Denghuaxiao

Chapter 253 Extra 2: (Feng Shu) Fallen leaves chase the breeze (Part 1)

 The golden breeze is thin, and the leaves of the sycamore trees are falling.

As soon as autumn arrived in Shengjing, there was a heavy rain at night. After one night, the sycamore leaves in the courtyard of the Palace Commander's Mansion fell to the ground.

Duan Xiaoyan got up early to feed gardenias, and then swept away the fallen leaves with his front feet. A gust of wind came with his back feet, causing half of the sycamore trees to fall.

Xiao Zhufeng had just arrived at the Palace Commander's Mansion. Before he could enter, a fallen leaf fluttered down from above his head and landed on his shoulder.

He stopped and reached out to take the fallen leaves off his shoulders.

It is a complete sycamore leaf, the green color has turned into a beautiful golden color, showing a bit of bright warmth in the autumn morning.

He entered the door holding the fallen leaves.

In the palace commander's house, several guards were gathering together to chat and have breakfast. When they saw him coming, they quickly stepped aside in silence and their expressions became serious.

Different from Pei Yunying, no matter what happened in private, Pei Yunying always loved to laugh and was good at making jokes. He was liked everywhere. The guards of the Palace Commander's Mansion loved to talk to Pei Yunying. But he was different. He had always been cold-faced and taciturn, so the guards looked at him with some fear.

He was used to it.

When I got back to the house, it was rare that there wasn't a mountain of official documents on my desk. The "Autumn Hunt" is approaching, and Pei Yunying has been busy in the martial arts field all day long, but he has some leisure time. During the half year when Pei Yunying went to Sunan, he handled all the affairs of the Palace Secretary.

When he has rare free time, he will not look for trouble for himself. After all, Pei Yunying was newly married and had too much free time, which would always make people who are alone in the ups and downs of love jealous.

Xiao Zhufeng sat down in front of the window, picked up a poetry collection on the corner of the table, and put the golden leaves he picked up just now into the book.

There are already many fallen leaves among the pages of the book, and the originally thick collection of poems has become duller and heavier, as if it contains many secrets of autumn.

Duan Xiaoyan once accidentally opened this collection of poems, and was shocked when he saw the dead leaves mixed in it. He couldn't help but ask him: "Brother, what is your hobby, to put so many leaves in the book?"

A scholar in Shengjing may behave in this elegant way, but he is just a martial artist, not a refined guest, so this behavior is somewhat contrary to the rules.

Xiao Zhufeng turned to look out the window.

There is no one in the deep courtyard, the parasol trees have withered early, and the howling west wind blows the empty branches outside.

He likes to collect fallen leaves.

It was because he once received a fallen leaf.

A fallen leaf filled with a girl's thoughts and delicate hand marks.

…

Xiao Zhufeng is an orphan.

A woman found him by the river while washing her clothes. When she found him, he was only wrapped in rags and left no tokens. The woman sent him to the Salesian Bureau, where he grew up.

The Salesian Bureau adopts all abandoned orphans in Shengjing. When these children reach an age, they will leave the Salesian Bureau to make a living on their own, or they will be adopted by others due to good fortune. He was a Salesian director until he was five years old, and he didn't even have a name.

One day, a man came to the Salesian Bureau to select someone. There was a ferocious scar in the corner of the man's eye, and his eyes were as sharp and sinister as a hawk. When his gaze passed over the orphans in the Salesian Bureau, the children were frightened by this fierce light, and he was the only one who could not avoid it. Hide and look back at each other silently.

The man was a little surprised, but then he pointed his big hand, gave the Salesian Bureau ten taels of silver, and took him away.

After returning, the man asked him his name and he shook his head.

The orphans in the Salesian Bureau are called by their first names if they can remember them. However, since he was born, he did not know his parents, so he did not know his own name either.

The other party looked at him, and after a long time, he said in a cold voice: "Xiao Xiao's tears are alone, and the fallen leaves are gentle in the wind. Since you don't have a name, from now on you will be called Xiao Zhufeng."

Xiao Zhufeng.

He likes this name, it has a feeling of the grass dying together in autumn and the sorrow of leaving the leaves.

The person who took him away was named Yan Xu, who later became his teacher.

Yan Xu taught him how to read and write, and also taught him martial arts. Yan Xu was an official in the Privy Council, but he was secretly pursuing old cases. He adopted a group of orphans under his command. These orphans worked for Yan Xu and had nothing to worry about. Even if they died, no one would care, just like withered autumn grass.

Xiao Zhufeng is the most outstanding one among the orphans under Yan Xu.

He doesn't like to talk, always stays silent, and is more careless than anyone else when he gets violent. Such a person is the most suitable person to be a death warrior. When he was twelve years old, he was able to go on missions alone, and Yan Xu trained him as a confidant.

When Xiao Zhufeng was sixteen, he received a mission.

This mission is different from the past. There is no need to kill people or take risks. It is to protect a person in Zhaoning Palace.

That person's name is Pei Yunshu.

Later, Xiao Zhufeng learned that his teacher Yan Xu had a sweetheart when he was young. Later, his sweetheart married someone else, but died early. There is only one son left. The son left Shengjing not long ago and went to a foreign country. Yan Xu asked him to find a way to disguise himself and enter Zhaoning Duke's mansion to secretly protect the lady's daughter, Pei Yunshu, the daughter of Pei mansion.

Xiao Zhufeng then entered Pei's house.

He put on a disguise and put on an ordinary face that people would never think of again after just one glance. After spending a lot of effort, he finally became the guard in Pei Yunshu's yard.

He met Pei Yunshu.

Eighteen-year-old Pei Yunshu was raised in a boudoir. She looked like any rich lady from a wealthy family. She was boring, boring, and gentle. What was special about her was that she had a good temper. She never treated her servants harshly, even when she was bullied. , will not talk back.

Pei Yunshu's life in Zhaoning Palace was not good.

Even though she was the legitimate daughter of the Pei family, Pei Di married a new man one year after the death of Duke Zhaoning. His mistress Jiang Wan looked kind and had a bitter heart, and her concubine Mei Shi was not an economical person either. Pei Di was even colder and careless, and Pei Yunshu In Pei's house, although there is no shortage of food and clothing, the situation is very difficult.

Xiao Zhufeng grew up in the Salesian Directorate, and later followed Yan Xu. He was far better at judging people than others. Seeing Pei Yunshu living such a life in Pei's house, he was filled with emotion.

I thought that a young lady from a wealthy family would not have to look up to others, but it turns out that difficulties will always exist no matter where they are.

However, Pei Yunshu herself is very transparent.

Except for worrying about her brother's affairs, she is calm and calm most of the time. She pretended not to hear Jiang Wan's hidden needles, her concubine's instigation of dissension, but she ignored it. Even her biological father's indifference, she had seen it, but didn't take it to heart.

She lived very seriously and worked hard, as if she was waiting for someone to come back and not to hold him back, so she tried her best to do the best within her ability.

One time, Aunt Mei and the nanny in the new mistress's home had an argument about something unknown. Pei Yunshu passed by. During the argument, the hot sweet soup in the food basket was about to be poured on Pei Yunshu's face. Xiao Zhufeng flew forward and replaced Pei Yunshu. Block out the scalding soup.

The purpose of his coming to Pei Mansion was to secretly protect Pei Yunshu.

Later, Pei Di's people came and resolved the matter. Xiao Zhufeng returned to the courtyard and continued to guard the courtyard door. Unexpectedly, someone came looking for him in the evening. "I've been looking for you for a long time," Pei Yunshu said, "Finally I found you."

Xiao Zhufeng was startled and almost touched his face subconsciously, thinking that the human skin mask was exposed.

"Aren't you injured?" The woman stretched out her hand and put a bottle of medicine into his hand. "I saw it just now. The soup was very hot. I'm afraid your arm was injured. It should be very painful and may leave scars. This medicine is very It’s easy to use, remember to wipe it.”

"Thank you very much just now."

She smiled and nodded to him, thanked him, picked up her skirt and left.

Xiao Zhufeng looked at the medicine bottle in his hand and pursed his lips.

He had been injured many times, and the burns were nothing at all. After being injured in the past, no one would come to ask for concern, let alone whether it hurt or not. The teacher always tells them to be strong. Those who are afraid of pain cannot move forward to the future.

Only in this way will a daughter raised in a boudoir care about leaving scars.

He sneered in his heart, but maybe this was the first time someone gave him medicine for his wounds, so he stayed.

Pei Yunshu is eighteen years old, and some young ladies of Sheng Jing's age have already started discussing marriage.

I heard that Pei Di also started to choose a suitable family for Pei Yunshu.

The leaves of the sycamore tree in the yard turned yellow, so Pei Yunshu asked her maid to pick up a lot of them. She imitated the literati and wrote on them. After she finished writing, she sprinkled them against the small building, and then she went down to pick them up herself.

One day there was a missing leaf and I couldn't find it no matter how hard I looked for it. Then I gave up thinking that there was no signature on it.

Later, when Xiao Zhufeng was walking through the courtyard at night, he found the leaf high on the courtyard wall. It must have been that Pei Yunshu accidentally floated to the courtyard wall when it was falling, and it happened to be blocked.

He lowered his head and saw Xingxingjuanxiu small characters written on the Wuye:

Wiping the emerald green to collect the two moths is a matter of Yu's heart. When I go down to the court, I write the word "Acacia"...

This word cannot be written on stone, and this word cannot be written on paper. The book is written on the autumn leaves, wishing to follow the autumn wind...

All caring people in the world will understand the longing for each other and die. The unfaithful people in the world don’t know the meaning of lovesickness...

There is a heart and a heart that is negative, I don’t know where it falls...

He didn't understand poetry, so he looked through the classics and found out that this scripture came from a minister of the previous dynasty. When he was leaning in the temple, a tung leaf suddenly fell into his arms. When he picked it up, he saw that this poem was written on it. The minister collected this leaf and later married his wife many years later. It turned out that his wife was the one who wrote the poem.

Perhaps Pei Yunshu deliberately wrote this Tongye because of her marriage and thinking about the future.

He should have thrown away the leaf, but by some strange coincidence, he picked up the leaf and stuck it in the book.

The Privy Council had a new mission, and he had to go on a long trip. The Pei family's errands were handed over to another person. It was at night when he left, and he left in a hurry, without even having time to look at the other person. When he returned to Shengjing, Pei Yunshu Already married.

She married into Prince Wenjun's palace.

Xiao Zhufeng, who has always been taciturn about everything, asked Yan Xu something unrelated to the task for the first time. He asked, "Why didn't you stop the teacher?"

Everyone in Shengjing knew what kind of person Mu Sheng, the king of Wenjun, was, and what kind of good ending could Pei Yunshu have if she married that kind of person.

"How do you know I didn't stop you?" Yan Xu replied coldly, the scars at the corners of his eyes dazzling under the firelight.

It turned out that Pei Di wanted Pei Yunshu to enter the palace from the beginning.

Pei Yunying also knew about this, so he desperately looked for evidence left by Mrs. Zhaoning's mother's family in an attempt to make a deal with Pei Di.

But I don’t know what Pei Di and Pei Yunshu said. In fact, if you think about it, you will know that the only one who can threaten Pei Yunshu is Pei Yunying. In short, Pei Yunshu accepted the arrangement and did not enter the palace. Perhaps Pei Di also considered that the enraged Pei Yunying might do something that would hurt both parties. However, he finally settled for the next best thing and married Pei Yunshu into Prince Wenjun's palace.

Just like that, she got married.

The woman who wrote on a tung leaf, "Everyone in the world who has a caring heart will understand lovesickness to death. A heartless person in the world will not understand the meaning of lovesickness. With a heart and a heart that is betrayed, I don't know where it will end up." The woman who once had expectations for love married an unlucky man. What kind of king.

Xiao Zhufeng opened the collection of poems, and when he saw the tung leaf sandwiched between them, he felt suffocated.

Pei Yunying returned to Shengjing. The two of them went from being dissatisfied with each other to reluctantly cooperating, and then became partners who relied on each other. He always asked Pei Yunying about Pei Yunshu's current situation, whether she had lost weight, whether she was sick, or whether she had been wronged in Prince Wenjun's palace.

Pei Yunying is a good person, very sophisticated in people's ways, and he can easily detect traces from clues, not to mention that he is not very clever at hiding.

"You like my sister?"

"no."

"Didn't you go all the way to buy lychees for her?"

"On the way."

"Xiao Er, why didn't you take action earlier?"

He was silent.

In fact, he didn't fall in love with Pei Yunshu during the days when he was in Zhaoning Palace. Even though he saw her every day at that time, he only regarded her as the person he wanted to protect.

On the contrary, after she got married, she was always worried and uneasy, sinking deeper and deeper into the situation, and then she was shocked to realize that this was the intention of her heart.

The person he likes is already married, so he can only protect and watch secretly, just like he did in Zhaoning Palace.

Pei Yunying always asked him why Pei Yunshu didn't express his feelings to her since they had reconciled. He remained silent every time and avoided discussing the issue.

The proud man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth did not know where the Salesian Bureau was. He has no parents or relatives. If he follows Yan Xu, he may one day die under the enemy's hidden arrows. How can he give others a future when he is not sure about his own future?

Don't indulge your selfish desires for your own benefit.

The autumn wind blew outside the window, causing the windows to rattle slightly. A guard came in from outside the door and said: "Deputy envoy, the new recruits' books have been compiled and sent. Your Excellency wants you to go to the martial arts field."

He put down the poetry collection and put it back on the table, got up and left the room.

It was autumn, and people were coming and going on the streets of Shengjing. He was walking along the street without riding a horse. When he came to an alley, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Mu Sheng, don't go too far!"

Xiao Zhufeng stopped and suddenly looked into the alley.