Legend of the Orchid

After the surrender of the Northern Han Dynasty, Li Zhonglan followed the Song Army into Jinyang City for the first time for which they had fought for five months.

This capital city is different from what he thought. It is much more depressed than Tokyo, and it can even be described as dilapidated. The people hide in their homes and dare not come out, and the dirty streets are extremely wide.

The imperial palace of the Northern Han Dynasty was not big, only the main hall and the apse were large in scale, and there were few side halls. The emperor Liu Jiyuan led his loyal officials to kneel at the gate of the imperial city to pick him up. The sincerity and fear made Li Zhonglan think of the scene of Li Yu's surrender three years ago. He couldn't help feeling a little sad.

What a chaotic world this is!

After Zhao Guangyi entered the Imperial Palace of the Northern Han Dynasty, he immediately asked the soldiers to plunder the treasures in the palace. At the same time, all the concubines and princesses in the harem were slaves and rewarded to the soldiers with outstanding military achievements. Zhao Tingjie also got a princess. Li Zhonglan saw that the princess was pretty. Like a needle messing around.

Not only the imperial palace was ravaged, but the homes of ordinary civilians were completely destroyed. In the days that followed, when Li Zhonglan followed Zhao Tingjie to patrol the city, he would often see the common people screaming for land and fighting for land, which easily made him angry He jumped up and beat up those soldiers who broke into the house, robbed or even raped them.

Because of the war, he recalled the scene when Jiangning fell. Even in the palace, he could hear the cries of the people outside the palace walls. Only one eye, so the people will inevitably be affected by the disaster of war.

Zhao Tingjie didn't care about the plundering, and dissuaded Li Zhonglan: "The army still has to move eastward, food, grass and supplies need to be replenished, and the people will definitely not be willing to pay their property. Conflicts are inevitable."

"Why don't you like it!" Li Zhonglan asked angrily, "Just buy from them!"

Zhao Tingjie lowered his eyebrows, stared at Zhong Lan in a little surprise, suddenly raised his eyebrows, and pulled her into the palace that had become a command camp.

Li Zhonglan desperately wanted to shake off Ting Jie's hand, but unfortunately he couldn't. He asked angrily, "What are you doing! I haven't taught those rude soldiers yet!"

But Zhao Tingjie said: "The one who should be taught a lesson is you, you are staying in the palace these few days, don't come out."

The little fox still wanted to resist, but was dragged into the house by the big devil, and then he was pinned down on the bed and "taught" severely.

A few days later, Zhao Guangyi held a celebration banquet in the palace and announced two things. One is to continue to march northward and attack Nanjing City, which is less than a thousand miles away from Jinyang. To completely remove.

Li Zhonglan wanted to sneer when he heard the emperor Hu crepe saying, "Jinyang is the star of Qingyang, which is in conflict with the star of crape myrtle in Tokyo." Come and destroy the city.

It seems that Li Yu's cowardice was a good thing back then. If Jiangning could not be attacked for a long time, and Zhao Kuangyin also burned Jiangning City in a rage, wouldn't Zhong Lan's hometown be destroyed?

Hey, I don't know where my parents are, I haven't seen them for more than ten years!

Li Zhonglan was depressed, drank a little more wine, and soon became very drunk, and was carried back to the temporary rest place by Zhao Tingjie. In the mist, he seemed to see Zhao Tingmei following him, and the two uncles and nephews talked for a long time , but he didn't catch a word.

However, he knew that they were plotting to usurp the throne. Although it was dangerous, he believed in Ting Jie's ability.

When he woke up the next day, Zhao Tingjie brought up the old story again and asked Zhonglan to return to Beijing, because the Liao soldiers were brave and fierce, and fighting was even more dangerous, but Li Zhonglan snapped his fingers and pretended to be pitiful and said: "There are still two months, my The cold poison is coming again!"

"One month for the return journey, and another month for the return trip. Do you want me to be on the road for these two months?" Li Zhonglan showed her white and glowing chest, and winked pitifully at the courtyard steps.

Zhao Tingjie's eyes dimmed, and he walked to the bed, put his hand into the little fox's open skirt, pinched the bulge precisely, looked at the other side gently and said: "Then you have to pretend to be weak in the days to come, It's best to keep the posture of being sick all the time, understand?"

Li Zhonglan was so teased that he was a little drunk again. He leaned his snowy neck back, half-opened his misty eyes, and uttered a rich and mellow "um" in a nasal voice, half coquettish and half seductive to Zhao Tingjie.

Unexpectedly, the other party smiled charmingly, and suddenly pinched his pink cheeks hard, causing him to yelp in pain, and quickly raised his back, like a cat whose hair has exploded. Put the clothes on the other party, and said: "Put on the clothes quickly, the army is about to leave."

Li Zhonglan agreed disappointedly, muttering in her heart why her charm has become smaller, and Ting Jie didn't even kiss him!

After the two packed up, they went out of the city with the army, and then the people in the city were released by the guards. But at this time, the city was already on fire. In the summer of early July, Jinyang City turned into a huge boiling oil pan.

People screamed, dragging their families and rushing towards the gate of the city with their bags and boxes on their backs, but the guard stopped the civilians with knives and let the other people leave first in a carriage.

"If there is a carriage, it will go faster. Why should we let it go first?" Li Zhonglan asked puzzledly as she watched the noisy situation at the gate of the city with a frown.

Zhao Tingjie said: "Look at the well-dressed drivers and the extra luggage in the car. It can be seen that rich businessmen are sitting in it. These people will move to Tokyo and bring great wealth to the Song Dynasty. Naturally, they will be punished. Protect."

"So that's it! Those poor people can be discarded like worthless things?" Li Zhonglan became angry.

"It's really unreasonable to plan." Zhao Tingjie said, "At least wait until the people have left the city before setting fire."

The two looked forward, and the flames had already shot up to the sky, burning the blue sky red, and the air was flowing. The human tragedy in Jinyang City was as ethereal as fireworks, and those wailing and crying sounded so unreal.

The fire had spread to the front gate, and people shouted even more frantically, beating fiercely on the city gate that was only half opened.

Li Zhonglan couldn't help it, and wanted to rescue him, but Zhao Tingjie had discovered his plan early on, grabbed him by the waist, hugged him onto his horse, and shouted in a low voice: "Lan'er, don't be brave!"

Li Zhonglan bit her lip, feeling very conflicted in her heart, at this moment Zhao Tingjie clasped his waist tightly with one hand, covered his eyes with the other hand, and said softly, "It will be over soon."

Although she couldn't see it, the crying was still there. Zhong Lan was angry, grabbed Ting Jie's hand, and bit down hard on her unprotected fingers.

The flesh was bitten with deep tooth marks, and then burst open, flowing out a stream of dark red blood. Zhao Tingjie took a breath in pain, and poked three fingers straight into Zhong Lan's mouth, forcing the other to close his mouth from ear to ear, but his hand was still covered. look into each other's eyes.

Li Zhonglan was so choked that he raised his neck up, and glistening saliva dripped down the corners of his mouth. He was forced to lick the rough calluses on Ting Jie's fingertips, and whimpered in his throat.

Only then did Zhao Tingjie pull out his fingers, and hugged the little person in his arms tightly, fearing that the other person would fly away again.

The fire burned for a day, and Jinyang was completely turned into a dead city. Except for the occasional collapsed ruins, there was no sound at all. Zhong Lan was taken by court steps to Xizhou Mountain, where the army camped at the foot of the mountain, preparing for the attack on Nanjing.

After burning the city, Zhao Guangyi ordered people to flatten the top of Xizhoushan Mountain, and then flooded Jinyang. After half a month of tossing, the dragon tooth of Jinyang was completely leveled.