bastard returns

"Your father." Ning Guogong suddenly changed the subject, "Did your father tell you about his childhood?"

"I'm afraid it will make the Duke laugh." Ning Yuan said: "The young one is just a bastard at home. He has not been close to his father since he was a child. He rarely spends time alone, and he has never heard of his past. .”

Ning Guogong nodded, as if he understood it very well, "It's human nature, with his arrogant personality, let him tell the juniors about his useless things before, how could he be willing."

Ning Yuan thought to himself, even if there is a useless thing, it must be caused by your struggle for power. After all, from my own understanding, Ning Ruhai's reputation as a young hero was very loud. It's not like leaving the capital and going to a place like Jiangzhou for a lifetime of uselessness.

"Actually, your father's personality was not like that before. I watched him grow up all the way. He was also a well-educated child, but something happened later that caused his temperament to change drastically." Ning Guogong shook his head and sighed again. After a few words, seeing Ning Yuan's expressionless face, he couldn't help saying: "Look at you, you don't seem to be interested in your father's childhood."

"Even if I'm interested, he's just a handful of loess now, meaningless." Ning Yuan said frankly: "The most important thing to do in life is to move forward, not to look back."

Ning Guogong was stunned, and smiled randomly, "Sure enough, you not only look like your grandfather, but you also have such a calm and cold temper. Let me ask you, can you play chess?"

Douqi is a popular board game in the Great Zhou Dynasty. It is different from the very elegant Go in Qinqi, calligraphy and painting. Douqi has only [-] pieces in total. The game is fast-paced and the rules are simple. Because of this, Douqi is very popular In folk casinos and brothels, it has become one of the necessary game items for these entertainment and pastimes.

It's just that this kind of game that is popular among the people is often looked down upon by literati, especially after it became popular in casinos and brothels, fighting chess was even labeled as vulgar, so even if it is popular among the people, it is still chess, and its status is lower than that of chess. Not to mention that Go is inferior, but all literati and officials who think they have some character will not play fighting chess, thinking that this kind of vulgar game will lower their taste, and be criticized by other colleagues .

With such a high position and authority, Ning Guogong would not know how to play vulgar games like fighting chess, but when he saw that he actually got up and took out the chess box from under the desk, Ning Yuan was really stunned.

"Stand there and don't talk, don't you know how?" Ning Guogong put on his crutches and set up the chessboard on the tea table, before turning his head to look at Ning Yuan.

"That villain should be respectful rather than obedient." Ning Yuan didn't know what the old man was thinking, but he knew how to play chess, not only could it, maybe because his mother Tang used to be in a brothel, When he was a child, he learned a few tricks from Tang's side, and he played them very well.

The game of fighting chess is simple, and it is also very fast to play. It seems that Ning Guogong has not played for a while. In the first few games, he was a little unfamiliar with chess, and he couldn't remember some rules clearly, but he gradually became more comfortable. When they got up, the two of them didn't know how long they had been down until late at night, when a servant came in with tea and gently urged Ning Guogong to rest, Ning Yuan realized that it was past midnight.

"General." The last chess piece of the last game fell, and the board was well-defined. Most of Ning Yuan's ten chess pieces remained on the chessboard, while Ning Guogong's side only had a few or two.

"Stop playing, stop playing. After playing so many games, you haven't even won a single game. You really don't know how to be humble to the old man." Seeing that he still lost in the end, Ning Guogong couldn't help but become a little messy.

Ning Yuan just laughed, didn't speak, got up and stood aside, Ning Guogong stood up for a while, and after a while he laughed too, he put the chessboard away, waved his hand and said: "Forget it, after all, it's been decades I haven't played chess before, it's easy to say, but no one in the whole Duke's mansion knows how to play it, and you can't afford to lose if you are inferior to others." After speaking, he looked at Ning Yuan sideways and said: "You kid Also, don’t think that you can be proud if you win a few games, if you have nothing to do next time, you can compete again, I don’t believe that I can keep losing.”

Ning Yuan didn't understand for a while, what Ning Guogong meant was that he would find himself to play chess with him in the future.

But before he could ask a question, someone came in to serve Ning Guogong and was about to go to bed. Ning Guogong waved to him, indicating that he could go out. Ning Yuan bowed and said: "The villain will leave." Then he thought go out.

"Next time, don't call yourself a villain in front of me." Ning Guogong turned his back to Ning Yuan, and his servants changed him into a nightgown. Your grandfather's generation, if you don't shy away from it, just call me uncle."

Ning Yuan raised his eyes in surprise and looked at Duke Ning's back. He wasn't sure what the Duke of Ning was thinking. Although he and Duke Ning's mansion were indeed relatives in terms of blood, this so-called relative The relationship has been broken since Ning Ruhai left Huajing, but now the high-ranking Ning Guogong in front of him not only left him alone to talk about what he had, but also let him play chess with him, Now you still have to call him uncle?

He didn't understand this doubt until Ning Yuan left Duke Ning's mansion.

Not long ago, Mrs. Rong thought that she was already the supreme hostess in the entire Duke Ning's mansion. Unexpectedly, in less than a few days, his status changed drastically. Her husband, she has been treating her for hundreds of years. Yi Baishun, the husband who served her carefully, completely disregarded her friendship for so many years, even if he divorced her, he even kicked her out overnight.

Watching helplessly as those servants who were ordered to take off her gold and silver jewellery, silk and satin, put on coarse linen clothes that no one else would wear on her, and stuffed only a few copper coins into her arms, so coldly and directly Pushing her out of the gate of the Ning Mansion, Rong Shi is so unwilling!

What a beauty she was when she got married!As the daughter of a commoner, she married into the prominent Ningguo Mansion. Although the husband is only a concubine, she was a regular wife when she married. It was like flying on a branch and becoming a phoenix overnight. I don’t know how many daughters in the neighborhood have been popular eyes of home.

Over the years, every New Year and festival, she has often gone back to show off. She is dressed in brocade clothes, her head full of jewels and emeralds, and she sits in a sedan chair carrying all kinds of valuable gifts to the restaurant run by her father. Usually, if she met a few acquaintances in the neighborhood, or handed over handkerchiefs in the past, she would also give red envelopes, and looking at those vulgar women who used to be civilian women and are now civilian women, she would feel an unprecedented sense of superiority.

But now, if she went back in such a desolate appearance, what would those women who were favored by her in the past and admired her so much would say, she could imagine with her eyes closed!

Those so-called Xiaojiabiyu used to be rough and rough, but now they are all good gossips when they are older. If she is passed back after being abandoned, I'm afraid they won't wait for those three aunts and six wives to point to her spine and talk about her , just her own pride and vanity are enough to drive herself to death.

I can't go.Rong said this to herself, I can't leave, I am a noble lady, I can't go back to those vulgar women and let others ridicule, but Ning Huayang's divorce letter is true, she was kicked out of Ning It's true that she is in the house, and Ning Huayang's last words are so decisive, what else can she do?

Standing outside the gate of the mansion, Mrs. Rong regained her composure. She reached into her bosom and touched an emerald bracelet hidden on her chest, as if she had made up her mind to send food to the mansion every day. Touch the side door.

The lights in Ning Lie's room were still on until now, and there was more than one person in the room.Ning Lie leaned against the head of the bed with a pale face, while his elder brother Ning Yi sat by the bed, holding a bowl of steaming soup in his hand, and blew it cold one by one before going to Ning Lie. strong mouth to send.

Different from big men like Ning Lie, although Ning Yi is the elder brother, he has a lot of manners, and he is also a civil servant in the court.The two brothers have always had a very good relationship, and they have both literary and military skills. Taking advantage of Ning Huayang's power, they are also regarded by many people as the pillars of high-ranking officials in the future.Don't look at Ning Lie's rough appearance, but he has always listened to Ning Yi's words since he was a child. Seeing his brother staying up so late and coming over to give him medicine himself, he always felt that something was wrong, but he looked at Ning Yi's face It's not right, and it's hard to ask, so I can only hold back while swallowing the decoction mouthful.

Until the bowl of medicine was cleaned up, Ning Yi still had no intention of leaving. He was still sitting on the side chatting with Ning Lie about trivial matters. Said: "Brother, just tell me what happened, I'm so anxious to see it like this!"

Seeing that Ning Lie asked clearly, Ning Yi thought for a while, then withdrew the smile on his face, and said slowly: "If I tell you, you will definitely jump up regardless of your injury, so father let me I came here to look at you, but if I don't tell you, you are my younger brother and should know about this, so I feel in a dilemma."

"What's the matter?" Ning Lie sensed that something was wrong, "Also, where did mother go? I haven't seen her since noon, and she will come to deliver meals to me every night these days."

"She won't come." Ning Yi's voice sounded calm, "Father has divorced her from the house, and I'm afraid she has already been kicked out of the house now."

"What!?" Ning Lie didn't seem to hear clearly. After he understood Ning Yi's meaning, he really almost jumped up from the bed and grabbed Ning Yi's arm, "What's going on? will be dismissed!"

"Secretly hired a group of hooligans from the Gopher Gang, and beat the third brother to serious injuries. The third brother is the eldest grandson of this mansion, and it is only a crime of persecuting the eldest grandson. It is already very light for Hugh to abandon the mansion." Ning Yi said indifferently. He said: "There are all the witnesses and material evidence for this matter, and Jing Zhaoyin is also present. Mother can't deny it, and father can't do anything about it. After all, with our grandmother's preference for the third younger brother and her indomitable temperament, if father doesn't act decisively and quickly resolve this matter, I'm afraid that even he himself, and us, may be implicated."

"But you can't divorce your mother so suddenly!" Ning Yi's words obviously couldn't take care of Ning Lie's mood, "Brother, that's our mother! It's our own mother! Don't tell me you're just watching like this? She was divorced!?"

Ning Yi said: "I've said it before, this is the only way to deal with this matter, or do you want to see us and our father involved in the persecution of our eldest grandson, and then sent to Jing Zhaoyin's prison by our grandmother?"

"I don't understand!" Ning Lie slammed his fist on the bed with a face full of resentment, "Mother is very good, what are you going to do to trouble the third brother! Didn't she spend money to hire those gangsters from the Gopher Gang just to punish them?" That Ning Yuan, why..."

But before Ning Lie finished speaking, Ning Yicai quickly covered his mouth, and said solemnly: "Don't talk nonsense, father divorced mother from the mansion just to make a conclusion about this matter, if you talk nonsense What if some moths come out, and people who care about you listen to it, and get yourself involved?"

"But... I can't just watch..."

"We really have to watch." Compared with Ning Lie's panic, Ning Yicai was obviously calmer, talking about the Rong family as if he was talking about someone else's mother, "Third brother is worthless, father Whether we can become the son of the prince or not is now the critical time. Even if we can't help our father, we can't drag him back. Only the father can become the son of the prince and become the Duke of Ning in the future. The two of us, whether in the manor , or in the imperial court, you can really raise your head, understand."

"Brother, I really don't understand, don't you think those rights and status are more important than your mother?" Ning Lie obviously couldn't understand Ning Yicai's thoughts, "That's the mother who gave birth to us and raised us, even if you I can stand by and watch, but I can't! I'm going to pick up my mother!" Having said this, Ning Lie struggled to get out of bed.

Ning Yicai didn't stop him, and knew that compared with Ning Lie who was practicing martial arts, he couldn't stop him even if he wanted to, so he just sat aside and said calmly: "Okay, you can go if you want, if you want to take father Sent to prison, if you want to destroy me and your future, then you go."

Ning Lie's movements were abruptly stuck, with an expression of incomparable struggle on his face.

"Lie'er." Ning Yicai called Ning Lie a nickname they hadn't called since they became adults, "You think that brother is really willing to see mother suffer like this, but there is really no way, mother Although he was abandoned by his father, he saved the three of us, which is already the best result." He stretched out his hand, gently stroked Ning Lie's back, and helped him calm down, "Besides, the mother was only temporarily It's just that you leave the mansion by abandoning it. You will be your mother and go to live with your mother's house for a while. After your father becomes Ning Guogong and raises his eyebrows, you can take your mother back in a grand manner. Many times, in order to achieve great things, you have to endure temporary pain. How did my father teach us before, have you forgotten?"

"I..." Being persuaded by Ning Yicai in this way, Ning Lie seemed to have the same reason when he thought about it, but when he thought of his mother being kicked out of the house so suddenly, he couldn't see her off, so he My heart was panicking, and I just wanted Ning Yi to allow her to follow Rong's natal family to see, but the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and then Rong, dressed in coarse linen, rushed out from the outside with disheveled hair. came in, and shouted at them in a crying voice: "Yi'er! Lie'er!"

"Mother!" Ning Lie didn't expect that Rong Shi would appear suddenly. He was overjoyed for a moment, and jumped off the bed before he could put on his clothes. Let's go, I was really scared when I heard what big brother said!"

Ning Yicai also stared at Rong Shi in a daze, but he didn't realize it for a while, and grinned his mouth stiffly after a while and said, "Mother...it's great that you're fine." He leaned forward and sat beside Ning Lie Excuse me, "What's going on, mother, what are you..." He saw Rong's being kicked out by Ning Huayang's police, so it's really strange why she suddenly appeared here.

"I bribed the servant who guarded the side door, so I sneaked in." Rong looked embarrassed, and tightly held Ning Lie's hand, obviously frightened.

"Brother, stay here with mother well, I'll pour some tea to calm mother down." Ning Yicai took a deep breath, looked at Rong Shi again, and walked out lightly.

But after closing the door, he didn't go directly to the tea room, but stood at the door for a moment, his eyes gleaming, and suddenly turned around and walked towards Ning Huayang's bedroom.

"Lie'er, save mother, don't let your father treat me like this!" In the room, Rong Shi seemed not aware of Ning Yicai's strange behavior at all, only holding Ning Lie's hand and talking in a panic, " Being kicked out like this, how can my mother live! Waiting to be stabbed in the back by others, mother might as well find a crooked neck tree and hang her to death!"

"Mother, don't talk nonsense." Ning Lie was also in a state of confusion, so he could only keep calming down, "Father... Maybe Dad was just angry for a while, and when he calms down, he will naturally let mother come back Mom, don't worry, there's me and my brother."

"No, you don't know your father. He is different from what he looks like on the surface. He can do anything. I don't want to believe him, and I don't want to believe him again." Rong shook her head violently. "Since he can write me a letter of divorce today, he is determined to drive me out. After many years of husband and wife, he has been so cold. I will never trust him again. Lie Er, you are my son. I only trust you." , you must help mother!"

"This... mother, how do you want me to help?" Ning Lie asked curiously.

"You find a way to let mother meet your grandfather." What Rong said made Ning Lie even more puzzled, "Let mother meet your grandfather, mother may have a way to persuade him, as long as your grandfather is willing to come forward , your father can't drive me away!"

What can grandfather do, not to mention that father will suddenly write a letter of divorce, isn't it just to please grandfather?Even though Ning Lie was surprised, he couldn't say no to Rong's request, so he could only nod his head and said: "Okay, mother, you can rest well with me tonight, now that the sky is over, grandpa is afraid I have already rested, I will find a reason to invite grandfather here tomorrow, and you will be able to see him."

Seeing that Ning Lie had agreed to his request, as soon as Rong's mind was relieved, tears fell down, thinking that her husband was ruthless and cold, and in the end only her son could be relied on, so she would not have nowhere to go, but just now At this time, Rong suddenly remembered something, and suddenly raised his head, "Why hasn't your elder brother come back?"

"Yeah, he's serving the tea too slowly. The tea room is right next door." Ning Lie didn't know why, "I'll go out and have a look." After speaking, he wanted to get up.

"Sorry!" Rong said inwardly that she was not good, and immediately got up and said eagerly: "I can't stay here anymore, hurry up, send me away quickly..." Unfortunately, before Rong could finish speaking, the door opened. He was pushed away vigorously by another person, and then Ning Huayang walked in with two servants with a gloomy expression. When he saw Mrs. Rong, a cold light appeared in his eyes, and he stretched out his hand and said, "Don't catch him yet!"

The two servants immediately stepped forward, took out a hemp rope and prepared to tie up Rong Shi, Ning Lie was shocked, and stepped forward to block the two servants, saying: "Father, what are you doing!"

"Get out of the way, don't mess around with this crazy woman!" Ning Huayang stepped forward and directly pulled Ning Lie away. Although Ning Lie was half a head taller than Ning Huayang, he didn't have the list of disobedience to the strict one since childhood. Father, he could only be pulled aside and watched helplessly as Rong was restrained by those two servants.

Rong struggled desperately and screamed, but he was a woman who was a match for two big men, so he was soon trapped like a dumpling, and his mouth was stuffed with a cloth ball, like carrying a small bag. It was taken out like a chicken.

"Remember, if you see what happened tonight, just pretend you didn't see it. I'm doing it for your own good." Finally, he took a look at Ning Lie who was stunned by this scene, and Ning Huayang followed the two servants out. out of the house.

Ning Huayang led the two servants, turned around all the way, picked places where no one was around, and quietly led Rong Shi out of the Ning Mansion, and then got into a carriage, which galloped all the way, and finally stopped at On the edge of the deserted pier.

Ning Huayang led the two servants to escort Rong Shi out of the car again, but at this moment, Rong Shi struggled to spit out the cloth ball in her mouth, and cursed at Ning Huayang in her sharp voice: "Ning Huayang! Huayang, you ungrateful thing, how could you treat me like this! Have you forgotten how many things I have done for you in the past? If you think about it, just divorce me. You have a good idea! As long as I live in this world for a day , I will never make it easier for you!"

The two servants turned pale with fright, quickly picked up the cloth ball and tried to cover Rong's mouth again, but Ning Huayang raised his hand to stop him.

Ning Huayang walked up to Rong with his hands behind his hands, and said in a strange voice: "Oh? Are you planning to make it difficult for me? Then I'll ask you, how can you make it difficult for me? "

"Hmph, have you forgotten how your elder brother died!?" Rong uttered words like thunder without hesitation, "If I go to tell Ning Guogong and Mrs. How did the eldest son die? Do you think you will have a good life in the future? The son of the king? Go and dream of your spring and autumn dreams! You murderer!"

Ning Huayang's already gloomy face became even more gloomy in an instant. He suddenly raised a hand and touched Rong's cheek, "I see, so you intend to make me feel bad like this, I understand."

"Are you afraid now!" Rong Shi only thought that Ning Huayang's gentle performance was shocked by him, "If you are afraid, let me go quickly and take back that shit divorce letter, or I will kill you tomorrow Let the whole city know about it!"

"Okay, you can go and make it known to the whole city." What Ning Huayang said next made Rong completely stunned, "But there is a prerequisite for this, that is, you can live to see Tomorrow's sun."

A moment ago, Rong was in a daze about the matter, as if she didn't understand Ning Huayang's meaning. The next moment, when she realized it, her eyes widened, she struggled and trembled involuntarily, "You...you want How about it……"

"What do I want? Of course I want to satisfy your wish. You said it yourself, as long as you live in the last day, you will never make me feel better. So for my next life to be easier, I just want to I can wrong you." After finishing speaking, he shook his head and sighed, "You stupid woman, you are really looking for death, I was thinking about the slightest relationship between you and me, so I didn't want to do it. It’s so desperate, but there is a way to heaven, you don’t go, and there is no way to hell, you break in. For the sake of my grandfather’s ears, I can only let you shut your hateful mouth forever.”

He lightly patted Rong's face, "When you get down there, don't forget to tell Lord Yan that it was you who killed yourself."

Rong's face was already distorted by fear, she wanted to yell, to call for help, but her mouth was blocked again, and the two servants didn't seem to be doing this kind of thing for the first time, they moved quickly Rong dragged her to the edge of the trestle at the pier, facing the rolling river below, and threw her down.

With a sound of "Plop", the surface of the river is vast, and a living person like Mrs. Rong only caused a splash on the surface of the river that was easily overlooked, and then disappeared.

Ning Huayang shook his head at the river, turned back to the carriage, the two servants drove the carriage, and the carriage quickly disappeared in the boundless night.

Behind a private house not far away, Ning Yicai watched all this quietly, with his lips slightly parted, and softly uttered two words: "Idiot", and also rode on a horse beside him, following the way he came leave.

It's just that he didn't realize from the beginning to the end that Ning Lie was lying on the roof of this private house, looking at him with an incomparably cold gaze.

The author has something to say: Every time I write about this kind of plot where the wealthy families tear each other, husband and wife tear each other, brothers tear each other, etc., I will feel so high and hold my face. The author said that he is too clear (bian) new (tai) provoke~