Traveling through the troubled times of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Last time, it was said that the housekeeper of Beiping Mansion came to report in a hurry: "Young Bao, someone is here—"

Luo Cheng, who was squatting in the corner, raised his head, glanced at him, and continued to count the ants with his head down: "Didn't I tell you? No one is allowed to visit the sick, just say I need to rest."

"No, not visiting—"

"Yuwen Chengdu?" Luo Cheng said angrily, "Just close the door."

"Shaobao, no."

"Then who else?" Luo Cheng tilted his head and thought for a while, but to no avail.

"Cheng'er."

That voice is very familiar, he has been in the capital for these few days, and he has dreamed of that voice quite often.Every time I think back, it is the old calendar of the wanton and carefree life in Beiping Mansion.

Luo Cheng was a little dazed, froze in place, shook his head, dreamed again, and then smiled self-deprecatingly with a bitter face.

"Cheng'er—"

Luo Cheng turned around slowly, and when he saw the person standing behind him, his heart was shocked. He had been wronged these days, and the injustices he encountered all of a sudden came to his mind, tears were about to fall, and his thin lips twitched: "Brother -"

That's right, the person who came was Luo Song who was supposed to stay in Youzhou's Beiping Mansion, but now he was disguised and dressed in a messenger uniform, standing in Jingdu's Beiping Mansion.

When Luo Songchu first entered the door, he saw his Fengshen and handsome younger brother who had lost a lot of weight, squatting in the corner of the wall and counting ants with a dispirited expression, his heart ached. It's so good to come to Kyoto alone. After only a few months, how could he change? It's like this.

"Brother, why are you here?"

As soon as he spoke, he flattened his mouth. When did he raise a poor little boy in Beiping Mansion.

Luo Song thought to himself, he must have been bullied hard.He didn't even think about it, as for his younger brother, who would dare to bully him?

He also asked about his coming?Did he dare to delay receiving that fatal letter?

At first, when the father received the letter, he stared at it for a long time, but couldn't figure out why.

He took the letter from his father, and his eyes were full of words that looked like dogs crawling, and there were a few dashed words, many of which were missing words, or replaced with homonyms. , but it is estimated that even if it is paid by Yang Guang, it will not be of much use, that is, he who often teaches his children to read and write can understand it.

When Luo Cheng welcomed him into the study room and closed the door, Luo Song looked at his younger brother and said, "I followed what you said in the letter, called Luo Yong, gathered three thousand elite guards from Yanyun, and brought him from the underground arsenal. A lot of weapons have come out, but there is also the large-scale automatic shooting crossbow cart that you ordered to make, because it is more eye-catching, I have not taken it out for the time being. The artisans started to work day and night, adding more arrows; I also went in your small black house, and I also installed the fire thorns, thunderballs and so on for you..."

Luo Song babbled on for a long time, and finally explained all three or four pages of instructions and how he responded to them.

You know, when Luo Yi heard Luo Song's "reading the letter" at that time, his bull's eyes widened, and he was stunned there for a long time without being dazed.

He knew that the brat had a traitor in his head and wanted to rebel at every turn, but he didn't expect that there was such a "capable man" hidden in his Beiping mansion!

On that day, he knew that the training ground was not a training ground, but an arsenal below; Hundreds of desperadoes heard of the rebellion, their eyes glistened, and they were gearing up; many unheard of and exquisite mechanisms were brought out from the underground arsenal——

Luo Yi was dumbfounded.

Coauthoring this kid talks about rebellion all day long, not just for fun!

For so many years, he has been blinded by this kid's carefree temper.Look at this rebellious action, how secretive it was, it didn't let the Wu family brothers who were eyeing the Beiping mansion back then get caught!

How Luo Yi's heart was shaken, let's not show it for the time being, just talk about this. After Luo Song finished talking, he asked his brother again, what happened?

Luo Chengcheng poured out all he had seen and heard these days. Seeing his brother bowed his head in silence, rubbing his toes on the ground, he muttered, "Brother, do you also think I did something wrong? But you really didn't see those girls at the time. With a miserable appearance, Yang Guang is no better than a beast, if it happens again, I will still choose to save people desperately and rush forward to kill the faint king Yang Guang."

Luo Song was indeed shocked by what Yang Guang did a moment ago, it was so absurd and insane.But the next moment his eyebrows twitched, he said in his heart that fortunately I didn't delay for a moment, it was a coincidence that you haven't made a move yet.

When he raised his head again, he didn't see the surprised expression just now, and said calmly: "Cheng'er did the right thing, if Cheng'er can see all this, then it's not Cheng'er." Could it be that he likes his younger brother's frank and straightforward temperament what.

Hearing what his brother said, Luo Cheng immediately smiled, put his arm on his brother and said, "It's still my brother who understands me."

"However—" Luo Song continued, "It's your fault that you hit Yuwen Chengdu."

Luo Cheng opened his mouth, but didn't speak, but the expression on his face showed that he was a little dissatisfied.

"If he doesn't stop you, what are you going to do, just rush forward and kill Yang Guang? According to what you said, Suiyuxuan is guarded by elite soldiers and the palace is heavily guarded. So what if you kill Yang Guang? Get out of the way."

"I didn't think about getting out, I just wanted to report to you... don't sit and wait for death."

Luo Song's heart tightened, this bastard really didn't take his own life seriously.You don't feel bad, I still feel bad, I can't let you mess around.

I can't stay in this capital anymore, how can I put him beside Yang Guang with peace of mind? !

Luo Song thought for a while, recalling the invitations sent from Licheng, Shandong Province to Beiping Mansion a few days ago, he made up his mind and said: "Well, it will be your aunt's birthday in a few days, and Cousin Qin's invitation has also passed. You go to the emperor’s mansion and ask the emperor for leave, saying that it’s your mother’s concubine’s birthday, and I hope he will give you filial piety and allow you to go back to the mansion to celebrate her birthday. These days, you are probably in a panic, and you just happened to go to Shandong for a while, and go out to relax.”

As expected, Luo Song grinned dumbly seeing Cheng'er's overjoyed look, and it was not hard to guess what his younger brother was thinking.

"Okay, then I'll go to ask for leave tomorrow." After finishing speaking, he looked at Luo Song in embarrassment and said, "Brother, should I kill Yang Guang or not..."

Luo Song couldn't laugh or cry, why did this little ancestor still think about this matter.

He could only find a plausible excuse and said, "Do you think you can stop Yuwen Chengdu and his Golden Snake Guards?"

Luo Cheng thought about it very seriously: "If I fight alone, I will fight harder with Yuwen Chengdu, and I may be able to beat Yuwen Chengdu, but if I add the Golden Snake Guard, I will definitely not succeed."

"Then it's over. You've already startled the snake. Yuwen Chengdu must strengthen its defenses. You can't even beat Yuwen Chengdu and the Golden Snake Guard. How can you kill Yang Guang?"

Luo Cheng curled his lips, a little discouraged, and said in a muffled voice: "Could it be that those virgins were ruined for nothing?"

"It's not that you can't save them, it's that you don't have the ability at all. You saved one, the second, but you can save the third?"

"Furthermore, what if you killed Yang Guang? Once Yang Guang died, the dragons would have no leader, and the Sui Dynasty would be in chaos. It was the common people who suffered."

Luo Song patted him on the shoulder and said, "Cheng'er, brother knows that you are jealous of evil, and you hate disturbing and oppressing the people the most. Yang Guang is indeed not a wise king, but only when you have the strength to fight against Yang Guang, at that time, Only then can you save more people and do more things for the common people.”

It has to be said that Yuwen Chengdu's eloquence is not as good as Luo Song's, and the former will definitely not be able to say something like fighting against Emperor Yang Sui.

Also preventing Luo Cheng from killing Yang Guang, Yu Wencheng obviously had good intentions and tried to stop him, but he was punched and parted ways.

But Luo Song's few words made Luo Cheng really take it to heart, and he was even more determined to celebrate his aunt's birthday no matter what. He must enter Wagang Village.

Luo Song saw that his face was loose, and said again: "Okay, when you go to ask for grace, don't be so sullen, and speak more sincerely."

No, I'm still worried.

If that day Bao General Yuwen Chengdu came to the mansion again today, it would be better for others to take the lead in this matter. Cheng'er said it, but it seems that you take Qiao, what an honor it is to accompany the imperial court. Maybe Yang Guang was annoyed.

So in the evening, as usual, Yu Wencheng just walked to the front gate of Beiping Mansion, intending to stand for a while before leaving. Who would have thought that the long-closed gate would open, and the housekeeper respectfully welcomed him in.

Luo Song was also unambiguous, truthfully introduced his identity, and briefly explained the purpose of this trip, which was to worry about his young brother's carelessness and offend the nobles, so he went to the city to take a peek.

Luo Song thought to himself, you even concealed the fact that Cheng'er wanted to kill Yang Guang, it's really a trivial matter that he entered the capital without heeding the call.

Sure enough, after listening to his suggestion, Yu Wencheng frowned slightly, raised his head and said, "Luo Cheng wants to leave?"

"Cheng'er has never traveled far since he was a child. This time, after a few months of separation, my concubine's tears are almost dry, thinking about this and that. No, I will come to the capital just because of my concubine's birthday. I want to let Cheng'er My son asked for leave and went back to celebrate the birthday of the mother and concubine."

"Is Luo Cheng willing?"

"nature."

Yu Wencheng lowered his head and murmured, his tone was quite awkward: "Your Excellency, does Luo Cheng know that Luo Chenghe—" rebellious?Still want to kill the emperor?It was hard for Yu Wencheng to open his mouth.

Luo Song seemed to see through his thoughts, sighed lightly, shook his head and said, "To be honest with General Tianbao, Cheng'er was spoiled by his family since he was a child. Consequences, sometimes it is inevitable to offend the nobleman, don't be in a hurry when you go back to Nanyang Pass last time, your father will not have time to tell you anything in the future, this time you want him to go back, it is also to talk about him well, think twice before acting."

After hearing what he said, Yu Wencheng didn't understand anything.Thinking about it, he is his own family after all, so he can't understand Luo Cheng's temperament. Yu Wencheng suddenly remembered that before he left, Luo Yi, the king of Peking, hosted a banquet in honor of his elder nephew and younger nephew, so he couldn't help but wryly smiled and shook his head. I expected this to happen, no wonder I was not very enthusiastic when I saw him.

It's good to leave for a few days, let the Peiping Wang and his wife teach them well, and if they look like this all day long, something will happen sooner or later.

Thinking of this, Yu Wencheng said, "Young master, don't worry, I will ask for leave for Luo Cheng tomorrow morning." He pretended to casually glance into the room, but he didn't see Luo Cheng at all, he was still angry .

Luo Song pretended not to have seen his action, and thanked him without mentioning it.

The next day went to court, and the court was full of civil and military affairs.

Yu Wencheng said with a blank face, it turned out that Luo Shaobao had been ill for several days this time, and there were traces to follow.Yesterday when he visited his doctor, he heard Luo Shaobao who was sleeping on the bed muttering to himself, it turned out that Luo's mother's birthday was in front of him, and Luo Shaobao was very filial, so he was willing to serve the imperial court, so he couldn't be filial by his mother's side like in previous years, feeling uneasy and depressed And sick.

When Yang Guang heard this, it turned out that this was the case, so he said, with Luo Cheng's body, how could he have a fever and recuperate for seven or eight days before he recovered? He thought, no matter how bad it was, let the imperial doctor Let him see a doctor.Now when Yu Wencheng said it, he suddenly realized that it was the child who showed great filial piety and was depressed in his heart.

Yang Guang asked curiously: "It's my concubine's birthday, and it's understandable to want to go to celebrate her birthday in person, but why didn't he mention this to me?" I don't seem to be such an unreasonable person.

Yu Wencheng nodded slightly and said: "My minister guessed that Luo Shaobao probably wanted to accompany the emperor, and felt that he was deeply favored by the emperor, so how could he be ashamed to show the emperor's appreciation? If he hadn't fallen asleep and muttered to himself, my minister I don’t even know what he’s thinking.”

Yang Guang sighed, he really didn't miss him, Luo Cheng is indeed a good boy who is honest and upright.

Yang Guangda waved his hand and said, "This child thinks too much, am I the one who is unreasonable? Pass my word of mouth, I think of his filial piety, and grant him a month's leave, and return to Beiping mansion to celebrate his mother's birthday go."

Yuwen Chengdu kowtowed: "My minister, on behalf of Luo Cheng, kowtowed to thank the emperor for his grace."

After finishing the holiday, Yuwen Chengdu checked the deployment of the guards in the palace again. Just as he was about to leave the palace, he saw a lady-like person in a light blue palace costume looking in his direction.

He knew that maid, she was Princess Ruyi's personal maid, named Axiu.

Seeing him looking this way, Axiu timidly approached slowly, bent her knees, bowed and said: "I have seen General Tianbao."

"What are you doing here?"

Although I have seen it countless times, General Tianbao is not as friendly as Luo Cheng and Luo Shaobao, and the killing aura all over his body makes people tremble.

Axiu lowered her eyes and said boldly: "The princess asked the servant to find Luo Cheng and Luo Shaobao, but the servant did not see Shaobao for a few days. Later, the little eunuch in the imperial hospital said that Shaobao was ill and was recuperating at home. The princess was worried. Shaobao's body, so let the slaves wait for the general here, and ask the general how Shaobao is doing."

"Luo Shaobao is indeed feeling unwell and is recuperating in the mansion. He will not be on duty for the past few days. The emperor has already granted Luo Shaobao a one-month leave, allowing him to return to Beiping Mansion to celebrate the birthday of his mother and concubine."

"Ah?" Axiu opened her mouth, realizing that she had lost her composure, and quickly lowered her head.

"The princess asked you to find Luo Shaobao, but why is it important?"

Axiu murmured: "It's not a big deal, but the Empress recently rejected the princess, saying that the princess should get married in a year or two, it's time to calm down, the princess won't be able to go out these days." , Axiu also secretly glanced at the person in front of her eyes, "So, the princess asked the slave to send a letter to Luo Shaobao, and the princess can't do anything about him."

Yu Wencheng knew what he was asking for as soon as he heard it, so he waved his hands and said, "Go back and tell Princess Ruyi that I will tell Luo Shaobao."

"Well, the servant has retired."

Yu Wencheng responded in a low voice, and Axiu turned and left with a sigh of relief.

That day, Princess Ruyi slapped Empress Xiao sideways, saying that she had taken a fancy to a maidservant in Suiyuxuan and wanted a playmate, but Queen Xiao refused without even thinking about it, even with an ugly face. Asking the princess who made her say these words, fortunately the princess was clever, and insisted that she saw it by chance, and thought that girl was very clever, so she wanted to come.

Empress Xiao saw that the princess' tone was firm, so she didn't say anything else, but she didn't let the princess move around, and it was time to calm down when she was confined in the palace.

Axiu has completed the task assigned by the princess, so she can go back and talk to the princess, but she still hasn't been able to see Luo Shaobao, and she doesn't know how her condition is. Alas... the princess must be worried.

In the early morning of the next day, Luo Song disguised himself and joined Luo Shaobao's queue back to Beiping Mansion in Youzhou.

There were quite a few people who came to see Luo Cheng off. Han Qinhu and others all came. Looking at Dabai's spirits immediately, the young man in fresh clothes and angry horse, if he hadn't seen that his figure had lost a lot of weight, he would really have seen it. It doesn't come out that he has just recovered from a serious illness, and his energy is quite strong.

Han Qinhu and others couldn't help sighing, this is a young man with good health, the emperor only allowed him yesterday, today the depression in his heart is gone, he is alive and well again.

Yu Wencheng looked at him with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

The rest of the people left, and Yuwen Chengdu kept sending people to the gate of the city, even though they were just walking side by side along the way, Luo Cheng didn't speak.

When it was time to say goodbye, Luo Cheng kicked his legs and flew out without even turning his head.

Luo Song struggled and fell behind, lowered his voice and said: "I hope you can take more care of the matter of becoming a child."

Yu Wencheng was stunned for a moment, a little puzzled, what should be said, didn't I thank you yesterday?Why did the eldest son still have an embarrassed expression today.

It wasn't until he returned to the mansion after sending the man off that he heard a report from the officials of the Ministry of Punishment, saying that the craftsman's room only for Mr. The exquisite gadgets that the emperor wanted were developed in this room. He must have fallen asleep, accidentally knocked over the oil lamp, and set the blueprint wood on fire. As a result, a torch completely burned the craftsman's workshop, and Mr. He himself also died. What was burned turned into a coke... That scene is really pitiful.

Yu Wencheng was suddenly stunned, no wonder the eldest brother of the Luo family said that to him before leaving, smiled inwardly, and said to himself: "This kid has a really good memory."