The night behind him came up silently, the last red and purple light on the western edge of the sky fell into a gentle sleep, and Mount Amiri melted into the blue and black sky, and the cold air rose from the snow. Wrapped in the leather jacket on his body, Qin Nanxi only felt that even his hair was trembling coldly. Shrinking her numb feet, she hugged her knees and turned her head sideways to look at Situ Yi. I saw that his hazel eyes were full of the color of the night, and there was no bottom.

"That's why Brother Yi, you want Da Chu's cavalry to retaliate?" She tentatively spoke, but it didn't really matter what his answer was. She just wanted to bring him back from the bloodshed of twenty-one years ago. The memories soaked in the blood of her loved ones, the pain that keeps shuttling through her heart like countless fine steel needles, she understands.

After hearing this, Situ Yi let out a long sigh of relief and shook his head. There was silence for a long time before he got up and quietly leaned towards the edge of the top of the hill with his hands in his hands. His gaze still fell in the direction of Amiri Mountain in the distance: "What I want is to hold Yunze, defend Amiri Mountain, and fall into the galaxy, no matter what method is used." I will guard the holy place of Zaire. ”

"Although their grandfather, uncle and mother are gone, their beloved Yun Ze is still there. I'll defend them for them. Situ Yi's voice was very low, almost as if he was talking to himself.

Qin Nanxi listened to it, but it suddenly became clear that he would rather be expelled from the division by his father than join the army because Yunze in northern Xinjiang was his homeland connected by blood: "That's why you put pen to paper?" So you must follow Lao Guogong to Northern Xinjiang? Are you trying to recapture Yunze from the Di people with your own hands? You must have built a cavalry battalion with your own hands for Yunze? ”

Listening to the confidence in her tone that had guessed all his thoughts, Situ Yi shook his head and said with a tolerant smile: "I joined the army, and it is true that I came to Northern Xinjiang for Yunze, but the establishment of the cavalry battalion has nothing to do with me. ”

Qin Nanxi knew that he regarded his cavalry as his life, and she had also heard many stories about how he trained cavalry and domesticated war horses, but unexpectedly he categorically separated himself from the establishment of the cavalry battalion, and she was surprised, "But everyone said that the Great Chu cavalry was founded by you, why did you say that it has nothing to do with you?" ”

Situ Yi saw her inquiring eyes, and simply said calmly: "There is a way that in the face of war, only 'being invincible for oneself' can one 'be victorious for the enemy'." At that time, the iron cavalry battalion of the former Khan of Beidi was an invincible 'iron thunderbolt', and the border army of Dachu was mostly from the interior, mainly infantry, such a system, fighting in the plains may be possible, but once the elusive, flexible and extremely good at assault cavalry into the battle, the infantry can only sit and wait to be killed, if you can't form a cavalry team that can compete with the 'Iron Thunderbolt' in the short term, even if all the troops of Dachu at that time are all bet on Anxi, I am afraid that it will not be able to stop Beidi from going south. ”

"Yunze has the natural danger of Amiri, and the Beidi people will not be able to attack their father's Yunze defense line in the short term, which is very clear to the ancestor who has been on the battlefield for a long time

……… I was brought on a horse by my grandfather and uncle when I was three years old, and I grew up on horseback. At that time, I was the only one under my father's tent who was familiar with the training of cavalry and the domestication of war horses. Therefore, my father ordered me to build the Great Chu Cavalry Battalion, and I just took the order and did what my father ordered. ”

The Great Chu cavalry of that year suddenly appeared on the Yunze front like a divine soldier descending from the sky, turning the tide and turning the tide, and the Great Chu border trap was relieved at that time. This incident is Situ Jing's most proud achievement in his later years. Situ Yi knew this very well, and whenever he mentioned it, he put the credit for building the camp on his father, but he never told anyone how he made a military order to persuade him to agree to build a camp and train horses.

Qin Nanxi naturally didn't know the knot between Situ's father and son, and only received: "In those years, you took the cavalry battalion to expand the territory and forced Beidi to cut the land and sue for peace, which can be regarded as you paying for your mother's blood debt." ”

Situ Yi was stunned when he heard this, stared at her with some puzzlement, hesitated for a moment before whispering: "Nan Xi actually said that the blood debt was repaid?" ”

Qin Nan was stunned, biting the corner of his lip and secretly surprised by his words. It was indeed the first time in her life that she had said such a thing. She is Qin Zi'an's daughter, and she has always believed that 'a gentleman repays grievances directly', and has always believed that the way to govern the country is benevolence. She has always believed that it is barbaric to fight each other, but when she heard the story of the death of the women and children of Situ Yi's mother's family, she suddenly felt that it was natural for Situ Yi to devote his pen to Rong and use the most direct and fastest way to give that kind of heartache back to the enemy.

She really agreed with Situ Yi's approach from the bottom of her heart, and if she figured it out, she didn't pretend to be pretentious, smiled at his doubts, and said, "It's Nan Xi who said, blood debt and blood repayment!" Benevolence is good, but it can't educate jackals! Brother Yi, you are in the wolf's den, if you don't resist, are you waiting for them to kill you? ”

When Situ Yi heard this, there was a burst of brilliance in his eyes, but it flickered and dimmed, and he lowered his head and said: "Being in the wolf's den is an exaggeration, what Nan Xi said about blood debt and blood repayment is right, but if it is just blood debt and blood payment, one life is enough to pay one life." However, over the years, I led my troops to the north and west, and no less than 100,000 Beidi people died under my hands. How shall I pay their blood debt? ”

Qin Nanxi opened his mouth wide, stared at him in shock, and lost his voice. One hundred thousand is a huge number that she can't imagine, let alone the blood and hatred behind it.

Looking at her frightened gaze, Situ Yi suddenly smiled helplessly. The helplessness in that smile was like a drowning man suddenly encountering a piece of life-saving driftwood, and when he held it in his hand, he found that it was just a piece of straw. He hid his deep helplessness, turned back to her and sat down, spread his hands and said calmly: "Nanxi, look at my hands, these hands that Mr. Qin personally taught and wrote the 'Way of Benevolence' for eight years!" Now this hand is full of blood, there are Di people, and naturally there is also the blood of Chu Jun's own people. As he spoke, he clasped his palms and smiled self-deprecatingly, and Yu Yu received: "Do you believe that there is retribution in this world?" People like me, people like me who have stepped on blood all the way to the top, maybe, one day, they will die without a place to be buried, and then ......"

"Brother Yi~" Qin Nanxi hurriedly stopped him, she had the heart to comfort him, but the heart of consolation only rolled back and forth in her mouth, and she couldn't find suitable words for a long time, and in the end, she had to lower her head and say palely: "You are also a last resort, you can't help yourself, you will definitely not, you won't be like that." ”

Situ Yi said indifferently: "It's involuntarily!" Who in this world can help themselves? As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to the distance in the darkness and said, "Look at the Amiri Mountain, the southern foot of the mountain is a pasture with fertile water and grass, but the northern foot is a 10,000-year-old glacier. In a bad year, the few grasslands at the foot of the northern foothills will also be blocked by heavy snow. At that time, the Di people had to drive hungry cattle and sheep across the mountains to find a way to survive. However, the pastures in the south of the mountains raised the cattle and sheep of the Saaires, but they could no longer support the herds of the Di people....... although the way of benevolence and virtue was good, they could not feed so many cattle and sheep in the end, and it was inevitable that they would meet each other. He clasped his hands, the muscles in his hands abrupt, beating in embarrassment with his words.

Qin Nanxi stared at the contradiction and heaviness in Situ Yi's eyes, and became uneasy. She can already understand his contradictions, he was born in the grassland, grew up on a horse, he knows the purest and most primitive struggle between heaven and earth, knows the inevitable and natural behind the blood, but he is also a good student of Qin Zi'an, he admires and even admires his concept of "benevolence in the world, rule the country with virtue".

Situ Yi saw that she was silent and uneasy, and he didn't seem to be able to bear to say any more, so he got up and grabbed her by the sleeve and pulled her up, and said apologetically: "I brought you here temporarily, but I forgot that you were wearing thin clothes, and the injury was not healed. As he spoke, he turned around and was about to lead the horse.

Seeing this, Qin Nanxi shook off his hand, turned around and walked towards Qiu Yuan, pointing to the leather jacket on his body and smiling as he walked: "You dress me up like a Yunze girl, but you don't allow me to be as free as a shepherd's daughter, how can there be such a reason?" Not to mention that this robe is very heavy, where am I so expensive? Brother Yi, have you forgotten? I'm not Miss Jiao who grew up in Chang'an. Besides, you took me to see the river, I haven't seen why the falling star river has fallen yet, but I can't be escorted back by you like this. I don't know why, at this time, she just wants him to believe that she has a very similar childhood with him, and she can understand his heartache and contradictions.

Situ Yi couldn't hear her twisted thoughts, so he only smiled and said, "I forgot about it." As he spoke, he returned to her, looked up at the canopy, and stretched out his hand to guide her.

A wide fog stretched out over the wilderness beneath the hills. The silvery white color was striking in the bottomless darkness around him, as if the earth had split a scar. A hazy silver mist rose from the depths of the earth, leaving the ground lightly and weaving in the air, like a lively girl with her gentle long silver hair, all the way from the bottom of Mount Amiri. She was cheerful and cunning, refusing to pause for even a moment, and swirled into a psychedelic silver white at their feet, and ran off into the distance without looking back. Behind her, the silver mist spread out, and the bright color reflected the slight glow of the first quarter moon, making people feel as if they were on the bank of the Tianhe River.

"This is the falling galaxy of Fang Cai?" Qin Nanxi pointed to the enchanting white mist in front of him in disbelief and was pleasantly surprised.

Situ Yi put his index finger to his lips, and his gaze guided her to look into the middle of the silver mist under her feet.

At the heart of the silver mist, a narrow line of water flowed zigzagly, and the jumping water light folded the faint moonlight, flashing and disappearing in the dark. The thin stream of water hit the ice cubes in the middle of the tunnel, making a slight tinkling sound. The brilliance, the sound, was like a star hanging in the sky falling and shattering into a river.

"Falling stars! It turns out that this is the case! Qin Nanxi looked at it in a daze for a long time and was pleasantly surprised. turned his head and was about to speak, but saw Situ Yi looking at her quietly, at that moment, there was also the light of the falling star in his eyes, and the gentleness of flowing water.