Chapter 34 first quarter

Mountains will collapse, rivers will dry up, every star will fall, and every story will have an end.This story about Zhuge Liang is gradually coming to an end. The first person in the story who understands this and is at a loss for what to do about it because of fear, uneasiness, and pain is a woman named Linger.She is Zhuge Zhan's mother. In the eleventh year of Jianxing when she was twenty-five years old, Ling'er gave birth to a boy named "Huai" for Zhuge Liang.The child was born weak and sickly, not because of his healthy mother, but because of his father Zhuge Liang, whose health was not as good as before.

Less than half a year after Zhang Yi's death, Zhuge Liang began to cough up blood.At first, there were only some blood scum. He thought it was because he was too angry, so he didn't pay much attention, so he grabbed some cold medicine and took it. After three or four months, the cough became more and more severe, even to the point where he vomited blood.Zhuge Liang was a little panicked, and went to check his pulse seriously. The doctor was no better than him, so he couldn't explain why.Shunying suggested that Zhuge Liang go back to Longzhong and ask his father-in-law Huang Chengyan to show it to him. It is said that the old man learned some wonderful methods of rejuvenation from Hua Tuo.However, although Zhuge Liang has not raised troops for more than two years, he has never been idle, and even his days in Chengdu are numbered.He went to Huangsha to train the army, and supervised the soldiers to transport grain to Xiegu. Besides the wooden ox, he worked with Shunying to create the "flowing horse": this is another grain transport tool, which is not as heavy as the former, but can be fast. Increased by three times, the operation is also easier.Zhuge Liang, who was busy and full of desires, promised his wife "here" that he would take time to visit his father-in-law, but it was just lip service.And it is difficult for the old man who is in his eighties to travel thousands of miles to Shu. "Let's talk about it, it doesn't matter... just take a rest and rest." Zhuge Liang loved to use this kind of words to deal with his wife's urging, with a gentle and apologetic smile on his face.

"Ma'am, is there a way to prevent the prime minister from going out again?" Ling'er asked timidly for the first time holding Bai Ri's child.She just got the news that Zhuge Liang was going to go out again. "I can't help it." Shunying pointed to Zhuge Zhanmo's misspelled word "thorn", and told him to correct it, while shaking his head and said, "That's what he has to do." "Madam, think again, you must have a solution, right?" Ling'er refused to give up. Shunying was startled.Linger's red eye circles made her very sad, but Shunying knew very well what could and couldn't be done, what could be done and what couldn't be done.She took Linger's hand, pulled her to her side, stroked her back and said, "Silly boy."

"He is not someone else, but Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han." Shunying said. "Hasn't the military been suspended for more than two years?" Ling'er choked up, "That's as good as it is..." "Has it been more than two years?" Shunying was slightly startled, the stable days turned out to be as fast as tears. "I can't persuade you. It's been too long, Ling'er," she said, looking sadly at the young woman in front of her, "Kong Ming would never truce for the sake of truce, maybe I shouldn't have dragged you to be Zhuge Liang's wife and concubine .”

Behind that man, there is bound to be a crying woman. He is doomed not to be a competent husband or father. For example, how much he wanted to see his daughter Guo's smiling face, but he couldn't even marry her to the man she really liked.Fei Yi can neither abandon his poor wife just to marry the prime minister's daughter—obviously Zhuge Liang also forbids him to do that, nor can he make the prime minister's daughter under his original wife. I have no face to see the prime minister."At this time, the power and high position are important, and it has become a burden. Zhuge Guo cried several times and said that he would never be Zhuge Liang's daughter again.She shut the door of Mi Wei, the son-in-law her parents liked, and cut off her black hair with a few scissors. When she walked out, Zhuge Guo looked like a woman.

She really became a Taoist priest, left home, and lived in the "Chengyan Temple" near the reading platform. "It's too heavy, Guo'er can't bear it, just look at Zhan'er and Huai'er, don't be dragged down." Shunying said sadly.She teased Zhuge Huai, who was "babbling", and looked at Zhuge Zhan, who was concentrating on writing a post, thinking that maybe Zhuge Liang shouldn't have a wife and children. "Zhuge Kongming's children will always be honored, but once a disaster strikes, they will be the first to bear the brunt! It would be better to be born in an ordinary family." Shunying thought, she touched Zhan'er's head, and whispered: "You He will inherit his title of Marquis of Wuxiang! Are you..." She stared at her infant bosom, and suddenly said to Linger: "Let him become an ordinary person!"

Ling'er didn't understand what Shunying was talking about for a moment. "Huai'er is weak and should not be treated too harshly. Don't tell him that he is the son of the prime minister, at least don't emphasize this since he is sensible." Shunying suggested. This suggestion was approved by Zhuge Liang.Zhuge Liang was still magnificent when he was not coughing or sick.He hurriedly walked between the Eguan Bo belt and among the vast literature, Jiang Wan, Yang Yi, Fei Yi, and Dong Jue ran to follow, unfolding brocade tax, salt and iron, grain harvest, and water affairs one by one before his eyes.Repairing government buildings, post stations, bridges, and roads is Zhuge Liang's favorite thing to do. After three years - these are three years of harvest and fullness: when the sun should be shining, the sunshine is like gold; when it is raining, the rain is like Silver thread weaves; when it is time to snow, snowflakes cover the crops with a thick white blanket, and the newly opened fields expand and spread layer by layer like a green carpet; golden wheat in the warehouse overflows like water; in the arsenal There is not a single rusty gun tip, and the blades are shining and whistling; the treasury's ropes for stringing money are not enough, so millions of strings are tied up with straw; Chinese.Occasionally, when he had free time, Zhuge Liang would still go to sit on the blue ink stone outside the city, laughing and watching the girls flying the water droplets like silk.He would silently look at the towering reading platform on the right again, his eyes would move down slowly, and stop at the corner of the eaves of Chengyan Temple. He seemed to be able to hear the small copper bells jingling in the wind, and saw a copyist sitting under the copper bell. The girl is still wearing bright red clothes.

"Sure..." Every time Zhuge Liang thinks of his daughter, Zhuge Liang looks at Fei Yi with a sad look. "This time, Wen Wei will go with him." When preparing for the military, Zhuge Liang promoted Fei Yi to be the commander of the army, saying, "Wei Gong and Wen Chang have the same nature and cannot help each other. I heard that when they quarreled, Wen Wei The chief even drew a knife and threatened, scaring Wei Gong into tears. Liang couldn't get away, and couldn't persuade them one by one, so I'll leave this matter to Wen Wei." He cast his eyes on Fei Yi, "It can be done. okay?"

"Give it a try." Fei Yi pondered, and suddenly asked, "If one must be discarded, Prime Minister, who should be discarded?" "Then..." A sudden cough interrupted Zhuge Liang's answer.As the cough subsided, he raised his hand to wipe the blood on his lips, rubbed it around his index finger, smiled and said thoughtfully, "That's all. Liang can't think of any kind of future, and he can't give every answer. If There really is a day, let’s talk about it when the time comes. There are already too many things to do right now, let’s deal with the present first.”

In the blink of an eye, the twelfth year of Jianxing came with the snow. Nothing can stop Zhuge Liang's pace, he almost counted to this year with his fingers, and counted to this New Year's Day.He was wearing a black elk skin robe, with thick red and fine luoru flowers embroidered on the corners of the robe, the prime minister's seal and two pure white jade pendants hung on his waist, the feather fan scarf remained unchanged, and his temples were neat and neat. Cover up every wisp of frost.He climbed up to the altar step by step, leaving the boot marks one by one on the white snow.Civil officials and generals stood at the foot of the steps, Shunying pulled Zhuge Zhan, and Linger held Zhuge Huai in his arms and looked at him not far away.Love and sorrow beat Ling'er's heart at the same time, making her almost cry.Through the dim tears, she saw Zhuge Liang's straight back gradually approaching the platform, and there was a gentle and elegant young man waiting there, wearing a crown made of twelve strings of beautiful jade, his whole body was bright yellow like the sun.

This is not a ceremony for New Year's Day, but a sacrifice for an expedition. The emperor and the prime minister met on the altar.On the left side of the emperor, there are golden drums, silver gongs, colorful buildings, military helmets and shafts of chariots, while on the right side are three animals, five grains, white jade, axes and swords.Zhuge Liang bowed respectfully to Liu Chan, but this time Liu Chan did not stop him. He bent down to help the prime minister after three kowtows, turned around and took the sword from the gold plate, and held it to Zhuge Liang with both hands: "This is the Zhangwu sword given to you by the late emperor. I hope the prime minister will live up to the kindness of the late emperor." "I would like to obey the order." Zhuge Liang said. Liu Chan handed him the golden ax again and said, "I will give you the golden ax again for this expedition. The 100,000 army will be arbitrary at the moment, and the prime minister will rule over it." "I would like to obey the order." Zhuge Liang said. After receiving the axe and sword, Zhuge Liang saluted respectfully again. He hung Zhang Wujian around his waist, leaned the axe on his arm, opened the Zhu Wen, and recited loudly: "Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, Marquis of Wuxiang, , I would like to offer sacrifices to the chariot wood, bells, drums, buildings, and reins. The weapons for marching and fighting are used to punish unjust acts and eliminate harm for the people. Chen Liang would like to prepare precious white jade, Clean animal sacrifices, sweet grains and fine wine, come to worship the gods. I hope that the gods will help the virtuous people, abandon the treacherous culprits, brighten the fire virtues of the Han Dynasty, and destroy the ancestral halls of the usurpers. I bow down and bow down in fear." "Long live Long live Long live!" There were shouts from all over the steps down the mountain, and a faint smile appeared on Liu Chan's face. He stepped forward to hold Zhuge Liang's arm, and said like a filial and obedient child, "Father Xiang, take care." "I still have a form to hand over to His Majesty." Zhuge Liang said. "Oh?" Liu Chan stopped. "It's a secret form. I originally considered whether to take it out. Think about it...it's better to hand it to His Majesty first." Zhuge Liang said with a smile, "It will also avoid panic in the future." Liu Chan took the secret watch and put it in his sleeve.Feixue bounced back and emitted silvery white light. Looking up from a distance, the snow was falling more and more.Although it is inconvenient to go out at this time, we can reach the border and reach the shore of the Wei River in March.Liu Chan sighed lightly, feeling inexplicably sad in his heart.He silently grabbed the reins of the prime minister's car, which made the driver turn pale with fright, and quickly rolled off the shaft and knelt down by the roadside.Zhuge Liang lifted the curtain of the car and felt slightly uneasy when he saw the handsome figure of the young emperor. "Your Majesty..." He persuaded in a low voice.However, the emperor turned his face, gave him a bright smile, and said, "Send your father a ride, and sit still." Liu Chan grasped the rein with one hand, swung the whip with the other, and slapped the horse's butt hard!The two red BMWs gave a long cry of "wow", which made the snow on the treetops tremble like a dream, and rustle gently; white butterflies chasing each other.The cold wind was blowing and blowing on Liu Chan's face. He looked at the capped mountains in the distance, saw a few strands of green, withered yellow, danzhu, and blue emerging from the pale curtain, and imagined the ice chips on the narrow plank road farther away. , the golden grain storage in Xiegu Mansion, and then looking back at Chengdu: the graceful beauty in silver clothes stands quietly——Liu Chan exerted more force in his hands, and the horseshoes flew like flying, "tengteng" galloping, the emperor laughed loudly, his eyes Suddenly two lines of tears flowed down. "Father Xiang, I can't tell," Liu Chan whispered, "I don't know if I respect you, love you, hate you, or something else. I can't tell... Take care, Father Xiang." "Your Majesty!" The gust of wind scattered Zhuge Liang's shout, "Stop!" "Okay!" Liu Chan reined in the horses with all his strength and wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Father Xiang," he turned around and laughed, "Is my imperial skill good? If I am under Xiangfu's command, is he qualified to be a captain? Haha!" Zhuge Liang held his chest, suppressed his cough, and smiled at the young man. "There's no need to send it away, Your Majesty." He persuaded with a smile. "Listen to Xiangfu!" Liu Chan jumped down, took a few steps back and forth in the snow, clapped his hands and said, "I will often visit my wife and sister Guo, so don't worry about family matters." "Thank you, Your Majesty." "I will also listen to the opinions of the ministers about matters in the court. If there is any disagreement, I still have to rely on my father to decide." Liu Chan said again. "Your Majesty is actually very assertive." Zhuge Liang smiled and agreed. "Also..." Liu Chan thought about it, "Write more documents and tell me what Xiangfu is doing, okay? It doesn't matter whether it is a public letter or a private letter, I want to know what Xiangfu is doing sooner." The young man looked at Zhuge Liang with earnest eyes, and Zhuge Liang also showed a fatherly and relaxed expression towards the emperor, which was rare.He leaned forward, held onto the crossbar in front of the car, and answered Liu Chan, "Okay." As the chariots and horses moved forward, Liu Chan stood still and watched the army go away, leaving only a few lines of footprints carved into the white snow.He sighed, hehe his hands, wrapped his fur clothes tightly and turned around, and suddenly saw a young man in red standing on the side mountain road—this person, Liu Chan had seen several times, a few years ago, in the youth still had "" The time of the world's number one dream-occupier" reputation!Liu Chan remembers his slender, triumphant eyes and equally slender, bony fingers.How could he be here? "Hey, Zhao Zhi! Hey...!" Liu Chan greeted. Zhao Zhi was startled, and walked up to the emperor. "Are you still dreaming recently?" Liu Chan asked. The thin-clothed dreamer's lips were bruised, and he opened his mouth several times before saying, "I haven't dreamed up a dream, so I don't think it's accurate. However, I used "Book of Changes" to divinate something." "What's the matter?" Liu Chan asked curiously. "It's about the expedition, maybe it's because I want to count the prime minister." Zhao Zhi said. "What happened?" Liu Chan was slightly surprised. Zhao Zhi tapped his toes on the snow, drew a hexagram "Li", and said: "It's the ninth four of 'Li'. , the hexagram said: "Out of Tituoruo, Qi Qiruo." It means: appear suddenly like a rainbow, red like a burning flame, as fast as death, as sad as being discarded. People are sad, tears flow like It's raining heavily." Liu Chan was stunned. Zhao Zhi frowned, as if in a daze. There is only the sound of falling snow "swish". "It's wrong, it must be wrong!" Liu Chan wiped his face and reprimanded resolutely. "Yeah, I think so too, maybe I'm wrong. Divination methods like "Book of Changes" can only be accurate if the person being divined is around." Zhao Zhi said with a wry smile. "Then Zhao Zhi will go to the army, to Xiangfu's side!" Liu Chan said. "Your Majesty, Cao Min is just a commoner. The prime minister never gave orders, Cao Min," Zhao Zhi said emphatically, "you are not qualified to join the army." "I give you this qualification." Liu Chan untied the sachet embroidered with nine dragons and the white jade engraved with flying fish from his waist, and handed them to Zhao Zhi, "Take these to see the father, and say that I follow Zhao Zhi to the army, Be a... captain, join the army!" After finishing speaking, Liu Chan let go and turned around before Zhao could stabilize his token, and covered his face with his sleeves, as if he was fleeing, as if he was afraid of being caught by the raging fire, Rapid death, flooded with tears. "It's really sad, even if it's wrong, it's heartbreakingly sad." Liu Chan thought. He stumbled and ran back to the palace, back into the depths of the huge curtain.He walks through black and red, slides in from one side, and slides out from the other.He caressed the cold throne, listened to the quiet discussions of his ministers at the court meeting, and heard that a large flock of birds near Chengdu wanted to cross the river, but when they flew halfway, they couldn't fly anymore, they flapped their wings and fell into the river, crashing through the ice. In a short while, hundreds of birds were frozen to death, drowned in the water, their feathers were messy, and their white eyes were rolling.These news caused Liu Chan to lose his mind and have frequent nightmares for several months. He read and read the letters of the prime minister from Hanzhong, Jigu, Xiegu, and Wuzhangyuan. He recruited 100,000 soldiers, set up troops in February, and led the army out of Xiegukou with Wei Yan as the vanguard. After two months, he arrived in Weinan smoothly and set up camp in Wuzhangyuan.This big move three years later shocked the whole country of Cao Wei again. Cao Rui sent Sima Yi to command the three armies as usual to confront the Shu Han. "Sima Yi knew that he couldn't confront his ministers head-on, so he would still adopt the method of standing firm and not fighting. Although there are wooden oxen and flowing horses to transport grain this time, the minister believes that the grain cannot be supplied entirely by domestic supplies, so he ordered troops to be distributed on the south bank of the Weishui River to garrison fields. It is the law of long-term garrison." Zhuge Liang said in the letter, "I will design to lure Sima to fight in order to defeat the Wei army when I am away. I also implore your majesty to properly restrain yourself, love the people, cherish the country, and abide by the teachings of the former emperor. In the middle of the country, there is generosity. In the past, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty wanted to build a terrace. It was calculated that it would cost the resources of ten middle-level families. Emperor Wen gave up the idea of ​​building it. If your majesty can learn from the sages, the minister will have nothing to worry about .” —he always does! ——Always worrying like this, treating me like a child! ——What he loves is only the country, what he is loyal to is the country, not me! ——So always ask me for this, ask me for that! —Damn it, damn it! The flying bird, whose eyes were hard and white, flickered in front of Liu Chan's eyes. He threw Zhuge Liang's watch in agitation, picked up piles of bamboo slips, and slammed them on the ground and bed!The bamboo slips hurt a naked woman in the couch, and she yelled "Ouch".Liu Chan saw the woman's face by the faint moonlight. He only had twelve concubines. Dong Yun, the attendant, said that "twelve" was the number of concubines of the emperor in ancient times, so he was not allowed to accept one more!As for this woman, Liu Chan found that she was not the one-twelfth of that, she was a stranger, her bare shoulders were shining and full of luster, her chest was like rolling waves, trembling with a strange milky fragrance.Her long hair hangs down, her sleepy eyes are dreamy, a tender white hand sticks out from the brocade quilt, and shakes it. "Your Majesty." The woman called softly. "Who are you?" Liu Chan suddenly asked in fear. The woman asked in surprise, "Your Majesty? It wasn't you who summoned your concubines..." "Who are you?" Liu Chan took a step back and asked sharply. "Concubine, concubine," the woman's voice was as thin as a gnat, and Liu Chan struggled to hear what she said, "Concubine is the wife of Liu Yan, Marquis of Duxiang... Hu, Hu." She is actually a married woman, and her husband is actually Liu Yan, a clan nobleman and chariot general! Liu Chan "Gudu" swallowed bitterly. "The concubine entered the palace in the first month to congratulate the empress dowager. The empress dowager stayed with her concubine for a while, and unexpectedly bumped into your majesty, and your majesty said, said..." The woman began to cry. "Get out!" Liu Chan threw the bamboo slips with a "slap" and shouted angrily, "Get out!" He gradually remembered the embarrassing things he did with her, the wife of an adulterous minister, what a joke it is to spread the news!The woman slipped out of the palace like a white fish, her shoulders trembling.Liu Chan stood blankly in the empty palace, filled with indescribable anger, fear, disappointment and funny.He bent down slowly, picked up the memorials and classics and put them in order.On the top is the prime minister's secret watch that has not been opened yet.Liu Chan picked it up gently, and pulled it a few times before pulling away the ribbon tied outside.A few stars hit Suxuan, and there were ten characters written on the rice paper, shocking!These ten words are: "If the subject is unlucky, I will pay Jiang Wan for the rest."