I got up, and like a girl, I raised my hand to salute him slightly, and said softly: "Ah Shi has seen the son." ”

Gongzi Li stared down at me, and there was no blame or accusation in his eyes that were red from exhaustion, only full of pain: "You son, you can make me wait for five whole years!" Back then, you promised me that as long as I invited you to Qin, you would go to the appointment. But I've sent you so many letters over the years, why don't you ever respond? ”

"Then Ah Shi entered the palace for three months, why didn't the prince come to see him?"

"I haven't seen a gentleman, and I'm worried. I also see and stop, and my heart descends. I don't see you because I can't see you in the filial piety period. But as soon as you give me this bag today, I will come in disregard of etiquette, and I don't want to say a word to you, I just want to see you secretly, just to quench my thirst. But you ...... You can come, but you don't want to come. "Gongzi Li stared at my face, as if trying to find out from my face the reason why I had rejected him several times in the past five years.

"Gongzi has invited Jin Wu Zidian to repair the book this time, you can come to see me in a dignified manner. You didn't come in March because you didn't have a dark child in your heart, only Ashi. I haven't come here for the past five years, also because you only have Ah Shi in your heart, and you don't have Zi Di. The people you invite again and again are Ah Shi, but there is no Ah Shi in the Taishi Mansion of the Jin Kingdom, and Ah Shi has already died in Weishui back then. ”

"But you're still alive."

"Childe ......"

"Well, since the day I met you, I never said I had won against you. I'm leaving. ”

"Childe......" I grabbed Childe's sleeve.

He looked back, at this moment, I wanted to say a lot, but in the end I only said: "Mourning." ”

Gongzi Li nodded slightly, turned and left.

The son is filial piety to his father, does not eat grains of rice for three days, does not eat vegetables and fruits for a year, shrinks his clothes and reduces his residence, does not drink feasts, and does not get close to his daughters. His eyes were red and swollen, and his face was pale, but he came less than half a day after receiving my things. When you see one side, your heart will descend to see one side, and if you see one side, you will be happy. How can I repay this affection? I know that he wants to keep me, but the mourning period is three years, does he want to keep me for three years, until he sacrifices to heaven as king? If that's the case, I'm afraid I'm afraid I'll really have to answer Chen Pan's words and stay in the Qin Palace for a long time. But I've walked such a big circle, if I still end up being Mrs. Ru in the Qin Palace, wouldn't my life be a joke?

No, no, I can't stay here.

This night, I wrapped myself in a silk quilt and listened to the mournful cry of autumn insects under the stone steps outside the door for a night, thinking about many things when I was young, and also thinking of many ways to leave the Qin Palace. In the early morning of the second day, the temple man who usually sent me a book came on time, but this time, he did not bring a book slip, but a plain white witch robe and a royal edict from the king.

Childe Li summoned me to an audience. I saw him in the side hall of his simple residence, dressed in sackcloth and filial piety. This time, he didn't call me Ah Shi, but only invited me to attend the funeral of Qin Mourning Gong as a sorcerer. Princes, the body needs to be parked in the temple for five months, and if I want to attend the funeral, I must live in the Qin State for another five months. But his request is reasonable, and I can't refuse.

"This is the arrangement for the day of burial, and the sorcerer will see, what else is there to be oversight?"

"Respectfully, the minister."

Gongzi Li asked the temple people to carry a box of bamboo slips, wooden slips, and sheepskin rolls and put them in front of me. I leaned over and bowed, and the two temple men stacked the contents of the box on a long black lacquer table in front of me.

"Let's all go down!" Gongzi Li waved his hand, and all the people serving in the side hall withdrew.

The hall suddenly became extremely quiet, and I bowed my head and read the book silently, and he did not say a word to turn the book. At first, I could still hear each other's breaths and breaths, but then I could only faintly hear birds chasing and frolicking outside the temple, and the crunchy sound of birdsong sounded real but seemed to come from far away, echoing like a valley echo in the empty hall.

"Original...... Zhao Shizi and you read the scroll in the Taishi Mansion like this. In the silence, Gongzili's voice sounded faintly.

I looked up in amazement and ran straight into his eye.

"You and him, no need to explain. When I first met him in Yongcheng, I knew that he was as much in love with you as I was. With a character like him, it's only a matter of time before you get close to him. It's only my fault that I wasn't cruel enough to you in the first place. ”

"Ruthless?"

"What you said to me from the castle tower back then was a lie to me, right? You didn't want to marry me so you made up a divine judgment to scare me, and I didn't dare risk your life even though I knew it was a lie. Weishui summons spirits, you have already died in my arms once, I finally saw you again, how dare I ...... So, I was scared and let you go. But over the years, there hasn't been a day I haven't regretted. ”

"Childe ......"

"This is Zhao Nu beating?" Childe squatted in front of me and reached out to stroke a shallow scar on my chin.

“……”

"I should have been so cruel to keep you. That way, you won't have to be hurt by him this time. ”

"Childe is affectionate, and Ah Shi can't repay it." I bowed down and bowed.

"You have seven tricks in your heart, and you won't know what I want. You know what I can give you. It's a pity that you don't care about what others are looking for. I loved you for that, and now I hate you for that. ”

"I'm sorry......" I looked at Gongzili's sad eyes and sighed in my heart. If I loved him, if I fell in love with the man in front of me that year, how nice. Then the dilemma of my life seems to be solved. It's a pity that love is never my own.

"Ah Shi, stay, okay? I can send you out of the palace, as long as you stay in the Qin Kingdom. Childe looked at me earnestly.

I shook my head, leaned over and bowed again: "There are still unfinished things in the heart of Ah Shi in the Jin Kingdom, and when the ancestor is buried, he will ask the prince to return." ”

"Is it unfinished business, or unfinished feelings?" Childe's bitter voice sounded in front of me.

"It's really undone."

"Okay, I believe you, you get up first." Gongzi Li sighed softly and leaned over to help me up, "What's the matter?" Can we help? ”

Help? A glimmer of light slipped over my mind like a shooting star. Yes, although the Qin State has been settled in the west all these years, the secret agents and secret sentinels of the Qin people all over the world have long woven a big net that is not inferior to Tianshu. I wanted to go to Lu to explore the clues of the medicine man, but I didn't know that a huge "treasure house" was standing in front of me at this moment. But...... Qin people's secret report, can I, a sorcerer of the Jin Kingdom, read it?

"Ah Shi has a reluctant request, and he also asks his son to fulfill it." I thought about it again and again, but I still knelt down and said what even I thought was a ridiculous request.

Gongzi Li listened to me silently, leaned over and helped me up: "Get up!" You come with me. ”

"Childe agreed?" I looked up, not hiding my astonishment.

"You think I'm going to say no?"

"Zi Huang is a Jin witch, and it is also appropriate for the son to have taboos."

"It's too late for you to say this today." Gongzi Li bent down and helped me up, "Do you remember Zhong Guang back then, the traitor who was designed by you to die in the city of Dali? ”

"Naturally, I remember."

"Then if you think about it carefully, Zhong Guang had to die just because he understood the layout of the Qin army's eastern border. And when you go to Jin, not to mention the eastern border, you may be able to draw the map of the whole army of the Qin State exactly as well. You also know the methods of the Qin people for a hundred years of transmission and secret reporting. But have you seen the men I sent to kill you? I believed you at the beginning, but now how can I be stingy with a few old news. ”

Believe me, don't kill me......

I looked at Gongzi Li in a daze. It turns out that over the years, in addition to thanking him for his deep affection, I also want to thank him for his grace not to kill.

The Qin Palace is heavily guarded, and the place where the secret reports are stored in the Qin Palace is next to the southeast corner of the Qin Bo Dormitory. It is a huge house with only beams and pillars, no partitions, guarded by guards outside the door, and cleaned by temple people inside the door, and countless high and low wooden frames are displayed in the center of the house. Gongzi Li pushed the door with me, and the temple people in the room immediately lowered their heads and retreated when they saw him.

"These are all secret reports from outside?" I casually pulled out a roll of bamboo slips from the wooden shelf next to me.

"No, all the classics collected here are collected from various countries and important documents sent by the ministers of the DPRK and China over the years. What you're going to see is inside, come with me. Gongzi Li put the bamboo slip in my hand back and led me inside.

On an autumn afternoon, the sunlight outside the hall shines obliquely through the gaps in the rows of bookshelves with flying dust, one bright and one dark, staggered and progressive, like a golden staircase of light extending to the end of the bookshelf. Gongzili took me through countless old books and old books, and I stepped on the light steps all the way forward, and there was a feeling of shuttling through the years.

"The records related to the Jin Kingdom are all here, and Qilu's is over there." Gongzi Li walked to a wooden frame, pointed to the layers of yellowed bamboo slips on the shelf and said to me, "What are you looking for, I'll help you find it together." ”

"No, the son must have a mountain of government affairs to deal with now." I turned down faster than I thought.

"The new monarch does not care about national politics during the period of filial piety, and we Qin people also know etiquette." Gongzi tiptoed out two rolls of bamboo slips from the shelf behind me, shook one by himself, and handed the other to me, "You just said that your background may be related to the Fan clan of the Jin Kingdom?" ”

I nodded, silently looking at the haggard man in front of me. I knew he wanted to stay, maybe the palace covered with white cloth was painful and oppressive, maybe he wanted to steal some old time from me so that he could forget the grief in his heart and the responsibility on his shoulders. But I can't let myself do nothing and become a demon who bewitches the monarch in the mouths of the courtiers of the Qin State.

"Gongzi doesn't ask about national politics during the filial piety period, so have the envoys of various countries who entered Yong's condolences also returned?" I asked.

"There is no arrangement for today." Gongzi Li raised his eyes from the bamboo slips, "You don't want me to accompany you here?" ”

"No, Ah Shi is just curious, the son treats his uncle and concubine on weekdays, but it's the same, state affairs can be extended, and etiquette can be broken?"

Gongzi Li looked at me in a daze, and after a while, he lowered his head and laughed, and put the bamboo slip in his hand into my arms: "The same words coming out of other women's mouths are coquettish and pet-friendly, but when they come out of your mouth, they become admonitions." Okay, I'll just go. When my father first died, there were a lot of state affairs waiting for me every day. The Qin people know the etiquette, but there are some etiquette, and the monarch must not want me to keep it. You can take a look at the bamboo slips on these three rows of wooden shelves, and I'll come back to you later. ”