The banyan tree not far behind the house has sprouted new shoots. This is the third time that Shen Shu has seen these big trees sprout, which means that it has been three years since she came to the Southern Dynasty, and at the same time, Xie Changning's three-year term of office has also expired, and it is time to leave.

The maids in the house began to pack up their things as early as half a month ago, and what should be taken away and left behind was in order. On the day of departure, the entire courtyard of the official residence had almost recovered to the same appearance as it had just arrived three years ago.

How many people came at the beginning, when they went back, they were almost unchanged, and there was only one less Jiang's mother. The rough servants who had been in charge of sprinkling and sweeping the yard for the past three years were left in this yard together like those lifeless objects, and sent away one county magistrate after another.

Several carriages loaded with people and goods set off from the gate of the official residence and drove slowly through the long streets of the county seat of Quanzhou, and the voices of the people along the way were endless.

Three years ago, thanks to Xie Changning's precautionary measures in advance under all the pressure, the city of Quanzhou survived the catastrophe, and the people now live and work in peace and contentment.

Unlike the people living in modern times, the people in ancient times had a low status and lived under heavy oppression, and the vast majority of people were only struggling with food and clothing all their lives, even if the king was brutal, but as long as they could still live, no matter how difficult it was, they would not dare to give birth to two hearts.

If you don't explode in silence, you perish in silence. The outbreak of these people, who had been living under repression, was a sign of the imminent demise of a dynasty. It is in response to that sentence that water can carry a boat and capsize a boat, and so does the people's heart.

For a long time in the future, the successor county officials in the whole state will live in the shadow of Xie Changning. Regardless of whether anyone can make such a big move in the future, he is destined to go down in history.

is the same as the situation of the Shen family, they are obviously all people who have hurt the original owner, but they all rely on the opportunities provided by Shen Shu to rise to prominence. It's really a terrible feeling to send a hated person to a high position with your own hands, but if she had the opportunity to do it again, Shen Shu would still choose to do it.

In the face of catastrophe, personal interests and feelings have become less important. As small people, we sigh our own sorrows, but we still struggle in the face of righteousness.

It's a dead knot that can't be solved.

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The carriage left the county seat of Quanzhou, walked and stopped along the official road, and it took about three days to leave the border of Liuzhou and continue to rush towards Jingzhou.

Before leaving, Shen Shu felt that Sister Hui'er's love was a little wrong. As time passed day by day, seeing that I was getting closer and closer to the Jingzhou Mansion, the uneasy feeling became more and more obvious.

Shen Shu saw it in her eyes, but after all, she chose not to ask. She had made up her mind at the beginning of the crossing that she would not have anything to do with these people, and she did it in the first time. But people are not as good as heaven, and after a serious illness, Sister Hui has become a variable.

Shen Shu once suspected that Sister Hui was showing kindness to her and had a plan, but as time went by, Shen Shu gradually realized that Sister Hui'er was kind to her, as if with a sense of making up for it. Even if he wanted to get her and Xie Changning together regardless of Shen Shu's wishes, the starting point was for her good. It's just that she can't accept it.

Therefore, Shen Shu thought in this direction several times, in the life before Sister Hui'er was reborn, whose soul lived in this body, was it the original owner or her? If it was her, Shen Shu was very suspicious, but for more than a year, she was so disgusted with Xie Changning, how did she persist in her previous life?

Even if there was no such series of changes in her previous life, Xie Changning might not have made a promise, there was no previous conversation between the two, and there was no divorce from the book, so she would obediently return to the Xie family's mansion in Jian'an? The answer is no. Shen Shu knows very well where her bottom line is, even if she doesn't have those two promises, she will still find a way to get out, she can't live with a man she hates for the rest of her life.

If it is the original owner, it doesn't make sense, because Sister Hui'er was reborn after the original owner committed suicide, and the butterfly effect can't affect the previous things, but can only change the future things.

In other words, the person in the previous life is likely to be really her.

So, did she succeed in getting out in her last life? This is the question that Shen Shu is most concerned about. And Sister Hui'er's uneasiness, does it also stem from this incident?

Sounds reasonable, but it doesn't look like it. Shen Shu felt that the person she was worried about was more likely to be Xie Changning.

But what is Xie Changning to worry about?

Based on this, Shen Shu suddenly had a bold conjecture, did Xie Changning in his previous life have an accident, and may even be dead?

However, the last option was quickly rejected by Shen Shu. With Xie Changning's identity, where is it so easy to die, if it is really a natural disaster** and can't be avoided, she will definitely not be the one who dies.

However, what Shen Shu didn't expect was that this option, which she considered impossible, happened to be the truth of the matter.

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Sister Hui'er is indeed worried about Xie Changning, in his previous life, he happened when he went back, because the memory was too far away, she was frightened at that time, and she only vaguely remembered that the location was close to Jingzhou City, and she didn't know which location it was.

As if to offend the heavens, in those years, the Southern Dynasty in the territory of the disaster continued, after the flood in Liuzhou, the third year Jingzhou also suffered, from the time of the approaching spring ploughing, a few months of rain did not fall, the fields dried up out of deep cracks, the people in the territory not to mention eating, and then even drinking water became a problem.

The catastrophe gave birth to refugees, and refugees fleeing famine could not even want their lives for a bite to eat. When the Xie family and his party passed through here, they unfortunately ran into such a group of displaced people, they stopped the Xie family's carriage, snatched the food they carried, and then for some reason there was a conflict and started to move.

Xie Changning took a few servants and the coachman to escort the woman in the car, the door was tightly closed, and only the chaotic sound outside could be heard.

Sister Hui didn't know how she survived that time, she buried her head in Shen Shu's arms, and she didn't even have the courage to take a look. Later, he met the officers and soldiers who went out to suppress the bandits, and the conflict was calmed down, but in this chaos, Xie Changning was injured in the head, and the blood could not stop flowing.

At that time, Sister Hui felt that the sky seemed to fall all of a sudden.

In her first life, although there are some things that are different from the previous life, she doesn't dare to bet on whether this matter will change, because if she loses the bet, she will lose her father again, and the bet is too heavy for her to lose.

The carriage stopped at an inn and rested for a while.

The proprietress of the inn spoke with a strange accent, which made Sister Hui suddenly think that they had passed by here in their previous lives, and they continued to hurry after resting, and then they had an accident.

Sister Hui'er instantly sounded the alarm bell in her heart, she almost couldn't suppress the desire to shout, she couldn't go any further, no matter what! But she still didn't shout in the end, because she knew that even if she shouted, it would be useless, if she couldn't come up with a reasonable reason, Xie Changning would not delay the trip for her at all.

So during the period of rest, she was desperately thinking about how to stop Xie Changning from continuing to hurry. Pretending to be sick? No, this will only make him leave the inn faster and go to Jingzhou City to ask her for a doctor? Say that he is too tired and want to rest? No, because the itinerary is set early in the morning, if it is not for the fact that there is a reason, if he is late to return to Jian'an, Xie Changning will be questioned.

Sister Hui thought of many reasons, but none of them worked. At this moment, there seems to be only one way left in front of her: confession.

However, she told the truth, would Xie Changning believe it?

She imagined for a moment where she would die if someone sued her, and she was more likely to be angry than to believe.

The only road also seems to be blocked.

As time went on, and after everyone had simply eaten, the little servant had already gotten up and went to set up the carriage, and it would not be long before he set off.

Sister Hui was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but there was nothing she could do.

"Let's go, rush to Jingzhou City before dark. Finally, Xie Changning still said this.

No!

Sister Hui was about to shout, but she didn't shout after all, she could only watch the little girl set up the carriage, everyone went out of the inn one after another and got into the carriage, and heard the coachman wave the whip in his hand and hit the horse, and the painful horse raised his hooves and pulled the cart forward.

The scenery on both sides of the road is constantly receding, and after walking a long stretch of road, you enter a canyon.

Sister Hui also has the impression here, it was here that they didn't even get out of this canyon before they had an accident.

"Stop, don't go, can't go!" she finally lifted the curtain of the car door and shouted outside.

But it was too late, and she saw the homeless people rushing out of the roadside, all of them unclothed, so thin that only skin and bones remained, and the eyes hidden under the messy and dirty hair made people feel cold all over their bodies. A group of dozens of people, each with something in their hands, stones of different sizes and shapes, wooden sticks of different lengths and thicknesses, the one who walked in the front had a knife in his hand, the sun shone on the blade, there was no snow-white light, only a dark red color.

Seeing this, Sister Hui seemed to lose all her strength in an instant, and collapsed in the carriage at once.