The excitement of the Winter Fun Games made Gu Qingxi's health improve a bit. Although she could not participate, she was willing to watch other people's sports games, especially the innocent and joyful smiles of the children, which made the town no longer so cold in winter.
Centurion Solda, who participated in the sports games throughout the whole process, especially liked the sports games. The Sardinians had not held similar activities. He said to Zhang Xiaowu that it would be better to hold such activities in the town every winter.
Zhang Xiaowu said yes, and Solda added: "Your abilities are not limited to the Sheriff. After the spring, I recommend you to go to the city and become a bigger official. However, you need to marry another Sardinian wife, and it is best to have a child."
, so that it can be reused.”
Zhang Xiaowu glanced at his wife who covered her mouth and looked excitedly at the people having a snowball fight in the snow. She smiled fondly and shook her head. Solda knew that this Han man valued friendship and would no longer force himself for the time being. Zhang Xiaowu began to feel that he was
It's not that I made a wrong decision. Which is more important, the recovery of the five cities in Saibei, or the happy life of the people? What the people need most at the moment is the news of the victory in Saibei, or is it alive?
The rule of the Sardinians was not cruel. The people in the wooden city under Sardin's rule seemed to be prosperous, and there were no excessive taxes or excessive levies by officials. Why would he destroy the life here? Why would he destroy other people's lives?
He had doubts about himself for the first time. He had just entered the twelfth lunar month of the Holy Han calendar, and it snowed heavily for three days and three nights. The entire northern part of the Great Wall was covered in white, and almost all hunting teams withdrew. This year’s hunting results were not good.
Well, everyone must tighten their belts to get through this long winter.
After learning that Zhang Long and Zhao Hu were married, Chao Chao and Ma Han confessed to Zhang Xiaowu that they were persuaded by herdsmen while hunting and married into other people's homes in the ghost town and became their sons-in-law. Zhang Xiaowu did not object and even gave them to each other.
Each of the four of them gave a hundred silver coins as a congratulatory gift, and the four of them were very grateful.
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Gu Qingxi suddenly became energetic and took the initiative to hold Zhang Xiaowu's hand and build a snowman in the yard. She said: "Brother Zhang, will there be a day in the future when people will no longer fight with each other?"
Just play games?"
"There will definitely be such a day." Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile, his eyes firm.
"How do you know?"
"The laws of history."
“Does history have patterns?”
"Yes." Zhang Xiaowu said, "Have you read the history of the Central Plains? Why does a dynasty have to be overthrown for more than three hundred years at most? I think every dynasty is established and maintained by people, so the establishment
The people who maintained the dynasty became gentry, nobles, and the backbone of the country. However, hundreds of years later, these spines spread out. As their descendants multiplied, they needed more land and more land.
Wealth, so they have great power and influence. And when their ability is enough to influence
When the emperor was affected, they became the emperor's serious concern. At this time, the emperor faced these nobles who were both the emperor's supporters and the country's worms. If the emperor did not kill them, they would drain the country's blood and eventually force him to
If the people rebel, the emperor will kill them
They will wear yellow robes and kill the emperor to change the dynasty. Then war appears. When the national class is solidified and power and land need to be redistributed, war will definitely occur, and war is the process of redistribution of resources. This is the law of history."
"Is it like the Lin family in Jiangnan and the Shi family in Lingnan, or the rebellion of the Sky Fire Sect?" Gu Qingxi asked with a smile.
"The Heavenly Fire Sect represents the common people's resistance to the solidification of classes. The Lin family and the Shi family represent the gentry who have control of the military." Zhang Xiaowu looked at the snowman and said, "The human heart is the most greedy, and human nature is the most unbelievable. Today, the pillars of the imperial court,
In the future, it may be the butcher's knife that overthrows the imperial court."
Gu Qingxi said: "Are you talking about the Li family?"
Zhang Xiaowu said: "It's not just the Li family, what about the Gu family? What about the Wang family?"
"The Gu family... yes, the Gu family is actually very big." Gu Qingxi said, suddenly coughing, Zhang Xiaowu helped her sit up, she changed the subject and said: "I took you away from my sister for half a year.
I owe her so much and I don’t know how to repay her in my next life.”
Zhang Xiaowu comforted: "No one owes anyone."
Gu Qingxi laughed: "I was never happy before, but after being with you, I am happy every day. Even if I am herding horses and sheep in Saibei, I am still happy."
"Well, me too." Zhang Xiaowu said, "A Taoist priest told me to slow down my life. During the few months here, I finally realized the meaning of slowing down my life, and I didn't even think about politics, war and the like.
, I have been thinking these past few days whether I should recapture the five cities in Saibei."
Gu Qingxi asked: "Is it because of me that you want to live a peaceful life, or is it because I hindered your achievements?"
Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and said: "For me, making contributions has long been no longer that important. When I saw that the people on the Saibei grassland lived so peacefully, I thought, what if Saibei returns to the hands of the Central Plains?"
Seeing that he didn't blame herself, Gu Qingxi felt relieved and said with a smile: "You promised me three things, marry me and come to live in Mucheng, but there is still one thing you haven't fulfilled."
Zhang Xiaowu said: "What is the third thing?"
"I'll tell you later." Gu Qingxi said with a smile, looking at the south gently with nostalgia and regret in his eyes.
Zhang Xiaowu took her back to the tent. The tent and the outside were two different worlds. He gently took off her coat. She sat by the brazier, staring at the charcoal in the brazier in a daze. Her body was very light.
She was even a little thin, and her hair was gray and dry. Zhang Xiaowu lifted her hair for her. Gu Qingxi smiled, poured two glasses of sake, and said, "How about we drink together?"
Zhang Xiaowu raised his glass and took a sip. Gu Qingxi laughed, gave him the eyebrow pencil, and asked Zhang Xiaowu to put on makeup for her. Although Zhang Xiaowu didn't know how to put on makeup, he still coaxed a child to put on her eyebrows, holding the wine glass in one hand, and
Holding an eyebrow pencil in one hand, he suddenly smiled and said: "My murderous hand holds an eyebrow pencil, so people in the world must not know that I have such a talent."
Early the next morning, Zhang Xiaowu found that Gu Qingxi was no longer breathing. She finally failed to survive the winter. Although she lived for two more months, she still disappeared in Saibei.
Zhang Xiaowu held her in his arms all morning, until the slave girl walked in and saw that Gu Qingxi was dead. She couldn't help but shook her head. She was a gentle and kind-hearted mistress who never beat or scolded her slaves. Unexpectedly, she didn't persist.
Spend this winter. But it is very normal for someone to die on the grassland, and the hostess has been in poor health, so now she is relieved.
The female slave asked: "Master, what should I do?"
"You should dress her up, put on her most beautiful clothes." Zhang Xiaowu said blankly. Gu Qingxi was the second woman to die in Zhang Xiaowu's arms. He could not have imagined that his life would be so miserable. Why?
The women who follow him always get into accidents or die in one way or another. Could it be that he has committed a crime against the evil star?
"Okay." He sighed.
When she was dressed in Gu Qingxi, the female slave found a letter in her arms and gave it to Zhang Xiaowu. This is a suicide note. Gu Qingxi's last request was to bury her in the tomb of King Hejian, Youzhou.
, Buried on the side of his clothing Guanzuka.
He looked at the empty house, and his sorrow came from his heart, the tears suddenly flowed out, and the female slave retired.