Chapter 167: Watching a Play on the City Wall
. (Addendum...... ).
After confirming that the corpse in Qixia Valley was indeed Gongsun Xian, the five princes arranged for someone to collect it and send it back to Gongsun's house.
Because the old general Gongsun had just died, according to the rules, Gongsun Xian could not enter the ancestral tomb of the Gongsun family within the three-year filial piety period, and the spirit was only suspended for three days.
This day is the day of the burial of "Gongsun Xian", but the real Gongsun Xian is lying on the bed of the He family with a face full of sorrow.
He Guanglie saw him so kind and comforted: "When everything is a foregone conclusion and your injuries are healed, you will be able to appear in front of everyone again." ”
Gongsun Xian closed his eyes and turned his head sadly: "I'm just regretting that I can't see the grand scene of being sent off by the soldiers and the people in tears, and the alleys are empty!
He Guanglie endured it and then held back the blue veins that appeared on his forehead: "Who can see what happened after his death! And what are the empty alleys? What will happen in a while, but we have arranged it in advance! You really think that you are so popular!"
Gongsun Xian glanced at He Guanglie and said lightly: "Jealousy really makes people very ugly!"
He Guanglie: "......"
Seeing that He Guanglie was about to burst again, He Linwan hurriedly changed the topic and asked, "Father, have all the things outside been arranged?"
"Lao Tzu still needs you to worry about doing things?" He Guanglie snorted coldly, and squinted at Gongsun Xiandao meaningfully. "Some people don't even dare to ask for the credit they deserve when they are alive, but when they die, they want to incite everyone to create a momentum for themselves, so aren't they afraid that Your Majesty will dig up the ancestral grave of his grandson's family in a fit of anger?"
Gongsun Xian said disdainfully: "You reckless man knows what a fart! A living person can rebel, but a dead person can? A dead person not only won't get in the way, but can also use it to buy people's hearts!"
He Guanglie's face was full of disdain when he heard this: "I really don't know why you people have so many hearts!"
Gongsun Xian snorted, pointed at He Linwan and said, "So I said that you gave me this girl as a daughter, how could a simple-minded and well-limbed fool give birth to such a cub!"
He Guanglie was reminded by Gongsun Xian like this, and remembered whose idea it was, and immediately turned his angry gaze on He Linwan.
He Linwan had a bad premonition, and Wei was not in the main room at this time. She quietly retreated to the door and said with a smile: "I forgot that my mother asked me to go to the kitchen to find her before." I'll go first, Dad, you continue to chat with Uncle Gongsun. ”
He Guanglie was just about to get up and arrest someone, but He Linwan had already dodged and ran out of the main room. He Linwan ran far away, and he could still hear Gongsun Xian's hearty laughter and He Guanglie's angry roar.
On the way to the funeral of "Gongsun Xian", the men, women and children in the city automatically and spontaneously went out of the city to see each other. Everyone followed the coffin with sad faces. Others sobbed softly. Along the way, at regular intervals, you can see some merchants and wealthy families setting up funeral sheds on the side of the road.
The carriage of the He family also followed behind to send "Gongsun Xian" on the last ride. He Linwan sat in the carriage in plain clothes, and the driver was He Guanglie's henchman Dao Lei.
When Gongsun Xian's coffin came out of the city gate, He Linwan wanted to find a place to stop the carriage. I didn't want her carriage to be stopped first, He Linwan listened to the movement outside and sat still, and after a while, Dao Lei reported through the curtain: "Girl, His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince sent someone to invite you to go up to the city tower." ”
He Lin got out of the carriage late, raised his head and saw the towering and sturdy tower of Penglai City not far away.
"Your Highness is up there?" He Linwan asked.
Dao Lei bowed his head and replied: "His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince just gave Lord Gongsun a ride with wine at the gate of the city, and then he was accompanied by Lord Xue and Lord Yan to the city tower. ”
He Linwan nodded, and then glanced at Dao Lei: "I'll take Chunxiao up, you wait below." ”
Dao Lei looked at He Linwan, bowed his head slightly, and made way for He Linwan and Chunxiao to go up to the city tower.
The more he walked up the city tower, the stronger the wind became, blowing the flags planted on the city wall, and when He Linwan walked up, he really saw the five princes and Xue Xingyi and Yan Hui who were following him.
When the fifth prince saw her come up, he smiled and gestured, "You came to see General Gongsun off on behalf of your father?"
He Linwan curtsied and replied in a low voice, "Yes, Your Highness." Originally, my brother was supposed to come instead of my father, but unfortunately my brother was too young, so I had to come. ”
The fifth prince nodded: "Is your father better after using the medicine dispensed by the imperial doctor?" Although the antidote has not yet been dispensed, Imperial Doctor Zhang and the others will send a few pairs of medicine to relieve symptoms every day.
He Linwan said gratefully: "I haven't thanked Your Highness yet, after using the medicine that Your Highness asked the imperial doctors to dispense, my father is not as uncomfortable at night as before." ”
The fifth prince smiled slightly, and said softly: "I have one thing to tell you when I called you up, I have already sent someone to find the whereabouts of that Sun Divine Doctor, and I can send someone to send him to your mansion tomorrow to see Lord He." ”
He Linwan had a surprised expression on his face: "Really? That's great! Thank you, Your Highness!"
The fifth prince said with a smile: "Speaking of which, Lord He Ji has his own natural appearance, the original Shenlong saw the head and the end of the Sun Divine Doctor happened to appear in Shandong, and the people sent out by Zixu inquired, if you want to thank this Lord Xue." ”
He Linwan looked at Xue Xingyi when he heard this, Xue Xingyi was standing beside the five princes in black, the wind on the city wall blew his hair and the corners of his clothes, but his whole person was as cold and self-contained as ever, immobile as a mountain.
"I also think it's a coincidence, what does Miss He think?" Xue Xingyi said lightly.
He Linwan's expression was sincere and calm: "I think this is a blessing thanks to His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince." ”
The fifth prince smiled when he heard this, and was about to speak, but there was an unusual movement under the city wall, and the fifth prince turned his head to look, the smile on his face was closed, and he frowned slightly: "What's the matter?"
He Linwan walked to the city wall and looked down, Gongsun Xian's funeral procession meandered all the way, and it had already left the inner city for some distance, and there were still many people who were unwilling to leave and followed all the way.
It's just that the people who were originally mourning were very quiet, but at this moment, for some reason, it suddenly became lively, and the whole team slowly stopped, as if someone was singing, even if you listened from a distance, you could hear the masculinity in the singing that shook the sky.
Yan Hui, who had a very low sense of existence, arched his hand and said, "Go down and take a look." ”
The fifth prince nodded, and Yan Hui immediately walked down the city tower quickly.
The fifth prince propped his hands on the city wall, looked at the long funeral procession, and sighed: "I didn't expect Gongsun Xian's reputation to be so high. I heard that on the day of the funeral of the old general Gongsun, many people also went out of the city to see them off. The prestige of the Gongsun clan in Dengzhou is really unmatched by few people. By the way, Gongsun Xian didn't leave a son and a half daughter?"
Xue Xingyi said: "Gongsun Xian's wife died early, and he did not marry again, and he had no children or daughters. ”
The fifth prince nodded: "It's a pity." Although the fifth prince said that it was a pity, his tone did not mean half regret.
Yan Hui came back soon.
"Your Highness, the following were originally just some wounded soldiers in Shandong after this battle, they came to see off General Gongsun, and later many soldiers from Dengzhou Wei also came, and now these soldiers are blocking the way up the mountain for the funeral procession. ”
Seeing that the funeral procession had completely stopped, and it didn't seem to be moving forward, the fifth prince frowned and looked at Xue Xingyi: "It's not a way to block the road like this all the time, what does Zixu think?"
Xue Xingyi looked outside the city and said calmly: "Let them make way, General Gongsun should be buried in the ground." ”
The fifth prince, who was accustomed to Huairou, thought about it for a while, and then asked Yan Hui: "Did they say why they blocked the way up the mountain?"
Yan replied in a sullen voice: "The soldiers said that the father and son of Gongsun fought all their lives and sacrificed their lives for the country, but they didn't even have a name after their deaths and had to be buried hastily, and they looked really sad for the two Gongsun generals." ”
The fifth prince squinted his eyes slightly and muttered, "Ask for a posthumous name?"
Yan Hui nodded: "The soldiers feel that the old general Gongsun only has one son, Gongsun Xian, and Gongsun Xian has no queen, seeing that the incense of the Gongsun family is about to be broken here, if he doesn't even have a posthumous name, it is really chilling." ”
After the death of the old general Gongsun, the emperor originally wanted to punish the entire Gongsun family for treason, and naturally did not give the old general Gongsun the glory that he should enjoy after his death, and he didn't want the emperor to have time to clean up the Gongsun family, and the only son of the old general Gongsun also died.
At this time, the cry gradually came from the funeral procession below, and this cry seemed to be contagious, and after a while, many people began to cry.
Yan Hui, who had been looking at the city gate, suddenly became alert: "Your Highness, they are here!"
The five princes also saw it, and many people in the funeral procession walked towards the city wall.
Yan Hui put his hand on the long knife at his waist, and while staring at the people under the city wall vigilantly, he whispered, "Your Highness, please step back a little to prevent hidden arrows." ”
Seeing that those soldiers had gathered under the city, the five princes couldn't help frowning and wanted to retreat, but those soldiers knelt down on one knee in the direction of the five princes.
Looking down from the city wall, those soldiers knelt down quietly and silently, and their eyes looked at the five princes standing on the city wall, they all looked resolute, sturdy, neat and fast, they were the heroes who guarded the territory of China, they were men who shed blood without tears, and they were iron-clad warriors.
The Fifth Prince, who had never been on the battlefield, was instantly shocked by the current scene, and at this moment he finally understood why his father and the emperor cared so much about the military power of the army. A group of ordinary people kneeling in front of them and a group of iron-blooded soldiers kneeling in front of them give people a completely different feeling.
He Linwan saw the satisfaction and ambition in the eyes of the fifth prince that could no longer be hidden, and the corners of his mouth bent slightly, and he didn't want to blink an eye, so he met Xue Xingyi's calm eyes that seemed to be able to see through everything
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(To be continued.) )