Adventures in Heaven (novel) Zhang Baotong

Despite the afternoon sun, the cool breeze on the surface of the glacial lake is chilly and cold. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info wind into the fur coat, making people shiver with cold, and their stomachs gurgle and want to deflate. Fortunately, the island was only three to five hundred meters away from the shore, and the boat rowed very fast, so it didn't take long for the boat to dock. The island is almost covered with dense forests, and a path takes us from the shore into the depths of the woods. Out of the forest, there is a large sloping sunshine zone. This is the center of the island, with a few simple workshop-style sheds. From the shed, there was a tinkling sound, like the sound of striking iron and casting.

We were led by the guard to a more orderly house by the shed. When a tall young man with a long sword and a grim expression in the room saw us coming, he got up and saluted us, and asked, "May I ask where you came from?" The escort who led the way hurriedly introduced, "These are the two guards appointed by the king to carry the cloud cloth to the island. The tall guard immediately saluted again, saying, "Fortunately, I wonder if you two have a royal privilege?" ”

I handed over the king's secret order, and he looked at it for a moment, and then hesitated and said, "How can I not have the permission of the captain?" I asked rhetorically, "Is the King's secret decree not as good as the Captain's charter?" The tall guard hurriedly explained with a smile, "No, it's just that the palace has an order, and this guard doesn't dare to disobey it." Then I said, "The command of the captain is not to be violated, but is it not permissible for the king to be disobeyed?" The tall guard hurriedly explained, "No, the king is the king of heaven, and of course this guard will not dare to disobey the king's wishes." Please wait, two adults, this guard will bring the cloud cloth. ”

After a while, I saw a tall man with a shabby coat and a sturdy figure walking towards me, walked up to me and knelt down on one leg, hugged his hands, and said, "Meet Longhua Gongzi." I was taken aback and asked, "Who are you?" The man bowed his head and said, "In the lower clouds." I almost screamed, "Is it Yunbu?" Hurry up, get up, get up. I hurriedly lifted him up, looked at him carefully, and said, "How you have become such a situation is almost unrecognizable." But he smiled heartily and said, "Yun Bu is serving his sentence here with hard labor, and if he lives for years, how can he not change his reasoning?" But it doesn't matter, there will be another half and a month and a month of Yunbu to leave the island. ”

I said, "Yun Bu really served Longhua, and Longhua was deeply disturbed and guilty about this. Yun Bu said, "Don't blame Long Hua, it's just that Yun Bu is afraid that Gongzi will take away Gna, so he caused this incident, and asked Gongzi to forgive him." "Speaking of Gena, I told Yunbu about going to Xinghuaxi. When Yunbu heard what I said, he said, "Yunbu knows that Gna's favorite son, and Yunbu only asks Gongzi to forgive Yunbu's ignorance and recklessness." I said again and again, "It's not that Longhua is giving in, it's just that Gna already has you in her heart." Yunbu was a little angry, "I wanted to ask Childe for forgiveness, but I didn't know that Childe regarded me as a narrow-minded villain." As he spoke, he clasped his hands and said, "Yun Bu said goodbye. Then he turned and walked towards the shed.

I said, "The clouds are slow." So saying, he handed him the king's secret order. When he read the secret decree, tears welled up in his eyes, and he knelt down on his legs, holding the secret decree and said, "The king's holy grace, the cloud cloth will repay the spring." Then he said to me, "Yunbu has the holy grace of His Majesty, and it must be the help of Longhua, please ask the prince to accept Yunbu's three bows." So saying, he got up and bowed to me three times.

When Yunbu went back to the house to pack his things, I said that I wanted to see the scene of the prisoner and the scenery of the island. The two guards immediately accompanied me and Beze into the shed. There was a large stove in the shed, and the fire in the hearth was blazing, and several strong men in single coats were swinging hammers and beating the red-hot iron. The guards guarding the island told me that they had made farming tools for the use of the peasants of the whole kingdom of heaven. When I got out of the shed, I saw a small earthen kiln with a fire burning underneath and smoke rising from it. The guards said it was a small kiln where pottery and dishes were fired. The craftsmanship and equipment of these workshop-style factories are very primitive and backward, and they basically stay at the level of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

At this time, Yunbu had already packed up, thinking that the king was still waiting for us in the Winter Palace, so we left the island with Yunbu. When he returned to the Winter Palace and saw the king, Yunbu was naturally grateful and bowed down. The king lifted up the cloud cloth and said, "Months of hard labor have made the guards very aggrieved, and every time I think of it, my heart is troubled. Hearing that the king was so concerned about him, Yunbu burst into tears and said, "Your Majesty is so kind and loving, so that Yunbu is grateful, and I don't know how to repay it." The king said, "Peach Village is the most important place of heaven, close to the royal palace, and I have entrusted you with the protection of Peach Village, and if you do your duty, it will be the greatest reward for me." Yun Bu said with an oath, "Your Majesty's teachings, Yun Bu is engraved in my heart. ”

By this time, the maid had cleaned up the yard and room, and the cook had begun to light a fire to cook. The king asked me and Beze to accompany us, and in the twilight of the evening, dressed in civilian clothes, along the path behind the Winter Palace, towards the bend of the river, near the Binghe and the Rehe. It is about two or three miles away from the Winter Palace, and because the steam of the hot river and the cold wind of the glacier meet here, and the natural ancient forest is surrounded, it is peaceful and quiet, warm as spring. The flat meadows in the forest are filled with a variety of flowers, reminiscent of the harvest festival in the vineyards.

After looking at the venue, it was dark. We immediately returned to the Hermitage the way we came. After eating, the maids and the cooks went back to the front yard to rest, and the king, Beze, and me, and all the guards were left in the back yard. I lived with the king on the second floor of the king's house, lit an oil lamp, and conspired with his courtiers and the princess to celebrate the princess. In order to concentrate on the friendship, I suggested that the king leave the celebration to Ukr and his maids. The king nodded in agreement, and asked me to give Ukkel the details of the meeting. Then, he and I planned to make friends with the lords of the villages. There are more than ten villages in the heavenly kingdom, which are quite far apart, and if you go to visit them one by one, it will be very inconvenient and attract people's attention. Therefore, the king wrote more than a dozen secret decrees so that Yunbu and Genyuan could secretly send them, inviting them to come to the Winter Palace to meet the king in the name of competition or eating and drinking.

The next morning, the king took me and Bezesaken on horseback to Gakumura to meet the famous swordsman Gao Liang of Gakumura. Gao Liang was the king's second father, and then the king also became the second father in the school village, and the two became confidants. It's just that after the king left the school village to succeed to the throne, he didn't come to the school village much again, and he had little contact with Takara's father. This visit to Gao Liang is really an alliance. In the Kingdom of Heaven, almost everyone who served as a guard was his student, and even the Captain was once his disciple. Therefore, as long as you can get the support of Father Takara, it is equivalent to the support of many guards.

It is about ten miles away from the palace to Liangchuan, passing through Taocun to the south across the glacier, and then along the Qinghe River valley, a tributary of the glacier, to the west for about ten miles, and then entering the river valley. The winter wind is very cold, blowing down the river valley for a while, very permeable, and the wet and cold air seems to have the feeling of rain.

After walking in the river valley for about half an hour, we came to a river valley and a flat river surrounded by mountains and rivers. The flat river is covered with dead flowers and grass that have been blown away by the cold wind, and a straight path is diagonally inserted into the mountains and forests on the edge of the river valley, and through the sparse forest gaps, you can see rows of green brick houses hidden in the forests on the side of the mountains. When I walked along the path to the edge of the forest, I saw a stone tablet standing on the side of the road, which read: Dismount here.

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