It has been nearly a month since I left Zhangcheng, and the weather has begun to warm up. Although there is still a chilly spring breeze in the morning, you can see the thicker new green among the pale weeds on the roadside. Li Bochen called the horse to walk slowly on the dirt road in the countryside, and reached out to break a branch from the hawthorn tree beside him.

As soon as it sprouted, the leaves were timidly green. He chose the tender leaves and put them in his mouth and chewed them slowly. It was a little sweet when he first entered his mouth, but then it became a little bitter. He smiled, remembering that he thought it was delicious when he was a child.

When he was six or seven years old, he followed the village children to hike around the mountains, eating the tender leaves of the hawthorn tree in early spring, eating freshly grown wild onions, and sour ginger. In summer, there are black dragon sunflowers, red raspberries, and caterpillars that have crawled all over the cherry trees - but he doesn't eat this, and he doesn't eat it even after it's roasted.

He remembered that his mother had beaten him for this - that time it was because he ate a kind of mushroom. After returning home, he only knew that he could not even speak.

Thinking of this, he smiled again, but then he was stunned.

——It seems like I have really experienced it.

Li Bochen sighed softly and found that the closer he was to the village where he had lived with his mother for nine years, the more real the memories in his mind became. When he was in Wuliang City, although he also remembered everything, he always felt that he was a bystander. He knew what the man had experienced before and what he thought in his heart, but he was just like watching a series of scenes.

But from time to time these days I feel that I have experienced it myself and feel it. He thought, maybe it was because it was close to the former residence - the certain consciousness that might have remained in my body influenced me a deeper influence due to some kind of inseparable family affection.

Thinking of this, he felt a little ashamed. I remember that before he went to Wuliang Army, he would go back to his hometown to worship his mother every year. But now he has been unable to come back for six years, and the graves are probably covered with weeds. In fact, he came here not to visit the tombs and pay tribute, but to trace his life experience.

When he was in Wuliang City, he felt that the natural divine power was just "natural divine power" and his physique was better than that of ordinary people. But after experiencing a battle with Xu Cheng, he realized that things might not be that simple.

The Sword God of Fengxue wanted to use his body to "take a look" in the realm of his true lord, but was shocked and retreated in a panic. He originally thought that his "true lord" was himself, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Is there really a powerful secret spirit attached to the original one?

Over the past month, he tried various ways to contact the possible secret spirit, but got nothing. So he realized that he had to dig from the beginning and figure out his own affairs first so that he would not bump around like a headless fly.

At this time, the horse stopped by a stream. The stream was gurgling, and only a small piece of crisp spring ice was left on the bank. Li Bochen remembered that this stream - when he went down the stream, he would walk to the village. Go up, he would go to the hill called "Five Dragons Back" by the locals. His mother's grave was halfway up the mountain.

He thought about it, pulled the reins and walked up.

After about half an hour, he led his horse up the hillside, followed the route he remembered through a short bush with dead leaves but new buds, and saw the grave from afar.

I thought the grave should be covered with weeds, but now I see it is covered with soil, which seems to have been taken care of. He was stunned, thinking that maybe the villagers did this when they visited the grave, after all, his mother had a harmonious relationship with the neighbors when she was alive.

He tied the horse to a tree, took a small jar of wine and some incense from the package he carried, and walked to the grave with him.

He put down these things and looked at the tombstone first. It was engraved with: The tomb of the loving mother Chang Tingwei.

This felt strange, familiar and unfamiliar. He sighed softly, took out the fire slap and lit the incense, inserted it into the soil, dug a shallow pit in front of the tomb, and began to slowly burn paper money.

After burning for a while, Li Bochen whispered: "Madam Chang, I may not be able to see you again in the future. I will go to Li Country in a few days. I don't know if I can come back."

After thinking about it, he said, "I am half your son... If I know the truth in the ivory, these incense, candles and paper money will be used. Oh... I don't know if you will blame me, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen. I also have a mother, but I don't have it here. If I have a chance in the future, I will definitely come again."

When I said this, I felt my nose sore, so I wiped my eyes. I haven't missed homesick for a long time, but now I'm soaked by incense, I feel a little uncomfortable.

After burning all the remaining paper money, he lifted his hem, knelt down and kowtowed nine times, stood up and patted the mud seal on the wine jar, and slowly sprinkled the wine in front of the grave.

In my memory, Chang Tingwei likes to drink, which is really a strange hobby for women in this world. But she fled from Li State to Sui State alone, so she must have many sad things in her heart, and it is not surprising that she drowns her sorrow with alcohol.

After pouring the wine, Li Bochen sat down by the grave with the wine jar and began to think about the things that he had thought about countless times these days - why did Chang Tingwei escape to the Sui Kingdom?

He made some speculations about her identity.

Chang Tingwei was born extremely beautiful. As a child, it is difficult to evaluate the appearance of a mother. Whether it is beautiful or ugly, the impression will be slowly diluted through years of getting along, and in the end there is only a very subjective vague evaluation left.

But from Li Bochen's current perspective, she can draw a more objective conclusion like a bystander - her beauty is slightly better than Tao Chunxi and is comparable to Li Qiuhu.

And his hands are white and delicate, and he doesn't know how to do farm work. He hasn't done any business in this village for nine years, and he uses all his savings.

A memory that was more impressive was that when she was seven years old, Li Bochen clamored to eat the lion candy she mentioned. She was just arguing casually, but she burst into tears that day. Li Bochen was shocked, but in the afternoon she found a car and took him to the town. As a result, there was no lion candy sold in the town, so she found another car and went to the city.

He remembered that they lived in the mansion for nine days that year and tasted delicious food. At that time, Li Bochen was only novel and happy about this matter, but now Li Bochen recalled and found many details.

When she was eating, she was as greedy as a child. Although she was already sick at that time, she was very interested. She lived in a luxurious inn in the city, and she had to pay a fortune in one night. In those nine days, she probably spent about three silver coins - enough for the family of three in the village to spend a year.

But even so, she seemed not satisfied and complained about the inn. When she returned home, she felt sad for a long time. For the whole year, she was still muttering about the things that were so good. Sometimes she couldn't help but say something like "I used to be like this."

Judging from these details, she should have a very good background. When she was in Li State, she might have been a rich man and a woman from an official family. So would she have to do it because of a sudden change in her family?

If this is the case, it would have been a disaster of extermination. Otherwise, if it was just a family deterioration, you could join the relatives and friends of Li Kingdom. Why should you come to a place with completely different living habits from your home country? And you would still live in seclusion in a mountain village, not a town.

But Li Bochen searched for his memories and found something that was unreasonable. Chang Tingwei once mentioned something on the road south, saying that in a town on the border of Li State, he had eaten something called "Leaf Cake". Red beans were made into fillings, glutinous rice was made into skins, and steamed with perilla on the outside. It is said that it was a specialty there. He also said that when he was eating that thing, he drank a wine called "Liangjiu".

If the Sui Kingdom was killed by his enemies and chased by his enemies, how could he have the leisure to drink?

It was not because of the destruction of Li State - the time she came to Sui State was the first three years before the emperor raised troops to attack Li.

So is it because of his father and her husband?

Although the men and women in Li Kingdom were the most open-minded among the six kingdoms, it was possible that the lady from the rich and official family was expelled from the house due to her personal relationship. However, as long as I can remember, Chang Tingwei never mentioned his father until he was nine years old, and there was no such thing as missing or complaining, as if the man did not exist.

In this way, Li Bochen was sure that it was not as simple as elopement or being expelled from the house. The key point of the mystery of his life experience should be the man.

However, no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure out the logic. The choices Chang Tingwei made and the things he did later were so abnormal.

In fact, he has thought about these things over the years and realized that it is impossible to get any results based on the memories in his mind alone. He must dig out something new.

So he put down the wine jar, stood up, and planned to go to the village to inquire. But after just two steps, he suddenly stopped. After thinking about it, he walked to the grave and reached out to dig it in the soil.

The soil is very soft and there are grass stems inside. Did you shovel the nearby grass and cover the soil on the ground with a layer of grass?

He shouldn't have done this. If he really wants to take care of this grave, he should have pulled out the grass. If he does this, he is afraid that more grass will grow in spring. He suddenly jumped in his heart, thought for a while, and whispered: "Madam Chang, forgive me."

Then he rolled up his sleeves and inserted his arm hard into it, which probably penetrated half of his arm. He then found that the soil in the grave was also very soft. He grabbed it in the soil and pulled it out again - there were some grass stems in the soil deep in half of his arm.

And it's not rotten, and some of them are even a bit dry.

Li Bochen took a deep breath and realized that this only means one thing-the grave had been dug out, just recently.

He stood in front of the grave for a while, then cultivated the soil he had brought out with his hands, and breathed a few more times, barely calming himself down.

It was not a tomb robber. The money was used up half a year before Chang Tingwei passed away. When she came to Sui State, she did have a lot of money, but she didn't know how to save money. In addition, she became seriously ill and finally buried, some people in the village raised money. Moreover, if the villagers wanted to rob the tomb, they would have robbed it long ago. If it were outsiders, there would have been no reason to rob this inconspicuous pile of earthen tombs.

It should be someone who is also tracing his own background.

He thought of the two - the Sui State official and the Kongming Society. On the way he came, he saw his wanted notice in some prefectures and larger towns, with portraits attached to it. It was about five or six points, but it was difficult to meet the number. However, the official would not do such a thing - it was not that it could not be done, but it was unlikely that there was a need to delve into his own life experience. This would be of little help to capture himself.

It is more likely that he was a member of the Kongming Society. As the leader of the Zhangcheng Conference and the Spirit Lord, the higher-level identity of this level should be clear. And killing a Spirit Lord... It would make people confused. Those people should not only want to capture themselves, but also want to figure out why they can kill Xu Cheng.

If these people were really... Li Bochen didn't know what punishment Sui Lu had for the diggers, but for him, it should be a death penalty.

He was silent for a while and whispered: "Mrs. Chang, I will definitely give you an explanation for this."

Then he turned around and took off his horse and walked slowly down the mountain.

He still had to go to the village to ask. If it was done by the people from the Kongming Society, they would also ask. He was not worried that he would be recognized - there would be something like wanted notices in such a small place. He was not worried about ambushing there... If there was, it would be the best.

An hour later, he saw an old locust tree from afar. The tree seemed to be covered with a layer of green smoke, and it should be full of new green. Li Bochen remembered that when he returned to his hometown to worship seven years ago, the tree was about to die, but he didn't expect that the dead tree is now in spring.

This should be a joyful thing, but he was angry and couldn't be happy. There should be a low stone wall behind the old locust tree. After passing the stone wall, it was the village. He clamped the horse's belly and told the horse to run faster.

After a while, I arrived under the tree and heard the sound of blowing and vaguely. He was stunned. Has anyone in the village passed away?

However, after listening carefully, I realized that it seemed that there were not one family, but at least three. He was shocked and had a bad premonition - it was very common for old people to die in winter. Even if three families were holding funerals in one winter, it was not unusual.

The problem is, it’s so coincidental. Chang Tingwei’s grave was dug a few days ago, and three families in the village also died a few days ago?

He got off his horse, led the horse forward a few steps, but stood down again.

I originally planned to go to the village to ask, to make sure there are no omissions. But now that this happens, it is better not to show up during the day. I am not worried about myself, but worrying that if the gravedigger still has eyeliner, it will bring more disasters to the small village.

He turned around, led his horse down the road, walked for a while, and tied the horse under two big pear trees, and found a stone to sit down. His intention to kill was already aroused, but now he slowly calmed down. The Emperor Beichen did not plan to ask him to live a peaceful life, or it was good. In the past month, he took the lives of six more people, two were bandits who robbed the Tao, and four were bandits who robbed the family and did not let go of the young and old.

It cannot be considered a way of practicing the way for heaven, but if there is no bright world in this world, it is not undesirable to stop killing by killing.
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