Yang Jin Enters Beijing

Basang leaned over to pick up a small stone from the Jiqu River, then flipped his wrist, the stone flew out sideways, landed on the water and jumped up, jumped up and down again, and finally sank into the water after going back and forth. in the water.

"Dongga taught me this way of playing. I grew up with him. We are relatives." Basang looked at the ripples in the water and said, "We Tubo nobles intermarried with each other, and almost all of them were related to each other. .”

I nod.In fact, there is nothing strange about this. Tubo also pays attention to the right family. Nobles marry nobles. The young master of the headman marries the lady of the headman. Of course, Chaba must marry Chaba. As time goes by, the nobles of course become relatives because of the intermarriage.

"Gam was actually my wife. She was engaged to me since I was a child, but I divorced her because close relatives were not allowed to marry according to the rules of the Han people. As a result, she became a noble lady of Tubo. You are the laughing stock in their mouths, so I have not been able to get married so far. I feel very guilty." Basang said: "I know you treat your family very well, and I think you can treat her well."

I looked back at Gam, who was sitting on the grass and eating sugar balls intently. I was silent for a while, and slowly shook my head.

"Do you really like someone?" Basang looked at me and asked again.

I fell silent again, then shook my head again.

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time." Basang said, "There is another matter that I want to let you know."

"Please speak."

"Zanpu has decided that next spring I will send the best warriors from Tibet to escort the crown prince to the Central Plains." Basang smiled and said, "Maybe you don't know yet, the crown prince is Jeb."

"It turned out that he ran into the crown prince!" Twenty whips still hadn't healed the scar, but now it feels lighter, at least the head is still there.

"Jeb is going to visit the Central Plains on behalf of Zanpu this time, to thank His Majesty the Emperor Tianyu for his rescue of Tubo during this white disaster (that is, the snow disaster), and to send us a gift in return." Basang continued.

I still nodded my head, these important matters of my family and country are too high for me, but Basang's next words connected me with this matter.

"Zanpu said that the most outstanding warrior in our Tubo was selected to protect the prince, and the number one warrior in our Tubo must be General Dongga. Yangjin should follow Dongga to the Central Plains." Basang said.

I raised my head in a daze and looked at him, "Going to the Central Plains?"

"Go to the Central Plains." Basang said: "How the people of the Central Plains live! How the students in the Central Plains School study! How vast the sea is! How huge the sea ships are! Yang Jin, go and see."

Basang's eyes were shining, "I wish I could see it with my own eyes, but unfortunately I can't go because of my duty. Yang Jin, go for me, write down everything you see, and tell me when you come back."

Basang turned his eyes to Jiqu River again, looked at the broad river bank, stretched out his hand and patted a vicissitudes old tree on the river bank, and said: "My Tubo is too old, it is no longer the glorious era hundreds of years ago, it is like This old tree needs to be pruned to remove dry branches, remove rotten roots, and replace it with fresh soil in order to gain new life." Then he patted the mottled bark on the tree, "But he is too old after all, to It is impossible to change overnight, but it has to be done little by little. Opening and closing the city, selecting Chaba to join the army, these are all good changes, although it is slow, you can actually see that it is going on."

He withdrew his gaze and looked at me, "You go to the Central Plains with General Dongga, and it will take at least two years or as many as three years. You should be able to see more changes in him when you come back. At that time, you will see what you saw from the Central Plains. , and bring back what we have learned, we may be able to help it change better."

Basang exudes a kind of vitality, a kind of flying spirit, which is reflected in my eyes and slightly touches my heart.

"That's right." Basang pointed to my eyes and said with a smile: "When you told me last year that you were only 15 years old, I was quite surprised. Why is there such a lack of life in the eyes of a 15-year-old boy? I feel much better, and I don't seem to be in such a hurry."

"Haha." I laughed, "I'll go and see for you."

"Be careful when going here." Basang said solemnly.

"Is Lord Basang worried that the emperor of Tianyu will harm the prince?" I asked.

But Basang shook his head, "Emperor Tianyu's mind is probably not so narrow. But..." He smiled and tapped the tip of my nose with his fingertips, "Yang Jinsheng is handsome, the emperor of Tianyu is another outstanding person. Those who have the reputation of Longyang, don't be taken by the emperor, and they won't come back after being detained."

"what?"

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A few days later, my three older brothers and I were taken to General Dongga's barracks.

Here I saw General Dongga for the first time. He led a team of no less than a thousand people running shirtless on the school field.

I recognized him at a glance in this team of thousands of people, not because he ran at the top of the team, nor because he had a face very similar to Gam, but because in this team, the other Everyone ran empty-handed, only he was running with a huge stone lock on his left and right shoulders.

I feel very affectionate when I see him, not because he is likely to become my uncle in the near future.But because of his dark skin and strong body with tangled muscles, it reminded me of the cow in my family's yak herd.I even thought that if my cow had a confrontation with General Dongga, which one would be knocked down.

"What are you doing in a daze? You haven't joined the team to practice together." But this General Gamu was not kind to me at all. He yelled at the four of us brothers like thunder.

Qiangba, Tsering and Gyatso took off their robes without saying a word, joined the team and ran.

And I turned my head and begged Gamu who was lying on my back: "Can you come down for a while? I will carry you after I finish my practice." Yes Gamu, I carried her too.She insisted that I come with her on my back. I originally thought that women would not be allowed to enter the military area, but who knew that it was unimpeded and no one came here.

"No." Gam shook his head decisively.

"The one who is still standing, hurry up." General Dongga seemed to not mind at all that I ran with her sister, who was not necessarily much lighter than Shi Suo, and urged me for the second time.

"God, why don't you let a thunder strike me." I looked up to the sky and sighed.

I only heard a bang, and my feet trembled. It wasn't Lei Zhen who struck down, but a stone lock flew over and landed on my feet, stirring up dust.

I didn't dare to sigh any more, and before the second stone lock came flying again, I chased after it with my back on my back.

Gam lay on my back and said like a little fox, "Yang Jin, why don't you take off your robe too."

"I..., God, you should chop me up."

"Cackling..." Gam laughed so hard that his flesh trembled, and I heard the creaking sound of my own bones, as if they were about to break.