Chapter 596: The Dead
Warriors The carriage sped along the uneven official road in the morning sun, the bumpy sound echoing in the carriage.
His breathing rate suddenly quickened. Wei Changtian, who understood Li Zimu's meaning, immediately thought of a word -
subconscious.
Obviously, the "imperceptible thoughts" that Li Zimu refers to are the subconscious.
Of course, although the word "subconscious" is a term used in previous lives, it does not mean that people in this world do not have similar concepts.
So it doesn’t matter what the name is, what matters is what Li Zimu just said.
"All seemingly random choices are actually determined by these hidden thoughts."
"Sir, do you believe that if you could do it again once, ten times, or a hundred times, you would still choose the South Gate?"
"It's not fate, it's the mind."
“.”
Looking at the slightly immature face opposite him, if Wei Changtian had not heard it with his own ears, he would never have believed that these words came from the mouth of a teenage girl.
But Li Zimu did say that.
And he said it with great certainty.
At this moment, Wei Changtian could already confirm that Li Zimu had extraordinary abilities.
To put it modestly, it is called "meticulous mind", and to put it more exaggeratedly, it is called "mind reading".
Unlike Chu Xianping's powerful planning and strategic abilities, Li Zimu may not be able to use lies and conspiracies to accomplish something "impossible".
But she can read people's minds.
How did this ability come from? Why did it appear in such an ordinary farm girl?
Wei Changtian had no idea about the above questions.
But "Miss Li, are you willing to be the Wei family's death warrior?"
“.”
As soon as Wei Changtian finished speaking, Yang Liushi's eyes became a little surprised.
Perhaps in her opinion, with Li Zimu's ability, he would be able to compete with Chu Xian in the future, so the identity of a death warrior was too "unfair" to her.
But Li Zimu's expression did not change at all, as if he had expected this to happen, and he just nodded slightly.
"Since you have saved me twice, my life should belong to you."
"I am willing to serve you, sir."
"good."
Wei Changtian nodded slightly, paused, and asked:
"Where are your parents buried?"
“.”
Li Zimu's eyes froze, and an extremely complicated emotion flashed in his eyes.
She knew why Wei Changtian asked this question.
Since I have to be a loyal soldier of the Wei family from now on, I naturally have to "say goodbye" to everything in the past.
"It's on the small hill in the north of the city."
"Um."
Wei Changtian responded, then turned his head and said to the outside of the car: "Zhang San."
"Let's go to Okayama first."
The ground is covered with wild grass and jagged rocks.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s not spring yet, but the small hill is desolate at this time. Apart from the bare short trees, the most common things on the hill are graves, some new and some old.
Most of the people killed by bandits were buried here, and Li Zimu's parents were no exception.
"Sir, how do you plan to use Miss Li?"
Looking from afar at Li Zimu, who was kneeling and kowtowing in front of two closely adjacent graves, Yang Liushi asked Wei Changtian in a low voice: "It is truly precious that she has such a talent. You should not treat her like a slave."
"When did I ever treat others like cattle and horses?"
With his arms crossed over his chest, Wei Changtian curled his lips and said, "Besides, whether she is really capable or not cannot be judged solely by this one thing."
"I will test her a few more times in the future. If she handles it well, I will naturally use her."
"Phew, that's good."
Yang Liushi breathed a sigh of relief: "Miss Li is a pitiful person. I hope she can forget those unbearable past events sooner."
"I guess I won't forget it."
Wei Changtian shook his head: "My parents died at the hands of thieves, and I was also abused by them. Anyone would bear a grudge for the rest of their lives if they were to do this."
“.”
With her eyelids lowered, Yang Liushi seemed to be unable to bear to look at Li Zimu's thin back any longer, and said helplessly in a low voice: "Miss Li can read people's minds, but I don't know why she fell into the hands of bandits."
"Alas, what's the use of understanding people's minds? They can't defeat the bandits' knives."
Wei Changtian sighed: "Besides, she might have done it on purpose to avenge her parents. Who knows?"
"Sir, just ask and you'll know."
"Forget it, it's meaningless."
"Um"
“.”
The mountain breeze blew by, carrying the faint sound of crying into the ears of Wei Changtian and Yang Liushi.
Soon after the sobbing stopped, the two saw Li Zimu finally stand up shakily.
She bowed towards the two graves with some reluctance, then quickly wiped her eyes and walked back step by step with her head down.
"alright?"
Glancing at Li Zimu's red eyes, Wei Changtian didn't say much.
"Let's go."
"Yes, Master."
"No need to call me master, just call me Master like Zhang San."
"Yes, sir."
"Um."
“.”
that's all.
When the sun in the east had risen completely and its golden light was shining on the earth, the three carriages finally left Zhongling and continued to head north towards the capital.
From originally wanting to see the "changes" in Zhongling, to enforcing justice in anger, to inexplicably recruiting a "mind-reading" assassin, Wei Changtian, who enjoyed the treatment of "picking up treasures while traveling" for the first time, did not show much happiness. He kept his eyes closed on the way and no one knew what he was thinking.
By noon, the Tanzhou government also responded.
"Sir, the governor of Tanzhou, Lord Feng, said that he would immediately send troops to Zhongling to wipe out all the remaining bandits in the city, and the new county magistrate would also take office with him, and the state government would also provide money to compensate the people who suffered from the banditry."
"Lord Feng promises that such things will never happen again, and he is going to go to the capital to meet you in person and apologize to you and Ning Wenjun in person."
The bandit problem that had lasted for two years was immediately resolved because of a verbal message from Wei Changtian, and even the governor of a state came to apologize in person.
This undoubtedly proves how great the influence of the Wei family is in Daning today.
"Tell that Lord Feng that there is no need to apologize. I don't have the time for that."
After replying to Zhang San, Wei Changtian stopped talking and silence returned to the carriage.
Li Zimu on the opposite side had changed into a set of Yang Liushi's clothes. Although it was a bit loose for her, it was still better than Wei Changtian's outer robe.
She seemed not to have heard the conversation between Wei Changtian and Zhang San just now, and kept her head down in a daze.
It was obvious that he had not yet recovered from the separation from his parents.
"Sir, I want to hear you finish the poem now."
Suddenly, Yang Liushi's voice broke the silence.
"Um?"
Wei Changtian was slightly stunned, his eyes fell on Li Zimu, as if he understood the meaning of Yang Liu's poem.
"When will the bright moon appear? I raise my cup to ask the sky. I don't know what year it is in the palace of heaven."
He recited "Song of Water Melody" slowly and without any ink.
Although this is a Mid-Autumn Festival poem and it describes the night scene, both the time and the scenery are very different from the present.
But as soon as the first two sentences were uttered, Yang Liushi's eyes froze, and Li Zimu also raised his head in confusion.
Wei Changtian's voice in the car was neither loud nor soft, and outside the car the sky was flat and the land was vast.
The loess spreads for thousands of miles, the bare mountains stretch endlessly, and the desolate land is vast and silent.
Under the blue sky, there were only three carriages speeding along, leaving Zhongling City far behind and heading straight for the precarious capital of Daning.
“.”
"People have joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, the moon waxes and wanes, it is impossible to have everything in life."
"May we live long and share the beauty of the moon, even though we are thousands of miles apart."
(End of this chapter)
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