Chapter 80 I'm not a thief
"The battlefield and the frontier are indeed very suitable places to hide yourself."
In the end, the three adults weighed the pros and cons and came to the conclusion as above.
"Then let's go to the northwest desert." Su Yujun held Xingxing's hand and made a decisive choice.
In silence, she whispered to Xingxing: "Your uncle and brother Jin'an are both there. I will try to send a message to them and ask them to take good care of you in secret. When you get there, you and Xiaowu will have no one to protect you, so you must live well..."
She shouldn't have said that.
Because before he recognized her, before today, Xingxing and Xiaowu depended on each other, and he survived and lived to see the day he met her.
On the contrary, after meeting her, the two children had not yet enjoyed the benefits of their status, but had to bear the crisis hidden behind this status with their young shoulders, so they left their hometown...
Guilt surged like a tide, but when it was about to drown her, the star in her arms gently pushed it away.
"What about grandma?" Xingxing asked her softly, "Is she living well too?"
Just like he suddenly said just now that he was going to the battlefield.
Just as abrupt, leaving no chance for anyone to prepare or think.
In the courtyard, after he asked this question, there was a deathly silence.
After a long while, Su Yujun's lips moved, and she managed to squeeze out a pale word: "Yes, grandma, your aunt, and your sister will all live well until the day you return safely."
Xingxing didn't believe her.
He knew that humans always liked and were good at deceiving their own kind.
So Xingxing just nodded and fell silent again.
He actually didn't care whether the people in Anqing Marquis' Mansion could survive.
Xingxing had never seen those people before, and had only known this grandmother for less than half an hour, so Xingxing did not have such strong emotions for them.
Even for his master's wife and master's grandfather, Xingxing was only willing to give a little trust to them after constant contact and interaction over the past six months. In fact, he has always been very stingy with his love and hatred.
The reason why he asked was because of his grandmother's thoughts.
People's hearts are always more honest than their mouths.
But this grandmother is the person with the most complex yet most unified voice that Xingxing has ever come into contact with in this world.
Her heart was filled with the future of the Marquis's Mansion. Every time she thought about it, she was worried about whether her children could live well and safely.
Coincidentally, among these “children” there are Xingxing and Xiaowu.
The moment they met, she automatically classified the stars into that range.
As for Xiaowu, when he learned that he had picked up Xingxing and had been with Xingxing as she grew up with difficulty, he was also gently sent into that area.
So naturally, without any reason or excuse, she treated the two children as her own juniors and began to worry about them. Those complicated thoughts wrapped them tightly like a ball of wool, with Xingxing and Xiaowu tied to one end of the thread, while the other end stumbled around in the fog, trying to find a "way out" to survive.
Xingxing "saw" from the grandmother's voice that at the end of the thread were herself, her brother, and the Wei family's uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters.
The only one missing was herself.
She even planned to use her own bones to pave the way for the younger generations.
If necessary, she was prepared to sacrifice her only remaining son just to keep her four children alive.
Even if only one can survive, she is willing to do everything for it.
While the adults were talking about how to get the two children safely to the border, Xingxing sat next to her brother, but her quiet gaze was always on her grandmother.
She looks calm.
But she was so desperate that she was willing to sacrifice her own life and her son's life.
She looked a little old and feeble.
But every word she uttered was deafening, like iron nails being hammered into a coffin, trapping her tightly inside.
She is still alive and living a glamorous life.
But she had died countless times in her future, and her deaths were particularly miserable.
The emperor’s favor is strong in Anqing Houfu.
The Wei family is about to be destroyed.
The extreme contradiction between life and death appeared in the human mind like the sharpest thorn. They pulled at each other silently and screamingly, making Su Yujun, an old man with gray hair, appear exceptionally brilliant and absurd in the eyes of the stars.
The bizarre colors cannot make up a living person.
This living person also made the stars unable to see the color of her soul.
So he watched it seriously and fascinatedly.
The sight of the stars does not have a particularly disturbing presence. They are always quiet, like a small clear pond. Only when the fallen leaves slowly drift into it will a few lovely round ripples slowly appear.
Occasionally, the child's eyes would accidentally meet those of the person being observed, and the child's somewhat dazed pupils would quickly focus, and then he would give the other person a soft, obedient smile.
He obviously didn't do anything.
But just sitting there, occasionally making eye contact, was enough to make people feel particularly soft-hearted.
Looking at him, Su Yujun always thinks of another child in the family.
Similar age, completely different life experiences, and completely different eyes make it easy to tell the two apart at a glance.
The moment you see the stars, you will see his clean whites of the eyes and clear dark pupils, and see his clarity and innocence, his ignorance and purity of the world before he even knows about it.
But when he saw Li Jinyuan, through the eyes of the same three-year-old child, he could only see complex and greedy desires, his condescending disdain, and his messy heart that was as if filled with straw and cotton wool.
A fantastic first impression.
But it is true.
The stars are not naive and innocent, but they do not give people a contradictory and complex sense of adulthood. It is as if they have been contaminated by time from the inside out and the mottled traces of time on their bodies can no longer be washed away.
But Li Jinyuan has this feeling, and it exists a lot, all the time.
Thinking of this, Su Yujun was a little absent-minded.
She didn't know what kind of disaster the existence of that child would bring to the Wei family, which was already in dire straits.
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After this first meeting, the two families began to prepare to send Xingxing and Xiaowu to the border.
Before leaving, the lives of the two children returned to their previous peace.
Go to school, study, practice martial arts, take medicine, sleep...
Just when Master informed them that everything was ready and they could leave, the arrival of a person suddenly broke the peace.
Wei Jinan, the eldest grandson of the Wei family, has returned to Beijing.
On the day he returned to Beijing to meet the emperor, he gave Li Jinyuan, who was also in the palace, a severe beating, the kind that made him swallow his teeth and blood.
When hearing the news, everyone wondered if there was something wrong with their ears.
Even Qiuqiu was shocked and regretted not knowing the news in advance, and then sneaked into the palace to give Xingxing a live broadcast.
When Xiaowu heard about this from the teacher, Wei Jinan had already been punished by the emperor to go home and reflect on himself for three days, while Li Jinyuan, who was beaten, received a large amount of rewards as a consolation.
The emperor clearly treated Li Jinyuan and the Wei family as two separate families.
Even though someone later spread a rumor that when Wei Jinan met Li Jinyuan in the palace after meeting the emperor that day, he did not know Li Jinyuan's identity, but saw Li Jinyuan pushing a prince into the water.
But when this news came out, no one believed it.
How could a three or four-year-old kid do such a thing? Was the prince too stupid to hide? And how old was Li Jinyuan? Could he have such great strength? Ridiculous!
This excuse is so lame, it's ridiculous!
Therefore, a more reliable guess is that Li Jinyuan's return made Wei Jinan feel a sense of crisis. He was afraid that he would not be able to smoothly inherit the Anqing Marquisate, so he took such a cruel action and intended to frame Li Jinyuan and make him lose the emperor's favor.
In the end, those who distorted right and wrong came to the conclusion: "This boy is so cruel and vicious! He actually killed the only bloodline of his uncle!"
Just one day after returning, Wei Jinan's reputation became ruined.
At this time, everyone had forgotten that before he came back in such a dusty state, he was a young general who guarded the border and made many military achievements, and was a soldier who fought to the death for the stability of the Li State's border.
They only saw him bullying his younger brothers, despising the imperial power, being arrogant and wanton, and having no idea of hierarchy.
In the palace.
A thin figure silently appeared behind Li Jinyuan, leaning forward respectfully, his eyes full of gloom and hostility, but when he looked at Li Jinyuan, all of it turned into heartfelt gratitude.
"Young Master, don't worry, the matter has been resolved. The Seventh Prince also nodded sensibly and will never tell anyone the truth."
Upon hearing this, Li Jinyuan smiled brightly and innocently, and with bright eyes he thanked the young eunuch, "Anu, luckily I still have you!"
In an instant, his mood became low again, and he muttered in frustration: "So that person that day was my brother, but he seemed to hate me very much, and he didn't hold back at all when he attacked me. It's been so long, and my family hasn't come to the palace to visit me..."
In the increasingly cold eyes of the young eunuch, Li Jinyuan sighed softly: "Don't they like me at all?"
"Don't think too much, young master." Anu knelt beside Li Jinyuan, lowered her head and whispered, "No one will dislike you."
These words sound like a statement, but also like a promise.
Li Jinyuan looked at him kneeling before him in a servile manner, with pride and contempt flashing in his eyes.
As a top star in his previous life, he knew too well the power of illegitimate fans.
This thing in front of me... tsk, if I use it well, it can solve many problems for me.
But in a flash, he thought of what had happened to him this time, and a look of resentment flashed across his face.
Wei Jinan of the Wei family was bullied like this for the first time since he came into this world. This person had been completely nailed to the death list by Li Jinyuan.
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Anqing Marquis Mansion.
The fourteen-year-old boy looked at his grandmother with sparkling eyes, full of vigor and ambition. He was not frightened by the so-called punishment of confinement and self-reflection. Instead, he asked happily in a low voice: "Is what you just said true? That cruel and ruthless brat in the palace is really not from our family?"
Su Yujun nodded with a smile, holding her grandson's hand, which had been covered with rough calluses since he was a child and had been on the battlefield since childhood, and said softly: "That child is not of our Wei family's bloodline, you don't have to be angry with him. When you return to the border, the mountains are high and the roads are long, and no matter how many grievances there are, they will not fall on you."
Wei Jinan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Grandma, I wanted to come back and spend more time with you, mother and sister. I just arrived home and you are driving me away?"
Su Yujun was delighted by her grandson's words. She raised her hand and stroked the boy's wheat-colored cheek. "Grandma is reluctant to let you go, but the men of my Wei family will never stay at home. But before that, you have to go to a place first and take your two brothers with you. Remember to hide your whereabouts as much as possible."
Wei Jinan: “?”
Two younger brothers?
two? !
ah? ?
Wei Jinan acted like a thief. He didn't go through the main gate, but climbed over the low wall next to him and entered the courtyard.
The strange courtyard was extremely quiet. Apart from the sound of the wind, there was no sign of human presence.
Wei Jinan looked around the simple layout of the houses in the garden, then he lightened his footsteps and crept closer to the main house with his dog.
Under the eaves, Qiuqiu, who witnessed all this, said: "..."
Do Xingxing’s brothers all have some issues?
A strange thought flashed through his mind. Although he knew that the boy had no ill intentions, he still flew into the house and woke up the child who had just fallen asleep.
"Son, your brother broke into a private house. We should have gotten a dog earlier!" Qiuqiu smiled maliciously.
Xingxing rubbed her eyes, looked at the dog's figure sneaking by outside the house, blinked, and turned her head to look at her brother who sat up startled when she moved just now.
"Shh~" Xiaowu was extremely alert. After signaling his brother not to speak, he quietly got out of bed, picked up a bench in his hand, and then walked towards the window step by step.
Coincidentally, the figure who got the dog also quietly moved to the window. I don't know what he was doing. After a while, he tilted his head and looked inside from under the half-open window.
Wei Jinan opened the window with trembling hands and excited heart. Just as he stuck his head in to take a look at his two brothers whom he had never met before, his eyes blurred and a bench was thrown at him along with a sharp sound of breaking air!
Wei Jinan: “!!!”
His head has never shrunk so fast in his life!
"Bang!!!" There was a sudden loud noise, and Wei Jinan, who had barely escaped the disaster, watched helplessly as the falling window was smashed into a big hole.
“…” He swallowed subconsciously.
If he hadn't dodged quickly enough, the hole would not be in the window, but in his head, right? !
The boy stared at the hole in a daze for a moment, and when he raised his eyes, he met the pair of sharp and vigilant eyes inside the hole.
Wei Jinan was stunned for a moment, then raised his paw awkwardly: "Um... I'm not a thief."
After a moment.
The boy sitting in front of the two children was unusually reserved, and kept explaining that he was just sneaking around to avoid being discovered, and that he was really not a bad guy who broke into private homes.
Wei Jinan explained while quickly looking at the two children.
His uncle died at such a young age that he definitely couldn't have given birth to an eight-year-old child.
So his uncle's bloodline is the little guy next to him who is sleepy and has his head resting on another child's shoulder?
You know what, he looked quite a bit like his sister when they were little.
That little face is so white and clean that one really wants to pinch it to feel it...
However, this thought only flashed through his mind. Wei Jinan reintroduced himself to the two little guys and said to them, "The carriage is outside the city. Now let's leave here together while it's dark."
Long before it was agreed that Xingxing and Xiaowu would be sent to the border, the two children sent their housekeeper and cook to live with their master's grandmother. It happened to be that they were getting older, and having two more people to serve them would make life much more convenient. It could also be considered as finding a safer shelter for Zhong Yan and the others.
Otherwise, based on the way Xiaowu smashed the window today, Wei Jinan would never be able to leave quietly.
"Now?" Xiaowu was still wary of Wei Jinan.
Wei Jinan saw through his defensiveness, raised his head and took out the small stone from his neck to show him: "Here, this is what my uncle made for me and my sister."
After showing it to Xiaowu, he put the stone back, reached out to take the sleepy child, and said to Xiaowu: "I'll hold him, you pack your things quickly, you must leave before midnight at the latest."
Xiao Wu nodded, then in front of him, packed a large bag of herbs into his bag, and put it on his back to indicate that he had finished packing.
Wei Jinan: “…”
Very neat.
This was not the time to chat. Wei Jinan looked around the room. He picked up a pillow and a thin quilt to wrap up the child who had fallen asleep in his arms. Then he left silently with Xiaowu.
There is a curfew every night in Lebanon.
The dark street was deserted.
Xiao Wu followed Wei Jinan and looked at the two people's long shadows stretched out by the moonlight. The sense of unreality was finally suppressed a little.
From now on, he and Xingxing will go to a new place and live a new life.
Leaving the peaceful and prosperous Kyoto, heading for the battlefield with the most dead bodies.
Xiaowu doesn’t know what the future will be like for him and Xingxing, but it doesn’t matter, because from the beginning, all he wanted was for himself and Xingxing to be alive.
Just want to live.
The Wei family had already made arrangements for the reception at several city gates, so this departure was considered smooth.
Qiuqiu squatted on top of Xingxing's head, watching Wei Jinan, relying on his height and perspective, pinching Xingxing's face, pretending to hug her, but actually sticking to her without leaving any trace...
So shameless!
Is this your star? Why are you posting it randomly?!
Wei Jinan had no idea that a ball was staring at him hungrily. When he arrived outside the city, a whistle sounded and two horses ran towards him side by side.
These two horses were originally used for him to change when he was rushing to Kyoto, and now they are just right.
Wei Jinan tied Xingxing to himself with a cloth belt, and then looked at the helpless Xiaowu.
"I'll teach you, do you dare to ride?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
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