Volume 17 Practices (2nd Update)
"When I came back to see her, she had lost a lot of weight, and I remember what I asked her at that time." The general recalled the autumn of the year when he had a conversation with Chu Nian, and that passage is still a mystery in the general's heart.
"Nian'er, have you been too tired lately, there is news today, the Jin country, the Qi country may make peace, and then I will play to the king, and ask for an idle job to live in seclusion with you and You'er in the mountains."
This is his greatest expectation, the general fought and killed on the battlefield at the age of sixteen, and what he hoped most in his life was to live a stable life with his wife and children without worrying about food and clothing.
"It's time for peace, the people are tired of the war." Hatsunian replied with a weak smile.
"It's fifteen in a few days, I'll accompany you to the outside of the city to give alms, what do you think?" The general knew that he was a bodhisattva-hearted lady, and every month on the first day of the first and fifteenth days of the new year, he would give alms to displaced refugees outside the city, and according to her words, he could help one by one, starting from the smallest kindness, and it would be good after all.
"I won't go this time, you have little leisure, let me be selfish and stay with you for a while." She raised her head and looked at Lin Moran longingly, her emaciated face making her bright eyes look extraordinarily large.
The general gently agreed, "Okay, what do you want to do?" “
"I ...... I don't want to do anything, I just want to look at you and just watch you for a day. Hatsunian smiled sweetly.
"Silly woman." He liked to call her that, and he liked to be pestered by her like he was now.
"However, that day's appointment, I didn't go to the scene after all, the front line was tense, again, I chose to go to the battlefield, did not choose her, that day, I won the battle, but, that day, I lost in this life, the next day, when I returned to the house, I learned that she committed suicide by taking poison, the king was afraid that I would be distracted on the battlefield, and ordered someone to hide it from me, that day, the general's mansion was full of gloom, and people on the streets outside were celebrating the victory of the war, and I looked at her coffin blankly, listening to the monks chanting scriptures."
The general paused, this short memory made him feel much older.
Jing Ning quietly watched him try to maintain a calm complexion, his voice was flat, as if all that happened was just telling other people's stories, maybe it was his best disguise that tricked everyone into believing that he had let go of the past.
He continued to recall: "At that time, I quietly followed the monks and chanted the scriptures, using all my strength, that was the first time I longed for a Buddha, a god, I simply longed for God to bless her, the god did not respond to me, no miracle happened, a few days later, the king Taoist priest came to the house to practice, I looked at their serious appearance, once again believed that maybe it was possible, but nothing happened, I didn't even know the real reason why she chose to die, those monks and Taoist priests failed to tell me. “
Finally, he groaned, closed his eyes, and opened his eyes for a long time, "Today I heard those words of You'er, and I remembered the strange behavior before I died, it seems, it seems to be ......"
Finally, he couldn't say it anymore, Jing Ning frowned and took the words, "It seems that Mrs. Xian knows that she is leaving." “
"Yes, according to the servant's words, she wrote a lot of things, but I couldn't find anything, I didn't leave any clues, nothing."
For some reason, Jing Ning remembered last night's dream, the things that Mrs. Xian had written should be in her own hands, why did she leave these things to a stranger she had never met? Is it just that Jing Ning once expressed her love for her work?
"Jing Ning, when did you start reading the first reading?"
"It was a long time ago, I can't remember exactly, but it's very likely that Mrs. Prime's notebook is with me, I don't know why"
"Do you know why I'm telling you this?" Sure enough, this matter really has something to do with Jing Ning.
"General, just say it, I will tell the truth if I know."
"Okay, I feel like it's all arranged, including you and me now." The general's words surprised Jing Ning, everything was arranged?! It's ridiculous, I thought I was out of the trap, but now I look at it, it's just jumping from one chessboard to another.
"No matter who it is, I want to know what is going on, who threatened Chu Nian to make her choose such a decisive ending, are you willing to help me?"