Yu Wu

Chapter 135 Murong Lian

Murong Lian was smoking a hookah on a spring couch in the inner courtyard.There are a few idle books and a jug of wine on the table beside the bed.

Seeing Gu Mang coming in, he took a big sip of Floating Life Like a Dream, slowly spit it out, and told the left and right: "You guys go down first."

"Yes."

The servants withdrew, leaving only the two of them in the courtyard.

Murong Lian lay lazily on the bamboo couch, and didn't look at Gu Mang. He just tapped the ashes in the cigarette pot, put it back in his mouth, and said with a sneer, "Fireball is really interesting, send a special envoy to my house On the ground, there is still a man wearing a mask and a cloak—after all, what’s the matter.”

Gu Mang said, "It's me."

When Murong Lian heard his voice, he was immediately choked by the smoke he inhaled: "Ahem, cough, cough!!" Soon after he got up, many emotions flashed across his face, shock, anxiety, hatred, hesitation... even There are also some complex contents that others cannot see through.

"You? What are you doing here pretending to be a special envoy, looking for a beating?"

Except for a few people in Chonghua, no one knew that Gu Mang was recovering his memory at this moment, so Gu Mang naturally wouldn't show too much sobriety in front of Murong Lian.He is a spy who has been dormant in Liao Kingdom for five years, and it is not difficult for him to pretend, so he pretended to be dull and said: "Don't be angry, I will return your things."

"..."

"The lord said that you can't take the benefits of others casually. So I will return this ring to you."

As he spoke, he took off the sapphire finger and handed it to Murong Lian: "Thank you for giving it to me, but it's useless, I don't like it."

"..."

Murong Lian seemed to have been greatly insulted, and almost didn't jump up: "Do you know what you're talking about?"

"There are hundreds of such finger rings in Xihe's house. If you like the shiny little ring, I can give you a few more."

"Fart! Can his stuff compare to this?!" Murong Lian snapped at him angrily, "This is—"

Gu Mang waited for him to speak calmly.

"This, this is, but..." Murong Lian seemed to be choking, choking for a while, his eyes flickered with some light and dark, and then he said viciously, "...Forget it. Why am I telling you these things? .This was originally borrowed from you, when did it become a gift for you? Even if you don't come to pay it back, I will go to Xihe Mansion to ask for this finger pull in two days, so don't be too sympathetic to me!"

As he spoke, he put the wrench back on his thumb.

Gu Mang secretly sighed in his heart, as expected Murong Lian would not tell him the secret of this ring so easily.However, he just wanted to have a try at first. His purpose of coming to Wangshu Mansion was actually to come back and take a look for himself. After all, there were still some traces in this mansion that he missed too much.

Murong Lian saw that he hadn't spoken much, stared at him for a while, and asked: "What's the matter, are you so stupid by being tortured by Zhou He? Please reply."

Gu Mang said bluntly, "I'm not stupid."

After a pause, he glanced at Murong Lian's pipe, and said, "The one who smokes this is an idiot."

"you--!"

Gu Mang said: "You're going to be angry again. You're always angry. Well, I'm a good wolf, so I won't make you unhappy. I'm going back after delivering the things. Goodbye."

Murong Lian watched him turn around, narrowed his long and narrow eyes suddenly, and when Gu Mang walked to the side of the moon gate in the courtyard, Murong Lian suddenly said darkly: "Stop."

He paced to Gu Mang's side, looked around Gu Mang, and said, "Gu Mang. How do I remember that before you went to Bat Island...you have recovered a lot of consciousness?"

"..."

Stretching out a slender golden long-stemmed pipe, hooked his mouth against Gu Mang's chin, and forcibly lifted it up. Murong Lian narrowed his eyes and said, "You don't think you are a wolf, do you?"

"..."

"Let me think about it...you came here today to mourn your aunt Mud?"

Gu Mang paused suddenly.

Then he turned his face to the side: "Who is that?"

"..." Murong Lian remained silent, staring at Gu Mang with treacherous eyes for a while.

The two were in a stalemate, and a gust of wind blew up in the courtyard, blowing Gu Mang's cloak and robe sleeves fluttering.Murong Lian said: "You really can't remember who she is?"

Gu Mang shook his head.

"You'd better not lie to me. You have been with me for so long, you should know very well what the consequences of lying to me will be."

"I don't know. I don't understand what you're talking about either."

As Gu Mang said, he raised his hand to open Murong Lian's pipe that was pressed against his chin, wrinkling the bridge of his nose: "It smells so bad, why would you like this?" After saying that, he sneezed twice, turned around, and didn't look back. walked out of the courtyard.

He seemed to be pretending to be calm, but his heart was pounding.

——Why did Murong Lian suddenly mention Aunt Ni to him?

Only a handful of people knew about his recovery of memory, did someone leak the secret to Murong Lian?Or Murong Lian is not sure, just testing...

Walking all the way with his heart pounding, when he left the Wangshu Mansion, Gu Mang stood there thinking for a while, but couldn't figure out what to do.In the end, he sighed, and decided not to think about this issue, but took a detour to Jiang's house.

He really couldn't stand Murong Lian's smoking habit now, Murong Lian was a wild man, he had no father since he was a child, after his mother Mrs. Zhao passed away, no one could take care of him anymore, and he has never married a wife. It sounds like a nobleman wearing gold and silver, but in fact he is just a bachelor who wants to die and no one cares about him.

Gu Mang felt that it would be impossible for him to go on like this, so he planned to go to Yaoshi Jiang to ask Murong Lian for a prescription to quit smoking while he was still sober.

When he arrived at the Jiang Mansion, he discovered that it was not Jiang Fuli who was prescribing medicine in the hall today, but his wife Su Yurou.

As usual, Su Yurou wore a silk gauze hat, covering that rumored face that is all over the country.She sent a patient away, looked up and saw Gu Mang entering the room, and said calmly, "Is the guest here for consultation?"

"Grab the medicine. Is Pharmacist Jiang here?"

"My humble husband went out for a walk a few days ago. If you don't have a difficult disease, I can also give you a diagnosis."

"Why did you go to Yunyou again..." Gu Mang couldn't help lowering his head and thinking.

This Jiang Fuli's whereabouts are really erratic, and moreover, 360 days a year, most of the time is spent outside.Everyone said that Ruan Ruanxiang buried heroism, but he was lucky. He married a peerless beauty, but he made him a widow every day.But when he thought about it again, he didn't seem to be any better than Jiang Fuli. Putting a beauty like Mo Xi in front of him, he still delayed her for more than ten years.

Su Yurou asked: "Your medicine note, do you have to be prescribed by an idiot?"

"It's not necessary." Gu Mang sighed, and said, "To bother Madam, I just want to ask if there is any way to get rid of this kind of tobacco called Floating Life Ruomeng."

"...The guest is from Wangshu Mansion?"

"That's it."

"The waiter, please come back."

Gu Mang opened his eyes wide: "Why, why?"

Su Yurou said: "You should know that Mr. Wang Shu has no intention of quitting the cigarette. In the matter of quitting addiction, the medicine is always the supplement and the heart is the master. He just wants to smoke. No matter how good the medicine is, it won't help. Why bother?" It smashed the signboard of my Pharmacist's Mansion."

"..." Gu Mang opened his mouth, wanting to argue, but after thinking about it, what Mrs. Su said was not unreasonable.Murong Lian wanted to smoke by himself, but who could stop him.

Gu Mang was anxious, but he had no choice but to sigh heavily, thank Su Yurou, and then left the Pharmacist's mansion.

In fact, I have to say that Gu Mang's feelings towards Murong Lian are very complicated.

On the one hand, he really disapproved of many of Murong Lian's actions, on the other hand, he still understood Murong Lian's heart, and could not help but pity him.

Murong Lian's father left early, and his mother, Mrs. Zhao, probably hoped that he could become a character like Wang Shujun, so she completely killed Murong Lian's talent and insisted on setting a path for Murong Lian, and the path of that path The end point is to make him a man exactly like his father.

Gu Mang remembered very clearly that when Murong Lian was a child, he liked illusion very much. He would often sit in the yard, transforming into a garden full of colorful butterflies and swaying flowers——

But Mrs. Zhao did not allow it.

"What can Illusion do? It can only be used as a backup for the army! It's useless! Your father is good at instrumental music and you are his child. Lexiu is what you should do. Don't let me go." detour!"

"Look at Mo Xi! He has exactly the same ability as Mr. Fu Ling. He is more talented than you and works harder than you. Don't you know how to reflect on yourself?"

"Murong Lian! Buy these illusion scrolls and try again! Believe it or not, I'll tear them all up for you!"

After the day-to-day beatings and quarrels, Wangshu Mansion will never see those colorful butterflies and flowers conjured up by illusions. These things that Murong Lian thinks are beautiful are not worth mentioning in front of his mother, and they will not be able to go up. countertop stuff.

When Mrs. Zhao was still alive, the most common sentence heard in the mansion was: "Murong Lian, learn from your father's example, and don't embarrass Wangshu Mansion."

He seems to be living in his father's mold, and others will not care that he is a completely different life, they just put him in according to this mold, once he does something beyond this frame, they will cruelly kill him Cut off his flesh and blood, completely ignoring the pain of his dream of being castrated.

As long as some places are not done properly, it will be a harsh lesson.

"What nonsense, why don't you go to practice well?"

"You're tired after suffering so little, Murong Lian, you can't be promising!"

"I'll give you the best, no matter how ineffective you are, I'll see who you are worthy of!"

Gu Mang remembered that Murong Lian was still struggling a lot in the beginning, arguing with his wife, and ran out of the mansion crying——

"But I just like illusion! I don't like Qin! Why do you keep pushing me like this? I don't want to be Murong Xuan's son! Whoever wants to be whoever it is!"

In exchange for this sentence, Mrs. Zhao was furious. It was the only time that Murong Lian was beaten to pieces. Such a small child was beaten into a bloody ball, lying on the bed, choking, gasping. Out of breath... That appearance is really pitiful.

Gu Mang watched him grow up all the way, watching him like a sick plum, deprived of his love, his nature eliminated, his destiny twisted, and he was forced to grow up to be a copy of his father.

During this process, Murong Lian went from resistance to forbearance, from forbearance to numbness.

In the end, the child who used to sit in the sunshine in the courtyard and was proud of being transformed into a garden full of colorful butterflies was never seen again. Only the guqin in the piano room was clanging like running water, and the sound of jade flute was flying all over the royal city. In the severe cold and heat, In the banana night rain, ten years have been lingering like a day.

Everyone else said that the sound of the piano was beautiful, but only Gu Mang knew it was not. Murong Lian organized funerals one after another for his butterflies and sea of ​​flowers amidst the sound of gold, jade, silk and bamboo.

Murong Lian was still distorted after all.

Gu Mang had lost his memory before, so facing Murong Lian, who is now drunk and dreaming of death, sipping cigarettes all day long, he didn't feel anything wrong.But when his childhood memories were recalled by the time mirror, he felt that things were not that simple.

Others may not understand Murong Lian, and think he is a rotten person, but Gu Mang grew up with him, and Gu Mang is very clear that Murong Lian's rotten way is definitely not the way he is now.

Murong Lian's experience since he was a child has made him have a very bad temper. He will be bad, and will use insidious tricks to defeat his competitors.For example, in the academy, they used slave brothers and sisters to trick Mo Xi into sympathy, which resulted in Mo Xi being whipped.Another example is using Gu Mang to blackmail Mo Xi, so that Mo Xi is forced to lose to himself in the competition.

Although these behaviors of his are very indecent, they all undoubtedly show one thing——

Murong Lian likes to win.

How could Murong Lian not like to win?He was reprimanded harshly since he was a child, and he has become like a running dog who is used to being beaten. He will chatter his teeth and tremble all over when he hears the sound of a stick.Being competitive has become his instinct, even though his mother has passed away for so many years, he still has no way to get rid of it.

But what is life like a dream?It is the spice that the weak will sip.Anyone with a clear mind knows that once he is exposed to this kind of psychedelic smoke, then this person is almost useless.

May I ask, with Murong Lian's personality like sharpening his head and wanting to vent his breath, why did he suddenly start this kind of thing that would make people rotten to the bone during his five years of treason?

And that ring.

Although the purpose of that ring is unknown, it should not be harmful.Gu Mang could feel a very strange aura on that ring, he was almost certain that Murong Lian put this ring on him to help him.

Murong Lian... Murong Lian...

What does this person know, what is he hiding, and what has he endured?

Gu Mang frowned deeply, he couldn't think of any clues, he just felt a splitting headache, and finally had to let it go.

It was already noon when we got home, and it was lunch time. Gu Mang entered the hall, but he didn't see any food on the table, nor did he see anyone in the room.

Just when he was feeling puzzled, he saw a servant come in from the yard carrying a fruit plate, Gu Mang went over to her and asked her, "Sister, where is Mr. Xihe?"

The servants of Xihe Mansion treated Gu Mang badly in the past, but many of them are always ready to act according to the wind. Mo Xi treats Gu Mang so well these days, blind people can see it, how could they not smell a little bit of it? the profound meaning?

The maid immediately smiled brightly and said, "Oh, why does Mr. Gu need to call me sister? You can just call me Xiaosu."

Before Gu Mang had time to get used to the respectful address of "Mr. Gu", she saw her put the fruit plate on the table, wiped her hands, and guided with a smile: "Master, the orange blossom tree in the back garden is first. Next, you can look there first, if you can’t find it, go to the small kitchen.”

Gu Mang was startled: "Little kitchen?"

"Yes."

"What is he doing there???"

The author has something to say:

"Everyone in Murong's family is having a hard time"

Murong Lian: I miss the days when I was scolded by the comment section and quit the group as soon as I appeared on the stage. Alas, since wearing Pinru's clothes, my hatred value has disappeared, and my heart hurts so much.

Your Majesty: I miss the days when I hated Murong Lian in the comment section no matter how I tried to die, alas, since I learned the speech skills, the hatred value has come to me, my heart hurts so much.

Murong Mengze: I miss the days when I didn't appear on the stage, alas, since I appeared on the stage, I was scolded every time I spoke, my heart hurts so much.

Murong Chuyi: I miss the days when the comment section thought I was a gong.

Gu Mangmang:? ? ?Fourth uncle, wake up, you have never lived that kind of life, okay? ! !