Chapter 13: The Demon in Red
After deciding to revolt and rebel, Zhu Chongba and Xu Da took the brothers to discuss the details all night.
The brothers all elected Zhu Chongba as the boss, and it was rare that Zhu Chongba actually followed Xu Da's advice and took the brothers to Haozhou to defect to Guo Zixing.
Guo Zixing is entrenched in the area of Weizhou, with strong strength, if you want to do a big career, you can only have a future with him. It's better than so many dozens of people, it's better to hit blindly.
Early the next morning, Chu Liuyan said goodbye to Zhu Chongba and his party, and took his father to the provincial capital to avoid the limelight.
Zhu Chongba, Xu Da and a group of people went to Haozhou together to defect to Guo Zixing.
Chu Liuyan took his old father and slept in the open along the way, and he had to avoid the pursuing soldiers, and he walked very hard. Rarely, we finally arrived at the provincial capital on the morning of the fifth day.
After arriving at the provincial capital, Chu Liuyan finally breathed a sigh of relief. The provincial capital is far away from Zhongli County, and no matter how powerful Du Pippen is, he can't come to this provincial capital to arrest her father and daughter.
There were bumps all the way, and Chu Gaoyuan originally had some good injuries, but they were a little heavier. However, Chu Liuyan is not so worried, as long as he can settle down and recuperate for a while, he will always be able to recover.
Chu Liuyan originally wanted to go to his relatives, but after thinking about it, he always felt that in this troubled world, everyone was in danger, people were warm and cold, and it was not a long-term thing to send people under the fence after all. So, after checking the silver tael, I decided to find a secluded inn to live in first.
She was walking down the street in a carriage when she saw a group of people in the distance surrounding a notice and talking about it.
Her heart tightened: Isn't it Zhu Chongba and Xu Da who failed in their rebellion?
She pulled the carriage aside and squeezed into the crowd to read the notice.
When she saw the notice, she couldn't help but be surprised.
The notice was for the capture of the demon in red. And the demon in red is none other than her-Chu Liuyan.
It turned out that recently, the emperor slept at night and always slept unsteadily. I always dreamed that there was a demon in red who wanted to take over his country. The red-clothed demon had a dignified face, and he couldn't see clearly, and the only thing he could be sure of was that he was wearing a red suit and holding a sword in his hand, and he wanted to take the emperor's life.
The emperor had this strange dream, and after three days in a row, he could no longer sit still. So he ordered the world to arrest the demon in red.
Du Pippen was fleeing because of Chu Gaoyuan and Chu Liuyan's father and daughter, Xu Da rebelled, his teeth were itching, and he couldn't think of a way to take revenge. When he saw the official document that the court wanted to arrest the red-clothed demon, he had an idea and immediately reported it to the prefect, saying that he knew who the red-clothed demon who was going to seize the Yuan Dynasty was, and that person was Chu Liuyan.
When Emperor Shun heard the music, he thought it was absurd and refused to believe it. However, Prime Minister Boyan Jin said that in the Tang Dynasty, there was also a woman Wu Zetian who seized the Li family, established the Zhou Wu Dynasty, and established herself as the emperor. If there is a woman who wants to seize the Yuan Dynasty, it is not surprising.
What's more, most of the people in red are also women. It is not impossible that the red-clothed demon is Chu Liuyan.
After listening to Boyan's words, Emperor Shun was touched by his heart, so he ordered that "it is better to kill by mistake than to let go". All of a sudden, notices to arrest Chu Liuyan, the so-called "red-clothed demon", were plastered all over the streets and alleys.
Chu Liuyan read the notice, although he didn't understand what was going on, he could guess that this incident must be related to Du Pippen and his son. As for the red-clothed demons, they also framed themselves.
So, Chu Liuyan didn't look at it anymore. She walked back to the carriage as if nothing had happened, and took the reins to hurry.
"Yan'er, what's wrong?" Chu Gaoyuan asked his daughter in the carriage. The upheaval and deterioration of his injuries made the old man more and more uneasy.
"It's fine. It is a notice from the imperial court to arrest the Jiangyang thieves, and it has nothing to do with us, the Li people. Chu Liuyan said calmly.
The carriage drove into an alley. This alley is called "Mao'er's Eye Alley", Chu Liuyan played at a relative's house when he was a child, and once broke into it by mistake with a few children.
The people who live in this alley are all high-ranking officials and eunuchs, and they are either rich or expensive. There is an inn in the alley, called "Phoenix Inn", and in the past, the inn was occupied by officials and celebrities from all over the world who came to inspect and play.
Now the world is not good, the Phoenix Inn is no longer as brilliant as before, it is already a door, and even the red paint on the two pillars in front of the door has been mottled, and it is difficult to see the prosperous scenery of the past.
Chu Liuyan deliberately brought his father to live at the Phoenix Inn. The people living in this "Mao'er's Eye Alley" are all nobles, and the officers and soldiers who searched for the Qin criminals did not dare to come here. Comparatively speaking, it's safe here.
"Oh, Childe, do you want to sharpen or eat?" As soon as the carriage stopped at the door, the shopkeeper who was still dozing off on the threshold stood up, and like a gust of wind, he had already rushed to Chu Liuyan's side.
Chu Liuyan is now dressed as a man, and he lowered his head very low, so he couldn't tell that it was a woman.
She whispered, "Give me an upper room." My brother had smallpox and needed to recuperate. If I don't summon you, you don't have to come. ”
"Ah, smallpox!" The shopkeeper's face turned red in an instant, turned blue again soon after, and turned sallow again after a while, and it took a long time to change back to its original color. Its changes are no less than the "changing face" of Sichuan opera.
"Good!" The shopkeeper gritted his teeth. Amitabha, for the sake of not opening for so many days, it is almost impossible to open the pot, not to mention smallpox, even poisonous snakes have to be collected.
The shopkeeper led Chu Liuyan and Chu Gaoyuan until he walked to a room in the far corner of the third floor. He said, "Childe, bother you and Brother Ling, let's live here." If it's okay, that ...... Don't go downstairs. ”
The words of the shopkeeper were in line with Chu Liuyan's intentions, she nodded and helped Chu Gaoyuan in.
The shopkeeper went to serve tea and poured water without mentioning it.
Chu Liuyan cleaned up the spider silk in the room, and then sat next to Chu Gaoyuan and breathed a long sigh of relief.
She suddenly remembered Xu Da and Zhu Chongba, who went to defect to Guo Zixing: I don't know how they are now, is everything going well?
Thinking of Zhu Chongba, Chu Liuyan felt angry and funny. Inexplicably, thinking of Zhu Chongba's kiss on him that night, Chu Liuyan felt a little blushing and heartbeat.
When I think of Xu Da, it is a completely different feeling. Xu Da is capable, calm, civil and military, and is really a rare man in the world. But for some reason, Chu Liuyan always felt that the distance between her and Xu Da was a little far. Even if it is close at hand, it is as if it is separated by thousands of rivers and mountains, far away in the clouds.
"Yan'er, what are you thinking?" Chu Gaoyuan asked.
"Oh, Daddy. I'm thinking about what we're going to do in the future. Chu Liuyan prevaricated and said.
Chu Gaoyuan smiled, the heart of his daughter's family, how could he, as a father, not know.
Chu Liuyan suddenly let out an "ah", a look of panic appeared on his face, and said, "Daddy, I forgot to take the codex left by my mother." ”
Chu Gaoyuan said gently: "Those codexes, I have hidden them under the third locust tree behind our house. If you can go back to your hometown one day, just take it out. ”
The father and daughter had dinner and chatted with each other. Soon, Chu Liuyan fell asleep on the table.
In her sleep, she saw the red silk fluttering all over the mountains, which looked like flames. And those red silks are inlaid with big characters of gold, swaggering endlessly between heaven and earth.
Those big characters are "Ming".
This night, Chu Liuyan always had the same dream. She woke up several times in a row. When the sky was about to dawn, he finally fell asleep.
Suddenly, she heard a commotion of voices, the sound of messy footsteps, and vaguely felt a heat wave rushing towards her.
She thought she was dreaming.
"Smoke, smoke, it's on fire, wake up......" It wasn't until the old father's anxious voice sounded in her ears that she suddenly woke up: on fire?