Dinon

The moon and the stars are not sparse tonight, but it is very suitable for telling stories.

Yuan Shuyi covered her beautiful face with the cattail fan, and lay down on her reclining chair relaxedly, shaking and shaking, slowly as if time was being shaken away.

Tuo Bachen changed out of her wet clothes, and when she was about to go out, she saw Yuan Shuyi's appearance. After thinking about it, she also moved a recliner from the back room, put it next to Yuan Shuyi, and lay down on it.

"I didn't think it was before, but now I look at it, it seems that these stars are really far away from us." Yuan Shuyi took the cattail fan off his face, threw it on the ground, put his right hand on his forehead, and half opened it. Closing his eyes, he said softly.

When she was in the grassland before, every time she couldn't sleep at night, she would drag Liang Xuyu, who seemed to be always divining, and ride on the deer crane bird, and let it fly to the only place in the grassland with them on its back. Look at the stars from a higher place.Maybe it's because the grassland is closer to the sky. Every time she sees the stars, she feels that they are within reach, as if as long as she reaches out her hand, she can grab those shining and beautiful stars and hold them in her hand.It is also strange to say, how come there are stars in the grassland regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter? After being beaten by her mother in the night of [-], she secretly went to play with deer crane birds. I am afraid she will never know what those bright and shining stars on the grassland that seem to be smiling at her are.

Those more and more beautiful stars, the stars that shone with faint brilliance, cried with her, laughed with her and grew up with her, are all tombs.

The last resting place of their clan.

"Oh, it seems that the emperor's visit is very unfortunate." Tuo Bahong smiled at Liang Xuyu who was sitting in front of the desk before fully opening the curtain of the tent.

Hearing his voice before seeing him, Liang Xuyu sized him up secretly. He was dressed in a purple robe with five-clawed golden dragons embroidered on it, and the emerald green flute she was very familiar with was pinned to her waist. Fan, under the cover of the lights in the tent, his feminine appearance, in the eyes of unknowing outsiders, is indeed a good man in troubled times.

Even though his heart was already turbulent, Liang Xuyu just nodded and smiled at him politely on the surface, "Brother Huang traveled thousands of miles to come here, but Xuyu didn't have time to prepare anything. Xuyu was rude."

"Where, it's impolite for the emperor's sudden visit." Hearing this, Tuobahong took a few steps towards Liang Xuyu, smiled and took out the emerald green flute pinned to his waist, and played with it in his hand. Liang Xuyu looked up and smiled slightly, "Today is the rare Qixi Festival in the Central Plains, the moment when lovers meet. Is the imperial sister planning to let you down like this?"

"Brother Huang really knows how to joke." Liang Xuyu just smiled softly when he heard the words. Tuobahong knew that the emperor's aunt passed on the position of high priest of Zhaoguo to him last month, but now he is talking about lovers , is really too deliberate.

Seeing Liang Xuyu's indifferent look, Tuobahong seemed to have thought of something, tapped his head with the flute, and said with a smile, "Oh, look at my memory, last month the aunt gave the eldest brother The position of priest has been passed on to the imperial sister, so the imperial sister will not be able to enter into an marriage relationship with others, what a pity, tsk tsk." As he spoke, he glanced at Liang Xuyu in a slightly disrespectful manner, quite puzzled She shook her head and said, "The imperial sister is only eighteen years old this year. Calculated by the age of a nobleman, she has not yet reached the stage of age. Why should she rush to take over this mess at such a young age? Isn't it okay to find someone to live your life with?"

"What the emperor said is very true, but everyone has his own way of life, why should the emperor be too persistent?" Liang Xuyu still said calmly with a pun.

"Hehe, since the imperial sister said so, do you know the intention of the imperial brother's trip?" Tuobahong sneered when he heard this, and broke the flute made of emerald green jade in his hand with a "click".

"Is it very close?" After listening to Yuan Shuyi's words, Tuoba Chen tilted his head in doubt, looked at the unreachable night sky, and said strangely, "But Chen'er feels that it is very far away."

"Who knows." Yuan Shuyi said slowly, turned around wearily and looked at Tuoba Chen who was still observing the stars in the sky, and asked her, "Chen'er, have you ever heard of any interesting things?" No story?"

"Never." Tuobachen shook his head shyly, but suddenly remembered something, looked at Yuan Shuyi with bright eyes and said, "Do folk customs count? Chen'er knows a lot!"

"It's not...is it?" Yuan Shuyi frowned slightly, seeing Tuoba Chen pouted dissatisfiedly after hearing this sentence, pinched her nose with a smile, and said softly, "Since Chen I don't know, can my sister tell Chen'er something good?"

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"Brother Huang worked so hard to come here from the capital, so he probably didn't want to catch up with Xu Yu." Liang Xuyu watched Tuo Bahong's movements without changing his expression, still smiling gently.

"Of course this king doesn't have the pleasure of reminiscing with you, but someone wants to reminisce about the past with you!" Tuoba Hong turned dark and sneered and shouted to the outside, "Bring him in!"

As soon as his words fell, two Jinwu guards escorted a ragged, disheveled young man into the tent, and knelt down in front of them with a "plop".

"Brother Huang, what do you mean by this?" Liang Xuyu didn't even look at the young man, but just stared at Tuoba Hongsheng's face holding the winning ticket with a smile and said with a soft voice like a veil, which sounded like a spring breeze, light blue There was sparkle in his eyes, and no surprise could be seen on Qing Jue's face.

"Brother Huang just asked the younger sister to see if she recognizes this person." Tuo Bahong said with a smile, and motioned the two Jinwu guards to raise the young man's head, "This person trespassed on my mansion, the guards will treat it as a The assassin was closed, and later the emperor heard that he knew the emperor's sister, so he brought him here to see if the emperor's sister knew an old acquaintance?"

"High Priest!" The young man was probably tortured by a lot of scars on his body. Since he was dragged into the tent by two Jinwu guards, he has been drooping his head half dead and silent. At this moment, one of the Jinwu guards is forcibly pulling him. His hair forced him to raise his head, so he looked like a fish caught in water, raised his head to look at Liang Xuyu and shouted, the same blue eyes were full of tears, "High Priest! Xuyu! "

Liang Xuyu, who originally thought it was Shu Yi who was caught by them, was slightly relieved when she saw the young man. She ignored the boy who was kneeling on the ground and was grabbed by someone with unkempt hair. Ba Hong, "Brother Huang, what does this mean?"

"It's all one family. The younger sister thinks, what does the elder brother mean?" Tuo Bahong took out his folding fan from his cuff, looked at Liang Xuyu's thinking, and fanned it slowly with confidence in his chest, and finally endured it. He couldn't help saying word by word to Liang Xuyu who had been silent all this time, "I want, your life Gu."

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"The story that Sister Yuan wants to tell was told to Sister Yuan by Sister Yuan's mother a long time ago." Yuan Shuyi coughed slightly, cleared her throat, and then began to listen to the sparkling eyes of the sitting aside. Tuobachen told a story. "This story can be traced back thousands of years ago, before the first dynasty in the Central Plains was established."

"At that time, there were many countries in the Central Plains, and each conquered each other, and the people were in dire straits..."

"Sister Yuan, let's get to the point!"

"Oh, cough." Yuan Shuyi coughed again, slightly tilted her face and looked at Tuoba Chen with brighter eyes in apologetic way, "Sister Yuan is telling a story for the first time, she has no experience, so Chen'er will take care of it more or less." Just a moment, don't worry, let's get to the point now."

In a place far away from the Central Plains Dynasty, there lived a tribe. They were only a thousand people, but they lived freely without being disturbed by anyone.

"What race is that?" Tuo Bachen couldn't help asking.

"...Gu Shu." Yuan Shuyi's voice was hoarse, the words wrapped around the tip of her tongue, and she still said the name of their tribe, a name that hadn't been mentioned for a long time.

Cancong and yufu, how at a loss was the founding of the country.

This refers to the ancient Shu people.

The ancient Shu clan had only a thousand people, but because of the guardian beast deer and crane in the clan, there was no problem and no clan was exterminated. Because everyone in the clan and the guardian beast had blue eyes, some people later called the ancient Shu clan the blue-eyed clan. .

The people of the ancient Shu people who were not in the WTO lived freely in places far away from the Central Plains, but when the first powerful dynasty in the Central Plains was established, the peace and tranquility of the ancient Shu people was also broken, and their people were brutally treated. The massacre, the original number of people decreased again and again, and later it was less than 600 people. As a last resort, the high priest of the ancient Shu tribe had to marry the emperor of the current dynasty, and temporarily preserved the ancient Shu tribe.

"Why were they killed?" Tuo Bachen patted his head in bewilderment, "Why didn't the emperor kill the high priest and her people?"

"Everyone is not guilty, but pregnant is guilty." Yuan Shuyi said coldly.

The reason why their clansmen are not extinct is that they have life Gu besides being guarded by guardian beasts.

Just like its name, Life Gu is something that gives them life. It is something planted in their bodies since they were born, which can make people immortal and live in their most youthful appearance for hundreds or even thousands of years.It is because of this that many people are chasing and killing them, wanting to capture their life Gu.

After all, immortality, who wouldn't want it?

As for why the current emperor didn't kill their clansmen, hmph, apart from the unusual beauty of the sacrificed high priest, isn't it her life Gu?

I don't know whether it's because of God's favor or what, all the members of the ancient Shu tribe have incomparable beauty from the outside world, no matter they are male or female.

Originally, when they were not in the world, their life Gu was only their own, but after entering the world, many clansmen could not withstand the temptation of outsiders, and they married or married outsiders one after another. In this way, their lives were equal to their own. The other half was divided equally. The high priest lived for about 1000 years, and the shameless emperor got hundreds of years of life for no reason. Isn't he happy?

Later, about a hundred years ago, there was a rule in the clan that it was not allowed to pass life Gu to others, so as long as their mortal partner died, they would end their own lives.

I can't die of old age, but I can choose to commit suicide.

People of the ancient Shu people can be dedicated, but they can also be stupid.

It's just that the emperor couldn't keep them for too long, and he was assassinated soon. As a last resort, their clan hid everywhere until they moved to the grassland 18 years ago.