Sparrow dream dance

The pear blossoms are flying, falling like snow.

In a blink of an eye, it is the season of falling flowers.

Standing under the tree, Gu Ze closed his eyes and raised his head, motionless.

Pure white petals fell on his hair, eyebrows, lips, and shoulders. . .

I heard people say that if a person is thinking about someone in particular, he will fall in love with Luohua.

Because the petals all over the sky are like someone who has left, the saddest thing is not the parting, but the inability to stay.

He hadn't seen Ling'er for a long time after the emperor's mausoleum.

Sometimes, he would occasionally sneak into the emperor's mausoleum and stand in front of the portraits of the former emperors of Yan, waiting for half the night.

But Linger never appeared again.

Sometimes, Gu Ze would also wonder if there were no sparrow monsters at all, and those secret stories did not exist.

Everything is just his own imagination.

But after Ling'er turned into a yellow light and disappeared, the yellow feather that floated melodiously from the air onto his palm was so real.

It is so real that every time Gu Ze touches it, he can feel that Linger is actually by his side.

close your eyes.Her temperature, her breath, her voice and smile. . .It seems to be right in front of you.

But when I opened my eyes, she was still not there.

Gu Ze has just turned 20 years old this year. Before that, he never knew what it was like to be so yearning.

He began to feel very painful, and the most painful thing was not because he fell in love with a demon.

But because-

In the dead of night, standing in front of the bronze mirror, he carefully took off his official robe, hat, and inner shirt. . .

Straight long hair fell down, and the white cloth wrapped around his chest slumped to the ground. Staring at the fair and delicate face in the mirror, Gu Ze sighed softly, turned around and immersed himself in the bathtub.

It turns out that 'he' is also 'she'.

She began to suspect that she disguised herself as a man and came to Yanjing. Is it right or wrong to do so?

She is from Suzhou and lives in Hanshan.In fact, it was picked up by parents, an orphan.

When she was a baby, she was abandoned by someone beside a spring in the deep forest of the cold mountain, and it happened that she was found by the crying of her parents who went up the mountain to collect medicine.

When they picked her up, both parents were in their thirties.They didn't have children, so they have always treated her very well. Even though they were not their own, she lived a carefree life.

The reason why it was named 'Ze' was because my mother said it meant 'the highest goodness is like the water that covers all things', and she hoped that she could be as free and kind as water, nourishing the common people without competing for worldly fame and fortune.

In fact, just based on these words, Gu Ze later knew that his father and mother were not ordinary people in the mountains, especially his mother.

Her mother taught her to read and write since she was a child.

Although my father knows martial arts, my mother does not allow him to teach me every move.

She is quiet by nature, although she didn't ask much, but she always felt strange in her heart.

What made her feel the strangest was that her parents never said their own names.

When she was young, she also asked, but mother kept silent every time, and father would squint his eyes, rub her little face, and tease him nonchalantly, "You just need to know that your father's surname is Gu." gone."

I remember one time, my parents thought she was asleep.

In a daze, she heard her mother sitting on the bedside touching her face and saying to her father,

"Do you think that the older this child grows up, the more he looks like that person?"

Dad said nothing.

Ting Niang continued, "Really. Sometimes I see Ze'er looking into the distance by herself without speaking, and I always think that she is that person..."

Father walked to Mother's side, and his voice became very low even though he was always old and unscrupulous, "Let's let the past be the past."

Mother was silent for a long time, then sighed softly, "Oh, but I heard that she...she is still waiting for that person in the palace."

Dad sighed too.

At that time, Gu Ze was at a loss.

But when she heard the word 'in the palace', a strange emotion rose in her heart.

At the age of 19, she went downhill.

Not because she was going to get married, but because she was going to Beijing for the exam.

Because one day, a woman in white clothes who was as beautiful as a banished fairy from the sky suddenly came to the family.

Even the normally calm parents were stunned by this woman in white, and they waited for a long time before inviting her into the house.

Gu Ze was locked out of the door, and she secretly peeped in through the crack of the door unwillingly.

The woman in white spoke very softly, Gu Ze couldn't hear clearly at all, he could only see the ups and downs on the faces of his parents.

In the end, whether the woman in white was intentional or unintentional, she suddenly turned her head, glanced at herself in the direction of the door, and said to her parents, "Time is short, don't regret it if we don't see each other again."

After saying this sentence, she descended the mountain gracefully.

Mother looked very sad and reluctant, but father gently shook her hand, then walked to Gu Ze's side step by step, and said earnestly, "Ze'er, you have to go to the palace."

Throughout the ages, there are only two ways for common people to enter the palace: for men, they can be named on the gold list, or for women, they can be favored by the imperial court.

Naturally, Gu Ze's parents couldn't let her enter the palace as a concubine, so they had to let her disguise herself as a boy and go to Beijing to take the exam.

Gu Ze did it.However, her parents never told her what the purpose of entering the palace was.

She only remembered that the morning before she left, her mother looked at her disguised as a man with tears in her eyes.

For a long time, but did not say a word.

But what she didn't know was that since she left, the middle-aged couple had been standing in front of the house until the sun went down.

"Tell me, Ze'er will be all right this way, right?" the woman asked worriedly as she looked at the gradually darkening sky.

The man put his arms around her shoulders and comforted her, "Don't worry, Qing'er. She is our child, not to mention that she still has that person..." The man paused for a moment and didn't continue.

The woman nodded and said quietly, "I really hope that this time, everything can be settled."

"Most definitely."

The man lowered his head and kissed the woman's forehead lightly.

"This time, everyone's dreams will come true."

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When Emperor Yan Shaodi Murong Siyan died, he was not yet 40 years old, and it was said that he was the crown prince Murong Ju.

He came to the throne at the age of 14. During his 25 years in office, he worked diligently to listen to the government, ate food and clothes, and was known as the "Lord of Zhongxing" in history.

Before he ascended the throne, from Emperor Liewu Murong Bupo, to Emperor Yanzhao Murongguang, to Emperor Yanjing Murongxuan, and later Emperor Yanling Murongyan, these four former emperors were all monarchs who would conquer the world immediately, so the entire Great Yan The ethos of the dynasty has always been to emphasize martial arts over literature.

And the first thing Yan Shaodi Murong Siyan did after he came to the throne was to promote the imperial examinations, select civil servants to govern the world, and balance the civil and military forces in the court. soldier.

Over the past 25 years, the family and country have been peaceful and the neighboring countries are harmonious.When Emperor Murongju of Yan'an succeeded to the throne, Dayan was in unprecedented prosperity.

Gu Ze rode a steed and walked slowly on the clean and wide Yanjing Avenue.

Looking at the various shops on both sides of the street, the endless stream of cars and horses, and the bustling people, she felt very warm in her heart.This place is different from the desolate and quiet Gusu Hanshan, and also different from the long and faintly fragrant golden palace, here is full of sunny market atmosphere.The splendor of the imperial city shrouded the place, and the faces of the common people all had bright smiles on them, such as romantic poets with feather fans, heroic knights with swords, scholars with high crowns and broad sleeves, and foreigners in shawls and strange clothes. . .In a peaceful and prosperous age, anyone can appear here.

Few people still remember that as early as 30 years ago, there were piles of ruins and smoke from wars, and suffered several cruel and bloody baptisms.

It was as if the years of killing and betrayal had become less painful over time.

Gu Ze unknowingly walked to the city gate of Yanjing. She got off her horse, squatted down slowly, and gently swayed some mottled green bricks on her feet.

Only here, probably the blood and tears in the story are still hidden.

She stood up, and when she raised her head, her eyes suddenly widened——

All of a sudden, she saw that the busy crowd in front of her turned into a line of armored soldiers standing solemnly, a young man in white and silver armor was sitting on the ground in front of the three armies playing the piano, and a stunning young girl was dancing beside her.

Gu Han rubbed his eyes, and the busy canopy gathered in front of his eyes for an instant, people chatting and laughing with each other and passing her who was standing there blankly, everything she saw just now was like a passing cloud.

She scratched her head, laughed at herself, and walked out of the city gate with her horse.

It seemed that I was too obsessed with that story. . .

When she went out of the city this time, she also wanted to visit the Lianyun Temple in the story.

She thought, since her parents didn't tell her what to do after entering the palace, let the gods tell her.

On the outskirts of Yanjing, there is a narrow road. When Gu Ze rode his horse straight to the foot of Qiyun Mountain, his mouth was already parched.

She saw a tea shop by the side of the road, so she got off her horse.

As soon as the shop waiter saw a handsome young master like Gu Ze, he immediately went up to him with a smile and led the horse, "Young master, is he here to offer incense at Lianyun Temple? Why don't you come to the small shop to have a cup of tea first, and then you can get along with me later?" The Buddha chatters more."

Gu Ze nodded with a smile and sat in.

She had just taken a sip of tea when she suddenly heard the waiter in the store yelling impatiently, "Stinky lunatic, why is it you again?! Get out of here! If you're thirsty, get out and drink your piss! Don't get in the way of my business!"

She looked back, and saw a middle-aged man with the appearance of a mad beggar, with loose hair, unkempt face, dirty and tattered clothes, and chapped lips.But the man was not annoyed at being insulted so harshly by the waiter, instead he looked at him with a smile.

Gu Ze couldn't bear it, so he said, "Shopkeeper, give him a cup of tea, and the money will be mine."

The crazy beggar glanced at Gu Ze, and the smile on his face disappeared immediately.After a while, he heard him say, "I don't drink tea."

Gu Ze was taken aback for a moment, then heard the crazy beggar say, "I want you, buy me a drink."

Gu Ze shook his head and said, "This is a pure place of Buddhism, how can there be wine?"

The mad beggar stared straight at her and said, "I can wait."

"Waiting for what?" Gu Ze asked puzzled.

"When you go to the Wangyue Building in the capital, buy a pot of the most expensive pear blossom wine and treat me to drink." The crazy beggar replied with a half-smile.

Gu Ze frowned slightly, thinking, alas, this is really a lunatic.

At that moment she stopped answering the conversation, put down a silver coin, and said to the shopkeeper, "If he wants to drink tea, let him drink enough." She paused, and glanced at the mad beggar, "As for the rest, there is nothing I can do to help you." .”

After speaking, she turned and went to lead the horse.

"Boy, do you say Buddhism is a pure place? Oh, how can there be a pure place in this world?"

The crazy beggar said coldly behind Gu Ze, "You know, this place is far more suitable for drinking than Moon Tower. Because only wine can truly redeem those who want to ask the Buddha to save them from suffering in the world."

When Gu Ze heard this, his heart sank slightly, his feet faltered, and he turned around.

I saw the mad beggar turn around, muttering something in his mouth, laughing and walking away, "Don't you see the joys and sorrows of the past and the present, and the moment you snap your fingers, everything becomes empty! Don't you see Tang Yuxun three glasses of wine, Tang Wu conquers a game of chess! If you don't see your wish, go to the golden cup, why worry about the world of mortals!"

It's just that Gu Ze didn't see that, although the crazy beggar laughed wildly, when he turned around, there were two lines of tears on his cheeks.

She led the horse and stood there, full of doubts in her heart, she didn't know who this crazy beggar was, so she asked the waiter.

"Returning to the guest officer, I don't know who he is. The younger one came here three years ago. I only know that this lunatic has been wandering around Yanjing all day long." The waiter replied.

Gu Ze couldn't get an answer, so he could only slowly climb up the steps and enter the main hall of Lianyun Temple.

The golden Buddha in the hall is majestic, the monks are chanting scriptures, the censer stands tall, and the believers are devout.

Gu Ze was speechless for a long time looking at the yellow cloth hanging on both sides of the Buddha statue that read "Hell is not empty, vow not to become a Buddha, and all living beings to save Fangzheng Bodhi".

In the end, she still knelt down in awe, not to make a wish, not to cultivate fate, but just to feel a little compassion.

But the moment she put her hands together and closed her eyes.

The voices on both sides suddenly seemed to be like the tide, sometimes far away and sometimes near by my ears.

She opened her eyes in confusion, not wanting that all the believers and monks around her disappeared all of a sudden, the Golden Buddha in front of her eyes turned into a gray stone Buddha, and the splendid Daxiong Hall also turned into dilapidated old walls and broken tiles.

She turned her head, and suddenly her eyes narrowed——

I found that there were two people kneeling side by side, just like myself, with their hands clasped together, facing the Buddha.

Gu Ze stared at the glowing profiles of these two people, not knowing if it was an illusion, he couldn't help stretching out his hand towards them.

But suddenly, there was a "boom", and a loud bell sounded behind him.

When Gu Ze's hands froze, the two people in front of him disappeared in an instant, and everything returned to normal.

She was completely stunned, her right hand was stretched out in mid-air, and she forgot to take it back, until a young monk pushed her wonderingly before recovering.

How is this going?

She looked around in a daze. It stands to reason that Ling'er was not there, so she shouldn't have seen these phantoms.

She stood up tremblingly, obviously she hadn't knelt for a long time, but she felt her legs were a little weak.

That night, she decided to live in Lianyun Temple, and the abbot arranged a wing room and fast food very simply.

But when she asked the abbot about the origin of the mad beggar he met at the foot of the mountain, the abbot just shook his head and sighed, "Buddha said, don't tell."

Gu Ze could only give up.

I don't know if it was because of the unfamiliar location, she slept very restlessly that night, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.When it was almost three o'clock, she finally couldn't help but put on her clothes and stay on the bed, so she simply didn't sleep.

The temple is very quiet late at night, with faint sounds of birds and insects sounding from time to time.

Gu Ze walked casually, taking advantage of the hazy moonlight to reach a side room in the backyard of Lianyun Temple.

The faint candlelight flickered inside, and it was unknown which mysterious eminent monk was still practicing with great concentration.

Gu Ze didn't intend to stay any longer, and was just about to turn around and return to the wing, when he stepped on a branch. Although it was very light, it still abruptly broke the original tranquility.

"Who is it?" A voice came from inside the room.

What surprised Gu Ze was that it was a woman's voice.

Gu Ze forgot to speak for a moment.

With a sound of 'squeak', the door was opened, and a woman was standing at the door holding a long candle.

This woman is about forty years old, she looks younger than her own mother, wearing a blue robe, her appearance is beautiful, and her charm is still there.

Gu Ze hurriedly bowed his head and said, "This junior didn't intend to come here. If there is any offense, please forgive me, senior."

The woman did not speak.

Gu Ze raised his eyes nervously, only to see the woman staring at him non-stop, her eyes full of surprise.

When she met Gu Ze's eyes, the woman breathed a sigh of relief, but there seemed to be a little more sense of loss in her brows.

"What's your name?" The woman asked, looking left and right at Gu Ze.

"The junior's name is Gu Ze, from Gusu." Gu Ze answered bravely.

"Your surname is Gu? Gusu..." The woman murmured to herself in confusion, "How could you... be so similar to her?"

Gu Ze suddenly remembered that the first time he saw Linger, she had said to himself, 'You are very similar to her. . '

At that time, she didn't understand who Linger was referring to, but now, she had a feeling in her heart.

Gu Ze also raised his head and looked at the woman carefully.

After a while, she suddenly called out "Ah".

She recognized the woman!

Even though more than thirty years have passed, her facial features still vaguely resemble the woman in Linger's story.

This woman is Su Wan!