"The door master, Yuan Shikai sent a message, saying that the southern army has never gone out of the city to engage in battle, but only relies on the fortified city with cannons. Because of the sharp firearms, the accuracy of the head and the fact that Wusheng Guantian is dangerous and difficult to attack, the Beiyang New Army suffered heavy casualties, and under the heavy reward, it is unwilling to fight again......"

"Hmm!"

"Master, Shandong Sun Baoqi canceled his independence, and sent a telegram saying that he still obeyed the orders of my Qing Dynasty, and everything was only done according to the will of the imperial court......"

"Got it."

"My lord, General Jiangning Tie Liang urgently reported that the chaotic party in the southeast is strong, and he can't resist it alone, and the chaotic party has fallen into Nanjing City yesterday!"

"Then Zhu Chongzhen appeared in Shijiazhuang once, and then there was no news, with a broken leg Wu Luzhen, where did he go, did he find out?"

"This ...... A few days ago, Cao Kun led the third town of the Beiyang New Army to fight Zhu Chongzhen in Shijiazhuang, but after only one day, Zhu Chongzhen disappeared. Cao Kun called, saying that the Jin army had returned to Niangzi Pass, and the slave thought, then Zhu Chongzhen might have also entered Shanxi. ”

"Humph! Let's go down. ”

"Master, Zhang Shaozeng of Luanzhou has been forced away by Yuan Shikai, and Lan Tianwei of Fengtian has also been forced away by Zhao Erxun, and now Zhili and the Northeast have been ......"

"Door Master," a voice gasped urgently, "Gate Master, the Russians have sent troops into Outer Mongolia, and the Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia, Zhebu Zun Danba, has declared that he will break away from the Qing Dynasty and build a great Mongolian state!" ”

"Bang!" Zaihong raised his hand and smashed the teacup on the ground, smashed it, and scolded angrily: "Wolf ambition! ”

Wang Shizhen saw that the news of this morning was almost processed, so he waved his hand and asked the people below to retreat, and then he carefully persuaded: "Master, it just snowed yesterday, the scenery outside is good, and the master has been stuffy in this house for a long time, so it is better to go out for a walk and calm down." ”

Zaihong didn't seem to hear it, just looked at the broken porcelain under his feet angrily, and after a while, he suddenly sighed, got up and put on his clothes, and slowly walked out of the door, Wang Shizhen waved his hand, wanting to call a few palace maids to follow, but Zaihong shook his head, and only one person gradually walked between the vast world and the world.

These four or nine cities are indeed the first snow in winter that has just fallen once. It's just that although the snow has been fluttering all night, it is actually not very thick, and it has just overflowed the upper of the boots when it is stepped on. But it was enough, enough to cover out all the colors between heaven and earth, except for the color of ice and snow that rushed into his eyes.

Zaihong walked forward, but more than ten steps, but suddenly heard the sound of the murmuring piano in the distance, first the stalactite dripping stone, quiet and remote; Suddenly, dripping water into a stream, trickling and flowing; Zaihong was full of thoughts, but when he heard the sound of the piano, he suddenly felt that the world was silent and his heart was relaxed.

The case was hard work, and before I knew it, I went back for more than a month. These hands are more and more prosperous and dead, but when they are stroking the qin, they are becoming less and less.

Tracing the sound of the piano, Zaihong walked towards the source. Suddenly, I arrived at the Wanchun Pavilion in Jingshan, but I saw a young man in Zhu Yi, who was playing the piano there.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the young man did not stop for a moment, but raised his head slightly, and saw Zaihong, but he only smiled slightly, reflecting the snow color of the mountain, the green pines and cypresses, but there is a rare beauty in winter.

This person, Zaihong doesn't know. Because Qin knows people, she also knows that this young man in Zhu Yi is open-minded, and he is not an ordinary fly camper. Zaihong stopped to the side, listening attentively to the sound of the piano, but his eyes looked at the chaotic Forty-Nine City, and from a distance, it seemed that he could also feel the long flow of history between the heavens, the earth, the mountains and rivers, and the endless vitality in the world.

Perhaps because of Zaihong's arrival, which disturbed the interest, the young man in Zhu Yi continued to play less than a cup of tea, and then stopped the strings, so that the quiet atmosphere between heaven and earth spread again.

"Which boy are you? How did it appear on this Jingshan Mountain? Zai Hong asked clearly.

Who thought that the young man replied very strangely, but he just groaned: "If life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind and sad fan." Waiting for idle changes but old people's hearts, but old people's hearts are changeable. ”

"It turned out to be from Nalan's family, no wonder the piano has a natural sound and is free."

"To be able to say this, my sister seems to be a person who knows the sound of the piano," the young man in Zhu Yi smiled, "I wonder if you can recognize the piano in my hand?" ”

Hearing this, Zaihong turned around and looked at it, the young man spread his arms and completely revealed the qin, Zaihong only glanced at it, and then exclaimed: "This is the qin around the beam?" ”

The young man in Zhu Yi laughed, "My sister is really a person who knows the piano." It's worth it today! ”

"This around Liangqin, the rumors have long disappeared, but where did you get it from?" Zaihong was curious and couldn't help asking.

"It's not surprising, it's just an encounter when I was a teenager." The young man in Zhu Yi said lightly.

Seeing that the young man didn't want to elaborate, Zaihong stopped asking, paused slightly, turned around and wanted to go down the mountain. Unexpectedly, the young man suddenly asked: "I heard rumors that this mountain is the coal mountain where Zhu Youzhen of Ming Sizong hanged himself back then. But I searched all over the mountain, but I didn't see the sin locust chained, I don't know if my sister knows where the sin locust is now? But are you still alive? ”

These words came suddenly, but Zaihong was taken aback, she turned around, looked at the young man with cold eyes, and her voice suddenly became a little harsh, "What are you doing to find guilt?" ”

"There is no him, it's just that now in the chaotic autumn of national affairs, seeing the things in front of me is quite like back then, so I just came to feel nostalgic. Don't misunderstand, sister. ”

But these words went straight to Zaihong's heart, and she knew what this young man was saying through history. Yes, the chaos in the land of China in front of me is indeed a bit like when the Ming Dynasty died, no, I'm afraid it is even worse than at that time. In the same way, it is the alien race entrenched in Manmeng, the sun and the moon, and the attack from the north; The same is the erosion of the royal family, and there is no bloody backbone of the day; What's more, the Han people have been centrifuged, and they have become self-reliant and separated from the imperial court. What's more, on this land, there are countless thoroughfares, and it is already the territory of other foreign races. Thinking that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the domestic scholars were still united, Li Chuang dared to issue a text, saying, "In the Ming Dynasty, the number of qi has been exhausted!" So in such a world, how can this Qing Dynasty not be considered exhausted?

Just in front of me, the birds are extinct, and the white land is really clean!

In this Qing Dynasty, the widow is also a weak king, and the widow is also a weak king. This god likes reincarnation the most, but he likes to tease people. Thinking like this, the blood in his chest tumbled, and he wanted to vomit when he opened his mouth.

Seeing this, the young man in Zhu Yi hurriedly stretched out his hand and dotted a few times in the air to help Zaihong calm his blood, and then swiped the strings with his hand, and a fresh and good sound came out, and suddenly a sullen breath in Zaihong's chest disappeared.

Zaihong put his hand on his chest and sighed, "Let's go, I'll take you to see, maybe it won't be long before I bury my bones." ”

After that, Zaihong led the way in front of him, and then walked to the place of sin. In fact, the place where the sin huai is located is not far from this Wanchun Pavilion, and the total is only a few dozen steps. The young man in Zhu Yi saw Zaihong stop under a locust tree, looked at it blankly, and couldn't help but hesitate a little, he thought about it again and again, and still asked: "I heard the wind and say that there is an iron chain on top of this sin locust, although this old locust tree is quite similar, but ......."

Zaihong didn't wait for the young man to finish speaking, and said in a low voice: "When Gengzi was in turmoil, the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, and the French seized this Jingshan and plundered the chains. ”

"It's a Frenchman again," the young man in the red clothes was a little angry, "this Frenchman has never seen the world, and even a chain wrapped around a tree has to be plundered, it is really like an outbreak in the countryside!" ”

"It's this kind of country horseman, and my China can't match it now." Zaihong was very sad in his heart, this Qing Dynasty, where does he still have half a face? Up to now, it is just a caged bird for others to enjoy, foreigners like to stand in a place and enjoy it from a distance, and powerful ministers like to provide this superficial system far away; But many Chinese people who love face are eager to smash it with one foot.

At this time, countless ice crystals and snow flew in the void, disturbing one after another, rising and falling, and suddenly the sky and the earth were filled and white.

Zaihong was in a daze, but saw that Zhu Qiu had already put out a few fruits on the side, respectfully placed them on the stone fence under the tree, and then took out a small jar of wine and a few wine glasses, opened them at one time, the wine glasses were full, he picked up a glass, and saluted the sinful Huai: "Not the king of the dead country, but the world of the dead country, at this time; life also; Luck also. There is no way out of joy and sorrow, but the moon knows with all your hard work! ”

"Ignorant descendants come here to sacrifice with a glass of wine for the time being. Feast! ”

After that, the young man in Zhu Yi poured the glass of wine in his hand on the ground, and looked at the speechless ancient acacia with blank eyes, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart, but suddenly, two lines of tears gradually poured out of his eyes and fell into the dust.

"It's not the king of the dead country, but it's the ...... of the dead country" Zaihong muttered these two sentences, as if he was a little stupid, "I can't imagine that I have worked hard for more than ten years, and it is just a flower in the mirror, but in the end, I don't even have an empty joy......"

The young man in Zhu Yi was distracted, and suddenly heard the words "I Zaihong" in his ears, turned his head sharply, and asked Zaihong in surprise: "Are you Zaihong, Aixin Jueluo Zaihong?" You... You're a woman? ”

These words will also surprise Zaihong's question, "Who are you?" You are not a descendant of the Nalan clan? ”

The young man in Zhu Yi was also stunned by the question, and then laughed, and after a while, Hu Zhengyan said to Zaihong: "Ten years ago, the old people of Yuezhou, don't you know it anymore?" ”

It turned out that the young man in Zhuyi in front of him was the Zhu boy, Zhu Qiu in the long night of the Yue Prefecture, Zhu Fangsheng who translated the book, and Zhu Chongzhen who stirred up the chaos in the southern country. It turned out that the convergence of all this was the young man in Zhuyi in front of him.

Zaihong raised his eyes and looked at Zhu Qiu, and he couldn't help but be happy, and suddenly remembered the sentence that Zhu Qiu read just now: "If life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind and sad fan." Waiting for idle changes but old people's hearts, but old people's hearts are changeable. ”

"You're here to pay tribute to Zhu Youzhen?"

"I'll take a look at this old city and see the former residence of the Zhu family three hundred years ago."

"Oh?" Zaihong smiled lightly, "What, do you want to try the taste of living here now?" ”

"You love Xinjueluo and have been Qin Aigong for so long, and now, it is time to return these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains to the descendants of my Han family."

Zaihong shook his head, stretched out his hand, caught two or three hexagonal ice cubes that were quietly falling, watched them slowly disappear in his hands, and only said lightly: "The day after tomorrow is the day of the decisive battle, right?" What is there, let's talk about it then. ”

Zhu Qiu looked sideways at Zaihong and smiled lightly, "Yes, after this snow falls, it will be the decisive battle." When the time comes, it will indeed be much simpler to become a king or a loser. ”

After saying that, he jumped down the mountain, turned around in the air, and said to Na Zaihong: "On the day of the end of the snow, the top of the Forbidden City, I and you, once again fight where this river and mountain belong!" ”