Chapter Twenty-Five: Giving Up the Flowers and Candles and Joining the Beifu Soldiers
In February of the third year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the former Qin annexed the Yan Kingdom, the Western Liang Kingdom, and the Dai Kingdom, unifying the northern part of China that had been divided for a long timeγγγγγ
In the seventh year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the autumn moon.
In the palace of Jiankang Wang, Wang Xianzhi looked anxiously at Liu Shuzhen who was unconscious.
"You're awake!"
Liu Shuzhen opened her eyes and looked at the surrounding furnishings, and said slowly: "Seventh uncle, seventh aunt, I... How did I end up here?"
Wang Xianzhi is Liu Shuzhen's seventh uncle, and her seventh aunt is Sima Daofu, the princess of Xin'an (the sister of Sima Yao, Emperor Xiaowu of Jin. οΌ
Princess Xin'an said: "Silly child, it was General Xie who sent someone to send you back to the capital and send you to the palace." β
Liu Shuzhen was in a daze, suddenly like a dream, she touched her still painful head, and said, "Seventh uncle, my father, my mother, they γγγγγ β
Wang Xianzhi asked, "Shuzhen, what is going on, how could Xiangyang be lost?"
"My daddy!"
Liu Shuzhen couldn't help but recall that nightmare.
That year, Liu Shuzhen accompanied her mother Wang Mengwei (the daughter of Wang Xizhi and the sister of Wang Xian. He came to Xiangyang, an important border town in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, to visit his father, Liu Chang, the prime minister of Xiangyang County.
Liu Shuzhen said: "Xiangyang City is a beautiful place, everything was very quiet, but suddenly one day, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside the city, and Li Bohu, the governor of Liangzhou, hurriedly came to the Assassin's Mansion with his sword and reported to Zhu Xu, the governor of the state: The Qin soldiers invaded the south, Liangzhou was already in crisis, Nanyang had been lost, and Xiangyang was in an emergency!"
Xiangyang County is the location of Liangzhou Governor's Office, the geographical location is important, it is the barrier of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xiangyang is broken, the Eastern Jin Dynasty is in danger! Xiangyang is surrounded by the former Qin army, the east, south, west, and north are respectively the former Qin Zhengnan general Changle Gong Fu Pi (the son of the former Qin Heavenly King Fu Jian. ), Wuwei General Gou Chang, Shangshu Murong Wei, leading general Gou Chi, etc.
Liu Shuzhen said: "The former Qin army burned and plundered, and the soldiers and civilians in the city resisted to the death, and finally they were outnumbered. He died in battle! My mother also died in the rebellion. After speaking, Liu Shuzhen was in pain.
The maids Jun'er and Xin'er beside her kept comforting her, if it weren't for Jun'er and Xin'er, who were proficient in martial arts, holding Liu Shuzhen right and left to break through the encirclement and rush out of the city of killing Miao, I am afraid that Liu Shuzhen would also die in Xiangyang.
Liu Shuzhen said: "Later, I fled to Uncle Xie's Beifu military camp in Guangling and asked Uncle Xie to send troops to rescue Xiangyangγγγγγγ β
Uncle Xie in Liu Shuzhen's mouth is Xie Xuan, the general of the Beifu Army and the assassin of Yanzhou in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Xie Xuan's uncle is Xie Shi, the commander of the Beifu Army.
Wang Xianzhi said eagerly: "Did General Xie send troops to save Xiangyang?"
Liu Shuzhen fainted from exhaustion after reporting to Xie Xuan, where did she know what happened later.
Jun'er replied for her: "General Xie urgently summoned Liu Gaozhi, Liu Yi and other dozens of generals of Beifu to discuss how to rescue Pengcheng, San'a and other cities surrounded by the Qin army at the same time, at that time Xiangyang had been lost and could not be saved, and it was a miracle that General Xie led the army to bravely kill the enemy and solve the danger of San'a!"
After hearing this, Wang Xianzhi sat on the ground and sighed: "The Qin soldiers poured out, and the country is in danger!"
Shi Ning pushed the door in, and said with enthusiasm: "Lord Wang, I heard that Xiangyang has been lost, and the armies of Qin and Jin are facing each other on the border, and there will be a big battle that will determine the survival of the country in the near future, it seems that the time has come for me to serve the country!"
Wang Xianzhi said: "Xie has a son and Shi Gongzi both have the ambition to serve the country, I will take you to Xie Mansion tomorrow to meet the Prime Minister and ask Shi Gongzi and Xie Gongzi to enlist in the army together!"
Liu Shuzhen knew a lot of people from the Xie family, but she didn't know who this Xie Gongzi was referring to, and asked, "I don't know who my uncle said 'Xie Gongzi'?"
Princess Xin'an smiled and said, "Silly boy, hasn't your mother ever mentioned it to you? Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will marry, and let you marry Xie Yao!"
Xie Yao is the son of Xie Xuan and the grandson of Prime Minister Xie An.
Liu Shuzhen cried: "I don't want to get married! I don't want to get married!"
Princess Xin'an hugged her tightly in her arms and said, "Shuzhen, your father and mother are no longer here, from now on your uncle and aunt will be your father and mother! Tomorrow your aunt will accompany you to start a new life!"
Liu Shuzhen's eyes moistened again, and she felt a kind of warmth of home, after all, she was a close relative, with thick blood and water.
The next day, Shi Ning and Ran Shu went to Xie Mansion with Wang Xianzhi to drink wedding wine, Shi Ning had long wanted to see the demeanor of Xie An, the prime minister of the Great Jin Dynasty, and he was looking forward to seeing his future comrade-in-arms - Xie Yao.
Just as the guests were celebrating and getting drunk, Liu Shuzhen's screams came from the cave room.
The position where Shi Ning was sitting was closest to the cave room, and he was worried that something would happen to Liu Shuzhen, so he decisively kicked the door in.
"Miss, what's wrong?!"
Liu Shuzhen cried: "How is he a fool! My life is over!"
Shi Ning looked at Xie Yao, who was very handsome, but he was a naturally stupid person.
Xie Ying was only sixteen years old, but Liu Shuzhen was two years older than him, Xie Ying kept smirking at Liu Shuzhen: "Sister!
The marriage of King Xie has been a generational tradition of these two great scholars, and it is a good match, Xie Yao's smirk is undoubtedly like a basin of ice water, which extinguishes Liu Shuzhen's ardent hope for empathy for the love of husband and wife from the grief of her parents' violent death.
Shi Ning never imagined that the person who served the country and his future comrade-in-arms Shi Ning that Wang Da said would be a fool! All the hopes in Shi Ning's heart were in vain.
Xie Ying pointed to his head and spoke: "Sister and Mrs., I know that I am a little confused here, but my eyes can see clearly, you are a good person, you will treat me well!"
Liu Shuzhen grinded her fists, eager to punch Xie Yao in the face!
She said angrily, "You're a fool!
Xie Yao shook his head and said, "No, I'm not a fool, I'm going to enter the imperial court tomorrow to do things, I'm the secretary of the military department!"
Liu Shuzhen was even more strange in her heart, and said in surprise: "Ah, you are the secretary of the military department? How many words do you know!"
Xie Yao struggled to write four crooked characters on the paper: "Serve the country with loyalty." β
Liu Shuzhen said: "You can be the secretary of the military department in four words, who are you fooling?"
Xie Yao made a gesture and said: "I already know more than 100 words, and I can also write, 'Sun Tzu said: Soldiers are not tired of cheating.' ββ
Liu Shuzhen said: "You can become an official if you know more than a hundred words, or is you a six-grade secretary of the military department?"
After hearing this, Xie Yao gestured desperately and stammered to explain, "No... It's not that I'm going to be an official, it's γγγγγ It was they who asked me to be an official and said that I would definitely γγγγγ Must be an official... β
Liu Shuzhen said: "Because you are a disciple of the Xie family, because you are the eldest son of General Xie Xuan?"
Xie Yao slammed the teapot and said angrily, "Noγγγγγ It's not because of my dad! it's me... I was born with great strength, and the prime minister's grandfather said that I was a general, and I γγγγγ I want to gallop on the battlefield, kill the enemy, and defend the great rivers and mountains of the Great Jin!"
Xie Yao's next sentence went very smoothly and shook his heart.
"What a gallop on the battlefield and kill the enemy! Xie Gongzi has the same ambition as Zaixia!" Although Xie Yao is dull by nature, he can't hide his heroism and great ambition to serve the motherland, and Shi Ning's admiration for Xie Ying arises spontaneously.
Xie Yu didn't notice Shi Ning for a while, and said, "Youγγγγγ Who are you that dare to run to my γγγγγ Come on my cave room!"
Shi Ning arched his hand and said, "In Xia Shi Ning!
Liu Shuzhen said: "Shi Gongzi, I'm fine, you go out!"
She looked at Xie Yao, a handsome man with dementia, and an indescribable sadness ignited in her heart, Xie Yao was not stupid and had nothing, he was simple and real, and he was a good man! Thinking of this, Liu Shuzhen's heart was more balanced.
Newlywed Yan'er, Liu Shuzhen blew out the red candle and lay next to Xie Yao.
Soon after Xie Yao got married, he and Shi Ning returned to Guangling with Xie Xuan, and the war was imminent, and Xie Xuan was busy recruiting new troops in Beifu.
On this day, Xie Xuan was introduced to Liu Yu, the captain of Beifu (that is, Emperor Wu of Song, the founder of Liu and Song in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Zhang Hu pointed to Xie Ying and Shi Ning in the tent, and ordered: "This is my son Xie Yao, and the other is Shi Ning recommended by Lord Wang Xianzhi." Liu Yu and Zhang Hu obeyed the order! General Ben has limited the two of you to train them into qualified Beifu recruits within one month!"
Liu Yu and Zhang Hu said: "Obey!"