Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 65 Yin Promise

Bahrain Right Banner, Duoluo County Prince's Mansion, Dongyuan Stables.

"Gege gave the servant a new name, no more 'Boule'!" Wenxiu lowered her head and replied in a low voice.

"What name?" Cao Yong asked.

"Mao Wuhen." Wenxiu hesitated, then timidly replied.

Cao Yong has been outside the Great Wall for several months. Although Mongolia can't speak it, he can understand some words. "Mao Wuhen" means trash, so it's hard for a girl's name to say that.

Cao Yong was thinking about helping Wenxiu redeem his life, so he met again and again, which was more or less a bit of fate.What's more, she was also implicated by him and endured Tana Gege's whip.

"Are you working here? Why haven't I seen you for the past two days?" Cao Yong asked: "I will find a way to help you escape from the palace in the past two days. You go back to Beijing with me first, and wait to find out about your home. , and take you home."

Wenxiu was overjoyed at first, and opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but soon the brilliance in her eyes dimmed again.After a long while, he sighed softly: "My lord's kindness to Wenxiu will never be forgotten, but Wenxiu cannot go back..."

Cao Yong was puzzled and said: "Why? Don't worry about Tana Gege, I will find a way to redeem you."

With tears in her eyes, Wenxiu said: "Wenxiu has been abducted for more than 12 years, and now I am afraid that no one in the city knows about it. At this time, even if he returns with the jade intact, he will end up with a bad reputation, which will actually tarnish the family's reputation. If you are outside, luck and misfortune are your own fate, and have nothing to do with your family..."

In this era, women's reputation is more important than anything else, and if one person loses integrity, the whole family will be ashamed. If it is in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not impossible to be soaked in a pig cage.

Cao Yong frowned when he heard this, and was very tired of this cannibalistic etiquette, and said to Wenxiu: "You want to screw it up. If you are a close relative, you will be thankful to see that you are safe, so you don't care about this false name; if you are an outsider, you can say whatever you want. What are you doing? It’s really not possible, move to another country and start over, why bother to endure the grievance of being a slave to others because of a small loss!”

Wenxiu listened to her heartbeat, her face was not as desperate as before, but she still hesitated.

Cao Yong knew that she still had to think about it, so he didn't force him, and asked: "You haven't said why you are here, where is Chaolu?"

Wenxiu said: "My maidservant got irritable today, hit something by mistake, was fined to work in the stables, and went to drink with Uncle Lu."

As he was speaking, the sound of horseshoes suddenly sounded behind him. When Cao Yong turned his head, he saw a man in a brown Mongolian robe leading his horse away.

Wenxiu came over to help Cao Yong lead the horse, and said: "Just now that man clearly entered the gate, he thought he left after hearing me mention that Uncle Chaolu was not here."

Cao Yong nodded, faintly felt that this person's back was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.During these days, I went hunting with Brother Sixteen, and met a lot of Mongolian men, but they left without saying hello, which was not in line with the boldness of Mongolian men.Seeing that Wenxiu was faltering and his legs and feet were still weak, he asked, "Is the injury from last time still not healed? Did you find a doctor? I'll ask someone to bring you some medicine later on. It's been a hundred days since the injury. The medicinal wine will get better sooner."

Wenxiu squeezed out a smile and said, "Thank you Master Cao for thinking about it. The last injury has healed. I was punished by my mother to kneel on the gravel outside for two hours, and my legs are a bit inconvenient..."

This is the suffering of being a slave, Cao Yong shook his head and said: "After all, it's better for the family. You have suffered all these hardships, so what else can you worry about? Can your relatives still beat, scold and bully you?"

Wenxiu lowered her head and remained silent.

Cao Yong knew that she was afraid that she was contradicting herself, so she stopped the topic.

Wenxiu wanted to help Cao Yong brush his horses, but Cao Yong was not willing to do so. He poured a few buckets of water into the sink, tucked up the hem of his clothes, rolled up his sleeves, and did it himself.

After washing the two horses of himself and sixteenth elder brother, the twilight appeared, Cao Yong looked at the sky, and said to Wenxiu: "It's almost dinner time, how many horses are left, let me help you?"

Wenxiu hurriedly waved her hand: "Your maidservant can handle it. You should hurry back, my lord. I'm afraid someone will come looking for you."

Cao Yong thinks about it too, and sees that Wenxiu brushes horses skillfully, and the speed is much faster than himself.On Tana's side, after being perfunctory for several days, I still don't know what the little aunt's follow-up will be. If she finds here, I'm afraid Wenxiu will be involved again.Thinking of this, Cao Yong nodded to Wenxiu: "Then I'll go first. Don't be too busy, come back after eating, don't miss the meal when you don't have anything to eat."

Wenxiu said with a smile: "Your servant is not in the way, it will be fine in a while. Wu En will help me save food."

Cao Yong nodded, washed his hands with a bucket of water, packed his clothes and left the stable.Not far away, he suddenly remembered the matter of giving Wenxiu medicine and wine just now, so he hurried back, intending to ask where Wenxiu lived.

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As soon as I turned to the yard here, I heard a "boom" and another "crash" sound of water. Cao Yong said that Wenxiu had accidentally overturned the bucket. He went to the stable, but what he saw surprised him.

A man in a brown Mongolian robe strangled Wenxiu's neck with a horsewhip. Wenxiu's eyes were wide open, her mouth was wide open, and her hands were firmly grasping the neckline. .

It is important to save people, Cao Yong didn't have time to think about it, so he picked up the bucket that rolled to his feet and threw it at the man.

The man didn't expect Cao Yong to go back and come back. He was startled, let go of his hand, dodged the bucket, and attacked Cao Yong with his whip without hesitation.

Cao Yong flashed sideways, and slashed around the corners of his eyes for something that could be used as a weapon, but there was nothing but the bucket thrown in the past, and he couldn't help screaming inwardly.

Who knew that the man was not good at using a whip, and he used the whip purely for the purpose of strangling people, so it was useless for him to throw the whip, and he almost caught himself when the whip turned around.He hastily let go of the whip, drew out the Mongolian knife hanging from his waist, and prepared to fight hand-to-hand.

What Cao Yong was most afraid of was the bunt. After a few rounds, he predicted his advance and retreat pace, and Hua Lengzi ruthlessly kicked the man on the calf of the man's left leg.The man staggered and fell to the ground, and rolled away from Cao Yong, but he couldn't stand up again.

Cao Yong quickly scanned for a week, moved to block the man's retreat, did not move, just stared at him coldly.Before the sun was up, Cao Yong could see the man's face clearly, completely unfamiliar, and he couldn't help wondering why his back was so familiar to him...Suddenly he woke up, this man was the one by the Karaqin River One of the assassins who assassinated Prince Uliji!

There were originally two assassins, but the one in front of him is one, but it is not known whether it is the scapegoat or the real one who is to blame.I don't know how many assassins there are in this group.And since the assassin came to the door, he might find out that Wenxiu was an eyewitness, so he came to silence him.That night, that night, Cao Yong thought of the jug and paper money forgotten behind the stones by the river, it seems that the assassin found Wenxiu through that.Who on earth is the other party? It is at least seven or eight hundred miles from Harqin to Bahrain, and he was able to track him so far.

The man kept staring at Cao Yong's face, seeing that he hesitated a little, he immediately seized the opportunity to attack suddenly, stretched his unlimped right leg, jumped up, and the dancer Mongolian knife slashed like Cao Yong.

Although Cao Yong was thinking about something, he was already on guard. He didn't leave his peripheral vision. When he saw that he was making a move, he dodged to avoid it.

The man fell to the ground, glanced at Wenxiu next to him, and then looked at Cao Yong, but he smiled smugly.

With a "plop", Wenxiu fell to the ground.Cao Yong hurriedly looked over, only to see her face was pale, and she was gasping for breath with her mouth open.

Cao Yong was terrified, and wanted to save Wenxiu, but was afraid that the man would act rashly, so he looked at the man's back vigorously and kicked him.The man spat out a mouthful of blood, seeing that he couldn't move.

Cao Yong stepped to Wenxiu's side and gently helped her up, only to see blood dripping from her back and a dagger stuck in her back.

The dagger didn't penetrate Wenxiu's heart, but it hurt her lungs.While Wenxiu was panting, blood continued to flow from his mouth and nose, and his eyes were a little blurred.

Seeing Wenxiu's state, Cao Yong knew that she was no longer able to do it, and felt annoyed that he was a step late, so he opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

Wenxiu's face gradually turned red, and a gleam of brilliance flashed in his empty eyes, and he whispered: "My lord...Wenxiu wants to go home..."

Cao Yong knew that this was a flashback, and felt unspeakably uncomfortable. He squeezed her hand tightly and nodded vigorously: "Well, go home. Don't worry, I will definitely take you home... What do you remember?"

Wenxiu's face showed joy, as if he was looking at Cao Yong, and also seemed to be looking at the distant sky: "The garden is full of sweet-scented osmanthus, and Wenxiu likes to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake...the magpies are chirping and falling...father said magpies It is good to attract money..."

"My younger sister is small, soft, and her eyes are dark and the most beautiful... But the day I had a younger sister, my mother died..."

"Nurse can sing a lot of tunes...'One goes two or three miles, and there are four or five houses in Yancun. There are six or seven pavilions and eight or ninety flowers.'"

"There is also 'big windmill, small wind, go to Yuhuatai, come back after eating noodles...'" Wenxiu's voice gradually became ethereal, and a lot of blood gushed out of her body, making her enunciation slurred, and finally into a slight hum.

Cao Yong couldn't help listening to it, and when he heard the song clearly, he froze when he heard "Yuhuatai".Yuhua Terrace belonged to Jiangning. Could it be that Wenxiu's home is in Jiangning? He wanted to ask again, but Wenxiu's eyes were closed, and her voice was dissipated in the evening wind.

This miserable woman ended her miserable and short life in this way.

"Jiangning, Osmanthus Garden, sister, Wenxiu, don't worry, I will take you home." Cao Yong squeezed Wenxiu's hand that was gradually losing temperature, and told her his promise in a deep voice.

Cao Yong was depressed and unstoppable, if he had come to Bahrain earlier, if he had just realized that the man was wrong, if...

Cao Yong put down Wenxiu's hand, stood up and roared, and rushed to the man's side to punch and kick him.

The man was lying on the ground all the time, motionless and silent. Cao Yong felt something was wrong, so he squatted down and raised his face, and saw a stream of black blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, and he had died of poison.

When the guards of the county king's mansion heard the strange noise and rushed over, they saw Cao Yong standing alone in the courtyard, the two corpses on the ground were already cold, and the strong smell of blood permeated the air, which lasted for a long time.

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Note: Nanjing Yuhuatai, the name began in the Song Dynasty.

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