When Zhong Liyi was taken to Chenggao Guan's mansion, Heifu was standing in the courtyard shooting a crossbow.

It was a dummy hanging from a tree, and Heifu was dressed in a strong suit, holding an old-fashioned Qin-hand crossbow, and every time he fired a shot, he hit the dummy's vital point fifty paces away, or the head, or chest, or abdomen.

Of course, there are also occasional shots in the legs and feet.

After Chen Huiyu had brought the report, Heifu put down his crossbow and turned around to see Zhong Liyi, who was tightly bound by the guards with ropes, and even shackled, making it difficult for him to move.

Zhong Liyi was pressed to the ground, and Heifu approached, squatted down, carefully examined his appearance, and sighed after looking at him for a long time:

"Sure enough, it's you, the thief who escaped from me eighteen years ago, even though you are wearing armor and beard, I still recognize you."

He pointed to the dummy with arrows stuck behind him: "It's much harder to shoot the legs and feet than to the chest and abdomen, I'm right, Ao ...... No, it should be Zhong Liyi, if it weren't for your mercy that day, there would be no Xia Gong in this world. ”

Zhong Liyi tilted his head and said: "I also recognize you, the black-faced pavilion chief back then, he once ruthlessly brought more than 100 people in the blind mountain to justice, but in order to help an innocent public servant, he gave him 4,000 yuan for nothing, I killed people and wanted to return to the Chu country, but you peeled off the cocoon, and found out through the clues, before that, I have never seen such a capable pavilion chief." “

Heifu bowed: "I have never met such a difficult thief as you before that. ”

The two of them were immediately silent, as if they were caught in a memory, the Anlu mountains and forests eighteen years ago, the border of Qin and Chu, the selfless pursuit, the thrilling confrontation between police and bandits, and the fear of life and death.

Zhongli laughed, and Heifu followed:

"It's still good back then, although I am the most humble and lowly Qin official, the head of the pavilion, I just catch thieves and eliminate evil, handle cases and investigate cases, and keep ten miles safe, but I live a very fulfilling life."

is like this, but he has been pushed to the forefront little by little by this era.

There is no way, if you don't make a tide, you can only be knocked down by the tide and become a simple name on the slip: Heifu.

And what alerted him was precisely Zhong Liyi's arrow!

"Your arrow, I returned it at the Runan Ferry, and the Chu rider who escaped with injuries is you, right?"

Zhong Liyi said: "It's really me, Xia Gong is ruthless, and he can't wait to kill me." ”

Heifu spread his hands: "This is obviously what you said when you left that day, saying that Qin Chu will fight in the near future, you and I will be on the battlefield, maybe we can meet again!" At that time, they will each greet each soldier, but I remember it clearly! ”

Zhong Li shook his head: "That's true, knowing that the battle of Kuiyang was done by the public, I am convinced." ”

sympathizes with each other, this is probably the reason why Zhong Liyi didn't kill him directly back then, he claims to be a soldier, and he also admits that the other party is a "scholar".

In this way, Heifu sat on the steps and talked to him, which sounded a bit like an old acquaintance, and he was happy.

If it weren't for one sitting on the stairs, the other being reduced to a prisoner, tightly tied to a rope.

Zhong Liyi has been tied up for a long time, his wrists are broken, and the blood flow is not smooth, so he inevitably bares his teeth and grins, and Heifu smiled playfully: "Don't you want to say that the binding is too urgent, begging for relief?" ”

"It's really tight." Zhong Liyi raised the heavy shackles: "Can you loosen it?" ”

Heifu didn't mean to let him go at all, and quipped: "The tiger has to be tightened, not to mention, this is the legal net that is eighteen years late, you have to suffer first, and there is ......"

Heifu looked at Chen Hui: "I heard, you want to surrender me?" ”

Zhong Liyi said: "Xia Gong also saw that the Xiang family did not save it, I stuck to the lonely city for many days, and I did not live up to the Xiang family if I asked myself, since the regent was tolerant and did not hold a grudge against the arrows of the year, it could release thousands of people under my command, Zhong Liyi was willing to surrender!" ”

Heifu smiled: "Okay, good birds choose trees to perch, many people have said this to me when they come to take refuge, but you ...... Zhong Liyi! ”

He restrained his smile and pointed at Zhong Liyi and said, "I just don't believe it, Zhong Liyi, who sneaked into the Qin realm alone for the sake of the Chu State, and Zhong Liyi, who has been running around for more than ten years to seek the restoration of the country, will surrender!" ”

Zhong Liyi flatly denied: "Duke Xia, I want to keep the Chu State away from the scourge of war as soon as possible. ”

"Xia Gongdang remembers, eighteen years ago, with my skills, I could escape quietly at any time, why did I delay until the crime? Do you have to take a few other cultivators with you, and even use your body as bait to buy time for the six people who can't ride horses? In fact, they are not the meticulous work of the Chu State, but just ordinary people who can't survive in the Chu State. ”

"At the beginning, I crossed the river among these fugitives from the Chu State and hid my identity. After arriving in Qin, everyone found out that there was no rumored good day, and there was not much difference between Qin and Chu. As a person who died in the state, it was so difficult to be treated fairly in a foreign country, so everyone regretted it and wanted to flee back to the Chu country, although it was not much better, but at least it was his hometown and relatives. ”

"It is not difficult for me to leave alone, but if I abandon them and ignore them, and they are found afterwards, everyone will have to serve their sentences together. I didn't want others to suffer for me, so I wanted to bribe the prison gate and forge a certificate for us, but he repented halfway, and I had no choice but to kill him...... That's how that case came about. ”

"I would rather take risks in order to save six Chu people."

"Today, I am willing to fight to save thousands of people in the city."

"Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the situation in the world has been decided, how can millions of people in Chu State be innocent? The Xiang clan brought about its own destruction, but the Chu people don't have to be buried for it! ”

"Therefore, I am willing to surrender to Xia Gong, and what Xia Gong suffers from is just the disobedience of the Chu people. The grudge between the regent and me, the people of Chu know, if the regent can release me, then the people of Chu feel that they do not have to be retaliated against, and they have no heart to resist, I am willing to recruit Chu ministers for the regent, so it is not difficult for Chu to be determined! ”

This half-truth and half-truth, Heifu seemed to be a little moved: "Sounds good. ”

"But Zhong Liyi."

He suddenly smiled again: "You really see the situation when you do this?" Or are you still obsessed, and you want to gain a foothold in our army through these words, slowly gain my trust, and finally assassinate me to win the opportunity for the Chu State to survive!? ”

"You want to assassinate Qingji from behind."

"Or is it hiding in the Qin Palace, assassinating the first emperor's Gao gradually leaving the second?"

……

With Heifu's sudden turn of face, Zhong Liyi was once again pressed to the ground by the guards, his face pressed against the ground.

"I know what you're going to do."

At this time, Heifu was really condescending, pointing at Zhong Liyi and saying:

"I've seen too many people like you."

"For example, Gao Yuanli, ten years ago, he was blinded, as a court music official, but still did not forget to avenge Jing Ke and Yan Guo, I hurriedly entered the palace that day, intending to stop this, not only to protect the first emperor, but also to save him."

"No, it can't be said to be saving him." Hefu shook his head.

"What I want to save is the growing jealousy and discrimination of the people of the Six Kingdoms by Qin Shi Huangdi!"

"But I was late, and Gao gradually left the building and threw it out, smashing not only the building, but also the last hope of the First Emperor to treat the Six Kingdoms well. From then on, the First Emperor no longer got close to the people of the Six Kingdoms, and even wanted to rely on war to consume the youth of the Six Kingdoms in Haidong and Lingnan! ”

The great unification has also become a truce of more than ten years.

"Gao Yuanli thought that what he did was not worthy of Jing Qing and Yan Ren, and the world was full of praise, thinking that he was a brave man."

"But it seems to me that he has done great evil!" Heifu gritted his teeth.

"You are the same, from the perspective of the Chu State, you can call yourself a lonely hero, but in my opinion, you are a villain who wants to harm the world and fall into a catastrophe!"

Zhong Liyi stuck to the cold ground and sneered: "I didn't mean to, but I didn't expect that Gong was afraid of dying so much? Is this the hero of the day? ”

"Bold!"

Chen Hui reprimanded, but Heifu asked him to step back, just keep a few guards, and next, he wanted to say a few words from the bottom of his heart to Zhong Liyi, the old man.

"Whether you are a hero or not is not determined by you and me, but by the history books and by the people of later generations."

Heifu had Zhong Liyi lifted up and told him to stand up straight.

"What we look at is not whether the decision is arrogant, whether the war is the first to take the lead, or even whether the action is above board, but whether the person has built and inherited the world, not destroying."

"And you're right, I'm afraid of death." He laughed to himself.

"At the beginning, I wasn't very afraid, I once captured three thieves in Yunmengze, and led people to arrest tomb robbers who killed people and oversold goods, the most dangerous thing was to go deep into the blind mountain and be besieged by hundreds of mobs......"

"At that time, I was only thinking about doing things and being a good pavilion chief, and I didn't think about it so much."

Or maybe they are confident enough to change this era in the right way.

"Do you know when I started to be afraid?" Heifu turned his head and looked at Zhong Liyi's eyes, as if he saw the reflection of his own innocence eighteen years ago:

"After you shot an arrow!"

That arrow pierced not only his calf, but also his three views.

"I learned how fragile human life is."

"I told myself that my life is more important than Qin Shi Huangdi!"

Since then, Heifu has changed a lot, and everything he does is no longer for justice, for conscience, but to make himself safer.

The status is rising little by little, and the war is becoming more and more cowardly, and if you can, you don't take risks.

For the sake of the right goal, no longer hesitate to use despicable means, and even package yourself in a high-sounding manner!

He went from the tun chief who needed to charge into battle, to Sima who would be regarded as an abandoned son at any time, even if he was a liehou and a feudal official, it was not safe, the emperor gave an order, Heifu must die, Qin Shi Huang was a strong man, Heifu must, he could only be his "Marquis of Wuzhong"!

It doesn't matter if it's alive or dead.

But Heifu didn't dare to be the enemy of the First Emperor, and he was very good at bullying his mentally handicapped son Hu Hai.

"Now, I'm no longer in trouble."

Heifu sighed: "But I have quickly become the biggest weakness of the entire Great Qin!" ”

How could Heifu not understand that the temporary system he established had a natural weakness, that is, it was extremely unstable in terms of inheritance, and it was okay for him to live for a day, but if he was gone, he was afraid that people would die.

Although the eldest son was set up as the "eldest son", that is, the heir, how could the weak crown and the youngest son convince the fierce generals and thinkers, if Heifu has three long and two short, his subordinates can fight a "successor war"!

"Zhong Liyi, you find it difficult to win the battle formation, so you want to grasp one of my biggest weaknesses."

"As long as I die violently, this newly created Great Qin will fall apart, and the Chu State will be reborn again, right?"

Zhong Liyi was silent for a long time, did not admit it, and did not deny it: "Since Xia Gong doesn't believe it, then kill me." ”

"Kill you?"

Heifu laughed: "I'm not ungrateful, I avenged it when I first attacked Chu, and now, I want to repay you for not killing back then!" ”

"But I won't repeat the mistakes of Qin Shi Huang, and I won't give you the opportunity to do the second Gao Gradual Departure."

"You will not see me again, but you will move to a distant land, and never see each other again!"

"In this way, I don't have to kill the taxi I respect, and you can be my horse bone and be used by me."

Although, this bone was still far away.

Heifu gave Zhong Liyi a verdict.

I also made a break for these eighteen years of grievances!

"Do you want to see the scenery of the desert and the sunset? I'll send you there! ”

"Let's go and see the scenery of the Western Regions, and see that there is a sky outside the sky."

"Maybe at that time, Zhong Liyi, you can also come out of the narrowness of sacrifice for Chu."

Hefu waved his hand, and the guard began to pull Zhong Liyi towards the door, and from the beginning to the end, Hefu did not loosen a knot for him.

Zhong Liyi didn't struggle, he didn't have hysteria, he only knew that his gamble was lost.

"Heifu, you really didn't grow the Huyang Pavilion back then......" When he was taken away, he just sighed like this.

"You are the same, not the same as you used to be."

Heifu stopped the guards and said to Zhong Liyi:

"Remember, Zhong Liyi."

"The reason why I saved your life is not because of the Xiang clan general in front of me, the Zhongli County Duke who is dedicated to renewing Chu's life."

"It's because eighteen years ago, although he was a Chu spy, he still had a conscience that transcended nationality, and he would risk his life for the six Chu subordinates, and when he burned the stable, he spared the lives of the stables and others, and even didn't burn the ploughing cattle, and did something and didn't do anything!"

"That I, Qin Officials Heifu, the opponent I have always respected!"

……

Zhong Liyi was taken away, and he would be packaged as a Chu general who accepted the righteousness and surrendered to Heifu, received a generous reward, and then sent to a distant place to become a rich man.

And Heifu will once again forgive an enemy, and let those county generals and lieutenants of Chu who are not determined to think about the future.

But for Hefu personally, the matter was even more significant, as he settled a personal vendetta.

Putting down the crossbow in his hand, this time, he finally hit the leg of the dummy in the tree accurately.

Eighteen years ago, Heifu's youthful and impulsive side died under Zhongli's arrow.

"Without that arrow, I wouldn't be where I am today."

Hefu muttered that now, it was time to really take a step forward.

"In this world, the innocent people are gallant, and the scuffle between father and son is in the middle of the field, and it's time to make a break!"

Summoning Chen Hui, Heifu gave an order:

"Xingyang is lost, the Chu army will retreat, and send people to inform Guan Ying, Sui He, Li Shiqi, Dongmen Leopard, Zhang Liang, and ...... Chen Ping! ”

"Let's get started!"

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