When Xie Lan came out of Sima Mansion, it was already late at night, thinking that he had been guarding the king day and night for the past few days, and he had not yet had time to meet Guo Zhang, who was released, and he was also a little worried about his cousin's situation. So he got on his horse and went to Guo Zhang's house.

As soon as Xie Lan arrived at the entrance of the alley on horseback, he saw a group of people surrounding the door, whispering something at the cross-hand. A few young women couldn't help crying, and the old people looked regretful, but they couldn't hear what they were talking about.

Xie Lan thought that Cao Ze's people had found Guo Zhang's residence, so he turned around for a while, and vaguely heard the word "death", and suddenly his head "buzzed", and saw that it was inconvenient to watch the people around, so he even said and scared everyone away: "Everyone, someone from the palace has come to see Miss Cui, and our prince will come to see Mr. Guo Zhang after a while, you have nothing to do and disperse quickly!" ”

Everyone loves to watch the excitement, and they have heard that Guo Zhang has committed something and has been arrested for a while, and now there are people in the palace and the prince's house, and they are all wondering if Guo Zhang has really done something wrong, lest he be implicated in something - he will be whipped and fall second, and he will not be counted if he goes to the prison temple to squat all night. They each listened to it for a while, but when there was no news, they went away.

The crowd gradually thinned out, and Xie Lanjing lined up and squeezed into the store, taking three steps and two steps into Guo Zhang's small courtyard.

Xie Lan saw that the small courtyard was covered with white veil, which was particularly conspicuous at night, and the long bell rang down at once, lingering in his ears, and it never dispersed for a long time.

Is something really wrong?

He hurried into the house, and saw several women in the east room to tie paper horses, paste paper sedan chairs, and set up memorial services, and when he saw her come in, a middle-aged woman came over, blessed with a blessing, and asked in a low voice: "Are you here to see Aunt Cui, she ...... has become an immortal.

Xie Lan pushed open the door and saw that he was immediately stunned, his feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, and he couldn't move - the room was covered with white curtains, cigarette smoke, and there was a tablet on the middle table, which read:

The soul seat of the river stream martyr Nguyen Thi Cuicui

The two paintings next to it are plain practice, and the spots on the top are all bloodstains, and the upper joint book:

If you are not loyal, Anke is not filial? Dream back to Yuntai Feng Ciyan;

- The following joint book:

It's hard to be thrifty, who is embarrassed? The soul returns to the underworld and looks at Chang'an!

Next to a line of small print, the book:

Aunt Hood wept and bled to herself

What's even more shocking is that Na Cui Gu is wearing full makeup, with eyebrows and rouge face, her eyes slightly closed, and she is smiling, sitting on the chair behind the tablet!

For a while, Xie Lan felt like he was in a nightmare. He couldn't believe it anyway, the misty female corpse in front of him was the young woman who stopped the car half a month ago and spoke hard. Why should a man who is alive and well die?

Staying upstairs in this silence, and for this strange sacrifice, Xie Lan suddenly felt a sense of terror in her heart, and wanted to move out, but there was a strange force that attracted her to refuse to leave.

"Who is it .... Who's coming? Next to Cuigu's tablet, a vague black shadow curled up, and when she heard the movement, she asked who it was.

When Xie Lan heard the questioning, he found that there was still someone in the corner, a little scared, and when he slowly stepped forward to take a closer look, he couldn't help but scream.

"Guo Zhang, why are you here?"

"Cousin? Is that you? Guo Zhang turned around, grabbed the corner of Xie Lan's clothes tightly and didn't let go, as if grasping a life-saving straw, and muttered blankly, "Aunt Cui.... Atsui she's dead, she's dead! ”

Guo Zhang's whole person has lost a lot of weight, as if he has a serious illness, and his uninhibited expression in the past has disappeared, the whole person is demented, as if he is enchanted, and the clothes on his body have not been changed for a few days, they are already very worn, and there are still a little blood stains on it, which looks even more embarrassed in the faint candlelight.

Xie Lan squatted down to help Guo Zhang, seeing that his face was so pale that he couldn't even stand steadily, and he probably hadn't eaten or drunk for a few days and was guarding in front of Cuigu's tablet. I had to persuade, "The Si people are gone, you still have to live well." ”

Hearing the words "Siren has passed away", Guo Zhang, who had been standing still before, seemed to have finally realized something, and let him cry, "She is dead, she will never come back, I will never see her again." ”

"How did she die? Was he killed? Looking at Cuigu's strange death, Xie Lan asked uneasily.

"No, I just came out to tell you, but I didn't see it, and when I came back.... That's it. Guo Zhang was still immersed in grief, and he couldn't speak very clearly, so he only raised the paper he was holding tightly in his hand for Xie Lan to see.

Xie Lan took the letter paper, and in the dim candlelight, he took out the plain note inside, only to see that it was written:

Husband Guo Zhangjian: The dream of the rain is a dream, and from now on I will travel with my husband for a lifetime!

When I was a child, my father was forced to fight for the enlightened and died! The mother was filled with grief and anger, and died of illness, and the family was ruined ever since. I have been displaced for a long time, and I vow to take revenge!

The wife is not born as a child and is heavier than the dead, thinking about the difficulties of advancing and retreating, exhausted, neither can the husband keep the hatred of the father and the mother, nor can the enemy with the husband, sighing for a long time, wandering without a plan, and will never repay the kindness of the parents with self-harm. There is a spirit in the vast expanse, and in the next life, I will repay my husband's love and affection.

Wife Cuigu wept blood.

"Cuigu had a grudge against Qi Guo before, but after marrying you, you got acquainted with the current king, she was caught in the middle and was in a dilemma, so she committed suicide."

"I'm sorry for her!" Guo Zhang cried and said, "I don't know anything about her life experience, and I often praise the king in front of her, so I forced her to a dead end." ”

Xie Lan didn't know what to say to comfort him at the moment, and he didn't feel at ease if he was left alone here in a demented state, thinking of this, Xie Lan gently stepped forward and clicked on Guo Zhang's sleeping hole, planning to take him to his own home first, and then deal with the matter after settling down.

Xie Lan looked up at Cui Gu again, and saw that Cui Gu was still ruddy, her eyebrows were picturesque, and her dress was more charming and gorgeous than usual, as if she was still sitting there waiting for her lover to return. Looking back on the past, Cuigu was generous, had a beautiful face, and was proficient in poetry and songs, and often played the piano and wrote poems with her cousin, which was really a beautiful couple.

No one else can understand why Guo Zhang is so infatuated with Cuigu, and Xie Lan sometimes looks at the two of them but peeks a little about the reason.

A pair of true like-minded confidants only have each other in their eyes. This is the case with Guo Zhang and Cuigu.

Now that Cuigufang's soul has died early, it is like a mandarin duck is missing, not to mention that there is such a complex and tortuous reason in it, how can Guo Zhang not grieve?

Xie Lan helped the sleeping Guo Zhang out of the hall, and the women who were busy outside saw him with a solemn and awe-inspiring expression, and hugged the male host, squatted down and asked, "May I ask who you are from Cuigu?" ”

Xie Lan thought for a while, pointed at Guo Zhang, and said, "I'm his cousin, I'll take time to come and see him for a few days, and I don't want anything like this to happen......"

"yes." The women also sighed, "Somehow I took mercury, and sat on a chair so that I couldn't move, and I didn't blink my eyes." ”

Xie Lansai gave the woman at the head a piece of silver and instructed, "Please aunt settle down here first, help Aunt Cui to be buried, I will take my cousin to my house to relax, and then come back for the funeral when the mood is better." After thinking about it, he took another ingot of silver and said, "You are hard, no one wants to take care of such bad things, and the rest of the money should be used as compensation, please don't make a noise, please leave it to you." ”

These women have experienced such things a lot, and they know in their hearts, so they don't ask more, but accept the money and agree with a smile.

Xie Lan went to the side of the street to find a small sedan chair, helped Guo Zhang to sit in, and followed behind on his horse.

The night, like its incomparably large gray cloth, quietly stretched out, covering the whole earth, only a bright moon was bright and bright, but in this dark night, it also seemed particularly lonely and lonely.

But anyone with supreme talent is probably destined to be bumpy, it is better to be an ordinary person, Xie Lan thought about Guo Zhang's experience, and couldn't help but shake his head.

But who is willing to be ordinary all his life without the slightest waves? So people have to think of ways to climb up, so that a cycle is formed, in which the cold and warm are self-aware.

The copper kettle leaked out, and the iron horse swayed. Shen Lian drank until he was slightly drunk and lay down on the edge of the stone bridge, looking at the moon, tossing and turning, and it was difficult to sleep.

After coming to the capital of Qi for a few years, those thrilling and mysterious changes kept flashing in my mind. One moment he was excited, the next he was nervous, the next he was relieved, and the next he couldn't help but sigh. What he thinks about the most is Xiao Zhen, the strange person, the suspicious identity, the extraordinary temperament, the uninhibited and free temper, the jealousy and hatred but the depth that is hidden, and the personality that does not match his age, all of which are difficult to guess and difficult to solve.

Xiao Zhen is a person who wants to see through but can't.

and Su Wan, who appeared as a maidservant but was more powerful than anyone else, is even more puzzling. She suddenly lowered her eyebrows and was pleasing to her eyes, suddenly she was confident and arrogant, suddenly she seemed to be affectionate, and suddenly she rejected people, especially her graceful and graceful shadow, looking forward to the eyes of God, these days she was always dangling in front of Shen Lian, making Shen Lian involuntarily fall into it. Sometimes, it seems that when I get closer, I can hear her delicate face, and her witty and straightforward words, and see her smiling face, but immediately it disappears again.

Why is it gone?

Su Wan is a person who wants to catch but can't.

Just thinking about it, I saw Su Wan walking over with sleepy eyes, "Why don't you sleep so late?" Drinking too much alcohol is not good for your health. ”

"Don't you also like to drink, get drunk to relieve a thousand sorrows!" Shen Lian drank another glass and said, "The war is about to start, so I also have to be brave." ”

"You don't think you're going to be emboldened in this way." Su Wan retorted very calmly.

"You've guessed it again." After drinking a few more glasses of wine, after a long time, Shen Lian only smiled, "Actually, I'm thinking about things." ”

"Think when you'll marry me."

Wine not only relieves a thousand sorrows, but also strengthens people's courage.

Su Wan looked at Shen Lian for a while, as if she was prepared, and responded simply, "I won't marry you." ”

"Why?" Shen Lian took a while to react and laughed at himself, "Was he rejected so quickly?" ”

"It's not that you're rejected, it's that I'm unwilling to marry." Su Wan snatched the wine jug, raised her head and poured a few sips of wine, the wine was very strong, and after a while, Su Wan's face flushed, and her face was a little more charming on weekdays, and she said to herself, "Back then, my father also welcomed my mother into the door with a sedan chair. I remember when I was a child, the two of them were very affectionate. ”

Su Wan paused for a while, and her expression darkened, "But after my mother died, my father doted on my stepmother even more, and even turned a deaf ear to her wanton bullying me and my deceased mother, which shows that the relationship between men and women is not credible." ”

"Shen Lian, I know that you are obsessed with me, and in fact, I also have a good impression of you." Su Wan's eyes looked straight at Shen Lian, still as familiar as the firm eyes in the fight at that time, "But who knows how long this kind of love can last?" There will always be a day when I will be old and decrepit, and if you have a new love, just like my father, what will become of me who has given everything to you? I'm going to be jealous, I'm going to be resentful, I'm not going to be like myself. ”

"I didn't want to be like that, so I chose to enter the palace as a maidservant, so that there would be no more troubles." After Su Wan finished speaking, she didn't wait for Shen Lian to reply, and went back to the house.

Shen Lian heard this, most of the wine woke up, looked at Su Wan's back, was silent for a while, and then raised the wine jug again......

In the palace city, the car for the old queen mother and the queen to travel has been prepared, Xiao Zhi saw off the two, Sima Qing seems to be very reluctant to leave Xiao Zhi at this time,

"The king said that husband and wife should share hardships and advance and retreat together, why do they repent now?" Sima Qing rarely resisted Xiao Zhen's wishes, and asked with a pout.

Xiao Zhi had to persuade her for a long time, and analyzed the pros and cons for her, but Sima Qing was still unwilling to leave.

"I understand all this, but my stay with the king will not affect the big plan."

"When the time comes, there will be a mess, and you will be a powerless woman staying here, and I won't worry about you, and your father and brother will also be at ease."

Having said this, Sima Qing reluctantly agreed, and today he was in a sedan chair early as if he was angry, and he didn't want to come out to see Xiao Zhi when he hid inside.

For this kind of child's approach, Xiao Zhi couldn't smile bitterly.

"The queen has a deep affection for the king and is unwilling to leave the king in difficult times, so she is anxious, and the king must be tolerant." The old queen mother said meaningfully, "It's not easy for women in the palace." ”

"Yes, my grandson knows, and Qing'er is also worried about my comfort" Xiao Zhi was very calm, and comforted, "You don't have to worry, your grandson will definitely be able to calm the turmoil." ”

"This is natural, my grandson is protected by the dragon, and the ancestors are blessed, there will be nothing wrong, and my old woman can't help much if she stays here." The old queen mother was full of confidence, and shouted to the guards around her, "A few days ago, I have secretly transferred 30,000 elite soldiers from Mohe to protect the king, and I will arrive in the next few days. ”

Hearing this, the guards were also full of confidence, and they knelt down on one knee to show their loyalty, and their morale was high for a while.

Xiao Zhi smiled, how could there be such a thing? Don't even know yourself?

"The king must learn to lie too." The old queen mother blinked, attached to Xiao Zhen's ear and whispered, "Everyone has greed and fear, if you don't put a piece of fat in front of you, who will go to work for you?" ”

"My grandson understands." Xiao Zhi smiled, "To achieve great things, you must do whatever it takes." ”

"Then I'm relieved." The old queen mother nodded, "Grandson, my ancestral inheritance of Daqi will be entrusted to you!" ”

"Yes."