Stone silk bamboo, separated by a screen, motivated the men and women inside.

The people inside were undressing and taking off their robes, and she saw sweat on her palms. Shen Ce's hand holding her was extremely hot... The sweat in the hands of the two of them was drenched in sweat. With a slightly panting "Prince King", a thunderstorm exploded in her ear.

Zhaozhao abruptly withdrew his hand, turned his head away, and watched the pipa strings move. Her ears were full of heartbeats like drums, the five tones were in disarray, and the six rhythms were destroyed.

Shen Ce locked her with a deep gaze.

In the more mingling sound, he suddenly gave two high fives.

Everyone was like a puppet on a dangling thread, silent. Only the man behind the screen got up and calmly put on his clothes.

"Where is the prince going?" The dancer took the man's hand.

"Miss Qin Shang, are you calling me the king?" Shen Ce said slowly.

The woman stiffened and looked behind the screen.

The veil was blocking her, so Zhaozhao couldn't see her face, but she could guess the changes above.

Shen Ce gestured to the musician, and everyone quietly exited. The man pretending to be Shen Ce put on his clothes, went around behind the screen, took the sword from Yu Rong, and stood solemnly behind Shen Ce and Shen Zhaozhao. He was one of the four remaining generals around Shen Ce, Chao Yan.

"Ms. Qin Shang said that she has Shen Ce in her heart," he asked through the screen, "but why can't you tell who is Shen Ce?"

The woman lying on the table gradually calmed down and straightened her clothes: "Except for Shen Zhaozhao in the southern border, few women have really seen the prince. How does the prince ask Qin Shang to answer this question?"

Shen Ce quietly watched the beauty of Wuling behind the screen and waited for her to speak.

Qin Shang was sitting upright: "The two world-famous women in the south, one is in the palace, the other is Qin Shang. The king of the county has an army that can compete with the court, and the prestige to compete with the emperor, and there should be someone who is comparable to the harem. Wife. Qin Shang came, not to ask the general to take him in, but to find the master."

Qin Shang couldn't hear any reply, so he poured a glass of wine and said, "I thought Chai Sang Shen Lang was different from others, even if he was suspicious, he dared to put him beside him. Lord of Jiangshui, why would he dare not see a person who went alone? ?"

Qin Shang pointed to the wine in front of him and invited Shen Ce to drink it together.

Shen Ce was unmoved, turned around, and the wooden door was opened by Yu Rong and Chao Yan.

"Shen Ce!" Qin Shang lost his composure when he heard the sound of the door. After chasing after the screen, he was blocked by Yu Rong Hengjian, "If you don't believe me, why did you come to see me?"

...

Zhaozhao took his hand, and Shen Ce questioned her with his eyes.

"Let her be an understanding ghost," Zhaozhao said in his ear, "death won't be too painful." As a spy in the army, death is the only end. Since it is found that he cannot escape death, it is better to be an understanding ghost than to die like this. .

Seeing that her heart softened, Shen Ce put her palm behind her head and her eyes softened: "Okay."

He turned around again and said, "When I was a sergeant, I led the army to break through the siege, and your younger brother was killed by Zhao Ye's sword. After your younger brother died, you had no relatives to rely on, so you went to Wuling County alone. In order to seek revenge against me, you have been dormant. Nine years."

"...you know this, why are you here?"

"The girl is famous all over the world. If you can be with you for a few months, the name of romance will be fulfilled. Not only today, but Shen Ce will come every day. You seek revenge, I borrow names, you and I each take what we need."

He added: "But there is one thing you said wrong, I will not kill you. You can stay after three months, this king will allow you to marry General Chao. Of course, you can also choose to go back."

And the most important point, he didn't say it in front of Zhaozhao: He was a fake for half a year, and he used this to raise soldiers, and he had been with Zhaozhao for too long, and there was no other woman by his side, which led to speculation. There are rumors that Shen Ce has a special hobby and is obsessed with his sister Shen Zhaozhao. For Zhao Zhao, he needs a romantic affair, and needs to be like a normal man, to love a normal woman.

She and Shen Ce left the cabin, and the three generals who followed all held back their laughter, but none of them made a sound. All her arrogance when she broke in was gone, and she turned her hands behind her back, looking at the faces fluttering in the wind on the banks of the river.

"Isn't it right?" He joked with her, "General Chao is thin-skinned. When you bump into this kind of thing, I'm afraid I won't be able to see you for a few months."

"It's not common." She was still stubborn.

"Why don't we do this, let's give Chao Yan a face and hide from him for a few months?"

hide? She was puzzled.

Shen Ce pointed to the shore, and the painting boat came to the shore.

In the afternoon that day, an unremarkable boat carried twenty people across the river. Since then, the most eye-catching part of the Chaisang Night Market is no longer Shen Zhaozhao's painting boat, but Qin Shang's. General Chao boarded the ship for Shen Ce every day to have fun.

And Shen Ce, who was rumored to be "lovely", was already thousands of miles away.

They were mixed in the Rouran caravan. Shen Ce led the horse and her hand, and entered Luoyang City under the watchful eyes of the defender. After Shen Ce thanked him in soft words, he took Zhaozhao to an inconspicuous inn and settled down to rest.

The shopkeeper helped them tie the horses, and found that Zhaozhao had been staring at the pagoda in the palace, and said with a smile, "That's the number one pagoda in the world."

"Yongning Temple Pagoda," she nodded, "we came for it."

The monks of the Gupta Dynasty said that there was a pagoda of Yongning Temple in Luoyang. According to reports, Master Mo passed through this place at the age of 150, saying that this pagoda was only seen in his life. He put his palms together and sang Nanwu. More than 5,000 golden nails are used for the tower body alone. There are 120 golden domes on the tower, hanging on the eaves of each tower, often colliding with the wind, and the sound is sweet and can be transmitted for dozens of miles.

She mentioned it to Shen Ce once.

It was on the riverside at that time, she looked at the hundreds of warships of the Shen family army on the river, and told her brother the Buddhist allusions heard from the monks of the Gupta Dynasty: "They said that when Bodhidharma crossed the Yangtze River, he did not take a boat, but folded on the shore. He took a reed and stood on the reed to cross the river. One reed sails, and here comes it.”

A few days later, Shen Ce ordered someone to build her a boat shaped like a reed.

Regarding the story of Yongning Temple Pagoda, Shen Ce has always promised to show her, but Zhaozhao didn't take it seriously. After all, Luoyang is an enemy territory and is very dangerous. Unexpectedly, today really came.

"Do you want to live here in the future?" Shen Ce asked her when she saw her staring at the pagoda.

She was surprised: "Live here?"

He nodded: "Now the northern border is divided, and each has a general to support a puppet emperor, occupying Chang'an and Luoyang as the capital. The courtiers in Beijing have taken this as a warning, and have already made a report, and they will cut my troops year by year."

"To cut military power is to want you to die." Without soldiers, Shen Ce would be the target of all the criticism.

He laughed: "I won't give them a chance. After the early summer, the Shen family army will recruit a lot of troops. Three years later, they will cross the river to fight. From then on, they will expedition to the north and never return to the south. This is also the only way to survive."

She was silent. There was still a way to live, and the two left.

But Shen Ce wouldn't choose this path, he wasn't someone who just walked away.

He protected her day and night, pretending to be husband and wife with her. She stayed in the inn at night, she slept on the bed and he sat on the floor. Ye Ye Zhaozhao all rested on his arm, on the couch, looking at his back under the moon.

All around seemed to be stained with ink, only a little of his shadow, attached to the moonlight, she looked at it all night.

The night before leaving Luoyang City, the wind was blowing outside the window, and the 120 golden statues on the Yongning Temple Pagoda collided with each other, spreading to every corner of Luoyang, including this room.

"Are you asleep?" she asked softly.

"Um."

"...Sleep and answer?"

"If you don't answer, you won't be happy again."

"Am I so domineering?"

The man with his back to her smiled. She can hear.

She turned over, faced the wall, and said softly after a while, "The sound of Jin Duo is scary."

No one answered her.

She complained in a low voice, "When you were young, you held me all the time."

The room was silent, but he still didn't respond.

Zhao Zhao closed his eyes and waited for half an hour. Jin Duo's voice was fast and slow, and the wind was even tighter. With warmth on her waist and the body temperature of a man behind her, Shen Ce lay down behind her and put her in his arms.

At first she wanted to pretend to be asleep, but it backfired, and soon half of her body was numb, and she had to turn over to face him.

"Pretending to be tired?" he asked in a low voice.

"Well..." she complained, "the arm is numb." It seemed that it was his fault for pretending to be asleep.

Shen Ce laughed and massaged her arm.

She thought of a secret letter from the daytime, Qin Shang chose to leave Chaisang, and was suspected after returning. People in the Wuling County army thought she had betrayed and executed her in secret. When this incident spread, it became Shen Ce's chaos and abandonment, and Qin Shang committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake.

Shen Ce was used to being framed by others, she couldn't calm down about it, she thought about it for a day.

"Why were you willing to give her a life back then?" The spy in the army has never had a precedent for forgiveness.

"She reminds me of you." Seeking revenge for the family.

Zhaozhao was silent for a while and said, "I wanted to avenge you, and I also thought about this step. If the Shen family army fails to take revenge for many years, and finally the entire army is wiped out, then I will definitely be arrested. The title of Sister Ce is enough to satisfy a general's desire to show off, so it is very likely that she will not be executed, but will be coerced to become a concubine."

"It's not difficult to be a concubine," she thought calmly. It's easier than the art of war. "As long as they don't kill me, I can take revenge while I'm alive."

He was silent for a while.

She will never forget the temperature on her forehead when she looked up from his arms and looked for him in the dark.

A guest ran past the door, and went downstairs, like every step of a boot was on her heart... The cold wind outside the window was rushing, Jin Duo hit, and the sound was endless, she seemed to see how those Jin Duo were doing with her own eyes. swaying in the wind.

"When I was young..." His lips moved away from her forehead, "You often told me to kiss like this before you would sleep."

His shaking was no less than hers. He didn't know what magic he was possessed. He wanted to stay and go out and calm down for a moment. But thinking of the sound of Jin Duo who said she was afraid of the wind, he still didn't leave and hugged her tightly.

Leaving Luoyang, the two went to the place where Shen Ce apprenticed: Bifeng Mountain at the junction of north and south.

This time, he came to the North to fulfill her wish and show her the Buddhist pagoda. Second, he visited the important town in the North to prepare for the future Northern Expedition. Third, he brought her to see Master and ask Master to consult her. .

Zhaozhao recognized him from the Chaisang Restaurant that night, and he liked to drink, even more urgent and stronger than that of soldiers in the army. He was afraid that if things went on like this, she would be ruined by drinking, so he asked Master to treat her. After the master understood the cause and effect, he told Shen Ce that Zhaozhao had not recovered, and the pain of losing her brother was still in her heart. The reason for drinking alcohol was because she thought it was a good thing, and this thing would allow her to see her brother.

The master let him live until early summer to treat Zhaozhao's heart disease.

In Bifeng Mountain, they lived for several months. One of her favorite waterfalls is Pixue Waterfall, also known as Xiangxuequan.

The two brothers and sisters often disappeared after dark. Before dawn, Shen Ce either hugged or carried her back, bringing her back from deep forest, mountain stream, or waterfall when she was asleep.

When others wanted help, Shen Ce never allowed anyone to touch her, and put her on the bamboo couch under the eaves in front of the house.

At sunrise, the shadow of the mandarin duck tile will cover half of her face, her eyelashes float in the morning light, and she sleeps peacefully. Shen Ce often brewed tea and sat quietly with her.

When she woke up, she liked not to open her eyes, and whispered "brother".

Tea is delivered to the mouth to moisten the throat and relieve the hangover.

She pursed her mouth, indicating that she still had to drink, frowned, but she still had to sleep.

Next to the bamboo couch, there are often plants brought back at night. Because Shen Ce once told her that Bifeng Mountain has diverse plants, part of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" was completed here. She kept it in her heart, and she forced Shen Cecai when she was drunk. Every night was different.

On this day, she was awakened by the sun again, and she opened her eyes to see the flowers beside the couch: clusters of extremely dense tiny petals, powder in the white, flowers like mist, extremely gentle.

"what is this?"

"Astilbe," he said, "summer common."

She felt like she was being pricked. Early summer is here, and we have to go back.

Seeing that she was silent, he whispered, "Leave tomorrow."

She nodded.

"I found you a good drink tonight," he coaxed her softly, "you can get drunk."

"Um."

That night, Shen Ce filled the pavilion with wine, and there were twenty-six jars. She wondered, what should I do if I can't finish drinking? He replied, bury it here, and drink it after five years: "Three years to cross the river, at most five years, we will come back."

Zhaozhao thought of the southern border and felt sorry for him.

Since the age of fifteen, he has been more slandered than honored, everyone is afraid of him, afraid of him, and happy to slander him.

Famous generals from the North and the South, although they rarely end well, at least they often had good names during their lifetimes, and they were praised all over the world. But brother, apart from the people from Chaisang, who said he was good? Cruel, deceitful, vicious...

She often laughed and said that Chai Sang and Shen Lang, who guarded the river for the first time, and galloped around the world with admiration, spoke to herself and comforted him.

She watched her brother with her own eyes, from a man who had the world in his hand, he fell into stigma step by step, and the most loyal army ever was weakened. If in the year of the Western Expedition, no courtiers were involved, and there was no emperor's edict to let him leave, the Western Expedition had already won a great victory, and the Shen family's army was in full swing, taking advantage of the situation to dominate the north, what kind of grand occasion would it be...

Seeing her bowing her head and not saying a word, Shen Ce asked softly, "Why are you unhappy? The wine is not good, or did my brother offend you by saying something wrong?"

She whispered back: "You want to arrange so many people and things, how is it possible? You are a person, not an immortal, you will also die, you almost died in Jingzhou for the southern border, who rescued you, who moved to save you Your thoughts? No one. It's too late for them to be happy."

The silhouette of the person in front of her was blurred and she did not answer her.

"I'll ask for the last time," her throat was sore, "Brother, don't be a general, let's go this time, okay?"

Shen Ce's silence was within her expectations.

He wants to settle his subordinates, settle the people of Chaisang, and take care of all the people in the southern border. He wants to take care of the aftermath. Since she was hidden in Wuling County at the age of seven, she knew that her brother was no longer hers alone.

"This sentence, I won't ask again in the future," she smiled suddenly, looking around, "When you were five years old, you lied to me that you wanted to see the mountains and snow, but I haven't seen it until today, and you will only use a ringing snow pavilion to coax me. I……"

She bit her lower lip and said softly, "In five years, we will go into the mountains in winter?"

"Go into the mountains in winter."

"Don't break your word this time."

Do not break your word.

Zhaozhao likes things in pairs, he remembers, so only two jars of wine are left, buried under a tree, and will be retrieved later. The remaining twenty-three altars were all smashed into pieces. Before dawn, Shen Ce carried Zhaozhao down the mountain. Zhaozhao was used to it by him for several months. In his dreams, he would hug his neck obediently and wake up from time to time: "Brother, walk slowly, you want to vomit if you walk too fast."

She slowed down: "What's so good about this wine, it can make you get drunk every night?"

She replied beside his ear, "She is not me, do you know my joy?"

He laughed and whispered back: "Zhaozhao is not me, Anzhi I don't know Zhaozhao's joy?"

"Ego," she closed her eyes and whispered in the slow bump, "there is always something you don't know."

For example, I am not your biological sister.

"Really?" In the shadow of the tree, he stepped on the moonlight that was separated one after another, looking for the way back, "There is nothing I don't know. Even if I don't know it for a while, I can guess it."

There was a shadow of a deer in front of the mountain road. He wanted to tell her to look at the deer, but found that she was breathing evenly and fell asleep.