Jian An Kee

"What happened to you? Someone must have forced you to say something like that." He took my hand down and held it tightly.

I shook my head, withdrew my hand, and said to him wearily: "This is enough. With the general's insight, I must see that everything I said is true. Sorry, this is the real me. I have been away from home for ten years. Who can predict what a seven-year-old girl will look like ten years from now."

"What crazy things are you talking about, I don't understand."

"For God's sake!" I cursed loudly: "Why are you pretending to be innocent? Why don't you admit that our engagement is a marriage? Ah, no, our engagement didn't even come to fruition. Do you dare to touch it today? I swear on your conscience that you have never investigated my ins and outs, and never weighed my weight in the Zhou family, dare you?"

"No," he replied dully, "I haven't."

"Politicians' way of handling the crisis is perfect!" I laughed, even though the throbbing thing under my ribs hurt me too much.

At this juncture of tit-for-tat confrontation, I lowered my voice and asked him as if showing weakness: "Now, do you still want me to turn back?"

"Let's go back." His eyes were firm and not fake, "What you said was just a misunderstanding. Our marriage contract is still valid. Although Gong Jin is gone, I will still find a relative to preside over the marriage for you."

"Don't be boring." I waved my hand, as if drawing a little distance between us.I asked him: "Do you like to see me pretending to be innocent so much? Are you still eager to please the members of the Zhou family? Especially when they no longer have military power in their hands."

"you think too much."

"Sorry," I smiled, "I know everything I said is true. Now, you can make your own decision."

He sat down on the edge of the bed with his knees held down like an extremely old and exhausted person.

"I'm waiting for your decision." I opened the door and stood under the eaves and said calmly.Ah, how I wish that a bolt of lightning would strike me at this moment, so that I could spit out a mouthful of blood and make a tragic curtain call according to the situation.However, it was so quiet all around, at first it was completely quiet, and suddenly a drop of rain hit my forehead, one drop after another.

It's raining and autumn is here.

At the gate of the yard, I met Cong Cang who was holding a knife, and he asked hesitantly, "Where are you going?"

I lost my mind, pushed his stalwart body away in embarrassment, and escaped from the yard.

Crossing the muddy horse path and getting into the woods beside the road, I ran to the middle of the mountain with my skirt in hand.Countless flying insects rushed to my cheeks, I struggled to free the hem of the skirt from the thorns, and my arm was bitten by an unknown insect.Instead of driving it away, I watched it twitch and die after sucking blood.Why bother?Terrible love-struck, I can't even organize a valid thought at the moment.

The wind blowing from the distant sea, carrying a faint fishy smell, rushes back and forth between the valleys, and the drenching rain hits my cheeks, and the gloomy coldness soaks me.The melodious flute sounded at this moment.As if bewitched, I moved my legs involuntarily, and followed the clear tone all the way to find it.

On the other side of the foot of the mountain, on the carpet of soft fallen leaves, a woman kneeling on the ground with her long hair curled up coquettishly turned her head, fluttered her bamboo flute, and winked at me.

"After the new rain, the autumn scenery is very beautiful. Would you like to travel with me, Mrs. Zhou?"

My dizzy head suddenly woke up: "It's you?!"

It was Dong Yuan who came out from behind the big tree. In this wilderness, I don't think I met him by chance.

He stood with his hands behind his back, with cruel joy in his eyes: "Following all the way, I finally met my wife. It's a great honor."

I didn't have time to distinguish the meaning of his words, I just felt a strong wind flashing in my head, I quickly turned sideways to avoid it, and looked closely, it turned out that the girl in purple disassembled the bamboo flute and assembled it into a dagger, and was pointing at me provocatively.

When the woman made a move, she made fierce moves, and her resentful gaze made people feel even more chilled.I calmed down to fight against her, but after ten or so rounds, she had already lost, so I turned my head to Dong Yuan and said to Dong Yuan: "Look at your little girl, I won't pay for hurting her by mistake."

The red leaves falling all over the sky are like a curtain, separating me and him in different time and space.Dong Yuan replied unhurriedly:

"Mrs. Zhou is very skilled. It's a pity that you are too inexperienced in dealing with the enemy."

"what?"

Dazzling light rose from all sides, my ears were buzzing, and the familiar feeling of dizziness gradually enveloped me. I lost sight and hearing, and waved my arms in vain.

Obviously, the cover of the fallen leaves made me ignore the unusualness of the soil on the ground, and the sound of the flute lured me into the formation with the effect of confusing the mind.Immediately, I heard a bang from my back, and the back of my neck was burning like an iron file, and the ground mixed with fallen leaves and mud rushed towards me quickly, my breathing slowed down, my eyes rolled up, and a second later Lost consciousness.

Now I have the qualifications to preach "a taste of sap" to people, which is really... well, unforgettable.In my entire life at the age of 28, I have been punched by others, stared at and cursed countless times, and even bitten by a roaring beast, but I never thought that there would be a day when I would encounter a sap in the back.

When I woke up from the cold and burning pain, it was not that I was in danger but the embarrassing fact that I was captured that occupied all my thoughts for a moment.

You can't see your fingers around you, and the firmly bound hands touch the ground slightly, and you can feel the slippery liquid immediately.Sniffing the air intently, it was bitter and salty, like... by the way, the strange smell of dried animal tendons.

Complete darkness, not a single ray of light caught.After a long time, there were slight footsteps coming from far and near.The light of the oil lamp flickered in front of my eyes, and the faint light made me weep continuously, so I had to close my eyes quickly.

A series of complex and difficult language was spoken by the speaker, and the other person also spoke a long series quickly, with a soft tone as if humming.A cold hand pressed on my wrist, and then someone opened my eyelids and looked.After a while, the footsteps of the two were far away, but after a while, someone came in again, and Dong Yuan's lazy tone sounded in front of him: "So you are awake."

I covered my eyes, still unable to bear the glare of the light.Seeing this, Dong Yuan moved away from the oil lamp, and then held something in front of me: "Do you still recognize this object?"

I realized later that Dong Yuan had taken the unicorn jade pendant.I didn't dare to open my eyes, coughed a few times, and laughed: "You are a genius doctor, you are so clever, we feel ashamed."

This clever remark immediately got him to slap me with a raised hand, which made me crumbling.I struggled to sit up straight, tilted my head and spit on the ground, "Why, are you impatient?"

"I'm not that group of sissy nobles who will be polite to you, tell me quickly, what is the formula for using this Qilin jade?"

"You're asking the wrong person. I just stole it from General Sun. I took it for you before I got it. How would I know?"

He slapped my face backhand again, which made my ears ringing.I licked my broken lips and smiled innocently at the perpetrator.

By candlelight, I found that I was in a cave, surrounded by abrupt strange rocks and green moss, and I couldn't see the exit or the end at a glance.

Dong Yuan ordered someone to drag me in one direction, and after a while they stopped, and two men who looked like thugs quickly tied me to a wooden post.The wooden pillars were engraved with reliefs, and the wound on his back was scorchingly painful.So I turned my head and spit again, almost spitting on his feet: "Genius doctor, you don't even talk about your past friendship. Since you are inviting people as guests, your etiquette is not thorough enough. Fortunately, you still have something to ask for from me."

"The mouth is so hard." He walked up to me and pinched my chin: "The face is so good, I really don't want to be beaten more. You can think clearly, how will you see people in the future after scars are left on this good face? It’s better to say it now.”

I couldn't help laughing: "The rhetoric of a genius doctor is useless to me. Instead of jumping over the wall in such a hurry, why don't you change your tactics and use your emotions to understand the reason and see if you can impress me?"

"Strange." He stared at me and said intently.

"Hmm, what's so strange?" I asked back.

He slowly turned around me, and I turned my head following his movements: "What did you think of that made your brain flash?"

Dong Yuan said: "The niece of Dudu Zhou should be pampered and pampered. I didn't expect her to be slapped twice and she still looks like a normal person. Tell me, isn't this strange?"

"On a dark and stormy night, you sent someone to assassinate and she escaped. What do you mean by two small slaps?"

"It's really smart." He smirked: "I didn't intend to kill you that time, but it was the annoying people around you. Unfortunately, I don't have time to catch up with you here. Hurry up and do it honestly."

"Say it, what good do I get?"

"Benefit? The benefit I give you is that your son can see his mother again!"

"I gave you the list at the beginning of the month, but you still tied me up. It's not a gentleman to keep your word." I squinted at him.

It's okay if you don't say it, but when he said this, he was furious: "You cunning person! Those people have already been won over by Sun Quan, and they are useless!"

Oh, did I forget to tell him that that list is all the people Lai Yan betrayed?

Now he uttered a series of horrible curses, mixed with many threats.

"I don't care." I had expected his reaction a long time ago: "Once you kill me, you will never get what you want again, and Sun Quan will not spare you, and your strength is not enough to contend with him. I see , if you don’t release me, I’ll intercede with the general for you, for Ah Li’s sake.”

"You!" After wasting most of the day, he didn't expect that I would dare to turn around and threaten him, and left in a rage.

I leaned against the pillar and began to close my eyes and meditate.Fortunately, the amount of food given was only enough to feed the cat, and the guards did not make things difficult for me.

After that, I gradually figured out Dong Yuan's motive for kidnapping me.Lai Yan said that Dong Yuan had joined the "Shu" for five years. He was very good at drilling camps, and cleverly grasped the "Shu" in Huainan after Yuan Shu's death. 's failed.

Under the guise of practicing medicine to save lives, hiding beside those in power and waiting for an opportunity, it is really logical to leave no trace.

It's not a very clever trick, I should have noticed it, alas, why am I being careless again?Why not thoroughly investigate what happened on the day Ah Li was born?How much did Sun Quan hide about this?

That being said, how dare I blame him. Compared with him, I have concealed more incidents and problems.

I once made the assumption that Dong Yuan would try to steal the unicorn jade pendant instead if he failed to threaten me.I didn't expect this fellow to be so impatient, he simply and rudely kidnapped him away.

Dong Yuan was annoyed at my refusal to compromise, but he did not allow his subordinates to torture me to extract a confession.He hummed and interrogated me every day, but got nothing.Half a month has passed—this is what the interrogator told me. I was in a dark cave, and I couldn't tell the difference between day and night.He ridiculed Sun Quan for being incompetent, for half a month he couldn't even touch the shadow of a living person like me.

A few days later, he moved me to another part of the cave, where I was tied to a copper pillar.I stared at him as he took the shackles attached to the copper pillars and clamped them around my feet.

I yelled, "Hey! I didn't even intend to run away, why are you wearing this for me?"

I cursed a few more times, but when I found it had no effect, I shut my mouth and stopped talking.

"Curse, why don't you stop scolding? Didn't you scold people for three days without repeating the pattern, and you have no strength?" He said fiercely.