Ding Zhou Ji

The first time Yin Fuque saw Chefeng was the day Yingjing City was broken 20 years ago, and Yin Fuque was five years old that year.

At that time, the outer city of Yingjing had been breached by Shui Jianguo's army, and there was chaos everywhere in the palace.

The mother and concubine stood quietly at the gate of the Fanluo Palace where they lived, holding Yin Fuque alone, looking at the troubled times outside with a sinking face.

Later, a commoner man appeared in front of the mother and son covered in blood.

Yin Fuque remembered the smile that the concubine mother had when she saw the man, such a dazzling light was enough to make him even feel a kind of dizziness when he was still young.

This was Yin Fuque's first time seeing his concubine mother smile, and it was also the last time.

The concubine mother and the clothed man stared at each other obsessively, as if they wanted to engrave each other in their hearts life after life with their eyes.They were so obsessed and drunk, I don't know how long it took, or maybe it was only a moment.The concubine mother handed Yin Fuque to the civilian man's hands, and said softly: "I know you will come, take him away."

The man didn't say anything, but despair was already written in his eyes.

"You know I won't go. I've committed crimes and owed debts."

The concubine mother carefully arranged Yin Fuque's clothes again, and said softly: "The sins and debts my mother made, I have to rely on you to pay back. My child, it is my mother who is sorry for you."

Then he turned around resolutely and walked into the Fanluo Palace. The back view of his mother and concubine was Yin Fuque's last impression of his mother.And that commoner man just kept staring deeply at this woman who only showed her beauty for him in her whole life, without saying a word from the beginning to the end.

The name of the clothed man is Chefeng.Yin Fuque called him "Uncle Chefeng".

Chefeng left the palace with five-year-old Yin Fuque.Left Yingjing City.Came to a vast prairie located in the northernmost part of Dingzhou country.Chefeng told Yin Fuque.This is where his mother and concubine grew up.

Chefeng is well-versed in the past and present, and has both civil and military skills.He taught Yin Fuque wholeheartedly.Yin Fuque is extremely talented.Although the days of two people herding horses, herding sheep, studying and practicing martial arts on the grassland are a bit monotonous.It's also unrestrained and free.It's just when I'm free.Yin Fuque could always see a deep pain on Chefeng's face.That is the bleakness and loneliness brought about by entangled longing.

Although Chefeng never mentioned his relationship with his concubine mother to Yin Fuque.He never talked about the past of his mother and concubine on this grassland.But Yin Fuque knew.The one Chefeng has been thinking about is his mother concubine—Princess Fanluo.

In the blink of an eye, Yin Fuque has grown into a handsome 15-year-old boy.But Chefeng, who was in his prime, was sick and weak like a candle in the wind.

that year.Yin Fuque lost Uncle Chefeng at the same time.There is another master——Wei Huo.

Yin Fuque never knew how Wei Huo found them. Anyway, that day when he found herbs for Chefeng and returned to his residence, he saw a carefree man of about fifty standing in front of Chefeng's sickbed.

With his last breath, Chefeng watched Yin Fuque worship Wei Huo as his teacher, and passed away with a smile on his face.

Later, Wei Huo said to Yin Fuque who knelt in front of Chefeng's tomb without eating, drinking, or sleeping for three whole days: "You can let him go at ease, he has been struggling for so many years, he is tired enough."

Yin Fuque bid farewell to Chefeng, left the vast grassland where he had lived for a full ten years, and began to follow Wei Huo while learning the art of war and the strategy of governing the country, while wandering around the territory of Dingzhou to familiarize himself with the people.It's another ten years in such a hurry.

In front of Yin Fuque, Chefeng and Wei Huo kept silent about everything related to Princess Fanluo, so Yin Fuque never asked any questions.

But not asking doesn't mean you don't know anything.

Fanluo was originally the only daughter of the head of the Huoyan tribe, the largest nomadic tribe on the Qingzhou grassland.

The people galloping freely among the blue sky, white clouds and green grassland are open-minded, bold, simple and kind-hearted, and all of them are good at singing and dancing and are hospitable.

In such a world, Fanluo grew day by day into a carefree and beautiful girl who loves to sing, dance and laugh.People on the grassland say that Fanluo's singing can make Yun'er stop and appreciate quietly; Fanluo's dance can make the wind linger around her and sing for her; Fanluo's smile can make the sun feel ashamed Covering the face to lose the light.

When Fanluo was 16 years old, she met Chefeng.

Chefeng is a commoner scholar who once studied under the hermit expert, and began to travel around the world after leaving the teacher.That year, Chefeng came to this prairie, and also came to the last stop of his study tour.It was Fanluo's singing, Fanluo's dancing and Fanluo's smile that kept him.

Fanluo said to Chefeng: "From now on, I will only sing for you, dance for you, and smile for you."

Chefeng looked deeply at the bright stars that fell into Fanluo's eyes: "Your singing, dancing, and smiling are all given to everyone by God, I will not be so selfish."

So Fanluo sang, danced and laughed among the clansmen again, but Chefeng knew that the stars in Fanluo's eyes would always shine only for him alone.

Happy days always pass by inadvertently. When the whole grassland is happily busy for the wedding of Fanluo and Chefeng, King Wulie decided to accept Fanluo as his wife after hearing Fanluo's good name. The concubine's will has arrived.

The old patriarch of the Huoyan tribe declined the imperial decree on the grounds that Fanluo was about to get married, but unexpectedly offended Wang Wei because of it.King Wu Lie immediately ordered Fanluo to be brought back to the royal city within a limited period of time, and anyone who obstructs him will be killed!

Although the Huoyan tribe is nominally a subject of the Yin dynasty, since ancient times all nomadic tribes have been self-sufficient and have an independent military and political system. domination in a practical sense.

King Wulie's decree immediately aroused the anger of all the tribes in the grassland, and they all expressed their support for Huoyan's tribe.

But the old patriarch of the Huoyan tribe pondered over and over again, and decided to let Chefeng take Fanluo to leave the grassland and cross the Gobi desert, and go to Quxiang country to temporarily avoid the limelight.In two days, he only reasoned to the officers and soldiers who came to lead the people that Fan Luo suddenly contracted a strange disease and died suddenly. Besides, this finally gave King Wu Lie the face of stepping down.

The old patriarch said to Fanluo and Chefeng with a smile, after everything subsides, the grassland will definitely hold another most grand wedding celebration for them.

Although Chefeng is well aware of the cruelty and tyranny of King Wulie, he really can't just watch Fanluo being brought into the land of tigers and wolves, and since the Huoyan tribe has the support of various tribes, no matter how angry King Wulie is, he should It's not enough to go to war.

However, Chefeng and Fanluo finally worried that innocent people would be implicated because of them, so they turned back halfway.

A few months later, when they returned to the grassland that was originally full of vitality, they only saw piles of white bones and vultures eating dead bodies on the boundless scorched ground.

On the grounds that the Huoyan tribe refused to obey the decree, King Wulie sent people to poison the water source in the grassland first, and countless people and livestock were poisoned to death within a few days.Afterwards, the patriarch of the Xiao Clan came again with a large-scale army, and in just a few months, nine out of ten of the tribes in the grassland were wiped out, and none of the Huoyan tribe survived.

Fanluo knelt quietly among the white bones, not saying a word or crying, while Chefeng stood beside her silently.

Later, Chefeng personally sent Fanluo to the imperial city, and Fanluo became the princess of Fanluo, while Chefeng left for Quxiang Kingdom.

These are what Yin Fuque heard from an old man who survived when he followed Che Feng to live on the sparsely populated grassland that has basically recovered its greenness.Yin Fuque was ten years old when he heard this story.He never asked Chefeng about this matter, because even though he was still young, he clearly knew that this tragic and sad past was a wound in Chefeng's heart that could never be touched.

Yin Fuque only knew about the experiences of his own mother, Princess Fanluo, in the palace three years ago.

After Fan Luo entered the palace, although she never sang, danced or laughed, her cold and detached temperament made King Wu Lie more and more intoxicated.

From the day he saw Fanluo, King Wulie only favored her.A year later, Fanluo gave birth to a son.

Fan Luo, who became a mother, not only did not see the slightest joy, on the contrary, she was frowning all day long and even more depressed.No matter how warmly King Wulie asked, she just shook her head and remained silent.

One day, Fanluo suddenly advised King Wulie to leave the capital and go on a tour elsewhere for a while.King Wulie saw that Fanluo, who had been depressed all the time, took the initiative to mention that he wanted to go out for fun. He thought that she had finally opened up his heart and decided to be his princess happily, so he couldn't help but feel a burst of ecstasy.However, he still could only see more and more gloom on Fan Luo's face, as well as anxiety and fear that could not be concealed.Although King Wulie was calm on the surface, he couldn't help but secretly doubted in his heart.

Two days later, when he was going to bed at night, King Wulie suddenly heard Fanluo's sleep talking on his pillow: "The Kyushu is shared by the Yin and Xiao clans...Only the prince is the heir apparent...Why are you so eager...thinking eagerly... "

A few days later, King Wulie sent people to search the priest's mansion for several objects used to harm him. He immediately beheaded the high priest and more than a hundred other suspected priests, burned their bodies, and scattered their bones and ashes.At the same time, he received a secret report that Xiao's family attempted to rebel and force him to abdicate. King Wu Lie was furious, and immediately issued an order to abolish Queen Xiao and the prince, and imprison them in a dilapidated and abandoned cold palace. .

Since then, wars have been raging all over Kyushu and there is no peace.Two years later, the Xiao family was wiped out.Five years later, Dingzhou was destroyed.