Lying on the bed at night, Wang Xian, who used to sleep with a pillow, couldn't fall asleep now. His mind was like a revolving door, replaying the scenes after coming to Shanxi. Speaking of which, he had not been in Shanxi for a long time.
, it’s only been two months, why does it feel so long?
Is it because he has too many things to do in Shanxi and is too tired? That should be the case, otherwise how could he feel exhausted? Wang Xian suddenly missed his family and his wife so much that he did not want to stay in Shanxi for a moment.
There is only one thought in my mind - go home, go home
He asked Erhei to go to bed early, but he couldn't sleep all night. He got up at the fourth watch and asked Zhou Yong and others to grab crowbars and shovels and use torches to go to the Songfeng Pavilion in the backyard of Xingyuan.
"Let's do it." Wang Xian took a torch and personally illuminated it for Zhou Yong and others. They then started to pry up and move away the long and thick stone strips on the pavilion ground one by one. It took a lot of effort.
After much effort, the boss cleared a space six feet long and two feet wide, revealing the frozen land below.
"Be careful when digging." Zhou Yong and others used shovels to gently shovel the hard frozen soil, as if they were afraid of hurting anything. After digging for a long time, a coffin that looked like a makeshift coffin was revealed.
Sweeping the soil above, Zhou Yong gently opened the coffin lid, and saw a young female corpse wrapped in a brocade quilt inside. It was freezing cold, but the corpse was not rotten, and her face was lifelike. It was Wang Xian who was the first in the coffin.
That night, the maid Yan'er who served him...
That night, Butler Zhou got Zhang Chun's order from Zhang Fantai, knocked her unconscious and threw her into the well in the backyard of the residence... This was not a difficult task for him as the steward. But Butler Zhou never expected it.
The splashing sound of Yan'er's body falling into the water alarmed Gu Xiaolian, who had a super hearing. At that time, Gu Xiaolian was adding perfume to her red sleeves, and everything was silent outside. The sound was so real that she casually said, "It was like a big rock falling into the water."
Wang Xian laughed when he heard this and said: "It turns out that you also misunderstood sometimes. In order to prevent debris from entering the water, the wells in the courtyard are covered. Who would open the well covers in the middle of the night..." When he said this, his own expression changed.
Changed first, he immediately called Zhou Yong and asked him to go to the well to check, and found someone underground. Wang Xian immediately ordered to block the news and quickly salvaged... As a result, he found the drowned girl Yan'er...
At that time, Zhou Yong wondered, was there something wrong with her that prevented her from jumping into a well?
Wang Xian was angry at that time. Did you see anyone jumping into a well with stones tied to his body?
Wu Wei's autopsy results also verified that although Yan'er died of drowning, she suffered severe blunt force trauma to the back of her head, and the location of the injury could not have been caused when she fell into the water. Someone must have attacked her first and then killed her.
The unconscious girl threw herself into the well.
"Who is so cruel?" Zhou Yong became angry. He was full of affection for the kind and gentle girl Yan'er.
"Sir, the murderer should be someone from the mansion," Wu Wei said calmly, "If we trace him now, he will definitely not be able to escape."
Wang Xian was silent for a long time, and then asked: "Did any news leak out?"
Zhou Yong was stunned, shook his head and said: "No, we closed the courtyard door first and then started salvage."
"Find a place in the yard and bury Miss Yan'er first..." Wang Xian did not order the arrest, but was in a hurry to bury her.
"Sir, the murderer hasn't..." Zhou Yong said anxiously.
"Stop talking nonsense." Wang Xian glanced at him, unwilling to say anything more.
"Yes." Zhou Yong had no choice but to go out quickly, not knowing what he wanted. Wang Xian also followed him out, walked around the yard, and finally designated Songfeng Pavilion and asked him to hide Yan'er under the pavilion first.
... Later Zhou Yong naturally knew that the master had used his trick to trick the murderer.
Now, both Housekeeper Zhou and Zhang Chun have been killed one after another, which can be regarded as revenge for Miss Yan'er, but that gentle and gentle little maid who always served him meticulously will never come back... Wang Xian is full of satisfaction for her.
It was guilt, how could he not notice that Yan'er wanted to follow him back to Jiangnan and get rid of the precarious situation in Shanxi. But he was always wary of Yan'er, and in the end he did not give the little maid a glimmer of hope... In the end, the little maid Xiang disappeared
Although Yu was not killed by him, he died because of him. How could Wang Xian not feel guilty?
Because the coffin was frozen in the soil and could not be taken out, the guards carefully held the corners of the quilt and moved Yan'er's body to the firewood that had been prepared, and oil was poured on the firewood.
Wang Xian looked at her for the last time, his eyes turned red and said: "Miss Yan'er, don't be afraid." After saying this, he gently used the torch in his hand to put a little light on the firewood. The fire broke out and engulfed her body in the blink of an eye.
Wang Xian ordered people to pour all the oil in the house on the fire. The fire burned brightly and illuminated the sky above the palace.
"The soul is back, the soul is back... The orchid is walking along the path, and the road is gradually passing. The water of the Zhanzhan River is flowing, and there are maples on it.
My eyes are thousands of miles away, and my heart is broken. My soul is back, and I mourn for the south of the Yangtze River..." Wang Xian was reciting Qu Yuan's soul-calling poem in front of the fire. Looking at the fire rising high and the ashes flying all over the sky, it seemed that a soul had really returned.
generally.
In fact, all this is just to make living people feel at ease...
The fire was not extinguished until dawn. Wang Xian personally put Yan'er's bones into an iron can lined with white satin. If he used a porcelain can, he was afraid that it would be damaged by the bumps on the road. He also tied the iron can tightly to the horse's back.
, after doing all this, he whispered softly: "Miss Yan'er, we are back to Jiangnan..."
When we left Taiyuan City, it was just dawn, and there were powdery snowflakes falling in the sky. Speaking of which, the snow has been hitting Shanxi intermittently. Occasionally, on sunny days, the sun is pale, and people can't feel a trace of warmth.
"Go south quickly" Wang Xian pinched the horse's belly, and the horse started running wildly in pain: "Go home and live in the Yuan Dynasty"
"Okay!" The two hundred guards also became excited and followed him on their horses to gallop across the snowy field.
Wang Xian and others felt homesick, especially after he shouted the slogan of going home to celebrate the Lantern Festival, everyone felt like going home... Today is the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and the Shangyuan Festival ends on the 18th day of the first lunar month, and there are still ten days left.
It was 2,500 miles from Taiyuan to Nanjing. With the Wang Ming flag in Wang Xian's hand, every time he arrived at a post station, he would give priority to changing horses. It was 2,500 miles in ten days. Although he was a little nervous, he relied on his youth and strength.
It’s not too difficult to build strong firepower.
So a group of people ran like wildfire, covering a thousand miles in three days, leaving the Shanxi border and coming to Zhengzhou for repairs. The group was ready to repair, but Erhei wanted to send Long Yao home... Wang Xian didn't know what kind of madness he had.
I actually wanted to go with him to visit Longtan Longshi.
When Wang Xian goes out, Zhou Yong naturally has to bring people to follow him. A group of unsightly guys make Erhei unable to say any of the parting words he has thought up these days... He knows that a bunch of unscrupulous guys are just waiting to listen to him.
It was a joke. He didn't want to be laughed at from time to time in the next ten years or so. He could only hold it in until he was internally injured.
"Okay, stop following so closely." Wang Xian still couldn't stand it and walked away with a group of bastards, leaving room for the two of them to talk.
The two of them stood in a deserted alley, each other speechless. Long Yao looked down at his toes, feeling confused, and Er Hei even scratched his head so hard that it turned into a bird's nest.
Erheixin said that I was still a man and had to speak first, "Sister, don't listen to their nonsense, I will send you back right away. I'm afraid we will never see each other again in the future, and you won't be pestered by me all day long.
I'm annoying you."
"Brother Erhei" Long Yao raised his head when he heard this, with tears in his eyes and said: "Why would I bother you? I am very happy spending this time with you."
"Uh..." Erhei's heartbeat accelerated violently, and he shouted secretly, "I'm going to dig into the cave obediently. Isn't this a big deal?" He immediately said excitedly: "Then you come back to the capital with me, oh no, I have to come to propose marriage first..."
As he spoke, he scratched his head stupidly and said, "A major event in marriage requires three matchmakers and six betrothals."
Long Yao shed tears, biting her lower lip and shaking her head: "No, I can't..."
"Why?" Erhei's beating heart suddenly stopped. "Aren't you and Zhu Meigui..." Gu Xiaolian secretly told him that Long Yao was still a girl.
"..." Long Yao's face turned red. She didn't expect that he even knew this, and said with a hot face: "I have a marriage contract with the crown prince. It would be fine if he was still a thousand years old. But now he has suffered
Difficult, the future is uncertain, if I break the contract, am I still a human being?"
"..." Erhei was so moved by Long Yao that his eyes were red and he said, "She is indeed a good girl..."
"Brother Erhei is a good man, why worry about not having a wife? Your future wife will definitely be a hundred times stronger than me..." Long Yao burst into tears.
"Your Majesty, there will be times when you are out of trouble. I will wait for you forever." Erhei said in a daze.
"Don't say stupid things, brother..." The two of them hugged each other and started crying.
Walls have ears. Wang Xian and the others did not go far at all. Instead, they took a detour and listened to the root of the wall. This listening did not matter, but it made them feel numb. Wang Xian took off his gloves and pointed at the back of his hands, which were full of goose bumps.
Wu Wei and others also felt the same way...
"I won't listen anymore, I won't listen anymore, you're too stupid." Wang Xianxian left the alley and walked to Longtan's house and said, "I blame my uncle Hei for naming his son, two black and two black, it's really two and two black..."
"Sir, why do I find it so touching?" Zhou Yong followed up and wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his furry hands. "It's either the most precious thing in the world, or you can't get it."
"What you can't get is nothing." Young Master Xianyun, who had always been cool, suddenly said something. Wang Xian gave him a thumbs up and said, "Master"
"Help him." Wu Weidao said: "I see how evil Erhei is. If he goes back like this, he will be in a state of shock."
"What should I do?" Wang Xian rolled his eyes and said, "I'm not a matchmaker, I only know how to steal brides."
"That's fine." Young Master Xianyun said coolly.
"We are no longer in Shanxi," Wang Xian said sternly, "We still have to convince people with our virtues." As he said this, he suddenly burst into laughter and said, "I, Wang Laohu, want to convince others with my virtues."
"Convince people with virtue?" The brothers looked at each other, thinking that you are very good at coercion and inducement, but I have never seen you convince people with virtue...