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Zhou Lanmu took him upstairs slowly, and Chu Shao followed in a daze, before asking after a long while, "Where did she... go?"

"There is not only one exit for the secret passage under the imperial city," Zhou Lanmu replied casually. The Xiaoer who led the way had already opened the door of a room for them, and then retreated silently, "Princess Lu is petite and can Crossing the river at another dead end, the prince Xie couldn't go that way, and it was thanks to his extra care that the princess didn't fall into their hands. The specifics, I'm afraid... only the person involved will know."

After hearing Zhou Lanmu's casual words, Chu Shao's complexion was pale, and in a trance, a white light flashed in front of his eyes, and someone stabbed him with a sword.

Bai Canglang blocked Chu Shao's sword with a backhand, and found that the opponent was Feng Lu who hadn't taken off her veil.

Although Bai Canglang's strength is far superior to hers, he didn't dare to fight her. Chu Shao held the scabbard to block it. The two of them started fighting like this in the narrow corridor on the second floor. Fortunately, Chu Shao's sword Convergence, Fenglu swordsmanship is ordinary, and the sound is not loud.

Bai Canglang had no choice but to shout hastily: "Princess, princess, I have something to say!"

However, Feng Lu seemed to want to kill Chu Shao wholeheartedly, and at the same time she was merciless, a pair of star-like pupils stared at him: "How dare you, how dare you let me see you——I just saw you in the lobby. I wanted to do it, but I didn't expect you to come to my door by yourself!"

Chu Shao didn't attack, but just resisted her offensive all the way without saying a word.Seeing that he didn't speak, he was very angry, but his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist: "Chu Yuanjia, what did we do to you, why did you..."

"Ru Xue," Zhou Lanmu interrupted her, and said in a low voice, "Stop it."

As expected, Feng Lu withdrew her sword momentum, but looked at Zhou Lanmu, and said in a deep voice, "You brought him here?"

"Don't talk about it." Zhou Lanmu avoided her gaze, "The entanglements... are all old things, and now he has the same wish as you and me, why do you hold on to the old things so tightly?"

"Isn't it because of—" Feng Lu shouted with red eyes, but she stopped abruptly in the middle of her sentence, "Forget it, forget it, since you don't care—you don't want him to appear in front of me! Otherwise, I will see you once -"

"Ru Xue..." Chu Shao called her, "I..."

"I don't know what your reasons are, but it's true that you caused me...caused my brother to die tragically," Feng Lu looked at him, her eyes were still red, "You have been their running dog for the past few years, and you have lived a very dignified life. One day, I will kill you with my own hands."

Xiao Yifeng said quickly: "Princess, let us go in first."

Feng Lu seemed to have never heard of it, snorted coldly, and walked away with a flick of his sleeves.Zhou Lanmu called again: "Ruxue..."

Feng Lu glanced back at him, and said coldly: "Sir, let's take them to sit first, and I will come to accompany you after I go downstairs."

After Feng Lu went downstairs, several people entered the room and sat down, Chu Shao sat down blankly, and asked after a long time, "Why is she here?"

The smile on Zhou Lan's face remained unchanged: "Ru Xue made a marriage contract with me when she was born."

He had indeed heard about this matter, but he didn't know much about it. He only knew that Feng Lu had a marriage with the fourth son of the Zhou family, but later Feng Lu refused and the Zhou family declined again, so the marriage was abandoned.

Before Zhou Lanmu finished speaking, the door was opened with a "bang". Feng Lu took a tray, put it on the table coldly, and said, "Tea."

"Thank you." Zhou Lanmu took the tea and smiled at her, "Sit down too and discuss with us."

Chu Shao seemed not to have heard Zhou Lanmu's words. He stared at Feng Lu obsessively, with intense emotion in his eyes, but his voice was very low: "Ru Xue, what's wrong with your face...?"

Feng Lu sneered, and pulled off her white veil without saying a word, but just after the white veil was taken off, Chu Shao felt as if someone had stabbed her, and she couldn't say anything for a moment.

The whole line of the Feng family is full of beauties. The mother of the crown prince Xie was the famous beauty Princess Xi in Suzhou. Feng Lu almost completely inherited her mother's beauty. When she was choosing a son-in-law, the children of the aristocratic family squeezed their heads together, just to win the princess's favor.

But now—

The right side of that beautiful face is still intact, but the left side has been destroyed except for the eyes. From the bridge of the nose to the left, there is a hideous scar winding all the way. The dark red marks have not faded away. How deep is the injury.

Chu Shao trembled his hands, wanting to touch her face, but he didn't dare, and stopped in the air halfway.

Feng Lu put on the veil again, and did not look at Chu Shao: "Back then I escaped from the secret path, and all the guards around me were killed before my brother came to meet me. "

It was the eldest son who... beat Xiao Yifeng back then and threatened to marry her.

"I thought you really escaped back then." Chu Shao's eyes were red, he didn't dare to look at Fenglu, he just choked up and said, "No one has seen your trace, and the arrest warrant has not been withdrawn even now... "

"Back then, the eldest son of the Wei family searched around with great fanfare under the banner of 'cleaning up the remnants of evil'. He found me, so why would he hand me over to Wei Shuqing?" Feng Lu sneered, "After falling into his hands, for the sake of To keep him from touching me, I had to completely ruin my face and make him look disgusting... After a long time, I forgot that I was still locked up by him, so I was able to escape."

Chu Shao was stunned for a moment, his lips trembled twice, and he didn't say anything. Xiao Yifeng pressed his hand that was shaking too much, looked at him with complicated emotions, and then said: "Young master, Canglang, he Now that he is emotionally unstable, I will take him out first and return in a short while."

Zhou Lanmu didn't raise his eyes, but nodded slightly.

Xiao Yifeng dragged Chu Shao out halfway, and Chu Shao looked lost and didn't resist at all.Xiao Yifeng called him twice, but he didn't answer. Xiao Yifeng was so angry that he pulled him up and pressed him against the wall, shouting in a low voice: "Chu Yuanjia, wake me up!"

Chu Shao held his hand tightly: "She...she used to cherish her appearance more than her life, how painful it must be to destroy her face...now..."

"Then what are you guilty of?" Xiao Yifeng yelled at him, and then looked back, "What happened...in the past? I was in the southeast during the Dingfeng Rebellion. Qi and Wei are doing things, why do you betray... Your Highness? Your Highness treats you so well, why are you?"

"I don't want to be like this, and I don't want to!" Chu Shao lowered her eyes, panting heavily, and choked up, "I'm so stupid, I was deceived by others, the cause and effect... I don't have the face to tell you."

The two were still talking about this in the corridor, but Zhou Lanmu yawned in the room, and began to chat with Bai Canglang: "Canglang, when I was young, I studied with a teacher with another friend, and my friend refused to listen to empty truths. , I want to join the WTO and go to the people to see, so my teacher asked him a difficult question, are you interested in listening?"

Bai Canglang said: "Of course there is, let's talk quickly."

Zhou Lanmu shook the teacup in his hand, and said casually, "He gave my friend half a bowl of water, and pointed him to a dam in the clouds."

Bai Canglang listened with interest: "And then?"

"The teacher asked my friend, if he is the prefect of the place where the dam is, this bowl of water is his decision - if he dumps this bowl of water and opens the dam to release the water, the people downstream of the dam will die immediately because of the flood, and the people downstream of the dam will die immediately. The people here are all his brothers, sisters, and fellow villagers," Zhou Lanmu said with a relaxed smile, knocking on his teacup, "but the upstream of the embankment is the focus of farming in Dayin. There will be floods, there will be no crops, and tens of thousands of people will starve to death. Do you think this bowl of water should be poured or not?"

Bai Canglang was stunned for a moment: "This... is really a dilemma. No matter which choice you make, you will probably regret it. How did your friend choose?"

"If Canglang were you, how would you choose?" Zhou Lanmu stretched out his hand to invite him to drink tea.

"I'm not a saint. If it were me, I would never dump this bowl of water." Bai Canglang stroked the hilt of his sword, thought for a moment, and said, "Even if I bear the world's infamy, what I want in my life is to preserve my love. And the one who loves me. What about you, how do you choose?"

"Back then, I watched my friend kneel beside the bowl of water for three days and three nights, and then left in a slump, never mentioning the matter of entering the world. I thought in my heart, if I were to make this choice, I would definitely fail That bowl of water, and then jumped down facing the downstream, apologizing." Zhou Lanmu's eyes slowly moved down, "But I don't want to hurt the people of Li, and I don't want to hurt the people I love. I'm too selfish. Back then... I did No choice."

Bai Canglang took a sip of the tea in his hand, and said with a smile, "Then, have you made a choice now?"

Zhou Lanmu smiled slightly, but did not answer: "Many years later, when I grew up, I met my teacher again and told him that I had a way to break the situation."

"I poured a glass of water in front of him, drank the water in one gulp, and then smashed the bowl to pieces. I told the teacher, if there is no way to get the best of both worlds, then I will sacrifice myself to the water and try my best to turn the tide. to die."

Bai Canglang laughed: "You were always a saint back then."

"But the teacher is very angry." Zhou Lanmu shook his head regretfully. "I have never seen the teacher so angry. He yelled at me and told me that if I don't make a choice, I will work hard to change the established fate. , the gods will be angry, first flood the upstream, then break through that dam, and then bring disasters downstream—in the end, it will only end in vain, with nothing left.”

Bai Canglang didn't speak, as if he was thinking about something, only to hear Zhou Lanmu continue to say: "The teacher told me that if I persist in my obsession, I will definitely go to the end he expected."

"The ending?" Bai Canglang laughed suddenly, but his tone was a little different from usual. He turned his head to look at Zhou Lanmu, and jokingly said, "How did he know that the ending he expected must be the ending? In my opinion Come, sacrifice your body, go to death, you are indeed a saint, no one will understand the saint for a while, and you will be notorious, but if you do everything he can, you will definitely not regret it."

"Really?" Zhou Lanmu lowered his eyes, suddenly lost in thought, the cup in his hand seemed to shake with his hand, fell to the ground and shattered.

Before Feng Lu could say a word of concern in the future, Chu Shao and Xiao Yifeng suddenly came in from the door.

Zhou Lanmu was in a trance, but was quickly interrupted at this moment. He lowered his head and slowly adjusted the debris under his feet, and said with a smile: "I just had a headache, and my hands slipped for a while, but I couldn't hold the cup. I am ashamed, ashamed."

The author has something to say: I will probably continue to double-update tomorrow (I’m really a hard-working and female dbq, but I just want to get involved in hzc as soon as possible)