"Zi Huang Gong sent his son." I took a step back and bowed down.

Childe gave me a deep look, turned and walked out.

I was the only one left in the huge room, the shadows of the sun slowly moving on the reed floor. Time passed little by little, and I found nothing.

In the records of the Qin people about the Fan family, there is no woman named Shun. The world belongs to men, and in their game, women are too insignificant, and their fate, life and death are simply not worth remembering.

The state of Lu is located in the east, and it is too far away from the state of Qin, so that there are few records of the state of Lu in the secret files of the Qin people. The only record I found of the Male Lost Clan was only a cursory mention of the construction of the chariot, and there were no side stories for me to turn to.

Two hours passed, and I was dizzy when I was buried in a pile of bamboo slips, and the excitement and nervousness I had first stepped into this room were now far away from me.

Is my obsession too deep? Maybe I shouldn't have asked about twenty years ago, maybe the kid didn't exist at all, or maybe he was dead in an underground vault. There is no one in this world who can tell me what happened to A-Niang back then.

With a long sigh, I lay down on the floor covered with bamboo slips, and pulled a roll of bamboo slips from the lowest layer of the wooden frame, and just shook it open when I sneezed into the dust that came to my face.

"Zhao Ying ran out, and Erqing surrounded Jinyang. The Marquis of Jin summoned Shi Mob. Zhi's Yibu. "A simple sentence on the musty bamboo slips made my sleepy and chaotic heart wake up suddenly. I wiped my nose vigorously and sat up sharply.

In that year, Zhao Ying killed Zhao Wu, a doctor in Handan, for the 500 households of Handan City, and Zhao Wu's son Zhao Ji, together with the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, came forward to crusade against the Zhao family. At first, the Marquis of Jin was on the side of the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, and Zhisong, who was the secretary of the Jin State at that time, also advocated a crusade against Zhao Ying. Therefore, in the summer of Zhao Wu's death, Fan Jishu directly led people to break through Zhao Ying's mansion in Xinjiangcheng. The Zhao clan fled north to Jinyang overnight.

I have already been told these things. But what I don't understand is why a few months later, Shangqing Zhisong suddenly changed his hexagram to protect Zhao Ying. His change almost turned the entire battle situation upside down.

Today I finally found the answer to this question.

Twenty years ago, perhaps everyone thought that Jin Tai Shimo was impartial to the six secretaries of the Jin State, and only served the monarch and the gods. But I know that Shi Mo has long recognized Zhao Ying as the master in his heart. The Marquis of Jin and Zhisong looked for him to predict the good luck of the war when the Zhao family was in the most danger, and it was impossible for him not to rescue Zhao Ying.

But back then, what did the master say to Jin Hou and Zhizhen through the mouth of the gods? Why did the situation of the Jin Dynasty change so much in just a few months?

I looked at the words on the mottled bamboo slips, but what came to my mind was the scene of Shi Mo in a high-crowned witch suit, who stepped into the gate of Zhifu alone in the face of the biggest storm in the Jin Kingdom in a hundred years.

A hexagram came out, the situation changed, the person who reversed the situation and decided the life and death of Sanqing and the fate of the Jin Kingdom was Zhisong or Shi Mo?

"Why did you lie down? But tired of watching? "When Gongzi Li came in, I was lying in the bamboo slips like a mountain.

"Politics taken care of?"

"I am a human being, and I have to rest. What you're looking for is something you can find? Childe sat down on his knees beside me.

"Nope." I shook my head, re-rolled the bamboo slips in my hand, and stuffed them into the bookshelf, "My mother is just a foreign daughter living in the Fan Mansion, if she marries the secretary of the Jin State, there may still be traces, but my father should be just an ordinary scholar, and there will be no records of them in the secret files of the Qin State." ”

"Ah Shi, in fact, I have a guess here." Gongzi Li hesitated for a moment and spoke.

"What speculation?"

"I asked you a long time ago why you embroidered hibiscus flowers on your close-fitting handkerchief, and you said, you like hibiscus because it's your mother's favorite flower, right?"

"Hmm. What does this have to do with my background? ”

"If your mother is just an ordinary concubine in Jingyang City, it naturally doesn't matter. But if you tell me today that she is from the Jin Dynasty and is related to the sect master of the Fan clan of the Jin Kingdom, I remembered an old thing I heard when I was a child. ”

"What's the matter?" I immediately perked up.

Gongzi Liluo groaned for a while, and said slowly: "That year, I remember that Dr. Baili had just married my aunt Ran Huan, but he pursued a maiko named Shao in the palace without telling his father. But the Maiko was arrogant, and seemed to have a desire to subdue my father. My mother was a princess of the Patriotic Empire, so naturally she disdained to compete with a maiko. But although he disdained it, he didn't want his father to have a new person and snubbed her. So, he found another way to give Baili Doctor a trick, taught him to plant ten miles of plum forests in the mountains and forests outside Yongcheng, and invited the monarch to go with the Maiko to enjoy the plums. Maiko Aimei became obsessed, and when she saw Dr. Baili treating her like this, she was naturally moved. The monarch's father also felt the affection of Doctor Baili, and after Merlin danced, he gave the Maiko to Doctor Baili. Afterwards, when the monarch learned the truth, instead of blaming his mother, he praised her for her cleverness and intelligence. After my father left that day, I praised my mother like him, but my mother hugged me on my lap and said with a wry smile, 'I have appreciated thousands of hibiscus trees outside Handan City, ten miles of plum forests on the bank of the Weishui River, and I have appreciated them all in the world, but unfortunately none of the flowers are mine. ’”

"A thousand hibiscus trees outside Handan City?"

"Well, Handan City and Diqiu City are across the river, and when my mother returned to Weiguo Province to visit her relatives, she had seen a thousand hibiscus plants planted by Zhao Ji, the young master of Handan, for his beloved woman. In the early summer, on the banks of the big river, thousands of flowers contended, and I thought that the grand scene at that time made my mother unforgettable at first sight, so I later asked for beauty for the hundred miles of doctors. ”

On the banks of the great river, thousands of hibiscus trees...... Could it be him? Will he be my daddy?

I looked at Gongzi Li beside me, but what kept shaking in front of me was the shadow of another man. His slender phoenix eyes, the tears in the corners of his eyes, the hibiscus flowers he embroidered on his sleeves and the Jiang Lixiang he left behind in the dark night.

"Ah?" Gongzi Li called me softly.

"Shun, my mother's name is Ah Shun." I muttered.

"The name of the hibiscus?"

"Yes, the name of hibiscus......" I lowered my head to support my dizzy head, some wanted to laugh and some wanted to cry, I remembered the last words that the man said before he disappeared in the dark alley of Shangqiu that night, he said, Xiao'er, no matter who raised you and taught you to become an adult, he did a really good job.

Zhao Ji, are you really my father? If you were my father, why didn't you come to me for so many years, why did you plan to frame me in such a way, why didn't you ask me how my aunt died when you saw me......

"Is the hibiscus garden outside Handan still there?" I took a deep breath and looked up again.

Gongzi Li looked at me worriedly, shook his head, and said, "It's already a scorched earth. Zhao Ying killed Zhao Wu, the doctor of Handan, and sent Zhao Wu's body into Handan City, threatening Zhao Wu's son Zhao Ji to immediately escort 500 families of Weiguo captives to Jinyang. Zhao Ji was unwilling, and in a fit of rage, he drove the envoy of the Zhao family out of Handan City. And when the messenger was humiliated, he went out of the city and passed through the hibiscus garden, and he burned a thousand hibiscus trees in the garden. Zhao Ji was furious and rebelled. Later, there was the chaos of the Six Emperors of the Jin Kingdom. ”

"That's ...... so"

Handan City, the most beautiful city on the bank of the river. I have heard its name countless times on bamboo slips and in other people's mouths, but I never thought that it would be my home, the home where I live with my mother and father. I can't imagine that there were thousands of hibiscus and ten thousand flowers in this world, just for my poor A-Niang to bloom alone. Because if that's true, then the memories of peeking at the hibiscus on the wall in the sun that day are so cruel to A-Niang.

"Ah Shi, you say...... Will Handan Jun Zhao Ji be your father? Seeing that I was silent for a long time, Gongzi Li asked in a low voice.

I stared straight into his eyes, no response, I didn't want to say the answer in my heart, and I didn't want to hear the answer in my own mouth. Zhao Ji: He can't be my father, it's impossible.

I stood up with the wooden frame, thousands of bamboo slips swaying beside me, and I walked among countless secrets, only to feel so dizzy that I almost vomited.

This night, after the rooster crowed, it rained again, and the raindrops crackled on the fallen leaves in the courtyard. I lay on the bed with a brocade quilt in my arms, staring at the dark window.

My eyes couldn't see anything, but I had been doing it all night.

Soon after, it was dawn. Everything in front of me began to become clear, and I took a deep breath and slowly closed my eyes.

I don't know how long I've been asleep, but when I wake up, the rain outside the window is still falling, rustling, and lingering. I got dressed and sat up, and just as I got out of bed, someone outside the door whispered, "Wizard, are you up?" ”

"Up." I put on my robe and walked to the door, which I gently opened.

Outside the door, there was a temple man, and his plain white linen clothes were already half wet. When he saw me open the door, he hurriedly raised his hand and saluted: "Your Excellency found an old citizen of Handan City twenty years ago for the sorcerer yesterday, and if the sorcerer wants to see him, he will immediately send the person into the palace." ”

"People from Handan City? Where is he? I grabbed the door.

The temple man looked at me worriedly, bowed his head and said, "Now in the city pavilion, if the sorcerer wants to see ......."

"I'm going out of the palace and prepare a car for me!"

"No!"

At the first funeral of the monarch, the streets of Yongcheng were deserted, and there were no young children and rangers who drank and fought in the past, everyone was dressed in sackcloth, and their faces were solemn.

I got off the bus and entered the hall under the guidance of the temple people. As soon as the director of the pavilion saw us, he immediately greeted us, and the temple people next to him answered him, and he bowed down and led us upstairs.