"That's fine." I knew that I was helpless, and comforted me softly, "It's okay, wait a few more years, there will always be a chance." ”

"Well, there's always a chance. It's good to make the prime minister happy now. Yu An stretched out his hand and hugged Dong Shi from Si'er's arms, the child was still playing happily in the water just now, and as soon as he went ashore and lay on his mother, he was already asleep at this time. can be confused, as soon as he hugged Yu An's hand, the two tender little arms tightly hugged his father's neck.

The house that the Marquis of Jin rewarded Yu An was an old house, which was said to be an industry in Xinjiang City, where the house was old and the courtyard was deserted, but the layout of the front hall and back room was exquisite, and there were many rooms.

Zhao Ying's meaning is to let the people in charge of the construction in the city () finish the repair first, and then let Yu An's family move in. But Yu An asked the people for ten craftsmen, saying that they would repair it themselves. On such a hot day, who wants to supervise the work outside in the sun, so as soon as Yu An proposed, the people immediately agreed, and sent two more painters.

Because Si'er has to prepare two meals for Yu An and the craftsmen every day, he will send Dong Shi to me early in the morning, and tell him not to let the child fall, don't let the child play in the water, remember to feed him, and remember to coax him to sleep in the afternoon.

Their house was repaired for two months, and I became a mother for two months. It's better to go to their backyard to mow the grass in the sun. But hard work is hard work, with Dong Shi here, I can laugh a few times almost every day, and Shi Mo is the same.

Two months later, Si'er and Yu An's new home was finally repaired. New tiles and white walls, red painted beams and columns, Qi splendid drapery, Zhao Ying sent someone to send a piece of furniture, I paid for people to plant a yard of apricot trees, peach trees, hazel trees in their backyard, and also built a bamboo and wood shelf for planting melons. In the future, my four sons no longer have to go to the street to buy melons to eat, and my peach blossom brew has also been settled.

The days pass quietly like water, the yellow leaves on the edge of the muddy water have fallen, and the cold winter has arrived.

For most of the past half year, the political situation in the Jin State has been stable and stable, but the Qi State, the Chu State, and the Wei State have all been turned upside down.

In the State of Qi, although Chen Heng newly established Gongzi Lu Biao as the monarch, Gongzi Biao obviously did not trust this "hero" who murdered his brother, so although Chen Heng was still in the court, he was secretly seized a lot of power by the Marquis of Qi, Gao and Guo.

In the state of Chu, the army led by Bai Gongsheng, the doctor of Chaoyi, entered the city in armor on the grounds of offering spoils of war to the king of Chu, imprisoned Xiong Zhang, the king of Chu in one fell swoop, killed Ling Yin Zixi, Sima Ziqi, and established himself as the king of Chu. The alliance between Qi and Chu was broken in an instant.

To defend the country, Zhao Ying supported Kuai Shen as the king, but because Kuai Shen had been in the Jin Kingdom for many years, he was extremely resentful of the doctors who had betrayed him, so as soon as he sat on the throne of the monarch, he began to kill dissidents under various pretexts. The people of the patriotic court were panicked for a while.

Behind the chaos of these three kingdoms, there is more or less the shadow of the Jin Kingdom, and behind the seemingly calm of the Jin Kingdom, there must also be hidden murderous intentions of other countries. This world of open and secret fighting has long been a bow that has been pulled to the extreme, and anyone trapped in the chess game can hear the sound of the bow arm being overwhelmed.

The bowstring collapsed, the world was in chaos, and it seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

It's just that I don't know who the last person to break the bowstring will be......

When the first snow fell in Xinjiang, the shirtless returned. This was a lot earlier than I expected.

There was a light snow that morning, and the snow flakes were large, but very clear, and they floated like feathers in the still sky. Wu Xi and Ah Yu rode in from the west gate and stopped outside the Zhao Mansion. The servant who was holding the cloth, the maid who took the dry cloth, the concubine who helped to arrange the clothes, and the wife who had affection in her eyes, all poured out at once. Wipe your face, wash your hands, and shoot the snow, this lively scene is the same as the night I first stepped into Zhao's mansion, but the people in the scene are different.

I silently turned to leave, and Ayu, who had broken one of my left hand, suddenly stood in front of me.

"Girl, you're back!" He shouted in surprise.

"Brother Ayu, don't come unharmed." I smiled and lifted the green veil covering the bamboo hat.

"Where has the girl been all these years? It's easy to find the owner! Quick, quick, the master is over there, I'll take the girl! Ah Yu grabbed me, and turned around and shouted at Wuxian as he pulled: "Master, look—it's the girl who is back!" Before he finished speaking, the people at the gate of the house had all turned their eyes to me, and I hurriedly turned my head and put down the green yarn on the bamboo hat.

"You're not gone yet?" He looked at me condescendingly, and the woman next to him stared at me intently.

I shook my head silently.

He sneered, and said indifferently: "The tired girl must tell Zhao when she wants to leave next time, Zhao is not a person who is untrustworthy, and this time, she will prepare wine to see the girl off." ”

The sarcasm in his words was obvious, but I don't have the right to mind, it was indeed my fault for being deceived by Shi Mo to stun him silently and leave him behind.

"I'm sorry." I struggled to speak, and my voice was low and unpleasant.

"Excuse me? The girl was sorry for Zhao, and a beauty like the girl didn't have to pay for the night at one time, but Zhao got cheap. Wuxian looked at me with a cold face, and his tense face couldn't tell whether he was angry or disgusted. But the faces of those behind him were already full of disdain.

"That night, it was a night for you, but it was different for me. On the shore of Luoxing Lake, there is only one night in this life. If you really want to forget, forget it, and I'll remember it alone......"

I stepped back, and he suddenly reached out and pinched a piece of green yarn under my bamboo hat.

I looked up in amazement, but he withdrew his hand again.

"Let's go." He closed his lips and turned in silence.

The pine forest was married, the lakeside was married, we fell in love vigorously, and in the end we still came to such a desperate road.

"Zhao Shizi is fine now, and the little girl's heart is very happy. When you leave Jin in the coming day, you will come to tell the son of the world, and ask the son of the world to give wine and say goodbye, so as to sacrifice the old days. Leave. I saluted the back of the stairs, turned and strode away. Fortunately, I wore this bamboo hat today, otherwise I would have laughed at others when I said these words with tears streaming down my face.

In the next few days, in the market and wine shop in Xinjiangcheng, the most lively thing was how the children of the Zhao family whipped the female music of the Jiaofang.

Wu Xian compared me to a girl in the workshop who sold her body, and the girl really went to the workshop to find "me".

A princess of the Di tribe in the north, a long whip buzzed on the ground, and several musicians of the same size as me in the teaching workshop in Xinjiang City were beaten by her dozens of whips for nothing, until her clothes were torn to pieces, and her skin was opened.

When Si'er told me, he looked worried. She is still worried that one day I will not think of a meeting and suddenly go to the Zhao Mansion to be a concubine for Wuxian. She said that such a housewife was too powerful, and I couldn't afford to serve it, and said that the eldest son of the shirtless man was taken by the woman to raise him for less than half a month and died. If I enter the house as a concubine, I am afraid that I will be whipped twice in three days, and I don't know if I can survive half a month.

Si'er's inexplicable worry made me cry and laugh. I can only hold her and tell her that unless Qishan collapses and the three rivers flow backwards, I will not marry him Zhao Wuxian as a concubine. Besides, he swore an oath with me, if it really wants to be counted, I am his Zhao Wuxian's wife, and the hot-tempered Di Nu can only be regarded as a concubine.

Si'er nodded, and then he worried about himself.

She asked me if she should help Yu An take Ah Yang as a concubine, and she had already seen that the young man who followed Yu An every day was actually a young girl in the prime of her life. She admires her husband, just like herself.

After listening to Si'er's words, I immediately burst a chestnut to her brain. What a ghost, Yu An didn't say it, Ah Yang didn't say it, what the hell are you fooling! Hurry up and give Yu An two more children, so that he will not take concubines for the rest of his life!

When I finished shouting these words, Yu An pushed the door open.

Talking about right and wrong behind my back, I was caught, and I was so ashamed that my face was flushed.

Yu An glanced at me with a smile, walked over and squeezed Si'er's hand, and said softly, I, Dong Shu, in this life, it is enough to have you and Si'er, and don't mention the matter of concubines again.

Ten years, she waited ten years, and finally waited for this day.

Si'er didn't cry, but my eyes were sour with emotion, so I had to cover my mouth and silently sneak out of the room.

Outside the door, Ah Yang, who was dressed in strong clothes, was also full of tears.

In the fortieth year of King Zhou, Lu and Qi reconciled under the maneuver of Duanmuci, Lu sent envoys to Qi, Qi returned Chengyi, which originally belonged to Lu, and the alliance of Qi and Lu was close at hand.

Faced with such a situation, the Marquis of Jin could not sit still, and he asked Zhao Ying to form an alliance with Song and Wei as soon as possible, and then find a way to send troops to Zheng Guo to make Zheng Guo also submit to Jin.

But how can it be so simple to form an alliance? The Song State believed that it was a remnant of the Shang Dynasty and a princely state, and although the country was small, it was not necessarily willing to leave its position behind to form an open alliance. It is easier to defend the country, after all, Wei Jun Kuai has received Zhao Ying's favor for many years, and he should repay it. Therefore, in the winter of the forty-first year of King Zhou, Zhao Ying went to Weiguo to discuss the alliance with Kuai Yu with Youliang, and asked the prince Zhao Wuxian and Tai Shimo to go to the Song Kingdom to "visit" Song Gong and Song Taishi Ziwei.

When the order came down, I was dumbfounded.

Shi Mo is old, and he travels in the middle of winter, not to mention walking to Shangqiu, the capital of the Song Dynasty, and whether he can go to the border of the Song and Jin Dynasty is a problem. Zhao Ying's order, could it be that Shi Mo was sent to death?

Shi Mo listened to the order, but he was also worried. But what he was worried about was that his female apprentice was going to go to the Song Kingdom "in the same car" with Zhao Wuxian.

When it was time for dinner, the second order from the palace reached the bamboo house. The gist is that Tai Shimo is old, and the monarch understands his hard work, so his disciple Zi Di visits the Song Dynasty and walks with Zhao Shizi without compassion. I didn't know how to eat this meal.

In October, when every family in Xinjiang City was busy with the year-end ancestor ceremony, I had to visit the Song Kingdom with the "husband" who abandoned me like a shoe.

Before leaving, I packed my bags and sat on the steps outside the shirtless house and waited for him. His wife-in-law dressed him in the house, wore a crown, and put on socks and shoes. A woman who danced the whip vigorously mourned and cried in the house. Chu has been gone for more than half a year, and now that her husband has just come back and is leaving Jin for Song, it is no wonder that she is reluctant to cry so sadly. But the man in the house used to be my husband, and where will I swallow my tears?

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