Chapter Forty-Seven: The Collapsed Great Wall
"Providence? I have always believed only that man will conquer heaven. Meng Tian listened to Zhao Gao's words, and said with a smile as if mocking.
Zhao Gao thought of it, how could Meng Tian not think of it, it seems that everything that happened recently was because he wanted to target himself.
Just as Meng Tian and Zhao Gao were about to say something, they saw two people hurriedly walking in outside the tent.
It was Meng Jiangnu and Mu Qi, Meng Jiangnu rushed to Li Jiang's face with a hurry, took Li Jiang's hand and asked worriedly, "Jiang'er, are you injured?" Is there anything wrong with it? ”
"Sister Meng, I'm fine." Li Jiang looked at Meng Jiangnu with a worried face, and comforted her gently.
"It's all my fault, it's because of me that I hurt you." Although Meng Jiangnu saw that Li Jiang and Zhao Gao didn't seem to have any serious injuries, she still blamed herself.
Since the disappearance of Li Jiang and Zhao Gao, Meng Jiangnu has been living in self-blame every day, if Li Jiang and Zhao Gao really have something wrong, Meng Jiangnu is afraid that she will be countered with her life.
"Sister Meng, how can I blame you?" Li Jiang saw Meng Jiangnu, who was still blaming herself, showed a big smile, then stood up and said, "We are all fine." ”
Seeing that Li Jiang was not hurt, Mu Qi looked at Zhao Gao and nodded at him, while Zhao Gao smiled at him when he saw Mu Qi's movements.
Zhao Gao's eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw the changes in Meng Jiangnu's body, Meng Jiangnu seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and the complexion on her face was worse than that of herself and Li Jiang, and then looked at Meng Jiangnu wearing plain clothes, Zhao Gao knew in his heart.
Li Jiang looked at Meng Jiangnu, then shook Meng Jiangnu's hands, felt her thin palms, and said distressedly: "Sister Meng, why have you lost so much weight?" ”
"I'm fine." Meng Jiangnu listened to Li Jiang's words, her eyes darkened, Meng Jiangnu tried her best to control her emotions, but her face revealed a little sadness.
"Really?" When Li Jiang saw Meng Jiangnu's expression, he had already guessed the reason.
Mu Qi on the side looked at Meng Jiangnu and felt a little distressed in his heart, but he couldn't step forward to comfort her, so he could only say to Li Jiang: "Fan Xiliang has been dead for more than a year. ”
"How so?" Li Jiang couldn't believe it, Li Jiang obviously felt that when Mu Qi said this, Meng Jiangnu's hands were trembling, Li Jiang didn't know how to comfort Meng Jiangnu, because she clearly knew how much Meng Jiangnu was looking forward to seeing her husband, but now she was separated by heaven and man, and she would never see each other.
"Jiang'er, I'm fine." Meng Jiangnu tried hard to adjust her emotions, squeezed out a pale smile on her face and said, Meng Jiangnu didn't want Li Jiang, who had just come back, to worry about her own affairs.
Looking at the empathetic Meng Jiangnu, Mu Qi on the side opened his mouth slightly, and did not say anything in the end, Mu Qi suddenly felt that he was a little pale and powerless, and he couldn't do anything.
On the contrary, Zhao Gao's face on the side was more natural, because he seemed to know that this was the end from the beginning.
"I'm very satisfied to know my husband's whereabouts." Meng Jiangnu showed a haggard smile and said: "There is nothing else he wants in this life, but the only regret is that he can't go home with his husband's ashes." ”
"What's going on?" Li Jiang listened to Meng Jiangnu's words and asked worriedly, "Haven't you already found it?" ”
"After his death, the husband was buried in the Great Wall, and his bones were gone." When Meng Jiangnu said this, she couldn't hold back any longer, and tears slipped down her face.
"How did you get buried in the walls?" Li Jiang asked in disbelief.
"The previous overseer generals all threw dead people directly into the Great Wall to build the Great Wall." Meng Tian said slowly: "I only learned about all this after I came here, and I didn't know how many ashes were buried in this Great Wall, and how many people could not return to their hometowns after death. ”
"How can you do such cruel things?" Li Jiang listened to Meng Tian's words, and said in disbelief: "People are already dead, and they have to let him die in a foreign land, and he can't rest in peace." ”
"Send someone to find Fan Xiliang to return." Meng Tian said: "Fan Xiliang suddenly fell ill with a bad disease, and then infected a lot of people, so they buried all the people who suffered from the bad disease into the Great Wall overnight. ”
"What you mean is that the group of people who suffered from the disease at that time are not actually dead." Zhao Gao listened to Meng Tian's words, and immediately understood the meaning of his words, and said, "They were buried alive. ”
Although the truth was cruel, Zhao Gao was indeed right, Meng Tian nodded and replied, "Yes." ”
"Buried alive?" Li Jiang listened to the conversation between Meng Tian and Zhao Gao, there were already tears in his eyes, Li Jiang didn't even dare to look at Meng Jiangnu's face now, Li Jiang was thinking, when Meng Jiangnu heard the news for the first time, how sad and desperate she should have been.
When Meng Jiangnu knew that her husband had ended up like this, if it weren't for Mu Qi supporting her, she was afraid that she would have fainted on the spot, and at that time Meng Jiangnu felt that her world had been gray.
"Sister Meng." Li Jiang felt that the hand he was holding was trembling slightly, so he shouted worriedly.
"I'm fine." Meng Jiangnu said a reason that even she wouldn't believe: "After looking for my husband for so many years, I have already come to my senses, don't worry about me, because I know that my husband will not want me to be sad because of him, and my husband must hope that I can live with a smile, because he once said that my smile is the happiest thing in his life." ”
"So when the Great Wall was collapsing, you and Mu Qi were under the Great Wall." Zhao Gao opened his mouth and said, "Is Fan Xiliang buried under this city wall?" ”
"I don't know." Meng Jiangnu said slowly: "At that time, the people who knew that they were still alive only said that all the people who were infected with the evil disease were arrested overnight and buried in the Great Wall, but they didn't know exactly where they were buried. ”
Seeing that Meng Jiangnu's voice trembled slightly, Mu Qi took it over and said: "At that time, when General Meng went to look for you, he left behind two soldiers who had been sent to inquire about Fan Xiliang's whereabouts, and the two soldiers took us to find the person who knew about it, and when we knew the truth of the matter, we decided to search all the way in the direction they said, although we knew that this would be fruitless." ”
When Mu Qi said this, he looked up at Meng Jiangnu, Mu Qi still remembers that time, Meng Jiangnu's strong back, although he knew it, he still didn't give up.
"So, we stayed with her all the time." Mu Qi paused, and then continued: "I just didn't expect that day, there was a sudden strong wind, and there was thunder, after a huge thunder sounded, the long wall that should have been fixed into the golden soup, but suddenly collapsed, if we were not still some distance from that wall, so when it collapsed, there would still be time to escape, I am afraid that several of us will also be buried under the city wall." ”
"So, the Great Wall really collapsed under a loud thunder." Zhao Gao listened to Mu Qi's words and said thoughtfully.
"Yes, we saw it with our own eyes." Mu Qi nodded affirmatively.
"Have you been to the site since you came back?" Zhao Gao asked Meng Tiandao.
"I've been there, but I haven't found anything." The first thing Meng Tian did when he came back was to check on the collapsed city wall, but found nothing.
"With such a loud thunder, the city wall didn't collapse anywhere, but the place you built collapsed, it's too much of a coincidence, right?" Zhao Gao didn't believe that a huge thunderbolt could collapse it.
Just as Zhao Gao was about to say something, the military doctor said outside the camp tent: "General." ”
"Come in." Meng Tian said sonorously.
The military doctor got Meng Tian's permission, so he walked in respectfully, Meng Tian saw that it was the military doctor who came in, so he said to Zhao Gao: "Don't think so much now, you first heal your leg." ”
"You go and show him, does it matter what he has on his legs?" Meng Tian pointed at Zhao Gao and said to the military doctor.
"Yes, General." The military doctor listened to Meng Tian's words and respectfully looked at Zhao Gao's injuries.
Originally, the atmosphere was relatively solemn, but because the military doctor showed Zhao Gao on his legs, Li Jiang was also very nervous, and looked at the military doctor and Zhao Gao without blinking, for fear that he would miss something.
The military doctor carefully examined Zhao Gao's leg injury, and also took out the small wooden hammer in the medical box, pounded the various acupuncture points of Zhao Gao's leg, looked at Zhao Gao's reaction, and finally stood up and said to Meng Tian respectfully: "Although the arrow wound on this son's leg has been treated, but because he was injured, he did not bandage and consolidate it in time, but carried out strenuous exercise, and now although it seems to have healed a lot on the surface, the arrow actually pierced his thigh and injured his meridians. ”
"Can it be cured?" Meng Tian listened to the words of the military doctor, frowned, and asked with some concern.
"As long as you meditate and recuperate, you can still be cured, just like ordinary people." The military doctor said slowly: "I'm just afraid that no matter how good it is, this leg can't be frozen, especially on rainy days, I'm afraid that there will be pain in the heart." ”
"Can't it be completely healed?" Li Jiang listened to the words of the military doctor, his heart twitched, and his voice trembled a little.
"If you are hit by an arrow at that time, you can treat it immediately, and it is fine, but there is nothing I can do at this time." The military doctor will not lie, and regrets that he missed the best time for treatment, but there is nothing he can do, so he can only say it frankly.
Li Jiang heard the words of the military doctor, and his heart was already throbbing for a while, all because of himself, the one who was hit by the arrow should have been himself, as long as Li Jiang thought that Zhao Gao would have to endure the pain of his leg injury every time it was windy and rainy in the future, Li Jiang felt that his heart felt like he had been pricked by a needle.
Zhao Gao naturally could see the self-blame on Li Jiang's face, and Zhao Gao said to Li Jiang with a smile on his face: "Jiang'er, don't have such an expression, I'm a manly husband, how can I not stand any pain." ”
Li Jiang knew that Zhao Gao wanted to comfort himself, and saw that although Zhao Gao had a relaxed smile on his face, as if nothing had happened, Li Jiang just couldn't open his mouth, as if he was forbidden to speak, there was an invisible force that made Li Jiang stunned and couldn't move.