What Ah Su said is true, Shi Mo is the witch of my mother's wedding, he already knows whose daughter I am, and he has long known that Zhao Ji will definitely come to see me when he enters Jin.

I sat on the cold stone steps with the medicine bowl in hand, and Shi Mo, who was dressed in ink and hair, walked out of the house: "Zi Di, send the teacher out of the city!" ”

I stiffened my feet and walked forward without saying a word.

The two of them walked all the way out of the house and across the long street, and the silence was my wildest accusation. My master, who is over seventy years old, is a man of heaven, and even if I don't say anything, he will definitely be able to hear my inner questioning.

By the muddy river, in the green bamboo forest, as we wordlessly passed by the grassy grave of the master, I finally couldn't help but stop.

Shi Mo was old, and his thin shoulders could no longer support the wide witch robe of the past. I have been a master and apprentice with him for so many years, and many times I can't tell whether he is the high-flying Tai Shimo or the master I knew when I was a child. Their kind faces have long overlapped in my heart.

But today, a bowl of medicinal soup stunned me to find that he was too Shimo, and he was still the same Tai Shimo after all.

He was afraid that I would poison Zhao Ying, so he told me on an empty stomach that Zhao Ying had already tested the poison. If I have a weak heart, I will naturally have the opportunity to change to a bowl of non-toxic new medicine. He was afraid that I would retreat today and kill again in the future, so he asked Beru to test the medicine for Zhao Ying. Even if I really want to kill Zhao Ying, how can I be willing to kill Beru unjustly. Master, Master, you are truly a saint who understands the hearts of the people through the heavens and the earth.

The bamboo forest was deep, the wind was like weeping, and the white-haired old man stopped in my silent gaze. He turned his head, and the dappled sunlight of the bamboo forest cast a wandering light on his thin and old face.

"Have you seen your father?" He asked.

"Are you afraid that I will kill the prime minister?" I asked.

"Zidian, you are a smart child, you know that Prime Minister can't die now."

"Hmph, Master is really afraid." I looked at Shi Mo's frowning brows and sneered, "Since Master knows that I am Zhao Ji's daughter, why did he still accept me as an apprentice back then?" Why do you still teach me, protect me, and pity me? That night in the Taishi Mansion, you already knew who I was, since the prime minister wanted to kill me, why didn't you let him chop off my head and throw it into the muddy water to feed the fish! "It's a shame that I was still ignorant and fearless kneeling in front of Zhao Ying, and said unashamedly that Shi Mo would definitely see me, but now I think about it, life and death were only between life and death at that time.

Shi Mo didn't answer, he closed his lips tightly and turned to face the wind and walked towards the shore of the muddy water.

"Is it because of the Master? If I wasn't a disciple of Cai Shu, I'd already be dead, right? "I stepped on the fallen leaves in the forest and stopped in front of him.

Shi Mo looked at me and didn't say a word for a long time. After all these years, there will be times when he will look at me like he does now, but not like he is looking at me.

"Idiot, I even drove him away, how could I care about him as a disciple who doesn't know the height of the sky. I don't kill you because you found me, not me. I, Cai Mo, have served God all my life, but I heard Haotian's voice for the first time in you. What should come is what is coming. I can't stop your fate, so I can only risk my life to protect you. ”

I didn't understand Shi Mo's words, but I understood the last sentence. For so many years, although he didn't say anything, I knew that he had been protecting me, a chick who didn't know the height of the sky, with his huge wings. He is aging day by day, but what he is most worried about is not his life and death, but my safety in the Jin Kingdom.

"Master, why are you hiding it from me, why do I ask you again and again, you have to lie again and again to lie to me?"

"Because the truth is too cruel for you to carry."

"No matter how cruel it is, it's the truth I want."

"Everything Zhao Ji told you, is it really what you want?" Shi Mo looked at me with his deep gaze, and my throat tightened, and I couldn't refute it.

"Zi Di, listen to Master, go farther! It is better to go to Chu State, go to Bashu, and cross the South China Sea to be a seafarer. Let it pass, your father is crazy, and he will force you to go crazy with him. His heart is dead, but yours is alive. Your aunt is a transparent child, she won't blame you for not avenging her, she will only blame you for not living well. ”

"Master said this, isn't he afraid that if I stay, it will be unfavorable to the prime minister? Apprentice and Prime Minister, you still chose Prime Minister in the end. "My heart was sore and painful, and I couldn't help but laugh at myself.

Shi Mo faced my childish accusation and sighed: "I didn't choose the prime minister, I chose the world." The prime minister can't die now, because Wuxian is not strong enough. If Zhi Yao swallows the Zhao clan, then within ten years, the Jin Kingdom Clan will cease to exist. The Zhi family swallows the Jin, the Chen family swallows the Qi, and the world will be in chaos. Zhiyao is disabled and belligerent, and he has not yet succeeded Shangqing to seize the defense, attack Zheng, and attack Qi. In the coming day, if he is promoted, the soul will be destroyed. In front of 100,000 living beings, neither your life nor my life matter. ”

"Heh, how can his Zhao Ying's life implicate the whole world? I don't believe it! ”

"A leaf falls and you know the autumn of the world, and a pool of ice shows the cold of the world. You already understand the truth, but you just don't want to admit it. The world is already shaky. As soon as Zhao Ying died, the sound of troubled times may sound. ”

Voices of Troubled Times...... Will Zhao's death be the last sound before the chaos? Will it?

"Master, rest assured, Zi Di never thought of being unfavorable to Qing Xiang. It's just that there are some things, and Master should stop hiding and deceiving me. ”

"Zi Di ......" Shi Mo listened to my words, his brows did not spread, but his face became more and more sad, "The teacher knows what you are thinking in your heart, but the things of the year have been forgotten by the teacher." Whatever you want to ask, just rot in your stomach! ””

Shi Mo's answer stunned me. I wanted to retreat into advance, but I didn't expect him to be so resolute.

"What secrets does Master have in his stomach that he can't tell me?"

"There are no secrets, just forgot. If you are not satisfied, you can disown me as a master. You, you ...... You don't have to forgive me. After speaking, Shi Mo walked around me and walked towards the riverbank. The sunlight scattered in the bamboo forest was obscured by thick clouds, and the shadows of green bamboo swayed in front of me. My master is old, white as frost, skinny, but his character is not old, his arrogant back will never bend, and he will be silent forever to keep his secrets.

This bamboo forest is verdant, but the Jiayufang five miles away is already a mess.

The yaoqin and incense burner were gone, and several long cases were also piled up in the corner. The clay pots and clay kettles in the kitchen were shattered, and a few herring fish that jumped out of the bucket fell to the mud floor, and the snow-white fish's belly was covered with sandy mud marks.

Jiayufang fell, and Zhao Ji left. If they didn't guess wrong, Chen Pan and Chen Wei must have left Xinjiang City at this time.

Since someone in the Zhao Mansion unknowingly stuffed my ears, it means that someone will secretly monitor my father's every move. If I don't kill Zhao Ying, naturally someone will do it for me. But what can I do? Do you want to forget the hatred of destroying the family and destroying the clan to protect Zhao Ying? But if you don't protect him, in case......

"Why are you here?" I was in a daze, when the voice of the shirtless suddenly sounded from behind.

How did he come! I turned around with a bang, but before I could look up, a black shadow suddenly jumped in front of me.

"Be careful!" Shirtless waved his hand and pulled me behind him.

"Meow-" A black and yellow wildcat stood erect on the overturned wooden frame, and I stepped out from behind the shirtless, glaring at me with a pair of blue eyes, baring its teeth, and then leaping to the ground and picking up the dead herring and jumping out.

"Didn't you send Taishi home? How did you get here? Shirtless looked around and looked at me with a puzzled expression.

I bent down to pick up the wooden frame on the ground and said calmly: "Prime Minister Qing said that he dreamed of Zhao Ji, and said that someone saw Zhao Ji coming to Xinjiang City. I bumped into Chen Pan and Chen Cheng here a few days ago, so I wanted to see if the Qi people had hidden Zhao Ji here. ”

"Chen Pan said at the banquet the day before yesterday that Chen Rei's hand was injured outside Jiayufang, and it turned out that he deliberately said it to you."

"Chen Wei was not injured at all that day, and the person I knocked down was Chen Pan." I glanced up at Wuxian when I mentioned Chen Wei.

Wu Xi didn't look displeased this time, so he only grabbed my hand and walked outside Jiayufang: "Even if you suspect that Zhao Ji is hiding here, you shouldn't be reckless and come alone." Before, we suffered a lot of losses from this person in Qi country. ”

"Master's bamboo house is not far from here, so I wanted to come and see it. I thought there would be a lot of people eating fish here, but I didn't know it would be like this. I avoided the ripped vines and dried herbs on the ground and walked out of the bamboo house.

"Some people said that they saw Zhao Ji in Jiayufang, and Father Qing asked Dong Shu to arrest people."

"Yu An?" I glanced back at the ruined Jiayufang, "He is now the capital of the Asian Brigade, and these things are indeed under his control." Did he catch someone? ”

"No, it's long gone." Shirtless walked out of Jiayufang, turned around and picked me up from the cracked steps.

"And what are you doing today?"

"Let's see if there's any clue that's missing. Zhao Ji is a scheming person, and his father is very uneasy about him. ”

"Why?"

"What, why?" Shirtless looked at me with a soft look.

"Why did Qing want to destroy Handan City in the middle of the year? Now you want to get rid of the Handan clan? It's not because Handan disobeyed him and embarrassed him, right? Qing Xiang's killing of Zhao Wu is not a momentary anger, right? ”

"Little woman, you are my father's bosom friend. Handan City is in the south, adjacent to the fiefdoms of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan in the past. Although Zhao Wu is a relative of the Zhao family, he frequently marries with the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, whose fiefs are also in the south. Qing's father himself intended to expand to the north, but he was afraid that over time, he would lose Handan City due to neglect of contacts. After the construction of Jinyang New City, Dong Shu's father, Dong Anyu, proposed that the Handan clan could try to test the loyalty of the Handan clan to his father on the grounds that he could call 500 Weimin households in Handan City to fill Jinyang. As a result, Zhao Wu, who had a different heart, really refused his father's order. Qing's father killed him in a fit of rage, half of it was to vent his anger, and the other half was also to pressure the Handan Zhao family. ”