The main cannon sounded, all the fields were shaken, *** hit the city wall of Longmen Village, the ten-meter-high ancient city wall suddenly collapsed, and several shells exploded, the city wall collapsed in pieces, and the accumulated mountains and rivers poured down, mixed with masonry and stone to swallow the flames. It was in this curtain of smoke that Lin Wanjing saw Liu Jin stepping on the hot and scorched soil coming towards her, carrying the fire that burned the sky red, and in a trance it looked like the "flame of God" praised in the Bible.

She had thought that if it really came to this moment, she would run to him desperately, but she didn't want to be at this time, not only did she not go to him, but retreated half a step.

He walked towards her like that, as he had seen him countless times before, and she bowed her head, trembling slightly, not knowing whether she was excited or afraid. She felt her body hugging her, and he groped her back and asked her softly:

"How did you come up with the idea of using Kong Ming lanterns? Terrific. ”

He didn't ask about the results of persuasion, presumably he had already made a decision. She smiled lightly, that is, she should have told her that this would be the end, maybe Liao Kai could avoid death, but perhaps, that was exactly what he didn't want to see.

Cheng Tai said that he knew a little bit about lantern letters. Kong Ming Lantern was found by Ying'er. ”

"Ying'er?"

"Yes, it's her ......" Lin Wanjing turned to point to Ying'er, but there was no one in that place, she looked around, except for Li Chengtai and Lin Wanying's mother and daughter, there was no one else.

Seeing doubts on her eyebrows, Li Chengtai said: "Young lady, that girl went back to the inside, maybe ...... Back to the study. ”

"Back to Liao Kai?" It was Liu Jin who asked the question.

"Yes."

"Take me there." Liu Jin said and walked inside.

Lin Wanjing's heart trembled: Liao Kai is dead, what is he still worried about? Isn't Mo worried that something is wrong with her? Thinking so, her hand over his chest couldn't help but grasp his front.

"What's wrong?" He looked down at her, but she shook her head and didn't answer.

The team finally followed, Li Lingrui walked in the front, and when he saw them, he came quickly, and soon came to the two of them.

"Chengtai, you pick a few people to stay with the young lady, and the others will follow me in." Liu Jin said, he thought that Lin Wanjing was frightened in the chaos just now and didn't let him leave. He still wanted to explain something, but he saw Li Lingrui blocking him and Lin Wanjing with an arrow step, and over Li Lingrui's back, he saw a girl who was no more than fifteen or sixteen years old standing under the porch, holding the handle of the gun with trembling hands and slowly raising it, and the muzzle of the gun pointed directly at him shook obviously. His eyes wandered between Li Lingrui and the girl, and he suddenly smiled: he was actually a little moved, knowing that the man in front of him was not acting to protect him.

"Mr. Li, this matter has nothing to do with you, and you don't need to make senseless sacrifices." Liu Jin pushed Lin Wanjing in her arms to Li Lingrui, "Take Wanjing to retreat." ”

The girl's fingers were on the trigger, but she didn't make the next move, her eyes were full of tears, but she was still trying to restrain herself from letting the tears flood. Seeing her like this, Liu Jin couldn't help but speculate about her motives in her heart: she shouldn't want to hurt Wan Jing, otherwise she wouldn't have to wait until now to do it in front of him.

"Ying'er, what are you doing!" Lin Wanjing came back to her senses from the shock, and for a moment she suspected that she was wrong, maybe Liao Kai's death was a trap, and maybe he was waiting for this opportunity.

Hearing Lin Wanjing call her, Ying'er trembled all over, and her eyes fluttered for a moment. At this moment, Liu Jin pulled out his gun and pointed it at the girl who was also pointing at him with the muzzle.

"Yunrou, don't hurt her." Lin Wanjing pounced on him, holding his arm to stop him.

Seeing Lin Wanjing protecting her, Ying'er's tears came out of her eyes, and her lips trembled for a long time before she said, "I'm sorry...... Miss Lin, you are a good person, but ...... Sorry ......"

With these words, Ying'er's slender fingers pulled the trigger.

"There are no bullets in the gun!"

Lin Wanjing's shout sounded almost at the same time as the gunshot, and the bullet fired a thousand shots, and Liu Jin hurriedly turned his wrist but it was too late. Light smoke rose from the muzzle of the gun and curled into the night. The blood color spread in Lin Wanjing's clear pupils, she paused, left Liu Jin and went to Ying'er's side.

Seeing Lin Wanjing coming to her side, Ying'er looked at her painfully: "I'm sorry...... I didn't tell you...... The young master once saved my life, so I can't leave him alone. I'm sorry. ”

"Don't talk." Lin Wanjing saw the blood spreading from the bullet hole, she wanted to help her stop the bleeding, but she didn't know where to start, "There is a doctor here, I know a good doctor, he can save you." ”

While speaking, Li Lingrui had already arrived beside the two of them, he squatted down to check the wound, but his hand was held down by Ying'er: "No need, let me go with the young master." She smiled, as if she had entrusted her life's wish.

Seeing Ying'er's eyes closed, Lin Wanjing couldn't help but be anxious, shook Li Lingrui's arm, and said loudly:

"You can save her, can you? Please, save her! ”

Li Lingrui's fingers that had been pressing on the side of Ying'er's neck were withdrawn, and he shook his head: "Let her go with peace of mind." ”

"How could it be ......" Lin Wanjing looked at Li Lingrui with wide eyes, and the tears in her eyes were just like that dusk many years ago, she said to him: The general is gone and will never come back.

Li Lingrui wanted to borrow her shoulder, but the hand that was supposed to take her into his arms finally fell on her hair: "The right is it, but her wish has been granted." ”

Lin Wanjing lowered her head, Ying'er lay quietly on the bluestone steps, with a somewhat satisfied smile on her serene face, as if it was really just like what Li Lingrui said, she fulfilled this wish, slept very deeply, and never woke up again......

The Xijiang River is sparkling, and the Chengguang ship goes all the way downstream, and the operation of the engine is reduced to a minimum, almost covered by the sound of rushing water. The sound insulation effect of the command room is already excellent, and the cabin is burning incense that helps calm the nerves, and the faint sound of water sounds like a lullaby at the moment, Lin Wanjing nested on the sofa and only felt that she was sleeping peacefully, tossing and turning soundly, and the military uniform covered by her body slipped to the ground, and there was a soft sound. Liu Jin took his attention away from the battle report in his pen, turned his eyes to the side of the sofa, got up to the side of the sofa after a while, picked up his coat and carefully covered her, and was about to turn around and leave, but the placket was grabbed by her:

"Do you want to go out?"

He shook his head and sat back down beside her, "What? ”

"Don't sleep, you can wear clothes."

"No, I don't. The wind is strong on the river. ”

She didn't refuse, just lay down without saying a word, Liu Jin only felt that she had something to say, so she waited in silence for her to speak.

"I know you didn't plan to keep Liao Kai alive in the first place, but I'm curious how you did it. He asked me to try the medicine I sent to Longmen Village, could it be that I happened to take the non-poisonous one by such good luck? ”

Liu Jin shook his head: "What is poisonous is not medicine, it is the letter of persuasion." Poison powder is mixed in the ink used to write the book. ”

In this way, Lin Wanjing understood that the letter of persuasion was stamped with a fire stamp, and she would not open it to read: "You should tell me ......"

"What would you do if I told you?"

yes, what would she do? She categorically would not let the letter of persuasion reach Liao Kai.

"Do you know that the person who died is not Liao Kai?"

Liu Jin was silent for a moment, and said with a low "um": "As I told you, in this position, there are many last resorts. ”

The assassination of Liao Kai was his last resort, if it weren't for this, Longmenzhai would not be able to be leveled, he couldn't hold the rivers and mountains of Luzhou, and she has now become his pawn: today is Longmenzhai, who is he? She didn't dare to think about it.

"Okay, don't think about it, it's all over." Liu Jin said, "In a few days, I want to do it for Chen'er for a hundred days, please come with my father, do you have no opinion?" ”

"Nope." Lin Wanjing replied, and just wanted to speak again, but she heard a knock on the door, and Wei Chi's voice came from outside the door:

"Young Marshal, Mr. Li has a new situation there, I would like you to take a look."

"I'll go and see, if you want to go out, remember to put on your clothes." With these words, Liu Jin got up and went to the door, walked to the door and stopped again, "By the way, the little girl's business...... Sorry, I didn't know there were no bullets in the gun. ”

Lin Wanjing knew that he was talking about Ying'er, so she instinctively clenched the black stone in her palm and responded: "I don't blame you, bury her." ”

If you talk about blame, Lin Wanjing feels that the person who should be blamed is herself - the ** in the gun chamber was unloaded by her before forcing Lin Wanying to make up her mind, and only she knows that there is no bullet in the gun. The moment Ying'er closed her eyes, there was a moment when she regretted that she had unloaded the bullet from the gun. But if there is a bullet in the gun, it may be Liu Jin who falls at this moment. Thinking of this, Lin Wanjing felt scared again - Ying'er's death was innocent, does this mean that Liu Jin should have been shot? Perhaps a game with a thread in the balance is already difficult to choose. Lin Wanjing sighed lightly, put on Liu Jin's coat and sat up from the sofa, slowly walked to the door, opened the door and went out of the cabin.

The Chengguang ship is at the mouth of the Xijiang River, the mountains on both sides of the river are gradually slowing, the river is getting wider, and you can see the ships crossing the horizon in the distance, and the gulls and birds are passing in front of the closer, and occasionally a few chirps are elongated by the echo. Lin Wanjing stood by the railing, Jiang Feng ruffled her hair, fresh and indeed a little chilly. The black stone that Ying'er stuffed into her hand before she died was held in her palm and had a temperature, even a little scorching, the temperature seemed to burn on Lin Wanjing's heart, making her uneasy, she reached out to the side of the boat and held the black stone in her palm - since Ying'er has fallen asleep, then let this stone go with her, the person is deceased, and it is futile to argue about right and wrong. But at the moment when the rope was loosened from her fingers, she held it back in her hand as if she had just woken up from a dream: when did she start to be so unkind? Ying'er went to Huangquan in vain, can't she even fulfill this last wish?

When Liu Jin pushed the door into the temporary morgue on the ship, Li Lingrui was already cleaning the surgical instruments, and when he saw him coming, he put down his work and greeted him:

"It has been preliminarily checked, and Liao Kai did die of poison. However, the symptoms are a little different from my previous experiments, and I have to go back and check them several times to be sure. ”

Liu Jin nodded: "What about this girl?" ”

"The bullet went into the shoulder blade, but it wasn't fatal, and the real cause of death was poisoning."

"Poisoned?"

"Before she died, she said that Liao Kai had a life-saving grace for her, and I guess she should have gone to Huangquan with Liao Kai to repay her kindness."

"That being the case, after landing, she notified her family to take the body away, and the cause of death was said to be due to blood loss from a stray bullet in the firefight."

This is the best way to say, just to say that she died of poison by mistake and can't explain the bullet hole in her shoulder, if it is said that she was injured by Liu Jin, Liu Jin's motive for shooting has become the focus of investigation, and then the fact that she used a gun to confront Liu Jin is dug up, I am afraid that she will have to bear the crime of conspiracy against her, which is even more wronged.

"Okay, I know, I won't talk about this with others." Li Lingrui's words fell, but he saw that Liu Jin had walked to Liao Kai's corpse, lifted the cloth covering his lower body, and after thinking for a long time, he took the gun and hit a gunshot wound on the corpse's right leg:

"Mr. Li, please take care of this wound."

Wei Chi said that on the day Liao Kai abandoned the ship and absconded, the soldiers injured his leg before he entered the sea, and everyone saw that there was blood floating in the sea, and if there were no wounds on the body, it must have been suspected.

Li Lingrui washed his hands and came out of the temporary morgue, bypassed the stern, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Lin Wanjing looking at the riverbank melancholy, so he walked towards her and said with concern:

"Why do you look like that?"

Seeing that it was Li Lingrui, Lin Wanjing lowered her head and shook her head.

"Still thinking about Longmen Village?"

"Hmm."

Li Lingrui sighed, he knew that Ying'er's death was a big blow to Lin Wanjing, she had to retreat even from hunting before, but now she had to accept that she was watching a big living person die in front of her, which was indeed too difficult to bear.

In fact, Liu Jin's shot only hit Ying'er's shoulder blade, and did not cause fatal injuries, Ying'er's real cause of death was poisoning and death from taking highly toxic drugs, in other words, she had already made up her mind to go to Huangquan with Liao Kai, although it was stupid and not worth it, but the love was deep and meaningful.

However, Liu Jin did not agree with him to tell Lin Wanjing about the matter, and after listening to his report on the cause of death of the two, Liu Jin specially explained to him: "Wanjing seems to have put this matter down, so don't tell her and make her troubled in vain." ”

He hesitated here and didn't know whether to speak, so he heard Lin Wanjing ask him:

"Aren't you going to take a break? It's hard work to dispose of two corpses overnight, right? ”

"What's so hard for. Although I am not a forensic professional, I am still very good at stitching wounds and everything. ”

Lin Wanjing smiled: "How does Yun Rou know that the person in the village is not Liao Kai?" ”

"This question ......," Li Lingrui paused, "Don't you know what kind of person your husband is?" I'm afraid that no one has ever played him in intelligence warfare. Don't blame the young marshal too much for hiding it from you this time, he also wants to save Wanying and save your family. On that day, Yu Shuai pointed out that he wanted to send you to the village to negotiate peace, and it was clear that he wanted to make the young marshal ugly, and the young marshal would make it count. ”

Lin Wanjing understood: Indeed, in terms of Liu Jin's ability, it is easy to assassinate a person, and there is no need for Duan to let her intervene more.

"As for Liao Kai, he must not be left alive, since he can be instigated to rebel, it is difficult to say whether he will be instigated to retract his confession again, rather than leaving him to have a side cause in the future, it is better to have a future trouble."

"In fact, in the final analysis, he didn't tell me the truth because he was afraid of my woman's kindness and messed up his chess." Lin Wanjing chuckled, "He has his concerns, I understand." It's just that you suddenly spoke for him like this, and I was a little uncomfortable. ”

"The young marshal is indeed a general's talent, if this Luzhou country is in his hands, it should be a peaceful and prosperous trend."

"For no other reason?" Lin Wanjing smiled: "If there is anything we can help you, just ask." Tell me why he worked so hard for him. ”

Looking at the playful smile on the corner of Lin Wanjing's mouth, Li Lingruisheng swallowed the word "you" back into his stomach:

"Believe it or not. I'm going to get the paperwork in order, and I'm about to enter the port. Don't always blow the wind on the deck, after all, it is a person who has just come out of confinement, and it is a lifetime affair to fall ill. ”

"Got it." Lin Wanjing responded, "By the way, in a few days, you will spend a hundred days in the Imperial Kuntai for Chen'er, and you can come with Yiguang." ”

"Okay."

A minimalist word covered up the infinite sentimentality under the smile, Lin Wanjing only said that she was thinking too much, and watched Li Lingrui's back enter the cabin.

The wind rose, and the cold sea breeze had long been unable to find the gentleness on the river, as if it was about to roll up Lin Wanjing and throw her heart into this valley, so she didn't think much about it, and stood in the wind for a long time, until Li Chengtai came to pass the word, saying that Liu Jin called her, she left from the side of the boat and followed Li Chengtai to the bow.