Chiwuxing

(Fu Zhaohuai rumor)

"Your Highness, there is... a letter from the imperial court."

As soon as the men and horses arrived, the man first said to the guard: "The whole county is under martial law, and no one from outside the city is allowed to enter. Anyone who is still alive will be quarantined to one place for treatment, and their names will be registered."

"Yes."

The man turned his head: "What did the court say?"

"...His Majesty ordered...say, say..."

The man frowned, Liao Hui couldn't hold back his temper: "What are you talking about, what did you say?"

"Order ordering you to bring troops back to the frontier for garrison, and punish you according to the law... for the crime of negligence in duty."

"What? You didn't send a letter to report the disease in Tanxian County. What kind of reply is this?!"

"Your Majesty also wonders... is it possible that someone blocked and changed the letter halfway and handed it to His Majesty, but it wasn't the news at all... Otherwise, it shouldn't have mentioned Tan County at all..."

"Delinquency is negligence," the man said indifferently, "Anyway, the charges have been convicted, so I will stay here. They want to punish them, but I haven't done it for them yet."

After a while of silence, the soldiers came to report: "Your Highness, just now the whole county was searched, from the county magistrate to the common people... there is no one alive."

"What?!" Liao Hui exclaimed in surprise, "Didn't you just say that you saw a pair of savage women and children, who?"

"...No, it's gone."

Liao Hui became angry and kicked the soldier.

The man stopped him, and immediately said: "You said... there are barbarians living here?"

Liao Hui expressed his intentions, and said again: "The final general thinks... even if it's a barbarian, it's not enough to let women and children rush in first..."

"Search again, check again."

At night, the assistant general Lin Ping came to report: "His Royal Highness, someone from the admiral said that he has sent a report to the court again, and the matter has come to an end, so I ask you to go back first."

"The same move will be repeated once." After several days of running around to no avail, the man's expression was slightly gloomy, "I will return to Beijing in person, and I will play it face to face. How can the emperor not know? How can those villains close their eyes?" Listen, you can still treat the lives of thousands of people as nothing."

"Your Highness can't do it!" Lin Ping hurriedly stopped, "Leading troops back to the capital without an order is disrespectful and an accomplice to treason. This is not a crime that can be implemented. Your Highness must ignore the overall situation... The imperial court has not targeted the army for a day. I am usually silent, but if there is any trouble, I will be caught immediately and take the opportunity to impeach and retaliate. In the future, the admiral has warned you several times not to make your highness act impulsively, please think twice..."

"...Maybe this is a trap set by them, Your Highness, don't be reckless for the time being." Someone continued.

The man's anger disappeared for a while, and he has calmed down:

"...Okay, I'll come back."

"...Mother."

The woman moved her shoulders slightly, and seeing that the sky was still bright, she placed the boy on her back on the rock beside the road.

"Cheng'er, are you still feeling unwell?"

The boy was about to nod and shake his head, he frowned and hesitated for a moment, then gasped and said: "...I'm playful, I don't listen to you, I won't dare next time..."

The woman wiped his sweat with her sleeve: "It will pass, bear with it, Cheng'er, wait for mother to find a doctor for you."

"...Why...don't you go back to the county first?" The boy struggled to look around the deserted road, "It's still a long way from here to the neighboring city... There may not be a cure for this strange disease."

"I can't go back," the woman said in a harmonious voice, "Who knows what the current situation in Tan County is, this disease is very strange, if there is a cure, it won't..."

"Then don't go... Mother, don't get this strange disease..." The boy felt a pain in his heart, and suddenly woke up a little bit, "Mother is so close to me, will I also catch the disease? Nah..."

His voice was as weak as a murmur, continuous and continuous, he didn't notice that the woman was concentrating on the side, and he didn't speak for a long time.

"Mother, mother..."

The boy's voice became more urgent, interrupting the woman's thoughts: "What's wrong, it still hurts?"

Without waiting for his words, the woman put the man on her back and staggered back eastward.

"Mother...have we gone in the wrong direction..."

At the beginning of the daylight, the boy fell into a coma.

The person on the bed went from fainting to waking up, and sat up straight all of a sudden.

The moonlight closes the house, and it is quiet and dim.

"...Are you dying again?"

The man beside him made a sound, interrupting Fu Chen's bewildered thoughts: "...I...I'd better go for a walk first."

He blocked his movement with a palm from his waist.

Zong Zhengxi struggled to get up, but his movements were much more rigid: "...I will accompany you."

"...Forget it," Fu Chen blocked the way, and dragged the man back to the same place, "It's so late... don't run around."

The two lay facing each other, Zong Zhengxi raised his hand to gently wipe the sweat between his forehead and brow.

This movement was like re-triggering the switch of his sleep mechanism, Fu Chen suddenly grabbed the man's wrist and stared at him blankly.

There was a lot of strength in his hand, as if he was about to grab something.

Zong Zhengxi pinched his side cheek, and said in a harmonious voice, "What's wrong?"

Fu Chen's eyes flickered, and then he slowly withdrew his hands: "...It's not a dream."

The man took his hand again under the quilt, and the warm current flowed down the acupuncture points around his hand.

"Hmm." He replied.

The sound of breathing fluctuates steadily, slowly responding to a certain order.

The two pairs of black pupils reflected each other's thin light in the darkness, Zong Zhengxi suddenly said, "What are you thinking?"

"……Um?"

"What are you thinking, tell me."

Fu Chen twisted his shoulder slightly, stretched his half-pressed left arm forward, and held the palm of the person opposite him with both hands.

"Many people, I think I know them closely, but it seems that I have never really understood them."

"for example?"

"For example, my mother," Fu Chen lowered his eyes, "she gave me life, gave me two lives, and raised me for 12 years. But I never... never knew who she was."

"In the past, I always thought that only people like Ni's and Tang's who deliberately deceived me would make me confused all my life and couldn't see the truth. But now I find that even people who are really close can't understand everything. There are Many things hinder this closeness. The more I try to find out, the more I fall into more and more misunderstandings. When I was young, my mother told me a lot of lies, but now I start to know... No, maybe, maybe I knew then, but I just didn't believe it, so I deluded myself."

"After you understand, what are you going to do?"

Fu Chen raised his eyes slowly: "Don't do anything... just, just understand. If you don't even know the truth, you will only encounter more lies when you go to other places. If you don't have this honesty, you will encounter difficulties." , can’t be rescued, so what about close relatives?”

"Do you understand me, Zijie?"

The man's eyes are gentle, and the tranquil deep lake is always a place of peace of mind.

Fu Chen's eyebrows stretched a bit, and he pursed his lips and smiled lightly:

"……certainly."

"But you haven't known me for as long as the years I haven't seen you before," Zong Zhengxi said softly, "How can you be sure that you understand me?"

Fu Chen pondered for a long time, but didn't know how to answer: "...It's just an intuitive feeling."

Zong Zhengxi pointed to his heart: "Then it didn't tell you, who is your mother?"

"She is a good person, she is good to me, sincerely good," Fu Chen said, "but I know almost nothing about the rest. I don't know what she has experienced before, and I don't know what she thinks in her heart. would lie to me, though, about unimportant things."

"Don't you feel that your words are very familiar?"

"You mean..." Fu Chen suddenly laughed, "By the way, that's what I said about my father at the beginning... My son is so fucking incompetent, he doesn't know anything..."

"I have known your father longer and earlier than you. But I guessed many things about him by insinuating. Everyone has some secrets, so naturally I won't go to the bottom of it to find out."

"How can it be the same? I am a parent and child..."

Zong Zhengxi joked, "Aren't I half a man now?"

The two talked and laughed, and Fu Chen said again: "...But am I going to be so confused?"

"It's not confusion," Zong Zhengxi tightened his palms, "it's acceptance. If someone who loves you intends to deceive you, then his intention is not to harm you. Even if you think they did something wrong, then you lie about it Bear the price, no matter good or bad, and respond to them in turn, isn't that the way you love them?"

Fu Chen frowned.

"You insist on exposing them in order to get the truth for yourself. But if you love them, why are you not willing to be a liar for this?"

Fu Chen retorted: "But I know... I can help them undertake many things that they can't do, and the result will be different."

"Really?"

Zong Zhengxi asked back with a smile, but there was an undeniable sense of fate in his expression.

Fu Chen's heart ached, and he suddenly didn't dare to answer.

"...Maybe." He murmured softly.

"If I'm going to die, I lied to you, what did you stop? ... Or do you want to be with me?"

"I..." Fu Chen's tone trembled, he turned his face, and said forcefully, "Don't make such assumptions, this is different."

Zongzheng Xi forcefully turned his face back, fixed his eyes on him:

"I won't, not only because I love you, but because I also know you."

Feeling weak, Fu Chen broke free from his hand and slid into his neck.

"……I understand."

Some things are cruel and beautiful.

Zong Zhengxi caressed his back: "With such a narrow heart, is it not enough to leave me alone?"

"……enough."

It was he who was cunning and bargained with the gods using the messy past, but he didn't know that in the end he was greedy and turned into begging for mercy.

"only you."