Gong Xue has bandits

Chapter 16

In the dark room, it was cold and damp, only a small transom was opened at the top, letting in a few faint rays of light.

Fu Yuanzhi knelt on the cold ground, took off his outer robe, and only wore a white singlet. In order to punish him, the only heater in the room was also turned off, which meant that the second person in the room— —

The beautiful lady with icy eyebrows who was sitting on a chair with half of her body hidden in the darkness also stood next to him in the cold.

Fu Yuanzhi finally couldn't bear it anymore, raised his head and pleaded to that cold face: "Mother, although you punish the child, please don't suffer with the child, the child will feel distressed."

The lady smiled lightly: "You still know how to love your mother? If you really loved your mother, you wouldn't do such a thing."

Fu Yuanzhi's face turned pale, and the lady continued to say quietly: "Now you have a big idea, you have the ability and the means, you are really a great son of the prime minister, there is nothing you can't do, mother can't control you gone."

"No, it's not..." Fu Yuanzhi's lips turned white, he knelt on the ground and moved a few steps, and put his arms around the lady's knee, "Mother, I, I...that's Ah Jun, I can't leave her alone !"

The lady sat in the dark for a long time, then suddenly stood up, raised her hand and slapped her face away, and said sharply: "So you can make up your own mind, risk yourself, and go to the place where wolves den and tigers den? Have you ever thought about you?" No mother?!"

She picked up a handful of bamboo rattan by the table, got up and went around behind Fu Yuan, and gave him a ruthless slap on his thin back:
"From childhood to adulthood, how did your mother teach you that when you encounter anything, you should put yourself first, and you must never put yourself in danger. The life and death of others has nothing to do with you. Don't forget how hard your mother worked." You are in this family with you, so you don't care about your life!"

When the stern sound fell, the bamboo rattan slammed again, Fu Yuanzhi clenched his teeth, he didn't dodge the slightest bit, but held back the sound in a muffled voice.

"What's more, that's just an insignificant concubine, and it's worth your troubles to go around in such a circle secretly, even if you rescued her, so what, do you think there will be someone in Fengguo's mansion?" How grateful? How helpful is it to you? It's just thankless, stupid!"

"On the contrary, your father is suspicious by nature. He doesn't like children in the house to go over him and make decisions without authorization. This time you have made such a big 'lime'. He praised you, but how do you know what he thinks in his heart? He doesn't Without other children, is your position as an eldest son really as stable as a rock!"

The bamboo rattan pumped hard again and again, but the beautiful lady became more and more angry and pumped harder, even when she saw the bloodstains on the white singlet, she didn't stop.

"For so many years, your mother never let you stand out at will, and told you to hide your clumsiness when you should. Have you completely forgotten it? If your father really has other ideas this time, how should you deal with yourself? Over the years, your humility and obedience, your advances and retreats, all the efforts you have made, will be in vain?"

"Don't grit your teeth and hold back, shout out the pain and answer mother!"

Fu Yuanzhi's shoulders trembled slightly, cold sweat dripped from his forehead, and when another bamboo rattan was slammed down, he yelled hoarsely: "Mother!"

His back was covered with blood, and his vision became blurred. Looking at the faint light from the transom at the top, every word he uttered was extremely difficult: "Others...the lives of others, I don't care... But Ah Jun can't, only She can't, I can't let go..."

As soon as the words came out, the beautiful lady's complexion changed suddenly, her palms trembled, and she almost broke the bamboo rattan, "How can you be bound by a worthless thing, and have a weakness that you can't let go of! When necessary, even your mother, you You can also give it up! Have you forgotten what your mother told you, why are you so worthless!"

Fu Yuanzhi was beaten to the side, almost fell down, his temples were buzzing, but he still braced his back, swallowed a mouthful of blood, and insisted: "No, mother, I won't give up... Ah Jun, I won't give up... Huishe... My child has someone I want to protect... If those people are gone... Even if I get monstrous power... what's the point..."

"You, you bastard!" The beautiful lady's eyes were red, and when she wanted to fight again, she barely stopped in mid-air. While her breathing was disordered, she suddenly threw the bamboo rattan, covered her face, and her figure trembled slightly. It hasn't moved for a long time.

Fu Yuanzhi noticed something, turned his head to look at the boundless darkness behind him, and panicked: "Mother, are you crying? It's all about the child's fault, which made mother sad..."

The beautiful lady didn't say a word, but after a long silence, she slowly lowered her hands, her face returned to a cold and solemn look, except for the reddish circle around the corners of her eyes, nothing unusual could be seen.

"You should have thought about it here, think about what you should do and what you should not do. There is still a long way to go. Mother can't accompany you for the rest of your life. Mother... I just hope you are well."

After finishing speaking, she turned around and left, dragging a lame foot, trying to maintain her appearance, and walked out the door step by step.

Lame lady, Lame lady Zheng, Fu Yuanzhi blinked, and for some reason, looking at the back of his mother going away, the songs that the elder brother and the second brother made up to laugh at their mother and son suddenly sounded in his ears in those years——

"The lame lady is ugly, the lame lady is strange, there is a lame lady Zheng in Xiangfu, she gave birth to a sick Jiaojiao, she walks with her on her back, lame, lame, slow..."

Tears gradually blurred his vision, and his chest was blocked by overwhelming soreness. He bent down a little bit, touched the blood-stained bamboo vines on the ground, buried his head, and suppressed his sobs: "Mother, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

When Zheng Fengyu married into the Fu Mansion, Fu Yuexi had just been promoted to Deputy Prime Minister not long ago. He was young and promising, and his future was boundless.

Zheng Runing hadn't lost his power at that time, a generation of great Confucians in the imperial court, his disciples were all over the world, and countless people admired him.

Among them, Fu Yuexi was included.

But his "admiration" is not that simple, he is a person who does everything with a purpose, he visited the Zheng Mansion several times, and he just wanted to use Zheng Runing's prestige to win the hearts of scholars all over the world and get this great admiration help.

But Zheng Runing has been upright all his life, and he doesn't like to form cliques in the court for personal gain. Once he comes and goes, he sees Fu Yuexi's utilitarianism, and he doesn't like to see this young man with evil intentions.

Fu Yuexi was not annoyed either, and came to the door with a smile as before, dressed so handsomely, and behaved so politely that no one could find a single fault.

Even though Zheng Runing said he was ill and refused to see him, he had no temper and just walked around Zheng's mansion, admiring the beautiful scenery of early autumn.

It was under such circumstances that he met Zheng Fengyu, the only daughter of Zheng Runing, in the midst of the waterside pavilions in the early autumn of this year.

She sat in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, pulled down two layers of white gauze, and played the piano elegantly with her slender hands, just like the sound of nature, the water surface was shimmering, her figure was shadowy, her temperament was like a fairy, and Fu Yuexi, who was used to beauties, could watch it all the time shocked.

In fact, in the hearts of countless disciples of Zheng Runing, Zheng Fengyu has always been a fairy-like beauty who can be seen from a distance but not be blasphemed.

They didn't know that the fairy sitting in the middle of the lake, playing the piano through a light veil, was actually... a cripple from birth.

Zheng Fengyu inherited his father's rigid temperament, with strong self-esteem, and never walked in front of others. Even in the mansion, there was always a sedan chair decorated with flowers and fragrances waiting for her to travel.

In this way, she became even more noble and mysterious in the hearts of the disciples. In addition, she was born smart and had a photographic memory. Countless people fell in love with her, and Fu Yuexi was no exception.

If she hadn't met Fu Yuexi, Zheng Fengyu might never have married in her life. She would rather let herself hang in the hearts of others like a bright moon, than fall to the ground so hard that the beautiful phantom would be shattered, and she would be in a state of embarrassment. mud.

However, when she met Fu Yuexi, it was the first time in her life that she knew the feeling of a rapid heartbeat. She was powerless to resist, and she wanted to gamble once, so she went to her father.

Zheng Runing looked at her daughter for a long time before sighing: "I don't doubt his intentions, but I want to ask, Feng Yu, are you sure he will treat you like this after he knows about your hidden disease?"

Zheng Fengyu bit his lips lightly, and after thinking for a long time, he lowered his head and said a paradoxical passage: "He is a man of glory, he is very gentle, his poems are beautiful, and the white dove he conjures is also beautiful. Very cute, he, he is very good... My daughter wants to gamble once."

Zheng Runing hesitated for a long time between Zheng Fengyu not marrying for life and marrying Fu Yuexi, but finally heaved a long sigh and chose the latter.

He thought that even after getting married, Fu Yuexi discovered Zheng Fengyu's lameness, but he should also take into account his relationship with her. After all, Zheng Fengyu is such a good girl, except for this inborn deficiency, there is nothing that is not worthy of Fu Yue Xi.

Unfortunately, Zheng Runing was wrong, or rather, Zheng Fengyu made a wrong bet.

Fu Yuexi has never been a person who values ​​affection, and the love of children is nothing in his heart, far inferior to power and status. For this reason, he was puzzled by Wen Renjing for a while, watching him struggle with family and relationship. Between the beloved, he shook his head in amazement, even when he was drunk and asked him to talk, he raised his lips and smiled:
"Isn't it just a woman? Is it so hard to let go?"

Wen Renjing and Fu Yuexi were brothers who had grown up since they were young. They cried without any scruples in front of him, like a child: "I like Xiaomei, I really like Xiaomei, haven't you ever liked a girl?" Is it a woman..."

"Woman?" Fu Yuexi frowned, and after pondering for a while, she smiled softly: "There can be many women, but there is only one way to go straight to the sky. If this woman can't accompany me to the place I want to go, then she will be in the first place." , it will not enter my eyes, and I will not have these troubles you have today."

"Ah Jing, a man's ambition is in the world, don't be tied down by the love of your son and daughter, listen to me, if you want to break it, you will break it, otherwise you will be messed up by it."

This kind of Fu Yuexi is far more forgiving than Wen Renjing, and he is willing to let go, because he is cruel enough, realistic enough, and cold enough.

On the day he married Zheng Fengyu and entered the door, apart from a little love in his heart, what was more, he had the heart to win over the Zheng family.

But all of this was brutally broken in the early morning of the second day after the bridal chamber.

Zheng Fengyu was carried into the church by the mother at home. The Zheng family made up a set of hometown customs to deal with it, and did not reveal it in front of the guests. After the worship, the mother directly carried Zheng Fengyu into the bridal chamber, so there has been no one. It was discovered that she had problems with her legs and feet.

And on the wedding night, she never got out of bed, so Fu Yuexi, who was drunk, didn't notice it until the next morning, when he saw his wife limping with water and wanted to give him water. When she wiped her body, she suddenly sat up, and said in a trembling voice:

"You, your leg... what's going on?"

Zheng Fengyu's face was calm, and it was obvious that she was fully prepared. She lowered her head slightly, and a strand of hair brushed her ears, making it even more beautiful. After confessing everything, her tone implied pleading:
"Husband, I know I'm wrong. I didn't hide it from you on purpose. It's just that I... I'm too scared. Please forgive me."

Zheng Fengyu has always been high-spirited, and has never lowered her head in front of a person like this. For this day, she has rehearsed countless times in her heart.

In fact, she once asked him, when she was most affectionate, she sat in the waterside pavilion, raised her eyes and asked him, if one day she was blind, lame and dumb, would he still treat her as before? ?

Every answer he gave made her feel more at ease, and made her feel that God treats her well, and there will be someone who loves her so much and cherishes her so much that he doesn't care about anything but her.

However, the answer this time made her face turn pale, as if falling into hell.

"Born with a lame, the other one was born with a lame... The raw rice has been cooked, and you ask me if I mind. It turns out that you are not only good at playing the piano, but also good at abacus!"

Fu Yuexi smiled coldly, knocked over the basin of water, got up and walked away, and never looked at Zheng Fengyu again.

Zheng Fengyu's bet was wrong, not because of his love, but because of Fu Yuexi.

He doesn't need an unforgettable love, he just needs a wife who is glamorous enough to be brought to others hand in hand, and matches him, not like Zheng Fengyu, who has a lame foot and a deformed body, who can only hide in the deep house forever "shame".

And at this moment, something even more "worse" happened.

Fu Yuexi proposed the reform of the scientific examination system for the benefit of a small group of "nobility", which caused riots among students all over the world. He went to Zheng Runing for help, hoping to suppress these opposing voices, but Zheng Runing not only kicked him out, but also stood up. Stand out for the world's students, bring tens of thousands of blood letters, enter the palace to face the saint, and impeach him mercilessly in front of all civil and military officials.

This reform naturally "died", and Fu Yuexi was full of hatred. After returning home, he lifted the table full of food and yelled at Zheng Fengyu who was waiting for him in the cold night:
"Are you satisfied? First you tricked me into marrying you, and now you're going to sue your father and ask him to take revenge on me. They say that the lame man has a vicious heart, and you are the most vicious one!"

Zheng Fengyu was turned pale by the yelling, and her body couldn't help trembling. She tried hard to control her breathing, looked up with tears shining, and said word by word: "I have never, never told my father what is wrong with you, even you On the day I let me go home alone, I also told him that you treated me very well, very well, and never disliked my lameness, because you said that no matter what I look like, you will always like me and take care of me ..."

"Enough!" Fu Yuexi interrupted, turned his back, breathing irregularly, maybe because of the little bit of affection from before, he didn't get angry at Zheng Fengyu anymore, but became more indifferent to her.

Zheng Fengyu is not afraid of the cold, anyway, she is used to the cold at night alone, but she never thought that Fu Yuexi would be so cruel.

In midsummer of the second year, he married Prince Qing's daughter, welcomed him into the mansion as a wife, and regarded him as his mother.

The mistake of the scientific examination reform was covered up, his official career continued to be smooth sailing, and he was full of glory in the government and the public.

Except for one place, it was deserted, like a dry well, in which sat a crippled girl with deathly silence in her eyes.

The day before Fu Yuexi got married, she met Zheng Fengyu. She asked someone to send a message to him. When he really came, she just looked at him for a long time and asked desolately:
"Fu Yuexi, it's my fault for lying to you, but in fact...you never really loved me, right?"

Like a ridiculous dream, she woke up unbearably, no hysteria, no regrets, only wordless calm and coldness, the frail figure wrapped in black hair, made Fu Yuexi's nose sore, Rarely reddened eye sockets:

"I have never valued the word love. The man's ambition is Lingyun. I can only say that you are... the first girl I'm attracted to."

(End of this chapter)