Yang Jin Enters Beijing

After the Spring Festival, before the weather warmed up, Jeb and General Dongga set off, and Lei Fengyu and I went to see them off.

It happened that Tuoba Siyuan was also going back to the grassland, so let's go all the way.

All the way from fighting in the capital to now, they are a bit reluctant to part with each other.

So everyone decided to set off from the capital to the northern border of the Central Plains—Crouching Tiger Pass.After leaving Crouching Tiger Pass, it is Rongdi's territory.And going upstream from the Nujiang River not far from Crouching Tiger Pass, you can go directly to the capital of Tubo.

Lei Fengyu prepared a generous return gift for Tubo Zanpu, and gave a similarly generous gift to Tuoba Siyuan. Although Lei Fengyu had always been stingy with Tubo Siyuan, he was generous at the time of parting a handful.

However, Tuoba Siyuan sold most of the presents and replaced them with fine wine, drinking with the Tubo soldiers and Thunder Dragon War Cavalry soldiers.

In this way, everyone walked drunk on this road for a few days.

"I'll see you next time on the battlefield!" Before Crouching Tiger Pass, Tuoba Siyuan said while holding Lei Fengyu's shoulder.

Lei Fengyu punched him on the shoulder, "Then have a good fight, and you don't need to show mercy."

"Haha! Of course not." He smiled and looked at me, "Wait well, if you defeat him, I'll grab you again."

"No problem, just grab it." I said generously.

Soaring, like a door to another world opened, the drawbridge lowered.

The Black Feather Knights regrouped into a square formation.With the whistle of a whistle and arrow, Tuoba Siyuan led his men, rolled up the smoke and left the customs.

"We..." Jeb came forward.

I grabbed him and begged, "Just stay with me for two more days, just two days."

Jeb looked at me, sighed like an adult, and patted my head like my brother and the others did.I just found out that Jeb has grown a lot in the past year, almost as tall as me.

"Hey, it's really pitiful. I'm not a few years older than me, and I'm about to leave my hometown forever. Then let's stay with you for two more days, just two days. For the 5000 of us, eating here at the border is not as good as eating at the border. There in the capital." Jeb said.

"Oh! I can't see it, you're so thoughtful!" said Long Yue, who was in the second group of spats.

Standing beside Long Yue was Gao Wa, she did not go back to Rongdi with her brother, she was determined to stay in the Central Plains forever, and Yue'er seemed to have forgotten to drive her away this time.And behind the two, the little hands are still holding each other.

I couldn't help laughing.

My hand was also hooked by Lei Fengyu, "These two are very similar to the two of us back then." He smiled softly: "I chase you harder than Gaowa chased Yueer, and I have been several times older Not to mention, it’s equivalent to chasing him for two lifetimes.”

"Will you chase him if you do it again?" I asked him with a smile.

"Chasing!" He replied decisively. "I'll keep chasing him for the rest of my life."

"Reincarnation is such an illusory thing, how can you encounter it every time." I smiled and sighed: "It is enough to be with you for a lifetime."

He also laughs.

At this time, the soldiers guarding the Crouching Tiger Pass lined up on both sides, waiting for Lei Fengyu to inspect the three armies.We also dare not be too intimate.After a few jokes, Lei Fengyu called someone to arrange accommodation for us, while he went to the military parade and rewarded the three armed forces.

To the outside world, I'm still a Chaba kid from Tubo, the Queen's stand-in, who is very important to the army at the border, so I can't mess around like I did in the Palace of Virtue, and Lei Fengyu won't let me accompany him.

I will settle down with his servants.

This time they came out more calmly, and the preparations were thorough. Zhuangzhuang and Fengbuyi all came together.They have taken care of the food and lodging expenses, and I don't need to do it.As for Jeb and my brother, I don't belong to their department anymore, and naturally there is no need for me to do anything.I just wandered around idly.

This Crouching Tiger Pass is an important fortress, with [-] to [-] soldiers stationed there, and the guard posts are lined up in an orderly manner.But those on guard are almost all recruits, and they probably haven’t seen General Long before. There are only a few veterans who look at me a little strangely, but they don’t come up to talk to me.

Only a young civil servant followed me step by step.When I turned around, he stopped, and when I walked forward, he followed again, as if he wanted to ask me for something, but he hesitated to come over.

I stopped again and turned back to look at that person. He was gentle and elegant, with a bit of a bookish air. Judging by the official uniform on his body, he should be a fourth-rank.

"What's wrong with me?" I asked him.

"The step well has been built over there, and I want to show you there," he said.

"Step well?"

I followed this man to the hillside outside the barracks, and chatted a few words while walking. This man's name is Tong Jiang, and he is responsible for the construction of canals and water diversion at the border.

"That's the stepwell."

Standing on the hillside, following the direction of Tong Jiang's finger, you can see several large wells in a square shape.It is a bit inappropriate to say that it is a well, because it is too big, and each well is almost half the size of a football field.It is more than ten meters deep, and it is paved layer by layer from the edge of the well to the bottom of the well.

"Is there no water at the bottom of the well?" I said.

He looked at me and said, "This is for storing water." He pointed to the steep rocky cliff on the other side, "The mountain is being excavated with explosives, and when a gap is opened, the water from the Nu River can be poured into the steps." In the well, it is enough to grow food and drink water for people and animals at the border."

"Oh, not bad," I said.

"This stepped well was designed by General Long, but I made some minor changes inside, do you want to see it?" he asked.

"Okay!"

We went down to the bottom of the well. The construction here has been completed. There is no one at the bottom of the well, and the voice is very close. Talking at the bottom of the well may not be able to reach the mouth of the well.

He led me down to the bottom of the well, and pointed to a small hole on the side wall of the well to show me, "This is my design. I use this kind of small pipe to connect each step well, so that each step well can be connected together." The water levels in the wells are always the same so that no well close to the field gets overwatered and runs dry.”

"You're so smart!" I praised.

"Of course!" He smiled stinkingly, "The Dragon Queen is just a few years earlier than me, otherwise I..."

I look at him.

His face flushed red. "Just kidding."

"Actually, it's okay to really think so. I have thought so too, and I often think so." I said with a smile.Then I sat down on the stone steps at the bottom of the well, "I often think, if Yang Jin could know the emperor before Long Yue, would it be Yang Jin who he fell in love with?"

Tong Jiang looked at me in astonishment, and then he laughed, "It is said that Tibetans are straightforward, it is true!" He was no longer restrained as before, and sat down beside me.He lifted up his robe carefully when he sat, lest it get dirty or wrinkled.

"To be honest, I was very surprised when I first heard about you. I used to think that the emperor would not accept anyone else except the queen." He carefully said while tugging at the hem of his robe.

"Because he regarded me as the reincarnation of the Dragon Queen." I said.

"How is it possible, you are so old, the queen is, even if it is... then..." The hem of the robe in his hand fell to the ground, with an incredible expression on his face.

"He'll believe it if he wants to." I sighed. "He's never willing to believe that someone so important to him is dead."

Tong Jiang seemed to be thinking about something, kept silent, and asked me for a while: "So it's as simple as that?"

I looked at him inexplicably.

"Then you..." he stammered.

"We Tibetans are straightforward, if you have any questions, just ask." I said.

"Then are you... happy?" He bit his lips and asked me, "All the good things he did to you were actually for that person."

"It was a bit disturbing at the beginning, but it will be fine after a long time. After all, no matter who he treats me as, the kindness he treats me is really for me." I said: "And I believe that in After a longer period of time, he can really like me." I grinned, "Can a living person be better than a dead person?"

Seeing the smirk on my face, he curled his lips unconsciously.There is a bit of disdain that cannot be concealed.

"By the way, Ayu took me to General Long's Mansion." I said.

"Ayu?" Tong Jiang asked.

"The queen used to call him that, and the emperor asked me to call him that." I said to Tong Jiang.

"Oh!" Tong Jiang nodded.

"It seems that the next door to General Long's Mansion is your house?" I asked him.

"Yeah, I also won the first prize, and the house was bestowed by the emperor." Tong Jiang said.

"Oh, champion! That's great!" I gave him a thumbs up.

"Then you and General Long are neighbors, do you know each other very well?" I asked him.

"I'm not very familiar with them. I just met them a few times occasionally, and talked a few times when I was in contact with the project of this gateway." Tong Jiang replied.

"Oh!" I sighed in disappointment.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"It's a pity." I said, "Ayu really wanted to know the whereabouts of a treasured sword. He gave it to the Queen's bodyguard Asano Shishiro, but the whereabouts were unknown."

"That knife..." Tong Jiang's eyes lit up.

"You know?" I asked.

"No, I don't know." He said hastily.

"Oh, that's a pity. It is said that the precious sword Demon Flame was left by his father, the former Supreme Emperor." I sighed.

"Okay, it's a pleasure chatting with you. I still have things to do now. I'm leaving. You can play slowly." He ran up the step well in three steps at a time. He touched the hem of his robe once, but he pulled it up indifferently and left.

I sat under the step well for a while, and sighed for a while: "To be honest, I don't like this person. I would rather Feng Jiayi is better, but it's a pity...that queen who doesn't touch the ground, has nothing to do with this person in front of me." It's more like Pai."