Retreat, Retreat, Retreat! - Chapter 47

Many years ago in the summer, the world was raining heavily with horseshoes. A young black-clothed boy with a calm and cold temperament rode past and rushed to the door of Zhu in the Zhou family mansion.

Shen Xuan had not changed her name at that time, and her name was Zhou Xuan. She was twelve years old and had just returned from martial arts training. She was soaked in heavy rain.

The door of Zhou’s house was closed tightly, and no one was standing to greet him. Shen Xuan wiped the wet rain on her face and pushed open the door of the mansion, only to see the crowd in the main hall, and a thin child in coarse linen stood in the middle of the crowd.

Shen Xuan slowed down, holding a thin knife in her hand and dripping water from her temples, standing on the corridor and looking at the strange child from a distance. As if perceiving his gaze, the child turned his face quickly, half of a face very similar to him was exposed under the messy hair, and his eyes flashed with dazed deer-like dazedness and horror.

Shen Xuan was startled, not only because the strange child looked similar to him, but also because after King Jing lost his power, the Zhou family was depressed. It has been a long time since no new customer visited. At this time, there was an inexplicably more similar age to him. People always feel a little unclear.

A thunderstorm struck through, shining half of the gloomy sky white. The mistress Zhou Shen stood up, cut off Shen Xuan’s vision, and ordered: “Xuan’er, go back to the room and study. This is not where you should be.”

Her mother was born in aristocracy, and although she was cold-hearted and hard-hearted and never liked her father, she had always loved Shenxuan very much, and she had never spoken so harshly as she is today.

Shen Xuan did not defy her, only glanced at the embarrassed child one last time, then shook the rain off her head and went to bathe and change clothes.

As soon as Shen Xuan left, the Zhou family’s house fell into a deadly silence, except that the rain dripped loudly before the steps.

“Only six points alike.” Zhou Shen looked at the **** in front of him coldly, and said indifferently, “Not enough.”

“This is already the master’s private…” The housekeeper had a meal. In Zhou Shen’s cold eyes, he swallowed the words’illegitimate’ into his stomach, and said tremblingly. No one is more suitable than him because his mother died of illness.

“Three months later, it will be a battle of life and death. My husband and I died for the great cause of Jing Wang. It is nothing, but I can’t hurt Xi’er.” Zhou Chens stretched out his hand to pinch Shen Qiqing’s thin chin, and looked at it with false eyes. After a long while, Fang twisted his eyebrows in disgust, “Since he is a human duck, he must behave like something. Fortunately, there is still some time left. Please ask Dr. Sun to change his eyebrows.”

The child obviously didn’t know what the “human duck” was, but just stood there awkwardly and shivering.

Zhou Shen gave the child a name, according to the ranking, the name is Aqi.

Ah Qi stayed in Zhou’s house.

Shen Xu didn’t talk much, and was as cold and tough as his mother, except that he was close to Ah Qi. Perhaps the power of blood is so powerful and wonderful. Shen Xuan knew that Ah Qi was the’wild species’ born by his father and other women. At the beginning, he approached with curiosity, but gradually, this curiosity was mixed with too much affection that he couldn’t tell.

Probably because Ah Qi is similar in appearance to Shen Xuan, but has a quiet and well-behaved temper. Whenever he looks at Shen Xuan with those gentle and pious eyes, Shen Xuan can always feel the responsibility of being an elder brother.

During those three months, Shen Xuan always took Ah Qi to ride horses and hunts, like all his brothers, from dawn to dark, almost inseparable.

Whenever watching them enter and leave the mansion side by side like twins, Zhou Shen always looks through the window lattice, and occasionally a trace of struggle flashes in his cold eyes.

Zhou Yan stood beside her, hesitating to speak: “Madam, A Qi is innocent, or we…”

It was only a moment of softness, and Zhou Shen quickly recovered the coldness of the past. She turned her cold beautiful eyes, her red lips curled into a ridiculous arc, and asked: “He is innocent. Isn’t Xuan’er innocent? You’d better figure out who is your aunt! No matter what! How, half of the Shen family’s blood is dripping in Xuan’er’s body, and I must not let him be implicated by you! As for Ah Qi, that is the wild species you gave birth to after betraying me. If he doesn’t look like Xuan’er, he can still send Use it, why do you think I serve him deliciously?”

“Madam, do you have to be like this? Obviously, when you look at the similar faces of Ah Qi and Xuan’er, you have struggled and reluctant to give up. You have been together for three months, don’t you treat him like a son at all? “Zhou Yan raised his heroic brows and said in pain, “We can send both children away, regardless of future success or failure, we can save their lives.”

“Impossible. If we fail, Jin Yiwei will not let go of our only son, even Tianya Haijiao will find him. Therefore, someone must suffer for Xuan’er.” Zhou Shen closed his eyes. He opened it again, categorically cutting the railway, “You don’t have to persuade! Otherwise, I will kill the wild species, this is what you owe me!”

There was a rustling noise from the corner, as if someone knocked down the potted plant in the corner in surprise. Zhou Shen’s eyes became cold, and he shouted sharply: “Who?!”

When I opened the door, there was no one in the corner. Only one pheasant feather arrow was left in front of the steps. It was the one that Shen Xuan taught Ah Qi to shoot.

In the backyard, the autumn breeze was bleak, and the parasol trees were dripping rain.

“Ahqi, your complexion is ugly, are you sick?” The twelve-year-old Shenxuan is tight, with immature eyebrows, but her eyes are as calm as an adult. He received his bow and arrow, and looked at his pale brother slightly worried, “I’ll go and invite Dr. Sun.”

As soon as she heard Doctor Sun’s name, Shen Qi’s pale face turned white again, and she recalled the fear of the cold thin knife wandering across her face in her mind.

“Brother, I’m okay, maybe it’s too hot and stuffy.” Aqi’s eyes dodged and she whispered while holding her silver brace.

Shen Xuan did not doubt that he was there, raised her hand and pressed the top of his head, and asked, “Did you find the lost arrow?”

“Ah… Arrow?” After Ah Qi was lost for a moment, Fang shook his head, biting his pale lips and said, “I can’t find it.”

Shen Xuan thought that he was upset by losing his beloved arrow, and said: “If you can’t find it, it will be better. Brother will give you better.”

Ah Qi just stared at him blankly, and then figured out something, slowly burst into a fragile smile, and said, “Brother, thank you for being so kind to me. You are the best person in this world.” La.”

At that time, Shen Xuan was still too young, and she didn’t know what Ah Qi was determined to be. By the time he understood everything, it was too late and too late.

After all, the bow and arrow did not have time to be sent.

“From now on, you will no longer be Zhou Xuan. You will change to Shen Xuan with your mother’s surname.”

“The package on the horse’s back contains a twist and a letter. You set off overnight and sent the letter to General Liu Cheng who returned to the mountain in Mobeiyan for your mother…Hurry up! Leave now!”

The night Shen Xu left, Ah Qi did not fall asleep. He put on his clothes and was barefoot, standing under the porch with a lamp in his hand, only quietly watching his brother go away.

For some reason, Shen Xuan, who had stepped on her horse, folded back again, touched Ah Qi’s head, looked at his face that looked like his own, and whispered, “Don’t worry, Ah Qi, brother will be back when he sends a letter.”

“…Okay.” The corners of Aqi’s mouth moved, as if smiling, her voice trembling in the wind, and said: “Brother can be slower, don’t… come back in such a hurry.”

Zhou Shen on the side heard the conversation between the brothers, and there was a moment of struggle and softness in his eyes. She opened her lips, but her throat seemed to be strangled. She couldn’t say anything, she could only bit her lip, turned her head and covered her eyes.

…

“Mother lied to me.”

In the Shufeng Tower, Shen Xuan’s eyes were dark and she poured a bowl of plum wine, Fang said: “I have been searching for a long time, but there is no General Liu Cheng in Saibei. That is just an excuse for my mother to trick me out of taking refuge.”

The fact is so cruel. When Shen Xuan returned to the capital, King Jing was defeated and Zhou’s family was turned upside down: everyone was dead, and Shen Qi suffered the crime on behalf of his brother and became a young castr in the palace.

Xiao Changning was uncomfortable, not only for Shen Xi, who had buried his guilt in his heart for more than ten years, but also for Shen Qi, who had a rough life experience.

What can she say? Blaming Shenxuan’s mother for her ruthlessness, or comforting Shenxuan’s death?

The warmth in the body has gradually cooled down as the truth of the story is revealed, but it remains full of sorrow. Xiao Changning poured a glass of wine and drank it. When the whole body became warm again, he got up, walked to Shen Xiu’s side and sat down, and stood side by side with him, and whispered, “Then, Shen Qi has complained about you. ?”

Hearing this, Shen Xuan snorted, “He is so stupid, how can I complain? After he entered the palace, I buried my family, and it took more than a year to contact Aqi with a letter. Aqi said in his reply that, in fact, I buried my family. On the night when the incident was lost and ransacking the house, my mother might not bear it. She secretly prepared a horse for him and asked him to flee to Mobei to find me… Maybe it was the only time my mother was softhearted in this life, but Shen Qi, that fool, refused. .”

Xiao Changning’s eyelashes trembled, and his tone became a little distressed, “He is not to hurt you. If you can’t find the only son of the Zhou family, this storm will definitely involve more people.”

“It’s true.” Shen Xuan’s eyes were deep, she seemed to sink into the whirlpool of memories, and slowly said, “Perhaps it is guilt, I have been thinking about saving him out of the palace. Until six years ago, the first emperor went out to hunt. Seven is also one of the eunuchs who served. I arranged everything in advance and wrote to him telling him that I would get mixed under the waterfall in the hunting ground and wait for him to leave the palace…Who knows, the fool refused again.”

“Why?” Xiao Changning asked, “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Shen Xuan took a sip of wine, with the cold Meixiang on her body, and said in a deep voice: “He said he fell in love with a court lady and wanted to stay with her in the palace.”

Xiao Changning said, “Yukou?”

Shen Xuan nodded slightly.

Xiao Changning said, “Even if there is concern, why did Shen Qi die?”

The night wind was cold, and Shen Xuan was silent for a while before continuing to speak.

“Aqi wrote back to me, saying that he wanted me to meet my future brother-in-law, and asked me to wait for him by the waterfall in the hunting ground. After nightfall, he will bring his beloved girl to see me.” Shen Xuan held the wine cup His hands tightened, and the back of his hands bulged blue veins, seeming to suppress something, “It is said that the eldest brother is like a father, and he wanted me to witness the marriage to them, but that night, he failed to come to see me alive.”

“Because he had a private meeting with Yu Kou, was it discovered?”

Seeing Shen Xu shaking his head, Xiao Changning said again: “Could it be that you were found hiding in the hunting ground and brought disaster to him?”

Shen Xuan gave a low laugh, looked up at her and said: “In the eyes of your Royal Highness, the minister is such an incompetent person?”

Right……

If Shen Xuan was so easily caught, then he would not be Shen Xuan.

Xiao Changning’s head was drunk and his cheeks were hot. He simply put his drowsy head on Shen Xuan’s broad shoulders and sighed: “What happened to Shen Qi that night?”

Shen Xuan’s gaze slowly became sharp, her eyes were like a poisoned sharp blade, and she said coldly: “He was out of luck. He ran into a private meeting between the Queen Mother and Huo Jia in the dense forest.”