generation hero

Back, of course Yuantang wanted to go back.

Before Yuantang slipped, Feng Cong had already seen the answer in his eyes, smiled to himself, and asked again: "During the day, you want to ask King Ying to release the Qizhou Army?"

Yuan Tang nodded and said, "Yes."

"There's no rush," Feng Cong said, "You and I have only just arrived in Yaojing, and the Beicheng court must be on guard. This matter has to be dealt with slowly."

Yuan Tang also knew that he was a little impatient, but he was just a brother who went through hardships together and didn't want to see them suffer.The Beicheng court gave them titles and rewards, which meant to appease them, but it was just a cover-up.

Feng Cong leaned against the door frame again and said nothing, sitting in his former home, he probably had a lot of emotions, Yuan Tang didn't want him to be too sad, so he said: "I want to go back to Nanxia, ​​because there are still people and things I care about in Nanxia. "For Yuan Tang, Nanxia is not his hometown. He thinks that he can't have the same feelings for his hometown in this world. It's just that General Yuan handed over the Yuan family to him before his death, and he must take this responsibility.

Feng Cong smiled lightly and said, "Your family members are all there, so you should be very concerned."

Yuan Tang shook his head and said, "Only when you are concerned about it will you feel like home."

Yuan Tang looked up at the moon, but from the corner of his eye he was still paying attention to Feng Cong. Feng Cong had no worries about Nan Xia, but he still had. Every time he thought about this problem, he felt a headache, and wished he could split himself in half, so that the other half would be with Nan Xia. Feng Cong is together, no matter where they go, half of them will continue to complete General Yuan's entrustment.

He was afraid of making Feng Cong sad again, so he didn't talk any more. Now that they were in Prince Wenxi's old residence, things were different, and there was nothing to worry about. Feng Cong probably knew best.

Although there is no family in the old residence, Feng Cong still has feelings. On the second day, he found some old things left by the prince in the house, counted and dried them one by one. In fact, there are not many old things left in this house. Many things were just deliberately maintained as they were back then. Feng Cong put away the few things he had and locked the door of the main room.

When Yuan Tang helped Feng Cong sort out, he saw the letters of Prince Wenxi in the past. Some of them were written to the late emperor and the queen mother. Father, recorded the movement of Beisheng's troop deployment and the changes in the court situation.

Many letters mentioned Feng Cong's mother and Feng Cong, where the prince met and fell in love with Feng Cong's mother in Beicheng.

The prince wanted to bring Feng Cong's mother back to the country, but soon Feng Cong's mother became pregnant. In order to hide his identity, the prince dared not mention the matter of Nanxia easily, and because he pityed his wife and children, he couldn't bear to return to the south. They were all involved in Beisheng's battle to unify the north, and by accident, they followed the Su'an tribe further and further north.

On the day Feng Cong was born, Prince Wenxi wrote a letter to the late Emperor and the Empress Dowager and his friends. In the letter to the late Emperor and the Empress Dowager, he asked his parents to give Feng Cong a name, and decided to call his son Feng Cong. As "A Cong", because he is used to the strong wind in the northwest, he misses the murmuring water in his hometown very much.None of these letters were sent, but the prince still wrote them one by one.

The last letter was about Beicheng's frequent deployment of troops back then. He sensed Beicheng's intention to attack south and hoped that Nanxia would respond as soon as possible. In the letter, he was very worried about the government of Nanxia. Obviously, even though he was in the north, he still cared very much. In Nanxia, ​​he listed the disadvantages of Nanxia one by one, involving the military, military and government, and some even pointed directly at the aristocratic powers that dominated the Nanxia Dynasty.

Thinking of all the things that happened after the prince returned to the south, sighing and sighing are not enough to let out the suffocation in Yuantang's chest.

Feng Cong was particularly serious when sorting out these letters, but he was always silent.

The servants sent by King Ying filled the house, watching their every move, the mouse did not restrict their travel.Feng Cong often went to Xi Chenghou's mansion, or took Yuan Tang to the market for a stroll.

Yuan Tang has never been to Xiangjing's market, so he can't compare it. The prosperity of Yaojing's market is enough to make him dizzy. Merchants from all over the world gathered here, including those from Nanxia, ​​Mobei, and Western Regions.

There are too many types of goods sold in the market, such as jewelry and satin, gold, silver and gemstones, fur and herbs, seeds and fruits.When he came to the market, Yuan Tang realized that Yaojing had gathered people from various tribes from all over the country. There were not only delicate and elegant ladies wearing skirts on their heads, but also Mobei warriors with bare breasts.

Di people like gold ornaments, most of them are Di people with gold hair, Yichi people are tall, Su'an people have chestnut or golden eyes, Nituo people, Qiang people, Shiran people, and of course Xia people.

Yuan Tang and Feng Cong attended several Beicheng palace banquets, and it was almost the same situation during the Beicheng Dynasty. The Di people made the tribal leaders who united with them and conquered them as Hou Bo, and let those tribal nobles live in Yaojing. Still aristocrats, select officials from these people and the Xia people.

Some of the various ethnic groups in Mobei still retain the habit of doing their own thing on the grassland. Even if they live in Yaojing, they only live with their own ethnic groups.In the court, most of the Yichi, Di, and Su'an people held military positions, and their power spread throughout the army. Half of the government and civil officials were controlled by the Xia clan.

All the tribes were subdued by the mighty Beicheng court, and it was difficult to tell from the surface whether they really submitted or not.

This is not the first time that the Yichi Moruwei Yuzhou rebellion happened in Beicheng.Constant internal friction is also one of the reasons why Beisheng has been unable to go south in recent years.

King Beicheng Ying admired the knowledge and demeanor of the Xia people, and he always valued the Xia people, but this does not mean that he did not value other tribes. According to Feng Cong's grandfather, when the first emperor of Beicheng was in power, the atmosphere of Xia was adored in the court. It began to prevail. At that time, the first emperor of Beicheng occupied Yaojing, and first welcomed the noble family of Beixia near Yaojing into the court. King Ying continued this trend after he took power, and the young emperor seemed more willing to get close to the elders of the Di tribe.

In September, the weather in Yaojing became dry and cool. Yuan Tang and Feng Cong traveled almost every corner of Yaojing. They met Pang Xingzhu who led refugees from Yuzhou to the south and was relocated to Yaojing in Lifang in the east of the city. , and some Baiyu residents, Pang Xingzhu said, their [-] households were divided into three waves, some lived in the city, some settled in the suburban villages, and some disappeared and might be moved to farther places.

As for where the Qizhou army is now, Pang Xingzhu does not know.

Yuantang and Feng Cong couldn't leave the city, and they were monitored by the people sent by King Ying, so they couldn't find Heihu and his whereabouts for a while. If they contacted Guyi privately, they could easily be suspected by the Beicheng court, but the Beicheng court didn't trust them much. In private, Feng Cong asked his grandfather to help him find out.

This day Yuan Tang came to look for Feng Cong again, it happened to be raining and the dirt road was slippery, it was difficult to go out again, Yuan Tang was too lazy to go back to the General's Mansion that Bei Cheng had given him.

At night, he and Feng Cong drank together in the dim candlelight and cool rain, and then fell asleep on the couch after enjoying themselves.

In the middle of the night, Yuan Tang vaguely felt hot and dry, and moved impatiently. The rain was cold and the wind was cool, but the brocade quilt was warm, which made people nostalgic. tighten up.

Yuan Tang was so nervous that he couldn't breathe. When he fell asleep, he and Feng Cong were entangled. He couldn't tell who was next to whom. There was a rustle in the brocade quilt. Yuan Tang's face was pressed against Feng Cong's slightly open skirt. Half of it was in contact with Feng Cong's skin, and it felt extremely warm there. I don't know if it was because my face was hot, or Feng Cong's body temperature was too high.

Yuan Tang broke free and retreated a little, Feng Cong turned over and lay down on the bed with a soft moan, Yuan Tang heard him go to the next bathroom, and after a while, he came back again.

"Get up, go take a shower." Feng Cong patted Yuan Tang on the shoulder. :

It's fine if he doesn't say it, but once he said that Yuantang wanted to get into the brocade quilt and not come out, it would be embarrassing enough to fall asleep and get angry, so why don't we take a bath together!

The brocade quilt covered his head, Yuantang was going to pretend to be asleep and fool around, but he heard Feng Cong laugh, Feng Cong probably propped his body on top of his head, the laughter was very close, deep and sweet, like a feather fluttering lightly ears.

"Get up." Feng Cong said again, "You're... uncomfortable."

Yuan Tang made up his mind to play dead to the end, but suddenly his body lightened, and his re-election brocade quilt flew into the air. He was startled, and struggled hastily, Feng Cong said in a deep voice, "Stop making trouble."

It was the first time in his two lifetimes that he was hugged by a princess. Yuan Tang couldn't laugh or cry, he thumped Feng Cong's shoulder and said, "Put me down."

Seeing that he was no longer hiding, Feng Cong put him down.

After a bit of tossing, Yuan Tang was still in an awkward state. He glared at Feng Cong, and ran into the bathroom by himself. A quarter of an hour later, Feng Cong knocked on the door outside the bathroom, "Ah Tang, can I come in?"

"come in."

Feng Cong took off his shirt, and Yuan Tang couldn't help taking a sneak peek. Feng Cong was quite generous, and winked at Yuan Tang. He sat in the warm water pool, put one hand on Yuan Tang's shoulder, and joked, "You've grown up?" .”

Yuan Tang replied, "You are not young anymore."

Feng Cong laughed again, and said, "You can get married when you grow up."

Yuan Tang played with the water and did not answer, thinking that according to this standard, I would have married a long time ago, and the baby could be soy sauce.

Feng Cong asked, "Did the family tell you about the marriage?"

"No," Yuan Tang said, "It's too late to tell me."

Feng Cong'an gave a soft "um" and moved his finger on Yuan Tang's shoulder. Yuan Tang was so blessed that he suddenly raised his head to look at Feng Cong. Their eyes met. Yuan Tang saw that Feng Cong's cheeks and neck were all red. , that little bit of alcohol couldn't embarrass Feng Cong at all, he was definitely not drunk, his heart was beating extremely fast.

Feng Cong must like him, he thought.The kind of sour sweetness fills the heart.

"I……"

"you……"

The maid in the house walked out the door and said through the wooden door, "Ah Lang, the fragrant pancreas is brought, do you want to prepare some snacks?"

Both Yuan Tang and Feng Cong were taken aback at the same time, Feng Cong unnaturally rolled his eyes away, and stammered, "No, no need." Yuan Tang also looked sideways at the sky.

Under the water, Feng Cong's hand was clasped with Yuan Tang's.

The maid came and went, and the two didn't continue the conversation just now. There were servants and guards walking around the house, and it seemed that there was never a good time to complain to each other.

Yuan Tang and Feng Cong had a tacit secret. After taking a bath, the two of them wrapped this secret in a brocade quilt. In the cold and bleak autumn night, Yuan Tang could not feel the slightest chill.Everything happened suddenly, but it seemed natural. In the past, Yuan Tang and Feng Cong often slept together, but they had never hugged each other like this. In fact, the two men were not very comfortable being squeezed together, but they didn't let go.

In October, the news that Epijiang had won Qizhou was sent back to Yaojing, and the Beicheng court rejoiced. Emperor Beicheng hosted a banquet to celebrate this, and let Feng Cong, Yuantang, Liu Yanping and others from Baiyu come to Yaojing It is self-evident that the humiliation of the officials attending the banquet is self-evident.

Liu Yanping's face was black all the time, and the people in the seat knew that Yuan Tang was one of Bai Yu's generals, so they deliberately toasted Yuan Tang and said, "Speaking of this victory, General Yuan should be credited, if there were not such heroes as General Yuan and General Su , it will be difficult for Dasheng to take back Qizhou easily."

Although Yuan Tang absolutely did not want to be compared with Su Shoukui, he would not be angered by these words, and he replied to the general of the Di people: "Tang only killed Yichi in Baiyu, and he dare not take credit for it. "

As soon as this remark came out, the face of the righteous red man on the seat became ugly.The Yichi people who are still in Yaojing and the rebellious Yichi leader Mo Ruwei are both Mo Ru's family. They were conquered by the former emperor Beicheng and brought under Beicheng's power. They had to live on the nose of the Di people. , Emperor Beicheng was furious, and cleaned up a group of nobles from the Moru family. Most of the Yichi people in Yaojing were implicated, and the rest were all trembling.

Liu Yanping tossed away the wine bottle, and had a big fight with the nominally red general. They all said that a scholar had no reason to meet a soldier, but Liu Yanping's combat effectiveness was not comparable to that of ordinary scholars. He first quoted scriptures, scolded that general, and then Pointing at Sang, scolding Huai, and Emperor Beicheng together, saying that he flaunts his might, is unkind to the emperor, and so on.Yuan Tang broke into a cold sweat for him, for fear that Emperor Beicheng would drag him down and chop him up if he got upset.

In fact, Emperor Beicheng really wanted to do this, but was stopped by Feng Cong. Feng Cong asked Yuan Tang and another Bai Yu official to help Liu Yanping leave the table quickly on the pretext that Liu Yanping was drunk.

Emperor Beicheng was disappointed and extremely displeased. He squinted his eyes to examine Feng Cong, and asked, "Marquis of Qi County, Qizhou has returned to my territory of Dasheng. Are you high or not happy?"

At the banquet, everyone looked at Feng Cong with optimistic eyes, and Yuan Tang sweated for Liu Yanping. His back was cold now, and he clenched the gold and silver mixed copper wine bottle tightly, and his palm was imprinted with fine and concave and convex patterns.

Feng Cong left the table, bowed to Emperor Beicheng, and said, "I cannot share this feeling with Your Majesty."

Emperor Beicheng raised the corners of his mouth coldly, and said: "That's why I'm not happy. You have no title or title in Nanting, and I Dasheng will make you a marquis and give you gold and silver. Shouldn't you be grateful for my kindness in your heart? Still thinking about Nan Xia?"

Feng Cong still bowed and said solemnly: "I thank you for your majesty's reward. At this time, I can't share my feelings with your majesty. It's not because of where I come from, but because as early as when General Epijiang won Baiyu, The minister expected that sooner or later there would be today."

The meal was frightening, and until the end of the banquet, the nobles of the Di people still looked down on them and a group of Nanxia "surrenders".

A few days later, King Ying, who came back from inspections outside the city, hosted a banquet for these Nanxia "surrenders". The emperor's humiliation and negligence made up for it.

Liu Yanping still cursed at the banquet, and got drunk not long after the banquet started.