[Comprehensive] Traveling through Cheng Kangmin

"Where are my parents?" Kang Baobao looked at Li Guanshi pitifully with tears in his eyes.

Duan Yu and his party settled in a farmhouse in the countryside thirty miles outside Luoyang city.They didn't dare to stay for too long, the short distance had already repelled four waves of people who wanted to fish in troubled waters.If it weren't for the brothers who were waiting to rescue Mr. Kang Zhao, they should have gone straight to Dali without stopping.

The hut is hidden behind the lush forest, and its location is hidden.Li Guanshi sent a guard to guard the fork in the trail, and he took the rest of the people to protect the three little masters.

In a short time, two horsemen galloped from the north side of the trail.The guards squatting saw from a distance and recognized it as one of their own, so they went up to meet him.

Among them were two riders, a thin middle-aged man and an old man with gray hair.The man said: "They all went after Qiao Feng, the guards in the Qiao residence are lax, there is not even a guard for the old man."

The three of them walked into the woods, whistled, and the people from the hut greeted them.

"Old Gao leads the young princess, and old Xu leads young master Yi, my son, please ride with your subordinates, let's go!" Li Guanshi quickly arranged.

Everyone packed up and got on their horses in an instant.

Baby Kang was tugging on Duan Yu's sleeve to question his parents, when he heard his grandpa calling his baby name, the fear he had held back for a long time could no longer be controlled, and he burst into grandpa's arms with a loud cry: "Grandpa—there are bad guys—— Whoa whoa whoa—”

Kang Zhao was sluggish, struggling to put his arms around his chubby grandson, and patted him gently.Isn't his old heart full of worries about his daughter and son-in-law, and he doesn't know as much as his grandson.I was in poor health, I was lying in the house, and suddenly there was a lot of noise outside. At noon, my daughter did not come to deliver food or call for someone. Strangers came in, and they didn’t answer any questions. Later, even the stranger disappeared.Then two strangers rushed in in the afternoon, saying that they had been entrusted by their daughter to save him.Then he was brought here, if he hadn't seen Duan Yumu Wanqing and his grandson together, he would have doubted their purpose.

Although Duan Yu was a little dumbfounded, he clearly distinguished the priorities, he coaxed and persuaded, and let Guanshi Li pick up Baby Kang, and the group drove away.Enduring the bumps, Duan Yu told Kang Zhao what happened, Mu Wanqing and Li Guanshi added.

Speeding up the horse, he changed his clothes again, avoiding people's eyes and ears, non-stop, and slowed down until he was outside the border of Henan Prefecture.At that time, horses were tired and people were exhausted, and everyone was exhausted.

After leaving Henan Mansion, it was the territory of Yingchang Mansion, rumors spread faster than they could travel, until they reached Linying, they could still hear people talking about the life experience of the leader of the Beggar Clan, Qiao Feng, in the streets and alleys.

Kang Baobao's flexible eyeballs were listless, and his lips were dry in patches.Hearing Dad's name, his little head turned around, staring at the person who spoke.Li Guanshi was afraid of accidents, so he pressed the back of Kang Baobao's head and made him lie in his arms.

"Brother, I miss my parents." A muffled voice came through the fabric.

Duan Yu coaxed: "Uncle Qiao and Aunt Kang are waiting for us in Dali."

Baby Kang didn't speak any more, but buried his face in Guanshi Li's shoulder and moved, not sure if he believed it or not.

No one discussed Qiao Feng's affairs while on the way, and after slowing down, no one would talk about it in front of the children.Kang Baobao occasionally said that he misses his parents, but the rest of the time he was quiet and sensible. The only time he cried and fussed was when he first saw his grandpa.

A child who is only a few years old is so sensible that it makes people feel distressed.

Manager Li arranged the inn, and everyone went to rest after dinner.

The dry branches crackled from time to time, and the fire flickered and flickered, dancing and swaying in the wind.The faces of the people sitting by the fire flickered, like a hunter hidden in the darkness, ready to go.

A cricket crept past the corner of the cave, stopped for a while, and then quickly crawled away.

Kang Min turned over, and the meadow under her made a rustling sound.

ooh-

It's like howling a wolf.

Kang Min shivered, and leaned out, but did not touch the expected warm body.She opened her eyes, her eyes were a little confused.

Ang Zang by the fire moved to a shelter from the wind and squatted down beside the meadow. "Don't be afraid, there is fire, and wolves won't come in."

Kang Min looked around, regained consciousness, and sat up with his hands supporting half of his body. First, he checked whether Qiao Feng's injury was bleeding. "Looks better." She breathed a sigh of relief.Fighting against hundreds of masters in the Peony Garden, and with such a burden like her, how could Qiao Feng escape unscathed.A knife mark on his right shoulder blade slanted to the left on his back, approaching the back.

Three layers of clothing were soaked in blood, but there was no cure or medicine in the wilderness. Under Qiao Feng's guidance, Kang Min plucked a few weeds, chewed them and applied them to the wound.Qiao Feng emphasized that he had tapped the acupoints to stop the bleeding, and internal energy could nourish the wounded. Seeing that the blood really stopped flowing, Kang Min gave up the idea of ​​looking for medicine further away.

The food for these two days is the former owner of the cave - a lone wolf.Wolf meat is unpalatable, let alone an old and disabled wolf.Qiao Feng wanted to catch a rabbit or a pheasant nearby, but Kang Min firmly stopped him.Although Qiao Feng repeatedly stated that the knife wound was not a problem, in Kang Min's eyes, the knife wound was enough to make a person lie in bed for ten days and a half months, and it was under the condition of careful diagnosis and treatment by the doctors and nurses in the hospital and the careful care of the family.Qiao Feng showed her the bloodless wound, dispelling her idea of ​​taking risks, but no matter what, he couldn't get Kang Min to agree to let him go hunting.The two could only eat poor wolf meat to satisfy their hunger.Fortunately, the location of the cave is very good, there is a stream a dozen steps away.Probably because it is too close to the place where humans live, this cave with a water source was occupied by a stray old wolf.

The magic of internal force refreshed Kang Min's concept of wound healing.If modern people had this skill, qigong therapy would not be regarded as a scam, which is a pity.

"Can't sleep?" Kang Min checked the wound on Qiao Feng's back, and then looked at the sky outside.In the past day and night, avoiding, fighting, and high mental tension greatly consumed their energy. After finding this cave, she ate a few pieces of wolf meat, yawned and spread some meadows, and fell asleep almost instantly when she lay down. In the end, my heart was not stable, I slept lightly, and woke up at the slightest movement.

"Go to sleep, I'll watch over you." Qiao Feng's voice was gentle and low, he sat down beside Kang Min, lay on his side, and stretched out his arms towards Kang Min.

Kang Min shook his head, as if he was more awake, Ren Qiaofeng hugged her and let her curl up against his chest, but he didn't close his eyes. "Are you still thinking about those things?"

Qiao Feng didn't answer, Kang Min felt that what he said was nonsense.After thinking for a while, he said: "Don't be sad, when your injury is better, we will find evidence, which will definitely prove your innocence."

"En." Qiao Feng's Adam's apple slipped, and his chest trembled slightly.

Kang Min put his arms around Qiao Feng: "No matter what, you still have me."

She didn't get a response, and Qiao Feng didn't even say "um".It was quiet all around, and the sound of the wind whistling outside the cave and the sound of bugs cooing made the inside of the cave even quieter.

The light of the fire was fading, the dead branches were almost burnt out, and there was a faint smell of smoke in the cave, and the light became dimmer and dimmer.

Kang Min thought Qiao Feng was asleep, and his consciousness gradually became blurred when he closed his eyes.

The broad chest resting on the forehead vibrated. "The Khitan people are fierce and brutal, Minmin, why aren't you afraid?"

"Ah?" Kang Min asked in a daze.

"I am a Khitan."

"...I know." Kang Min responded slowly. "Oh, didn't I say that, I married you and not your race."

Qiao Feng asked persistently: "The Khitan invaded the border of the Great Song Dynasty every year. They burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of crimes, even innocent babies. The imperial court was weak and incompetent. Instead of resisting, they paid tribute, humiliated and sought peace from the people. Serve it to the Liao people, regardless of the other party's hands being stained with the blood of the compatriots—" The words stopped abruptly, and he realized that he was the "blood-stained" Liao people, and it was ridiculous to call himself "My Song Dynasty" full of righteous indignation.

He knew that Qiao Feng hadn't accepted his background.Or I admit it rationally, but I can't agree with it emotionally.

Kang Min cursed Wang Jiantong in his heart every now and then.Raise the enemy's son as his own, instill in him the idea of ​​hating the enemy, and even encourage the other to kill the tribe when he grows up.How cruel and terrible!Just like that, Kang Min had no respect for Wang Jiantong, and even resentment and hatred for him.

Qiao Feng didn't break down and self-mutilate because he had a good mental quality, otherwise he would have gone crazy long ago.

Kang Min was fully awake, she moved back and met Qiao Feng's gaze.His eyes lost their usual composure, and seemed to hide traces of distress.

Qiao Feng not only finds it difficult to accept his Khitan identity, but also has a deep dislike for him.

Kang Min couldn't let Qiao Feng have any psychological barriers because of this, he said while thinking: "Brother Feng, have you heard the story of the princes in Fenghuo Opera?"

Qiao Feng showed doubts on his face.The topic changes too quickly and has nothing to do with it!But he still replied: "Yes. Baosi, the favorite concubine of King Zhou You, is beautiful but doesn't like to smile. In order to make her smile, King Zhou You ordered people to light the beacon fire for warning. When the princes saw the beacon fire, they thought that the dog army was coming. Embarrassed, one after another raised troops to rescue them, but was told by the king that nothing was just a game, and retreated angrily. Bao Si laughed when he saw the troops from all walks of life crowded together, coming and waving like dogs and horses. King You of Zhou lit the beacon fire again and again , Baosi laughed more and more, and the soldiers and horses of the princes to save him became less and less. Later, the dog army really broke through the capital, but no soldiers and horses came to rescue him, and the Western Zhou Dynasty died because of this." Qiao Feng's voice Not in a hurry, as if telling a story, the historical allusions are told.

In the cold late night, a couple cuddled together, with a strange warmth.

"The dog army destroyed the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the people of the Central Plains hate it more than the Khitan people today, but after the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, what about the dog army?"

Qiao Feng pondered: "According to historical records, after the Quan Rong destroyed the Western Zhou Dynasty, a branch called Yiqu became a powerful enemy of the Qin State. During the Warring States Period, it was destroyed by the Empress Dowager Qin Xuan. Please enter the Eastern Han Dynasty, you are the descendants of the Quan Rong in the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Tang Dynasty, there were ministers who reported that the Quan Rong violated Guan Dulong..."

"Well, that's enough." Kang Min said.I thought Quanrong was gone long ago, but it was still there in the Tang Dynasty.

Qiao Feng hadn't finished talking yet, in the grasslands today, any tribe that worships white dogs and wolves is very likely to be the descendant of the former dog army.

Kang Min said: "The dog Rong became Yiqu, and the Qin State destroyed Yiqu, so they wouldn't kill all the Yiqu people, right? What about the remaining Yiqu people? They must have become Qin people. The White Wolf and other tribes Invited to be merged into the Eastern Han Dynasty, even if the custom of sacrificial sacrifices of the clan is preserved, for a long time, Hu and Han intermarry, I am afraid they still speak Chinese, take Chinese names, wear cotton and hemp to cultivate the fields, how long can the ancestors' customs be preserved! Up to now, there are still people left. How many Canrong people, and how many Canrong people have become Han Chinese over the past few hundred years?"

Qiao Feng was a little taken aback.

Kang Min continued: "The grasslands outside the pass have risen and fallen one after another. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there were Dog Rong, in Qin and Han Dynasties there were Xiongnu, in Sui and Tang Dynasties there were Turks, and in the Song Dynasty there was Khitan..." There will be Jurchen and Mongols in the future.In the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia was split into Tatarwala.Then came the Manchus. When 56 ethnic groups became one family, there were new foreign aggressors—Yamato, Caucasus, England, Scotland, Germanic... Maybe one day in the future, the 560 ethnic groups on the earth might become one family (number 560 author Hu correct). "Except for those who flourished for a while, there are still many foreign races whose names are recorded in the annals of history. It's just that they didn't threaten the Central Plains Dynasty like Rongdi and Huns, so the contradictions were not deep. Over time, the relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty deepened, and many ethnic minorities also became the Han people."

"The Yiqu Kingdom became the territory of the Qin people, and the White Wolf Tribe merged into the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Xiongnu lost again and again, and either moved far away, or merged into the Central Plains and changed their names and surnames. When they were strong, the dog army broke through Gaojing and killed the king of Zhou You, and destroyed the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Xiongnu besieged Han Gaozu Baideng and almost died. What is the difference between the Xiongnu and the Turks and the hostility towards the Khitan people today?"

"Hundreds of thousands of years have passed, whether it is dog soldiers or Huns and Turks, most of them have integrated into the Central Plains. How many of the remaining descendants still retain the sacrificial totems of their ancestors? Even if they keep the sacrificial totems, they are no longer dog soldiers. Huns and Turks."

Qiao Feng understood what Kang Min meant. "After a hundred years, maybe the Khitan people will no longer be Khitan people. They will either be expelled by the Han people, or they will become Han people with only a very small number of descendants living under another ethnic name." He was not feeling well.Familiar with history books, what he saw was the cruelty, greed, cruelty, ignorance and ignorance of the foreign race, but he had never thought like Kang Min before.

Kang Min recalled some books he had read in modern times.In terms of rich knowledge, she can't catch up with Qiao Feng, a "martial arts man", but her views are fresh and are the mainstream views of the 56 ethnic groups.The limitations of the times and the speed of knowledge dissemination made Qiao Feng in the Northern Song Dynasty amazed by the novelty of Kang Min's words.

Just thinking about Khitan's future, he actually felt a little sad and sad.Obviously he is so resistant to the identity of the Khitan people...

"It's predictable." Kang Min said.In fact, in less than 100 years, Khitan will decline, Jurchen will rise, and become the new enemy of the Northern Song Dynasty, and there will be new martial arts heroes who "sacrifice their lives to go to the country, and regard death as their home."

Qiao Feng was at a loss, mixed with pride for the civilization of the Central Plains, with mixed feelings.

"Actually, Han people are the same." Kang Min noticed Qiao Feng's disappointment, and sensitively sensed that he was no longer resisting as before, and continued: "Now we keep calling ourselves Han people, but that is just a name inherited from the Han Dynasty. Is there a concept of Han people? I heard that before Qin ruled the world, the countries of the Central Plains believed that Qin was located in the west, intermarried with barbarians, and did not understand customs, so they looked down on Qin people. Going forward, at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the land of Wuyue was regarded as the undeveloped A land of civilized barbarians, until the rise of Wu and Yue for hegemony. The Chu State has been prosperous for thousands of years, and was once regarded as a barbaric country. Going forward, in ancient times, even the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties did not appear. Clan, could it be that there were only Yan and Huang clans in the world at that time?"

Qiao Feng answered reflexively: "Chi You—"

Kang Min said: "Leaving aside, the Li family of the Tang Dynasty royal family is said to have Xianbei blood, but in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, all nations came to court, and the descendants admire it to this day. The name of Tang Taizong Tian Khan will last forever."

Qiao Feng sighed: "I see, you want to tell me that Khitan blood is not ashamed, I don't need to look for trouble." Are you looking for trouble?His heart was bitter.

Kang Min's reassurance was not useless, he really would not be irritable and depressed when he remembered that he was a Khitan.However, there was always a lingering gloom, because Kang Min had never experienced his pain, so he was able to speak the above words calmly and easily.After all, it was he, not Kang Min, who was in the awkward situation.

Qiao Feng thought so, and turned to despise himself.Minmin never leaves her, doesn't even dislike her being a Khitan, and gently persuades herself, how can she feel inadequate?

"The Han Dynasty was called the Han people, and the Han people in the Han Dynasty already included people from the Yan and Huang races thousands of years ago and even people from other races other than Yan and Huang. Today's Han people also include many people from other races in the Han Dynasty. The world must be united for a long time. It will be divided for a long time, how can there be a dynasty that will never die, the current Great Song Dynasty will sooner or later...whether it is Khitan people or Song people at that time, maybe they all have another same name."

Kang Min never looked away, watching every slight change in Qiao Feng's face, ready to modify the sentence at any time.She never thought that she would be able to make Qiao Feng suddenly enlightened by just talking about it, and then she would be reborn, completely transcend herself, and achieve the double sublimation of spirit and body!

Just kidding, she's not a psychiatrist.

Besides, psychiatrists are not so good.

She was just trying to plant a seed in Qiao Feng's heart, and after watering and cultivating the soil, it would blossom and bear fruit over time.

Instead of perverting in silence.