Tide beat empty city

Returning to Yongning at noon the next day, seeing Zhan Zhao, he said anxiously that Yongnian had left home all night and hadn't returned all night, and the search was fruitless.After careful questioning, I found out that I had an argument with Li Xian the day before yesterday, and both of them were very angry.At that time, Yongning visited his mother in the palace and stayed overnight to persuade her.Unexpectedly, Yongnian left the mansion quietly, and has disappeared since then.

Zhan Zhao said a few words of comfort, telling her to stay at home and wait for news.He took his horse out and galloped westward into the mountains.

He rushed to the mouth of the Wild Elephant Valley, tied the horse's reins under the tree, and entered the dense forest in the valley alone.At this time, Chunmu is happy, wondering if Yongnian really issued an order to prohibit people from hunting.Walking to the open terrain, wild elephants appeared sporadically, but there were no people.Zhan Zhao thought for a while, jumped up the treetops, and walked high in the sky from the side.

Why look for him, his habits, make it impossible to think about.Just like, no matter how much hatred he has, he can't calm down and watch him die before his eyes.

Walking to the central area, most of the elephant herds appeared.On the top of the protruding hillside by the river, a small figure sat, with branches dancing in his hands, silently pointing to the country.

Zhan Zhao smiled, people are so insignificant in the world.If you can't see yourself, it's good to know how to push back.He checked the distance, stretched his feet and jumped down, and slid towards the hillside quickly on the back of the elephant herd.

Yongnian turned his back to him, shouting continuously, as if standing among thousands of troops.Feeling the sound of the wind turning back, he suffered a violent thump on the forehead, couldn't stop staggering back under his feet, and fell unsteadily to the ground.

He looked up blankly, looked at Zhan Zhao bent down and asked, "What are you doing?"

Yongnian wanted to get up, but he felt a sharp pain in his tailbone, and sat back down again.He lowered his head and said, "What do you care about me. Go to your new state."

Zhan Zhao sat across from him and said, "Command the elephants? Stand here for the rest of your life, and you won't be able to become the leader. Instead of envious, you might as well go back and beg the Bodhisattva, so that you can be reborn as an elephant in the next life."

Yongnian turned his face away and didn't look at him: "There's nothing wrong with it. With so many family members, you can talk to whoever you want, and you won't be driven away." As he spoke, two crystal clear tears fell from his eyes .

Zhan Zhao chuckled: "It's worth crying even if you quarrel with your family. You feel sorry for yourself when you're full. You know the sufferings of the people and nothing."

Yongnian lowered his head and said in a low voice: "I don't know, you teach me." After a while, he said: "I keep telling my surroundings, you teach me. My mother is dead, one father doesn't want me; the other father doesn't have time. , no heart. There is no bodhisattva to ask for, I don't believe it."

Zhan Zhao turned his head and said lightly, "What do you believe in? My heart is dark."

The sunlight made him vivid and perfect, and his sculpted side face, if ruthless, was also affectionate.When Yongnian saw it, he couldn't help but said, "I believe in you, don't you know? Is there light in your heart for nothing, and it doesn't illuminate me."

Zhan Zhao looked at him amusedly, stood up for a moment and said, "I'm going to my Xinzhou. If you want to be an elephant, please continue."

Regardless of the pain, Yongnian rushed over and grabbed his sleeve and said, "Zhao, you are willing to teach. You didn't know last night, but you found me today if you knew. You know where to find me, you see the darkness in my heart... "

Zhan Zhao sighed, and said with a flick of his sleeves: "What are you arguing with the princess? There are always trade-offs when you have different political opinions; is it fair and reasonable to listen to you? Isn't she teaching you when she argues with you?"

Yongnian lowered his head and hugged his knees, and said quietly: "The army is in her hands, I can't compete with her. She scolds me, but I don't care. I think I still have you. When I feel wronged, I will look for you, and you will listen to me. Later You chased me away, I had no choice but to think about these elephants again, thinking that they have a little relationship with you; I feel a little better when I look at it."

Zhan Zhao shook his head: "As soon as you leave, do you know how worried and anxious your wife and sister are? It's not because you don't have a home and no one to talk about; it's because you can't see and don't know how to cherish blessings. If you can't figure it out, just feel sorry for yourself. Not as free as you."

He shook his sleeves to leave again, but Yongnian hurriedly stood up, held one hand tightly, and said, "I have a brother-in-law. If you look for me, I will come back. I will do whatever you want me to do."

Zhan Zhao sighed secretly, supported his waist and jumped out of the herd, let go of his hands, and walked forward by himself.

Yongnian followed with one deep foot and one light foot, and said, "Zhao, I have selected a few cooks and doctors, and you can take them to Xinzhou. I told my sister, and she agreed. It will be colder there, and I will prepare clothes for you in the four seasons." I bought two boxes. What else do I need, I will add more when I think of it. Ah..."

He suddenly screamed, squatted down and hugged one leg, and refused to leave.

Zhan Zhao turned his head and frowned: "What's the matter?"

Yongnian shook his head: "I don't know. I seem to have a cramp."

Zhan Zhao stood still, took a breath and went to pull him.As soon as he stretched out his hand and was dragged, he also sat down.Yongnian wrapped his arms around the back of his neck, touched the wound on the back of his head with one hand, and asked tremblingly, "Zhao, why are you so cruel. Does it hurt? Does it hurt?"

He held him tightly and refused to let him go: "Several times you were seriously ill, you had a fever all day and night and couldn't wake up; I went to see my sister's house, you were lying down, so thin, when my sister walked away, I hugged you secretly, even you I can’t even feel my breath. I looked at you, and I didn’t dare to blink, because I was afraid that you would disappear if I blinked. How much pain do you have? I am so painful that my heart is broken.”

Zhan Zhao gasped for breath twice, pulled him away and stood up, and said, "There is no need to mention the past. Your lord, please go ahead, Zhan will go ahead."

When walking, Yongnian said softly behind him: "But I don't regret that day, I treated you that way."

Zhan Zhao shook slightly, closed his eyes to drive away the dizziness.Dark clouds invaded in all directions, through the eyelids, oppressing the haze all over the body.

After leaving the valley, Zhan Zhao was still waiting for him, and they rode back home together.Yongnian stuck to his back, put his hands around his waist, and was silent all the way.

Yong Ning came in and asked someone to wait on him to freshen up. Jiao Zhanzhao was at home, and he took Yong Nian to the car and sent him back to the palace.

In the carriage, Yongnian said: "It's good for my sister to come with me. The cook I mentioned last time will be handed over to you to take home. Also, if you don't want other things, you must collect the medicinal materials. Brother-in-law, he..."

Yongning sighed softly, nodded and said, "My brother has a heart. I will take good care of your brother-in-law. You are here, and you have to take care of yourself. It is dangerous to go into the mountains in the middle of the night. Don't be so willful in the future."

Yongnian sneered: "Sister, those who look like my friends will not hurt me. Anyway, they are better than some people."

Yongning looked at him with melancholy eyes: "Don't blame your mother. Although she scolded you harshly, she was doing it for your own good. It's the same as me."

Really, Yongnian said with a smile: "Of course I don't blame her. I'm young, and I have to learn a lot from her. Don't worry, a family, there's no need to hold grudges when you quarrel."

Yongning smiled and stroked his shoulder lightly.

Seeing Li Xian, Yongnian apologized first and confessed his mistake.Li Xian was relieved and ordered him to go back to see his wife so that he could rest.

The mother and daughter were left in the hall. Li Xian asked how they found it. Yongning said that Zhan Zhao went to the Wild Elephant Valley and brought his younger brother back.Then he persuaded: "My younger brother will be in charge sooner or later. Wouldn't it be good for my mother to let him do things by himself? When you are older, you should worry less. No matter how far your daughter goes, you will not worry about it."

Li Xian smiled and said: "When the time comes, I will naturally leave it to him. What are you worried about, I am so happy to leave."

Yongning was ashamed by what she said, so he stuck to his body and refused to follow.Li Xian hugged her with a smile, thinking in her heart.Yong Ning grew up in a boudoir, loved by her parents, who taught her to be ikea and ikea; but she couldn't help but protect her too much, making her ignorant of people's ulterior motives.Now what I hope for is that she will have someone to rely on for the rest of her life and be lucky enough to grow old.Thinking of this, he asked, "How is Zhan Zhao's health? The journey is tiring, so you have to be careful."

Yongning nodded: "I will. He is much better too, didn't he ride a horse into the mountain today?"

Li Xian sighed: "It's the first time I've grown up and left home. You have a husband, so I don't worry about anything. You must know about your brother. Although I have no intention of harming him, I have to take precautions." The transfer of military power is so important; one wrong step, there is no guarantee that it will not attract malicious backlash and endanger you and me. These worldly suspicions, I tell you today, it can be regarded as my mother's parting words."

Yong Ning came in and saw Zhan Zhao in normal clothes, sitting under the window reading a book.The greenery of the trees outside is reflected on the face, a little pale in the silence.Looking up and seeing her, he put down the book and asked, "I've been away for so long, what's the matter?"

Yongning approached and sat beside him, shook his head and said, "It's okay, I just talked to my mother a few more words. The things my brother gave you, I brought with the car."

Zhan Zhao inquired, "Yesterday, when I bid farewell to elder brother Yu, he told Yu Yuan to come with me. I don't know if you agree or not."

Yong Ning smiled: "Even I want to follow. Whether you agree or not, your master has the final say."

Zhan Zhao thought about it, then laughed and said, "It's the first time I have a fief, and I'm not used to it yet. I laugh at it."

Yongning thought about it: "How do you know that my brother is in the Wild Elephant Valley? He is more caring than our relatives. No wonder he always misses you."

Zhan Zhao bowed his head and coughed twice, smiled and said, "I guess he was thinking about the old friendship. We met him in Jingzhong."

One day he said that no matter how far away, he would send him home.

Old friendship is a matter of when it exists and when it disappears.He is no longer a boy lost in the forest, can he still be Zhan Zhao who guides him.

One kind of relationship until the end, still those two people, but the heart is no longer the same as before.

Zhan Zhao looked at Yongning, thinking of Tokyo, Jiangnan, his old knowledge and new knowledge.

Every relationship thus established, if you think about it, is either over or in the process of ending.

Is it that person, or is it some kind of relationship connected to it?

Maybe it's just a relationship to the end, still lingering in the imagination, hoping to retain the original stubborn emotion.In fact, it didn't last, and the emotion couldn't be fixed.

Things in life, when they are clear, are tasteless.

He smiled softly, took out his sword and wiped it.The giant que's front is blunt and dull, lying flat, it doesn't look like a sharp weapon.

Yongning walked behind him, put his arms around him gently and asked him, "I don't know whose it will belong to in the future."

Zhan Zhao smiled and said, "I promise to give it to Yu Yuan."

Yongning shook him dissatisfied: "Where's our child?"

Zhan Zhao patted her hand to comfort her: "We have a daughter. It's too heavy for a girl to hold it."

"You are perfunctory. What if you have a son?"

"Give it to others as an apprentice. What the master gives is nothing."

"...You are eccentric."

"Ju Que was passed on to me by Master. It's not Zhan."

"Then let the son's surname be Yuwen. The daughter's surname is Zhan."

"Okay."

Two days later, we set off and arrived at the northern border of New South Wales at the end of April, and the weather gradually became hotter.The silver taels rewarded by the imperial court were used by Zhan Zhao to buy houses, and the rest were distributed to expand the army and arrange farming.The weather in the southern country is warm, and the crops grow extremely fast. When it is not in war, the army also prioritizes farming.Busy and busy, I didn't realize that the autumn harvest was over.

Zhan Zhao inspected for half a month and arrived home in the evening.When I entered the room, Yong Ning was sitting on the edge of the bed, threading needles, lowering his head and only smiling, not paying attention to his return.

Zhan Zhao saw that it was a small garment, and wondered, "Who did you make it for?"

Yongning was surprised when he heard that, and then he was overjoyed: "The official is back? Hurry up and change your clothes for dinner." After he was busy, he sat at the table, Zhan Zhao thought for a while, and slowly realized: "Yongning, are you no……"

Yongning nodded, half shy in joy: "I don't know if it's Yuwen or Zhan."

Zhan Zhao raised his sleeve and stroked her temple hair, feeling vaguely happy, but didn't know what to say.

Yongning held that hand, rubbed it against his face, and sighed softly for a while: "I've always wanted to give you a baby. With you, you won't be alone."

Zhan Zhao's heart skipped a beat, as if he remembered something, but couldn't figure it out.Since I came to Xinzhou, my life has become like a new one, with more and more trivial matters and fewer and fewer blocks. It seems that the joy in a shallow state comes suddenly, and it is impossible to find out whether it is true or not.The origin and essence may be avoided for one day, and it will be easier for one more day.

The relaxation caused by ignorance is not the end.And like the soup in the cup of life, the total amount is constant, you can choose to use it up at once, or share it on a daily basis.Sometimes, there is no need to be happy or worried.

I don't know how much I have used up this specious joy.Putting it aside, Zhan Zhao thought of the practical question: "When will he come out to accompany me?"

Yong Ning said, "March next year. What name do you want?"

Zhan Zhao smiled: "Let me think about it slowly." He lowered his head for a while, and said, "I'll sleep in the wing, so I won't disturb your rest."

Walking back to the wing room alone, Zhan Zhao remembered that it was also March, when the grass grew and warblers flew south of the Yangtze River.Was he or she supposed to be born there?Accompanied by the miscellaneous flowers in the courtyard, the bright moon is exquisite and gradually grows up.

When will I go back, on the south bank of the Chunyu River, hugging each other, comparing which one is more like my father.

He bowed his head and smiled secretly.How can I miss him today.

Every day, why don't you miss him.

During the mid-autumn festival, the soldiers were on vacation and the camp was empty. Zhan Zhao found Yu Yuan and took him home for dinner.On the way, I asked the excited child: "If I teach you to live in the barracks tonight, would you dare to be alone?"

Yu Yuan nodded: "Yes. But it's better not to be alone."

Zhan Zhao said with a smile: "Alone, no one knows when you're homesick and cry. What's wrong?"

Yu Yuan pursed his lips: "Master, don't always think of me as a child. Am I not good at swordsmanship? Or I'm not as good as others in working and farming."

Zhan Zhao stroked the top of his head: "When you grow up, you can do everything well. But adults can also be homesick. Don't you think everyone has gone home?"

Yu Yuan giggled and said, "I'm going home too. Master's house is my home."

Zhan Zhao repeated softly: "Master's house is your home?"

Yu Yuan nodded: "That's what Dad said. Because my father's and I's home is also Master's home."

Zhan Zhao put his arms around his shoulders, and said with a smile, "Try your lightness kung fu now. Go faster and go home."

Entering the yard, laughter came from the house.The doors and windows are half open, and the light shines on the two siblings at the table.

Seeing him, Yongnian's eyes lit up, but he stood up without speaking.

Yu Yuan greeted An cleverly, asked for the reward quickly, and went out to find someone to play with.

Sitting down again, Yong Ning said with a smile: "I don't even know my brother is coming. Why don't you teach me to send a message first, so I can prepare well."

Yongnian held the pot and ordered tea one by one, and said: "I will accompany my sister and husband for the festival, what are we going to do? My mother was very relieved when she heard that my sister was pregnant, but she didn't have time to come and see you, so she sent me. In addition, there is a shortage of troops here, This trip brought a group of soldiers to enrich the army, I'm afraid my brother-in-law will not be able to relax again. Yongnian is very disturbed."

Yong Ning said: "No matter how many teams there are, he is always busy. You don't have to worry about it."

Yongnian looked at Zhan Zhao, his eyes became a little dazed, and he said for a while, "Brother-in-law seems to be more energetic than before. It's still my sister who takes good care of her. Is your body... all right?"

Zhan Zhao didn't speak until now: "It's okay. Let's eat first, Yu Yuan is hungry too."

After Yu Yuan was resettled at night, only the wing room where Zhan Zhao lived remained, and there was still plenty of space.Seeing that Yongnian hesitated to speak, Zhan Zhao laughed, if the prince is not too simple, please come with Zhan.

Entering the door to set up the couch, Zhan Zhao took the quilt and spread it out, said please go ahead, and went to take a bath.When I came back, I saw that there was a potted plant on the table, and it was never in the room.

If you look closely, you can't recognize what it used to be.But still Monstera.

Yongnian entered the door quietly, looked at him from behind for a long time, and called, Zhao.

Zhan Zhao didn't look back, he went to the bed and took off his clothes and shoes.Just before going to bed, he said, please tell me if the prince has something to say.Zhan is busy with something, so I'm afraid I won't be able to send him off tomorrow.

Yongnian closed the door, sat down on the edge of the couch, and whispered, Zhao, my child is dead.

Zhan Zhao's heart trembled, he opened his eyes and stared at the dark and narrow ceiling in silence.

Yongnian knelt down in front of the bed, grabbed his hand, and buried his face full of tears in it.

After a long time, Zhan Zhao sighed and said, you are still young.after……

Yongnian shook his head, there is no future.Li Yi fell off the horse, the child was gone, and she couldn't have another child.I am not allowed to marry another.

Zhan Zhao turned his head, looked over his shoulder, and saw the monstera and kangshou flowers on the table in bloom.

Yongnian raised his face, wiped his tears and said, Zhao, don't drive me away.No one can say what is in my heart.

Zhan Zhao sighed and closed his eyes. "Sleepy. Go to sleep." He said for a long time.

Yongnian lay down next to him as promised, groping with both hands, hesitantly grasping a corner of the skirt.

"Zhao, this monstera is the best."

"There is no need to dig it out."

"I want the best for you."

Until you come back to me.Yongnian laughed silently in the dark, pressing his face against his body temperature.

Next to you again.

I heard that I have a father who only did one thing in his life.Let the person you love the most be the farthest away from him.

Such a useless man.What a shame.

Zhan Zhao breathed steadily, and soon fell asleep.

You're exhausting yourself again, sleeping so deeply.I also eat too little food, is my body really getting better?

I don't know how to take care of myself.Just wait for me and take good care of you.

In the longing, the candle swayed suddenly, bursting out the last extremely pure light, and stopped suddenly.

At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, an envoy from the palace said that Li Xian was ill and missed her daughter, so he specially took the princess back.

Sending Yongning to the car, Zhan Zhao told him not to hurry back.After the Chinese New Year, you will stay in the palace to wait for the birth. If you take good care of me, I will rest assured.

Yongning is reluctant to give up, let him go back when he is free in the middle of the year, don't worry too much.

Zhan Zhao nodded in agreement.Turn around and go home to pack a few changes of clothes and move to the barracks.

After teaching swordsmanship for several days, Yu Yuan had to go home for the New Year.Begging Zhan Zhao to go back together, he just smiled and said no.

Yu Yuan was aggrieved and puzzled: "Why? I went home with you during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I left you here alone during the Chinese New Year, and my father will scold me when I go back."

Zhan Zhao said: "He is your father, so why not scold him a few words. Let's go, Master, go back to your own home."

Yu Yuan didn't believe it: "Then you come with me. Your house is not far from mine."

Zhan Zhao made fun of him: "Going alone, are you scared?"

Unable to wear him down, Yu Yuan carried a small bundle on his shoulder, with tears in his eyes, turned his head three times at a step, got on his horse and left.

The soldiers left one after another and locked the camp, Zhan Zhao still returned home.Entering the door, the room is desolate, but I don't want to anesthetize myself any more, stepping into the noise of the world of mortals.

As if waking up from a dream, he suddenly remembered that he was the only one.

It was dark when I picked up the book, and I was hungry, so I thought that the servants were returning home, the ice pot was cold, and it was time to do it by myself.

Add firewood to boil water, and the fire in the hearth makes the forehead sweat slightly.

Who is waiting for him at the end of the world, why is he sitting here and can't go back anywhere.

Zhan Zhao closed his eyes heavily.Thinking of the water flowing eastward and never returning.

I would rather just hold on to the thin truth at this time.Rather than invest in false sentiments and add to worldly illusions.

Even if this is extreme, occasionally it takes a one-night stand.

After scribbling, I went out to look at the cold moon and thousands of mountains, and saw a bunch of fireworks rising quietly in the sky on the opposite slope.

The distance is far, and the fire is a little weak.But it suddenly blows over Zhishui Chengbo.

Zhan Zhao ran to the top of the mountain.For a moment, I didn't recognize who the girl who set off the fireworks was.

The mood went straight to the bottom.He said "Excuse me" with a bow and wanted to leave, but the girl called him behind his back.

"Brother Zhao, don't you remember me? I'm Gou Mang."

Turning back in shock, Zhan Zhao asked in confusion, "Ju Mang? What are you doing here?"

Why do you hold his fireworks.

Gou Mang came over and hugged him and cried: "I came to look for you. If you can't find me, let's set off fireworks. This is Brother Yutang's. I will walk and set off all the way. I think you will always see it, and you will definitely come."

Zhan Zhao held her arm and pulled her up, her heart beating fast: "Why are you alone? Where is he?"

Jumang trembled all over: "Go and see Brother Yutang. He is dying."

Bai Yutang explored the Sky Tower at night and narrowly escaped death.Sent back to the empty island, several times in a coma and dying.

Unable to speak, seeing Gou Mang showing him the cat in his arms, he burst into tears.

Jumang said that he missed brother Zhao.

Brother Si Yi turned his head in silence.The fifth younger brother got married not long ago, so how could he open up and condone such a taboo thing.

Goumang had no choice but to cross the outlying island secretly at night, carrying a signal from Bai Yutang to travel south to Duanzhou.Hearing that Zhan Zhao was in Xinzhou, he searched north again.

At this time, her strength was exhausted, she was soft in Zhan Zhao's arms.Before falling asleep, he said that he didn't know if he was dead now.

Stiffness and numbness up to the chest.Zhan Zhao didn't know what to stand on, and said mechanically for a long while, no.