Volume 3 Chaos in Chang'an Chapter 166 The dust has settled
In the hall, the three of them sat separately, one more Pei Yuanluo, and one less Murong Shizhen - Murong Shizhen was invited to the side hall for tea.
"Your mother's surname is Muyu."
Pei Yuanluo said in a deep voice.
Pei Shengqin nodded, the only thing he knew about his mother was that his mother's surname was Mu Yu.
"Sheng Qin, do you know the Mu Yu clan?" Pei Yuanluo asked.
"I heard about it, but I didn't know much about it." As he spoke, looking at his father's serious expression, Pei Shengqin didn't know why his father reacted so much after hearing "uncle".
The Muyu clan, the Xianbei race, came from the same source as the Murong clan, and was active in the Zhuyan regime established by the Murong clan in Kanto during the two Jin dynasties. These cognitions come from Pei Shengqin's later memories.
Mu Yu's family is a pseudo-Yan famous family, which was once prominent, and its descendants are luxuriant, and its fame spreads all over the world. Later, the imperial court was Pingyan, and the Mu Yu clan did not survive the power reshuffle brought about by the change of dynasty, so it declined, and it is no different from the common people. These cognitions come from Pei Shengqin's memories in this life.
The above is Pei Shengqin's entire understanding of Mu Yu's family.
Pei Yuanluo sorted out his thoughts and slowly narrated: "In February of the second year of Shouguang, Lord Zhang Zhezhang, who was the assassin of Youzhou at the time, fought with Mu Yu Changqing, a famous pseudo-Yan general, and fled in defeat. Mu Yu Changqing led 7,000 Yan troops to pursue the victory, broke through the Yi Pass, penetrated into our country for hundreds of miles, and approached Pei's Fort directly. ”
Pei Shengqin listened quietly, Pei's Fort he knew, it was the ancestral land of the Pei family, and it was the place where his father grew up. However, with Pei Yuan's slight development, he first entered Beijing as an official, and later transferred to Yizhou Zitong, and the Pei clan also moved to Yizhou. Today's Pei's Fort is no longer inhabited by the Pei clan, but because the city is complete, it has gradually attracted many displaced people to settle down, and now the imperial court has placed a county there.
After the imperial court got the news, Deng Shuai, who was the general of Jianjie at the time, quickly sent troops to aid Pei's Fort. Although Mu Yu Changqing is a rare famous general, how is he Deng Shuai's opponent? As soon as Deng Shuai's reinforcements arrived, he immediately broke the Yan army outside Pei's Fort, beheaded 2,000 people, and captured Mu Yu Changqing alive. ”
In order to hit the morale of the pseudo-Yan, the first emperor issued an edict and announced to the outside world that Mu Yu Changqing had returned to Daqin and was about to be transferred to Hexi as an official. In fact, Mu Yu Changqing and his family members were all under house arrest in Pei's Fort nearby, and your mother was among them. She is the younger sister of Mu Yu Changqing, and her father met her when she was in trouble. ”
It seems that it is another period of romance between a captured noble girl and an enemy boy, which is an extremely vulgar episode in the romance of later generations, and now that Qianyan has long been wiped out, this secret naturally does not need to be kept anymore.
Pei Shengqin gradually remembered that there seemed to be a record of Mu Yu Changqing attacking Pei's Fort in the history books of later generations, but this person's popularity was not too high, and he had not remembered it for a while. Pei Shengqin hesitated and said, "Mu Yu Changqing is my uncle?" ”
"Yes, Mu Yu Changqing is also your uncle, but what I want to talk about today is your other uncle, Mu Yu Changling." Pei Yuanluo continued.
After receiving the news of Mu Yu Changqing's surrender to Qin, the puppet Yan Emperor was furious and immediately ordered to arrest all the family members of Mu Yu Changqing who stayed in Yandu, and beheaded him on a certain day. The head of the Mu Yu clan was even more ruthless, Mo said to come to the rescue, they were afraid of being implicated, and immediately declared that they had no relationship with Mu Yu Changqing. Before the execution, only Mu Yu Changqing's younger brother Mu Yu Changling escaped from prison and disappeared from prison, and the rest of the family members were all executed. The bad news came back to Pei's Fort, and Mu Yu Changqing vomited blood with grief and indignation, and died of depression within a few days. After Mu Yu Changqing died, his father has been taking care of your mother...... Later, we were together. ”
"Your mother was able to go out with the army, and she was also a tiger girl, but she was hit by bad news one after another, and she was overly sad and fell ill. After giving birth to you, my body and bones deteriorated, but in just a few years, I abandoned my father and left. ”
Pei Yuan's eyes were red, and Pei Shengqin also fell into some kind of strange sadness.
"Before her death, your mother entrusted her father with two things. One is to raise you well as an adult; Another thing is that if one day she can get the whereabouts of her younger brother Mu Yu Changling, and her younger brother is still alive, I hope that her father can find him and take care of him for her. ”
After Pei Yuanluo's story was finished, Pei Shengqin finally knew why his father was so excited after hearing the news of his uncle.
It turned out that it was his mother's last wish.
Pei Shengqin was silent, sitting quietly, still indulging in Pei Yuanluo's story.
Pei Yuanluo looked at Murong Chui again and asked, "Champion General, how did you know the whereabouts of Changling?" ”
Murong sighed: "Back then, the person who secretly helped Mu Yu Changling escape from prison was the official!" ”
"At that time, the official was still ...... Pseudo-Yan entered the office, and was knighted as King Wu. He has always been good friends with General Mu Yu Changqing, and he knows that General Mu Yu is loyal to Pseudo Yan and will never ...... Abandon the darkness and turn to the light. The puppet emperor hunted and killed his family members on the grounds that General Muyu abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, and the official was the first to disbelieve it at that time. Benguan Nian had a former friendship with General Mu Yu, and he couldn't bear to see his heir, so he took the risk to save Mu Yu Changling from prison. ”
"I hate the puppet emperor, who is mediocre and unreasonable, who kills Zhongliang, and deserves the death of the puppet Yan!" Pei Yuanluo shot the case and shouted angrily, even if it had been more than 20 years, every time he thought of this past, he still couldn't help but be indignant. After all, it was his wife's relatives.
Murong opened his mouth and quickly closed it honestly again. If it weren't for the Qin Dynasty's use of divisive routines, how would Emperor Yan have made that brutal move, in the final analysis, he hadn't fallen for the tricks of the Qin Dynasty.
Of course, Murong Chui didn't dare to say the above words. In the history of confrontation with other countries, the Great Qin court was always great and upright, which was a kind of political correctness, and no one dared to question it.
Pei Shengqin finally came back to his senses, although he was completely indifferent to that uncle, but when he thought that this was his mother's last wish, he couldn't ignore it. What's more, looking at my father's current performance, he is obviously very concerned about this matter.
"Then dare to ask General Murong, where is my uncle now?"
Murong Chui sold the guanzi at this time, only to see him laugh twice, and said, "Pei Hou is not in a hurry, let's talk about business first." But I don't know how Pei Hou plans to judge the case of our Murong family's ancestral tomb? ”
Murong Chui is planning to see the rabbit and not scatter the eagle, and before Pei Shengqin officially announces that he will award the burial right of Murong Shegui to the Murong clan in Kanto, he will not tell the whereabouts of Murong Changling.
For the entire Kanto Murong clan, Murong Chui's behavior this time can be regarded as selfless, exchanging his own secret for the face of the entire Kanto Murong clan. You must know that exposing this secret is harmful to Murong Chui. If it is placed when the pseudo-Yan is still alive, once it is revealed that Murong Chui has committed a repeat offense privately, it will be a crime of bullying the king, and he will be killed; Although the pseudo-Yan is long gone, the former pseudo-Yan emperor Murong Wei is still active in the temple with the title of a Xinxing Marquis of Great Qin, and he is also the patriarch of the Murong clan in Kanto. If Murong Wei knew that Murong Trai had committed the crime of bullying the monarch in his early years, he would definitely hold a grudge, and Murong Chui's life in the Kanto Murong clan would not be easy in the future.
Pei Shengqin glared at Murong Chui viciously, and then heard his father say: "Wu'er, if you have the opportunity, you must find your uncle, this is your mother's last wish!" ”
"Ugh."
......
"The ancestral tomb of the Murong clan has always been built in the eastern part of the country, although the pure filial piety of the Marquis of Luochuan is admirable, but if the tomb is moved for no reason, wouldn't it disturb the rest of the ancestors in vain? Yes, the lower officials think that it is better not to move the grave, and if the Marquis of Luochuan is concerned about his ancestors, he can also go to the Kanto to sweep the tomb and worship. Later, the lower official wrote a memo and reported the result of the ruling to His Majesty for information. ”
Inviting Murong Shizhen into the hall again, Pei Shengqin decisively announced the result, looking at Murong Shizhen's eyes with a little guilt.
When the dust settled, Murong was full of smiles and looked particularly obscene.
"Murong Chui, that news is very important?" Murong Shizhen didn't make a big noise, but his face was still ugly. He suppressed his anger all his life, and it was only because he had some respect for Pei Shengqin that he did not break out.
"Yes, it's important." Pei Shengqin nodded seriously: "It's about my mother's wishes, and I hope that after Murong Assassin Shi goes back, he will say sorry to the Marquis of Luochuan and Murong Shangshu on behalf of the lower officials." ”
Murong Shizhen took a deep breath, endured his anger, didn't look at Murong Chui's triumphant face, and said word by word: "Today's matter, I will tell my father and brother the truth." ”
After that, Murong Shizhen didn't stay any longer, turned around and left.
"Alas, with such a fuss, my friendship with the Bailan Murong clan is gone." Looking at Murong Shizhen's departing back, Pei Shengqin sighed softly.
looked at Murong Trai again, and sneered: "The lower official has already been sentenced in this case, and I hope that General Murong can give the lower official a satisfactory answer." ”
Pei Yuanluo also looked at Murong Chui with an unkind face, when he first heard that Murong Chui rescued Mu Yu Changling, Pei Yuanluo was still a little grateful to him. But he immediately repaid the favor again, forcing Pei Shengqin to offend the Bailan Murong family, and this face made people ungrateful again.
"The official thought about it again and again, and for the sake of the family's face, he decided to inform Pei Hou and his son of this matter, and I hope that Pei Hou and his son will not spread the ......" Murong Chui asked in a low voice, he was entangled again and again before he made up his mind to tell this secret, what he was afraid of was that it would reach Murong Wei's ears. No emperor can tolerate the crime of bullying the monarch, even if the emperor who has already died in the country, he will be angry when he hears that the ministers before the death of the country bullied the monarch. Although Murong Wei can't cure him of the crime of bullying the monarch now, he can isolate him within the Guandong Murong clan, and if he is ruthless, it is also possible to expel him from the Murong family.
Pei Shengqin nodded impatiently: "I know, you can say it." ”
Murong Chui gritted his teeth and said: "After the official rescued Mu Yu Changling, he was worried that he would be caught by the puppet Yan court if he continued to stay in the Yan Realm, so he asked his own soldiers to secretly take him to the border of Liaodong, gave him a coil, and then sent him out. ”
"If Mu Yu Changling hadn't returned to the Central Plains without permission later, he would have been in Goguryeo or Baekje now."