The first time
I saw Zhou Ji, I was really embarrassed. It was in a snowy winter. I stole a steamed stuffed bun, was kicked in the abdomen by the shopkeeper, and then thrown into the street. Coincidentally
, I was thrown in front of Zhou Ji’s car.
I clutched my stomach, cold, hungry and in pain, almost feeling that I was only one step away from death. The guard who
drove the car came to drive me away, but my ears were buzzing, and I didn’t hear anything clearly, so I vomited a mouthful of blood on the curtain of Zhou Ji’s car.
Chou Chi was finally startled by me, and my eyes were spinning. All I remember was a strong hand holding me, and a gentle voice in my ear. He laughed and said, “Where did the little wild cat come from?” When I opened my eyes
again, I finally saw Zhou Ji. His hair was loose, he wore a long jacket embroidered with gold, and his face was as bright as the moon, like a figure coming out of ink and wash. There was a faint smell of tea in the
room, and he sat at his desk, holding a book.
When he saw me awake, he looked indifferent. “If you wake up, leave early.”
I thought about it for a few seconds, then smiled and said, “Save the people to the end, and send the Buddha to the West. You saved me. By rights, I should commit myself to you.”
“Promise each other with your body?” He looked at me with a sarcastic curve at the corners of his mouth. “To a eunuch?”
Admittedly, I did not expect that such a person would be a eunuch.
Then the “honey trap” I had planned in my mind fell through, and I lost my head for a moment, so I found a reason and ran away.
But I didn’t expect that the second time I saw Zhou Ji, I was still so embarrassed.
If any place is the temporary residence of a vagrant beggar like me in winter, it should be the temple.
This time, when I was kicked out of the gate by monks in the name of blasphemy for stealing fruit offerings, I looked up and happened to see Zhou Ji’s smiling face. The
monks were about to drive me away when I grabbed Zhou Ji by the hem of his coat and screamed, “Wait, I know this man!” The
monks looked at Zhou Ji with surprised expressions, and the abbot looked at Zhou Ji’s face and nodded to the monks.
I got down on the ground and said, “Long time no see.”
He looked down at me, pondered, and said, “That’s not too long.”
I thought about it, and according to the attitude of the monks and abbots towards him, this should really be a great man. Even if it is a eunuch, I will admit it.
So I wiped my face and said, “I think my proposal last time was good. Can you think about it again?” With a slight tug at the corners of his mouth,
he withdrew Ben’s glance at me and walked toward the hall? What do you propose? I forgot.
I looked at him as if he was asking a question without knowing it. I was so angry that my teeth itched, but I kept humbling my face and said, “Ha ha ha. Your Excellency is really a noble person who forgets things. Last time you saved my life, I said I would promise you my body.”
“Refuse.” He casually lifted the hem of his robe, then knelt on the futon in the temple, closed his eyes and folded his hands.
His words were merciless, but his tone was soft.
I asked him, “Do you believe in Buddhism?”
“Whether you believe or not, it’s all for your own peace of mind.”
After hearing his words, I had an idea in my mind, so I knelt down beside him and kowtowed heavily to the Buddha statue.
“My faithful daughter, Awa, would like to spend ten years of her life in exchange for having no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life.”
“Awa..” That’s a good name. “Do you believe in Buddhism?” Chou Chi murmured.
I opened my eyes and looked into his clear eyes. “I believe in you.”
“Do you promise to repay your kindness with your body?” He laughs, but his expression is inexplicably forlorn. “Don’t regret it.”
“Naturally, I have no regrets.”
I tried my best to stay with him, and I have nothing to regret.
I took a closer look at his eyes and sighed that he was really good-looking, and it was not a loss to promise him.
Zhou Ji took me back to the mansion and ordered people to clean a yard for me to live in. Everyone in the house is guessing who I am, since Zhou Ji does not say, then I personally go to show my identity. The news
that “the new girl is Chou Chi’s wife” was spread by a gossipy maid in the mansion. In the end, Zhou Ji suddenly had a lady’s gossip, which spread all over the country for the first time.
Zhou Ji is busy with his own affairs every day. When he heard about the gossip, he neither admitted nor denied it. Let me say it by myself.
I ran to him and asked him, “Chou Chi, since you agreed to my proposal of’making a promise with your body, ‘why didn’t you come to me?”
He was reading a book, and without looking up, he said, “I am a eunuch.”
His tone was calm, his long fingers turned between the pages, how to look. This is a comely family playboy.
So I went up and pressed the book in his hand and said, “What you hear is false, what you see is true. Why don’t you let me verify it?”
He caught me easily and raised his eyebrows. “Am I indulging you too much?”
Indeed.. I’ve been spreading rumors that I’m your wife, but you haven’t come to lecture me. It’s really boring.
“You have the heart to commit yourself to each other. Isn’t it fair for me to give you the status of a false wife?” He shook off my hand and looked away. “Come to dinner with me tomorrow.”
“To what party?” Stuffy in Zhoufu for many days, he did not come to me, and deliberately did not let me near his study, which was very boring.
“You will know tomorrow.”
On the second day, Zhou Ji prepared a gorgeous dress for me and led me to the wedding banquet of Gu Yinqiu, the first beauty in Beijing. As usual, I tried to amuse him by telling him funny things about the past, but he answered with an absent-minded look. “Chou Chi,”
I teased, “aren’t you also the most beautiful woman in Beijing?”
Chou Chi frowned. “Don’t talk nonsense.”. If someone with a heart listens to it, I don’t know what kind of trouble it will cause.
I was a little unhappy, but I was envious: “Chou Chi, if you give me the title of’Madam, ‘can you give me another wedding?”
He looked at me, his eyes full of disbelief, but in a moment he returned to his usual expression and said lightly, “In the beginning, you used to call me Lord, but recently you’ve really become more and more unruly, calling me by name.”
I sneered, “Since I am your wife, wouldn’t it be wrong to call me’Your Excellency ‘?”? If you give me another wedding, I’ll call you husband.
His mouth moved, but did not say anything, Gu Yinqiu’s sedan chair and the rear fifty dowry passed through the gate in turn, and the sound of gongs and drums shook the sky.
“Worship Heaven and Earth..”
“Second worship in the high hall..”
Husband and wife worship each other.. Li Cheng..
During this period, Zhou Ji stared at the couple, the corners of his mouth pursed, as if he was very unwilling.
I do not know how, the heart is not the taste, just those are just my jokes, I should not have any feelings for Zhou Ji.
I slipped away quietly. As soon as I left the house, I bumped into an acquaintance, to be exact, an acquaintance of Zhou Ji. I went to look for Zhou Ji in my spare time. I met him several times, and I became familiar with him.
He also came to attend Gu Yinqiu’s wedding banquet, and I teased him with a smile: “You’re late!”! They have even finished worshipping in the hall! He was not at all annoyed: “It’s all right if Chou Chi didn’t come late.”
I was startled. “Why did you say that?”
At this point, I know the story of Zhou Ji and Gu Yinqiu from his mouth.
“Zhou Ji..” When I was young, I was the most outstanding son of an aristocratic family among us.
General Zhou and his wife loved each other very much, but only in his later years did he get a son from Zhou Ji.
Zhou Ji lived up to expectations. At a young age, he was not only good at poetry and songs, but also learned how to ride and shoot with a hundred paces.
The emperor once said, “If you have a son like this, there is hope for the Chou family.”. Zhou Ji was famous in Beijing when he was a
teenager.
The most disappointing thing is his love affair with Gu Yinqiu.
In fact, this story is very cliche.
Young Zhou Ji went to visit Gu Fu and fell in love with Gu Yinqiu at first sight.
Unlike those young people who pursued Gu Yinqiu to recite poems for her, he took Gu Yinqiu into the Glutinous Rice Balls for Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, won her the first prize in all the riddles of the day, and then gave Gu Yinqiu a wooden hairpin made by himself. The
unique youth and the rare beauty are indeed a match made in heaven. It was at this time that the
accident happened.
The Zhou family was labeled as contemptuous of Regal. After Zhou Ji became an adult, the Zhou family was too proud of the younger generation of the Zhou family to be disliked by the emperor. Zhou Ji risked his life to have an audience and wrote the Ten Rules of the National Policy to save his life.
However, since then, there is no Zhou family, only Zhou Ji. Although
Zhou Ji managed to save his life, he was castrated and became a Chamberlain in the palace.
“a few days ago I saw Miss Ku go to the Chou Mansion, but when she came back, I don’t know why she suddenly got engaged..”
I had mixed feelings. He originally said he was a eunuch, but I didn’t believe it, but I never thought it was true.
Can How could he look like a eunuch when he was such a man with a clear breeze and a bright moon?
Back to Zhou Fu, I saw Zhou Ji. Although he was drunk, his manners were very good. Only his slightly red face and a strong smell of alcohol reminded me what had happened. He sat quietly in front of the candlelight, and when he saw me, he laughed and said, “Yes, I know to come back.” I didn’t answer him
this time. His
long eyelashes cast a shadow over his face.
He’s so good-looking. It is a pity Soon after the
New Year’s fireworks, we arrived at the Glutinous Rice Balls for Lantern Festival.
I had no trouble finding Zhou Ji, who was drinking alone in the main house.
I told Zhou Ji that, in fact, I had never been to the Lantern Festival as a normal person. Zhou Ji’s dim eyes brightened. I asked him if he would like to go to the Lantern Festival with me, a hapless ghost who was always kicked into the street. He actually agreed.
The streets are very lively. Ten miles of lanterns in the main street, teenagers wearing various masks pass through the crowd, and the cries of hawkers rise and fall one after another.
Fine snow fell between Zhou Ji’s eyebrows and eyes, his clothes were floating, and in the main street where people came and went, there was a slight smell of dust.
You just said.. What does it mean to say that you haven’t been to the Lantern Festival as an ordinary person?
I looked at Zhou Ji, and Zhou Ji was listening to me.
I suddenly thought it was funny. I said, “Chou Chi, you’re so simple. Of course I’m stealing in the Lantern Festival!”! Do you believe that?
Zhou Ji was not angry, he bent the corners of his mouth, his eyes drifted to the crowd guessing the riddles written on lanterns, as if to cross those riddles written on lanterns and see his wanton youth.
I can not see so low Zhou Ji, picked up a fox mask next to the vendor, raised his hand to buckle his face. He tried to stop me, but his palm was on my hand.
I suddenly felt a little stiff. Zhou Ji was stunned for a moment, then put down his mask.
The atmosphere was suddenly silent.
“Actually, I checked you out.” Zhou Ji suddenly opened his mouth.
I resumed my usual grinning, and then continued to tease him: “Well, did you discover my unique and beautiful past?”
Chou Chi was silent for a moment and then said, “Then you are really flattering yourself.”
“It doesn’t have to be that way.” I still smiled back to him.
“Aren’t you sad?”
Hearing this question, I suddenly felt as if I had heard a very funny joke, “What’s the use of being sad? It’s better to be happy like this.”
I know what Zhou Ji found. My
name is Awa. I grew up in Qingfenglou. Because I don’t know how to dance and music, I always serve my mother’s top players. Qingfenglou does not support idle people, so I grew up in the sound of beating and scolding. Then I stole my mother’s silver and ran out by myself.
Then the silver was spent, and I met Zhou Ji.
Logically speaking, I am so humble to the soil, and Zhou Ji, who stands at the peak of power, will not have any intersection. I still don’t understand why Zhou Ji left me. But when I think about what Zhou Ji’s good friend said to me, I feel that everything is so natural.
Raising a person, for Zhou Ji, is simply a trivial matter.
As for the reason why Gu Yinqiu chose to marry so quickly, it was probably because I declared to the outside world that I was Zhou Ji’s wife. Zhou Ji probably didn’t want her to wait so hard all the time. But seeing the person he likes finally marry someone else, probably Zhou Ji himself is also very sad.
After thinking about this, I suddenly felt a little sad.
Today is also a day to sigh for other people’s love.
My mother is the head of the Chingfenglou. However, she died very early. I just cheated and cheated and survived. You see, I was lucky to meet you. With my hands behind my back, I turned to look at Zhou Ji. He stood in the crowd, frowning slightly and thoughtfully. While he was thinking,
I turned behind him and bought two Kongming lanterns, and then asked him if he had any wishes.
I didn’t have any wishes since I was a child, because what I wanted would be noticed and brought to me. I never ask for anything else, but if I really want to say that I have any wishes.. He picked up a pen and wrote on a piece of paper, “May the mountains and rivers be peaceful and the seas and rivers be clear.”. I
suddenly have a feeling that I don’t know what to say.
Look, this is his pattern of Zhou Ji, which I can’t catch up with.
When Chou Chi saw the vulgar wish I had written down to “eat meat every meal,” he said in a helpless tone, “Your pursuit is really.. Ha ha ha..
I thought about it and said, “Chou Chi, do you know that in the days when I ate meat in Chou Fu, there were still many people who could not afford to eat, and there were still many people living on the streets.”. The Glutinous Rice Balls for Lantern Festival Lantern Festival you see is a luxury indulgence for most ordinary people. And my dream is just the dream of most people. As for such an important issue as “the mountains and rivers are peaceful and the seas and rivers are clear,” in fact it is none of our business.
Zhou Ji looked at me as if he had never thought I could say such a thing.
“Chou Chi, will my wish come true?”
He smiled and nodded with a gentleness I had never seen before. “I promise you will have meat for every meal.”
Then he picked up his pen and changed it in front of my wish.
He wrote, “May all the people in the world have meat for every meal.” I don’t know what to say
this time. When
I was in a daze, accompanied by a “don’t move”, I felt a tight feeling on my head. I looked up at him, right on his earnest face.
He put a pearl hairpin for me.
Had it not been for the servant who told me that Zhou Ji was ill, I really didn’t realize that this man had not appeared in front of me for several days.
Yes, I always rush to look for him on weekdays. Have you ever seen him come to look for me. Zhou Ji, who
has always been strong and healthy, is actually ill, which is really an anecdote. When
I went to Zhou Ji’s room, Zhou Ji coughed and sat at the table writing official documents.
He writes a beautiful small script, which is square but elegant with a trace of agility. Noticing that I was staring at him, he looked up at me, his eyes bloodshot.
I was holding a piece of dog’s tail grass in my mouth, and my speech was slurred: “Chou Chi, why are you so diligent? You are still busy with your official business when you are sick.”
Chou Ji frowned and said, “Why didn’t those nuns teach you the rules?”? If you keep fooling around like this, if I’m not here in the future. Cough, cough, cough..
Pooh, Pooh, Pooh.. What are you talking about? I want to be with you all my life. If you die, who will guarantee me meat for every meal? I went up to him and slapped him on the back. “I see you look good, but you have a minor illness. How can you be so weak? It’s easy to say you’re not here..”
He stopped coughing and just stared straight at me. “Oh, it’s good if you’re always so happy.”
“I don’t want to be happy alone. I want to be happy with you.”
I grabbed Zhou Ji’s pen and put it on the inkstone. Then I pulled him to the bedside and said, “If you’re sick, you can have a good rest. You have official documents every day. If your body breaks down, how can you look at it?”
He lay down obediently, but pulled me by the way, and my head hit his strong chest with a “thump”.
“It hurts..” I hissed and was about to get up when I heard him say, “Don’t move..” It’ll only take a moment.
I didn’t dare to breathe, so I lay on his chest and listened to the strong heartbeat in his chest.
“Knock, knock, knock..” One sound after another made my cheeks burn.
Then I heard his even breathing and looked up at him. He was asleep. I could even see the almost transparent fluff on his white face. The long eyelashes are curved into a natural arc, which is very beautiful. Especially the thin lips, like pink peaches, people can not help but kiss. As
I thought so, I stepped forward devilishly, touched his lips like a dragonfly, and then fled.
Zhou Ji is really busy. Holding the tiger amulet in his
hand, he was in power, but it was like walking on the tip of a knife. If he stepped on the wrong step, he would be crushed to pieces.
For no reason, my heart derived some pity for him, almost let me forget my original intention to come to Zhou Fu. Not far from
his door, I met a servant girl, so I asked her to take me to the guest doctor in the house to ask about Zhou Ji’s condition.
But when she took me to a bend, she turned around and took out a veil to cover my mouth and nose, and I didn’t know anything. When I woke up
again, I had been tied up into a big dumpling. I checked my belongings and found that my dress was intact and I had a lot of jewelry on my body. The comer is neither seeking money nor sex, that is, he has a grudge.
I looked around. It was dark except for the sound of the rain outside.
At that moment, someone pushed the door and came in. “He’s out of luck to have a brainless lady like you,”
she said. I was speechless
for a moment. I thought for a moment and then asked, “You have a grudge against Chou Chi. Why did you tie me up?” With a sneer,
she pinched my chin and said, “I left a letter for Chou Chi. I’ll wait for him here for half a day. If he doesn’t come to save you in half a day, then you can ask for more luck!” There was a dull pain in
my heart, and some unspeakable thoughts came into my mind.
I know clearly that Zhou Ji will not come. I’m just a dispensable person in his house. As far as he was concerned, at first I wantonly claimed to be his wife, but he did not refute it, just to let Gu Yinqiu find another family earlier.
Now, I have no other use for him.
Besides, he’s still sick.
Wait, I have been reduced to this, why are you still worried about whether Zhou Ji is sick? What
I should be concerned about is how to keep my life from ending.
Alas, my life is really bitter. With
a sigh of pity, the door was knocked open from the outside, and the woman grabbed me just now. Her strength was so great that the bead hairpin on my head was thrown to the ground, and the beads on the hairpin fell to the ground. Before
I could feel sorry for the valuable pearl hairpin, my neck was cold, and the woman put the knife on it. The cold blade pressed against my skin, and I was too scared to breathe.
“Chou Chi, you really dare to come!”
I frowned and looked outside the door. In the rainstorm, Zhou Ji’s figure was thin but erect. He stood there firmly, as if no matter what happened, he could not be knocked down.
“Leave her alone and leave you all dead.” Zhou Ji’s hoarse and deep voice was so cold that there was no trace of temperature.
I thought, how could he be so arrogant? If this woman is angry and her hand shakes, my life will be explained here!
Zhou Ji coughed violently and shook his body. I almost thought he was going to fall down.
My heart beat violently, according to the present situation, the longer the delay is, the more unfavorable it is for Zhou Ji. I was shocked that
he could come to save me. If he didn’t fall, we would still have a chance to leave. If he fell, we would both die!
Thinking of this, I don’t know where I got the courage, so I made a sudden effort.
The woman was probably unprepared and was knocked to the ground by me. I stumbled up, grabbed the knife from her hand and stabbed it without hesitation.
Blood. A lot of blood.
The woman was still struggling, and suddenly there was an arrow in the air, and the arrow went through her chest. Her face was a frozen ferocious look.
I fell to the spot and took a big breath. The rain fell and fell into my eyes. I couldn’t tell whether it was blood or rain in front of my eyes.
Zhou Ji walked over quickly and put his long gown on my head. Then he crouched down and picked me up.
“It’s all right, don’t be afraid.” He said softly.
I cried out with a “wow”.
I killed someone.
I was immersed in the moment when the woman died, and her empty and horrible eyes were like a bottomless pool. It always reminds me of the women I served in Qingfeng Building. Also My mother. When they died, the expression on their faces was also very terrible.
I tried desperately to open my eyes, but I had no strength at all.
I seemed to see my mother in front of me, with a fierce expression and a sad voice shouting at me: “Ah!”! Did you do it? How dare you show up in front of me! Get out of here!
I shook my head wildly, and in a moment of dizziness, I opened my eyes.
In front of us is the inner room lit with tranquilizing incense. I moved, and my whole body was sore. In
a trance, I heard someone coughing. With a cough, a whispered reply came into my ears. What he said was, “Lord Chou, the man we caught won’t say anything.”
Zhou Ji’s voice was still hoarse. He seemed to think for a moment. Then I heard him say, “Tell General Li that Prince Yong can’t help it.”
I wanted to hear something else, and Zhou Ji heard me wake up. After the man left, Zhou Ji went to my bedside and probed my forehead with his hand: “Well..” It’s still hot. I’ll have someone bring me the medicine later, and you can drink it and then go to sleep.
I shook my head. I didn’t want to sleep any more. As soon as I close my eyes.. There is a vast expanse of scarlet in front of us.
I said to him, “Chou Chi, the pearl hairpin is broken.”
I don’t know why I said this to him first when I woke up. I only know that I feel very wronged.
Chou Chi touched my head and said to me, “It doesn’t matter. Zhu Chai is broken. I’ll give you another one.”
His eyes hesitated to speak.
“Chou Chi, if I really die, will you marry again?”
I don’t know why I asked such a nonsensical question when there was no formal wedding.
He shook his head and asked me with a smile, “What about you?”? Will you remarry if I die?
“Of course, isn’t it hard for you to be widowed for the rest of your life?”
I don’t want to delve into what he said about Prince Yong. I’m just curious why Zhou Ji came to save me. I put my question in my mouth, but Zhou Ji did not answer it directly. He just told me to keep fit and not to go out in the near future.
My question was finally answered one afternoon.
That day, I was going to see Zhou Ji. When I passed by the rockery in the garden, I heard people talking about it.
“Did you hear that the Qingfeng Building was burned down, and the procuress was arrested by the adults..” Excited,
I ran across the rockery and said, “What are you talking about?”? Is it really good to talk freely about the affairs of your family? The
two little girls were startled by me. They knelt on the ground and trembled, “Madam, spare my life!”
They told me that some time ago, I did not know how to spread the news from Qingfenglou. In the streets and alleys, everyone knows that Zhou Ji, a eunuch, married a prostitute.
This is really the greatest joke in the world. When
Zhou Ji heard about it, he set fire to the Qingfeng Building, put the procuress in prison, and soon beheaded her.
In one day, the people who sang the rumors kept silent, and all the rumors came to an abrupt end.
I asked Chou Chi, “Can I go and see her?”
Chou Chi was silent for a while. Then he asked me, “Do you know everything?”
I nodded.
He handed me the token and said in a gentle voice, “I didn’t want to let you go out, but I was afraid you would be sad when you heard the rumor.”. Anyway, you go to see her off. In the future, this matter will be over. I’ll have someone escort you, so you can go and come back as soon as possible.
I took Zhou Ji’s token, and the imperial capital prison was unimpeded.
I saw her.
In the past, the proud procuress looked discomfited at the moment, and all the gorgeous pearls and emeralds on her body in the past disappeared.
She was sitting on a straw mat and her body was covered with scars. Seeing me, she crawled over and grabbed the corner of my coat.
She cried and said, “The civilian girl did not mean to offend Lord Chou. Madam, save the slave family.”
I grabbed her scrawny hand along a piece of paper, pretended to be calm, and the next second the guard next to me kicked her away without mercy.
“Madam, the dungeon is damp and there are many snakes and insects. You’d better go back as soon as possible so that your excellency won’t worry.”
My palms were all sweaty, and I was afraid that he would see something. However, he was still respectful, bowing his head and waiting for me to give orders.
“In that case, let’s go.”
I pinched the note and turned around, leaving the wail of the procuress behind.
Zhou Ji is a man of his word. When the pearl hairpin was broken, he ordered someone to go to the best gold shop for me again. The
new pearl hairpin is far more gorgeous than old one, but I always feel that something is missing. Since
Zhou Ji saved me from the rain, he has become more and more ill, almost bedridden, and the whole house of Zhou is haunted by a smell of medicine.
I went to see Zhou Ji, who was having lunch.
Congee and side dishes, extremely light.
I sat down and said, “Chou Chi, you’re sick. You should eat a little meat to supplement your nutrition.” With a smile on his lips
, Chou Chi pretended to be helpless and said, “All the meat has been sent to your room. I don’t have any meat to eat.” I was at a loss for
words, and I felt guilty when I remembered the big fish and meat in my heart.
So I ordered someone to send a big roast chicken that I had no time to move to the kitchen, peel the chicken carefully, and cook a bowl of shredded chicken soup.
I watched him finish his drink and lie down in his clothes before I was relieved.
Before I left, I asked Chou Chi, “Would you like to have dinner with me every day?” “Good,”
said Chou Chi in a low voice.
The shining eyes made my cheeks burn, and I ran away. The days of eating
with Zhou Ji have become very different, and every day there will be some expectations for the meal time.
I am a typical carnivore, while Zhou Ji likes to eat some side dishes. He
deserves to be the son of an aristocratic family. He even looks calm and elegant when he eats.
I, on the other hand, haven’t seen meat in eight hundred years, and I never stop until I burp.
Most of the time, I was embarrassed by the difference between me and him, but Zhou Ji always said with a smile that he could eat more when he saw me eating so well. After dinner
, I was too lazy to go back to my yard, so I slept soundly in Zhou Ji’s place, so Zhou Ji simply left me a room in his yard. After dinner, I went there to sleep, and Zhou Ji began to deal with official business. After eating
with me, Zhou Ji’s appetite was better, but his condition did not improve, but showed signs of aggravation. The imperial physician from the
palace frequently visited Zhou Fu, but failed to cure Zhou Ji.
Even so, the number of times Zhou Ji went to the palace was more, and the security of Zhou Fu became particularly heavy. Most of the time, I couldn’t even go shopping outside the palace.
So I lay dormant and waited for the right time. The time
I’ve been waiting for is coming soon.
That night, I stayed at Zhou Ji’s place. When the sound of gold and jade striking
outside the window sounded, I was dressed to see Zhou Ji.
He sat in the hall, wearing a long jacket embroidered with cranes in ink, with his long hair scattered behind him. He looked lazy, but his eyes were sharp and cold.
I knew that a man like him, who was used to storms, would not panic no matter what happened.
This kind of him, is really good-looking, perhaps he died, I will be sad.
But Zhou Ji must die for me.
He is carrying, I will Mensi’s more than a hundred mouths of life, carrying my blood feud of two hundred thousand troops died innocently in the desert south.
I didn’t cheat Zhou Ji.
My mother is really a thin horse in Yangzhou.
But she is not an ordinary thin horse, she used to be the eldest lady of the Si family.
My name is Sihu.
And my grandfather used to be the ever-victorious general Si Yue in my Dynasty.
Because the emperor appointed the Zhou family to try the case, and the Zhou family, as the family with the best relationship with the Si family in the court, made the final conclusion that it was Grandpa’s command error that made me bury the two hundred thousand troops innocently in Monan.
My memory of my mother is actually blurred. But I remember that before she died, her voice was shrill: “Ah, the Si family is innocent!”! You’re the only one left in the Si family. You must, you must, you must turn the case over!
Yes. More than a hundred members of the Si family either died on the way to the frontier or on the execution ground. In the end, I was the only one left in the whole family.
I, Si’s good man, did not die in battle, but was buried in the chaos of Kyoto.
And the source of all this, but is the Zhou family trial of this case of chaos.
I survived because of Prince Yong.
He saved my mother.
He single-handedly created the Qingfeng Building and gave my mother the best protection.
He trained me to be a good undercover agent since I was a child, so that I could stay in the Zhou family and provide information in the future.
And he promised my mother, as long as he can get the tiger amulet of the Zhou family, when he succeeds, he will return the innocence of the Si family.
According to my own strength, to deal with the Zhou family, but the mayfly shook the tree, there is no hope. Relying on the guidance of Prince Yong,
I fell in front of Zhou Ji’s car in the snowy winter last year. The
Glutinous Rice Balls for Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is just to stay with him; the play of being kidnapped is just to exchange information and gain his trust; I went to see the madam and got the plan of today’s action; and eating with him every day is just to poison his food, so he’s getting sicker and sicker..
Everything is just an illusion arranged in the mirror.
However, Prince Yong calculated everything and taught me how to be a good undercover agent, but he didn’t teach me how not to be tempted.
Chou Chi smiled and poured himself a glass of wine. “Oh, I never thought I would come to a good end.” He paused. “No, I should have called you, Sihu.”
My body trembled and my mind went blank.
“How do you know?”
Chou Ji gulped down the wine in one gulp, only to hear a “bang.” The cup he threw was thrown to the ground with full force, and it fell apart.
His voice pierced my heart with the sound of a broken cup. “How dare you unite with Prince Yong to plot a rebellion!”
He said, word by word.
I didn’t dare to look up into his eyes. My throat seemed to be choked and I couldn’t say a word.
This is my closest step to our plan, as long as I kill Zhou Ji, my family revenge, and then get the tiger amulet, assist Prince Yong to achieve great things, then our family to clear the injustice, just around the corner. I
don’t know when I shed tears, so I raised my hand to wipe my face, took out the knife I had prepared for a long time from my sleeve and pointed it at Zhou Ji.
Chou Chi chuckled, patted the seat beside him calmly, motioned for me to sit down, and then asked me softly, “Do you know why the Si family was destroyed?”
“Because of your slander against the Chou family.” My voice is very cold.
Zhou Ji shook his head and said, “The military power of the Si family is too heavy. Prince Yong once tried to plot a rebellion with General Si Yue but was refused.”. The first battle of Monan was nothing but Prince Yong’s deliberate revenge!
In Zhou Ji’s place, I heard another version of the story.
The Zhou family had interceded for the Si family after the collapse of the Si family. But there was no evidence at that time, and all the evidence pointed to the Si family.
I have found evidence of the murder of the Si family in recent days. But Sihu, from the moment you launch the rebellion, the statement that the rest of the Si family will unite with Prince Yong to rebel will be presented to the emperor’s case, and the Si family will never be able to turn over!
I don’t know what’s wrong with the world. Lies and truth surround me, but I can’t tell which one I should believe.
I couldn’t kill Zhou Ji after all, because I couldn’t confirm whether what he said was true or not.
In the past, I never doubted the words of my mother and Prince Yong, but now I want to find a truth.
I don’t want to kill the wrong person, and I don’t want to.. Kill the wrong person who already lives in my heart.
But Zhou Ji is dead.
From a glass of poisoned wine he drank in front of me. After I was kidnapped,
Zhou Ji knew that Prince Yong would do it in a few days, so he handed the tiger amulet to General Li of the Capital Defense Department. Prince
Yong once promised me that as long as he succeeded in his great cause, he would be honored after his death.
In fact, I don’t care about this honor.
I just want to fulfill my mother’s last wish. Glutinous Rice Balls for Lantern Festival
that day, when I visited the Lantern Festival with Zhou Ji, I had a little hope.
I was thinking that if the Si family had not been destroyed, I had been born in the Si family at the beginning, and he had not experienced the disputes of the Zhou family, then I would have had a good story with him. Before
I could find out the truth, Prince Yong was arrested and imprisoned.
So I hid here and there, and I was in a constant state of anxiety.
When I stole another steamed stuffed bun and gobbled it up in the snow and was found by the officers and soldiers, I thought that my sinful life would finally come to an end.
However, the officers and soldiers were very respectful to me.
They said, “Madam Chou, the emperor has asked you to return to the mansion to take charge of the affairs of Lord Chou’s death.” On my way
back to Zhoufu, I saw a notice posted by the officials. There was
no mention of the conspiracy between the Si family and Prince Yong, but the Si family was rehabilitated.
It was a snowy winter, and Zhou Ji’s funeral was extremely grand, but no one really saw him off.
It was exactly what he had said to me with a smile before he died: “Oh, I never thought I would come to a good end.”
The Si family is gone, and so is the Zhou family.
Zhou Ji is free, but I want to live. I will always
remember that I owe him a lot.
Extra chapter:
My name is Zhou Ji. The rest of
my life is just lingering on for the sake of my father’s instructions. When the
Zhou family had an accident, my father said that the Zhou family was just a tree falling down, and that I was the only one of the children of the Zhou family, and the rest were just playboys. Up to now, only the Zhou family is left in the century-old family of
our Dynasty. Sooner or later, the Zhou family will have an accident. He has always understood.
It’s just that the trial of the Sijia case is the biggest guilt in his life. He wants me to find out the truth of the Sijia’s destruction of Monan by 200,000 troops in those years, otherwise he will die in his grave.
But that is clearly not the fault of the Zhou family. I recognized her
that day when she fell before me.
She told me that her name was Awa.
Aw, Aw, it really suits her. When I
saw her in a mess, I knew she must have suffered a lot. I didn’t want to drag her into Kyoto, but she bumped into me again and again.
I like Sijia sister very much. She often makes candy cheese for us children.
And Awa, even if deliberately disguised, that face is also seven points similar to her mother. When the
Si family was destroyed, I cried and asked my father if there was any room for change.
But my father just touched my head and sighed. When I was
fourteen years old, I received a pearl hairpin from the emperor, saying that I could give it to my beloved in the future.
I know Gu Yinqiu has always been interested in me, but I have always treated her as a sister. So when she asked me for the hairpin, I refused. She said, then you make a wooden hairpin for me with your own hands.
Mother likes Gu Yinqiu very much and always lets me take her to play, but I never think of her. When I picked up Awa
in the snow, I suddenly learned something from my heartbeat.
Gu Yinqiu knew my temper. When she came to my house and asked me if I liked her, I didn’t hide it from her. I told her that the rest of my life was for this little girl.
Then Gu Yinqiu ran away crying, and a few days later, she heard the news that she was going to get married.
When I went to the banquet and watched her and the bridegroom worship, I remembered Awa’s words: “Since I am your wife, wouldn’t it be worth calling me’Your Excellency ‘?”? If you give me another wedding, I’ll call you husband. The sadness in
my heart, like the tide, came and swallowed me up. How much
I want to give him a wedding, how much I want to go hand in hand with him and grow old together.
But how can I stand with her, and how can I give her happiness?
That day, Awa took me to the Glutinous Rice Balls for Lantern Festival Lantern Festival. When I wrote on the back of the lantern, “I hope Awa will be happy every day,” I knew that my heart was no longer filled with only the world and the truth.
So I gave the pearl hairpin to Awa. I was actually quite surprised when
he asked me later, “Will you marry someone else?”.
But the way she said firmly that she would not be widowed for me, though lovely, made my heart hurt.
I also know that no matter who the tiger amulet is in, it is not as good as in the hands of the emperor to make him feel at ease. Moreover, the Zhou family and the Si family are both aristocratic families. Men of an aristocratic family, for the sake of Ansheng’s heart, are always going to die. The family has been entrenched in the court for a hundred years, which is always a big threat to the emperor. The Si family has fallen, the Zhou family has been destroyed, and I should leave.
It’s just that I suddenly have a little nostalgia for this world. I was also very sad when
he and Prince Yong tried to kill me.
I watched her pull out the knife, and although it did not stab me, I felt as if a blunt knife was cutting back and forth in my heart, and it was very uncomfortable.
I didn’t want her hands to be stained with blood again, so I took the cup of poisonous wine that had been prepared for me for a long time. She
was deceived that from the moment you launched the rebellion, the rest of the Si family would unite with Prince Yong to rebel, and the case would be presented to the emperor, and the Si family would never be able to turn over.
Looking at her stunned expression, I let her go.
But I know she’s coming back.
It’s just that when she came back, I was gone.
Before the poison was sent, I presented the last letter to the emperor, which contained the evidence of Prince Yong’s collusion with foreign invaders. At the same time, I begged the emperor to let Awa take charge of the affairs after my death, which was also the last bit of selfishness of my Zhou and Si families who had devoted themselves to the country for hundreds of years.
I have worked hard for her and my father’s instructions for many years.
And I had hoped that I could have a life with her.
But my body, after all, can not give her complete happiness.
I know that after my death, Zhou Fu will shelter her from the wind and rain.
Her wish will never be empty, and she will still have meat every day for the rest of her life.
And I not only hope that she has meat to eat every day, but also hope that she is 100 years old and safe.
