Withered vines and old trees, faint crows, small bridges and flowing water. On the side of the bridge with residual snow and broken bridge, there is a small forest, and there are several small courtyards covered with tiles behind the forest, and the house is full of laughter and laughter at this moment.

Smoke curls outside the stove room, an old woman and a woman in the room are kneading flour to make dumplings with filling, and the other is busy cooking sesame stuffing on the stove, on the stove is the rice cake that has just been brought in from outside, and the three dolls on the side are chasing and arguing around the two of them.

"An An, you will be twelve in the coming year, how can you still be like your younger brothers and sisters, so noisy, don't delay your mother and grandmother to get New Year's food.

Hurry up and take them out to play, or help your father and brother with their work, and don't you want to eat soup rice cakes and soup balls."

"Niang, Tuan Tuan just said that she doesn't like soup rice cakes, she likes fried rice cakes"

"What kind of fried rice cake to eat, it is naturally comfortable to eat soup and water in winter"

"Ah Niang, Ah Niang Yuanyuan also likes to eat fried rice cakes and fried rice balls, rice balls ......" After that, a few children hugged the woman's thighs and shouted noisily to eat fried rice balls and fried rice cakes.

Crying, crying, chirping, noisy, noisy, so lively.

"Yun Niang, let's make it for the children" The old woman looked at the pair of children in the room who were spilling and begging for food, and she was overjoyed.

"Mother, you can't spoil them so much, you spoil them."

"No, no, the reunion is obedient!" After that, the two dragon and phoenix twins named Tuan Tuan Tuan Yuan were obedient and cute, which made the old woman and the woman laugh.

Outside the stove room was a man who had passed the age of confusion, and at the moment he was still bare-chested, struggling to beat rice cakes at that end. Next to him was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy helping to pinch the rice cakes, and when he saw that it was almost over, the young man took out the rice cakes that the man had beaten and cut them on the cutting board outside, and looked like a little adult.

The stone tables and benches outside the house are already full of rice cakes cut by young people, this year is another bumper harvest year, look at this rice cake can be eaten for a little half a month, enough for the two little ghosts in the house to get tired of eating.

Listening to the laughter coming from the stove room, the two people outside couldn't help laughing.

At this time, several people appeared at the broken bridge, and they were all mighty warriors from a distance. One of them saw the shirtless man here, the muscles on his back were clearly visible as he worked, and a thick stab wound ran from his right shoulder blade to his left waist.

After suffering such a terrible knife wound, he is still alive and mighty, and that is the person. Seeing the young man cutting rice cakes next to the man over there and the man who were carved out of the same mold when he was young, the person on the broken bridge was in a trance for a moment.

Afterwards, several people on the bridge walked directly in the direction of the hut.

Hearing the movement on the other end, the man who was beating the rice cake turned around and looked in the direction of the broken bridge, squinted his eyes, and saw the person clearly. He was stunned for a moment, and then said to the young man next to him, "Pingping, you first bring the rice cakes into the house, let your mother and them cut and fry a few plates of shredded cabbage and pork rice cakes, and then let her fry two catties of longevity fruit and cut two catties of beef." Well, by the way, you also go to the back of the courtyard to dig out the daughter red under the peach blossom tree for ten years for the father. ”

"Dad, do you have any guests coming?"

"Hmm"

After explaining the young man, the man also put down the wooden chimney, put on his underwear, and put on a thin coat. Then I went to the water tank next to me and scooped a scoop of ice water to wash my face, waiting for those people to come.

Before entering the house, the young man followed his father's gaze in the direction of the broken bridge, and saw that the people coming in this direction were all burly and heroic men, they were tall and energetic, and they looked not ordinary officers and soldiers or guards, but people in a well-trained army.

In fact, the person who came from the other side of the broken bridge was none other than Su Cheng and several of his cronies, Su Dong, Sunan and others.

"Lao Yan, you old ghost is hiding here and free!"

"Sioux City, you old boy is really getting more and more like a dog now, hahahaha"

In the past, they were people who lived and died together, and there was naturally a little more tacit understanding when they met, and there was no need for too many greetings between the two, as long as they punched each other, and then a hug could sit down and talk immediately as in the past.

After that, Sioux City had dinner at Yan Bai's house. Looking at Yan Bai's life at the moment, Su Cheng sighed, the once brave and combative Jiang Wujun forward leader is now here as an ordinary villager who retreats to the mountains and forests, and is still helping to do farm work at home, the whole family is full of children's things, the big knife that killed the enemy in the past is hung on the wall and the handle of the knife is hung with a huge ugly rag doll, and the big knife in the scabbard has long been rusted. In this house, the axe for chopping wood is sharpened and shiny.

Although the other party lived up to the majesty of the military generals in the past, Su Cheng saw that his four children, three sons and one daughter were very close to him, so it was not lively, and the family was small but very warm. The husband and wife are harmonious, the father is kind and the son is filial, and Su Cheng is somewhat envious.

"Yan Bai, I came today to ask you something about my brother?"

"Su Cheng, are you still investigating the general's case?" Yan Bai picked up an immortal fruit and squeezed it hard, the shell was finely chopped along with the flesh. "Hey, I almost forgot, you're also a general now, the general of Zhenyuan of the Xiaocai Battalion."

"It's just that the saint is useless, so I was ordered to be the general of the Great Liang."

"What is humble between you and me, it is all the glory you have earned by fighting in the northwest." Yan Bai seemed to have a trace of reluctance in his eyes, and looked back at his wife who was still busy cleaning up outside, and the dragon and phoenix fetuses lying in the window peeking at them, the years were quiet.

Now, I don't want to participate in the filthy court affairs anymore.

"What happened in Jiangfu back then?"

"That was eighteen years ago, it's long been an adult, and there are some things you still don't have to worry about anymore. Cherish the glory and wealth in front of you! There was a hint of sarcasm in Yan Bai's voice, but it was also his true words.

"My brother treats me well, you and I know his personality, how can he form a party for personal gain, and how can he deliberately rebel, these are all trumped-up charges. You were in Beijing back then, and you were your brother's right-hand man, you must know what happened back then. Don't you want to avenge him? ”

"Justice?" Yan Bai's voice had a hint of coldness in it, and he picked up the big bowl in his hand and drank it all from his daughter Hong, who had been stored in the bowl for ten years. "Now that King Ning is in that position, has he ever thought about rehabilitating the general?"

"This ......" Su Cheng's eyes also had a hint of gloom, he was a grass people, more than twenty years ago, it was just a chance to get married to the current saint at that time, he was still a do-it-all King Ning, and Jiang Yao, the concubine of the first family protector of the capital at that time, and the three of them also worshiped together by chance.

After knowing the identities of the other two, Su Cheng was naturally panicked. But the two of them generously called him brothers, which made him and the people feel very touched. Later, Su Cheng knew that the person who signed up for the army was Jiang Wujun who protected the country.

However, at that time, the protector of the country was deceased, and Jiang Yao, the only concubine of Jiang Mansion, naturally took on the arduous task of shining the lintel, and had led the army to fight with the enemy just after the year of the weak crown.

And Su Cheng was a recruit at that time, following Jiang Yao's troops north to fight the enemy. The young and vigorous Su Cheng only relied on his enthusiasm to kill the enemy, and his luck was good, and he became the infantry military academy of Jiang Wujun with his own ability in less than two years.

Maybe it's because of his friendship with Jiang Yao, and he can't help but compare himself with him in private, but after two years of undefeated, his heart has also swelled. And because of the relationship between the two, he was also criticized in the Jiang Wu Army for climbing high branches and taking shortcuts.

Of course, Su Cheng couldn't stand such a "grievance" when he was young, and when he fought with the Maoren, he asked for orders to be the leader of the strikers and open the way first, not wanting others to always say that he was following Jiang Yao to pick up leaks and earn meritorious deeds.

It's just that the hairy people are cunning, and they use Su City's desire to win to lead them into the Ten Thousand Magnetic Mountain, where the terrain is steep and difficult to discern the direction, it is easy to enter the mountain and difficult to get out of the mountain, not to mention that it is even more difficult to find the direction to escape from Su City.

The Mao people wanted to starve all the forward teams led by Su Cheng to death in the Ten Thousand Magnetic Mountains and kill the sharp spirit of Jiang Wujun. Su Cheng, who was trapped in the Ten Thousand Magnetic Mountain for two days and one night, recalled Jiang Yao's advice before he set off, but he completely ignored it, and he regretted it at this moment.

In desperation, Su Cheng thought about killing himself here and apologizing for his sins with death. In fact, he was alone and widowed, and it didn't matter if he died, but he affected his brother who came with him. In the end, I thought that if I gave up as a leader first, what would happen to the others?

However, the emperor did not live up, and on the night of two days later, Jiang Yao led dozens of elite troops, taking advantage of the carelessness of the Mao people, to evade the Mao people's surveillance and quietly sneak into Wanci Mountain to rescue Su Cheng and them.

On the other end, Yan Bai led the army at night while the Maoren were staring at the group of people in Sucheng, and they directly attacked the Maoren military camp from the rear, caught them off guard, and finally defended Yecheng that they planned to attack.

Although Jiang Wujun won that battle, and the forward battalion led by Su Cheng also retreated from the Ten Thousand Magnetic Mountain, Su Cheng knew that if Jiang Yao hadn't saved them in danger, he was afraid that now he would have paid for his stupidity and died in the Ten Thousand Magnetic Mountain.

He asked himself for a fifty long memory, and after this battle, Su Cheng really knew the importance of the art of war, fighting a war does not rely on brute force, and it is useless to rely on cleverness alone, and it is necessary to have a global concept. Moreover, we must guard against arrogance and rashness, know how to judge the situation and take an overall view.

After that, Su Cheng followed behind Jiang Yao and Yan Bai to humbly ask for advice, he is indeed the fastest growing person in the army, he seems to have a talent for leading troops to fight, what he lacks is actual combat.

Later, the northern part of Daliang has settled under the protection of Jiang Yao, but the heirs of the Protectorate Mansion withered, and Jiang Yao was finally recruited back to Beijing by the sage at that time.

In fact, at that time, there was also Yan Lingshuang, a noble girl from the northern Yandi, who returned to Beijing with Jiang Yao, and the two were in love, and they originally came back to ask the saint to marry.

Su Cheng: They remembered that Yan Lingshuang called her sister-in-law and sister-in-law at that time. Originally, he was going to stay in Beijing to drink the wedding wine, but it happened that the Northwest Wei Army came to ask for help, and Su Cheng was sent to assist, and then in the end, Su Cheng actually created his own small world in that place.

At that time, Su Cheng also vowed to come back with their children's full moon wine if he couldn't drink the wedding wine, but when he came back, there was no more Protectorate Mansion in the capital. Jiang Yao was charged with forming a party and attempting to rebel, and the entire Protectorate Mansion was raided.

After that, the prince was also implicated, and the sage put him under house arrest in the East Palace, and the princeling's Rui Wang, King An, felt that the sage was unfair and wanted to act privately. After that, several green kings who were good with the crown prince decided to force the palace led by King Rui.

In the end, because King Ning, who had been unknown, killed his relatives in righteousness, he privately contacted Su Cheng to enter the palace in time to escort him. Of course, Sioux City ended up being the one who saved the driver. After that, the first emperor was physically and mentally exhausted, and he was also very disappointed in his sons, and finally passed on to King Ning, and was assisted by Yang Zongbo, the current first assistant.

Everything seemed to be a chess game that had been arranged, and all of them acted according to the ideas of the deacons like arranged chess pieces.

Su Cheng never had the opportunity to investigate Jiang Yao's case, and after a few years, the matter of the Protector Mansion was delayed again and again, and in the end, no one mentioned it again. When Ning Wang first ascended the throne, his power was unstable and it was not suitable to overturn the case for Jiang Yao, but many years later, many witness evidence also disappeared.

The current capital is almost controlled by Yang Shoufu, the queen is his daughter, and the crown prince is his grandson, and no one knows what role he played in these events back then. King Ning, no, it is the sage today who also avoids talking about Jiang Yao's affairs.

The undercurrents of the capital are surging more terrifying than the war outside the fortress. The killing there is not a clear way to fire a gun on the battlefield, and the conspiracy and power technique is not what they are good at at all as border generals.

Yan Bai has long been tired of the deception in the capital. Yan Bai picked up the wine jar and drank several sips, until he burped a wine and sighed and said, "Su Cheng, when the general had an accident, I went to the prison to see him, and it was he who personally admitted that he deliberately rebelled. ”

"What?!"

"Do you believe it? He said it to me personally."

"I don't believe it!"

"I don't believe it either, but so what? Who can change what the saints decided at that time? Does he admit that it has anything to do with it?

Admittedly, the general can still exchange his past exploits for something he wants. For example, the lives of the people who protect the country's mansion......

He had only one request for me at that time, to resign immediately, and to go as far as I could, but before I left, I needed to escort Mrs. Shuang back to Beiyan. It's just that then you know about it......"

Yan Lingshuang married Xuanping Hou in the capital, the Xuanping Hou who only knew how to chirp with a group of unmanly concubines from the Fenghua Xueyue clan.

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At this moment, in the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, Mrs. Shuang was looking at a piece of jade in her hand, her eyes were slightly red.

We all know the grievances you endure for what we have done, and we will also make those people pay the price.

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