Chapter 55: The Scarlet Street (Part 2)
There is a long street in the north of Kyoto, called Heiandao. It is not far from the Imperial City. After passing the Sanshe Bridge not far ahead, you can go to Suzaku Avenue. It is very convenient to go to court. For countless years, the street has been lived with dignitaries. From the previous dynasty to the present, there have never been any changes. It is just that with the changes in the current situation, people living in the houses next to the street have been changed constantly.
During the Zhengtong period, the big mansion on Ping'an Road, which was the best place and closest to the imperial city, naturally returned to the Tianhai family. After the Tianshuling change, the Tianhai family did not change much, but when we went east, many of the mansions had changed their owners and overhauled the civil engineering, because more than ten princes including the King of Xiang, King of Zhongshan and more than ten princes had moved here one after another.
The house at the east and closest to the locust flowers on Ping'an Road is Xue's Mansion. As the first person in the Great Zhou army trusted by the Saint of Tianhai, Xue Xingchuan is naturally qualified to enjoy such treatment. Now the Xue family naturally cannot continue to maintain this house. The new owner may be a prince or a god general. Who knows?
Mrs. Xue didn't know who the new owner of the house was, but she knew that this was inevitable and never expected to continue living here. She had already made corresponding preparations. All the servants were dismissed. After the ceremony, she used the original dowry silver to buy a small courtyard on the street outside Baihua Lane.
After doing this, she thought she could be calm, but listening to the crying sounds coming beside her, she found that calmness was a luxury after all. She felt her head hurt a little, and asked in a deep voice: "Are you crying because of the pain or because of the sadness?"
The Miss Xue family, who was driven out of the house by the Minister's Mansion a few days ago, remained in the Xue family and she burst into tears. After hearing the news today, she cried even more. Listening to Mrs. Xue's questioning, she was frightened, raised her head with a timid look, and sobbed, "Mother, what's wrong?"
Her eyes had already turned red, her voice became a little hoarse, and for some reason, there were many wounds on her face, which seemed to have been beaten.
Mrs. Xue pointed at her bruised face until today and said angrily: "If you cry because you were beaten to the point where the pain was, it means you are useless and unworthy to be your father's daughter. If you cry because he died, it means you have a problem with your brain. Is it worth crying for such a person?"
The news that the Minister of Wei of the Ministry of Rites was killed by Chen Changsheng and Wang Po had spread throughout Kyoto. Every time the Miss Xue family thought of her husband's mercy and harshness, she would be extremely angry and wished he could die, but suddenly she found that the man was really dead. Thinking about these years, she couldn't help but feel sad and felt that her life was really hard.
Listening to her mother's words, the eldest lady of the Xue family also felt that she was really useless, but... why did President Chen kill him? Shouldn't he beat the man up and take him to the Xue Mansion to apologize to him, and swore to God that he would be very good to him in the future, just like before...
A sudden whistle interrupted her somewhat messy thoughts.
The loud roar came from the house next to Xue Mansion.
Immediately afterwards, countless rumbling sounds sounded, and the sound of wind and thunder could be heard faintly. Then, the house collapsed and smoke filled with dust.
The eldest lady of the Xue family was stunned and her face was pale, and she could not care about sadness and crying.
Mrs. Xue's eyes fell on the smoke and dust that were gradually rising next door, and a look of confusion appeared on her face.
The collapse of the house next door did not affect the Xue Mansion, but for some reason, she just felt that this should be related to the Xue Mansion.
Many years ago, after the Holy Queen Mother gave the house on Ping'an Road to Xue Xingchuan, the house separated by a wall also began to be renovated simultaneously.
The door of the house was opened in the south-facing locust flowers, and ordinary people could not even find it. When walking through the Ping'an Road, you would only feel that the house was part of the Xue Mansion.
The owner of the house was very mysterious and never dealt with people. Until today, Mrs. Xue didn't know who the other party was. She only vaguely guessed that it should be related to her family, because she had heard Xue Xingchuan make two corresponding arrangements and the most severe warnings with her own ears.
She even once doubted whether this mysterious neighbor would be the rumored Prince Zhaoming, of course, it was later proved that this conjecture was wrong.
The house collapsed, bringing countless smoke and dust. The broken bamboo was like a broken bow, and some green bamboo pieces collapsed and arrived in the garden of Xue's mansion.
Mrs. Xue hugged her frightened daughter and whispered a few words of comfort.
The house next door was still collapsing, and there was a constant sound of rumbling. It seemed that someone fell directly from the courtyard to the street. Mrs. Xue didn't know why the next door collapsed, but looking at the terrible movement, she thought that even if the man escaped, he would be injured. She ordered the manager to open the door and see if the other party needed help.
It was almost dusk and it was a little dark. Fortunately, the snow on the street was still so white, so you could clearly see the person covered in blood.
Although the blood shed seemed to be black.
The manager pushed open the door of Xue's mansion, and the first scene that Mrs. Xue and her daughter saw was such bloody scene.
The lady of Xue family exclaimed and shouted repeatedly: "Come and save people."
After saying this, she saw a very strange scene.
A beauty in palace clothes appeared behind the blood man, silently.
The beauty in the palace was bleeding, and there was still some dust, covering her eyebrows, but not her beauty.
Who is she? What's going on? Just when the lady of the Xue family was stunned, the beauty in the palace raised the broken sword in her hand and slashed the bloody man.
A stream of blood shot into the snow, not a lot, not enough to make the blood man die on the spot, nor too few to be seen.
"Kill someone!" Miss Xue's family shouted in horror, and then her voice stopped abruptly.
Mrs. Xue covered her mouth, her hands trembling constantly, but she tried very hard to prevent her daughter from making any noise.
She could see clearly that the beauty in the palace dress was Mo Yu, and that blood was... Zhou Tong.
It turned out that the house next door belonged to Zhou Tong.
She finally figured this out, thinking that Xue Xingchuan had hidden this matter from her, she couldn't help but get angry, and her body trembled even harder.
"It's Zhou Tong." Mrs. Xue's voice was a little ambiguous and a little cold.
The eldest lady of the Xue family was slightly stiff. She looked at the bloody scene on Xue Street and her hands gradually tightened.
Zhou Tong was like a wild beast who was about to die, let out a strange roar, climbed up from the snow in pain, and walked forward a few more steps.
He knew that this was Xue's mansion and knew that the mother and daughter on the stone steps were his sister-in-law and niece, so he would not turn to look there.
He would not plead with them, that was a humiliation, and he did not want to be seen by them as a stray dog.
He wanted to leave as soon as possible, but at this moment, a shrill sword wind fell on the upper side of his left thigh.
The muscles were cut horizontally and blood slowly flowed down like porridge spreading out of the edge of the pot. He knelt heavily in the snow, and snow splashed under his knees.
Chapter completed!