When I got up, it was still early in the morning, and I walked out of the house and into the courtyard, where sparse stars hung in the night sky before dawn, the air was cold and quiet, and the guardhouse outside the courtyard was lit with orange light.

After buttoning up the clothes on his body, Ning Yi walked to the quiet living room, poured himself a cup of hot water, yawned a few times while drinking the water, and then rubbed his face to sober himself up.

I had a few dreams at night, and after waking up, I couldn't remember it in a daze, there was still a little time before the morning exercise, Jin'er was by her side and hugged Xiao Ning Kewu to fall asleep, seeing their sleeping appearance, Ning Yi's heart calmed down, and he got up lightly.

Without lighting the oil lamp, Ning Yi sat in the dark living room for a while, the window lattice reflected the starlight outside, reflecting the crescent-like white. After a while, a figure came in: "Can't sleep? ”

But it's red grapes.

"It's okay, woke you up?"

Hongti just smiled, walked to his side and stroked his forehead, but was held by Ning Yi and sat down on his lap: "I had a few dreams, I woke up and thought about things, and saw Jin'er and Xiaoke sleeping comfortably, and I didn't want to wake them up." If you go to bed late, you can actually go to bed again. ”

"Hmm." Hongti replied, but didn't walk away, hugging Ning Yi's neck and closing his eyes. In her early years, she walked the rivers and lakes, the wind and rain, and her temperament was a little similar to the simplicity of the village girl, and in the past few years, she has settled down in her heart, but she just followed Ning Yi's side, and she had a little soft and charming feeling.

The couple hugged and sat for a while, Ning Yi got up, the red grapes were naturally not sleepy, and went to the kitchen to wash their faces, during this time, Ning Yi walked to the courtyard outside the door and piled up the snow that had been shoveled in the corner of the courtyard two days ago. After a few days, the unmelted snow has become hard, after the red grape brought the washing water, Ning Yiwu took a small shovel to make a snowman, she called softly twice, and then had to wring a towel to wipe Ning Yi's face, and then washed herself, poured hot water, and also came to help.

Two snowballs, one large and one small, were piled into the main body of the snowman, Ning Yi made eyes with stones, made his hands with branches, and then used two snowballs to pinch out a gourd and put it on the snowman's head, inserted a dead leaf behind the gourd, stepped back and crossed his waist to look, imagining what the child would look like when he came out for a while, Ning Yi clapped his hands with satisfaction, and then high-fived with the helpless red tio.

The two of them walked towards the outside of the courtyard, under the black canopy, there were still sparse lights in Zhang Village, the outline of the street, the outline of the house, the outline of the riverside workshop and the waterwheel, and the outline of the military camp in the distance were faintly visible in the sparse firelight, and the patrolling soldiers walked over from a distance, and there were slogans written in white lime on the walls of the courtyard. Ning Yi avoided the river and went around the small hillside on the side of Zhang Village, crossing this village, and the land of the Chengdu Plain stretched into the distance.

Ning Yi looked into the distance, and Hongti was standing beside him, not bothering him.

The light gradually increased in the night, and there was gradually the movement of human figures in the field of vision, the dogs barked a few times, and after a while, the chickens began to crow, and the white smoke came from the houses under the field of vision, and the stars fell, and the sky seemed to tremble and reveal the white of the fish's belly.

The time is December 28 of the tenth year of Wu Jianshuo, and the old year is about to pass again. After coming here for more than ten years, the antique flavor of the original deep house compound seems to be close in front of me, but at this moment, the bits and pieces of Zhangcun are more like a farm village in another world in memory, relatively neat dirt roads, courtyard walls, lime words on the courtyard wall, and the roosters and dogs barking in the early morning.

But this is naturally an illusion.

Leaving this area, there is still the Wu Dynasty outside, and the eleventh year of Jianshuo is the eleventh year of Jianshuo, the Jurchens are attacking the city and killing people, and they have not stopped for a moment, and even this small village that looks novel and strong in front of them, if it falls into the flames of war, it will only take a blink of an eye to return to the ruins, and everything is as fragile as a sandcastle on the beach before the torrent of history.

After staying for a moment, Ning Yi jogged forward around the hillside, and the distance of vision gradually became clear, and there were war horses galloping all the way from the road in the distance, turning into a courtyard in the village below.

"It should be news from the east." Red Mention Road.

Ning Yi nodded: "No hurry." ”

After running around this hillside for a while, the trumpet in the barracks was also sounding, and the soldiers began to exercise, and a few figures came from the front, but it was Chen Fan and Qin Shaoqian, who also got up early. Although the weather was cold, Chen Fan was dressed in a single clothes, and he couldn't see the coldness at all, but Qin Shaoqian was wearing a neat military uniform, probably with the soldiers around him in training, and met Chen Fan here. The two were talking to themselves, and when they saw Ning Yi coming up, they greeted him with a smile.

"Liheng is here." Qin Shaoqian nodded.

Chen Fan smiled: "Why did you go at night when you got up so late?" ”

"Adults are a bit of a city, so I asked what you were doing at night, look at your hungry appearance......" Ning Yi smiled and hurt Chen Fan, "What are you talking about?" ”

"Say that your black-hearted owner, it's the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, and you won't give your subordinates a holiday."

"You don't have a holiday at home, and your pig teammates are dying again, I'll give you a holiday, can you sleep?"

The two responded to each other, and Qin Shaoqian smiled over there: "I told Chen Fan just now, Zhou Yong has done so many things, how can we deal with it...... At first, I didn't expect this emperor to be so messy, and they all wanted to laugh, but today, everyone couldn't guess that the consequences would be so serious. The Wushu sword pointed at Lin'an, the people of the Wu Dynasty were uneven, Zhou Yong had no responsibility, if it really collapsed, the consequences would be unimaginable. ”

A smile appeared at the corner of Ning Yi's mouth, and then he became serious: "I told him at the beginning, talk to him about these things with a pair of children, who knew that Zhou Yong's neuropathy went directly to the court, and his brain was broken......" He said this, and laughed again, "It's funny to say, back then, I felt that the emperor was in the way, and I stabbed him to rebel, but now he is a thief, and he is still blocked by this emperor, he is really capable......"

When he said this, several people couldn't help laughing, Chen Fan laughed for a while: "Now I can see that Zhou Yong proposed to reconcile with us, on the one hand, it is to visit the minister's tone and put pressure on them, and on the other hand, it is our turn to make a choice, I was chatting with Lao Qin just now, if at this time, we come out to pick up the stubble, maybe we can help stabilize the situation a little." In the past two days, the General Staff has also been discussing, what do you think? ”

He looked at Ning Yi, Ning Yi shook his head, his eyes were serious: "No." ”

Hearing him say this, Chen Fan's eyes were obviously relaxed, and Qin Shaoqian on the other side also smiled slightly: "What did Liheng think?" ”

"You guys come to test me for this kind of thing." Ning Yi smiled, "The majesty of the royal family is the foundation of rule, if I kill Zhou Zhe, Zhou Yong can admit it, who else will be afraid of him, the emperor?" The people in the court can understand it, even if I am put in the same position, I will not let the emperor do such a stupid thing, but unfortunately Zhou Yong is too naïve......"

He sighed: "He did this kind of thing, the minister stopped it, and it was still a trivial matter to wait for Shao's death." The biggest problem is that when the prince was determined to resist Jin, the hearts of the people in the Wu Dynasty were basically united, and even if they had two hearts, they didn't dare to move on the surface. Zhou Yong took this step, and those who wanted to surrender in private, wanted to rebel, or at least wanted to leave a way back for themselves would move. In the past ten years, those guys that Jin Guo has secretly contacted can't hold down their claws now, and in addition, the people on Xi Yin's side have also begun to move......"

Ning Yi paused slightly when he said this: "The intelligence personnel of the Wu Dynasty have been notified to move, but in recent years, the focus of espionage work has been in the Central Plains and the north, and most of the Wu Dynasty's direction has taken the commercial route, and it may not be easy to catch the personnel of Yan Xiyin's line in a short period of time...... In addition, although the Wushu may have used Xi Yin's calculations and was premeditated, 50,000 horsemen crossed the Yangtze River three times before and after, and finally were caught by the tail. On the cusp of this kind of storm, Zhou Yong still died like this, I guess Xiyin in Xiangyang will be scared stupid by Zhou Yong's stupidity after hearing the news......"

"Zhou Yong wants to reconcile with us, and the scholars of the Wu Dynasty who have a little common sense will go to stop him, at this time we stand up and say that it is to inspire the people, but in fact, the resistance will be great, Zhou Yong's position will only be more unstable, and our team is thousands of miles away...... Chen Fan, your more than 10,000 people, dare to travel more than 1,000 miles to Lin'an? ”

"Chengdu has just stabilized, and the more than 15,000 people recruited for the Chinese New Year Games have not yet started training, and the far water can't save the fire. After Zhou Yong's throat, the Wu Dynasty will collapse faster, and we can face Zong Han earlier. Ning Yi smiled, "In addition, we came out to rebel, relying on unity, now the place has just expanded, and the people's hearts are not stable, and suddenly they said that they want to help the emperor fight, and the brothers who followed us before will be cold-hearted, and the new ones will be wrong, and they will s......tab themselves by the way."

When he said this, his words gradually stopped, and Chen Fan laughed: "Thinking so clearly, there is nothing to say, alas, I was still thinking, if we come out to answer the conversation, the faces of those scholars in the Wu Dynasty will not be colorful, haha...... Uh, what do you think? ”

He saw Ning Yi's eyes flickering, lost in thought, and asked, Ning Yi's gaze turned to him, and he was silent for a while.

“…… I was thinking just now, if I were Wanyan Xiyin, I would have been able to pretend to be Huaxia Jun by now......"

"Uh......" Chen Fan blinked and froze there.

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In Lin'an, a moment before dawn, there are lights swimming in the antique courtyard.

Lin'an City in recent years, the atmosphere of the New Year is accompanied by tension and slaughter, with the news of the Wushu southward every day, the city guard army has begun to mobilize on a large scale, some people chose to abandon the city and go away, but most of the people still stay in the city, the atmosphere of the New Year and the tension of the war are strangely fused together, every day, people feel the mixed heart trembling and anxiety.

The same is true of the scene in the eldest princess's mansion.

The steward in charge of life and the subordinates are putting on lights to create a New Year's flavor, but as another set of teams in the princess's mansion, whether it is involved in espionage or many personnel involved in politics, logistics, and military, they have been dealing with various situations with a high degree of tension these days, as Ning Yi said, the opponent has not rested, and the pig teammates are racing against time to die, and the people who do things naturally cannot stop because of the New Year.

The two sets of teams are strangely interspersed together, both containing each other and not interfering with each other, forming an incomparably wonderful and special scene.

As far as the personnel of the princess's mansion are concerned, the so-called pig teammates also include the current lord of a country in the court: the father of the eldest princess, Zhou Yong, the son of heaven.

If it was just the Golden Vulture suddenly crossing the Yellow River and heading south, the situation facing the eldest princess's mansion would definitely not be as anxious and anxious as it was in front of her. And now, especially after Hou Shao's death at the touch of the pillar, every day is a great ordeal. The court of the Wu Dynasty seemed to have suddenly changed, and each of the families and forces that made up the entire Nanwu system seemed to become a resistance to the Zhou family, and could go wrong or even turn against each other at any time.

The admonitions from all sides continued to pour in, the students of Taixue went to the street to meditate, asking the emperor to issue an edict for his own crimes, to correct the name of the dead Hou Shao, to posthumously be crowned, and to give him a knighthood, and the spies of the Jin State continued to move in secret, lobbying everywhere to persuade him to surrender, and in just in the past ten days, Jiangning had already suffered two defeats, both of which were defeated by the enemy due to the lack of morale of the army.

In the more than 200 years of operation of the Wu Dynasty, there are not many cars and horses that will really reduce the gold at this time, but under the erosion of this wave of morale, the anti-gold situation that the Wu Dynasty has been struggling to operate has become even more precarious. Next, it's not surprising that anything might happen.

Above the court, the huge twists and turns have subsided, and after Hou Shao crashed to death on the Jinluan Palace, Zhou Yong's whole person has begun to become sluggish, and he hid in the harem and no longer went to court. Zhou Pei originally thought that her father still hadn't seen the situation clearly, and wanted to enter the palace to continue to talk about it, but who knew that when she entered the palace, Zhou Yong's attitude towards her also became stiff, and she knew that her father had already admitted defeat.

Zhou Pei, Zhao Ding, Qin Hui and others met urgently, and confirmed to each other that the most important thing at the moment was to calm the influence and fight against the Jurchens together, but at this time, the Jurchen spies were already operating in secret, on the other hand, even if everyone avoided talking about Zhou Yong's affairs, no Confucian would quietly shut up about Hou Shao's feat of touching the pillar and admonishing him.

For Zhao Ding, Qin Hui, and Lu Yihao, who are at the top of the court, it is certainly no problem to shut up and not talk about the entire situation caused by Zhou Yong this time. But in the future, for the middle and lower-level officials and even the Confucian scholars who will become officials, the emperor's rights and wrongs, as well as the solution after doing such a thing this time, and even the praise and characterization of Hou Shao's feats, cannot but be made clear.

And even if you just talk about Hou Shao, you must talk about Zhou Yong.

During this period of time, Zhou Pei often woke up at night, sat in the small attic, and looked at the situation in the house in a daze. On the twenty-eighth day, she had woken up in the early hours of the morning, and when it was almost dawn, she gradually felt a little sleepy, but there were also messengers from outside the house, and new news about the Jurchens arrived.

This is news about the Vultures.

Beginning on December 14, Wushu led 50,000 cavalry to the south lightly armed in the form of abandoning most of his baggage, burning and looting on the way, and eating the people. The distance from the Yangtze River to Lin'an, this is the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, although the waterway is vertical and horizontal, but also densely populated, although Junwu urgently mobilized the 170,000 troops in the south to try to intercept the Wushu, but the Wushu rushed all the way, not only twice defeated the army that was killed, but also in half a month, killing and looting countless villages, wherever the cavalry went, a piece of rich villages were all whiteland, women were raped, men were killed, driven away...... After eight years, the human tragedy when the Jurchens searched the mountains and inspected the seas vaguely came again.

The army of Wushu was wreaking havoc on the west side of Taihu Lake, two hundred miles away from Lin'an, and the information sent urgently counted the names of the villages burned by it and the estimated population, and after Zhou Pei read it, she carefully marked the location on the large map in the room - this was to no avail, and there were no tears in her eyes when she first saw this kind of information, but she quietly remembered these in her heart.

The sound of roosters came from afar, the sky outside was slightly bright, Zhou Pei walked up to the terrace outside the attic, looking at the white fish belly on the east side, the maids in the princess's mansion were cleaning the yard, she looked at it for a while, and accidentally thought of the scene when the Jurchens came, and unconsciously hugged her arms.

Suddenly, the alarm and martial law bell rang in the city, Zhou Pei was stunned for a moment, quickly went downstairs, and after a while, someone rushed to the courtyard outside.

"What's the matter!?"

"Report, there are traitors in the city, and General Yu has ordered martial law to arrest people......"

For the garrison work of Lin'an City at this time, several forbidden armies have taken over in an all-round way, and they also have plans for all kinds of things. On the morning of that day, more than a dozen bandits invariably launched in the city, they chose various places in Lin'an City with dense crowds, picked high places, and wantonly threw leaflets with indiscriminate writing into the crowd on the streets.

Zhou Pei drove away from the princess's mansion in a car, at this time martial law had begun in Lin'an City, and the soldiers went to the street to chase the bandits involved, but because of the suddenness of the incident, there was a small-scale chaos along the way, and it was not far away, Cheng Zhouhai rode a horse over, his face was gloomy as paper, with some blood on his body, and a few leaflets in his hand, Zhou Pei thought he was injured, Cheng Zhouhai explained a little, and she knew that the blood was not Cheng Zhouhai.

“…… The bandits in front of them couldn't escape, they were killed by the guards patrolling the city, the scene was bloody, Your Highness still don't want to go over, but what is written on it, its heart can be punished, Your Highness may wish to take a look. He handed the leaflet to Zhou Pei, and lowered his voice again, "Over there at Qiantang Gate, Guozijian and Taixue were also thrown in a lot of this kind of news, and it was the Jurchens, and the matter was troublesome......

Zhou Pei picked up the flyer and looked at it, suddenly closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and opened them again. On top of the leaflet was a piece of text written in imitation of the Black Flag Army.

The article said that Emperor Zhou Zhe had no talent and no virtue, connived at the Six Tigers, caused chaos in the Wu Dynasty, and acted perversely, killing the loyal minister Qin Siyuan, and now the wise saint Zhou Yongdaren Dade, in the face of the catastrophe of the overturning of the world and the danger of the nation, regardless of the past willing to reconcile with the Huaxia Army, the Huaxia Army is also grateful to Dai De, and is willing to return to the Wu Dynasty.

The article then called for the righteousness of the world and the survival of the nation, and invited the loyal and righteous people of Lin'an and Wu Dynasty to rescue Zhou Yong, hoe the traitorous minister, and rectify the dynasty, so as to resist the Jurchens and return the world to Langlang.

Zhou Pei looked up after reading the flyer. Cheng Zhouhai saw that his eyes were full of blood.