"What will you do if one day I disobey my father?"

"Yun Rou?"

"Nothing is more important to me than you. Don't talk about this village, it's not as good as you in the whole world. ”

"Yun Rou...... Don't ......" Lin Wanjing looked around anxiously, but there was nothing in front of her except the boundless darkness, she just ran a few steps aimlessly, and the clear sound of Kata stopped her, it was the sound of the bolt falling, she had heard Liu Jin do this more than once, and a muzzle suddenly appeared not far away, floating in the air like a ghost, she was startled, and just wanted to escape, but turned around and saw Liu Jin standing behind him, mottled with blood on his crisp military uniform.

"You...... What's going on......"

Lin Wanjing saw Liu Jin's lips and teeth slightly open, and before she could speak, gunshots rang out.

"Don't!" She exclaimed, and her eyes opened at the same time, only to find that she was sitting on the bed, sweating profusely, and she gasped for breath for a long time to calm down the tremors of her whole body.

It turned out to be a dream...... It's okay, it's just a dream......

Outside the window, the moon was in the middle of the sky, Lin Wanjing smiled awkwardly, she just wanted to take a nap, but she didn't expect to sleep until night without paying attention, when did she start to snooze like this? There was a knock on the door, and Li Chengtai said with concern through the door panel: "Young lady? What's wrong? ”

"I'm fine......" Lin Wanjing said as she got out of bed and opened the door, the door bolt had just been opened, and Li Chengtai had already taken the road into the house, and vigilantly looked around.

"I'm really fine, I just had a nightmare......" Lin Wanjing sat down at the table and poured herself and Li Chengtai a cup of tea, "Adjutant Li can also sit here and rest for a while, and talk to me." ”

Lee Seung-tae hesitated for a moment, but finally sat down at the table. Although he asked him to talk to him, since he sat down, Lin Wanjing didn't open her mouth, just stared at the tea soup in the cup in a daze.

There was no progress in the noon negotiations, Liao Kai had no intention of talking to her at all, and even Lin Wanying refused to help her, Lin Wanjing really didn't know what to do.

"Young lady, don't worry too much, if you can't persuade you to surrender, Chengtai has his own way to protect you and get out."

Lin Wanjing smiled, even if Li Chengtai could save her, what about her family? If the Lin family has been asked for treason and defection to the enemy since the top of the family, how can she get out? The person behind the curtain specially used her old seal to sign the pass, which was nothing more than to tie her to death from this incident and completely cut off her back road. That person must have expected that she would risk her life to enter the village for peace talks, so he instructed Longmen Village to refuse to surrender, in order to force Liu Jin to move troops - if he does not attack, it will delay the military plane, suspected of accomplices, if he attacks the city, the Lin family will be guilty of surrendering to the enemy, and no matter her great ability, she will not be able to escape.

Seeing that Lin Wanjing didn't answer, Li Chengtai said again: "I went to check just now, and the young marshal's ship is already on standby on the river. He thought that saying this could comfort Lin Wanjing, but he didn't expect her sadness to be a little heavier.

"Does the young lady have something to pass on to the young marshal?"

"If you can pass on the word to him, tell him not to worry about me, the Longmen Village must be peaceful, and there is no dispute about what you want to do."

didn't expect to get such a reply, Li Chengtai was silent, and said again after a long time: "In any case, please believe the young marshal." ”

"Adjutant Li, now that I am in such a situation, I don't want to protect myself, I just hope that Yun Rou and he will not think about personal feelings." Lin Wanjing smiled dismally, "Could it be that you still have other plans that you haven't let me know?" ”

Lin Wanjing asked casually, but in exchange for Li Chengtai's extra serious answer: "It's better to be broken than broken." ”

Unlike the rigorous busyness of the Navy Command, no matter how busy the official business is, the working hours of the Army Command under Liu Ang's control always start in the afternoon, to be precise, after Liu Ang returns to the office after lunch, sits behind his desk and drinks his first cup of tea.

The gray dove landed on the windowsill with its wings, and the green patches on its necks were gilded with a soft metallic sheen by the sunlight. The dove stood on the edge of the window, tilting its head and cooing, waiting for the people in the room to respond to it.

Hearing the call, the adjutant beside Liu Ang looked at the windowsill: "Young marshal, that kid from Longmen Village has sent a pigeon letter again." ”

Liu Ang teased the caged bird with high interest: "Leave it alone." ”

"Yes......" The adjutant held the bird food at hand in front of Liu Ang, "Young marshal, do you really care about the matter of Longmen Village?" This time, a lot of people will be unjustly killed......"

"What does it have to do with me?" Liu Ang glanced at him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "This is something my brother has to think about." ”

"Uh...... But, young marshal, there's something I don't understand......" The adjutant carefully checked Liu Ang's face, saw that his expression was not shocked, and asked boldly, "Since you didn't plan to go to Longmen Village in the first place, why did you provoke that kid surnamed Liao to kill his father and drive his brother out of the village?" After asking this, seeing that Liu Ang didn't answer, he continued to ask, "And you want to force Liu Jin to send his wife into the village to persuade peace, but he is clumsy, and he really can't see your intentions." ”

Liu Ang snorted: "Which eye did you see that I forced her into the village?" She was worried about her sister and volunteered to go, you know? ”

"But...... Isn't the second miss of the Lin family also your leader when she enters the village......"

When he asked him like this, Liu Ang lost interest completely, slowly straightened up, and looked at the adjutant condescendingly: "Qin Yuan, you are really not smart enough for your brother...... Are there some things you can ask? ”

"Yes, I know that I was wrong, you didn't hear anything." Qin Yuan raised his hand and gave himself a slap.

"But I'm in a good mood today, so I'll make an exception to tell you the answer." Liu Ang turned around and walked to his desk and sat down, casually holding the jade paperweight in his hand and playing with it, "It's just that Lin Wanjing is too powerful, keeping her is a threat to me." Only by destroying her can she dismantle Liu Jin's wings. Liu Ang paused deliberately, and the smile on his face deepened, "Moreover, only if he personally folds these wings, will the pain be unforgettable." ”

"The young marshal is smart!"

Seeing that no one was leaving it in the house, the pigeon on the windowsill flapped its wings impatiently and blew the ash from the window into the window.

"Trouble ......" Liu Ang glanced at the pigeon with disgust, "I've rewarded you." ”

As soon as Qin Yuan heard this, a flattering look immediately climbed into his face: "Young Marshal Xie!" So he said this, and went to the window with joy, and reached out and took the pigeon in his hand, although he was not in the habit of eating carrier pigeons, but it was a meat dish for tooth sacrifice.

Liu Angyang raised his hand, and suddenly asked again: "Is there any news from your brother?" ”

"Huh...... Back to the young marshal's words, my brother sent a letter this morning, saying that the three ships of Sogo, Maoguang, and Chengguang had indeed entered the Xijiang estuary with Liu Jin, and Liu Jin had also ordered Lu Canghan to withdraw to the coastal garrison. ”

"Nothing has changed, has it?"

"I haven't received any more letters, so there should be no change."

Liu Ang nodded: "Can you tell 'old friend'?" ”

"Tell me, it's time to be on the road."

"Okay." Liu Ang slapped the paperweight on the table with a smile, and picked up the blue and white tea cup in his hand, "Doesn't he Liu Jin like to take care of things on this land?" I'll let him taste something's 'losing his wife and breaking his soldiers'. ”

"The young marshal is smart!"

"Alright, don't mess around here." Liu Ang waved his hand and motioned for Qin Yuan to go out. Qin Yuan bowed deeply, and just turned around and froze with the pigeon, just as he was speaking, he had already removed the letter tube tied to the pigeon's paws, and held it in his hand at this time, thinking that it was not appropriate to take it away, and turned around and handed it back to Liu Ang. But Liu Ang didn't take over, but said lightly:

"Look, what was written this time?"

Qin Yuan unfolded the note, and only read the word "down" and didn't dare to read it again, and beads of sweat the size of beans oozed out of his head.

"Yes." Liu Ang urged impatiently.

"Descend the ......" Qin Yuan repeated this word many times, and finally gritted his teeth and quickly read the words on the paper: "The book has been drafted, you are unkind, and Hugh blames me for being unjust." ”

The transition from calm to anger only took a second for Liu Ang to shatter the tea cup that was still in his hand at Qin Yuan's feet at this moment, and the tea soup from his burning hands splashed his trouser legs......

"Get out! The 3rd Division of the Army was ordered to fire at Longmen Village, immediately, immediately! ”

The drums beat at dusk, and the corridor lights were lit in the waterfront corridor of the Liao family's mansion, winding all the way from the main entrance through the flower hall to the front of the dining room. Lin Wanjing sat at the dining table, Li Chengtai stood silently behind her, vigilantly watching the maids bring the cold dishes on the table back to the kitchen for the third time, it was his vigilance that made Lin Wanjing feel a little comforted.

It was getting late, but Liao Kai didn't go to the appointment as scheduled, Lin Wanjing finally couldn't sit still, stood up and paced to the door in the direction he should have come.

"Young lady, he ...... Probably won't come. ”

When Lin Wanjing heard this, she turned around and looked at Li Chengtai who was speaking, frowning slightly and hoping to get an answer, but before he could speak, Lin Wanying stumbled in front of her, and pulled her in despair:

"Sister, sister, help me, help me!"

"What's wrong?" Lin Wanjing saw that she had lost five points of her seven-point soul, and she completely lost her arrogance yesterday, although she was still angry, she still held her hand into her palm, "Don't worry, tell me what's wrong?" ”

Lin Wanying seemed to have thousands of words and didn't know where to start, she struggled for a moment, and couldn't help but pick her up and go to the side room.

Outsiders are not allowed to enter the East Wing as usual, let alone Lin Wanjing, but now that Lin Wanying is pulling her, the guards don't know whether to stop her, so in this hesitating space, the two of them have passed through the porch and entered the study.

The study was messy, Liao Kai was lying on the ground with his eyes closed, as if he was dying, and the second aunt was kneeling on the ground beside him, looking at Liao Kai at a loss.

"Mom, how is he?" Lin Wanying ran to her mother in a few steps, but saw her turn to her with a dull gaze and shook her head.

"How so...... How so?! Lin Wanying grabbed Lin Xirui's shoulders like uncontrollly, and cried, "Didn't you say that it was just an anti-inflammatory drug?" How so?! ”

"I ...... I don't know ......."

"Mom, you're a doctor, you've saved a lot of people! Please save him, save him! Lin Wanying's arms shook tiredly, slowly drooped down, and the whole person also slipped into the arms of the second aunt, "Mom, I know you don't like us together, can you save him?" You saved him, and I promise you will never see him again, never again! Please, Mom, please......"

The turn came too fast, Lin Wanjing took a long time to react, she suspected the letter to Liao Kai's side, but saw that his eyes were blue, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth, and she was about to reach out to probe his snort, but Li Chengtai stopped her:

"Young lady, you can't save him."

"How do you know?" Lin Wanjing looked at him suspiciously, and then remembered what he said before, and somewhat understood: "It's you?" ”

Li Chengtai lowered his head and didn't reply, and before Lin Wanjing could ask again, the sharp sound of the cannonball piercing the eardrums stabbed the eardrums, and almost at the same time, the explosion shook the earth, and the ash on the beam fell with dirt and wood chips, and the room was suddenly filled with black smoke and miasma.

After the tinnitus disappeared, Lin Wanjing heard panicked shouts coming from outside the wall, and a few loud bangs a moment later, and she could hear that the place where the shells fell was getting closer and closer to her.

Li Chengtai didn't care much, and pulled Lin Wanjing up: "Young lady, go quickly." ”

"I'm not leaving. To go you go yourself. Lin Wanjing shook off his hand and strode back to Liao Kai's side, Xu was shocked by the sound of cannons, at this moment Liao Kai woke up from a coma, seeing his eyes slightly open, Lin Wanjing hurriedly squatted down, her hand didn't have time to touch him, but he waved his hand open, and after a while, his eyes closed again, as if he was extremely painful, turned his face away, and struggled to raise his hand to the table:

"Take them away."

After saying these four words, he couldn't stop coughing again, and the sound of air in his breath was like the hiss of a cannonball that had burst through the air a moment earlier.

Lin Wanying saw that he was awake, and threw herself aside from her mother and rushed to him:

"I'm not leaving, let me accompany you, okay!"

Liao Kai was stunned for a moment, a smile suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth, and blood gushed out from the corner of his mouth: "I said, I'm not the person you know, how many times do you have to say it before you understand?!" He couldn't help but shake her off, and added, "I ask myself if I haven't done anything wrong, and I want to say something wrong...... The only mistake is to take my brother's place and top the ...... His sins ......"

This sentence seemed to exhaust all his strength, he let out a long breath, and his chest, which was still slightly undulating, was completely flattened, Lin Wanjing felt that he still had something to say, but the person in front of him had no way to say the rest of the words. Lin Wanying whispered a few times on his chest, seeing that he really no longer responded, she finally let go of her voice and cried, the desperation in the cry made Lin Wanjing's heart ache, she patted her sister's back to show comfort, and then stood up and went straight to the desk. On the traditional mahogany bookcase, a prepared book is pressed under the gun that once belonged to Liu Jin, but the place where the payment is still empty, and time seems to be stuck at this intersection of advance and retreat.

It was this eye-catching blank space that stung Lin Wanjing's pupils, she didn't dare to let herself think too much about right and wrong, so she grabbed the book and returned to Lin Wanying.

In the blur of tears, Lin Wanying saw her sister smash the cup on the table, and then cut Liao Kai's finger with a broken porcelain piece, and the bleeding finger was finally pressed on the book.

"Sister...... What are you doing...... You know Akai's, he won't do anything to hurt you......"

"I don't know what kind of person he is, I just know that I promised the person in front of me to take you away, so I can't let you have trouble!" Lin Wanjing stuffed the book into her sister's hand, "Remember, Liao Kai is dead, you killed it with your own hands, do you know?" ”

"It's not...... No......" Lin Wanying held the paper and shook her head, tears raining down.

"Yingying, be sober, you have to save yourself and save our whole family!"

"Sister...... I didn't...... I didn't do ......"

Seeing her sister like this, Lin Wanjing simply threw the gun she had just brought into her hand:

"Well, if you really like him so much, prove it to me!"

Seeing her daughter turn the muzzle of the gun to her chest with trembling hands, the second aunt's exclamation became sharp and piercing because of excessive fright:

"Wanjing! Are you crazy?! She's your sister! ”

The muzzle of the gun was in Lin Wanying's chest for a long time, her slender fingers wanted to pull the trigger several times, and the second aunt on the side was too dumb and begged her daughter not to do stupid things, but in her words, Lin Wanying's trembling hand finally hung down weakly, and the cold gray of the pistol lined her water-blue cheongsam, as if falling in the lake, and would sink at any time.

A few more cannon shots, and after the roar, the light of the red-red night sky could be seen in the distance through the window.

"You hear it, the cannon is getting closer! If you don't, we'll all die here! You, me, the whole family! It was you who killed Liao Kai and forced him to write a surrender book, remember! I couldn't help but say, Lin Wanjing forcibly held her sister's hand and made her clench the page in her hand. Looking at her sister who cried into tears, even if her heart was like a knife, there was nothing she could do.

Now that the book has arrived, Liao Kai is also dead and has no proof, and the top priority is to inform Liu Jin of this matter.

"Young lady, I know a little bit about the lantern letter used by the fleet, why don't you try to use the lamp letter to report to the young marshal?" Lee Seung-tae admonished.

The idea of the lamp letter is good, but Longmen Village has not yet been electrified, and the daily lighting relies on candles. After the shelling, the smoke and dust were already thick, and Longmen Village was in the place with the mountain wind on its back, so I don't know when the smoke and dust would dissipate......

The screams came from the door, and Lin Wanjing followed the prestige, but saw the little girl Ying'er who had guided her before standing at the door with her mouth covered, looking at Liao Kai lying on the ground with frightened eyes. Lin Wanjing secretly screamed in her heart, and walked quickly to her side to block her vision, but she didn't know how to explain the matter in front of her to her, so she had to ask softly:

"Why are you here? Didn't you leave with your family? ”

"The nursing home is on fire, and I'm worried about the young master...... And you, that's why ......" Ying'er raised her hand to wipe the tears on her face, sobbing.

"Ying'er, is there anything brighter than a candle in this village?"

The little girl's eyes widened for a long time and nodded.