The snow melted and the ice melted, and the cold river in February gradually merged into a surging river, with fish leaping out of the water and birds flying across the sky. After the colorful spring and the tingling and green spring, the time has entered the sometimes violent and sometimes dull summer. Occasionally it is the ground where heavy rain falls, and the rain beats the banana leaves, flooding the places where the ravages of previous years have been ravaged. Occasionally it is a vibrant morning, a hot afternoon, and a cool night that is hard to find. Thin, thin smoke.
Jinghan, thirteen years, summer.
When the wind and snow came, it was no longer cold. She stood there, wanting to see her father and mother on the other side of the wind and snow, and her sister and brother in the wind and snow. The outline gradually became clearer.
When the night was at its deepest, something seemed to come out from the deepest part of her heart. She didn't know what kind of emotion it was. When she opened her eyes, the mosquito net was swaying slightly by the pleasant midnight breeze. She was kicked away, and the man was not around.
Yuan Jin'er lay on the bed for a while, and the bright moonlight came in from the window. She was wearing only a pink apron on the bed, revealing a clean back and arms, and her slender legs and slender feet seemed to be covered with a layer. The crystal clear moonlight shone slightly like ivory, and there was a red string on the ankle of the right leg.
Her emotions were still swirling in her dream, so even though she opened her eyes, she still lay there on her side and didn't move, but after a while, her fingers lightly grabbed the blanket next to her, thinking of how she got along with him last night. Thinking of those shameless things and the obsession with her attachment, no matter what happened at the time, everything settled down and only made her feel warm.
She already has a home.
therefore. Even if I see the wind and snow that I haven't seen for a long time again, I won't feel cold anymore, but I want to see their appearance.
After all, the girl in the blizzard has grown up.
She got up from the bed and put on silk pants and clothes. Then he got out of bed, put on his embroidered shoes, and walked out the door. On the reclining chair in the yard, Ning Yi was sitting there, thinking about something, she watched for a while before walking over. under the moonlight. The woman in the thin satin trousers was like a light fairy. When she got close, she held the man's hand, sat on the side of the reclining chair, and looked at his face.
"Sorry. There was news just now, but I didn't wake you up."
The man was thinking about things with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and smiled at him. Jin'er shook her head, but what she remembered in her mind was when she just learned the name of Ning Yi a few years ago. In the blink of an eye, four or five years have passed. Thinking about it, it took her four or five years from being sold to living in a brothel, four or five years as an oiran, and four or five years after that. It has been Jinghan's thirteen years now. Thinking like this, it took a while. He also took off his embroidered shoes, climbed onto the reclining chair, and lay down with him. Although the chair was spacious, it was still a bit narrow to accommodate two people. Ning Yi hugged her and made her lie on his chest. Body stick together.
"What happened?" Jin'er asked softly.
"Nothing." Ning Yi shook his head, his voice soft. "It's just a piece of information from the north. It started last year when Wanyan Agu was killed. Because of the influence of the Zhaoan Zhao, the security in the north has improved a lot."
Ning Yi's words seemed to be telling Jin'er, but in fact it was not necessarily the case, it was just sorting out clues in his mind. There is a pleasant cool breeze blowing at night.
"Actually, it's not a bad thing. After the law and order improved, a large number of merchants went there. Now the prosperity of the north of Bianliang has increased by at least 30%. In half a year, everyone said that Tan Shumi's Zhao An Zhao is Wan Wan. Family Life Buddha... Well, there is a part of the north, after all, there is also the shadow of our Zhuji."
"Is Liheng still worried about the war?" Jin'er asked.
"A little bit." Ning Yi smiled, he put his left arm around Jin'er, but his right was stretched out under her clothes, feeling the delicate skin of the woman and the softness of her chest. However, for two people who have been husband and wife for so long, this level of physical intimacy is the same as that of kittens rubbing their necks, which is not so strange.
"I don't understand this, but I always feel that fighting is a long way to go. Now that the world is peaceful and the world is so good, I always think... how can we go to war. However, Xianggong still knows that we will fight, right?"
In Jin'er's whispers, Ning Yi shook his head with a smile: "Not really, sometimes I also think that war may be a long way off, am I wrong, especially when there are a lot of trivial things, even more so? Think so."
"If we don't fight, will Liheng take us to the south?"
"Well, go back to Jiangning, or find a small place and live together until you grow old."
"If I'm old, will Xianggong not want me anymore?"
"what?"
"Because I only look good now. In a few years, I will be old and pale, won't Liheng drive me into a dark room?"
"… "
The soft words rang in the night. After a while, the man got up from the reclining chair and carried his wife back to the bedroom. Just as he stepped into the threshold, the tranquility of the night was broken by a violent noise.
"Who-"
"Night attack!"
"Which friend..."
"Jingnan Seven Killing Guns and... Green Forest Friends... Killing Demons..."
"You're tired of living—"
"Set fire to..."
The sound of fighting continued from the outside, Ning Yi stood there listening to these words, Jin'er in his arms grabbed his clothes. When he entered the room, opened the mosquito net and put her on the bed, Jin'er still grabbed his clothes and refused to put them away.
"A bunch of small characters can't make waves. It's very safe here. I'll take a look. You sleep first and wait for me to come back."
"You also said it was a small role, then don't go..."
Jin'er lay there and looked at him with eyes like a wounded baby.
"After you catch them, you have to think about how to deal with their affairs. These guys are endless, and you can't make them feel better."
Ning Yi leaned down and hugged Jin'er on the bed. Jin'er also wrapped her arms around his neck tightly. After hugging him for a while, she let go of him.
"You pay attention to safety, come back early... Every time you go, I'm worried... The whole family is worried... "
"I know..." Ning Yi kissed her on the forehead, then got up and took a breath. Jin'er looked at the man and muttered "kill them". All the way out, she also smiled.
After Ning Yi left, the chaotic voices of fighting and fighting were still heard, and then someone set fire and someone put out the fire. Jin'er lay on the bed for a while. Unable to fall asleep, he sat up and wanted to get out of bed, only to find that his shoes were left in the courtyard. She stepped on the ground barefoot, walked to the door, looked at the chaos outside, and listened to the sound. Then he sat down by the threshold.
After a while, the woman clasped her hands, curled her legs, and fell asleep on the ground beside the door.
When the sky was darkest in the early morning, it was quiet outside. Ning Yi just came back from the outside and picked up the woman who was sleeping by the door. The two returned to the bed, hugged each other and continued to sleep for a while.
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In the morning, Jin'er came out of the yard and went to the restaurant facing the street to have breakfast prepared. This is the Zhuji branch in a town south of Bianliang, although the riots last night were not small, and even caused a small fire. But at this time, there were still pedestrians coming and going on the street, which seemed quite lively.
Many merchants and literati settled in Zhuji's restaurant. Eat some special snacks known as Beijing's specialties. After Jin'er and the accompanying guards sat down at the table covered by a screen inside the restaurant, they found that someone was secretly looking at them from outside.
Since it's not a box, Jin'er's appearance and figure are extremely outstanding, and it's not surprising that she will sometimes be looked at by others. She was already dressed as a woman at this time, and she was accompanied by entourage and guards. There are basically no people who dare to come forward and mess around. But this time Jin'er took a look outside, but she was stunned.
A table at the other end of the field of vision. There should be some outsiders who also settled in Zhuji last night. Several men brought their wives, concubines and family members. It seems that the family should also be quite well-off, but the appearance of one of the women makes Jin'er's eyelids jump.
It was the woman who was wearing a decent dress. Occasionally, she turned her head and looked at Jin'er through the gap beside the screen. Jin'er glanced at it, opened her mouth, and turned her gaze back calmly. She put her hands on her knees, and after a while, she glanced back.
Next to the woman was an elderly countryman who was also well-dressed. From the clothes, it could be seen that he was talking with a few companions, and Jin'er also glanced at it and tried. Combine that figure with an image in memory.
The old man and the young woman were probably also the relationship between the husband and the concubine. When he noticed that the woman beside him was wrong, he also glanced here. Jin'er didn't want to look at him, she sat quietly with her hands folded together, and didn't look that way. After the old man looked here for a few times, he seemed to stretch his neck to see more clearly. In the space between the screens, a man named Qi Xinyong frowned and looked out, and saw the man who looked like an iron tower. , The old man turned his head quickly, and patted the concubine beside him by the way, telling her not to look over there, lest anything happen.
Not long after, I got up early, and the table outside had already checked out and left. Ning Yi came up from below and saw Ning Yi's figure, Jin'er clenched her fists and was extremely excited: "Xianggong, Xianggong, I'm so powerful, I'm so powerful, I'm about to have supernatural powers!"
"Uh? What's the matter?" Ning Yi smiled and was stunned, "You made these things on the table?"
"No, no." Jin'er lowered her voice with excitement on her face, "Did I tell you, Xianggong, that I had a dream last night about my sister."
"Uh... I don't seem to have said that."
"I just dreamed of my sister, father, mother, brother, and sister, and then, did you pay attention to the table that just got off?" Jin'er took Ning Yi's hand and ran out, from the second She looked down from the platform, but she couldn't see the group of people anymore. She pulled Ning Yi back to the screen again, and looked at the street outside from the window. Only then did she see the group of people from the crowd. The figure, following them, there are several carts.
Jin'er hid behind Ning Yi, and pointed down sneakily and happily: "Look, the one in the green floral dress seems to be my sister, and the fat one outside the staff is her husband. It's my brother-in-law... I haven't seen it for a long time, but it should be them."
The woman in the crowd was still looking upstairs, and Jin Er hugged Ning Yi's hand and hid. Ning Yi took a few glances: "Are you sure that's not your father?"
"No, no, it's my brother-in-law." Jin'er hugged Ning Yi's arm tightly, hid beside him and smiled happily, making Ning Yi's arm press tightly against her chest. Then I discovered something, "And my friends, look, the skinny-looking tuberculosis ghost in the back of the car is my brother-in-law's son. Sure enough, it's them. I told you, Mr. Xiang, when I went home, It's that old man who looked at me with squinted eyes, and then this tuberculosis ghost also looked at me with squinted eyes..."
Although it sounds like a bad memory, Jin'er's mood is obviously bright. Ning Yi pouted: "You saw your sister, and your sister seems to have seen you too. Do you want to go down and recognize her and say hello? As for the brother-in-law and his son, do you want me to scare them?"
"No." Jin'er smiled and probed. He retracted again, "My sister doesn't recognize me, and I don't recognize her. I really ran down to recognize her. What should I say? I used to think of my sister and the others, and I felt very disappointed. Maybe I still miss her a little bit. But... there's no need to meet to say if it's okay now."
Ning Yi looked out the window and touched her head.
"However, Xianggong. I'm really amazing, right? I dreamed about her last night, and I saw her today. Also, when I went there, my sister kept telling me how to compete for favor with this brother-in-law, how to do it. She was not doing well. She was bullied again. Let’s see today. The rich man also took her with him when he came out of such a distant place. My sister and her... She should be living well, I think about it. I’m actually a little happy in my heart. … hey, strange fate…”
She rubbed Ning Yi happily like a kitten.
Not long after, the sister-in-law and her husband's family went to the front and disappeared into the crowd.
The world is big and life is small. Trivial partings, trivial encounters, and trivial fates... Among the many trivial things, sometimes even Ning Yi wonders, maybe the war really happened far and far in the sky . At this time, it was the sixth month of the lunar calendar in the thirteenth year of Jinghan. To the north of Bianliang City, Zhu Ji's tentacles looked far away. Located in a town west of Taiyuan, as the sun slanted westward, big trees scattered on the street, and people gathered here to listen with high interest to the storytellers who came with the Zhuji cart to tell martial arts stories. On the side of the storyteller's stall, there was also a stall beside a cart, offering all kinds of cheap snacks or practical daily necessities for sale. For a time, this side of the town was very lively.
A group of people who looked quite Jianghu watched all this coldly from the side of the street.
The fame of Zhuji has been made in this neighborhood. Every storytelling, as well as the juggling and magic performances interspersed in it, are very important, so that the lively town will not end until late at night, and this day is also the same. When the sun went down, the moon rose, and it was about to enter the sky, all the people in Zhuji were ready to close the stall, and the townspeople who came together finally dispersed and went home to rest.
When the people on the street were finally dispersed, several people from the green forest who had been guarding the road all night finally came over. The leader was a tall man with a long eyebrow stick on his back. He looks handsome, and his eyes also have the vicissitudes of life and the calmness in his eyes, which seems to be quite murderous.
"Tell me something." The man came over, frowned and said, "Forget it today, from now on, you Zhuji people are not allowed to come here, otherwise I will kill you."
His tone was as ordinary as he was talking about a very trivial matter, and everyone in Zhuji who was packing their things stopped and looked at each other a few times. Not far away, a Zhuji guard who was in charge of security also came over. He looked at the man with complicated eyes.
"Boss Shi, it's been a long time." Zhuji guard cupped his hands, "What you said is impossible."
"You know me." The man surnamed Shi stared at him, his arm just moved, and in a blink of an eye, the eyebrow-raising stick behind him appeared in his hand. This action caused a sudden whistling in the air, filled with murderous aura. For some reason, he is obviously very taboo about revealing his identity.
"Shi Jin, the nine-patterned dragon, the leader of history." The guard bowed his hands, "I was also from Liangshan, so I naturally know the leader of history."
Because of these words, the atmosphere dropped to an icy cold in an instant, Shi Jin tilted his head, and a terrifying arc was drawn at the corner of his mouth.
"Eat what's inside and out!"
Not many people saw the fight at that moment, but after the sudden roar, the Zhuji guards who were still walking towards the front with their hands poured blood into the sky and flew out towards the rear. The pressure of the stick shadow was like a whistling gust of wind. Scrape across the entire site, and then the booming column fell to the ground. In the firelight of the summer night, the floating dust scattered, and cracks appeared on the ground.
After more than two years, a huge anger burst out from the face in the firelight, and everyone in Zhuji was forced to come over... ()