red cliff top

After working on his master, he immediately surrounded him and helped him aside: "Mr. Shen, you can't do it. I dare not trouble you with this kind of heavy work. If the prince blames him, no one can bear it."

Contemplating helplessness, he had no choice but to step aside and watch the people working.He glanced over inadvertently, and saw a few ponies tethered alone in the corner, and walked up to them out of curiosity and began to look at them.The horses were stout, with big heads and short necks, thick and thick fur, hard hooves, and small round pier shapes. They were obviously different from the Sanhe horses commonly ridden by the Jin army. They looked like they came from eastern Tatar. Baicha Ironshoe Horse.But why did a few Tatar horses suddenly appear in the Jin army?

Just as he was wondering, a groom came over and said, "Hey, my lord, don't look at this horse's appearance, its rough and messy coat, and the Tatar cavalry can rely on it to charge forward. As a war horse, it is definitely first-class bravery. Even a jackal's head can be easily kicked if it is lifted up."

Shensi wanted to get some news from him, so he deliberately pretended to be surprised: "Is it really so powerful? According to this, not only people, but even horses can't be judged by appearances. It's just..." He went around to the side and stretched out his hand. He pointed out, "Look at these horses' dung dry, with residues in their mouths, drooping tails, and don't even bother to care about mosquitoes and flies. Could it be that they are sick?"

The groom didn't know there was any fraud, and replied with a nonchalant smile: "My lord, you are too worried. No matter how good a horse is, after a long journey, it will suddenly come to an unfamiliar environment. There will always be a few days of discomfort. Wait for a rest. It’s fine to get over it.”

Shen Si nodded, already knowing it in his heart.It seems that these horses not only come from Tatar, but also just arrived in the past few days. Who are the guys who came on horseback?Suddenly, something flashed in my mind, yes, and the white jade hairpin that was handed over to King Jin, where did I see it?

Shen Si tapped his forehead lightly with an empty fist, searching inch by inch in his memory, yes, yes, that day in King Jin's study, Ge Xiaobai was so jealous that he wanted to compete chess with himself, but lost He was defeated so badly that he almost tripped and fell down the steps when he went out. What he was wearing on his head at that time was not exactly that hairpin...

The frown of meditation became tighter and tighter. Ge Xiaobai had already received King Jin's grace to go back to Tatar with the envoy Baoyin. Why did he send someone to see King Jin with a token for no reason?Is it a simple greeting?Unlike Tatar, Jinyuan, there are high mountains and long roads, and it is not a year or a festival at this time, so no one will make a lot of trouble for it.So is there something to ask for?It's not like, Ge Xiaobai should have heard the news that the imperial court's million-strong army is about to kill, and he also knows that King Jin is now too tired to fight and has no time to look aside, so how could Ge Xiaobai's exquisite heart and heart be self-conscious? Are you bored?Excluding these two possibilities, there is only one that Shen Si is most worried about. Could it be... a warning...

In order to verify his guess, Shen Si hurriedly ran towards King Jin's tent.When he was about to approach, he slowed down deliberately to adjust his breathing, pretended to be very leisurely, and greeted several familiar guards: "Hey, Brother Zhang, Brother Li, are you two on duty today? Thank you."

Seeing that they were deep in thought, Zhang and Li hurriedly laughed and said: "Where is it? It is my duty to serve the Lord. The son is here to see the prince? This subordinate will report for you."

"Hey, why bother, I'm sweating all over again after running around, I'll just go in by myself, is it possible that the prince will drive me out?" His expression was calm, and the guards naturally didn't feel any difference.Besides, regarding the relationship between King Jin and Shen Si, some rules are ignored.

He passed the guards easily, Shen Si didn't go straight in, walked to the door, pretended that the knot on his belt was caught by a wooden thorn, stood there and untied it unhurriedly, and at the same time pricked up his ears to watch out for eavesdropping Just a few words in the account.

There were about five or six people in the room, seemingly arguing about something.Only one person said angrily: "This Buxian was born in the Han Dynasty after all. He is really more scheming than Haribah. He chose to advance from Yulinwei. It is obvious that Jinyuan and the imperial court are fighting each other. No one has extra strength." Surround him. In my opinion, you must not teach him to follow his heart, or he will be a joke to those Tatar thieves in vain!"

Another person obviously disagreed with him: "Lord Zhan calms down first, you must know that Da Zhou belongs to the little emperor Wei Xian, and reading jokes is also reading his jokes. Even if the Tatars want to burn, kill, and loot, they will not fail." Let’s go to the people of Jin. Besides, Jiazhou, which is close to Yulinwei, has only a few thousand defenders, even if they want to go to war, they are powerless.”

After a moment of silence, someone sighed: "Jiazhou is only a hundred miles away from Yulin Guard, and it takes half a day to get there on a fast horse. I'm afraid that if Yulin Guard is destroyed, Jiazhou will be lost."

Someone timidly suggested: "If you order the defenders of Jiazhou to retreat two hundred miles and defend Fenyang to death, Jinyuan will always be safe. But... in this way, the Tatar army will be able to sweep straight to Yanzhou without hindrance. If we attack Xi'an again, it won't be long before the hinterland of the Central Plains is breached."

Everyone is arguing endlessly, fighting or retreating, everyone has their own reasons.It's just that King Jin didn't speak from the beginning to the end.Shen Si was trying to find out more about the inside story, when suddenly the curtain was rolled up, and a servant came out holding a tea tray with his head down, almost bumping into Shen Si.

A teacup lid was knocked over, the sound alarmed everyone in the tent, several eyes turned to the door, Shen Si hurriedly called softly: "Shou Zhi, are you talking about serious business?"

Seeing Shen Si, the King of Jin got up immediately to welcome him into the tent, settled down on the chair and sat down, and then softly said: "What are you doing running out on a hot day? It's dishonest after you take a breath. I should tell you to stay in bed for a few more days and suffer more."

Shen Si didn't take it seriously: "I've been idle for too long, the joints of the bones are almost rusted, so I want to move around and have dinner with you by the way. Let's continue talking about business, I'll sit down and have a rest."

Several generals looked at King Jin, and King Jin pretended to be inadvertently covering the map: "It's almost the end of today's talk, let's go back to the camp and have dinner. It's just time for the king to think about it. This matter... for a while Make a decision later!"

Shen Si peeked at King Jin's expression, and glanced at the generals one by one, contacting all the previous conversations and overheard conversations, and gradually came to an inference...

After dinner, King Jin led Shen Si to walk slowly around the hillside behind.One is afraid that sitting for a long time will affect digestion, and the other is that it is rare to be cool after the rain, so you can also take the opportunity to breathe the fresh breath of the mountains.

There are foxtails growing under the shade of the trees, a large expanse of green undulating, and there are still drops of water hanging on the fluffy grass ears.Shen Si bent down and cut off one, pinched it in his hand, leaned behind King Jin, and suddenly stretched out his hand to scratch under King Jin's nose.

King Jin sneezed unpreparedly, looked back at Shen Si, and scolded with a smile: "This little hozen is really naughty, I will teach you a lesson sooner or later." After saying that, he took the ear of grass from Shen Si's hand and continued walk forward.

Shen Si pursed her lips, always feeling that King Jin was a little absent-minded: "Shou Zhi, do you have something on your mind?"

Naturally, King Jin refused to tell the truth, and just coaxed him into deep thought with a playful smile: "If I have something on my mind, it is because I miss you. Besides you, a little monkey, who else can cause trouble in King Jin Qiansui's heart?"

Shensi glanced at him dissatisfied, suddenly stopped, covered his chest with his hands and bent down, and let out a painful cry: "Ah!"

King Jin hurriedly turned around and helped him up: "But the internal injury happened again? How is the pain? I'll take you back and ask the medical officer for diagnosis and treatment."

Shen Si raised his head when he heard the words, and winked mischievously at King Jin: "If you don't tell me the truth, I won't go back."

The King of Jin realized that Shen Si might be pretending, maybe he was playing a prank to tease him, so he couldn't help being a little annoyed, and his voice even raised a bit: "How can this kind of thing be used as a joke! How uneasy!"

Normally, the King of Jin would definitely not get angry with Shen Si, but in recent days, he was disturbed by Bu Xian's possible attack on Yulin Wei, and his temper inevitably became worse.

Shen Si was taken aback by his yelling, she stood there for a while, her head sullen, and she took the initiative to laugh and said: "Shou Zhi, why can't you help being funny, it was my carelessness, I've done it, and I won't make fun of it with you in the future. It's getting late, if you don't want to say anything, then go back and rest earlier."

"I'm not blaming you, it's just..." Jin Wang recalled, and felt that his tone was serious. Looking at the pensive face, he was a little paler than before, and he was worried. "Does your chest feel tight? Is it really not?" Hurry up? But if there is even the slightest discomfort, you must tell me the truth."

Shen Si smiled heartlessly, and walked down the mountain with Jin Chao behind his back: "I was a little uncomfortable before, but at this moment, everything is fine. I don't know why, you just need to say a few nice words to me, and the effect is better than that of me. The bitter medicine soup prescribed by those medical officers is a hundred times stronger."

King Jin's heart was warmed by what he said, and he shook his head with a wry smile. This Shen Xiaowu is obviously a person who doesn't understand customs, but sometimes the words he said unintentionally are even more touching than love words...

The two of them had their own concerns, and after washing, they lay on the bed and neither spoke.It was quiet in the sleeping tent, and a round and big moon was hanging outside the window on one side.

In order not to disturb King Jin's rest, Shen Si kept his eyes closed and pretended to be asleep, but in fact he didn't feel sleepy at all.Even though King Jin covered up the map in time during the day, the arrows and circles drawn on it with a cinnabar pen failed to escape his contemplative eyes.Jinyang Mansion, Fenyang Mansion, Jiazhou Wei, Yulin Wei... These familiar place names quickly turned into real cities and counties in his mind, and then extended a series of ancient yellow sand roads, galloping a team Team Tatar Iron Cavalry... He knows exactly what King Jin is thinking, and he also knows what he should do...

The sound of fighting outside the tent, the third watch has passed.Shen Si turned his ears to listen for a long while, but he didn't hear the usual heavy breathing sound, King Jin seemed to be still asleep.He opened his eyes carefully, looked over by the moonlight, and was surprised to see King Jin leaning against the side of the bed and staring at him intently, so he had never fallen asleep at all.

Shen Si coughed lightly, arousing King Jin's attention: "Shou Zhi, what are you looking at?"

King Jin paused suddenly, as if waking up from a dream, he hurriedly turned his head and looked out the window: "It's nothing, I can't sleep, get up and sit, it just so happens that the moonlight is fine tonight, so I can't stop looking at it for a while."

"Oh? Can't sleep to watch the moon?" He was very disapproving of the nonsense that King Jin made up, "Is the moon hanging on my face?"

The King of Jin was speechless for a while, and after deep thought, he smiled lightly: "Do you want to say that my face is bright and clear, or that my face is like a full moon?"

Hearing this, King Jin also laughed: "Well, I didn't see any moonlight, I just wanted to see you more." His tone was very soft, which made people feel a little distressed for no reason.

"If you want to see it, just look at it enough." Shen Si slowly got up, and sat next to King Jin, shoulder to shoulder, "You are also funny. I haven't seen any kind of person in half my life, so why did I recognize me?"

King Jin laughed at himself: "Who says it's not..." He took his pensive hand and held it in his palm, rubbing it lightly and said, "When I was young, I loved listening to books, especially the old man. It tells about those great heroes who are indomitable in the sky, and I once aspired to be a hero. When a man is born in the world, he will be a prince when he is strong, and he will have meritorious deeds in battle. How can he guard the old hills. It is a pity that so many great ambitions and lofty sentiments have been given by these years of life. It's smoothed out. I thought I would live my life in a muddle, but who would have thought that the moment I saw you for the first time, the feeling of excitement in my youth came back again, like an unfinished big dream, and I can continue to dream... "

Shensi held the corners of his mouth noncommittally: "A great hero should stand upright, serve the country and the people, and cherish the common people... If you put the life and death of all people at risk for your own selfish desires, and hand over the great rivers and mountains to others, how can you afford this hero? Two words..."

After pondering for a while, the words just touched King Jin's heart, which made him feel both gratified and sad: "Nianqing, you... well, I dare not even think about it, why did God send you to my side in the first place?" It’s like a dream. If I hadn’t taken the way to Ningcheng and you hadn’t resisted the decree and sent troops, I’m afraid you and I would have missed it in this life.”

Shen thought for a while, Gulu turned over and sat opposite King Jin, and said in a mysterious way: "This is going to start from the beginning, all the way back to more than ten years ago. Why did God send me to you? Heaven said: Look at the guard, there are all kinds of things in the world, why is he still so lonely, it seems that he should send a capable person to accompany him. After choosing and choosing, he finally found me. I’m here. I’m specially sent by God to accompany you, see if you’re not happy?”

King Jin laughed silently with his mouth wide open, and suddenly complained and pondered: "Since he was specially sent to accompany me, why did he come so late, and taught me to wait for decades in vain."

Shen Si was dumbfounded by his complaints: "It is said that it was sent by God. If you are dissatisfied, just go to it. Tell it that you lost you in the first half of your life, and let it make up for you in the second half of your life... "Speaking like this, he suddenly thought of the words of Master Mingguang in front of Xixin Temple. Those who are benefactors and those who complain are all karma from the previous life. If I hadn't met you, my dad wouldn't have been suspected by the dog emperor, plotted against by Gu Mingzhang, and finally ended up being wronged and killed by Ru Ning. The arm is disabled and lingering on the sick bed... What if you have never met me? You don't have to plan hard, go to Beijing at risk, and you don't have to meet the little emperor and become the number one traitor in the Zhou Dynasty. Then Ge Xiaobai doesn't have to go far away from Tatar , Zhang Jinyu will not be framed to death, and even the princess will not meet Jin Gourd and cause many troubles with him..."

King Jin reached out and pinched his cheek: "Okay, okay, there are so many 'ifs' and 'ifs' in the world. As you said, you and I are karma from the previous life, so I have dragged you down too. Yes, you have dragged me down too. From now on, you and I will not owe anyone, just get together to live a good life in peace and stability. When this battle is over and the world is peaceful, we will go back to Lanyue Mountain together , stay on the top of the red cliff and become a fairy, going out of the clouds and entering the clouds every day..."

Shen Si repeatedly nodded in response and said: "Looking at the bright moon, shoulder to shoulder, the world is good, and we will be reunited forever..."

Chatting with Shen Si until the early hours of the morning, King Jin fell asleep in a daze.I don't know how long I slept, but I was suddenly awakened by a messy cicada.He didn't open his eyes immediately, but turned over slightly, and hooked his arms to the side.

Unexpectedly, the bed beside him was empty. At first he thought that he was thirsty and went to drink water. After waiting for a while and no one came back, he groped back and forth with his hands a few times. He didn't feel that he had slept with someone before. temperature.King Jin sat up abruptly and called out loudly, "Come on! Come on!"

Several attendants heard the voice was wrong, and hurried in. King Jin asked, "Where is Mr. Shen? Where did Mr. Shen go?"

The attendants exchanged puzzled glances with each other, and replied in a low voice: "Young Master Shen went out to camp early in the morning, he said...that it was your lord who sent him on a small errand..."

"What?" King Jin looked at the people on the ground in disbelief, "I sent him on a business trip? What a joke! All of you... Forget it, which direction did he go? What did you say he was going to do?"

An attendant tremblingly walked to the table, picked up a piece of letterhead and brought it to King Jin: "My lord, he left a letter for the lord."

King Jin suppressed his anger and unfolded the letter paper, on which there was only a short line of small characters

Within ten days, success must return!