Immediately after the death of the master

I'm busy, so if you want to thank, please thank Xiaozhu. "

I don't know how to answer, I can't speak now, I can only nod or shake my head, so I follow his meaning and nod.

"Okay, just wait," Ji Sanqing folded the handkerchief in thirds and put it on my forehead, "I'll call Xiao Zhu in right now."

When Xiao Zhu was called in by Ji Sanqing, he was holding a basin of water in his hand. For some reason, his face was stinky and he looked very unhappy.He walked up to me with big strides, and slammed the water basin against my ear with a bang, which made me shiver uncontrollably.

Xiaozhu put his hands on his hips and looked at me with a frown. He looked like he wanted to reprimand me. Although he didn't know the reason, he saved me anyway. No matter what, he had to show some face. I pretended to be taught humbly. look like.

Xiaozhu took a deep breath, and was about to say something but suddenly stopped, a flash of panic flashed in his eyes, he hurriedly picked up the wet handkerchief that Ji Sanqing had just put on my forehead, and threw it into the basin.

"Really, that sloppy guy," Xiao Zhu patted his chest in fear, "You don't have a fever, what is he messing around with? I don't know that the wound can't be wet."

Immediately, Xiaozhu seemed to realize something, put away that worried expression, and looked fierce again, clapped his hands, and said:

"Okay, we can talk now."

I looked at Xiaozhu for no reason, he grinned at me, pretending to be ferocious, I guess he wanted to threaten me, but this threat was made by him, it really had no deterrent effect at all, but he was my life-saving Benefactor, what else can I do, I have to act submissively.

Xiaozhu was obviously satisfied with the effect he got, and continued talking.

"I just found out that you are the unidentified person that my master brought back before."

He stretched out a finger and poked my chest, and it just hit the wound. I took a breath, and his face panicked immediately, but he still held on and stammered to finish the sentence.

"Tell me—you, where do you come from... why do you approach the master again and again, you, what are your intentions..."

As soon as I finished speaking, Xiaozhu hurriedly found the wound medicine from the medicine box, and then smeared a thick layer on my chest.

Xiaozhu didn't realize until he finished taking the medicine, I haven't answered him yet, so he put the medicine bottle on the table heavily, and snorted coldly:

"What's the matter, you're dumb, what's the answer?"

I silently pointed to the bruises on my neck.

Xiaozhu frowned and looked at me for a while, then ran out with a rattling, and ran back with a rattling, with a pen and paper in his hand, and he stuffed the pen and paper into my hand.

"Write--"

Seeing that Xiao Zhu was so persistent, he probably didn't intend to let me go, so I had to follow his wishes and briefly describe my past.

In my memory, my past was very long and bitter, but when I actually wrote it down, I realized that no matter how much pain and unwillingness were reduced to the paper, there was only a flimsy piece of paper left. Page.

I handed the pen and paper back to Xiaozhu, Xiaozhu took the paper suspiciously, and read it carefully. He was still frowning at the beginning, but the more he looked behind, the sadder his expression became. At the end, he burst into tears.

"Wooooow, you are so pitiful," Xiaozhu apologized to me while wiping away tears, "I'm sorry, I blamed you..."

I was stunned, was my past so tragic?Why is he like this?

But I couldn't speak, Xiaozhu looked at me, and didn't know what it meant to misinterpret my expression. He sucked his nose, patted my shoulder, comforted me and said:

"I remember that you are the fourth son's subordinate? Your injury is probably related to that cloudy guy. He used to bully those snobbish servants, but he was so cruel to you, a poor little man. What's more, I can't let him go on like this—"

Suddenly, Xiao Zhu's expression turned firm.

"By the way, I'll go and tell my master, let him take you into our yard!"

No need, Ji Qing congratulates him...

Ji Qinghe, apart from making some innocuous jokes at the beginning, he treats me, treats me... has always been very nice.The injury on my body was not the result of his deliberate plan. He is still in confinement waiting for our meeting in a month. How could he find someone to kill me?

I wanted to say this, but my throat was burning.

The sudden pain woke my brain up.

At that moment, I suddenly realized that this was an opportunity, an opportunity to leave the fourth son who had no future, and turn to the bright and infinite eldest son.

Ji Qinghe and Ji Sanqing, one is destined to become an abandoned son, his future will not have the support and help of the Ji family, with his own efforts, the highest is a seventh-rank small official, and it is difficult to even stay in the capital; The other is the eldest son with a bright future. He is so loved by his parents that even Prime Minister Ji Zuo raised him as his heir. Judging from the fact that the Ji family produced two prime ministers during the three dynasties, Ji Sanqing succeeded Ji Sanqing. The position of Prime Minister Zuo is not impossible.

One is a big man who is destined to be a great minister, and the other is a small official who is destined to be worthless.

This question is not a difficult choice at all, but a black and white choice.

"what happened to you?"

Seeing my painful expression, Xiaozhu asked intimately.

My fingers trembled violently in the quilt, but in the end, I didn't lift them up.

I used to think that I would be content with a mediocre life with enough food and clothing.

That's because the hanging wire hasn't hung down yet.

And now, Xuansi is right in front of her eyes——

within reach.

48,

Ji Sanqing agreed to Xiaozhu's request, and he will really take me in as his servant after Ji Qinghe's back is released a month later.

I have no objection.

In the end, I still grabbed it without hesitation.

Like a moth to a flame.

49,

One day after one month, I was taken to a side room of the Ji Mansion by a grey-robed servant with a blank expression.

I never thought that there is such a place in the luxurious and wealthy Jifu, which is cramped, dark, and humid, and the air is full of musty smell.The roof of this room is extremely low, there is not even a single window, and there are no decorations except for some necessities of life.I only stayed in it for a while, and felt extremely depressed, which made me want to escape. It was hard to imagine that anyone would really live here.

"This is where my mother lives."

In the shadows beside the bed, there was a voice.

"But I don't have the ability to take her away."

The figure walked out of the deepest darkness, but still stopped in the darkness, but it was enough for me to see him clearly.

It was Ji Qinghe, I hadn't seen him in January, and he was already thinner and thinner.He is still wearing the robe I prepared for him a month ago, and the clothes that fit him look a little empty now.

He stopped very far in front of me and didn't come any closer.

"will you come back?"

Ji Qinghe stood there, looking at me from a distance, his eyes were blue and purple, and his expression was extremely dull.

I answered with silence, but this silence is not acquiescence, but rejection.

This is the tacit understanding between us.

He looked at me in silence for a long time, then stepped back half a step, back into the shadows again.

"My mother was a coward."

Saying so, he took off his shoes and went to bed, curling up beside his mother like a newborn baby.

"She's just a coward."

I also stepped back half a step, stopping at the intersection of sunlight and shadow, then turned around and stepped into the cold light.

50,

At the beginning of our story.

His mother was a coward and mine was an executioner.

We all love and hate our mothers, and none of us want to be like them.

But it's coming to an end.

I still inherited my mother's ruthlessness and no nostalgia.

But Ji Qinghe still accepts everything like his mother, and doesn't know how to fight.

Our mother's shadow rises in us.

51,

Afterwards, I wanted to seek revenge from that person, only to find that that person had already died.

Before his death, he seemed to have endured a criminal law similar to Ling Chi, and his death was extremely miserable.

I don't know who was offended.

52,

"Do you know that all the other servants in my small courtyard have been driven away, and now, the only servant I have is you."

"Is that why a bookboy like me has to do the sweeping work together?"

"No, I mean..."

"Okay, okay, I know what the young master means, who told me to be the young master's caring little padded jacket~"

……

"I can't control my emotions recently, and I have become childish."

"That's how you look like a young man. All young people in drama are like this. They can be up to no limit and rule the world."

……

"When I was pumping my back today, I took the initiative to go up first. My teacher praised me and said that my back was the best."

"Well, the young master is the smartest, and the young master is the best."

……

"My son, what's the matter with you?"

"Will you leave, Li Sanpang?"

"It's delicious and delicious here, why should I go?"

……

"Li Sanpang, I'm cold."

"Well, son, I'm here."

……

"Next month is the quarterly assessment, can you accompany me?"

"it is good."

……

"No one will dare to bully you in the future."

"..."

……

"will you come back?"

"..."

……

I woke up from my sleep, and in my dream, I heard Ji Qinghe's voice.

I sat on the straw and looked at the candles burning day and night outside the prison.

The emperor's [-]th birthday is tomorrow, and my death is approaching.