In the tenth year of Xianchun, Lin'an City. A little man found a corpse in a dry well in Huntang Lane.
Zhao Guitian just wanted to finish examining the corpse and go home to make medicine for his blind old woman. But the bitter almond smell he detected led to the Jia family servants, the secret letter from Xiangfan, and the four words on the note: "Three thousand to the north."
Three thousand miles to the north is Dadu. It is the iron hoof of the Mongols.
The storyteller Liu Niang compiled the truth into a secret language and sung it in the tiles; the military officer Zhang Zhenniang discovered that the low-quality gunpowder under Xiangfan City came from the workshops of Jia's relatives; the commander of the Forbidden Army Tang Yu held military power, but did not know who to fight for.
On Ge Ling, Jia Sidao was playing with his cricket basin and said to the man in black, "Just keep an eye on him."
On the day when the Yuan army crossed the river, the fire in Lin'an City glowed red for half the sky.
Zhao Guitian originally thought that he could survive as long as he kept his mouth shut. But when a weak concubine knelt before him holding two young children, begging him to take them out of the city——
He finally understood: some corpses are not finished until they are examined. There are some roads that you have to walk even if you don't want to.
He is not a general or a prime minister, he is just a coward who wants to go home. But when this country needed someone to remember, he chose to stand on the cliff.
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