Chapter 2 Special Envoy of Chang'an
/newmessage.php?tosys=1&title="Tang Ride."
Chapter Errors/Click here to report
The left cheek was still spicy and painful, but the lips felt a little cool, as if it was water.
The body seemed to gradually gain strength, and before I could see something, I heard a voice, many people were talking, the accent was a little strange, a bit like Cantonese, not exactly, it seemed that there were some elements of southern and northern dialects, but I could still vaguely understand it - it was Chinese.
Saved?
"Ahh The envoy seems to be awake! β
Envoy?
Zhang Mai opened his eyes with difficulty, and found that he seemed to be lying in a cave, and several people surrounded him, two of them were old guys in their fifties, wearing ancient clothes, a middle-aged man, and a young man, but what was gratifying was that the heroic beauty was also among them, but when she made eye contact with Zhang Mai, she quickly opened her eyes and was slightly shy.
"Envoy, are you awake?" The oldest man spoke. Zhang Mai is not a linguist, and he can't tell where he is from the accent, but it sounds like people from a certain dialect area speak Mandarin, which is very "non-standard".
"What envoy?" Zhang Mai found that his voice was a little hoarse, probably because he had been thirsty for too long.
What are these people doing? Acting? Zhang Mai knew that there would be some crews in the desert who would occasionally come to visit.
"Isn't Zunjia an envoy? Isn't it an envoy from Chang'an? Another old man said that his appearance was a little fierce.
"What envoy from Chang'an?"
Changan? What a classical name, isn't that city renamed Xi'an now?
"If you are not an envoy, then this ......" The old man before took out the holy decree: "How can this holy decree be on you?" β
Zhang Mai's head buzzed a little, and he faintly felt that something terrible was happening. He saw the old man's eyes shining with vigilance and even doubt, and he felt that if he didn't deal with it well, something might happen.
"What is this place? You guys...... Who are you? β
The men looked at each other a few times, and the girl said, "I see...... The envoy may have been tired, and his body had not yet recovered, so his consciousness was a little blurred. β
The oldest man nodded, seeming to agree with the girl's statement.
"Fen'er, you stay and take care of the envoy."
They walked away, gathering seven or eight paces away from Zhang Mai, whispering something about something. Zhang Mai vaguely heard something: "Isn't he a special envoy?" "But what he said is Huayan......" "Huayan is Huayan, but his accent is wrong." "Although it's not right, it's not Hu Yin, our Tang Dynasty has a vast territory and many dialects...... Maybe...... He is a man of some place. β
As he gradually woke up, Zhang Mai's mind became clearer and clearer, and he wanted to ask the cutie: "What is this place?" Who are you? But when the words came to his lips, they became: "Your name is Fen'er?" β
The girl snorted, as if she should respond.
"I seemed to be to you before I fainted...... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. β
Meimei's face turned red, and she suddenly shouted, "Dad, he seems to be awake." β
Those people in strange costumes surrounded them again, and then the one who was a little fierce said again: "Young man, are you an envoy from Chang'an?" β
Zhang Mai intuitively felt that if he honestly denied it now, he was afraid that nothing would happen.
Don't answer, ask what happened.
"I just woke up, and you suddenly asked this and that......" Zhang Mai said, "I want to ask you, who are you!" Also, what about my stuff? β
He found that his baggage, as well as the three antiques, were gone.
Several old men looked at each other again, and finally, the oldest one patted his forehead: "Ouch, it's ours." β
"How?"
The old man said, "I only want to find out where he came from, but the envoy must also know where we come from before we can identify ourselves." The envoy came from Chang'an to here, and he had a lot of hardships along the way, and he couldn't meet anyone and tell him. β
The other old man said, "Yes, yes." β
Zhang Mai heard that they still thought that he was a "special envoy", he was amused in his heart, and heard the old man say: "The envoy ......" He thought that Zhang Mai had not yet admitted that he was an envoy, so he changed his words: "This Langjun, the old man is called Guo Shidao......" pointed to the old man who was a little fierce: "This is Yang Dingguo......" and then pointed to a middle-aged man around forty years old: "This is my righteous brother An Shoujing." Pointing to a young man in his early twenties who looked a little like him: "This is my son Guo Luo." Finally, he pointed to the cutie: "This is my daughter, Guo Fen." β
Oh, her name is Guo Fen, but-
"Wait, wait!" Zhang Mai intercepted his words: "What's the use of you suing me for this bunch of names!" I don't know you at all. β
With a thought, I was about to ask if you guys were missing a trick, and you were memorizing the script to let me make up the numbers? I heard Guo Shidao sigh: "What Lang Jun said is that the people from Chang'an, how can they know the names of our gang, but Lang Jun should know the name Guo Xin, right?" β
Guo Xin? Something familiar......
Suddenly, the words of the decree passed through my head.
Guo Xin!
Zhang Mai blurted out: "Anxi Dadu Protection? Four Towns Festival Envoy? β
Several old people saw that he had revealed Guo Xin's origin, and their faces showed a color of joy, and they thought more and more that Zhang Mai's words were right, Guo Shidao shouted: "The envoy remembers? β
Remember? I don't remember, I just saw the name on the decree, andβ
He looked around at the people in front of him: "What does Guo Xin have to do with you?" β
"Guo Xin is an old ancestor, and we are all descendants of the generals of the four towns of Anxi."
"Ahh Zhang Mai Guo Shidao saw that Guo Fen glanced at him from old to young, and his eyes were full of disbelief.
What are you kidding, the Tang Dynasty soldiers will remain in the descendants of Central Asia?
Zhang Mai has heard that there are ** descendants in Myanmar, and after decades they still retain their bloodline and even the military system, and they have also heard that some people have been stranded in Africa for hundreds of years when Zheng He went to the West, and there are still descendants, but they have become not like Chinese......
It's hard to believe.
More than a thousand years! How is that possible?
He didn't say it, but his eyes had already shown a qiΔ, Guo Shidao and Yang Dingguo glanced at each other, Guo Shidao said, "It seems that the envoy still doubts our identity." Well, I'll tell you where we came from, so that the envoy has no doubt in his mind. However, Chang'an has been isolated from us for a long time, and I don't know what things you know and what things the envoy doesn't know, so I really don't know where to start. β
"Let's start at the beginning."
"From the beginning? All right. Let's talk about our Anxi Protectorate first, our Tang Dynasty's rule over the Western Regions is mainly to set up the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate and the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. The jurisdiction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate is north of the Tianshan Mountains, and it is now behind us. From the south of the Tianshan Mountains to the west of the Green Mountains, they are all under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. β
Zhang Mai still knows about the Anshi Rebellion, and Zhang Mai of the Tianshan Mountains also knows that the Chinese topographic map in his baggage is clearly marked, but where is the Green Ridge? Ah, by the way, when passing through Kashgar, the tour guide seemed to mention that the Green Ridge is the "Pamir Plateau" on the modern map.
"The Anxi Protectorate has four major military towns, namely Shule, Khotan, Qiuci and Yanqi, collectively referred to as the four towns of Anxi, but after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, most of the garrisons of the four towns of Anxi were transferred inward, and the Hexi Corridor was cut off, that is to say, the four towns of Anxi not only weakened their own strength, but also cut off from the imperial court. At the time, it was an enclave. β
Hearing this, Zhang Mai remembered Alaska in the United States, which is also an enclave in the United States, with Canada in between, but listening to Guo Shidao, the enclave of Anxi was obviously isolated because of the human factor of war.
Guo Shidao slowly narrated: Back then, the territory of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions fell step by step, the Hexi Corridor was cut off, and the Tang people stranded in the Western Regions were at a loss surrounded by the Hui people, Tubo people, and Arabs......
From Lanzhou to Kashgar, the tour guide also told a lot of stories related to the Tang Dynasty along the way, but after going abroad, foreign tour guides rarely mentioned what this land had to do with the Tang Dynasty. At most, when in Kyrgyzstan, the tour guide said that their country contributed a world-class great poet Li Bai - what a joke! Li Bai is a foreigner?
Zhang Mai suddenly thought: "I see, so to speak, the five Central Asian countries I came to visit, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, etc., all belonged to Datang before." Of course, the desert where I got lost also belongs to Datang. And Afghanistan, is it not Chinese? Hey, why didn't that Central Asian tour guide say this? β
He suddenly thought of a very real question: Is it true that these people claim to be the descendants of the soldiers of the four towns of Anxi? Because there is no reason for the other party to make such a big battle to deceive himself, and there is no benefit. If this is really a prank, then the acting skills of these people are really good!
"Could it be that these people have hid in the deep mountains and old forests, or in the small oasis in the desert, and have been hiding for more than a thousand years, and have not been discovered? Just like those who avoided Qin Shi Huang in the Peach Blossom Garden, they hid for hundreds of years so that they didn't know whether there was a Han or Wei or Jin dynasty? β
But he soon denied this speculation: the probability of more than a thousand years of isolation from the world is too low!
At the same time, his eyes were fixed on the group of people, but he felt that these people were not joking with him. Their eyes were serious.
Guo Shidao seemed to see Zhang Mai's suspicions, and said to the heroic young man: "It seems that the envoy still doesn't believe it. Luo'er, take out the fish talisman left by the ancestors. β
The young man Guo Luo turned around and took a small box, the box was very old, but it was well preserved, Guo Shidao took out a key from his arms, opened the box with great treasure, and there were some old documents hidden in it.
Zhang Mai's eyes lit up, because he was stared at by a large group of people, Yang Dingguo actually noticed this subtle expression, and he said: "The envoy really recognizes the fish talisman." β
Fish charms? What is a Fish Symbol? Zhang Mai didn't know that the fish charm was the tiger charm, that is, the seal letter of the Chinese dynasties to dispatch troops, and the Tang Dynasty changed the tiger charm to the fish symbol because of avoiding Li Hu's secret (Li Hu was Li Yuan's grandfather), but Zhang Mai didn't dare to ask casually at this time. His eyes lit up just now, not because he knew, but because he had discovered that the fish talisman was almost identical to the fish-shaped token he had found next to the skeleton.
Then, Guo Shidao took out the fish talisman brought by Zhang Mai again: "I, Guo Xingong, sent fifteen groups of envoys to Chang'an back then, but there was no response until the four towns fell one after another. We are waiting hard in the Western Regions, in order to wait for this fish talisman and this holy decree......" There were tears in his eyes: "After the death of Guo Xingong, our descendants of the four towns still refuse to despair, until today, but I don't know how many years I have been waiting!" β
"So you've been waiting for more than a thousand years?" Zhang Mai was a little moved by the loyalty of these people, but he still didn't dare to believe it.
"More than a thousand years?" The two old men looked at each other and said in unison: "It's not more than a thousand years." β
Just then, a young man rushed into the cave and shouted, "Not good! The Hui people have found this neighborhood, we have to leave quickly! β
ββββββ
On the first day of the first month, in the early hours of the morning, another chapter will be updated.
Although "Tang Cavalry" begins with a crossing, it should be a different historical text, hoping to use the eyes of the protagonist to take the officials to travel to the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty - the land that once belonged to us! Recreate that fantastic era.
It's not a pure struggle for hegemony, not celebrities, no copying poems, not stealing inventions and creations, but just trying to find the spirit and martial spirit of the Tang Dynasty that our nation has lost for many years by writing this book!
This is a new attempt, and it also comes with a lot of risk. However, the younger brother has no ambitions, he just hopes to tell this story well, and at the same time, I hope that all the judges can like this story.
Well, without further ado, it's time to ask for votes.
Please don't forget to collect, vote for recommendations, and vote for flowers.
^_^
Aishang Novel Network would like to thank all book friends for their support biquge.info