Rebirth of a Star General - Chapter 149

Chapter 149 Chu Zhao’s Past

When He Yan returned to the room, the light in the room was still on. The two girls lay on the side of the outbuilding and played with the flower rope. Seeing He Yan, they hurriedly stood up and said, “Madam.”

He Yan whispered: “It’s okay, go to sleep, I went into the room to rest. Is the young master asleep?”

Cuijiao shook her head: “Master has been reading.”

He Yan nodded, “I see, you guys should rest earlier.”

She pushed the door into the back room and saw Xiao Jue sitting at the table in the back room, looking at the scroll in her hand. He only wore a coat. The snow-white coat was loosely draped over his shoulders, revealing jade-like skin, and his collarbone was thin and beautiful like a moon.

He Yan closed the door, walked to him, and said, “The governor?”

Xiao Jue only raised his eyes and glanced at her faintly, without speaking.

“I thought you were asleep.” He Yan took off the whip around his waist and hung it on the wall. The color spike hung on the stalk of the whip swayed like a glow with her movements, and the red ruby pomegranate flower was even more exquisite and very eye-catching. Xiao Jue’s eyes fell on the Caisui.

Seeing that he was watching, He Yan took off the whip and handed it to Xiao Jue’s hand: “How about it? Du Supervisor, okay? This was given to me by the fourth master of Chu.”

“Chu Zilan is really generous,” Xiao Jue narrowed his eyes, in a calm tone, “I don’t want to give you such a valuable thing to be a waste.”

“Expensive?” He Yan said, “The fourth son of Chu said that this pomegranate flower is fake jade, and it’s not worth a lot of money. I just accepted it after he said it.”

“Oh,” he scoffed, scoffing, “then he is still very sweet.”

“It’s so expensive?” He Yan was a little uneasy. “Then I’ll pay him back tomorrow.” With short staff, in case there is something unclean in the future, it’s better to make a clear distinction.

Xiao Jue: “Accept it, don’t you like him very much?”

He Yan was shocked: “Do I like him?” Why didn’t she know!

“I didn’t want to care about your business, but I still want to remind you,” the young man’s brows and eyes were uncomfortable under the light, his pupils were dark and deep, with some inexplicable coldness, “Chu Zilan is Xu Jingfu’s optimistic Chenglong. Hurry up, if you don’t want to die, stay away from him.”

Xu Pingting is Xu Jingfu’s jewel in the palm. She seems to like Chu Zilan. Lin Shuanghe has also told her about this, but what does it have to do with herself? Not to mention whether she likes Chu Zhao or not. Chu Zhao is as gentle and polite as she can’t appreciate a woman who sits cross-legged on the bed and punches.

Xiao Jue was really worried.

“Capital Governor, I think you are too nervous about the Fourth Young Master Chu, and even have prejudices against me.” She squeezed to Xiao Jue’s side, bent down to look at the scroll in Xiao Jue’s hand: “It’s so late, what are you looking at? ?”

Xiao Jue ignored her, He Yan stood behind him and craned his neck to look at him. After a while, he said, “It’s a military defense map! How is it, do you see any problems?”

“The tone of your speech,” Xiao Jue said calmly, “it seems that you are the governor.”

He Yan immediately retracted the hand on his shoulder, moved a stool and sat next to him, saying: “I just care too much. The matter of the Mengji Queen’s transfer of the people in Jiyang City these few days should be very serious. They will soon be known by the Utuo. Those Utuo will soon rise up when they get the news.” He Yan has a headache, “But there are too few soldiers in Jiyang City. Since the Utuo dare to come and attack the city. , The soldiers brought will not be less than one hundred thousand at all.”

Twenty thousand to one hundred thousand. Twenty thousand, the city gate army who has never fought for many years, the situation is not very satisfying.

“You weren’t a female general in your previous life,” Xiao Jue leaned back on the back of his chair and twitched the corner of his mouth. “Tell me what to do.”

He Yan was stunned for a moment. What kind of thing was this? It was clearly telling the truth, but it was regarded as a lie.

“In the military defense map, they came from the water.” He Yan said, “In that case, there is only…water attack.”

Having said that, she carefully raised her eyes to see Xiao Jue’s expression. The youth’s expression was as flat as ever, and the drinking sword hanging on the wall was as clear as snow, cold as ice.

It’s strange to say that she and Xiao Jue, who lived and died in the water before, always had a shadow in the depths of their hearts when facing the water. The other first battle was the water battle. For him, the water battle was not a fond memory. But in Jiyang City, such a scene could not be avoided anyway.

He Yan both doubted whether she and Xiao Jue had been a fire spirit in the previous life, and they had such a bad relationship with water.

“Tomorrow morning I will go to the martial arts training ground,” Xiao Jue said: “You go too.”

“Me?” He Yan hesitated, “I really want to go, but will the Mengji Princess be unhappy?”

Nominally, Xiao Jue is Wei’s captain of the right army. No one can train and prepare for war better than him, but He Yan is only Xiao Jue’s subordinate.

“Don’t worry about her.” Xiao Jue said: “You come with me.”

…

Late at night.

The man sat in front of the room, quietly looking at the flower basket on the table.

Under the warm light of the oil lamp, the sugar paintings appear red and sparkling. The flowers in the flower basket are densely blooming. In front of the flower basket, two words are written: Zilan. Correct and beautiful.

There seemed to be a smiling voice in his ears.

“Zhao, it means bright, and Zilan means vanilla. The person who gave you this name must love you very much. I hope that you will have a noble character and a bright future.”

The person who gave him this name must love him very much?

Chu Zhao never thought so.

His mother was Ye Runmei, the daughter of a small official family in Qinxian County, and she was born with a stunning beauty, comparable to a goddess. It was the same in his memory, she was an impeccable woman with both eyebrows and eyes, beautiful, charming and pitiful, with a kind of innocent and innocent attitude in her gracious posture.

Such a beauty will never forget it at first sight. How many men in Qinxian hope to marry Ye Runmei as his wife, but Ye Runmei has a crush on the same handsome and outstanding Shi Jinbo, Chu Linfeng.

Even though Chu Linfeng was in Shuojing, he was also a rare beautiful man. In addition, he is generous in his shots, and after so many years in the powder pile, he knows how to please people. Soon, Ye Runmei voted secretly for this romantic and considerate Chu Gongzi.

Not only secretly voted, but also spent the night together.

But only three months before Chu Linfeng will leave Qin County and return to Shuojing. Before leaving, Chu Linfeng told Ye Runmei that she would come back to marry her. At that time, Ye Runmei was immersed in the dream of waiting for her sweetheart to marry her. Linfeng knows nothing.

When Chu Linfeng left, there was no more news.

Shortly after he left, Ye Runmei found out that she was pregnant.

She was anxious and afraid in her heart and did not dare to tell anyone. But the belly is getting bigger day by day, after all, I can’t help it. Master Ye was furious and forced to ask Ye Runmei who the father of the child was. Ye Runmei didn’t know the true identity of the other party. How could he make it clear, he just kept crying.

In the end, Master Ye had no choice but to hire a doctor, intending to destroy the child in Ye Runmei’s belly, and after a year or a half, sending Ye Runmei to marry, the matter would be rotten in his belly for the rest of his life, and no one would say.

Ye Runmei knew his father’s plan and ran away overnight.

She didn’t want to fall to this child, whether it was out of nostalgia for Chu Linfeng or something else. In short, she escaped.

Ye Runmei decided to go to Shuojing to find Chu Linfeng.

How could she, a woman with a big belly, walk such a long way. But because of the beauty of her birth, she met a merchandiser along the way, who took the initiative to help and promised to take her to Shuojing.

Ye Runmei gave birth before arriving in Shuojing, and Chu Zhao was born at this time. After Chu Zhao was born, Ye Runmei’s miserable days had just begun.

The cargo merchant is not a good-hearted person. He took a fancy to Ye Runmei’s beauty and hoped that Ye Runmei would be his concubine. In a fury, the cargo merchant sold Ye Runmei into the brothel for a dozen silvers.

Chu Zhao was also sold in, because the mother of the brothel felt that Ye Runmei was so outstanding that her son should not be bad, and he would be good-looking in the future, and he might be able to make another money. If you don’t look good, you won’t lose money as a slave.

Ye Runmei and Chu Zhao moved into the brothel together.

In the past ten years, the spoiled eldest lady, who did not know the sinister world, saw all kinds of ugly and vicious people in the brothel. It seemed that she wanted to take back all of her past smooth winds. Ye Runmei’s life would be better than death. The long-term torture caused her temperament to change drastically. She began to become irritable and irritable. She did not dare to make trouble in front of her benefactor, and vented her inner grievances against Chu Zhao, but she often beat Chu Zhao, if not the brothel. The other women in the house were protecting him, and Chu Zhao felt that he might not survive to see Chu Linfeng.

Chu Zhao didn’t understand what Ye Runmei’s feelings for him were. If she said she did not love, in order to protect the flesh and blood in her abdomen, she left home alone and lived in a foreign country. She suffered hard and did not give up on him. If she talks about love, why does she use those words that hurt people’s heart so often that the corners of her eyes and eyebrows are full of hatred.

She always hit him with a bamboo pole, and said as she struck, “I hate you! If it weren’t for you, if it wasn’t for you, my life shouldn’t be like this! Why did you appear, why didn’t you die!”

After the vicious curse, she looked at the scars on Chu Zhao’s body, and cried out when she hugged him again: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, A Zhao, Zilan, don’t blame my mother, I love you so much…”

He was at a loss when he was young, he did not understand whether he loved or not. Just looking at the mourning and weeping woman, a trace of disgust passed through her heart very lightly.

He hoped that such days would end soon, and he hoped that he could grow up quickly and escape this filthy and desperate place.

There is more than one person who thinks this way, and Ye Runmei is also looking for opportunities.

She has never given up on finding Chu Linfeng. While cursing Chu Linfeng’s ruthlessness, she was full of hope for him. She always looked at Chu Zhao, as if looking at all the hope. Maybe she left Chu Zhao back then, so that when she saw Chu Linfeng again one day, she could stand upright in front of him and tell him: This is your son. Let the hardships and pains of these years come together again. Chu Linfeng will feel sorry for her, will marry her as he said to her back then, and make up for the debts to their mother and son over the years.

Ye Runmei thinks this way, so she always takes the initiative to entertain every guest from Shuojing. Her stunning beauty easily became the top card in the brothel. Although she was not in Shuojing, there were always people from Shuojing who came to the merchants. One day, she actually asked her to wait for someone who knew Chu Linfeng.

That person was a friend of Chu Linfeng. At first, when Ye Runmei told about the sad past, he only listened to it for fun, occasionally accompanied by a few words of comfort, and satisfied the kindness of his savior. But when I heard that the man was called Chu Linfeng, he was handsome and romantic, and he was from Shuojing again, his face gradually changed.

Anyone who knows Chu Linfeng knows that this person lingers in flowers, especially lustful. It is not impossible to hook up with a woman from a small family when going out. It’s just that this thing is not authentic enough, and at any rate, I will tell the truth to make people cut off their thoughts, and there is no need to keep the person in the same place, waiting for many years, but it has become a bad fate.

“My poor child…I don’t know if I have a chance to see his father in this life.” Ye Runmei hid her face and wept.

“There are children?” The friend was surprised and asked, “Can you let me see?”

Ye Runmei let Chu Zhao come out.

Chu Zhao’s nose and mouth looked like Ye Runmei, but his eyebrows and eyes were printed in a mold with Chu Linfeng, tender and affectionate. When he saw people, he always seemed to have a soft smile. If this face was said to be Chu Linfeng’s son, no one would doubt it.

The friend got up, said perfunctorily, and hurried out.

Ye Runmei was extremely disappointed.

When the friend returned to Shuojing, the first thing he did was to find Chu Linfeng at the Shijin Bo’s Mansion and asked him if he had a relationship with a beauty in Qin County many years ago. Chu Linfeng thought for a long time, and finally vaguely recalled a little impression, vaguely remembering that she was an exceptionally chubby woman, but unfortunately she was a little stupid and believed in what he said.

“That woman is now living in the brothel,” the friend said: “She also gave birth to a son for you. I have seen that child. It is very similar to the one you gave birth to. Very beautiful!”

This was beyond Chu Linfeng’s expectation.

Mrs. Chu was ugly and unsalted, and never cared about his romantic affairs outside, so he was happy, and carried 19 concubines to the mansion, all of them were beautiful and beautiful. It’s a pity that Mrs. Chu has only one condition. It is okay to accept a concubine, and the child can only crawl out of her belly.

Mrs. Chu gave birth to three children, and Chu Linfeng didn’t have much interest in having more children and more fortune, so he felt that it was enough. The only regret is that none of his three sons inherited his looks, and his looks are plain. He knows that his colleagues and friends are laughing at him behind his back. He is greedy for good colors all his life, but it is a pity that the children are mediocre and not attractive enough. .

Now someone came to tell him that he actually had a son who was left behind, and he was born very outgoing, and his eyebrows were very similar to him? For him, this is a good thing in the sky. For a while, I wanted this child to recognize his ancestor and return to the clan, so that if others said that Chu Linfeng could not give birth to a good-looking son, he would be able to slap them in the face severely.

But Chu Linfeng has respected his wife as a guest for many years. Although Mrs. Chu seems dignified, she is not easy to provoke. Otherwise, the concubine in Chu Mansion wouldn’t have a son at all. Chu Linfeng had no choice but to ask the old lady, his mother.

Although Mrs. Chu didn’t take her concubine very seriously, it was always the blood of the Chu family, and it was not good to live outside, let alone a place like a brothel, so she went to see Mrs. Chu herself. Madam Chu and the old lady spoke for an hour in the house, and when they left the house, Madam Chu personally ordered people to go to the Dazhou Brothel and take the concubine back.

It’s just that the bastard didn’t mention Ye Runmei.

In the capital, Uncle Shi Jin could not be said to be a cover-up, but he was also a high-ranking official, and he was even more unattainable with the people in Dazhou. When the letter flew from Shuojing to Dazhou, Ye Runmei could hardly believe her eyes.

She knew that Chu Linfeng should not be an ordinary person, his shots were so generous, and his appearance was exceptionally different from those of the men in Qin County. But never thought that he was the current Uncle Shi Jin. It was someone she couldn’t even think of in her entire life.

It seemed that years of forbearance planning reached this moment and finally reaped the sweet fruit. She held Chu Zhao and wept with joy, “Zilan, your father has come to pick us up, we can go home…”

Chu Zhao quietly let the tears of the woman’s excitement fall on his neck, and his young face was indifferent to the age.

go home? Who can be sure that this is just jumping from one fire pit to another?

After all, all the men he saw in the brothel over the years were greedy and vicious, and the women were all stupid and weak. There is no difference.

But Ye Runmei didn’t think so. She spent all of her savings and bought a lot of beautiful clothes and jewelry, dressing Chu Zhao like a rich man, and dressing herself coquettishly like a flower. She looked at the woman in the mirror. The woman was still beautiful, but her skin was not as smooth as it was when she was young. Innocent in his eyes, there is no longer a show of beauty in the past.

She shed tears, the spring is the same, but the beauty is late.

And the man who promised to marry her has not yet come.

Ye Runmei thought, since Chu Linfeng is Uncle Shi Jin, he will definitely not marry her, but it’s okay to carry her as a concubine. Her son is also the son of Uncle Shi Jin. She acted in the brothel looking at people’s faces, and it has been too hard for her all these years. Being an official concubine is more noble than being a prostitute here.

She wanted to dress herself extraordinarily moving. Seeing Chu Linfeng, how could she pitifully make it clear that she had suffered for him over the years, and she wanted to tell him the determination of her love. Ye Runmei thought wisely, that a man in the world would be proud of him when he heard a beauty admiring herself infatuatedly, and this sense of pride will make him feel more pity and love for that beauty, in order to show his heroic love.

She won’t let this opportunity pass, she wants to regain Chu Linfeng’s favor, even if it is a concubine, it is also the one among his concubines that attracts him the most.

But Ye Runmei did not expect that Chu Linfeng would not come.

There were two wives and a handmaid. They looked at Ye Runmei condescendingly, with contempt in their eyes, as if looking at it more would stain their own eyes.

The headed woman asked, “Where is Chu Gongzi?”

Ye Runmei felt humiliated and wanted to get angry, but in the end, she put a humble smile on her face. “In… change clothes in the next room.” She ordered Chu Zhao in advance and asked him to plug in the hosta, which looked elegant and lovely.

“It’s just right.” The mother-in-law said with her eyes down, smiling.

A trace of anxiety flashed in Ye Runmei’s heart, and she asked, “What do you want to do?”

A woman-in-law came over and pulled her hand back, and the other woman-in-law covered her mouth with a veil. Ye Runmei’s eyes widened and realized what they were going to do to herself. She struggled desperately and said in anger: ” How dare you… how dare you! Are you afraid that Chu Lang would know if you do this? Chu Lang will kill you!”

The woman looked at her coldly, with a deep smile on her face, “How dare the slaves and maids decide on such a big matter without the permission of the master. Miss Mei——” She called Ye Runmei’s name in the brothel, “Could it be that we are Shi Jin Bo In the mansion, will there be a prostitute who sits on the pillows of thousands of people in the brothel? Are you asking someone to laugh at your master or your son.”

Ye Runmei struggled desperately, but her stature was slender and weak, and her opponent gradually lost strength.

“Going to mother and child is already a gift for you.”

Ye Runmei’s legs gradually stopped moving, and she fell straight to the ground, her eyes widening.

She waited for her husband for a lifetime, and she was filled with joy thinking that she was overwhelmed, but she waited for her own death.

Chu Zhao inserted the hairpin on his head and looked around in front of the mirror for a long time before walking to the mother’s room with a neat pace. He wanted to knock on the door, but when he reached out his hand, he hesitated and gave a light push first. Small slit, I want to see what the “father” looks like.

Then he saw that the two wives were carrying Ye Runmei, as if carrying a dead pig. They hung a white silk on the beam of the house and put Ye Runmei’s head inside. Ye Runmei’s face was facing the door, and his eyes met him.

Beads surrounded by green circles, Lixue red makeup, hate Huangquan, never close your eyes.

He staggered, and covered his mouth to prevent himself from screaming.

The people in the room are still talking.

“Being beautiful is beautiful. How can you be so stupid that you still expect to enter the mansion? I don’t even think about which big family can accept people in the brothel as concubines.”

“After all, I was born in a small family and I don’t know what it means to stay with my mother. If I stayed in Qin County that year, I wouldn’t even lose my life.”

“Tsk, it’s not greedy yet.”

Chu Zhao backed slowly, slowly back, and when he was far enough away from the door, he ran wildly with his legs out, he ran to the house of an unknown family, closed the door tightly, gritted his teeth, silently Tears shed.

It seemed that a woman’s voice fell in his ears, with a rare gentleness.

“Hua Caiyi Xi Ruoying, shameless and bright. You will be called A Zhao from now on. One day, we, A Zhao, will be able to wear gorgeous clothes like Yun Shen, with a beautiful and brilliant appearance.”

“As for the word, let’s call it Zilan. Lan Zhiyi, let her fragrance spread. Mother, I used to like orchids the most.”

He ignorantly and flatteringly said: “In the future, A Zhao will buy a lot of orchids for his mother.”

The woman’s laughter faded away, and his eyes fell on the flower basket in front of him.

There was a slight warmth from the fire, and Chu Zhao paused for a moment, and threw the flower basket on the table into it. The flame licked the basket, but for a moment, the syrup was flowing everywhere, showing a burnt sweetness.

He walked away blankly.