Rumor has it that when Emperor Gao Yang, the famously epileptic emperor of Northern Qi, was born, the otherwise clear night sky suddenly flashed with lightning and thunder, and a huge bird covered the entire imperial city, obscuring the sky and avoiding the moon, as the people fled in terror.
The huge bird let out a humming and rumbling boom, and two purple rays of light shot out from its eyes, one toward the home of the Li family of Zhao County, a high-ranking scholarly clan, and the other toward the home of Gao Huan, a powerful nobleman of the dynasty.
At the time, the mistresses of both families were giving birth.
The midwife of Li's family said, "This girl will surely be very rich and become a queen in the future ......," so the Li family rewarded the midwife and then put up lanterns and colorful decorations.
The midwife of the Gao family said, "This boy, the future is the emperor's life!" So the Gao family immediately killed the wife.
It was fine to say that the woman of the Li family would be the empress in the future, but it was not fine to say that the man of the Gao family would be the emperor. Everyone knows that the royal family name is Yuan, not Gao.
2008-11-1 11:40 Reply
Forbidden Autumn Even Sorrow
76 fans
3 floors
1.
After the ceremony of enthronement was over, the new emperor Gao Yang climbed up to the tallest tower in the city naked, and he looked up to the sky, with his arms open and his eyes tightly closed, letting the scorching hot sunlight penetrate through the red eyelids. Fire drilled into his eyeballs, so that before his eyes was also a blood red, flowing red, that is the color of life.
He muttered, "Is being an emperor considered flying to the extreme? Really, can you fly?"
Below the tower, the ministers and the people knelt down in black, they hypocritically shouted "Your Majesty, please be careful", while muttering in the bottom of their hearts, "It's over, how can we let such a bird become the emperor?
Gao Yang gently swinging his arms, the sunlight unrestrained on his dark skin, every inch of his body, full of scars, even eyelids are not spared, those scars on his body, cheeks, hawkish nose, the corners of the mouth bloom, they pulled his originally handsome face, so that his face has become a hideous, which makes Gao Yang look like a hideous of a strange bird.
Takayo continued to swing his arms, and the sunlight plastered his tanned skin with dark red scars as if they were wet feathers. There was a cloud blown into the shape of a hen in the blue sky, and the hen-shaped cloud said, "There are still ten years to go, so work hard in these ten years."
Gao Yang cursed in a low voice, "You old hen!"
At this time, under the tower, a richly dressed young woman drenched in fragrant sweat commanded many guards, methodically laying a one-person-high mat under the tower, which was in turn framed with nets. This work, she did cleanly and without the slightest procrastination, so it was clear that this was not the first time she had done it.
Gao Yang, eyes still closed, held her flying position and fell headfirst.
No, Gao Yang frowned in mid-air, this wasn't the feeling of flying, it was falling, this was falling!
"You bird!" The young woman snapped, picking up Takayo on the mat and gently wiping the fresh wound on his forehead.
The young woman, was Empress Li Zu'e.
Later generations just wondered why Gao Yang, the father and brothers of Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi, was so ugly when all his brothers were handsome. They did not realize that Gao Yang's ugliness was due to the scars all over his body and face.
Those scars, he began to accumulate from the understanding, until 21 years old on the throne, has collected a full body and face. Those were the marks of shattered dreams.
Of course, this statement Gao Yang does not agree, he said, no, absolutely not.
2008-11-1 11:41 Reply
Forbidden Autumn Even Sorrow
76 fans
4 floors
2.
Gao Yang lying on the mat to slow down for a while, and slowly opened his eyes, his left eye, heavy pupil.
Ancient people say, heavy pupil, is the face of the saint, Yu Shun is heavy pupil. People with heavy pupils can see things that mortals can't see, such as ghosts and gods.
Gao Yang rubbed his eyes and then jumped down with a carp, his body in an athletic shape. He shrugged off the clothes handed to him by his guards and hit the road back to the palace, naked and with his head held high. He always felt that many things were superfluous in humans, such as clothes - birds don't wear clothes.
He felt that he was a bird, a beautiful bird, and he was willing to show his beautiful masculine body and his "feathers" to everyone, which was a kind of honor.
Queen Li Zu'e jogged a few steps, meekly followed him, and asked in a low voice: "Have you found it? The feeling of flying?"
Gao Yang shook his head, "Still falling, always falling."
"Oh ......" Li Zu'e looked even more disappointed than he was, she followed a few steps behind and wiped the sweat on his forehead with her sleeve, "Is there no gain at all?"
"Yes." Gao Yang stopped and looked at her gravely: "A cloud in the shape of an old hen said it would take another 10 years to fly."
Li Zu'e glanced at him flirtatiously, "Last time it was a cloud in the shape of an eagle, and this time it's in the shape of an old hen ......"
Gao Yang said meaningfully, "Ten years, in order to ten years later be able to really fly, let's work hard."
Ten years later, Gao Yang gave his country the name "Tianbao", which means "one, big, human, only, ten".
He made a five-year plan for himself. In these five years, he reused the Han Chinese, changed the law, so that the criminal law to simplify, strictly prohibit corruption, foreign troops, defeated the Khitan, defeated the Shanhu, cleaned up the Zoran, built the Great Wall of more than 900 miles, the reputation of the Great Wall, so that the area of the Northern Qi greatly increased.
In these five years, he flew again to the extreme, which was the true extreme, the extreme that he himself could no longer surpass. He was bent on living enough, living enough, to be worthy of the world, to be worthy of the people, he could leave ...... The leaving he spoke of was not dying, but flying away.
I remember at that time, he said to Li Zu'e, "I have no reason to shelve my dream of flying anymore, I have already lived the human life to the extreme, the rest of the time, I only live for the sake of the dream."
Many people are like this, having reached the peak in a certain field, having conquered it, they immediately lose interest, they begin to think about life and themselves, and they decide to spend the rest of their time living only for themselves.
So, the history of the kind of early inspirational late desultory corruption of the emperor, endless.
It's not their fault.
2008-11-1 11:41 Reply
Forbidden Autumn Even Sorrow
76 fans
5th floor
3.
The civil and military officers in the dynasty all knew the special hobby of the birdman emperor, and spent the whole day racking their brains to please him. Gao Yang's uncle, Gao Yue, specially hosted a banquet at his residence on this day, saying that he would have a mysterious gift to present to the emperor.
Between the seats, Gao Yue smiled and clapped his hands, the surrounding suddenly quiet, only to hear a melodious bird song resounded through the hall, the sound light and penetrating, with the flavor of the sky.
Following this, a young girl came out in a graceful manner, and it was from her mouth that the sound came out. Gao Yang was about to say a few words of appreciation, but he only saw that young girl turn around, and then, another young girl with the same appearance moved out with lotus steps.
Two beautiful girls, one roared and sang, and the other swam and danced. So the whole hall, followed their singing and dancing, sometimes flying into the blue sky, sometimes perched on the end of the tree, sometimes gliding on the water.
Gao Yang listened and watched in rapt attention, his eyes glittering with a discerning light from excitement, and he clenched his fists tightly and sighed, "That's right! This is it! This is it!"
Gao Yang is the kind of person who disregards the world in his bones, he was determined to set up his first wife, Li Zu'e, as the queen in spite of the world in the first place, and now he is also determined to take Xue's sisters as his consorts in spite of the world.
The Xue sisters are Gao Yue's mysterious gift.
Li Zu'e kindly scratches Gao Yang's nose: "It's even!"
The "getting even" refers to the fact that Li Zu'e and Gao Yang's brother were once "pleased with each other". Everyone said that Gao Yang, the emperor's crown was green, but Gao Yang did not mind. Men and women like each other, is a natural and natural thing, why use those old-fashioned morals to torture living people?
Gao Yang smiled faintly, "No one can replace your position in my heart, you know, I love you to the point of allowing you to love others."
"I know." Zoe Lee smiled, "I love you too, that's why you've fallen so many times and are still alive and standing. Your dream is to fly, my dream is to let you fly, your dream, is my dream."
Love for love's sake, it couldn't stop Gao Yang from being enamored with the Xue sisters, and he knew that he was merely enamored with the dream.
The Xue sisters had a light dance and a light singing voice. When that lightness of song and dance swept through the great hall, Gao Yang would always have the illusion of flying.
He built a huge cage, gleaming with gold. He kept the Xue sisters in the cage along with some warblers, for he feared that they would one day fly away, which was an absolute no-no for him. Only he himself knew how important the Xue sisters were.
The Xue sisters taught Gao Yang to drink, and they said that when they drank, they would be in the clouds, they would have their souls knocked out of their heads, they would feel like they weren't themselves, and then they would feel like everything was themselves.
So Gao Yang kept drinking, day after day, night after night. After drinking, the heavy pupil of his left eye would glow with a purple ghostly light, and then, Gao Yang got into the golden cage, and his hands groped the Xue sisters while he flew in song and dance.
Drinking the wine, Gao Yang felt that he was not Gao Yang, let alone the emperor, but a bird, a big, beautiful bird that soared freely in the sky.
Li Zu'e just looked at all this silently, not encouraging or discouraging, she couldn't care less about that now.
She knelt down in front of Empress Lou, and asked without humility, "Mother, if you don't want to see tragedy, give it back to us!"
Dowager Empress Lou slowly stood up, "It is not with me. Didn't I tell you that I hid it from the true descendants of the royal family."
Li Zu'e raised her head, her eyes full of tears, "True royalty? Isn't the real royal family in your eyes Gao Cheng? My son has long looked for them in him, they are not in him!"
Dowager Empress Lou sighed, turned and paced to the bedside, lay down, and said no more.
The Xue sisters were indeed a pair of special creatures, not only were they of national color, but they were also particularly devious, they knew what Gao Yang wanted.
Xue's sister laughed softly, wearing only a light veil on her body, jumped into the newly built large pool, lightly stuck into the bottom of the pool, and then floated up. The blue sky and white clouds were reflected in the translucent water, and the white veil surrounded her body, blending in with that blue sky and white clouds.
She said, "Emperor, come down, look, I'm flying."
Gao Yang froze and gulped in excitement, this was exactly the feeling he wanted. He hurriedly put on the black veil and pulled Xue's sister to leap into the water. Yes, this is the feeling of flying, that feeling of being detached from the ground and being held in mid-air by an inexplicable force, isn't it exactly like flying?
Li Zu'e stood silently in the corner, watching the three people lightly in the blue sky and white clouds in the reflection of the flying, the heart suddenly rose infinite decline, she always felt that Gao Yang did something wrong, but can not think of where it is wrong.
At night, Li Zu'e gently wiped the scars on his body. Those traces of broken dreams had been soaked and cracked slightly, and to the touch, there was a kind of vain warmth.
"Do you think beautiful feathers will grow out of these cracked scars?" Takayo asked faintly.
"I don't know. All I know is that you haven't been to the top of the tower in a long time, and the pigeons at the top of the tower, gave birth to more pigeons. These, you don't know." Zoe Li replied faintly.
"Can you count the scars on my body?"
"Maybe I can." So Zoe Lee actually counted them.
"No, you can't. Not even I can." Takayo stood up, stomped over to the bed, and looked up at the starry sky, a sparrow-shaped cloud that covered half the moon.
He sighed and continued, "We are not birds, nor are we birdmen, and true flight is never possible."
Zoe Li froze, "That's not what you used to say. In the past, you always said that you would one day, definitely grow beautiful wings and fly the azure sky."
"People will always grow up, won't they?" Gao Yang turned his head, the corners of his mouth turned up with that little bit of helplessness, "Besides, I've found another way to experience flying now."
"Are you sure that's flying?" Zoe Lee shuddered, "Are you sure that's flying?"
Gao Yang was speechless, he just looked at the cloud silently, there were not many days left until that decade, if he couldn't fly, it was good to pretend to fly.
"Your Majesty ...... "Li Zu'e bit her lips and hesitantly looked at Gao Yang's back, "Stay away from the Xue sisters appropriately ......I always feel like they have some kind of conspiracy ......"
Gao Yang coldly smiled and looked at Li Zu'e: "In the past, when the whole world thought I was crazy, only you were by my side, believing in me and supporting me. At that time, the mother empress also said that you must have a conspiracy."
"I ......" Li Zu'e was speechless.
"You know, I hate constraints! Law and order, morals, habits, all of it, all of it is preventing me from realizing my dream of flying, and now, even you've joined them?"
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6.
Gao Zhan said that flying is not just about having a pair of wings that you can flap, but also, more importantly, a pair of arms that you can swing your wings, and enough speed to make the wind audible in your ears.
Gao Zhan added that the first step to flying is not from the tip of the tower to the sky, but from the ground to the tip.
Li Zu'e had to look differently at the young uncle, who had grown from a boy wiping his nose into a teenager, or a man.
She could sense that time was running out; she could also sense that Gao Zhan's words were right. But when she told Gao Yang all this, Gao Yang just soaked in the unreal blue sky with boredom: "Where are the wings? Where are the wings?"
Zu'e Li crouched at the edge of the water and looked around, the Xue sisters were not there.
She then whispered, "Gao Yang, have you forgotten?"
"Forgot what?" Takayo raised his eyebrows.
"It seems that you really have forgotten. Did you really think that your dream of flying was just an aversion to propriety, just a yearning for freedom? Perhaps that's what you've always thought, but let me tell you, it's more than that! Your dream of flying is just out of instinct! Instinct you understand?"
"No." Gao Yang continued to soak in the water, lazily grabbing one of the gourds half-floating on the surface, and slammed a mouthful of spirits before handing it to her and saying, "You want some?"
Li Zu'e snatched the gourd and flung it far away, "We are not ordinary people, we are birds, a race that can fly. It's just that, for some reason, we got lost and lost. Each of us, has only one wing. In that wing, there is the memory of our race. The key to unlock the wing was hidden by your mother! I don't know why, I don't know what made you forget that. But I remember clearly that we must fly. That's why all along, I spared no effort to support you in your various flight experiments, do you understand?"
"Understood." These two words were not said by Gao Yang, but by the Xue sisters.
They raised their eyebrows and said in unison, "Got it. You're either a crazy bitch or a despicable and sinister person. If what you just said is false, it proves that you're crazy; if it's true, it only shows your insidiousness. Since you yourself want to fly so badly, yet for so many years, you have been hiding behind the scenes, making our Emperor work so hard. Are you just waiting for the Emperor to succeed in flying one day, so you can enjoy the success alone, if it fails, the one who is injured and suffers is only our dear Emperor. Look at our poor Emperor's body full of scars, and then look at your intact skin, isn't it all obvious!"
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