Three years ago, the Imperial Capital Castle.

After a few days of heavy rain, the sky was pale blue, and the stream overflowed the green meadows, the green bamboo forests, and the crystal clear dew on the bamboo leaves, and the mountains were still filled with mist.

The surroundings of the mountains seem to be natural and peaceful, and the sound of birds and streams in the forest is accompanied by the sound of the harp, and suddenly, the sound of the piano stops.

There is a house in the mountains, which is extremely simple but elegant, and the outside of the bamboo house is planted with unknown plants and flowers. At this time, there was a stern teaching sound from inside the bamboo house.

"This is not the right look!" The old woman had a serious expression and looked at the woman sitting in front of the guqin.

"Don't play anymore!" The woman finally said this, as if she had completely expressed the emotions she had wanted to vent for so many years through these three words.

"You'd better be obedient, there are no idlers here!" The old woman's voice was low, and the mere hearing of it was enough to make people mad.

"Who am I imitating? Why should I keep imitating someone I don't know at all, who I don't know? The woman said with a little sadness.

In the past few years, she has been locked up in this bamboo hut, playing the same song every day, constantly repeating such things, talking, eating, drinking, talking and behaving, and most importantly, playing the piano, a piano song that she has long been familiar with, but in the past few years, she still has to keep playing this song, every look, every movement has to be imitated. You can't have your own expressions and expressions, you can only imitate according to the regulations, and you can't stop imitating. Until now, Linglong has almost forgotten who she really is?

The old woman still had a serious expression and no pity on her face. After a while, the old woman said slowly, "This is your task. ”

"Can you tell me, then, who am I imitating?" Linglong still clings to a glimmer of hope, hoping that the person in front of her will tell her.

At this moment, there was a very light footstep sound outside the door of the bamboo forest house, and if it weren't for the fact that everything here seemed so quiet, the footsteps would not have been heard at all.

"You're imitating a dead man, a dead man!!" At this time, the general was already standing at the door of the bamboo forest house, and his tone of voice was very calm, and his dark eyes could not see his inner thoughts at this time.

"General! This ......," said the old woman, bowing to him.

"It's okay, it's okay to tell her now, because in a few days, she'll be on this mission." The general said lightly.

Linglong finally heard the reason why she had been learning the piano for so many years, it turned out that they wanted her to perform a task, but what does the task have to do with playing the piano, can it be ......

"Stand down!" The general motioned for the old woman to go down.

"Yes." The old woman turned and walked out of the bamboo house.

Perhaps today, many things that we don't understand will be discussed. If she said that her training in the past few years was to perform tasks for them, then now she still has the value of use, the thing that a person is most afraid of, that is, she has no value, she is very afraid of this day, afraid of this day coming.

The helplessness in Linglong's heart may not be understood by others, and many people even envy her, envying her for being brought back from the barren mountains and mountains, and then surpassing others and becoming the target of the general's key training.

Among the more than 100 people at the beginning, she was the only one who stayed, and the rest disappeared. To be precise, the rest of the people have been buried in the loess, so the person who stays is undoubtedly the luckiest, but they seem to ignore one point, a person who has become someone else's pawn, life and death have long been not something they can decide.

The general stood in the bamboo forest house and looked at Linglong for a long time before he slowly spoke: "In the court, the upper, middle and lower armies all obey my orders. But in recent years, the king has changed and has become fond of listening to Lord Hou's words. Become cowardly, every time they encounter an invasion of an enemy country, they always resort to the diplomatic method of peace talks, which is only done by cowards. But such days will not last long, because I want him to die, only when he dies, can I fulfill my wish to win the world, and only force to suppress is a long-term solution. In a few days, I will have someone take you to the Imperial Capital City, you don't have to do anything, you just need to cooperate, follow my instructions, as long as you can sneak into the Hou Mansion and gain his trust, then it will be a matter of time before you kill him. ”

Perhaps Linglong will never be able to understand the resentment in the general's heart, because for her, power and struggle are not interested, but the general is different, he is in charge of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the desire for power has long made him a hostile camp against those cowardly people in the court.

He seemed to recall the previous time when the Western Zhou Kingdom invaded the Southern Shang Kingdom, and he urged the king:

At the main hall, the general stepped forward to persuade the king of Nanshang: "The king's territory is thousands of miles in circumference, and although it is not large on the surface, the dense houses in the villages and towns have reached the point where there is nowhere to graze. There are many people, chariots and horses, day and night, the road is endless, bustling, like thousands of troops. I have estimated that the strength of our country is even no less than that of the Eastern Zhou State. Now the king has 200,000 warriors, 200,000 cangtou troops, 200,000 death squads, 100,000 servants, 600 chariots, and 5,000 war horses, but he intends to listen to the shallow views of the civil officials and submit to the Western Zhou Kingdom. Peace talks and land cession are really not good strategies. ”

The king of Nanshang paced on the main hall, and then said: "In a decisive battle with the enemy, we must fight a battle with certainty, if we underestimate the enemy externally, and only see the small interests in front of us and ignore the harm of defeat, then the people of the country will be in fire and water." Don't rush for quick success in order to keep your power because of your good deeds, fight a few victories. ”

The king still did not change his mind and adhered to the strategy of peace talks. This is the pain in the general's heart, so he hates the people of Hou Ye's party, and if he wants to get rid of them, he must start with Lord Hou. That's why we have this plan.