Chapter 451 Whose Little Cutie Is This? Why Is It so Beautiful?
Due to his poor fever condition, although he managed to answer the test paper with willpower, it was far from what he expected. Therefore, when the results were released half a month later, he was not surprised to learn that he did not win.
Because of this matter, he was ridiculed by the villagers for an unknown amount of time, saying that he had lost his wife and lost his army. Not only did he fail to pass the examination, he even killed his mother!
Because the incident was so big that it reached the ears of the county magistrate and academic officials, in the end he was expelled from his job for bad conduct.
But it turns out... all of this is fake!
Xu Chunsheng was just stunned for a moment and quickly regained his composure.
It was not his original wish to obtain fame, but now that he knew the truth, his mood did not change much.
He glanced at Tie Zhu who was hesitant to speak, with a gentle and calm expression: "This military master doesn't have to worry, just tell me what you have to say!"
Tie Zhu lowered his head respectfully and opened another page: "Besides, the Xu family has also been involved in human lives."
Hearing this, Xu Chun raised his head fiercely, and some speculation was about to emerge in his heart. He clenched his knuckles hanging by his side, and heard Tie Zhu's gentle voice in his ears:
"Eight years ago, after Mr. Xu entered the examination room, Wang who stayed in the inn was killed by Xu Dalang. Because he hit the corner of the table and died of a ruptured spleen. His injuries coincided with the injuries he had suffered when he was hit by a carriage, so he died. will escape the inspection of his work,"
The main reason is that Qingyun County is remote and the county magistrate did nothing and did not conduct careful verification at all.
Even when Tie Zhu opened his mouth, Xu Chunsheng had already guessed the answer. After hearing this, he suddenly stood up, looked at Liang Jiu with a pale face, and then said hoarsely: "I want to see him."
Shen Mingjiao stood up: "Then let's go together, just in time, I also have something to ask him,"
Tie Zhu seemed to have expected this, and asked people to clean Xu Dalang, who was exhausted, and bring him over.
Xu Chunsheng stared at Xu Dalang, who was sweating on his forehead with complicated eyes, and asked in a dry voice: "Do you hate me so much?"
He has known since he was a child that this cousin doesn't like him, but due to his personality, he won't get angry and care about it.
He underestimated the evil of human nature!
Those who could follow him were all Feng Lisheng's elite soldiers. These people usually interrogated enemy assassin prisoners and other big figures. Torturing Xu Dalang was simply killing a chicken with a knife.
In short, Xu Dalang looked uninjured, but in fact he was tortured very badly.
Xu Dalang was in pain and was unconscious. When he saw the visitor, he burst into tears and said, "I was wrong, please let me go..."
Seeing the other party kneeling at his feet in embarrassment, begging for mercy. Maybe it’s because I’ve experienced too many things today. Except for the shock at the beginning, Xu Chunsheng felt calm and numb at this time. Probably in the years when his mother suddenly passed away, he had experienced all the warmth and ups and downs of human relationships.
He turned around and lowered his beautiful long eyelashes: "I have nothing more to ask. You can send him to see the judge! Leave everything to the law."
Feng Lisheng hesitantly raised his hand and patted his shoulder. Xu Chunsheng twitched the corners of his lips, as if to convince himself: "It's all over, and it will be better in the future."
Shen Mingjiao signaled Xu Chunsheng to wait first, then stared into Xu Dalang's eyes.
Since the last time she was at Shenwu Village, she had hypnotized Ye Xiu in an attempt to save his life. That time it almost exceeded the limit of physical endurance. So much so that she often gets headaches these days. So he never dared to try to use hypnosis to unblock the Forgetfulness Gu in Li Sheng's body.
Fortunately, Xu Dalang's hypnosis was much easier in comparison. The only person Wang had contact with before his death was Xu Dalang. She planned to use hypnosis to stimulate Xu Dalang's memory before and after he killed Wang.
These things cannot be revealed through torture alone. After all, few people can remember all the details of what happened in the past, including what words were said and what actions were performed?
Xu Dalang's eyes gradually became blurred, and Shen Mingjiao asked him:
"Tell me everything about the last time you saw Mrs. Wang, including what she said specifically, her expressions and movements."
Xu Dalang began to retell in a dull voice: "...that day when I entered the inn, I wanted to ask my second aunt Xu Chunsheng if she had really caught the cold. But as soon as I entered the room, I saw my second aunt leaning on the chair with a pale face. After I learned that she was in pain where she had been hit by a carriage before, my mind was filled with excitement and I thought of a way to completely defeat Xu Chunsheng.
So I paid for the doctor who came to check my aunt's pulse. The doctor told my aunt that she was going to die soon after being hit in the internal organs. Maybe it was a psychological effect. The doctor felt that the wound was getting more and more painful.
Realizing that she was about to die, she looked in the direction of the government office examination room and was in a daze for a while. Then she held my hand and cried, saying that she was wrong and that Xu Chunsheng was innocent..."
Through Xu Dalang's narration, the three people in the room roughly restored the truth of the matter.
Xu Laoer and his wife were not released because of the kindness of their master.
Mrs. Wang is indeed working as a maid next to the old lady of the master's family, but she is having an affair with the young master of the master's family and is pregnant with a child. The young master is not yet married.
It is an unwritten rule in the upper class circles that if a young man from a family produces a concubine's eldest son before getting married, the marriage will be more difficult.
When the old lady learned about this, she asked someone to give Wang a bowl of tiger and wolf medicine without saying a word. She wanted to sell the person directly, but thinking that she had served her for so many years, she chose a watch in the house for her. The honest boy, Xu Laoer, returned the contract and drove them out of the house.
However, within half a month, the former master's family committed an incident and was confiscated and exterminated. The two of them were lucky enough to avoid this disaster, but looking at the bloody Caishikou, they were frightened, so Xu Laoer suggested Take Wang back to his hometown Qingyun County.
In order to save money, the two took a shortcut out of the suburbs of the city. When they passed a village, Xu Laoer heard the faint cry of a baby in the grass.
He walked over and took out a child who was already bruised by the cold. When he was at a loss, a well-dressed nun in charge appeared out of nowhere.
The grandma looked at the child for a long time, with complicated emotions in her eyes. Then she took off all the valuable jewelry and silver coins on her body and stuffed them into Wang's hands. She knelt down and begged them to take the child in.
Xu Laoer was still a little hesitant, but Wang looked at the heavy jewelry banknotes in his hand and agreed without hesitation.
The nanny finally wrapped the child in a swaddling clothes and said that the child was the child of a brothel prostitute and a rich man. The eldest wife of the family was jealous and sent people to hunt him down. The child had to be abandoned.
Please leave the capital with your children and never come back.
After taking a few steps, the nanny solemnly told them not to throw away the child's swaddling clothes. As long as they take good care of the child, there will be great blessings in the future.
At that time, the two of them didn't take this to heart, thinking that the grandma wanted to wait until the limelight was over before finding the child.
Mrs. Wang looked at the skinny child and wanted to throw it away quietly. In the end, Xu Laoer stopped her and said that she could keep it as long as she wanted. Whether the child would survive depends on fate.
Unexpectedly, this child looked thin and small, but had extremely strong vitality. One month later, the child's facial features opened up and he was so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes away.
Mrs. Wang couldn't bear to lose it now. She had been given the drug of tiger and wolf, and she would never have another child in this life.
The two of them returned to Qingyun County. With the money gesture given by the grandma, the couple opened a shop in the county town, bought some land, and lived a pretty good life.
There is no need to elaborate on what happened next.
When Wang learned that she was about to die, she suddenly realized that she owed a lot to Xu Chunsheng and asked Xu Dalang to tell Xu Chunsheng this. Whether he wanted to gain fame and go back to Beijing to recognize himself or something else, she thought it was fine.
After Xu Dalang heard this, his jealousy became even more intense, and he killed Wang directly when he was not paying attention.
Shen Mingjiao looked away, and as Xu Dalang closed his eyes and fainted on the ground, the three of them fell silent.
Shen Mingjiao opened her mouth and comforted her dryly: "It's all over!"
In the face of the bloody truth, this sentence really pales in comparison.
The adoptive parents who originally thought they loved him turned out to be just because of money.
Over the years, from the few words his parents said, Xu Chunsheng always thought that it was because of him that his parents had no choice but to hide in this poor mountain village. He has a gentle nature, so you can imagine the guilt in his heart!
So he worked hard to educate himself and wanted to repay his parents as much as possible.
But all this is false. Xu Laoer and his wife did not return to Xujiacun because of him. They were willing to raise him, half of the reason was that Wang could not give birth.
After listening to this long series of stories, the young man opposite stood there for a long time, his long and thick eyelashes casting shadows under his eyes. He managed to pull his lower lip: "Yes, it's all over. At least they raised me, and there was no... …throw me away!”
His clean and handsome eyes still showed a bit of unspeakable sadness.
It would be a while before the test results came out, so Shen Mingjiao asked Tiezhu to take people to Xu's house to find the swaddling clothes that Xu Chunsheng used back then.
Although Wang didn't believe what the nanny said at first, she still kept the swaddling clothes properly out of caution.
Xu Dalang planned to use this swaddling clothes to impersonate him in a whimsical way, but unfortunately he never waited until the nobles from the capital came to look for him.
Shen Mingjiao simply didn't know what to say after hearing this. Looking at his ordinary and ugly appearance, who gave him the confidence to come up with such an idea? Is it all kinds of nonsense?
Tie Zhu's movements were very fast, and he got the things back in less than a cup of tea.
Opening the blue cloth bag, there was a neatly folded bright red swaddle inside.
Shen Mingjiao picked up the swaddling clothes and unfolded it and glanced at it carefully. The quilt cover was made of top-quality cloud brocade, with pleasant patterns outlined with gold thread. Perhaps in order not to hurt the child's skin, the quilt was made of soft fine cotton.
Even after so many years, the back fabric has not faded or deformed.
Just by relying on this key, Shen Mingjiao was sure that Xu Chunsheng could not be the son of a brothel prostitute.
The best Yunjin is precious. In Daxia, only the royal family and a few big families were willing to use Yunjin to swaddle their children.
Shen Mingjiao was about to ask someone to put the swaddling clothes away properly, when Feng Lisheng stared thoughtfully at the pattern embroidered with gold thread on it, "Wait a minute."
"What's wrong?"
Feng Lisheng took the swaddling clothes and pointed at a location, "Tear off the back. There should be something on it. I can't tell the details."
Shen Mingjiao didn't ask in detail, and just asked for a pair of scissors. After getting along with each other for a few days, she basically understood that although Feng Lisheng could not remember the past, what he had learned and his basic understanding of the world were not. I won’t forget, just like cooking and practicing martial arts.
All in all very confusing.
Shen Mingjiao took the scissors and cut the threads, then pulled off the bright red quilt cover.
I turned it over and took a closer look. I didn't see anything special except for the strange corners of the needles.
Feng Lisheng frowned and said: "I can't tell clearly, I just vaguely know that this should be a kind of painting pigment,"
Xu Chunsheng, who had been silent, came over, frowned for a while, said "Wait a moment", then entered the study, rummaged around and took out a travelogue from the corner, and found one page accurately.
"This is a pigment made from a plant in Lingnan. It is mostly used in landscape portraits. The only special thing is that it cannot be touched with water, otherwise the notes will disappear and it needs to be baked at high temperature."
Shen Mingjiao was not surprised. She had heard Feng Lisheng mention it before that some confidential letters were written with special ink and had to be soaked in a specific potion to reveal the handwriting.
Put the satin on a burning fire, and after half a quarter of an hour, the writing will appear.
The words were written by the Queen's wet nurse, Nanny Yang, and explained all the details of the original exchange of the two children. Finally, she wrote that loyalty and justice cannot be balanced. She did not want to hurt the Queen, but she could not watch her own daughter being tortured to death. , hoping that one day, this child can be found.
The handwriting was scrawled, obviously written in a hurry.
Shen Mingjiao remembered that during a casual chat, the emperor's sister-in-law had accidentally mentioned that her nanny suddenly fell ill and died two months after she gave birth to the prince. At that time, she was injured due to giving birth to twins, resulting in I was in a bad mood and was sad for a long time after receiving the news.
Now that I think about it, Nanny Yang should have been silenced by Qingyao, which can be regarded as suffering the consequences.
As we all know, Wei Che and the Queen are both good at painting, so it is not surprising that Nanny Yang can get this kind of paint.
Shen Mingjiao folded the satin carefully: "Fortunately, Grandma Yang still has some conscience."
She looked at Xu Chunsheng with a smile: "This can be considered tangible evidence."
Xu Chunsheng said nothing, but his mood did feel better.
At this moment, a girl's crisp voice shouted in her ears: "Daddy!"
Shen Mingjiao looked back and saw a little girl with braids running hurriedly from the direction of the back room.
The little girl is about three years old. She is wearing clean fine cotton clothes and has a chubby little face. Her facial features are indescribably exquisite and beautiful, especially her eyes, which are like the finest obsidian, clear and bright, matching the swollen eyes at the corners of her mouth. Lidou can literally see into people's hearts.
The moment Xu Chunsheng saw the child, all the depression in his body was swept away, and his eyes suddenly softened. He squatted down, skillfully caught the little girl rushing towards her, took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth. , with a soft and gentle voice: "Didn't you eat well?"
As soon as the words fell, Yaya chased her out with the rice in her hand, curling her lips and saying: "This girl is getting more and more cum, husband, come and feed her!"
Shen Mingjiao stared with burning eyes at the little girl lying in Xu Chunsheng's arms with puffed cheeks: "Is this your daughter? She is so beautiful?"
Nuobao turned his head when he heard the noise. When he saw Shen Mingjiao's face, the little girl was stunned. Then she tilted her head and smiled sweetly, saying in a sweet voice: "This aunt is so beautiful too?"
Shen Mingjiao was instantly struck by how cute she looked, and couldn't help but raise her hand to hug her:
"Whose little cutie is this? Why is it so beautiful?"
Nuo Bao was not afraid of strangers, so he stretched out his chubby little hand to reach for the hairpin on Shen Mingjiao's head, and replied seriously: "My name is Nuo Bao, and I am my parents' little cutie."
Shen Mingjiao raised her hand to take the child inexpertly. Listening to the slightly unclear little voice, she couldn't help but laugh out loud. She raised her hand to poke the little girl's soft little face: "What a narcissist. Little girl!”
After saying that, he touched his body and found a bracelet he bought yesterday and handed it to her:
"Auntie went out in a hurry and didn't bring anything with her. When we return to the capital later, auntie will take you shopping to buy a beautiful little dress, okay?"
The little girl still couldn't fully understand these words, so she automatically understood that her beautiful aunt was going to take her to buy good things. She stared at Shen Mingjiao with her round eyes, puffed her cheeks and hesitated for a long time, and finally shook her head firmly:
"Daddy said you can't just go with strangers. Nuobao has never met aunt before, and aunt is a stranger!"
These sweet and serious words made everyone in the courtyard laugh. Feng Wu couldn't help but praise: "This little girl is so smart and has a strong sense of danger!"
Even Feng Lisheng couldn't help but curl his lips when he looked at Nuobao's familiar features.
No one had eaten this early in the morning, and Tie Zhu spontaneously went out to prepare food.
Although Yaya was accompanied by Nuobao, she was frightened after all. And her torn hair.
Xu Chunsheng heated up hot water and prepared to give her a good wash.
Shen Mingjiao patted Yaya's chubby arm and said slowly: "After it's washed, can I give you a nice hairstyle?"
Then he turned to Xu Chunsheng and said, "I'll have Doctor Wu take a look at her later and prescribe some soothing soup."
Everyone in the yard went out, but Shen Mingjiao still held Nuobao and was reluctant to let go. Feng Lisheng looked at the somewhat similar faces of the older one and the younger one, and watched the two people talking and laughing together, and his heart softened unconsciously. I want to restore my past memories more and more.
Nuobao looked at the little one, but it was well-raised. Shen Mingjiao's arms became sore after being held for a while. She pulled Feng Lisheng's sleeve: "How about you come and give me a hug?"
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