Chapter Forty-Eight: Who Steals Cattle in Front of Yanjing Gate
"The spring sun is clear, according to my new clothes, the summer stars are bright, caress my temples, the autumn moon is bright, blow my breast, the winter snow is clean, cover my knees......"
"Yu Lie, what song are you singing?"
"Does it sound good?"
"Well, that's very nice."
The carriage drove briskly to the horizon, and on that horizon, the endless pear blossoms bloomed, and the trees were extremely graceful, as if the snow in the sky had missed the season, and accidentally fell in this March day. The windows of the car were pushed high, Yu Lie and Wei Yingxue were sitting in the carriage, Yu Lie was humming a beautiful ballad, Wei Yingxue was sitting beside him, holding his face in both hands, and he was smiling coquettishly while listening.
"Yu Lie, I'll blow it to you."
Wei Yingxue took out the Xun, took a long breath, aimed her small mouth at the Xunzui, puffed up her pink cheeks, and played a whining sound. It was the song that Yu Lie sang just now, she played it quite well, no longer as intermittent as before, Yu Lie listened to it very attentively, and there was always a smile on the corner of her mouth.
The old man sat in the first car, he also heard the little girl's voice, the corners of his mouth raised, and behind the carriage, the little boy from Nan Chu was bored playing the horse, looking listless.
This is Yan Kingdom, only thirty miles away from Yanjing, the capital of Yan Kingdom, for a whole year, spring, summer, autumn and winter have not stopped, and Yu Lie's injuries have healed. At this moment, he listened to Wei Yingxue's melodious voice, but he was thinking about the past in his heart, and scenes of the past flashed in his mind one by one, with pain, joy, and people who were hard to forget.
"Wow!"
The big firebird swept by the car window, far into the sky, Wei Yingxue put down Xun, rested her chin on Yu Lie's arm, and watched the firebird fly away with flashing eyes, the little girl likes to snuggle up to Yu Lie like this, because she feels that Yu Lie is the best gift given to her by the great god Haotian, better than Xiaobai, Xiaobai can't speak, but Yu Lie will, although he doesn't talk much.
Yu Lie felt her smooth face rubbing against her arm, and there was a faint warm fragrance in her nose, like a medicinal fragrance, and her mind was extremely peaceful. Recently, the old man has been treating him better and better, and he even allowed Wei Yingxue to ride in the same car with him, which was unthinkable in the past.
Could it be ......
Thinking of the possibility of Mo Fei, Yu Lie's face turned red, and he couldn't help but tighten the little girl's hand, Wei Yingxue turned around and smiled lightly: "Yu Lie, what are you thinking?" ”
Yu Lie said: "I want Yanjing." ”
"What is there to think about Yanjing? Qin Shi said, we will definitely be able to go to Yanjing today. The innocent little girl tilted her head and stared at him.
Yu Lie was a little panicked by her, turned his head, looked at the endless Sydney blossoms outside the car window, and said, "When you played the Xun just now, you blew the wrong sound." ”
"Really?" Wei Yingxue was still staring at him.
Yu Lie said: "Yes. ”
Wei Yingxue said: "But, I blew the wrong sound, why do you blush?" ”
Yu Lie thought for a while and said, "Didn't you say before, when you arrive in Yanjing, you will be able to blow the most beautiful Xun sound like that young lady in Yongdu." ”
Wei Yingxue's eyes widened, and she looked at him for a moment: "But we haven't arrived in Yanjing yet, even if we arrive in Yanjing, I can't blow as well as the young lady, why are you blushing?" ”
"This ......," Yu Lie said.
Wei Yingxue smiled: "Yu Lie, you look like Xiaobai." ”
"Like?" Yu Lie asked subconsciously.
"Hmm."
Wei Yingxue nodded heavily, took out the emerald from her sleeve, looked at the pear blossom through the emerald, and said: "Every time Xiaobai does something wrong, he pretends to be pitiful, and it knows that I am reluctant to hit it." Yu Lie, are you also afraid that I will beat you? ”
Yu Lie, who has the same status as the little white rabbit, closed his mouth, Wei Yingxue is still young and doesn't understand anything, she is like the pear blossom on the tree, blooming fresh and pleasant, but she doesn't know how beautiful she is.
The carriage drove silently.
At this time, the sound of hooves as dense as raindrops sounded from afar, Wei Yingxue put down the emerald, raised her eyebrows and looked, in the distant sky, at the end of the pear blossoms, a black iron stream rolled, rolling closer and closer, the long halberd is like a forest, the black chariot, the black armor, the uniform pace. And this black torrent rushes in the pear flower road, which is extremely eye-catching.
The passage of the army is unstoppable.
The attendants drove the carriage to the side, and the guards of the little boy from Nanchu also scattered on both sides of the road, and the chariots slowly drove in front of Yu Lie and the others, and the armor soldiers standing on the chariots did not squint, and their faces were as cold and hard as iron.
It took a full hour for the sea of black feather helmets to gradually disappear into the depths of the pear forest.
As the sun sank in the west, the old man looked at the sky and told the coachman to hurry up. Yanjing is the capital of Yan Kingdom, and it is extremely well guarded, and it must arrive before sunset, otherwise even if you have great ability, you will not be able to enter the city.
Wei Yingxue was still looking back at the army of Yan Kingdom that was rolling away, and it was not until she could no longer see it that she turned around, frowned and asked, "Yu Lie, are they going to represent the country?" ”
"Hmm."
Yu Lie nodded, from Yongdu to Yanjing must pass through Daiguo, when they arrived in Daiguo, the dark clouds of war had shrouded the entire Daiguo, Qi Hou sent 80,000 troops, including 10,000 white feather elites, and the vassal countries under the command of Qi also followed, and finally gathered into a mighty 100,000 horses, threatening to destroy the dynasty in ten days.
However, the threat of the Marquis of Qi did not come true as scheduled, because the Yongguo entered the war, and the Duke of Yong accused the Marquis of Qi of being unkind and unjust and disloyal when he crossed the river in Southern Chu, and immediately ordered Shangqing Zhongfu to leave the army with 50,000 troops and attack Qi to save the dynasty. And Yan Qixie, who was in Yongdu, was instructed by Yan Hou to deploy border troops to go to Daiguo to persuade Yonggong and Qi Hou to quit their troops and attack Chu in unison. As for the Song Hou, before the army of Qi arrived in Daiguo, he had already appointed his son Song Boyo to be the general of Jiejing and lead 30,000 Song troops to Daiguo.
However, in such a huge war, how can peace be easily valued? King Jingtai's admonitions and retributions flew like snowflakes, but the four kings of ten thousand times still went their own way. When Yu Lie left Daiguo, the war had already been ignited, and the four kingdoms of Yongqi, Yan and Song broke out several tentative wars in the territory of Daiguo, although the scale was not large, but it was extremely fierce. And now that Yan is evil, he has mobilized Yanjing's elite troops to go to Daiguo, presumably because the scale of the war has expanded.
As we all know, this is a long-planned and sudden battle for hegemony, Qi is closer to the Dai country, occupying the geographical advantage, and Yong, Yan, Song three countries occupy the opportunity, although it is a labor expedition, and the people's hearts and pace are difficult to coordinate, but after all, it is the three countries together, and it is still unknown who will die in the end.
However, Yu Lie didn't care about this war, what he thought in his heart was that somewhere thousands of miles away, someone might be greatly relieved. Yes, misfortune and fortune depend, blessing and misfortune lurk, Song Hou's eyes were pulled by Daiguo, so naturally he didn't have the energy to care about anything else.
"Yu Lie, Yu Lie ......"
While Yu Lie was frowning and thinking deeply, Wei Yingxue couldn't stop shaking her little hand in front of his eyes, Yu Lie came back to his senses, saw her looking at him nervously, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong, Firefly." ”
"Yanjing has arrived, Yu Lie."
……
Yanjing.
Yanjing in the Far North.
The carriage turned over a mountain beam, and the rugged and bold Yanjing City poured into view, it was not built in the place of a flat river, but towered on a cliff, from the bottom up, like a city in the sky.
The Yan people are the descendants of the Xuanniao, and the whole country is still black, but Yanjing is not black, but white, the tall city wall is white, and there is a Xuanniao flying in the position of the city gate tower.
The carriage spiraled up along the mountain road, arrived under the city wall, raised its eyes, and found that the sculpture of the Xuanniao was huge, and the sunset and evening shined, it cast a dark shadow, like the dark night sky, the sky and the earth were enveloped in it, and people and horses walked in the darkness, just like a floating boat in the sea, a drop in the sea.
Mighty, desolate, majestic.
From south to north, Yu Lie thought he had seen many spectacular scenes, including Yongdu's flaming chariot that stepped on the sky and the earth, but they were not as strong as the shock brought by the mysterious bird in front of him.
"What a big bird."
Wei Yingxue clasped her hands in front of her chest, and looked at the Xuanniao who spread her claws and wings to make a flutter without blinking, and sighed, her appearance was extremely cute.
"That's because you haven't been to Nanchu, if you go to the capital of Nanchu, you will know that there is not only one bird in the world."
A sour voice came, Yu Lie and Wei Yingxue looked back, it was the little boy of Nanchu, he turned down from the horse, pulled the reins and walked over, did not look at Yu Lie, looked directly at Wei Yingxue, and said: "In the south of the great river, the capital of Southern Chu, Fengge City, there is a burning sky fire phoenix, with a wingspan of thirty zhang, showing the trend of rushing to the night. Whether it is momentum or size, it is bigger than this bird, if you see it, you will definitely like it. As he spoke, he took out a red gadget from his arms and wanted to give it to Wei Yingxue.
Who knows, Wei Yingxue ignored him at all, but took Yu Lie's hand and smiled: "Yu Lie, do you know the story of the cattle theft in the country?" ”
Yu Lie said: "I have heard that at the beginning of Southern Chu, in order to sacrifice heaven and earth and martyrs, they built ancestral halls and temples, but there were no three livestock and five animals to offer, and in desperation, they had to go to the country next door to steal a calf, and they were afraid that the owner of the calf would come to chase the cow, so they slaughtered it overnight. ”
Wei Yingxue blinked: "Yes, I heard that the little calf hasn't even grown its horns yet." Later, I heard that after that, the people of Southern Chu would perform sacrifices at night every time, but they didn't know if it was a moonlit night or a moonless night? ”
The little boy from Nanchu blushed, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything, and snorted coldly towards Yu Lie, leading the horse towards the city gate. His guards chased after him, and when they passed by Yu Lie's side, they all cast cold glances.
Wei Yingxue was a kind little girl at the bottom, looking at the back of the little boy Xiao Suo, she couldn't bear it, she looked up at her little face, and said to Yu Lie: "Yu Lie, I'm not laughing at the ancestors of the Southern Chu people, I just don't like him, and I don't like him to look down on you." ”
"I know."
"Fireflies, fireflies."
At this time, the call of the old man came from the front, and when entering Yanjing City, you had to walk in, and the old man stood by the suspension bridge and beckoned to Yu Lie and Wei Yingxue.
Yanjing, it's here.