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This is really a trap, then this is probably the last time the two brothers get together like this.

This time he called Brother Qi Wang, not so much to persuade him, but rather, he just wanted to see him again.

He wants to fulfill Xiao Jingyu.

When parting, he couldn't help but open his arms and hugged his elder brother as he did when he was a child.

Xiao Jingyu didn't dare to hug him back, and only stretched out his hand to gently touch his head twice, "The injury must be very painful... I haven't seen you cry in the past few years."

Jingyan was taken aback.

It seemed like he hadn't shed a tear for a long time.

In his last life, since he was 19 years old, his tears flowed for Lin Shu, for King Qi, and for the [-] loyal souls.

But no longer cry for myself.

As for this life, the people around him are very good.

—nothing to cry about.

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King Yu carefully selected a silver bow from the warehouse, and the bow body was carved with patterns of bird feathers.

"This bow is made by a famous artist. Jingyan also wanted it back then. Maybe Lin Shu would have liked it even if his eyes were higher than the top."

So King Yu complacently sent someone to deliver the bow, but he didn't know that another bow was delivered to Lin Shu at the same time.

The person who sent the bow was Lie Zhanying.

In the box he held in his hand was the vermilion iron bow that had been hanging in Jingyan's room with great care, but was now broken by the sword.

[Langya Bang] The First True [28] (Shu Yan)

After King Qi supervised the country, the situation was calm for several days.

Until suddenly one day, the sky was already cloudy before morning, and it was so stuffy that people couldn't breathe. It was a sign that heavy rain was about to come.

Until the afternoon, the sky had not yet seen the sky, but it was getting darker and darker. It was clearly not night, and it was almost to the point where it was necessary to hold a lamp to see the road clearly.

Ministers from the Ministry of Household Industry and the Ministry of War all gathered in Prince Qi's mansion, looking at the gloomy sky without saying a word, in a dead silence.

At night, everyone was about to disperse, and the one who stepped out the door suddenly shivered and shrank back, "It's raining!"

Those three short and ordinary words caused everyone present to fall into despair.

The rain was not heavy, it was still falling with a patter, but it gradually became dense.

Several Qingyi literati in Prince Qi's mansion brought alchemists who are familiar with celestial phenomena, and they all said that there must be heavy rain and the rain will continue.

King Qi invited the Taishiling who was in charge of the time and ephemeris to the mansion overnight. After a few calculations, they also came to the same conclusion as those alchemists. The rain will only increase in two days and will not stop.

If this is the case, the embankment that has been repaired less than half will certainly not be able to resist the surging river water, and the lives of the people who are still farming by the Qishui River are hanging by a thread.

Everyone looked at King Qi.

"For the current plan, we can only call the Jinling defenders to rush to build the downstream dams and take the people away first."

"His Royal Highness King Qi is only acting as the supervisor of the country, and does not have a tiger charm in his hand."

"However, among the defenders of Jinling, including the generals, there are many people from Qishui. As early as the beginning of the dispute over Qishui, the generals of the defenders sent a letter. If His Highness King Qi orders them, they will definitely go."

"The difficulty is that if you don't have a tiger talisman, you will call the army. If you say it is small, it is ignoring the king, and if you say it is big, it is a crime of treason."

Some people said that the news came that His Majesty was still asleep, and if His Highness could not act as the supervisor of the country, His Majesty would definitely blame him if he woke up in the future.

Some people also said that it is a serious crime to call the Jinling defenders without authorization, and the empress should be in charge of His Majesty's illness, but since the empress chose to go to the ancestral temple to pray for her majesty, she would definitely not see her majesty.

"For the current plan, is it just waiting?"

"Or you can contact the princes. If everyone agrees, His Majesty will blame you in the future, and His Highness will not be able to resist His Highness alone."

"Needless to say, Prince Jing, His Royal Highness Prince Yu may help you a little bit, but King Xian may not be sure..."

"Ask the defending generals and deputy generals to come and see me."

King Qi's voice was not loud, but it silenced all the noisy voices in the hall.

"Your Highness!" "Your Highness, at least wait until dawn..."

"Let's go now." King Qi said in a deep voice with his back to everyone.

"Yes..." the subordinate general asked after a moment of pondering, "Your Highness, what about the Forbidden Army and the Red Flame Army?"

King Qi turned around, shook his head decisively, and said to his close family, "Go to the Lin Mansion and tell me something."

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This bow was originally handed over to a shop he knew for repair before Lin Shu went to Meiling. There were two scratches from weapons on the bow, but in that life, Lin Shu was unable to pick it up.

When Jingyan returned to Jinling, the Lin Mansion had already been sealed off, and everything in the mansion was sealed off. It was the shop owner who quietly handed over the bow to him.

After that, this bow has been kept in Jingyan's study, and the maid never dared to touch the bow when cleaning Jingyan's study.

Because its owner doesn't like strangers touching his things, this bow is cleaned by Prince Jing himself.

In this life, Jingyan begged for Lin Shu before he left for Donghai.

Lin Shu nodded without thinking. It is very unusual for Jingyan to ask him for things. Although he has things he likes, he seldom has things he wants. This person sometimes even remembers his own birthday. Can't live.

In order to avoid other people's tampering, Lin Shu once carved his own character "shu" on the back of the bow.

When Jingyan took the bow from Lin Shu, he saw that the character Yan was added next to the character Shu, which was obviously engraved by Lin Shu now.

Looking at the two words pasted side by side, Jingyan was stunned for a long time.

Lin Shu was very proud, "Someone who gets this bow after many years will definitely think that the owner of this bow is called Shu Yan."

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Lin Shu was in the mansion, listening to the thunder rolling in the sky, staring at the raindrops outside the window in a daze.

Princess Jinyang stood behind him, watching Lin Shu thinking about something while holding the broken bow in his hand, and unconsciously rubbed her thumb back and forth on the notch on the back of the bow where the word "Shu Yan" was engraved.

"Xiao Shu, just now a general came to Prince Qi's residence and brought you a sentence: 'Meng Zhi and Lin Shu told them not to move a single soldier.'"

When she heard this message from the family general, she understood Jing Yu's intention in her heart.

She knew that Lin Shu and the men from the Chi Yan Army also wanted to go.

But she also knew that now she had to convince her son that she must not take the Red Flame Army to Qishui.

The more it was at this time, the more the Red Flame Army had to be an army that only obeyed Emperor Liang's orders, not something that a mere Lin family could dispatch.

She was still hesitating, not knowing how to speak to make Lin Shu give up, when she suddenly heard Lin Shu say four words: "Mother, don't worry."

"Xiaoshu...?"

"I understand the painstaking efforts of brother Qi and mother... just unwilling." Lin Shu turned around, with an unconcealable loathing in his expression, but his tone was still calm, "I sent Wei Zheng to the camp this afternoon. The Red Flame Army will never leave the camp for half a step. Brother Meng, I believe he has a sense of proportion."

There was a moment of silence between mother and child, Jin Yang listened to the sound of rain outside the window, in the dark night, the rain hit the ground where young grass had sprouted, making a crackling sound.

"Mother, will the rain stop?" Lin Shu asked.

"Yes." Princess Jinyang's tone was calm and firm. She had never hoped that the heavens would hear her prayers.

As the princess of Daliang, her prayers are naturally for the people of Qishui.

But also for her son and the name engraved on the bow.

If the Qi water floods, there will be thousands of lives between Lin Shu and Jingyan, and they will never go back.

Lin Shu has a bold personality since he was a child, and he has no restrictions on his status and age when making friends, so he has countless friends around him.

But Xiao Jingyan is different.

"Mother."

Lin Shu turned around suddenly, and solemnly knelt down towards Jinyang, his eyes were firm and determined, "I want to stay in Jinling."

It was Jin Yang's wish to let Lin Shu stay in Jinling, but at this moment, as a mother, she understood his decision from Lin Shu's gaze, and asked tremblingly, "Have you decided?"

"Yes."

"...Who do you want to help?"

"It's Brother Qi who my father has been assisting."

"So do you want to follow your father's choice? Do you know that no matter whether the rain will stop or not, King Qi's ending is decided the moment he decides to send troops... He may have already..." Jin Yang frowned, no He had the heart to say the words 'no chance to reserve a place'.

"The boy helped him precisely because he could do so without hesitation. If Brother Qi was a person who gave up Qishui because he wanted to keep his position, father would help him, and help King Yu and King Xian What's the difference?... As for the crime of King Qi, after all, the crown prince has not yet been established, and everything is turning for the better."

Listening to Lin Shu's words, Jin Yang seemed to have something to say, so he quietly waited aside.

After a long time, I heard Lin Shu speak softly.

"And Jingyan, he is alone in Jinling...I want to protect him."

Holding the broken bow in his hand, he never put it down.

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The defenders of Jinling came out in numbers, marched to Qishui overnight, and began to quickly build dams overnight, while another group of people temporarily took the people downstream of Qishui to the nearby mountains to settle down.

During this period, the rain has been falling continuously and densely, but it has not been heavy. The water of the Qishui River, which is less than an inch below the embankment, flows swiftly, but it has never overflowed for more than half a minute.

In the afternoon of the second day, the dam had not yet been repaired, but the dark clouds in the sky that had covered the sky and the sun had thinned a bit, and golden light leaked through the gaps from time to time, and even the rain gradually turned into a moist mist.

By evening, the sky cleared.

Everyone turned pale, and no one thought that Prince Jing's words would come true.

Some people even look forward to, come again