[February 21, 71st year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, Chenshi, Chang'an City North Official Road]

After the plot of rebellion by Li Zhi, the king of Chu, the emperor was furious and deposed Li Zhi as a citizen and moved to the Wannian County Prison for life. The party of the king of Chu was also suppressed and deposed. Zhao Yong, the former squire of the military department, was demoted to a civilian, and all his family property was confiscated.

The emperor's punishment for Zhao Yong was to exile and garrison. After Zhao Yong's whole family was raided and all the family slaves and concubines were dismissed, on this day, two officials from the military department escorted Zhao Yong to the north of Yanzhou to serve. Zhao Yong's wife was not at ease, and also accompanied their son Zhao Xiaogang all the way.

Zhao Yong didn't want his wife to follow him to serve in the frontier and suffer. However, he thought about it and left their orphans and widows in the capital, and he was not at ease. The north of Yanzhou, bordering Xiao State, is a bitter cold place, but after all, he has been in the army for many years, and he still has some friendship with the garrison generals there, and if he wants to come there, the border army will not be too difficult for him. Moreover, for Zhao Yong and his wife, no matter how far or north they are, as long as they can reunite as a family of three, it can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune. Thinking like this, Zhao Yong no longer blocked his wife's entourage.

According to the Great Cadre Law, those sentenced to exile are required to wear shackles and walk long distances. However, after all, Zhao Yong has served as a court official of the Ministry of War for many years, and the two officials under him have not been too difficult for him. The two officials not only removed the two thick wooden flails on Zhao Yong's neck, but also removed the iron ropes in his hands.

Although Zhao Yong's house has been raided, there are still a few silver tickets hidden on his body after all. In addition to taking out half of the silver tickets to reward the officials, along the way, Zhao Yong invited guests to eat. Although Zhao Yong was already a commoner at this time, the three members of the family were only wearing coarse linen clothes, but his wife was docile and his son was obedient, and this strong family affection was something he had never enjoyed in his life. In Zhao Yong's heart, as long as he is accompanied by his wife and children, even if he is hard, he is extremely happy.

Zhao Yong's family set out on February 20 and traveled 50 miles north of Chang'an. The weather was fine today, and the five of them got up early in the morning, ate breakfast, and continued to the north.

The group walked through the old river ridge, the road became narrower, and the people were sparse. Zhao Yong saw that his wife was a little tired, so he thought about finding a place to rest for a while. He looked up and saw a gazebo in the distance, dilapidated, but finally able to sit for a while. He hurriedly beckoned everyone and hurried to the pavilion, and when he got closer, he saw that there was already a person standing in the pavilion. The man was long, standing with his hands in his hands, dressed in a strange and gorgeous manner, rich and frivolous, and the most striking thing was the five-colored flower crown he wore on his head, which was colorful and colorful, and there were several peacock feathers of different colors inserted in the flower crown.

"Gongzi Kang, why are you here?" Zhao Yong couldn't help but wonder in his heart.

"Lord Zhao, I'm here to see off your family!" That person was Kang Youren, the eldest young master of Shuzhong Kangmen. Kang Youren saw Zhao Yong and his entourage coming, arched his hand slightly, and said in a voice that was not happy or angry.

"Oh...... I can't imagine that Kang Gongzi still has this heart!Zhao is grateful!" Zhao Yong hurriedly bowed his hand. He and Kang Youren had several encounters in the palace of the king of Chu before, but now they can meet the old man on the way to the migration, and he also said that the other party really came to "see him off" for him......

"Kang Gongzi, this is Humble Jing, this is a dog......" Zhao Yong pulled his wife and children, and they were still waiting to be introduced to Kang Youren one by one. Kang Youren waved his hand, but said, "Lord Zhao, let's not be busy introducing you first, let's take a look, what is this?"

After speaking, Kang Youren's right hand stretched forward flatly, and he wanted to open it. Zhao Yong and his wife, together with the two officials, felt strange, and thought that Kang Youren had prepared some good gifts to give, so they all came forward and gathered around to watch.

As Kang Youren's right hand opened, a gust of wind blew a cloud of powder in his palm into the air. The two officials and Mrs. Zhao suddenly went weak and fainted to the ground. Zhao Yong is a martial arts practitioner with some internal foundation, but he is only paralyzed on the ground, and his consciousness is still sober.

"This ...... What is this?" Zhao Yong asked in surprise.

"This is my Shuzhong Kangmen's 'Qingfeng Jade Dew Powder'! No matter how high your martial arts are, after inhaling, within an hour, you won't want to move a bit!" Kang Youren snorted coldly.

It was only at this time that Zhao Yong was shocked to realize that the other party had not come this time. But when he thought about it, he couldn't think of when he had offended this man, and he hurriedly cried out:

"Gongzi Kang, I have no grievances with you, why do you want to charm us here......? What the hell do you want to do!"

"Lord Zhao, who said that you and I have no grievances?" Kang Youren said coldly.

"Gongzi Kang, you and I have only met each other in the Chu Palace. Zhao asked himself if he had always been respectful to Gongzi Kang, and there was no slackness in his words, but I really didn't know what offended Gongzi Kang?" asked Zhao Yong. He said in his heart, even if there is no unintentional offense in my words and deeds, you won't hold a grudge like this, right?

When Kang Youren spoke, he slowly walked to the side of the two officials. He pulled out a short knife from his waist and slashed it at the neck of the officer, and the two officers immediately suffered from blood, and they were already out of breath in an instant.

Kang Youren wiped the bloody short knife on the clothes of the servant again, until all the blood stains were wiped dry, and then he said leisurely: "Lord Zhao, you have a good memory, and you still remember that Kang has seen you four times. However, Kang has been in and out of the Chu Palace's mansion many times, but he really doesn't remember any dealings with Lord Zhao......"

Zhao Yong stared at the two dead bodies of the servants, with a look of surprise on his face. He secretly exercised his skills, but found that in the sea of dantian qi, there was no true qi at all

Fa Run, I had to ask dejectedly: "Then you...... What the hell are you here for?"

Kang Youren took the short knife that had been wiped clean and bright, walked up to Zhao Yong's side, and said with a smile: "I am here for His Royal Highness the King of Chu......

"King Chu, what does King Chu have to do with me?" Zhao Yong wondered.

Kang Youren sneered: "Lord Zhao, you can't help but have a bad memory! If it weren't for the fact that you privately bribed Xiao Yihong with 8,000 taels in order to save this unsuccessful son, how could Xiao Yihong be arrested and sent to the Tsing Yi Guard? If Xiao Yihong hadn't confessed in the Tsing Yi Guard that the King of Chu intended to rebel, how could His Royal Highness the King of Chu be deposed as a concubine by the Son of Heaven! Speaking of which, the King of Chu and his faction have all fallen, aren't they all thanks to you, Zhao Yong, Lord Zhao? Now, His Royal Highness the King of Chu has been imprisoned in a 10,000-year prison and will be imprisoned to death, Xiao Yihong will also show the public at the mouth of Chai City tomorrow...... May I ask Lord Zhao, is there such a truth in this world?"

After hearing this fallacy, Zhao Yong didn't feel absurd in his heart, and sneered at the moment:

"Gongzi Kang, what you said is really ridiculous! The king of Chu was deposed because he intended to rebel and assassinated Qin Cha. Excuse me, did I ask him to do these two things? Even if he doesn't waste it today, sooner or later he will be punished, and what does this have to do with Zhao! Kang Gongzi is so deliberate, if Zhao is not mistaken, it is nothing more than the fall of the king of Chu and the destruction of your sweet dream, right? If you want to kill, you will kill, why do you need to find such a high-sounding reason!"

"Zhao Yong! You will have a hard mouth when you die, I will kill you to avenge the king of Chu!" Kang Youren was told by Zhao Yong, his face suddenly appeared angry, he immediately stepped forward with a knife, and he was about to kill Zhao Yong, and suddenly heard Zhao Xiaogang's faint shout behind him:

"Kang Gongzi, please, don't kill my father!"

Kang Youren looked back, but saw Zhao Xiaogang, who was blind, kneeling on the ground, kowtowing to himself and begging for pleading. It turned out that Zhao Xiaogang was far away and was not at the tuyere, but only inhaled a trace amount of powder, and woke up after a while. He heard that the "Kang Gongzi" in his father's mouth was about to kill his father at this moment, and he was in a hurry, so he tried his best, crawled forward, and knelt on the ground to plead......

"Xiaogang ......" Zhao Yong saw his son kowtowing desperately to save himself, and couldn't help but leave two lines of tears in his eyes. When he thought of how he would survive in a world of wind and frost if he suffered an accident and left behind this pair of hard-working mother and son, his heart suddenly felt like a knife.

"Gongzi Kang, I still have a few hundred taels of silver tickets here, Zhao only begs you to kill me, please spare my wife and children!" Zhao Yong raised his hand vigorously, wanting to poke out the silver ticket from his arms, but Kangmen's poison was so fierce that his hand was in the air, and he hung down again.

Kang Youren took out a stack of silver tickets from Zhao Yong's arms, only said the word "good!", and the short knife was sent to Zhao Yong's chest, the tip of the knife barrel broke his heart, and Zhao Yong was immediately angry.

"Kang Gongzi, Kang Gongzi! Please don't kill my father, I'll make you a cow and a horse, you can do anything, please!" Zhao Xiaogang didn't know his father's life and death, and he was still kneeling on the ground and begging.

Kang Youren walked in front of Zhao Xiaogang and wiped the bloody short knife on Zhao Xiaogang's face and body several times, he wiped the blood stains while saying with a smile:

"Your father is dead, this is his blood, you should smell it well......"

"Father!" Knowing that Zhao Yong was dead, Zhao Xiaogang couldn't help but lie on the ground and cry.

"You thief, beast, why did you kill my father?!" Zhao Xiaogang wept bitterly and scolded in the direction of Kang Youren.

"Why? I have to ask you! I might as well tell you honestly today that your father's death was all due to you!" Kang Youren rebuked angrily.

"...... me?" Zhao Xiaogang gradually stopped his grief, and listened to Kang Youren continue.

"Do you remember the two girls you captured in Balin Yuan a month ago?" Kang Youren asked awe-inspiringly.

She ...... Who are they?" Zhao Xiaogang said in astonishment. He immediately remembered the two bearded girls, who had caused him to lose one of his left eyes, but at this time he had experienced the ups and downs of life, and his heart had changed greatly, and he no longer hated them.

"One of them is called Ah Zhu and the other is Ah Ju, both of them are my women. Kang Youren said coldly, and when he spoke, his teeth were already "gurgling", which obviously touched the great pain and hatred in his heart.

"Kang...... Kang Gongzi ...... This...... It was a misunderstanding, I ...... that day I really don't know...... I don't know if they are Kang Gongzi's ......" Zhao Xiaogang heard this, and his head was immediately clouded, he would never have thought that the origin of this incident was actually his "hunting" move in the forest that day.

Kang Youren grabbed Zhao Xiaogang's collar and said angrily: "Do you know, they are all women who have not passed through the door! They have been with me for more than ten years, and Lao Tzu has never touched them, so they let you spoil a blind dog first!"

"Kang...... Kang Gongzi, I ...... I haven't touched them either!" Zhao Xiaogang said aggrievedly. He said to himself, I spent a long time that day, not only did I not taste any meat, but I also lost one of my eyeballs!

"You really haven't touched them?" Kang Youren asked as he loosened Zhao Xiaogang's collar.

"I didn't ...... No!" Zhao Xiaogang snorted. He had the heart to say that his left eye was blinded by Ah Ju, but he still swallowed back the words when they came to his mouth, so far, what is the point of saying these words?

"Well, I'm here to see you off today

The three of them went on the road, and now I have changed my mind! You caused me to lose two beloved women, so I will kill your parents and let you taste the pain of losing your loved ones!"

Zhao Xiaogang hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the corner of Kang Youren's clothes, and cried: "Kang Gongzi! Please, don't kill my mother! All mistakes are my fault! I deserve to die for my crimes, if you want to kill me, kill me! Let my mother go!"

Kang Youren turned to look at Zhao Xiaogang's appearance of pleading and kowtowing, and couldn't help but snort coldly, and said indifferently: "It's okay! I, Kang Youren, will not kill women in my life, and it is okay to spare your mother, but ......" Kang Youren suddenly slashed down with a short knife, slashing left and right, only to hear Zhao Xiaogang scream, and the hamstrings of his legs were all broken.

"I'm going to teach you a lesson!" After Kang Youren broke Zhao Xiaogang's hamstrings, he wiped the blood stains from the knife edge on Zhao Xiaogang's body and said.

Zhao Xiaogang collapsed to the ground, his teeth clenched and trembling in pain. He knew that in the future, not only would he be blind, but his legs would be ruined, and he would not be able to walk for the rest of his life. At this time, he suddenly felt that a few pieces of tissue paper fell on his face, and he only heard Kang Youren's sympathetic voice again: "These silver tickets were left to you by your father, and they are ...... There are still six hundred taels, you save some use, live well, but don't die!"

Zhao Xiaogang only heard a burst of footsteps gradually disappearing, and a burst of laughter from Kang Youren came from afar with the wind: "You remember, my surname is Kang Youren, and the eldest young master of Shuzhong Kangmen is! You must not die, I am still waiting for you to come to the door to take revenge!"

Zhao Xiaogang picked up the silver tickets and counted them one by one, until he counted and confirmed that they were six pieces of tissue paper, and then carefully put them into his arms. Holding back the pain in his legs, he slowly crawled towards her mother with his hands on the ground.

He crawled up to the corpse of a servant, stretched out his hand and touched it for a moment, then moved to another person, and only after confirming that it was her mother's dress, did he slowly crawl to his mother's side, holding his mother's unconscious body in his arms, quietly waiting for his mother to wake up......

At this time, the rising sun is rising, and the dazzling sunlight warms the mountains and the earth in the distance. The west wind drifted quietly, quietly blowing everything in front of him, quietly sweeping away the cold dust. All the joys and sorrows of the world seem to be quietly taken away by it, silently......

Occasionally, pedestrians passed by on the official road, and when they saw the five "dead people" lying quietly by the long pavilion, they immediately fled away in fright. A few bold men approached to check, and when they saw that there were two officials among the dead, they hurriedly reported to the nearby Lizheng.

An hour later, Mrs. Zhao finally woke up and turned around.

"Xiaogang, what's wrong?" Mrs. Zhao was dizzy and didn't know what was going on, but when she saw her son Zhao Xiaogang lying in her arms, she couldn't help but wonder.

"Mother, you're finally awake!" Zhao Xiaogang hugged his mother, but he couldn't cry anymore.

"Brother Yong! you...... What's wrong with you!" Mrs. Zhao saw Zhao Yong lying on the edge of the long pavilion in front of her, and hurriedly stepped forward and picked up Zhao Yong's body, only to see that the blood had already flowed out of the wound on Zhao Yong's chest, and her husband had been angry for a long time.

"Brother Yong, how can you abandon me!" Brother Yong ......" Mrs. Zhao hugged her husband's body tightly and let out a heart-rending cry......

"Mother...... It's all to blame for the child's lack of anger, and it has affected his father...... "Zhao Xiaogang couldn't bear his mother's grief, so he hurriedly stepped forward, comforting his mother, and at the same time telling Kang Youren about how he kidnapped his two women and killed Zhao Yong in revenge.

Mrs. Zhao buried her head deep in Zhao Yong's chest, and wept mournfully for a long time, until she finally couldn't cry anymore, and then slowly stood up. Her eyes were dull, and she was described as withered, and walked slowly towards the long pavilion, muttering to herself as she walked:

"Brother Yong, I blame you, blame you, and treat you badly all these years, in fact, I also know that you have had a hard time. It's me who didn't raise Xiaogang well, and today's disaster is all my fault......"

Mrs. Zhao walked into the long pavilion, turned around and glanced at Zhao Xiaogang, and said indifferently: "Xiaogang, the rest of the way, you have to go by yourself, my mother is going to accompany your father ......" After that, Mrs. Zhao slammed into the wall pillar in the pavilion, only to hear a "bang", Mrs. Zhao's head was broken, and she died of exhaustion.

"Mother, don't!" Zhao Xiaogang lay on the ground, crawling desperately forward with his hands, crying hoarsely.

He finally crawled into the pavilion, hugged his mother's still warm body, and gently caressed his mother's gentle face with trembling palms.

He cried desperately, cried out for help, shook hard, but nothing could change the fact that his mother had died, even if he was crying to the point of fainting......

How he wished that all this in front of him was unreal.

"Oh my God, why have you been so unfair to me!" he lay on the ground and let out an angry cry to the sky above him.

If God could give him another time, he would be willing to exchange all of his life for his mother's life......

But God, is it really unfair to him?

The west wind, still blowing mercilessly past him, seemed to make a merciless mockery to him:

No matter who you are, you are born into the world, God will give you only one chance.