Three days later, Fu Chai returned to the court and ordered Xi Shi Zheng Dan to be imprisoned in the cold palace. He also confiscated three quarters of Bo Pi's family property and dismissed him from his official position, but he still stayed with him.

Naturally, someone reported Ah Zhi's affairs to him truthfully. Fu Chai thought that although Ah Zhi had killed many brave soldiers in Wu, he also had some meritorious deeds in defending the city, so he ignored her as a person in the world.In Fu Chai's view, the most urgent task now is to restore the war losses and revive the Wu State. The matter of Xi Shi and the three of them is already a big deal compared to them.

However, it took too long in Wu, many loyal ministers and good generals were disheartened, and they left Wu early to seek another Minglord.Fu Chai worked day and night for three months, and became as thin as a skeleton, but he was still unable to recover.

According to Xi Shi and Zheng Dan's explanation, the Yue State should have at least [-] to [-] excellent troops, with sufficient warehouses and rich people, which is really far from the Wu State.Under Bo Pi's suggestion, Fu Chai had no choice but to cede three cities to Yue, and negotiated a three-year truce.As soon as the treaty was signed, he immediately cut off [-] soldiers and filled them with the common people to engage in agriculture and business.

Less than half a month after the decree was implemented, an extremely surprising news suddenly came from Yue.The State of Yue actually broke the agreement and came back with an army of [-], with the slogan "I won't punish my husband, I swear I won't return home"!

"How can Goujian be so vicious, he is not afraid of being ridiculed by the world!" Xi Shi was a little impatient when he heard the news, because the current state of Wu is no match for the state of Yue at all!

Zheng Dan said: "Haven't you seen it clearly? In this world, there is nothing more than winners and losers. The Yue Kingdom was ridiculed back then because he was defeated. No matter what method he uses, as long as he can destroy the Wu Kingdom, history will be left to him." Writing, the one who was ridiculed was Wu Guo."

Ah Zhi shook his head: "I don't want to help this time, so it's better to call me. Let's run away while we're in the chaos and live with my mother."

She had already explained her life experience to these two people in detail. Xi Shi and Zheng Dan had long wanted to go to worship, but the guards were so heavy that they couldn't do it.

"Why do you help? It's their business to fight. It's not our turn to talk now. Homeless, I know you have always sympathized with the people and soldiers, but who will sympathize with you?"

"Me? I don't need any mercy. But you're right, there's nothing we can do if we want to intervene in this matter. I agree with Azhi's words."

The three of them planned to escape, but the court had already fallen out.Except for Bo Pi, all the ministers either surrendered or made peace. As the Yue Kingdom was getting closer and closer to Gusu City, none of them wanted to lead troops to resist. Although Bo Pi was the main battle, he was a literati. , can't lead troops at all.Besides, even if he is a talented general, the fact that he colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country has long been known to the whole country, and he has no prestige.

"All of them are cowards! If no one is leading the troops, the widows will go to the battlefield in person. Even if they die in battle, they will show the majesty of my country of Wu!"

All the ministers looked at each other and thought, who cares if you die, the key is not to let the Vietnamese army enter the city.Once the Vietnamese army entered the city, not only Fu Chai would die, but they might not be spared either—how could Fu Chai personally lead the troops?

Fucha flicked his sleeves and left the court hall, Bo Pi hurriedly followed, lowered his head and said:

"My lord, don't worry too much, your body is important."

Fu Chai was furious when he heard the words: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Is there anyone among them who regards the widow as a king? You are the one who first ignores the widow!"

Bo Pi hastily knelt down on the gravel road, his knees hurting:

"Your Majesty, calm down. Everything is the fault of the grassroots. But Gusu City cannot be abandoned. The Yue Kingdom can even tear up the treaty. Even if you surrender, you must inevitably die. Now there is only one person who can save the Wu Kingdom."

"I know who you are talking about, but the widow will not use her again!"

"Niang Beigong once fought against tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops with four thousand troops and horses, and her military talents are extremely high. How to say, she and the king are also husband and wife, and they will never sit idly by."

Fu Chai snorted coldly: "Don't say it again, the widow will never hand over the country to a woman! Don't follow the widow again!"

After all, he left Bo Pi behind in a panic.During this period of time, Fu Chai has been busy with affairs and exhausted physically and mentally, but the strange thing is that whenever he is free for a while, the shadow of Zheng Dan will appear in his mind inexplicably, although he has made up his mind long ago that he will not care about the life and death of these three people. , but always feel that if Zheng Dan really died silently, a big piece of his heart would be missing.

I don't know if Zheng Dan has no regrets. If Zheng Dan is willing to apologize and repent to him, he will treat her as well as before.But is she wrong?Apart from deceiving his feelings, she didn't seem to have done anything wrong - she was just a native of Yue.

Fu Chai pushed back the two guards, and walked aimlessly on the path alone, when he suddenly realized that he was walking towards the North Palace, his expression froze, and he stopped immediately.The North Palace is no longer as brightly lit as it used to be, but like an abandoned temple that has lost its incense, it stands in the darkness with its doors closed, casting a huge and terrifying shadow under the moon.

He took a few steps forward, and faintly heard the echo of footsteps, which made the situation even more deserted.Suddenly he saw a little candlelight on the east window, so he walked over slowly, thinking that it would be all right to take a peek at her.

Zheng Dan was writing something on a roll of bamboo slips. Fu Chai pierced the window paper and could only see her back.The back figure is a little lonely and arrogant, immersed in his own world, and doesn't seem to need anyone to disturb him.

In fact, Zheng Dan was writing a book for Fan Li.Why did she write a letter? She thought that firstly, it might prevent the Yue State from chasing them, and secondly, it could be regarded as an explanation to the Yue State.

"Doctor Fan, you have no talent but you have no family. Anyway, you used to have a heart for you. I believe you are not a heartless person. I hope you will remember the love you have had for many years..."

As soon as he wrote this sentence, Zheng Dan suddenly heard the door knocking behind him, and when he looked back, he was frightened out of his wits.She hurriedly rolled up the bamboo slips and knelt on the ground.

"Great... why is the king here?"

Fu Chai saw all Zheng Dan's movements in his eyes, frowned, thinking what she was writing, was she covering it up?So he nodded to her and went straight to the table.

Zheng Dan's heart was about to jump out. She wrote about the past with Fan Li just because she wanted Fan Li to let the three of them go, but just after she wrote down the past, before she had time to write the rest, Fu Chai came in by accident!If he sees this, he will die of anger!But Fu Chai wanted to see, she had no reason to stop her—oh my God, what should I do!

She bit the bullet and knelt on the ground waiting for Fu Chai to be furious, but Fu Chai suddenly smiled sullenly after seeing it.

"Homeless, the widow originally thought that you were involuntary - now it seems that this is not the case."

Zheng Dan bit her lip and said nothing, she was a little puzzled, at worst, she was dead, why was she so scared in her heart?What is she afraid of?

Fucha's breath became a little unstable, and he said tremblingly:

"The widow came, just to see you...but you don't seem to care!"

Zheng Dan looked up and found that Fu Chai was so thin that he lost his shape, and tears were streaming from his eyes.

"My lord, my lord, that's not the case. I haven't finished writing the letter yet..."

Fucha laughed loudly: "If you can't finish writing, what are you doing to me? Just stay here for the rest of your life, live your happy life, miss your lover, and the widow will never bother you again!"

After finishing speaking, he pulled the bamboo slips into pieces and threw them viciously on Zheng Dan's body, then turned around and left, and wiped his eyes with his sleeve when he crossed the threshold.

Zheng Dan suddenly felt a little worried, sighed lightly, and threw the bamboo slips into the fire and burned them.Burn, burn, hum, what are you going to explain, pleading with someone like Fan Li, she is really sick in her head, how can she explain to Wu when she confessed to Yue?Explain clearly to everyone, how can she explain to herself?

Fucha, Fucha, why are you a king of the state of Wu? If you were an ordinary man, it would be fine to live with you for the rest of your life, but you are a person who must die, and you are your own enemy. God, you said, you are protecting me Him, or watch him die?

Never mind, never mind, let him go!Zheng Dan kicked the brazier hard, sparks jumped out and splashed on her feet, scalding her to tears.

Three days later, the Yue Kingdom was indeed forced to the city, but because it suffered a big loss at the hands of Zheng Dan last time, it did not rush to the city, but separated the soldiers, blocking the inside and outside of Gusu City.Yue Guo calmly surrounded Gusu City for a whole month, allowing people to enter and not allowing them to leave.Fu Chai was a little overwhelmed.

"He Goujian beats him whenever he wants, and the widow won't be afraid of him. What is he doing? Do you want to starve to death the entire population of Gusu City?"

"Your Majesty, surrender. From yesterday to today, 120 people have died of starvation," said a minister.

Fu Chai jumped up at the case: "Impossible! Think of some practical solutions for me. Starting today, whoever says surrender will be punished by the widow!"

It dragged on for another three months, and the people's cattle for plowing, horses for traders, and dogs for guarding the gate were all killed. Even so, more than half of the people still starved to death.When people are hungry, they will do anything. People keep pouring into the Wu Palace to grab food. No matter how much they kill them, they can't stop them. The number of people keeps increasing.

The three of Xishi were not bad, because Azhi was very skilled in martial arts, he often went out of the city at night to find some game in the wild, and sometimes the harvest was quite rich, and Azhi secretly gave some to the people under Xishi's order.

On this day, the people flooded into the palace again. The soldiers were so hungry that they couldn't resist, so they flooded in like a tide and scattered around the palace to search.There was a group of people who came all the way to Beigong. These five or six people were all old people, they couldn't compete with the young people, so they had to go far away, and they came to Zheng Dan.

It just so happened that Azhi came back from writing more game today, and Zheng Dan took out three pheasants and one hare and gave them to them:

"Old man, what a coincidence, I am in the cold palace here, and the King of Wu will not care if he starves to death... So there are only so many, you should use them to satisfy your hunger first."

A few old people are very grateful.Xi Shi hurriedly helped her up and said:

"How dare you do that, the elders worshiping the younger, this is trying to break us."

"Ah!" An old man in yellow shirt sighed: "I heard that the empress of Xigong and the empress of Beigong are pure and kind-hearted, and seeing them today is really extraordinary, but I don't know how to come to such a place!"

Xi Shi was a little sad when he heard the words. Hearing that the old man spoke with a Vietnamese accent, he asked:

"Is this old man from Vietnam?"

"In the past, when I came to Wu country three years ago, who would have thought that such a thing would happen!"

Zheng Dan's eyes lit up: "It turns out that you are also from Yue, and we are also from Yue."

"Oh?" the old man asked curiously, "May I ask where the two girls are from Yue? I've been living in a remote place. I think the two of you, who look like gods and behave elegantly, must be from the capital."

"The old man praised us, and we are not from the capital, but from Zhuluo Village... Well, I'm afraid the old man won't know if I say it."

Who would have thought that the old man would suddenly let out a long sigh:

"Don't tell me you two, Zhuluo Village and I really have a relationship, but... oh, Zhuluo Village, it's so miserable!"

Xi Shi and Zheng Dan stood up in surprise at the same time, Xi Shi asked eagerly:

"You, do you know about Zhuluo Village? Have you ever been there?"

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