The Qi army that pursued and killed the remnants of the Chu army continued to march westward, and when the army arrived at the small city at the foot of Jing Mountain, in front of the city gate, the gate was open, and there was no popularity inside, and a white-haired old man was really lonely sitting on a bamboo mat in front of the city gate, and there was a wooden box next to the bamboo mat.

"The whole army stops advancing" After Lu Di saw it, his eyes stared at the situation inside the city and the situation outside the city for a while, and then he frowned, waved his hand, and shouted.

When the army heard Lu Di's order, they quickly reined in their pace and boomed. Neat as one.

The pan flute played by the old man was like crying, and the timbre was sad, and when he heard it, he was all crying.

After listening for a while, Lu Di looked moved, got off the military vehicle and walked in the direction of the old man, and the generals looked at each other when they saw this, and they also dismounted and followed closely.

Lu Di didn't know who the old man in front of him was, and what his purpose was in doing this, but he could see that the old man had no malicious intentions, on the contrary, he seemed to have a request.

Panxiao, is the name of the Yuan Dynasty, mainly to distinguish the single flute (dong flute), in the "Book of Songs" and "Erya" called uneven, in the Han Dynasty great writer Cai Yong's pen called Daxiao, in the "Zhuzi language" called Yun Xiao. In today's Chu State, it is called Feng Xiao.

After a long time, the old man stopped playing the phoenix flute, and he looked up at Lu Di, the elegant and flowery dimple man, who did not speak, just watched.

Lu Di also looked at him, did not speak, the generals looked at each other when they saw this, and they didn't know what to say, and the guards who followed over looked around, afraid of some hidden arrows or something.

After another while, the old man sighed, moved back, and motioned for Lu Di to be seated.

Lu Di did not refuse, bowed down to thank him, and then threw off his robe and knelt down in front of him.

At this time, outside the empty gate of the small city, the strangest scene in the world appeared: the army of 60,000 was ready to go, standing upright behind, staring; Hundreds of Qi generals waited respectfully behind Lu Di; And Lu Di knelt down with the old man who didn't seem to dye the peach and plum flowers in the world, and behind the old man was an empty small city.

"The world is difficult, it's all about living, why bother to force each other?" The old man opened his mouth, and his voice was sonorous.

Lu Di was silent, he seemed to understand the old man's purpose, but he didn't want to give up, and said in a deep voice: "The country is so big, it can't accommodate multiple kings." If Lone does not kill him, he will kill Lone. In that case, why not eliminate him at the best time? ”

This time it was the old man's turn to be silent, and after a while, he said, "Is he dead?" ”

Lu Di's eyes narrowed, and her pupils condensed: "Are you talking about Bai Gongsheng?" ”

The old man nodded, and Lu Di said, "It's dead!" ”

"Give me back the body, will?"

"Lone has buried him in Qifengpo"

The old man paused, looked at Lu Di, and after a while, opened the wooden box beside him: "This is the rumored He's Bi more than two hundred years ago, retire the army, and He's Bi will return to you."

As soon as these words fell, everyone looked at the wooden box in shock, the legend of He's Bi more than two hundred years ago has already boiled the world, but there has been no news for many years, and they all thought that He's Bi had been lost, but they didn't expect to hear the news of He's Bi again, oh, no, I saw He's Bi with my own eyes.

Everyone wiped their eyes excitedly and looked at He's Bi with burning eyes.

Lu Di was also shocked, and the family's bi, which is the first jade in China, the seal of the town country, has the orthodoxy of the world.

However, Lu Di is not a person who can be indulged by foreign objects casually, he just glanced slightly, and then looked at the old man with a clear gaze: "Although He's Bi is a treasure, it is not as good as Mr., Mr. is a real treasure, lonely, his eyes are not blind!" ”

The old man closed his eyes when he heard this, tears were in his eyes, he didn't speak again, but stood up, hung the phoenix flute around his waist, turned around and left, and when he took the third step, he turned his head to look at Lu Di and said, "It's better to retreat, right?" Ahead, the mountains are too high, and the forests are too dense."

Lu Di's expression changed greatly when he heard this, he looked up at the west, saw the dark mountains covered with clouds, and hurriedly stood up and shouted, "Sir, but Ejun?" ”

The old man glanced at Lu Di, and then was silent: "Ejun has already committed suicide for more than forty years. ”

"Who's that gentleman?"

The old man sighed and said, "Just call me Jingshan Plum Planter." ”

Jingshan plum people? Lu Di muttered to himself, watching the old man's lonely back gradually disappear from the field of vision in the small city.

"King, is this old man deliberately deceiving us?" Yuan Heji stepped forward and asked.

Lu Di was silent, and in front of him was the Padang area, which was written in the "Notes on the Water Classic", "There are mountains on both sides of the strait, and there is no place." Heavy rocks are stacked, the sky is hidden, and the moon is not seen at midnight in the non-pavilion. In the Three Gorges area of ancient Chongqing, Lu Di now only has 60,000 soldiers and horses, and he is only an ant-like existence in the mountains that are unfamiliar with the vast mountains that do not see the light of day, and it is very difficult to find the fleeing Chu army, not to mention the steep mountains, cliffs, and primeval forests are the most likely to suffer from ambushes.

So the army could not go any further.

Dongmen Wuze seemed to see Lu Di's thoughts, and he carefully held the Heshi Bi while persuading: "King, now that we have swallowed most of the land of the Chu State, it will take some time to digest, not to mention that the Chu army has already disappeared in front of us, it is better to withdraw for the time being and defend."

When the generals heard this, they disagreed, seeing that the great opportunity to make meritorious contributions to destroy the king was in front of them, how could they say that they would give up if they gave up. Many generals said: That old man's identity is strange, and he must have come to disturb the hearts of our army and help the king of Chu escape. So we don't have to pay attention to it and continue to lead the army to chase and kill.

Some said: Didn't the old man call himself a plum farmer in Jingshan? In this way, he led the army to search Jingshan, arrested the old man and tortured him, and if he still couldn't find it, then he burned Jingshan with a fire.

The atmosphere of the group of generals was turbulent, although Lu Di intended to strike the army, but he couldn't help the morale of the army, and he had no choice but to make Zi Yuanjie the forward, Yuan Heji as the middle army, Gongsun Hui as the rear army, and 40,000 horses from the three armies, and went to continue to pursue and kill the Chu army.

And he led the rest of the men and horses back to Yingdu to preside over major events.

Three days later, on the cliff of Jingshan, the old man stood in the wind, followed by a young man with firewood on his back, and the two saw Lu Di divided into two armies, and their eyes were a little affectionate.

The young man carrying firewood was met by the old man on the way back. By that time he had fainted from hunger on the side of the road. He was not tall, thin, sallow, obviously malnourished, but his eyes, his temperament, and the feeling that he was destined to be extraordinary and destined to be famous through the ages.

"Child, wake up"

"What's your name? How can you be alone in the wild? ”

"My name is Zhong Ziqi, my father is Zhong Jian, and my mother is Ji Mi"

"Oh! So that's how it was."

"What about your father, oh no, your mother?" The old man seemed to have thought of something, and immediately changed his words.

"Mother committed suicide when the Qi people attacked the capital of Ying"

Silent.

"Do you hate the people of Qi?"

"Hate!"

"And do you want revenge?"

"I don't want to."

"Mother said, 'There are only three kinds of people in this world, one is the sheep keeper, the other is the sheep slaughterer, and the other is the sheep themselves."

"My father thought he was a sheep slaughterer, but he didn't know that he was a sheep himself."

"Because he failed, the defeat was in the hands of the Qi people, and the loser must have the consciousness of the loser. I am a person with the consciousness of a loser. ”

After the old man heard this, he looked at the young man's resolute eyes in silence, his eyes swayed, as if he had been hit by some kind of spiritual collision, and finally he sighed and said, "Child, where do you want to go next?"

The young man shook his head and wept: "I don't know, maybe I should continue to wander, because I have no family anymore!" ”

"Follow me, well, if you don't dislike the hard work of the years in the mountains......"

"Xie ......" fluttered and knelt down, and the young man couldn't cry.

……

"By the way, Master, what's your name?"

"Haha, there is no time in the mountains, and the savages have no names, so call me Jingshan Plum Man!"

"This ?......"

The old man withdrew his gaze from the distance of the mountain cliff, and turned his head to look at a new tomb not far away, at the Fengpo Slope.

"Sheng'er, the sub-period is really different from you, it's really ......"

His eyes were blurred with tears, and his lips trembled for a long time, and the old man picked up the gourd on his waist and first drank a sip of plum wine, and then picked up the phoenix flute and played it.

Its sound is gentle and desolate, causing the ravines and rocky streams to whine.

Feng Xiao, Feng Xiao, Xiao whining

Feng Xiao, Feng Xiao, its affection is lingering

Feng Xiao, Feng Xiao, no companion and no fate

Feng Xiao, Feng Xiao, does not stain the world

Outside the city of Yingdu, the army that cheered Lu Di into the city and the Chu people who surrendered inside and outside the city of Yingdu added up to nearly 100,000.

"Your Majesty, Soldier, I respectfully invite the king to enter the city"

The horn sounded, and Wu Zixu led the generals to the slowly coming car of King Lu Di.

The king car stopped, Lu Di looked at Wu Zixu, his eyes were complicated, but Wu Zixu looked up and smiled with a smile.

How could Lu Di still not understand, gritted his teeth and said: "Come on, take Wu Zixu down to Lonely."

Yes?!

The nearby troops, who were enjoying the cheers of victory, almost fell down in surprise, and they all looked at their own king in astonishment, thinking that they had misheard.

The cheering army of 100,000 did not know what was happening at the moment, but the situation in front of the city gate was not right, and they could see that it was wrong, so they all stopped cheering, and looked at the city gate one after another.

"Wu Zixu, you are so bold!"

Lu Di's eyes were cracked, and he began to roar loudly at Wu Zixu under Wang's car. He counted Wu Zixu's crimes, and there were two points that made the generals break out in a cold sweat: first, without Lu Di's royal order, he casually deprived Shi Qi of the position of commander of the water division, which was an abuse of power; Second, he picked up the tomb of King Chuping and whipped the corpse, which was to vent his hatred and make the Chu people think that the Qi army was a demon who would not let go of even the dead, which had a bad impact on the national honor of the Qi country and the loyalty and martyrdom of the scholars.

Lu Di pointed at Wu Zixu's nose and scolded, and more than 100,000 people didn't dare to breathe.

"Wu Zixu, Lone asks you, if Lone kills someone who shouldn't be killed one day, is it that when his descendants take revenge, they also pick up Lone's tomb and whip Lone's body?"

Lu Di asked this sentence breathlessly, as soon as these words came out, Wu Zixu and the generals all knelt down on the spot with a frightened start, and those onlookers from a distance seemed to have heard Lu Di's question, and they couldn't help but tremble in fright at the moment and knelt on the ground.

The scene of more than 100,000 people kneeling outside the gate of Yingdu can be described as a magnificent scene. Lu Di looked around at all the people, and his eyes were extremely cold.

"Come on, pull Wu Zixu out and cut him down" Lu Di drank again.