Ai Seqin has already moved his true feelings for Gongsun Mingli.

So you can imagine her complicated feelings when she saw the word "closed" on the note of paper sent to her hand by the hook-billed dove fluttering across the sea.

Etheqin was one of the five women who landed in Guanlan County, Aozhou.

She had no way of knowing what was written on the other four's notes, and she didn't want to know.

Because even the people who acted together could not inquire of each other according to the rules of Esage's attendance.

Once it is discovered that someone in attendance knows something that should not be known, even if he is far away, the people in the Soul Control Hall will find his location and erase all memories of him since the day he was born.

The feeling of being completely obliterated as the value of existence is worse than death, and Ethaechen will never want to experience it.

For seventeen years, she focused only on two names and one place name on her note.

The first person, Gongsun Mingli.

Now this man has become the husband of Aseqin, and has fathered him a daughter, although this woman is as stubborn as a man, but her beauty has inherited all the advantages of Gongsun Mingli and Aseqin.

Especially her eyes, they are the blue and green pupil color of the Amolai people in the Liuli Continent, but fortunately, the people here don't know the Amolai people, so they are only regarded as ordinary pupil color differences.

After getting along for the past 17 years, Gongsun Mingli's gentleness and thoughtfulness, and the in-laws' hush and warmth, made Ethelchen experience the warmth of family that he had never experienced in Esace.

The Esace Empire was born as a nomadic people, and as the predecessor of the Esacech Empire, the Esacech tribe has been wandering in the hottest Caozhou in the middle of the Liuli Continent.

Because Caozhou is located in the tropics, there is only one summer season a year, and the lack of rainfall makes the Esacechi tribe living on the vast plains of Caozhou chase water and grass all year round.

Aquatic grass is a scarce resource on the Caozhou Plain, and there are many nomads on the plain, so for aquatic grass, not only can be grabbed, but also can be guarded.

Therefore, the Esage tribe has always selected the strongest and most adaptable candidates from the children to be trained as future warriors.

The selection process is very cruel, because the Esage tribe believes in the power of nature, so they will take all the children who have just reached the age of five from their parents, take them all to the uninhabited Gobi, and then use the cruel nature to fight for the survival of the fittest.

Only children who can survive the extreme temperature difference between day and night in the Gobi, surrounded by wolves and goshawks, are qualified to become the children of Essenchi, and the children who are eliminated are all left dead.

The children who survive face even more brutal combat training until they reach adulthood.

The inhuman training made these children eventually become extremely resilient warriors.

However, the people who train them ignore the most important point, that despite being trained to be ruthless, these children are also people who want to be loved.

Ethchen is one of those children who longs to be loved.

So when she felt love from Gongsun Mingli, she also had love for each other in her heart.

So after getting along for the past 17 years, every time I faced Gongsun Mingli, Aitheqin's heart was intertwined with emotion, gratitude, guilt, gains and losses.

The second person, Wang Qiuyun.

The people of Luancheng, Luanzhou, the hometown of fine wine, have thousands of acres of Sangluo Winery, which is called "Yipinzhuang".

The combination of her father-in-law, Zhou Mingzhe, known as the wine fairy, and her was rumored to be a good story during the Lin Dynasty, because it was really a good wine meeting a person who understood wine.

It is rumored that when Wang Qiuyun got married, the owner of Wang Ji Yipinzhuang, that is, Wang Qiuyun's father, proudly married his daughter with 2,000 barrels of first-class 100-year-old Sangluo wine.

Ten taels of hundred-year-old Sanglu wine has been fried to two hundred taels on the market, so these two thousand barrels of hundred-year-old Sanglu are really priceless, which also shows the love of the owner of Wang Dazhuang for his daughter and his satisfaction with this marriage.

The old man who has witnessed this family affair always talks about the convoy that transported wine barrels one after another, and at a glance, two thousand barrels of Sanglu were transported from Yipinzhuang to the state capital, and they were transported for eight hours, and the whole Luancheng was also soaked in the aroma of wine for eight hours.

I don't know if it's true or not.

It is said that a year after Wang Qiuyun married Zhou Mingzhe, she gave birth to a son, named Zhou Yuming.

Two years later, King Zhou and Wang gave birth to a daughter, named Zhou Huanting, this girl is well-behaved, knowledgeable, and very good-looking.

Zhou Huanting once went out to save relatives, and was seen by a handsome young man on the road, and the young man immediately took a picture and told the people who traveled with her that she would not marry this woman.

This person is also persistent, and followed the girl's family all the way to her into the Zhou Mansion, and wanted to enter the door immediately to propose marriage, but he was afraid that he would be laughed at by the woman's family if he was empty-handed.

So he quickly reversed the family, and mentioned to his parents that this girl was beautiful and well-behaved, and the parents heard that their son described Zhou Huanting like this, and thought that this girl must be the daughter of a good family, and thought that it was time for his son to fall in love freely, so he immediately allocated funds to buy things to propose marriage.

In a few days, this young man rushed to the Zhou Mansion with boxes of dowry, knocked on the door and entered the mansion, and the second elder of the Zhou family looked at this person up and down, and the more he looked at it, the more he was happy.

Zhou Mingzhe, the old man of Zhou, immediately asked about the name of this young man, and the young man hugged his fists and saluted: "The surname of the late birth is Nangong, and the name is Yucheng." The son of Nangong Bo of the Nangong family and the nephew of Nangong Youzai. ”

Hearing that this son has a prominent family background, the second eldest of the Zhou family was overjoyed, and immediately agreed to this family business.

Half a year later, in 912 AD, Nangong Yucheng and Zhou Huanting finally became a couple.

And Wang Qiuyun officially became Nangong Yucheng's mother-in-law.

Five years later, in 917 AD, Nangong Yucheng was named Marquis of Wuning because of his meritorious service in governing the army and the recommendation of his uncle Nangong Mingyu, and his wife Zhou Huanting and other family members settled in Wuning Pass, Lingzhou.

At this point, the third place name appears -

Wuning Pass.

"Wuding Taijingjia, Xiongguan protects Hanhua".

In the land of Dahan, even a three-year-old child knows the meaning of this sentence.

Wuning, Dingning, Taining, Jingning, and Jianing are the five Xiongguan in Zhongzhou, where the capital Yongning is located, as long as they do not fall, Yongning, the capital of Dahan, will stand, and the land of Huazhou, which is blessed by Dahan, will be peaceful forever!

Because of the importance of military status, the five passes are heavily guarded.

A single table of Nangong Yucheng's fiefdom Wuning Pass.

Wuning Pass is located on the Muyi Lake in the southeast of Lingzhou, and is the only pass built on the water among the five passes, which guards the northwest artery of Zhongzhou, where Yongning, the capital of Dahan.

Since it is built by water, firmness and moisture-proof are naturally the two most important points, so the process of constructing this pass is also special.

The first process is to ram the wooden piles with thick bowl mouths into the water by manpower, and drive the foundation into the deep bottom of the lake.

Legend has it that in order to lay these underwater foundations, the trees in the mountains around Yazhou were almost cut down, and the piling workers were hit by sudden floods several times, costing dozens of lives.

After the foundation is built, several layers of large and thick limestone are laid on top of it.

This kind of gray granite has excellent waterproof performance, but it is only found in Yuelong Mountain, which is close to Yongzhou in the south of Lingzhou, so the Dahan court can only urgently requisition tens of thousands of iron horn cattle from the people to pull and transport.

Because of the huge amount of gray granite required to build Wuning Pass, and the long distance, the strong ironhorn oxen also died of hundreds of heads.

After laying the gray granite on the foundation, and then using the bluestone bricks carefully polished by the stonemasons of Lingzhou, the city wall and the city gate tower were built.

Since bluestone bricks are lighter than limestone, there is no serious problem with subsidence.

And what's even more amazing is that even if the tide rises and falls every day, the entire Wuning Pass remains dry.

So far, Wuning Pass, one of the five major Xiongguan in the world, has finally been built after 50,000 manpower and 12 years.

As soon as this was built, Wang Qiuyun's son-in-law, Wuning Hou Nangong Yucheng, took office.

Return to Ethelgen's side.

After 12 years of meticulous correspondence, Aseqin is now Wang Qiuyun's intimate friend and guest in the hall.

Because Ai Seqin always intentionally or unintentionally revealed the excellent fabrics and exquisite workmanship of his own cloth workshop in front of Wang Qiuyun, so in 935 AD, that is, the thirty-fifth year of Emperor Taikang of Hanjing, Gongsun Cloth Workshop was recommended by Wang Qiuyun and became the exclusive supplier of clothes for the garrison of Wuning Pass.

Then, five years later, one night in 940 AD, Ethaechen received this note from the Temple of Soul Control from Esech that read "Close".

Standing in the shadows, Aitheqin's right hand opened slightly, and a ball of blue qi swirled and hissed above the palm of her hand, recalling the various encounters from landing to the present, she was full of emotion for a while: "Eighteen years of operation, or come to this point, Your Majesty Gu Li Haocai, you still can't forget the abundant aquatic plants here after all." ”

Ai Seqin thought of the word "closing" in his heart, and muttered to himself: "Wuding Taijingjia, Xiongguan protects Hanhua, the pass is five, and we are five people, so this customs is actually ......!" ”

Suddenly, it dawned on her.