Jian An Kee

Note 1: Jian'an County, today's Jianyang area in northern Fujian

Note 2: Yecheng, present-day Fuzhou, Fujian

Note 3: Scout, that is, the former military sentinel

Soon more came to surround the stone chamber.Dong Yuan said softly to me: "You can't escape. Let me go, tell me how to use that unicorn jade, and I will guarantee your life."

I removed the hook belt from his waist and put it on his neck, and replied with a pleasant face: "It's too late to threaten and lure you now. Tell all your subordinates to retreat, you, take me away from the secret passage. Oh, Don't forget to bring our precious jade pendant."

I couldn't see his expression from my vantage point, but his stiff body language showed resistance that couldn't be more obvious.

I quickly made a small slit on his neck, and he said coldly, "You will regret it."

"That depends on whether you have the ability or not."

I took the jade pendant and clothes from Xiaobo, "Stand back, you guys go out, close the door."

Until Dong Yuan and I were left in the stone room, I let him go, put on my robe and tied it up indiscriminately, bit my fingertips with the other hand, and smeared blood on the jade pendant.

I said to him, "Take me out of the secret passage. I know there are, so don't argue."

He stood up straight, as if in order to restore the remaining dignity, he said decisively: "Don't think about it."

I feel the strange formation rising in the room, and I feel a moment of joy in my heart-it means that someone has learned of my existence.I whispered: "Come on, I'm here."

But Dong Yuan on the other end still refused to compromise, I began to think about cutting off his toes or giving him some color with his fingers?He seemed to see through my thoughts, took a step back, and said painfully: "I will take you away."

"Would you like to go first?"

He fumbled on the sculpture of the two-headed deer and opened a secret door. The two staggered away in the dark for half an hour. After that, we finally walked out of the cave. In the process of leaving the cave, I was flying He was stabbed once by a knife, and was bitten by an unknown snake, and his legs with bare almonds were too horrible to look at.

Standing at the exit of the cave, looking around, there are green forests beyond the half of the cliff at your feet, and you can't see the road, let alone the city.Here... the primeval forest that has been uninhabited for thousands of years, its grandeur and silence make me feel depressed and solemn.

I roughly tied Dong Yuan with an iron chain, and dragged him half-walking and half-slidingly down the cliff and into the forest.I started a fire on the first piece of land I encountered in the forest, drew some symbols on the red soil ground with branches, stacked small stones, and used jade pendants as a medium to convey wishes to the gods here.

At this time, on the cliff in the distance, there were noisy footsteps coming from the exit of the cave, obviously the pursuers came over.

I took a deep breath, grabbed Dong Yuan and pushed him into the area formed by the three fires, and said: "It's windy at the moment, for your safety, don't open your eyes."

The moment I stepped into the triangle area, the wind cut my face.Dong Yuan let out a short scream. He tried his best to endure the pain brought by this temporary foreign world full of holes, and the force that ordinary people couldn't resist pierced his face with blood.

Two days later, under the escort of my guards and those sent by Sun Quan, I returned to Jian'an County safely (Note 1).At the beginning of the road, Dong Yuan was wrapped with a rope and thrown on the horse like a mummy. When I got to a crowded place, I untied the extra rope and led him like Xiaobo leading me.

Two days ago, I escaped from the cave with Dong Yuan as a hostage. After repeated questioning, I learned that I was in the mountainous area south of Yecheng (Note 2), Kuaiji County. Life is in danger every moment.Fortunately, Cong Cang and others discovered my disappearance at the first time, and searched all over Kuaiji County for more than half a month.They happened to be not far away when they sensed my presence, otherwise I would have to wait for Sun Quan's team to rescue me, I would be so rotten that even my bones would fall apart.

When I arrived in the city, I handed Dong Yuan over to the officers and soldiers, and lay down in the carriage by myself. When I woke up, I was already in Dongyang County, Linhai County.

The magistrate of Dongyang County waited for a while to see the big case supervised by General Sun himself, Mr. Sun also took good care of me as an official. Others visited the post where they used to live, and I lived in their official house. Serve with delicious food and drink every day.

Dong Yuan, you bastard!I shouldn't have kindly reminded him after the battle at the beginning, let him lose two eyeballs and forget it.During the half a month he locked me up, I probably lost more than five catties. I had countless spine bones on my back, and the scars on my back that had been burned by spells could not heal for a long time. There was hardly a piece of good skin left on my body.

The county magistrate surnamed Du recommended a local doctor, saying that as long as he takes care of himself carefully and takes more medicines for conditioning, he will recover his health easily.But when he saw the wound on my neck that was pierced by the poisonous needle, the old doctor even Dodge felt weird, saying that the poison would definitely kill me within a few hours, but my wound festered for a few days, which is really unbelievable.

I sneered: "What's so strange, that is her poison is fake."

Yang Fu was my steward when I was in Wu County, this time he was sent by Shen Yu to run errands for me.Seeing that I was not happy, he quietly dismissed me.

After a few days of this, the wound on my neck not only did not heal, but the ulcerated area spread, and I could only walk with my neck tilted due to the pain.When Dong Yuan was interrogated, he said that there was no cure for the poison, and he refused to say anything else.

In the end, I couldn't eat and lost my temper in the room.Seeing this situation, Yang Fu sent a flying horse to report to Sun Quan. With his order, Dr. Lu, who is good at treating Yue people's soil poisoning and who was far away in Xindu, rushed here starry night.

I saw that Lu Cui seemed to be much plumper than when we met last time, so I greeted him politely: "How is Dr. Lu?"

"Thanks to Madam." She sat down across from me unhurriedly, "Madam favors me, and the little girl is flattered."

This seemed to mean resentment, so I casually said, "Dr. Lu's medical skills are superb, I can rest assured that you are here."

She is not a blind person, so she submerged in her heart to make a diagnosis, and said: "Fortunately, Madam has a special constitution, and the effect of this poison will be exhausted in a few days. It doesn't matter. The little girl prescribes a cooling and disinfecting medicine for Madam." The potion should be applied every day, and if there is no accident, it will be cured in half a month."

"What kind of poison is so powerful?" I asked her, tilting my neck.

"This poison is commonly used in Fujian, and it is extracted from the poisonous snake 'Zhuyeqing'. Yue people often use this poison to smear bows and arrows, and all those caught in it will die."

"Oh, it seems that I am very lucky."

Seeing that she was still hesitant to speak after prescribing the medicine, and thinking about what her unlucky lover said when he said goodbye, I hurriedly asked Yang Fu to take her down.Don't be a resentful spouse, just treat this person as dead.

On the other side, when I learned that Sun Quan didn't come over immediately, although I was disappointed, I changed my mind and thought that since I proposed to break up, there was nothing wrong with the other party's doing so.

What I am worried about is that the son who is less than one year old will be separated from his mother for a long time in the future, which may have a bad impact on his growth.

Regardless of whether there is an impact or not, and whether the impact is good or bad, my irresponsibility is obvious.I leaned against the bed and recalled the strange dream I had when Sun Li was born: Du Minghan told me at that time that my decision to leave Sun Li was correct.

Why did he appear in my dream and give me such a statement?What kind of omen is this?

I couldn't figure it out, I pulled the quilt to go to sleep, only to hear a commotion outside, as if someone was running around in the yard.I hurriedly put on my clothes and got up, but before I could put on my shoes, a maid pushed the door open and came in, saying: "Madam, hurry up, the thief has come into the house."

Before I could react, County Magistrate Du also ran over from the other end of the corridor. He put on his hood, stared at me and said to me: "The thief is vicious, please follow the officer to the county east military camp quickly to avoid disaster. "

I hurriedly put on my cloak, and went out together with Nadu County Magistrate, and finally passed through several ceremonial gates to the outside of the mansion. The County Magistrate asked me to get on the carriage, and I directly pulled the big black horse next to me and turned over, saying: " Sir, lead the way. There is a doctor named Lu Cui beside me, please find someone to protect him."

I knew that Kuaiji County was close to Minyue, and in addition to rebellions one after another, there were also occasional pirate intrusions. I didn't expect that I would encounter it twice this year alone. It was really lucky.

A group of people fled to the east of the county in embarrassment. Seeing the black army setting up roadblocks on the road, I was relieved for a while.After entering the camp, County Magistrate Du asked me to take me to rest in a military tent. I grabbed the guards around me and asked impatiently, "Where did the thief come from, so bold as to attack the county government?"

The bodyguard was brought by Yang Fu, I don't recognize it, it looks like the costume is from the General's Mansion.He said: "Ma'am, let me tell you: the steward of Mrs. Du's house told me that these thieves came over the mountains from the middle of Fujian and rushed at night. When Dongyang's sentry found the enemy, the thieves were only more than ten miles away from the county..."

"What an idiot!" I couldn't help interrupting, "How can you appoint such a person who knows nothing about the war as Dongyang Commander, really, really..."

"Don't worry, ma'am, the prefect of Kuaiji has ordered his troops to come to support, and we will arrive in Dongyang within today."

I couldn't help asking: "Who led the army here?"

"Mrs. Hui, it's Lieutenant Lu."

I was startled: "Which Captain Lu?"

"Lord Lu Yilu."

I immediately turned from anger to joy: "With him here, Dongyang is worry-free!"

The guard asked me to go to Shanyin first with the transferred troops, and I said I had to stay and see how Lord Lu dealt with these Shanyue rebels.The guards couldn't hold back me, so they had to report to County Magistrate Du.County magistrate Du tried to persuade me for an hour, while I hugged the horse post beside the road to express my determination to stay.

I didn't know what to do and said: "Just now you said that there were only a thousand thieves, and there were hundreds of soldiers in the county. How did they break into the city and make trouble? I'm just going to see if you are suspected of negligence of duty!"

County Magistrate Du's face wrinkled into a dehydrated apricot, but I let him say whatever he wanted and refused to leave, so he finally had to leave with a long sigh.

At nightfall, the scouts (note 3) reported that Master Lu's team was entering the city.

I walked out of the tent, just in time to see dozens of riders dismounting and entering the camp.

Half of the sky was reddened by the burning torches all around, but everyone's face was black. The leader alone was wearing a tight robe and narrow sleeves, wearing buckskin military boots, strutting, with a firm face and bright eyes.

I secretly cheered for this person's appearance.The school lieutenant in the barracks walked over and whispered something to Lu Yi, Lu Yi nodded and walked straight towards me.

I bowed to him: "I've met Mr. Lu."

"I don't dare to be an official, so I would like to ask my wife to take a step to speak."

I lifted the curtain, stretched out my hand and said, "My lord, please come in if you have anything to say."

He hesitated slightly, and walked slowly into the tent.This person is really, I have not met once or twice in the Dudu Mansion, and I can be regarded as a half acquaintance, but at this time he clearly has a face that strangers should not get close to, it is really boring.

I stood in the center of the military tent, kicked the carpet that was turned up by someone, and then smiled: "If your lord comes to persuade me to go to Shan'in, then I will not go, unless your lord agrees to a request."

"Please speak, madam."

I clapped my hands: "Hey, as long as you drive that bandit away, I promise you to go."

"When the next official came, General Sun had already ordered someone to send an order that the next official must ensure the safety of his wife."

"I don't think it's safe to go to Sanyin. You should know that I was kidnapped some time ago. Now that I'm going to Sanyin, what if someone kidnaps me on the way?"

"This—the next official must do his best..."

"Don't do this and that, let's just talk about it, if I don't go, what can you do to me?" I smiled with crooked eyebrows.

He may have never seen me so reckless, and there was a little helpless smile on his face: "I don't dare to force Madam, and I would like to ask Madam not to walk around in the camp."

"Naturally. You are busy with military affairs, so go quickly."

"Your Majesty will resign, please rest well, Madam."