Great Sui Guoshi

"Little demon, right?!"

Li Suian and Qu Yuanfeng, who were standing on both sides, watched the tobacco rod being swished down in the hands of the toad, and they all shuddered, and turned to look at the master.

Lu Liangsheng laughed: "That's your master."

In the courtyard, even the fat monk Fajing was stunned, and the tea in the cup was spilled without noticing it.

Under the eaves, Lu Liangsheng smiled and walked to the opposite side of the stone table, sat down, and told the monk not to worry.

"That's fine, let him suffer a little bit first, and lower his body a little, so that he can be taught later."

He watched the scene with his eyes, but in his heart he wanted to go to the capital.

'The Sui army went south, what will happen to Min Changwen's father and daughter?And the mother and son in the palace...Chen Jing should be the emperor. '

In the line of sight, a yellow leaf passed by and fell into the teacup, causing a slight ripple.

.......

The wind blew the leaves yellow, and the Nanchen Palace was deserted and desolate. The emperor's funeral had just passed, and the news of the Sui army's southward march had already piled up in front of the little emperor's dragon case.

"Mom, I... what should I do?!"

The study room was brightly lit, and in the flickering light, Zhang Lihua was dressed in plain clothes. She had no makeup on her face and looked haggard.

"Your Majesty, you shouldn't be called mother anymore, you have to change it. You are the emperor now, you must learn to make up your own mind."

Behind the dragon case, Chen Jing gritted his teeth. After a long time, he raised his face.

"I want to meet Mr. Lu, please... ask him to come out of the mountain."

Chapter 2 Determination

"Bullshit!"

In the light, Zhang Lihua stood up abruptly. She looked at her son behind the long case for a moment, squeezed the silk handkerchief tightly with her fingertips, and her tone slowed down.

"Although he didn't personally kill the late emperor, it still has something to do with it. If His Majesty goes to find him, how should His Majesty speak to the courtiers below?"

"This….."

Chen Jing stared at the piles of approval documents for the Long case, "How did the father and Mr. Lu have enmity, does the mother know?"

"I don't know." Zhang Lihua over there hesitated for a moment, sat back on the chair, and looked away slightly.

"I don't know." Chen Jing took a breath, stood up with his hands on the table, and cast his eyes on his mother: "That day, I was still the prince living in the East Palace, and there was a demon entering the room at night. If it wasn't for the jade pendant that Mr. Lu gave me, I would have been gone long ago." Now, what kind of grievances do Royal Father have with Mr. Lu? I don't want to ask any more questions now, I just want to go to Qixia Mountain to invite him out."

Zhang Lihua looked at his immature son in embarrassment, and sighed: "But your father's death has always been related to him. Now that the Sui Dynasty is newly established in the north, the army is about to go south. Hundreds of officials talk."

"If I, Chen Chao, are gone, what kind of tongues are I afraid of?!"

The young emperor was also a little anxious, he slammed his hands on the table, and walked out of the dragon case: "Mother, it is because the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty have not yet come south to fight, that I want to do this."

On the bronze lamp post, the fire light swayed quietly in the voice of the people. Zhang Lihua and his son looked at each other for a moment, then turned their faces away.

"Go, go, mother will ask your uncle Chen Fu to take care of the situation in the capital, alas... If your father treats his courtiers so conscientiously... Forget it, mother will not talk, anyway, bring more when you travel Guard, go early and come back early."

The young emperor flicked his dragon sleeves left and right, bowed to his mother opposite, and made a family salute.

"Mother take care!"

"Jing'er is too."

After some exhortations, Zhang Lihua left accompanied by court ladies and eunuchs, and prepared for Emperor Zhang Luo's trip. Chen Jing returned to the dragon case, put down his mind, and stroked the broken Pisces jade pendant on the table.

"Mr. Lu..."

The next day, when the sky was still in a hazy state, the side gate of the imperial city was quietly opened, and a cavalry team of dozens of people rumbled across the palace roads and streets. Out of town.

"Drive!" "Drive!"

With a loud shout, dozens of guards in casual clothes escorted the young man in the middle and ran along the official road. They are all excellent martial arts in the palace. They know the road, which road to go to Hegu County and Fushui County , and prepared well before departure.

Just considering that the emperor was still young and his body couldn't stand the toss, the guards leading the team asked the team to stop and rest every fifty miles. Twice in a row, Chen Jing gritted his teeth and insisted on resting after eighty miles.

"Time is running out, I can't waste time on the road!"

In such words, a group of dozens of people and horses are not slow. They drive in the morning, rest for an hour at noon, continue in the afternoon, and wait until night falls before staying overnight in nearby villages and temples. He rushed to the border of Fushui County, only four or five miles away from the city.

In the afternoon, Chen Jing entered the county government office, changed his clothes, led the guards who knew the way, walked through the bustling long street, and rushed to Qixia Mountain with a whip.

Out of the county seat, in the undulating field of vision, the meandering mountains are golden in color, there are many vendors on the official road, horse-drawn carts and donkey carts come and go, and in the fields on both sides, when it is harvest season, clusters of millet and rice crops are grown. The hands of the people were placed on the ground, and the children were holding the mud on the ridge with bare feet and playing with a smile.

It is like a paradise, unaffected by the coming war.

Go straight along this road, cross a small river, and behind several raised mountains, the fields of Lujia Village, due to the water's aura irrigation, the crops mature early and are harvested in various barns in advance. Elders, either dig the soil in the fields, or go up the mountain with Lu Pan and the eight to hunt some game. Well, bats are not eaten.

Most of the women sew clothes at home, take care of the children, and sometimes shout at the blind old man who set up a stall on the side of the sun dam.

"Wang Banai, when do you think they will go down the mountain today? My mother is good at cooking."

The burly woman who bit off her needle and thread shouted at the little daughter-in-law who was shouting, "How long have you been away? Do you miss a man? When the light blows at night, it's not enough for you."

The little daughter-in-law blushed when she was told that, and Wang Banzhuang, who set up the stall, just sat there with a smile, and he liked to listen to the women in the village say some nasty things here.

"One day later, it will be the apprenticeship. Those three young men are so lucky. When the time comes, the old man will also join in, light the incense and follow along.....First, we will talk about the fate of the incense..."

Behind him, a dirt path goes in, and in the fenced courtyard, Lu Laoshi takes out his strong donkey and looks at the empty donkey shed. on a stake.

"Liangsheng, you are not afraid of the old donkey running away. If you run around the mountain, be careful not to be eaten by the wolves in the mountain."

There was no response in the room over there, and Li Jinhua, who was sitting under the eaves, was tying her hair for Mingyue, and raised her face to look at her husband.

"Liangsheng, the Taoist, and the fat monk went to the west mountain and were not at home. Hurry up and grind the beans, come back early, and don't wander around the donkey."

Lu Laoshi looked at the pink and tender little person in his old wife's arms and sighed.

... If only our Lu family had such a child.

Leading the donkey out of the small courtyard, there was a soft creak in the house behind him, Yu Wentuo glanced at the woman and Mingyue over there, touched his bruised face, gritted his teeth in pain and inhaled .

'He also raises ghosts...and worships monsters as his master. This Mr. Lu doesn't look like an expert, so hurry up and leave while they are away. '

On the way here before, I didn’t have such thoughts, but unfortunately, the fat monk watched him closely, and I couldn’t leave even if I wanted to. Now the opportunity is just right, I saw the woman over there concentrating on combing the children’s hair, and opened the door openly , came out.

He said in a low voice, "I'll go around the village to get some fresh air."

Over there, Li Jinhua wouldn't stop him either, but he still told him.

"Don't go up the mountain indiscriminately, there are many wild animals in the mountain."

"understood."

Yu Wentuo nodded in response, walked out of the courtyard gate, loosened his clenched fists, and couldn't help speeding up his feet, bypassing the crowded sun dam, climbing over the fence, as if breaking free from a cage, and quickly burrowed into the mountain forest, ready to Take the dirt road ahead and follow the road until you enter the city.

"What are you talking about, you can't even see my thoughts... Go back to the north first, I don't know how many members of my Northern Zhou royal family are still there." '

With such thoughts in mind, he pushed aside a bush, and the boy stopped his hands and feet, his expression froze.

Ahead, an old donkey was gnawing on a bush, shaking its long ears to look over.

call…..

On the donkey's head, a short figure clicked on the small cigarette stick, exhaled a puff of smoke, and slowly turned to Toad's face.

"You want to leave after offending the old man?"

Taoist Toad opened and closed his mouth, and the smile almost split to the back of his head.

Chapter 2 Offended the old man and still want to leave? !

stomping on...

The dim sun was hanging on the mountain top in the distance, on the dirt road leading to Lujia Village, the sound of rumbling horseshoes spread over, causing the vendors who were collecting fish and shrimp from Lujia Village to pull their carts to the side of the road and wait for them to pass.

"Drive!" "Almost there!"

"Give way to the caravan in front!"

In the sound of urging the horse to gallop, turning the curve ahead, the Fushui county government official, who led the way, reined in the reins, slowed down, pointed to the distant place with a wide view, the outline of a mountain village, and shouted from the side:

"Everyone, that's Lujia Village over there!"

"Shut up!"

The leader of the guards raised his hand to stop the rear horse team, looked around, and turned the horse's head towards him. The young man guarding in the middle arched his hands: "Young master, Lujiacun is just ahead, there is no danger around."

"Thank you for your hard work, but Lu's Village is Mr. Lu's hometown. Even if there was danger, it was once."

Chen Jing passed the guards, took a breath of the mountain air, and felt relaxed. The seven-day journey had already exhausted him, but fortunately, he finally arrived.

At this time, he smiled again complicatedly, watching the peasants walking home with hoes in the fields walking up the village road, holding the reins tightly.

Along the way, I prepared a lot of excuses in my heart, but when I got here, I couldn't help laughing, and because I haven't seen him for a few years, I was a little worried whether Mr. Lu would go with him.

'Three years... It would have been nice if my father hadn't humiliated Mr. Lu in the Golden Palace. '

He raised his head and sighed quite maturely. For a moment, when he waved his whip to call everyone to leave, he heard a few crackling sounds on the side of the mountain not far away, and flocks of frightened birds flew out of the forest. Chen Jing looked over, And the bluish-white electric light just dissipated in the forest.

Dozens of guards urged their horses to form a circle, put their hands on the weapons, and exclaimed: "What's going on?" Amidst the sound, there was a rustling in the forest, and then...a few bushes on the edge of the cliff rustled. The donkey broke open, and a donkey rushed out, dragging a long rope behind it, and a person was tied to one end of the rope.

In everyone's eyes, not far ahead, the old donkey brayed excitedly, and raised its hooves provocatively at dozens of war horses. On top of its head, there was a toad holding its long ears and waving its tobacco stick. He spread his hoofs and ran towards the village, and the bound boy bumped and was dragged on the ground and followed away.

"That was a donkey just now?" "Faster than our horses..."

"Wait, you didn't find the toad on the donkey's head?!" "No, there's another boy, won't he be dragged to death?"

"That toad might be a monster...Your Majesty...Let's not go, my lord."

The donkey had disappeared at the entrance of the village. Chen Jing looked away, waved his hands, and smiled at them, "It's okay. I've seen that toad before. It's Mr. Lu's pet. As for that boy...Mr. Lu probably isn't There must be a reason for that kind of cruel person."

With a flick of the whip, in the hoarseness of the voice-changing period, he yelled softly: "Let's go!"

……

On Qixia Mountain, the scholar who was sitting under the old Matsushita laughing and talking with the Taoist and the fat monk stopped the wine glass in his hand, and turned his face to look in the direction of the mountain village.

On the side, Sun Yingxian raised his cup and said 'hey' to him.

"What are you looking at?"

"It's okay, an acquaintance." Lu Liangsheng turned his face back, raised his wine glass to touch him, and gently brushed the sleeve of his empty hand outward.

On the dirt road outside the village in the distance, there seemed to be a gust of wind blowing. The team that was rushing to the entrance of the village neighed and stopped as if frightened, not daring to pass.

The group of people didn't care at first, beat the horses and forced to run for a while, and found that the village entrance, which was less than twenty feet away, was still far away.

"What's going on?!" "We were almost there just now, why do we seem to be in the same place again?"

"Hey, it couldn't be that Mr. Lu cast some kind of fairy magic?!"

Amid some uneasy mutterings, a peasant woman carrying a hoe led her baby to look at them, and walked into the village swaggeringly. Chen Jing and the head of the guards led the horses, bowed to the village, and paid respects. , thinking that this would allow them to enter, but the two of them had just taken a few steps, when they turned their heads, all the guards under their command had terrified expressions of seeing hell.

In their sight, the two people who walked out seemed to be held by an invisible hand, and then withdrew, but the two did not feel it at all.

Chen Jing stood on the spot for a while, thinking of something, let the guards get off their horses first, and sat down by the side of the road, taking it as a rest, even if he couldn't enter the village tonight, and couldn't see Mr. Lu, he would sleep in the open for a while.

"Mr. Lu may be testing me..."

A group of people also had a break, dismounted quickly, sat down on the dirt road outside the village, and ate dry food with cold water.

On the Qixia Mountain to the west of them, the fat monk with a teacup put down the tea with a smile on his fat face. Strange breath.

"Lu Dao, friend, it seems that he doesn't want to meet that person, an acquaintance."

"Reject in person, for fear of hurting his face, it's better to let him know the difficulty and retreat." Lu Liangsheng looked at the wine glass in his hand, brushed the needles off the phantom stone table, sighed, and frowned slightly.

"It's not about my previous relationship with his father, but because I want to rule the world for a long time, but if I help him, too many people will die... It doesn't matter whether the people in the north are good or the soldiers in the Chen Dynasty, they are all descendants of China." civil."

The Taoist drank all the wine in his glass, propped his chin and laughed: "If you hit me, you will die."

The empty glass was put down, and the wine was slowly refilled by itself. The scholar on the opposite side laughed: "At least fewer people will die. Besides, if the world changes as a Taoist like me, will other Taoists also get involved?"

Lu Liangsheng got up, walked to the edge of the cliff with his hands behind his back, and looked at the sea of ​​clouds in the setting sun.

"...If I take the lead in stirring up the change of kingship in the mortal world with Taoism, maybe things will get worse."

Fajing vertically stamped his head in the direction of no one: "My Buddha is merciful, Lu, fellow Taoist, you can see it thoroughly."

"This kind of thing is too much to think about, so let's not talk about it." Sun Yingxian was most afraid of such complicated things, waved his hands again and again, and shook his wine glass: "Let's talk about it, those three little guys tomorrow It's about apprenticeship."