Nightfall Chapter 28: Outside the General’s Mansion

Chapter 28 Outside the General's Mansion

There is an inn. It is natural that the inn can’t really be called an inn. They just make do for a night. Ning Que and Sangsang rubbed their eyes and yawned when they walked out of the gate of the inn the next day. Remember the name.

Finding a kind-hearted old mother on the street to ask for the road clearly, the master and servant walked towards Nancheng, crossing the alleys and asking for directions and then asking for directions, and finally saw two big locust trees.

From the moment I saw the locust tree, memories that should have been vague and actually very clear in my childhood flooded into Ning Que's mind. He closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then walked over with Sangsang.

There is a quiet street between the two big locust trees. It is wide and narrow for horse-drawn carriages, but it does not appear to be extravagant. On both sides of the street, I don’t know where the house is, and there is no sound. Many towering trees come from The courtyard wall stretched out and placed on top of the heads of two or three pedestrians, covering the light of spring and sprinkling a shade of coolness.

Walking to the middle of the street, there are two mansion gates facing each other. The stone lion standing upright next to the house on the right is exceptionally clean, with no conspicuous dusty leaves on it, the Zhumen is closed tightly, and the copper ring is silent.

The house on the left seems to be decayed a lot. The patent leather on the door is peeling off, and the two seals are weakly floating in the wind. There is only one stone lion left, and the other is not known where it was moved. , Even the remaining one is broken, missing ears and claws, and dark old mud accumulates behind the base, a bit like solidified blood.

Ning Zhiyong looked at the broken stone lion in front of him. He remembered the past when he and Xiao Shun were playing around the lion when he was a child, and then he was caught by the adults in the house to clean up the house, and then walked past the corner gate beside the house. In the alley, he seemed to have seen the picture of the board running away from home with the little guy bravely when he was four years old in order to avoid the husband.

Sangsang's gaze was repeated between the two doors and Ning Que's face, feeling that his mood at the moment was dim, complex and low. I don't know why, her mood was also low and sad, feeling that the wind in this alley was somewhat cold.

The dilapidated courtyard was the residence of former Xuanwei General Lin Guangyuan. His Majesty the Emperor visited Nanze in the first year of the Apocalypse. A case of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country broke out in Chang'an City. His Royal Highness personally presided over the trial, and the prime minister and other officials looked on. It was finally determined that Lin Guangyuan was convicted of treason.

This case has long since been settled as an iron case, and no one between the ruling and the opposition thought to reverse the case, even if some people who remember this occasionally think of those servants who shouldn’t have died, they hate Lin Guangyuan even more. The sins of human beings are terrible, not only ruining themselves to death, but also dragging so many innocents.

In the more than ten years after the palace was taken back by the court, the General Mansion had to be given out several times, but when the officials who were given it heard that it was this terrible place, they all respected and thanked them for being insensitive. There were so many houses in Chang'an that affected Chang'an. I am not afraid that I have no place to live, but in this way, this mansion has been empty in this street for a long time, and it has become more and more declining.

As he walked past the gate of the General’s Mansion, Ning Que’s eyes flashed sadly, and no strange emotions could be seen on his face. He did not stop, even his steps did not slow down a bit. Walking as usual, Sangsang, who was carrying the **** umbrella, had to follow as hard as usual, almost a trot. The **** umbrella was bounced off the girl’s back and then fell back, popping like it represents the passage of time Drumbeat.

The two walked peacefully through the long alleys, between Zhumen and Biaomen, looking for the commonplace, just like two of the most common foreign tourists strayed into a certain street in Chang'an in spring.

"No one wanted the murder house, but the opposite house was very popular. Why? Back then, General Xuanwei and Doctor General Xuanwei lived opposite each other, and General Xuanwei copied all the houses, but General Doctor was soaring. It is now Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, the mansion where his old family lived, how many officials of the fourth and fifth ranks would you like to be exposed to?"

In a restaurant on the corner at the end of the street, Ning Que and Sangsang sat on a small table in the corner, quietly eating side dishes and drinking porridge, but their ears were listening to the chattering of those old neighbors. For these old households who have lived in the neighbourhood for decades or even several lifetimes, the things that are most worthy of their conversation are naturally the treason case in the General’s Mansion and the Qingyun Avenue of the Tongyi doctor, which surrounds them every day. It's not too tired to say it, it's in the mind of the master and servant.

"Speaking of Bachelor Zeng Jing, his old man was just a consultation doctor, but then suddenly he went straight up. There is a wonderful thing in this, I wonder if you have heard of it?"

"This incident was so violent back then that even the palace even spoke out. Whoever lives in this town has never heard of it?"

A middle-aged man shook his head and said mockingly: "The dignified doctor married a fierce wife, and the lady in the main room actually acted on the belly of the concubine's room because of jealousy. Born bitterly, she still has to attack the poor child. If it weren’t for the imperial decree in the end, who knows what the house will look like."

"You only know that the word was made in the palace, do you know who made the word?" The person who had spoken sneered, and he twitched his hands towards the north of Chang'an City, "I can teach you that it is the Holy Queen After learning about this, he became furious and wrote a letter to Master Zeng Jing personally, ordering him to discipline his wife."

"The empress..."

The few people drinking at the table looked at each other and smiled clearly. Everyone in the world knows that there is a great empress in the Datang Empire, who is loved and trusted by His Majesty, and even holds criticism in her hand. The memorial denies the power of officials, but the empress was just a very ordinary concubine in the palace. In folk words, she was the concubine of the emperor's majesty, and she later became a regular wife.

There is a queen empress from this background who is so concerned about the family affairs in the doctor's mansion, because the doctor's wife is so angry with the concubine to murder the concubine, everyone can think of the reason.

"Master Zeng Jing's wife was born in Qinghe County, and it is for this reason that she has always been more tolerant, but I did not expect that the cowardly civil servants in the eyes of others are really cruel when they are cruel! After the queen's handwriting was sent into the house, Master Zeng Jing summoned his family overnight and killed three servants who murdered his concubine's children in public. Then he sent his wife back to Qinghe County with two slaps and a small sedan chair. He was so clean and divorced!"

"It is said that the old man made such a decision back then, most of it was forced to protect himself under the power of the empress, but he did not expect that his cleanliness fell into the eyes of the empress and felt that this person was worthy of use. In addition to the following reasons, the old man has been prosperous from then on, and now he has entered the Wenyuan Pavilion! It is said that good fortune and misfortune depend on each other, but who dares to imagine that there is a fierce wife in the family who kills concubines and children. Achieve a man's fame for the first time?"