Chapter 272: Mercy
Wang Chengnan's upper body bounced up like a fish: "You lied!! Her voice ripped her vocal cords, which could be called crying blood.
Feng Xiwen straightened up and looked at her coldly: "You just have to live." ”
"You...... We, why did you kill her? Wang Chengnan asked unrelentingly, asking, "Why did you kill her?" ”
Don't you like her? Didn't you take care of her? Aren't you going to put her in your account?
Wang Chengnan's mind was extremely chaotic, and he thought desperately.
She...... She's dead?
Feng Xiwen stuffed something into her hand, Wang Chengnan touched it, and found that it was a whole piece of jade pendant for himself and Li'er, and with a light break, it became two. One has "Ping" engraved on it, and the other has "An" engraved on it.
Wang Chengnan sat there for a long time and didn't react, her mind seemed to be frozen by something, sluggish, dazed, she stared at the thing in her hand for a while, and suddenly looked up and asked, "What are you doing with her jade pendant?" She has never taken it off since she was a child. You put her back on......"
Her own voice was hazy and inaudible in the water, Feng Xiwen took two steps back, and seemed to say, "It's still like this......"
At this time, two people pushed open the door and came in, walked from behind Feng Xiwen, and poured a bowl of weird-tasting things into Wang Chengnan's mouth, which was not bitter, but had a very strong fishy smell.
Wang Chengnan swallowed slowly, and someone pressed her on the pillow to let her "sleep".
Wang Chengnan has never been clear in front of him, he was pressed down, and he still held two jade pendants in his hand, which were put together into a whole piece. She stared at the top in a daze and asked, "Why didn't Li'er come to sleep?" ”
Feng Xiwen stood aside with his hands down, his subordinates held down Wang Chengnan, looked back at him, and saw that the general was very tired, and couldn't help but persuade in a low voice: "The general should also go and rest." ”
Feng Xiwen shook his head.
The subordinate folded the quilt for Wang Chengnan and persuaded in a low voice: "Girl, sleep." ”
"When I wake up, will Li'er come?"
"When the girl wakes up, she'll come."
So Wang Chengnan closed his eyes slowly, reassuringly, and nodded invisibly: "When she comes, you tell her and ask her to tie the jade pendant." ”
The subordinate didn't understand what she was talking about, so he answered: "Hey." ”
"I remember."
Feng Xiwen suddenly turned around and strode out.
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Wang Chengnan stopped.
She was in a trance, looking around through the dim light, the familiar dark mountain road.
How did she end up here? Wang Chengnan stood for a while, and he didn't know where the doubts in his heart came from.
I really should be here.
She carried Rong Li'er on her back until she walked to Wuti Ling, her legs finally couldn't support it, she fell to the ground, and even Rong Li'er on her back fell.
"Pian, Li'er!" Wang Chengnan touched her forehead: "How are you?" ”
Rong Li'er gasped lowly, her forehead was hot, and Wang Chengnan scolded in a low voice.
The troops heading to southern Xinjiang had already crossed the Wutiling Mountains, leaving them far behind. Wang Chengnan has to take care of Rong Lian'er, who has a high fever that does not go away, and it is very reluctant to continue walking, and it is almost to Wang Chengnan's limit when she walks to Wuqiling, but she can't stop, Wang Chengnan wants to find a family, even if there is no medicine to treat the disease, it is good to feed Rong Lian'er some rice soup and apply a compress to her forehead.
The generals who led the army to the south put the sluggish and large group of oni walkers behind the army, so that when the main force reached the next mountain, the demon walkers still slowly descended from the Wuqi Ridge.
Rong Li'er whispered, "Where are you?" ”
"I don't know." Wang Chengnan said: "That General Li Chuan rushed so fast that he didn't even care about ghosts. ”
After she finished speaking, she was stunned, and subconsciously asked, "Who is the leading general this time?" ”
Rong Li'er laughed weakly: "Li Chuan, didn't you just talk about him?" ”
Wang Chengnan paused and said, "Oh, yes." ”
Didn't the emperor just send Li Chuan to lead the army to conquer Yangjie?
She nodded, even if she rested between words, she stood up first, and tried hard to take Rong Li'er up, Rong Li'er said, "I can go." ”
Rong Li'er walked slowly, but she also walked down, and she lay on Wang Chengnan's back again, Wang Chengnan was afraid that she would be pressed across.
They saw the ghosts in front of them from a distance, and both of them carefully avoided these muddy, half-dead people.
Wang Chengnan felt that the air was full of damp moisture, she snorted, and Rong Li'er said, "It's going to rain." ”
"Yes." Wang Chengnan remembered the poisonous rain before, and his heart palpitated.
"Let's go faster."
Rong Li'er nodded, the two of them quickened their pace, and just when they were about to walk out of Wuqiling, the rain suddenly fell, Wang Chengnan hurriedly took off his coat to cover Rong Li'er's head and face, Rong Li'er said urgently: "What should you do!" ”
Before Wang Chengnan could speak, the ghost who had been on the side with them suddenly became agitated after being drenched in the poisonous rain.
Wang Chengnan felt that something was wrong when he saw it, and pulled Rong Li'er to leave in a hurry, but Rong Li'er was unsteady on her feet and fell.
Wang Chengnan went to help her, and the ghost behind her seemed to be alarmed by this sound, and in the panicked eyes of Wang Chengnan and Rong Li'er, they rushed towards them like a tide!
The power of Wang Chengnan's explosion under fear was amazing, Rong Lian'er was dragged up by her, and then pushed down hard.
"Let's go!"
Rong Li'er turned her head in a panic, only to see Wang Chengnan in the middle of the narrow road, and the ghost behind her stretched out countless hands to grab her and tear her, and the poisonous rain quickly corroded her head and face, Wang Chengnan screamed in pain: "Hurry up!! ”
Rong Li'er didn't even react to what was happening.
She even just heard Wang Chengnan's shout, and when she looked over, Wang Chengnan had been swallowed up by the ghost crowd and could no longer see anyone.
Rong Li'er in the next ten years, twenty years, in the long and endless pain of the rest of her life, was filled with the pungent stench of that rainy night, and Wang Chengnan's distorted and panicked face that flashed in the ghost group.
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Rong Li'er woke up in an ordinary person's house under Wuqiling, when she woke up, her face was covered with medicine, she couldn't see people clearly, listening to the voice, taking care of her was an old woman with a thin voice, her hands were dry and warm, when Rong Li'er held her hand, she remembered Wang Chengnan's hand.
"Don't cry dolls." The old woman wiped her tears: "Don't cry. ”
After Rong Li'er had a high fever, could speak, and could get up straight from the bed, she followed the old woman's child and learned to call her Grandma, and she asked, "Grandma, where is my sister?" ”
She said that Rong Li'er was brought over, and she was a man who looked very young and looked extremely beautiful, but she didn't know who the sister Rong Li'er was talking about.
It took several days for Rong Li'er to confirm that Wang Chengnan was dead, and after coming down from the smelly, corpse-filled Wuqi Ridge, Rong Li'er walked down the path in a daze, tripped over a stone tablet in the grass.
She sat on the ground, stretched out her hand to wipe the dirt off it, and saw the word "Gangshan".
She said that when she was still fighting with Yangjie here, it was called Yushan, and Yangjie was beaten back, and the name of Wenwen Crepe was changed to Wuqiling, and the monument was erected at the intersection where it came in.
Rong Li'er couldn't say what she felt in her heart, she nodded, and Xian Xian looked at her from the side and said, "Doll, you are so sad." ”
Rong Li'er looked almost expressionless, she nested on a low bench all day, she couldn't eat, she didn't drink water, she fed her a little honey, Rong Li'er turned her head and vomited, she couldn't eat anything at all.
Rong Li'er quickly lost weight, like a dying narcissus.
Until one day, Rong Li'er leaned her face against the rough wall, and the sun shadow in front of her turned from one end of the room to the other, and someone stood by the window above her head and asked, "Don't you want to see Wang Chengnan anymore?" ”
Rong Li'er turned her head a little sluggishly, and the person outside the window stood against the light, his figure was straight, the man opened the window, pinched her chin and looked at it, and the laughter didn't know whether it was ridicule or emotion.
"I'll take you to her." The man said, handing in a letter.
Rong Li'er never saw his face again.
The man was always wearing a cloak, which completely covered his body and face, and when he communicated later, he only wrote letters.
She didn't understand why this person was in such trouble, but later realized that in the chaos of time, only letters could keep a record function, and after her memory faded, she had to rely on the contents of these letters to continue her activities.
After following the mysterious man through the wasteland for the first time, she glimpsed the most absurd and terrifying secrets in the world.
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Rong Li'er walked through the wasteland and came to another world, ten years before the outbreak of ghosts.
At this time, Wang Chengnan was still alive, she was still alive, and at this time, Rong Lian'er was still in the Governor's Mansion and had never left.
Rong Li'er tried many times.
She tried to stop herself and Wang Chengnan from leaving Kyoto, but in the end they died in Kyoto, the day the Jin king's rebels invaded.
She tried to isolate herself from Wang Chengnan from these rights and wrongs, but again and again, she watched them be killed by robbers, by wicked people, by sudden wars, by accidents on a trek through the mountains, and by everything that she could not guard against.
The mysterious man laughed at her delusional thinking: "Since she was dead when you came, then one of you must die." ”
"Preserve two? Dream. ”
Rong Li'er's face almost contorted, she rushed over to grab the man, but when she saw the other person retreat lightly, she was hit hard and fell to the ground.
"Have you tried enough?" The mysterious man asked her, "How many times do you have to watch your own death, and how many times do you have to watch Wang Chengnan's death to be satisfied?" ”
"So, what should I do?" She choked up and asked, "I can't save her, what should I do?" ”
She's trying, and so is the mystery man, tossing and turning in staggered time and space, sometimes with other people around him. As long as the other party is the same person, no matter how full of ambition and expectation Rong Li'er was when he first saw him, in the trial and error again and again, after witnessing the fate of his loved ones repeating his fate again and again, his face will always become resentful and distorted. It's like Rong Li'er.
Rong Li'er gradually went from aimlessly blocking and protecting, to beginning to record and pay attention to what happened in the past five years.
She peeled back the cocoon, and her gaze finally went out from the two sisters holding hands, and followed the transparent and invisible silk threads on their bodies, and probed into the deep palace.