Chapter 1 Hiding in Qilin Mountain
Fengzhao sat in the car and looked down at the sun that had just emerged in the distance, quietly waiting, waiting for the glory of the sunrise, all the morning glow greeted the sun, showing a colorful and magnificent momentum. The sun is about to come out, and without the momentum of the sky falling apart, it will show its face silently and little by little, but in this silent birth, the wind can still feel the vastness and splendor from the sun. When the sun fully rises, the earth suddenly warms and brightens, the mountains and forests shrouded in the morning mist suddenly come to life, and the crisp birdsong resounded in the forest from time to time. No one could see the child's heart from his handsome face.
Since the moment he left his parents at the age of five and fled to the end of the world, the smile has never appeared on the child's face again, he has experienced any process that a fugitive has to go through, bloodshed death and betrayal, a five-year-old child is still at the knees of his parents, but he has to die in the world.
Looking at the slowly rising sun, he thought that in this life, he might never see the gentle and calm, like the rising sun of the clouds of his father and the mother who was as quiet and beautiful as the moon. Thinking of this, there was a trace of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth. "Young master," Limeng behind him called softly. Feng Zhao didn't respond for a moment, took out a brocade from his arms, gently wiped the blood lipids from his lips, moved his fingers slightly, and then pushed the bronze wheelchair slowly down the mountain.
This is the seventh year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor of the dynasty is the third generation of the Great Dragon Dynasty Emperor Jianyuan Ning Emperor, after the last two emperors of the hard work and governance, the Great Dragon Dynasty has faintly had the momentum of soaring, and now the Great Dragon Dynasty is the country is strong and the people are rich.
In the north of the Great Dragon Dynasty, there was a desert dragon country dominated by horse archery and grazing, and in the south it was divided into several small countries, including Yanlong, Jiangli, and Xiwu, among which the Yanlong country was the largest. And the country that can really be equal to the Great Dragon Dynasty is the Ji Kingdom in the east, before the Great Dragon Dynasty is the right country that has experienced a hundred years of war, the right left was originally a rich and powerful country, but no one can stop the pace of history, and it is inevitable to change the dynasty.
In the disturbing wars, the country of Ji was able to grow, the ancestors of the Great Dragon Dynasty were able to build a dynasty, and Yanlong, Jiang Li, and Xiwu, who originally belonged to the vassal states of the right country, changed to the vassal states of the Ji country for self-protection in the war, and began to pay tribute to the country of Ji every year. Since the founding of the ancestors of the Great Dragon Dynasty, the faint pattern of the world has changed, and the three small countries in the south are faintly wanted to be recaptured by the Great Dragon Dynasty, and the Ji Kingdom has experienced the hard work of five generations of monarchs, and now there are three subsidiary small countries in the south The territory has surpassed the Great Dragon Dynasty. The Qilin Mountain, where Fengzhao is located, is located in the capital of Yanlong Kingdom, Yanjing City, 500 miles north, because of its dangerous terrain to look like a high-spirited Qilin from a distance.
This is a time when the spring flowers bloom, the early spring in the south comes much earlier than other places and is much warmer, the spring sun is the brightest, the warm shines on the earth, so that people always want to sleep in this warmth. After lunch, Fengzhao didn't want to rest, and for him, the warm sun was good for his legs.
He was originally a healthy and lively child. At midnight on the day of his fifth birthday, he was woken up by his mother, in the hazy sleepy eyes, he saw his mother, who was always quiet and gentle in the past, teary-eyed, he didn't know what happened, but vaguely scared, he hadn't seen his father for several days, he was waiting for his father to celebrate his fifth birthday, but his father had not come back since he entered the palace, these days he faintly felt that the atmosphere at home was not as happy and harmonious as before, everyone was hurrying through with a tense face. He looked at his mother in a daze, his eyes that were bright as black grapes in the past had lost their brilliance, and there were only doubts and hidden fears.
His mother looked at him with reluctance in her eyes, as if she wanted to see him in her bones, and he was afraid that tears couldn't help but flow down his tender little face. "Be obedient, don't cry". His mother lifted him upstairs and patted him on the back and said:
"Your father is going to a far away place, and it is inconvenient to take you with him, so my mother wants to send you to your uncle's house in Yanlong."
"If I don't go, I'll stay with my mother and father, and you will take me with me. Five-year-old Xiao Fengzhao said lying in his mother's arms.
Mother kissed Fengzhao's little head on the cheek, "Good, listen to my mother, I have already sent a letter to your uncle." After speaking, his mother took off the jade phoenix bracelet on his wrist and put it in his arms, "I saw my uncle give this to him." He will be good to you. ”
"Mother, my father went to the palace to see the emperor's grandfather, why hasn't he come back, where is he going, or let's go to the prince's uncle's mansion and ask. Feng Zhao clearly remembered his mother's eyes after hearing this, it was a resolute and indescribable look at him, "Zhao'er, remember my mother's words, I am not allowed to call Uncle Prince Wang in this life, he is not your uncle, let alone your father's brother, he is just the emperor of the Great Dragon Dynasty." Before Fengzhao could ask the reason again, he heard Limeng outside the door say, "Princess, the time has come, and the young master should get up." ”
The mother didn't make a sound, just hugged Fengzhao tightly in her arms, and Fengzhao cried, "I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving, I won't go, I won't go" Tears flowed like a knocked water glass, and Princess Xuan at this time was already in tears.
After a while, she wiped away her tears and still pulled up the crying wind photo, walked to the door and opened the door, there were more than a dozen people in black standing outside the door, all wearing face towels, they were very neatly in a queue, and the first one to stand in the front row was Limeng, who was also dressed in black but did not wear a black scarf.
"See the princess," saw the princess come out, and all the people in black bent down and saluted.
At this moment, Princess Xuan no longer has the state of tears just now, she bent down and gently combed the sideburns of the wind and light, and then stood up straight, the slender body raised her head slightly, the cold night breeze blew, blowing up the skirt of her clothes, slowly fluttering in the early spring night, as if it was the fairy clothes of the nine days fluttering, at that moment she raised her face and looked at her mother's wind and light, and suddenly felt that time stopped flowing, and in a trance he felt that there was only his mother in this world and no one else, he looked at his mother a little stupid, he also forgot what his mother was going to do with her, and time flowed so quietly。
After a moment of silence, Princess Xuan called softly: "Limeng."
"Subordinates are in". Princess Xuan looked at the eyes and handed Feng Zhao's hand to him: "Xiaozhao will be handed over to you." ”
"The subordinates should take care of Feng Shizi. ”
Princess Xuan nodded, "Can you remember what I told you?"
"Remember," Limeng said, nodding. "It's good to remember clearly, this way the world will be handed over to you, the mountains and rivers are far away, the road is difficult, you are all the most loyal dead soldiers in the Xuan Wangfu, I will entrust Xiaozhao to you. After saying that, Princess Xuan bowed, and the dozen or so black-clothed people who brushed knelt on one leg together, clenched their hands into fists, they didn't make a sound, and the voice of Limeng, who was kneeling at the front, said in a small but extremely firm voice: "Please rest assured, princess, I am here in the world, and even if I am the last person left, I will bring the young master back to Yanlong." ”
"If you've thanked you, please go. Tears instantly blurred Princess Xuan's eyes, Fengzhao cried again, before he could cry, he didn't know what his mother had stuffed in his mouth, he didn't know anything, and when he woke up, he was already dead.
"Young master, it's time to go out for a walk. Lan Yan outside the door said that since the wind shone on Qilin Mountain, in order to expand the number of people, more than a dozen orphans between the ages of seven and twelve were adopted in Yanlong Country for training in order to replace the dead soldiers, and Lan Yan was one of them, because of his quiet and prudent deeds and good qualifications, he was selected by Feng Zhao to be a first-class maid.
In the spring of March, the sun is shining in the distance, the mountain trees are smoky and green, the blue lake is rippling, the twelve-year-old Lan Yan pushes the seven-year-old wind to walk slowly on the grass, this Qilin Mountain, from the outside the mountain is precipitous, strange stones and strange rocks, but into the mountain is the birds and flowers, the scenery is pleasant, the most beautiful is that there is a lake between the valleys, the lake water is clear, the water birds are gathered, the wind shines after they fled to Yanlong, the lord of Yanlong gave the Qilin Mountain to the wind to let him recuperate here, because there is a century-old treasure temple on the mountain called Baoxiang Temple, it is the temple of the king of Yanlong, the mountain gate is not opened on weekdays, so it is exceptionally quiet, and the only passage into the mountain is at the mountain gate behind this Baoxiang Temple, so outsiders don't know the secrets inside Qilin Mountain. Looking at the blue sky and clear water, the seven-year-old wind is slightly better, the sun is shining warmly on the earth, butterflies are flying among the grass, and some kapok trees are growing scattered, and this is also the time when kapok is in full bloom.
Suddenly, Fengzhao noticed a child playing under a kapok tree in the distance, so he motioned for Lan Yan to push him over.
Turning a few kapok trees, they came to the child, it was a little girl of more than one year old, sitting alone on the grass playing, next to the grass there was a small saucer, in which there were some small pastries, it seemed that the maid who took care of the child put it, the little girl's soft face was slightly red by the sun, the pink gown and kapok reflected each other very beautifully.
Feng Zhao looked at this child strangely, and couldn't remember where she came from, because the people inside this Qilin Mountain were not only the dead soldiers of the palace who fled with him and those orphans who were replaced by the dead soldiers, but also the soldiers of the Yanlong King's Mansion and some envoys given by the lord of Yanlong Kingdom, all of these people know martial arts and are used to defend Fengzhao, but where did this little girl come from?
Feng Zhao thought about it, and suddenly he remembered, when Limeng fled with him to Yincheng, where the Great Dragon Dynasty and Yanlong Kingdom were handed over, they saw a child's swaddling clothes on the side of the road, and when his carriage passed by the swaddling clothes, he clearly saw the face of a child, and for some reason he called Limeng, who was driving the car, and asked him to pick up the child.
Since he came to Qilin Mountain, he has never said a word because of his leg, and he has forgotten about this child. Now that I have been here in this Qilin Mountain for more than a year, and this child is also more than a year old, it must be the abandoned baby who picked up that day.
Thinking about looking, the little girl also looked at Fengzhao curiously, her eyes were shining like little stars, and after a while she stood up, took a piece of pastry from the small dish next to her with her left hand and walked towards Fengzhao, walked to Fengzhao, she stopped and stared at Fengzhao, and held the pastry in her hand to Fengzhao, which meant to let Fengzhao eat, Fengzhao looked at her indifferently, and did not mean to take that piece of pastry, the little girl did not react to Fengzhao, put the pastry in her hand on the armrest of the wheelchair, and then trembled and grabbed the legs of Fengzhao's wheelchair, so she grabbed Fengzhao's clothes and stepped on Fengzhao's feet and climbed into Fengzhao's arms, Then he picked up the pastry with his left hand and stuffed it into his mouth with his right hand, and the sound of "eat, eat" made in his mouth, Fengzhao suddenly smiled, he thought this little child was really interesting.
Lan Yan on the side looked at Fengzhao's smile and became excited, "Young master, you smiled!" In Lan Yan's impression, she had never seen Fengzhao's smile, and she had also heard Limeng say that the young master had never smiled since the day he fled, and he had never spoken since the day his leg was broken, but she clearly saw the young master's smile today, such innocence.
"He's still a kid after all," Lan Yan, a young and old-fashioned man, thought. At this time, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old maid in a green shirt came running from the side, holding a basin of clothes in her hand, and when she saw Fengzhao, she hurriedly knelt down and said in a trembling voice: "The slave maid just went to the lake to wash clothes, and put Yaoling here." I didn't expect you to come, young master. ”
"His name is Yaoling. Feng Zhao asked. Lan Yan next to her couldn't close her mouth in surprise, this was the first time she heard the sound of Fengzhao.
"Is it the baby you picked up on the road?"
"Yes, she has been handed over to me since she came to Qilin Mountain."
"Well, you stand down. Feng Zhao said. Fengzhao has been with this little girl this afternoon, and he didn't know what kind of changes this little girl would bring him in the future, but this afternoon was something he could never forget in his life.
It wasn't until she fell asleep in Fengzhao's arms that Fengzhao remembered the time to heal her leg disease. The most famous doctor in the world is responsible for treating the wind and the legs, because he is elusive, no one knows his real name, and the medical treatment is strange and impermanent, so he is also called Mr. Ghost.
This ghost spirit traveled the world when he was young, and by chance he met Fengzhao's father Feng Xuan, and the two met each other and hated each other as friends of life and death.
Lan Yan took away Yaoling in Fengzhao's arms, "Young master, it's time to go to the hospital." Feng Zhao nodded, the medical house is under the cliff in front of this meadow, turning a few bends and a few bends far away A thatched house with a small courtyard comes into view, there is a kapok tree in the small courtyard is blooming brightly, behind the house is a few poles of green bamboo, the grass outside the small courtyard has been reclaimed and planted with rows of medicinal herbs, before he has reached the small courtyard, he can already faintly smell the smell of herbs mixed together, Feng Zhao frowned slightly, he didn't like the smell of herbs at all.
After the wind fell from the leg disease, there was always about half a day in the medicine tank soaking, the full tank of black medicine juice smoked his head hurt, today the ghost doctor is no exception and boiled a large vat of medicine juice waiting for the wind to shine. Entered the medicine house, Limeng was already waiting in front of the medicine tank, this is a burly and upright man, since the death of his parents at the age of six, he was brought into the Xuanwang Mansion because of his talent and cleverness, he was trained to be a dead soldier, and since then he has become the most personal guard around Fengzhao's father, and he is also the leader of all the dead soldiers in the Xuanwang Mansion.
"Young Master" Li Meng stepped forward to take the wheelchair in Lan Yan's hand and motioned for Lan Yan to leave.