Bright Spring

Liu Sheng raised his head, felt the pleasant north wind, and glanced at the bright sun in the east, feeling that everything was perfect.He couldn't help saying with emotion: "God help me too!"

Excluding the troops left behind in Qinghua City, Liu Sheng's land division still had more than [-] cavalry, and all troops marched along the river by land and water.That afternoon, the army stopped marching.In the places selected by the vanguard army and the supply battalion, the sergeants built a simple barracks, stationed and repaired, lit fires and cooked food.

(The supply battalion and the vanguard go first, and they will reach the end of the water transport in advance; at a place nearly a hundred miles away from Qinghua City, the supply battalion will requisition an earthen village there, and then build a military warehouse.)

While the Chinese army tent was being built, Liu Sheng stood on the campsite, looking at the map and the surrounding terrain at the same time.

Although the army has left Qinghua City for more than 40 miles, the terrain here is still relatively flat, and there are endless rice fields to the east of the barracks.However, according to the map drawn by the North Department of the Defense Department, when Liu Sheng led his army to the warehouse in the north of Yanzhou, they would enter a mountainous area and the terrain would no longer be so open.

"Yanzhou Beicang" is only a few dozen miles away from Yanzhou City.After the Ming army attacked from there, it would take more than a day for troops to go to Yanzhou City, so the army did not need to carry much food and grass; because Yanzhou City had weak defenses, the soldiers did not even need to transport much heavy ordnance.

According to Liu Sheng's strategy, occupy Yanzhou after a few days, and then use Yanzhou as the base camp to continue to advance to Nghe An; supply.

After a long time, Liu Sheng asked his soldiers to put away the drawings.He turned his head to look at the large tent of the Chinese army, and saw that the tent had already been set up.

At this moment, a Xiao sound came from not far away.Hearing the sound, Liu Sheng looked sideways and saw Pei Youzhen, the servant of the military department accompanying the army.Pei Youzhen was wearing a round-neck robe, kneeling on a piece of grass, and blew a bamboo flute, as if to test the sound.Beside Pei Youzhen, there is only a scribe, holding a pair of cymbals in his hand; it is a copper percussion instrument with two cymbals on the left and right.

Liu Sheng strolled over, cupped his fists and said, "Pei Shilang Yaxing."

Pei Youzhen looked up at Liu Sheng, bowed her hands in return, and said, "I finished a piece of music a few days ago, and just saw the scene of the army camping and the scenery of a foreign country. When will you wait for this song?"

Liu Sheng said: "I will listen to it with all my ears. I don't know what the name of this song is?"

Pei Youzhen said: "It's called "Ten Thousand Miles of Jinling."

Liu Sheng sat cross-legged not far away, stopped talking, and waited for Pei Youzhen to play.

But Pei Youzhen didn't play it right away, he closed his eyes and rested for a while, as if he was brewing emotions, or memorized the tune first.After Pei Youzhen opened her eyes, she looked around at the surrounding scenery and sighed, "The sun, the moon, and the dragon flag fly thousands of miles away. Where is Jinling?"

After he finished speaking, he glanced sideways at the scribe who followed him, and the scribe looked at Pei Youzhen and nodded slightly.

Pei Youzhen picked up the bamboo flute and started playing.Hearing only a whistling sound, Liu Sheng nodded his head in praise. Although he was not proficient in melody, he could tell that the opening melody was very pleasant.

At first there was only one bamboo flute playing solo, but it was magnificent; the slightly hoarse Xiao sound gave off a sense of vigor.Especially the occasional short whistling sound, as if people could hear the lonely chirping of a goshawk in the sky.

Soon the cymbals also joined the music, and the copper cymbals can produce completely different sounds with different strengths and angles.Listening to the melody, the scribe first tapped lightly, like crisp spring water dotted in the sound of the wind.

Then the scribe began to hit the copper cymbal hard, maintaining a slow and even rhythm. He raised his head and began to chant along with the melody played by Xiao Sheng.There are no lyrics, just a simple voice, letting his rough voice rise and fall with the music.He seems to be singing something, but also seems to be feeling something; occasionally there will be a broken sound, but it doesn't seem to be a mistake or a flaw, but it blends with the unique hoarse Xiao sound and reflects each other.

Liu Sheng marveled inwardly. He never thought that Pei Youzhen, who was born as a teacher in the Palace of the Han Dynasty, would be quite talented in rhythm; he also never thought that he could play such a magnificent and emotional melody with just a xiao and a pair of cymbals.

The music performed by Pei Youzhen and others has no form and no words, but the artistic conception seems to be quite profound.Originally, Liu Sheng would only have an emotion that he could not accurately grasp, and he would be infected with the rhythm, but because he said the name "Wanli Jinling" in advance, the invisible emotion seemed to have a direction; let Liu Sheng follow that direction, as if feeling When it comes to ambition and ambition, there is also a little helplessness and nostalgia, even sin and sacrifice.Because the melody of this song is not only generous.

Amidst the music, the sun in the west gradually set, and the only remaining golden light swayed to the vast land, and the color at this moment was like a dream.The soldier on duty in the west stands motionless on the mound with one hand on his waist and a cherry gun in the other. In the sunlight, his figure is only a black outline, and in an instant he looks like a statue, giving people the illusion that it will stand forever over there.

The sun and moon dragon flag fluttered in the wind over the big tent, and a white-bellied bird flitted across the river and rushed into the air with a graceful and vigorous posture.There are countless tents on the ground, the lingering smoke still lingers, and the soldiers also heard the sound of blowing music, and many faces flashed before Liu Sheng's eyes one by one.

Liu Sheng looked far away, deep in the sky to the south.His goal of conquest seems to be in sight, but the heart of the Ming Dynasty seems to be endless.

7Chapter 17 The Big and the Small

The Liu Sheng Department of the Ming Army was advancing towards Yanzhou. The "Dayue" Emperor Chen Jikuo had already left Yanzhou, and led his troops to continue to Nghe An.

Ruan Jingyi, who was stationed in Qinghua City before, was an official in the Taibao, and his performance in previous wars can be regarded as a brave general.But such a general as Ruan Jingyi, defending the important city of Qinghua, was still defeated in a few days.Chen Jikuo and others have already realized that Liu Shengjun is very powerful, so they resolutely gave up Yanzhou, which has a weak city wall.

However, at this time, Wang Lili of Pingding and Ruan Jian, Minister of the Ministry of War, had not yet left Yanzhou.

Ruan Jian's family members arrived in Yanzhou, and after they met Ruan Jian, they temporarily settled down in Yanzhou City.

The family was very lucky on the way to escape from Qinghua, and they did not encounter bandits or enemy soldiers; they finally arrived safely, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.Only Ruan gradually felt that his own people were often more terrifying than the enemy.

If she encounters bandits and enemies, it is of course terrifying, and she will inevitably become a |victim, but as long as she finds a chance, there is a glimmer of hope of escape.On the side of her own people, she inexplicably became what she deserved, and she couldn't escape at all; although such a punishment would be less severe.

The city of Yanzhou is in a mess, and there is chaos everywhere.Some Annan people took advantage of the opportunity to do evil in the city, but no one could control them.All the civil and military personnel in the city were able to run away, and the rest of them were worried about the imminent event all day long.

Only for people like Ruan Shi, her own "little things" bothered her more than major military affairs.

At first, the old lady just said some unpleasant words and questioned Ruan's explanation.Gradually, the fact that Ruan Shi was defiled by more than one person has become an established fact in the mouth of the old lady; moreover, Ruan Shi has been charged with lying, misconduct and other crimes.

Whenever she saw the contempt and disgust in the eyes of the old lady, Ruan was worried about her future.

Husband Ruan Jian was fine, he didn't care about what happened to her for the time being; probably too busy, Ruan Jian was also in a hurry when he came home.He and Pingding Wang Lili seemed to be planning something big.

It was late in the evening today that Ruan Jian returned to his residence.Ruan hurriedly made a cup of tea and rushed to the hall to deliver it to her husband. She naturally wanted to please him and hoped that he would protect her in the future.

After Ruan saluted, he put the teacup aside.Ruan Jian responded, still looking at the item in his hand.

After a while, he finally put down the paperwork in his hand.Seeing this, the Ruan family hurriedly took the opportunity to complain: "We were captured by the Ming army in Qinghua, and the general of the Ming army asked me to stay in the government office, which was not my wish. Besides, the general of the Ming army did not do anything to me..."

Unexpectedly, Ruan Jian didn't want to hear these things at all, he frowned and said, "When is this? You go and talk to your mother about family matters."

After hearing this, Ruan had no choice but to say: "What I said is indeed a little out of date, husband, don't blame me."

At this time, she also realized that she was too impatient; her husband's mind is obviously not at home right now, and she has to wait for the situation to stabilize a bit.She shut up and didn't continue talking about it.

But Nguyen is still very worried, thinking that sooner or later her mother-in-law will make the decision.Because in a family, the mother-in-law is the hostess with the most status and power.If the mother-in-law decides this matter, Ruan can hardly imagine what the result will be!

In fact, the common people in Annan, especially the various minority tribes, don't care much about the defense of men and women, and the affairs of men and women are often very chaotic.However, the big family is a completely different situation.

No matter whether they hate the Han people or not, the wealthy and noble families will try their best to learn some Han characters and classics, and the plaques of the rich and powerful families must have a Chinese name.Those people all think that although the "shipmen" are bad, the Chinese language is the "advanced" and "elegant" culture.Therefore, most of the big families also accepted the etiquette of the Han people at the same time.

It turned out that the Ruan family was a famous beauty in Hedong (now Haiyang City), and was favored by a wealthy family who had been officials for generations. At that time, the Ruan family felt that it was a great honor to marry Ruan Jian's family.However, now Ruan feels that the life of the big family is not so easy.

The problem she is facing right now, is there only one way, to hang herself, be wronged and humiliated?

Suddenly, Ruan suddenly thought of Liu Sheng again.Liu Sheng's whole family is dead, and of course there is no "mother-in-law" in Liu's residence, so whoever will be Liu Sheng's wife in the future must be very comfortable?

When she thought of this, she immediately felt that such a thought was immoral.It's just that occasionally people will have evil thoughts, which seem to be hard to get rid of.

Moreover, Liu Sheng is an aristocrat of the Shang Kingdom, and the Han people also pay attention to etiquette and family. The candidate for Liu Sheng's successor should also be a lady from a noble family... In short, it has little to do with the Ruan family.

She knew that she was not good enough for Liu Sheng, but she couldn't help but fantasize about it.Because such a noble, tall and handsome man has good conduct, is kind to others, and empathetic; a woman can also get some vain pleasure just by thinking about it.

When Ruan looked at her husband again, she suddenly felt that Ruan Jian was not as good as rumored.That big square head, paired with a thin body, made her feel disgusted; moreover, he was still very weak, he was chased all over the ground by Ming people, and he couldn't even take care of his family, so he blamed everything on Ruan's head .But the former Ruan family had never felt this way. At that time, she still thought that Ruan Jian was from a good background, talented, and not bad in appearance.

At this time Ruan saluted, turned and walked out of the hall.

As soon as she went out, a servant hurried in.A voice came from the hall: "Master, King Ping Ding is here. He said he made an appointment with the master and has already entered the mansion."

Ruan Shi was a little curious about what they discussed all day long, but she was not very interested, after all, she couldn't protect herself.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Mrs. Ruan walked to the eaves, she saw Li Li, and she had already entered the gatehouse of the inner house.Li Li saw Ruan Shi at a glance, and before Ruan Shi took the initiative to greet him, he cupped his hands and said, "When did Madam arrive in Yanzhou?"

Ruan had no choice but to return the salute, and replied: "I followed the old lady and arrived yesterday. King Ping Ding, please go to the room. I am rude."

Li Li smiled and said: "Ma'am, you don't need to be polite, and you don't have to treat me as an outsider. I and Ruan Shilang will definitely be close friends in the future. You see, this king doesn't care about those red tapes. I really have something important today and I want to discuss it with Ruan Shilang. "

Ruan had no choice but to bend her knees and said, "I'm sorry."