Yu Wu

Chapter 173

After Murong Huang passed away, Murong Chuyi became more and more taciturn, he often locked himself in the refining room, Jiang Yexue was the only person in the Yue Mansion who could easily see him.

During the mourning period, Murong Chuyi made many clay figurines silently, infused them with spiritual energy, and slowly adjusted them, letting them imitate Murong Huang's demeanor, words and deeds, and walk around in his small courtyard.Jiang Yexue understood that he was sad, so she didn't say much, and took the blueprint of the clay figurine and followed suit.

But he didn't just make people like Murong Huang, some of the clay figurines he squeezed out of his hands were like Murong Chuyi, some were like himself, and some were even made like the newly born one named Yue Chenqing. child.

Those noisy clay figurines were walking in the small courtyard, making noise and breaking the original suffocating atmosphere.

Murong Chuyi looked at him gloomyly: "What exactly do you want to do? Find fault?"

Jiang Yexue walked up to him and wanted to hold his hand, but in the end she only held his sleeve: "Chu Yi, you can't just live in Aunt Huang's shadow."

Murong Chuyi suddenly pulled back his sleeves, and said stubbornly: "I don't."

As he spoke, he didn't want to talk to Jiang Yexue any more, so he turned around and walked to the mecha platform alone, looking at the broken porcelain fragments of the clay figurines, he slowly closed his eyes.

But there was that gentle voice from beside him, something gently shook his sleeves, and said relentlessly, "Chu Yi, Chu Yi..."

"I told you I didn't! Could you please stop—"

Turning around, he found that the person speaking was just a small clay puppet, with Jiang Yexue's own appearance in his eyes, clumsily coaxing him to be happy: "Not sad, not sad."

Murong Chuyi: "..."

"It will be fine, it will be fine."

Murong Chuyi stared at it silently. After staring for a while, the sockets of his eyes gradually turned red.He turned his head and saw Jiang Yexue standing under the wide eaves of the house, behind him was the lead gray sky and the remaining flowers fluttering like snow, and her lotus-white clothes were fluttering in the wind.

The two of them looked at each other from a distance, Murong Chuyi wanted to speak several times, but his mouth stopped, and finally he could only resentfully whispered a word: "...you are too tight Ugly."

Jiang Yexue laughed, as if some kind of restriction had been broken and melted, he walked towards Murong Chuyi, thought for a moment, and then gently hugged Murong Chuyi in a relieved gesture.

"You're right." Jiang Yexue coaxed him gently, "Then uncle will teach me how to knead, okay?"

Murong Chuyi: "..."

Their relationship at that time was really the most comfortable, Jiang Yexue could still restrain his desire, Murong Chuyi was also very close to him.In fact, Jiang Yexue often thought later, if she didn't stop what happened later, everything would be different.

In the Huntian Cave, Jiang Yexue raised her hand to strangle Yue Chenqing's neck, her tentacles were slightly cool, which made people feel as if they were being bound by a snake.

Jiang Yexue leaned over, narrowed her eyes dangerously, and stared at him: "Yue Chenqing, do you know that if I hadn't helped you, you would have died at the hands of my mother?"

Yue Chenqing shuddered.

Jiang Yexue's brown pupils were so close to him, it seemed that the light and shadow that had dissipated many years ago were moving inside.

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Not long after Murong Huang passed away, one day, Jiang Yexue took the small wooden toy that Murong Chuyi made for the child, and planned to play with Yue Chenqing in the wing room.

Although he knew that many people in the government office had changed their attitude towards him precisely because of Yue Chenqing's birth, but he didn't actually have any hostility or malice towards the child wrapped in swaddling clothes.

On the contrary, Murong Chuyi, although he felt pity for this child, but out of face, he never took the initiative to look for him, but just handed Jiang Yexue the carefully polished toys at will, and asked him to send them to Yue Chenqing.After a long time, little wooden figures, wooden horses, small wooden fishes, little rabbits with pricked ears... A bunch of scattered things made by Murong Chuyi filled Yue Chenqing's cradle.

Jiang Yexue looked at the wooden squirrel in his hand, and sighed helplessly, amusedly, he thought, he really should let Murong Chuyi come and see for himself, if it continues like this, there will be no place for Xiao Chenqing to sleep ?

Thinking all the way, she walked outside Yue Chenqing's room door, but when she pushed the door to enter, she heard a "clang sound".

Jiang Yexue's mother who was guarding Yue Chenqing suddenly turned her head like a frightened bird, the overturned medicine bowl fell to pieces on the ground, and the medicine inside dripped on the stone surface making a hissing sound.

"Ye, Young Master Yexue!"

He immediately recognized that the bowl was filled with heart-breaking poison. In a rage, he grabbed the panic-stricken mother: "What's going on?! What are you doing?!"

Madam is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, immediately kowtowed repeatedly, knelt on the ground and cried out the truth to Jiang Yexue, saying that it was Madam Xie who forced her to pour poison into Yue Chenqing's mouth by taking advantage of others, if she didn't do so, it would be The lives of the whole family cannot be saved.

Hearing his mother's actions, Jiang Yexue felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave.In any case, he couldn't believe that his mother would do such a cruel thing for power, so he took his mother to find Mrs. Xie.

But the result was Mrs. Xie beating and scolding hysterically.

"What can you accuse me of? I'm clearing the way for your future path! You trash who doesn't fight or snatch!"

"What morality, what conscience... This world is a world where the weak prey on the strong, you are so naive, Yue Yexue! Do you know how I got to where I am today? You have never struggled in the quagmire. You are not You know what it's like to be a slave to others! Just wait, 20 years later... No, it doesn't take 20 years, ten years later you will know that all the cruel things I did were for you! This is Yuefu, not a cat Cats and dogs, with him without you, with you without him! Do you know?!"

"Yue Yexue, why did I give birth to a benevolent bastard like you!"

He was also sad and angry at that time: "Mother, that is a human life! Why did you become like this today..."

"If you can ask such a question, it means that you don't know what a prince's family is! Yue Yexue, today's me will be your future!! You just wait! You keep him, and those things that belong to you will be in the future." Everything will become his property, and then..." The woman's sharp laughter seemed to come from that night many years ago, and the long nails scratched the bottom of the pot, and it was creepy, "You will regret that you stopped today. your mother..."

"You will surely regret it!"

You will regret it...

This woman with red eyes and spider webs in her pupils became increasingly insane, suffering from hypochondria, and finally even spoke rudely to Yue Juntian, insulting him in public as a mean and ungrateful person.

The result, of course, is self-evident.

Yue Juntian originally doted on her because she was submissive and gentle, advancing and retreating properly, so that he could feel the infinite tenderness that could not be found in noble women.

Now that the gentle tent has become a vat of vinegar, what else does he have nostalgia for?

Mrs. Xie's favor withered overnight, and everyone saw that she had offended Yue Juntian, and there was no day for a comeback, so they scattered one after another, and even the medicine cultivator who healed him no longer did his best.

Jiang Yexue saw all this, he and she are mother and son after all, mother is so crazy, how can being a son feel good.He went to her bedside to take care of her, and tried to bring in other pharmacists from outside the mansion to treat her, but as soon as Mrs. Xie saw him, she screamed and scolded, tore and bit, and almost stabbed Jiang Yexue with scissors throat.

She didn't recognize anyone, and didn't listen to anyone. Not long after, Mrs. Xie hanged herself on the beam.

When the servants found her body, she was dressed in the best of costumes, her black hair was covered with the most expensive jewels she had ever obtained, her arms and neck were covered with golden bracelets, necklaces, hanging Strings, orbs, and the colorful pheasant bird robe that can only be worn by a Duke's wife, which she stole from Murong Huang's relics.

She even wrote a suicide note, which was full of absurdity. Between the words, she suddenly thought that she was the heroine of this family, possessing a very high status and power...

The ambition and fantasy of this woman remained in this world in an extremely tragic and ridiculous way.Her suicide note made Yue Juntian's only sympathy for her disappear. She was right in saying that Yue Juntian was a person who betrayed his heart.

He ordered her funeral to be hastily attended to, without even going to see her one last time.The lady's fine attire on her body was replaced with onyx, and the bright and prosperous dream became a cold and shabby monument.

And because Mrs. Xie's dead letter almost frantically wrote "My son Yue Yexue, the young master of the Yue Mansion", and even wrote "My son will take Yue Juntian's place", even though he knew it was crazy, Yue Juntian still had a knot in his heart towards Jiang Yexue.His attitude has influenced the attitude of the rest of the Yue family towards Jiang Yexue. The alienation that seemed to exist in the past has turned into blatant ridicule and contempt overnight.

"The son of a mad woman."

"Their mother and son are so ambitious, hahahaha."

Jiang Yexue lost a loved one, so she was already in a bad mood, and she didn't want to interact with others.In addition, he has always been handsome, has read the books of sages, and is a gentleman who doesn't want to get involved in the quagmire.

So after suffering these grievances, he didn't say anything more, and when others thought that he and Mrs. Xie were the same, he didn't argue.

What can he argue?Can you tell about the fact that you prevented your mother from poisoning your younger brother?No matter how cruel and vicious she was, she treated him well in the past, but now that everyone is dead, how could he bear to put another stigma on her coffin.

That's it.

He swallowed all those pains alone.

It's just that Mrs. Xie's curse is like a white banner, floating in front of his eyes with lingering resentment-"Those things that belong to you will become his things sooner or later..."

"You will regret this……"

"The me today is the you in the future. You just don't know what a prince's home is."

How many times did he wake up in a dream in the middle of the night, waking up profusely with sweat, he looked outside hurriedly, Murong Chuyi was still concentrating on adjusting the wooden armor under the lamp.

He panted and lay back on the bed again, it was good, at least Murong Chuyi still believed in him, and didn't think that he was greedy for power and secretly hated Yue Chenqing.At least he can still stay in Murong Chuyi's other courtyard, and when he wakes up, he can still see the person he loves by his side.

Because of this reason, Jiang Yexue didn't hold too much resentment.

Even when Yue Chenqing was able to speak, babbling, drooling and smilingly reaching out to him, calling him "brother, brother", he felt from the bottom of his heart that this soft little life was very cute and worthy of protection and care , do not suffer like him.

In this way, Yue Chenqing gradually grew up.

Soon he will be able to go to the school to practice in the palace again. Since he is the son of Muronghuang and is of royal blood, Yue Juntian will give Yue Chenqing the best and every opportunity in order to curry favor with the emperor. Some magical artifacts given to Jiang Yexue were taken back in a roundabout way.

"Your brother has lost his mother since he was a child. He is very pitiful. As an elder brother, let him be more."

"Your brother needs more care, you are very sensible, don't compete with your brother."

"You have read a lot of sage books since you were young, so you should know what courtesy is."

Some of the shameless and arrogant servants in the house all laughed at him eccentrically: "Young Master Ye Xue, you are a gentleman if you know how to be humble."

Master Song, who couldn't get used to it, wanted to reprimand him, but was stopped by Jiang Yexue, who shook his head: "Forget it, you don't need to be as knowledgeable as them."

But as the things around me are emptied little by little, a hole is gradually opened in my heart, and the hole is getting bigger and bigger, and disappointment, fear, and resentment are all circling in it.

Until one day, Yue Juntian called him to him: "Ye Xue, you have practiced with Chu Yi for so long, and you have learned everything you need to learn. Let Chen Qing follow Chu Yi more from now on."

Jiang Yexue was taken aback for a moment: "What?"

"Being a father means that a child needs a better master to take him to enlightenment. You are sensible, clean up the house today and let your brother live in it. He also likes to cling to Chuyi. You two are worthy of Brother, it's like everything."

Jiang Yexue gradually recovered from the shock, but she didn't move.

Yue Juntian was quite surprised by his behavior.Because Yue Juntian is used to him saying everything, and it doesn't matter, so seeing that he didn't agree immediately, he felt strange: "What's wrong with you?"

"Father." Jiang Yexue narrowed her eyes, suppressing her anger, "Am I not sensible enough?"

"..."

"What do you think is left of me? Why don't you drive me out of this house? Does that make your heart more comfortable? Does Chen Qing feel that the place to play is more open?"

Yue Juntian had never been contradicted by his words like this before, he couldn't help being very angry, and said, "You are presumptuous!"

"It's not that I'm presumptuous, it's that you've done too much! What am I in your eyes?!"

"Yue Yexue!! How dare you talk such nonsense!!"

That day, Jiang Yexue had a big fight with Yue Juntian, Jiang Yexue was just good-natured and upright, not a wimp, if he really got angry, it would only make the situation out of control.Yue Juntian was so embarrassed that he was panting, and finally pointed at Jiang Yexue's nose and cursed: "You are an evil animal! Your mother said you want to replace me, I think you have this ambition! You pretend too much!! You just don’t expect me to be good! You don’t expect your brother to be good!! You and your mother look exactly alike!!”

At the end of the quarrel, everyone in the whole family knew that the father and son had mutual affection for a long time, and from the end of the quarrel, it turned into fighting.But Jiang Yexue was young after all and had no help, so she was soon restrained by Yue Juntian.

The cane was whipped down like a storm, and blood flowed horizontally.

Yue Chenqing came running after hearing the news, she was startled, and hurried to intercede: "Father, don't hit me anymore, don't hit brother..."

"What do you know! What kind of person is his mother, so is he!"

As he said that, he wanted to whip the whip down on Jiang Yexue's stubborn face——

"stop."

A flash of light flashed, it was an extremely powerful spell, and it opened the barrier in front of Jiang Yexue.Yue Juntian was caught off guard, his arm was sore, and the whip fell off.He turned his head back in surprise and anger, and saw Murong Chuyi walking in from the door, with a whisk in his arm, twirling the curse seal with his fingers, and staring at himself coldly.

"Yue Juntian, are you enough!"

"...You?" Yue Juntian's lips trembled, "You, you actually helped this bastard..."

Murong Chuyi helped Jiang Yexue up, turned his head and said solemnly: "He is my nephew."

"Try to move his finger again, and see if I can make you feel better."

Because of Murong Chuyi's appearance, the matter did not become a big deal in the end.

In the dead of night in the other courtyard, the two were sitting under the eaves and on the steps.Murong Chuyi bandaged the wound on his hand for him, the wound was deeper than the welt, it was injured by his father's martial arts when he was arguing with Yue Juntian.

Father and son quarreled, and the father actually used Shenwu to deal with his son, which is simply unimaginable.

Murong Chuyi was silent, and asked a rare question: "Does it still hurt?"

Jiang Yexue didn't answer, and after a long time, she said in a low voice, "Before she left, my mother said that in less than 20 years, everything I have will become the things of Chen Qing."

"..."

"But if I say that I never thought of competing with Chen Qing for Yue's family, would you believe me?"

Murong Chuyi said: "I believe it."

Jiang Yexue didn't expect him to answer so quickly, without even a moment's hesitation.In fact, he didn't want to cry at first, but when he heard Murong Chuyi say these two words so firmly, he suddenly felt so sad, so wronged, he immediately buried his head in his knees, weeping uncontrollably.

He said I never wanted to fight for anything.

He said that I really didn't want to be the master of Yuefu, I didn't have this ambition.

He said that I have given everything I can, why should I take away the last thing I can't give.

Murong Chuyi was by his side, finally sighed lightly, and patted his shoulder.

And Jiang Yexue was probably very confused at that time, so many years of repression tore a hole to vent, he was actually out of control, he looked up at Murong Chuyi to comfort him, his emotions were like a tide that couldn't be suppressed—— He didn't know what he was thinking, or at this moment, he didn't think about anything at all. When he realized it, he had already leaned against Murong Chuyi, bowed his head and kissed his lips.

Just a light touch, like a superficial touch.

There seemed to be fireworks exploding inside the skull.

The minds of both of them went blank for an instant.

After an unknown amount of time, Murong Chuyi finally recovered from the extreme shock.He pushed him away violently as if being stabbed by a scorpion, and stood up abruptly, all blood was gone from his handsome face.

"what are you doing--!!?"

Seeing Murong Chuyi's expression, Jiang Yexue's dizzy mind finally flashed back to clarity.He froze his hands and feet, blushed, and hurriedly said: "Chu Yi, I..."

But before Jiang Yexue tried to stand up and explain something, Murong Chuyi took a few steps back and stared at him in surprise and anger.

"Uncle, I'm sorry, I, I just... I..."

The title "little uncle" pierced Murong Chuyi more and more sharply, his eyes were full of rain and wind, and he was extremely confused.He pursed his lips several times, and wanted to speak but felt it was too absurd.He has always been used to treating Jiang Yexue as an elder, but who knows that Jiang Yexue has such thoughts for him, he feels cold in the back and sweats for a moment.

But asking him to reprimand someone who has just been kissed forcibly is really lacking in majesty.Murong Chuyi's face was blue and white, and finally, before Jiang Yexue could speak again, he turned around with a flick of his sleeves and fled.