Spring and Autumn GL

Things in the world are often so coincidental, karma loops, and retribution is not good. This old man happened to be the one who came to Zhuluo Village to visit Li after Fan Litu Village. Outside of his subordinates, the only living person who knew about this matter.Wu Zixu may also know a thing or two about this, but unfortunately, he has now become a heroic soul.

When the old man heard Xi Shi ask about Zhuluo Village, tears welled up in his eyes. Seeing that he wanted to say something, Xi Shi quickly moved a chair to help him sit down.

The old man stabilized his mind, and an old voice came from his mouth:

"Your Majesty doesn't know that there is a Mrs. Li in Zhuluo Village. She used to have a meal with me. Later, when I became rich, I thought that the kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by the spring, so I would visit her every other year... "

Xi Shi frowned, looked the old man up and down, and said in surprise:

"You...you are Grandpa Gongsun!"

The old man stopped talking, looked up at Xi Shi, and suddenly realized:

"You...you are Xiao Yiguang? Oh, yes, your surname is Shi, and the last time I saw you was only fourteen or fifteen years old... In a flash, it has been more than ten years! This is really, the eighteenth change of a female university , The Eighteenth Change of the Female University, I never thought that Xi Shi is you! It's really... really... oh!"

Seeing that this is not the time to reminisce about the old days, Xi Shi temporarily suppressed the emotion of meeting an old friend, and asked with a sob:

"Grandpa Gongsun, you go on, what happened next?"

The old man said: "More than ten years ago, I went to see your mother again, and found that the entire Zhuluo Village was dead. It may have been the heavy rain the night before, and the corpses had not been disposed of in time. I will go to see you in a few days. nothing left."

Zheng Dan listened in a trance, and suddenly felt strange. If Zhuluo Village was said to be Wu Jun's indiscriminate killing of innocent people, why did they have to dispose of the corpses?

Before she could speak, Xi Shi asked: "Grandpa, did you find something? Otherwise, why did you go back?"

The old man hesitated to speak.

Zheng Dan said: "Grandpa Gongsun, don't worry, Yi Guang and I are neither from Yue nor Wu, but just two women who have left their homes. If there is something shameful, you don't have to worry about us telling it. "

The old man shook his head: "I'm already a half body lying in a coffin, so why worry about speaking out, it's just that it's a long time ago, I want to recall it."

When people are old, it is inevitable that they speak slowly. Although Xi Shi and Zheng Dan were anxious, they did not dare to urge him. It took about a quarter of the time for the stick of incense before he spoke again:

"When I arrived at Zhuluo Village that morning, I was the first one to run to Miss Li's house. She had been burned to death. I thought, because of her kindness, I would always collect her body, so I hugged her up. Already, please bear with me if I offend you.”

Xi Shi nodded in understanding.

"Who knows, when I turned Ms. Li over, I saw half a word under her, which was written like this."

He picked up the writing brush beside the table and wrote half a character on the table. Xi Shi and Zheng Dan were surprised when they saw it. It was clearly half of the character "Fan".

"Fan Li...it's Fan Li!" Xi Shi said angrily.

Zheng Dan shook his head: "Yi Guang, there are so many people with the surname Fan in the world, it may not be him."

The old man nodded: "I'm not sure, so I've kept this matter in my stomach. If it's Doctor Fan, then I can't say it. If it's not, I will be accused of false accusation."

Xi Shi paced up and down the room anxiously:

"Then Grandpa Gongsun discovered something else strange?"

The old man thought for a while and said, "From Miss Li's body, nothing can be seen, but most people in the village have dark complexions and no wounds on their bodies. They look like they were poisoned to death..."

Zheng Dan bit his lip, thinking that this doesn't explain anything.

Unexpectedly, the old man's eyes suddenly brightened: "There is another one. There is a woman who died in a very strange way, with her hands in a strange posture. At that time, I didn't pay attention to it. I thought it was caused by extreme pain. Later, when I went home and thought about it, this It seems to be a sign language used by deaf people, but when I went back to take a closer look, I found that the bodies had been disposed of."

Zheng Dan walked up in two steps and asked eagerly, "What does that girl look like? Does she have a mole on her left cheek?"

The old man shook his head: "How can I see it so clearly, I only remember her gesture... probably, probably..."

The old man held up his two arms and began to fiddle with them, and asked Xi Shi for a mirror. After a long time, he finally set it up.

"That's it." The old man said firmly.

Zheng Dan frowned and looked at it, but she couldn't distinguish it for a moment. Suddenly, she opened her mouth wide, stepped back three times, and sat down on the ground with a plop.

Xi Shi quickly went to help her: "No home, what's the matter, what do you see?"

Zheng Dan suddenly burst into tears: "Mother...it's mother..."

"What did your mother say?"

Zheng Dan calmed down: "I didn't understand the meaning of this gesture at first, but later I found out that it was my mother combining the two gestures. The left hand is my name. It is round like an egg. When I was a child, I I don't like my name, my mother always teases me like this. And the right hand... the gesture of the right hand means 'senior official'..."

Shih Tzu suddenly realized.Fan, high official.Combining these two, who else can there be besides Fan Li? Looking at Wu and Yue, there is only one high-ranking official with the surname Fan.She looked at Zheng Dan eagerly, and saw Zheng Dan biting his lip, his face was extremely pale, and he hurried over to comfort her.

"Sister Wujia, in short, you also broke with Fan Li. We have revenge for wrongs, and revenge for revenge. You don't have to..."

Zheng Dan said bitterly: "I'm not entangled in my heart, I'm hating. I've devoted myself to doing things for my enemy for so many years, and I actually fell in love with her for nothing. I'm not obsessed or something, it's all retribution , It's all retribution!"

"Even retribution, it shouldn't be on you and me. It should be him, Fan Li, who should be responsible for this crime." Xi Shi said coldly, with a sharp brilliance in his eyes.

The truth came out, and the three sent the old man away well.

Ah Zhi was behind them and hadn't spoken all the time. At this moment, he turned around and went to get his sword.

"I'll fight now, no matter what, kill Fan Li first!"

Xi Shi held her down and said, "Fan Li is going to be killed, but not in this way. He deserves to die, but if you go out now and exchange your life for your life, wouldn't it be even more uneconomical? The most urgent thing is to escape from the Wu Palace first. Let’s think about it in the long run. It’s not too late for a gentleman to take revenge in ten years... 20 years.”

Just as Zheng Dan frowned and suppressed his anger, suddenly a group of officers and soldiers broke into the door.Zheng Dan said angrily:

"Although my place is in the cold palace, my position as the empress of the Beigong is still there. Why do you just barge in at will! Could it be that you want to rebel?"

Seeing this, the leading officers and soldiers hurriedly knelt down: "I disturbed the two ladies, and I will wait for death, but the situation is critical now. The Vietnamese army said that we should not fight any more, so they will forcibly go to the city and kill Gusu City without leaving a piece of it." ...That's why Your Majesty has appointed Empress Beigong as the Great General to Protect the Country, and she will go to battle immediately."

"What..." Zheng Dan was extremely surprised, and a sentence was stuck in his throat. At this point, Fu Chai didn't lead the troops to go out in person, but let her go to the battle. Isn't it afraid that she will surrender to the Yue Kingdom?

Ah Zhi stepped in front of Zheng Dan: "What's the matter with Fu Chai! We know that we won't do anything for Wu country anymore!"

The sergeant looked helpless: "We can't do anything about it. Your Majesty said so. This is a military order. General, you can send as many troops as you want!"

Xishi's mind was spinning quickly, and Fuer said to Zheng Dan: "No home, in my opinion, this is Fucha's intention to spare your life, and also the lives of the soldiers in the city!"

Zheng Dan shook his head: "Fu Chai, he wants me to die, he wants me to die better!"

Xi Shi said: "Don't think that way, no matter what happens to Fu Chai, he will never fail to see that this battle has no chance of winning. He treats you with sincerity, even if he knows you are a spy, he doesn't do anything to you. He has no reason Kill you in this way."

Zheng Dan smiled wryly: "If Fu Chai knows, my heart has never been with him?"

Xi Shi opened her mouth: "He...he knows about you and Fan Li?"

Zheng Dan was silent.

"In any case," Xi Shi continued, "Fu Chai gave you a chance to leave the city. With your martial arts, even if you don't surrender, it will not be difficult to escape. He knows this."

Zheng Dan nodded: "Then I will make the two of you lieutenant generals and follow me out of the city."

The soldiers hurriedly stopped him: "Your Majesty has ordered that Empress Xigong is not allowed to leave the city."

"why?"

"The little ones are just in charge of delivering orders."

A bad feeling rose in Xishi's heart, and she wondered what King Wu meant by this. Could it be that he wanted to detain her in the city, and if Zheng Dan surrendered or escaped, he would kill himself to sacrifice the flag?

Zheng Dan snorted: "Look, he still wants me to die."

"He doesn't want you to die. He just wants to kill me to take revenge on Yue. No matter whether you win or lose, I can't survive. The two of us have been spies in Wu for so many years. We have to kill one of them. The common people and the sergeants should explain to each other. Now that you have the morale of the army, you may not be able to kill me, but I am just a princess, and I will die if I die. Azhi, you go out with your homeless." Xi Shi said with a sigh.

Azhi shook his head: "If you say that, then I have to accompany you even more, and I will kill whoever comes to kill you."

Xi Shi knew that with Ah Zhi's temperament, she couldn't be persuaded to live or die, so she had to let her do it.Zheng Dan put on his horse with a look of grief and anger, and Xi Shi grabbed the reins.

"Sister." Xi Shi called out.

"Little sister." Zheng Dan replied with a wry smile. It was the first time they used this title. After more than ten years of deception, they tricked themselves into it. Now that they finally remembered, they were already facing death.

Xishi wiped her tears: "Sister, you have lived for your adoptive mother, for me, for Azhi, and for the people all your life - but you have never lived for yourself. This time, it is fighting or fleeing, life or death. , It’s all in your thoughts. I don’t advise you to run away, I just advise you not to miss me, don’t miss anyone, just think about yourself, do whatever you feel happy about, okay?”

Zheng Dan didn't speak, just blinked, a tear fell on the horse's mane, and the horse snorted.

"Sister, I don't know if I can see you again alive after I leave. I hope you will listen to my words. Sister, even if I am under the Nine Springs, I will rest in peace when I see you well."

Zheng Dan remained silent, turned around to look at Wu Gong who had long lost his glory, and then looked down at A Zhi.

"Azhi, take care of her."

Azhi nodded solemnly.

Zheng Dan suddenly tightened the reins, and slammed a stick on the horse's buttocks. The horse raised its front legs and neighed, and ran quickly towards the city gate. The suspension bridge just opened, and Zheng Dan's figure disappeared in the splash of horseshoes. In the dust, he never looked back.

Xi Shi stared blankly at the direction where Zheng Dan disappeared. She really couldn't tell whether Zheng Dan would fight or flee.That's good too, Wujia can finally make his own decisions for once, even if he is at the mercy of others all his life, the only thing he can decide is the biggest life and death.

She just watched like this, Azhi was beside her, gently brushing off the dust on her face, and touched a trace of hot wetness.

Outside the city, horns sounded, countless horseshoes sounded, footsteps sounded, bowstrings creaked and tensed, and war drums thumped.

Suddenly, everything fell silent, and Xi Shi was frightened.

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