On a spring afternoon, on the shore of the vast Dongting Lake, a small figure looms in the knee-high grass on the shore.

I can faintly see that it is a girl, with soft hair dragging around her waist, a small bun at the end, and her body is wrapped in white linen clothes.

The girl seemed to be looking for something by the water, and after a while sat down again, lifted her thin chin slightly, looked at the floating clouds gathering in the sky, and let the river wind blow away the white hairband on her head, dancing in the air like a snake.

"I can't imagine that Dongting and Xiangjiang are like this at this time......"

The girl's voice was not as immature as her appearance, but a little hoarse, but it sounded very ethereal, and there was a faint taste of seeing through the world in it.

"Ah, by the way, this should be called Xiangshui, after so many years, it can't be changed."

"In the year 229 BC, in the eighteenth year of the reign of King Qin, and in the ninth year of King You of Chu...... the girl sat in the lush place by the lake, her legs bent, her small elbows resting on her knees, and her palm-sized face was propped up in her small hands, tilting her head and whispering, "Korea was destroyed last year, and this year, it should be Zhao...... After that, there are Jing Ke stabbing Qin, Qin Poyan, Po Wei, Po Chu, Po Qi...... Oh, it's finally getting started. ”

Her voice was low and low, and nothing could be heard except for a few wild cranes fishing on their long legs on the shore of the lake.

On the road outside the grass, there was a faint smoke and dust.

The girl stopped talking to herself in a frightening way, and her eyes turned to the end of the road.

A convoy of chariots and horses slowly imprinted into her eyes, and the smoke and dust billowed from the stone-paved path, revealing two tall and beautiful white horses and a hurried servant.

Horses are a rare means of transportation at this time, and as for the use of horse-drawn carriages for travel, it is even rarer, although five years have passed since her last life, she still clearly remembers that even Sun Shuao, a person like Ling Yin, only uses ox carts to travel on weekdays - horses are more often used in combat vehicles in this war-torn era.

Look at the car again, the axles and wheels are made of ebony, floating with a layer of bright and bright lacquer, decorated with golden brass rivets and warm jade pieces, and the curtains are also dark red delicate satin, from time to time with the spring breeze, a trace of moist silk.

It seems that only this aristocratic who is accustomed to luxury in Chu can even travel so elegantly.

The convoy, which was supposed to pass in a hurry, suddenly stopped.

There seemed to be a commotion in the convoy, and the two black-clothed guards who were close to the carriage and horses suddenly drew their bronze swords and plunged low into the grass, not knowing what they had slashed at.

The girl tilted her head and sniffed at the rich smell of sulfur and herbs on her arm, evoking an ambiguous smile.

Such a heavy wild grass, if it is not carried to avoid insects and snakes, is not conducive to walking, these people do not even save such a simple truth, a handful of years are really in vain.

"Mound, the rider was wounded by a snake, and the snake has been killed." The nearby guards reported to the occupants of the car.

In just one word, the girl got a lot of information from it.

"Zuo Biography" recorded: "The eldest son is enshrined in the mound, and the society is prosperous, and the person who eats the king is also regarded as the day and night, so it is called the mound." ”

It seems that the person in this car is not only a nobleman of Chudi, but also the eldest son who will be in charge of a clan, no wonder the trip is so high-profile.

As for the "snake" in the guard's mouth, it is actually a highly venomous five-step snake, and after being bitten, the skin of the light one is ulcerated, and the heavy one is killed.

However, the girl thinks that the life and death of others have nothing to do with her, she is just curious, there is a guard next to the car, and he still speaks so civilly, such a nobleman may not be the emerging nobles of Chu - after all, in the four years she has been here, she has seen it herself, not only the commoner Li Shu, but also many scholars with considerable status, still like to use the vernacular as the language of daily conversation.

The garnet-red curtain jerked up, and a young man dressed in a gardenia-colored moire embroidered dark coat hurriedly got out of the car—although he behaved elegantly, the anxiety behind his weight could still be seen in his slightly messy steps.

The girl hid in the grass with great interest, leisurely watching from the wall.

The young man's robe was indeed a narrow Chu costume style, and he wore a variety of jade ornaments around his waist, among which a warm and bright amber jade was the most eye-catching.

The jade jue is shaped like a ring and has a gap, which means that the wearer decides everything, so there is a saying that "the gentleman can decide, then Pei Jue", in the article "Hongmen Banquet", there was a plot of Fan Zeng holding the jade jue three times to remind King Xiang to decide.

But the girl still shook her head puzzled, she clearly remembered that Yu Jue was a matter of the Chu and Han dynasties as Peiyu, and for the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was more of a burial.

Maybe it's because the era she lives in is not far away from the dispute between Chu and Han, and all of them are in transition, right?

This is not the first time that the girl has comforted herself for such reasons, she once thought that she knew history well, but when she was really in it, she suddenly realized that no matter how thick a history book is, it can only record one-twelfth of a real history.

A lot of what she had seen in the past was actually speculation and falsehood.

"Go to the doctor!" The boy's voice suddenly pierced the moist air by the lake, as bright as a ray of sunlight shining through the mist.

The girl's eyes changed from indifference to surprise, and gradually became complicated.

It's just a driver, but a slave after all, and she has never seen anyone take human life so seriously at this time.

What's more, snake venom is so difficult to treat, not to mention that it is difficult to find a doctor in this deserted village, even if it is found, it may not be cured.

What a naïve child.

Although the young man's orders were a bit difficult for a strong man, the surrounding guards and servants still obeyed without saying a word, leaving a few people to protect the young master, and the rest of them all dispersed to find the healer.

The girl sat motionless in the grass, her eyes falling back to the vast water, recalling this complicated history.

This year is the ninth year of King You of Chu, at the end of the year, the King of Qin sent troops to besiege Handan, the capital of Zhao State, the next year, King You died, King Chu took the throne, Zhao State was completely destroyed, and after five years, Chu State was also destroyed by Qin.

The girl closed her eyes, and it seemed that she had six years to go.

The homeland is about to fall into war, the relatives in this life have withered early, she has long been homeless, Chu has six years of stability, and the folk customs are simple and hospitable, which should be enough for her to live.

When the war burns here, it doesn't matter if she goes south, whether she enters Shu or barbarianism.

She was thinking to herself, and there was movement in the convoy again.

A guard came to the side of the road with three people who looked like field men and replied respectfully: "Mound, there are savages who know the whereabouts of the healer. ”

In ancient times, people living in the suburbs outside the national capital were called "wild people", as opposed to "national people", most of them were farmers.