On a June day, the sky was clear and cloudless.

In the streets and alleys of the capital, the bluestone pavement is as if it has been washed clean by rain, and the dirt and stone roads are paved with fine loess.

Adults and children dressed in new clothes, holding bright flowers on green branches, laughing loudly and walking out of the house and pouring into the streets.

The street has erected a colorful building, the voice of the people is boiling, it is more lively than the New Year, the Lantern Festival, and the spring is more lively, according to the old man with a white beard who can't walk on the road and doesn't know how long he has lived, it is probably so lively when the whole country comes to the court at the beginning of the summer.

Everyone rushed to sing and dance in one direction, and occasionally someone made a mistake and was pushed back by the people standing on the side of the road watching the excitement.

"Don't you know where the gates are?" The man who watched the excitement said, his face was smiling but his eyes were wide, so he looked very scary, staring at the man who had taken the wrong road and looked in a hurry, sweeping from foot to foot and from foot to head, "Are you from the capital?" ”

The man trembled when he was watched, and said in a trembling voice: "I am so happy singing and dancing that I forgot the road." ”

The man watching the excitement retracted his glance: "Then don't jump quickly!" ”

The man jumped into the crowd with convulsions of his hands and feet, and the lively man tightened the ribbon in his waist, pouted a little boringly, and someone slipped over from the side.

"Why don't you dance and sing?" He shouted, "Aren't you happy for Emperor Wu's accession to the throne?" ”

Seeing the lively man's hand on his waist, he instantly raised it, and when he saw the person coming out of the corner of his eye, his hand was put back into his waist and he snorted.

The person who came laughed proudly: "Lao Hou, I scared you." ”

With a thick beard, Motoyoshi now sees Nakahoku who can't be recognized at first glance and laughs with him.

"It's better for you to mix." The person who came laughed, touched the ribbon in the thick waist and looked envious, "You can stand on the side of the road to guard, I will be miserable and have to go to the crowd to stare at it, I must dance and sing, if I don't sing well and dance badly, I will be beaten." ”

Zhonghou smiled proudly: "Then you can dance, I remember that your kid danced well." He patted the person on the shoulder and lowered his voice, "Jump well, if you enter the eyes of His Majesty Emperor Wu, you can be selected to be a permanent companion in the palace, and we really don't have anyone in the palace now." ”

Isn't that a eunuch, people who come feel that the lower body is cool, although Ankangshan is fat, he has a flexible body and a good singing voice, and has been favored by the emperor and the concubine, in case Ankangshan really likes this.....

"You don't have to be a eunuch, it's not bad to be a royal guard." The person who came thought seriously, "And the eunuch, we can buy ....."

Zhonghou raised his foot and kicked him: "Get out of here and do your business, don't lose your life before you enter the palace." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud cheer in the distance, gongs and drums were playing, and the ground shook.

"Go." Zhonghou said solemnly, "Ankang Mountain is back." ”

Knowing the seriousness of the matter, the people who came stopped laughing, jumped into the crowd, raised their hands, sang loudly and ran away.

Ankang Mountain is called the emperor in the imperial mausoleum, because the world is chaotic, Ankang Mountain can not be calmed, exhausted and blamed himself, went to the imperial tomb in front of the emperor and the prince coffin to cry, he also brought a coffin, his hair was scattered, undressed, barefoot, did not eat or drink, and lay in it to follow the emperor and the prince.

Ankang Mountain fell asleep, dreamed that the emperor concubine was wearing gorgeous clothes, walking down from the clouds, he hugged the emperor concubine and cried, and the emperor concubine took him with one hand and took him to step on the clouds to the fairy palace.

They drank the elixir wine in the fairy palace, the emperor played music, the concubine danced with Ankang Mountain, and the fairies around them flew and scattered flower petals, just as happy as they used to be.

Ankangshan wanted to be so happy all the time, but the emperor and the concubine put on gorgeous clothes and crowned him, saying that they would be happy together in heaven like this in the future, but now the world is still in chaos, the people are still suffering, and they are also sad in heaven, and they need Ankangshan to help them, and when the people in the world live and work in peace and contentment, they will come to pick up Ankangshan and return to the fairy palace.

An Kangshan begged bitterly that he couldn't do well, but the emperor and the concubine ruthlessly pushed him down.

Ankangshan sat up from the coffin crying, and found that he was really wearing the gorgeous robe crown that the emperor and the concubine gave him in the fairy palace, and the elders of the civil and military families kneeling in front of the coffin, bowing to the mountain in unison and shouting long live.

It turned out that everyone dreamed of the first emperor and received the first emperor's entrustment to assist Ankang Mountain in pacifying Daxia.

The first emperor gave Ankang Mountain a new name as Wu in his dream.

Ankang Mountain sits on the car pulled by the horned beast that flew from the sky to the imperial tomb, and there are fairy-like palace maids in front of the car carrying flower baskets and scattering flower petals, soldiers and horses guard the surroundings, and the ministers surround and follow, and return to the capital.

All the people along the way sang and danced, holding wine and flowers to bow down to greet them, and everyone also got the dream of the first emperor.

The feast in the palace lasted until late at night, and every house in the capital set off fireworks, shining as bright as the Milky Way.

There are a lot of people in an alley, but there is only one person who sets off the fireworks, and a small child who is crowded at the feet of the adults does not know the joys and sorrows of the world...... But the next moment, he was hugged by a pale-faced adult, and a man in ordinary clothes who lit fireworks looked at him, his eyes were gloomy.

"Do you want to light fireworks?" He asked, "How do you want to light fireworks?" Where to put it? ”

Where can the child understand and was scared to cry, and the adult hugged him and trembled: "Poor master, he is still young, he doesn't understand anything, he won't do evil." ”

The gloomy man whispered, "Don't call me a bad man!" Make me happy! Don't cry. ”

The adult reached out to cover the child's mouth, and the child's face immediately turned red when he couldn't cry.

Only then did the gloomy man look away and light a pile of fireworks, which exploded in the air and fell like pearls.

"Laugh!" He looked around at the crowd and shouted.

The people were shocked to come back to their senses, and they hurriedly grinned and looked up happily at the explosion of fireworks.

The excitement lasted until dawn.

The tired people fell asleep, and Zhonghou also dragged his tired body back to the small courtyard.

"I'm tired." He was not the only one who came back, the other two men leaned on the pillar and gasped, "I knew that I wouldn't have gone to the yamen to grab this errand, I just kept an eye on it, and I had to sing and dance along." ”

A man came out of the house and yawned: "What are you tired of, I am only tired of being a servant, singing and dancing for a day and a night, and now I have to clean the street, and I can't finish sweeping it until night." ”

The two men leaning under the pillar laughed: "I can't finish sweeping until night, this is to block Emperor Wu, you won't be able to come back." ”

Zhonghou closed the door, interrupted their joke, and asked, "Have you found a reliable way to send the message?" ”

The man who was a servant nodded: "I can, I took a few lashes for our chief, he trusts me very much, his family is responsible for pouring night incense, I can follow the car out of the city." ”

Zhonghou nodded and said well: "You go and continue to be friendly with him, you must be foolproof." ”

The man who was the servant answered the call and took a broom basket and went out.

Nakahou beckoned to the others: "Come in and talk about their progress." ”

The two men who sat against the pillars swept away their exhaustion and got up.

"I showed my hand a few days ago when I was investigating the spies, and the lieutenant who led the army at that time was very interested in me and asked my name, and I planned to find an opportunity to fight with someone, leave the yamen, and then go to him." A man said.

Zhonghou nodded: "The army must enter." He frowned again, "We still have too few people. ”

The other man put down the teacup and wiped the corners of his mouth: "Lao Hou, don't worry, there are already ten people on the errand with me that can be trusted, see when we tell them our identities and let them become our soldiers of Jiannan Dao." ”

Zhonghou pondered for a moment and said: "There are also many people in Axi's service who have been subdued by him, and most of the soldiers and soldiers in the army are veterans and veterans of Ankang Mountain, which is not easy to break, everyone should start from the people first, fight more, clear the road, small traders, are all good, although they have no swords and guns and no kung fu, but there are many people who can scatter everywhere, and when the time comes, the defense of the capital can be dismantled a lot." ”

Hearing this, the man from before couldn't help but ask, "Will the eldest lady come to attack the capital?" ”

The thick hand stroked the tabletop, the old wooden table was pitted, but if you looked closely at the ravines above, it outlined a map of the defense of the capital.

His hand tapped vigorously on the table, looking determined.

"Beijing, it must be the eldest lady."