Chapter 78: There is one less dogwood
"I saw him get up the red building, I saw him entertain guests, I saw his building collapse..."
His eyelids were heavy, as if he was floating in the void, and it was pitch black everywhere. The songs he had just heard today came to his ears. Life was like a play, and the past was like a shadow play, which appeared in Yang Guang's mind one by one.
That year, he was the second son of Yang Jian, Duke of the Great Zhou Sui Dynasty. He was of noble origin and his sister was the crown princess. Later, he became the queen, and the wealth of the Yang family became more and more stable.
If he followed the ordinary trajectory, Yang Guang would be named Duke because of his father's achievements. When he grew up, he would marry a girl of equal status and continue to live a life of luxury. He might be released as a governor, general manager, or an official in the court, and fight openly and secretly for power.
In a few years, there will be children of your own, and the children will grow up, starting a family and starting a business like themselves. After decades, I will be white and sitting in the backyard pavilion, enjoying my grandchildren.
However, after his brother-in-law, Emperor Tianyuan was assassinated, everything changed. Emperor Tianyuan's confidant Prince Pei Guo Duke Zheng Yi and Duke Huang Liu Fang, intended to take power, exclude the royal family, and hand over the power to his father.
The powerful people of Zhou still remembered Yuwen Hu, the powerful minister of the royal family who started killing the country back then, so no one wanted to have a second Yuwen Hu, so they were optimistic that the relatives of the royal family would squeeze out the royal family and take power.
In the end, his father, who was as powerful as a riding beast, took that step, ascended the throne and became emperor, leading the Yang family to the peak.
The young Yang Guang was named King of Jin and left Bingzhou. After years of ups and downs, the Sui Kingdom finally stabilized its territory. Just as everyone was waiting for the chaos in the Zhou Dynasty, a side army of opponents actually broke through Chang'an and killed one blow.
The country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, and relatives died one after another. The Zhou army invaded Chengdu and Yang Xiu was captured. Now only Yang Guang, who was in a panic, was left.
"I saw him get up the red building, I saw him entertain guests, I saw his building collapse..."
The singing came from his ears. It was not the song Yang Guang remembered on the stage, but a man humming not far away. The sound was a little familiar, but Yang Guang couldn't remember where he had heard it.
I...I...I'm not running on the street and trying to escape from the city?
His head hurts a little. Yang Guang couldn't remember what he had had at first, but his memory gradually recovered. He remembered that he met his sister who burned incense at Anning Temple in Xiyang City, and was chased and ran to a street and hiding.
As a result, those people had already seen his traces, but they were waiting outside without any hesitation, teasing him like a cat playing with a mouse.
He continued to run wildly, not far away, only to hear the storm behind his head, and then he was unconscious after being hit on the back of his head. He was not conscious until now. He gradually regained consciousness.
As footsteps sounded, someone approached. Yang Guang suddenly felt a sensation of spicy energy coming in through his nose, which made him sneeze several times immediately, and then opened his eyes.
He lay on the floor, a little cold, reached out and touched it, and showed the wooden floor underneath. He barely got up, but saw a person facing him slowly retreating, looking around, Yang Guang showed that he was in a hall.
The hall is narrow and long, and the interior is a little dim, as if the windows on both sides have been hanging down from curtains to block the light. In front of him, a beam of light fell from the dome, covering the other person.
The man was inside the light column. Against the dim background of the surrounding darkness, his body, which was not short, became taller and even somewhat mysterious. His face was blocked by the shadows above his head, making Yang Guang unable to see his appearance clearly.
"you..."
Yang Guang had just said a word, and suddenly a loud vocal music sounded in the hall. The vocal music was not played by any instrument known to Yang Guang, and its melody was not owned by the Central Plains at all, which made people feel creepy.
It was like a tiger about to show its fangs, or like a monster about to show its true form. Yang Guang was so scared that he was unable to continue speaking.
"Welcome, welcome, reunion after a long separation is really touching."
The man shrouded by the light column slapped his hands a few times, then spoke, his tone sounded very friendly, but Yang Guang still heard the meaning of tragedy. He stood up stubbornly and looked at the other party with his head raised: "You...Who are you?"
The creepy vocal music continued, but the tone dropped, allowing Yang Guang to hear the other party's answer clearly.
"It's really a noble man who forgets things. Do you still remember the heartbreaking song last year?"
"Heartless?" Yang Guang was stunned when he heard this, and then glared: "It's you!"
The man laughed: "I finally remembered it? It's really where we meet in life!"
Yang Guang clenched his fists and shouted without showing any weakness: "Dugu Lingyun, if you want to kill, kill me, what are you doing to pretend to be a god!"
"I...uh? Cough cough..."
Yuwen Wen was choked by his saliva, coughed a few times before he recovered. He thought it was all under control, but it turned out to be playing the piano against a cow.
Since it is an unforgettable "reunion", he wants to have a cool appearance and order people to play "appearance music" in the background in order to improve his appearance. As a result, the other party actually thought he was Dugu Lingyun.
As far as the name is concerned, is the qualities of "Dugu Qiubai" higher than the qualities of "Yuwen Qiubai"?
He clapped his hands again, the background music disappeared, and the indoor light instantly became stronger. Yang Guang's eyes adapted for a while. When he saw clearly that the person in front of him was Yuwen Wen, he couldn't help but blurted out:
"It's you!"
"It's me."
"Why are you here!"
Yuwen Wen laughed and said, "This sentence should be asked by me. Why are you in Xiyang City?"
Because there was someone else there, he did not point out the other party's identity, but he was too lazy to pay attention to the other party if he really wanted to report his own family.
When Yang Guang heard this, Yuwen Wen was so mean to induce: "How did you come to Xiyang? Who helped you come to Xiyang? What do you want to do when you come to Xiyang?"
"If you want to kill, kill!"
Yang Guang threw the jar and looked quite strong. Yuwen Wen was very moved, so he was thinking about "Yang Guang's twelve ways to die", just as he thought of it as an unexpected joy given by God today. No matter how big the idea was, he never thought that it would come true.
If a person has a back, a figure looks like Yang Guang, and a feeling like Yang Guang, then he must be Yang Guang.
This afternoon, Yuwen Wen took his children to watch military plays at the Bakou Port theater. When he left the scene, he accidentally caught a glimpse of someone's back among the audience. After a few glances, he realized that the other party seemed to be Yang Guang who had been running away for more than a year.
But he was not sure. After all, there were not people with similar figures in the world, so Yuwen Wen did not order people to come forward to investigate, but took his children home.
As a result, I watched a shadow puppetry in the theater in the afternoon. When I left the venue, I saw the person in the theater. It also looked very similar to Yang Guang at first glance. The successive coincidences made Yuwen Wen confused.
If it was Yang Guang, the other party actually came to Xiyang, it would be a sin to not eat such a fat sheep that was delivered to the door. However, the food should be given in particular. It should not alarm Yang Lihua, or even hide it from the other party for the rest of their life.
Yuwen Wen made a quick decision and asked Wu Ming, the accompanying Wangfu guard, to follow the man suspected of Yang Guang, to find an opportunity to catch him privately. He wanted to "inspecte" the goods himself. Now that he has proved that he is indeed the deity, he can move on to the next step.
Seeing that Yang Guang was silent, he asked, "Isn't you really going to say it?"
"Pooh!"
Yuwen Wen smiled, and Yang Guang's glaring eyes made him think of the other party's way of death.
"Although the Double Ninth Festival has not arrived, I suddenly became excited when I saw you alone here. Do you mind listening to a few words?"
Yang Guang did not answer, but just clenched his fists and stared at Yuwen Wen. He wanted to fight to the death, but the people around Yuwen Wen were also ready to go. He knew that he didn't know much martial arts and had no chance of winning.
"I don't have any objection, that's the case, I'm sorry." Yuwen Wen touched the beaded pistol on his waist and said, "I'm alone in a foreign land and miss my family more during the holidays."
"I know that my brothers climbed the heights, and there was one less person who could plant dogwood everywhere."
Yang Guang was stunned when he heard this, and then he was filled with mixed feelings: Three of the fifth brothers of the Yang family have died, and the fourth brother Yang Xiu can't live long, and he is probably...
Yuwen Wen inserted the pistol back to his waist. He changed his mind and did not intend to do it himself, but instead went to prison. He said to Jia Niu who was standing aside: "Be more careful and send him on the way."
The villain died because he talked too much. Of course, he was not a villain, but it was always bad if he delayed it for a long time. He wanted to get rid of the roots. Yang's five little Yang and Lao Yang, let's have a family bucket and put dogwood together under the nine springs!
Jia Niu moved forward with the knife. He didn't know what the person in front of him was, but what the king said was what he wanted. He was ready to give the other party a happy time. The beheading would splash blood all over the floor, so he planned to stab the heart with a knife, and he would hit it with one blow, so everyone would save trouble.
Yang Guang's face was pale and he retreated step by step. Unexpectedly, Yuwen Wen made such a decisive decision and actually killed him. He thought he would be imprisoned by the other party and would die after torture. As a result, his life was about to come to an abrupt end here.
At this moment, a vaguely clamored to speak outside the door. Yuwen Wen frowned at first, and then his face changed.
"Ah!"
Chapter completed!