Crown Sword

Shuang Li was silent, seeing Gong Yangyue and Chao Chenan sitting side by side on the bow of the boat, smiling, and suddenly felt relieved, and waved to Chang An: "You have a good saying, kindness, kindness makes money, it's nice to see them like this Yes, if I get married in the future, there will be someone who can accompany Lao Yue."

As soon as she mentions getting married, she thinks of Pavilion Master Shiang, her cheeks turn pink, and she holds her face together and smiles foolishly.

Gong Yangyue kicked on Zhouzi's partition, interrupting her sweet dream: "What are you doing dreaming about? I told you to study with Chao Chen on weekdays, and if you don't read, it's embarrassing now!"

Being told that, Shuang Li gritted his teeth and pushed back: "Who said I can't!"

She took advantage of the opportunity to snatch an empty wine jar, touched the cups and jars, and sang with a crisp voice: "If you are a scholar, you don't know the book. If you are a filial piety, your father lives away. Han Suqing is like mud, and Gao Diliang is as timid as you are." Chicken (note 1)!"

"What about imagery?"

"Here, Xiucai, Xiaolian!" She pointed at Yancai and Changan, and got away with it.

This nursery rhyme is actually an insinuation of corruption. She is so careless and pointing at people, but she offends them invisibly. It’s just a word I don’t understand!”

Shuang Li made a grimace, and said in a strange way: "Lao Yue, don't look down on people, I already know it. This nursery rhyme is about people like you, who are picky, no one is good or bad, and you are like an old hen all day long. Go on and on and on, cowardly as a chicken, as timid as a chicken, and you will run wild in your nest!"

Gong Yangyue couldn't help laughing: "The one in the nest is a big goose. I don't know who was chased and bitten by a white goose in Xishu before, and would just sit on the ground and cry."

Everyone laughed out loud.

Shuang Li was furious, but he couldn't scold him, so he could only ask Chao Chen for help: "Brother Chao, take care of him!"

Gong Yangyue continued to talk more and more vigorously: "It's useless to call you a fairy," Chao Chen turned his head and stared at him, Gong Yangyue stopped when he saw it, and hurriedly changed his words, "Forget it, don't talk about it, let's talk about it urgently." In a blink of an eye, someone should play tricks."

"Wait for me, let's see what you say, even I will pick out the bones from the eggs." The little girl sat down muttering.

Gong Yangyue raised his hand and pointed: "Seventeen hasn't sung yet, give him the finale, and I'll be the finale."

"I?"

Qiao Min, who was drinking and blowing alone, turned his face away, innocent and pitiful.

Shuangli suddenly stood up again, stepped on the stern deck, and was waiting for the help of righteousness, but Qiao Min didn't cooperate, facing the east, showing a rare smile, and humming softly: "The yellow bird, male and female Relying on each other. Thinking of my independence, who will return (Note 2)?"

"I heard Missing." Shuang Li was tongue-tied.

The poems are in Goguryeo, Qiao Min saw that several people were puzzled, so he translated them into Chinese and recited them again.Shuang Li applauded enthusiastically, boasting that there is nothing in the sky and the earth: "It's really like a lark, unlike some people who are incomplete. I can hear the bird's call, it counts!"

Seeing her "little man's success", Gong Yangyue couldn't help but yell at her: "Aren't you afraid of bedwetting if you say a lot of things against your will?"

"Don't fool me, you only wet the bed by playing with fire!" Shuang Li pointed at the extinguished bonfire on the bank and confronted him. He lit it with flint at night, "You light it, be careful!"

Gongyangyue didn't pick up any more. He copied the sword in his hand, held his head up and took a sip of wine, sprayed it on the sword, and then moved his toes to the center of the river, singing a song on the moon, which was Cao Zijian's "Famous Capitals".

Just look at his flat sword shaking, carrying the wind and dew at a point in the middle of the moon, and chanted: "There are many witches in the famous capital, and young men are born in Jingluo. The sword is worth a thousand gold, and the clothes are beautiful and fresh (Note 3)..."

As the sword rose, the hair full of blue hair suddenly spread out, hanging down on the sideburns, it was a little more magnificent and coquettish.Chao Chen leaned on the board of the boat and stared blankly, holding the small cup between his two fingers and shaking his arm lightly, like falling into a dream for a moment, he didn't know who was the boy and who was the witch.

No, maybe neither.

The kind of wanton and unrestrained that Gong Yangyue carries in his bones, if he was not born in the rivers and lakes, contaminated with dust and smoke, he would be a Wuling boy with a hawk and a dog, a white feather and a bow.

"Om-"

There was a sound of sword chanting, and the sword was raised high. The people in the river actually used the sword as an arrow, imitating the posture of drawing the bow to shoot the sun: "...the left hand is drawn from the right hand, and two birds connect with each other."

Chao Chen raised his eyes, and suddenly realized that the sword heart was pointing at him.

"Yu Qiao didn't show up in time, and raised his hand to catch the flying kite..." Gong Yangyue stabbed the moon with his sword, and flicked forward, stirring up a thousand layers of waves like a curtain.Looking away, Chao Chen's heart throbbed. He couldn't calm down for a long time, and unconsciously stretched out his hand to wipe the waves away, trying to wipe the water away. At that moment, he just wanted to see the red shadow more clearly.

Halfway through the sword dance, not only Gongyangyue sang, but the boat full of people joined in. Unfortunately, there was no fou in the boat, so they could only clap wood for festivals.When he sang "The day is galloping southward, the scenery is unattainable", Chao Chen retracted his hand, and the ram moon stepped on the water, grabbed him, turned around him, and sat back on the deck.

Gong Yangyue let go, took a breath, and a firefly slowly flew out of his palm——

"The clouds disperse and return to the city, and come back in the morning."

That little light really makes people feel like the moon is shining when the clouds open.

Shuang Li hugged the wine jar and hiccupped, laughing like a cat stealing fish: "Old Yue, there is no imagery in your poem!"

"There is good wine."

"There is a sword."

Yancai and Chang Daguan spoke from one left to the other.

"That's not counting, I've sung wine several times!" Shuang Li used the wine to build up her courage, and really started to play tricks, "Change to another, or drink if you don't change!"

Gong Yangyue was too lazy to care about it, rolled up a cup with a flick of his sleeve, raised his head to drink, then wiped his mouth, and said with a smile: "Actually, it can be changed. Isn't this "Famous Capital" singing about dudes?"

"Where did the dandy come from?"

"Me!" Gong Yangyue laughed and threw his cup, his eyes were fascinated, looking at Chao Chen who was sitting motionless beside him, he couldn't help but stretch out his index finger to pick his chin.

Chao Chen looked at him, his heart was beating like thunder for a moment, he turned his face away hastily, picked up the wine jar in a panic and drank.

This drink was too much, and when it was less than half a stick of incense, the wine was full of energy, and Chao Chen couldn't stand still, so he could only lie on his side while leaning on the plank of the boat, sticking his sleeves over the side.

Over the past few months, a group of five people has been like a tight string and cannot be loosened. It is rare to be unrestrained tonight. Even Qiao Min can't help drinking. Most of the people on the boat are drunk. It's drunk.

Chao Chen was very drunk, vaguely heard Gongyangyue calling himself, and reluctantly answered, turned his head and couldn't find anyone, and suspected it was an illusion, so he couldn't help laughing——

Ever since Gongyangyue repeatedly emphasized in the underground tower in Hanhai that if he calls his name, he must answer him, she seems to have formed a habit, no matter how far away, she always answers him subconsciously.

Why on earth should I obey him so much?

"What can I do? What can I do!" Chao Chen waved his hands and shouted, his sleeves fluttering down in the middle of the river.

Gong Yangyue was sitting on the bow of the boat drinking alone, when he heard the sound, he turned his head and saw that the gentleman in Tsing Yi, who was always well-dressed, now had his hat on one side and his clothes on his side, and was using his fingers to stir the river water. Can't help laughing.Just when he turned his gaze, Chao Chen muttered and started talking to himself again.

"What? I recall a story I heard in Jiangzuo. It said that General Huan Yi was good at singing and obsessed with music. He was known as the number one in Jiangzuo at that time. Every time he heard the singing, he couldn't restrain his love. He always stopped and shouted. No way." He paused, facing the phantom in nothingness, with a feeling of self-pity, "No way? No way! Later Taifu Xie An heard about this and said with a smile, this man Huan Ziye It’s really affectionate! (Note 4)”

The sparkling light in the river was just like Gong Yangyue's gaze when he looked back at him just now, Chao Chen lost his voice: "The love is deep in the past?"

Gong Yangyue approached slowly: "Chao Chen?"

When Chao Chen heard the call, he smiled idiotically, and it happened that the shadow of Gongyangyue was reflected on the water. At that moment, he only thought that the voice came from the water, and he frowned unconsciously, very puzzled: "Gongyangyue, why did you fall into the water?" In the water?" He sent his body overboard again, stretched out his hand to fiddle with it, but he didn't notice that he fell downside down.

"Chao Chen!"

Gong Yangyue couldn't believe that such a big person could fall into the river by himself. He squatted on the boat and called his name, but the people in the water were so drunk and dizzy that they didn't even remember that they could swim. sink in the water.

Seeing something bad, Gong Yangyue immediately jumped down to catch people.

Chao Chen choked on the water and was ups and downs in the river, when suddenly someone grabbed him, the desire to survive forced him to get entangled with his hands and feet.Although the water in April was not bone-chilling, it was still cool enough. He shivered, and involuntarily moved closer to the warmth, and put his arms around Ramyue's neck.

"Whoa-"

When the two surfaced, Chao Chen's arms tightened at this moment, and his lips barely brushed Gong Yangyue's lips.Gong Yangyue was startled, and suddenly raised her head, looking at that face, feeling a little itchy.

While he was looking at it, Chao Chen sneezed in disappointment.

Gong Yangyue wished to press his head and throw him into the water, but in the end, she suppressed her anger and just grabbed his shoulders and shook: "Hey, Chao Chen, are you awake? Who am I?"

"Bastard!" Chao Chen's eyelids drooped, he clicked his tongue, and cursed.

"..."

Gong Yangyue stretched out his hand to slap his face, trying to wake him up, but he couldn't do it when his palm was close to him, and finally looked up to the sky and sighed, and brushed the messy hair sticking to his face behind his ears.

Chao Chen suddenly raised his head and stared into his eyes.

Gong Yang Yue gave a pause: "Huh?"

Chao Chen didn't answer.

"You, do you have any questions to ask me?" It's not that Gong Yangyue never paid attention, but he just didn't care about small things. But at this moment, he suddenly recalled that Chao Chen hesitated to speak several times, as if he had something to hide. In my heart, I wanted to ask but didn't ask.

If it is said that during the period between southern Yunnan and Bashu, there was no opportunity for being entangled in trifles, but the journey after leaving Jianmen Pass was not without opportunities for a long time, but Chao Chen never opened his mouth to ask about the follow-up of Donghu.

why not ask?

He also asked himself many times in his heart, it wasn't because of the bigness of the matter and the wide-ranging implications and he had scruples as an excuse, and it was no longer because he was suspicious of Gongyangyue's nonsense when he was traveling in Dunhuang. The words were silenced, and he actually faintly felt hesitant and worried——

He was afraid, afraid that Gongyangyue had something to do with the East Lake incident, and that this mess would not end well after all. Reason to stay here again, walk with them.

It's ridiculous that he actually fell in love with this nondescript relationship from the bottom of his heart.

"Hush," Chao Chen leaned forward, resting his forehead on Gong Yangyue's shoulder, and said softly, "...the third wish, I hope that you and I will settle our grievances, and that one day we can both seek benevolence and obtain benevolence. "

"Then what are you asking for?"

Chao Chen gave a wry smile, let go of his hand, and slowly fell into the water.

Shuang Li retched on the boat, saw the two indistinct figures, couldn't help rubbing his eyes, and greeted Qiao Min who was nearest: "Seventeen, am I dazzled, why is there someone in the river?"

Gong Yangyue glanced over, grabbed Chao Chen's hand, and skimmed onto the bow of the boat with a flick of lightness.

The two sat side by side.

Chao Chen saw the overturned wine jar out of the corner of his eye, and stretched out his hand to grab it, as if he hadn't had enough fun, Gong Yangyue made a face, hit him hard on the back of the hand, stepped on the sampan, and swung the bottle into the water.Being beaten in vain, Chao Chen dazedly rubbed his hands, looking a little aggrieved.

But soon, the gloom dissipated, and he laughed again: "It's been a long time since I was so happy." After speaking, he sang poems again, starting from the Three Hundred Poems of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, and continued to sing the speeches of the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty.

"It's too ugly," Gong Yangyue said sharply, disgusted, "Shut up, Chao Chen."

Chao Chen turned his head and smirked at him.

Gong Yangyue sighed, but she shut up as if resigned to her fate, and just listened to him quietly.

Tired of singing, Chao Chen tilted his head and fell asleep leaning on Gong Yangyue's shoulder.Seeing that he was shivering from the cold, Gong Yangyue worked half-reluctantly, drying his clothes with internal force, and straightening his clothes thoughtfully.

Chao Chen was restless in his sleep, and unconsciously approached and wrapped his arms around him. Gong Yangyue froze, and suddenly thought wickedly, if the wet clothes were cold, maybe this guy would stick closer. At the end of the thought, he couldn't help laughing, When Chao Chen wakes up, he must praise him hard, praise him a lot, so that next time he will continue to drink.

Shuang Li fell on the boat, kicked his feet, and threw his shoes on Qiao Min's face. Qiao Min woke up with a start, with black feet on his face, looking for a new gap to avoid, and the stern of the boat suddenly swayed.

Gong Yangyue's face darkened, and then she thought, if there is a next time, it must be a time when there are only the two of them.

It was midnight, and the ferryman didn't rest, but came to look for people with a basket. It was estimated that Chang'an didn't give enough money, and he was afraid that a group of them would drive him to eat and go downstream.

Gong Yangyue was awake, seeing him waving his arms and gesticulating far away, so he pushed the boat with inner strength, approached the shore, and took out some small coins to supplement him: "I'm all asleep, return it tomorrow morning, how about it?"

The ferryman shook his head but didn't answer, he didn't come to watch, but he heard the sound of singing and the noise of falling into the water, so he came to have a look because he was afraid that they might capsize in a drunken situation.Gong Yangyue thanked him for his kindness, but the ferryman didn't accept it, but took the basket and walked to the other side of the ferry, lit joss sticks and burned paper money.

There is no tomb and tombstone, just paying homage like this, it looks a bit weird.

"Why don't you go there?" After a long time, Gong Yangyue pointed to the green mound in the distance and asked.

"Different."

The ferryman shook his head and explained in a deep voice: "Do you remember what I said during the day? There were people living in this area before, and those graves were built by them, but after they moved out, there are almost all empty tombs there. As for this, yes My personal habit, every year at this time, I will come here to worship."

"More than 20 years ago, many people died here."

"I was an orphan on the prairie. Later, I wandered here. Those people gave me some food. I survived and punted at the ferry. Later, three rivers and lakes came here, a couple, and a lone traveler. I remember very clearly, that woman was carrying a very beautiful machete, the inscription on it was a seal that only nobles could use—"

Yan Cai, who was leaning on the wooden boat in a shallow sleep, suddenly opened his eyes, he tilted his head slightly, and did not set his eyes on the boatman who was recalling, but locked tightly on Gong Yangyue's back.

The ferryman continued: "The people here listened to the man's words and were determined to leave, but I was content with the status quo and didn't want to go to a distant place, so I stayed. I will always remember that day, the second day after the migration, when I came to A large number of men in black rushed towards the couple. They fought in the field and many people died. I collapsed on the bank of the river because I was too drunk, and I simply lay in the pile of dead people and pretended to be a corpse. I survived by luck. This matter has been buried in my heart, and I can’t feel at ease.”

Gongyang Yue asked, "Why are you uneasy?"

"Because I was lying on the ground and just watched her die like this," the ferryman turned around and said quietly, "She died right in front of me."

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Note 1: Quoted from "Huan Ling Shi Nursery Rhymes"

Note 2: Quoted from the Goguryeo poem "Yellow Bird Poetry"

Note 3: Quoted from Cao Zhi's "Famous Capitals"

Note 4: The prototype of the story comes from "Shishuoxinyu"