I let him hold and gave up struggling, and Shen Qiushui saw that I no longer resisted, thinking that I had changed my mind and let go of me.

"Zen heart, you follow me well, I can give you whatever you want."

He kept emphasizing this, in fact, he himself knew that maybe what I wanted, he couldn't give it in his life.

A month passed quickly, and there was no news from the Beiyang Army, and I began to sit on the edge of my seat.

Until Shen Qiushui said to me: "Now this is our territory, and they are all taking care of themselves in internal fighting, so how can they be in the mood to care about Young Master Chu?" ”

"You let Nantang go."

"Yes, I have one condition."

"What?"

"I have changed my mind now, I want you to marry me, and the wedding day is when I release Chu Nantang."

Seeing that I was silent, Shen Qiushui frowned: "It's okay, I can give you time to think about it, and then answer me after thinking about it." ”

Seeing that he was leaving, I stopped him: "No need, I can answer you now." ”

He looked back and smiled.

I said, "Marrying you can do it, you let Chu Nantang go first." ”

"Do you think you're qualified to negotiate terms with me?"

I took the hairpin and held it against my throat: "You can try, death is not terrible for me." Shen Qiushui, you can bet on me whether I will die in front of you. ”

"You threaten me?!" He raised his voice and asked angrily.

"Aren't you threatening me too? Let's get even. ”

Seeing that he had not yet let go, I gritted my teeth and used some force, and the sharp hairpin pierced my flesh, and a bright red blood slowly flowed down my neck.

"Stop!" Shen Qiushui rushed forward and grabbed my hand: "I promise you, let Chu Nantang go first, but you can't go back on your word, you know, even if I can release him, I can also arrest him back." ”

I threw away the hairpin in my hand: "Promise you something." I won't regret it. ”

"You'd better remember the promise made to me." After that, he ordered people to go to the prison and release them.

I asked to go with me to see Chu Nantang for the last time, although Shen Qiushui was not happy, he didn't stop him, it turned out that this was really the last meeting between me and him.

He had lost a lot of weight, and he was so pale that he didn't see a trace of blood, but his face was still breezy and breezy, as if nothing in this world could threaten him.

"Are you okay?"

"Good or bad, it's all like that." He looked at me, smiled, and reached out to stroke my hair, "It's hard for you." ”

My heart was suffocated, and I was so sad that I couldn't help myself.

"There's nothing hard to do without being embarrassed. That's all I can do for you. ”

"And what can I do for you?" Chu Nantang's eyes flashed with a hint of guilt.

They were silent for a long time, and for the first time they were relatively speechless, not because they didn't want to say it, but because they wanted to say too much, but they didn't know where to start.

I understood his helplessness, and I took a deep breath: "Let me send you." ”

After sending him far away, he paused and turned around and said, "Sending you a thousand miles, you need to say goodbye in the end." ”

"Next time we meet, we'll never be apart again, okay?"

"Okay." He smiled. With endless desolation.

It wasn't until his slender back disappeared into the corner of the street, drowning in the sea of people, that I slowly withdrew my gaze.

Shen Qiushui still talked about credit, and sure enough, he didn't trouble the Chu family anymore, I was depressed all day long, and he tried his best to make me happy.

Send this and that, even if sometimes I don't even look at it.

Until one day, he said that he wanted to introduce me alone, I didn't ask much at first, until Gu Xi and I appeared in front of me.

"You shouldn't have seen each other for a long time, so let's have a good chat, I won't bother you."

After Chu Nantang left, I walked quickly in front of Gu Xi.

He has grown taller and matured a lot, and he has faded from the youth of his youth, and he looks like an adult.

"Nozomi, why are you here?" I asked him in disbelief.

"Actually, I always knew that you were here with Shen Ye." Gu Xi: I am not as affectionate as before, and the words are full of strangeness.

I opened my mouth, and after a while, I remembered that I had heard some rumors all the way before, and it was connected with Gu Xi's own strength, and it turned out that it had not been a day or two since he came to Shen Qiushui's side.

"Why?" I asked.

Gu Xi lowered his eyes and didn't look at me again for a long time. Cai said: "There is no why, just to do it, the patriarch's order, I have to listen." ”

"Patriarch?" I stared at him suspiciously: "I hope I am, is there some kind of cult behind you?" Do you want to obey them? ”

"It's not a cult, I'm a clansman who hasn't survived much, and I have my own mission, so there are many things that I can't help myself."

"But there are some things that are just constantly hurting yourself and the people around you, which is wrong, and you have to continue for the sake of this damn mission."

"Don't ask about the process, just the result." Gu Xi said coldly: "I have no other choice. ”

This kind of mission of his, like a belief that has been constantly instilled since he was born, cannot be destroyed at all.

"So, what is the matter with you coming here today?"

"Shen Ye asked me to persuade you."

"Persuade me?" I looked at Gu Xi: "You are now under Shen Qiushui's order for some purpose?" And you have reached a certain consensus, Shen Qiushui can get to where it is today, and it has something to do with the organization behind you, right? ”

"It's just a win-win."

"I'm really curious, what exactly are you planning?"

Gu Xi sighed: "You won't understand. ”

"Forget it...... "I was very helpless, I had a different position, so I parted ways, no matter how close we were in the past, it will eventually disappear in the long river of time.

"Shen Ye asked me to persuade you not to reject him thousands of miles away." Gu Xi paused, stepped forward and said, "Senior sister......"

"If you're here to persuade me to do this, don't waste your efforts."

"No, I just wanted to tell you that Master arrived at the Chu family yesterday."

I suddenly looked up at him: "Is something wrong with Nantang?" ”

Gu Xi pursed my lips: "Senior brother is in very bad health, and the master came to visit ......."

"I want to see him."

"Hmm." Gu Xi nodded: "I will help you get out of here, please wait patiently for two days." ”

"Nozomi me, thank you." Despite the difference in stance, he still won't hurt me.

Two days later, Shen Qiushui said that he wanted to return to the army, Gu Xi and I didn't follow, his own poison technique was very clever, and the guards in the house who used Gu magic to confuse me took me out.

"When Shen Qiushui comes back, he will probably know that it was you who did it."

"Wait until then, you can go and see Senior Brother."

"Hmm." I didn't think much about it, I couldn't hold too many things in my heart, but I didn't expect that I still couldn't see Chu Nantang for the last time.

When you see the mourning hall that is arranged. Although I was prepared, I still couldn't accept it.

The master was chanting in the mourning hall, but looking at the two elders of the Chu family, although they were also sad, they always felt that it was only on the surface.

I felt that there must be something hidden in this, and although the two elders of the Chu family were displeased when they saw me coming, they did not drive me away for Chu Nantang's sake.

I worshiped the master and put incense on Nantang, after the two elders of the Chu family left the mourning hall. I dared to ask Master, "Master, Senior Brother is really ......"

Master looked out and said, "Let's talk about it when we come inside." ”

"Okay."

Closing the door, I couldn't wait to ask: "Is the person in the coffin really Nantang?" Master! ”

"That person is not Nantang, but ...... Nantang is indeed no longer in the yang world. ”

I stumbled two steps: "Please make it clear to Master." ”

"The man in the coffin was born on the same day, the same month, and the same year as him, and he made a stand-in to deceive the king of Hades. His soul will enter the practice of eternal sleep. One day, you will be able to avoid reincarnation and be reborn in the world. ”

"So, Mrs. Chu, they actually already know?"

Master replied softly. I secretly gasped and pulled Master's sleeve: "Master, I want to be with Nantang." ”

Master looked at me and stopped talking.

"Master, Master...... Why don't you speak? ”

He turned around and said, "You and Nantang have no possibility of cultivating fate. ”

"How so?"

"Marriage for three lives has long been destined. The person who has a three-life relationship with him is that Miss Jiang. ”

It was as if a big stone was pressing down on my heart, and I couldn't breathe, and it took a long time before I could find my voice again. Squeezed out a sentence from his lungs: "Meaning, how can Nantang and I not go to the end?" ”

"Forced fate will only hurt others and oneself, and brew irreparable bitter consequences."

"Master, there must be a way to crack it!"

He didn't speak, but I thought of the same idea: "What if...... I entered the reincarnation for Jiang Rongwan, can I achieve positive results with him? ”

Master suddenly looked up at me, wrinkled his eyebrows, and said, "No! This is a crooked way, and you must not make such a mistake. ”

"Then the master is looking for a stand-in, isn't it also crooked?!"

"You ......" Master flicked his sleeves: "You go out!" Reflect on it. ”

Seeing that the master was not moved, I knelt down in front of him: "Ask the master to fulfill it." ”

After a while, the master said again: "Nantang is one step ahead of you, and he has calculated your and his lives, and it is irreversible." ”

He ...... He also counted my life? ”

After all, he doesn't want to be too deeply tied to you, afraid that one day he will be left alone and he will feel lonely. It's better to cut off the love thread as soon as possible. ”

It turned out to be like this, so even in the end, he was unwilling to accept my feelings.

I used to feel that it was very tiring to carry this relationship alone, but only now did I realize that his forbearance and helplessness were the most painful.

"Get up."

"If the master doesn't help the apprentice, the apprentice won't get up."

The master was silent for a while, and then said, "Then you can kneel." ”

I knelt for two days and one night. Some couldn't support it, but they gritted their teeth desperately and persevered.

"You're going to keep kneeling?"

"Ask Master to fulfill it!"

As he left, a piece of paper fell out of his sleeve, and I tried to stop him, but he was already far away.

I stepped forward to pick up the piece of paper, and my heart moved, and the method of changing my life was clearly written on it.

"Master......" He still didn't give up after all.

Chu Nantang, the stand-in, was buried seven days later, but the Chu family knew that this was just a fake tomb, a real tomb. At the bottom of that cliff.

The two elders of the Chu family saw things and thought about people, and they thought about their sons, so they went to the Taoist temple with their masters, leaving Jiang Rongwen behind.

Since that incident, there have always been thousands of mountains and rivers between Mrs. Chu and Jiang Rongwan, and there are resentments that cannot be resolved.

For Jiang Rongwan, I don't have anything to bear.

The empty Chu Mansion is no longer prosperous in the past, life is in the world, glory and wealth, but it is only a loess billet for a hundred years behind him. Who is more noble than whom?

"What are you going to do?"

When she saw Jiang Rongwen again, she no longer had the charm of the past, and she sat in the gazebo alone, looking at the depressed scene in the courtyard.

"Come and see you."

She sneered: "You're happy to see me so down, aren't you?" ”

"Actually, how are you doing, I don't have anything to do with it." I clutched the knife hidden in my sleeve and walked towards her step by step: "I just didn't expect that you would kill me." ”

"I didn't expect that the person Shen Qiushui was thinking about was not the slut Moxiang, but you."

"Don't you feel a little guilty?!" I almost lost control of my emotions: "Nantang has never been sorry for you, but you are because of Shen Qiushui." Killed him. ”

Jiang Rongwen smiled lowly, stood up and said, "Why should I feel guilty for the death of a?" As for Chu Nantang, what does his life have to do with me? But you, who came here to ask for sin, are you also worthy? ”

I tightened the knife in my hand, but I couldn't do it, and my palms were sweaty.

But I didn't want to, she moved the killing machine one step ahead of me, and pushed me hard, and I couldn't catch it off guard. His forehead hit the pillar of the gazebo, and blood blurred his eyes.

She pulled through my hair and picked up the slippery knife, "You want to kill me?" Then you should have been decisive and decisive from the beginning, you shouldn't have left me a chance, now, the knife is in my hands, go to death! ”

I struggled to knock her to the ground, the knife in my hand slipped, and I rushed forward to hold the knife in my hand before she did.

Her eyes were red and she rushed forward, and I held the knife in my hands in both hands. He closed his eyes and plunged into her heart.

At that moment, bright red blood sprayed on my face, with a disgusting fishy smell.

She couldn't believe that I would really have the courage to kill her.

The knife fell to the ground, and I watched her fall in a pool of blood, my black eyes gradually lost their focus, and I sat down on the ground trembling all over.

I dragged her to the well and threw her into the dry well.

Moved a large flat stone next to the rockery, wasted the strength of the two tigers, pressed on the manhole cover, took the carving knife and dipped it in cinnabar. A spell was engraved.

If no one breaks the seal, her soul will be sealed here forever, never to be reborn.

I opened my blood-stained hand and trembled for a long time, and there was no turning back.

According to the method left by the master, I took out the big red wedding dress they got married on that day, wrote Jiang Rongwan's birthday, and set a fire in the west courtyard, and the phoenix was reborn from the fire.

The fire quickly drew the people of the town over, and when Shen Qiushui's army arrived. It was no longer possible to extinguish the fire.

I couldn't see the world clearly through the firelight, and I couldn't remember what color the sky was on the day I left.

The smoke kept me breathing, but I knew that after a short period of pain, there would be a new life.

Consciousness gradually drifted away from me, in a trance, in endless darkness, without joy, sorrow, sorrow, pain.

It was endless darkness, as long as a century had passed.

When I opened my eyes again, the world was full of white, dazzling eyes, and the familiar pungent smell of potion made me realize that when I woke up again, I had already changed the world.

The sun shines through the window, the wind lifts the curtains, and a pot of gardenias is placed on the windowsill, and the faint fragrance blows to the tip of the nose with the wind, driving away the pungent smell of medicine.

This was in the hospital, when there was a brief period of confusion. Have been back here too.

I blinked, rolling my eyes tiredly, but I didn't see the figure of my heart.

It may be that he consumed too much essence, just woke up, and wanted to fall asleep, and finally his body couldn't resist the strong sleepiness, and he fell asleep again.

This time I only slept for a few hours, and when I was half-asleep, I heard someone open the door.

As steady footsteps approached, my heart pounded.

Nantang, is that you?

I felt that the man had sat down next to me and took my hand.

"The little one is naughty, ma'am, isn't it time to wake up?"

I struggled desperately to hold my eyelids, and struggled for a long time until the light bulb on the ceiling pierced me.

His gentle voice trembled with forbearance, and he said hoarsely, "Madam, you are finally willing to wake up." ”

I opened my dry lips, stared at the man in front of me, and said softly, "I had a long dream, did I sleep for a long time?" ”

"You've been asleep for eight months."

Eight months? In the past, exactly eight years, a month and a year? It's really like Huang Liang's dream, but those unforgettable experiences make me not sure whether it is reality or a dream at this moment.

Tears rolled down my cheeks, and I tried to stand up, but I couldn't muster any strength.

Until Admiral Chu Nantang helped me and hugged me into his arms: "It's good to wake up, everything is with me." ”

His arms were so warm that I leaned on his shoulder for a long time before I realized a problem.

"Nantang, you ......"

I reached out and touched his body, my eyes widened, and my emotions were overwhelming.

"A blessing in disguise, put to death and come back to life."

"I don't understand, how can it be ......"

He explained: "Do you remember that I told you that Xiao Fan's fate is not calculated and he is not in the Three Realms? ”

"Little Fan ......"

"Except for God, everything in the world is in the Three Realms."

It took me a long time to understand the meaning of this sentence: "You mean Xiao Fan...... Is he God? ”

"To be exact, it is the reincarnation of the Ten Halls of Yama. Putting it to death and being reborn, because of my little mortal life, I reshaped my body and became the father of Hades. ”

The news was like a bombshell dropped in my head, and for a moment I went blank and my thoughts ceased to exist.

It's been a long time. Only then did his thoughts gradually return: "Then I'm not the mother of Hades?" ”

Chu Nantang smiled: "Yes." ”

"Then why didn't you say it before? In fact, in the spirit tomb, you have already counted it, right? ”

He replied softly and said, "At that time, I calculated it a few times, but I never dared to believe it, and I was not sure whether Xiao Fan was the reincarnation of the Ten Palaces of Yama. It wasn't until eight months ago, in the battle with Shen Qiushui, that Xiao Fan broke through the seal, and the moment I was gone, his powerful divine power helped me reshape my flesh and blood. ”

"And after that?"

After that, seeing that the plan was interrupted, Shen Qiushui and Gu Xi and I fled from the dark passage. The underground passage is complicated and has a mechanism, and you were so badly injured that you were unconscious, and I don't have the heart to catch up with it. ”

He paused and said, "The Plate of Fuxi has been activated......

"My soul has gone back to the past, repeating the past, but I don't want to go back, and I don't dare to think about it again."

He clasped my hand: "The past, just the past, don't pursue it anymore." ”

"Nantang, can you answer me a question?"

"Huh?"

"Have you ever loved Zen?"

He was silent for a long time before he said: "Perhaps, I have been moved, but for many reasons, I have always warned myself, so I have not been able to give it wholeheartedly." I don't know, but it's serious love. ”

"Who am I in your eyes?"

He pursed his lips and smiled, and rubbed my hair: "Zhang Lingsheng, you are you, whether it is the Zen heart I am familiar with, or the appearance is similar to Jiang Rongwen, it doesn't matter, do you understand?" The one I love now. Her name is Zhang Lingsheng. It doesn't matter with the past, with the future, we have the present, and it is enough. ”

"I understand......" I breathed a sigh of relief and leaned on his shoulder, "I want to go home and see Xiaofan." ”

"I'm going to ask the doctor if I can go through the discharge procedures."

The doctor said that I would stay in the hospital for observation, but I didn't want to stay in the hospital for a moment, I just wanted to see Xiaofan immediately.

"It's okay, I'm feeling fine now, you let me out of the hospital."

I hugged Chu Nantang's arm and pleaded, but he looked at me helplessly: "Okay, but I still have to come to review in the future." ”

"Hmm."

He helped me pack my luggage neatly, seeing that he was so neat, I must have suffered a lot during the time I was asleep, right?

From the eldest young master who didn't do anything before, he has become so diligent.

Sensing my gaze, he turned back to me and smiled, "What are you staring at me like this?" ”

My face was hot: "I feel that you have changed a lot, it turns out that there is still a difference between ghosts and people." ”

"Of course!" He stepped forward to give me a hug and whispered, "For example, I can finally warm my wife's bed at night." ”

I buried my head in his arms, and there was a faint sandalwood on my body, which made people sink their hearts when they smelled it.

"Nantang, hard work."

He lowered his head and kissed my lips: "As long as you are good, no matter how hard it is, it will be worth it." You don't know how lonely it is when you're lying here, leaving me alone to talk to myself. ”

My nose ached, and I hugged him harder: "I'm sorry, we won't be separated again." ”

"Hmm." He smiled: "In the eight months you have been away, I have learned a lot of things. In the future, it will slowly show you. ”

"I'm looking forward to it."

He walked to the parking lot of the hospital with his luggage on his back, took out the car keys, and I blinked in surprise, maybe I had been out of touch with the world for too long, and I couldn't keep up with the rhythm, and I didn't slow down for a while.

"Nantang, you actually bought a car?"

"Yes, my home is too far away from the hospital, so I ran back and forth, so I bought a car."

"Then you ......" wanted to ask too many questions, and my brain was in a mess, so I could only endure it first.

"Get in the car first, let's go home, Xiaofan will be very happy to see you. He hadn't seen his mother in a long time. ”

Thinking of Xiao Fan, his heart warmed: "He must have grown up a lot." ”