On November 19, the 26th year of the Yin Kingdom, it was a silent and bleak night.

In the lonely café on Hankou Street in the millennial city, a young man of about 30 years old sat in a corner of the window, holding half a glass of red wine in his hand, looking depressed.

His hair, with its lines, neatly combed back to his head, and his black, shiny leather uppers were spotless. The man wore a navy blue military coat over his shoulders, a well-cut waistcoat over a white shirt, and a gold pocket watch chain on his chest pocket.

Zhang Yucheng remembered that many years ago, he was also sitting here alone, silently waiting for Shen Manyun.

At that time, the arcades along the street were lined with old Chinese character signs, and the tram passed through the middle of the street. Glasses of chilled whiskey are dripping with water, while the street market outside the window is filled with twilight.

The stubble-haired noodle shop chef was busy making noodles, while his wife, who had changed figure, greeted customers at the stall; the man in a suit and leather shoes walked out of the foreign shop with a briefcase after glancing at the watch in his hand; the fat lady with curly hair carefully touched the fabric in the silk cloth shop while chatting with the old tailor who was on the top of the house; the slender coachman parked the rickshaw in front of the ballroom, and the dancer with heavy makeup stepped on her high heels, her fat buttocks writhing with the steps.

Cracked, rusted plaques flicker neon lights at night, and black-and-white movie posters stand out on the side of the door. Across the street from the Golden Gate Ballroom is an antique cinema that has been run by a foreigner from East Sri Lanka for many years. The movie that was screened that night was called "Love in the Snow Pool", which tells the love story of the snow demon played by the popular female star Zhou Yiqing in China and the teenager named Yuanchi who fell in love on the Forgotten Mountain.

People at the ticket counter scramble for movie tickets, while popcorn and pink candy in the window attract children's attention. Three or two young girls parked their bicycles on the side of the road and hurried to the road with leather schoolbags in their hands. They all wore light blue bottoms, narrow-waisted, high-necked jackets and black pleated skirts, and the moon flower badge of the Queen's School was tattooed on their chests. Many years ago, Zhang Yucheng was wearing a gray striped suit, put the two movie tickets next to the cup, and watched the crowds of audiences disperse in front of the movie theater. He kept raising his fingers and tapping his knees, looking a little nervous.

I waited for a long time that night, but Shen Manjun never came. I walked out of the café that was about to close and walked along the snow-white marble colonnades in the heart of the city. Since you are concerned about each other, you should act on it. So, my left foot stepped on the sparse shadow of the tree, and my right foot stepped on the bright moonlight, and before I knew it, I came to the autumn hometown.

At midnight in the city, the street lights are dim, and the tree-lined Xianghua Road is sparsely populated. The Shen Mansion is located on the side of the crossroads, and the glass windows on the upper floors are glowing with clear yellow light. I stood in front of the porch and rang the doorbell until a girl put her hand on the doorknob and appeared behind the white lacquered door.

I saw that the maid was wearing a patterned dark blue cardigan and a black trumpet hakama. She shyly twisted the braids on her shoulders, and hurriedly said that the master and the young lady were not in the house. There seems to be an ulterior motive behind her lies, and I don't need to be honest with her because of that. The walls of Shen Manyun's house were not too high, but it seemed undignified to break in like this. When I walked to the next intersection in my thoughts, I suddenly saw a painted telephone booth next to the street lamp in front of me, and I smiled slightly. Later, I handed a silver yuan to the old man sitting inside, grabbed the earpiece and put it between my ears and shoulders, slowly turned the rocker and ordered: "Please help me wire the Shen Mansion, No. 42, Xianghua Road, Qiujiaoli, Baoxian District." ”

"Understood, please wait. The operator in the telephone bureau flipped through the phone number book according to his address, and replied to me: "The mark in the Shen Mansion is 706, please ask Mr. to tell the number directly next time, and now I will answer the line for you immediately." After I pinched my throat and told the maid what I was doing, I heard someone hurrying downstairs and asking me in a familiar voice, "Hey, who is it?"

"Can't you hear me?"

"Keyiren, you finally remembered to call me!" Shen Manyun suddenly said to me overjoyed, "What are you doing?"

"I'll be waiting for you in the café. ”

"You just have to lie to me, anyway, you don't need to give money to deceive people. She smiled and said, "There's no phone there, how can you call me?"

"I'm sorry I couldn't be with you tonight. I simply lied and said, "The old man temporarily sent me to the field to carry out a mission, and now I am in the hotel in Changning, and I estimate that it will take another two or three days to come back to see you." I couldn't sleep because I was worried about you, so I thought about calling you. By the way, is that movie good?"

"If you have no conscience, you have to say goodbye to me after leaving. Shen Manyun suddenly choked up, and said frustratedly: "But I was confined in the house by my father, and I haven't seen that movie until now, so I can only watch it together when you come back." ”

"Why did your dad ground you?"

"He thinks you're a soldier, and sooner or later you'll have to go back to the battlefield. Therefore I fear that I will be widowed at a young age, and will never let me associate with you again. When I heard this, I suddenly brightened up, and said to her with a smile:

"It turns out that I was released like this, it seems that this old man is not very kind to me. ”

"Zhang Yucheng, you bastard, you have been playing with me from the beginning. Shen Manyun came to his senses and said, "I'm already angry with you, and I don't want to pay attention to you anymore." ”

"Bastards love you so much. From dusk to midnight, it's six hours. ”

After hearing this, Shen Manjun couldn't help but let go and asked, "If you really love me, why don't you come?"

"I would have liked to come to see you, but your maid would not let me in. ”

"Aman is not like this on weekdays, presumably this is also what Daddy meant. She said, "Where are you now?" and I will go to you." ”

"It's in the phone booth downstairs from your house. I replied, "Don't go out so late, just let me look at you from afar." ”

At this time, Shen Manjun threw the earpiece on the sofa and leaned out half of the room to call me. I saw her in her lilac-colored pajamas, with her arms propped up on the window, smiling at me from afar, and the white silk curtain fluttering beside her. I stood in front of the phone booth, silently across the street from her, and didn't say anything more.

No subtle words can fall in love, and the tenderness rippling in her eyes is better than a thousand words. At that time, I just wanted to stay with this beautiful woman and watch the years pass quietly on her body.

It is a pity that the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and we were all drowned in the wave of revolution later.

In the summer of the 21st year of the Yin Kingdom, the Blue Banner Party entrenched in the north had become a prairie fire, causing the Imperial Unification Party in the south to lose one after another in the civil war. Zheng Huaimin, the father of the nation, judged the situation and decided to crown General Sharon as the supreme commander of the Central and Southern Theater and ordered him to assemble 600,000 Blue Banner Revolutionary Army for the southern expedition.

In view of the critical situation, Emperor Hongwu of the Tianzhi Kingdom urgently convened a cabinet meeting and appointed Anatoly Alekseevich Romanov, the leader of the Imperial Unification Party, as the new Minister of War, and ordered him to lead the three-way army to the northern battlefield in order to defend the power of the Jinhuacha Dynasty.

The two camps have millions of troops on the border, and a new war is about to break out.

On a foggy morning, the roar of cannon shattered the peace of the mountains. The Third Army and the Fourteenth Army of the Blue Banner Revolutionary Army were the first to cross the armistice line and encounter the loyal army of Tianzhi State, and the War of Unification began.

It was not until the following winter that the fighting at the front reached the Tanguna River, less than 100 miles from the capital, and the Minister of War Anatoly Alekseevich and the Minister of the Cabinet, Prince Adolphus Omicislav, were forced to sign the instrument of surrender. The huge yellow dragon flag over Jianjing City began to fall, and the country that had been divided for more than 20 years was once again reunited. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and Zheng Huaimin, the father of the nation, suffered from heart disease shortly after the victory of the revolution, and finally died peacefully in the Chen Nian Hospital in Jeguo.

On the same day, Vice President Nguyen Xuan was naturally promoted to the leadership of the Blue Flag Party and was sworn in as the second president of the Yin Quoc Congress in the capital Millennium City. A few months later, however, he was assassinated on his way back to the presidential palace, raising political tensions again in the country.

Wild minions break the chains of order, and bloodthirsty instincts revive in people's hearts.

High-ranking officials of the Blue Flag government were assassinated one after another, and armed riots gradually broke out throughout the country. At the same time, the heavily armed Admiral Salons gained the trust of the military and political representatives of the provinces and became the seat of the Supreme Military Council of the Blue Banner Government, and thus appeared on the stage of history. Under his supreme directive, 26 local provinces declared a state of war and imposed curfews, and the rebel forces expelled the militias occupying the streets. More than 2,600 political prisoners in prison died in a long-planned fire, and the generals who started the rebellion were tied to the execution pillars in front of the Yanyutai and executed. In fact, the hearts of the people have long been aware of this. The people involved in the mutiny were all Ruan Xuan's former subordinates, but they had lost in this power game. From then on, the local militias could no longer compete with the Blue Flag government forces, and the wave of rebellion was soon quelled.

Later, he won the support of the majority of radical parliamentarians in the vote of the Third National Election Assembly, obtained the appointment letter of the president from the hands of the chairman of the National Assembly, swore eternal allegiance to the people and voluntarily accepted the supervision of the Central Supervisory Yuan, and finally announced his inauguration as the third president of the National Assembly and sent a telegram to the whole country. After that, President Salons sent a secret telegram to the military and political representatives of the provinces to launch a revolutionary movement called "Red Tide" on the pretext of defending the new regime and preventing the restoration of feudal forces and the infiltration of hostile forces abroad. This unprecedented storm swept across the country, involving more than 30 million innocent people.

The gendarmerie regiments, formed by radicals in the party, began to kill people, the members of the Standing Committee of the Supervisory Yuan were arrested and executed on charges of colluding with hostile forces abroad, a large number of wealthy capitalists and advanced intellectuals were completely crushed in the Red Tide Movement and had to take dilapidated trains to the inaccessible frontiers for labor reform, and the military chamber of the National Assembly was shot out in the blue sky, and a small number of conservative founding fathers were down. Their chests were covered with high-ranking military merit medals, and the yellow tassels scattered over the epaulettes were stained with blood.

There was an undercurrent in Millennium City, and the sound of gunfire continued throughout the night. Bloody fear looms over Yin, and Saron ramps up his efforts to purge his political opponents in order to take full control of the military. The world is quietly undergoing profound changes, and those who want to stay out of it end up suffering. The bullets of revolution will eventually pierce the bodies of comrades, and the new policies implemented by former President Nguyen Xuan will be abolished, and the democracy and fairness advocated by the Father of the Nation will be wasted overnight.

However, the misfortune is not a singular thing, and the bitter winter of the national economic construction movement is coming.

The paper money that was constantly being issued to rebuild the homeland would soon become worthless, the Trans-Si countries across the ocean had suspended their economic aid to their countries in order to defend themselves against the wars waged by their neighbors, and a large number of conservative capitalists and the middle class had died in the Red Tide Movement, which had brought the national industry to a halt, and tens of millions of laid-off workers who had been affected by it waited silently for relief from the state, while mountains of goods were moldy in the dark warehouses.

This is what really happened in the twenty-third year of the Yin Kingdom, in that era full of silence and turmoil.