fluttering night wind

Liu Xie proclaimed himself emperor for three years, and the country was named Jingning, but it has never been truly peaceful. In the past two years, Yongjing was besieged by Shu soldiers and Xianbei troops successively. Traveling and feasting, day and night.In the winter of the third year of Jingning, Mencius set up a new stove, the founding of Western Shu, and the news that the ancestral temple was endangered, and the whole Yongjing really exploded.The imperial court was furious. In line with the always distorted mentality of Ning and foreigners rather than domestic slaves, even Emperor Jingning, who had long been immersed in the frivolous temptation of carnal desires, was uncharacteristically, and held a court meeting for more than ten days.For a time, the mountains and rain were about to come, and the wind filled the building, and the people even heard the harbinger of the country's subjugation, and the rumors were floating, but they didn't know what happened.

The Xiangyu Tower in Yongjing West Market has always been a place where traffickers and pawns gather, and this afternoon there is still drinking and guessing upstairs and downstairs, full of noise and shouting.At a table next to the stairs on the second floor, when several people were drinking, they couldn't help talking about the heroes of the world.

Only one person let out a long breath and said: "The world has changed, and the Southwest is not at home. ah?"

The person opposite him slapped his chopsticks on the table, stared and said: "The so-called border of Jingzhen is not the residence of the king. What's more, I heard that Mencius You is a despicable person. It doesn't have to be done, it will only increase the humiliation."

The people next to him also echoed again and again, adding fuel and jealousy: "Meng Ziyou killed his father, mother and brothers, and even raped his concubine. He did all kinds of evil. He is the most evil person in the world. I heard that the false emperor he supported was a wild man. It's not the blood of the king of Shu, he doesn't like women, he only likes masculinity..." When he was talking about getting excited, a pot of hot mutton soup was pressed against his forehead from behind, and he yelled , his head was covered with slices of eggs, vegetables, and meat, and he rolled all over the floor in pain.

Everyone gasped, only to see a waiter with a bad face standing by the table, young, holding a pot in his hand as if he was coming to serve food, looking at the ground and sneering non-stop.

The guests reacted and shouted loudly. Someone grabbed the waiter and was about to lift his clothes and shake his fist. The shopkeeper rushed over and rescued the waiter from the hands of the diners. To appease everyone, the food and drink are free of charge.

The shop waiter who made trouble was pushed back to the back kitchen, took off his felt hat, revealing his black hair, it turned out to be Li Xiangnan pretending, at this moment he said angrily: "These people are talking nonsense, they should pull out their tongues."

Chen Sanye, the big boss of Xiangyu Tower, blew his beard and stared angrily. It turned out that the customers were too busy today, so he asked Li Xiangnan to come over and help him. Unexpectedly, she was a troublemaker. The back door of the kitchen was pushed out.

The wooden door slammed shut in front of Li Xiangnan. She stood alone in the bustling crowd of people in the back street. The cold wind was blowing, and the bones were blowing into her skin. Tears rolled in her eyes. When she was about to fall, someone suddenly patted her on the back. Shoulder.She looked back and saw a man she didn't know winking at her.So he wiped away his tears again, and looked carefully, this person was dressed in disguise, and the outline of his eyebrows and eyes could be vaguely recognized as Yang Nandang whom he had seen in Xuzhou City.

Yang Nandang, dressed in red and green like a businessman, with a three-foot long beard sticking to the corner of her mouth, led her through the streets and alleys until they arrived in front of a luxurious mansion.Li Xiangnan looked up and saw the words "Qingshangguan" written on the plaque at the door. The tree shade was thick inside the door, and a golden tower could be seen faintly. Walking a few steps inside, he saw a winding railing, a line of painted walls, and a beautiful posture. Man's well-dressed women lead the way in front, singing and singing along the way, and the fragrance of orchid and musk is strong.

I heard that this "Qingshang Pavilion" is a place of sensuality that has recently popped up in Yongjing within a year or two. It is called Yueguan, but I really don't know what it is doing.Li Xiangnan was alert in an instant, and was on guard all the way, but saw Yang Nandang smiling, shaking his head, and continued to pretend to be a rich man like him indifferently.After making a cup of tea, I don't know how many circles I turned, and came to the vine wall that was as tall as a person. It is another courtyard with dozens of weeping poplars and vermilion eaves brushing high.

The servant girl stopped here, Yang Nandang and Li Xiangnan stepped into the courtyard, the rattan wall was closed again, a girl came out from inside, her robes were dazzling.The two entered the inner room, three or five beautiful maidservants served wine and cooked tea, Li Xiangnan looked suspicious and refused to touch a drop of water, but Yang Nandang chewed and swallowed, and ate everything.Satisfied with food and drink, everyone retreated, only to hear a series of footsteps, and a few people came out from behind the curtain.

Yang Nandang laughed loudly, and said: "Your generation is playing tricks on you!"

While Li Xiangnan was astonished, he was also full of resentment. The outside world of his heart was full of excitement, but you still had the mood to compete for songs and choose colors here.

Bai Yansheng, Sun Shuye, and Sun Jiren took their seats one by one, and Yang Nandang smiled and said, "Miss Li happens to be fine, so I invited her to come with me." He just knew that the Qingshang Hall was Bai Yansheng's site, so he brought Li Xiangnan, who had a different standpoint, to meet him. There was no displeasure on Bai Yansheng's face, so he felt relieved.

The meeting of the few people was nothing more than discussing the current situation in northern Xinjiang and Yongjing, and there were a lot of eyeliners around the general's mansion, so they invited Yang Nandang here.The confidentiality of the four people's conversation did not shy away from Li Xiangnan, but they had no intention of inviting her to join.

Li Xiangnan sat alone for a while, out of boredom, he saw a guqin on the qin table in the corner, so he stepped forward to play it.She was born in the authentic Huajian Pai Leimen, and she is proficient in all kinds of musical instruments. She only feels that the strings of the qin sound like jade beads on the plate, which is obviously a rare and famous instrument.So first I played a folk song from Sichuan, the sound of the piano was very sad, but the syllables were so wonderful, the four people who were busy with planning stopped their business for a moment and listened carefully.

Then she played the song "Shuangfeng Liluan", and she sang in a low voice: "I remember that at that time, I loved Qinhuai, and I left my hometown by chance, and how proud I was after Xiang Meigenye; in Xinghua Village, I wandered several times. Standing tall and groaning, insects singing and small pavilions, at the same time people are short and long. It’s over now! Shed your clothes and wash your feet in the waves.” When she was young, her mother was abandoned by Li Yuanhuan and died of illness. Li Yuanhuan had no time to discipline her in the officialdom. Accidentally picked up by Meng Ziying's biological mother, Ruan Qinghe, and brought into Leimen, and practiced piano and sword with Ziying since childhood, with deep affection.When he was in his teens, he was led by Mr. Chen to travel all over the country. It was called traveling, and he actually made contacts for Ziying. It was not until the Xiangyu Tower was established that he had a place to stay.The girl felt deeply about her life experience, and her subordinates suddenly made the sound of Bianzheng, which was sad and melodious, and she shed tears unknowingly when she played to the subtleties.

She was about to wipe her tears with her sleeves, when suddenly someone came up to her and handed her a brocade handkerchief. With tears in her eyes, she saw Bai Yanfeng, and the four people in the hall had disappeared. She heard Yanfeng say: "They are all gone, brother." Tell you to go to the garden to enjoy the snow."

She walked down the corridor, and at some point there were snowflakes in the sky, and the exquisite rockery made of Taihu Lake stones in the courtyard was covered with a thin layer of snow, and there was a small pavilion on the mountain.Bai Yansheng, wearing a jade-colored forged robe, covered with a fox fur jacket, tied with silk around the waist, and wearing red shoes on his feet, is sitting alone in the pavilion.Li Xiangnan looked at his appearance of everything being like floating clouds, and was angry in his heart. He didn't care about hurting the spring and autumn, and said stiffly: "Is it true that you just discussed the matter of conquering Shu? You must meet Brother Ziying in battle. Kill each other?"

Bai Yansheng looked at her with piercing eyes, and said: "Your Majesty is ordered by the court, if one day the court orders me to serve the emperor in order to beg for disobedience, from Yansheng's standpoint, I can only follow orders."

Li Xiangnan's eyes turned red in an instant, and he said angrily, "So what you said on the river that day was all lies."

Bai Yan said calmly, "Ziying doesn't want to come back with me. I have a different stand from him. I push it away for a while, not because I am convinced. One day, I will be evenly matched and will swallow each other." Before I finished speaking, there was a dark wind He came head-on, the powder fist swung, he dodged to dodge, where the fist wind hit, the teacup and teacup turned into dust.

"Brother Ziying said that you are daring and bloody, and you are a rare person in the world. It turns out that you are such a wolf-hearted thing. Brother Ziying has painstakingly wronged himself, just to save room for seeing each other someday. You How could he be embarrassed to say such a thing?"

Bai Yansheng said "Hey" and said, "What's going on, tell me."

Li Xiangnan gasped for breath, and said loudly: "Brother Ziying's master, Lei Zhen, died at the hands of the Hulu. He went to Youzhou to pursue the murderer, but he became enemies with Xiao Yu, and indirectly killed your brother by accident. Birth mother. Although you didn’t say anything, you must be blaming him in your heart. He endured such painful suffering by your side, but he couldn’t open his mouth easily. It just so happened that the eldest son came to ask for trouble, and he wanted to go back and find out for you False and true, Xi Chuan took advantage of this to turn against the court. I don’t bother to care about major affairs in the world, I only know what human nature is. Once you compete in the Central Plains, you will never stop dying. Now hurry up and follow me to Jiangling to rescue brother Ziying You still have time."

When she finished speaking in one breath, blood rushed to her face, and her face was flushed. Bai Yansheng looked up at her with a smile in her eyes. She thought she was an ignorant girl, but unexpectedly, she was also very careful, so she said: "Ziying We were not allowed to follow on the river that day, even a girl from southern Hunan who has always taken Ziying's words as an imperial edict has the arrogance of not wanting to be manipulated by others, so why can't you think about Ziying's mood?"

Li Xiangnan was stunned for a moment.That's right, she can understand such a simple truth, why couldn't Bai Yansheng think of it?

"Meng Ziyou proclaimed himself emperor at this time, and our grievances with Beiyan may have been God's will. Ziying and I have never blamed such a fate. There is no difficulty in the ultimate path, but we hate to choose. I don't want this life. Where do you want to be? If you don’t live in this life, what life will you live in? A man should not be without power for a day. He has power in his hand and cannot do anything. Brother, is the Ninth Young Master of Xichuan, now the world is in turmoil, but if you behave yourself and do not disgrace the family tradition, then you can be the real Young Master."

Li Xiangnan looked at him silently, and suddenly understood that all the talented people in the world are like crucian carp crossing the river, why Mencius only fell in love with him, and the customs and customs may not be inferior to the son of Jinma Yutang, so he knelt down on one knee and clasped his fists , restrained his anger, lowered his eyelashes and said: "It turns out that Xiangnan is stingy. Life is more than just a bamboo forest. If there is one person in this world who can bear my ignorance, remove my humiliation, and ignore my humbleness, it must be General Bai Yes. I am willing to follow the general to open up the territory and die without hatred."

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In the third year of Jingning in Daxia, the Western Shu Kingdom was established, with Yizhou as the capital, Jingzhou was changed to Jiangling, and it was designated as the accompanying capital. Mencius, the king of Shu, held the emperor here. , implying peace in the world.

After Mencius captured Jingzhou City from Pei Xiu in the early years, he began to build a large area of ​​palaces in the north of the city. Over the past few years, they have been built one after another, reaching a considerable scale.

In the afternoon of this day, Shen Yizhou walked in the newly built Forbidden Garden with two young men of twelve or thirteen years old.He is the confidant of the King of Shu, and now he is an official to a great general, with an air of grandeur and joy, that even the courtiers would avoid seeing him.The two young men behind him followed cautiously, not daring to watch or talk too much.The three of them walked all the way to Houyuan, and when they reached a palace gate, Shen Yizhou ordered them to wait here, and went in first.

Only then did the two teenagers raise their faces. They are both bright and refined, and they are the children of aristocratic families with the style of the forest.Hearing the sound of hurried footsteps behind the palace gate, the maids bit their ears under the wall: "The queen cried all night last night, and she became pregnant, so she took the concubine's decoction and fell asleep."

"I heard that the emperor has never shown her a good face in the past few months. Sure enough, someone outside said that Shen Meng Xuelei's background is not enough to sit on the throne of the Central Palace."

"What do you know, she still has a dragon species in her stomach, and she was born to be the crown prince. I think it's the emperor's fault. I heard that in the past few months, I don't know how many people have come in, but I didn't favor one... "

The sound from behind became softer, and gradually disappeared as the footsteps moved away. The two listened to such an earful of palace gossip for no reason, their faces were red and their ears were hot, and their chests were thumping.

After a while, Shen Yizhou came out to call them in, and the two of them followed behind him, and they saw a garden inside, with clear water and quicksand, trickling to overflowing, with carved jade railings, and the fragrance was endless, after walking through several corridors, they saw a bamboo forest , a pavilion in the forest, someone is playing chess in the pavilion.

Shen Yizhou led them to kneel down far away, saying long live, the two soon heard a hearty voice saying: "Pingshen, come and talk."

The two followed Shen Yizhou up and walked a few steps forward, one of them peeked curiously from behind Shen Yizhou, and unconsciously let out an exclamation, and was so horrified.

For being so impolite, Shen Yizhou was about to frown and turn around to reprimand, but the people in the pavilion laughed and said: "I look like this, I am afraid even when I see it, my family will feel distressed if the child frightens me."

The other boy, who was a little older, raised his head to look at this moment, and was also stunned.But seeing the warm winter sun pouring down from the gaps in the bamboo forest, the people in the pavilion were in their twenties, with light coats and gentle belts, their faces were as white as jade, and even their hair was snow white.

Sure enough, it was the white-headed Meng Jiu, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Shen Yizhou said: "This is the rule of the Shen family, and Ming Yi of the Xue family, the prince ordered me to lead you into the palace to be your majesty's companion."

Mencius picked up a chess piece in her hand and said casually: "My lord is really good at joking, these two children are not as tall as swords, and they can't be my guards when they are brought into the palace. Besides, there are too many women in the harem. Read some books and learn your skills before sending them over."

Shen Yizhou seemed to have expected that he would say this, and said arrogantly: "How dare you criticize the prince's decision. If you can't be a guard, you can have other uses. As long as you can do things in bed and off the bed, you can do it at your majesty's command." The implication of the words It's okay to be a male favorite.

The two children trembled all over, their faces tightened, and they were too frightened to breathe out.

Mencius raised her head to look at Shen Yizhou, her eyes were cloudy and sunny, if normally he couldn't help but give him a big slap in the face, but now she just looked at him playfully.

Even Shen Yizhou, who claimed to know a lot about him, also started to beat his heart, thinking to himself, could it be that this is the unfathomable power of the sky?

So he said "Oh" and said expressionlessly, "I see, you can go down."

When Shen Yizhou left, he couldn't help but look back, the two children were standing under the pavilion with their hands tied, Ai Ai, the people in the pavilion buried their heads in playing chess, their hair was spread behind their backs, dazzling like snow.

Mencius Ying finished a game of chess, the sun had already slanted to the west, and the winter days were short and the nights were long. Just as she was about to get up, she suddenly saw two children standing under the pavilion. She didn't say a word, and she didn't think it was funny. She pointed at them and asked, "What are you doing?" It's Shen Junli, you're Xue Mingyi, right?"

Both of them trembled and answered yes again and again.

Meng Ziying thought for a while, and said casually: "You don't need to waste time here, I will find a wrong place tomorrow and send you home."

The two children looked at me and I looked at you. There was no joy on their faces, but they became paler. They both knelt down on the ground and said anxiously: "If there is something wrong, your Majesty can beat or scold you, but don't send us away." go home."

Mencius Ying was stunned, and after thinking about it for a while, she understood that these two children were from the generation of Jun and the other from the generation of Ming, and they were both heirs of the Shen and Xue families. As a hostage, he said kindly: "The heirs of the two of you are the most important, and the fate of the family is tied, how can you be a hostage? Don't worry, the King of Shu will tell you that I will not embarrass your parents."

When he said this, one of the children, Xue Mingyi, felt a little moved, and tugged at the sleeve of the other child.Thinking about how they stayed in Yizhou a few days ago, they didn't have enough time to love and care for them at home, so why did they come to this borderland to live under the fence of others and suffer?It's better to go back like this.

Shen Junli raised his head and looked directly at Tianyan. General Shen was there just now. He was too nervous to see clearly. At this moment, there were only the three of them around, so he looked intently. The person in front of him had soft eyes and a beautiful face. , so he boldly said: "Your Majesty, I will not leave."

Mencius Ying raised her eyebrows and wondered, "Why?"

Shen Junli straightened his back and said: "When I left the house, my family members said that the edict is like this, how can I resign. I came all the way to the east, and saw the states along the way. I don't know how much better it is than Yizhou. Jiangling is prosperous, but Yizhou is withered. , Perhaps it is God's will. I am willing to do my best to be a pawn, and when your Majesty personally seizes all opportunities to add power to the world, the day of my death will be like the year of my life."

Before Meng Ziying waited for him to finish speaking, her heart was clear.Shen Huaixiu and Shen Yizhou, one is a concubine and the other is a general, but they are not from the Shen family. Shen Qingqing, the wife of Shen's family, has been removed by her own son during the internal friction in Xichuan earlier. Excluded from the new regime in Jingzhou, how could an orthodox aristocratic family endure the purple's victory over the direct line?Therefore, even if parents have to endure the separation of flesh and blood, they still have to send their children to that shady place with tears in their eyes, because the only unshakable force in this world is ambition.

Shen Junli greedily looked at the god-like existence in front of him, but he didn't notice that the light in his majesty's eyes disappeared inch by inch.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the fourth year of Jingning, Emperor Xia gave a banquet to all the officials by the Taiye Pond in Yongjing Imperial Garden. Bo Cheng, there is a metaphor of restlessness in the world in his words".Hanlin's family was put to death that day, and hundreds of relatives and friends of his boss were imprisoned.In March, Jiang Xia's guard general defected to Jingzhou. Emperor Jingning ordered Yangzhou General Fu Xi and Xuanwei General Bai Yansheng to lead [-] troops to attack Shu.

The author has something to say: I’m going to kill Shu, let’s write about meat in the next chapter, I have to eat meat during Chinese New Year~~~~