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    Kaiyuan, is this a year name?

    In history, emperors used many year names, and there were many repetitions, but Kaiyuan had only one year name, which was the year name used by Tang Xuanzong Li Longji when he was in power.

    He Shu hesitated: "Are you from the Tang Dynasty?"

    Guang Han nodded.

    "That year, Turkic civil strife, old and new factions fought each other for power, Dengli Khan was in the hands of his uncle, and was killed by Dengli's jealousy. His children fled overnight and lived in the Central Plains. Some became refugees, some Some were reduced to coolies, and some were bought by high-ranking families as slaves. Among them was a woman who was bought by the confidantes of the new Pinglu soldier and horse envoy at that time, and presented to the soldier and horse envoy. The horse made me happy and soon became a concubine."

    He Shu: "That beloved concubine is your mother?"

    The story Guanghan told was too mysterious, and the hints given to him were too obvious, so He Shu had to guess in this direction.

    "Yes, she is my biological mother."

    "So, your mother was Turkic at that time, and your father was Han?"

    He Shu guessed that if the story hadn't been related to his brother's life experience, he might have been more interested. After all, the person sitting in front of him was a person from the Tang Dynasty.

    "Bingmashi, I remember if it was the predecessor of Jiedushi? Tang Dynasty Jiedushi can be called a feudal town, and power is almost like a local government, so your biological father should not be an unknown person."

    "He is indeed not an unknown person, but he is not Han." Guang Han opened his lips and said slowly, "His name is An Lushan."

    He Shu was shocked by a thunderbolt from the blue sky.

    An Lushan, one of the protagonists of the Anshi Rebellion.

    Anyone who has received compulsory education knows that this person has a great reputation, but he was also one of the instigators of the beginning of the chaos in the Mid-Tang Dynasty, and occupied a considerable amount of space in that chaotic history.

    It can be said that without him, many things would not have happened later.

    "You...wrong!" He Shu was a little confused, "An Lushan is also a barbarian, but your appearance——"

    Although it also has a high nose and deep eyes, it is not reminiscent of ethnic minorities or foreign origin.

    Seeing him like this, Guanghan raised the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly.

    "My biological mother is a descendant of Turkic people and Han people. She looks more like a Central Plains person, and I also inherit this."

    "An Lushan did have two or three sons. I remember that they were all named in the history books. Which one are you?"

    "Neither."

    His mother was just a concubine at that time, that is, the kind without a status, and a Turkic exile.

    That year, An Lushan was on the rise, and he was a rising political star. He wished that even his hair could be dyed the color that the emperor liked. Not to mention that he was only greedy for the beauty of Guanghan's biological mother, even if he had been sincere, he would not Possibly give her an official title.

    With such a life experience, Guanghan's treatment can be imagined. He was not even allowed to be named An. Even the name Guanghan was the name of Guanghan Palace and Laurel when the wet nurse held him in his arms and looked at the moon in the summer night. The allusion became the pseudonym he used on the battlefield in the future.

    The world only knows about Guang Han, but not his amazing life experience.

    He grew up with the servants in the mansion day by day.

    As early as when he was three years old, his biological mother passed away due to fading love, and his biological father had no shortage of sons. The other party even had a vague memory of having such a son under his knees, but after all, he had grown up and was soon recognized It is impossible to get any special treatment if thrown into the army for training.

    He started as a small soldier, relying on his military exploits and the merits of real swords and guns on the battlefield, he was promoted step by step, from an unknown soldier to a fire chief headed by five people, a team of fifty people, and then up, one step at a time. Footprints, exchanging military merits for military positions, have never been half lucky.

    Almost no one knew his origin, and the only special treatment was that during the military drill, his biological father, as the coach of tens of thousands of people, walked past him, stopped, patted his shoulder, and straightened his collar for him.

    Such a little bit of attention has also become the envy of colleagues around Guanghan. Everyone says that he has made outstanding contributions, killed countless enemies on the battlefield, won the favor of the coach, and will be promoted in a short time.

    But when he arrived, he was still living in the army step by step, without surprises or surprises. Guanghan had long been used to it, and he was not ashamed of his background—no one can choose his background. Of course, he is not proud of it. This kind of life is like his innate destiny, which cannot be changed but accepted.

    Such a day is very far away for He Shu.

    A person living in modern society cannot imagine the life in the ancient military camp, let alone the ancient low-level military officers.

    The only consolation is that An Lushan is favored by the emperor, and the Pinglu army under his command has never been short of salary. Sometimes An Lushan regards it as a private army in order to buy people's hearts, and even pays for the soldiers himself Extra subsidies.

    But these preferential treatments are almost useless to Guanghan.

    Other soldiers would write letters and send them home to marry their parents, younger brothers and sisters when they saved money. Guanghan was alone with only one wet nurse alive. to the nursing mother.

    He later found out that as early as the second year after he joined the army, his wet nurse had passed away due to illness, and the money he sent went through twists and turns, and finally disappeared without a trace.

    Two years after Guanghan joined the army, his biological father rebelled.

    The Tang Dynasty, which has been in peace for many years, is like a gorgeously decorated beast, which looks threatening. Once the soldiers approach the city, it immediately shows its weak original shape. The court officials have never seen such a scene. The army drove straight from Fanyang and killed all the way to Chenliu County.

    Due to the rebellion, An Lushan's eldest son who had married the princess and settled in Chang'an was killed by the emperor. When the news spread here, An Lushan took revenge and ordered the massacre of the city. Not only did the surrendering officers kill each other, but even the people in the city did not let go. However, wherever the rebel army went, every household, men and women stayed behind, gold and silver treasures were looted, and blood gathered from the gully in front of the door to form a stream, winding on the entire bluestone street, covering the main street of the entire city. Dyed dark red.

    "You were among them?" He Shu couldn't help asking.

    Guanghan hummed.

    He was there.

    Seeing those honest and taciturn colleagues in the past exposed their human greed in front of the huge temptation, Guang Han made a move.

    He stopped two of them from reaching for a Little Tong's butcher's knife. The two were possessed by a killing god, and they wanted to push him away. Guang Han directly kicked them down, and pressed their heads into the bucket next to him to calm down.

    But he could stop this one, but he couldn't stop more tragedies.

    There were wailing sounds all over the city, and a woman in disheveled clothes escaped from nowhere, and was quickly dragged back by two or three soldiers with obscene smiles. Guanghan's ears were filled with such misery.

    Loyal to the emperor and serve the country, love the people like sons, these eight characters have nothing to do with Guanghan.

    He didn't even have the slightest awe of the Chang'an emperor whom he had never met before. He still didn't know what he would do in the future, and joining the army was his only choice right now.

    It's just that any individual, as long as he has some humanity, can't just sit back and watch such things.

    Guanghan is not good at words, and he does not intend to use fancy rhetoric to persuade these red-eyed rebels, he directly chose to stop killing by killing.

    Finding a group of rebels who had just slaughtered the whole family of the people and were attacking the family members of the family, Guanghan directly swept away with his spear and severely injured the five of them. Naturally, more rebels rushed to him upon hearing the news. Escorted to the coach.

    Maybe this person dared to attack his own people, and his behavior was so unique that even the coach couldn't help but want to see him.

    Then, he finally met his long-lost biological father.

    "Do you hate him?" He Shu asked.

    Guanghan shook his head slightly, thought for a while, and said: "Maybe it was a little bit at first, when I was young, seeing other people's rich clothes and rich food, after all, I also had envy and longing."

    After all, those brothers who came from the same father received a world of difference from him.

    "But in the future, there will be none." Guanghan paused, "There is no liking, and there is no hatred."

    "Why, because you gave up hope in him?"

    "Maybe, I didn't have any feelings for that person in the first place. As for myself, from a very early time, I knew that my whole life was no different from duckweed, and it didn't matter where it floated."

    For some reason, He Shu felt stuffy in his heart, and an indescribable feeling of suffocation was spreading.

    Just as he felt that he was not Qin Wuxian, he couldn't empathize with what happened to her, and he couldn't fully imagine what kind of feeling it was in Guanghan's situation at that time, but it didn't mean that he didn't feel uncomfortable.

    This uncomfortable feeling was even worse than when he heard Qin Yu's story.

    "No hope at all?"

    He took the trouble to ask again and again, not because he couldn't understand the other party's words, but as if asking a little bit of positive hope could make him feel a little better, even if these things happened in the very distant past.

    He Shu couldn't help getting up and sat down next to Guang Han. Han Tie still felt a cold touch through his clothes, but at this time he felt less embarrassed. What is the difference between cold and cold, just want the other party to feel the warmth of the world a little.

    "It's okay, brother, and me!"

    He reached out and patted Guang Han's shoulder, but he patted the hardness of the armor in his hand.

    Gee, still a little awkward.

    Guanghan raised the corners of his lips slightly, barely visible in the darkness.

    "There is still hope."

    That is to live.

    Ants are greedy for life, let alone people.

    He is no longer sad or happy, that is because he has been desolate since childhood, and his heart is like an old man, which does not mean that he does not even want to live.

    So Guang Han, who saw his biological father, was also very calm, just like he usually treats his comrades.

    His biological father also asked him the same question as He Shu.

    "do you hate me?"

    He looked at the other party, who sat on the steps and looked down at him with complicated eyes, but Guanghan had no intention of exploring.

    Guanghan also gave the same answer.

    "Don't hate."

    The man immediately said, "You are lying!"

    Seeing that Guanghan was silent, the man said again: "Your biological mother died early, and you have no place with me. You have been with the servants in the mansion since you were a child. I will keep you free, and I will not give you any preferential treatment, even you can read and write. You don't have a serious teacher like your brothers, but an old servant who teaches you. After you have learned the basics, you are thrown into the army to experience and suffer countless hardships. , I don't even know your background, you say you don't hate it?"

    "I don't have a big brother." Guang Han said lightly, looking directly at the other party, "I'm alone, with no worries, I have nothing, and I'm not afraid of losing anything. You never thought of coming to me, just because of Anqing Zong is dead, you lost a son, and you only think of me on a whim."

    Anger flashed across the man's face, but quickly disappeared.

    "From the moment you were born, they said that this child has a back bone in the back of his head, which may cause serious trouble in the future. I pity you, after all, you are my bloodline, and I didn't start. As expected, a Byakugan wolf was developed today."

    For the sake of ambition, a hero who can recognize a concubine much younger than himself as his mother, entertaining others with his own humor, saying that others are thankless wretch, this may be the funniest joke Guanghan has ever heard.

    But he didn't laugh, just shook his head.

    "You have reversed cause and effect."

    The other party sneered: "Forget it, you go."

    Guang Han said no more, turned around and left.

    His biological father didn't kill him, but he didn't give him any favors because of the meeting.

    Guang Han is still the middle-level officer with outstanding martial arts but inconspicuous military rank, but in the eyes of the people around him, he killed his comrades without getting any punishment for it, which is a kind of special treatment in itself.

    Since then, Guanghan has become an anomaly in the eyes of the people around him.

    During the massacre, everyone was burning, killing and looting, but he disappeared and sometimes appeared in a certain household to protect them from being killed by the rebels. Those who wanted to attack him could not beat him, and those who wanted to sue him The news that is often handed over is also lost in the sea, and soon everyone knows that this guy has a background that can't be provoked, and they are more reluctant to approach him.

    He is unwilling to kill good people and take advantage of them, refuse to loot gold and silver, and even more unwilling to attack the unarmed people, which is naturally incompatible.

    Finally, on a rainy night, the man named Guanghan disappeared from the Pinglu army.

    He left, quietly.

    The military order is like a mountain. Such deserters, who are captured at the moment, are to be flogged to death. Afterwards, a large number of people were indeed dispatched just to find Guanghan. For a middle- and lower-level officer, this is too much of a fuss. Is there anything else in it? Strange, it is unknown whether there is an order from the coach.

    But no one could find Guanghan, he seemed to have never appeared in this army, and disappeared without leaving a trace.

    The wheel of history is still moving slowly.

    This rebel army became the turning point of the dynasty from prosperity to decline. Chang'an, which was once "thousands of households smashing clothes", became a ruined city where "the palace was burned, and there is not one out of ten".

    The bones are thousands of miles away, and the vegetation is exhausted.

    The twilight returns to the west, and the green hills are still sad.

    "I guess, you definitely won't go to pick chrysanthemums and see Nanshan leisurely under the east fence, right?"

    He Shu made a joke, as if trying to ease the somewhat heavy atmosphere.

    Listening to people telling stories in the underworld is an unprecedented experience, and it is enough to show off for half a lifetime.

    But because this story happened to Guang Han, he didn't feel the slightest bit of staying out of it.

    A person's birth and reincarnation depends on luck.

    I would rather be a dog of peace than a person in a troubled world.

    Guanghan is the true portrayal of this sentence.

    With his ability, if he was in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, at least he would have to be a hero of separatism.

    But in the Tang Dynasty during the Anshi Rebellion, as the illegitimate son of An Lushan, where could he go? What can he do?

    The world is so big that there is nowhere to go.

    "I'm still going to join the army." Guang Han said.

    He learned the ability to kill the enemy, and can only live in the army.

    Guanghan went to the Shuofang army, under the command of the then servant Gu Huaien.

    Naturally, no one recommended him, and he still had to start as a soldier at the bottom.

    With his martial arts, he soon emerged in Shuo Fangjun's army, and by chance, Pugu Huaien took a fancy to him and placed him by his side as a personal guard.

    No one knew that he was originally a member of the rebel army, but he changed his body and became the side that suppressed the rebellion for the imperial court. Guanghan followed Pugu Wynn to fight on the battlefield. But every time he awarded a reward, he habitually gave away the credit and distributed it to others.

    Because Guanghan knows that his life experience is not visible, the higher he rises, the greater the possibility of exposure. It is safest to be unknown like this.

    Pugu Wynn admired him very much, and once wanted to marry his daughter to Guanghan.

    "Aren't you tempted?" He Shu joked.

    Guang Han shook his head: "That was a long time ago."

    Pugu Wynn admired Guanghan and taught him a lot of things, from martial arts to arranging troops. Later, he basically regarded him as his son. Although Guanghan never apprenticed, the two of them were always commensurate with superiors and subordinates. .

    But Guanghan knew that Pugu Wynn was special to him, and he might even have known his background. But the other party didn't say anything, and still treated him as before, and even persuaded Guang Han in private, telling him that his parents' background was not optional for him, only the future, he could work hard on his own.

    "Pugu Wynn, this name is so familiar..." He Shu lightly patted his knee and remembered, "Famous general of the Tang Dynasty, Guo Ziyi's subordinate, right! One of the heroes who quelled the Anshi Rebellion, it's a pity—"

    "Unfortunately, I rebelled later." Guang Han replied lightly.

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