The bluestone slabs of Chang'an were stained with the blood of Zhongliang and reflected the lights of Wanjia.
Shen Yanzhi, the lieutenant of the Yulin Guards, beheaded the generals and captured the flag in front of Yanmen Pass, but overnight he became a treasonous official. Pipa's bones were pierced, and his fingers were cut off to complain. In the darkness of the dungeon, he watched his wife and children separated, and saw the traitors in power, leaving only half a tiger charm and a cavity of intact bones and blood.
From the execution platform to the wilderness, from a prisoner to a dark stalker, he used his broken body as a blade to tear open the snare in desperate situations. Li Song's perjury, Zhou Yan's conspiracy, the Turks' wolf ambition... Behind the layers of fog, there is a shocking chess game intertwined between the court and the battlefield. Behind him, there was the Su family who hid the account books in Fengchai with a weak body, Zhao Meng supported his loyal soul in the dungeon with his residual leg, and there was the young grassland boy Agula standing with a flower in his hand, witnessing the contest between swords and seeds.
When the wheat fields in Yanmenguan overflowed with the beacon fire, and when the sound of books in the school in Chang'an drowned out the trumpets, Shen Yanzhi understood: The so-called bones of Chang'an were never the bricks and stones of the city wall, but the backbone of every protector of the homeland - the determination of holding a gun with a severed finger, the tenderness of sewing under the lamp, the grain seeds passed on horseback, and the warmth of the word "home and country" written by children.
