Chapter 221: The Peacock Flies Southeast
Autumn is high and cool, cloudless, a line of geese in the sky lined up in a human shape, flying to the southeast, Yuwen Weicheng counted carefully, and found that there were seven geese, that is, it was an odd number, and happily turned his head and shouted: "A-Niang, it is an odd number!" ”
Wei Chi Chifan, who was sitting on the side, smiled, touched his son's head and said, "Yes, Thorn Lang guessed right." ”
"So, can I park my car?"
"Nope."
"Oh."
Yuwen Weicheng is a little deflated, he has been taking the car for the past few days, although it is really good to be able to come out for a walk, but after sitting in the car for a long time, he wants to get down and walk, stretch his arms, and look at the flowers and plants on the side of the road.
After living in that place called "Imperial Palace" for a while, after the novelty of Yuwenwei City passed, I felt very bored, not to mention that it was not comparable to my own family, even my grandfather's house.
It's not that the house is not big enough, the place is not wide enough, on the contrary, the house in the palace is beautiful and the place is wide, but there are few people.
Yuwen Weicheng is surrounded by only maids who keep their heads down and don't say anything all day long, and occasionally there are men who speak in a tone that is neither male nor female, and it is deserted everywhere.
At night, the palace was pitch black, and the shadows of the houses looked like wild beasts, crouching and ready to pounce and bite.
But Yuwen Weicheng is not afraid, because he has A-Niang by his side, A-Niang will tell stories before falling asleep at night, he will fall asleep when he listens to it, even if he wakes up in the middle of the night with a nightmare, he is much more relieved when he sees A-Niang sleeping next to him.
It's just that without the friends in the house, and without the brother and younger siblings to play with, Yuwen Weicheng is more and more homesick and misses Aya more and more.
He knew that Aya was going to war, and said that he would come back as soon as this year and next year at the latest, Yuwen Weicheng felt that he was not in Xiyang, maybe Aya was back and he didn't know yet, so he often asked A-Niang when he could go back, A-Niang always said "Soon, wait".
When? I don't know, anyway, the days go by day by day, Yuwen Weicheng is looking forward to going home day by day in the palace, but he can't always go back, he thought that he didn't need to read and write in the palace, but A-Niang found a gentleman to continue to teach him to read and write.
In this case, it is better to go home, the school is lively, how good.
Yuwen Weicheng thought so, seeing the mediocre scenery outside the window, he looked at the carriage, the name of this carriage is a little special, called "fish twist", Yuwen Weicheng thinks that it means that there is something twisted by fish on the car, but you can't always find "fish twist" when you look for it.
Looking east, the carriage slowly stopped, and a moment later, a voice that was neither male nor female sounded outside the carriage: "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, the royal car has arrived at the river and is about to cross the river." ”
"Your Majesty knows."
Yu Chi Chi opened her mouth and said, she is now the "Queen of Di", as the biological mother of the Son of Heaven, of course she has to accompany the Son of Heaven to ride in the car, Yuwen Weicheng lifted the curtain and looked out, and couldn't help but shout:
"Auntie! The water of this big river is so yellow... It's the Yellow River! ”
He remembered very well that from Xiyang to Yecheng, on the way to cross a river with very yellow water, called the Yellow River, to go to Yecheng to cross the river, back to Xiyang to cross the river, now from Yecheng to cross the river, that is... Coming home?
"It's not going home, we're going for a walk."
"Oh..."
Seeing that his son was a little disappointed, Wei Chi Chifan's heart was not a taste, the appearance of the sinking fish and the wild goose was shrouded in a cloud of sadness, some things were incomprehensible to his son, the more he said, the more questions his son had, she looked at the scenery outside the window, a little gloomy.
Soldiers approached the left and right of the carriage, and together with the palace maids, they supported the carriage left and right, and the carriage slowly moved forward, and after a while it drove onto a long pontoon bridge.
The Baimajin section of the Yellow River, at this time has set up a pontoon bridge across the river, and the imperial chariot of Yuwenwei City, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, is advancing to the south bank of Baimajin through the pontoon bridge under heavy protection.
And the other royal chariot followed by the queen mother, Yu Chi Mingyue, and the mother of Yu Chi Mingyue, the Duchess of the State of Yu Wang, at this moment, Yu Chi Mingyue looked at the river scenery outside the car window, his eyes were dull and expressionless.
Wang held his daughter's hand, a little heartache but didn't know how to comfort him, Yu Chi Mingyue has been a widow since the day of the wedding, and she has been depressed these days, even if it is difficult to breathe, she has not seen a happy face.
The Wang family knew that his daughter was bitter, so he traveled together, and by the way, he accompanied another hard-working daughter, Yu Chi Chifan, and his grandson Yuwen Weicheng, who didn't understand anything.
Seeing Yu Chi Mingyue's appearance, the Wang family was glad that Yuwen Weicheng was young and ignorant, and there were four people in the group, one of the three major and one of them often smiled, which made the atmosphere not so dull, otherwise it would be gloomy and bleak like something all day.
Under the escort of everyone, the two royal chariots arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River one after the other, and at this moment the south bank boundary flag was waved, and the stretching procession was boundless at a glance.
The soldiers around the Imperial Rim are dressed differently from other armies, which are the six rates of the forbidden army: the tiger rate, the brigade rate, the shooting rate, the cavalry rate, the feather forest rate, and the guerrilla rate to escort the Son of Heaven to travel.
Wu Ben's soldiers, the clothes are all Xuan, and they are decorated with four colors; The travelers, the clothes are all green, and they are decorated with Zhu; The people who shoot the sound, the equipment and clothes are all Zhu, and they are decorated with yellow.
The riders are all yellow, decorated with Hao; Guerrillas, all the clothes are mysterious, and they are decorated with green.
If the Son of Heaven sets out a big book when he travels, the forbidden army will lead the whole army to dispatch, and the clothes will be according to the system; If it is a middle driver or sleeping in the open (the main hall of the Son of Heaven), half of the troops will be dispatched, and the clothes will be according to the system; If it is a small driver, then half of the troops, at this time, the uniform of the six rate soldiers is black.
And now, Yuwen Weicheng looked at the black color outside the car window, and cringed a little, but he still looked out the window, and then found a familiar scene.
"Auntie..."
Yuwen Weicheng whispered, the volume was very low, and after Yu Chi Chifan approached, he asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"A-Niang, look over there, look over there."
Following the direction pointed by Yuwen Weicheng's little hand, Yu Chi Chifan saw the outline of a city in the distance outside the window, she thought about it carefully, then nodded and said, "Did you remember?" ”
"Hmm!"
Yuwen Weicheng nodded vigorously, of course he remembered the scene in front of him, last year, he and A-Niang returned to Xiyang from Yecheng, they followed their uncle, crossed Baimajin on the edge of the Yellow River, and his uncle explained to him the origin of the name of the city in front of him.
The slide table is not slippery.
Yuwen Weicheng still remembers his uncle's explanation, he wanted to get out of the car and walk, but he still couldn't.
Yuwen Weicheng heard what A-Niang said, and his maternal uncle was still waiting in front, so he couldn't miss the time, and he had to hurry up.
Looking at the sky, Yuwen Weicheng found that there was a flock of birds flying in the southeast direction in the sky, he looked hard for a while, turned his head sideways and asked, "A-Niang, isn't that bird a wild goose, it's a peacock?" ”
Wei Chi Chifan glanced out the window, she didn't recognize what kind of bird was in the sky, but she was sure that it was not a peacock, because a peacock couldn't fly that high.
"That's not a peacock, a peacock won't fly southeast."
"No, what the child has heard are the two lines of poetry that Aya has recited, and the peacock will fly southeast."
Yuwen Weicheng argued, he saw that Ah Niang seemed to be in a bad mood, so he tried to use his outstanding performance to make Ah Niang happy, the way was to memorize poems, and memorized the poems that Aya had read.
"Okay, A-Niang listens to Thorn Lang's recitation of poems."
"Hmm... uh..."
Yuwen Weicheng "Uh-huh" for a while, and then said: "The peacock flies southeast, wandering for five miles." ”
The narrative poem "Peacock Flying Southeast" tells the story of Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi who were forced to separate and committed suicide.
She was afraid that her son would see it and quickly wipe it with her sleeve, Yuwen Weicheng didn't notice this detail, and asked expectantly: "Auntie, what's the matter, the peacock will fly to the southeast, right?" ”
"Ahh yes..."
Wei Chi Chi endured his grief, replied hesitantly, and held his son in his arms, tears welling up.
Not long ago, Prime Minister Wei Chi Dan played the Son of Heaven, and there were traitors in Yunyu Prefecture who pretended to be Wang Yuwenwen, gathered people to rebel in Xuanlu, supported the puppet emperor, defeated the officials and troops, and scattered rebellious words, intending to confuse the world.
In order to correct the hearing and clarify Yuyu, the prime minister implored the Son of Heaven to drive the expedition in person to calm people's hearts.
The Son of Heaven immediately took Chi Shun, the Duke of the State of Xuan, to stay in Yecheng, and took the Queen Mother and Queen Yi to recruit in person, supplemented by the Prime Minister Chi Dian, and led the imperial army of 100,000 to the south to rebel.