At this time, far above Yunmeng Daze, because of Azhu's substitution, Cheng's ship, in the cabin on the second floor, Mi Huang can finally exchange for a breath of peace.

It's just that she sat quietly on the bed, with a small table on her knees, on which was covered with a long volume of the implementation strategy of the "Public Land Contract System", while her eyes fell on a piece of old jade pendant lying quietly on the small table.

This is a white and flawless jade pendant.

It's worth it at first glance.

And the appearance of this jade pendant on Azhu's body may indicate that her original identity is not a slave.

The jade pendant is engraved with some quaint patterns, overlapping one by one, like the trajectory of the stars in the sky, and like the parting and encounters staged in this world.

When Azhu left, he said, "Azhu has nothing to worry about in this life, and after several turnovers, he has been exiled from Zheng State to Chu State, and he has the grace of Cheng's life, only this piece of jade pendant is hidden, and it has not been snatched away by people's teeth, although Azhu may not be able to come back...... But I hope that one day, someone will recognize this jade pendant, know who I am, and know where I came from. ”

She could still feel a hint of fear when she said this.

"Don't you want to see your family?"

"I don't think I'll see ...... in my lifetime"

Mi Huang touched the jade pendant wrapped in red silk on the small table, and remembered the woman who knelt down to ask for the assassin to take out the assassin instead of her, and her heart couldn't calm down for a long time.

There seemed to be an unusually calm and thin voice.

It was played back in her head over and over again, making bursts of buzzing sounds......

"This mission is dangerous, you could be killed by the assassins at any time, and you don't have the slightest ability to protect yourself, do you still want to do it?" the woman standing in front of her asked one last time.

Azhu knelt down in front of Si Qin and Si Shu and replied, "The slave and maid are just a cheap life, they have no relatives, no concern, and they don't even know who they are, and the brothers and sisters in their childhood memories are all exiled in various countries. If you can lure out the assassins for the princess, it will be worth the death. And Siqin and Sishu stayed by the side of the princess and took good care of the princess, but they could have greater value. ”

To be honest, there are really few people around her who are available right now.

So her appearance is undoubtedly the best choice.

"If you come back alive, I will grant you freedom, you will no longer be a slave, and allow you to marry freely among the children of the nobles of Yingdu, whoever it is, this lady will be the master for you, if you can't...... I will definitely remember your name in my heart, and swear in the name of my royal family surnamed Mi, I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life. ”

That's all she can do.

"Thank you, Mrs. Azhu, I don't ask for anything, I just want to die with value and live with dignity. Azhu said straight to his knees.

The moment in the house.

There was a moment of silence.

Cheng Qingqing even had a hint of shame on her face when she heard this, stood aside and pulled the corner of her skirt, and said in a low voice, "Azhu, if you come back alive, you won't be Evian's follower anymore, Miss Ben will treat you well in the future." ”

Evian, Qiaoyun also nodded, "Azhu, you must come back alive! ”

"Thank you, Miss and sisters, Ah Zhu is just a female slave, and it is not a pity to die. ”

At that time, Mi Huang didn't speak.

She didn't know if she was deeply touched by the sentence "Death is valuable, life is dignified" or this sentence "Azhu, as a female slave, is not a pity to die".

But all the emotions are turbulent.

were all hidden in a pair of man's eyes by her.

This is not what she wants in this life, but it comes out of the mouth of a slave girl.

How can she be embarrassed?

Even at that time, she seemed to see a shadow of herself in this kneeling woman, the little girl who was seven years old holding the body of her mother and begging her not to die, the self who has been prostrate on the ground, trying to find a way out, but bound in this unknown future.

This woman, from the initial impression that was not deep, to now seems to be engraved in her mind, just like her dead comrades-in-arms, Qin Yang's lost arm, Mao Ba's eight dead fathers and brothers......

The first time I saw her, she was just a female concubine next to Cheng Lao, and persuaded her not to drink and leave early at the wine banquet of the Triple Alliance; the second time I saw her, it was on the day of Cheng Lao's funeral, and I heard that this woman took the initiative to ask for Cheng Lao's funeral.

But this meeting really made a big difference for her.

Even when she knelt on the ground at this time, she remembered the first time she knelt on the golden palace of Zhu Palace, asking her father to go on the expedition to raise the prestige of the country. ”

So her three-year military career began.

At that time, she just wanted to live with more dignity from now on.

Just like Azhu at this time, he just wants to live with dignity.

Dignity.

Hehe......

What ridiculous two words?

In the hearts of these powerful people, power-grabbers, conspirators, blade people, tricksters, and even unpredictable people, they are so humble that they just want to live with dignity and die with value, but it is so difficult?

The lives of the two lives before and after, but they still can't stand proudly in this world......

Is it their humble little people who are wrong?

Or is this world inherently wrong?

But no one has ever set things right?

Silently looked down at this woman who was bent on death, and took off a piece of jade pendant from her neck as if she were giving her last words, "Daughter, can Azhu ask you for something?"

"You say!" said Huang in a deep voice.

"This jade pendant should have been given to me by my family, but because too much time has passed, Azhu doesn't remember their appearance, if in her lifetime, the princess can meet them, please say a word to them on my behalf, I miss them very ......much."

Mi Huang's hand gently picked up the white jade pendant, held it in the palm of her hand, and then untied one end of the red rope of the jade pendant, hung it around her neck, and slowly stroked the cold jade pendant on her chest, until it was cold in her heart, and she didn't know what happened to them now.

"Lady, there is a big ship following us. Si Shu, who was sitting in front of the window and making small clothes, pointed to the building boat behind him and said suddenly to the bedridden Mi Huang, interrupting her thoughts.

Hearing this, Mi Huang slowly closed the transcript of "Public Land Contract System" written by Cheng Jia and put it back on the bedside.

Si Qin stepped forward to remove Xiao Ji, helped her out of bed and walked to the window.

Mi Huang looked at the big ship outside the window and asked, "How long have they been with us?"

"It must have been following us not long after we left Jingling. ”

Si Shu thought for a while and said, "I watched this ship depart early in the morning, and then at noon I watched them follow behind our ship, thinking that it was the same way, but I didn't expect that it was now evening, and we were almost to the eastern suburbs, and they were still following us, is this going to follow us all the way to the eastern suburbs?"

Si Qin also nodded, and pointed to a person sitting on the bow of the boat, "I also found out, this boat is not only following us, you see, there is a person sitting on the bow of the boat in the middle of the night, holding a white cloth, I don't know what to do......"

"Yes, I saw that guy too, and I always felt like he was staring at us, as if he was going to say something to us. The secretary nodded repeatedly.