I spent a lot of money and got a chance to use Gu.

The Gu Keeper gave me three days to write down all the memories I wanted to forget. I shook my head, wrote the words "Qin Buxian" on the huge piece of paper, and handed it to him: "About this name...... Everything. ”

The Gu cultivator was well-informed, raised his head and smiled, his eyes were like torches: "Emotional injury? ”

I didn't want to explain too much, so I nodded along with his words and acknowledged, "Yes." ”

He showed a look on his face: "The person who has bought Gu over the years is a person who has forgotten nine of them. Today's young people are still not free enough. Scatter with one and then find the other, there is no grass at the end of the world. And if you look like you, even if you are dumped, it is not difficult to find others. ”

Me: "...... Well. ”

"Actually, memory is a very mysterious thing, and the location it hides in your mind is also very mysterious, some Gu worms can be found in shallow places, and some are hidden in the depths, and even the memories that you don't want to recall or say are not necessarily found by Gu worms. So forgetting the end is not reliable, maybe at some point, you knock your head and hit your head, fall off a cliff and jump into the river, and your memory will be restored. He looked at the heavy pile of gold leaves I placed in front of him, and persuaded me with the gesture of a conscientious seller, "So this son, you are probably wasting money." ”

I pushed the tray of gold leaves closer to him a few more points: "Don't persuade me, I don't regret it." ”

——

After running around for a long time, he returned to the imperial capital that day.

Take the passenger ship to the Dongyun Wharf, when you get off the ship, it coincides with the light rain in spring, the apricot blossom rain stains the clothes, the willow wind pavement, for a time it is like being in the Nanguo Mansion, the bridge to the bow of the ship, the rain is silky, and the flowers are soft.

returned to the palace, changed into official robes, walked to the palace, and was recommended by his father-in-law, bypassed Zhong Qidian and entered Wei Lang's study.

"Koji is back?" Wei Lang seemed to have been looking forward to it for a long time, and when he turned around from the bookshelf, the corners of the sleeves of the dragon-patterned Yunjin swept off a few books.

I leaned over and bowed, "Brother Huang." ”

"Between you and my brothers, there is no need to be rigid about etiquette." He smiled kindly, looked out of the window a few times, did not find the expected figure, lowered his voice, and asked in surprise, "What about her, why didn't she come with you?" ”

I looked up, confused: "Who?" ”

Wei Lang's face sank completely, even though I didn't know why he was fine one moment ago, but his face changed the next moment, he frowned and reminded me, "That female doctor who healed your wounds." ”

I was even more at a loss: "Which female doctor?" ”

"In your army, the female doctor who healed the wound in your heart."

"How can there be a woman in the army? When was his brother ever injured? ”

Wei Lang's eyes widened at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if suppressing great anger, he turned around and pulled out a painting from a certain square above the bookshelf, unfolded it and pointed at the girl in the green shirt on it with a fairy look and asked me, "That's what I said." ”

The quality of the Gu of the Qiong people is really good, the face that made me think about it day and night some time ago, put it in front of me at this moment, I couldn't find the slightest trace of recognition, so I looked at the portrait for three seconds, and said with great confidence: "Brother Huang, I don't know the girl in the painting." ”

As soon as these words came out, Wei Lang on the other side was already angry, and the whites of his eyes were full of bloodshots.

"I don't know you," he smiled coldly, looked at the sky that was split into several parts by the window, and commanded, "I hope that the noble people of Chong'an have forgotten so much, I really can't remember it." Come and take His Royal Highness King Chong'an to the water prison and help him seriously recall whether he recognizes the girl on the painting. ”

At that time, King Ben of Chong'an stayed in place, looking confused, and he didn't know why he didn't know a girl and became a fault, and ended up being locked up in a water prison by his own brother.

The location of the water dungeon is the location of the later ice cellar, which was dug by the ancestors when they built the palace city, and was originally used to hide in times of war. Later, some concubines in the palace made mistakes, and they did not deal with them externally and disgraced the royal family, so they built a water prison in the underground palace as punishment.

This king is the first royal family member to be locked up in a water prison, and he is also the first man to be locked up in a water prison, which can be regarded as carrying on the past and breaking a precedent.

The design of the water dungeon in the palace is not complicated, and it is probably divided into two floors, like the water dungeon in many places, but the upper layer of the water dungeon here is an iron cage, and the lower level is a pool for storing water. The trap activated, and the cage slowly fell until it was submerged in the pool below; When the trap is reset, the cage rises until it is out of the pool.

The trap is guarded, so they'll always make sure to kick in the switch when you're drowsy or taking a break, and get the timing right to reset the trap and get you out of the pool when you're about to suffocate. The caretakers here are very experienced, and they can accurately determine how long you can last in the pool, so that you will never drown or stay for a second.

When he first entered the water prison, he could stay in the pool for a quarter of an hour at most, and then his physical strength gradually depleted, and he could stay in the pool for a quarter of an hour at most. The caretaker gradually retreated, pinching my limit and tossing me, but for three days, endlessly, I had been tossed so that my whole body was empty, and I almost lost a layer of skin.

In those three days, Wei Lang sent someone to ask me the same question every day-

"I don't know if His Royal Highness King Chong'an remembers it, what is the name of that girl, what is the secret on her body, and where is she hiding now?"

And for those three days, the king spoke the same thing every day to those whom Wei Lang had sent—

"If you know what the girl's name is, what the secret is on her body, and where she is hiding now, this king will tell the royal brother on the day he returns, and can he still ask for hardship here in order to experience life?"

Heaven and earth can be learned, I really don't know, I don't even know the cause and effect, I don't know why Wei Lang is so irritable, but for the sake of a girl, I sent my own brother who fought side by side to this water prison with a thousand knives.

But no one believed me, especially Wei Lang.

By the sixth day, I could not stand up, my whole body was swollen, and a ray of light passed through the cracks in the bricks of the prison roof, and fell before my eyes, and I found that my skin, which had been tanned by the war in the south, was soaked so white by the water that I could seep out of it when I pinched it.

The rust on the cage stuck to my hair and my body, and the smell of old metal mixed with the cold, wet smell of pool water was disgusting. But I couldn't vomit anything, I hadn't eaten for a few days, and my stomach was empty.

I struggled to look up at the light, and at that time I thought it was probably the last ray of light in my life, and the feeling of death was so strong and so calm, and my eyes rolled mechanically, and my eyes fell on the dark and boundless pool below, and I thought, until the next time the mechanism was activated, I should not struggle in the water, and let the not-so-smelling water flow into my mouth and nose.

But I'm still a little unwilling.

I don't think I'm dying very clearly.

As the prince of Dajin and the general of the southern border, I should do my best for the prosperity of the country, and I should be the stable horse leather shroud for the frontier. But now, I am going to be quietly drowned in such a ghost place, and in the future, even the records in the history books will have to rely on nonsense and nonsense.

The mechanism activated again, and the cage slowly sank until it was close to the water, and I leaned into the cage in a dejected manner, so close to death.

"Call the emperor up, this king, I have something to tell him." I looked up at the light of day again and said.

The caretaker heard me, and the dull click of the mechanism was reset, and the iron cage slowly rose from the water, and I seemed to be one step closer to the light, and it seemed like there was no difference.

After a short time, Wei Lang came in, and like the person who came to deliver the message, he was carrying a faint lamp, and he stood outside the skylight, and I could not see his face and expression.

"It seems that this water prison is still useful, it at least reminds the emperor of something."

"Yes, the younger brother remembered something, wanted to tell it, and told it to the imperial brother."

"Speak."

I shifted my position and lay slowly in the iron cage with my arms propped up, letting all the light fall on my face, and I looked up and smiled, as if what fell on my eyes was not the dark dripping stone bricks of the prison roof, but the vast night sky, and a round of night moon hanging in the sky that was not very clear.

"In the twenty-sixth year of the Jin Kingdom, you and I joined forces to conquer the southern country, I am worried that Cheng Yu's illness will not leave an inch, you ignored the urgent order of your father's emperor to restore his life, and accompanied me to stay in the southern country for more than a month." I said slowly.

"That's not what I want to hear." There was a palpable anger in his tone.

But I didn't care, and continued: "One night, when the stars and moon were dim and the tide was blowing, you flew up to the roof with two pots of osmanthus wine to accompany me. You asked me, 'Third brother, although you and I are not the same concubine, we both have the word 'month' in our names. Do you know why? I didn't speak, but I knew it in my heart. ”

"Don't talk about it."

"Do you remember what you said that night?" I asked with a smile.

Wei Lang didn't answer, but I clearly remembered that Wei Lang that night was lying on the roof, pouring osmanthus wine, both free and aggrieved-

"I led the troops to fight Dongqi at the age of twelve, and you stabbed the Southern Emperor alone at the age of thirteen, I used to think that the two of us were my father's right-hand men, but later I found out that even if these two arms were broken one day, my father was not very distressed, and Dajin still had countless arms for him to use."

"Your name is Wei Qi, my name is Wei Lang, the stars hold the moon, we are not the moon, we are two of the many stars, Wei Tian is the moon to hold in the palm of his hand, when my father set our names, he arranged our lives properly."

I was still timid, not as fearless as him, so I reminded: "Second Emperor Brother, these words will stay in the southern country, and when you return to the imperial capital, you will drink less and say these words less." ”

Wei Lang stood up and squatted in front of me, the aroma of osmanthus wine spread in an instant, he raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile: "Do you know what order your father gave before coming to Nanguo?" ”

"My father asked me to lead the troops to attack the city, and the soldiers were fast and won quickly."

"But he gave me another order," Wei Lang smiled and told me the orders other than his father's order, "'If Cheng Jingsheng resists stubbornly, you will kill his heir; If the southerners resist, you will slaughter the city.'" ”

My brain pounded and my whole body froze.

Moreover, he had long known about Cheng Yu's existence. A year ago, how you were wounded, how you escaped for your life, what you said to that girl, how that girl answered you, my father knew that you were not the only assassin in him. The terrible thing is that he has seen through your mind, and wants you to personally lead troops to destroy her country, which is insidious and ruthless, you can experience it yourself; After that, the southern kingdom falls into his hands, and you will also experience what the people will be. ”

This sentence brought tears to his eyes until he became angry and jumped off the roof.

The next day, Wei Lang calmly announced in the army: Cheng Yu, the princess of the southern kingdom, was killed, and the division returned to the dynasty three days later.

……

"I know that my life is about to come to an end today, Brother Wei Lang, thanks to your blessing back then, I have lived for so many more years. Death at your hands, I will. But I really don't know who the girl in the painting is. I looked at him, "Let's go goodbye, heaven and earth are separated, Brother Wei Lang, cherish everything." ”

There was a long silence, and even the sound of breathing could be heard clearly.

On the other side of the pool, he slowly lifted the lamp, as if trying to read my description, but when he lifted the lamp, I saw his tearful eyes.

"Singing when you get is resting, and being sentimental and hateful is also leisurely. There is wine today, drunk today, and sorrow tomorrow comes. You probably really forgot, come down. Wei Lang said.

I don't know why Wei Lang read this poem at that time, I only know that he let me go, and he still has a brotherly friendship with me.

Now, when the memory comes back to my mind, I finally know what he gave up at that moment-

It's a kind of hatred technique that can make him immortal and dominate the future.