Chapter 6: Chang'an (6)

Winter goes to spring.

The snow on the streets and rooftops has long since disappeared, and the plants in the garden are verdant

The buds, the thick ice in the garden pond have gradually melted.

The golden sunlight shone on the bamboo chair in the garden, and the boy who was bored and casually flipping through the book, looked at the white face carefully, and there was still a layer of faint white fluffy hair that had not yet faded, and he still looked a little immature.

The early spring sun spreads on the body warmly, farewell to the winter in the house makes people groggy and drowsy, at this moment the warmth under the sun is really comfortable, the boy did not look at the book in his hand to open at random, just looked at the pond in the pond happily wagging its tail swimming fish.

The fiery red sun is reflected in the clear surface of the pool, and occasionally a naughty koi carp quickly fiddles its tail a few times, making the calm surface of the pool ripple microwave, and the originally intact sun is also affected by the ripples and becomes a little weird.

Suddenly, the originally lively pond quickly quieted down, the swimming fish dived to the bottom and did not dare to move, and the water surface returned to calm, but the reflection of the sun that should be complete was missing a little? Was it just a blue sky and there were white clouds covering the sun so soon?

"The sun hasn't been exposed enough, why is it blocked." Jiang Ge, who complained casually, straightened up and leaned slowly towards the back of the bamboo chair, his eyes looked at the sky from the pond in the courtyard, the sunlight was a little dazzling, there were no clouds, it was clearly an arc-shaped black spot covering the sun.

Suddenly, Jiang Ge jumped up from the chair, stood upright, squinted and stared at the dazzling sun in the sky, even if he was stabbed by the sun, so that he was sour and crying, Jiang Ge didn't want to close his eyes at all.

Standing under the eaves not far away, Fu Bo noticed Jiang Ge's strange appearance, and also walked a few steps out of the eaves curiously, looked up at the sky, and the originally calm mood suddenly became turbulent, seeing that Jiang Ge was staring at the sun with naked eyes, he immediately strode over, stretched out his thick hand to cover the young man's eyes and said anxiously: "Young master, don't look directly at this solar eclipse, it's not too late to wait for the old slave to take the gray glass mirror, this eclipse spectacle will last for a quarter of an hour, don't worry." The young master will hurt his eyes if he looks directly like this, and some people have stared at it, and finally become delirious and blind, so the gain outweighs the loss. ”

Jiang Ge lowered his head and rubbed his already colorful eyes, which was indeed extremely uncomfortable, and he closed his eyes for a while before he became much clearer.

Fu Bo quickly brought two round glass lenses the size of a book, one handed it to Jiang Ge, and one was held up to the sky to face the sun, which had been invaded by a third of the black, still squinting and staring.

Jiang Ge looked at it with his neck tilted and fixed his eyes like Fu Bo, although it was much blurred through the gray glazed realm, his eyes were no longer so dazzling and sour, and the entire process of the solar eclipse was still unobstructed.

Fu Bo, who was beside Jiang Ge, pressed one hand on Jiang Ge's shoulder, and while watching the changes in the sky, he said to Jiang Ge with some excitement: "The young master is the first time to meet this dog eating day, and the old slave is fortunate to have seen it with the master of the family more than forty years ago, but after that solar eclipse spectacle, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, but it changed the dynasty in a few years." If the tengu only eats half of the sun, there will be a catastrophe, and if it is eaten all, the country will be unstable, the sun and the moon are reincarnated, the dynasty changes, and there is a fixed number in the underworld. ”

At the same time, the Imperial Star in the east in the huge planetarium of the Imperial City of Luoyang Si Tianjian was rapidly falling. Liu Wei, the young eunuch guarding the planetarium, was startled and ran towards the stargazing platform in a panic, shouting hoarsely as he ran: "Hurry up and ask the king of Donghai and the king of Nanyang to go to Si Tianjian quickly, don't delay or destroy the clan." ”

The sun was only about to sink into darkness completely with the last bit of light left, and a cold wind blew inexplicably over Luoyang City, making the necks of all the people who were looking up at the sky feel as cold and painful as a knife, and many people couldn't help but shrink their necks, tugged at their collars, and rubbed the place where the cold wind blew just now. Many people scolded and complained that the fucking spring was coming from, and the demon wind blew to make grandpa hurt. There are many more people who are frightened in their hearts, pulling the people around them to whisper, probably because of their own folk rumors. Only some old and well-established clans know that it is an omen, and it is extremely ominous.

When the King of the East China Sea and the King of Nanyang, who were extremely uneasy, arrived at Si Tianjian, the sky was completely shrouded in darkness, and the group was standing on the stargazing platform, surrounded by samurai carrying flickering lanterns. The young eunuch Si Tianjian quickly clasped his fists and saluted the two princes who came over, and then approached the side of the East Sea King and whispered a few words in his ear, and then knelt aside tremblingly, not looking at the dark sky anymore. It's really too big and dangerous, and if you look at it more, you will have a short life of a few years.

In the end, the prince who is of royal blood and in power, although he was moved after hearing such a terrifying astrological analysis, he still stood proudly and looked in the direction of the emperor, thinking fiercely about something in his heart.

Immediately, the King of the East China Sea ordered everyone except Liu Wei and his younger brother Nanyang King to leave the stargazing platform, and after seeing the idlers disappearing, the King of the East China Sea asked very sternly: "After the fall of the Emperor Star, dozens of new Emperor Stars have been lit up one after another?" ”

"Don't dare to deceive the prince, this is a phenomenon against the sky, the lower officials dare not say anything, although there is no exact written record, there is a sentence mentioned in the inheritance of the heavenly eunuch of the previous dynasties." Liu Wei replied tremblingly.

The King of the East China Sea listened to Liu Wei's trembling answer, and his heart was anxious, so he said sharply: "Forgive you for your innocence, continue." ”

Liu Wei swallowed his saliva, his voice trembled even more, and he said in a very low tone: "At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the star of the Son of Heaven fell, and more than a dozen newborn emperor stars rose into the sky at the same time, so Zhou died, and the kings were called emperors. ”

Liu Wei glanced up at the direction of the Emperor Star, which was already chaotic at this time, and dozens of newborn Emperor Stars were intricately arranged. Liu Wei, who seemed to be much older in an instant, continued to tremble and said: "Now this star is the same, the lower officials dare not assert, and they are unable to interpret the current astrological signs, but they vaguely see that there are dozens of bright lights rising from the ground and soaring into the sky from all over the earth, the nearest one should be in Chang'an, no, it is two, one is extremely bright, the fastest speed and the highest rise, and one is extremely dim, far less bright than the emperor star that rises in other directions and the star orbit is unstable, and there is a possibility of falling at any time." ”

"Can the East China Sea have an emperor star ascending?" King Nanyang's heart was like a stormy wave, and when he heard that there was an emperor star rising in Chang'an, it was undoubtedly the young King of Qin, but who would the other one be? Since the Holy Admiral is gone, will the descendants of his own branch also sit in that position? There are many branches in the clan, and the kings are sealed in various places, and I am afraid that there will be internal strife again.

Liu Wei was sweating profusely, looked at the King of Nanyang and said with a wincing face: "There are about five near the East China Sea, and there are emperor stars in other states. ”

King Nanyang frowned and looked at his eldest brother without speaking, King Nanyang of the East China Sea Dynasty nodded and signaled that it was not appropriate to discuss secretly at this time, so he was silent and continued to look at the sky, waiting for the moment when the sunlight shone back on the earth, he felt that the first ray of sunlight should be on his body, and it must be so.

Located outside the Xiongnu palace in the west of the depths of the continent, everyone is prostrate on the ground, a solemn high priest is dancing and sacrificing, kneeling at the front of the altar A middle-aged man named Duan Ye clenched his hands tightly into fists, his whole face was pressed against the frozen earth, he did not feel the slightest cold, but his face was flushed. The burly young man kneeling behind Duan Ye was named Helian Bobo, he was not praying as devout as Duan Ye, and secretly looked up at Duan Ye, who was much thinner than himself, in front of him, with sharp eyes.

In a manor in Chengdu, he was feeding horses, and Yao Chang, who saw the heavenly dog eating the day, looked at the sky blankly.

Tuyuhun, who sat in a carriage on the rugged mountain road in western Sichuan and lifted the curtains to look at the sky, had a lot of thoughts in his heart, folded his hands and read words.

Tuoba Jue, the head of the Tuoba family in Pingzhou City in the northeast, dressed as a businessman, learned from the Han people to look at the sky with his hands on his sleeves, thinking that the weather in the north is too cold, will the south be much warmer? I heard that Tuyuhun, who sells ginseng, has already set up a lot of properties in the south, shouldn't the Tuoba family also go and take a look?

Not far from Pingzhou, Gao Yun, who was nine feet tall, stood in the training ground and looked at the sky at the same level as hundreds of trigrams, and the wooden stick in his hand was broken in half by a little force.

The county guard of Changli County, Pingzhou, Murong De, who was carrying the lantern, was kicked to the ground by the county guard, Murong De hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, his right hand did not hold the lantern steady, the flame in the cage ignited the lantern paper, and the county guard, who was originally irritable, was even more annoyed, and ordered someone to drag Murong De down to the staff fifty. He also scolded and said that Zahu was an uncivilized savage, and it was not a tendon and meat that could still have some effect, otherwise he would have been beaten out of the house as a beggar.

Further north of the Great Wall, deep in the grasslands, a convoy of thousands of horses moving to the southern pastures gathered in a circle, with livestock outside and tribesmen inside. The crowd revolved around a bonfire on the thick ice-covered ground, and a scantily clad woman waved a bell barefoot and chanted a message. The young editorial looked around curiously, and the grandfather beside him stretched out his hand and pressed the editorial's head vigorously, deeply embedded in the snow.

The Qinhuai River is brightly lit at this time, the aroma of wine is overflowing, the Qinhuai River, which will be noisy after sunset, is half a day earlier because of this rare astronomical wonder in a hundred years, and the children of the family, the scholars and scholars, and the literati and ink writers all raise their glasses to drink. Those voices that can rest for half a day are soft and waxy, and the dusty women with waists like willows quickly dress up and go out to pick up customers. The high-end teahouse was already overcrowded, and a rich, wide-bodied, and fat staff was discussing something in a low voice in the dim light.

The ruined prefectures and counties of the Central Plains were filled with terrified children's cries and neighbors' lamentations of helplessness.

Luoyang Jiang Mansion, the elderly Jiang Zhen is holding a crutch in one hand, and the other hand is constantly calculating something, the hexagram of the turtle shell and copper coin on the altar in front of him is confusing, plus there are faint signs of rapid rise of light points before, and the stars that are finally frozen. Jiang Zhen was sweating profusely, his face was flushed, and his brows were about to wrinkle together. Jiang Shanyi looked in Jiang Zhen's direction from the side, his heart sank, and his already dark and serious face became complicated. I was nervous, so I could only wait for the clan elder Jiang Zhen to solve the hexagram and then ask how it was, and involuntarily began to pace back and forth, rubbing my hands against each other.

After waiting for what seemed like a century-long night, the huge black circle slowly left, and a ray of golden light shot into the earth, and the pond of Chang'an Jiangfu gurgled and bubbled, and then a square wooden box floated to the water. Fu Bo was amazed in his heart, quickly found a bamboo stick and tossed the wooden box to the edge of the pool, bent down to pick up the wooden box, wiped the water with his cuffs, and gently placed it on the coffee table beside Jiang Ge.

After experiencing the incident of the Jiang Mansion in Luoyang last time, although Fu Bo was prepared, he still couldn't help but think about how many secrets of the Jiang family would appear, one was more magical than the other, looking at the wooden shape of the wooden box and the previous two wooden boxes, he knew in his heart that it must be an unborn treasure.

Jiang Ge seemed to be used to it, only glanced at the wooden box and continued to look up at the last scene of the solar eclipse, it was a pity that he didn't finish the whole process of the astronomical miracle that was rare in a century.

Fauber stared at the surroundings tightly, the importance of the wooden box was self-evident, although he was anxious, but he also knew that for a young boy, such an astronomical miracle was the most rare and attractive. What's more, it's not the first time I've encountered this kind of wooden box suddenly appeared.

Finally, the last dark spots that blocked the sun had completely faded, and the sky was clear again, with dark clouds and warm sunshine.

Jiang Ge gently put the glass mirror next to the wooden box, picked up the wooden box and looked up and down, left and right, the wooden box was exquisitely made, not heavy, the style was still wooden, the texture was the same as before, and the top of the box was still two big seals "Shangshu".

Jiang Ge found the raised mechanism and opened the lid of the box, and there was a thick stack of books made of unknown materials lying quietly in the box, and the pages were extremely soft and paper-like.

Jiang Ge took out the first book with the word Tiangong written on the cover, about two fingers thick, and turned the first page to see the two sentences written in a big seal: "Heavenly creation, you can live and work in peace and contentment, you can be rich and strong, you can be invincible in battle, you can also burn yourself, you should be cautious." ”

The first one was a book like Gongzao, Jiang Ge knew it in his heart, thinking that there must be a lot of interesting things in it, and he wanted to put it in the future and read it slowly.

Then Jiang Ge looked at the second book, written "policy theory" two big seals, the title page said: "There must be a strategy to act, no strategy is not feasible, first strategy and then discussion, and then action, although there are mistakes, they can be corrected until they are consummated." ”

The third book reads "The Art of War", and on the title page it also reads: "Soldiers, sharp weapons, should not be tampered with, and when the times are unfavorable, they should be used." ”

The last book at the bottom of the box is written with the word "Tai Chi", the first three books are two fingers thick, but this one is inexplicably only six pages of content, there is no title page, the first page is a personal figure, next to it is written "one yuan nourishing qi", the human figure is in different places of the body There are red dot standards and remarks have words. On the reverse side are densely packed with very small characters. The second page is still a humanoid drawing, but the punctuation is different, and the remarks are different, the front side is written with the harmony of the two instruments, and the back is still densely filled with small characters. The third page is called Sancai True, there are no pictures, and the front and back are full of words. The fourth page is called Four Elephant Fist, and there are a total of 12 humanoid posture diagrams on the front and back. There is a missing page between the fifth and fourth pages, with extremely obvious tear marks, the fifth page is written about the Liuhe Gun, and the sixth page is the Seven Star Sword, both of which are move villains. Later, there were traces of the pages being dropped, but I couldn't tell how many pages there were.

Fu Bo stood aside and only saw the title of the basic book, and when Jiang Ge opened the pages, he inadvertently glanced at it a few times but only saw blank pages, and then looked at Jiang Ge carefully, and said in surprise: "There are words in the young master's book?" Why doesn't the old slave see a word? ”

Jiang Ge curiously opened a few books and handed them to Fu Bo and said, "Obviously there are words, and there are paintings, can't Fu Bo see them?" ”

"It's all blank" Thinking that he had been watching the eclipse for too long and his old eyes were dizzy, Fauber rubbed his eyes vigorously and then carefully opened the four books, but there was not a word at all. Fu Bo wondered if the young master's naughty childlike nature would be fooling him, and continued to ask: "Young master, don't deceive the old slave with bad eyes, he really doesn't have a word." ”

Jiang Ge pointed to the book more curiously and said, "The book of Tiangong is full of engineering drawings, and the strategy is probably a book that tells about their respective strategies, and the art of war is obviously the art of using soldiers." For example, the first article of this work is written uh... Ahhh Jiang Ge was talking to the book and reading the content on the tree, but Fu Bo listened to it all babbling, and suddenly looked at a serious book with a strange look in his eyes, which didn't seem to be a fake.

Jiang Ge stopped and asked Fu Bo what was wrong when he saw Fu Bo looking at him blankly, and Fu Bo said helplessly: "The young master's recitation is all babbling, and the old slave can't understand it." ”

Jiang Ge didn't believe it, thinking that Fu Bo was teasing himself, so he said seriously: "Fu Bo really heard my babbling words? I'm reading another one, and Fauber listens carefully. The first part of this art of war is written about babbling, ahh ”

......

Fauber spread his hands innocently.

......?

Jiang Ge looked at Fu Bo speechlessly, and then looked at the book in his hand, incredible.

Jiang Ge suddenly said, Why don't I copy it down and read it?

Fu Bo's eyes lit up, and he quickly took out pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, Jiang Ge opened the book of the Art of War at will, and slowly copied two sentences according to the first page, looking at Fu Bo, only to see that Fu Bo's face was loveless, and his face was green.

Fauber said that it was all ghost drawings, and he couldn't tell the order of the strokes at all.

At this point, a young man with a serious expression, a helpless domestic servant, you look at me, I look at you, and then look at those books, speechless for a long time.

Luoyang Jiang Mansion.

Jiang Shanyi helped Jiang Zhen, who had collapsed, to sit back on the recliner, sweating profusely, Jiang Zhen, who was tired, groaned, adjusted his posture and lay on the recliner with a whole white tiger skin, he was really sleepy, closed his eyes and refreshed. Jiang Shanyi sat on the side of the recliner, fiddling with a bowl of steaming refreshing soup in his hand, and his heart was worried, because the old man next to him was full of worry under his extremely tired look.

After about a stick of incense, Jiang Zhen, who was lying down, opened his eyes slightly, looking a little weak, Jiang Shanyi hurriedly handed over the refreshing soup, Jiang Zhen straightened up slightly and drank the warm soup in the bowl, and then closed his eyes and rested for half a pillar of incense before slowly waking up, at this time his face was slightly stretched and a little bloody.

Looking at Jiang Shanyi, who was anxiously waiting, Jiang Zhenxin was complicated, and said with difficulty: "The big murderer, the unprecedented murderous hexagram, the building will fall, and there is not one in ten, no matter how the family clan prevents it, it will be like a flood transiting, this general trend, no matter what, it can't be avoided." ”

"So serious?" I didn't expect it to be so serious, even if Jiang Shanyi was the head of the family, he couldn't calm down at this time, and the emotions that had accumulated over the years exploded instantly.

"How can it be so serious, how can this work, the Jiang family can't be cut off in my hands, there must be a way, there must be a way, the Jiang family has been inherited for thousands of years, and there will always be hope for the catastrophe encountered." And the song, what to do, what to do. His mother's bullshit world, those doctors who killed and chopped up and fed the dogs, and those princes who made trouble, the world is so peaceful, but it has to be fragmented. The irritable Jiang Shanyi rubbed his hands and walked back and forth quickly, using all the filthy words in his mouth.

"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, don't be like a fly with a broken head, where is the mood and bearing that the head of the Jiang family should have." Jiang Zhen is a person who has experienced the change of dynasty, and his mood is naturally much stronger than Jiang Zhen. Seeing Jiang Shanyi's appearance at this time, although he understood, he had to stop in moderation, so he scolded Jiang Shanyi a few words.

Jiang Shanyi, who was reprimanded, was a little better, but he still paced back and forth, his thoughts like a jar of paste.

Jiang Zhen continued: "Just after the solar eclipse, there were dozens of light points that quickly rose from all sides and rushed straight to the sky, among which there was a bright and a dark two flying at the same time in the direction of Chang'an, King Qin divided Chang'an, and your son was also in Chang'an, and they were of similar age. ”

"Are there really two? As far as I know, there have been no other princes visiting Chang'an recently, and the bright one must be the King of Qin, the dark star? Jiang Shanyi said thoughtfully.

"Most likely. Judging from its star tracks, not all of them are royal territories, half of them are in the land of the Hu people outside the frontier. So, there are still possibilities. Otherwise, how do you explain Yuan Rong and Lu Shen? Jiang Zhen rubbed his brows and continued: "My Jiang family is also the bloodline of the ancient royal family, which can be traced back to the ancestor of Emperor Yan, why is the ancestral land of the Jiang family in Jingzhou. It's just that outsiders don't know, do you think Taizu and Duke Qi Huan can become the kings of a country casually? ”

Jiang Zhen pinched his somewhat numb fingers and continued: "This is an opportunity, the general trend is irreversible, you can only resign yourself to fate, no one can subvert history, otherwise the wheel of history will definitely crush it, and it is not advisable to use the mantis arm as a car, that is ignorance, you must be able to hibernate and save as much strength as possible, so that you can take advantage of the situation when the opportunity comes." It's not that you don't understand these truths, it's just that the burden is heavy and the pressure is too great. Calm down and watch what happens. ”

"The patriarch is right, it's Shanyi who is impetuous. Just over there? Jiang Shanyi stopped and said worriedly.

"There is no need to think about it, since there is an emperor, there should naturally be his way, no matter what the final result is, don't worry about it for the time being, even if the head of the family is cut off in the end, it will be God who will let me die, and I have to die. What's more, Ge'er is precocious, his mind is clear, and it coincides with troubled times, no matter what happens to the Jiang family during this period, there is still some background that can help him. Those of us who are about to enter the earth should not think too much, our children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and we can't force them. ”

"Yes, everything has its own certainty. Tomorrow, I will write a letter to Chang'an to ask about Ge'er's situation. ”

Jiang Zhen had slowly closed his eyes, Jiang Shanyi ordered the servants to take care of the clan elder, and he also walked quickly, whether it was the head of the family or the father, there were still many things to do before the general trend completely fell apart. Accumulating even one more copper coin could completely change the situation later.

The general trend is irreversible, but there is nothing wrong with doing more.

Maybe there's one more change.

One more chance.

And this change and opportunity may save my son's life.

In troubled times

If there is a life, it is possible.

Jiang Shanyi knew.

Jiang Ge will definitely be better than himself.

There is no reason.