Great Sui Guoshi

Lu Liangsheng looked at him with a smile on his face. From his previous acquaintance, he could see that the emperor followed his orders. He gradually let go of his uneasiness, and handed him a jade pendant as his farewell.

"I can trust Your Majesty. If something happens in the future, Your Majesty might as well send someone to look for me in Qixia Mountain with this token, so as to repay this kindness. Then, I will take my leave first."

The figure blurred, gradually blurred, and dissipated into a wisp of green smoke.

"Wait, sir! I want to invite you to come to my Great Sui Dynasty to serve as the national teacher..."

"Mr. Lu!"

The voice was still shouting, and at a certain moment, Yang Jian still held the pen in his hand, and suddenly sat up straight from the long desk, opened his eyes wide, and saw the warm yellow lights flickering slightly in his sight.

The few ministers in the hall below wobbled awake from the ground, not knowing what had happened, and quickly knelt down to apologize to the wide-eyed emperor.

Dream?

Yang Jian withdrew his gaze. What happened just now was so real that he couldn't tell the difference suddenly. He put his hand away from the brush, and there was a light 'click', touching something.

I saw a round jade lying there quietly. The emperor took it in his hand and looked at it under the candlelight.

"It really wasn't a dream... Taoism and immortality are really mysterious, and Lu Liangsheng's cultivation level is probably much higher than that of Yang Su."

The few ministers kneeling under the imperial steps looked at the emperor who was rubbing the round jade, and looked at each other, not knowing what happened. After a while, they heard the holy words from above.

"Immediately take my will and send it to the governor of Xinzhou, Shangzhu Kingdom, Qinghe Lord Yang Su..."

The words echoed in the palace. In the gazebo at the foot of the mountain in the distance, Lu Liangsheng opened his eyes and withdrew his magic power. In the bookshelf, the master was sleeping soundly under a blanket. He had already done two things in the north, and it was time to return to the south. .

Soon, the old donkey rang the bell, strode briskly with its master on its back, and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye.

Chapter 2 What I saw on the way

Going to Nanchen crossing the river, there are noisy voices, winding or straight official roads, vendors and pedestrians, the sound of cars and horses is impatient, and the potbellied merchants are bargaining with the boats crossing the river. , shouted and asked his son to pull up the net, the white fish scales reflected the dim yellow, clattering in the net.

"Dude, pay the bill!" "...More pancakes and a bowl of herbal tea!"

"I'm coming!"

The tea shed on the side of the road was full of people, and most of the tourists crossing the river stopped here to quench their thirst. The shop guy responded: "Here we come!" He passed a piece of firewood into the stove, patted the dust, took the teapot and brought the pancakes in a hurry past.

Ding ding ding... the bell came from outside. The guy was paying a table of guests. He turned his head and looked outside. A scholar in blue and white robes came over and tied the rein to the stake outside.

He quickly laughed and said hello: "Guest officer, you sit down first, and the younger one will come as soon as he settles the bill for this table."

Lu Liangsheng tightened the rope, patted the donkey's head, and said in a low voice:

"There are many people here, don't run around."

Then he sat down at the empty table and nodded to the waiter in the store: "You do your work first."

After a while, the waiter came over and took off the rag from his shoulders, wiped the tabletop, and asked, "Guest officer, what do you want? The tea in the shop is one penny. You can refill it after drinking it. There is no extra charge. In addition, there is a reconciliation." The pancakes with mutton mince are guaranteed to make you enjoy eating."

"Well, then a bowl of herbal tea and two mutton pancakes."

"Okay, wait a moment, guest officer."

The man put on the rag and turned around to go to the stove. Lu Liangsheng took a pair of chopsticks and put them in front of him. There was a ferry in front of him. Passengers were greeted and sent on the road, and he couldn't see the bleakness of the approaching war.

"Guest officer, your herbal tea and mutton pancakes are getting cold today, so you should eat pancakes while they are hot."

The clerk put the things ordered by the scholar on the table before leaving, but was called by Lu Liangsheng.

"Brother, wait a moment."

"What else is there, sir?"

Lu Liangsheng picked up the bowl, twitched his chin, signaled the crowded scene of pedestrians on the road outside, and asked him.

"I heard that there is going to be a war, why are there so many people here?"

During the war, it is said that there should be a scene of turmoil around, but this appearance is quite different from the description in the book.

"Hey.....It's the Southern Dynasty, so what does it have to do with us? Besides, the dynasty has changed, and everyone is also from the Sui Dynasty. Soldiers can't bully their own families, can they?"

The chatterbox was opened, and seeing that there were no customers entering the store at the moment, the clerk opened the bench and sat down on one side.

"According to the accent of the guest officer, it should be from the south of the river. To put it bluntly, what's so good about the south? There was an emperor who wrote poems and built buildings. The emperor was not like an emperor. He even sent his generals His wife got fucked, the emperor deserves to die! Now it’s good, I’ll change to a younger one... tsk tsk..."

The guy clicked his tongue a few times, shook his head and said: "How can you resist the tiger and wolf army of our Great Sui? Guest officer, I advise you not to go back. It is easy to find a woman with your appearance. It is not easy to stay here." Pretty good too."

On the opposite side, Lu Liangsheng took a sip of tea and swallowed the meatloaf. Seeing the enthusiasm of this guy, he smiled.

"Looking at it this way, you guys like the new emperor very much,"

"Hey, look at what the guest officer said, who doesn't like the new one."

The guy looked around and no one was paying attention, and wiped the table lightly a few times with a rag.

"Your Majesty today is much better than the previous emperor. What's more, the enthronement will grant amnesty to the world. My brother-in-law was arrested for drinking and fighting with people on the street. He was still thinking about how much money he would have to pay to get him out. It's a good time, my mother-in-law burns incense and kowtows to His Majesty every day these days..."

squeak…..

"Dude, the stove is boiling!"

At a table near the stove, a customer yelled, and the shop guy who wanted to say more counted and put on a rag: "Guest officer, take it easy, I have to mix it with tea."

"you busy."

Lu Liangsheng replied politely, and glanced at the tea shed full of guests, as well as traveling merchants and travelers coming in from outside to have a rest and eat something, and when there were no seats, they squatted at the door with a bowl of herbal tea and pancakes, gnawing on it. Drink, chat and joke with your companions, and laugh heartily when you talk about interesting places.

'Yang Jian seems to be a wise gentleman. '

When I saw the other party that day and night, when I left, I actually heard the sentence asking him to be the national teacher of the Sui Dynasty. Unfortunately, Lu Liangsheng was a little scrupulous about Chen Chao's teasing. It would be ridiculous to be suspected of being called a "juggler" at that time.

'Forget it, forget it, cultivate my way well and teach those three apprentices. '

Thinking of this, Lu Liangsheng shook his head and smiled, and drank the tea.

After greeting the guests, the clerk wanted to chat with the kind scholar, but when he turned his head, there was no one on the seat, only a few copper coins were left on the table.

"This scholar is really strange...how could he disappear in the blink of an eye."

……

The scholar who was remembered, led the old donkey along the official road for less than half a mile south, stepped on the ferry, and sailed to the river. The bow of the boat was unstable, but the vision was excellent. At the bottom, it seems to see the water village with flags fluttering in the distance.

"The guest officer at the bow, come down quickly after seeing enough, the bow of the boat is bumpy, be careful of falling into the water."

The boatman is most afraid of carrying this kind of literati and elegant guests. When he is in a mood, he will stand at the bow of the boat, but he has never seen poems and fus, and he has produced eternal articles.

"It's not that the old man is scaring you. Last time there were four guys, dressed as scholars like guest officials. The four insisted on crowding into the bow of the boat to recite poems, but a wave hit and all four of them fell into the water. Fortunately, the old man And the dogs are good at water, so we fished them up!"

At the stern, the young man paddling also nodded in agreement.

"It's true what my father said, but speaking of it, those four are regular customers, and we spent time with them on a rainy day before, and my father and I even met a fairy that day."

Lu Liangsheng didn't make it difficult for the father and son of the boatman, so he got off the bow and stayed beside the old donkey, listening to their chattering, talking about crossing the river that rainy night, and the other three or four boat passengers were also quiet. Staying aside, just treat it as a pastime.

"You don't know, that fairy is also like that scholar, leading an old donkey. That night, there was lightning and thunder..."

When it comes to the crab roe on the pole, the boat has also reached the other side.

Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey to leave the boat and left. The son of the boatman who was still talking was suddenly pulled by his father. Seeing that the other passengers had disembarked, the old boatman dug out an incense stick from somewhere and lit it.

"Father, what are you doing? Light something nice and nice."

"Did you notice the scholar leading the donkey just now?"

The boatman lit the incense burner, raised it above his head, and bowed respectfully to the shore three times. When he inserted it into the gap between the planks of the boat, he opened his mouth to say the following sentence.

"...Does that scholar look like the one I met that night?!"

When the boatman mentioned this, the young man immediately opened his eyes wide and slapped his thigh.

"It's no wonder that as soon as I got on the boat, I felt that I couldn't finish my energy. It turned out that the fairy was on our boat again."

"You come to say goodbye too, and leave quickly after you say goodbye, the South Bank is going to be very uneventful soon."

After some urging, the boatman saw that his son had finished worshiping, he pushed the boat back to the river, and headed back to the ferry where he had come.

The sky gradually darkened.

Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey to look at the sky, there were not many stars and moons in autumn, and in the dark night, there were still a few houses around with lights.

"At this time, it is estimated that other houses will not let strangers stay overnight."

Go up the foot of the mountain and walk along the mountain path for a while, in the dark forest in front of you, there is a dilapidated small temple standing.

"Master, Hong Lian, let's make do here tonight."

Walking into the temple, there are not many traces of dilapidation. The god statue in the middle has fierce fangs, holds an iron fork, and steps on a big green snake. It must be a mountain god. The incense burner in front has incense paper ashes. More than ten families often come to clean and worship.

"Excuse me, Qixia Mountain Lu Liangsheng is staying here for a night."

When staying in a temple to see the ceremony, regardless of whether the mountain god has acquired divine consciousness or not, what should be respectful is still to be respectful, and politeness should not be forgotten.

He took the old donkey to the side, and the bookshelf flew out of nowhere to the ground. Taoist Toad pushed open the small door, came out yawning, stretched his webs by the fire to keep warm.

"Hurry up and cook, I'm hungry."

Chapter 2 Treatment of the Old Toad

Wow--

The night is deep, the mountain wind howls in the forest, the rustling treetops caress the sound, the old crow stands on the branch and screams, staring at the small temple that is only bright.

The warm yellow light of the fire shines from the temple gate. On the burning bonfire, a small pot is boiling. There is no shadow of the red pity, with long sleeves flicking, twisting its waist and humming a little song. The old donkey crawls under the wall , applauded to her uh-hum-hum.

Lu Liangsheng broke up the remaining mutton biscuits, sprinkled them into the porridge, and looked at Taoist Toad warming up.

"Master, why don't you like to talk recently?"

Sitting by the fire, the toad stretched out its flippers to keep warm, rolled its eyes and snorted.

"I finally remembered that my teacher is still there."

"I was thinking about the war along the way, so I didn't pay much attention." Lu Liangsheng stirred the pot, mixed the dry biscuits and gruel evenly, and scooped up a little to taste.

Over there, the figure humming a ditty glanced charmingly, stepped on the ground with her toes, swayed over, and squatted down.

"Didn't your son say that you don't care about the change of dynasty?"

Toad glared at his apprentice, "He's just a bad guy."

After speaking, he rubbed his fins, got up and opened the compartment, took out a slightly thick floral dress from the small box, put it on, and sat back down again.

Lu Liangsheng put the wooden spoon back, and said with a smile: "Always consider one or two things, if the common people are not like the Yang Jian I saw, then the people of the Chen Dynasty will suffer...It is a great merit to make fewer people die, It's better than staring at the magic pill every day to snatch it and steal it? The cultivation base obtained in that way... can't be called the word of cultivating Taoism."

Taoist Toad, who had just sat down, was stunned.

"My mother... the old man relied on eating monsters and eating people to improve his cultivation, so he is today... is this calling me wrong? '

Out of the corner of the eye, he glanced at the apprentice over there, but he didn't look over. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, with his fins resting on his cross-legged knees, and he sat upright with his belly upright.

"It's exactly as Liang Sheng said, thinking about being a teacher who climbed out of the muddy mud from a toad without spiritual consciousness, and has come here step by step. Otherwise, how could we have cultivated as we are today? Only with a kind heart can there be good results , You have to become a great virtue, you just stand between the heaven and the earth without bending your waist, even if God sees you, you have to be courteous!!"

After finishing speaking, he nodded and sighed with a solemn expression.

Lu Liangsheng stirred the bottom of the pot and turned his head: "By the way, Master, why didn't you put any seasoning?"

"Humph!"

The fire swayed and shone on Taoist Toad's face. He snorted and narrowed his eyes: "What I said that day was just an excuse, it wasn't any condiment, I really thought it was delicious for my teacher..."

Just at that sentence: "...it is delicious for the teacher." After falling, Lu Liangsheng over there was busy scooping up a bowl of porridge and handed it to Hong Lian, and the second bowl was put in the bowl: "Master, the meal is ready, you Do you want to eat?"

Taoist Ha stopped his words, quickly stood up from the ground, stretched his fins and trotted over quickly.

"I want to eat! I want to eat! Croak!"

Holding the delicate red rooster bowl that belonged to him, he took a deep breath, his tongue hanging down his mouth, causing Lu Liangsheng and Hong Lian to look at each other and smile slightly.

"The appearance of Master Toad is always so funny."

Daoist Toad, who was sitting on the side with the bowl in his hand, stared at Toad: "What do you know, you little ghost, this old man treats food kindly!"

Just as the ghost and the toad were talking, Lu Liangsheng poured clean water to wash the pot, stopped his hands suddenly, and heard a faint voice in his ear, which sounded outside the temple.

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In the night wind in the wild forest, there are occasional wild foxes moaning.