Journey, up! Chapter 130: Looking Back
Lately, someone has always seen an old beggar in rags, walking around with a wine gourd, one in the south, the other in the east, beside the lake, on the mountain peak, in the jungle, in the river, everywhere his people are everywhere, everywhere.
Finally, in front of a luxurious marble tomb in the heavily guarded royal cemetery in the central Starfall City, the old beggar was half-lying with his eyes closed, his waist cold.
It is unimaginable that in this cemetery where masters gather and are heavily guarded, no one found the old beggar entering.
On the tombstone made of marble, it is engraved: The Tomb of the Eleventh Generation Holy Emperor of Starfall - Huangfu Spring.
Huangfu Quan died twenty-five years ago, and he ascended the throne for thirty-five years, and the period in which he was in was a period of life and death when all empires were eyeing each other and Starfall was in crisis.
Huangfu Quan loves the people like a son, and the Starfall Empire under his governance has resisted strong enemies on the outside and strong on the inside, and has successfully made the Starfall Empire enjoy the peace of the past thirty years by virtue of its arduous battles again and again.
At the time of Huangfu Quan's death, the remaining four million people of the Starfall Empire wore white clothes for seven days to express their grief.
On that day, the whole country looked white.
The old beggar leaned against the tombstone, took the gourd of wine from his waist and poured it hard, and the wine flowed down the corners of his mouth, through his throat, through his chest, and soaked the clothes on his chest.
"Huangfu Quan, you are a good emperor, really, I, Li Hengbai, have rarely admired people in my life, but in this regard, I have admired you for thirty years, you can not even want your life for the sake of this empire, you can give up everything for the sake of the people under you."
The old beggar's voice was hoarse, and he looked up and said slowly.
More than 60 years ago, in a forest, a young man in white held a longbow, the bowstring roared, and the arrows were like lightning, and he shot accurately at the colorful giant tiger that pounced in front of him.
The giant tiger had an arrow stuck in its forehead, screamed, and fell to the ground with a bang, killing directly.
The young man in white walked up to the giant tiger and pulled out the arrow on the giant tiger's forehead, and the next moment, he raised his head and looked at the young man with a long sword sitting on the trunk in front of him, who was biting an apple in his hand and looked at the young man in white indifferently.
"I've been staring at this big bug for a long time, but I didn't expect it to be snatched by you."
The young man with the sword pursed his lips and threw away the apple core in his hand.
The young man in white nodded faintly and said slowly: "Then this tiger will be returned to you." ”
"Since you killed it, it's yours."
The young man with the sword shrugged his shoulders, and then grinned: "I see that your archery skills are good, there is a big bug's nest in front, do you want to do it with me?" I've been thinking about those tiger skins for a long time. ”
The young man in white pondered for a while, then nodded slightly.
"Okay, let's go!"
The two walked to the valley in front, the young man with the sword on his back was at ease among the dozens of giant tigers in the valley, dodging in all directions, the flying sword pierced through the yang in a hundred steps, and the top of the valley, the young man in white was like a god, and the arrows were shot at the giant tigers below.
"Smile and ask you who is the flying sword that passes through the poplar flowers in a hundred steps."
The old beggar poured another sip of bad wine.
"Laugh at today's tiger shooting boy, he is trying the world."
The wine in the wine gourd was poured next to the tombstone, wetting the dirt, although one person was a thousand, he couldn't stop the years.
A moment later, the young man in white and the young man with the sword on his back walked out of the valley side by side, and the two looked at each other and laughed.
"What's your name?"
"Huangfu Spring."
"My name is Li Hengbai."
Since then, a merry man who is a master of swordsmanship and a great prince who shoulders the mission of the empire's glory and decline have been firmly entangled by fate.
Five years later.
The wind and snow were all over the sky, a pot of hot wine was boiling in the pavilion, a man in a white fox fur poured warm hot wine, and in the wind and snow in front of him, a man in white came slowly and said with a smile: "Huangfu Spring, is it full of early today." ”
"The matter of my father's place has been dealt with, and I have nothing to do, so I will come over early."
Huang Fuquan smiled faintly and pushed the wine glass in front of the man in white opposite, the latter's breath was as sharp as a sword of birth, and no one could stop it.
Li Hengbai picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all, and laughed: "Good wine, do you know that I broke through today, so I took out this drunken immortal burn?" ”
Huangfu Quan smiled faintly and did not speak, and after three rounds of drinking, the two stood in the wind and snow outside the pavilion and looked up at the sky.
The wind and snow are in the body.
"White madman, I'm leaving the imperial capital tomorrow."
Huangfu Quan stretched out his palm to catch the falling snowflakes and said slowly.
"Where are you going?"
Li Hengbai shook off the frost and snow on his body and asked in a deep voice.
"The eagle invaded our country, invaded from the south, and the border was eight hundred miles away, I wanted to leave today, but I thought that you were still waiting for me, so I postponed it for a day."
The snowflakes in Huangfu Quan's palms melted, and he shook off the water in his hands and said slowly.
"How long will it take to be back?"
Li Hengbai asked softly.
"Three months as early as possible, as slow as a year, maybe ...... Never coming back. ”
Huangfu Quan smiled.
Li Hengbai walked into the pavilion, he took the wine that had cooled, drank it into his throat, immediately dropped the wine glass in his hand, pointed at Huangfu Spring, and laughed: "Next year, I will make an appointment with you again in the Huxin Pavilion, can you go to the appointment?" ”
With a deep breath, a faint smile appeared on Huangfu Quan's face, and he clenched his fist and struck it out in the air: "Why don't you dare!" ”
The next day, he rode out of the city and rushed to the southern border, where he lived and died.
Half a year later, on the southern border, Huangfu Quan, who was wearing gold armor, had blood on his face, and he couldn't tell whether it was the enemy or his own, he slashed the throat of the enemy in front of him with a sword, and the blood sprayed all over him, and more than seven or eight soldiers next to him leaned around him, and one of them roared: "Prince, you go, we will be cut off!" ”
Huangfu Quan glanced at the dense enemies around him, looked at the Sky Eagle General riding a horse in the distance, and wiped the blood on his face: "I can't leave, I want to die together, I, the waste prince, can't take you to win this battle, so let's die with you." ”
The remaining soldiers gritted their teeth fiercely and roared angrily: "Okay, then we will live and die with the prince today!" ”
"Rush!"
In the circle formed by hundreds of people, Huangfuquan and others fought desperately, and blood flowed like a river.
"Huangfu Quan, you will definitely die, so let's hurry up and arrest you."
General Aquila indifferently looked at Huangfu Quan, who was fighting to the death, and continued: "If you were willing to submit to my Aquila Empire, you would have been able to report to the Holy Lord and give you a princely position. ”
"Sneer......"
Huangfu Quan stabbed a sword through the chest of the person in front of him, his eyes were fierce, and he roared: "Dream! Starfall has never surrendered to the Prince! Not before, and not ever! ”
"If you are stubborn, then kill them all."
With a wave of his hand, the Eagle soldiers with spears rushed towards Huangfu Quan and the others.
"Prince be careful!"
The pupils of the remaining four shrank suddenly, blocking Huangfu Quan's side, dozens of spears from all directions pierced their bodies, Huangfu Quan's eyes were red, and the Sky Eagle soldiers retreated, spears holding their corpses high, blood dripping.
Huangfu Quan stood alone in the encirclement, the long sword was stuck above the ground so that he did not fall, he hung his head, blood continued to drip on the ground, and his vision had begun to blur: "I'm sorry, I can't take you to win, I can't hold this border." ”
"And the old man of Huxin Pavilion, my Huangfu Spring is about to miss the appointment, if you are angry, you may not be able to find me if you want to beat or scold."
The surrounding Sky Eagle soldiers were flooded again with spears, and the tips of the blood-stained spears pointed directly at Huangfu Spring.
"Goodbye."
Huangfu Quan closed his eyes.
"Boom!"
A long sword with a sword body like light came across the air, landed in front of Huangfu Quan, and the qi wave exploded violently, overturning the soldiers rushing around, and for a while people turned on their backs, and the people who approached were even cut by the sword qi and were injured, and fell down unwillingly.
Huangfu Quan looked at the long sword in front of him in a daze, a rainbow light came across the sky, and landed in front of Huang Fu Quan, the man in white pulled out the white sword in his hand, stretched out his palm towards Huang Fu Quan on the ground, and smiled warmly.
"The world is in me, and I will stay with you and hunt with you in the future!"
That year, the southern border was victorious, the Aquila Empire returned with a crushing defeat, and the name of Prince Starfall resounded across the border.
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"It's been a long time since I've been out shopping."
Huangfu Quan and the man in white sat in front of the window of the restaurant, looked at the endless crowd below, and smiled: "I really like this kind of peaceful and prosperous world. ”
Li Hengbai looked at the city gate boredly, and said lightly: "There is no fight, it's too boring." ”
Huangfu Quan smiled helplessly, just wanted to speak, and suddenly found that Li Hengbai on the opposite side was stunned, and following his gaze, there was a white horse slowly walking in at the city gate, and a woman in green clothes and veils rode a white horse obliquely, holding a bamboo flute.
I still remember that year when you came from the north, sat on a white horse and played the bamboo flute, blowing away the light smoke all over the city.
"Hey, this woman is good, I'll go down and take a look."
Li Hengbai's eyes lit up, looking at the woman in green shirt who rode a white horse all the way to the tea stall in front of her, and quickly went downstairs.
In the tea stall, Xiao Er hid behind after serving a pot of tea, looking at the woman in Tsing Yi obsessively.
After a while, the woman in the green shirt who drank the tea in the cup slowly got up, and the bamboo flute was tied around her waist.
"This bamboo flute belongs to a girl?"
Li Hengbai, who was dressed in white, held the bamboo flute in his hand at some point, stepped forward and smiled.
The woman in the green shirt glanced at her waist, and then looked at Li Hengbai calmly, her eyes were as clear as water, and there were no waves.
"Where do you seem to have met the girl below?"
Li Hengbai handed over the bamboo flute with a smile, and then said: "Oh, by the way, Li Hengbai in the Lower Starfall, dare to ask the girl's name?" ”
The woman in the green shirt was silent for a while, then took the bamboo flute, her voice was cold, and said, "Bai An Qingyu." ”
Standing in the distance, Huangfu Quan looked at the two of them with a smile, the throbbing in his heart was hidden deep in his heart, and the little two in the tea stall in the distance looked at the rough clothes on his body with inferiority, laughed at himself, and watched the man and woman slowly go away.
Recalling the beginning, the white clothes were romantic.
In the old years, the green shirt was also peerless.