Am I a scumbag?

Although Yan Yuliang's hip hurts, but he is very curious.

"who is it?"

Zhuang Qingqu lowered her eyes: "Shilu's elder brother. The emperor's teacher, Shiyun."

"It's the two of us... and also Xun Chang, Yu Wen, and Tan Tai, the master of all of us."

Shi Yun.

Yan Yuliang had seen this name in the annals of this dynasty.

When he first succeeded to the throne in the first year of Jinyu, both Zhuang Qingqu and Shi Lu were still 15-year-old youths, and they were far from the time to become famous in the battlefield.

At that time, the three-legged pillars of the Great Xia army were Taiwei Zhuang Xinhuo, the restrained and cautious old general Xia Houlie, and Wu'an Hou Shiyun.

Among them, Shili is the youngest, but the most promising.

Even the title of "Great Xia God of War" belonged to Shi Yun before King Lan.

Yan Yuliang: "But I remember this person..."

He remembered that Shi Yun died in battle.Died young,?? The official historian sighed.

Shi Yun died in Jinyu for one year.A lot of things happened that year, Beimo was harassed, Yingzhou was uneasy, the treasury was empty, the people were hungry and cold, the foundation of the emperor was unstable, the Zhuang family and the Tantai family took over the power, and the subordinate country Yuelu was overwhelmed. Luoyun invaded and could not be rescued.

One piece after another, like black clouds pressing down on the city, even today when I look back at Yan Yuliang, I feel that it is difficult to resist.

It's really hard to imagine how the 21-year-old myself survived.

In the winter of that year, Shi Yun died in battle in the vast snow in northern Xinjiang.The star is falling, the whole country is mourning, and the road ahead of Daxia is as uncertain as a candle in the wind.

On the night when the bad news came back to the capital, it snowed heavily in Huadu.

It was already freezing cold, and it was even more dead silent.

Under the pear tree in the racecourse, Shi Yun buried the pear blossoms for many years. Zhuang Qingqu followed Yan Yuliang, and watched him go under the tree to dig out the wine.

See him shivering and dressed roughly, and see his knuckles turn red from the cold.

The pear blossoms in the bottle were all frozen and could not be poured out at all.

Yan Yuliang went to warm up the wine, the strong wine burned his throat,?? Zhuang Qingqu was young, so he didn't let him drink it, so he just swallowed it by himself.

I drank a lot, got drunk, and still didn't cry.

The young emperor did not believe in tears.Even if a person is at the bottom of fate, even if the road ahead is ignorant, even if he can't see his fingers, and there is no moonlight when he looks up.

Yan Yuliang listened quietly.

He doesn't remember what Zhuang Qingqu said.He tried hard to think about that person, Shi Yun, Shi Yun, but he couldn't remember.When the heart silently recited the name over and over again, it slowly evoked a faint pain, but the mind was still blank.

King Lan: "Azhao, don't worry, don't worry."

He hugged him distressedly, telling him not to think about it.But Yan Yuliang was unwilling.Since that person is the emperor's teacher, Zhuang Qingqu said that he is the master of all of them, so how could he not remember?The more he couldn't remember, the more anxious he was to know.

"I won't go back to the city anymore, I want to go and have a look right away."

The name Shi Yun was actually not only mentioned by King Lan today, but also by Shi Lv last night.

Last night, the Green Willow Army ambushed outside the city, and the flames were soaring.Shi Li stood on the city wall and looked out, his hands itching in anxiety.

"Brother Liang, you can stay here by yourself. I'll take a group of people down and intercept them from behind! No one of them can escape."

Yan Yuliang stopped him: "No, you are not allowed to go. Don't hide when you return to your teacher, don't force the poor, and besiege the teacher. You are not allowed to make trouble for King Lan."

Lawyer: "Ah? What?"

Yan Yuliang was helpless: "Let you read more books! As a general, how could you not know that there is a saying in this world that there is a 'fight between trapped beasts' and 'death in a net'. Even if it is an annihilation battle, once the opponent is completely cut off on the battlefield If people have nowhere to go from the back road, even if they are in a hurry, they will jump over the wall. What's more, the enemy army is still an elite?"

"Not to mention anything else, if it was you, if you were dead anyway, wouldn't you kill a few enemies to get back your money? This kind of dead end is the most difficult to deal with, not to mention that if the interception fails, the defenders in the city will be reduced and let them Is it okay to fight into the city?"

He only cared about educating teachers and law.

Suddenly, Shi Li rushed forward and hugged him tightly.

"Brother..." The young man's voice was aggrieved, and he shed a lot of tears, "Brother Shi Yun, Brother Shi Yun, Ah Lu misses you so much...Wow, wow, wow, brother emperor, you sounded like my big brother just now!"

Yan Yuliang was dumbfounded.

He looked around and patted Shi Lu's head.Although he knew that Shi Lv and Lan Wang were both 25 years old, but for some reason, he always looked at Shi Lv as if he was looking at a young boy of sixteen or seventeen.

Bloody, brilliant, reckless, innocent.

He coaxed Shi Lv, and couldn't help thinking.And what kind of person would this boy's elder brother, the general who died young, be like?

Whether it is as heroic as him, whether it is as bright and hot as him.

……

In the summer desert, the setting sun will shine for a long time.

It's not too far away where they're going.

Yan Yuliang hugged Zhuang Qingqu's waist tightly, and the horse galloped in another direction in the jungle.Across the meandering springs, stepping on tree roots and moss, pine needles and leaves brushing past the cheeks, the sound of the wind.

Until a certain moment, the forest suddenly disappeared.

The wind howled and was quiet.In front of you is a piece of Gobi, with a desolate territory, a chaotic world, and a huge setting sun like blood in the sky.

Yan Yuliang opened his eyes wide.

Suddenly countless messy memories filled in.

Heart and ears are trembling and roaring.The horse gradually slowed down and walked on the Gobi in this piece of Pingchuan.

He remembered.

In the early years of Jinyu, this land once fell into Bei Mo's hands, and Shi Yun died on this land.

Shi Yun was 29 years old that year, and Yan Yuliang will be 29 next month.

In the 26th year of Xuanming, Shi Yun entered the court as a general.

The Zhuang family has the Green Willow Camp, and the Shi family has the Wutong Army.Both families are founding fathers of the Great Xia. Although Shi Yun's family is not as prominent as the Zhuang family, they are also generations of generals.

During the Xuannian period, the North Desert was repeatedly invaded, and the northern territory was constantly being eroded. The young Shi Yun finally persuaded the court to build Wutong cavalry to resist the desert cavalry.

He worked hard to train the Wutong cavalry, and he didn't know how much effort he spent.He wholeheartedly hoped to train a pair of rigorous iron cavalry to fight against the elite soldiers of Beimo.

But only one or two years later, the equipment and funding of the Wutong Army were severely cut.As a cavalry battalion, there is not even enough horses, so it is difficult to sustain.

Shi Yun wrote to Zhuang Xinhuo, to Tantai Rongyan, and to the emperor.

I have written countless times, but there is no news.

For hundreds of years, the Shijia family valued fame and integrity the most, so they have always been independent in the court and never formed a party.

The result turned out to be that no matter in the eyes of Zhuang's or Tantai's, they were people who could not be wooed and did not know how to flatter them, so they had to be suppressed.

In the 29th year of Xuanming, the Beimo army went south to plunder.

Although the Wutong Army fought against the enemy bravely, the entire army was eventually wiped out because of the large gap in strength and equipment.In that year, Yunsheng City was burned, and the father of the old general Xia Houlie vomited blood and died. It was Da Xia who barely ended the war by ceding land and paying compensation.Darkness.

The 21-year-old Shi Yun returned to the capital alone.

As "General Wu'an", he no longer has any soldiers to lead.

The government's incompetence has been entangled for a long time, and all the loyal soldiers and common people are just banners manipulated by the powerful, no matter how much he has the ambition to serve the country, it will be difficult to turn the tide.

Many of the military officers who returned to Beijing with Shi Yun had lost their luster.From then on, I indulged in sensuality, lingered in fireworks bars, and never asked about world affairs.

But Shi Yun entered the palace and became the Taifu.

In the Great Xia Dynasty, "Taifu" was an official position for the Pope's sons to study. They were not of high rank but could enter and leave the court at will.There are civil and military officials, and there are also those who specialize in teaching music, calligraphy and painting.

Shi Yun's family of military officers is also top-notch in riding and shooting, and it is suitable to be a martial arts master.

That year, Yan Yuliang was 11 years old and met Shi Yun for the first time.

On the horse show, the young and unruly general is full of heroism in a silver helmet and red tassels.Hei Jin hit the bull's-eye with a series of heavy bows, which attracted the cheers and admiration of the prince and accompanying readers who were still children at that time.

There was a bright fire in his eyes, which was Yan Yuliang's first impression of this person.

As for the other tutors, many of them already had their heads shaking and their fish-like cloudy eyes.

Great Xia's national fortunes have been sinking all the way, and many veterans feel uncomfortable, so they just avoid it and don't mention it, or drink away their worries in private.In those few years, there were walking corpses everywhere in the palace.

Only this man, who had just returned from the battlefield frustrated, still had a bright heart and enthusiasm.

……

The horse continued to walk slowly on the Gobi Desert.

"I seem to be a little... thinking of him."

Yan Yuliang didn't tell Zhuang Qingqu that those memories were too many and complicated, which made him feel unbearable for a while with a headache.But the person he leaned on seemed to know it, and stretched out a hand to gently rub it for him.

"Ah Zhao is not in a hurry, think slowly."

Yan Yuliang nodded, and slowly remembered something.

His previous handwriting was actually ugly.Although his mother is a literate medical girl, she is from Vietnam.All he was taught was crooked Yuelu tadpole prose.

Later, the beautiful cursive hand was taught by Shi Yun.

Ordinarily, the martial arts master should only teach them how to ride horses and shoot arrows, but Shi Yun is willing to stay in the palace and teach calligraphy to a second prince from a concubine who no one cares about and "has no future".

The second prince has no money and no protective gear for playing horse riding and shooting, so Shi Yun brought it for him from home.

Shi Yun would pretend not to see their small story books and fine wine.But when I learned that some children copied their homework, I talked to them gently and seriously.

I will tell them a lot of history books, truths, and stories about people's homes and battlefields.

When Yan Yuliang was 14 years old, Shi Yun reported to the emperor that he would take several princes and companions to hunt for a few days at a mulberry forest farm in the suburbs of Beijing.

Originally, they agreed, but the queen and the imperial concubine were afraid that their precious son would be injured, so they made excuses not to go, so Shi Yun only took the second prince and a few companions to go out.

He didn't take them to the mulberry paddock.

Instead, take them out of town.They had only seen the hustle and bustle of the eastern and western markets of the capital, and he showed them the lives of ordinary people.

See what it means to suffer from hunger and cold, what it means to be hungry on the road, and what it means to have a difficult life.

Seeing countless naked people in the snow and ice, seeing people crying and selling their children and daughters, seeing people doing hard work with their fingers bent and unable to straighten their waists, watching officers and soldiers driving people away, and seeing people's livelihood as worthless.

Countless histories, truths, and old news from previous dynasties are not as good as seeing them with your own eyes.

The son of the family, the young man in the palace.Really look at the stripped whitewash, bloody darkness and truth.

Shi Yun sighed, you are still young, I should not have brought you here.

But Daxia couldn't wait any longer.Surrounded by foreign enemies, constant internal worries, frequent wars, and barren land.If all this has not changed when you grow up...

Shi Yun has been the emperor teacher on and off for five years.

The reason for the interruption is that he is an invincible general after all, once the flames of war ignite, he still has to rush to the front line at the first moment.

But the Zhuang and Tantai clans were on guard against him, they sent him to fight every time, and immediately transferred back to continue to be the Taifu after the fight, they didn't give him their own soldiers, and didn't give him a chance to take root in the army.

In the days when Shi Yun is not around, everyone often misses him.

Everyone privately calls the other grand masters "Master", only Shi Yun, everyone calls him Shifu in private.

Yuwen Changfeng's father has a good relationship with Shi Yun's father, and often brings a lot of news about Shi Yun.

Everyone gradually knew that Shi Yun had a younger brother.The same age as Zhuang Qingqu, but was thrown into the barracks by his father because he was too stubborn and ignorant.

I also heard that General Shi Yun, whom they regard as gentle and gentle, is actually a ruthless man on the battlefield.

Not only good at arranging troops, but also good at fighting alone.Once in hand-to-hand combat, more than ten people were injured, and more than thirty people survived by hacking to death with a knife.

The Gobi stretches as far as the eye can see.The horse stopped, and the sky was setting sun like blood.

A stone tombstone.

Standing alone in this vast, silent expanse.

Walking over, Yan Yuliang saw something under the tombstone.

Two bottles of Lihuabai from the capital, and two bottles of Tusu from the desert.Tusu wine is old and has been covered with a lot of yellow sand, but Lihuabai is new.

There is also a stone, under which is pressed a piece of paper that looks old and has already been blown away by the wind.

Yan Yuliang picked it up, and it turned out to be Chengxintang paper in the palace, the words on it were not clear but still vaguely visible.

The imperial edict...Zhuang Qingqu regained the northern border...Pacified Yingzhou...Jianyun Shengzhou...canonized King Lan...

Many years later, the new "Great Xia God of War" who inherited Shi Yun's behest, fought back for Shi Yun all the territory that he failed to recover.

Yan Yuliang looked back at King Lan.

At this moment, Zhuang Qingqu is as white as an exiled immortal.But last night he was dressed in a chic armored uniform and a dark blue cloak.

Yan Yuliang finally remembered, a little more swallowed, a little funny: "Your one is the master's battle robe."

Zhuang Qingqu: "Yes."

Yan Yuliang: "Qing Qu looks a bit like him after wearing it. What I mean is..."

"Well, I know," Zhuang Qingqu held his hand, "None of us... are not like him."

Yes, no one looks like it.

Later, the little fox followed Shi Yun's example and wore a pair of earrings on the tips of his ears.

Yan Yuliang taught Shi Lv how he looked exactly like his own brother.

Shi Yun once said that if the world is peaceful in the future and there will be no more wars, he would like to travel around the world.He didn't go in the end, but Yuwen Changfeng did.

What Tan Taihong used was Shi Yun's heavy bursting bow. It was a heavy black gold bow, which was Shi Yun's bow.

In the dark and stormy Xuannian, Shi Yun was unable to turn the tide by himself.He went to pass a little spark to the younger children.

I hope that the little bit of fire in the darkness will one day burn into a prairie fire.

He didn't know if he could do it, but he had to give it a try.

Yan Yuliang: "Lan Lan, thank you for bringing me here. Thank you for visiting Master often."

Zhuang Qingqu: "I brought you here, not only to bring you to see Master and his old man, but also to let Master take a good look at you."

"Let Master see how powerful our Ah Zhao is. He must be very pleased."

"Master. Ah Zhao, whom you love the most, has now turned Daxia into what you always wanted to see."

"..."

In the past, every time Shiyun went to war, everyone was reluctant to bear it.

He will not lie to the children that I will definitely come back.Instead, don’t be sad if you really can’t come back, even if I’m gone, each of you will be me when you grow up.

In the first year of Jinyu, the emperor ascended the throne, and Shi Yun was full of joy.The best child he taught has become the lord of the country, and there is hope for this great summer.

He failed to return from Beimo that year, and the only thing he brought back was a blood-stained letter.

He said that there is no need for ancestral land to bury the bones, and where there are no green mountains in life, the emperor does not need to take his ministers back.

He said that if there is no reincarnation in this world, I would like to guard the northern border with my soul forever.

……

Time flies.

Jinyu resumed the imperial examination in the first year, and set up a school in the second year.In four years, Zhuang Qingqu regained Yanyun, and later defeated Yingzhou and Yuelu.

The country gradually changed from decadence to stability, and began to see a glimmer of prosperity...

During this period, Shilu Damo captured the family members of King Beimo, imprisoned General Luoyun in disregard of the military order, and robbed the mines of Yingzhou.

But no matter how much trouble he caused, Yan Yuliang was always willing to indulge him and protect him.

A letter from Hu Lu recently said that Yushu and sweet potatoes are about to be harvested.

There was a moment in the middle when he almost failed, but his father came running.His father reprimanded him for being stupid, saying that everything you grow is a joke?

Hu Lu is not as obedient as his younger brother, he directly said to his father that if you have the ability, you can help him not to hold his face and get out of the mountain.Even if I was bitten by a snake for ten years, I have been afraid of well ropes for several decades.Now that the world is in peace and prosperity, come out and work quickly.

And his younger brother Hu Lu is very busy building water weirs in the mountains.Also pulled a group of seniors and brothers.

By the way, the road was also repaired.

Whether it is building roads or water, it costs a lot of money, but in the long run, it is all beneficial and harmless.What the Great Xia Dynasty valued was long-term peace and stability.

Time flies.

the same evening.Tan Taihong's army came to Youlan City.

According to the customary battlefield morality, Shilu accepted the gold and treasures he brought, and also returned some of the trophies and prisoners of war he had confiscated.

Teacher Law: "Hahaha Amoye, you have suffered heavy losses and will be punished to death by King Wuluolu."

"Do you want to obey the destiny and surrender to our army?"

Tan Taihong: "I would like to, but unfortunately I can no longer."

Lawyer: "Huh?"

He rode his horse and turned around, with Shilu behind him shouting: "Come if you want? Why can't you? Daxia has always treated foreigners very well. When the time comes, it will not be a problem to enter the court as an official, and to be a marquis." .”

In the distant Luoyun across the sea, Xun Chang and Tan Taihong's undercover plan is in full swing.Not only has he penetrated into a certain "immortal sect" in Luoyun, but he has also become a well-known "pious believer" because of his ability to adapt to changes with a three-inch tongue and the power of gold and silver.

He also pretended to preach in Daxia, which was highly regarded by the "leader".

Xun Chang: "Is it the 'Luoyun Immortal Kingdom' that everyone talks about? I want to try to see if I can use the Immortal Cult to defeat the Immortal Kingdom."

In Huadu City, the imperial concubine Yan Luoying lost a lot of weight, and the imperial concubine was very distressed.

Really busy and tired.In the history books, everyone is vying for it, but what good is it to be an emperor?

But if you think about it carefully, the emperor is actually quite good.Didn't the emperor leave all the work to him and go to the desert to be happy?

……

On the way back to the city, Yan Yuliang leaned against King Lan's warm arms, feeling a little dazed.

He had completely forgotten about his mentor, and he only remembered it until today.It's so unfilial, alas.

He pondered for a long time.

It seems, maybe, maybe... He just has some things that he doesn't want to remember?

Although I don't want to admit it, I can think about happy things very quickly.On the contrary, for those who died young, neither their parents nor Shi Yun could remember them.

What happened to Tan Taihong, I can only remember part of it so far.

And the one he forgot the most was actually King Lan... As he thought so, he raised his eyes to look at Zhuang Qingqu.

Zhuang Qingqu: "Tired from sitting? Just bear with me, and I'll be back to the city in two or three miles."

As he said so, he stopped the horse.

Yan Yuliang: "What's wrong?"

Zhuang Qingqu didn't say anything, just circled him tightly.Just like many times in the palace, he just hugged him and didn't speak.It seems that just such a hug is enough to dissolve all the tiredness and regain new life.

But it actually seems to be possible.

Zhuang Qingqu's voice was muffled: "I feel sorry for Ah Zhao. I forgot the sad things before, and now I think about it again and feel sad again."

Yan Yuliang's fingertips hooked his sleeves.

"Not sad," he said.

"If you forget the happy things, you can be happy again."

Zhuang Qingqu hugged him tightly.

"The person who likes likes twice, can... become twice as liked?"