In eleven years, more than 3,000 days and nights, from the Qin State to the Jin Kingdom, from a desperate orphan girl to today's gods and witches who are honored on behalf of the heavens, others may seem to have infinite scenery, but only I understand how difficult this road is, and how much I can't help myself. The ugly copper stone has finally become a sharp sword, but no one thinks about how many hammers it has endured, and how much blood it will spill in the future.

I looked up at the towering altar in front of me, and with each step I took up, my steps grew heavier.

"Dedication-" After the drum music, the high-pitched and loud voice of the ceremonial official went straight into the sky.

Facing the direction of the rising sun, I sat down in my clothes, and there were rainbow-tailed birds flying by in the blue sky.

Suddenly, the crowd under the high platform burst into exclamations.

Under the direct sunlight, the black gold robe flashed with a dazzling golden light. From the collar to the hem, the entire robe seemed to be ignited by the sun, bursting with dazzling golden light.

The black gold robe seems to be sewn from the most ordinary silk silk, but there is a layer of gold clothing hidden inside. The outer silk is woven with a special method of changing the warp and weft threads, so that the black gold robe will only shine when the sun shines directly.

The Marquis of Jin standing in front of me was stunned, and Shi Mo, who was beside him with a fluttering beard, smiled.

After offering wine, animals, and food, a complex set of rituals, it was my turn to give a drink to the Marquis of Jin on behalf of the gods.

The Marquis of Jin leaned over and knelt down in front of me. In an instant, everyone under the high altar, including Zhao Ying and Zhi Yao, all bowed down.

As far as the eye could see, there were large expanses of black oppressed human heads, and an invisible sense of oppression rushed towards me. The drumming stopped at this moment, and everyone in the field outside Xinjiang City was lying down, and I was the only one standing high on the altar. I suddenly felt scared, and I wanted to reach out and grab something, but there was only a wisp of green smoke around me that I couldn't touch.

In a trance, I saw a familiar moon-white figure. He stood far away against the wind behind the crowd, and I couldn't see the expression on his face, but I could feel his warm gaze.

It was he who discovered my ugly copperstone, and it was he who struck the first hammer on me.

General, is this scene in your eyes now happy to see? Is this the future you wanted to weave for me? Like this, standing above ten thousand people......

I looked at Wu Feng in the distance, he looked up at me, and then flicked his hem and knelt down.

For a moment, I closed my eyes tightly.

Ah Shi, accept your fate!

When I opened my eyes again, there was no more fear, no more hesitation, no more excitement, no more joy.

"Give—"

The ceremonial officer shouted, and the sound of drums sounded again.

This time the sacrifice went surprisingly well, and the golden figure on the altar became an excellent proof of the arrival of the gods. The people who witnessed this miracle rushed to tell each other, and they said that the disaster of the Jin Kingdom would eventually come to an end.

As Shi Mo expected, the miracles at the ceremony made Baiguan and Li Shu remember the name of the sorcerer Zi Di. But what they didn't know was that after the ceremony, the shining golden son fell ill.

I was sick for three days and slept for three days.

When I woke up, it was already dusk outside the window, and the carriage sent to pick up Si'er and Wuxian outside the city still hadn't returned.

When Bo Ying appeared, I was sitting alone under the eaves and watching the golden sunset.

Bo Ying told me that her wedding with Wu Feng was scheduled for the fifteenth of next month. Half a month ago, the Qin State greeting team led by Wu Feng had arrived in the western border of the Jin Kingdom.

On that day, when I saw Wu Feng on the altar, I had already guessed the news, but I didn't expect him to enter the ceremony without telling Bo Huan.

"Did the noble lady come today to ask the master to divinate the time of the departure?" I poured Bo Huan a glass of sake and drank two sips of hot water with me.

"The days and hours of departure from Jin are all settled. Today, I came to ask Taishi to give me a charm to get a child. Bo Huan picked up the wine glass and drank it up, and after drinking, he handed the cup forward, "Zidian, I heard that General Wu also has a son in the Qin State, have you seen it?" Can you get along well? I became a mother when I just got married, and I was very panicked. ”

"The general has a son named Wu Hui, but he doesn't live in Yongcheng on weekdays, so the noble girl doesn't need to worry too much." I smiled and filled her glass.

"That's good." Bo Huan let out a sigh of relief and laughed at herself, "Don't laugh at me, I haven't slept for two days, and I'm very panicked." I thought that when a woman reached my age, she would look down on everything, but I didn't expect that I would still be scared when it came to the end. ”

"When the noble lady sees the general in a few days, her heart will naturally be steady."

"I originally wanted to come to talk to you for a long time, but it was the dead fat man from that generation of the country who made trouble with me, and I was delayed for so many days."

"Fat man from the country?"

"It's a guest invited by my father, and I've been pestering him to take him around for a few days, and I'm annoying. Oh, by the way, I have good news for you today! ”

"What's the good news?"

"The shameless concubine in the Candle Mansion died three days ago, and this time their mansion has finally stopped."

"I've heard that. It's just bitter Brother Candle......"

"What's so bitter, a man is forgetful, and after two years, let Qiong Nu marry him two more beautiful concubines and give birth to a few noisy children, and he will forget about it. By the way, when will you go to Qi to find Wuxi? ”

"I'll leave early tomorrow morning."

"Tomorrow I have a batch of silk from Qi Guohong Weaving Workshop to arrive, and the colors that were shipped back to me are too fresh, so I made all of them into my dresses, and I specially ordered some plain colors at this time, and I plan to bring them to Qin to make some comfortable Confucian clothes for the general." Bo Huan had already poured sake into my water cup as he spoke, "Have a drink with me today, and I won't send you tomorrow morning." ”

"Thank you, lady." I smiled and picked up my glass, tilting my neck and drinking it all.

"Hongyun'er entrusts you with your care, do you have anything you want me to pass on from the general?"

I always felt a little strange in my heart because I concealed the news of Wu Feng's entry into Jiang, so when Bo Huan mentioned Wu Feng, I was a little sluggish.

"If not, forget it. Zi Di, thank you for the wine, we will meet later! Bo Huan patted me on the shoulder, got up and took the whip from the little servant, "I'm leaving, don't send it!" ”

"Precious lady." I stood in the courtyard and bowed to her.

Bo Huan nodded vigorously: "Don't worry, we'll be fine!" With that, he strode out.

Yes, they will be fine for the rest of their lives.

I stood under the eaves for a while, and the setting sun dyed the entire Taishi Mansion a misty orange color. This dark color is the color of detachment, and whenever I encounter such a dusk, my heart will always have a trace of sadness that even I can't tell.

Late spring has passed, and early summer is coming.

I said goodbye to Shi Mo and left Xinjiang with Si'er and Wuxian in the early morning when everything was silent.

As the carriage passed by the towering altar outside the city, Si'er grabbed my hand tightly. She asked, Ah Shi, is that the highest place a woman can stand in her life?

I followed her gaze and looked up, yes, maybe the highest position I could stand in my life. However, that position left me with only an irretrievable loneliness, as if all the things I was close to and cared about had left me at the moment when everyone was in ambush.

"Si'er, never envy those who stand on high places. It was windy and cold at the heights. ”

"I don't envy it, I just want to have a field and a house in the future." Si'er spread out his silk handkerchief, took a piece of dried peach and put it in my hand, and took another piece and stuffed it into the mouth of the innocent who was driving in front of him.

"Well, it would be better to have another lover who loves you and protects you." I took a bite of the dried peach, and the sweet sensation instantly filled my tongue.

"You keep saying that, I don't know if he wants to marry me?" Si'er lowered his head, and his left hand unconsciously tugged at the tie on his short coat.

"He was so seriously injured last time and died desperately at the foot of Mount Hua to save you, this friendship alone is enough to prove that he has you in his heart. When we meet him in Linzi City, I'll help you ask him carefully. If he wants to marry you, I will sell all the pearls and beautiful jade, and exchange them for a good land and a beautiful house, so that you can live a good life. ”

"What about you? Will you marry Zhao Wuxian? ”

"Me? I do not know. One day, if he becomes the son of the Zhao family, he will have the wife he wants to marry. I'm the same as Mi Cao, I don't want to be a concubine, and I can't be a concubine. As long as he loves me, I will love him for one day, and if he gets tired of it, I will let him go. ”

"If you don't get married, how can you have children with him?"

"Ahem, cough, cough......" A crushed peach choked into my throat, and I couldn't stop coughing, and finally coughed up tears.

"Si'er, what nonsense are you talking about! Come out of here! Innocent pulled the reins of the horse and stopped the car,

"Choking, don't scream." Holding back the discomfort in my throat, I got out of the curtain and pushed Innocent's shoulder, "Let's go, we have to get to the next station before dark." ”

"But she said that you shed tears...... "Innocent reached out and wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes.

"I'm fine."

Innocent was about to whip and pat the horse, and suddenly there was a mournful song in our ears. A red horse with a mantle and a drunken ranger passed us slowly. The man lowered his head, hugged the horse's neck, and sang a small tune intermittently.

"Ah Shi, who's singing?" Si'er stared at a pair of bright apricot eyes and poked his head out of the curtain.

"Where are the people!" I snorted with my mouth, "I'm not drunk, but I sing beautifully." ”

"In the past, I went back, and the willows were still there. Now I think about it, the rain and snow are falling...... I don't know how ...... I mourn," the man sang a lamentation, slipped on his body, and fell off his horse with a thud.

"Innocent, go and see!"

Wuxian threw down the horsewhip and jumped in front of the man in two steps: "Ah Shi, it's the person from the Candle family." Innocent lifted the man on the ground to his feet and turned back to me and shouted.

"Brother Candle!" Si'er and I hurriedly jumped out of the car.

"Don't touch me—none of you touch me—" Candlestick picked up a flask that had tumbled to the ground and staggered it back to his horse.

"Brother Candle, where are you going?" I picked up the bronze sword he had fallen to the ground, "If you go further ahead, you will be out of the boundary of Xinjiang City, and Doctor Candle and Qiong Nu will be worried......"

"Who is your big brother Candle? I'm a liar, just a liar......" Candle Chu grabbed the long sword and pressed the horse's back to get on the horse, but he couldn't jump twice and couldn't jump up.

"Brother Candle!" I grabbed his sleeve with one hand, "I know you're sad right now, but the deceased is gone, and you have to think about the baby in Qiong's womb." ”

"I don't have children, my children are dead, dead......" He hung his head and didn't look at me, and there was sadness in his voice that couldn't be dissolved.

"Where are you going?"

"Leave me alone—help me on—" he roared, turning his head to a pair of eyes that were a mixture of anger and sorrow, and those eyes were red.

I let go of his hand in a daze and took a step back: "Innocent, help him to the horse." ”

Innocent carried the belt of the candlestick and put him on horseback. Candlestick grabbed the horse's reins, shook his body and kicked the horse's belly. The red horse snorted a few times and slowly paced forward.

"Ah Shi, what's wrong with Brother Candle? Do we leave him alone? Si'er grabbed my arm and said worriedly.

"Let's go, the man who could stop him is dead."

"For people like Mi Cao......"

"Si'er!" I turned my head and covered Si'er's mouth and sighed, "The Mi Cao in Candle Chu's heart, none of us have ever seen ......"

Whoever deceived whom, who lost whom, in the end can only sigh, it turns out that not every good beginning will have a happy ending.

Jin Kingdom Volume (End)

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