"Madam! The Jie people have broken through the city gate! Rumor has it that His Majesty the Empress Dowager was captured on the way south! Rong Kang led the Jie soldiers to come here, and it is probably not good for the wife! If the wife doesn't leave, it will be too late!"

Everyone knows that the Jie army is tyrannical. Every time they break through a city in the Southern Dynasty, they will burn, kill, rape and loot, and do everything they do. Today's Jie emperor is even more inhumane. It is said that he once cooked female prisoners of the Southern Dynasty with venison in the same pot, and ordered diners to distinguish the taste and enjoy.

The Taoist nuns were already panicked, and when they heard this, they looked disgusted and cried bitterly. A few timid people were almost unable to stand and were trembling.

Gao Luoshen closed his eyes.

A candlelight swayed, casting her lonely and thin figure in Taoist clothes onto the wall, adding to the desolation.

***

The iron hooves of the foreign race took turns trampling on the old land of the two capitals.

Under the anticipation of the elders in the north, the southerners made northern expeditions again and again, but the ending was either back in vain or failed halfway, and the result was a failure.

When the dream of regaining the country and the mountains of our hometown was completely shattered, the southerners could do was to settle down in the Yangtze River. In the last sense of superiority of claiming to be the orthodox Chinese, they only looked at the two capitals, borrowing the ritual system of clothing and savoring the remaining glory of the past.

However, today, even this is impossible.

I once thought that the impregnable natural barrier could not stop the Jie people from invading the south.

Rong Kang was once a local vassal state in Badong. After losing his wife a few years ago, he relied on his strong soldiers and horses because of his strong military power. The court relied on him so much that he proposed to her.

With the noble family of Gao, how could he marry a military general like Fang Bo like Rongkang?

What's more, Gao Luoshen has entered the Taoist sect since ten years ago and vowed not to marry again in this life.

Her cousin, Empress Dowager Gao, knew that she owed her an old thing ten years ago, and she did not dare to force her.

Rong Kang failed to propose, and he felt that he had lost face. From then on, he held grudges. The next year, he started a rebellion and was quelled. After being quelled, he fled to the north to join the Jie people and was valued.

This time, the Jie people launched a large-scale invasion of the south, and Rong Kang was the vanguard, leading the Jie soldiers to the south to break through the city, showing off their power and doing all kinds of evil.

***

"I won't leave. You guys go."

Gao Luoshen slowly opened his eyes and said again.

Her expression was calm.

"Madam, take care of yourself..."

The Taoist nuns knelt down to her, stood up, supported each other, and turned around and left in a hurry while crying.

In the huge Ziyun Temple, Gao Luoshen was soon left.

Gao Luoshen stepped out of the back door of the Taoist temple, walked alone to the riverside, stood on a towering rock, and looked at the vast river surface in front of him that divided the north and south of Jiuzhou.

The silver moon hangs in the sky, the river breeze is flying, and her clothes are dancing wildly, as if riding on the wind.

In this late spring night, above the river bank, the spring tides in the distance are like a silver line, the moon comes.

She was very familiar with the tide of the spring river under the moon outside Taicheng.

In countless nights when they woke up from nightmares, when they could no longer fall asleep, the only thing that accompanied her in their ears was the sound of the river tide every night, night after night, year after month.

However, tonight, the sound of the river tide sounded like the sound of a drum that was shaking from the south by the Jie rider.

Gao Luoshen seemed to have heard the terrified crying and screams of Taoist nuns who had no time to escape in the distance and the crazy laughter and roar of Jie soldiers.

Everything is over.

The romanticism of the Southern Dynasty, the glory of the family, and everything related to her will end tonight.

The Jie soldiers behind him were getting closer and closer, and the sound came with the wind, which was clearly visible.

Gao Luoshen did not look back.

The river water gushed with her gradually floating skirt, like a scattered flower, her thin body as thin as bamboo, pushed by the waves and swayed in the river breeze.

She raised her eyes and stared at the tide of the river that was rushing towards her, step by step, walking forward towards the middle of the river.

***

Since Gao Luoshen had memories, his father often brought her to the stone city by the river.

Between the towering green mountains, there are towering city walls. The stone city is located in the west of the imperial city and on the banks of the Yangtze River. It is garrisoned here for many years to protect the capital.

My father always held her little hand, looking at the north separated by a river, and watching for a long time.

The Northern Expedition to recover lost territory and restore the Han family's homeland was my father's greatest long-cherished wish in his life.
Chapter completed!