Amidst the whimpering of the cold wind, lanterns were lit up one after another in the corridor below the small building and under the eaves.
Several orange lights were lit, illuminating the dimly lit courtyard, Tan'er looked down from the railing with her arms crossed, and Ning Yi came up with the lantern: "When I first came here, I felt that it was very similar to The small courtyard in Jiangning's time."
Tan'er was still a little puzzled, but now she laughed: "What are you doing?"
"What else can the two of you do? You just happened to be here. Why don't I bring you to have a look - I brought something to eat." Ning Yi smiled, picked up the package again, and pushed open the door to the side.
The furnishings in the room are simple - it looks like a woman's boudoir - there are tables, chairs, beds, cabinets and other things, maybe they have come to prepare before, there is not too much dust at this time, Ning Yi takes out a brazier from under the table, pulls out the portable With the machete, he chopped the two benches in the room into firewood.
Tan'er looked at his actions and laughed. She hadn't seen Ning Yi's casual behavior in many years. She squatted down two steps ahead to help unload her burden, and said, "This house belongs to someone else, you are so messed up. it's not good?"
"It's not very good, so I didn't bring other people here."
The knife skills learned from Hongti, Watermelon and others are used to chop firewood smoothly, and the firewood branches are neat and ignited in a short time. The room seemed warm, Tan'er unpacked and took out a bunch of food from the small box inside: small pieces of steamed buns, marinated chicken wings, sliced meat, a few skewered meatballs, half of fish meat, a little vegetable... two plates The side dishes that have been fried for a long time, and wine...
She couldn't help but smile. When the family gathered, Ning Yi would occasionally form a round of barbecue. With his thoughtful research on diet, the taste was still good. It's just that in the past few years, the supplies of the Huaxia Army have not been abundant. Ning Yi has set a food quota for everyone by example. Even if he wants to save some meat to barbecue and eat it up, it often takes some time to accumulate, but Ning Yi does. Have fun.
Husbands and wives have been together for so many years, although there have been days when they have been together less and more apart, but the pace of each other has become too familiar. Tan'er put the wine and vegetables on the round table in the room, and then looked around the room that had not much decoration. The world outside looked dim, except for the yard, which was soaked in warm yellow because of the lights below.
Ning Yi put the fish and meat slices on the fire: "This house looks like the one that burned down."
Tan'er turned her head: "It was burned by fire."
"Yes." Ning Yi nodded.
"So familiar with this place, how many people have you brought to explore?"
"Not too much, Hongti... Juan'er... Xiao Hu, Xiao Zhang... from the secretariat... Auntie Sweet from the Women's Association, and... " Ning Yi folded his hands in the extinguishing firelight and looked at Tan Tan. Er's eyes that started to become round but were also mixed with a little smile, he couldn't help laughing, "Okay, I brought the red mention once last time..."
"Why are you so happy to win a battle?" Tan'er said softly, "Don't get carried away."
"I'm proud, but not proud." Ning Yi sat on the stool and looked at the grilled fish in his hand, "There are many ideas for this battle with Jurchen. When mobilizing, you can be very heroic. But now, there has finally been a development. In the battle of Yuyuxi, Zonghan came abruptly, and they will not retreat. Next, these guys who have been in trouble for the rest of their lives will gamble their lives in the southwest. This time around, I want to get out of the whole situation and look at these things."
When he said this, the expression on his face was not smug, but solemn. Tan'er sat down. She is also a decision maker who has gone through many major events. Knowing that people are in the game, it is inevitable that they will not be awake enough because of the interests involved. In this state of Ning Yi, it may be that she has really withdrawn herself from a higher place. When she found something, her face became serious.
Ning Yi smiled: "I recently remembered that when I was in Jiangning, the building hadn't burned yet. You sometimes... When you come back at night, we chat together in the corridor outside. At that time, you should never have thought of what happened next, the incident of Fangla in Hangzhou, The matter of Liangshan, the matter of resisting gold, the matter of killing the emperor... If you want to do tricks, at most, you will become the helm of the Su family in the future, and run the cloth line well. Am I... messing up your life? "
"It's really not ready..." Tan'er thought for a while, "Especially after the rebellion, all the preparations for the first half of my life were empty, and then I was forced to leave... Before you killed the emperor, I gave the Su family a lot to think about. It was planned that after we got rid of the court, our family returned to Jiangning and experienced those great events. With family members and children, there is nothing to fear in the world anymore."
"At that time." Thinking of this, Su Tan'er, who has been the mistress of the house for more than ten years, has bright eyes, "... Those thoughts are indeed the most practical ones."
More than ten years ago, in the days before the king was murdered, although he also encountered various problems in Beijing, as long as the problems were solved, everything would be settled after returning to Jiangning. These are still the thoughts in the plan. Su Tan'er said this, and she felt a little bit, but she didn't quite understand the purpose of Ning Yi's mentioning it. Ning Yi stretched out a hand and shook Tan'er's hand.
"Thank you," he said.
"Xiang Gong..." Tan'er hesitated slightly, "You just... remember this?"
"Over the years, the decisions I have made have changed the lives of many people. Sometimes I can take care of them, and sometimes I have no time to take care of others. In fact, it has more impact on the family. Your husband suddenly changed from a businessman to a businessman. The leader of the rebellion, Yunzhu Jin'er, was probably thinking of a stable life before. These things are all valuable. After killing Zhou Zhe, you have to go up, and there is no buffer period. , more than ten years, this is how it came."
Tan'er's face turned slightly red: "You actually... don't need to say this..."
"I'm not sorry. There may not be more choices, but it's still a pity..." Ning Yi smiled, "Think about it, if there could be such a world, there would be no Jurchen from the beginning, and you may still be running the Su family now. , I teach, I'm lazy, and I go to a party to see a bunch of fools writing poems, and during festivals, fire trees and silver flowers on the street, and a night of fish and dragon dances... It will be very interesting to continue like this."
When Ning Yi said this, Tan'er's eyes suddenly turned red: "You are... here to make me cry."
"It's almost New Year's Eve, it's interesting to think about these things when you were young."
Ning Yi grilled the food in his hands and realized that her husband really came out with a memory. Tan'er finally put away the mood to talk about business. She helped Ning Yi bake something and talked about the recent situation of the children at home. . The two picked up wine glasses at the round table and clinked.
Day has quickly entered the boundary between night and night. Through the open door, a little light is floating in the distance of the city, and the lanterns below the courtyard are swaying in the wind. Suddenly, there was a sound, like an overwhelming rain, but it was bigger than the rain, and a crackling sound enveloped the house. The brazier in the room shook a few times, Ning Yi threw in the firewood sticks, and Tan'er got up and walked to the corridor outside, and then said, "The rice particles have fallen."
Ning Yi's eyes flashed, and then nodded: "It's already snowing in the rest of the world."
At this time, the Central Plains and Jiangnan have long been covered by heavy snow. Only the Chengdu Plain has been rainy and rainy this year, but it seems that the time has come. Tan'er went back to the room, the couple ate and drank in front of the pattering snow, chatting about the sky, interesting things at home and gossip in the army.
Ning Yi talked about Xu Shaoyuan and Yong Jinrou:
"Speaking of Xu Shaoyuan from the secretariat, he is rather dull, and his ability to handle affairs is still very strong. I fell in love with Master Yong's younger sister before, Yong Jinrou knows, she is in her early thirties, very beautiful, knowledgeable, and has been a widow for seven or eight years, and now she is working with Deng became a teacher, I heard that in the army, many people like her, but it is useless to propose marriage to Master Yong, saying that she should choose herself..."
"Xu Shaoyuan fell in love with Yong Jinrou at first sight, but how did he know how to pick up girls? He asked the general counselor to give him advice. There is no one reliable group of neurotics, does Zou Lie know? He said that I have more ideas, and secretly came over to inquire, saying How to please girls, how did I know that Xu Shaoyuan wanted to soak up Yong Jinrou, and told them a few stories of heroes saving beauty. Then Xu Shaoyuan went to Hedeng, three days, from writing poems to finding people From pretending to be a hooligan, to pretending to have internal injuries, to confessing... I almost used force... When Li Shishi saw it, he found a few female soldiers and beat him..."
"After the fight, he came to me and complained, saying that the secretariat's people were hooligans. I went to ask, called Xu Shaoyuan out, and confronted Yong Jinrou. After the confrontation, I asked Xu Shaoyuan to act in front of Yong Jinrou. Sincere review... I also helped him organize a sincere confession. Of course I didn't write it for him. I helped him sort out his mood and use the review to confess again... Wife, I'm smart, Li Shishi was crying at the time, and I was so moved It was a complete mess... In the end, Yong Jinrou refused, tsk, really..."
"Ten moves... but refused..." Tan'er interjected, "what do you mean?"
"Very moved - then rejected him."
"Is there such an idiom..."
"I invented it recently." Ning Yi smiled, "Then, I asked the teacher to help solve Yong Jinrou's relationship problem. She has a good relationship with Yong Jinrou. After asking, I learned one thing... "
The couple talked about these trivial things in the room, and it was unknown how long it took. The dishes were cold and the wine was slightly drunk. Ning Yi sat on the stool and looked at the snow particles outside, and said:
"Before the first battle at Yuyuxi, the general idea of the Southwest campaign was to defend first and then wait for the opponent to reveal their flaws. After the first battle at Yuyuxi, Wanyan Zonghan was really the enemy in front of us, and the next thought was to do everything possible. , to crush his army and cut off his head—of course, this is also his idea." Ning Yi chuckled, "I feel a little excited when I think about it."
Tan'er turned to look at him, and then gradually understood.
She took his hand: "you don't have anything to do."
"certainly."
In the past ten years, starting from the small Su family in Jiangning, to the events of the imperial merchants, to the dangers in Hangzhou, to Liangshan, disaster relief, killing the king... For a long time, Ning Yi felt a little alienated from many things. After the monarchy, in the eyes of outsiders, he is more of a man of contempt for the world, and many people are not in his eyes—perhaps in the eyes of Li Pin and others, even in the entire Wu Dynasty era, the glory of Confucianism is not in him. in the eyes.
When facing Xixia and Jurchen strong, he will somewhat show an attitude of emptiness and condescension, but that is just a formulaic approach.
In the face of Li Ganshun leading a 100,000-strong army, Ning Yi just said "People from China, don't vote for foreign countries" to the messenger he sent, and then defeated the entire Xixia army.
Wanyan Loushi rushed to the northwest in a fierce manner. Fan Hongji sent Lu Yannian and others to demonstrate. Ning Yi said to the Chinese soldiers, "The situation is stronger than people, and it is more friendly." When Loushi was approaching Yanzhou, Ning Yi also Said to the team, "Starting today, the entire Huaxia Army will start a war against the Jurchens."
After Lou Shi was killed, there was no room for change. The Jurchen fantasized about winning without a fight, and then tried to persuade him to surrender, threatening to slaughter Xiaocanghe into a mass grave, but Ning Yi directly said that this would not be a mass grave. , here will be a pit of 100,000 people, a pit of millions.
When showing weakness is useful, he will show weakness in words and some small strategies. But in action, no matter who he faced, Ning Yi was extremely strong.
For a long time, the Huaxia Army has been at a disadvantage in the face of the entire world, but in the heart of his husband, he has never been at a disadvantage, and he has incomparable confidence in the future. In the Huaxia Army, such confidence was also passed on layer by layer to everyone working below.
In the face of Zong Han and Xi Yin's aggressive southern expedition, the Huaxia Army, under the influence of Ning Yi's attitude, only regarded it as a "problem that needs to be solved" to solve. But at this moment after the battle of Rainwater Creek, when Tan'er looked at Ning Yi, he finally saw a little tension in him, which was the activity and tension that the players on the competition field had been maintaining before they entered the field.
From the perspective of the whole world, after Wanyan Agu was beaten, Zong Han and Xi Yin were indeed the most powerful and terrifying giants on the stage of this world. For the past twenty or thirty years, no one could be the leader of the places they looked at. sharp. Over the years, the Huaxia Army has achieved some victories, and at the level of the whole world, many people have paid too much attention, but in front of Zong Han, Xi Yin and others, the Huaxia Army and the demon Ning Yi are always inferior. with one or even two levels.
The opponent is a demon king who can crush the world for a lifetime, and there are still giants like the Wu Dynasty, which are huge and not dead, and the Huaxia Army is just a powerful weapon that gradually transforms into the country.
But at this moment, Ning Yi had killing intent towards Zong Han. In Tan'er's eyes, if Zong Han is the most terrifying giant in this era, the husband in front of him has finally stretched his muscles and bones, and he will greet him with the same giant attitude...
Such a picture flashed through her mind, and the ice particles falling outside the window gradually became smaller.
The goose feather snow is about to fall, and the world is about to become what Jurchen used to be familiar with...