(a)

The report of your death and martyrdom was sent back to Yunjing. Raise the court and mourn. The city is full of plain curtains. Even the various decorations in the palace of Concubine Wang have all been replaced with plain colors for your martyrdom.

Although before, the envoy sent by Liu Shen had already returned to Yunjing in vain with your last letter to Liu Shen, which foreshadowed such an ending. But when Yang Biao's official recital came, Liu Shen still lingered in his study for a long time in pain with the recital. He endured the grief in his heart, confused that he didn't know how to tell me the bad news.

However, in the end, he decided to bring the bad news to me on his own. He decided to take it upon himself to complete this difficult task.

Seeing Liu Shen returning with heavy footsteps with a solemn expression and appearing at the door of my palace room with his head down, I stood up and faced him.

The first time he saw me, he knew that, in fact, he didn't have to say anything.

He silently handed me Yang Biao's recital.

I took the recital. I looked down and read it.

I looked at it. My hand unconsciously let go. The movement slipped from my hand and fell to the ground. It rolls on the ground, forming a path of words.

I sat down in distraction.

Liu Shen looked at me silently and speechlessly. He watched me sit down. He watched me sit there.

When a person is grieving deeply, there is no way to cry and no way to speak. None of this can be done. There is no way to change even one expression. In an instant, from the inside to the outside, it turned into stone,

That heavy grief that cannot be borne and cannot be resisted, is like this.

A dream, that's all. The smoke is gone.

(b)

I looked down at my empty hands.

In this world, in a world where everything is flowing endlessly towards the abyss of death, is there anything that will not slip between the hands? Can we really, hold on to anything? Can you keep anything? Even if you hold each other's hands tightly, you will finally let go.

"Jean." Liu Shen looked at me. There were tears in his eyes.

He said, "10,000 don't want to, 100 million don't want to." Bad news like this. ”

He said, "But I still have to come here and bring it to you." Because, instead of letting someone else tell you, I'll tell you myself. I'll be there. No matter how painful things happen. I'll be there for you. ”

I looked at Liu Shen. I moved my lips.

I tried a little bit to break free from that rigidity.

Do not freeze. Don't be stiff. For you, for your warmth, for your last wishes, for your love. I can't just freeze over that. I have to stay warm. I have to keep my life warm.

So that you can continue to live in my memory. I have to live.

Now you can only live in my memory.

I try, I try, I try again.

Finally, my lips were able to make a sound again.

I heard my own voice say to Liu Shen, "Congratulations to King Han." The war on the Northern Front is over. ”

It sounded so unfamiliar.

I feel like I've become a stranger.

My life ended at the same time.

After that, the one who lives is no longer the same me.

(c)

It's finally over. After so many people died. After so many people were heartbroken, the war on the Northern Front. Finally stopped.

Why did it start? Who has gained anything from this war?

What do we gain by killing each other, turning others into corpses, and tearing off the livers and intestines of other people's lovers?

As you say, "War is just pain, except for pain." Nothing else, nothing benefit, nothing to gain. ”

You say, "This is the real war." ”

You kill like hemp, you are miserable, you are broken. You are piercing through all arrows so that all people can see the real war, the war without any whitewash, the war without any interests.

You know they won't remember. I also know that they simply won't remember. But you still decided to give up the last few years of our relationship and do that without hesitation.

- "In war, all people, all parties, are losers. ”

- "There is no winner in a war. ”

- "As soon as the war starts, we will all lose. ”

This is you, the god of war, the undefeated you who have maintained an undefeated record in your life, the war in your eyes.

You never feel like you're a winner.

You've never lost that sobriety.

(iv)

Everything you want to accomplish in your life has been done.

Now, it's Liu Shen's turn. It was his turn to end the war on the Southern Front.

For the sake of peace in the world, it is of course great to vow never to be dirty, and never let your hands get a little blood.

So, for the sake of peace in the world, even if you let your hands be stained with blood?

(5)

"The world has been in turmoil for many years, and sin is bowing." This was the first sentence that Liu Shen said after he sat on the throne of the emperor of the new dynasty.

"No one's hands will be clean as the founding king. So do I. I am not sinless. Later, Liu Shen often said this to his sons.

"If you don't have a deep guilt for the people of the world, you can't be a good king." Liu Shen said to his sons: "Only when you sincerely feel and deeply feel that you are sorry for the people of the world can you be a good king." ”

Liu Shen said to his sons: "Don't think that the people of the world owe anything to our family, even if the Taiping New Dynasty was bought by your uncle's bloody battles and sacrificed his life, even if the new dynasty was founded by your father, the people of the world do not owe anything to our family. It is we who failed to end the war for the people of the world as soon as possible, and stopped the war only after so many people died, because we are worthy of the previous kings and all those who supported and chose us. ”

"The people of the world don't owe us anything. It is we who are worthy of the world. Liu Shen said: "Keep your shame, never let arrogance breed and grow, if you are the king, you may become the king of the sages, and if you are a minister, you may become a minister of the pillars." When you lose your shame against the people of the world, and breed the arrogance of the people of the world, the demise of our dynasty will begin. ”

Liu Shen said: "Remember your father's words, the arrogance of the people in the world is the source of war. ”

Liu Shen said: "The chaos in the world began with the chaos of one heart. Therefore, in the future, you will be kings and ministers, and you will be your ministers and keep your hearts for the people of the world! (To be continued.) )