Generals and Emperors

Gloomy, only a few blue candles flashed, wax tears kept flowing, gradually a piece of wax turned into a limp ball on the table, the table was covered with incense ash, and there was a huge statue in the center of the table A bunch of temple incense is inserted in the brass incense burner. Through the erratic blue smoke, there are rows of tablets made of ebony wood, engraved with distant names, and these names are all surnamed Cheng.

At the end of the day, the boy almost didn't recognize the word "Cheng".

"Do you know why my father asked you to kneel here overnight?" The adult man's voice seemed to come from thousands of miles away, full of emptiness.

"My child did something wrong..." The boy drooped his head, moaning weakly in a voice that was still full of milk.

"wrong."

Puzzled, the boy looked up at the man in the blue shirt who was speaking carefully. The man stood with his hands behind his back, leaving only a back view of the boy. Even so, the back view in the boy's eyes still looked tall and sacred, unattainable, and shrouded the boy in the shadow.

"The Cheng family is a prominent family of Dayun. It has been 260 or [-] years since the ancestor Cheng Gong entered Beijing as chancellor. Countless families of the same family have been sent away here. For "stars". En'er, what do you think we rely on?" The man in the blue shirt's voice was extremely penetrating, even though it was so calm, the boy's heart was still full of thoughts.

"We rely on talent, but also loyalty! It is righteousness!" The man said passionately without waiting for the boy to answer.

The boy clenched his palms and kowtowed three times to the ancestral hall.

"En'er, at any time, you have to be a real gentleman who lives up to the Cheng family." The man in the blue shirt turned his head, his face was so determined and awe-inspiring, engraved deep in the boy's memory.

Cheng En frowned, his eyes were sore, from the moment he learned of the rebellion between the husband and wife, he couldn't recall his father's resoluteness at that time, obviously not long ago he remembered it clearly, but at this moment, only In the ancestral hall, his father's face was blurred in the smoke of incense, and Cheng En's blood seemed to be completely drawn out of his body, like a walking corpse.

Du Yichao didn't realize it, and chattered endlessly about what he saw and heard: "The humble official was ordered to lurk in the Qin King's faction, but the humble official will always be under the command of the former empress! Of course, it is also under the command of the emperor! I was originally ordered to cut off Li You and Cheng Qian Ya's head, but two days ago, the emperor issued an urgent call to let the humble official not kill Cheng Qianya, alas! If I killed Cheng Qianya, how could I, Du Yichao, be reduced to fleeing overnight? Master Ya, this old fox is more difficult to deal with than Li You..."

Xu Songzhi hurriedly stepped on Du Yichao's foot under the table, Du Yichao was in pain, ouch, following Xu Songzhi's gaze, Cheng En had already covered his eyes with his hands, faintly, there seemed to be a trace of wetness. Break through the fingers.

Du Yichao held back for more than ten years. He was expressing his heart, and for a moment he ignored that the chief general was the only son of the old fox he was talking about. You're not stupid, and you're helpless in this situation.

"Uh……"

Xu Songzhi secretly pinched him to prevent him from adding salt to the wound. Du Yichao was frustrated, found an excuse, and ran away in a hurry.

Du Yichao left, and Xu Songzhi wanted to say a few words of truth to enlighten his boss, but he heard Cheng En's always calm and gentle voice with trembling and forbearance, whispering two words: "Get out..."

On this day, General Zhenyuan locked himself in the tent, he didn't see anyone, he didn't eat or drink, and there was no movement.

When Xu Songzhi and Du Yichao were going to forcibly enter to check the situation, General Zhenyuan came out by himself, dressed in obscene clothes, black hair untied, looking like a haggard tree, first looked at the sky and said calmly: "The sun is out, the weather is so nice... ..."

Several cronies were stimulated by being the general of Zhenyuan again, and went crazy.

The young general suddenly raised his voice and ordered, "Listen to the orders, all soldiers, and we will do our best, even if the hot blood stains the entire yellow sand in the northwest! We will definitely take back the northwest! We will live up to it!" nation!"

Northwest City.

This war lasted for three days and three nights.

Later generations took Cheng En's victory for granted. Only the person involved knew that this was the most difficult battle in his life. His enemy was the person who brought him into this world, his family!If he makes a mistake, the ending will be a mess.

When the young General Zhenyuan walked into the temporary palace in Northwest City, his swords were covered with blood and dragged all over the ground. He looked at the middle-aged man in the dragon robe in the hall, and remained silent.

"Hahahahahaha." Cheng Qianya sat in the hall, laughing so that his unfit dragon robe shook, and he looked indifferent again: "I didn't expect my son to shatter this imperial dream with his own hands, En'er! You are not filial ... I ... I ..."

Cheng Qianya suddenly hugged her head and laughed maniacally, spitting: "I'm going to abolish your crown prince, come! Come! Take this traitor... Hahaha! Zhen!"

Cheng En lowered his eyes and couldn't bear to look any further. He whispered: "Father, I will send you and mother back to Xuzhou. You once said that that is the hometown of our Cheng family and the place where all glory begins. Don't worry... I I will protect you, if Brother Pei wants to kill you, I will abandon my official position and take you to the outside of the Great Wall."

"En'er... Ener..." Cheng Qianya crawled over, drooling, tilting her head and asked: "Why are you crying again? Did that bastard Li Mi bully you? Ener, come on, Don't cry, let's go eat something delicious..."

After all, Cheng En was not reduced to going beyond the Great Wall.

He took his parents to buy a house in Xuzhou, and took all the servants of the prime minister's mansion to Xuzhou to take care of his parents, but he found that he had donated all the rewards by himself, and now he is no longer a son, but wants to think for the Cheng family. From now on, based on the monthly salary he used to be able to make ends meet, he, Cheng En, turned out to be a pauper.

Cheng En is now the head of the family, and one of his father's two concubines died during the war, and the other couldn't bear the hardships of poverty and shrinkage, and ran away after years of embarrassment, leaving behind a daughter, who was Cheng En's fourth year. His concubine younger sister, he made the decision to hand her over to his mother, who was very happy.

this day.

He taught his younger sister to read and was the first to spread out the word "loyalty". Looking at her innocent face, Cheng En said softly: "Our Cheng family has been ministers of the Great Yun for generations, who is sitting on the dragon chair?" , we must abide by a word of loyalty for him."

The little girl was ignorant, clamoring to eat candied haws.

But the crazy Cheng Qianya suddenly babbled and cried, and Cheng's mother couldn't coax her well.

Cheng En went to squat down and patiently wiped his father's face with tears, snot, and saliva. He suddenly stopped crying and clamored for candied haws.

Cheng En had no choice but to take one big and one small and go to the street to buy candied haws.

"It's good." Mother Cheng washes her hands and makes soup from time to time. She used to do things that she didn't need to worry about, but now she occasionally does it herself. She cuts fruits and vegetables, and the corners of her eyes are covered with wrinkles from the wind and frost. Nagging: "Your father used to be a good man, but the first emperor was indecisive and innocent. There was a famine in Yunzhou 20 years ago. Your father was a disaster relief officer and urgently needed imperial support, but the first emperor lingered in the womb of a concubine. His interest was disturbed, but the first emperor was so childish that he didn't distribute the food for disaster relief. Your father was in Yunzhou and witnessed too many deaths, so he had something on his mind. He advocated the Confucian theory of Great Harmony, so he wanted to be the emperor himself and forge Great Harmony .”

Cheng En paused for a while while washing the vegetables. Looking through the screen window in the kitchen, the old and the young were chasing and laughing in the courtyard.

With the change and fall of the previous dynasty, some truths are unknown to everyone.