The night is deep, and the banks of the great river are full of mist.

On the sparkling surface of the river, mist rises, enveloping the gentle and tranquil river in it, like a dream.

After three days of precipitation, the river has changed from the previous flood beast to a delicate and weak innocent girl at the moment, clear and crystalline, quiet and gentle.

"Wow, whoa, whoa!"

In the clear blue water, Li Li, who was sleepless late at night, dived nearly 100 meters in one breath and floated on his back. After taking a breath, he exerted his strength again, swimming against the current and towards the pool upstream.

In the middle of summer, you can get rid of the shackles of your whole body and be in the slightly cool water, which makes people feel very comfortable, refreshed and free.

"Hoo ———"

When he surfaced again, Li Li took a deep breath and slowly swam towards the opposite shore.

By this time he was already two miles away from the tent camp, and gradually moved away from the camp, and indulged in the middle of the night.

"Hee-hee-hee-hee———"

Suddenly, from the east side of the waterhole in the bend came bursts of laughter, crisp and pleasant, like the voice of a young woman.

"Huh!" The voice floated into Li Li's ears, which surprised him, and he said to himself: "It's really strange that there are women going down to the river to play in the middle of the night so late!" ”

After speaking, he swam slowly in the direction from which the laughter came, and after a moment left the main channel of the river and swam to the east towards a tributary that resembled the neck of a gourd.

Li Li, who was in the tributary river, quickly crossed the narrow river channel that was only waist-deep, and after walking more than 300 steps, he suddenly felt that his eyes suddenly opened up, and a river bay waterhole with a radius of more than ten acres suddenly appeared in the sight.

Slowly swimming into the pool, Li Li found that the further he went deeper into the pool, the higher the temperature of the water, far exceeding the temperature of the river. And, when he was actually in the waterhole. Suddenly, I found that this river bay waterhole is more like a quiet small lake, and it is also a small hot spring lake.

The water here is slow, the water is warm, and the hot air hangs over the lake, which is misty and hazy. With Li Li's extraordinary eyesight, he can see the scenery within twenty paces at most, and if he is further away, it will be blurry and plausible. I can't see it exactly.

Being in it gives people a warm and refreshing feeling, which makes you want to lie down in the lake and fall asleep comfortably.

For the past three days, Li Li has been unable to sleep all night. The thoughts in my mind are chaotic, and the cutting is still messy. Preoccupied. Just like he did tonight. However, at this moment, he was floating quietly on the surface of the warm lake, and all the thoughts that lingered in his heart disappeared inexplicably, and there was no trace of distraction in his mind, empty and peaceful. Unconsciously, he closed his eyes comfortably. Lying on the calm and waveless lake, he slowly drifted to the depths of the small lake in a half-asleep and half-awake state.

By this time, Li Li had completely forgotten that he had come from the sound of laughter, and that this misty hot spring lake was the source of the sound.

It's not a coincidence. At this moment, the area around the small lake is very quiet, there is no light and pleasant laughter just now, not even a sound at all, quiet and peaceful, warm water rippling, like a quiet harbor under the mist.

Li Li, who was lying on the surface of the lake, gently swayed his feet like a pair of small oars, rolling up a circle of thin waves, almost without a sound, slowly drifting towards the shore where the moon could not shine. Without light, sleep can be more fragrant, don't think about anything, let a tired heart filled with countless things completely relax, just like this warm lake, sleep peacefully.

Over the years, he has been so tired, busy day and night, and he does not dare to relax at all times, so that it is an unrealistic luxury to want to sleep carefree and peacefully.

In this chaotic world that has left countless people confused and at a loss, many people don't know the direction of the future, don't know what is going on in this world, and when will they be able to restore the stability and peace of the past, but Li Li knows this. He knows the trend of the troubled times, knows the future fate of many people, and knows that the current Han people will not see the expected peaceful days in their lifetimes.

It is precisely because he knows too much that he is burdened by it, and he can't get by like a normal person, and he can't die when he faints. He wants to change his destiny and struggle to survive in the troubled times; He wants to put an end to this troubled world and do his best to strengthen his strength. Because there are things in this world that he cares about, and there are many people who are connected with his destiny to follow him, and there are even more people who love him with all their hearts and care about him.

The more you know, the more troubles you have; The more you get, the heavier the burden on your shoulders. The heavier the burden, the more the heart cannot be at peace; With great power comes great responsibility. When you get something, it means that you need to make a greater effort, and if you want to gain the trust of others, you need to take more practical actions in exchange for this sincerity.

Everyone in the world knows that Xiliang Li is in a high position and powerful, and his strength is flourishing day by day. But who knows, in the midst of these powers that others can't reach, the burden on his shoulders is also increasing day by day, and an indescribable sense of crisis haunts his heart all the time, overwhelming him. The higher you stand, the heavier you fall, the infinite scenery is in the dangerous peak, and under the dangerous peak is hell.

To this day, why Li Li still travels to the Central Plains and Jiangnan alone comes from the sense of crisis and urgency in his heart.

Nearly 400,000 Xiliang troops, like a behemoth, can occupy a place in Fang today, only need to sit on the risk of three passes, consolidate the northwest border, enough to enjoy a peaceful life for decades, not afraid of any princes to attack. If Li Li's ambition is limited to this, then he doesn't have to risk his life to go to the Central Plains, let alone go all the way south to Jingyang Erzhou, as long as he guards his Xiliang one acre and three points of land, his wife and concubine are hot kang heads, singing and dancing Sheng Ping is drunk and dreaming of death, no one can help him, at least in the short term, no prince will provoke him for no reason. But such a stable day cannot last long after all, and when he is completely hollowed out by wine and his ambition is exhausted after ten or twenty years, I am afraid that his end will come. The head is in a different place, the family is wiped out, and the qiē that he once owned will be turned into ashes in a blink of an eye.

It was based on the sense of crisis in his heart that prompted Li Li to travel to the Central Plains and the South without fear of life and death. Traveling is not to travel in the mountains and rivers, to sing the wind and the moon, not to see the fresh and lively, but to see the people's hearts and minds, and browse the dangerous passes of the strong city. After experiencing the catastrophe of life and death, recruit capable military generals and further strengthen their own strength.

No pain, no gain. Many people know this simple truth, but very few people can do it, so successful people are always only a few, and most people are mediocre and ordinary all their lives.

Even if Li Li, who is in a high position, has the heart to be an ordinary person, it is also an unattainable luxury. In the midst of it, he can only advance and not retreat. further extremely human ministers, Weijia Hainei; Take a step back, the family is ruined, and there is no place to bury the dead. This kind of auspicious and unpredictable situation is only he himself who has the deepest experience and hides it deep in his heart. I'll never tell anyone.

After three catastrophes of life and death, it seems that he has become auspicious every time. But only he knows the taste. There has never been an auspicious thing in this world. Cheng Xiang relied on his own ability, otherwise there would not be so many unfortunate people in the world.

Li Li was really tired, had a lot of troubles, and the things he had to face were even more complicated, coupled with repeated disasters, which made him exhausted. Overwhelmed. And these things can't be told to others, so he can only channel his soul by himself, lick the wounds of his calves in the night, and soothe his scarred body and mind.

At the moment, Li Li is vulnerable. Leaning against the rocks by the lake and falling asleep, no one was able to see his vulnerability. Because after waking up tomorrow morning, he is still a strong overlord who is proud of the world, the brave and invincible commander of the Xiliang Army, with strong soldiers in hand, beauties in his arms, and he is the only one.

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"Hee-hee-hee-hee———"

"Sister, you and Cui'er and Xiaomei should go back first, Xiaomei won't go back tonight, just sleep in the hot spring for one night."

In the southwest corner next to the quiet lake, four young girls were playing in a hidden pool twenty steps away from the lake. And where they are is the source of this hot spring lake, an oval hot spring pool with a diameter of more than 20 steps, and there are many pebbles of different shapes on the shore, different sizes, large stones for an adult to lie on to rest, small stones for people to sit on and soak in the hot springs.

Obviously, these pebbles are not the product of the hot spring exit, but someone deliberately collected this smooth stone and painstakingly moved it to the pool for the maidens to play in the water.

In addition, the hot spring pool is surrounded by a dense fence up to two feet high, and there is a wooden gate at the entrance, and the only place that is not blocked by the fence is the hot spring exit, which flows into the small lake. Beyond the fence is a large bamboo forest, in which a large mansion can be faintly seen, and outside the bamboo forest, there is a wall enclosing the entire bamboo forest and the house, during which there are many strong men wearing courtyard clothes patrolling back and forth.

It can be seen that this hot spring pool and quiet lake for girls to cool off and play in the water are all owned by the owner, and are not a place for people to come and go at will.

The four girls soaked in the hot spring pool, with only wrap breasts and obscene pants on their delicate bodies, and the texture was thin and silky, almost transparent, showing the undulating and graceful posture of the girls.

Under the half-round moonlight, in the mist, the four girls were frank with each other, revealing their proud figures unabashedly in the eyes of the sisters.

But I saw that two of the girls walked to the shore from time to time, took out flower petals from bamboo baskets on the pebbles and sprinkled them on the water, and then stirred the pool water with red silk in their hands, so that the fragrance of the petals dissolved into the water. This is as if the huge hot spring pool is used as a bathing tub, and fragrant flower petals are added for the two young ladies to soak in the beauty bath.

It is true that the identities of these two girls are self-evident, and they must be the personal maids of the other two girls, otherwise the two of them would not do this kind of thing that only maids do.

However, even if they are maids, they are beautiful maids who are naturally beautiful. They are quite tall, with convex and backward figures, wonderful curves, stacked mountains, and undulating grounds; The skin is as white as snow, shiny and dazzling, the hair is shawl, the facial features are delicate and soft, and the body is graceful like a peach about to ripen.

If the maids are still so beautiful, then the two young ladies they serve are naturally beautiful people, otherwise they will definitely not find such a beautiful maid to follow them for a long time, because it would be self-inflicted.

And so it is. The two young ladies bathed in the petals, the moonlight on them looked dim, far less white and clear than their proud skin. There are no fish and shrimp in the huge quiet lake near the hot spring exit, and even some hot fish do not dare to dive into the hot spring pool, so they have to quietly lurk at the bottom of the lake, peeking at the two beauties bathing in the pool from a distance. There is not a single bird flying above the pool, perhaps they have inhabited the bamboo forest, or they dare not show their heads, for fear of being attracted by the delicate bodies of the two peerless beauties in the pool, falling into the water and drowning.

From ancient times to the present, the so-called appearance of the shy flowers in the closed moon and the appearance of the sinking fish and geese have been perfectly interpreted in the two peerless beauties in the pool. Perhaps these two words to describe the extreme beauty of women were born for the two of them, and no other word can encompass their peerless appearance. When it is:

The hair hangs down like silk, and the facial features disappear naturally;

The crisp chest is round and the moon is shy, and the waist is plump and the crotch is choppy.

Qianqianyu refers to the warm current, and the slim jade gathers the flowers;

Ice muscles and jade bones are talented, and a smile is also ecstatic.

If the two women are in the tiger prison, the eighteen princes will fall with their banners;

How many charms in ancient and modern times, the birth of the second daughter disappeared.

"My sister is going to spend the night here, isn't that right?" Hearing that her sister didn't go back to the house with her to rest, her sister, who had the appearance of a shy flower in the closed moon, hesitated.

By this time, the four of them had been playing in the water for two hours, from evening to late at night. At this moment, the elder sister and the other two maids had already gone ashore to get dressed and prepare to leave, but the younger sister closed her eyes and pretended to sleep on the pebbles, soaking her proud body under the petals, not only did not get up to dress, but also untied the only breasts and pants on her body, trying to stay in the hot spring pool for the night.

However, this has happened many times before, and the sisters occasionally spend the night in the hot spring pool every summer, so this is not the first time that this night has happened.

"Alright then, I'll bring you the clothes tomorrow morning." Seeing that her sister insisted on this, her sister didn't say much, waved her hand and motioned for her maid to take her sister's clothes and walk away. After going out, my sister locked the wooden gate of the fence and left with two maids.

"Men are fighting swordsmanship in the world, and women are painting splendid 、、、、、、 out of the dust"

After the elder sister and the maid left, the "younger sister" who closed her eyes and pretended to sleep slowly opened her eyes, and slowly swam to the exit of the hot spring, looking at the quiet lake surrounded by mist, and gently singing her favorite song.

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