Chapter 10: Looking Up at the Stars
The handsome tent was in a mess, but Zuo Shen, the initiator of all this, sat leisurely on the empty handsome chair in front of him, and drank the tea served by Zuo Dou from the side table with Erlang's legs crossed.
Zuo Shen sipped the fragrant tea, squinted his eyes, shook his head slowly, and looked like an old man who was enjoying it.
Zuo Dou looked at his old man's style again, and he wanted to talk about what he had just done several times.
Zuo Shen glanced at it with his spare eyes, and became angry when he looked at his only eldest son's twisting and pinching of his responsibility. There is also helplessness, this eldest son is also dozens of years old, and he can't change this character.
In this life, relying on the shadow of Zuo Shen, being the commander of this 3,000 battalion in his career has already come to an end.
The military has always been a place where seniority, origin, and military merit are important.
Among them, the background is the most despised, relying on the parents and ancestors Yu Yin, the most people are respecting you in the face of the past achievements of the elders, but they may not respect you in their hearts.
Zuo Dou has been in the army for decades, and under the shadow of Zuo Shen, he climbed to the position of a mere 3,000 battalion commander.
"Say whatever you want! What can't you say here? Zuo Shen was impatient and scolded lightly.
Zuo Dou opened his mouth first, didn't know how to speak, and hesitated for a while before saying.
"Father, why are you talking about Yong in front of everyone just now, especially in front of King Wei... The change of Yongguan? ”
The voice has no confidence, in front of Zuo Shen, he is like a child who is afraid of the majesty of his father, not even his own son, and his uncompetitive son still has the courage to snort a few times in front of him from time to time.
Seeing this, Zuo Shen put down his hand to drink tea to his abdomen, and sighed with hatred: "Dou'er! The change of Yongguan, the collapse of the first emperor in front of the battle, is the shame of my Great Qin for a hundred years! Humiliation of the warriors! Our generation of soldiers should take the shame of a bloody Yongguan as their own responsibility. Look at the generals present at that time, how can they have half of the martial arts courage and courage?
This time, the Xia Liao coalition army broke through the nine towns of Daqin, and half of the thirty-six states of the nine towns in the border area were occupied, which is very similar to the change in Yongguan back then!
Barbarians? Western Xia? Liaobang? This is all a hill of raccoon dogs, when the barbarians went south, in addition to the army to invade the Shanhai Town bordering the desert, there was also a big scattered pass in Liao State all the way! Directly hit the Yongguan town where the holy car is located, and the holy lord sent the four guards of Yongguan to help, and Yongguan was empty! The sound of striking from both sides made the city of Yongguan break and the mountain collapsed!
The barbarians retreated, but the Liao soldiers committed it again! When did the barbarians who drank blood also learn the art of war of attacking the east and moving the tiger away from the mountain?
It must be the Liao State behind it! This time, we will make Liaogou's blood debt repayable! To pay tribute to the spirit of the emperor in the sky! ...... with the souls of your five younger brothers."
In the end, Zuo Shen's face was hideous, his eyes were cold, and his murderous aura was overflowing, and Zuo Dou was terrified on the side...
The late autumn in the north is cold and windy, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the shadows of the trees are swaying.
In the mountains and forests not far away, there are all kinds of birdsong from time to time, and occasionally a few wolf howls.
Poignant and deep, penetrating people's hearts.
After leaving the tent, Xia Zongxiao did not directly return to the tent that was tightly guarded by the three guards.
Instead, he came alone to the tidal flat on the bank of the Yuzhou River.
The moonlight is sprinkled on the Yuzhou River, the water is drenched, and the microwave ripples.
Xia Zongxiao sat on a mossy beach, with an old locust tree with a crooked neck behind him for him to lean on.
The bark of the trunk is rough, the leaves are beginning to wither and fall, and the branches are swaying and rattling.
A dead leaf happened to fall on Xia Zongxiao's palm, and the moonlight fell on Xia Zongxiao through the sparse branches. Xia Zongxiao held the leaf and looked at it, his brows furrowed.
Because Xia Zongxiao wanted to blow the wind alone, Xiao Dizi and Sun Shilu and the few guards who followed behind them could only hide behind a few other locust trees not far away, carefully exposing half of their bodies and looking at their prince worriedly.
After being ordered to aid the north, their prince seemed to be a different person.
Stubborn, nonsense, and willful, these shortcomings suddenly disappeared from King Wei's body without a trace.
It turned out that the one who could howl for three days even by rubbing a little skin, and now he has been riding a horse for days, and he has never screamed when his crotch is bleeding.
It turned out that the prince who was so picky about his food every day that he even ate only a young cow and fried the meat would be thrown out when he was old. Now he eats the same military rations as these rough men every day, but King Wei's share is more delicate and attentive.
It turned out that the king of Wei, who was not diligent and did not distinguish between grains and grains, put on armor every day and practiced military skills with them from time to time, and his sword skills were a little fancy.
It turned out that the one who had to be served everywhere he went, and there were groups of slaves, and this expedition had the emperor's holy decree charter, and he only brought the little dice and the concubine Liu, and the Liu family was still the queen mother when she learned that King Wei had not brought a servant, and he was specially ordered to bring it with him to serve.
What happened to King Wei, they were worried in their hearts, this was not King Wei, who had lived with them for sixteen years, their net worth, life, wealth, honor and disgrace were all tied to Xia Zongxiao, so they couldn't worry about it......
Xia Zongxiao leaned on the old tree and looked up at the starry sky.
In his previous life, Xia Zongxiao's life was miserable, his father was unkind and his mother was unkind, and no one wanted this oil bottle when the two divorced. He lived with the old man at a young age, and then the old man died, and he had to know how to take care of himself when he was a teenager.
Xia Zongxiao, who had never felt the love of his parents, felt the heartfelt love and meticulous care of his parents for his children for the first time after he was born.
Emperor Tailong and Empress Wei Qin Se and Ming, husband and wife are in love, rare in previous dynasties, and they finally got a son after six years of marriage.
After the birth of the royal prince, the emperor will generally be handed over to the special grandmother in the palace to take care of, and there is a special nurse for breastfeeding. In this way, the harem concubines who gave birth to the prince and the emperor will not be locked up by the child and have no time to serve the emperor.
But Queen Wei is different, she loves this little person who was born with a pink carving. A pair of dark and translucent little eyes full of curiosity hooked all of Empress Wei's thoughts.
Feed and serve by yourself, and take care of you every day. Every night in the dead of night, the little man cried because of hunger, and Emperor Tailong did not say anything at all, and often personally "served" the little man with Empress Wei.
When he was older, Emperor Tailong reviewed the chapter to deal with state affairs, and as soon as he took out his efforts, he came to accompany his son, and often let the young Xia Zongxiao ride on the "dragon head" to play, which made Xia Zongxiao, who had never experienced this, completely forget his experience of more than 20 years in another life.
Like a truly innocent child, quacking, innocent,
But all this came to an abrupt end on that bloody night, like a beautiful dream at the beginning and a terrible nightmare at the end.
When he woke up from his dream, the heavens and the earth changed color, the mountains collapsed and the ground cracked, and he was shattered, his father died and his mother died, and all the beauty he longed to cherish was scattered with the wind.
"This revenge is not avenged! Son of Man in vain! ”
His body and his identity determined that his chances of setting foot in the Northland in the future were numbered, and he had to seize this opportunity.
Xia Zongxiao clenched his hands tightly, his fingertips were white, his nails were broken in his palms without noticing, his expression was unprecedentedly solemn, and his scattered eyes revealed a light that had never been seen before.