There was silence in the dark room for a long time, and no one made a sound.
Shen Lie also stood silently, as if reflected in the freehand landscape behind him.
Du Xuan brought an imperial chair from somewhere and wanted Shen Lie to sit on it.
Shen Lieruoru didn't hear it and just stood there with clear eyes.
The light from the lamps in the corridor was dim and dim, falling on his fair and clear jade face, like the fading sunset, illuminating the twilight of the river. He was dressed in brocade clothes of the color of the waves, like green mountains washed with green, and cold and lonely. Standing still between the sky and the water in the distant sky. Unmoved by the spring breeze, unmoved by the severe frost, time seems to have frozen, and no dust can be shaken from his body, nor can it be wrinkled by the blows.
I don’t know how much time passed, but suddenly, Shen Shu’s voice sounded: “Zhiyan, are you outside?”
His voice was very plain, and his voice was very hoarse due to years of serious illness.
Shen Lie raised his eyes lightly, his handsome face was smooth, and he looked calmly at the round holes on the wall.
"Is that you?" Shen Xu said.
Shen Lie didn't make a sound, just looked at it, motionless.
After a while of silence, Shen Xu said again: "If not, then...A Li?"
"There's no one outside." Fan Zhuyi said in a cold voice.
"There are people," Shen Shu said. "It's been an hour, and there's almost no sound of movement outside. Even if there is a little bit, when you pass by here, your steps will become lighter."
Du Xuan frowned outside and rolled his eyes.
Shen Xu smiled softly: "If it's Ah Li, just go away. I don't want to see anyone right now."
"You can't see anyone right now." Fan Zhuyi said.
Shen Xu smiled, and the room continued to be silent.
Gao Zhou found a pen and paper. His handwriting was ugly and difficult to write. The words on the paper read: The two of them have been locked up since then, and they have not spoken before.
Time passed slowly, and the candlelight in the lampshade dimmed. After a long time, Shen Shu said again: "Aren't you leaving yet?"
"Where have you been in the past few years?" Fan Zhuyi asked.
"Ali? Zhiyan? Or Mrs. Qu?"
"I'm asking you, where have you been in the past few years!" Fan Zhuyi suddenly raised his voice.
Shen Xu closed her eyes, disgust appearing on her handsome brows in the darkness.
"There is no one outside. You have been talking to the stone wall for a long time, why not answer your master's words!"
Shen Xu said coldly: "Walls have ears."
"No!"
"If you don't believe it, then don't believe it."
For people who don't want to say more than a word, Shen knows that the impatience in his tone will never be concealed.
"Shen Shu!" Fan Zhuyi was furious, "You worshiped me as your teacher, and I taught you everything I could. I never mistreated you, scolded you, and never let you down with the word 'master'! Is that right or wrong?"
Shen Xu didn't speak and kept her eyes closed.
"Master, I'm asking a question!!" Fan Zhuyi took a step forward.
What I got was still silence.
Fan Zhuyi smiled coldly: "Okay! Once a teacher, always a father, I will teach you a lesson today!"
"Ha," Shen Xu raised her hand and gently rubbed her temples, her eyes still closed, and her voice was neither painful nor itchy, nor urgent nor slow, "I haven't seen you for many years. Master has a good temper and is getting more and more irritable."
"Answer, why did you deceive heaven and earth, why did you fake your own death?"
"I am truly dead."
Fan Zhuyi sneered: "Then you are a ghost now?"
Shen Shu smiled lightly, slowly opened her eyes, and looked at the source of the sound in a space without any light: "I'm worse than a ghost, aren't I? I have been exposed to hundreds of poisons since I was young, and I have all the roots of the disease. My mother was force-fed poison in front of me, causing her orifices to bleed. I watched her struggle in pain, curl up and die. A year later, my hands were pressed into boiling water and burned into a pair of withered bodies. And here I am. If I don't cough, I won't cough. If I cough, I can't stop for ten days and ten nights. I cough up blood time and time again and can't even speak. Master, do you think I am different from a ghost in this half of my life?"
"This is your grudge against the Shen family. Go and seek the revenge you deserve!"
"Then what's your purpose of accepting me as your disciple?" Shen Shu smiled, "Is it really because your master, Master Xinming, is my mother's uncle? There are also my two cousins. You only accepted them because of Master Xinming. For the sake of face?”
Fan Zhuyi frowned and looked at him coldly.
Shen Xu smiled and said: "Accept me as your disciple, because I can survive all kinds of poisons in my body. You are very interested and stupid. You insist on thinking that I am immune to all poisons. Do you remember that you once caught a snake?" Did you bite me and then save me? When I woke up, what I saw was that you looked disappointed, but you asked me with regret, which of the snakes my mother raised would bite me the most? No pain."
"And what about my two cousins? Because their mother had an accident, they took refuge with my mother. My mother complained to you because they were a burden, but you took them away. As a result, one of them died miserably in the Ma Bandit's Den, and the other died because of You wanted to get along with the Taishi Bureau, but you gave Kong Zefeng as your daughter, replaced his own daughter in the palace, and became a concubine who stayed in the cold palace. Can these be regarded as grievances between the Shen family? "
Fan Zhuyi said in a cold voice: "So you have called me master for ten years, but you still have a grudge in your heart?"
"How could I ever want to hold a grudge? Isn't it because you insist on me talking?"
After saying that, Shen Xu smiled softly again: "As a dying person, it is useless to hold grudges. But I am sick and injured, and at the end of the day, someone even cut me on the face. He threatened to ruin my appearance. From the beginning to the end, there was nothing good about me."
"Did someone scratch your face?" Fan Zhuyi was surprised.
Several times today, Fan Zhuyi has not taken a closer look, and he is aware that his long hair is hanging down smoothly, blocking a lot of sight.
"What Ah Li did." Shen Shu smiled lightly.
After Gao Zhou heard this, he quietly looked at Shen Lie, trying to observe whether there was any change in the expression of his eyebrows.
No.
From the beginning to the end, Shen Lie's eyebrows were indifferent and cold, and his black eyes were bottomless, but as calm as water.
"Why did she scratch your face?" Fan Zhuyi asked.
"You can row if you want," Shen Shu said with a smile, "She is powerful and skilled. She is favored and sought after by thousands of people. Naturally, her arrogance is a bit more arrogant than ordinary girls. What's so strange about it."
"Ha," Fan Zhuyi sneered, "She is indeed nothing."
"Master also fell into her hands."
"Why did you become a prisoner?"
"Haha, hahaha..." Shen Xu's laughter became louder.
"why are you laughing?"
"Nothing, cough, hahaha... cough, cough, cough, cough!" Shen Xu suddenly began to cough violently.
Fan Zhuyi had no intention of going up to see him, and just looked at him coldly.
Shen Xu coughed more and more fiercely, and suddenly she heard a very light retching sound, and then, a thick fishy smell came from the air.
"You vomited blood again." Fan Zhuyi said calmly.
Shen Xu took out the handkerchief in her arms and covered her mouth, trying hard to control it, but she couldn't.
Even so, he still wanted to laugh and coughed while laughing.
Gao Zhou took a deep breath and looked at a soldier not far away, signaling with his eyes.
The soldier took the order and turned around to leave.
Not long after, the soldier came back with water and medicine, opened the mechanism on the wall, and stepped into the door.
