Volume 1: The Three Thousand Ukiyo-e, Chapter 1: The Soul Breaks (Preface 1)
Jiahe six years.
The remnant sun is like blood, the pedestrians on the official road in Fanzhou heard the sound of horses' hooves behind them and hurriedly avoided the side, a black horse galloped by four hooves, and the faces of the people sitting on the horse were bloodstained, and the eyebrows were locked and the eyes were red, but they kept driving the horse forward, and they couldn't help but attract people's eyes, but when they looked closely, they found that he was still holding an unconscious woman in his arms, and there was no sound at all.
When the horse's hooves galloped past, everyone realized that the man was carrying a small baby on his back, lying peacefully on the man's back, sleeping soundly.
After a while, the figure blurred in the sky......
"Hey, why is this man covered in blood, and it makes people ......panic when they look at it," several passers-by gathered together to talk.
"I see, eighty percent of them were chased and killed by the enemy and fled here!"
An older man stroked his beard and said: "This is not only the rivers and lakes are not peaceful, the border passes are also war-torn again, I heard that General Huwei stationed in the northwest has been fighting hard with the Huns for more than three months, the reinforcements of the imperial court have been delayed, the Lin family army has almost been wiped out, and General Huwei has also died on the battlefield! Alas, ......."
Another young man asked curiously, "Why doesn't the imperial court send reinforcements?"
"I heard that the one above meant!" another old man also interjected.
"This ...... It's too chilling......" The young man who asked was choked up, looking incredulous.
The old man hurriedly waved his hand to stop him: "Let's go, let's go! The sun is going down, don't miss the time to go home!"
There was a sigh, and the pedestrians slowly dispersed again.
And the man on horseback just now finally rushed to the foot of a green mountain more than ten miles away before the sun set, reined in his horse and gasped, he didn't dare to close his eyes for three days.
Anxiously glancing at the woman in his arms, he drove back up the mountain.
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Forget the worries of the mountains and clear waters, strange flowers and plants everywhere, when the twilight is around, there is a white mist slowly diffuse from the highest curtain of waterfalls, quite a fairy atmosphere of artistic conception.
The owner of Forget Worry Mountain, Forget Worry Zi is holding a small blue and white bowl facing the bright moonlight to drink himself, and he casually plucks the horizontal guqin on the small case twice, which is full of fun.
He drank heartily, and when Shixing Dafa was about to write a poem to Yuefu, a drooping boy hurriedly came: "Master, there is a strange man covered in blood from the mountain, I want to see you!"
Forgetting his worries and dissatisfied, he muttered: "Blood-stained stranger? Presumably he was injured in a fight with someone and sought medical treatment, and he can't see it! There is a barrier I have set up in the mountains, and he can't come up, so don't worry about him." ”
"But he's broken through the barrier and stopped at the door!"
Forget the worries, this mountain obstacle was set by his own hands, ordinary people will lose their way once they break in, and the person who came broke through it so quickly, so he wondered who was coming.
"Hmm...... Then I'll take a look. He rolled up his sleeves and walked to the mountain gate with some drunkenness.
From a distance, I saw a man kneeling and praying to the doorkeeper, holding an unconscious woman in his arms.
Xiao Tongzheng was full of sorrow and dissuaded: "You can't go in, you can't go in! Hey, this gentleman! I'm a junior, what are you doing...... It's really torturing for me!"
Seeing that the forgotten sorrow was coming, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, "Master, you are here!"
He hurriedly went to help the man on the ground and comforted: "The ancestor is willing to see you, sir, get up quickly!"
When Forget Worry looked at the woman in his arms, his face changed greatly, and he was half frightened and woke up: "Senior sister!"
He ran to the man's side in a few steps, stretched out his hand to take the woman, and hurriedly asked, "Jingzhi, what's wrong with forgetting the sorrow? Why are you covered in blood? Aren't you guarding the city in the Northwest Dock City? Why did you suddenly come to me?"
Lin Jingzhi seemed to grasp the life-saving straw, and said eagerly: "Forget your worries, save your worries! I can't think of what else to do, if there is anyone who can save her, only you can do it!"
As he spoke, this famous general outside the customs began to choke faintly, his eyes were bloodshot and red, and his whole body trembled.
The infant child on his back was woken up, stretched out his little hand and swiped a few times in the air, and cried out in a wow ......
Forget the worries hurriedly ordered: "Ah Yao, you take this child down to rest first, so that you can take care of it......"
The little boy took the order and quickly took the baby and walked away softly.
"Jingzhi, don't kneel, come in first!"
After saying that, he hugged the unconscious woman and walked briskly towards the bamboo building, Lin Jingzhi reluctantly settled down and hurriedly followed.
put Forget Sorrow on the collapse, Forget Worry hurriedly checked her pulse, but her heart had already sunk half - after all, he was the only one among the doctors in the world who could be called a medical fairy, and he could break some diseases at a glance. When he looked at it outside the door, he felt that he was critically ill, but he had not yet been diagnosed and treated, and there was still luck in his heart.
But now even the last trace of luck has been shattered, and it has been poisoned into the lungs and has no way to recover.
Even so, Forget Worries still calmly applied the needle and tried his best to rescue.
Lin Jingzhi was exhausted, but he still stood motionless and stared closely, and the sadness in his eyes made others couldn't help but be frightened.
After forgetting his worries, he suppressed the anxiety in his heart and said to him: "I have protected her heart with a needle, just see if she can wake up later." ”
"Even you can't help it?" Lin Jingzhi seemed to have been drained of all his strength, his eyes were scattered, he stood unsteadily, fell to the ground without paying attention, and muttered: "Impossible, impossible...... There will be a way!"
The blood was churning and mourning so much that he vomited a mouthful of blood, forgetting his worries and hurriedly went to support him, stretched out his hand to catch his pulse, and said worriedly: "Your injuries are very serious! I'll help you heal first!"
"No! I'm fine! Save her first, forget your worries! Save her first! In today's world, no one can compare with you in terms of medical skills......! You can't help it, I don't know ......," he said, choking up.
Seeing that he didn't want to be healed, he had to help him up, press him to the side and sit down on a stool, pour a glass of water and hand it over, and asked, "Calm down, what happened?"
With Lin Jingzhi's martial arts and medical skills comparable to him, who can hurt them so far?
Lin Jingzhi pinched the cup and closed her bloodshot eyes, only then did she calm down a little and tell the ins and outs.
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Three months ago, the Xiongnu suddenly raised troops to attack, the border was often war-like, Lin Jingzhi sent troops to suppress as usual, but the enemy army was menacing, after the battle, it was found that the enemy army had gathered troops from many countries, and Wucheng was only stationed in ordinary border guards at that time, which was not enough to compete with it.
Lin Jingzhi immediately ordered a retreat and defense, and hurriedly presented an excerpt to the imperial capital asking for reinforcements and additional grain and grass.
March struggled to defend it, but there were no reinforcements for a long time, they couldn't fight, but fortunately they were not captured.
When the grain and grass hoarded in Wucheng were almost bottomed out, the people sent by the imperial court finally arrived in the barracks, and after the meeting, they were just a petty official who passed on the news.
The little official who passed the word said that the reinforcements were on the way with the grain and grass, and they would arrive soon, but the Lord He of the Imperial History, who was escorting the grain and grass, was worried about the front-line war and contracted the wind and cold under the fatigue of the boat and car, and now he is sick in bed, and now he is in the post station on the official road, and wants to invite a few military doctors to go over for diagnosis and treatment.
Since March, Lin Jingzhi has not dared to relax for a moment, and when he heard that the reinforcements were about to arrive, he dared to breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.
Immediately, several military doctors in the army were dispatched, and a team of soldiers was personally ordered to escort them over.
The group had barely walked for two cups of tea when the spies from the front came back to report that there were signs of frequent enemy activity in a small village on the border.
The border is already sparsely populated, and the lives of ordinary people are even more careless.
After receiving the news, Lin Jingzhi immediately sent someone to check, and when the soldiers who came back returned, most of the villagers had symptoms of iron pale, unbearable abdominal pain, and vomiting, and the preliminary judgment may be that there was an outbreak of epidemic in the village, but it was impossible to accurately judge without a doctor's examination.
The soldiers on the front line were born to die and fought bloody battles to protect thousands of innocent people, and there is absolutely no reason to ignore them.
At this moment, Forget Sorrow suggested that she go and see. She shouldn't have go, but the military doctor was sent out, and Lin Jingzhi had to sit in the army, so she had no choice but to agree to her proposal, and told her to pay attention to safety, and ordered a team of guards to go together.
Before leaving, he smiled and comforted his husband.
After leaving a stick of incense, the enemy army was ready to move and sent troops to the front of the battle to provoke, these three months have been closed and defended, Lin Jingzhi was already aggrieved, now that the reinforcements have arrived, they no longer have to be tied, so they led the troops to open the city gate to face the battle.
The morale of the army was greatly boosted, and after several battles, the enemy troops who fought were caught off guard and retreated, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they quickly withdrew their troops and locked the city gate.
Lin Jingzhi won the battle and returned to the camp, and wanted to talk to his wife about the battle situation as usual, but after asking, he found that he had not returned yet.
He was worried in his heart, he didn't change his blood-stained armor, he just arrived at the barracks and got on his horse without resting, and hurried to the village with a few subordinates.
When Lin Jingzhi arrived, the entire village was destroyed, the houses had collapsed into ruins, wildfires were tumbling everywhere, and the corpses of the slaughtered people were everywhere.
Forget your sorrows!
Lin Jingzhi rushed into the village like crazy and searched everywhere.
After searching the entire village, Lin Jingzhi finally found Forgotten Sorrow under a rubble, she was pressed into the corner of a truncated beam, her face was pale and the corners of her mouth were bleeding, and she was curled up.
Lin Jingzhi was frantically digging through the ruins, and at the same time calling out the name of Forgotten Sorrow, but there was no weak response at all.
Finally digging up the ruins, Lin Jingzhi trembled and touched his face, thankfully, he still breathed.
Lin Jingzhi hurriedly went to pick her up, but when she moved, a four or five-year-old child was revealed in her arms, and she was tightly protected in her arms, and she was the only survivor in the village......
The subordinates reported that the water in the entire village had been poisoned, and in places where the poison was so poisonous, the poison even spread into the air.
Forget the sorrow was poisoned first, and in order to save the child, he was crushed in the rubble and his life was in danger.
Lin Jingzhi hurriedly went to the doctor with his sorrows, the border was sparsely populated, and the doctor was shared by several villages, and there would be no available doctor for a while, so it was undoubtedly the fastest way to go to the post station to find a military doctor.
Lin Jingzhi handed over the child to the soldiers to settle down, and in a hurry, he took the sorrow in his arms, and hurried to the post station where Yushi rested.
After arriving, Lin Jingzhi carefully placed his sorrow in the pavilion on the side, and hurriedly went in to find a military doctor, but was stopped by the guard at the door on the grounds that he was not summoned.
Lin Jingzhi patiently discussed that it was okay to call the doctor out to take a look outside, but he was still indifferently refused.
Lin Jingzhi's heart was like fire, and in a fit of rage, he drew his sword and hacked the guards to death and rushed in, but he saw that Yu Shi, who was rumored to be sick in bed, was sitting in the lobby decently, watching Lin Jingzhi suddenly break in, but he was not surprised at all, as if he knew that he was coming, and was waiting for him deliberately.
Yu Shi Pi said with a smile: "General Huwei is so bold, he will break into the Yu Shi Post Station without being summoned!"
Lin Jingzhi hurriedly told the ins and outs and asked to see the military doctor, but Yushi just sneered and didn't answer.
Lin Jingzhi didn't have time to think about it carefully, and ran into the backyard of the post station, and looked around, but there were several hanged corpses of military doctors piled up in the courtyard.
Lin Jingzhi was surprised and asked angrily what this meant.
Yu Shi replied nonchalantly: "A few quacks, a little wind and cold can't be cured." ”
When Lin Jingzhi heard this, he was angry and laughed at this shameless rhetoric, but he was worried about his injury, and immediately didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so he walked outside quickly, but was stopped by someone sent by the imperial history.
Lin Jingzhi was immediately furious: "What does this mean?"
Yu Shi said: "What do you mean? The general asked a good question, but you still remember that this official is the imperial history of the Holy Lord, representing the imperial court, and is the Holy Lord! The general privately beheaded the guards of the imperial court officials, and broke into the official's room without being summoned, and wanted to leave after killing someone and speaking? The heart is lawless and unconventional, and you still have dignity and humility in your eyes? But there is also the saint! If you are so unseemly and deceitful to deceive the king, you should be punished for your crimes! This official advises you to obediently tie your hands and arrest him, and this official can choose a decent death for the general!"
As soon as the words ended, a large number of soldiers poured in from the post station.
Lin Jingzhi drew his sword to resist, he was furious, if he hadn't forgotten his life, he would have wanted to put the sword on the neck of this dog official, and ask him well, what is nonsense!
In the shadow of the sword and sword, I saw flesh and blood flying, and the imperial historian was still very angry, and when he saw this scene, he was so frightened that he hurriedly hid in the backyard, and sent more soldiers to surround and suppress Lin Jingzhi.
There were blood stains on the corpses all over the ground in the post station, Lin Jingzhi came to kill one by one, covered in blood, but he was still waiting for him, he didn't dare to delay it for a long time, and he was injured for a long time and finally got out.
Lin Jingzhi rushed to the road and met his cronies running for his life with Xiao Er covered in blood, and when he asked, he knew that not long after Lin Jingzhi left, a team of people came to the military camp with a holy decree, saying that Lin Jingzhi had been ordered to be executed for plotting against him, and another general would take over the affairs of the army.
Lin Jingzhi's relative Lin Jiajun was born and died with him for many years, and he did not believe this statement, some people questioned it, and he was immediately executed in public.
The remaining cronies had a problem with their intuition, and secretly sent Lin Jingzhi's infant son Lin Xiao out secretly, but he was attacked one after another, and now there is only this one person left who came out together.
But he was also at the end of the crossbow, and after handing Lin Xiao over to Lin Jingzhi in one breath, he also swallowed his breath.
In desperation, Lin Jingzhi hurriedly came to find Forget Worry with Forget Sorrow.
The yellow sand is everywhere, and there is nowhere to bury the bones of the faithful.
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Forget the worries and understand as soon as you hear it, this is clearly a trap, and I was just about to comfort a few words, when suddenly a painful moan came from behind me.
Both of them were shocked, and quickly turned around and ran to the bedside.
Lin Jingzhi almost threw himself on the side of the bed, excitedly holding the hand of forgetting sorrow, his bloodshot eyes finally had more light, and he called happily: "Forget your sorrow! You woke up! Really, thank God!"
Forget the sorrow in his throat and the smell of blood, and speak very laboriously, "Hmm, Jingzhi...... I hurt ......."
Lin Jingzhi hurriedly touched her when she heard this, "Where does it hurt, where does it hurt? Rub it, I'll help you rub it, blow it, it won't hurt!"
She has been very afraid of pain since she was a child.
Lin Jingzhi asked, she just shook her head reluctantly.
Forget Sorrow's gaze fell on Forget Worry on the side, "Forget Forget Worry, Senior Brother Forget Worry...... It's you, ...... That's great...... ...... see you."
Forget the worries but tremble, and the eyes are sad.
This is......
Forgetfulness coughed twice, and then asked intermittently, "So, that kid...... Are you still alive?"
The joy of regaining it made Lin Jingzhi's eyes fill with tears, and he gently pressed his forehead against the back of her hand, and replied in a low voice: "He's still alive, he's fine! I've already had someone send him to a safe place." ”
As if holding his breath for a long time, his expression was relieved when he heard it, there was a smile on his pale face, and his voice was as soft as a murmur: "That's good, Jingzhi...... Most...... Most important ...... And most importantly...... Are you alright...... It's so nice......"
The light in the eyes of Forget Sorrow is like a candle flame that is about to be extinguished by a strong wind, crumbling.
It's just a return to the light.
Slowly, the light finally went out, and she slowly closed her eyes, and fell asleep quietly as if she was very tired.
Lin Jingzhi's hand suddenly loosened.
He trembled, as if he sensed something, and didn't dare to look up at his lover on the floor, still holding her hand to his face with tears in his eyes, kissing it in pieces, but his body trembled more and more.
Forget the worries and turn his head, his eyes red.
"Woo ......" A suppressed cry overflowed from Lin Jingzhi's mouth, like a dying beast, he began to roar meaninglessly, tearing his heart and lungs, and others couldn't help but cry when they heard it.
After a while, Lin Jingzhi no longer roared meaninglessly, staggered back two steps and stood up, already embarrassed with tears streaming down her face, but her eyes were full of affection and affection.
Forget worry rubbed the corners of his eyes, sighed, turned around and walked out gently, in the face of life and death, all the comfort seemed pale and powerless, let's leave them some space to be alone.
Lin Jingzhi stretched out her hand to gently and delicately arrange her lover's hair and stroked her face.
Just as he was about to close the door, he glanced inside, his eyes widened and he was angry.
"You!"
Caught off guard, Lin Jingzhi drew his sword and killed himself.
Forget worry swooped over to catch him, probed, sealed his throat with a sword, and was already hopeless.
A dazed sense of powerlessness rose in his heart, "Why are you ...... so hard?"
Lin Jingzhi's fingers spasmed unconsciously, grabbing his neckline, his throat was covered with blood, his voice was hoarse and ugly, and he said with difficulty: "She...... She alone would be afraid. ”
He vomited a mouthful of blood, and the light in his eyes quickly faded.
Without her, what's the point of this rolling red dust?