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The road paved with bluestone passed through an elegant courtyard, and the summer sun cast golden mottled light from between the trees, while a warm and gentle breeze carried faint voices and footsteps. The refreshing summer felt like the most comforting time from a cherished memory. As Yu Hezhong followed the woman in white toward the inner courtyard, such a feeling arose within him.

Lost youth, the former Bianliang, the possibilities in life that were gradually solidifying… As these thoughts flashed through his mind, he was also introducing the identities of his companions to Shishi at her inquiry: Yan Daolun, a colleague who had taken care of him over the years, had come all the way to Chengdu to visit old friends. Yan Daolun was worried that he would make a wasted trip, so they had come together.

Yan Daolun politely introduced himself, following the conversation. Shishi listened with a tilt of her head, gave a gentle smile, exchanged a few customary greetings, and the three of them turned into the adjacent courtyard. This was a small courtyard with rooms on three sides, facing the Mohe Pond. There were rockeries, trees, pavilions, and tables and chairs. It seemed that each room was inhabited, and guards were on duty in inconspicuous corners.

"...This place was originally the villa of the rice merchant He Lang. After the Huaxia Army entered the city, the higher-ups looked for a place to hold meetings and entertain guests in the future. He Lang planned to donate this villa, but land around the Mohe Pond is worth its weight in gold, so we dared not accept the donation. Later, we bought the courtyard at 80% of the market price, 32,000 strings of cash, which was a bit of a bargain. I live in these two rooms on the left, but today the weather is fine, let's have tea outside..."

Shishi introduced the origin of the courtyard with a smile. Although she was no longer young, her appearance had not aged. On the contrary, her smile had become more pleasant with the increase of experience. Yu Hezhong looked at her smile and subconsciously replied, "Li Heng has always been good at business, I guess he is not short of money."

Shishi shook her head with a smile: "Actually, we are very short of money. We only paid about 10,000 strings of cash out of the 32,000 strings. The rest was converted into shares in the glass workshop. It was a hodgepodge to clear the payment."

"The Huaxia Army's glass workshop will be valuable in the future." Yan Daolun interjected, "The Huaxia Army is generous. He Lang has made a big profit."

The corners of Shishi's mouth curled into crescents: "Mr. Ning never takes all the profits for himself in business. Everyone is willing to participate so that the business can be bigger. Mr. Yan, please sit down with Hezhong first. I'll call someone to pour tea."

They stopped at a wooden table by the lake, shaded by trees. Yan Daolun quickly waved his hand when Shishi said this: "No, no, I just happened to be passing by today, so I came with Brother Yu. Since the two of you, brother and sister, have been reunited after a long separation, I still have things to deal with. I don't want to trouble Miss Shishi... Actually, I have long heard of Miss Shishi's reputation, and I am honored to see you today. I'm honored... My wish has been fulfilled, haha..."

He kept his word. He said goodbye and was about to leave, but Shishi raised her hand: "No, no, since Mr. Yan is a friend of Brother Yu, you must have a cup of tea before you leave today, otherwise outsiders will say that I, as a younger sister, don't know etiquette..."

She held up her left hand, smiling kindly and gently. When Yan Daolun wanted to refuse again, she tilted her head and smiled: "...I insist." This smile revealed a hint of seriousness amidst the kindness. Yan Daolun was slightly stunned, and finally smiled and pointed at the tables and chairs: "Then... I'll have a cup? Just one cup... I really don't want to trouble Miss Shishi..."

"It's okay, it's okay, sit down." Yu Hezhong, feeling very satisfied, also spoke to persuade him to stay. Shishi went to greet the female soldiers in the courtyard to prepare tea and snacks. Yan Daolun looked around and said to Yu Hezhong: "I didn't expect that with Miss Shishi's current status, she only used two rooms in this courtyard."

Yu Hezhong frowned and nodded: "Yes, when she was in Fanlou, she had a whole courtyard. Now... maybe the Huaxia Army is like this..."

They chatted casually for a few sentences, but naturally could not confirm anything. Later, Yan Daolun admired the lake view and diverted the conversation to the scenery here. When Shishi returned, the two also praised the scenery nearby. After that, the female soldiers brought tea and snacks. Shishi asked Yan Daolun: "Does Mr. Yan have any important business in Chengdu? Will it be delayed? If there is something important, I can ask Xiaoling to take you there. She is familiar with this place."

Yan Daolun smiled: "No, no, it's just ordinary matters." He didn't say too much, and after that, it was just ordinary small talk. After drinking a cup of tea, he got up to say goodbye. Yu Hezhong was no longer a naive youth. After seeing Shishi, he was at a loss for what to do. After leaving Yan Daolun, he was worried that he had some purpose, or to monitor him. He went along with the situation and stayed with him. At this time, he felt relieved.

He and Shishi got up and sent the other party a few steps, and then asked the female soldier Xiaoling to take Yan Daolun out of the mansion. Although he was a little puzzled by Yan Daolun's behavior of just making a quick appearance, he didn't think much about it at the moment.

He turned his head, Shishi was looking at him, and then smiled brightly.

Having already sent Yan Daolun away, the two who had reunited after a long absence sat opposite each other at the small table by the lake. After all, this separation had been too long. Yu Hezhong was actually a little reserved, but Shishi was kind and natural. She picked up a piece of pastry and began to ask Yu Hezhong about his experiences over the years with great interest. She also asked about his wife and children at home. Yu Hezhong chatted with her for a while and felt very comfortable - this was almost the first such comfortable conversation he had had in over ten years. Afterwards, he also joined the topic with many interesting and difficult things he had encountered in the past ten years. When Shishi talked about her situation, Yu Hezhong could also tease her and the Huaxia Army relatively casually. Sometimes, even unhappy memories could make the two of them laugh extremely happily amidst the sunlight and broken shadows by the lake in the atmosphere of the reunion.

Shishi was nostalgic by nature. This feeling of being bathed in the spring breeze was exactly the same as Bianliang more than ten years ago. At that time, whether it was him or Chen Sifeng, they could express their feelings to Shishi without any restraint, and Shishi never felt that the thoughts of these childhood friends were inappropriate.

They spoke for a while, Yu Hezhong recalled Yan Daolun's previous statement that "she only occupied two rooms", and then recalled the internal power struggles within the Huaxia Army that Yan Daolun had revealed yesterday. After hesitating for a moment, he cautiously opened his mouth: "Actually... Although I have been outside these years, I have also heard something about... the situation of the Huaxia Army..."

"Oh? What's the situation?" Shishi asked with a smile.

"I heard people say that you are also a remarkable figure in the Huaxia Army."

"There is no such thing as a remarkable figure." Yu Hezhong spoke with teasing, Shishi shook her head and smiled, "Actually, the Huaxia Army has been established for so many years, and almost all the scholars in the world are shouting to beat it. Although Li Heng has trained many cadres, there are not many really good cultural officials. I used to study and could write and calculate, so Li Heng asked me to do this and that, which is regarded as conscripting labor... Actually, there is still a shortage of such officials now, and the gap is still very large."

She said here, looking at Yu Hezhong, Yu Hezhong looked at her for a moment, blinked his eyes: "You mean... actually... that..."

"Don't worry, Brother Yu, you don't know what the Huaxia Army is like yet, anyway, you have to stay in Chengdu for a while, think more about it." Shishi smiled and pushed the pastry to him, "But I am not a big leader, and I can't let you be a big official."

"My family is still in Shishou. They have lived there for several years, and it was not easy to settle down. Everyone said that there will be no war again in a few years..." Yu Hezhong muttered.

Shishi nodded: "I know, I know, and the possibility of war in the next two years is indeed not very high. Well, you said you heard about the situation of the Huaxia Army, what else did you hear?"

"It's about you, saying that you are in charge of diplomatic missions in the army, and you are very powerful..."

"Um, um, is that what they said?"

"Of course, and then many people have been sheltered because of you, such as Li Jingshen, Nie Shaotang, Yu Changqing... These people used to have power and influence in the Fourth Route of Sichuan, and now they will come to visit you, and whoever speaks outside will support you in the future. You are amazing, Lord Li. Look, there is a female prime minister in the north, and you in the south..."

Shishi ate pastries while smiling: "That's just nonsense. Prime Minister Lou is very powerful, and I can't reach her. In the Huaxia Army, not to mention the wives in Li Heng's family, even the female shopkeepers of Zhu Ji are all first-class powerful figures. I can't compare... Then what else? What else is interesting?"

Yu Hezhong hesitated for a moment: "Say you... could have achieved great things, but in April, I don't know why, you were pulled back to write scripts, those... short stories, scripts for storytellers in brothels... and then some people guessed, are you... Anyway, you offended someone, and suddenly you were asked to do this... Shishi, between you and Li Heng..."

He stammered, and then said: "If you think I'm being too talkative, you don't have to say it."

"Then I won't say it." Shishi said this, leaned on the table, covered her mouth and smiled. She used to have a quirky side when she was kind to people, but it was not offensive at this time. Yu Hezhong said: "Then forget it..." He only heard Shishi say again: "You really like to think wildly..."

"I also heard others mention it. I was a little worried about you."

"I'm fine, although... I haven't married myself out yet."

"Then how did they transfer you back from such an important matter..."

"Of course there is a proper reason." Shishi said, "Hezhong, you have to stay in Chengdu for so long, you can watch slowly, when you understand, I will pull you into the Huaxia Army... Peace will last for a few years, but there will always be a war in the future."

She said here, her face showed a serious expression, but after a moment, she diverted the topic to a relaxed direction.

The sun was still warm and gentle, and the warm wind blew from the lake. The two chatted happily. Yu Hezhong asked about the internal problems of the Huaxia Army, and Shishi would answer some with teasing or gossiping. Regarding her relationship with Ning Yi, although she never answered directly, she also indirectly confirmed some guesses in her words. For more than ten years, she and Ning Yi were sometimes close and sometimes far away, but in short, they failed to get together smoothly.

When it was noon, Shishi asked the female soldier Xiaoling to call a few dishes from the kitchen, and had lunch in the courtyard. After that, it seemed that someone came to visit, so she sent Yu Hezhong out, and made an appointment to see him again later.

Walking through the streets of Chengdu, Yu Hezhong only felt that the old soldiers of the Huaxia Army on Yingbin Road no longer seemed terrifying, and they had become "their own people". However, on second thought, he had not been able to see the bottom of the deep water in the Huaxia Army.

How much meaning was hidden in Shishi's words? Was she really put in the cold palace, or did she encounter other things? Of course, this was also because they only chatted once, and they could not say it clearly. As long as they met a few more times, perhaps Shishi would no longer be ambiguous about many situations - even if she was ambiguous, he believed that he could guess a rough idea.

He was not enthusiastic about the possibility of joining the Huaxia Army that Shishi mentioned. He met Yan Daolun again at the agreed place this afternoon, and he revealed to him many internal affairs of the Huaxia Army that Shishi had mentioned. Yan Daolun's eyes lit up and he praised and nodded from time to time. In fact, they naturally knew something about many situations, but the news revealed by Shishi was naturally more systematic and had more key points that they could not find out from the outside.

Yu Hezhong was therefore satisfied. If he joined the Huaxia Army that he did not fully understand and was sheltered by Shishi, would his ability be able to stand out in the Huaxia Army? The possibility of this was actually not great. However, as long as there was Shishi's connection, he would definitely be valued by General Liu Guangshi, and he knew how to sell himself at a good price and manage this round of relationship well.

The truce may only last for a few years, but as long as he made good use of these few years to save a batch of family wealth and materials, and form a batch of relationships, even if the Huaxia Army entered the Central Plains in the future, he could whitewash himself in front of the Huaxia Army at any time with Shishi's help. By then, with his family property and status, he might be able to truly talk to her on an equal footing in front of Shishi.

On the other hand, if Yan Daolun or General Liu Guangshi really valued his relationship with Shishi and Ning Yi and wanted to take this opportunity to start contacts, exchanges, and transactions, he was very likely to be left in Chengdu by the other party as a messenger and channel for communication. At that time, he might be able to see Shishi every day with an equal status.

He thought about these things for an afternoon, and by the evening, the outline became clearer and clearer. Afterwards, he tossed and turned in bed, and it was another sleepless night.

As for Shishi, after sending Yu Hezhong away, she met a few people, and then began to sort out the meeting drafts to be used for the meeting the next day.

The cultural and propaganda work is a top priority in the Huaxia Army - even Shishi and others did not understand it at the beginning. It was only after more than ten years of running-in that they roughly understood this outline.

Ning Yi's ideas in this regard were also relatively extreme. Classical Chinese should be changed to vernacular, and dramas should be simplified and improved. Many dramas that Shishi thought were quite excellent were considered by him to have too much literary singing and were protracted and not good-looking. He thought that the beautiful words and sentences were too high a threshold. She didn't know how he wrote those magnificent poems and lyrics.

For a while, Ning Yi even discussed with her the idea of simplifying Chinese characters, such as removing the cumbersome official form "壹" and uniformly changing it to the common form (Note: There was no concept of traditional or simplified characters in ancient times, but some characters have simplified writing methods. The standard writing is called the official form, and the simplified writing is called the common form) "一". Some characters that do not have a common form of writing should be simplified if they have more than ten strokes. Regarding this project, Ning Yi later considered that the sphere of influence was not large and it was difficult to promote, so he temporarily gave up.

At this time, the promotion of vernacular and the simplification and improvement of dramas had made many achievements in the cultural system of the Huaxia Army, but because Ning Yi single-mindedly required popularization, the dramas they arranged might seem more "lowly" in the eyes of elite literati.

However, with the cessation of the Southwest War, Ning Yi believed that cultural work was the focus of the aftermath work. For example, surviving soldiers needed families, and widows without husbands needed partners. Although the Huaxia Army could organize associations, at the same time, arranging a warm and touching love story might make this process more smooth; the soldiers in the Huaxia Army were brave in battle, but they were not necessarily of good character and suitable for starting a family, especially since soldiers were more or less prone to violence. Therefore, Ning Yi had already asked the cultural front to shape a typical domestic violence that everyone despised through dramas. In this way, the work of the military law office and other aspects could be done much better.

This time, Chengdu openly welcomed guests from all directions and even allowed foreign Confucians to criticize the Huaxia Army and start debates in newspapers, which put a lot of pressure on the Huaxia Army. At the same time, in the dramas, plays, and storytelling drafts that promote combat heroes, the problems of the Wu Dynasty and the ugliness of the past ten years are emphasized to arouse people's emotions of despising the Wu Dynasty. Then, no matter how the Confucians attack the Huaxia Army, as long as they express their position, everyone will shout to beat them among the common people - after all, countless people have personally experienced the suffering of the past ten years.

Regarding the main requirement in the cultural policy to be "good-looking", Shishi and several relatively accomplished staff members in the Huaxia Army had made some suggestions to Ning Yi in the early years on this overly utilitarian principled issue. Especially the situation where Ning Yi could casually recite good poems and lyrics, but was keen on such crooked ways, once made people quite confused. But in any case, in the current Huaxia Army, the effect of this policy is good. After all, the base of literati is not large, and the soldiers in the army, the women, and children in the military families really only eat this popular set.

The meeting on June 15th, the next day, discussed the summary of previous work, the prediction of possible trends in public opinion in Chengdu, and the consideration of response methods and measures to be prepared in advance. For Shishi, this would be the first time she and Ning Yi met again since their separation in February.

Ning Yi returned to Chengdu on the ninth, and she entered the city on the thirteenth - although she missed him very much, she did not disturb him at the first moment yesterday. After being away from the center for several months, Shishi also knew that once he came back, there would definitely be a continuous stream of documents and meetings.

In the afternoon, she prepared the meeting documents. In the evening, when she went to the Yingbin Hotel cafeteria for dinner, she found an official from the intelligence department: "Help me check someone, his name is Yan Daolun, I don't know if it's an alias, in his early forties, with a square face and round chin, a mole on the corner of his left ear, and his accent is..."

...

On June 15th, at dawn, it rained heavily in Chengdu, with thunder and lightning. When Ning Yi got up, it was not yet light. He sat by the window and watched the thunderstorm for a while.

When lightning flashed, the towering trees outside were dancing in the wind and rain. Outside the lightning, there was a chaotic darkness, and the magnificent city was submerged in the more magnificent world.

...

When she got up in the morning, the heavy rain was still falling, and the rain curtain fell like a curtain on the huge lake. Shishi had breakfast, came back and changed into a black clerical military uniform, and tied her hair into a convenient ponytail. When she was about to go out, Chen Xiaoxia, the female shopkeeper in charge of publicity at Zhu Ji, waved to her: "Going to the meeting."

Shishi nodded: "Yes."

...

When it was almost Chen Shi (7-9 am), Shishi and other clerical military personnel entered the Mingde Hall venue, which was about two miles away from the Yingbin Hotel.

When Ning Yi came in, she was tilting her head and talking to a companion next to her, focusing on discussing something. Then she looked at Ning Yi, pursed her lips slightly, and showed a calm smile on her face.

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