Twilight War

There was a sound in the thatched cottage.

The shopkeeper came over and said: "The old man walks around the four squares every night, saying that his son will come back. He is also an idiot."

He added some tea to the Huangxuan Jin bowl, looked around and felt that there was someone missing, but he didn't think much about it.

"The old man hangs a long-burning lamp outside the door of the house every night, and buys lamp oil even if he doesn't eat, saying that he wants to guide his son. His son will be able to come back when he sees the lamp." The shopkeeper said: "The old man will be fine at night. Come out to see if the light is off. If you wake up in the morning and see that the light is off, you will stay up all night and watch the light the next day. The neighbors around you will help light it when they wake up at night and see that the light is off. They are afraid that he will suffer like this. Broke that old bone."

"Do you want to have a good sleep?" Huang Xuanjin threw away the sliced ​​melon seeds in his hand, flicked the crumbs twice, turned his head and asked Long Chengyu.

"Think." Long Chengyu nodded obediently. They basically slept in the woods these days.Zhu Zhenming was fine, he had been in the army all year round when he was alive, but Long Chengyu had never suffered such a crime.

"In the past, lie on that alley, and I won't wake you up, you are not allowed to open my eyes!" Huang Xuanjin said to him.

Long Chengyu nodded obediently, then bumped his head against the pillar, wobbled to the place Huangxuanjin was pointing at and fell down.

"I didn't let you hit the pillar." Huang Xuanjin frowned and looked at Long Chengyu helplessly.

The sound of the door panel being lifted came from the thatched cottage, and Huang Xuanjin hurried to Long Chengyu's side, crying loudly, "Brother, brother! Wake up! Brother, brother!"

"It's all my fault, I lost the money, and I don't even have money to stay in the hotel!"

As soon as the old man in a ragged fur coat opened the door, he saw the tragic and heartrending scene in the world, then he turned his head and hung a lamp on the door. After filling up the lamp oil, he didn't even look at them. Just walked over.With squinted eyes, hands behind his back, and a cigarette pouch pinned to his waist, he looks like a proud old duck.

Huang Xuanjin looked at Zhu Wuye's back...

Can't you have a little sympathy?

"Get up." He pushed Long Chengchen, but Long Chengchen tilted his head as if he had fallen asleep.

...wouldn't really knock me out.

It was already half an hour after Zhu Wuye finished his routine inspection of Sifang, Huang Xuanjin helped the fainted Long Chengchen to lean against the dirt wall.Somewhat bored, he grabbed the grass roots in the yellow mud wall.

"Don't harm Lao Tzu's wall." Master Zhu Wu said without looking at them.

Huang Xuanjin sat by the wall and raised his eyes to look at the old man.His eyes are beautiful, but it makes people feel gloomy when they lift them up and look at people like this.

The old man opened the lock tremblingly, obviously his hands and feet were not very good.

"Can you give me a bowl of water?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"It's in the teahouse next door." Zhu Wuye pulled down the iron chain on the door, pushed open the somewhat dilapidated wooden door, walked in, took two steps and suddenly said, "If your brother is not dead, drag him in." Bar."

Huangxuanjin was stunned for a moment, raised his head to look at the dark blue Yemu in this small county town, smiled lightly, then stood up, dragging Long Chengyu's arms.After carrying Long Chengcheng into the house, Huang Xuanjin looked at the small shabby room, with only one single board bed, it seemed that he would not be able to sleep well tonight.

"What do you do for a living?" Zhu Wuye leaned forward in front of the oil lamp, and used the oil lamp to light the tortoise pipe that was full of soot.

It can be seen that the pipe was also a good thing in the past, but now I am afraid that it is given to beggars, and beggars think it is dirty.

"It's inconvenient to disclose." Huang Xuanjin sat on the ground and rested.

"Oh, it's not a real business." Zhu Wuye took two puffs from his pipe, "You have a family."

"not yet."

"That's right, judging by your out-of-the-ordinary appearance, it seems that you are not suitable for girls."

"It's a joke, I've seen too many beautiful girls before, I just don't touch myself." Huang Xuanjin sat on the ground with his knees bent and looked up at Master Zhu.

"Why, you have seen many beautiful girls." Zhu Wu asked.

"of course."

"Oh, Mr. Gui in the brothel." Zhu Wuye said, "There are many beautiful girls in that place."

"No, sir, look at my appearance, if I were a turtle man, what would be the oiran's business?" Huangxuan Jin said hastily.

Zhu Wuye raised his eyelids and glanced, then lowered his eyes and continued to click on his cigarette pouch, "That's right."

"That's not."

"You sold it yourself." Zhu Wuye concluded.

Huang Xuanjin: "..."

"I know, people like you are called young master." Zhu Wuye twirled the shredded tobacco that fell from the table, and put it into a pipe.

...this may be a bit of a misunderstanding.

"Get up, there is some grass outside that I was going to lay on the roof, bring it in, let's sleep on the floor tonight, and let your brother sleep on the bed." The old man took a deep breath on his pipe, then put out the fire, and put the pipe on Waist out of the door.

Huangxuan Jin hummed as he moved the grass, the old man walked to the door, looked at the door for a long time, and finally turned off the light at the door.

The shopkeeper who came out and turned the sign to the closed side was a little puzzled when the old man turned off the long light, but was immediately greeted by the customer.

The old man shook his head tremblingly, and walked into the house.

"It's raining at night, and the bed is leaking. Get your brother a basin to catch the rain." The old man said.

This county is a good place, near the water.Huangxuanjin lived a fishing life as he wished, and caught a basket of fish when he got up in the morning.Of course he didn't catch it himself, he just sat on the bank and played the flute, and those monsters who were good at water took the fish into his basket.

The old man was a watchman, and every day when he was on duty, he would go out with a copper watchtower and walk around Nanjiu Street.

That day when he came home from work, he saw Huangxuan Jin squatting on the roof with blue tiles on the roof, Zhu Wuye squinted at him with his hands behind his back.

"The kid has a heart."

"This house is not bad, it's a pity that there are no good tiles." Huang Xuanjin said with a spatula, "The wood used in this house is all good wood."

"I cut the wood for this house from the mountain and picked it myself. Even a rich family may not be able to find such a good wood if they look for a carpenter." Master Zhu Wu said quite proudly, thinking that the young man is a smart man of.

The old man's house is made of fragrant pear wood, which grows on both sides of the Quailtail River and is mixed with willow.Unless an experienced carpenter can't tell the difference between pear wood and willow wood.But fragrant pear wood does not rot for a long time. In the rainy weather in the south, other woods return to moisture, and touch raw water, but fragrant pear wood is neither cloudy nor wet, especially fragrant pear, so it is named fragrant pear wood.

"Have you learned Xiangmu?" Zhu Wuye asked.

"Not really, but I think this wood is the same as the house I used to live in, so it's probably good wood." Huangxuan Jin said while sitting on the roof.

Zhu Wuye sneered a few times, thinking that he was playing the piano to the cow, "Your brothel is quite particular."

"How many times have I said, I'm not for sale." Huang Xuanjin said angrily.

"Tell me what your brother used to do." Zhu Wuye tilted his head again and said to Long Chengyu in a childish tone.

"... Huangxuan." Long Chengyu said while playing with the rattle that Huangxuanjin gave him.

Huangxuan Jin's hand that laid the bricks trembled.

"Do you still know about Huangxuan's family?" Zhu Wuye smiled with his hands behind his back: "Not bad, not bad, I'll tell you how good it is for Duke Kai to break Sishui tonight."

Huang Xuanjin lowered his head and continued laying bricks.

The sunlight made his eyes a little uncomfortable, he bowed his head and hummed a Jiangnan tune.

Long Chengyu nodded, "I know, I know Duke Founder..."

"It's a pity, there is no founding father in the world anymore." Zhu Wuye shook his head and walked into the shadows of the house.

After laying the bricks on the roof, Huangxuan Jin jumped off the roof, and the old lady who was passing by outside was startled when she saw him, "Who's kid, I don't know how to be careful."

"Fu Wang is about to ascend the throne." Huang Xuanjin heard Zhu Wuye say just as he entered the room and was about to wash his hands.

"Just change it, what does it have to do with us little people." Huang Xuanjin wiped his hands with a piece of colorless cloth.

"I heard that King Fu is not a good person. When the first emperor was around, he sold his officials and made friends with private parties."

"You still know these things." Huang Xuanjin said, "If you sell it, you can sell it. I still sell it."

"But this time, he won't be an official." Zhu Wuye knocked his pipe on the table.

"Good thing."

"He's going to sell the Western Regions, as well as the five cities of Xiguan." Zhu Wuye said, "Sell them to those perverted people."

"Five Cities of Xiguan?"

"Yes, it is said that in addition to Fu Wang, Yu Wang also has the capital to seize the throne. After Nanhe Emperor disappeared, Yu Wang contacted a group of ministers, but before the discussion was completed, Fu Wang led a team of guards holding firecrackers. The siege is over. Fu Wang promised him the five cities of Xiguan in exchange for the support of a queen in the west land, and the queen gave him a lot of weapons and ammunition in the west road."

"Isabel?"

"I don't understand the names of those Semu people," Zhu Wuye said.

Huangxuanjin was stunned for a moment, then smiled again, "Grandfather, you should worry about what to eat tomorrow, isn't this why you didn't sell the Quailwei River? We still have something to eat when the Quailwei River is still alive"

"You are a baby, you don't understand the big things." Zhu Wuye said.

"The bigger the matter, the more it has nothing to do with you and me," Huang Xuanjin said with a smile, "Because you and I are very small."

"Do you know how the five cities of Xiguan were defended back then." Zhu Wuye added a little more shredded tobacco to the pipe, and the brown and inferior shredded tobacco slowly curled up the black and gold edges when it touched the dark fire in the pipe.

"After the Rebellion of the Five Kings, Dachen's power gradually weakened, and all parties in the country fell apart. Emperor Fuwei, who had just ascended the throne, was busy appeasing all parties in the country. He had just quelled the uprising army in Shuobei, and the iron chain case that shocked the whole country happened. Everyone only talked about the ghostly tricks of the three ministers involved in the Tiesuo case, and Huangxuanli's white clothes crossing the river in blood, but no one talked about the five cities in the Northwest. At the same time as the Tiesuo case, the five cities in the Northwest were destroyed annexation."

"Emperor Fuwei was physically and mentally exhausted to solve the iron lock case, and his younger brother wanted to raise troops in the southwest, so Emperor Fuwei ordered Huangxuanliyu, who was already seriously injured, to lead his troops to suppress it. In the desert, if you lose it, you lose it.”

"Later, the government gradually stabilized, but envoys came from the northwest."

"A guard of Yumen Pass highlighted the heavy encirclement of Dashi, and presented it to Emperor Fuwei with a memorial."

That memorial did not conform to the norms at all, because the military commander who guarded the city had long since died.But the soldiers are still there, and there are less than a thousand Donghuang soldiers guarding the five cities in the northwest.The five northwest cities had already become an enclave, and they guarded the land of Donghuang on that enclave.Surrounded by Dashi, they couldn't send letters, and they couldn't get news from Donghuang.

They are waiting, waiting for the court, waiting for support.

But no, not all the time.But they are still guarding, they hang Donghuang's star banner on the top of the city.

Their blood was stained with the stars and banner over and over again.

So they sent a team of 50 people, and the centurion who was able to read a little of the remaining Donghuang soldiers wrote this memorial.

50 people were killed, and only one person remained.

He came to Chang'an with this memorial.

There was a huge wound across his chest.

He arrived in Chang'an, handed in the memorial, and died.

When Emperor Fuwei received this memorial, in front of the civil and military courts of the Manchu Dynasty, his clothes were full of tears. He said, we are here, and we should sacrifice it with blood and tears.

But at that time, the chaos in the southwest had not subsided, and he had no support for the troops in the northwest at all, so Emperor Fuwei just cried blood and tears.

Later, Huangxuan Liyu committed suicide and died, and his son Huangxuan Yangyue ascended to the throne. After Huangxuan Yangyue quelled one rebellion after another, it may be that one night he suddenly remembered that his father had once been a child. He told him that there were less than a thousand Donghuang soldiers guarding the five cities in the northwest.So he personally led 20 soldiers and iron cavalry to regain the northwest in three years.

When the herald with Xin Yu on his back rushed to the gate of Yumenguan, the gate opened in front of him.

I don't know who sewed the top of the city, and it can only be matched with the blurred star banner.

Inside the gate, the city is full of white-haired soldiers.

The so-called full city, but 50 people.