When Xiao Yi woke up, she smelled a fruity aroma, which was very fresh. She sat up and saw a woman cutting fruits. The woman was petite, luxuriously dressed, and elegant in manners. She was about the same age as herself. She smiled sweetly, as if

She was immersed in some sweet thoughts. The woman heard the noise and came over. Xiao Yi saw her eyebrows clearly, she was gentle and beautiful, and her appearance was kind. The woman said: "Are you awake? I am Lin Long, and you

My friends are also from Chu. Are you also from Chu?"

Xiao Yi shook his head and said: "I...I am..."

A man came over and answered: "She is mine, so naturally she is also from Chu."

Xiao Yi looked at Zhuge Eunji with dumbfounded eyes. He was indeed wearing a Chu costume with a wide robe and long sleeves. "Zhuge? Why are you here?"

Zhuge Dunji came over, took her pulse, and said, "I came here specifically to see you. You fainted last night, and I need a place to treat you. Now that you have rested, let's leave immediately."

Xiao Yi looked at him blankly.

Zhuge Dunji said to Lin Long: "Ninth Princess, this is my fiancée Liu'er. We have been engaged since childhood, but later we got separated. After asking around, I found out that she was sold to the Song Dynasty as a slave. I went all the way.

I came here, but I didn’t expect to run into her as soon as I entered the White Jade Palace last night. It turns out that the slavery work in Song Dynasty is not easy to do, and it is actually very tiring. Thank you for letting us stay overnight last night, otherwise I was really afraid of being alarmed.

Guard."

Lin Long smiled and said: "Zhuge, you are so polite. We are old acquaintances in Chu State. Although you did not come to see me specifically, you can still come to me for help when you are in trouble. I will definitely try my best to help. Don't worry,

If the King of Song doesn't take me seriously, no one in the White Jade Palace will keep an eye on me. All my servants here are dowries brought from Chu State, and no word will be leaked out."

Zhuge Dunji said: "Thank you princess for your help. If you need me in the future, just ask."

Lin Long said: "Of course I won't be polite to you. I don't know how many benefits you Zhuge family took from my father to be able to make a big business. If you want to become rich and powerful, it will be just around the corner. When the time comes, you might as well buy the Zhao Kingdom.

It would be great to be your own king, so you don't have to rely on others."

Zhuge Dunji smiled and said: "Princess, you are joking. Although Zhao is poor, it has both Song and Chen. If you want to buy it, I will buy a good location instead of this hot potato."

Xiao Yiqi asked: "You know each other in Chu State? Are you the Ninth Princess of Chu State and Lin Meiren of King Song?"

Lin Long said: "We have known each other since we were children. The Zhuge family is a big businessman in the Chu country. Mr. Zhuge is more famous in the Chu country than my useless brothers! My father is afraid of the Zhuge family's property. Although he is not

Relatives of the emperor are treated like vassal kings. Every time there is a state banquet or family banquet, invitations will be sent to the Zhuge family. When I married in the Song Dynasty, Mr. Zhuge also gave me this pair of rare rainbow bead earrings." Lin Long.

Gently twirling the pearls hanging on her ears with her hands, the white pearls were actually mixed with seven colors, hence the name rainbow beads. Xiao Yi heard Aunt Su talking about rainbow beads at the Fanjing Dance Hall. It was said that they were priceless.

If you can't buy a city, you can at least exchange it for a hundred acres of fertile land. Lin Long's skin is better than snow, and the color of rainbow beads is even more rare. Xiao Yi knew that the Zhuge family in Chu was as rich as the country, but he didn't know that Mr. Zhuge could spend so generously.

Zhuge Dunji explained to Xiao Yi: "Speaking of my adoptive father, he is not generous to everyone." Xiao Yi knew that although the Zhuge family in Chu State was rich and unparalleled, the family property was never passed down directly. The Zhuge family's descendants would all change their names.

He never did business or took over the family business to avoid competing for the family property. Zhuge Dunji was not the biological son of Mr. Zhuge, but was trained as the next head of the family to take over the family business. Zhuge Dunji continued: "You must not know...

Because of this matter, only four people in the Kyushu and Five Kingdoms know about it."

Lin Long blushed and smiled: "Speaking of which, I do need your help with something."

Zhuge Dunji said: "I have already seen Dongfang. I will naturally help you with your affairs. There are many people in the Song Palace now, so I'd better take Liu'er out first. After we settle down, I will come to you and you."

East."

Lin Long said: "Of course you go first. I can't hide two big people here for a few days. I will go out to the front hall to guard them first. You haven't seen each other for a long time, so I guess you have a lot to say." She

He patted Xiao Yi's hand lightly and said: "Liu'er, you are a lucky girl. Zhuge is a rare good man. If you can go far away with him, why bother to be trapped in a place of right and wrong." Lin Long also said

Without saying more and asking more questions, he stood up and walked out of the house.

Xiao Yi lowered her head and said nothing. She never thought that she would meet Zhuge Eunji again in this life. In the early spring, Chen Guofan said goodbye to him in Beijing. He broke willows to send them off, but the willow branches were still fresh green. Now in late autumn, everything is desolate, as if she had no face to face it.

It’s time for the life of old acquaintances to wither.

Zhuge Dunji said softly: "Liu Yao, I actually knew in my heart that you were Xiao Yi from Qi State, so although I tried several times to persuade you to go to Chu State with me, I never stopped your dream and mission of revenge from Song State.

Fan Jing said goodbye. You said that if you could escape from the White Jade Palace alive, you would definitely go to Chu State to find me. But before I got up and returned to Chu State, I heard in Chen State that you were arrested for assassinating the King of Song at the Kyushu State Banquet. This incident

The incident even touched the foundation of Chen State. You dared to deceive the King of Chen. No matter whether your assassination was successful or not, the relationship between Chen and Song was forged. Even if you escaped from Song State, there would still be conflicts between Chen and Song.

The pursuers are searching for your whereabouts in various countries. I didn't tell you at first, because I thought that with your martial arts and intelligence, the White Jade Palace would definitely not be able to trap you. As long as you enter the territory of Chu State, I will be able to keep you safe, and I will return

On the way to Chu State, I will definitely come to Song State to pick you up. But who knew that you would take action at the Kyushu State Banquet, and threaten to be the princess of Qi State, putting yourself in this dead end. When you parted, you never thought of seeing me again.

,Yes or no?"

Xiao Yi said: "Zhuge, there is a difference between you and Yunni. You are a wealthy man from the Chu State, and I am a down-and-out daughter of a subjugated country. We are not the same people, so why should we be involved together? I have my blood feud, and you have

Your wealth is unparalleled, and I know your affection for me, but I am not qualified to accept it, and there is no need for you to bear my past with me."

Zhuge Dunji sighed: "Xiao Yi, this is what I should say to you. I have never told you my life experience, just like you have never told me your life experience, because I don't want you to be with me.

I will bear my blood feud together. Don’t you ask me how I knew that you were the princess of Qi so early? How could I know something that even your patron Li Chen, who has been with Chen for many years, didn’t know? Why should I know?

Will I stay in Fanjing for several months? My adoptive father wrote several times urging me to return to Chu, but I refused to leave. He thought I was addicted to Hualiu Lane in Fanjing, but I didn’t even have the courage to tell you who I am.

No, I have been playing the role of a noble son by your side every night. In your heart, I may not even have the weight of Li Chen."

Xiao Yi smiled bitterly: "Zhuge, I have never compared you with Li Chen. I have used him. I have used him for many years, and I feel a lot of guilt for him. As for you, I have never used you, and I have never thought about it.

If I want to be involved with you, I will be honest and aboveboard with you and owe nothing to you."

Zhuge Dunji shook his head and said, "You owe me something, if you know who I am."

Xiao Yi looked at him puzzled.

Zhuge Dunji said: "Do you still remember that to the north of Qi State was the State of Wei, and there was a prince in Wei State who had a marriage contract with the princess of Qi State as evidenced by the certificate of credence?"

Xiao Yi suddenly realized. Childhood memories poured in...

The boy smiled and said: "I heard that Princess Yi of Qi State is very talented and beautiful. I didn't expect that she would be a meat dumpling like you!"

The girl snorted: "I heard that the prince of the Wei Kingdom was seven feet tall and mighty, but I didn't expect it to be a short winter melon like you!"

In the Ningguo Palace, Prince Wei gave his precious little jade sword to Princess Qi as an engagement gift. She pouted and refused to accept it, saying that I don’t want to be a concubine like you, a short winter melon. He smiled and inserted the little jade sword into the palace.

Her meatballs are in her bun.

Time is ruthless, and a year later, the little princess of Qi heard that Wei was destroyed and the prince of Wei was killed by the rebel army. She hid in her room and cried, holding the small jade sword and hairpin he gave her. She actually treasured it.

She always wore this hairpin in her bun because it was the first time she met a Weiguo people and the first time she received a Weiguo gift from a Weiguo people. This gift was different from other gifts.

It was a very delicate and beautiful but very sharp piece of jewelry. And the person who gave her the gift was the man she would marry in the future. She also looked at the little jade sword and recalled the day when she bumped into Prince Wei. He seemed not short either.

Not as tall as her father, but taller than herself. He had a bright smile and a smile in his eyes. Many years later, she had forgotten what the little boy played with her that day and what he said. She only remembered him.

She loved to laugh, and her smile was as warm as the winter sun. She once thought that her husband should be such a warm person. For example, the smile of Song Dynasty King Liu Ying was always full of tolerance and warmth...

Zhuge Dunji slowly took out the small jade sword from Xiao Yi's bun. It was an engagement gift he gave her more than ten years ago. It was a sharp weapon that she used to assassinate the King of Song after tempering the lovesickness poison more than ten years later.

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"Upstairs in the old city of Fanjing, I played the piano and you danced with me. This engraved plum and ink jade hairpin slipped from your bun into my arms. This is the diamond of Weiguo. Such a complete diamond was carved into such a small shape.

This is the only sharp weapon in the Wei Kingdom. It was a gift given to me by my father when he appointed me as the crown prince of the Wei Kingdom. I couldn't put it down. I have worn it for many years. How could I not recognize it? How could I not remember that I gave it to me?

Who?" Zhuge Dunji played with the small jade sword and said slowly: "Xiao Yi, I once thought that the hatred I had in this life was seeing my father being killed by the Song army and having to escape. I traveled to various countries and endured my anger.

, I couldn't live, I couldn't die. Later, my adoptive father adopted me and asked me to change my name. I thought that this was the only hatred I would have in my life. I had to hide my name after witnessing the destruction of my country and my family. Later, my hatred slowly returned.

More. When I saw the Song people who couldn’t be killed, when I saw the Wei people who couldn’t recognize them and learned business from my adoptive father, and when I saw the dog officials still shamelessly flattering me, my heart gradually hardened, and I no longer hated or hated them.

I will no longer complain and regret any decision. Until I sent you away from Chen State, knowing that you were going to assassinate the King of Song, I never regretted my decision. Later, when you were arrested for assassination, I always believed that I could come to Song State to save you.

I have never hated or regretted letting you come to the Song Dynasty. Until last night, I heard the conversation between you and the King of Song. I chased you to the dark and deserted bedroom. You fell into my arms and I took your pulse.

…I hate myself.”

Xiao Yi heard his calm tone, but she didn't expect that the small jade sword tightly held in his hand had cut his palm, revealing bright red blood beads. She held his hand anxiously: "Let go quickly...

I have tempered the poison on this sword, and even though it was cleaned later, I don’t know if there is any residue."

Zhuge Dunji said: "Your poison didn't poison the King of Song, and naturally it can't poison me. I turned over all the prisons in the Song Dynasty, but I couldn't find you. It turns out that the so-called arrest was just to trap you."

His gentle country."

Xiao Yi shed tears, and each drop fell on the blood in Zhuge Dunji's hand. "Zhuge, please don't tell others. I am the princess of Qi. I cannot have anything to do with the King of Song. I thought he had tricked me.

He was poisoned and his life was not long. I just wanted to accompany him for the last time and then commit suicide to apologize. Unexpectedly, this strange poison in the world had no effect on him. I will not have any contact with him in the future. I will

Leave the White Jade Palace with you."

Zhuge Dunji said: "In this case, if you go to assassinate him again and avenge your bloody revenge, I can ensure that you leave the White Jade Palace safely. If you are unwilling to do it, I can also do it for you."

Xiao Yi's tears seemed to be frozen in her eyes, there was a buzz in her head, and there was a dull pain in her lower abdomen.
Chapter completed!