I'm not crazy, so I can't imagine what amazing decisions two men crazy with hatred could make. Along the way, Zhao Ji didn't say anything to me, so I was completely stunned when I saw a red-haired thief and a camp tent with no end in sight in the valley on the outskirts of Jin.

This was once the "Lost Valley" in the mouth of Wuxi, with steep cliffs and slender waterfalls like silver, and the situation of him and Si'er playing and practicing swords here is still as clear as yesterday. But now, the green grass was gone, replaced by rows of gray-and-white tents and ragged men with long swords.

"Where are you going to take me?" As soon as Zhao Ji turned around, the thief was pulled away by me. There are many people, and I want to find a place where no one is to talk to him, but after walking for a long time, there are still people coming and going. The thieves kept shouting behind me, and I looked at the seemingly endless tent in front of me, and I felt that it was ridiculous to the extreme.

"Hey, I didn't make your belly bigger, what are you pulling me for? If you have something to say, don't walk blindly! The thief forced me to stop with a backhand.

I saw that he was already out of the cliff, but he still looked indifferent, and I couldn't help but be angry: "Okay, let me ask you, who are these people?" What did you do with them and Handan-kun? Back then, you said that you were going to do a big thing, did the big thing you want to do was to bring a group of people to accompany you to Xinjiang City to die? ”

As soon as I finished speaking, the originally lively camp suddenly fell silent. The people in the near aisle stopped, and a dozen black heads came out of the tents on either side, all of them looking at me and the thief with curiosity.

The thief looked at me helplessly, and I frowned and turned to leave, when he suddenly opened his throat and shouted to the crowd of onlookers around him: "Brothers, you tell this big-bellied girl, are you going to send me to death?" ”

"It's not—" the crowd replied in unison.

"Hear me, they didn't go with me to die." The thief patted me on the back and staggered past me with his sword in his hand.

"And who are they? Bandits? "I hurried after him.

"I'm a bandit, they're not." The thief smiled and touched the head of a young man beside the road.

"They're not bandits, so what are you hiding them for? My father wants to kill Siqing to take revenge, and the Qi people can't send troops, so he found you. What did he promise you? No matter what he promises you, you can't trust him, he's taking advantage of you. ”

"I have what I want, he has what he wants, and I can't talk about who takes advantage of whom."

"He wants to kill and take revenge, what do you want?"

"I want to be free."

"Freedom? Oh, you're not free enough to steal! Come if you want, go when you want, run away if you see a woman who grabs it, and throws it on the side of the road in the middle of the night when you get tired of playing, what freedom do you want? ”

"It's not mine, it's their freedom."

Their? I stopped, looked at the thief and said, "You mean these people are escaped slaves?" ”

"Jiuyuan, Huotai Mountain, Xiayang, Quliang, Beier Mountain...... The 4,000 slaves who fled from the Jin Kingdom lived in this valley. ”

"Oh my God, how can you do such a thing! Without the permission of the master, without the grace given by the people, it is easy for them to escape, and it is a capital crime if they are caught! ”

"Bullshit owner! Heaven and earth give birth to all things, how can they be distinguished from the low? Bloodline? Take the sword and cut it, and the blood of the king, or the blood of the slaves, whoever sheds the blood is not red. Born in Guiqing's house, a piece of dog shit can also be worry-free. The slaves toiled day and night, and when they had grown food, they could not eat it themselves, and when a natural disaster came, they would be tied up with straw ropes and made into animals, burned to ashes, and given to the god who did not care about anything. It's not fair, and no one has ever thought about it? ”

"You're talking about Jiuyuan City Yin?" At that time, a large number of slaves were used as live animals because of the death of seedlings in Jiuyuan, and dozens of slaves were burned to death at one sacrifice in three days. Later, the slaves rioted en masse and fled, and Zhao Ying also condemned Jiuyuan Chengyin for this incident. The people of the Jin State once sent people to search the country, but there was no trace of the escaped slaves. It turned out that it was the thief who saved them. "The Jiuyuan Rebellion was in the thirty-first year of Dinggong, the escape of Huo Taishan slaves was in the thirty-fourth year of Dinggong, and there are also Xia Yang and Qu Liang, you spent seven years building this slave army, what do you want to do?"

"I said, I'm going to set them free."

"Their freedom is only given by a king!"

"Then I'll force him to give!" The thief kicked away a lizard in the middle of the road, and strode away.

I chased after me with my stomach in my arms, but the thief ignored me, and he was soon nowhere to be seen in the crowded camp. It would take a great deal of money to raise and train an army of 4,000 slaves, and it would be impossible for a single person to do it. After Zheng Bo repented, Zhao Ji went straight to this place, which showed that he had long been prepared for the failure of the Liqiu Alliance. Zheng Bo is his best policy, and this slave army is his next policy. And he and the Qi people behind him must have been involved in the formation of this army from the beginning.

Jiuyuan, Huo Taishan, Xiayang, Quliang...... As I silently recited the names of the places that the thief had said, a light flashed in my head.

The secret letter of the hexagram! Mingyi's secret letter to me!

As it turned out, those strange place names and numbers recorded the number of escaped slaves and the number of coins used to raise the army, and the head of the Kan hexagram wanted to tell us in a secret letter that the Qi people secretly trained the army in the Jin State.

Ming Yi had reminded me not to tell anyone in the Tianshu about the secret letter, and he suspected that there was a traitor in the Tianshu, so Zhao Ying had Wuyin executed. But I now know that there was someone else who killed Lord Kan, and even Wuyin died for him.

"Ah Shi, I only hope you don't regret it in the future."

I regret it, I regret that I didn't recognize his wolf ambition, and I actually handed over the entire Tianshu to him.

Tianshu is Zhao's eyes, the eyes of the shirtless, but I blinded his eyes and let him be slaughtered like a fish. How could I not have imagined that? Jinyang is moving, why do those black-clothed people who want to burn down Gu Liao know everything about the layout of the city? The bandits on Monkey Head Mountain came and went without a trace, and it was clear that they were well-trained troops. Zhao Ji and Yu An had already secretly woven a huge net, but I didn't notice it at all.

This night, the night owls in the valley screamed for a whole night, and every step of the heavy footsteps outside the tent seemed to step on my heart.

Thieves, slaves, Zhao Ji, Chen, Siqing, Jin Marquis...... I got rid of distracting thoughts, closed my eyes, and lit a light in my heart, some of them were distant, some were close, and some were intertwined with light through the darkness. Who has the weakest light, who has the most entanglements, and who can tear down the game and start all over again? In the world of light and shadow, I fell into deep thought.

I don't know how long it took, and a distant voice suddenly came into my ears: "Ah Shi, are you thinking about me?" You must be thinking about me right now because you hate me, right? I...... Hate you too. On the outskirts of Qufu that day, you should have gone with me, you saved me so many times, why did I beg you to save me one last time, but you refused? A pair of cold hands gently touched my cheeks in the dark, I trembled and didn't dare to open my eyes, the owner of the hand took my hand and put his face in my palm, "Encounter is what I want." My heart has been engraved on your sword, but you have never seen it. Walk with me, it's not what you want, so be it, we hate each other, fight each other, and see which of us will survive in the end, and who will remember whom......"

The distant sound disappeared, the cold breath dissipated, and for a long time, I opened my eyes with a wildly beating heart.

It's dawn, is it a dream?

A few rays of pale golden light penetrated through the cracks of the tent, and a few chickadees fluttered their wings and chirped non-stop, I closed my eyes and took two deep breaths, and lifted the tent with my cloak on.

People go to the mountains and empty mountains, and I am the only one in the empty valley. Disappeared, overnight, the continuous gray and white military tents and the endless crowds of people in the valley were all gone. The mountains are green, the grass is lush, the flowers are abundant, those people seem to have never appeared here, only I am like a stranger from the sky, looking at the desolate cliff in a daze, unable to distinguish between dream and reality.

"Brother? Brother-"Zhao Ji is gone, he has taken Ah Quinoa with him!" I rushed out of the tent and called frantically, but the valley responded sharply after another.

"Uh-" Suddenly there was a faint sound in the dense bushes beside the cliff.

"Who?" I stopped.