Rebirth of a Star General - Chapter 222

Chapter 222

Xu Mansion, at night, someone stayed and lit an oil lamp.

The mattress beside him was empty, and Xu Zhiheng stayed in the study again tonight.

He Xinying walked to the table, picked up an outer garment and put it on her body, looking at the beating wick in the oil lamp with a complicated expression.

I don’t know when, there seems to be an invisible barrier between her and Xu Zhiheng. To be precise, after the last palace banquet, Xu Zhiheng became extraordinarily weird. Later, she met Wu’an Hou Heyan, who had the same name and surname as her eldest sister, at Yuhua Temple. Soon after returning to the mansion, He Rufei came to visit her. It is not so much a visit as a temptation.

There are some things, once there are signs of doubt, you can’t let go. He Xinying could feel that there was a big secret hidden in the Xu family. It might be related to her dead eldest sister, or… it might also be related to the He family.

She was standing in front of the window, Shuojing’s winter was extremely cold, and on such a cold night, everyone went back to the house to sleep. He Xinying looked at the bare branches outside the window, thought for a long time, finally put on a cloak, picked up an oil lamp, and went out of the house.

She moved very lightly, walked carefully, and did not disturb others. The night watchman of the Xu family stayed outside the main courtyard and would not come in. The light of the oil lamp was very dim, and he could barely illuminate the road under her feet. He Xinying walked to an abandoned yard in the dark.

This deserted courtyard was the courtyard where her eldest sister He Yan once lived. Even after He Yan died, Xu Zhiheng retained the original appearance of the courtyard. The last time He Xinying was here, she saw Xu Zhiheng who was frantically searching for the drawer cabinet. She was discovered before she could see what Xu Zhiheng was looking for. This time, there was no one around at the moment, she wanted to see one look.

Although the yard is not occupied now, the snow in the yard has been swept clean. She walked to He Yan’s house, the room was not locked, and the door opened with a light push.

He Xinying walked in.

There was an old musty smell in the room, cold and humid, and He Xinying was slightly surprised. Didn’t Xu Zhiheng always miss her elder sister? But if you really miss the eldest sister, why is this room not cleaned, and dust is everywhere, as if no one has set foot in it for a long time and avoided it.

He Xinying looked around with the oil lamp.

This is a woman’s boudoir. There is a shelf in front of it. There are only some inexpensive vase decorations. There is a small table in the middle, covered with a thick layer of dust. The tea cups and teapots even have cobwebs. Further down there is a big wooden bed, which is cleaner by comparison with a thin blanket. This room looked deserted and empty, not as warm and delicate as the boudoir of an ordinary daughter’s house. As soon as he came in, he felt coldness rushing toward his face.

Even though he was in the He family before, He Yan married soon after he came back to live, but the boudoir before the marriage was carefully arranged. If this is the house where He Yan lived in Xu’s family, and this house retains the original appearance of He Yan’s life, then He Xinying thought to herself, her eldest sister who died prematurely, I am afraid she will live in the He family. Not as happy as the rumors.

If it is because of blindness, too many sundries should not be placed in the room to avoid tripping the master, but the furnishings and utensils here are horribly shabby and perfunctory. There is nothing to relieve boredom. A blind man lives alone in such a big house. If he were himself, he would have been driven mad.

He Xinying walked to the table. Last time, she just saw Xu Zhiheng digging through the boxes and cabinets here, not knowing what to look for, she pulled out the wooden drawer, and as expected, it was empty inside, and she wanted to come. Take it away.

She didn’t realize that she had already put Xu Zhiheng in an opposing position without knowing it. She could not rely on and trust this gentle and considerate husband as much as before, and replaced it with defensiveness and suspicion. Even the gentle and gentleness of the past is now hypocritical in He Xinying’s eyes.

He Xinying walked around the room, checked all the wooden drawers and shelves, and found nothing and saw nothing useful. After being out for too long, it was too cold outside, and the wind went straight to her knees. She rubbed her numb legs, looked at the relatively clean bed, and sat on the side of the bed.

In the room, only the oil lamp in his hand was shining slightly, sitting here, it was a little weird inexplicably. When she was quiet, He Xinying regretted a little, and she was so good, what to do here. There is no one here. It is said that the souls of the dead will linger in the place where they used to live before. If the eldest sister is here… Although they are blood relatives, they are not very close before. Moreover, if you really want to see a ghost at night, it can be scared. dead person’s.

He Xinying couldn’t help holding the bedpost tightly, which was a habit she had cultivated when she was young. She was timid when she was young and always slept with her mother. When she was a little older, she couldn’t sleep with her mother. With her own yard, He Xinying was still very scared when she lived alone. When I was most scared, I leaned against the inside of the bed at night, tightly held the bedpost on the side against the wall, and whispered to the Bodhisattva for blessing.

The same is true today.

However, when her fingers slid down the bedpost, she suddenly felt that something was wrong. He Xinying was taken aback, and then stretched out her hand to stroke the place below and noticed something. She climbed onto the head of the bed and looked in with the oil lamp. Suddenly, she noticed that on the side of the bedpost against the wall, a piece of wood was slightly raised.

The girl was attentive and pressed her fingers outwards, and the wooden board fell off, revealing a roll of yellow paper that seemed to be written on it. Her heart beats so fast, she only understands that since this thing is hidden here, it must be very important. It’s impossible to say that Xu Zhiheng was looking for this thing before.

There is no telling when someone will come here, He Xinying used force, pulled a book-like thing from the bedpost that was deliberately hollowed out, she hurriedly hid the book in her arms, and hurriedly After buckling the wood of the bedpost, he carefully left with the oil lamp.

It was surprisingly quiet everywhere, and He Xinying sneaked back to her house all the way, before daring to take the scroll of the talented book out of her arms. She looked through the faint light of the oil lamp, and it was indeed a book. She was stunned after a few pages of annoyance. This is a… military book?

上头记载着各种兵法，一边还有看书人自己写的手记看法。看这字迹，绝不是许之恒的，许家上下并无人从武，况且藏得如此隐秘，又是在禾晏的屋子里，怎么看，这兵书都是自己那位早亡的长姐留下来的。

可是……禾晏怎么会看兵书呢？

换做是她的堂兄禾如非还差不多，可禾如非的兵书，又没有出现在许家，还藏得这样小心翼翼的道理。

禾心影捏着这本兵书，心里怎么都想不明白究竟是怎么一回事。这时候，外头突然又有人的声音响起，禾心影心中一惊，赶紧吹灭油灯，将书卷藏在桌下最下层的匣子里，三两步走到塌上躺好。才刚刚躺下，外头就有丫鬟来敲门：“大奶奶？大奶奶？”

“什么事？”禾心影佯作困倦的回答。

外头沉默了一阵子，有人道：“院子里进贼了，大爷叫我们来问大奶奶一声。”

“进贼了？”禾心影有些紧张，却还要装作惊讶的样子，披着外裳给丫鬟开门，疑惑地问：“府里怎么会进贼？”

“不知道。”那丫鬟见禾心影果真好端端的待在屋里，似是松了口气，道：“大爷现在正审着那小贼呢。”

“我去看看。”禾心影道。她关好了门，随着丫鬟一同往正厅里走去。

正厅里，许之恒坐在中间的椅子上，周围站着一众婆子小厮，地上跪着个小厮打扮的人，正不住的朝许之恒磕头：“大爷饶命，大爷饶命，小的真的什么都没拿，什么都没拿啊！”

许之恒脸色沉得要滴出水来，死死盯着他道：“少废话，将你从大奶奶床柱里偷的东西交出来，否则，今日你就死在这里吧！”

他说这话的时候，眼神阴戾凶狠，与从前温柔和气的模样判若两人，禾心影惊了一惊，又听闻“床柱”二字，更是紧张极了。她勉强挤出一个笑容，走到许之恒身边：“夫君，这是出了何事？”

见到禾心影，许之恒神情稍缓，指着地上的人道：“此人夜里鬼鬼祟祟潜入阿禾生前的院子，又从床柱里偷走了阿禾的旧物，可恶至极！”

福旺——地上的小厮忙辩解道：“大爷，真的不是小的，小的找到那床柱的时候，里面就已经空了，小的真的没有拿里面的东西！”

Fuwang also complained constantly in his heart. Today, he was just taking advantage of the night when there was no one. It was a good time to sneak into the previous big tits house to find the old things for the mysterious man. As a result, he turned around in the room and found that one place was different from the others, that is, by the bedpost of the back room. He thought that there would be some secret inside, but when he opened it, it was empty. Before he had time to regret, he was caught in front of Xu Zhiheng at some point when the outsiders were disturbed.

“Uncle, it’s really not the little one. If you don’t believe it…you search for the little one, search for the little one’s place…the little one is wronged!”

He Xinying watched the little servant kowtowing her head and begged for mercy, and she couldn’t help being frightened. This little servant seemed to be her replacement for the dead. However, if it’s just ordinary property, with Xu Zhiheng’s temperament, he doesn’t need to be so harsh. It’s a big deal to throw a board out of the house. No matter how you look at it right now, it seems like you want to die. Does Xu Zhiheng know what is inside the bedpost? But that was just an unusually ordinary military book!

He Xinying didn’t quite understand.

“I think you are full of lies and not a word of truth. In that case, you can’t ask why you stay here, so you will be handed over to the government.” Xu Zhiheng said coldly.

As soon as these words came out, Fu Wang changed his color. Since ancient times, the subordinates handed over by the master to the government are mostly dead words, and death is particularly torturing. He was just a little greedy for money, but he didn’t think about taking his own life. Besides, he was so wronged. You have to know that he didn’t get anything. In that case, it is of course the most important thing to save your life first. Fuwang begged: “I beg the uncle not to hand over the small one to the government. In fact, the small one is entrusted by others to steal things. The young one tells the uncle what he knows. Life?”

“Entrusted by others?” Xu Zhiheng looked at him.

“It’s exactly,” Fuwang banged his head, “I just borrowed the little one’s a hundred courage, the little one would not dare to steal from the house!”

Xu Zhiheng stared at Fuwang, as if trying to tell whether what Fuwang said was true or false. After a while, he said to the people around him: “You all go out, I have something to ask the thief.”

He Xinying glanced at the young man on the ground, “Husband, I…”

“You go out too.” Xu Zhiheng’s attitude was very firm.

He Xinying didn’t say anything, she backed out, and when the door was closed, she looked in the direction of the house. At some point, the palm of her hand was soaked with sweat.

That book of war…what the hell is going on?

In the room, Xu Zhiheng asked, “After all, who asked you to come to Xu’s house to steal something?”

“Yes… it’s General He.”

“Dare you lie to me?” Xu Zhiheng was furious.

Fuwang was so scared that he immediately knelt down again, “The little one dare not deceive the uncle. The people who met with the little one say that their master is General He!”

Xu Zhiheng clenched his hand into a fist, suppressing his emotions and said, “Why does He Rufei want you to come over and steal something?”

“The little one doesn’t know,” Fuwang wiped the sweat from his forehead. “They gave him a sum of money, and the little one is also a fascination for a while. I thought about it, just to steal something, to inquire about someone, but it’s not. I promised to do anything that hurts the world and reason.”

“Inquire about people?” Xu Zhiheng narrowed his eyes. “What on earth do they want you to do?”

Fuwang only hopes to be able to go out with life, and ignores other things, so he simply tells everything he knows, “They want the younger to find some old things from the grandma’s life, as well as people related to the grandma’s life. The younger enters the house. At the time, the grandma had passed away, and she really couldn’t find anyone, she just thought that maybe she could steal something.” He was also cunning, saying that he was caught before he could do anything for the other party, without mentioning the previous mother Qin. Regarding mother, “Sneak into the big grandma’s house tonight, and I was found before I found anything. But uncle, the thing in the bedpost was really not taken away by the small one. When the small one found the bedpost, it was already empty. That’s it!”

This is not false, but Xu Zhiheng still doubts him.

“I beg my grandfather to spare my little one’s life, and I will never dare to be a little one again!” he begged.

The uncle Xu, who has always been soft-hearted and talkative, did not answer today, but Fuwang boldly raised his head and glanced up. Under the light and shadow of the lights, the man’s face was half bright and half dark, half as true as ordinary people. The other half is like a hideous evil spirit, twisted and chilling in the bottom of my heart.

I don’t know how long it took, just when Fuwang felt that he was about to lose his life, the person above spoke. Xu Zhiheng said: “Since you said that General He entrusted you to do the work, the Lord will save you. But…” His voice sank, “The next time they meet you again, you have to tell them that they didn’t notice. And I can’t tell you what I found out about you.”

Is this asking him to lie to the people at He Rufei? The doubts in Fuwang’s heart flashed, and he lowered his head quickly, and said with gratitude: “Thank you, uncle! The younger one must do a good job for the uncle!”

Xu Zhiheng looked at the little servant who knelt down at his feet and did not speak.

He Rufei actually sent someone to investigate He Yan’s old objects secretly. What did he do? Do you want to catch a handle to threaten yourself?

Yes, there was a big fire in Xianchang Pavilion a few days ago. It happened that what happened to be burnt down was the handwritten notes of “He Rufei”. As soon as the news reached the Xu family, Xu Zhiheng guessed that it must be He Rufei. for. It seems that for the appearance of the cousin with the same name and surname, He Rufei is not as calm as it seems on the surface.

The He family has too many handles, the second wife He, He Rufei himself, and He Yuan Sheng He Yuanliang brothers. In comparison, the Xu family has too few handles. Even when He Yan died, he was not the one who did it. Xu Zhiheng can completely retreat if the Dongchuang incident is really going to happen.

Perhaps this is what makes He Rufei feel uneasy, so he will do everything possible to seize He Yan’s handle in the Xu family. In this way, as long as you can prove that you also know that He Yan and He Rufei have exchanged identities, one day The truth came out, and the Xu family couldn’t run away either.

He Rufei was scared, so the more at this time, the more he had to pull the Xu family into the water.

Xu Zhiheng’s face was deep.

Even though he knew this from the beginning, he also understood that the He family and the Xu family were already on the same boat. But when this happens under my nose, I still feel unhappy. When there was nothing wrong in the past, I naturally hope that you will be good and I will share Ronghua together, but if something happens… He Rufei’s approach is really not moral enough.

Since He Ru is not so excessive, then he doesn’t need to talk about feelings. Speaking of it, just as Fuwang wandered around in He Yan’s house but found nothing, it really happened. As long as there is no evidence, Xu Zhiheng can still protect himself clearly.

…

At night, He Yan could not fall asleep over and over again.

She knew that He Rufei was not General Feihong, and there were many loopholes, but everyone in the world must pay attention to evidence. It is impossible to let the truth come to light with a word of yourself. And the truth sounds so incredible.

In the Fuyue Army, there is no living evidence for the time being. Mother Qin wasn’t enough alone, and if she wanted to grasp He Rufei’s handle, she had to start with the Huayuan First Battle. During the War of Huayuan, He Rufei and the Utuo must have an ulterior relationship.

He Rufei is cautious, and if he wants to find evidence of He Rufei’s collaborating with the enemy and treason, he may only have to go to He Mansion.

Hefu…

He Yan sat up from the collapse, leaned on the head of the bed, looked at the curtain, his thoughts gradually drifted away.

In fact, she was not afraid to step into the He family again. In that “He family”, she was fed up with the use and cold-heartedness, and she would not have any old feelings again when she returned to the house.

However, when she thought of seeing Madam He again, she didn’t know how to face it.