Luoshui Dongliu

It was night, both inside and outside of Luo City were quiet, as if there was no noise and noise during the day.The lights in the camps in the city were turned off according to the hour, and only the patrolling soldiers came and went quietly.The chief secretary Xie asked the guards on night duty outside the account to see people coming from afar, and they were surprised. When those people got closer, they could see clearly that it was Li Shoude, the chief minister.

One of the guards hurriedly went in to communicate, and the other said: "Changshi, please come in." Seeing that Li Shoude was carrying a package in his hand, and wanted to take it for him, Li Shoude waved his hand and said, "No need, I will take some medicinal materials by myself."

The guard who had just entered came out at this time and said, "Changshi, please." After saying that, he raised his hand and opened the curtain.

Li Shoude stepped in, and saw Xie Rang sitting beside the table, leaning on a square pillow made of straw and rattan, wearing an outer shirt and a shirt with small sleeves underneath.Li Shoude saw it and said, "Although it's cold at night, it's summer after all. The master still wears so much?"

Seeing him coming in, Xie Rang said with a smile: "I remember I took out the long-sleeved shirt in July last year, but this year I still feel cold for some reason." Seeing the object in his hand, he asked again: "What is this?"

Li Shoude said: "It's peony skin."

Xie Rang said: "You still make this every year."

Li Shoude said: "It's not difficult at all, just dig out the roots, pick the thick ones, peel off the bark and dry them in the sun. This season, it calms and relieves fever, and it can also stop sores on the mouth and tongue. One pack can be used until autumn."

Xie Rang took it and slightly cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Thank you very much. It's just that I didn't know how to use this in the past years, so I failed Chang Shi's wishes."

Li Shoude also smiled and said: "You and I have known each other so far, and you are still being so polite. You are joking again. Raw peony bark has a bad smell, and all the ones I brought this time have been fried, and you can just grind them up and eat them."

Xie Rang clapped his hands on the medicine bag and said, "You are usually irritable, but when you are careful, you are really careful and appropriate." Turning to the guard, he said, "Help me keep it well."

The guard went with the medicinal materials, Xie Rang raised his hand and moved the square pillow a little, only to hear Li Shoude say: "Master always seems to be weak recently."

Xie Rang coded five or six volumes of documents on the case, shook his head and smiled wryly, "You don't know that I am a person who can't eat or sleep when something is on my mind, so it's okay."

During the day, Zhao Shen had already asked about the most important matters in the city defense right now, and the rest of the matters were not urgent but had a lot of clues, so he waited for the account to be raised the next day and then explained one by one.Those trivial chores are very exhausting. Zhao Jing was the most impatient to take care of them when he was alive, and Xie Rang took care of them conscientiously.It has been several years since Zhao Shen was the chief general, and there are quite a few new clerical staff, but in terms of meticulousness, no one can match him.Probably because of too much work, Li Shoude saw that the corners of Xie Rang's brows seemed to be drooping than before, and he thought it was not easy for him, and he couldn't help but sighed: "In today's situation, who can eat healthy and sleep well?"

After receiving the news of Gao Yuan'an's withdrawal a few days ago, the Xiyan army kept shouting to the city.Xie Rang and the others were only worried that someone would be swayed by a change of heart, and the guards of the four gates were all stationed at the top of the city for a day.The sergeants below are not allowed to act alone, especially when recruits who have not gone through a battle want to act, they must be accompanied by veterans.Fortunately, these were soldiers brought out from generation to generation, and the Gao family's troops from Yecheng had nothing to say, no matter how noisy outside the city was, no one was doing anything.

Xie Rang stroked his forehead and said: "Tomorrow, you can control your temper and don't talk nonsense. No one will feel happy at this time."

Li Shoude smiled and said, "Is the master at my age but not sensible? What can I complain about?" After a pause, he sighed again, "It's just a pity that Zhao's cavalry will have to obey others from now on—in fact, General Zhao It's not for the sake of the Gao family, why come back when you've already escaped."

Xie Rang paused for a moment, shook his head and said, "I'm asking you something off topic, if he doesn't come back, what will we do?"

Li Shoude was stunned, and said: "Master, please don't joke, but I really haven't thought about it." After a long while, he smiled and said, "This is also ridiculous, as if I knew early on that the man of the Zhao family would never abandon Luocheng."

Having said so far, the two nodded at each other, and there was no need to say more.For a moment, there seemed to be a wind blowing outside the tent, Xie Rang couldn't help but squeezed his outer shirt tightly again, and said in a long voice: "The wind is blowing."

Before nightfall, Zhao Shen patrolled the four gates of the city. Seeing his tired face, the generals in the city all advised him to go back to his tent and rest for the night. Slack."

Zhao Shen was worried at first, but when he returned to the tent, he couldn't open his eyes.He wanted to wash up before entering the inner tent, but he just waited for the interval between Zhou Gan to fetch the hot water, and then he was confused.After a long while, I heard Zhou Gan holding his shoulders and calling him, and then I realized that I fell asleep leaning on the desk.When I opened my eyes, I felt the candlelight dazzled my eyes, took the towel and rubbed it vigorously on the temples of the eye sockets, as if squeezing some energy from my forehead.

Zhou Gan had been on the sidelines and picked up the gaps to help him wash and wash, and changed his clothes again.He saw that Zhao Shen still had something to worry about, so he said, "General, go in and rest, I'll be on duty outside."

Zhao Shen looked at the thin curtain, a few steps away, completely separated the man from the outside.On the way home, he always missed Lu Youzhi, but now he dared not see him.He used to think that after the siege of the city was over, there would always be countless ways to properly settle Lu Youzhi, but in the current situation in Los Angeles, it was already extravagant to say "plan in the long run".

The world turned upside down for more than a month, but the man could only be trapped inside.When I was at Sishui Pass, I secretly wondered what he was doing at this moment when I had spare time; but after much deliberation, I couldn’t figure it out. It turned out that no matter what happened in the small room, I could only silently watch the sunrise and sunset. The silent time.Lu Youzhi's distress and resentment at that time, he only really understood a little bit until now.

After hesitating for a while, he finally got up and took a step, but he couldn't hear the slightest sound from the inner tent.Zhao Shen gripped the tent curtain with his fingers, and smoothed out the creases inch by inch, feeling timid.The curtain was raised little by little, and the candlelight from the outside leaked into the inside, directly reflecting the quiet face of the person inside the tent.

Zhao Shen looked into those clear eyes and felt heavy stones rolling over his heart inch by inch.He moved his lips and teeth for a long while, but finally he didn't know what to say, but Lu Youzhi said with a faint smile: "I just want to see you come back, I don't need to say anything."

After a long time, Zhao Shen could still recall that night.At that time, I don't know how many people inside and outside the city were thinking about the future of Luocheng, but he, the city lord, fell asleep soundly on Lu You's lap.Did I have a dream in that sleep? I can't remember it clearly, but I feel that my heart is clear and at ease.In the past, he only wanted to confess more, lest they misunderstood each other's intentions; but he already understood the words of this night, and there was no need for more words between the two of them from now on.

Lu Youzhi sat silently, his heart like a sinking pool of still water.In the summer night, the cool smell of grass and trees blows into the inner tent, with a slight sweet fragrance.A hand brushed over Zhao Shen's eyebrows and eye sockets, and gently rubbed away the frown between the brows. This moment of tranquility and indifference made him wish that time would stagnate, stop at this moment, and never end.

But things in the world are like the ebb and flow of the tide, the profit and loss of the moon, and they never turn around for the smoothness of people's hearts.Since then, it has been difficult to defend the isolated city every step of the way, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to reproduce the quiet moment like before.Whether he was willing or not, he has been involved in this chaotic world; the world is pale and yellow, and his personal fate is nothing but an ant.He can't know where each other will go after the years, and he doesn't know whether the dynasty will change after a hundred years.In this situation, their future is doomed to be like a river, which cannot be turned back; but this relationship that shouldn't be there is like a spring on the shore to him, even if it is just a blink of an eye, that glimpse is enough for him to feel at ease.

In this world, he feels that he is just a wanderer. To him, the so-called loyalty and integrity are not fetters, even if they are entangled; but Zhao Shen is different, he has responsibilities to fulfill, and integrity.To him, he is a hidden danger after all.He can do it for a day's comfort, but on the Yanchao screen, when there is a real crisis and change, he should also use Qingping's weapon without hesitation.

When Zhao Shen woke up, it was still dark, and when he opened his eyes and was about to get up, he realized that he had spent the night with his pillow on the buttocks of another family.Seeing the scene beside him, Lu Youzhi put his arm on his shoulder, as if he hadn't slept all night.But I couldn't remember when I fell asleep the night before, so I lowered my head and smiled for a moment: "What I'm doing as a general is really getting worse."

Lu Youzhi also smiled and said, "It's because of your hard work."

Zhao Shen said in a low voice: "But at Sishui Pass... I finally lost."

Lu Youzhi held his arm and said, "It's over, and you can't be defeated. From now on, if you stick to it for a day, you will be undefeated for a day."

Zhao Shen was silent for a while, then laughed softly, "I'm still worried, if you mention surrender again, what should I do?"

Hearing what he said, Lu Youzhi couldn't help but secretly smiled bitterly.At that time, he persuaded Zhao Shen to surrender because of the capital of the two thousand cavalry in his hand.And according to the current situation, the Xiyan army must have felt that it would not take much effort to capture Luocheng, and even if they accepted the surrender, the defeated general would not need to be taken seriously.If you surrender at this time, you will not be qualified to talk about preservation in the future.Putting aside the calculations in Zhao Shen's mind, from what he saw, the defenders of Luocheng must also hold the city firmly at this time, so that the Xiyan army will hit a few thorns, so we can talk about it later, maybe we can negotiate some conditions.He didn't mention it at this time, because he couldn't mention it.Turning to meditate on the prospect of Los Angeles, I feel like reeds with thin roots and shallow bottoms by the river, and rootless duckweeds that do not touch the shore. It depends on fate.

It's just that he didn't want to say these words to trouble Zhao Shen at the moment, so he said to him, "Xiang Yu still has 28 cavalry with him in the east city, let alone so many brothers in the army. Everything here will always turn around .”

When the account was raised early in the morning, Zhao Shen and the generals checked the army and horses in the city.Excluding the [-] or so cavalry that had been withdrawn, there were still more than [-] cavalry left behind, and the remaining [-] infantry.The scouts detected that the army outside the city seemed to be changing defenses and moving, so the city's defenses were still deployed as before for the time being, and they would be replaced after the situation outside the city was determined.During this month, a lot of fortifications were repaired in the city. The soldiers dug soil to fill the burlap bags and piled them on both sides of the city gate for later use.He also gathered all the blacksmiths in the city together, and collected iron utensils from the households that moved away before the war, so that all the door knockers of kitchen knives were gathered in one place, and remelted and cast into arrow knives.Another thing is to count the amount of food and grass according to the current number of defenders in the city, and then do the calculation.

At this moment, I heard a noise outside the tent, and a guard came in to report: "The Xiyan army called the city, saying that they sent some soldiers who were captured at Sishui Pass back, and passed on a letter from their general and supervisor."

After hearing this, everyone looked at each other, Zhao Shen said, "Kaicheng told them to come in."

For a while, the guards brought in a few people, only to see that they were all stripped and wearing only their middle clothes, with bare feet and no crowns, and their hair was loose.One of them tremblingly presented a roll of white linen paper, Zhao Shen saw it and asked, "What is this?"

The man said: "The letter of war."

The guard stepped forward to take it and was about to present it to Zhao Shen, but Zhao Shen stopped him and said, "No need, you can read it here."

The guard unfolded the scroll, looked up for a while, then raised his head to look at Zhao Shen.Zhao Shen said: "You just read it."

The guard hesitated for a while, cleared his throat, and read: "You will fight, and I will fight myself, don't say that you are unpredictable." After reading, he saw that everyone was still looking at him, and said, "It's gone."

This war letter has always paid attention to the momentum of diction, and it always needs to be eloquent and eloquent. Even when it is extremely derogatory and harsh, it can still not forget the brilliant literary talent. In the past, it is said that Chen Lin wrote Yuan Shao's call to Cao, which was sharp and majestic, which made Cao Cao sweat and healed. Head wind; only a paragraph of literati pen and ink also leaves a lot of anecdotal stories.But the letter of war here is only a mere ten or so words, Li Shoude couldn't help saying: "What kind of letter is this? Yu Chiyuan doesn't have a literate person in front of him, why should he belittle us?"

At this time, the Dongyan soldier who delivered the letter said in a low voice: "The general and the supervising army in the Xiyan camp took us to the camp, saying that they were going to fight. I saw a person who looked like a clerk holding a piece of paper. Showed it to the superintendent, the superintendent glanced at it and only sneered and said that he was long-winded, so he took up a pen and wrote these words; someone looked at it from the side, and laughed and said, "You will fight, I will fight, and he will fight." After hearing this, the generals of the Li army all echoed loudly and shouted: You will fight and I will fight myself. The supervising army asked someone to strip off our armor and boots, and said... Ask me to bring it to the general, and take a sentence, saying..."

Hearing the soldier's narration like this, and hearing his voice getting quieter, Zhao Shen felt a little impatient in his heart, and asked subduedly, "What did you say?"

The soldier just bowed his head and said: "He said...he said that he had been friends with the general for a long time, and that he couldn't respect him, so he wished the general...to make up for the weak, and to keep the ancestral property..."

Although the voice was low, everyone in the audience heard it.These words are exactly poking at people's pain, and everyone's expressions have changed.Zhao Shen lowered his eyes and pursed his lips, his knuckles were clenched with a crisp sound, but he didn't attack for a while, and finally he just said coldly: "I see," and nodded again to pass the ten-character letter of challenge Pressing his palm on the case, he said, "Okay."

The author has something to say:

There are not only one or two ms who have done the thigh pillow thing, anyway, it's just trying to be cute...

The self-deprecating aura of the second middle school in this section... well, those 213 or pretending to be 13 are the fault of my OTL

You will fight, and I will fight myself. This sentence is borrowed from the stalk in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, which is the sentence "If you want to fight, fight." just laugh...