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Title: Year after Year

Summary: The deserted mist brings the crisp sound of boats beating on the side of Huangshui, piercing the silent eternal night.

On the twelfth day of June in the fourth year of Yongxi, outside Tanzhou City, the sound of cicadas fell into the setting sun.Shen Yao's dental soldiers came to my tent and said: "Shen Sikong told Dr. Li to come over." I went to his big tent, there was a dragon spring and a small bowl of blood in front of him, and I drank it all in one gulp.He returned to Longquan and put it into the glazed sword box and asked, "How does it taste?" I said, "It tastes salty and fishy." He said, "I'll visit Xie Zhengzhong in the evening, and I'll bring you two taels of Tanzhou Bailu to eat." I said "If you ask Xie Yurong to take it, I'm afraid she will give you a whole catty." He smiled, a little reluctantly: "I haven't seen her for a few days. I want to take it from Tanzhou, tonight... Maybe I will live with Xie Zhengzhong." With a beauty in his arms, why is he still depressed?

"Shen Sikong, when you went down to Confucian State, you ordered the soldiers not to enter the city. Everyone followed you through life and death, but there was no reward. The morale of the army was slackened. Tanzhou is Xie Yurong's hometown, so that's all. Now everyone is looking forward to breaking through Shunzhou. Three days into the city." Yu Xingcheng came in to report.

"No." The 22-year-old Shen Yao said firmly, "I have seen the suffering of the people before. Once the soldiers are let in, they will disturb the people and cause trouble, and they will rob women. I must not let them go. I will think of a way to reward. In addition, Han Maocai from Shunzhou, How much does Brother Yi know about him?"

Yu Xingcheng said: "Han Maocai in Shunzhou was born as a trafficker, and he was extremely greedy for money. He even set up checkpoints on the edge of Huangshui River. Every time a cargo ship from Tanzhou and Ruzhou passed through Shunzhou, he would pay for it."

Shen Yao said: "He never got stuck in our Lizhou cargo ship." Yu Xingcheng said: "At that time, he was afraid of the prestige of the first emperor, so he didn't dare to get stuck." Shen Yao nodded: "Tanzhou is a good place. You go to the city for a stroll." Yu Xingcheng said: "Okay, I'll go back to the army first." He lifted the curtain and went out.

I asked: "Has Yu Xingcheng surrendered?" Shen Yao touched the glazed sword box and said, "Guo Futong of Confucian State was named queen, but he refused to give 1 taels of silver to redeem him. Wouldn't he just surrender? No matter how hard-tempered a person is." , After a year of hard work, I’m subdued.”

I asked: "Will the rewards in the army be distributed in Lizhou and Tanzhou?" Shen Yao said: "Well, the third sister Shen Cistanche mobilized the people to cultivate and farm in Lizhou, and Xie Yurong should also help me. In addition, Baotong Bank is spread all over the country. Chao, Wei Jin still owes me a big favor."

I reminded him: "It's okay to ask Wei Jin for military pay, but he is the God of Wealth in Tianyi Sect, and he paid you two taels of silver. How amazing is it that Tianyi Sect found out?"

"Tianyijiao... Huh. Let me solve the urgent need first." When he changed his red gown, he handed me a tael of silver ingots. Some came out. Don’t use all this money to eat wine.”

"I'll take care of it myself," I agreed. "The hematemesis is not a chronic disease, and it's easy to treat."

He didn't pay his bill that night.Afterwards, Xie Yurong came to visit him again in the camp, and the affection in his eyes was even more lingering.

And I went to the Tanzhou City Traditional Chinese Medicine Center to buy Daji and Shengdi, and asked the staff of the medical center to pound half a cup of juice each, mix the two juices evenly, and add a little ginger juice and honey.While taking cold clothes, a peddler passed by the door of the medical hall, and the aroma of wine was wafting: "New brewed valley curtain! One pot is [-] ren, two pots are [-] ren!" I finally stopped the peddler, and took out the loose copper plate I found in the medical hall. : "Two jugs of Gulian wine."

The one tael of silver that Shen Yao gave, I only spent a hundred cash, so I didn't count all of it for eating and drinking.

On August 21, the fifth year of Yongxi, in the camp outside Lingyi City in Shunzhou, I finished washing Luyi's hair, and she tied her hair up to pour water.Autumn is high and the sky is blue, the old tree is inhabited by jackdaws, and a little flying shadow falls on the field of yellow leaves.Everyone in the camp ran around in a panic, and after a while, white lanterns were hung everywhere.Yang Wenyu came to give me a white hair tie, I shook the water off my hand, and tied the white hair tie on, puzzled: "What's wrong?"

Yang Wenyu said: "Your Majesty is dead!" I said: "Ah? What's going on?" He pulled me into the tent and whispered: "It's going to be windy right now. I'll go check it out. Your Majesty didn't even leave any heirs behind." He died." After a silence, I asked, "Where's Forsythia?"

"Forsythia hanged herself in the tent of the Chinese army in fear of crime. I was terrified when I entered." Yang Wenyu asked back, "Your Majesty has six concubines. Although Lianqiao is the most favored, she will not be her every day. I Before I said it, Li Ping, how did you know that the concubine in the Chinese army tent is Forsythias?" Because forsythias was given to Shen Pei by Shen Yao.I said, "Oh, it's messy." Yang Wenyu shook his head: "Forsythia is also pitiful, she died at a young age. Alas, two great people died in one day."

I thought about it and asked: "Han Maocai from Shunzhou also died?"

"Well," Yang Wenyu said, "last year, after His Majesty Shen Yao was promoted to Deputy Privy Envoy due to his merger with Tanzhou, he went around collecting money. Ten days ago, he sent someone to donate a thousand taels of gold to Han Maocai. Before offering it, he specially ordered me to inspect it. Quenched poison. I thought His Majesty had you tested it first."

"You changed your mind very quickly, Your Majesty." Shen Yao didn't ask me to check.I said, "I was busy treating soldiers, so I didn't come to check them."

Yang Wenyu was still shaking his head when he went out: "Oh, everyone is on their backs everywhere."

I went outside the tent to see if Lu Yi had returned after pouring the water. Shen Yao, who was wearing a white mourning dress, was holding Longquan sadly and standing at the door of the big tent.He waved to me: "Li Ping, come in."

I entered the big tent with him, and he handed me a small bowl of blood, and Qi Rong took it all away.While I was drinking, he said: "I know that you are a doctor, you only save people and don't kill people, so you didn't test the poison money donated to Han Maocai. It's not that you don't trust you."

"Oh." The other person who died today, Shen Pei, must have coerced Lian Qiao into his room to kill him.I put down the bowl and asked, "Lianqiao is so charming but so decisive... Is her sister still in Ruzhou?"

"Her sister, I made the decision to promise a good family." 23-year-old Shen Yao showed a playful smile, "Lianqiao is a woman who keeps promises, and I will not break my promise to her."

I said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty." He shook his head, "You don't need to call me Your Majesty when you and I are together. Now I'm just proclaiming myself emperor in Shengjun territory."

I said, "Congratulations." He smiled.

So far, all the male members of the Shen family have died.Shen Yao proclaimed himself emperor.And when I'm alone, I don't have to call him Your Majesty.

On December [-]th, the sixth year of Yongxi, in Yuanzhou City at night, Lu Yi went shopping by himself, and I waited in front of the "Yikouxiang" wonton stall.Stall owners in their fifties are distributing wontons.A woman at the wooden table behind me said: "The defenders of Yuanzhou City surrendered without a fight, and opened the door to welcome the Sheng army." The woman opposite said: "The other counties of Yuanzhou are fighting, so what's the use of delaying it for a few more days? "The stall owner put two bowls of wontons in front of her.The woman in front said, "That's right. It doesn't matter if the emperor on the top is changed or not, as long as we can still come out to eat wontons, it doesn't matter."

The stall owner scoops up wontons from the wok. "An extra bowl, no green onions." There was a person sitting across from me, with a small bowl in front of me, with blood dangling in the bowl.

I held up the blood bowl: "How did you find it?"

Shen Yao said: "Lü Yi came to me to ask for a silver envoy, and told me that you were eating wontons at 'Yikouxiang'." He was wearing a half-worn gorilla felt snow gown, and a little blood on the corner of his lips was brighter than the color of the clothes. "She always comes and goes freely with lightness kung fu." After I poured blood, I reminded Shen Yao: "There is blood on your lips."

I passed a brocade handkerchief over my shoulder and dropped it on the table. "Thank you, girl." The 24-year-old Shen Yao said behind me, picking up a brocade handkerchief to wipe off the blood, "At sunset, I became sworn brothers with five people in the Yuanzhou Yishe, and drank some cow's blood."

"Your clothes are not as good as new ones. You can replace your old gown." I scooped up wontons and asked, "Guan Tao and Yu Xingcheng have already married you, and there are three more?"

"People are not as good as the old ones. You can wear the old jackets if you can, don't waste them. Many farmers outside Yuanzhou city don't even have to wear cotton jackets. You should wear warmer clothes when planting winter wheat." Shen Yao replied in a low voice: "Shunzhou Tang Both are used, Li Zixing in Yuanzhou and Pengdeya in Wangzhou."

The stall owner put a bowl in front of him, and he scooped up one, and I said, "General Wangzhou is also married to you, so it will be easier for you to win Wangzhou."

"Not necessarily. Wei Jin sent a letter to me the day before yesterday, and it happened that he embezzled silver to pay me for the army." He frowned worriedly, "Shi Mu, the new leader of the Tianyi Sect, went to Uzang because of this, and came to Huang from the west. I am afraid that we will meet the Tianyi Army in Yutan City. There are rumors in the world that Shi Mu came down after practicing Tianyi's mind."

"That's the first time in 130 years that someone has practiced it." Wei Yan only practiced to the eighth floor.I asked, "Shi Mu and Shi Xiangtian have the same surname. Is it Shi Xiangtian?"

Shen Yao put another wonton into his mouth: "I don't know, the spies released didn't find out."

I asked the former patient: "Then Wei Jin will not escape?"

"It won't kill him. God of Wealth's subordinates have complicated matters, and he needs to deal with them." Shen Yao said, "Wei Jin only said in his letter that he sent Big Yan Luo and Er Yan Luo to assist him, so he can't give me any more money. .Fortunately, Yuan Zhou was taken down." "Yeah." I said, my hands trembled accidentally, and some soup spilled out. "Your hands are shaking. Li Ping, you are still drinking heavily." Shen Yao pointed out lightly. "At least I have recuperated and vomited blood, and there is no danger of life." I scooped up the last one, "This wonton is well-deserved."

No more words, I buried myself in eating wontons with him.

Only the crisp sound of boats beating on the side of Huangshui brought by the deserted mist pierces the silent eternal night.