It was getting dark, snowflakes were falling outside the door, and pedestrians were passing by the roadside.

After several months of siege, the materials in the capital have become extremely tight, and Wenhuilou has a deep background and will not be closed, but at this time, there is not much business. Due to heavy snow, most of the doors and windows in the building are closed, in this weather, whether it is black and white, are not rich or expensive, the teacher also knows the boss of Wenhui Building, go upstairs, ask for a small room, order a simple meal, and wait quietly.

The two armies outside the city are still facing each other, as a high-ranking member of the Xia Village army, Ning Yi has already secretly returned to the city, so what is going on, the division can guess one or two. However, she didn't care about specific things at the moment, and roughly thought about it, Ning Yi was fighting back against the actions of others. He is not the face of the Xia Village army, and he does some tandem in private, and he doesn't need to be too secretive, he naturally knows if he knows the severity, and if he doesn't know, he is often not an insider.

She didn't want to be an insider. At this level, women can't get involved in men's affairs.

The wind and snow were falling quietly outside the house, and although it was winter, the wind was not strong, and the city seemed to be whimpering in a long distance. The anxiety that had been going on for days became a little calmer at this time, she ate something, and after a while, she heard someone whispering, talking, and going downstairs outside, and she didn't go out to look, and after a while, the footsteps came up again, and the teacher went to open the door.

"Liheng." She smiled.

"How did you get here, it scared me."

Outside the door is naturally Ning Yi. The last time the two met was a few months ago, and going back further, most of the meetings and conversations they met were casual and casual. But this time, Ning Yi returned to the city in the dust and saw people in secret. Talking about some serious things, there is a complex weight in his eyes and temperament, this may be his face when dealing with strangers, the master has only seen it in some big people, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it contains murderous energy. But at this point, she didn't feel anything wrong, but felt relieved.

Then he told a little lie: "I was also shocked, what a coincidence, Liheng is ...... Deal with those troubles, right? ”

"There are people to meet, there are things to talk about." Ning Yi nodded.

"Liheng...... Have you eaten it? She leaned sideways slightly.

"Someone else is coming soon."

"If there is anything that needs to be accompanied, the master can stroke the piano to help the fun......"

"Not so good."

"Hmm."

While talking, someone came with me. Saying something in Ning Yi's ear, Ning Yi nodded.

"It's not early, I'm afraid I'm very busy today, I'll go to visit Alum Tower in the next two days, if the master wants to go back early...... I'm afraid I won't be able to come out and say hello. ”

"Don't go back, I'll wait for you here."

"I'm afraid it's going to be late at night."

"I've seen a lot of people die on the battlefield these days, and I've seen a lot of things later...... I have something to tell you. ”

Ning Yi saw the woman in front of him looking at him. His eyes were clear, and he pursed his lips and smiled. was also slightly stunned, and then nodded: "Then I will be out of company first." ”

**************

It was nearly two hours now, and in the Wenhui Building, there were occasional people coming and going, but the teacher didn't go out to see.

She joined the Workshop Division when she was still young, and later grew up. It has become famous in Beijing and has witnessed many major events. The power struggle in Beijing, the abdication of the minister, the prime minister of Jinghan in the fourth year He Chaoguang and Cai Jing fought in the ring, and there were rumors that the emperor wanted to kill Cai Jing. In the fifth year of Jinghan, the salt case of Zhejiang, Wang Ren, the richest man in the capital, and many wealthy businessmen were executed, and in the seventh year of Jinghan, the war in Beijing and the two factions fought and climbed with each other, and many officials dismounted. Living in Beijing, and close to the circle of power, she has seen a lot of the breath of the mountain rain and the wind filling the building.

This kind of breath is like walking outside the room, even if you don't know who the other party is, you also know that the identity of the other party must be important. In the past, she was also curious about these shady scenes, but this time, she suddenly thought of the nights when her father was arrested many years ago. She and her mother were learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in the inner hall, and her father and staff were in the outer hall, the lights were shining, and the figures coming and going were full of anxiety.

As the years go by, this impression is actually not accurate, and if you think about it, it should be the experience she has accumulated over the years to make up for the memories that have gradually become thin. After all these years, in that position, she is really familiar with someone again.

There are always some romantic talents, talented and sharp-minded - like Zhou Bangyan - she has never regarded each other as a private friend. What the other party wants and what she has, she has always been clear. Even if they are friends Yu Hezhong, Chen Sifeng and others who feel they are friends in private, she can also know this.

For Ning Yi, after the reunion, it is not close, nor is it estranged, which is related to the fact that the other party always maintains a measured attitude. The teacher knew that he had been beaten when he was married, and he had lost his memories of the past—which allowed her to correct her attitude well—and that was not his fault, but he could not help but regard him as a friend.

Many things in the past, including parents, have fallen into the dust of memory, and the one who can connect with the original self is these few people, even if he has entered the teaching department when he knows them, but he is still young, at least at that time, he still retains the breath of the past and the possibility of follow-up......

If Master Li wants to become Master Li, she always feels that her former self cannot be discarded. She can't keep these things herself, but from them, she can go back to the past.

Now, Ning Yi has also entered the center of this storm.

And there is nothing she can do. After all, Ning Yi is different from Yu, Chen and others, since the reunion, what the other party has done is unimaginable big things, destroying the bandits in Liangshan, fighting with people in the rivers and lakes, and then going out this time, clearing the wilderness, facing the resentful army in Xia Village, and the complicated situation this time. Because of this, she remembered the nights when her father was still there.

In the middle of this, the window was opened, and the wind and snow poured in from the window, blowing the lamps and candles half-out, seeping the coolness. I don't know when she was almost asleep in her room when there was another knock on the door outside. Shi Shi went over and opened the door, and outside the door was Ning Yi's slightly frowning figure. I think it's just the end of the story.

"Haven't left yet?"

"I want to wait for Liheng to speak." Shi Shi stroked his hair, then smiled and invited him in. Ning Yi nodded and entered the room, and the master went over and opened the window to let the cold wind in. She hugged herself by the window and let the wind and snow blow for a while, then closed her teeth again, and came over to Ti Ningyi to move the stool and pour hot tea.

"It's definitely not easy to besiege the city for so long, although I'm outside the city, I've heard people talk about you these days, but fortunately, nothing happened." Ning Yi took a sip of tea and smiled slightly. He didn't know what the other party was going to say when he stayed, so he spoke first.

"I think...... It's not easy on Liheng's side. The master sat down opposite, "There is a war outside, and when you come back, you have these things, and after the battle, you won't be idle......

"The Jurchens haven't left yet, so they can't win." Ning Yi shook his head.

"Shishi heard in the city that the negotiation is already secure?"

"If someone else wants something, we will give it to you. There are also nine out of ten things that we can get if we want anything, the teacher thinks. Which one will it be? ”

Ning Yi looked at her with a smile, and when the master heard this, he held the teacup and his eyes dimmed slightly. After all, she is in the city, and there are some things that she can't inquire about. But when Ning Yi said it, the weight was different. Although I had been mentally prepared, I was still very happy when I heard about it suddenly.

Ning Yi comforted him: "We are also doing our best, but ...... Things are complicated. It is difficult to say what can be preserved and what benefits will be obtained in this negotiation, whether it will be immediate or long-term. ”

"I don't know much about these ......," the master replied, and then smiled, "Sometimes in Alum Tower, I pretend to understand very well, but I don't understand. It's a man's business after all. By the way, does Liheng have anything else to do tonight? ”

"There are things, but I'm afraid the next hour will be very idle, the master is waiting deliberately, is there something wrong?"

"I just wanted to talk to you." Shi Shi sat there and smiled, "When Liheng left Beijing, I didn't understand much about the words he said to me at the time, until the Jurchens came south and began to besiege and siege the city, I wanted to do something, and then I went to the sour date gate and saw ...... A lot of things ......."

She said this, and then talked about her experience in the sour jujube gate. Although she is a woman, she has always been sober and self-reliant in spirit, and this sober and self-reliant temperament is different from that of men, and the monks say that she has Buddha nature and has seen through many things. But to say that, a woman in her teens and early twenties is growing up after all, these days, what she has seen and experienced, what she thinks in her heart, can't talk to others, in the spiritual world, Ning Yi is regarded as a reflection. After that, the war stopped, and more and more complicated things surrounded her, making her physically and mentally exhausted, and at this time, Ning Yi came back, only to find him and confide in him one by one.

Ning Yi never thought that she would talk about these experiences, but then she listened to them. The slightly emaciated but still beautiful woman in front of her talked about the things on the battlefield, those soldiers with broken limbs and tragic deaths, and the battles of Suojube Gate...... Shishi's words were not high, nor did he seem too sad or excited, occasionally smiling slightly, talking for a long time, talking about the soldiers who died after she took care of them, about the process of her being hunted down and then protected, about the meager wishes of those people before they died, and later about Xue Changgong, He Leier and others......

Time gradually passed in this talk, among them, she also talked about the joy after receiving the news of Xia Village in the city, and in the wind and snow outside, the gong of the watch had sounded.

“…… In the past few days, I have heard people talk about things that are all about fighting for power and profit. I've seen a lot of things before, and I'm used to it, but after participating in the defense of the city this time, I can't take it when I hear those sons and brothers talk about negotiations, and when they talk about their frivolity when they win or lose outside the city. The Jurchens haven't left yet, and the adults in their family are already intriguing over these dirty things. Liheng is outside the city these days, and he must have seen it, and I heard that they wanted to break up the Wurui camp in private, and I was anxious after hearing it. How can these people be like this? But...... After all, there is no way to ......"

In the teacher's words, Ning Yi laughed: "There are several groups of people who have come, and there have been a few fights......"

The teacher also smiled: "However, Liheng is back today, so he naturally has a way for them." In this way, I am also relieved. I don't want to ask Liheng what he did, but I think after a while, I can hear the disgraced things of those people, and then I can get a good night's sleep......"

"Uh......" Ning Yi was slightly stunned, but knew that she had guessed the wrong thing. I'm not coming back tonight for this ......."

"Ah......" Shishi hesitated, "I know that Liheng has more things, but ...... This troublesome thing in Beijing, Liheng will have a way, right? ”

Ning Yi was silent for a moment: "Trouble is very troublesome, but you have to say a way...... I didn't think I could do anything yet......"

"......" Shishi looked at him.

"They want to do something to the Vurui Battalion. Just the little things. Ning Yi stood up, "The room is too stuffy, if the master still has the spirit, let's go out for a walk, there is a place I have been looking at for an afternoon, I want to go over and have a look." ”

The teacher nodded, it was late at night, and there were no pedestrians on the road outside. The two came down from the upper floor, and the guards quietly followed. The wind and snow were pervasive, and the master could see that there was not much joy in Ning Yi's eyes beside him.

But all the way forward in this snowstorm, Ning Yi still smiled: "In the afternoon, upstairs, I saw something here and asked someone to inquire." Oh...... This is it. They had not gone far when they stopped in front of a small courtyard beside the road. This side is only more than ten zhang away from Wenhui Building. Across the street, the door of the small door is closed. Shi Shi recalled that when she went downstairs to Wenhui in the evening, Ning Yi sat by the window and seemed to be looking this way. But what's going on here. She didn't remember.

"The family is dead."

Ning Yi waved his hand, and the guards next to him came over and swung their knives to split the door latch. Ning Yi pushed the door in, and the master followed in, and inside was a dilapidated courtyard with three rooms. There seemed to be a sense of death in the darkness, just as Ning Yi said, everyone was dead.

"In the afternoon, the person called by the chief of security was carrying the corpse here, and I watched it upstairs and asked someone to inquire. There are three people here, and they were okay originally. Ning Yi walked towards the inner room and spoke, "Grandma, father, a four-year-old daughter, when the Jurchens attacked the city, the family didn't have much to eat, and there was not much money, the man went to defend the city, and asked the chief to take care of the two people who stayed here, and then the man died on the city wall, and the chief couldn't take care of it." As for the old man, she suffered from the wind cold, and she was also afraid of chaos in the city, so someone entered the house to grab things and bolted the door. And then...... The old man was sick, cold and hungry, and slowly died, and the four-year-old girl also starved to death here......"

The room was filled with the smell of corpses, and Ning Yi stood at the door, holding a torch and sticking it in, a cold and messy ordinary person. Although Shi Shi also adapted to the smell on the battlefield, he still covered his nostrils, but he didn't understand what Ning Yi meant by saying this, such things have happened every day in the city recently. The people who died in the city were even more miserable.

"When I heard this upstairs, I was thinking, many years later, when others talked about the Jurchen going south this time, they talked about Bianliang. said that tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people died, how brutal the Jurchens were. They began to scold the Jurchens, but in their hearts, in fact, they didn't have any concept at all, they scolded, and more often than not, they did it very happily, they felt that they had repaid a responsibility to be Han Chinese, even if they didn't actually do anything. When they talk about hundreds of thousands of people, all the weight will not be compared to a ten-thousandth of what happened in this house, an old man who is sick and cold and hungry, and dies one by one, that little girl...... No one cared, her stomach became more and more hungry, first she cried, then she couldn't cry, she slowly stuffed the mess into her mouth, and then she starved to death......"

Ning Yi said this calmly, the torch hung down, and he was silent for a moment.

"It's not that we went into the city to fight with those people, they want to tear it down, and we will beat it and take care of it...... Qin Xiang ran for the negotiation matter, and he was not in the mansion during the day, so I came to meet some people and arrange some trivial matters. A few months ago, I got up and went north, wanting to do something to organize the Jurchens to go south, and now that things have been done, more troublesome things have come. Unlike last time, I haven't figured out what I should do this time, there are many things I can do, but no matter how I do it, it's hard to do it without turning back. If it were possible, I would like to retire and leave......"

The master was slightly confused, she was standing beside Ning Yi at this time, and gently and carefully pulled his sleeve, Ning Yi frowned, full of anger, and then tilted his head slightly and smiled.

"You have seen people die like this on the city walls, and I have seen people die like this, with their stomachs cut open by a knife, and their hands and feet cut off. Just like these people in the city who are slowly starving to death, they die with weight, and this thing cannot be thrown away, and it is difficult to pick it up if it cannot be thrown away. How to take it, after all, is also a big problem. ”

When he said these words, there was an unconcealable anger in his eyes, but then he turned around, waved his hand at the door, and walked over. The teacher asked with some hesitation: "Liheng is it...... Also disheartened and want to go? ”

"It's not quite like this, I'm still thinking." Ning Yi shook his head, "I'm not a murderer, so many people have died in front of me, in fact, I think about things similar to you." It's just that it's more complicated inside, and it's hard to say. It's not early, I'll have to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion later, and I'll send someone to take you back. Whatever comes next, you should know. As for the gang of people who are looking for trouble with the Wurui camp, in fact, you don't have to worry, the jumping clown, even if there are more than 100,000 people following, the bad seed is the bad seed. ”

The teacher also nodded. After a few months of reunion, she still couldn't see Ning Yi clearly this night, and this was different from before.

The door to the courtyard was closed behind the back.

The snow was still falling, and the carriages were lit up with lanterns as they passed in different directions through the city. On the streets, the guards carried lanterns, and the patrolling soldiers passed through the snowflakes. When the carriage of the master entered the alum building, several carriages of Ning Yi and the others had already entered the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, and he passed through the Langyuan one by one, and walked towards the study of the Qin Mansion that was still lit up.

The night is deep, and the thin lights are moving...... (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter is a bit vaguely written, it's been a long time since I've written the clues so vaguely, but anyway, it's a necessary chapter. The seventh episode will be closed, and I've been thinking about it for too long, and I'm finally going to pull the update back.