Southern Qi Fenghua Record

In a dense forest, the morning mist has not yet dissipated, and the night dew shines crystal clear on the tip of the grass blades. Seven or eight killers wearing hideous ghost masks move forward slowly, inch by inch along the jungle. Searching, the scope gradually narrowed.

On the branch, a black-haired moth suddenly began to sing, and the clear and clear cry spread far in the silent mountain forest, with a bit of chilling air.

Xia Houshu was like a stray animal, crawling nervously and innocently in a bush, not daring to move at all, all the dense thatch and bushes in her field of vision, just like her current situation, there was no way out Back, there is no way to escape.

As the footsteps got closer, she could almost hear her own heartbeat and breathing.

When she was nervous, she quickly covered her mouth with one hand, and with the other hand, she grasped a tuft of thatch tightly as if asking for help, wishing she could hide her breath and become a part of the jungle.

Time passed little by little, the sun slowly climbed overhead, and the golden light shone in through the gaps between the leaves, casting mottled ground.The interlacing of light and shadow makes this mountain forest gradually come alive.The damp atmosphere was stimulated by the scorching heat of the sun, and a thin white mist slowly rose up, lingering in the jungle, and could not dissipate for a long time.The mist is mixed with the unique fragrance of vegetation and the smell of rotting plants. Several kinds of smells are mixed together, and it smells a bit pungent and spicy.

With the scorching of the sun, the fragrance of vegetation gradually dissipated, but the smell of rot became more intense, and it poured into the nostrils one by one, provoking its sense of smell unscrupulously.

After staying for a long time, Xia Houshu finally couldn't help but sneezed, which unsurprisingly attracted the killer in the distance.

The sound of footsteps gradually approached, and the rustling of the cloth brushing against the plants seemed to be in front of her eyes. In the next second, a pair of cold, calloused hands would stretch out from the grass and lift her up fiercely, tearing her to pieces.

How to do?The death of Nurse Zhuang is unknown, who else can save her?

Xia Houshu was so frightened that he trembled slightly, his mind was running fast.The ghost-masked man is getting closer and closer, the only way is to quickly change to another place and continue hiding, otherwise she will be discovered soon.However, she had been crawling for too long, and her limbs had already become numb from maintaining the same posture for a long time. When she was about to move, she felt that her whole body was so stiff that she couldn't control it.

She tried several times, but couldn't move half a step.

Seeing the killer getting closer and closer, she was like a cripple who couldn't move.This sense of helplessness called "responsibility every day" made her very discouraged and sad.

Is she really going to die?

Didn't he die during the mother's difficult childbirth, or when he was a frail and sick baby, and during the eight years of waiting alone in Boyunguan, did he die on the way home?

A sense of unwillingness and fear rising from her heart gradually occupied her mind. She couldn't think rationally any more, she just felt isolated and helpless, and froze in place as if she had been hit by an acupuncture point. The few thatched grasses were almost uprooted by her.

Warm moisture overflowed from the eye sockets and dripped down the cheeks, and the panic, resentment, and fear in my heart were infinitely magnified.

She stayed in that Taoist temple that was almost isolated from the world for nearly eight years, looking forward to reuniting with her family as soon as possible and sharing the family relationship. Now her parents finally made up their minds to pick her up. The teachers and sisters bid farewell, and did not find a sense of reality until they got on the carriage back to Beijing.However, this joy did not last long, and they were ambushed.

Why is this happening?

Is it true that as prophesied, she is a disaster star, destined to bring bad luck to herself and her family in this life?

If she died, wouldn't it be embarrassing for the family?

Just when Xia Houshu was in despair, a young goat suddenly jumped out less than three meters away from her, and went into the grove on the other side like an arrow, and then returned to tranquility.

The killers stopped in their tracks, staring at the direction where the goat disappeared, and then relaxed their vigilance after deciding that there was nothing suspicious here, and continued their search in another direction.

Hearing the sound of footsteps slowly moving away, Xia Houshu's heart finally returned to its original position.She gently adjusted her breathing to relieve the fear emanating from her bones, then slightly arched her body, and continued to lurk in another posture.

This time around the dangers did not make her feel a little lucky, but even more worried about the next situation.

Suddenly, there was a sound from behind, and it seemed that something had climbed up the back without a sound. The cold feeling penetrated all the way to the bottom of my heart, and the hairs all over my body stood on end.She suppressed her fear, forced herself to turn her face slightly, and raised her eyes. Before she could see who the person in front of her was, she felt a suffocation in her chest, and a feather arrow went straight into her chest...

"don't want--"

Xia Houshu woke up from the dream, the darkness before her eyes made her unable to tell whether it was reality or a dream for a while, but the moisture at the corners of her eyes was so real, her heart seemed to be tightly gripped by something.

Since she experienced the assassination on the way back to Beijing when she was eight years old, she can't remember how many times she repeated this dream.

There is always a vague figure in the dream, at the moment when the feather arrow pierces the chest, it is not clear whether to save her or kill her.

Xia Houshu was born on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month in the ninth year of the first emperor Jingtai, which was the coldest winter in the history of Nanqi.Snow began to fall in less than September, and the whole country was covered with ice and snow. It has not improved for several months, and food, charcoal fire, and cold clothes are in short supply.But at this time, Beiyuan in the north and Xiyue in the west disturbed the people's lives on the border one after another as if they had made an appointment, burning, killing and looting committed all kinds of crimes, and the people on the border suffered so much that the imperial court had to send troops to quell the chaos.

At that time, the Duke of Yue’s mansion, including the long house Xia Houyuan and the second house Xiahou Tan, were sent to two places to quell the chaos. Only Zhong Yuqing, who was about to give birth, Zhang Shi, the wife of the second house who had just given birth, and the sick third wife were left behind. Fang Xia Houze and a group of young sons.

Beiyuan Country has a vast and flat terrain, abundant water and grass, and is mainly engaged in animal husbandry; Xiyue Country is a country of high mountains, with poor farming, but rich in gold and iron ore.When the age is good, the two countries are the overlords who dominate one side, and they are in a three-legged relationship with Nanqi.However, in the event of natural disasters such as cold and freezing, the ability to resist disasters is not as good as that of Nanqi, which mainly focuses on farming and mulberry weaving, and has sufficient reserves.

The economy and people's livelihood of Beiyuan and Xiyue were severely damaged by this natural disaster. The powerful nobles hoarded food and winter supplies. I can swallow my last breath unwillingly in the cold and hunger.The extreme imbalance exacerbates domestic conflicts, incidents of fighting and robbery emerge in endlessly, and disputes among clan forces continue.After weighing the balance, the monarchs of the two countries set their sights on Nanqi, which is rich in water and soil.

They hit it off almost immediately, so they deliberately allowed the border generals to lead troops to harass Nanqi, creating friction and conflicts, which caused Nanqi defenders to rise up and resist.In this way, not only can the frequent domestic riots be stopped, and the attention and spearheads can be directed at the enemy country, but it can also take the opportunity to seize supplies from Nanqi to fill the vacancy for itself.Planning that in case Nan Qi is also too cold to take care of himself, they can still capture several cities in Nan Qi to raise soldiers, and even take Nan Qi into their pocket.

The battle at the border was tight, and there was no result for several months.

First, the guards discovered that someone broke into the inner courtyard at night and disappeared mysteriously, but no property was lost in the mansion, and no casualties occurred.Immediately afterwards, several children, large and small, fell ill one after another in the mansion, and developed fever and vomiting one after another. Doctors came to the mansion for consultation almost every day.

As the person in charge of the inner house of the family, Zhong Yuqing has a big belly, worrying and working all day long, and her life is very unstable.

One day, Prince Gong's mansion suddenly sent someone to spread the word, saying that the eldest son born to Princess Gong became seriously ill, and the imperial doctor in the palace was invited to come, but there was nothing he could do. Princess Gong cried so hard that she passed out.

Prince Gong's mansion had a difficult time for his sons. Princess Gong endured a lot of hardships to give birth to his son-in-law, who was raised like pearls and jade until he was 12 years old. However, he caught cold in that cold winter and became sicker every day. Now there is no cure.Just thinking about it, Zhong Yuqing was so anxious that she couldn't sit still, and she didn't care about her pregnancy, so she hurriedly asked someone to buy a car to go back to her mother's house to have a look, but was stopped by a crazy Taoist priest at the gate.

The taoist priest was dressed in rags and was so drunk that he couldn't even stand with a wine gourd in his arms, but he pointed to Zhong Yuqing's belly and said that the fetus in her womb was fatal and would bring disaster to the whole house.

Cursing an unborn child for no reason, who doesn't even know the gender, is really not a gentleman's action.Zhong Yuqing was very angry when she heard this, but she still cared about her natal nephew, so she didn't pay much attention to the crazy Taoist's nonsense, and only asked people to drive the crazy Taoist away.

Unexpectedly, the people around her became suspicious. They not only believed in the mad Taoist's words, but also spread the rumors.

At the time of internal and external troubles, the spread of rumors was also extremely fast, spreading like a plague in the Duke of Yue's mansion.In every hidden corner, there were people whispering, and even in public places, some people couldn't help but cast their eyes on Zhong Yuqing's belly, as if there really was a scourge that would make the whole house restless.

On the day of the Laba Festival, it was rare for the mansion to be lively. Zhong Yuqing ordered someone to cook Laba porridge and distributed it to each house, and he ate some too.Unexpectedly, at night, she suddenly suffered from unbearable abdominal pain, and her amniotic fluid broke, making her condition very critical.

Zhong Yuqing's delivery date was originally the middle of the first month of the next year, and it had already been arranged in advance that Mrs. Wen and the nanny would live in the mansion.But because it was the Laba Festival that day, Zhong Yuqing thought that it was still far away from the delivery date, and the current politics was at the time of border wars, and supplies in Beijing and China were also in short supply, so she rewarded Granny Wen and the nanny with food and cold clothes, and allowed them to go home for the festival and be with their families Reunion, looking forward to her own child in the future, they will work harder.

There was no one in the family who knew how to produce.

Zhong Yuqing is a person who has given birth to two children. Seeing that her situation is not good, she is not panicked, but insists on calling her personal nurse Fu Pei, housekeeper Li, second wife Zhang Shi, and the unmarried Xia Houze. , and explained the follow-up affairs one by one.

In desperation, everyone forgot about those ugly and vicious rumors in the mansion, tightly twisted into a rope, and took action one after another.

Steward Li sent three teams out after receiving the order, a pair of horses rushed to invite the doctor, a team to pick up the steady woman, and a team to pick up the nanny; Auntie Fu Pei was responsible for mobilizing the men and horses in the inner house and preparing the necessary supplies in advance. Hot water, scissors, ginseng soup, clothing and other items ensured that Zhong Yuqing gave birth safely; Mrs. Zhang summoned all the children in the mansion to one place and took care of them personally; Take this opportunity to ensure the peace of your home.

It was four o'clock when Butler Li came back with Mrs. Wen. Zhong Yuqing had been in pain for a long time, and her consciousness had already been lost, but when she was still a little awake, she told Aunt Fu Pei to keep the child in case of a critical situation.

That night, the entire Yue State Palace was brightly lit, and everyone was praying, looking forward, and worried, and their hearts were turned into a crumpled rag.

With everyone's concerted efforts, at dawn, a baby's cry finally came from the main house, which broke the tranquility of the night and brought dawn.

Although Zhong Yuqing fell into a coma due to exhaustion due to the prolonged labor process, her life was not in danger.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

It was also on this day that Nanqi Jingcheng, which had been frozen by heavy snow for three months, ushered in its first sunny day, and the people in the city called it auspicious.

On the Beiyuan battlefield, Xia Houyuan led his soldiers to win the first victory, captured the enemy's leader, and captured 2000 enemy troops, forcing the Beiyuan Kingdom to surrender for peace.

After Beiyuan Kingdom withdrew its troops, Xiyue Kingdom also announced its surrender due to insufficient food supply in the rear.

When Xia Houyuan and Xiahou Tan led the troops back to the court, it happened to be in time for the first year of the Yuan Dynasty.Emperor Jingtai held a banquet in the palace, worshiped heaven and earth, and prayed to the ancestral temple.One is to pray that the cold disaster will pass as soon as possible, that the new year will be smooth and the people will live and work in peace and contentment.The second is to celebrate the triumphant return of the soldiers who suppressed the chaos and their meritorious service in defending the territory.

After Xia Houyuan returned the soldier talisman, he drank three cups of wine at the palace banquet. Before the banquet was over, he played the old emperor's song and rushed back to the Duke of Yue's mansion without stopping.

Seeing that the whole house was safe and sound, and that Zhong Yuqing was gradually recovering under the doctor's care, Xia Houyuan was relieved.Looking at the thin and immature little girl who was breathing weakly in the swaddling baby, he was both distressed and happy, so he named her Shu, which means to relieve danger and solve difficulties, and turn danger into good luck.

But Xia Houshu's name did not bring her good luck as her father expected.

Xia Houshu was born prematurely, and was thinner than his brothers and sisters when he was born.There is a folk saying that seven lives and eight don't live. Xia Houshu was born less than nine months old, and he was born in such a freezing season. He also choked on amniotic fluid during childbirth, and has been suffering from major illnesses and minor disasters.Xia Houyuan and his wife invited all the famous doctors in the capital to come and treat them, but they didn't get better for a long time.

Later, a Taoist priest passed by the mansion of the Duke of Yue, and stood in front of the door, muttering to himself.The concierge immediately recognized him as the mad Taoist priest who stopped Princess Xuanhe's carriage and said that the child in her belly had been hit by a demon, and he couldn't help but hear words like "fate" and "big murder" in his mouth. Thinking of all kinds of weird things and rumors in the mansion in the past six months, I was terrified.He was worried that the mad Taoist would spoil the reputation of the master's family by talking about it everywhere, and he was also afraid that there was really something evil in the mansion.He couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he invited the mad Taoist inside and let him take care of him, while he quickly reported it to the steward.

As a military general, Xia Houyuan had countless enemy soldiers who fell under his sword. He never believed the nonsense of quack warlocks, but when he saw the crazy Taoist priest, he told the strange things that happened in the mansion in the past year without asking any questions. After reading Xia Houshu's birth date, he couldn't help but start to wonder.

The mad Taoist didn't care about Xia Houyuan's attitude, and didn't say much else. He only said that Xia Houshu's fate couldn't bear the overwhelming wealth, and he had to be sent to a Taoist temple to clean up, so that he could overcome his bad luck and stay safe forever.

After speaking, he turned and left without taking any money.

After the mad Taoist left, Xia Houshu remained ill for more than half a month, crying day and night.Zhong Yuqing had just given birth, wasted a lot, and had to take care of the sick child, so she was so thin that she lost her human shape.

Xia Houyuan couldn't bear his wife's suffering, and didn't want the rumors to continue to spread, so he had to send Xia Houshu away in tears.

So Xia Houshu, who was less than half a year old, was sent to Boyun Temple not far from the capital, where he spent eight years without any disasters.It wasn't until Xia Houyuan died in the Beiyuan battlefield that Xiahou's family suffered many attacks and assassinations that Xiahouyuan suddenly thought of his youngest daughter who was far away in Boyunguan.He didn't want his daughter to be homeless and unable to return home, so he ordered Xia Houshu to be taken back to the Duke of Yue's mansion regardless of the rumors.

On the way back to Beijing, Xia Houshu was full of joy, but he didn't want to be ambushed by assassins on the way.

At that time, the escort who went to pick her up was Zhuang Hua, a very handsome and alert man. Xia Houshu had an inexplicable trust in him as soon as he saw him.

Zhuang Hua was indeed worthy of her trust and tried his best to protect her.

However, there were so many assassins, and most of their men were quickly knocked down. Zhuang Hua was also shot by an arrow in order to protect her, and the donated blood kept flowing out along the wound, staining the front of his chest red, but he didn't say anything. Did not say a word.Later, when Zhuang Hua saw the assassins rushing up one after another, he was worried that he would not be able to protect Xia Houshu, so he took her off the carriage and hid her in a bush, while he drove the carriage and fell into the cliff...

Half asleep and half awake, Xia Houshu seemed to be tightly gripped by memories and dreams, struggling and suffering, but he couldn't escape.

It took a long time for her to realize that this is the Duke's Mansion of the Yue Kingdom, and she was in her own room without the ghost-masked man, nor the feathered arrow of unknown origin.

And she is no longer the little girl who had no power to restrain a chicken.