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Nightwatcher - Chapter 232

Published at 21st of April 2023 06:58:27 AM


Chapter 232

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It seems that there is something urgent. They are Dalao's colleagues. Is it related to Dalao?

The porter Lao Zhang bowed and nodded: "three adults will follow me."

Nangong qianrou gets up and goes through the front hall to the backyard under the guidance of the porter Lao Zhang. In the distance, I saw a child in a small cloth bag, who was only cute, and was led out by a beautiful girl in a long skirt.

The child is shriveled and unwilling to follow.

The two sides met each other. The girl stopped and looked at the three watchmen in amazement.

"Three adults have something to see the master." The porter Lao Zhang explained.

Xu Lingyue nodded with reserve, took back her eyes and pulled xiaodouding aside.

Xu Lingyin was tugged by her sister with one hand and raised her other hand. She pointed to Nangong qianrou with her short and thick fingers and cried:

"what a beautiful sister, she is as beautiful as her mother."

Beautiful sister?! The expressionless Nangong qianrou nearly broke the gong. She turned her head in disbelief, staring at Xu Lingyin, and the corners of her eyes kept twitching.

Is the child a fool? Is the eye a decoration?

He raised his head slightly to show the child his Adam's apple.

"I don't understand a child's beauty as much as his sister's

She seems to think that being as beautiful as her mother is highly valued.

Nangong qianrou flicks away. If someone else dares to say that he is a woman, she will have to peel off her skin if she doesn't die. It's just that he's such a brilliant man that he doesn't bother to see things like children.

Seeing off Nangong qianrou's back, Xu Lingyue enters the hall.

"Why doesn't my sister leave?" Xu Lingyin raised her small face.

"It's brother's colleague. Let's go to Shutang later." Xu Lingyue said softly, leading her sister back.

In the back hall, Xu Pingzhi, who had just finished his meal, got up in a hurry and met him. He was a little puzzled and a little frightened. He said with a clasp: "Lord Jinluo."

Xu Pingzhi didn't expect that the grand golden gong would come to Xu's house.

With the noble status of golden gong, even though Xu Qi'an was a fish in water in the daguanren yamen, he could not condescend to be a gong.

Unless there's something important.

The golden gong is beautiful. From a distance, he thought he was a woman, not inferior to Erlang, who is a boy and a girl... Xu Pingzhi thought.

"Pretty sister."

Xiaodouding followed Xu Lingyue back and stood at the threshold, with a flattering cry.

This child is really annoying. When you cry later... Nangong qianrou frowns. Thinking of Xu Qian's death, she can't help sinking in her heart.

He glanced over Xu Pingzhi and looked at the beautiful woman at the dining table. What the child said was true. She was a gorgeous woman indeed.

"What can I do for you when you come to my house?" Asked Xu Pingzhi.

Nangong qianrou took back her eyes and was silent for a moment. She said in a deep voice: "Xu Qian of Causeway died in Yunzhou. I'm here to send money."

With that, he unfolded his palm, and the Gong behind him quietly handed over the silver.

Nangong qianrou hands Xu Pingzhi another three hundred taels of money. Xu Pingzhi doesn't accept it. He is stunned, like a stone carving, and doesn't move.

Even the eyes are frozen.

Xu Qi'an died in his duty. Nangong qianrou's words seemed to explode in Xu Pingzhi's ears. His soul was broken and his heart was broken.

In an instant, I feel that the whole world has lost its color, and my mind is filled with bad news, and I am totally disappointed.

Xu Qi'an is his nephew and elder brother's orphan. He has been around for 20 years. What's the difference between him and his own son? No, even more than a son.

Xu Er Shu has always had a strong sense of responsibility for Xu Qi'an, because he is the orphan of his elder brother and the only one.

Raising him up, looking at his wife and having children, and opening branches and leaves for the long house are Xu Pingzhi's best wishes in this life.

Now, this nephew is gone. If not, it's gone?

In a muddle, Xu Pingzhi suddenly heard the sound of a fall. He looked back and found that his wife had fainted.

"Sister, what are you dying for?"

Xu Lingyin didn't understand. She looked up at Xu Lingyue beside her.

Xu Lingyue didn't answer. She stood still, like a lifeless paper flower, beautiful but pale.

The porter Lao Zhang burst into tears: "to die is to die."

Nangong qianrou sighed in her heart, put the silver on the table and said, "in three or five days, the bones will be sent back to the capital. You should prepare for the funeral in advance."

The 800 Li urgent document arrived in the capital earlier than the corpse.

With that, Nangong qianrou turned and left.

"You're lying!"

With the roar of a little lion, Xu Lingyin stands in front of the three watchmen and stares at Nangong qianrou.

A six-year-old already knows what death is.

Nangong qianrou ignored Xu Lingyin and went on. But Xu Lingyin refused to let him go and chased him to death, shouting: "you cheat, you cheat..."The child's thinking is very simple. As long as he takes back what he just said, the elder brother will come back. As long as he takes back the liar, the elder brother will come back...

Nangong qianrou has to speed up her pace and take two gongs away from Xu's house. He goes far away. He is not sure to turn back.

The child persevered to chase out, standing alone in the door, crying, small body constantly shaking.

It's like a little abandoned animal.

Nangong qianrou suddenly some regret, he should wait for a moment, waiting for the child to go to school in the news of Xu Qian's death.

"Take her back and let her family take good care of her." Nangong qianrou gives orders to the gong on the left.

"Yes."

Xu Pingzhi goes to the front hall to look for her daughter's figure and intends to comfort her. However, Xu Lingyue sits at the table quietly, her eyes empty and motionless.

Xu Er Shu slowly breathed out a breath, called the porter Lao Zhang, and said in a deep voice: "send someone to the academy to tell Erlang the news, and let him return to the house as soon as possible."

Lao Zhang wiped his tears, nodded and retreated.

In fact, few of the servants in the mansion can ride horses. Whether it's the importance of the matter or the time, it's only reasonable for Xu Pingzhi to go to Yunlu academy by himself.

Mr. Zhang, the porter, knows that he can't ride a horse now.

...

it takes two hours from the capital to Qingyun Mountain. If the equestrian skill is not good enough, the time will be longer.

Xu Xinnian came back at noon. He came back alone. The messenger was left behind by him.

Gallop to the gate, Xu new year's fierce a pull rein, the horse stopped, high from the front foot.

Before the horse's front hooves fell, Xu Xinnian turned over and got off the horse. He rushed into the house with a pale face. When he crossed the threshold, he was tripped and fell to the ground, breaking his forehead.

Suddenly, he staggered up and stumbled into the house. In the back hall, he saw his family, his tearful Mother, his empty eyed sister.

Of course, there are also Xu Lingyin who sits alone on the steps outside the front hall and scribbles on the ground with a dead branch.

When the bad news came, the adults were immersed in sadness and ignored the children's feelings. Xu Lingyin did not dare to ask, did not dare to speak, can only sit alone on the steps, silent.

Xu Pingzhi's eyes were red. He looked at him and said in a low voice, "Erlang, your elder brother... Is gone."

Xu Xinnian's body flickered and his eyes turned black.

....

when noon came, the sky became gloomy and the cold wind was raging. Then it snowed heavily.

This is the first snow after the Spring Festival. Soon, the snow covered the roof, covered the treetops, covered the path, and the whole world was covered with a thin piece of silver.

Palace, royal garden.

The prince invited the second prince, the fourth prince, the sixth prince, and three princesses to enjoy the snow in Qingji Pavilion.

There was a raging charcoal fire, and there were fine wine and delicious food on the table. The prince drank a mouthful of wine and said with a smile:

"there was a snow last year. I thought I would wait until the end of the year to see the snow again. I didn't expect that just after the Spring Festival, the snow came again. "

"The third princess said with a smile," listen to the magician who made the Yellow calendar by the sky warden. The more snow falls before spring, the better harvest will be after autumn. I don't know whether it's true or not. Although the snow came after the Spring Festival, it caught up with the Spring Festival

The prince nodded with a smile, then looked at the fourth Prince and asked, "what's the matter with Huaiqing recently? She said that she would not be able to drink all day

The fourth Prince shook his head in a dull voice: "I don't know."

Huaiqing didn't appear for some time. Originally, he would occasionally get together with his brothers and sisters. Some time ago, he began to thank guests behind closed doors.

Although the fourth Prince and Huaiqing are the same mother, Huaiqing's character makes him unable to get close to his brother and sister.

Hum, it must be that I have no face to see people... Lin'an took a sip of wine and thought with pride.

With the wide spread of Gobang, her name of Lin'an also shocked the capital. Just ask, in the light of the princess, the humble Huaiqing naturally had to stay at home and dare not go out.

Thinking of this, Lin'an is happy again. After a few drinks, Hongxia quietly climbs on her round face, and her charming peach blossom eyes are slightly blurred.

Several princes can't help but look more. It's very pleasant to have a beautiful sister.

Well, the word "talent" has yet to be discussed. It is well deserved to be beautiful.

In Xu Qi'an's mind, the mounting not only fits the image of the little queen of the nightclub, but also is the kind of girl who was particularly beautiful in the class when he was young.

When doing math problems, the kind of girl scum who would scowl and keep scratching her head.

But because it's too beautiful, it's sought after by boys, which will make other girls in the class hate it.

Huaiqing is a high cold female school bully, but because of her arrogant personality, she will not be liked by the girls. She is envious in private: cut, what's the big deal.The only difference between gaoleng Xueba and coquettish Xueba is that Xueba can kill other girls in the class. But the female schoolgirl can only pout her lips in anger.

"The snow is auspicious. Do you know the 800 Li urgent document yesterday?" The prince talked about something.

"Zhang Xingying put down the rebellion in Yunzhou?" Said the fourth prince.

The crown prince nodded: "the Minister of the Ministry of industry of the Qi party colluded with the witchcraft cult to cultivate power in Yunzhou. His heart is to blame. Fortunately, governor Zhang was able to see through the conspiracy and exterminate the rebellious party. "

After a pause, the prince looked at his younger sister Lin'an: "Xu Qi'an has made great contributions in this case. He was posthumously named the son of Changle County, which is also worthy of the name."

"Of course, Xu Qi'an is me..."

originally, Lin'an was happy to hear the prince's brother praise Xu Qi'an, and instinctively wanted to show off, but when she heard the second half of the sentence, she suddenly froze.

"Prince brother... You, what do you say?"

That charming and affectionate face, sweet smile a little solidification, peach eyes slightly open, but the look is empty, staring at the prince.

"Oh, don't you know?" The fourth Prince sighed:

"it's a pity that Xu Qian died in his duty."

Bang... The glass is broken on the ground.

Everyone looked at Lin'an.

Lin'an didn't realize her gaffe. Her delicate white hand held the prince's sleeve tightly, with a trembling cry: "brother Prince, don't laugh with me..."

there was a crystal light in her eyes, as well as a pitiful plea.

The prince was stunned for a moment, and his face suddenly darkened. He brushed away Lin'an's hand and said in a deep voice, "this is true. My father has already made an order. When the bones of the Gong are transported back to the capital, he will issue an order to pursue the title.

"Lin'an, pay attention to your identity."

It is sentimental for Prince Quan to be Lin'an. He didn't want to speculate.

Lin'an silently retracted his hand, stood up without saying a word, and walked into the vast snow.

"Lin'an, Lin'an..." the prince chased the pavilion and yelled at her back.

The snow fell on her hair.

The prince turned his head and roared at Lin'an's maid in waiting: "I'm not going to hold an umbrella for the princess yet."

The maid of honor just picked up the umbrella and was ready to catch up with it. Hearing the words, she stopped and blessed the prince. She opened the oil paper umbrella and ran after it.

In the pavilion, all the princes and daughters have not come back yet, and they look at a loss.

On the other side, the maid in waiting, who had been patted by Xu Qi'an on her buttocks, looked carefully at Lin'an's side face with an umbrella, and did not dare to speak.

It's a pity that the Gong died in duty... The palace maid sighed in her heart.

All of a sudden, she heard a slight choking, turned her head in amazement, and saw that Princess Lin'an had burst into tears.

"Princess?"

The maid of honor gave a shaking cry and looked around in a panic. Fortunately, there was no one around in the snow. She lowered her voice: "Why are you crying? Is it because of him?"

"My palace, I don't know..."

tears drop by drop. Lin'an raises his hand and presses his chest.

It's empty here.

...

"it's snowing. I like snowy days. When the snow stops, I can have snowball fights with my elder martial brothers, make snowmen and make snowhorses."

In the warm tea room of Princess Huaiqing's residence, Chu Caiwei holds a cup of tea, eats cakes and looks at the snow outside the window.

She is shallow and enjoys a pleasant afternoon with hot tea, delicious cakes and snow.

Princess Huaiqing is wearing a white palace skirt. She is already warm and cold. She is wearing a summer dress that highlights her figure.

She ignored the chatter of her intimate friend, holding a book in her hand, but staring at the snow in a daze.

"Princess Huaiqing, what's the matter with you? You're out of your mind these days." Chu Caiwei felt that she had been ignored and was very angry.

In the dark eyes, there are white snowflakes. Huaiqing said: "Caiwei, I'm afraid the letter I wrote for you can't be handed over to you."

Chu Caiwei heartless eating pastry, asked: "why?"

"He died in duty."

Chu Caiwei shakes her hand and the cake falls to the ground.

....

star watching tower, eight trigrams platform.

Chu Caiwei dejectedly steps to the top floor of the Star Tower.

There was a thin layer of snow on the baguatai. The supervisor was sitting in front of the case, with a radius of three feet.

Chu Caiwei stopped behind the prison and said, "teacher..."

"since childhood, every time a senior brother bullied you, you would cry and run here to complain." The supervisor did not look back and drank a glass of wine with a smile.

"No elder martial brother bullied me." Chu Tsai Wei shriveled her mouth and cried out: "Xu Qi'an is dead. Xu Qi'an is dead. I'm so sad..."Prison is silent for a moment, turned to look at the south, seems to focus on looking at something, suddenly chuckled: "good."

Chu Caiwei cried even more fiercely. She stamped her feet and cried and scolded: "bad old man, smelly old man, my friend is dead. You still say good things. Why don't you die?"

"What did you say to the teacher? The teacher has lived five hundred years, but he hasn't lived enough. He wants to borrow another five hundred years from heaven. " Monitor the vital airway.

"Well, is what you said just now what a teacher should say?" Chu Caiwei is crying.

"It's a good thing to say good things as a teacher." The supervisor said: "the year before last, I gave you the birth pill. Did you take it?"

"What kind of pill." Chu Caiwei wiped her tears.

"Tuotai pill, only three Tuotai pills can be made from one Jiazi. The boy of emperor Yuanjing asked to be a teacher, but he didn't give it to him. " The supervisor is more angry.

"Oh, in my bag." Chu Caiwei sobbed and said, "if you don't tell me, I forget, and I can't use that thing."

The supervisor nodded and said with a smile, "remember, you gave the pill to Xu Qi'an."

"I didn't."

"You did."

"I don't have it. It's in my bag."

"Shut up, you've got it. When someone asks you later, that's what you say. "

"Oh." Chu Caiwei cried again: "teacher, Xu Qian is dead."

She has a habit of coming to prison to cry when she is sad. It's like when a child is wronged, he will cry to his parents.

"You have just entered liupin. Don't go out these days."

After Chu Caiwei left, the supervisor spread out the palm of his hand, and an orange elixir lay quietly in the palm of his hand.

Then, the supervisor pulled out a wisp of white beard and gently breathed out a breath.

That wisp of beard flutters with the wind, higher and higher, suddenly expands and turns into a big white bird.

Big bird calls bleak, hovering in the air for a moment, a dive, took away the birth pill in JianZheng's hand.

Chu Caiwei went back to the room and looked in the deerskin bag at her waist.

"Why did the teacher suddenly tell me about the birth pill and give it to Xu Qian..." she sobbed and looked for it, but she couldn't find it.

...

"do you trust Wei Yuan that much? Would you like to tell him all your secrets? "

In the dark cabin, Yang Qianhuan sat cross legged with his back to the coffin.

Xu Qi'an is Wei Yuan's illegitimate son. He can't believe it when he thinks about it. Xu Qi'an is 20 years old, and Wei Yuan was already a eunuch in the palace more than 20 years ago.

"Dad, you're kidding. Do you understand me?" Lying in the coffin, Xu Qi'an sighed:

"of course, trust is trust. Duke Wei is good to me and is willing to cultivate me. It's not too much to say that it's very kind to me. But I'm a little resistant to telling him the secret. "

"Why?"

"How to say, Duke Wei's mind is too deep to see through. You never know what he's thinking. I don't know how he will react when he tells him the secret. "

"It's true that Wei Yuan, like my teacher, is a person with a terrible mind. Even men like me, who hold the moon and pick the stars, can't see through them. " Yang Qianhuan was puzzled and said:

"then how do you want to talk to me about these things?"

Xu Qi'an said with a smile: "because elder martial brother Yang is a man with a heart of a child."

I don't care about anything except my hobbies.

Yang Qianhuan nodded and thought it was strange, "I always think it's not a good thing... Have you ever thought about leaving the capital? Anyway, you are dead. You can go anywhere

"But my family are all in the capital. Of course I have to go back if I can." Xu Qi'an sighed:

"I'm looking forward to the days when Qingshan walks in the world with his sword. But no matter where you go, there is a home in the world that you can go back at any time, you will not panic. Once I leave the capital, I may never go back in my life. "

After a period of time together, perhaps it is too boring, two people first casually bicker, and gradually began to say something from the heart.

"That's true. When I go out, as long as I think of the elder brothers and younger brothers of Si Tianjian and the teachers, I feel at ease. It's not really homeless, it's just traveling. " Yang Qianhuan nodded slightly.

Xu Qi'an said that he would go back to consult Wei Yuan. In fact, he was perfunctory. He was weighing the pros and cons of being frank.

Wei Yuan is good to him, he knows. But after the confession, did Wei Yuan choose to seal Shenshu again, or did he choose to turn a blind eye? Without reference, Xu Qian did not dare to take risks.

After all, it's not Wei Yuan's own son.

But he was not willing to leave the capital, and was in a dilemma for a while.

In addition, monk Shenshu once asked him to keep a secret and not reveal his existence. Xu Qian is not sure to tell Wei Yuan the secret. What kind of reaction will monk Shenshu make.You can't really believe that a demon like master is a merciful Bodhisattva just because he is always pleasant.

"Ah, forced... Elder martial brother Yang, are you married?" Xu Qian asked.

"No Yang Qianhuan shook his head: "women are a burden. I don't need them."

Well, I still think when you have sex with your wife, don't you allow her to look at your face? If so, there are only two ways for you to go: first, like Yasheng of Yunlu academy, to be a man standing behind his wife forever. 2、 Be a warm-hearted man.

Thinking about it, Xu Qi'an couldn't help laughing.

At this time, outside the ship came the unknown bird cry, desolate and lonely, just like the cry of a night owl.

Yang Qianhuan is a Leng at first, then be surprised, blurt out: "it's the breath of the teacher."

PS: I will go back to Beijing in the next chapter. I'll change it first and then I'll change it when I get home from work.




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