Pihanjin - Chapter 46

Xie Changgeng slowly put down the pen, raised his eyes, and his eyes fell on her haggard face.

The long night is cold and silent, the ears are quiet, and the candle light room is deep.

He just sat like this, staring coldly at the woman next to him, his wife, with two thin lips pressed together, without saying a word.

Mu Fulan took a long breath and said again, “Sanmiao and Changsha are adjacent to each other and have been in contact with each other since their ancestors. Now there is a lot of miasma and the people are hungry. They came to ask for help a few days ago, it is within their ability. , I can’t ignore the Mu family. I’m going there to help them this time. The reason why A-Brother Yuan is with me is to protect me and the doctor, and to ensure the smooth delivery of food.”

“I already know the fact that you asked Uji that child to lead you on the way. The reason why there is a ‘Balong’ is completely based on falsehood. Among the Sanmiao people, there are not many people who can speak Chinese, and they do not understand the language. There was a misunderstanding. Please rest assured, this matter was clarified before I left. I have explained the relationship between you and my brother Yuan before, and there is no need to repeat it. Whether you believe it or not, I ask You, the matter of the adults, the adults will solve it, what do you want, if you say it, we can discuss it, please don’t take anger on a young child, it will be a loss of identity.”

Hearing this, he suddenly laughed, his face was like ice breaking, and the corners of his lips were filled with spring ripples.

He leaned forward slightly, looked at her and said, “I am Xie Changgeng from a giant bandit background, what identity should I be concerned about?”

When he said this, there was a wisp of a smile on his lips, but Mu Fulan could see it clearly. There were two faint candles in his pupils, and his eyes were extremely dark.

“So what do you think?” she asked.

Xie Changgeng slowly stood up, paced to her side, and stopped.

He stared at her face, looked at her for a moment, and said, “I only met at the beginning of the year, a child who had nothing to do with you before, how can you be so deeply tied to him?”

He looked down from her face until he saw her dusty skirt, and stared at it for a while.

“You must have suffered a lot by chasing him all the way for this child, right?”

He pouted, and his eyes fell on her thin and haggard face again.

“Ms. Mu, you don’t follow the rules of women first, lie to me later, treat me like an idiot, and humiliate me in all kinds of ways. If it’s only between you and me, I’ll be fine, and now I don’t know how to restrain myself, and I’ve made such talk. “

“I don’t care if you are intentional or not. At this point, if you don’t tell me the truth, no one is innocent in this matter. Including the young child you said.”

He slowly leaned over to her, his lips resting on her ear.

“That child, he was born by you, didn’t he?”

he asked in a low, soft tone.

His face was pressed very close, as if he was whispering to her, tempting her to speak, and his warm breath fell on her delicate earlobe.

Mu Fulan turned his face sharply.

He turned his head sideways, avoided her and rushed towards his face, then stood up straight and stared at her, his face turned stern, like a layer of frost.

Mu Fulan closed her eyes for a moment, then slowly opened them.

“Yes. He is my own son,” she replied.

“That man, who is he?”

Xie Changgeng’s eyelids jumped, his face expressionless.

“He is long dead.”

Mu Fulan said.

“Remember I told you before, did I ever have a crush? That person’s child. Before I got married to you, I met him in Junshan. Later he died.”

She looked at the face of the man opposite her that gradually became stiff.

“It’s all in the past. I don’t want to think about it anymore. I won’t mention it to anyone in my life, but you have to tell me, so I said it.”

“Of course I’m sorry for you and shame on you, but when you came to beg for marriage, it wasn’t me who you asked for.”

“In the past, you got what you wanted. Now, and in the future, when you and I can get away from each other, no one has anything to do with it. This secret will never be known.”

“If you are still angry, for the humiliation I brought you in the past, I will apologize to you and ask for your forgiveness.”

Mu Fulan stared at Xie Changgeng, lifted her skirt, knelt down to his knees, and kowtowed solemnly.

Xie Changgeng lowered his head and looked at the figure kneeling at his feet, the figure was motionless.

His intuition told him that this time the woman finally told him the truth.

It is true that as she said, when he went to ask for marriage, it was not her who was the princess of Changsha. And the reason why he and she are still a couple is only limited by what he said in front of Empress Liu to bring her out of Beijing last year, and now they can’t divorce her.

When he broke with the court, it was time to divorce her.

Since the first time he met in Changsha last year, this Princess Mu, who always called him like a man on her back, was finally held by him today and knelt at his feet, begging for forgiveness.

Respectful, submissive, and humble as never before.

It was a breath of anger in his chest. He should be satisfied.

But he felt a little cold in the palm of his hand, and his fingertips seemed to be numb.

She lied and lied to him, and he was angry.

Tonight she was finally forced by him to bow her head, knelt down, and confessed her guilt. He didn’t have the pleasure he imagined.

He doesn’t speak. She kept kneeling in front of his feet like this, touching the ground with her forehead, for a long time.

In the distant horizon, a dazzling lightning flashed, and the sound of autumn thunder rumbled in the ears.

Xie Changgeng looked at the supple back of his head lying in front of his feet, his eyelids kept twitching. He slowly squeezed his five fingers, and suddenly, he turned around, and his five fingers grabbed the sword that was lying in front of the case.

The tip of the sword pierced into the thick bun that was coiled behind her head, and the cold light passed through the bun.

The wrist holding the sword stopped for a while, then picked it up sharply.

In an instant, a piece of long hair cut by a sharp blade was like a hairspring, flying high and fluttering in front of his eyes, falling from the air to the ground, and scattered everywhere.

A strand of hair fluttered on one of his boots.

He held the sword, lowered his head, stared at the unkempt but still motionless figure in front of him, breathed for a moment, threw the sword on the ground, strode past her, Go out.

Mu Fulan slowly got up from the ground.

The night rain poured down for a while, then stopped soon.

Early the next morning, the steward who received her last night came to look for her and said that the young master was at the racecourse. The horse farm is located near Beishan, about half a day’s ride from here.

“Everything is fine, little son. Lord Weng, you have come from a long distance. If you can’t bear the journey, please stay here and rest in peace. The little man will go to the horse farm and bring the little son here.”

The steward said respectfully with a smile on his face.

The heart that had been hanging for a few months suddenly fell.

Her eyes instantly brightened, and a fresh blood color appeared on her pale cheeks, and her complexion regained its brilliance in an instant.

She can’t wait to fly over, so that she can meet that little man immediately, how can she calm down and continue to wait here in vain?

“I’ll go by myself! Please lead the way.”

she said.

The carriage stopped outside the gate of the government office. Mu Fulan hurried out and was about to board and set off when he suddenly saw a fast horse coming from the opposite side. When he reached the door, the man rolled off his horse and shouted at the steward. Said, “Is Lord Jiedu here? Something happened! Last night, in the middle of the night, the horse farm was hit by a thunderstorm, which burned the fodder and spread to the stables. Some of the horses were scattered, and the little boy left by the Lord was also gone!”

Mu Fulan’s heart was beating wildly, she reacted, and immediately climbed into the carriage and urged to set off.

At noon, she arrived at the horse farm.

She stood in front of the stable that had been completely extinguished an hour ago, with her eyes wide open, she stared at the groom at work without blinking. The charred horse corpse was lifted out, his teeth clenched, his whole body trembled, and finally he heard a voice shouting “All cleaned up, fifty-six horses! No casualties!” Suddenly, he fell to the ground.

When the stables were built, they considered the possibility of preventing the fire from spreading in a large area, and built the stables in different zones. The fire was discovered early last night, and the nearby horses were moved in time, so only a few adjacent rows of stables were burned down, and no casualties were reported. big.

At that time, the horses that were frightened broke through the fence and escaped from the racecourse, the total number of horses also came out, about 500. This morning, most of them have been recovered.

After the steward finished reporting, he knelt down and pleaded guilty, “The fire was really unexpected. When a thunderstorm fell, the grass caught fire, and the stables burned. The rain that fell later was of no use. The horses were frightened, and many fences were broken. There were so many, I thought that the young master was already asleep, and he was on the wind again, so I didn’t pay attention to him. When I came back from fighting the fire this morning, I found that the other person was gone! At that time, I sent people to look around. “

“The villain is entrusted by the adults, please forgive me!”

“Where’s his colt?” Xie Changgeng asked with a solemn expression.

“The foal is gone too. Maybe it escaped with the horses, or maybe…”

The steward hesitated for a moment, then whispered, “…I was taken by the young master and escaped in the chaos, so it’s not impossible…”

Xie Changgeng remembered what the child said to him that night that he would not run away, and became furious, “Something must have happened to him! Don’t worry about the horse! mobilize all the people here to find someone! No one can be found, you mention it. See me on the head!”

The steward responded again and again, rolled and scrambled, and called out loudly.

Xie Changgeng called one of his subordinates and ordered him to inform Liu An. He quickly dispatched the soldiers to search for people in a large area. After finishing the instructions, he turned his head and looked at the figure sitting on the ground facing the collapsed stable not far away. , walked over, stopped by her side, saw her white face and empty eyes, looked at the scorched black and deformed horse corpse, hesitated, leaned over to her, and said softly, ” Take it easy and go to rest first. Xi’er will be fine, I have sent someone to look for it, you wait for my news…”

Before he could finish his sentence, he saw her climb up quickly from the ground and said, “I’ll look for it too.” After speaking, he didn’t even look at him, and walked quickly past him.