son-in-law

Chapter 811 Fate You and I Met Once
Hedeng County is mostly the residence of high-level officials of the Black Flag Army. Due to the return of a certain team, it was a bit lively on the mountain and down the mountain. When turning around the path on the mountainside, you can see figures running back and forth, shaking at night. The light has increased a lot for a while.

Turning over the path on the mountainside, the voices of people there are getting farther and farther. The back mountain is where the tombs are. A huge black monument stands in the dark in the distance. There is a fire nearby, and there are people watching.After the giant monument, there are small tombstones that are densely extended.

"... The battle of Xiao Canghe, including the Northwest, the Zhong clan... The ashes and the tombs of more than [-] people were erected on this monument, and those who died one after another were buried below. It took a lot of manpower to beat the monument alone. Later, some people said that the people of China are all in one family, and they can’t even eat, so it’s better to bury all the monuments and leave their names. I didn’t agree. Today's small monuments are all the same, the craftsmen who hit the monuments have practiced their skills very well, but now they mostly make landmines..."

The two figures walked forward together, and as they walked, Su Tan'er introduced the surroundings softly.Hedeng San County, Ning Yi visited once four years ago, and then only saw it from a distance a few times. Now there are new places and new things in front of him.Approaching the monument, he leaned up and looked at it, stroking the stone tablet, which was full of rough lines and drawings.

"General Chong... was originally the one I wanted to stay..." Ning Yi sighed, "It's a pity, among the teachers, the teachers, the teachers..."

"How's Zhejia?" Tan'er asked in a low voice.

"...Standing in the northwest." Ning Yi smiled, "It's a pity that there are not many people living in the northwest."

In the three-year battle of Xiaocanghe, the Chong family army assisted the Huaxia army against the Jurchen. In the fifth year of Jianshuo, he resigned and moved southward. While trying his best to relocate the residents of the northwest, Chong Lie insisted on Yanzhou and did not retreat. Later, Yanzhou The city was destroyed, and the seeds were killed. Later, Xiaocanghe was also destroyed by the army. He occupied the northwest and tried to trap the black flag. Unexpectedly, the black flag entered Yanzhou along the secret road. After all, Ci Bushi was also captured by Ning Yi, and then beheaded at the head of Yanzhou City.

In the battle of Xiaocanghe, even if the people of the Central Plains were buried in a million corpses, they would not be in the eyes of the Jurchens. However, in the battle against the black flag in person, the war god Wanyan Loushi died first, and then the generals died without losing their words. Those thousands of dead elites were the greatest pain the Jurchen felt.So that after the war, the Jurchen massacred in the northwest, and the cities and villages that had previously tended to the Huaxia Army, or the cities and villages that did not stand still during the war, were slaughtered and turned into white ground. Those who are harmed by the flag army, if you don’t resist, you won’t be like this” and so on.

After the massacre at the end of the sixth year of Jianshuo, seven years later, plagues and famines spread in the northwest, and thousands of miles were left uninhabited.Apart from the Western Army who were finally captured by the black flag and the more than [-] Northwest residents who moved south, I am afraid that there are only a few cities ruled by the Zhe family left in that area.

When Heiqi went to the northwest, firstly, it was to meet Lu Liang, and secondly, he hoped to find a relatively closed place for the four battles, so that he could refine and refine the more than [-] people in the Wurui camp without too much influence from the outside world while maintaining great pressure. Soldiers, the later development is tragic and tragic, it is difficult to discuss the merits and demerits, and the accumulated blood debts are already monstrous blood debts that cannot be described in detail.

Ning Yi was in a complicated mood. He stroked the tombstone and passed by like this. He saluted the guard soldiers not far away, and the other party returned the military salute.

"... Northwesters died seven to eighty-eight, and the Central Plains also cut off the connection with the other side in order to protect themselves. Therefore, Xixia was in great trouble, and not many people cared about it... Those Mongolians slaughtered Yinchuan and killed them one by one. , there were two frictions with the Jurchen in the north. They rode thousands of miles around like the wind, and the Jurchen didn’t take much advantage. Now it seems that Xixia is about to be digested…”

"Sounds great, but I still don't understand why you attach so much importance to them." Tan'er thought for a while, "One mountain cannot tolerate two tigers. It's not a bad thing for them to fight in the north."

"War will crush people, and it will also sharpen people. They will crush people like the Wu Dynasty, but they will sharpen people like Jin Guo." The forest of steles stretched forward, and Ning Yi led Tan'er, also walking all the way in the light of the lantern. Okay, "After the capture of Liao and the Central Plains, the older generation of Jin also died. After Aguda, Zongwang, Loushi and others left, the younger generation came to power and began to have a hedonic mindset. Those old generals After suffering for a lifetime, I don’t care about the profligacy of children. It is always like this when the poor become rich, but the foreign enemies are still there, and they will always hold their breath. Heiqi and Mongolia are such foreign enemies.”

Tan'er laughed: "In this way, it's better for us to be weaker."

Ning Yi also smiled: "In order to make them corrupt, we are also weak, and the winner will never be us... The Mongolians are different from the Jurchens. The Jurchens are poor and dare to work hard, but to put it bluntly, it is for the sake of A good life. The Mongols are martial and believe that under the sky, all are the hunting grounds of the immortal sky. Since Temujin led them to gather together, this kind of thinking has become more intense. They fight... not for the better at all. life……"

"Why then?"

"Fighting is a better life." Ning Yi's tone was calm and slow, "When a man is alive, he must chase more ferocious prey, defeat stronger enemies, plunder the best treasures, see the weak cry, and *** Women...the most powerful people who can gallop on this hunting ground. They regard fighting as the essence of life, so ah, they won't stop easily."

Tan Er fell silent.

"After the destruction of Yinchuan in the Western Xia, the courage of the whole country has been lost. The Mongols slaughtered Yinchuan and rushed the prisoners to destroy other cities. As long as there is a little resistance, the whole city is killed. They are intoxicated with this process. The friction with the Jurchen is all light riding. Guerrilla, if you can’t beat it, leave immediately, and the Jurchen can’t catch up. After Xixia is digested, these people will either go west or enter the Central Plains… I hope it’s not the latter.”

The two walked while talking. When they came to a tombstone, Tan'er took Lan Ningyi's hand. Ning Yi stopped, read the words on the tombstone, and put the lantern in his hand aside.

This is Su Yu's tomb.

The old man passed away more than two years ago.

As Tan'er's grandfather, the backbone of the Su family for many years, this old man doesn't actually have much knowledge.When he was young, the Su family was a small clan that ran a cloth line. The foundation of the Su family started from his father's generation, but it actually rose to prominence in the hands of Su Yu.The old man had five children, two died early, and the remaining three children were all mediocre. When Su Yu was old, he had to choose the young and intelligent Su Tan'er as a prepared successor to train.

This is an old man that Ning Yi admires. Although he is not as stunning as Qin Siyuan and Kang Xian, he has indeed built up a big family with his majesty and honesty.Looking back more than ten years ago, when I first woke up in this body, although I didn't care about my status as a child, if the Su family really made things difficult for me, I would probably have a hard time, but during the initial period, although "knowing." "This grandson-in-law is just a poor scholar with little knowledge, and the old man really takes good care of him.

The old man did not read much since he was a child, but he was quite concerned about the knowledge of his children and grandchildren. He spent great efforts to build a private school and academy, and even let the third and fourth generation girls in his family enter the school for enlightenment, although the academy goes from top to bottom. They all seem mediocre, but such efforts are indeed the right way for a family to accumulate.

Later, Ning Yi and Su Tan'er supported the Su family, and the old man no longer managed too much. After Liang Shan killed the family, Su Yu was depressed and entrusted everything.Both Ning Yi and Su Tan'er understand that although the old man is no longer in charge, he still looks forward to the revitalization and leap of the Su family, and the later development may be as he wished, until... the monarch rebels.

It's hard to see how old people see these things.A merchant family that sells cloth, even if the eyes of the old man go out of Jiangning, I am afraid that he will not be able to reach the world. There are not many people who know how he views his son-in-law's rebellion against the king. At that time, the health of the old man is not very good. Tan'er considers these Afterwards, he once cried to Ning Yi: "Grandpa will die on the road..." But the old man tenaciously arrived at Luliang Mountain.

For the next few years, the old man watched all this quietly, and gradually became recognized from silence.At that time, Ning Yi was busy with work, so he didn't have much time to see Su Yu, but every time they met, the two would have a conversation. He gradually felt proud of the Jurchen disaster and Xiao Canghe's resistance. He often asked some of his own questions and listened quietly, but it could be seen that he naturally couldn't understand all of them—he didn't read many books after all.

The battle was about to start five years ago, and the old man went south with the crowd for thousands of miles, but in the process, he never complained, and even if the Su family accompanying him had any bad words or deeds, he would call someone over. Hit with a cane.He used to think that the Su family was nothing but Su Taner, but now he is proud of the success of Su Wending, Su Wenfang, Su Wenyu, Su Yanping and others following Ning Yi.

But the old man is too old after all. After arriving and boarding, he loses the ability to move, and people become sometimes confused and sometimes sober.Five years after Jianshuo, Ning Yi arrived at Hedeng. The old man was in a state of confusion and had no further communication with Ning Yi. That was the last time they saw.In the early spring of Jianshuo's sixth year, the old man's physical condition finally began to deteriorate. One morning, he woke up and asked everyone about the battle in Xiaocanghe and whether Ning Yi and others had returned triumphantly. At this time, the Northwest War was at its most tragic. During the time period, everyone didn't know what to say. After Tan'er and Wenfang arrived, they told the old man about the whole situation one by one.

The old man passed away on this day. When he finally woke up, he said a few words with the mature young people around him and the children of the Su family to encourage him. When he finally asked Tan'er to speak to Ning Yi, his thoughts were already gone. It was blurred, and Su Tan'er later wrote this in a letter and sent it to Ning Yi.

"...I and your father... made a marriage contract for you, in a forest... You are still young, walking, falling... Many people have come, Su family's... Ning family's...then At that time, Su Yun was still there, was ill for a long time, dressed up, and then came out...In the woods, grape trellis, many people..." The old man's memory seems to have long stayed in the forest more than [-] years ago, that is In the forest of the Su family, Jiang Ning was still peaceful at that time, and Tan'er's grandmother Kang Suyun was also alive. People were young, the old man recalled it for a long time, and the light in his eyes gradually faded. Only at the end he shook Tan'er's hand, and Tan'er leaned over. When I heard the old man whisper, "...the backbone of the world..."

That is probably to make Ning Yi the backbone of the world.

Tan'er also wrote to him in a letter to take the past.

"When Grandpa left, he should have been very satisfied. What he was thinking about in the past was that his family could not be a good person. Now Wen Dingwen Fang is married and a good person, and the children are sensible when they study. In the last few years, Grandpa is actually very happy. He Deng's For two years, he was not in good health and always told me not to tell you, people who work hard don't have to worry about their family. Several times he told Wen Fang and the others that he had only met him from south to north and then from north to south. In the world, I used to walk around with goods, but it was all fake, so I don’t need to be sad for Grandpa.”

They placed several symbolic offerings in front of the tomb, and the night wind gently blew past. The two sat down in front of the tomb and watched the spread of tombstones below.For more than ten years, the old people have gone one after another, not only Su Yu.Qin Siyuan, Qian Xiwen, Kang Xian... gradually left, and young people who should not have left also left in large numbers.Ning Yi took Tan'er's hand, raised it and put it down.

"Five or six years ago, before the fight started, I went to Qingmu Village to chat with my grandfather. Grandpa said that he didn't really know how to teach people. He thought that if he started an academy, people would learn well. He paid for the husband, yes. Child, beaten, beaten, scolded and scolded, the child is naughty, he thought the children were all people like Su Wenji, and later felt that you are the only one in the family who can take on the big responsibility..."

"But he found out later that it wasn't like this, it was just that he didn't know how to teach, and Bao Jianfeng was sharpened. It turned out that as long as they were polished, Wen Dingwen Fang and the others could still make the Su family proud, but it's a pity Wen Ji... ...I think the old man will feel sad when he thinks about Wenji's matter after all..."

What they were talking about was more than ten years ago during the Liangshan slaughter case. At that time, Su Wenji, who was scared by the massacre, shouted to hand over Tan'er who was hiding in the crowd. The old man came out and stabbed in front of everyone. The grandson died.People are ruthless without plants and trees. Nearly half of the Su family was slaughtered in that bloody case, but later I remembered that the old man couldn't let go of killing his grandson with his own hands...

"At that time, I started a class in Xiaocanghe, and taught a group of people who could do things. I told the old man that the sky was falling, how could a few people in the mere handle it? Wen Ding Wen Fang is also good, what we do is our own duty... The people of the world are the backbone of the world... Grandpa may finally remember this..."

"Yeah." Tan'er replied softly.Time has passed, and the old man is only living in memory after all. It is not meaningful to ask carefully. People meet and get together based on fate, and fate will eventually come to an end. Because of such regrets, each other's hands can be held tightly. together.

The ascension of flames lit up in the distance, and there was a faint sound of fighting.The search in the daytime is just the beginning. After Ning Yi and the others do arrive, there will be fish who slip through the net and want to spread the news. The second round of leaks and filling vacancies has already been led by Hongti, Xigua and others. Expand.

"Let's go back first." The two held hands, walked around the mountain road, and walked towards the brightly lit courtyard in the distance, where many people were already waiting.

In the late autumn of Wu Jianshuo's eighth year, Ning Yi returned to Hedeng. At this time, the Black Flag Army, after walking through the initial mud, finally began to swell into a giant.During this period of time, the world was silent in tension, and Ning Yi's family finally spent a rare leisure time here.

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Lin'an, Heavenly Prison.

When the sky was dawn, the servants and guards of the Princess Mansion walked through the long corridor in the prison. The steward instructed the jailers to clean the road in the sky prison. The people in front walked into the inner cells. They brought hot water, towels, Shaves, clothes and other items were all done and dressed for a prisoner in the Sky Prison.

The prisoner's name is Qu Zonghui. He was so frightened that he shivered. He resisted for a moment, and then asked, "What are you doing...you want to kill me...you want to kill me...I am the concubine, and I am the Qu family. , you can't be like this...you can't be like this..."

His yelling was stopped shortly after by the serious eyes of the steward. He let the servants thin, shave, and straighten his long hair while trembling slightly. After finishing, he also turned into a handsome and handsome The image of the son - this is the good appearance he already had - the servants left soon after, and after a while, the princess came.

She has a dignified appearance, and her clothes are loose and gorgeous.But Qu Zonghui was still frightened by the calm gaze. He stood there, forcing himself to remain calm, but he didn't know whether to kneel down in his heart: Over the years, he has been ostentatious outside, looking fearless, but in fact, his heart has been Very afraid of this eldest princess, he just understands that the other party will not care about him at all.

But this time, he knew things were different.

Zhou Pei sat down in the cell, and everyone outside the cell had already walked away. There was only a silent guard in the shadow not far away, the flame was shaking in the oil lamp, and the neighborhood was quiet and gloomy.After a long time, he heard Zhou Pei say: "Consort, sit down." The tone was soft.

Qu Zonghui sat down slowly on the opposite side.Zhou Pei faced him like this, looking at him calmly for a long time. Over the years, except for the long talk after getting married, this time may be the longest time Zhou Pei has seen him.

"I'm responsible to you." At some point, Zhou Pei spoke softly, and Qu Zonghui's lips trembled: "I..." He couldn't say anything in the end.

Zhou Pei didn't care what he said, just watched for a moment and spoke in his memories.

"When I was still a girl, there was a master who was unparalleled in talent and unparalleled..."

The prison was quiet, like a ghost. When Qu Zonghui heard the faint words, her body trembled slightly. He actually knew who the eldest princess' master was. He was not afraid of it. When he said these many words in front of him, he was smart and knew that things were going to get worse... He could no longer guess his next end...

"...I was young at the time, and although I was impressed by his talent, I never admitted it verbally. I couldn't understand many of the things he did, and I didn't understand a lot of what he said. However, unknowingly, I care about him very much... The admiration of my childhood is not considered love, of course not... Concubine, after I married you, I no longer have him in my heart, but I am very envious of the relationship between him and his wife. He is married The person, just like you, the concubine. When they got married, he and his wife had no feelings. It was just that the two came into contact with each other and got to know each other. ...you can also have such feelings with your concubine..."

"It was my big mistake..."

"I have such a naive idea to marry you and talk to you for a long time. I tell you, I want to get to know you slowly, to be able to be with you slowly, to stay together... a girl in her teenage years. , how naive, you listened to the concubine, maybe you think it is my unintentional excuse for you... Whether it is or not, it is my mistake after all, I never thought that you have never seen such a thing when you are outside. Getting along, feeling, and supporting each other, the scholars who communicate with you are all ambitious and high-minded people. I insulted you, and you promised me on the surface, but after all... In less than a month, you went to the brothel to be a prostitute... …”

"My naivety ruined my beloved, ruined your life..."

The calm voice spoke all the way, and the voice drifted in the cell.Qu Zonghui's eyes were sometimes fearful, sometimes angry: "You, you..." He had resentment in his heart and wanted to attack, but he didn't dare to attack. On the opposite side, Zhou Pei just looked at him quietly, and there was something in his eyes. A tear dripped down his cheek.

"...In the next ten years, the Wu Dynasty suffered a catastrophe. We were displaced, running around, and I had something on my shoulders. After all, you...let yourself go. You go to the brothel to meet prostitutes, stay overnight, and a gang My friend was drinking and making trouble, and he ran out of money. When he came back, he asked the manager for sum after sum, and even smashed the manager’s head. I didn’t pay attention to it. If it’s 300 taels or 500 taels, you can take it, even if you say outside that I’m treating you badly ,I also……"

She paused and lowered her head: "I thought I had a big heart, but now that I think about it, I feel ashamed."

"You, you...you finally know! You finally said it! You know...you are my wife, you're sorry for me—" Qu Zonghui finally called out from the other side of the cell.

Zhou Pei looked aside, waited quietly for him to finish speaking, and passed for a while: "Yeah, I'm sorry for you, and I'm sorry...the family you killed...In retrospect, ten years , I always hope in my heart that my lover will one day become a mature person, he will clear up his past suspicions with me, and repair his relationship with me... Over the years, the imperial court has lost half of its country. Refugees come all the time, I am the eldest princess, and sometimes I feel tired...Sometimes, I see you making trouble at home, maybe I can go over and talk to you, but I can't. I am 27 years old Well, the mistakes made ten years ago are naive, and you will have to accept them ten years later. And you... 29, right..."

"In the past ten years, you've been outside prostitutes, spending money, and bullying others. I closed my eyes. Ten years later, I've become more and more tired, and you've become more and more crazy. The brothel sex prostitute is still your favor and I want to raise it outside. Thin horse, I don't care anymore, I don't have the same room with you, you have to have a woman by your side, spend it when you need to spend it, it's good... But you shouldn't kill people, real people..."

Her hands were clasped in front of her, her fingers were twisted together, her eyes were already looking over, Qu Zonghui shook her head: "I, I was wrong...Princess, I'll change, we...we'll stay together in the future. Together, I, I don't do those things anymore..."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and took a few steps forward, looking like he wanted to hug Zhou Pei, but after feeling Zhou Pei's gaze, he didn't dare to do anything, Zhou Pei looked at him and said coldly, "Go back. !"

Qu Zonghui retreated.

Zhou Pei's eyes calmed down again, she opened her mouth, closed it, opened her mouth again, and then spoke.

"My master, he is a man of the highest order. He kills bandits, corrupt officials, grudges, and Jurchens. Treating his wife in a way that destroyed himself. Concubine, you were somewhat similar to him at first. You are smart, kind, and romantic. I thought at first that you were somewhat similar..."

"It took me ten years, sometimes angry, sometimes guilty, and sometimes reflecting, whether my demands were too much... Women can't wait, and sometimes I think, even if you have done so many mistakes over the years If you come to me and say that you are no longer like this, and then you reach out to hug me, that would be great, I... I might also forgive you. But not once... "

"I have been naive for ten years, and you have been naive for ten years... A 29-year-old man played with women outside, killed her, and killed her family. You are no longer a child. I admire you Master, he even killed the emperor with his own hands in the end. Of course I don't have the same respect as him, but he is really powerful... The man I married, because of a childish girl, he ruined his life and ruined other people's families , he is really...worse than a dog or a pig."

Zhou Pei clenched his fists on his legs and gritted his teeth: "Beasts!"

Qu Zonghui cried and knelt down, begging for mercy, Zhou Pei's tears had already flowed down her cheeks, and she shook her head.

"I can't kill you." She said, "I want to kill you, but I can't kill you. The father and the family of Qu told me not to kill you, but if I don't kill you, I will be sorry for the unjust death of the family. , they are also the people of the Wu Dynasty, I can't watch them being killed by people like you. I wanted to impose palace punishment on you..."

When she said these words, even Qu Zonghui, who was crying, was horrified.

"I wanted to impose palace punishment on you." She shook her head and said, "It will make you no longer able to harm people, but I know this will not work. When you hold grievances, you will only be more psychologically distorted to harm people. To prove your innocence, I can only carry your sins to the end..."

"I was wrong, I was wrong..." Qu Zonghui cried, kneeling and kowtowing, "I won't do these things anymore, princess, I respect you and love you, I do this because I love you... we come again..."

"We will not come again, and we will never be able to stop." Zhou Pei showed a sad smile on his face and stood up, "I arranged a yard for you in the Princess Mansion, you will live there in the future, and you will not be able to see outsiders. I can't kill you, then you live, but for the outside world, just treat you as dead, you can't hurt anyone anymore. Let's live next to each other for the rest of our lives."

She walked out of the cell, Qu Zonghui howled, jumped over and dragged her skirt, saying begging for mercy and loving her, Zhou Pei broke free, and the skirt was ripped off. Don't care either.

"We've run out of fate..."

She looked at him for a moment, walked through the dark corridor of the cell, and gradually disappeared from Qu Zonghui's field of vision.

On this day, Qu Zonghui was taken back to the princess' mansion and locked in the yard. Zhou Pei never killed him, and the Qu family was no longer troubled, but Qu Zonghui could no longer see outsiders.He shouted for repentance in the courtyard, apologized to Zhou Pei, and apologized to the deceased. This process lasted for about a month, and he finally began to curse in despair, scolding Zhou Pei, the guards, and the people outside. In the end, even the royal family was scolded, and this process continued for a long, long time...

Everything in the world is just a process of encounter and separation.

In the autumn of the eighth year of the establishment of the Wu Dynasty, even the fallen leaves seemed to harbor a turbulent tide. The Wu Dynasty, the Black Flag, the Central Plains, and the Jin Kingdom were still enjoying precious peace in this tension. The swaying net, I don't know when, will break all the lines...

(End of this chapter)