Peony Overlord [Rebirth]

Early in the morning, Chu Xinle and Chen Fan set off from Runan with dozens of Shi Jia soldiers behind him, pulling two wooden carts loaded with medicine. Other than that, no one came to see him off. The government can't take a step forward, let alone Shi Zhenming.

Chu Xinle didn't care, she got into the carriage without stopping, and ordered Chen Fan to raise her whip.

The carriage was far away, and two black figures appeared in the corner of the wall not far away.

"Master, everyone has gone far away, let's go back too, it's raining." Lin Hao stretched out his hand with the palm facing up, to catch a few scattered drops of rain.

There was no expression on Xing Yanhong's face, his eyes were fixed on the place where a group of people disappeared not far away, and he remained motionless.

Seeing his appearance, Lin Hao stopped talking, retracted his hand, and stood upright beside Xing Yanhong.

"Appreciating the rain scene has a special flavor." Xing Yanhong turned and went back to his mansion through the back door with a weary expression.

Lin Hao knew that he shouldn't talk too much, but he still couldn't hold back: "If you don't want to part with that second son, it's okay to follow."

Xing Yanhong rolled his eyes, and heard the crisp sound of pattering raindrops hitting the eaves, he sneered: "Reluctant? Lin Hao, should you wipe your eyes or change your head? I said, I'm in a good mood just now, go out Enjoy the rain scene."

"..."

How could Lin Hao dare to refute, he hesitated to speak.

"How are you doing with what you were asked to do?" Xing Yanhong asked.

Lin Hao thought for a long time, and said cautiously: "The necklace has been made according to the master's instructions, just..."

"Who asked you this?" Xing Yanhong interrupted him inhumanely, and said, "I'm asking you how is Ah Fei today?"

"..." Lin Hao sighed inwardly, with his face still unsmiling, he replied: "I've seen it, it's much more lively than usual, but Shi Zhenming didn't make it difficult for a wolf."

Xing Yanhong nodded, and didn't say a word for a long time, not allowing Lin Hao to back down, raised his finger to rub his lips, the conversation in the room disappeared, only the sound of rain outside the door remained.

Estimating the time needed for a cup of tea, Xing Yanhong said nonchalantly: "Since the necklace is ready, go and bring it to me."

"......Yes."

The distance between Runan and Yandu is not too close. Chu Xinle and others drove all day overnight to get out of Lonely Bird Pass, and they had to wait another day to get to Yandu. Chu Xinle didn't want to waste time on the road, but he This body does not allow it, and it will drop the chain every time it comes to a critical moment.

The carriage was stuffy and bumpy, Chu Xinle wanted to vomit, her whole head was dizzy, even her mouth was full of sour taste from her stomach, her hands and feet were so cold that even Mrs Tang couldn't warm her, Chu Xinle always wanted to scold in her heart Shi Jiaming broke his body several hundred times before he felt more comfortable.

Seeing that it was already dark, everyone found a post house not far from Yandu, and it was going to be one night.

Chen Fan helped Chu Xinle out of the carriage, and wanted to send him upstairs to put the horses, but Chu Xinle waved his hand and refused. Today they are already exhausted enough, the most important thing now is to rest.

Chu Xinle went upstairs and entered the room by herself. She didn't even wash her face, her whole body seemed to be filled with iron and lead, and she lay directly on the couch without moving.

The upper and lower eyelids were fighting, and I fell asleep in a daze.

He thought that he would stand in the Chu Mansion when he opened his eyes, but he didn't today, he was in Langya, in front of him was a thatched hut that was so dilapidated that he couldn't see its original shape, and Mama Li was washing clothes by the river not far away.At that time, the Chu family was engulfed by the monstrous fire, and Li's mother took him to escape, and the two of them have been wronged in this small broken house.At the beginning, Chu Xinle was like a walking corpse every day, and every night she would cry bitterly on the bed covered with blankets. It was Li's mother who caught him when he was most frustrated and confused. She would say to Chu Xinle every day: "Master , Madam and son, they don’t want you to take revenge, they only want you to live.”

Maybe it was the words that were repeated every day, which really made Chu Xinle dispel the unrealistic idea of ​​revenge. He had never seen the face of the arsonist, and he didn't know how many people set fire to the Chu family.

He just dawdled around like this, working as a waiter in the restaurant in Langya City, serving tea and water day after day, hearing stories in books scolding the Qinchuan Chu family, who died a wonderful death, and listening to drinking people talking about Chu Home.

Their Chu family was destroyed by the fire, which should be the worst, but everyone is boasting that the fire burned at the right time, and the destruction of the Chu family is to save the Central Plains from a great disaster.

"Why do you look so half-dead, kid? Is the storyteller right? Tell me, should the Chu family be wiped out?" The man had a big belly, was drunk, and wanted to show his prestige when he caught him. He took out a copper coin from his pocket, and still in front of Chu Xinle, he said generously: "You say, if you are happy with your words, I will reward you with this money."

Chu Xinle still kept holding the teapot, he bowed his waist and stood beside the man, the stinky smell of wine made his stomach queasy, the boy's face was covered with ashes, and with his coarse and torn clothes, he looked even more despicable, He looked down at the copper plate on the ground, and the sunlight coming in from the window made it glisten.

"Speak! Are you dumb? Are you!" The man waited impatiently, and stretched out his foot as fat as a pig's leg to tap him.

Chu Xinle raised his eyes, and with his special smile, he looked familiar, and he said: "Chu Tianling bullies the women of the people, Chu Songcun is cruel by nature, and the Chu family is in this state, it is their own fault. It deserves it."

The smile on his face was even wider, and his bottomless eyes were filled with self-deprecation, which spread endlessly: "The Chu family died well, the Chu family died absolutely, and the Chu family died wonderfully."

"Ale!" Li Lianyi yelled at him when he saw him standing in a daze not far away, washing the laundry in his hand and refusing to listen.

Chu Xinle came back to her senses, and ran over in response.

"Didn't you say you're going to watch the Lantern Festival on Qilin Street tonight? Why are you back?" Li Lianyi pulled her long hair into a low ponytail, mixed with a lot of gray silk that had already turned white, and a strand of hair slid down from behind. Blocking her face, she turned up her sleeves, her hands were covered with chilblains, and the early winter was here, even if the river was not frozen, it was still bitingly cold.

Chu Xinle also tried to persuade her, but Mama Li earned a few copper coins by washing clothes for others. If she didn't wash them, she wouldn't even be able to make two meals a day.

"I'm not going, it's what their kids like to play, it's boring." Chu Xinle waved her hand.

Li Lianyi didn't wash anymore, she rolled her clothes into balls and put them in a wooden basin, wiped the coarse cloth skirt with her wet hands a few times, stood up, took out two copper coins from her sleeve, and said, "Does it take money to make clothes?" Come in? Is two enough, I have some more."

The boy's lies were seen through, and the roots of his ears turned red unconsciously. He stuck out his tongue and licked his dry lips, and said forcefully, "I don't want copper coins, I just feel bored, so I won't go."

After finishing speaking, he ran back, went into the hut by himself, and lay down on the couch in a daze.

Li Lianyi didn't catch up immediately, she washed her clothes and dried them on the hemp rope before going in.

Chu Xinle raised her eyes to look at her, then lowered her eyes again. The young man was unhappy, his thoughts could not be hidden, and all of them showed on his face.

It was dark outside the house, and the twilight was misty, showing a little depression.

Li Lianyi lit the oil lamp, walked up to Chu Xinle, squatted down, and looked at him.

"It was fine when I went out this morning, why did I come back like this?" Li Lianyi's voice was very soft, as if she was afraid of disturbing Chu Xinle, but just such a sentence, like spilled vinegar, hurt Chu Xinle's nose.

"Ale, tell me what's wrong." Li Lianyi raised her finger and gently wiped away the boy's tears.

"Mother Li, they, they all said that the Chu family deserved their own fault, they...they..." Chu Xinle seemed to have been greatly wronged, and she was a different person from Bai Ri in the restaurant. , he sniffed, his thin eyelids turned red from crying: "They all said... that the Chu family should be damned..."

The warm yellow light from the candlelight shone on Chu Xinle's face, throwing out the helplessness and fragility of the young man bloody. Li Lianyi looked at him against the light, raised his hand to hug the young man into his arms, and followed his trembling and sobbing back .

"They keep...keep saying...why...my home...isn't it home..." The grievances of these days are finally gone When he erupted, he was no longer hiding in the quilt and crying secretly. His heart-piercing cries were like beasts struggling to escape in his heart. They were clamoring, arrogantly, and brutally trying to tear Chu Xinle's beating heart into pieces.

"Mother Li...I really don't have any this time...I don't have...parents...no brother...no sister-in-law... ...Mother Li...My surname is Chu...But I have no home..." He cried so hard to breathe, it was such a cold night, but he was full of tears. Sweat all over his head, and snot and tears all over his face.

Li Lianyi's face was strangely calm, her eyes were dark, and the age between her brows and eyes did not hide her gentleness and sharpness. She pursed her lips tightly and didn't say a word, just comforting Chu Xinle's back.

"It was me...it was me who killed him, the one alive...it should be him..."

"Ale."

Li Lianyi finally spoke, her calmness only broke a few cracks when she heard "Kill him", but in the blink of an eye, she returned to her original appearance.

She held the boy's shoulders, forcing Chu Xinle to only look into her eyes.

"It's me..." Chu Xinle was still murmuring.

"Ale!" Li Lianyi's voice suddenly became heavier, and Chu Xinle froze in fright. She closed her mouth, but she still couldn't stop sobbing.

"Have you calmed down?" Li Lianyi returned to her soft look, she stared straight into Chu Xinle's eyes: "You are not wrong, it is not your fault, you don't have any need to blame yourself, your surname is Chu, You are the youngest son of the Chu family, and you are also the son of my Li Lianyi. Everyone should look forward and move forward. You should not be entangled in the past. There is nothing wrong with the Chu family. What is wrong is those ridiculous and useless rules. They are greedy, no one wants you to take revenge, so what is the difference between that and their cruel killing, you should be strong, you should be strong, Ale, I want you to be my own protector."

The bleak winter wind outside the window blew the first snow of that year, and it fell profusely, and it didn't stop all night.

On the second day, Chu Xinle turned into that smiling look again. The helpless and timid young man last night seemed to be buried in the ground after the first snowfall in Langya. He thought that he would live in the shabby cottage with Mama Li for the rest of his life. Be a waiter in a restaurant for a lifetime.

Until that day when I met that tall and straight man with an arrogant but still childish face, and beat those gangsters away for him, Backlight stood in front of him, lowered his head and asked him: "Hey, what's your name? "

What is my name......

My name is Ale.

My name is Chu Xinle.

My name is Shi Jiaming again...

He opened his eyes, the pupils had not yet returned to focus, his cheeks were wet, he raised his finger to wipe it, and sure enough, he cried again.

"Why do you have nightmares every time I see you? Why do you cry so much?"

The silent night was broken by a low voice, Chu Xinle tensed up instantly, and sat up abruptly.