Yongchang City in Wuzhou is a peninsula city surrounded by water on three sides, only there is a big road in the east leading to the outside world, the unique topography, humid air, beautiful mountains and rivers make this city a holy place to visit the natural scenery, and there are tourists who come to visit the city in all seasons.

Yongyang Lake, is an inland lake that tightly surrounds Yongchang City, its size is one of the best in the vast land of Shenzhou, extends from the north to the territory of Dayi, from the south straight into the hinterland of Dawu, the east connects the first city occupied by King Xian when King Xian first entered Wuzhou, Wuning City, and the west is almost out of the border of Dawu, so this lake is also the main waterway traffic artery of Dawu.

In the water in the north of Yongchang City, there is a small island in the middle of the lake, the island is not big, it covers an area of several miles, and it is called Four Seasons Island. Just because it is full of four seasons of osmanthus, there are pale white or pale yellow osmanthus flowers blooming all year round, and it is also a must-visit place for tourists to come to Yongchang City to play before, but since last year, no one can go to the island.

Last year, the island was bought by a mysterious foreign family and settled here, so this island is considered a private territory of people, without the consent of the owner, even if the city lord wants to go to the island, it is not possible.

I don't know when a boxy Zhuangzi was built in the center of the Four Seasons Island, covering an area of only one mile, and the vegetation on the island was not destroyed, only the houses and courtyard walls were cut off, and the rest of the place seemed to be still in Guilin.

Zhuangzi sits in the north and faces south, leaving a single door in the south, and the gate is not made of tall and rich people, but very simple two stone pillars and a big wooden plaque. The plaque is written with four big characters of "Xianyun Villa", and there are also two vertical plaques nailed on the two stone pillars, which respectively write two lines of poetry "Alone and idle, where to find the clouds in the dream", I think it is the source of the word Xianyun.

Entering the courtyard is a deep path that winds and turns, the path is paved with various cobblestones, not wide and flat, but it looks like a colorful cloud under the tall four-season laurel, surrounding it.

There were only a few simple and elegant wooden houses where Caiyun passed, and I guess these houses should not be inhabited by the lower people, because no lower room would be so far from the hall. Continue to meander inward along the colorful clouds, passing through the clusters of Guilin, only to come to a real courtyard, the courtyard is very large, there are dozens of houses, and the arrangement is also very neat.

At this time, the door in the middle of the room is wide open, only to know that this is the main hall, although it is the place to receive guests, but the layout is very simple, only a wooden long table, and more than a dozen wooden square chairs, the only decoration is a few pots of green plants, this does not look like the main hall of a large family.

In the courtyard outside the main hall, there is also a pergola, in which several wooden recliners and a small table are placed, and at this time there are several people lying on the chairs, swaying endlessly, chatting and spending their days, and from time to time comfortably sending a few fruits into their mouths.

Between the mountains and rivers, in the jungle land, listening to the birds and insects, smelling the fragrance of flowers, such a life is as happy as a fairy.

Outside the Four Seasons Island, on Yongyang Lake, a small boat is gently rocking at this time, and there is only one person on the boat, and it is the person who rocks the oars. The man was dressed in a white gauze robe, wearing a huge straw hat, and his long hair stretched from under the hat to his waist, and his long hair fluttered endlessly as his delicate figure swayed. The man on the boat turned out to be a young girl!

Not long after, the boat has been on the Four Seasons Island, the girl just jumped off the boat lightly, came to the shore, a big tree on the shore nailed a boxy pavilion, only to see the girl from the arms out of a neat stack of paper, put it in and then jumped on the boat, the girl looked up, through the brim of the straw hat forgot to look into the depths of Guilin, the eyes were full of piety, and then the oar turned around, and went offshore.

About a quarter of an hour later, two girls in blue clothes and a purple dress strolled out of Guilin, the girls were carrying a bamboo basket, playing and making trouble, like the people of the village who picked mushrooms and returned, but their beautiful appearance and everyone's beautiful demeanor did not look like a person who often did rough work.

The second girl came to the big tree, and finally stopped fighting, only to see the girl in blue tiptoe slightly, open the pavilion, take out the square paper and put it in the bamboo basket, and then took the arm of the girl in purple, and then continued to walk towards the depths of Guilin.

"Childe, we're back, sister, this is today's news" The girl in blue first greeted a young man in a white robe on a recliner under the pergola, and then took out the paper and handed it to a young girl in green clothes standing quietly next to the young man.

The girl took the paper, opened it slowly, and then looked at it and said to the young man on the recliner: "Childe, they are getting more and more passing, more than a year, they are still chasing and killing the old ministers of Dawu, and now they don't even let go of women and children."

The young man had been lying quietly with his eyes closed, but when he heard the news, he suddenly opened his eyes, but the expression in his eyes was quite sad, and he sighed as if to say to himself: "Hey, isn't it the sin I created?"

Then his voice became louder, and he seemed to say to the woman in Tsing Yi next to him: "If you can, help it, as long as it is not a person who is a big traitor, as long as it is not a person who has hatred and vainly wants to restore the country."

"Yes," the girl in green replied and turned to leave.

The young man sighed again, and then slowly lay down as well.

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Outside Yongchang City, in the Tianshan Mountains more than ten miles away, three figures of two large and one small stumbled out, and after coming to the official road, the three of them stopped a little to catch their breath. On the left is a stout man in his forties, on the right is a beautiful woman in her thirties, and in the middle is a girl about ten years old.

The woman gasped, and after coughing a few times, she said hoarsely, "Master, go quickly, or you will be caught up again in a while."

The man nodded, looked at the woman, then at the child, with remorse and remorse in his eyes, and then took the child without saying a word, and took the woman by the way, and continued to trot.

After touching about half a pillar of incense, the three of them exhausted their strength again, and had to stop to catch their breath a little, only to see the man put down the child, his hands on his knees, bent down and breathed in the fresh air, and after a long time, he swallowed and spat and stood up straight.

The woman was even more unbearable, she was already sitting on the ground, panting for breath from her cloak, how could she have the same image as before.

"Rumble..."

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, the man and the woman looked at each other, their faces changed greatly, the man picked up the child and ran again, and the woman also hurriedly got up and chased forward.

In the blink of an eye, a large number of soldiers chased after them, surrounding the family of three in the middle, and the man handed the child to the woman, protected them behind him, and looked at the soldiers around him vigilantly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we just want to live, I am not the lord of the city for a long time, why are you just chasing after it" The woman seemed to have broken down at this time, wailing and crying, kneeling on the ground and prostrating her head, begging these soldiers.

"There is an order from above, all military officials will be arrested, as for the rest of the matter, it is not up to our brother to manage, with less effort, don't struggle, don't resist, otherwise don't blame us for the lack of swords," a leader shouted.

"Don't touch my family, I can't go with you," the man clenched his fists and said fiercely.

"That's what we have been ordered, and if we don't say anything about accommodation, let's take it with our hands," said the general, signaling his men to come forward.

Several people jumped off the horse, carrying a knife and holding a rope and preparing to tie up the man, but he didn't expect the man to suddenly burst out, and smashed a fist on a person, and several people around him hurriedly waved their knives and cut them when they saw this.

"Ah, no," the woman cried out in fright when she saw this, and at the same time hurriedly covered her daughter's eyes with her hand.

"Stop" A thunderous shout suddenly sounded, and then I saw a person riding a horse galloping from the direction of Yongchang City.

The general saw that the comer was dressed in a cyan military robe, with dark skin, very strong, and a long knife at his waist, which looked extraordinary, so he waved his hand and stopped his men.

The man stopped before approaching and said aloud, "Which army are you from, and which captain is you?"

When the general saw that the person was asking such a question, he bowed his hand and said, "We all belong to the Daxing Wuzhou Army, and the captain is Li Ying."

"Wuzhou Army? Li Ying? I haven't heard of it, which army is it from?" the man in green clothes muttered and asked again.

"Who are you, and you don't know my lord?" said the general, and drew his long knife from his waist.

"That's it, take me to see that Li Ying, if I know, I don't need to say more to you, if I don't know, these three people, including me, are at your disposal, and it doesn't count that you violated the military order and didn't complete the task, how about it?" said the man in Tsing Yi cheerfully.

The general was about to answer, when he heard the sound of rumbling horses' hooves in the distance, and a large group appeared on the official road.

The general turned around and saw the visitor, with a look of admiration and respect, and then said, "No need, my lord has arrived."

The man in green clothes also looked at the visitor, and after seeing his face clearly, the corners of his mouth actually hung a smile.