Chunyin

I picked Zhuang Heng home in December, and it was February when he recovered from his illness and sent him out of the mansion, which happened to be at this time.Liangzhou is not as humid as the south of the Yangtze River, and there are not a few rains in the whole spring. It was an ordinary day in the clear and cold early spring. The sky was blue and cloudless, and the sun was clear.

I arranged for the coachman of the Hou Mansion to take him back. Zhuang Heng looked at me for a moment beside the Shangma Stone, and he lowered his eyes and cupped his hands at me after I touched my nose impatiently and said "I won't send him off" three times. , when leaning over, the cuffs of the shirt fluttered, and it was as sharp as a knife in the early spring sunlight.

He said, "I owe Brother Lan Zheng a favor."

I thought to myself that of course you owe me, but I don't need you to pay it back.

But he later repaid the favor, and it was very timely.

Not long after he came to see me in prison, I was taken out of the Prison of the Ministry of Punishment and transferred to Dali Temple Prison.Dali Temple Minister Yuan Kai is my father's old friend, my father is kind to him, and he is ashamed of my father.After I was transferred to Dali Temple, Yuan Kai saw my miserable state, wept for a quarter of an hour, and then said to me: "Lan Wei, don't worry, although Yuan failed to save General Liang, he will definitely save you. "

But it turns out that he only wanted to protect himself—Yuan Kai made a mistake in a major case in his early years, and Zhuang Heng caught the handle, so he used this to coerce him to take my case from the Ministry of Criminal Justice.Yuan Kai was held in a weak spot, saving me was a last resort.

Of course, I didn't know this inside story at first.I thought that although the Dingguohou's mansion fell and the monkeys were scattered, there were still a few people who had sincere friendship with my father.But I didn't expect that my father's sincere friends would have been relegated to the ends of the earth to save him, and the ones who can stay in Beijing are all heroes who understand current affairs.

But it doesn't matter whether I know the inside story or not. At that time, if I want to survive and stay in Beijing, I can only rely on Yuan Kai.

After entering Dali Temple, "I" died soon.They replaced me with a death row prisoner. The death row prisoner was carefully changed, and the scars on my body were compared and described one by one. They created another Liang Lanyu.I was sent out of Liangzhou City by Yuan Kai, and he gave me thousands of taels of money, and said: "Lan Yu, this experience has been humiliated and reborn, and the world is far away, the mountains are high and the rivers are long, don't come back again. .”

The sky is far away, the earth is wide, the mountains are high and the water is long.None of it is mine.Nothing to do with me.

what is mine

The wrong is mine.The hatred is mine.The pain from the inside out that has nowhere to go is mine.I'm not open enough to laugh it all off.It's easier to die than to live, but not yet.

So after avoiding the limelight for two years, I asked someone from Jianghu to disguise myself and return to Liangzhou.I went to Yuan Kai's mansion to show my identity - he saved my life, I shouldn't drag him into the water again, but I have no other way.And my existence has become Yuan Kai's biggest handle, he has no choice but to take me in.

So I became Shen Yunzhuo, the cousin of Dali Temple Minister Yuan Kai.

After disguised, I lived up to my name, looking very stiff and "clumsy". Occasionally, I would be shocked when I saw myself in the mirror-I left Beijing for two years, and I was looking for medical treatment for more than a year. The few ounces of thin flesh on his body were boiled away, and his whole body was so thin that almost only a skeleton remained.Except for taking off the clothes, you can still see the criss-crossed scars on the skin and flesh, pointing to the former Liang Lanyu like a guidepost, and the rest, whether it is body shape, appearance, or even eyes, are completely different from before—— Thinking about it carefully, I turned out to be a ghost at that time.

So I don't know how Zhuang Heng recognized me at a glance.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival of the year I returned to Beijing, I followed the family members of the Yuan family to the house of Mr. Zhou Yun, the father-in-law of Yuan Kai.I am not surprised to meet Zhuang Heng in Zhou's residence. Zhuang Heng is Zhou Yun's closed disciple. He has always been very thoughtful and dedicated to serving his teacher. He will definitely go to Zhou Yun's place to give gifts to pay his respects on Mid-Autumn Festival.

To my surprise, when we met in the corridor, I bowed my hands and saluted, and he recognized me in a hurry.When he saw me, he was slightly surprised, but he didn't say anything.That night, everyone accompanied Mr. Zhou to watch the moon in the backyard. Someone mentioned the crossword puzzle. Zhuang Heng smiled slightly in the moonlight and answered the riddle. In the first round, he said: "Where is the sky sticking to the grass?" In the second round It is "the beginning of peace in the world".

In the third round, he said "it's not very beautiful, but the fragrance is intoxicating", Mr. Zhou's granddaughter was already annoyed, and said angrily, "Brother Ziyu, what are you doing to look down on others? Even asking three questions is' orchid'!"

Everyone laughed.Zhuang Heng's eyes flew over, and he glanced at me with a smile.

I sat on pins and needles in the dark, sweating from my palms.