When I woke up in the middle of the night, the sky was already clear, and the sun was shining into the room through the window lattice, and the stars were dotted. Judging from the decoration of the house, it seems to be a wing room in the mountains. It is very clean.
Ye Xia was lying on the bedside, probably asleep.
In the middle of the night, I opened my eyes and gasped, causing my body to throb again, and I couldn't help but moan.
Ye Xiayou suddenly woke up and raised his head, groping around to meet Ye Xiaoyou, and asked hurriedly: "Are you awake?"
Hearing Ye Hao's voice, he thought it was Yan Yan who had been waiting outside the house and pushed open the door. When he saw Ye San Geng with his eyes open on the bed, he was also happy and said, "Very good, very good."
On the bed, Ye San wanted to smile in agreement, but obviously he couldn't. Every time he moved the corner of his mouth, he felt a sharp pain, and his body felt as if it was being torn apart. He swallowed and said in a hoarse voice: "How many days have you slept this time?"
"Three days."
The speakers were not the four people inside the house, but the voices came from outside the house.
Hearing this voice, Ye San could even hold back the pain and laughed out loud, "Master Rabbit, what's the wind that brings you here?"
There was a "dong dong" sound, and a one-legged middle-aged man in white walked into the room on crutches.
The man was in his forties and was very fair. The most noticeable thing was his empty trouser legs that swayed as he walked.
"Of course your friend went to Xibo to find me." The man in white, who was called Mr. Rabbit in the night, licked his lips at Yan Yan, walked to the bed, looked at the face in the night, and said: "The third young master is quite resistant to beatings. From what your friend said, did he take three blows from an old Taoist priest who became a spirit?"
Ye Sangen said "Yeah" and wanted to speak again, but was torn by the pain like needles all over his body and was speechless.
"Just give it a little more time and you'll be fine. Your bones are no better than those of ordinary people, and you've resisted beatings since you were a child." Just when he met Ye Xia's turned eyes, even though they were empty and lifeless, the man called Lord Rabbit closed his mouth. Stopped the joke.
Although he had not seen her for three years, he was still instinctively afraid of his second young lady.
It's not that there is any difference between master and servant. In the hundred-acre mansion in Panshan, the capital, this level of superior and subordinate relationship is not important. As long as it is not disrespectful to the master, who is looked up to by both the government and the public, the relationship between master and servant is very important. It's rare to see someone as respectful and bossy as outside.
What makes this Xinglin Sage, who is somewhat famous throughout the Zhou Dynasty, feel fearful is simply that the second young lady who lives in Yejia is not like the other young masters who stay away from home all the time. She has a unique temper that even the head of the family, the prince, sometimes has. Obediently and obediently, ever since the real mistress who everyone in the palace missed and kept silent about left, she has become the new mistress of the Ye family.
Naturally, no one has said it but no one denies it.
After all, the second young lady, who has a bit of a shadow of her mother, is very convincing in what she says and does at such a young age.
Lord Rabbit bent down and reached out to hold his pulse gate in the middle of the night. A trace of majestic aura wandered through his body, and he said, "In the past few days, I have listened to two chatty monks saying something here and there. I got a general idea. This kind of Don't be brave when the time comes. Run if you can. If you can't run, just send the letter home. Do you think you will suffer from these three blows? "
Although there is a subtle difference in identity, having grown up around him since childhood, he also regards Lord Rabbit as a relative and elder, and naturally listens patiently to his words.
"Four of the twelve meridians are blocked, three of the eight extraordinary meridians are broken, and six of the twelve meridians are disrupted." Mr. Rabbit, who was sure that he would no longer be as thin as life and death in the past few days, took a few steps back. "Thanks to the second lady's careful thinking, otherwise if it were a day or two later, the old man would have to ask a few of us to carry you."
"Don't scare me." Ye Sangeng smiled bitterly. There is no Qi in his body now, and he himself can't even feel the meridians inside. "It's not as serious as what you said."
"Second Miss, look at what I'm talking about." Mr. Rabbit looked at Ye Xiayou and said with a smile, "I said that the Third Young Master didn't believe it, so the Third Young Master should have woken up first to see me practice medicine."
Ye Xiayou didn't say anything, just sat at the end of the bed, pulling a corner of the sheets back and forth in his hands.
Master Rabbit's words made Ye San smile bitterly. He suddenly looked at the slightly abrupt and empty trouser legs from the corner of his eyes. His face darkened and he blamed himself, "Master Rabbit..."
But before he could finish speaking, Mr. Rabbit, who knew what he was thinking by looking at his eyes, interrupted, "Why are you bitching so much? It's not as good as what the second lady looked like when she saw this place. Applying poison and doing medicine are all in the hands, these two hands It doesn't matter if you're still here." As he spoke, he patted his shoulder in the middle of the night and smiled freely.
Then he added: "Master Sifu and Miss Huimei are here, plus two big monks and a little Taoist priest, the five of them have been able to tour Wudang all over the place in the past few days."
The divergent topic successfully attracted Ye Sangen's attention. Thinking of the self-report he heard before he fell into coma, Ye San tried harder to get up, but the wound was involved, which caused a spasm. He broke out in cold sweat and groaned. Fortunately, Lord Rabbit took action at the right time. After tapping a few acupoints to stop it, Ye Xiayou was so angry that he finally scolded: "Why do you move around so hard? It doesn't hurt?"
As for her sister's sharp mouth, she also curled her lips towards Master Rabbit in the middle of the night, with the intention of complaining loudly. But Mr. Rabbit broke the story and said: "What the second lady said is that you have to learn from the prince on this point. If the world is too dangerous, just retreat. Just wait until you have the ability to find it again. It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge."
Ye San, who was suffering from his own suffering, didn't want to refute, and asked, "What are Sifu and Wenmei doing here?"
Of course Lord Rabbit didn't know. Due to his status, he had been living in seclusion in a side room these days.
Yan Yan said: "The ten-year ancestral battle between Longhu and Wudang."
Ye Sangeng, who had heard about it before, suddenly realized, but he still wondered: "There is no one in Longhu Mountain, how can we let the two of them come over? I am not afraid that someone will snatch these two purple lotuses along the way."
Who among the other three people in the room didn't understand what he said on the third day of the night? Although it was a joke, he was actually asking Ye Xiayou. After all, it was hard for outsiders to interfere in the affairs between their siblings if they knew about it.
Naturally, he could see the little thoughts in his heart in the middle of the night. Master Rabbit pursed his lips and smiled. It was strange that he, as an elder, didn't understand the weirdness of these siblings since they were young. Seeing his sister being angry and ignoring him, this boy must Teasing my sister in a roundabout way.
He must have understood the little plan he was planning in the middle of the night, and Yan Yan clasped his hands behind his back and ignored it.
There was silence for a while and no one spoke. Why didn't Ye Xie You understand his brother's secret plan? After all, he still couldn't keep a straight face, so he said: "Anyone who can seize this coveted position in his family's family in the ten-year ancestral dispute can be qualified for the position of reciter of the Royal Sacrifice Ceremony. , there are many good things going to and from the capital every year, and all the Miao Taoists who teach scriptures naturally want to give it a try. Longhushan has failed to grasp the key three times, and has been relying on others for thirty years, so this time it is natural to treat Xiaosi Xiao After all, it is a purple-gold lotus flower that is rarely seen in a thousand years. It is carrying a huge amount of luck and is desperate. There is nothing to be afraid of. "
Hearing the change in her sister's tone, Ye San even kicked him with her calf, "But I haven't seen them brother and sister for four or five years..." Before he could finish his words, Ye Xie pushed his legs away with force and frowned. Moved his position.
Ye San, who was asking for trouble, said dissatisfiedly: "You all saw me when I was in a coma. Those are also my younger brothers and sisters. I..."
"It would be better if you died." Ye Xiayou couldn't hold it back, scolded, stood up and left, "If you die, what sisters and brothers will you have!"
There was a sound of slamming the door and staggering movements, but before going out angrily, he still said in the direction of Yan Yan: "Scholar Yan, help find those two guys."
After all, they were a family, and Ye Xiayou, who was filled with resentment, still did not go against his younger brother's wishes.
The remaining three people in the room could only avoid this woman's sudden temper.
Seemingly out of anger, he left at night. After Yan Yan, the scholar, also left, Ye San asked, "How has your family been doing in the past few years?"
I really didn't expect to ask such a question so openly. Master Rabbit deliberately avoided the midnight gaze, changed his direction, and looked at Ye Xiayou outside the door who had not left. He stared at the woman's undulating shoulders and sighed. Said: "It's not just like that."
Holding on to his crutch, Mr. Rabbit walked to the wooden table in the center of the room and sat down. He calmed down and said it was more like a helpless confession.
He sighed and said: "If there is no change, the fourth brother is still staying with his wife, and he will not listen to anyone's advice. If there is a change, that is, the prince, unless the person above him has something important, it is estimated that three acres of I didn't even want to go out when I was assigned a piece of land. I opened a piece of land behind the mountain and planted everything to death. I carried a hoe to dig the land every day. Since you and the second lady hid, the old man has never mentioned you anyway, and later he gave an order not to mention you at home. Two of you, whoever brought it up will hit you. If you make your sister come back during the holidays, she will have to find something to do in the yard. No one dares to stop her, for fear of getting into trouble. The fourth brother doesn’t care, saying that it’s just a holiday. Ring, drive away evil spirits. The prince was afraid of the girl, so he just let it go. In the past few years, when he came to Xiumu, Daojiangbei Hetong and those rough guys came back from the army and could not drink more than a few sips of wine. beat."
Master Rabbit said too generally, "Three years ago, when there was such a fuss, none of them talked to you." He poured a glass of water to drink, and Master Rabbit said again, "Every one of them was hit by the old man. He is very stubborn, especially Dao Jiangbei. When he paid New Year's greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year last year, he still had to drink red envelopes the night before, so he insisted on asking the old man to seal red envelopes. If one was not enough, he asked for two, saying that he would keep it with you. You don't know, let him The old man kicked him all the way from the hall to the patio. He coughed up blood, and even shouted that he was responsible. If it weren't for the officials from the DPRK who went to pay New Year's greetings to the old man to pull him away, the old man would really not recognize his adopted son. "
The third night of the night was silent.
"But then again." The conversation changed. This middle-aged man whose real name was definitely not "Master Rabbit" first glanced at the scholar in green shirt who seemed to be pretending to be nonchalant, intentionally or unintentionally. However, he still did not avoid it and said: "Whether it's Lao Ma or Linglong, I didn't notice anything at first, but now the more I think about it, the more something is wrong. I've been talking about this a lot this year. Did you two deliberately cause this mess? ?”
Just like how he didn't shy away from the third watch of the night just now, Master Rabbit's question was also direct. Each of the twelve horsemen performs their own duties, such as Master Rabbit's practice of medicine and poisoning, the old dog who occupies the Xu position and is good at tracking, and the old man whom Master Rabbit mentioned just now. Ma and Linglong can be regarded as the wise men among these twelve people. They nodded their heads in all matters big and small, which means that everything is done easily. Their ability to strategize even made the king with a different surname treat them as military advisors in the battlefield. I often consulted with these two people when setting up battle and march formations, and my thoughts were as clear as their names.
On weekdays, the twelve people chatted about nothing, and they repeatedly mentioned what happened three years ago. Over time, they could more or less feel the loopholes in it, and some guesses came into being. For the two siblings at that time, they were ruined. He ran away in anger after the royal engagement, as if he had a plan. He has disappeared for the past three years, which makes people suspicious.
After all, the only king with a different surname in the dynasty was not an ordinary doting towards these two people.
Then again, who can force their children to do something they don’t like?
Ye Sangen didn't speak again, but stared at the beams of the living room and fell into deep thought.
Ye Hao You, who was under the eaves of the verandah because of his anger, did not enter the house. He suddenly asked for no reason, "Master Rabbit, there are no outsiders anyway. Why don't you tell me what you think in your heart? Or, what do you think about what happened three years ago?" , any ideas?”
With his mind as delicate as the night sky, he could naturally guess that Lord Rabbit asked this question. It was ten percent that the twelve of them had nothing to do and they had nothing to do to guess. Lord Rabbit, who was not good at hiding things, just took this opportunity to make sure.
Thinking of those people on that mountain, most of Ye Xiayou's resentment towards his brother disappeared.
Three years, turn over it, and it will be revealed.
