The crescent moon climbed up the willows, the night breeze gently blew through the four fields, and the long grass was like smoke, far away from the sky.

Chen Ying's face did not move, but she looked at Concubine Wu's eyes, and there was a trace of shock.

Where are you from?

This is a question asked by Concubine Wu explicitly.

However, what is the reason for this question?

Chen Ying believed that Concubine Wu was by no means discussing philosophical issues with her.

What she asked was where Chen Ying came from.

Where the real one comes from.

"Ah, I'm afraid it's too abrupt for me to ask." Concubine Wu suddenly smiled, and her face was apologetic for knowing that she had lost her words.

After speaking, she stretched her sleeves again, and said with a smile: "This question can really be asked in a different way, for example, when did you come from?" ”

Chen Ying listened apprehensively, without saying a word, but slowly raised his head and looked at the sky and the moon.

The moon hangs in the sky, the wind rolls clouds, and the star particles stick behind the clouds, gathering and scattering with the wind and clouds, looming.

She felt a sense of confusion.

Time and space, past life and present life, in her body, have long ceased to be clear lines of warp and weft, but a mess of twisted and tangled.

Where she came from is her greatest secret, but also her greatest confusion, every time I think about it, I can't help but ask that eternal question:

Who am I?

A lonely girl in a 21st century orphanage?

Is it the daughter of a rich family who fought with the sky, the earth, and people in the cramped courtyard in the previous life?

Or Mr. Detective, who smokes a pipe and solves countless crimes?

Or is it the Houmen lady who is outside the ten-mile pavilion at this time, talking with people at night?

Which of these many shes is the real her?

Chen Ying didn't know.

At that moment, she was like being in the vast universe, vast, far away, and empty, and when she looked up, she didn't know where she came from or where she went.

It's just a speck of dust.

"Did I scare you?" Concubine Wu looked at Chen Ying's face and asked softly. There was a little concern in his voice.

In an instant, the scene in front of him changed suddenly, the crescent moon was in the sky, the smoke willows and grass, and the soles of his feet were solid earth, carrying and lifting, making Chen Ying recover from a slight sense of weightlessness.

She narrowed her gaze and cast a sideways glance at Concubine Wu.

A very light wisp of eyes, no emotion, just like her ordinary appearance.

Seeing this, Concubine Wu sighed lowly: "Alas, this is not mine, this person is old, and his speech is a little upside down, I don't blame you for being like this, I myself feel hateful." ”

said words of apology in her mouth, but her eyes looked at Chen Ying very deeply, as if she was tentative and determined: "I just feel a little strange." What kind of girls' school, women's hospital, shelter, and your textbooks, it's the first time I've seen them in my life. ”

Chen Ying paced two steps forward, with a very indifferent expression on her face: "It's just a whim, my purpose in doing this is just to find a way to live for the women who are suffering in this world." And the two questions asked by the mother, please forgive me for being stupid, I didn't understand. ”

"Oh...... Really? Concubine Wu muttered, turning her eyes away, with a flash of loss on her face.

Chen Ying keenly captured this.

As a result, the bottom of my heart is different again.

And then, Concubine Wu burst out laughing again and waved her sleeves, as if to wipe away some thoughts in her heart: "Okay, I'm still too poor to get to the bottom of it, but I've really become that old woman with a broken mouth, you young people don't like it." ”

"I didn't." Chen Ying is gentle and authentic.

Concubine Wu chuckled, took out a silver-trimmed brocade from her sleeve, covered her face and said, "You kid, you are used to talking and coaxing, I don't believe it." ”

At this moment, she was the calm appearance of Fang Cai, no longer a little lost, and only asked with a smile: "Although you don't want to say it, I still want to talk to you more, but I don't know if you want to listen?" ”

Chen Ying nodded: "I am naturally willing to listen." ”

"That's good." Concubine Wu squinted and smiled, rubbed the silver edge of the brocade handkerchief with her fingertips, and said softly: "These words have been held in my heart for many years, and now that I see you, I feel like I have known you at first sight, as if I have known you for a long time." ”

Chen Ying was silent, and Concubine Wu didn't seem to need her to answer, so she bent her eyes and asked her: "Good boy, guess how many years have I lived in Dachu?" ”

Chen Ying was stunned.

Emperor Yuanjia made it clear in the memorial text that Concubine Wu "died" at the age of forty-eight, which means that there was only so much for the years she lived in Dachu.

However, at this moment, she put this well-known thing as a question, which shows that the answer is by no means "forty-eight years".

As soon as the thought turned here, a chuckle sounded in Chen Ying's ears.

At the same time, the wind blew, the blades of grass pitched, and the sound was endless.

And the sweet and vicissitudes of the voice are a piece of music that is in harmony with it, and every word and sentence is clear:

"If you calculate carefully, the years I lived in the Great Chu Dynasty were exactly one hundred and forty-eight years." Concubine Wu said.

"Hulala", the wind suddenly turned rapid, blowing the wicker danced wildly, the grass rose and fell, and the whole world seemed to become restless because of these words.

Chen Ying raised her head in disbelief.

One hundred and forty-eight years?

How can such a long time be achieved in a lifetime?

"With the addition of this life, I have lived a total of seven lifetimes." Concubine Wu sighed.

At this moment, she didn't look at Chen Ying, but stared at the crescent moon, her eyes were confused, as if she was crazy.

I don't know how long it took, she turned her head and glanced at Chen Ying, and her beautiful eyes bent: "You don't seem to be particularly surprised." ”

Chen Ying didn't speak.

Sometimes, silence is the best answer.

"So I'll just say, why did the Chen family suddenly have such a smart little girl." Concubine Wu smiled, looking very pleased.

"Can I understand it this way: the experience of these seven lifetimes is the opportunity for you to found the Wind Bone Society?" Chen Ying didn't answer her words, but threw out a question.

Concubine Wu thought for a while and smiled: "Yes, the reason why I set up the Fenggu Society is indeed because in the first six lives, I really saw enough of the faces of those so-called sons of heaven, and I also deeply felt that it was too much luck and too unsafe to tie the survival of the country and the people to one person." ”

She shook her head, her face was full of disapproval, and even a little disdainful: "'Changing the world into a uniform world' and 'governing by people is better than governing by control', these two are the gist of my Fenggu Society, and they are also the conclusions I have reached after six degrees of death and life, reading history a hundred times, and learning from the pain." ”

Chen Ying's eyes widened, almost thinking that he had misheard.

Changing the world into an average world?

Is it better to rule by people than to be ruled by system?

SHE NEVER EXPECTED THAT IN THE GREAT CHU DYNASTY OF THE FEUDAL MONARCHY, IN THIS ANCIENT TIME AND SPACE WHERE THE THREE MOUNTAINS OVERWHELMED PEOPLE, SHE WOULD HEAR SUCH AN ADVANCED AND AVANT-GARDE VIEW OF ZHENGZHI. Compared with the rebirth of Concubine Wu's seventh life, this remark close to rebellion is even more surprising.