She shook her head, "I have never been to Southern Wei Liangzhu."
"That's it. She is just a person you don't know. She is Wei Lang's past. The past doesn't count anymore. What are you worried about?"
"What should I do if that Princess Tangshuo comes back one day?"
The man shook his head and said firmly, "It's impossible."
"How do you know? Although Southern Wei and Donghu are far apart, if the prince defeats Southern Wei, they will be able to meet again."
"Princess Tangshuo Jimo Ran is dead."
She was stunned.
It turned out that the person Wei Lang missed was no longer there.
She has been competing with a dead man.
The princess smiled bitterly and said, "Then it's even more impossible for me to win against her."
"How can I argue with you when everyone is dead?"
"If she is a national master, she can still compete, but if the person he loves is dead, then he will never forget her, and no one can replace her position in his heart."
Something was flipping in his sleeve pocket, and the princess pointed at it, "What is this?"
A transparent crystal ball fell from his sleeve pocket into the palm of his hand. He threw the ball into the air, and the ball reflected a scene.
A man is holding a folding fan and arranging flowers in front of the window. Not far away is a man reading a book under a tree in the courtyard.
The princess took a look and said, "What is this?"
"Have you never heard of surveillance? You can spy on your enemy's every move from thousands of miles away."
"Are they your enemies?" The princess was surprised. They didn't seem to be bad people.
"Maybe, I'm not sure."
"It's not good for you to spy on others." She looked at him a few more times and said, "The man under the tree looks familiar to me."
He didn't believe it, "Do you know him?"
"Probably, my memory has always been very good. If I think carefully about someone I met a long time ago, I can still remember what he was wearing that day and what he said."
"Is your talent considered a photographic memory?"
"It's not that powerful. I can only remember it roughly. It won't work if I use it for reading. Otherwise, I would have remembered the books of the sages clearly." The princess said modestly.
"He is Ji Liyou, a child of the Ji family in Liangzhu."
"The Ji family is one of the aristocratic families in Liangzhu."
"you know?"
"Ji Sikong seems to have come to Beiqiu to pay homage to the late king."
"Which Sikong is Ji Sikong you are talking about?"
"Ji Feiyu, courtesy name Fuwei."
"It turns out it's him. Ji Liyou is his grandson." The man took the crystal ball back and said, "How could you have met Ji Liyou? He has been growing up in Bolu, so logically he should have never left Bolu. consider."
"I don't know, I just think his face is very familiar. I seem to have seen him several times, but he is completely different from what I remember. It seems that his eyebrows have changed a little. So, give me a few days. Think about it, I’ll tell you where I saw him after I figure it out.”
"No, it doesn't make much difference to me whether you have seen him or not. I don't need to think too much about it, and don't tell anyone what happened today."
The princess said yes, "Besides this matter, do you need me to help you with anything else?"
"What can you do for me?"
"For example, help you make an appointment with the National Preceptor."
"Why should I see her?"
"Because you like the Imperial Master, don't you?" the princess affirmed.
"If you had used your intelligence to fight for favor, I'm afraid Wei Lang would have been in your palm a long time ago."
Just as she was about to retort, there was no one in front of her.
Suddenly there was a cry of women outside the hospital. After listening carefully, there were about three or four women crying. They were all so frightened that they unconsciously straightened their throats and screamed.
Ji Liyou lit the lamp again and knocked on the wall, wondering if the storyteller heard it.
Seeing no one responded, he thought of going to the front yard to find out.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw him standing at the door yawning.
"I thought you were asleep." Ji Liyou opened the door and let him in.
He shook his head, "There was a moth fluttering in my room. I wanted to light a lamp and let it fly to the fire and kill itself, but I thought it would be cruel, so I put out the lamp again, but it flew next to my ear. What a noisy person.”
Ji Liyou raised his bright eyes and looked outside, "I wonder what happened in the front yard to make him cry so miserably."
He tugged at Ji Liyou's dirty clothes and said, "Don't worry about it. Once you get some sleep, everything will be fine."
Ji Liyou said, "You go to bed first. I'm always worried. I'll go take a look and come back."
Seeing that he insisted on going, he had no choice but to go along.
As soon as Ji Liyou arrived in the front yard, he saw a man standing upright in the crowd, his eyes full of evil light, staring at Mrs. Ji intently. Ji Liyou was surprised that Ji Shanjing actually dared to look at the old lady like this.
As soon as Ji Liyou's eyes met, Ji Shanjing seemed to have gone crazy and laughed loudly: "Haha, you are all in the same group, and I am the only one kept in the dark. Grandma knew Knowing that she would be in danger, you managed to get me to leave her and forcefully take away her life. You hid her heart in a brocade box and kept it in the palace as a sacrificial weapon. How long are you going to keep this sacrifice from me?"
As soon as Ji Liyou saw him standing in the crowd and saying these words, he knew that he must know everything now.
Ji Shanjing was extremely angry and wished he could avenge Jimo Ran immediately.
Mrs. Ji looked at the girls who were serving her being beaten like this, but there was no hint of cowardice in her eyes, "I called you back to save your life. Even if you were in the Princess Mansion at that time, you could only become a A corpse.”
As soon as these words came out, it triggered his murderous intention, but he suppressed it, "If I were here, I would rather die with her."
Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished saying these words, the edge of a dagger in the old lady's sleeve touched his throat. If she took another step forward, her head would be in a different place immediately.
Ji Liyou heard the old lady say, "You are the head of the Ji family, and you must never say such words again."
There was another person sobbing beside him, Ji Shanjing's mother.
At first, she stood in the corner of Ji's family, just peeking in with a very uneasy heart. At this time, she saw that her mother-in-law was angry, and she did not dare to plead for her son, but she was worried.
Now, seeing the knife across his neck, Ji Shanjing felt sad and lost his heart. He didn't care about anything, "Grandma, it's best to kill me now, otherwise I will definitely..."
The next words were interrupted by the old lady's dagger. The blade had penetrated between his flesh and blood, and the warm liquid slowly flowed downwards along his collar.
"What will you do?" The old lady sneered.
Seeing that Ji Shanjing was bleeding, Ji's mother burst into tears and ran straight over and said, "Since mother has the heart to kill Shanjing, I don't want this life anymore. Let me accompany him."
When the old lady was about to stab the dagger further, Ji Liyou hurriedly said, "Grandma, I don't want it!"
At the same time, he stepped forward to persuade: "What has happened now? It's already a disaster for the Ji family. If grandma wants to kill the eldest brother, won't it mean that the family is ruined? The Ji family can't live without Ji Shanjing, and grandma knows that. .”
Mrs. Ji took back her dagger and said, "Yes, this child should not die in my hands. Since he is an evil beast born by you, seeking death and living for a woman, he is not worthy to be the descendant of our Ji family. Come and take his life yourself." "She handed the dagger to Ji Shanjing's mother.
Ji's mother will play tricks again, but she is just a member of the back house. She has never seen such a battle, and she has never held a bloody weapon in her hand.
She took the dagger tremblingly, turned around and knelt down in front of the old lady. She cried so hard that she couldn't breathe. She kowtowed three times respectfully and said, "In memory of Shanjing, who has served Ji family through life and death, I beg you." Mother spared him..."
The old lady straightened her face and scolded sternly: "He really deserves to die. Everything he did was too embarrassing. In order to stabilize the Ji family, I could no longer just walk on a plain road. I have to let you marry Princess Tangshuo. Unexpectedly, you dared to disobey His Majesty's decision for her, and you also developed such a heinous rebellious intention, breaking the Ji family's reputation as a loyal minister. In this way, I really don't know how to harm Ji. I am a son of the family. If you continue to behave like this, let alone what kind of trouble you will cause, I am afraid that as a grandmother, I will have a lot of trouble in the future. I have said this, for official reasons You deserve to die, but you still don’t know how to repent!”
When the old lady said this, she really made everyone anxious. I thought: The old lady is really angry this time and wants to kill the head of the family. It doesn't look like a lie. And the old lady is very old, isn't she going to return to the west soon? If the old lady kills Ji Shanjing, the Ji family will be leaderless and will be manipulated by many aristocratic families in Liangzhu. Thinking of this, the Ji family kowtowed and begged: "After the old lady severely reprimanded me, the head of the family must also know what he did these days. He really deserves to die. From now on, he must change his past and never dare to do this again." You are fooling around. I ask the old lady to take care of the old relationship and allow him to continue to be in charge of the Ji family. Perhaps after this setback, the head of the family suddenly becomes enlightened and returns to serving His Majesty. He will devote himself to the Ji family and die."
Ji Liyou also prayed with them.
The storyteller didn't say anything, but with a flick of his sleeve, his fan was in his hand. Just as he was feeling lost, he saw Ji Liyou kneeling down with them. He looked at Ji Liyou on the side and recalled the time in Bolu. It seemed that no matter what, he could not escape the shackles of the Ji family.
Seeing that everyone was begging for mercy for him, there was no way she could do anything.
I could only sigh in despair, "Every one of you, your wings are stiff!"
It was so vigorous just now, but now it would end so hastily, which was really unexpected.
But Ji Shanjing dared to contradict the old lady and slandered the ancestors of the Ji family, but he still could not escape the whipping punishment.
The person who was punished was none other than the brother of the Ji family.
Ji Liyou and several cousins from the Ji family took the whip in their hands and felt uncomfortable. Who dared to really hit Ji Shanjing.
But the old lady asked someone to bring a chair, "beat him hard. If he can still stand and leave today, I will ask someone to change the thorns and beat him. Beat him until he can't get up, and have someone carry him back!"
"How many times?" a junior from the Ji family asked with a low eyebrow.
"Three hundred lashes, not even one stroke less."
Ji Liyou quickly begged for mercy, "Three hundred whips are too heavy, why not..."
"If you dare to say one more word for him, I will get another hundred lashes."
Ji Liyou shut up.
After a moment, he whispered to Ji Shanjing, who was kneeling on the stone steps, "Can you bear it?"
Ji Shanjing did not reply, but knelt down with his upper body naked.
Every time he was whipped, the old lady asked someone to ask him if he knew what he was doing wrong.
As soon as the whip was applied, the flesh on Ji Shanjing's back was split open, but the whip in Ji Liyou's hand was still unmoving. He looked at the younger generations of the Ji family and thought to himself, it seems that Ji Shanjing has indeed offended many people. These three hundred If he goes down, he will have to shed his skin even if he doesn't die.
Ji Shanjing was a man, and he didn't make a sound even when he was given twenty lashes.
The old lady suddenly called Ji Liyou, "Why don't you fight?"
Ji Liyou had no choice but to hold the whip and raise it high, but refused to fall in the air.
"He lost his wife, and I also lost my friend and grandmother. The lost person should not be punished anymore, because for him and me, remembering every moment of Ran Ran is like the heaviest punishment. , Grandma... Grandma, has she ever seen her eldest brother smile in front of Princess Tangshuo? That is his real smile. Has he ever smiled like that in front of you and his mother? Maybe not. In all these years of his life, only Ran Ran It’s what he sincerely wants, but now he can’t protect even this last sincerity. He begs his grandmother to feel sorry for him, and Liyou begs his grandmother... "
After hearing this, the old lady looked up to the sky and watched the moon passing through the clouds. Ji Liyou saw the tears flashing in her eyes.
Ji Liyou didn't care what she remembered, but he really didn't want to see Ji Shanjing beaten half to death, even if this person had murderous intentions towards him.
He was begging Mrs. Ji on one side, but the whip on the other side hadn't stopped yet. Ji Liyou turned around and looked at them. They seemed to understand what he meant and kept attacking.
After about fifty lashes, Ji Shanjing was beaten so hard that he couldn't straighten his back. He lay on the ground, his back dripping with blood and covered with whip marks and flesh lines.
Seeing that his previous words were ineffective, Ji Liyou continued, "If my grandfather were still here, he would never risk Princess Tangshuo's life to resist the Donghu people. In my grandfather's heart, the life of a person and the people of a country are extremely heavy. He He would not sacrifice an innocent woman. But his grandmother made the opposite decision to him and chose to stand by His Majesty's side. My grandmother was from the Jimo family, but why didn't my grandmother think about my grandfather? Ran Ran was already the grandson-in-law of the Ji family, even though As a princess, in the eyes of her grandfather, she must also be a qualified granddaughter-in-law. Since she is a member of the Ji family, the Ji family will not give up her life. My grandmother did not do it, so why is it wrong for my eldest brother to question her now?"
Mrs. Ji looked at Ji Liyou blankly without saying a word.
Ji Liyou felt that if he continued to fight, he would really die.
"Under the Nine Springs, he met his grandfather, and his grandfather asked him why he died. Isn't my grandmother afraid that she won't be able to face her grandfather's questioning when she closes her eyes?"
Although he knew that Ji Fuwei might not be under Jiuquan, these words should work.
Sure enough, she raised her hand and told them to stop.
Ji Shanjing was beaten until he vomited a lot of blood, and there was no good part of his body. Ji Liyou was afraid that the old lady had changed her mind, so she quickly gave them a few winks and carried Ji Shanjing back.
(End of chapter)