Final Chapter - Amber
The clouds are dark, the mountain rain is coming, Chang'an City is shrouded in black clouds, it is just past noon at this time, but the sky is as dark as dusk, and a heavy rain is coming.
A petite woman wearing a black hood hurriedly slipped out of the Yushan Palace, and when she walked to the outer door, there was a rush and chaotic footsteps behind her.
The woman wearing the hood was startled, and she was about to leave the palace with three steps and two steps, and the guards at the door wanted to stop her, but she saw that the woman lifted her hood, revealing a peerless face in the city, and the guards who wanted to stop stopped suddenly, but heard someone behind shouting: "The queen mother has an order, and the princess of Allure is not allowed to leave the palace!" ”
The guard hurriedly stepped forward to stop again, and the woman drew a brilliant short sword from her waist, put it across her neck, and said, "If you dare to stop it, I will die here immediately!" ”
The guards immediately threw down their blades and retreated, Princess Allure was the favorite princess of the first emperor, and she was the pearl of the Tang Dynasty, so that the first emperor did not take the fief as the name of the princess, but opened the world to enable the word Allure as the name of Li Yuan, which shows her status in the heart of the first emperor.
As soon as Allure walked out of the palace, a group of eunuchs hurried over, led by a eunuch with a gloomy face, shouted: "Princess Allure listens to the order, the queen mother does not allow the princess to step out of the palace." ”
Allure looked even more flustered, looking around impatiently, at this moment, a white horse neighed out of the road outside the Xuanwu Gate, to the city around the people stood up, two hooves kicked in the void twice and suddenly stopped, at a glance is a wonderful horse, Allure is overjoyed, regardless of the shouts behind the saddle on the horse, without whipping, the horse galloped along the road to the Suzaku Gate.
The grim-faced eunuch snorted coldly. The eunuch behind took out more than ten imperial horses from the imperial horse supervisor next door, jumped on horseback, and chased down in the direction of the princess of Allure.
The sound of hooves was like thunder, and the pedestrians on the street hurriedly dodged, no one expected that there would be such a thing in Chang'an City, with fruit stalls and porcelain stalls on the street. Food stalls, fan stalls...... All kinds of stalls were suddenly unlucky, the white horses were rampaging on the long street, Allure sat on the horse and kept shouting for them to avoid, seeing that all kinds of stalls were overturned countless times, Allure had to take out a handful of golden melon seeds from the sleeve cage and spill them out, which was regarded as compensation.
She cared about human life, but the eunuchs behind her didn't care about the people who rushed to pick up the golden melon seeds, and brutally passed through the middle. More than a dozen people were suddenly hit by the war horse and broke their bones, wailing, the Wuhou patrolling the street suddenly blew the bamboo whistle, and countless Wuhou rushed to Suzaku Street one after another, quickly forming a human wall, and blocked the barbed wire, ready to catch these bold and daring people who dared to gallop in Chang'an City.
The white horse of Allure came in an instant, and in the face of Allure's shouts, those Wuhou faces were gloomy and cold, and they had no intention of dodging. The law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that no matter who it is. Those who galloped wild in Chang'an City were whipped thirty times and exiled for five hundred miles. I don't know of anyone who is exempt from this ban. The last time this kind of thing happened was ten years ago, when the king of Huai'an was caught by Di Ge while drunk, and whipped thirty lashes in front of the public, and then three years after being exiled to Longyou with a flail, no one dared to do this. I can't imagine that something like this is happening again today.
The white horse was extremely powerful, and it actually dodged the Wuhou who threw it out to hang the net, and with a neighing sound, it jumped into the air and jumped over those standing Wuhou, and continued to run along the bluestone paved street.
Before the pale-faced martial marquis could react, more than a dozen fast horses had already rushed over like a whirlwind. Seeing that the posture had no intention of stopping, Wuhou's captain hurriedly let his subordinates scatter so as not to be injured by the war horse.
The knights on more than ten war horses were actually extraordinary, controlling the reins to adjust the horse's steps, and flying over the barbed wire lightly, the whole process was smooth and unusually unusually jerky.
Allure looked back at the pursuers behind him in a hurry, and couldn't help but be more anxious, constantly stroking the neck of the white horse in the hope that it could run faster, the white horse seemed to know that Allure was very anxious, taking advantage of the lack of people on the street to increase the speed again, Allure only felt that the wind was blowing in his face, and his ears were full of whirring wind.
Seeing that the city gate was about to close, the white horse drilled out of the gap in the middle and ran wildly in the direction of Yushan.
The knight behind him held a gold medal in his hand from a distance, and the city gate officer was taken aback, and hurriedly ordered someone to open the city gate again, such a gold medal is too rare to be hindered.
When the eunuch with a gloomy face saw that Allure was running towards Jade Mountain, he couldn't help but be in a hurry, and shouted: "Don't let the princess enter the bamboo forest!" Before the words stopped, a silver knife had been stabbed on the buttocks of the war horse, the war horse was in pain, neighed wildly, and the outlaw began to increase in speed, and it was not long before it had already chased behind Allure.
The gloomy sky finally began to turn into a world of heavy rain after a thunderclap, and the eunuch roared in the heavy rain and said to the princess of Allure: "Stop, princess, the queen mother orders you to go back to the palace!" ”
"I won't go back, I won't go back if I die, I want to get married, she will marry herself, I am the princess of the Tang Dynasty, how can I marry Hu Ren!"
"This is the order of the Queen Mother, don't be killed!"
Allure didn't care about the pain of the raindrops on his face, gritted his teeth and desperately urged the war horse under his crotch, seeing that the bamboo forest was in sight, as long as he entered the bamboo forest, someone would naturally make the decision for himself.
The white horse's tail was already raised high, and this was already its fastest speed.
Seeing that the princess of Allure was about to enter the bamboo forest, the eunuch with a gloomy face gritted his teeth, and a small scimitar appeared in his palm again and threw the knife out with a wave of his hand, not to hurt the princess of Allure, but to kill the white horse, and he was sure that he would scoop up the princess before she fell to the ground.
The knife just flew out, but I heard a bang, the knife didn't know what was hit and flew out, squinted at it, and found that his war horse had broken into the bamboo forest, and couldn't help but feel like a ghost, holding high the gold medal and roaring loudly: "The slave maid was ordered by the queen mother to invite the princess of Allure to return to the palace, and she had no intention of offending the majesty of the ancestors." ”
Before the words fell, after a "bang" sound, a bloody hole appeared in the center of the eunuch's eyebrows, and the entire skull was lifted, and the other eunuchs had already stopped and wanted to turn the horse's head. But it was too late, almost at the same time, and the thud was incessant, and all thirteen knights fell from their horses. After a few rolls, it fell silent.
A very old man walked slowly out of the bamboo forest on crutches, coughing as he went, and seemed to die if he coughed again. But his steps are still very steady, and there is a boy in Tsing Yi who helps him with an umbrella next to him.
The old man looked at the corpse on the ground with his toothless mouth open and said: "I have said a long time ago that outsiders are not allowed to enter the bamboo forest, and the old ancestor also said that he didn't want to hear the sound of horses' hooves. ”
The boy in Tsing Yi picked up the gold medal from the ground, showed it to the old man, and said with a smile: "Treasure Ancestor." It's a gold medal with a phoenix carved on it. ”
The old man patted the back of the boy's head dotingly and said, "Since it's gold, then take it, don't be deceived by others, you can exchange a lot of candy in Chang'an City." Hehe. ”
Just as the old man and the young man were talking, a group of people came out of the bamboo forest, quickly dragged the corpses and war horses away, and took advantage of the pouring rain to clean up the blood stains and brains on the stone slabs one by one, and slowly walked back with the old man and the boy. The entrance to the bamboo grove regained its original silence, as if nothing had happened......
Allure rode a horse through the bamboo forest skillfully. When he reached a large rock, he jumped off his white horse, and rushed into the hut in front of him crying all the way.
"Ancestor, you save the city, save the city, save the city......"
Yun Ye put down the big book in his hand, touched the wet little head buried in his knees, and said softly, "What's wrong?" Whoever bullied you, sue the ancestors. The old ancestor went to discount his legs! ”
"It's the queen mother, she wants to marry in the city, the ancestors, the city will not marry, and she is willing to guard the ancestors for the rest ......of her life."
Yun Ye took the handkerchief and helped Allure wipe the water stains on his face. But the more he rubbed it, he patted Allure's face with a smile and said: "Allure is already a big girl, and the big girl naturally wants to marry, even if this person Allure doesn't like it, we will find another suitable person to marry, this is human, and it can't be done if you don't marry." ”
Allure cried even louder, and complained silently: "If it's good, Allure will naturally not refuse, but the queen mother has to marry the bearded prince of the big food, they are barbarians, and the queen mother will lock the city in the jade building, if it weren't for my brother to help me, the queen mother would have married the prince of the big food." ”
Yun Ye was stunned for a moment, he hadn't been out of the bamboo forest for a long, long time, and he didn't know that there was such a thing, so he couldn't help but turn his head to an elderly servant.
The servant bowed down and said, "The ancestor doesn't know that Tahir, the prince of the Great Eclipse, is the ninth son of King Abbas of the Caliphate Empire.
This person is indeed extraordinary, according to rumors, this person can speak eleven languages, including the language of my Datang, three years ago, came to the Tang Dynasty to study, intending to enter Yushan Academy to study, was rejected by Dean Wu Mei, so he turned to Hongwen Hall to study Han classics, and was among the best in last year's big exam!
The empire now has a very large demand for fire oil, but the largest supplier of fire oil is in Da Shi, where the desert is full of oil springs, the imperial Yun Lu general, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Wang Fang Yi seven years ago led troops from Tochar to take the road to the expedition to Da Shi, all the way through the lock invincible, but was caused by a black storm with heavy casualties, had to return to Beijing, easy to destroy Tochar, this is the biggest battle loss of my Tang Dynasty since Guo Xiaoke's whole army was wiped out, so the court Yuan Rong thought that it was not suitable for the expedition. ”
After listening to the servant's words, Yun Ye picked up the little face with pear blossoms and rain in Allure and said with a smile: "It seems that that kid is really a masterpiece of a generation, aren't you tempted?" ”
Allure shook his head stubbornly and said: "Allure not only has the blood of Taizong flowing on his body, but also the blood of his ancestors, how can he marry Fan Bang because of a little fire oil!" ”
Yun Ye said with a smile: "It's really not as good as the generation, the Tang Empire is used to taking things, and now it actually has to pay the price, the old man is really a little unaccustomed, the ironclad ship is rampant on the Red Sea, what reason do they have not to give us oil?"
Yun San, go and tell the Queen Mother, this family matter will not be mentioned again, take the girl to exchange for oil, and if she thinks of it, she will ask Cheng Shu of the Lingnan Fleet, can he still fight?
The old man liked Muhammad's Qur'an, so he brought me four copies, knowing that they copied seven copies in total. One part was kept in Medina, and the rest were sent to Mecca, Damascus, Yemen, Behyreini, Kufa, Bassola and other places. Uthman ordered all the other manuscripts to be burned, and these seven books were the definitive version, and the localities told them, so they found four copies, and they couldn't even do this little thing. What's the use? ”
Allure couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard that he didn't have to marry Tahir, who smelled strange, and when he saw that the ancestor was talking about serious things, he stood up and filled the ancestor's teapot with hot water, and then went to the backyard to find the ancestor of Xiao Miao to change into dry clothes.
At this time, in the Liangyi Hall of the Tang Dynasty, Tahir habitually sat cross-legged on the carpet specially prepared for him by the Queen Mother, smiling and talking to the Queen Mother about the customs of big food. Especially their prophet Muhammad.
"In the earliest days, the ferocity of man was almost unusual, like an animal. In those days, it was difficult to distinguish between man and beast, and man was only the embodiment of the beast. The arrival of Muhammad made them leap from the lowly and barbaric realm to the ——— real people.
His great ideas contrasted with his austere life, and he approached official duties with ease and without any ornamentation of flowery words. When he was in the highest position of power in the state, he still mended leather boots and coarse coats by himself, milked goats, cleaned his house and cooked by fire. The most common foods on his table are dates and water, and dairy products and honey are his luxuries. During the long journey, he shared dry food with his subordinates. He exhorted people to be merciful, and when he died, he left behind a penniless purse, which is the best evidence of his sincerity.
He was also a philosopher, an orator, a legislator, a military strategist, and a liberator of the mind, who founded great dynasties on earth and opened spiritual sustenance in heaven. If this prophet, who has these qualities, puts him on the scales of mankind. Who is greater than him? Who else but this perfect man can achieve such a transcendent state? ”
The Empress Dowager Changsun said with a smile: "Such a character is indeed worthy of admiration, but in our Datang, there are also such characters, and there are two of them, the reason why Datang has such prosperity and peace now." Thanks to two ancestors, one is the King of Wei of my Tang Dynasty, and the other is the famous Duke of Chu.
Your saints are dead, but our saints are still alive, still two!
Just as the two of them were talking. An old palace maid walked up to the Queen Mother and whispered a few words softly, and the Queen Mother's face became gloomy, and she said to Tahir: "Your Royal Highness, I'm afraid I won't be able to agree to your marriage proposal." ”
Why is that? Is my blood not noble enough? Or am I not knowledgeable enough? Or maybe my martial arts can't fully protect the safety of Princess Allure? ”
The Empress Dowager shook her head with a smile and said: "No, because the ancestor of this empire has spoken, the princess of the Tang Dynasty is not allowed to marry a foreigner, this is an iron law, so, Prince Tahiti, you better hurry back to your hometown and prepare to fight, the ancestor does not allow us to obtain fire oil by marriage, then, there is only one possibility left, that is, war!" ”
Tahiti stood up abruptly and looked at the Empress Dowager and said, "Any unjust war will be won on the side of truth, and since the black storm seven years ago caused your country to lose its troops, it can still make your country pay a heavy price today." ”
The Empress Dowager was not annoyed and smiled and said, "Those generals of our country don't see it that way!" ”
Tahiti held back his anger, still very politely saluted the queen mother, and then left in a hurry.
As soon as Tahiti left, the Empress Dowager frowned and said, "The old ancestor has not interfered in the government for almost thirty years, how can he suddenly make trouble today?" ”
The old palace maid whispered: "Today's queen is always selected among the three families, the last queen is from the Yun family, and Allure is the daughter of the first queen, you have obviously caused the dissatisfaction of the old man by doing this, but it seems that it is not strict, the old man is just distressed." ”
The queen mother relieved her heart and sent her emperor's son to visit the ancestors in the bamboo forest, and by the way, she brought the city back.
When the thirteen-year-old emperor arrived in the bamboo forest, he happened to see the two ancestors circling around an old woman with goosebumps, and the words in his mouth were very obscene and harsh, in order not to pollute his ears, he decisively went to the back to find his sister Allure, and by the way, he wanted his BMW back, once the good things were in the hands of his sister, many times they were gone.
Li Tai put his fat body into the rattan chair with difficulty and gasped and said, "You are not small, if it weren't for the old man's age, he would have stripped you naked and paraded the streets." ”
The old woman smiled and said: "I haven't seen Lord Wei for many years, your taste is still so unique, the old body had the heart to serve you, a young talent, and the sheep when you were young was also a rare beauty, but when you saw the sheep, you ran away, which made the sheep sad for a long time." ”
Li Tai said that hooligan words were not Gao Shan's opponent at all, so he had to keep his mouth shut.
Yun Ye looked at the rainbow in the sky and asked Gao Shanzi: "Decades of grievances, it's actually very boring to talk about now, but you don't want to be a pirate in Beihai, what are you doing when you go back to Datang?" ”
The high mountain goat was so thin that he shrunk into a brocade robe like a child, and sighed faintly: "You are always robbing the old body, starting from the East China Sea to rob the old body's gold, to later taking away the dignity of the old husband, and then to robbing my fruits in the South China Sea, until you robbed my Red Sea, my canal......
The life of the high mountain goat can be called a life of being robbed by you, why didn't you snatch the innocent body of the sheep back then, and let me be abused endlessly by the bearded guests......"
Yun Ye's face was embarrassed, Li Tai's gossip heart rose, he deliberately put on his glasses, looked at Yun Ye with a smile and said, "Actually, it's not too late!" ”
Gao Shanzi sighed and said: "I'm about to die, this time I came to Datang to ask for a favor with the two, I have completely ignored the fleet in the North Sea, whether they can escape the attack of the Datang fleet, it depends on their own ability, I have lived long enough, it has been beyond the scope of the law of the Tang Dynasty, and now I want to find a place to bury my bones on the island of Benzhou, I was born in Si, grew up in Si, I want to go back there, I hope the two can allow a lonely old woman to make a final request." ”
Listening to the pleading of the mountain goat, Yun Ye and Li Tai were reluctant to make a sound, the sunset shone warmly on the bodies of the three old men, and the bamboo forest after the rain seemed more quiet, and the three of them stretched out in unison, lying lazily on the chair, enjoying this rare quiet.
Dongying Prefecture is now a place for the empire to exile prisoners, in order to save money, all the most vicious criminals in the country are loaded on ships and thrown to Dongying, only the most basic means of subsistence, such a thing has been carried out for 20 years, and the country now calls that place Alcatraz Island, because the people on the island are the most vicious demons in the crowd.
Yun Ye invited Gao Shanzi to drink a cup of tea, ate a bowl of noodles and sent a housekeeper to send her out. Since she is going to Yingzhou, let's go, but Yun Ye gave an order to the East China Sea Master of the Empire, and that island is only allowed to enter but not leave......
Li Tai smiled and said to Yun Ye: "Knowing that ghost woman has bad intentions, why did you still let her get her wish?" ”
Yun Ye thought for a while and said: "I admire a person who is still struggling at this time, Yingzhou Island is the most vicious criminal, I don't know if this biggest pirate leader can regain his prestige now......
It's just a crazy old woman, it's just a poor old woman, it's not worth the effort.
Li Tai said to Yun Ye proudly: "I haven't wet the bed for three days, thanks to those two huge ambers you sent, they can really calm people's minds."
It's just that why are there two strange-looking Hu people in Amber? You and I both know that it takes many, many years to form amber, according to your theory, amber and the dragon bones in the academy should be the same age, and there were people in that era? ”
Yun Ye looked at the distant mountains sadly, without saying a word, some words can't be said until death, some words are only suitable for being brought into the grave, and some things can only leave clues like slush and claws for others, and when they say it, it becomes very boring, the evidence is actually irrelevant, the most beautiful thing is actually conjecture, only magnificent and colorful conjectures can create a new world, Yun Ye doesn't plan to tell Li Tai that he plunged into the Tang Dynasty because of these two bastards......
"The End of the Book" (to be continued......
PS: I'm done......