beg for chivalry

Jiading recently settled a wealthy family, who is said to be from Yuyang in the north.

The new master seems to have spent quite a lot of money, he bought a few horses of pirate lilies from outside the pass after spending some money from the government, and hired some servants to demolish all the old houses in the front hall and back bedroom of Ningyuan Hou's mansion. Lime sawdust piled up all over the yard.The wealthy family built a courtyard in another wide alley nearby, with blue tiles and white walls, and small windows and vermilion windows. A row of wax gourd trees were planted along the wall, lush and green.

But now the man was tied with a hemp rope to the top of the wax gourd tree, his hands were cut behind his back, and he swayed unsteadily.

It was a disheveled little servant, dressed in a cotton jacket with white crepe ribbons for his hair, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen from beatings.Standing under the tree was a young man in brocade clothes holding a rattan whip, with a pair of green hanging eyes fierce and vicious, looking up at the little servant who was hung up.

Jin Wu tapped his shoulder with the handle of the whip, and asked coldly: "Do you still dare to steal?"

Wang Xiaoyuan was hanged uncomfortably, his arms were tied tightly, and he was numbly congested with blood.There were also a few swollen bumps on his face, which were knocked out when Jinwu chased him and beat him. He also fought with this master and scratched Jinwu's head and face. Now they both look like cats. face.He retracted his neck in timidity, but still murmured stubbornly: "...I didn't steal it."

This Jinwu is his master.Wang Xiaoyuan couldn't remember the past, only vaguely knew that he was a domestic servant of the Jin Mansion, and was born to be ordered.And this young master Jin, who is not working hard, seems to have been his enemy since the first time they met, scolding him all day long, and doing some rough chores.

Jin Wu sneered, "If I say you steal, you steal. Don't I understand your sneaky nature? What are you talking about? Then tell me, the dozen winter bamboo shoots and pig cakes in the oil-paper bag in your room came from Where did it come from?"

"Buy...I bought it." Wang Xiaoyuan said stiffly, arguing with a rare blushing face, "Ask Aunt Sun in the shop, I really bought it with money!"

Jin Wu's face immediately changed, triumphant as if he had caught something: "Oh, then where did your money come from?"

Wang Xiaoyuan's face turned blue immediately, and he pursed his lips tightly.

Sure enough, he got a good beating from Young Master Jin.The wicked master lowered the hemp rope a bit, and whipped his buttocks with a cane whip. Wang Xiaoyuan wriggled and dodged like a fish about to turn white, but he was still whipped more than ten times, and his butt was burning. , swelled up a strip of bulge.After the beating, he was not allowed to rest, and was immediately pushed by Jinwu to go to the East Kitchen to watch the fire for the Shazhuzi, add firewood to the hearth, and passed the day with busy work.

After the noon card, Wang Xiaoyuan heated some rice water to wipe off the fire ash on his face, and tiptoed out of the gate of the Jin Mansion.The wound on his buttocks was still hot, he twisted his head and looked into the street.The winter solstice is just over, the sky is pale and gloomy, the bluestone bricks are covered with thin snow, and the red paper lanterns flicker dimly.There are a group of children laughing and joking, and some of them are holding small bamboo flying cars, with two thin bamboo leaves inserted between the thin bamboo poles. fly.

A prickly cold wind blows from the deep streets and alleys, and the bamboo poles are lifted up.Wang Xiaoyuan's gaze followed this group of brisk speeding cars to the sky. They took off in the wind, and suddenly passed over the gray tile roof. in the sky.The winter night came quickly, thousands of households closed their lacquered doors tightly, and the white bayberry trees along the street were bare of branches, leaving nothing but lifelessness.He felt that this place was a prison, and he hated that he couldn't grow wings on both sides and fly away with the wind.

The children saw him, and ran over on the reed bumps, their cheeks flushed from the cold, and they raised their faces and called him happily: "Hey, Xiao Yuan, you have a lot of fun. Let's steal a porcelain plate. Whose is it?" Tuo Luo spins for a long time!"

Wang Xiaoyuan lowered his head shyly, and murmured: "No, no need."

Strange to say, he is many years older than these children, but there is no barrier when they play together.Sometimes it is the children who seem mature and know the troubles in this world at a young age, and sometimes they are naive, their mind and heart are as plain as paper.Wang Xiaoyuan has forgotten the past, living under the hedge of others is timid and aggrieved, as if he is free only when playing with children.

The children stuck out their tongues at him and ran to grab his hand.Wang Xiaoyuan saw some rough calluses on his palms, maybe they were rubbed out during work, but he didn't remember them at all. "Let's go, what are you afraid of? Your family's living king, Young Master Jin, is probably still drowsy and drooling. He never gets up early and has long dreams in the afternoon. Every time we throw stones into the yard, we won't be noticed. Reasonable What is he doing!"

"But...but he wants me to stay in the courtyard. If he finds out, I will starve and be beaten..."

"There is brown sugar glutinous rice cake on our mother's food stand, I warmed it up and brought it to you! Why are you hesitating, my grandpa spanked my ass until it was swollen like a monkey's head, what is Young Master Jin?"

They struggled stubbornly, and Wang Xiaoyuan was dragged a few steps. The howling cold wind blew snowflakes across his face, and he stepped on the bluestone bricks covered with thin snow.But at this moment, a hoarse and cold voice suddenly came from behind:

"Come back, Wang Xiaoyuan."

At some point, the lacquered wooden door opened a crack.Jin Wu was leaning against the door railing, wearing a soap-colored cloak with a sable collar, but underneath was a thin silk shirt that was loosely worn.Under the messy hair, there are gloomy eyes, and a gloomy face like a cloud, as if someone has just been dragged out of the bed.

Jinwu's eyes were cold, colder than the cold wind blowing in the streets.His dark green eyes stared at Wang Xiaoyuan's neck so much that his whole body became hairy, and he felt that those eyes were like will-o'-the-wisps flickering on the grave.

He was born with an unreasonable and fierce appearance. When the children saw Wang Xiaoyuan's arm, they immediately threw Wang Xiaoyuan's arm to death. They were frightened like birds and beasts, and shouted:

"The ghost is coming! The cannibal Young Master Jin is coming!"

"Xiao Yuan, you know yourself well, let's see you next time! If you can survive in the woodshed today, we will be friends with you!"

The voice of speech was gradually lost in the cold wind, and the chubby little dots wrapped in coarse linen cotton robes disappeared at the end of the street one by one, and in a blink of an eye there was only a street covered in reeds and snow.

After the children dispersed, Wang Xiaoyuan was suddenly grabbed tightly by the collar.Jinwu dragged him involuntarily and walked into the courtyard.While he was being dragged, his heart was pounding like a drum.

Wang Xiaoyuan raised his neck tremblingly, and saw his master's indifferent and stern side face, and suddenly felt a subtle sense of strangeness.He knew that half of the Mughal blood flowed from his young master's body, so his skin was fairer than that of the Han people in the Central Plains, but now he seemed to be too pale.Jinwu's forehead was wrapped with a silk cloth, which seemed to be scratched by him when he was messing around this morning, Wang Xiaoyuan stared at the silk cloth, unconsciously stunned.

At this time, Jin Wu turned his face slightly to look at him, and said fiercely: "Throw you into the woodshed tonight, don't even think about touching a grain of rice."

"Why didn't you let me go out?" Wang Xiaoyuan asked boldly and anxiously, his eyes were red from the cold, his eye disease was still not healed, and he always wanted to shed tears when the wind was blowing.In fact, he felt wronged and sad at this time, and wanted to squeeze out a few tears. "Did I do something wrong? I see that Mrs. Sun has raised a lot of free-range chickens. They have been stuffed in the cage for a long time, and the raw meat is not tight. It should be the same with people. Sickness. Master, I will be sick."

Jin Wu coughed a few times, finally willing to turn Jin Gui's face to look at him, and said contemptuously with a half-smile. "Who are you, you dare to say these things to me with a servant born in a dog's family? I think you are itchy, and you want me to use a broom to grind your buttocks."

This man never turned his eyes straight, and his words became more and more bitter.Immediately, Wang Xiaoyuan felt sore in his heart trembling.After being dragged to the courtyard, Young Master Jin threw him to Aunt Mu who was also vicious.The big and three-faced old woman scolded him all over the face, then roughly pushed him into the firewood room, and put the lock on with a snap.Sad and impatient, Wang Xiaoyuan turned over and got up and looked out through the hole in the wooden door, only to see light snow like white antler flowers falling from the sky, falling into the courtyard one after another.

He caught a glimpse of Jinwu's back wrapped in a cloak with a sable collar, limping slowly among the broken Qiong jade, the thick shadows from the eaves engulfed the figure like ink, and it seemed a little lonely.

The courtyard was quiet, only the fine snowdrops fell on the footprints of different shades.

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Jin Wu walked into the study, and a warm current rushed to his face instantly, relieving most of the chills on his body.

He blinked, only to see that collen incense had been lit in the brass incense burner, and green smoke curled up behind the screen fan.What hangs on the wall is not a painting of landscapes and flowers, but a picture of Fuxi's solar phenomenon, with a three-legged crow flying between the sun discs, shining golden light.There is a large red sandalwood case under the painting, there is no shortage of paper and pen scrolls, and there are also objects such as palm beads on the screen.

There was a girl sitting on an armrest brocade chair, with black hair in a peach heart bun, and a lotus lotus skirt playfully exposed under the tightly wrapped Yunxia Xiujin white coat, and she was holding a hand stove and looking at him with a smile.

"Master, Fifth Brother, I'm here to play with you." Zuo Sanniang stepped on her foot, smiling like a flower.She looked around, as if she was very curious about the house, with a little innocence in her expression, "Is this your house? It's more beautiful than when we lived in Haijin, resplendent and resplendent. You really are the young master of a rich family!"

It was beyond his expectation that Zuo Sanniang would be here.Jinwu stood silently for a moment, and in an instant he stretched his hand behind his waist, almost pulling out the dagger, and after a while, he regained his indifferent appearance in Houtianlou, and said to her indifferently:

"…Where did you come from?"

After saving Zuo Sanniang in front of Yan Jiubian and going to Changyue Palace, he spent more time with Yu Qiuxia, leaving Zuo Sanniang in Kibe's care.He knew that as long as Zuo Buzheng looked at him tenderly, Sanniang would not be harmed by her.Now this little girl is pretty good everywhere, she doesn't look like she was abused by that woman, now she is poking her head curiously, fumbling here and there to look at the objects in his study.

Sanniang smiled and said: "Guess? Forget it, I can't guess it even if I give you a brain. I haven't told you before, I am from the Mu family, Wanyi Gu Mu's family, so I remember many medical prescriptions The old concierge in your family, the one you call Aunt Mu is my grandma."

After Jin Wu left, she wanted to escape from Houtianlou every day.Yan Jiubian stared at her covetously, and Zuo Buzheng's sternness made her uneasy. She wanted to run away again and again, but she was always caught and imprisoned in the Guanyin Pavilion.Sanniang was locked up in the dark for several months, there was only one small window that was opened extremely high in the pavilion, and the rest of the room was dark and cold.Outside the window fluttered the mummy that was nailed to Guanyin's eyes by Zuo Buzheng. Mosquitoes and flies were flying around, terrifying and dead.Until one day, with disheveled hair and dirty face, she cried like crazy with Mu Shiyi who came to deliver food.To her surprise, Mu Shiyi, who was as rigid as a puppet, opened the door of the pavilion silently without saying a word, helped her onto a mule cart, and drove her away from Tongle Temple.

Zuo Sanniang was never harassed by the Houtianlou assassins along the way, maybe Mu Shishi blocked her a lot.She walked south according to her incomplete memory, took a cargo ship from Haijin, got mixed up in a merchant convoy, and returned all the way back to Shuzhong.Aunt Mu had been serving the Golden Crow for many years in order to find the long-lost San'er, and she had been trying her best to find the whereabouts of the Golden Crow.

Hearing her words, Jin Wu trembled imperceptibly, his face was still indifferent, and he said sarcastically, "Well, the old one is like a wolf like a tiger, and the young one has a heart like a snake and a scorpion, it seems that he came from the same family. of."

Zuo Sanniang jumped down from the brocade chair and grabbed him, but her face was full of smiles: "I escaped from the building. Fifth brother, I don't have a place to stay, or just as we said before, if you do A wealthy and happy young master, give me food and clothing, and I will be your maid!"

She thought that Jin Wu would refuse straight away, but when she didn't want to, she saw him nodding bluntly. "become."

"Really?" San Niang asked in a daze.

Jin Wu nodded, "You are from the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines, so you are better than a barefoot doctor running all over the street. Besides... I also have something to ask you." When he said this, his eyes dodged slightly, and his eyes couldn't help but look at the closed fan. It floated outside, and fell on the door of the firewood house on the side of the courtyard through the long white snow.

Sanniang stared at him in a daze, and murmured: "Fifth brother, you have changed. You are no longer a dumb person, and what you say is actually somewhat human... That's right!" She shuddered suddenly and grabbed him by the shoulders Shaking his arms vigorously, he asked aggressively, "Where is that Yu, where is he? What did you two do during this time? You didn't do anything to him, and he didn't do anything to you either." feet?"

After a series of questions, Jin Wu's heart became more empty, and his eyes wandered more and more fiercely.What should he say to San Niang?One of him and Yu Qiuxia abandoned the Houtian Tower, and the other left the Tianshan Gate, and the two of them wandered together for a while without doing anything?What's more, during this period of time, the two of them often fought and quarreled, even sleeping together on the same bed with only their clothes on.When Sanniang saw her, her face turned red instantly, and she looked like she was about to cry.

She yelled, "...I'm going to kill that little pervert who received a thousand knives!"

Jinwu held down Sanniang, who was angry and about to rush out, and said vaguely: "...No, no. We just wandered around and didn't do anything."

He pulled a chair and sat down, resting his arms on the armrest, and turned his head to look at the falling snow.The snow in Jiading is fine and delicate, like piles of silver and jade, unlike the chilling Tianshan Mountains, Jinwu seems to have seen the scene under the Tianshan Mountains that day in a trance.He and Yu Qiuxia parted ways in front of the stone steps, but instead of leaving, he walked around to the Taiyi River and climbed up the rocks.It was too cold in Tianshan Mountain, and he was extremely afraid of the cold, so he tried his best to reach the gate of the mountain, killed the Houtianlou assassins who were guarding him, and lied that the Northern Sect came to rescue him.But it was too late when he went to Tianshan Cliff, and he found Yu Qiuxia, who was dying at the bottom of the valley, his body was broken and his white robe was stained with blood.Yu Qiuxia made the third knife, and then lost his memory.

When the two of them were changing the Moon Palace earlier, Yu Qiuxia had already made a third strike in order to escape from the tomb with him.Later Jinwu found out through testing that at that time he had already forgotten the fact that the two met in Haijin.Now this time I forgot it more thoroughly, cleanly, without leaving any traces.

Zuo Sanniang stared at him anxiously.In the candlelight, the face with sharp lines seems to be dimly softened, and the eyes of golden black and green are reflecting the whirling and dancing white snow, like a emerald pool where the ice is fading away.She saw a kind of confusion in this frosty Rakshasa ghost. The Golden Crow stared blankly at the thin door, as if some complicated and entangled feelings were brewing in her heart. blink.

She finally mustered up the courage to speak nervously. "Fifth brother, what are you asking for me... What is it?"

Jinwu was coughing, maybe he had caught a cold.But Sanniang was shocked when he put down the plain silk kerchief covering her mouth, she clearly saw some bright red spots on the silk kerchief, which was the color of blood.

Sanniang's face turned pale immediately, Jinwu took a look at her, and with some difficulty pushed back the arrow sleeves under the blouse, revealing her pale arms.In addition to the scars, there are tiny needle holes on the wrist.Sanniang knew what it was. There was once a Yunyou sect called Hexingmen, who passed on a set of prescriptions to a few disciples and doctors, using acupuncture in exchange for poisonous blood all over the body, and switching the inner qi.Some aristocratic family manors will raise medicine people who are not necessarily bright, and the Harts passers-by are the best medicine jars.Although they don't live long, they are used by others because the poison is hard to work.In order to protect their heirs and prevent accidents, the aristocratic family will introduce the intractable poison from the members of the family to the passers-by in Harz, so as to escape the pain of the poison.

Jin Wu lowered his eyes, and said: "I have changed one aspect and one taste...to me."

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