Half a month later, the geese fell.
Thousands of years of wind and snow, thousands of years of wild geese.
In October, it started to snow in Luoyan City.
One hundred and twenty years ago, the royal family of the Ju clan got the Jin Emperor's army to the north, attacked Hu with all their might, captured Hengcheng, and changed its name to "Luoyan". Since then, this huge northern city has been called the place where geese live. Every March, when the snow melts, the geese will return north and land on the Hengjiang sandbar outside Yancheng.
For more than 100 years, Luoyan has become the largest trade distribution center outside the Great Wall, nibbling away and subduing ethnic groups such as Linhu, Di, Fengrong, etc., rising rapidly and expanding continuously, establishing Hao, Shazhou, Beidu, Daan, Shanyin, etc. Six heavy cities. And the country was established as "Yong", only because the Ju family took Yong County under the Yubi Pass as a fief.
The territory of the Yong Kingdom was like the authority of the Ju clan, expanding rapidly, and in just over a hundred years, all the north of the Great Wall was included in the territory. After cutting off the trade route with the Central Plains, the four kingdoms in the Guannei Changdao Luoyan was an uncivilized land. The Yong people drank blood and were lawless. When walking on the road, they would draw their swords and face each other occasionally if they had personal grudges, and they would never die.
In the hearts of every Central Plains person, Luoyan City should be a purgatory on earth with corpses on all sides and heads everywhere. As for King Yong Juicong, he is a tyrant who kills without blinking an eye. It is said that for fun, he often set fire to the people at home, just to hear the screams before his death.
But when Geng Shu saw Luo Yan for the first time, he knew that it was not what Guan Nei said.
After leaving Anyang in his childhood, Geng Shu passed through Luoyang, the capital of the world, and the territories of Liang and Zheng.
The city and the city seem to be shrouded in a haze, and the breath is full of the smell of blood and carrion, just like the breath of a terminally ill person who has been lying on the couch for many years, even a hurricane can't dispel the breath.
Luo Yan did not have this smell. The city was very clean, so clean that Geng Shu was a little surprised.
It was shrouded in the noon sun, the gray-black city walls stood tall, the four gates were wide open, and there was only a simple check, and the caravan of packhorses from the west was lining up to enter the city. Outside the city, many young people are riding their horses, hitting a ball made of withered grass in front of a harvested wheat field with a long wooden stick in their hands.
On the sandbar, there are geese flying from farther north to spend the winter, like clouds that cover the sky and the earth. From a distance, the ice caps of the snow-capped mountains flicker in the sun. At the foot of Qingshan Mountain is the wind sea reflecting the bright sunshine, and on the side of the wind sea is the hometown of Fengrong, another ethnic group in Saibei.
In the wheat fields harvested in autumn, the golden straw is like a huge blanket, stretching to the end of the sky.
Geng Shu rode on Juicong's king horse, neither hurried nor slow, and followed behind Juicong.
"You're back late again!" A beautiful voice said from a distance under the city gate, "What did you promise me?"
Juicong replied, "It's not too late for a day's delay on the road. Isn't this only the first day of October?"
Ju Ling, dressed in an embroidered robe, rode a tall, snow-white horse with her belt flying in the wind. She urged the horse and rushed towards Ju Cong. It was Juicong's mount, and he was immediately full of doubts.
But the moment their eyes met, Juyeon instantly recognized this person.
"I know you." Ju Ling said solemnly.
"I know you too." Geng Shu replied indifferently.
Before the age of 20, Ju Ling went to the capital in person and met with Geng Shu in Luoyang. Both of them were deeply impressed by each other.
Ju Ling turned to her elder brother Ju Cong, waiting for his explanation.
"My aunt." Juicong said to Geng Shu.
However, Geng Shu didn't call anyone, and when Ju Ling heard this, she looked dazed.
"Go back and talk to you guys slowly." With a smile on his lips, Ju Cong urged the horses and said to Geng Shu, "Son, keep up, drive!"
Ju Cong flew into the city with his cloak flying, Geng Shu and Ju Ling followed closely behind. Luoyan City is prosperous. Most of the walls of the people's houses are built with white stones mined in Qingshan and cedars in the mountains. Begonias are planted outside every door. There are maple trees on both sides of the main street, leading to the imperial city. Straight to the Imperial City.
The cross-shaped road extending east and west is a bustling and bustling street, with pedestrians like clouds and orderly.
In front of the imperial city is paved with quaint basalt bricks, and the magnificent view of the main hall is comparable to that of Luoyang, the capital of the world. On the school ground outside the hall, which is paved with solemn and solemn blue-black floor tiles, there are enshrined seven giant cauldrons given to the princes by the emperor of Jin a hundred years ago.
At the height of the palace, the basalt black jade statue of turtles and snakes is bathed in the warm autumn sun. When the sun shines, the black jade presents a whole body of emerald green; after the blazing sun passes, the black jade is dark and solemn.
When Ju Cong returned to the court, the first person to greet him was the prime minister Guan Wei.
The general manager of the Yong Kingdom is almost at the age of hearing. He leaned on crutches and stood casually in the center of the hall, glanced at Juicong, and said with a smile, "Is there anything my king can gain?"
"It's not that I got nothing." Juicong walked into the hall, dressed in the dust.
Guan Wei didn't seem to be interested in Geng Shu who was following behind Juicong, and he didn't even look at it, he just said: "I received a letter from Yubi Pass and brought back 120,000 people. It can be arranged properly."
Juicong said, "It takes a lot of hard work to take care of your lord."
Guan Wei shook his head, looked at Juicong, Juicong raised his eyebrows, Guan Wei finally couldn't bear it any longer, and asked, "Did your majesty bring back anything else?"
Juicong said, "Does the Prime Minister see me as something else?"
"Where's Jinxi?" Guan Wei asked.
Juicong was helpless, spread his hands, and said again: "You expected it, no. But..." Then he looked back at Geng Shu, and gestured to Guan Wei: "For me, he is much more important than Jinxi."
Guan Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and turned around. Juicong said again: "Please, please Taichang to prepare for the sacrifice to heaven, report it to the sky, and report to the people, and then choose a suitable date and prepare according to the royal family's ceremonies."
Just as Guan Wei was about to leave, he suddenly turned around and glanced at Geng Shu, then at Juicong, with a smile on his face and nodded.
"good very good."
"Very good," Jiang Huai, Empress Dowager Yong Guo, who was over sixty years old, looked at Geng Shu and said, "Very good... very good."
In the deep palace, the first thing Ju Cong did when he came home was to bring Geng Shu to see his mother.
"I'll take a look at you." Empress Dowager Jiang, with tears in her eyes and trembling fingers, touched the jade Jue that Geng Shu was wearing around her neck, and said, "Xingyu... Yes, this is the year Lang'er paid to Geng Yuan. The piece of gold, two jade, three swords and four gods... Geng Yuan... He really gave Dayong too much, too much... When Lang Er was dying, he still thought about him who went south... "
"Mother." Juicong said.
Empress Dowager Jiang held back her tears and sighed, "Child, what name did your mother give you?"
"Geng Shu." Geng Shu replied.
From Empress Dowager Jiang's face, he could see a little Jiang Zhao's demeanor, and he couldn't help but be a little puzzled.
"Seeing your eyes," said the Queen Mother Jiang, "I think of your father, Qinger, Zhaoer..."
Empress Dowager Jiang took Geng Shu's hand, looked at it carefully, put him in her arms again, shed tears, and lamented, "My hard-working son..."
Geng Shu only had his mother most of the time in his life. Nie Qi was rescued by Jiang Zhao and volunteered to follow the Jiang family and serve him all his life. He did not know where his home was and who his parents were. And Empress Dowager Jiang's kindness brought him a kind of unfamiliar intimacy, as if it came from the care of a generation farther away than his parents.
Ju Ling said: "I said, it turned out to be Brother Yuan's child."
Ju Ling's face also became gentle, she walked to her mother, sat down on the couch, looked at Geng Shu, and persuaded: "Mother, let him rest first, I am tired all the way. ."
Geng Shu didn't answer, and let Empress Dowager Jiang hold his hand.
"We must find his younger brother," Empress Dowager Jiang said to Juicong again, "This is what we owe the Geng family, but luckily, God does not forgive me, so that I can still see the children of the Geng family in my lifetime... Geng Shu is here, he My brother's whereabouts are unknown, how can I feel at ease?"
Juicong wiped his face, sighed heavily, and replied, "I have already sent someone."
Geng Shu said, "I'll go by myself, I know where it is."
Jue Ling and the Empress Dowager Jiang immediately said, "No way!"
Geng Shu broke free from Empress Dowager Jiang's hand and took a half step back.
"I'll go for you," Ju Ling said, "I've seen him, do you believe me?"
When Jue Ling arrived in Luoyang that day, she met both Geng Shu and Jiang Heng. Jue Ling remembered the half-old boy sitting behind Ji Xun very clearly. After all, the Grand Historian who can make the Son of Heaven turn his back in the future is definitely not an ordinary child.
At that time, Geng Shu also refused Ji Xun's proposal without hesitation, just going around, he finally came to Luoyan.
Ju Cong said to Ju Ling, "Since you have seen Heng'er, you should go there in person. No matter what the situation is, you have to send a letter back."
Ju Ling took Geng Shu's hand and said, "So you can rest assured? You know how many enemies we had back then. You must not rush back to the Central Plains now."
Geng Shu lowered his head, his eyes were flushed, his heart was naturally clear, it was rare for the Ju family to achieve this step. It has been ten months since he went back to Lingshan to find Jiang Heng by himself. It was like finding a needle in a haystack.
"Take him down," said Juicong, "change his clothes. Starting today, Geng Shu is my son. In a few days, I will announce to the world and worship the ancestors of the Juic family."
"Well," Queen Mother Jiang wiped away tears and said slowly, "It should be like this, it should be like this."
One night after the assassination at Yubi Pass, Geng Shu still feels like he is in a dream until now.
In the past, his choice for his father Geng Yuan, all his grief, stemmed from the death of his parents. His father died for the country and his mother died for love. Geng Yuan gave everything for Yong Guo, which caused him to lose his parents. In the days when Xun Dong lived, Geng Shu received too much gnashing hatred from Jiang Zhao. Jiang Zhao was like a ghost who stayed up all night. He hated his mother Nie Qi, the royal family of Yong Kingdom, and Geng Yuan. , hated almost all the people in the world.
So when Ji Xun suggested that he and Jiang Heng should leave with the visiting Ju Ling, Geng Shu refused him without thinking. But after arriving at Luoyan, he found that it was not what he thought.
He vaguely felt the kindness from "home", and everything was taken for granted. Empress Dowager Jiang and Ju Ling, they did not hesitate, and they accepted him almost immediately, as if he should be here, always like this.
If I knew today, why was it in the first place
Geng Shu was taken to the side hall and immersed in hot water. He remembered the avalanche caused by his own hands, the difference of the previous thought, and the dazed Jiang Heng buried by the blizzard.
"Don't come - go!"
At the last moment, Jiang Heng's thin body still dragged a wooden cart with difficulty, in the direction of the avalanche, he tried to escape, turned his head and opened his mouth, with a look of fear on his face, but in order to make Geng Shu give up and stop chasing, And determined to run towards death.
Geng Shu soaked in the bath and could not help crying intermittently.
He leaned against the edge of the pool, his heart filled with despair.
But at this moment, a figure appeared in the fog.
"His Royal Highness." The guard outside whispered.
"Is he inside?" the boy's voice said, "I'll go in and have a look, it won't get in the way."
Geng Shu turned his head immediately, and then, the figure in the mist became clear, and a young man with a handsome face was standing by the pool.
"My Healing Game"
His brows, eyes and juice cong seem to be printed out of the same mold, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a high nose bridge, a light blue robe, and a jade sash hanging from his temples, a little taller than Jiang Heng, as if he was the same age as Geng Shu.
Geng Shu's chest was naked, he stopped the tears, and looked at him quietly.
The boy known as "His Royal Highness Taki" stood by the pool, staring at Geng Shu's scarred body. A guard outside followed quickly to the bathroom and whispered, "His Royal Highness."
The person who came was Juicong's eldest son and the crown prince of Yong State, Juicy Taki. I saw Crown Prince Taki waved his hand slightly and instructed, "Let's all go out."
Immediately afterwards, Geng Shu's eyes fell on the chest of Prince Taki.
There is a piece of jade that is exactly the same as that worn by Geng Shu, and its brilliance circulates. Divided into a jue, combined into a pendant.
Prince Taki picked up the jade on his chest and turned slightly towards Geng Shu. Geng Shu looked down at the other piece of jade on Chi|naked's chest.
"Brother," said Prince Taki, "you are here."
Geng Shu didn't answer, he turned his head and looked at the mist.
This sound suddenly brought him back to the memory of the timid "brother" who was a child in front of the corridor in Xundong City many years ago.
"I'm not your brother." Geng Shu said indifferently, "If you shout like that again, I'll kill you."
Prince Taki didn't answer, and approached Geng Shu, who said again, "Get out of here!"
Prince Taki smiled sadly, the footsteps were getting further away, but Geng Shu never looked back.