Yu An carried me from the mountains all the way back to the valley with my sleeping on my back, and Shang's song "Zijin" woke me up from my snowy sleep.

Under the sunset, Yu An stood outside the gate of the courtyard with me on his back, and the reddish-purple sunset was slanting across the ground.

"I actually fell asleep, why didn't you wake me up?" I jumped from behind Yu An.

"Are your eyes better? Does it still hurt? He looked me in the eye.

"It's okay, it's just that I've been in the cave for too long and I've been shaken by the snow." I looked into the courtyard of the Xun hexagram, and the merchant who was singing the strings saw me and beckoned me to come over.

I waved at her and turned to An, "I want to go and see Wuyin first, can you ask Ah Yang to prepare a food box for me?" I also want a pot of rosin. ”

"At this time, what are you going to do with her?" Yu An was quite surprised to hear the name of Wuyin.

"I have something I want to ask her, and I'll come back when I'm done. It's not going to end here for a while, and I'll be with you when I get back from Wuyin. ”

"Do you want me to come with you?"

"No, there are guards over there. Besides, I can't beat you, can't I beat the five tones? ”

"I don't know what you're going to ask, it's just that what Wuyin says to you may not be true, you weigh it yourself and listen."

"Got it. Did I say before that you were verbose? ”

"Not before, but now it's said." He smiled slightly, lowered his head and straightened his green robe, and turned around to enter the Xun hexagram.

Ah Yang quickly sent out what I wanted, Tianshu was rare to be so lively, her little face was drunk and flushed, very delicate.

This room is a piano and a song, full of people, but the other is a bleak courtyard, silent.

I walked outside the door of the five-tone room with the food box, and the two guards at the door immediately greeted me when they saw me. I showed my intentions, and they looked at each other and opened the door for me.

Wuyin sat behind a beaded curtain of opals as I had seen her a few months ago, except that her table was empty except for a bowl of millet porridge and a plate of pickled dried vegetables.

"At this time, instead of keeping the New Year with everyone, what will the Lord do in my desolate land?" Wuyin lowered his head and took a sip of millet porridge, and the small plate of dried vegetables on the table seemed to have not moved.

"I'll bring some food for Madame." I brought out a bowl of rice, a plate of roasted wild boar, a plate of freshly boiled cabbage soaked in water, and a small bean salted plum sauce from the food box.

Wuyin glanced at it and said with a smile: "I didn't expect Lord Xun's murderous hands to be quite good at running the family." Have you been to the 'Lock Heart Building'? ”

"I've been there." I took out two ear cups with a red background and a double fish pattern and placed them in front of Wuyin, and poured a glass of clear and mellow rosin wine.

Wuyin picked up the wine glass and sniffed it, raised his head and drank it all: "Then what do you see inside?" ”

"More than 20 years ago, there was a girl named Shun in Fan's mansion, who was she? What does she have to do with me? ”

"If you ask that, you already know who she is." Wuyin raised his sleeves and poured himself another glass of wine, still drinking it all.

"She's my mother?"

"What do you say?" After two glasses of rosin wine, Wuyin's face was already red, and she took a piece of roasted meat with a spoon and dipped it in the green plum sauce, but it was not put into her mouth for a long time. I poured her another glass of wine, and she put down her spoon and drank it.

"I haven't drunk in five months, it's heartburn!" Wuyin pinched the empty ear glass, put the tip of his nose to the bottom of the glass and sniffed it deeply, then smiled and handed the glass to me. I poured her wine, and her eyes were staring straight at me, but her eyes gradually drifted away from me, "When I first saw her, she was only about twelve years old, and her hair was as black as brocade, soft and shiny. Obviously he is still a child, but he likes to have hairpins in his ears. She wore a plain white coat that day and rode on Fan Ji's shoulder, and pressed his head to pluck flowers from the hibiscus branches. Pick one, throw one, throw a flower on the ground before choosing a peach with a purple hairpin in the ear. Who is Fan Jishe, the son of Fan Ying, the secretary of the Jin Kingdom, the son of the Fan family, the person who kills a person in Xinjiang City is the same as killing a chicken. But your aunt rode on his head and shouted coquettishly, a little left, a little right, a little higher, a little lower. At that time, I thought, people in this world are really one person and one life, when I was her age, I had to go out with my father to fish before dawn, and when I came back from fishing, I had to sell fish, wash boats, and stay up all night to mend fishing nets. But she didn't have to do anything, just look up at a face more beautiful than a flower, and shout under the tree, a little left, a little right, a little higher, a little lower......"

"My mother is Fan's daughter?" I stared at Wuyin's mouth, but what came to my mind was the sallow and haggard face of A-Niang when she died and her scarred hands that were so thin that only skeletons remained.

Wuyin looked at me, but my tears couldn't stop rolling in my eyes.

"Your grandmother is Fan Ying's most beloved sister, and your mother is Fan Ji's cousin, who was raised in Xianyu Country before the age of ten, and has been living in Fan Mansion since the age of ten. The old master of the Fan family has no daughter, and treats her better than her own daughter. Fan Jichu admires her and can't wait to give her anything good. But her face does deserve the best thing in the world. ”

"Then Fan Ji shot my father?"

"Hahaha, he thought. It's a pity that your aunt has another sweetheart. ”

"How do you know?"

"Fan Ying, the sect leader of the Fan family, was still the secretary of the Jin State at that time, and Zhao Ying asked me to go to the Fan Mansion every three days to send fish soup to the Fan family's master mother. When I left the house that day, I passed by the garden, and saw your mother hiding under the wall with a red face, and someone outside the wall called her, Ah Shun, Ah Shun, are you still there? I want to see you. ”

"Who's calling her? And then what? ”

Then, I helped her. I helped her escape from Fan's mansion over the wall and helped her meet the man outside the wall. You say, if I didn't help her that day, would there be no you in this world? Will she not have to die? But I just want to see her climb over that high wall, and I just want her to suffer some earthly suffering. Why can't she suffer, can't be displaced? Was her face still white when she died? Is it still tender? Can she still ride on someone else's head and pick flowers, pick one, throw one? Hahahaha...... also deserves her short life, who told her to love someone she shouldn't love and give birth to a child she shouldn't have. Wuyin knelt up straight with the strength of the wine, and pinched my chin through a desk, "You're a child who grew up in the dust, but the first time I saw you, I didn't like you." Now, I hate you even more. ”

"Good, because I don't like you either!" I grabbed Wuyin's wrist and shook it away, "You and I are not in a relationship where we can like each other. It's just that I don't understand, why are you deliberately saying this to me today, what is your purpose? ”

"I don't have any purpose, I just want to tell you that the person closest to you in this world is not in Xinjiang, but in Linzi. The people you should help are not in the Jin Kingdom, but in the Qi Kingdom. ”

"Qi Guo? You really took refuge in the Chen family! Why? ”

"Why? Back then, if it weren't for Zhao Ying's selfish desire to kill Handan doctor Zhao Wu because of his own selfish desires, Zhao Wu's son would not have rebelled, the Fan family would not have rebelled, and the Jin Kingdom would not have been chaotic. You know, how many people died in a Liuqing Rebellion, how many ** ions were scattered, and the family was ruined because he coveted the five hundred households in Handan City. The scenery of his Zhao family over the years has all been piled up with other people's lives. ”

"You hate Prime Minister?" I was stunned.

"I said a long time ago that I don't love him."

"Someone you love...... Died in the Liuqing Rebellion? ”

Wuyin was silent, her face was red from the wine, but her eyes were gloomy. A suffocating silence permeated the room, and she raised her glass and drank two more sips of spicy wine.

"Who is my father?"

"I don't know." Wuyin put down the wine glass heavily, got up and picked up the wine jug on the table, and said in a loud voice, "You go, I like to drink alone." ”

"In the earliest boxes of the 'Lock Heart Building', several words were deliberately crossed out with black paint, what was crossed out with black paint?

"I don't know." Wuyin turned his back to me and lifted the bead curtain in the inner room, "Twenty years ago, when Zhao Ying built a new Tianshu, I was not the head of Tianshu, and I did not seal the few boxes placed at the highest place of the 'Lock Heart Building'. ”

"Who's that?"

"Someone you know."

"Who?"

"Tai Shimo."

When I left the courtyard of Wuyin, twilight had fallen, and I walked along the valley path to the gate of the courtyard of the Xun hexagram, and the courtyard was still very lively. Those who play the piano, dance the sword, laugh, scold, and laugh and laugh all together. I stood outside the door for a moment, then turned around and went back to the trigram alone.

The King of Chu's "Winding Beam" piano was placed upright on the desk next to the bed, and I hooked the strings with my fingers, and the sound of "Zheng-" sounded, and the graceful sound of the piano spread leisurely in the dark.

I suddenly thought of Ah Su, the way she looked at me when she was in the Qi Palace, and the inexplicable words she said to me that day when she stroked the qin under the moon.

Asking Shen Cong, Xia Yujian, and Xuanzhu Mirror, I finally knew why Ah Niang could so easily give the Three Treasures of the Fan Family to the thieves in the secret room of the Zhifu.

The Youwang Xuanzhu mirror, that may be the dressing mirror that she puts on her desk every day to draw her eyebrows in the mirror. She was not a lowly concubine at all, she was born in the clouds, but because of my birth, she was spurned, kicked and stoned, and finally died alone in Qindi, thousands of miles away, without even washing her hands. I should wash her face, I should help her dig up the black mud between her fingernails, I should at least find another hibiscus flower for her, and sing a Jin country tune...... But I didn't do anything and set her on fire. I sat on the ground, my chest aching as if it was about to crack, and I endured it, sobbed, and the irrepressible cry of pain still rang in my ears.

In the spring of the forty-first year of King Zhou, Yu An sent a team of warriors to escort me and Wuyin back to Xinjiang, and Heizi walked with Yichen.