Chapter 3 A song of turmoil
At that time, the name of the king of Lu, Liduo, in the Jin country was very ordinary, and the names of Jurchen generals such as Sticky Han and Jin Wushu had already been thunderous in my heart, I didn't know his existence at all, some people said that he had no ambitions, and he was destined to live a mediocre life in this life, and some people said that he had not married so far, and he was suspected of breaking his sleeves Longyang. In his mediocre life for more than ten years, the only thing he did was to be sent by his father, the Jurchen Kingdom, to quell the rebellion of the surrounding small tribes, and the day he set off was just the day before I married into the Jin Kingdom.
What kind of person is he, as a relative of the Wanyan family, as long as he fights, the right is at his fingertips, but he is willing to live a plain and nameless life, as a man, as long as he is willing, he can sit on countless beautiful women, but he has a deep affection for a girl.
The maids were all taking care of my bedchamber, but no amount of elaborate arrangement could hide the crudeness of the tent, and they complained, but after all, there was not much good accommodation in the army, and besides, I was only staying here temporarily.
"What do you think?" Liuyun asked me.
"I'm thinking about the one that Sticky Han said, the woman who made King Lu unforgettable, he thought that he had found a princess who could play the Gonghou, even if it was to make up for King Lu's guilt, but King Lu might not be able to understand his affection."
Now that Konghou has become a great sound in the Great Song Dynasty, he must have spent a lot of effort in order to make me and my relatives.
But how do I face King Lu? If he really doesn't forget the old feelings, my existence will always be superfluous.
In the days after that, we lived unhurriedly, but no one paid attention to us anymore, as if we were quietly forgotten in the corner by the Jin Kingdom, deliberately not to be mentioned, the progress of the peace talks between the two countries has nothing to do with me, when King Lu is a teacher, and I have nothing to do with it, sometimes, I will stand bored outside the account to sulk, but the patrol soldiers I meet, their eyes are all looking straight ahead, and no one stays on me.
I gradually had the illusion that the previous Lin'an was like a dream, and when I woke up, I saw a lonely wasteland, blowing the cold wind of the north.
It wasn't until one evening that I saw from a distance a carriage parked in front of my tent leave, and my calm heart stirred slightly, and I knew that this was Qin Hui fulfilling his promise with me.
"Sijun is silent, and it has been three autumns apart." Walking into the empty account, I leaned lightly on my nine-turn phoenix head, as if I had seen a close friend I hadn't seen for many years.
Come to think of it, when did my fascination with Konghou begin to reach such a point of obsession?
I can't say it myself, maybe when I was a child, when I saw my father being isolated by the courtiers, and vowed to practice Konghou and please His Majesty Zujun; Perhaps it was because that winter, on a whim, I was dancing in the imperial garden of Zujun, and I was bumped into by Zujun, who was very drunk, and in a fit of rage, I whipped twenty lashes, and lay in prison in a daze, and found that the iron window was blown by the wind, like when I was playing the strings of the gonghou; Or even earlier, when I first saw my mother kneeling in front of this gonghou in full costume, her eyes were like water, playing a piece called "Nagato Fu" for my father......
Mother, this is really a title that I haven't said for a long time, and it's also a name I'll never mention again.
I raised my arms and plucked the strings lightly, the familiar sound of the piano overflowed, and it made me feel the urge to cry, my eyes were slightly closed, my brow was tightly locked, and I tried to suppress my emotions, but my heart was full of cramps, and I was uncomfortable.
I remember that on the day I learned of my mother's death, I cried heartbreakingly in my father's arms, my liver and intestines were broken, and I was almost suffocated from exhaustion, but now although I have tears, I can only silently flow in my heart, joy and anger can not be seen, it is really sad that even I sympathize with myself.
"Who knows if there is a song of gonghou and turmoil, and the eyes are sad?" I sighed softly, I don't know how long it took, the anguish in my heart gradually vented, I stopped playing, and held the strings with both hands to stop the sound, but when I opened my eyes, I found that in the shadow on the ground, there was another shadow of a person, I looked up and looked sideways, so the man suddenly broke into my sight.
Later, one night, he asked me what impression he left in my heart when I first met him, and I pretended to be disgusted and said, I didn't have a good impression, how could you have a status in the Jin Kingdom at that time, and I had a headache at the thought of marrying someone like you, if it weren't for the fact that when you got along in the future, I would have treated me well, and my mother would have stopped serving you a long time ago.
He didn't care about my answer, and he probably knew that I was deliberately angry with him, and after smiling at me, he continued to work on his official documents.
I didn't tell him, in fact, when I first looked at him, I was stunned, and the light around me dimmed in an instant, as if there was only his handsome face and those dark eyes, but when I read the strange affectionate gaze in his eyes, I knew that I did not overestimate the woman, and the place in his mind, his eyes were in a trance, which made me unpredictable, and after staring at me for a long time, he spoke softly and said the name of another woman: "Song Yan." ”
I never believed that there would be a truly infatuated man in this world, and even if there were, they were all in love and would not live long, and they would never be met by me, but when I really met such a man, he already had a heart, and I was not blessed after all.
I didn't confirm the identity of Zhen Liduo at that time, but I guessed that he was the only person who could appear here in the middle of the night, so I retracted my gaze stupidly, lowered my head and straightened my body towards him: "Han Yi knocks on King Lu." ”
If it is calculated according to the seniority of the peace talks, even my father and emperor have to call his emperor and nephew his son, and there is nothing wrong with my worship, and there is really no need to treat Sticky Han with such an attitude before.
But he was as slow as Sticky Han, and I thought to myself that there was really nothing disrespectful about his thoughtful manners, and that he should have no reason to trouble me. Because I had been kneeling on the ground for too long before, my legs were numb at the moment, and my arms couldn't help but tremble, so I had to bow respectfully again, and my voice was a little higher than before, and there was a slight annoyance in my words: "Zhao Hanyi, a woman from Xiabang, knock on King Lu Chitose." ”
Only then did he come back to his senses, realized his gaffe, coughed dryly twice, and then said: "The princess is a persistent person, there is no need to be so polite, and she is lying in the dark." ”
I lowered my arms and looked up at him, trying to keep eye level with him, but this time he deliberately avoided my gaze, and his eyes blinked very quickly, for a long time, presumably to relieve the embarrassment, he spoke: "The sound of the princess's piano is gentle and continuous, and it is like wisps, I don't know what kind of song was played just now?" ”
I never thought that a military general like him, who had been immersed in Hu Feng in the north for a long time, would be interested in the matter of music and rhythm, maybe he couldn't find other topics for a while, but he still answered his question: "It's just that Han Yi doesn't know when it arises, and the tune that he writes down casually, the joy of a small family, is difficult to get into elegance, and it is appreciated by the prince." ”
"Oh, so you wrote this piece yourself." There was a flash of disappointment on his face, but it recovered quickly, so quickly that I wasn't even sure if I was dazzled.
"The prince seems to care about this?" I asked tentatively.
"It's nothing, it's just that watching the princess play the gonghou reminds this king of an old man."
"But that girl named Song Yan?"
Over the years, the experience of dealing with affairs in the palace has taught me that I should not inquire more about this matter, but he is the object of my peace with Jin Guo after all, and my future husband, no matter what the purpose, I must do everything I can to win his favor, and that woman is the hurdle I must overcome.
He nodded, then shook his head again, looked at me, looked like he wanted to speak, and finally let out a long sigh.
I didn't know at that time that my position in the mind of Liduo in the future had far surpassed Song Yan, but at that moment, I was very envious, what kind of entanglement happened between the woman who had turned into loess and white bones? What is so special about her that she is worthy of the dignified King Jin and has been cherished for many years?
The atmosphere condensed for a long time, and he finally spoke, but he didn't continue what he said just now: "The princess should sit and talk, it's not as good as Jiangnan, if you kneel on the ground for so long, your knees will be cold." ”
I realized that just now because of playing the gonghou, and maintained a kneeling posture, at this moment, facing the liduo, it was really like kneeling in front of him, I bowed my head and smiled: "Thank you for your concern, Han Yi has been playing the gonghou for a long time, and I have long been used to this sitting posture." But he got up and sat down on the low table in front of him, and I noticed that he was dressed in a casual Jurchen robe, and his hair was simply tied up, not at all like a military general who had just returned from a battle on the battlefield, and when he saw me sit down, he took a bowl, poured it full of wine, and put it in front of me.
I have never drunk much, but because of my feelings, I had to take the bowl and take a small sip of the etiquette, to which I did not force it, but kept looking at me, which made my face slightly embarrassed, and I couldn't help but bow my head and look at my face reflected in the bowl, slightly embarrassed.
"I heard that the prince fought against the rebel brigade before, I don't know what the battle situation is?" I tried to break the embarrassment and looked up and asked.
"I'm ashamed to say it, the princess should have heard of it, this king is the one who doesn't like to fight and kill, so he didn't make any big noise, it can only be regarded as a mess."
Liduo said with a smile, with some self-deprecation in his words, Xu is the battle situation of his division this time, it is to kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, as far as Jin Guo is concerned, he has not gained any achievements, and he can't help but curse himself in his heart, and his words are inappropriate.
"But the princess thinks this king is useless?" He asked me, but in a very affirmative tone.
I shook my head.
"The princess also tells the king about yourself, why are you willing to come to me with your relatives?"
He shifted the subject to me, but I didn't know how to answer his question, which was to tell him, how did his elder brother Mu Han send an envoy into the Song Dynasty in the name of the Jin State, threatening my father and emperor step by step, making him exhausted and almost insane? Or tell him, how did Qin Hui, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, do the internal response, provoke the ministers, alarmist, incite the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty to kneel down in the main hall, and force my father and the emperor and his relatives to write an edict?
If I were to start at the beginning, it would be a long story, but I don't want to mention it.
"The peace talks between the two countries are important in sincerity, and since the prince understands that the little girl is regarded by her father as a pearl in the palm of her hand, she knows Song's sincerity to Jin......"
"The princess doesn't seem to be answering the king's question."
He heard my answer to the question, which made me, who was already a little weak-hearted, even more unconfident, I looked at Liao Liduo, my heart was slightly entangled, I was silent for a long time, and finally bowed my head and said: "Since the prince is called Han Yi by a 'princess', he naturally understands that this kind of title that is higher than ordinary people should not be borne by himself for nothing." ”
"I see."
His answer seemed careless, but it was very calm, in contrast, my performance was much more restrained, for some reason, my heart was always hanging, I always felt that something could not be put down, the candle next to me was about to burn out, just when I hesitated to ask whether he would stay, he spoke first: "This king should go." ”
He raised his right arm and saluted me, got up and said to me, "Princess, please stay." ”
So I froze in place, and watched as Liduo walked out of the tent, and shortly after he left, the faint candlelight beside me was finally drowned in the melted candle tears, and the light around me dimmed instantly, making my eyes ache faintly, and I tentatively moved forward in the dark, but accidentally knocked over the bowl on the table.