"Well, we had a great conversation today, but it was a big deal, and I still have to think about it. I asked the Qin envoy to stay in this Zigui City for a day, and this marshal will give you an answer tomorrow! ”

Huan Xuan didn't say anything in the end, but Pei Shengqin's heart was half cold, at this moment when time was pressing, not expressing his position was a statement in itself. It's just that now, I can only wait for a day to see.

Watching the three Qin envoys go out, Huan Xuan's face sank. Sima Zhihua quipped on the side: "Cousin, can you tell the truth from the fake?" ”

Huan Xuan shook his head and said, "Although it's fake, what can I do." Now that the Qin Dynasty is powerful, if I move these people today, he may be wiped out one day. ”

Sima Zhihua sighed secretly in his heart, even though he exposed the false conditions of the three Qin envoys, he still couldn't give Huan Xuan confidence. Although Huan Xuan will not surrender to Qin, he does not dare to do anything to the Qin people, for fear of being liquidated in the future. During the change of thoughts, Sima Zhihua said: "In the past Wei Dynasty and Han, Zhaolie entered Shu and became a hegemon, and he was partial to peace for several generations, why not follow suit." If you can fix Ding Shuzhong and help Sima rebuild Sheji, his cousin will be the Zhou Gong Zhuge of the world. ”

Huan Xuan listened proudly, if he could really follow Liu Bei's example and enter Shu to divide the territory, it would be a good thing. At that time, you can retire and support the Jin room and be a virtuous minister through the ages. If you advance, you can establish yourself as an emperor and become a party's business. Naturally it is better than surrendering to the Qin Dynasty. Just thinking about it carefully, he smiled bitterly again: "If you want to enter Shu, you need to go up the river, and Xiangyang is a must-pass place." Now there are 70,000 Qin soldiers stationed outside Xiangyang City. Although there are 100,000 people in our army, it is still difficult to break the 70,000 Qin army. ”

Since ancient times, it has been surrounded five times and attacked ten times. Now the Jingzhou soldiers can defend Zigui, and the Yizhou soldiers can defend Xiangyang, and the defenders of the city have taken advantage of it, and whoever attacks will suffer. It is very difficult for the Yizhou Naval Division to break through the Jingzhou Naval Division, and it is equally difficult for the Jingzhou Naval Division to break through the Jingzhou Naval Division. But if you can't capture Xiangyang, how can you enter Shu?

Sima Zhihua bit his lip and said softly: "Little sister has a strategy, which can help my cousin's soldiers take down the 70,000 Qin army without bloodshed." ”

Huan Xuan was overjoyed: "Cousin, if you have any ideas, let's talk about it quickly." ”

"My cousin has to swear first, if I can successfully enter Shu, I need to help me to make a big Jin. If the father has something unspeakable, he should also support the children of the Sima family as the emperor, and the Huan family as the Jin minister. ”

Huan Xuan didn't have any pressure, he just swore a gambling curse, and his expression was sincere. I secretly laughed in my heart that although this little woman is smart, she is too simple to achieve great things.

"Cousin came over with his ear." Sima Zhihua said word by word: "This strategy still needs the old lady to come out..."

Soon after, a group of Eastern Jin envoys came to the Qin army camp in Guanghuazhou and were received by Pei Yuanluo.

Pei Yuan looked at the leader of the Jin envoy and was surprised in his heart. This is a well-maintained woman, with fair and delicate skin, who looks no more than thirty or forty, and whose silver threads reveal her true age. After the introduction of the Eastern Jin Dynasty mission, Pei Yuanluo already knew the identity of this woman, she was Huan Xuan's mother, the old lady of the Huan family.

"This is a major event to change the court, our Huan family still has to think about it, and tomorrow the head of the family will have a conclusion. The envoy of your army stayed in Zigui tonight and waited, in order to avoid the suspicion of your army, the old man invited himself to the Qin camp as a hostage, until the envoy of your army returned safely. ”

Mrs. Huan's real age is nearly sixty, but she still speaks clearly, and her voice is as clear as a girl. Pei Yuanluo didn't doubt him, whoever put it on the table had to think about it, Huan Xuan had sent his mother over as a hostage, and he was sincere when he thought about it. When even the head of the chin said: "If the Huan clan can understand the righteousness, Ben Jiang will naturally ask for credit for the Huan clan in front of His Majesty in the future." In this way, I look forward to bringing back good news tomorrow. ”

Pei Yuanluo couldn't help but feel relieved when he thought that the 100,000 Jingzhou sailors might be solved by his son immediately. The Jin envoy's request to visit the Qin camp was also full of promises, and in his mind, this was also a good opportunity to show the Huan clan the might of the Great Qin army.

Pei Shengqin took Shi Yue and the male dog to the northwest of Zigui City for the first time. Huan Xuan drew a small school field in the northwest corner for the mission to live in. Shunqiang got the news in advance and knew that they were going to stay here for the night, so he had already led people to set up camps. At this moment, when he saw Pei Shengqin and the others coming back, he came over.

"Childe, General Shi." Shun Qiang hugged his fists and said, "How are you talking, can you persuade that Huan Xuan?" ”

"It's hard to put into words." Pei Shengqin smiled bitterly, and the male dog on the side explained the matter roughly. Shunqiang listened, pointed to the male dog and scolded: "You dog, it's really a bad thing." ”

Pei Shengqin waved his hand: "That's it, it's just a matter of obeying the destiny of heaven, and now it's over, so I have to wait for a day." Maybe Huan Xuan is afraid of my Great Qin Bingfeng, even if he guesses that the will is false, he may also descend down the slope. ”

For some reason, Pei Shengqin was extremely uneasy in his heart, which was a fear of the unknown. Previously, Pei Shengqin relied on the records in the history books to know everything about this era and could be fearless. But since he entered Zigui and persuaded him to surrender, at least part of the history of Jingzhou in Yizhou has changed because of him and has deviated from its original trajectory.

After losing the blessing of the prophetic plug-in, Pei Shengqin is just an ordinary person with ordinary wisdom, but he is facing the two topmost characters in this world today. Needless to say, the pressure is huge, Pei Shengqin even always has a feeling that they see through his heart.

The uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, Pei Shengqin always felt that today's dialogue with Huan Xuan and Sima Zhihua was full of loopholes, and he always felt that he had missed something very important, but it was difficult to remember.

At this time, the Qin camp of Guanghuazhou was eating, and a team of soldiers ate in a circle, eating artemisia tuan, which is a unique delicacy in Yizhou, and the soldiers used this thing to relieve homesickness.

There were only one or twenty envoys from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and most of them were old and weak. Therefore, Pei Yuanluo didn't care, and only let the two guards lead them to visit the camp to meet the requirements of Old Taijun Huan.

Xu Lao Er is an old man in the army, and he has a very high prestige in the Yizhou Water Division, and he has been promoted to a lieutenant for his merits, and many officers and soldiers in the army obey him. At this time, Xu Lao Er had just finished cooking, and came to the shade of the tree with a bowl, and there were three artemisia balls in the bowl. Xu Lao Er sat on the ground and was about to eat, when he saw a pair of slightly dry hands poking into his bowl and grabbing an artemisia ball.

Xu Lao Er was angry, I don't know which dog didn't eat enough, so he came to his bowl to grab food. was about to scold, but he raised his head, but he was stunned. The person who robbed him of Artemisia was an old woman with silver hair, although there were wrinkles on her face, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows still had the peerless charm of her youth. Xu Lao Er always felt that this old woman was very familiar... Déjà vu.

The guard who followed him said, "This is the Jin envoy." ”

Jin envoy? This old lady is a messenger sent by the Southern Barbarians? What did the messenger of the Southern Barbarians do when he robbed my Artemisia regiment! Xu Lao Er was suddenly full of suspicion. In fact, even the two guards who came over were suspicious, the old lady of the dignified Huan family, hadn't he eaten anything good, and he actually grabbed food with the soldiers.

As soon as there was a movement here, it attracted the attention of the Qin Jun who were eating around him. In front of everyone's eyes, I saw that Old Taijun Huan slowly put the artemisia ball in his hand into his mouth, chewed and swallowed slowly before swallowing it into his stomach. Some Qin soldiers who were close were surprised to find that Old Taijun Huan's wrinkled face was covered with mottled tears at some point. Obediently, is the Southern Barbarian so poor? When I came to our Daqin military camp and grabbed an artemisia regiment, I was moved to cry.

And some of the soldiers, including Xu Lao Er, who were closer, looked at Old Taijun Huan's facial features, and they gradually felt weird. It seems, in the depths of memory, once, where did I see this face ...

At this time, Mrs. Huan ate the Artemisia Tuan, looked around, and sighed: "I haven't eaten the food of my hometown for more than 30 years, and I can't help it for a while, I hope you Qin soldiers will forgive me." ”

Her voice was completely out of step with her age, as clear as snow. Xu Laoer's eyes widened, and he asked curiously, "Barbarian... Ahem, the Jin envoy is also a Shu person? ”

Old Taijun Huan nodded slightly and said, "Jianing went to the country in the second year. ”

Jianing is the last era name of Li Shi, the last emperor of the Cheng Han Dynasty, with a total of two years. In the second year of Jianing, Huan Wen cut down Shu, broke Chengdu, and died into a Han Dynasty. The 70,000 Yizhou sailors here are the 70,000 "Cheng Han relics" deliberately selected by the former Qin court, and the word Jianing is an unforgettable memory for every one of the 70,000 Yizhou sailors here!

Hearing this, countless soldiers around spontaneously surrounded them, and some soldiers couldn't help but ask: "This lady, are you the woman who was captured by the Southern Barbarians after the country was broken?" ”

The two guards on the side glanced at each other and saw a touch of solemnity to each other. They know the identity of this woman, this is the old lady of the Huan family, does it have any connection with Shudi? Both of them felt that things were a little out of control, so they secretly walked out of the crowd and reported to Pei Yuanluo.

At this time, Mrs. Huan saw that the surrounding soldiers had gathered around, so she sighed sadly and said sadly: "That year, the wind and snow were pervasive, he came wrapped in felt, and I came out. ”

Finally, many Yizhou soldiers and soldiers have awakened the memories buried deep in their minds.

Xu Lao Er remembered that that year, Huan Wen broke through Chengdu in the wind and snow, and ordered the whole city to participate in the surrender ceremony. Xu Laoer, who was still young, hid behind his parents and shivered, looking at this group of powerful invaders. It was she who made the sacrifice, a beautiful woman dressed in a thin garment, with a jade mouth and a wattle on her back. She turned back step by step, looking back at the people behind her, her beautiful eyes full of despair and grievance. She finally walked out of the city, came to the Jin army formation, and knelt straight at Huan Wen's feet.

Xu Lao Er burst into tears, his vision gradually blurred, and the old face of Mrs. Huan in front of him gradually overlapped with the desperate and complaining face of more than thirty years ago.

Xu Lao Er was speechless for a long time, but just knelt down straight towards Old Taijun Huan. More Qin soldiers knelt down, and the Qin troops who did not participate in the surrender ceremony in Chengdu did not know why, and after asking their comrades around them, many also chose to kneel.

stayed up until dark in Zigui City, Lang Lang night, and the moon and stars were scarce. The hundreds of people under his command had already rested, and Pei Shengqin had something in his heart and couldn't sleep, so he dragged Shunqiang and the male dog to chat. It's not that he doesn't want to find Shi Yue, it's just that Shi Yue is not Pei Shengqin's subordinate, on the contrary, he should be called uncle in terms of seniority, and it's really not good to bother Shi Yue to stay up late with him.

Unconsciously, the topic turned to Sima Zhihua, and Pei Shengqin sighed: "The princess of the Jin Dynasty leaned on me with half of her body at that time, and that expression was really pitiful to me." ”

Shunqiang didn't understand, so he asked: "Childe, what does this 'I see pity' mean?" ”

Pei Shengqin was stunned, did he use the wrong idiom? It shouldn't be, he remembered that I saw that it was an allusion to the early Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it should have appeared a long time ago. However, after thinking about it, the transmission of news in this era was slow, and it was not surprising that the former Qin people did not know about the Eastern Jin Dynasty. casually explained: "I see pity to describe the woman's beauty and pity, and it is the story of the Southern Barbarian general Huan Wen." Huan Wen broke Cheng Han and took Cheng Han's princess back as a concubine. Huan Wen's wife was a princess of the Jin Dynasty, who was jealous by nature and never allowed him to marry a child. Knowing that Huan Wen had brought another princess back as a concubine, he was jealous, so he wanted to find trouble with the princess of Chenghan. As a result, Huan Wen's wife saw Princess Chenghan, saw that she was weak and sad, and remembered that she had just experienced the pain of losing the country, and her heart suddenly felt compassionate, so she said to her, 'I see pity, let alone the old slave', and since then Huan Wen has lived a happy life of one wife and one concubine and two princesses. ”

After speaking, seeing that the male dog and Shunqiang's faces were ugly, Pei Shengqin finally thought that these two people were the relics of the Cheng Han Dynasty, and the previous allusions may have stabbed their pain points, so he couldn't help but say apologetically: "I'm sorry, I lost my words." ”

"Childe doesn't have to be like this, it's all decades ago, and there's nothing taboo. The humiliation that Nanban brought to the Yizhou fathers and elders, we will eventually pay for the debt with blood. The male dog and Shunqiang hurriedly said.

At this time, he heard Shun Qiang say angrily: "Huan Wen's wife actually wanted to find trouble with Her Royal Highness the princess, if she had known earlier, she would have been taught a hard lesson today!" ”

Pei Shengqin suddenly thought that Yizhou had racked his brains this time in order to pick out these 70,000 fanatics. They transformed their remembrance of Cheng Han into hatred for the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and they could indeed exert their greatest combat effectiveness. Fortunately, there have been no descendants of the royal family who have become Han in the past few decades to stir up the wind and rain, otherwise the imperial court would never dare to use such a water division. Many of them are afraid that their recognition of Cheng Han is even higher than that of Former Qin.

When his thoughts returned, Pei Shengqin thought of what Shunqiang had just said, and said in surprise: "Who do you say you want to teach a lesson?" ”

"Naturally, it is Huan Wen's wife, the princess of the Jin Dynasty." Shunqiang explained: "Before Gongzi returned to the camp, Nanban also sent a team of envoys to visit our army, and it was from this northwest corner that they went out. The leading old woman is Huan Wen's wife, Huan Xuan's mother. If I had known about this earlier, I would have taken my brothers to clean her up when she took people out of the city today. ”

Pei Shengqin looked at Shunqiang strangely in front of him and said, "Huan Wen's wife died a long time ago. ”

"Ahh Shun Qiang exclaimed: "Impossible, today I clearly heard those barbarians call that woman to be the old lady, the old lady of the Huan family, isn't it Huan Wen's wife." ”

The male dog was still laughing heartlessly on the side: "Childe has said it, Huan Wen's wife died early, what the hell are you doing." ”

Pei Shengqin's heart suddenly tightened, and the feeling of uneasiness became even stronger, and he said solemnly: "Shunqiang, are you sure you heard it right!" ”

Huan Wen's wife is dead, who is left who is qualified to be called the old lady?