Flute Nu
01
The sound of the horns rises and the drums move. All the people in the fighting field are cheering.
Dou Nu Chang, that is, Dou Di Nu Chang, is a place of recreation for royal relatives and nobles.
And the flute slave is the servant who lives at the bottom of the Fu Dynasty. The flute slave is unintentional and heartless. Wearing a mask all his life, he will only fight like a beast for the royal entertainment.
I am a flute slave. Since my master fed me a bowl of mustard wine a long time ago, I have formed a blood chain with him, and the past has disappeared in my mind. Once the blood chain is formed, it can not be lifted and the owner can not be changed.
From then on, as soon as I heard the sound of my master’s flute, I only had the idea of being loyal to my master, going up the mountain of knives for him, going down the sea of fire, and doing everything for him.
I lay on the ground and panted hard, my clothes were dyed red inside and outside, but the opposite flute slave still rushed at me. With a
click, the mask on my face was smashed and I fell to the ground. The smell of blood was pungent, and the cheers around him were louder and louder. The sound of the
master’s flute was harsh, and he shouted, “Get up!”! Come on!
For a moment, I thought I was going to die, but it was good to be dead. If I lose this gladiatorial fight, I will go back to be punished by my master, and my life will be worse than death.
But I didn’t wait for the expected death.
It turned out that a man jumped down from the spectator seat in front of me and blocked the attack of the opposite flute slave for me. The voice of the
master came from a high place: “Is Jiudi coming?”? Nine younger brother is not always hate this fight slave field, how today have such a good interest to come here for entertainment? And even.. Do you fight in person? All
the spectators around were laughing. The man who
stood in my way spoke with great emotion: “Whose flute is this?”
Yes.. Childe Chou’s flute slave. Why is Brother Jiu interested in this flute slave? As soon as
I heard these words, I felt my consciousness gradually blurred.
When I woke up again, I was not in the familiar prison of fighting slaves, but on the bed surrounded by heavy gauze. The man sitting with his
back to me, dressed in a blue robe embroidered with the waves of the sea, seemed to feel my sight, and he suddenly turned around.
I quickly closed my eyes, and in an instant, I caught his eyes.
It was a pair of beautiful eyes, which reminded me of the moon in the past, looking through the iron bars of the dungeon in the field of fighting slaves, clear and silent, moist and lingering.
Although he looked very much like my master, this man was clearly not my master, who would never look at me like that.
If the master knew that I had not returned to the dungeon of the fighting ground, he would punish me again.
I thought so and continued to pretend to be unconscious. During this period, the man fed me a very bad medicinal soup, and then stuffed a piece of something into my mouth, which melted in my mouth and was sweet.
Finally, I stayed up until dusk and there were few people in the house. Then I got up from the bed secretly and wanted to climb over the wall.
The courtyard wall is very high, but it is only a few steps for me. Unexpectedly, when I jumped up, I touched the wound, and I slipped under my feet in an instant and fell down from the courtyard wall.
This movement naturally alarmed the people in the hall, so I saw him again.
He hurried over to me and helped me up. Seeing how black and blue I was, he couldn’t hold back his smile. “Do you know how big Prince Yi’s Mansion is?”? Even if you climb over this courtyard wall, you’ll still be in my palace. Trembling,
I stepped back, but there were glimmers in his eyes. He frowned and asked, “Why did you run?”
I opened my mouth to answer him, but in the past few people would talk to me, except for my master who occasionally shouted to me, “Dinu, bark like a dog.”
So I opened my mouth for a long time and had to timidly squeeze out a few words: “Lord..” People. Punish me.
“I’ve bought you from Prince Chou, and I’ve destroyed the flute that Prince Chou used to control you. No one can control you anymore.” He pulled me into his arms. “I’m Fu Jiusi. From now on, I’m your rightful Lord.”
I do not know what Fu Jiusi, and he did not form a blood chain with me, naturally can not be my master. The Zhou Childe in
his mouth is not my master.
But in Fu Jiusi’s arms, I inexplicably felt the stability I had never felt before.
The next night, I was still ready to escape, but suddenly I heard a familiar flute sound outside the courtyard wall of the mansion.
My real master said to me through the wall, “Dinu, stay in peace in the palace of Prince Yi and wait for my command.” So
I stayed in Yi Wang Fu. After
my injury was healed, Fu Jiusi arranged me to serve in his study and was responsible for grinding ink for him.
Fu Jiusi was one of the nine princes of the Dynasty. He was the famous King Yi. He had a lot of official documents to write every day.
But he did not seem to be in a hurry to write those documents. Every time he wrote a few words, he would raise his head and look at me for a long time. Every time he looked at me, his eyes turned red.
I don’t know what I have to look at, because I look very scary. Once upon a time, every time I lost a gladiatorial fight in the field, my master would cut me in the face with a knife. Over time, my face was covered with staggered knife wounds, and I could not even see my own appearance.
Every time I look at Fu Jiusi’s red eyes, I know that he must be scared to cry by my appearance again.
Di Nu has no name. Fu Jiu thought for several days before he gave me a new name-Hua Yue.
I put my hands on my head and asked him, “Why do you call me Hua Yue?”
Fu Jiusi said, “Because from now on, you don’t have to kill with your own life to please your master like Di Nu. Besides, it’s wrong to hurt people.”. By my side, you just need to be a flower beside my pillow and a moon by the window. I will protect you.
I nodded casually, but I didn’t understand what he said at all.
Fu Jiusi wrote the document, I finished grinding the ink, then got up and looked at the layout of his study. There was a portrait of a woman hanging all over the walls of
his study. Even if I am a flute slave, I know that woman is extremely beautiful.
I looked at the picture and asked him, “Who is it?”
She is me.. The person whose heart is in it. Fu Jiusi stared into my eyes, as if trying to get some answer from it.
I tilted my head. “What is the heart?”
Fu Jiusi turned away helplessly and did not want to talk to me any more. When
I saw that Fu Chiu-si seemed to be in no mood to write official documents, I could only say to him, “Why don’t you draw a picture for me now?”
Fu Jiusi agreed, I sat in front of him, he picked up the pen and ink and rice paper to draw.
He drew a human figure that looked like the woman in the portrait hanging on the wall, but it didn’t seem to be me.
I got close to Fu Chiu-si and was almost face to face with him. I pointed to the scars on my face and said, “Fu Chiu-si, I have scars here, here, here, and here. Why don’t you draw them?”
Fu Jiusi opened his eyes wide and stared at me steadily. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva. I looked at his ears and face unconsciously. Only then did
I realize that Fu Jiusi would not only be jealous, but also have red ears and blush. It’s amazing.
Fu Jiusi shrank back his neck, and his brush drew many random lines on the woman’s face on the rice paper.
I shook my head and said, “Fu Chiu-si, the scar on my face is not in the place you drew. You drew it out of order.”
Fu Jiusi shook his head and said something I didn’t understand. He said, “I am confused.”
I stayed by Fu Jiusi’s side every day, living a completely different leisurely life from before.
If it is a sunny day outside, Fu Jiusi will use lotus leaves to shade me from the sun and cook pears for me in the courtyard. If it is a cloudy day outside, Fu Jiusi will embrace me and lean on the fumigation cage, listening to the dripping rain outside the curtain. When
Fu Jiusi was not in the mansion, I was bored. Fortunately, the servants in the mansion often came to the study to see me. Once
, three servants looked at me for a while outside the carved window. One of them said, “Your Highness, King Yi, has never been close to women except for Miss Gao Ruyi. I thought you brought back some kind of seductive master, but who knows it turned out to be such a horrible savage woman.”
What woman? She is a flute slave, but a brute.
“Don’t you realize that if you don’t look at the scar on the face of the flute slave, she is actually very similar to the girl Gao Ruyi that your Highness is concerned about?”
I didn’t quite understand what they were saying, but I looked up at them out of the window.
Fu Chiu-si also appeared out of the window. His face was as bad as a bad eggplant. He seemed to be very angry. “It’s your turn to gossip about the king,” he snapped.
Fu Jiusi ordered the servants to be caned and strode into the study.
I haven’t seen Fu Jiusi for a long time, and I am very happy. I looked at his unkind face and went up to meet him. “Fu Jiusi, you have finally returned home.”. You don’t have to be angry with them. In fact, they are all my friends. I often play with them when you are not in the study.
“Is it?” Fu Chiu-si’s expression finally softened a little: “What are you all playing with?”
“They put their lips on my lips, or they put their hands here, and we play like this.” I put Fu Jiusi’s hand on the bulging part of my chest and said, “Sometimes they want to take off my skirt, but I’m cold, so I don’t let them take it off. But they still had a good time.
“What did you say?!” Fu Chiu-si pulled his hand away from my chest, as if he were even angrier. “You don’t know how to be shy when you’re frivolous?”? How can you say that in such a high-sounding manner?!
What is frivolity? What is being shy? I don’t understand.
Fu Jiusi looked at me with hatred, frowning: “You..”
“That’s all, that’s all,” I said, holding Fu Chiu-si in my arms. I brushed his lips with mine, and then I said, “Fu Jiusi, don’t be angry. Now I’m frivolous to you. Can you teach me how to be shy?”? I promise I will study hard.
Fu Jiusi opened his eyes wide and stared at me in disbelief. His ears and face were red again.
Fu Chiu-si? Are you so shy now? I was about to continue asking when I heard a rush of footsteps.
I turned my head and saw a beautiful woman standing in front of the door of the study. The woman was staring at me.
She turned out to be the woman on the picture hanging in Fu Jiusi’s study.
For some reason, Fu Jiusi pushed me away, and then he slapped me hard.
I’m in a daze. Fu Chiu-si’s voice was as fierce as I had ever heard it, and he shouted at me, “Be bold and cheap!”
Fu Jiusi said that my cheap maidservant didn’t know how to be polite and dared to disrespect him. He ordered the bodyguard to punish me with thirty sticks.
This is the first time I have been punished by Fu Jiusi. When I
was punished with the rod, I saw that the “servants who despised me” were all killed with the rod. When
I returned to the main courtyard after being punished with thirty sticks, I found that the servants were busy with something. They hung one red thing after another in the house, which looked very festive.
I grabbed a servant and asked, “What’s going on in the house?”
“Your Highness is going to marry Gao Ruyi, the eldest daughter of Gao Xiangguo. Gao Xiangguo is a highly respected minister. Your Highness, King Yi, is going to get your attention this time.”
I didn’t understand what marriage was, but I felt a little nervous, so I went to Fu Chiu-si and asked him, “What is marriage?”
Fu Jiusi looked at me with deep eyes. He said in a low voice, “To get married is to support each other and grow old together.”
I still don’t understand: “Then why did you marry Gao Ruyi?”
Actually, what I want to ask is, why can’t it be me?
Fu Jiusi’s eyes are emotions that I can’t understand. He seems to have a lot to say to me.
But the next moment, he slapped me in the face: “Hua Yue, I used to be good to you, just because you and Gao Ruyi are somewhat similar in appearance.”. I have been concerned about Gao Ruyi since I was a child. In the past, when I couldn’t get her, I took you as a substitute for Gao Ruyi. And now that I have married her as I wished, I have shown you the greatest kindness by not expelling you from the house. Don’t think of anything else.
I don’t like Gao Ruyi.
Because she always put her hand around Fu Jiusi in the house and pressed her lips against Fu Jiusi.
Fu Jiusi said that it was frivolous, wrong and shameful.
Last time I did this to Fu Jiusi, he was so angry that he punished me with thirty sticks.
But why didn’t Fu Jiusi get angry with Gao Ruyi?
I don’t think Gao Ruyi likes me either.
Because on the first day of her marriage, she sent me out of Fu Jiusi’s study and ordered me to cut firewood in the backyard. I
didn’t want to go. I just said to Gao Ruyi, “Fu Jiusi says he is my rightful Lord. I won’t listen to you.”
Gao Ruyi glared at me ferociously and said, “How dare you disrespect me? How dare you call me by your Highness’s name?”. Somebody, drag this cheap maidservant down and punish her with fifty sticks.
So the guards rushed up and escorted me down.
On the way, I ran into Fu Chiu-si, who was on his way home. He waved to his bodyguard and asked, “What’s going on?”
The bodyguard told Fu Jiusi the reason for all this, I think Fu Jiusi will be on my side, after all, he said he would protect me.
But Fu Chiu-si didn’t. He just glanced at me coldly and said, “Everything is up to your ladyship.”
I suddenly understand what a double is. After
being fined fifty sticks, I was locked up in the woodshed by Gao Ruyi.
At night, through the small window of the woodshed, I looked at the moon as I used to look at the moon in the dungeon of the nunnery. Suddenly, I heard a quarrel between Fu Jiusi and Gao Ruyi not far from the door.
Gao Ruyi’s voice was full of tears: “When your Highness first proposed marriage to Gao Fu, he promised that my father would cure my stubborn illness and be a pair of people with me for the rest of my life.”. But now, why does your Highness still keep that cheap maidservant Hua Yue in the mansion after marrying me? Who is that woman?
Fu Chiu-si’s voice was very low: “She is a flute slave.”
Gao Ruyi said in surprise, “Di Nu?!”! Isn’t the flute slave always kept in the fighting field? Your Highness knows that it is against the emperor’s orders to keep a flute slave in the house like a human being? Besides, the flute slave is unintentional and heartless, and it is impossible to change ownership. If he hears the sound of his master’s flute and goes mad, he will make a river of blood in this house.
“Ruyi, the flute that controls her has long been destroyed by me.” Fu Jiusi paused, “As for why I kept her in the house, it used to be because she looked like you.”. And now I am for your stubborn illness.
Gao Ruyi’s voice was full of wonder: “What?”? For my stubborn illness?
Ruyi, when I told Gao Xiang that I had found a cure for your stubborn illness, I did. There are three kinds of medicinal materials in the prescription, Cordyceps sinensis in the evening, He Cao in the leaves of yesterday, and the body of the son of the pedicle. That cheap maidservant Di Nu and you are the son of Di. So if I can find two more medicine guides, your stubborn illness will be cured. I couldn’t understand the emotion in Fu Jiusi’s voice: “Ruyi, you are the only love in my life.”. I will soon set out to look for another two medicine guides, and when you are cured, we can grow old together.
“Your Highness..” Gao Ruyi’s low cry came. I don’t really understand what
they’re saying.
But I once heard other servants say that many years ago, after Fu Jiusi and Gao Ruyi met at the Royal Spring Banquet, Fu Jiusi fell in love with Gao Ruyi. But Fu Jiusi was not a favorite prince, so Gao Xiang did not appreciate Fu Jiusi at that time, so he did not agree to Fu Jiusi’s marriage proposal.
It was not until a year ago that Gao Ruyi’s body suddenly became ill that the hospital found out that Gao Ruyi had a stubborn illness. When
Fu Jiusi learned of this, he devoted himself to finding a prescription for Gao Ruyi, and even the struggle for the crown prince was delayed. Heaven pays off, Fu Jiusi finally found a prescription that can cure Gao Ruyi’s stubborn illness, Fu Jiusi took the prescription to Gao Fu to propose marriage, Gao Xiang agreed to marry Gao Ruyi to Fu Jiusi. I don’t know what the child
is.
I was locked up in the woodshed for several days, and on the day I was released, suddenly there was a lot of hoofbeats in the house. Then I saw Fu Jiusi saying goodbye to Gao Ruyi at the gate of the mansion.
Fu Jiusi wanted to go to the Putuo Mountain to find the first medicine on the prescription, Muxue Cordyceps. Before
Fu Jiusi rode away, he suddenly turned his head inexplicably and looked in my direction, and then he and the bodyguard disappeared. There was no lamp in the
evening. Gao Ruyi ordered me to carry water in the backyard before going to bed. When I was carrying water, I suddenly heard the familiar sound of the flute.
I haven’t heard this voice for a long time, and I just feel the blood boiling all over my body.
The host was on the other side of the courtyard wall. He told me to go to Fu Jiusi’s study and take out his letters with Gao Xiangguo. It took
me only a moment to find the letters in the study. Before I came out of the study, I looked at the pictures of Gao Ruyi hanging all over the wall and suddenly felt a little stuffy in my chest.
I climbed over the courtyard wall of Prince Yi’s mansion and handed the letters to the master.
“This Kao Hsiang-kuo really has a lot of nerve. He started playing chess for the crown prince so soon.” The master chuckled and looked at the letters, then ordered me to put them back. I did everything.
Finally, my host asked me, “Did Fu Chiu-si go to the Putuo Mountain to look for medicinal herbs?”
I nodded my head.
“There are many poisonous snakes and strange beasts in Putuo Mountain, and it’s perfectly normal that Fu Chiu-si died there.” The master’s face could not be seen clearly in the dark sky. When the flute was finished, he said, “Flute slave, go and kill Fu Jiusi.”
I still nodded numbly.
When I arrived at the Putuo Mountain, I carefully followed their horses and carriages not far behind, waiting for the best moment.
Fu Jiusi finally found Muxue Cordyceps in a cave wall. When he went to pick the Muxue Cordyceps, I heaved a sigh of relief and finally threw a flying needle at the hemp rope hanging on his body.
The hemp rope suddenly broke, and Fu Jiusi fell into the deep cave in a dangerous way.
The guards were frightened, but the cave was so deep that they had to shout at a loss above the cave: “Your Highness?!”! Your Highness?! It’s all over. The cave is full of poisonous snakes!
I think my job is finally done. I should go back.
But I looked at those extremely nervous guards, I suddenly can not move the pace, only feel the chest is very uncomfortable.
Is Fu Jiusi going to die?
I suddenly realized that I didn’t want him to die.
So, the next moment, I flew over, and without waiting for the guards to react, I jumped into the cave.
The fall hurt me very much. There was some smelly and green water in the cave. Fu Jiusi also fell badly and was seriously injured, so he was almost unconscious. There was a rustling sound in the dog’s tail grass on the top of the
cave. I looked up and found that there were snakes all around me. They are spitting out letters wantonly, and their eyes are shining with cold light, and they are winding.
I quickly tore the cloth from my dress and stuck it in Fu Jiusi’s wound. A snake climbed up my calf and got into my long skirt.
In fact, I had a way to deal with poisonous snakes in the past, but Fu Jiusi said that I was not allowed to act like a flute slave again.
So I had a brainwave and tore my gown open, leaving my legs exposed. The bite marks on the legs were still bleeding, and the smell of blood was very pungent in the stench of the cave.
Sure enough, those greasy creatures smelled the smell and ate me mercilessly. There was a sharp pain in my leg. Holding back the convulsion in my stomach, I shouted to the guard above, “Let go of the rope..” Come down.
I felt a lot of pain on my body. I endured dizziness and pain and tied the rope tightly on Fu Jiusi. When Fu Jiusi was slowly pulled up, I breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed. The
breeze blew in through the window lattice, and I heard the sound of birds.
I slowly opened my eyes and looked at Fu Jiusi’s eyes.
Surrounded by familiar faces, we had returned to the palace of Prince Yi, and I was lying on the couch in the side hall.
I thought he would praise me for saving Fu Jiusi, but he looked very angry. He frowned and asked me, “Who gave you permission to follow me to Putuo Mountain?”? Who gave you permission to jump out of that snake hole?
I didn’t know how to answer Fu Jiusi, so I had to keep staring at him.
Fu Jiusi gnashed his teeth and said, “Tomorrow I will set out to Qingshan City to look for the leaves of He Cao yesterday. You can’t follow me in the dark as before.”. Do you understand?
I asked him, “Why do you have to look for the medicine in the prescription?” When
Gao Ruyi reached the gate, Fu Jiusi glanced at her and said in a tone I couldn’t understand, “Because I love her, I want her to be good.”. Because I am willing.
“Then I’m going to follow you,” I said lightly. “I’m willing, too.”
Fu Chiu-si seemed to be listening to a joke, and he slapped me again: “Bitch, you are a flute slave and a beast. What kind of heart can you have and what kind of love can you understand?”
“Jiusi, don’t be angry with this flute slave. If she wants to go, let her go. It’s good to have a secret guard to protect you.” Gao Ruyi walked into the hall. She smiled around Fu Jiusi. “Let’s go to dinner.”
Fu Jiusi and Gao Ruyi walked out of the hall one after the other, and I felt my chest was stuffy again.
What is willing?
In the evening, I couldn’t figure it out, so I lay on the couch with my eyes open. Suddenly, I heard a long flute sound outside the hall.
I suddenly felt my blood boil all over my body. I sat up from the bed and went to the window like a puppet. The host
outside the window was dressed in a gorgeous python robe. His face was not good: “Di Nu, you didn’t finish the task I gave you. Fu Jiusi didn’t die.”
“Master.” I gawked at him. Haven’t you killed anyone for
a long time, and your hands are raw? But as long as you finish the task tonight, I will not punish you this time. “The master laughed inscrutably.” Tonight, I want you to kill Gao Ruyi. ” Somehow,
I suddenly remembered that Fu Jiusi had told me that it was wrong to hurt people.
So I shook my head. “No.”
Learned to disobey orders? Could it be that Fu Chiu-si has been too kind to you? The host smiled coldly. “Is that why you didn’t kill Fu Chiu-si?”
I nodded. “Fu Chiu-si is very kind to me.”
“You are a humble flute slave, and you look so terrible. Have you ever thought about why Fu Jiusi is good to you?” The master touched my face as if in high spirits. “Let me ask you, do you know what a child is?”
I shook my head. People who are very similar in
appearance, but are not blood relatives, are the children of a pair. Do you know why Fu Chiu-si bought you into the palace? The host answered slowly, as if trying to make me understand, “That’s because you and Gao Ruyi are a pair of twins.”. Gao Ruyi had a strange disease, and she had to take three medicines to cure her. One was Muxue Cordyceps, and the other was Ye He Cao. The last one is the blood of the child. Fu Jiusi first bought you and raised you in order to use you as a substitute for Gao Ruyi. And he’s keeping you now, just to finally get your blood for medicine. Fu Chiu-si wants you dead. Do you still think he’s good to you? As I
listened to my master, I suddenly felt a little out of breath.
The prince looked at me and asked, “Di Nu, do you feel angry?”
I nodded. I guess.
“Then you can go and kill Gao Ruyi. That way, for one thing, Fu Jiusi won’t have to continue to get hurt looking for medicine for her. For another, if Fu Jiusi loses Gao Ruyi, maybe he will marry you.”
Will marry me?
Listening to the master’s words, I finally took the golden wheel knife he handed me.
So I took the golden wheel knife in the night and turned into Gao Ruyi’s bedroom. She was sleeping soundly on the bed, with a smile on her lips. She should have had a good dream.
So when I put the knife into Gao Ruyi’s chest without hesitation, she didn’t even have time to react.
Blood splashed all over my body. I touched Gao Ruyi’s breath. After a moment, she was not breathing.
I didn’t have time to wipe the blood, so I ran quickly into Fu Jiusi’s temple and woke him up.
When Fu Jiusi saw the blood on my body, he started up from the couch and said nervously, “Hua Yue, are you hurt?”
Fu Jiusi hadn’t cared about me like this for a long time. I was very happy and smiled at him heartily. “Fu Jiusi, don’t worry. This is not my blood. This is Gao Ruyi’s blood.”. If I kill her, you won’t have to cure her anymore. You’ll marry me, right?
Fu Jiusi was stupefied for a moment, then he pushed me away and ran madly towards Gao Ruyi’s bedroom.
I fell to the ground and couldn’t figure out why Fu Jiusi wasn’t happy with me. Is
it because I just killed his wife?
I followed Fu Jiusi and ran into the Hall of Gao Ruyi. He looked at Gao Ruyi in a pool of blood. His eyes were wide open, like tearing his heart and lungs.
Fu Jiusi slapped me hard, and I stared at Fu Jiusi as if I suddenly realized that I had done something wrong.
The next moment, however, one group after another rushed into the palace of Prince Yi, and in the middle of the group of guards, wearing golden armor, was my master.
The master laughed leisurely and said, “Brother Jiu is really bold. He deliberately raised the flute slave outside the field of fighting slaves. Later, he ordered the flute slave to kill Gao Xiangguo’s daughter in broad daylight.”. Such a murder case, nine younger brothers, don’t you take the law seriously? Now you should be brought to trial at the Dali Temple. What do you have to say?
Fu Jiusi’s eyes moved between my master and me, and he was suddenly enlightened, with a wry smile at the corners of his mouth: “So she is your flute slave..” Prince first deliberately spread the news that there was a flute slave who looked very much like Gao Ruyi in the field of fighting slaves, but when I went there, he said that the flute slave belonged to Zhou Gongzi, which made me think that I had destroyed the flute that controlled the flute slave, and that I could control the flute slave. Later, you joined hands with your flute slave to monitor my every move, and then ordered your flute slave to kill Ruyi, and finally planted it on my head. Your Royal Highness, in order to consolidate your position as crown prince, you have really thought of a good plan.
It turns out that my master is the prince who is under one person and above ten thousand people. I don’t understand
what Jiudi is talking about. This flute slave originally belongs to Zhou Gongzi. Since you have already bought this flute slave and destroyed the flute that controls her, she can only obey your will. It was you who hid this flute slave in the mansion, and it was you who ordered Gao Ruyi to be killed. The prince beckoned to the guards behind him, “Somebody, take the usurper down.”
Fu Chiu-si was being held by his bodyguards. He didn’t look at me, but just laughed. “Fu Chiu-yuan, you’d better kill me as soon as possible so that I can be reunited with Ru-yi.”
05
Fu Jiusi was escorted to the Dali Temple.
The host looked at his back and sighed with a smile, “This Fu Jiusi is really infatuated with that Gao Ruyi.”. For the sake of Gao Ruyi, he disobeyed the holy order and raised you, the son of Di, in the mansion. He also endured nausea and was good to you, the flute slave, to contain you. Now that he has been sent to the Dali Temple, he is still thinking of his wife. I was really touched by his infatuation. But as the old saying goes, success is heartless and failure is love. Since he loves so much, he has to pay the price for it.
I stood beside the prince and did not speak, suddenly feeling a little sad.
“Are you sad, Dinu?” The prince looked at my expression and suddenly began to smile, as if he had found something very interesting. “I tried every means to persuade you that day, but you protested against my orders. You didn’t agree to be used by me until I said that you could marry Fu Jiusi if you finished the task.”
I looked at the prince without knowing why.
The prince asked, “Do you really want to marry Fu Chiu-si?”
In fact, even though Fu Jiusi explained to me that getting married is to support each other with a person and grow old together, I don’t quite understand the meaning of getting married.
But I remembered that Fu Jiusi had been so kind to Gao Ruyi since he married him, so I nodded: “I think so.”
The prince’s eyes glowed with horror. “Interesting, interesting, so interesting!”! I will help you.
That night, the prince ordered me to change into a bright red wedding dress, and then sent me to the Dali Temple. There were blood stains and corpses everywhere in
the Dali Temple. I followed the prince with wine and went to the last cell.
The cell is surrounded by red cloth, very festive, perhaps the prince for us to decorate the wedding room.
“Brother Jiu,” the prince stepped in first. “You’ll be convicted in two days, but I want to help you. If you are willing to marry Dinu here tonight, I will make up for your mistakes, and I will intercede for you with my father, so that you can be punished more lightly.
I walked into the cell with the wine and looked at Fu Jiusi, who was sitting on the ground with disheveled hair.
Fu Jiusi smiled and suddenly spat at the prince, “Fu Jiuyuan, don’t you just want to use this flute slave to insult me?”? Di Nu is so cheap, but you let me marry Di Nu? If I didn’t want to use it as medicine, I wouldn’t have looked at it at all. Fu Chiu-yuan, you could have decapitated me. I won’t cooperate with you and be insulted by you.
I listened to Fu Jiusi’s words, and I had an indescribable feeling in my heart.
I once fainted in pain when a piece of flesh and blood was taken away by my opponent in the field of fighting slaves, but now I feel more pain in my heart than that, and I feel that it is difficult to breathe.
The prince smiled, as if he wanted to say something else, but his expression suddenly became shocked: “The flute slave is unintentional and heartless..” How can you cry too?
Tears?
I slowly raised my hand to touch my face, and what I touched was warm liquid.
Fu Jiusi finally looked up at me, perhaps because the color of the red tent around him was so red that his eyes were also very red.
“Well, you, Fu Jiusi, you actually made my flute slave cry for you. If you don’t want to kiss you today, you have to do it.” The prince went over and poured a cup of wine into Fu Jiusi’s mouth. “Fu Jiusi, I put acacia powder in this wine. You must marry this flute slave today. Don’t you always pretend to be too noble? I’m going to make your life a living hell.
The prince said these words and went away laughing. I do not understand what is acacia, just sitting in the corner of the cell with my head down, looking carefully at Fu Jiusi.
After a while, I saw Fu Jiusi curled up there, as if there was something uncomfortable.
I didn’t want to take care of Fu Jiusi, but I still couldn’t bear it. So I approached Fu Jiusi and tried to help him up. “Fu Jiusi, are you all right?”
“Don’t touch me. You make me sick.” Fu’s voice trembled. “Get out!”
I felt very stuffy in my chest, but it was too cold in the Dali Temple, but Fu Jiusi’s body was very hot. So I hugged him.
Fu Jiusi seemed to want to push me away, but he unconsciously hugged me tightly. He still shouted, “What are you doing?”? Fuck off You shameless slave.
I looked at Fu Jiusi’s face and said, “Obviously, you haven’t taught me how to be shy.”. Fu Chiu-si, teach me now.
Fu Jiusi looked at me, and he was stunned for a long time. Then he suddenly grabbed the golden wheel knife from my waist and thrust it into my thigh. There was a pain in his
leg, and Fu Jiusi’s voice was very cold: “Even if I drink Albizzia powder, I won’t have sex with you, a cheap maidservant.” If you come near me, I will kill you. Fu Jiusi
once said, “I don’t know what love is.” I think I understand now.
It turns out that love is a good weapon. You can’t hurt others, but you can hit yourself with one blow.
I forgot how I got out of Dali Temple. All
I know is that after that, I put on the mask of the flute slave and returned to the field of fighting slaves. I’ve been winning almost every fight
since then. The master said to me, since you have learned to hate, you are more powerful than before.
In fact, I don’t know what hate is. It’s just that I often think of Fu Jiusi, and then my chest hurts.
One day in the dungeon, my master suddenly stopped me. He played the flute as usual. Then he said, “Fu Jiusi is going to be taken to Yazhou. I want you to kill him on the way.”
I nodded my head.
The host smiled and asked me, “Don’t you have any other feelings in your heart?”
I shook my head and nodded. “I have feelings. I want to kill him slowly, one knife at a time.”
The prince laughed and said, “Good, very good.”.
So I took the golden wheel knife and ambushed on the way to Yazhou.
Watching the pair of men escorting Fu Jiusi getting closer and closer, I fired a whistle into the sky, and then the guards escorting Fu Jiusi stopped, they left the prison car, all shouting for convenience, and went to the forest.
They are all the people of the prince.
I took the golden wheel knife and walked slowly to Fu Jiusi. I don’t know if I was wrong. His eyes seemed to be red.
My mind has been flashing back to a certain picture in the Dali Temple, so I did not hesitate to pick up the golden wheel knife and stab Fu Jiusi in the thigh.
Fu Jiusi trembled with pain, but he laughed: “Hua Yue, I knew the prince would let you come.”. It’s good to see you before I die.
I didn’t know what Fu Jiusi was laughing at. His smile made me feel a little confused, so I picked up the golden wheel knife and stabbed him in the other thigh.
Fu Jiusi was still smiling. He gritted his teeth and spoke as if he were laughing at
himself: “Hua Yue, you know, I’ve been looking for you for six years, six years.”. When
I was twelve years old, my mother died, and my father did not favor me. I was bullied by other princes in the palace. Once, in order to tease me, they locked me in the dungeon of the fighting field.
At that time, you had just been sold into the fighting field, and had not yet drunk the mustard wine, and you were still you. It was very cold in the dungeon, so I got sick in the dungeon and almost died. It was you who saved me at that time, and you kept me warm with your body. You’ve forgotten all
these things, haven’t you?
I didn’t know what Fu Jiusi was bothering about, but I stuck the golden wheel knife into his arm again.
Later, when my father learned that I was locked up in the slave ring, he took me back. I also went to the fighting field to find you, but you have drunk the mustard wine and been sold to someone else as a flute slave. The flute slave always wears a mask, so I can’t find you in the field, and I can’t find you in the mass grave.
I have drawn many pictures about you. In fact, the pictures hanging in my study are all about you. Those are your appearance before it was destroyed by Fu Jiuyuan.
Later, when I was sixteen years old, I met Gao Ruyi at a spring banquet. Do you know? She looks just like you. But she’s not nearly as good as you. She is like you, I have been unable to find you, so I want to marry her, but Gao Xiangguo has not allowed.
Fu Jiuyuan thought I liked Gao Ruyi, and he wanted you to sneak into my mansion, so he spread the news that there was a flute slave in the field who looked like Gao Ruyi. I went crazy to the field of fighting slaves, like a dream, I actually saw you, Hua Yue. After
finding you, I don’t have any thoughts about Gao Ruyi anymore. I just want to keep you all the time.
But after Fu Jiuyuan became the prince, he has been aiming at me in the court. In order to protect you, I must protect myself.
In the past, I thought that after I found you, I would give you freedom, so I have been looking for a medicine that can break the blood chain of the flute slave. That medicine guide, in fact, is not to cure Gao Ruyi’s stubborn illness at all, but to break the blood chain of the flute slave for you.
But in order to protect myself, I took the prescription to Gao Fu to propose marriage, and I said I had a way to cure Gao Ruyi.
Gao Ruyi is the daughter of Gao Xiangguo. Gao Xiangguo is a highly respected minister of Fu Chao. Although I have never thought of being a great leader, only with the support of Gao Xiangguo can I do what I want to do safely and have the opportunity to protect you.
I went to those drug guides for you. Evening snow Cordyceps, yesterday’s leaf what grass, the body of the pedicle. I wanted to cheat Gao Ruyi to give you a blood sacrifice after I found the first two prescriptions.
I never thought of you as Gao Ruyi’s medicine guide. She’s your drug guide.
But I didn’t expect you to kill Gao Ruyi. I really lost all hope at that time. But I wasn’t sad for her, I was sad that her medicine guide was gone. I didn’t know how to get you out of the identity of the flute slave. I didn’t know how to give you freedom, Hua Yue.
I looked at Fu Jiusi, did not know what he was talking about, but felt very confused in my mind. I trembled and put the golden wheel knife against Fu Jiusi’s chest.
Fu Jiusi looked at me, but he was still smiling. He continued,
“You don’t know how angry I was when those maidservants flirted with you. You don’t know how worried I was when you followed me to Putuo Mountain. You don’t know how happy I was when Fu Jiuyuan forced me to marry you that day..”
In fact, the first moment I saw you, I was happy, but then I didn’t dare to smile at you.
Because many times, I can not help it, I dare not let Gao Ruyi know that I like you, I dare not let the prince know that everything I have done in my life is for you.
I have to push you far away. I dare not look at you one more time, for fear that if I look at you one more time, others will see my flaws. I dare not say I like you, for fear that once I say it, this road will never be able to turn back.
But Hua Yue, you have always been my heart in this life.
Hua Yue, I don’t have any ability in this life. In the end, I’m just a down-and-out prince who wants to be buried in a mass grave. But you have to promise me one thing. After you
kill me, you’re not allowed to go back to the prince. You have to stay away from him, as far away as possible.
Fu Jiusi said that he stretched out his hand shakily and took off the mask on my face.
I stared at Fu Jiusi. I should have inserted the golden wheel knife into his chest, but my hand seemed to be out of control. I just felt the hot and humid liquid flowing out of my eyes, and I seemed to be unable to carry the golden wheel knife.
Fu Jiusi looked at me, he suddenly forced forward, let my knife into his chest. The blood splashed all over my body, but he laughed miserably and said with his last breath of strength,
“Hua Yue, you should go to the west to see the sky like frozen grapes, or to the south of the Yangtze River to see the gauze like rosy clouds on those women’s bridges, or to Shuzhou to see the lingering and winding distant mountains.”.
Anyway, you shouldn’t go back to the arena.
Hua Yue. You promise me.. Stop being a flute slave and be yourself. Ok
Epilogue.
When Fu Jiusi woke up, it was just dawn. The sky in the
west is not completely blue, but floating on a layer of thin and light clouds, like a woman’s eyes with a tide.
Fu Jiusi’s wound was not yet healed, so he had a hard time getting up, and when he saw me, he was even more unbelievable.
I didn’t know how to explain to him. I just said, “Fu Jiusi, I didn’t know what to do with myself. So I killed all the guards who escorted you and finally brought you out.”. Then it took me many days to bring you back to life.
Fu Jiusi looked at me with tears in his eyes.
“Maybe we’ll be hunted down by the imperial court, but I think it’s fine now.” I looked at Fu Jiusi and said, “Actually, I don’t want to be myself.. I want to be a flower beside your pillow or a moon by the window. OK
