My mother died eight years ago.
The earrings that were buried with her appeared on Shen Qing's dressing table.
There is a stick of incense sealed in the earring. The stick of incense was burned in the palace for twenty years. It burned until the emperor's hands shook and his temples turned white. It burned until the marrow of Princess Bai Di withered and died.
She entered Chang'an wearing earrings.
The young master of the Pei family who had given her the marriage handed over half an old handkerchief, which was made of the same material as the earrings.
Hidden in the dry well of Pei Mansion is his mother's final letter.
The queen of Fengyi Palace tore off the sixty-four-year-old paper, and the three white plum trees outside the window were planted for her mother.
She smells fragrance, recognizes people, plays chess, and defends the city.
Someone gave her a brass whistle, which she could blow only once when she was desperate.
Someone gave her an apricot stick and carved one word crookedly
Someone said on the city wall: I will not retreat while you are on the city wall.
My mother endured it for eight years.
She endured it for sixteen years.
Someone is two thousand miles away, waiting for her to finish this battle.
The eagle in Liangzhou does not enter the cage.
Intention: How does a woman who is treated as a chess piece become a chess player step by step.
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There are no fierce fighting conflicts in this chapter. Instead, the story is told through daily small things and every scene detail. The friendship of soldiers, the nostalgia of wanderers, and the implicit and warm companionship are truly and movingly written. It is easy to understand when reading, and it is full of touching aftertaste.
The story begins on a snowy winter day in Liangzhou in the third year of Taiping. The veteran Shen Ji was about to retire. He did not give any important military information. He solemnly asked his subordinate Cen Ji for a personal matter: to help take care of his daughter Shen Qingci in the future. He deliberately used "watch" instead of "protect", and his meaning was very clear: there is no need to risk his life to prevent the girl from disaster, it is enough to accompany her out of Liangzhou, see Chang'an, travel around, and witness her safe life. The author has laid out many down-to-earth details to highlight the weight of this trust: Shen Ji did not wear armor, only an old cotton robe sewn with patches, and his fingers when handing documents were red from the cold; the tear in the retirement document was stuck between the two words "retirement", and the falling snow wet the paper, and the word "retirement" was blurred by the snow; there were rusty double-layered horseshoes under the stone table with missing legs, which were the marks of past battles. Cen Ji has been with Shen Ji for twenty years, and he understands the temperament of veterans who don't like empty words. He didn't say any fancy polite words, and silently put the document into his arms. He could feel the coldness of the wet paper through the fabric, and he accepted this agreement that spanned thousands of miles.
Many years later, Cen Ji settled in Chengdu. In the eyes of outsiders, he was just an ordinary scholar who avoided the war and wrote poems and paintings in his spare time. No one knew that his core purpose in staying in Chengdu was to keep the promise he made back then. During a battlefield battle in the past, Cen Ji cut off his rear to cover his comrades, lost his horse, suffered an old leg injury, and could no longer ride on horseback. So he painted Liangzhou's horses every day, remembering his hometown with his brush, and always remembering to protect Shen Qingci. The double-layered horseshoes that accompanied him in the war were lost among the people and fell into the hands of a blacksmith. After Cen Ji learned the news, he did not publicize it everywhere. He only hid this concern in every horse painting. Under the hoofs of each horse, there is a shadow of the old shoe.
The scene of encountering Liangzhou weeds in an old military camp in the northern suburbs is straightforward and empathetic. Cen Ji brought grass seeds from Liangzhou. The water and soil in Chengdu were so humid that the seeds rotted in the soil for the first two years. It took three years for the weeds to take root and grow in Shu. Compared with the thick and soft native vegetation in Chengdu, the leaves of Liangzhou wild grass are hard and rough, with toughness polished by wind and sand. The sentence "Wherever Liangzhou people go, they take Liangzhou with them" reveals the main idea: weeds are like Liangzhou people wandering in a foreign land. Even if the water and soil change, the tough nature in their bones will never change. Shen Qingci looked at the weeds and saw her own situation clearly: she was sent out of Liangzhou by her father and wandered in Chang'an and Chengdu. After surviving the initial hardship of being acclimatized, she slowly took root in a foreign land.
The passage about drinking at night by the river makes the tacit understanding between the characters particularly warm. Cen Ji, whose old injury relapsed, opened up his heart under the influence of alcohol, talking about the running horses in Liangzhou and the past of fighting side by side on the battlefield, and confided in his regret that he had been wandering for half his life and could never find a stable place in his heart. Shen Qingci sat quietly and listened, never asking about the cruel outcome of life and death on the battlefield, and used silence to understand the pain hidden in the other party's heart. After Cen Ji drank the wine, he mixed charcoal with wine and wrote the word "" on the bottom of the inverted bowl. This word had nothing to do with love between men and women, but simply marked the origin of Qing Ci, which meant that his father far away was still missed by others. Late at night, Qingci quietly put away the wine bowl, intending to wash away the smell of the wine but leaving the word "" written in charcoal. This small gesture solidified the bond between the two generations.
The whole chapter uses things that ordinary people can understand, such as heavy snow, horseshoes, weeds, and wine bowls, to carry emotions. The truth is simple and clear: true friendship is never a verbal promise, but a silent commitment for more than ten years; people who are far away from their hometown, even if they settle in a foreign land, the tenacity carved in their hometown will never dissipate; the care of parents thousands of miles apart will be continued from generation to generation through the gentle companionship of their descendants. There are no gorgeous and difficult-to-understand rhetorics. Every little thing connects the feelings of family and country, the relationship between father and daughter, and the companionship of close friends. The power of simplicity and sincerity is particularly touching.
Teacher Xiao's teachings are really useful! Qingci has a lot more skills!
Poor Atuo, luckily he met Qing Ci.
"Palm Fragrance" uses incense as a blade to unfold a revenge that has been buried for sixteen years. The past events of Princess Bai Di were brought to light with the earrings. Shen Qingci stepped into the turbulent Chang'an, walking around the palaces and halls. Power plots are intertwined with suspense, and grievances between family and country are intertwined. There is both deep-seated hatred and mutual sympathy. The writing is full of atmosphere, the foreshadowing is detailed, and the heroine is sober and refreshing, making it soul-stirring to read.
Qingci is like her father, very organized.
In troubled times, redemption and awakening among women
Chapter 28 of "Palm Fragrance", against the backdrop of the siege crisis easing slightly, turns its attention from the grand war to the fate of the weak at the bottom. The war is not completely over. The city of Chengdu has just taken a breath and the streets are slowly returning to fireworks. However, the suffering caused by the war has not dissipated. The slave trade in the West Market has torn apart the cruel reality under the illusion of peace. This chapter is not only a story of saving people, but also completes the inner awakening of the protagonist Shen Qingci. Reading it makes people feel sour and full of power.
After twenty days of siege, Nanzhao's army suspended its attack, and the city of Chengdu finally gradually regained its vitality, with rice shops reopening and pedestrians returning to the streets. But Shen Qingci knew in his heart that the crisis had not really been resolved. In such a short period of peace, she met Acuo, a little girl from Nanzhao who was trafficked in the West Market. The child, who was seven or eight years old, was so thin that she had only a handful of bones left. She had a hemp rope around her neck and was being bought and sold by others. Her amber eyes were not afraid. It was the suffering that had completely worn away her fear. This look instantly made Shen Qingci see his young self, who had also experienced the death of a close relative, and was so painful that he couldn't even feel fear.
In order to save Acuo, Shen Qingci took out his precious Yuejiao gauze, and Cen Ji took out his family's Liangzhou kiln bowl. After the two valuable items were paid together, the little girl was redeemed from the hands of the Tibetan merchants. Acuo's experience is heartbreaking: his father refused to surrender to Nanzhao and was brutally killed, and his mother had no choice but to sell her for food. At a young age, he had to twist the bowstring day after day, and the thin tendon strings were cut into the flesh of his wrists bit by bit, and his hands were covered with calluses and scars. She was not born a slave. She was originally the daughter of a small tribal leader. The war tore apart her complete family and turned her into a commodity that could be traded at will.
When Aruna spoke to Acuo in Nanzhao dialect, the child who had been suppressed for a long time finally burst into tears, and all the accumulated grievances were released. This cry is catharsis for the suffering people. It was through Aruna's narration that Shen Qingci unexpectedly learned that his father had also quietly bought children displaced by war to give them a way to live. This unknown past incident also gave Shen Qingci a new understanding of his parents and goodwill in troubled times.
The most exciting part of this chapter is Shen Qingci's self-questioning after rescuing Acuo. Looking at Acuo sleeping soundly at night, she began to look back on her life. She was once like a piece of goods, being tossed around to arrange her fate, used as a bargaining chip in transactions, and bound by marriage. She recalled the people and events she had experienced, and finally realized that the female body should not become a battlefield for power, desire, and games in troubled times. It doesn't belong to the Shen family, it doesn't belong to the Pei family, it belongs completely to herself.
The book says that people who have been hurt by suffering can best understand the pain of similar people. Shen Qingci was once a woman who had no control over her destiny, so the moment she saw Acuo, she could sympathize with the girl's despair. This is not charity from a superior person, it is a person who has also been injured reaching out to hold another person in distress. They bridged the barriers of language and tribe, and completed a two-way comfort between women and women.
Acuo was confused and understood Shen Qingci's words, "Follow me from now on, and no one will betray you anymore." The scene of gently touching Shen Qingci's hair was a glimmer of light emerging from the darkness and suffering. War destroys countless people's homes and treats human lives as commodities, but there are always people who are unwilling to obey such cruel rules.
This chapter puts the great times on two women and tells the readers that in troubled times, there are not only heroes but also the sufferings endured by countless ordinary women. The meaning of awakening is not only to save others, but also to recognize oneself and regain control of one's own life. The text in the whole chapter is plain and restrained, without any fierce shouting, but the weight between the lines directly touches people's hearts.
The heroine was drinking with him, but she was still drunk. ;)
Qingci missed her mother.
"Three hundred riders broke through the city, a twenty-year-old case, and the mother came back from the drunkenness on the ceiling. This chapter has war smoke, but also bones and blood."
A woman disguises herself as a man, Hua Mulan!
It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Thanks to those new weapons, we were able to defend Chengdu. Old Zhao was in tears!
"This chapter echoes the chapter of Shu Jinfang. It is the neglected people who hold up a city. The twenty-seven women and the old Zhaotou are both bones."
In troubled times, women are also the city wall
"The Fragrance of Palms" is a story about defending the city. There is no vigorous battlefield duel, nor a gorgeous heroic aura, but it uses the simplest words to describe the courage of ordinary people in troubled times. When the war comes, not only men have to go to the battlefield, but tens of thousands of ordinary women in the city also stand up and shoulder the burden of protecting their homes. After reading this book, I am deeply touched.
In the story, Chengdu has been at peace for twenty years, and the people have long been accustomed to a stable life. When war suddenly approaches, the entire city instantly falls into panic. There was a long queue in front of the rice shop. People were grabbing rice, crying, and people were panic-stricken. The officials in power had their own agendas. Wei Zhuo secretly hoarded food to leave a way out for himself. The number of soldiers in the city seemed to be large, but in fact they had not fought for a long time, their equipment was weak, and there were only a few troops who could actually go into battle. The enemy's 30,000-strong army is pressing down on the territory, and the number of available troops to defend the city is only 8,000. Reinforcements are far away, and they will have to hold on for at least 20 days. The city of Chengdu is in a life-and-death crisis.
When everyone was in a panic, Shen Qingci stood up. She is not a general, but a woman, the daughter of the exiled general Shen Liu. She did not choose to retreat in fear, but ran around looking for a way to defend the city. She first saw clearly the plight of food and grass in the city, and then went to the military camp for on-site inspection to see clearly the true condition of the army: the weapons were decayed, the soldiers were neglected, and even the powerful bed crossbow had been placed in front of the city for twenty years and no one knew how to use it. The reality was devastated, but she did not despair.
What moved me the most was her proposal to organize the women in the city to participate in the defense of the city. In ancient times, people always thought that fighting was only a man's business, and women could only hide at home and wait for their fate. But Shen Qingci had seen the years in Liangzhou and knew that there was no distinction between men and women in times of crisis. She found Aruna in Shujinfang and launched a call to summon women in the city, weavers, peasant women, and even poor prostitutes. When three hundred ordinary women gathered together, they were also afraid and afraid of the tragic end after the city was broken, but in the end they chose not to sit still and wait for death.
They did not have to go into battle to kill the enemy, but they took on the indispensable rear work of defending the city: sewing bags filled with sand and soil, carrying stones, cooking for the soldiers on the city top, and bandaging injured soldiers. Men fought bloody battles on the city wall to defend the enemy, while women did their best to support them below the city wall. Men and women each performed their duties and jointly protected the city. Shen Qingci did not avoid the cruelest reality. She put the scissors in the hands of the women, not to persuade them to die, but to tell everyone that they must maintain their dignity as a human being and maintain the confidence to live no matter what.
In addition, Shen Qingci also offered suggestions to Pei Kuang, using the government's name to stabilize food prices, suppress large households that hoarded food, and stabilize people's hearts; he also personally learned and taught the long-forgotten operating methods of the bed crossbow, and reused abandoned city defense weapons. A woman considers all aspects of food, grass, people's hearts, and armaments.
There is a particularly touching detail in the book: an old woman in the city, whose son was fighting at the top of the city, still went out and handed out hot cakes. The faith in the hearts of ordinary people is simple and powerful. Even if my family is guarding the city gate, I am not afraid. The city wall in troubled times is never just made of bricks and stones, but also built of the flesh, blood and beliefs of thousands of ordinary people.
This story breaks our stereotypes about ancient wars. Heroes are not just generals who charge in armor, these ordinary women in troubled times also shine brightly. They are weak, but not cowardly; they never hold a spear, but they use their needles, threads and hands to hold up half of the sky of the city. When the country is in crisis, no one can stay out of it. It is this power bursting out from ordinary people that makes this article particularly powerful, allowing people to understand that the so-called home and country has always been everyone's home and country.
"Old Zhaotou's words 'when he is here, people will not disperse' directly broke the defense. In the end, she left without saying a word, just like General Shen. The siege can trap Chengdu, but not the bones."
"'You are like her, watch your hands.' This sentence put the mother back on the scene. Xiao Yan was like a broken pillar of an old palace, holding on to a past that no one remembered, and also pushed Shen Qingci a step closer to the light."
"From the products with amber eyes to the hair hanging down on the pillow. Shen Qingci took off the locks and took Acuo off the shelf. The women who had been tied, sold, and used as bargaining chips finally caught each other."
Pei Kuang is very nice, letting her be free to do what she wants to do.
Half a copper seal and a stone carving slowly reveal the past that has been buried for more than 20 years. There is no fierce fighting in this chapter, but it is full of the weight of fate. Shen Qingci finally came into contact with her mother's past, and the emperor, Pei Kuang, and Duan Yunqi each protected her in their own way. In troubled times, love is not a binding, but a letting go, allowing her to pursue her own truth. The restrained affection between people is very moving to read.
The murder case is hidden under the ledger, and the buried past is peeled off layer by layer.
This chapter jumps out of the love between children and turns the story to a suspenseful investigation. Starting from an account book that does not match the accounts, step by step we dig out the secrets sealed with bricks. There are no fierce fighting scenes, but relying on account books, corpses, and wall inscriptions, the conspiracy under the old court is slowly revealed. When reading, you can't help but tense up along with the plot.
The story takes place in the Xindu Palace. As soon as Shen Qingci arrived at the palace, he found that the three sets of accounts did not match up. It was clear that only two thousand bricks were needed to build the garden wall, but six thousand bricks were recorded in the ledger, and the whereabouts of the extra four thousand bricks were unknown out of thin air. Faced with the eunuch in charge's vague evasion and using the dead former steward as a shield, Shen Qingci was not fooled. She seized on the loopholes in the accounts and asked questions step by step. In the past, we saw that Shen Qingci suffered more from the joys and sorrows brought about by her life experience. In this chapter, she fully demonstrated her ability to be calm, careful, and good at reasoning. Faced with the sophistry of the veteran manager, she was not impatient, spoke with evidence, and exposed the other party's lies bit by bit.
With Zhou Yan's help, the truth slowly emerged. The missing four thousand bricks were used to seal the abandoned drainage channel outside the palace. After getting the emperor's permission, everyone pried open the canal. They thought they were just missing building materials, but they found a long-murdered corpse in the underground secret room, that is, the former steward Li Fu, who had been reported dead. Li Fu did not die of illness, but was killed with a hammer. His body was hidden in a drainage channel and blocked with bricks. He lied about his death from illness to cover up a murder. Before dying, the deceased carved a few words on the wall, leaving key clues: Page 7, Bai Di, Queen.
A few short words connect the foreshadowing that has been buried for a long time in the whole book. This page is the seventh page that was torn away from the old book in Pei Kuang's study. The content recorded on this page involves Bai Di, the Queen, and is also closely related to Shen Qingci's mother. Li Fu accidentally glimpsed the secret and ended up being silenced. The murderer tried to use death to destroy the evidence, but the handwriting left on the wall by the deceased still left flaws.
In this chapter, the character Zhou Yan also becomes three-dimensional and full. The commander of the imperial guard, whose nose bore scars from the war, had delivered crucial true and false letters in Liangzhou seventeen years ago. Lies are used to deceive the enemy, and the truth is hidden in one's own arms. His sentence "Some things are fake for people to see, but really should be hidden in your arms" is also the highlight of the whole chapter. For many things in the court, what appears on the surface may not be the truth. Under the bright records, lies, killings and calculations are hidden.
After sorting out the case, Shen Qingci reported all the findings to the emperor in full, pointing suspicion at Zhang Jingzhi. And the emperor finally revealed his thoughts. The reason why he made an exception and allowed Shen Qingci to enter Wenyuan Pavilion was because she had three special identities, which were unique protective colors. Only she was suitable to trace this old matter that had been buried for many years. The emperor handed a copper seal to Shen Qingci, giving her the authority to investigate the case independently without having to report everything. A copper seal represents trust and heavy responsibility.
At the end of the story, Shen Qingci holds two seals in his arms, one is the lock left by his father, which is for protection; the other is the seal given by the emperor, which is for power. On one side is the shelter given by others, and on the other side is the weapon given to oneself. After experiencing the revelation of her life experience, Shen Qingci no longer just passively explores the past. She holds the authority and takes the initiative to step into the layers of fog to touch the history that many people desperately want to bury.
This chapter uses a palace murder case to tell readers that a lot of history will be artificially tampered with and buried, and some people will kill to keep the secret, but the truth will always leave clues. In troubled times, there are not only the love and hatred of children, but also sacrifices in the power game. Shen Qingci's growth is sublimated here again. She no longer only pursues her personal life experience, but also takes on the mission of uncovering the truth of the past.
The wedding news comes in a hurry, why is it so urgent? Pei Kuang was a civil servant, why did he marry him at this time? The image of hard water in Chang'an is good, and the late brewing of tea implies that her life in Chang'an will not be smooth. On my wedding night, I thought about the wind in Liangzhou - the wind is the symbol of Duan Yunqi.
The title "Three Entrances to the Courtyard" is very particular. Three advancements in the Wei Mansion, and three advancements in her life: one advancement in Liangzhou, two advancements in Chang'an, and three advancements in Chengdu. Don't post this part of the lantern, Pei Kuang's hand is "the hand of a civil servant", which contrasts with Duan Yunqi's hand with broken fingers.
The water in Chang'an is deep, don't drown. Worried about Qing Ci.
Mrs. Wei buried this line well. She is not an ordinary old lady. "Wearing two layers in the desert" means that she has been to Liangzhou or knows about Liangzhou. There should be some drama behind this character.
The soul of Liangzhou takes root in Chang'an City
Baimei, a piece of information that haunts her mother.
Hope she finds that seam as she wishes!
Outside the city is the sword of Nanzhao, and inside the city is the smoke of the fourth incense. There was half an inch of incense ash accumulated, and beneath that half inch of ash lay twenty-three years of human life. She squatted in the darkroom as if squatting in front of the grave of truth.
Half an inch of incense ash. It takes about an hour to burn an inch of incense ash, half an inch is half an hour - the person stayed in the darkroom for at least half an hour, not making the medicine in a hurry, but taking it easy. The siege of Nanzhao and the incense distribution in the dark room ran parallel, and foreign invaders and internal ghosts pressed forward at the same time.
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There are no fierce fighting conflicts in this chapter. Instead, the story is told through daily small things and every scene detail. The friendship of soldiers, the nostalgia of wanderers, and the implicit and warm companionship are truly and movingly written. It is easy to understand when reading, and it is full of touching aftertaste. The story begins on a snowy winter day in Liangzhou in the third year of Taiping. The veteran Shen Ji was about to retire. He did not give any important military information. He solemnly asked his subordinate Cen Ji for a personal matter: to help take care of his daughter Shen Qingci in the future. He deliberately used "watch" instead of "protect", and his meaning was very clear: there is no need to risk his life to prevent the girl from disaster, it is enough to accompany her out of Liangzhou, see Chang'an, travel around, and witness her safe life. The author has laid out many down-to-earth details to highlight the weight of this trust: Shen Ji did not wear armor, only an old cotton robe sewn with patches, and his fingers when handing documents were red from the cold; the tear in the retirement document was stuck between the two words "retirement", and the falling snow wet the paper, and the word "retirement" was blurred by the snow; there were rusty double-layered horseshoes under the stone table with missing legs, which were the marks of past battles. Cen Ji has been with Shen Ji for twenty years, and he understands the temperament of veterans who don't like empty words. He didn't say any fancy polite words, and silently put the document into his arms. He could feel the coldness of the wet paper through the fabric, and he accepted this agreement that spanned thousands of miles. Many years later, Cen Ji settled in Chengdu. In the eyes of outsiders, he was just an ordinary scholar who avoided the war and wrote poems and paintings in his spare time. No one knew that his core purpose in staying in Chengdu was to keep the promise he made back then. During a battlefield battle in the past, Cen Ji cut off his rear to cover his comrades, lost his horse, suffered an old leg injury, and could no longer ride on horseback. So he painted Liangzhou's horses every day, remembering his hometown with his brush, and always remembering to protect Shen Qingci. The double-layered horseshoes that accompanied him in the war were lost among the people and fell into the hands of a blacksmith. After Cen Ji learned the news, he did not publicize it everywhere. He only hid this concern in every horse painting. Under the hoofs of each horse, there is a shadow of the old shoe. The scene of encountering Liangzhou weeds in an old military camp in the northern suburbs is straightforward and empathetic. Cen Ji brought grass seeds from Liangzhou. The water and soil in Chengdu were so humid that the seeds rotted in the soil for the first two years. It took three years for the weeds to take root and grow in Shu. Compared with the thick and soft native vegetation in Chengdu, the leaves of Liangzhou wild grass are hard and rough, with toughness polished by wind and sand. The sentence "Wherever Liangzhou people go, they take Liangzhou with them" reveals the main idea: weeds are like Liangzhou people wandering in a foreign land. Even if the water and soil change, the tough nature in their bones will never change. Shen Qingci looked at the weeds and saw her own situation clearly: she was sent out of Liangzhou by her father and wandered in Chang'an and Chengdu. After surviving the initial hardship of being acclimatized, she slowly took root in a foreign land. The passage about drinking at night by the river makes the tacit understanding between the characters particularly warm. Cen Ji, whose old injury relapsed, opened up his heart under the influence of alcohol, talking about the running horses in Liangzhou and the past of fighting side by side on the battlefield, and confided in his regret that he had been wandering for half his life and could never find a stable place in his heart. Shen Qingci sat quietly and listened, never asking about the cruel outcome of life and death on the battlefield, and used silence to understand the pain hidden in the other party's heart. After Cen Ji drank the wine, he mixed charcoal with wine and wrote the word "" on the bottom of the inverted bowl. This word had nothing to do with love between men and women, but simply marked the origin of Qing Ci, which meant that his father far away was still missed by others. Late at night, Qingci quietly put away the wine bowl, intending to wash away the smell of the wine but leaving the word "" written in charcoal. This small gesture solidified the bond between the two generations. The whole chapter uses things that ordinary people can understand, such as heavy snow, horseshoes, weeds, and wine bowls, to carry emotions. The truth is simple and clear: true friendship is never a verbal promise, but a silent commitment for more than ten years; people who are far away from their hometown, even if they settle in a foreign land, the tenacity carved in their hometown will never dissipate; the care of parents thousands of miles apart will be continued from generation to generation through the gentle companionship of their descendants. There are no gorgeous and difficult-to-understand rhetorics. Every little thing connects the feelings of family and country, the relationship between father and daughter, and the companionship of close friends. The power of simplicity and sincerity is particularly touching.
Teacher Xiao's teachings are really useful! Qingci has a lot more skills!
Poor Atuo, luckily he met Qing Ci.
"Palm Fragrance" uses incense as a blade to unfold a revenge that has been buried for sixteen years. The past events of Princess Bai Di were brought to light with the earrings. Shen Qingci stepped into the turbulent Chang'an, walking around the palaces and halls. Power plots are intertwined with suspense, and grievances between family and country are intertwined. There is both deep-seated hatred and mutual sympathy. The writing is full of atmosphere, the foreshadowing is detailed, and the heroine is sober and refreshing, making it soul-stirring to read.
Qingci is like her father, very organized.
In troubled times, redemption and awakening among women Chapter 28 of "Palm Fragrance", against the backdrop of the siege crisis easing slightly, turns its attention from the grand war to the fate of the weak at the bottom. The war is not completely over. The city of Chengdu has just taken a breath and the streets are slowly returning to fireworks. However, the suffering caused by the war has not dissipated. The slave trade in the West Market has torn apart the cruel reality under the illusion of peace. This chapter is not only a story of saving people, but also completes the inner awakening of the protagonist Shen Qingci. Reading it makes people feel sour and full of power. After twenty days of siege, Nanzhao's army suspended its attack, and the city of Chengdu finally gradually regained its vitality, with rice shops reopening and pedestrians returning to the streets. But Shen Qingci knew in his heart that the crisis had not really been resolved. In such a short period of peace, she met Acuo, a little girl from Nanzhao who was trafficked in the West Market. The child, who was seven or eight years old, was so thin that she had only a handful of bones left. She had a hemp rope around her neck and was being bought and sold by others. Her amber eyes were not afraid. It was the suffering that had completely worn away her fear. This look instantly made Shen Qingci see his young self, who had also experienced the death of a close relative, and was so painful that he couldn't even feel fear. In order to save Acuo, Shen Qingci took out his precious Yuejiao gauze, and Cen Ji took out his family's Liangzhou kiln bowl. After the two valuable items were paid together, the little girl was redeemed from the hands of the Tibetan merchants. Acuo's experience is heartbreaking: his father refused to surrender to Nanzhao and was brutally killed, and his mother had no choice but to sell her for food. At a young age, he had to twist the bowstring day after day, and the thin tendon strings were cut into the flesh of his wrists bit by bit, and his hands were covered with calluses and scars. She was not born a slave. She was originally the daughter of a small tribal leader. The war tore apart her complete family and turned her into a commodity that could be traded at will. When Aruna spoke to Acuo in Nanzhao dialect, the child who had been suppressed for a long time finally burst into tears, and all the accumulated grievances were released. This cry is catharsis for the suffering people. It was through Aruna's narration that Shen Qingci unexpectedly learned that his father had also quietly bought children displaced by war to give them a way to live. This unknown past incident also gave Shen Qingci a new understanding of his parents and goodwill in troubled times. The most exciting part of this chapter is Shen Qingci's self-questioning after rescuing Acuo. Looking at Acuo sleeping soundly at night, she began to look back on her life. She was once like a piece of goods, being tossed around to arrange her fate, used as a bargaining chip in transactions, and bound by marriage. She recalled the people and events she had experienced, and finally realized that the female body should not become a battlefield for power, desire, and games in troubled times. It doesn't belong to the Shen family, it doesn't belong to the Pei family, it belongs completely to herself. The book says that people who have been hurt by suffering can best understand the pain of similar people. Shen Qingci was once a woman who had no control over her destiny, so the moment she saw Acuo, she could sympathize with the girl's despair. This is not charity from a superior person, it is a person who has also been injured reaching out to hold another person in distress. They bridged the barriers of language and tribe, and completed a two-way comfort between women and women. Acuo was confused and understood Shen Qingci's words, "Follow me from now on, and no one will betray you anymore." The scene of gently touching Shen Qingci's hair was a glimmer of light emerging from the darkness and suffering. War destroys countless people's homes and treats human lives as commodities, but there are always people who are unwilling to obey such cruel rules. This chapter puts the great times on two women and tells the readers that in troubled times, there are not only heroes but also the sufferings endured by countless ordinary women. The meaning of awakening is not only to save others, but also to recognize oneself and regain control of one's own life. The text in the whole chapter is plain and restrained, without any fierce shouting, but the weight between the lines directly touches people's hearts.
The heroine was drinking with him, but she was still drunk. ;)
Qingci missed her mother.
"Three hundred riders broke through the city, a twenty-year-old case, and the mother came back from the drunkenness on the ceiling. This chapter has war smoke, but also bones and blood."
A woman disguises herself as a man, Hua Mulan!
It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Thanks to those new weapons, we were able to defend Chengdu. Old Zhao was in tears!
"This chapter echoes the chapter of Shu Jinfang. It is the neglected people who hold up a city. The twenty-seven women and the old Zhaotou are both bones."
In troubled times, women are also the city wall "The Fragrance of Palms" is a story about defending the city. There is no vigorous battlefield duel, nor a gorgeous heroic aura, but it uses the simplest words to describe the courage of ordinary people in troubled times. When the war comes, not only men have to go to the battlefield, but tens of thousands of ordinary women in the city also stand up and shoulder the burden of protecting their homes. After reading this book, I am deeply touched. In the story, Chengdu has been at peace for twenty years, and the people have long been accustomed to a stable life. When war suddenly approaches, the entire city instantly falls into panic. There was a long queue in front of the rice shop. People were grabbing rice, crying, and people were panic-stricken. The officials in power had their own agendas. Wei Zhuo secretly hoarded food to leave a way out for himself. The number of soldiers in the city seemed to be large, but in fact they had not fought for a long time, their equipment was weak, and there were only a few troops who could actually go into battle. The enemy's 30,000-strong army is pressing down on the territory, and the number of available troops to defend the city is only 8,000. Reinforcements are far away, and they will have to hold on for at least 20 days. The city of Chengdu is in a life-and-death crisis. When everyone was in a panic, Shen Qingci stood up. She is not a general, but a woman, the daughter of the exiled general Shen Liu. She did not choose to retreat in fear, but ran around looking for a way to defend the city. She first saw clearly the plight of food and grass in the city, and then went to the military camp for on-site inspection to see clearly the true condition of the army: the weapons were decayed, the soldiers were neglected, and even the powerful bed crossbow had been placed in front of the city for twenty years and no one knew how to use it. The reality was devastated, but she did not despair. What moved me the most was her proposal to organize the women in the city to participate in the defense of the city. In ancient times, people always thought that fighting was only a man's business, and women could only hide at home and wait for their fate. But Shen Qingci had seen the years in Liangzhou and knew that there was no distinction between men and women in times of crisis. She found Aruna in Shujinfang and launched a call to summon women in the city, weavers, peasant women, and even poor prostitutes. When three hundred ordinary women gathered together, they were also afraid and afraid of the tragic end after the city was broken, but in the end they chose not to sit still and wait for death. They did not have to go into battle to kill the enemy, but they took on the indispensable rear work of defending the city: sewing bags filled with sand and soil, carrying stones, cooking for the soldiers on the city top, and bandaging injured soldiers. Men fought bloody battles on the city wall to defend the enemy, while women did their best to support them below the city wall. Men and women each performed their duties and jointly protected the city. Shen Qingci did not avoid the cruelest reality. She put the scissors in the hands of the women, not to persuade them to die, but to tell everyone that they must maintain their dignity as a human being and maintain the confidence to live no matter what. In addition, Shen Qingci also offered suggestions to Pei Kuang, using the government's name to stabilize food prices, suppress large households that hoarded food, and stabilize people's hearts; he also personally learned and taught the long-forgotten operating methods of the bed crossbow, and reused abandoned city defense weapons. A woman considers all aspects of food, grass, people's hearts, and armaments. There is a particularly touching detail in the book: an old woman in the city, whose son was fighting at the top of the city, still went out and handed out hot cakes. The faith in the hearts of ordinary people is simple and powerful. Even if my family is guarding the city gate, I am not afraid. The city wall in troubled times is never just made of bricks and stones, but also built of the flesh, blood and beliefs of thousands of ordinary people. This story breaks our stereotypes about ancient wars. Heroes are not just generals who charge in armor, these ordinary women in troubled times also shine brightly. They are weak, but not cowardly; they never hold a spear, but they use their needles, threads and hands to hold up half of the sky of the city. When the country is in crisis, no one can stay out of it. It is this power bursting out from ordinary people that makes this article particularly powerful, allowing people to understand that the so-called home and country has always been everyone's home and country.
"Old Zhaotou's words 'when he is here, people will not disperse' directly broke the defense. In the end, she left without saying a word, just like General Shen. The siege can trap Chengdu, but not the bones."
"'You are like her, watch your hands.' This sentence put the mother back on the scene. Xiao Yan was like a broken pillar of an old palace, holding on to a past that no one remembered, and also pushed Shen Qingci a step closer to the light."
"From the products with amber eyes to the hair hanging down on the pillow. Shen Qingci took off the locks and took Acuo off the shelf. The women who had been tied, sold, and used as bargaining chips finally caught each other."
Pei Kuang is very nice, letting her be free to do what she wants to do.
Half a copper seal and a stone carving slowly reveal the past that has been buried for more than 20 years. There is no fierce fighting in this chapter, but it is full of the weight of fate. Shen Qingci finally came into contact with her mother's past, and the emperor, Pei Kuang, and Duan Yunqi each protected her in their own way. In troubled times, love is not a binding, but a letting go, allowing her to pursue her own truth. The restrained affection between people is very moving to read.
The murder case is hidden under the ledger, and the buried past is peeled off layer by layer. This chapter jumps out of the love between children and turns the story to a suspenseful investigation. Starting from an account book that does not match the accounts, step by step we dig out the secrets sealed with bricks. There are no fierce fighting scenes, but relying on account books, corpses, and wall inscriptions, the conspiracy under the old court is slowly revealed. When reading, you can't help but tense up along with the plot. The story takes place in the Xindu Palace. As soon as Shen Qingci arrived at the palace, he found that the three sets of accounts did not match up. It was clear that only two thousand bricks were needed to build the garden wall, but six thousand bricks were recorded in the ledger, and the whereabouts of the extra four thousand bricks were unknown out of thin air. Faced with the eunuch in charge's vague evasion and using the dead former steward as a shield, Shen Qingci was not fooled. She seized on the loopholes in the accounts and asked questions step by step. In the past, we saw that Shen Qingci suffered more from the joys and sorrows brought about by her life experience. In this chapter, she fully demonstrated her ability to be calm, careful, and good at reasoning. Faced with the sophistry of the veteran manager, she was not impatient, spoke with evidence, and exposed the other party's lies bit by bit. With Zhou Yan's help, the truth slowly emerged. The missing four thousand bricks were used to seal the abandoned drainage channel outside the palace. After getting the emperor's permission, everyone pried open the canal. They thought they were just missing building materials, but they found a long-murdered corpse in the underground secret room, that is, the former steward Li Fu, who had been reported dead. Li Fu did not die of illness, but was killed with a hammer. His body was hidden in a drainage channel and blocked with bricks. He lied about his death from illness to cover up a murder. Before dying, the deceased carved a few words on the wall, leaving key clues: Page 7, Bai Di, Queen. A few short words connect the foreshadowing that has been buried for a long time in the whole book. This page is the seventh page that was torn away from the old book in Pei Kuang's study. The content recorded on this page involves Bai Di, the Queen, and is also closely related to Shen Qingci's mother. Li Fu accidentally glimpsed the secret and ended up being silenced. The murderer tried to use death to destroy the evidence, but the handwriting left on the wall by the deceased still left flaws. In this chapter, the character Zhou Yan also becomes three-dimensional and full. The commander of the imperial guard, whose nose bore scars from the war, had delivered crucial true and false letters in Liangzhou seventeen years ago. Lies are used to deceive the enemy, and the truth is hidden in one's own arms. His sentence "Some things are fake for people to see, but really should be hidden in your arms" is also the highlight of the whole chapter. For many things in the court, what appears on the surface may not be the truth. Under the bright records, lies, killings and calculations are hidden. After sorting out the case, Shen Qingci reported all the findings to the emperor in full, pointing suspicion at Zhang Jingzhi. And the emperor finally revealed his thoughts. The reason why he made an exception and allowed Shen Qingci to enter Wenyuan Pavilion was because she had three special identities, which were unique protective colors. Only she was suitable to trace this old matter that had been buried for many years. The emperor handed a copper seal to Shen Qingci, giving her the authority to investigate the case independently without having to report everything. A copper seal represents trust and heavy responsibility. At the end of the story, Shen Qingci holds two seals in his arms, one is the lock left by his father, which is for protection; the other is the seal given by the emperor, which is for power. On one side is the shelter given by others, and on the other side is the weapon given to oneself. After experiencing the revelation of her life experience, Shen Qingci no longer just passively explores the past. She holds the authority and takes the initiative to step into the layers of fog to touch the history that many people desperately want to bury. This chapter uses a palace murder case to tell readers that a lot of history will be artificially tampered with and buried, and some people will kill to keep the secret, but the truth will always leave clues. In troubled times, there are not only the love and hatred of children, but also sacrifices in the power game. Shen Qingci's growth is sublimated here again. She no longer only pursues her personal life experience, but also takes on the mission of uncovering the truth of the past.
The wedding news comes in a hurry, why is it so urgent? Pei Kuang was a civil servant, why did he marry him at this time? The image of hard water in Chang'an is good, and the late brewing of tea implies that her life in Chang'an will not be smooth. On my wedding night, I thought about the wind in Liangzhou - the wind is the symbol of Duan Yunqi.
The title "Three Entrances to the Courtyard" is very particular. Three advancements in the Wei Mansion, and three advancements in her life: one advancement in Liangzhou, two advancements in Chang'an, and three advancements in Chengdu. Don't post this part of the lantern, Pei Kuang's hand is "the hand of a civil servant", which contrasts with Duan Yunqi's hand with broken fingers.
The water in Chang'an is deep, don't drown. Worried about Qing Ci.
Mrs. Wei buried this line well. She is not an ordinary old lady. "Wearing two layers in the desert" means that she has been to Liangzhou or knows about Liangzhou. There should be some drama behind this character.
The soul of Liangzhou takes root in Chang'an City
Baimei, a piece of information that haunts her mother.
Hope she finds that seam as she wishes!
Outside the city is the sword of Nanzhao, and inside the city is the smoke of the fourth incense. There was half an inch of incense ash accumulated, and beneath that half inch of ash lay twenty-three years of human life. She squatted in the darkroom as if squatting in front of the grave of truth.
Half an inch of incense ash. It takes about an hour to burn an inch of incense ash, half an inch is half an hour - the person stayed in the darkroom for at least half an hour, not making the medicine in a hurry, but taking it easy. The siege of Nanzhao and the incense distribution in the dark room ran parallel, and foreign invaders and internal ghosts pressed forward at the same time.
The battlefield for women is here.