Chapter 1 The Rise of the Six Towns Stand Strongly
In the verdant valley, a soldier's spear was inserted straight into the green wood, and a man's coat hung on the spear, and there was the sound of whirring sword practice.
Suddenly, I saw a young man ** upper body on the top of a high mountain, dancing with a sword machine spear like flowing clouds, sword fingers falling flowers and trees all stubble and folding, at this time it was noon, the red poison sun was shining, and no one had ever walked here within a radius of 100 miles, only to see the young man not feel that the mountain was falling.
I saw that this man was practicing martial arts, a sword pierced through the grass, and two butterflies were frightened, constantly fanning their wings, and quickly leaving this place of right and wrong. One has a black back with red dots, and the other is pure gray, as if Liang Zhu is flying. Seeing this, the man smiled broadly, and then continued to slash horizontally, half-turning, and half-splitting skillfully swinging all kinds of sword moves.
The butterflies continue to flutter their wings and fly from the mountains to the valleys. Seeing that the danger had gone, he seemed to consciously reduce the frequency of flying. In the empty valley, you can vaguely hear the sound of the man's sword machine fluctuating flowers and trees, looking at it, a quiet path, a dense forest, walking along the gray and white dirt slope, you can vaguely hear the sound of spring water.
"Whew! Call! Call! I only heard a very heavy wheezing sound, and looking at the source of the sound, a woman about twenty years old was shaking her chest, probably because the mountain was too steep, the woman's hair was wet, and there were heavy droplets of sweat on her forehead.
I saw that she kept wiping the sweat on her forehead with the corner of her clothes, and looked carefully, this woman still looked very iconic, with round cheeks, fair skin, and beautiful eyebrows and lips.
Just looking at the woman's light blue long shirt, the fabric has been slightly yellowed, and there are some folds at the corners of the skirt, it is obvious that this dress has been worn for a long time. The woman's hair was simply wound with a wide linen cloth, and she carried a more delicate red red bamboo hollow food box in her hand. Although I don't know where this woman is going, maybe she is delivering food to someone in the family.
Half an hour later, about noon, when the sun was at its hottest, the woman walked almost along the gray path to the mountain. Looking into the distance, I saw that the man was still practicing martial arts in the mountains just now.
"Rokuro, why are you still practicing? This will be poisonous in the sun, and you don't know what to do if you find a shady place and get sunburned. As she spoke, the woman placed the food box in the shade and pulled something out of her cuff.
The man she called "Liulang", formerly known as Gao Huan, is her husband, this man is not a Xianbei person, but a Han person, since he married her, he changed the name of the Xianbei tribe, his name is He Liuhun, so she has been calling him Liulang.
When the man saw the woman coming, he ignored her, and the woman habitually walked to the stone in the shade of the tree in front of her. After a while, the man's remaining two moves had been practiced, and he saw a flying dragon probe leaning back, gently picking up the clothes hanging on the spear and instantly flying in the air, falling on him impartially, and then unhurriedly put on the clothes and picked up the sheepskin belt hanging on the spear.
He was obviously very impatient when he drank the water, and the water ran down the placket of his clothes, and the man drank it all in front of her, without concealing it, and then walked to the woman, who had been waiting for him for a long time.
"Look at you, on such a hot day, you have to dry under the poisonous sun" said as he wiped the sweat on the man's face very distressed.
"Hehe" The man smiled for a while, and then asked the woman very excitedly, "I don't know what delicious meal Mei Niang made today" said, the woman squatted down angrily, opened the food box and put the food she had just brought on the nearby slate, because the man often practiced here, this slate has almost become his daily dining table. If you think about it carefully, it's still very good, with food and drink, mountains and water, and beautiful women.
"Today I made a small stir-fried pork that you like to eat, as well as your favorite lotus seed and poria potpourri soup to remove the fire," said the woman named Mei Niang, who quickly brought out a bowl for him.
Gao Huan took the meal, and kept praising his wife's craftsmanship while eating, "Well, it's delicious." Mei Niang's craftsmanship is almost as good as the chef in the palace, and what the imperial dining room does is not as delicious as Mei Niang's cooking."
"You! It's just going to be poor. Hurry up and eat, otherwise your stomach will be uncomfortable after a while."
"Uh-huh" Seeing the joy of his eating, the woman named Mei Niang couldn't help but want to ask the words he had mentioned before.
"Rokuro, are you really going to go down the mountain?"
"En" Gao Huan didn't have much expression, just swallowed another bite of rice and said, "I plan to leave tomorrow", after speaking, he grabbed the rice bowl and quickly swept it away.
After asking, Mei Niang sometimes felt that she really shouldn't ask this sentence, but she didn't regret saying this. But should we really obey the destiny of heaven? Lou doesn't think so.
At the beginning, despite the opposition of her family, she resolutely gave up her identity as a daughter of the family to marry Gao Huan, a little-known city helper, and became a farmer. Nowadays, the pattern of the world is in turmoil, the displaced people of the six towns and the town generals often fight each other, although the imperial court has suppressed it many times, most of them want to quench their thirst. Lou Zhaojun never disdained to believe these rumors, if she had to respect ordinary women, blind marriage and dumb marriage, without any opinions, she would not be Lou Zhaojun.
At the meal, Gao Huan sat in the shade with his wife Lou, and told her about the current court pattern unhappily.
"Mrs. Changwen has a great vision in the boudoir, Huan wants to ask Mrs. to know what the current situation is," Gao Huan patted his wife's hand and said.
"Since the Zhengguang period of our dynasty, the relationship between the townspeople is relatively tight, since the Huaihuang townspeople took the lead in the uprising, Huaishuo, Woye and other towns have responded, before Hu Chen, Mo Zhe Dati, Du Luo Zhou, Liu Li and others called the king and called the marquis, and then there are Ge Rong, Er Zhurong and so on each side and support the army and self-respect.
The imperial court is weak, and the self-controlled places of Beijing, Xijing, and Xiying are not eyeing each other, although the imperial court has Yuan Shen, Yuan Yu, Li Chong and other generals one after another, and these people are all scholars, how can they lead the troops to fight"
Mei Niang Lou said eloquently, every word and sentence is full of high joy. After Gao Huan listened to Lou's words, he suddenly felt a sense of admiration for the woman in front of him. The daughter of the Lou family is really well-informed, otherwise how could he be a small craftsman serving by the city gate in today's place, so she is willing to accompany him regardless of the opposition of his secular family, scatter all his family wealth, rough clothes and light food, and wait for the opportunity to take advantage of it.
Thinking about the beginning, Gao Huan was just a poor talent, his father and mother died early, along the way, thanks to her sister and brother-in-law who married outside, after becoming an adult, he moved out of his sister-in-law's house and lived in a ruined temple that had been abandoned for a long time. Although he doesn't have any great talent, he will only have some work to support himself, but this kind of life is often desperate for the day, often on an empty stomach, if it were not for the help of his eldest sister's family, it is estimated that he would have starved to death.
He was so down-and-out, but who would have thought that one day, a gorgeously dressed maid came to his house and told him that their young lady was going to marry him, and asked him to prepare a bride price to propose. Originally, he thought that such a thing could only have such a beautiful dream in a dream! Even if there is, where can he get so much money to marry a daughter-in-law.
He didn't think much about it, and forgot about it in a blink of an eye, but he didn't expect that after a few days, the maid who came to the door to force him to marry came again, and asked him stiffly, why he refused to mention the bride price to marry.
"I" he was stunned at the time, he thought that it must be the people around him who played a prank on him and made a joke.
"What am I! said, why don't you come to the door to propose" The maid pressed him step by step, he was very anxious and said helplessly, "I don't even know what your young lady's name is, what her surname is, how old she is, where she lives, I don't know how to marry my wife, I don't know if my face is beautiful and ugly, how do I go to marry"
As soon as these words came out, the air was a lot quieter, and I saw the maid who came to force the marriage and the other one You look at me, I see that you are very helpless to hide your face and smile.
As he was talking, a girl in a pink dress walked in from outside the door, she was wrapped tightly from end to end by a heavy cloak, and she couldn't see her face at all, "My surname is Lou, and my name is Zhaojun." 16 years old, Pingcheng Xianbei people, as for whether I look good or not, what do you think! ”
After the woman's words were finished, she quickly removed the hood from her cloak, and in an instant, her entire face was reflected in the man's eyes. I saw that her face was delicate, her hair was like black silk, her skin was like white angelica, and her eyes were as clear as water, especially the pair of jade fingers that were slender and white. She wore very little ornamentation in her hair, except for a pair of turquoise dewy earrings, and only a bracelet in the same color as the earrings on her left arm.
Seeing the man's embarrassment, the maid couldn't help but raise her voice and said, "My young lady is the daughter of Situ Lou Neigan, and she is really waiting for Lou Ti's grandson, what's the matter, dumbfounded" While saying, she didn't forget to laugh with him.
"Ah" After listening to the maid's words, Gao Huan couldn't help but swallow his saliva, thinking to himself, such a beautiful thing is probably still in a dream! He couldn't help but be a little thankful, and God thanked Zhou Gong for arranging such a beautiful dream for him.
Not to mention anything else, this woman was still very bold, daring to stare at such a tattered man in broad daylight, and winked at him from time to time, and the man was forced by her to ask at this time, almost step by step back into the corner, in general, there was nowhere to retreat.
"How about it, I'm not beautiful," Lou Zhaojun asked
"Drifting, pretty," he stammered.
"Since I've been honest with each other, Childe might as well treat him calmly," Lou Zhaojun said, obviously stretching out a hand to wait for him to introduce himself.
"What, you want to know me" He couldn't help patting his chest, thinking that this was in a dream, but if it was a dream, this one was too real. As he spoke, he found a more spacious place to lie down, still holding Erlang's legs, closing his eyes very contentedly, and one hand kept patting his stomach.
"I think it must be a big dream before I woke up, how can there really be a lady who runs to my shabby place and threatens to let me marry her" He muttered in a low voice, to be honest, Gao Huan still refuses to believe everything in front of him, he is a nobody, there is no surplus food at home, there is no rubble, if there is really a rich lady who takes a fancy to him, it is nothing more than in a dream.
Seeing him like this, including Lou Zhaojun, she and the two maids looked at the man who didn't seem to react much in puzzlement. "Hey! Why are you like this, why did you fall asleep without saying a word" said, the maid who yelled as soon as he entered the door just now tentatively kicked his foot, "Hey, talk, you haven't answered our young lady's question yet"
Seeing this, the man saw six eyes looking at him blankly, "Isn't it a dream" He muttered to himself, and pinched his cheek fiercely, "Oops! Pain, isn't it a dream?" he said, and he spun and jumped.
"Of course it's not a dream, but you haven't answered our young lady's question yet?" The maid covered her mouth and said funny.
"Answer the question, yes, answer the question" was obviously so excited that he repeated the sentence twice. "What was the problem?"
"Our young lady asks you, what is your surname, what is your age, where you live, can you marry a wife" The maid repeated unhappily, after seeing Gao Huan's reaction, she obviously smiled unexpectedly, and the two maids also pushed me to point at Gao Huan and felt that this person was funny and said something.
"My name is Gao Huan, I am twenty years old, a local person, my family is poor, it is still difficult to wrap my belly, how can I have a sweet dream" After speaking, his eyes looked at the woman in front of him who said he wanted to marry him.
After listening to everything he said, Lou Zhaojun was not as hasty as she was just now, she immediately blushed, and she waved her hand to signal the maid to come over.
"Yuzhu, come here" said, she didn't know what to say in the ear of this maid, and the maid she saw later spoke, pretending to be deep and walked to the middle to ask Gao Huan.
"Ah, then, would you like to marry my young lady as a wife" After speaking, another maid couldn't help but smile when she looked at her pretending, while Lou Zhaojun, who was standing on the side, looked at Gao Huan's every subtle expression with a serious face.
"Ah" Gao Huan was obviously surprised, and suddenly didn't know how to answer, ordinary people, if they can marry such a beautiful wife, they will all be happy. It's just that he is a down-and-out family, and he often needs his sister-in-law's family to help him with food, clothing, housing and transportation, where can he still have the spare money to marry a wife, if he opens his mouth to his sister-in-law, it will naturally not be a problem, but he is born with a thin face.
Yuzhu saw that he still didn't seem to understand the reason, and asked very suspiciously, "Didn't you read the letter that our young lady wrote to you?" ”
"Letter" said, Gao Huan took out a letter from his arms, it was true that the maid handed him a letter a few days ago, but opened it and looked at it. It's all Xianbeiwen, not a word he knows, I originally thought that I would throw it away, but I was afraid that someone would come to look for it at that time, so I kept hiding it in my arms, "Did you say this?" ”
Lou Zhaojun saw that the letter was as neat as new, and the wax oil on it had not been removed, thinking that Gao Huan didn't care about herself, and she simply didn't care about the traditional etiquette of everyone's ladies, she hurriedly stepped forward to take the letter, "Yes, why didn't you open it?"
"Yes, I read it, but I don't know the words in the letter" Gao Huan saw that this young lady was so nervous, so he had to tell the truth.
"You're not a Xianbei person," Lou Zhaojun asked
"I'm Han, Miss Fei looks down on Han"
Seeing that he was a little impatient, Lou Zhaojun immediately explained, "No, since the reform of Emperor Xiaowen, the Han people, the Xianbei people, and the Gaoche people are all one family, and Mei Niangyan can laugh at them" Unconsciously, Lou Zhaojun's fingers had already caught Gao Huan's hand, perhaps because she forgot the etiquette because she was focused on explaining. I saw that both of them suddenly withdrew their hands in embarrassment. The two maids, Yuzhu and Chunyue, looked at the two of them, and they didn't know how long they laughed.
"Where, when are you going to propose to my family" Lou Zhaojun asked in a low voice, and his face couldn't help but flush with shyness.
"I" Gao Huan wanted to say something, but she didn't want to break her beautiful illusion with a long sigh twice, "Hey! You can also see, my home is now surrounded by four walls, even the temporary shelter is not my place, if Miss follows me, the days will only become more and more poor, Miss has been pampered since childhood, and she is used to eating and drinking, and the villain really does not want to let Miss live such a precarious life with Bucai" After speaking, Gao Huan couldn't help but feel sad, the original ancestor had also been a high-ranking official to worship the prime minister, but later the family fell into the middle of the road, and his parents died early.
"What am I afraid of, it turns out to be these things outside the body," said Lou Zhaojun, who untied his belt, took off the small bag around his waist and handed it to Gao Huan. "There are not many treasures in this, it must be enough for you to change into new clothes, and it is also good to make a gift for coming to the door" said, the two of them didn't know what else to whisper, only to see that Yuzhu and Chunyue had already gone out of the door, and Lou Zhaojun snuggled in Gao Huan's arms like a little woman.
Subsequently, Gao Huan took advantage of the Lou family's prestige in the local area and gradually cultivated his own team. Two or three years have passed since that day, and it seems like yesterday, and everything is like smoke and rain.
In the evening, the sunset ended, the village and town, three lights and two lights, a thatched house was lit up, only two figures were seen, one picked up old things, and the other sat by the window.
The bags on the table have been placed, Gao Huan sat quietly in front of the window, only to hear that tonight's gnats are the most noisy, looking at the oblique window, I don't feel that the stars are brilliant, and the moon is as bright as a plate.
"Are Cheng'er and Yang'er asleep?"
"Slept" Lou Zhaojun wiped his tears and looked at Gao Huan's bags. "Liulang is going, only bring so much, and there are still some belongings at home, you can bring them"
Gao Huan calmly took the property she was going to put in from Lou Zhaojun's hand, "No need, after I leave, you still have children to raise, keep them, and you don't need so much on the road, there is more unrighteousness"
"Madame is coming" said Gao Huan pulled Lou Zhaojun towards the door, he held his wife's hand and slowly sat on the threshold, only to feel that the hazy moonlight was the most suitable for parting this night. Gao Huan knew that she was reluctant, but she also knew that the world had been in turmoil for a long time, and this was the most suitable time to build fame
"I know that my wife is reluctant, and I know that my wife has far-sighted hopes, and the Miss Lou family I have seen is bold and careful, and she has a great heart, but it is not like this. Huan is gone, death and life are uncertain, if he survives, he will be allowed to serve and eat in brocade, the head of Wandu, if he dies unfortunately, Mrs. can find another lover to marry him, Huan will never blame Mrs. "Gao Huan's words are not finished, and Lou Zhaojun is already angry.
She was naked-eyed and said, "If you survive here, the concubine will stand at the city gate in red clothes and wait for you." If unfortunately killed, the concubine will bury the loyal soul in white. The concubine once heard that "there is a swallow in the north ridge, the feather is like snow, the wind is sad, the wings fly south, a fold of the feather, Nai Zhi Ruo, the wind is dignified, and the concubine will never leave Xi"
It's night, I don't feel that the night has been asleep, the sky is full of stars, the people around have already fallen asleep, only to feel a small house, and the two lovers in front of the door are reluctant to hug one by one.
"Madam, Huan will not envy for nine days in this life, and if he does not come back, he will live up to his wife in his lifetime," he said, Gao Huan hugged Lou Zhaojun tightly. I saw her in her arms, her face was shy, and then she said very wisely
"That husband is going to confide in his wife"
After speaking, he quietly looked at the full moon in the sky, and replied with deep and firm eyes, "I heard that the high-speed car Du Luo Zhou was in Anzhou, and the heroes from all walks of life voted for him, and I plan to go to him first."