Hedeng County is mostly the residence of the high-level officials of the Black Flag Army, due to the return of a certain team, the mountain and the mountain seem to be a little lively for a while, when you turn the path on the mountainside, you can see the figure running back and forth, the light that swayed at night, for a time there is also a lot more. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Turning the path on the mountainside, the voices of the people on that side gradually faded away, the back hill is where the tomb is located, and a huge black monument stands in the distance in the night, there is a fire nearby, and there are people keeping watch. Behind the monument are small tombstones.

“…… The Battle of Xiaocanghe, including the Northwest and the Clan ...... The ashes and clothed mounds of more than 43,000 people were erected on this monument, and those who passed away one after another were buried below. In the early years, I fought around with the surroundings, just to hit the monument, it took a lot of manpower, and later some people said that the people of China are all one family, and they can't eat, so they simply bury all the monuments and leave their names. I didn't agree, the small monuments are all the same nowadays, and the craftsmen who make the monuments are very well trained, but now most of them are used to make mines......"

The two figures walked hand in hand, and as they walked, Su Tan'er introduced the surroundings softly. In the three counties of Hedeng, Ning Yi came once in four years, and then only a few times since he watched from afar, and now there are new places and new things in front of him. Approaching the monument, he leaned in to look at it, and stroked the stone tablet with his hand, and it was full of rough lines and drawings.

"Kind of General...... Originally, it was someone I wanted to stay......" Ning Yi sighed, "It's a pity, the seed master, the seed master, the seed ......."

"How's the Folded Family?" Tan'er asked in a low voice.

“…… Dominating the Northwest. Ning Yi smiled, "It's a pity that there aren't many people alive in the northwest." ”

Xiaocanghe three-year war, the family army assisted the Huaxia army against the Jurchens, to Jianshuo five years, resigned, the speed of the south, while trying to relocate the residents of the northwest, the seed Yan insisted on Yanzhou without retreating, and then the city of Yanzhou was broken, and then the Xiaocanghe was also broken by the army, and the resignation did not lose to occupy the northwest and tried to trap the black flag, but unexpectedly the black flag entered Yanzhou along the secret road, a big battle, the slaughter of the Jurchen elite was not calculated, and the resignation was also captured by Ning Yi, and then killed in the head of Yanzhou city.

In the battle of Xiaocanghe, even if the Central Plains people ambushed millions of corpses, they were not in the eyes of the Jurchens, but in the battle against the black flag in person, first the death of the god of war Wanyan Lou Room, and then the death of the general, together with the thousands of dead elites, was the greatest pain felt by the Jurchens. So much so that after the war, the Jurchens carried out massacres in the northwest, and the cities and villages that were previously inclined to the Huaxia army, or those who did not move in the war, were almost slaughtered into white ground, and then they vigorously preached that "these were all killed by the Black Flag Army, and if you don't resist, you won't be like this".

After the massacre at the end of the sixth year of Jianshuo, seven years later, the plague and famine spread in the northwest, and then there were thousands of miles of uninhabited people. Except for the Western Army that was finally collected by the Black Flag and the more than 20,000 northwestern residents who moved south, I am afraid that there are only a few cities ruled by the Zhe family in the bloodline of that area now.

At the beginning, the Black Flag went to the northwest, firstly, to converge with Luliang, and secondly, to find a relatively closed place for the four wars, without being too affected by the outside world and maintaining great pressure, to refine the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Wurui Battalion.

Ning Yi was in a complicated mood, and he passed over like this with the tombstone, and he saluted the spirit guard soldiers not far away, and the other party also returned the military salute.

“…… The people in the northwest died seventy-seven eighty-eight, and the Central Plains also cut off the connection with that side for self-preservation, so the Western Xia was in great trouble, and there were not many people who cared...... Those Mongols slaughtered Yinchuan, one city after another, and the north also had two frictions with the Jurchens, they rode thousands of miles like the wind, the Jurchens did not take much advantage, and now it seems that the Western Xia is about to be digested......"

"Sounds amazing, but I still don't understand why you take them so seriously." Tan'er thought for a while, "One mountain can't tolerate two tigers, and it's not a good thing that they are fighting in the north." ”

"War breaks people and sharpens them. They will defeat people like the Wu Dynasty, but they will sharpen people like the Jin Kingdom. The stele forest stretched forward, Ning Yi led Tan'er, and also walked all the way in the light of the lantern, "After capturing the Liao State and occupying the Central Plains, the old group of people in the Jin Kingdom also died. After Ah Guta, Zong Wang, and Lou Mu went, the younger generation came to power and began to have a hedonistic mindset, and those old generals had suffered all their lives, and they didn't care about the children's profligacy. The poor are always like this, but the foreign enemy is still there, and it will always hang their breath, and Black Flag and Mongolia are such foreign enemies. ”

Tan'er laughed: "In this way, it's better for us to be weaker." ”

Ning Yi also smiled: "In order to make them corrupt and we are weak, then the winner will never be us...... The Mongols are different from the Jurchens, who are poor and dare to work hard, but to put it bluntly, for a good life. The Mongols were martial and believed that under the heavens, all were hunting grounds for immortality, and since Temujin led them to gather as one, this thought became even more intense, and they fought...... It's not about a better life at all......"

"Then why?"

"Fighting is a better life." Ning Yi's tone was calm and slow, "When a man is alive, he wants to chase more ferocious prey, defeat stronger enemies, plunder the best treasures, see the weak crying, and *** women...... The one who can gallop in this hunting ground is the most powerful. They see fighting as the essence of life, so ah, they don't stop easily. ”

Tan'er fell silent.

"After the destruction of Yinchuan in Western Xia, the courage of the whole country has been lost, the Mongols slaughtered Yinchuan, drove the captives to break other cities, as long as there is a slight resistance, the whole city is killed, they are intoxicated with this process. The friction with the Jurchens was all light cavalry guerrillas, and if they couldn't beat them, they would leave immediately, and the Jurchens would not be able to catch up. After the Western Xia digested it, these people either went west or entered the Central Plains...... I hope it's not the latter. ”

The two walked while talking, and when they came to a tombstone, Tan'er took Ning Yi's hand, Ning Yi stopped, looked at the words on the tombstone, and put the lantern in his hand aside.

This is Su Yu's tomb.

The old man passed away more than two years ago.

As Tan'er's grandfather, the backbone of the Su family for many years, this old man actually doesn't have much knowledge. When he was young, the Su family was still a small family running a cloth shop, and the foundation of the Su family began with his father's generation, and it actually rose in the hands of Su Yu. The old man had five children, two of whom died young, and the remaining three children were all mediocre, so when Su Yue was old, he had to choose the young and intelligent Su Tan'er as a preparatory successor to cultivate.

This is an old man that Ning Yi admires, although he is not as stunning as Qin Siyuan and Kang Xian, but he does support a big family with his majesty and generosity. Thinking back to more than ten years ago, when I first woke up in this body, although I didn't care about the identity of the family, if it was really the Su family's troubles, I was afraid that I would have a hard time, but in the first time, although I "knew" that this grandson-in-law was just a poor scholar with shallow knowledge, the old man actually took care of himself.

The old man did not read much since he was a child, but he was quite concerned about the knowledge of his children and grandchildren, he spent a lot of effort to build a private school academy, and even let the third and fourth generations of girls in the family enter the enlightenment, although the academy from top to bottom seems to be extremely mediocre, but such efforts are indeed the right way for a family to accumulate.

Later, Ning Yi and Su Tan'er supported the Su family, and the old man no longer took care of things too much, after the Liangshan extermination case, Su Yu was depressed and entrusted everything to him. Ning Yi and Su Tan'er both understood that although the old man was no longer in charge of things, he was still looking forward to the revitalization and leap of the Su family, and the later development might be as he wished, until ...... Murder of kings and rebellion.

It's hard to see how the old man looks at these things. A merchant family selling cloth, even if the old man's vision is out of Jiangning, I am afraid that he will not be able to reach the world, there are not many people until he thinks of his son-in-law's rebellion, at that time the old man's health is not very good, Tan'er considered these things, and cried to Ning Yi: "Grandpa will die on the road......" But the old man tenaciously arrived at Luliang Mountain.

In the years that followed, the old man watched all this quietly, and gradually became sympathetic from silence. At that time, Ning Yi was busy with work, and he didn't have much time to see Su Yu, but every time they met, the two would have a conversation, and he gradually felt proud of the Jurchen disaster and Xiaocanghe's resistance, and he always asked some of his own questions about the many things Ning Yi had done, and listened quietly, but he could see that he naturally couldn't understand them all-he didn't read many books after all.

Five years ago, when the big war was about to start, the old man followed everyone south, traveling thousands of miles, but in the process, he never complained, and even if the Su family accompanying him had any bad words and deeds, he would call people over and beat them with crutches. In the past, he felt that the Su family was nothing more than Su Tan'er, but now he was proud of Su Wending, Su Wenfang, Su Wenyu, Su Yanping and others after following Ning Yi's success.

But the old man was too old after all, and after arriving in Hodeng, he lost his ability to move, and he became sometimes confused and sometimes sober. In the fifth year of Jianshuo, Ning Yi arrived in Hedeng, and the old man was in a state of confusion, and he did not communicate with Ning Yi again, that was the last thing they saw. In the early spring of the sixth year of Jianshuo, the old man's physical condition finally began to deteriorate, one morning, he came to his senses and asked everyone about the battle situation of Xiaocanghe, whether Ning Yi and others returned triumphantly, at this time the Northwest War was in the most tragic time period, everyone didn't know what to say, after Tan'er and Wen Fang arrived, they told the old man the whole situation.

The old man passed away on this day, and when he was finally sober, he said a few words to the young people around him and the children of the Su family as encouragement, and finally asked Tan'er to bring a message to Ning Yi, but his thoughts were already blurred, and Su Tan'er later wrote these in a letter and gave them to Ning Yi.

“…… I'm with your father...... I made a marriage contract for you in a forest...... You're still young, walking, falling...... Many people came, the Su family's ...... The ...... of the Ning family At that time, Su Yun was still there, and he was sick for a long time, and he dressed up before he came out...... In the forest, grape trellises, many people ...... "The memory of the old man seems to have stayed in the forest more than 30 years ago, that is the forest of the Su family, Jiang Ning was still calm at that time, and Tan'er's grandmother Kang Suyun is also alive, people are young, the old man recalled for a long time, the light in his eyes gradually faded, only at the end of the shake of Tan'er's hand, when Tan'er leaned over, I heard the old man whisper: "...... The backbone of the world......"

That's probably to make Ning Yi the backbone of the world.

Tan'er also wrote a letter to him and brought it to him.

"When Grandpa leaves, he should be very satisfied. What he used to think about in his heart was probably that his family couldn't become successful, but now Wending Wenfang is a family and a talent, and the children are sensible when they study, and in the last few years, grandpa is actually very happy. In the two years that he was in poor health, he always told me, don't tell you, desperate people don't have to worry about home. A few times he told Wen Fang that from south to north and from north to south, he could be regarded as having seen the world, and he used to walk around with goods, which were all fake, so there was no need to be sad for his grandfather. ”

They placed several symbolic offerings in front of the grave, and the night breeze blew gently through them, and the two sat down in front of the grave and watched the scene of the tombstones spreading below. For more than ten years, the old people have gone one after another, not to mention Su Yu. Qin Siyuan, Qian Xiwen, Kang Xian...... The old ones are leaving, and the young people who shouldn't be leaving are also leaving in large numbers. Ning Yi took Tan'er's hand, lifted it and put it down.

"Five or six years ago, before the fight started, I went to Aoki Village and chatted with my grandfather. Grandpa said that he was actually not very good at teaching, thinking that if he ran a college, people would learn well, he spent money to hire Mr., and beat and scolded the children, and the children were naughty, he thought that the children were all people like Su Wenji, and later felt that only Tan'er in the family could take on a big responsibility......

But he later found out that it wasn't like this, it turned out that he just didn't know how to teach, the sword blade was sharpened, it turned out that as long as it was polished, Wen Ding Wen Fang and them could also make the Su family proud, but it was a pity that Wen Ji ...... I think that when the old man thinks about Wen Ji's matter, he feels sad after all......"

They are talking about the Liangshan extermination case more than ten years ago, when Su Wenji, who was frightened by the massacre, shouted to hand over Tan'er who was hiding in the crowd, and the old man came out and stabbed this grandson to death in front of everyone. People can be ruthless, and nearly half of the Su family was slaughtered in that bloody case, but then I remembered that the old man was difficult to let go of the fact that he killed his grandson with his own hands......

"At that time, I opened a class in Xiaocanghe, and taught a group of people who can do things, I told the old man, the sky is falling, where can a few people bear it, after all, everyone is resisting, I am good, Wending Wenfang is good, what we do is our own duty...... The people of the world are the backbone of the world...... Grandpa may have remembered this ...... at the end."

"Hmm." Tan'er replied softly. Time passes, the old man is only living in memory after all, there is not much meaning in carefully asking, people meet and get together based on fate, fate will eventually come to an end, because of such regrets, each other's hands can be tightly held together.

In the distance, flames rose, and the sound of a fight was faintly heard. The search in the day is just the beginning, after Ning Yi and the others do arrive, there will be fish that have slipped through the net to get the news, and if they want to spread it, the second round of inspection and filling in the gaps has already been launched under the leadership of Hongti, Watermelon and others.

"Let's go back first." The two held hands, walked around the mountain road, and walked towards the brightly lit courtyard in the distance, where there were many people who were already waiting.

In the late autumn of Wu Jianshuo's eighth year, Ning Yi returned to Hedeng, and the Black Flag Army at this time, after walking through the initial mud, finally began to swell into a behemoth. During this period of time, the world was silent in tension, and Ning Yi's family finally spent a rare leisure time here.

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Lin'an, prison.

When the day was dark, the servants and guards of the princess's mansion walked through the corridor in the prison, and the steward directed the jailers to clean the road in the prison, and the people in front of them entered the cells inside, and they brought hot water, towels, beards, clothes and pants, etc., and made all the clothes for one of the prisoners in the prison.

The prisoner's name was Qu Zonghui, and he was so frightened by this behavior that he resisted for a moment, and then asked, "What are you doing...... You're going to kill me...... You're going to kill me...... I'm a colt, I'm a Qu family, you can't do this...... Can't ...... like that."

His shouting was soon stopped by the steward's stern gaze, and he allowed his men to thin and shave his beard and arrange his long hair in a slight trembling manner, and when he was done, he too became a handsome and handsome son—which was his good appearance—and soon after that the servant left, and after a while the princess came.

She was dignified in appearance, dressed in large and gorgeous clothes, and looked a little like when she was married, and in any case, very formal. But Qu Zonghui was still frightened by that calm gaze, he stood there, forced himself to composure, but he didn't know whether to kneel down or not: over the years, he had been swaggering outside, looking fearless, in fact, his heart was already very afraid of this eldest princess, he just understood that the other party would not care about him at all.

But this time, he knew things weren't the same.

Zhou Pei sat down in the cell, and everyone outside the cell had already walked away, only a silent guard was in the shadows not far away, the flames were shaking in the oil lamp, and the neighborhood was quiet and gloomy. It took a long time for him to hear Zhou Pei say, "Donkey, sit down." The tone was soft.

Qu Zonghui slowly sat down opposite. Zhou Pei was like this to him, looking at him calmly for a long, long time, for so many years, except for the long talk after getting married, this time may be the longest time Zhou Pei has seen him.

"I owe it to you." I don't know when, Zhou Pei opened his mouth softly, and Qu Zonghui's lips trembled: "I ......" He couldn't say anything in the end.

Zhou Pei didn't care about what he said, just looked at it for a moment and spoke in his memories.

"When I was a girl, I had a master who was so talented that no one could ...... him"

The prison is quiet, like a ghost, Qu Zonghui listened to the faint words, his body trembled slightly, who is the master of the eldest princess, he actually knows it in his heart, he is not afraid of this, but after being married for so many years, when the other party said so many words in front of him for the first time, he was smart and knew that things were going to get bigger...... He couldn't guess what was going to happen next......

“…… I was young at the time, and although I was impressed by his talent, I never admitted it verbally, and I couldn't understand many of the things he did, and I didn't understand many of the things he said, but unconsciously, I cared about him...... The admiration of childhood is not love, of course it can't be counted...... Concubine, when I married you, I no longer had him in my heart, but I envied the affection between him and his wife. He is a wealthy person, just like you, when they got married, he and Shi Niang had no emotion, but the two later contacted each other, understood each other, and slowly became a family with each other. I envy such emotions and I want to ...... You can have that kind of emotion with the colt......"

"It was my big mistake......

"With such a naïve idea, I married you and had a long talk with you, I told you, I want to get to know you slowly, and I can be with you slowly, and stay with you for a long time...... Teenage girl, it's so naïve, donkey, you listen, maybe you think it's my unintentional excuse to you...... Whether it's or not, after all, I'm wrong, I never thought that you have never seen such a relationship, feelings, and mutual affection outside, and those scholars who interact with you are all ambitious and upright people, I humiliated you, and you accepted me on the surface, but after all, ...... In less than a month, you went to the Qinglou prostitution ......"

"My naivety, ruined my beloved, ruined your life......"

A calm voice spoke all the way, the voice wafting through the cell. Qu Zonghui's gaze was sometimes fearful, sometimes angry: "You, you ......" He had a grudge in his heart, and wanted to have a seizure, but he didn't dare to have a seizure after all, on the other side, Zhou Pei just looked at him quietly, and in his eyes, a tear dripped down his cheek.

“…… In the following ten years, the Wu Dynasty suffered a catastrophe, we were displaced, running around, I have something on my shoulders, and you are ...... after all Leave it to its own devices. You went to the Qinglou to prostitute and stay overnight, drank and made trouble with a group of friends, and you had no money, and you came back to ask the steward for it, one after another, and even smashed the steward's head, I didn't pay attention to it, and if it was three hundred and two or five hundred taels, you took it, even if you said that I treated you harshly, I ...... it."

She paused and lowered her head: "I thought I was big-hearted, but now that I think about it, I feel ashamed." ”

"You, you...... You've finally got it! You've finally spoken up! DID YOU KNOW...... You're my wife, you're sorry for me—" Qu Zonghui finally shouted out from the other end of the cell.

Zhou Pei's eyes looked to the side, quietly waiting for him to finish, and then passed for a while: "Yes, I'm sorry for you, and I'm sorry too...... The family you killed...... Looking back, in the past ten years, I always look forward to the day when my beloved becomes a mature person, and he will release his old suspicions with me and repair the relationship with me...... Over the years, the court has lost half of the country, the court has retreated south, and the refugees from the north have been coming, I am the eldest princess, and sometimes, I feel tired...... There are times when I see you making trouble at home, and I may be able to go over and talk to you, but I can't. I'm twenty-seven years old, and the mistake of ten years ago, I said it was naïve, and I can only suffer it after ten years. And you...... Twenty-nine......"

"In the past ten years, you have been prostitutes, spending money, and bullying others, and I have closed my eyes. It's been ten years, I'm getting more and more tired, you're getting more and more crazy, the prostitute in the Qinglou is still your willing, raising a thin horse outside, I don't care, I don't have sex with you, you always have to have a woman by your side, spend some when you should spend, it's good...... But you shouldn't kill people, living people......"

Her hands were clasped in front of her, her fingers were twisted together, her eyes had already looked coldly, Qu Zonghui shook her head: "I, I was wrong...... Princess, I'll change, we're ...... We'll be together in the future, I, I'm not going to do those things......"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and took a few steps forward, looking like he wanted to hug Zhou Pei, but he felt Zhou Pei's gaze, and he didn't dare to do it after all, Zhou Pei looked at him and said coldly: "Go back!" ”

Qu Zonghui retreated.

Zhou Pei's gaze calmed down again, she opened her mouth, closed it, and opened her mouth again before she spoke.

"My master, he is a man who stands up to the sky, he kills bandits, corrupt officials, resentful soldiers, and Jurchens, he ...... His wife had no feelings for him at first, and he was not angry, and he never treated his wife in a way that ruined himself. Horse, you were a little like him at first, you were smart, kind, and romantic, I thought you were a little like him......"

"I spent ten years, sometimes angry, sometimes guilty, and sometimes reflective, whether I was asking too much...... Women can't afford to wait, and sometimes I think, even if you have done so many wrong things for so many years, if you repent and come to me and say that you are not like this anymore, and then you reach out and hug me, how nice it would be, I ...... I might forgive you, too. But not once......"

"I've been naïve for ten years, and you've been naïve for ten years...... A twenty-nine-year-old man, playing with a woman outside, killing her, and then killing her family, you are no longer a child. The master I admire, he even killed the emperor with his own hands in the end, although I am different from him, but he is really powerful...... The lover I married, he ruined his life and other people's whole families because of a girl's naivety, he really ...... Pigs and dogs are not as good. ”

Zhou Pei clenched his fists on his legs and gritted his teeth: "Beast!" ”

Qu Zonghui cried and knelt down, begging for mercy in his mouth, Zhou Pei's tears were already flowing down his cheeks, and he shook his head.

"I can't kill you." She said, "I want to kill you, but I can't kill you, my father and the Qu family can't kill you, but if I don't kill you, I'm sorry for the family who died unjustly, they are also the people of the Wu Dynasty, I can't watch them being killed by people like you." I wanted to torture you......"

When she said this, even Qu Zonghui, who was crying, was shocked.

"I wanted to torture you." She shook her head and said, "You have no way to harm people again, but I know that this will not work, and when the time comes, you will only be more psychologically distorted to harm others." Now that the three divisions have proven your innocence, I can only bear your sins to the end......"

"I was wrong, I was wrong......" Qu Zonghui cried, kneeling and kowtowing, "I don't do these things anymore, princess, I respect you and love you, I do all this because I love you...... Let's do it all over again......"

"We're not going to do it all over again, and we're never going to do it again." Zhou Pei showed a sad smile on his face and stood up, "I tidied up a yard for you in the princess's mansion, you will live there in the future, you can't see outsiders, you can't get out an inch, I can't kill you, then you will live, but for the outside, when you die, you can't hurt anyone anymore." Let's live next to each other for the rest of our lives. ”

She walked towards the outside of the cell, Qu Zonghui howled, rushed over and dragged her skirt, and said words begging for mercy and loving her, Zhou Pei broke free with all her might, and the skirt was torn off in an uproar, and she didn't care.

"Our fate is exhausted......"

She looked at him for a moment, walked through the dimly lit corridor of the cell, and gradually disappeared from Qu Zonghui's field of vision.

On this day, Qu Zonghui was taken back to the princess's mansion and locked up in the courtyard, Zhou Pei never killed him, and the Qu family stopped making much trouble, but Qu Zonghui could no longer see outsiders. He shouted repentance in the courtyard, said apologies to Zhou Pei, and apologized to the deceased, this process lasted for about a month, and he finally began to scold desperately, scolding Zhou Pei, scolding the guards, scolding the people outside, and then even the royal family scolded, and this process lasted for a long, long time......

Everything in the world is just a process of meeting and separating.

In the autumn of the eighth year of the founding of the Wu Dynasty, even in the fallen leaves, it seems to be pregnant with a surging tide, the Wu Dynasty, the Black Flag, the Central Plains, and the Jin Kingdom are still enjoying precious tranquility in this tension, and the world is like a rickety net, I don't know when, it will break all the lines...... (To be continued.) )