The Melancholy of the National Teacher

After a whole day of not seeing the sun, Helian Yu finally felt the wind from Yunping.

It was indeed accompanied by the wind of milk fragrance, he opened his eyes, and first shed a little tears for the too bright sun, and after a few heartbeats, the scenery that fell in his eyes became clear and distinct.

The withered yellow grass with a little bit of green undulates like waves, dotted with white, old yellow, gray, decorative brocade and patterns, and gold leaf round pointed tents, like a flock of sheep, or like a white cloud floating overhead. Tile blue sky.They are not invisible at a glance, Helian Yu can see the tall gray-yellow wall, like a fence surrounding a flock of sheep, enclosing the continuous tents inside.

Cooking smoke rises from almost every tent, and the smell of milk or fat mixed with spices fills the wind.

This year should be a bumper year for Qinglu.Helian thought.

"Is it in the city," Le Dao asked him, "or go outside for a stroll?"

"Go outside and have a look." Helian Yu said.

So the two walked side by side, along the trampled dirt road between the grasslands, towards a city gate in Yunping.

There are no streets or squares in Yunping City, only circles.Herdsmen live in the circle of herdsmen, soldiers and civilians live in the circle of soldiers and civilians, and craftsmen live in the circle of craftsmen. The city itself is a big circle.In the past, people in Qinglu chased water and grass to graze. Later, a Khan led soldiers and horses across Qiongshui, from Erlong Mountain to Tianjing City, and then returned to Qinglu with the looted gold, silver and women.He was so impressed by the magnificent capital that he built a capital for himself.

Before his death, only a double wall was repaired in the capital. After his son succeeded Khan, he said that Qinglu people could not live in wooden houses like Zhonglu people, so his tribe set up tents inside the walls.

If you stand in the king's city and look at it, each tent is like a cloud, and they surround the king's tent like a barrier.Hu people call this city Ulun Zhu of Colorful Clouds, and people in Central China call it Yunping.

The witch doctor's tent was in the nomad circles, and it was clear that healing people might just be a part-time job for this witch doctor.

Accompanied by bleat, moo and woof, Helianyu and Le Dao walked out of the herdsmen's circle and walked to the dirt road adjacent to the two circles. Along the dirt road, you can see the south gate of Yunping.

Along the way, Helian Yu didn't speak, he was looking at Le Dao curiously.

Le Dao was wearing a barbarian's clothes, an inner robe with a round collar, and a long jacket with a cross collar. Like other barbarian men, one sleeve was not worn, but was hung at the waist, and the waist was wider than the palm of his hand. Brocade, he didn't braid the barbarian's pigtails, but he wore a round hat decorated with colorful hard feathers on his head.These clothes are all bright colors that Hu people like.

His Majesty the Emperor of Da'an likes black, navy blue is also good, red is very imposing, as for other things, he rarely appears in his clothes.

It has to be said that the barbarian's clothes seemed to highlight the tall and burly man. When he walked to Helianyu, the bustling people on the street had already moved out of the way when they caught a glimpse of him, so that Helianyu could easily squeezed past.

As for He Lianyu, a real Qinglu native, he was still dressed in Zhonglu's clothes. He was wearing plain old clothes and a bamboo hat.

Few people in Qinglu can recognize the emperor of Daan, as for Helianyu...he has a face similar to his twin sister, not to mention other places, the Yunping people will not die for five years because of the female Khan , just forget what she looks like.

A sign floating in front of his eyes pulled the big witch out of the vortex of thinking.

Behind the tulle, Helian Yu's slender eyebrows were knitted together.

It was a pattern of the sun.

It is similar to the sun gold medal on the forehead of the great witch at the moment, but it is different.It is also a pair of concentric circles, with flame-like sharp blades stretching out in eight directions. The sun gold medal circles another circle on the outermost side. The pattern that appears in front of Helian Yu at this moment is drawn inside the concentric circles. A dancing bird.

This pattern was tattooed on the chest of a beautiful woman, golden, reflecting the sunlight on the breast as white as milk, and shining brightly with the shaking of the breast.

Le Dao: "...What are you looking at?"

Helian Yu: "Uh..."

The big witch looked away in some embarrassment, he was glad that Le Dao couldn't see his expression behind the tulle.

Helian Yu, who looked away, found that the beautiful woman just now was not the only one who had the pattern tattooed on her body. She was surrounded by seven or eight young girls who were also dressed in the same clothes. The waist tightened suddenly, showing the hot and graceful outline inside.They waved their bare arms indifferently, and Pingping Tingting's skirts fluttered as she walked, deliberately revealing her calves and thighs.

The wind blows over them, taking away the fragrance of the flowers.

Countless people surrounded them, men, women, old people, children, surrounding them like green leaves surrounding flowers.And these women are not so much walking as dancing, they move slowly, swaying their waists, stretching their soft arms like water snakes, and they don't care about others' touch.They hold mirrors made of silver in their hands. Whenever they dance their arms, the sunlight will be reflected by the mirror into the eyes of the onlookers.

These women were followed by jugglers and musicians, and in song they sowed flowers that could never appear in winter, with leaves wrought of gold and silver—smaller than a maiden's knuckle, but for commoners Speaking of which, it was a surprising windfall.

"Do the Hu people have any festivals recently?" Le Dao asked.

"In a few days it will be the winter festival." Helian Yu said.

However, this kind of dancing girl will not appear at the Winter Festival, the big witch paused, and then asked: "Speaking of this pattern..."

"Sun worship." Le Dao replied.

This time Helian Yu remained silent for a while, "Do you know this religion?"

"The main reason is that it is rumored to have a relationship with your sister, so I paid attention to some news about these people." Le Dao said.

Helian Yu's tone became a little dangerous, "Never told me?"

The big witch waited for a while, but did not wait for the emperor's answer. The corners of his eyes twitched. He didn't know what to say about this habitual offender. Before he stepped forward and left the man behind, Le Dao finally said, "If you want to know, I can tell you on the way." listen."

Helian Yu turned his head abruptly.

He stared at Le Dao. For a moment, he wondered if the people around him had been replaced by a disguised assassin. However, the way witches recognize people does not only include appearance and body, and the soul of the emperor is particularly different. It is unique in the world, and there is no possibility of replacement.

"We are blocking the way of others." The emperor urged, who seemed to have no idea what he said.

As he moved along the crowd towards the city gate, Le Dao slowly recalled the experience dictated by Quan Luoqiu, the only one of the four of them who had a relationship history yesterday.

"Your Majesty, you and Dawu are not like most resentful couples." When he said the word resentful couple, the former bandit leader's face was ashen. He was not used to linking this word with the emperor's national division, "to each other You don't care, but you are greedy and dissatisfied with the advantages you can take. Your problem is that you care too much, and you protect each other in your own way. On the battlefield, this kind of protection does not need to be greeted, but usually When we get along, it will cause a lot of problems.”

"Because you are neither blind nor deaf," the young Yue Sheng added, "so you want to control everything in your hands, and you think that it is good to leave the protection of the National Teacher to you. The problem is that the National Normal University People have the same attitude as you."

Wu Lun didn't say anything, if possible, he wanted to give the emperor an idea that would make the national teacher kick him away, but the emperor would not listen to him at all.

It is difficult for Le Dao to change his attitude. After all, he has always been domineering in his relationship with Helian Yu. When it comes to this, he must mention the star platform in the Forbidden Palace of the Imperial Capital. With a hundred extra cares and using the best materials possible, when Le Dao thought that Helian Yu would live in the star station he built, he would giggle like he was drunk.

It is the instinct of every lord to protect one's own witches layer by layer and use various methods, well, even if one knows that a big witch is equivalent to an army.

When Le Dao was thinking about this, they had already followed the Sun Salutationists out of the city.

The guards guarding the city didn't check this group of people at all. Judging by their expressions, if it wasn't for their duties, they might put down their spears and leave the city with the Sun Salutation believers.

The group stopped by a small river.

It is not Qiongshui, but a tributary of Qiongshui. Its temper is not as violent as Qiongshui, but calm and moderate, so it is easier to freeze.

Fortunately, the herdsmen who got up early a few days ago saw the sunshine piercing the sky like a sharp sword from the direction of Qiongshui. Those sunshines brought good weather these days, as well as the thawed Qiongshui and this tributary.

For the people of Yunping City, this is really a good thing. The fish in the water think that spring is coming, and they can’t wait to float to the surface, looking for the bugs that should be revived with them. At this time, even with a ladle, they can fish out of the water Comes out enough fish for a family meal.

"This is the gift of Naren!" It was the woman who had the sun pattern tattooed on her chest who spoke. She held up the silver mirror and cast the scorching sunlight on the believers, "Praise the sun!"

"Praise the sun!" Hundreds of people shouted in unison.

"They should praise you," Le Dao, who had already left the crowd, lowered his voice and said to Helian Yu with a low smile, "It's obviously a gift from you."

While talking, they had already sat down by the river, the ground was very damp, but the wool felt had been spread on the ground in advance, and the stove was warm.

The cool wind that still belonged to winter blew across the grass, and Le Dao reached out to take off the bamboo hat and gauze hat for Helian Yu.

At this time, the emperor slowly began to tell everything he knew about the worship of the Cult.

"Sun worship is spread from the tribes in the north of Qinglu, near Yinguori Mountain, to the south. It is rare in Zhonglu. The worshipers of this religion are all women. There are more than a dozen really powerful witches, and there are no big witches. They receive donations from the rich and distribute them to the poor. Although they must be accompanied by pockets, the rich get peace of mind through religious belief, and the poor get food through religious belief," Le Dao commented, "It is not bad for maintaining stability. tools."

As he spoke, he pricked a grasshopper out of a slender blade of grass and put it in Helian Yu's hand.

He Lianyu gathered his five fingers together, but he didn't comment on this toy with critical words as Ledao thought.

The big witch kept staring at the sun worship priestesses in the crowd in the distance.

"What are you worried about?" Le Dao asked, "These guys haven't made a fortune yet. In the eyes of the common people, they are pure and innocent people."

"However, I have seen sun worship merchants smuggling, and what they transported..." Helian Yu didn't move his gaze away an inch, "It's bows and swords."