Water is as tough as a sword, and a sword is as soft as water.
Love and hate dance with the sword, love and hatred follow the water.
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Maybe you can do it in Zhongdu, return the sheath and climb the hill again.
What can I do with my solitary blade? My sword rebukes the king!
This is "Ru Shui Sword Song". Since the beginning of the Jizhou Rebellion, it has flowed out of Luoyang City and gradually become known to the world. It is rumored that it was written by Ji Kang and Ji Shu Ye Jingyuan in the second year of their stay in Luoyang. However, there are many theories and it has been lost to history. No one has ever gotten to the bottom of it.
What's even more bizarre is another rumor: Those who have the sword like water can attain the sword and achieve unparalleled achievements!
The authenticity is not yet clear, but the rivers and lakes have another excuse to kill each other. So, from the top to Tianting, to the outside, close to the universe, and far to the four seas... officials, Taoists, monks, Confucianists, Xia, Bandits, demons, and other groups were all caught up in it, causing countless bloody storms...
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Luoyang city fell.
On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month in the fourteenth year of Tianbao, 200,000 rebels stormed from Jizhou and stormed in from the east of Luoyang City. Like wolves breaking into a flock of sheep, they announced the beginning of wanton looting and endless killing.
General Feng Changqing, who had rushed for reinforcements earlier, lost the battle with the rebels at Wulao Pass and retreated all the way to the east gate of Luoyang City. He fought again and was defeated again. He had to lead the rest of his troops to retreat into the city and from the palace garden. The west gate broke through the wall and went to the west.
There was chaos in the Imperial Palace in Miyagi City. The palace people fled in all directions like a flock of frightened birds. The people who fled from the East City, their bodies covered with blood and their faces were stained, collided with the panicked palace people. The scene was It's even more confusing.
"The thieves are coming! The thieves are coming -!" Some people shouted loudly in fear, but as they ran, they fell down and could no longer move. There were holes on their backs that looked like they were poked by a sharp weapon. The eyes were gurgling with black and red liquid.
So the people in the palace began to know clearly that the rebels had come from the east. They all unified their directions and looked to the west...
On the west side of the imperial city, in the Shangyang Palace, the once beloved concubine Jiang Caiping was leaning against a well. She wore an elegant skirt and no makeup. There was a wide white silk ribbon wrapped around her body and arms. of panic.
The palace attendants around her had almost run away, but only a little palace maid was still holding her back: "Mother! The rebels have entered the city! If we don't run, we won't be able to escape!"
Jiang Caiping's eyes were filled with desolation, and she looked over with somewhat unfocused eyes: "Is it Qiuniang? I won't leave, the saint asked me to wait for him here. When the jealous woman subsides, he will take me back to Chang'an. While my body is still agile, Dance another stunning dance..."
Only then did Lu Qiuniang notice Bai Ling, and she immediately became anxious: "Your Majesty——! Run! What are you talking about now! The rebels want to kill people, and your Majesty must survive first!"
Jiang Caiping seemed to come back to her senses, her eyes lit up, as if she had made some kind of decision, and she put a small brocade-wrapped bundle beside her into Qiuniang's hands: "Qiuniang, let's go quickly! If we go to Chang'an, take this Return this to the saint. Just say... Mei Jing is innocent and did not fall into the rebels..." After finishing speaking, he suddenly poured into the well next to him. The harsh sound of water rang out for a few times before he was heard from far away. The cry of killing was drowned out by the screams.
There were tears in Lu Qiuniang's eyes: "Your Majesty——" Ignoring her sadness, Lu Qiuniang wiped away her tears, knowing that it was too late to escape from the palace gate. So she found a canal in Shangyang Palace that led to the outside of the palace, and stepped on the solid ice. , got out of the palace city and ran towards the northwest direction.
At this time, most of the rebels were busy rushing into Luoyang City to loot gold, silver, grain, livestock, women... Naturally, it was more attractive than the wilderness in the ice and snow. Therefore, Lu Qiuniang ran for a long time, but she was not betrayed by any scattered rebels.
The army chased after them. Until they were really tired from running, they found a higher wormwood bush, dived in, and gasped for air.
Not far from the wormwood, a few locust trees stood sparsely. Because it was a severe winter, the branches were bare. There were only about a dozen unknown birds standing on the branches to rest and chat.
Lu Qiuniang felt a little hungry, so she rummaged around in the gray cloth bag she carried with her for a long time, but she found out a large amount of Kaiyuan Tongbao money and some broken silver, but there was nothing to eat. When she touched it again, her silky tentacles revealed that it was Concubine Mei.
Thinking about the little baggage I handed over before throwing myself into the well, I shed tears again.
After crying for a while, Lu Qiuniang stuffed the small bundle into her own gray cloth bundle and slung it over her shoulder. Just as she was about to get up, she heard a "thrusting" sound coming from the locust tree. Looking sideways,
The birds had turned into black spots on the sky and quickly disappeared. The sound of two people talking, accompanied by the sound of horse hooves, stopped at the locust tree from far away. One person tied the horse and the other
One person took a water bottle and drank heavily.
The two leaned against the tree and continued talking. The language was mixed with Chinese and Chinese, and it was not clear. Lu Qiuniang was so nervous that she heard some news: the bandit leader An Lushan asked the rebels to enter the city quickly and demanded
The rebels handed over all the gold, silver, grain and grass they had collected for military needs. They also ordered an all-out search for officials and palace residents who usually lived in Luoyang City.
Hearing this, Lu Qiuniang felt a chill in her heart, her whole body softened, and she began to tremble unconsciously. "Who is it?" One of the alert soldiers had already turned his head this way, shouted sternly, and then used the weapon to his accomplices.
With a look, Lu Qiuniang didn't dare to move even more. She hugged her head and curled up a little tighter.
Another bandit soldier had already taken the long spear and was groping towards Lu Qiuniang. As he walked, he stabbed Lu Qiuniang randomly with the long spear in the wormwood. Seeing that the long spear was about to stab Qiuniang, he suddenly heard a scream under the locust tree.
, the bandit soldier immediately turned back, only to see his accomplice lying under the horse, his head was hit with something unknown and his flesh and blood were bruised. Just as he was about to scold him, he suddenly felt a sharp pain on his head, as if the sky was pressing down, and there was a flash in front of his eyes.
Hei also fell softly.
After her shock subsided, Lu Qiuniang was convinced that she was still alive. Half-sitting on the ground, she pushed aside the grass in front of her eyes and saw a sturdy man in a jute robe, standing where the bandit soldier fell, still holding a hand in his hands.
A wooden stick with a thick arm. His arm was still shaking slightly: it was obvious that he had mustered up the courage for the "feat" just now.
The man turned his head toward the wormwood bushes and said, "Don't you worry? You can come out now. I knocked the traitor unconscious."
Lu Qiuniang then stood up and saluted the man: "Thank you so much for saving me, I'm so polite."
But the man turned his head and bowed: "It turns out to be a fairy empress! The villain collided with me, is the empress okay?"
Lu Qiuniang said brightly: "Where is the empress? She is just a maid in the palace. My benefactor, get up quickly, it is important for us to escape!"
The man also knew that it was not the time to make a false salute, so he hurriedly took away the two long sticks of the two thieves, one to the east and the other to the west, and threw them into the wormwood bushes from a distance. He also removed the thieves' personal coins and short knives, and gathered them together.
In the harness of a horse, he suddenly asked: "My lady...can you ride a horse?" Lu Qiuniang shook her head.
The man untied the reins of the other horse and hit the horse's butt with a stick. The horse felt the pain and ran away in one direction. The man climbed on the horse awkwardly and grinned at Lu Qiuniang: "I used to ride
After two or three times, it didn't go smoothly. The girl came up quickly and had to find a place to hide first."
Lu Qiuniang hesitated for a moment, then felt relieved when she saw that the man was telling the truth. She grabbed the man's arm and rode behind the horse. The two of them passed by a few small villages and headed towards Mang Mountain in the north of Luoyang City.