Chapter 22 Chapter 22

In the middle of the night, when Sun Wu was patrolling the city, he saw a crowd of people crowded with lanterns and torches in the distance, so he hurriedly drove his horse over to inquire.Wu Zixu searched around the tomb of King Chuping. This is the first thing Wu Zixu has to do after breaking through Chu Chu and entering Ying.This general with great vision and sharp vision, and tenacious nature, valued family affection very much, and fought hard for ten years in order to avenge his father and brother.As soon as he saw Yingdu, Zixu had mixed feelings.This familiar city, the long-lost streets, the Chu country that gave birth to you and raised you!You and your elder brother Wu Shang lingered and played in front of your father Wu She's lap, as if it happened yesterday.Father Wu She is the official residence of the Taifu, and as the prince's teacher, did the noble and glorious childhood that your father brought to you pass away in a flash?How can there be vicissitudes of life, and King Ping of Chu wants to kill Prince Jian?If you want to kill Prince Jian, you have to kill Tai Fu Wu She, and if you kill Tai Fu Wu She, you have to kill his two sons, so you Wu Zixu became the person who was designed by King Chu Ping to arrest and execute. How can there be such a thing in the world? reason?How can people be so vicious.The past is so unbearable!Wu Zixu really didn't want to open the copper lock of the past.However, the past full of blood and hatred lingering in his heart can never be locked.He remembered that King Ping of Chu sent envoys to call his brother into the palace under the pretense of entrusting his father Wu She's order.He saw through King Chu Ping's hidden murderous intention of mowing the grass and rooting out the roots. He put the arrow on the string and aimed it at the middle of the messenger's eyebrows. He escaped from Chu State.How hard it was to flee all the way!When approaching Zhaoguan, the government offered rewards everywhere for him, and the soldiers searched him everywhere. His black hair turned into white hair overnight!Since then, I have become a white-haired person!On the way to escape, he put his feet in cow dung to keep warm, curled up in the cave with malaria, and finally reduced to a bamboo flute, half a broken ladle, begging for leftovers along the street.There is kindness in the world!Behind is the Chu soldiers chasing and killing, and in front of him is the dangerous moment of the surging river, and a small boat floats on the river.The song sung by the fisherman who punted the boat he will never forget:

The wind and rain are dripping and the waves are ringing, repairing my cypress boat and walking with my son... People in the reed, come out, people in the reed, come out!The fisherman called him out of the reed marsh and crossed him across the river.He had nothing to repay the fisherman, so he took off his sword and said: "This sword is worth a hundred gold, and I can treat it as a reward. Please..." The fisherman said: "The king of Chu has ordered that your head is worth five hundred shi of corn, plus I’m afraid that a mere sword will not be a thank you gift for the title of doctor!” He was stunned, and knelt down on his knees: “Please accept the sword, and when the Chu soldiers come, please help cover up the truth!” The fisherman looked up to the sky and sighed, “So say , if the soldiers of Chu catch up with you Luzhong people, this old man will not be able to escape the relationship that harmed you. Luzhong people, Luzhong people, I can only die to relieve your doubts!"

The fisherman threw himself into the river.Suddenly a child ran up the bank and threw himself on the riverside, crying. The torrential river... the reeds, the lost child whimpering in the sound of the wind. There are also cypress boats.The empty cypress boat, like an empty egg shell, floats up and down in the vortex of Jiang Tao, drifting with the current... People in Luzhong!People in Luzhong! The fisherman's call lingers in my ears, the saber lies quietly in the box, where is the fisherman's abandoned child?To whom should I repay this kindness? What about hatred?The Ying capital of the Chu Kingdom has been destroyed, King Chu Zhao has fled to Yunmeng, and King Chu Ping is dead, who should take revenge?

Digging the grave!Dig the tomb of King Chuping! Dig the grave, dig the grave!Shouting frantically, Wu Zixu led a hundred disciples to search the tomb of King Chuping for three consecutive days and nights.His face was deformed, his eyes were covered with bloody webs, and his white hair was thrown out like a huge dandelion.He was a little crazy. He led, drove, and yelled, making the soldiers dig indiscriminately. If they couldn't find King Chuping's tomb, he might dig like this until he lay down and couldn't get up again. When King Ping of Chu was about to die, he probably thought of the day when there would be violent corpses, so he built the tomb very concealed.At midnight when King Ping's tomb was dug under a stone bridge on the outskirts of Yingcheng, the soldiers were exhausted.Wu Zixu was still in high spirits.King Chu Ping's wooden coffin tomb is nine feet above the ground, with four floors.Under the light of lanterns and torches, it can be seen that the main tomb is surrounded by tombs, and there are thousands of funerary objects.Terracotta warriors, dancing warriors, musical warriors, standing warriors, kneeling warriors, accompanied the dead.In the tomb are chariots and horses, weapons, chimes, zithers, drums, zithers, gold and silver vessels, gold ornaments and silver pendants, bamboo slips, tripods, cauldrons, pans, cups, pottery and wooden cups, beans, and zu. , pot, everything you expect to find.The huge coffin and the beautifully painted phoenix bird are among the clouds and clouds, which are strange and bizarre.A rising atmosphere contrasts sharply with the zombies of the dead.The bronze tomb-guarding animal is full of ghostly spirits, and the sika deer wrapped in silk is buried alive under the coffin pit, and it still stands when it dies.While digging the tomb, the soldiers were amazed, praised, and looted.

The coffin of King Ping of Chu was finally dug out and split open.The body of King Ping of Chu was lifted up by the soldiers and thrown to the ground.Even in the dim light of lanterns and torches, the yellow face of King Chu Ping was clearly visible, and it was so lifelike.As soon as he saw the air, the luster of the old man's skin suddenly darkened, from yellow to gray, and the dark spots popped out.The two cheeks were sunken, almost forming two holes.For some reason, King Ping of Chu's eyes were still numbly open, and he refused to close his eyes if he had many unfinished business on his mind.Some of the soldiers rushed forward and pulled out the beads contained in King Chu Ping's mouth, while others tore off the jade from King Ping's clothes, tossing the dead back and forth.At this time, Wu Zixu faced the place where Yingdu's hometown lived, weeping loudly, tears streaming down his face, and shouted hoarsely:

"Father is in the spirit of heaven, let the unfilial son Wu Zixu avenge you! Brother is in the spirit of heaven, Zixu has avenged you!" Wu Zixu sprinkled wine in honor of his father and brother, turned around and ran to the side of King Ping's body. The soldiers moved away in surprise. No one dared to speak, no one knew what he was going to do, what to do with King Chuping's body. Haha laughed wildly.Laugh out loud.Tears flow when I laugh. crazy? Wu Zixu laughed so that the white hair on his head trembled, and he called out: "Old man, do you recognize your grandfather Wu Zixu? Keep Zixu's pride, and I will meet you again in ten years! Haha, old man, you will never die Close your eyes, just want to see today? I tell you to see! I tell you to see! See enough!"

As he said that, Wu Zixu stepped on the dead man's foot with his left foot, and inserted two fingers of his right hand into the eye socket of the dead man. With one gouging out, the dead man's left eye was gouged out, and the right eyeball was also gouged out by another gouging out. "Bring me the whip! I don't feel right if I don't let the old man eat the whip! I want to whip the corpse three hundred times!" The slap of the whip went down, although it was not loud on the corpse, it caused the skin to burst immediately. With another lash, the smelly smell from the dead man's skin and rotten meat splashed together, splashing Wu Zixu's head and face.The soldiers backed away in fear.Wu Zixu swung his whip, counted and yelled.Gradually, the deceased completely turned into rotten flesh, unable to distinguish facial features.After drawing more than a hundred whips, someone rushed to grab Wu Zixu's hand.

"Wu Zixu, hold on!" Who dares to stop the crazy avenger?Shen Baoxu. Shen Baoxu, the doctor of Chu, hid in the grass and saw all this clearly. He couldn't bear it anymore and ran from his hiding place, desperate to stop Wu Zixu.The two of them have been close friends since childhood, but now they have their own masters, and they are at odds with each other. "Shen Baoxu, you are so bold!" "Wu Yuan, a large number of people can conquer the sky, and the wrath of the gods can destroy people. If you are so cruel, aren't you afraid of offending the gods?"

Wu Zixu sneered and said, "It's getting late now, and the journey is far away, so I can no longer obey common sense. The old man, King Chu Ping, killed my father and brother, and almost put me to death several times. That's why he offended God, and the violent corpse received the whip. It's God's will! Do you remember that when Zixu fled, he swore to you that I would overthrow the state of Chu, and you said that you would make the state of Chu prosper. Shen Baoxu, where is the state of Chu?" Shen Baoxu: "Isn't Shen Baoxu still alive? How can Chu be said to have perished?"

"Okay, come here, take Shen Baoxu down!" Shen Baoxu: "Wait a minute! Wu Zixu, aren't you afraid of being cursed by the world? You are an old minister of the Chu State. You once served the King of Chu. Now you are so cruel that you ravage dead bodies..." "Do you want to hug King Chuping's zombie and die?" "That's the honor of Shen Baoxu." "Are you willing to suffer with the whip on behalf of the dead?" "willing." With a snap of the whip, it flew up and landed on Shen Baoxu's head. Shen Baoxu's face was slanted, leaving a bloodstain, and the rotten flesh of the dead was stained on his face.

Shen Baoxu remained motionless. Wu Zixu sneered again: "You don't have to worry, I, Wu Zixu, will come back ten years to avenge this vengeance, and I won't make it easy for the old king of Chu Ping. Come on, don't ask Shen Baoxu to hinder my hands and feet, and tie him up first!" The soldiers rushed up and twisted Shen Baoxu's arms. "People in the reed! People in the reed! Please raise your hands high!" The young man following Shen Baoxu fell to his knees. People in Luzhong! This familiar yet unfamiliar title! "Who are you?" Wu Zixu asked. "Do you still remember the fisherman who took you across the river in a cypress boat? That's my father!" Fisherman? Wu Zixu felt a surge of heat in his heart.Suddenly he thought of the pursuers, Jiang Tao, the cypress boat, the reed marsh, and the old fisherman who threw himself into the river because of him. "Get up, get up quickly." For Wu Zixu, King Ping of Chu's revenge was fully avenged, the corpse was whipped, the city was destroyed, and King Chu Zhao died in exile.However, the great kindness and virtue of Yuzhang who crossed the river for him and died for him has always been a heart problem for him.Vengeance must be repaid, and kindness must be repaid. These are the two opposite and complementary parts of Wu Zixu, a bloody man. He has these heroic features in him.His heroic and staunch disposition is entwined with the inextricable ethics and family affection. "Since you are the descendants of the benefactor, the fisherman, please hurry up. I have been trying to repay your father's kindness for crossing the river to save lives. Tell me quickly, what do you want?" "Master Wu, I will never ask for anything else in this life. Dr. Shen Baoxushen values ​​justice over life and is kind to the common people. On behalf of my late father, I beg you to give Dr. Shen Baoxu a way out." Wu Zixu looked troubled.He pondered for a moment.He seemed to hear the voice again: "The wind and rain are dripping and the waves are ringing, build my cypress boat and walk with my son..." He heard the call that bit his heart again, "People in the reed, people in the reed!" Wu Zixu sighed helplessly. "Shen Baoxu, firstly, you and I are young friends, secondly, Yuzhang has the kindness to save my life, and thirdly, Wu Zixu wants you to see how I completely destroyed the state of Chu. I will let you live today, and I will never see you again." I!" Wu Zixu pulled the corner of Shen Baoxu's coat and cut it off with his sword.Sun Wu came galloping. Shen Baoxu and the fisherman's son fled and crossed the river that night. Shen Baoxu went to Qin State to ask for reinforcements. Wu Zixu turned around to complete his unfinished business, and whipped the corpse three hundred times, not less. "One hundred and thirty-seven, one hundred and thirty-eight..." The rotten flesh and rotten bones of the dead body splashed all over Sun Wu. Sun Wu wiped it off with his hands, but it couldn't be wiped off. Sun Tzu: "Who was the one who just let go?" "Shen Baoxu, one hundred and thirty-nine!" "Shen Baoxu?" "I can't help it! One hundred and forty! The fisherman has saved my life! One hundred and forty one!" "Wu Zixu, Wu Zixu, how can you let the tiger go back to the mountain? It's the grievances and family ties that make you, and it's the grievances and family ties that ruin you! Come on, hurry up and get Shen Baoxu!" Wu Zixu's whip stopped for a moment.Doesn't he know that releasing Shen Baoxu is a risky thing?he knows. But he couldn't make himself not do it.He swung the whip more fiercely, only venting on the dead body, one hundred and forty-two!a hundred and forty three!one hundred forty four! Sun Wu stood there blankly, feeling helpless against Wu Zixu, who was simply insane. It was twilight.Not far from the suburbs, a large fire rose.The high mansion, the granary where Chu State stockpiled grain, was burned by Wu Jun. Before Sun Wu left the city, he saw Wu soldiers destroying the ancestral temple of Chu.Wu Jun soldiers smashed the huge Nine Dragon Bell, the national symbol of Chu, into pieces for fun. Everywhere was burning and looting.In front of him, Wu Zixu's subordinates were fighting each other for the gold and silver burial objects, making a mess like a swarm of wild bees. Wu Zixu only cared about whipping the corpse: two hundred and eighty-one!Two hundred and eighty-two! Sun Wu was disturbed by the current situation since he entered Ying: King Helu of Wu and Prince Fu Chai were devoted to pleasure; the general was full of dissatisfaction; The army of Wu was scattered and caused trouble everywhere; the people of Chu State, old and young, women and children, all hated mountains and seas, and waited for an opportunity to retaliate... He said: "General Wu! Hurry up and order the three armies! Soldiers burned the granary of Chu State, destroyed the ancestral temple of Chu people, This goes on—” Wu Zixu: "Two hundred and eighty-four! General Sun, two hundred and eighty-five! Isn't this your strategy of 'plundering the village and dividing the masses'? Two hundred and eighty-six!" Sun Wu was speechless for a long while. "Two hundred and eighty-seven! Two hundred and eighty-eight!" "If things go on like this, there will be more bad luck than good luck. It's better to retreat!" "Can you ask the king if he is willing to retreat? Two hundred and eighty-nine!" Of course not.Wu Zixu finally finished the count of three hundred, and stood there dumbfounded with the whip in his hand. The soldiers were still digging and looting the funeral objects. "Get out of here!" Wu Zixu shouted.The soldiers dispersed. Wu Zixu threw down his whip and sat down on a stone. The sun is up.The corpse of King Chu Ping, who had been whipped into a pool of rotten flesh, was emitting a stench of stench.There is a rotten smell everywhere.There were blowflies buzzing.In the sky, the hungry eagle is watching the carcass whirl.Wu Zixu's head, face and body were covered with rotten and rotten things.His face was tired and numb, and his mind was blank.He himself didn't know exactly what he had done during these three days and nights. Sun Wu: "General Wu, you can't fail to understand that if you win a hundred battles and capture a city, if you don't consolidate the results of the battle and don't cultivate your merits, what will happen to you?" "General Sun, please let me be quiet for a moment!" Sun Wu had no choice but to ride his horse and leave. When Sun Wu returned to the mansion, the old soldier often asked suspiciously: "Where did the general go, and why did he bring the rotten smell all over his body? Please take a shower and change clothes, general." Sun Wu also felt the rancid smell that followed him everywhere, his hands were sticky and fishy, ​​his stomach was churning, and he was about to vomit, so he hurried to take a bath.However, after washing hands over and over again, the smell of corpses still stinks. The house was sprinkled with clean water.I ordered incense.Or not.Sun Wu was very annoyed. Jie Yi came to bid farewell: "Thank you, General, for your hospitality. Jie Yi has a laid-back nature and never stays in one place for long. He travels all over the world, helps the poor and those in danger, cures the sick and saves the sick. Don't be bound by princes and princes. This is the teaching of my mentor Bian Que. As I said, I will be waiting for the general in Yingdu, and my wish is fulfilled. There will be fate in the future, and we will meet again in the future. Before leaving, I have a word to say, that Fugai and the king of Wu have two hearts, and they have the potential to sweep the world An attempt, in the future, the general is afraid that the general will suffer disaster because of his husband, and the general will do it himself. There are also the general's wives and concubines, one of whom is close to death, and the other is close to death, and the general treats them well. Whether you believe these nonsense depends on the general." "Why don't you stay and stay for a while, you and I haven't even played chess yet." "Jie Yi admires the general's style of chess. Why should Jie Yi be defeated? General Sun, you have to let go and let go. Jie Yi bids farewell!" Jie Yi floats away.Less than an hour after Jie Yi left, Fu Gai came to visit him again. With Jie Yi's advice, Sun Wu also felt puzzled: Why does Fu Gai walk so frequently? Fu Gai played chess with Jie Yi last night, Jie Yi's words secretly broke his mind, so he wanted to have a deep talk with Jie Yi alone, to test the good or the bad. Fugai said, "General Sun, Fugai is here to disturb you again." "Where, it's rare that General Fugai won't give up. I don't know what to teach." "Today I will bring you a surprise as promised, in exchange for the surprise you gave me back." "Sun Wu doesn't understand." Fugai smiled mysteriously. "The surprise for you is to give you a personal servant." Oh, but that's all. "Is the surprise that Husband wants to take away? I invite Mr. Jieyi to my house for a drink." Sun Wu: "Unfortunately, Mr. Jieyi is an outsider, and he can't keep him. He has already left. Since Mr. Jieyi has left and cannot be exchanged, I don't dare to accept the boy servant given by Mr. Fugai for nothing. Lucky." Fugai felt sorry for Jieyi's departure in his heart, and turned around, smiling again: "Doesn't General Sun want the boy servant I brought?" "I don't need any boy servant." "Is this true?" "It's enough to have veterans around you." "Old Army? How can it be the same! Come on!" Without saying a word, the door curtain was lifted, and a "boy servant" walked in.