Adventures in Heaven (novel) Zhang Baotong

After a while, the king and I walked to a small pavilion at the edge of the forest. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 There is a stone table in the info pavilion, and there is a stone bench on each side of the table. Entering the pavilion, we sat opposite each other. I said, "Heaven is surrounded by snow-capped mountains and ice peaks, isolated from the world, rich in countryside, simple in people, beautiful in scenery, sparsely populated and peaceful, this is the great fortune of Heaven and the king." Unexpectedly, the king said with a sad face, "The Han envoy does not know, although I am the king of a country, but I can't help it, not only is the power of the government and the opposition in the hands of others, but also the widow must be cautious, lest there be an accident to my fate." When I heard this, I was very surprised, and said, "The king has the captains and guards in the palace to protect him closely, and there are deep ditches and rivers outside the palace, so why should the king worry?" The king sighed deeply and said, "The Han envoy does not know anything, but it is inconvenient for anyone to talk about this matter. This must also be said by the Han envoy not to others, so as not to spread this word and cause trouble, and the widow and you will have no benefit. ”

At this time, a beautiful young woman in a bright and beautiful red dress with pink sleeves, her hair hanging down her shoulders, and a long Xiao in her hand, walked flutteringly from the path in the forest. When he walked in front of us, he slowly bowed his head and bowed his knees, "Good morning, brother and son." The king pointed to me and said to the woman, "This is an envoy from a great man, whose surname is Long and his name is Hua." The woman bowed to me again and said, "Pay homage to the Han envoy." ”

I have never seen such a delicate and dazzling lady and elegant woman, and I was so fascinated that I didn't know how to reply for a while. The king said, "I heard the music of the little sister's flute, and I felt that the little sister's musical skills had improved. The woman said, "The elder brother has spoken, and the younger sister has thanked her." So saying, he bowed to the king again, and walked without raising his head to the side of the bridge. I looked at her fluttering and charming figure gradually moving away, and I only felt a clear and translucent emotion in my heart, lingering, as if my soul was intoxicated by a dream.

After parting ways with the king at the edge of the woods, I walked towards the bridge of the stream, longing to see the beautiful young princess again. However, when I turned out of the green bamboo forest, the fairy beauty that penetrated people's hearts and souls was gone. I thought that the princess's residence was nearby, so I made a leisurely look and walked up and down among the red flowers and green grass in front of the house, waiting for the beautiful princess to appear.

The sun gradually rose into the middle of the sky. The royal harem was golden and silent. Only colorful butterflies are flying around in the flowers, which is very affectionate. Because the beautiful princess had refused to show her face, I had to walk along the grass to the path by the lake, and slowly walked towards the king's study, wanting to read more about the kingdom of heaven, but my heart was full of attachment and nostalgia for the princess.

When I returned to the king's study, I found a book called "The History of Heaven: The Genealogy of the People's Family". When you open it, you can see that it contains the names, clans, official positions, and marriages of the ancestors of the common people of each village in the Kingdom of Heaven. This book is like a genealogy of each family, so it looks boring, but it shows that most of the strong men and women who came here with Heavenly Father and ancestors were not Han Chinese. And, more importantly, this book is the legal basis for the marriage of men and women in the kingdom of heaven. For it is expressly stated in this book that a man and a woman of the same surname and ancestry in the kingdom of heaven cannot be married. If a man and a woman who love each other want to become husband and wife, they must report to the royal palace, and the palace will verify that there is no suspicion of having the same surname and the same ancestry, and then they can be allowed to play.

Near noon, the maid came to see me with a young guard waiting for me at the gate of the harem. I immediately put down the history book and walked quickly to the gate of the harem, only to realize that it was the guard of the Yuntai when I saw it. As soon as he saw me, he immediately bowed his hand to me and said, "How is the night in the palace?" "There is no Ling Ran's arrogance like yesterday. I said, "It's a lot of fun to study history all night." He said, "I have told your sister-in-law about your entry into the palace that night." When she heard this, she was very worried, and she had been waiting outside the palace for a long time. ”

"My sister-in-law?" I was stunned at first, but I immediately understood, and hurried all the way to the exit of the palace. When I came to the exit of the palace, I leaned on the railing and looked down, and I saw that under the lonely and empty sun, Yilan was standing on the grass opposite the palace in beautiful clothes, looking at this side, looking sad and worried. I shouted excitedly at her, "Sister-in-law! When she saw me, she raised the red silk scarf in her hand and danced towards me with joy. The red silk scarf is bright and dazzling, which is particularly attractive, making people feel irrepressibly cordial and excited. I shouted "sister-in-law" and ran down the stage. I ran to the watchtower of the drawbridge, only to be caught by one of the guards. The guard shouted at me, "The commander has an order, and you can't leave the palace without a warrant from the Queen Mother." I said, "The king and the princess treat me with respect, how dare the lieutenant be rude?" Quickly release me and let me out of the palace. As he spoke, he pushed the guard away with a force, and he was about to lower the drawbridge. However, another palace guard immediately drew his long, glittering sword and pointed it straight at my throat, forcing me. Yilan, who was on the other side of the city and river, saw it and hurriedly shouted, "Longhua Gongzi Hugh has disobeyed the order." "I knew that resisting would not lead to good results, so I honestly asked one of the palace guards to walk with a long sword towards the palace above. The guard led me into a prison cell in the backyard of the palace.

I was furious and cried out, "I want to see the king." The guard said, "Pending the permission of the Captain." As he spoke, he closed the iron door with a "clang" and locked it. The cell was in a corner behind the hall of the palace chamber, and it was not large, except for a simple bed, and there was no light in the room, only a small window for light. Through a small hole in the door of the hut, you can only see a row of old white walls on the opposite side, and the white clouds and blue sky in the sky. All you can hear is the weak "squeak" sound of one or two crickets. Just now, he was the king's guest, but in the blink of an eye, he became a prisoner. I can't comprehend this contrast and transformation. I wonder if the king has changed his attitude, or if he has left me for something else.

After a while, someone brought me some food, a small bowl of rice and a small plate of oil and coriander, and a small bowl of yamak consommé. It was supposed that the food was good, and I was so hungry that I refused to eat, and asked to see the king, and to ask what was the crime, and to be imprisoned. However, whether you eat or not, no one will pay attention to you at all. As time went on, the fear in my heart grew heavier and heavier, and I also felt more and more that the situation was not good. So, I started thinking about what they were going to do with me. Perhaps they have realized that my entry has posed a serious threat to the peace and well-being of the kingdom of heaven, and that they will kill me and remove the danger. When I think about it, my heart jumps suddenly.

I don't know how long it was, but at what hour I heard someone coming, opened the iron gate, and said to me, "The king pleases." As soon as I heard this, I felt some hope in my heart. So, rubbing my eyes, I followed the guard to a secret room in the palace hall. The king's expression was grim, and he sat on a prince's chair. The old man who served as the prime minister and the captain who wore a long sword stood on both sides, and the atmosphere was solemn and solemn, which made people shudder. I was supposed to bow down to the king, but because I was angry, I turned my head to one side and refused to pay attention. The king said, "The kingdom of heaven has been isolated from the world for more than 1,700 years, and the country has always been peaceful and peaceful. Now that you are coming from the Great Han, you will have the heart to return to the Great Han. I am afraid of the invasion of the outside world, I want to send you to exile on a desert island, but unfortunately you are familiar with Han history, erudite and learned, so this king is willing to let you out of the palace and stay as a citizen of heaven, I wonder if the Han envoy Longhua is willing to swear to live in heaven forever and never return? ”

Let me abandon my family and my homeland, and let my relatives leave, this will never be possible! But if I refuse to swear that Hugh will leave the palace, it will probably be impossible to save my life. So, I thought that as long as I lived, it would be possible to escape and return home. So, I said, "The king values me so much, Longhua only has a picture of gratitude, how can it contradict it." The king's face immediately became happy, and he said to the prime minister beside him, "Please make the Han envoy Longhua take the oath." ”

The prime minister asked me to kneel on my knees facing the king, touch my forehead to the ground, and read to him, "Han envoy Longhua swore to the kingdom of heaven: to live in heaven forever, never to return, if there is a return to the heart, let the kingdom of heaven punish." "After taking the oath, the king raised his hand and motioned for me to get up. At this time, the prime minister brought pen and ink and a booklet, and asked me to write the oath in the book, and pressed my fingerprints. Then the king said in a proclamatory tone, "The Han envoy Longhua is already a citizen of the heavenly kingdom, and should be based on the heavenly law of the heavenly kingdom, be kind to others, and conduct himself in a standardized manner." Please make Longhua remember it in his heart. I said, "The king's grace will never be forgotten, and the king's teachings are engraved in my heart." "The king was pleased with my reply, and he took me to see the Queen Mother.

I followed His Majesty out of the chamber and into the courtyard of the harem through the corridor leading from the chamber to the harem. Then, along the path by the lake, I came to a garden-style courtyard called Ziwei Garden with carved beams and paintings by the lake. When the king saw that the king had brought me in, the guard at the gate respectfully bowed to us and made way. The courtyard is a square courtyard, with four large tiled houses side by side, and a variety of flowers and plants and a few towering ancient cypress trees are planted in the open space in the middle. Although this courtyard is not as elaborate and elegant as the lake garden where the king lived, it is more spacious than the lake garden. When I followed the king up the steps to the door of the large, splendid main house on higher ground, the queen mother's maids bowed down to us and welcomed us into the house.

The room was spacious and bright, and the Queen Mother was sitting in front of a few cases and cutting paper with scissors, and when she saw us coming, she put the scissors on a few cases and slowly raised her head. The Queen Mother is actually very young, no more than thirty-one or twelve years old, although she is not fat, but she has the solidity and richness of a beautiful young woman, and her face is full of bright and bright luster. She is wearing a delicate and glamorous dress, with a solemn temperament and outstanding demeanor, especially her slightly arrogant tone and posture, which gives people a sense of dignified nobility and majesty. The king came forward and bowed down and said, "The child goes to the queen mother." The Queen Mother dragged a long voice and said, "Flat." The king got up and said to the queen mother, "This is Longhua, the envoy of the Han Dynasty." ”

I hurriedly knelt down and said, "The Great Han Kingdom came to make Longhua bow to the Queen Mother." The Queen Mother said, "Raise your head." I raised my head and looked at the Queen Mother, the woman in front of me was simply beautiful and noble, so that people did not dare to look at it with their eyes. The Queen Mother looked at me carefully for a while with very focused eyes before she said, "How old is the child?" I said, "Two out of twenty." The Queen Mother nodded kindly and said, "I heard Your Majesty say that you are familiar with the history of the Han Dynasty, is this true?" I said, "The Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, the Five Dynasties, the Ten Kingdoms, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Two Song Dynasties, the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a total of more than 2,700 years of history, can be known a little bit. The Queen Mother said softly, "I stay in the palace all day, often have idle troubles, the son is willing to often talk about the past and the present for me, one can be a long insight, and the other is good to pass the time, how about it?" "It is of course a great honor as a man to be able to do things for such a beautiful and noble woman. I immediately replied, "As long as the Queen Mother is called, Longhua will arrive at any time." The Queen Mother seemed very satisfied with my answer, and wanted to leave me for dinner. But I thought that Yilan and the Yuntai guard were still waiting for me outside the palace, so I thanked the Queen Mother, explained the reason, and asked to leave the palace immediately. As soon as the Queen Mother heard this, she asked the Captain to send me out of the palace.

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