There is an additional tomb of King Hui in the dense and quiet bamboo forest outside the capital of Chu.

Since the burial of Lin Ying, the king of Chu Hui, Dongfang Shu, the new king of Chu, often visited this bamboo forest by chariot.

The bamboo leaves rustle, and you can hear the autumn wind.

Yan Xiu helped her get off her cheeks, and helped her sit next to the tombstone she was used to sitting on.

Shu'er leaned sideways against the cold tombstone and sat for a long time.

Yan Xiu didn't dare to disturb her, so she had to bury her head in the needlework, and looked up at Shu'er from time to time. She saw that Shu'er's eyes had been open, but those eyes did not have the agility and wisdom of their usual days, but were empty, like two beads made of ink-colored diamond jade, motionless embedded in Qi Baiyu.

That day, Fan Na opened Lin Ying's lyre in the Wutong Hall and covered the ground with paintings and poems, except for Fan Na, everyone told Shu'er that those were just blank papers. Yan Xiu didn't know if Shu'er really believed their white lies, but after so many days, Shu'er really didn't ask anyone about those "blank papers" again.

Yan Xiao privately asked Yan Qing, Yan Xiu, Su Yang, and Su Liu to swear that they would never mention this matter to Shu'er again. All the palace people present that day also made the same heavy oath, and were sent out of the palace by Yan Xiao, never to see the king of Chu.

Yan Xiu was secretly indignant at Lin Ying's infatuation with Shu'er at first, but these days, every time she accompanied Shu'er here, seeing Shu'er staring at the void in front of her without saying a word, she gradually understood everyone's intention to lie to Shu'er.

A withered bamboo leaf fell into Shu'er's arms. She rubbed the bamboo leaf, recalling the colorful world of the past, but she didn't expect her own life to wither so quickly and so completely.

I thought that if I left calmly, my heart would be dead, but now I know that even though my heart was dead at that time, a heart still existed. Now, that dead heart seems to have burned to ashes and turned into wind......

Xiao Ying, I remember that when you were in Chen Guofanjing, although you missed your father who was far away in Chu, the rest of the time, you were at ease. Later, we passed through the Song State and returned to the Chu State, and along the way, you greatly changed your previous leisurely temperament, and you wanted to play tricks on everyone you met. At that time, I didn't understand why you became a fuss about nothing, but now that I think about it, it turns out that you must have been very entangled in your heart at that time, a thousand worries, and a thousand hesitations. Perhaps, you wish we had some forks on the road, so that we could return to Chu later. But when you return to Chu, you will be able to reunite with your father, so you can't figure out how big a problem you have to make.

Back in the state of Chu, you have changed again. After the Rebellion of the Seven Kings, the state of Chu withered everywhere, and the people were not able to make a living, and it was no longer the Chu country that you and I remembered when we were children. Everyone only sees that you are working hard to be the little lord of the Shengwang Mansion and become the impeccable prince of the Chu State. But no one knows, not even me, that is actually an ordeal for you.

You love calligraphy and painting, you love piano music, and pottery, but because of your status, you have to go to the barracks and be in the company of those who shout and shout and kill, so that they can neither look down on them nor appear to be out of place. You don't know martial arts, and you grew up in Chen State, and the people in King Sheng's military camp at that time, including Xiao Dongfang, must have given you a lot of hardship. But you never complained, never flinched, but took the initiative to take the defeat that no one else wanted to bear.

Since then, they have praised you for your generosity, for your intelligence, for your open-mindedness and open-mindedness. The higher they hold you up, the more firmly they imprison you.

After I reunited with Congrong, I have been busy with my own affairs, and I have never cared about how lonely and helpless you are when you return to the Chu State. I thought that when you returned home, you got back everything that should have belonged to you, including the honor of the Shengwang Mansion, including the noble bloodline of the Lin clan of Chu State, and the filial piety of the father and son. But I never thought that when you returned to the Chu Kingdom, you would also lose everything that once belonged to you, including the wanton on the rivers and lakes, and the love between the two of us since childhood.

You haven't had a happy day since you ascended the throne, have you?

Today, I am the same. Eighth Library

You have borne too much, and even when you say goodbye, you insist on taking your father-in-law and the calm death on yourself. Even if the strategy of the peerless peak is really the one you sent to Liu Jing? The one who chooses to use the plan is Liu Jing after all.

Don't you want me to continue to hate Liu Jing? Do you want to bury the only hatred I can still feel deep into the ground with you?

There is no love, no hate, no hope, and the darkness in front of me, which does not change day and night, what is the difference between me and the walking dead?

Xiaoying, I'm so tired. Do you know? What is it like to only see the darkness every day, but not sleep forever?

But this is the punishment I deserve, the punishment I have always turned a blind eye to you.

I am also lucky to have such a punishment. At least I'll never see your paintings.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves can be heard in the distance, and the sound will be very clear when you can't see anything. Shu'er could hear that it was Dongfang who came on horseback.

Yan Xiu got up and saluted, Dongfang dismounted, walked to the tombstone of King Chu Hui, and looked at Shu'er who was still motionless against the tombstone.

"Sister...... I'm going to lead the army to attack Song early tomorrow morning. ”

Shu'er didn't answer this, but suddenly asked: "When the first king was leaving, he should have written two different versions of the edict, right?" ”

Shu'er's voice was peaceful, but Dongfang couldn't help but be surprised: "Did Lu Xuan say it?" ”

Shu'er shook her head. "It turns out that there are three edicts, one in the Qianqiu Palace, one in the Library Pavilion, and the last one, the old palace people of the Wutong Hall said that it was in the hands of the people in Linjiang cloth, but they said that in order to ensure the safety of the edict, they could not reveal who it was. I should have thought that Xiao Ying would definitely hand over the edict to Brother Xiao Lu of Linjiang Restaurant. In this way, there were not only three copies of the edict, but two different versions of each of them, for a total of six. ”

Shu'er said again: "You don't have to bother Lu Yu, he has always been a conscientious and tight-lipped person." The matter of the two versions of the edict is my own thought. ”

Dongfang saw that Shu'er had already deduced it, so he had no choice but to respond: "Yes." ”

"Since you already knew that there were two versions of the edict, why didn't you take another version to show it to people in the Qianqiu Palace? Are you willing to give up the throne of the king of Chu to me, a blind sister? ”

Dongfang took a deep look at the four big characters "Huiwang Lin Ying" on the tombstone, couldn't help but feel a pain in his chest, and sighed: "Sister, I really wanted to be the king of Chu before, but later, I ...... Brother Lin made me understand a lot. I don't need to be willing, and I don't need to give up. It's just that the position of the king of Chu can try to save your and Xiao En's lives, which is more beneficial to you, but it is insignificant to me. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Dongfang said: "Could it be that if I am the king of Chu, will you lead the troops to defeat the Song Dynasty?" Brother Lin knew me very well, so he dared to take the risk alone. He knew that if he did not return from this trip, I would definitely lead the army to defeat the Song Dynasty in person. It doesn't matter who you and I are the king of Chu at all, the important thing is that Chu and Song cannot stand together in the world, and the world should not be divided again. ”