(Dear friends, the revised version is here)

Guo Ba never thought that Zhou Rong had something to do with Xiao Diyuan, so after quietly escaping from the broken temple, he only carefully hid for about a month and went to live in a dilapidated house in a small village.

During his stay in the small village, he continued to spend his days looking for work outside the world and returning at night.

He wore a low-brimmed hat when he went out to find business during the day, and when he came back at night, he chose the road that no one walked, so that the people of the village rarely came into contact with him.

During this period, the village chief came to him and asked him where he was from and why he wanted to stay here. He had already thought of a set of rhetoric, so he fooled the village chief in a few words.

He originally wanted to stay in this small village until he died of old age, but he didn't expect Ding Wu and Liao Yuanji to find him after being desperate.

"I didn't run away. Guo Ba wrote, glanced at Xiao Diyuan's changed face, and continued to write, "Who are you?

Xiao Diyuan smiled faintly and said, "You had a good relationship with Brother Zhou during the broken temple, right?"

Guo Ba wrote the word "um".

Xiao Diyuan: "Once he told you about the three princes of Zhaoguo being eaten by wild wolves, and your reaction that time was a bit unpredictable." ”

Guo Ba: "What does this have to do with you?"

Xiao Diyuan stood up slowly, suddenly turned his head slightly and pulled his face violently, and when he turned his face again, it was his true face, and he said lightly: "I am Xiao Diyuan, the second prince of Shuguo." ”

Guo Ba's legs trembled slightly, and after a while, he wrote: "When he told that story at that time, it was too realistic, and I was very scared when I heard it, so my expression was inevitably a little inappropriate, but it doesn't mean anything, does it?"

Xiao Diyuan was not deviated by his words at all, and still stared at him and said, "If you don't have a weak heart, why do you run away in the middle of the night?"

Guo Ba was speechless for a moment.

He pondered again and again before writing: "I want to reach Xuzhou before dawn." ”

Xiao Diyuan naturally didn't believe it, and still asked lightly: "Since you have a good relationship with Brother Zhou, even if you want to hurry, you should tell him before leaving, right?"

Guo Bayi couldn't find an excuse for a while.

Xiao Diyuan got up, slowly paced to Guo Ba, and suddenly grabbed Guo Ba's collar and said, "Do you know the process of the disappearance of the three princes of Zhaoguo?"

He deliberately described the incident as a case of disappearance.

Guo Ba was picked up by him, and he was so uncomfortable that he was about to breathe, so he hurriedly used his hand to pull Xiao Diyuan's hand, and wrote on his other hand while wheezing: "I don't know what you're talking about at all." ”

Xiao Diyuan stared at him coldly for a while, then suddenly let go of his hand and pushed Guo Ba to the ground, and said to Ding Wu and Liao Yuanji: "Handcuff him and handcuff him, and let him go back to the northwest with me." ”

Guo Baxin panicked for a moment, but then smiled again and wrote: "Anyway, where I am, it's superfluous, it doesn't matter." ”

So Xiao Diyuan took Guo Ba back to Shuangzhu City.

After returning to Shuangzhu City, Xiao Diyuan locked him up in prison and sent heavy troops to guard him.

Zhuge Qingyun and Dongfang Yan saw that he had brought back such a person, and they didn't know why, so they asked Xiao Diyuan.

Xiao Diyuan said: "This person may know the tragedy of the three princes of Zhaoguo. ”

He deliberately said this to Zhuge Qingyun and Dongfang Yan.

Sure enough, they were all surprised when they heard it.

Dongfang Yan: "Didn't the three princes of Zhaoguo be eaten by wild wolves back then?"

Xiao Diyuan: "Not necessarily. ”

Zhuge Qingyun: "Even if it's not, what does his business have to do with us?"

Xiao Diyuan: "It really has nothing to do with us, but the people of Zhaoguo want to know the truth of the matter." ”

The two of them understood a little after thinking about it, but they still didn't understand it very well.

Xiao Diyuan didn't explain much to them, and after explaining the work that should be done, he went back to his residence.

As soon as Xiao Diyuan left, Zhuge Qingyun and Dongfang Yan discussed the question of whether to inform Xiao Hong of this matter.

Dongfang Yan: "This matter has nothing to do with our Shuguo, I don't think it's better to tell Your Majesty." ”

Zhuge Qingyun waved his hand and lowered his voice: "Don't you remember that someone said that King Guangxian looks very similar to the Emperor of Shuguo?"

Dongfang Yan thought about it and felt that it was, so he and Zhuge Qingyun jointly wrote a letter to Xiao Hong and sent someone to send it to the capital secretly.

The next day, Xiao Diyuan personally went to the prison to see Guo Ba, moved a stool and sat outside the prison where Guo Ba was, looked at Guo Ba through the iron bar, and said: "There are a lot of people around me, I estimate that the news of your capture will be spread to Jinshang in less than half a month, and at that time, even if I don't force you, Jinshang will not let you live, do you understand what I mean?"

Guo Ba trembled, but still looked at Xiao Diyuan very calmly, and wrote on a blank piece of paper: "I have put life and death out of the way, even if I am ordered to kill me today, it doesn't matter." ”

Xiao Diyuan: "Yes, sometimes people do feel that their lives are worthless, and if they die, they will die, but from another perspective, the value of people depends on whether you do something valuable, isn't it?" Then he leaned closer to Guo Ba and said, "You shouldn't deny that what you know is worthless, right?"

Guo Ba sneered and continued to write: "If I die, those things will become eternal secrets, so why should I bother with whether it is valuable or not?"

"So," Xiao Diyuan leaned closer to him and said, "As the saying goes, 'When a person is about to die, his words are good', don't you want to do what you can to do a good deed before you die to get salvation?"

"Redemption?" Guo Ba looked directly at Xiao Diyuan and muttered in an unclear voice, and then the corners of his mouth pulled slightly, and wrote, "Don't I have to die after I say it?

Xiao Diyuan nodded and said, "That's right, I'm afraid you will have to die no matter what, but if you are willing to tell me clearly what happened to the murder of the three princes of Zhaoguo, I can do my best to make you die a little later and with dignity." ”

Guo Bahaha laughed and wrote: "Doesn't that also have to die? Lord, I have nothing more to say, please go back." ”

Xiao Diyuan got up, looked at him and said softly: "So, what is your stubbornness for now? Can it save your life? Is it beneficial to others?"

Guo Ba suddenly didn't know how to reply.

Xiao Diyuan didn't say anything more and strode out of the prison.

It was late at night, Xiao Diyuan hadn't slept yet, he was lying on his back on the chair with his eyes closed and meditating, holding a letter in his right hand.

Yesterday, he received a letter from Wang Ding from Yunguo, in which he said that he would be promoted to a member of the household department next month, and said that he had made plans to make the monarch of Yunguo know about the suppression and framing of loyal ministers by He Dapeng, the head of Yunguo, in accordance with Xiao Diyuan's instructions, and made Yunguo Guojun realize He Dapeng's ambition to monopolize the imperial power, and asked Xiao Diyuan to send two people with outstanding knowledge and courage as soon as possible, and he would try to make them important ministers of the imperial court.

Xiao Diyuan was thinking about which two people should be sent over.