son-in-law

Chapter 667 Awakening of Insects (2)

Chapter 667 Waking of Insects ([-])

It was getting dark gradually, snowflakes were falling outside the door, and pedestrians passed by the side of the road.

After several months of besieging the city, supplies in the capital have become extremely tight. Wenhui Building has a strong background and will not close down, but by this time, there is not much business.Due to the heavy snow, most of the doors and windows in the building were closed. In this weather, no matter whether it is black or white, those who come to eat are either rich or expensive. Shishi also knows the owner of Wenhui Building. He came upstairs and asked for a meal. In the small room, I ordered a simple dish and waited quietly.

The two armies outside the city are still confronting each other. As a high-ranking member of Xiacun's army, Ning Yi has already secretly returned to the city. The Master can guess what happened.However, she doesn't care about specific things at the moment. Roughly speaking, Ning Yi is counterattacking against the actions of others.He is not the face of Xia Village's army, and he does not need to be too secretive when he does some connections in private. Those who know the severity will naturally know it, and those who don't know it are often not insiders.

She didn't want to be an insider either.Women can't get involved in men's affairs at this level.

The wind and snow fell quietly outside the house. Although it was winter, the wind was not strong, and the city seemed to be whimpering in a distant place.The anxiety of the past few days finally calmed down a little at this time. She ate something, and after a while, she heard someone whispering, talking, and going downstairs, but she didn't go out to look. Come up, Shishi went to open the door.

"Liheng." She smiled.

"How did you come here? It scared me."

Ning Yi is naturally outside the door.The last time the two met was several months ago, and looking back, most of the conversations they met were relaxed and casual.But this time, Ning Yi went back to the city in a hurry, met people in secret, and talked about some serious things. There was a complicated weight in his eyes and temperament. Having seen it, it is not an exaggeration to say that it contained murderous intent, but at this moment, she didn't think there was anything wrong with it, on the contrary, she felt at ease because of it.

Then he told a little lie: "I was also taken aback, what a coincidence, Liheng is... dealing with those troublesome things, right?"

"Some people want to meet, and some things need to be discussed." Ning Yi nodded.

"Liheng...Have you eaten yet?" She turned her body slightly.

"There will be someone coming soon."

"If there is anything that needs to be accompanied, the teacher can play the piano to help..."

"not too good."

"Ah."

During the conversation, someone came over and said something in Ning Yi's ear, and Ning Yi nodded.

"It's getting late, I'm afraid I'm very busy today. I'll visit the building in the next two days. If Shishi wants to go back earlier... I'm afraid I won't be able to come out to say hello."

"Don't go back, I'll wait for you here."

"I'm afraid it will be late at night."

"I've been on the battlefield these days, and I've seen a lot of people die, and I've seen a lot of things later... I have something to tell you."

Seeing the woman in front of him looking at him with clear eyes, Ning Yi pursed his lips and smiled, but was also slightly taken aback, then nodded: "Then I will excuse you first."

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After waiting for nearly two hours, there were occasional people coming and going in Wenhui Building, but Shi Shi didn't go out to see.

She joined the Jiaofang Division when she was still young, and gradually grew up, becoming famous in Beijing and witnessing many important events.The power struggle in Beijing, the minister abdicated, the prime minister He Chaoguang and Cai Jing fought in the ring for four years in Jinghan, and rumors spread that the emperor wanted to kill Cai Jing. In the seventh year of Han Dynasty, the Beijing-China war and the two factions fought with each other, and many officials were dismounted.Living in the middle of Beijing and being close to the circle of power, she has seen a lot of the aura that is about to come.

This kind of breath is like walking around outside the room. Even if you don't know who the other party is, you know that the other party's identity must be of great importance.In the past, she was also curious about these dark scenes, but this time, what she suddenly thought of was those nights when her father was arrested many years ago.She and her mother are studying piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in the inner hall, while her father and his staff are in the outer hall. The lights shine on, and the figures coming and going are full of anxiety.

With the passage of time, this impression is actually not accurate. Thinking about it carefully, it should be the experience she has accumulated in these years, which has completed the memory that has gradually become thinner.After so many years, the person in that position is someone she really knows well.

The courteous and courteous people in the romantic arena are not really sincere. There are always some romantic and talented people with high talents and keen thoughts—like Zhou Bangyan—she never regards the other party as a private friend.She has always been able to clearly distinguish what the other party wants from what she has.Even Yu Hezhong, Chen Sifeng and others whom she considers to be friends in private, she can understand this.

For Ning Yi, after the reunion, it is neither close nor alienated, which is related to the attitude of the other party who always maintains a sense of proportion.Shishi knew that when he got married, he was beaten by someone and lost the memory of the past - on the contrary, this allowed her to correct her attitude - she lost her memory, it was not his fault, but she couldn't help it He considers it a friend.

Many things in the past, including parents, have all been reduced to the dust of memory, and those who can be connected with the original self are only a few people, even if they have already entered the Jiaofang Division when they met , but still a young self, at least at that time, still retains the breath of the past and the possibility of follow-up...

If Li Shishi wants to become Li Shishi——she always feels—the former self cannot be discarded.She can't keep these things by herself, only from them can she go back.

Now, Ning Yi has also entered the center of the storm.

And there was nothing she could do.After all, Ning Yi is different from Yu, Chen and others. Since the reunion, the other party has done unimaginable events, such as destroying Liangshan bandits, fighting with people in the rivers and lakes, and then going out this time, fortifying the walls and clearing the fields, to meet Yu Xiacun Resent the army, and this complicated situation.Because of this, she remembered those nights when her father was still there.

The window was opened in the middle, and the wind and snow poured in from the window, blowing the candles half-extinguished, and infiltrating the coolness.I don't know when, she almost fell asleep in the room, and there was another knock on the door outside.The teacher opened the door in the past, and outside the door was Ning Yi's slightly frowning figure, thinking that the matter had just come to an end.

"You haven't left yet?"

"I want to wait for Liheng to talk to you." Shishi stroked his hair, then smiled, and invited him in sideways.Ning Yi nodded, and entered the room, Shi Shi went to open the window to let the cold wind blow in, she hugged her body by the window to let the wind and snow blow for a while, then closed her teeth again, and came to help Ning Yi move the stool , pour hot tea.

"It must not be easy to besiege the city for such a long time. Although I am outside the city, I have heard people talking about you in the past few days. Fortunately, nothing happened." Ning Yi took a sip of tea and smiled slightly. He came down to say something, so he spoke first.

"I think... Liheng's side is not easy." Shishi sat down opposite, "We have to fight outside, and we have these things when we come back. After the victory, we can't relax..."

"The Jurchens haven't left yet, so we can't talk about winning." Ning Yi shook his head.

"Master, I heard in the city that the negotiation is already a sure thing?"

"Some people are sure that we will give what others want, and there are also people who are sure that we can get what they want. What do you think it will be?"

Ning Yi looked at her with a smile, Shi Shi heard this sentence, holding a teacup, his eyes dimmed slightly.After all, she is in the city, and there are some things that she can't find out, but when Ning Yi says it, the weight is different.Although I was mentally prepared, I still couldn't be happy when I heard this suddenly.

Ning Yi said a few words of comfort: "We are also working hard, but... things are very complicated. It is hard to say what can be saved and what benefits can be obtained in this negotiation, whether it is immediate or long-term."

"I don't really understand these things..." Shishi replied, and then smiled sweetly, "Sometimes in the building, I pretend to understand it, but I don't really understand it. This is a man's business after all. By the way, Li Hengjin Is there anything else tonight?"

"There are things, but I'm afraid I'll be free for the next hour. Shishi is waiting on purpose. Is there something wrong?"

"I just want to talk to you." Shi Shi sat there and smiled, "I didn't quite understand what Liheng said to me when he left Beijing. City, I wanted to do something, and then I went to Suanzao Gate and saw... a lot of things..."

She said so, and then she talked about her experience at Suanzao Gate.Although she is a woman, she has always been sober and self-reliant in spirit, which is different from a man's temperament. The monks said that she has Buddha nature and has seen through many things.But to put it this way, a woman in her teens and early 20s is growing up after all. Over the past few days, what she has seen and experienced, and what she thinks in her heart, cannot be expressed with others. Yi regards it as a reflection.After that, the war stopped, and more and more complicated things surrounded her, which made her physically and mentally exhausted. At this time, Ning Yi came back and found him and revealed them one by one.

Ning Yi never thought that she would talk about the experiences of these days, but then she listened.The slightly thinner but still beautiful woman in front of me talked about the things on the battlefield, those soldiers with severed limbs and horrific deaths, the battles of the Suanzao Sect... Shishi didn't speak very loudly, and she didn't seem too sad or angry. Excited, occasionally smiling slightly, talking for a long time, talking about the soldiers who died after she took care of her, talking about the process of her being hunted down and then being protected, talking about those people's meager wishes before they died, and finally talking about Xue Changgong , He Leier and others...

Time gradually passed in these conversations. Among them, she also talked about the joy after receiving the news from Xia Village in the city. In the wind and snow outside, the gong of the watch had already sounded.

"...In the past few days in the tower, the things I heard people talk about are all fighting for power. I have seen it a lot before, and I am used to it, but after participating in the defense this time, I heard those young masters talking about negotiations, Thinking of the frivolous look of victory and defeat outside the city, I can't continue talking. The Jurchens have not left yet, and the adults in their family are already scheming about these dirty things. Li Heng must have seen it outside the city these days. When we arrived, I heard that they wanted to dismantle Wu Ruiying again in private. After hearing this, I was anxious. How could these people do this. But... there is no way..."

In the teacher's words, Ning Yi laughed: "A few groups of people came and fought a few times..."

Shi Shi also laughed: "However, since Li Heng came back today, there is a way to deal with them. In this way, I can feel at ease. I don't want to ask what Li Heng has done, but if I want to come here for a while, I will I can hear the disgraceful things about those people, and then I can get a good night's sleep..."

"Uh..." Ning Yi was slightly stunned, but knew that she had guessed wrongly, "Come back tonight, not for this..."

"Ah..." Shi Shi hesitated for a moment, "I know Li Heng has more things to do, but... Li Heng will have a solution to this troublesome matter in Beijing, right?"

Ning Yi was silent for a moment: "Trouble is very troublesome, but I have to find a way... I haven't thought of what I can do..."

"..." Shishi looked at him.

"It's just a trivial matter that they want to attack Wu Ruiying." Ning Yi stood up, "The room is too stuffy. If Master still has the energy, let's go for a walk. I have been looking at a place all afternoon, and I want to go and have a look."

Shi Shi nodded, it was late at night, and there were no pedestrians on the road outside.The two came down from upstairs, and the guards followed quietly around. The wind and snow were filled, and the teacher could see that there was not much joy in Ning Yi's eyes around him.

But walking all the way in this wind and snow, Ning Yi still smiled: "In the afternoon, when I was upstairs, I saw the things here, and asked someone to inquire about it, oh... this is it." They walked away Not far away, they stopped in front of a small yard by the road.This side is only more than ten feet away from Wenhui Building. There is a street across the street, and the door of the dilapidated courtyard with a small door has been closed.Shishi recalled that when she went downstairs to Wenhui in the evening, Ning Yi was sitting by the window, seeming to be looking this way.But what happened here, she couldn't remember.

"The whole family is dead."

Ning Yi waved his hand, and the guard next to him came over and opened the door latch with a knife.Ning Yi pushed the door and entered, and the teacher followed him in. Inside was a dilapidated small courtyard with three rooms. It seemed to be dead in the dark. As Ning Yi said, everyone was dead.

"The person called by the security chief in the afternoon carried the body here. I looked upstairs and asked someone to inquire about it. There are three people here, and they were doing well." Ning Yi walked towards the inner room, talking, "Grandma, father, and a four-year-old daughter. When the Jurchens attacked the city, there was nothing to eat and not much money at home. The man went to defend the city. He entrusted the chief security guard to take care of the two people who stayed here. Then the man stood on the city wall. When she died, the security chief couldn't take care of her. As for the old man, she was suffering from the wind and cold, and she was also afraid that the city would be chaotic. Someone would enter the house to grab things and lock the door. Then...the old man was sick, cold and hungry, and died slowly. The four-year-old girl also starved to death inside..."

The room was filled with the smell of corpses, Ning Yi stood at the door, holding a torch to go in, a cold and messy ordinary house.Although Shi Shi also got used to the stench on the battlefield, he still covered his nostrils, but he didn't understand what Ning Yi meant by saying this. Such things happened every day in the city recently.The people who died on the top of the city were even more miserable.

"When I heard this incident upstairs, I was thinking, many years later, when others talked about the Jurchens going south this time, they talked about the incident in Bianliang. They said that tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people died, how cruel the Jurchens were. They began to scold the Jurchens, but they didn’t have any concept in their hearts. They scolded, and most of the time they did it very freely. They felt that they had repaid their responsibility as Han people, even though they actually didn’t know anything. Didn't do it. When they talked about tens of thousands of people, all of them weighed no more than one ten-thousandth of what happened in this house. An old man was sick, cold and hungry, and died while suffering, That little girl... no one cares about her, her stomach is getting more and more hungry, she cries at first, and then she can't cry anymore, she slowly stuffs messy things into her mouth, and then she also starves to death..."

Ning Yi said this calmly, the torch was hung down, and there was a moment of silence.

"I didn't enter the city to argue with those people. If they want to tear it down, we'll fight. No matter what... Prime Minister Qin is busy negotiating matters. He is not in the mansion during the day. I came to meet some people and arrange some trivial matters. A few months ago , I got up and went north, wanting to make some effort to organize the Jurchens to go south, and now things have been done, and more troublesome things have come again. Unlike last time, I haven't figured out what I should do this time, I can do it There are many things to do, but no matter how you do it, it is very difficult to do it without turning back. If it is possible, I would like to retire, and it is best to leave..."

Shishi was a little bit confused, she was standing beside Ning Yi at this time, and she gently and carefully pulled his sleeves, Ning Yi frowned, revealing his hostility, and then smiled slightly smiled.

"You are on the city wall, and I am outside the city. I have seen people die like this. Their stomachs were cut open by knives, their hands and feet were chopped off. Just like these people who are slowly starving to death in the city, they died. It’s heavy, so it’s hard to drop it, and it’s hard to pick it up. How to hold it is a big problem after all.”

When he said these few words, there was unconcealable hostility in his eyes, but then he turned around, waved his hand towards the door, and walked over.Shishi asked hesitantly: "Could it be that Liheng...is also disheartened and wants to leave?"

"It's not the same as this one, I'm still thinking about it." Ning Yi shook his head, "I'm not a murderer. So many people died in front of me. In fact, what I think is similar to yours. It's just more complicated inside. It's hard to say. It's getting late, I have to go to Xiang's mansion later, and I will send someone to take you back. No matter what you will do next, you should know. As for the one who troubled Wu Ruiying Helping people, in fact, you don’t have to worry, clown, even if there are 10,000+ people following, a coward is a coward.”

The teacher also nodded.After a few months of reunion, she still couldn't see Ning Yi clearly this night, which was different from before.

The courtyard door closed behind him.

The wind and snow were still falling, and the carriage was lit with lanterns, heading in different directions in the city.On the streets, watchmen carried lanterns, and soldiers patrolled through the snowflakes.When Shishi's carriage entered the fan building, several carriages of Ning Yi and others had already entered the Right Prime Minister's Mansion. He passed through the strips of Langyuan and walked towards the Qin Mansion study room that was still lit.

The night is deep, and the thin lights are moving...

　This chapter is a bit vague, and it’s been a long time since the clues have been written so vaguely, but anyway, it’s a necessary chapter.The seventh episode will be closed. I've thought about it for too long, and I finally want to pull the update back.

(End of this chapter)