"Hahaha......" Chen Pan listened to the music, turned his head and pointed at my nose and smiled so much that the corners of his mouth hung in his ears, "My silly girl, you are too whimsical." After the Battle of Saddle, Qi Jin did have an alliance, but that was a hundred years ago. At that time, Jin was strong and Qi was weak, and Qi was forced to ally with each other. But now, your Jin Kingdom is like a dying old man, while my Qi Kingdom is in the prime of life. When will this time be waiting? If you are a promising king, you should not agree to the terms of your alliance. ”

"Does it really matter who is the hegemon? Is it more important than strengthening the country and enriching the people? Nowadays, whether it is the Jin State or the Qi State, the national strength, military strength, and civil power are far inferior to those of the Duke of Wen and Duke Huan when they were in the dynasty. You said that Jin is an old man and vulnerable, but over the years, Qi and Jin have competed, and how many times has Qi won again? The people are not rich, but the war is non-stop. Over the years, how many young and strong men in Qi have died on the battlefield? And how many farmland mulberry forests are uncultivated? The wealth of Qi now enjoys the old merits of the prime minister, and what he has gained is the convenience of fishing salt. In a few years, a few more defeats like Ailing's, what will become of the Qi Empire? ”

"King Zhou is weak, and there must be a prince who can control the overall situation in this world. Who is the overlord may make no difference in the eyes of the girl, but in the eyes of Zhao Ying and my father, there is a world of difference. However, what I said just now was what my father said to me five years ago, and the girl's argument that the country is rich and the people is strong is exactly the same as my political views back then. Today, you and I are not clear about life and death, and I also have something in my heart that I want to tell the girl, as long as the father is in the future, it will not be possible, but a hundred years later, if the father is the prime minister, the first thing to do is to form an alliance with the Jin truce. ”

"Hmph, you cunning Chen Pan! You say that, but you want me to let you go? If it is your brother Chen Liao's people who rush up later, you will also die here with me? I sneered and looked at Chen Pan.

"It's naturally best for the girl to let me go." The corners of Chen Pan's mouth curved, and his eyes were shining, "If the girl can survive today, she will naturally know that what I said is true in the future." If the girl unfortunately dies here today, will I copy a copy of the covenant and bury it in front of your grave in the future? ”

"Okay, you can wrap up my grave with the covenant book. Let's go, let's go down! ”

Chen Pan looked at me and sighed, moved forward, jumped off the boulder: "If the girl doesn't believe me, forget it." If the person who will come up later is my brother Chen Liao, you should quickly find an opportunity to kill yourself. If it is Chen Wei who comes, the girl should not be in a hurry to martyr Zhao Wuxian, there may be a turning point in this matter. ”

"Chen Pan, I can't figure it out, why do you still have to think about it for me until now? You are protecting me in the palace because you are pretending to be a temple member to pretend to be loyal. But now, you and I are enemies, why do you care if I am dead or alive? ”

Chen Pan smiled and raised his hand to help me jump off the boulder.

"Although Chen Ye and I are not siblings, we are like siblings. After he was imprisoned, I was put under house arrest by my father. I am so grateful that you were able to get him out of prison on my behalf. Xiang's father still thinks that I secretly sent someone to rescue Chen Ye from prison. Therefore, the three of us entered the palace this time only to atone for the sins you committed and thank you for the virtue you have accumulated. You and I are so deeply entangled, I don't protect you, who am I going to protect? ”

"You already knew that I kidnapped Chen Yi?"

"As soon as Chen Ye returned to Linzi City, he looked for a maiko named Du Ruo everywhere, such a bizarre and abnormal thing, I naturally wanted to check it. Girl, now while Zhao Wuxian is away, you might as well listen to me a few more words. Chen Ye treats you sincerely, although he has a stupid mouth, and the fun of the boudoir is definitely not as good as Zhao Wuxian, but he is kind and simple, you will not suffer if you follow him. Zhao Wuxian is very interesting, but you and his road are destined not to be easy, and Zhao Ying will definitely not agree to your marriage. But Chen Ye is different, if you marry him, not only will your father not kill you, but he may also give you a big surprise. ”

"What surprise?"

"A surprise that will make you deaf and see the truth clearly."

The truth of everything...... What do you mean? I was about to ask again, but Chen Pan suddenly let go of my arm, turned around and walked down the slope, "Girl, listen!" There was no sound at the bottom of the mountain. Guess, is Zhao Wuxian dead? Will it be Chen Yi or Chen Liao who will come up later? ”

Chen Pan was wrong, I was also wrong, the person who climbed the steep slope at the first dawn in the morning was Zhang Mengtan, who was dyed in white and blood.

He gasped and told Qi Hou that the fifty rangers he had summoned from Linzi City had attacked the defenders under the northern hillside, and had taken advantage of the chaos to capture Chen Liao. Chen Wei disarmed himself, stopped the soldiers, and promised to let us go as long as Chen Pan was fine.

I stood there, dizzy from the storm-battered hillside. The earth was swaying, the mountain peaks were spinning rapidly in front of my eyes, I couldn't hear what Zhang Meng said after talking, I only heard my heart pounding frantically in my chest, shouting: "We won't die!" We can finally get out! "I sat on the ground with my legs limp on my legs, the long night had already emptied my body, and when the fear and despair subsided, there was nothing left to keep me strong.

When Shirtless reappeared in front ......of me, his face and body were stained with dark red blood. He stood beside me and looked down at me with a smile as blood fell down my chest as blood fell down the hair that had fallen across his forehead. I don't remember whether I cried or laughed, I just remember him holding my waist and tossing me up so high that I could reach out and touch the magnificent sunrise above my head.

The sun rises for a new day, and it dispels the boundless darkness and breaks the never-ending nightmare.

The victory came a little suddenly, and I was overwhelmed by all of a suddenness.

In a daze, I changed into Lu Ji's big red exhibition coat and shirtless, and rushed all the way to the southeast under the escort of the secret guard. On the other side, Yu An and Zhang Mengtan took Qi Hou, Lu Ji, and Chen Pan quietly into the dense forest path and headed northwest.

From the appearance of Zhang Mengtan to the happy conclusion of a transaction, it all happened in just a quarter of an hour. For the next few days, I didn't have time to ask or think. We were pressed by Chen's pursuers to flee all the way north to south in the direction of Lu.

Evasion, fierce fighting, some wounded, some dead, and on the fifth day after escaping from Linzi City, we finally escaped Chen's pursuers in a valley.

The twenty or so secret guards who followed us are now only Ah Yu and another man named Shou. At the behest of Wu Xian, Ah Yu kidnapped a common woman who was picking mulberry in the field and forced her to change into the red exhibition clothes of Lu Ji on me. After that, Ah Yu and Shou took her along the avenue to continue to Lu Kingdom, while Wuxian took me and Wuxian to hide in a mountain forest at the junction of Qilu.

In the early morning, I was awakened from my sleep by the crisp sound of birds, and I touched the hay under my body and stared at the dark green leaves above my head, and I was stunned for a moment.

It's been a long time since that long, murderous and intrigue day, but the messy images always come to my mind the moment I wake up.

From the shock of hearing that the Chen family was not in court, to the changes in the palace gate, from the secret escape to the robbery and killing in the dense forest, from entering the mountains to avoid being betrayed by the spies, to Zhang Mengtan's surprise attack on the enemy's successful breakthrough, between the two sunrises, we have experienced several lives and deaths. In the meantime, I thought about winning, losing, living, and dying, but I never thought that that nightmarish day would end in her hands.

Wu Xian told me yesterday that the fifty rangers who attacked the Chen clan at the foot of the mountain were actually secretly summoned by Ah Su after Chen Liao sent out his troops, and she also brought Zhang Mengtan from the north to the valley. She saved us, successfully won the gratitude of the unsympathetic, and got the love of Zhang Mengtan. She saved Chen Pan with a transaction, and since then saved her relatives from being hunted down by the Zhao family. She fought me, and she won clean and beautiful.

The people who make deals with the shirtless are also Chen Pan. That day in the valley, without even lifting his eyelids, he drew his shirtless sword and stabbed Chen Liao to death. He killed someone, and then grinned and asked Wuxian to bear the charge of killing his brother for him. He said that in this way he owed Wu Xian's life, and if the two of them had a fight in the future, Wu Xian could save the life of either of them, including Wu Xian's own.

Chen Pan is a fanatic, an unpredictable fanatic. And Shirtless is also a fanatic, so an unbelievable deal is reached.

I lay on the haystack and reminisced about the past month. At this moment, four or five round-headed and round-headed finches suddenly came in through the cracks between the branches, and they flew to and fro in the straw tents, chirping and chirping with great joy.

They were making such a fuss that I couldn't lie down.

Outside the straw tent, the sun had risen, and the trees in the forest dragged long shadows, and in the middle of their dark blue shadows, there were patches of dappled sunlight. I stepped barefoot on the grass, and the cold, wet feeling was completely sobering.

The innocent and excited voice of "Ah Shi Ah Shi" flew like a winged lark through the dense woods to my ears.

I pulled out the wooden flute that Wushirt had given me last night and pulled a high bun for myself, and looked up to catch a glimpse of Wushirt and Wuxian coming out of between the two cypress trees. The color-tailed pheasant, the gray-haired hare, and two mallards that had just lost their feathers, their harvest today seems to be quite large.

"Ah Shi, guess what we met in the woods today?" Innocent ran to me with a fat gray-haired hare with an excited face.

"What do you see? Wild boar? Tiger? I wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned to take the two ducks from the shirtless hands.

"We met a longhorned deer, the two horns of the deer were an arm's height, the fur was shiny, and the spots were well-proportioned, and Zhao Wuxian was discussing with me to hunt it to make you a jacket, but I was scared away by this stupid thing that popped out." Innocent took the rabbit ears and sent the fat rabbit in front of my eyes.

As soon as I raised my eyes to face the round face of the fat rabbit, I somehow felt aggrieved by its closed eyes.