insane

Chapter 105

In Jinling, the yamen was in chaos early in the morning, and the yamen servants had different expressions.Some were relieved, some looked lonely, and some even frowned, as if something serious had happened.

Even Xia Tong and Zhang Fu hurried over.It turned out that there was news from the yamen that Liu Mu went to Beijing to sue the imperial court and failed, so he took advantage of the day of the royal sacrifice to sneak into the crowd and wanted to assassinate the emperor. During the fight, he killed many guards, and finally was executed by the guards on the spot.

Xia Tong and Zhang Fu rushed into the court like crazy, and seeing the corpse beyond recognition, the officers and soldiers escorting the corpse from the capital said, "This man does not know whether he is dead or alive, and he wanted to assassinate the emperor. He was hacked to death by random knives."

The body shape of the corpse was very similar to Liu Mu, and the face could not be seen clearly. The two really thought it was Liu Mu who had been hacked to death. Xia Tong cried, "You don't know how to live or die. , I have been trying to reverse the case for you, but when did you become so impatient? Didn’t you persuade me not to act recklessly for you before, but why are you so reckless now! If you die, Ziyan and the others will be orphans What about the widowed mother!" Xia Tong shook the body vigorously, "Liu Mu, get up! Do you know that you are already a father, and Zi Yan gave birth to a daughter for you!" Just as she was talking, Yu Wanran's face was pale , accompanied by Feng Langqu, walked into the courtroom.When Xia Tong saw Feng Langqu, he rushed over madly and grabbed Feng Langqu's skirt, "You bastard, I knew you were behind all this, Liu Mu You were the villain who killed him. Now Mr. Liu is giving away a white-haired man to a black-haired man, leaving behind Zi Yan's mother and daughter. Liu Mu will not know that he is already a father until he dies! You villain, I will kill you today to avenge Liu Mu!"

Yu Wanran was taken aback when she heard this, and then remembered that Liu Muceng had lied to Master Liu that Ziyan was pregnant, and she immediately understood why Xia Tong would say that.

Yu Wanran saw that the body of the corpse was no different from a willow tree, with disheveled hair and bloody face, but upon closer inspection, there were some stubble on the cheeks and chin. It's hard stubble.Only then did Yu Wanran breathe a sigh of relief, she turned around and said to Xia Tong and Feng Langqu who were fighting together, "This man is not Liu Mu."

Feng Langqu's expression changed suddenly, "Wanran, how could it be, the capital has already approved the document, this is Liumu. Besides, there were so many officials in the capital who witnessed it with their own eyes that day, so it can't be wrong."

Yu Wanran said, "I have slept with Liu Mu and his wife for many years, how could I not recognize my husband-in-law. Besides, Liu Mu is weaker than that weak scholar, so how could he assassinate the emperor and kill him?" There are so many guards."

Feng Langqu said, "Liu Mu really didn't have this ability, it's just that there was an unkempt man with Liu Mu at that time, but that man was very skilled in martial arts, so he ran away."

Yu Wanran seemed to have understood the ins and outs of this matter, she just smiled lightly, "Master Feng handles the case meticulously, if you observe carefully, how could you not know that this is your classmate at Huguo Temple that day?" After speaking, she turned and left court.

Seeing that Yu Wanran was so sure, Xia Tong felt relieved.Xia Tong straightened the wrinkled clothes on his chest, and said, "I knew my boss would not be so short-lived!" After speaking, he spat on the ground and left with Zhang Fu.

Zi Yan heard that Liu Mu's body was sent back to Jinling early in the morning, and immediately passed out. In order to take care of Zi Yan, Xiangyun didn't have time to go to the yamen, so Xia Tong and Zhang Fu had to go to the yamen to find out first, to see if they could take care of Ziyan. The body was claimed back.

When Xia Tong and Zhang Fu returned to Zi Yan's home, Zi Yan had already woken up, Xia Tong said, "Zi Yan, sister Xiangyun, the corpse in that yamen is not Liu Mu's."

Both Ziyan and Xiangyun were taken aback, Zhang Fu said, "Xia Tong's words are absolutely true, it was Miss Yu who saw the clues of the corpse. I don't know why she is so sure that the corpse is not Liumu."

Ziyan and Xiangyun immediately understood why Yu Wanran was sure that the corpse was not a willow tree, and now their hearts were lifted.Xiangyun said, "I've said it before, our young master has great fortune and destiny, and he won't leave so easily."

Xia Tong said, "I can't wait to kill those two villains. From the very beginning when the Liu family was framed for rebellion, until my boss was framed to kill Mr. Yu, I think this was planned by Wen Siren and Feng Langqu." Yes. I only hate that I, Xia Tong, was born with no brains and couldn’t reverse the case for my boss. Zi Yan, I understand how the boss feels for you. Son, if something happens to you, what should you do with the child. This is my eldest brother's only blood in the world, the child cannot live without a mother, you must take care of your health and take good care of Xu'er."

Ziyan looked at the sleeping baby beside her, and said to Xiangyun, "If something really happens to me one day, Sister Xiangyun, I will ask you to take care of Xu'er."

Xiangyun hurriedly said, "Where is this unlucky word? You still have to wait for the young master to come back and raise Xu'er with you to grow up. As an aunt, I want to watch her get married with you."

Xia Tong and Zhang Fu hurriedly said, "That's good, that's good. As uncles, we have to wait for Xu'er's father to come back and drink with us. On the day of Xu'er's wedding, I will definitely drink all the good wine from your family." .”

In the back mountain of Huguo Temple, Liu Mu didn't care whether Zeng Qing was going or staying outside, he just sat in the cave and meditated every day. If he didn't know that Liu Mu was waiting to die at this time, he looked like a fugitive. A detached person who entered Buddhism.

"Liu Mu, that Miss Zeng is by the spring, don't you want to see her?" Xing Chi originally thought that Zeng Qing would leave if he didn't see Liu Mu, but he didn't expect Zeng Qing to be so persistent.

Willow shook his head.

Xing Chi said, "During this period, Miss Zeng would come to the back mountain every day to be dazed for a long time, or she would cry secretly. Even if you don't care about her, you can always give her some comfort by being visible."

Seeing that Liu Mu still didn't respond, Xing Chi became a little anxious, and said, "Liu Mu, when did you become so cold-blooded. Even an outsider like me, Miss Zeng, can see her affection for you. Don't you just have the heart to let her sit in front of you every day?" Are you crying at the fountain?"

Liu Mu looked at Xing Chi, and finally there was some expression on his face, "Do you think I'm not sad? But I'm a dying person, so why bother her clean. If she can't see me, she might think I'm dead After a long time, I stopped thinking about it. But what can I do when I see her? Tell her that my life is not long, and make her feel sad again? "

Xing Chi paused for a moment, and only then did he understand why Liu Mu was so unfeeling, but he ignored the matter of the broken corpse palm in Liu Mu's body, knowing that Liu Mu had his own difficulties, so he simply didn't speak anymore.

"Benefactor, this is the forbidden area behind the Huguo Temple, why did the benefactor trespass on this place?" Xing Chi couldn't bear to see Zeng Qing like this again, so he wanted to persuade him to leave.

Zeng Qing was taken aback for a moment, never thinking that there would be other people in the back mountain.Zeng Qing looked at the person, then lowered his head, "I'm waiting for someone. Since it's a forbidden place, why did you appear here?"

Xing Chi smiled and said, "I'm the monk sent by Abbot Ben Ji to secretly guard the mountain. Is the girl waiting for someone?"

Zeng Qing shook his head.Xingchi said, "Since you can't wait, why wait any longer?"

Zeng Qing said, "I can feel that she is nearby, but she refuses to come out to see me."

Xing Chi paused, thinking, could this be what they said about a heart-to-heart connection?He also said, "The poor monk lives in seclusion in the back mountain all the year round, and the slightest disturbance in the back mountain can't escape the eyes and ears of the poor monk. I found the girl on the first day I came to the back mountain, but I saw you with no malice. I have a lot of things on my mind, so I don't want to disturb you. Except for the girl, no one else has come to Houshan these days. I think the person the girl is looking for is not in Houshan at all. Or... that person is no longer there. I advise the girl Let's just give up."

"You..." Zeng Qing suddenly looked up at Xing Chi, "Do you know who I'm looking for?"

Xing Chi said, "If the poor monk's guess is correct, the person the girl is looking for is Liu Mu who accompanied you to the back mountain when you were in the academy."

Zeng Qing suddenly realized, "Could it be that you are the crazy monk that Liu Mu said was hiding in the back mountain?" Zeng Qing remembered that Liu Mu once told herself that she met a crazy monk with strong martial arts in the back mountain.

Xing Chi nodded, "The poor monk Xing Chi is exactly the crazy monk Liu Mu said."

Zeng Qing said, "Master, do you know the whereabouts of Liu Mu?"

Xing Chi said, "That day I heard that Liu Mu was in distress, so I went to the Jinling Prison to rescue him. But I didn't find Liu Mu. Later, I heard from the jailer that Liu Mu had been severely tortured and injured by a knife. His whereabouts are unknown. I'm afraid he has... "Xing Chi sighed, "If I knew Liu Mu's whereabouts, how could I not rescue her? I'm not a monk, I boast, even if it's the sky prison in the capital, I can still come and go freely and bring a living person out, let alone a It’s just a big prison in Jinling. And there are many friends in the Jianghu. If Liumu is alive, how can I not find out. So I guess Liumu is not in this world at all. I advise the girl to stop torturing herself. The dead is dead , even if the girl really broke her heart from crying, Liu Mu will not come back."

"No, Liu Mu won't die. I can feel that she is still alive, and she will definitely come back to see me." Zeng Qing was expressionless at this time, and he couldn't hear the tone in his mouth. It sounded more like subconscious soliloquy.After a while, Zeng Qing got up and didn't look at Xing Chi again, just said to himself, "I will definitely find her." After speaking, he turned and left the back mountain.

Xing Chi returned to the cave, Liu Mu was still sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed.

Xing Chi said, "Miss Zeng is gone."

Liu Mu closed his eyes, and said without a tone, "Everything in the world is just a dream, so there is nothing that won't go. Zeng Qing is gone today. In a few days, I am also destined to go. Even if I don't go, then How can it be. In the final analysis, it is just a fistful of sand. Even if it is kept, how long can it be kept."

Xingchi looked at Liu Mu, and jokingly said, "I don't think you can say such enlightened words. Seeing that you are empty now, you seem to be an eminent monk who sees through everything. Abbot Ben Ji said it a long time ago. You kid has the root of wisdom, why don't you replace your hair and follow me to practice."

Liu Mu smiled bitterly and didn't speak any more.

Xing Chi sat on the ground, took off his shoes and patted the dust on the soles of his shoes on the wall, and said while putting on his shoes, "Miss Zeng saved your Liu family over and over again, which can be regarded as a repayment to Taifu Yin. Taifu Yin has no children under his knees, only Hui Niang is alone." Daughter, you are the only descendant of Taifu Yin left in this world."

Liu Mu finally opened his eyes and asked, "Could it be that Prime Minister Zeng also has some relationship with my grandfather?"

Xing Chi said, "Then Zeng Pu is your grandfather's favorite student. Zeng Pu was born in a poor family. When he first entered the officialdom, he was outspoken and upright, which offended many people. At first he didn't know the word flexible, because he couldn't understand those The corrupt officials who are gangsters almost abandon their official positions and go back to the countryside to work in agriculture. If your grandfather did not appreciate him, pave the way for him, and teach him how to be an official, I am afraid that Zeng Pu would not be where he is today. It is a pity that your grandfather was killed later. Framed, Zeng Pu could have excused your grandfather, but he had been an official for many years at that time, and knew the pros and cons of officialdom, so he could only stand by and watch for fear of hurting his family. But in the end, Zeng Pu was still a serious A man of righteousness, on the day Taifu Yin left the capital, Zeng Pu knelt on the official road outside the capital and waited for Taifu Yin early in the morning. Taifu Yin is not the villain who holds grudges, and before leaving, he told Zeng Pu some principles of being an official and a person. Zeng Pu knelt down and sent Taifu Yin away, and the two had never met since then. This incident has become a knot in Zeng Pu’s heart that he has not opened for more than [-] years. Taifu Yin is kind to Zeng Pu, and it can be said that Zeng Pu’s today Everything is due to Taifu Yin's kindness to him in the past. No matter what the Zeng family has helped the Liu family, you deserve it. It's just that Miss Zeng has to go through this kind of love."

Liu Mu shook his head slightly, sighed, and said flatly, "The Zeng family saved me, which is considered to be a repayment to my grandfather. I owe Zeng Qing today, and I don't know when I can pay it back. Forget it, the cycle of cause and effect in the world has its own way, why not?" It’s time for a layman like me to worry about it.”

As he said that, Xing Chi thought of Liu Mu's mother again.Looking at Liu Mu who was sitting on the ground with eyes closed and meditating, I thought, this kid was delivered by my own hands before he survived the catastrophe and survived the catastrophe. Do I have to accompany her to finish the last journey?If Hui Niang and I hadn't told that big lie back then, concealing Liu Mu's identity, if she hadn't married some Jinling talented woman, hadn't come to the Huguo Temple Academy, and hadn't made enemies with those two villains, wouldn't the Liu family not have suffered such a catastrophe? , everything has a different ending.Could it be that I indirectly harmed Hui Niang's only blood left in this world?

Xing Chi said, "Liu Mu, don't worry, no matter whether you live or die in the future, I will definitely kill those two villains and avenge you and everyone in the Liu family."

Liu Mu got up and stretched, and said with a slow smile, "Forget it, I don't have many days left, and I still want to do those things. I don't want to be a resentful ghost after I die. Wearing bright red clothes, blue-faced fangs, protruding eyes full of blood, how ugly, even on the night of resurgence, I'm afraid I won't have the face to come back and reminisce with you."

Xing Chi smiled and said, "Even if the ghost can come back at night, I'm afraid you are too busy to meet those girls, Miss Zeng in the capital, the number one talented woman and the number one courtesan in Jinling, from the capital to Jinling, even if a ghost can travel like a ghost Qianli, some of you are busy, I'm afraid you haven't had time to come and see me, a crazy monk."

Liu Mu smiled and said, "There are so many things that I care about in this world. It seems that I am busy after death. I should take a good look at the plants and trees in the back mountain while I am still alive." After finishing speaking He patted the dust off his body, hummed the tune he often listened to in Chunfeng Pavilion, and walked out with procrastinated steps.After walking a few steps, he turned around and said with a smile, "Crazy monk, I'm not joking. If I can really become a ghost after death, I will definitely come back to drink with you."

Xingchi laughed loudly, "Okay, if you don't want to see those girls, then I'll prepare the best food and drink, and wait until you come back and get drunk."

When he couldn't see Liu Mu's back, Xing Chi suddenly put away the smile on his face again, "It's strange, how to say this in a proper way." But he felt a little uncomfortable, thinking about the situation of Liu Mu before he left, unexpectedly The feeling of parting last words.

Xingchi glanced outside, and shouted to the outside of the cave, "Don't go too far, it looks like it will rain in a few hours."

I only heard Liu Mu's voice getting weaker and weaker, "Got it, I'm nagging!" Liu Mu outside the cave glanced at the sun, and said to himself, "The crazy monk is talking nonsense again, such a big sun, and the sun is so big. Where there are no clouds, it will rain."