It had just rained, and the world was as blue as glass. The child lifted the curtain and looked out, only to see the sky that had been cut into a grid.

He sighed like an adult, and just lowered the curtains, he heard the door creak.

"The young general is awake," the gentle woman walked in from outside, holding a black coat in her hand, "the general told you to come over for dinner, it's cold outside, let's wear more clothes before going out." ”

She approached, and when she saw the sad look on the child's face, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh: "Is the young general worried?" Where do children get so much trouble? ”

A large black coat was draped over the child's shoulders, and the cuffs and collar were embroidered with gold thread with flying phoenix patterns, and the woman sat down on the child's bedside and pointed to the clear sky outside the window: "Is the young general watching the sky?" It's so beautiful, like the glazed tiles of Yanjing. ”

"Mama Huang has been to Yanjing?" The child hung his head.

"Yes, that's ...... When I was young, the generals at that time were the same age as the current major generals, and they looked very similar. Huang Ma replied with a smile.

"Father...... At that time, what was Yanjing like? What about Yunhuang, what does Yunhuang look like? ”

Huang's mother touched the child's head, and the long sleep made the originally coiled hair bun fall apart, and the black hair was draped over the child's shoulders.

"Wait....... Huang Ma first coiled the hair of the major general, and then said that it would be okay for the major general? ”

The child lowered his head tamely, Huang Ma picked up a hairpin from the desk on the side, untied the young general's bun, and used the hairpin to draw a clear hair slit, and the bundles of black hair were separated from each other and knotted, and finally fixed in the center with a hairpin. Huang Ma looked at it with a smile and clapped her hands: "Yes, which handsome son!" ”

"Huang Ma talk quickly, talk quickly, her hair is coiled!"

"Okay, okay, that's it." Huang Ma took the young general in her arms, "At that time, Yunhuang was even more dilapidated than now, our cultivated land was robbed and ruined by the barbarians of the Northern Wilderness, so everyone could only farm while herding sheep, in the spring the mountains were green all over the mountains, and the wheat was ripe in the autumn, so the world became a golden piece, and it was really a beautiful scenery." ”

"At that time, I was also a famous beauty in Yunhuang," Huang's mother lowered her head, and saw the child in her arms scraping her face with her fingers and sticking out her tongue, so she knocked on the top of his head and continued: "I still have a plate of wolf blood rouge at that time, this is the custom of Yunhuang, after the girls matured, their father and brother went to hunt wolves on the grassland at the junction of Yunhuang and the Northern Wilderness, and made rouge with wolf blood, indicating that their women had reached the age of marriage......."

"I know, I know, I want to listen to Yanjing!" The young general made a fuss in Huang's mother's arms, he had heard these customs countless times, Yunhuang was a place where he was born and raised, but Yanjing was thousands of miles away, the main city of the world, the capital of the Great Yan Kingdom, and the hub of gold and jade, every name attracts the hearts of children. He often wonders, what is Yanjing like? There should be a tall palace there, the ministers travel in carriages with large curtains, the girls hide in their boudoirs and secretly watch the young scholars coming and going in the street, blushing and secretly thinking in their hearts which will be their future husbands, and there is the largest and softest bed in the world, sleeping on it is like sleeping on the clouds.

He pulled Huang Ma's sleeve and looked up at her pitifully, his black glass-like eyes reflected the fireplace in the room, as if there was a light jumping.

"I can't help you...... Yanjing, "Huang Ma fell into deep thought, "The buildings in Yanjing are very high, the shortest one in the emperor's palace is higher than the North Hell Tower of Yunhuang, and the people walking on the street are all nobles, with white jade and incense sachets, both men and women are fragrant, as if they have just been fished out of honey." ”

"At night, there are shops and stalls on both sides of the street, there are those selling small wooden knives, small wooden horses, and a bird made of wood, which is said to be able to fly in the sky for three days and three nights......" She secretly looked at the child's expression, and every time she said a word, the child's eyes lit up, and finally he lifted the quilt on his body, jumped and shouted: "I also want a small wooden knife, I also want a small wooden bird!" ”

"Okay, okay, the next time the general goes to meet the emperor again, I'll go and ask the general to help you ask the general and ask the general to buy it for you, but now, we're going to eat." Huang's mother pulled the child down, but she saw a dim little face, and even the eyes that were as bright as the morning star were dimmed, as if the pearl had been immersed in a dark pool, and the light was swallowed up by black.

"Major General, you also know, the general is ......"

Before Huang Ma finished speaking, the door was suddenly opened from the outside, and the fresh wind blew in after the rain, and a tall figure stood in front of the door.

The wind was mixed with the smell of iron and the chilling cold.

"The general summoned the young general to the North Underworld," the figure raised his head, revealing a fierce and solemn look, "Yanjing has a guest." ”

Two hours ago, Yunhuang, North Hades Tower.

In the spacious hall, there are dancers in red clothes, and the long sleeves are like a dragon, turning into red silk, brushing the knees of the guests from time to time, making people's hearts soft.

With her dance, behind the curtain came the sound of the grumbling piano, as if waiting for the young woman to return to the lover alone in the empty boudoir, lonely leaning on the railing to look back, a round of bright moon hanging on the eaves of the building, even if thousands of miles apart there is still a bright moon, but think about it, he is also like this bright moon, round time is less and less time, north and south east and west parting, the time of youth is so paid to the flowing water and falling flowers, empty and sad.

The dancer's eyes flowed, and she wanted to cry, and the guests were sad.

She suddenly raised her sleeves, and the soft brocade sleeves made a sound of breaking the wind in the air, like a female general practicing a peerless sword, the sword light and warmth are in the same vein, and the murderous spirit flows with the autumn water. The luthier behind the scenes also pulled the strings vigorously, and the sound of the piano suddenly became extremely exciting, as if the peerless knight was fighting to the death on the strings, and every note turned into a sharp sword, mercilessly slashing the listener's heavenly spirit cover.

A total of nine singers in three rows and three columns walked out of the curtain with the pace of the military, and arranged in an array of sharp arrows in the hall, and chanted: "The dark iron is a knife and a cold mang,

The horses and rivers are broken and cold"

Night after single in Xi to break the Northern Wilderness,

Bury my dry bones next to the dragon court.

The Qin people did not return to their homeland until they died,

I dare not forget the death of the iron coat! ”

After singing the last word, the red-clothed dancer jumped up suddenly, and the red sleeves waved in the air, hitting the red hydrangea hanging on the girder in advance.

"Good! Good! The guests applauded in unison, and the red-clothed dancers bowed down in the rain of flowers, and the previous domineering spirit was gone, leaving only the touching shyness and beauty.

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly at the moment when the guests' applause ended, but three crackling sounds were heard, and a long sigh came from behind the curtain.

"Pity this string, three of them have broken." Someone stepped forward from behind the curtain, dressed in an azure scribe's robe, with his half-length hair untied and draped over his shoulders to cover the small half of his face.

He bowed in front of everyone and said with a smile: "Everyone, please feel free, here is just Yaxing to help everyone." ”

"Singing Chu words in Qin Sheng, Ziliu is really interested." A man in a heavy brocade robe clapped his hands and laughed.

"Where and where, I used the poems of my ancestors, and I don't know how my general should criticize me." Ziliu smiled wryly.

The red-clothed dancer standing on the side poured a glass of wine early and handed it to Ziliu, who held the cup and saluted the people around him, then raised his head and drank dry, wiped his mouth and said, "Gentlemen, drink to win!" ”

"Everyone in the world is known for the fame of Qin Dance, and when I see it today, it really deserves its reputation." The robed guest smiled, "Ziliu, who is this one next to you?" ”

"The concubine's name is Scarlet Clothes, and she has no surname." The dancer replied.

"Scarlet... Not... Is it the scarlet clothes on the jade list? ”

The dancer's eyes rolled, and she nodded with a smile on her lips.

"Why, Shoushan has also heard of the name of Scarlet Yi in Yanjing?" Ziliu walked around and sat down, waved his hand, and the scarlet coat bowed and withdrew.

He picked up a fruit on the table, looked at it, and threw it back: "This time I came all the way from Yanjing, and I brought so many seasonal freshness, what is Shoushan for?" In the land on the border of Yunhuang, what can enter your eyes? ”

"Don't you let Scarlet sit down and have a drink? Such a beauty is rare in Yanjing. Xu Shoushan didn't answer.

"Don't come to that set, such as the top ten beauties on the jade list, although the scarlet clothes are at the bottom, they are also a treasure of Yunhuang, my general is raised as a daughter, let your brother take it away, the general can kill me."

He found a comfortable position to sit, raised one eyebrow, and put a playful smile on his face: "Lord Angel, after all, I came here for that incident, right?" ”

"It's been nine years, and the children of that year have grown up," Xu Shoushan stood up from his seat, brushed his sleeves, and bowed down: "I came here today to be ordered by His Majesty to summon Major General Yunhuang to Beijing to study with the princes and grandsons." Ziliu knows, at this time, the rules passed down by our ancestors, we are also ........."

"Okay."

Xu Shoushan raised his head in some surprise, as if he didn't understand why he answered so quickly.

"I said okay," Ziliu still looked inserious, "What, do you think it's a big matter, and I Xue Ziliu can't make a decision?" ”

"I don't mean to look down on Ziliu, but this matter really needs the general to decide."

"It doesn't matter, the general and I have thought about this for a long time, entering Beijing to be a 'proton', the general also experienced it back then, not to mention ......" The cynical expression suddenly disappeared, replaced by a solemn face, "That child is not destined to be safe." ”

Xu Shoushan was silent.

Xue Ziliu stood up and walked slowly to his side: "It's not just the Yunhuang family, right?" The angels of the imperial court should lobby in the palaces of the various princes now, right? ”

"Really...... Faint King. He sighed.

"Ziliu!" Xu Shoushan scolded in a low voice, "There are some things that can't be said nonsense!" ”

"Forget it, forget it, I can't interfere with the big man's affairs," Xue Ziliu turned around and waved his hand casually, "The etiquette is also over, and the banquet should be dispersed. ”

The azure figure stepped out of the door and gradually moved away, and the officials who were subordinate to Yunhuang in the building also retreated into the curtain, and the armor soldiers surrounding the building retreated one by one, and finally disappeared into the darkness.

Xu Shoushan let out a sigh of relief and sat down with a wry smile.

"I didn't expect it to be so easy." Someone whispered on the side, "It's a bit of a surprise." ”

Xu Shoushan looked over and saw a handsome young man sitting on the seat, looking at him with a warm smile in his slender eyebrows. He had an impression of this person, he was recommended by a powerful person in Yanjing, and now it seems that he should be after the minister. But those eyes ...... It's not like Yanjing's group of eagle dogs who are idle all day long, always with a warm smile along the way, but when you look at it, you feel that there is no emotion in the cold eyes.

"Simple? Not necessarily ......" Xu Shoushan looked at the place where Xue Ziliu disappeared and groaned, "Xue Ziliu, the fox of Saibei, this name was not obtained casually, but I don't know why he agreed so decisively this time." ”

"What's your name, young man?" He asked, looking up.

The young man straightened his clothes and stood up to salute, raised his head slightly, and his eyes lit up with a cold light: "In Xia Lujian, I have seen an angel." ”

The candle in the corner had been picked a few times, barely keeping a glimmer of light, casting a shadow over everything in the room.

At the top was a wooden chair on which sat a man with his face hidden in the darkness of the candlelight, and in front of him stood a young child, his head hanging and not saying a word.

The man also drank in silence, and for a moment there was only the sound of swallowing in the room.

After a long time, he opened his mouth to break the silence: "I haven't seen you for a long time, Ah Yue?" ”

The child did not reply.

The man looked at him silently, only at this time would he remember that he had such a big son, when he was riding a horse and whipping on the grassland, there was only swords and swords and feathers flying in his eyes, and the man on the battlefield didn't have time to think too much, maybe the next moment you were distracted, a scimitar would cut your throat. But when the smoke cleared, he couldn't help but worry about everything, the child...... He is his own son, a hundred years later, it will be him who will cry in front of his mourning hall, he will always have his own blood flowing in his body, as long as he is alive, he will not die or be forgotten, everyone is afraid of forgetting, that is the punishment of the gods to the world.

But...... Would this kid really do that? How long has it been since we saw each other, half a year, or a year?

He reached out and tried to touch the boy's head, but the boy dodged him.

The hand hung awkwardly in the air, and the child did not look up at him.

The hand retracted, and the man took a sip of the wine in his toast and leaned down, the flickering candle flame reflecting his deeply sunken eye sockets.

"Forgive my father, Ah Yue." The man muttered, "I had to. ”

The boy suddenly raised his head and stared into his father's eyes, and the almost identical black eyes of father and son collided like meteorites.

"Like your mother." The man said. But these eyes follow me, he thought to himself.

The boy lowered his head again, his eyes lowered.

The man slammed the cup on the table, and with a "bang", the boy's body shook and his eyes were a little red.

"Cry! Do you only know how to cry? The man suddenly roared, "Yingyue, look me in the eye and tell me, who are you?" ”

He stepped forward and grabbed the boy by the shoulder, forcing him to look up at himself.

Tears swirled in the boy's eyes, and finally stayed inside, not falling. He tried to keep his eyes open as his vision became clear, and the man's black eyes widened in front of him, and there seemed to be a dark cloud inside, which would release thunder and lightning at any moment to crush everything in front of him.

"I'm ...... Yingyue. The trembling voice was almost pleading.

"Say it again! What are you? What is Yingyue? ”

"I'm Yingyue, I'm ...... The man of the Ying family. The voice became louder, and Yingyue used all her strength.

The man let go of his hand, and his face returned to calm: "Okay, now the family needs you to do something, what should you do?" ”

Ying Yue fell to his knees, and he replied tremblingly: "I will do everything I can, even if it is ......"

"Even what?" The man's voice became stern again.

"Even if you give your life, even if you lose everything."

"That's it," the man sat down in his chair, pressed the bridge of his nose, and waved his hand, "get out, Mr. Ziliu will tell you what to do tomorrow." ”

The boy silently kowtowed, turned away. He walked to the door and heard a man's deep voice coming from behind, "Haven't you always wanted to find your mother...... I'll tell you where she is when I come back this time. ”

The candle flickered, and the boy's figure was already out of the door, and the footsteps faded away until the sound of chirping insects in the night muffled it.

"I'm afraid it's not appropriate for the general to educate children like this, right?" A clear voice suddenly sounded, and the curtain next to it was lifted, and an azure figure walked out.

The man was still sitting in his chair, and when he heard this, he replied, "Get used to it, this child is not close to me in the first place." ”

"The general should be from the grassland, and the wooden building is really not your residence." Xue Ziliu sighed and looked at the place where Yingyue left, "The young general is also my opinion, with all due respect, you treat him like this, I am afraid that I already have a grudge against you in my heart." ”

"I don't want him to become a sheep, but now it seems that he can't even become a sheep."

Xue Ziliu looked at the man in the chair, at this moment he was hunched over, the wrinkles on his face were extremely obvious under the candlelight, the towering bridge of his nose was like a sharp axe, cutting all the fear in this man's heart, and now his eyes were dim, he was just a father who was at a loss for his children, he didn't know how to teach his children, he didn't know how to communicate with his children normally, he was just a failed father, at least for now.

"The general still hasn't let go of that incident nine years ago?" Xue Ziliu asked.

"More than that." The man whispered, "Did you forget?" Fifty years ago, we weren't Yunhuang people. ”

He stood up and walked towards the door, saying as he walked, "I'm not a good father, but I've dedicated my life to Yunhuang, and I just hope Ah Yue can understand me." The man of the Ying family was born destined to return there! ”

There seemed to be a thousand thunderbolts in the words, brewing above the nine heavens, and it would land at any time.

In the eleventh year of Xianheng, Yanping Emperor Tong Yu ordered to summon all the princes to send their descendants into Yanjing to accompany the study, it was the year, the world of Dayan was dressed in the skin of peace and peace, and gradually revealed the blood-stained fangs and greedy appetite to the world, the beacon fire of the troubled times will not burn, there was no prosperous peony at that time, but the princess of the world still carried a jade carved scabbard, chanting a moving haiku, people still don't know, what kind of face history will lurk in the darkness ahead, to go through this period of time, how much life and how much beauty it needs to pay.