Snake Tale

The Story of the Snake · Zhou Budan

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更新时间：2019-03-0323:58:25

In the dream, there was still the continuous sound of swords and swords clashing, and the scraping and filing caused severe pain in the temples.After Shen Yuzhu opened his eyes, he realized that it was the Jin Ling tied to the curtain, blown by the wind howling outside the window, making a shrill and shrill sound.

There was an overlapping and blurred phantom in front of him. He tried to support his body and sit up, but as soon as he raised his arm, a bone-piercing pain hit his chest.He groaned unexpectedly, and someone beside him screamed: "Wake up, wake up! Go and tell your lord!"

Immediately afterwards, the sound of squatting was messy, and many people ran in and out, saying hello one after another.Finally, someone lit the candles one by one, and the room was brightly lit up.Shen Yuzhu tried his best to focus his sight, and saw a man in plain clothes strode into the room, went straight to his bed, and held his hand with concern:

"Brother, how do you feel?"

Shen Yuzhu whispered: "Duanmu, how long have I been in a coma?"

Duanmu Yong replied: "Three days have passed since the grand ceremony."

He vaguely recalled the dazzling flames above the grand ceremony, the rampant heat wave, and the screaming and fleeing crowd. All kinds of scenes were terrifying and chaotic like an angry hell, but they faded away like ashes in layers, and finally all fell into a pair of cold blue pupils among.

He subconsciously asked, "Where is Luo Yi?"

Duanmu Yong's expression froze, hesitating and not knowing how to speak.When Shen Yuzhu saw his hesitant expression, the ominous premonition that had been lingering in his heart rose to its peak.He pushed his hand away, struggled to sit up, murmured "I want to see him" as if talking to himself, and wanted to turn over and get down on the bed.However, he lost a lot of blood, and when he exerted a little force, he became dizzy and suffered severe pain. If Duanmu's sharp eyes and sharp hands did not quickly support him, he would almost fall to the ground.

"Senior brother!" Duan Muyong watched the bandage on his chest slowly ooze blood again, and said anxiously: "Luo Yi and Mrs. Zishuo both escaped from the grand ceremony and their whereabouts are still unknown—there is no news That's the good news, with what he can do, he won't die quietly like this. You should take care of yourself first!"

Shen Yuzhu touched the wound, the pain made his face lose all color, it took him a while to recover, but he was still powerless and speechless.Duan Muyong said in a low voice: "No one would have imagined that such an accident would be staged at the Winter Solstice Ceremony. Luo Yi was accused of treason in full view, and Luo Yi couldn't explain it. No wonder he wanted to kill his brother in a hurry. If General Yao Yi hadn't rescued you at the critical moment, the situation would have been unimaginable! Fortunately, Senior Sister Zhongli thought that you were being deceived and used her, so she tried her best to protect you and invited a famous doctor to treat your injuries. Brother, you can rest assured , all the turmoil in the outside world—especially that ruthless Luo Yi, there is no need to worry about it anymore!"

Shen Yuzhu's thoughts were mixed, so far, Fang slowly regained a glimmer of clarity, and said softly: "This is also his intention."

Duanmuyong didn't hear clearly, and asked instead: "Brother, what did you say?"

Shen Yuzhu stared at the top of the bed in a daze, and said to himself: "Duanmu, you don't understand. The situation was very tight at that time, and there was absolutely no time for us to calmly argue. Capturing with nothing is a dead end, but trying to break through and escape, but He has been convicted of treason and has become a target for everyone to punish. He...his sword is to draw a line with me and leave me with a glimmer of hope."

Duanmuyong only felt that Shen Yuzhu's explanation was unreasonable and defended everywhere, which was completely absurd, and asked back: "Do you know that the sword stabbed directly at your heart and lungs! If Yao Yi hadn't shot it, you would have died on the spot with blood spattering." !"

Shen Yuzhu said lightly: "If you don't act like you are, how can you convince the public? If he insists on killing me, why should he do it when Yao Yi is only a few feet away from me?"

He raised his eyes and looked around at the exquisite and gorgeous furnishings, and said with a smile, "Look, as soon as I woke up, I knew he had made the right bet."

Duanmuyong saw that he was deceiving himself and others so far, he was stunned for a long time before he said: "Senior brother, you are really insane!"

Shen Yuzhu smiled and said: "My mind is very clear. If I don't think so, there will be no way between me and him. Therefore, even if it is a one in ten thousand possibility, I will want to believe it. If ...If he really wants to kill me, then..."

Duanmu Yong said: "That's when you were willing to break up with him?"

Shen Yuzhu thought about it, and said with a smile: "He has saved me several times, this time, let's take his life back, it's enough for him... to lie to me a few more times."

Duanmuyong couldn't help but laugh, and when he wanted to persuade him, he saw Shen Yuzhu struggling to finish these words, his strength was exhausted, his face became more and more like gold paper, his eyes closed and he was panting for a while.Duanmuyong handed him the decoction on the table and fed him, and said: "Let's not talk about it. Senior brother, you don't know that in just a few days, the wind direction in the city has changed, and those who supported Luo Yi before have consciously accepted it." The villain's fooling was filled with righteous indignation and anger. The people of the country smashed and burned all the shrines built for him, and spontaneously organized soldiers to arrest him. In fact, whether it is life or death, Luo Yi is a Completely cut off the way back, I think, he may have secretly returned to Jin."

He couldn't help sighing and said: "Its prosperity is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden. Who would have expected the world to turn upside down, and it will come to this!"

Shen Yuzhu said lightly: "If it wasn't for someone behind the scenes to fuel the flames, how could the fire burn so fast?"

Duanmuyong was startled, and said, "Why did you say that, brother?"

Shen Yuzhu said softly: "The Queen Mother is missing, Luo Yi has defected, the current situation of Qi State, besides Lord Qi, who else is the biggest beneficiary?"

Duanmu Yong's whole body was shaken by his thoughts, and there was a look of fear between his brows and eyes.Shen Yuzhu turned his eyes to look at him, and finally saw the clothes on him clearly. He couldn't help but shudder, and asked blankly, "Duanmu, why are you wearing filial piety?... Could it be——?"

Duanmu Yong slowly raised his eyes, looked at him and said word by word: "That's right... I haven't had time to tell my brother that on the night of the ceremony, Qi Jun Wukui suffered from old illnesses due to bumps and panic when he was evacuating the fire scene, and he has already... passed away. "

Before the words were finished, the maidservant's clear voice came from the outside.Shen Yuzhu looked up suddenly, and saw Zhong Lichun standing in front of the door in plain white filial piety, looking at him expressionlessly.

Duanmu Yong subconsciously stood up.Zhong Lichun walked in gracefully, without even looking at him, he just said: "Junior Brother Duanmu, Xiao Yin (the official in charge of royal affairs) has a lot of accounts related to the state funeral that he needs to check with you, and he has been looking for you for a long time."

Duanmuyong replied "Yes", and had no choice but to get back together. Before leaving, he cast a worried look at Shen Yuzhu, but Shen Yuzhu just ignored him, closed his eyes and rested his breath.But when he heard the clattering sound of ring pendants and pearl hairpins, he opened his eyes and saw that it was Zhong Lichun kneeling and sitting in front of the makeup mirror, pulling out the hairpins and starting to wipe off the rouge from his face.

A man and a woman, in a dark room together, not only didn't know how to avoid it, but took off their makeup as if no one else was there-she didn't think of him as an outsider too much-or rather, she didn't treat him like a man too much.

"I've just heard the sad news about Wu Kui, so I ask my senior sister to express my condolences." Shen Yuzhu said coldly, "It's just that my senior sister looks pretty good, and I really don't see any signs of grief over the sudden loss of a lover. I'm afraid the sentence 'sorry' is superfluous."

Zhong Lichun lightly wiped off the black powder on his eyebrows, and said casually: "To each other, to each other. Junior brother looks so calm, I really can't tell that he is a poor wretch who was pierced through the heart by a 'friend' in public and abandoned like a wretch. "

"..." Shen Yuzhu clenched his fingers, paused, and said softly: "In this way, my senior sister and I share the same disease, and we should just cry for our confidantes, and we will come to a clear understanding."

Zhong Lichun smiled silently at Shen Yuzhu reflected in the bronze mirror, threw off the makeup in his hands, walked to sit by his couch, and said in a gentle voice, "Junior Brother Shen, you really haven't changed at all." She seemed to remember the time when she was studying at Qingyan When she was a classmate, she leisurely said: "I have been such a clumsy and annoying child since I was a child."

She was very close to him, and the candles illuminated her clean face.Light eyebrows, straight nose, small but plump lips, ruddy face with a tired look, like an indifferent pottery puppet—she was neither beautiful nor ugly.No more than a face can be drawn by a mediocre painter when his mind is absent.A man with this kind of appearance would not be able to bear those unsightly notorieties at all.But she is a woman, a woman who occupies a high position and attracts the attention of thousands of people. If she doesn't have beauty to attract people's imagination, she can only rely on ugliness to make people laugh.

Shen Yuzhu said in a low voice: "Senior sister has not changed at all. She still loses track of her whereabouts and doesn't stick to etiquette...willing to be misunderstood by the world."

There was a flash of light in Zhong Lichun's eyes, and the ordinary face was radiant for a moment, but it was quickly submerged under her indifferent disguise, and said with a smile: "Junior brother is indeed my confidant."

Shen Yuzhu asked straightforwardly: "The country cannot live without a king, what is the sister going to do now?"

Zhong Lichun said: "Back then Luo Yi intercepted Mrs. Zishuo's spies and sent people to the country of Lu to assassinate Gongsunqian. It's a pity that he missed a move, but he didn't know that Gongsunqian had a son."

Shen Yuzhu hesitated and said, "Gongsunqian is only 16 years old."

Zhong Lichun said: "So his son is still in his infancy."

A sarcastic look flashed across Shen Yuzhu's face.An ignorant baby in swaddling clothes is the most suitable target for human control.Is it such a coincidence that Zhong Lichun can find such a satisfactory puppet?

He shook his head lightly, and finally said only one sentence: "Congratulations, sister, for getting what she wanted."

Zhong Lichun stared at him: "I'm still in the midst of filial piety, what you say is enough for me to order you to be killed ten times."

Shen Yuzhu said: "Fortunately, my senior sister knows that I have always been so clumsy and annoying, so I am definitely not as knowledgeable as I am. Besides..." He paused, smiling softly and without reproach: "Senior sister I still have to rely on me—this minion who is familiar with the inside story of Luo Yi's "treason" turned to the light, made amends, and confessed Luo Yi's numerous crimes, so that he and his henchmen can be completely nailed to the pillar of shame. In this way, how can you bear it Let me be decapitated?"

Zhong Lichun said: "That's not necessarily the case. If I use my junior brother's life as a bargaining chip, guess if Luo Yi will show up to save you?"

Shen Yuzhu couldn't help laughing out loud, touching the wound, he couldn't help but gasped in pain.Zhong Lichun frowned, seeing that his face was pale, he smiled mockingly at himself, and said, "Senior Sister is really heartbroken and lost her mind—if Luo Yi cared about my life, why would he take me in public? life--"

He lowered his eyes and said softly: "How could you leave me alone in the enemy camp and escape alone?"

I tried my best to fight all the possibilities of being deceived and betrayed in my heart before, but in the end I was still said word by word by myself.His heart surged like a flood breaking a bank, and he couldn't stop wondering what Luo Yi was thinking in that fleeting moment.Why did he abandon him?Does he feel that he is useless and can only become his burden?They have clearly gone through so many hardships and tribulations together, and when it comes to a critical moment, his first reaction is still to push him far away and face everything alone... These days, he only hopes to walk into his heart defense , Teach him to believe that he is enough to share the joys and sorrows of the people, are all those painstaking efforts in vain, nothing has changed?

Zhong Lichun judged his appearance and said, "You must hate him to the core."

Shen Yuzhu stretched out his hand to lightly press the wound on his chest, and said slowly:

"The heart is piercing, but the teeth are unforgettable."

After sending Zhong Lichun away, Shen Yuzhu was finally able to live alone indoors, closing his eyes and resting his mind for a while.He himself did not expect that the unexpected sword brought back the consciousness he had been missing for a long time.He could smell the Canaanite incense in the censer on the table, taste the bitter soup, and feel the continuous bursts of pain from the injured, which made him toss and turn, unable to sleep all night.

In fact, he knew it well, what really kept him awake at night was the sword wound?He pressed his chest, opened his eyes and looked at the curtain that was blown by the wind all night.The sudden return of consciousness brings with him a stream of inner demons, and all kinds of confusion, depression, resentment, and sorrow are woven into a net of thorns, covering him in it, and the slightest movement of his mind will cause stinging pain all over his body.Mental exhaustion, and finally fell into a deep sleep.

It turns out that the injury hurts so much.While tossing and turning, he broke out in a cold sweat from the pain, and worried drowsily in his heart, it was freezing outside, that person was injured all over and fled alone, how could he bear it?