Harue Kagetsu - Chapter 101

Lu Huanzhi finally regained his senses. With a change of face, he suddenly pulled out the sword from his waist and stabbed it towards Li Xie.

Li Xie dodged. He rushed out the door immediately, but was tripped over by Li Mu.

With a “pop”, the whole person fell heavily on the threshold, the bridge of the nose bumped, and blood suddenly came out.

The trick girls screamed in surprise.

Li Xie motioned to the women and ordered everyone to go out.

All the girls know that tonight is a matter of business.

The two men who suddenly appeared outside the door were obviously not ordinary people. Especially the one with a gloomy look, another person called him “Inspector Li”.

Could it be that Li Mu who just returned to Jiankang?

How dare the girls stay any longer. Avoiding Lu Huanzhi who couldn’t get up on the ground for a while, he hurried out one after another.

Lv Niang was the last, carrying her skirt and walking past Li Xie.

Li Xie said with a sullen face, “That person was all slander. The person who told you to keep their mouths tight. Don’t say anything that shouldn’t be said! If you tell me to hear half a word of wind in the future, you don’t have to make a living here. .”

Lv Niang stopped, didn’t say a word at first, suddenly raised her hand, and pulled out a fresh impatiens in her hair, Kou Danxian pointed it, and slowly inserted it into his shirt, staring at him, her eyes like autumn waves Yan, opened his mouth with a smile, with spring flowers on his face, and whispered in a low voice: “If Lang can’t trust me, won’t it be more reassuring to come here often in the future and keep an eye on him?”

Li Xie was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses. Seeing her back turned and floating away, he couldn’t help being a little embarrassed. He hurriedly pulled Feng Xian off his chest and turned his head, only to see that Lu Jianzhi’s entourage was still watching with his mouth open. Focusing on himself, he suddenly regained his senses, turned around as if to escape by jumping out of the window, scolded lowly, went up to stop it, took it out, and closed the door.

Li Mu squatted beside Lu Huanzhi’s head, reached into his arms, took out the sheet music, and flipped through it.

He had read Luoshen’s words.

It was recognized at a glance that the piano score was indeed from her.

When his eyes fell on the date left in the corner of the last page, the blood all over his body seemed to freeze.

He stared at the ink for a moment, then turned his eyes slowly to Lu Huanzhi, who was still lying on the ground, and pointed to the scrap of paper left after the title page was torn off: “What about this page?”

His voice still sounded calm, but in the bottom of his eyes, dark waves began to surge.

Lu Huanzhi opened his eyes,

“The surnamed Li, you want to know? I won’t tell you!”

“Don’t think that when she spoke to you on the street that day, she really has you in her heart! What are you? A warrior from a poor family is not even worthy to carry her shoes! Your name is her husband, and you must be there on weekdays. In front of her, she is also begging for pity like a dog, lest she look down on you, right?”

“I’ve known her since we were young. She is the softest when she’s careful. It’s shameful for people to act pity in front of her, and even if she sees a beggar, she has to give her a bowl of rice. Wag her tail like you, not to mention you You are a big living person, you are a dog, and she will treat you well! It’s just that I see you being humiliated in the street and pity you, so I opened my mouth to relieve you!”

“Unfortunately, I’m not the only one, people all over the street have heard it. She seems to be speaking for you, but she is still thinking of my eldest brother! In front of the people on the street, praise my eldest brother’s character!”

“Yes, I, Lu Huanzhi, have no character and no morals. I’m not as good as a pig or a dog. I was scolded by her, and I am willing to do so. But you, you used a trick to take her away from my eldest brother. In name, she was her husband, and everyone married her. It’s been so long, but you still miss my big brother.”

“Li Mu, you are so pitiful!”

His mouth kept opening and closing. The blood came out of his nostrils and spread one after another, gradually covering his cheeks on both sides, and flowing into his mouth again.

“I ask you again, where is the title page?”

Li Mu asked again, as if he had never heard of it, with a blank expression on his face.

“Since you asked people to follow me, you must have arrived earlier and heard my words. This is the piano score that Ami gave my eldest brother last March, and the title of the song is Luan Fengming.”

He laughed nervously.

“Let me tell you, the title page was torn off by me. As for what she said to my eldest brother, I won’t tell you!”

Li Mu’s five fingers suddenly tightened, and the joints made a crisp sound. The vertical and horizontal blue veins like a worm’s body instantly burst the back of his hand.

He opened his hand, grabbed Lu Huanzhi’s shirt, lifted him up from the ground, and threw him out.

Although Lu Huanzhi was thin, he was also an adult man, but his whole body flew out like a dough bag. With a bang, he slammed into the opposite wall heavily, and then flicked the violin case down below. On the top, in a chaotic hum from the broken strings, the man rolled to the ground with the entire piano case.

The entire rib he hit against the wall was all broken. He folded his arms in pain, his whole body curled up into a ball, struggling in the corner.

“…Ami and my eldest brother are in love with each other, but you are loved by others. What do you do? Originally, now, she is my sister-in-law…”

He was still moaning, his voice broken.

“She and my eldest brother are a natural couple. Back then, when the water was flowing and the qin and qin were compatible, who didn’t know… Do you think she only composed a piece of music for my eldest brother? She used the zither with my eldest brother in the past. Make contacts and tell each other. The person she loves is my eldest brother… She just pity you…”

Li Mu strode forward.

A sword hilt slammed into his head.

Accompanied by a scream.

The human’s hard skull, under the hilt of the sword, was like a fragile eggshell, cracking instantly under stress.

Blood gushed down Lu Huanzhi’s head like a stream, instantly staining his entire face.

His people curled up in a ball, his limbs twitched, as if he was about to die in the next moment, but his lips were still slightly open.

“You wait… When my eldest brother captures Dongdu this time… Ami doesn’t know how happy he will be…”

The last voice, like a gossamer, came to an abrupt end.

Li Mu grabbed his neck, raised his whole body with one hand, and pinned it to the wall behind him.

Lu Huanzhi’s neck was as fragile as a reed that was about to rot in autumn, and it would break if it was broken.

Blood gushed out from Lu Huanzhi’s nostrils and the corners of his mouth. But on that face, which was clearly full of pain, it seemed that there was still a strange expression that seemed to be mixed with hatred and revenge.

He was strangled, unable to breathe, rolled his eyes, and kicked his legs weakly in the air.

Li Mu looked at Lu Huanzhi, who was twisting his body in vain under his five fingers, without the slightest resistance. His eyes finally settled on his twisted face that was almost unrecognizable. After watching for a moment, he concentrated on him. The torrential rain, tsunami and flash floods that seemed to erupt in the next moment slowly disappeared.

Instead, at the bottom of his eyes, a ray of depression suddenly passed by.

Slowly, the blue veins on the back of his hand that had been strewn vertically and horizontally also calmed down.

He suddenly released the hand that was holding Lu Huanzhi’s throat and turned away without looking at him again.

Lu Huanzhi fell from the wall to the ground, as if his spine had been taken away, and lay there, motionless.

Li Xie just ordered Lv Niang to drive away all the people in the building, closed the door, and stayed outside the door.

Even through the door, he could imagine what was going on inside.

At first, the voices of words and screams from Lu Huanzhi could be heard. Gradually, it became quiet inside, and I couldn’t hear any movement from him, so I couldn’t help but worry.

In case Li Mu loses control of his emotions for a while, if he really kills him, after all, this is Jiankang, he is a big living person, and he belongs to the Lu family, I am afraid there will be a lawsuit. Just as he was about to push the door in to stop it, he saw that the door opened first, and Li Mu appeared in front of him.

His face didn’t look very good, but it was still calm.

Li Xie glanced at Lu Huanzhi on the ground again, and saw that his head was covered in blood, his face was terrifying, he didn’t move, he hurriedly walked over, reached out his hand to take a breath, and found that he was still alive, but just passed out, relieved and smiled. He walked back and said in a low voice, “General Li, don’t worry, I’ll keep staring at this little brat for you. If he did such a thing, he wouldn’t dare to recognize them all in front of Lu Guang. Just now, I also ordered the woman to find you, and said that he came here to make trouble first, almost forcing his life, and the governor happened to pass by, seeing the injustice on the road, he just taught him a lesson.”

Li Mudao: “Thank you, brother. I’ll be the host in the future, and invite all the brothers to have a drink.”

Li Xie sighed and hurriedly waved his hand: “How did General Li say this? If it wasn’t for General Li at the time, let alone me and that group of brothers today, maybe even our lives would have been lost. I am waiting for my brother, and I admire General Li. It has to be thrown to the ground. It’s just a little effort. In the future, wherever my brother is still useful, if you just open your mouth, you will lose your head, and you will see if I will frown!”

Li Mu instructed again, telling him to look here, not to provoke Lu Huan’s revenge in the future.

In front of Li Xie’s eyes, the scene of the woman wearing a flower hairpin towards him just now appeared. He coughed and nodded: “You don’t need to tell me, I also know.”

Li Mu smiled slightly, bowed to him, and walked away immediately, exiting the back door, disappearing into the night.

…

To make it easier for her to get along with her parents, after returning, the two still lived in Gao’s house.

When Li Mu returned to the Gao Mansion, it was already in the middle of Xu Shizhong. Before he could get off the horse, the servants at the door had already come out to greet him, rushing to say hello to him, and lead the horse into the stable for him.

Li Mu entered and met Aju. After asking, Zhigao Qiao came back earlier today, accompanied by the eldest princess, and now the two have returned to the house.

“Madam is also in the room. Did Li Langjun have dinner? Madam wanted to wait for you to eat it, but before you came back, she ate it by herself and ordered to leave dinner for you.” Aju said again.

Li Mu said that she had already eaten outside, and told her not to bother, as usual, with a smile on her face, and continued to go inside.

The closer to the courtyard, the slower the pace.

The courtyard door is open.

He knew that she had left it for herself.

The courtyard was dimly lit, and a bright light was reflected in the windows of the house.

Several servants and maids waiting in the corridor were chatting in a low voice, when they suddenly heard footsteps behind them, they turned around to see that he was back, and hurriedly greeted him. Mrs. Dao was bathing in the room.

Li Mu walked through the courtyard where the banana shadows swayed, stepped up the eaves, and came to the bright door. After calming down, he gently pushed the door and entered.

The outhouse was empty. A hanging curtain separates the inside and outside.

In the faint sound of the water, Li Mu heard her pleasant voice humming in a low tune, her throat clear and charming, beautiful and charming.

Warm water wash the grease, dripping Yanzi pretty.

With his eyes closed, he could imagine what a moving scene was inside at the moment.

As long as he stretched out his hand, opened the soft cloud-like curtain in front of him, and walked in front of her, he could ask her.

That hand, as if filled with lead, was too heavy to lift.

The thin booklet with only ten pages in his arms, like a fire, was shoved into his chest and gradually heated up.

The burning sensation, from an unknown corner that was usually hidden, perhaps even he himself was not aware of, continued to spread, scorching his limbs and bones, all over his body, until every inch of his body. skin.

He felt impetuous and could no longer maintain the calmness he had just been in front of the servants, and his face gradually became stiff.

He took her out of the palace that day, and encountered Lu Huanzhi’s provocation on the way. She rescued herself, and when Lu Huanzhi left, she poured her anger on the mount under her.

That scene made Li Mu Xinsheng vigilant.

Lu Huanzhi is nothing but an incompetent person.

But no matter how incompetent a person is, once he raises a knife in his hand, he can still kill.

His body was once stabbed by Lu Huanzhi with a sword.

Out of intuition, it is also to protect her, even if it is just overhearted. After sending her back, he went to find Li Xie, who had been sent by Emperor Xingping to help him fight Ba County’s subordinates, and now he is in charge of the Duwei, with eyes and ears all over the four cities, and told him to send someone to pay attention to Lu Huanzhi’s abnormality move.

Sure enough, he was guessed.

So soon, Lu Huanzhi started his revenge.

But what Li Mu could never guess was that his revenge was such a means.

Li Mu felt a little bit of fear.

Not for the reputational damage she might face, but for her.

If Li Xie hadn’t notified him immediately, he would have arrived in time and stopped it. If the sheet music really spreads like this, along with the rumors that Gao’s daughter, a long-awaited lover, could not imagine what kind of situation she would face.

Fortunately, nothing happened.

He should have been grateful for it.

He wanted to destroy the score quietly, and let this matter pass as soon as possible, as if nothing had happened—because he knew that everything Lu Huanzhi said was just malicious slander.

If his Ami hadn’t fallen in love with him wholeheartedly, at that time last year, how could she disregard her father’s objection and resolutely pursue him to Yicheng, stay in that desolate place with nothing, and be by his side , step by step to today?

His Ami, if he didn’t really love him, how could he have felt the warm and affectionate treatment from her the night before his departure, making him think of it and still tremble over it?

On the way back, Li Mu kept telling himself this over and over again, that Lu Huanzhi didn’t mean to anger him, in order to get his poor little revenge pleasure.

But those words were still like poisonous snakes, they penetrated into Li Mu’s heart and could not be driven away.

He wanted to teach himself to write when her father was drunk. Only a few days after she wanted to come back, she mentioned Lu Jianzhi in front of him several times, her tone full of appreciation.

He knew she was completely careless. But it was precisely because he was unintentional that he could see how deep-rooted his influence on her was.

Maybe she was really just giving to herself, and she probably didn’t even notice this kind of feeling.

Li Mu despised himself, why there was such a dark speculation in his heart, but he couldn’t control it.

Jiankang, the Ziqi King City, is not only a tomb where his old career and love and hatred were buried, but also reminds him all the time that there is a very important part of her life. , without his participation.

Whether it was a past life or this life, he was just an outsider who broke into her world abruptly, out of place.

Li Mu turned his head slowly, his eyes fell on the side of the piano case, the shelf where her piano scores were stored, stared at it, looked at it for a moment, and walked over.

The low humming sound behind the soft curtain suddenly stopped.

“Lang Jun, but you’re back?”

Inside came the voice of her questioning with some uncertain tentativeness.

No one should.

Accompanied by the slight sound of splashing water, the low voice of Qu’er came out again.

…

Luoshen took a long bath comfortably, but he didn’t see Li Mu coming back, and when he went outside, he didn’t see anyone else, so he couldn’t help asking the maid.

The maid seemed a little surprised and said with a smile: “Did Li Langjun not see the lady’s face? He had just returned and entered the room. He came out after a while, and left without saying anything. We thought that He told his wife.”

Luoshen was a little surprised. He really didn’t know that when he was taking a bath by himself, he actually entered the house.

After hesitating, I suddenly remembered, and I vaguely seemed to hear the faint sound of footsteps from outside.

At that time, she also asked a question, but didn’t hear an answer, and laughed secretly because she heard it wrong, so she didn’t care.

But the maid said he had come in.

So obviously, he heard it right at the time, and the footsteps were indeed made by him.

But why, when the others came back and entered the house, suddenly they left without saying a word, not even saying hello to themselves?

Even if there is an urgent matter, it is not so urgent that there is no time to say hello to yourself, right?

Luoshen was puzzled, and hurriedly sent someone to the front to see where he went.

After a while, the servant girl came back and said that the husband and the eldest princess had rested in the house, and Li Langjun was not in sight. The porter said that Li Langjun rode a horse and went out again, without saying where he was going or when he would return.

Luoshen was completely confused, and he always felt that something was wrong. He stood blankly in front of the eaves steps outside the door for a moment, and suddenly a gust of wind blew across the wall, making the big plantain leaves in the courtyard slap each other, making a rustling sound.

The moon was hidden in the haze, and in the distance in the distance, there was a faint light of lightning passing by, as if it was about to rain.

Luoshen waited for a while, then finally turned around and went back to the house.

She stood outside, looking around, thinking that he might have left something for her, so she looked for it on the desk. Suddenly, her eyes fell on the shelf next to the piano desk, and she stopped.

On the shelf, there are piano scores. In addition to the lost ancient songs she collected from all over the world, there are also some piano scores that she has made by herself over the years.

She is a nostalgic person, and all the piano scores, including the first drafts of the scores, were not thrown away, but were kept in order by date and stacked neatly.

But at this moment, the piano scores on the shelf clearly showed signs of being turned over. There were a few copies, which were placed on the top in a mess, and were not taken back.

Luoshen hurriedly walked over, picked up the piano scores, opened them, and found that there were scores that had been exchanged with Lu Jianzhi a few years ago after composing the music by himself. In addition to the feeling of his composition at the time, there are also some comments he returned to her. After finishing it, I kept it at the bottom according to the date, and I didn’t move it anymore.

Now that I have turned it out, the paper has turned a little yellow due to the passage of time. But the ink marks on the top are still clear.

Luo Shen was stunned.

Obviously, Li Mu should have dug out these piano scores of hers.

She fixedly looked at these old manuscripts, and suddenly, a feeling of unease came into her heart.

He just left without saying a word to himself. Could it be because he accidentally discovered these old piano scores between her and Lu Jianzhi? Is he unhappy?

She remembered the past few days back to Jiankang, and the feeling he gave her seemed to be different from before.

She couldn’t help but panic. Looking at the dark, rainy night outside the window, she was secretly anxious, hoping that he would come back sooner so she could explain it to him.

…

Xu Ying was once the most famous musician in the palace. Due to his old age and frailty, he had to leave the palace a few years ago and lived in a cramped courtyard in Tongxiali in the south of the city. Fortunately, there is still some fame, and he can make a living by teaching disciples and maids on weekdays. I had nothing to do tonight, I fell asleep long ago, but was woken up by the old servant, saying that there was a visitor looking for it, and the money was generous.

The old musician hurriedly got up and hurried out.

There was a night wind outside, and the crown of an old tree branch in the courtyard swayed and rustled. There was lightning in the sky, and it was about to rain.

He saw a tall man standing in the courtyard, dressed in a robe, his face hidden in the night, knowing that he was the high-profile guest, he hurried up, bowed and asked to speak.

The man didn’t move, just asked him: “I heard Qu Ke teasing. Can you interpret the meaning?”

Xu Ying was startled, relieved, and said hurriedly, “Naturally. I’ve been immersed in half my life, as long as there is a song, I can hear it.”

“Excellent. I have a song, please read it.”

The man said slowly, took out a score from his arms and handed it over.