In the fifth year of Taihe, in September, noon.

Chengdu Mansion, Shuaifu East Park.

The clouds disappeared and the rain disappeared, some people in the handsome mansion were stunned, some people couldn't cry, and some people secretly rejoiced. Qiu Shiliang's car drove away from the Shuai Mansion under the helpless greeting of Li Deyu and his wingmen, and went straight to the official post, leaving the next day. The house became much more empty in an instant.

Zhang Yijun bypassed the east wing of the Shuai Mansion alone, continued to the east, and entered a large area of green plants, full of rockeries, but lonely East Garden.

In the middle of the park, the stream water is introduced from the outside, and it is stored into a fish pond, and there is a rain pavilion on the pond. "The amber is red and leaking rain, and the crystal curtain is more ventilated." In the middle of summer, the accumulated rainwater will be transported to the water tank at the top of the pavilion through the elaborate design of the waterwheel mechanism to store the cold water at the bottom of the pond, and then through the eaves of the pavilion roof, it flows down all around, becoming a rain curtain by itself, which is really a good place to escape the heat.

Zhang Yijun walked slowly to the self-rain pavilion, if you look through the water curtain hanging down outside the pavilion from a distance, you can see a weak crown and long body jade, holding the dust, wearing a light blue robe, standing motionless in the pavilion, with the surrounding late autumn scenery, there is a hazy feeling.

When Wang Wei Gao of Nankang County was the envoy of the Xichuan Festival, this fish pond was once renamed Peacock Pond. In the first year of Zhenyuan, Nanyue offered peacocks, and Wei Gao, the king of Nankang County, at the suggestion of Xue Tao, set up a cage by this pond to perch on it, which was renamed. And this peacock was raised for forty-six years, until the peacock died of old age this year, and this pond was changed back to the original name of the fish appreciation pond.

Zhang Yijun stared at the fish pond through the water curtain, the water curtain around the pool slapped on the surface of the pool, the sound was crisp and pleasant, and it was really a good place to meditate alone. However, Zhang Yijun was not in the mood to meditate, and when the decree was announced, Zhang Yijun listened quietly in the pavilion on the side of the front hall, and when he heard the end, he couldn't bear to listen anymore, because he knew that what the edict said was to nullify all previous efforts for the surrender of Victoria.

The work of the years is ruined!

The sound of the water curtain slapping on the surface of the pool wrapped around Zhang Yijun's resentment, and slowly spread to his whole body. His arms trembled slightly with the fists that hung down at his side and clenched together, and his bloodshot eyes were obviously hazy, but he could not shed a single tear from despair.

At that time, Wei Linggong was still able to go out of Chengdu, break Tubo in Victoria, and recover countless walled cities. Then...... The reconquest of the lost land will reward the marquis," Zhang Yijun replaced the dust in the crook of his left arm with the crook of his right arm, although he was talking to himself, his voice was slightly choked, "Now things are human and wrong, the peacock is dead, the prince is gone, Xue Xiaoshu is also dying, and the lost land regained will eventually be gained and lost......"

Zhang Yijun's tone when he said these words was surprisingly calm, which made him sigh at the end of his words, but it sounded extremely sad.

This is the side that Zhang Yijun will never show outsiders.

For a long time, Zhang Yi has never been moved by setbacks, since he left the family house in Guangdefang, said goodbye to his family and King Ying, and chose to come out to break through, never regretted or despaired. This is true for outsiders, for family members, even for King Ying, who has known each other for many years, and for Li Deyu, who seems to have forgotten his old friends.

The most painful thing is often not that life is not going well, but that it is hard work, high hopes, and in the end, it is all in vain.

He remembered a lot of people, a lot of people who dissuaded him from leaving home......

Yi Jun thought that he could save the society and change the fate of the people with his own strength, but he never thought about it...... It is so difficult to change the fate of 5,000 people in one Victoria. I really didn't expect that the government had been corrupted to such a point. Niu Sidian regarded himself as high-minded, but because of his personal harm to the public, he let the work of the years be ruined by a mere edict......"

He only now understands that the power of one person is too weak in this world. And the party struggle is really your life and death......

"Only Yijun can't save the Tang ......"

Zhang Yijun rubbed his eyes, and suddenly heard as if someone was calling his name.

Zhang Yijun hurriedly looked back and found that Li Deyu himself was walking towards the entrance of Ziyu Pavilion step by step.

"Yi Jun, you are here," Li Deyu took a few breaths, wiped the fine sweat on his forehead with the cuffs of his purple robe, "I have been looking for you just now, and I can't find ...... anywhere."

"Li Gong looking for me?" Zhang Yijun hurriedly bowed his hand.

"Yes," Li Deyu nodded, because he didn't know that Zhang Yijun was on the side of the pavilion at that time, his face turned pale, and he muttered: "The envoy has just come to announce the holy decree ......."

"I know......" Zhang Yijun lowered his eyes and forced a smile.

"Hey, all the princes are unhappy, but ...... What can be done? Li Deyu shook his head as if laughing at himself, stood beside Zhang Yijun, and stared at the pool through the rain curtain of the rain pavilion for a long time, "The generals can return the enemy, who will dare to surrender the city in the future?" In addition, if the city is returned this time, how many people who have fallen into the enemy territory will be chilled? ”

Zhang Yijun sighed, and while quietly listening to Li Deyu's words, he tried to suppress the knife-like emotions in his chest.

Li Deyu Xu noticed that Zhang Yijun's eyes were a little red, so he put aside the topic and said: "The edict must be sent to Victoria, and the Wuwei Army and the Heavenly Expeditionary Army will be ordered to evacuate the state city, and Lu Qi will lead the team." Are you familiar with Victoria, do you want to go along? ”

Zhang Yijun smiled helplessly, how ironic it was that he facilitated the surrender of Victoria, and now he wants to return the state city with his own hands.

Li Deyu looked at Zhang Yijun's eyes deeply, as if he guessed his knife-like state of mind, although he was a little unbearable, he accentuated his tone a little and spoke sincerely.

Yi Jun ...... Don't be cured because of one thing, and the country will be abolished! ”

After hearing this, Zhang Yijun's eyes were stunned for a long time.

Yes, if you talk about setbacks, who can experience more than Li Deyu in front of you? For more than 20 years, not only has he gradually drifted away from Chang'an, but his official position is only hesitating in the Sanpin Festival...... During this period, they were suppressed and slandered innumerable, and this is the fate of officials.

However, Li Deyu never gave up, his original intention did not change, and even personally came to comfort Zhang Yijun, a junior, at this moment. However, everyone knows that Li Deyu is the most suppressed because of this incident.

Mo is not cured because of one thing, and the country is ......

Zhang Yijun faced Li Deyu, solemnly bowed his hand, and bowed for a long time.

"It's Yi Jun who has stumbled!"

Seeing that Zhang Yijun had returned to his former chic expression, Li Deyu just smiled and shook his head, and then mysteriously took out a thick lacquered letterhead from his arms, quietly handed it to Zhang Yijun and said, "This is a letter to Yang Xiangyi......"

"Yang Zong, Yang Duwei?"

Zhang Yijun was a little puzzled, because since Yang Duwei was sent to guard Victoria, he hadn't heard this name for some time, "Li Gong wrote it to Yang Duwei?" ”

“…… It was written by Ling Hu, "Li Deyu's eyes flashed with a trace of regret, "At that time, Ling Hulu was in charge of the key to the library pavilion, and then handed it over to Liu Zhan for safekeeping, and the copied book was also handed over to Liu Zhan for transcription, and the result was that on the same day, Ling Hu was convenient for Yanning Building to drink......"

Speaking of this, Li Deyu couldn't help but sigh, "During the banquet, this son handed over this letter to Liu Zhan, saying that it was for Xiangyi, and that there was the answer that Xiangyi wanted...... Liu Zhan never dared to mention this matter, and later Li Zhi was convicted, so Liu Zhan handed over the letter to a certain ......"

Zhang Yijun silently put the letterhead in his arms, and was about to say goodbye to pack his bags, but he hurriedly grabbed Li Deyu.

"There is one more thing...... Li Deyu sighed lightly, "Before leaving, you should go and meet an acquaintance again." ”

Jiannan Road, Xichuan, Chengdu Province.

Wei Gao Beiye, the beginning of the year.

The people who were led by Xi Tanmou and his companions were placed in the garrison of the German army, that is, in Guo Yinghuili, outside Chengdu Prefecture. At the beginning of the day, under Qiu Shiliang's several urgings, although extremely reluctant, Li Deyu had to give an order to let the marching Sima Li Huaishen be fully responsible for binding Xi Tanmou and his party.

However, Li Huaishen also made a mistake in assigning tasks, because it was really an unkind and thankless errand. The Tibetan soldiers have always been difficult to control, and it is not easy to do how not to make trouble in Chengdu Mansion during the binding process, and how not to let go of a Tubo person.

Besides, most of the Wuwei Army and the Heavenly Expeditionary Army under the control of the marshal himself are still in Victoria, so naturally there is no need to do it. The Weiyuan Army, which was previously under the control of Li Zhi, was only responsible for the garrison and patrol in the city, and it was probably difficult to be the main force to bind the Tubo soldiers.

Naturally, the Qiang people-dominated German army was assigned this task.

The Qiang people and the Tubo are feuding, after the German army received the order, but they didn't care at all what it would be to be disgraceful to bind and surrender, and broke into the Tubo people's resettlement house with a lightning raid, and before anyone else had a chance to escape, they put the knife around their necks and tied them all. In fact, it is said that there are more than 300 Tibetan defenders, but in fact, more than half of them are the families of Tibetan soldiers, including many old and young women and children.

When the Tibetans were put into the crowded prison car, the Qiang people laughed and laughed, and the Tubo people begged for mercy, cried, and scolded endlessly, although the Tubo people could not understand the Tang dialect. But even the least sensitive Tibetans know what awaits them.

In Weigao Beiye, unlike his fellow clan, Xi Yimou, who had been under house arrest for many days, was not waiting for the rough binding of the Qiang people, but an acquaintance.

Xi Yimou was standing under the willow tree in the backyard, looking at the grasshoppers crawling on the tree in a daze, when he suddenly heard the footsteps behind him, and he didn't even need to turn back, he had already guessed who the person was.

"Sir coming to arrest me?"

The people behind him wanted to speak and stopped, and the long silence made Xi Yumou sneer.

"What? To send me, the former deputy envoy of Victoria, to Huangquan Road, it made my husband feel compassionate? ”

Xi Yimou looked back with one eye open, and saw Zhang Yijun, who had changed into his usual travel clothes, pursed his lips into a line, and his trembling eyes didn't know whether he was helpless or unwilling.

"Sending the deputy envoy back to Tibet is not the intention of Duke Li......"

"I know, I know," Xi Yumou interrupted in a relaxed tone, "The imperial court, our royal court in Tubo has also been equal......

Although Siddhar said this, there was indescribable pain in his one eye. He silently took off the scarlet robe on his body and threw it on the ground, revealing a Tubo military uniform, Zhang Yijun recognized that this was the military uniform worn by Xi Tanmou when Victoria surrendered that day, but at this moment, there was no hidden knife at his waist, and he completely lost his former majesty.

"Can you just return me and let those soldiers live?" Sidney's tone was as if he was begging.

Zhang Yi was silent. Si Tanmou also knew that this was just his wishful thinking.

"When we went out of Victoria to Chengdu together, I already thought that we would be ...... today I have been under house arrest here for the past few days, and I have thought through that we, the generals of the foreign race, are just some grasshoppers, and if we can use them, we will use them, and if we are useless, we will abandon them. Take pity on the soldiers who followed me to the Tang Dynasty...... I hurt them...... "Siddami ripped off his head, buttoned up his felt hat, and sighed: "Bon upholds: death and life...... It's just a reincarnation. In this life, I was originally a slave, I was able to cut off the slave status, I was in the position of deputy envoy, and the city was surrendered to the Tang Kingdom, but I was rejected by the Tang people, and finally killed by the clansmen, so I can be regarded as a well-deserved death......"

"Deputy Envoy...... You don't have to die at the hands of your people......"

Zhang Yijun interrupted in a snort, and then under the suspicious gaze of Xi Tanmou, he took out a small azure glass jar from his sleeve cage and quietly handed it to Xi Yumou.

Needless to say, Xi Yimou also knows what is inside.

"The deputy envoy can choose ......"

"Is that mercy?"

Xi Tanmou smiled self-deprecatingly and took the glass jar, but what he said was true from the heart. Just because he was able to take poison and commit suicide to keep the whole corpse, compared to returning Tubo to be made into an adult Pithangka, it is indeed merciful.

At the end, Xi Yimou licked his upper lip and reluctantly pulled out a smile to Zhang Yijun. The bloodthirstiness of the past in that cloudy one-eye is gone at this moment, like a golden eagle with folded wings, and Zhang Yijun sees only hatred and helplessness in that cloudy one-eye.

"Mr. Zhang, I'm a little curious...... Can we, the Tibetans, leave a mark in the history books of your Tang people? ”

Zhang Yijun was silent for a long time, his throat moved, but he couldn't spit out half a word. He knew in his heart that if the Niu Party continued to control the government, the affairs of Victoria would not even be recorded in the history books, not to mention that a Tubo general and no more than 300 soldiers?

As if guessing what Zhang Yijun was thinking, Xi Yimou's expression darkened, turned his back, stopped speaking, pulled out the wooden cork of the small glass jar, and was about to drink it all.

"Yes!"

Zhang Yijun's voice word by word came into Xi Tanmou's ears.

"Yi Jun will definitely do his best to rehabilitate the deputy envoy and let the deputy envoy ...... There is a posthumous gift for death! ”

An autumn breeze blows through the hall, and the willow branches rustle.

After a pause, he poured the contents of the jar into his mouth. The Tubo man took a deep breath, his broad chest rose and fell with the deep breath, and his brows, which were originally slightly frowned, stretched out, he silently reached out to wipe the remaining liquid from his mouth, threw the glass jar back to Zhang Yijun, pulled the corners of his lips, and his tone had a calm tone that made Zhang Yijun feel surprised.

"Good!" Sid's one-eyed eye was no longer cloudy at the moment, and shone with the light of freedom," ...... Under the six-foot loess, I'll wait for my husband to give me this answer! ”

He was originally a lone wolf in the snow-capped mountains and an eagle in the plateau, the shackles were never the destination, and he was destined to return to his homeland.