Crown Sword

Before you know it, the east is white.

Yancai had a sleepless night, and got off the boat early to bury Fengduo by the river. The ferryman stood on the wasteland and pointed to the direction where the woman with the machete on her back in the story left. On the post, I bowed three times to the beginning of the day and the Changfeng by the Wuding River.

Chao Chen came over to call him.

Gong Yangyue stared at him, stretched out his hand to his side without saying a word, and directly pressed his head to worship together.

Chao Chen struggled to jump away, at a loss: "What are you doing?" Just after finishing speaking, in a blink of an eye, Yan Cai, who was downhill, bowed to Changfeng in a respectful manner, and was even more confused for a while, so he could only tentatively Question: "Is there any important person buried here? But it seems that there is no record in the classics of Zhiyi that I have read..."

"Maybe." Gong Yangyue said softly, turned around to leave, and ignored people.

Chao Chen took a peek and saw that his eyes were full of melancholy, and his heart softened, so he smiled and pulled him over: "What is maybe!" He put his hands together in front of his chest, stood up calmly, and made a standard bow Li, said loudly: "Then respect the mountains, rivers, plants, sun, moon and stars, and may the old man be like the wind, and his soul return to his hometown!"

"Hometown? Hometown! Chao Chen, tell me, where is my hometown?" Gong Yangyue turned her head, looked at him fixedly, and stretched out her hand involuntarily.

Chao Chen said softly: "Sitting in two places, the bright moon is in the same sky, probably the moon's light is my hometown."

"Hey! What are you two talking about? It's time to go!" Shuang Li waved vigorously from below, "Lao Yue, Lao Yue, did you listen to me, where are we going next? Where are we going?" Seeing Being ignored by the two, she could only stomp her feet fiercely on the grass.With this stomp, he almost kicked the horse's hooves, the horse avoided two steps, Chao Chen shook off the bundle hanging on the saddle, and right above it was a leather scroll with Zhanfengduo patterns.

"Is this a map?"

The first two small pictures - Helan Mountain and Wuding River have already been sketched, but the last two places are not marked. Shuang Li picked it up and turned it sideways in his hands, but he didn't see why.

It just so happened that Yancai walked behind her, and inadvertently glanced at the blueprint, pointed to the third small picture and said in surprise, "This, isn't this the Zhaojun Tomb?"

"you know?"

"It's near Yunzhong County." Yan Cai nodded and looked up at Gongyangyue.

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Going east along the Yunzhong River, after summer, the water and grass are luxuriant, and the Chenghu Lake is like a mirror. You can often see flocks of birds wading and playing in the water, and rabbits and deer running heartily in the depressions on the bank.Cities and towns are not as common as in the south, and the wilderness is too vast. For travelers who are not familiar with the journey, if they go in the wrong direction, it is common for them to miss the market for ten and a half months.

Fortunately, there are Yancai and Chang Daguan as guides, and Zhaojun's tomb happens to be on the way to Yunzhong Shengle City, so they can go together.

I haven't seen a big city, and it's easy to bump into wolves when sleeping outdoors at night, so a few people stop and go to count their days, and try to find settlements where herdsmen live.

In June, news spread from Zhongshan City that Emperor Yan Murong Chui died of illness at the age of seventy.

Yan territory mourned, the court was in turmoil, the Yan army who attacked Dai had to be forced to withdraw from Canhepi, Prince Murong Bao ascended the throne, the power and power of the whole country were changed in a bloodbath, and the danger of Dai was resolved.

"What about Ram Moon?"

"I saw him at the back of the river beach just now, he was chatting with the shepherd." These days, Gongyangyue often walks alone, and Chao Chen will look for him three or five times a day. If you click Hongying, you will pay attention to him.

I have never seen Gong Yangyue so fond of gossiping and chatting about family affairs before, but for some reason recently, as long as he stops to rest, he will make such abnormal behaviors. Shuang Li was a little worried, and said: "Did Lao Yue find out What important clues are we afraid that we will be worried, so we bear the burden by ourselves?"

"I don't know." Chao Chen was also puzzled.

Shuang Li was surprised, and teased in a sour tone: "How could you not know? You two are as good as wearing a pair of panties now."

"Little carp, pay attention to your wording." Chao Chen solemnly cleared his throat.

"Look!" Unexpectedly, Shuang Li screamed in surprise, walked around him, and said in a daze, "Even the tone of the speech is similar, I think that Lao Yue said this before!" She pointed at him. Chao Chen pushed his back and urged, "Oh, go and have a look, don't forget to take care of me, I'll wait here, I'll have fresh milk soon!"

Chao Chen was apprehensive, but still did as he did. He rolled his sleeves and went around to the valley behind the river beach, and found a few old herdsmen basking in the sun on the grassy slope. chat.

It was really a mistake, you have to understand the corner to listen to it!

Just when Chao Chen was about to show up, a small hand tugged at his pants, and asked in a childlike voice, "Brother, what are you looking at here? Are you looking at the big brother in red?"

He recognized this child as the fat boy from the second son's family of the herdsman. His father worked in a post booth in a nearby town. As a post envoy, he knew some languages ​​of several countries.Chao Chen thought for a while, pulled the man back to his side, hugged him in his arms and gestured for silence, and asked softly, "Do you know what they are talking about?"

"Grandma said, a good boy can't eavesdrop."

Chao Chen was a little embarrassed. He never thought that one day he would be educated by a half-grown boy. This kind of bad thing is rarely done, and he can't even come up with a temporary excuse. They are talking about important things, and they will be disturbed if they rush forward."

The child thought for a while, and pouted: "It shouldn't be a big deal." He pointed back at Gong Yangyue, rolled his eyeballs around, and smiled brightly, "The big brother, he's asking about... a sister."

When an adult speaks and speaks bluntly about a woman, to a kid, she is not a big sister.

"sister?"

"Yeah, it seems like you have a child with you?" The child scratched his head, seeing Chao Chen's expression as if struck by lightning, his heart instantly twisted into a ball, and he carefully comforted, "Brother, don't be too sad."

"Why should I be sad..." Chao Chen patted the boy, "Go back quickly."

The child was about to leave with the metal bucket, timid and worried. He looked back and ran back to embrace Chao Chen with his arms outstretched, and comforted him in a childlike voice: "Grandma said, when you are sad, you should cry hard. But boys who cry will make people laugh, so you have to hide secretly."

Chao Chen was so teased that he couldn't laugh or cry.

"Hiding for what?" Gong Yangyue kicked the tree trunk, and the fallen leaves rustled all over Chao Chen's cap.

"Brother Chao heard that you have a girl you like, so I'm very sad," the fat boy didn't have a brake on his mouth. It's like a pot bottom.The kid still had sharp eyesight, seeing that expression, he ran away like a jerk.

If you can't run, you will be caught in two steps.

Gong Yangyue stood with arms folded, looking at the big and small ones calmly.The little one couldn't stand his aura, so he deflated his mouth, and cried out in grievance: "It wasn't me who said it, it was Mom and Dad who said it. The last time Uncle He Chuan's wife ran away, he was the same Looks like that," the fat boy sniffed, and touched the corner of Gong Yangyue's clothes with tears in his eyes, "Big brother, is the sister you inquired about just now your sweetheart?"

"No," Gongyang Yue explained impatiently, threatening to raise his fist, "you cry again."

If the fat boy really shut up, his emotions come and go like a hurricane on the sea: "Who is that?"

"...It's a person, I don't know whether to treat her well or treat her badly." Gong Yangyue rubbed the child's hair, and looked away from the sky, as if he could follow the flowing clouds and go to the place in his heart , See people who make him tangled and helpless.

The kid obviously wasn't connected to him, so he glanced back at Chao Chen and quickly waved his hands to explain: "I'm not asking about that sister, I'm asking about your sweetheart..."

Gong Yangyue's face collapsed in an instant: "Elm lump, there is nothing to ask, and there is nothing to talk about. Don't worry about children so much."

"Elm, what kind of wood is it?" The fat boy stared wide-eyed, looked around, just happened to see the tree behind Chao Chen, and said happily, "Ah, I know, it's that—" Huhu moved his finger forward a little, "Isn't it?"

Chao Chen raised his eyes with an innocent look on his face.

Gong Yangyue was stunned, he didn't know whether his finger was pointing at a person or a tree, he just met his eyes blankly, and after a long time, he raised the corner of his lips and nodded lazily.

"Wow, big brother, what you like is so different from others."

Chao Chen copied his hands, his doubts deepened, and he immediately warned the people around him righteously: "What are you talking to him? Gongyangyue, don't teach children badly."

Gongyangyue smiled, let go of his hand in silence, the fat boy immediately picked up the iron bucket, and chased his mother who was driving the sheep into the pen on the grassy slope.

That figure is small, not aware of sorrow, not seeing parting, bright and flying, carrying an iron bucket as tall and short as him is not too difficult, on the contrary, it runs more and more vigorously, looking like a whirlwind from a distance.

"Grandma, Grandma—"

The woman driving the sheep didn't hear it and was in a hurry to leave, so he kept shouting at the top of his voice.When the wind blows up his sleeves, the hunting sounds like a beating sail.

The milking woman brought the dick and came, and when she crossed her body with the ram, she sighed in a low voice: "On the grassland, there is no man in the family, and a single woman with a child will be looked down upon!"

Gong Yangyue froze, and lowered her eyelashes in the voice of "Ama, Ama"——

The running figure seemed to coincide with the childhood self in an instant, just where laughter and laughter flew by, not an empty and vast field, but a house bound by floors.

……

It snowed all night in Wangting, and the backlog was thick, and there were no shoes as soon as they settled down.

After running wildly for a while, he tiptoed into the warm room to steal pastries. He never thought that there was someone in the room, and the lady in the colorful knitted woolen jacket was standing in front of the window in a daze, with a mouthful of food under her feet. An old wooden box, and some messy little things piled up on the blanket beside him.

"coming."

From the corner of the eye, she caught a glimpse of those eyes leaning against the door frame, and the woman squatted down and waved to him.He rubbed his little hands that were red from the cold, walked in with his head down, hesitantly wanted to rush up and hug her legs and call out "A Niang", but in the end he didn't seem to dare, he just stood a foot away and respectfully called out: "Mother!" .”

The woman helped him straighten his crooked felt hat, wiped the slush off his trouser legs, and put down his rolled-up sleeves.His eyes fell on Kong Ruye's waist, he suddenly became frightened, and said sharply: "Yue'er, where is your Jinshui Bodhi?"

"Here," he stretched his hand into his bosom, holding the golden jade, and said timidly, "Mother said this thing should not be thrown away. I was afraid that it would break when I was running and jumping, so I hung it around my neck."

The woman breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed his head: "Go and play by yourself, and let the nanny cook what you want to eat."

"I……"

Seeing that he was about to say something, the woman looked suspicious: "What's wrong?"

"I have a question," he plucked up the courage to say, "Why can I call you daddy or father, but I can only call you mother?" In the story told by the nanny, it is obvious that people in the Central Plains call mother, and since his father is the Central Plains People, he is considered half of them, and why repeated orders and repeated requests are not allowed, it is really puzzling.

The woman laughed heartily, but there was a look of fatigue in her eyes: "In addition to mother, you can also call me grandma."

"Okay, Mom!" He laughed loudly, and happily grabbed the woman's hand, "Grandma, let's go play in the snow!" The woman couldn't resist him, so he agreed, saying that there were still some old things that needed to be tidied up. Tell him to go first.

He slipped out of the door, went to the window and peeped in secretly while leaning on the countertop, and found that she had hidden a broken machete wrapped in colored thread at the bottom of the box.

I thought it was some treasure, but it turned out to be a broken knife!

"Mother!" He pushed his arms hard, exposing his whole head, and made a face at her. Just now he promised her well, but now he backtracked and shouted brazenly, "Mother, mother!"

"...Mother, why are you crying?"

……

"Ram month?"

Chao Chen was taken aback by the sudden stalemate, seeing that he hadn't recovered for a long time, he yelled twice, and finally something happened.Gong Yangyue turned her head, and the mist gradually filled up in those ancient well-free eyes, making it difficult to see clearly.Chao Chen pursed his lips, as if being stabbed in the heart, carefully turned his face away.

"What do you want to say?" Gong Yangyue caught up with him.

"I, just now, what..." No man is willing to expose his emotional embarrassment in front of others, not to mention Gong Yangyue is not a sentimental person, Chao Chen's eloquent tongue when chatting is now a roll , It was not easy to say for a long time, "Grandma, no, I mean..." Being stared at by him, he shook out the words of the fat boy nervously, "When you are sad, you have to cry, but crying will hurt people. It's a joke, you have to hide secretly."

"No need." Gongyang Yue laughed.

"Ok?"

The tall shadow fell from the head and covered Chao Chen, Gong Yangyue leaned slightly and hugged him: "Let me give you a hug, Chao Chen."

He didn't have auditory hallucinations?

Chao Chen stood on the spot like a log, not daring to move an inch, even breathing became stiff.

"It's really elm lumps." Gong Yangyue sighed beside his ear, "You are so stingy, can't you be eloquent, You Aiqing, and Tan Xuan? You might as well tell a comforting story."

No matter how you listen, this tone sounds like a baby.

Gong Yangyue is really ruthless when he is ruthless, he is ruthless to others, and he is even more ruthless to himself, but if he softens his heart, sometimes he will be as childish as a child. It won't be like this, only those who have tasted sweetness and then fell into the sea of ​​bitterness and can't turn back will be like this.

"Gongyangyue, you don't need to be comforted, no, it's a person like you who doesn't care at all, and doesn't even bother to give verbal comfort." In Chao Chen's heart, such a flamboyant person is like a lone wolf on the grassland, How can it be like the weak cattle and sheep, or the timid and cowardly rat, relying on sympathy and pity, begging from others to compensate the soul, "... Then, it will not be the ram month I know."

The swordsman in red was stunned, and listened to him continue.

"However, although there is no consolation, it's okay to encourage it." Chao Chen involuntarily raised his arms that were hanging in the air, and hugged him back.