This is also the reason why Zhu Di was able to rush back in time to save me, after he got out of trouble, he took the lead in leading the elite cavalry to rush back, first tearing open a gap in the Northern Yuan army and saving me, while on the other side, Zhu Neng led the rest of the Yan army and Apingli Yingwai to join forces to flank the Northern Yuan army. Beiyuan never dreamed that the plan he thought he thought was to lure the enemy would eventually become its biggest failure, and it would eventually suffer heavy casualties in this battle.

According to Zhu Neng's report, at present, all the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty have fled to the north, in the direction of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

After hearing this, the generals sighed that the battle was fought happily, and shouted that they wanted to drink. The city guard immediately ordered someone to send several jars of wine and large bowls, and after breaking it, one person poured a big bowl, Zhu Gaoxu was the most affectionate, and walked over with a big bowl in one hand, "Brother Wei, this bowl is for you, let's drink a bowl?" ”

I was first shocked, the wine in the bowl was transparent and water-colored, and it smelled like a spirit, so he wanted to have a bowl with Ah Ping? No, Ah Ping will definitely get drunk after a bowl.

took a wrong step forward, deliberately mixing with Zhu Gaoxu: "Why don't you have my share of wine to drink?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu looked at me in astonishment when he heard this, and asked suspiciously, "You want to drink too?" I raised my eyebrows, took the bowl of wine directly from his hand, deliberately spilled some on the ground on the way, and said, "Didn't you say that I also participated in the war just now, why didn't I have my share in celebrating?" Zhu Gaoxu defended: "But you are a female ......"

As I glared, his word "woman" stopped abruptly, and he looked left and right in a thief's head, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to us, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said secretly in a low voice: "Fortunately, I reacted quickly." ”

I scoffed at him, and I was so quick to react? It wasn't me who stared, and I almost said in public that I was a woman.

Suddenly, my hand emptied, and the wine bowl I was holding changed hands and went to Ah Ping's place. He pursed the corners of his lips and said, "This bowl of wine is mine, and you are not allowed to rob it from me." After the words fell, he went to touch the bowl with Zhu Gaoxu, and then put it to his mouth and pressed it lightly.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu's eyes rolled around, and he smiled dryly twice and said: "Brother Wei, our brothers don't fight together if they are their own people, I'll find Lao Zhu to drink." "Seeing him flee in the wilderness, I can't help but feel funny, this is really a living treasure.

In the end, no one came to fight with Ah Ping, and even Zhu Di only took a sip when he came over. However, Ah Ping picked up the wine bowl and said to Zhu Di: "Uncle Wang, I will remember your life-saving grace to Lan today, and I respect you here." ”

I saw that he directly killed the remaining half of the bowl of wine, and it was too late for me to stop it.

Ah Ping compared the bottom of the bowl downward, meaning that there was not a drop left, and then said with a smile: "My nephew is afraid that he will not be able to drink, so he will not accompany Uncle Wang to drink." All the generals have also worked hard, Uncle Wang asked to rest early, and his nephew retired first. ”

Zhu Di's eyes were shallow, the corners of his mouth hooked a faint arc, and he responded in a low voice: "Go, you are all tired, I have to deal with it here." When the words fell, he glanced at me as if he were nothing, and my heart skipped a beat.

Ah Ping nodded and didn't say anything more, pulled me up and walked out of the meeting hall. The city guard immediately came up and asked, "Your Highness, general, are you two going to rest?" Please go with the minister, and I will take you to the wing. ”

The city guards saw that Ah Ping had been taking me with him and riding in the same carriage, so he regarded me as a general in battle. There was no need to explain to him, so he wanted to go, and followed through the arch to the back room. It is said that it is a side room, but it is actually a partitioned room, and there are about four or five rooms.

I only heard the city guard ask: "Your Highness, how about the minister arrange for you to be in the main wing, and this general lives next door to you?" ”

Ah Ping frowned, "You only need to point to which room to retreat, and you don't need to be busy." ”

The castle keeper did not dare to object, and repeatedly pointed to a certain door, and then withdrew from the back room.

For the time being, the generals are still drinking in the front room, and there is no one here, just me and Ah Ping. Pushing open the door of the house, it is not strange to see the simple house inside, if this house is really the home of the city guard, then his life is really hard.

It should be an honest official, such a person can't help but be admired.

There was an oil lamp on the table, which must have been prepared by the castle guard. There was a wind in the night, and when the door opened, the flame of the wick swayed with the wind, and when his eyes were fixed, he heard Ah Ping whisper in his ear: "I don't like that occasion." ”

"Huh?" I didn't react for a moment, but I turned my eyes to look at his face, and found that there was a faint sadness under the expressionless face. I can't help but ask, "What's wrong with you?" He suddenly took me into his arms and rested his chin on my head, "Daughter-in-law, I may really not be suitable for martial arts, they can celebrate and drink after sacrificing countless lives to achieve victory, I can't." As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw the images of my soldiers falling one by one, some of them were hit by arrows, some had their limbs cut off by knives, and some were ......" There was a hint of pain in his voice as he spoke.

I feel sorry for him, but it's time for him to say what is suppressed in his heart, so I ask, "What else?" ”

"And the thousand soldiers who were chosen to stay in the woods as targets to attract the attention of the enemy, and one of them wore my armor to impersonate the commander. Daughter-in-law, those people are probably all ...... Nope. ”

No, I saw with my own eyes that the soldier in his armor fell to the ground, an arrow piercing through the heart, without a sound. And the corpses all over the ground, and the severed limbs, there are a thousand of our people, and they have all become lonely souls in the depths of this lonely mountain.

It was only then that my senses gradually recovered, and my mind was full of post-war scenes, from my previous life to this life, which was the most dead person I had ever seen. Before, because of the concern for Ah Ping'an, his mind was blank, but now the boundless fear couldn't help but breed from the bottom of his heart, spread rapidly, and even his body trembled slightly.

Ah Ping didn't notice my abnormality, and immersed himself in his emotions: "Why is there a war? Why can't we coexist peacefully? Thousands of mountains and rivers, the souls of the war, how can they find their way home? ”

"War is because ...... People's greed, some people want power, some people want wealth, some people want beautiful women, some people are more greedy, they want the whole world to be subjugated to their feet, this is the origin of war. We human beings are always pursuing something far away, and we have been struggling for it all our lives, saying that it sounds good is a natural law that cannot be changed, and saying that it is difficult to say that people are too greedy and selfish. That's why there are kings and losers, and that's why there is a change of dynasty. I paused, patted him on the shoulder and said softly: "Ah Ping, it's not your fault, it's the inevitable environment of this era, which cannot be changed." ”

I wanted to comfort him and say all my ideas that were ahead of the times, but I felt Ah Ping's body shake, and he stepped back half a step in front of me to make room, his eyes fell on my face, and the emotions in his eyes were difficult for me to understand for a while, and I felt a little worried.

After looking at me for a moment, he spoke: "I believe that the king will be defeated, but with the wisdom and martial arts of the emperor's grandfather, and the courtiers who are dedicated to guarding them, the Northern Yuan soldiers will definitely be greatly injured after this battle, and we only need to take advantage of the victory to pursue them and expel them." Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to change the dynasty in our Ming Dynasty, and our dynasty will also be passed on to all generations. ”

I didn't speak, this is the belief of the descendants of the royal family in the country, and this is also the firmness of the prince to the future generations, I should not puncture this beautiful ambition. But I can't help but feel sad in my heart, the emperors of all dynasties want to be eternal, but which dynasty and which generation can really do this? Throughout history, there is none! Even if there was the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty in ancient times, and the Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestors in the future, it still can't. Almost every dynasty has risen to be strong, and it will decline in the later period, our history textbooks say that this is called the progress of the times, I didn't think there was anything at the time, and now I am in the middle of history, witnessing the cruelty of war, and I begin to feel that the price of this progress is too heavy.

And Ah Ping never knew that it was not the Mongols who really replaced the Ming Dynasty in later generations, but the Manchus. So who can see so far among the laymen? Even if it is Zhu Yuanzhang's generation of heroes, he can only arrange the country's government until his death, and create opportunities for Ah Ping as much as possible, but he doesn't know ......

The meditation was interrupted by a laugh from the front room, and both of them involuntarily looked out the door, of course, they couldn't see anything, but they felt that the atmosphere outside was completely different from the inside. It's like an invisible barrier, and the sound of celebration can still be faintly heard, but they are all excluded from the barrier. I paid close attention to Ah Ping's expression, he didn't act as low as just now, but the disgust between his eyebrows and eyes couldn't deceive people, and he sighed softly.

It seems that such an occasion is really not suitable for Ah Ping, he still has compassion and charity in his heart, and he is full of guilt and sadness for the deceased soul, unlike Zhu Di and those generals who have seen more life and death, and have become numb in the face of the cruelty of war. Even Zhu Gaoxu was already accustomed to killing and blood, he was no longer the trembling young man who killed the owner of the black shop to save me, and at this time he was very excited to slash and kill an enemy general.

Maybe this is the difference between literature and martial arts, Ah Ping chose Congwen at the beginning, and now even if he takes the fork in the road of martial arts, he can't change his mind of ruling the world with culture; And Zhu Gaoxu followed his father to join the army and went on a journey, and this battle was an experience for him, so that he was no longer afraid of killing, but got the pleasure of success from it.

It's actually quite scary to think about it, from the bottom of my heart, I don't want Ah Ping to change like Zhu Gaoxu, it's not a question of cruelty or not, but when a person's heart becomes cooler and harder, many essential things will also change, such as kindness, generosity, and tolerance.