"The pulp is old, scoop two bowls of pulp - damn, it's hot like this before the summer!" A man in a white coarse linen coat wiped a handful of sweat from his head and sat down in the shadow of a tree beside the stall.

"Big brother, let's sit here a little longer, okay? I can't walk anymore. He was accompanied by a small, sallow man who took off his bamboo hat and fanned the wind, and sat down with one hand on the trunk of a tree.

"People like you, just grow vegetables and sell melons, what kind of errand are you doing!" The man in a short white coat grabbed a piece of dry soil from the ground and threw it at the yellow-faced man. The clod of earth scattered in half in mid-air, half of which landed on the yellow-faced man, and the other half happened to fall into the bowl of an old farmer who was squatting on the ground drinking slurry.

"Oh, sir, I'm sorry, I'll buy you another bowl." The man in the white short coat stood up one by one, "Old man, let's have another bowl here!" ”

"No, no, no, don't get in the way, drink enough." The old peasant waved his hand and poured the muddy water on the ground, "Little brother is an errand in our city, right?" ”

The thin man with a sallow face patted the soil on his body and nodded violently with a smile: "Yes, yes, both of us are servants under Dr. Linzi." ”

When the old farmer heard this, he hurriedly moved to the yellow-faced man's side: "Little Lao'er heard that Chen Yi, who killed someone on the street two months ago, is going to be beheaded?" ”

"Yes, my husband knows him?" The man in the short white coat took the slurry water handed by the stall owner, poured it himself, and handed the other bowl to the old farmer.

"The people in Zuo Xiang's family, how can the little old man know each other." The old farmer hurriedly shook his head, but his face could not hide his sadness.

"The right minister has given an order, and he will be beheaded on the fifteenth next month. If the old man has received any favors from this Chen Wei before, he will go to the execution ground to give him a ride when the time comes. After the man in white finished speaking, he drank a bowl of syrup water twice. He wiped his mouth, put the bowl on the small table in front of me, and yelled at the yellow-faced man, "Let's go, we're waiting for us to go back and turn it over!" ”

"It's coming! Uncle, drink slowly! The yellow-faced man smiled at the old farmer, poured two mouthfuls of water on his head, picked up the bamboo hat on the ground and hurriedly chased him out.

The left phase in the mouth of the messenger is Chen Heng, the sect leader of the Chen clan of Qi State, and his rival is the right minister Kan Zhi, who is now highly valued by the Marquis of Qi.

Chen Heng and Kan Zhi are the two most powerful people in the court of Qi State. Four years ago, when the Marquis of Qi returned to the Qi State from the Lu State to inherit the throne, these two people were his right-hand men. But as time passed, the left hand hated the right hand, and the right hand was also looking for every opportunity to cut off the troubled left hand. This Chen Re, who killed people, is probably just an unlucky little spark, and at this juncture, it fell into the dry pyre that was eager to burn.

"Uncle, killing someone is to pay for your life, why are you sorry for that Chen Rui?" I took the bowl and moved it to the old farmer.

The old farmer looked me up and down and sighed, "Sir is not a Qi person, is he?" ”

"I'm a merchant from the Jin Kingdom, and I only arrived in Linzi City yesterday."

"No wonder Mr. doesn't know. Chen Shun is a big hero in our Linzi City, the one he killed is the gatehouse on the right prime minister's mansion, and he has done all the things lacking in virtue in the countryside on weekdays. A good man kills a bad man, and the master of a bad man will cut off the head of a good man. In this world, good people don't live long! The old peasant sighed and stood up on his knees, "It's only been a few years since I was born, and I'm going to be chaotic again, and I'm going to do evil!" The old farmer looked at the sun in the sky, stooped down and picked up the burden full of thorn melons, and walked out of the slurry stall in a hurry.

Chen Wei, a murderer who won the hearts of the people. Kan Zhi wants to borrow such a person to pull the Chen family off the horse, I'm afraid it's not so easy!

I groaned for a moment, got up and was about to leave, only to find the old man who sold slurry water hiding under the wall and secretly wiping away tears.

"Grandpa, grandpa, what's wrong with you?" The little girl who was originally squatting on the ground and playing with mud pulled the old clothes, kept wiping the tears on the old man's face with her little mud hands, wiping and wiping, and suddenly she burst into tears with her mouth open.

"Ah, cry! Your Uncle Chen is about to die, Grandpa will take you to the door of the prison to kowtow to him. Lao Shui wiped away his tears, pulled his little granddaughter who couldn't stop crying, and left the stall and walked out.

"Old Berry Water, don't go, who am I giving this money to?" I shouted at the top of my voice, and the rangers who were sitting next to me glanced at me and handed me an empty bowl: "Hey, stranger, put it here!" ”

"Oh." I took out the money from my arms and obediently put it into the empty bowl, "Big brothers, what do you say this old man is crying about?" How did the people in Zuo Xiang's family become relatives of their family again? ”

"Stranger, did you see that bare-ass little girl? Chen turned his head down, hung upside down into the well, and fished it out. Four years ago, our Qi people fought against the Wu people in Ailing, and 100,000 people did not come back. Chen Wei came back with the heads of the eleven brothers under his hands alone, and three of them were from the pulp seller's hometown. Relatives? This is not a relative, what is a relative! The scarred ranger became more and more excited the more he spoke, and finally suddenly slapped the table and stood up, "What kind of pulp to drink, drink with Lao Tzu!" the doctor in Linzi! ”

"Big lady, collect the money!" A few rangers threw the money into the empty bowl and walked away with their swords in a curse.

Behind the barrel of black wood pulp, more than a man high, stood up an old woman with a rag towel wrapped around her head, patted the dirt on her body, and groped her way to me.

Is this a blind woman? I placed the bowl with the money in her hand and shook it in front of her gray, dull eyes.

The old woman took the bowl with a smile and grabbed my wrist with her other hand: "Thank you, girl, my eyes are crying, but I can still see the shadow." ”

"I'm sorry! I thought you ......" I looked at the old woman's lifeless eyes in embarrassment, and a trace of guilt immediately arose in my heart.

In the battle of Ailing, King Wu annihilated 100,000 enemies. At that time, I sat in Wu Feng's study and only admired the bravery of Wu Wangfucha, but I couldn't hear the sound of their elderly mother crying all night behind the 100,000 Qi soldiers. Now, four years later, when I stand on the land of Qi and hear the word Ailing again, I feel a lot of emotion in my heart.

"Auntie, you read it wrong, I'm not a girl." I took out the money bag from my bosom and poured all the remaining dozen or so coins into the woman's bowl, "Get a witch doctor and look at your eyes!" Maybe it's okay. ”

"I can't take the girl's money, the old man will come back and scold." The woman panicked and quickly pushed the bowl into my arms.

"When Grandpa asked, you said that someone bought a bucket of pulp and forgot to carry it." I put the bowl with the money on the table and flew out of the water stall.

Walking in the lively bazaar, I had lost the interest in looking at things and selecting things, and after wandering around with the flow of people aimlessly, I returned to the place where I had parted with Si'er and Wuxie before. Si'er hasn't come back yet, but Wuxian has been waiting there early.

"Ah Shi, Ah Shi, here-" Innocent saw me and happily raised his hand at me.

"What are you playing with, getting sweaty?" Innocent didn't know what he had just done, and now he was sweating profusely, and his face was flushed.

Seeing that I pulled out the silk handkerchief from my cuffs, I naturally leaned my head over: "I competed with people and won a bag of rice, a dagger, and a woman. ”

Woman? I tilted my head slightly, and found that Wuxian was holding a hemp rope in his hand, and at the other end of the hemp rope was a woman with a big hair and a chest. "Where did you tie up the woman from? Don't let people go yet! I snatched the hemp rope from Wuxie's hand and said hurriedly.

"It was that man, he lost with me than the stone, so he gave me his own woman." Innocent stretched out his hand and pointed at us, only to see a tall man following us with his head down.

"Don't give it back soon! What do you want this woman to do, she can be your mother at this age. ”

"Sell her! Didn't you say that everything can be sold in Linzi City? Innocent stretched out his hand and pushed the woman in front of me.

"Nonsense!" I untied the hemp rope that was bound to the woman's hand and said to the woman in unison, "Go back to your man, you are free." ”

The woman looked at me, and at the innocence, and looked confused.

Innocent walked over and muttered to the woman. Finally, the woman knelt down and kowtowed and ran back to her man.

"What did you just say?" I was amazed at the innocence.

"I don't know, I can understand what they say, and I will say some of it." Wuxian threw the hemp rope to the ground, took my hand and said, "Ah Shi, let's go to the sword house now!" Oh no, let's eat first. ”

I looked up at Innocent's slightly curly hair and the bridge of my nose, and suddenly realized that I might have made a mistake. Wuxian was caught in Hengshan in Jindi back then, so I took it for granted that his parents would be Jin. But I forgot that the north and east sides of Heng Mountain were originally the territory of the Xianyu people. Now it seems that he may also be a descendant of the foreign tribes of the north.

"Ah Shi, what's wrong with you?" Innocent shook his hand in front of me.

"Nothing, let's go. My money is gone, let's call the four girls, exchange your bag of rice, and have a good meal at noon. ”

It was a hot, humid, stinking cell, with blackened cockroaches filling the ceiling and swarms of rats digging holes in the corners. As soon as I accidentally disturbed them, two huge black-haired mice jumped onto my shoulders with their fangs.

The death row in Linzi City is holding the most heinous criminals of the Qi State. It's dark, there's no going out, and everything here is like a nightmare.

I sat in a dungeon full of rat feces with my knees crossed, and looked at Chen Yi in front of me without blinking.

It was ten days ago to watch the innocent sword comparison with Si'er in the sword house. When I applauded the innocent swordsmanship, I never imagined that ten days later, I would sit in the same cell as the murderer Chen Yi, listening to the rats grinding their teeth and watching the cockroaches fly.

And it all started on the day of the boating in Zishui......

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