Chapter 23 Cheng's Eight Guards
Miao County, who left the official residence of the eldest grandson, couldn't hide the pride in his heart, and even had a smile in the corner of his eyes. Even so, he had to pretend to be humble and say goodbye to the steward who sent him out of the house. When he turned around, a smile bloomed on his face. It seems that Lord Eldest Sun's praise is much more useful than Lord Jing Zhaoyin's.
And in the official residence behind Miao County Order, the eldest grandson Wuji frowned and looked at a document. When the butler cautiously came in to report back, he hummed absentmindedly and waved his hand to let him stand down. The eldest grandson Wuji is now just over the age of doubt, and it is the time when he is in the prime of life. He is also in a high position, and he is honored and favored by the saints, and he is unparalleled in the dynasty.
How all this came about, the eldest grandson Wuji knows very well. has his own efforts, but it is inseparable from his sister, who is the supreme of the harem. The friendship between their brother and sister and His Majesty, his sister occupies too much weight, and the three thousand beauties of the harem are incomparable to the status of the queen in His Majesty's heart.
During this time, after the queen gave birth to the little princess, she was always weak, and it caused old diseases, and the imperial doctor tried every means to recuperate and treat her, but there was no improvement. His Majesty the Emperor was worried, and he was worried from time to time, looking for doctors and medicines. Fortunately, Sun Simiao returned to Beijing, and the queen's condition has improved a lot in the past few days. He went to visit every day, and he didn't know how the queen's illness was healing. What's more, there is also the beauty of the matter. The young man whom the queen entrusted him to find, he sent people to search everywhere but there were no clues, and he didn't want to be sent to him today by a county order that he casually promoted.
The trouble the boy had caused was nothing to him. Beating a junior in the Wei family who has no official position is not a matter at all. However, he was not ready to let Chang'an County let Li Luoyun go like this.
Grace Chart. The royal family's kindness is not to be owed, and if it is owed, it must be repaid. The queen was anxious to find Li Luoyun, just to return this kindness. However, the effect of Li Luoyun's medicinal wine is too great. That gourd has been used up, and although the queen's body is no longer in serious trouble, it is not all good after all, right? What's more, the queen is not the only one who is not in good health. Princess Lizhi, and Your Majesty......
Therefore, it is not Li Luoyun who asks for grace at the moment. It's that the royal family still has something to ask for Li Luoyun. But because of this, he can't be let go easily.
The eldest grandson Wuji twisted his green beard, feeling that Wei Yi was a little too childish. Wei Ting suffered a little loss in the court, and he stopped too quickly. This Li Luoyun was in too light trouble, and saving him now was not enough for him to remember the kindness of the eldest grandson's family, and then willingly dedicate the medicine and wine.
But he has already surrendered to prison and is in prison, and this case is a heavy sentence...... The verdict is too biased, not to mention Your Majesty, the imperial historians probably won't agree. Do you want to report this matter to the queen? With my sister's temperament, it's more likely that she doesn't pay attention to it. For the time being, he can only let Chang'an County imprison him for a few more days.
People's hearts are ghostly, good and evil are at odds. Miao County Ling reported to the eldest grandson because of his kindness to Luo Yun. The eldest grandson Wuji has a desire for Luo Yun, but let malice go first. If the cause and effect of this matter were known to the emperor and empress, it would have been a different result. The minds of big people are always so unpredictable.
The mind of the big man and the little man can't guess it, and if it does, there is nothing they can do. The love of the little people, under the shroud of the general trend, although there are more twists and turns, but also more sincere. Of course, the true love in the world is not limited to the love between men and women. In addition to lovers, there are ...... Comrade in arms.
The car of the Patriotic Mansion drove into the city. The red clothes still rode beside Mrs. Li's car, but in front of the car and rode to open the way, in addition to the Ministry of the Guogong Mansion, there was also Li Zhenan. The carriage of the Li family followed, and Cheng Wu and the rest of the knights followed behind the convoy. The safari party was half as large as it had been in the morning, and it was still the same gate. The city gate guards naturally recognized Wei Guogong's carriage, although they felt strange, they didn't dare to check it, and let it go directly.
The convoy drove quietly through the city gate, and Cheng Mu's hand was stretched out in the carriage and pressed on Zhenyue's head. After passing through the city gate, it slowly loosened. The people of the Li family, who thought they were safe, had just breathed a sigh of relief, but they heard a shout from inside the urn city: "Whose carriage and horse are these?!" Why don't you see the inventory! The city gate order! ”
Li Zhenxin tightened his heart and reined in his mount to follow the prestige. I saw a team of people just coming from the city. The first six men rode on horses, all in armor and with swords at their waists. A group of soldiers who followed behind him were also armed. The person who shouted was riding on a yellow horse, and although his face under the helmet was rough, he had no beard under his chin, and his eyes were bright but green, but he was a young general.
As Li Zhen'an stationed on the horse, the convoy also stopped. The five people beside the young general noticed Li Zhen'an, who was holding a stick, and they all took a step forward vigilantly, faintly blocking the young man behind him. His hands were on the hilt of his sword.
Without waiting for the news to come, the city gate Ling ran to the young general's horse in a panic to report it. As soon as the curtain of Mrs. Li's car opened, Hongfu stood up, holding a short dagger behind her back, and she didn't know what she was cutting in the car before. Hongfu looked at it, only a slight sweep to recognize the person, and said with a smile: "Who should I be so impartial, it turned out to be Captain Cheng, Cheng Lvshuai." The juniors in the family don't know you, and they don't know that Cheng Jianmen is doing this duty, so they are offended. ”
As soon as Hong Fu stood up, some people immediately recognized this famous tiger lady as the Duchess of the dynasty, and couldn't help but cry in her heart, how did her own son provoke her. Fortunately, this Captain Cheng is rough, but his heart is not rough, Fang Yi recognized the Duchess of Weiguo, and without waiting for Hongfu to finish speaking, he turned over and dismounted, regardless of the armor on his body, he knelt backwards with a hula sound, and bowed his head: "I don't know Taishan with my eyes, I don't know if it's Mrs. Li's frame, and I ask my aunt to punish me!" ”
The rest of the knights also dismounted and saluted, and the red breeze glanced at Cheng Chumo, who was carrying a bear on his back, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that he had a virtue with his old man, but he was not angry, and waved his hand and said: "That's it, you even called your aunt, what else will I punish you." Besides, if you say that the fault lies in my family, what is the crime of you acting impartially? If I really punish you and let the imperial history know, won't there be any reason to participate in my husband's play? Hey, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and open the carriage for Captain Cheng to check, what time is it, and you can't go back home! ”
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" Cheng Chumo got up from the ground and came to the front of the car, originally with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but at this time, he laughed until his eyes were almost a line, "Auntie, don't hit my little nephew in the face, if I check my aunt's carriage, my old man can break my legs when I turn around." Those noisy imperial histories, love to say anything, Wei Guogong and his aunt are all heroes of the horses, why care about their chirp. ”
"Hmph~" What a city house is Hongfu, how can he be amused by Cheng Xiaozi's betrayal, and glanced at Cheng Chumo with a straight face: "Your father loves to break your legs, what does it have to do with me?" But if Yushi sues me for black makeup and discredits my husband, I won't do it! City Gate Order! Why are you stunned, don't check it soon! ”
Cheng Chumo was so frightened by Hongfu's glance that he trembled, and after listening to Hongfu's words, cold sweat flowed down his helmet. When I was young, I saw the power of this Mrs. Li with my father in the military camp, which left a deep psychological shadow. What's more, his father Lu Guogong admired Wei Guogong's military strategy very much, although Wei Guogong had always maintained neutrality in the past and never belonged to the same camp, but he was deeply admired by the soldiers in the army. At present, the Wei Guo Gong is fighting outside, and Lu Guo Gong has already advised that the Wei Guo Gong Mansion should do more to facilitate it. He and his younger brother are a prison captain, a Jinwuwei brigade commander, do not raise their bodies, in this position, this Chang'an City wants to use the big and small things of the soldiers, and the two brothers speak better than Jing Zhaoyin's orders.
"Auntie! Aunt Hong! Grandma! If it weren't for the fact that the armor was really unable to kneel, Cheng Chumo would never care about the face of so many people watching here. Grabbing the sleeves of the red whisk with both hands, Cheng Chumo looked up at the red whisk on the wheel miserably like a hound abandoned by his master: "Auntie, my nephew is wrong." The nephew shouldn't talk too much, it's because the nephew doesn't have long eyes, and he doesn't see the emblem on the car, so you have spared your nephew a lot......"
The corner of Hongfu's eyes glanced at Cheng Shimo, and he sneered at his pretended expression. shook his sleeves lightly, but he didn't think that Cheng Chumo grabbed it too tightly, but he didn't shake it off. The phoenix glared: "Don't let go yet!" I don't have any snacks for you! ”
was told about his childhood troubles by Hongfu, Cheng Chu let go of his hand silently, and said embarrassedly: "Auntie, don't be angry." ”
"Humph!" Hongfu turned his head and ignored him, this kid had learned his father's Laipi to be cheap, and his mother, who was born in the Boling Cui clan, had long been too lazy to discipline him, and instead went to train the second Cheng Zhiliang. "City Gate Order, since your prison captain refuses to check the car, then Mrs. Ben has to report it to you personally. Listen, I went out of the city today to pick up six distant relatives of the Li family. By the way, I hit a number of wild pheasant rabbits, but there are no other goods. By the way......" Red Whisk glanced at Cheng Chumo playfully, and asked teasingly: "There is still a tiger pulling a head in the ox cart behind, do you want to test it?" ”
"Uh......" Cheng Chumo dared to test, he was not afraid of the tiger, but who knew if this was the pit dug for him by Hongfu, and said with a shy smile: "No need to test, no need to test." It's not that my aunt's big tiger and little nephew haven't seen it. My aunt took it on a safari? It's a pity that I couldn't see that style, so sorry, next time my aunt hunts again, remember to call my little nephew. ”
"Hmph, you just continue to regret it." The red whisk flicked his sleeves on Cheng Chumo's head, turned around and sat down in the carriage, and shouted: "Go home!" ”
Cheng Chumo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and stepped aside to send him off: "Congratulations to Mrs.!" Seeing the coachman whipping the horse, the chariot drove slowly. Suddenly, I heard someone ask, "Childe is ...... Is it a young man? Is it the eldest prince? ”
"Huh?" Cheng Chumo frowned, and turned his head to see who was so rude. saw a seven-foot man riding on a horse, looking him up and down with surprise on his face. "Who are you? Do you know the general? ”
Cheng Wu turned over and dismounted, abandoned the reins of the horse, and walked quickly to Cheng Chumo. Seeing this, several of Cheng Chumo's guards also quickly leaned over to their son-in-law. Cheng Mu drove the ox cart behind, and had to stop again when he saw this.
"Master Mo, no, Captain Cheng!" Cheng Wu walked to the front of him and said a military etiquette, his face was a little flushed with excitement, and he asked nervously in his voice: "Captain Cheng, Ling Zun is Lu Guogong Cheng biting gold, General Cheng?" ”
Cheng Chumo frowned and was silent, and a guard behind him stepped forward and scolded angrily: "That man, how can you talk nonsense about my general's name!" You can't find death! ”
"No, no, no, there is no intention of offending the national government in the next, in the next...... Alas! Childe doesn't remember where he is? Cheng Wu waved his hand again and again, and he didn't know how to explain it in a hurry.
"Have I seen you?" Cheng Chumo was also very curious, if he wasn't sincerely offended, this man would be an old man if he could call out his father's old name, but why didn't he have any impression. Just when Cheng Chumo was puzzled, he only heard a steady voice behind him, and said with doubts and disbelief: "Xiao Wu? Is it Xiao Wu? ”
Cheng Wu followed the sound and met the eyes of the guard who showed a trace of white hair under the helmet, and was instantly stunned, and muttered tremblingly: "Second brother? ”
There was no longer any suspicion, and the guards who were called the second brother by Cheng Wu jumped up and hugged Cheng Wu, and tears flowed down the scars in the corners of his eyes: "Little Five, Little Five!" We all thought you were dead! Where have you been all these years! Where have you been? ”
Cheng Wu has long been in tears, and the tough guy who has only shed blood without tears for many years has released his emotions for a while, crying like a child. His arms were hugged tightly, and he shouted "second brother" one after another, and he couldn't say anything else.
Cheng Chumo was taken aback by the reaction of his own guards. This old guard had been a guard since his grandfather's time, and then followed his father to fight all over the world, no matter how difficult the battle was, he was by his father's side, and now he was almost famous, and he was in pain, but he refused to retire in the Grange. His father couldn't help it, so he asked the old guards to start following him. The old guard has been fighting horses all his life, not to mention his martial arts, and he is also very familiar with the affairs of the military, which has helped him greatly, and he respects him no matter where he is on weekdays......
"Uncle Yi, is he ...... Uncle Wu? Cheng Chumo carefully observed Cheng Wu's eyebrows in disbelief, but Cheng Wu was crying at this time, he was still young, and he was not impressed, where could he still put together the impression of the appearance.
"Loyalty, righteousness, benevolence and filial piety, martial arts and prosperity. Cheng Jiajun's eight personal guards, over the years, I always thought that only me and the sixth brother were left, but I didn't expect you to be still there! No more brothers, no more brothers! Our brothers, brothers! Uncle Yi, Cheng Yi laughed loudly as he spoke, with tears in his laughter, which was sad, and the soldiers who heard his words all mourned from their hearts, and for a while, I don't know how many people had red eyes.
Cheng Chumo no longer had any doubts, his face was solemn, he clasped his fists with both hands, regardless of the armor and hindered him, knelt down on his knees and saluted solemnly to the two veterans who hugged and cried, and said: "Cheng Chumo greets Uncle Wu!" ”
Cheng Wu was startled, hurriedly let go of the second brother, and went to Fu Cheng with Cheng Yi to help Cheng Chumo. "Childe is tormented, how can the villain afford it!" Cheng Chumo didn't get up, and said stiffly: "My father said that if it weren't for the desperate fight between Uncle Wu and Uncle Long, Chu Mo and his mother would have been in the chaos of the army. Uncle Wu's life-saving grace deserves a silent bow everywhere. As he spoke, he was going to kowtow to Cheng Wu. Cheng Wu dared to let him knock down, and used his strength to lift Cheng Chumo up from the ground.
Cheng Chumo couldn't, so he had to stand up straight, and he didn't forget to praise: "Uncle Wu has a lot of strength." ”
Cheng Yi said with a smile when he heard this: "The young general doesn't remember, when the number of Xiaowu and Xiaoba was the greatest, the general asked them to each use a forty-pound mountain axe as a weapon, and no one dared to be in front!" After speaking, he suddenly held Cheng Wu's wrist excitedly, and asked with an expectant face: "Xiao Wu, you are still alive, what about Xiao Ba?" Is Hachi still around? ”
Cheng Wu was sad when he heard this, and the shadow of the nightmare that had lingered for many years raised his brows, and he couldn't cry for a while, and said intermittently: "Eighth brother...... The eighth brother is in my ...... in order to save me Before my eyes...... By...... Random knife ...... Split up...... Woowoowoo......"
Cheng Yi sighed, prepared in his heart, stepped forward and patted Cheng Wu's shoulder, silently comforting. He didn't know how to this kind of sadness, and why didn't he have to watch his old brothers die in front of him one by one in those years. "At least you are still alive, and the eighth brother did not die in vain. Not in vain! Die as you deserve, die as you deserve......"
"Xiao Wu is useless...... Crawling out of the eighth brother's broken corpse can't let the eighth brother be buried in peace. Xiao Wu escaped death and never wanted to fight and kill people again. Xiao Wu became a deserter, and Xiao Wu had no face to go back to see the general. "The past that has been pressed in the bottom of my heart for more than ten years, today in this Yanping Gate where I met by chance, in front of the people who came and went, in front of the ears of the two teams of 100 soldiers who were about to hand over the post, and his wife and children by his side, Cheng Wu finally said the mental obstacle that had tormented him for countless nights. At this time, to be able to see the life and death brothers of the year again, he had already let go of everything in his heart, no matter what others said about him, he didn't care. Because no matter what, he has a home in Li's village on Yunshan. It's no longer the helplessness it was more than a decade ago.
"Xiao Wu, you are alive. You're alive! That's enough, that's enough! Cheng Yi grabbed Cheng Wu's shoulders and used the strength of his hands to tell this man whose mind was destroyed by the battlefield that no one would blame him. That kind of escape from death, such a purgatory battlefield, it is a fluke to survive. All possibilities, which soldier is willing to fight in battle for the rest of his life, licking blood from the knife edge.
"Loyalty, righteousness, benevolence and filial piety, martial arts and prosperity...... Cheng Zhijie always compares you with her husband's Kunlun slave, and always sighs with us What if you are all alive, but unfortunately Cheng Yi is old, Cheng Yun, archery skills are okay. I didn't expect you to be one of the eight guards, but I was blindsided. ”
This was quite polite, but it also broke the sad atmosphere in the room. Everyone followed the sound and looked, and saw that Hongfu walked out of the Xuanche again at some point, stood aside, and looked at Cheng Wu indifferently. Seeing everyone coming, Cheng Wu also wiped away his tears and continued in a cold voice: "On the battlefield, life and death are fateful, and luck is impermanent. Cheng Yi is right, if you go on the battle formation, it's good to come back alive. Your son is so old, why can't he see through this? It's almost curfew right now, so if you want to catch up, you should change the time and place. ”
Cheng Chumo reacted, looked around, but it was too late, and there were not many people in and out of the city. Their team of soldiers, a convoy, did not block the city gates. He was originally leading the team to change the guard shift, but at this time, all the soldiers were gathered here, and many soldiers were sad and were secretly wiping their tears. But fortunately, so many soldiers surrounded the people, and did not attract onlookers.
"That's what Madame said! Uncle Yi, Uncle Wu. It was not early, so I handed in the errand first, took Uncle Wu back to rest, prepared the wine and food silently, and the two uncles got drunk again to comfort the feelings of concern for many years. ”
Cheng Yi grabbed Cheng Wu's arm: "What the young general said is true." Xiao Wu will come with me, and I will stay in the gatehouse tonight, and our brothers will catch up with the old days. General Cheng is now supervising the change of guard in the camp outside the city, and the sixth child is also following, tomorrow we will go to see the general, and get drunk again! ”
Cheng Wu nodded excitedly and agreed, he could see the general and his old brother again, and he left everything behind. Cheng Mu saw that his father was about to leave with Uncle Cheng Yi leading the horse, so he hurriedly chased after him and shouted, "Father! Father, where are you going? ”
Hearing his son's voice, Cheng Wu came to his senses, remembered the purpose of this trip, remembered that Luo Yun was still in prison, hesitated for a while, and muttered not knowing how to speak. Cheng Yi turned around when he heard the sound, saw Cheng Mu's eyes light up, and asked Cheng Wu while looking up and down: "This is your son?" It's exactly like you were back then! Well...... It's just that I've lost some weight, and I'll follow my uncle to eat more meat to make up for it in the future, and I'm a warrior again! ”
"Second brother, this is the dog Cheng Mu. Mu'er, come and meet your Uncle Yi! Cheng Wu beckoned Cheng Mu to come over and kowtow. Cheng Mu honestly walked over and knelt down, kowtowed to Cheng Yi and said, "Cheng Mu greets Uncle Yi." ”
"Well, good boy. Hurry up. Cheng Yi stretched out his hand to help Cheng Mu up, pinched Mu'er's arm, nodded with satisfaction, and said to Cheng Wu: "I didn't expect your son to be so old, life flies so fast." By the way, what about the child? What about siblings? ”
"Oh, his mother is here, in the car. Su Mei ......" Cheng Wu turned around and was about to say hello, but saw that Su Mei had been standing next to the car at some point, but she didn't come. Seeing him, he bent over and saluted: "My brother-in-law has seen my brother." ”
"Good! Good! Xiao Wu, your family is fine! Come with me, and the general will be glad to see you! Cheng Yihuan's white beard was cocked, the scars and wrinkles on his face were also stretched, and he pulled Cheng Wu with one hand and Cheng Mu with the other, and kept saying yes.
"Wait!" Red Whisk waited patiently for them to finish recognizing their relatives, seeing that the sky was about to get dark, and if they didn't leave, they might have to be curfew. Seeing that Cheng Yi was going to take Cheng Wu's family away, he finally couldn't help but open his mouth to stop it. "Cheng Wu can go back with you. They must come home with me! ”
Everyone in the Cheng family was stunned when they heard this, and Cheng Chumo knew that Hongfu was not watching the excitement if he was stranded, but how could this Cheng Wu family have anything to do with the Weiguo Mansion? If there is trouble, he cannot ignore it. So he stepped forward and hugged his fists and asked, "Madam, I don't know ...... my Uncle Wu and the Weiguo Mansion."
Hongfu waved his hand impatiently, pointed at Cheng Wu and said, "You don't know about this matter, and it has nothing to do with you." They themselves know! Cheng Wu don't forget the purpose of coming to Chang'an. ”
"This ......" Cheng Chu looked at Cheng Wu silently, it seems that Uncle Wu's family did not come to Chang'an to find his father, but for another reason: "If Uncle Wu has anything difficult, tell me, if I can't reach it, I still have a father." ”
"That's right, Xiao Wu, if there is anything to go back with me to see the general, you have your own general to call the shots." Cheng Yi didn't dare to contradict Hongfu, but seeing Cheng Wu's hesitant look, he guessed that something must have happened to him.
"How dare you bother the general any more. Childe, second brother rest assured. I didn't have any trouble, but the thing that my family promised Mrs. Li was not finished yet. Cheng Wu turned around and saw Li Zhenan riding on a horse and waved his hand to him, signaling that he could leave, looking at Li Guangxiong's carriage without any reaction, he knew it, turned to Cheng Yi and said, "I'll go with my second brother to meet the general first." Let my wife and children go back with Mrs. Li first. I'll take them to kowtow to the general another day. ”
Cheng Yi nodded, and Cheng Chumo didn't say much when he saw this. Hongfu turned around and returned to the carriage, Cheng Mu said goodbye to his father, and returned to the car with his mother, and the two parties left separately. At this time, the first door drumming had just sounded. Cheng Chumo hurriedly wrote down a warrant and asked a personal guard to go back with the convoy sent to the Duke of Weiguo, otherwise I am afraid that there will really be a curfew in the Imperial History Mansion.
Hongfu leaned on the cushion and talked to Lang Xuan, saying that he didn't expect Cheng Wu, who was looking at his duty, to have such a past experience. Seeing these soldiers who have survived a hundred battles, Hongfu is even more concerned about the husband who is fighting in the distance, his eyes are blurred, if the night sky is dark, only thoughts and memories are like stars twinkling.
The carriage fell silent, and even Rong Hyun didn't have the heart to play with Qin Hyun, and the wheels rolled and drove in the direction of home with the sound of horses' hooves. I just finished listening to an iron-blooded tragedy that belongs to a warrior. The upheaval of Gone with the Wind, the love of children is long...... In front of the gate of the Patriotic Mansion, the tune that belongs to the past, with the return of the former people, is like a desolate Qiang flute, which makes people's hearts sad.
Those who have stories will not be able to sleep tonight......