Xue Jinyi turned her head, buried her face in Pu Yangxuan, and hid her smiling face.

Pu Yangxuan walked forward steadily with Xue Jinyi on his back, paying attention to the city wall as he walked.

When they arrived at Qixiamen, there were more pedestrians on the road, but no one would give this ordinary couple a second glance.

"Tired or not?" Xue Jinyi asked softly.

Pu Yangxuan said: "You see that I don't have a drop of sweat on my face, I must not be tired." You and I will be like an old scalper in the field, and you won't feel tired. ”

"How can anyone compare himself to an old scalper." Xue Jinyi chuckled softly.

"Just to reassure you, I'm not tired." Pu Yangxuan tilted his head and smiled at her.

Xue Jinyi continued to lie on his back, pretending to cry out in pain from time to time because of the pain in his feet.

Although there are no stalls except for the East and West Markets, there are no other places to do business, but the exception is near the city gate, where there are tea stalls nearby, and there will be vendors carrying burdens to stay for a while.

Pu Yangxuan asked softly, "Do you want to sit down and drink tea for a while?" ”

"Okay." Although there was no sweat on his forehead, Xue Jinyi was still afraid that he would be tired, and other old scalpers would also drink saliva and eat grass, right?

Pu Yangxuan chose a remote corner of the tea stall and gently placed Xue Jinyi on the ground.

Xue Jinyi landed on one foot, and with the support of Pu Yangxuan, she jumped to the stool and sat down slowly.

Pu Yangxuan asked the shopkeeper to serve a pot of herbal tea, and after secretly trying non-toxic, he poured a cup for Xue Jinyi first, and then asked her softly if her feet still hurt.

In the eyes of others, they are just an ordinary loving couple, not eye-catching at all.

Sitting here, you can clearly see the pedestrians coming and going.

Many people are in a hurry, and they don't care about some small actions.

A farmer passing by them dropped a note beside Pu Yangxuan.

When the person was far away, Pu Yangxuan quietly opened the note, and then pushed it in front of Xue Jinyi, "General Zhuo's sister went to Jingxuan." ”

Xue Jinyi looked at the note and took a sip of tea slowly, "If you don't go back, you won't see you." ”

"Oh?"

Xue Jinyi looked at Pu Yangxuan with a smile and said softly: "Of course, I want to test their sincerity." ”

Pu Yangxuan raised his eyebrows and understood.

Xue Jinyi said: "If it is not as I expected, she should come again tomorrow, and even ...... Wait until we go back, it will depend on the determination of the Zhuo family. ”

"So......" Pu Yangxuan filled the bowl in front of Xue Jinyi with tea, "Let's just drink tea here." ”

The two rested for a while, continued to walk south, and met Jin Yang in the sparsely populated southwest corner.

Jin Yang was holding a drawing in his hand and was comparing it with the city wall.

Pu Yangxuan coughed lightly and gave him a look.

Jin Yang immediately recognized that it was the King of Chu and the princess, and after looking left and right, he stepped forward, "I haven't found any problems yet, and I have asked the officials of the Ministry of Works to carefully check the previous documents and drawings, hoping to find out something." ”

"What about the person who is following Shen Qingmo?" Pu Yangxuan asked.

Jin Yang shook his head, "No news has been sent back yet." ”

Pu Yangxuan sighed: "This kind of thing, both sides need to be cautious, there will be no results for a while, but you can't relax a little." ”

"My subordinates understand." Jin Yang responded.

Pu Yangxuan turned his head and asked Xue Jinyi, "Do you want to continue walking, or go back to Jingxuan." ”

"Let's go back when it's dark." Xue Jinyi had the heart to hang General Zhuo's sister for a while.

Pu Yangxuan nodded, picked up Xue Jinyi and continued to walk along the root of the city wall.

Xue Jinyi looked at the bricks of the city wall that were some years old, some weeds grew out of the cracks, tenaciously facing the sun or wind and rain, she raised her hand and stroked the bricks, some of them had uneven marks, and she could vaguely see that they were engraved words.

Seeing this, Pu Yangxuan leaned closer to the city wall so that Xue Jinyi could see clearly.

Xue Jinyi squinted her eyes and looked carefully, it is said that each brick of the city wall will be engraved with the year of manufacture and the name of the craftsman, if there is a problem with the city wall in the future, it will be according to the name on the brick to ask people for the crime, so the craftsmen are extra attentive, carefully made to turn their heads in the wind and sun for hundreds of years, and they are still tenacious and strong.

"The era name on this...... It's from the previous dynasty, right? Xue Jinyi asked softly, remembering that she had seen this era name in a book.

"Yes," Puyang Xuan said, "It is the name of the twentieth emperor of the Yan Kingdom, and it has been fifty years ago." ”

Xue Jinyi nodded, and looked to the side again, this large piece of bricks are all from the same era, "Is it the father of the abolished emperor of the previous dynasty?" ”

"Hmm." Puyang Xuan said: "At that time, the people inside and outside the capital had rioted because of excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and they blew holes in this city wall, and introduced the people who rebelled, wanting to force the palace to kill the monarch and kill all the traitors and thieves, but unfortunately they had just arrived in the front neighborhood, and they had been suppressed by the soldiers and horses of the previous dynasty. After that, the court forcibly recruited hundreds of craftsmen and repaired the city wall in three days. ”

"Three days?" Xue Jinyi frowned, "What about the bodies of those people who rebelled?" ”

"It's all there......," Pu Yangxuan pointed to the root of the city wall, "because I didn't have time to transport the corpses, and because it was blown out of a fairly large dirt pit, I simply filled it with the corpses." ”

Xue Jinyi shuddered, "It's terrible." ”

"The surviving family members of those people can't collect the corpses if they want to, because no one has the ability and guts to blow up the wall again." Pu Yangxuan raised his head and looked at the blue sky along the city wall, "By the time the Great Zhou Dynasty arrived, their family members may have died in the flames of war, so this matter has been forgotten, and those who died in vain will be buried here forever." ”

Xue Jinyi also looked at the city wall, and the sound of the wind in her ears was like the cry of the unjust souls who had died in vain, "It's so pitiful." ”

"yes." Pu Yangxuan sighed.

The two of them continued to walk forward, and the words on the bricks represented a much older age.

Somehow, Xue Jinyi looked back.

That section of the city wall, as well as on the ground, was devoid of grass, and could even be gloomy from a distance.

Maybe after all these years, the resentment still can't be dissipated, right?

Xue Jinyi saw a few dandelions blooming on the city wall, and this little wildflower survived so tenaciously in the cracks of the city wall, and even one of them had already borne fruit and turned into a small "plush ball".

She plucked the dandelions and blew them lightly.

The tiny white hair floated out, she let go of her hand, and the breeze sent the flowers, and the white hair fluttered down on the side of the city wall where the souls were buried.

A small seed may one day take root and sprout into a beautiful flower that will bring life back to it.

"One day, the remnants of the previous dynasty who were born for the misfortune will die, so that those who died unjustly can turn their eyes on it." Pu Yangxuan comforted.

"Yes." Xue Jinyi sighed lightly, and when she was about to turn her head and continue to lean on Pu Yangxuan, she remembered something coldly, "Wait a minute!" ”