Adventures in Heaven (novel) Zhang Baotong

I took the arrow and went out into the field to dig the yac. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the artam has not reached the ripening season, and it is very small. I dug up a large handful and took it to the stream to wash it. The stream was cool and pleasant, and it flowed slowly with a clear laughter. Looking up, the clear full moon has reached the top of the mountain, and it is blurred in the mountains. The valley is bathed in dreamlike tranquility. After washing the yake, I went back to the hut and put the yake in a clay pot and boiled it on the fire. The princess was uncovering the bandage from the wound on her knee by the fire. I saw that she was afraid of pain, so I helped her slowly and gently remove the cloth, and then took it to the stream to wash it and put it by the fire to roast.

After a while, the water in the clay pot boiled, and the delicious aroma wafted through the heat. We were almost faint from hunger, and we couldn't resist the temptation of this aroma, so we tied the yam with a sharp branch and ate it. Although the cantaro is not yet ripe, we found it delicious and fragrant, and before it was cooked, half a jar of canned yam had been swept away. But we still don't feel full. The princess looked at the empty clay pot and begged me to get some more yam to cook and eat. I apologized and explained, "If you are hungry for too long, you can't eat too much at once, and your stomach will be ruined." When the princess heard me say this, she did not say any more, but moved the clay pot aside. After the meal, I re-dressed the princess's wounds with strips of dried cloth and told her to bed. The princess was too tired to do so, so she lay on her back and fell on the bed. I hurriedly pulled her out of bed and told her to strip naked before going to sleep. The princess thought the quilt was too dirty and refused to take off her clothes. I told her that there might be fleas and lice on the bed and quilt, and that the wet clothes in the morning were not dry, so it would be uncomfortable to sleep in them. In order not to embarrass the princess, I walked out of the house. When I came in, the princess was already lying under the covers, and her clothes were laid by the fire. I hung my clothes and those of the princess on the fire, and slept on the other side of the bed. But the princess immediately shouted to me, "Well, come here." I got up and lay down beside her, and immediately I felt a warm feeling in my body. She leaned over and kissed me on the cheek, and asked, in a tone of affection and curiosity, "How do you know that you can scare the bison away with that kind of noise?" I smiled and said, "I don't know, but I've read in books in the past that the dog will kill takin in a very clever and cruel way." Takins are most afraid of hyenas, so I gave my life a try. When the princess heard this, she put her face on my breast, and said gratefully, "You are risking your life for me." I stroked her cheek and said, "I am a man, and I should give my life to save the princess." The princess said in a respectful tone, "You are the warrior and hero of my heart." ”

Due to the exhaustion and fatigue of the past two days, we quickly felt sleepy. The moonlight poured in through the window, and the stream made a small and sleepy sound around the mountains. With this wonderful and clear sound, I soon fell into a dream. But not long after, the princess rolled back and forth and woke me up. I asked her what was wrong, and she said she had a lot of itching and pimples. Hearing her say this, I also felt itchy patches on my body. I said, "It's a flea bite, go to sleep, and when they're done biting enough, they won't bite." The princess asked me, "What is a flea?" I said it was a very small bug, and as I spoke, I rolled over and went back to sleep.

In the morning, there was a light rain, but it soon stopped. After the rain, the sky is clear, and the air in the mountains is clear and refreshing. The breeze floats on the green forest meadow with the coolness of the rain, exuding a pure and bright fragrance. At noon, the sun broke through the clouds and flashed in the sky, and the mountains suddenly brightened with brilliant golden light.

We followed a plausible path towards the southwest of the valley. Walking through one valley after another, before I knew it, I came to a river. The river is about 50 meters wide and has a faint blue color reflected in the blue sky. There is no wind by the river, but it makes people feel a chill that penetrates into the bone. On the other side of the river is a flat, narrow green slope that stretches as far as the eye can see. I excitedly shouted to the princess, "Look, this is the glacier, and you can go home after it." The princess was overjoyed and said, "Yes, we are going to be home." ”

However, there was no bridge over the river, no boats to be found, not even a single figure to be seen. We had to swim up the riverbank. After walking for about half an hour, I saw a small boat sailing down the river. On the boat sat a young woman with a baby in her arms. An old man with long hair and a white beard stood at the bow of the boat, holding a long rod to support the boat. It seems that he is sending his daughter back to her mother-in-law's house. When the boat approached, I shouted to the old man rowing it. The people on the boat, thinking that we were prisoners who had escaped from the mountains, did not dare to approach us, but stopped the boat and interrogated us. When I saw that they would not believe me, I pushed the princess forward and said, "The princess of heaven and the maiden of heaven have asked the old man for help, please dock the boat and take us across the river, and when the princess returns to the palace, she will give us a heavy gift." When the old man heard this, he half-believingly approached the boat and let us get on board.

We got on the boat and the boat continued down the river, and in a short time the boat docked at an unfamiliar crossing. The old man asked me and the princess to disembark and go ashore. Didn't I think the old man promised to send us to the palace, and told us to disembark here. However, we cannot afford not to obey other people's arrangements. As soon as I got ashore, I found that this was a village council, because all the councils in heaven were built according to a model. It turned out that the old man really thought of us as prisoners who had escaped from the mountains. However, don't be afraid, we can just ask the council for help.

The old man took us to the council house, and at this time, the owner and the guards were preparing their horses in front of the council house, ready to go on patrol. The old man handed us over to the owner and the guards, whispered to them for a while, and hurried away. The guard looked at us, drew his sword, and said to us, "You two have come from nowhere. Without waiting for me to explain, the princess shouted angrily, "Boldly guard, I am the princess of a country." Today, I got lost in the mountains with the son of Longhua, not only did you not send me and the son back to the palace quickly, but you want to be so unreasonable, and wait for me to sue you for dereliction of duty? As soon as the owner heard this, he immediately took a palace notice in his hand to us and looked at it repeatedly for a while, and then said to the guard, "Now it is Princess Shu and Prince Longhua, please come into the house quickly." As he spoke, he folded the notice in his hand and bowed to us, "The princess and the prince are angry, you two are dressed like this, and you are from the North Mountain, and we should only be prisoners who have escaped from the deep mountains." Ask the princess and the princess to forgive their sins. "Then I noticed that the princess was in an untidy dress, her image was indecent, her hair was disheveled, and her face was covered with dust, and she looked like a flower child. Looking at myself, my clothes were crumpled, half of my sleeves were missing, and my trouser legs were covered in mud, as if I had just escaped from exile.

The owner of the village asked the guards to go to the palace to report to the king, and then invited us into the house, where he cooked for us and poured wine for us. The owner told us that the palace had sent people to inspect everywhere in the past two days, and he had also sent people to Beishan to search. If it weren't for the old man who sent you, we would have gone out to search the land. So saying, he unfolded the notice with the portraits of me and the princess for us to see. After reading the notice, I realized that our affairs had been known to the whole kingdom of heaven. And what awaits us is certainly not a general casual disposal.

About an hour later, he heard a fast horse coming from far and near, and then he saw the captain leading Sai and Xuanyuan into the council hall. I wanted to say a few words to them, but when I saw their unfathomable indifference and seriousness, I couldn't speak. The lieutenant took the trouble to call the owner of the village aside, whispered a few words, and then said to the two palace guards, "Take the princess and the prince back to the palace." "Listening to Lieutenant's words, I became more and more aware of the fact that the situation was not good. The princess glared fiercely at the lieutenant with her eyes. As we left the councilhouse, there was a carriage parked on the sloping path, which I knew was the king's royal chariot. The fact that the king was able to pick us up in his chariot was another stroke of luck to my heart.

Riding back to the palace in the king's chariot, and when he got out of the car, the lieutenant said to Sai Na, "Put Hua Long in a prison cell pending trial." "I was pushed by Sai and walked towards the cell behind the meeting. I was convicted of my crimes, but I didn't expect to be put in a prison cell. According to my contribution to the kingdom of heaven and my kindness to the king, I cannot be put in a prison cell. I've been in this cell before, and it's a place where you feel like you've been living for years. When the princess heard this, she said to Sai Dao, "Bold, the prince of Hualong is a messenger of the Han Dynasty, and he has no guilt or fault, why should he be put in a prison cell?" But he refused to listen to the princess, saying, "The princess is not to blame, this is an order of the palace, and it cannot be violated." The princess was helpless, so she said angrily, "I will reason with my brother." ”

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