Chapter 064: Eternal Joy (Part 3)
"That day, I saw him under the execution platform. He rushed forward and blocked his teacher. Only then did I know that he was Xu Hexue," the young man said, stretching out his skinny hands to gesture, "I saw you take him away."
His eyes moved slowly, and his gaze fell unobstructedly on the medicine basket on her body.
"what you up to?"
Ni Su took two steps back vigilantly.
"He has done too much damage to himself. No medicine or incense or candles from ordinary people can cure him." The young man could clearly see the bright white light through the gaps in the rattan weaving. "But I can."
Ni Su's heart moved, but she still maintained a cautious scrutiny of this mysterious young man who suddenly appeared.
The young man simply pulled down his hood, and a thin cloth wrapped around his head. Under the cloak, his body was very thin. His eyes were very dark and stared at her. "Do you have any buns?"
There were no food stalls selling buns on the street at that time, so Ni Su bought him a pancake wrapped in oil paper. He didn't even feel that the pancake was hot as it had just come out of the pan. He grabbed a piece and stuffed it into his mouth.
It was a short distance from the food stall to the clinic. Ni Su finally walked up the stairs and turned around to see the young man standing downstairs smacking his lips. The oil-paper bag in his hand was empty.
Ni Su had no choice but to turn around and buy another pack for him.
The young man sat under the eaves, wolfing down his pancakes, speaking slowly and vaguely, "You gave me two buns before."
"I saw him standing next to you that day, but at that time, I didn't know he was Xu Hexue. I thought he was in Youdu."
He said.
"Do you know him?" Ni Su was sitting on the other side and turned her head to look at him when she heard the voice.
“No.”
The young man shook his head, took a bite of the biscuit, and said, "But my mother knows him."
"Who is your mother?"
The young man ate half of the cake, wiped his mouth and said, "My mother is from Daizhou. Eighteen years ago, on the way to Yongzhou, she met a small group of Hu soldiers. They killed all the people who were escorting her to the wedding. My grandfather and grandmother also died. Only my mother was taken away by them and used as a prostitute for entertainment."
"They sneaked into the northern border to gather information. Xue Huai, the deputy general of General Yujie Xu Hexue, discovered them and led his soldiers to kill them. Only then did my mother escape from the wolf's den."
The young man continued, "My mother's family was destroyed and she had no one to rely on, so Lord Xue Huai took her back to Yongzhou. But when the family in Yongzhou that was going to marry her heard about this, they wanted to sink her into a well."
He heard from his mother that it was a bright sunny day, and the sandstorm in Yongzhou was so strong that it hurt people's cheeks. She was caught by her husband's family, her hands and feet were tied, and she was forced to the mouth of the well.
"How can our family keep a woman who has been defiled, especially one who has been used by the Hu people? You shouldn't have come to Yongzhou after something like this happened!"
My mother-in-law's face was tanned red by the sun, and her eyes were like hooks digging into her flesh.
"Who else would want a bride like this?"
"It would be better to die..."
"I don't know what I'm doing here ..."
The crowd was talking at once, and all their words were sharp and vitriolic.
"I don't want to go back to your house..." She raised her voice tremblingly, but the crowd was noisy and no one paid attention. She repeated, "I don't want to go back to your house. I just... have nowhere to go."
"Do you still want to live?"
The mother-in-law exclaimed in surprise, finding it unbelievable.
"Is it not possible?"
She asked.
The mother-in-law didn't want to pay any attention to her. Her brows were tightly knitted. She asked someone to catch her and push her into the well.
A long spear came through the air and embedded into the tree trunk beside the dry well with a "bang". The spear body trembled and flashed a sharp silver light.
The onlookers retreated in panic, and everyone saw a young general in a red robe and silver armor, with a sword at his waist and reins in his hands, approaching on horseback. He looked down at the two men who were pressing on her shoulders, and they immediately weakened their legs and shrank back.
"sure."
The young general was on horseback, his scarlet collar edged with silver scales. No one answered her question, he answered clearly and forcefully, "You are not included in his family tree, so the customs of this place cannot be used to restrict you. Of course, I think that such customs are really unnecessary."
"Today, anyone who dares to sink you into this well will be sentenced to death."
The woman said tremblingly, "General, her family accepted our betrothal gift, so how can it not be counted..."
"Xue Huai, do you have money?"
The young man turned around and looked at the deputy general behind him.
“…”
Xue Huai was reluctant, but he still reached into his armor and took out the purse, threw it to the woman, and then said, "It's not convenient to carry it, there are only these, General, please remember to return it."
The young man said "hmm", touched the horse's mane, and glanced at the woman with a pair of cold eyes, "Is that enough?"
"this…… "
The woman thought about it and realized that it was actually more than what she had spent on the betrothal gift.
"Xue Huai, go and untie her."
The young man was too lazy to look at the woman again and just raised his chin towards Xue Huai.
Xue Huai responded and stepped forward, but unexpectedly the woman at the well turned back to look at the deep and dark dry well, and suddenly fell into it.
The dry well was very deep, and the sound of her falling heavily to the ground was heard by everyone at the end. No one expected that she would suddenly jump into the well by herself.
"My mother said that when Lord Xue Huai rescued her from the Hu people, she thought she could still live. But that day, she saw so many pairs of eyes and heard so many people saying that she should die and not live, and she felt that she could not live." The young man spoke very slowly, even playing with the oil paper in his hand very slowly.
"and you……"
Ni Su hesitated to speak.
The young man raised his eyes to look at her, "You know what I am, right?"
"When General Xu ordered people to take my mother's body out of the well and bury it, they found countless bones buried in the mud below. It looked like muddy water, but it was actually women's bones. From then on, he strictly ordered Yongzhou to break the bad custom. Under his rule, Yongzhou and the surrounding counties and towns no longer dared to privately dispose of women in the clan easily. Otherwise, they would be punished according to the law."
"Because of this, he offended many clans in Yongzhou."
"Although my mother's body was buried, there were still runes in the dry well. In the past, when a family had a daughter-in-law who was sunk into the well and had no children, they asked the Taoist priest to suppress her soul. Because of the rune, my mother could not get out of the well temporarily, until my father got drunk and accidentally fell into the well."
The young man scratched his head through the cloth. "What happened between the two of them is a bit vulgar. It's nothing more than my father was saved by my mother from falling to his death , and then I don't know how they, a man and a ghost, fell in love with each other."
"And then, there was you?"
Ni Su finally found an opportunity to interrupt.
"Yeah, they regret it too." The young man nodded.
"Why do you regret it?"
"As for being a ghost baby, they didn't know I would grow up like this, nor did they know I would grow faster than normal people, have no hair, and not live long."
Ni Su was stunned. No wonder, according to what he said, he should be only seventeen or eighteen years old this year, but he looks like a young man in his twenties now.
"Then why did you come to Yunjing?"
She asked.
"My mother asked me to deliver a letter to Mr. Zhang, and I happened to deliver the letter to Mr. Zhang on the day you gave me the buns."
"What letter?"
"She said that General Xu did not betray his country and that this must be known to everyone. Not everyone in this world can scold and destroy him."
"But Zhang Xianggong was exiled for many years. My mother waited for a long time before he returned to Yunjing to serve as an official. She asked me to deliver the letter to Zhang Xianggong. Although it is not enough to serve as evidence to overturn the case, it can at least make Zhang Xianggong suspicious. Maybe one day, it can clear General Xu's name."
He said with some regret, "It's a pity that Mr. Zhang is also dead."
Ni Su was silent for a long time before she spoke: "What's your name?"
"Qingqiong, the blood of battle wipes my sword, this sword will break Qingqiong."
His facial features were not as lively as those of ordinary people, and even his smile was stiff. "My mother said that this was General Xu's poem."
This poem almost fully captures the high spirits of a young general.
Ni Su repeated it silently in her heart, a little dazed.
"Young lady, if we want to save General Xu, we have to leave quickly." Qingqiong's voice came.
Ni Su looked up and asked, "Let's go?"
"My mother is now in Youdu, but my father can often hear her talking. His legs are disabled and he cannot come to Yunjing with me. As long as he goes back to see my father, there must be a way in Youdu to heal his injury."
Qingqiong said.
Ni Su nodded without hesitation: "Okay, I will leave immediately to go to Yongzhou with you."
"you……"
Qing Qiong didn't expect her to agree so easily. "That's the border. If you don't dare, I can take General Xu with you."
"He was summoned by me and cannot leave me even a step."
Ni Su raised her head, the eaves tiles were as pale gold as lacquer, "I want to save him."
Qingqiong watched her stand up and quickly walk into the room opposite. After a while, she came out with a pulse pillow in her hand. She walked in front of him and asked him to stretch out his hand.
Qing Qiong was stunned for a moment, then said, "I'm not sick, you can't cure me..."
Ni Su tapped his pulse with her fingers. "Although you are a ghost fetus, your father gave you a body of flesh and blood. As long as it is a body of flesh and blood, I can more or less relieve some of your pain."
Although Ni Su was interested in gynecology, she was not the only one who knew gynecology. She also had ways to relieve his cold body, blood stasis, and joint pain.
"As long as your mother can save him, I will buy you a lot of buns and pancakes along the way. You can also eat other things if you want. This is my way of thanking you."
Ni Su said.
Qing Qiong didn't say anything. He looked at her after a while and asked, "Aren't you afraid of me?"
He had a strange appearance and no one dared to approach him like this.
Ni Su withdrew her hand, and had a rough idea in her mind, "I don't know what to be afraid of."
She lowered her eyes to look at the medicine basket at her waist, and saw a ball of bright light floating inside. She put her finger into the medicine basket, and it would automatically stick to her fingertips.
"Ghosts are not ghosts, people are ghosts."
"There is nothing more terrifying than humans in this world."
