The peaks and hills are like gatherings, and the waves are like anger.

Victory.

Looking out from the wall of Tianji Palace, there are many mountains in the distance, with loess roads extending, beacon towers built along the peaks, and pedestrians, cars and horses coming from the other end of the mountain. It was afternoon, and Lou Shuwan was so tired that she almost fainted. She held the female wall on the palace and watched the scenery slowly walk.

In the past few days, Lou Shuwan had hardly stopped in her busy life, running around to sort out the situation, strengthening defense, and visiting and lobbying every important participant in the Jin King's power, either by saying that she is powerful or threatening swords and guns. Especially in recent days, she has returned from another place and has been in private, day and night, almost never sleeping. Today, she finally finalized the most critical matter in the court.

This matter will determine the fate of everyone. She didn't know whether this decision was right or wrong. At this moment, the urgent follow-up situation was still being discussed in the palace. But the matter that belonged to women: private conspiracy, threats, intrigues... has come to an end.

Looking back, the Tianji Palace is majestic and majestic, and it is extremely luxurious. This is the result of the Tiger King's construction in a arrogant time. Now the Tiger King has died in an insignificant dark room. It seems to be telling her that every powerful person is actually just an ordinary person. When the world comes, the world and the heroes are not free. At this time, the people who control the Tianji Palace and the mighty will also be overturned in the next moment.

The Jurchens came, and the map was exhausted and it was difficult to turn around. The initial battle started in Daming Mansion in the east, and Li Xizhi was eliminated at the first time. Then the 300,000 main force of the Jurchen Eastern Route Army arrived in Daming. Daming Mansion had been withstood for more than half a month in the sea of ​​corpses and blood. At the same time, Zhu Biao led the black flag to try to sneak attack the Yellow River Ferry where the Jurchens went south, but failed and fled. The more difficult Zonghan army was slowly pressing down.

Wang Juyun had already set off to fight. No one could guess what the King of King Jin was thinking in his mind. However, it was King Jin's turn to make the next choice.

So there were two choices: First, although he killed Tian Hu with the Chinese army, he later cleared up a large number of Han officials inclined toward Jurchen according to the exposed list. King Jin and Jin Kingdom still had no name. Zong Han wanted to kill him, and he could kill him, and he could pass by. When the army crossed the Yellow River, the King of Jin's power would revolt on the spot and cut off the retreat, which was a relatively easy decision.

Second, do not underestimate the wisdom of the founding people of the Jurchen country such as Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin. While they still have the right to choose, they should explain what they should say, cooperate with the allies still on the north bank of the Yellow River, purify internal thoughts, rely on the rugged terrain in their jurisdiction, and fight the most difficult battle. At least, create the biggest trouble for the Jurchens, and then if they cannot resist, then go into the mountains, move deeper into the mountains, or even turn to the northwest. In this way, the King of Jin may become the core and leader of the rebels north of the Yellow River because of their current power. If one day, the Black Flag of the Wu Dynasty and the Black Flag can really defeat the Jurchens, and the King of Jin will create a career that will last forever.

She chose the second path. Perhaps because she was used to cruelty and no longer had fantasies, she did not think that the first path was real. First, people like Zong Han and Xiyin would not allow King Jin to survive behind the scenes. Second, even if the momentary vain and serpent were really let go, when the Guangwu Army, the Chinese Army, Wang Juyun and other forces were cleared out on the north bank of the Yellow River, the spirit of the King Jin would be wiped out. The so-called rise of the future will never appear.

The clear opposition attitude before the Jurchens made their statements was too bold and crazy for many people within the Jin King system. Therefore, it was too difficult to convince them one by one. But she still did it.

The afternoon sun was warm, and suddenly, she felt that she had become a moth, and she had been hiding when she could hide. This time, the light was too fierce, and she flew towards the sun...

Too many people are going to die...

Thinking of this, she slowly walked down the palace city, and there were figures coming from afar, but Yu Yulin, who was supposed to be in charge of the affairs inside, stopped and saw that he was getting closer, a trace of seriousness of inquiry was seeped out in his eyes.

"I've been quarreling for a day, and the discussion has been temporarily stopped. King Jin asked everyone to eat something and continue later."

"Then what are you doing?"

"The King of Jin asked me to see you. You haven't slept for two days. Let's go to the palace to rest first?"

"You don't have to worry about me. My business has been done. How to send troops and fight is your men's business. Go and don't let things change."

"...Okay." Yu Yulin wanted to speak but stopped, but finally nodded and bowed. Lou Shuwan saw him turn around and said, "I can't sleep... I can't sleep in the palace. I'll go outside to take a rest later."

"Yeah." Yu Yulin nodded, "Take care." Then he went to the hall, and Lou Shuwan sat on the steps at the foot of the palace wall for a while, and then asked the accompanying servants to come and leave Tianji Palace.

Yu Yulin's other career outside is very close to Tianji Palace. In the past, Lou Shuwan wanted to enter the palace and often came here to rest for a while. In the era of the Tiger King, although Lou Shuwan managed various things, her identity was not formal as a woman. It is said that she was the mistress of the Tiger King, but in addition to the official business, Lou Shuwan lived in a very far away from the palace city. After killing Tian Hu, Lou Shuwan became one of the essential rulers of the King of Jin power. Even if she wanted to live in Tianji Palace, Tian Shi would not have any objection. However, Lou Shuwan lived with the nearly half-crazy Lou Shuheng. She didn't want Lou Shuheng to get close to the core of Weisheng, so she simply moved to the suburbs of the city.

Although it was simple to live in Weisheng City at this time, Lou Shuwan wanted to live in places and to run ten or eight magnificent other businesses, she was almost completely interested in these things, and when she entered the city, she occasionally settled down with Yulin. She was a woman, and in the early years, it was said that she was Tian Hu's mistress. Now even if she had one hand covering the sky, Lou Shuwan didn't mind people misunderstanding that she was Yu Yulin's lover. If someone misunderstood like this, it would only reduce her trouble.

The carriage entered through the back door of the other industry, and when he got off the car, he found that it was quite lively in front of him. Perhaps Yu Yulin's cousin Yu Bin called a group of prominent scholars to gather here. Shu Wan had also participated in these gathering buildings, so she didn't care. She waved her hand and asked the manager not to make a statement, so she went to the special courtyard behind to rest.

I slept for a while. Although the direction of the major event was decided, what I faced next was more like a path of the underworld. Death might be near, and her mind was buzzing, and she could see many past scenes. This scene came from Ning Yi's Yongle dying into Hangzhou City, subverting all her past life. Ning Yi was deeply trapped in it and drove a way out from a prisoner. The scholar refused to endure. Even if he had a small hope, he only made the right choice. She always saw him... He walked into the door of the Lou family, reached out, pulled the crossbow, and then stepped over the hall, overturned the table with one hand...

Now she is also walking this narrow road. For many years, sometimes she feels that her heart has long been dead, but at this moment, she thinks that figure in her mind, the culprit and the original intention of making many decisions. This time, she may be dead. When all this is extremely true, she suddenly finds that she regrets...it is impossible to see him again...

The brain buzzed, and the fatigue in her body recovered a little, so she couldn't sleep anymore. She asked someone to wash her face with water, walk in the yard, and then walk out to the next yard. The waitress followed behind her, and everything around her was quiet. There were not many people in the backyard of the general's Neiye. She walked and stopped in one yard. There was a huge tree of lunacy in the middle of the yard. The leaves turned yellow in late autumn, and the fruits like lanterns fell to the ground.

"Miss Lou." Someone called her at the gate of the courtyard and woke her up who was lost under the tree. Lou Shuwan turned her head and looked at her. She was a man in her early forties with a square face and elegant appearance, and seemed a little serious. Lou Shuwan subconsciously bowed: "Master Zeng, I didn't expect to meet her here."

"I didn't expect Miss Lou is here at this moment." Master Zeng was named Zeng Yuhuai, a famous scholar under the power of the King of Jin. Lou Shuwan had some contact with him, but he was not familiar with him. Zeng Yuhuai was a very serious Confucian scholar. At this time, he bowed and said hello, but he had no intimacy in his eyes. Lou Shuwan had a high position and was of relatively gentle means of contact with these scholars on weekdays, but he could not get out of his slow thinking. What he did here, what he had... I can't figure it out.

"Miss Lou always appears in the adult's mansion, which hurts Qingqi. Zeng thought he should pay attention to it."

Zeng Yuhuai raised his hand and said this seriously. Unexpectedly, the other party was criticizing him. Lou Shuwan hesitated slightly, and then smiled: "What the Master said is, the little girl will pay attention. However, the saint said that a gentleman is open and honest. In fact, the matter between me and General Yu is nothing to do with others."

She was sharp-tongued and sarcastic, which was a casual sarcasm and refutation, but Zeng Yuhuai still bowed: "It is better to pay attention to the matter of reputation."

This person is so annoying. Lou Shuwan still smiled on her face. She was about to speak, but she heard the other party continue: "Miss Lou has worked for the country and the people over the years and has done her best. She should not be hurt by rumors."

"Uh..." Lou Shuwan was stunned, "Zeng..."

Zeng Yuhuai's face was still serious, but his eyes were clear, not a false statement: "Although those who do big things do not care about small matters, some things are not fair in the world. Zeng had misunderstandings about Miss Lou in his early years. In recent years, when he saw what the girl did, he realized how shallow Zeng and the world had been. Over the years, the rule of King Jin was able to support the development to this day, and it was up to the girl to support it from behind. Now he is powerful and profitable. Over the years, people from the east and north have come to the mountains, which just proves the rare things that Miss Lou has done in recent years."

Lou Shuwan thought for a while: "Actually... thousands of sails passed by the side of the sunken boat, and thousands of trees were springing in front of the sick tree. What good thing Master Zeng saw?"

"Zeng has already known that the King of Jin is willing to send troops, which is also what Zeng wants to thank Miss Lou." Zeng Yuhuai bowed deeply, "It is a great merit to protect the country and the people as a woman. Today, the downfall is imminent. In the midst of great trouble, Miss Lou can run away from it and choose the Great Dao. No matter what happens next, the hundreds of millions of Han people under the jurisdiction of King of Jin will owe Miss Lou a gift."

"Uh..." Lou Shuwan had nothing to accept when the other party spoke seriously.

The strange scholar still said: "...In fact, a few years ago, Zeng gradually noticed Miss Lou's extraordinaryness. He met several times and did not talk in depth. However, Zeng noticed that Miss Lou seemed to be hurt, so he was not careful. Even if he did many things, he would not want others to know. Zeng was deeply involved in it and gradually became obsessed with Miss Lou..."

“…”

"Miss Lou must not know these things. Zeng also knew that it was a bit presumptuous to speak at this time. But since the afternoon, I know that Miss Lou has been running around these days, and her heart is in a state of great excitement...Miss Lou, Zeng knows... Meng Lang, but the Jurchens are coming, Miss Lou... I don't know if Miss Lou is willing..."

Zeng Yuhuai looked serious and was indeed a cultivating scholar in the past. At this time, he seemed to be calmly expressing his mood. Lou Shuwan had never encountered such a thing. She had a sophisticated and had sex with many scholars in Hangzhou City. The Confucian scholar who was calm and self-sustaining in private seemed frivolous and frivolous in her life. When she arrived at Tian Hu, Lou Shuwan's status was not low. If she wanted to meet, she would naturally not be missing, but she had lost interest in these things. She was like a black widow on weekdays, so she naturally didn't have much peach blossoms.

The middle-aged Confucian scholar in front of him was different. He praised and expressed his feelings seriously, saying that I had a good impression of you. All this was extremely strange, but he was not excited, but he seemed solemn. The Jurchens were about to kill him, so the expression of this relationship became solemn. At this moment, 36-year-old Lou Shuwan stood under the yellow leaves tree, full of lantern flowers on the ground. She folded her hands and bowed slightly. This was the etiquette of a lady she had not used for a long time.

"Master Zeng, I'm sorry...Shu Wan..." She thought for a moment, "It's hard to thank the country for a long time..." She said in her heart: I'm telling a lie.

Zeng Yuhuai's words stopped: "Well, Zeng is Menglang... Zeng has decided to go to the army tomorrow. I hope it is possible to go north with the army. The Jurchens are coming. If you are lucky enough to die... Miss Lou, I hope to meet again."

Lou Shuwan stood there silently, watching the other person's gaze become clear, but there is nothing to say. After Zeng Yuhuai finished speaking, he turned around and left. Lou Shuwan stood under the tree, and the sunset spread the magnificent rays of light throughout the sky. She didn't like Zeng Yuhuai, and of course there was no love, but at this moment, the buzzing sound stopped in her mind.

She got on the carriage, slowly passed through the market, through the busy city of crowds, and returned to her home in the suburbs. It was already night, and the evening breeze blew, and it passed through the fields outside to the yard. Lou Shuwan walked over from the courtyard, and saw everything around her, including green stone slabs, red walls and gray tiles, carvings and scrolls on the walls, and weeds under the courtyard. She walked to the garden and stopped. Only a few flowers were still blooming in late autumn, with lush plants, and people were taking care of the garden every day. She didn't need these things, and she wouldn't look at them in the past, but these things always existed.

Lou Shuwan sat by the flower bed and watched these quietly. The servants lit lanterns on the eaves of Langyuan around them. The light of the moon shone down, reflecting the water of the pool in the middle of the garden, shining with sparkling waves in the whirlwind of the night wind. After a while, Lou Shuheng, who seemed drunk after drinking, walked past the other side. He walked to the pavilion above the pool, saw Lou Shuwan, and was frightened to the ground, and a little cringed.

"It's going to fight." After a while, Lou Shuheng spoke like this. Lou Shuwan kept looking at him, but there was no reaction. Lou Shuheng said again: "The Jurchens are coming, and they are going to fight... they are crazy."

"It's a war..."

"It's a war..."

The courtyard was silent for a long time. Lou Shuheng fell in the pavilion and rolled up, then sat up against the pillar, muttering. Since he came to the territory of the Tiger King, the Central Plains have not been peaceful, but because Lou Shuwan climbed very fast, the only war the two brothers and sisters experienced was actually the uprising in the Yongle Dynasty and the subsequent migration. Lou Shuheng was still afraid of it in his heart.

At some point, Lou Shuwan got up and walked over. She sat down in the seat in the pavilion, very close to Lou Shuheng, and just looked at him like that. The Lou family is only the brother and sister, and Lou Shuheng is useless. Lou Shuwan originally expected him to play with women and at least leave some blood for the Lou family, but the facts proved that long-term indulgence caused him to lose this ability. For some time, this was the only time that the two of them stayed together so peacefully.

"Brother, how many years have you been?"

"……ah?"

"Do you want Hangzhou? I have always thought about it, but I can't remember it, until today..." Lou Shuwan said in a low voice. Under the moonlight, the corners of her eyes looked a little red, but it might also be an illusion under the moonlight.

“…”

"...Yes, the Jurchens are coming... Something happened. Brother, we suddenly felt..." Her voice paused, "...We are living so frivolous..."

"Ah?" Lou Shuheng's voice came from his throat, and he couldn't understand it.

"...you, I, brother, I think of the past...we are all too frivolous...so frivolous." She closed her eyes and cried in a low voice, thinking of everything happiness in the past, everything they faced hasty, whether it was happiness or happiness, or she was lingering in various desires. Until she was thirty-six years old, the Confucian scholar bowed to her seriously, and he said, "You do things for the country and the people, I like you... I made a decision and I was going to the north...she didn't like him. However, the things that kept ringing in her mind stopped...

If I, my brother, could have treated the world more seriously, would all of this have a different ending?

She sat in the pavilion and looked at Shuwan, the building in another world. The moonlight was shining, illuminating the mountains and rivers that were thousands of miles away, filled with smoke of gunpowder.

Time, with its unspeakable power, pushed the mountain's memories into front of her, crushing her past. However, when she opened her eyes, the road had already gone.

She thought of Ning Yi.

I haven't revenge on you yet...

And the Jurchens are here...
Chapter completed!