Chapter Fifty-Eight: Making Up Stories, Making Identities
Ao Bai got up before dawn and taught Hari Chagai to stand up in the three-body pose.
He liked this black boy who looked a little rustic. His strength is great, which has been achieved through years of systematic training. Hari Chagai is born with divine power, and there is still room for improvement. This apprentice, maybe in a few years, will be able to train as fiercely as Arislan.
The night evacuated, and the dawn fell. The morning light flickered, opening the cloud curtain of the eastern iron blue...... Gradually, the clouds connected to the edge of the grassland became mottled from iron blue, and a faint lead color appeared under the canopy, and after a while, a wide colorful silk seemed to float up on the horizon, from bottom to top, from far to near, the distant grassland seemed to burn, and a red sun rose from the east.
Ao Bai feels that the sunrise on the grassland is more distinctive than the seaside, and people never get tired of watching it.
An hour later, everyone got up one after another, and Hari Chagai said goodbye to his relatives, rode his horse, and set off with the procession. After bowing to Ao, he began to feel that there were people outside the world, and there was a sky outside the sky, and he just wanted to go out and see the world. Sometimes a subtle decision can change a person's life and make a legend.
The phoenix rode a horse and whispered in Chinese beside Aobai: "When we go to the Central Plains, it must not be as simple as living a stable life, right?" ”
Ao Bai nodded, he had already told Phoenix that he wanted to be the emperor of the Han people.
Phoenix said worriedly, "What are you going to do?" Qianyu's family is an official of the Ming Dynasty, isn't our every move in their control? ”
Ao Bai said lightly: "I don't know about this, let's take a step at a time." I am not familiar with Daming, so I can only act at the opportunity. There are only a few people around me, and they can't come in a hurry if they want to do big things. We have a martial arts, and there is no problem with self-preservation, and it is not a problem to live. ”
Phoenix smiled and said, "Master, no matter what you do, I will support it." ”
Ao Bai smiled: "You have to learn to change your words first, and don't call the master in the future." In the Ming Dynasty, they were all called husbands, so you can call me that. ”
He also has some plans in mind, but whether he can implement them will not be known until the Ming Dynasty has a field trip. He didn't want to be an official in the Ming Dynasty, but it was also beneficial to have a relationship with officials, even if he wanted to lead people to rebel, he had to have a good relationship with officials first, and collusion between officials and bandits was the king. The Jin merchants in Zhangjiakou are the best examples.
The weather in September is still very hot, and it rarely rains on the grasslands, which is just the right time to hurry. In the evening, the team camped on the steppe. After dinner, around the campfire, Ao Bai stood up and said loudly, "Quietly, there is something I want to announce to everyone." ”
And they all looked upon him, and they listened attentively to what he said.
Ao Bai Zhengse said: "Because this matter is very important, I didn't say it when I was in Liaoyang." In fact, the destination this time is not the grassland, but to bypass the grassland and go to Daming. The Central Plains is vast, much more prosperous than the Jin Kingdom, and I want to break through. I can guarantee that your life will be better than in the Golden Country, is there anything you would like to ask? ”
The people in the mountains have no concept of a country, only Qi Bu is stunned.
Ao Bai looked at Qi Bu and frowned, and asked, "Qi Bu, do you have any ideas?" ”
Qi Bu asked timidly: "Young master, does this count...... Treason? ”
Ao Baizhi said: "Count." However, it is not us who is wrong, but Huang Taiji, who has made a plan to seize the throne of Dolgon, and there is a problem with the idea of governing the country, and there will definitely be chaos. Fight with him, and you will die. ”
Qi Bu asked again, "Young Master, I don't doubt you. But we are Jurchens, can we go to Daming? ”
Ao Bai laughed and said loudly: "If it is this shape, it will definitely not work, so I am considering changing my name and surname and going to the Central Plains as a Han person, otherwise if Huang Taiji knows about it in the future, as long as he reveals to the Ming army that I am an undercover agent sent by the Jin State in the past, I will die without a place to be buried." ”
He has to change his name no matter what, and the Ming Dynasty did not have the surname Ao at all. He asked, "Think about it, if I had a Han name, what would it be?" ”
Hai Lanzhu reacted the fastest, and said with a smile: "Qianyu's surname is Yao, and you are also surnamed Yao, right?" We are going to Daming, you are called ...... How is Yao Ming? ”
Ao Bai was thundered's backflip 360 degrees and turned 720 degrees, and a fierce man plunged into the fire......
Wife, you are so talented! My name is Yao Ming, did you also change your name to Ye Li, a Han person?
Ao Bai simply didn't let them think about it, he felt that his name in his previous life was good, and smiled: "I have been inlaying yellow flags before, and my favorite color is also yellow, so it is better to have a surname yellow." Phoenix is the name of the sacred bird, I married her, and I also want to use the name of the sacred bird, the biggest bird in the legend is "Peng", my name is Huang Peng, how about the word Aobai? I don't say words easily, I shouldn't attract attention. ”
Yao Qianyu muttered: "Huang Peng, Huang Peng, this name is very good. ”
Everyone else also thinks it's okay, it's quite smooth, and it's very imposing.
Seeing that everyone agreed, Ao Bai spoke for free, and said with a smile: "In the future, everyone will call me Young Master Huang." Brothers, we have left the kingdom of gold a long way ago, and now we must adapt to our new identity and cut our braids together. Phoenix, can you help me? ”
Phoenix nodded, pulled out the knife at his waist, and shaved off his braids. Ao Bai looked at his subordinates again and asked, "How are you?" It's too late to regret it now. ”
"I don't regret it, who will help me shave?" Zibu was the first to take the lead and said.
Ao Bai asked for a knife from the phoenix's hand and said with a smile: "I'll come with my own hands." ”
These people all regard Ao worship as an idol, and they are very proud to be able to follow him into the world, and they turn their backs one by one. Ao Bai is also an expert with a knife, and quickly shaved off the braids of eleven people.
Hari Chagai covered his head, his expression was strange, and he muttered a few words to Pomegranate. Pomegranate smiled: "Young master, he asked if he could not shave?" ”
Ao Bai returned the knife to the phoenix and said with a smile: "He can not shave, he is a Mongolian, and his hair is long enough." And he can't even speak Chinese, so he can't pretend to be a Han if he wants to. ”
Yao Qianyu was very excited when she saw that he even had braids, and asked, "Do we still have to make up a reason, they will definitely be very strange about how we escaped." Moreover, we Han women were captured as slaves, and the end was miserable......"
Hai Lanzhu leaned on Yao Qianyu and said lightly: "Have you forgotten that he is the best at making up stories?" Feed...... Hurry up and think of one. ”
Ao Bai pondered for a moment and said: "This is simple, Qianyu, you just said that you were not caught, the Eight Banners Army rushed to Juehua Island that day, you are in the rear of the island, after receiving the news, immediately stepped on the ice and fled from the other side of the island, the Eight Banners Army could not ride a horse on the ice, and could not catch up with you." ”
Yao Qianyu nodded and asked, "They will ask me why I didn't go back immediately." So what to do? ”
Ao Bai touched his chin and said, "That's too great." There were three people running together at the time, and in addition to me and you, there was also a fat man. Because of his size, he was unfortunately shot by an arrow. We found a plank and took off him and walked on the ice for a day, hiding in the nearby mountains, waiting for an opportunity to accompany him to recuperate. There are Jin army sentry posts near the mountain, and we don't know the battle situation in Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan, so we are worried that we can't go back, and later we met a group of Jurchens in the mountain, which is one of them...... They helped us and took us out of the mountains to the grasslands. ”
Yao Qianyu said: "And then? ”
"Everyone listen carefully, remember well, and don't make mistakes." Ao Bai reminded: "Then we went to the grassland, fortunately met a small tribe in Karaqin, and lived temporarily, and later, I won the favor of Qianyu with my incomparable personal charm, and also knew and fell in love with the two beauties in the tribe. Then I married two ladies and prepared to return to the Central Plains to shave my relatives with Qianyu. With the help of the young Mongolian warrior Hari Chagai, we found a way to evade the Jin army outpost and return to the Ming Dynasty. That one...... Hari Chagai pointed out this path to us, Qianyu, how much reward do you think the army should give him? Can you have a thousand taels of silver? ”
Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard it, and they came to make up stories as soon as they opened their mouths, and they didn't know how their brains grew.
Yao Qianyu sighed: "If you write in the Central Plains, you will definitely become a well-known literati." ”
Needless to say, when I retire when I am old, I will write books at home, flying snow and shooting white deer in the sky, laughing book gods leaning on Bi Yuan, and what Lu Xiaofeng and Chu Liuxiang all write. Ao Bai was in his heart.
Yao Qianyu looked at him affectionately and said with a smile: "But how do you explain your hairstyle?" The Han people all have their hair. ”
Ao Bai said without shame: "I met a monk with a strange temper in the Mongolian tribe, his Dharma name is Jingkong, he is very powerful, beats me, threatens me, insists on taking me as an apprentice, and insists on making me shave my head. His martial arts are world-renowned, and I have no choice but to succumb to his obscenity. ”
Phoenix smashed him twice and said, "Phew, if you dare to say that, Master, I will ignore you." ”
Ao Bai hurriedly kissed her, and said with a smile: "Just kidding, wife, anyway, it's to learn kung fu shaving......"
He can say that he is a lay disciple, and if others don't believe him, he makes mudras and does yoga to show them.
Yao Qianyu said again: "You say that you are Han, then if others want to ask you where your ancestral home is, what do you say?" ”
Ao Bai thought for a while and said: "My ancestral home is Yanzhou, at the foot of Mount Tai, and I moved when I was a child. My father is a writer named Huang Shang, and he is the author of a book called "Nine Yin True Scripture", which is not very famous. I met my mother on the shore of Daming Lake, her surname is Xia, her name is Yuhe, and I used to have two younger sisters, one is called Xiaoyanzi and the other is called Ziwei. But their lives were not good, and they died. Well, that's it. ”
Yao Qianyu was surprised: "How do you know these places?" ”
Ao Bai said: "I have read a lot of books, I have memorized them in my head, and I have put them together temporarily, and I have seen and laughed." ”
Hai Lanzhu squinted her eyes, stared at Aobai, and whispered to the phoenix: "He told lies one by one, I suspect that he must have lied to me in many things before." ”
Phoenix also looked at Ao Bai and sighed: "Alas, I don't think he can be trusted now...... Big liar, if it goes on like this, how many people will be deceived in the future. ”
Ao Bai was looked at by them.