In early summer, Luoyan Valley is full of life. The rice paddy seedlings in the valley are already lush and green, like a green carpet. The egrets soar over the rice fields of the river, the breeze chases them, and the seedlings are like waves, green and lovely. The trees and wild flowers on the hillside are flourishing, and birds and beasts are scurrying through the forest, and there is a prosperous scene everywhere.

Not only the Luoyan Valley, but also the Luoyan River has run through the Jiming Valley, connecting several reclaimed valley fields. The village is located between the valleys, the avenues are the same, and the voices of chickens and dogs are heard. In the early morning and evening, the peasants hoeed, sang unrestrained tunes, and greeted each other when they met, all of them were gentle and polite. As the so-called cangli knows etiquette, once life is comfortable and rich, and the people's lives are guaranteed, they will naturally not fight for some trivial things, and their quality will naturally improve. In addition, there are also the norms and constraints of the behavior of the people in the mountains promulgated by Lin Jue, as well as the constraints of the regimental training of the reserve forces responsible for public security, and the strict rules are also an important reason for making Funiu Mountain a paradise where the road is not left behind and the house is not closed at night.

The people lived comfortably because they didn't know what was going on outside the mountain. For Guo Kun, Lin Jue and other generals and officials, the news from outside the mountain one after another made the situation suddenly become more tense.

Originally, the news that the Jurchens and the Northern Imperial Court of Liao joined forces to destroy the Yelu Pingshan regime in the south did not make Guo Kun, Ma Bin and others feel any nervous. It is nothing more than the division of Liao's internal division, and the Jurchens took the opportunity to exploit the loophole and united the north to destroy the south. They eat dogs, and they don't have anything to do with Da Zhou, so they have nothing to do with Funiu Mountain.

However, Lin Jue kept telling them that things were going to go bad. The Jurchens are by no means self-contained. They should soon launch an attack on the Great Zhou. Lin Jue's judgment was actually not supported by evidence, and when everyone asked Lin Jue to give evidence for this judgment, Lin Jue couldn't come up with it at all, but he insisted that everyone be prepared. It is very certain that the Jurchens will point their sword at the Great Zhou. The reason why everyone believed his words was entirely because he was Lin Jue. In countless decisions and judgments in the past, Lin Jue has almost never miscalculated, with the name Lin Jue, without any evidence, what he said is enough to make people pay attention.

Of course, Lin Jue is not without evidence, when he was trapped in the Jurchen tribe, he once used words to test Wanyan Aguda's heart of southern invasion, although Wanyan Aguda did not admit it, but his expression was embarrassed, which was an embarrassment of being pierced by someone. But this incident does not serve as evidence that he will definitely invade the south. The real reason for Lin Jue's persistence is not an outsider, that is, Lin Jue's tendency to be based on the real historical process and the parallel historical process in which he is located. Not long ago, when the alliance between the Great Zhou and the Jurchens broke down, and the Great Zhou and the Liao State reached a peace agreement, and provided a large amount of supplies for Yelu Zongyuan to attack the Jurchens, Lin Jue once suspected that the history of this parallel world had been reversed. The Jurchens could not resist the attack of the Liao people no matter what.

Lin Jue even went to rebel against Ma Qingshan and Han Gang in order to drag the Liao people back and maintain the balance of power between the three parties, and used and helped them capture Xijin Mansion. But Lin Jue's approach was only to contain the Liao, but he did not mean to completely break the balance. Who would have thought that in fact, his containment had no effect at all, and Han Desui didn't even report the news of the fall of Xijin Mansion to Yelu Zongyuan when he knew about it, and Yelu Zongyuan was defeated in Liaoyang Mansion.

In Lin Jue's opinion, Yelu Zongyuan's killing by a crossbow arrow at the head of the city in the battle of Liaoyang Mansion was an extremely unlikely and extremely accidental event. But this incident is the key to turning the whole situation around. If a person's life and death can determine the outcome of the battle between the Liao State and the Jurchens, then it must be Yelu Zongyuan. But the probability of Yelu Zongyuan being killed is definitely smaller than the probability of going out on a sunny day and being struck by thunder. However, at a critical time, this extremely small probability event occurred on the key person, which led to the collapse of the entire Liao State.

The whole thing made Lin Jue feel like there was indeed a pair of invisible hands that forcibly reversed the direction of history, and reversed the impossible result of the Jurchens being able to survive under the attack of the Liao State, and reversed it to what should have happened in real history. But this twist is extremely stiff and brutal, giving one a great sense of unreality. And the trend of this history, which runs parallel to the real history, undoubtedly ended with the Jurchens attacking the Zhou in the south and finally destroying the Great Zhou. Lin Jue didn't want to believe such a result, but he had to believe it.

Because Lin Jue knew the trend of real history, he firmly told everyone that he believed that the Jurchens would definitely launch an attack on the Great Zhou. As for the reason, of course, he could not tell the people, and he did not need to tell the people. And with the passage of time, the news of the gradual expansion of the Jurchens' forces was also discovered, which served as a small corroboration from the details.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day, and everyone's clothes are light and fancy. For the women of the Lin family, except for the regret that their husbands are busy every day and cannot accompany them, their lives are comfortable and comfortable.

After the year, there were a few more happy events in the family. The first thing is that Gao Muqing gave birth to a son in March, adding a new child to the Lin family. Everyone sincerely congratulated Gao Muqing. Her background is known to everyone, the daughter of a former water bandit, and she has followed Lin Jue to this day. Willing to endure scruples and work alone in this Funiu Mountain, so that today everyone can have the blessing of Funiu Mountain and Luoyan Valley. That alone is enough for everyone to express admiration and gratitude. Although everything is carried out under the guidance of the husband's rainy day, without Gao Muqing's silent dedication and persistence, how can there be today's comfortable years in the mountains. This is something that everyone agrees with.

Now Gao Muqing finally gave birth to a son for Lin Jue, and her status has been completely stabilized. Since giving birth to this son, Gao Muqing has become lazy herself, and she no longer interferes in the affairs of the cottage. For her, the role of mother is already the fulfillment of her life. She couldn't ask the heavens to give her more.

The second happy event is that Green Dance also spread the good news of pregnancy at the beginning of the year. Green Dance has been with Lin Jue for so many years, hoping to conceive a child, but watching others get pregnant and give birth one by one, she didn't even make any movement, and the disappointment in her heart can be imagined. Just when she was desperate, thinking that something must be wrong with her body, she suddenly became pregnant. Green Dance was overjoyed, and from the first day she learned that she was pregnant, she no longer let Lin Jue touch herself. Less than two months pregnant, I can't even see my belly, and I walk as if I'm pregnant. Lin Jue laughed twice, but he was also moved by Green Dance. In these years, most women are vassals of men, marrying a good husband and giving birth to an heir is a complete life, and they should not laugh at her, but respect her.

There is also Lin Hu's happy event. Lin Hu is nineteen years old, and he is already an adult young man. Lin Youde and his wife have been urging Lin Hu to get married, anxious to hold their grandson. Lin Jue asked Green Dance and them to pay attention, and Green Dance Huanqiu and they also looked for a few peasant girls in the mountains who looked like Zhou Zheng and had a simple temperament to choose for Lin Hu. However, Lin Hu didn't look down on him, and refused to agree. Lin Jue had to come forward to ask Lin Hu, Lin Hu first said some big truths, saying that he was not in a hurry to get married, and it was important to do things first. Lin Jue reprimanded him and told him that starting a family and starting a career are not in conflict. The war is about to start, and if you die in battle, how can you not leave an heir? That is also unfilial to his parents.

Lin Hu only told the truth between twists, it turned out that he didn't have any great ambition of 'why the Huns were not destroyed', just because he had someone in his heart. What he fell in love with was actually the youngest daughter of Zhang Hanqiu Zhang's family who came to Funiu Mountain. That little girl Lin Jue has also seen it, she is a delicate appearance with thin eyebrows and fine eyes, but she is pitiful. I didn't expect Xiaohu to fall in love with her.

After learning about this, all the wives and concubines were surprised. The little county lord felt that this thing could not be done, and her reason was that although Zhang Hanqiu defected to the Luoyan Army, he was a scholarly family and was born as an official eunuch. Although Xiaohu is also a child of the Lin family, he hasn't read much, so I'm afraid Zhang Hanqiu won't like it. If Lin Jue went to propose, Zhang Hanqiu would be embarrassed, as if he was persecuting others.

Lin Jue didn't have this concern. Lin Hu is now also a deputy general of the Luoyan Army, and Lin Jue has deliberately not taken him with him recently, just because he doesn't want him to rely on himself. In order to gain a foothold, he had to work hard to convince the public. Therefore, at the beginning, Lin Jue asked him to follow Shen Tan's side to train. In a few battles, Lin Hu's performance was also good, and he was more or less Lin Jue's person and a member of the Lin family, so he was promoted a little faster, and he was already promoted to the deputy general of the Ma Army by Shen Tan. Lin Jue didn't want to be hypocritical to stop these things, Lin Jue didn't want to be the kind of person who was strict with his family and relatives with a straight face, and let his family follow the unlucky. He would not agree with Fang Dunru's approach at all.

As the deputy general of the Luoyan Army and the Ma Army, coupled with the relationship between the Lin family, and the relationship between Lin Hu and Lin Hu since he was a child, is he not worthy of Zhang Hanqiu's daughter? Lin Jue didn't think so. What he was worried about was whether Lin Hu and the daughter of the Zhang family were similar in taste and whether they were suitable in personality. He has taken a fancy to others, but they may not look down on him. If the girl and Lin Hu don't have the slightest common language, then the marriage will be done, and I am afraid that it will not be happy.

So Lin Juetao asked Lin Hu about his tone, and then he learned that there was a story of a hero saving beauty between Lin Hu and the little daughter of the Zhang family. Last winter, the little girl of the Zhang family went to the West Mountain to enjoy the snow, but got lost in the forest. Zhang Hanqiu asked Shen Tan to send someone to help find it, and Shen Tan handed over the errand to Lin Hu. Lin Hu led people to search the mountain, and found the girl of the Zhang family who was frozen half to death in the middle of the night. In a hurry, Lin Hu took off his clothes and wrapped the girl to warm up. The girl was saved, but Lin Hu fell ill with frostbite and couldn't afford to get sick when he returned to the camp. When the girl learned about it, she insisted on going to Lin Hu's house to serve her personally, and she took care of the medicine and porridge every day. During Lin Hu's illness for more than ten days, this girl and Lin Hu got along day and night, but they also looked at each other. Although the two did not pierce the window paper, they both knew that they had each other in their hearts. Because of this, Lin Hu refused to agree to other marriages.

Lin laughed when he found out. It turns out that there is such a thing as a hero saving beauty. Lin Hu did get sick last winter, but Lin Jue didn't care, and only asked Lu Wu to ask about the situation, saying that he was just suffering from the cold. Lin Jue didn't have time to ask what was going on, after all, he had too many things to do, and he didn't care much about all the trivial things. Although I can imagine that there is such a secret here.

Since it is a mutual relationship, there is nothing to say. Even though Lin Juedang prepared a generous gift, he went to Zhang Hanqiu's house with the little county lord and Lu Wu to propose marriage for Lin Hu. The reason why Lin Jue took the little county lord and Green Dance together was to give Zhang Hanqiu enough face, and at the same time told Zhang Hanqiu that Lin Hu's identity was not an ordinary person, it was a person who was valued by himself and the county lord, and he was the person that Princess Green Dance called her younger brother.

Zhang Hanqiu didn't show the slightest reluctance, and even if he did, he couldn't see it on the surface, and he happily agreed to the marriage. This marriage is actually very beneficial to him, he defected to Funiu Mountain with Lin Jue's old friends, although he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility, but after all, he has no foundation and origin. Once he let his youngest daughter marry Lin Hu by Lin Jue's side, he will have the same relationship as Lin Jue, and his status will immediately be much more stable. In fact, Zhang Hanqiu originally thought that his little daughter could marry Lin Jue as a concubine, which was the best result. But after seeing the appearance of the daughters of the Lin family, Zhang Hanqiu died of this heart. Although his youngest daughter is delicate and lovely, compared with the women around Lin Jue, she is as ordinary as a weed on the side of the road. So for now, this outcome may be the best.

It's already a bit hot in June. In the afternoon of this day, Huanqiu grabbed Lin Jue, who was about to go out, and asked him to go with him to take a walk among the lotus flowers in Luoyan Lake. Lin Jue hesitated for a moment and nodded in agreement. Originally, I was going to go to the arsenal this afternoon to discuss the matter of making General Shenwei's explosive shells with several masters from the gunpowder workshop and Mr. Zhou from the blacksmith workshop, because this matter had been discussed many times, and there was no special clue, Lin Jue was very anxious about this matter. But Huanqiu invited, how could Lin Jue refuse.

Lin Jue asked Sun Dayong to send someone to inform the masters of the arsenal that he would discuss it later, and then let Fang Huanqiu, who had a long skirt fluttering, hold his arm, and the two of them walked through the small gate in the back garden together to the lakeshore trestle.

After more than a year of germination, the lotus leaf area in Luoyan Lake has been very large. The lotus leaf spreads very quickly, originally only in the corner of the lakeshore, but now occupies a large part of the water surface. However, there is no need to worry about the lotus leaves spreading throughout the lake, because lotus roots cannot grow in deep water, and a few feet deep is already the limit. The water in the center of the lake is several feet deep, and the lotus leaves are not able to emerge.

In fact, this is already one of Lin Jue's favorite places to come, because in the face of the green lotus leaves and the open lake, the whole person's mind will be much broader, and his mood will be much better. It's also very quiet here, the places near the left of the mansion are forbidden areas, ordinary people and soldiers are not allowed to enter, this is where Lin Jue often comes to think about things.

Although the weather is a little hot, as soon as you arrive at the lotus leaf fields on the shore of the lake, you will naturally feel a cool breeze. It's a great place to cool off.

"What did my sister tell me to do here?" Lin Jue took Fang Huanqiu's little hand and asked with a smile.

Fang Huanqiu smiled sneeringly, although she had been married to Lin Jue for many days, she was still as delicate as a girl.

"What? Can't you let your husband come with me to play if you're fine? Do you remember the last time you played with us? I'm afraid you've forgotten about it, it's been a long, long time. Fang Huanqiu said.

Lin Jue looked up and thought about it, it seemed that it had indeed been a long time. I couldn't help feeling guilty in my heart, and said with a smile: "Yes, you also know, I'm ...... now"

"I know, I know, I know you have something big in your heart, and you work hard every day. We all know that. But it doesn't have to be every day. Look at you, black and thin. I don't know, I thought we didn't give you delicious food at home. But I don't know that you have worked too hard yourself. I'm going to pull you here today to rest for a while, can't I? Fang Huanqiu said with a smile.

Lin Jue smiled bitterly: "Of course you can, junior sister speaks, how dare I disobey." I don't want to do that, my sister should know that I used to enjoy life very well. But now that time is pressing, I always want to be more prepared, so I can be more sure. If you don't have a sense of crisis now, you'll panic then. ”

Fang Huanqiu nodded and said, "I understand, but it's always okay to take a break." ”

Lin Jue nodded and said, "Of course." ”

Fang Huanqiu nodded happily, pointed to a wooden platform exposed between the lotus leaves in front of him and said to Lin Jue, "Senior brother, look there." I asked the guards to help build a platform in the lotus leaves. I want to make an octagonal pavilion in the middle, as a cool place for us in summer, what do you think? ”

Lin Jue didn't find the wooden platform under the lotus leaf at first, but when he looked closely, there was a square platform a few feet above the water surface. So he smiled and said: "This is a good idea, it must be very pleasant to rest in the middle of it." If it's more comfortable at night, the lake is blowing, and the sky is full of stars, it must be a beautiful night. ”

Fang Huanqiu said happily: "Then you agree?" That's great. Let's take a look. You give me a staff officer. I don't want to build an ordinary pavilion, I think my brother is well-versed in the past and the present, and his taste is also high, so he has to give me an opinion. I didn't want to make a pavilion that was so cheesy that it was ordinary. ”

Lin Jue smiled dumbly, but she was also interested in her, so the two rowed into the lotus leaf swing and boarded the big platform that was several zhang square. The two discussed and designed at the same time. Fang Huanqiu took a pen and paper and wrote and drew on the paper. Lin Jue really put aside some complicated matters in his mind, used his brain to design, and finally decided to use this platform as the base to build a double-story ship-style pavilion on the water. It only needs to strengthen the foundation of the platform to take shape. Fang Huanqiu wrote and painted according to Lin Jue's description, sketched the scene of the building boat in the shade of lotus flowers on a piece of paper, and found that it was the scene he liked, so he was overjoyed. Nodding his head in favor.

Lin Jue saw that Fang Huanqiu liked it, and he was also happy in his heart, standing on the platform and looking at the lotus leaves that were densely packed on all sides, and saw that many lotus buds had grown. In June, the lotus flowers in the south are already in full bloom, but the climate in this mountain lags behind, but in a few days, it will be a lotus scene. I can't help but look forward to the scene at that time.

Fang Huanqiu muttered and perfected the plan of the boat that Lin Jue said, squatting on the ground and adding or decreasing circles on the paper. Suddenly, she heard Lin Jue scream.

"Oh, why am I so stupid. Why should I insist on making cannonballs? Not at all necessary. Since that kind of shell is difficult to make with the current level of craftsmanship, why not make something simpler? Ahaha, that's a sharp weapon. ”

"Senior brother, what's wrong with you?" Fang Huanqiu exclaimed in surprise.

Lin Juexi said: "Senior sister, I have to go, you are here." I can't be with you anymore. ”

Lin Jue jumped on the boat to untie the cable and left, Fang Huanqiu stomped his feet and shouted, "Senior brother, you said that you would accompany me." ”

"Next time, I will accompany you well next time. You design the building ship well, and I'll give you a staff officer when I go back. But now, I have to go. I'll let the maid come and borrow you in a rowing boat. Lin Jue said with a smile.

Fang Huanqiu stomped his feet before he could say more, but Lin Jue had already rowed quickly to the trestle, tied the cable to the cable pile, jumped ashore and strode away. Fang Huanqiu puffed out his mouth and was stunned for a long time, and finally sighed and shook his head, bowing his head in the design of the ship.