Yu Wu

Chapter 164

Murong Chuyi seemed to be in a very bad state of mind, he was always a person who was out of the world, and there was always no excessive disturbance in his brows, even when he left angrily after arguing with Yue Chenqing on the Bat Island, his emotions were suppressed.

But at this moment, he is like a cold lake in early spring, and some things can no longer hide under his frozen ice.Even though Mo Xi and the others were separated by some distance, they could clearly feel his anxiety and depression.

"What? You asked about the house by the pier more than 30 years ago?" The shopkeeper, with his fat belly, was crackling his abacus. It’s true that they run the wharf, but there are so many houses by the Lin’an wharf, there are eighty if not hundreds of households, I don’t remember every single one.”

"The surname of that family is Chu."

The shopkeeper moaned: "There are also many people with the surname Chu. This surname is not uncommon in Lin'an."

Murong Chuyi was inquiring about a family surnamed Chu... was it more than 30 years ago?

Mo Xi thought about it for a while, and then he understood: Yue Chenqing once said during the Duanyang Festival that Murong Chuyi seemed to be looking for his real family all these years.In fact, he doesn't have many clues. He only knows that he was adopted by Muronghuang from the temple back then. There is only a scrap of paper in the swaddle, and the word "Chu" is written crookedly on the paper. Nothing else.

Murong lineage, male single name, female double name.But Murong Huang was weak when she was young, and the fortune teller said that she had to be given a boy's name in order to support her, so the king made a special exception for this branch of their family.However, Muronghuang always felt that the double name was better. After adopting the abandoned baby, he took the name of "Chu" left by his family as an excuse, and called it Murong Chuyi.

I think Murong Chuyi had some clues recently, that's why he found this Jiuxiang Restaurant now, and asked the shopkeeper about the old things more than 30 years ago.

Sure enough, Murong Chuyi did not leave, but took out a gold shell coin from Qiankun's pouch, pushed it with two fingers, and handed it to the shopkeeper: "Think about it carefully."

When the shopkeeper saw the gold shell coins, his fat fingers immediately stopped. While putting away the shell coins, he raised his head with a smile and said, "My lord, you are so polite, in fact..."

His smile froze suddenly when he saw Murong Chuyi's appearance clearly.

Murong Chuyi: "What?"

But the shopkeeper seemed to be prying the rock deep in his memory. He stared at Murong Chuyi fascinatedly for a while, staring at Murong Chuyi with a bewildered expression. You?" But then shook his head again and again, "No, no, it's her?"

Then he rubbed his face violently.

"No, are you her..."

The shopkeeper spoke upside down, seemed very shocked and confused.But Murong Chuyi seemed to understand what he meant, grabbed his arm, and took a step forward, the phoenix eyes flickering with flickering luster.

Murong Chuyi whispered: "Thirty years ago, Lin'an port, you know something, right?"

The shopkeeper's expression was like a dream, and it took him a while to recover. Seeing that the guests and subordinates around him were all looking at him curiously, he tremblingly took out a sweat towel and wiped his greasy skin. After hesitating for a moment, he said to Murong Chuyi: "Immortal Elder... you go upstairs with me first, I'll stroke it... I'll stroke it, I'll talk about it when I go upstairs."

The two walked towards the stairs.

Gu Mang saw Mo Xi frowned slightly, followed his gaze, and asked, "Do you know this pretty person in white?"

He had just learned the word "pretty" from the boat lady, and seeing Murong Chuyi's good looks, he simply called others pretty.

"..." Mo Xi said, "Yes, you knew him before. You just forgot."

"Oh, so shall I say hello to him?"

Mo Xi grabbed his wrist, pressed him down, and shook his head.

"He has his own private affairs to deal with, not to mention that you and I don't know him very well, it would be awkward to meet him at this time." Mo Xi said softly, "You should eat first."

Footsteps came from the stairs in the conversation room, and the shopkeeper led Murong Chuyi to an elegant seat. Although Mo Xi and the others couldn't see the two of them anymore, they could hear the voice more and more clearly.

The porcelain cup ding-dong, followed by the sound of tea being brewed, and then the shopkeeper's weak voice came from behind the bamboo curtain: "...May I ask, what year was the fairy born?"

Murong Chuyi reported his year of birth, the shopkeeper heard it, and murmured several times, as if he was trying to figure something out, then he sighed again and again.

"Is it really... really what she said back then?"

Murong Chuyi's voice was as smooth as jade soaked in water, but the emotions hidden in it were like molten water under a rock: "If the shopkeeper knows, why don't you say so."

"I...well, I really can't believe it, but the appearance of the fairy..." The shopkeeper said, and then sighed, "Okay, okay, I'll tell you everything I know first."

"That's indeed what happened more than 30 years ago..."

The shopkeeper slowly opened his mouth, his voice seemed so trance.

"More than 30 years ago, I came to Anshui Road to run the pier. At that time, I was a poor ghost. I didn't finish my last meal. Sometimes when I was hungry, I would pick up half a piece of cake and two mouthfuls of steamed buns thrown by others on the ground. "

"Once when I was picking steamed buns by the pier, I was spotted by the owner of a small restaurant by the water's edge. The owner was a kind person, so he let me sit in his shop and cooked me a bowl of fried rice and a bowl of fried rice. Dried seaweed and shrimp soup."

"There are two daughters and one son in the old man's shop. The three of them helped my father clean up the restaurant together. I still remember that the rice was fried by his eldest daughter. There was a spoonful of lard and a large spoonful of soy sauce. Bowl, fragrant and hot... When I was short of money, I often went to eat in his shop, but I didn't eat free food, and after I finished eating, I would help his family do some heavy work."

With the sound of sipping tea, the shopkeeper drank a few more sips of tea, calmed down, and continued.

"The surname of this family is Chu. They are all good people. The youngest son is still young. The two sisters are well-known beauties in Lin'an City. As soon as Fang and Ji were born, many wealthy businessmen came to propose marriage. But their fathers He dotes on them very much. Because of their family background, it is impossible for those wealthy businessmen to marry them in the open, and the old man is absolutely unwilling to accept them as concubines. He would rather let the two of them choose by themselves than rashly marry them. Get married."

"Famous flowers have no owners, so it is natural to be missed. The names of the two sisters spread farther and farther at that time, and the people who proposed marriage became more and more difficult to deal with. In the end, some tyrannical nobles were also attracted, and they were too soft. Let’s be tough, force my father to hand me over.”

"What then?"

"Later..." the shopkeeper sighed, "Actually, I didn't witness what happened afterwards. I started shipping and went to a business. I was in Quanzhou for more than a month. When I came back, The restaurant of the Chu family has been burnt to a piece of scorched earth."

Murong Chuyi: "!"

"I asked the neighbors around me to inquire, but they all hesitated and didn't dare to say more. I was young at the time, and I couldn't get angry that such a thing happened, so I rushed to the government to complain to the officials without thinking, Grand Master Tell me, the Chu family couldn't stand the entanglement of the in-laws who broke the threshold, so the whole family moved out of Lin'an City."

In Murong Chuyi's cold voice, there was an almost uncontrollable anger faintly.

"Why do you burn down the old house when you move out?"

The shopkeeper said: "I thought so too. I knew at the time that the government hadn't told me the truth. Well, after all, the Chu family is kind to me. Lin'an City kept looking for clues, asking others...then...then..."

"What happened next?"

Even after such a long time, the shopkeeper was still in great pain when the old incident was brought up again. With a trembling voice, he drank a few more sips of tea and lowered his voice: "Later... I went to look for it myself, and finally found it in the suburbs of Lin'an City. ...the body of the father of the Chu family was found, and the body and head were separated..."

When he said this, he couldn't help shivering, and his eyes were red. He didn't dare and didn't want to describe the specific situation. After a while, he continued: "I was scared and sad, and I was crying, and suddenly I heard—— , In the depths of the haystack, there was a faint sound, so I went over to have a look, and saw their youngest son hiding in the depths of the haystack, looking at me like a kitten, covered in blood .”

When Mo Xi heard this, he was already very angry, but at this moment, there was a shattering sound of a porcelain cup behind the bamboo curtain.

The shopkeeper said in shock: "Immortal Head, you—"

It seems that Murong Chuyi was too angry and depressed, so he accidentally crushed the teacup in his hand.

"You, your hands are scratched... scratched..."

Murong Chuyi said calmly: "It's not a problem."

The silk cloth rustled, he seemed to have wiped away the blood with a towel, and then said in a low voice, "Go on."

The shopkeeper let out an oh, and was taken aback, his eyes were red.He hadn't recalled this matter for many years, and now when he really looked back one by one, his emotions gradually flooded.

He was silent for a while, and then said: "The child is still very young. I asked him what he said, but he couldn't speak clearly. When I asked where his sister went, he just cried. So I buried Duke Chu and brought the child back. He was raised on the boat where I ran a merchant, and he has not yet reached the age to remember. I hope he will live a peaceful life in the future, and I will never mention this past with him again. I hope he will not remember this hatred when he grows up..."

"Slowly, day by day, even the child who is not very good at saying this, really no longer remembers this matter. The people in the city gradually forgot about the Chu family...until one day."

He paused for a moment, and then said: "The eldest daughter of the Chu family suddenly came back."

"But she is completely different." The shopkeeper sighed. "Unkempt, crazy, and kept saying that she had a child, but she left the child behind in a moment of confusion. Others Ask her what kind of child she had, and who she gave birth to, she couldn't answer clearly, and asked where her sister went, she kept crying, saying don't blame her, she also has difficulties."

Murong Chuyi: "..."

The shopkeeper took out a handkerchief, twirled his nose, and said sadly: "The people from the government heard the news and took her to the clinic for a diagnosis. It was confirmed that her spirit had been greatly stimulated and she could no longer return to normal. Take care of her. The villagers saw her pitiful, and gave her a lonely hut to live in. At first, there were many people who visited her, but gradually, everyone found that she was talking nonsense, and found it boring. , and no one wants to pay attention to her."

"I took her younger brother to see her, but her younger brother didn't know her at all and didn't remember her. And she started crying as soon as she saw the child, saying that she shouldn't be so cruel and throw her away No, no matter how much you hate, you shouldn’t hate the baby, and you also said that you saw the child turned into a ghost, sitting in the blood and looking at her. Sigh..."

"Although there is no supporting evidence for what happened back then, I probably also know that their family didn't relocate at all, but was taken by a dignitary in the capital and took the two daughters away. I'm afraid It was Duke Chu who was eager to protect his daughter, so he was brutally killed by them, and Yao'er was also thrown in the haystack, leaving him to fend for himself."

When the shopkeeper said this, he was stunned for a while.

"Miss Chu said at the time that she had a child, and she kept yelling that her sister should not blame her. She had a hard time. Slowly, everyone guessed whether she did something to survive. What should not have been done killed her younger sister...so she was the only one who came back alive, but Miss Chu Er disappeared."

Murong Chuyi's expression gradually darkened, as if he was unwilling to accept the truth: "..."

"Because of this assumption, people began to alienate her, ridicule her, make fun of her for being crazy."

"At that time... I didn't stop it at the time, because I didn't know much about her. In the past, Miss Chu Er was more gentle and enthusiastic, and as an elder sister, she was not very talkative. I thought she might be really What did I do to my sister, and I was driven crazy by self-blame. This matter is always in my heart, and it is always a lump in my heart. I didn't know until she was dying—"

Murong Chuyi was startled, interrupted him abruptly, and said hoarsely: "What? She... isn't here anymore?"

"I haven't been here for a few years..." The shopkeeper sighed sadly and blamed himself, "... When she left, I went to see her off. Maybe it was a flashback, and she would wake up for a while. At that time, she and I said……"

The shopkeeper paused for a moment, as if he was thinking about whether he should tell him this last secret.

In the end, he probably looked at Murong Chuyi's face that was very similar to the old man's, and finally said: "She said that when she and her younger sister were captured by nobles, she knew that she could not escape, so she pretended to be obedient, voluntarily undressed and waited on her, and coaxed the other party She relaxed her vigilance, and finally found a chance to let her sister escape. But her sister thought that she had sacrificed herself to others in order to survive, and hated her so much that she would rather die than accept her favor."

Murong Chuyi: "..."

"It was only then that I realized that the villagers had misunderstood her. She didn't live for herself and killed her own sister. The so-called difficulties turned out to be for this reason..."

"She urged Miss Chu to flee, but she was rejected and misunderstood, and she couldn't make it happen. She was anxious, and then thought that they were now in the capital, and there were powerful and powerful nobles everywhere, even if the younger sister listened to her If you escape, how far can you escape?"

"Miss Chu thought about it day and night, and finally a thought came to her mind. When she was flattering and accompanying her nobleman, she had met many nobles from aristocratic families, so her final plan was to devise a plan to let her sister get Care of one of them."

"In order for the second girl of Chu to live well without being humiliated, she has been watching and choosing. She is thinking about who can accept an orphan girl with good intentions. The nobleman must be kind, upright, and prominent enough to be able to dominate the government. In the end She targeted two people."

Murong Chuyi: "Who?"

The shopkeeper said: "Mr. Fuling, Mo Qingchi, first look at Shu Murongxuan."

Mo Xi suddenly opened his eyes wide when he heard his father's name during this conversation.