"Xiu'er, don't ask any more questions. Er Niang will handle it herself."
When Er Niang heard this, her delicate body trembled slightly. She smiled and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and carefully snuggled into Zheng Xiu's arms.
Zheng Xiu gently patted Zheng Erniang's weak back like a child, and whispered: "Okay, if you say you won't ask, I won't ask."
"Um."
Zheng Erniang closed her eyes, her expression was peaceful, and her breathing gradually calmed down. The two held each other in this position until late at night, but she fell asleep at some point, snoring as gently and gently as a kitten.
Zheng Xiu quietly laid Zheng Erniang down on the bed, tucked the quilt tightly, and gently smoothed the knot between Erniang's eyebrows. Zheng Xiu looked at Zheng Erniang's sleeping face, and inexplicably remembered the random thoughts he had when facing the filthy "greedy" atmosphere. He sighed secretly and walked out of the house silently.
In front of the flowers, under the moon, the night is cool in autumn.
A free and easy figure leaned under the tree, holding a cigarette rod and smoking a small cigarette.
"My lord, what are your orders?"
The sensible Qing Shisan has been waiting here for Zheng Xiu all night.
Zheng Xiu walked out with his hands behind his back, walking like a dragon or a tiger. Inadvertently, his behavior revealed the majesty of a superior. Arriving under the tree, Zheng Xiu was not surprised that Qing Shisan would be waiting here.
Qing Shisan has always been like a roundworm in his belly, silent, neither salty nor bland, always making trouble at the most appropriate time.
Zheng Xiu looked calm: "Go and check."
"Okay!" Qing Shisan grinned, knocked the ashes from the dent in the cigarette rod, and responded without any hesitation: "I will reply to you tomorrow."
The next day.
Zheng Xiu got up early.
Last night, Jing Xuemei knocked on his window quietly, silently wanting to practice. Zheng Xiu was in a bad mood and ignored her.
This morning, I looked at the four girls with a faint dark blue under their eye sockets. It was obvious that their eyes were darkened due to lack of practice last night. They are all young people who are working hard to make progress.
There is a saying: I can't sleep alone on my pillow all night long, and the fragrance lingers in the empty valley without anyone asking.
After breakfast, Zheng Xiu burned incense and took a bath. He dressed grandly and made an appointment with his second mother to enter the Zheng family's ancestral hall to burn incense and worship his ancestors.
He didn't choose his life, he focused on being casual, and Zheng's good man was so free and easy.
Zheng Erniang looked depressed and worried at first, so she knelt on the soft cushion and bowed several times.
As the incense filled the ancestral hall, Zheng Xiu closed his eyes and muttered something.
Erniang didn't pay attention at first, but gradually Zheng Xiu's words became more and more weird, and she couldn't help but prick up her ears to listen.
What "ancestors protect you, and you will always be contented";
What about "the ancestors bless him and Feng Bei to have a son soon";
"Keep that cat from getting into trouble";
"Bless him, Zheng Xiu, to become stronger with each passing day";
"Bless the chrysanthemums in the back garden to bloom with prosperity";
“Bless Dagan and there will be no other princes;”
"Bless Old Wei to live for a few more years so that he can protect our Zheng family;"
"Bless your two mothers to stay young forever;"
Later Zheng Xiu said:
"Dad, dad, you were a wise and powerful person, your deeds moved heaven and earth, and your ghost is still there. You don't want the Zheng family's incense that you are so proud of to end here with us, right?"
Hearing this, Erniang was stunned. She stretched out her two fingers to pinch the soft flesh around Zheng Xiu's waist. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and whispered: "Don't make blind wishes. Do you think our ancestors are earth temples? They will give you everything." Do you bless me?"
Zheng Xiu smiled and said: "Aren't our ancestors just here to protect their descendants? When I return to the West a hundred years later, won't I have to be coaxed and begged by my descendants? Just ask dad whether they agree or not!"
"You have to have children and grandchildren!" Er Niang was interrupted by Zheng Xiu, and she immediately forgot her own worries and covered her mouth with a smile: "Look, Er Niang, a few of them have been running towards you very diligently recently, Feng. Miss Bei just agreed?"
Zheng Xiu was stunned. Has this been discovered?
"Er Niang didn't mean to say anything to you, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that Feng Bei is deeply in love with you. Of course Zhi Zhi and the others have been unable to leave you for a long time, but you can't favor one over the other. You will get the rain and the dew equally."
These four words, "the rain and the dew are all wetted by them", originally sounded strange, but when they came from Er Niang's mouth, it made people feel so natural.
Stepping out of the ancestral hall, the two walked side by side.
The golden fallen leaves in the ancestral hall courtyard are spread all over the ground, giving people the illusion that the ground is covered with gold. Looking at the quiet and peaceful scenery in front of her, Er Niang suddenly sighed: "Er Niang suddenly remembered that you suffered in prison last autumn. Maybe it was your parents who knew well and protected you secretly that allowed you to get through the difficulties. "
Zheng Xiu took the initiative to hold Er Niang's hand, and the two walked like siblings. Hearing this, Zheng Xiu smiled and said: "A person has gone through a lot of hardships throughout his life and walked alone. He cannot always hope that the sky will drop the curtain and the predecessors will protect him. My current status is all due to my own efforts."
Er Niang rolled her eyes: "Then you still beg?"
Zheng Xiu was serious, raised an index finger, and said with a smile: "If people don't work hard, just asking for shelter is called daydreaming. Working hard first, and then asking for shelter, is called the icing on the cake."
"Haha, yes, yes, our Xiu'er can become the Red King respected by thousands of people today, all because of your own efforts." Er Niang covered her mouth with a smile and agreed: "The Red King of our Zheng family is indomitable. You should tell Er Niang, when do you plan to pick a good and auspicious day, marry the girl in the house, and then let dad bless you to have a few fat and white Zheng children?"
When Zheng Xiu heard this, he inexplicably thought of the cannibal painting in his mind. He and Feng Bei were in the desert outside the Great Wall, witnessing the simple people of the Lieri Tribe, on the day they got married.
…
"So I decided to become a...mystery."
"You will always wonder why. You will never be able to solve it, figure it out, or guess it. I, Xie Luohe, want to be your destiny, a mystery that will never be solved."
"A mystery you can't solve!"
…
Zheng Xiu stopped as he walked, his eyes blurred, hiding melancholy.
Feng Bei couldn't tell, so why wasn't he?
Just like Xie Luohe said on the wedding night.
She became a mystery, entrenched between Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei.
As a result, the two people who were supposed to be together are now working hard to adapt to a new relationship.
Er Niang looked slightly startled and couldn't help but stretch out her white palm and wave it in front of the Red King.
The Red King came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Let me think about it again."
Er Niang secretly wondered whether this child was really considering... which girl to marry?
Are there too many girls in the family?
After walking for a while with Zheng Erniang, Erniang looked calm today, as if she had left yesterday's depression behind. Zheng Xiu secretly asked his family members to take care of Er Niang and then walked out of Prince Chi's Mansion.
At three o'clock in the morning, he first went to the Disaster Prevention Bureau. As soon as he stepped into the Red King's office, he saw a figure curled up on his desk.
Upon closer inspection, it turns out to be Snake, one of the sisters from the Western Regions who has not had time to pay attention to since Lu Town.
Zheng Xiu stepped forward in confusion and slapped the snake to wake it up.
The snake opened its eyes, spittle flowed from its mouth, fell on the table, and puffed out a few wisps of smoke.
When Zheng Xiu saw this, he twitched his lips and took a few steps back. Are you going to put poison in this king's territory?
His incarnation is not afraid of poison, but his body does not have such a constitution.
Can I sue you for attempted murder of the prince?
Snake woke up in a daze, with a face that was both familiar and unfamiliar before her eyes. She opened her arms toward Zheng Xiu in confusion, and there was an intoxicating fragrance under the veil, which was the smell of snake saliva.
"Brother, give me a hug..."
Zheng Xiu patted his head. Of course he had not had a showdown with She and Ye. They were not familiar with Zheng Xiu and really thought that Zheng Xiu had a nephew. At this time, the snake clearly mistook the two people, who looked 99% similar, as the same person.
There's nothing wrong if you think about it.
Zheng Xiu picked up the snake, threw it aside, and said angrily: "Did you regard my desk as a snake's nest?"
"Hiss!" Snake suddenly woke up when he heard Zheng Xiu's voice. His delicate body bounced to the wall, and he exclaimed in surprise: "It's you, you perverted king!"
Zheng Xiu: "...???"
Is your tongue so split that you can't pronounce it normally?
"Silver" and "red" are so different, can they be wrong?
If you can't speak, speak less.
Zheng Xiu immediately straightened his face and sat on the expensive chair. He looked at the snake saliva on the table that had corroded a small piece of the wood and was still smoking. Zheng Xiu had no choice but to scold him. Ask: "What are you doing here?"
"Hmph, I'm looking for your nephew! Where did you hide him?"
Snake looked like he was raising an army to accuse him.
"Oh? Are you looking for him?" Zheng Xiu was stunned and thought to himself, why are you looking for my incarnation when you have nothing to do?
"What does it have to do with you?"
Even though Zheng Xiu used his identity as "Zheng E" to say good things about himself along the way, Snake still didn't leave a good impression on Red King. Zheng Xiu pointed to the venom on the table and said calmly: "It doesn't matter. By the way, if you damage public property, you will be compensated ten times, and your monthly payment will be deducted for three months."
"You!" Snake glared angrily and pointed at the Red King's nose with trembling fingers. She never expected that the Red King would actually show his capitalist face in front of her. After pointing for a while, in the calm expression of the Red King , the snake was defeated and muttered: "Hmph, it doesn't matter, my sister will support me anyway. Please tell me where your nephew is! We have an appointment when we come back!"
Zheng Xiu was stunned again.
The snake's eyes wandered, holding the tablet in both hands, and hummed: "Let's talk about it first, the snake is not looking for him on his own. He obviously said that when he comes back, he will borrow the snake's venom... to practice, yes! He said he would Practice! He said he was practicing an ulterior path and needed the venom of snakes!"
"He's begging me... hiss!"
Snake didn't have much confidence in what she said at first, but as she continued to speak, she began to believe it, her voice became louder and louder, and she felt confident.
Zheng Xiu thought about it carefully, and it seemed that he had mentioned this matter casually on his way back from Lu Town. But because he had been busy practicing with Lanhua Yiren in the past few months after returning from Lu Town, he forgot about it in the blink of an eye.
A snake and four orchids, Zheng Xiu felt that he had no choice.
"Sure." Zheng Xiu thought for a while. The villain's physique was stuck at the bottleneck, and he was already immune to the poisonous water specially prepared by Ji Hongou. Since the snake took the initiative, Zheng Xiu made an appointment for the snake to come to the door of the villain. Let's see if her venom can improve the villain's [Physique] exceptionally.
"It seems that I should have a personal secretary who can make the schedule for me."
Recently, Zheng Xiu has been busy with worldly affairs and has neglected his spiritual practice in his busy schedule. This makes Zheng Xiu secretly blame himself. But who told him to practice a lot of things now? In addition to the magical arts, he also had to improve the attributes and skills of his avatar. He was really short of clones... No, what he was training now was the clone.
"Why do some people keep asking me to practice spiritual practice recently?"
Zheng Xiu was talking to himself in the office.
In the past, he was the only one who could harvest people's wool. Now, looking back, it's no wonder that after the four girls became strangers, their magical skills improved rapidly, and he unknowingly became the wool for them to harvest.
Speaking of secretary, Zheng Xiu thought of one person. It seems that Ye is quite suitable. Ye's character is the closest to Zheng Xiu's impression of a "female secretary", capable of doing things and not afraid of honor or disgrace.
While he was thinking about how to ask Wei Chen for someone, after a while, Zheng Xiu left a note for Jiang Gaoyi on the table, asking him to sort out all the conspiracy files of the past few months in three days and send them to the emperor three days later. At the palace, he walked out of the disaster prevention station humming a tune.
In the afternoon, Zheng Xiu took the opportunity to go to Mo Ji's house.
Zheng Xiu asked everyone who had personally experienced the birth of a "child" in Lu Town to keep it a secret. Currently, only the original anti-pornography team knows about this matter.
What does it feel like to be a father?
Zheng Xiu didn't know.
However, I occasionally learned from the information sent back by the Brotherhood that the child Mo Liang had been having a hard time these past two months, and it seemed that he still had not been able to complete his identity transformation from "child" to "father".
"Red King Red?"
Zheng Xiu came to Mo Lie's house. When Mo Lie opened the door, his hair was messy and his eye sockets were sunken.
"Where's your baby?"
Zheng Xiu asked casually.
At this time, a palm-sized baby emerged from Mo Jiu's clothes. Its two black eyes had no whites, but vividly showed a hint of "timidity" and secretly looked at the Red King.
Zheng Xiu tried to reach out to Yuanying, but Yuanying swished back into Mo Zhuo's clothes.
Zheng Xiu asked a few questions, and Mo Jie answered truthfully.
This Nascent Soul is different from human babies. It does not eat or drink, sleeps or rests, cannot speak, and does not kiss anyone except Mo Jie. During this period, Xi'er also came to visit once, but Yuanying didn't look down on her and treated her equally.
"It seems that you are really his father."
Zheng Xiu was amused and said this, but he was still a little worried about this "Nascent Soul" that was born from Chang An secret. If the orange cat hadn't said it didn't matter at that time, Zheng Xiu would have killed the evil in the placenta no matter what.
In the past two months, Zheng Xiu had people secretly observe the relationship between Mo Ji and Yuan Ying. So far, the little guy has shown no harmful effects.
As for the "great tonic" mentioned by the orange cat, Zheng Xiu looked at the Nascent Soul that secretly popped out its little head from time to time from Mo Xiao's clothes, and shook his head in silence. Forget it, people can't, at least they shouldn't.
He is not a candle, and he must adhere to the bottom line no matter what.
Zheng Xiu found it hard to accept that he really wanted to "eat" this spiritual little guy as a magical elixir.
Before leaving, Zheng Xiu told Mo Jie not to let others see Nascent Soul. He threatened Mo Lie that once the previous Night Master found out, he would come to Mo Lie's door at all costs and take Mo Lie's life.
Mo Jiu had a sad face and couldn't say anything else except nodded.
"Huh?"
Just as Zheng Xiu was about to go out, he saw a thread-bound book on Mojiu's bookshelf.
"The Biography of Lan Xinruomeng".
"When will the sequel to this incredible book be released?"
Mo Jie was still in a state of fear, and replied in a daze: "The great writer Ximen Bei went out to collect materials. The new work he just published last month is now a hot seller in all major study halls."
"It's interesting, let me have a look."
Zheng Xiu blocked Ximen Bei several times without blocking him. This elusive writer made Zheng Xiu almost think that he was Zhu. To be honest, he was also very interested in the second episode of the heaven-defying story "Lan Xin Ruo Meng", so he asked Mo Jie to borrow it and went back to read it.
At sunset, Zheng Xiu returned to Prince Chi's Mansion, asked Pingping to make tea in the study, and righteously rejected Pingping's request to practice tonight, and opened "Lan Xin Ruo Meng" to have some fun.
Just after turning two pages, I saw the first sentence: "Last time, the couple had been married for three years and treated each other as if they were guests, but gradually the two had a grudge again." There was a knock on the door.
"Master, I'm coming back!"
It was Qing Shisan’s voice.
(End of chapter)
