Chapter 221 Peacocks fly southeast
The autumn was clear and cloudless, and a row of geese in the sky lined up into a human-shaped character and flew to the southeast. Yuwen Weicheng counted carefully and found that there were seven geese, which were odd numbers. He turned his head happily and shouted: "Ah my grandmother, it's odd numbers!"
Yuchi Chifan, who was sitting aside, smiled, touched his son's head and said, "Yes, Jilang guessed it right."
"Then, can I park the car?"
"no."
"oh."
Yuwen Weicheng was a little depressed. He had been taking a bus these days. Although it was really good to be able to walk out, he wanted to get down and walk after taking a bus for a long time, stretched his arms and looked at the flowers and plants on the roadside.
After living in that place called "Imperial Palace" for a while, Yuwen Weicheng felt very bored after passing away. Not to mention comparing with his own family, even his grandfather's family was not as good as his family.
It’s not that the house is not big enough and the place is not wide enough. On the contrary, the houses in the palace are very beautiful and the place is wide, but there are few people.
There are only maids around Yuwen Weicheng who lowers his head and doesn't say anything all day long. Occasionally, men with neither male nor female voices appear, and they are deserted everywhere.
At night, the palace was pitch black everywhere, and the shadows of the house looked like wild beasts, squatting there and preparing to pounce on them.
However, Yuwen Weicheng is not afraid because he is with his grandmother by his side. Before going to bed at night, he can tell stories. He fell asleep as he listened. Even when he woke up from a nightmare in the middle of the night, he felt much more at ease when he saw his grandmother sleeping beside him.
But without the friends in the mansion, and without the brothers and younger brothers and sisters playing around, Yuwen Weicheng misses home more and more and more and more.
He knew that Aye was going to fight, and said that it would be the fastest this year and come back next year at the latest. Yuwen Weicheng felt that he was not in Xiyang. Maybe he didn't know that Aye had come back, so he often asked when Aye would go back. Aye always said, "It's soon, wait a little longer."
When will we wait? I don’t know, anyway, the days have passed day by day, and Yuwen Weicheng is looking forward to going home in the palace, but he can’t go back. He thought he didn’t have to read and write in the palace, but his mother found a gentleman to continue teaching him to read and write.
Since this is the case, it’s better to go home. The school is so lively.
Yuwen Weicheng thought so, and when he saw the scenery outside the window was flat, he looked at the carriage. The name of the carriage was a bit special, called "Fish Twist". Yuwen Weicheng thought that it means something made of fish twists on the carriage, but after searching, he could never find "Fish Twist".
As we looked around, the carriage slowly stopped. A moment later, a man-in-law voice sounded outside the carriage: "Your Majesty, Your Highness, the Imperial Lord, arrives by the river and is about to cross the river."
"Your Majesty knows."
Yuchi Chifan said, "Neon King Zhu". As the emperor's biological mother, of course she had to accompany the emperor to ride a car. Yuwen Weicheng raised the curtains and looked out, and couldn't help but shout:
"My mother! The water of this big river is so yellow...it's the Yellow River!"
He remembered very clearly that from Xiyang to Yecheng, he had to cross a very yellow river on the way, called the Yellow River. He had to cross the river when he went to Yecheng, and when he returned to Xiyang, he had to cross the river. Now he set out from Yecheng, and that was... going home?
"It's not that we're going home, we're going out for a walk."
"oh..."
Seeing his son a little disappointed, Yuchi Chifan felt uncomfortable. The appearance of the falling fish and geese was shrouded in sorrow, and some things were incomprehensible to his son. The more he said, the more questions his son would have. She looked at the scenery outside the window and felt a little sad.
Soldiers approached the carriage, holding the carriage with the palace maids. The carriage slowly drove forward, and soon drove onto a long floating bridge.
At this time, a floating bridge across the Yellow River has been built. The imperial chariot of Yuwen Weicheng, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, passed the floating bridge toward Baimajin on the south bank under heavy protection.
Another imperial chariot followed closely, including the Empress Dowager Yuchi Mingyue, and the mother of Yuchi Mingyue, Wang, the wife of Duke of the Kingdom of Lu. At this moment, Yuchi Mingyue looked at the river view outside the car window with a dull look expressionless.
Wang held his daughter's hand, feeling a little heartbroken but didn't know how to comfort her. Yuchi Mingyue has been a widow since her wedding. She has been in a low mood these days. Even if she is hard to come out for breath, she has not seen her happy face.
Wang knew that his daughter was in pain, so he accompanied her to travel with her, and accompanied her other miserable daughter Yuchi Chifan, and her grandson Yuwen Weicheng who knew nothing.
Seeing Yuchi Mingyue's appearance, Wang was glad that Yuwen Weicheng was young and ignorant, with four people in a group, at least one of them was smiling often, which made the atmosphere less dull, otherwise it would be as sad as a day.
Under the escort of everyone, two imperial chariots arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River one by one. At this moment, the flags on the south bank were waving, and the continuous team looked endless.
The soldiers around the imperial chariot were different from other armies. This is the sixth rate of the imperial guards: the Hu Ben rate, the hiking rate, the sound rate of the cavalry, the Yulin rate, and the guerrilla rate to guard the emperor to travel.
The men of Wu Ben's utensils and garments were all mysterious and decorated with four colors; the men of Lu Ben's utensils and garments were all blue and decorated with red; the men of archery sound had all red and garments were all yellow and decorated with yellow.
The gauntlets of the cavalry all have yellow clothes and are decorated with Hao; the guerrillas all have mysterious clothes and are decorated with Qing.
If the emperor sets up a large chariot book when he is traveling, the imperial guards will lead the entire army to be dispatched, and the clothes will be subject to the color; if the middle chariot or the emperor is sleeping (the emperor's main hall), half of the troops will be dispatched, and the clothes will be subject to the color; if the small chariot is then half of the troops will be given, and the soldiers will be subject to the color of the clothes. At this time, the six will lead the soldiers to be subject to the color of the clothes.
Now, Yuwen Weicheng looked at the black color outside the car window and was a little timid, but he still looked out the window and then found a familiar scenery.
"My mother..."
Yuwen Weicheng whispered, the volume was very low, and Yuchi Chifan approached and asked, "What's the matter?"
"My mother, look over there, look over there."
Following the direction pointed by Yuwen Weicheng's little hand, Yuchi Chifan saw the outline of a city far outside the window. After thinking carefully, she nodded and said, "Do you remember Jilang?"
"Um!"
Yuwen Weicheng nodded vigorously. Of course he remembered the scene before him. Last year, he and Niang returned to Xiyang from Yecheng. They followed their uncle and passed the Baimajin on the edge of the Yellow River. The uncle explained to him the origin of the name of the city ahead.
The sliding table does not slip.
Yuwen Weicheng still remembers his uncle's explanation. He wanted to get out of the car and take a walk, but it still couldn't.
After hearing from my grandmother, Yuwen Weicheng said that Uncle Uncle was still waiting in front of him, so he couldn't miss the time and seize the time to rush forward.
After looking at the sky, Yuwen Weicheng found another group of birds flying southeast in the sky. He looked hard for a while, turned his head and asked, "My grandma, is that bird not a geese, is it a peacock?"
Yuchi Chifan glanced out the window and didn't recognize any birds in the sky, but she could be sure that it was not a peacock, because the peacock could not fly that high.
"That's not a peacock, it won't fly southeast."
"No, what the child has heard is two lines of poetry that Aye has read, and the peacocks will fly southeast."
When Yuwen Weicheng argued, he saw that Ah Niang seemed to be in a bad mood, so he tried to make Ah Niang happy with his outstanding performance. The way was to memorize the poems, which were recited by Ah Ye.
"Okay, my grandmother listens to Jilang recites poems."
"Hmm...uh..."
Yuwen Weicheng said for a while, "Yeah, ahhhh" and said, "The peacock flies southeast, wandering every five miles."
The narrative poem "The Peacock Flying Southeast" tells the story of Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi and his wife being forced to separate and commit suicide. Yuwen Weicheng could only recite the first two sentences. After hearing this, Yuchi Chifan's eyes turned red and tears were about to overflow.
She was afraid that her son would wipe it with her sleeve when she saw it. Yuwen Weicheng didn't notice this detail and asked with anticipation: "My grandma, how, will the peacock fly southeast?"
"Ah...yeah..."
Yuchi Chifan endured the grief and stammered his answer, holding his son in his arms, tears gushing like a spring.
Not long ago, Prime Minister Yuchi Dun reported to the emperor that a rebel thief in Yuzhou had a false name called Zhu Wang Yuwen Wen. He gathered people in Xuanhu to rebel, supported the fake emperor, defeated the official army several times, and dispersed the rebellious words, with the intention of confusing the world.
In order to face up to the sound and clarify Yuyu, the Prime Minister begged the emperor to personally lead the army to calm people's hearts.
Chapter completed!