The carriage made of dark iron galloped down the road, followed by dozens of horsemen in a strict queue, and the white horses pulling the cart were covered with mud spots, as if they had been galloping for a long time, and their tongues spit out of their mouths, constantly throwing out white spit.

On both sides of the road were unclothed homeless people, with vegetables on their faces, wandering aimlessly, staring blankly at the speeding carriages.

"Diao Min! I don't care about you! A loud shout came from the convoy, and one of the knights at the head tightened the reins of his horse, and the steed neighed to his feet, avoiding a refugee who suddenly appeared in the path.

"Douchi! What happened? "There was a voice in the carriage.

The knight took control of the horse and walked to the carriage, lifted his mask, revealing a young and even somewhat immature face, with a look of resentment and disdain on his face: "Shizi, this group of Diao people is too in the way, and they were almost trampled to death by me, phew!" Short-lived ghost! ”

The knight spat on the ground and cursed.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted by the people sitting inside, and the smell of smoke wafted out, and sitting in it was a child, dressed in dark blue clothes, embroidered with birds and tigers, with black hair tied up with a thorn, and a long sheathed knife in his hand.

"Shizi, at this rate, it is estimated that there will be another day." Dou Chi shook his head with a little annoyance. It has been five days since the departure from Yingdu, and although it has traveled 600 miles in one day, there is still a day to go, which makes people feel depressed when they think about it.

The children in the carriage closed their eyes, and their bodies rose and fell with the bumps of the carriage, like an old monk in a trance. After a while, when Dou Chi thought he was asleep, he suddenly asked, "Come out with me this time, are you dissatisfied?" ”

Dou Chi was stunned.

"It's the first time I've left Yingdu, so are you, if you go to a place so far away from Yanjing all of a sudden, if nothing else, there is no hope for the title of the family."

"I didn't ...... No. Dou Chi gritted his teeth and shook his head, "Originally, he was also a concubine, and those family businesses ...... Sooner or later, it will be passed on to the sister-in-law. ”

Shizi didn't say anything more. He closed the window of the car, and a cold voice came out, with a hint of determination, and the fierceness of the beast when it was cornered: "Since we have been squeezed out, we can live in Yanjing, sooner or later, one day, Douchi, I will take you back to Yingdu, and take what we should have and what we don't have, the same...... Take it back! ”

In the eleventh year of Xianheng, all the princes and sons of all walks of life entered Beijing, and the power struggle in the troubled times and the farce of the separation of flesh and blood gradually invaded the shell of history. Later generations of historians always lamented the ingenuity of fate when studying this period of history, which was originally used by the Yan Dynasty to consolidate the stormy rule, but became the last talisman of the Yanjing court.

On the night of February 16, the stars rise from the north, and the iron blue light shines on the earth, and it is said that on this day, the god of the stars will shed all his power to shine the light for the wandering prodigal son.

Ying Yue lay on the table, boredly holding a wooden skewer and holding the candle on the table, the candle flame flickered on and off, illuminating his face and uncertain.

Since he was a child, Yingyue was a weak child, the courage of the Qin people seemed to be missing in him, in Yunhuang, where the interaction with the Northern Barbarians was serious, a boy of his age could already ride a big horse and gallop on the grassland, and when he met a girl he liked, he whistled narrowly, and finally was whipped a few times by the girl's father, laughing and waving the horsewhip.

And he has been stuck in the small wooden building, when his father went out to fight, he looked at the grassland in a daze, after his father came back, he just hastily said goodbye, and returned to his own hut, staying all day.

He loves to listen to the wind on the Yunhuang grassland, in the early morning, the wind is mixed with the smell of grass and flowers, through the forest and leaves, leaving a mark on every stone and every window, and the cold bumps into a person's heart, and it is a season to stay.

However, in Yanjing...... The moon is obscured by tall buildings, there is only silence at night, and for the first time I feel that the sound of the wind will be so boring, and the prosperity of the day is like fireworks that are about to shatter at the touch of a place, shattered into a lonely silhouette...... Lonesome......

"Na...... Younger brother. Suddenly there was a soft and glutinous voice of a girl outside the window, and there was a hint of excitement about stealing candy behind an adult's back.

Not again. Ying Yue closed the window, since he came to Yanjing three days ago and lived in this small building, someone would call him out of his window every night to go out to play.

"Little brother~Come out to play~" The girl's voice seemed to circle around the room.

Don't listen, don't listen. His mind kept flashing the strange talk of Yanjing that Huang's mother told him, the son of an official eunuch was studying his homework in the study at night, and heard a woman's voice calling his name outside, and when he opened the door, he saw a fox standing in front of the door, grinning and showing a mouthful of fangs...... The small building where he lived was in a remote corner of the Forbidden Palace, and on weekdays, there were only a few small yellow doors carrying lanterns to patrol the night, or carrying hoes to remove weeds, and the guards who came with him were arranged in the barracks on the outskirts of Yanjing, so as not to disrupt the order of the capital by the princes' children to mobilize private soldiers.

Thinking so, he took the candlestick into the bed, wrapped himself tightly in the covers, and kept his eyes fixed on the window.

After a long time, the girl's voice gradually disappeared, and the wind outside became louder again.

He let out a sigh of relief, thinking that he had escaped from the fairy claws, and had just walked back to the table when he suddenly heard a slight sobbing sound in the wind.

"Help! Yes! Help me! "Someone was crying and crying for help in the night outside.

The wind became frantic in an instant, and the girl's voice rose and fell in the wind, like a bird whose wings had been scraped by a branch, wailing and dodging, but still falling involuntarily towards the ground.

The candlestick was squeaked by the Yingyue, he gritted his teeth, trembled his hands and didn't know if he should push the window open, and a voice in his heart was low and fast urging him to save people.

The wind suddenly stopped, and the girl's voice disappeared with it. It's quiet.

He pushed the window open and climbed out of the table.

Decades later, he recalled the scene, the goose-yellow dress dancing in the wind, the girl standing quietly outside the window, the pale golden moonlight streaming on her face.

He froze for a moment, his black eyes had a shadow of heaven and clouds that he had never seen before, and something suddenly skipped in his heart.

"Hey, hey, have you seen enough!"

The girl stomped her foot, and a blush gradually appeared on her face.

She pouted, suddenly approached Yingyue, and with a "pounce", blew out the candlestick in his hand.

"I finally called you out, I came to accompany Ben...... I'm playing, don't have a wooden face, like a little old man. The girl shouted.

"What's your name?" In the moonlight, the girl tilted her head and asked.

Ying Yue looked at her stunned, holding a extinguished candlestick, and it took him a moment to realize that she was asking her name.

He suddenly smirked: "Yingyue, my father calls me Ah Yue." ”

After he said that, he realized that he was laughing, and quickly covered his face.

"Ahh Then I'll call you Ah Yue. My name is Tong Qianlou, and everyone calls me Xiaolou. ”

"Then can I call you Xiaolou too?" Ying Yue asked.

"Okay, why are you covering your face? Like a little girl," Tong Qianlou stepped forward and tore off Yingyue's hand, looking at his slightly weak face, his eyes were full of timid emotions, but there was also the joy of making friends, just a trace of joy, jumping in the depths of his pupils.

She suddenly laughed, dragging Yingyue's face to both sides, until he exhaled the pain before letting go of his hand: "Smile, I will laugh like this when I see me in the future, otherwise..." ”

Ying Yue nodded, and then suddenly reacted that something was wrong...... The girl in front of him who appeared out of nowhere harassed him outside his window for three days in a row, and then pretended to call for help to trick himself out, but now he is teaching himself here, in the tone of an eldest sister?

Seeing the frozen expression on his face, the girl knew what he was thinking, and laughed out loud: "Playing with you, angry?" ”

The girl looked at him with wide eyes, and he felt as if a small flame had suddenly burned on his face.

"No, no, I'm not angry."

"Alright, let's go, let's go see the moon, I know a good place, and it's like you're going to touch it." The girl took his hand, and the warm and soft feeling spread from his hand to his heart, and he involuntarily ran with Xiaolou.

But Xiao Lou suddenly stopped, turned his head and asked, "Na...... After today, you won't forget me, will you? ”

When she said this, she lowered her head, as if she was very afraid of being forgotten, and as if she had been forgotten many times, by those who had laughed and shed tears together, and had seen the moon together.

"No, it won't. I will remember you, Tong Qianlou, Xiaolou. Somehow, Ying Yue replied solemnly. He looked at the girl's face that was gradually getting happy because of this sentence, and only felt that he was also happy, and when he saw her bow her head and say nothing, he suddenly felt so sad that he wanted to ...... I want to go up and hug her, and whisper in her ear Don't be afraid, I will always be with you, I will never forget you.

They held hands and ran, the girl's face shining with youth in the moonlight, he didn't know what "youth" was at that time, but he felt that such an expression was very beautiful, so beautiful that people could not bear to forget.

Forbidden Palace, Wangxi Pavilion.

The moon is like a jade disk, carved in a night by peerless craftsmen with all their life's work, and the stars are dotted with pearls on the bottom of the sea to make twinkling stars, and the stars and the moon dodge the light of the day, and now they meet again in the dark.

The boy and the girl sat side by side on the cornices of the Wangxi Pavilion, surrounded by auspicious beasts, and the night wind blew their robes, and they waved their legs without saying a word.

Ying Yue looked at the black hair of the girl next to her rising and falling leisurely, in a daze.

Xiao Lou pulled him to Wangxi Pavilion, and after the two little yellow doors that were originally guarding the door saw her, their cold faces instantly became amiable, and even ...... There was also a hint of flattery, as if the wolf-hunting dog of the steppe saw the owner of the horse, and immediately stuck out his tongue and came to her feet in circles.

After they came in, they went straight to the eaves, and it was always Xiaolou who led the way, she seemed to be very familiar with this, Yingyue thought that she used to walk through the huge forbidden palace alone, sitting alone on the eaves blowing the wind, looking at the moon alone, there was no one around to speak, and when he thought of this, his heart became sad.

"Ah Yue, do you have such a moon there?" Xiao Lou asked leisurely.

She turned her head to look at Yingyue, her eyes full of pride. In her heart, the moon of Yanjing is the most beautiful and roundest moon in the whole Dayan, and the people of Yanjing also thank the heavens for the gift with actions.

"Yes, the moon is rounder and even the spots on it are clear." Ying Yue replied.

Xiao Lou was a little discouraged, and then she pointed to the bright moon and said, "That...... What do you think this looks like? I look like a rabbit grazing on the moon! ”

"No, my father told me that it was a fairy dancing in the moon." Ying Yue looked at her suspiciously.

"What a fool, your father lied to you, how can there be any fairy?"

Ying Yue blushed and retorted: "There will be no rabbits then, there are no rabbits in the world that can fly!" ”

He lowered his head again and said in a muffled voice, "I don't have a mother, and when I was a child, whenever I asked my father where my mother had gone, my father would hold me and point to the moon and say that my mother was on the moon, and she was a fairy dancing in the moon...... But now, he doesn't say that anymore. ”

The night breeze turned cool, and against the low words of the young man, Xiao Lou shivered.

She cautiously approached Yingyue and asked, "What's that...... Why didn't he say that? Because you made a mistake? Every time I made a mistake, my father ignored me. But I know he's just pretending, and your father should be ...... too."

"Nope. Because that's fake, I know. Ying Yue interrupted her, "Actually, my mother is already dead." ”

He whispered, "I already knew. ”

He lowered his head and wiped his eyes, and suddenly felt a tap on the shoulder, Xiao Lou jumped up from the side and said with a smile: "Rabbits can't fly, but I know that something can fly." ”

"What?"

"Birdie!" Xiao Lou blinked, and there was cunning in his clear eyes.

Ying Yue was stunned: "Of course, the bird can definitely fly, and the eagle of Yunhuang can even fly over a mountain." ”

"Stupid!" Xiao Lou slapped him the head, and when he covered his head in pain, he withdrew his hand with satisfaction, "I'm talking about a wooden bird, have you ever seen it, it's made of wood!" As long as you pull it, you can fly for three days and three nights! ”

"As long as you don't cry, I'll take you to see it tomorrow, how about it?" Xiao Lou said.

"I ...... How can I cry! The boy's self-esteem made Yingyue stare at her red eyes and whisper.

"I'm not ashamed to cry when I'm so old." Xiao Lou scraped his face and stuck out his tongue at Yingyue.

The yellow door of the night patrol in the distance rang the chiming clock, and several birds perched in the trees were startled and flew away with their screams.

"It's not early, I've been playing with you for so long, I'm sleeping." Xiao Lou yawned and waved his hand to Ying Yue, "Go back to sleep, remember to open the door for me tomorrow night." ”

She climbed onto the roof and jumped away, really like a rabbit in the moonlight, her lithe body full of vitality.

Ying Yue was stunned, and when she reacted, Xiao Lou's figure had faded like a shadow of nothingness.

On a happy evening, he thought to himself, the presence of the girl had brought everything to life.

"Major General, Major General, it's time to get up."

One hand pushes Yingyue, constantly shaking.

Is it Huang Ma? Yingyue waved her hand back in a daze, wanting to sleep for a while.

The shaking hand became stronger, and the voice grew sharper.

"Major General! Your Majesty announces that all the sons have entered the palace! No delay! ”

Your Majesty? The only person in the entire Great Yan can be called His Majesty is the emperor in the Forbidden Palace...... Emperor...... No!

Ying Yue was a spirit, remembering that he was now in the Yanjing Forbidden Palace, not in Yunhuang. He rolled over and got out of bed, a hand stopping him.

"Ouch, my young general, this is to meet Your Majesty, you can't just go like this." The sharp voice sounded again, and an old yellow man with a white face and beard turned his head anxiously and shouted, "Come on, change clothes!" ”

There seemed to be a yellow door standing outside the door early, and when they heard the words, they immediately poured in, each of them held clothes in their hands, and the old yellow door began to dress for Yingyue as soon as he gave the order.

"Father-in-law? What are they? "Ying Yue was dressed up like a puppet by the Yellow Gate, these clothes were cumbersome and complicated, embroidered with beautiful and mysterious patterns, Ying Yue had never seen before.

Lao Huangmen wiped the sweat from his forehead, and replied while urging him to get dressed: "The young general has never been to Yanjing, these are the dresses he wore when he met His Majesty, don't dare to slack off, you got up late, and the minions had to offend." ”

After dressing up for an hour, Lao Huangmen led Yingyue out of the courtyard, passed through several gates, and finally stopped in front of a vermilion lacquer gilt copper nail gate, Lao Huangmen bowed: "Young General, it's here." Remember to walk to the right when you enter the door and just stand with people your age. ”

"Won't my father-in-law go in with me?" Ying Yue asked.

Huangmen smiled bitterly: "The nobles' affairs, the servants dare not ask." ”

Ying Yue watched the old yellow door hunch over and walk away, pushed open the door and walked in.

Entering the door is a world again, the white jade bricks and stones are paved together, next to the door is the empty flat land, there are stairs in front of it that gradually extend, the railings on both sides are decorated with the mighty coiling dragons, a towering and tall palace rises from the ground at the end of the stairs, the vermilion bricks and tiles are like red flame cage covers, under the top of the roof is dense and dense gold bucket arches, the eaves are covered with blue-green copper beasts, the whole hall is made of gold bricks, showing the graceful and luxurious demeanor.

At this moment, both sides of the jade steps were already full of government and opposition officials, and the official uniforms of Zhu Zi and Crimson were lined up in order, Ying Yue had never seen such a scene, standing in a daze, and suddenly felt that the sleeves of his robe were tugged, and he turned around involuntarily, and a boy of the same age took his hand and motioned him to go with him.

The boy was also dressed in a cumbersome dress, but the difference was that he had a long knife with a sheath hanging from his waist, and his hair was tightly tied up, so that the slender eyebrows and eyes were slightly deformed, and the whole person looked more feminine.

Ying Yue followed the boy to the right side of the crowd, and people kept pouring in at the door behind him, and when he looked at it, most of them were his peers, all dressed in ceremonial dresses, or equipped with ceremonial knives, the small ones looked like Ying Yue, and the big ones had been crowned.

"Ouch!" The boy in front of him suddenly stood still, Yingyue was caught off guard, and hit his head, and the boy didn't turn his head and shouted in a low voice: "Stupid! Are you going to harm us? ”

After the boy finished speaking, he seemed to feel that his tone was a little heavier, so he slowed down his tone and said, "This is not child's play, this is a face-to-face ......"

Before he finished speaking, a yellow gate slowly walked out of the palace, cleared his throat and shouted: "Go to court!" ”

This voice was loud and far-reaching, and although it was a yellow door, the voice shouted a sense of masculinity.

There was a commotion in the crowd, and after a while, the officials in front took the lead, and the whole team slowly walked towards the palace.

Before it was approaching, it had already smelled the incense, several into the Langyuan Immortal Palace, and heard the Yao Sheng Jinse, the urgent pipe, the young man, the jade chime struck, the eight tones were silent, and the previous yellow door stopped at the gate of the palace.

Yingyue slowly walked into the palace with everyone, only to feel that everything in the hall was made of gold, the beams and pillars of the carved dragon and phoenix were carved on all sides, a dragon chair was placed on the central staircase, and several gorgeous palace maids stood silently with the sun and moon fan in their hands.

He looked around in a daze, and saw that the court officials quickly and accurately found their positions, and the hall was silent for a while, and he also shrank his head and followed behind the boy who had helped him just now.

I don't know how long I have been standing, but the hall is surprisingly quiet.

Just as Yingyue was drowsy, a few coughs broke the silence.

"Today's court meeting, I'm afraid it's going to disperse." The speaker was a purple-robed court official, with a goldfish bag around his waist and three long locks of beard under his chin.

This is a three-rank court official, the post belongs to the Department of Counseling, admonishing the emperor, impeaching hundreds of officials, and he has not seen the emperor in the court for a long time, so he made this remark angrily.

"Shh Someone beside him whispered, "Yi Xuan is cautious!" This is a discussion! ”

Yi Xuan's face changed, he threw down the sleeves of his robe angrily, hugged his arms and didn't say a word.

This was just the beginning, and the officials began to talk about it.

"I don't know what excuse Your Majesty has today?"

"Counting up, there has been no court meeting for ten years, and I am afraid that I have accumulated a lot of state affairs."

"This is the first day that the princes and sons have entered Beijing to face the saint, and it is really ...... Your Majesty to do this."

"So what? A bunch of protons! It's useless! ”

People looked at the group of teenagers where Yingyue was, with a hint of disdain in their eyes. The nobles who are used to being arrogant and domineering at home are now like frosted eggplants, all hanging their heads and saying nothing.

Ying Yue secretly looked up and saw that his peers were all upset, only the child in front of him was still stubbornly holding his head high, his hand pressed on the hilt of the knife at his waist, like a dead soldier who was about to draw a knife for a decisive battle.

"That kid...... It's the son of Chu...... The eyes are terrifying. ”

"Who allowed him to enter the temple with a sword, isn't that a ceremonial sword, and the guards are all decorations!" Someone was furious.

"No...... Is that...... The world is cloudy! ”

The crowd was in an uproar, and everyone's eyes were firmly locked on the knife, and the feelings of disbelief, surprise, and fear merged into one, like a violently contracted heart, and scarlet blood splattered everywhere.

Tianxiayun, one of the world's famous knives, or rather, one of the world's demon knives. Unlike other swords, Tianxia Yun seems to have been given some kind of curse, but if it is unsheathed, there will be bloody disasters in the world, and countless deaths and injuries will be inflicted. Fifty years ago, when the Northern Barbarians went south, the Qin land was lost, and the lives were devastated, the clouds of the world appeared once, but what brought to the world was killing and strife, the flesh and blood were scattered, and the blood flowed away. "Four Seas Sword Spectrum" commented on it as "an ancient weapon, which can cut the star of Jiuchen on the top and cut off the road of Huangquan on the bottom, such as the popular grass, and subduing the nine districts." ”

But Ying Yue didn't know these things, he just looked at the child and the saber at his waist, all the children shrunk behind the child, he was like a hen guarding her cubs, sheltering everything behind him with her immature wings.

He suddenly had a feeling of being protected, a feeling of being lost in a long time. He chose to stand up straight, though his legs trembled slightly in the face of the unkind and even disdainful gazes of a group of strange adults.

The child turned his head to look at Yingyue, and his eyes couldn't look at the end.

"Silence! Quiet! ”

The golden gourd warrior standing outside the door entered the hall at some point, and the long staff in his hand slammed down, and the loud sound made the court instantly quiet again.

"Your Majesty is slightly ill today, and I also ask you to leave the palace and return home, and the court meeting will be held another day." The yellow door that had shouted earlier came out of the curtain behind the dragon chair, and he pointed to the queue of officials with a whisk, "Minister Wei, please go with our family." General Liu, I would like to ask you. ”

"Retreat!" He shouted.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" The ministers knelt on the ground and shouted in unison.