Dressed as Su Peisheng

Kangxi 48 years

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Ping An Noodle House

At noon, when the business was most prosperous, Ping An Noodle Restaurant closed its doors tightly. Many regular customers walked around the noodle restaurant, shaking their heads and leaving in disappointment.

In the noodle restaurant, Xiu Xiang sat alone in the back kitchen cubicle, twisting her handkerchief tightly with both hands.The young master's life was at stake, so she had to take the risk of running out of Baye's mansion and asked her brother to cover the man to deliver the letter to Prince Yong's mansion, hoping that Eunuch Su would arrive in time to turn the tide and save her and the young master again.

What Xiuxiang didn't know was that since she entered the Ping'an Noodle Shop, there were many new faces around the street. They were dressed plainly and acted naturally, only looking at the direction of the Ping'an Noodle Shop from time to time.

"Eunuch Rong," the middle-aged man in a short jacket walked into the tea shed by the side of the road and cupped his hands at Rongping, "Our people have already been arranged. Yan Shishi, as long as a person is caught, it is guaranteed that it will be difficult to fly with wings."

"Don't act rashly when people come." Rong Ping sipped a large bowl of cheap tea on the roadside, and frowned unconsciously. "It's easy to arrest people. Our main purpose is to find out the forces behind it. Don't startle the snake."

"I understand," the middle-aged man shortened his body, bent over and stepped back.

It was past noon, and seeing the sky getting darker, Rong Ping's brows became more and more wrinkled, and his gaze towards the noodle shop gradually became darker.

At the same time, Xiuxiang who was staying in the noodle shop was also very anxious, Eunuch Su didn't come, not even the elder brother and the guy who delivered the letter came back.What happened?Or, have they been abandoned?

"Eunuch Rong," the subordinate walked up to Rong Ping again, and said in a low voice, "it's getting late, why is no one coming? When it gets dark, we're afraid we won't be able to do things well."

"We can't wait until it gets dark," Rong Ping said with a downcast face. "There must be something tricky about this Xiuxiang. Even if no one comes, it's the same to catch her back. I don't believe how capable a little girl is to keep her." secret--"

"Eunuch Rong, look!" The subordinates interrupted Rong Ping's words, pointing to the corner of the street.

Rong Ping turned his head to look, and saw an unremarkable carriage slowly parked in the alley behind Ping An Noodle Restaurant.

There were three people getting on and off the carriage, one was Xiu Xiang's biological brother, the other was a clerk from Ping'an Noodle Shop, and a young man.

When Xiuxiang heard the door calling, she rushed out to greet her, but when she opened the door, she froze in place, "Why are you?"

In the evening, Baye Mansion

"You mean, that person is Jin Huan's cousin?" Eighth Prince sat behind the desk with a dull expression, and lightly stroked his eyebrows with one hand.

"Yes," Rong Ping lowered his head and said, "Besides, his biological mother was the old nanny who persecuted the maid He Hui and caused Zhang Xiaozhu to have a miscarriage. Because of that incident, many people in the mansion remembered They are a family. It's a pity that when the slave found the man, he had already died, and he should have been silenced in the Ping'an noodle shop."

"Lord Belle," Liu He, who was standing by the side, immediately changed his face after hearing Rong Ping's report, "This is because the servant is stupid, and the servant misled Lord Belle. At this juncture, Fujin ordered Xiuxiang to kill Jinhuan My cousin, I'm afraid it was because of the use of that nanny to frame Fujin, not the act of poisoning Lord Baylor. The slave—"

"Okay," Eighth Brother took a deep breath and interrupted Liu He, "I understand what you mean, I have to think about this matter carefully. The people around Fujin, please withdraw for the time being." .”

"Yes," Rong Ping bowed his head and accepted the order.

Liu He pursed his lips, pondered for a moment, then stepped forward and said, "Lord Nalan hasn't made any further investigation recently. However, Lord Belle should pay more attention to his relationship with Master Fourteen. "

The eighth elder brother sneered when he heard the words, "Be careful? If this attention is effective, the one who stands at the head of the prince today will be the king of Zhijun."

Liu He wanted to say something more, but Eighth Brother raised his hand to stop him, "Okay, you guys go out first, I want to be quiet for a while."

"Yes," Liu He and Rong Ping bowed and retreated.

Eighth Prince sat alone in the study, resting his forehead with one hand, chanting words.

After a while, there was a loud noise in the study.

The entire desk was overturned, and the splashed ink gradually covered the snow-white wall. The mottled and twisted ink marks were like devils struggling in the night, with their mouths open and howling silently.

It was getting dark, and Xiuxiang had already reached the back door of Baye Mansion, but she still didn't want to go in.Scenes during the day, like a nightmare from which she could not wake up, lingered before her eyes all the way.

When the hemp rope tied with straw strangled the man's neck, Xiuxiang felt that she couldn't breathe anymore. She could only cry hoarsely, fell to the ground, and kept backing away.

Those twitching legs, the white eyes protruding from the eye sockets, and the bulging veins on her brother's arms, she didn't want to see every scene, but she saw them so clearly, so clearly that they were deeply engraved in her mind. inside.

"Xiuxiang!"

Xiu Xiang shivered, looking pale with a pale face, a familiar face appeared in the alley not far away.

"Eunuch Su?" Xiuxiang pursed her lips, her eyes gradually turned red.

Su Wei beckoned to Xiu Xiang and led her all the way to the depths of the alley.

"This is the back of the East Garden of our palace. It's only two walls away from your mansion, but it's still safe." Su Wei took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Xiuxiang.

Xiu Xiang was stunned for a moment, raised her hand to touch her face, only to realize that she had followed her here with tears in her eyes.

"Thank you, Eunuch Su," Xiu Xiang blushed and took Su Wei's handkerchief, which was light blue without any pattern.

"I heard what happened today from your brother." Su Wei frowned slightly. "Fortunately, he is quite clever and managed to lure away the follower. Otherwise, I can only go to the mass grave right now." I have collected the corpses for you and your master."

Xiuxiang's body tightened, and she looked at Su Wei timidly and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Su, I didn't want to expose you. I'm just, I'm just too scared. The eighth elder brother suddenly lost his temper with our young master, if it wasn't for me It happened that the little master was strangled to death when he went in. In the past few days, there were people around our yard every day, and the little master didn't even dare to leave the house, so I managed to escape."

Su Wei sighed silently when he heard the words, and said in a deep tone, "Have you ever thought about it, since the eighth elder brother has already suspected your little master, why don't you directly interrogate or deal with it directly? The reason why he is monitoring you is that one It is because the truth has not been thoroughly ascertained, and the second is to catch the person behind the scenes. You can escape, not because you escaped by chance, but because someone deliberately let you out. After you escaped to Ping An Noodle Restaurant, their people Immediately afterwards, they surrounded the place. If I really went today, maybe they would not dare to touch me. But you and your master, it means that you and your master have been convicted of crimes, and there is only one way to die."

"Grandpa Su," Xiuxiang's eyes were red again, and her thin body trembled unconsciously, "Please save the young master again, the young master and I will be obedient in the future, we will do whatever you ask us to do. Please." You, Eunuch Su!"

Seeing Xiuxiang cry, Su Wei somewhat couldn't bear it, after all, this girl was the most innocent in this whole matter.

"Now, no one knows how much Eighth Brother has found out, so we can only take a step forward." Su Wei walked to the wall with his hands behind his back, frowning deeply, "Fortunately, when you joined forces with Mao's , used that nanny to frame Ba Fujin, and left behind such a useful pawn. I hope this step can at least play a role in confusing. It can also give us some time to arrange the next thing."

"But," Xiuxiang said with a bitter face, "then the eighth elder brother will know about the young master's frame of eight Fujin, if the eighth elder brother pursues it—"

"There are priorities," Su Wei interrupted Xiuxiang's worry, "How many people in this Gaomen mansion are clean? The male masters have long been used to seeing the female relatives fighting each other in the backyard, and they don't have the time to worry about it. What's more What's more, Eighth Prince and Eighth Fujin had a rift in the first place, compared to the matter of drug-mixed rice, this mistake is not worth mentioning at all."

Xiu Xiang pursed her lips and nodded, her face finally calmed down a little.

"However," Su Wei lowered his face, turned around and said, "Since the eighth elder brother has already become suspicious, I'm afraid we can't keep this matter a secret. After Fujin takes the position, it is inevitable that he has some plans of his own."

Xiuxiang's expression changed again and again, and Su Wei continued, "However, at this point, the young master Jiayi has no choice but to choose. If she wants to live a long life, cooperating with us is the only way out. Otherwise, considering What she did back then, even if Eighth Prince doesn't do it, we won't let her go!"

"Grandpa Su..." Xiu Xiang wanted to say something, but she couldn't say it.

Su Wei took a deep breath, then slowed down his voice and said to Xiuxiang, "Don't worry, what little master Jiayi did has nothing to do with you. You and I are both slaves, and I understand your embarrassment. Now you are also considered meritorious I am here, as long as you need, I can arrange for you to escape from Baye's Mansion at any time."

"No, no need," Xiuxiang subconsciously refused, glanced at Su Wei, then lowered her head and said, "Although the young master has done a lot of stupid things, he has always been very kind to me. If the young master hadn't insisted on buying me , I was sold by my mother as a child bride. Now, the young master is helpless in the Baylor mansion, how can I leave her."

Su Wei pursed his lips, feeling a little lost in his heart, finally nodded and said, "Are you still afraid?"

"Huh?" Xiuxiang raised her head in doubt.

Su Wei said with a shallow smile, "It was the first time I saw someone kill someone, and I was terrified. I had nightmares for many days in a row, and I lost weight. But after a long time, that feeling faded away. Diluted, and gradually, I can't even remember what those people looked like."

Xiuxiang held Su Wei's handkerchief tightly, shrank her petite body slightly, and said with a trembling voice, "I'm not as good as Mr. Su, I'm so scared to death, I don't even dare to think about it."

"It's a good thing to be afraid. I can't even remember what it feels like to be afraid." Su Wei smiled self-deprecatingly. Some good cloth for you."

After bidding farewell to Xiuxiang, Su Wei entered the East Garden through a side door, and just turned around a rockery when he was stopped by a black shadow.

"Ah!" Su Wei jumped on the spot, and when he saw the person coming, he immediately said with a downcast face, "Master, when did you come back?"

"Hmph," the fourth elder brother sneered, fighting with Bao Gong with a dark face, "you don't have time to send someone to tell the master about such a big incident, but you have time to have a private meeting with a little girl, and send it to you." A token of love!"

"What token of love, isn't it just a handkerchief?" Su Wei took off his hat and scratched the back of his head, "If you like it, I'll give you a dozen later."

"No need, I have plenty of good fabrics, I can have someone make a cart!" The fourth elder brother continued to blush.

Eunuch Su sighed helplessly, and stepped forward to give a certain prince a smooth hair, "Then you should give it to me later, and I will definitely keep what you gave it. Ah! It's already this time, let's go back to the East Courtyard for dinner, I There are many things to tell you."

The fourth elder brother stood there with a sullen face, and was tossed and patted by Eunuch Su for a long time without moving his place. Finally, he was bitten on the face before reluctantly moving back to the East courtyard.

Into the night

Su Wei, who was tired all day, fell asleep early, the fourth elder brother blew out the candle, turned sideways and hugged Su Wei into his arms.

"It's a good thing to be afraid. I can't even remember what it feels like to be afraid?"

When Su Wei said these words during the day, the fourth elder brother standing behind the rockery felt distressed for no reason.

The first time Xiaowei saw a murder was 17 years ago. He hugged him tightly and asked Zhang Bao and Ku Kui to stuff the eunuch Wu Quan into the well of Zhengsan Institute.

At that time, he said to him, "Su Wei, this is fate, this is the path we must walk!"

The next day after that, Su Wei left the palace alone, and came back with the lost Zhang Bao to plead guilty, thinking that he would completely lose this person from now on.

However, before evening, this man appeared at the door of Zhengsan Institute holding a big paper bag.

He said to him, "That's it, master, we two, that's it. I want to be with you for the rest of my life, just be a slave. After leaving the palace, I have no ties to this world. That feeling , like a walking dead, too scary."

Since then, the person in his arms has tried his best to put away all his weaknesses.Like a sharp knife out of its sheath, whenever he needs it, he can stand up at any time.

But, is he really not afraid?Just like what happened today, one life was exchanged for two, just because those two lives were more valuable to them.

The fourth elder brother sighed, and gently stretched out his hand to trace the eyebrows and eyes of the person in his arms.

Perhaps only in his sleep would Su Wei frown without any scruples, venting his anxiety and fear.

"It won't be too far, Xiaowei," the fourth elder brother lowered his head and whispered in Su Wei's ear, "I won't let you suffer for too long. When we arrive at the destination, you can Do what you like to do, save the people you like to save, no need to force yourself, no need to deliberately forget—"

"Hmm!" Su Wei in his sleep suddenly groaned, interrupting the fourth elder brother's confession. After a while, a pair of big misty eyes slowly opened, "I don't sleep well in the middle of the night, why are you muttering?"