Chapter 8: The Old Man of Chu (I)

The silence in the Yu'an Hall was so quiet that you could hear the flickering of candles. Liu Ying and Xiao Yi stared at each other in silence, one begging for forgiveness and the other falling into despair.

Liu Ying knew that she shouldn't have concealed the truth that she was not poisoned in order to disintegrate Xiao Yi's hatred from the beginning. He knew that Xiao Yi's love and trust in him had to overcome her hatred of herself, and he used such a concise and despicable means to easily disintegrate her hatred. He said that he had been poisoned by lovesickness and that his life would not be long, but she believed it, so she stayed with him to spend the rest of his life with him. He could no longer tolerate his meanness, could no longer listen in silence to her sobs in the middle of the night. He wanted her to be truly happy and free, no longer bound by national hatred and family hatred, but he paralyzed her with his meanness and trapped her with a false parting of life and death.

He said, "Yi'er, I have hidden one thing from you. ”

Xiao Yi squinted his eyes absently and said, "For example, apart from Qiao Meiren's son, what other beautiful daughter do you have?" ”

Liu Ying said: "No." This matter has nothing to do with anyone else. Qiao Jing and Jing'er have nothing to do with you and me. ”

Xiao Yi pursed his lips and said, "Their mother and son, one is your woman and the other is your son, how can it have nothing to do with you?" ”

Liu Ying said: "They are the wives of King Song, not my Liu Ying." Qiao Jing is very similar to the queen mother, she is attached to power rather than a man. ”

Xiao Yi smiled bitterly: "How do you know that I am in love with you?" ”

Liu Ying said: "Because you would rather leave behind the status of a princess of a country, have no name and no share, and even spend the rest of your life incognito with a dying person." In your eyes, I am no longer the King of Song, I am me. That Song King has been stabbed to death by you. ”

Xiao Yi had tears in his eyes and looked at him brightly. "Liu Ying, do you know, if the princess of Qi doesn't stab the new monarch of Song to death, I can't be with you. Between you and me, if it is not separated by the blood feud between the Qi State and the Song State, it is separated by the gap between life and death. If there is an afterlife, I want to be a tea picker in the countryside of Zhao Kingdom, and you will be my farmer brother next door, and we will stay together for a lifetime, planting vegetables, tea, and flowers every day. ”

Liu Ying asked expectantly: "Yi'er, is this the life you want?" ”

Xiao Yi said, "Yes." Or go to the vast Chu River to sell wine, or go to the border of Chen to shepherd sheep, or go to Shu to study medicine...... In short, to go to a place far away from the emperor of the sky, there are only the two of us. ”

Liu Ying said: "Okay, since this is what you want, give me a year, let me settle the Song Dynasty properly, and we will fly away." I originally wanted to make you the queen and our future children as the crown prince, so that the hatred between the Song State and the Qi State could be resolved by the in-laws, but since you and I don't want to be bound, it is better to leave and live our free life, regardless of what it is in this world, and how it rises and falls! ”

Xiao Yi hugged Liu Ying and said coquettishly: "What are you hiding from me?" I'm going to see if I'm going to give you a year to settle state affairs, and if it's bad, I'll leave now, so I won't wait for you." ”

Liu Ying hugged Xiao Yi and confessed: "Do you remember that I was poisoned but brought back to life by a famous doctor in Shu?" That kind of poison is Acacia Gu. ”

Xiao Yi looked at him with amazement: "It turns out that you have been poisoned by Acacia Gu twice!" This poison is very difficult to control, rare and valuable, ordinary people may not be fortunate enough to hear about it, but you can be hit twice in a row, it is really fateful. ”

Liu Ying said with a straight face: "No, lovesickness Gu poison can only be hit once in a lifetime." Once in a lifetime, it is called lovesickness. ”

Xiao Yi gently pushed him away, staring at Liu Ying, whose face was awe-inspiring to cold, and he seemed to have changed back into the high King of Song.

Liu Ying continued: "Although this poison is difficult to control, unpredictable, unpredictable, and difficult to solve, once it is solved, it will not be hit again in this life. Therefore, the sword with which thou stabbed me, though it saw blood, did not seal the throat. I have never been poisoned, and you have never killed King Song. ”

Xiao Yi looked at this man who had made her experience joys and sorrows, immortality in life and death in three months, but suddenly told her that all this was a concealment, a deception, and a trick.

She didn't know what to say, she could only sink into a deep and bottomless despair. The candlelight flickered, and there were dark waves in this man's eyes, as well as bottomless mysterious schemes. She thought that he was bright and upright, bright enough to be thrown away in power, and so bright that life and death could be abandoned, but he turned out to be such a greedy and unscrupulous person, he turned her into a slave who betrayed his family and country, and played with her purest feelings so thoroughly!

She suddenly felt cold all over. Compared with death, living is the harshest punishment in this world. She trembled and regressed, wanting nothing more than to get away from the man she had entrusted her all her life to.

Liu Ying looked at her with a painful heart, wondering what else he could say if he lost her trust. All he could say was, "Today you said that if I did something wrong, you would forgive me once." My heart for you can be learned from heaven and earth, and this is the only one thing I ask for your forgiveness. Give me a year, and I will help you completely 'kill' this King of Song, and we will change our name and surname, travel around the world, and ...... freely."

"Don't talk about it." Xiao Yi turned around and stopped looking at him.

"Yi'er, you believe me, this time I didn't lie to you, I didn't hide anything, and I won't do it again. I don't cherish this throne, life and death have long been put aside, I just want to accompany you, let's go to Zhao to cultivate the fields, go to Chu to make wine, and go to Shu ......"

"Liu Ying, King of Song, Xiao Yi of my Qi Kingdom, didn't expect that Song Kingdom could even be the king of a country who rebelled against his word! You obviously know that if I don't kill the King of Song and avenge the Qi State and my parents, I will not be able to be with you. I am now losing my body and morality, losing my family and country, but the king of Song told me that he wanted to abandon his wife and children, make me the queen, and use everything I lost in exchange for the Song state's justifiable embezzlement of the country. Do you think it's possible for me to travel with you around the world? You can abandon your wife and children, you can abandon the Song Kingdom, but it is impossible for me to abandon thousands of unjust souls of the Qi Kingdom, and it is impossible for me to forget my parents who died under your father's knife. ”

"Yi'er, why can't you live for yourself once? I can lay down my home and country for you, and I can take you away and fly high, why don't you want to give up your home and country for me and live freely with me? ”

Xiao Yi sneered and said, "Have you laid down your family and country for me?" I have long abandoned my family and country, life and death, and you ...... What qualifications do you have to come to me for another year? With that, she brushed her sleeves away, her body was extremely fast, and she disappeared into the night of the White Jade Palace in an instant.

Liu Ying looked at her back as quickly disappearing as a ghost, and his heart was instantly engulfed by the night, leaving only a heavy sadness that was so suppressed that he couldn't move. Maybe all the concealment should be concealed for a lifetime. It was his wishful thinking that her affection for him had long gone beyond the ties of the past.

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Xiao Yi ran aimlessly in the night. No one is more familiar with this White Jade Palace than her, but no one is as lost here as she is. Before she knew it, she ran back to the dormitory where she lived as a child. It was my mother's bedchamber.

When I opened the door, it was pitch black and lifeless. Suddenly there was a pain in her stomach, and she was unable to support it, and she curled up on the cold ground. She thought that anger and sadness could not be restrained, but she did not expect that this real abdominal pain could melt away the anger and sadness of Shicai. She seemed to have forgotten everything, the fall of the Qi Kingdom, and the tomb on the bank of Peach Blossom Creek, leaving only this tangled and repeated pain.

I don't know how long later, the sound of heavy breathing was mixed with the sound of footsteps, and she couldn't see who was coming in pain, only heard a familiar voice, and asked with concern, "Why are you here?" Her eyes were dizzy with pain, and she tugged at the man's sleeve. The man sighed and said, "You're really here." ”