After Dongfang resigned to the Shu King Wuxie, Zhuge Escape, Zhuge Congrong and Shu'er, he took the three guards of the Shengwang Mansion and two letters sent to Chen Guo, and went down the mountain with Xiao Xun to the Xiaoyin Chess Club in Zichuan City. He wanted to play one last game of chess with Uncle Xiao before leaving.

In recent days, the Xiaoyin Chess Club has been very famous in Zichuan City, because the old Qi Wei people who came from all over the world had to go to the Xiaoyin Chess Club to report their names and places of origin before they wanted to join the Restoration Alliance. There are many people in the chess club, and many unfamiliar faces come to play chess in the chess club, and even some people don't know how to play chess at all, so they have to pretend to play a black and white game. Xiao Xun and Dongfang Shu both knew that there were many spies sent by the Song State to find out the news.

An old man and a young man were sitting in the most elegant and quiet private room in the chess club playing chess, and the little guy in the chess club gently knocked on the door and said: "Lord of the country, there is a masked woman dressed in Zhao costumes outside the door who handed over the prayer post, and wanted to talk to the lord alone." ”

Xiao Xun took the post, and saw that the handwriting on it was proud, but it was tactful, different from the handwriting of ordinary women. There are only four verses of the prayer post:

Flowers bloom in the pleasant garden

Peony peony, you guess

Pick up the stars on the stargazing platform

Pick a purple micro and bring it back

Dongfang saw Uncle Xiao staring intently at the prayer post, motionless as if he had frozen time, and didn't know what had happened, so he asked, "Uncle Xiao, who came to visit?" ”

Xiao Xun was still staring at the prayer post, his voice suddenly became a little duller than usual, and he got up and said, "Sorrow, it's not too early, it's time for you to leave for Chen Guo to do what your sister has asked me to do." This game of chess...... We'll come back to the next day. ”

Dongfang took a look at the game of chess, got up and said goodbye with interest: "Thank you Uncle Xiao for teaching you to play chess these days." This game of chess, Su'er remembered it, and if she had a chance in the future, she would come and finish playing it with Uncle Xiao. ”

Xiao Xun nodded, and walked out of the private room to send him off at first, followed by Dongfang Shu and the three guards.

At the door of the chess club, Dongfang Zheng once again bowed deeply to Xiao Xun. When he turned around, he suddenly saw a masked woman dressed as a Zhao Guoren standing a little far away, revealing only a pair of eyes, clear and unwavering, but tightly gripping. Dongfang saw that the woman was looking at Xiao Xun, and knew that she was the woman who had sent the greeting post. He felt that the woman was probably Uncle Xiao's old acquaintance in the Qi Kingdom, so he saluted her from afar, and left in a hurry with the three guards.

The masked female guest saw that the young man who was slightly taller than Xiao Xun turned around and left, so Tingting took a few steps and walked in front of Xiao Xun.

The two looked at each other, silent, and after the vicissitudes of life, there were no tears.

Xiao Xun remembered that ballad—the first ballad he remembered, probably the first time he heard it in his infancy. Later, the queen mother gave birth to a younger sister, and she often hugged her sister and hummed softly in the pleasant garden.

Xiao Xun was silent, turned around and walked into the chess club, the masked female guest followed, and the two walked into the secluded private room where Xiao Xun and Dongfang Shu were playing chess. Xiao Xun solemnly instructed the little servant: "Twenty steps outside the door, no one is allowed to come." Then he closed the door of the private room tightly.

Between the two, there is a chessboard that is not properly arranged. The masked woman took off her veil, and although she was nearly forty years old, her face was not old.

Xiao Xun calmed down the turbulent waves in his heart, and said gently: "Since we left, the flowers in the pleasant garden have bloomed and fallen...... Thirty years. ”

The woman smiled slightly and said, "The 'Stargazing Platform' has also been changed to the 'Star-Picking Platform'." ”

Xiao Xun sighed: "The past is gone, but you and I are still alive." ”

The woman shook her head and said, "Xiao Yi is dead, and what is alive is just a wisp of obsession." ”

"You're ...... now. Living in Zhao? ”

"Outside Pingliang City, a few acres of vegetable land will be returned to the garden."

"So...... It's good. ”

"Qi Wei's restoration is imminent, and I, a disgraced person, shouldn't have come to disturb me. But I heard that my brother is still here, how can I not talk about it? ”

"Twenty years ago, what happened in the White Jade Palace? Who hurt you? Who saved you? ”

The woman replied, "Probably the one who harmed me saved me." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"When I gave birth to a child, I didn't stop bleeding, but it was this blood that saved my life. I thought it was the last word, the last breath, but the consciousness that had wandered away gradually cleared up. When I woke up, the rain outside the window was dripping. Only one of my cronies sent to me by Liu Ying and I was left in Suhua Palace, called Tingfang. She stayed by my side in a daze. I coughed and came back to my senses, and Tingfang whispered to me in surprise. She said that there must be someone in Suhua Palace who wanted to harm me, and asked me if I could walk on the ground, leave the place with her, go outside the palace to recuperate, and look for the child who was taken away by the way. I drank a lot of water, regained some strength, and left the White Jade Palace with Ting Fang. That day, I don't know why there were more than half of the guards in the White Jade Palace, and there were many fewer palace people, and there was no one to guard many places at all. Later, I learned that on the day Xiao Yi died, King Song also had a nickname, called King Song Huai. ”

"So you're ...... Dead. ”

"After leaving the White Jade Palace, Tingfang took me to a small medical clinic in Yudu that had a deserted business to see a doctor and recuperate. There was a slightly insane doctor there, an old childhood friend of Tingfang. Tingfang said that he was a plague in Yide, the old capital of the Song Kingdom, more than ten years ago, and tasted too many herbs indiscriminately before he became insane. After King Wu of Song moved the capital to Yudu, in order to repay him for his meritorious treatment of the plague, he brought him to Yudu and opened a medical hall for him. He told me a lot upside down, and what I could understand was probably that I was actually hit by two different poisons before I gave birth, but the two poisons just happened to fight poison with poison, and by coincidence, they turned into miraculous blood clotting medicines. I was bleeding nonstop, and I drained the poison in my body to the best of the best, but I just left the blood clotting medicine caused by the poison. I was distracted because I had lost too much blood, and I was waking up because the blood clotting medicine had worked to stop the bleeding. My body is in good condition, and after the bleeding stopped, I regained my breath and gradually recovered after drinking water. Tingfang helped me get up and get off the ground, although it was difficult to walk, but since there was still a breath, I couldn't give up easily. ”

When Xiao Xun heard this, he couldn't help but burst into tears. Well, since there is still a breath, you can't give up easily. Didn't I, like this, get up and crawl out of the pile of dead people?

After a long time, he choked up and asked, "Sister, did you find your child who was taken away?" ”

"Don't look for it. I knew who he was with all the time. Brother, you also know this person. ”

Xiao Xun was at a loss: "Who is it?" ”

"The former Chu State is the lord, and now the Lord of the Patriotic Country."

Xiao Xun was surprised: "That little Rong ...... Is it your son? ”

The woman nodded lightly and smiled with relief. It turns out that you call him "Xiao Ying".

Xiao Xun clapped his hands and suddenly realized: "No wonder! No wonder the kid looked ...... The first time I met him, it felt like a familiar one! No wonder! No wonder Brother Zhuge has always been cold and arrogant, but he is so attentive to Xiao Rong! Then he asked, "You heard that Xiaorong got married, so you came to congratulate you?" Their father and son are both in the Shu Palace, so I'll take you to see them, okay? ”

The woman shook her head, and her tone was relieved: "The fate of the dust is over, why bother?" Now Xiao Ying is the leader of the Restoration Alliance, you are the lord of Qi, Zhuge is the lord of the country. If I am still alive, what will the Qi Kingdom insist on recovering the country? Since you don't know Xiao Ying's life experience, Zhuge must not have told Xiao Ying. Over the years, I have heard too much gossip about the princess of Qi in the rivers and lakes. Xiao Ying doesn't know who his mother is, but in fact, it is the best for him. ”

The woman covered her veil and saluted Xiao Xun, "Brother, it's time for me to go." With you and Zhuge here, I am at ease. The mountains are long and the rivers are wide, and there is no time to see each other. Soul life is precious, cherish it separately! So he brushed his sleeves and left. If you want to chat about "The Ups and Downs of the Nations" with more like-minded people, follow "Hot Network or rd444" on WeChat to chat about your favorite books with more book friends