Sha Po Lang

This was completely different from what he expected, Gu Yun was taken aback for a moment, and blurted out, "Why?"

Chang Geng's answer was reasonable and well-founded: "In the Western Regions, there is the Xuantieying camp of my adoptive father. If I go there, I will only add to the chaos. It is meaningless to bother you to bother me with some non-existent military achievements."

Although Gu Yun generally thought so, but Chang Geng pointed it out in person, he still felt like being splashed with cold water, and managed to keep his expression unchanged, Gu Yun said: "Then... that's fine, go back to Beijing early It’s okay to listen to the government, my teacher has some students, you can get to know them in advance..."

Chang Geng: "Isn't that the same?"

While speaking, he looked up at the end of the small corridor. The sunny sky in the south of the Yangtze River slanted down, and the spring flowers in the garden were scorching fiercely.But I heard from the servants of Yao Mansion that although it looks splendid, in fact, the flowering period is only ten days and a half months, and it will be lost in a short time. In the wilderness, it blooms quietly, and then withers quietly, life and death are like a moment, and there are only a few wild birds and beasts around, who knows?

Flowers are like this, and so are many meaningless loves and dislikes in people's hearts.

Chang Geng: "Father, I understand that there are many strange people around the master, I want to travel around with them, and I will not delay my study and practice..."

Isn't this bullshit?

Before he could finish his sentence, Gu Yun's face darkened, and he stopped and said, "No."

Chang Geng turned sideways and looked at him silently.

There was something inexplicable in the boy's backlighted eyes, Gu Yun had never noticed it before, but when he encountered it suddenly at this moment, he felt a little frightened.Immediately, he realized that his tone was a bit blunt, so he calmed down slightly, and said, "It's okay for you to go out to play. When you return to Beijing, ask Uncle Wang to send some guards from the Hou's mansion to accompany you around. , you are not allowed to go to places where there is no court station, and you have to send me a letter to report that you are safe every time you arrive at a station."

Chang Geng said indifferently: "All the way, rich clothes and fine food, everywhere in the world? Then I might as well go to Huguo Temple to burn incense with wives and ladies, so as to save people from spending money."

Gu Yun: "..."

This kid can actually talk back!

It's so elegant and calm that it implies sarcasm!

Gu Yun's good mood of being soaked by the spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River suddenly disappeared, and he thought: "Why doesn't it make sense? Am I pampering him so much that he wants to go to the house?"

His tone became a little impatient: "The rivers and lakes are far away, and people's hearts are dangerous. What's the fun? That monk can't lift his shoulders or lift his hands. He will beg for food unless he is running for his life. If something happens to you along the way with him, how can I get along with you?" The late emperor explained?"

"Ah," Chang Geng thought indifferently, "it's really because I want to explain to the late emperor. If the late emperor Jiuquan heard that I was a little bastard that Xiuniang got from somewhere, and was specially used to confuse the royal blood, he might be so righteous as to plan. Huanyang came to strangle me to death."

Every time he took a look at Gu Yun, he felt like a knife was piercing his heart, and the crime was serious, and he wished he could flee in fear of the crime immediately.But that person actually detained him and refused to let him go.

Facing the ignorant Gu Yun, Chang Geng felt a lingering resentment in his heart for no reason for a while, but he soon recovered.

Chang Geng withdrew his gaze from Gu Yun, and said calmly: "Father told me a few days ago, as long as it's the path I think about, it doesn't matter so soon?"

Gu Yun's heart became angry: "I told you to think it over yourself, do you think it's done?"

Chang Geng said seriously: "I really think so."

"No, think again! Talk to me after you think about it." Gu Yun didn't want to anger him outside, so he flicked his sleeves angrily, turned and left.

Chang Geng watched his back, brushed off the petals on his body, heard footsteps behind him, he could tell who it was without turning his head, and said, "Of course, Master is laughing."

Knowing that the monk didn't dare to come out at first, he poked his head around for a long time, saw that Gu Yun was gone, and finally showed up at ease, gestured and said softly, "Master Hou has good intentions."

Chang Geng looked down at his hands, fine calluses had already been worn on his hands, but they hadn't been baptized by the scars yet.

He said indifferently: "I don't want to be a waste who relies on him for everything under his kindness."

"The monk thinks His Highness is a bit extreme," said Qingming, "Even saints grew up under the protection of their parents and elders when they were young. By His Highness's standards, wouldn't the whole world be trash? A late bloomer." , You must guard against arrogance and impetuosity."

Chang Geng didn't reply, apparently he didn't listen.

The monk knew again: "I see His Highness looks gloomy, it's because the poison has penetrated into the bone."

Chang Geng was startled, thinking he knew about Wu'er Gu.

But seeing the monk, he said again: "People have poison in their hearts, some are deeper and some are shallower. At your age, Your Highness shouldn't have it so thoroughly. You are too thoughtful."

Chang Geng smiled wryly, "What do you know?"

He always felt that everything around him—the nobility and false name—was all stolen by Xiuniang, and one day someone would see his incompatibility with these things, let him show his feet, and make him lose everything.

Used to being in such panic all day long, Chang Geng always felt that he was an outsider in the capital.

Gu Yun planned his future from the perspective of His Royal Highness, and he didn't have any sense of reality in his heart.

Looking in the mirror every day, I know that I am an "earth dragon" rolling in the mud, but others want to put horns and scales on him, and try their best to dress him up as a real dragon. No matter how many decorations, it is nondescript. He is always The earthworms on the bar shall not be mesa.

In this case, it is better to simply stay away to save embarrassment in the future.

There is only one Gu Yun, the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys brought to him are so unforgettable, without any adulteration, he can't deceive himself and let others go lightly, but he often feels that he is not worthy.

Chang Geng didn't complain about himself for a long time, he quickly came back to his senses, and asked: "By the way, Master, I have always wanted to ask you, what's wrong with my foster father? He was very wrong during the trip to the East China Sea, but he refused to tell you. I."

The monk hurriedly shook his head: "Amitabha, the monk dare not say that."

Chang Geng frowned: "It doesn't count if he is trying to be brave, why do you still help him?"

"Is Marquis the kind of person who flaunts his strength needlessly?" He said with a clear smile, "If he doesn't want to mention this matter, it's not because he is afraid that others will know his weakness, probably because it is the poison in his body and heart—who Dare to touch Marquis Anding's Ni Lin? Your Highness has spared my life."

Chang Geng frowned thoughtfully.

Gu Yun managed to escape from the yellow sands of the desert for two days. He wanted to enjoy the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, go out for a walk, swim in a lake, see some beauties, and so on. He was in no mood, bored in the room and refused to go out. Anyway, he was also angry when he saw Chang Geng, and he was also angry when he saw Yao Zhen, and he was even more angry when he saw it.

The two brats of the Yao family still refused to let go. They played the bamboo flute once and for all, which could be heard in eight villages, like a pair of noisy starlings.

As soon as Gu Yun heard the out-of-tune sound, he remembered the way Chang Geng pulled the flute out of his hand, and became even angrier—didn't everything be given to the adoptive father before?How to say change?

Poor world, the fate of parents and children seems to be connected by blood, but it turns out that it can't last long.

What's more, they are not relatives, not even connected by blood.

In the evening, a black eagle landed in the yard: "Marshal, a letter from General Shen."

Gu Yun held back his breath, took a look, and saw that Shen Yi's broken-mouthed letter was quite concise, just three words - hurry, return quickly.

Since Shen Yi went out from the Lingshu Academy to go through life and death with him, what kind of battle has he not seen?If there is nothing wrong, I will definitely not hate writing an urgent letter to urge him.

Xuanying: "Marshal, look..."

Gu Yun: "Understood, there is no need to go back, we will start tomorrow."

Chang Geng didn't make an agreement at all, Gu Yun wanted to expose him for two days before talking, but Shen Yi was in a hurry, there was no other way, so he had to walk around the room twice, then got up and looked for it.

Chang Geng was practicing swords in the courtyard, Gu Yun watched for a while, then suddenly pulled out Xuanying's saber, the armor on Xuanying's body was not removed, the epee was as wide as an adult's palm, and he carried it lightly like a feather duster Hand: "Be careful."

Before the words finished, a sword had already been swept out, Chang Geng caught it solidly, and did not retreat a single step.

"I've improved," Gu Yun thought, "I have some strength in my hands."

With a jerk, he turned over with the power of the sword in his hand, and opened and closed his sword like a full moon.

Chang Geng didn't dare to take it head-on, he made a few wrong steps, but he couldn't undo the power of his sword. The heavy sword in Gu Yun's hand was like a spirit snake spitting out a letter. In the blink of an eye, three swords had already been stabbed out. Chang Geng blocked it with the horizontal sword. Having already retreated to the corner, he jumped onto the beam and pillar sideways, twirled in the air, and stepped on Gu Yun's epee.

Gu Yun called out, and suddenly let go of the hilt of the sword. Chang Geng suddenly lost support under his feet, and staggered for a while. On the steady boy's shoulders, the black iron sword light gave him goosebumps.

Gu Yun laughed, patted Chang Geng's shoulder with the epee, and threw the epee back to Xuanying behind him: "That's right, I never slack in my kung fu."

Chang Geng moved his slightly numb wrist: "It's far worse than foster father."

Gu Yun said without shame: "Well, that's still far away."

Chang Geng: "..."

Under normal circumstances, shouldn't you be humble first and then teach a few sentences earnestly?How could he still climb the pole!Is there such an immodest adoptive father?

Gu Yun: "If you come to Northwest Camp, I can teach you personally."

Sure enough, it was because of this, Chang Geng couldn't help laughing.

It's strange to say that sometimes, when a person really wants something, he can't get it after exhausting all the organs of desire, and suddenly he feels that he doesn't want it anymore, and the thing will come to him instead.

Chang Geng declined politely: "When I was in the Hou's Mansion, I once asked my master why my adoptive father practiced sword and martial arts in the Hou's Mansion when he was a child, why he was so good at it. The master told me that solid kung fu mainly depends on how much effort you are willing to put in. Powerful, mainly because there are more life-and-death situations on the battlefield, and it doesn’t matter whoever teaches you.”

Gu Yun's smile disappeared.

Chang Geng: "Father, I've thought twice, but I still want to go out and meet the world."

Gu Yun frowned and said: "Isn't the world of the capital and the frontier the world? What else do you want to see, the beam can't hold you? Do you still want to swim to the West?"

There was another quarrel, but Xuanying didn't dare to make a sound at the back—the tall Sky Killer held his epee, pretending that he was a pile of coal that he had forgotten to collect.

Chang Geng didn't say a word, just looked at Gu Yun deeply, for a moment, he really wanted to vomit out the repressed things in his heart, but then he endured it - he imagined Gu Yun's possible reaction, I feel that I may not be able to bear it.

Gu Yun: "You don't need to say it, I don't want to know where your messy thoughts come from, let that monk go out tomorrow, you go back to the capital honestly, since you don't want to go to the northwest, then stay at home Don't go!"

Chang Geng really wanted to yell at Gu Yun: "The Hou Mansion is not my home."

But the words had already reached his lips, and he bit them in half again and swallowed them. He was instinctively afraid of hurting Gu Yun's heart by saying it - even though he didn't know if Gu Yun had a heart that could be hurt.

"Father," Chang Geng said quietly, "I feel very sad that you have come here from the northwest this time, but if you are unreasonable, I can only be self-willed. If I can run once, I can run twice." This time, you can't watch me forever, the Hou's house won't be able to lock me in."

Gu Yun was stunned. The Hou Mansion has always been his heart's home. No matter how much he doesn't want to return to Beijing, he still has something to look forward to when he thinks he can go home. Only then did he realize that in Chang Geng's eyes, it was like Same as prison.

Gu Yun: "Just try."

The two parted ways again.

Xuanying hurriedly chased after him, but Gu Yun hadn't gone far, he didn't shy away from whether Chang Geng heard or not, and ordered coldly: "You don't have to follow me tomorrow, follow His Highness Fourth to the capital, don't let him leave the capital!"

Xuan Ying: "...Yes."

Forget it if the city gate catches fire and the fish in the pond are affected, but even the black eagle flying at the gate was burned to a bald chicken.

Early the next morning, Gu Yun left in a fit of anger.

He never saw Chang Geng again, and before he left, the wicked Marquis An Ding sneaked into the yard of Master Yao's five-year-old child without anyone noticing, and took away the bamboo flute that was placed on the swing. When he found that the flute had disappeared out of thin air, he was so sad that he cried all day.

Gu Yun rushed back faster than when he came, and the first thing he said to Shen Yi after landing was: "Prepare me the medicine."

Shen Yi looked solemn: "Can you still hear it now?"

"Yes," Gu Yun said, "It's almost impossible, if you have something to say, speak quickly."

Shen Yi took out a few pieces of paper from his bosom: "This is Sha Xiezi's confession, I haven't shown it to anyone else, I interrogated it myself, and I'll wait for the commander-in-chief to come back and make a decision."

While walking, Gu Yun glanced at ten lines at a glance. Suddenly, he stopped and folded the paper in his hand.

For a moment, his expression was a little scary.

Sand Scorpion invaded the ancient Silk Road just by chance, but his target was Loulan. He had a treasure map of Loulan in his hand. The so-called "treasure" was actually a thousand hectares of Ziliu gold mine.

Shen Yi lowered his voice and asked: "Marshal, this is a big matter, should you report it to the imperial court?"

Gu Yun blurted out: "No."

He quickly changed his mind: "Where is the picture?"

Shen Yi whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "The sand scorpion is tattooed on my belly."

Gu Yun: "Didn't you say where it came from?"

"It was stolen," Shen Yi said, "These bandits are rampant. People from the Central Plains, people from the Western Regions, and Westerners, when they meet someone who robs someone, they don't even know who they robbed."

Gu Yun let out a "huh" and squinted his eyes, whose vision was beginning to blur, and looked at the bustling Loulan in the distance, where a young man from Loulan saw him from a distance, sitting on the city wall frantically and played the solo string. Qin, looking at Gu Yun, kept laughing.

Gu Yun had no time to tease these Loulan people who knew how to drink and play when they were full, and returned the hand and stuffed the few pieces of paper to Shen Yi: "Shut up."

Shen Yi's pupils shrank slightly.

"Destroy the mouth, destroy the corpse and destroy the traces," Gu Yun's lips barely moved, and the words were between his teeth, "Also with the sand bandits, they said that the bandits were going to escape from prison. Our soldiers had no choice but to kill them." ——This matter is between you and me, if it leaks out, you are the only one to ask, and immediately track down the origin of that treasure map."

Shen Yi: "Yes."

After a while, he asked again: "Commander, I heard that rumors spread from the capital that King Wei is under house arrest?"

Gu Yun glanced at him: "You also said it was a rumor, the imperial decree has not yet been issued, don't make random guesses, and go about your business."

Shen Yi responded, Gu Yun's tired face remained, he stood on the spot and lightly pressed the corners of his eyes, hoping that he had overreacted to this treasure map of unknown origin.

The misfortune in the East China Sea is not over, and there are changes in the Northwest. He always feels that these things are not coincidences.

Half a month later, two Jiangnan memorials were presented in front of Emperor Long'an Li Feng.

Li Feng knocked on the table, and a man in his forties with a long beard immediately stepped forward and turned on the gas lamp for him. This man was the emperor's uncle, named Wang Bao, the current number one favorite.

Li Feng opened the above note, it was exactly what Yao Zhen discussed with Gu Yun that day, he hid Xuantieying and Linyuan Pavilion, flattered all the officials in the south of the Yangtze River from top to bottom, and finally sang his praises, the emperor After reading it, he didn't say anything, and picked up the second folder.

The second letter was a secret memorial, with a completely different rhetoric from the previous one. It was written: "On the day when the bandits were suppressed at sea, Dozens of Marquis Anding, Xuan Ying, and Xuan Jia appeared in the East China Sea and took down the leader of the bandit. According to the confession of the leader of the bandit, There is a woman from the rebel Haijiao Shangling, whose whereabouts are secretive, she is suspected to be someone from Linyuan Pavilion, she seems to be an old acquaintance of Gu Yun."

Li Feng didn't say anything after reading it, and handed the two memorials to Wang Bao.

Uncle Wang Guo quickly read it, carefully looked at Li Feng's uncertain expression, guessed his meaning and said: "This... Your Majesty, Marquis An Ding is involved in it. ..."

Li Feng: "He has a black eagle and can travel a long way. It only takes a few days to travel across the Central Plains. Although he left his post without authorization, it is not particularly out of place, but I don't understand why it is such a coincidence. What kind of role does Andinghou play in it?" Role?"

Wang Bao's eyelids twitched, realizing something.

Li Feng tapped the desk with his slender fingers: "There is also Linyuan Pavilion—Linyuan Pavilion has been hidden in the world for many years, why did it suddenly appear? When did Gu Yun get in touch with these people?"

Linyuan Pavilion, if there is no prosperity, there will be chaos.

Wang Bao took a deep breath: "Your Majesty is saying that Gu Yun has evil intentions—"

Li Feng squinted at him, and smiled slightly: "Where is Uncle Guo thinking? The sixteenth emperor uncle grew up with me, and made great achievements in suppressing rebellion. If you think so, don't you want to chill the hearts of loyal ministers?"

Wang Bao didn't understand what he meant, and for a moment he only dared to agree, but didn't dare to answer.

Li Feng: "It's just that I have tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and he alone depends on him from the north to the south. Wouldn't it mean that my little uncle will be exhausted to death? I think it's time to find someone to share his worries."

Volume Two