After the rope strangled his neck, the pain of suffocation was not greater than the pain he had already experienced in his heart. On the contrary, Shen Wen greeted this cruel death with some joy. She has long since lost interest in life: half a year ago, the Beirong broke out in war, and an army of 500,000 soldiers, known as a million, swept across the northern border. Her father Zhenbei Hou Shen Yong led the eldest son Shen Yi and the second son Shen Jian to lead the army to stand firm and resist. There was no food and no aid. In March, various fortresses fell one after another. Shen Jian died in battle with the enemy, Marquis of Zhenbei died in battle when Yancheng City, an important northern town, was broken, Shen Yi died in battle when he broke through to ask for help, and few of the 200,000 Shen family troops survived.
The Bei Rong drove straight into the mainland. Shen Zhuo, the youngest son of the Shen family in the capital, and Shen Xiang, the daughter of the Shen family known as the "Tiger Girl of the General Gate", set up a private army and volunteer soldiers, accompanied by reinforcements from Pingyuan Hou Zhang Zhen and the Third Prince Supervising the Army. enemy. After the reinforcements clashed with the main force of Beibei, they fell into a tight siege. The two armies entangled for nearly 20 days. Marquis Pingyuan died in battle. Shen Xiang was caught in the enemy's midst and could not escape.
In order to maintain their strength, the three princes and the eldest sons of Pingyuan Marquis Zhang Yunming and Shen Zhuo led the remnants to break through the siege. After breaking out of the encirclement, they were ambushed by elite soldiers sent by the imperial court when they returned to the south. All the remaining soldiers were wiped out. Zhang Yunming and Shen Zhuo protected the three princes Retreating to a mountain wall, he was pierced by thousands of arrows and died in one place.
Gai has evidence that the Marquis of Zhenbei, Pingyuan and the three princes have long planned to collude with the Northern Rong to invade, allowing the three princes to take the opportunity to gain military power, so as to force the palace to take over. It's a pity that Bei Rong is powerful, but Zhenbei Hou played with fire and guns after failing in his plan, and lost the Qing family's life instead.
The most important evidence in this accusation was provided by Shen Wen, the young daughter married to the Marquis of Zhenbei.
After the emperor learned of their plot, he decided to abandon the capital and move south. He claimed to avenge the dead soldiers and the people, and devoted all his remaining military strength to eradicate the third prince, the rebellious son who led wolves into the house with evil intentions, and the remnants of Zhenbeihou and Pingyuanhou, and issued a decree. Guo went to the title of Marquis of Zhenbei and Pingyuan. The men of the Shen family and the Zhang family were beheaded at the rate of one, and the women were trafficked as official slaves. Nian Shen Wen reported the meritorious deeds of the rebellious ministers and thieves, so he was saved from death, and he was awarded the title of Princess Huide, and his husband was promoted to a higher level.
Zhenbeihou's mother, the old lady Gu, crashed to death in front of the ancestral tablet after hearing the news. Mrs. Yang, who gave birth to three sons and two daughters for the Marquis of Zhenbei, reprimanded the officers and soldiers who came to proclaim the decree and arrest the criminals in front of the Marquis' mansion, ordered people to set fire to the firewood piled up in the Marquis of Zhenbei's mansion, and walked into the house by herself. in fire. The eldest son's wife, Liu Shi, and the second son's wife, Yan Shi, committed suicide one after another. An old guard fled with Liu's seven-year-old and five-year-old sons.
If it hadn't been for a strange incident, the Pingyuan Hou's Mansion would be similar: most of the men who did not die on the battlefield also died under the sword of the court, the women either committed suicide or were killed, and only young men were sold as official slaves. of.
Shen Wen, who was the only child in this killing, never showed up. She had just been married for a year, and married Yu Dexima Zheng Qian, the Prince's aide, Zhan Shifu from the fifth rank.
Although Shen Wen was born in a family of generals, he liked to read poetry and books since he was a child. He was very different from Shen Xiang who practiced martial arts and was used to wielding a long spear since he was a child. Even more estrangement. The old lady and his wife in the Hou's mansion also had a military background, and they both liked bright and quick people. Shen Wen felt that their behavior was vulgar and could not be compared with the wives of civil servants in the capital.
Therefore, Shen Wen always felt out of place at home, and yearned very much to marry a civil servant as soon as possible, have his own mansion, and be able to manage the family according to the etiquette norms in those books.
Shen Xiang is obsessed with martial arts, and he has been reluctant to marry for a long time, which caused his wife Yang a very headache. When Shen Wen was thirteen or fourteen years old, someone came to ask for a marriage, Shen Wen said that he would listen to his mother, and the implication was that he would get married as soon as possible. Although Mrs. Yang felt that this daughter was too weak, she still liked her obedience, so she arranged a marriage for her first. Although the eldest daughter is not married, Shen Xiang's situation is really special, and Marquis Zhenyuan is a military officer, so he is not as particular as those civil servants, so it is considered a happy event for the younger daughter to get married first.
Speaking of which, Zheng Qian is still Shen Wen's own wished marriage. The mother took her to see the few families who came to propose marriage at the beginning. She only liked Zheng Qian's literati and scholar appearance, and expressed her intentions to her mother to some extent. Although the matter of marriage is the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker, the couple still have opportunities to meet before marriage, such as flower parties and banquets, and parents will also ask their children what they want, so as to avoid arranging a marriage that they don't like.
After getting married, Shen Wen and Zheng Qian really respected each other as guests. The two never quarreled and quarreled, and their relationship with their parents-in-law was also very polite and polite.
Half a year ago, the border was unstable, Shen Wen began to worry about the safety of his father and brother, and then bad news came one after another, and Shen Wen was frightened. However, Zheng Qian was busy with business and often did not return for several nights. When he came back, he only said a few words in a hurry, and then said that the war was urgent and there were important things to do. Shen Wen could only cry alone in the room. She wanted to go back to Hou Mansion several times, but was not allowed by her mother-in-law. It is said that the current situation is unstable, so it is better not to move around.
More than a month ago, she found that she could no longer leave the yard, and the people she used to use had been replaced. There are more than a dozen women around her, and people are watching her when she is standing, sitting, standing, and neither Zheng Qian nor her parents-in-law will show up again, and she can't go to pay her respects even if she wants to. Today, she learned about the fate of the Zhenbeihou Mansion from her subordinates, and she even said that she had provided the letter. She was frightened and angry, and before she could cry and make a scene, she saw two men entering the yard with ropes. She was surprised how the outsider entered the inner house, the three wives had already held her down, and the two men wrapped the rope around her neck.
Shen Wen opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say. Want to see Zheng Qian? What is there to see? Isn't this obvious? In her name, Zhenbeihou was brought down. In order to cover up the truth, she also had to die. I wonder why he married her in the first place? What's the point? Zheng Qian is working for the prince, doesn't her current fate explain everything? I want to ask if he has her in his heart? In the past year, the two of them have gotten along well, but if he let two foreign men strangle her to death, does he need to say anything? …
Suddenly, the pain disappeared, and Shen Wen stood up from his body, watching his neck drooping in the noose that the two men were pulling vigorously. She "seeed" people's thoughts and words hovering over their heads like smoke: "Young madam is really unlucky..." "Stupid enough..." "Now the official can marry that..."
Shen Wen floated out of the courtyard and watched the servants go to answer Zheng Qian. Zheng Qian ordered them to throw the body into a random grave, and then Zheng Qian went to see his parents. They talked and announced that Shen Wen died of illness, but no bones were placed in the coffin. They don't want Shen Wen to be buried in the Zheng family's ancestral grave...
Shen Wen drifted towards the burnt ruins of Hou's Mansion. From a distance, she seemed to see an acquaintance's shadow wandering there. Instead of moving forward, she left. She couldn't see her mother and grandmother, the sisters-in-law who had arranged her marriage, and the two children she used to find annoying. Although she knew that she hadn't given any letters, she was afraid that they would believe them... She floated outside the city, swept over the refugees everywhere, went north, passed through the mighty horse team of Beirong, and found a battlefield full of corpses. She didn't dare to approach her because she was afraid of running into the third brother, the arrogant young man who always laughed at her for being dumb and stupid since she was a child. She searched and searched, wanting to find the place where Shen Xiang died, but she didn't dare to see her, didn't dare to tell her that she was wrong, she shouldn't always laugh at her for being rude and not like a woman. She just wanted to see the places where Shen Xiang had fought. She arrived in the north, the border area soaked in flesh and blood by the Shen family's army. The group of souls soared away, and she didn't dare to approach, afraid of meeting the father she admired, the eldest brother she admired, and the second brother who always smiled at Mimi. ...she couldn't face them...
In the flames of war and chaos, the imperial court abandoned its capital and went south, at the same time seeking peace at the cost of ceding half of the country. The Beirong people were exhausted and wanted to rest, so the two sides stopped fighting. The emperor rebuilt the capital city in the south, asked the gods for medicine, and died of madness. The crown prince succeeded to the throne, singing and dancing, Zheng Qian married the queen's cousin, and the official reached the second rank.
The new emperor in the south did not want to strive for strength and forge ahead, but blindly sought peace. Internally, he is jealous of the good and the virtuous, contradicts what he says, and the government orders are chaotic and changeable. In a few years, refugees in the south were everywhere, and the government was corrupt. There are bandits running rampant everywhere... The war between the North and the South has resumed, and the Beirong has won, but it is not good at governance. The people are in dire straits, all parties support the princes, another round of melee...
Shen Wen didn't care about these, she just wandered endlessly in the original Hou Mansion, the battlefield, the northern fortress and other places. For many, many years, she dared not get too close lest she run into the souls of her loved ones. Gradually, she knew that they were all gone, and she wandered carefully in those places.
Things are different, people are different, but Shen Wen was imprisoned in his own thoughts.
She searched for those traces that did not exist again and again, wanting to relive the scenes that had long since disappeared. She also listened to those people's discussions, and after knowing the whole story of the plot to frame the Hou's mansion and the third prince, her anger and resentment were not as heavy as her self-blame for herself, especially when she watched the life and death of those harmful people. In the pain she faced after death, all she had left was her intolerance towards herself.
As time goes by and the vicissitudes of life change, people talk less about that period of history, and in the end it can only be seen occasionally in books. Shen Wen indifferently watched the urban and rural areas change in the flames of war and peace again and again, and sometimes she roamed around, but the longest time was to linger at the places where several relatives died. She didn't know that if measured by the time of the world, she sometimes stood for ten years on the ancient battlefield that became a transportation hub, and countless vehicles passed through her shadow; A land that has never been desolate before...
Maybe it's because when she was alive, she didn't understand herself, and she didn't see others clearly, so she had to stare for so long after death, hoping to see the world clearly.
Gradually, she could not only "see" people's language and fragmented thoughts, but later she could also "see through" matter, seeing that different things are actually objects vibrating at different frequencies. After many more years of gazing, she discovered that her thoughts could be the force to go into those frequencies and change them, thereby changing objects. She began to try to move things, and in order to check the effect, she even went to the place where there were living people to move. In the exclamation of people, she knew that she had successfully moved items such as chairs, and it was not whimsical.
Being able to use thoughts made Shen Wen's stay more colorful. In addition to looking back and forth in those places as usual, she can also read. In the library and the library of future generations, she read people's comments on that period of history, and was angry or delighted by those words. The windless and automatic pages once made people run away screaming.
At first, if someone wrote something that made her angry, if that person was still alive, she would find the author's house to make trouble. Later, she just read it and went back to those places to recall the past. She recalled her short life bit by bit, wishing she could think clearly about every day. She even draws pictures, but unfortunately, the brush mastered by her mind can't draw the picture she wants. Although people have clearly written the cause and effect of that period of history, the suspicion of the emperor, the crown prince clearing obstacles for himself, etc., those who study military affairs also make examples of battles to explain the pros and cons... But Shen Wen feels that he knows better than they do Many, they will never be able to write down the voice and beauty of their loved ones, the love that they have failed... She is afraid that she will forget, so sometimes she writes down the fragments of that period of history with a pen, and leaves them in the library as anonymous manuscripts for others to read .
Shen Wen has read more books, and his mind power has become stronger and stronger. He can extend to the distance like human vision, and he can also manipulate multiple objects at the same time. She can "see" the scene of blood and meridians in the human body. Sometimes when she meets a seriously ill person, if someone looks like her former relatives, she will use her thoughts to sort out the stagnant blood of the patient and save his life. But sometimes, if you don't like the other person, you will use your thoughts to distort the meridians in the other person's body, causing people pain.
Humans change, the land changes, the weather changes, and people go into space. According to human calculations, she has stayed in this constant space for more than a thousand years, and most of the traces of her era have disappeared. Shen Wen cherishes all the records of that era more and more. Since she learned to manipulate the computer with her mind, she has searched more carefully for all information about that era. From unofficial historical essays, novels and poems, to strange anecdotes, from the chess records of Go players, the relics of calligraphers, from natural disasters and man-made disasters, to the records of street sundries...
In this time and space, Shen Wen is not the only lingering soul, but she is lonely. She doesn't get close to any shadows, she just immerses herself in her own world.
Many times, she felt those familiar shadows coming to look for her, and she rejected their approach with her thoughts, blocking communication. She didn't want to touch them, she didn't want to accept their forgiveness, her shame was so dark she couldn't face the light.
For thousands of years, she has also listened to those religious teachings many times, knowing that as long as she gives up her obsessions, she can leave this land and go to the other shore. According to what those monks said, she will still have a chance to repay what was owed to her or repay the debt she owed in the next life.
But she didn't want to, she was afraid that once she left, her own stupidity and incompetence would no longer be so obvious, the death of a loved one would no longer be so painful, her resentment would no longer be so deep, all the sins would disappear, and she would just Will forgive herself and escape the guilt she should bear. That was an "injustice" she could not accept. She couldn't let go of herself, and couldn't let go of her deep unwillingness. She didn't want those seventeen years to pass away, so she used her eternal wandering to keep it.
After the research on space-time reversal was reported, Shen Wen always paid attention to the news in this regard. She found the world's largest physics laboratory and shuttled among the huge laboratory and machinery. Finally, one day, the entire physical laboratory was highly tense, and an experiment of time and space distortion was carried out under the observations of many scientists. Shen Wen looked at the large sealed steel tank. The strong gravitational force changed the vibration frequency of the matter, making time and space stagnant. She had another obsession—she wanted to go back, to the life she couldn't let go of.
This idea became stronger and stronger, and several times, she felt that the frequency around her was changed by it. She knew that it would take a powerful energy to cause such a short space-time distortion, and she couldn't control it at all. But her heart is stubborn, since she can stay for a thousand years, she can stay for ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years... One day, she will find the way back. She began to focus on improving her mind power, meditating until she could freely change the frequency of the surrounding objects, but before she could cultivate her power to a more powerful level, human beings really invented the space-time machine.
Shen Wen knew that if he still had a body, he would be shaking with excitement now, but now his whole body is only full of consciousness energy. She was attached to the core of the machine, and "seeed" the huge energy stagnating time and space, the plane of history was bent, and the past rushed towards her face. She was like a small crawler on the edge of the flat paper. You can easily reach the other side of the past that was out of reach...
The endless streams of people and events are enough to make any soul lost forever, but Shen Wen's thousand years of obsession and gaze made her grasp a sense of familiarity as small as a grain of sand in the sea amidst the endless noise: that It is the corresponding frequency of his own soul. Although it is extremely weak and almost inaudible, Shen Wen's consciousness stretches away like a filament, touching that body... for a moment, Shen Wen's soul seems to be pulled , flew away.
In an instant, the energy balance of time and space was broken, and the powerful energy shattered the huge space-time machine into powder, and history no longer...