Chapter 2 The Town Dragon Snake
Panlong town is located at the foot of Xifeng Mountain sixteen miles, here is the place of Taizu Zhou's dragon xing, according to legend, two jiazi ago, there is a flying dragon entrenched at the mouth of the town, out of the clouds, not in the ice and snow, salivate and give birth to peach blossoms, three years after the peach blossom fruit, Zhou's mother eats it, gives birth to Taizu. Hence the name of the town of Panlong.
In the blink of an eye, more than 100 years of spring and autumn, the peach trees have long since died, and the town has remained unchanged, as if commemorating the legend that has been untested here.
And at noon today, the withered peach blossoms on the side of the female wall at the entrance of the town suddenly turned pink and suddenly bloomed in the cold winter and snow for an hour.
The mayor of the town, Guo You, and a group of officials stood in front of the peach blossoms and couldn't talk to themselves excitedly for a long time, thinking of the upcoming Tianqing ceremony. It was immediately decided to take this matter as an auspicious day from heaven, and the Stagecoach Division 800 miles expedited express Kyoto.
As a border town, Panlong Town only has one branch, two military horses and one old pawn here.
The old pawn's name is Zhao Wu, and the people in the town call him Zhao Wu, according to Zhao Wu himself, before being a post man, he served in Miyun Pass for fifteen years of military service, and later injured his left arm during the war with the barbarians, and he couldn't hold the spear steadily, so he came here to be a post man.
About this matter, people who are familiar with Zhao Wu don't believe him, and it's no wonder that Zhao Wu is a coward on weekdays, and the officials in the town laugh at him for being crippled and rob him of wine, he only stands aside and smirks, and doesn't fight back or fight back, and Zhao Wu still believes in Buddhism, and killing a chicken will be excessive in chanting for the chicken, and sometimes thinking about the chicken cubs who lose their hens will even leave tears and spare the chicken's life. It's hard to imagine the way he slashes a barbarian with a knife, is it possible that every time he slashes, he first recites a mantra of death?
On this day, Zhao Wu leaned on the railing of the horse shop, squinting to enjoy the rare temperature of the winter sun, for some reason, he always felt that today's sun was bigger and more dazzling than usual.
With him there is also a blind old gentleman and a seven or eight years old girl in white, the old gentleman was originally the town's official school office, a month ago when he went out to travel when he met a bandit, blind, thought he would die but happened to meet the court bandits, this saved his life, but also met the same captive girl in the thief's den, according to the girl said that the family has been slaughtered by the thieves, so an old and a young returned to the town to depend on each other, the old gentleman taught the girl to read and write, the girl for the old man to identify the way, originally had no children and no daughter, but because of the blessing of the individual and the righteous daughter, for a long time, gradually spread in the town as a good storySince then, the combination of the old man and the girl has never been out of focus and never appears alone.
After receiving the message from Guo Zhenshou, Zhao Wu immediately set off to the peach blossom tree, and after marking the peach blossom image with the secret rubbing, he bid farewell to the township and led the horse out of the town from the south gate of the town.
Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the post road control is extremely strict, where there is an emergency report of 800 miles, the post guard has not been ordered to go out of the city within an hour.
Zhao Wu hurriedly walked out of the city, not noticing that in the crowd of people who saw him off, there was no girl in white beside the blind old man, of course, even if he noticed, he wouldn't care too much.
Half an hour after Zhao Wu left the town, a group of eight cavalry appeared on a snow hill thirty miles east of the town. Dark iron inlaid with gold, spears and sabers, people and horses are like dragons, if Zhao Wu is present, he will recognize this is the standard royal standard riding armor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The cavalry stood silently in the face of the wind and snow, as if waiting for someone, a moment later, a roar came from the dense stratus clouds in the southeast sky, and then a huge and friendless golden-winged lion-headed vulture broke through the clouds, and in the blink of an eye, it came to the sky above the horses, circled for two weeks and slowly landed on the snow slope, the wings flapped and flew off the snow, a middle-aged man in civilian clothes turned over from the vulture, stroked the eagle's neck with one hand, and coiled a pair of blue jade stone balls with the other, there was a snow-capped mountain looming in the stone ball, he turned his back to the knights, looked at the Xifeng Mountain and Panlong Town in the distance, and said after a while: "Wait for the reply of the Supervision Division, if the news is correct, notify the Fourth Army of Zhenbei that within three hours, it will be a hundred miles north of Xifeng, and intercept and kill Night Cry and Thunder Wolf. ”
The two knights on the right hand side of the middle-aged man led the way.
"As for us," the middle-aged man turned around, "search for a hundred miles and take Princess Yongle home!"
The remaining knights drew their swords and beat their chests, saluted solemnly, and the men rode griffons into the sky.
To the west of the town, deep in the West Maple Mountains.
In a leeward cave, Zhao Yuzhen was hiding behind a rock in the cave to avoid the cold, and the cold wind outside the cave was cold and whimpering.
Zhao Yuzhen held the sinking lower abdomen with one hand, waved his fist at the deeper part of the cave with the other hand to show threat, and deliberately showed the fierce and cute little tiger teeth, and a grizzly bear with a blue nose and swollen face immediately covered his head.
She is the princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the youngest daughter of Emperor Renzong, smart and clever, well-versed in hundreds of schools, and has awakened the purest royal family. At the age of twelve, she was named Yongle, and she was born and happy.
She is also the mother of the White Lake tribes, and the wife of the thirteenth son of the White Lake co-ruler Ebi Khan. When she was sixteen years old, she met him who came to Shengjing to be a proton at the Fengqing Festival, fell in love at first sight, committed to marrying, and went to the grassland two years later, this marriage brought a rare peace between Da Zhou and Baihu for a period of time.
Now, before the Fengqing Festival, with the secrets and conspiracies found from within the royal court, she was nine months pregnant, left the grassland alone, and finally came to Xifeng Mountain after avoiding countless interceptions, as long as she arrived at any place with a city wall in the territory of the Zhou Dynasty, she could launch the art of blue blood and city, and all the people in the world with the blood of the Zhou family to get the soul empathy, and inform the entire Great Zhou of the secrets, and now, from Panlong Town, but the distance of a Xifeng ridge.
Zhao Yuzhen sat down slowly against the stone wall, looking at the wind and snow outside the cave thoughtfully, the snow ditch has lost all the traces along the way, and it should be able to temporarily block the people sent by the enemy, but in this way, the clues of the Supervision Department to find and rescue themselves have also been broken, and there has been no news in the department for three months, it seems that the western front is still tight, fortunately, after Miyunguan has been in Pei Yuanhou's business for several years, with Mr. Beichen's return to the south, there should be no big problems, and the ice on Baicao Lake can now be driven, his belly is getting bigger and bigger, and he estimated that he would live a few days when he came, that is, what is the name of the little guyIn other words, this tree has no cliff, why is it called Xifeng Mountain...
While thinking about the state affairs and family affairs that she didn't have, she was vigilant about everything except the wind and snow outside the cave, and when it was cold, she pulled the grizzly bear and put the bear's head on her lower abdomen to cover it, the grizzly bear didn't dare to move at all, and her eyes were spinning, looking harmless and innocent. In this way, a person and a bear lived together silently for an unknown amount of time, and the grizzly bear couldn't resist the sleepiness of hibernation, and gradually closed its eyes, so there was no other sound in the world except for wind and snow.
At the same time, it is further north in West Maple Mountain.
A shirtless man in animal skin shorts was tilting his head to pour the last mouthful of mare's milk wine from the leather bag into his throat, and his iron-like body stopped on the official road to the south intentionally or unintentionally, and in front of him was a sick man in a hunchback in a green shirt or fifties.
The sick man tried to take a step to the left, and the shirtless man immediately moved sideways to block the way, and the sick man retreated to the same place, but the shirtless man took a step forward, such a big step, and the distance between the two of them immediately became an arm's length.
The sick man reluctantly retreated, leaned over, and said in a barbarian language with compassion: "Answer the tooth Turi, everyone is chasing the cheap maid of the Zhou Kingdom, why did you stop me, could it be that your master has lived in Shengjing for a long time, and has been cultivated by the land of disobedience? Or are you really sleeping in a bed with that cheap maid to have a relationship? Or do you fall in love with the beauty of the mistress and are ready to take this opportunity to return to the Great Zhou Shuangsu Shuangfei and mix up with the horse master?"
The shirtless man who was called to answer the tooth was silent for a moment, and said: "The Khan ordered me to capture the mother of the mother of the Lady of the Hundred and Fifty Heavens alive, but you and those people behind you want to kill her, if the mother is really killed by you, how can I capture her alive? As for the relationship between the Lord and the Niangniang, the couple has a deep affection, and the white sea knows it, and there is no room for a villain like you to put his beak in the beak, if you say another half disrespectful words, I will sacrifice wine and incense for you today next year!"
The sick man heard this, his body became even more rickety, and he thought in pieces: "It's been a hard time, an old bone has traveled to most of the grassland, and even a girl won't let me kill it, and if I don't let it be killed, I'm going to be threatened by a young and strong young man, how do I live this day, woo woo, I really want to kill someone... As the sick man spoke, he couldn't help choking a little, and finally repeated the sentence that I really wanted to kill, and covered his face with his sleeves and whimpered and cried.
At the moment when the cry sounded, the insects and snakes that had been hiding underground for the winter within a radius of ten miles began to stir uneasily, and a strange rustling sound sounded in the snow, and as the cry became louder, even the winter sun, which had been warm, became cold.
Answer: Tu Ri raised his eyebrows, and angrily reprimanded: "Night crying Lang!
The crying was stopped by the answer, and calm was restored in the mountains.
He laughed, threw down the empty sac and turned to leave, and suddenly heard the sick man behind him shout: "Don't forget, that woman is still pregnant! Do you really want to let your master's blood flow outside? That is also the blood of the Khan!"
Footsteps stopped.
I only heard the sick man continue: "Without my voyeurism, you can't catch her, and I alone, I can't help the city, it's better for you and me to work together, as for how to deal with it after being caught, it's all up to the Khan's choice, you see how it is." ”
Answering, Turi pondered for a long time and asked, "How do I know that you are not scolding me?
The sick man smiled slightly, and replied: "Before leaving, Lord Zuo Sai was moistened with holy water for me, and the woman's strength was greatly reduced due to the imminent delivery, so there is still confidence within a radius of 100 miles, don't believe it." As he spoke, the sick man took out a gourd from the back basket, poured the ink in the gourd into a flat snowfield, the white snow and black ink flowed and transformed, and a moment later he sketched a pattern, it was Zhao Yuzhen who was sitting with a bear at this moment!
Answering the picture in the snow, he reluctantly suppressed the longing and love for the person in the painting over the years, and said to the sick man: "Don't hurt her life, let's go." With that, he waved his palm, smashed the snow, and strode forward without looking back.
The sick man sighed and silently followed.
Within a radius of 100 miles from Xifeng Mountain in Panlong Town, the emperor rides, immature girls, blind women, princesses, night crying, thunder wolves, vulture riders, dragons and snakes gather.