Don't go down if you have a kind [Rebirth]

The entrance to the secret path is in an ancient well in a deserted village on the southern outskirts of the city. It took several hours to walk from the ancient well to Mengxiao garden.When I looked up, I saw that it was midnight, and the stars were covered by dark and thick clouds.

The swords and soldiers stopped temporarily, and there was a rare moment of peace between heaven and earth.

The Mengxiao Garden had obviously been ransacked, the flowers and trees in the courtyard were trampled up and down, and the night wind blew across the Taizhao Lake at the back, blowing a faint stench.

Thousands of households in the city closed their doors deeply, Qiang patrols came and went frequently, and from time to time they heard the sound of breaking doors and crying.

"Sir, can you use the sword again now?" the nephew asked.

Wei Yanliu weighed a long sword that he often wears but never took out of its sheath, and searched in the Duobaoge that was overturned on the ground next to the exit of the secret passage: "'Ten steps to kill a person, a thousand miles will not stay OK', I'm afraid I won't be able to do it again, but Yu Wei is just trying to get something out of his bag..."

With a loud tone, another patrol passed by outside the courtyard, and my heart raised my throat: "What are you looking for, sir?"

There was a soft "click" in the darkness, and Wei Yanliu seemed to have opened some kind of box: "Sun Mi, the first governor of the Hongdu government, set up a secret way here, and the descendants of the eighth family of 'Mayfly' and other people in the way, including the Wei family and the Jiang family Mr. Jiang's lineage gathers here about every ten years, the last time I came here was nine years ago... I found it."

"Click" Flint struck, and Wei Yanliu saw a small lotus river lantern lit up in Wei Yanliu's hand.There are eight lotus petals, but they are not made of paper. The body of the lamp is black and black, neither silver nor iron. On the tips of the eight petals, a gold-painted mayfly with outstretched wings is precisely cast.

"Is it useful to send a letter now?" said the nephew.

"Yes," Wei Yanliu handed the lotus lantern to the emperor's nephew, "if it's not yet ten years, if there are important matters to summon each other, put this kind of river lantern in the four rivers and one lake in the capital city, and the lantern will float to the center of Taizhao Lake , Now it’s hard for others to say, but His Highness Heyang is in the palace on the other side, it’s impossible not to see it, and if you see it, it’s impossible not to come.”

"Then sir, take care of yourself." The imperial nephew took over the river lantern.

Wei Yanliu nodded slightly, turned around and went out, suddenly raised his body and jumped over the low gable wall.

"..." I chased after two steps, "Mr. is going to meet that Jin Alu? That man Song Lang can't take advantage of him, and you even got a knife from him in the back. Why, Mr. Wei..."

"Hush—come with me." The emperor's nephew grabbed my hand, listened to the patrolman walking past, and pulled me to slide towards the low wall next to the lake.

There is just an open wall, facing a piece of faint green water, with scorching red maple on the bank.

The imperial nephew bowed and put down the lotus lantern, looked up at the turret of the palace city on the other side: "Fourteen, look."

I saw that the lotus lantern seemed heavy, but it didn't sink when it entered the water, and it didn't float with the wind ripples. Instead, it floated straight towards the center of the lake as if pulled by a thread.

After a few moments, a cluster of lights was seen on the tower in the southwest corner of Miyagi, and a stream of fire arrows shot out like falling stars with a "swish", and the lotus lantern in the center of the lake went out with a "poof".

The sky and the earth were as dark as splashed ink, and the huge capital was silent for a while, as silent as a dead city.

The early winter night was cold and bitter, and my legs were numb after standing for a long time. I rubbed my face, which was about to become stiff from the lake wind, and said, "Hey, do you remember when I used to always say that I would take you to the North Tower to see the scenery?"

"Remember. Never been."

"Well, now that I think about it, there's nothing interesting about it. It's just that I once had a dream. I dreamed that Changwumen and Chishuijin had gone through several battles, and it was extremely lively. The centuries-old willow trees in the palace city were pulling leaves like crazy... Someone told I said, that's called 'the country is broken, the mountains and rivers are there, and the city is full of spring grass and trees'."

He gently shook my hand back.

There was the sound of rowing oars in the distance, and a dim light lit up on the dark water.

The dim lights are swaying and approaching, and the boat is moored to the maple forest.A dark figure stood at the bow of the boat, saw the two of us, nodded slightly, stepped off the boat board, stepped on a new thin layer of ice floes on the shallow water surface of the shore, and walked straight.

Withered leaves swirled all over the courtyard, she strolled to the cobblestone table in the courtyard, sat down, put the ship's wind lamp in her hand at her feet, and lifted her hood: "The fourteenth brother is also here."

I couldn't help looking at the sky and sighing: "Sister, it's really you."

She chuckled lightly, stretched out her hand from the wide black-sleeved gown, and played with a dazzling golden dagger, her bodhisattva-like eyes were full of tiredness, but her words could make her feel The sleepiness of the bystanders disappeared: "The signal light has gone out, and no one else is coming. Do you know that as long as I summon you, you will come and go?"

The emperor's nephew said: "Since you have not sealed this garden, and you came here again, you must have seen what the Qiang army did."

Elder Sister raised her eyes: "Oh? One of the Eighth Family of Emperor Wu Dynasty, Anbei Hou Zhou Jing's family came here after hearing the lamp. Where is your origin?"

"The first emperor's dynasty, the Jiang family." The emperor's nephew said coldly.

I sat down with the emperor's nephew, and suddenly felt that the dagger in the elder sister's hand looked familiar, and suddenly remembered a Wendi court file that Wei Pei found in Shibotai. The drawing of a dagger dropped by the assassin is recorded in the case file, and it seems to look like this, except that the mayfly pattern on the golden handle in the picture is a group pattern, and the one in Ajie's hand is not a group pattern.Can't help but wonder: "How can sister be related to the family of the previous dynasty?"

"Anbei Hou Zhoujing was beheaded and ransacked his home. His descendants were protected by Sun Mi, the first governor of Hongdu Mansion, and lived in the "mayfly". At the beginning of Emperor Wen's succession, he attempted to assassinate and conspire against him. He failed and was investigated by the court. There is no way out in the territory, living outside the customs, wandering in the land of the Three Qiangs, and over the past hundred years, people from Daxing have gathered, such as "military case exile criminals" and "disorderly people" in Minzhou," Sister twirled the dagger in her palm, and put The golden handle was handed to me, "It is said that the people of Xingxing have 'nowhere to retreat' and the 'Ninth State' of Daxing."

"..." The set of cross-examination scripts I had prepared in my mind didn't come in handy, and my sister squeezed out my role.

Sister, she continued to squeeze me away: "'Ninth State' is to distinguish the eight states in the customs, and the pattern of 'mayfly' is changed. This shape originally means 'no home, no country, no restraint, no life, no death, no sorrow, no pain. Anger'. I went out to get married, because of reason, they took care of me, because of the situation, they wanted to cling to me, and this 'scepter' naturally came into my hands."

I took the dagger and couldn't help blurting out: "How dare you hand me the knife, aren't you afraid I'll kill you with one blow?"

She smiled faintly, narrowed her eyes slightly in the dim halo of the lantern, and said almost gently: "You don't know."

Just when I thought she was going to temporarily break up some plastic siblings, she looked up at the emperor's nephew again: "It would be easy to kill Jin Alu, but in the deal agreed between Nandi and Apunu, there is no mention of me life?"

... Yes, with Apunu's affectionate and grumpy personality, when he discusses business with the emperor's nephew, he will definitely mention his ex-wife.Brother Apunu's thoughts are as unpredictable as my sister's. He took away most of the golden rides to hinder my sister's southward domination of the great cause, and at the same time left behind the golden director Jin Alu, who he once relied on the most, to my sister. As a fine iron shield, he both hates my sister and loves my sister. He doesn't agree with my sister's political views, but he doesn't give up his relationship with my sister.The whole person is sloppy and very annoying.

The emperor's nephew was silent, and frowned slightly: "Yes. It's easy to kill Jin Alu, but we can't break through the city if we kill him alone. We can't kill you either. If you die here, Apunu will probably really be able to send troops south. Come. But today you and I are not here to argue about our own life and death, I hope His Highness still has the thoughts of the homeland, stop in time, and personally issue an order to disperse the remaining 'National Defense Army' and withdraw the Qiang soldiers in the city."

Ajie laughed silently, and slowly got up: "You are in a hurry. If you are in a hurry, you will lose your life. No one knows better than me what kind of person Apunu is. The Southern Emperor conspired with him and asked for revenge. It seems fair to ask for the restoration of the country, but in fact it has suffered a great loss. Now, as long as I stick to this place and never retreat, when the Sanqiang has already conquered half of the territory in the pass, how can he give up this easy-to-get, Yiping? Opportunities in the world?"

The water thrown by the married woman, the one with the elbow turned outward, pissed me off: "What is it 'at your fingertips'? Sister, you think the Daxing court is muddy? The people of Daxing are made of dirt? You My brother, I am still alive! Your mother is still alive! Didn’t you see that dozens of cities in Beiguan were slaughtered, bones piled up on Tongjing Avenue, and how many heads were beheaded by Jin Alu on the east wall? This is you Did you say 'one leveled the world'? Let me ask you, is today's Kyoto the same as the one you saw when you left!"

"...Oh?" There was a silence in the courtyard. She stood with her back under a dead tree, looked back at me faintly, and said firmly, "The Kyoto I saw when I left? The Kyoto at that time, what did you say?" What can you understand? Little Fourteen, you have been emperor for a few years, you opened your eyes, opened your heart and said, what kind of Daxing is it today! , a disaster every two years, and a rebellion every three years, how could the Northern Thirteen Passes be broken in one blow, and how could the Bazhou Wangshi collapse thousands of miles during the reign of Emperor Gaozu Wu? Qingping, set up your mind and live without shame, why not!"

"Sister," I jumped up and pointed at the sky, "Heaven and earth don't agree with your words. I cut open your liver and gallbladder, and you also feel your conscience. Don't you know how the Qiang people burned, killed and looted when they entered the pass? Yes, You gathered the 'Guo Guojun' and planned to kick Jule away, but you kicked away a Jule, and there are other 'Jule', Jin Alu in the city today is an example! 'Guo Guojun' Attaching to you is not because you are still the princess of Daxing, but because you are riding the wind and taking advantage of the times! A group of reckless white people know nothing! But they don’t understand, and I don’t believe you don’t understand either! Open your eyes and see clearly the land under your feet , do you still want to fight now?"

"I don't know what?" Elder Sister suddenly raised her voice, and took a big step forward, "It's about the fortune of the world, and now you and I are divided in half, no distinction is made! Today I will kill you two here, to correct the fortune of the world, Come on!"

In an instant, a row of "black gourds" came over the wall.The swords in the hands of the black gourds were sharp, and they rushed towards me and the emperor's nephew. With a sound of "Keng", the emperor's nephew drew his sword to block it, and at the same time pulled me past me, approaching Ajie's face in the blink of an eye, and put the sharp knife out of the sheath on her neck: "His Highness Heyang's words are not bad. But His Highness thinks clearly, Even if Fourteen and I die today, Daxing will still be the same Daxing, but if His Highness dies, the Northern Qiang may not be the same as it was when His Highness was there."

My heart was pounding, and I pinched my nephew quietly: hold on, hold on, the steps are leveled!

Elder Sister, she has clearly shaken her mind, but she just can't get rid of it!Just let her shout and vent her anger!

But sister's face is really too big, as long as there is still a glimmer of hope to go up, she will never step down the steps set by the enemy easily, I saw her slightly curling the corners of her mouth, half a smile, not true Shouted loudly: "Take it!"

I just felt a strong wind flash on the back of my head, and my lower back was hit by the palm of the emperor's nephew so painfully that I almost turned my face upside down. In an instant, dozens of bright knives scraped across my face-grandma's flickering each other, Tai Chi was playing well What to do with a real knife!

"I heard that the Wei family's swordsmanship in Xizhou is the best in the eight states," Sister Sister said coldly, "I don't know how it compares to those outside the pass."

The emperor's nephew was immediately surrounded by a group of black gourds, and I was about to join the battle with my elder sister's golden dagger in my brain, when suddenly a watermelon ball hit at my feet with a "gudong" sound!

"It's not bad compared to outside the pass," Wei Yanliu's voice came first, followed by the person descending from the sky and landed lightly, "It's just that the disciples of the outer sect are not trained in the skills, if His Highness Heyang wants to see it, it's better for Wei to do a rehearsal. "

Wei's blade dripped and dripped blood, stabbing and dragging across the green brick floor.That "watermelon ball" is none other than Jin Alu's great head.

The black gourds turned pale in shock, and all looked at my elder sister, but my elder sister had expected it a long time ago, walked two steps forward, walked to Jin Alu's head, even bowed down to look at it, and finally nodded, The tone was still a little brisk: "That's right, it's Jin Alu. 'Zhuge Sword' is really extraordinary."

Wei Yanliu stood in front of me and the emperor's nephew, holding his sword sincerely: "Since this person is dead, no one in the city dares to disobey His Highness, can His Highness order the withdrawal of troops?"

"Catch the assassin!" The Qiang people shouted, "This way!"

A group of Qiang soldiers broke into the door immediately: "Assassins, assassins! King... queen? General Jin!"

The scene was chaotic.Another Qiang soldier came forward with a herald on horseback, plopped into the courtyard and said, "Report—the enemy's night attack, the Nine Gates are in a hurry!"

"What are you panicking about? Tell me to release everyone on the east wall!" Sister Ah lightly kicked Jin Alu's head away, and patted the non-existent ashes on her hands. "Thank you Wei Jiajian for cleaning up the house for me. This is my reward."

"But Queen, General Jin..." The blank Qiang Bing hesitated to retort, but before he finished speaking, he was slapped across his neck by the black gourd.

Elder Sister looked at me and my nephew: "You two, the Qiang Army and the National Guard Army are not only people like Zhu Le and Jin Alu, there is evil everywhere, and there is good everywhere, let alone win or lose in today's battle. Our army is also doing the right thing.”

I don’t know if it’s the right way or not, but the Black Gourd Army grabbed the Qiang soldiers who were chasing Mr. Wei and cut their throats one by one, and ordered the Qiang soldiers to frighten the shit out of them, and quickly shouted "Let people go from the east wall" and ran away.

Alright, now that the game has been reshuffled and the fair competition resumed, it seems that we can go too!I pulled my nephew to leave, but just as I took a step towards the secret passage, the back of my head was swept by a strong wind——

"Take them down!" Sister Ah yelled, "Climb the Wild Goose Watch Tower!"

The emperor's nephew raised his sword again to block, Wei Yanliu slashed the sword and sliced ​​off the brains of a pair of black gourd brothers. At the same time, the four walls suddenly collapsed like a thunderbolt!All of a sudden, smoke and dust rose everywhere, and after the mist, countless lotus lanterns on the faint lake were seen flickering and floating, like a river of stars falling into the world.

There was a circle of people outside the courtyard wall at some point, young people in official clothes, old men with crutches, scholars with cuffs, butchers with knives on their shoulders, and even weak women with pipas in their arms. , the little eunuch with a palace lantern in his hand... They approached quietly from the ink-splashed night and the mist of bricks, sand and dust, and shot suddenly when Sister's black gourd soldiers were still in shock——

Fairies fight!Devil fight!Eight state mayflies and "ninth state" pinch together!

The emperor's nephew grabbed me again in a hurry: "Yanwang Pagoda to watch the battle, fourteen, I will go to the Nine Gates, you..."

I rubbed my palms of cold sweat on his sleeves, trying to calm down until now, my heartbeat was almost stuck in my throat, and my eyes and ears began to faint. After breaking through the chaotic night and the ear-splitting din, I could easily distinguish his voice: "I , I look at you, death is also in the city of Kyoto..."

He hugged me violently, and hugged me tightly for a moment as if he was about to strangle me. His hot breath, the smell of lonely clothes, and the sweet smell of blood were more bustling than this embrace, and worse than the beatings and killings all over the eight states and thirteen gates. lively.