Li Ping'an was immersed in the visualization, and Lao Niu's greeting made him come back to his senses from practice.
Lao Niu brought hot dishes and rice.
A plate of steamed pork, a plate of red sausage, a plate of cucumbers, and a plate of fried soybeans.
The ingredients were all sent by Lu Renjia.
You can still eat meat at this time.
It can be seen that his family background is really good.
Li Pingan ate six bowls of rice and put down his chopsticks.
The old cow blinked.
Are you worried about eating so little?
Li Ping'an poured himself a cup of tea and said: "I don't know who participated in the siege, except Liu Yun...Liu Yong."
He suddenly remembered the general who had recommended Liu Yun in the four towns of Anbei.
I don’t know if he participated in the battle to break the city this time.
If the Sui general Lu Renjia's father said was unreliable, he should at least know who to look for.
It's not necessarily possible to let the rebels destroy this place.
On this day, the shouts of killing outside the city became more intense late at night.
Li Ping'an observed it with his Dharma Eye and realized that the city would be destroyed in just a few days.
...........
The sound of crackling firecrackers is endless.
This is a different kind of New Year for Dayu.
At the beginning of the new year, the Sui army came to the city.
"Senior brother, your handwriting is really good."
Lu Renjia looked at Li Ping'an's writing and couldn't help but praise it.
First couplet: The family is prosperous with gold and jade.
Second line: Lucky stars protect the house and bring peace.
Horizontal batch: Hua Zhai shines
"Want to learn?"
Lu Renjia shook his head without hesitation.
Li Ping'an smiled: "Why?"
"My father has forced me to learn calligraphy since I was a child. Now I still occasionally dream about that terrible experience, but I don't want to learn it anymore.
I still prefer refining alchemy to practicing calligraphy."
Lu Renjia walked outside the door and pasted the Spring Festival couplets on the door with glue.
"You won't go home during the Chinese New Year." Li Ping'an asked casually.
"Oh, I'm so upset at home, so I'd better stay here and be quiet." Lu Renjia said.
After a while, Lu Renjia suddenly shouted.
"Brother, our Spring Festival couplets were torn apart!"
Li Ping'an went out and saw that the Spring Festival couplets had indeed been torn apart.
But he didn't say much, he just reposted the Spring Festival couplets.
"Stop sticking Spring Festival couplets with paste."
"Why?"
Li Ping'an explained: "There is a shortage of food in the capital and many people are starving to death. This paste is made from flour.
I'm very hungry, so I won't let go of this paste."
Lu Renjia suddenly realized.
Li Ping'an asked Lao Niu to go to the house to get some steamed buns and put them on the street corner.
Snow is falling all over the sky, with the smell of snow and a biting chill.
Hanging from the roof, swaying in the wind.
night.
Although a large army is besieging the city, the New Year still has to pass.
There is a way to live in poverty, and there is a way to live in wealth.
Fireworks were still lit in the capital, and there were many crossword puzzlers on the streets.
Li Pingan and Lu Renjia each held a bunch of candied haws and walked among them.
The old cow held a pig's trotter in his hand.
The cow's trotters are gone, but the pig's trotters were obtained by Lu Renjia.
The orange-red lanterns look particularly bright at night.
There is a strange beauty and a warm and peaceful feeling in my heart.
"boom--!!"
A series of huge explosions were heard in the distance.
The crowd was in panic, and the Sui Dynasty outside the city chose this day to attack the city again.
The sky was filled with the roar of artillery fire, and a cannon was fired into the city.
Accompanied by exclamations and wails, firelight splashed on the city wall, like a fire and snow falling.
Li Ping'an stood among the panicked crowd and looked back.
It seems out of place with the whole picture.
............
The 132nd year of Emperor Yingzong of Dayu.
The Sui army successively captured more than 40 cities of Dayu.
He captured more than 250,000 people, broke through three states and three passes, and invaded Dayu on a large scale.
In autumn, Dayu's capital city was destroyed.
The cry of killing, the sound of swords clashing, and the screams...were intertwined into a crazy and terrifying piece of music.
"The city is broken!!"
"Run quickly."
"The Sui Dynasty has entered the city!!"
"..."
The defenders on the top of the city were panic-stricken. Some fled for their lives, while others rolled down the city in groups.
Screams came one after another, and people fell down one after another. It was too horrible to see.
Because this is not a battle, but a brutal massacre.
Liu Yong, the general of the Sui Dynasty, led three thousand black armored men and horses galloping into the city.
Looking at the bright light appearing under her feet, Liu Yun, who was standing on the wall, had a slightly complicated expression.
An indescribable emotion echoed in her heart.
The Great Sui Dynasty went through eleven emperors, and finally destroyed Yu in Changle's generation.
This marks the beginning of the era of unification of Zhongzhou during the Sui Dynasty.
The world will be unified, and even all nine states will be unified.
Liu Yun reached out and grabbed the void, as if she had caught everything, but she seemed to have caught nothing.
Kyoto is where the dragon veins are and where the luck lies.
Even if Kyoto is not peaceful, Dayu still has some dragon energy.
A certain courtyard in the capital city of Dayu.
Li Ping'an rubbed his eyebrows and sighed softly.
At this time, Dayu's capital city was comparable to hell on earth.
The city was in chaos, and many thieves poured out like a flood.
Without the constraints of the law, people were burning, killing and looting from house to house.
They killed everyone they saw, regardless of whether they were men, women, old or young, and their blood flowed like rivers.
Of course, these thieves are not the most deadly.
Those capable casual cultivators have already planned their goals.
Each broke into several big houses.
"That is the residence of the alchemist Fengyangzi, and there must be many pills hidden in it!"
"Go quickly, don't let others get the first step."
"Feng Yangzi is quite advanced in cultivation. You and I..."
"Don't worry, that Fengyangzi died on the front line long ago!"
Under the night, two black figures flashed across and headed straight for the courtyard in front of them.
In the alchemy room, Li Pingan waved his hand casually.
It's like chasing away annoying flies.
"Noisy."
After a while, the courtyard regained its temporary tranquility.
After a while.
"Senior brother, senior brother!!"
Lu Renjia came in a hurry.
Li Ping'an frowned slightly and noticed that Lu Renjia was followed by several armored guards.
He opened the door and walked out.
"Senior brother, these are the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty."
Li Pingan nodded lightly, "Thank you for your hard work, please come inside!"
One of the leaders said: "No, we are ordered to guard this place."
"Thank you very much."
Li Pingan raised his hand.
Lu Renjia whispered to Li Ping'an: "The Sui general my father contacted is at my house now.
I told him about our alchemy room, and the general sent some personal guards."
Li Ping'an kept silent and did not help for no reason.
Presumably this Sui general wanted something else.
After thinking about this, I listened to Lu Renjia again.
"Brother, that general still wants to see you."
Li Pingan raised his eyebrows slightly.
"when?"
"tomorrow."
The leader of the guards glanced at Li Pingan's eyes.
blind?
He winked at his subordinates, leaving two of them looking at Li Ping'an.
The remaining people searched several other rooms in the courtyard.
Li Ping'an just pretended that he didn't know anything and turned around and went back to his room.
There is no way to make elixirs with these people here, so I just suppress the irritability in my heart.
Meditate and contemplate.
Think silently in your mind: "You can get concentration by stopping, that is, you can get tranquility; you can get wisdom by observing, that is, you can get clarity."
...........
The morning sun shines in every corner, piercing the darkness.
Sui soldiers patrolling the streets could be seen everywhere, and almost no one dared to take to the streets.
There were corpses lying in various directions beside the avenue, and they all looked like they had just died.
Some of these people were reckless gangsters. After the Sui army entered the city, they still wanted to take the opportunity to cause trouble and were killed without hesitation.
The others are the remaining military courage of Dayu.
The soldiers of the Sui Dynasty were all full of energy, and everyone seemed to have an evil spirit on their faces, which made people dare not look directly at them.
Li Ping'an and Lao Niu, escorted by several Sui soldiers, went to Lu Renjia's home.
"Senior brother, please don't rush into that general during the introduction."
Lu Renjia was a little worried and warned.
Now that Sui general is their family's talisman.
Who knows whether the Sui Dynasty will massacre the city in the future.
Even if the city is not massacred, it is inevitable that the houses of some large households will be confiscated.
He also thought that the reason why the general was willing to help him must have taken a fancy to his senior brother's status as an alchemist.
The senior brother has always been unruly, worried that he would offend the general and suffer the disaster of annihilation.
Li Ping'an said: "Don't worry, I know what's appropriate. The key now is how to protect our division."