Text Chapter 16 Yang's Jade Niang
Chang'an Prime Minister's Mansion
Although Chang'an has just been calmed down, it still needs time to digest and stabilize the interior, but Zhuge Guo, who has experienced life and death, insists on going to Chang'an to accompany her father, she is very scared, afraid that her father will leave her again, so she must guard her father tightly this time. So she pestered Huang Yueying all day long, and wrote letters to Zhuge Liang twice in three days. couldn't resist Zhuge Guo, Zhuge Liang finally agreed to let Huang Yueying lead his family to move to a temporary residence in Chang'an.
Chengdu is a long way from Chang'an, and it took a month to hurry, and everyone arrived in the dust. However, Zhuge Liang was busy with military affairs and often did not go home, so he did not have much time to reunite with his family, so the family simply moved to the backyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion where Zhuge Liang temporarily worked, so that he could take care of him nearby.
On this day, Yang sat under the porch, looking at the bare branches in a daze, she supported her arms, and laughed silly from time to time. She was not sitting in the backyard house at the moment, but was injured on the steps of the front yard of the Prime Minister's Mansion. The little officials who often come and go don't know her, and when they see her sitting back, they laugh that this is a stupid girl, sitting outside in the cold.
I can see the prime minister again. In this deep winter season, she traveled thousands of miles from Chengdu to the cold and bleak Chang'an.
The moment he learned that Zhuge Liang was safe, Yang's heart flew out. No, her heart has never remained in her body, and she has always gone to the ends of the earth, following a person all the way north.
When she came to Chang'an, she rushed to the Prime Minister's Mansion excitedly, but found that the Prime Minister's Mansion was full of officials asking for instructions, and the small meeting hall was crowded with people, and she didn't even have a place to stay. I could only point my toes and look at Zhuge Liang from the gaps in many heads, and I couldn't even hand over the affectionate eyes.
I haven't seen him for a few months, he seems to be even thinner, I don't know if the old cough problem is really better, whether he still works so late every day, and does the medicine prescribed by the doctor take it on time?
She rubbed her numb knee, she had been sitting under the porch for two hours. Every day she came to sit under this corridor, not for anything else, just to see him a few more times from afar, and to make up for the months she hadn't seen each other. This sitting is like taking root, and it doesn't move half a step.
The wind is blowing.
Time passed in the cycle of the seasons, memories reappeared, and those once familiar faces suddenly flooded into my heart, and they ran towards her in the vast sky, and the cheerful laughter embraced her like warm sunshine.
"Dad, mother, are you okay over there?"
Her name is Yang Lian, Zi Yu Niang, and she is a descendant of the Yang family of Hongnong. Hongnong Yang's three princes, is a famous family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Taiwei Yang Biao, and Yang Xiu, a famous scholar, are all from Hongnong Yang. Yang Lian has received a good education since he was a child, but it is a pity that the war started and his lives were devastated. In order to avoid trouble, the parents moved the family to Jingzhou, Taipingzhou County, which was ruled by Liu Biao at that time.
In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao went south, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao died of illness, and the second son Liu Cong surrendered without a fight after ascending the throne. Liu Bei, the ancestor of Jingzhou, wanted to retreat to Jiangling to continue the resistance, and many people in Jingzhou heard that Cao Cao was a demon who had slaughtered 100,000 people in Xuzhou to vent his anger, so many people in Jingzhou took refuge in Liu Bei, and as many as 100,000 people were willing to flee with Liu Bei. Yang Lian's parents were also among them, and they joined the wave of flight with the young Yang Lian.
In September, Cao Cao heard the news of Liu Bei's escape and was afraid that Liu Bei would occupy Jiangling first, so he sent the world's elite tigers and leopards to ride 5,000 to attack Jiangling and catch up with Liu Bei at Changban Slope in Dangyang.
A sword and blood, the tiger and leopard rode like a whirlwind wantonly slashed Liu Beijun's soldiers and civilians, for a while, the cry shook the sky, corpses were all over the field, and blood flowed all over the ground.
Yang Lian will never forget the devil-like eyes of the tiger and leopard rider. Daddy and Niang guarded her tightly, and she watched as the long knife of the tiger and leopard rode across Daddy's neck, and blood splattered Lao Gao and Lao Gao. She stood helplessly beside her father's body and cried, I don't know how long she cried, she was exhausted from crying, but unfortunately she was running for her life everywhere, and no one noticed her young her. It is as if an inconspicuous piece of sand between heaven and earth will be submerged in this vast desert of history at any time.
That's when he appeared.
He rode a high-headed white horse, dressed in white, with a lupine scarf, fluttering like a fairy. Although it was a bit embarrassing to run all the way, the sweat and dust on his face couldn't hide his handsome face. He only glanced at Yang Lian with his spare eyes, and then immediately turned the horse's head and ran to her side. He jumped off the horse and reached out to pick her up. Yang Lian clearly remembered that the sun was shining behind him, and his body was glowing with white light, this light was so warm and dazzling, illuminating her young and helpless heart.
"Don't cry child, it's okay, I'll protect you." His voice was so gentle that she miraculously stopped crying and sat on the horse's back in his arms. His arms are as warm as his, and the young Yang Lian doesn't understand the sinister nature of the world, but she knows it ignorantly, and from this moment on, she doesn't have to be afraid, because the man next to her will guard her. Young feelings also began to sprout in my heart.
After returning from Changbanpo, Zhuge Liang handed Yang Lian over to Huang Yueying. Huang Yueying also likes this hard-working child very much, but because Zhuge Liang's family is very frugal and rarely servants, Yang Lian often does some maidservant work on weekdays, but the couple always treats her as their own family.
Although Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying are very affectionate after marriage, because Zhuge Liang has a lot of government affairs, he often forgets to sleep and eat, Huang Yueying has to take care of Zhuge Liang's daily life, but also independently support the portal, which is very hard. The two only gave birth to a daughter Zhuge Guo many years after marriage, Huang Yueying injured her body again during childbirth, and the doctor said that it would be difficult to have children in the future. Zhuge Liang held his beloved wife's hand and felt extremely distressed, and made up his mind not to raise it again. Just do it, and a few years later, he inherited his adopted son Zhuge Qiao from his brother Zhuge Jin. Huang Yueying knew that Zhuge Liang was unwilling to break the oath he had kept, but he was already difficult to have children, and he must not let the Zhuge family cut off the incense.
Although she was reluctant to share her husband with other women, Huang Yueying was still "atmospheric". After thinking about it, I found that the maid Yang Lian has grown up now, and she is slim and elegant, and she has the demeanor of a lady, so Huang Yueying made the decision to let Zhuge Liang marry Yang Lian as a concubine. Zhuge Liang was so shocked that his jaw was about to fall at first, and he insisted on not complying, but what Huang Yueying decided had to do, Zhuge Liang was really stubborn, so he had to agree. After Yang Lian learned the news, although she was very ashamed, she was also very happy in her heart, and finally had the opportunity to "repay" her benefactor. In the same year, 20-year-old Yang Lian gave birth to a son, Zhuge Zhan, Zhuge Liang was 47 years old and had a son, and he loved him very much. The following year, his adopted son Zhuge Qiao fell ill and died early, Zhuge Liang was grief-stricken, and immediately established his only son Zhuge Zhan as his son-in-law.
For Huang Yueying, Yang Lian has always been grateful, she is very grateful for her tolerance and generosity, she does not want to be separated between Huang Yueying and Zhuge Liang's feelings, so she is determined to be an invisible existence. Even though she has been married to a concubine, Yang Lian has never asked for fame, and has always played the role of a maid in front of people, and even continued to call Zhuge Liang the prime minister, and handed Zhuge Zhan to Huang Yueying to raise according to the custom of his sister-in-law, so that he could call Huang Yueying his mother, and he was willing to be an "aunt". Therefore, except for a few important ministers who have close contacts with Zhuge Liang's family, most officials know little about Yang Lian's identity, and the outside world has always thought that Zhuge Zhan is Huang Yueying's biological son.
In the past eight years, Zhuge Liang has been busy with the Northern Expedition and has taken little care of his family, but Yang Lian does not mind at all, she has always been grateful to God for giving her Zhuge Zhan as the best "repay" gift. But she gradually found that she didn't seem to be so simple as repaying the favor to the man in front of her. Especially when she learned the news that Zhuge Liang was seriously ill, the whole person couldn't wait to fly to him immediately, bear those illnesses on his behalf, and be willing to die on his behalf. Only then did she realize that before she knew it, she had already fallen in love with the man she was destined to live with.
Every smile and every sadness tugged at her heartstrings, and when he was out on the expedition, her heart never stayed on her body, and she was always worried about him. Without seeing his smile or hearing his voice, Yang's life felt as monotonous as losing color, and only his presence could make her world colorful. In this world, he is her only one, of course, and Zhan'er.
Yang Lian slowly took out a brocade handkerchief from her arms, embroidered a pink lotus flower on the side, and tattooed three juanxiu characters next to the flower. She carefully held the Jinpa in the palm of her hand, her fingers lightly rubbing the words, looking at it stupidly, and smiling.
"What is so fascinating to see!" There was a soft laugh from behind, and a small hand tapped her left shoulder.
Yang Lian was startled, as soon as she turned around, the handkerchief in her hand was quickly snatched away!
She was startled, turned around, and found that it was Zhuge Guo who grabbed the handkerchief, shaking his head and smiling at her. Zhuge Guo and her are seven or eight years apart, and they are not serious on weekdays, and they often joke with this aunt. Compared with a serious mother, Yang Lian, who is obviously of the same age, makes Zhuge Guo feel closer and interesting.
"Oops, give it back to me!" Yang Lian was so anxious that she screamed and jumped, and hurriedly went up to grab it.
"Look, don't be so stingy!" Zhuge Guo blocked Yang Lian's arm on the one hand, and shook his handkerchief to look at it carefully, "Hey, how can there be a father's name on this, and a lotus flower ........" Facing the bright light, the three big characters next to the handkerchief flower are clearly visible, Zhuge Liang.
Although Zhuge Guo is only seventeen or eighteen years old, he has gradually understood personnel recently. I saw her sigh, stared at Yang Lian and said, "This is what you did for your father." Since you have a heart, why don't you go in and give it to him, why are you sitting here? ”
Yang Lian was shy and anxious, "The prime minister has a lot of opportunities, I can't bear to go in and disturb, it's enough to take a look here....... Oops, you pay me back. Yang Lian snatched back the Jinpa, stuffed it into his arms, and left in a hurry.
Zhuge Liang in the house raised his head and smiled, this stupid girl finally went back.