last night suddenly dreamed of mountains and rivers

two months later.

Outside the fishing house, there was a sound of footsteps coming from the sound of the waves.The wind beat heavily on the door, and it took a long time for Lan Jiansu to hear clearly that it was the sound of someone knocking on the door.

Lan Jiansu got up and went to open the door.Shen Pinglu, who was standing at the door, paused slightly after seeing him, and said with a smile, "I found out that you are here after I asked Mr. Georgeson." He looked back, "Where are you? Your lord, why don't you come over?"

The head was wrapped in a blue coarse cloth, and the grinning and frowning King Zhen Xian came up timidly, holding a stone in his hand to play with.

"The emperor is willing to let him out?" Lan Jiansu was surprised, and moved a few steps to the side, "Let's talk first."

"The emperor has been busy with the affairs of Baila Kingdom recently, and I brought him out privately while he was not paying attention." Shen Pinglu walked into the fishing house, looked at a dilapidated chair for a long time, and then sat down awkwardly.

Lan Jiansu poured water for him: "Aren't you afraid that he will find out and blame you?"

"It's not a big deal to suffer a few boards. Could it be possible to have my head?"

Lan Jiansu smiled, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of King Zhenxian wandering around the room.

After drinking a glass of water, Shen commented on the green way: "This case will not be settled so quickly. I have been busy back and forth, at least five or six years. You want a result, and I'm afraid you won't see it in the short term."

"What I can do, I have done. I don't want to deal with anything in Beijing anymore." Lan Jiansu said, looking at King Zhen Xian who was looking at the coir raincoat, "The son hasn't seen his father for a long time, I think Take him to see the eldest son, and reunite their father and son."

Shen Pinglu said with a slight smile that it was so good, with a trace of sadness in his eyes, which could not be called joy.

After silently drinking a few glasses of water, Shen Pinglu suddenly said: "The official position of Tianxuan Shangqing, the emperor will reserve it for you. Your name is still hung in the official department."

Lan Jiansu said: "How to deal with it later is their business. It's just that I won't do it again as an official."

After hearing this, Shen Pinglu seemed to have received an answer, and gave a light "um".Staring at the desktop for a while: "Actually, before, I thought you and the emperor...at least it shouldn't be like this today."

"Otherwise, what should we do?" Lan Jiansu smiled, "He didn't do anything to offend the world, but we are really not the same way." Speaking of this, he was a little desolate, "But there have been many, many times Given this chance, we can be together.”

The next day, Lan Jiansu set off with King Zhenxian, and Shen Pinglu sent him to the port.

The trip was delayed due to some business, and the ship was about to leave when they arrived at the port, and the two sides didn't even have time to contemplate too much farewell.

The chaperone kept urging them to hurry up, and Lan Jiansu let King Zhenxian board the boat first.

He turned around and said to Shen Pinglu, "Master Xiang, I'll write you a letter when I'm well."

Shen Pinglu nodded in response "Yes".

The chasing guy asked Lan Jiansu if he would get on the boat or not, and Lan Jiansu said yes.

Shen Pinglu suddenly called him again: "Jiansu, if I don't become the prime minister anymore, can I go with you?"

Lan Jiansu asked him back, "Why not? If you want to go with me now, we can go together."

"It's enough to have you." Shen Pinglu smiled contentedly, and whispered, "You wait for me...wait for me to find you."

After sailing for half a month, Lan Jiansu and King Zhenxian arrived at a town fifty miles away from Jinguan after traveling by land for five days.

King Zhenxian hadn't been on a boat for a long time, and the water was bumpy all the way, and he was a little seasick. After getting off the boat, he rested for five days and didn't recover.Everyday he either vomited or howled, which made Lan Jiansu very tired with this old man.

It was the peak season of tea, and there were many businessmen coming and going in the town, so the inn seemed a little insufficient.They found an inn with mixed fish and dragons, and planned to barely stay here for a day.

Crowded in the noisy and messy environment downstairs, just about to have a meal, a monk in tattered cassock came over holding a rooster bowl.First, he bent over to them and called out "Benefactor", and then introduced himself as "Hui Wu", and he was a monk from the Baiyang Temple, which is a branch of the Bliss Summit. It seemed that the two of them had a lot of wisdom, especially Zhen Xian. Wang seemed to have more wisdom and roots, and asked them if they wanted to be ordained or become a monk?

Lan Jiansu wondered, now the personnel in the temple are going out to recruit people for performance?King Zhenxian has the root of wisdom, of course King Zhenxian has the root of wisdom, he is missing a muscle in his mind now, he looks stupider than anyone else, and has the root of wisdom than anyone else.

Lan Jiansu gave the monk some silver and some fast food and asked him to find someone else.

The monk murmured "Amitabha", and gave a Buddhist scripture to King Zhenxian, walked slowly, and left.

Two bowls of brown rice were served, Lan Jiansu picked up the chopsticks, and suddenly heard the waiter chatting with the guest: "Hey, guest officer, what can't happen in this world? Let's say that the Han family army is the most loyal, what happened? Isn't it also a betrayal?" , the army moved from the north to the ancient Qiang territory two months ago, and directly rebelled there!"

The guest officer said: "The Han family's army rebelled? Hahahaha, Xiao Er, what nonsense are you talking about? We just came from the capital and haven't heard about it at all. Don't just make up a story to fool us, we are not So silly."

"Hey, what are you doing to lie to you? The elite army sent by the imperial court just stopped here a while ago to discuss how to attack Xiping City. They just left two days before you came. Don't you believe it?" Xiao Er carefully looked to the left Look right, look right, take out a piece of paper from the sleeve, "They left here."

A few guests were dubious, took the paper and looked at it carefully.They frowned: "What is this painting? This one point, this one ticked off, who can see clearly what it is?"

Xiaoer said: "How does this little one know... The little one wants you to look at this piece of paper, which ordinary people don't have. Don't you believe it's someone from the imperial court?"

The guest fingered the paper.Before deciding whether to believe it or not, Lan Jiansu had already stepped up and took the paper from his hand.

"Hey! You kid, what's going on?!" The guest stood up angrily, wanting to be anxious with Lan Jiansu.

Lan Jian frowned and stared at the circles on the paper, and said, "This is a military strategy map."

The guest stayed for a while.

Lan Jiansu opened the paper on the table and pointed to the pattern on it: "This is Xiping, and this is Taoxia. They are going to bombard Xiping from Taoxia Mountain."

"Pao... Cannon attack? What is that?" the guest asked in a daze.

Lan Jiansu asked the shop waiter: "Did the army transport some large and tightly packed things during the few days when the army came?"

Xiaoer nodded: "Yes, yes. At that time, the younger one also said that there were so many luggage piled up, and there were several cars. The younger one was going to help them move it, but they refused to touch it. It was very fierce. Those big ones The items have been lined up from the entrance of the inn to another street, and there are special people watching those big items at night...but how do you know the guests?"

Lan Jiansu said, "That's a cannon."

Lan Chongyan found the idea of ​​using gunpowder to make giant firecrackers from Mo Hedun's research institute, and successfully developed hundreds of cannons.These hundreds of cannons have improved the cannon technology of the previous dynasty, with a range as far as thousands of miles and infinite power.The few cannons that the imperial court moved to the Bliss Peak before are simply insignificant in front of these refined artillery.Unexpectedly, for the first time, the imperial court used these modified cannons not to target the enemy, but to target Han Qili.

Han Qili, did he really rebel?

Lan Jiansu frowned, he shouldn't be thinking about this now.He should have thought, if Feng's army really attacked Xiping.What should the people in Xiping do?Although the ancient Qiang was desolate and backward, with few people, only the city gates were easy to guard.If the city cannot be attacked by force, artillery attack is inevitably the best way to attack the city.But is it possible that the so-called suppression of the "rebel party" will disregard the lives of ordinary people?No matter how few people there are, they are still people.

Gu Qiang is not far from here, adjacent to Jinguan.It is estimated that it will take three or four days to go to Xiping.

Didn't Shen Pinglu say that he still has the title of Xuan Shangqing today?He had to go to the ancient Qiang to prevent the imperial army from using artillery.

Back in his seat, Lan Jiansu couldn't finish a meal.He said to King Zhen Xian who was reading the Buddhist scriptures: "The Peak of Paradise is not far from here. I will have someone take you there tomorrow. When you go there, you will be able to see Elder Brother Shizi."

King Zhenxian nodded while turning the page: "Mmm, yes."

"I have something to do, so I have to go somewhere else alone. Don't reveal your identity on the way, and hide from people in the court."

King Zhen Xian nodded: "Yes, yes."

Just before dark, Lan Jiansu wrote a letter and asked someone to send it to the capital to Shen Pinglv.Please ask Shen Pinglu to write a letter on his behalf, asking the emperor to withdraw the order to bombard Xiping.

I wanted to go out of the city immediately, but I didn't expect the curfew to be strict recently, and the gates of the city were closed after the unitary hour, and no one was allowed to pass through.Left and right couldn't find a way to steal out of the city, and all the flying talismans on her body were used up, and she hadn't refined new ones yet, so Lan Jiansu had to go back in resentment, and wait until the city gate opened at dawn before leaving the city.

At night, Lan Jiansu was stuck in a dream, always hearing a man sobbing and crying.When I was half awake, I saw a ghost hanging out of the window, and said impatiently: "I'll talk about it tomorrow, don't cry."

After another half an hour, he heard a high and low long and short tune outside the inn, matching the rhythm of the beeping, fluttering near and far away.

Lan Jiansu was completely awake, and found that the ghost hanging on the window had no mouth at all, so how could it cry?

He chased the ghost away and opened the window.

On the cool street, there are two silhouettes of monks who seem to be absent.They sang long and short tunes, walked slowly towards the distance with half-steady steps, and their figures gradually disappeared into the night.

King Zhenxian is no longer in the next room, and the only thing left to Lan Jiansu is a letter:

"Yesterday, I suddenly recalled the past, and woke up from a big dream. In the past few years, I have lived in a nightmare, and sometimes I suddenly became sober. When I saw fools before, I always envied them for being nothing. Carefree. It is not easy to be a fool if you have never thought about it. If you are a fool, you can't remember anything clearly, except you can clearly remember your sins.

"Jiansu, I'm sorry for you, for your mother, for your homeland and for those innocent souls. After waking up last night, I cried a lot. When I went downstairs, I saw Master Huiwu waiting for me at the door. I ask Master Shave me.

"Master Huiwu said that there is no need to talk about auspicious times or pure lands for shaving. As long as you are enlightened, you can become a monk or a Buddha. If the roots of your hair are cut off, the former King Zhenxian is dead. For the rest of my life, I will Copying the scriptures and chanting the Buddha is just to save those six 10,000+ dead souls. I have committed a lot of sins, but Youer is innocent after all. He treats you with sincerity. Please read this friendship, take care of Youer, and don’t let him Go back to Zhenyou, don't let him go against the court. Let him be a mortal for the rest of his life, and be safe from now on."

Lan Jiansu put the letter back on the table.On the street outside the window, the two monks were gone.

If he can achieve enlightenment and become a Buddha, he will be considered a new man.If he can't start a new life, even if he is tricked into a pyramid scheme, it will be his fate.

On the way from Jinguan to Guqiang, many people from the north fled south with their children and bags on their backs. They all said that there was going to be a war, and they had to run as fast as possible.The imperial army sneaked into Xiping City a few days ago, took away many people, and then put hundreds of "big monsters" on Taoxia Mountain, and asked the "big monsters" to fight Xiping.

When Lan Jiansu heard that the cannon had been moved to the mountain, he immediately stepped up.In less than two days, they arrived at Guqiang Pass.

However, Jinguan is close to the ancient Qiang territory, and the elite imperial army is strictly guarding it. Five days ago, no one was allowed to enter the territory.Taking the Neihai Lake in the ancient Qiang as the boundary, I heard from them that the area opposite the Neihai Lake has been occupied by Han Qili's army.Xiping, the provincial capital, is now Han Qili's military lair.

Five miles outside the city gate, the army erected a deer village.People from Xiping City and its surrounding areas were crowded in front of Luzhai, begging the garrison to let them in to pick up their wives and daughters, or to release their wives and daughters.

Lan Jiansu squeezed into the crowd, and it took a lot of effort to get to the deer village.

He said to the garrison behind Luzhai: "I am Tianxuan Shangqing of the imperial court, and I want to see your general!"

After shouting several times, one of the officers gave him a look and said: "Empty words are useless, you say you are an official ordered by the imperial court, take the official seal, or take the imperial decree!"

The token on Lan Jiansu's body was returned to the court long ago, and now there is nothing on his body to prove his identity.

At this time, a general came to inspect the situation and saw Lan Jiansu sharply.This general had dealt with Lan Jiansu when he came to Beijing to report on his duties, and he had a deep impression on him. He recognized him immediately: "Master Shangqing? Why are you here?"

"General Chen, it's good to see you. Quickly ask your generals to remove those cannons on the mountain. This is an order from the imperial court. The imperial edict has not yet arrived, and I am afraid that it will be too late when it arrives, so I came to meet you first. Say it." Lan Jiansu didn't care about the crime of falsely preaching the imperial decree, so he hurriedly spoke first.

General Chen lowered his head and sighed: "Master Shangqing, you are late. I just handed over the military power to General Li yesterday. Just now when the rebels came out to patrol the city, General Li had already ordered to fire in half an hour. People, we will pick up all the ones we can, and for the rest who don’t want to leave, we..."

When the common people crowded outside the deer village heard it, they started to mourn, and the screams and cries of Qitian startled the birds on the mountain.

When Lan Jiansu rushed to Taoxia Mountain, it was already too late.

General Li's "cannon fire" sounded from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and swayed on the ancient Qiang battlefield.

Lan Jiansu's heart vibrated as if someone had punched her hard.The sharp tinnitus pierced into his ears thinly.

Hundreds of cannons rumbled in unison, and the huge fire bombs aimed at the scattered high and low earthen houses, flew over, passed through the Neihai Lake, and fell into Xiping City, exploding sparks of billowing smoke.

In an instant, Xiping City turned into a scorched skin riddled with flames, the clear blue sky was stained with black smoke, and the pure blue Neihai Lake reflected the monstrous flames.Lan Jiansu was stunned on the mountain, and the distant city was billowing with flames in his eyes.The heart-piercing howls of pain seemed to come from the sea of ​​fire, and also seemed to come from the people outside the city.

His cheeks felt cold.A snowflake melted on his face, but he didn't notice it as if lost his mind.

Snowflakes fell from the sky, rustled down, and disappeared in the fiery city of Xiping.

Snow in June, real snow in June.

The author says:

Finally, Han Qili's line is finished, and this article is coming to an end