Volume Four, The Year of the Curtain, Chapter 193: Heaven and Earth
After eating haggis soup and then having a late night snack, Ning Que didn't drink much wine. When Ning Que walked out of the court house, he was blown away by the cold wind and felt no longer drunk. He felt a little unsatisfied or bored.
The carriage went to the Concierge Hotel. He asked the coachman to leave, and holding on to his crutch, he walked into the garden through the snow. Through the snowy window, he saw Mo Shanshan writing with a pen.
The candlelight was as bright as before, and the woman's eyebrows were still as beautiful. He stood quietly outside the window for a long time, and then knocked on the door and entered, not knowing what to say.
Ning Que wanted to drink at this time and wanted to drink with Mo Shanshan. When he entered the boudoir, he realized that it was already late at night. He didn't know how to speak, so he said, "How is that girl from Tmall Girl now?"
"We agreed to get married..." Mo Shanshan was about to pour him tea. Looking at his expression, he couldn't help but smile and said, "I feel like drinking right now. Will you accompany me?"
A few plates of side dishes, two bowls of vegetable porridge, and a pot of old wine from Dahe Country, the two of them drank together.
Mo Shanshan asked: "There is a knot between your eyebrows."
Ning Que put down his wine glass, rubbed his eyebrows, and said, "Is it so obvious?"
Mo Shanshan smiled and said, "If not, why would you come to me so late at night?"
Ning Que was silent for a moment and told what happened tonight. As for the dirty things he told Chen Qi in the end, he naturally did not mention them. He said with emotion: "Five years ago, when I sent Li Yu back to Chang'an, I saw Huashan Mountain for the first time at the Beishan Pass.
, I didn’t like this person at that time, and I still don’t like him now, but I never imagined that he would risk his life to save Li Yu. His love is really unpredictable.”
"One thing of love..."
Mo Shanshan turned the wine glass gently, looked at Ning Que quietly and said, "This is something that is extremely difficult to understand."
Ning Que was a little confused by what she saw. He stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the fried small fish, but the fish slipped from the chopsticks.
He put his chopsticks on the table and said: "The reason why I am depressed is because of the things in the world. I think that on the snowy streets that day, countless people died, but their deaths were refreshing. Tonight, most of them
Everyone can live, but the life I live makes me extremely uncomfortable. He said goodbye to me, if you want to ask about the way of heaven, you should ignore the worldly affairs. If the worldly affairs come to bother you and me, I will cut them off with a knife like the master of the temple. It’s just a saying.
It’s so simple, but so difficult to do.”
Mo Shanshan trimmed the fine hair on his temples behind his ears and said: "Everyone will be troubled by these choices on the way to practice Taoism. I once had the same troubles, but later I discovered that I am a very greedy person. The way of heaven
If you want to ask, I want to understand the worldly affairs, and I also want to ponder the emotions."
She raised her head, looked at Ning Que and said: "That year in Washan, I wanted to ask Master Qishan something, but in the end I didn't ask. At that time, I thought I had figured it out, but after returning to Dahe
, I sit by the ink pool and look at the reflection on the water and the clouds in the blue sky, but I find that the so-called understanding is still just an escape. I am always a little unwilling. This is greed, because you once said you like the red wall and white snow, and I still like it."
Ning Que was silent for a long time, and then said, "I like it too."
Then he looked at the bamboos outside the snowy window, thinking of that long night when he was yelling at the sky by the snowy lake, and said: "She ran away that day, but she didn't run far, so I was able to catch her. This time she ran away
I went to heaven and ran too far to come back, so there was nothing I could do."
There seemed to be no connection between the words before and after, but Mo Shanshan understood. His sparse eyelashes blinked slightly, and there was no sadness on his fair face, just calmness.
"I like you and you like me, that's good."
She looked at Ning Que and said, "As for the rest of greed, it might have been possible before, but it's probably not possible now. I won't feel sad because of it, because it's probably God's will."
She poured a glass of wine and slowly pushed it in front of Ning Que.
Then she looked at the night sky outside the snow window, smiled and said: "Whoever lets her be the sky."
Ning Que looked at her heart-stoppingly beautiful face and drank the entire glass of wine as a sign of respect.
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The city of Chang'an is getting colder and colder, winter is getting more and more cruel, and the days are moving forward slowly and unstoppably. Quietly, the eighteenth year of Apocalypse has come to an end.
The little emperor has not officially ascended the throne, and the affairs of the Tang Dynasty are in the hands of the queen. It will probably take some time to change the year name. The war has not completely stopped. The Tang Dynasty is still under great pressure. I don’t know how many people there are.
Even though we are dead, the New Year will always be celebrated, and it will be even more lively.
Ning Que spent the New Year in the academy. The senior brothers and sisters in the back mountain were injured, disabled, and recuperating from their illnesses. The New Year's Eve dinner fell on Mo Shanshan and Tang Xiaotang, and with the help of the little book boy,
Although the meal was not ready until the moon climbed to the top of the mountain, I finally had a hot meal to eat.
Everyone drank a lot of wine that night and made several toasts to the bright moon in the night sky. If the Master had the time to drink the wine toasted by his disciples, he would probably be completely drunk.
It's very calm and warm, as if everything is just like yesterday, but in fact everyone feels that there is something missing in the back of the academy now, and what is missing is very important. Maybe it is the teacher who likes to be a food connoisseur the most, maybe it is the former one
Sangsang, who has been in charge of cooking for years.
At the intersection of the old and new years, the world's situation also experienced many major changes. Due to the severe cold weather, the cavalry of the Golden Horde Royal Court stopped their crazy offensive momentum and temporarily entered a truce with the Tang army. The Golden Horde Royal Court
Kaiping in Qichengzhai was the main camp, while the Tang army stayed in the Xiangwanyuan area and refused to retreat.
Important figures such as the leader of the Yuelun Kingdom and the commander of the army all died in the hands of the senior brother. The main force of the army was annihilated by the Western Army of the Tang Dynasty in front of Congling. The Western Army took advantage of the opportunity to break through Congling and attack Chaoyang City directly, intending to destroy the country.
They defeated seventeen cities all the way, and only received an urgent flying letter from Chang'an when they reached the north of Chaoyang City.
After General Shu Cheng read this letter signed by the imperial court and the academy, he thought for a while, and then, despite the shock, confusion and objections of his generals, he forcibly ordered the army to retreat.
When the Western Army of the Tang Dynasty withdrew from Chaoyang City, the smoke and dust soared into the sky. The Yuelun people could not believe their eyes. After they were sure that the Tang army would no longer attack the city, the entire Chaoyang City turned into a sea of welcome, and countless Yuelun people cried bitterly.
, and then began to splash water to celebrate.
During the subsequent withdrawal, the Western Army of the Tang Dynasty was even greeted by the people of the Yuelun Kingdom. From time to time, the Yuelun Kingdom's gentry, common people or monks brought food, grass, water and red-dyed eggs to the army. At first, the Western Army was firmly opposed to the withdrawal.
After seeing these scenes, the military generals finally confirmed that this country, which is always warm all year round, cannot be treated as normal, and there is really no point in conquering them.
The most shocking change happened at Qingxia. For some unknown reason, the Xiling Temple Alliance Army, which was said to number hundreds of thousands, began to withdraw its troops and retreat south. They no longer tried to open up Qingxia, and had no intention of detouring to the Northern Expedition.
, but withdrew to Qinghe County, waiting for something in silence.
The Southern Army of Datang Town rushed thousands of miles to aid Qingxia, abandoning countless baggage along the way. Most of the soldiers even threw their armor and leather armor into the mountains. They were exhausted and relied entirely on willpower to hold on. Because of the southward retreat of the Xiling Temple Allied Forces, they
Finally, we had a precious chance to breathe, but happiness came so suddenly. Neither the generals of the Zhennan Army nor Chang'an City understood what happened.
The most powerful temple alliance did nothing in this world-wide battle to conquer the Tang Dynasty, or to be more precise, it did not play any role, so it retreated like this. Why on earth is this?
The people of the Tang Dynasty couldn't understand it, and the people of the Southern Jin Dynasty couldn't understand it, especially because His Majesty the Emperor of the Southern Jin Dynasty, who was always immersed in extreme grief after losing his son, couldn't understand it, so he was very angry.
Then he became furious.
After the New Year, news of the Southern Jin Emperor's death spread throughout the world.
According to the official statement of the Southern Jin Dynasty, the great Southern Jin emperor died of a sudden illness because he was overworked on state affairs, reviewing memorials continuously, and stayed up for three days and two nights.
The Tianshu Office of the Tang Dynasty found some other accounts in the south. Although what was finally determined was only some fragments, it was enough for people in Chang'an City to deduce what exactly happened at that time.
On the day before the death of the Southern Jin Emperor, Thunder was furious because the Xiling Temple Allied Forces withdrew southward. He summoned the Southern Jin military generals into the palace and cursed him. Even the dead coach Bai Haixin was not spared. Then
His Majesty still couldn't be happy and ordered Jiange to send people into the palace to explain why the battle at Qingxia was like this.
Sword Master Liu Bai was recuperating from his injuries, and with his status, he would naturally not go to the palace to explain anything. Jiange randomly sent a disciple to the palace, and that disciple was named Liu Yiqing.
And then... there was nothing after that.
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The death of the Emperor of the Southern Jin Dynasty is probably just a simple record in the history books. Compared with the gloomy blood stains in countless palaces in history, there is not much difference. However, in the eyes of caring people, the death of His Majesty the Emperor is...
This is a very important thing, because it represents a fundamental change in the power structure of the world.
Practitioners do not have enough power to influence the secular imperial power. Many details in this world-wide war against the Tang Dynasty have already proved this, whether it is the practitioners of the Yan Kingdom, the sword masters of the Tang Army, or the
The priests in the Royal Court of the Golden Tent were no different from ordinary people before the thousands of cavalry charged and the sky was full of arrows.
This same war proved another possibility, that is, a truly powerful person at the peak of his destiny could change the color of a river or mountain once he showed his power, such as the three people who took action in the Battle of Qingxia.
The solemn Imperial Palace of the Southern Jin Dynasty seemed so weak and vulnerable in front of a blind man's sword. This was related to the power of the sword pavilion, but in fact it illustrates a fact.
The Master left the human world and went to heaven. From that day on, the human world was no longer the same as before. This is the so-called heaven and earth.
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