There were two rows of slave soldiers with long swords standing outside the gate of Shi Mo's mansion, and when they saw me coming from afar, they all pulled out their swords.

"Stop! Where did the bold mother-in-law come from! A man in his twenties with messy hair and a shawl held a sword in front of me, "The king told you all to stay in the house and not go out, didn't your man tell you?" If you go out, you have to cut off your head, you are not afraid of death! Hurry up, hurry up, go away! ”

"This big brother, is Taishi in the mansion?" I glanced past him and into the door.

"I'll tell you what! Let's go! The man reached out to push me, I flashed sideways and walked straight to the door of the house, he turned around and grabbed my clothes and said, "Hey, you really can't go in." ”

"I have to go in, and if I don't, you'll all die."

"What nonsense!" The man glared at me viciously, turned his head and shouted at the people on the steps who were watching the excitement, "Whoever gives me a rope, tie her up first." ”

"Grandpa, I seem to have seen her, the doll in her belly ......" A thirteen or fourteen young man at the gate of the mansion tiptoed in the ear of an old man with gray hair and brown spots. The old man glared, looked me up and down, and immediately shouted for everyone to put away their swords. Everyone looked at him suspiciously, he ran down the steps and pulled away the man in front of me, and smiled at me: "It turns out that the sister-in-law is here, Taishi Gong is in the house, the road is not familiar, the old man led you in." ”

"Sister-in-law? When did the eldest brother marry his mother-in-law? ”

"The baby is about to give birth, and she is not a sister-in-law yet."

"Shhhh

"Hello sister-in-law."

"Hello sister-in-law."

……

I walked up the steps, and men of twelve, thirteen, forty or fifty, regardless of age, smiled and called me sister-in-law. Don't worry, I won't let you die, and I won't let anyone step on your bones and climb up.

Walking into the mansion gate, the Taishi Mansion was as calm as ever, there were no broken tiles and stones, and there were no slave armies everywhere. The sun rises in the sky, the flowers and trees in the courtyard are clustered, the clear stream is bubbling, and a pool of white sand quietly shines dazzlingly in the bright sun. The old man who led the way didn't know much about the way, and almost made a mistake several times, so I quietly mentioned it behind him, and he took me outside the Shimo Courtyard.

Shi Mo Xijie, the stone steps in front of the house are also paved with seats. The slave army had been besieging the mansion all night, but there was not even a single mud footprint on the banquet at this moment. The thief didn't believe in the gods, but his slave army was clearly shy of the god-versaking Smith.

The old man sent me outside the house and left. I pushed the door in, and the room was quiet, and the bronze stove, which had always burned incense, leaned coldly against the foot of the desk, and there was no water in the water on the desk, and the small bronze fish cast at the bottom of the case were empty. Just after the time of eating, the sun was shining outside, but there was not much left of the bright light through the closed window and into the room, hazy, dim, and cold, and the room in front of me seemed to be still stuck in a winter twilight.

Shi Mo was not in the front hall, nor was he in the bedroom, so I had to go to the West Chamber, which was the place where Shi Mo usually wrote his history books.

There is no door in the west chamber, the bamboo curtain hangs to the ground, and there is a person sitting behind the curtain.

I stretched out my hand to lift the curtain, plain white foot clothes, plain white witch robes, plain white long hair, Shi Mo sat behind the bookcase in a single color. He looked up and met my eyes, holding a long blue-gold dagger in his hand.

"Master is waiting for someone?" I walked into the room and bent down to pick up the dagger that had fallen beside the desk. The heart of the magnolia tree is carved as a sheath, which is a congratulatory gift given to him by Zhao Ying, Shi Mo's birthday the year before last.

Shi Mo stared at my face with an unusually serious expression, but his expression didn't seem to be panicked and nervous, but seemed to blame me for why I came here: "Your father asked you to do it for him?" He asked.

"It's not." I took the dagger from Shi Mo's hand and put it on the dagger, and pushed it to Shi Mo's hand, "My father's hatred for his master is still above Zhao Ying, how could he give me this opportunity that he has been waiting for twenty years?" Don't worry, I didn't let Tai Shi Gong watch him kill Siqing and recapture Handan, he was reluctant to let you die. ”

"Okay, since that's the case, then the teacher will wait for him." Shi Mo picked up the dagger and put it back into his arms.

"Master is going to tell a hexagram today?" I opened a long box with red paint dots on the table and pulled out a handful of yellowed yarrow from inside.

"I haven't counted it for a long time, and I'm planning to make a divination for your father. Since you are here, do you want to accompany your teacher to calculate and see if your father wins or loses in the end? ”

"He's not going to win."

"He's obsessed and crazy, but you can see it thoroughly." Shi Mo looked relieved. Zhao Ji will definitely kill him if he wins, and he will kill him if he loses, he is a dying person, but he has no fear.

"The slave army attacking the city is not the idea of thieves, nor is it instigated by my father and Dong Shu, it is the monarch who wants to kill Siqing in the name of slave rebellion and regain the monarchy."

"Hey, Xinjun is arrogant and anxious, and he doesn't know the way to bend and stretch, this step is too risky."

"Zhi Yao has always been rude, Ji Chi Xu is afraid that he will learn from Qi Xiang to kill the king and usurp power in the future, so he wants to be ruthless first. It's a pity that the Zhi family and the Qi Guo Chen family have long had a private conspiracy, Dong Shu only caught Han Hu and Wei Ju last night, but asked Zhi Yao to run away. ”

"You said that Zhiyao and Chen Heng colluded? Where does this begin? ”

"Master, have you ever heard that before the ancestor of the Chen family of Qi entered Qi, Zhou Taishi once divined a hexagram for him?"

…………

Ah Su and Chen Wei came to Jin Kingdom to find me, but Chen Pan was not. Chen Pan and Zhi Yao have long been in contact, when Zhi Yao became a son, Chen Pan personally sent a big gift to Zhi Fu to congratulate. Fang just escaped without mercy, but Chen Pan, who had just entered the city, only cared about the life and death of the two sect masters of Han and Wei, but he didn't ask Zhi Yao alone, so I became suspicious, and then asked the thief, Zhi Yao was really not in the city, and even the prince Zhiyan didn't know where to go.

The thief must be the first in the world, and turn the slave into a free man. The ambitious Zhi Yao and Chen Heng are afraid that they also want to do something that no one in the world has ever done. King Wu established the Zhou Dynasty and divided the princes, and for more than 500 years, the titles of the princes were passed down from generation to generation, without exception. But in the past 100 years, Lile has collapsed, the Gong clan is weak, and the Qing clan is in power.

"Are you saying that the Chen clan of Qi State wants to replace the princes, but they are afraid that they will be attacked by the princes of the world, so they want to try it on Zhi Yao first?"

"Jin and Qi are both big countries, and if the slave army kills Sanqing, Zhiyao can monopolize power. The Zhi clan is eager for immortality in order to one day replace the Gong clan and annex the Jin Kingdom alone. Now that Xinjiang is in trouble, if Zhi Yao leads his troops into the city in the name of counterinsurgency, the four thousand slaves will definitely die, my father and Dong Shu will definitely die, and even the Marquis of Jin may not be spared. Afterwards, Zhi Yao, who killed people, only had to put all the blame on the rioting slaves, and then ordered the slaughter of a group of 'traitors' who colluded with the Dong family and the Handan family, and no one dared to mention this turmoil again. Zhiyao is only thirty this year, if he dominates the Jin Kingdom for twenty years......"

"Not twenty years. If he dominates the Jin Kingdom, within ten years, he will force the King of Zhou to change the title of Zhi as king. Shi Mo's eyebrows furrowed, and his face was more solemn than when he first met.

"If the king of Zhou really succumbs to the obscenity of the Zhi clan and changes the title of Zhi Yao as the king, then the Qi kingdom will definitely fall into the hands of the Chen clan. Jin and Qi are big countries, and the big country can drive away the Gong family, and the small country will follow suit. At that time, there will really be no peace in the world. Zi Huang knew that this was ridiculous, and hoped that it was just a ridiculous guess. But other than that, I really can't think of why the Chen clan would abandon my father and help the Zhi clan monopolize the power of the Jin Kingdom. ”

"The change of the old and the new, the strong eat the weak, is the general trend of the world. However, the Zhi clan has no virtue and is not enough to be a king. ”

"Ask Master for help." I bowed my head, and Shi Mo quickly got up and helped me.

"Master......" I looked at the old man in front of me expectantly, he was my only hope now.

Shi Mo looked at my eyes for a long time, and said in a dumb voice: "Zi Di, I know that you have hatred in your heart, but I also know that you always have great love in your heart. To this day, you are still willing to call me Master, and I am very happy for my teacher, you tell me, how else can I help you with this fish? ”

I hate him, I hate him for ruining my home, ruining my mother, my father, but as he has taught me over the years, a person's love and hate is insignificant in front of thousands or tens of thousands of living beings.

"Wuxian has fled from the city last night, and Han Hu and Wei Ju are still alive. Zhi Yao's army should not arrive so early, if the slaves are willing to leave the city now, there is no substitute, even if Zhi Yao comes, they will not dare to do anything to the three families. This chaos may be peaceful. ”

"You didn't persuade the thief before you came?"

"I have persuaded them, but the thieves must first pardon the sin of fugitive slaves and give them freedom before they are willing to leave the city."

"You come with me." Shi Mo got up after hearing this, and I hurriedly stood up.

Shi Mo walked out of the wing room on crutches, descended the stone steps, and led me all the way to a warehouse in the backyard, he took out the key and opened the door, took out a very ordinary brown wooden box from the wooden frame next to the door and handed it to me: "Everything you want is in this box." ”

"Is this the only box? There are 4,000 fugitive slaves in Xinjiang, and there is more than this box for them to enter and exit the checkpoint. ”

"In order for a fugitive slave to become a free man, the most important thing is to have a city to live in, land to cultivate, and a household to check. But as far as I know, in the past few years, Simin has not made a separate register to make up household registration for these slaves. Even if the thief persecuts the king, at most he can only get a pardon that may be invalidated at any time, and he can't get anything else. ”

"So what to do?"

"The land can be given later, the household registration can be rebuilt, and the thieves can take people to the north to avoid disasters first."

"What does Master mean - let Yin Duo receive them?" When it comes to northern Zhaodi, the first thing that comes to my mind is Jinyang. If it was Yin Duo, he would definitely try to find a way out for these fugitive slaves.

Shi Mo nodded and said, "It's Jinyang." Fake household registers, Yin Duo is probably more experienced than Simin. As for how to settle the slaves, he had already done a good job a few years ago. ”

Yes, before the Jin suburbs sacrificed to the heavens, Yin Duo had asked Zhao Ying to take more than 100 slaves over forty years old from Dinggong in the name of building Jinyang City, some of these slaves were from Huo Taishan, some were from Jiuyuan, and there were probably relatives of the slave army among them.

"Master, this box contains the festival for customs clearance?"

Shi Mo looked at the ordinary wooden box in my arms and said, "This was originally the festival used by the Zhao family to transport grain and grass between Xinjiang and Taigu, and it can be used by more than 100 people at a time. As for how to send 4,000 people into Jinyang under cover, and how to make Zhiyao invisible to them, it's up to you. There is no perfect way to do this, only expediency, you can take this box and find the thief! ”