Chapter 22

Yin Hua is lying on a bamboo reclining chair in his yard. His feet are folded into two legs. He is swinging and humming tuneless tunes in his mouth. On the broken stone table beside, there is a broken bowl with a pair of chopsticks on it. It looks like it has just finished eating.

Caisang stands outside the door and looks at Yin Hua's lazy face. Du refuses to enter. Murong Zhining pushes her behind. Yin Hua was startled and looked intently. It turned out that two beautiful little village girls were standing outside his door.

Yin Hua turned over and looked at her carefully. She recognized her daughter and immediately changed her face. She cried with a bitter face: "Oh, it's my child who has come back. My child hasn't forgotten my father."

Yin Hua comes to think of the hand of Caisang, and Caisang goes to hide in disgust. Yin Hua pretended to wipe his tears: "do you still remember that your father sold you to your mother? Dad couldn't help it. Isn't father regretting every day? "

Caisang ignored him. She took the broom and cleaned it in the yard. And picked up the dirty clothes and washed a basin. Yin Hua stood by and looked at it pleasantly. The little abacus in his mind was playing "crackly and crackly." Er Ya, have you got a family yet? Who is this beautiful little girl? " He glanced at Murong Zhining.

Caisang didn't give him a good look. "Who is she that has nothing to do with you? I have a father like you. Who will marry me?" Yin Hua smiles all over his face: "Oh, look at what you said, dad will help you find a good family." He planned that his daughter would grow up and run back to him, which would make him receive a large amount of betrothal gifts. Thinking of this, Yin Hua was as happy as a flower.

Caisang's face was cold: "don't worry about it. My aunt will help me." Yin Hua turned the mouse's eyes and said, "so you live in your aunt's house. My aunt is not my mother. How can she be the winner? My father will make arrangements for you personally. " Caisang stares at him with a pair of eyes: "you will only collect the dowry."

At this time, a woman came into the yard with several cabbage and bamboo baskets. Yin Hua said to Caisang pleasantly, "Er Ya, this is your stepmother."

The woman put the blue son on the table and came to take Caisang's hand with a smile on her face: "Oh, my daughter is back. It's so big. It's so beautiful. Do you have a wife's family? " Caisang shakes off her hand and silently loses a ingot of silver on the table, pulls Murong Zhining and turns to walk out.

Murong Zhining is led out of the courtyard by Caisang. She looks back suspiciously. At last, she pulls Caisang to stop. Caisang asked doubtfully, "what happened to Zhining?" Murong Zhining looked at Caisang's eyes and said: "I was sold to Wanhua Pavilion at the beginning It's your stepmother. "

Caisang frowned and thought for a moment: "it turned out to be this poisonous woman. I can't go in and tear her." Murong Zhining holds Caisang and sighs: "forget it, how about beating her? It doesn't change anything. " Picking mulberry leaves Murong Zhining's hand and rushes into the yard. She grabs the silver ingot on the table that Yin Hua hasn't had time to take away. She goes out and pulls Murong Zhining away.

Yin Hua came out this time: "why, Er Ya, what are you doing? Silver, leave it to my father. " Caisang turned around and spat at him fiercely: "it's injurious."

They went to Yin's house in silence. Caisang was unhappy all the time: "I'm really ashamed to have such a father. I won't visit him again. I have nothing to do with him." Caisang said that he still didn't get rid of his hatred: "no, I will go to the government to report that they abduct and sell women and children." Murong Zhining pulls her: "have you forgotten our identity? If we were caught by that bully, we would both be miserable. "

Picking mulberry while walking, he tugged at the grass on the side of the road, venting his anger: "are we hiding here for a lifetime?" Murong Zhining ran to her front: "of course not, after the show, I still want to go back to Beijing." Caisang asked curiously, "do you want to find your little brother?" Murong Zhining firmly places her head.

Caisang's head askew innocently: "but Shangjing is so big, how can you find your little brother?" Murong Zhining mischievously turns her eyes up and shakes her head proudly: "mountain people have their own tricks." Caisang can't help but chase and ask what's the trick?

Murong Zhining mischievously poked Caisang's forehead and said, "write a lot of notices and post them everywhere in the capital." Picking mulberry's disdainful ground turned over his white eyes: "eh What else can I do? Before the little brother was found, we were caught by chiyun beast. "

Murong Zhining and Caisang soon forgot their troubles, and began to quarrel with each other. Caisang picked a bright wild flower and put it on Murong Zhining's head: "even if it's a little village girl, you're the most beautiful little village girl I've ever seen." They are running on the trail.

Just as they were about to cross the hillside, a few riders appeared in front of the path, leaning towards them. Murong Zhining realizes the danger and wants to run back with Caisang. On the mountain road behind, she is stopped by several riders.

Chiyun Yuexuan rode on the horse and stared at the two girls with angry and dangerous eyes. He drove into them on horseback, and his violent voice made people scared: "Murong Zhining, do you really think you can run into the palm of this general? General Ben has warned you once, but you are joking when you are a general? "

The bodyguard tied Murong Zhining's hands with a rope. The other end of the rope was handed over to chiyun Yuexuan who was riding on the horse. Chiyun Yuexuan is riding on the horse, dragging Murong Zhining back slowly. Caisang dare not speak, silently follow Murong Zhining, when Murong Zhi is pulled by the rope and falls, she will help her up.Murong Zhining was pulled all the way to go far, from the path back to the official road. She fell countless times, her clothes were worn, her knees were bloodstained, and Caisang was so distressed that she cried.

On the official road, a carriage stopped at the side of the road. Murong Zhining and Caisang were crammed into the carriage. When it was dark, the party returned to Shangjing.

Murong Zhining and Caisang are taken to the meeting hall of the general's mansion. Caisang is shaking with fear. Murong Zhining holds her tightly.

Chiyun Yuexuan said in a low voice, "go and take up the mark of this general's brand horse." Several pawns brought in a burning charcoal basin. Caisang recoiled in horror: "you What are you doing? "

Chiyun Yuexuan gave her a fierce glance: "you will know in a moment."

Chiyun Yuexuan took a brand iron himself. It was used by the army to distinguish horses. There were two words "chiyun" on the brand iron. He put the brand iron in the charcoal pot and burned it red.

Caisang shouted at the top of her voice: "don't Don't hurt us. Can't we stop running? "

Chiyun Yuexuan coldly holds up the burning red iron, goes to Murong Zhining, and orders the bodyguard beside her cruelly: "hold her down." Caisang wants to stop her, but she is also twisted to her body. She cries and looks at Murong Zhining, pleading loudly for chiding yunyuexuan.

Murong Zhining is cut back by two bodyguards and falls to the ground. She doesn't struggle. Chiyun Yuexuan pulls away her back collar. Her white and delicate back skin flows with light golden halo under the candlelight. Chiyun Yuexuan cruelly steps on her waist with one foot to prevent her from struggling. Without any pity, he pressed the hot iron in his hand on Murong Zhining's bright and clean right back, as if he were treating an animal.

Murong Zhining's snow-white skin "hiss" up a burst of blue smoke. She clenches her teeth, and a line of blood flows from the corner of her mouth, which breaks the corner of her lips. She doesn't even make any sound. Murong Zhining's obstinacy makes his two bodyguards feel cool on the back. Even a big man with a big body can't stand the pain, and he will cry out. Caisang screamed bitterly and fainted.

Chiyun Yuexuan holds the iron ferociously, close to Murong Zhining's sweaty face and says: "next time you dare, it will be printed here. By the way, general Ben will have your foster mother's family taken care of. "

Murong Zhining lies prone on the bed, picking mulberry to shed tears, helping her wipe the blood stains on the wound. Murong Zhining's back has been burned. His flesh and blood are indistinct. He can vaguely see the two words "chiyun". These two words reflect her position as a beast in the general's mansion.

Pick mulberry side to wipe, while blowing air to the wound with the mouth, want to reduce the pain of Murong Zhining. Murong Zhining is very calm: "can you help me cut that piece of skin? I'm not afraid of pain. I don't want these two words on me. "

Caisang asked her with a trembling voice: "no, no, so even if you don't die of pain, you will die of infection. I don't allow you to have this idea. Don't you say that a dignified person, even if he is trampled on by others, holds his head high? You've never looked down, you haven't lost your dignity. "

Murong Zhining's eyes are full of tears. Caisang is really her heart medicine. A word can soothe her inner pain.

After that, Murong Zhining did not plan to escape. It's not because she's afraid, but because chiyun Yuexuan has her weakness in her hand. She doesn't want to involve her adoptive mother's family.

The impeachment case of chiyun Yuexuan came to an end two months later. Yanfeng personally handed back the soldier's talisman to him in the court hall. But the scribe, who was a witness, was poisoned to death in the house where he was kept. The tangled underground black curtain, just to be opened, but again hidden in the dark.

On the day when chiyunyuexuan left Fuling pass, jisihan, who had suffered great losses, began to be eager to take advantage of chiyunyuexuan to leave and regain the lost city. After chiyun Yuexuan finished his work in the capital, he immediately decided to take his soldiers back to Fuling pass to guard. In order not to fall short, he decided to take Murong Zhining away, until he left, Yanfeng did not see him alone.

Before leaving, Murong Zhining put down her dignity for the first time and begged to scold yunyuexuan. She wanted to leave Caisang in Shangjing. She doesn't want Caisang to live a displaced life with her. Caisang is too fragile. She doesn't want her to suffer for herself.

Caisang refuses to stay. Murong Zhining forces her to stay in Shangjing with tears.

Murong Zhining sits quietly in the carriage and goes south with the chiyun army. When I left for Beijing, there were still ministers, and the people came to see each other off, but Yanfeng didn't come. Murong Zhining also doesn't want him to come, she doesn't want to see anyone who has been kind to her sad.