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After the end of the clouds, it is still with whom to live.

The fragrance of the red bird burns the heart, the meaning is mediocre, and the words are mediocre.

Frost sword and wind knife, persistent Youlan Cao.

It's not like the snow on the mountain of a teenager, the flute is relieved, and the hatred is hard to sell.

――"The Epic of Beiming: The Legend of Empress Zhaoren"

"Lan'er—" The Lord cried out bitterly, and the voice was infinitely sad, hanging high in the highest place of Pengcheng, like a crane roaring for nine days.

I saw that he swooped down on the fallen queen mother like his life, but he only grabbed a corner of her clothes, and the guards rushed to stop him, but he fell to the ground, like a child, and sobbed.

It was the first time in my life that I saw the tears of the emperor. However, my heart was sour, and I had an inexplicable feeling of wanting to cry together.

I still remember the last posture of the queen on the Vermilion Bird Stage:

Her frightened silk double-luan title Shouguo step shaking golden hairpin on her half-turned bun was embarrassed in the wind and rain, the hairpin was sagging, and the hair was in the wind and the pale face had a poignant and strange beauty.

The back robe with a peony pattern of gold silk buttons waved a brilliant arc in the wind, wrapped in the body of the eldest prince in gold armor, but like a mother wrapped in a baby, he turned over and fell down the stairs in an instant.

Like a phoenix that is surrounded by fire and rushing to bliss, after exuding the miserable beauty of its body and the last trace of blood, it falls into the mud under the stage, and the eyebrows of the moth become bright bones, and the soul is faint.

The Lord held the last half of the garment he had caught, and wept like a child, and the cry was buzzing, sobbing like a child, but it was impossible not to be moved.

At this time, he no longer seems to be a lord admired by thousands of people, no longer a hero who once chased the enemy for thousands of miles, carried six arrows and was still brave, beheaded and captured the flag as usual, experienced the vicissitudes of life, the white bones on the battlefield, and the court plotted, but just an ordinary man who lost the love of his life.

However, this touching tenderness makes him particularly pitiful and lovely.

At this point, everything that was known in the past has a reasonable explanation:

Because of love, because of righteousness, he left other people's children, gave them a noble status, left other people's lovers, and gave them the highest status, but he still failed to get this affection in his life.

Because of love, because of reluctance, he chose to love a woman who loved himself but was similar to the other party, and integrated it into a lifelong relationship.

However, maybe a man can only love a woman so pure and pure in his life, right? In this regard, I don't have any experience of vicissitudes and sorrows, and I hope I don't have this kind of experience in this life.

At this time, I didn't know that in all the dispositions in the next few months, Fang Juncheng used his behavior to fully interpret this kind of love, so that after this, until the years before his death, Song Guifei Niangniang never forgave him and did not want to be with him again.

He covered up the instigation of the peasant army by the empress and the eldest prince to revolt, and burned down more than 300 important buildings in Pengcheng, resulting in the death of more than 23,000 soldiers of the Praetorian Guard, the firearms battalion, and the soldiers who came to the rescue.

ordered a thick burial of Empress He and the eldest prince, enjoyed all the honors, and posthumously became Empress Zhaoren-

This may not be trivial in the world, and it can be regarded as comfortably soothing the hearts of those squires who have been connected with the eldest prince, but the sincere love for Song Guifei Niangniang is not a cruel debt?

Now that I think about it, I have a couple for a lifetime, I only want to have this one-hearted person, and the white head does not move away, for men and women, perhaps, it is a real good thing. Simplicity is the most luxurious beauty in the world.

……

When I came back to my senses, I looked at Cao Qin, who was already climbing up the Suzaku Tower next to me, skinny and handsome, with a confused and sad face, and suddenly sighed softly, "Actually, you are not suitable to be a Luo Wei ninja, you are more like a Luo Wei scholar and nobleman, not like a samurai."

As expected, he showed great contempt for my heartfelt words, and then said softly, "If I hadn't come forward to secret, if I hadn't enticed the eldest prince, how could he have led the leader of the peasant army into the ambush circle in the northeast, and how could he have been drowned?"

Could it be that you are really so useless as the prince that you will drown yourself in the river? ”

I didn't say anything more, just looked at the stage quietly, but I heard Cao Qin's voice ringing in my ears again, "Since you love each other so much, but you have to be so awkward, it is better to be strict with Xinyue etiquette, and only rely on fate and not emotion." ”

There was a lot of embarrassment in these words, and I didn't know how to answer, so I could only whisper:

"The most important thing is that the world can't stay, the flowers and green trees sigh, the prosperous wanderer sings every year, and the flowers fall into sorrow. The pine and cypress trees are destroyed as charcoal, but the sea can become a mulberry field, there is wine in the present dynasty and drunk in the present day, who is the moon wind in the Ming Dynasty. The red-faced old man is in his life, and his white head is like a dream. The Vermilion Bird Tower is a sea of fire, and the wind and smoke are burning the Phoenix Pavilion. ”

As he spoke, the lord stumbled down the Suzaku Terrace, his mind was not belonging, his clothes were disheveled, and the eunuchs and guards around him were all in order.

The eldest princess helped Mama Geng over from the other side, first ordered Sheng Zheng to send General Qin Yi down to recuperate from her injuries, and then asked Qin Qiong to go to the city tower to change the prince and his brother - the eighth prince of the lord, Prince Rui Fang Zhe.

General Ye Chengchou was sent to arrange for the inspection of the premises to ensure that there were no fish that slipped through the net and to clean up and deal with the follow-up eradication.

Then, she turned her head and saw me and Cao Qin beside me, frowned slightly, and suddenly said, "You two go to investigate the key points in the city, be sure to be strict, and I will send someone to answer at the south gate at night." ”

"Yes," we both said.

And I was a little unhappy because I was put in the same place with Cao Qin and became "you", I was young at the time, and I felt quite ashamed to be treated as one of the same kind.

However, people like Princess Yu and Cao Qin, who are accustomed to seeing the wind and rain in the world, actually don't care about the same kind at all, they only want to advance and retreat together with the interests and interests, and they will have sympathy and empathy, so no one notices my careful thoughts.

Cao Qin and I and the fourteen Praetorian Guards behind him were organized into a team, and together in the city, we focused on investigating the mansions of various dignitaries and nobles, as well as the courtyards and suspicious characters around the alleys and alleys where they were located.

If it is like a bloodbath, but I also know in my heart that if the investigation is not strict at this moment, it will leave a hidden danger for the stability of the residents of Beiming Pengcheng in the future, and Cao Qin is even more stabber, not at all as weak and weak as his appearance.

Presumably, killing is more common in Luo Wei. Cao Qin seemed to have figured out something, and even wanted to chat with me from time to time, because the surrounding Praetorian Guards didn't know his identity, but he was an important minister who betrayed the queen mother and the eldest prince.

He is also quite kind and respectful, but I am not, Luo Wei's bloodthirsty slaughter in Xinyue has not left much impression in the interior of Beiming, it is much more painful, and it is difficult for me to change my attitude for a while, which is also human nature.

I just commanded the Praetorian Guards to investigate from house to house, counting casualties along the road for follow-up.

And Cao Qin coughed and wheezing, cowardly and invincible, and staggered for a while, killing people for a while, and came over to comment on two sentences: "Although the peasant army was suppressed for a while, in the end, Fu Xianggong still had to deal with this contradiction well, after all, the governance went to the ordinary people,

No matter how benevolent the government is, many evils will eventually be born. This is the biggest incurable place for you in Beiming or Xinyue, with a large population and uneven thinking, and the mind of the tricky camp is moth-boring and innumerable from top to bottom."

Or "although the system of sealing wives and shadows has been abolished, but in the army, officials and businessmen, the hereditary is the same, the father and son are inherited, the brother is the last brother, the high family is big, and the blood relatives within the five ancestors are intermarried, all of them form a circle and are connected with the same qi, advancing and retreating together, the water cannot be splashed, the needle cannot be pierced, and the alliance is firm."

Although the sergeants are mainly recruited, and the officials also have scientific examinations, the middle and upper generals and commanders have not changed much, and they cannot get rid of the trap of the new and Vietnamese millennium. Therefore, although it is said that Beiming and Xinyue have different forms, there is not much difference in their inner essence."

I didn't pay attention to it at first, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he had a reason, so I also discussed it with him, and I felt that I had benefited a lot, and I looked at the identity of the enemy ninja in front of me, and the person who was sick and weak, but exuded great life tension, and I was also drunk when it dominated my thinking.

He replied, "Don't you think your change is a little too sudden?" When did you worry about the country and the people again? ”

He waved his hand and instructed the Praetorian Guards to investigate the secret compartments of the big families and so on, and said to me:

"I think, maybe for a while, we don't have to be Beiming's enemies. At this time, after all, Mrs. Kitamasho and Shogun Tokugawa were facing a power struggle, and I Luo Wa had been constantly violating for thousands of years, and it was nothing more than the frequent volcanic earthquakes in the islands of our country.

Even if the soul of Yamato is revitalized, the vegetation is all over the barren mountains, and the people are diligent and conscientious, but in the end, we will try to create a wider and more stable place, so as to reassure the people, as for where to occupy it, it is nothing more than where it is weak, and we will attack.

We, the Japanese people, have always only admired those who can defeat us, so what you said before, Yodohime will hate General Xiuyasu's words, and that is indeed with the heart of your Beiming people, and I will spend the belly of the Shengluo people. ”

I saw that he was so sharp and resolute in his posture that I was speechless.

I had to reply to him, "Okay, we can't understand your Japanese hearts, if you fall in love with someone else's mother, you can't marry someone's daughter, and you, fall in love with your aunt, and end your own uncle, what kind of decency is this?" ”

"What is the system? It's not customized, it's just inherited. He smiled nonchalantly.

"This is the case with our Japanese people, if the new Yue Dynasty is prosperous in the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Tang Ming and his daughter-in-law have achieved the word of long-term hatred through the ages, and Mr. Bai Juyi has not married his aunt, Tang Taizong also stabbed his brother,

What's the matter, isn't it the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties that you Xinyue or Beiming are still praising in your hearts? The so-called system is nothing but self-restraint and rigid thinking, and I, the Saint Luo warrior, have never known this. ”

I Rao is a well-cultivated person, and I was also poked and teased by him again and again, and my face sank into trouble, and said, "Cao Qin, you know that you are still a Luo Wei spy who may be executed in our hands, you Luo Wei has always been cautious and humble,

Because this kind of posture is the easiest way to avoid evil, to attract favor, and you, you have no decency, then you respect your traditions! Hum. ”

Presumably, my demeanor at that time, in Cao Qin's eyes, must have been just a child, and he laughed and said, "I don't think your eldest princess will kill me." I think maybe she'll send me to Xinyue. Hey, the next one is Fu Shao's Prime Minister's Mansion."

After speaking, he didn't say much to me, and strode forward with a cough and panting, and many completely disobedient forms did not exist in his body, and I, in my heart, did not dislike his statement, but I was really jealous and afraid of his cruelty.

When I entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, Xing Qiuyan had already greeted me with the housekeeper, pulling me to look left and right, and asked for warmth. He also said that Fu Shao had been resettled in advance, and the peasant army had not entered the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Cao Qin picked up the personnel and financial books at home again, looked through them, counted the personnel, and waited for confirmation before going out to another house. Xing Qiuyan sent it to the door, and when Cao Qin walked away a little, I asked Xing Qiuyan softly, "My grandfather's mansion is ethereal and graceful, what about the two girls?" ”

Xing Qiuyan also glanced left and right, took my hand and whispered to me, "I was thinking about when to say this to you, that General Yu Wenchen of Xinyue took advantage of the chaos to break into the mansion a few days ago to ask for these two maids.

I said that the person was not there, he refused to leave, at that time the war outside the sky was full of beacons, which family is not closed to the door of the fear of rebellion in the army to loot, afraid of sleepless nights, I saw that he was young and reckless, so I thought that more things are better than less things, and these two servants were not in the book, I did not do guilt, let him take people away, you are not allowed? ”

I looked at Xing Qiuyan, and the thing in my heart rose, and then fell, and I only smiled faintly, "How come, but two maidservants, send it away." ”

Xing Qiuyan still had such an exaggerated smile on her face.

I turned around and walked away, counting that the time was almost up, so I planned to go to the eldest princess's side, and I went to General Qin Yi's mansion to visit the future father-in-law's injury, as for what medicine is sold in the gourd of this kid Yu Wenchen, it is not too late to ask when the messengers are all settled.

After thinking about it, he said goodbye to Cao Qin and the others, and went to General Qin's mansion. The area around the junction of the Uji Canal and the Ki River was originally the most stormy and rich place in Beiming, but now it has become chaotic, so there is a granary and armory division that has been repeatedly contested on the land boundary.

According to the Janissaries, there are only one or two people left in the dozens of Janissaries in Beiming, and for several days and nights, the soldiers of both sides will be able to hear each other's words and breath closely, and they will fight each other with white knives for many times, and there are countless firearms fighting.

Therefore, the surrounding area was very badly damaged, and even the gate and wall of General Qin's mansion were shattered by the arquebus, not to mention the nearby residential houses, and there were not a few people who died in the war.

Many houses are still on fire, and it is not uncommon for families to be slaughtered and courtyard walls become strongholds. At the same time, because of the road along the river, it is not a wide street in front of the house on the side of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but a hundred turns and thousands of turns, and the alleys are heavy, and it is very easy to set up ambushes.

Therefore, when I saw the corpses in the streets and alleys, the blood was burning, and I thought of the culprit Cao Qin, who could not be ashamed to save his life, but so many innocent people and soldiers were tragically killed, and an indescribable sadness rose in my heart.

Soon after the door was slammed, Qin Qiong came out to welcome me in, saying that General Qin Yi was seriously injured and had not yet woken up.