Zhao Heng walked into the room where Zhao Yuanzuo lived, and saw his brother lying unkempt on a wooden board on the floor of the house, staring at his own brother who walked to his side without saying a word, and his consciousness seemed to be very blurred.

Zhao Heng shouted a few times to his brother, but Zhao Yuanzuo stared at him without saying a word; I don't know if he lost the ability to speak or didn't want to speak, anyway, he stared at Zhao Heng silently in a demented daze.

Zhao Heng cried loudly, but Zhao Yuanzuo was still indifferent; Zhao Heng's heart was like a knife.

This year, Zhao Heng was fourteen years old, and his brother Zhao Yuanzuo was three years older than him and 17 years old.

The 17-year-old boy should be in his prime, but he has become a "crazy" person.

But Zhao Heng didn't believe that his brother would go crazy, he was to protest against his father's framing and wronging of his fourth uncle Zhao Tingmei; That's how it came to be.

In this sense, the child born in the royal family is very sad; Unlike the children of ordinary people, they are immersed in barren mountains and mountains for many months.

Even if the children of the royal family are "crazy", they have to be confined in the burrow and watched.

Zhao Yuanzuo seems to have seen through the red dust, and the later author of "Dream of Red Mansions" Cao Xueqin's "Okay Song" is the same as his opinion:

The world knows that the gods are good,

Only the fame cannot be forgotten!

Where will the past and the present meet?

The barren mound is gone,

The world knows that the gods are good,

Only gold and silver can't be forgotten!

In the end, I only hate to gather much,

And when the eyes were closed,

The world knows that the gods are good,

Only my wife can't forget!

Say kindness on Jun's birthday,

The king died and went with others,

The world knows that the gods are good,

Only children and grandchildren can't forget!

Infatuated parents are ancient,

Who has seen filial piety to children and grandchildren?

Zhao Yuanzuo's nickname is Zhao Dechong, he is a smart, witty, benevolent, righteous, and straightforward brother in Zhao Heng's mind, although he was born in the royal family; But the ideological impoverishment is very strong.

Zhao Heng didn't listen to Zhao Yuanzuo's chatter, if he had the opportunity, he would go to the countryside to be a farmer and live a free life.

However, the elder brother could not be a farmer, so he spent his days playing in the garden—riding horses, archery, and wandering wild.

Zhao Heng will not forget the scene of playing, playing, and playing with his brother in the Jin Wangfu Garden in his childhood.

At that time, his father had not yet ascended the throne as the king of Jin, and his mother, Concubine Li Xian, was in her twenties; Zhao Heng can remember that his mother told him about his grandfather's situation.

Grandpa is a native of Zhending, Hebei, and his name is Li Ying, who is the defense envoy of Qianzhou; When Song Taizu was the emperor, he learned that his mother had Rongde, so he hired her for his father.

During the Kaibao period, Taizu named his mother as the monarch of Longxi County, and his father ascended the throne as his wife; In her early years, both of her daughters died, and the second was Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Wei; Zhao Yuankan, the king of Xiang, was Song Zhenzong.

In the second year of his father's accession to the throne, that is, in the second year of Taiping Xingguo (977 AD), he was a mother; He was only thirty-four years old.

Zhao Heng can't forget that when his mother was alive, he and his brother were catching birds and insects in the back garden.

Zhao Heng couldn't catch the bird when he was young, so his brother would give him the thrush he caught.

The back garden of the Jin Wangfu is so big, and the garden is full of trees and shrubs; There is also a green lawn, and a very beautiful bird can often be seen on the green lawn.

This bird is half a foot long, and the head and upper body of the male are olive-brown; Eyebrow lines are white.

chin and throat red, surrounded by black striation; The chest is gray and the abdomen is white.

The chin and throat of the female are not red but white, and the iris is brown; The mouth is dark brown.

The fourth uncle Zhao Tingmei understands birds, and his brother Zhao Dechong went to ask, and the fourth uncle took the trouble to hold Zhao Dechong with one hand, and dragged Zhao Dechang (Zhao Heng) in the garden to watch birds with the other, saying that this kind of bird is called red indigo chin and blue indigo.

Red and blue indigo indigo children inhabit plain shrubs or reeds, and prefer to move on the ground; It is often found jumping in the bushes, reeds, and grasses of the plains or running on the ground nearby.

The garden of the Jin Dynasty is a shrub that is an ideal habitat for both the red and blue indigos.

In the garden of the Jin Dynasty's mansion, there are mountains and rivers, and the red and blue indigo chins forage on the ground near the water, pecking as they go, and also foraging on the low branches of the bushes.

The red and blue indigo chin often pause slightly as they gallop on the ground and spread their tail feathers like fans.

chirping in the morning, dusk and night, good at imitating insect chirping; It feeds mainly on insects and also eats a small amount of plants.

The breeding season of red and blue indigo chins is in May, and they nest on the ground in the bushes; Each clutch lays 1-5 eggs, the eggs are shiny and blue-green; The incubation period is about 14 days.

The seasons in the Bianliang area are: every spring, when the ears of wheat are just yellow tips; There is a blue indigo chin that goes from south to north.

Every autumn, when the holly falls into bloom; There was a red indigo chin that went from north to south.

However, in the garden of the Jin Palace, there is no distinction between spring and autumn; You can often see the shadows of red and blue indigo.

When the fourth uncle, Zhao Tingmei, led Zhao Dechong and Zhao Dechang to identify the red and blue indigo chins in the garden of the Jin Palace, sometimes he also brought his three children Degong, Delong, and Deyi over.

Degong, Delong, and Deyi are all smaller than Zhao Hengda, while Deyi is smaller than Zhao Yuanzuo, and Degong and Delong are older than Zhao Yuanzuo.

When the flowers in the Jin Palace, the fourth uncle Zhao Tingmei said: "Degong, Delong, and Dechong are the elder brothers, and now is the time for the red and blue indigo; In the garden, there have long been blue indigo chins and red indigo chins patronizing; Why don't you take your brothers to the back garden to catch birds! ”

Dechong was 9 years old at the time, Degong was 12 years old, Delong was 10 years old, and Dechang (Zhao Heng) was 6 years old.

As soon as the fourth uncle Zhao Tingmei said this, Zhao Degong, Zhao Dechong, and Zhao Delong took Deming (Zhao Yuanyou), Dechang (Zhao Yuankan - Zhao Heng), Deyan (Zhao Yuanfen), and Deyi to the back garden to catch birds together.

Zhao Yuanzuo carried a net, Zhao Degong carried a net, Delong, Deming, Deyi, Dechang, and Deyan each held a bird-catching household in their hands.

The princes will go to the garden to catch birds, and the personal eunuchs will follow; Zhao Yuanzuo sent them away, saying that his buddies would not let the eunuch follow him if they were playing together.

The eunuchs were also interested, so they stood at the side door and looked at it from afar, not daring to come forward.

When Zhao Yuanyou led everyone to the gate of the garden, Princess Shuyuan and a few little princesses saw it; Princess Shuyuan asked Zhao Yuanzuo: "Brother Dechong, what are you doing here?" ”

Without waiting for Zhao Yuanzuo to answer, Zhao Yuanyou smiled and said, "Sister Shuyuan, we are going to catch birds!" ”

Shuyuan said, "I'll go too!" ”

Zhao Dechong smiled and said: "Sister Shuyuan is a girl, don't go, if you let your father know where to pay it back!" ”

Shuyuan glanced at Dechong and said, "I'm not afraid!" As he spoke, he ran two steps to follow.

Princess Shujing, Princess Shuling, Princess Shuchen, Princess Shuyan, Princess Shuyu, Princess Shuchun, Princess Shuqian, and Princess Shuhong who followed Princess Shuyuan all followed and said that they were going to the garden to catch birds.

Zhao Dechong couldn't stop it, so he said: "If you want to go, you can do it, but you can only stand aside and watch!" ”

Princess Shuyuan grinned and said, "Dechong, you are a little stingy, just allow you male dolls to be arrested; Can't we catch female dolls? ”

Degong is a little older after all, and he smiled: "Sister Shuyuan can catch it if she wants, but don't tear her skirt ......"

More than a dozen people talked and laughed, walked to the edge of a bush and cast the net on the corner of the ground, Degong, Dechong, and Delong broke off more than a dozen branches and gave one branch to Zhao Heng and Shuyuan, and under the command of Zhao Yuanzuo, everyone turned to the end of the bush and boomed.

Zhao Yuanzuo waved on the bushes with a branch, and said to everyone: "Chasing birds is like fighting, you have to set up a formation!" ”

As soon as Zhao Yuanzuo said it, Shuyuan laughed, and said with a look in her eyes: "The broken doll will say it very much!" ”

Zhao Yuanzuo was stunned, looked at Princess Shuyuan and said, "Sister Shuyuan, you said that what I said is not right!" ”

"Dechong, you're right!" Degong picked up Zhao Yuanzuo's words and said with a smile: "Sister Shuyuan, this is looking for thorns in the egg!" ”

Princess Shuyuan slapped Degong and said, "Let you be poor!" ”

Seven princes and nine princesses, a total of 16 people, set up a wild goose formation and began to roar.

De Chong said: "Everyone listen to my command, I say tight, I say slow, slow,!" They can't speak, and when they hear human speech, they raise their wings. The wings can't catch up with the net. ”

Zhao Heng and the princes shut up and didn't say anything, and Shuyuan and the princesses didn't speak.

De Chong and Degong rolled their lips into a small cylinder, whistling with bird sounds, and chirping strangely good; Shuyuan also learned, Zhao Heng learned, and whistled.

The flowers in the rows of the bushes are purple and red, and the well-trimmed holly bushes are like a low wall separating the flowers one by one.

Zhao Yuanzuo and the others opened their hands and tapped the holly low wall with branches; "Qu Qu" in his mouth...... Qu Qu ...... "Walking in the flower wall step by step.

Dechong kept the cat bending down to look at the place where the holly tree and the flowers met.

Hey! He saw a bird, and it was jumping down the holly tree with its two little paws.

Dechong did not speak, he followed closely behind; Suddenly, one or two birds flew up from the holly wall.

Dechong's heart was pounding in a hurry, and he judged that the bird that flew away was an indigo; Quickly retreated to Degong and whispered, "Brother Gong, I found a blue indigo chin!" ”

Dechong said and shouted to Zhao Heng, Delong, Deming, and Shuyuan behind him: "Everyone, pay attention! When it's time to wrap up, it's time to wrap up; Attack when it's time to attack! ”。

De Chong said and asked Degong and Deming to take a few steps forward and lean the formation over; Form an encirclement against the net.

Everyone moved forward according to Dechong's call, and Dechong showed a nervous look on his face and said, "Quick!" Fast! Fast! ”