Shangyuan Festival is a day of celebration all over the world, and the people of Tongzhou are also all night long, enjoying the first carnival festival ushered in in the new year.

Compared with the Shangyuan Festival in Jinling, the most different thing here is that there are all kinds of ice lanterns to enjoy, the ice lanterns are carefully carved by skilled craftsmen, built-in lights, crystal clear like a crystal palace, wandering in the meantime, unique style.

In a remote, quiet independent courtyard of Tongzhouyi, it is very different from the joyful and festive atmosphere of the whole Tongzhou City, and only a dead wind lamp is lit at the entrance of the whole courtyard, which trembles gently in the cold wind, and basks in a dim and dim light.

This courtyard is not small, the buildings in the north are not as delicate as in the south, but they are generally much larger, there seem to be many people living in this courtyard, many windows are showing faint lights, and there seem to be two soldiers standing under the lamp at the gate of the courtyard, standing there with guns and pestles, motionless, if you don't pay attention to it, you can't even find their deposits.

But the atmosphere in the courtyard was really depressing, and occasionally people walked by in the courtyard, quietly, like a ghost floating in the dim white light. Everyone was lightly tacted, and it seemed that a little louder would break the rare calm in the courtyard.

In the northernmost corner of the west wing, there is a small room with a thin wall, and the door is made of some thin wooden boards, which have many gaps that are difficult to see with the naked eye, and can make the whole room as cold as ice in this cold weather.

This is a barnhouse, at least in winter, it is not inhabitable, but at this moment it is winter, and there is really a person living in the firewood house. There is a small stove pit on the ground in the house, the fire is not strong, and there is a small bundle of firewood piled up in the corner, there is no charcoal, if you don't save it, you don't have to wait until dawn. This firewood can be burned out.

A girl huddled tightly by the stove, greedily absorbing the faint warmth emanating from the pit, the cold breath was everywhere, and every now and then a whirlwind would carry the cold breath through the cracks in the door and the wall, and her body would freeze cold.

The hands and feet near the stove were warmer, but because of this, her frostbitten hands and feet were itchy, and she had to stomp her feet and rub her hands from time to time to temporarily dispel the itching that penetrated into the bones, but this movement, the frostbite was faintly painful. Her delicate eyebrows were raised because of this, which was prohibitive.

This woman is Xue Shuiwu, in this grand festival celebrated by the whole world, she is alone, huddled alone in this small firewood house, nestled with a small stove to keep out the cold. Until now, she still seems to have a ridiculous dream about her bizarre encounter, and she doesn't understand what happened at all.

Once. She has a young lady to rely on, parents to sustenance, an unmarried husband to look forward to, and the responsibility to raise a young lady to make her strong. And this qiē is now all gone, she is like a duckweed drifting with the waves, a gust of wind blows, a piece of water flows. She could only be at the mercy of no resistance.

Since she was a child, she has always been a little maid who is obedient under the fence. What's more, Zhang Jiangling is such an unattainable big man, so she accepted her fate, she succumbed to the arrangement of fate, and was sent to the capital by Qi Shuai.

She remembered that day, she took a bath, changed into bright clothes, and sat quietly on the edge of the couch, like a weak little flower, waiting to be picked up by a strong man, and raised in the boudoir from then on, but outside suddenly rushed into a panicked old butler.

I don't know what made the old butler's face pale as paper, but the old butler didn't say anything to her, but at once she was taken away and put into a car full of drapes. The car was in a hurry, and when she got out of the car, she was already in a courtyard house that seemed to have been uninhabited for a long time.

From that moment on, she was confined in the courtyard. Shui Wu could see that the people who guarded her had a sense of panic, but they didn't understand what they were afraid of. After that, her treatment became worse and worse, and the attitude of the people who guarded her became worse and worse, and sometimes they would scold her for being a broom.

She didn't know what was going on, she thought that when she arrived in the capital, she would live in a quiet, isolated world, and she would always only see the corner of the sky overhead, but now it seemed to be no different from her imagination, but it was completely different.

Until one day, she saw several mysterious people appear in front of her, and those people were Qi Shuai's personal soldiers who sent her from Jizhen to the capital in the first place. Dancing Water still didn't know what was going on, she was put into a sealed car and left the corner of the sky where she was imprisoned, and when she got out of the car again, she was there.

At this time, she vaguely heard that Shousuke-sama had passed away. Shui Wu could basically think that Zhang Shoufu was probably killed when she was sent to the mansion, although she didn't understand what this had to do with her as a weak and innocent little woman, but everyone regarded her as a plague.

It was getting colder and colder, the cold wind was everywhere, and her body was almost freezing. She eats less, she gets very little food now, and the soldiers who used to treat her very politely and warmly, now look at her indifferently, colder than the biting cold wind, at this time she is cold in her body, cold in her belly, and colder in her heart.

"Maybe, I'm really a broom star."

Shui Wu thought self-deprecatingly: "I was a maid, and the master was dismissed; married with the young lady, and the uncle was arrested; After a lot of hardships, he finally returned to his hometown, and his father died inexplicably. followed his mother to Guiyang, and soon his mother was stoned to death......

finally met Hong Dashan, and with his help, he was sent to Qi Shuai, but he was coldly treated and guarded against by Mrs. Qi. When she arrived in the capital, she thought that there would be an unattainable mountain for her to rest her tired body and mind, but the mountain also collapsed with a bang. ”

"Brother Xiao Tian......," Shui Wu remembered the name that had been lost for a long time: "Brother Xiao Tian is blessed with Qitian, so God let him leave me, an ominous woman......"

Shui Wu smiled self-deprecatingly, but her cheeks were almost frozen, and she could barely smile, she raised her hands that were red from the cold, and gently rubbed her frozen cheeks: "I am obviously picked up by Qi Shuai's people now, Qi Shuai has fought a hundred battles, a generation of heroes, and the strongmen who died in his hands are unknown, so I shouldn't be implicated." ”

A gust of cold wind swirled into the firewood room, Shui Wu shivered, and his body curled up a little tighter. In the Shangyuan Festival, this cold winter night, when the people of the world are celebrating the festival and rejoicing, the only thing that can warm her is the faint light of the fire in the stove......

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In the main house of the courtyard. A light like a bean. The two sat opposite each other under the lamp, looking gloomy. The light was so low that it could only shine on the mouths of two men, one with a white face and a gray beard under the other's chin.

The white-faced bearded man said in a low voice: "Qi Shaobao, the situation is very bad now, many people who are respectful to Mr. Taiyue on weekdays are now attacking Mr. Taiyue in every possible way!" ”

It turned out that the person opposite him was Qi Jiguang, Qi Shaobao was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "I have been the chief soldier of Jizhen for more than ten years. Now he was suddenly transferred to Guangzhou, is it because of this? ”

The man on the other side sneered: "There are a lot of people who have fallen into the well now, and someone has impeached you, saying that even if it is the third watch in the middle of the night, as long as your letter arrives, Mr. Taiyue will also open the middle door to receive you, and the Shoufu has such a close relationship with the important ministers of Gyeonggi who have heavy troops, it is not the blessing of the imperial court, and I am afraid that there is a suspicion of rebellion."

You can be less protected by the community. Everyone knows that the court can act rashly. Therefore, some people have figured out their intentions and said that you have made meritorious contributions in Fujian and Zhejiang. You should be transferred to the south and show your strengths, so Your Majesty issued an order to transfer you to the general army in Guangzhou. ”

Rao is Qi Jiguang's heart is like iron. Hearing this, the gray beard also trembled slightly. Although this crime was a chase for the wind, it was enough for the emperor to put him to death. Can the merit of heaven keep him safe, Yue Fei and Yu Qian, who has not made great contributions to the world, and who has a good death? ”

His crisis came from the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng by the imperial court, so the biggest key was what the emperor thought. Thinking of this, Qi Jiguang said slowly: "Hundreds of officials are attacking, don't be afraid, but I don't know what Your Majesty thinks of Mr. Taiyue?" ”

The white-faced bearded man said indignantly: "What else can you think? Three of them become tigers! Now every day someone is complaining about Mr. Taiyue's black state. Someone told His Majesty that when Mr. Taiyue returned to his hometown and province, he took 32 sedan chairs, slept in front of Xuan, and went to bed in front of him, and told His Majesty that there were two things next to him, saying that such a large sedan chair was no different from the emperor.

Some people also said that along the way, officials from all over the country greeted and stammered, and there were more than 100 dishes of delicacies on land and water at each meal, and Mr. Taiyue still felt that there was nothing to match, and there were beauties from all over the world, and there were no less than 100 beauties in the Shoufu Mansion, what do you say? ”

Qi Jiguang's lips pursed into a resolute arc, and he was silent for a long time before he said slowly: "What do you say?" ”

The white-faced bearded man said: "Your Majesty was furious, and scolded and said: 'In the first year of Wanli, I ascended the throne, suitable for the Spring Festival, and even the common people held a banquet to celebrate the New Year, but you Zhang Jiangling only asked me to add a few fruits, and kept saying that it was saving for the people!

I returned to the palace in the third dynasty, but I summoned two palace ladies to sing and dance and entertain, and you Zhang Jiangling asked me to issue a 'guilty edict' to review it to the world, but you ...... it yourself, hello! Hello! What a Master Zhang with different hearts, strict with discipline and lenient with himself! ”

This person learned the emperor to speak, and even the tone was vivid, the emperor's angry words were impossible to proclaim, and those who could know about it, and even heard it with their own ears, could only be people in the palace. He's from the palace.

Qi Jiguang's lips trembled, and he said, "Your Majesty is too mean to Mr. Taiyue. No one is perfect, Mr. Taiyue cares about the world, worries about the country and the people, pays off turbidity, decontaminates and degrades, and serves the people for the court. Throughout the ages, how many people have been able to achieve feats like him?

As for the fact that his personal life is better, there is nothing wrong with that. As a teacher of His Majesty, Mr. Taiyue is strict with His Majesty, not deliberately pretentious, pretentious and hypocritical, but as a teacher, he always has higher requirements for his students, just like a parent, even if he can't do it, he hopes that his children will do better than himself. ”

The white-faced bearded one sneered coldly: "Being a parent? Under the whole world, it is not the king's minister! As a courtier, he puts himself at the level of the parents of the Son of Heaven, and when this true dragon is soberly aware of what he controls, how can he not regard it as a great shame? ”

: On the first day of 2015, the first day of the New Year, I would like to greet everyone for the New Year, and sincerely ask for a guaranteed monthly pass for the New Year!.

(To be continued......)