On the earth to the east, the midnight clock struck, and Fuzhou entered the early morning of the first day of June.
The lights of the night market gradually dispersed, the carriages and the last tourists returned home, and the few night shops also closed their doors. Except for the big red lanterns still hanging in front of the brothels, there was not much light in the dark night.
Sparse and mottled, like dreams scattered on the seaside.
Some dreams are a little more lively.
"...If something like this really happens. You, you...you will be found by our brothers, including your wives, children, and children. I will kill them inch by inch in front of you. Of course, there will be some discomfort in the process.
It feels good, but in the end, you will help us find your boss... hum... wahahahahahaha..."
The silhouette painted on the window with hands on hips resembles a proud fire-breathing dragon, saying inspiring words while laughing.
Then he hesitated.
"What's the next sentence?"
The girl's laughter came out.
"Childish..."
Some dreams appear strange.
"... After the assassination in the morning, guards were strengthened on both sides of Li Pin's school and the eldest princess's palace, and the news was sealed. However, the school had to open to welcome guests after all. Only in the evening did visitors confirm that Li Pin was okay. It seemed
The assassination was not successful, but the assassin was not caught either... As for the eldest princess's palace, the news has not been confirmed yet, but there are rumors that Tie Tianying left the palace in the afternoon and visited there."
"...There will be a banquet at the Princess Mansion tomorrow. Those guys who come to see off their daughter will be entertained. It will be taken seriously. It's not surprising..."
"...I'm afraid we won't know the news about various ministries until tomorrow..."
"...I am thinking of another thing...Chen Shuangran...how can this little black guy be as strong as he is today?"
There are also serious and distressing dreams.
"...Those two, I'm afraid they won't be recruited by us...but they agreed to help us..."
"...Major matters must be decided by the people above."
"...Then do we still have credit?"
"……some……"
…
Princess's Mansion.
The stars are sparse.
In the yard on one side of the dormitory, Yin Ping is meditating under the eaves. Her back is straight, her long and strong legs are crossed, her hands are on her knees, and her five hearts are facing the sky. It seems to be the standard meditation posture of a practitioner.
But in the darkness under the eaves, her eyes were still open, looking at the courtyard in front of her, her clear eyes changing occasionally.
In the center of the courtyard is a large banyan tree. Through the branches and leaves of the banyan tree, the light of stars falls in parallel lines. Under the tree are stone tables and stone benches.
In her mind, she had already run around the yard countless times, thinking about different techniques for exerting force, and fighting against the assassins during the day.
It's always a little off.
The assassin appeared just before yesterday's hour, when she was leading the patrol and discovered the clues. The gray figure attacked her and slapped her in the chest, which had an obscene connotation, but at the first
They met each other, but it was a very clever strategy. She slapped him immediately.
The one who struck was an old man. His hands were calloused and not full, but his palm power was old and skillful. As soon as they fought, she realized that she had misjudged the opponent's strength. The palm she struck with all her strength made her blood surge, which was extremely uncomfortable. Next
In an instant, the other party flew towards the group of guards on the side.
The opponent's light kung fu was so high that Yin Ping tried to catch up from behind, but the figure had already knocked the two of them away with a wave of his arms. Then he suddenly trampled the thigh of a female guard and broke the thigh of a female guard. As blood spurted out, the figure unexpectedly
He also changed direction and fled towards the princess's mansion.
Couldn't catch up...
But it's not a question of strategy.
After thinking for a long time, Yin Ping was able to understand that the assassin killed this time was superior to him in terms of internal strength, Qing Gong, and skill in responding to the enemy, especially Qing Gong and body skills.
His cultivation has reached the realm of perfection, and the most capable and agile ones in the army are probably only among the best compared to him.
Not to mention that when the opponent was fighting, there was a faint clanking sound of iron pieces coming from his body.
"Cloud-Swallowing Iron Armor".
Among the anecdotes I have heard in the past, there is only one person whose story can be matched.
When the master Zhou Tong arrived in Shandong, he also took action against this man, but he took off his armor and ran away with all his strength, and the master never pursued him.
In the past, my father once said that the master was ordered by the Taiwei Mansion to intercept and kill Mr. Ning and his wife, "River and Mountain Iron Sword" Lu Hongti, who had not yet shown many tricks. I am afraid it was because of the responsibility.
, so the fleeing monks were not killed.
But now that I think about it, it seems that it might be because the monk's lightness skills improved again after taking off his armor, and even the master was not sure that he could catch up with him?
The night was quiet. From the afternoon to this time, she had tried many methods to practice possible contingency in the next fight. At this time, everyone had fallen asleep, and she could only recall what she had learned in the past and formulate ideas in her mind.
I can't help but think of the battle between my master and Mr. Ning. At that time, the inner demon had just destroyed Liangshan and he had not yet become famous for his superb martial arts. However, my master was the best killer in the world. Later I heard that it really happened.
There was a fight, and I don’t know whether it was Master and Mr. Ning who were fighting alone, or whether Mr. Ning and the lady were fighting together.
Even if it is two against one, it would be a great thing to be able to achieve a draw with the master in a head-on competition.
When she and her brother met outside Xiangyang City, Mr. Ning was already a great master and a great hero. He never made a move from beginning to end, but she still remembered how the people around him easily defeated hundreds of Jurchen masters.
She could still remember clearly, especially the scene where Mrs. Liu from "Ba Dao" killed Li Wanlian and "Towering Dao" Du Sha Dao killed her. Even though she was still young at the time, she could feel how huge it was.
sense of oppression.
Later, her father came to pick her and her brother up. After a detailed discussion with Mr. Ning, she and Yue Yun once asked their father about each other's martial arts skills. The father, who was always serious, also admitted in person: "I can't beat him."
The ones with the highest martial arts skills among the Beiwei army were his father and General Gao, but even if they could surpass Monk Tunyun in martial arts, they might still be inferior in terms of Qinggong alone.
Nowadays, Lin Zongwu is regarded as the best person in the world. Although others say that he "crosses the north leg of the forest", Yinping knows that this is a ridicule from the southwest. According to his father, Lin Zongwu, a big fat man, has a bad body because of his body.
He is so special that his internal energy is so mixed that it is probably unprecedented. His surging internal energy drives Qinggong, and his speed is one of the best in the world. However, it is hard to believe that he is ranked first purely in Qinggong.
She also didn’t know how the unpredictable Mr. Ning could suppress the Qinggong of this evil monk who swallowed clouds. Although she had never seen it with her own eyes, she still felt that perhaps only Mr. Ning could not let him down no matter how advanced his skills were.
She was surprised...
Of course, there is also my future self...
…
The dream was humid and stuffy.
Zhou Pei woke up from his dream, and the sound of the waves seemed to be ringing in his ears.
But of course it's an illusion.
She didn't know what time it was, but even if she opened the window, the light of the oil lamp burning in the side room remained motionless. There was no wind, and the room was stuffy and hot. She still hasn't fully adapted to the weather in Fuzhou.
Insomnia is also an old problem. I have always slept lightly, but it is not purely caused by the hot and muggy weather.
She got up from the bed, and the maid who was sleeping in the side room also got up. After asking carefully, she picked up the copper pot and added some warm water to the basin, and then gave her a wet wipe. This was a habit for Zhou Pei.
When you wake up, wipe your face immediately, and you will wake up quickly. Just use warm water when you have nothing to do, and cold water when you have something to do.
The dreamy feeling quickly dissipated.
But on a windless night, everything around him seemed empty and lonely. When he left the room, Yin Ping, who was meditating in the yard next door, had also come out and followed behind.
"How is Qiniang?"
The name of the female guard whose thigh was kicked off during the day was Lu Qiniang.
"I have already fallen asleep when I was ugly, so I don't have to worry about my life." Yin Ping said.
"Yeah." Zhou Pei nodded, "I can't sleep, so I'll take a walk."
The eldest princess does not suffer from insomnia once or twice at night. Going out from the side door of the dormitory, there is a garden next to it. The garden has a slightly higher rockery and a pavilion on the rockery. When you get here, you can feel a little breeze, Zhou Pei
I come here often, and now I asked Yin Ping to come and sit down.
Looking into the distance, he was silent for a moment.
"...The clothes are still the same as yesterday, and you won't sleep either?"
"I was thinking about the assassin during the day and how to deal with it the next time he comes." Yinping Surong replied, and then hesitated, "...Your Highness...can't sleep again?"
"...I had a dream at night."
Zhou Pei smiled.
"...In the past few years, I have often dreamed, and I can remember very few of them clearly when I wake up. Tonight's dream was quite clear. I dreamed that when I was a child, I was studying in the mansion of Princess Chengguo in Jiangning. It was a tutoring program hosted by Grandpa Kang, the consort.
The children of Xungui are inside. On my left is the daughter of Count Yun'an, named Cheng Shu, and on the right are He Teng and Huang Anyian, both sons of Xungui... After so many years, the seats in the dream have not changed at all...
"
"...There is no age in the dream, but I also see Auntie Huang and Grandpa Kang... Because the old man is here, everyone is playing together and playing at ease. It is obviously a school, but it seems to be in the wilderness outside Jiangning City. Congratulations
Teng...I don't know what he was doing, and...hehe, I was grinding a large amount of ink on the inkstone with His Majesty. Then the ink spilled and suddenly caught fire. He Teng shouted over there...Zhou Pei, run away.
Ah, run quickly..."
"... After I woke up and thought about it carefully, the layout in the school should have been when I was nine years old... He Teng fell ill when he was ten years old, and died suddenly two years later. When His Majesty was young, he played well with him...
…When I was twenty years old, I often dreamed about my childhood, but in recent years, it has rarely happened. I remember things from my childhood very clearly, but when I think about it carefully, I always feel that something is wrong. Only today can I dream more clearly..."
"...It was a nice dream..."
The night was quiet, and there was only a gentle breeze in the pavilion. Zhou Pei spoke slowly, and Yin Ping listened quietly. She was not old enough to talk about these things, so she did not pick up the conversation casually and talked about her dreams.
The smiling eldest princess is actually a little unfamiliar. Perhaps because of the age gap, the eldest princess in the past always looked graceful and confident at all times. Although she was occasionally playful, she rarely looked like she was reminiscing about the past...
girl.
Zhou Pei paused and then said, "I heard that Yue Yun often comes to the house to see you?"
Yin Ping nodded: "Well, he is still young. He is running around in the city and always causing trouble."
"Oh, actually when I see you siblings, I always think of what happened when Your Majesty and I were young..." Zhou Peixiao, "At that time... we were always running around noisily in Jiangning City, fighting with each other.
What is slightly different between you is that at that time it was always my sister who was lawless. Your Majesty... he was timid and liked to do things by the rules, but I always made him skip classes and climb walls..."
"Now...I can't tell..."
"Well, at that time... I was carefree. Things around me had been arranged long ago. When His Majesty reaches adulthood, he will be the Prince of Peace. After a few years of debauchery and immorality, no one will be able to control him anymore. I
The biggest worry at that time was getting married when I reached my age...I was so scared that I even ran away from home, but in the end...I still got married to Qu Zonghui..."
When she said this, Yin Ping also frowned slightly, her eyebrows turning into melancholy moons.
Zhou Pei looked at it and laughed.
She sat quietly for a while, saying nothing more about the boring and annoying subject of marriage.
"...Yin Ping, do you know what is the best thing about being young?"
Yin Ping thought for a while: "My father said that he is not afraid."
"Yes... Because nothing has happened yet, there are always countless possibilities in our future, so we are not afraid of anything... But people always grow up suddenly, and many things you can't think of suddenly happen.
It happened. The most frightening thing is that before you can think clearly, the thing suddenly passed... One day, you realize that your dream is full of messy things. Even the feeling of childhood, you can't recall it.
Already..."
"Your Highness, why..."
"Oh, I saw Qiniang today, and suddenly I had a childhood dream again, and I thought of these for no reason... Yin Ping, Qiniang and the others also got married and had children when they were carefree young people. Jurchens
Here we are, after more than ten years of wandering around, when we arrived at the Taiping section of Fuzhou, an assassin suddenly came and broke a leg, almost killing me. During this period, everything must have been done in a hurry. In the past ten years, you
How many people live in a hurry and die in a hurry..."
Under the starlight, Zhou Pei in the pavilion spoke softly and calmly. Yin Ping grew up in the military. Although he was used to seeing life and death, he probably thought of some old friends at this moment and responded with silence. Zhou Pei stretched out his hand and rubbed it.
her hair.
"I'm being willful. I can't sleep. I'm telling you this..."
"No." Yin Ping shook his head, "...I love hearing this. My father and my uncles in the army often talked about it in the past, but...they were all men..."
"Haha, actually I don't have a nice story to tell you...Although there was also a marriage incident, I didn't handle it well from beginning to end..."
She was recalling the past events in her mind. When she was a child, she took her younger brother for a carefree stroll, running around in the city of Jiangning, waiting for the monotonous future, to suddenly becoming a young girl, to leaving home in confusion.
, took a big boat and went north to Bianliang, she said goodbye to the "teacher" who was going to Liangshan at night... Then everything seemed to speed up, they got married, and gradually watched the marriage become a mess, and then the mountains and rivers
After the fall, she began to learn various things from Aunt Huang and Grandpa Kang. She had no experience in many things, but Aunt Huang said that a person's life is nothing more than "making do with difficulty".
Reluctantly...
She didn't know when she woke up from her dream. When she was a girl, Jiang Ning seemed like a false scam. When she thought about it seriously, many things even seemed a little confusing as to whether they had even happened.
As people grow up, even the memories of the past will change their color.
It's like becoming another person.
There are only headaches, insomnia and endless responsibilities in front of her. Whether she wants to take it or not, but figures one after another, past and present... all fall in front of her one after another. Grandma Huang and Grandpa Kang are dead, Shanhe
The country fell, and her younger brother ran around in the blood and rain, holding a long sword that the child never liked. When his father died, he was like a skeleton. He told her about his regrets. She was habitually reluctant to make the decision.
When I think about it carefully, I still don’t know whether it is correct or wrong...
Unlike the "female prime minister" who was thousands of miles away, even though she had made countless calculations, what she most often felt when making a decision was still hesitation.
Among the noble sons and daughters she has come into contact with, Yin Ping is one of the people she is particularly close to, and she feels relieved even if she entrusts her life to her. This is not only because of Yue Fei, but more importantly, she often stays with Yin Ping and Yue Yun.
For the siblings, they saw the appearance of themselves and Jun Wu in the past.
She sighed slightly, then gradually changed the topic and listened to Yin Ping talking for a while about the assassin in the daytime and his martial arts. As for the person who came this time, he might be a ruthless person with one of the best light skills in the world, she was surprised.
I wasn't too worried. I only became interested when I saw Yin Ping's clear face when he talked about how he would work hard to practice Qing Gong.
"Yin Ping, you are too old to marry. Do you want to be a female general in the future?"
Yin Ping frowned: "Your Highness, I grew up in the military. Even if I get married, you and Your Majesty will not stop me from going to the battlefield, right?"
"I know how to persuade you, but I won't try hard to stop you. You are strong, and I can't stop you either." Zhou Pei smiled, "Actually... I want to ask, Yin Ping, what do you want most in the future?
What do you want to do? For example, if one day we stop fighting, what do you still want to do... is martial arts training? "
Only then did Yin Ping understand what the other party was referring to. She was already an adult, had already experienced battlefields, and had seen many lives and deaths. In the past, when traveling with Yue Yun, she was often the one who made the decisions, but in front of Zhou Pei, many
At that time, she still seemed like a younger sister or a younger niece.
Thought for a moment.
"...Hmm." Yin Ping closed her legs and nodded solemnly, "Your Highness, actually... I am very good at martial arts. My father and General Gao also said that I have good talents. They have often followed me since childhood.
"My master was Zhou Tong, who was the best in the world at the time. So I told Zhao Xiaosong once that I wanted to be the best master in the world."
"Xiao Song wants to be the best female prime minister in the world. He often says that Lou Shuwan is nothing compared to her. You two have high ambitions among women. You want to be on par with Grandmaster Zhou and Shuai Yue?"
I must be happy to hear this." Zhou Pei smiled.
Yin Ping Bian also laughed.
"In fact, boxing has been afraid of young people since ancient times. Although people who practice martial arts become more sophisticated as they get older, if they want to become one of the best in the world, they can see hope in their twenties and thirties. Your Highness, I have never met my master. If
After a few years, I could barely compete with my father or General Gao in Fujian. I thought to myself, the best thing is to go to the southwest and challenge the number one in the world - Ning Ren, Tu.
"
When Yin Ping said the last few words, he paused slightly and then said them all. When Zhou Pei heard the name, his sitting up figure seemed to become more relaxed under the starlight, and his eyes became softer.
Twenty springs have passed, and the teachers in the past are like the memories of childhood and girlhood, like the farewell under the starry night that year. From a certain moment, they can no longer be recalled.
Over the years, she had often mentioned this name, and no one could avoid it. But every time she mentioned it in front of others, she felt nervous in her heart. But at this moment, they talked about "the best player in the world."
"There is no need to be nervous about the anecdote, no need to treat him as an enemy, no need to have the slightest hostility.
"Then when the time comes... we must win."
"Hmm...I'm not sure..."
I overturned it many times. I originally wanted to remove the worries in this paragraph, but after thinking about it I still kept it. It should be interesting and necessary for the next plot... In addition, the book "Jingming" is also very interesting and recommended.