The sounds of reality, the stench of rancidity, and the smell of blood finally woke him up. He curled up on the thatch, which smelled of blood and stench, still in his cell, and at some point the sunlight leaked in through the window, turning into a pillar of light and dust. He moved his eyes slowly, and there was another figure in the cell, and he sat in a chair, looking at him quietly.

Tang Minjie also looked at the other party, waiting for the blurred vision to gradually become clear, he gasped, moved back with some difficulty, and then sat up on the thatch, leaned back against the wall, and confronted the other party.

“…… Is the Kingdom of Jin dead? In this cell, people come in every day......"

He never thought that there would be such a figure on the other side of the prison in this prison.

It was a tall old man, with his white hair still meticulously combed behind his head, and his body was covered in a brocade robe embroidered with dragon patterns.

"The Jin Kingdom is not dead, although Xifu has lost, but in this cloud city, no one can stop the old man wherever he wants to go."

Ceres, Wanyan Xiyin.

I only heard him say: "Your strategy has been used too much, did Ning Yi teach you?" ”

When he mentioned Ning Yi, Tang Minjie took a breath, did not speak, leaned against the wall and looked at him quietly, and the cell was quiet for a moment.

……

“…… I heard that you are Ning Liheng's personal disciple, so I came to see you. Over the years, the old man has always wanted to have a face-to-face conversation with Mr. Ning in the southwest, and sat down to discuss, but unfortunately, there is probably no such opportunity. What kind of person is Ning Liheng, can you tell the old man? ”

The young man on the straw mat opposite was silent, his eyes still staring straight at him, and after a while, the old man smiled and sighed.

"In fact, for so many years, what Madame has been doing in secret, I know some, she has saved thousands of Han people, more or less in private, and has also sent out some information, for more than ten years, the Han people in the north have lived a bleak life, but in my house, they can live like people. Outsiders call her 'Mrs. Han', she has done countless good deeds, but in the end, she was betrayed by you...... This thing you did will be counted on the head of the Huaxia army, and my Jin country will use it to publicize it, and you can't escape this knife-like stroke. ”

The old man said this, looking at the opponent opposite. But the young man did not speak, but only looked at him, with a cold mockery in his eyes. The old man nodded.

"Of course, Huaxia Jun will tell the outside that it is just a trick, it is a traitor like you who confessed to Mrs. Han...... It's a life-and-death confrontation, believe it or not, and never care about the truth, and that's right...... After this time, Xifu will eventually be unable to resist the pressure, and the old man will go down sooner or later, but the Jurchen clan is not supported by the old man alone, there are still big handsomes in Xifu, as well as Gao Qingyi, Han Qixian, and the will to learn from the pain. Even if there is no Wanyan Xiyin, they will not collapse, we have come through this way for so many years, how can I say that no one can do without me......"

As the old man spoke, his gaze gradually became firm, he got up from the chair, held a small package in his hand, probably something like wound medicine, walked over and put it beside Tang Minjie: "...... Of course, this is the old man's expectation. ”

Tang Minjie didn't pay attention, Xi Yin turned around, slowly paced a few steps in this prison, and was silent for a moment.

“…… I remembered...... Over the years, what I have said to my wife, I have already told her, that it is not a good thing for the Jurchens to treat the Han people as slaves, and more than ten years ago, I told her that I would slowly change these things, and I also said a few years ago, before the departure of the Southern Expedition, I also said ......"

“…… I have a big Jin country, there are few Jurchens, and if you want to govern it safely, you can only divide people into three, six, nine and so on. During the reign of Wu Qimai, many decrees were issued prohibiting the killing of Han slaves at will, which was naturally a reform...... It can be improved faster, my wife and I often say this, and I have done some things, but there are always more big things ahead......"

“…… Suppress honors, fight corruption, educate new people, and promote things...... For more than ten years, the piles and piles have been major events, and the survival of the Hannu has been alleviated, so they can only slowly push back. Three years ago, the Southern Expedition was imminent, this was the biggest thing, I thought about the Southern Expedition after the time, I was also old, so I said to my wife, just wait for this matter to pass, I will do the matter of the Han people in Jin, the biggest thing at the beginning, in my lifetime, I must let them live better, not only for them, but also for the Jurchen ......"

“…… One thing is pushed and one thing is pushed out, and in the end, it can no longer be done. When I see you today, I think of the Jurchen ...... forty years ago"

The old man sat back in his chair and looked at Tang Minjie.

“…… At that time, the Jurchens were only some small tribes in Hushui, with few people and weak, we were trying to survive in the ice and snow, and the Liao State was like a behemoth that could not see the edge, bullying us every year! We finally couldn't bear it anymore, and started an incident with Ah Guta, three thousand to one hundred thousand! 20,000 to 700,000! Slowly make a name for yourself! It is said outside that the Jurchens are brave, the Jurchens are less than 10,000, and they are invincible! ”

“…… We slowly defeated the invincible Liao State, and we have always felt that the Jurchens are heroes and heroes. And in the south, we are gradually seeing the weakness of you Han Chinese. You live in the best places, you own the best land, you live the best days, but you are weak in poetry and writing every day! This is the nature of you Han people! ”

The old man's gaze was fierce, and his finger was pointed at the other.

“…… When Ah Guta was leaving, he told us that the war of Liao had been completed, and it was time to take the military dynasty...... We went south and defeated Bianliang all the way, and you didn't even fight a few decent battles. In the second southern expedition, we destroyed the Wu Dynasty and occupied the Central Plains, and we slaughtered every time we fought, and you did not resist! Even the weakest sheep are braver than you! ”

“…… The third southern expedition, searching the mountains and inspecting the sea, all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, so many years, it is still the same. You are not only weak, but also infighting, and those who had only a little backbone during the first Battle of Bianliang were slowly squeezed out to the northwest and southwest by you. It's easy to fight everywhere, even if it's a siege...... The first time he hit Taiyuan, Sticky Han besieged it for a year, Qin Shaohe was in the city, so hungry that he wanted to eat people, and Sticky Han couldn't get in...... But then ......"

“…… When it comes to the second and third southern expeditions, you will surrender at will, siege battles, let a few teams of brave warriors go up, as long as you stand, kill you until your blood is bleeding, and then go in and slaughter. Why don't you slaughter you, why don't you slaughter you, a bunch of bastards! You've always been like this—"

The cell fell silent, and the old man paused.

“…… I...... I like and respect my wife, and I have always felt that I can't keep killing them, and I can't keep treating them as slaves...... But on the other side, you people told me that you are like this, and it doesn't matter if you take your time. So wait, wait, wait, like this for more than ten years, until I went to the southwest, I saw your Huaxia army...... And to this day, I saw you ......"

"I know, you've finally been forced out......"

He looked at Tang Minjie.

"Original...... The Jurchens and the Han people, in fact, there is not much difference, we have been forced in the ice and snow for hundreds of years, finally, ah, we can't live anymore, we can't bear it anymore, we use knives, and we are invincible. And you, the weak Han people, have been forced and killed for more than ten years. Slowly, you are forced out of the way you are now, even if you betray Mrs. Han, you will get rid of Wanyan Xiyin, and make the east and west governments fall into a power struggle, I heard that you made people cripple Mandu Daru's own son, this method is not good, but ...... It's a matter of life and death after all......"

"But I think, Xiao Tang ......," Xi Yin said slowly, "I have been thinking most often about my wife and the children at home in recent days. The Jurchens won the world, and treated all the Han people as beasts, and finally there are you, and there are Han heroes like the Huaxia Army, if one day, as you said, your Huaxia Army will fight, and the Han people will win the world, what will you do to the Jurchens. What do you think your teacher, Mr. Ning, would say if he was here? ”

He looked at Tang Minjie, and this time, Tang Minjie finally sneered and said: "He will kill all of you, and there will be no end to the hand." ”

Xi Yin also laughed and shook his head: "Mr. Ning would not say such a thing...... Of course, it doesn't matter what he will say. Xiao Tang, this world is how the rotation is, the Liao people have no way, forced out the Jurchens, the Jin people are brutal, forced out of you, if one day, you win the world, and the Jin people or others are also brutal, then sooner or later, there will be some other invincible people, to destroy your China. As long as there is oppression, people will always resist. ”

The old man stood up, tall and emaciated, with only a pair of eyes on his cheeks with astonishing vitality. Tang Minjie on the other side also looks similar.

"It's not easy for you." He said, "If you betray your companions, the Huaxia Army will not recognize your merits, your name will not be left in the annals of history, and even if someone will talk about it in the future, no one will recognize you as a good person." Still, here today, I think you're amazing...... Tang Minjie. ”

This moment was an unknown afternoon, in the gloomy cell, Wanyan Xiyin said to him: "...... It was you who defeated Yan Xiyin. ”

Tang Minjie laughed: "Then you are going to die." ”

"Yes, but it will take some time...... Yes. He finally said, "...... It's a pity. It seemed that he regretted that he never had the opportunity to talk to Ning Yi again.

Then, he turned and left the cell.

The jailer came again to remove the chairs and close the door. Tang Minjie lay on the messy thatch, the pillar of sunlight sliding diagonally past him, and the dust danced in it.

He didn't know why Xi Yin came over to say such a paragraph, and he didn't know what stage the dispute between the two provinces in the East Mansion had reached, and of course, he didn't bother to think about it.

At this moment after betraying Chen Wenjun, there were no more things for him to think about, and he didn't even bother to calculate the date. Life was his only burden. It was the most relaxing moment he had ever felt since he came to the clouds and saw countless scenes of hell. He was waiting for the time of death.

However, the time of death was delayed.

A few days later, in the middle of the night, strange smoke wafted from the opening of the cell......

When he woke up, he was in the bumpy carriage, someone poured water on his face, he tried to open his eyes, and in the dark carriage, he didn't know who it was.

They left the city, bumpy all the way, Tang Minjie wanted to resist, but he had a rope tied to his body, and the power of the medicine had not faded, so he couldn't use his strength.

The carriage stopped somewhere outside the city, and it was early in the morning, and the sky was showing a hint of fish belly white. He was pushed and rolled out of the carriage, kneeling on the ground and not standing up, because it was Chen Wenjun who was holding a long knife that appeared in front of him. There was more gray hair on her head, and her cheeks were thinner, if he might have mocked the other party and Xi Yin's husband and wife in normal times, but at this moment, he didn't speak, and Chen Wenjun put the knife on his neck.

This is the desolate wilderness outside the city in the clouds, and the few people who tied him up consciously scattered into the distance, and Chen Wenjun looked at him.

"Do you remember...... After the Qi family incident, I went to you, what did you tell me, Hannu? ”

The words were low and slow, and Tang Minjie looked at Chen Wenjun with puzzled eyes.

On the dim field, the wind walked very lightly, and Chen Wenjun's voice was generally light: "At that time, you told me that the slave who was tied up in chains, like a dog, had a lame leg, had his right hand chopped off, knocked out his teeth, and had no tongue...... You told me that Han Nu used to be a soldier...... You learn his cry in front ......of me, uh-huh, uh-huh, ahhhh

The wind stopped in the field, and Chen Wenjun said, "I went to see him." ”

Tang Minjie shook his head slightly.

"These days, I've gone to the places where the slaves live outside the city, and the people who froze to death last winter are only now moving out...... Some of them burned down with their houses, and everyone was covered with bones...... I went to see it...... Some places I knew before, but never saw with my own eyes, I went to the south of the city...... A small casino called Getaway...... Do you know where ......?"

Chen Wenjun's eyes were filled with tears, Tang Minjie shook his head slightly, he knew everything, his head was for other things.

"They were there to kill people, and they were there to show people the Hannu...... I only watched a little, and I heard that last year, they captured Han slaves, especially soldiers, and they would be in there...... Putting people on the skin ...... ...... people"

At this point, she covered her mouth with her hand and said no more.

There was another big cart coming in the field, and there was another struggling figure on the cart.

“…… I went to see the woman who killed Lu Mingfang...... Remember? That's a crazy woman, she's your Huaxia Army...... The younger sister of a hero named Luo Ye...... It's called Luo Ye, right? It's a hero, right? ”

“…… She's still alive, but she's been tossed to the point where she doesn't look like a human anymore...... Over the years around Xiyin, I have seen a lot of Han people, some of them are very desolate, I can't bear it, I want them to live better, but these desolate people, compared to others, they have lived very well. This is the Golden Country, this is the hell you are in......"

“…… I remembered that during that time, Shi Liai asked me to choose a side, and he woke me up, do I want to be a kind-hearted Jurchen lady, or do I have to be a 'Han lady' who stands on the Han people, you also ask me, if one day, Yan Ran has been killed, where should I go...... You are really smart people, but unfortunately, I can't go to the Huaxia Army. ”

Tang Minjie shook his head, shaking his head harder, he leaned his neck against the long knife, but Chen Wenjun took another step back.

"I still hate you for betraying me, I will never forgive you in my life, because I have a very good husband and a very good son, and now because I am going to kill them, Chen Wenjun will never forgive you for your shameless behavior today in my life! But as a Han Chinese, Tang Minjie, your methods are really powerful, you are really a great big shot! ”

She leaned over, grabbed Tang Minjie's face with her palm, and her thin fingers almost scratched the blood marks on the other party's face, Tang Minjie shook his head: "No......"

"I won't forgive you." Chen Wenjun stared at him, "But since you killed me, you will give me a roll back to your south!" Your head is so useful, your means are so powerful, in the next half of your life, you will give me to live to atone for the Han people in the south! Just ...... Let their lives be better, so that the tragedy in the Central Plains will not be repeated, and there will be no more hell like the Jin Kingdom, do you hear clearly...... Go back to me and atone for your sins—"

A bleak and hoarse voice came from Tang Minjie's throat: "You killed me-"

Chen Wenjun said: "I hate you, so don't you want to die in ...... My hands. If you give me back, the merit is mine, and your sins will not be atoned for! ”

"I won't go back......"

"I'll fuck you—" Chen Wenjun said as she let go of Tang Minjie, who was kneeling, rushed to the car next to her, and dragged the struggling figure in the car down, it was a struggling and cowardly madwoman.

"Did you see her! Did you see her! It was she who killed Lu Mingfang, but she is also the sister of Luo Ye of your Huaxia Army! She's in the Northlands, she's been humiliated, she's crazy, but she's alive—"

Chen Wenjun raised his knife and pointed at Tang Minjie, crying and shouting: "You have two choices now, either you will kill her and avenge Lu Mingfang, or you yourself will commit suicide and die here." Or, you take her all the way back to the south, so that Luo Yingying can still see his only relative in this world, even if she is crazy, but she doesn't mean to hurt people-"

She swung her knife and wrenched the rope on Tang Minjie's body, Tang Minjie knelt and leaned over, and her eyes were full of tears: "You arrange someone to send her down, you kill me, kill me......"

Chen Wenjun kicked him to the ground: "You want to die so easily, how can it be so easy, you have to remember me for the rest of your life......"

She waved her hand and smashed the same thing at Tang Minjie: "This is the baggage, dry food, silver, and the customs clearance token of the Lu Palace!" Knives, women, and carriages, all take them, no one will chase you, Mrs. Han is a Buddha in ten thousand families! …… You are the last people I saved. ”

Her voice was high-pitched, and by the last sentence, it suddenly became soft.

Tang Minjie picked up the knife on the ground and staggered to his feet: "I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving...... he tried to walk towards Chen Wenjun, but two people came over and stretched out their hands to block him.

"Bastard......" Chen Wenjun cried and laughed, "Is it your turn to speak?" Joker, hehe, you pretend to be crazy and stupid, how are you laughing, heheheha......hahahaha Look, he's crying, haha, big hero......"

Chen Wenjun smiled arbitrarily, mocking Tang Minjie who was gradually dissipating the medicinal power here, at this moment in the dawn field, she looked more like the "clown" who was feared in Cloud City in the past.

Tang Minjie slammed into the obstruction of the two people: "You leave it for me, you listen to me, Chen Wenjun...... You idiot—"

Chen Wenjun walked to the carriage in the distance.

"I'm not leaving—"

"I killed her—"

"Don't do it......"

"You killed me......"

"You stinky bitch, I deliberately betrayed your-"

Chen Wenjun got into the carriage, and the carriage gradually drove away from this side, and then the two obstructors also retreated, Tang Minjie once walked to the crazy woman on the other side, he carried a knife and threatened to kill her, but no one paid attention to this matter, but the crazy woman also screamed and cried loudly in the fright of his roar and knife light, and he slapped her to the ground.

"Ahh

On the field, Tang Minjie howled frantically like a negative beast with an arrow: "I'll kill your whole family, Chen Wenjun-"

The crazy woman on the side also followed the screams and cried, holding her head and rolling on the ground: "Ahh

These voices of sorrow from the depths of the heart converge in the field......

……

The carriage gradually drove away from here, and gradually Tang Minjie's howling and crying could not be heard, Mrs. Han Chen Wenjun leaned against the wall of the car, no longer had tears, and even slightly, showed a slight smile.

The carriage drove to the majestic city wall of Yunzhongfu, and when it reached the city gate, it was reminded by others and stopped. She got out of the carriage and walked up to the city wall, where she saw Wanyan Xiyin looking out in the distance. It's morning, and the sun is all I see.

The two looked at each other.

"I thought you'd leave." Xi Yin said.

"The affairs of the country and the Han people have nothing to do with me, the next thing is just a matter of the family, how can I leave."

"That's good to go."

Despite saying this, Hee-in reached out and took his wife's hand. The two walked slowly forward on the city wall, they talked about the affairs of the family, chatted about the past...... At this moment, some words and some memories that were originally difficult to mention can be said.

Chen Wenjun told Xi Yin about her being taken captive to the north when she was young, and the secret investigation department led by Qin Siyuan developed members here, and originally wanted her to break into the upper echelons of the Liao State, but who knew that she was later liked by the high-level figures of the Jin State, and so many stories happened.

“…… What kind of person was Qin Siyuan back then? Hee-in asked curiously.

Chen Wenjun shook his head: "I haven't seen it either, I don't know, it's just that my father has had dealings." ”

She talked about the mood when she just came to the north, and also talked about the mood when she was just taken by Xi Yin, and said: "Among the poems I liked at that time, there is one that I have never told you, of course, after having a child, slowly, it will not be in that mood......

"Which one?"

The sun shone over, Chen Wenjun raised her eyes to look at the south, where there was a place where she could never go back in this life, she said softly: "Fubo only wishes to return the body, why should Dingyuan be born and enter the customs." Mo Gang only returned to the sea caves...... There is still an arrow left to shoot at the Tianshan Mountain. When I was young, my favorite was this poem, which I didn't tell you back then. ”

"Mo Xun only returns to the sea cave, and still leaves an arrow to shoot at the Tianshan Mountain...... Xi Yin took her hand and laughed slowly, "Although each has its own master, my wife is really a great heroine." ”

Sunlight streaked across the sky and across the vast northern land.

Many years ago, the arrow sent by Qin Siyuan towards the Tianshan Mountains had already completed her mission......

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ps: Fubo only wishes that the body will be returned, why should Dingyuan be born into the customs.

Mo Xun only returned to the sea cave, and still left an arrow to shoot at the Tianshan Mountain.

——Tang Dynasty Li Yi "Plugged Song"

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"Son-in-law * Episode 10 * When the Long Night Passes Spring" (end)