The wind and snow whimpered through the corridors, and the salty smell remained in the room.

The oil lamp was lit again.

The light shone on the woman's snow-white thighs extending over the buttocks and back, it was the body with perfect curves lying in the arms of the equally naked Gongsun Zhi, the white slender feet gently rubbing the other party's calves, and the face that had not yet faded was also gently rubbing the thick chest, squinting and enjoying this moment of the man who belonged to her.

After a moment, she said softly: "The husband hasn't told the concubine yet, who is that resting woman?" Why it matters. ”

"It's called Bala Erxin, the high priest of a certain religion in Fandou City, just like the Taoism of our Han Dynasty, but that's it, since everyone has been killed, there is no difference from what I killed." Gongsun Zhi leaned on the back of the chair and stroked the woman's smooth back, and the delicate touch made him a little lovely.

"It turned out to be a woman of a sect......" Ren Hongchang muttered on his chest, suddenly thought of something, for a moment, she raised her head, squinted her eyes, and drew a circle on the man's chest with her fingertips, "..... then change someone, on the way to the concubine, I met a resting man who can speak Chinese, named Mani, this person is very interesting, it is rare to have his own ideas." ”

"What do you mean, that man wants to build a church himself? Let me support him? ”

The woman's soft body squeezed up against the man, and reached out to touch the beard of the other party's chin, "Well, on the way here, this person often tells my four sisters about his own teachings, as if he also took a broken name of Manichaeism, it is better to call the majesty of the Moyun Sect, the clouds, all over the sky, very metaphorical." ”

Gongsun Zhi withdrew from the woman's smooth back, squinted at the flickering oil lamp on the table against the back of the chair, and grabbed the hand that was playing with his beard: "Actually, you want to, right?" Okay, find you something to do. His gaze moved down and fell on the woman's face: "..... only once." ”

"The concubine doesn't have too much thought on that, but she also knows that if you make a mistake, you have to make up for it, since you killed a priest, the concubine will find one back."

Ren Hongchang hugged his neck, the whole person was curled up in Gongsun Zhi's arms, quietly talked for a while, hugged each other and slept, the wind and snow outside whimpered and whistled, and gradually stopped, not long after, the sky was blue, and then when the sun broke through the clouds and shone in through the window, Ren Hongchang in the man's arms was already dressed neatly and went out.

This morning, a middle-aged man named Mani trembled as he walked down a long corridor behind the guards, and when he got up, he dragged the woman Cylius, who had been with him all the way, out of the warm bed and told him that he was about to be summoned.

"That's the devil who destroyed Nissa......" he shuddered again.

Surrounded by a group of patrolling Cylius soldiers passed by him, the appearance and demeanor of the other party had been gradually sketched out in his mind, and his pace was getting slower and slower, and the soldiers who led the way turned around several times to urge him, before he stubbornly followed, turned around an eaves corner, and the soldiers over there were more dense, with five steps and one post, and even two crossbows placed in the corner with a wide field of vision.

"That's my father-in-law's residence over there, remember not to look up and ask you what to say!" The soldier who led the way told him, and Mani nodded again and again, and at the same time said "yes" in Chinese, the door of the room not far away suddenly opened, and the figure of a guard came out of it and left in a hurry with the order.

"You wait here, I'll pass it on." The soldier gave the order, and walked towards the door, and was about to speak, when the door opened again, and several guards came out of it in an uproar, and one of them said to him, "The lord is going to the Fandou Palace, and let the brothers outside prepare the horses." ”

The soldier took the order and turned to leave, leaving Mani alone and unattended, "....... what did you call me for?" Rather embarrassed, he looked at the busy, vigilant figures around him.

At this moment, the door creaked open, and the guards on the left and right half-knelt and pressed their fists, Mani hesitated for a moment, followed their example and half-knelt down, and then saw the Oriental style shoes into his low-hanging gaze, and the majestic voice above said: "You are Mani, right?" It's good to be able to speak Chinese, and I don't have much time to meet you alone, so I'll talk as I go. ”

"Yes, Venerable Commander Cylius." Mani was somewhat frightened of such an environment, and was about to get up when he was held down, and only after a moment of the golden streaks in his sight did he let go of his shoulders, and then he was put up, pushed, and cautiously followed.

The tall back in front of him opened his mouth.

"Listen to Hongchang said, you are from a religion and have faith, talk to me about what your own teachings are, by the way, don't tell me what kind of god or Buddha you are in front of me, I still have a little experience in founding a sect, don't talk nonsense in front of me."

“…… Mani did have some ideas in his mind, but they were not yet mature. Mani was a little frightened by the slow words of the Cyrius man in front of him. His face was still respectfully bowed: "..... combine with other religions and take their strengths to blend, human nature has good and evil, good is light, evil is darkness, so let believers distinguish between right and wrong, yearn for good, and eventually go to the realm of bliss........"

"Needless to say, it's so long."

Gongsun interrupted Mani's long speech with a wave of his hand, and a small white beast that ran out of nowhere pounced in front of the walking steps, rolled and danced its claws to hook the undulating and swaying hem of its robe, and stuck out its tongue even if it was forked by hand. Mani glanced at the little beast in the other party's hand, and complimented: "Your Excellency's puppy ..... commander is really beautiful." ”

Over there, Gongsun Zhi looked at the little white wolf for a moment, and his smile gradually cooled: "...... don't need to say so much, I don't have the heart to listen, just look at the results, it just so happened that a high priest in Fandou City died last night, it is your opportunity to spread the new doctrine, I will talk about it for you on the royal side, but the ultimate goal, I hope to serve my Western Expeditionary Army, if I don't have this thought, I will die, understand?" ”

"Got it."

"Get out of here......"

After the eviction order, Gongsun Zhi walked out of the courtyard, riding a war horse towards Fandou City, after the climate warms up at the beginning of the year, a series of big moves will also be launched, although Aldaban is willing to form an alliance, but a total of nearly 200,000 troops, entrenched here, the huge ecosystem is a very troubled situation for any country's capital, some things need to be communicated and stable all the time, after all, people's hearts are constantly changing, negotiate today, and there may be another rhetoric tomorrow.

At the same time as he went to the palace, the body of Balalxin had already been sent over, and as the high priest of Zoroastrianism, he died at the hands of the Cyrius, causing a lot of shock among the believers of the sect and the royal family in the city, although the Parthian Empire was multi-religious and had become more and more inclined to Cyclism in recent years.

In the Imperial Palace, the sun shines through the dazzling eyes of the snow-white sky.

Ardaban silently stared at Balaerxin lying in the coffin, and on the wound on his neck, he did not say anything about the clamor of the bishop and some nobles around him, and the surrounding voices continued to buzz towards him: "The people of the Serius slaughtered the people of the two cities before, but they did not liquidate, and now they have killed the high priest of Balalxin.......""....... They are good at fighting because they have a lot of people, but I have more Parthians, and when the spring is warm, I will gather the warriors of all tribes and drive them out of here. "Yesterday he said that he would ally with us and kill the high priest at night, and Cylius did not trust us."

"Shut up—"

The almost roaring sound was accompanied by the slap of the palm on the coffin, which shocked the dozens of nobles around to stop the words, most of them had never seen the angry expression of the elegant Parthian emperor, but someone still stepped forward and pointed to the woman in the coffin: "Your Majesty, the Celeus people are arrogant, simply kill one of their important people, and then they know afterwards, they don't believe that their Celeus commander still dares to do it, and we also have a bad breath, everyone, are you right?" ”

The clamoring nobleman spread his arms and said a word to everyone, and received approval and applause, and turned to look at the emperor, but the Parthian emperor Aldaban, who was silent over there, shook his arm violently, and there was a crisp sound, and the slap slapped him in the face, followed by another slap, and everyone looked at this side in amazement, and the sound of snapping and ..... echoed in their ears.

Ardaban withdrew his reddened palm and kicked the other party to the ground, his chest heaving and panting and pointing at the nobleman, whose face was swollen like a pig's head.

“.…… You want to kill me, don't you? If I can kill the Cylius, I still need you to remind me? Do you know that the city gate is still in the hands of the other party, and the army of Cylius can enter the palace at any time and slash me on the throne...... My brother Vologis still does not know whether he lived or died, and he went to Sassanid Persia, or was he captured and hidden in the camp of the Serius? Waiting for me to make a mistake and re-ascend the throne as the emperor of Parthia?! ”

At this time, there was a shout from outside the temple gate.

"Commander Cyrius has arrived—"

Bang bang ........ just as Ardaban hurriedly packed up the instrument, a series of footsteps, the sound of armor collision came, and the door of the palace was opened with a bang in this sound, and several hundreds of Han Dynasty soldiers poured in, driving away the guards in the original palace and occupying important positions.

"I just heard someone say bad things behind my back."

Surrounded by twenty wolf guards, the armored and big Gongsun Zhilong walked in with Dian Wei inside, the giant man behind him was angry and bearded, and his fierce gaze swept over the Parthian nobles who didn't dare to come out of the atmosphere, and even Ardaban, who had a previous momentum, but now he didn't dare to let go of a fart.

Utty, who was short, black and thin, followed on the left side and began to translate. Gongsun Zhi walked to the coffin containing the corpse and stopped, "The high priest came to my residence late at night and was mistakenly killed as an assassin without being reported. He stroked the corpse's hair, then tilted his head, and his tone was tough: "....... Since I killed your high priest and caused the loss of that religion, why don't you take a religion as compensation, and disagree? If you don't make a sound, you agree, and then the matter is settled. ”

Everyone below "........" looked at him almost wordlessly.

Here, Gongsun Zhi turned around and hooked his arm around the Parthian Emperor's shoulders and hugged him hard, tilted his head to his ear and whispered, "Your Majesty, is there anything you want to say?" ”

Utty struggled to keep her voice low in the back...... Terrible.

"I didn't ...... There is no ......," Ardaban waved his hand in a panic, "...... I, Parthia, welcome all religions to come in and spread their faith, and not long ago there was another religion called Christianity that also came here, haha..... haha...... Parthia was able to gather so many religions than any other country......."

Gongsun stopped patting him on the back a few times and nodded: "Your Majesty can understand the best reason, the matter has passed, now it's time to talk about the war after the beginning of spring, Daqin has a vast and fertile territory, a large population, not only wealth, but also can spread and absorb more believers, so ..... there is no need to look for the benefits of losing his head in a dead person, right?" ”

As the leader of Parthia's Monks, Bishop Tiamiffy is fifty-five this year, and it is his lifelong belief in spreading Monkism, while Rome in the west has its own ancient beliefs - the Olympic gods, and the rejection of foreign religions is very cruel, religious monks and propagators will be burned along with books, and believers of other religions will also be caught and killed on the spot by Roman soldiers, and their heads will be displayed to the public.

If the coalition could break through the Roman defenses and drive straight in, then the west would be an ideal place to spread, and although many other religions would join in, Tiamife believed that no one could match the faith in his heart.

"Bishop Tiamiffi was willing to give up the gap and join the Cylius in the invasion of Rome, and was even willing to encourage the faithful of the church to serve the army."

When the bishop of the Jacket Sect said such things, even the other dissatisfied Parthian nobles would not be so stupid as to stand up and look for trouble alone because they had had a good time in fish and water.

"Then what's the matter, let's get down to business." Gongsun Zhi pulled the Parthian emperor to sit on the throne.

In a harmonious and lively discussion, the woman lying in the coffin was forgotten alone, and then carried down by the soldiers, thrown into the corner and set on fire with the coffin, and burned cleanly, the sunset was skewed, and after the flame was extinguished, only a pool of dark burn marks was left, proving that there was once a woman who was alive and died here.

Gongsun Zhi left the Parthian palace and rode away on a war horse. The trembling Parthian Emperor swept his cuffs and looked at the nobles below according to the throne: "Do you know, how dangerous it was just now, as an emperor, you don't want to lose face, stand in front, it is to protect your lives, next time be honest, don't say anything outside, at least ..... We'll have to wait until the Celeus army is gone—"

"Be smart." Ardaban snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves and turned to leave.

Soon after, the lively New Year passed in this cold, and the atmosphere of war slowly condensed over time......