What's going on? Outside, there were people puffing and beating drums, and there were also people playing and building, and Ji Za also heard the squeaky laughter of the women and girls outside, and then there was the footsteps of Qi brushing, which was the unique sound of the foot soldiers. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

They cheered him in unison, and the sound flowed through the towering windows of the Xu Palace and seeped into the heavy paulownia doors.

These voices were enough to move people, but they couldn't touch Ji Za's heart, he was so old that he couldn't even leave and return to Yanling. In the past year, Yanling Jizi's life has been rapidly decaying, just like the national fortune of Wu - his skin is covered with age spots, his eyes are dry and lose his vitality, his appetite is lost, he can only rely on a little liquid food to sustain his life, lying on the bed weakly, anxious about the fierce battle outside, but he can't do anything about the overall situation, and after his mind gradually becomes unclear, he can't share the happiness of Xu people.

With a squeak, the heavy wooden door was pushed open, and a heroic middle-aged man walked in, his steps slowly lightened, and walked to the side of Ji Za's couch, and stretched out his head to look at him, with a hint of curiosity and concern in his eyes.

It wasn't until Ji Za opened his eyes weakly and met his four eyes that a smile appeared under the middle-aged man's sagittal beard.

"Jizi? But woke you up? ”

"Who are you? Which country is it? Wu Yu popped out of Ji Zha's mouth, and then changed to Yayan, he couldn't tell which one was his native language, but he still recognized it, the middle-aged man's crown costume was the specification of the princes of the Central Plains.

"Boy Zhao Wuxian." In the face of the octogenarian man, the middle-aged man is very modest and humbly calls him a boy.

"Zhao's people?" Jiza struggled to his feet, he looked weak, his wrinkled eyes seemed to be confused.

"I have been kind to Zhao Qing, and I have met many of his clansmen, but there has never been one named Zhao Wuxian......"

The Zhao Qing in his mouth is naturally not Zhao Ying, Zhao Wuxian, but Zhao Wu. But then, Ji Za seemed to suddenly react that Zhao Wu was dead, and now he was no longer when he was young: "You are Zhao Wenzi's son and grandson?" ”

"It's a great-grandson."

Zhao Wuxian touched the old man's forehead, his skin was wet, covered with sweat, cold and sticky, every breath was accompanied by a slight wheezing, and he was really sick.

So he sat down on the edge of the bed, took the medicine from the Lingque healer, and patiently fed the old man to take it.

Ji Za would come to Xu last year to sweep the tomb of his old friend Xu Guoxianjun, but because of the rainfall and snow, his legs and feet were sore, and it was even difficult to go back to Yanling. dragged on until this year, when Wu and Zhao fought each other, they couldn't go back.

According to Xu Ren, since the beginning of the summer this year, Ji Zha's condition has deteriorated, and his delirium has been getting longer and longer, and sometimes he seems to have no idea where he is, and he has begun to talk nonsense as he speaks, nagging about the past when he was a young envoy to the Central Plains and mingling with the doctors. After all, he is eighty-eight years old, probably the oldest person in the world, and he has experienced too many things, no matter how shrewd and wise he was before, he will become a confused old man by this time.

However, such a confused old man, but when the Zhao army was about to attack Xucheng, he suddenly woke up, and he personally went out to stop the resistance of the Wu army in the city, asked them to hand over their weapons to the Xu people and the Zhao army's forwards, and asked the Xu people not to retaliate against the Wu people and kill them.

Ji Za is not only an inviolable elder in the eyes of the people of Wu State, but also in Xu State, because he once had a good relationship with the ancestor Xu Jun, and hung a sword in front of Xu Jun's tomb in order to keep his promise, which left a good name. After the Xu State was conquered by the Wu State, Ji Za also came forward many times to protect the interests of the Xu people and dissuade the husband's rampant expropriation, and the Xu people were very grateful and willing to listen to him.

As a result, Xu Cheng surrendered without a fight.

But when Zhao Wuxian rushed to visit, Ji Za fell into a delirious state again.

While Zhao Wuxian was feeding the medicine, Ji Za quietly leaned on the couch, looked at the prince, and babbled about the deeds of his great-grandfather Zhao Wu.

"Zhao Wenzi is much older than me, but extremely humble, Wen Yu retreated in it as if he was overwhelmed, and his words were as if he couldn't speak, after I met him in the Jin Kingdom, I knew that there was such a person in this world, this is the real gentleman."

He adhered to the will of mourning the duke, and restrained Fan and Xun with Han Qi and Wei Shu. However, the state-owned assets are stored in the private family, the six kings can be excellent, the retainers hold important positions, and the corruption of the office, the danger of the country makes Wenzi painful, and often sighs with me, saying that he doesn't know where the future of the Jin Kingdom and the Zhao family will go, so he is so worried all the year round, and he will die depressed after fifty years......"

Speaking of this, Ji Za seemed to have just come back to his senses, raised his head suspiciously, and asked Zhao Wuxian: "How many years have passed since Zhao Wenzi's death?" ”

Zhao Wuxian put down the medicine bowl, "It's been fifty-three years since my great-grandfather passed away. ”

"Fifty-three years...... Fifty-three years have passed......" Ji Za suddenly gasped, and only relieved his breath after half a ring, grabbed Zhao Wuxian's arm, and asked, "What about Shu Xiang, Han Qi, and Wei Shu of the Jin Kingdom?" ”

"It's gone."

"Zheng Guo's child, Qi Guo's Yan baby!?"

"The child has passed away for more than 30 years, and Yan Zi has also passed away for more than 10 years......"

"It's gone, it's all gone......" Ji Za let go of his hand weakly, and smiled bitterly, his goatee trembling slightly.

"In the end, I'm the only one left?"

In this era of decay and decay, he is the last gentleman left over from the era of soldiers. The tears in the old man's eyes moved Zhao Wuxian as well, and seeing that Ji Zha's asthma was getting worse and worse, he hurriedly summoned the healer to come over and take a look.

After the Lingque doctor checked the pulse, he said to Zhao Wuxian that Ji Za was fine, but he couldn't be stimulated anymore.

Ji Za lay back, closed his eyes for a while, as if digesting the news he already knew, or sorting out the time clues in his mind, and when he opened his eyes again after half a ring, his eyes regained a little clarity.

"It turned out to be Zhao Hou, you are here......"

……

Zhao Wuxian wanted to leave, but when he saw Ji Za waking up, he bowed his head and said: "According to Ji Zi's words to let Xu Ren and Wu Guo surrender troops, Wuxian came as promised." ”

"The old man is also confused, but Zhao Hou smiled, but when he was in the Jin Kingdom, the old man saw that the three families of Zhao, Wei and Han were brilliant, so he predicted that these three families would definitely grow in the future, but unfortunately my knowledge is still not as good as Sun Wu, I didn't expect that fifty years later, the Zhao family has been promoted to the princes on behalf of the princes......"

Ji Za laughed, it seems that his old friend Shu Xiang and Yan Ying's mutual worries have become a reality, and after Zhao State dominates the north, Jianghuai will also be affected by it.

Ji Za was a witness to the good relations between the north and the south, and he received the teachings of the Zhuxia canons since he was a child, and he was very eager for the state of Wu to reintegrate into the middle Xia. But he lived too long, and he had to witness the inevitable slide of the state of Wu into barbarism, because only the barbarism that abandoned the lower limit could devour the civilized state of Chu, and he even experienced this Fucha's march north to the Central Plains, watching him rampant, watching him lose in embarrassment. The Zhao army was so menacing that even Ji Za didn't have time to evacuate.

In the final analysis, he is the old son of Wu State, in this case, he still does not forget to worry about the future of Wu State, and the purpose of his invitation to Zhao Wuxian here is the same: "Zhao Hou has obtained Xucheng and swept Huaibei, next, do you still want to continue to go south to Jiangdong and cooperate with Chu and Yue to destroy Wu State?" ”

"What if I said yes? What will Jizi do? ”

Ji Za smiled bitterly: "The old man has already stepped into the tomb with one foot, and he can't do anything, it's just sad, the old man has been longing for Wu to reintegrate into the Central Plains all his life, but in the end it is in this way." ”

"But the old man still has to advise Zhao Hou, it's too late, if Zhao Guo goes south, he is just being a pioneer for Chu and Yue, Jiangnan is hot, Zhao Jun is not adaptable, and people's minds are returned, and they can't hold it. Ignoring the threat of the rear Yue Guo, the husband insisted on the lessons of the northern expedition, and hoped that Zhao Hou would remember it......"

"Ji Zi is reasonable, but even if I am willing to let Wu Guo go, will my husband forget the humiliation of this defeat? In a few years, if he can defeat Gou Jian and repel the Chu State, will he have to go north again to take revenge on the Zhao State? When the time comes, the Wu Kingdom will perish, first and then die, what's the difference? ”

Ji Za was silent, this is indeed like the character of a husband, he suddenly had a sense of powerlessness in his heart, even if Zhao Wuxian is dissuaded from going south now, Wu State withstood Chu Yue's attack, but sooner or later it will still perish, once the Central Plains is defeated, the "momentum" that Wu State has maintained for a hundred years will be all discharged.

He knew that his character would not be able to take over the sword of King Wu and kill on a large scale, so he had evaded his responsibility several times, but at this moment, Gongzi Ji Za had a little regret in his heart......

Maybe he took over the throne of King Wu at the beginning, and was committed to getting Wu out of barbarism and integrating into Zhuxia, although he couldn't dominate the southern country, although he couldn't compete with Chu Zhao, but at least he could survive as a small country and a widow, why this, why this......

The responsibility of evading it will come sooner or later, and it is not too late for him to do what he should have done a long time ago.

Ji Za tried to sit up again, but it turned out to be too difficult for him, and with Zhao Wuxian's help, he barely got up, and then stretched out a withered and spotted hand, placed it on Zhao Wuxian's shoulder, and said, "Fu is not committed to virtue, but tries to fight for the princes by force, and suffers a great defeat. But what are the sins of the people of Wu? Ji Za feels that Zhao Hou can let Wu Guo go once, so that you can get a good reputation, and at the same time, you can also devote yourself to virtue and stabilize the people of Xu State. As for the husband......

In the end, his voice was only a pleading whisper: "The old man will write a silk letter to persuade the husband to give up the land of Huaibei and give in to the Marquis of Zhao!" ”

He didn't even propose to return south in person, because in the dark, Ji Za seemed to know that his body might not be able to reach Gusu or Wuzhong, and this time, he might not be able to survive it!

PS: Chapter 2 in the evening (to be continued.) )