Chapter 19: Crossing the Tang Dynasty
A meandering stream flows, the grass on both banks is verdant and green, and butterflies are waving their wings chasing the flowers that bloom on the grass. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoNot far away, the gardenia tree about 1 meter high, the leaves are opposite or three-leaf whorls, the oil green is lovely! Next to the evergreen shrub flowers full of gardenias, there are two beautiful little girls and a handsome boy.
They all looked like they were eight or nine years old, and they were looking back at the blue sky at this time, and they all had happy smiles on their faces. The young man pointed to a white cloud floating in the sky: "Cui Xiuli, what do you say is in the white clouds?" The girl named Cui Xiuli pouted: "Brother Qingyu, didn't I tell you everything?
The young man seemed a little aggrieved: "I know! But Wan'er won't let me call you beautiful." Cui Xiuli turned her face and looked at another little girl resentfully: "Hey, I said Shangguan Wan'er, why don't you let Brother Qingyu call me Xiuli?" The girl named Shangguan Wan'er grinned: "You follow Qingyu every day and call Brother Qingyu, Brother Qingyu, don't you know that the three of us were born in the same year, the same month, and the same day? Qingyu and I are a baby kiss, I only allow him to call me Wan'er, but not let him call other girls by their names, is it wrong?"
Cui Xiuli said unconvinced: "Who said that Brother Qingyu can only marry you? When I grow up, I will also marry Brother Qingyu!" "That's just your idea, Qingyu is mine, anyway, I won't let him marry you!" Cui Xiuli turned to Qingyu again, and there seemed to be a little moisture in her eyes: "Brother Qingyu, will you marry me?" Will you be with me for the rest of your life?"
The two girls looked at Qing Yu, and Shangguan Wan'er followed up: "Qing Yu, if one day, the green plum withers and the bamboo horse grows old, will you still snuggle up with me like this and look at the white clouds in the sky?" Qing Yu stretched out his hands as if hugging the blue sky: "I want to practice the Purple Spirit Screaming Heavenly Fist, so that I can make the two of you immortal with me, and in a few years, under this blue sky, isn't there only the three of us?"
Cui Xiuli happily hugged the young man: "Brother Qingyu, don't forget the promise you said!" Shangguan Wan'er looked at the young man, and then at the girl named Cui Xiuli, and suddenly shouted: "Cui Xiuli, you are too much......"
Under an old banyan tree next to him, Cui Longhai and Shangguan Yi looked at the young man by the river while playing chess, Cui Longhai sighed: "Alas, Qingyu's child is really pitiful, not long after he was born, his father, General Huo Guanghuo, died on the battlefield for the country, and his mother was martyred for her husband, so the Huo family only left this single seedling! Originally, Qingyu's child could get the position of a hereditary five-grade Dingyuan general, but it's a pity that the imperial court thought that General Huo Da was delaying the fighter and acting without authorization!
Cui Longhai's words made Shangguan Yi deeply fall into self-blame and memories of the past. He muttered: "It's all my fault! It's all my fault! It's me who deserves to die! I killed General Huo......
That time took place seven years ago, when the Don army launched a devastating campaign against the Turks. Leading this army of 100,000 tigers and wolves is the congyi product of the four seas of Datang Wei Town, hussar general Huo Guang. The reason why the emperor of the Tang Empire made up his mind to fight the Turks this time was that the Turkic leader Ala Yisuo ignored the peace treaty signed with the Tang Dynasty and carried out raids, harassment, plunder, and massacres against Loulan and the small countries around Loulan for several months! You must know that these places were all territories and vassal states of the Tang Dynasty, and they also seriously affected the normal trade of the Silk Road, which was the economic lifeblood of the Tang Dynasty!
Someone dared to slaughter the people of the Tang Dynasty, which the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty absolutely could not tolerate! The Tang Emperor (the emperor naturally wants to be famous, and he must show his appearance, and he loves the people like a son!) immediately dispatched the most elite army of the Tang Dynasty, and Huo Guang, the most powerful hussar general, to suppress it.
In the handwritten fold given by Emperor Tang to General Huo, he repeatedly mentioned: "To eliminate thieves, we must eradicate the roots, remember not to leave trouble!" The general's face was slightly gloomy, and his heart was even more mixed. As an iron-blooded general, he wouldn't even blink an eye at the bloody scene of the sword and shadow horse leather shroud. The dragon slayer knife that slashed and killed the enemy was never unbearable in the slightest, but if it was really faced with women and children, he couldn't do it.
The emperor naturally has his own driving skills, and he knows every minister well. A humerus minister like Huo Guang, a hussar general, the emperor even knew what kind of pants he liked to wear. Before the war began, the Tang Emperor knew that the great general would definitely not kill the wives and children of the Turks, but how could he cut off the roots without killing them? The Turks were so hateful, if they did not completely destroy them, how could they be worthy of the border people? Of course, the emperor considered the problem from a different angle than the minister, and some words could not be said directly, which emperor did not want a reputation? The Tang Emperor was not exempt from vulgarity, so there was a secret letter sent to the general.
It is a difficult and long road from the capital to Loulan, and the post stations along the way provide sufficient grain and grass, which are all food supplies sent by people from various states and counties along the way. The general knew that these were the blood and sweat of the people, and their silent efforts only hoped to bring peace to the world.
Hussar general Huo Guang has never suffered defeat in his life, and one of the very important reasons is that he loves soldiers like sons, understands the people, and never disturbs the people. General Huo's army strictly abides by military law wherever it goes, and no one dares to rob the people's property. The people affectionately called Huo Guang's army the Huo Family Army, and the Huo Family Army would be welcomed by the people wherever he went.
However, what the people liked, the emperor did not necessarily like. For example, the emperor often said in private: "Huo Jiajun! Huo Jiajun! Where is there any Huo family army in the world? All the armies in the world are royal!" Although this is all occasional talk, it can reflect that the emperor is already dissatisfied with General Huo.
Huo Guang is an upright person, and these scheming things have always been scoffed at by the generals. When others have three wives and four concubines, General Huo Da is always a wife, and they love each other, enjoy flowers under the moon, and are as sweet as the original heart. Now Mrs. Huo has just given birth to a son for the general, and the Huo Mansion is like the New Year every day. And General Nahuo grinned every day, as if he had the happiness of the whole world.
However, before the festive atmosphere was dispersed, the holy decree in the palace arrived, and the loving mandarin ducks had to be separated for a while. On the day of the expedition, General Huo rode on a white war horse, looking at his wife who was raining tears, General Huo looked up to the sky and tried to flow tears into his stomach.
The troops opened like a rolling torrent, and Mrs. Huo cried and shouted as she ran: "Brother Guang, if you die on the battlefield, Sister Lan will never steal a day!" Huo Guang heard his wife's heartfelt cry, his tiger body was shocked, and tears were almost about to fall. He also felt the danger of his trip, and it seemed that a bad omen trapped him deeply. Huo Jiang whipped the horse's buttocks with a leather whip, and the white war horse under his crotch galloped away......
Lan'er stared blankly at her husband's distant back and slowly disappeared into the billowing dust, she felt dizzy, "Is this the parting of life and death?" Mrs. Huo's face turned pale, and she was helped back to Huo's mansion by the maid in the house. When Mrs. Huo returned to the mansion and saw Huo Qingyu's clear and pure eyes in her swaddling clothes, Mrs. Huo's heart was about to break. She is not afraid of death, as long as the bad news of her husband comes, then she will immediately hang herself by hanging herself, but what about Qingyu?
Qing Yu is still so young, he still doesn't know anything about this world, without the support of his parents, how long will he live? This is the knot in Mrs. Huo's heart. Mrs. Huo held Qing Yu in her arms and shook it gently, Qing Yu was like a sensible big child, he looked at his tearful mother, he didn't make any trouble and didn't cry at all. He seemed to understand the pain in his mother's heart, as if he wanted to bear something for his mother.
Mrs. Huo shook Qingyu and said softly: "Son, you must grow up healthy and peaceful, for my mother I don't expect you to be rich and noble, and I only hope that you can find a good wife, stay away from the world and officialdom, live a plain life in a remote and remote small mountain village with beautiful mountains and rivers, and live a dull life with a lifetime of affection and love for husband and wife...... "Qingyu's eyes widened, he seemed to understand his mother's words......