Chapter 3: Compassion
In the blink of an eye, I don't know how many mornings have passed, and the two sets of clothes when I first came to the academy have long been missing, and they are the only last contact with home. Over the years, I have been wearing the old clothes brought by Sister Lingzhi, there is no useless shyness at the beginning, my eyes are not as bright as they were back then, I haven't walked out of the college since I was more than ten years old, Lingzhi is three years older than me, I often call her sister, I have hated my parents for sending me here for countless days and nights, and I have missed them countless days and nights. I don't know when their faces became blurry in my mind, and I even forgot about them completely. And I haven't seen her face in years, I've never asked her name, and I've never heard her voice a long time ago. The peach tree in the yard was slightly tilted by me, there are no four seasons here, the bamboo roots of the bamboo house are slightly moldy, and even the stone table under the peach tree is also washed by the wind and rain. The old gentleman's goatee became whiter and whiter. I've gotten a lot scruffier, even when she's there. One day, when my sister was delivering food, she told me that she was going to get married, and I asked her what marriage was, and she said that it was to get married, that is, to get out of this nightmare and die in the next nightmare. I didn't comfort her because I hadn't learned yet. On the day I finally met my sister, she brought me a few steamed buns in addition to porridge, and she said with tears in her eyes that she was about to go to live a life like a young lady, and I could only eat with my head down, and I couldn't do anything. I kept looking at her as she walked out of the academy, and I asked her if she would be back tomorrow, and she smiled and pointed to the wall at the entrance of the academy.
"Come on, of course I'm here, my sister will come to see you every day, but I'm outside the wall, you can't see me."
At that time, I wanted to ask her if it was true or not, but I immediately gave a firm answer in my heart, she will always be there. Finally I looked at that wall for a long, long time. Since then, the person who delivered the meal has been replaced by another girl, who looks clumsy and smaller than me. I can't think of her as Sister Lingzhi, but I know that the nightmare in my sister's mouth may be repeated in her, and every time I finish eating, I will go to the small well to wash the bowl and food box. ……
In the morning, she and the old gentleman suddenly came very early, and there was a familiar uncle beside them.
"Get up, come and kneel."
The old gentleman called me, and I knelt down a few paces away from them, prostrating, and did not dare to get up.
"Yo, isn't this the gray boy who came with my baby girl a few years ago? At that time, the voice was quite loud, and it scared me, haha It's grown so big for a few years, look up and take a look. ”
I straightened up and looked at them, and the old gentleman told them about his background that even I didn't know.
"This child was originally the son of the city lord's guard, but then his father's leg was broken, and the family went to the countryside.
"Okay, with Mr. Pan's words, rest assured."
The two of them closed up, and the master told me to get up. We walked together towards the gate of the academy, with the master and uncle in front and me and her behind, and after a few steps she turned back to me.
"From now on, you are half a step away from me, and you are on call."
It's concise, and the tone is emotionless. The first time we were so close together, I realized that she was a head taller than me. I bowed my head behind her and said yes. In fact, I have a lot of questions about her, I haven't talked to her in the academy for so many years, and I haven't been so close as I am today. Soon arrived at the gate of the academy, from the day I came to the present, I didn't think I could get out of this door, I paused, until she fell a step away from me, I didn't take a step, I didn't rush to look anywhere, just looked at the wall that the peony said, Mr. is no longer in our group, I didn't look back at the academy, I didn't look back at sir. Walking in a hurry, looking at the world outside the academy, there were not so many pedestrians, everything was very depressed, rows of hut doors were broken and the windows were zero, I didn't know what was going on. A tall carriage was waiting for us at the entrance of the alley, and the driver took off the stool, and she and her father entered, but I did not dare to go up, but slowly followed out of the city gate. This road is sparsely populated, and it is far from the prosperity of the year. Then came a group of officers and men wearing armor and carrying swords at their waists knelt down beside the carriage, and there was a sound in the carriage, and the coachman told me to sit beside him, and the soldiers got up and ran after the carriage, and I looked sideways at them and did not know where we were going.
"Hey, boy, how old is this year?"
The coachman asked me, but I didn't dare to answer.
"Do you know who's sitting in the car?"
I shook my head, still not daring to say anything.
"Hey, you are so timid, you have to be a young lady's guard in the palace."
I listened to him for a long time, and then I slowly learned that she was the daughter of Wei Guohou nicknamed Zhennanshan, his father's name was Dolan Qingyu, and her name was Dolan Ying. When he was born, it snowed heavily for the first time in the south, and the emperor was specially named the lord of Yulong. I don't know how long the car has been running, the soldiers who followed behind sweat like rain, through a forest, looking from afar, the huge courtyard, the horse farm martial arts field that is expected to be not over on the side, it is very spectacular, the courtyard is surrounded by armor soldiers, a high ground next to the court, there is a small courtyard alone, and it is a forest of armor soldiers. In a blink of an eye, the car arrived at the gate of the main court, and Wei Guohou got out of the carriage and talked with the county lord.
"Daughter, there are a lot of hours for my father to accompany you today, and there are still a lot of things to do, you pick a good master, teach him, and if he is successful in the future, he will stay with you, and if he is not talented, he will be in the army."
Saying that Guan Weiguo Hou went straight to the martial arts field, we followed the carriage to the small courtyard next to it. There was no one in the yard, not even the maid, where the county lord passed by, the soldiers knelt on the ground, I entered the courtyard with the county lord half a step away, there was a set of jade tables and stools in the garden, the county lord sat down, I saw her slowly take off the hat, the whole face met my eyes when I naturally knelt down, I don't know why I knelt down, maybe I haven't seen her face for too long, a little overwhelmed.
"Don't don't, Shao Qi, we have been classmates for many years, and now you are the guard that my father found for me, I don't kneel, and you don't have to kneel."
When she said that, I got up.
"Come on, ask General Han to bring a pair of rattan armor."
As soon as she finished shouting, a general in bright silver armor walked in at the door.
"What does the county lord command?"
"In the future, I will ask General Han to teach him. Xiwu is in this garden, and I am also curious, so I happen to take a look. ”
The general hurriedly said
"No, no, you must practice martial arts in the martial arts field, I really don't dare to disturb the county lord, if the Hou Ye knows, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape the blame."
"Then teach at the gate of this courtyard, there is no one here as big as me except him. It just so happens that I can relieve my boredom too. ”
After several excuses, General Han compromised. I was 14 and she was 17. In the days that followed, I practiced martial arts during the day, and there was no room for me to sleep in at night, so I fell asleep under the porch of her room in the courtyard, and as the days went by, we secretly talked through the door every night, and she told me how beautiful his father was, and also talked about the world in her eyes.
Three years for the vine armor, three years for the iron armor, and ten years for the silver armor, if I progress quickly, I can be promoted as soon as possible. From the mouth of the county lord and Han Shi, I learned that the whole country is now at war, and in addition to the emperor, there are four princes: Hou Xie Ma of Northern Xinjiang, nicknamed Shenbing, the largest fiefdom of the Northern Frontier, Hou Baimuzhen of Western Xinjiang, nicknamed Bai Muzhen, nicknamed Bai Baiguan, and Hou Shiheng of the East China Sea nicknamed Shadi Dragon, and finally the county lord's father, nicknamed Zhennanshan Wei Guo Hou Duolan Qingyu. Among them, the northern Xinjiang and the East China Sea have long had the meaning of splitting the soil and sealing themselves. The death of the old emperor a few years ago, the assassination of his only son many years ago, and the chaos of the entire imperial court, also began this killing. Once the four countries were divided, countless fertile fields were wasted, temples were destroyed, the imperial city of the Central Plains is now in the hands of Baimuzhen, turned into a refugee camp to be slaughtered, at first countless old and weak people poured into the imperial city, they thought they could get shelter, but the end was the collapse of the king's law and morality, women were forced to become slaves, men were 15 years old and had to be arrested to fight, as for who was fighting, why many people could not figure out why they fought every day, only knew that after living for one day, the family could be exempted from tax for one day, and one day to eat. The only one who can shake Baimu Zhen is Xie Ma in the northern Xinjiang, who has millions of soldiers, but he is just sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger, allowing him to be lawless. Secondly, the East China Sea has no intention of fighting for the Central Plains, but has set its sights on the fertile southern plains. There are a total of 13 cities in the Nanshan Hou fiefdom, each city has less than 20,000 defenders, and most of them are rattan spears, the war has come to this point, 100,000 soldiers, horses, rattan armor spearmen, 100,000 iron armor, 1000 silver armor, and the 500,000 troops of the East China Sea Sand Dragon are circling day and night, and the two cities in the fief have been mastered by Dai Shiheng. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Dolan Qingyu was the only one to accept the disarmament of the princes, the old emperor to show his loyalty, gave the chisel engraved gold armor, and built a three-zhang high monument on the only high mountain in the southern plains, his own book: Zhongzhen through the ages, Yifeng Nanshan.
I asked Han Shi about my life experience, he said that my father was a city lord's personal guard under Nanhou when he was young, and he was superb in spear skills but could not carry a gun on a horse, so he had the reputation of "flat gun ancestor", and once in a thirteen-city competition, my father was shot in the calf by a horse archer, and the arrow was inserted into the leg bone, resulting in a leg that could no longer be strained, and then the hidden world lived by farming in a village. After that, I was sent to Yuereiin in so that I could be selected to be the personal guard of a certain city lord or county lord. Hearing this, I tried to understand my parents' decision, if I didn't come to Yuereiyuan, I guess I might be farming right now, or living a life in a military camp that I don't know how many days will I have tomorrow.
Many times I want to be a horse, camel her away, find a world of books, she still wears a hat, bolts me under the tree, I am willing to watch silently, as long as she does not disturb her, when she blows the petals on the stone table again, I am willing to be that peach blossom, as long as there is a little intersection, as long as it does not disturb her.
A silver light quenched a gun, the new horse and the old saddle were busy, no matter where they were under their feet, how many dances could they be?