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The Night Novel
Title: The Night / 将夜 / 书评」《将夜》/ Ever Night
Author: Tricky, 猫腻,
Genre: Fantasy
Status: Completed
Introduction:
The author of the novel “Ever Night” is tricky. A history of the rise of the grassroots that is so evocative, so funny, and so cute, a cheerful young man with material requirements rather than excess. The novel is based on the world of comprehension, but it is better than comprehension. It tells the history of man conquering the sky and flowers blooming in the other side, which is thought-provoking.
The novel “Jiang Ye” is adapted from the TV series “Jiang Ye”, starring Chen Feiyu and Song Yiren, with Zheng Shaoqiu and Hu Jun as special stars.
Volume 1 The Empire in the Morning:
Chapter 1 When there is rain in Weicheng, the boy has a servant
In the spring of the thirteenth year of Apocalypse in the Tang Empire, it rained in Weicheng.
In order to prevent the invasion of barbarians on the grassland, this military border city located at the northwest end of the vast territory of the empire, the four-way earthen city wall was built extremely thick, which looked like a solid earthen enclosure.
In the dry season, the floating soil on the earth wall will float around when it is blown by the northwest wind knife, and then fall on the simple barracks and the soldiers. The whole world will turn into a yellowish yellow. Every now and then a sandstorm would shake up.
In the midst of the spring drought, this rain came at just the right time, and was warmly welcomed by the soldiers. From last night to this time, the pattering raindrops washed away the dust on the roof, and seemed to brighten people’s eyes a lot.
At least Ma Shixiang’s eyes are bright right now.
As the highest military officer in Weicheng, his attitude at this time was very humble. Although he was a little dissatisfied with the yellow mud footprints on the expensive blanket, he managed to conceal that dissatisfaction into just the right amount of consternation.
He bowed respectfully to the old man in a dirty robe next to him, and asked in a low voice: “Dear old man, I don’t know if the nobleman in the tent has any other needs. If the nobleman insists on leaving tomorrow , then I can assign a centurion to accompany me at any time, and I will immediately make a record and send it to the military headquarters.”
The old man smiled gently, pointed to the figures in the tent, and shook his head to express that he had no opinion. At this moment, a cold and proud female voice came from the tent: “No need, just do your own errands.”
Early this morning, after the opponent’s convoy rushed into Weicheng in the rain, it didn’t take long for Ma Shixiang to guess the identity of the nobleman in the convoy, so he didn’t have any objections to the opponent’s arrogance and indifference, and dared not have any opinions.
The people in the tent were silent for a moment, and then suddenly said: “From Weicheng to the capital, the road around Minshan is difficult. It seems that this rain will last for a while, and some mountain roads may be washed away… You are from the army. Give me a guide.”
Ma Shixiang was stunned, thinking of some nasty guy, after a moment of silence, he lowered his head and responded: “There are ready candidates.”
……
Several lieutenants outside the barracks looked at each other, with different expressions on their faces, including regret, reluctance, rejoicing, and shock, but obviously none of them thought that Ma Shixiang would choose to let that person be the guide of the nobleman.
“General, are you really going to let him go just like that?” a school lieutenant said in surprise.
Weicheng is not big, and the total number of officers and soldiers does not exceed 300. A military camp far away from a prosperous place is sometimes more like a den of bandits. The so-called generals are just the lowest-ranking generals. However, Ma Shixiang was extremely strict in governing the army. In other words, the leader of the Weicheng bandit gang liked to be called a general, so even in daily conversations, his subordinates did not dare to forget to add the word general.
Ma Shixiang wiped the rainwater off his face, looked at the yellow-brown water around the barracks, and sighed with emotion: “I can’t keep him in this shitty place, the receipt of the recommendation letter has been down for almost half a year, A great future is waiting for that kid, anyway, he is going to the capital city for his first exam at the academy, so he happens to drop in with that nobleman’s team, so it would be nice to give that nobleman a favor.”
“I don’t think that nobleman will appreciate it…” the captain replied angrily.
The door of the barracks behind everyone was pushed open, and a handsome maid came out, looked at Ma Shixiang and the captains and said coldly, “Take me to see that guide.”
After all, she is the nobleman’s personal maid, and she does not hide her arrogance when facing the court generals.
The prime minister’s concierge, the nobleman’s close servant, and the prince’s guest, these are extremely troublesome roles in the officialdom, and they cause people’s resentment when they are close, and they are troublesome when they are far away. Ma Shixiang really didn’t want to deal with this kind of person, so he casually said a few gossips, then waved and summoned a captain, and told him to take this noble maidservant to find him.
After the rain stopped for a while, Weicheng looked very fresh after the light rain. Three or two willows beside the road were blooming with spring green, but although the scenery was beautiful, the city was too small. After walking a few steps, the captain led the maid to the place. The destination was a simple but lively barracks.
Hearing the noise and shouts and orders coming from the door, the servant girl frowned slightly, wondering if someone would dare to drink in the barracks in broad daylight? The door curtain was blown by the wind, and the voice inside was suddenly clear. It was indeed a punch, but it was not a serious wine fist. Listening to the content of the order, a trace of blushing and anger flashed on the maidservant’s delicate face, and she secretly clenched her sleeves. in the fist.
“Let’s strike a lewd punch! Who is lewd, you are lewd! Who is lewd, I am lewd! Who is lewd, he is lewd!…”
The filthy voices of orders were repeated back and forth, and it took a very long time to decide the winner. The maidservant, whose expression was getting more and more angry and ugly, raised the corner of the curtain, her eyes were extremely unfriendly, and she looked in. Then he saw a young man across the square table.
The boy was about fifteen or sixteen years old, and he was wearing a standard cotton shirt that is common in the military. The front of the cotton shirt was full of oil stains, and his black hair was not known to be natural or curled because it hadn’t been washed for several years. It was also a little greasy, but the face was washed very clean, so that the eyebrows and eyes were very clear, and the few freckles on the cheeks were also very clear.
“Who is lewd, you are lewd!”
Contrary to the filthy content of punching, the young man’s expression at this time was extremely focused and serious, not only did he not have the slightest obscenity, but even his brows and eyes showed a bit of holy and noble meaning, his right hand kept gesticulating with scissors and rocks in front of him Bu, his fists were like the wind, and his sword was full of killing intent, as if the victory or loss of this punch was more important than his own life.
A few blowflies with strong vitality that survived the harsh environment in the northwest were trying to land on the front of the young man’s oil-stained cotton shirt, but they were always driven away by his fist and saber intent.
“I won!”
The long punch that seemed to squeeze all the air out of the lungs of the two people at the table finally came to an end. The black-haired boy vigorously swung his right arm, announcing his victory, and smiled extremely happily, revealing a lovely dimple on his left cheek.
The boy’s opponent refused to admit defeat, insisting that he changed his fist when calling someone lewd at the end, so the room suddenly fell into a fierce quarrel. At this time, I don’t know if I yelled: “According to the old rules, listen to Sangsang!”
Everyone turned their eyes to the corner of the room, where an eleven or twelve-year-old girl was moving buckets. She was short and thin, with a dark complexion and ordinary eyes. The maid’s uniform that her master had stolen from somewhere was obviously a bit too much. It is loose, and the hem keeps dragging on the ground. It is obviously very difficult to carry a bucket that may be heavier than yourself.
The little maid named Sangsang put down the bucket and turned around, the soldiers looked at her nervously, like high rollers in a casino waiting for the dealer to draw out the final size, and it is obvious that this scene no longer appears for the first time.
The little maid frowned and glanced at the boy, then looked at the soldier who was still aggrieved on the other side of the table, and said seriously: “In the twenty-third round, you punched him, but you are talking about him Slutty, so by then you’ve already lost.”
There was a roar of laughter in the room, and everyone dispersed. The soldier gave the money cursingly, and the young man took the money with a happy smile, wiped the grease stains on his chest with his hands, and then patted him on the shoulder. Express my sincere condolences.
“Think about it, the whole Weicheng… no, in this whole world, who can beat me, Ning Que?”
The servant girl’s face was ugly, so the captain who had been standing by and secretly observing her face was also ugly. He gripped the door curtain with his hands, took a deep breath, and was about to cough twice, but was stopped by the two stern eyes of the servant girl.
To prevent the captain from disturbing the other party, the maid followed the boy and the maid from a distance and left the barracks, silently observing and sizing up the whole way. The captain didn’t know what she wanted to do, so he had to attribute it to the usually cautious and weird habits of nobles and close people.
Along the way, the boy named Ning Que didn’t show anything special. He bought some food and greeted the fat lady in the tavern by the street. The uglier one was: the thin maid was struggling to drag the bucket behind him, but the boy didn’t show any intention of helping.
The empire is a country with strict strata, but the folk customs are simple. Even in the flashy and gloomy place of the capital Chang’an, even the most indifferent nobleman would not be able to look at an eleven or twelve-year-old thin girl struggling so hard without being moved.
“The army allows soldiers to raise maidservants?” The handsome maidservant suppressed the anger in her heart and asked the school lieutenant beside her.
The captain scratched his head and replied: “A few years ago, there was a severe drought in Hebei Road, and countless refugees flocked to the south and border counties. There were dead people everywhere on the roadside. I heard that Sang Sang was picked up from the pile of dead bodies by Ning Que at that time. , Ning Que is also an orphan, and the two of them have been dependent on each other ever since.”
“Later when he signed up to join the army, the only condition was that he would bring this little girl into Weicheng.” He glanced at the maidservant and explained carefully: “We all know that this kind of thing is not allowed to happen in the army, but their situation is a bit special. There’s no way to drive a little girl into a corner, so everyone pretends…that they didn’t see it.”
Hearing this explanation, the servant girl’s face became a little better, but when she saw Ning Que dangling with half a roast chicken, and then saw the little maid a few meters behind him struggling to drag the bucket, the red black With thin cheeks, his mood became bad again, and he said coldly: “This is not dependent on each other, he clearly wants that girl’s life.”
Weicheng is indeed very small, and not long after, the four of them arrived outside a certain house in the south direction. There was a small stone lawn outside the house, surrounded by a simple fence. The maid and the school captain stood outside the fence and looked in.
The little maid moved the bucket half as tall as her body to the side of the water tank with difficulty, then stood on the bench next to the tank, poured water into the tank with all her strength, and then she started washing rice and vegetables. Taking advantage of the time when the rice was steaming, she took a rag and began to wipe the tables, chairs, doors and windows. After a while, water mist rose up, covering her thin body in it.
Although it rained a lot last night, the rain was not strong enough. The loess accumulated on the doors and windows was not washed away, but turned into ugly muddy water marks. These muddy water marks were quickly removed under the rag of the little maid. The small courtyard suddenly became clean and bright.
It is obvious that she does these housework every day, and she looks very skilled and fast. The little black maid who is still a child is as busy as an ant, running around like a servant girl, sweating profusely with her face flushed from exhaustion, looking a little funny , and some people feel sympathetic…
The guy named Ning Que obviously lacked these two emotions. He was lying quietly or comfortably on a bamboo recliner, flipping through some old books in his left hand, and holding a hard branch in his right hand. He kept paddling on the wet mud floor, and occasionally when he was lost in thought, he threw the branch in his hand casually, and stretched his palm up into the air. After a while, a pot of warm tea was placed on his palm.
The soldiers in Weicheng have long been accustomed to the daily life in this small courtyard, so they don’t find it strange. The eyes of the nobles and maids standing outside the fence are getting colder, especially when they see that little maid is busy cooking and cleaning. In the middle of the show, she didn’t dare to forget to pay attention to the requirements of the young soldiers, and when she was ready to make tea, pour water, beat her back and pinch her legs, the frost on her face became heavier as if it was about to condense.
