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This is a story that happened on the North China Plain. It is something I have personally experienced, heard, and seen. It is my youth and your youth. This is a profound memoir intertwined with the sweetness of innocent first love, identity struggle, and youthful loss. The lines are full of nostalgia for lost youth, unforgettable first love, and deep sighs about life choices and destiny.

According to rumors in the world, there are two magic weapons, one is the Qiankun Fan, and the other is the Qingzhi Sword. Among them, the Qiankun Fan is modified from the feather fan held by Zhuge Wuhou during the Three Kingdoms period. The fan bones are forged from meteorite iron, and the fan surface is woven from the silkworm silk of the Western Regions. One side is embroidered with mountains and rivers, and the other is embroidered with star charts. It is one foot and three inches long and weighs three kilograms, three liang and three qian, and contains the Bagua array, Wuhou's top formation. The Qingzhi Sword is the sword worn by Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of the Wei Dynasty. This sword cuts iron like mud and blows hair. Later, he was taken away by Zhao Yun in the battle of Changbanpo. From then on, he accompanied Zhao Yun in all directions and slaughtered battlefields. It was held by military strategists of all generations. Later, during the Five Dynasties period, he was killed by Ran Min and disappeared from the world. It is said that this sword drank too much blood and was cursed. Those who held it in subsequent generations did not die well. The story begins with the birth of these two artifacts

Sunlight filtered through the window lattice, and square light and shadow covered the floor. A majestic fat man on the bed stared at the chessboard in front of him with his eyebrows slightly furrowed. Opposite the fat man, a young man in his twenties sat on his knees, staring at the flaws of Heizi Dalong with a low eyebrow. The corner of his eye glanced at the middle-aged man Zhi Baiqi's fingers from time to time. The outcome can be determined by the falling of the child. At this moment, there was a burst of chaotic footsteps outside the door. Five noble figures entered the room, lifted their robes and knelt down. He said long live your majesty. The middle-aged fat man did not make any move and just said: What's going on? An old man headed by said [Urgent news from the north, General Laifu of the Northern Song Dynasty led an army of 150,000 to the south. Soon the troops will besiege Wuyang City. ] It was Qin Yi, the Taiwei of the Southern Dynasty. Emperor Wu Chen Cheng put down his chess pieces and asked: [How does your Taiwei Mansion plan to respond?] Qin Yi said: [The 80,000 troops stationed in Yinshan can be adjusted to camp outside Yangcheng Pass, ten miles away from Wuyang City, forming an angle with Wuyang City, ensuring that the northern border is safe. It's just that a general needs to be sent to lead the northern border defense, and His Majesty needs to make the decision himself. Emperor Wu said: [If you have any candidates in mind, please submit them] Cheng Yong, Minister of the Ministry of War, came out and handed over the brochure and said: [This is the candidate proposed by the ministers, please make your decision] Emperor Wu took the folded book from the servant's hand and kept it on the chessboard without looking at it. He pointed at the chess player Chen Mo who was standing aside and said: [What do you think of this young man?] ,,,,,,,

During the Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty was slipping into the abyss of eternal destruction under the double stranglehold of successive natural disasters (thousands of miles of drought, rampant plague, and the shocking explosion of Wang Gong Factory) and endless man-made disasters (party strife, eunuchs in government, and the extortion of wages). This book uses the perspective of Chen Mo, the captain of Lu Xiangsheng's personal army - a book boy who survived the floods in the south of the Yangtze River and was sold into slavery - to tear apart the picture of this apocalyptic purgatory. Chen Mo witnessed the tragedy and tearing of Lu Xiangsheng, the "White-robed King of Hell": when suppressing the bandits, he hung his head in the dry forest with thunderous means, but he was loyal to the court until death as if he were waiting for his first love; he held the iron sword that symbolized the backbone of the Ming Dynasty, but it could not stop the embezzlement and conspiracy of the eunuch Gao Qiqian behind him and the cold imperial decree of Emperor Chongzhen's suspicion. He carried a "Record of Experiences" written in neat regular script and graffitied with blood and tears. It recorded the numbness of "the price of meat at the market for five cents" and also engraved the glimmer of the old farmer crying and burying the unknown soldier. From the Jiangnan Study Room to the bloody battle in Yunyang, from blocking arrows as a savior to flogging military tents, the friendship between Chen Mo and Lu Xiangsheng was forged in the furnace of troubled times into a father-son bond of life and death. He personally experienced the sadness of the Tianxiong army singing war hymns even as the Tianxiong army starved to death all over the land. He also used his broken arm to protect Lu Xiangsheng's final dignity at the Shura Field in Julujiazhuang, "with four arrows and three knives in his body and he could not fall down despite the flag." When the white robe that symbolized loyalty was completely dyed brown by blood, and when the court's pursuit of titles turned into an absurd drama, Chen Mo transformed into the "Ember of Heavenly Heroes" and burned the Qing army's granary with guerrilla fire. In the abyss of twisted human nature (hungry people changed their sons, frontier troops rebelled for food, officials and gentry drank human blood soup with laughter), he stubbornly guarded the Chinese spirit of "holding a sword like a pen, and a righteous heart is straight".

This is everyone's youth, a youth that treats vague good feelings as love, is stimulated by ideas, has the loyalty to shoulder tasks together, has the choice of a beautiful woman, has impulse, passion, loss, and sentimental youth.