fluttering night wind

At the beginning of the Great Xia Dynasty, the old capital was in Luoyi, with Luoshui in the south and Mangshan in the north.When Emperor Yuan was in Luoyi, he was fond of Buddhist affairs. In addition to the temples built by the previous generation, Luoyi had more than a thousand temples in its heyday.There is a temple in the city called Yaoguang Temple. It was a nun temple built by Emperor Yuan to pray for Princess Yaoguang.Looking far away from the temple, you can see Luochuan as far as you can see. There is also a blue sea and Quchi pond in the temple.

Time goes back to the autumn of the sixth year of Jingning, the year before Shu soldiers broke through Yongjing.

This day, the autumn wind was bleak, and the vegetation swayed. There was a five-story pagoda in Yaoguang Temple, fifty feet to the ground, and a little girl was sitting on the railing on the highest floor.She was wearing Han clothes, fair skin, high nose and deep eyes, sitting on the railing looking at the white clouds and gray dogs thinking about something.The wind gives birth to households, and the clouds give birth to pillars. Looking from the side, her gorgeous clothes are fluttering like a fairy.

Footsteps were heard on the stairs, and a middle-aged monk and nun poked his head out and asked, "Master, the medicine is ready, will you bring it here?"

The little girl jumped off the railing and went inside.The monks and nuns also carefully brought up a medicine jar.The inside of the pagoda is dark, full of scriptures and volumes, and the walls are painted with colorful murals, all of which are stories from Buddhist scriptures. There is a small bed in the corner, and a man is lying on it, motionless, with his teeth closed.

The little girl sat on a low stool beside her, resting her chin on her hands, watching the monk pry open the man's mouth with chopsticks, and poured a pot of steaming medicinal soup into it. She slapped her nose and muttered, "Huijing, why is this person still awake?"

The nun named "Hui Jing" said: "Sir, I will wake up naturally when I wake up."

"Hmm," the little girl agreed, and said without words: "What's this man's name, and who does he belong to?"

Huijing just shook her head and didn't know.

The little girl watched Huijing wipe the man's face and wounds skillfully, lightly and lightly, and her expression was quite tense, then she moved her eyes to the man's face, her heart fluttered, and she said with a smile: "Huijing, you move the heart Yes, you like him?"

Huijing didn't want her to be a girl, and she didn't speak seriously, and her ears turned red with embarrassment. She recited the Buddha's mantra several times, then raised her eyes to look at her, and said solemnly, "Mr. said..."

"I get it, I get it, I get it," the little girl repeatedly begged for forgiveness. Now she was most afraid of hearing the name of her master, and she stood up from the low stool quickly, before she was about to rush out of the tower. Huijing called her He stopped, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. said that Hanzhong's soldiers and horses have been mobilized frequently recently. I'm afraid that Mencius will make a big move in the coming year. Since Jingxiang is kept in Shuzhong, he will divide his troops into two groups. One way will take Luoyi, and the other way will go straight down to Jiangdong. The choice. There will be a battle under the city in the future, and you must prepare early."

Ah Yue's face lost all color when she heard the words, and it took a long time before she said: "Meng Ziyou will not really come to fight Luoyi, Jiangdong Liu Xie is his serious trouble, left and right are just putting on a show, there is no danger." In her heart Thinking, Dad and his teachers are entangled with Tuoba's rebels in the desert outside Yanmen Pass. It is not known whether they will win or lose. If Luoyi is besieged, they will not be able to quench their thirst far away.

It turns out that Luoyi fell into the hands of the Hu people during the Chongnian period. Xiao Yuanzao, the great general of the Xianbei Zhu Kingdom, stationed here all the year round.This little girl is Xiao Yuanzao's daughter Xiao Rongyue, who is exactly 16 years old this year, and has lived here for more than ten years since Xianbei captured this place.

Hui Jing said solemnly: "Mr. has set off from the cloud and will arrive soon. The prince wants you to return to Yanmen Pass before winter. Pack up quickly."

"Why?!" Xiao Rongyue yelled, angrily, "Is daddy going to hand over Luoyi to Mencius?! The Han people said that we are barbarians, Xianbei horsemen, and we cannot build a capital and settle down. It is hard to change." Predatory nature. We spent a lot of effort to build Luoyi, and finally settled down, how can we easily give it up to Kou Qiu?"

Huijing sighed, but in just a few years, the little princess wore Han clothes and spoke Chinese, and became a real southern barbarian. "You should know that the meaning of the master is the meaning of the prince, and the meaning of the prince is also the meaning of the master. I advise you to save it."

Ah Yue pouted and stomped her feet, suddenly pointed at the corner of the wall, and said, "Then what about the living dead?"

Huijing was taken aback for a moment, and said, "I probably have to take it away."

From Luoyi to the north along the Fenshui River, the road is cold and deserted, and the scenery is bleak.On this day, a group of people and horses came to the main road, about a hundred of them, all of them were black horses with cold iron hooves, escorting two carriages towards Jinyang.

Next to a carriage in the front is a bay red horse. The horse is covered with a layer of red light, which can be seen from others. Xiao Rongyue, who is riding the horse, wears a narrow-sleeved Hu suit inside and a big cloak on the outside. , a golden jue hairpin on the head, and emerald green Langgan on the waist.

In the evening, wisps of cooking smoke rose from the direction the horse team was heading. According to the guide, it was a town where you could rest.Thinking of taking a hot bath, Xiao Rongyue couldn't help being in a good mood. She called Huijing and a guard, and the three of them rode out of the cavalry for a while, and went to the town together to inquire.

The closer the three rode, the more they felt that something was wrong. The smoke was black and heavy. With care.Pushing the horse forward for a while, I saw a medium-sized town in a mess, with bones exposed in the wild, corpses piled up on the road, and chickens and dogs were gone.The houses were all scorched black, and there were a few larger houses that hadn't been completely burnt out, and black smoke from the embers rose straight into the sky.

Xiao Rongyue dismounted without changing her expression, walked quickly to the street, and raised her voice, "Is there anyone? Is anyone still alive?"

The guard squatted on the ground looking through the dead bodies, and found that the town had been looted for two or three days. Suddenly, he saw a machete stuck in the dead man's chest, so he pulled it out forcefully, and said, "Princess, look."

Xiao Rongyue walked back, glanced at it, her expression froze, and she said nervously, "Did Dad's subordinates do it?"

The guard shook his head and said, "No, it looks like the King of Hejian."

Xiao Rongyue breathed a sigh of relief, and before she could ask again, Huijing told her to go to the middle of the street again.She went to a well, looked around, and saw that the narrow well was full of dead bodies, the top one looked like a seven or eight-year-old child, if she had seen troubled times like this, such a hell on earth could be seen again at a glance. Taking an ugly second look, he quickly backed away, his face pale.

Huijing shook her head and said, "You can't drink the well water, and you can't stay here. Let's go upstream and camp."

So the three of them turned back the same way, and the horse team bypassed the town, pitched a tent at a water source in front of the plain, and buried pots for cooking.Xiao Rongyue watched as Huijing directed people to throw several baskets of alum into the stream. Alum can purify water, but can it also wash away the pain in people's hearts?

Lin Shushuang blows, waves are quiet and the moon melts.

After Xiao Rongyue had her meal, she sat by the stream, staring at the moon in the water in a daze.Huijing walked up to her and sat down, took out a reed flute from her sleeve and played it. There was a burst of unreasonable sadness in the sound of the flute, which made the team, which was almost all barbarians, slightly moved.

After the dawn of the second day, the troops were rectified, and the group headed north again.After walking for less than a meal, the terrain gradually became rugged and gradually surrounded by mountains. Huijing raised her head to see a dark cloud floating in the sky at some point, frowned, and told everyone to speed up the journey.

At noon, it really started to rain heavily, and the horse team wandered among the rocks. Xiao Rongyue heard a loud noise from behind in the carriage, immediately opened the wooden window, and shouted backwards: "What happened?" Is something wrong?" The heavy rain hit her head and face, and her eyes were instantly blurred.Huijing came right away, put her head back in the car, and closed the window.It turned out that a carriage behind was stuck in the mud, and the horse was also injured, and they were changing horses and carts.

Huijing didn't allow her to get out of the car, Xiao Rongyue was bored and leaned against the wall of the car, playing with the whip in her hand.The voices of people behind him kept neighing, and it took about a meal before the car was pushed out of the mud pit. At this time, the rain was a little lighter, and Hui Jing was about to give the order to go on the road when she suddenly heard a burst of chaotic hooves.

Xiao Rongyue had heard it a long time ago, she jumped out of the carriage, stood on the shaft, and looked into the distance.A group of men and horses rushed out from the valley in the distance, the number far outnumbered their own, and they stopped near the square. They were all dressed in rags and their faces were slovenly, but their weapons were all machetes. A black horse with a machete in his hand.

The big man can't be underestimated when he sees the other party. He looks like a tiger and a horse like a dragon. He is neat and tidy. There are two carriages in the line, and a barbarian girl is standing on the roof of the front one. "Where did you come from, the little thief, report your name."

All the thieves burst out laughing, and someone said wretchedly: "This barbarian girl is good-looking, I don't know if she is flirty on the bed, brother, let's give it a try tonight."

Xiao Rongyue was furious, she jumped from the roof of the car onto the back of the bay red horse next to her, and was about to ride forward, when a rider came flying from behind, Huijing reached out to stop her, looked at the person coming, and said coldly: "Then Did you loot the town ahead?"

Seeing another nun came, all the people in this group burst into laughter, and shouted: "This nun is also quite beautiful, why don't you bring her into the village together, brother."

The leader had been conniving at his subordinates for swearing and not saying a word, so he said casually at this moment: "That town provides food and lodging for the passing barbarian army. They are all traitors and should be destroyed."

"You," Xiao Rongyue opened her eyes wide, only now did she realize the reason, and said angrily, "You are all Han Chinese, why do you want to kill each other? It's not their fault that King Hejian's men borrowed from this place! The strong is the weak, and it is common sense in the world to kill the grass when it is popular, and the common people of Dousheng, in order to save their lives, what crime is there if the grass dies temporarily?"

"Oh", the big man seemed not expecting that the barbarian girl spoke clearly, so his complexion darkened, and he said angrily, "It's wrong for them to help the barbarian dog! Turning against the master and the enemy, betraying the country for glory, helping the tyrant, etc. Bad people, killing them would still make my hands dirty."

The gangsters around him raised their knives and shouted: "Brother is right, traitors are not dead, how can we stop?"

"Hu dogs can't stop killing, don't talk nonsense with them." "The two women catch the living ones, and kill all the rest."

Huijing tilted her head and whispered in Xiao Rongyue's ear: "Princess, we don't have as many people as them, and the heaven is not beautiful. The right time, place and people are not on our side. Why don't we talk to them? The Jinyang government asked King Hejian to borrow troops to suppress them."

There were two cold lights in Xiao Rongyue's eyes, first he uttered a sentence in Xianbei language with unknown meaning, and while slowly drawing his sword in his hand, he gritted his teeth and said: "This kind of scum, occupying the mountain as king, killing innocent people indiscriminately, even I can see Don't go, today I will clean up the house for the emperor of the Han family!"

Huijing was shocked, and reached out to grab her cloak, but she had already urged the horse first, and shot it like an arrow.It's really like raising your hand to catch the flying cat, bending over to scatter the horse's hooves, calm as a virgin, and moving like a rabbit.

Suddenly the scene was chaotic.

The bandits swarmed down and surrounded them, fighting together, Huijing was protected by her own people, and she was safe for the time being.She looked up, not far away, Xiao Rongyue had already started fighting with the leader.

Huijing sighed in her heart: princess, just now you said that it is common sense in the world to be weak when you are strong, but how did you become a braggart when you are strong?

The big man wielded a barbarian's saber, and his saber skills were fierce, forming a school of his own.Even though Xiao Rongyue is a woman, she practiced martial arts when she was young, Xiao Yuanzao taught her personally, there are many followers in the house, and she learned from the strengths of all the families, she was able to fight even with him.

The team that escorted Xiao Rongyue was elite soldiers under Xiao Yuanzao's tent, and they were not inferior in the face of enemies several times their own.

Although Xiao Rongyue came from a famous family, the time has dragged on for a long time. Firstly, as a woman, she is physically weak, and secondly, after all, the diners in the past always kept a little bit of affection in their hands. After the rest of the tricks, the energy is exhausted, but the opponent's energy is doubled.

At this moment, there was only a long neighing of horses, and the two carriages were split open by the thief one after another, but books and volumes were scattered all over the floor in one carriage, and a man rolled down from the other carriage, and fell to the ground In the sewage, motionless.

The bandits succeeded for a while, and secretly rejoiced, thinking that the carriage was full of gold and silver treasures, but when the carriage was dismantled, it turned out to be such two strange things, they all looked at each other in blank dismay.Some people rummaged through the pile of old papers, thinking that they could find a golden house with a beautiful face like jade, and some stomped on the man on the ground, but the other party looked ashen and ignorant.Then there was a sound of cursing for a while: "Brother, what the hell is this? He brought a car full of broken books and living dead." "Bad luck, bad luck!"

Xiao Rongyue and Hui Jing heard the sound, turned their heads together, and suddenly the wind was chaotic, one of them shouted: "That is the book that the master wants!" The other shouted: "That is the person that the husband wants!"

At this moment, the big man dodged Xiao Rongyue's sword flower, stretched out his hand, grabbed her hood and pulled her off the horse. The poor little girl fell into the muddy water, and the sword in her hand was also thrown away. , For the first time in his life, someone pointed a machete at the tip of his nose.

The big man roared: "Stop it all!" He had already seen that this little girl was from an extraordinary background, and she was the most expensive among the group of barbarians.

There was no sound anywhere.Huijing was so frightened that she lost all courage.

Xiao Rongyue's expression did not change, she looked up coldly.I only heard the big man say: "This girl is in my hands, all put down their weapons."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of beeping, and a cold arrow shot from above and hit his scimitar. His mouth went numb and he couldn't hold the scimitar. On the contrary, Guan Ri snatched his weapon with his hands and jumped back to his side.

The situation is changing so quickly that it is dizzying.The two looked up the cliff at the same time, one person and the other rode wandering among the mountains, the man on the horse picked up a bow and set up an arrow, and shot them from all directions, and all the bandits fell from their horses.

Xiao Rongyue was overjoyed, and shouted happily: "Mister, save me!"

The man on the cliff was like a full moon, pointed at the bandit leader and said, "Let them go, they don't have what you want."

The bandit leader squinted his eyes and looked into the distance. He judged that the distance between the two of them was several hundred feet. He guessed that he might not be able to shoot accurately, so he procrastinated, "Are you a Han? Are you going to help this group of dogs?"

The man snorted coldly, pumped up his anger, and shouted: "I think you are worse than pigs and dogs. If you are not too stupid, then let them go. This is a distinguished guest of King Hejian. If you offend him, immediately send troops to suppress them." for you."

The bandit leader was silent for a while, this place is not far from Jinyang Mansion, he is only a thousand people, and he is old and weak, he is not in the right place, if the officers and soldiers encircle and suppress them, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist.

When the bandit leader was hesitating, some members of the crowd clamored loudly: "Brother, don't listen to him, he's just alone. It's not a good thing for this person to help Hu Gou."

The man figured out that the mountain bandit was just trying to catch fame, and said: "People should know the opportunity. Why did your majesty be reckless to attract a strong enemy for a while. It is not worth doing such a useless thing in a useful body."

The bandit leader thought about it for a while, and he had some calculations, so he greeted everyone, raised his head and said, "This chivalrous man has a great name, Mr. Yu, thank you for your advice."

That person thinks that you are going to get lost, do you still want to save face?

Seeing that there was no response from the other party, the man surnamed Yu sighed his own bad luck, packed up his men, and ran away, coming and going quickly, even though it is a mob, it will become a serious problem in time.The man watched from the cliff, his eyes getting darker.

Besides, when the siege was cleared here, Xiao Rongyue was so angry that she jumped around her carriage. She kept picking up the books and albums soaked in muddy water on the ground, and wiped with her sleeves the original "Preface to Lanting", which was said to be Wang Xizhi's, and the ink was stained. It's a mess, it's collected with painstaking efforts.She was so distressed that she burst into tears, and a figure crouched beside her. It was the middle-aged man who had frightened off the thieves on the cliff just now, and said softly, "This is a forgery of later generations. Princess, let's get out of here first."

Xiao Rongyue was about to act coquettishly, when she suddenly heard Huijing screaming from behind: "Sir, sir, come quickly, he's awake."

Xiao Rongyue didn't realize who the "he" in Huijing's mouth was referring to, but the face of the person who was called "Sir" changed, and he rushed to the wreckage of the next carriage.

A man was lying on his back in the muddy water on the ground, his face was pale, his eyes opened blankly, looking at the drizzle above his head.

(The description of Yaoguang Temple is borrowed from "Luoyang Jialan Ji".)

The author has something to say: Some people say that succinct writing is the kingly way, but I don't want to leave comments anymore after reading many quick articles by great masters.The writing is too old, there is nothing more to say.It's cool to read, but I can't recollect it after reading it, and I won't look back because it lacks interesting nonsense and elegant foreshadowing.

I remember when I was writing The Story of the Folding Willow, some readers told me that they prefer to read transitional chapters.The same is true of life, if it is too severe, it will inevitably lose its elegance.