Novoland: Eagle Flag Chapter 2: Sword Thirteen

Phoenix Pond.

When the moonlight is thick, it illuminates the quiet waves on the water. An ark was parked by the pool. In the night, its hull was obviously larger than ordinary ships, and it was almost possible to run horses on the deck. The Fenghuang Pond is connected to the Shunfeng Canal, and then connected to a direct stream of Jianshui. Large ships on the river can go straight up to Nanhuai City. The Fenghuang Pond is also dug deep enough to accommodate large flat-bottomed ships.

The people on the boat raised their hands, and the strong waterman propped up the boat with a long pole, and slowly pushed it away from the shore. Such a big ship is not easy to sail, and the sails are too big, and it is inconvenient to open them until the deep water can turn.

The sound of horseshoes came from the darkness. The big ship had gradually slipped from the dock into the deep water.

Three children sat on a horse crowded with people, and all three got off the horse out of breath. When they saw the big boat for the first time, the girl waved her hand and shouted loudly: "Stop, stop, take a boat Jump on the board for us!"

There is an old custom on the cruise ships on the Phoenix Pond. Most of them don’t shy away from children. Free boats are called springboards.

"This is not a cruise ship!" The samurai refused, "This is to sail to the clouds!"

"It doesn't matter if you are on a cruise ship or not, help, help!" The girl put her hands around her mouth and shouted loudly.

It seemed to be chasing after her voice. In the darkness, there were people holding dots of torches, and the chaotic sound of horseshoes came. I don't know how many people were chasing after her.

The curtain of the cabin was raised, and a young man's voice came from inside: "What's going on?"

"A few children were chased by someone," the warrior reported, "It's all over."

"Give them a board and let them jump on it," said the young man lazily, "the girl's voice is really beautiful."

"Yes!" The samurai waved his hand immediately.

The watermen on the boat threw driftwood and ropes to the shore to make a pontoon bridge, which was just close to the shore. In order to stabilize the hull, the watermen raised half of the sails, and the whole sail could be vaguely seen to be blue-gray. , wielding a huge ancient totem. Yu Ran took the lead, and Ji Ye and Lu Guichen followed behind. The three of them grabbed the ropes on the side of the boat along the pontoon bridge, and the pontoon bridge was immediately pulled back. The watermen who pushed the boat on the shore worked hard again, pushing the whole big boat into the water completely.

"Wow! I'm saved, I'm saved!" Yu Ran happily raised her hands regardless of the water on her skirt and soft shoes.

Lu Guichen and Ji Ye were so tired that they leaned on the side of the boat.

The horses chasing on the shore pulled the horses to a sudden stop by the water. From a distance, there were fifty or sixty people. But he was holding the bench legs. For some young people in the uniform of the forbidden army, the rest are dressed in street clothes, and all of them have angry expressions. You Yin kicked a waterman into the water fiercely, and looked at the boat viciously, but the staff in the library behind him all pointed at the boat and shouted. They took the knife to force.

"Chasing, chasing, chasing!" Yu Ran persisted, making faces on the shore.

"Girl, what kind of thing have you committed? So many people are chasing you to look after you? You don't seem like a good person." The young man in the cabin didn't come out, just laughed in a low voice.

Yu Ran glanced inside a few times, but couldn't see anyone, so she pointed at the bank: "A bunch of toads, they are the ones looking for trouble first!"

Her words angered the people on the shore, Lei Yunzhengke and Peng Lianyun yelled together: "Who do you call a toad? Don't want to live anymore?"

Yu Ran's hand pointed at Fang Qizhao behind the crowd: "It's that one...that one, by the way, the toad wants to eat swan meat!"

When she thought of this newly learned Donglu proverb, she couldn't help but beam with joy.

Everyone turned to look at Fang Qizhao. He blushed like an angry rooster, regardless of embarrassment or not, he jumped and yelled at the boat: "Stinky bitch, don't think you are anything! Any old woman who burns a fire in my family is better than you , the beautiful women in my family, I’ll play until I die! I’m just making you happy, who do you call a toad?”

"Oh, you're making me happy!" Yu Ran was not angry, she made a funny face at the bank for a while, rolled her eyeballs, and leaned over to rub Ji Ye's face lightly.

"Then I'm so disappointed! Don't wait for Mr. Fang's family to marry me, I'll find someone else!"

Fang Qizhao clenched his fists, wishing he could plunge into the water and drown. He had never suffered such a great humiliation in his life, and he couldn't bear to lose to a homeless "bastard born of a concubine" ".

Yu Ran became happy, but felt that she was too ambiguous with Ji Ye. Turning around, she saw Lu Guichen's pretty, almost girl's face beside her. It's called a grimace. Fang Qizhao finally couldn't take it anymore, and sat down on the ground all the time and burst into tears, all the people around were stunned.

Lu Guichen stood there blankly, touching his face blankly, he knew that Yuran was just playing a trick, and wiped it near the ear very quickly, it was not a kiss, I don't know if it's posted or not. But this was the first time in his life that he was so close to a girl. Although Suma had slept in his tent before, he didn't feel anything wrong. But this time, he could feel the traces of Yuran's breath spraying against his ears. He knew that he was blushing, but his body was so light that he could fly. When Fang Qizhao sat down and cried , but he seemed to shout out happily.

"What a disaster." The people in the cabin said with a smile.

"Who is the troublemaker?" Yu Ran was not happy.

"Don't be angry. It's not easy to be a misfortune. It's not enough to be beautiful. The appearance is the best for a lifetime. Sadness and joy have their own beauty. If you are a misfortune, it can be decades or thousands of years. That's called a misfortune." "The person in the cabin explained with a smile, "This is a compliment, and disasters only happen once in a hundred years, and you may not always catch up with them by chance. A person can only live for 60 years in a lifetime, and even a disaster I haven’t seen it before, isn’t it a loss? It’s not in vain for me to save you today.”

"Really?" Yu Ran's eyes widened.

"Those who can be counted as disasters, such as Princess Rose, have been in trouble for seven hundred years, and storytellers are still talking about her. The poison may last for a thousand years. What disaster did you cause? So many people want to chase you."

Yu Ran flattened her mouth: "Actually, we have a feud with those people in the East Palace. The others are just because I tore down the big shed of their library when I ran away..."

"It's just...that's all..." The people in the cabin laughed, "It's nothing more than one, then let's make an exchange. If you sing to me, it's also counted as thanking me for saving you, and I will help you Lost that big shed."

"Aren't you going to be kicked out if you don't sing?"

"No hurry," the people in the cabin still laughed, "but when the boat reaches the center of the pool, you can go swimming."

"Then sing it. But, you don't know that shed, it's a big shed, you'll pay for it..."

"Don't just tear down the palace of the Duke of Baili, you can talk about everything else."

"Are you so rich?"

The people in the cabin smiled and asked, "What's your name?"

"Yu Ran," Yu Ran pulled Ji Ye beside him, "This is Ji Ye..."

She teased Lu Guichen again: "This is..."

"Asule," Ji Ye reminded her in a low voice.

"Yes! Asule," Yu Ran nodded, "The three of us are friends."

"All good names."

"What's your name then?"

"My surname is Jiang."

"Jimo, come down if you have the guts! Don't curl up on the boat and be a turtle!" A faint and cold voice came from the shore.

"The tortoise is here! The tortoise is here!" Yu Ran raised Lu Guichen's hand high and shouted at him, "If you want to **** the tortoise, come up here! We are here with wind and moon, and it's not cold yet. Wait until next summer comes before going ashore!"

In the laughter of the young people, all the sails of the big ship were raised, casting a huge shadow on everyone. When the huge pattern on the mainsail was fully displayed in front of Himeno, he looked up tremblingly. It was a round badge-like pattern, which was said to be able to soar in the clouds with a wingspan of thousands of miles and the slender cloud patterns. , hiding an imperceptible tyrant. The big ship suddenly picked up the wind, passed the heavy wave shadow along the waterway, and floated in the moonlight like flying.

Lv Guichen, who had never built a large ship, was shocked, and rushed to the front of the deck to look at the wind.

The singing voice, as thin as a filament, was suddenly pulled up in the driving wind, twirled several times, and flew out of the sky along the wind. Lu Guichen looked back, Yu Ran leaned on the sail's mast and sang this song he didn't understand, just like the last song Yu Ran sang in the library. The strong wind blew up her skirt and hair, she tiptoed lightly, as if she would fly away with the wind at any moment, Lu Guichen almost wanted to go up and hold her. But he didn't dare, just stayed where he was and listened silently, the waterman, the boatman and the warriors waiting at the hatch were also silent. Lu Guichen thought of the land of Ningzhou that he had heard about, where yellow leaves fell on the blue forest in autumn, and one of them was spinning, spinning, spinning in the wind...

Never really floats down.

Like an ethereal feeling.

His face turned red again, and the wind blew on his red-hot face, giving him a light and joyful feeling like drinking wine.

"What is she singing?" He asked Himeno beside him.

"She was singing, the season when the acacia blooms, let me say love, the dandelions that love to fly are all gone, let us sing, those singing pine trees are all seeded, let us be together forever. Let's say love, let's sing, and let's be together forever." Himeno obviously has no talent for singing, just humming badly.

"This is...is this the Yu Clan's song?" Lu Guichen was fascinated, "It turns out that the Yu Clan sings like this. You are amazing, and you know the characters of the Yu Clan."

Ji Ye scratched his head: "How can I understand the Yu Clan's **** envoy text? It's just that she sings like this..."

There is a faint sigh in the singing, which floats in the wind with the singing.

"Yesterday's blue silk, the red bones in the grave; Come back, don’t ask to start from the beginning; there is always no way for a hero, and the world has been drinking for a thousand years, so I can’t solve this worry!”

"This... What kind of crooked poems are these from the streets and alleys, and they are also used to pretend to be elegant?" Mr. Lu became annoyed, threw the test paper in his hand on the ground and stepped on it twice, turned his head and glared at the poet who wrote the poem Young Master Dust.

He was stunned for a moment, and found that the child by the window didn't seem to hear him at all, but just looked out of the window with his head propped up, with a ecstatic smile on his lips.

The magnolia bloomed outside the window, and the big flowers were as white as jade. Lu Guichen only thought of the moment when the mask was taken off, and the girl sprinkled a waterfall of golden hair, like a river of iron wires in the setting sun. Generally, so warm and nostalgic.

[History]

In the history of Yinmoxiechu, endless wars spanned for a full twenty years. Huge military expenditures and civilian recruitment made the land of Eastern Lu always filled with cries of family ruin and death.

With the support of huge funds from the chamber of commerce, Wanzhou in the southwest is the only happy land in the chaotic world. A large number of refugees who lost their homes and overwhelmed have fled to Wanzhou. The so-called prosperous scenery of Wanzhou in the troubled times is just a temporary whitewash and painted skin. Taking Nanhuai City as an example, crossing Ziliang Street with staggered eaves, the dark place behind the street emits a suffocating stench of sewage, and the hungry eyes of refugees gather under the broken eaves. With a dagger in his arms, he looked at the people passing by with the eyes of scrutinizing his prey.

The strange thing is that in the "Xiehe Hanshu · Fengwuzhi" written by Xie Dynasty, the real life of Wanzhou at that time was sharply exposed, but Nanhuai was written as a paradise on earth. Among historians, such whitewashing is unique. The description of this incident in the unofficial history can be used as a reference: the first article of "Xiehe Hanshu·Fengwuzhi" written in the third year of Shenwu is "Nanhuai City Chronicle". He personally described the Nanhuai city he saw in his childhood. He said: "Nanhuai is a prosperous and quiet city. Life is rich and peaceful. It does not use force, and its folk customs are weak. If it is a metaphor, it is like a brocade. Although it lacks strength, it is full of brilliance. In spring, there are flower gardens in every family. Flowers of five colors, there are flower sellers on the street, but children always sneak into other people’s flower gardens to steal them, and then sell the stolen flowers to street flower bearers. It is inconvenient to do it with children..."

He didn't notice that the historians had already started whispering to each other. The emperor's eyes were shining with longing, and he continued: "Xialai is like boating. There are always colorful boats connected on the lake. You can't count them at a glance. Come on, at that time, children under the age of 15 could take a boat for free. As the saying goes, it was called a springboard. The dancers take off their clothes and steal the pawns, and if they are discovered, they jump off the boat immediately, as the saying goes, they are called water floaters."

A smile appeared on his lips, his eyes were fixed on a place far and far away, his whole expression changed, as if he really looked back at the spring, summer, autumn and winter of twenty years ago, and saw those springboards The lively figure of Shui Piaozi's rogue boy heard their laughter.

"Autumn is the best time in Nanhuai. Ten miles of frost are in full bloom. Rich people float boats to see flowers. They can't see all the autumn roses on Phoenix Pond in the morning. Nanhuai will be foggy in autumn. Inside the fog, The colors of autumn roses are particularly bright. The peaches and dates all over the city are ripe, and the branches of the fruit trees extend to the outside of the walls of the houses, and they hit them with long poles, followed by a person to pick them up, and the baskets are full of fruits. We are called autumn winds. It doesn’t snow in winter, and there are occasional frosts..."

"General Protector!" The historian finally couldn't keep it down, "History books are the mirror of future generations, please think twice!"

"Think twice?" King Yulie was stunned.

The oldest historian walked forward on his knees: "It is recorded in the book that in the nine years and one year of Emperor Xi of the former Dynasty alone, no less than 9,000 refugees died of starvation in Nanhuai City. Filled up. There is also a note that at the time of Nanhuai, there was no need to pay for a sixteen-year-old girl to enter the brothel, but only five liters of food, which is commonly known as parent food, and it repays the kindness of sixteen years of nurturing. Wanzhou looks prosperous, but it is actually a man-eating and vicious tiger. The governor once said that the troubled times are cruel, and the people who rise to the fight are the most miserable, so they have the will to unify the world with their swords. But Nanhuai written in this way is no different from It's better to whitewash the skeleton!"

"Presumptuous!" King Yulie was furious, "This is the Nanhuai I saw with my own eyes. You masters who were raised in the academy, but with a few notes of unknown origin, how could you tell me? Whitewash the skeleton?"

"Even if the chief protector wants to kill, the ministers will still say it! Does the chief protector think that everyone in the world is blind, and only what the chief protector sees is true? The ancestral home of the minister is Nanhuai, and what he saw with his own eyes, he starved to death in a disaster year The outskirts of the dead city are not allowed to enter the city at all, so is it also fake?"

"You!" King Yulie drew his sword and stepped forward.

The white-haired young man stood in front of the historian.

"Ximen get out of the way!" King Yulie shouted angrily.

Dr. Ximen of Qin Tianjian pressed King Yulie's sword.

"The Great Protector," said Dr. Simon, "what you have recorded is all false!"

"Ximen, you..." King Yulie's expression changed suddenly, "Don't you believe me?"

"So what if I believe it or not?" Dr. Ximen's voice was as unripe as the deep water of an ancient pond, "It doesn't matter if Nanhuai is that Nanhuai, but the person who stole the springboard with you to beat dates is gone. Already."

King Yulie stood silently in the hall, and his saber fell to the ground with a loud sound. After a while, he took the scroll of records from the historian's hand, and strode back to the study.

On the second day, the inner prison went to the study room to invite King Yulie to come to court early, and found that he was lying on the desk and fell asleep. Said: "Nanhuai is a wonderful place in the world. There is no famine or famine. Laughter is often heard in the alleys. The house is not closed all night and summer. Only young people are naughty, which is a harm... When spring comes, there are always thieves. Flower hunters, sparrow hunters, fisherman..."