The rain kept falling, and the boy was arguing with Qibao to tell him what he had seen and heard outside the mountain, and it didn't take long for him to be sleepy, and the two of them touched their round stomachs and fell asleep on the couch listening to the sound of the rain.

The two children fell asleep, Wang Wei took out a brass box, which contained freshly milled tea, and the son poured the mountain spring into the copper kettle on the fire rack, dialed the charcoal fire, and the two began to make tea.

Drinking tea and talking about it has been a long time. Wang Wei asked, "Thanks to Guo Linggong for breaking the thief army and saving me back." Ling Zun is busy quelling the chaos, everything is going well, right?"

Ling Gong is the honorific title of the Zhongshu Order. The Tang Dynasty Jiedu envoy, more of the title of the Zhongshu Order, this Guo Gongzi's father is the Shuofang Jiedu envoy Guo Ziyi who assisted Suzong and King Guangping to recover Chang'an.

Therefore, Wang Wei called him Guo Linggong.

This son is Guo Ziyi's sixth son, Guo Hua.

"Well, my father is fine. It's just that there is an elite in the thief army, which seems to be built according to Taizong's Xuanjia army back then. There were 3,000 men, each with five horses, each equipped with six weapons: a sword, a spear, a repeater, a dagger, a meteor hammer, and a flying claw, and the armor and shield were all black. Judging from the weapons seized, those weapons were also made of dark iron, and they were very sharp. According to detailed reports, this army was known as the Spectro Cavalry. In the early days of the rebellion, it was this army that helped An Lushan break through more than 200,000 troops. ”

The Xuanjia Army was a private unit of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, in the early days of Li Tang's army in Taiyuan. Li Jing, Wei Chi Jingde, Cheng Zhijie, Hou Junji, Luo Shixin, Li Tao and other famous generals of the Tang Dynasty came from this army. The men and horses of this army all wore black armor. In that year, in the Tiger Prison Pass, Li Shimin defeated Dou Jiande's army of more than 100,000 with 3,500 Xuanjia troops.

The Xuanjia army was famous all over the world, Wang Shichong surrendered without a fight, and the general trend of the world tended to Li Tang. The Xuanjia Army can be said to be a strong force that has established Li Tang's hegemony.

When the world is pacified, it becomes an honor to join this army. The Li Tang royal family also made great use of this, and as a reward, expanded the disciples of the gate lords to join the Xuanjia Army.

During the Kaiyuan period of Xuanzong, this army had become a vase army for the children of the nobles to show off their angry horses and fresh clothes. Combat effectiveness is inferior even to ordinary cavalry regiments.

For the Xuanjia Army, Wang Wei has also heard some rumors. But after all, I don't understand the depth of it, so I let Guo Yu continue.

"This army is mainly based on surprise annihilation. Whenever the two armies rush to each other, the Phantom Cavalry is divided into a squad of ten people, and the five squads are a charging group, attacking and defending each other, relying on the strong mobility of the cavalry, rushing left and right in the chaotic formation, like ghosts and ghosts, strangling back and forth, * rout and difficult to defeat. From the fourteenth year of Tianbao to the present, in the past three years, our army has not been able to capture a single phantom cavalry.

In order to formulate a strategy of warfare, my father did not hesitate to sacrifice a team of 100 crossbows to annihilate a small group of them and capture their ordnance and horse harness. Since then, the tactics of the Phantom Cavalry have become more treacherous, and our army can no longer take advantage of anything!

However, the Shadow Breaker Cavalry doesn't need to be in a hurry. At present, my father and Lord Li Guangbi have adopted the guerrilla tactics of attacking the east and attacking the west, avoiding the real and avoiding the false, and have also captured many cities of the rebels.

At the moment, I want to ask my brother about someone - Bian Lingcheng. ”

Well, it is true that I mentioned some things about Bian Lingcheng to Guo Hua many years ago.

It was a year before the rebellion broke out, and Guo Hua was still a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child. At that time, I first learned about Buddhism, and at a festival in Fahua Temple, I met Guo Hua. Fahua Temple is Tantra, but later I didn't like this school and never participated in the Fahua Temple puja again. However, he became a year-old friend with Guo Yao.

In addition to Buddhism, they also talked about poetry, paintings, articles, and calligraphy. He occasionally mentioned it, saying that Bian Lingcheng, the eunuch in charge of the army, had studied painting with him when he was a child, and his talent was extremely high, even above him.

Bian Lingcheng was the first person to serve as a eunuch to serve as a prisoner. Therefore, there were also some topics circulating in Chang'an City at that time.

It was all an accidental sentence from many years ago, and he still remembers. Wang Wei had to admire the young man in front of him, with his strong memory and meticulous thinking.

"When Tongguan was captured, he was taken captive. He is different from me, I and a group of literati do not understand military aircraft, but they are just raised to decorate the façade. It's him, after all, who has been a prison guard for many years, has always been strictly guarded. Why did you suddenly ask about him?"

"It's my father who wrote to me to inquire, and if it's convenient for my brother, please also say it with my brother. "Guo Yu, no more, no less.

"Well, we haven't been in touch for more than 20 years. It was only when An Lushan's soldiers pressed Tongguan that it was rumored that he falsely accused Gao Xianzhi in front of Emperor Xuanzong, and killed him and Feng Changqing, and I remembered this old friend many years ago. ”

At the beginning, An Lushan's army attacked Chang'an, and Tongguan was the last line of defense. Stationed in Tongguan is Gao Xianzhi, the general of the right Yulin, and the former envoy of Anxi Jiedu Feng Changqing was dismissed due to defeat, and assisted Gao Xianzhi in the army as Bai Ding. Just at the last moment, Bian Lingcheng falsely accused Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing in front of Emperor Xuanzong, and killed the two, which can be said to have directly led to the fall of Tongguan.

"I was shocked when I heard the news. Although on the surface, Bian Lingcheng and Gao Xianzhi are the commanders of the army, and the other is the supervisor sent by the emperor, and there are not many personal contacts. But in fact, the two of them have known each other since childhood, so I am very puzzled why the news came that it was Bian Lingcheng who killed Gao Xianzhi. ”

When Wang Wei said this, Guo Yu was taken aback and continued to listen.

"This matter has to start from the beginning. When I met Bian Lingcheng, both of us were eleven or twelve years old. At that time, at the Zhiyun Painting Institute in Chang'an City, we studied painting together.

He is a very talented person, and his appearance is very delicate and refined. He has a more withdrawn temperament, loves to paint landscapes, and always has a cloud and a mountain far away in a corner of the painting, sparse and sparse, empty and indifferent. He liked him very much and thought that he would become famous all over the world with his painting skills in the future.

The two of us are very close to each other, and when we are not reading and painting, we often play together.

He was an orphan. In Guiyifang, near Anhuamen, near Yong'an Canal, there was a large mansion where he lived with many orphans. I've been with him a few times once in a while, but haven't been inside.

Wang Wei continued: "Once I saw him with an elegant and heroic young man, because Bian Lingcheng has always been very withdrawn and rarely plays with others, so I asked him who the young man was. Bian Lingcheng only said that it was his distant cousin.

Later, his distant cousin went to Saiwai to follow his father stationed in the Western Regions and joined the army. It was also more than 20 years later that I saw Gao Xianzhi, the escort of the famous Anxi Capital of the Western Regions, return to Chang'an, and I knew that the elegant young man back then, Bian Lingcheng's cousin, was Gao Xianzhi.

Gao Xianzhi's demeanor is very outstanding, and it can be said that it is unforgettable. Therefore, I am sure that Gao Xianzhi is the boy who was with Bian Lingcheng at the beginning. ”

When Wang Wei said this, there was a smile of appreciation on his face, Guo Yu thought, that Gao Xianzhi must be a dragon and phoenix figure, which made the old brother appreciate him so much!

"It's been about a year since Gao Xianzhi went to the Western Regions. Bian Lingcheng also left the academy. He went away without a sound.

When I saw him again, he was already a eunuch. Dressing and acting differently, I began to like gorgeous clothes, gold and jade ornaments, and my delicate face became more feminine.

We made small talk as if nothing had happened. At that time, I already had a small poetry name in Chang'an, and at the beginning, I liked to drink and sing with those who called me a prodigy, I don't know, I was born indifferent and obedient, or slowly became like this.

We have different lives, but I know that there is another world in his heart, although I am not sure if it is the painter Bian Lingcheng in that world. You know, people like us don't like to disturb other people's inner worlds, so there is less and less contact. Occasionally, I met him and found that he was quite successful as a eunuch. Climb all the way up to the housekeeping manager.

Until one day, he became an overseer. I remember that his first mission was to go to the Anxi Protectorate to serve as a military supervisor.

He came to me the night before we left, we had a drink, and he even chatted with me about my recent poems. At that time, my poems were widely circulated among the court and the eunuchs. But I didn't expect him to be so attentive.

After greeting for a long time, we chatted about poetry and even chatted about some officialdom. No one mentioned each other's lives and changes.

Finally, he handed me a box, turned around and left.

The box contained an inkstone, pens, and some paper. That's what he used to paint when he was learning to paint. He has always kept it.

Later, Zhang Jiuling recommended me to be the supervisor of the imperial history. As a result of his duties, he also had a few meetings, and he seemed to have completely changed. We became almost complete strangers. ”

Wang Wei reminisced as he spoke. It seems that there is something I want to explain, but I can't remember it anymore. When I was young, like catkins in spring, I occasionally flew over and away, in a trance, and even some things blurred the line between truth and falsehood.

Wang Wei didn't force himself, and said something about that. All of them asked why they suddenly wanted to visit this person.

Guo Hua did not hide it, and gave a general explanation of the ins and outs of receiving the letter. For people like Wang Wei, there is nothing that cannot be said, although he has not escaped into the empty door, it seems that he has never had much negotiation with this world.

After listening to this, Wang Wei also said: "Let it be!"

This is in line with Guo Hua's thoughts. Both of them realized that there must be a big secret behind this, and with the identities of Gao Xianzhi and Bian Lingcheng and the impact of that incident, it is likely to be intertwined and involve too many characters. It is inconvenient to explain too much in the letter, just in case.

The longer the things have been deposited for a long time, the more chaotic things are, sometimes the more they need someone who doesn't know what is going on, and a stick in the void can clear the clouds.

After the sub-hour. The two of them were already in high spirits, drank the last cup of tea, and covered the fire. The two covered the two children with a thin quilt and went to the inner room to rest. Wang Wei is hospitable, and there are several special beds in the inner room for friends to spend the night.

The two woke up to a burst of birdsong, and gradually heard the sound of pots and chopsticks being cleaned up outside. It was the boy and Shippo cleaning up the morning's meal. Seeing the two dressed and coming out, the boy pouted and said that some squirrels took advantage of the people's sleep and stole the wine and food brought by the son. Make everyone laugh.

The rain, probably stopped early in the morning, and the dew was heavy.

After breakfast, Qibao arranged for Shippo to feed the horses. The two delayed for a long time, waiting for the dew to dissipate, and then left the Rim River and returned to Chang'an.

The sun and moon are long in the mountains, after all, because there are no mundane things to disturb the heart. On the day Guo Hua left Chang'an, many changes occurred in Chang'an City.

It was not too late for the two to return to Chang'an. Guo's Mansion is located in Qinrenfang, located in the southwest corner of Dongshi, and has been the residence of imperial relatives and bureaucrats and nobles since the early years of the Tang Dynasty. The two entered the city through the Mingde Gate, crossed the wide Suzaku Street, and turned into the East Market. I found a wine shop casually and asked for some wine and meat to eat and drink.

But I saw three or four men covered in mud and dust on the side, who should be masons who helped someone's family, full of wine and food, and a few people were babbling there, saying a strange thing.