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The sound of horseshoes at the foot of Liu Gu Mountain gradually faded away, looking around, there was nothing but cloud and desert, the long wind howling, and the decaying grass in the sky.The reason is that the land was conquered, and no one returned it.

Turning back in thought, he inadvertently glanced at King Jin, who was still staring at the direction in which everyone was leaving, with a calm expression on his face, but a hint of sadness in his eyes.

It is said that a person with a high position like King Jin who looks down on the world should be covered with blood and dead souls under his feet.Thinking deeply, he couldn't help sighing to himself, what is so extraordinary about this law of health that Gu Zhuozi, Tu Mo'er and a group of talented people follow him regardless of fame and wealth, and do not seek official positions, and are even willing to go through fire and water for him, forgetting to die.

After thinking about it, he smiled wryly as he thought about it, wasn't he going to fight for others?In the battle of Jinyuan, if you win, you have to win, and if you don’t win, you have to win. If the initial agreement to lead the army was due to the love of King Jin, then now it is for the generosity of the seven warriors who died calmly. Even if he tried his best, he could not live up to the ardent expectations of these people.

On the way back, the pensive horse galloped like a gust of black wind, leaving the other three far behind.After walking for a while, Shen Si glanced at many King Jin who had fallen out of the corner of his eye. He pretended to rein in a few times unintentionally, slowing down the horse, and when King Jin caught up, he walked side by side with him.But his horse is just like himself, young and eager to grab the limelight, he doesn't like to be overtaken, and he doesn't like to run in a gentle manner, so it didn't take long for the horse to gallop again.In order to accommodate King Jin's speed, Shen Si had no choice but to keep pulling on the reins and crotch.

Shen Si himself couldn't tell the reason for this move, but when he went hand in hand with the King of Jin, he felt an inexplicable sense of stability and steadfastness in his heart, so he did it naturally.

King Jin was immersed in the memories of the past all the way, and he was a little dazed, but the contemplative figure still caught his attention.King Jin has an exquisite heart, and he only needs to take a glance to see through the little intentions of meditation. He doesn't point it out, just smiles slightly, pretending to know nothing.

The process of slowly domesticating a wild monkey was very beneficial to him. Although it was time-consuming and laborious, it was very effective. At least now the monkey cub has started to unconsciously stick to his side, and it won't be long before he will take the initiative to rub his head into his arms and call him It's not known about stroking hair, but he is looking forward to that day coming soon...

For the next few days, Shen Si got up early and practiced martial arts and swords together with the golden gourd. During the day, he patrolled the barracks with the king of Jin, supervised the forging of weapons, or rode a horse all the way to the north, studying the surrounding mountains and mountains of Jinyuan. terrain.In the evening, I sat on the sand table and carefully deduced the strategy against the enemy.

While he was contemplating with his eyebrows fixed, Jin Hulu stood beside him serving tea and pouring water with a very winking look, and tried not to make any noise with his hands and feet lightly.If he becomes interested in meditation, he will also pass on some essentials of the art of war to Jin Hulu.

The red fox has grown a lot because of serving chickens, ducks and fish all day long, and its stature is a little longer than that of a tile pillow.It was gradually fed by meditation. Not only is it not afraid of people, but it can also understand its own name. Just stand at the gate of the small courtyard and call "Liu Li", and the little fox will immediately rush out like a ball of fire, and go straight to the person. Jumping up, and sticking out a long wet tongue to lick everywhere.

Princess Crimson would go to the small courtyard of meditation every day, thinking that she must learn swordsmanship, the more no one paid attention to her, the more angry she would be and refused to back down, so she simply learned by herself Shensi and the golden gourd looked like, holding up the sword dangling and making blind gestures.Shen Si was also afraid that if she hurt herself, it would be difficult to explain to King Jin. After thinking about it, she had to assign Jin Gourd to help cut a small wooden sword with a branch and give it to the princess.

Coincidentally, Golden Gourd's father is a carpenter, and the handicrafts passed down in his family can also be greeted twice. Not to mention the shape of the wooden sword is very lifelike, it is also lacquered and carved, except that it cannot cut people, it is simply a fake.Princess Crimson liked it so much as soon as she got it, and even had a more polite attitude towards the golden gourd.

In a blink of an eye, it is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is not only the winter festival, but also the day when the Buddha became enlightened.The people in Jinyang City didn't know that the war was coming, and they still happily rewarded the gods for the good year of "Sui Feng Wu Fu".

Hu Buxi, the chief manager, ordered people to cook several large pots of seven-treasure and five-flavor porridge early on, preparing to give the porridge to the princes and concubines after they went to Chongshan Temple to offer incense.The porridge is not like ordinary people who only use millet, glutinous rice, and yellow rice with ingredients such as cowpea, adzuki bean, mung bean, and jujube. On the top, just looking at it is exquisite and gratifying.

In order to pray for the upcoming war, Jin Wang also brought Shen Si to go with him this time.Thousands of people gathered on the street, and there was a flood of people. The King Jin's carriage passed by with laughter and cheers lining the road to welcome him, and the sound of thanksgiving and thanks was endless, which showed that although King Jin was greedy for wine and lust, he was also loved by the people.

King Jin and his concubine sat in the carriage together, and from time to time, they lifted the felt curtain to take a peek at the meditation on the horse riding outside the carriage.Shen Si only wore homely clothes, his waist was not inlaid with gold and jade like ordinary masters, and he did not wear a crown on his head, but he had a heroic posture and a straight back, and he still looked majestic and suave.

The concubine followed King Jin's gaze to look over, and couldn't help covering her mouth and teasing: "Keep it, and be careful, it's windy outside, be careful not to damage your eyeballs."

On weekdays, the dignified and dignified princess would only seldom make fun of her in front of the King of Jin, and the King of Jin also laughed at himself after hearing the sarcasm from the princess: "I'm not a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, I don't know what the word 'shy' means It’s written. My old face is very thick, so I read it if I like it, do I have to cover it up?”

The princess raised her eyebrows and gave him a sideways look, and asked in a long voice, "Why, is that the one you want to 'laugh at the spring breeze in the world'?"

King Jin smiled generously: "Sister, what do you think of him?"

The concubine thought for a while: "Well, my temper is a bit wild, but fortunately, I have an upright nature, and I can speak frankly and frankly, but my age is much younger than yours..."

Before she could finish speaking, King Jin immediately retorted: "Sister's words are unreasonable. You and Brother Qing are more than ten years apart, so you still know each other deeply?"

The concubine sighed helplessly: "You..." Then she smiled lovingly, "Once this person has his own heart, no matter whether he is seventeen or eighteen years old or in his thirties, he will start to act stupid. I didn't say anything derogatory." What are you anxious about him? I’m afraid that he’s an uninitiated person, and it will take some effort to get the hang of it..."

As he walked, his pensive eyes were attracted by a small stall selling candy by the roadside, and even his little black horse slowed down understandingly.The candy is made of barley and millet as the main ingredient, with white sugar, walnut kernels, honey, sweet-scented osmanthus, and green and red silk as fillings, and it is wrapped with a thick layer of fried sesame seeds.He pondered for a while, waved to Jin Gourd, and waited for someone to come to him. He whispered a few words in Jin Gourd's ear, and Jin Gourd nodded again and again, then turned and ran away.

After a while, Jin Gourd went back to the team, and quietly stuffed a small paper bag covered in red leather to Shen Si, who quickly took it and put it into his arms.No need to ask, there is no doubt that there must be candy in that paper bag.

Shen Si didn't know that the lord and concubine had noticed his secret behavior, and took advantage of people's unpreparedness to squeeze out a piece and quickly stuffed it into his mouth. It was sweet and sweet, crispy and dense, and it was so beautiful to him. Unconsciously narrowed his eyes.The concubine looked at King Jin, smiled lightly and shook her head: "Oh, look, he's just a child."

Passing by the winery on the way back, the mellow wine smell filled the whole street, luring the wine worms out of Shen Si's belly, so he secretly sent golden gourds to beat two jars of old Baifen.King Jin is fond of drinking, and there are many excellent wines hidden in the mansion. The wines in this small restaurant on the street naturally pale in comparison.But on weekdays, he always drank the wine of King Jin, and Shen Si also wanted to invite King Jin to have a drink, even if the taste of the wine was not good, he bought it himself.

After returning to the mansion to rest for a while, Shen Si excitedly carried the wine jar to King Jin's study, who knew that before entering the door, he ran into Hu Buxi head-on.

Ever since King Jin compared Shen Si to a vulture eagle at the banquet, Hu Buxi has been more polite to Shen Si, and today he hastily flattered Shen Si as soon as they met each other: "Hey, isn't this Mr. Shen, he is getting more and more energetic That's enough. The young master wants to see the prince? What a coincidence, the prince just went to the front water pavilion to listen to the piano, why don't you sit down for a while, the old slave will pass on a message for you."

Although Shen Si looked down on this old eunuch who was bullying, but he didn't want to let the old Hu Buxi run errands for him, so he handed the wine jar in his hand to Hu Buxi: "Don't bother, I will go there by myself. That's it, please ask your father-in-law to warm this wine for me first, and I will have a drink with the prince later."

Shen Si came out of the study, walked across the stone arch bridge, and strode outside the door of the water pavilion by the lake.Because of the freezing weather, the windows on all sides of the water pavilion were tightly closed, and no sound of the piano could be heard from inside.The little servant guarding the door saw that the person was pensive, and knew that this was the famous man in front of King Jin, so he hurried in to pass the news, not wanting to go in a hurry, the door was not fastened tightly, and there was still a small crack.

Shen Sigan waited for boredom, looked around, inadvertently looked in through the gap, and saw Jin Wang and Jiang Yunsheng at a glance.In the water pavilion, there is a wool woven flower carpet donated by Persia, and beside it is a three-foot smoked cage with cast copper and gilt, which is burning with the best tea and turnip incense.King Jin was half lying on the ground, and Jiang Yunsheng lay softly in King Jin's arms, with his chin resting on the side of King Jin's neck, talking very tenderly. His clothes hung loosely over his shoulders, revealing a pink collarbone.And King Jin supported his waist firmly with one hand, and stroked his back with the other, his pity was beyond words.

Taking advantage of the fact that the people inside didn't notice him, Shen Si hurriedly took a few steps back and hid behind the pillar, his heart was beating wildly, he hesitated for a moment, then turned around and ran away.

When Jin Wang heard that Shen Si wanted to see him, he was very surprised, and immediately went out to meet him, but he didn't see Shen Si outside the door.He thought for a while, then left Jiang Yunsheng and led others back to the study, but he still didn't see him thinking, only Hu Buxi brought the wine over to claim his credit and said: "Your Majesty came back just in time, the old slave just poured the wine After it’s hot, I ordered a few side dishes to accompany the wine, and I don’t know if the prince and Mr. Shen are satisfied.” He stretched his neck and looked behind King Jin, but he couldn’t find Shensi, so he was a little confused, “Mr. When the wine came, I ordered the old slave to warm it up first, saying that I went to the water pavilion to invite the prince, so I probably went astray in this situation."

Hearing this, the King of Jin couldn't help being very annoyed. It was expected that Shen Si had seen some misunderstandings in certain situations, so he left quietly.Could it be... that kid is jealous?Alas, thinking about it, I know it's impossible, not to mention that the boy is not yet tempted by him, even if he has true feelings for him one day, he is definitely not a person who will be jealous.

Shen Si also couldn't explain what was wrong with him. On the way back from the water pavilion, he felt vaguely hot all over his body. It was like a fire was burning in his lower abdomen. It was burning so badly that the eight meridians were uncomfortable, and it made people want to move Want to destroy something, ravage something.The most terrible thing is that even the crotch | under the man's body hardened unknowingly, it's really embarrassing!

Panting heavily, Shen Si went straight back to the small courtyard, entered the room, picked up the sword and jumped into the courtyard, dazed and dancing.The blade flew up and down like snowflakes, stirring up a cold wind.The plum tree in the corner of the wall has recently bloomed, and the petals are scattered under the curls of the sword's edge, and the fragrance is wafting from the ground.

Gradually, Shen Si concentrated all his mind on the sword in his hand, and finally forgot about the abnormality of his body.The surrounding courtyard walls disappeared, and the noble and magnificent Prince Jin Mansion also disappeared. In front of him, there appeared a vast river and green hills. He climbed up the steps along the cliff, and it suddenly became clear. He seems to have returned to Lanyue Mountain, the top of the Red Cliff...

A set of swords was sweating profusely and exhausted, Shensi raised his hand, and the sword flew straight out and was nailed to the beam under the eaves. He simply lay down on the green brick floor in the middle of the yard, with slight The coolness penetrated into the body from the back and traveled all over the body, and the nameless fire was finally completely extinguished.

Suddenly, his vision dimmed, and a tall shadow covered the top.Pensively turned his head to look, first he saw a pair of pine yellow home-made soft boots embroidered with auspicious cloud patterns, and then there was a mink velvet gold silk cloak that reached to the instep, and the face on the top was so dark that he couldn't see it because it was against the light. It was clear, except that it was surrounded by a circle of gold bordered by the setting sun, which was so dazzling that it made his eyes sour, and he unconsciously stretched out his hand to block it.

The man grabbed his hand and lifted him up: "Have you forgotten what Mr. Gu said? If you dare to lie on the ground, you will suffer in the future if you catch the cold."

Seeing that it was King Jin, Shen Si smiled foolishly: "It's too hot to play, just to cool off."

King Jin gently patted the dust and petals on his clothes: "Just now in the water pavilion, Jiang Yunsheng suddenly fell ill and almost fell down. This king just helped him up."

Shen Si didn't think too much after hearing this, and just replied in a normal way: "After Duyouqin's incident, I already know what kind of thoughts the prince has hidden for Mr. Jiang, so I said that you are a master of acting."

King Jin was taken aback, he didn't expect that this kid didn't even misunderstand, he really didn't know whether to be disappointed or relieved.He smiled softly and said, "Didn't Nian Qing want to have a few drinks with me?"

Shen Si had already put aside the small incident that happened earlier, and immediately nodded readily: "Exactly, is the lord doing you a favor?"

King Jin laughed: "Nianqing even prepared the wine carefully, how can I refuse? Let's go." He wrapped his arms around the shoulders of meditation, and walked out contentedly.

There is a huge arhat couch in the side hall of the study. King Jin often rests there when he handles political affairs late.King Jin ordered people to put the food and wine on the low table, and he and Shen Si leaned on the couch to drink and chat.I drank the wine from evening till night, with the tiger skin under my body covered in thought, the charcoal stove was burning red, the night was quiet outside the window, and the room was warm and pleasant, even the fire light in the glass cup was jumping and jumping like a joke, okay? happy.

Shensi's three sentences are all about leading the army to fight, and from the moment he sat down, he talked about the experience of casting arrows.What kind of crossbow has high accuracy and little deviation. It is easier to use than bows and arrows, but it is easily disturbed by the outside world when using it. What kind of bows and arrows require superb skills. Drink a glass of wine to moisturize your throat and continue talking.King Jin seldom interrupted, just listened with a smile, and helped Shen Si fill the empty glass with wine from time to time.

King Jin was naturally surrounded by beautiful men, and compared with those people, Shen Si was really mediocre in appearance.But there is a unique look in Shen Si.There are some feelings that cannot be described in words. For example, the moment King Jin saw Shensi, he stood on the top of the damaged city, and saw the young man galloping from the opposite mountain on horseback, as if a sharp sword had cut through the rock, With a "swish", a mark was left in his heart, and the imprint could not be erased.He liked the moment of contemplation so much, fighting recklessly, galloping freely, standing upright and alone...

When King Jin came back from his reverie, Shen Si had stopped talking at some point.King Jin poured himself a glass of wine slowly, and said, "Nianqing..."

There was no response for a long time, King Jin looked up, and it turned out that Shen Si had already fallen asleep leaning on the soft pillow, holding an empty wine glass tightly in his hand.King Jin smiled helplessly, tiptoedly took Da Mao's cloak and covered Shen Si's body, and sat across from the young couple again to pour himself a drink.He took a sip of wine, looked at his thoughts, thought about his thoughts, took another sip of wine, and looked at his thoughts again...

At this moment, he is not the prince of Da Zhou, not the prince of Jin, not some high-ranking master in charge of life and death, he is just an ordinary man Wei Lu.He leaned over, stretched out his fingers and scratched the tip of Shen Si's nose lightly, and Shen Si sucked his nose twice in his sleep, as if he was sleeping soundly.

King Jin opened his mouth and laughed silently. It would be good if the rest of his life could be lived like this.

The next morning, when the sky was bright, Ge Xiaobai came to the study to greet King Jin.These days, he didn't even touch King Jin's shadow. He sent people to invite him several times, but King Jin pushed him away on the grounds that he was busy with business.It doesn't matter if it's just like this, but yesterday, during the Laba Festival, King Jin took only Shen Si to worship at Chongshan Temple from all the people in the backyard, so he had to be careful.

As soon as I walked to the door of the study, I saw a row of servants walking in with two copper basins, two jugs of warm water and a set of washing utensils.He hurriedly grabbed a rough girl and asked, "Did anyone sleep in the study last night? Who is this water prepared for?"

The little girl bowed her knees and saluted: "Master Hui, it is prepared for the prince and Mr. Shen."

Hearing the words, Ge Xiaobai mistakenly thought that Shen Si and King Jin had already had sex in bed, he was immediately annoyed and jealous, his eye circles were flushed, he stood where his chest heaved for a moment, then twisted his body and flicked his sleeves. and go.Walking around the corner, he almost bumped into Gu Zhuozi who was oncoming.

Gu Zhuozi was always courteous to people no matter they were true or false, and when he saw that it was Ge Xiaobai, he immediately bowed and saluted: "Mr. Ge."

Ge Xiaobai didn't even look at him, just snorted coldly and walked away.Gu Zhuozi pursed his lips, his face still calm.

After entering the door, seeing King Jin was washing and washing, Gu Zhuozi also said that it was Ge Xiaobai who stayed with King Jin all night, and there was some quarrel this morning that made him leave. Unexpectedly, someone else fell asleep in the hall.After King Jin finished washing, he leaned over and whispered to the side: "My lord, I just received the news that the little emperor ordered the Shen family army to be transferred away from the Yifu guards. I'm afraid the army has already moved out. Now we have one less man." A powerful threat, the strategy finally..."

King Jin was startled, and quickly waved his hand to stop him. It happened that Shen Si came out of the side hall at this moment, and called vaguely: "Shou Zhi..."