Yangcheng

When Lu Jian took Lan Wan to Daochangfang, the sound of thousands of people singing from Daochangfang floated melodiously over Boling.

Whenever the chants flew across this ancient city along with the flock of birds flying in the blue sky, everyone who heard it would stop what they were doing, close their eyes and listen intently for a while.

This is a chants from the Omos.

When Li Zhou turned out of a narrow alley, he happened to hear this thick and vigorous chant that could soothe the heart.

Like fate, it saved her heart full of guilt.

Let her stop, stop where she is, and listen quietly.

Boling, as the capital of the Great Cang Empire where all nations came to the dynasty, whether it is overseas study abroad, business exchanges, or religion introduced to the country along the Wanxiang Road, all rivers and lakes do not reject it.

At that time, this huge, prosperous, and splendid country attracted countless people with lofty ideals to inhabit it.After coming here, many barbarians were attracted by the rich and free life of the empire. They boasted that the soul of Boling finally found a home, and they would not leave until they died.

And Boling has absorbed the essence of all nations and blended it into itself, just like a woman in Boling, elegant and beautiful, unrestrained and passionate.

Religion from a distant country, along the road of universal direction, with its convenience and the openness and communion of the Great Cang, has gradually spread and grown in the Great Cang, and its influence on the entire Central Plains has reached the peak of the millennium.

There are many flourishing religions in Boling, among which the Amo religion has the largest number of believers.

One out of every five Bolings is a member of the Omo religion.

Tang Jianwei's mother, Su Maozhen, is a member of the Omo Sect. Many friends and relatives around her, and even many people in the Tian family believe in the Omo Sect's Tianzong Dharma God.

Lu Jian and Lan Wan are also members of the Mo Sect, but they are not as fanatical as other believers, and they have to sing for the God of the Heavenly Clan every day, but because they are in high positions, the apostles in the sect often go to the Lu Mansion.

Like all religions, Momoism also has sects.The daily life of the two factions is to find the gods of Tianzong Fashen.

The gods are the messengers of the gods of the Tianzong Fa, who came to the world instead of gods to guide the believers.

The God of Dharma comes to the world only once every 100 years, but the gods are constantly reincarnated, and cannot be interrupted. Otherwise, the guidance of the gods cannot be passed on to the believers, and the believers will feel restless if they do not receive the guidance.

But now the position of God has been vacant for 13 years.The prophets have never ceased insight into the whereabouts of the gods.

Now, after going through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, the fire-holding sect finally found the god.

Lan Wan was wearing the iconic dark smoke-colored robes of the Omo Sect gods, standing on the top of the Omo Sect's conical tower, holding a long staff, and the moment she appeared, her singing suddenly became louder.

The believers under the conical tower bowed their heads respectfully and worshiped close to the ground.

The chants resounded through the earth.

Lan Wan took a distant look at Lu Jian who was standing on the west side of the cone tower.

Lu Jian in the half-moon arched window was smiling at her.

This is your birthday gift.

The title of the god of the largest religion in the Great Cang.

In the years when the gods did not come to the world, the gods were the gods of the believers.

Under the guidance of the prophet, Lan Wan turned into a god of the Omo religion, and the number of these believers and their reverence for the gods are so great that they can shake Boling and even the whole Dacang.

Lu Jian is still the one who is silent, but can deliver a fatal blow at a critical moment.

The believers paid homage to Lan Wan, but Lan Wan looked at Lu Jian in the distance with a turbulent heart——

That was her god.

The Prophet stood by Lu Jian's side, and every word sung by the believers was twisted in his heart, causing him pain and suffering like being repeatedly pierced by lightning.

……

Lu Lanxin was sleeping in the other hall, but was awakened by this singing.

The great dream was actually destroyed, Lu Lan felt bored on the bed for a while, and the singing finally stopped.

She turned over, recollected the feeling in the dream just now, tried to catch a trace of the arc of the man's smile, and wanted to continue falling into the dream.

But I heard a cat meowing outside the door.

"Meow."

Lu Lanxin: "..."

Lu Lan ignored it, Xiao Hei called again.

"Meow - meow woo woo woo!"

Lu Lanxin: "..."

Can't sleep at all.

Xiao Hei has been in the yard by himself for a long time, sleeping on his back on the spacious grass porch and getting full sleep. After waking up, he happily took a pile of shit and buried it happily. After walking around for a while A little idle, thinking of Lu Lanxin, she ran to the door of her room and howled.

The little black milk howled and howled childishly, but still no one came out from the door.

When a leaf fell on its forehead, it raised its forehead and rubbed the leaf with its short nose, the sound of the door opening startled it, and the leaf fell off.

Lu Lanxin looked at Xiao Hei, and Xiao Hei also looked at Lu Lanxin.

"A Ming." Lu Lan said in a deep voice.

A Ming rushed over immediately: "My lord."

"Why is this stupid cat still here?" Lu Lan said in his heart, "It's so annoying, I lost it."

"Yes."

Ah Ming grabbed Xiao Hei by the neck and went to the front yard.

When she got to a place where Lu Lanxin could not see, she put Xiao Hei down.

Xiao Hei was grabbed all the way, and he didn't see any panic when he landed. He lay down on the spot and licked his paws and hair. After licking it clean, he swaggered to the backyard, nestled in the door of Lu Lanxin's bedroom again, and lay down to sleep.

Ah Ming looked at this cheeky cat and smiled.

This is a dog cast in the wrong cat, right?

After Lu Lanxin was woken up, she couldn't fall asleep.

In that interrupted dream, Lu Lan asked Shi Ruzhuo in his heart: "You hate me so much, can't you just smile at me?"

In the dream, Shi Ruzhuo was still a little gentle to her: "Didn't I smile at you?"

"There have been pretentious laughs, and sneers and sneers of all kinds of ridicule."

"I smiled at you so many times, isn't that enough?"

"I don't want these, I want a real smile, a smile from the heart!" Lu Lan said as she spoke, and turned into a seven-year-old girl, and said in a childish voice, "Let me see the smile with love What is it like?"

Shi Ruzhuo looked down at her slightly, and looked at her quietly and silently, neither agreeing nor refusing, but a voice in the dream told Lu Lan that Shi Ruzhuo was about to laugh.

She is about to laugh.

Lu Lan wanted to see what kind of smile it was to love someone.

The dream ends here.

Never picked up again.

Lu Lanxin's eyes hurt badly, and his chest also felt heaving and depressed.

The warm water prepared by the maidservant for her was placed on the short table next to the bed. She got out of bed and took a sip, closing her eyes to clear her mind, and the sound of rain outside the house was falling.

In the sound of rain on the fine sand, she heard the cat meowing again.

Lu Lan thought: "?"

Going out suspiciously, he saw Xiao Hei hiding in the hollowed-out gap in the stone carving under the steps, covered in rainwater, saw Lu Lan's heart come out, he meowed at her, and slowly approached her feet.

"Go away." Lu Lanxin saw that the little thing covered in water dared to pick up her skirt.

Little Hei's ears were lowered to form a straight line, and his round eyes observed Lu Lan's heart for a while, making sure that although the person in front of him was talking to it, he didn't look fierce, nor did he raise his leg to kick it, and it couldn't understand what the person said After what was it, as if he had obtained permission, he crawled to Lu Lanxin's waist in twos and threes.

Lu Lanxin: "..."

A few more steps to her shoulders.

"Are you crazy?" Lu Lanxin's face was extremely ugly, she felt that this bastard regarded it as a tree and wanted to hit her head.

Xiao Hei did have such a crazy plan.

It just didn't work out.

Lu Lan's shoulders were weak, and Xiao Hei didn't take a good step, so he fell and fell.

Lu Lanxin instinctively raised her hand to hold the briquette.

A small, skinny cat just fell into her palm.

The wet and dark lump fell into her palm and nestled on the ground, probably feeling that this place is more comfortable than the place it was planning to go to just now, so I half-closed my eyes, and let out a comfortable snoring sound from my throat ...

Lu Lan's heart twitched slightly with her right eyebrow raised.

You kind of enjoy it.

The rain all over Xiao Hei's body wet Lu Lanxin's pajamas.

The maid came over with a new pajamas, Lu Lanxin took off this one, and put it on the short table with Xiao Hei.

After she put on her pajamas again, Xiao Hei had already used the clothes she had taken off as a nest, grinning in sleep.

Lu Lan didn't bother to look at it any more, just when the spies reported back, she tore off a coat and went to the small courtyard behind the dormitory.

……

After Li Zhou finished listening to the chanting of the Mojiao, he went to the carriage with a heavy heart.

As soon as he grabbed the reins, he felt that something was wrong, and immediately pulled out the dagger from his sleeve, and stared back at the carriage behind him.

Slowly approaching, the palm of his left hand was silently pressed against the door of the carriage, he took a deep breath and pushed it away, raising the dagger to stab the person in the carriage.

The dagger flickered, and it stopped in Wu Xianrong's calm eyes.

"Sister, sister...why are you here?" Li Zhou's tongue was a little awkward, his eyes were a little dodgy, and he retracted the dagger unnaturally.

Wu Xianrong said: "Seeing that I'm so flustered, how did Lan Wan choose you to be the spy? If I were Lan Wan, I probably wouldn't believe the information you sent back to the Lan family just now."

Hearing this, Chuzhou immediately knelt down in front of her and said hurriedly: "Sister, I, I didn't betray you! All the information I sent back avoided matters related to you! There are mixed truths and falsehoods, even if the Lan family wants to distinguish A certain time!"

"Oh?" Wu Xianrong's tone was still calm, in stark contrast to the red-faced and impatient Li Zhou, "It seems that you are very good at confusing people. Even the shrewd Lan Wan may be deceived by you, let alone Me. What you said to me now is also true and false."

"No!" Chu Zhou immediately denied it.

Originally, she wanted to say to Wu Xianrong, you have to trust me, my heart is really on your side, I am willing to cut it out for you immediately!

However, these words stopped at the mouth of the throat, and did not really speak out.

These disgusting words, even if they just passed through their minds once, they still feel pale and powerless.

Even if the truth is mixed, there is some truth in the news sent to the Lan family.

Even though she eliminated all the news that might cause damage to Wu Xianrong himself, there was still news about the Wu family, about her friends, about her colleagues...

All these news were obtained by Li Zhou from conversations between Wu Xianrong and others, or from correspondence.

Lianzhou is just a meticulous work, so why should she put on a pretense, deceive herself, and Wu Xianrong?

Li Zhou lowered her head and said nothing, she didn't dare to look at Wu Xianrong's expression, she just put the dagger in her hand in front of Wu Xianrong.

"The life of a slave is born lowly, and he has lived for others for more than ten years. Only sister, you don't dislike slaves, and allow you to be commensurate with your sisters and sisters. The time with my sister is the happiest I have ever been in my life. Life... this sentence is not false, it is definitely not false... in this life, I can meet my sister and die at the hands of my sister, I have no regrets."

During the whole process of Wu Xianrong taking the dagger, Chu Zhou didn't even look up.

After handing over the dagger, Li Zhou pressed his palms and forehead to the ground, waiting for Wu Xianrong to make a move.

One breath, two breaths...

After ten breaths, Li Zhou was still alive.

"Even at this moment, are you still unwilling to tell me the truth?" Wu Xianrong asked her.

The back of Lan Zhou's neck tightened.

"Why do you have the handle to fall into Lan's hands?"

Chu Zhou didn't raise her head, but Wu Xianrong's gentleness had already made her cry like rain.

"Slave... Slave's Kong Niang is seriously ill, and only the Lan family in Boling has the medicine, which can save Kong Niang's life." Now that things are going on, Li Zhou has no choice but to tell the truth.

"Oh? So you are not an orphan."

"No, I am an orphan. Kong Niang is the mother of the fifth lady. After the fifth lady went crazy, the slave took care of Kong Niang. Kong Niang raised the slave and grew up, and she was no different from the slave's mother. The slave deeply Their kindness cannot be repaid. For Wu Niangzi, for Kong Niang, I am willing to do anything! But..." Li Zhou raised his head, his eyes full of tears were blood red, and his voice was hoarse.

"My sister's affection, I... don't know what to do."

"Easy." Wu Xianrong said, "Go and take back Kong Niang and Yaofang together?"

Looking at her, Li Zhou saw that she had a firm and confident expression, she didn't seem to be joking.

"But, but, I don't know where Kong Niang is hidden."

Wu Xianrong handed her the handkerchief: "If you don't know, you'll have to check it out. Wipe away your tears, and then go to Tong's Mansion."

Su County, Angzhou.

"A Qi's mother! Your family, A Qi, has sent a letter!"

Upon hearing this, Sister-in-law Six immediately wiped the cooking water on her body, and ran out happily.

Shi Rumo took the messenger's letter and thanked him politely.

The messenger delivered letters in the workshop all the year round, watching Shi Rumo, the little gentleman, grow up little by little.In the past, he was so stupid that he couldn't speak and dared not meet people. Later, it was said that Tong's family begged for a magic medicine for him. Now his condition is getting better and better. Although he still looks a little shy, at least he doesn't hide from people anymore.

"Your sister has a letter?" Sixth Sister-in-Law deliberately tested Shi Rumo, "Quickly, open it and read it to A Niang."

The sixth sister-in-law is illiterate, but the children's education must not be delayed. Shi Rumo couldn't go to the academy to learn with her peers, and couldn't keep up, so she hired a husband to teach him at home.

Now Shi Rumo can already read hundreds of characters.

Shi Rumo opened the letter and read it slowly: "Aniang, Zhonghe... respectfully ask for blessings... what are you blessing, I can't read this word. I am all well in Boling, and I have learned to use it. I bought a mansion, the mansion is empty, I miss my dearest relatives, and I have sent people to Su County to bring Aunt Zhonghe to Beijing to talk about the joys of the family..."

The sixth sister-in-law yelled after hearing it, and immediately burst into joy.

Immediately, she put incense on her husband who had been dead for many years, and she burst into tears: "Our Aqi has made a lot of progress... really, he actually bought a house in a place like the capital! I finally confessed her, Now I’m going to Boling to enjoy the blessings! Your fate is bad, and you won’t be able to enjoy the blessings of your daughter. You, bless Aqi, stay healthy and safe, do you hear me?”

After stepping out from the prison of the Privy Council, and saluting the oncoming colleagues with a stiff smile, the speed of his feet became faster and faster, and after he plunged into a corner where there was no one, Shi Ruzhuo finally managed to get rid of the nausea he had endured for a long time. Spit it out.

The afterimages of the prisoner's five fingers whose nails had been stripped off were still in her mind.

The scream of cutting off the kneecap grabbed her scalp and made her brain buzz.

When entering the Privy Council, Shi Ruzhuo also thought about whether he was suitable for the Privy Council like some people who talked about her in secret.

Even though she believed she had a certain talent for interrogation, she had once been forced to kill someone.But if she were to torture anyone, she couldn't do it.

Holding the rough Taihu stone beside him, Shi Ruzhuo wiped himself clean with a handkerchief.

In fact, she is not completely incapable of torture.

After all... when she treated Lu Lanxin, when she saw her suffering, she didn't feel any guilt.

Thinking of something, the feeling of discomfort is even worse.

But this time she retched for a long time, and nothing came out except bitter bile.