On the day of the Shangyuan Festival, Xiao Zhuo accompanied Jingyi down the mountain to Beiping Mansion, seeing people coming and going, busy traffic, Xiao Zhuo couldn't help but sigh that under Luo Yi's governance, Beiping Mansion is indeed very stable, everyone is rich, and all industries are prosperous.

He remembered that when he was a child, his father told him that at the beginning of the eighth year of the emperor's reign, the first emperor Emperor Wen planned to subdue Beiping Mansion in order to be able to successfully destroy Nan Chen.

Moreover, it is said that in these three months, more than one month was spent on the march, and in the remaining month or so, the number of times the two armies really faced each other was only three times, and the two of them fought alone. At that time, the other generals were angry, and they accused Yang Lin of taking the march as a child's play. However, after Emperor Wen read the letter, he laughed and said: "The emperor's brother really lives up to my expectations, with this letter, I have no worries about the Great Sui War!" He immediately ordered the whole army to repair for half a year, and finally in December of the same year, 500,000 troops crossed the Yangtze River and smashed Jiankang City, and Chen died!

That is, in the year of the fall of the Chen Dynasty, his aunt Xiao Meiniang finally reunited with his father's sister and brother, and he remembered that when his father learned that his aunt had returned to Chang'an, he almost jumped for joy.

Later, Xiao Zhuo learned from his father that Luo Yi's letter was written about an agreement with Yang Lin, the king of the backer. The agreement pointed out that Beiping Mansion could be attached to the imperial court, but Beiping Mansion had to be managed by Luo Yi himself, and the officials in Yanyun were still deployed by Luo Yi himself. It's just that the only guarantee in the letter is that Yanyun soldiers will never go south!

In fact, Xiao Zhuo didn't understand why Yang Lin withdrew his troops because of this letter. Later, when I grew up, I realized that the Yanyun area was connected to the Turks in the north and Goguryeo in the east, and no matter how the Central Plains Dynasty changed, it was necessary to rely on the Beiping Mansion to hold the territory outside. Emperor Wen knew this, so he let the king of the backer take command, and the purpose was not to set foot in Beiping Mansion, as long as Luo Yi was stabilized.

"Senior brother! Do you look at this umbrella beautifully? ”

Xiao Zhuo came back to his senses and saw Jing Yi standing in front of a stall buying flower umbrellas, holding out a flower umbrella and constantly making various movements in the crowd, which looked really beautiful, but the Taoist robe on his body was really a little unexpected.

"Senior sister, you are a monk, what do you care about whether you are beautiful or not? Do you want to be vulgar too? Xiao Zhuo said teasingly, and remembered the rumors he had heard, so he asked again: "By the way, senior sister, what did you do before you became a monk?" ”

"Me? Umbrella sellers! That's why seeing these umbrellas makes me feel intimate. Besides, what does it have to do with whether you love beauty or not and not being out of home? It's you, while you haven't left here yet, let's see more of the prosperity of this world! Jing Yi obviously knew Xiao Zhuo's thoughts, and as soon as the conversation changed, she brought the topic to Xiao Zhuo again. Sure enough, Xiao Zhuo asked strangely.

"Senior sister, how do you say this? How do I feel like I'm dying soon! After Xiao Zhuo asked, who knew that Jingyi actually let out a long sigh before he spoke leisurely.

"Hey! Now only Beiping Mansion is so lively! After Jingyi finished speaking, the flower umbrella in her hand was slowly closed and returned to the stall owner, but this emotion attracted Xiao Zhuo to look at her.

"Why did Senior Sister say that? Hasn't the Great Sui always been peaceful and peaceful? The lantern festival in Chang'an City is not much worse than here! Xiao Zhuo knew that Jingyi had been traveling in the world all these years, but even so, he felt that her sentence was still a little too biased, or that she had not been to Chang'an City, so there was that kind of conclusion.

"Will there be lanterns in Chang'an City?" Jingyi turned her head and thought about it before saying, "Hmm! It's really lively, but it shouldn't be as good as Luoyang's now. ”

"Not as good as Luoyang? How could it be, Chang'an City is the ...... of the Great Sui? Xiao Zhuo was halfway through speaking, and his voice stopped abruptly, because he remembered that the capital seemed to have been moved.

"It's been moved early, don't you know? Or are you stupid in the cave? Jingyi casually said what Xiao Zhuo was thinking, and also froze Xiao Zhuo in place. As early as three years ago, when he was still studying the four trigrams of the earth, he heard some senior brothers talk about it, but he was isolated from the world for three years, and he had been living in Chang'an before, so naturally when he thought of the capital, his first reaction was Chang'an.

"Hey! It's true, your uncle doesn't know what he's thinking every day, he hasn't done much good things over the years, but he has tossed the people enough. It's the construction of the imperial palace again, the construction of the Great Wall, and the digging of such a big river! Fortunately, the king of Beiping fought hard and only promised to recruit 20,000 laborers for the imperial court, otherwise this Beiping Mansion would probably be as poor as other places! Jingyi remembered that when her master entrusted her with a dream, she had mentioned Xiao Zhuo's identity, as if she was the son of the emperor's brother-in-law, and now she remembered what she had seen and heard over the years, and she couldn't help but make fun of it.

Xiao Zhuo couldn't help but be surprised when he heard Jingyi say this, he also knew that the Holy Shang had done some unsatisfactory things over the years, but how could he say that there were still some old ministers in the court, how could he allow the Holy Shang to do too much!

"Senior sister, you said that the corpses in other places are not living? How far has it really been? Xiao Zhuo hurriedly asked.

"I don't know about other places, in Hebei, Shandong, Huai River to Jiangnan, it is basically difficult to find a family with neat personnel, and the people are afraid of officials. In order for his son to survive, the old man did not hesitate to let his son leave his hometown, or go to the labor himself; Wives are willing to serve with their husbands in order not to leave them, and so on. After six years, there are no people, all industries are abandoned, and I don't know when I will be a leader? I heard that Goguryeo will be fought this year, will this still let the people live? ”

After listening to this, Xiao Zhuo didn't know what to say for a while. In the past few days, he has come out to watch the stars in the second half of the night, and every time he looks at the bright greedy wolf star and the broken army star, he feels faintly uncomfortable in his heart, he is a person who knows that the world will be chaotic, but it is precisely because he knows that his heart is more painful. People who live in temples may only see the suffering of the Li people, but how much of the suffering of the people can be expressed, that is, people who are in the countryside and folk will have a tangible experience. If it was before, he would not hesitate to tell his brother and father, but now, he knew that this was just the beginning, before the Seven Killing Star Lord appeared, the world would be bitter at most, and it was not chaos!

"Hey, hey, hey! Ladies and gentlemen, take a look! The ancestral puppet show, passed down from generation to generation, is absolutely wonderful! Don't miss it! At this moment, the sound of a gong sounded, startling the people around them. Xiao Zhuo and Jingyi also followed to the scene, only to learn that it turned out to be a puppet troupe soliciting business.

Puppet play, Xiao Zhuo has seen this kind of thing before, in his impression has always been on the three-foot red stage, the puppets are flying and dancing on the stage, and the actor is hiding above the puppets, controlling these puppets, and there are also people who know the art of opera singing behind the scenes. But at the moment, this puppet troupe is a little different from what he knows, the red stage is still the same red stage, but it has been widened a lot, and the puppet puppet is much larger than the average, almost half a person tall, it seems that the red stage is also adjusted for the puppet, but this is also what he doesn't understand the most.

Ordinary puppet dolls are as small as the palm of the hand, and the big ones will not exceed a person's knee, so it is convenient for people to control them. Although the small one is easier to control, it is precisely because it is easy that it needs to be more refined, because it is small, so whether the force of pulling the line is large or small, it will cause the puppet's action to be out of shape. The larger ones are often not done by one person, and many of them are controlled by one person, so there will not be too many puppets in each scene. And the troupe in front of him, Xiao Zhuo heard the name of the newspaper person, it seemed to be called "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone", Xiao Zhuo knew that this was a scene where many characters were going to appear, but how to use such a big puppet to finish, he was very curious.

With the exit of the announcer, the formal performance of the puppet show finally began, and the first to appear was naturally Guan Yunchang, with green robes and soap boots, and three-foot long hair, which was indeed vivid, especially the movements, which did not stiffen because the puppet became bigger, but like a real person, step by step, as soon as he turned around, it was like a real person singing, and the momentum was good. Then it was to hang the seal and seal the gold, bid farewell to Cao Cao, and all the way through the five checkpoints of Dongling Pass, Luoyang City, Bishui Pass, Xingyang Pass and Yellow River Ferry, kill six generals, and finally meet with Uncle Liu and his brothers. Among them, the first four levels of the battle did not focus much on the performance, are just three knives and two rounds to cut the enemy under the horse, only when crossing the Yellow River crossing, maybe the team in order to reflect the courage of Guan Erye, actually fought with Xiahoudun more than a dozen rounds in a row, the two of you come and go, or toss, or dodge, or with strength, to control the enemy, swinging the knife and slashing are like real people, although there is no sound of the golden drum fighting, but also attract people to indulge in it.

"Good! Guan Erye is mighty! ”

The spectators were indulging in it, and they didn't know who shouted, and everyone woke up like a dream, and they all shouted hello.

At this time, Xiao Zhuo looked at Jingyi beside him, the two nodded to each other, and then looked at the person who woke everyone up, it was actually the second leader of Taihang Mountain.

[Follow-up spoilers]

"General Xue, General Su, he ......" Looking at the joy inside and outside Su's house, although the purple kite had already heard the reason, but when he saw Xue Wanche at this moment, he still wanted to ask.

"Purple Kite girl, general...... is going to get married, and please cherish the girl more in the future. Xue Wanche looked at the purple kite and persuaded him.