【Maple Cherry】

In fact, it didn't take too much effort to find the village where Fu Ying lived in when she was a child, but it was already deserted and lifeless.Fuying stood at the entrance of the village full of weeds. There may have been a road there, but now there is nothing.

"Is this really the place where you were born?" Fengxiu looked at the overgrown grass and walked to Fuying. If it wasn't for several collapsed houses, there would be no trace of people's existence here at all.

"I really don't have any impression." Fuying stepped aside without a trace, and tried to put a distance from Fengxiu. He walked forward a few steps and looked around, "It seems that no one has been here since the plague. , maybe for nothing."

"It's not in vain." Wuyi pointed to a small hill not far away. The hillside was also barren, but there was a place like a ruined temple on the mountainside, with green smoke rising straight up. Wuyi said, "There It doesn’t look like a new building, so if you ask in the past, you may gain something.”

"The carriage can't go up the mountain, how about me, Fu Ying and Miss Shuang Hong waiting here?" Feng Xiu said from the side.

"I'll ask myself." Chu Wushang frowned.

"I'll walk with you." Wuyi said lightly from the side.These few days, although he and Chu Wushang had stopped arguing, neither of them spoke when they were able to keep quiet, and at this moment, he suddenly brought it up, which surprised Chu Wushang a little.

"You follow Chu Wushang." Fengxiu nodded, "We are at the foot of the mountain, if something happens, Fu Ying's injury is still unhealed, it will be very difficult for me to protect the two of us."

After hearing the words, Wu Wushang didn't say anything, and when Wu Yi turned to leave, he pulled out a cloak from the car and handed it over, "It's cool on the mountain." He put the cloak in Wu Yi's hand, turned around and walked slowly Wait while you walk.Wuyi held the cloak in a daze, then put it on and followed Wushang, the two gradually walked away.

Fu Ying stretched, "I'm going to sleep for a while, I always feel sleepy. Call me after dinner."

Seeing him climbing up the car, Fengxiu was a little worried and went over to give him a hand. The moment he touched Fuying's hand, Fuying suddenly felt scalded and withdrew her hand back, moving as fast as a rabbit running away. Fengxiu was caught by this sudden He was stunned for a moment by his escape, he raised his head to look at Fu Ying, and saw that Fu Ying's face was reddish, she didn't even look at him, and quickly supported the carriage and plunged into it.

Fengxiu frowned, Fuying's injury has improved in the past few days, and she is much more energetic.But he vaguely noticed that Fu Ying seemed to be avoiding him a bit, but there was nothing abnormal in his speech.He looked at his hands strangely, and didn't get into the carriage, he just turned around and found a stone beside him to sit down, looking at the farther and farther figures of Wushang and Wuyi, thoughtfully.

Wuyi and Chu Wushang went up the mountain all the way. In fact, this mountain forest is not big, and there is no time for half a stick of incense when walking halfway up the mountain. When they got closer, Wuyi realized that this is not a temple, but more like a ancestral hall. .

Chu Wushang walked over to knock on the door, but there was no response for a long time, the door was still full of smoke.He frowned, "Could it be that there is no one here?"

"No. There is incense here, and there are offerings inside." Wuyi shook his head and looked around, and heard footsteps on the side path, and a little old man limped from the side path with two buckets of water When he came out, he saw two people standing at the door, and he was obviously taken aback.

"You two..." The little old man looked Wuyi up and down, and saw that he was wearing a light blue gown and a cloak, standing with his hands behind his back. It was obvious that he was a scholar, so he turned his head to look at Wuyi behind Wuyi. Injury, white sword sleeves, hair tied with a silver crown, black leather belt around the waist, a pair of eyebrows and eyes... The moment he saw Wushang, he showed a moment of astonishment, and for a moment Wuyi looked at this thin little old man There were tears seeping out of the cloudy eyes, "General..." There was an inaudible exclamation.

"We've traveled so far and want to take a rest. May I ask if you can do me a favor?" Wuyi frowned when he heard the sound. He suppressed the vague uneasiness in his heart and bowed to the old man.

The little old man stared at Chu Wushang without moving.It wasn't until Wuyi asked three times that he suddenly came back to his senses, "Oh, please, please come inside." He hastily pushed open the side corner door, and let Wuyi and Chu Wushang in, and he himself was behind. Limping in after getting out of the water, Chu Wushang looked back and reached out to take the pole.

The little old man looked at him, his eyes were a little red.

There was a stone table in the yard with a few stone benches, the little old man invited the two of them to sit down here, and Wuyi looked around, "Old man, you are offering incense candles, and there is a god inside." Buddha?"

Hearing the question, the little old man took another look at Chu Wushang, and sighed, "There are no gods and Buddhas, and I don't offer them. The ones here are people, the former Hussar General and his twenty brothers who lived and died. All the ashes of the tablets are here."

How could this be so?Wuyi frowned, turned to look at Chu Wushang, who looked at the little old man expressionlessly, and suddenly asked, "Why did you call me General just now?"

The little old man was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he sighed helplessly, "Don't be surprised, young man, I should say something, young man, the young man is too similar to the former hussar general, he is just like a general When I was still alive, I thought of it for a while, so..."

"Old man, I heard that Hussar General died in the southwest battlefield, and you just said that here are ashes, what is going on?" It is really certain that his father, who was supposed to die for the country, and even dozens of generals under Hussar General, all died thousands of miles away from the southwest battlefield.

"My lord is a scholar, and what he reads are history books, not facts." The little old man sneered contemptuously when he heard the words, "General Hussar died here, so he was buried here. This is a fact. As for what people in the court say, How does history remember, it has nothing to do with people like the little old man who are waiting to die."

"Then how about you tell us the facts of the year?" Wuyi stood up after hearing the words, "I see that the old man has a straight back even though his legs and feet are inconvenient, as if he was born in the army. You know the truth of the year so well, let me make a bold guess , you should be a subordinate of the former Hussar General, are you right?"

The little old man was startled, he didn't expect Wuyi to guess his identity so quickly, he suddenly stood up with some vigilance, "Who are you? Why do you want to ask about the past?"

"Tu Wushang." On the side, Zhu Wushang stood up and walked in front of the old man, "My name is Chu Wushang." Seeing the old man looking at him in shock, Chu Wushang added, "I want to know What happened back then?"

Wuyi watched the little old man's black and thin face turn from shock to sadness, and then he suddenly knelt down on the ground and kowtowed deeply to Chu Wushang, crying loudly: "Little general!"

Wu Wushang looked at him silently for a long time, stepped forward and touched the ground on one knee, supported his hand and dragged the old man up, "Don't kneel to me."

In the main room, there are 22 tablets neatly. There are no names on the tablets, all of which are military ranks. General Hussars and General Chariots are in the middle. A tablet on the side is empty.

Wuyi stood at the door and watched silently, listening to the little old man behind him talking to Chu Wushang about the past in a low voice.

In the imperial court nearly 20 years ago, the emperor had just inherited the great rule. At that time, the general had a good relationship with a civil servant of the court.But the good times didn’t last long. Not long after the emperor succeeded to the throne, the lord became dissatisfied with the emperor. He even chose another master and recruited the general to conspire with him. The general didn’t approve of it at the time, so the two had a dispute , and became more and more intense, so that one day the general looked up to the sky and sighed, "I hope that one day, I won't die by your hands." After that, he cut off his righteousness with that lord.

Later, there was a southwestern rebellion. It should have been very easy to win a battle with more victories than few, but the southwest rebel army suddenly seemed to be blessed by God. Not only did they know all the plans made by General Hussars, but they also defeated this brave and invincible general. , and it was during the final battle that the general discovered that it was the entourage he had brought with him since he was a child who betrayed him, and this entourage admitted that everything was done by that adult.He did this because the general had become his stumbling block.

After the general heard about this, he summoned 21 of his closest brothers, killed the entourage who betrayed him, and forged 22 corpses, falsely claiming that these people had died in battle, and he took these brothers all the way to Qiaozhuang. He planned to return to the capital to settle accounts with that person.

But on the way, the lord suddenly appeared. He kowtowed to the general in front of everyone and pleaded guilty, beating his chest and feet, and crying bitterly, saying that he was dizzy and went the wrong way, and asked the general to forgive him for his past love. , and is willing to join hands with the general to remove the person with ambitions behind him. The general agreed at that time when he saw that he had repented wholeheartedly. The adult then told the general that the general's wife had given birth to a son. According to the general's wishes, he named him Wu hurt.

The two had a long talk that night, and the adult told the general that there was an important witness who could be used as a tool to bring down the black hands behind the scenes. He begged the general to take his brothers to look for it, and begged the general to protect this witness. According to what he said, he took people to a village in the southeast, but after arriving here, he found that the plague was rampant here. He stayed for a few days to find the witness, and helped some people during the period, giving them some food and silver.But the plague was too severe, and it didn't take long for the twenty or so tough men to get sick one after another and die one after another.

"All dead?" Su Wushang raised his head in doubt, "Most people from the ranks are in good health. Could it be that you are the only living person left because of a plague?"

The little old man sighed when he heard the words, he turned his head and glanced at Wuyi, as if he didn't want to say it in front of Wuyi.Mu Wushang waved his hand, "This is a friend I've had since childhood, so it's okay if you have something to say."

"Okay." The little old man nodded, "They died one after another, and I always thought that fate was inevitable. It wasn't until the last brother died in front of me that I suddenly discovered when I was burying him that the plague was man-made. , These are all a trick of that lord. The village, the general and the others were all poisoned by him."

"Poisoned? Then why are you all right?" Chu Wushang was taken aback, "At that time there were still people who escaped from the village, why?"

"This is where he is clever. The poison did not enter the rice or the water, but was put into a vegetable called 'horses', which most people eat. Eat, but a few people don’t eat it, and the symptoms of poisoning are like the plague, so, in this situation where some people are poisoned and some are not poisoned, the general and others have no doubts.” The little old man gritted his teeth, “He killed the general in order to poison , and buried most of the people in the village, and the witnesses he mentioned did not exist at all."

Wu Wushang was astonished, this kind of vegetable Ma Qin was not uncommon at that time, he remembered that when he had just enlisted in the army and had dinner with Fu Ying, Fu Ying secretly picked out all the Ma Qin from the dish, and he even laughed at him and his wife Picking and picking like a child, Fu Ying said at the time that this food was unpalatable, and he and her sister didn't like it.

They made friends like confidants, but in the end they were regarded as dissidents. More than [-] generals who fought on the battlefield died under the vicious scheme of a civil servant.He used all the lives of hundreds of people in a village as pawns. What a vicious thought this was.

"That person... is he still alive?" Chu Wushang asked in a daze.

"Alive, he is now the right prime minister who is under one person and above ten thousand people." The little old man sneered, gritted his teeth and answered.

Wuyi, who stood by the side silently for a long time, turned his head suddenly, facing Shang Wushang's eyes looking at him in disbelief.

The eldest son of Prime Minister You, who has no clothes, has just passed his weak years, and seems to be far away from these treacherous plots in the court.

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——to be continued