Chapter 349: The Yellow Flower of the Prince, The River and Lake Remains the Same

After the convoy of Liyang Seal Ribbon Supervisor crossed the Tongguan Pass and entered the jurisdiction of Liangzhou, the horses’ hooves finally accelerated, treading intensively on the post road, just like a rainstorm in autumn. After all, there are several thousand people of the capital city cavalry, the momentum is still some, but also attracted a lot of people’s eyes, the vast majority of the Northern Liang cavalry are stationed outside the Liangzhou Pass, the Northern Liang Road territory cavalry in addition to the Tongguan Pass this kind of important dangerous passes of the place of the soldiers to fight, but also more or White Horse Boxer this kind of escort elite cavalry is more common, unless it is a hasty mobilization, or else more than two thousand riders of the troops and horses galloped, it’s not common.

This troop as the nominal ambassador of the son of God, all the way to the west, really appreciate the barren cold of the northern Liang, just poor and cold, along the way in the fall crops, and other life, lush and vibrant, especially eye-catching. Occasionally harvest busy countryside village couple people, stop working, wipe the sweat, looking at this vast unfamiliar cavalry army, look peaceful, if there is a playful children in the field, and even will point a few, which is very different from the Jizhou Hezhou area is a very different scene, probably this is the unique spirit of the Northern Liang and the Northern Mang twenty years of deadly combat after the spirit of the world, the world’s cavalry thousands of millions, only my Northern Liang 甲天下.

The caravan in the green horse post stay, this place from the Liangzhou city but more than eighty miles, seal ribbon supervisor three python suit eunuchs after a thousand years of hard work is finally about to see that the king’s house, probably a rare mood a few points of relaxation, after dinner about to travel in pairs, along the bank of a river named Long Ju River casually stroll, followed by two eunuchs clever feet and feet, as well as the six hanging with the royal sword of the imperial guards. The eunuch in charge of the seal squinted at the riverbed, after the fall, compared to the summer flood season the river has dropped a lot, the water falls out, near the banks of the riverbed exposed as the backbone of the swimmer’s dark slate, a piece of clustered together, giving a person incomparably hard feeling, not to mention compared with the water town of the south of the Yangtze River, that is, the capital and the capital city is absolutely not to see this kind of scenery. The three big brother eunuchs are years of pampered eunuchs, although in the city of Tai’an is also used to the cold autumn and winter climate, to the Northwest has not been too much discomfort, but along the riverbanks after walking and stopping for half an hour, that is, the two young eunuchs bottom of the heart is also a bit of a pain, the seal of the two or three chairs are panting, just the eunuchs do not say to stop, whether it is eunuchs or the imperial guards, are Used to the strict rules, naturally, no one opened the door to remind if you do not return the same way, I am afraid that we will have to step on the night to play the fire folding fumble back to the stagecoach.

The eunuch in charge of the seal ribbon supervisor surnamed Liu, the name of the eunuchs in the late generation has long been little known, with many elderly eunuchs, are the identity of the remnants of the deceased country, when the Liyang soldiers and horses every break a country, there are a large number of eunuchs follow the deceased ruler and ministers to move into the city of Tai’an, but Hongjia North Run is destined to be famous in history, these eunuchs of the displacement, and how can it be in the eyes of the readers, I believe that there is no one who would like to write a couple of strokes on the history for them in the history books. I believe that no one wants to write a pen or two for them in the history books. Especially these eunuchs in their away from the Yang dynasty field has always been known for honesty in the world, eunuchs interfere in politics is not to think about, away from the Yang three generations of emperors are Mingjun, the court is the weather of civil servants and military generals, the old generation of the eunuchs, everyone consciously to be able to peacefully and steadily die in the palace, is the great fortune, so from Han Sheng Xuan to the Song Tanglu two generations of eunuchs who are careful and cautious, not water leakage of the nature of the eunuchs.

A group of people and walked to a small half an hour, finally saw a large stone cliff, towering standing on the right side of the river bank, Eunuch Liu took the lead on the stone cliff, a time of mixed feelings.

The body is slightly bloated in charge of the Secretary eunuch really can not stand the sore legs, to sit on the ground, recognize him as a master of the young eunuch rushed to do the cattle and horses kneeling on the ground, the elderly eunuch gratifying smile, grinning broadly sitting on the young eunuch’s waist and back. Another junior eunuch following the gourd, also want to give the seal eunuch eunuch Liu so attentive, but unexpectedly only bent down want to be a stool, saw eunuch Liu waved his hand, had to retreat unhappily.

Eunuch Liu raised his arm to point upstream, and then turned his head and two one-stop sitting two python clothes old eunuchs laughed: “Song Gong Gong, Ma Gong Gong, you should know that our family used to be the North Han people, ancestors …… Well, with some of the young people of the city of Tai’an said, that is, also had a broad. ”

The two Seal Ribbon Supervisor big brothers nodded with a smile.

Eunuch Liu turned his back on the crowd, continued: “Our family in the family offenses before the migration, in fact, to the grandfather’s generation is not too prosperous, can only barely be considered a scholar, but and before the crown has also been done before the book tour things, then the same book tour is also divided into three, six, nine, etc., the most top is to go to the Western Chu Shang Yin Palace, followed by the world’s three major academies, then the four major Jiangnan Road, the bookstore of the family’s collection, we have a good idea of what we want to do, and I’m not sure if you want to do it. The family name of the library, we can not afford to go so far, the fact that there is no friendship, there were only two roads, either to the east, that is, today’s Tai’an City, or to the west, that is, today’s Northern Liang, because at that time Yao’s knowledge has been renowned in the Central Plains, we went all the way to the west, and then, just passed through here, but in fact, can not remember that the river is called the Longjiao River, just remembered the rock cliffs, and a small ferry in front. a small ferry in front of it.”

The young eunuch who didn’t get to work as an ox for Eunuch Liu, who was in charge of the seal, immediately smiled and said, “No wonder the eunuch’s writing is extraordinarily stylish, and the late emperor also complimented him a number of times, so it turns out that the eunuch is an authentic scholarly person.”

Eunuch Liu was originally on these painless slips should have been accustomed to, but today at this time but especially happy, rubbed not half a bit of beard chin, looking into the distance, sharp voice also softened a few points, “the reason why we remember this nameless stone cliffs so clearly …… ”

Just when everyone is listening quietly to the following, this high-powered eunuch in charge of the seal but has gradually suppressed the voice, as tiny as a mosquito fly trembling wings, so that people can not tell whether the old man in the end there is no self-talk.

Of course the old man is talking, some words rot in the stomach for most of his life, do not vomit, but when those words leisurely climbed to the edge of the mouth, like a miserly old drunkard, carry out a altar of treasured decades of old wine, only wish to drink alone, it is best to look at the side can not drink, can only look at me alone to drink.

The old man is actually talking about a trivial matter, the old man also do not know why experienced so many ups and downs in life, first is the fall of the family, the next is the country broken mountains and rivers broken, after that is the biggest mansion under the sky in the fight, this life has seen countless spirited generals and ministers, have seen a lot of heroic heroes, respectable and poor people, encountered a lot of people who can make people think of it after the fact also Sweating conspiracies and tricks, but really in the twilight of the year sympathize with the things that hang in the heart, but are some of the young time early to laugh off the triviality. The old man’s blurred vision, is a perhaps in the local county records of Liangzhou also no name of the small ferry, but it was there, then also young readers of the Northern Han Liu, also like this early fall, the ferry without a boat, in order to cross the river, can only be carried by the river village people across the river, both physical fitness and dark-skinned young, but also on the age of the old man old woman, the vast majority of the number of people are upper body naked, even middle-aged Aunt not an exception, so bare most of the body, chest heavy, like falling two grains of the most full of rice under the sky, so that the first sight of this scene of a few Northern Han travelers, almost all of them are a little red, but those who do the ferry camp villagers, regardless of men and women regardless of age, are too happy to do, and that one of them, he saw a yellow flower of the general young girl, unlike the others, she was She wore a thin garment with a strong mending, perhaps she was not outstanding, but in the group of coarse villagers, she looked very different, in the long years after the court, the old man only twice felt such a strong sense of suddenness, once is the current empress Zhao Zhi when she was still the empress of Liyang, sternly rebuked his majesty, who is recognized as a wise and mighty emperor. On another occasion, she had watched from afar that human butcher Xu Snapdragon, who held the title of Great Pillar State as a vassal king with a different surname, as he entered the capital to participate in the retreat of the court, and the ministers had retreated like a pond full of carps, but only Xu Snapdragon had always appeared to be a solitary person traveling alone.

The old man put away his thoughts, his eyes are peaceful, looking far away.

Back then there, remember he blushingly picked that yellow flower girl back his own river, two companion traveled to the same township scholars are tacitly picked two middle-aged women, to the middle of the Longjiao River, he also witnessed that usually the most rigorous schooling stereotypes of the guy, secretly pinched the woman’s plump, slightly black breasts, the face of his classmates of the kind of contentment look, such as the scholar and the first. And another fellow students although usually bold, in that moment in turn shrinking, but the back of her woman laughed brightly, freeing a hand to grab his palm, snapped and pressed to their own chest, and then said with a heavy northwest local accent, touch a bit of money, but want to touch enough, as long as the five wen money.

Only he has always been rules and regulations, both read the sage book of people’s etiquette constraints, but also a few points of intolerance, but also lying on the back of her slender waist, for fear that one of their own scared her, the result of her a figure unsteady, the two really want to turn into the same life as a pair of lovebirds to do a pair of water ghosts.

Back across the river, he also wanted to give a few more dollars with two fellow students, but she did not, lowered her eyebrows, lightly twisting the corner of her coat, shy and timid.

That encounter and parting, there will be no more reunion.

Maybe he can’t forget her, not really how much he likes her, but miss that is still a scholar himself.

But perhaps, that young Liu scholar, indeed always like her, can not say how much, can not say how much, and do not have to think in the end how much like.

The old man suddenly for no reason surged up an impulse, looked up at the sky, turned around and said with a deep smile: “We have to go to the ferry side to take a look, Eunuch Song, Eunuch Ma, you two do not need to follow, we go to go back, try to fight not to go back to the stagecoach in the dark.”

The python-robed eunuch sitting on the back of the young eunuch immediately stood up and said understandingly, “Since we’re here, it’s just a matter of one breath, so what’s the harm in returning to the post in the dark, and we won’t be delayed in our business anyway.”

The other tallest eunuch Ma also smiled and agreed: “The opportunity to accompany Eunuch Liu to revisit old haunts, I’m afraid that this is the only time in my life, this distance is not much of a laborious journey, this time the three of us are working for the Heavenly Family, but we have traveled thousands of miles down.”

Eunuch Liu smiled and nodded his head, looking more and more kind. Although the seal ribbon supervisor in the away from the Yang Palace twelve supervisors four departments and eight bureaus, not too prominent Yamen, compared to the Song Tanglu seal of ceremonial supervision is not the same day, but can not be underestimated, after all, the hand of the king of a country to help care for those iron vouchers enjoin the Royal Decree sticker yellow seal, in the city of Tai’an, seal ribbon supervisor is by no means now this kind of peace and harmony atmosphere, should be the trip to the northwestern part of the mission to give the three seal ribbon supervisors to bring a great pressure. Huge pressure, really become a glory, a loss, the previous fly on the wall naturally put aside.

The old saying that looking at the mountain run dead horse, really not true, at that time Eunuch Liu pointed to the vaguely visible small ferry, is still letting the seal seal supervisor and his entourage walked exhausted, even Eunuch Liu had to apologize to the two sweating python suit colleague.

Ferry is still there, but compared to the year more than twenty people waiting to carry people across the river to make money scene, now only sparse four or five people, Liu Gonggong raised his eyes and looked, some disappointment, the village is some rough old man, no young and strong and no women, in the ferry to the other side of the traveler is even more few, Liu Gonggong would like to return to this, but then some unwillingness, towards the several piles of chatting the old man, those people apparently also found that this line of people, especially the three eunuchs of the Yinshou Supervision of the python suit and jade belt, too fresh, even if it is a lifetime, even the county magistrate can not see a few times on the bottom of the frog, but as long as it is not blind, are aware of is not able to mess with the power of the noble characters, and also clear that it will never be a guest here to cross the river, although the Longju River is the premier river in Liangzhou, but with the official government more than ten years ago after the successive establishment of two bridges to the garrison and people use, so even the Xiajiu River is the only river in Liangzhou, and it is the only river in the city, but it is the only river in Liangzhou. and the people, so even in summer and fall, there is almost no business to speak of, there are bridges do not go, have to go to the river to wander, not eat enough to hold on to. Unless it is really too north of the merchants and pedestrians, hurrying more urgent, do not want to go more than twenty miles to the south of the bridge, will be wading across the river, only if the relationship with the government is good business magnates, in fact, can also borrow some of the north that the post bridge, just heard that with the young king of the clan on the throne, the tube is more strict, the local garrison and the government Yamen do not dare to be as before, turn a blind eye to facilitate with the people! The government is not going to be able to do anything about it.

Just as Eunuch Liu was about to return home, someone suddenly swept across the river on the other side, white clothes and a long sword at his waist, crossing the river after several dragonfly dabs on the surface of the river.

After landing on the bank in a dashing manner, the white-clothed swordsman ignored the surprised eyes of the villagers and turned to look at the group of Jianghu friends on the other side of the river.

They were betting on who could cross the river the least by treading water, so as to compete with whose sect’s lightweight skill was more superior.

However, although this young warrior from a famous family puts on an arrogant demeanor of rejecting others, why is he not extremely afraid of the eunuchs behind him who are dressed in pythons and waisted in jade?

When did eunuchs show up in Northern Liang? The world knows that the Northern Liang royal residence is different from other feudal king’s residence in Liyang Dynasty, and has never used eunuchs and eunuchs.

After the old man named Xu Tu led the iron horseback riding in the rivers and lakes of Liyang, the officials of the imperial court have always been either respectful and far away from the well water does not offend the river water, or sharpened their heads to deliberately climb and make friends, and have never heard of which clan or which gang is able to arm wrestle with the official family members. The young warrior standing by the river for the official rules are not strange, but the high above the city of Tai’an is not familiar with, and not sure what position of the eunuchs in the end, to be eligible to wear that attack eye-catching red python robes, but think that certainly will not be some small fish and shrimp, or can not openly leave the palace to do business, the two sides, regardless of the status of status is a world of difference, he simply pretended to have not seen anything.

The young eunuch who is a cow as a horse is good at observing speech, found that the three eunuchs frowned, immediately explained in a low voice: “Previously, Hui Mountain that woman martial arts alliance master Xuanyuan Qingfeng, called the jianghu group of heroes to go to the Liang to round up a few devils, all the way to the western region to kill before stopping, after the fact, a number of people in the jianghu did not hasten to leave the northern Liang Road, I think that all these characters are from the central plains martial arts young people.”

Eunuch Liu snorted coldly, “Chivalry uses martial arts to disrupt prohibitions, even that Western Chu rebel Cao Changqing, as a Confucian saint, has repeatedly flaunted his power in Tai’an City!”

Eunuch Song, who is very chubby and has a Buddhist appearance, laughed in a low voice, “Those who mess up the ban by force are not just Jianghu people.”

Both Eunuch Liu and Eunuch Ma did not speak.

Afterward, two more Jianghu children of similar age swept across the Long Ju River one after another.

Eunuch Liu suddenly turned his head to an imperial guards commander and asked with a smile, “Commander Qian, what is the cultivation level of these young people? How is the gap between them and that legendary Sovereign realm in the Jianghu?”

The stout guard with a mute expression said flatly, “Eunuch Liu, not to mention the first grade four realm, even the second grade minor sect master is by no means a height that these embroidered pillows can reach, with the qualifications and roots of a few of them, unless there is a great chance, they will only be able to rank amongst the second grade realm after twenty to thirty years.”

Eunuch Liu nodded, and then there was no more without half an interest in exploring.

The rivers and lakes were far away, and the temples were high.

What martial arts master, as long as it is not one of those handful of martial arts appraisal list characters, are nothing more than the king casually bred in the cage in the carp in the pool only.

Just as Eunuch Liu was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly squinted his eyes and looked vigorously into the midstream of the river.

A young man who is crossing the river is probably only good at external kung fu, light power even he, the seal and ribbon supervisor eunuchs feel unimpressive, many times step on the river surface not to mention, the splash of the water is even more amazing, if other people are flying on the grass, then this brother is really rolling in the grass.

But this is not the thing that makes Eunuch Liu pay attention to, the old man saw a young man carrying a vaguely like an old woman ferry passenger, slowly crossing the river.

The result was a splash of water from the stomping of the young man of the river who had terrible lightness of being.

In the Dragon’s Colt River, the old woman helped the young man to wipe the river water on his forehead, somewhat kindly, also somewhat heartbroken, helplessly said: “You have suffered, right? I told you that granny can cross the river by herself, but you have to carry me on your back. Granny me ah, carry people across the river back for decades, even if blind can cross the river in times of high water, where do I need you to carry.”

The young man laughed: “Back then, the torrential rain, the stack of silver tickets in my bag are almost turned into paste, at that time, there was no silver on hand, send granny jade pendant and do not accept, this favor is owed for so many years, it is not easy to meet this trip granny, how to say that should be back granny a time.”

The old woman softly said, “Not to mention the jade pendant, even the broken silver granny wouldn’t dare to accept, a trip across the river is three cents, even the smallest broken silver is big.”

Some poor people, living a hard life, if they feel that the hard life is not at ease again, it is really painful.

The old woman suddenly laughed and asked, “Gongzi, what about the old Huang who crossed the river with you back then, the one who was missing his incisors when he smiled, Granny can remember very clearly, he was right behind us at that time, and he was also short, and the river water was almost up to his neck.”

The young man softly said, “Old Huang, he ah, left, in a place far away from Bei Liang, I didn’t get to see above.”

The old woman sighed, not knowing how to comfort this young man who had remembered him for so many years just because of five pennies.

Maybe in her village, whoever I owe owes me a penny can remember it for half a lifetime, but this young man carrying himself on his back doesn’t look like a child from a poor family in the end.

Which has carried him across the river once, just because there is no money on hand, you can send out a jade pendant, even if the jade pendant is worthless, it is also a jade pendant ah.

The old woman smiled and asked, “Sir, you are married, right? Any children?”

The young man said with some embarrassment, “Almost married.”

As they approached the shoreline ferry, the old woman asked, “Are you tired?”

The young man laughed, “Granny you are so light, how could you be tired.”

Then the young man joked, “Granny you must have been very good looking when you were young, and there must have been many people coming to your door to ask for your hand in marriage.”

The poor but cleanly dressed old woman would smile, she didn’t nod or say no.

When they reached the bank, the young man put the old woman down gently, and she asked, “Gongzi, it really doesn’t matter if you leave that horse just like that on the other side of the river?”

The young man laughed and said, “It’s okay, I can’t lose it.”

The old woman helped the young man, who had rolled up his sleeves in order to carry her, to gently lower his sleeves, and said, “When you have a family, you can’t think this way about everything.”

The young man nodded his head with a smile and said, “I know, I will be careful in life.”

After the old woman went ashore, she waved her hand at the young man standing in the shallow part of the river, “Hurry back and see if the objects on the horse’s back are missing.”

The young man who had lowered his sleeves but still had his pants rolled up responded with a smile.

The old woman walked slowly toward the ferry.

Then she saw an oddly dressed old man, even though he was surrounded by two old men also dressed in “red”.

The eunuch in charge of the Liyang Seal Ribbon Supervisor, Eunuch Liu, was also like this.

He wanted to say something, but stopped.

And she just gently shallow smile, slightly turned her head, stretched out the thin fingers, straightened the temples.

He looked at her, just wanted to take a step forward, but in the end, he still laughed to himself, withdrew his footsteps, turned around and left in large strides.

And she, still like many, many years ago, to that young scholar’s back, still like that year that yellow flower girl, gently waving.

It was dusk, the python eunuch and the imperial guards were the first to leave, and the villagers of the ferry who found it difficult to have any more business left the river bank, as did the old woman.

And that dribble towards the other bank of the downtrodden young man suddenly turned around, all the way to trot up the bank, although the skin is extremely good, but in the end, people rely on the clothes Buddha rely on the gold makeup, who will be right eye a back to cross the river to earn coins of the poor boy? He in that seven or eight rivers and lakes young warrior female warrior’s disdainful eyes, close to them, show a smile, inexplicably said a sentence, “old son when I was with my brother together with the dog planing the rivers and lakes, have long wanted to do a thing to you all these drifting across the river masters.”

Whether it was the handsome swordsman with white clothes floating, or the beautiful and charming and wonderful female warrior, then all of them were kicked in the buttocks by one person of this guy who seemed to have given his brain to a door board, and kicked into the Dragon Pony River, and the picture was like a pot of dumplings.

The young man whose boots were still off on the other side of the river stood barefoot on the ferry, looked at those fallen chickens who were cursing at themselves, and said in all seriousness, “Technical work!”

Those jianghu young warriors and heroines, if they knew the identity of this madman, would probably not be annoyed, but grateful.

To be able to be kicked by one of the four great masters of martial arts evaluation, according to the rules of the jianghu, it would be tantamount to passing a move, which could be a treatment that the founding fathers of their sects would envy.

This kind of lucky thing could be bragged about for thirty years.

That martial arts evaluation great master stood on the shore with his hands crossed, laughing: “Hero I line not change my name and sit not change my name, Northwest Road, the first number of people, the jianghu people say that the divine fist invincible leg law invincible the world’s first knife and sword art god Jade-faced little langjun, Xu Fengyen is also!”

Immortal style, warrior style, patriarchal temperament …… is naturally half of it.

So that young warrior who just stepped in the water and splashed him all over the river, was furious and said, “Xu your grandpa!”

The crowd only heard that son of a bitch contraption with a face full of villainous complacency look laugh and ask: “Not convinced? You want to hit me? The green mountain will not change and the green water will flow forever, see you later!”

This time even the female warrior fairies who had to try their best to maintain their reserve even when they fell into the water, they really couldn’t bear it anymore.

Just when they just wanted to raise the offense, they suddenly felt their bodies fall, and the next moment, all of them looked at each other in disbelief, dumbfounded.

It turns out that everyone is sitting at the bottom of the river, the riverbed is still soaked, but no river water, raise your eyes, the end of the field of vision, upstream no water to, downstream no water to.

I do not know who was the first to look up to realize the truth, stunned.

It turned out that the river is still flowing, but in the head of the crowd.

Like a green dragon, it swept across the sky.

By the time everyone was scared out of their wits and ran their asses to the bank.

That long dragon of river water hanging in the air just happened to fall heavily in the middle of the river, splashing huge water splashes to both sides of the river, only at this moment, no one would already be counting the fact that they had once again turned into a soupy chicken.

Far away, a person holding a horse, slowly toward the green horse stage.

Jianghu is still the same.

But the horse is not the same horse, and he is no longer young.

There is no more Old Huang with missing teeth and no more Wooden Sword Ranger.