Chapter 998 999 [After the Mist] (Part 2)

Chen Xizhi understood Pei Yue's intention of suddenly mentioning Fang Xun.

Wang Pingzhang tried every means to transfer Pei Yue out of Kyoto. The root cause was that he believed that Pei Yue was loyal to the emperor and was more of a threat than Gu Liang.

In fact, Chen Xizhi’s views are generally similar.

After the night battle in the small courtyard in the northern suburbs, Pei Yue did not leave her in Kyoto, nor did he send her to the southern border to assist Mr. .

The reason is that Pei Yue never thought of breaking with Emperor Kaiping, at least not yet.

Now that he saw that he seemed to have some room to deal with the barbarians, Chen Xi subconsciously thought that the other party had finally changed his mind and intended to sit back and watch the tigers fight, allowing Emperor Kaiping and Wang Pingzhang to fight to the death and then come out to clean up the mess.

However, Pei Yue used Fang Xun's death to tell her that there will always be people in this world who make different choices. There is another reason why he is playing it safe now, and it is not because he wants to sit back and watch the uncontrollable chaos in Kyoto.

After a sigh full of complicated emotions, Chen Xizhi changed the subject and said: "When you were still in the southern border last year, Shen Danmo came to see me."

Pei Yue nodded and said slowly: "She told me about this. In addition to telling me to be careful about you being used by Wang Pingzhang, she also mentioned your relationship with those people in the south."

A few years ago, she went to Dingguo Mansion to visit Pei Ning. Before leaving, she thrust a note into Pei Yue's hand. The note was written in dark ink and contained many secrets.

Recalling the meeting with the daughter of the Shen family, Chen Xizhi's cold face showed a confusion that Pei Yue couldn't understand. After all, in his past knowledge, the woman in front of him was the ultimate in cold-blooded ruthlessness. Only a few people were like this. Only Ye Qi would make her a little softer.

Even so, it did not prevent her from setting up a trap in Qishan and wanting to kill Pei Yue wholeheartedly.

Chen Xizhi noticed Pei Yue's slightly weird look, coughed twice and said: "I once told Ye Qi that if you want to actually hook up with some of the powerful people in Southern Zhou Dynasty, I can help you once. Shen Danmo came to me, It's because she discovered some secrets from clues, and then wanted to help you plan it without alerting others. It's just that Miss Shen's eyes are too high, or she underestimated me too much."

Pei Yue automatically ignored her evaluation of Shen Danmo, and his tone suddenly sounded a bit respectful: "The so-called secret... has something to do with the royal family?"

Hearing him mention his mother, Chen Xizhi's clear eyes showed a bit of sadness. Even though she had already prepared to tell the man in front of her those past events, it was so difficult when the matter came. Because as long as those past events were mentioned, she would I think of my mother's warm smile when I was young, of the bloody night in Kyoto where the flames were raging seventeen years ago, and of the years when I was eight years old and fled for my life in a hurry.

Thinking of those things, she would feel heartbreaking pain.

However, now that she had lost everything, she was even more unwilling to show any weakness in front of Pei Yue. After forcibly suppressing the turbulent thoughts in her heart, she began to speak in an extraordinarily calm and even slightly indifferent tone.

"The impression that my mother left on the world is probably that of a genius, because as a weak woman, in this cruel and harsh world, she opened the Chen family business all over the country, truly practicing the skills of a merchant. Shi Jimin. But in my heart, she will always be the gentle mother who likes to hold me in the sun on the porch and tell me stories."

"I don't know what to call that man. You call him the late emperor, and the history books will call him Renzong of the Liang Dynasty. But I have only seen him a few times, and I really didn't leave a deep impression on him. When my mother gave birth to me,

He is still just a prince, far away from the throne. Maybe I should resent him. If he hadn't been close to his mother, those things would not have happened, and even I would not have come to this world. But compared to that, I

I would rather my mother live well."

"My mother did not enter the palace because of her own choice, and following him without any name or status was due to love. I can accept these. But from the prince, the prince to the emperor, he has always stood on the clouds, holding the hand in his hand.

The power that the world could not imagine, but he could not even control the palace, so that he was so poisonous that there was no cure. At this time, he still held on to the illusion that Liu Zheng and Wang Pingzhang would not implicate his mother and me.

."

"Haha... Renzong, yes, what a benevolent person. I think every time Liu Zheng recalls this temple name drawn up by him himself, he will think that it is one of his life's masterpieces."

Chen Xizhi turned his head and looked out the window at the night that had turned dark for some time, his eyes slightly sparkling.

Pei Yue did not interrupt her thoughts and listened patiently and quietly.

"After the bloody night in Kyoto, Aunt Leng, Uncle Yu, Uncle Nong, including Uncle Lu Min, and many other guards loyal to the Chen family paid a heavy price to protect me. We first fled along the Hengduan Mountains into Qizhou, and then

One hundred thousand entering Yuzhou

Dashan, and fled all the way along the Tiancang River, just to avoid the pursuit of Wang Pingzhang's eagle dogs. I remember that it was in Shangyuan Mansion in Yaozhou. The situation was extremely dangerous at that time, so Uncle Yu helped me create a scene of fake death.

Escape."

She looked back at Pei Yue, with a bit of sadness in her tone: "That little girl is the same age as me, and her appearance is somewhat similar. After she put on my clothes, she looked completely different. In addition, her appearance was destroyed during the melee. She was almost

It's hard to tell the truth from the false. I remember her name was Ning Rou'er, her parents were both servants of the Chen family, and she died that night in Kyoto."

Pei Yue narrowed his eyes slightly, and an indescribable complex emotion surged into his heart.

Chen Xizhi raised his hand to support his cheek, and said quietly: "I was twelve years old at that time, and I already understood a lot of truths, and during my several years of escape, I had already learned how to hide my emotions, and I always felt that I would never lose it again.

Tears. At that time, those hawks and dogs were chasing closely, and most of our people were separated. If we didn’t have a realistic enough disguise, we couldn’t deceive the other party at all. When Uncle Yu made this decision, I cried and begged him desperately. I couldn’t watch it with my own eyes.

Ning Rouer, die for me."

"Uncle Yu said that he didn't have a daughter, otherwise he wouldn't have arranged it like this. I asked him, if he really did this, how could I still live in the future? He said to me, "Xizhi, you have to live, because you are already dead."

There are too many people, so you must live, kill Liu Zheng and Wang Pingzhang in the future, and destroy the foundation of the Liu dynasty, so that you can avenge those innocent people who died tragically."

She paused, looked at Pei Yue and said: "In front of the Chenghuang Temple in Xingyang, you said that I don't understand the principle that wrongdoers have their own debtors, that I shouldn't treat human lives as trivial, and that I shouldn't use the lives of the people in the capital to seek revenge.

Bureau. Even if you can't assassinate Liu Zheng and Wang Pingzhang, you can still kill their descendants. I admit that what you said makes sense, but I only know one thing."

"Thirteen years ago on the banks of the Tiancang River, Chen Xizhi hid in the dark and watched Ning Rou'er who died tragically at the hands of the imperial court's hawk and dog. She looked at the Chen family members who risked their lives one after another to prove this incident. She was already dead."

She showed an extremely bitter smile and said sarcastically as before: "Don't you think it's silly to reason with a dead man?"

Pei Yue lowered his eyes and said after a long time: "The way is different."

"Yes, the paths are different. You and I are walking on different roads." Chen Xizhi took a deep breath, wiped away the bitterness on his face, and said slowly: "You guessed it right, and Shen Danmo didn't guess it wrong either, my mother I am not from Liang."

Pei Yue was a little surprised, obviously he didn't expect that her conversation would suddenly change.
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