to blame

Nan Jiang turned off the light in the guest room.The light from the street lamps came in dimly through the glass windows inlaid with frost.

In the night of the northern country, the only silence is the sound of snowflakes falling.

Qingqiu's voice is clear and crisp, with a slightly childish tone, and it has a texture that is completely different from this quiet and misty night.

"I told Baimei that I planned to be an official. Baimei stayed there for a long time, and then went to ask her husband. Her husband simply said, if you want to do it, do it! Study hard! Take the imperial examination!"

"Then I made up my mind to study hard. By the time I was 14 years old on my household registration...actually, I was already [-] years old in terms of transformation."

Qingqiu twitched a little, and after getting a hug from Mingxia, he continued: "I was selected as a scholar that year. Baimei's husband ran to find the rich people he knew, and asked them to come. A letter of recommendation, recommending me to study at Qingsong Academy in the capital. That's where I met Li Qingyuan."

Ming Xia felt distressed because of its pause.He was just about to say that he should find another opportunity to talk about the next episode, when he heard Qingqiu say: "Li Qingyuan is from the capital, and his father is a member of the fourth-rank chief secretary. He is a child of an official family. However, he is a member of the family." A bastard, without a mother, is not taken seriously in the Li family."

What is a fourth-rank official, what kind of bastard is going to stand up...

Ming Xia thought to himself, it really became listening to stories.

"Li Qingyuan is a very warm-hearted person," Qingqiu said, "He took good care of me, saying that I was young and had left home. Sometimes he took me to his house as a guest."

"Isn't he a bastard? Can he invite guests home by himself?" Ming Xia didn't know much about the aristocratic families of that era, and he didn't understand the status of a bastard like Li Qingyuan in the family.

"He said that it was not good before. His father had other sons, and they didn't pay much attention to him. But since he was selected as a scholar, the family felt that he was still a good talent, so they began to pay more attention to him." Qingqiu said: "He has his own study at home, and there are servants to serve him, and the environment is not bad."

Ming Xia asked again, "How did he treat you so well?"

"When there are no classes in the academy, he will take me on tours in the capital, climbing mountains, swimming in the lake, taking me to eat delicious food, and any parties between classmates, he will also take me there, and also take me And I met a lot of people. His friends, and a few girls."

Ming Xia wanted to coax him, but saw that Qingqiu was a little sluggish, as if the story had reached some unpleasant point, so he held back again.Looking at Nanjiang from across the room, he was also lying on his side listening to a story, his eyes were extraordinarily bright in the hazy light.

The two looked at each other with a tacit understanding, and neither made a sound.

"Sometimes when his family members go out to offer incense and visit mountains, he will invite me to go with them." Qingqiu sighed, "Among the girls I know, there is one of his concubines, Li Qingquan, who also There is a handkerchief from Li Qingquan, a girl named Rongying."

Ming Xia casually asked it, "Does it look good?"

Qingqiu shook his head, "Li Qingquan looks handsome, Rongying is just ordinary. However, Rongying's father is a servant of the Ministry of Rites, and his official position is higher than that of Li Qingyuan's father. Also, she is the youngest daughter of the family, and her status is relatively high. .”

"Generally, the daughters of the concubine in a rich family will not associate with the daughters of the concubines, but the Li family and the Rong family have some connections, and Rong Ying is willing to make friends with Li Qingquan. Now that I think about it, it's actually a bit strange. "

"When a girl goes out, she must always be accompanied by her brothers at home." Qingqiu said slowly: "At that time, Li Qingyuan always said that it was no fun to go out with his sister, so he invited me to go with him. When visiting the jewelry store Rouge, the two of us can accompany each other to see if there are any new books in the Four Treasures of the Study or in the bookstore, so that he will not be bored."

Ming Xia nodded, in this way, the reason is indeed sufficient.

If he didn't know that Qingqiu was being plotted against later, he would have thought that Li Qingyuan had taken a fancy to Qingqiu and wanted him to be his brother-in-law.

"There was a period of time later, whenever the academy was on vacation, Li Qingyuan invited me to go home with him." Qingqiu said, sighing, "I thought he just liked me. Sigh."

Ming Xia touched it, "Sometimes it is easy for a person to plot against another person. I don't blame you. You must have heard that there is a saying among human beings that there is no one who can guard against thieves in a thousand days, right? ?”

Qingqiu nodded rather gloomyly.

"A person with a magnanimous heart will not think about who is going to plot against me and who is going to harm me..." Ming Xia said, laughing to herself, "Only people with a bad heart can worry about these things .”

Qingqiu swayed in its arms, like a little doll.

"Actually, thinking about it now, he might have tried to plot against me from the very beginning," Qingqiu said sadly, "but I didn't feel it at all at the time. Because I am a demon, I always feel that I am stronger than humans. This kind of fragile animal, I have to let it go..."

As a result, it was calculated by this fragile animal.

"I still remember his expression, he always looked at me secretly, and when I turned around, he would smile at me." Qingqiu said: "But you are different, every time I look at you, although you will also rush I smiled, but that feeling... He smiled to me on purpose, so that I could know that he cared about me and treated me well. You smile because you see me, and you feel happy, because you are really like me."

"Yes, yes." Ming Xia didn't want it to feel sad while talking, so he quickly coaxed it, "We all like you." While speaking, she winked at Nan Jiang desperately.

Nan Jiang said helplessly, "We...well, we like it too."

Qingqiu pondered for a long time before suppressing the urge to cry, "Anyway, he always takes me out to accompany his family members. Later, the one named Rongying gave it to me I have a purse."

Ming Xia, "..."

What if I suddenly feel a little jealous?Xiao Qingqiu actually enjoyed such an antique, Chinese-style aesthetic, shy way of pursuing...

"Does the purse look good?" Ming Xia couldn't help interrupting its narration again, "Have you embroidered mandarin ducks?"

Qingqiu, "..."

Qingqiu seemed to understand his feelings a little bit, and said quite breathlessly: "I didn't embroider mandarin ducks, but embroidered a crane, which means to praise the man's noble character."

Hearing the word "crane", Ming Xia immediately lost his appetite, and waved his hand feebly, "Okay, what happened next?"

"Later, Rongying always sent her nanny to give me things, and when I said no, she still came."

Probably thinking of what happened later, Qingqiu also felt a little weak, "I was so annoyed, so I told Li Qingyuan secretly. In the end, Li Qingyuan couldn't be so rude to the girl's family, so I asked me to take it easy and coax her a little bit. He also said that her father is an official of the Ministry of Rites, offending her will not be good for my future."

Ming Xia felt that this sounded a little fake, and it was not the same way to worry about the reputation of the girl's family.

But the little idiot Qingqiu probably didn't hear it.

"So I had no choice but to coax her," Qingqiu said: "Later, she said that she knew I had no intentions for her, but seeing that I was a good person, she begged me to do her a favor."

Ming Xia's heart skipped a beat, and the secret thought came.

"She asked me to help send something to a village outside the city. She said it was very important and she had to deliver it to an old woman named Tu. I thought it was not a difficult task, so I agreed. gone."

"What is it?" Ming Xia asked it, thinking to himself that this routine seems to be touching porcelain.

As a result, Qingqiu said: "What she gave me was a family heirloom of their family, a landscape jasper vase. It is said that this thing came from a famous master, and it was her father's favorite thing. There is also a burden. Rongying said that it is for the family. I didn't open the old mother's clothes to take a closer look."

"I hired a car and took my things to the village on the outskirts of the city." Qingqiu said weakly: "The village is so far away. I walked from morning to night, and spent the night at Renjian's house in the middle. Hurry there. But when I entered the village and asked the people in the village, everyone said that there was no such an old woman in the village."

"Then they framed you for stealing?" Ming Xia was a little confused, why are you making such a fuss?

Qingqiu shook his head in frustration, "Then someone came to arrest me, saying that I abducted the servant's family's concubine, and also took away the servant's family heirloom, I was a thief."

Ming Xia became impatient, "Let Rong Ying come out and testify!"

Qingqiu was even more frustrated, "Rongying ran away with Li Qingyuan! They had already planned to elope, because the servant's family refused to marry the concubine daughter to the concubine of the Li family, but Rongying was pregnant with a child! So they just can run."

Ming Xia held his breath in his chest.

This pair of sluts are going to use the innocent Qingqiu as a stepping stone to start a new life?

"No one listened to my explanation. They all said that I killed Rongying."

Qingqiu finally burst into tears, "They all surrounded me and scolded me. The servants' family, those from the village, and the policemen who came with them. They all scolded me as a gentle scum, saying that I gave to scholars It’s embarrassing, and it’s said that I’m going to get rid of my fame, so that I can no longer take the imperial examination...”

Although he already knew that it was a thing of the past, Ming Xia still felt so distressed, he hugged Qingqiu and smoothed his hair, but his heart felt like it was going to explode.

"And then?" he asked, grinding his back molars.

"Later, they found the jade bottle and the burden, and saw women's clothes in it, and said that they had taken the stolen goods. They wanted to strip off my bachelor's clothes, drag me back to the capital, and parade me through the streets to show everyone how gentle I am." The end of the scum."

Ming Xia didn't know what to say anymore.

"Later... I started a riot with demon power," Qingqiu lowered his head and rubbed his face on the quilt, "My demon pill was cracked, and the fire that started at that time burned several villages within a radius of ten miles Those who wanted to arrest me are all dead, and many people in the village have also died."

Ming Xia was dumbfounded.

"Then I ran away." Qingqiu cast a cautious glance at Ming Xia, gritted his teeth and continued, "I caught up with Li Qingyuan and Rong Ying, hung them upside down on a tree and let them bleed."

Ming Xia felt cold all over, and the movements of smoothing Qingqiu's hair also became a little stiff.

Nan Jiang turned his face to the other side and sighed slightly.

"Li Qingyuan himself said that they are planning to use me to hold back the two families. They are going to Fujian. Because the port has been opened, many foreigners come in and out of business, and there are many opportunities. After they settle down, they will go to find the two families. agrees. That's what they're thinking about."

"There is no more." Qingqiu said dejectedly: "When the demon town people found me, I just ate one of Li Qingyuan's arms...they both scared to death."

Ming Xia let out a sigh of relief. Seeing such a demon king, he would indeed be frightened to death.

But to be honest, Ming Xia didn't really sympathize with the two of them.Once these two sluts ran away, what would happen if Qingqiu was just an ordinary scholar?

Can he get rid of the charges of abduction, trafficking and murder?

The charge of theft is also difficult to clear up, and if you get involved in a lawsuit, you will offend the court officials.Fame and future ruined—let alone in such a humiliating form.

"I was sealed in a string of crystal rosary beads in Puzhao Temple by the Demon Suppressor. The crime was that I hurt human life and caused great panic to the society."

"The rosary is stored in the Buddhist scripture building of Puzhao Temple, and one letter is 300 years old."