Spring returns to the earth, and everything is Su. Fan Li rode his horse and galloped on the land of Wu Chu.

The mountains and rivers are magnificent, and the scenery is beautiful, but it can't make Fan Li's mood relaxed.

A year ago, he received news that his father was sick and wanted to see him one last time. But at that time, he was busy with the construction of Gusutai, and was fighting wits and courage with Wu Zixu, where could he get out and go home to fulfill his filial piety? So I just asked someone to send some money home. Later, I heard that my father was sick and died.

Although he has traveled through the afterlife, he will never see his parents again. But you should also do a filial piety for the parents of the original owner, right? But he simply didn't do it.

At that time, his feelings were mixed and he was also very sad. He didn't tell anyone about it. Endure the grief in your heart,

Now, a year has passed. For the great cause of recovering the country, he forged a letter to his family, saying that his father had passed away, asked for leave to return to his hometown for funeral, left Wu State, and went straight to Chu State. His real purpose was to provoke the State of Chu to send troops to attack the State of Wu.

One day later, when I came to the junction of Wu and Chu, there was a small city called Beiliang. It is a place where hatred is concluded.

At that time, sericulture was abundant here, and at the end of spring, it was the peak season of mulberry picking, and the girls of Chu and Wu were picking mulberry leaves at the border. The two groups of girls had a quarrel over trivial matters, and the girls of Chu gathered together and bullied the girls of Wu State.

The bullied girl of Wu State cried and cried, and went home to report the news, and the people of Wu Guo on the border were annoyed, and they ran to seek revenge, and a big man killed the girl of Chu on the spot.

The people of Chu were furious, gathered more people to fight, and killed the whole family of the Han of Wu who died.

The doctor guarding the border of Wu was furious, sent troops into the border of Chu, and slaughtered all the old and young Chu people on the border.

Eventually, the matter grew bigger and bigger, until it alarmed the kings of both countries. King Wu was short-tempered and sent generals to lead troops to invade Chu, and a large-scale battle broke out between the two countries.

Since then, Wu and Chu have taken over the enmity, and the war has continued for many years, and finally the army of Wu has broken through the capital of Chu Yingdu, and almost even the king of Chu Zhao was captured.

Shen Baoxu, the doctor of Chu State, went to Qin State to move rescue troops, Qin State refused to send troops, Shen Baoxu stood outside the palace gate and cried bitterly, and cried for seven days and seven nights, which moved Qin Aigong and sent 500 military vehicles to rescue Chu State, which saved Chu State from the bad luck of destruction.

The past is gone.

Fan Li sighed while walking. Entering the boundary of Chu State, hurrying up the horse, day and night, this day has entered the land of Xishuiwan. I saw that the Xihe River was mighty, surrounded by mountains on all sides, but in the middle was a hundred miles of plains with a flat river.

The location of Danyang, the first capital of Chu, has a history of more than 800 years, and more than 400 years have been built in Xichuan, with 45 Chu kings and 23 in Xichuan. The terrain here is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is a saying that "the Central Plains has not been warned, and the troops in Xijing have moved".

Fan Li's hometown lives in a small place called Sanhu, he remembered his poor background, when he was guided by his teacher Wenzi, he studied at home, and was known as one of the five saints of Nanyang.

But at that time, the politics of Chu were dark, non-nobles were not allowed to enter the office, Fan Li was full of talent, but there was nowhere to show it, the future was bleak, and there was no hope.

At that time, Ren Wancheng Ling's literary species heard that Fan Li was famous, and went to visit, and the two met late, talked very happily, and talked tirelessly for three years and three nights.

Later, Wen Chong Fan Li and the two agreed to leave the Chu State together and defected to the Yue State.

How much of the past, as if it were yesterday. Fan Li returned to Sanhu with a sigh.

The hometown has been dilapidated and withered, so people are dead or migrated, and things are not people. When the villagers heard that Fan Li had returned, they came to visit. Fan Li has a lot of money and has many gifts to his father.

On the second day, under the leadership of the villagers, he came to the grave of his parents to worship. I saw that the barren grass on the hillside was blurred, and the rabbits and snakes were swimming, and a pinch of loess covered the ancestors.

Fan Li cried and fell to the grave, and all the five were burned. The villagers politely persuaded them before they gave up.

Fan Li invested in the construction of three thatched huts on the side of the second old tomb, with a bed, a table and a stool, as well as kitchen utensils. On the table, there is a carving knife, a number of bamboo slips, and half a volume of unfinished books. In the end, the silk book was left on the side.

Hire a village man to live here and burn incense and pray for the ancestors every day. He said to the old man: "There is some gold here, please leave after living here for five years." A year later, when a Wu person came to visit, please show him this silk book, and just say that Mr. has not returned from his trip. Please live up to the trust! Fan Li is polite! Then he knelt down and prostrate.

The old man hurriedly helped Fan Li up and said, "Mr. has something to do, and the old man must do a good job of guarding the tomb." Mr. gift, the old decay will not be used up in a lifetime, let alone five years, the old decay will be here for the rest of his life. ”

Fan Li thanked again and said goodbye with tears.

has paved the way for returning to Wu in the future, and what he has to do now is to provoke Chu to send troops to attack Wu. But he had no connections in the Chu State, and it was difficult to believe that he rashly went to see the king of Chu. So what to do?

He believed in the reins and walked slowly.

We have to hurry up. King Wu raised troops to attack Qi, and the war would end in three to five months, regardless of victory or defeat, King Wu would return to Gusu, and at that time, it would be too late for Chu to send troops again.

Now or never. It is necessary to let the state of Chu send troops within a month. At this time, the heavy troops of Wu State went with the king of Wu to attack the state of Qi, the rear was empty, and as soon as the army of Chu moved, the state of Wu would feel a major threat, and Bo Yao could order Wang Sunxiong's 50,000 troops to leave the country of Yue and defend the border of Wu and Chu.

In that way, a big mountain on the head of the country can be removed.

But how do you do this well? Fan Li felt empty in his mind.

On this day, he walked in a group of mountains, only to see the peaks and peaks, like thousands of horses galloping, green, vast like the sea. Kingfishers chirp in the mountains and forests, and hares hare in the grass.

According to the mileage calculation, it is not far from Chudu. But what is this place. Fan Li couldn't tell clearly.

It was dusk, the sun was orange and red, and the mountains and forests were darkening. Fan Li was a little hungry, jumped off the horse, looked at the bag on the horse's back, and the dry food had been eaten. Only the bladder still has water.

Fan Li took a sip of water and thought to himself, "Fuck! If you don't get out of this forest tonight and find someone or a small town, you'll starve. ”

When the horse saw that his master had stopped, he also lowered his head and went to the hillside to graze grass, and the horse was also hungry and needed to rest and graze.

He wasn't familiar with the place, and he didn't know how far he had to go out of the forest. In the past, he always took Zimei with him when he went out. Zimei is an immortal family, and things that seem to be very difficult for ordinary people are not a matter with Zimei. Eating and lodging don't have to worry about Fan Li at all. He regretted that he didn't bring Zimei with him this time.

Suddenly, a smile appeared on his face. For he saw a puff of smoke rising from a col. If there is cooking smoke, there will be people, and it will be possible to find food. There was also a place to spend the night.

Fan Li's mood suddenly relaxed, took the horse, and walked towards the place where the cooking smoke rose.