Adventures in Heaven (novel) Zhang Baotong

Thinking about it, I became sleepy and tired, so I fell asleep in a daze. www.biquge.info When I woke up hungry, I realized that it was already early afternoon. So I got up and cooked myself some yam to eat. After eating, I didn't want to sleep anymore, so I went up to the top of the grassy slope and waited for me to come back. I don't know where I've gone, but I'm hoping that someone can talk to me and comfort me, like a misguided child, waiting for an adult to show me a way back.

In the evening, Bezecai came back, looking tired and depressed. I asked, "Where do you return?" He got off his horse and said, "Return from the king's house." When I heard this, I said, "My brother is not at fault, so why is he unhappy?" Beze said, "The king has made me a guard, and I must not fail to report this matter today." I sighed and thought to myself, I was afraid that I couldn't hide this matter, but he had to take the initiative to go to the palace to report it. What an honest and pedantic don't. So I asked, "What does the king mean?" "I want to beg the king to take the sword, to relieve me of my official position, to banish me to a desert island, and to serve three months of hard labor and then to return to the field." However, the king was generous and generous, and only said that this matter was all done by Yunbu alone, and he had nothing to do with me. ”

I was taken aback and asked, "The king has always been fair to people, how can you say that Yunbu is the only one who did this?" Beze whispered gloomily, saying, "Yunbu went to the palace earlier and resigned to the king, asking the king to banish him to a desert island and serve a year's imprisonment. However, when the king learned that he had defeated you three times unscathed, he banished him to a desert island and served three months' imprisonment. I was speechless for a moment, and my heart was stunned. Actually, it's all my fault. If I take a step back like Yunbu, I will never provoke Yunbu, Gna, and Beze to disgrace me. However, it has come to this point, and it is useless to regret it.

Early the next morning, I entered the palace alone. When I saw the king, I knelt down and begged him to punish me. The king was helpless, so he said, "I have not yet sinned against you, what should I do?" I said, "I provoked the duel, and Yun Bu repeatedly pushed me back, but I refused to let it go, and Yun Bu knocked me down three times, and did not harm me." The present king banished Yunbu to a desert island and served three months in prison, didn't he want me to lose face and dignity before I was guilty of my countrymen? The king smiled and said, "Longhua is a Chinese envoy of the Han Dynasty, and he has just arrived and does not understand civil law. Please Longhua don't worry about it. ”

I knew that "not knowing what was wrong" was an excuse for the king's refusal to punish me. Although I do not understand the laws of heaven and earth, it is not that right and wrong are not clear, because good and evil are the same everywhere in the world. I remember that from the age of two or three, people can distinguish between good and evil, good and bad, and by the age of four, they can distinguish between right and wrong. In this way, "I don't know what is wrong" is just a confusing argument. Although I disagree with this argument, I am sincerely grateful to the king for his affection and kindness to me.

When I came out of the secret room in the Great Hall, my heart was filled with gratitude and shame. Since we hunted with the king, I haven't seen Uker and Gengaki for a long time. So, I wanted to talk to them, and besides, I'm in a flustered mood right now, and it's hard to calm down. The guard's quarters were to the east of the Great Hall.

As I approached the door of the guard's quarters, I saw Uker and Gengaki carrying a beautiful young woman out of it. The woman carried a cloth bag with clothes on her arm. Gengaki carried a bag of bedding for the woman. Perhaps it was official business, but they only made a gesture with me, and said that they would escort this person to Pleasure Island now, and they would not be able to accompany him. I saw that the woman who was escorted was only sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in a gorgeous red suit, with a pink face, very attractive, I thought that this kind of woman would only break the law? He asked, "Why did this woman break the law and escort her to the island of pleasure?" Uker sighed and said, "It's not a crime, it's just that it's dampness." The disease only spreads to women, and the patient is cold and has no sexual intercourse, so he can only be sent to a desert island to fend for himself. ”

I followed Uker and they came to the edge of the little ferry behind the palace. The glacier flows from east to west, and just makes a big bend behind the palace, forming a wide lake, so it is called a glacial lake. The surface of the lake is about dozens of square kilometers, sparkling, horizontal like a mirror, and clearly reflects the blue sky and white clouds. There are three or five small islands in the lake, far from each other.

Uker pointed to the island on the other side and said, "This island is the island of pleasure." I asked, "Why is it called Pleasure Island?" Uker said, "Death row prisoners and damp patients are sent to this island, and there is no return, and they die in happiness." Therefore, it is called Pleasure Island. I said, "It's noon, so why don't you wait for the afternoon?" "At this time, the temperature is hot, and it is not easy to catch a cold. If it is escorted in the afternoon, the air in the river is cold, and it is easy to get cold and abdominal pain. ”

At this time, Gengaki had already prepared the boat and pushed the woman onto the boat. The woman, who probably knew where she was, wept miserably and refused to get on the boat, much to the dismay. Finally, Uker said earnestly to the woman, "We are also in public office, please forgive the girl." The woman knew she was helpless, so she cried bitterly and went up to the boat. Seeing the boat escorting the woman gradually rowing towards the island, I felt that I felt bad in my heart.

Along the way from the palace back to the small courtyard, the tragic scene of the little woman who was escorted to Pleasure Island has been reproducing in my mind. That woman was so handsome, so pitiful, so pitiful, and was banished to a desert island with no return. So, when I went to bed at night, I asked Beze, "Has my brother ever been to Pleasure Island?" When Don't hear it, you are very unhappy, and say, "How did Longhua say such evil words?" ”

Beze's words immediately made me realize that I was wrong. Pleasure Island is a banishment of death row inmates and damp patients, how can you ask such questions? In order not to misunderstand, I immediately explained, "Don't blame me, brother, I'm just asking if you've been to the island?" There is no other malice. Don Ze was still unhappy, and said, "I haven't been there, but if I have been, I'm afraid that I will already be under Jiuquan." I couldn't help but wonder even more, "Why do people say that when they enter the island, they will never return?" Could it be that there are man-eating beasts or demons haunting the island? ”

Beze thought for a moment and said, "I don't know, maybe the glacier is too wide and too cold to swim across." All I know is that the palace guards have taken the detainees to the island, but they have not been to the island. Then I asked, "Don't the people on the island know how to build ships?" As long as there are trees on the island, ships can be built. "Don't say, "I'm afraid that this mystery can't be explained even if it's a palace guard." ”

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