Don't be clouded

Chapter 17 Dutiful Son

Fang Muzhi squatted on the ground and coughed for a long time, his eyes were red from coughing, and he finally recovered, and glared at Ji Bieyun: "My boy is still waiting at the mountain gate, if you kill me, he will go back and report to the government, You can't escape!"

Ji Bie Yunyuan didn't even think about killing this person, he just wanted to frighten him, he didn't expect this young master to be so easily irritated, it was quite amusing.

He sat on the stool with a knife, bowed his head to look at the other party, and said, "Well, if you tell me why the Prime Minister's House buys arsenic, I will tell you Ji Yao's whereabouts."

Fang Muzhi was shaken.He came here to inquire about Ji Yao's whereabouts, and he was a classmate and friend after all, if he didn't even ask about this, then he would be too heartless and ungrateful.

As for why the prime minister's mansion buys arsenic... this man's words are convincing, let's just believe it.

These days, except for the death of the first emperor and the enthronement of the new emperor, the prime minister's mansion can be said to be peaceful, except...except for his father who suffered from cough and asthma some time ago.

He raised his head suddenly, and said excitedly: "Yes, my father has been coughing a lot these days, and a small amount of arsenic is the blind medicine for coughing. He never likes to reveal his illness, so he didn't openly ask the doctor to prescribe it for him. I just secretly sneaked people to buy it!"

Ji Bieyun nodded indifferently, and said: "These words can be justified, but I don't know whether it is true or not."

"You don't believe me?" Fang Muzhi said louder and louder, "I can take you into the mansion to investigate, you go and see for yourself whether my father is sick, our Fang family will never do such murderous things! "

The voice was so loud that it almost spread to the opposite valley, Ji Bieyun quickly made a gesture to make Fang Muzhi whisper, "Why are you yelling, can you let everyone know that your family buys arsenic?"

Young Master Fang stood up all of a sudden, his eyes were so angry that he seemed to come up to beat him again.

"It's up to you, where is Ji Yao?"

In fact, Ji Bieyun didn't really want to mention Ji Yao's matter, the look in that person's eyes before he died was still rooted in his mind.

He looked away, looked at the dancing flames, and said coldly: "Dead, died in the bandit chaos."

Fang Muzhi lost his mind for a moment, accidentally fell to the ground, and couldn't even care about his demeanor.After hesitating a few times, he asked, "Is he really dead?"

Ji Bieyun got up and took out the document, spread it out on the table, "You can see for yourself."

Fang Muzhi got up from the ground, touched the document with both hands, glanced at ten lines, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

Ji's family was slaughtered... Except for Ji Yao, every name on it was crossed out, and a single ink stain witnessed the disappearance of a life.

He looked at it for a long time before putting the document back on the table, and sat down without a word. After a long time, he said in a low voice, "Ji Yao and I were classmates in Yunzhou for a period of time, and I had the best friendship with him in the academy. Then We were both young at the time, and he didn't even have time to get the words... After I returned to Beijing, I kept in touch less, and when the natural disaster happened in Yunzhou, I tried to make contact again, but there was no news from there."

"I thought he was no longer alive, I thought he died in a natural disaster... I didn't expect that he was buried under the knife of a bandit." Fang Muzhi took a deep breath, "I don't know what you need to replace him. What to do, but don't even think about being happy, I will always pay attention to your movements."

The night wind poured in from the wide open window, Ji Bieyun walked over to close it.

He didn't care about Young Master Fang's so-called supervision, and neither the left nor the right could produce evidence to identify him.What he cares most about is whether the mouth is tight.

Ji Bieyun looked down at the only surviving word "Ji Yao" on the document, and said, "If you really care about Ji Yao, should you also respect his last wish?"

"What last wish?" Fang Muzhi looked at him suspiciously.

Ji Bieyun recalled the scene at that time, and a chill rose from the bottom of his heart.

At that time, he was still Liu Yunjing. After the new emperor ascended the throne and declared amnesty to the world, he traveled thousands of miles from the border to Huainan Road, braving the wind and snow without stopping.Originally expected to rush to the outside of Lingzhou City before the second day, but on this road, they encountered a convoy that had been ransacked by bandits.

The bandits had already left, leaving only corpses and rummaged luggage.

He didn't want to care about it at first, but he stopped after walking far away, and after struggling for a while, he turned back.He found a document in the other party's carriage, on which were written the names of ten members of Ji's family, which corresponded to the ten corpses.

Liu Yunjing frowned, and wanted to get closer to see the situation, but was caught off guard by a corpse that grabbed the corner of his clothes.The boy who was about the same age as him exerted all his strength and looked up at him with his last breath, his eyes were bloodshot.With serious injuries like this, I am afraid that he will die on the way before rushing to the nearby county town.

The unwillingness and grievance in the young man's eyes made him seem to see himself.

In an instant, a comprehensive plan was born in his mind.Squatting down, without waiting for Master Ji to speak, he opened his mouth and said: "Promise me one condition, I can help you avenge."

The boy whose face was half stained with blood nodded vigorously and squeezed out a good word from between his teeth.

He couldn't bear to look at it, but he said straight to the point: "Give me your identity, and I will kill all your enemies for you."

The innocent disaster claimed the lives of the whole family, and Young Master Ji also died soon. After hearing the words, he only hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

"Save your energy, I'll ask you to answer yes." Liu Yunjing confirmed that there was no one around, and then asked about the situation of Ji's family.

Yunzhou experienced an earthquake and then a plague, which has turned into chaos, with many dead and many displaced people.Ji's family relocated, and the only ones left in Yunzhou were distant relatives who hardly communicated with each other.

Therefore, even if Liu Yunjing used Ji Yao's identity, he would not have any worries.

After Young Master Ji said something, his face became paler, probably because he lost too much blood, and even his voice gradually disappeared.Liu Yunjing helped him lie down on the ground, and finally asked: "Do you have any other wishes?"

The boy's eyes dimmed for a moment, but he said, "Nothing."

At such an age, when he is in high spirits, how can he not have unfulfilled wishes.But people live a lifetime, and there are too many things they wish for, and there is no way to talk about it in the short moment before death, so they have to not talk about it.

The sky was dark and gloomy, and the two teenagers faced each other speechlessly amidst the bloodshed.The two of them had similar encounters, but one survived, while the other was on the verge of death.

Perhaps it was God's will that they met here for a short time.

Liu Yunjing lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "Go with peace of mind."

Ji Yao still looked at him unwillingly, his eyes were tearing apart, and he tried to open his mouth, but he couldn't even make a sound.Liu Yunjing understood what he wanted to say, and smiled, "Don't worry, I will be Ji Yao from now on, and your last wish will be fulfilled even if I go through fire and water."

As soon as the words fell, the weak ups and downs in the boy's chest disappeared.

Liu Yunjing stared blankly at Ji Yao's body, as if looking at another self, and stood up after a long pause.

Ji Yao, Liu Yunjing.

He is the son of a criminal minister, and now he has robbed someone else's name, it is really an extra crime.

Ji Bieyun withdrew from the storm in his memory, and told Fang Muzhi the general story of the incident.

Young Master Fang was dumbfounded, his face was full of hesitation.The Sri Lankan has passed away, and he is an old friend whom he has not seen for a long time, even the appearance in his mind has been blurred, so even the sadness is not strong.His heart was full of disappointment, and he suddenly remembered something after a while, and hurriedly asked: "Those bandits, have you avenged him?"

Ji Bieyun replied briefly: "Killed."

Fang Muzhi asked suspiciously: "How did you kill the Bandit alone? You wouldn't be treacherous and make up lies to deceive me. Even if you can deceive me, you can't deceive Ji Yao's spirit in the sky. If he knows..."

"Why should I lie to you?" Ji Bieyun cast a cold glance at Young Master Fang, "After that, I found those bandits and killed them all at night."

Fang Muzhi was irrefutable.

For some reason, he shouldn't have believed in strangers who had only met twice, but when Ji Bieyun talked about the memories, his whole body was covered with a layer of hostility, so the killing of the bandits was much more believable.

But he was still out of face, and said again: "Then you swear, if you fail to avenge Ji Yao, you will be killed by a thousand swords."

Ji Bieyun couldn't bear it anymore, picked up Young Master Fang by his collar, and pushed him towards the door.

"I swear you will believe it? How can you be so innocent when you touch your lips?"

After all, Fang Muzhi is also the only son of the dignified prime minister, how could he be kicked out without dignity.He frantically grabbed the bookshelf, and barely stabilized his figure, "You are guilty if you dare not swear!"

"...It's really annoying." Ji Bieyun's violent temper was about to be ignited by this young man, he endured it and then let go, "Okay, I swear."

He said in a rigid tone: "If I don't fulfill Ji Yao's last wish and get rid of the bandits who killed his family, I will die without a place to die."

Fang Muzhi still clung to the bookshelf after listening to it, and asked cautiously, "Then what are you going to do in Beijing as Ji Yao?"

"It has nothing to do with you, and it has nothing to do with Ji Yao. It's all about me." Ji Bieyun walked to the door, opened the door, and asked him to leave.

Young Master Fang's face was not thick enough, so he straightened his body, straightened his clothes, and walked upright to the door.But just as he stepped out, he retreated and said in a low voice, "In case you doubt my father any more, you must come home with me tomorrow."

Ji Bieyun almost laughed when he heard that.If Fang Muzhi went back tonight to collude with his prime minister father, and put on another play tomorrow, wouldn't it be for nothing that he went?

"Master Fang, does it make sense?"

"What kind of eyes do you have!" Fang Muzhi said angrily, "I, Fang Muzhi, have always acted upright, and I will never do anything to protect my family."

Seeing that Ji Bieyun was still unmoved, he was so angry that he lost all courtesy, and pointed to Ji Bieyun's chest.

"How could your heart go around nine twists and eighteen turns at such a young age, so you can't get in! It seems that I am a few years older than you, and you can't get along in the capital like this... Wait, you Guigeng geometry?"

Ji Bieyun didn't turn his face when he was pointed at and scolded, and replied indifferently: "Eighteen."

"Don't use Ji Yao's words to prevaricate me," Fang Muzhi was extremely dissatisfied, "I'm asking you."

This time he hesitated for a moment before answering: "...Seventeen."

Fang Muzhi evoked a smug smile, "Three years older than you, don't be cloudy, you have to respectfully call me Brother Mu."

Ji Bieyun couldn't help rolling his eyes, and immediately closed the door.

Young Master Fang quickly put his hand against the door, and shouted: "Don't worry, don't worry, I have a plan, I can let you trust me."

He loosened his grip, "Say."

As if afraid that he would disagree, Fang Muzhi stretched one foot in and smiled, "I'll rest here for the night, you can watch over me, and tomorrow we will go down the mountain and return home together."

Ji Bieyun frowned, "Then lock me inside, and taking my life is like picking something out of a bag?"

He's not stupid, if the prime minister is really the person behind the scenes, and he sends it to the door himself, he probably won't be able to get out.

"Change it again and again," Fang Muzhi suggested after thinking for a moment, "Then I'll send my servant to inform my father that he will come to Xuanqing Temple to pick me up tomorrow?"

"Prime Minister has all kinds of opportunities, how could he come to pick you up in person?"

Fang Muzhi smiled mysteriously, "Didn't I fall... I want the old man to pick it up, and I will worship Buddha by the way, so as to get rid of the bad luck in the mansion."

After finishing speaking, he fell to the side at the right time and leaned against the door frame pretending to be weak.

Ji Bieyun was finally satisfied now.

He watched Fang Muzhi's acting without moving, and smiled, "Okay, dutiful son."

The author says:

Great filial piety