After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

Xie Zhengqing has not set foot in Revlon for a long time.

Especially on a rainy day.

The wooden shoes under the feet hit the floor one after another, and the sound was clear and heavy.The corridor he walked was very long, and at that moment he was very anxious, and seemed to wish that this road would never end.

At the end of the corridor, separated by the paper door, is where Qing Ruo is.

Outside the paper door stood a man in black, who was the subordinate of the Black Clothes Envoy.

Also the one who told him about it.

They guarded the room, airtight, and no butterflies or flowers could fly out of the gap.

"If the girl is inside." The man said hoarsely, "General Xie, go in."

Xie Zhengqing's Adam's apple finally rolled out. He listened to the sound of rain outside the window and said something in a low voice.

"it is good."

The black-clothed emissary said that it was as light as if he hadn't suffered any crimes.Her attitude is very good, it can be said that she cooperated too well—maybe because she knew that she would not be able to escape, so she confessed everything, every detail.

She had too many unclean things on her hands, and when she said everything, it was her death day.And the Black Clothes Envoy, because of her contribution, promised to give her a good time.

And today is her death day.

Xie Zhengqing came to see her for the last time.

She had something to say to Xie Zhengqing, and Xie Zhengqing... also had something to ask her.

The paper door was opened, and the woman in the colorful dress was sitting in the tea room.With her back facing Xie Zhengqing and a mirror, she was still holding her hair on her temples, combing every strand of black hair.Her posture is so solemn, her dress is so beautiful, as if this day is not her death day, but the day of the celestial maiden's departure.

Xie Zhengqing remained silent and sat on the other side of the tea room.

"You are here." He heard a woman's voice.

"I am coming."

The woman turned her back to him, still pulling her hair.Xie Zhengqing sat behind her silently without saying a word.

He felt that he might have a lot to ask, but he saw her, but he couldn't ask her a word.They were sitting in a teahouse, but they were farther apart than when he was watching her in the teahouse.

"Is my execution over?" The first person to speak was actually the peerless oiran, with her back to Xie Zhengqing, combing her long hair, "I heard that they will give me a glass of poisoned wine. Actually, I don't like it." Poisoned wine, when a person drinks poisoned wine, his face will be hideous and unattractive."

Xie Zhengqing finally asked.He whispered: "Why?"

In fact, he still wants to ask a lot, such as how many things she cheated and stole from him, why she chose him to cheat from the beginning, whether everything he has seen is true or not .

But in the end, he only asked why.

"Because you are too stupid, general, and your background is too good. A person like you was born into the best family, and you were born destined to be a marquis and minister in the future. Your life is like a blossoming flower. Jin’s road, from the moment you were born, all clan members will pave the way for you. Your father is majestic, your mother is loving, and all the concubines will treat you tenderly and kindly because you are the young master.”

She still turned her back to him, but spoke in an extremely calm voice.

"You go to the best family school, and the gentlemen treat all your grades fairly. You want to make friends, and all your friends are sincere and kind to you because you are the future head of the Xie family. You can look down on those sleazy dogs Wenchen, you think that becoming a general is your biggest struggle against your family and you have lived out yourself. You feel that you have put all your eggs in one basket and gave everything, but what you don’t see is that the prefect of the Yuzhou you went to was promoted by the Xie family As soon as you arrive in the army, you are the deputy general, and the general is generous and upright, and listens to all your suggestions. And you climbed up "step by step". Even the entire border, all the troops, only the army you are in, No underpayment, no weak horses or blunt shields. You take them to conquer cities and conquer lands, and there is no disadvantage."

"Therefore, you can uphold justice. Every time you report the problems you find in the military, there will be many people from the Xie family to solve them for you. You believe that your 'efforts' have been rewarded, and put all these I take my 'fairness' for granted and believe that I will solve everything. But you don't know that for more people, fairness is a luxury."

"You don't know that there will be brothers who are at odds. You don't know that a gentleman in a family will deliberately turn right and wrong in order to please the descendants of a certain family. You don't know that there will be corruption in the army. You don't know that you can become a general because You have a choice, but more people don't. You don't know that some people are born in the mud, and if they want to get rid of the mud full of feet, they can only climb up step by step, even if the feet are worn out and the bones are broken, even if When you stand at the highest point, you will be ridiculed by many people who are born to be the pride of heaven like you, and ridicule the rusticity of their feet. Your world is too simple, general, you don’t know the fairness that you were born with, for others It is a fortune to fight for. So, you will be my target from the very beginning. Because you and I come from different classes. And you, with a naive and superior kindness, people like you, the most It's so deceiving."

Xie Zhengqing was silent for a long time, and said: "You said that you don't want to be a flower with branches swaying in the wind."

"Is it this sentence? It is this sentence that made you fall in love with me. Because you are such a person, General Xie. You believe that everyone should have dreams, and they can grow out cleanly and live To high places. But you don't know."

He heard the sound of the pearl hairpin swinging, the woman finally turned her head, glanced at him, and smiled brightly: "Some people are so dirty, the whole world can despise her."

"You will like me only because you have never met such a person like me in your life. You have seen a lot of ladies and gentlemen, so you will take pity on me." The woman turned around again and began to give herself Dressing up, she described it so carefully, as if she was drawing a picture of a beauty, "It's not easy for a man to get rid of the mud on his feet, let alone a woman? A woman, even if she becomes the wife and concubine of a high-ranking official, she will not be her all her life. It is the wives and concubines of others. After a man occupies a high position, even if he is a conspiracy, people will only be afraid of his achievements, not to mention the mud on his feet. But women have no such opportunity. Therefore, Doing things only for Xiliang? It's not enough."

"wild ambition."

"Ambition?" She raised her chin proudly. Even though her back was turned to him, Xie Zhengqing could still feel her stubborn and bright expression, "Yes, it is ambition. Why, you are surprised that a lowly oiran has ambition?"

Silence, long silence.

"You watched my light go out, now, you don't like me anymore." The woman smiled.

"For a long time, I have been watching you in the teahouse." This is what Xie Zhengqing finally said again. He looked at the window sill, "You like orchids very much."

"I know. But you, what you saw were beauties and orchids. But you didn't know that the pot of orchids was originally a prop she used to communicate with the Northern Wei Dynasty. They have always been in your eyes." Qingruo said softly, "You don't You need to sympathize with me. Two people who are born different don’t need to sympathize with each other. In fact, I am very jealous of you, General Xie. Many people would be jealous of a good boy like you who is born with luck? Kindness, justice, and innocence are taken for granted. Everyone I will tell you that if the bad guys cheat you, you deserve to die. And you have nothing to do wrong except being used from the beginning to the end. If I was born a man, I could have another way, maybe I could get the last name in the imperial examination Climb up and call you Brother Xie in a flattering way? It’s a pity, I was born a woman, and I only have hatred and jealousy for lucky people like you.”

"You don't need to say anything. You can see me only because I was born beautiful. If I didn't have this face, I wouldn't be an oiran. I should have died dirty in the winter of Xiliang, right? And you, neither Will sit here and listen to what I have to say."

Xie Zhengqing didn't speak for a long time.

"So that's the case." He finally said.

"That's right." He repeated.

"That's right." The woman in the fancy dress slowly turned around, "So that's how it is."

She is really beautiful today, absolutely gorgeous dress, absolute makeup, like a flower that is so gorgeous that it will bloom in the next moment.She smiled brightly: "I am a bad person, but you are a good person."

Xie Zhengqing was silent.

"You have lied to so many people in your life." He said softly, "Why are you dying, but you refuse to ask your brother...to intercede? Only my father and I know about this matter. Don't worry, my father agreed Zhou Xun, keep this matter a secret."

Qing Ruo was startled, and after a long time, she smiled sweetly: "Because bad people also want to do a good thing."

There was still the sound of rain outside the window, and after a long time, someone knocked on the paper door.

A wooden tray was brought in, and on it was a jug of poisoned wine.

The woman picked up the jug, and she looked at Xie Zhengqing with a sweet smile: "General Xie, after I finish drinking, can you leave here? I heard that poisoned wine will make people look hideous. I don't want to be seen in embarrassment after death." , you are a good person, you should agree, right?"

Xie Zhengqing stood up, he listened quietly to the rain outside, and said "um".

He turned away.

"Easy."

Before pushing open the paper door, Qingruo heard his voice again.

"Today... I finally got to know you." He said, "I'm the first person in the world to know you, right?"

Not a goddess, not a spy, not an oiran.

But the life of an unfortunate man.

Qing Ruo didn't speak, she was like a lady in a painting, sitting upright until the paper door was closed.

"General Xie, you are so easy to deceive, don't trust others so casually in the future. If I were you, I would definitely stand here and confirm the death of the traitor with my own eyes." She smiled, grabbed the flagon, "I really hate you."

Until the end, I said something like "It's my first time meeting, I'm glad to know you".

Then, she drank all the wine in one gulp.

……

Xie Zhengqing leaned against the window and listened to the rain all night.In the early hours of the morning, there was no more movement of struggle inside.

Qing Ruo died, together with her ambition and past.

He saw Qingruo's corpse behind the paper door.When she died, she also curled up into a ball and buried her face on the ground—perhaps because she didn't want people to see her hideous appearance after death, after all, she was an overwhelming beauty in life.

Relying on such beauty, a woman who turns the world upside down.

He watched Qingruo's body being autopsied and carried out, she looked pale and small in the cloth of the shroud, not a beauty, but a little girl who couldn't find her home.Xie Zhengqing didn't know if she had cried before she died.

Anyway, that's it.

everything is over.

In Revlon, in the downstairs cubicle, the head of the Xie family nodded deeply to Zhou Xun.

"Thank you Master Zhou for giving Quanzi such a chance."

"This is the opportunity you found, Mr. Xie, right? I originally thought that it was Brother Xie who would come to me, but I didn't expect it to be you." Zhou Xun said.

The Patriarch of the Xie family laughed, and there was no trace of gloom on his vicissitudes and calm face: "He is a child raised by his mother with a kind heart. I hope that after this time, he can grow and experience a little bit, and treat it as passing a test." , that’s all. After all, there is nothing to lose.”

His tone was very understated. To him, this was indeed a trivial matter.

"I heard that Mr. Xie is recently looking for a marriage for brother Xie in the capital."

"The granddaughter of Master Gu is a good girl. She is innocent and kind. She likes to give alms in the temple on weekdays. They will be a very good couple. corpse……"

"There are many secrets hidden in her body, so I had to burn them." Zhou Xun smiled at him.

The Patriarch of the Xie family nodded, smiled and said in relief: "Okay."

Knowing that the oiran is dead, he really seemed to see the ending where everything was resolved and the sea and the sky were bright: "That child Zhengqing must be a more qualified head of the family in the future."

Zhou Xun and the Patriarch of Xie's family said some more words, and then left.

……

It was still raining, and Zhou Xun was standing by an alley holding an umbrella.

The alley is very lively, there are many pavers and vegetable markets, and the opposite of the alley is a residence.

A man in gray stood beside him.After a long time, a young man with white face and beardless came out of the house.With a fan in his hand, he slapped his servant on the head, scolding him that the fruit he bought was not good, and he wanted to buy it by himself.

"Master doesn't like to eat green oranges. Every time I eat them, I feel sour." The servant even felt aggrieved.

The young man blew his beard and stared: "My father-in-law doesn't like it, but my father-in-law's younger sister likes it!"

The two were talking and walking this way, the man in gray stood outside, and before leaving, the young man who called himself father-in-law passed by the man in gray.

When they came to the entrance of the alley, the young man looked back as if feeling something.

There were people coming and going at the alley, but no one was there anymore.

Muxiu's little Eunuch Li scratched his head, he had always felt sluggish, but at this moment, it seemed as if the sun had slipped from his shoulders and left.The servant yelled loudly beside him: "Elder-in-law, look at the oranges at this stall..."

"I told you not to call me father-in-law outside! Call me Mr. Li!" Xiao Lizi instantly forgot the discomfort he had just noticed.

The oranges on the stall were really green.Xiao Lizi took it apart and tasted it, it was really sour, so sour that his mouth felt bitter.

After so many years, he has eaten so many sour oranges, but for some reason, at this moment, he feels that this orange is particularly sour.

Especially sour.

His tears were so sour... for some reason, they flowed all over his face.

……

Outside the city, in the secret base of the Black Clothes Envoy.

Zhou Xun and the man in gray stood at the entrance of the dark room. From then on, the man in gray would continue to work for Jingguo there until she was considered trustworthy again, and then she was activated. She returned to Xiliang and hid for the rest of her life.

Until then, she'll be atoning, never to see the sun again.

"The Red Lotus Sect has been wiped out, and Xiliang has been caught by us. Jing Guo promised to support the eldest prince, but from now on he will also be under our control. What you contributed, those things about Xiliang, Very useful."

"We caught some fringe people in the Northern Wei Dynasty, but the 'General' escaped. She was too vigilant, but we found a lot of her besides the core wings. Fortunately, among those things, we also found a military report ——It is of great help to the front line."

"General Xie only told you about the 'Blitzkrieg'. Regarding other things, he was very tight-lipped and didn't disclose anything important. And the person in the military department who really leaked those things to you, we were at him yesterday. His body was found in the mansion. Someone cleaned up the rear hands very cleanly, but I don’t know if it is from the Northern Wei Dynasty or from somewhere.”

"Aunt Lu is awake, she is recovering well. Both Lu Bin and the emperor know what she has done. She really... helped a lot. We are very grateful to her."

There was an evening wind blowing through their robes, and the robes were flying in the air.

"And as for your brother..."

"My brother is very stupid. When I was young, I always bullied him and let him take the blame. In the past, I always deliberately picked some green oranges for him, and lied to him that my sister gave my brother my favorite food. Look at him I have to eat it with a bitter face... I know he is afraid of soreness. So this time, even if he is lying to him, he won't be able to see it." The man in gray smiled and said, "Master Zhou, you are very powerful, right? I am already 'dead' now, if it is found out that I am his sister, it will also affect him? So..."

"I will tell him that you have already made a family in Xiliang. You married a rich farmer and he treated you very well. You have many acres of fertile land and a large orange orchard. He used to not know where you were And worrying that Jingguo is at war with other countries, and now the First Prince of Xiliang has to cooperate with us to seek the throne, his worries can also be relieved."

"Yes, but there is one thing that is very strange. Since the last time he came to the capital, the eldest prince, he has been very afraid of the emperor of Jingguo. He once told me that the emperor of Jingguo seems to be pretending to be crazy, but in fact there are secrets hidden inside. , So scheming, let me be more careful." The gray-clothed man said, "Now it seems that it has indeed proved what the eldest prince thinks. After all, when he was hiding in the brothel, he never expected to be discovered by the emperor."

Zhou Xun: ...I'm afraid you really think too much about this matter.

However, he didn't expose it, but the current Xiliang may feel that the emperor is so terrifying.

"Patriarch Xie ordered someone to look at your corpse, and it was very realistic. He originally wanted to silence you."

"I'm a trainee. I'm a trainee. I shouldn't have the chance to meet again." The man in gray smiled, "I understand... Mr. Zhou, thank you. In fact, I knew it from the first time I saw you. , only people like you can understand us. When things failed that day, I saw you walking in. I originally wanted to bite the poison sac in my teeth to die, but I didn’t think about it. Now it seems , was indeed the best decision.”

Zhou Xun froze for a moment, then smiled slightly: "Is this your declaration of allegiance?"

The gray-clothed man continued: "If the emperor were not here, I'm afraid I would really like you. Mr. Zhou, you are the luck of the unfortunate."

Zhou Xun coughed.The man in gray said again: "When I was walking the streets as a goddess, all the men's eyes were on me. And I saw you and the emperor. Only the emperor's eyes are always on you. People like us always look at you. I like to call myself a smart person, but now it seems that the emperor is more intelligent than us."

Zhou Xun paused, and after a long while, he smiled.

"No, he's not smart. He's just...more naive, that's all."

The man in gray gave him a deep salute, and then, led by several people, walked into the dark room.Only Zhou Xun was left standing at the entrance of the dark room, watching the breeze outside the window.

He watched the breeze for a long time, and after a long time, he raised his hand.

In his palm is a note.When he broke into the stronghold of the Northern Wei spies, he found, and still burned, a note.

On the note, there are familiar handwriting.