Outside the east gate, there were two red-clothed envoys with thin eyes and round noses, they untied their swords, and one of them held a lacquer box and waited at the door.

The sun shines directly on my face, so bright that people can't open their eyes, I don't understand the Bashu language, plus I didn't sleep well last night, and my head is dizzy, so their words are particularly harsh in my ears.

Finally, when they were finished, Wu Feng stepped forward and opened the lacquer box in the hand of the tall messenger, and there was a scroll of descending books in it, he picked it up and looked at it, then put it back in the box and handed it to me.

I took it with both hands and held it firmly in front of my chest. At this time, Wu Feng opened the second box, which contained a human head. Wu Feng glanced at the emanation of the head, and whispered to General Qi, who had just arrived: "It's the head of the prince of sin." ”

With a thud, the lacquer box in my hand slammed into my foot.

"What's wrong?!" Wu Feng turned around.

I endured the severe pain in my feet, picked up the lacquer box on the ground again, bowed back and said: "Zi Huang saw that this head was too resentful, so he lost the book box, please forgive the two generals!" ”

"With such a heavy grievance, how can you face the monarch?" General Qi was very worried when he heard my words, and said to Wu Feng: "It's better to ask the sorcerer to cast a spell first, and you and I will enter the palace later." ”

Wu Feng glanced at me and said, "Then there is a witch!" ”

"No!" I handed the lacquer box in my hand to Youyu, took the box containing the head of the prince, knelt down facing north, and slowly opened it.

The prince's face was even more awe-stricken than I had seen it last night, its weed-like hair sticking to its gray-white face with blood, and its two closed eyes were like two black copper coins embedded in a sunken hole, faintly breathing with death. He must have been beaten badly after being brought back by the Bashu, with two black and purple bruises on his cheeks and a bloodstained tear stain, and his red and swollen lips turned out after death, revealing his white teeth.

I suddenly felt a strong sense of remorse in my heart, I should have killed him last night, why should I give him a hope of life, but let him die so badly......

After I finished reading the witch words, I put the lacquer box back on and handed it to Wu Feng, and said softly: "After seeing the monarch, please take him to see Mrs. Jun and Gongzili again." If you can, let the people of Bashu send his body back. ”

Wu Feng glanced at me worriedly, nodded and said, "You go down first!" ”

"No!"

Half a day later, Wu Feng finally came back, and before he could take off his shoes and boots, he was grabbed by me: "Is Mrs. Jun crying?" Did Childe Li cry? ”

"Xiao'er, what's wrong with you today?" Wu Feng took off his shoes and led me into the house, "It's weird to see you in the morning, but I was scared yesterday?" ”

I shook my head and told Wu Feng everything about the meeting of the prince by Weishui last night.

Wu Feng pondered for a moment after hearing this, touched my head, and said softly: "The prince of sin and the prince Li were both from Mrs. Jun, but when the prince was born, it is said that Mrs. Jun suffered a lot and almost lost her life. The sorcerer said that he was born with a mother, so Mrs. Jun has always favored the prince and hated the prince of sin. But today, when she saw the head of the prince of sin, she cried in front of me and General Qi holding the lacquer box, no matter how much she hated him, she was his mother after all. ”

"Really? That's good. My throat twitched, and I choked a little.

Have you seen the legendary rainbow with your own eyes now? Take one more look at your mother and go in peace......

After submitting the surrender letter, the allied forces of the two countries quickly withdrew. The mutilated body of the prince was also sent back by the messenger after an interval of five days. Mrs. Jun ordered his head and body to be sewn together again and buried in the cemetery outside the south gate. Because of the treason of the crown prince Xingbing, there was no way to enter the temple of Qin Guozong to accept sacrifices after his death, and in the end, only Mrs. Jun set up a small altar for him in his dormitory, burning incense day and night. He never enjoyed his mother's love in his life, and finally got his wish after his death.

After the affairs of the Qin State were over, Wuxian began to pack his luggage and prepare to return to Jin. Candle Chu wants to take Mi Cao home, so he is also very busy in and out of the yard.

I sat on the roof every day in a daze, I didn't see Wu Feng, I didn't see Gongzili, I just was in a daze, and occasionally took out Tao Xun to blow a song, just when their busyness had nothing to do with me.

Although Bo Huan was reluctant to leave, she had no reason to stay, so she was upset, climbed on the roof and sat next to me and sighed: "Zi Di, do you think General Wu will go to the Jin Kingdom to propose marriage to Father Qing?" Will he think I'm too old? ”

Without saying a word, I continued to blow my Tao Xun.

"I'm twenty-nine years old, and since the death of the son of the Zhongxing clan, I thought that no one would want to marry me. I didn't expect that I could wait for such a good man. Bo Huan pulled my sleeve with a smile and said, "Why don't you go to him now and let him go back to the Jin Kingdom with us?" You say, would he be happy if he knew that Xiao Ying was the uncle of the Zhao family? ”

Bo Huan didn't care if I was listening or not, she just wanted to find someone to listen to her, but every word she said fell into my ears and was a torment. When the enemy besieged the city, none of us knew if we would survive or not, so I completely forgot the doubts and resentments I had against Wu Feng before, and only thought about standing with him regardless of life or death. Now that the Bashu coalition has been defeated, what I had escaped from forgetting before has come back to my mind, and the presence of Bo Ying has made everything even more complicated.

"Zidian, General Wu sent someone to call you over." Candlestick looked up in the courtyard and called out to me.

"Got it, you send someone back first, and I'll go later!" I agreed, put down the Tao Xun in my hand, I didn't know what to say to him until I cleared my thoughts.

"Zi Di, you lied to me when you were in the Jin Kingdom before, right?" Bo Ying, who had been chattering beside him, suddenly quieted down and asked such a frightening sentence.

"What did I lie to you?" My heart was pounding.

"Actually, you're General Wu's adopted daughter, right?" Bo Huan played with a bird-shaped white jade pendant on her waist, and her voice was calm, "Although I am not as sharp as Hongyun'er, I have more or less seen some clues in the past half a month." ”

"Noble girl, I can't explain the matter with the general for a while, I'm afraid that you will be cranky, so I will hide it from you."

"I'm fifteen years older than you, and I don't say a lot of things, just because I don't understand it." Bo Huan looked into my eyes and smiled, "Zi Di, I like you very much, but I have never shared what I like with others since I was a child, the sword is like this, and the man is like this, even if that person is my friend." I heard that there is not a single concubine in General Wu's mansion now, and I hope it will always be like this in the future, do you know what I mean? ”

Bo Huan's words shocked me, could it be that the little daughter's thoughts she talked about before were all to emphasize to me that Wu Feng was hers? I looked at her smiling face, at her curved moth eyebrows, and suddenly felt blind, an indescribable sensation piercing my spine and then spreading all over my body.

I nodded indifferently, she regained her old smile, stood up, patted me on the shoulder, and said loudly: "Since the general called you, you should go quickly!" With that, he jumped off the roof.

At dusk, standing in front of the General's Mansion, I looked at the two red-painted doors in front of me in a daze, but I never had the courage to knock on them. This was my home, the home I had in mind, and everything was still the same, and time seemed to stop on the day I left.

The plum tree in the front yard with fallen leaves stretched out half of its branches outside the wall, and in a trance, I seemed to see two little girls with wooden sticks hiding sideways by the wall. The one in front was slightly taller, with loose hair and bare feet, and a thick wooden stick in his hand with a fierce face. The one hiding in the back, combing the horns, tremblingly holding a small twig.

In autumn, the plum trees in the General's Mansion bear fruit, and there are always a few wild boys who fold ladders to steal the fruit. From time to time, Si'er and I had to engage in an "ambush", and when they couldn't move when they stacked the ladder, we would beat them with sticks and cover our faces, and after the fight, we quickly ran into the house to avoid retaliation.

Later, when the general returned from the border pass, he would have people collect the fruit and distribute it to the children in the neighborhood when the plums were ripe. When I see those wild boys coming, I always give them a few more from my share, after all, they have suffered a lot from me in previous years. At that time, the general didn't know the reason, but he hugged me in his hand and praised me with a smile......

"Lady? Is that you? ”

As soon as I turned around, I saw the cypress woman standing behind me, so I hurriedly greeted her, took her hand and said, "Bo woman, are you okay these days?" I drank your sweet soup that day, and I never had a chance to see you again. ”

"Okay, it's all good......" The cypress woman's face was thinner than two years ago, and two deep wrinkles had grown at the corners of her eyes.

"This is the child you held in your arms that day?" I touched the child on her back and sighed, "It's all grown so big, and the eyebrows and eyes are really similar to his father." ”

"His father came back that day and said you drowned, and I never believed it." The cypress woman held my hand, her eyes were red, and she choked up, "I watched the growing child and I knew for myself, you don't die so easily......"

"Yes, my life is very hard, falling, climbing trees, fishing, fighting, falling in the water several times, how can I drown?" I held back the sentimentality in my heart and laughed.

"Well, it's good to come back, it's good to come back......" The cypress woman wiped a handful of tears, and just wanted to say something, the child behind her suddenly burst into tears, "Let the noble girl smile." The cypress woman held the child's ass with her hand and tossed it, and said softly: "Don't cry, A-Niang will go home and make you a ...... soup."

"Go back quickly, don't starve the child!" I gently stroked the child behind her back, "I'll have to see you later." ”

"After spring plowing this year, I will go back to the house to help, and I will see you every day in the future." The cypress saluted me happily, and then sang a little tune, coaxing the child on her back to drift away.

When I first arrived at the General's Mansion ten years ago, I couldn't sleep because I missed my aunt, so she carried me on her back like this, singing a vague Qindi tune, and kept circling around the courtyard to coax me to sleep. In the blink of an eye, she is already the mother of three children, and I am no longer a little Ah Shi who squatted by the well and watched her laundry.

Time is a terrible thing, and before we know it, it has unconsciously changed each and every one of us.