Spring and Autumn GL

65 The Tired Bird Returns to the Forest

A Zhi carried Xi Shi on his back and ran to the gate of the city, without stopping, he directly snatched a horse belonging to the guarding sergeant, pinched the horse's stomach with both legs, and the horse kicked its front legs in pain, and almost failed to turn over.The galloping horse carried Xi Shi and A Zhi into the dark night. Feng Ziping was indeed so skilled that he followed closely with only two legs.Ah Zhi held the reins tightly, and led Xi Shi all the way to the country of Wu. After running for nearly two hours, they arrived at Gusu City thirty miles away.She turned onto a small road and saw that the horse could not run any longer, and there were no pursuers behind her, so she reined in the horse and let the horse go forward.

"Azhi, where's Feng Ziping?"

Ah Zhi was taken aback: "What Feng Ziping?"

"It's the one who rescued you and me just now!"

"Is he Feng Ziping?"

"You do not know?"

Ah Zhi murmured in his heart, feeling that he really didn't take this old man seriously, and that he would sacrifice his life to save such an impolite fellow like her!

"Go back and have a look, I'm right here." Xi Shi hugged Ah Zhi's waist.

Ah Zhi turned around and smiled, jumped off the horse, and searched for dead branches, trying to light a fire.

Xi Shi hurriedly stopped: "Don't start a fire, we can only run so far in the dark, the soldiers of the Yue Kingdom didn't expect us to come here, wouldn't we be exposed as soon as we lit the fire?"

Ah Zhi thought about it, but he was worried about leaving Xi Shi alone in the deep mountains and old forests, so he had to lead the horse and look back slowly.After walking for a quarter of an hour, Ah Zhi's sharp eyes saw a person lying on the edge of the forest, and when he went up, it was Feng Ziping, who was unconscious and dying.

"Feng Lao!" Xi Shi shouted anxiously on the horse, but it was difficult to get off the horse because of the inconvenient shackles.

Azhi turned Feng Ziping over to have a look, saw that his face was full of blackness, quickly pinched his Renzhong, and then lightly hit the Tanzhong acupoint on his chest.

"Cough..." Feng Ziping's whole body trembled, and he slowly woke up.

"Old man, how are you?" Azhi asked hurriedly.

Feng Ziping smiled happily, but there was a deep weakness in it.

"Baby, what's your name?"

"My name is Azhi."

"It's a good name for Xianyun Yehe. It's a pity that my life is not long, and I can't see you becoming the number one in the world!"

Ah Zhi frowned: "Old man, you are so good at kung fu, how could you not live long?"

"Haha, an arrow scratched me just now. I didn't care about it at first. Now it seems that the arrow must be poisonous. After running for so long, the toxin has already flowed through the meridians. There is no help!"

"But, you are dying, why are you still so happy?" Azhi asked without thinking, and Xi Shi immediately frowned, scolding Azhi for what he said.

Feng Ziping didn't mind, he weakly raised his hand and placed it on Ah Zhi's head.

"Isn't death a happy thing? Living is hard! Now, no one can find me, how wonderful. But Azhi, I still have a regret, can you help me finish it?"

Ah Zhi nodded earnestly. Although the old man looked disgusting, he saved himself and let his kung fu go back to the past. No amount of repayment can be overstated for such a great kindness.

"I, I just want to hear you call me Master."

Azhi's eyes reflected the starlight, making them shine brightly.She blinked, and called softly:

"Master."

"Alright...cough cough...come on, in order to make you smarter, let Teacher pat his forehead!"

Ah Zhi didn't know the relationship between flicking her forehead and becoming smarter, but the master called, so she obediently stretched her head forward.

Feng Ziping tremblingly curled his fingers into a circle, ready to play.Azhi closed his eyes, preparing for the coming blow.But she only felt a dry cracked skin lightly scratched her forehead, and then Feng Ziping's hand dropped down.She quickly opened her eyes, only to see that Feng Ziping had closed his eyes peacefully, smiling like a child, as if he was still proud of his little prank just now.

"Master, Master?" Ah Zhi called out twice, felt his breath and pulse, and finally turned his face and shook his head at Xi Shi.

Xi Shi let out a long sigh, and tears welled up in his eyes.This Feng Ziping kept his name incognito for 20 years, lingering on his last breath, never thought that it was to save her life!Although Feng Ziping didn't think so, but God's will is really embarrassing.

Azhi carried Feng Ziping's body to the depths of the forest, dug a hole to bury him, and leveled the ground without erecting any inscription.Dust to dust, dust to dust, Feng Ziping didn't want this name for a long time, so why let this name still have a breath in the world?

The little white monkey also seemed to have a feeling, pulled out a few grasses and threw them on the bare ground where Feng Ziping was buried.

"Let's go." Azhi helped Xi Shi who was on the horse.

"Us, where are we going?"

"Go to my mother's house. It's relatively hidden there, so it shouldn't be easy to find."

Seeing her confident look, Xi Shi nodded her head in agreement.A Zhi wandered around the forest for a while, relying on his sense of direction in the mountains for many years, finally found a fence wall, so he found the house along the way, but from a distance, the house was dark, without a single candle. It doesn't look like it's inhabited.

As she got closer, Xi Shi frowned, and she faintly smelled a rotten stench, which became heavier and heavier.Ah Zhi also felt that something was wrong, so he quickly grabbed the rein and went to check alone.

"Be careful." Xishi took Azhi's hand.

Before Ah Zhi could speak, the little white monkey on his shoulder rushed over. Ah Zhi said don't worry, and hurriedly followed.

Ah Zhi didn't come out for a long time, Xi Shi waited anxiously, afraid that something might happen to Ah Zhi, she jumped off the horse, and because of the heavy shackles, she lay on the ground.Just as he struggled to get up and took two steps, he saw Ah Zhi walking out of the room with a stiff human figure, threw him at the door, and walked back.

"Yan Chenghuan, this old guy!" Ah Zhi smelled bad all over, and his expression was very angry.

"I handed over my mother's body to him and asked him to bury him behind the house, but he was not buried at all, and died at my mother's feet! Now my mother... my mother is dead!"

"Ah?" Xi Shi was shocked: "Leave me alone, go and bury your mother properly, I can do it myself."

Ah Zhi sniffed, then ran back to the house, and kicked Yan Chenghuan's dead body viciously along the way.

After disposing of Ruohua's body, Ah Zhi wanted to set Yan Chenghuan on fire, but she didn't dare to light a fire, so she had to dig a tomb for Yan Chenghuan, but she had no good intentions and deliberately folded his body and put him in the tomb Xi Shi quickly stopped after seeing it:

"Ah Zhi, death is the most important thing. Since he is dead, don't use his body to vent your anger. Besides, your mother also took care of him a lot during her lifetime, so you should bury him properly."

Ah Zhi curled his lips helplessly, and had no choice but to hold back his nausea and unfold Yan Chenghuan again, and hastily filled it with earth.The little white monkey squatted aside and slapped its nose with its paw.

Now there is no need for Ah Zhi to drive Yan Chenghuan away, the house has become a land without an owner, but Xi Shi's shackles made Ah Zhi scratch his head, and after a long time of exhaustion, he could only break the chain and remove the copper ball, Xi Shi The iron ring on the ankle couldn't be opened no matter what.

"Forget it, it's not a problem, let's use it as a decoration." Xi Shi helped A Zhi wipe his sweat.

After cleaning up the house thoroughly, Xi Shi found that the household items were really complete, and it saved her from the trouble of going to the city to buy them.But both of them were extremely tired tonight, and they wanted to keep their eyes open in case the Vietnamese army found them, but they just wanted to lean against the wall to rest, and they both fell asleep.

Fortunately, the night was calm and nothing happened.

Gou Jian didn't sleep all night, he kept his eyes open until the sun was high, but he couldn't find any trace, but the notice of Xi Shi's killing had already been posted, so should he tell the people that Xi Shi was taken away by the assassin?That's too much to lose him!But at this moment, who do you want to kill?He paced round and round in the palace, and finally had to bring a female death row prisoner, covered her head, and brought her into the execution ground by the river.

Seeing that the time was approaching, all the people knelt down and pleaded for Xi Shi's life one after another. Seeing that Gou Jian refused, they had to retreat and begged Gou Jian to show them Xi Shi's face before execution.

How could Goujian take off the headgear?Seeing that the time is up, he shouted and threw the death row prisoner into the river.A large cloud of water splashed, and he let out a long sigh of relief.Killing Xi Shi was just to make a warning to others, as long as the common people think it was Xi Shi who died, who cares who killed him?

However, thousands of soldiers saw Xishi being taken away that night. Although Goujian kept saying that she was found, there were always a few good people who wanted to find out the ins and outs, but no one admitted that she was found that night. Shih Tzu.

As a result, rumors started to increase, and within ten days and a half months, the rumors flowed from the palace to the outside, and the story also changed in several ways.Many people linked Xi Shi's strange death with Fan Li's inexplicable resignation. Legend has it that they lived and flew together, escaping the troubled world.Some people also said that Xi Shi was originally Chang'e who descended from the sky and had returned to her throne. Some people believed that Xi Shi was dead, but she was so beautiful that the executioner couldn't bear to execute her, so she had to cover her head.

These rumors were passed around, and somehow they reached Fan Li's ears.He is now traveling all over the world, a centipede is dead but not stiff. After all, his family was rich and popular in his early years, and people would buy his face in any business, so within five months, he had a large savings.When he heard the rumors about Xi Shi, he didn't take it seriously at first, he just sighed in his heart that Xi Shi's fate was hard, and regretted that he couldn't end this fate.He happened to come to Gusu City that day, and saw a little white monkey holding a jar of wine in a corner, trying to figure out how to open it.He suddenly thought of Azhi, and always felt that there was some connection somewhere, so he followed him all the way.The little white monkey looked back and knew that someone was following him, but found that there seemed to be no malicious intentions, so he led Fan Li to the residence of Xi Shi and A Zhi.

Fan Li's eyes were moist when he saw a house with smoke billowing in the deep mountains and old forests. He didn't dare to go through the main entrance, but walked around to the backyard first. There were three tombstones standing in the backyard, one of which read: "Mother Ruohua "Tomb" but there is no signature, the second one says "Yan Chenghuan's Tomb", and the other one only says: Eldest Sister's Tomb.

He didn't see the clue for a while, so he went around again, poked his head out behind the wall, and saw a graceful woman washing clothes in a big wooden basin.Fan Li's nose suddenly became sour... If this is Shi Yiguang, who is it?

Involuntarily, Fan Li wanted to go up, but at this moment he heard a call from the room:

"Yiguang, don't wash it when it's cold, come eat first, and I'll wash it for you later!"

It was Ah Zhi's voice, a little less immature and a little more gentle.

"Okay, come right away."

Xi Shi shook her hands, dried them with a clean square towel, and walked in with a smile.

"What are you eating today?"

"Hares just shot this morning!"

"Hey, every day is meat, how greasy."

"Just make do with it, it's winter, and the food is very expensive!"

Two laughing voices floated out lightly.Fan Li suddenly stopped in his tracks. He felt that this old man seemed unnecessary to see him. She never had a place for him in her heart.

He sighed softly, took out a bag of money from his cuff, and placed it gently under the "Eldest Sister's Tomb". He knew whose tomb it was, it must be Zheng Dan.

After finishing speaking, he took one last look at Zheng Dan's tombstone, and amidst the silver bell-like laughter of the two women in the room, he turned and left sadly.

Ah Zhi suddenly stopped laughing, and motioned Xi Shi to keep quiet. After listening, he put down his chopsticks and walked quickly to the backyard. He looked around, but found no one. He looked down and saw Zheng Dan's tombstone. took a bag.

Seeing her walking in a hurry, Xi Shi also came out quickly, both of them looked puzzled.After opening the bag and taking a look, Xi Shi had an idea in mind.

"Fan Li has been here."

"How do you know it's him?"

Xishi opened the edge of the bag, and saw a small word "Fan" tattooed there. Azhi didn't recognize it, but Xishi looked sure, so she didn't ask any more questions, just said:

"Then... haven't we been discovered?"

Xi Shi smiled softly: "It's been so long that no one has come, which means that the matter is over long ago, and I have heard that Fan Li is no longer a member of the palace. Even if something really happens, let it come, the big deal, we The two escape again, could it be that you are afraid?"

Ah Zhi laughed: "What am I afraid of, even if he comes here for a thousand bucks, I will still take you away!"

Xi Shi held the purse in his hand, blinked mischievously, and coaxed Azhi into the house, saying: "Okay, okay, the food is cold now. Thanks to Fan Li, you can go to Gusu City tomorrow and buy some for me." A pound of vegetables..."

She closed the door lightly, and her voice gradually weakened.

The winter sky was clear and the wind was cool but not biting.In the distance, there was the faint sound of firecrackers—today is New Year's Eve, and in a few days it will be the beginning of spring.

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