Jinling

Tonight, there was no wind or moon, and the whole city was covered with a thick layer of snow, which looked particularly pale under the light of the lights. The snow kept falling, and the few pedestrians on the street were wrapped in thick cotton clothes, exploring the way home in twos and threes, deep and shallow.

The snow is heavy and cold in the city. In an extremely luxurious, magnificent restaurant, but warm as spring. All kinds of guests dressed in bright and luxurious clothes are endless, and it is very lively.

Unlike the lights in the city, it is as bright as day, and the songs and dances are level.

Although Jinling has been war-torn but still prosperous, all kinds of novelty and necessary supplies are still the same as when it was the royal capital, and there are still many caravans.

Most of the princes and nobles who stayed here liked to come to this restaurant after a boring day and get drunk with the twisting waists of the dancing girls and the refreshing music. This has become a habit, and perhaps only in this way can they stop worrying about the uncertain future of the country, and stop worrying about the unfavorable war reports on the front and the humiliating decisions of the imperial court.

I don't know who opened this restaurant, which is called Yihong Pavilion, but its appearance is just right at a time when the old city is in crisis.

It was night, and the red door of the red pavilion to welcome guests was open.

Here, people only talk about the wind and the moon and do not talk about state affairs, but they are poetry and wine, and they sing songs every night.

At this time, there was also a drunken man on the street outside the Red Pavilion, but this person was ragged, unkempt, and looked like a beggar. The man had a jug of wine in his hand and staggered along. Although the night was cold and snowy, his dirty face was slightly red from drinking.

When I raised my hand again, there was no wine left in the jug. The beggar muttered, threw the wine jug into the distance, and shattered on the jade bottom plate in front of the door of the Red Pavilion with a 'pop', and the fragments were scattered everywhere. Before the people in the building could scold, he laughed loudly in front of the restaurant, pretending to be crazy, and the laughter actually overshadowed the music upstairs, attracting many people to open the windows to visit.

A richly dressed and somewhat heroic son, looking sideways at the scene outside the window, asked Xiao Er, who had just served the food: "Is it because I am too lonely and unheard, or did I miss something when I went out this time, is there still a drunkard and beggar in Jinling City?" The corners of this boy's mouth were slightly upturned, but his tone was not hurried and full of ridicule.

This son is obviously not an ordinary person, as can be seen from Xiao Er's respectful look.

"Back to Li Gongzi, of course there were no drunkards and beggars in Jinling City before, but on the night of about ten days ago, this person suddenly appeared on the streets of Jinling, I don't know where he came from, but every night he must be drunk, no one knows where he is staying, maybe he just stayed in the cold streets and alleys all night, and I don't know who gave him wine to drink, but he was able to get drunk and unconscious every night, which is really a miracle."

Li Gongzi drank the wine in the cup lightly, his eyes were slightly condensed, "It's really a miracle to say this." Having said that, he didn't see from this Li Gongzi's demeanor that he cared much about the life of this beggar, but there was a slight wrinkle between his eyebrows, as if he was thinking about whether to ask someone to drive this disturbing beggar away.

"Li Gongzi, this beggar is also a strange person, a few days ago, many people were disturbed by him and sent people to teach him a lesson, but they didn't even touch the corners of his clothes, and they were all knocked down by him."

"Oh?"

Li Gongzi saw that the beggar-looking person was laughing loudly in the snow as if no one was around, and when he heard Xiao Er say this, he was aroused a little curious, and immediately took the wine jug on the table in his hand, threw it out of the window, and flew straight towards the drunken laughing man. Relying on his own martial arts, the strength in his hands is also a little heavier, and he has the heart to try the skills of this strange person. The people outside the window saw the wine jug flying out, they were really not in a hurry, and they couldn't see what the expression was on their dirty faces, but they didn't dodge but advanced, and the soles of their feet rose to the sky like the wind, and they grabbed the wine jug steadily, and the messy black hair was flying, and they looked like some masters. Seeing the beggar spin around and fall to the ground, Li Gongzi was completely aroused by the curiosity in his heart and stood up. "I don't know who is under the foot, how can I fall into such a situation?" It seems that this Li Gongzi has some intention to find out about the identity of that person. The beggar squinted his eyes and grinned, and looked up to the sky to reveal a smile that was more ugly than crying.

The upstairs looked like a compliment from a son of a noble family, but the beggar below raised his hand and raised his neck as if he hadn't heard at all, and then staggered away as if he were satisfied, disappearing at the end of the street on a snowy night. was ignored, Li Gongzi's fair face was not the slightest displeasure, but there were still a few acquaintances watching at the table next to him, somewhat embarrassed. "I said Li Shentong, you are so idle that you have become so idle, do you want to make friends with a crazy beggar who knows a little kung fu?" A person dressed as a noble son on the side laughed, but he only glanced at Li Shentong, and then stared intently at the writhing bodies of the dancers in the field, and the greed and obsession in his eyes were undisguised.

The people next to him also laughed and stopped paying attention here. Li Shentong laughed at himself, sat down slowly, and didn't think much about it anymore.

It was late at night, and Li Shentong hummed a little song out of the gate of the Red Pavilion, and the servants who were waiting on the side hurriedly opened the way for him. Climb aboard the blue-canopy curtain carriage that has been prepared for a long time. As soon as he got into the car, the groom with the felt hat whipped it, and the carriage slowly drove out of the street where the Red Pavilion was located.

The carriage had only made two or three turns in the city before it came to a sudden stop.

Li Shentong lifted the curtain, looked outside the car, and asked suspiciously, "Why don't you leave?" Haven't you arrived at the house yet? ”

"Childe, there is a person lying on the street in front of you, and the carriage is blocked from going."

"There are so many wonders in this world!" Li Shentong sighed, he had just met a crazy beggar who had good kung fu but laughed madly in Yihong Pavilion, and here he met a fool who slept on the street on a snowy night.

"Go see if you're dead, if you're dead, take him to the side of the road, and if you're not dead, wake him up for me and get him out of the way!" Li Shentong said unhurriedly. Although he is the son of Yin of Jinling Mansion, his father is the parent official of Jinling City. But in this turbulent time, there are some things that it is better to turn a blind eye, after all, if you dare to kill people on the street in Jinling, you must have a lot of origins, which is also the way his father often admonishes him in this period. Although he disagreed, he also had to be cautious outside. Of course, he still hoped that the man was alive, otherwise, he would inevitably have to worry about it in his heart for a few days.

After a while, the groom and the servant ran back.

"What's wrong?" Li Shentong closed his eyes and seemed to be thinking about something.

"Childe, it's the homeless man who pretended to be crazy and stupid in front of the Yihong Pavilion, and it looks like he was drunk on the street." The groom gasped, as if he had just exerted a lot of effort, "We were about to carry him to the side of the road, but this man was so drunk that he was lying on the floor, and he couldn't lift him. ”

"Oh?" When Li Shentong heard that it was actually the crazy beggar who ignored him, he was shocked, lifted the curtain, and walked down slowly.

In the middle of the street in front of us, there was a dark thing, which I couldn't really see, but when I stepped forward, I could see it a little more clearly. In the snow in the middle of the street, there was an unkempt beggar, with a faint breath, full of wine, and still muttering to himself, as if in a dream.

Li Shentong stepped forward, chuckled and shook his head.

"He slept soundly." Thinking of the wind and rain in Jinling in the first half month, Li Shentong sighed that how many high-ranking officials and nobles who were pampered and pampered in brocade clothes and jade food could not be as carefree and reckless as the homeless man in front of him. Even I am afraid that I haven't slept soundly for many days.

Suddenly, Li Shentong seemed to have discovered something, with a trace of doubt in his eyes. Then he said, "Go and lift him up, and show his face to me." ”

Several men stepped forward and struggled to lift the beggar up, and then tossed aside the messy hair that covered his face.

As soon as Li Shentong leaned forward, he couldn't help frowning and covering his nose with his sleeves. The person in front of him was covered in dirt and smelled of alcohol, but his face was quite arrogant.

Li Shentong looked straight at it for a long time, but the more he looked at it, the more uneasy he became, and the more he watched, the more shocked he became! Ignoring the stench, he leaned forward again, and Li Shentong almost fell to the ground in shock.

"Childe, what's wrong with you?" The horseman hurriedly stepped forward to support Li Shentong.

I saw Li Shentong's eyes wide, his mouth slightly open, although he stabilized his body, he seemed to be stupid, and he was stunned in place.

At this moment, scenes flashed in Li Shentong's mind. A few years ago, he went to Dayu with his father, that noon, although the sun was high but it made people shudder, the convoy encountered the Northern Wei Dynasty saucer, and more than 50 guards fell to the ground, which was probably the first time that he saw such a bloody scene as a pampered son of Jinling Mansion, just when the Northern Wei Dynasty was about to do something to the rest of the team, I saw a white line in the north appeared in the field of vision in an instant, and it turned out to be a group of cavalry wearing white armor and riding white horses.

"Kill" only listened to the silver-robed general who was the leader, and the hundred horsemen behind him were like tigers out of the cage to kill like a saucer in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The general was armed with a spear and brandished it in the crowd, taking a life with each sortie, and the Northern Wei spies were killed in a short time.

The silver-robed general rode his horse to the carriage and turned over and dismounted, "Entrusted by Prime Minister Ning, Lin Chen has come to escort Master Li into Kyoto" Li Shentong lifted the curtain and looked at Lin Chen, only to see a young man who was only eighteen or nineteen years old wearing a white armor and silver robe, as rich as jade, and he could not be associated with the general who waved his hand and took away his life.

But...... The person in front of you...... Isn't the person in front of him already dead?

Thinking of this, Li Shentong suddenly shrunk his neck involuntarily. But as soon as he closed his eyes, the terrifying scenes of that day followed, dangling in his mind, and he struggled with Yaoyao's head. He didn't dare, and he didn't want to reminisce anymore.

"Childe, what's wrong with you? Uncomfortable? But it was the groom who saw Li Shentong's expression in a trance, his face was pale, and he was in a cold sweat, and asked out with concern.

"Hurry up...... Hurry up and tie him up and send him to the house......" Li Shentong's eyes were full of fear, and he pointed at the man incoherently, as if he was afraid, and after finishing speaking, he looked around in a panic.

Although the few servants around him didn't know why Li Shentong was like this, they had to obey the orders of the master as slaves. The groom went to the carriage and fetched the rope, and with great effort and great difficulty, they finally tied the beggar firmly.

"Quick, you carry him into the car, put him down, don't hurt him."

"Childe, aren't you riding in a carriage?" The groom wondered.

"What nonsense are you! Hurry up! Li Shentong's face was displeased, he scolded, and then looked at him in a panic.

Seeing that he had spoken too much and begged for a curse, the groom hurriedly beckoned a few servants to hurriedly carry the beggar into the car. The curtain was lowered, and it looked the same as before. Li Shentong seemed to have finally calmed down and let out a deep breath.

"Let's go, go home." Li Shentong gave an order, and no one dared to say much, and the carriage set off slowly, and the wheels of the carriage pressed against the thick snow on the street, making a 'creaking, creaking' sound, which looked particularly desolate on the empty street on this snowy night.

"Brother Lin, I don't know what happened to you, and how you ended up in the Chu State, I must hand it over to your sister. The things you are involved in are too amazing, I don't dare to call the shots......" Li Shentong walked at the back, looking at the slowly moving carriage, and thought silently in his heart. Thinking of the dazzling young man who was once well-known in Dayu and whose great achievements made all the sons and brothers rush to follow and get acquainted, a trace of imperceptible complexity flashed in Li Shentong's eyes.