Chapter 40: Escape from the Cage
A ray of autumn sunlight projected through the window onto the cold floor, causing Liu Yixuan to gradually open his sleepy eyes. He has been so tired these days. After drinking the pot of old wine sent by Mrs. Fan alone last night, Liu Yixuan lay on the ground and fell asleep.
Mrs. Fan knew that her son felt uncomfortable, but she did not dare to go against Liu Anguo's instructions, so she had to give her some good wine and vegetables for her son to eat, especially the pot of good wine, which is a jar of top scholar Hong in the family. Mrs. Fan is from Suzhou. According to the customs of Wu, when her children are born, the elderly in the family will make wine to celebrate. If she gave birth to a son, the name of the wine is "top scholar Hong", which means that this son will win the top scholar in the future. If she has a daughter, she will be named "daughter Hong". She hopes that her daughter can marry a good family in the future.
When Liu Yixuan was born, Liu Anguo was working outside Hangzhou. Mrs. Fan also brewed several jars of wine according to the customs of her hometown. She thought she would take it out to drink it when she was waiting for Liu Yixuan to be the top student in high school. Who would have thought that Liu Yixuan was not focused on his career and studied in the Imperial College for several years and didn't even pass the exam for a juren. Unfortunately, these pots of good wine were useless.
Liu Yixuan was already in a state of grief at this moment. He wanted to rush back to the capital to rescue Ling'er from the dire straits, but who knew that it was no longer possible to meet her now. Liu Yixuan rubbed his eyes, and didn't know how long he had slept. He climbed up from the floor and looked up at the sun outside the window. Judging from the sun, it was probably three times that time had passed.
Just as Liu Yixuan woke up from his tired sleep, he faintly heard the sound of "dong-dong-dong" salute from a distance. The sound seemed to be from the imperial city north of Liu Mansion. Then there was a loud but dull trumpet sound. The trumpet sound "woo" sounded, melancholy and low, and it was as if everyone in the city wanted to stop their work to listen to this wail. Liu Yixuan had been the deputy commander of the Imperial Guard for a while and knew that this sound was sent by the rhino trumpet used by the Imperial Guard. These trumpets were originally tributes from overseas foreign countries to the Song Dynasty, and were usually used in major ritual occasions. Last time the Prince of Jin came to visit, the guards of the Imperial Guards blew such trumpets at the Meridian Gate.
"Strange, the sound of this horn?...not good! Could it be that Ling'er is going to marry far away today?" Liu Yixuan suddenly had an ominous premonition.
Liu Yixuan quietly walked to the door and peeked into the yard through the crack of the door. He saw that the servant was promoted and was sitting on the threshold at the entrance of the yard and chatting with several servants. Seeing that Liu Yixuan was drunk last night, the servants were no longer making noise, but instead became much more relaxed. They waited in the side room in the yard for a night, for fear that Liu Yixuan would escape at night, so they saw that there was no movement in the room again this morning, so they had to wait at the door to chat.
Liu Yixuan leaned over to hear what they were talking about, but only one servant sighed: "Oh, our young master is really good at making trouble. Fortunately, the old lady brought a pot of old wine last night, which made him much quieter."
Another said: "Yes, after noon, our young master will die as soon as the marriage team left! Alas, they are such a pair of miserable mandarin ducks. I thought our young master would become the son-in-law, but who knew that things would turn out like this? It's really a fate to make people!" sighed repeatedly.
After hearing this, Liu Yixuan seemed to have a thunder sounded in the sunny day. He didn't expect that the Jin people would urge him so hard that Ling'er would marry far away today. When he thought that Ling'er was going to marry someone else, how could he sit still? He heard the servants say "Mission-Life Mandarin Duck", and he couldn't bear to hear it. He hurriedly picked up a mahogany stool in the house and smashed the door.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Liu Yixuan viciously picked up the bench in his hand and knocked on the door in front of him. He couldn't stay in this room anymore. He wanted to smash the door and escape from the house. In fact, Liu Yixuan knew that this small room could not be locked at all. Last night, he wanted to set fire to the room and take the opportunity to escape, but he knew that his son Liu Anguo was in the mansion last night. Even if he escaped from the room, he might not be able to leave the door. But today it was different, because according to usual habits, Liu Anguo should be in office in the Secretariat Yamen at this time. Only his mother and a few servants who were in charge of affairs were left in the mansion. His mother, Mrs. Fan, wanted to accommodate him and would not be cruel to capture him. The remaining servants could not stop him, so he decided to break out.
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Liu Yixuan had no intention of talking nonsense to them. He took a few steps back inside the door, raised the mahogany stool over his head, then quickly approached and smashed hard towards the paulownia door panel. With a crack, the door panel was smashed open. Liu Yixuan quickly flew over and kicked a hole in the crack, which made his right foot hurt. Liu Yixuan couldn't care about so much. He almost frantically picked up the hard stool and swung it hard towards the door panel. After only three swings, the door panel broke, revealing a big hole about 30 cm wide and half a meter high.
"Damn it, you don't listen to a lot of good things. You must force me to use violence!" Liu Yixuan cursed, bowed and crawled out of the door hole. Several servants were stunned by the side. They had never seen their young master have such a trick, and actually smashed the door hole and crawled out.
When the promotion saw Liu Yixuan escape from the room, he hurriedly stepped forward and stopped him, "Young Master, you can't go out. The master has given him instructions. You can't leave the mansion for half a step!"
"Fuck! You guys can stop me, get out of here!" Liu Yixuan cursed at the promotion.
Then the promotion was not willing to obey him. He hurriedly came up and hugged him and prevented him from leaving the backyard. Liu Yixuan raised his leg and kicked the promotion to the ground, shouting "Oh Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
"Didn't you hear me? Don't stop me. If anyone can't get along with me today, don't blame me for being ruthless!" As he said that, he pulled out an exquisite dagger from his waist and pointed at everyone to threaten. This dagger was originally from the Jin envoy Wanyan Baoliang. When the Jin soldiers besieged the city in May, Wanyan Baoliang was ordered to go on an envoy. He was teased by Liu Yixuan and detained his exquisite dagger. Seeing that the dagger was small and exquisite, Liu Yixuan often carried it on his body. On the one hand, it could defend itself and cut off his flesh. Today, he used it to scare the family members in the mansion and let them not stop themselves.
In fact, few of the family members in this mansion were willing to stop him. Although Liu Anguo had ordered to take good care of Liu Yixuan, everyone knew that a tiger would not eat his son. No matter how big the conflict between father and son was, he would be his own. If he forced Liu Yixuan to stop him, he would be his own. So everyone simply avoided it and stopped blocking Liu Yixuan's actions. They only sent people to Mrs. Fan's house to report the news and asked the old lady to come over to deal with it.
Liu Yixuan ran out of his yard, then went straight to the horse shed, untied his green horse, picked a spear in the warehouse, then turned over to the horse, intending to go straight to the palace to stop Ling'er from marrying far away. Even if he was about to die in the Song Dynasty today, he would have to see Ling'er for the last time again.
"Young Master, where are you going?" The promoted man covered his chest and followed Liu Yixuan. Seeing him carrying a gun and getting on the horse, he hurriedly came to stop him again.
Liu Yixuan raised his spear and pointed at the promotion and shouted viciously: "Get out of here, don't ask where I want to go! If you dare to stop me again, it will no longer be as simple as kicking you!"
When the promotion and the servants saw that Liu Yixuan's eyes were full of murderous aura and his tone was so tough, he knew that he could not stop him. No one wanted to be injured or killed innocently by him, so he had to slowly make way and let him go.
"Hell!" Liu Yixuan slapped out of the small gate of the backyard and headed straight to the front yard gate. As soon as he arrived at the gate, he saw Mrs. Fan crying behind with many family members. Seeing her son riding on the horse with weapons, Mrs. Fan knew who he was going to fight with, so how could he not worry about him? She called out loudly with tears in her eyes: "Xuan'er, where are you going? Why are you so disobedient? If you have any flaws, your mother will not be alive!" As she said that, she was supported by the maids and rushed over.
Chapter completed!