"Okay!" Sasaki had an amiable smile on his face and bent down to help Wei Jian up. Then he thoughtfully brushed the dust off his robe. After that, looking at the excited Wei Jian, Sasaki smiled and said
: "You and I will be colleagues from now on, why should we be so polite?"
"Wei Jian, I will never disappoint His Majesty the Emperor's expectations!" Wei Jian took a deep breath, pressed his left hand to his right, bent deeply, and saluted Dongfang.
"Sasaki is so happy to have Mr. Wei as such a good friend!" Sasaki patted Wei Jian on the shoulder and laughed loudly and said, "Since Mr. Wei is determined to serve His Majesty the Emperor, we will wait and see! Haha!"
"Don't worry, general, Wei Jian guarantees that Lu Heng will die within ten days without a burial place!" To be a sworn brother, you have to sign a pledge of surrender, let alone to pledge allegiance to a power group. This makes Wei Jian feel more worried.
Everyone knows it. At this time, after hearing Sasaki say these words, he thought about it and suddenly understood.
The other party is forcing me to express my position with practical actions!
"When the time comes, I hope the general will lend a helping hand to Wei!" Wei Jian cupped his fists and said to Sasaki.
"That's natural!" After hearing Wei Jian say that he wanted to kill Lu Heng, Sasaki's eyes suddenly narrowed, he sneered, and said through gritted teeth: "If he kills my palace, I will cut him into pieces!"
The cold wind swept through, and the trees in the courtyard howled.
Under the pale winter sun, the sword gleamed with cold light, extremely dazzling!
…
At noon, the fog on the Qinhuai River has dissipated a lot. Looking from a distance, the vague mist is intertwined with the green smoke floating on the river. On the dripping river, there is a gentle breeze.
Floating.
On the river shrouded in light mist, a awning boat sailed quietly and slowly on the river. A fisherman in cotton-padded clothes rowed the boat leisurely with a bamboo pole.
The boat passed by slowly, leaving clear traces of water.
Someone seemed to be cooking in the cabin. Looking from a distance, I saw a faint smoke rising from the cabin.
As the breeze blows, you can seem to smell the tempting aroma of the delicious food in the cabin.
"Is Mr. Lu standing by the river?"
Just when Lu Heng was about to turn around and go home, the awning boat was rowing towards here. The boatman stood at the bow of the boat, put away his pennants, put up an awning, and looked towards the shore. Wait and see.
After reaching the scholar in green shirt, he asked hurriedly.
"It's Lv. I wonder why my husband called Lv?" Lu Heng stopped, turned around, and answered the fisherman with his fists clasped.
"Since you are Mr. Lu, you can't go wrong over there!" After the awning boat docked, the fisherman put away his pennant and said to Lu Heng with a smile. Then he turned around and shouted into the cabin
Said: "Qiyue, please bring Miss Rumeng out quickly, Mr. Lu is outside!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the door of the cabin shaking slightly. Then, he saw a man with an ordinary appearance but an unusually strong body, carefully helping a woman out.
Lu Heng was a little surprised at first. He didn't seem to recognize the girl Rumeng mentioned by the fisherman. However, looking at their appearance, it seemed that he had a close relationship with this girl Rumeng.
However, Lu Heng was stunned when he saw the appearance of the woman who was helped out of the cabin.
"It's you?"
This woman with a sick face, a haggard expression, and a thin body was exactly the woman in green dress whom she saw in the Jiangning government office in the morning. She was also the woman who accompanied Nishang a few months ago.
At this time, she was like withered flower petals in the cold winter. Her whole body was sick and her face was withered and yellow. Moreover, her originally lively eyes were lifeless.
Seeing this scene, Lu Heng's heart sank slightly. He sighed deeply and looked at this woman, feeling extremely complicated for a moment.
He knew that this woman was now at the end of her life and her life would soon be over!
"Little girl, Rumeng, cough cough, I have met Mr. Lu!" Seeing that Lu Heng recognized her, a sickly blush appeared on the woman's pale face. She raised her hand and covered her mouth with a handkerchief.
He went up, coughed slightly, and then hid the handkerchief behind his back.
However, the dark red blood stain on the handkerchief made Lu Heng's heart suddenly sink.
Originally, Lu Heng thought that a dose of penicillin might be able to turn things around.
However, when he saw the black and red blood, Lu Heng understood immediately.
Now, it's too late. Even gods descending to earth can't save her!
"Girl, you don't have to be polite!" Lu Heng sighed softly, stepped forward, put his hand on the woman's thin arm, glanced at the woman who was a little reserved, and quickly pulled her hand away. He then let go of his hand and said with a wry smile.
"Mr. Lu, my little lady, I want to ask you for something!" The woman lowered her head, coughed, and then looked at Lu Heng with a look of hope in her eyes.
"Say it!" Faced with the request of a dying person, Lu Heng did not refuse in his heart. At this moment, he still found it hard to believe. The sickly woman in front of him, who was about to run out of oil, was the same woman a few months ago.
, that bright and charming woman in a green dress.
Once, the woman in green dress laughing and scolding by the Qinhuai River was once a beautiful scenery in his life. That scenery once accompanied him through the most difficult period of his life.
Now, seeing that this scenery was about to wither, Lu Heng's heart was filled with a complicated sense of loss.
Seeing the pleading look in the woman's eyes, Lu Heng agreed without any hesitation.
"Sir, you..." Rumeng looked at Lu Heng in surprise, her eyes full of disbelief.
It seems that she has no friendship with Lu Heng. They have only met a few times. After so many years in the world, Ru Meng is used to the indifference of human nature and the cruelty of the world. Especially, after experiencing the abandonment of her lover, she has become a heartbroken person.
As gray as death.
However, now, this scholar whom she had only met a few times would agree to her request without hesitation. She immediately thought that the scholar was joking.
"Say it!" Lu Heng looked at him quietly, nodded slightly, and said to the woman calmly.
"Sir, are you really willing to help Rumeng?" Rumeng's eyes flashed with a bright look, her lips pursed, and she was already crying as she spoke.
"Yes!" Lu Heng smiled slightly and nodded in agreement.
"Master, this woman!" Beside him, Agui sighed slightly when he saw the woman suddenly become energetic. He stepped forward and said to Lu Heng in a low voice, "This is a return to the past!"
Lu Heng didn't know that this was a flashback, but he couldn't say it. Even if he showed it, he couldn't. Because he knew that this woman could survive until now only with her breath. Once he said it rashly, she might not even be able to express it.
I couldn't hold on for a moment.
"Say it, I promise you!" Lu Heng quietly looked at the woman's tearful eyes and said word by word. Although the words were soft, his tone was extremely affirmative.
"Little girl, thank you for your kindness!" The woman's eyes flashed with tears and she knelt down with sobs.
This time, Lu Heng did not stop him. He just calmly accepted the woman's gift.
If he intervened to stop her, she might think that her promise was just a perfunctory one. Accepting this gift from her would mean that she had broken her promise.
"Rumeng, whose real name is Zhao Feiyan. My father was once the county magistrate of Qingxu County, Shanxi Province. Later, my father was sentenced to beheading by the court because of corruption and bending the law. As a result, Rumeng fell into the priest's office and became an official.
The brothel girl you played with!" Rumeng raised her withered hand, wiped the tears on her face, and spoke of her past with a faint expression.
"It's just that although my father's guilt is determined by the court, the little girl knows that my father was wrongly accused! He was wronged by the King of Jin!" The woman cried, almost fainting for a moment.
"Sir, do you believe it?" Rumeng sobbed, raised her head and looked at the scholar in front of her. Her eyes were full of expectation and she asked softly.
"I believe it!" Lu Heng thought for a moment, looked at the woman, nodded, and said lightly.
"Thank you, Master!" Rumeng finally showed a smile and said gratefully to Lu Heng.
"After Rumeng became a brothel girl, she knew that there was no hope of escape in this life. However, Rumeng was always looking forward to someone who could redeem her life for Rumeng. Rumeng would marry him and be a good wife and mother!" Rumeng said.
She smiled sadly, not knowing what she was thinking of, but a hint of shyness flashed through her eyes. Helpless, maybe the final outcome was not good. Thinking of the end, Rumeng gently closed her eyes. Dry
The eyelashes moved gently with the wind, and two lines of clear tears fell from her eyes.
"Rumeng really regrets that she didn't preserve her innocence!" Rumeng cried heartbrokenly, shaking her head, tears streaming down her face: "Jiangong must have disliked Rumeng's body, and disliked Rumeng.
It’s a dream!”
"Rumeng really deserves to die!" At the end of the sentence, the woman smiled miserably. Gradually, a trace of blood began to drip from the corner of her mouth.
A cold wind blew by, and a dry leaf on the willow tree by the river shivered in the wind.
"Rumeng has no extravagant hope of marrying into the royal family, nor does she have any extravagant hope that the prince can give Rumeng a status." The look in Rumeng's eyes began to dissipate, and when she spoke, she had to take a long break before speaking.
"Rumeng, Rumeng just hopes that after death, the prince can take a look at Rumeng's ashes. Take a look, Rumeng is at her purest!" After Rumeng said these words, the last look on her face appeared.
All traces of vitality disappeared. As soon as his eyes were closed, his thin body suddenly fell backwards.
"Girl!!" Lu Heng stepped forward, stretched out his hand to support her back, gently shook her thin body, and called out.
He woke up from a dream, but his eyes were blank and lifeless.
She stared blankly at Lu Heng in front of her, and stretched out her hand tremblingly. She reached forward with great effort, and finally used all her strength to touch Lu Heng's face with her fingertips.
The intermittent words were never finished. In the increasingly lower voice, Rumeng's hand suddenly dropped.
call……
A cold wind blew by, and the dead leaves remaining on the branches finally fell.
The leaves were helpless and messy in the wind. Finally, they fell into the Qinhuai River and flowed into the distance with the waves.
"I promise you!" Lu Heng stretched out his hand and closed Rumeng's blank eyes. He lowered his head and looked in his arms. The woman who mistakenly thought she was Wang Jianfei had a calm expression and nodded heavily: "