31. The prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty
The Tang Dynasty is prosperous
Time flies, time flies.
Eight years later, it is just three words in the novel book, and it is just a flash picture in the film and television works, but for Baili Yu, it is 2,920 days, 70,000 hours, 4,224,080 minutes, and 252,288,000 minutes.
Baili Yu squatted at the border for eight years.
With him, a notorious general, naturally no one dares to encroach on the frontier land of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Heng has always been the emperor as promised before, which can be regarded as hard work, although the economic output value is still not as good as the Great Sui Dynasty.
Although the Great Sui Dynasty lasted for a short time, and even Yang Guang's brutality was well known, but when Yang Guang was in power, the Great Sui Dynasty was very rich, and he didn't know how much stronger than the Tang Dynasty. You must know that since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong, Wu Zetian, and Tang Xuanzong are all famous Ming monarchs, but even if there is such a Ming monarch as the emperor, it is still impossible to surpass the economic output value of the Great Sui Dynasty, you can imagine how rich the Great Sui Dynasty was back then, of course, this is not the point, the point is that Li Heng is indeed a good emperor in his own way.
Therefore, Baili Yu has not returned to Chang'an for all these years, and has always guarded this bitter cold place.
Discipline in the barracks, Baili Yu's daily life in addition to reading the book of soldiers is training, if the only entertainment behavior, is to play the flute at night, if the flute is said to be blown indiscriminately but there is still a melody, but this melody is strange and extraordinary, dare not compliment, disturb the frontier soldiers are miserable, many times in Baili Yu when playing the flute secretly complained that if there is an enemy attack, they do not need to take weapons to fight, directly let the general play a flute can perfectly solve the problem.
Baili Yu was very lonely, because he found that no one except Wang Yifeng understood his flute at all.
And Wang Yifeng only came to teach him the flute once when he first arrived at the border guard, and he never came again.
But a few months later, Li Bai once took his eldest disciple Han Feichi to visit his old friends in the military camp, Han Feichi has a nickname as the Phantom Heart Demon, he is good at music and rhythm, and he is very focused on music and rhythm, if the performance he hears is flawed, he will put forward a martial arts challenge, and after the victory, he will be very happy, chanting poems and reciting words to satirize the other party, which makes people look very ugly, in short, he is a very unpleasant person. And the music he can play can attract people's hearts, and Baili Yu's flute sound can just break his flute sound.
At that time, Han Feichi was simply shocked, and asked Baili Yu's flute who he was learning from, and he was able to break his magic sound.
At that time, Bai Liyu showed everyone's demeanor, and his attitude towards Han Feichi was like treating a tolerant junior: "The Valley of the Wicked, Wang Zhifeng." β
The next day, Han Feichi said goodbye to Li Bai and said that it was only today that he knew that there were people outside the world, and he wanted to go to the Valley of the Wicked to find Wang Yifeng and explore the ultimate in music theory.
I think the days after coming to the Valley of the Wicked will be interesting......
Li Bai also left after drinking with Bai Liyu for a few days, when both of them were drunk, Li Bai said to Bai Liyu that brothers' lives are short, and they don't understand what regret is when they are about to die.
Li Bai was very chic, he wouldn't stay in one place for too long, so it didn't take long for him to leave.
And not long after Li Bai left, Ling Caiwei personally came to the border and brought Li Heng personally to give Baili Yu a blood flute, made of blood jade, which looked like it was much more expensive than the flute that Baili Yu used before.
Bai Liyu accepted the blood flute, and thought about it, and asked Ling Caiwei to bring back the bamboo flute that he had been using before, and carved by himself, and handed it back to Li Heng.
Ling Caiwei, who came to deliver the flute, was still as good-looking as she was at the beginning, but some small scars appeared on the white and soft palms, indicating that he seemed to have had a hard time recently. Bai Liyu saw it but didn't ask much, the life similar to an ascetic monk in the border pass made him understand a lot, and it was precisely because he understood that many things could be said.
During this period, Bai Liyu treated Ling Caiwei politely, which was an attitude towards court officials, but such an attitude made Ling Caiwei feel cold, Ling Caiwei wanted to speak many times and was interrupted by Bai Liyu, and finally the night before Ling Caiwei decided to go back, Ling Caiwei came to Baili Yu's camp alone.
Bai Li Yu put down the military book in his hand and asked seemingly leisurely: "Lord Ling didn't sleep late at night, could it be that he came to listen to the flute played by Ben General?" β
Bai Liyu's indifferent attitude made Ling Caiwei very uncomfortable, but he didn't make a big noise, and said very calmly: "I'm leaving tomorrow, I don't want to hear you play the flute, I want to talk to you." β
"Say what? Say the general trend of the world, or the power of the court? "Baili Yu's appearance is still as incomprehensible as it was at the beginning, but it was really incomprehensible at the beginning, and now it ...... It's an unknown how much of it will be true.
Ling Caiwei's eyes were sad, and she whispered, "I want to tell you about when we first met......
Before Ling Caiwei finished speaking, she was interrupted by Bai Liyu: "It's been too long, and I can't remember it clearly." β
Ling Caiwei smiled, smiling so bitterly: "Can't remember? I can't remember exactly...... Well, General, I would like to ask you one last question. β
"You say yes." Seeing Ling Caiwei's smile as if she was about to cry, Bai Liyu couldn't continue to speak coldly after all.
Ling Caiwei stood very straight, and finally gritted her teeth and asked what she had always hidden in her heart to ask the most, which was almost equivalent to the knot in his heart, "If I am not sent by the prince to help you, but between you and me, but a real stranger, what should you do?" β
Baili Yu didn't understand what Ling Caiwei meant, he had already said this, but he couldn't pretend to be stupid anymore, the truth was very cruel, he didn't want to say it, but "...... There are no ifs. β
"I see." Ling Caiwei smiled miserably and beautifully, her beautiful but not feminine face was unbelievably beautiful.
The edge is deep and shallow, and there is finally a fate between you and me.
Ling Caiwei returned to Beijing to restore her life, and naturally brought back the flute that Baili Yu stored as a return gift.
At first, Li Heng was happy to see this flute, and Li Heng, who had not smiled since he went to the border pass, actually showed a happy smile on his face.
This smile was really dazzlingβLing Caiwei thought, and then he suddenly knelt in front of Li Heng.
Li Heng was puzzled and at the same time had a bad premonition in his heart, he said: "Aiqing has something to say, you should know, I have always trusted you the most." β
Ling Caiwei knelt on the ground, his head raised slightly, and what appeared in his eyes was a resoluteness that Li Heng didn't understand: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to resign." β
Li Heng frowned: "Resign? Why? β
Ling Caiwei took a deep breath and slowly stated: "Your Majesty, the minister has been doing things for you since he was rescued by you, and he has done a lot of things that I still don't know if it is right or right...... I also want to find the people that the minister needs. β
It's not that Li Heng is too willing to make up for it, but ...... The time was too coincidental, and the words were too ambiguous, so he had to think in that direction.
Therefore, Li Hengna's fists that had been clenched for some time trembled, and asked, "He promised you?" β
"......" Ling Caiwei did not respond to Li Heng, but his silent attitude seemed to acquiesce to Li Heng's question.
"I understand, you can go back......" Li Heng waved his hand, his back proudly held like an emperor who would never be defeated.
In fact, he was indeed an emperor, but he had already been defeated.
At the moment when Ling Caiwei withdrew from the main hall, the proud Li Heng sat on the dragon chair, as if smiling bitterly, like a foolish smile, he tightly held the bamboo flute given by Baili Yu and threw it on the ground, and said in a low voice: "You chose him, and what did you give this flute to me......
Maybe it was because Li Heng didn't fall hard or because the quality of the flute was very good, the flute was not broken, but was picked up by Li Heng and carefully kept.
Whenever he didn't want to summon his concubine at night, he would take this seemingly ugly bamboo flute and blow it with such a silent residual sound of one or two, but in his mind, Ling Caiwei and Baili Yu would look like they were in love with each other, and this feeling would make him drop the flute angrily, and pick it up again after recovering from this atmosphere......
Over time, although the flute was not broken, it had more scratches.
And Ling Caiwei naturally wouldn't go to Baili Yu after leaving the palace, because he had already been rejected.
He went to many places, saw many people, and finally was moved by a persistent boy, went to that place of great violence and changed his name to Mo Caiwei, and became the boy's subordinate - he wondered what would happen to two children who had been bound and bound since childhood but had to go down different paths.
Eight years later, Yang Guifei, who favored the harem back then, was now critically ill, and at the request of Princess Anlu, the princess who protected the country, Li Heng sent a decree to let Baili Yu return to Chang'an to see the queen mother for the last time.
Li Heng sent a decree to let Baili Yu return to the palace, thinking about Baili Yu's current appearance for a while, thinking about whether he had lived with Ling Caiwei for a while, thinking about whether he still wanted to kill himself, and thinking about whether he would have a chance to kill him, so he lost sleep for several nights, and even the most favored concubine, Zhang Liangdi of the Prince's Mansion, was scolded by Li Heng several times.
At first, Bai Liyu was surprised to get this news, and said that Yang Yuhuan was the queen mother, and now he can get sick after eating and drinking well in the palace, and then he guessed that Li Heng had hard wings now, and deliberately used Yang Yuhuan as a guise to lure him back to catch it all?
Baili Yu thought for a long time and didn't understand, so he threw the wine jug on the table to Li Bai, who was in the dust: "I can't keep you drinking this time, I have to go to the capital." β
Li Bai took the wine jug and said with some concern: "If you go, you may have to worry about your life." β
Baili Yu is very free and easy: "The king of Hades let me die in the third watch, and he will not keep me until the fifth watch, whether it is life or death, it all depends on creation." β