The sky gradually became dark, snowflakes fell outside the door, and pedestrians passed by the roadside.

After several months of besieging the city, the supplies in the capital had become extremely tense. The Wenhui Building had a deep background and would not be closed. However, by this time, there was no longer much business. Due to heavy snow, most of the doors and windows in the building were closed. In this weather, no matter whether they came to eat, they were rich or noble. Shishi knew the boss of Wenhui Building. He went upstairs, ordered a small room, ordered a simple meal, and waited quietly.

The two armies outside the city are still confronting each other. As a senior executive in Xiacun army, Ning Yi has already secretly returned to the city. So what is going on, Shishi can guess what happened. However, she doesn't care about the specific things at the moment. Simply put, Ning Yi is making some counterattacks against others' actions. He is not the Xiacun army. He does some connections in private, and does not need to be kept too secret. Those who know the importance of the matter will naturally know, and those who don't know are often not insiders.

She didn't want to become an insider. Women can't get involved in men's affairs at this level.

The wind and snow fell quietly outside the house. Although it was cold winter, the wind was not strong. The city seemed to be whispering in a faraway place. The anxiety that had been around for several days became a little calmer at this time. She ate some food, and soon after, she heard someone whispering and talking outside. She went downstairs and didn't go out to see it. After a while, the footsteps came up again, and Shishi went over to open the door.

"Liheng." She smiled.

≧Chang≧Feng≧Wen≧Literature, c○fwx "Why did you come here? I was shocked."

Naturally, Ning Yi was Ning Yi. The last time they met was several months ago. Looking back, each meeting was mostly easy and casual. But this time, Ning Yi returned to the city and met people secretly. He talked about some serious matters, his eyes and temperament had complex weights. Perhaps this was his appearance when dealing with strangers. Shishi had only seen it in some big figures, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was murderous intent. But at this time, she didn't think anything was wrong, but instead felt relieved.

Then he told a small lie: "I was shocked too. What a coincidence, Liheng is... dealing with those troubles, right?"

"Some people want to meet, some things need to be discussed." Ning Yi nodded.

"Liheng...had you eaten?" She turned sideways slightly.

"There's someone coming soon."

"If there is something to accompany you, Shishi can play the piano to make fun of..."

“Not very good.”

"Um."

While speaking, someone came over. He said something in Ning Yi's ear, and Ning Yi nodded.

"It's not early, I'm afraid it's very busy today. I'll visit Alum Tower in the past two days. If Shishi wants to go back early... I'm afraid I can't come out to say hello."

"I won't go back, I'm waiting for you here."

"I'm afraid it's late at night."

"I have seen many people die on the battlefield these days, and later I have seen a lot of things... I have something to say to you."

Ning Yi saw the woman in front of him looking at him. His eyes were clear, and he smiled with a pursed lips. He was slightly stunned, and then nodded: "Then I will lose my companion first."

After nearly two hours of waiting, there were occasionally people coming and going in Wenhui Tower, but Shishi didn't go out to see it.

She went to the Jiaofangsi when she was young, and later grew up gradually. She became famous in Beijing and had witnessed many major events. The power struggle in Beijing, the ministers abdicated. In the fourth year of Jinghan, Prime Minister He Chaoguang fought with Cai Jing, and there were rumors that the emperor wanted to kill Cai Jing. In the fifth year of Jinghan, in the Liangzhe Salt Case, Wang Ren, the richest man in the capital, was killed with many wealthy businessmen. In the seventh year of Jinghan, the war in Beijing and the two factions fought and rallied each other, and many officials were dismissed. Living in Beijing, he was close to the circle of power. She saw a lot of storms that the wind was about to fill the building.

Such an aura is like walking outside the room. Even if you don’t know who the other person is, you will know that the other person’s identity must be of great importance. In the past, she was also curious about these dark scenes, but this time, what she suddenly thought of was the nights when her father was arrested many years ago. She and her mother were learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in the inner hall, while her father and her staff were in the outer hall, with the lights reflected, and the figures coming and going were filled with anxiety.

As time goes by, this impression is actually not accurate. If you think about it carefully, it should be the experience she has accumulated over the years, and the memories that have gradually become thinner. After so many years, the one who is in that position is the person she is truly familiar with.

The exchanges and greetings in the field of Fengyue cannot be said to be true feelings. There are always some romantic and talented men, who are extremely talented and keen, as if Zhou Bangyan, she has never regarded the other party as a private friend. She has always clearly distinguished what the other party wants and what she has. Even if she thinks she is a friend in private, she can still understand these things.

For Ning Yi, it is not close to her after reunion, nor is it a distant person. This is related to the other party's attitude of maintaining a proper attitude. Shishi knew that he was beaten up when he got married and lost his past memory, which made her able to correct her attitude and lose her memory well. It was not his fault, but she could not help but regard him as a friend.

Many things in the past, including their parents, have fallen into the dust of memory. The only few people who can be connected with the original self. Even when I met them, I had already entered the Jiaofangsi, but I was still young, at least at that time, I still had the breath and subsequent possibilities of the past...

If Li Shishi wanted to become Li Shishi, she always felt that she was the one she had once been, and she could not keep these things herself, but she could go backwards from them.

Now, Ning Yi has also entered the center of this storm.

And she could do nothing. After all, Ning Yi was different from Yu, Chen and others. Since the reunion, what the other party did was unimaginable. He destroyed the bandits in Liangshan, fought with the people of the martial arts world, and then went out this time to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, Yuxia Village faced the resentful army, and the complicated situation this time. This reminded her of the nights when her father was still there.

Open the window in the middle, and the wind and snow came in from outside, blowing the candles half-extinguished, and the coolness was faint. I don’t know when she had fallen asleep in the room, and knocking on the door came from outside. Shishi went over and opened the door. Outside the door was Ning Yi’s slightly frowning figure. I think the matter had just come to an end.

"Have you left yet?"

"I want to wait for Liheng to talk." Shishi stroked her hair, then smiled and invited him in sideways. Ning Yi nodded and entered the room. Shishi went over and opened the window and let the cold wind blow in. She hugged her body by the window and let the wind and snow blew for a while, then bared her teeth and came over to bring Ning Yi to move the stool and pour hot tea.

"It must be difficult to siege the city for so long. Although I am outside the city, I have heard people talk about you these days, but fortunately nothing happened." Ning Yi took a sip of tea and smiled slightly. He didn't know what the other party was going to say when he stayed, so he spoke first.

"I think... it's not easy for Liheng." Shishi sat down opposite him, "I'm going to fight outside, but when I come back, I have these things. After winning, I can't get idle..."

"The Jurchens have not left yet, so there is no question of winning." Ning Yi shook his head.

"Shishi heard about it in the city, and the negotiations are almost certain?"

"We will win whatever others want. We will win whatever we want. We will win what we want. We will win what we want. What will Shishi think?"

Ning Yi looked at her with a smile. Shishi heard this and held the teacup and her eyes dimmed slightly. After all, she was in the city and could not find out some things. But Ning Yi said it, the weight was different. Although she was mentally prepared, she was still very happy after hearing this.

Ning Yi comforted him: "We are also exerting our efforts, but... things are very complicated. It is hard to say what can be protected and what benefits can be obtained in this negotiation, whether it is in front of us or in the long term."

"I don't know much about these..." Shishi replied, then smiled, "Sometimes in the Alum Tower, pretending to understand very much, but in fact I don't understand. This is a man's business after all. By the way, is Liheng still something tonight?"

"There are things, but I'm afraid I'll be very idle for the next hour. Shishi is waiting for it. Is there anything wrong?"

"I just want to talk to you." Shishi sat there and smiled. "I didn't understand what Li Heng said to me when he left Beijing. Until the Jurchens came south and began to siege the city and attack the city, what I wanted to do. Later, I went to the Sour Zaomen and saw... a lot of things..."

She said this, and then talked about her experience in the Sour Zao Sect. Although she was a woman, she had always been spiritually awake and self-reliant. This sober self-reliant is different from a man's temperament. The monks said that she had Buddha nature and had seen through many things. But she said that a woman in her teens and early twenties was growing up after all. Over the years, what she saw and felt and thoughts in her heart could not be told to others. In the spiritual world, she regarded Ning Yi as a reflection. After that, the war stopped, and more and more complex things surrounded her, which made her physically and mentally exhausted. At this time, Ning Yi came back and found him and revealed them one by one.

Ning Yi never thought that she would talk about these experiences over the years, but then he listened. The woman who was a little thin but still beautiful in front of him talked about the things on the battlefield, the soldiers with broken limbs and tragic deaths, and the battles of the Sourzao Sect... Shishi was not very good, nor did he seem too sad or excited. He occasionally smiled slightly, and said for a long time, saying that the soldiers who died after taking care of her, the process of being chased and then being protected, the meager wishes of those people before they died, and later talking about Xue Changgong, He Leier and others...

Time gradually passed by this speech, and she also talked about the joy of receiving the news from Xia Village in the city. In the wind and snow outside, the sound of gongs playing the gong had already sounded.

"............ I have heard people talk about things in the Alum Tower these days, and I have seen them for power and profit again. I have seen them a lot before, but after joining the city guard, I can't take the words when I heard those young men talk about negotiations and their frivolous appearance when they win and lose outside the city. Before the Jurchens left, the adults in their family were already intrigue about these dirty things. Liheng has been outside the city these days, and I must have seen them. I heard that they wanted to break up Wu Rui Camp in private. I was anxious after hearing this. How could these people be like this? But... there is no way..."

In Shishi's words, Ning Yi smiled: "Several groups of people came and fought a few fights..."

Shishi also laughed: "However, Liheng is back today, so there is naturally a way for them. In this way, I feel relieved. I don't want to ask Liheng what he did, but I think after a while, I can hear those dirty things. Next, I can sleep a few good nights..."

"Uh..." Ning Yi was slightly stunned, but knew that she had guessed the wrong thing. "I'm back tonight, not for this..."

"Ah..." Shishi hesitated for a moment, "I know Liheng has more things, but... Liheng will have a solution to this troublesome thing in Beijing?"

Ning Yi was silent for a moment: "It's very troublesome, but if you want to tell me the solution... I haven't thought about what I can do..."

"..." Shishi looked at him.

"They want to take action against Wu Ruiying. It's just a small matter." Ning Yi stood up, "The room is too boring. If Shishi is still energetic, let's go out for a walk. There is a place I've been looking at for the afternoon and want to go over and take a look."

Shishi nodded. It was already late at night and there were no pedestrians on the road outside. The two of them came down from the building and the guards followed quietly around them. The wind and snow were everywhere, and Shishi could see that there was not much joy in Ning Yi's gaze beside him.

But while walking along the wind and snow, Ning Yi still smiled: "In the afternoon, I saw what happened here upstairs and asked someone for a while. Oh... it's this house." They walked not far away and stopped in front of a small courtyard next to the road. This was only ten feet away from Wenhui Tower. Across a street, the broken courtyard of the small door and the door had been closed. Shishi recalled that when she arrived downstairs of Wenhui Tower in the evening, Ning Yi sat by the window, as if looking at it. But what happened here. She didn't remember.

"The family is dead."

Ning Yi waved his hand, and the guard next to him came over and slid the door latch open. Ning Yi pushed the door and entered, and Shishi followed him in. There was a dilapidated courtyard with three rooms. The darkness seemed to be filled with death. As Ning Yi said, everyone was dead.

"In the afternoon, the chief custodian called the man who carried the body here. I looked upstairs and asked someone to inquire. There were three people here, and they were already alright." Ning Yi walked towards the room inside and said, "Grandma, father, a four-year-old daughter. When the Jurchens attacked the city, there was nothing to eat at home and there was not much money. The man went to guard the city and asked the chief custodian to take care of the two people who stayed here. Then the man died on the city wall, and the chief custodian could not take care of it. The old man was suffering from a cold and she was afraid of chaos in the city. Someone went into the house to grab things and tied the door. Then... the old man was sick, cold and hungry, and slowly died. The four-year-old girl also starved to death here..."

The room was filled with the stench of corpses. Ning Yi stood at the door and reached into the torch. The cold and messy ordinary family. Although Shishi adapted to the stench on the battlefield, he still covered his nostrils, but did not understand what Ning Yi meant. Such things have happened in the city every day recently. People who died on the city are even more miserable.

"I heard this upstairs and thought, many years later, when others talked about the Jurchens going south and talking about the incident of Bianliang. They said that tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people died, how cruel the Jurchens were. They started to scold the Jurchens, but they actually had no idea in their hearts. They scolded them, and they were very happy to do this. They felt that they had paid back the responsibility of being a Han Chinese, even if they did nothing. When they talked about hundreds of thousands of people, all the weight would not be one ten thousandth of what happened in this house. An old man was sick, cold and hungry, and died while he was hit. The little girl... no one cared about it, her stomach became more and more hungry, first she cried, and then she couldn't cry, slowly stuffing the mess into her mouth, and then she starved to death..."

Ning Yi said this calmly, and the torch hung down and was silent for a moment.

"I'm not going to the city to argue with those people. If they want to demolish them, we will fight them. Please don't care about him... Qin Xiang ran for negotiations. He was not in the mansion during the day. I came to meet some people and arrange some trivial matters. A few months ago, I got up and went north to work to organize the Jurchens to go south. Now things have been done, and more troublesome things have come again. Unlike last time, this time I haven't figured out what I should do. There are many things I can do, but no matter how I do it, it's very difficult to do without turning back. If possible, I want to retire successfully and leave..."

Shishi was slightly confused. At this time, she stood beside Ning Yi and gently and carefully pulled his sleeve. Ning Yi frowned and showed his anger, but then he turned his head slightly and smiled.

"You are on the city wall and outside the city, I have seen people who die like this, with their stomachs cut open and their hands and feet cut. Just like the people in the city who are slowly starving to death, they have weight when they die. It is difficult to get this thing, and it is difficult to pick it up. How to get it is a big problem after all."

He said these words, and there was an unpredictable aura in his eyes. Then he turned around, waved his hand outside the door, and walked over. Shishi asked hesitantly: "Is Liheng... also disheartened and wants to leave?"

"It's different from this, I'm still thinking." Ning Yi shook his head, "I'm not a murderer. So many people have died in front of me. In fact, what I think is similar to yours. It's just that there are more complicated things inside, and it's hard to say. It's getting late. I'll have to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion later and I'll send someone to take you back. No matter what you will do next, you should know. As for the people who are in trouble with Wu Ruiying, you don't have to worry. Even if there are more than 100,000 people following you, cowards are cowards."

Shishi also nodded. After a few months of reunion, she still couldn't see Ning Yi clearly this night, which was different from before.

The door of the courtyard was closed behind the back.

The wind and snow were still falling, and the carriage was lit with lanterns and heading towards different directions in the city. On the streets, the anti-guns carried lanterns and the patrolling soldiers walked through the snowflakes. When Shishi's carriage entered the alum building, several carriages of Ning Yi and others had already entered the Right Prime Minister's Mansion. He passed through the Langyuan and walked towards the Qin Mansion study room, which was still on.

The night is deep, and the thin lights are moving... (To be continued...)

ps: This chapter is a bit vague. I haven't written the clue so vaguely for a long time, but no matter what, it is a necessary chapter. Episode 7 will close the line. I have been thinking about it for too long and finally I will bring the update back.

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