Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 179 Crisis ([-])

Perhaps it was because Cao Yong's face was so frighteningly pale that Zhuang Xi was worried, so he called out in a low voice, "Yong'er?"

"颙儿...颙儿...颙儿..." It seemed that it was just a raving from a distant space, echoing endlessly in Cao Yong's ear, breaking his meditation.

Cao Yong turned his head and looked at Zhuang Xi, he could clearly see the worry in his eyes; he looked down at the Wei brothers again.Wei Hei blamed himself all over his face, clenched his fists, and was speechless; Wei Bai also knew the consequences of reckless actions, and he was in a daze.

Cao Yong shook his head, things have already happened, so what if he is afraid again?He went to help Wei He first, Wei He felt so guilty, even though he got up, he still lowered his head and said, "My lord..."

Cao Yong patted Wei Hei on the shoulder, smiled at him, did not speak, and went back to help Wei Bai.Wei Bai knelt straight and refused to get up.

Cao Yong didn't let go, but put more strength on his wrist, Wei Bai couldn't struggle anymore, so he got up too.

"Brother Wei, why didn't you discuss this with me before doing it?" Cao Yong asked casually.

"My lord, I... hey... Lao Bai knew I was wrong!" Wei Bai lowered his head and said in a naive voice.

"You know that if you tell me, I probably won't allow you to do this, don't you?" Cao Yong continued to ask.

Wei Bai was silent for a while, then Fang nodded.

Cao Yong didn't speak anymore, watching Wei Hei who was listening, his brows became tighter and tighter, he waved his hands, but comforted him: "The matter has come to this point, there is no need to be anxious, Brother Wei, please be at ease!" He said to Mr. Zhuang: "I have something to say, I want to chat with Brother Wei alone!"

After hearing this, Mr. Zhuang and Wei Hei glanced at them, then opened the door first and went out.

Although Cao Yong's face was calm, Wei Bai was very uncertain. After holding on for a while, Fang asked in a low voice, "What do you want to say to Lao Bai?"

Cao Yong looked at him, feeling very complicated, and said in a deep voice after a while: "This matter is my fault."

Wei Bai was taken aback, and quickly shook his head: "What is this son doing?! It's all Lao Bai's own opinion. If you want to say that again, Lao Bai... Lao Bai really has no face anymore..."

"Second brother Wei." Cao Yong interrupted him, looked at him seriously and said, "I gave you the map of the palace, and I came up with the way to harm people. If there is no such thing as the last elder brother, then Although the previous one was done by you, it was ordered by me!"

"Yeah!" Wei Bai nodded hesitantly, but said, "My lord just wanted to vent his anger, so what's wrong? It's all Lao Bai's fault..."

"You designed the prince elder brother just to vent your anger, so what's wrong?" Cao Yong asked back.

"This... Lao Bai shouldn't make his own decisions, and shouldn't provoke these people who can't be offended!" Wei Bai lowered his head and murmured: "If you implicate the young master, then you really deserve to die!"

"Even if it's the Cao family's kindness and your brother's teacher, with your ten-year protection, it will be repaid!" Cao Yong said lightly.

"Young master?" Wei Bai raised his head suddenly after hearing this and asked, "What do you mean? Young master wants to drive elder brother and Lao Bai away?" As he spoke, he quickly shook his head: "Lao Bai won't leave, Lao Bai did something wrong matter, let the son punish it!"

Cao Yong said seriously: "Second brother Wei is a bloody man, I envy and respect you very much in my heart! Some things, I can allow myself to be wrong, but I can't allow you to be wrong. Do you know why?"

Wei Bai shook his head puzzled.

Cao Yong no longer looked at him, and looked straight through the window to the distant sky: "Some things, if I am wrong, and my parents and relatives are involved, I will not be embarrassed. You are wrong, what should I do?" He said these words from his heart, and the moment he heard the reason, he really felt murderous.Immediately, he thought that he had been in this world for ten years, and after returning to the mansion after being exiled, the two brothers would always be by his side to protect him.Among them, there were still more than seven years of being a dark man, so he finally sighed.

I only heard a "click", the sound of something falling to the ground.Cao Yong came back to his senses and saw that Wei Bai was holding up his bloody left hand, and his little finger had been cut off at the root.He fell to his knees with a "plop": "Young master, Lao Bai knows that he was wrong, and Lao Bai swears that he will not set an example! If there is any violation, it will be the same as this finger!!"

Cao Yong looked at the little finger in the blood stains on the ground, he was really speechless, he knelt down silently, took the dagger in his right hand, put it aside, and tore off a strip of his inner garment to help him bandage it from the wound.

Wei Bai wanted to grab Cao Yong's clothes and say a few more words, but seeing that Cao Yong's face was uglier than before, he was stunned for a moment, but he withdrew his hands and lowered his head, like a timid child, not daring to speak again.

Cao Yong helped him wrap it up, and instead of getting up, he sat on the floor and asked, "Second Brother Wei, do you remember how long you have been in Cao's house?"

Wei Bai thought for a while and said, "It was in the autumn of 40 years. If you count it, in two months, it will be ten years!"

"Yeah, nearly ten years! How long have I been in this world? Most of the time I grew up under the care of your brothers!" Cao Yong mentioned the past, feeling a world away: "Second Brother Wei An open-minded personality is not something that can be bound to the house, so why force it?"

Cao Yong's voice was not loud, but his tone was very cold and decisive, and Wei Bai's face suddenly turned pale.

"I won't go!" The door of the study was pushed open suddenly, Wei Hei walked in with red eyes, it turned out that he hadn't gone far just now.

"Brother Wei?" Cao Yong was a little surprised.

Wei Hei said proudly: "Master, you are so cruel. Could it be that you saw that Old Hei lost his eye, which should not be used?"

Cao Yong was silent, and Wei Hei said again: "If Lao Hei leaves, where can the young master find such a good skill? Where can Lao Hei find such a good master? Even if the young master calls me thick-skinned, From now on, Old Hei will be Mr. Lai Ding!" Having said this, he pointed to Wei Hei and said, "Second brother, you are over 30, and you are not a child, and other elder brothers are also different. Parents left early, but after all If you have the gift of childbearing, go back to your hometown! Support your family, and weed in front of your parents’ graves during festivals!”

"Young master? Big brother?" Wei Bai looked at Cao Yong, then at Wei Hei, and said with a sob.

"There is always a banquet in the world. Even you and my brothers and sisters, there is no reason to keep it for a lifetime! Listen to my brother in the future, change your temper, and live a down-to-earth life! Don't make things difficult for your son, and don't make things difficult for your brother! Just ..." At this point, Wei Hei's voice became sharper: "Just remember, you have never been to any palace, nor have you done anything, and you have nothing to do with the young master!"

Cao Yong thought about the killing intent in Wei Hei's eyes when he looked at Wei Bai just now, and sighed in his heart.I wanted to take this opportunity to let Wei Hei get away too. I have protected him for ten years, so why not let Wei Hei protect him for another 20 or 30 years?But Wei Hei is a man who values ​​friendship, so he let the two brothers leave like this. Maybe Wei Hei killed his brother first when he went out, and then committed suicide to apologize.

After all the brothers from the Wei family had left, Zhuang Xi walked in with square steps, and said seriously, "Yong'er, this finishing matter...?"

Seeing Zhuang Xi's serious look, Cao Yong couldn't help shaking his head: "Sir, don't scare me. Are you satisfied if you force me to get angry and vomit blood?"

Mr. Zhuang stroked his beard and smiled: "Why did you see it? It's because Wei Er was a little bolder this time. Fortunately, it's not a big deal. If I don't scare him, let him have a longer memory and make trouble in the future." How about a catastrophe?"

"There is no future, tomorrow he will return home with his family!" Cao Yong looked at the severed finger on the ground.

Mr. Zhuang followed Cao Yong's eyes and saw the blood, and frowned: "This... this..."

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Xishan, a Zhuangzi at the foot of the mountain.

A muscular man in his 20s stood at the window, looking around vigilantly along the gap in the window.There were about a dozen other people in the room, sitting or standing around the dining table, holding their breath and not even glancing at the delicious food on the table.

Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps outside the door, and the people in the room immediately became alert and looked in the direction of the door.

"It's Mado!" The man in front of the window heard the footsteps and said.

After hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The thin wooden door was knocked five times, three tight and two slow, which was the previously agreed signal. The man standing in front of the window walked over and pulled the door bolt, and a fat man with a short stature walked in. It was Ma Duo. He nodded, then looked into the room.

Seeing the dishes on the table, Nama Duo's eyes lit up, he hurried forward two steps, picked up a pair of chopsticks, stretched out to pick up the dishes, and asked curiously to everyone: "Why don't you eat? This is waiting for me , How embarrassing this is!" While speaking, he had already picked up a piece of fat duck with his chopsticks, and he was about to send it back to his mouth.

"Don't eat, you don't want your life?!" The two people closest to him shot at the same time, blocking his chopsticks.

Ma Duo kaba kaba's small dark eyes looked at the crowd puzzledly: "This duck, can it kill me?" Then he raised the silver-coated chopsticks in his hand: "Look , look! These are the silver chopsticks used!! This is Jiuye's other courtyard, not a dragon's pond and a tiger's lair, look at how cowardly you guys are!"

The man in front of the window snorted coldly, and said, "Ma Duo, when have you been poor? Just look down and see what's under your feet?"

Ma Duo responded with a smile, then lowered his head, just over a foot away from his shoe, a fluffy kitten lay softly on the ground.

Ma Duo kicked the cat, but the cat didn't respond at all. He laughed "hehe", and pointed to the youngest one among the crowd: "Xiao Dai, isn't this the one you caught when you were bored a few days ago?" You kitty? Look at you, how did you become like this..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly reacted, his face suddenly changed, and he shook the chopsticks in his hand.Because of the excessive force, I accidentally scratched two plates near the edge of the table, and fell to the ground with a "splash" and fell to pieces.

Ma Duo ignored the soup splashed on his body, stared straight at the person in front of the window, and said in a trembling voice, "Six...six brothers, what... what are you talking about? How have we ever offended Master Nine?! We... Let's go back to the mansion quickly, and let the Lord be the master!"

The people in this room are either the long followers of Dun Wangfu, or the guards of the Wangfu. They are all close friends of Brother Shi. The man standing in front of the window and called Sixth Brother by Ma Duo is Fu Liu, and he is also the head of the crowd. .

Fu Liu looked sullenly, looked at Ma Duo and said, "Hmph, Lord, please decide? If Lord Jiu didn't speak, would Lord Jiu have the intention to deal with us like this? It depends on the owner to beat a dog!"

"Ah?" Ma Duo uttered in surprise, then shook his head like a rattle: "Impossible! No one else knows who our master is, but you, Fu Liu, don't know? We have been with him for more than ten years. When did the master treat us badly? You can't be ungrateful and slander our master, I don't agree with that!"

After hearing Ma Duo's words, several other people also became suspicious.But the cat on the ground is still there, and I don't know who to trust for a while.

Fuliu didn't bother to pay attention to Ma Duo, and said to the others: "It's a little strange that they brought us to this yard. Although they let us take shelter temporarily, they don't need to make a big name in this yard; oh come on. This place is not the best place. Inside, there is only a courtyard door in front, and the surrounding walls are so high that it is impossible to jump out easily."

The youngest among the crowd, called "Xiao Dai", looked down at the dead cat on the ground, then raised his head to look at the roof, and said, "Sixth brother, why don't we try to get out from above? Don't let them Use bows and arrows to block the entrance of the hospital, treat us as old turtles, and catch us right away."

"Yeah!" Fu Liu nodded: "Good idea, it's meal time, and they can't get along for the time being, let's call the top and go out, first have a look and then make plans!"

Everyone agreed, they are usually close to the ten princes, they are more or less skilled, and the guards are well-trained, so they moved the chairs and put them on the kang, and a few people used the chairs and the ladder to climb up. As for the beams, they moved the tiles very carefully because they were afraid of disturbing the people outside the yard.

Ma Duo was a little silly, stared blankly, and said after a while, "Sixth brother, why did this happen? Is it related to those people who died of illness two months ago?"

Fuliu was busy, and said impatiently: "What else can we have? These masters are of noble birth, and we are nothing more than dogs in their eyes! We are in trouble now, so let's clean it up!"

Ma Duo didn't say anything, just stood by the kang, helping everyone put the removed tiles on the ground.

Because there are many people working quickly, and it only takes a cup of tea, a big hole is opened above the kang.Everyone will send the smallest Dai out first.

Xiao Dai poked his head out cautiously and looked around, the more he looked, the more frightened he became. He saw cold lights in the bushes at the gate of the courtyard. I don't know how many people were there. Even inside the house, there was a group of people patrolling around.

Covering his mouth, he retreated into the room and told about the situation outside.

The room was silent, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and finally all eyes fell on Fu Liu, and said: "Brother Liu, give everyone an idea!"

Fu Liu pondered for a while, then Fang said: "There were about thirty of us originally, but these two days, Brother Ten was dispatched to different places. I think those two groups of brothers are also like us, maybe they have already suffered misfortune! They are prescribing drugs and laying ambushes, so they must kill us quietly without making a fuss! Let’s think of a way to see if we can wait until the sun goes down, it’s easier to fight and escape!”

Before Fu Liu finished speaking, he heard footsteps coming from the yard, and someone called from a long distance: "Liu Ye, Ma Ye, is there enough food? Do you need more wine and food?"

Fu Liu knew that it was the steward of the other courtyard who had brought everyone here, so he pointed to a few chairs on the kang to signal to everyone, then he lifted the table and shouted: "Fatty Ma, don't give me the f*ck!" No face!"

Ma Duo was stunned for a moment, and immediately came to his senses. He quickly stretched out his hand and slapped himself on the ear, cursing: "Lao Liu, you bastard, do it as soon as you say it. Wait for my brother to tell him to tell him to expose your skin!"

The people outside approached and heard the sound was wrong. They pushed the door and were about to come in, but they were knocked out hard and fell heavily to the ground.

Ma Duo was full of loyalty but was calculated like this, and Ma Duo was also suffocating. He pretended to get up but didn't get up, but pressed firmly on the steward. After dawdling for a while, Fang got up apologetically: "Oh, Zhao Steward, I'm really sorry, I didn't see you coming in!"

Manager Zhao was originally ordered to come in to watch them eat and drink, so he got up in embarrassment, rubbed his waist, grinned and said: "You, you are Ma Ye, right? How do you say this, move well Hands?" While speaking, his eyes followed Ma Duo's back, and he looked into the room, and there were pieces of dishes on the ground, messy everywhere.

"Hmph! It's not Fu Lao Liu. It's really an eyesore to take food all day long. Let him ruin a good table of food and drink!" I’m hungry, I’m sorry to trouble Manager Zhao, tell the kitchen to get some more food!” Then he took out a silver ingot and stuffed it into Manager Zhao’s hand: “This is a small thing, if you invite Manager Zhao to drink, it’s better to have too little! "

Zhao Guanshi smiled a little stiffly: "Don't bother, don't bother, I'll go down and ask someone to bring more wine and food to the masters!"
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(End of this chapter)