Jiapingguan Chronicle

"The young general is right, it is indeed very dirty." Liang Jieque clapped his hands gently, nodded in agreement towards Chen Jiu, and said, "I heard what he said at that time, and I had the same idea as you , even worse than that.”

"More than that?" Shen Zhonghe looked at the jade pendant Liang Jieque held tightly in his hand, "When you saw this just now, you were not like this. You were still full of love for your second uncle."

"Love and hate are intertwined and cannot be separated at all. The deeper the love, the more hate there is. It may become deeper and deeper." Liang Jieque sighed softly and looked at the confused look on his face. The others said, "You guys are still young and may not be able to understand it so deeply. You will know it when you have someone you like. But Xiaoman..." She looked at Shen Zhonghe, "You love Hui Niang. So profound, thinking about her wholeheartedly, always thinking about excusing her, if it turns out that she is a trick arranged by the other party, deliberately deceiving you and leading you into the situation, what will you do? Will you continue to love her, or will you still be in love with her? she?"

"This..." Shen Zhonghe thought for a while, "I don't know. My mind is very confused right now. I can't tell what it will be like, but I should be able to judge the situation."

"Divide the situation? How? After all this, do we still need to analyze the situation? Looking at it now, isn't it obvious that she is here to lie to you?" Xue Ruitian looked at Shen Zhonghe curiously and saw that he was a little hesitant. He frowned slightly and said, "Master Shen, it can't be possible? Do you still think it's impossible?"

"That's not true. Didn't the Marquis also say it? It's already like this. Isn't that a certainty? I have to believe it, right?"

"Then what does your current appearance mean? What does it mean?"

"I just think that no matter what, you can't kill him with one shot, right?" Shen Zhonghe thought for a while and said, "That's right, there is still a difference between lying and lying, isn't it?"

"Really? Can you tell me in detail?" Xue Ruitian looked at Shen Zhonghe, and then at Liang Jieque who was also puzzled. After thinking about it, he trotted to her side, moved a small stool over and sat down. He said softly, "Don't you quite understand?"

"Yes!" Liang Jieque patted Xue Ruitian who came over, "I can't understand it at all."

"I thought it was because of the big age difference between Master Shen and I. It seems that's not the case, right?" Xue Ruitian lowered his voice and said, "Is Master Shen here..." He pointed My own head, "Not so good?"

"Probably." Liang Jieque nodded towards Xue Ruitian, "I also feel that he is not very smart. Maybe we pamper him too much."

"You two, don't say that in front of me, okay?" Shen Zhonghe was a little embarrassed by the two people's murmurs. He touched his chin and cleared his throat, "Do you still listen to me?"

"Listen, listen, of course." Xue Ruitian made a gesture of invitation, "Master Shen, please speak."

"Although they are all lies, they still depend on the circumstances and cannot be generalized." Shen Zhonghe took a sip of tea, stretched out a finger and looked at everyone, "The first situation is that you have to lie."

"You mean, you can't help yourself, right?"

"Yes!" Shen Zhonghe nodded, "In this case, she was forced to have no choice but for some reason. She still had feelings for me, but due to the situation, she had to follow the requirements of those people. If you deceive me and deceive me, then I can still forgive you. If you can open up, then, no matter what the reason is, we can solve this problem together, and then live together beautifully."

"That makes sense." Xue Ruitian and Liang Jieque exchanged a look, "What about the second one?"

"The second situation is that she is heartless and has no hard feelings. She is just here to deceive under orders and has no feelings for me. More seriously, she is the core of this scheme, the planner and executor of this scheme. She is someone who is quick to get rid of and must put me to death, so I’m sorry, I must hate her and avenge myself, there is no doubt about it.”

"Aunt Liang, it doesn't sound like you are so confused, does it?" Seeing Aunt Liang nodding, Xue Ruitian smiled at Shen Zhonghe, "But Mr. Shen, don't forget that people are all There will be changes, and there may be another possibility, that is, she had no feelings for you at first, but later fell in love with you, and her level of cuteness is not enough for you. In other words, it is not enough to betray her master for you. If this is the case, what should you do?”

"Well..." Shen Zhonghe shook his head slightly, "I don't know either, so I also believe what you said before."

"What did we say before?" Xue Ruitian was a little confused, "What was it?"

"It is possible that she is not dead but still alive. Therefore, I also hold on to a little bit of luck and a little bit of expectation. I want her to appear in front of me again, stand in front of me again, and want her to speak to me personally. Tell her her true feelings, no matter which one she likes, whether she likes me or not, I can accept it."

"Which one is acceptable?"

"Yes." Shen Zhonghe nodded lightly, "No matter which one, I will give up completely and will no longer have any extravagant hopes."

"Did you see it?" Liang Jieque sighed helplessly, "This means not looking back until you hit the wall, and not crying until you see the coffin."

"You can't say that. There is some truth to what Master Shen said. After all, those are all our speculations. It is up to Hui Niang herself to stand up and express her attitude. Master Shen's relationship can be considered to be truly over. It's just..." Xue Ruitian looked at Shen Zhonghe, "One thing, I have to remind Lord Shen, it's always good to have a little hope, but don't expect too much a happy ending."

"What the Marquis means..." "Whether she really liked you or not, whether she was forced or voluntary, judging from the current situation, she puts her own interests and those of her master first. It’s heavy, so it’s best not to have any expectations about her choice.”

"You mean, no matter what, she chooses her master now, right?"

"This is obvious. After all, if she is still alive, it is impossible that she has never appeared in front of you and never let you catch any clues." Xue Ruitian looked at Liang Jieque, "Not talking about you, it is Aunt Liang , I should have been keeping an eye on her these past few years, right?"

"Yes, that's right." Liang Jieque nodded, "But she has never appeared before, so I just suspect that she is still alive, but there is no real evidence. If she had appeared in the past few years, then I would definitely not Missed."

"Master Shen, you have to know that the bond between you and Hui Niang is not just about the relationship between you. You also have a child and a little treasure! The little treasure is already so old and has never been seen before. She has never met her biological mother, and her biological mother has never seen him. If nothing else, is it possible for a mother not to see her own child? "

"Maybe it's because she thinks Xiaobao is gone?"

"It's unlikely." Liang Jieque shook her head slightly, "The people behind her are very powerful. Their methods and abilities want to find out the whereabouts of Er Niang and Xiao Bao, and whether they are alive or dead. , it’s still very easy. It completely depends on whether she wants to check or not.”

"I understand." Shen Zhonghe sighed softly, "If this is true, then I will indeed hate her to the core." He looked at Liang Jieque, "But my complicated feelings for Hui Niang, It should be completely different from Aunt Liang and Second Uncle, right?"

"I can only say that I hate you more. You may still have room to turn around, but I will never have it." Liang Jieque sneered, "He said that he was born to be a noble son, and he shouldn't have Buried in a seaside town." She sighed heavily, "Listen, how shameless she must be to say such shameless words, it really makes me admire her. Not only that, he They also accused their adoptive father of being too domineering towards them, having arranged everything and not allowing anyone to resist or refute."

"Are these...second uncle's exact words?" Seeing Liang Jieque nodding, Shen Zhonghe didn't know what to say, "Grandpa wasn't good enough to him? Is grandpa still overbearing to him? Let's see. Let me, I am the one who is really being bullied, okay?" Seeing what Liang Jieque wanted to say, he waved his hand towards the other party, "I know my grandfather has his own reasons, but I didn't know that before. What’s the inside story? How could he say such a thing even though he clearly knows everything? It’s really..."

"It's too much, isn't it?" Liang Jieque sneered, "I was shocked when I heard that the person I fell in love with turned out to be such a thing. You can imagine how I felt at that time. The maids around me said that at that time My face turned pale all of a sudden, and the way I looked at the main ship was wrong.”

"Not only you, but also my grandfather and father would have never imagined that they love my second uncle so much and are so afraid of wronging him. I have seen it. When others say something bad about my second uncle, they always want to mention it. The knife followed people desperately, but they didn't expect that the person who stabbed them the deepest was the person they considered closest to them and held in their hands." Shen Zhonghe sighed softly, "Aunt Liang, don't be unhappy. From the moment my uncle led Hu Shang and Japanese pirates onto the main ship, he was no longer the second uncle we knew and were familiar with."

"That's right, but not from that moment, but from the beginning, we have never recognized him clearly." Liang Jieque nodded slightly, "To be more precise, the second brother that night was the real one. Second brother, all the emotions he showed that day were his true emotions."

"Looking at it this way, the second master of the Shen family is a very scheming person. He hides his true face on weekdays, and only reveals his true feelings at critical moments. That night, he should have acted like this because he was sure that his plan would succeed. Right?"

"Yes, after all, the opponent has a large number of people, and they attacked without our knowledge. Even I don't think we can overturn the game that night." Liang Jieque nodded, "Not to mention that we are sure of victory. Where is the second brother?"

"Yes." Xue Ruitian thought for a while, looked at Liang Jieque, and raised an eyebrow at her, "Aunt Liang also hid a lot, right?"

"what?"

"The second master of the Shen family has been pretentious for more than twenty years. He always feels that he is superior and that he should not live such a life. However, the reality cannot be what he wants, so he can only disguise himself and put himself The true thoughts in my heart are buried. Maybe it has been suppressed for too long. I have lived a very hard life in the past twenty years. Therefore, I finally waited for an opportunity. I am afraid I have to vent it completely before I can be worthy of myself these years. Feeling depressed, right? It can be inferred from this that he should have said a lot of very excessive and hurtful things that night, right? Is it because of these words that the old man of the Shen family wanted to expel him from the house? "

"... Lord Hou, that's indeed the case."

"You can tell us if you want, but if you don't want to, that's fine with us."

"It's not that I don't want to say it, it's that I don't know where to start, and I don't know if I'll be so angry that I'm half-way through it."

"Then you should calm down first. I can see that you are still very angry even after many years."

"Yes, he was very angry. The words he said were things I never thought would come out of his mouth. Besides, those words are impossible for anyone with a normal mind or a stable spirit to say. "Exit." Liang Jieque looked at Shen Zhonghe, thought for a moment, and said, "Do you want to hear it? Hear what your second uncle said?"

"..." Shen Zhonghe thought for a while and nodded gently, "Anyway, you have to listen to it for this reason. I also want to know what the second uncle thinks of us and how he thinks of us. The whole family. The fact that he can say that his grandfather oppressed him shows that none of us are good people in his heart."

"Absolutely!" Liang Jieque nodded, "Everyone commented on him, and indeed they all had nothing good to say, but your grandfather was the one he hated the most. If it weren't for your grandfather, he could have done it. The sea is wide enough for fish to leap, and the sky is high enough for birds to fly. It was your grandfather who trapped his hands and feet, forcing him to stay in this inconspicuous town for the rest of his life."

"No matter how inconspicuous this small town is, they still raised him and allowed him to pass the civil and military examinations. Just look at the whole town, who does this? Even the richest people , I didn’t expect any of my children to take the imperial examination! The imperial examination costs a lot of money, everyone in the world doesn’t know that, right? I don’t know how he said this!"