The missing moon hangs on the sparse tung trees, which makes people feel quiet at first.
In the Marquis's Mansion, the halls inside and outside were completely stark, shrouded in the lifeless, deep water-like night.
In the cold and gloomy mourning hall, there were faint sounds of sobbing and choking, mixed with the sobs of the night wind, intermittent, miserable, and vague; occasionally, there were one or two civet cats' sad and resentful sounds. The strange scream floated into the ears, which was even more chilling and terrifying.
No one can understand He Yuting's melancholy and depression at this time.
His second son He Chengqi died inexplicably a few months ago; now his wife Princess Changqing is dead, his eldest son He Chenglin (Ling Yun) is also dead, his daughter-in-law Princess Huanyu is missing, and Emperor Zhao Yu of the Song Dynasty also hates him. He is deeply worried that his bad friend Ding Jinzhi has been cheating him, and Li Ruiyun and others do not trust him...
The target of public criticism, betrayal and alienation from relatives - at this time, he truly realized what it meant to be completely despaired of, and to feel that life would be worse than death.
He was in pain and wandering, and for a moment, he really wanted to die immediately. How much he wished he could find someone to talk to about the pain in his heart, but there was no such person.
At this time, he had no other choice but to numb himself with wine.
He drove away all the family members and guards, and sat alone in the flower hall, drinking cup after cup. While drinking, he chanted incoherently: "Whoever abandons me will not be able to keep yesterday's day; whoever messes with my heart will not be able to stay." I’m so worried today…”
Gradually, all consciousness became blurred. In a daze, he seemed to see Princess Chang Qing again, covered in blood, her eyes full of resentment, looking straight at him...
Shocked back to a thousand-mile dream. He Yuting woke up suddenly, and suddenly sat up from the brocade couch, sweating profusely, and felt his heart pounding wildly.
He calmed down, and it took him a while to come back to his senses, and found that he had returned to the dormitory at some point; a pair of red candles on the desk had been half burned, and the candlelight flickered, flickering, swaying everything in the room that was blurry. The wax dripped all over the table, like a pool of blood, bright red.
His heart couldn't help but tremble, and he wanted to call someone to wait on him. When he opened his mouth, he realized that his voice was so hoarse, "Here comes someone..."
He Zhong and two other attendants came in response.
He Yuting composed himself and asked after a long time: "What time is it now?"
He Zhong replied: "I'll give it to you, Lord Marquis, when I'm going to pay you a visit."
He Yuting waved them away. For some reason, he was completely sleepless at this time, lying on the brocade couch blankly, thinking about it, and felt that his mind was in chaos.
He didn't dare to sleep again, he was afraid that those nightmares would uncontrollably disturb his nearly collapsed mind; he was even more afraid that the ghost of Princess Changqing would come to see him again.
He only felt lonely and scared, and wanted to have a lovely person to accompany him, so he thought of his concubine Yu.
Mrs. Yu, yes, is He Chengqi's biological mother, that beautiful woman who is considerate, gentle and silent. Usually she always stays in her own place quietly, rarely speaking, making no sound, and has almost no sense of presence.
If it weren't for the fact that He Yuting was too confused and lonely now, and needed someone to listen to him express his inner depression, he would have almost ignored her existence, and even forgotten that there were still people in the Marquis' Mansion. There is such a person.
So he stood up shakily and got off the brocade couch, walked out of the room with empty steps, and walked towards Yu's residence step by step under the hazy moonlight.
Hanzhe kept chirping along the way. When he arrived at Yu's palace, the two attendants guarding the door were startled when they saw him, and hurriedly came forward to greet him.
There was complete indifference deep in He Yuting's eyes; he lazily said "hmm" and walked inside.
The two of them hurriedly approached with the smiling face, and said cautiously: "Master Marquis, it's so late, and Madam has already rested..."
He Yuting said angrily: "It's really unreasonable. Do I have to discuss the time when I come here? Can't I go in when she's resting?"
The attendant said awkwardly: "Of course not. But... Madam has ordered that she is feeling unwell tonight and no one is allowed to disturb her..."
He Yuting's long and narrow eyes were raised slightly, and he sneered: "Including me?"
"this……"
He Yuting ignored him and walked inside.
Seeing this, the attendant hurriedly stepped forward and said, "How about the Marquis introduce me to the young lady and report to the madam..."
Seeing that today's situation was a bit abnormal, He Yuting couldn't help but feel suspicious.
"If you dare to say one more word, don't blame me for being rude to you!" He Yuting's face was filled with anger, his eyes were on fire, and his expression looked more ferocious than ever.
Seeing the furious expression of the Marquis, the two attendants dared not say anything more; they could only look at each other with a look of fear and uneasiness.
He Yuting ignored them. Without looking back, he ran straight towards Yu's bedroom with his feet like the wind.
He rushed to the inner room in three steps and two steps at a time. Before he got close to the door, he heard some "strange" sounds coming from the room.
The voice sounded like one was drunk, lingering, flirting, and heart-warming. It made people blush and feel their hearts beat, and get goosebumps all over their bodies.
He Yuting felt his head pounding and his body stiffened instantly. His emotions were like falling from a high place to the bottom of a valley suddenly, and he could no longer tell what it felt like.
The situation before me seemed familiar. In a daze, he seemed to have returned to a few years ago, also in the Marquis's Mansion - to be precise, it should have been the Prince Consort's Mansion at that time, in a wing next to the study where he handled official business.
It's also a man and a woman secretly cheating on each other. The woman is Ge Shi, the wet nurse of his son He Chenglin; the man is... himself...
He never dreamed that after thirty years of going around in circles, this kind of thing would actually happen to him. It was really a reincarnation, and no one would be spared...
——"Don't you feel guilty when you think about what you have done?...Hmph, this is all your retribution!"
Somehow, his son Ling Yun's somewhat contemptuous words from the past still linger in his ears clearly.
Although his person is gone now (of course he didn't know that his son would escape death and still live well in the world), the words he said are like a dull knife, cutting into his heart. A heart numb with pain.
He suddenly wanted to laugh, but he couldn't. He felt a heavy sadness coming over his heart, and his heart seemed to be trembling with coldness.
——Haha, is it really like what my son said, retribution? Is everything retribution? …
He felt his chest getting more and more tight until he couldn't breathe; he forced himself to stand there, like a lifeless dead tree, his body motionless, not even blinking.
I heard a woman say: "Oh, I'm still a little worried..." That voice was soft and thin, as warm and cool as water, but it was Yu's.
Then came an all too familiar man's voice: "What are you worried about?"
Yu said: "Why don't you arrange a few more confidants to keep an eye on that old ghost."
The man said: "You, you are really unfounded. That old guy is as drunk as a puddle of mud. He won't wake up even if there is thunder, so how can he care about our affairs?"
Yu said quietly: "To be honest, now that I think about it, I still feel quite confused."
"Why, are you pitying him? What a woman's kindness!" The man sneered disapprovingly and said coldly: "Think about how he has treated you over the years - hum, actually... He is in this situation today because of himself!"
Yu sighed softly and said nothing.
The man said again: "Siyao, you are right to listen to me. As soon as the old guy dies, this Marquis's Mansion will be mine and yours. I will set you straight, and you won't have to swallow your humiliation and live a humble life like before. Now, when the time comes, I will also let you experience what it feels like to be a proud and outstanding mother-in-law!"
Yu said softly: "Really?..."
"Don't you still believe what I say?" The man smiled seductively, leaning his face affectionately against Yu Shi's ear, his voice was light and flirty, "This is what Gang Leader Li personally promised me!"...
He Yuting's hand hanging by his side was clenched little by little, the joints of his hands were stretched pale, the tips of his fingers sank deeply into the palm of his hand, pinching the tiger's mouth, and bright red blood seeped out in strands, but he could not feel the slightest trace of it. pain.
He gritted his teeth, with a livid face, and kicked the door open.
The eye-catching scene that he never wanted to see in his life immediately appeared in front of him, and he could see it at a glance. At that moment, he felt that all the blood in his body was rushing to his head.
The man and woman on the brocade couch were caught off guard and couldn't help but scream. They sat up in panic and wrapped their bodies tightly in brocade quilts.
They never dreamed that someone would suddenly break in at this time, without any warning before.
It shouldn't be, haven't you already greeted the attendants guarding the door? And the family maids who are helping you have been bribed - how could such an unprepared thing happen?
And the person who rushes in now is actually He Yuting, the person they least want to see and are most afraid of seeing!
The corners of He Yuting's lips were slightly depressed, and his Adam's apple rolled up and down rapidly; he was trying hard to suppress the surging blood.
"Shameless bitches..." His eyes were scarlet, he pointed at the two of them with trembling hands, and said almost every word through his teeth.
Then he suddenly turned around and shouted outside at the top of his lungs: "Someone is coming! Someone is coming quickly!"...
