Seeing the chaos at home, Zhang Kunlun tried to stand up, but found that his legs and feet were weak. After watching the beheading process in the morning, his whole body felt bad.
"Master, what should I do if General Ghost Slaughter and Master Wang want to come in?" The housekeeper also said, "They are already waiting in front of the door."
"No, no," Zhang Kunlun said quickly, "Let them leave quickly."
"Father." Zhang Xuanyi, who had been frowning, stepped forward and said, "This time the Ghost Slaughter Cavalry was not as tough as Chuang Huang's. Instead, he waited at the door to ask. If he refused too much, he might annoy them."
Zhang Kunlun woke up with a start: "My son is right." He suddenly thought of an idea and hurriedly said: "Bring the pepper, get more, hurry! hurry!"
When the peppercorns were brought, Zhang Kunlun picked up the precious peppercorns and stuffed them into his mouth to eat. His face was immediately numb with tears streaming down his face.
Wang Zhi waited with a good temper, but Jin Ben was a little impatient. The lord asked him to do this. Although there was no set time, if the Zhang family wasted so much time, wouldn't it mean that the lord and mistress were waiting for him.
Jin Ben was about to kick in the door, but suddenly the door was opened. Hey, he had a big, swollen face, his mouth was crooked and his eyes were slanted, like a patient.
Wang Zhi was also startled, and after closer inspection he realized it was Zhang Kunlun: "Here, brother Kunlun, what's wrong with you?"
Zhang Kunlun was secretly happy. Zhang Xuanyi supported his father and said, "Master Wang, Your Excellency General, my father is not in good health. He has been recovering from illness recently and can no longer speak. The family has sent a servant to tell the eldest brother in Chang'an that he will be here soon." I'm going back, because I have a sick person at home, so I can't entertain you two, so please forgive me."
Wang Zhi smiled and said: "It turns out that brother Kunlun is sick."
Jin Ben said: "Since Zhang Kunlun is sick, he should rest at home."
Zhang Kunlun was overjoyed.
Jin Ben said again: "The prince wants to hear your son's Guangling San. Zhang Xuanyi, please prepare to follow me."
Zhang Kunlun's head was covered, and Zhang Xuanyi's face turned pale.
"Hurry up!" Jin Ben's patience was about to end.
When he left with the piano in his arms, the parents at home were in tears. Zhang Xuanyi felt even more humiliated. What was the difference between his behavior and that of a performer? Zhou Manzi bullied others to such an extent that he humiliated his family.
Jin Ben's brows were furrowed under his mask. Xuan Yi's face was alternately red and white. He must be suffering from some illness.
This delay took a lot of time, and Jin Ben was secretly upset.
Return to Jiangdu Palace.
Zhou Xu saw Zhang Xuanyi and said, "Can you play Guanglingsan?"
Zhang Xuanyi pinched his palms tightly and did not look at Youzhou Jiedu Envoy. He entered the palace alone: "It's just a small success."
"Then you play." Zhou Xu waved casually, hugging his wife and sitting on the throne of the main hall. He had listened to an opera with his wife before, and then he remembered Guangling's Guangling San. Such famous music should be appreciated with his wife.
Xiao Luolan looked at the famous man from Guangling who had been invited over, and saw him sitting at the banquet, playing with the strings of the piano, wearing yellow clothes and blue shoes, and he was very elegant.
When the strings are first played, the remaining sound is clear and has a sense of winding.
Xiao Luolan listened quietly.
Guangling powder floated out from this famous person's piano, and the music began to become passionate and generous. The sound speed was changeable and majestic. Zhang Xuanyi's face gradually turned rosy while he was playing the piano. Infected by him, the indignation and unyielding tone in the music almost became almost Breaking through his heart.
At this moment, he realized.
He used the zither to carry the Tao and practiced hard for ten years. What was missing in the sound of the zither was the murderous intention in his heart. Zhou Manzi was close in front of him. In ancient times, there was a saying that he practiced swordsmanship for ten years and stabbed the king of Han before he could stop singing in Guangling. Today, although he had no choice but to give a Even the northern barbarians who played the harp would never give in like this.
The resentful and miserable piano music became more and more passionate and overbearing. Xiao Luolan could feel the murderous aura even from a distance away.
Zhou Xu sat up slightly and looked at the famous man playing the piano in the palace.
The music that filled the hall suddenly stopped, and Xiao Luolan's heart skipped a beat.
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty, the string of my piano is broken." Zhang Xuanyi stood up, with blood on his five fingers.
Zhou Xu looked at the disdain and arrogance that could not be concealed in this man's eyes and smiled.
He held the lady's hand and patted the back of her hand gently, telling her not to speak for the time being. The lady was kind-hearted and if she saw this person injured, she would definitely let him go to recuperate.
But the heart of a scholar is dark, and there are many twists and turns.
When playing the piano, the strings break, which means that a close friend is hard to find. Does this famous scholar Xuanyi think that he and his wife are not worthy of listening to Guangling San?
Regardless of whether Zhang Xuanyi broke the string intentionally or not, Zhou Xu already had malicious suspicions in his mind.
"It turns out that the string of the piano is broken." Zhou Xu narrowed his eyes slightly: "Xia He, go and get ten pianos."
Zhang Xuanyi was startled, and for some reason, he had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Guang Ling San hasn't finished playing yet. Since the piano you brought is broken, please change it and continue playing."
"You can leave only when all the pianos in Jiangdu Palace are broken."
Zhang Xuanyi was startled and looked at the dozen or so harps around him.
Zhou Xu showed a malicious smile: "Now, you can play."
Until nightfall, the sound of the piano in the hall was intermittent. Xiao Luolan listened to the originally exciting piano sound gradually turning into intermittent and untuned syllables.
Zhang Xuanyi only broke one of the ten pianos. His ten fingers were almost intact. Every time he touched the strings, his ten fingers would touch the strings once, until the flesh and blood were blurred, the phalanges were visible, and blood flowed. The floor was covered, and the painful moans and groans had already drowned out the sound of the piano.
The soldier kept holding his hand and asked him to play the piano.
The screams resounded throughout the hall.
Xiao Luolan listened to the harsh curses of barbarians, butchers of aristocratic families, and old slaves who were inferior to pigs and dogs. He could no longer bear to walk out of the palace and came to the courtyard. Those screams gradually became inaudible.
"The kid from the Zhang family is really hateful." Zhou Xu followed his wife out, and when he saw her avoiding him, he felt furious: "I'll have him chopped down."
Xiao Luolan quickly turned around and found Sect Leader Zhou standing behind her.
Zhou Xu looked down at Madam, stretched out his hand and wiped the bottom of Madam's eyebrows: "Madam, are you crying?"
Xiao Luolan felt that she was such an adult, and it was really shameful for Sect Leader Zhou to see her ungrateful side, and the watery look in her eyes disappeared from nowhere: "No."
She just doesn't like the world but can't change it.
Where does the southern family's hatred for the death of Sect Leader Zhou come from? Will the dead family extend their hatred to the living family? That kind of strong murderous hatred made Xiao Luolan feel that these people put Zhou The sect leader and the others hated them as Turks. In the early years of Ming Dynasty, sect leader Zhou also protected them from the Turks.
Is it because Sect Leader Zhou was born in the North and made his fortune in the military, so his status will always be inferior in the eyes of the Jiangnan clan?
Xiao Luolan didn't understand, and even suffered from the thoughts in his mind.
This world is like a shackles, and everyone is shackled.
She is, so is Sect Master Zhou, everyone is.
Chapter 216
"I really want to listen to a song. The children of the Zhang family are all acting like monsters." Zhou Xu looked at his wife with pity in his heart. He would try his best not to let her hear those howling and cursing sounds next time, lest she get upset and depressed.
"Let him go later, madam, be more cheerful." Zhou Xu comforted him.
"There will be singing and dancing in the evening. The green waist dance here in Guangling is quite famous. When my daughter and Shiliu come back, we can enjoy it together."
Xiao Luolan looked at this man's arrogant appearance, and her uncomfortable and suppressed emotions faded a little. She didn't want to enter the hall for the time being. Listening to Zhang Xuanyi's screams and curses, she wanted to escape: "Then I'll go outside the palace to see Let’s see if Qingxue and the others are back.”
Zhou Xu looked at his wife's figure and asked Xia He and Dong Xue to follow.
He returned to the main hall.
Finally, he stood next to the body that was as limp as mud, and looked down at the famous Guangling scholar with a distorted face in pain.
Zhang Xuanyi opened his eyes with difficulty. He felt as if he had been fished out of water. His clothes were soaked and his hands were useless. He propped himself up on his elbows. The next second, he fell heavily back onto the gold bricks of the hall. , with stars on his head, almost fainting, the hatred in his heart is even worse, his voice is hoarse, and his words are fierce and resentful: "He who often confiscates his family and exterminates his family, and is more violent than Jie and Zhou, is worthy of learning from King Yan Zhao's courtesy and virtuous corporal. The old thief is not afraid of being laughed at by the world."
Zhou Xu stepped on Zhang Xuanyi's hand and crushed it until all the bones in his hand were broken.
Zhang Xuanyi let out a miserable scream, his whole body shivered like a shrimp, and half of his life was lost before his eyes.
Wang Zhi, who was invited into the palace by General Jin, paused for a moment when he heard Zhang Xuanyi's curse, and then knelt down on the ground: "I pay my respects to the prince."
Zhou Xu asked Jin Ben to drag Zhang Xuanyi out and behead him.
He's not one to spoil a piece of shit when he's in a bad mood.
"It's a pity that one of the famous people in Guangling has passed away." Zhou Xu said with regret.
"Zhang Xuanyi's words were disrespectful and offended the prince, so he deserves this fate." Wang Zhi said.
"Come here, give Mr. Wang a seat." Zhou Xu ordered to the left and right.
There is a high sandalwood chair under the throne.
"Master Wang is old. I have always respected the old and loved the young. You can just sit and talk." Zhou Xu said.
Wang Zhi had a clear expression and walked calmly. He wore a purple robe with long sleeves and a white jade belt. He sat on the chair below: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for sitting down. I am deeply grateful."
"Wang Gong has a position with Wei Yanshan, and he naturally has a position with me." Zhou Xu said with a smile: "Apart from anything else, you can always identify the mastermind behind the murder of the son of the governor of Wu County. To be honest, I am very happy. Glad.”
Wang Zhi's eyelids jumped when he suddenly heard Duke Wei's real name being called, and he said: "I have been an official for decades and have always admired the honest and promising Governor Wu. I was also filled with righteous indignation when his youngest son was killed, but no one followed my words at that time. It is so sad and painful to have to watch the young prince of Chu Ling execute him."
"It is true that Duke Wang is not to blame for this matter." Zhou Xu nodded and said, "You have always obeyed the orders of King Chu Ling. Now that Duke Wang has no choice but to abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side, Wei Yanshan will not blame you."
"Wei Gong." Wang Zhi smiled bitterly and carefully considered his words, which seemed sincere but would not make Zhou Youzhou angry. He said, "Wei Gong treats me well. I can't say anything slanderous. I know that the prince and Wei Gong Power is the same as fire and water, they are incompatible.”
"Thanks to the prince's respect, I can survive."
"Now I am stuck in Guangling, and all I want in the end is to save the lives of my family."
"If the prince can show his noble hand, the old man will do his best."
Zhou Xu walked down the steps and held Wang Zhi's arm: "What did Wang Gong say? I, Zhou Xu, am so happy that I have received your help. How could I do such a bad thing before it's too late?"
"You can keep your heart in your heart." Zhou Xu patted Wang Zhi's arm with a smile and said with a smile: "Wang Gong is highly respected and should set an example for the Guangling City family. I have only been in Guangling for two days, and everything is still fine. I need Duke Wang’s help, but I know that many officials in the city misunderstand me.”
Wang Zhi broke into a cold sweat.
Zhou Xu thought about it and felt that he couldn't force the Guangling family too hard.
When Huainan Jiedu was envoy, Fu Nan had arrived at Xuanzhou on the east side of the Yangtze River. Apparently he was going to gather troops to attack Guangling. The aristocratic families in the city temporarily calmed down to avoid a fire in the backyard, and then said: "In order to turn dry silk into jade silk, I will not be there tomorrow." We have a banquet in the night building with Duke Wang and all the wise men of Guangling."
"Wang Gong, would you like to invite them together?" Zhou Xuxiao asked.
Wang Zhi cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty's words are serious. I will definitely attend the banquet when the time comes."
"That's good." Zhou Xu said, "It's all thanks to you, Wang Gong."
When Xiao Luolan came in, she found that Sect Leader Zhou and Wang Zhi were having a happy conversation. Seeing them discussing things, he asked his daughter and Shiliu to go to the side hall.
After Wang Zhi left, she learned about the banquet in the building tomorrow.
"You have killed too many of them in the past two days. Not many people will go tomorrow." Xiao Luolan felt that the Guangling family hated the Zhou clan leader so much that his plan might fail.
