Immediately after the death of the master

Before I die, I want to see him a little bit.

I want to tell him-

Sorry.

53,

The sound of dripping water, footsteps, unlocking locks.

When I opened my eyes again, the pair of brocade shoes mixed with gold silk stopped in front of my eyes. The jailers in the sky prison did not have such gorgeous clothes.So, who's the big guy coming?

I lifted my neck with no effort, and walked up the pair of luxurious shoes. It was a black official uniform with patterns unique to seventh-rank Beijing officials embroidered on the chest of the official uniform. Further up was his snow-white skin. Scarlet lips, and those—cold eyes.

He was spotless, standing there, looking coldly at the slaves in the mud.

"You came—to see me on my way?"

I originally wanted to be tougher, so that I could walk with more dignity, but I was injured too much, and no matter how hard I tried, it was only a little better than Qi Ruoyousong.

He didn't speak, didn't respond, and didn't have half a smile in his eyes, just looking down at me like that.

Everything is as if it was the first time I saw it. The noble and reserved young master and the dirty and lowly servant reappeared after nine years.

Round and round, we are back where we were.

I struggled to get up from the ground, but I couldn't use any strength in my hands. I tried a few times to no avail, and finally I gave up, letting myself collapse on the ground like a rascal.

That's right, this is me, this is what I am, an ignorant commoner who is extremely vulgar and doesn't talk about etiquette.

I gave up struggling with the broken jar, and talked about the slightest bit of respect, and called him by his name.

"Ji Qinghe."

I closed my eyes and said viciously.

"If you want to kill or cut, do it quickly, like a mother."

Ji Qinghe lowered his eyes and bent down.

The incomparably noble young master of the Ji family hugged me, a servant in the mud.

54,

Ji Qinghe hugged me and walked out of the dungeon step by step, his steps were extremely steady, his embrace was extremely warm, I buried my face in his chest, yearning for the comfort of this moment, no longer looking for the reason.

The sound of soles stepping on the ground, the crackling of candles, and the groans of prisoners, when the cool wind from the outside caressed my body again, it seemed as long as a nail.

"He'll give it to you."

Ji Qinghe's cold voice rang in my ears. From the shaking of my body, I could tell that he had handed me over to another person. Before that person helped me to leave, I finally said that sentence that was pressed in my heart. Many years of words.

"sorry."

There was a little surprise in Ji Qinghe's estranged eyes, and a moment later there was some joy in the corners of his eyes and brows. He raised his long sleeves and turned his face halfway to cover the corners of his raised mouth.

"It's ok."

Ji Qinghe stepped forward, and his flowery lips branded a kiss on my messy head.

"We shall meet again soon."

He promised me again.

55,

From the moment Ji Qinghe picked me up, the grievances between us are no longer clear.

For the rest of my life, I went around in circles.

I will always meet him around the corner of fate.

56,

After Ji Qinghe handed me over to someone else, that person helped me into an extremely ordinary carriage and then disappeared. In that carriage, I met another old friend.

Another, damn old friend.

As soon as I got on the carriage, I saw that guy's smiling face. As a disabled person who was seriously injured, I immediately pretended to be a dead body, and wanted to jump off the carriage.

Let me go, I don't want to ride in this profiteer's carriage! ! !

But it was too late, Xu Yuque put his hands through my armpits and lifted me back up.

"Guest officer, how can you leave as soon as you say it?" Xu Yuque, who saw through what I was thinking in his heart, said very softly, "This carriage cost this guest officer a full 2000 taels of silver~"

"2000 taels?" I gave up struggling in his hands, listening to the sound of my treasury flowing like water, I became a dead fish, "Didn't it only cost 1000 taels last time..."

Xu Yuque threw me on the wooden seat, sat aside in a gentle manner, took out a bottle of medicine from his sleeve and handed it to me.

"In the past two years, there have been wars and natural disasters. Isn't it normal for prices to increase?"

"What kind of name is 1000 taels?" I subconsciously took the medicine bottle, and then realized something was wrong, "How much does this bottle of medicine cost?"

"You are my old friend, let me give you a half discount," Xu Yuque put his hands in his sleeves and said kindly, "As long as you are 200 taels."

If you ignore the price and listen to his innocent voice, I will really believe it, okay...

Thinking that the reward for a hard-working battle is not 200 taels, I feel like I am going to suffocate.

"Brother, didn't you say you are a Confucian businessman? Where is your Confucian?"

With tears in my eyes, I complained.

Xu Yuque still had that smiling face, just looking at his appearance was extremely deceiving.

"Isn't there a businessman behind the Confucian businessman?" He said, "My current behavior is very businessman."

"What kind of businessman is so shrewd with his brothers."

"Brother, settle accounts clearly."

He even took out a folding fan and shook it gently, as if watching a play.

I didn't want to be treated like a monkey by this guy anymore, so I peeled off the stopper of the medicine bottle, took out the ointment and applied it on my body. When the cold ointment touched my skin, I felt a burning pain.

I fell back, gritted my teeth, stretched my body, and tried my best to endure the pain.

I know that this kind of wound medicine is very effective, but the pain when taking the medicine is not something ordinary people can bear. Most importantly, this medicine...it is very cheap.

I have enough reasons to suspect that Xu Yuque, the smiling tiger, did it on purpose to trick me into making more money.

"You damn... did you do it on purpose?"

After applying medicine to the heaviest wounds, I shook the medicine bottle at him while leaning against the wall of the car exhausted.

Xu Yuque didn't laugh this time, but admitted it openly.

"Of course." There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes gradually turned cold. "You know what you have done in the frontier these past few years."

57,

Of course I know what I did in the frontier.

All our victories and military exploits in the frontier fortress are based on living blood. Every soldier of ours, every soldier of the opponent, has his own family, his own parents, and his own children.

They are all living beings.

Everything related to life must have meaning.

Anyone who wants to exchange with life must offer an equivalent.

Xu Yuque firmly believed in this.

Unfortunately, a seven-year war is pointless.

Whether those sacrifices of throwing corpses into the wilderness, those bloods that put their lives aside, or the desperation that flashed in the eyes of those young people, are all meaningless.

This war could have ended long ago, but my selfishness, our selfishness, made this damn war last for seven full years.

In the fifth year of Taiyuan, after that great victory, the war actually seemed to have ceased, and just after showing such clues, the old emperor immediately laid hands on his master.

When the master is poisoned and unconscious.

The master's other staff and I have deeply realized that the frontier fortress cannot be peaceful, and there cannot be other princes who can replace the master to guard the frontier fortress. Therefore, we secretly obstructed the peace negotiation between the two countries.

After the master sobered up, he was still the Generalissimo of the Army and Horses, guarding the west, continuing this meaningless war.

The master was furious.

Unfortunately, all the dust has settled.

Afterwards, even if the master had no real evidence, he could still guess why the Ninth Prince suddenly changed from a rising star to a soldier, and why the amazingly talented general, the Fifth Prince, fell just like that.

Continuing the frontier war, the creditor takes over.

This is my greatest sin.

As for the search for people's fat and anointment, robbing caravans, forming cliques for personal gain and so on.

Yep, I've done both.

I have actually committed all the crimes that I was sent to prison.

There is no injustice.

58,

"If you are in your position, you must do something."

Thinking of the past, I can't help but feel a little sad. I am not defending myself by saying this, but a simple sigh.

Xu Yuque didn't comment on my words, and gently shook his folding fan,

I know that Xu Yuque has his stubbornness, if it wasn't for some accident, we would never be friends.

Looking at the friend who disdained this, he remembered his true ambition, and couldn't help but say something.

"I don't ask you to forgive me, I just hope that when you stand in my position, you can understand me."

After all, you're my—friend.

I couldn't help sighing.

Now, Xu Yuque couldn't even maintain the smile at the corner of his mouth. He closed his folding fan, raised the curtain of the carriage, looked at the situation outside, and changed the subject.

"Okay, let's get down to business."

Hearing this, I had to sit up straight after collapsing on the seat, and asked the question I was most concerned about at the moment:

"What is the situation now?"

The folding fan that had just been closed was unfolded again, and this time I could clearly see that there were two splashed ink characters on the snow-white fan——"Careful Words". Xu Yuque used the folding fan to cover the lower half of his face, and the voice Very light, with a dignified look.

he told me.

"Eighth Prince, he's wronged."

59,

I have long expected this day to come.

Even if the master doesn't have this kind of heart, he is destined to be forced to this road.

But I really didn't expect it to be so fast, so fast that all our secret arrangements hadn't had time to start, so fast that everything would end before it even started.

"How could you be so picky