I'm a bully in troubled times

Jiang Yu and Qi Ranming both cupped their hands in return at the same time: "Thank you, Mr. Zhongli."

Shou Chunjun was a little embarrassed watching from the sidelines. The two people didn't know if they noticed his perfunctory attitude when he was in the hall just now.But anyway, Zhongli Jun is so solemn now, it seems that he is a bit rude when compared.

So after returning to the post house, Lord Shouchun also asked someone to buy a small gift for the two of them.Jiang Yu didn't refuse, and accepted all the orders.

Since it was not yet the time for the alliance meeting, Jiang Yu took Qi Ranming for a stroll the next day to see the scenery of Shangqiu, taking advantage of his free time, which was equivalent to traveling at public expense.It's almost May now, and the weather is getting hotter. Qi Ranming has already taken off his spring shirt and put on a light summer one.

He has a different status now, representing the face of the Yan Kingdom, and he can no longer act casually like before, so he dresses up a lot more exquisitely, wearing brocade clothes, jewels, jade, gold and silver.For example, all nobles wear jade around their waists, so he also wears jade around his waist.

In order to let Qi Ranming pair up with him, Jiang Yu also made a jade pendant with a rabbit pattern for Qi Ranming, and asked him to carry it with him.

Qi Ranming's long black hair was also tied with a jade crown.He had been with Jiang Yu for a long time, and his complexion was no longer as pale as before, but rosy and healthy.Wearing such a suit, it is completely impossible to see that he was once a slave/slave who was so poor that he could not even pay ten taels of silver, and he did not look like a brave general on the battlefield. It goes well together.

Jiang Yu doesn't shy away from anything now, and holds Qi Ranming's hand in the street, staying very close to him.

However, I didn't expect that when I was shopping in Shangqiu today, I met a remarkable person.

At this moment, Jiang Yu and Qi Ranming were sitting in the house of a music official in the Song Dynasty, both of them were a little dazed, thinking about how they came here.

The music official's surname is Cui, and the music official is called a dancer, so Mr. Cui is called Cui dancer.But the focus is not on Cui Wushi, but on Cui Wushi's wife, this woman, but strictly speaking, she is not a wife, but a concubine.

Dancer Cui's main wife died of dystocia for many years, and he never remarried. This concubine named Luluo has been the hostess of Cui's mansion for many years, and is very much loved by Dancer Cui.

The two of them were strolling along the street, when suddenly a sedan chair stopped on the road, the green girl got off the sedan chair, and when she saw Qi Ranming, she started to cry in a daze, saying that she knew Qi Ranming's mother.Then out of nowhere, they came to the woman's house.

At this moment, what gave Jiang Yu a headache was that Luluo was still looking at Qi Ranming with tears in his eyes.

If it wasn't for Lu Luo being too old, already in her thirties, Jiang Yu would have felt that this was Qi Ranming's romantic debt caused by her walk in the rivers and lakes.

However, Qi Ranming was as dazed as Jiang Yu, and had a headache.

Dancer Cui was holding his concubine's shoulders, coaxing her in a low voice.

Several people looked at each other for a long time, but Jiang Yu couldn't hold back anymore, coughed lightly, and asked, "Madam Cui, may I ask you this is...?"

When Lu Luo heard this, her tears were about to fall again, she came forward to hold Qi Ranming's hand, and said, "Are you the son of my wife back then?"

Qi Ranming is not used to having physical contact with others, so he frowned slightly, pulled back his hand and asked, "Who is the wife you are talking about?"

Luluo glanced down at the bone flute on Qi Ranming's waist, and asked, "Is this bone flute your mother's?"

Qi Ranming held the bone flute subconsciously, and rubbed the cool body of the flute with his fingers: "Yes."

Luluo still couldn't hold back her tears, she let down her eyes and said in a low voice, "This is your mother's favorite flute when she was alive."

This statement contains a relatively large amount of information.Qi Ranming hadn't heard anything about his mother for many years. Before meeting Wen Ji, Qi Ranming even felt that what his mother said before was lying to him.It wasn't until seeing this woman that Qi Ranming suddenly discovered that there were traces of his mother's existence in this world.

What his mother said didn't seem to lie to him.

Seeing the look in Qi Ranming's eyes, Luluo knew that she had probably found the right person, turned her head and whispered a few words to her husband, and ordered the other servants to go down.There were only three people left in the room, and Luluo turned her attention to Jiang Yu again.

Qi Ranming held Jiang Yu's hand, and said, "Madam, if you have anything to say, just say it straight, he's like me, it doesn't matter."

Luluo nodded, and then talked about the past.

In fact, Qi Ranming himself is not a slave/slave, but a very noble son of the royal family of Qi State, which was destroyed 23 years ago.His father was originally Qihou's brother, and his mother was a noble daughter.

The State of Qi 23 years ago was just a small country, caught between big countries in order to survive.The disaster came because of a woman, a woman Jiang Yu and Qi Ranming were very familiar with, the former Queen Wen Ji of Qi.

Since the second son came to the throne, Wen Ji has been under house arrest in the harem, and can no longer step out of Qi King's Palace.Wen Ji was originally a son of the Song Dynasty, named Ziwen, who was famous all over the world for her stunning beauty. It is said that when she was born, the peach blossoms in Shangqiu were in full bloom overnight.

Yet in such an age, beauty is often a sin.This is especially evident in Wen Ji.

Wen Ji had only been married to the princes and kings of the Qi State for one year, and the Qi State attacked the army to the royal city of the Qi State under the name of "Qi Hou's licentious and innocent".Soon after, the capital of Qi State was captured.Because of her overpowering beauty, Wen Ji was favored by the Marquis of Qi back then, and she was astonished as a heavenly man at a glance, so she was brought into the harem, favored so much, and even made queen in the end.

After the Qi State fell, the former royal family's children and female relatives fled, and some died.Qi Ranming's mother was a fugitive.She was pregnant with a child at the time, and was sent away by her husband before the country died.

After leaving Qi State, they fled all the way west, not knowing where to go.

When fleeing to Song State, Luluo, as Qi Ranming's mother's maid, fell seriously ill, and seeing that she was dying, she was unable to go on the road with her master.Therefore, she can only be dropped.

Unexpectedly, Luluo didn't die, but was picked up by Cui dancer, and became a concubine, and got her life back, and she has lived on mediocrity to this day.

Qi Ranming heard from his mother what happened next.

On the way to escape, his mother came to the state of Zheng.In Zheng Guo, after meeting King Qin, who was waiting for her husband, she was taken in by her.

In the age of war and chaos, how difficult is it for a woman to survive when she is pregnant?Even so, she never had the idea of ​​not wanting this child.

After being taken in by Queen Qin, Qi Ranming's mother stayed by her side out of gratitude, serving her with all her heart and wanting to repay her kindness.

It's not that this woman doesn't love her children.It's just that she was too desperate when she was taken in, and she was at the end of her life, so she was even more grateful to the queen who took her in, and wished she could give everything to repay.

So much so that even her son became a victim of her gratitude.

Luluo has been telling Qi Ranming how the wife cared about the child in her belly.After all, if it weren't for this child, there is a high probability that the wife would stay in Qi State and live and die with her husband.

When Qi Ranming listened, he felt as if he had come into contact with a mother he had never seen before, and he felt bewildered, surprised, and disappointed.Children who lack parents in their childhood always have a void in their hearts, a vacancy that cannot be filled in a lifetime.His mother didn't tell him too much about the hardships on the way to escape, and now he knows it.

But the woman never woke up again.

She has been dead for ten years.

"My lord, you and your wife are almost carved out of the same mold. I can tell it at a glance." Luluo said, "And you are still wearing the bone flute that she loved back then."

Lu Luo suddenly found out that the child in her wife's womb was not only born, but had grown up to such a large size, it was also the famous General Qi in the country of Yan, and she was both surprised and happy.He took Qi Ranming's hand and asked: "How is Madam now?"

Qi Ranming was still a little unfamiliar, and it was hard to have any feeling of intimacy with this woman, so he tilted his head slightly, retracted his hand and said in a low voice, "She has passed away for many years."

Luluo was stunned for a while, as if she couldn't believe it, she moved her lips, but she didn't say anything, and finally covered her face and wept silently.

"...I didn't expect Madam to..." Lu Luo whispered, "She has always been in good health, how could she be so young..."

"Ma'am." Jiang Yu interrupted her, "Let's talk about these things slowly later."

Jiang Yu didn't want Qi Ranming to recall his childhood, that would be too cruel.

Seeing Jiang Yu's eyes, and then Qi Ranming's downcast eyes, Luluo seemed to understand something, and wiped away her tears: "Sorry, I lost my temper."

"It's okay." Qi Ranming said, with a calm expression, as if he hadn't been affected in any way, "When my mother was pregnant with me, I met Zheng Guo's son in Zheng Guo, and after being taken in, she married to Qin State. Ten Years ago, she was executed for violating palace rules."

Those ten years of gloomy childhood without seeing the light were simply skipped.The despair of returning to Qin from Jin to find his mother dead was also ignored.He was so calm as if he didn't care at all.

After Qi Ranming finished speaking, he stood up and bowed to Luluo. Luluo hurriedly moved away and did not dare to accept it, but Qi Ranming said: "Thank you Madam for telling me this today, I am very grateful."

Jiang Yu saluted with him.

Lu Luo shook her head and said, "Young Master, you can grow up in peace, and you don't need to pay for the painstaking efforts of the master to send his wife out. The master knows, so I will be at ease. It's a pity that I was unable to follow the illness because of a serious illness. Let's go together, madam, otherwise..."

"It's my own good fortune that madam can have today." Qi Ranming said that his mother never mentioned Luluo to him, and he only thought that Luluo was dead. "From now on, madam, please take care of yourself."

Seeing that Qi Ranming was about to leave, Luluo said, "Young Master, won't you stay for dinner?"

She looked at Jiang Yu, hesitant to speak.

"No, thank you Madam for your kindness." Qi Ranming didn't want to stay any longer, turned around and left.

Jiang Yu smiled and bid farewell to Luluo, then chased Qi Ranming out.

Of course Luluo knew that these two people were Lord Suiyang and his wife, General Qi.The names of these two people, as well as their special relationship, can be said to be known to everyone in the Great Zhou Dynasty today.

Lu Luo naturally felt that something was wrong. In her opinion, Qi Ranming should of course marry a well-matched lady, carry on the family line, and pass on the blood of their Qi family.But that was Lord Suiyang, she didn't dare to say this in front of Jiang Yu, and wanted to tell Qi Ranming privately, but Qi Ranming turned around and left.