Southern Qi Fenghua Record

A trace of surprise flashed in Fu Pei's eyes, and then she returned to her expressionless face, and said coldly: "Miss, you are worrying too much. I am just a servant, how dare I go against you?"

Xia Houshu didn't like to hear these words, so he said unceremoniously: "There are no outsiders here, why do you have to be hypocritical!"

Madam Fu Pei really showed displeasure when she heard this, and gave Xia Houshu a hard look.

It's not the first time Xia Houshu has met Xia Houshu with eyes like an enemy, so she is not angry at all, instead she said with a smile: "I respect Mammy as a person, in order to fulfill your decency, I also treat each other with courtesy on weekdays, But I don’t know that you are such a person who dares to act and dare not to be!”

Sister Fu Pei pondered for a while, and when she looked at Xia Houshu again, there was a bit of anger in her eyes.She asked, "Does the girl really want to know?"

Xia Houshu tried his best to restrain his emotions, and mocked impatiently: "Didn't Mammy just claim to be a straightforward person? Why are you learning those twists and turns now?"

Sister Fu Pei didn't answer her directly, but turned around in a calm manner, and took out a dark red and gold carved wooden box from under the bed in the inner bedroom.The wooden box is spotless, presumably the owner of the wooden box wipes it often.

Xia Houshu watched quietly as Madam Fu Pei gently placed the wooden box on the small round table and slowly opened it, only to see a pair of men's shoes and a strand of black hair tied with a red thread inside the box.

Xia Houshu didn't understand her intention, so he asked, "What do you mean?"

Sister Fu Pei stared closely at the contents of the box, with a sincere and sad expression, and said calmly, "This is the relic of the deceased husband."

Xia Houshu knew that Madam Fu Pei had never married, so she was quite surprised when she heard the word "deceased husband", so she asked, "But haven't you ever been married?"

Sister Fu Pei caressed the pair of shoes embroidered with auspicious clouds with golden silk thread, as if she was stroking her lover's face, then she held the strand of black hair next to her tightly in her hand and tried to maintain her composure, saying: "We It is true that we are not married, but we have promised each other for life that he will be my husband."

In other words, this strand of black hair tied together with a red thread is actually a lifelong token of mutual promise between Sister Fu Pei and her "deceased husband"?

Xia Houshu's eyes couldn't help moving to the somewhat white hair of Aunt Fu Pei, probably because of years of hard work, she was obviously much older than Aunt Fu Pei who was about the same age as Zhong Yuqing.But why is she mentioning these things?What have you got to do with yourself?

Xia Houshu thought to himself, and asked, "What does this have to do with me?"

"Of course it has something to do with it!" Sister Fu Pei suddenly became emotional, and the hair in her hand was curled into a ball.She trembled all over, then glared at Xia Houshu with eyes full of resentment, and accused him word by word: "If it wasn't for you, he wouldn't have died, and I wouldn't have been lonely forever!"

Inexplicably, why did she owe someone else her life?

Xia Houshu frowned and said, "I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Of course you don't understand!" Aunt Fu Pei suddenly raised her voice, looked straight into Xia Houshu's eyes like an eagle looking at its prey, and said slowly, "When the princess was pregnant with you, there was a day People say that you are an ominous person who will kill your brothers, implicate your parents, and overthrow the family lintel, but the princess doesn't believe it, and insists on giving birth to you. For eight months, the princess took you here and there, eating all your food. Fortunately, the princess understands righteousness, so he sent you to Boyunguan not long after you were born. But who would have thought that you would kill him when you were so far away! You are such an excellent child , God really has no eyes! All this is because of you!"

Didn't they talk about her deceased husband?Why did it involve mother and elder brother again?

Xia Houshu couldn't bear it anymore, stood up angrily and retorted loudly: "You are talking nonsense! Brother was obviously killed by an adulterer, so why did he become killed by me?"

She was too lazy to pay attention to and disdain to pay attention to Fu Pei's mother's unreasonable difficulties and accusations against her, but she was not allowed to take Xia Houchen's death as an issue, because Xia Houchen's death was the heart knot of the entire Xiahou family.

"You not only killed my brother, you also killed my husband." Sister Fu Pei didn't give Xia Houshu a chance to refute, and immediately added another crime to her, "On the way to pick you up, In order to save you, my husband fell off the cliff without even a complete body!"

"What did you say? You mean...Guard Zhuang?"

Xia Houshu never thought of herself as a soft-hearted, weak person who couldn't take care of herself, but she took two lives for no reason. For the first time, she felt that she was innocent and powerless.However, she was already eight years old when she left Boyunguan, so she naturally remembered what happened.

Seven years ago, Xia Houyuan experienced the greatest failure and pain in his life. Not only did he lose successively on the battlefield against Beiyuan Kingdom, but he also lost his beloved son Xia Houyuan because of the enemy's trickery.As a general, it is the greatest shame to lose the city after losing a battle, and as a father, it is the greatest irony for him not to be able to protect his children.Faced with this double blow, Xia Houyuan endured the pain and fought the final battle, recapturing the five lost cities before, but he couldn't even find Xia Houxuan's body. Fulfilling his loyalty and righteousness as a courtier, he didn't fall ill until he returned to Beijing and returned to his life.At that time, Beiyuan Kingdom was not only powerful on the battlefield, attacking the city, but also secretly sent spies to the capital in an attempt to retaliate by assassinating the general Xia Houyuan.

Xia Houyuan stayed sick for dozens of days, and was constantly assassinated and framed in various ways, which was impossible to guard against.In grief, he suddenly realized that he had already lost a son, and he could not let the remaining son and daughter be trampled outside, and he ignored the prophecy of the mad Taoist, so he sent a guard named Zhuang Hua beside him. He led more than a dozen people to Boyun Temple to pick up Xia Houshu.

Although Xia Houshu's life in Boyun Temple was calm and peaceful, she always hoped to be reunited with her parents and family, so when she learned that her family finally sent someone to pick her up, she was naturally very happy and bid farewell to Boyun. A group of teachers and sisters in the audience happily boarded the carriage back to Beijing.

Unexpectedly, their whereabouts leaked out, and the assassin set up an ambush on their only way back to Beijing, and a dozen guards fought desperately to protect her.However, there were a large number of assassins, and their skills were extraordinary. Most of their men were injured in the fierce battle, and it was impossible to escort Xia Houshu back to Beijing safely.

In order to complete the mission, Zhuang's guard made a plan and hid Xia Houshu in a dense bush, and then ordered the rest of the people to pretend to fight the assassin to delay the time, while he drove the empty carriage to drive the enemy away, but failed on the way. Shen fell into a cliff and was smashed to pieces.

It was two days after Xia Houshu learned about Guard Zhuang. At that time, she was already delirious due to hunger and excessive fright.Since Guard Zhuang did not take Xia Houshu back to Beijing on time, Xia Houyuan was full of doubts, and immediately sent another team to meet him.After hearing the news about Zhuang Weiwei and others, he vomited blood in anxiety, and then dragged his sick body and brought people out to look for them.However, Xia Houshu was still young and hadn't experienced any major events. She was terrified when she escaped this time, and before leaving, the guard Zhuang warned her that she must not leave unless someone she knew came to look for her, so she hid in the bushes all the time. She didn't dare to go anywhere, until the desperate Xia Houyuan found her...

In this way, the "husband" mentioned by Sister Fu Pei must be Guard Zhuang.

Xia Houshu never forgot Zhuang Huwei's life-saving grace, but Zhuang Huwei's parents died early, and he had no brothers, sisters, wives and children, so he enshrined the benefactor's tablet in the small ancestral hall of the Duke of Yue's mansion, and the incense continued every day.

For Guard Zhuang, Xia Houshu felt guilty and grateful, but this did not mean that she was the murderer, so she said unconvinced: "Even if he died to save me, it wasn't my intention. Someone was chasing him, how could he fall off the cliff?"

Sister Fu Pei smiled sadly: "You are the beneficiary, of course you say so!"

"Yes, you are right, I am the beneficiary. But if I am the beneficiary, do I have to bear a life?" Xia Houshu took her words and expressed his grievances that have been lingering for many years, "Over the years, you Do you think I don’t know about all the things you said behind your back? Yes, I am very grateful to him, and I never dare to forget his kindness, and I have thought about using various methods to make up for it. Push it on me, what did you do? You don't blame those who really killed him, but you blame me who was lucky enough to save his life, is that reasonable?"

"You don't need to say anything more!" Madam Fu Pei was suddenly very tired, she closed her eyes after she finished speaking, and never looked at Xia Houshu again.

Xia Houshu smiled helplessly, and said: "If it makes you feel better to blame all these crimes on me, then you can go ahead, I don't mind, after all, he saved my life. But this has nothing to do with other people. It has nothing to do, so please come to me if you have anything in the future, and don't implicate the people around me!"

Sister Fu Pei closed her eyes tightly, tightly hugging the pair of shoes that hadn't been given away for many years, without saying a word, as if Xia Houshu was just a ball of annoying air.

Seeing this situation, Xia Houshu didn't want to say anything else, so he turned around and walked out, and happened to see Caiwei who had already come out outside the door.

After Caiwei came out of Sister Fu Pei's room, she did not go far away, but stood at the door to eavesdrop on their conversation.Xia Houshu walked too fast, she had no time to dodge, so she had no choice but to stand at the door and wait.

Xia Houshu didn't care about the mother and daughter's affairs, so he walked past Caiwei directly.But after walking a few steps, she stopped again, turned her head to look at Caiwei and said, "Caiwei, I know you are very smart, but you should also know what to say and what not to say. If you hear the slightest rumor from the four of you, don't stay in the Duke's Mansion of Yue!"

Caiwei was startled for a moment, lowered her brows, and immediately looked timid again, and said in a voice like a mosquito: "Third Miss, please don't worry, Caiwei doesn't know anything."

He is indeed a smart person, but no one can say what will happen in the future, but now, he can only scare her like this.Xia Houshu looked at Caiwei's pitiful look, recalled the reprimand from Aunt Fupei just now, and couldn't help but said: "Since you have recognized her as your mother, and she has cared for you in every possible way, then you should start from Respect her from the bottom of my heart, rather than obediently obediently. "

Caiwei frowned slightly, but immediately regained her composure, she lowered her head and replied: "The girl's lesson is that Caiwei knew she was wrong, and she must be filial to her godmother in the future!"

Xia Houshu thought to himself that Aunt Fu Pei regarded her as a thorn in her side, so why should he think about her, so he waved his hands and said, "Forget it, how you get along with her is all your own creation, and I can't control it."

It's just that the words have come to this point, and she still has to remind her: "My second brother is not at home recently, so you don't have to ask around. Xieying is soft-hearted, but don't treat her like a fool. After a long time, you can see what your intentions are!"

Upon hearing this, Caiwei panicked, remembering what happened to Cuiyan, she immediately knelt down at Xia Houshu's feet, begging for mercy: "Third Miss, Caiwei really knew it was wrong! Please don't tell the godmother and the county Lord, otherwise I really can't stay in the Duke's Mansion of Yue!"

Just as Xia Houshu was about to say something, she saw Aunt Fu Pei come out of the room, and frowned at Caiwei who was kneeling and pleading.Xia Houshu didn't bother to explain to her, turned around and left.