Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 84

[Chapter 83 14]

The next morning, the snow was clear, and the sun slowly revealed half of its face from behind the clouds.

Yuyang has been cloudy lately, and it has not been out of the sun for several days.

The people of the city rejoiced in the long-lost good winter weather and began their busy and ordinary day as usual. Unbeknownst to them, the young prince, whom they had always admired, had already returned to the city in the middle of last night in the snow.

It was even more impossible to imagine what would greet him after a long lonely cold night.

As the sun rose, and as it approached midnight, a black smoke suddenly rose in the northwest direction beyond the city, at the top of Yushan Mountain.

At first, the black smoke was just a pillar, but soon it turned into a huge billowing smoke, and the smoke soared into the sky, almost covering the entire mountain, and the fire was faintly visible in the middle.

Passers-by on the city road were the first to see it. They stopped in surprise and looked into the distance.

Then, more people knew about it, and they came out of the house to watch, and the discussion kept going on. Some people climbed the millstone, some people climbed on the roof, and more good people called out of the city together, did not quit the road, and personally rushed to the fishing mountain to see what was going on.

Everyone knows that there is a great witch temple at the top of Yushan Mountain.

The Witch is famous. On weekdays, in addition to giving the people who ask for good fortune, they can also eliminate disasters and diseases, set up tents to attract gods, and even traffic to the undead, calling the wind and rain.

Although no one has ever seen the witch call the wind and rain with his own eyes. But that was only because sincerity was not enough to summon lei gongdian mother, not that the witch was not evil.

In addition, the people of the city also rumored that the great witch could secretly curse people with witchcraft.

Moreover, the most mysterious thing is that Lady Zhu, the master mother of the Wei Dynasty, also believes in the Great Witch. People often see her in and out of the Witch Temple.

Therefore, ordinary people have a kind of worship with a sense of jealousy and fear towards the Great Witch of Yushan Mountain.

I never expected that in the morning, such a strong soaring fire would emerge from the top of the Yushan Mountain where the Wu Temple was located.

Before noon, the news spread.

The prince returned to the city last night. Early this morning, he took people up the fishing mountain, and personally set this fire to burn the magnificent witch temple that had built a triple temple before and after.

……

Wei Shao stood in the clearing on the top of the fishing mountain, his eyes reflecting the huge flames of the blazing flames on the opposite side, and his look was gloomy.

The anger that was reverberating in his chest at the moment, even if he burned ten more such fires, would not be enough to be able to vent clean.

The mountain wind whistled, such a cold weather, Yuyang Ling was next to it, and the front door was gradually dried by the hot roast of the fire, and it was uncomfortable.

But he did not dare to take half a step back.

The anger of the prince can already be described as renunciation. He felt this deeply, too.

The roof of the great temple finally collapsed.

With a loud roar, the flames were briefly suppressed, and then like a flame dragon that had broken free of its shackles, it was wrapped in countless Martian foam and rushed up again.

YuYang Ling saw that the prince finally turned around, strode down the mountain, rubbed his slightly dry face that had been roasted by the fire, and hurriedly followed him.

……

Zhu Shi has been having nightmares almost every day for these days.

Even if a person is awake, as soon as she closes her eyes, she seems to be deeply entangled in the strong resentment from Jiang Mi, and her heart is beating like a nightmare.

On the night of the incident, she kept asking to bring Jiang Mi to her face, so that she could confront the evil woman who dared to frame her.

She has been convinced of Jiang Mi for many years and relies heavily on everything. There was even kindness to her at the beginning.

She still remembers it clearly. Thirty years ago, at that time, she was only the daughter of the Zhuo county postman. Jiang Mi was a few years older than her, more than twenty years old, with a three-year-old son, and a widow. Miscellaneous work in the Zhu family.

One day, the Zhu family had a murder case. Jiang Mi stabbed a male servant who tried to take her captive with a pair of scissors.

Zhu’s parents wanted to send her to the court. Jiang Mi ran to plead with Zhu Shi. Zhu Shi felt that she was very pitiful, and his heart softened. Blocked her parents and asked her to come to her side.

Since then, Jiang Mi has been grateful to Zhu Shi and bowed his head. Subsequently, Zhu Shi coincidentally married into the Wei family, and also brought Jiang Mi, who had always been pleasing to him. Over the years, Jiang Mi was loyal and devoted to her, and Zhu Shi had complete trust in her, almost to the point of obedience.

She couldn’t imagine how Jiang Mi, a wicked woman, could be so wolf-hearted and so vicious that she would frame her in the end!

Under her hoarse and desperate demands, Jiang Mi was finally sent to her.

As soon as Zhu Shi saw that familiar face, he was furious and couldn’t help himself, slapping her fiercely, tearing her hair, and cursing her with the most vicious words she could think of. Finally, her heart ached and tingled, her breath was about to faint, and when she sat there gasping for breath, Jiang Mi, who had never said a word, suddenly showed a smile on her face that she could not understand.

She leaned over, pressed it to Zhu’s ear, and said, “Madam, do you remember how my poor son died twenty years ago?” Jiang Mi

once had a son. But Zhu shi had long forgotten. Suddenly hearing Jiang Mi mention it in her ear, she was stunned for a moment, and finally remembered, vaguely, remembering that it seemed to be a symbol of the teenager, born like a girl, very good-looking.

Zhu Shi looked at Jiang Mi in front of him with determination.

Her beaten bruised face was smiling, but her eyes were full of resentment. A completely unfamiliar look.

Zhu Shi felt as if he could no longer recognize her.

“Madam, at that time you were already the wife of the Wei family. Noble status. One day your brother had a drink and he forcibly pulled my son away. He’s only thirteen years old! When I saw him, his lower body was covered in blood! Wet blood, kept flowing. My son was lying in bed, dying. He called my mother, told me he was in pain, and begged me to save his life. But the blood couldn’t stop. Lang Zhong couldn’t save him either, so he left! I just watched him struggle in bed for three days and finally die right under my nose. “How

did you do that, madame?” You must have forgotten it? Jiang Mi’s

voice continued to drift in Zhu’s ears.

“I told you. You are afraid that things will come out and damage your face, as if nothing has happened, and you have suppressed things. You sent your brother away and let him continue to be at ease, and you gave me money and told me not to tell me what was going on. I had no choice but to endure it.

“But I hate it in my heart.” My son, when he died, was thirteen years old! Madam, because you lost your son, you hated Qiao Nu to the bone, my son, is he not the flesh that fell from my body?

“Madam, at this moment you understand, why should I do this to you?” You can defend yourself by saying what I just told you. But what if you defend yourself? Mrs. Xu almost lost your hand, even if you continue to live in this life, in front of your son, you are just a mother without dignity! You are to blame yourself, and you cannot blame me…”

Chu fainted at the time. When she woke up, she heard the news that Jiang Mi had already touched the wall in front of her and committed suicide. Only a pool of dark purple blood remained on the ground.

The servant woman who guarded her said privately that Jiang Mi was forced to commit suicide by the lady.

It’s been so many days and the floor has been washed. The pool of blood stains seemed to have been eaten into the ground, and it still looked so shocking.

Zhu Used to use illness as an excuse to keep his son around.

Now she’s really sick. She also finally waited for her son’s return.

There was heavy snow last night, and it was sunny this morning. At noon, when she was alone in the room in a daze, she heard a heavy footstep outside.

It was the footsteps of her son Wei Shao. She could recognize it as soon as she heard it.

He’s finally home! And his mother, on the other hand, was framed and so wronged when he left home!

The strength that had been lost in the body seemed to be slowly injected back. Zhu Shi struggled to stand up, trying to go out to meet him, only to take two steps, the door slammed, almost by a rough force to knock open.

Zhu Shi saw the figure of her son Wei Shao and appeared at the door.

He didn’t come in, he just stood outside the threshold and looked at her with cold, strange eyes.

Zhu Shi shook his head slightly, looked at his son for a moment, his lips slowly trembled, and trembled: “Shao’er… You’re back… Don’t believe what they say! I was framed by Jiang Mi! She hates me! She was bribed, which framed me! These days, I want to come and go, and only Joe’s daughter… After Lady Qiao entered the door, I wanted you Na Chu Yu, she didn’t say anything on her face, she must hate me in her heart…”

Wei Shao’s corner muscles twitched slightly, and he took a step back, and the two people were pushed in and rolled to the ground.

One is the Yushan Witch and the other is Zheng Shu. Both of them were draped in shawls, and their appearance was extremely awkward.

“Aunt save me!” Zheng Shu climbed up, wrapped her hands around Zhu’s legs, and cried incessantly.

Surprised, Zhu Shi looked up at Wei Shao and said in a trembling voice, “Shao’er… What are you going to do? Wei Shao

said coldly, “Listen to yourself, how did this good niece of yours deceive you before!” The

great witch knelt on the ground, trembling, and kept prostrating her head: “Madam, you don’t know, it was Zheng Shu who secretly gave it to you in the first place, and asked me to come to you and say that she was a noble person of your destiny, and I said this to you!” In order to fulfill the test, you later had an illness, and she also took the medicine from me, put it into your meal at first, and when the medicine worked, she stopped, and you slowly got better. Madame was kept in the dark, believing it to be true…”

Zheng Shu wept bitterly: “Aunt spare me!” Only blame me for being confused in the first place… In the years that followed, I was digging my heart and lungs out of my aunt, and others didn’t know, but my aunt should know…”

Zhu Shi’s eyes were wide open, pointing at Zheng Shu, constantly trembling, suddenly shouting, rolling his eyes, and fainting.

……

Zhu Shi woke up again and found himself lying on the bed.

Wei Shao turned his back on her, facing the window, his back motionless, like a stone statue.

Zhu Shi wanted to call, but did not dare to call him.

Wei Shao turned and walked slowly to her, looking down at her.

“Shao’er…” Zhu Shi’s eyes were hot, “I know I was confused before… So much so that they were taken advantage of and almost made a big mistake… It’s just that your grandmother is there, it’s really not me who poisoned… No matter how bold I am, I don’t dare to attack her, you should know…”

Wei Shao stared at Zhu Shi, and a thick shadow flashed under his eyes.

“Mother, you may not dare your grandmother, but you do it to my wife.” If I had replaced her with someone else, I would not have allowed her to survive. You are my mother, and I can’t do anything to you. But later, I told my mother, if you dare to have evil thoughts about her again, you can’t blame your son for not filial piety.

Wei Shao quickly walked away.

[End of This Chapter]