On the third day after my husband’s death, I married into Linan Hou Mansion as a concubine under the arrangement of my mother-in-law.
I want to kill him all the time, just because he is the enemy of my husband. On the first night of our
wedding, he took the dagger in my hand and said, “Here is my heart.” On the second day of the
wedding, he dismissed all the concubines in my family. I, on the
other hand, tried poisoning, assassination, all of them.
Even if he was found out, he always protected me indifferently and killed the informant. The more
he indulged me, the crazier I got, until I found out..
Xie Linan is lustful. This is a well-known thing. No one knows that there are so many beautiful women in Xie’s house. The emperor’s harem of three thousand is worse than him.
The mother-in-law said that as long as she was beautiful, she could be a concubine for him. As long as she was a concubine, she could sleep beside his pillow and have a chance to kill him.
So on the third day after my husband’s death, I changed my name and married into Linan Hou Fu as a concubine.
Even though he changed his name, he recognized me at first sight. I stood in the last row in the backyard with
beautiful women like clouds. Three of the sisters standing in front of me looked like Xi Shi and four looked like Yang Yuhuan, but I was the only one who attracted his attention.
He put his hand under my chin, looked at me again and again, and said, “It seems that this is not the first time we have met.” Smiling delicately,
I snuggled into his arms and crept into his bosom. “The slave and the Marquis have a predestined relationship.”
His eyes were full of venomous contempt.
“Jiang Yunhe has only been dead for three days.”
I chuckled, disapprovingly, with a smile on my face.
“a slave is born cheap. A husband may die, but he cannot refuse to eat.”
I throw caution to the wind shamelessly, born humble, willing to humble, see him squint up that pair of good-looking peach blossom eyes, will hide the resentment in the eyes.
Sure enough, at night, as if I was his enemy who killed his wife, he put me all over the room, and finally on the windowsill, I shrank with cold.
He paused slightly, as if he could not bear it. Then the anger in his eyes stopped. He wrapped me in his middle clothes and sent me to the bedside.
The dagger was under the pillow, and as soon as he fell asleep, I could cut his throat.
But he didn’t sleep. He ordered the kitchen to cook a bowl of ginger soup and watched me finish it.
Holding the steaming soup, I smiled and said, “The Marquis doesn’t have to think about it. A child born to a slave is cheap. If the child is given the medicine, it will be cut off, and there will be no pregnancy.” As if impatient,
he frowned and warned, “Don’t always say that you were born cheap. There are high and low positions, and no one is noble or humble.”
I was silent in his gentle words, and for a moment, I found some familiarity in his clear and firm eyes-my husband was like that when he was a teenager.
“Jiang Yunhe has only been gone for three days, and they’ve already kicked you out?”
He looked at me inquiringly, but not warily, as if he were just asking casually.
I had already thought of the wording and pretended to be pitiful: “Yes, my mother-in-law has always disliked the origin of the slave, saying that it was not clean, and that it would ruin the reputation of the Jiang family. Now that her son has gone, she has fulfilled her wish and sold me at a low price.” There was love in his
eyes and he took me in his arms.
“With me, no one can sell you at will.”
Xie Linan did not break his promise. He really gave me the dignity that others did not have.
In one breath he carried me from my concubine to the marquise’s seat. When
the emperor heard this, he frowned and said, “It’s understandable that Aiqing is lustful, but there’s really no need to be so self-deprecating. How can a Marquis marry a prostitute as his wife?”? He was once a concubine of someone else.
Hsieh Lin-an says, “I was born in the wilderness, but I’m a well-matched man.”
Someone said to him, “Lord Xie, this woman is unbearable. Her husband has only been dead for three days and she can enjoy herself on someone else’s bed. If you have a good thing or a bad thing on the battlefield, she won’t take away your family property and go to have a full moon with someone else.” “A woman like her never wants money,”
says Hsieh Lin-an.
Who said that? I want money.
Eight big palanquins, red makeup ten miles, Wang Ye married may not catch the wild geese beyond the Great Wall.
He gave me all the dignity a woman deserves in marriage.
There are a lot of young ladies from decent families who may not be able to get decent.
On that day, there was a sea of people in front of the Hou Mansion, blocking the long street. Everyone wanted to see what kind of beauty could make Xie Hou Ye, whose eyes were higher than top, lose a beautiful concubine of the whole mansion, but she loved her alone.
The sedan chair swayed lightly, and I was disappointed in the hubbub of voices. He rode a rare sweaty BMW in Chang’an, with a straight spine and elegant demeanor, just like the day when he personally stabbed my husband’s chest with a long sword.
“Do you like it?” On the
wedding night, he was holding the phoenix crown that he spent a lot of money to make for me, and the jewelry on it was dazzling. I touched the ruby on the crown with my
red lips, and my fingertips seemed to be stained with blood.
“Like it.”
His eyes were dim, but there was a rare smile on his lips.
“No, you don’t.”
Before I was stunned, he put his hand nimbly around my waist, took out the dagger that had been hidden for a long time, and put it in front of me.
“If I don’t ask, when are you going to confess?” It is not unexpected to be exposed
so easily.
He is Xie Linan.
He climbed out of the hell on earth where a hundred thousand soldiers died.
He brought back the head of the prairie king alone. When
he was hit by dozens of arrows, he could cross the wind and sand and walk back to Yangguan. How could
he not notice my murderous eyes?
I picked up the dagger and stabbed him in the shoulder, knowing that I would fail.
He didn’t hide, and the hot blood ran down my fingers.
The first time I saw blood, so hot blood, I seemed to be caught in the fire, surprised to let go of my hand, turned my head, and vomited uncontrollably. The smell of
blood filled the air, but as if nothing had happened, he slowly pulled the dagger off his shoulder, his face tranquil.
He pointed to his heart and told me, “It’s here.”
With that, he raised his dagger and stabbed him in the heart.
I grabbed his wrist in horror and used all my strength, but the tip of the knife still went in.
Seeing the blood oozing from his heart, I was frightened and looked into his eyes in horror.
It was a calm, bottomless abyss, without a trace of pain and blood, as if it was common, as if as long as I nodded, he would not hesitate to hand over his life.
“Why, you just want me to pay for his life?”
Yeah, I guess.
I want his life!
But I also admit that I don’t have the guts.
I can’t watch a man die in front of me.
I untied my belt, threw away the wedding dress embroidered with the golden phoenix, loosened the hairpin ring, and waited for his punishment.
Unexpectedly, he did not ask for punishment.
He didn’t even call anyone in.
He lifted me up and told me to bring the medicine for gold sores from the dresser drawer. When
I came to my senses, I found that he had lost a lot of blood and his lips were a little pale, so I quickly lifted my skirt and stood up to fetch water and medicine, and I was in a hurry.
Looking at my face, which was white with blood, he laughed unknowingly, “How dare you imitate others to kill people with your promise?”?
I wouldn’t even dare to slaughter a chicken.
When I was living outside, I was with my young husband, and I didn’t eat for three days.
He caught a pheasant, but he didn’t dare to kill it. He asked me to kill it.
I swallowed saliva, looking at it for a long time, looking at it like tears in the eyes, is how ruthless.
So we were hungry for three more days.
Later, I always teased him about it.
He just smiled bitterly and could not speak.
Thinking of my husband, and then looking at this pair of people who are indifferent to blood, I smiled coldly and sarcastically.
“Naturally, I’m not as murderous as the Marquis.”
He was slightly stunned and gave me a deep look, with some anger and sneer on his face.
“Yes, I’ve been killing people since I was born. Why don’t I kill another one for you?”
I lowered my eyebrows and kept silent.
There was a long silence, and the man on the edge of the bed sighed softly.
He took my hand wrapped in gauze and looked me straight in the eye. “Wanrong, I want to give you the most precious love in the world.”
Knowing that he is lustful, I am not surprised that he would say such sweet words to me.
I smiled and said, “I want to kill the Marquis. The Marquis doesn’t blame me, but he still wants to give me love.”
He retreated in my playful smile, slightly moved, and said no more. On the second day of the
wedding, Xie Linan dismissed all the concubines in the mansion.
Hou Fu inside and outside, Yingying Yanyan, crying.
Xie Linan gave them a lot of money as severance pay, but many people do not want money.
They would rather die in Hou Fu, a lifetime not to be Xie Linan more than a look, do not want to be released to the folk, in the unknown future of wandering, or marry a person who is not as good as him. How many people in the
world can compare with the heroic and handsome Marquis Xie? It’s better to serve him for
just one night than to spend countless nights outside in mediocrity.
If I were you, I wouldn’t want to leave.
So I advised Hsieh Lin-an, “You are not short of this money.” Are
women, but left to eat a mouthful of rice, a little more powder money.
They were in the same boat, and I understood their worries very well. When a woman like
us goes out, she may not know what kind of person she will be sold to. How can she be safe in Hou Fu?
Xie Linan stared at my face for a long time, as if to see whether I was sincere or polite. Aren
‘t you afraid they’ll take away your favor? Or say.. You don’t care where I sleep? As
he spoke, he came up and put me on the column under the corridor. His blazing eyes covered my face like hot sunlight, which made me unable to open my eyes.
Concubine body.. My concubine naturally wants to be loved by the Marquis.
He snorted coldly and narrowed his beautiful peach blossom eyes.
Is it? Why can’t I see that?
He’s.. Hint at my courtship?
Yes, men like to look at beautiful women fawning.
So I wriggled into his arms, grabbed him by the collar, and whispered softly, “I beg the Marquis to love my body and sleep here every night.”
Xie Linan’s heart beat very fast, very fast all of a sudden, and then his breathing became heavy. I had
a premonition that the storm was coming, and I was a little timid, and I put my hand on his heart, which was not yet well.
“The Marquis hasn’t recovered yet. Don’t be too violent.”
He lowered his eyebrows and looked at the jade fingers covering my heart, and his lustful eyes suddenly became calm and warm.
It seems that my words have touched his heart.
He smiled shallowly and put my little hand into the rough and thick palm of his long-held weapon.
“Listen to you, not so fierce.” Get up
the next day, or backache.
Hou Ye is not fierce, or fierce.
He really has a good body, no wonder people thank the Marquis is immortal.
Mingming was stabbed in the heart a few days ago, and now I’m busy in the middle of the night. I’m still in high spirits when I get up in the morning and come to the bedside to kiss my face.
“Yung’er sleeps half a day longer, and then gets up when he’s hungry.”
“Tell the kitchen to cook the seafood porridge and simmer it by the fire. When the lady wakes up, give her some.” “How did the Marquis know I love seafood?”
I wondered.
He was slightly in a trance, as if he had remembered something interesting, and smiled without saying anything.
He was silent for a moment and then lowered his eyebrows to look at my face and pinched the tip of my nose as usual.
“When I come back.” As I
watched his back, I was fascinated. Once upon a time, there was a man who loved to pinch the tip of my nose. Every time he left, he would say, “Wait for me to come back.”
Only that time, after waiting for a long time, he didn’t come back.
Suddenly, I woke up from a dream and thought about why I came here.
I want to kill Xie Linan. I must kill Xie Linan
today.
If you can’t see the blood, then drug it.
I asked my mother-in-law for a bottle of crane top red, which can be bought with five taels of silver. It is a specialty of the Western Regions. It is colorless and tasteless. It is said that immortals have to be reincarnated after drinking it.
The mother-in-law said, “If you kill Hsieh Lin-an, I will bring you back.”
Does she think I’m willing to do all this to get back to that home?
I just want to give an account of the past decades of love between my husband and me.
Xie Linan came back very late, and when he saw that I was still waiting, his smile became warm.
He said, “No one has ever waited for me like this.” “Nonsense,”
I chuckled. “There’s a yard of women in the backyard waiting for you every day.” Shaking his head,
he said, “They are looking forward to splendor and wealth, not to my thanks to Lin An.” I was stunned by what
he said. Is
it difficult for me to expect him?
I looked up and saw him looking at me with anticipation in his eyes.
I frown casually, but I can’t say half a sweet word.
You know, in the past, I was the best at coaxing with sweet words. Men said what they liked to hear in exchange for money.
But at this moment, I can’t fool Xie Linan.
I couldn’t even say, “I’m waiting for the Marquis to come back.” There was a little gloom in
his eyes, but he still pulled me into his arms with tolerance.
He treated me too leniently.
I couldn’t help asking, “Why did the Marquis treat Wanrong so well?”
He kissed me on the cheek and said, “I said I would give you the most precious love in the world.”
He didn’t eat the meal I prepared for him, and he didn’t drink the glass of wine that was a little foamy because it was cold.
He carried me to the bedside, and I looked up with a pair of moving eyes.
It has to be said that Xie Linan has a pair of handsome and charming eyebrows and eyes. He can’t hide his love for a woman at all. No wonder those women would rather be concubines than leave.
Holding me in his arms, he pushed me to the pillow and asked, “Wanrong, do you love me more today?”
This sentence he asked every day, when I first entered Hou Fu, I had no idea that the famous Xie Hou Ye could even ask such pitiful, humble and shameless words.
Every time I asked him, I would give him a smile full of lies: “I love you every day, and I love you more today than yesterday.”
Xie Linan did not drink the poisoned wine, and the assassination failed.
I had to ask my mother-in-law to spend five taels of silver to buy a bottle of crane top red. “If he doesn’t drink,” said
the mother-in-law, “you can drink. He has no defense against you, and he loves you for your brightness. Otherwise, he would not have granted you the position of marquise.”
Yes, he made me a marquise.
But my husband, the man I love deeply, to death, I am only a concubine of him. When I
met a teenager, he promised me splendor and wealth, but taught me to live in the dust.
He asked me to wait for his return, but he didn’t show up for a long time. When we met
again, he became the one who wanted to go to the capital to take the exam. Without blinking, I took out the money I had saved for ten years to redeem myself and gave him the money to go to the capital. What he
waited for, however, was the news of his marriage to the eldest lady of the Imperial College Sacrifice Restaurant.
He said that it was not easy to be an official, and without a backstage supporter, he could only be sent to the bitter and cold frontier to be a humble official, who would never be able to turn over.
He said, “Wanrong, I will redeem you.”
He did not break his promise, and three years later, he redeemed me with his meager salary.
Became his concubine.
Sometimes when I think of it, I hate him a little more than I hate Xie Linan.
Hate him to break his promise, hate him to forget our original promise of life and death.
But no matter how much hate, he is my husband.
Had it not been for the sacrifice of my life when I was young, I would not be here today.
So, I want to kill Xie Linan.
Only in this way can our old and new enmities be settled.
Only in this way can I leave this world with a clear conscience.
Xie Linan still came back very late today, and the little fellow who followed him said that he was so busy that he didn’t eat all day.
So before he came in, I put the crane top red into the meal.
He may not drink, but he will not eat.
Sure enough, as soon as Xie Linan entered the door, he stared at the food on the table, looked at his favorite ham, and looked at me again.
I lowered my eyebrows with a guilty conscience and removed the expression from my eyes to avoid being seen by him.
He didn’t even change his clothes, so he waved out and said, “Bring it in.”
Outside the door, two guards came in with a bright and beautiful woman. She had tears in her eyes and did not panic at all. She just looked at me bitterly.
Hsieh Lin-an had just finished dressing up and came out from behind the screen in his regular clothes: “She was sneaking around outside your bedroom door, and you didn’t even notice?”
Standing outside my bedroom door?! Wouldn’t
that be to see.
The Marquis! This woman, she wants to poison you!
The woman shouted recklessly and alarmed the whole inner courtyard.
The guards were also frightened and looked at me with vigilance and hostility.
Hsieh Lin-an didn’t think so. He stared at the woman and said, “You’re acting suspiciously. How dare you slander your wife?” With tears in her eyes, the
woman knelt down and kowtowed, “Hou Ye, please believe my concubine. My concubine saw with her own eyes that she took from an old woman highly poisonous crane top red sold on the black market. My concubine asked someone to inquire about it. The old woman was none other than mother of her ex-husband Jiang Yunhe!”! They plan to poison you!
The woman’s voice is sad, her words are brilliant, and she is well-founded.
She came prepared, not only saw it with her own eyes, but also asked people to inquire, and even left witnesses and material evidence.
Even on the black market, it was clear who had bought and sold the poison to her mother-in-law.
“The drug seller, Wang Er, has already agreed to be identified, and now he’s outside!”
My heart is frightened, the first crane top red, is the mother-in-law entrusted Wang Er personally sent to me, we played face to face, he can recognize my appearance!
I panicked and glanced at Xie Linan.
Xie Linan was indifferent, silent for a moment, nodded, and motioned for her to bring Wang Er in.
The woman jumped for joy, but when the truth came out immediately, she immediately called Wang Er to come in.
Wang Er probably also wanted to ask for a reward for one of my great achievements. As soon as he came in and saw my silhouette, he stretched out his hand to identify me. “Yes, that’s the lady. She and an old woman bought crane top red from me twice. The first time I gave it to her, and the second time the old woman bought it herself. The lady called the old woman mother-in-law!”! The little man learned that this lady was Hou Ye’s new wife, and then he thought it was wrong, so he hurried to identify her! So that the Marquis will not suffer!
Xie Linan did not speak, his face was flat, and he could not see what mood he was in.
The woman couldn’t wait. When she saw that he didn’t speak, she pointed to the food on the table and said, “I saw with my own eyes that she put the crane-topped red into the food. If the Marquis still doesn’t believe me, you can let her taste the food for herself!”
I fell to my knees with weak legs, and with a splash, I pulled his thoughts back.
He frowned, lifted me from the ground with regret, and rubbed my knees gently.
The woman looked at him in an incredible way and said, “Hou Ye!”
“Take them down and lock them up.”
The guards answered and took the woman outside, asking by the way, “Hou Ye, this Wang Er..”
Hsieh Lin-an took one look at him and said lightly, “I’ll kill him, so I won’t go around talking nonsense again and ruin his wife’s reputation.”
“Yes!”
The guards were thunderous and dragged Wang Er out.
It was not until outside the door that Wang Er reacted and screamed loudly.
Little people don’t talk nonsense! The little man saw it with his own eyes..
The screams were getting farther and farther away, and my legs were still weak, extending all the way from weak legs to flustered and dizzy.
Xie Linan looked at my cold sweat, suddenly laughed, and touched my cold face.
“Don’t ever think about killing people again. You can’t do that.”
He still didn’t blame.
Why?
This is the second time. No, for the third time! He was not surprised by what happened
today, which is enough to prove that he knew about my poisoning last time! But it didn’t expose it.
Just why?
“Tell me, Hsieh Lin-an, why are you so kind to me?”
I stared at his face with red eyes and saw some familiarity, but I didn’t know where it came from.
Is it because he’s been on my pillow every day?
He looked deep into my eyes and said, “Wanrong, I promised you that I would give you the most precious love in the world.”
The guards found three bottles of crane top red worth five taels of silver from Wang Er.
Xie Linan said that he would reward my concubine Xu, who was locked up in the woodshed at the moment, with a bottle and let me feed it in person.
I said I didn’t dare, but he asked, “How dare you poison me?”
I was speechless, so I had to go to the woodshed to see Xu with the medicine bottle.
Xu Shi has a very bright face, a little dress, feel that this must be the daughter of a noble family, not like a concubine who can not even be called an aunt.
When she saw me coming, she burst out laughing with tears in her eyes.
She looked out of the window at the distant and untouchable morning sun and recalled the days when she had just entered Hou Fu.
“At that time, the Marquis used to dote on me in every way. He said I had the eyes of his sweetheart.”
Tut, you deserve to be Xie Linan.
Sweet words can always speak to people’s hearts. Feeling sad,
Xu stretched out her fingertips like jade onions, stroked her eyebrows and eyes, touched them, and looked at me. When she saw my face, she hated pinching her fingertips into her face.
“But after all, you are more like her!”
“Her?” “What’s the matter?
” Hsu sneered? You don’t know?
I shook my head. Of course I don’t know. I’ve only been in Hou Fu for a few days.
“No wonder you’re enjoying all this with a good conscience. You’re not afraid of losing the favor of the Marquis at all. It turns out that you don’t know that everything you get is because of a face like his sweetheart.”
I originally thought that “the eyebrows and eyes of the sweetheart” was a love word, which Xie Linan used to say that Xu Shi was his sweetheart, but I didn’t think that this “sweetheart” was a special reference.
“You mean..”
She interrupted me: “Everyone knows that when the Marquis was young, he had a lover who lived in the dust. In order to redeem himself for her, he joined the army alone and had a narrow escape from death. He climbed out of the dead and earned a Marquis. But when he went back to look for her, the woman had disappeared. From then on, the Marquis began to buy concubines, either singers or dancers.” They were all born in the dust, and most importantly, they all had a face similar to that of the woman.
Desperate, redeemable, in the army? All
I know is that the Marquis Xie was so brave and lonely that he went through the poplars with a hundred paces. Ten thousand generals went to the head of the enemy. I only know that he had 108 knife wounds all over his body, 15 arrow wounds, and four of them hit the vital point.
But he never knew that this beautiful concubine in his house had such an origin.
He climbed out of the gate of death countless times, but it was also because of such an origin.
I can’t help being a little envious.
If I had such a person to wait for, then my ten years in Zuichunlou would not have been so difficult.
“That’s all. I have no complaints about losing to you.”
Xu Shi withdrew his sight from my face, a gesture of peaceful death.
It made me wonder, “How did you know I had a face like hers?” With a wry smile
, Hsu said, I was deeply loved by the Marquis, and for a time I was free to go in and out of his study. I saw with my own eyes the paintings he had made for that woman. In the study, there were ninety-nine of the one hundred scrolls, all of which were that woman’s face. About. Times have changed, and he was afraid he would forget her face, so he painted it over and over again. Reminded
by Xu, I found that Xie Linan’s eyes on me were really obsessed. I thought he was lustful
before, so I was so obsessed with looking at my face. Sometimes I looked at it for an hour, and I was afraid that it would disappear in the blink of an eye.
Now I know that this obsession is his yearning for another person.
I can’t help feeling sorry for him.
Such a nostalgic and infatuated man is rare in the world.
But at the same time a terrible thought came to my mind.
It shouldn’t be.. It was because I had a face similar to his sweetheart that he had evil thoughts, and that he had enmity with his husband until. Stabbed him with a sword.
The thought made me restless.
Until the evening, I finally could not hold back, regardless of the obstruction, rushed into Xie Linan’s study inside.
As Xu said, the walls of the study are covered with picture scrolls. Without exception,
those paintings are all portraits of a woman, with different scenery, different postures, different colors of clothes, but the same bun and smile.
But that looks like the green lotus light green unlined upper garment, the nifty pure double Ya bun, living pulls out my section to forget the memory for a long time.
This memory is too long. I was separated from my family during the flood in the south of the Yangtze River
that year. I met a little beggar named Qingque. That’s what I was wearing when I
met him.
The little beggar was hungry for three days, but he left me half a bowl of leftover rice that he had been beaten for. I was useless
. I was sick for half a month. The little beggar cheated me every day. Finally, he went to Baicaozhai to steal the medicine for me. For this reason, he was arrested and locked up in the government for half a month.
Later, he began to do all kinds of coolies to make money. He said he would make a lot of money for me.
I smiled and told him, “What I want is not money.”
He said, “Then I will give you the most precious love in the world.”
I want to give you this world. The most precious love.
Memories are like Hongquan, and the scenery in the picture scroll is like a clear reappearance of a real scene.
But. How so?
Obviously, my husband is the one who shares weal and woe with me. How can these paintings be here?!
“Madam, madam!” When I woke up
again, Xie Linan stayed by my side, full of care.
“Yung, are you any better?”
I pulled my hand out of his palm and looked at his soft and tender eyebrows and eyes, and I suddenly understood where the familiarity came from.
At that time, it was also such a pair of sad eyebrows and eyes that stayed by my side when I was seriously ill.
But. How?!
I was carried out of the study, and Xie Linan already knew that I had seen everything.
His eyes were full of expectation, and this expectation was gloomy in my silence.
It’s like he knew the truth would hurt me.
So he never confessed, but tried to remind me of it with a promise of one or two sentences.
But I don’t want to remember it at all.
I don’t want to believe it! And won’t admit it! In any case,
I can not accept that in the past so many years, I love, give everything to trust, to be loyal to everything, is a lie.
I will protect myself carefully, let everything go back to the starting point, self-deceiving pretend to see nothing, nothing to understand.
“Yung, I asked the kitchen to roast a little quail for you. This is your favorite..”
“I don’t like quail!”
I refused in fear. I didn’t want anything to prove that the person in front of me was the green sparrow in my heart. I didn’t want anything to remind me that my five years of suffering around Jiang Yunhe was a lie.
In this regard, Xie Linan showed great understanding, he still did not confess anything, let alone explain why he treated me so kindly, as always, kissed my face.
“Have a good rest. I’ll come back later.”
But he didn’t come back.
He seems to be afraid to meet me. After
resting for half a month, my mother-in-law sent me a message to go out and meet me.
I didn’t want to see her, but she sent me messages again and again, so I had to see her.
She did not know what had happened to Hou Fu, but said that Wang Er of the black market did not know where to go, and then took out a new bag of medicine.
“They say that this medicine is chronic, and that it is more suitable than what comes from the crane top red. When the time comes, they will only think that Hsieh Lin-an died of illness, and then you can take his family property for yourself. I have inquired about it, and he is an orphan, and no one can compete with you for this family property!”. It was absurd to
look at her shrewd and calculated manner. Didn’t
you say.. To avenge your husband? What’s the matter? And now you want me to reckon with his estate?
The mother-in-law laughed awkwardly. “Revenge, and by the way, devour his family property. Wouldn’t that be the best of both worlds?”
I was too lazy to argue with her, hesitated for a long time, or asked out my doubts that I had never thought of all these years.
“Did my husband ever become a beggar?” As soon as
the mother-in-law heard this, she was startled. “What did you say?”? Our Jiang family is poor, but no matter how poor they are, they will not let their son go out to be a beggar! Why do you ask?
Everything has an answer.
A word can know the answer, I have been kept in the dark for five years!
But in the past, how could I ask my husband if he had ever been a beggar?
I never doubted whether he was a green sparrow or not!
My mother-in-law didn’t care why I asked, so she just stuffed the bag of poison into my hand. Angrily,
I smashed the poison into her face and squeezed out a word from between my teeth: “Get out!”
My mother-in-law was frightened. Did she ever think that I would fall out with her?
Once, in order to get into the door of her Jiang family, I lifted her shoes and poured the chamber pot every day, beat and scolded her, worked hard without complaint, and fawned on her in every way. Even if the rhubarb at the door would bite her, she would not believe that I would fall out with her.
Lin Wan-jung, don’t forget who you are! How dare you tell me to get out?!
Identity? What identity? I’m just a concubine in your family. A concubine is just an object that can be sold at will. It never belongs to anyone.
She jumped to her feet in a hurry, exposing all the shrewish appearance of the village woman.
“Our Yunhe family spent three hundred taels of silver to redeem you from the Drunken Spring Building!”
I sneered, “Did he ever tell you where he came from when he went to the capital to take the exam?”
She obviously understood everything, and her eyes were evasive. Red-eyed and gnashing my teeth,
I told her word by word, “That’s the money I saved in Zuichunlou for ten years to redeem myself!”! A whole thousand taels of silver! He promised that when he was successful, he would marry me.
She still quibbled, “Why should you, a cheap woman, be the wife of our Jiang family when thousands of people ride on something that thousands of people have trampled on?”? Do you deserve it?!
I lowered my eyes, pulled out the dagger in my sleeve, and pierced the eyes of the thief woman.
Blood spattered, and she died with her eyes wide open in disbelief.
She saw clearly the object that pierced her eyebrows. It was the dagger she bought for ten taels of silver before I entered Hou Fu. She said that the blade of the sword was sharp and the hair could be broken by blowing. When I came back
from the alley, I was covered with blood, and the servants in the house saw me and dodged.
I walked all the way to the door of Xie Linan’s study, and when the people who came up to stop me saw that I was covered with blood, they did not dare to stop me any more, but passed it on in a panic.
Xie Linan came out of the study, saw me covered with blood, and nervously went forward to inspect.
“Where did the blood come from?”
I threw the dagger in my hand in front of him and told him, “Xie Linan, I killed a man.”
“Who?”
“The thief’s thief mother.”
He smiled disapprovingly, just like the day he killed Jiang Yunhe.
He said, “The Marquis has only killed a thief. If you refuse to accept it, then call someone to come to the Marquis to ask for punishment.”
Of course, in the end, the matter was not settled.
No one would offend the Marquis Xie of Linan, who was highly regarded by His Majesty, for the sake of a civil official who was born in poverty and relied on his father-in-law.
“Why didn’t you tell me he was a thief?”
“Why did you just show up?”
Looking at his smiling face, I wanted to stab him in the heart. How could
he, a poor beggar, ask someone to steal his identity?
He knew that what I was thinking about, from the beginning to the end, was the green sparrow, the green sparrow who had a narrow escape from death for me!
Xie Linan called for two hot water and personally cleaned the blood on my skin.
“When you were abducted and sold, I searched all the way and found Qinghe County, but they were too numerous to rescue you. It happened that the border area was at war, and the recruiters said that if you made great contributions, you could become an official. I thought that if you became an official, you would be able to rescue you.” Under
the water-soaked skirt, the scars on my shoulders were faintly visible.
But compared with the scars all over his body, this scar is too shallow.
“Asshole.”
Hsieh Lin-an nodded and admitted, “I’m an asshole.”
“I’ve been waiting for you for ten years.” For
ten years, I waited every day for the bird who said he would die for me, but I couldn’t wait. If
he doesn’t come, the only possibility is that he’s already dead outside.
So when Jiang Yunhe came with my portrait, I never doubted that he was not a green sparrow, but I was grateful that he was still in the world and still remembered that I was waiting here. Before I
joined the army, I found a painter on the street who painted your portrait. I was afraid.. It will take too long for me to remember.
The painter.. Is it Chiang Yun-ho?
Hsieh Lin-an nods his head, his eyes piercing: “I never thought that an unintentional chat in those days would turn out to be such a thief, who would impersonate you, cheat you out of your money, and coax you into becoming a concubine.”
I fell upon his wound with a fist of hatred. “If you know, why don’t you recognize me?”? Why didn’t you get me out?!
He felt no pain, as usual.
Just look at my eyes a little bitter and helpless.
Yung, if I told you everything at that time, would you believe it? Would you like to recognize me?
Yes, at that time, I decided that Jiang Yunhe was Qingque.
Xie Linan’s name is outside. Whatever he says, I will only think that he is looking for words.
Jiang Yunhe as long as a little defense, I will completely trust, how can he recognize Xie Linan?
“Why did you stab Jiang Yunhe with that sword?”
Xie Linan hesitated and did not seem to want to confess.
I stared at him coldly, full of resentment, and he gave in.
“That day I caught Jiang Yunhe meeting the King of Jin. He wanted to sell you to the King of Jin as a concubine for five thousand taels of silver.”
Although he already knew that Jiang Yunhe was a thief, he also got along with him for countless days and nights.
I regard him as a green sparrow, and I love him in every way, but I don’t want him to be so miserable.
I hate tears, Xie Linan embrace me into the bosom.
I bit him on the shoulder with hatred.
Asshole, you’re an asshole! Why. Why is it only now..?
He chuckled and whispered in my ear, “Did you like me more today?”
“Hate you more.” “Not bad,”
he answered good-naturedly. “We have plenty of time anyway.” In the third month of
pregnancy, Xie Linan dismissed all the concubines in the house for fear that someone would do me a disservice.
However, according to what I said, they all found a reliable place to go, so as to avoid wandering in the dust again and not being able to extricate themselves, and each of them was given a considerable amount of severance pay, which caused a popular saying among the people that “it is better to be a concubine for the Marquis than to marry a good son.”.
Hearing that I was the sweetheart Xie Linan had been looking for, his good brothers in the army came to the door with good wine and said they wanted to celebrate him.
Hsieh Lin-an didn’t want me to show up because he was afraid I was tired, but they scolded him for being stingy, saying, “Why, you’re married to a beautiful woman, and we can’t even look at her?”
He couldn’t resist them, so he asked me to show up in the front yard.
Unexpectedly, as soon as these dukes and marquises saw me, they began to talk.
Younger brother and sister, you don’t know that this boy from Lin’an fainted with blood when he first entered the military camp! I said, how can you join the army if you are dizzy with blood? He said it was for his sweetheart. “
I covered my mouth with a smile and said,” Yes, he didn’t even dare to kill a chicken. When we were living outside, we managed to catch a small pheasant, but he let me kill it, saying that he fainted. ” As soon as
this remark was made, the brothers laughed at him again. You
boy, you really don’t even dare to kill a chicken? I thought it was a joke. The Duke of
England sighed, “But it was such a young man who didn’t even dare to kill a chicken, but he rushed out of the enemy’s tight encirclement alone, with a dozen arrows in his body, and even carried our big brother out on his back.” When General
Zhao heard this, he laughed and said, “Yes, yes. Big Brother asked, how did you get out?”? He said, ha ha ha, he said.. I’m going to see my sweetheart! With
that, everyone burst into laughter.
Xie Linan’s smiling cheeks were hot, and he did not know whether he was shy or smelled of alcohol.
I leaned close to his ear and asked, “Who is Big Brother?”
Hsieh Lin-an hesitated a little, but General Zhao was still forthright and said bluntly, “Your Highness the King of Yan in those days is now the crown prince!”
No wonder, he is so smooth sailing, there is such a history.
Sure enough, it was not long before the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess invited me to the East Palace. His
Royal Highness raised his glass and thanked me.
I didn’t deserve it, so I quickly got up and declined. But
he said, “Sister Yung, if it weren’t for you, how could he have the courage to break through the tight encirclement of thousands of people?”? I’m afraid you’ll die with me. At the end of the
banquet, the Crown Princess personally sent me to the door and asked people to prepare numerous gifts to thank me.
She said, “Sister, I really envy you.” “No, I should envy you,”
I said politely.
She shook her head and said with a smile, “At the time of life and death, the prince will not hesitate to give up people like us, but for Marquis Xie..” I think that even if he turns his back on the whole world, he won’t be able to leave you. Farewell
with the Crown Princess, only to see the prince has just said goodbye to Xie Linan, the Crown Princess retreat, the prince looked back at Xie Linan waiting at the foot of the steps.
“Sister, Lin An may be a little late, but I can testify that he has been desperate to come back to you.” On the way
home, we stood shoulder to shoulder without saying a word.
Xie Linan, a little drunk, lifted the curtain and blew the evening breeze, looking at the bright moon on the horizon.
“Green Sparrow.”
His body froze, some surprised eyes, clear eyes with a little crystal.
Maybe I haven’t been called this name for a long time, or maybe it’s the first call of reunion after a long separation. The corners of
his lips moved a little, but he did not speak.
I smiled and lowered my eyes to hide the tears in my eyes. After thinking about it,
I don’t understand why it was so easy to identify Jiang Yunhe as you. Today, when the prince said a word, I suddenly understood that during the ten years when I couldn’t wait for him, I thought he was already dead.
So how I hope that everyone who appears in front of me can be a green sparrow. How
I wish, he is Qingque, he is still in the world.
I don’t care who he marries, I don’t care who is noble and inferior.
I just hope he can come back to me. The
cold night is deeper, and Xie Linan embraces me.
“Do you know why I’m called Hsieh Lin-an?”
“Because Linan was the place where we first met.”
He nodded, “I thought, if you met a man named Hsieh Lin-an, you would certainly look at him one more time. If you looked at him one more time, would you remember that I was your green sparrow?”
……
Ten years ago, Lin’an City Camp.
“Name!”
Thank you.. Hsieh Lin-an!
Chao Hsing glanced at the emaciated monkey cub before him. “Why did you join the army?” He asked, holding a pen in his mouth.
In order to.. In order to kill the enemy and gain military merit, then become an official, and then redeem my sweetheart!
Chao Hsing sneered, “You still want to be an official. How many people can you kill with your body?”
The monkey cub clenched his fists, and the determination in his eyes, which he had been in the army for several years, was unprecedented.
I can do it! I Must be able to.
…… Beyond
the Great Wall, there are flames of war and corpses everywhere.
Zhao Xing was hit by several arrows. When he opened his eyes, he saw a monkey cub in the distance who had been hit by more than a dozen arrows climb up from the dead.
No, after years of experience, he is as strong as a bear and no longer a monkey cub.
“There are thousands of defenders outside. We can’t get out.” As before,
he looked at the distance, his eyes were determined, and he held the broken picture scroll locked in the cuff. I’m
sure I can. I must be able to.
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