Text Chapter 6: The Three Ways of Lethe River
Next to Taiquan, two old and one young are talking.
Shen Changgui couldn't remember the last time he was chatting with his father before.
From the moment he was born, his father was either busy with wartime, fighting on horseback, or busy with government affairs. I only see my father a few times a year, and most of them are in a hurry and don't have much time to talk. Now this old man in the age of sixties makes him feel very warm and strange.
For his mother, Shen Changgui had no impression at all. Because he died in childbirth when he gave birth to him, Shen Changgui never saw his mother. The only thing I've seen is a cold tombstone, when the army rushed Shen Yanfu could only bury Shen Changgui's mother in a hurry, a simple tombstone, three feet of loess. It was the last habitat of the woman who gave birth to him. Although after the establishment of Great Qin, Shen Yanfu held a grand funeral for Shen Changgui's mother, everything was empty.
He only remembered that his mother's name was Ye Bingqing.
"Changgui, do you like to practice swords?" Shen Yanfu asked quietly as he looked at the spring in the lake.
Shen Changgui returned without thinking. "Of course. ”
Shen Yanfu shook his head. "But you have been practicing swords for many years, have you ever practiced a simple sword and a sword?"
Shen Changgui was silent, he hated those boring foundations before, and just wanted to learn those superior swordsmanship. It is precisely because of this that today's Shen Changgui's sword is still very lame.
"I have heard of the sword you used in front of Li Banting, most of it was a sword that you used by mistake, and now it is impossible to ask you to do it again. Everything is the most taboo, your father and I look down on the most in my life is the kind of guy who doesn't have two brushes and thinks he is the best in the world. This kind of thing is stupid, rivers and lakes, temples are all the same truth. If you don't have the ability, you will be looked down upon. Sooner or later, you will have to take over the world of Daqin, maybe one day you will have to go into battle, who will look up to you if you go on like this. Now that I have you and Doom to support you, no one dares to say anything. If we both go to stay under the yellow earth one day, who can you rely on? There are a lot of skills, and the ability to use people and people, you go to ask the surname Sun for this thing, I am the most annoying in my life. Cavalry fighting is also a skill, and your father and I relied on this to defeat Daqin. Like those martial arts masters, being invincible is also a skill, but your heart is in swordsmanship, but you don't grasp the fundamentals. The five roots of the tree to reach the sky are just in a dream. I'm just saying this to you just to let you know. If you want to practice swords, I won't stop you, but if you want to practice, you will become the first in the world, and you will become a Li Banting Wu Xizhen, a member of my Shen family, will never be subservient. ”
After speaking, Shen Yanfu slowly got up and greeted Sun Yi. "It's old, it's useless. Changed to go back to rest and rest. ”
Sun Yi supported Shen Yanfu and slowly disappeared into Shen Changgui's sight.
Unconsciously he found that his father, who was once a great man, now has a rickety back and gray hair. The sound has also become vicissitudes. Unconsciously, that father is old.
Light snow fell in the hazy sky.
Shen Changgui thought that in the past 20 years, he was not a bullshit who practiced swordsmanship, and he thought that he had achieved swordsmanship by secretly learning three moves and two styles. Reading and writing poems can only read some words, and the poems written can't bear to look at directly. The arrangement of troops is still unclear even how many armies there are in Great Qin. Thinking about these 20 years, it seems that not even a single thing has been accomplished.
"I've lived in vain for the past 20 years. ”
Shen Changgui stood alone on the edge of Taiquan, and the snow became heavier and heavier, gradually drowning him in the snowflakes flying all over the sky.
In the next few days, Shen Changgui practiced day and night with his sword and sword, forgetting to sleep and eat. The two maids saw the steamed buns in their eyes, and often reminded the prince to eat, but every time they were smiled by Shen Changgui and said, "Right away, right away." "This one is a few more hours.
Today is Chinese New Year's Eve.
Shen Changgui was still practicing his sword in the room alone, and the sound of pushing the door came in. Shen Changgui said angrily: "Didn't you say don't bother me?" Shen Changgui, who was not angry, looked at it, and it was not steamed buns or steamed buns that pushed the door in, but his own father. Shen Changgui hurriedly served tea and poured water. For a while, I was in a hurry.
"How did you start practicing your sword well?"
"The people of the Shen family never succumb to others. ”
Shen Yanfu was stunned and laughed. "Well, it's my son. ”
"I'm here today to see you. By the way, I want to tell you something about your mother, you are also old and should know. ”
Hearing the word mother, Shen Changgui felt very unfamiliar, he had never seen his mother since he was a child, and he always had a different taste for these two words. There is both excitement and loss. Have mixed feelings.
"Your mother is a great beauty. I met your mother when I was just four or five hundred people. I want to laugh too, I met your mother in a restaurant. Your stepfather and I were bragging in the restaurant at the time, and you know that. I like to talk nonsense when I'm young, although my martial arts are not as good as your father-in-law, but I haven't lost to your father-in-law in this matter of bragging. Your mother can't see the two of us. He interjected and taunted the two of us, are you young, and the two of us have a violent temper. I fought with your mother, who knew that your mother's swordsmanship was outstanding, and she knocked me down in two blows. Later, it was your stepfather who rescued me, and I don't know what happened since. I went to the restaurant every day to wait for your mother, I saw her every day, and I interjected with her every day for more than half a month. It may be that your father is handsome and chic, and your mother is also fascinated by me. I said directly to your mother, 'I see that you are good-looking, if you follow Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will let you be the queen in the future', and then your mother will follow me with all her heart. Speaking of this, Shen Yanfu had a smug look on his face. Shen Changgui also listened to it with relish.
"Later, your mother became pregnant with you, and at that time I felt that I was the happiest man in the world. But the war is still going on, but no matter how fierce the war is, your mother will cook for me once a day and deliver it to me by hand. At that time, the army I led was ambushed and retreated, and your mother was worried about death. With a big belly, I insisted on going to the front line to find me, but your father-in-law couldn't persuade me to talk about it, so I could only bring a team of people and your mother to support me. You know, I was seven months pregnant with you. Later, when I gave birth to you, your mother had a difficult birth, but fortunately, she was born, but her body was very weak, and your body was also very weak. We were raided that night, and your mother dragged her weak body to save you. Your mother fell ill for this. Your body is getting weaker and weaker because of this, and there is no way for those men to do anything. Later, I met the Eastern Emperor Taiyi. Your mother begged the Eastern Emperor Taiyi to save you, and I also went to beg him with a try, but the price that the Eastern Emperor wanted was that he wanted your mother's sword, and there was only one way, which was to cut off your mother's qi and turn it to you. In the whole world, only he can do it. ”
Shen Yanfu choked up when he said this, and stopped talking.
The two people, one of the emperor of Great Qin and the other of the crown prince of Great Qin, were in tears at this moment.
The two of them didn't say a word, and the whole room was terrifyingly quiet.
Shen Changgui looked at Li Banting, tears in his eyes. Choked up and said: "So my mother died in the hands of Donghuang Taiyi in order to save me." ”
Shen Yanfu breathed a long sigh of relief and was noncommittal.
The two fell silent again.
"My mother's sword is still in the hands of the Eastern Emperor Taiyi. Shen Changgui's tone was heavy, making people feel very unfamiliar.
Shen Yanfu nodded helplessly.
"Now that you are the emperor of Great Qin, you can't get that sword back. Shen Changgui seemed to be questioning Shen Yanfu, asking him why he couldn't get that sword in the palm of the world now.
Shen Yanfu shook his head. "The only person in the world who knows the whereabouts of the Eastern Emperor is his younger brother, the Western Emperor. I sent countless soldiers and horses to find the whereabouts of the Eastern Emperor, but in the end, they all came to naught. Shen Yanfu said with some helplessness and remorse. Maybe he hates himself for being the Ninety-Five now, but he still can't get back his beloved, the last relic.
"If you can't get it back, I'll get it. ”
At this moment, Shen Changgui doesn't look like his son who has been spoiled for many years, but more like he was in high spirits back then, saying that he wanted to lay down the entire country.
"Just rely on my sword. ”
Shen Yanfu patted his son's shoulder with relief, got up and left slowly.
Before leaving, Shen Yanfu told Shen Changgui that the sword was called Lechuan Santu.