There is no light in the dungeon of Zhaofu, and for me, who is trapped in darkness all day long, no matter how the sun and moon turn outside, my world will always stay in that sad and crazy night.

I curled up in the damp corner with my belly in my arms, and from time to time a fishy and pungent mucus slid down the wall from the top of my head. It was a torture chamber, and what fell on my head was probably the blood of the dead, or the intestinal fluids of their bodies that had been hooked out of their bodies by torture instruments before they died, or the remnants of their decomposing bodies. But I didn't dare to move, I couldn't see, but my ears told me that in addition to the countless insects and ants, there were also hungry rats in the room.

Who has poisoned my medicine all these months? On that day, who told Zhao Ying about my life experience? Where did Si'er go? Where did Yu An go? Did Wuxian rescue his brother? Does he know I'm here? My little sprout, are you okay?

I didn't know what had happened in Zhao's Mansion before, and I didn't know what had happened outside after I was locked up in the dungeon, and under the boundless fear, the endless conjectures in my mind had brought me to the brink of collapse.

When Zhao Ying came, the group of rats that were biting and fighting for my foot clothes scattered.

With no retinue, no executioner, he walked into the dungeon alone on crutches.

Zhao Ying is really old, terminally ill, he stood in front of my cell with strong spirits, I looked at him in the firelight, but as if I saw a piece of rotten wood destroyed by time and insects and ants was crumbling inch by inch under the scorching sun. Whoever poisoned his medicine during these months, my father had already gotten what he wanted.

"Where is Zhao Ji?" Zhao Ying asked.

"I don't know."

"You don't want to say, do you want to try the taste of the torture instruments in my house, or do you want to die to protect your father?"

Zhao Ying's expression was solemn, I lowered my head and laughed at myself, and walked back to the corner and sat down.

"Okay, very good, the old man knows that you are not afraid of death, but no matter how hard your mouth is, when you taste the methods of my Zhao Mansion criminal master, you will tell me the truth!"

"Prime Minister Qing, what I just told you is the truth, where Zhao Ji is, I really don't know, and I don't want to talk nonsense about letting the Black Armor Army run away, which will only increase Prime Minister Qing's anger. But I tell the truth, you don't believe that I was forced to tell a lie that night, but you believe it. Therefore, it can be seen that the truth is true or false, whether it is believed or not, it is only up to the prime minister, and it has nothing to do with me. If you still want to listen to what I have to say, just say it, don't bother the torturer, I will tell you the truth you want to hear word for word. ”

"You mean you didn't give me the poison in my medicine?"

"It's not."

"That's your maid"

"Not really. A few months ago, the prime minister fainted in the hospital, I entered the Zhao Mansion as a doctor, and the next day, someone secretly put a bag of Cangzi in the medicinal materials I prepared. I knew that this thing was poisonous, and I was afraid that someone would poison the medicinal soup and harm the prime minister, so I specially recruited Si'er into the house to help. After that, a decoction should be washed, cut, boiled, and boiled, never fake the hands of a third person. Prime minister, I hate you, but in addition to hatred in my heart, in addition to Handan, there is Beru, there is also Wuxian, and the world, I want you to live, even if you only live for another three or five years, until you are full of wings and no longer bullied by Zhiyao. So, the one who wants you to die is not me at all. ”

"Who's that?"

"Yes"

"It's your father Zhao Ji, it's he who wants me to die, and he wants Zhao to die." Zhao Ying took two steps forward on crutches, he looked at me through the prison bar and said, "Twenty years ago, because of your rebellion in Handan, the Jin Dynasty attacked Zhao together. I am the grandson of Wenzi 1, if the Zhao clan is wiped out in my hands, what face will I have to see the thousands of people who died in the Zhao clan in the past. Your father and I have an enmity that we don't share, and the hatred in his heart will never die, and so does my father Zhao Zhi! I won't recruit another torturer, you wait patiently here, no matter where he Zhao Ji is hiding now, I will definitely arrest him, reunite your father and daughter, and go to Huangquan together. After Zhao Yan finished speaking, he took a deep look at me, bent over and bent his back.

I hurriedly got up and grabbed the bars and yelled at his back, "Stay behind."

Zhao Yan coughed twice and stopped, he turned his head to look at me and sighed: "Zidian, what you said is very right, true or false, whether you believe it or not, it is between the old man's thoughts." So, you should know, whether you are poisoned or not, whether I believe you or not, it doesn't matter. As long as you admit that you are Zhao Ji's daughter, then no matter what you say or ask for now, you will still have to die. ”

"Zi Di understands." Of course, I knew that no matter whether I was poisoned or not, he wouldn't let me live with this bloodline alone, so I didn't plan to beg him for mercy at all, I straightened my sleeves, knelt on the ground and bowed to the people outside the cage in a dignified manner, and said, "The child is innocent, Wangqing misses the old man." ”

Zhao Ying didn't say anything for a long time when he heard this, and after a while, he said: "Yan Yu 2 is kind to my Zhao family, Dong Shu entered the mansion the night before, and his child has asked him to take it back, you don't have to worry." ”

"Xie Qingxiang is kind." I leaned over and paused, but Zhao Ying looked at me and said abruptly: "You helped me in Huangchi when you were young, and you went out to defend for me the year before last, the old man should also thank you, but you shouldn't be Zhao Ji's daughter, let alone cause me to lose two sons in a row." In the future, under the Yellow Springs Ground, don't blame the old man for being ruthless. ”

Two sons?

Lost two sons in a row

Zhao Ying is gone. I was so sad and frightened that I cried a few times before I fell asleep. In his sleep, he seemed to see Wuxi, and he ran very fast with Quinoa in his hand, followed by a black tiger with twisted markings and a blood-colored storm.

I was terrified, and Mingyi woke me up from my nightmare. When I opened my eyes and saw him, I felt that everything that had happened before was just a dream of my own. But when I really woke up and saw the person in Qingmingyi's arms, I could only hold on to the moldy wooden fence in the dungeon and cry.

Beru's face was washed clean, and he wore his favorite ink crown on his head, and he was half-lying in Mingyi's arms, his eyes gently closed, as if he were asleep. But his chin and neck were covered with bruise-purple spots that only a dead man had, and two chapped lips under his pale nose were turned up, revealing a row of blue teeth. I reached out to take his hand, and the cold touch made me cry. But Mingyi didn't cry, he just knelt in front of me with Boru's head in his arms as usual, he handed me a green jade vial, and he said, "Ah Shi, we're leaving." Chu Guo has a long way to go, he is heavy now, I can't take it away, you give me his soul, okay? ”

I looked at Ming Yi sadly, I don't know how I should tell the person in front of me, I am not a god son, I can't take souls, how should I tell him that his Beru is dead, and I can no longer accompany him to Yunmengze, catch birds for him to relieve his boredom, play the piano and drum with him, and stay together for a lifetime.

"Mingyi"

"Don't say you won't." As soon as I opened my mouth, two lines of tears rolled down Mingyi's eyes.

"No, I will."

"That's good." Ming Yi burst into tears and laughed, he lowered his head and stroked Bolu's cheek, and said softly: "Alu, you go with her to the jade bottle to rest, and when I arrive in Yunmengze, I will take you to the lacquer forest you said, and I will wait for you to turn your soul into a bird and call me by my name." You don't have to be afraid, and you don't need to be in a hurry. You can become a stupid bird, it's okay, I can wait, I have nothing left in my life, I can afford to wait. After Ming Yi finished speaking, he reached out and grabbed my wrist, his jade fingers were as cold as frost: "Ah Shi, you hurry up, it's getting dawn, they're coming to him." ”

"Mingyi" I held back the sourness in my eyes, took a deep breath and said, "It is not easy to retrieve the soul, I can't attract the soul with filth now." Hurry up and find the Master, he taught me to take souls. ”

"Master? Are you trying to trick me into calling Master to save you? Ming Yi muttered.

"No, you don't have to tell Master I'm here." After Zhifu "retrieved the soul" back then, I gave the remaining bone powder to Shi Mo, and now I only ask Shi Mo to deceive Mingyi for me.

Mingyi looked at me, and responded to the word "good" for a long time, he reached out and took the jade bottle in my hand, bowed his head and said to himself: "Many years ago, when I was not Mingyi, Master once said a sentence to me, he said, no matter who or what happens in this world, it will eventually come to naught. Don't care if you can care, and if you care less, you will naturally have to be liberated. When I listened to him, I didn't even care about myself, and I was truly liberated. Later, I only cared about one thing in this world, and that was the only thing, but now I have taken it away from you. I know that it is not you who poisoned him, even if you want to kill Zhao Ying, you will not see him try medicine and drink poison every day. But I can't forgive you, never, I won't tell Master that you're here, and I won't tell you that you're here, and we'll be indefinite from now on! Mingyi leaned over and struggled to pick up Boru's body, and the wide sleeves of Boru's coat were pulled high by the hemp rope around Mingyi's waist, revealing a miserable white arm that was constantly shaking in the air. I held my breath, I held my breath, and I couldn't help crying.

Bolu died, Mingyi left, and the people who were originally going to travel all the way had not yet set off, so they said goodbye forever.