Tang riddles

Xiao Kai went to see Bai Liuniang, and according to Hutuo, Xiao Kai's sincerity towards Bai Liuniang was truly moving.However, Bai Liuniang didn't seem to have much love for him.When Hutuo came back to report, he thought for a long time and said:

"I always feel that Bai Liuniang seems to be in love with Xiao Kai's elder brother Xiao Song. About Xiao Song is the one she really follows faithfully. Especially when Xiao Kai proposed to take her to the main altar to get the antidote , Bai Liuniang hesitated for a moment before agreeing. After that, what she showed was not joy, but thought. This kind of reaction is very abnormal, she seems to be racking her brains to spread the news that Xiao Kai has joined us."

Shen Sui believed in Hutuo's judgment. Since he had such a guess, it must be groundless.Xiao Kai is indeed much worse than his elder brother. Bai Liuniang is a person with strong ability and temperament. Excluding unreasonable emotional factors, the only one who can really make Bai Liuniang loyal to him is Xiao Song .

Xiao Kai said that he knew the three secrets of the cult.One of them is the news about the Goddess with Thousand Faces.He believed that the person lurking beside them pretending to be a bluebird was the Goddess of Thousand Faces, and it was she who left the maze to guide Shen Sui to find the location of the main altar.He also provided some unreliable news, such as the saintess cannot leave the main altar, the relationship between the goddess of thousands of faces and the saintess is extremely close, and so on.

The other two secrets he knows have not yet been revealed.Shen Sui understood that he always wanted to leave a way out for himself, so he didn't force him.It's just that before arriving at the main altar, Shen Sui will definitely make him spit out two other secrets.

The matter of Xiao Ai still needs to be considered in the long run, and the matter of Xiao Keqin added another weight to Shen Sui's burden.This child was also like Qianhe. After the rescue, he fell into a deep coma and could hardly wake up.The antidote has not yet been found, and one more person has been poisoned, which can be described as worse.Knowing that there was no further delay, Shen Sui asked the core members of the Thousand Feathers Sect following her to set off immediately to join the vanguard in front, and completely shifted the focus to the man who was suspected to be dressed as a goddess with thousands of faces.

They are about to enter the Anxi Protectorate Mansion covered by the vast desert.

Xiao Kai seemed to be ready to go far away. The approval he had requested from the Xiao family and the imperial court to go to the border for training had already come down. A large part of the Hexi army controlled by the Xiao family was stationed around the Anxi Protectorate. The purpose is to stabilize the tranquility of the northwest frontier.Pick any military mansion at will, it is the place where He Xi Erlang practiced.

Xiao Kai applied for the Loulan Army near the former site of Shanshan Kingdom.It used to be the city-state of the Loulan Kingdom. After Loulan fell in the Northern Wei Dynasty, it became a wasteland and uninhabited. It has been almost 200 years, and now it is covered in a piece of wind and sand.As for why he chose this place, it was obviously because of the rumors he heard from the church.It is rumored that the location of the main altar is in the depths of the Peacock Sea covered by the wind and sand.

There was a vast expanse of wind and sand, a place completely unfamiliar to Shen Sui.There is the mysterious Western Region, which is completely different from the culture of the Central Plains.When Shen Sui's team of chariots and horses discovered that the scenery on the roadside gradually transitioned from the lush grassland forest to the Gobi desert with sparse vegetation, it was time to really step into the hinterland of Anxi.

Shen Sui has always been curious about the theory of Loulan's demise, she has read a lot of materials.One said that it died in war, another said that it died in the destruction of nature, and another said that it died in plague and insect disasters. In short, it was condemned by God.There is a popular saying in the Tang Dynasty that the last monarch of the Loulan Kingdom rebelled against the heavens, and did many perverse actions, which eventually angered the heavens and brought disasters.This place is an ominous place, and those who have experienced swords and swords cannot resist disasters.Therefore, not far from the former site of the ancient Loulan City, only the Loulan Army of the Great Tang Dynasty stationed here, with a staff of about 1 people, can be regarded as an important military town on the northwest border.Since the Tang Dynasty, the Loulan area has also been a military point where the Tang Dynasty fought several wars with Tubo, and has received considerable attention.

According to the "Hanshu Biography of the Western Regions", the Shanshan Kingdom, whose real name is Loulan, and Wang Zhizhi Nicheng, went to Yangguan for a thousand and six hundred miles and to Chang'an for six thousand and one hundred miles.There are 570 households and [-] mouths.The name of Shanshan began in the Western Han Dynasty and Hanwu Dynasty, and most of the Central Plains dynasties continued to use it thereafter. The name "Loulan" was adopted by the Tang Dynasty as a military title, which can be regarded as a contribution to the historical continuation of the Loulan Kingdom.The name Loulan, in Shen Sui's opinion, is a very poetic name.Shen Sui remembered that brother Taibai once wrote in "The Next Song":

"It's snowing in the Tianshan Mountains in May, and the sky is only cold. The willows are heard in the flute, but the spring has never been seen. Xiaozhan followed the golden drum, and the night sleep suppressed the jade saddle. The sword was cut from the waist, and Loulan was cut."

As a person who moved to the hinterland from Suiye, Li Taibai's understanding of the Western Regions is still very credible.The Western Regions in his poems have a kind of sassyness that is suppressed in the vicissitudes of life.But for Tonghutuo of the Western Regions, the Western Regions in his eyes is another scene.

Going to the Western Regions, no one in the large army was in a more complicated mood than Hu Tuo.He was originally a Sogdian from Gaochang, born in a merchant's family, but he was an illegitimate son and was not welcomed by his mistress.Because there is a good uncle who brought him up and raised him since he was a child, and he grew up healthy and healthy.Since then, he has been determined to follow his uncle on business trips, and has traveled all over the Western Regions. He also has a superb language talent and has learned ten languages ​​​​in the Western Regions.He knows almost every terrain and location of the Western Regions, which can be called a living map of the Western Regions.With him, it is equivalent to having a treasure that can travel unhindered in the Western Regions.

As a guide, Hu Tuo walked at the forefront of the team together with Shen Sui.Shen Sui asked him:

"How do you feel when you come back after so many years?"

Hu Tuo smiled wryly, and said, "Dalang, my only feeling is that I don't want to come back. I have too many painful memories in the Western Regions, and this place is also a place of wind, sand and bitter cold. I'm afraid I'll never come back again in this life."

"Do you still want to go home and have a look? If our journey westward goes well, the last stop will be Suiye, and we will definitely pass Gaochang on the way. After all these years, do you still have family members you care about?"

"Probably... there is another old woman who brought me out and handed me over to Uncle. But, I don't know if she is still alive now." Hutuo thought for a while and said.

Shen Sui fell silent and did not speak again.In front of you, the vast Gobi stretches forward, and there is no end in sight.Dotted with sparse vegetation, the sense of vastness and remoteness makes people feel nothingness.

Four hundred miles to the west of Liangzhou, this is what they can see so far.The time has come to the tenth day of May in the 18th year of Kaiyuan.

The journey was hard and quite boring.Shen Sui rode on the horse and chatted with Hu Tuo about Loulan and Gaochang.According to Hu Tuo, Gaochang is located on an oasis hundreds of miles north of Loulan.The four towns of Anxi and some small places around them are actually small countries built on desert oases.Kucha, Khotan, Yanqi, Shule, Loulan, Gaochang, Qiemo and so on.The population is no more than tens of thousands of people, and the scale is no more than a moment of a city.After entering the Tang Dynasty, they were all destroyed and incorporated, and changed to border military towns.Most of its residents moved inward, and a large number of Han people also moved in and merged with each other.It has long been inseparable and inseparable.

At both ends of Loulan's first mouse, the reason for the country's destruction is now unknown.Gaochang was not the case. It was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty in the 14th year of Zhenguan. At that time, the monarch of Gaochang Kingdom was named Qu, so it was also called Gaochang of Qu.When the country was destroyed, Hutuo's grandfather was in charge of the family. At that time, the whole country in Gaochang did not have any violent reaction. In the eyes of Gaochang people, belonging to the Tang country was not a bad thing.

Hutuo's patrilineal family was the Kang surname among the nine surnames of Zhaowu, a leader among the Sogdians, and a great businessman in the Western Regions.The mother's identity is unknown, and Kuta still doesn't know who his mother is or what she does, and he has no interest in knowing.Hutuo's original name was Kangba Huerda, "Khutuo" was a small character given to him by his uncle when he was young, and now it has become his name.Gaochang Kingdom is a Buddhist country, and most people have small characters similar to Buddhist dharma names. Tuo is Tuo's Tuo, which comes from Sanskrit, meaning to wash away dirt and troubles.This nickname is full of his uncle's good expectations for him.

Most Sogdian merchants were doing business outside the country all year round. Although they had regular wives at home, it was very common for them to have lovers and concubines abroad.The regular wife has a high status in the family and can sit on an equal footing with her husband. Not only can the husband divorce his wife, but the wife can also abandon her husband. These are all protected by the law.Therefore, the treatment of children born to other women outside the home depends on what kind of person the mistress is.If the mistress is jealous and cannot tolerate her husband and other people's children, then the child's future life may be miserable.

Kuta's father was not a very sentimental person.On the contrary, he has a very good relationship with his wife, and they have five children, three boys and two girls.Kuduo was the product of an accident when he was out on a business trip. He regretted this accident very much, and kept silent about it.And it is precisely because the relationship between the couple is very good that the main wife has never been able to forgive her husband's mistake this time, nor can she tolerate a product of such a mistake as Hu Tuo.

"But that's all in the past, and I don't care anymore. My surname is no longer Kang, I am not from the Kang family, and I am not Kangba Huerda. I am just Kuta, nothing more." Kuta was riding on the horse, black There is an indescribable vicissitudes of life on his face.

"Haha, good. Sitting idle and sad, you are also sad. How long is a hundred years? Life is so short, why bother with the past, it is better to focus on the present. Hutuo, you have been by my side for more than ten years. In the future, maybe You will be by my side for a long, long time. You are someone I trust very much, and your loyalty is your greatest charm. As your master and your friend, I still hope to do something for you. If you want to say it out, you'll always be bored in your heart, I'm not your little lover, I won't guess." Shen Sui laughed.

Hu Tuo's dark face suddenly turned red, and he hurriedly waved his hands and said:

"Dalang, you can't take a joke!"

Shen Sui seldom saw such an embarrassed look on Hutuo's face, so he became more cheerful and said:

"Honestly, Hutuo, you are already old, but do you have someone you like?"

"No, Hutuo only wants to serve Dalang wholeheartedly."

"Look, you just told me not to joke around, but now you say such ambiguous words. If the maidservant of the lotus hears it, you won't be stripped of your skin." Shen Sui said.

Hutuo: "..."

"Haha, come on, come on, you're an honest man, I won't tease you anymore. Tell me the truth, whether you have it or not."

"……Have."

Shen Sui was surprised: "There really is? Who is it?"

"No...no limit..."

Shen Sui gasped, and hurriedly looked back at the carriage his wife was riding in.Then he looked at Hutuo in shock and said:

"You kid... like this type..."

Hutuo: "...I just think she's cute."

Shen Sui had an expression of wanting to laugh but couldn't bear to laugh, and finally patted Hutuo's shoulder and said:

"Okay, I will help you with the lotus maid, the rest is up to you."

The author has something to say: Now it’s time for Hutuo’s session 2333333