Chapter 71: The King and the State, the Chicken Has a Crown and the Frog Is Unfair
My father’s musician is indeed Chen Kuang.
Chen Kuang is dead!
How could Chen Kuang die?
He was clearly alive and well, and he had taken her and her mother and escaped from the prison, escaped from the imperial city, and ran all the way to Dongting Lake.
How could he die in the prison?
She was so shocked that she froze, her little brain unable to comprehend the current situation.
Could it be... that she was having a nightmare?
It seemed that this was the only way to explain everything she was seeing now.
“Gugugugu…”
Her stomach suddenly growled loudly, and after regaining consciousness, she felt hungry.
She covered her stomach, terrified.
I'm hungry when I'm awake, and I'm hungry when I'm dreaming?!
This nightmare is a little too scary and too real!
Chu Wenruo, of course, also heard the loud rumbling of her stomach. She stuffed the half steamed bun into her mouth and said softly, "You kid, you really woke up hungry."
"Eat quickly."
She was extremely hungry. She grabbed the steamed bun and took two hard bites. Suddenly, she was stunned again and asked:
"Mom, was this steamed bun given to you by that musician?"
Chu Wenruo touched her head and frowned, wondering if the child had gone stupid from hunger. She said in surprise:
"Ying'er, why are you talking nonsense? General Huo secretly gave us these steamed buns."
Chu Wenruo glanced at the cell on the other side and whispered:
"Ying'er, General Huo has done us a great favor. You must never forget it in the future."
Holding the steamed bun in her mouth, she looked to the other side and saw the skinny old man meditating with his eyes closed. His hands and feet looked like they were still chopped off.
Her eyes became increasingly dazed.
Huo Hengxuan, who was originally dead, is still alive.
Chen Kuang, who was originally alive, is now dead...
When will I wake up from this strange dream?
As she thought this, she woke up and fell asleep three times in the cell, eating a total of three steamed buns.
Huo Hengxuan was dragged out for interrogation twice more. Every time he came back, he liked to talk to her and tease her.
During this time, she saw many familiar people.
The Confucian scholar who had spoken rudely to his mother and was beheaded on the spot by Chen Kuang, the jailer who delivered the golden needle to Huo Hengxuan to unblock his body, and the masked Qingcuo.
This time, the Confucian scholar did not die.
Without Chen Kuang, she was bored and only found out from the conversation with other prisoners that this man was actually a student of Liberty Hill and seemed to be quite famous.
Liberty Hill... She knew the word. Her father always thought she was stupid and said he would send her to school there.
The teacher there is a mortal, but he can teach knowledge to practitioners.
He must be a very powerful person.
But she doesn't want to go to school.
She had never been to school and didn't know what it was like, but she had seen what those ministers who had been to school were like.
She didn't want to become like that.
The jailer was arranged by Qingcuo to come in a few days later than originally planned. Huo Hengxuan was almost no longer human... She heard the voices of the prisoners and called them human pigs.
Everything is so strange.
Every day she would secretly talk to the corpse of Chen Kuang next door, hoping that he would suddenly jump up and tell her with a smile that it was a prank.
But it didn't.
Chen Kuang's body had begun to rot, and one day, his already lifeless eyes fell off.
She reached out and grabbed her sunken eyes, and suddenly burst into tears.
She cried all day long and Chu Wenruo couldn't comfort her no matter how hard she tried.
She asked Chu Wenruo desperately, "Mom, do you know him? You once saved his life while wearing a green dress."
Chu Wenruo was stunned and shook her head in confusion: "Mother has never seen him."
She asked nervously, "Did someone say something nonsense to you?"
In an instant, she understood that she had woken up from the dream a long time ago.
Huo Hengxuan is back again.
This time, he asked her that strange arithmetic question again, but because his tongue was pulled out, his voice was unclear.
"Your Highness, please answer: If you were stranded on a deserted island and someone brought you five apples..."
Huo Hengxuan was halfway through his speech and hadn't even finished asking the questions.
"If anyone asks me this question, they must be harboring evil intentions, intending to kill three men with two peaches."
"Therefore, I only need to kill the person who brought the apple, and the remaining people can each get an apple."
The standard answer given by Huo Hengxuan at that time was repeated verbatim.
She looked at Huo Hengxuan without missing a word.
The old man was stunned and remained silent for a long time as he looked at the little girl in front of him who was only four years old but could answer the question accurately and calmly.
After a long while, he suddenly burst into laughter:
"Good, good, good. Your Highness has such a mindset. It is a blessing for Daliang!"
On the other side of the cell, the Confucian scholar who first noticed the saint's move suddenly opened his eyes and smiled.
On September 1, 1135, Liang was destroyed by Zhou.
On September 9th, Heijia Wei Qingcuo rebelled and died together with Li Hongling.
General Huo Hengxuan, along with Lady Liang and her daughter, broke out of the encirclement and fought with the Eastern Emperor Saint, severely injuring him and causing him to die of exhaustion.
He had been tortured for too long, and the golden needle failed to break the seal. This was his limit.
Amidst the flames of war.
Under the protection of the practitioners of Lingtai Mountain, Chu Wenruo escaped from the imperial city with his daughter, but saw a vast expanse of pitch-black iron armor in front of him, as insurmountable as a mountain.
Fifty thousand black-armored soldiers were guarding outside the city with flags fluttering.
Behind him, the seriously injured saint had already cast his gaze.
With wolves in front and tigers behind, it is a desperate situation.
"Ma'am, please follow me."
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