Adventures in Heaven (novel) Zhang Baotong

A few minutes later, a military attache wearing a tasseled hat and a long sword came down the high slope. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThis military attache is about 30 years old, and he looks shrewd and capable, with a proud bearing in his heroic force. Greet each other politely with the owner, and then lead everyone up the slope. After walking up the slope for about 100 meters, I reached the top of the slope. The main hall of the royal palace is right in front of you. The shape and scale of this palace are similar to the general Buddhist Daxiong Treasure Hall, but the color is relatively simple and solemn, with blue bricks and green tiles, lacquered wooden pillars and windows, and no carved beams and paintings. In addition, the main hall has been aged for a long time, the bricks and tiles have been printed with wind-eroded mulberry, and the black paint on the windows has been mottled and faded, but the tall columns are still solid and solid. I have seen many imperial palaces, but this palace hall is at best a dilapidated county hall.

The young military attache told us to wait in front of the main hall, and he himself entered the courtyard at the back of the hall through the corridor aisle on the side of the main hall. At this time, the guard of the Yuntai beside me told me that the military attache was the commander of the palace and was in charge of the other thirteen village guards in the kingdom of heaven. Listening to his tone of admiration and praise, I said disapprerovingly, "So there are only thirteen villages in your kingdom of heaven?" So how many people will there be in a village? The guard said, "About a hundred and fifty people." "I don't think it's as big as a township in the mainland.

In about a quarter of an hour, the gates of the palace opened. One of the king's guards stood by the door with a sword. At this time, someone shouted from inside, "The king has an order to summon the owner of Yuntai Village to wait for an audience." "The owner and the guards led me into the hall. The hall was dark, and everything inside could only be seen dimly by the light of a few oil lamps. Standing in the center of the hall, a few steps away, in front of him sat a young man of about twenty years of age. Judging from his yellow-robed dragon crown and majestic bearing, he is the king of this small kingdom. To his left stood an old man with crane hair and a long beard, and on his right was the middle-aged lieutenant with a long sword. It's not at all like the scary scene I saw in the movie with all the shouts and hundreds of officials standing on their sides.

The owner and the guard bowed respectfully to the king three times, and then whispered to me to bow down to the king too. I stiffened my neck and held my waist straight, without a call. When the king saw that I would not bow down and did not care, he asked as he was, "Are you Han?" I said exactly. The king asked me if I knew who would succeed him. I said that Gaozu was followed by Emperor Hui Liu Ying, and Liu Ying was followed by Emperor Wen Liu Heng, Emperor Jing Liu Qi and Emperor Wu Liu Che. I replied almost in a reciting tone.

The old man beside the dynasty looked at it, and the old man nodded to the king, indicating that it was correct. The king pondered for a moment, and then continued to ask, "Do you know that the Han Dynasty has a country of Loulan?" I couldn't help but be stunned, thinking that there were people in this small kingdom of heaven who knew that there was a country of Loulan in the world, so I said, "It was an ancient city on the Silk Road during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it had long been swallowed up by sand due to the diversion of rivers and the migration of residents." It was discovered by archaeologists only a few years ago, and only some ruins remain. ”

The king then asked me about the traces and fate of the Liu family during the Eastern Han Dynasty. I said that the Zhangjiao Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty caused warlord chaos and local separation, and formed a situation in which the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu were established. In 220 AD, Cao Pi, the eldest son of Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, abolished Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and called the Emperor Wei State, thus ending the 196-year-long Eastern Han Dynasty. When the king listened, he could not help but feel a little sad. He was silent for a long time, then he raised his hand at me, and before I could understand what he meant, he got up and walked into the screen behind the throne. The civil officer and the lieutenant followed.

At this time, the guards standing on both sides of the hall came to see us out of the hall. As soon as we left the temple, the guards closed the door of the main hall and locked it with a lock. Out of the main hall, I let out a long sigh of relief, thinking that I could finally pass the test. However, I still couldn't understand why the king asked me about the history of the Han Dynasty, and let me go so easily. Even the owner and the guard who escorted me were puzzled by this. So, when the guard asked the owner, "What can I do?" The owner shook his head and said, "I don't know, but wait for the king's will." As soon as I heard this, my heart, which had just been relieved, immediately became nervous again: what kind of trick was the king playing?

In the absence of clear instructions from the king and the royal palace, neither the owner nor the guards dared to leave without permission. So we sat down on the steps in front of the main hall and waited in the cabinets. At this time, it was late, the twilight was vast, and the gray mist was spreading from the distant mountains and near the water, and even bursts of clear streams could be heard from the silent silence, which made people can't help but add a layer of strange melancholy. Just when we thought that the king had forgotten us, the lieutenant came from the porch on the side of the main hall and said that the king was going to invite me to a banquet, so let the lord and the guards return first.

I followed the lieutenant into the portico and walked along the winding corridor surrounded by ancient trees and bamboos towards the back of the palace. The exit of the promenade faces the palace gate of the harem. The palace gate is not large, nor is it ornate, only a few simple tall stone pillars that stand symmetrically, with a small door in the middle. There are two guards in front of the small door. The lieutenant took me to the palace gate and explained a few words to a maid who was waiting at the gate. The maid led me into the harem.

The harem is not too big, like an elaborate landscaped garden. There is a small lake in the palace garden. Under the moonlit night, the surface of the lake resembles a huge mirror, reflecting the starry sky clearly and quietly in the water. The trail goes around the lake, the roadside terraces are scattered, there are several small courtyards, sit awe-inspiringly, quiet and leisurely, and there are strange flowers and stones, the shape is wonderful and seems to have a fragrance. Next, the trail leads us to a winding bridge that leads to the heart of the lake. The bridge zigzagged towards the lake. In the middle of the lake is the king's residence, the main house is a few trees, a few side rooms, the corridor is tortuous, simple and elegant, and the light pouring out of the window is sprinkled on the water outside the house if it is bright and dark.

The maid led me through the porch into a large room. The room was quite large, and there were lamps lit around it, and under the lamps you could see a small round table in the middle of the room, and two black lacquered wooden chairs were placed opposite each other. The Tao is the ink calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, which makes the room a little elegant and lively. When the maid saw that I was barefoot and that my clothes were stained with mud, she brought me a pair of cloth shoes and a clean garment, and then brought me a basin of clean water for me to wash and change my clothes. After a while, the king came from the inner room and said to me, "Messenger of the Han Dynasty, it is a blessing for me to come to my kingdom of heaven from thousands of miles away. Seeing that the king of a country treated me so politely, I hurriedly knelt down on one leg and said, "The king is so generous, Longhua can't afford it." The king lifted me up and took me by the hand and sat down with me.

Immediately, two or three maids poured wine and served the food. The dishes include pan-fried fish in the glacier, cold cucumber, coriander and salted eggs, and the wine is a delicious purple wine. For the king of a nation, such a feast is too simple. Since there are not many drinks and dishes on the table, I can't eat and drink, so I can only taste them carefully. However, only in this way can you taste the fragrance of the food and the mellow taste of the sake. When the wine was finished, the maid served us only a small bowl of fragrant rice. We ate all the food and rice together. Then we all looked at the dishes on the table and laughed.