When my father and eldest brother died, I felt like crying but couldn't tell whether I should be happy or sad.
That night, I finally remembered that the boy’s unfinished dream was to walk through mountains and rivers with his eldest brother and his second brother, and to develop a grand plan together. It's a pity, it won't work in this life!
Your Majesty and Prime Minister Lu may have forgotten that I am not only a minister, but also a son.
They don't understand my sadness.
I did not erect monuments or memorials for my father and elder brother. Instead, like Yi'er's mother, I was casually buried in a mass grave five miles west of the city. People die in such a big place. There have been many graves for heroes since ancient times. Turn into misty smoke.
Father, big brother, if there is an afterlife, I will definitely be a good son and a good brother!
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I don’t know how long I stood at the top of the city, and it was hard to recall some mottled memories. A gust of cold wind blew by, and I returned to reality. I wrapped myself in my clothes and let out a breath.
It's getting late, I should go downstairs, Yi'er is still waiting for me under the city!
Looking at the pair of boys and girls bidding farewell to each other in the city, a sense of sadness came to my heart. The young girl came holding a flower drum and a tiger head, and left holding ashes and plain clothes. I couldn't bear the sight of that young girl. , I feel extremely guilty for this girl Dongfang Yu.
During the years when I was young and wandering freely in the world, my mentor Dongfang Chunsheng taught me literature and taught me about righteousness. His eloquent eloquence, talking about prosperity and decline, denigrating sycophants and praising loyalty, talked about the present and the past, moved me. Extremely envious. The most important thing is that he brought me into the court and allowed me to realize my value.
But I used my mentor as a drug, and in the end, the teacher had a backlash and died. I am truly an unfilial person for the ages!
Despite all my calculations, I never expected that there would be a secret passage under Qinghe Residence. It was through this secret passage that the second brother slipped away quietly when Ying Zhi led his troops to besiege Qinghe Residence.
I didn't expect that my second brother, who was usually taciturn and seemed domineering and dull, would actually lure me away and successfully send someone to assassinate the teacher.
What I saw and felt brought tears to my eyes unconsciously.
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Watching the girl named Dongfang Yu walking away with her servants, I wiped away my tears and prepared to walk down the city.
The tasks entrusted by Your Majesty have not yet been completed, so I will keep my humble life for a while longer. When everything is settled, I will use my life to give my family an explanation.
Just as I was about to go downstairs, my body suddenly stopped. I turned around and looked north. I saw a soft sword flying towards me like a flying phoenix in the sky. I couldn't dodge, and the soft sword came close to me. He stopped with a foot, and the word "break" on the hilt of the sword made people feel chilly when they saw it.
I smiled slightly, and while I was breathing, a man was already standing next to the sword, but I saw the man in gray clothes and black belt, thin and thin, with a gray scarf wrapped around his face, looking across from me.
Under the thin halo, the man looked pale and slender, and his long hair and beard also looked soft and yellow, making people think that he was very weak and resentful of being young. He only had the side face covered with knife wounds, sharp eyes and ravines. The vertical and horizontal wrinkles vaguely reveal the past years and vicissitudes of life.
He looked at me very attentively, their eyes met, he deliberately dodged for three seconds, coughed slightly, and was not polite when he came up. He was concise and straight to the point. He said to me coldly, "Your Majesty has decreed that Liu Quan will succeed in everything he does." , ordered to leave for Chang'an within five days after receiving the imperial edict, and still serve as Guanglu Shaoqing, with a salary of 1,500 dan, and the unfinished matters of Huaxing County should be left to the county governor's full authority."
I expected that His Majesty would send someone to announce the decree, but after hearing the decree, I was horrified and stared at the person who came. Is it done? Of the two things His Majesty entrusted to me, with the destruction of my Liu family, only one was completed. How can I say that everything was accomplished? Could it be that His Majesty has already let go of what happened back then?
"Liu Quansheng, what you think in your heart is what you think in your heart. Just keep it in your heart. There are some things that would be meaningless to say!"
A powerful voice came from the original man's mouth, and I knew what it meant, and my heart skipped a beat.
I turned around and walked a few steps, holding on to the battlements with both hands. Below the city, Yi'er was wearing a torn cotton jacket, shivering in the cold wind, waiting for me. Seeing me looking down on the city, he nodded slightly to me, and I returned the favor. Smile.
This child is the king of jade. I can't bear to let such a beautiful piece of human jade become an abandoned son.
I patted the battlements with both hands and said with relief, "Sebili, I still have a son, so I won't leave!"
The person who came was none other than Sai Beili, the former captain of the Changshui Guard and the current leader of the Huhu Gang.
Saibeili didn't seem surprised by the answer I gave. He followed me to the top of the city and said in a naive voice, "I really can't understand you lousy readers. You are eager to be understood, but you are afraid of being seen through. You I've been dormant for more than ten years, isn't it just to make the world famous? Why, are you in love?"
"Haha, my family is gone. It doesn't matter whether the world knows about it or not."
I opened the wine gourd and took a sip. My whole body felt warm. This time, the content in the gourd was really wine.
I handed the wine gourd to Sai Beili and asked with a smile, "Want a sip? The wine from the north is as sharp as a knife! Hahaha!"
Sai Beili shook his head and said seriously, "The great cause has not yet been accomplished. You and I have not fulfilled our vows back then. We dare not drink and mess up."
I chuckled and said, "When you are a person and do things, you have to pay attention to the tightness and tightness. If a person's heartstrings are always tight, they will be easily broken. Come on, take a sip!"
Sai Beili leaned on the top of the city and sighed, "In these years, my brothers and I have relied on the breath of 'cutting off the family' to hang on. If this breath relaxes, I am afraid that people will really die."
I smiled and thought to myself: Saibeili, Saibeili, although you and I have the same goals, our personalities are so different that you can't even notice my proactive advances. If we hadn't obeyed authority in a hurry, we would have been strangers to each other.
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt that our chat was boring, so I put away the wine bottle, gave him a haha, and said with a smile, "Sebili, if there is nothing else, Liu will go back, and I will The child is wearing thin clothes. If he gets sick, my careless temper will not be able to take care of him. Also, the matter of Lingyuan has been basically settled. If you follow His Majesty's established plan, you should focus on Xuanhuai next. Enter the Zhao family and Fengyi Huang family, there is no need for you to come to Lingyuan City. Farewell!"
I was very angry at Saibeili for being a common man last year. Without his intervention, Wangbei Tower would not have been burned down, and Shichen might not have died.
Therefore, I simply issued an eviction order.
Just as I turned around and went downstairs, a voice came from the tower. Sai Beili said in a muffled voice, "Quan Sheng, what happened last year was my fault. If the child doesn't dislike it, let him join the Rebellion Tiger. If there is a chance, the Huhu Gang will be his in the future. Even if His Majesty cannot keep his original intention, with the Huhu Gang here, this kid can still make waves in the world."
"Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Let's talk about the future in the future. Farewell."
I didn't even look back. This kind of belated apology was as cheap as cow dung at the end of the alley, not worth a penny.
When I went downstairs, I looked into the distance again. Dongfang Yu's child had turned into a hazy black dot in my sight. Hey, I don't know if I will ever see this child again in my lifetime.
Failure to obey the king's orders is disloyal. It is unfilial to fail to inherit one's father's inheritance.
It seems that a hundred years from now, I, Liu Quansheng, will receive a bad review!
Behind him, Sai Beili's voice came again, "Quan Sheng, according to my hearsay, His Majesty will be patrolling Huaxing County incognito in the near future. If you want to help this child, this is a good opportunity."
This time, I looked back at Saibeili and said with a smile, "The one who knows me is Saibeili!"
Sai Beili laughed heartily, "There is a turmoil in the world, let's see you another day!"
With a sword roar, Saibei Li Yujian went north.
A gust of cold wind passed by, bringing with it a hint of our character!
I was suddenly filled with pride, raised my chest, raised my head, and looked north at the sky.
Since Pangu created heaven, the three emperors established the country and the five emperors established the territory.
Whenever a country encounters a major event, men must sacrifice themselves to the army and sacrifice their bodies to sacrifice the country. Even if their bones become mounds and rivers overflow with blood, they must not insult the country's soil or mourn its territory. The warrior wears his heart and courage, and puts his body on the blade. The handsome man's sleeves are full of blood, and the king's sharp blade shines. We do not distinguish between old and young, high or low, and we will work together to fight against the national calamity.
I, Liu Quansheng, hereby swear an oath: In this life, I will give everything I have to rise for the empire, and I will be determined throughout my life!
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After a long time, I finally walked down the city wall. I looked at Yi'er, whose face was a little pale from the cold. I felt very sad. I raised my hand and threw the wine gourd to him, kneaded his face, and said with a smile. , "This time, it's not water, it's wine."
Yi'er looked at me with wide eyes, muttered, but opened the stopper of the gourd, took a big mouthful, and then choked and turned red.
I grabbed his shoulder and laughed.
Yi'er's pair of deep eyes are almost carved from the same mold as His Majesty's.
Walking on the street, when the lights first came on, it felt peaceful. After the flood subsided, you should know that the aftermath was quickly dealt with, and Huaxing County quickly regained its calm. It seems that this winter, apart from not being able to eat well, everything else should be fine.
Yi'er took two sips of the wine with a satisfied look on her face. Then she raised her head and asked me, "Father, who broke the floodgate?"
I was a little surprised. The Liu family has done many evil things over the years, and evidence can be found for all the evil things. Only the bursting of the floodgates, which led to a series of evil things, has no human or physical evidence from beginning to end. And this was actually revealed by Yi'er. I caught it keenly, and what made me feel even more incredible was that I could clearly see suspicion in Yi'er's eyes. He was doubting me. He suspected that I had broken the floodgate and then made the Qingyin Pavilion game.
This child is just as smart and smart as Cao Chong, Cao Mengde's youngest son a hundred years ago.
So, I shrugged and said with a smile, "It's not dad anyway."
Yi'er chuckled, and the cunning in his eyes turned into sincerity. It seemed that he had already guessed the answer.
As Yi'er and I walked to Zigui School, we said to him, "Yier, life is only a few decades, like the morning dew. You have to remember that only the splendor of the world cannot be lived up to, and there are still many miracles waiting to be created in the world. . Actually, thinking about it, this official doesn’t have much to do. Aren’t you going to open a Wangnan Tower? Father, I’m going to ask your Uncle Xia to be your accountant later.”
Seeing Yi'er lowering her head and thinking deeply, I smiled secretly in my heart: Young people always have thousands of dreams, but they only wake up when they grow up. It seems that Yi'er has changed a lot since the teacher took Yi'er north to Lingyuan!
I don't have to fight, but I plan to fight for this child behind his back. How can I not fight when he is born?
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The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and my heart is like fighting for wine. I resigned as a Confucian scholar in Huaxing County, and now I have a breath of fresh air.
The world is impermanent, human relationships are cold and warm, and we have been busy for half a life, doing nothing. However, in a life of helplessness and misery, if we can meet the hustle and bustle of Dousha for a moment, that would be enough!
Volume one, the end!
