fluttering night wind

(Continued from Chapter 54)

The night in the Prime Minister's Mansion was interrupted by a series of hurried hooves.

In the front is a horse that shines at night, followed by dozens of purple monkeys.Zhao Yebai rushed straight to the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but the horse behind stopped far away.The four riders in front of the mansion wanted to step forward to stop them, when suddenly a general jumped out of the gate and said sharply: "Bold, don't kneel down!"

Bai Yansheng dismounted from his horse, brushed past Pei Shao, and headed for the backyard on a familiar road.From Jiangling to Yongjing, which is very close to Qianshan Road, it took three days and three nights to arrive.Pei Shao could even smell the dust and sweat on his body.

The mansion is already brightly lit, white flags and white cloth are hung on the corners of the corridors under the eaves, people passing by are all in filial piety, tiptoeing, and faintly hear low sobbing sounds from the back hall.Bai Yansheng took the white cloth strip that Pei Shao handed over, and wrapped it around his arm casually.The two walked into the mourning hall one by one. In the hall, the mother and the son knelt on the ground in sackcloth and mourning, and Liu Songnian stood silently in the corner.

The child first sensed that someone was coming in, but he didn't know the face of the sky, so he tugged on his mother's sleeve.Seeing the emperor approaching, Mrs. Qin, Prime Minister Sun's wife, couldn't stand up in a hurry, but fell to the ground instead.Bai Yansheng stepped forward to support her body, felt that she was shaking violently, and said to the left and right: "It's because of excessive grief, the blood is not flowing well after kneeling for a long time, you help Madam to the wing to rest, and come back at dawn."

Pei Shao and Liu Songnian led Mrs. Qin and Mr. Sun out of the mourning hall, when suddenly a gust of dark wind blew through and closed the door of the mourning hall tightly.

Young Master Sun was so frightened that his face paled, Pei Shao touched the top of his head to comfort him and said, "It's okay, don't be afraid, Your Majesty wants to talk to the Prime Minister."

Therefore, the coffins of the Prime Minister, Shang Shuling, and Wuting Marquis Sun Shuye stopped quietly in the hall.

Bai Yansheng walked to the coffin, stretched out his hand to caress the coffin, and said softly: "Uncle Ye, I'm late." The flame in the brazier under his feet suddenly brightened, and unburned paper money danced in the hall.

The prime minister, Sun Shuye, was born in commoner clothes. Although he couldn't bend a bow and hold a spear, what he had in his chest was more than a soldier's armor.In the last years of Emperor Yuan of the Xia Dynasty, his family took refuge in Baiyansheng, conquered all directions, and traveled thousands of miles.Once living in the Lang Temple, the government and the public push for submission, and it is said that he has the hope of being a minister. In the 30th year of Zuo Ming Xingwang, he exhausted all his efforts and could no longer save his illness.

If you are a person, it is not easy to meet, and the pursuit of laughter is all sad.

The sky gradually brightened, but the gate of the mourning hall was still closed tightly, and there was no movement.

Liu Songnian was a little worried in the yard and said: "General Pei, let's go in and take a look, just in case..." Pei Shao shook his head and said softly: "Lord Liu, please give Your Majesty some more time. They have known each other for nearly 30 years. It's too short a time to bid farewell."

The two stood in the courtyard until the sky was bright, and the emperor opened the door of the mourning hall and came out. There were still tears on his face, and said: "I will pass on my will, the late Prime Minister Sun Shuye, a hero of Xuanwu, posthumously present the Taifu, posthumously named Marquis Yin, enjoy it with the Taimiao, give the secret artifacts of the East Garden, and be buried with Wuling."

It is the highest honor for a minister to enjoy and be buried with the imperial mausoleum in the Taimiao.But it is not an exaggeration for Sun Shuye's achievements for the country.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, thousands of trees and pine shirts, four mountains and wind and rain, the moon is full and people are hard to be round.When Pei Shao sent the emperor back to the palace in his car, he saw a strand of gray hair tightly clutched in his hand.

In the city of Luoyi, which is thousands of miles away from Yongjing, in the century-old pagoda of Yaoguang Temple, an ancient temple, there is also a pair of Bi people facing the spiritual tablet and worshiping.

After Bai Xiliu and Xie Yu worshiped Xiao Rongyue's spiritual seat, the two stood up together and looked at each other with a smile.After repelling the warships of the Shu State on the Xinting River on the Qixi Festival, the two set off to the rivers and lakes, all the way north, along Cangshan Mountain, and returned to Luoyi, where they had been away for a long time.

Bai Xiliu took Xie Yu's hand, and said to the priest in the hall, "Mother, I haven't come back to see you for a long time. This is my good friend Yu Niang, and you will definitely like her." Xie Yu stood aside a little cautiously. , listening to her rambling about a lot of what she saw and heard after leaving Luoyi.After Bai Xiliu presented the sacrificial items, Fang and Xie Yu left the ancient pagoda.

Under the bodhi tree outside the pagoda stands an old master who is the abbot of the Yaoguang Temple.She gazed lovingly at the girls under the warm autumn sun, and asked, "Didn't Your Highness stay in Luoyi for a little longer?"

Bai Xiliu shook her head, and said playfully, "Master Huijing, we are going to visit Yujian Villa, if Dad sends someone to ask, you can tell him like this."

The autumn wind was bleak, and the vegetation swayed down. The two walked out of Yaoguang Temple hand in hand.Huijing looked at their backs, and suddenly remembered that autumn more than ten years ago, a woman of the same age was sitting on the railing of the nine-story pagoda, looking at the white clouds and dogs, thinking about something.The wind gives birth to households, and the clouds give birth to pillars. Looking from the side, her gorgeous clothes are fluttering like a fairy.

The two left Luoyi and went south to Zhongzhou. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, they saw the general star fall on the way.Xie Yu was proficient in astrology and divination, and he predicted that there might be ministers in the court and generals in the army who might have died.At that time, the two did not know that it was Sun Shuye who had passed away.

After traveling all the way for a few more days, we entered Cangshan Mountain.It was late autumn at this time, and the scenery was beautiful for hundreds of miles. There were no quiet trees in the forest, the river never stopped flowing, and the mountains and rivers were simple and vigorous.Xie Yu grew up in the south of the Yangtze River and was trapped in a deep boudoir. He had never seen such a beautiful scenery and was amazed.Along the way, she heard from Bai Xiliu that the Xichuan Meng family took the opportunity to make trouble on the birthday of the owner of Yujian Villa, and Bai Yansheng led Xiao Rongyue to go up the mountain to retreat from the enemy and integrate the martial arts forces.Su Hao, the owner of the villa, passed on Xiao Rongyue's ten moves of "Quick Snow Sword" for some reason, and Bai Yansheng thanked him with "one shot".Unexpectedly, after an arrow was shot, it flew to the top of the opposite mountain, enclosing the whole mountain, and only then was the reward of "Yujian Mountain" today.

Xie Yu covered her mouth with a smile and said, "Ten strokes of martial arts have changed a mountain. This deal is quite a bargain." Seeing Bai Xiliu beaming when she mentioned her mother, with a longing expression on her face, she said, "It turns out that His Highness's unrestrained character is the source of it." From Concubine Xiao." Bai Xiliu said proudly: "They say my mother is a barbarian and I am a barbarian, but I don't think it's bad. I met Prince Xiao from Beiyan in Longmen Mountain. Dragon and phoenix. My uncle speaks Chinese and wears Han clothes. Compared with my father, he is not bad at all." Xie Yu stared at her and said softly: "How can people be distinguished by their ethnic group? All appearances are false , If you see all appearances and non-appearances, you will see the Tathagata."

The two talked and laughed, and traveled hand in hand at the Yujian Villa, and lived in the Songfeng Pavilion after worshiping the spiritual tablets of Su Hao, Yang Nandang and others with the villa.The next day, after a formal meeting with Su Zhishan, the owner of the estate, he learned of Sun Shuye's death.

Xie Yu was very sad and worried at the moment, and asked: "Your Highness, do you want to rush back to Yongjing?" Bai Xiliu thought and thought, and said with great pain: "It won't help if I go back. I'm afraid there will be more chaos." Master Su Wen Yan's eyes flashed, and he said: "I also think that it is not the best policy for His Highness to go back at this time. It is not a day's cold to freeze three feet in the middle, and the struggle for power and profit will probably be more intense in the future."

Bai Xiliu raised her head and asked: "I'm at the foot of the mountain, and I heard that Xichuan will hold some kind of ancestor sacrifice ceremony on the tenth day of October, is it true?"

Su Zhishan hurriedly sat upright and said: "I am going to report this matter to Your Highness."

The two heard that since the Longmen League, people have challenged Yujian Mountain every year, lobbying Su Zhishan to hold a martial arts conference, gathering masters from the three kingdoms to compete, but Su Zhishan refused.So this year, some sects in Xichuan discussed holding a grand meeting in Dongting Lake, spreading hero posts, saying that they would enjoy meeting friends, but in fact they still wanted to compete for hegemony in the martial arts world, and then affect the development of the world situation.

Bai Xiliu frowned and said, "Could it be that the school hosting the event is the Huajian School?" After getting an affirmative answer, she hesitated for a moment.Xie Yu said softly at the side at this time: "Your Highness, Yuniang has learned rhythm since she was a child, and she really wants to experience it." This girl has a pair of amazing eyes, and she can see through Bai Xiliu's mind at a glance.But Bai Xiliu knew that she didn't have any internal martial arts strength, so she couldn't bear to involve her in the disputes between Jianghu and Jianghu.

Su Zhishan asked with a smile: "What musical instrument does Miss Xie use?" Xie Yu said: "I can play both the qin, the pipa, the flute and the harp. It's just that this time I came out in a hurry and didn't bring anything with me." Su Zhishan called people and replied: " In the old days when Mencius, Emperor of Shu, came to the mountain at the Martial Arts Conference, he presented a Leiqin to Master, Miss Xie, let's see if I can make it?"

After a while, the little boy servant brought a sandalwood piano case, and when Xie Yu opened it, he saw that it was a Zhongni-style guqin with broken patterns on the surface.Bai Xiliu and Su Zhishan didn't know how to play the qin, but Xie Yu showed surprise and was full of praise.After she whisked the dust, she wound up the strings and tuned them tightly, like flowing clouds and flowing water, familiar and familiar.

Xie Yu sat on the piano bench and stretched out his hands to play the song "72 Rolling and Flowing Water".The sound of the zither is bursting, and at the beginning, there is only white snow flying outside the Tianshan Mountains, and gradually a flowing spring emerges from the bottom of the ten thousand zhang gorge.Water drips through rocks, accumulated water forms streams, thousands of streams drip from mountains and valleys, and finally rush down thousands of miles without returning.

It was only then that the two of them realized that Xie Yu, who was from a famous family, could also be regarded as one of the best experts in Jiangdong in terms of piano skills alone.

Su Zhishan applauded and praised, but Bai Xiliu was still frowning.She looked at the trembling cosine, and asked: "Master Su, how about Meng Ziying's piano skills in the martial arts conference more than ten years ago?" Su Zhishan then told how Meng Ziying threw the piano to save people, and how he teamed up with Bai Yansheng to force them back The enemy told it all over again. "After the martial arts conference was over, he once played a song "The Song of the King of Qin Breaking the Battle" for the guests. It was heard over the mountains, even on the opposite mountain. It should be because of his deep internal strength."

Mencius Ying is the head of the Huajian School, with such extraordinary piano skills, his disciples should be able to produce a large number of talented people, and this battle was provoked by Xi Chuan, I am afraid that he has a well-thought-out strategy.In Jiangdong, only Qingshangguan can compete with it.The owner of the music hall has been depressed because of his beloved apprentice Wang Qian, and wonders if he will send someone to participate this time.

Bai Xiliu suddenly asked: "I went to the back mountain yesterday and saw the sword casting furnace was raging. I have a request. I wonder if Master Su can help?"

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The autumn wind curls up, and the waves in Dongting come under the leaves.

Come down from Yueyang Tower and walk along the shore, there is a small restaurant near the pier, with a white board door, and a few sticks of Xiangzhu in the yard, which is green and delicious.There is a small colorful flag hanging at the door of the restaurant: "Dong's family has good wine".

On this day, wisps of cooking smoke rose from the thatched roof, and two young men walked in from the door, and one of them shouted crisply: "Boss, fry two side dishes and order two bowls of noodles." The boss poked his head out from the back hall, A burly, bearded, gray-haired man, about fifty years old, agreed and shrank his head back.

The two young men were both dressed as scribes, with tender faces, and sat down at the seats by the window.One person smiled and brushed off the fallen leaves on his body, and said: "In life, apart from flooding the sea, you will go to Dongting waves. Only at the foot of Junshan Mountain, there will be more violent winds than ever before. This statement is really true." Messy.

The other person cast his gaze to the place where the sky and water meet outside the courtyard. There is a continuous light shadow, which is called "a green snail in a silver plate", which is the famous Dongting Junshan.He frowned and said: "Tomorrow the lake will be closed, how to get to Junshan, have you thought about it?" Just as he finished speaking, he heard a rush of running outside and continuous barking of dogs .

Earlier that person picked up a chopstick from the bamboo tube and threw it out of the window with a "swish".The barking of the dog stopped immediately, and the gate of the fence was knocked open. A five or six-year-old boy was holding a schoolbag across his shoulders, holding on to the gate, panting in shock, and barking intermittently: "Ah, ah, Dad, there is a bad dog." The owner of the restaurant rushed out from the back hall with a kitchen knife, and stepped aggressively into the courtyard to protect the child.He looked out of the courtyard gate, and not far away was a yellow dog running away desperately, with a chopstick stuck in its buttocks.

The boss patted the dust off the child, led him into the room, walked up to two juniors, grinned at one of them, and said, "Thank you, sir, for saving my child. May I ask you, sir, what is your surname?" The young man who threw the chopsticks The man patted the child's head, squinted his eyes and said, "It's nothing to meet by chance. My surname is Bai, and my name is Xiaobai." When the child heard such a name, he "pushed" and laughed out loud.His father glared at him, put the kitchen knife handle down in his waist, clasped his fists and said: "You two, this is my fault."

Another young man was extremely weak, and wanted to say no at this time, but "Dabai" pushed his hand, and said very generously: "Thank you, boss."

After a while, marinated duck feet, silver needle chicken slices, squirrel mandarin fish, whitebait steamed eggs, and a large pot of steaming noodles were brought to the table.Mr. Bai said to the child who was helping to serve the wine: "Little brother, have you heard a saying that if you eat noodles, you can't be considered a good man." Here comes a raw garlic.Mr. Bai was about to reach out to pick it up, but the other person beside him frowned and coughed, so he withdrew his hand, touched his nose and said in embarrassment, "Okay, no garlic."

After the two finished their meals, there were no other customers in the shop, so the boss came out to see them off.Mr. Bai asked: "Boss, we want to visit Junshan Mountain tomorrow. Is there any boatman doing business here?" , civilians are not allowed to go to the lake. Violators will be responsible for the consequences. The boat fair will not accept individual passengers."

The two looked at each other in frustration.Unexpectedly, the boss bared his teeth and said, "If you two really want to take a sneak peek, you can take my boat. I will send wine to Junshan tomorrow."

It was a real surprise.After the two thanked each other thousands of times, they made an appointment with the boss to meet at the pier, and then went to Yuezhou City.

There is a large courtyard in the south of the city, which is actually the headquarters of the Qingshang Pavilion in Yuezhou.At nightfall, the back door opened, and dozens of child servants entered the backyard surrounded by two gentlemen in light furs.In the wing room, there are toothpicks and jade axes, piled up with several cases, Yaoqin and Jinse, displayed around.A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy in white clothes was sitting in front of the desk playing the piano, when he heard footsteps, he hurriedly came out of the room, knelt down in the corridor, and called him His Highness.

Those two people were Bai Xiliu and Xie Yu, they came to Yuezhou in a hurry, just to go to the Dongting Junshan meeting on the tenth day of October.

Bai Xiliu sat down in the hall, and smiled at the young man in white who came in from behind: "Han Xiao, there is no need for such a big gift, I came in a little hurry. How are you practicing the piano, how sure are you?"

This young man is another beloved apprentice of the main hall Qu Chengfeng, and Wang Qian's younger brother, who represented the Qingshang Pavilion to participate in the battle this time.Han Xiao's piano skills are outstanding at a young age. Compared with his senior brother Wang Qian, he has a noble and refined air, but he has no cleanliness to cherish feathers.

He fell to the ground and replied: "Han Xiao should try his best not to fall into my great reputation."

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