Crown Sword

"You're back?"

"Can I come in and sit down?"

"That's natural, please come in quickly. Come, give me the umbrella, your clothes are soaked, the snow outside is probably a foot high, you drink some hot tea first, I'll go and get you some clean clothes."

"Xi Wei, don't worry, I'll..."

"Don't be silly, you don't look like you. If you have nowhere to go, it's better to stay. I have a bowl and two chopsticks here, but there is no shortage. The wine is hot on the stove. You have to take care of yourself later." Tell me, how these years..."

The shadow passed through the plum blossoms in the whole courtyard, and he stood in the snow dazedly, his eyes blurred with tears.

Where to start?

Let’s start from the first year of Ningkang (373). In this year, Sima Huanwen, the great Sima of the Jin State who had conquered three times in the north, died of illness; Princess Dingxiang Tuobaxiang; this year, it will be one year before Zhang Yu, king of Shu, rebelled against Qin and Mianzhu besieged the city

This year, Gong Yangyue is two years old, and this year, Chao Chen has not yet been born.

This year, Wen Bai and Su Wu met Jiankang——

"My name is Su Wu, nothing is nothing."

"My name is Wen Bai, Bai who is poor and white."

That year, Wen Bai was thirteen, because of his extraordinary talent, he was filial and honest, so he entered the Taixue to study.He has a dull temper and rarely interacts with others. He traveled thousands of miles from his hometown to Jiankang, and he didn't have many friends. Occasionally, when the students of the academy went out for spring tours, in order to save a few money, he always stayed alone in Mingtang to study hard.

In this way, he got acquainted with Su Wu who stayed in Piyong from time to time and took the opportunity to listen.

Because of his ancestors, Su Wu hid in the Middle East and Tibet with his family since he was a child. Those things that ordinary people can do are not for him. He can only silently long for them and imitate them carefully.

In fact, what happened to Mei Nongwen is a reflection of Wen Bai's life.

When he was young, he deeply felt that his official career was far away, and his future was hopeless because of Guozixue. At this time, the kings of the north were in the limelight. He went to Taixue to give lectures in person, so he moved his mind and wanted to leave Jin and go north to find another way out.

So, he asked Chen Shao, the only one close to him in the academy, to borrow money to raise travel expenses, but Chen Shao didn't agree with his ideas, and tried to persuade him, which made him unhappy, and the two broke up unhappy.

In the end, Su Wu borrowed enough money from him and wished him a bright future.

He didn't wait for the dawn, and crossed the north by boat overnight, but it was a pity that time was his fate. He neither failed the peerless genius, nor met Bo Le, who had the insight to know the pearl. , as bad as it gets.

At that time, nestled in the leaking horse shed, he also thought about turning back, but every time he couldn't swallow that breath, he gritted his teeth and persisted.

He pinned his hopes on the majestic Qin State, like hanging the last straw, hoping to become Wang Meng's second, and hoping that Fu Jian could help him realize his great dream.However, no matter how much he shows off his talent and learning, and tries his best to show off, he will not be favored by the king in the end, only in exchange for frequent cold eyes.

Not only that, Wang Meng also ridiculed him for being impure in mind, having little wisdom but no great talent, and if things don't go his way, it will be a disaster for man.

Why?

Why assert his life?

Wen Bai was angry, and left Chang'an with anger. He let his horses go for a wild ride. When he passed the Savage Valley, he had been hungry for more than three days. Push up vegetable roots to satisfy your hunger.

This planing fell into the hole by accident.

Here, he met Zhang Bin's successor, Jiang Munu who inherited his legacy, but at that time, there was only one base of bones left in the cave.Under Kaiyang's joint efforts to encircle and suppress Jiang Munu, he was wounded and escaped, but no miracle happened, and eventually he died and passed away hastily.

Wen Bai was greedy for the jade buckle on his waist, and wanted to take it off to exchange for money. While tugging at it, he pulled out two volumes of handwriting, one volume was the crystallization of Zhang Bin's life's wisdom, and the other volume was handwritten by Jiang Munu.

After reading through the manuscript, he knew the identity of the dead man in front of him and his unfinished plans. The unfulfilled ambition deeply resonated with him, so he left with the book and kowtowed three times in front of the corpse as he left, thanking him for saving his life , and vowed that if he could survive, he would fulfill his last wish in return.

I wish I took it casually, for peace of mind, and to give myself a reason to persist, and he left it behind when he got out of the hole.This gentleman didn't keep his word, and he wanted to be struck by lightning. As a result, he was intercepted and killed by another person looking for Jiang Munu before he walked out of the Savage Valley, and he had to flee.

During this escape, he was rescued by Xiao Jiuyuan by mistake, mistaken for a refugee, and brought back to "Chang'an".

Because of Xiao Jiuyuan's kindness, Wen Bai has been working hard to be a good person. After practicing martial arts, he fought side by side with his comrades. He even developed attachment and pride, and felt that his life was worthwhile. That's unacceptable.

So, he completely forgot about the manuscript, not wanting to be involved in the disputes among the nations.

It's a pity that the sky didn't fulfill people's wishes, and the number of descendants of the Jin Kingdom increased sharply. When chasing down the traitors, people were killed one after another by mistake. At that time, Hua Yi and others among the three princes suspected the inner ghost, and his qualifications were the least, and his background Unknown, when these few people were discussing whether to investigate secretly to restore their innocence, he overheard them.

Unreasonable doubts made Wen Bai disheartened, and he remembered the two undestroyed manuscripts again.

Pojun... Kaiyang...

——It seems to be mentioned in the handbook, if they are taught to find out, wouldn't it be impossible to wash it off even if they jumped into the Yellow River?

Except for Xiao Jiuyuan in "Not Seeing Chang'an", he didn't believe anyone, so he left a letter and left Luoyang temporarily.

He longed for Xiao Jiu to chase after him, so he told him everything, and explained all the ups and downs of these years.

But after waiting for a long time, the person who was supposed to come didn't come - didn't even he believe in himself?Wen Bai, who had been wandering for several years and had nowhere to go, knocked on the door of Su's house in the middle of the heavy snow.

Friends from the past accepted him. In the days of Jiankang Xiaoju, he still had obsessions and insisted on writing letters, although half of these letters could not be sent.

Who would have thought that when he was in a daze, Su Wu quietly took these scribbled letters after drinking, and between the words, he read out the amazing secret——

It turns out that Wen Bai didn't become an official these years, but got acquainted with Xiao Jiuyuan by accident, and became the Wengong "White Crane Immortal" in "Not Seeing Chang'an".

Taking advantage of the rift, Su Wu designed and used it as a bait to trap and kill Xiao Jiuyuan, whom he was looking for in the south of the Yangtze River. When Wen Bai sobered up and hurried away, all he saw was the broken corpse and Hua Yi who was furious. and others.

He will never forget that day that was haunted by nightmares. After many years, the blood flowed all over the place and the irrefutable accusation of that day will still appear in front of his eyes——

"Wen Bai, you are ungrateful and joined forces with the thief to kill Mr. Jiuyuan!"

"Fortunately, he still believes that you have no evil intentions. He traveled thousands of miles to the south of the Yangtze River to persuade you to return. He was afraid that you would have a bad heart, and he even gambled his whole life to be your guarantor. But what about you, what did you do? You Killed him, you traitor!"

"traitor!"

He couldn't explain it anymore, although he didn't kill Xiao Jiuyuan, but Xiao Jiuyuan died because of him, he hated, he hated!With hatred in his heart, he desperately wanted to live, so he desperately crippled a pair of legs, and with the joint efforts of Huayi and others, he survived the remnant body and survived.

It was also from that day that he put on a mask, lived like Jiang Munu, became an unintentional person, branded a traitor, and remained forever on the negative volume of "Kaiyang Jilue".

……

"My name is Su Wu, nothing is nothing."

"My name is Wen Bai, Bai who is poor and white."

……

If he could do it all over again, even if Lu Lu froze to death, he would never knock on that firewood door again.

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"It's your turn, I'm willing to bet and admit defeat."

Gong Yangyue raised his sword to face each other, but Wen Bai didn't dodge or dodge, and went to die awe-inspiringly.He has done what he should do and wants to do, and it is time to go down to Jiuquan to meet his old friends.

With the sword's edge across his throat, Wen Bai stood still, and smiled silently with his eyes wide open: "Gongyangyue, do you really think you have won?"

Chao Chen ran over, Jiang Hao heard his words, his heart skipped a beat, he reached out his hand to stop him, but he was a step too late, that decisive sword, killing people couldn't be easier, I saw blood gurgling from the bloodstain on Wen Bai's neck It can't stop, it can't stop.

"Report-"

A horse galloped up from the long street, and the herald was blocked by the crowd, so he could only shout loudly: "Liu Laozhi, the general who conquered the East, hanged himself after leaving Jingkou!"

With blood in his mouth, Jiang Munu opened his mouth and laughed loudly: "If time moves forward, manpower is unimpeded, if fate is fixed, only God will not change it! You and I are nothing more than mortal seeds, but white waves pushing the surging river forward! Hahaha! Man Standing upright, how can you turn back again and again, Liu Laozhi first betrayed Wang Gong, then the king of Kuaiji and his son, now he has been deprived of military power, and he wants to turn against Huanxuan, he will definitely die!"

Chao Chen grabbed his lapel tightly: "What the hell did you do!"

"What do you think I'm doing? You think my purpose is to deal with you brats, just to find "Kaiyang Jilue"! I want you to kill me, this country of Jin will be helpless! I want to bring the world back to chaos, and I want to make all those who looked down on me regret it!"

Chao Chen panicked and tried desperately to cover his wound to stop the bleeding, Gong Yangyue stretched out his hand to pull him, pulled him twice before being pulled away.He fell to the ground and watched Jiang Munu kick his legs and die with a long laugh.

Gongyangyue may not be clear, but he is in Jiangzuo, so he knows it all too well.

Back then, General Xie Xuan formed Beifu soldiers to fight against Qin. This army was invincible. Feishui defeated Fu Jian's million-strong army. It can be said that the soul of Jin's army is there. As far as Liu Laozhi can still sit in the town, the death of Liu Laozhi now may not be far from the collapse of the Beifu Army.

"Chao Chen."

Gong Yangyue leaned over and circled the person sitting in front of the corpse. Chao Chen's hands dropped, and a bamboo tube rolled out of his cuff. There is also the mark of Cao Shiyin on it.

A white and clean hand stretched out, picked up the bamboo pipe, held it tightly in the palm, the owner of the hand stood up, holding the lyre, Shi Shiran walked towards Huan Xuan who was going down the tower, and bowed his hands: "General Huan, Farewell to Jingzhou, don’t come here without any harm.”

Huan Xuan bowed his head in return: "The pavilion master is still so glorious."

Shi Ang didn't greet him with formal greetings, he leaned over suddenly, whispered a few words in his ear, and then handed over the bamboo tube.

Huan Xuan took out the note, swept it hastily, and was so angry that he squeezed the bamboo tube to pieces, but he was very afraid when he got angry, he didn't dare to act rashly, he just snorted coldly and turned his face away.

Shi Ang bowed respectfully again, and raised his voice: "General Huan, who came from a famous family, must have been bewitched by traitors. Fortunately, God has blessed him, and the traitors have already surrendered."

"The master Shige is right." Huan Xuanshun walked down the steps, gave the attendant a glance, and cleaned up the corpses on the ground.

Seeing this, Shi Ang immediately shouted "General is wise".

Being eaten to death by him, Huan Xuan couldn't hold back his face, let out a cold snort, and led them away.

When the soldiers in cold armor left, Shi Ang turned around gracefully, glanced at Wen Bai's corpse, stretched out his hand to Chao Chen, and sighed: "He has a good saying, if time moves forward, manpower There is no hindrance, if fate is fixed, only the sky will not change, you and I can do it, but do our best and obey the destiny. Tobu-kun, don't worry about it!"

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In the fifth year of Long'an, Chao Chen, in the name of Lord Dongwu, joined forces with Huan Xuan to request an order from the Emperor Jin. With the recovered "Kaiyang Jilue" negative scroll, he gradually investigated Jiang Zuo's spies, and then used "Kaiyang Jilue" as an official document. It was rolled up, and the stele was immediately cast to commemorate the exiled soldiers who lost their souls during the Northern Expedition and the martyrs who went to the north and sacrificed for the country.

On the day when the Hero Monument was inaugurated, Chao Chen and Gong Yangyue went to watch the ceremony together.Looking at the unforgettable names, Gongyang Yue felt sad: "Unfortunately, those letters my father left in the cloud were all torn up by the old Phoenix."

Chao Chen pressed the back of his hand, and suddenly raised his eyebrows and smiled: "What a pity."

After finishing speaking, he swept up the clouds, picked up the stylus, and engraved the names that he had memorized silently one by one. The people around him were all dumbfounded, moved by the grace, and sighed repeatedly.

Gongyangyue felt repeated feelings in her heart, and her playfulness grew, and she felt that it was necessary to come out to save the beauty and suppress his limelight, so she brought a small stone and waved it.But Chao Chen didn't fall as he wished. Instead, he used this as a stepping stone and flew straight up again. He was so angry that he regretted that half of his skills, and he wanted to bully him again, but he was not as easy as before.

Chao Chen naturally caught his little movements, and when he looked back, he saw his dark face, and he was angry with himself. He had no reason to think of the scene when he took the umbrella from the bamboo sea on a snowy night, the corners of his mouth could not help but hang up, and shook his head helplessly—

"Forget it, I said I would let you go."

So, Chao Chen swiped the pen, and after the word "Chang Cheng" fell, he tossed the pen, pretending to be slippery, and dropped it from the stele.

Gong Yangyue raised her eyebrows, flew forward, hugged him with both hands, and without landing, borrowed a little strength, and swept away under the eyes of everyone.

"Am I hugging a beauty?" Ruo Yi, with smiles all over his eyes, kissed Chao Chen's lips: "Chao Chen, for a discussion, why don't you return the other half of your internal energy to me? "

Chao Chen stretched out his hand and pushed, "It's a beautiful idea!"

The two looked at each other, laughed and left.

Not far away, someone shouted "General Liu", and Chao Chen lowered his head, subconsciously thinking that it was a soldier paying homage to Liu Laozhi. When he thought of the precariousness of the country and the fall of the North Mansion, he felt heavy, especially when he recalled Wen Bai's life before his death. If there is no beginning and no end, it is even more suspicious——

He even gave up his own life, so who is he betting on?

Gong Yangyue carried Chao Chen in her arms and walked away on a branch. Under the branch, a knight rode by. Hearing Ye Dong, she suddenly looked back, and it was none other than Liu Yu.

Someone on the way ahead waved and called "General Liu" again.

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Lao Yue has finally embraced the beauty, thank you for your support for this article, and I am lucky to meet you here~

PS: I’m not very good at writing side stories. Maybe I feel that a story is over after it’s finished, and there’s no need to wait for this article, but I don’t rule out one day when I have a big brain hole, but at that time, I may open it alone and treat it as free Feedback 2333