The Words of the Number One

Shen Baiwu started to do all the things he liked and was forbidden by the doctor.

Shen Baiwu wanted to plan tax reform when he was young, and he once submitted a draft to the then King Zhao and was highly praised. Later, he became too ill to work hard, so he became discouraged and stopped thinking about it. Now he began to frequently send people to visit Zhao Wang's palace treasury, and read a lot of records of taxation, military and political memorials from various parts of Zhao State in recent years, as well as information on recent trends in other countries. The comatose time, which was originally nearly six hours a day, was shortened to three hours, and like Ji Yu, he began to read at night with the lights on.

Despite his busy schedule, he spared no time to play chess with me despite my repeated dissuasion.

The light in Shen Baiwu's eyes became more and more intense, but his body deteriorated like a rotten one, he coughed up blood and even vomited blood, and his sleep was reduced because he was tortured by chest pain and couldn't fall asleep.

I had no choice but to make him as comfortable as possible, and I could only watch him step by step, walking towards death.

Ji Yu was very clear about Shen Baiwu's situation, but Ji Yu did nothing and did not come to see Shen Baiwu. Ji Yu had too much precious information in his hand, but Shen Baiwu didn't ask Ji Yu for it.

They're still some of the weirdest buddies I've ever seen.

The second time I went to play chess with Ji Yu, I asked Gu Ling to accompany him. Although Gu Ling only knew a little about chess, but with Gu Ling present, Ji Yu would not make any sudden moves. Gu Ling thought that he hadn't been exposed in front of Ji Yu, and he was quite nervous when he knew he was going to face Ji Yu.

Ji Yu raised her eyebrows when she saw Gu Ling, her eyes stayed on his face for a moment, then she turned to me, and sneered slightly. Afterwards, he changed into his signature expression of half a smile, and kindly invited Gu Ling to sit aside, set up the chessboard and gave me the upper hand.

Everything was calm and smooth, as if the Ji Yu who kissed me angrily a few days ago was fake.

While playing chess, he said lightly: "A Zhi, do you think you will beat me?"

"Always try your best."

Ji Yuluo asked without raising his head, "What about Ding Sheng, who do you think will win?"

Gu Ling was sitting between us, frowning and looking at the chessboard. When he heard his name, he looked at him and then at me. He clenched his hands tightly and said, "This...how about...my lord, let me give way." girl?"

Ji Yu and I were speechless as soon as this remark came out, Ji Yu raised his eyebrows and glanced at me, then smiled inexplicably: "It seems that now anyone can call you Jiujiu, Jiang Jiuqing."

Before I could answer, Gu Ling spoke. He didn't seem to notice that there was anything wrong with what he said, but instead, he had the posture of saying that he couldn't finish his speech, and he sat upright and said: "My lord, you are a famous chess player in Kyushu and Miss Jiujiu has only learned chess for half a year. The result of this duel is related to the life of Miss Jiujiu, why do you make things difficult for her, a little girl?"

As soon as Gu Ling finished speaking, I felt that the air in the room was stagnant for a moment, only the curling white smoke from the incense burner was slowly burning between us.

Ji Yu smiled softly, propped his chin with his wrist, and swayed carelessly with the chess piece between his index finger and ring finger. He didn't look at the speaker but just looked at me.

"But the only thing she values ​​is life. Apart from life, nothing can embarrass her."

"So why do you have to make things difficult for Miss Jiujiu? She has nothing to be sorry for you." Gu Ling still seemed to feel good about himself, I glanced at Gu Ling, and Gu Ling scratched his head inexplicably.

Ji Yu finally looked at Gu Ling, and under such unpredictable eyes, Gu Ling immediately restrained himself, and once again focused on the chessboard and stopped talking. Ji Yu looked back in satisfaction and said to me, "It's your turn."

Shen Baiwu told me about Ji Yu's thoughts and habits of playing chess in detail, and I followed his instructions step by step, and after I had eaten Ji Yu's large chess pieces, Ji Yu finally became serious and didn't let me take a few moves from time to time like usual. The black and white chess pieces ebb and flow one after the other, and the one long and the other ebbs and flows on the chessboard, biting each other tightly, which is extremely thrilling.

In the end, we draw and we will live forever.

When I first started learning chess, there was one time when he instructed me to play chess with him, and the result was a long-lived robbery.

Eternal life kalpa, eternal life, endless cycles of the same shape.

It's like me and him.

Ji Yu stared at the chess game in silence for a long while, then smiled inexplicably, and said slowly, "You really want to win, you have made great progress. It's just that when you think about how you can learn from him to win me, I feel terrible. "

Here he is again.

Gentle sweet words that don't know the truth, and sad looks that don't know the truth.

I just smiled and said nothing.

I failed to beat him this time, but Ji Yu didn't limit the number of times I could play against him, so I still have many chances. Gu Ling and I got up to say goodbye, but Ji Yu didn't say anything, and even sent us to the door politely, saying that he expected me to beat him next time.

Gu Ling and I turned around and left, walking in the corridor shaded by green bamboos in Wen Eryuan, Gu Ling said belatedly, "Why do I feel that the atmosphere between the two of you is very strange?"

I smiled and glanced at Gu Ling.

He once said that Ji Yu was too stupid to despise him when he was young, and I deeply agree with Ji Yu's opinion.

We had just returned to Xueming Pavilion when we heard that Shen Baiwu had fainted. I immediately ran to his room, where the butler and the servants were. The doctor had checked the pulse and was prescribing medicine, he couldn't help sighing. When I was not around, Shen Baiwu would temporarily let a maid named Bixi take care of her. At this time, she was standing beside Shen Baiwu's hospital bed wiping tears, and when she saw me, she ran to hold my hand and cried: "Sister, they said... Your Highness..."

"Your Highness won't live for more than a month." After she finished speaking, she burst into tears and said intermittently, "Your Highness doesn't allow us to tell His Majesty and the Princess."

The butler looked serious, I comforted Tourmaline and walked to the butler, the butler sighed and said, "Your Majesty will know sooner or later."

"It's because I didn't take good care of Your Highness." I whispered.

The housekeeper shook his head, he was fifty years old and still busy all day long, usually with a serious face, Shen Baiwu didn't take care of things, so he took good care of the mansion and farm. I heard that he has been staying by Shen Baiwu's side to watch him grow up, full of love and compassion from his parents.

"Maybe this is fate. Your Highness has suffered too much. In all these years, this time is the happiest." His eyes were a little wet, and he took a breath and said slowly: "Recently, I I often think of my Highness when I was young..."

He couldn't continue with what he said later, wiped his eyes and sent the doctor away.

Tourmaline and I took care of Shen Baiwu. He slept soundly all night until the next morning and slowly woke up. He was already thin and became more and more haggard from exhaustion during this period of time, so that he was in limbo.

Shen Baiwu opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling for a while, then I sat by his bed and asked how he was doing. He blinked slowly, then turned his head to look at me, his long black hair paled against his pale face, like the white walls and black tiles in a garden. Shen Baiwu said in a hoarse voice: "The reform proposal..."

I put my ear close to barely hear the second half of his sentence—"...there is half left."

"You can finish it." I wiped his hands with a towel and said.

He smiled very shallowly, and said to me: "Call Gu Ling over this afternoon, while I still have strength."

I was silent for a while and then responded. Shen Baiwu rested all morning and drank some porridge, his voice gradually became stronger, so I went to call Gu Ling over in the afternoon. Shen Baiwu screened everyone back, leaving only the three of us in the room, and asked everyone not to disturb.

Shen Baiwu sat on the bed, and I cushioned him with soft pillows to make him more comfortable. He asked us to move a stool and sit by his bed, saying that the story was so long that we had to listen to it from beginning to end, and that no one could tell it outside this door. Gu Ling and I swore to promise.

Seeing Shen Baiwu's weak appearance, Gu Ling could not bear it, and said in relief, "Cheng Guang-jun, you are so weak now, why don't you rest for two days and wait until you feel better?"

He didn't know that Shen Baiwu's time was running out.

Shen Baiwu shook his head, he suddenly laughed and said: "You are worried about me now, I am afraid that you will want to kill me in a while."

Gu Ling looked at Shen Baiwu in a daze, and then looked at me, but I didn't understand.

Shen Baiwu lowered his head and thought for a while, the story begins with the poisoned pastry at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the Kingdom of Yan.

After he and Ji Yu were poisoned, they were confined by Pei Mu for treatment. The treatment process was long and painful. Drinking medicine for acupuncture every day, sometimes vomiting and headache, sometimes numbness, sometimes convulsions and suffocation, no part of the whole body is safe, just like an endless nightmare.

"About half a year later, Ji Yu sensed that something was wrong. He told me that Pei Mu was not detoxifying us but testing us to find an antidote for Prince Yan." As soon as Shen Baiwu finished speaking, Gu Ling was surprised. Keep your eyes open and make fists with your hands.

I patted Gu Ling on the shoulder reassuringly.

The story so far is no different from what I know.

"So we planned to escape. We secretly poured the medicine that Pei Mu gave us, and secretly observed the terrain to plan our route. During the Spring Festival of that year, when the whole country was celebrating, we fled. Everything went smoothly. We escaped all the patrolling soldiers and fled. When we got to the palace wall, Ji Yu sent me to the wall first, and when I was about to reach out to pull him up, the pursuers caught up."

Shen Baiwu coughed twice, he paused for a moment, closed his eyes and said tremblingly: "I didn't pull him up, I left him and ran away, but Ji Yu was caught back."

Both Gu Ling and I were stunned, Gu Ling's eyes were burning with flames, he jumped up and grabbed Shen Baiwu's lapel, shaking him and said, "How can you...how can you..."

"Calm down! Gu Ling! Cheng Guangjun is a patient!" I took Gu Ling's arm.

Shen Baiwu faced Gu Lingyi's face full of indignation without fear, and smiled mockingly: "Yeah, I have been thinking for so many years, how could I do such a thing?"

"Maybe it's because being tested for drugs is really worse than death. The moment I saw the pursuers, I remembered all the pain and only thought of running away. But no matter what excuses I made, I did it. I betrayed Ji Yu. He was left alone in that purgatory on earth."

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