishi had already stepped out of the threshold in three steps and two steps. The little servant who followed him then said:
"General Mo - he ......"
"What's wrong with him?" said the master, who was already stepping down the stone steps with broken steps, when he saw a carriage parked in the clearing in the front yard, and his daughter and her maid standing beside the carriage with a dejected expression, as three servants carefully carried a corpse from the carriage.
Seeing this, Master Xu was shocked and asked:
"What's going on?"
"General Mo died heroically!" whispered the little guy who had been following him.
"General Mo!" Taishi is already in tears, this is a favorite general he has picked up in recent years. In his mind, Mo Sijiang, the commander of the cavalry, was witty, brave, quick and decisive, brave and loyal, and was a general who had not met in a century; for so many years, they had a reputation of superior-subordinate relations, but in fact he had long regarded him as a nephew. And now, seeing him jumping out alive, and when he came back, he became this desolate scene in front of him, how could he not be grieved.
He hugged his corpse, mourned and grieved, and repeatedly called General Mo's name, as if this would wake up the dead, and at that moment, he didn't even care about the safety of his beloved daughter.
The old lady ran out, she hugged her daughter and Xiang'er, lost her voice, and kept asking:
"Son, tell your mother what the hell is going on! What the hell is going on......
Xu Zixuan and Xiang'er were also at a loss at the moment, and their horror and grief were not really vented until this moment. It's like a flash flood, surging and emptying the turbidity waves. They were grieving not only for General Mo's death, but also for the fright and humiliation they had suffered, and they were heartbroken at that moment.
This is a sad day, Taishi Xu Liang is very sad for the loss of his beloved, Xiang'er is heartbroken for the loss of her beloved, and Xu Zixuan regrets her mistakes for not being at the beginning......
On this day, Taishifu was immersed in sadness. (To be continued.) )