Chapter 18: Now is it
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On the willow tops of the moon, the night fog has filled Gaojiazhuang, and the wet fog is getting thicker and thicker, covering the sky and the earth, and finally enveloping the entire Zhuangzi.
The housekeeper of the inner courtyard, Xing Niang, went upstairs with her skirt, brought a pot of hot tea to everyone in the living room, and then took scissors to cut the wicks of the candle, and quietly went downstairs, without saying a word, without stopping at all.
The main seat in the hall sat on the bride Gao Qianxue, who was still wearing a green wedding dress and had no time to change it, today is the day of her wedding, at this time, she had already visited the church, sent into the flower candle cave room, and the groom drank a glass of wine, and enjoyed the most exciting and happy moment of life. But at this time, she left the groom, and stayed in this living room with her sister Mingyue, as well as the housekeeper Gao Bo, as well as Uncle Qian, Uncle Zhang and other elderly housekeepers in the village, with solemn faces and frowns.
Gao Yi left the village with twenty family members to inquire about the situation, and it has been almost more than an hour, and there has been no news so far. This has to worry everyone, the longer you wait, the worse the outcome may become.
"I'm going to tell Sù Yilang about the situation of our Gao family!" Gao Qianxue said suddenly.
Several old people were surprised, Gao Bo looked at the young lady who had been treated like a granddaughter all these years, and said in a deep voice: "Are you sure you want to sue him?" ”
"We're married now, I don't want to keep it a secret from him, he should know."
"But is the time right?" Gao Bo hesitated and asked, it was an eventful time now, and they were planning something that would lose their heads at any time, not to mention that there were many accidents all of a sudden. He didn't think it was a good time to reveal his identity to his new aunt at this time, not to mention, they hadn't figured out the identity of his new aunt yet.
"Because of this situation, the more I feel that I should tell him who I really am. What we do, something can happen at any time, and I don't want to wait until that day when he doesn't know anything. Gao Qianxue said that her mentality has gradually changed, and she initially proposed to let Yi Feng get into the fold, which can only be said to be a sudden idea, maybe she just wants to be a real woman, get married, and have children in a precarious situation. Yi Feng is a good person, he saved her, and he lost her memory, so there is nothing to do, she thinks it's pretty good. But these days of getting along, especially the words he said when he rescued Gao Ding today, he said that he would be a person from Gaojiazhuang in the future, and that they would be a family in the future, these words have been echoing in her heart, and she can't forget it. He was so sincere, it made her feel that she shouldn't hide her identity from him anymore. Maybe tomorrow they will be surrounded and suppressed by the official army, and their lives will be in danger, and she does not want to know the true identity of his wife by then. Before she knew it, her attitude towards her newlywed husband had changed greatly.
"But we haven't found out my uncle's identity yet, isn't it too early to tell him our identity?" Uncle Zhang, the account clerk, also put forward his own opinion, their identities are too sensitive after all, if Yi Feng has been amnesia, it may not be a problem. But if Yi Feng recovers his memories one day, and his identity can't accept them, what will he do, maybe it will cause harm to Gaojiazhuang.
It's not that they're too careful, it's that the identity of the Gaojiazhuang people is too sensitive.
Gao Qianxue is not an ordinary person who migrated south from the north, her real identity is the princess of the Northern Qi royal family, and her father is Gao Shaoyi, the last emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Gao Shaoyi is the third son of Emperor Gao Yang of Northern Qi Wen, the younger brother of the deposed Emperor Gao Yin, the nephew of Emperor Xiao Gao Yan and Emperor Wu Gao Zhan, the later lord Gao Wei, the cousin of Emperor Gao Yanzong of Yuan, and the uncle of the young lord Gao Heng.
Gao Shaoyi was first crowned the king of Guangyang, and later changed to the king of Fanyang. He successively served as the Northern Qi Shizhong and Dingzhou Assassin History. After the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Wei was mediocre, and the Northern Zhou lost the important town of Jinyang, an important town in the east of the Hedong. At that time, many Northern Qi soldiers in Hedong were unwilling to be the generals of the Northern Zhou, so they plotted to rebel against Zhou, and planned to welcome Gao Xiang, the king of Rencheng, who was in the clan, to lead the resistance to Zhou. Gao Shaoyi raised troops as a clan, when more than 280 cities in the east of the river responded, Gao Shaoyi led the army south to prepare to attack Jinyang, but the front army surrendered to the enemy, and Gao Shaoyi was then defeated by the Northern Zhou general Yuwen Shenju. He had to lead 3,000 people to join the Turks, and with the support of the Turkic Khan, that is, the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the year was called Wuping, and all the subjects of the Northern Qi who fled in the north at that time were under the command of Gao Shaoyi.
At that time, Gao Wei, the queen of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Gao Heng, the young master, were both killed by the Northern Zhou, and almost all the land of the Northern Qi Dynasty was attributed to the Northern Zhou, only Gao Mingyue's father, Gao Baoning, a distant branch of the Northern Qi clan, was the assassin of Yingzhou and guarded the Yellow Dragon. Gao Baoning was brave and courageous, and guarded Longcheng for a long time, when the Guanwai was inside and outside, Yixia valued its prestige, and was a rare general in the clan at the end of the Northern Qi Dynasty. He heard that the two masters of Northern Qi were dead, so he persuaded Gao Shaoyi, who was in the Turkic Turks, to ascend the throne and claim the throne as emperor from Longcheng, so as to inherit the unification of Qi. Later, Gao Shaoyi succeeded to the throne with the support of the Turkic Khan of Taba, and immediately crowned Gao Baoning as the prime minister and the king of Beiping County. In the following years, Gao Shaoyi and Gao Baoning repeatedly invaded the Northern Zhou border and marched into Youzhou in order to recapture the Northern Qi.
But two years later, the Northern Zhou sent envoys to send the princess and pro-Turkic, and finally reached a deal with the Turks, the Turks no longer supported the late emperor Gao Shaoyi, pretended to invite Gao Shaoyi to hunt, and let the Northern Zhou general He Ruoyi capture it and send it to the Northern Zhou. The Northern Zhou Dynasty brought Gao Shaoyi back to the Central Plains and imprisoned him in Shuzhong, where he died a few years later.
Gao Mingyue's father, Gao Baoning, continued to resist the Zhou, and in the third year of the Sui Kaihuang Dynasty, he commanded tens of thousands of tribes such as Goguryeo, Yao, and Khitan and Han soldiers and horses to join the Turkic army of 400,000 to invade the Central Plains. However, this huge battle, which stretched for thousands of miles, ended in a sudden and complete defeat, and thus finally split into two parts, the east and the west. Gao Baoning was defeated in his invasion of Youzhou and was killed by his subordinates outside the pass.
When Gao Qianxue was born, it was when Gao Shaoyi was crowned emperor in the grassland with the support of the Turks and Gao Baoning, as soon as she was born, she was the princess of Northern Qi, although Gao Shaoyi's throne only lasted for two years, but she was still the last princess of the real Northern Qi. When the Turks betrayed Gao Shaoyi to the Northern Zhou, Gao Qianxue was not in the grassland, and she was secretly arranged by Gao Shaoyi to be sent to Hebei when she was just over the age of birth. Gao Mingyue's situation is similar to Gao Qianxue's, but when her father Gao Baoning was defeated and killed by his subordinates in the third year of the emperor's reign, she was still in her mother's womb and was a posthumous child. Later, Gao Xun, a freelancer who was arranged by the late emperor Gao Shaoyi to take care of Gao Qianxue, sent Gao Ding to Liaoxi to investigate and find, only to pick up Gao Mingyue, Gao Mingyue's mother died in childbirth, she was born without parents, and her fate was the same tragedy as Gao Qianxue.
Over the years, they have been hiding in Hebei, although they have a lot of hidden property at the beginning, so they don't have to worry about life. But life is still not easy, the original little princess and the little princess are now adults, but for many years, their true identities are only known to a few old people of the Gao family. They did not live in Gaojiazhuang in Yangzhou, but often changed places, and rarely lived in the same place for more than three years. Today's Gaojiazhuang has only lived in it for less than a year. Most of the people in the village were ordinary servants and tenants, and the only ones who really knew the secret identity were the old steward of the village and the loyal guards of Gao Ding.
Now the Northern Qi Dynasty has been dead for many years, and even the Western Liang and Southern Chen have also been dead for many years. The world has long been unified, but for Gao Qianxue and Gao Mingyue, their sisters and Gao Bo, who have lost the country, it is not so easy to forget. Ordinary people may be able to forget about these and start to be the subjects of the Sui Dynasty. But their identities are simply impossible, Northern Zhou, Northern Qi, Southern Chen, Western Liang, these countries that were annexed and destroyed by the Sui Dynasty, those royal clans have a few good ends. Especially in countries like the Northern Qi and Southern Chen, which were destroyed by force, most of the men of the clan were killed, and the women of the clan were divided up by the emperor of the Sui Dynasty and those heroes like trophies.
Gao Qianxue refused to be a Shunmin of the Sui Dynasty, Gao Mingyue also refused, and Uncle Gao Qian was also unwilling.
Although they knew that the Sui Dynasty was like a behemoth, and it was not something they could challenge, even if they knew that they would break their heads if they went against the imperial court, they were still not afraid. They don't know what the point of life is other than revenge!
But their strength is too weak, and it is rare that they have not been discovered by the imperial court in hiding in Tibet all these years, and it is even more impossible to deal with the imperial court on their own. If you want to deal with the imperial court, if you want to avenge the country and the family, you can only rely on other forces. In Gao Qianxue's view, there are only two forces that can be borrowed today, one is the Northern Turks, and the other is Goguryeo in Liaodong. The Turks used to be the overlords of the world, and even the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi could only look at the faces of the Turks, competing to pay tribute and curry favor, and even make peace. But the Turks were finally defeated at the hands of Yang Jian, and they were divided internally. However, although the Turks are divided, their strength is still strong, but they have betrayed the last emperor, and they are not completely sure, Gao Qianxue and they will never join forces with the Turks lightly. The only ones left who can borrow their strength are the Goguryeo people. Back then, Gao Mingyue's father, Gao Baoning, had great prestige in western Liaoning, and even had a very good relationship with the tribes in eastern Liaodong, and his prestige was very high, and he repeatedly led the soldiers and horses of various tribes to attack the Central Plains. They also knew very well that the Turks were now under the attack of the Sui Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty had already targeted the Goguryeo people who wanted to dominate the northeast.
In recent years, they have even subjugated the Khitan and Xi, the former allies of the Goguryeo people, so that there is no buffer between Sui and Goguryeo. This made the Goguryeo people feel a great threat, and war between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out. The Goguryeo people were not reconciled to be contained, conquered, and they tried to resist. Now that Gao Qianxue has joined forces with them, the Goguryeo people hope to use Gao Qianxue's identity as the Northern Qi clan to create some chaos within the Sui Dynasty and contain and disperse the energy of the Sui Dynasty. And Gao Qianxue hopes to use the power of the Goguryeo people to take revenge.
Yiqiē was going quietly as planned, but today, Gao Ding, who was supposed to bring his allies back, returned alone with serious injuries, which made the situation complicated and even more dangerous.
"Maybe the court has already discovered us!"
"Maybe they just ran into bandits!"
Gao Qianxue shook her head, it won't be a bandit, although Gao Ding is just a Zhuang Ding head, but he used to be a palace guard of the Northern Qi Dynasty, a thousand cattle guarding the palace ban, a warrior one in a hundred, and those Zhuang Ding brought by his subordinates are not ordinary Zhuang Ding, they are all elites who have been trained for many years. There are no bandits and thieves who can defeat a Praetorian Guard general and a group of elites he has trained. "We have to be prepared for the worst, and now there are two biggest possibilities, one is that our allies have betrayed us. Second, Gao Ding and his allies were targeted by the imperial court. In any case, this is a very bad result, no one has appeared in Gaojiazhuang yet, but maybe Shun Teng will touch it soon. I think we should move right away and prepare for the worst. ”
"I agree to the transfer." Gao Bo was the first to agree, and now that the situation outside is unclear, it is not wise to continue to stay here. In any case, stay in the green mountains, and you are not afraid of running out of firewood.
"Then Uncle Gao, you will arrange it immediately, and immediately disperse and move to the place prepared before." Gao Qianxue ordered, and then said, "I'll go back to the East Courtyard first." ”
"Sister, just call someone from the East Courtyard to inform you, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, I think you should go first." Gao Mingyue stopped the shallow snow trail.
"No!" Gao Mingyue pulled away her sister's hand, "I figured it out, I'm going to tell Sù Yilang about our identity." ”
"Do you have to do it now?"
"It's now!" After speaking, Gao Qianxue strode towards the east courtyard.