Snake Tale

The sound of the bell stopped suddenly, and Shen Yuzhu raised the curtain from inside the car, and saw a tall figure standing in front of the car.

Luo Yi put his hands behind his back and looked at him indifferently: "You just came back and are going out again?"

Shen Yuzhu responded with a smile: "Yes, we have an appointment to discuss matters with friends." After a pause, he said: "Your injury has not healed, it is better not to walk around in the next few days."

Luo Yi gave an expressionless "Yes", stared at him Zhuo Zhuo, and said, "Is there anything else you want to tell me?"

Shen Yuzhu thought for a while and said, "Excuse me, give way?"

The bay red horse pulling the cart staggered a few steps in place, and impatiently exhaled a cloudy and hot breath towards Luo Yi.Luo Yi remained motionless for a long time, finally showing a blameless smile, and took two steps back.The red horse let out a triumphant neigh with its neck up, spread its four hooves and pulled the carriage away from the dust, leaving Luo Yi alone in the blown dust.

It's been three days.

Luo Yi still remembered that Shen Yuzhu pressed against his forehead that day, and said with a blushing face, "I'll find you later", which made his heart tremble, and he held a candle in his room and waited all night until the cock crowed. Only then did he realize that he had been tricked.

For three full days, except for the famous doctor sent by Gongsun Zhuoxin to run into his room with all kinds of rare medicinal materials and three meals a day, Shen Yuzhu never came to see him—fortunately, he was still there. Can laugh as if nothing had happened and ask him to make way!

This person is shameless.Luo Yi thought gloomyly.

It wasn't until the dawn and the moon rose in the sky that the shameless You Shen Yuzhu returned wearing the stars and the moon.He walked across the corridor, passed the courtyard where Luo Yi lived, raised his eyes and saw the darkness in the bedroom, and knew that Luo Yi had already rested.He stood quietly in the court for a while without distraction.A clump of snow-white night orchid grows under the stone steps, taking advantage of the late night when no one looks around, it faintly exudes an unknown fragrance.Shen Yuzhu pursed his lips and smiled, and walked slowly down the corridor.

Back in the room, I deliberated over the plan and the letter to be sent under the lamp.After the Empress Dowager of Qi narrowly escaped death, he realized the true meaning of his master's last words before he died.

"Who would have expected that what the 'delegating a snake' refers to is so..."

Shen Yuzhu talked to himself, holding a pen in his hand, and drew the totem that showed everything on the paper.With a few rough strokes, a pair of human figures are outlined, snake tails are drawn winding and intertwined, the sun and moon are drawn to combine, the astrolabe is drawn to be vertical and horizontal, the rules are drawn to draw ink in the middle, and the golden toad in the moon and the auspicious bird in the sun are drawn... It has been clearly revealed, but how should the overall situation be mobilized to bring back the city?

He rested his chin in thought for a long time, moved his eyes to the portrait in the portrait, and couldn't help but pick up the brush again, adding a pair of curly and plump black long hair to the portrait.Looking around, I couldn't help laughing, and I simply fell on the desk, concentrating on drawing stroke by stroke.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound from the door, it was Luo Yi who pushed the door open and entered boldly!Shen Yuzhu was so frightened that he was so frightened that he grabbed the paper and almost swallowed it.

Luo Yi stopped in his tracks, looked at his terrified appearance, and raised his eyebrows suspiciously.

Shen Yuzhu's face was red, and he choked out a sentence: "You...why didn't you knock on the door?"

Luo Yi laughed dumbfounded, and lazily said: "I don't think you're sitting on the floor either!"

He took a step forward, but saw that Shen Yuzhu was becoming more and more like an enemy, clutching a page of the case and refusing to let go.Luo Yi rolled his eyes and asked calmly, "Military secrets?"

Knowing that he misunderstood, Shen Yuzhu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.Simply pushing the boat along the current, stacked the painting in front of him, handed it to the candle to light it, and said with a smile: "Of course it is top secret." He lowered his eyes and smiled lightly: "If something is leaked, my life will be over. "

Luo Yi responded nonchalantly: "So that's the case." He walked to the side of the chessboard calmly, picked up a chess piece, threw it like the wind, and extinguished the candle lightly.Before Shen Yuzhu could react, the unburned painting in his hand had been snatched away!Luo Yi shook the paper away, and said with a sneer, "I want to see how secret it is that makes you so obsessed——"

The voice stopped suddenly, Luo Yi opened his eyes slightly, and looked at the portrait in the painting in disbelief.But seeing his curly hair like clouds, deep eyes and high nose, sword eyebrows into the temples——

It was clearly him.

Shen Yuzhu bowed his head in shame, clutching the small window tightly, as if he wanted to jump out from here, almost choked up and said: "...you are really... rude... and disrespectful!"

The corners of Luo Yi's lips raised uncontrollably, and he calmly commented harshly: "The brushwork is rough, and there is still room for improvement." While carefully folding the painting and hiding it in the skirt of his clothes, he flicked his sleeves and sat down beside Shen Yuzhu calmly, smiling Said: "If you don't come to see me for three days, you just hide in the room to study these secrets?"

Shen Yuzhu was unhappy, drooping his eyes to wash a cup of tea, and refused to respond.Luo Yi was not in a hurry or annoyed, he supported his chest with one hand, watched him make new tea and handed it in front of him, and then slowly said: "I plan to go to Qi State and ask Madam Zishuo for the antidote."

Luo Yi was startled for a moment, turned his face back, and heard Shen Yuzhu say: "Mrs. Zishuo wants to seize the power of the state of Qi, there is no other way but to support Zixi to be the Marquis of Qi. The reason why she poisoned her is not so much to win My life is more like hoping to control me to be her puppet."

"But Duke Huan's son has been missing for more than 20 years. She can just choose an obedient and obedient confidant as her heir. Why should she choose you who have already broken with her?"

Shen Yuzhu said: "I know the whereabouts of Jiuding."

Luo Yi was startled: "You don't..."

"Yes, Master never told me the whereabouts of Jiuding before his death. I have always thought that I didn't know. It wasn't until I escaped from Wang Zhou that I suddenly realized that the key to finding Jiuding was myself. Luo Yi, do you still remember the two giant snakes under the underground palace of the Liuming Pavilion? It was startled by the 'thunder' that day, and before it died, it vomited something..."

While talking, Shen Yuzhu fetched a box.When I opened it, I found a dark token wrapped in silk, with a faint scent of cool wood. The mating picture of a human head and a snake body was imposingly engraved on the token, surrounded by the sun, moon and stars, like the stone wall of an underground palace. The totem is exactly the same.

Shen Yuzhu said: "The map of Jiuding is hidden in it. To unlock the mechanism, you must rely on Mrs. Zishuo..."

Luo Yi picked up the token and looked at it, only to feel that its texture was strange, and the carving technique was very superb. Changing angles, those eyes seem to be following him faintly, which is fascinating to watch.

While analyzing, Shen Yuzhu revealed his next plan, Luo Yi concentrated and held his breath, his thoughts were surging like stormy seas, but in the end, all of them were buried under the deep and dull sea.

Shen Yuzhu said: "...So, in order to win the trust of Mrs. Yu Zishuo, don't say that I can't get rid of the poison of 'weak water'. Even if I know the prescription, I can't get rid of the poison."

Luo Yi asked: "Are you really going to do this?"

Shen Yuzhu said: "Not bad."

Luo Yi said coldly, "Even if you know the road ahead is difficult and the chances of winning are slim?"

Shen Yuzhu picked up the tea bowl, blew the foam off the tea soup, and said with a smile, "I've been thinking about it for the past few days... The reason why Master chose me to do this job is probably because I'm alone and unattached. Wuhang is the one who can put all his eggs in one basket."

Luo Yi sneered, and said contemptuously: "People who always talk about life and death are the most despised!"

Luo Yi was so calm, knowing that he was going to go to Longtan and Tiger's Lair in person, he didn't try to stop him with words, which was a bit unexpected for Shen Yuzhu.He held the tea bowl in a daze for a while, suppressing the boredom and disappointment in his heart, and with a self-deprecating smile, said: "Of course I can't compare to Lord Luo, the son of a thousand gold can't sit down. I am... the most 'useless' one people."

He met Luo Yi's gaze, smiled slowly and said, "It's not that I'm underestimating myself, it's because of an inevitable reason... How can I explain it to you? Ordinary people in this world always have many very different identities. For example, Luo Yi, Yu Guojun, you are the confidant, you are the lord of the sky, and Yu the political enemies, you are the enemy who makes people sleepless... You have too many roles to play, and you occasionally Will you find it hard? However, you must also be able to confirm from this hard work that you are an indispensable and irreplaceable person... but I am not."

He said indifferently: "I am an anonymous person from the mountains. The people who have been by my side since I was a child, apart from my teacher with a chest full of hills and valleys, are also my classmates who are smart and enlightened. Everyone can arrange everything properly and perfectly. It doesn't matter if there's more or less of me in the world. I don't have to take on anything... and no one ever really needs me.

"I don't know what made Master say my name at the last moment. But I understand that he is the only person in this world who needs me. Therefore, no matter how many obstacles, no matter what the outcome is, I must do this for him Finish."

Luo Yi listened to his low voice, and shook hands to show his lungs and liver. For some reason, he felt that Shen Yuzhu had never been so far away from him, as far away as a river, and every detail was visible. If it was in front of him, he looked up and felt Heaven is out of reach.

What you said is totally wrong.Luo Yi thought to himself.Shen Yuzhu, I need you.

But he never said these words out of his mouth, and even the moment this thought came to his mind, he felt a burst of unbearable embarrassment and fear.He didn't want to make such a pleading show of weakness, after all, he turned his eyes away and stared at the boiling tea pot without saying a word.The water mist curled upwards, enveloping his face indifferently like a god in a wooden alcove—a god who never needs anything outside.

Unknowingly, it was silent for a long time.Shen Yuzhu seemed to have just recovered, and said with an apologetic smile: "Look at me, have you been bored by saying so many incomprehensible things?" He paused, then said softly: "However, It's a blessing in disguise. If it wasn't for this precarious situation, I would never have noticed..."

He was hesitant about how to speak, Luo Yi raised his eyes to look at him, and asked quietly: "What did you notice?"

Shen Yuzhu smiled at him, said no more, and reached out to hold his hand.

*Sitting with a small base: Mencius entered the house and saw his wife sitting in a small base by herself in the room, and angrily said to his mother, "My wife is not polite, please allow me to divorce her." Meng Mu said, "Why? " Mencius said: "She sat with her legs stretched out." Meng Mu asked: "How do you know?" Mencius said: "I saw it with my own eyes." Politeness. Didn’t it say in the Book of Rites?’ When you are about to enter the house, first ask who is in the house; At this time, you must look down.' This is to prepare the people in the house. Now because you walked quietly to the place where your wife lives and rests, you can see her sitting with her legs stretched out. It is because you are rude, not because your wife is rude!" Mencius realized that he was wrong and dared not divorce his wife.