Chapter 22: Half a Gold Medal for Avoiding Death
The call of the sixth princess, everyone's eyes looked over, Xiao Yongye rode slowly under the sun, the three princes greeted him with a triumphant face, Xiao Yongye glanced at the three princes, and then raised his head to look at the princes and princesses not far away, shook his head and said: "Your Highnesses are in good spirits today." ”
After Xiao Yongye returned to Beijing and resigned from the army, he became the master of the Pope's daughters to ride and shoot, although he rarely went to the palace, but the princesses were extremely rigorous in his work and teaching, and he admired the master with a battlefield atmosphere. The fifth princess listened to Xiao Yongye's question, and couldn't help but smile like a bell: "Why is Master Xiao always so old-fashioned, my third brother is the same age as Master Xiao, and my father said, 'This son has a clear nature, and even if he is a hundred years old, he is like the first crown'." ”
The light boat beside Gu Yange suddenly moved his head, and looked sideways at Xiao Yongye, without waiting for Gu Yange to react, the light boat walked over by himself and rubbed to Xiao Yongye's side affectionately. I saw Xiao Yongye familiarly reaching out and touching Qingzhou's head, one person and one horse were extremely intimate, Xiao Yongye looked at Qingzhou's fur, the corners of his mouth hooked a smile, but he didn't greet Gu Yange first, but made eye contact with Qingzhou for a while.
Qingzhou moved, rubbing Xiao Yongye's hand, Gu Yange's eyes were straight, this horse had never been so familiar with her, only then did he remember that Qingzhou was the descendant of Prince Ke's mount in the army, and after giving birth to a horse, he gave a horse to Gu Yange, which was Qingzhou. When the prince saw that everyone had arrived, he beckoned the big guy to go together, while the third prince was talking beside Xiao Yongye.
The princes and princesses each rode their horses, and when they arrived at the hunting ground, Gu Yange and the princesses looked at the three princes together, and the three princes spread their hands and said, "General Xiao is not comparable!" ”
The sixth princess happened to be by Xiao Yongye's side, so she asked with a sideways face: "Master Xiao, why, why do you just compete with Sister Yan for the third brother, so that the third brother can lose his heart." ”
In Xiao Yongye's cognition, a good horse is either galloping on the field, or crisscrossing the grassland and mountains, but now it has become a gambling contract for a group of children, and it is really wronged to be such a good horse every day. Xiao Yongye naturally didn't say this, but pointed to the distance and said to the sixth princess: "Sixth princess, since you are here to hunt, you naturally have more prey than anyone, no matter the size of our today, what is the number alone?" ”
The fifth princess and the sixth princess are naturally children's hearts, as long as they win, it doesn't matter if it's fair or not, after listening to Xiao Yongye's words, where is there any reason not to agree. The fifth princess and the sixth princess took a companion, called the other princesses and Gu Yange and left, leaving the princes and Xiao Yongye to watch and shake their heads for a while.
The prince sighed with emotion: "This is Yan'er, heroic, crazy, talking and laughing, the way she looks in the waiting house, it makes people feel distressed to look at." ”
The third prince originally planned to pick alfalfa grass and prepare to communicate with the prince day by day, but when he heard the prince say this, he was stunned and said: "Brother Prince, is Yan'er not doing well in Huai'an Houfu?" ”
The prince shook his head, in fact, the prince didn't know whether it was good or bad, and Gu Yange was not doing well, but looking at the attitude of Xie Houye and Mrs. Xie, as well as Xie Junrui's behavior of "decocting soup and boiling medicine with his own hands", it didn't seem like Gu Yange was wronged. The prince thought about it to no avail, and said with a smile: "When you marry a wife, you will always be a little uncomfortable, and you can no longer roam the mountains and wilderness every day like before, and you can't sneak out to play, and you have a bit of a boring life!" ”
The princes talked for a while, and then rode their horses to hunt, but Xiao Yongye followed behind inexplicably and pondered. Since seeing Gu Yange in the palace, Xiao Yongye always felt that Gu Yange's eyes were a little calm and calm that did not belong to this age, and he was so calm and peaceful when he sat down. The fifteen-year-old girl was just when she was lively and cheerful, not to mention that Gu Yange in the past always gave people the impression of being arrogant and bright, which naturally made Xiao Yongye think more.
Seeing that Xiao Yongye didn't speak, the third prince rode back and asked, "General Xiao, what are you thinking?" ”
Xiao Yongye shook his head, these are not what he should think, but although the emperor and queen in the palace and this godbrother will work hard, if someone really makes Gu Yange feel wronged, the uncles who Gu Yange was a child did not scream in vain: "Third Highness, tell the prince, let's go to the east and leave the hunting grounds in the south to the princesses." ”
The hunting grounds in the east are all large game, and the south is dominated by small animals such as rabbits, and the princes naturally can't really compete with the princesses to win or lose, so they glanced at each other, and galloped into the east hunting grounds, picking up the arrows behind them one by one, and they were all ready to show their skills.
After a while, the princesses were already waiting outside the hunting ground with sweat, and they were really some rabbits, pheasants and other small animals, and the princes were roe deer and roe deer at will. ”
The third prince shook his head with a smile, looked at the fifth princess and said helplessly: "When have I bullied you, conscience of heaven and earth, if you don't bully me, I will be grateful to Dade." ”
Everyone laughed in unison, the guards who were on the side put the prey away, picked up and picked up the fire, Gu Yange found that they even brought a cook, it was really thoughtful! After the prey was roasted, the cook divided the plates and handed them to everyone, and the prince waved his hand and asked the guards to take the rest of the roast meat and eat it.
After eating one by one, they stopped talking, and everyone found a comfortable and soft grass to sit on for a while, Gu Yange and the princesses were talking and laughing on the side, but the atmosphere on the princes' side was a little heavy, they were full of wine and food, and they actually talked about family and country affairs.
"General Xiao, I'm afraid that this year's border pass will be a big evil scene, I really want to play my father's emperor, and work with General Xiao to drive the Huiyi people back to the depths of Lianshan, so as not to disturb the people of my border pass every year." The third prince held a handful of alfalfa grass in his arms, and as he spoke, he fed a few sticks from time to time.
Xiao Yongye listened but didn't answer, just looked at the prince, and when the prince saw Xiao Yongye's inquiring eyes, he said, "General Xiao, my father intends to ask you to take charge of the army again." Now that the three armies have no commander, and there is no one who can convince the three armies, they have been hanging there for a long time, which is a piece of the emperor's heart. This year's war is unusual, and my father can only think about General Xiao. ”
As soon as Xiao Yongye mentioned the war, his chest was full of enthusiasm at first, but he quickly calmed down, and the situation at the border this year, he just didn't have to listen to the news in the palace, and he knew it very well, so it was naturally a tough battle. But the military power that was finally resigned at the beginning, if it is returned to the hands now, I am afraid that I will not be able to resign, the military power is the only one, the military heart is unique, and I never have to die well.
Xiao Song confessed before his death that if he received military power again, the Xiao family would be destroyed. In Xiao Yongye's opinion, if he was alone, what would he do, but he was connected to the Xiao family, so he naturally had to think about it more. I think there was a great general in the previous dynasty, who won with hundreds of people against 10,000 people, and never lost on the battlefield, but lost in the emperor's suspicion. For soldiers, it is glory to die on the battlefield, but it is humiliating to die in the struggle for power and profit.
"In my Jing Dynasty army, I am not an unscrupulous general, His Royal Highness the Prince, this position of commander, but Weichen can't afford it."
The prince looked at Xiao Yongye, in fact, the prince understood Xiao Yongye's thoughts, being a prince is a sincere and fearful life, not to mention being a courtier with a different surname, so he naturally has to be more cautious. The prince didn't say anything more, anyway, since someone came to persuade him, since he came out to hunt today, he didn't mention this, the prince thought about it and diverted the topic: "By the way, General Xiao, when it comes to the border pass, I heard that there is a city full of wine in the nine cities, and you can smell its fragrance ten miles away, and you will be drunk when you enter the city, and you will be drunk when you go out of the city, I don't know if General Xiao was drunk when he went to the city?" ”
Xiao Yongye smiled when he heard this, and said that he was arrogant and free: "Jiucheng, there is indeed a city full of wine, although the smell of incense can be spread more than ten miles away, but when you enter the city, you will be scented, and it is not false that you are drunk when you go out of the city." The wine in the nine cities is the strongest, and when you drink it, it will be like fire, and ordinary people will get drunk as soon as they join it, that is, people who are used to drinking, and Sanhe is enough to get drunk. (Note: One heel is equal to one hundred milliliters, ten heel is equal to one liter, and ten liters is equal to one bucket)
The topic of the princes fell, and there was a sudden burst of singing from the princesses, it was the five princesses who were singing, it turned out that the princesses were making a flower order, and whoever lost was singing. The fifth princess is young, her singing voice is like a little warbler, it is very beautiful, the fifth princess stopped after singing two sentences, looked at everyone's eyes, and smiled awkwardly: "Hehe...... I forgot the words. ”
Everyone laughed, and the princesses continued to carry out the flower order, this time it was Gu Yange who lost, when Gu Yange was thinking about what to sing, the princesses coaxed, and the princes listened to it not far away, and they were also interested, and the three princes shouted loudly: "Yan'er, we have never heard you sing, since we won this lottery today, we are all waiting." ”
Gu Yange watched them coax together, straightened up and looked at the group of smiling princesses and said, "Singing is simple, but although you have a colorful head, you can't listen to my songs in vain." ”
"And what do you want?"
"I want my brother to promise me one thing!" Gu Yange knew that this must have been asked by the prince, so he smiled lightly, squinted his eyes to meet the sun, and reflected a jade-like luster on his face.
The prince then asked, "Okay, what do you want?" ”
Gu Yange clapped his hands and stood up, looked at the prince and said, "I didn't expect it for the time being, when I think of it, I'll tell my brother again." ”
The prince smiled: "Good! ”
Gu Yange heard this, and his heart felt like a big stone had fallen, this was in exchange for half a gold medal for avoiding death, naturally this could not be used easily, and it was not applicable at any time. With a smile, he sang with a slight red lip: "Drinking water on the bank of the East River, shooting geese and Bifu Mountain......"
Gu Yange's voice is not crisp enough, if the voice is far inferior to the fifth princess, but it sounds like a broad and heroic taste. This was in the early years of the Jing Dynasty, when Emperor Taizu met a military general, he took pity on him, so he wrote this poem to rub it on the general, and later the military general became the hero of the dynasty. That general...... Gu Yange didn't remember who it was, but everyone present knew that it was the old lady of the Xiao family......
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(Today's song recommendation, unconditionally recommend all of Nick.Drake's songs, he has only released three albums in his life, I want to say, please don't listen to his songs at night, it will definitely make you unable to extricate yourself again, and you will never be able to leave Nick's singing again.) I always want to compare him to my brother, but my brother's life has been liked by countless fans, and he has been loved by many people like that, and my brother is much happier than him.
Nick's life is a story of genius and earthly torment. In the end, Nick lost, and at the age of 26 he stopped writing and singing for good, leaving only three albums alive. In his time, he was not recognized, he was not recognized. After more than 30 years of time, we can still hear his voice, which cannot but be said to be a kind of luck.
Maybe his songs, the tunes are always so soft, bleak, even a little sad, you can say that he is not active enough in life, but you can never deny that his poetic words, and the songs sung by a slightly lower voice, are so moving. Nick, listen to your song and accompany me to sleep tonight, I believe this is the best memory of you, I pay tribute to you, thank you for your song, and accompany me through several sleepless nights!
Nick, may the heavens be full of your singing at this moment...... Good night, Nick, good night, readers! )