Half blood

Chapter 43

Standing in front of Wei Yuan's cemetery, Li Xuan poured a jug of wine on the soil in front of his cemetery.His eyes were moist, and he knelt in the evening wind, his robe was blown by the wind, like a big bird announcing mourning. "Brother Wei," Li Xuan put one hand on the tombstone, with mixed feelings in his heart, but thousands of words came to his lips and turned into a sigh.

All this seemed to be a joke, Wei Yuan contracted the plague after the plague ended, and died within a day.A good person has become a word of mouth erected in the soil. There are only a few words on the monument, but they try to summarize a person's life in vain.He used a handkerchief to collect a handful of soil from Wei Yuan's grave, wrapped the soil and hid it in his clothes. The soil was for Li Fei, a poor girl who loved Wei Yuan for so many years but only got a handful of soil. .

On the day of Wei Yuan's burial, Wei Zhong didn't go, he sat alone in the secret room behind the study.A portrait of his late wife hung in the secret room, and he was holding a drunk barrel in his hand.

"General..." Li Xuan walked into the dark room with no lights, and looked at the figure curled up under the portrait in the darkness.

"General Wei, sorry for you..."

With a sound of "dang", the wine barrel in Wei Zhong's hand hit the ground with a loud noise, and the sound echoed in the empty room, making the dark room look like a hole, a hole in the heart of a person.

"My condolences? Oh, my condolences? How can I mourn? I have no wife, no son? I have nothing! Why should I mourn?"

Li Xuan stretched out his hand to support Wei Zhong, and said, "General Wei, you are drunk..."

"Tell me, did I suffer retribution..." Wei Zhong grabbed Li Xuan's wrist tightly with his hands, and a pair of bloodshot tiger eyes looked deeply into Li Xuan's eyes, "Do you think I am Retribution?"

Li Xuandao: "General Wei, what are you talking about? Having a general like you is a blessing to the people in the south. Everyone says so, I'm not the only one who said it."

Wei Zhongdao: "But I betrayed someone, I betrayed her, now I will suffer retribution, she took my son away, because I refused to recognize her child..."

Li Xuan didn't understand what Wei Zhong was talking about, so he held Wei Zhong's shoulders and said, "General Wei, you really drank too much, you come out first, I'll get you some sober medicine."

"I'm not drunk, I know what I'm talking about!" Wei Zhong pushed away Li Xuan's supporting hand, then suddenly covered his face, pointed to the portrait on the wall, and exclaimed: "It's her, it's her, she's here..."

Li Xuan raised his eyes, and the paintings on that wall were hanging there neatly, Li Xuan said: "General, isn't that your wife hanging on the wall? You are really drunk, come on, get up, I will help you out .”

"No," Wei Zhong pushed Li Xuan's hand away again, and exclaimed: "It's her, I will never forget her face in my life, and her son also looks like this, in front of my eyes every day Shake, just to make me feel guilty, just to make me feel uncomfortable!" Wei Zhong began to growl, "She is a little bitch, she will never let me go until she dies."

Li Xuan didn't dare to go there again. He listened to Wei Zhong cursing, "She seduced me first, and she didn't think about how I could marry her? I have a wife and children in my family. In the end, she threatened me with a big belly." I said that if I didn’t give her a name, I would make the whole incident known to An Qujiang. In the end, I gave birth to a boy who was as sick as her. I made that boy the son of the prince. What else does he have? Unsatisfactory?"

"Who is that sick kid?"

"Why are you here? Why are you here?" Wei Zhong looked back at Li Xuan and exclaimed, "Why are you here, get out!"

Li Xuan strode over, grabbed Wei Zhong's collar with one hand, and asked in a cold voice: "Who is that kid, tell me quickly!"

Wei Zhong's mouth was vague, but he couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.

Li Xuandao: "Is that kid Li Xiuqi?"

When Li Xiuqi uttered the three words, the trembling Wei Zhong froze, his red eyes filled with fear, he opened his mouth and said, "That tuberculosis, you still want me to recognize him."

Li Xuan shoved Wei Zhong to the ground, and said in a cold voice: "I thought you were drunk today and didn't know what you were talking about. Xiu Qi came to the south just to find you and wait for you to drink." When you wake up, you'd better tell him, then you still have a son."

"I'm not drunk, I'm not drunk! I'm very clear, I'm very clear!" Wei Zhong waved his hand and pushed Li Xuan aside. He looked at Li Xuan viciously and said, "You and him are on the same side." , you and him are on the same side, just want to make things big, let everyone know that you want to harm me, you want me to be ruined!"

Li Xuan pushed the covered bookcase away, and the candlelight in the room came in, hurting Wei Zhong's eyes, Wei Zhong covered his eyes with his hands, and said: "Ah, you are going to blind me, you are going to kill me !"

Li Xuan didn't look back, Ren Weizhong wept softly in the dark room.He went straight out of the study, grabbed a small soldier who was coming towards him, and asked, "Where is Governor Li? Did you see Governor Li today?"

Xiao Bing shook his head and said, "I haven't seen Governor Li all day." Li Xuan's heart sank, he turned and walked towards Li Xiuqi's study.At this time, a person stopped Li Xuan and said: "Your Highness, I found Governor Li today, and I just found important clues about Bai Yuan. The second girl of Bai Yuan once brought things to the ancient Baima Temple on Xingchuan Mountain. I guess……"

However, Li Xuan turned a deaf ear and walked straight past the man in black. The man in black hurriedly shouted: "Hey, Your Highness, did you hear what I said? Didn't you always want to investigate this matter?"

Li Xuan didn't turn his head back, and said: "I still have something to do, you wait first." After speaking, he walked quickly to Li Xiuqi's study.

There was no one in the study. The books on the table were arranged one by one, as if they hadn't been touched, so Li Xuan opened the door and went out to the town.Li Xiuqi was not in the town either, and his subordinates said that the governor did not come today, so Li Xuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked to the embankment.

There was no one on the dam. The mighty river passed through the dike that Li Xuan proposed to build. On the one hand, the river split into two branches, one diverted to the east, and the other flowed down the river, agitating on this dam.

Li Xuan suddenly found that his face was stained with the mist of the river, he wiped his face, and said in a low voice, "Xiu Qi... where are you now?"

Li Xuan seemed to understand the loneliness behind Li Xiuqi's black eyes, his slight smile, his silence, and his indifference to him.Li Xiuqi was terrified in his heart, his mother disappeared after he was born, he had never seen his biological mother, and his father felt cruelly that Li Xiuqi was just a stain in his life, this Stains are a thorn in my heart, and I just want to deal with them quickly.The Ninth Prince and his wife sent the young Li Xiuqi away and asked him to follow a Taoist priest in the deep mountains without visiting him once for many years.

Li Xuan didn't know how the Ninth Princes and his wife viewed Li Xiuqi, whether they regarded him as a pawn for recruiting, or if he was sincerely his own blood, but now that the Ninth Princes and his wife already had their own child, Li Xiuqi was just an outsider. He is an outsider everywhere, whether in the capital or here, he will always be excluded, and is he also afraid that one day he will leave him?

Now Li Xuan wants to tell Li Xiuqi that he won't, if Wei Zhong betrays Li Xiuqi's mother and daughter for his own reputation, then even if his reputation is ruined, Li Xuan must make a promise to Li Xiuqi.That night, Li Xiuqi once asked him what they would do when they returned to the capital.At that time, Li Xuan didn't know either, he only wanted to be with Li Xiuqi, but he never promised Li Xiuqi what he would do.He has always blamed Li Xiuqi for being indifferent to him, so what about him?How did he ever let Li Xiuqi feel at ease?He never gave an answer, but selfishly enjoyed Li Xiuqi's love for him. He even cruelly felt that this love was not enough, not enough, and not warm enough. Everything was given to him.

A round of setting sun hangs on the river, and the afterglow of the setting sun makes half of the river red, half of the river rustling and half of the river red.Li Xuan suddenly felt that he understood Li Xiuqi's heart, and he also knew where Li Xiuqi was now, his black robe was blown up by the evening wind.

There was a man kneeling in front of Wei Yuan's tomb. This man didn't know how long he had been kneeling in the night wind. His figure was thin, and he was wearing a white moon-colored robe. His back seemed to melt into the vast tombs.

"I know you don't want me to call you brother, and you don't want to recognize me as a younger brother. I have always had resentment in my heart. But now that you are dead, I feel so uncomfortable. Is this the reason for the blood relationship?" ?" Li Xiuqi knelt in front of Wei Yuan's tomb and said softly.

This whisper was blown into Li Xuan's ears by the evening wind, and Li Xuan stood under a big tree not far away, listening quietly.

Li Xiuqi stopped talking, kowtowed three times to Wei Yuan's tombstone, then got up and turned around, and smiled wryly at Li Xuan under the tree: "How long has Your Highness been standing here?"