Chapter 25: Half a square handkerchief
After 12 days and nights of arduous fighting, the Battle of Binlin City, the Great Chen Dynasty successfully smashed the attempt to return to Shanghai to take advantage of the fire and robbery. This war came and went quickly, and it ended completely in less than half a month, and the border between the two countries returned to calm.
Today, Jun Chen rarely wore a military uniform, the golden armor was particularly dazzling under the rising sun, but the frowning brows and cold face reflected the anger and sorrow in his heart, watching the familiar and unfamiliar faces into the ground, Xiao Se's mood was melancholy and awe-inspiring, heavy step by step, and it was difficult to pull out the ground, if you don't look at it again, you will never see each other again in this life!
Junchen led all the living soldiers and the people of the city to bury the deceased martyrs.
Mourning, sorrow and sorrow. A cold wind is blowing, and the hot summer has entered early autumn.
Behind Jun Chen are the only nine of the fifty gold-armored warriors, and then there are 2,000 Beichengwei led by Gongsun Yu on the left, 2,000 Dongchengwei led by Chen Zexiu on the right, Beichengwei is the remaining defenders of Binlin City to the left, and Dongchengwei is the hero of Qingfeng Village led by Sun Yimi to the right. As for the soldiers from the three cities of Binyi, Bindong, and Binchang, they rushed back overnight after dinner yesterday.
"I don't bow to the sky or bow to the ground in my life, I only worship my parents. Because I think that the kings of heaven and earth will not be able to accept my worship, but today you can all be worshiped by my king. Brothers, your efforts have not been in vain, Bin Lin has defended, returned to Shanghai and retreated, I hope you will know and rest in peace!"
More than 8,000 soldiers knelt on the ground in unison and shouted: "Brothers, I hope that you will know and rest in peace!"
And the people behind the soldiers also knelt on the ground unevenly, only Feiyan and Mao Jie watched quietly in the corner in the distance.
After a long period of silence, Jun Chen slowly got up, and a jar of wine and bowls were carried up by the soldiers, and a bowl of wine was poured for everyone.
"This first bowl of wine salutes our dead brothers, and may they sleep peacefully under the Nine Springs. After Jun Chen finished speaking, he spilled the wine on the ground. The same is true of the soldiers and the people.
The soldier poured full of wine, and Jun Chen raised his head to the sky and said: "This second bowl of wine respects the sky, hoping that the dust can give the dead brother a good place to go." (Dusty sky means sky, in Pangu Xianyu, heaven is sky, and in dusty Xiaoxianyu, heaven is dust.) )
Once again, the wine was spilled on the ground, and the soldiers poured it all over again.
"This third bowl of wine respects, I hope that the gods and goddesses underground can give my brothers a good response. After Jun Chen finished speaking, another bowl of wine was spilled.
"This fourth bowl of wine, to all our soldiers in the city, all the kings drink together......"
"This fifth bowl of wine, all the people of our guest city, all the kings drink together......"
"This sixth bowl of wine, to our women in the city, who said that women are not as good as men, all the kings drink together......"
"This seventh bowl of wine, toast Feiyan burns the enemy's grain and grass and Mao Shaozhu's wealth and energy ......"
"This eighth bowl of wine is a tribute to all the heroes of Qingfeng Village, as well as the defenders of other cities......"
"This ninth bowl of wine, to our young emperor, and the Dongchengwei and Beichengwei sent by the young emperor, all the kings drink together......"
In the blink of an eye, nine bowls of wine were already pounding.
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After paying tribute to the dead heroes, Junchen led Dongchengwei and Beichengwei back to the camp. Leave the space to the soldiers and people of Binlin City.
The departure of Jun Chen and the other 4,000 people made the scene no longer as solemn as before, and the guests who were holding back their tears and suppressing their feelings were like a flood that had leaked the gate at this moment.
Hua Xi lay on Liang Cheng's tombstone and cried bitterly, and more than a dozen sisters behind her wept silently while persuading Hua Xi not to be too sad. As people in the dust, their desire for happiness is stronger than that of normal people, but that kind of luxury is generally buried in the deepest part of their hearts.
"Uncle, we have only known each other for three days and three nights now, but my whole heart has been taken away by you. I really want to follow you here, but you still need someone to avenge your blood feud, and General Junchen has promised me to join the army and follow Princess Taiyi as the princess's personal guard. May I be a widow for you, and I will inherit a blood feud for you. Hua Xi said.
Meanwhile.
In an inconspicuous corner of the martyr's mausoleum, there is a lonely tombstone, on which is written: The tomb of the husband Lin Lufeng, the beloved wife Wang Xiaomei. This is the tombstone that Wang Xiaomei set up for him with her own hands, she didn't want him to live too crowded with the underground, so she pulled him out alone, in this most marginal and most inconspicuous place. Wang Xiaomei has experienced ups and downs in her life, has excellent psychological quality, and does not need the persuasion and comfort of others, but Huaxi is different, so Wang Xiaomei asked her sisters to take care of Huaxi.
Wang Xiaomei knelt on the ground, with two lines of tears flowing from the corners of her eyes: "Lin Liuzai, it's really not easy to find out your name, I really can't imagine that you won't tell me until you die, are you Lin Lufeng? I really don't understand, why are you so stupid, why are you risking your life and death to block a deadly arrow for me?"
"Do you think that if you save me, I will forget the grievances between you and me? Do you think I will be grateful to you? It's really stupid, stupid, there is a price, just as you lie inside, and I stand outside. Why are you so stupid, if you have the ability to stand in front of me now, then I will definitely follow you regardless of everything. ”
"In the early hours of this morning, your good brother handed over your relics to me, and I only knew who you were? It turns out that you are the negative heart man five years ago!" Wang Xiaomei said as she took out a half-square handkerchief from her arms and fell into memory.
It happened five years ago.
At that time, Wang Xiaomei was not an Oiran at that time, but a beautiful and outstanding woman who had not been out of the pavilion for many years in the Qinglou, similar to the current status of the four Jiao'er of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting.
A person, Yushu Linfeng is gentle and elegant, and he talks extraordinarily, and when he saw Wang Xiaomei for the first time, he was deeply overwhelmed by it. This person is Lin Lufeng, Lin Lufeng was determined to win Wang Xiaomei at the auction, but he provoked a powerful person, who had an argument with Lin Lufeng on the spot at the auction and called someone from the official government.
In order to maintain the order of the auction venue and to calm the situation, Wang Xiaomei took the initiative to dissuade the powerful, and persuaded Lin Lufeng to leave, but Lin Lufeng scolded her, so Wang Xiaomei ridiculed each other, and finally Lin Lufeng left angrily.
At night, Wang Xiaomei was disheveled and disheveled, and the whole person walked out of the VIP box of the powerful drunk, and happened to meet Lin Lufeng on the way, who was crumbling with a drinking body.
Lin Lufeng scolded: "Stink*." ”
Wang Xiaomei replied: "Soft eggs, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard. Who are you to say about me?"
"I ......," Lin Lufeng didn't finish speaking, his body fell down and fell asleep.
Wang Xiaomei was speechless for a while, and finally carried Lin Lufeng back to where she lived.
The next day, Lin Lufeng woke up with a dizzy head, back pain, and last night's clouds and rain seemed to be vivid, but it was like a dream. Lin Lufeng slammed a spirit all over his body, and then scolded: "You stinky * ......"
"Smack-" Wang Xiaomei slapped Lin Lufeng in the face: "I took so much effort yesterday to keep my virginity, and I was actually taken advantage of by you, a hypocrite with a beast's heart." You are a disciple, you took advantage of the drunkenness to ask for my body, if I hadn't carried you all the way back and was so tired that I really lost my strength, how could I have cheapened you. How dare you scold me, get out of here-"
Lin Lufeng was very surprised when he heard this, he lifted the quilt and saw the red on the bed, and he didn't know what to say for a while. After a long time, Lin Lufeng asked in a low voice, "Did you really come out last night or are you still complete?"
"Hmph, hypocrites are hypocritical themselves, so they won't trust others, get out-" Wang Xiaomei was furious and ordered to evict customers.
Soon after Lin Lufeng left, the magnates sent someone to pick up Wang Xiaomei back, and after Wang Xiaomei went back, she was found to be not complete, so the magnates found the Qinglou and asked for a return. The behind-the-scenes boss of the Qinglou not only returned the money to the powerful, but also took two girls who had not left the cabinet.
The boss poured his anger on Wang Xiaomei's head, but fortunately Lin Lufeng came over and asked Wang Xiaomei to accompany him. The two complained to each other in the box, and finally made a private agreement for life. Lin Lufeng wanted to redeem himself, but the owner of the Qinglou demanded that he must make up the money returned to the powerful and the money of the two girls who had not left the pavilion. Otherwise, let Wang Xiaomei open the door in the Qinglou from now on to welcome guests.
Lin Lufeng discussed with the owner of the Qinglou to give him seven days, and also swore to tell Wang Xiaomei that he would come to pick her up in seven days, and tore Wang Xiaomei's handkerchief in half as a token of love. However, it backfired, and Lin Lufeng never came again. Wang Xiaomei's heart is gradually cold, she feels that she will no longer love, and she will not trust anyone and live her life wantonly.
It wasn't until today, five years later, that Wang Xiaomei received this half-square handkerchief that had been absent for five years, and put it together with the half-square handkerchief that she had treasured for five years, that she realized that Lin Liuzai, who died yesterday to save him, was Lin Lufeng five years ago, and only then did she learn why Lin Lufeng did not come back within the agreed seven days.
It turned out that after Lin Lufeng went home and took out a large amount of property, he was arrested by the powerful when he returned to Binlin City. When the magnates learned that Lin Lufeng wanted Wang Xiaomei's first night, they were laughed at by people of the same class, and began to arrest Lin Lufeng in anger, and it happened that Lin Lufeng came with Wanguan's family wealth, so the magnates not only swallowed all Lin Lufeng's property, but also disfigured Lin Lufeng, and in order to prevent the revenge of Lin Lufeng's family, they framed the Lin family, and finally the Lin family perished.
Lin Lufeng returned to the family because he was disfigured and had no face, and he had no face to see Wang Xiaomei again. He just wanted to protect Wang Xiaomei silently, so he just escaped the catastrophe. After learning of the collapse of the Lin family, Lin Lufeng resolutely put pen to paper. It wasn't until twelve days ago that the army returning to Shanghai came to Binlin City, and Lin Lufeng finally had the opportunity to hide his courage for five years, so that this powerful man was stunned and spit out more than half of his assets to fund the Binlin defenders. But, alas, he still failed to kill the enemy.
Wang Xiaomei knelt in front of the grave and looked at the half-square handkerchief in her hand, and said: "Lin Lufeng, I always thought that you were a negative man, and you abandoned me, but I didn't expect that you had always been by my side, and Momore guarded me." It's ridiculous, do you think that if you disfigure my Wang Xiaomei, you will look down on you? You also underestimate my Wang Xiaomei, and you underestimate yourself too much. ”
"Now that I am your wife, I will remember your blood feud for you until the moment of revenge, and I will deal with that powerful man slowly, and the culprit who killed you will return to Shanghai, and one day I will also step on it! Wang Xiaomei couldn't stop crying.
(It should be explained here that Wang Xiaomei's story only serves the rise of the later empress, so it will not be described too much, and if there is a need for future planning, it will be emphatically linked.) )