Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 69

[Chapter 68]

Yesterday’s Deer Li Conference, if the most popular, is Qiao Ci. Not only did he win the deer championship, everyone’s demeanor was convincing, and his beautiful young heroism in the white robes of the riding shooting field spread throughout Yuyang overnight. When the group went out of the city and passed through the street, it was rumored that yesterday’s Deer Queen’s daughter Adi left today, and countless women rushed to the street, just to see Qiao Cimei’s youthful style. All the way to the city, Qiao Ci’s limelight even overwhelmed his brother-in-law.

Out of the city gate, Wei Shao stopped. After Yanzhou envoy Yang Feng finished saying something to express his gratitude to his master for his thoughtful reception these days, Qiao Ci also thanked Wei Shao. It’s just that he can’t feel close to his brother-in-law, and he is also indifferent to himself, and there seems to be a layer of estrangement in the middle. In his heart, there was some hanging on Wei Yu. I remembered that after yesterday’s Deer Li Conference, I didn’t see him in the feast. I couldn’t help but look inside the city gate a few times.

Wei Shao guessed that he should be looking for Wei Yu, but there was no expression on his face, only a word of care on the road. Joci had to get on his horse and make a U-turn. The group left Yuyang and embarked on a southward journey back to Yanzhou.

……

After Wei Shao left, Lady Xu sent someone to summon Zhu Quan to inquire about Wei Yu’s whereabouts. Hearing him say that he hadn’t seen Wei Yu’s face since yesterday, he asked, “You have been serving closely, have you noticed that he is different from usual lately?”

Zhu Quan said, “Old Lady Yu.” The slave also thought about coming over these days to say a word. The county magistrate’s recent days are indeed a little different from before. “What’s

different? Don’t leave it all out. “The

county prince has not been close to concubines very often lately, and I seem to have a heavy heart when I see him.” Before going to Dai Gun the other day, he sent all three women in the family away. He also locked the door of his bedroom and strictly ordered him not to trespass. “Do

you know why he’s so abnormal?”

“The slave really doesn’t know.” Zhu Quan shook his head, “It was also a coincidence, the house caught fire a few days later.”
Madame
Xu sighed, “Other than that, but is there anything else?” For example, do you have abnormal interactions with people? “The

county magistrate has recently been reclusive. The slave did not see any abnormalities. When I came back at night, I drank alone. “Where

does he usually go?” Have you ever asked, has anyone ever seen him?

Zhu Quan said, “Old Lady Yu, I saw that the Gong Gong had not returned all night, and I thought that he used to go to Luo Zhongfang a lot, but this morning he looked for him.” I heard something…”

He hesitated and stopped.

“What?” Madame Xu looked at the past.

“I heard from the doormen that after dark last night, the prince actually went there to find the county prince. According to the doorman, the prince seemed to be drunk at that time, and went straight in, and the door was also kicked open by the prince, and it seemed that there was a conflict with the county prince at that time. Then the prince and the duke of the county went out and left, and then what happened later, I don’t know.
Madame
Xu’s brow furrowed slightly. Zhu Quan held his breath. After a moment, Mrs. Xu said, “I know.” Go down.
After
Zhu Quan stepped back, Lady Xu was alone for a moment and then asked people to send Lady Zhu to her.

Zhu Shi impulsively told his son about that matter last night, and although he was relieved at first, after thinking about it, he finally felt some trepidation. Didn’t get a good night’s sleep. In the morning, I was just interrogated by Mrs. Xu once, and when I came back, I didn’t sit on my hot ass, and when I saw that there was another call to call myself over there, I suspected that last night’s incident had been known to Mrs. Xu, and I was greatly frightened, and after hesitating again and again, I knew that I couldn’t hide from it, so I had to come over with a hard scalp, and I prayed: “My mother-in-law called me, what is the matter?”
Lady
Xu said, “Last night you went to see Shao’er in the WestInghouse, and the wound on his face made him say it to you?”
Lady
Zhu was relieved to hear this, and was busy repeating Wei Shao’s words, indignantly saying, “But I don’t believe it.” Look at the wound on his face, it is clear that he was beaten by someone! I asked him, but he refused to admit it, insisting that he was injured on horseback. I don’t know which bear has the heart and the guts of a leopard dares to hurt my son, but if I know, I will not spare it!
Madame
Xu didn’t hear anything and only asked, “Later, Shao’er sent you back to your room, did you say anything else?” Madame Zhu’s

heart skipped a beat. To Lady Xu’s one-eyed gaze, she calmly said, “No.” When he sent me there, he returned. Even though he said this, his eyes unconsciously revealed a hint of emptiness. He didn’t dare to look at Madam Xu even more, and when he finished, he lowered his gaze.

There were only her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the room, and at this moment, she seemed to be able to hear the sound of needles falling to the ground.

Mrs. Zhu knew that Mrs. Xu on the other side was watching, holding her breath, and did not even dare to breathe through the atmosphere. In the middle of the night, I heard Madame Xu’s cold voice coming: “Last night you were the one who saw the last side of Shao’er.” I heard my granddaughter-in-law say in the morning that he was fine before you called out. How did you send you a trip, turn your head and see no one all night? I’ll be honest with you, I already know! You told him about it, right? Madame Zhu’s shoulders

shook slightly, and she looked up to see Madame Xu staring at herself with one dead eye, looking cold. Immediately remembering that this morning his son had returned to the North House, it should be that he had not listened to his own instructions last night, and had already told Mrs. Xu about the matter. My heart couldn’t help but jump, my face was panicked, my mouth was open, and I couldn’t speak for a while.

Mrs. Xu originally only had this layer of doubts. When I first called Zhu Shi to come in the morning, I saw that her eyes were uncertain. After decades of getting along, I can see at a glance that she has something to hide. Only then did he call her again. Seeing her reaction like this, I guessed in my heart. I couldn’t help but get angry, slammed the case, and shouted, “You are so bold! How dare they turn their backs on me and talk gibberish in front of Shao’er, alienating brothers! In

the past few decades, although Madame Xu has not been very kind to the Zhu family, she usually would never be as sharp and angry as at this moment. As for being in front of outsiders, it is even more enough to give her the face she deserves. Zhu Shi’s face was scorched yellow, and he almost couldn’t sit still on his knees, but with tears in his eyes, he leaned down and defended: “Mother-in-law is angry, allow me to argue.” It’s not my intention to split the brothers. It’s been almost thirty years, and if I had always been disgusted, I wouldn’t have waited until now to say it. My mother-in-law didn’t know, but I was really worried that Shao’er was loyal and never defensive. If it is just a matter of other things, then Wei Yu has a complicated history, my Wei family raises a Xiongnu, and once it is raised, it will be thirty years, sooner or later it will be a disaster. If Shao Er didn’t know anything, I was afraid that I would suffer a big loss in the future…”

With a “whoosh” sound, Madame Xu was so angry that she slammed the heavy incense wood case in her hand to the ground, smashing everything on the table, and the jars and jars of the dish were shattered on the ground and jumped away. The sound alarmed Zhong Mi outside the door, hurried inside, saw Zhu Shi lying on the ground, but Mrs. Xu of the box over there was pale, pointing at Zhu Shi on the ground, a breath as if it could not penetrate, frightened, grabbed a hand to support her, kept rubbing the back of her chest, half a moment, Mrs. Xu’s throat made a long ah, only to ease out, trembling: “Tell her to go out!” Zhong Mi

looked at Zhu Shi, saw that she was already trembling with fright, and asked her to avoid it first. Zhu Shi’s hands were weak, and he barely got up from the ground, and left in a hurry without mentioning it. Zhong Mi and another servant woman carried Madame Xu to the bed and lay down. Order the servant woman to go out. Be by your side. For a long time, seeing that Madame Xu’s original pale face gradually recovered some blood color, this was only slightly relieved. I was about to ask her what she needed to eat, when I suddenly saw Madame Xu slowly open her eyes and said, “Prepare the car.” I’m going out.
Although
there was still some fatigue in her voice, it was already her usual calm.

Zhong Mi should be.

……

Wei Shao sent Qiao Ci out of the city, and when he returned, it was already past noon, and he went straight to Luo Zhongfang.

During the day, Luo Zhongfang is light and deserted. He entered through the back door, crossed a shaded corridor shaded by Aomori trees, stopped at the door of a quiet house, pushed open the hidden door, and stepped inside.

Wei Yu has been here since last night. The large windows on the left and right of the house are open, and the wind passes through the room from north to south. He sat cross-legged on a bed in the middle, his hair uncombed, wearing only a loose white jacket, the placket was wide open, his eyes were closed, and a short layer of messy beard grew on his cheeks, which was extremely depressed, and there was no wind flow of riding on a steep bridge and red sleeves all over the building. Hearing the door open Wei Shao’s footsteps approaching, he slowly opened his eyes. Seeing him in the formal clothes of a princeStanding opposite him, the original Slender Figure of Kui Wei was more and more dignified and majestic, looked at it for a moment, and suddenly said: “You know that I am secretly communicating with the Huns, so you left me here, not afraid that I will escape?” Wei Shao

went to the opposite side of him, sat across from him, and said, “If you have the intention to run away like this, I will be like a brother who has not been there for twenty years.” Wei

Yu was silent.

Wei Shao said, “I only need one word from you to cut off contact with the Xiongnu from now on.” Then how it was in the past, how it is in the future. “How was the

past, how is the future…”

Wei Yu murmured and repeated, raising his eyes, his eyes staying on his face, out of his mind, and suddenly revealed a strange look.

“Even if I love and even carry your sins against your wife, you will no longer bother with me?”

He stared at Wei Shao and spoke slowly.

A dark haze quickly appeared in Wei Shao’s eyes, but his expression was still waveless.

“Can Ann kill all the people in the world who have offended me?”

He said lightly.

Wei Yu suddenly laughed wildly, and even leaned forward and backward: “Second brother, although I used to worship you as a prince, my heart has always refused to obey you.” It is also now that I know that just by virtue of the words you can say, the position of the head of the Wei family is none other than you!

He kept laughing, his posture wild, laughing so hard that tears seemed to come out.

Wei Shao kept looking at him. When he stopped, Fang said, “How?” Have you thought about it? Wei Yu’s

frenzied smile gradually faded, turned his head to look at the mottled tree shadow thrown into the tree shadow by the south window, was out of his mind for a moment, turned his head back, and said slowly: “Second brother, you can not care about my offense to your wife, you can also not care about the vile Xiongnu blood that I was born in my body, but I can only tell you that I can’t go back to the past, and I can’t be the eldest brother who takes you as my destiny anymore!” Unless you kill me, I am…”

“How else are you?”

Suddenly an old voice sounded outside the door, and then the door opened in response.

Wei Shao and Wei Yu looked at each other and saw That Madame Xu was standing outside the door on crutches at some point. Both of them froze in unison.

Wei Shao quickly reacted and hurriedly got up to greet him, looking slightly nervous.

“Grandmother, how did you come here…”

Madame Xu did not look at him. He stepped into the study, walked past Wei Shao’s body, looked at Wei Yu, who was still sitting on the bed with a stiff look, walked towards him, and finally stopped in front of him.

“How else would you be?”

Madame Xu slammed her crutches and asked again, and her one-eyed shot out a cold light, making people dare not look at it directly.

Wei Yu finally got up slowly. Suddenly, he knelt down again, performed a great salute, and prostrated his forehead on the ground, and did not rise for a long time.

“I am not filial to my grandson, but I dare to plead with my grandmother to fulfill me and let me go.”

He said word for word.

Wei Shao’s face turned angry, and the green tendons in his forehead faintly burst out.

Madame Xu stared at Wei Yu, who was kneeling in front of her, and her expression turned angry at first, and the hand holding the crutch was also trembling slightly.

For a long time, the anger on her face gradually disappeared.

“Well said.” She said, “You made me perfect for you. I am perfected by you, and who will fulfill my heart? Her voice was

tired, revealing a hint of helpless sadness.

Wei Yu slowly raised his head and met Lady Xu’s gaze.

“The biggest mistake my grandmother made in this life is you, Yu’er.” My fault is not in raising you, but in teaching you by mistake! Wei Yu

was silent.

Madame Xu seemed to be trapped in the memories of the past. After a moment, he said, “Son, your mother is my only daughter.” I love her like a pearl in her hand. Unfortunately, she was taken captive by the King of the Huns, and when she returned three years later, she had already conceived you in her womb, and the birth was lost. I know that your Father is the opposite, that your life may be in danger in the future, and I have left you to raise you. This is not wrong. If I had gone back to the moment when your mother gave birth to you, I would have made the same decision. You are your mother’s only remaining blood and bones in the world, and whoever your father is, you are my grandson, and I will never abandon you. My fault lies in my upbringing of you!

She let out a long breath.

“The Han and the Xiongnu are on opposite sides, and they have always been attacking and attacking. The Han people lost countless souls under the iron hooves of the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu herdsmen were killed by the Han people. I have always feared that if I let you know your origins, it will make you confused and even suspicious, so when you were young, I kept this matter tightly under guard. I want to wait until you are older, and I will talk to you in detail. When you are older, I see that you are full of spirits and carefree, and I can’t bear to open your mouth to increase your troubles. By the time you are older, by the age of fourteen or fifteen, you have followed your uncle in killing the Huns. At that time, I couldn’t open my mouth to you, you were of the same ethnic group as the Huns whose heads you had cut off! Day after day, year after year, my grandmother hesitated and got lucky, and you have grown up to this day! ”

Woo hoo! I shouldn’t have misled you for thinking you were Han Chinese. I should have let you know as soon as possible that although half of your blood comes from a foreign race, you will live forever and forever, and you are a member of my Wei family! And to this day, everything is all my fault! If you are leaving now, is it not the fault of punishing your grandmother’s upbringing?
Mrs.
Xu said where she was emotional, and she shed tears of double lines.

There were also faint tears in Wei Yu’s eyes.

“Grandmother! Not only are you not responsible for your upbringing, but you have nurtured me! I also know that you are out of love, which is why I have not been taught to know! I can’t be thankful, so why punish? Today’s mistake is all my fault! What to do with my grandmother!
Lady
Xu said, “Since you don’t blame me, why do you insist on going your own way?”

Wei Yu closed his eyes. He opened his eyes and said, “It’s all my fault, the innate evil and unrighteousness in my bloodline!” Grandmother, you never know, from the time I understood things, I wondered why I have the same surname Wei, I am older than the second brother, my talent is also recognized by others, why is the second brother destined to be the head of the family, and I can only be a side courtier? For more than ten years, this thought has been like a shadow like a snake drilling into my heart, and even though I hate it, I can’t drive it away! I used to be able to restrain myself. Three years ago, when I learned of my origins from the Huns who had found me, this evil thought grew and I could never get rid of it! Madame Xu looked

shocked. On the side, Wei Shao also fixed his gaze on Wei Yu, his expression slightly stiff.

“I am jealous of my second brother, and I hate the injustice of creation!” The second brother was born a master, talented, married a beautiful wife, but what do I have?

Wei Yu looked strange and seemed to be smiling, “Grandmother, since I was a child, you hired Dr. Luoyang Taixue to teach me a good professor.” But I only remembered one sentence, I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. Grandmother, it is the grandchildren who have failed you. The evil of my father’s bloodline doomed me to be unable to rest on my identity as a vassal of the Wei family! I’m not a gentleman either! My mental skills have never made me a gentleman! Now that the matter has come to this point, even if my grandmother and second brother do not care about the previous suspicions, I myself have no face to stay. Reluctantly stay, IIt’s hard to go back to the same Wei Yu I used to be! I will also suffer day and night. Grandmother, grandchildren, please, let me go, so that I can be released. ”

Eldest brother!” Wei Shao burst out in a loud voice, “How dare you make such a big fuss in front of your grandmother!”

Wei Yu turned his head and looked at Wei Yu, revealing a bitter smile: “Second brother, I am different from you.” You have the wind of everyone. If I had been born a murderer, I would not have come to the right path of a gentleman.

He turned to Madame Xu and prostrated her head heavily: “I implore my grandmother to be perfect!” Madame Xu’s

blindfolded eyes were also filled with tears at the moment, looking at Wei Yu, who was prostrating to herself on the ground: “You think that if you go to a foreign race, you will really be able to do as you wish, and from now on, you will do whatever you want and dominate the king?”

“Well, I’m lucky.” No, my destiny. Although he died without regrets. Wei Yu said.

Wei Shao violently pulled out his long sword, and the tip of the sword touched Wei Yu’s throat, his eyes were bloodshot red, and he said word by word: “You actually thought I would let you go to the Xiongnu alive?”

Wei Yu closed his eyes, as if he were asking for death.

Wei Shao’s breathing became more and more urgent, and the tip of his sword stabbed inch by inch into Wei Yu’s throat, trembling slightly.

Lady Xu looked at Wei Yu fixedly and suddenly said, “Well, everyone has their own ambitions.” He was bent on going, and he couldn’t stay.

Wei Shao Huoran turned his head and looked at Lady Xu.

Madame Xu still had tears in her eyes, but her expression gradually became condensed, staring at Wei Yu and slowly saying, “You have to leave, I will not stop you.” Born in the world, depressed, indeed better to live than to die. If you want to recognize me in the future, I will also be your grandmother. Just one sentence, I want to make it clear to you. If one day, you do the opposite and help the Huns to brutalize the Han People, I will turn into a ghost, and I will never forgive! Wei Yu’s

left hand was flat on the table, five fingers were spread out, and his right hand pulled out a short dagger in his boot, and the cold light flashed, and he even cut off his little finger.

His face was pale, and the blood from the broken mouth of his little finger was gushing, but his look was motionless, “I swear by this broken finger, my grandmother will never hurt the Han people in her lifetime!” In the future, if my grandmother is lucky enough to have the ambition, if the Han people do not offend me, I will not commit it first!
Madame
Xu stood silent for a moment, turned around and walked slowly toward the door.

Her steps were sluggish, and her back seemed to have been countless in this instant.

Wei Shao looked at Wei Yu with determination, and suddenly roared angrily, swinging his sword at Wei Yu’s head and slashing down.

Wei Yu still didn’t move.

The sword blade slashed obliquely above his head, and a sword cut off the corner of the case in front of Wei Yu’s body, and a strand of hair slowly fell on the ground.

With a “bang”, Wei Shao threw his sword to the ground, turned and hurried away.

[End of This Chapter]