Record of ups and downs in troubled times

"The master sent a servant to ask you, does the master know about Su's boy being exiled to the north by the emperor?"

Cheng Nan was noncommittal, playing with the white jade teacup in his hand nonchalantly, as if he was concentrating on the intricate and winding patterns around the teacup, and did not listen to Wang Quan's words at all.

"Besides, the master ordered the servant to bring you a message - did the master acquiesce in the fact that Su's boy stayed in the imperial capital?"

"What? So what if I allowed it?"

Cheng Nan seemed too lazy to listen any longer, so he threw out the teacup in his hand suddenly, folded his arms and leaned back, and said with a sneer: "Interesting. With a wave of the emperor's vermilion pen, even you and I will get out of Beijing." There is no room for him to go; this incident happened because of me, and the exile of that boy surnamed Su is also giving the old man enough face? And what kind of hair on his old man was plucked back, just to trouble me?"

Wang Quan didn't answer, but just lowered his old eyes, staring at the white jade teacup that he was playing with carefully one second before being thrown on the table, but was thrown out at will the next moment.The teacup was poured on the table, and it was spinning slowly, making a blunt rubbing sound, and gradually stopped.

"My lord, you should understand a truth. If you cut the grass and don't get rid of the roots, there will be endless troubles." Wang Quan clasped his hands and shoulders, and described it as extremely respectful, but his words were full of caution. "Su Gu is insidious and cunning, and he is a friend without kindness. His son must be like him. If he goes to the frontier now, it is unknown if he makes a comeback."

"Insidious and cunning?" Cheng Nan became more and more angry, stood up abruptly, and yelled angrily: "He thinks I don't know or something?! I respect him as my father, so can I allow him to confuse right and wrong?! Wang Quan! Look at me This white skin! Take a closer look at me! If you have the face, tell me who gave you this rotten skin!"

Cheng Nan quickly rolled up her sleeves, revealing her wrists which were paler than the skin on her hands and face.

Gray and even blue, like the skin of a dead person.

Wang Quan bowed his head: "Miss Linlang is seriously ill. To prevent others from being affected, the government ordered the body to be cremated. The master never intervened in this case. You have wrongly blamed him for many years. You really wronged the old master."

"I wronged him? He is such a great official. Even if he ordered the government's head beheaded, who would dare to say a word? Even if he burns me to death, it's no big deal. He is old and strong, and he doesn't have many sons! But Lin Lang, she is still alive! You burned her alive!"

When the word "Lin Lang" was mentioned, Cheng Nan's eyes turned red.The usual composure was swept away, and he wished he could run up to grab Wang Quan's collar and question him thoroughly.

"You have read the documents of the government office back then - there are precedents for the dead who were burned by the fire, and the joints moved suddenly and sat up suddenly, and they did not come back from the dead. Besides, master, you rushed into the fire rashly back then, and there were ten burns all over your body. Eighty-nine, if the old master didn't love you..."

"If I'm burned half to death and put on this dead human skin, why not give me a stick and a handful of sweet dates?" Cheng Nan said angrily, "He's a good stratagem! But let me be my father's fighter for him with all my heart! "

Seeing his reaction, Wang Quan knew that today's talk would be impossible, and he regretted talking about Lin Lang in his heart.Here is Cheng Nan Nilin. Usually, if you have some memories, you should remember to avoid this route. I didn't expect that today I was really angry for the old master and brought out the old things.

How can you not be angry?

All the Cheng family's children are going to become dragons and phoenixes, so how do you say they are worried about a dead woman?Throughout the ages, how can anyone who has achieved great things be trapped by love?

Wang Quan felt that Cheng Nan didn't live up to it, and when he thought about Cheng Nan's son Cheng Xiao, who was cowardly, he felt that the Cheng family had no hope, and that the old master was about to give up.

As the saying goes, there is no overnight enmity between father and son, but the enmity between the Cheng family's two pairs of father and son cannot be solved overnight.Wang Quan testified that the old master was indeed extremely dissatisfied with the girl named Lin Lang. After all, she was a musician at best, but at worst, how was she different from a prostitute in a brothel?But no matter how dissatisfied with this girl, he still wouldn't have to kill a weak woman.

For a dignified prime minister, there is room for a handful of sand in his eyes.

According to the old master's arrangement, he wanted to let the couple hang out first, and wait to hone his son's spirit, so as to teach him a lesson.He had planned to finish the lesson, and this matter would naturally be over, but he didn't expect that less than two months after his son married Lin Lang, Lin Lang fell ill, his mind became unclear, and his words and deeds became blurred when he met everyone. Get crazy.

At that time, there was a saying in the capital that "if you don't come to Pianranfang to listen to the music, it will be futile to search all over the capital", which shows its high status.Since it is such an elegant place, of course it is also highly praised by many dignitaries, and it became famous for a while. There are even rumors that if you have heard the music of Pianranfang, you are a court musician, and it is just a mere saying...

Those who enter this band are not mediocre, so Lin Lang, who is ranked sixth among musicians, is naturally a beautiful woman who is good at singing and dancing. It is a pity that such a wonderful person suffers from madness.

This girl married into the Prime Minister's Mansion and became a madman. She was supposed to be properly locked up in the Prime Minister's Mansion to recuperate, but somehow she ran out, let alone fell from the Pianran Square. Xiaoyu died.

The old things in the past can no longer be explained clearly.But just talking about the falling from the building, Su Gu, the big brother of Pianranfang, was on the scene at the time, so he must be inseparable from it.

Brothers and sisters who grew up in childhood often develop various feelings subtly over time, and Lin Lang and Su Gu are exactly like this.Wang Quan stayed out of the matter, he actually didn't know the details, but Cheng Nan himself had a deep love for Lin Lang, and he knew the relationship between the two of them.

He knew very well in his heart that Lin Lang married him because he was angry with Su Gu for marrying his wife.

Because of this, he hated Su Gu so much.He didn't hate that Linlang fell in love with Su Gu instead of himself, what he hated was that Su Gu fell in love with Ling Qing'er, a wild woman from the Fan tribe who spoke rudely, but broke Linlang's heart.

Afterwards, the government investigated the incident of falling from Pianran Square, and concluded that Lin Lang was infected with a kind of Gu insect that belongs to the Western Regions. This Gu insect can cause confusion and death. .However, insects do not die when people die. After the host dies, it will give birth to fleshy wings and parasitize into the next human body, which is extremely terrifying.The government couldn't find a master who could take care of this Gu worm for a while, so they had no choice but to burn Lin Lang's body clean first.

At that time, Cheng Nan was sent out of the capital by the official order, and immediately rushed back after receiving the news, only to see that the small house that the two bought outside the mansion in the past was about to be burned. There was a flame.Cheng Nan almost collapsed, looking at Lin Lang in the raging fire, maybe it was real, or maybe it was imagined in his grief, he seemed to see the figure in the raging fire raised his arm, and even tried to sit up .

Lin Lang is not dead!Perhaps it is waiting for him to come to rescue!

With a desperate struggle, Cheng Nan broke free from the hands of the young Xiangfu, and threw himself into the fire.When everyone hurriedly pulled him out, his whole body had been burned countless times, his arms, legs, feet and face were burnt beyond recognition, and even his breathing was terribly weak.

But even so, he still stubbornly pulled Lin Lang's body in the fire, dragging out half of the charred body.

Cheng Nan is persistent and strong by nature, and never learns to give up this kind of thing.If it is really forced by fate, and he really can't get it, he would rather burn the jade and stone together; if it is impossible to burn the jade and stone together, he has to blame others, otherwise how can he live alone?

The object of venting his anger is his father who has always opposed him messing around with the "prostitute", as well as Su Gu who "transfers love".

Su Gu is known as "Pianran's most beautiful Mr. Su". Needless to say, he is unparalleled in appearance, he is also proficient in music theory, knowledgeable, righteous, and from top to bottom, even if he is as picky as Cheng Nan, he can't find anything wrong with him.When he heard his name for the first time, Cheng Nan only thought that he was a fancy embroidered pillow, but by chance, he discovered that this person was not a bag of grass, so he gave birth to a heart of friendship and became a close friend.

In this way, he knew Su Gu much earlier than he knew Lin Lang.One is a rare close friend, and the other is a beloved person. Perhaps this is the reason why he followed Su Gu for decades, and finally killed Su Gu, but let go of Su Gu's son and daughter.

He hated Su Gu, but in his heart he was reluctant to kill all his former best friends.

After ten years of hard work in the court, after finally destroying the Moon Mountain of the remaining Northern Fan tribe, Cheng Nan sent troops across the border of the court to transport the remaining armaments. Unexpectedly, at this time, Su Gu and his son and daughter were caught by accident.What was thought to be hopeless suddenly had a clue, Cheng Nan was overjoyed, and ordered his subordinates to take the three of them to the suburbs of Beijing overnight, ready to question them face to face.

Although he believed that Su Gu refused Lin Lang's overtures that day and forced Lin Lang to fall to his death, but he still had doubts in his heart.For example, Lin Lang was imprisoned in the mansion for a long time because of madness, how did she escape that day; Lin Lang clearly gave up on Su Gu for marrying a wife, and she didn't even mention this person for several months, so why did she escape on that day? How about going straight to Pianran Square?

And the most important point, did Lin Lang die because of falling from a building... or because of the fire?The Gu worm on Lin Lang's body came from Mrs. Su Ling Qing'er?

Cheng Nan had to listen to Su Gu tell him these things.

However, Su Gu's beloved wife, Ling Qing'er, was from the Moon Mountain in the north. After the Moon Mountain tribe was exterminated, in order to prevent suffering from the annihilation of the tribe, he took his children south to the border of the North Korea alone.He had witnessed how his beloved wife and the whole family died under the iron hoof of the court, and he thought of his eldest son who died of illness, so he never wanted to send this pair of sons and daughters to the tiger's mouth.Therefore, as a matter of course, he took his children and managed to escape Cheng Nan's control.

This man was quite courageous. After escaping from birth, he did not choose to return to the wild and chaotic pass, but instead turned around and sneaked back to the capital.There is a head musician surnamed Qin in the capital palace. Su Gu knew that it would be difficult for him to get rid of Cheng Nan's eyeliner during his trip, so he made a plan to entrust his children to others, and then make a clear and clear settlement with Cheng Nan. Clear grievances.

The two have the same purpose, they both want to settle things with each other.However, what Cheng Nan said was to know the truth, but what Su Gu wanted to do was to not justify everything.

Su Gu didn't find a reason to excuse himself, he stuck his neck, and unexpectedly angered Cheng Nan, drew his sword and stabbed him to death.At that time, only the daughter Su Yun who was held in the arms of Teacher Qin Yue was still present at the scene. His son Su Jun, who was even more shrewd than his father, slipped out without paying attention and lived in the suburbs.

It was also around this time that this good-looking child was spotted by the people in the Changchun Pavilion, and he was taken into the pavilion and became a servant.

If the grass is cut and the roots are not eradicated, will there be endless troubles?

Cheng Nan thought of Su Yun and Su Jun who had been let go with a wave of his hand, and sneered in his heart: I am also naked and have nothing to worry about, but I want to see what troubles you have and how many troubles you can make.

If he can't be beaten, he will die, Cheng Nan, what else is there to be afraid of?