Qu Lingchen was thinking about something while serving porridge.
Although Liu Zhang's personal soldiers did not do anything deliberately, Qu Lingchen could feel that Hao Miao and Wang Xu and other personal soldiers were watching his every move. He had no weapons and had no chance to make a move, and Qu Lingchen also wanted to wait.
After appeasing the victims, I thought about other things. Gradually, I temporarily gave up the idea of assassination.
I don’t know how long it took, but Qu Lingchen scooped up rice and handed it to the victims. Looking at the grateful eyes of the victims, he suddenly felt that what he was doing now was the truly meaningful thing, and this kind of thing could make him feel at ease.
, instead of holding a sword all day long and thinking about how to take revenge, and getting caught up in your own chaotic thoughts in your free time.
Starting from Brazil, this moment was the most relaxing time for Qu Lingchen. It seemed that every time he handed over a bowl of porridge, his heart, which had been lonely for a long time, became warmer. Gradually, behind the black veil, Qu Lingchen felt a little bit better than himself.
An aware smile.
"Girl, your name is Tang Yan?" Liu Zhang asked while passing the bowl.
"Yes." Qu Lingchen nodded.
The two were silent again
"Are you really doing all this for the people?" Qu Lingchen asked after a long time.
"That's not all. It's also for one's own sake. People's support is very important to rulers."
"All princes are selfish."
"Why do you say that?" Liu Zhang put down a stack of bowls and said: "How many people in this world are pure and kind, and many of them have purposes. I think there is nothing wrong with having purposes. What is important is whether the results really benefit the people.
Are they all as unscrupulous as Dong Zhuo?"
“Are you really benefiting the people?”
"I think it is."
"who knows?"
"I know it myself." Liu Zhang was silent for a while, looked at Qu Lingchen and said solemnly: "I want you to know too."
"Um... I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Qu Lingchen's hand trembled when he handed the rice porridge to the victims, and the rice porridge spilled on the hunchbacked old lady's hand. Qu Lingchen quickly apologized and wiped the back of the old lady's hand with a rag.
, filled a new bowl.
"It would be great if the man on Yunmengze and the man in Brazil were not the same." Qu Lingchen thought.
"Drive." A fast horse galloped up and handed a long cloth bag to Wang Xu. Liu Zhang took it and took out the contents of the bag. It was a nine-stringed qin, shaped like a widened long
The sword's black body was dotted with red spots, like rusty red iron.
The whole piano is simple and unpretentious, and it looks very old at first glance. Only the white strings seem to be brand new.
As soon as Liu Zhang took out the piano, he caught Qu Lingchen's attention. Qu Lingchen's master was proficient in many skills. Qin art was one of them, and among all his apprentices, Qu Lingchen was the one who learned the most about it. Just because
I have loved the piano since I was a child.
The time for giving porridge was over. Qu Lingchen looked at the guqin and felt a desire in his heart, but he suppressed it and just watched quietly as Liu Zhang took out the guqin and placed it on the wooden platform.
Liu Zhang scratched the strings with his fingers, and produced a pleasant sound. The sound was clear and clear. With a hint of sadness, it was like a drop of clear water dripping from the mossy rock wall of a deep pool that has never seen sunlight all year round.
Qu Lingchen's beautiful eyebrows moved.
Liu Zhang stroked the body of the piano and said: "It is said that during the Warring States Period, a Korean actress traveled to Fang Qi State. She had no money and played the piano in Qi State. It was like a solitary wild goose singing in the cold. Everyone was intoxicated by the sound. After the actress left, the sound of the piano was still there.
It lasted for three days without stopping. So the people named Lingnu's Qin as "Rawing the Liang".
Later, the Rao Liang Qin passed into the hands of the King of Chuzhuang. He heard the sound of the piano and did not come to court for seven days. The minister and princess persuaded him, so the King of Chu Zhuang reluctantly ordered people to smash the Rao Liang Qin. It was really regretful. Today, the Rao Liang Qin finally returned to the throne.
Appear in the human world."
Qu Lingchen said: "Since the piano has been destroyed, how can it reappear in the world?"
Liu Zhang smiled and said: "I don't think it is possible. After I left Yunmengze, I ordered a search to buy a good Qin. Someone offered this Qin to take credit, and even falsely claimed that it was a Liangqin, saying that King Chuzhuang was temporarily soft-hearted.
, using a fake piano instead of a real one, I really don’t know what to say.
But he insists that I am a rough guy, and there is nothing he can do about it. The sound quality of this piano is pretty good, and the girl is proficient in music, so I want the girl to identify whether it is a famous piano. If it is, it is not clear.
, if not, I will kill the fool who offered the piano."
Liu Zhang said this. Since it was a test of the guqin, Qu Lingchen felt a lot less hindered. He walked behind the guqin, pressed the white strings with his delicate white fingers, pressed them into the old mahogany, and gently released them.
"Zheng~~"
When the sound of the piano came out, it immediately attracted the surrounding refugees. They felt a stream of clear water flowing through their ears, but it seemed to be an illusion again, as they all searched for the help of the sound.
Liu Zhang sweated a little. The scratch he had just made was really an insult to the piano compared to Qu Lingchen's actions.
"I don't know if it's a circumvention, but it must be a fine guqin. There's no need for you to commit murderous crimes."
"Since an expert like the girl has said so, it is natural that he cannot be beheaded. He has done meritorious service and should be rewarded."
Qu Lingchen looked at the guqin and hesitated for a while, then said softly: "Sir, can I give this guqin a try?"
Liu Zhang waved to Wang Xu, who immediately moved a stone bench. Qu Lingchen sat on the stone bench, put his delicate white palm on the guqin, and lightly played the strings with his ten green fingers.
The sound of the piano is like smoke, wisps coming out, floating from the body of the Yaoliang Qin, and the clear sound is like a clear spring, permeating people's souls.
Liu Zhang looked stunned, and the pleasant voice caught him off guard.
The refugees looked over one after another and finally found the source of the sound, and the continuous sound of the piano was even more breathtaking, like the tranquil moonlight shining on the distant mountains, like a standing white pine on a hill in the quiet night, like the spring breeze blowing the green river bank, like the layers of Dongting Lake
Wave light.
Like clear raindrops, hitting the heart drop by drop.
The refugees were all immersed in the sound of the piano. Hungry, tired, confused, the endless drizzle, and the messy smell of the tent seemed to have disappeared at this moment, leaving only the music flowing through every pore of the body.
Comfortable.
My mind has never been so quiet, and my body has never been so focused on feeling something.
"Zheng~~"
Suddenly the sound of the piano stopped, as if a steel wire was thrown into the sky. It got out of the clouds and was thrown into the unknown space. The listener's thoughts were trapped as the steel wire was thrown away.
And at this moment, wisps of piano music resounded from distant and unknown corners, bit by bit, as if emerging from the ground, if they are there or not, you can't catch the traces, but you can distinguish them carefully. It's all in your ears.
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The sound of the piano gradually became clearer, and a touch of sadness penetrated the heart and spleen with the sound of the piano, recalling people's most unforgettable memories. The refugees and even the soldiers were intoxicated by the sound of the piano, and Lingchen closed his mouth as he played the song.
Eyes, as if he is not a player, but a listener.
Refugees from afar came closer, but did not dare to get too close, fearing that the sound of footsteps would disrupt the music. When the music fell, everyone was still silent in their own thoughts. The strands of music were embedded in it.
, lingering in my mind for a long time.
This scene will never be forgotten by anyone who has heard it.
When people gradually woke up and reacted, they burst into deafening exclamations. Qu Lingchen, whose black gauze was fluttering in the wind, became a fairy-like existence in their eyes at this moment.
"Miss Tang's piano skills are outstanding. She is truly unprecedented."
Liu Zhang was stunned for a long time and then said something. The remaining scene evoked by the sound of the piano in his mind was still clear: the sparkling waves of Dongting Lake, the peach blossoms on the island in full bloom, a bamboo house with a white gauze on the side.
Qu Lingchen didn't respond for a while. Through the black gauze, Liu Zhang couldn't see her expression.
"My lord, you are so complimentary. This nine-stringed harp is truly an extraordinary thing. My clumsy skills cannot bring out its full potential." Qu Lingchen also stayed in his own thoughts. When he played the harp just now, he controlled it by himself at first.
Later, from the moment the music stopped, it seemed as if the music could pull her fingers.
It's not that I'm thinking about how to play, but the sound of the piano is guiding me to play, smoothly and flawlessly, and I am actually silent in the sound of my own piano. This is the first time in ten years that I have been learning the piano, and the feeling in my heart is
A picture has always stayed in my mind. A high-spirited young man stood in front of a green bamboo house, brandishing a sword and carving words. The lake and peach orchards became his foil.
Liu Zhang smiled and said: "I was thinking about that Korean actress back then. If she could really play the piano for three days, she wouldn't be able to receive any money. How did she get the money? She wouldn't starve to death in three days.
Alright?"
Qu Lingchen burst into laughter, and when he woke up, he heard Liu Zhang's joking words. He lost his composure for a moment. After laughing, he immediately stopped talking and did not dare to move his body.
This was the first time Liu Zhang heard Qu Lingchen laugh, and he was startled.
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"Is there any venison for today?"
"The venison is ready."
"Descendants of Huangxiang."
"Third watch tonight."
A porridge giver said in a low voice to a young man who was receiving porridge: "Now, most of General Huang's soldiers have been led into the city. As long as they obtain weapons, they can start fighting tonight. You can go with them."
The young man nodded: "General Huang's fifteen thousand troops and Governor Zhang's five thousand troops have arrived secretly. In order to paralyze Liu Zhang, they ambush twenty miles outside the east city. As long as we capture the city, Jiangxia Jingling's army can
If we come to help, the soldiers and horses from Jiangdong will also arrive, and there will be no chance for Liu Zhang to stand up."
The soup man nodded and shouted to the tent behind him: "A day laborer."
The young man walked into the tent.
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"What happened to the Cai family? Why didn't any of them come?"
Several members of the family liaison party gathered in a quiet courtyard, but after waiting for a long time, no one from the Cai family arrived. Some of the family members couldn't help but complain.
"Where are Cai Yu and Cai Mao? They called this gathering, but they didn't come. Do they still think they are the largest clan in Jingxiang?"
"Forget it, we can still do it without the Cai family." A young man stepped out of the queue.
"Pang Lian, don't talk nonsense. Liu Zhang used the ceremony to kill the Sima family and confiscated all the weapons privately owned by our family. This time, he also ignored our generals serving in the army. Only the Cai family can rely on them.
Cai Ming's shameless charisma seduced Liu Zhang, and none of them were relieved of their military duties. Without them, how can we respond internally, with bare hands?"
Pang Lian smiled contemptuously: "What do you need military power for? As long as you get weapons, those Jiangxia soldiers who came in and the guards of our family are an army in themselves, with tens of thousands of people. Now there are only a few defenders in Xiangyang City.
There are 20,000 people, and half of them are distributed in the inner city. Isn’t it possible to hold on until Huang Zu and Chen Sheng’s army arrives?”
"To put it lightly, Xiangyang Armory Liu Zhang has been prepared for the dog thief for a long time. He sent a general to guard it with heavy troops. How do you get it? Do you just rely on your brother Pang Ming, who has only been the treasury commander for a few days?"
"Yes, when Liu Zhang ordered that anyone who hid weapons secretly should kill the whole clan, my old man handed over all the decorated swords and the spring and autumn halberds in the antique shop. I tried to persuade him not to listen. Now, I'm afraid all I have is a hoe."
"Don't you still believe it?" Pang Lian snorted: "Let me tell you, our Pang family has made a clever plan a long time ago. The general who guards the treasury order, Han Dianchen, is brave, but he has a fatal weakness. He is greedy for drinking and drinking. I
My brother has already prepared the Hengshui wine. I am afraid that the drunkard’s personnel is unknown now. As long as we take his token and transfer the Sichuan army, the weapons in the entire treasury will be ours."
Everyone took a breath and looked happy. Pang Lian smiled and said, "Just don't forget the contribution of our Pang family."
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"Sister, they will take action at three o'clock tonight. Do we really sit back and ignore it? If they succeed, we will be passive."
In the attic, Cai Mao said eagerly.
"Let's act according to the situation." Cai Ming held his eyebrow thorn and outlined his eyebrows bit by bit in front of the bronze mirror. "If Huang Zu Zhang Yun's army outside the city joins the army inside the city, and you let the Cai family lead troops to rebel, you
Don’t worry, even if our Cai family is not the most meritorious, no one will be able to touch us after everything is done. Don’t forget, we still have Chen Sheng.”
"Yes." Cai Mao was overjoyed. He let Chen Sheng go in the first place and asked Chen Sheng to be grateful. Chen Sheng was the strength of the Cai family. Regardless of the merits of the rebellion or the fight for power after the success, this was a big bargaining chip.
Chen Sheng's troops, plus the Cai family's troops, are not more powerful than any other family?
Cai Mao couldn't help but be even more impressed by Cai Ming's foresight.
"What if they don't succeed?" Cai Hao asked.
"No success?" Cai Ming chuckled: "You still don't know how to beat a drowned dog?"
Cai Hao smiled proudly.
"But remember." Cai Ming turned to look at Cai Hao: "This event is of huge scale and the Cai family's branches are complicated. Even though you and I and the clan leader are responsible for restraining us, it is impossible for no one to participate. If the family rises
If things don't work out, you have to kill the rebellious Cai family as soon as possible and then hand over their heads to Liu Zhang, do you understand?"
Cai Mao's expression twisted.
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Huangjiawan, this is the time when Huang Yueying summons the whole family and nursing staff in the name of the "seriously ill" Mr. Huang. All the children of the Huang family heard the news and gathered here gearing up, ready to fight to the death.
Huang Yueying climbed up the steps. Huang Chengyan and Mrs. Cai (Cai Ming's sister) looked at the heroic Huang Yueying. They were extremely proud and relieved, and they all smiled and nodded.
"The descendants of the Huang family, Yueying's uncles and uncles, brothers and sisters, nephews and nephews, Yueying summoned everyone here under the instructions of the old man. I think everyone knows the reason. Liu Zhang was cruel and insensitive. Tonight, all the heroes gathered together to support each other.
This grand event brings peace to Jingzhou."
"Kill the tyrant and return my hometown."
"Kill the tyrant and return my hometown."
The Huang family's children followed and shouted.
"Today is the day for us to take action. Our Huang family must also contribute to Jingxiang. As one of the ten major families, this is our unshirkable responsibility. And our mission is to go to Dongcheng and defeat General Huang in Jiangxia.
, before the arrival of General Jingling Zhang, do you think it would be good to clear the road in the middle and clear out the ambush of the Sichuan Army so that General Huang and General Zhang can join the rebels in the city faster?"
"good!"
"good!"
"The time is tonight, just tonight..." Huang Yueying paused and asked the young man with droopy eyelids beside him. This is Huang Yueying's playmate since childhood, and she has the best relationship.
"Huzi, when will the water level opening and breaking of the bridge be completed?" Huang Yueying had set foot in the upper reaches of the Huangjiawan Mountain River ten days ago. It rained continuously for ten days, and a lot of water was stored.
Huzi opened his eyes and said: "If we want others not to know, we can only do it at night, probably during the second watch."
Huang Yueying faced all the children of the Huang family: "Yes, the time is set at the third watch tonight. To be sure, we will set off at the second and a half watch. You all must cheer up. When the time comes, everyone must move forward bravely and not be greedy for life or fear of death.
But before the third watch, anyone who dares to take a step like this is a collaborator with the enemy and a tip-off to Liu Zhang, the dog thief. Don't blame me, Huang Yueying, for being ruthless."
"Sister Yueying, there is no coward here."
"Yes, well said."
The children of the Huang family rushed to agree.
Huang Yueying nodded happily, and Hu Zi's eyelids drooped again.
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It's midnight on a rainy night. The refugees are sleeping in the tent. It's sweltering and hot. The upper body men are rolling around anxiously.
The soldiers stood guard quietly, waiting for the time to change the guard.
The sound of waves in the mountains and rivers came from far away, and frogs croaked in the fields.
Outside the Xiangyang Armory, a group of people walked along the dark place where the lanterns could not illuminate, leaning against the wall towards the door.
The treasury is a huge and tall building, with fifty wide and steep steps in front, and a slide in the middle for transporting materials. It is majestic and majestic, and a group of people are hiding at the corner under the stone steps and whispering.
"Shh." Pang Lian signaled everyone to be silent and lowered his voice: "Han Dianchen, the drunkard, is already drunk. All the civil servants in charge were transferred by my brother. My brother passed Han Dianchen's order and divided the Sichuan troops on guard into three groups.
The first batch will be withdrawn soon, but the second batch and the third batch overlap, and they both change guard at the fifth watch. We have two full shifts to move weapons."
Everyone looked at Pang Lian with admiration. The wisdom of the Pang family was indeed unfathomable.
"Ma Jiang. If you have good legs and feet, take a few people with you to see if there are any ambushes from the Sichuan Army." After all, the stakes are high. Although he is certain to win, Pang Lian still wants to make sure that nothing goes wrong, just in case this arsenal belongs to the Sichuan Army.
If it falls, all the men and horses of the family will be trapped here.
After a while, Ma Jiang came back and reported: "There are no people in the nearby fields and woods, and I have even seen them on the trees."
Pang Lian nodded and looked at the terrain here. The treasury is an important place for military resources. There are no houses or markets around it, and it doesn't look like a place where people can hide.
Finally, after a burst of gongs, the Sichuan soldiers began to change their posts. All these soldiers left their posts. Pang Lian immediately made a move. Hundreds of people came out from the corner, climbed up the stone steps, and entered the treasury with the key given by Pang Ming.
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All kinds of materials in the treasury were to help the victims. A lot of food collected from the clans were also stored here. Pang Lian led his people and rushed straight into the place where the weapons were hidden.
"There are three armories here, two of them are not riveted. You all move to No. 1 warehouse. Quick, quick."
It was raining lightly, and Pang Lian followed Pang Ming's instructions. The disciples of the family took out bundles of spears and hurriedly ran out, walking through the tall stone steps and stone streets.
In the woods opposite the treasury, between two rocks, three people were squatting in a small space with difficulty. Gao Pei was holding a piece of cake and chewing on it. He quietly transferred back from yesterday and has been here for a day and a night.
Gao Pei looked through the jungle and looked at the nobles running with spears on the stone steps outside the treasury. He said to Zhang Ren, who had his eyes closed across from him: "There are too few of them, right? General, what should I do?"
Zhang Ren frowned for a while and said to a soldier next to him: "Send the order to Samoko to start in advance and slowly march towards the treasury."
In the dark night, an owl hooted.
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"It's not good. It seems that our whereabouts have been discovered. The barbarian army, about two thousand people five miles away, is coming here. However, it seems that they are not sure that something has happened here, so they are marching very slowly."
A nobleman who was on sentry duty came to report.
"Five miles?" Pang Lian frowned: "Then there is no time. You immediately call all the people hiding in the woods to come over, collect the weapons here, and then call hundreds of people to carry the spears."
"yes."
"One stick of incense at most." Pang Lian clapped his hands. His actions were already secret enough. I don't know how the barbarians found out. It's really abominable. It's almost three o'clock now. As long as you get the weapons, you can go to the city gate and other places.
Several people gathered together.
Nearly ten thousand clan members and servants gathered from all directions. The large stone steps and stone avenues were full of people. The people inside pushed bundles of spears down from the top of the stone steps. The clan members below hurriedly took the spears to the stone steps.
They gathered at the foot of the stairs and then left in batches.
In the dim light of the rainy night, a bundle of spears rolled down the slide. The spearheads fell away and no one noticed. Only a nobleman picked up a wooden pole and was stunned. At the urging of the people next to him, he replaced it with a complete one.
of.
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"General, can we take action now?" Gao Pei finished eating the pancake, wiped his mouth, and said to Zhang Ren.
Zhang Ren glanced outside and said, "Wait a little longer."
"Still waiting? Many people took the guys and ran away."
"Wait a minute." Zhang Ren said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect that the noble family could really gather so many people. Before all of their people have arrived, let's let the ones in front run away. We must annihilate the maximum number of enemies."
Gao Pei was a little anxious as he watched batches of disciples from the aristocratic clans drive out.
Zhang Ren stared at the scene outside, took out his fried cake and ate it. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer descendants of the family coming, Zhang Ren patted the shoulder of the soldier beside him.
"hu~~u~u."
A sharp, sad and melodious hoot of an owl came from the jungle. The nervous family members outside the treasury were all broken into cold sweat. They looked around. The surroundings were dark and rainy, and there was no one. It was quiet.
Just as Shizuizi patted his chest and turned around, he suddenly heard a loud noise, and a large crack opened on the wide road outside the big stone steps. It was three to four meters deep and hundreds of meters long. The Shizuizi standing on the edge fell into it.
Got in.
Then there were several loud noises, and several large vertical cracks opened along the horizontal cracks, completely surrounding all the clan members in the cracks.
Thousands of generations of clan members were shocked and confused. At this moment, the bluestone floor outside the crack opened up in pieces, and the grass was lifted up in pieces. A large number of Sichuan troops emerged from the ground like ghosts, bent their bows and arrows, and aimed at the crack.
The stone walls on both sides of the big stone steps opened a gap with two "booms", and groups of spearmen emerged from the dark hole and formed an array behind the archers.
In the darkness of the rainy night, the strict formation of the Sichuan army and the stern soldiers were like devils emerging from the ground. All the clansmen were frightened and inexplicable. Jiangxia soldiers were a little better. Those noble sons who had never fought could not help but retreat.
Unable to stand firm, he rolled down the high stone steps, screaming in agony, and fell to a bloody pulp.
Zhang Ren got out of the crack in the stone with the oil cake and walked in front of the military column. He stared at the panic-stricken disciples in front of him and Gao Pei patted the dust on his body.
"Fire the arrow."
Thousands of arrows were fired in unison. In the dark night, the arrows were raining down on the clan members. The dense crowd could not avoid them. They pierced the chest, neck, lower abdomen, thighs and face, and penetrated to death on the stone steps. The towering
There were screams on the stone steps, and corpses rolled down everywhere. The clansmen were running around on the stone steps, trampling on each other, and rushing to the cracks.
Three or four meters was not too high, so the family members jumped down without hesitation, but when they climbed up, they were faced with spears, three or four meters long, which pierced their exposed faces fiercely.
The cracks became an insurmountable barrier, arrows rained down from the cracks, and the clansmen in the cracks were shot and killed mercilessly, becoming living targets, terrified, and blood slowly flowed in the cracks.
When Pang Lian saw this, his face suddenly turned pale. A sharp arrow shot out and hit his arm. This made him wake up. Pang Lian shouted, "Go back to the treasury."
When Pang Lian shouted, all the clansmen also found the last place to survive, and rushed towards the treasury door together. Only then did they realize that the treasury door had been locked at some point, and Pang Lian couldn't care so much.
Bang the door hard.
The moment the door was knocked open, a row of neat spears were thrust out, and a group of Sichuan soldiers rushed out. The Shizuozi who rushed in front was immediately stabbed in the chest by the spears.
These soldiers hid in the grain piles in advance, and when they launched an attack outside, they had already killed all the remaining members of the clan inside.
"Hoo."
The Sichuan Army soldier shouted, and the spear that pierced into Shizuo's chest and abdomen was pushed out hard. The Shizuzi who rushed up were forced to retreat. The Shizuzi behind stepped on the edge of the stone steps, one step unsteady, and there were piles of people.
Rolling down the steep stone steps, those members of the family who were still on the stone steps were bumped into each other and rolled down one after another.
ps: I have been too busy recently and the update time is seriously unstable, but the quantity is still guaranteed.