Great Sui Guoshi

5 Chapter Thirty

Wow~~~

The sound of rain overwhelmed the noise on the road, and the sudden autumn rain caused the passing businessmen to scream and pull the shafts of their cars to find a place to shelter from the rain.

"It's really unlucky, why is it raining heavily?"

"Cover the goods quickly...don't get wet!!"

"Come here, give me a hand—"

The crowd ran back and forth in the rain, pushing the shafts of their carts and cracking their whips. On the other road leading to Cangyu Mountain, under the lead-green rain curtain, a scholar in a green shirt and a white robe was holding an oil-paper umbrella and holding an old donkey in his hand. Come here, beside the rickety bookshelf, there is a Taoist priest following.

When passing by the caravan that was stuck in the wheel, the wooden wheel that was stuck in the mud ran over the pit with a thud, and several traders who were soaked all over their bodies wiped the rainwater from their faces and shouted: "Come out, hurry up!"

Someone also looked around, "Hey, where is the scholar who came over just now?"

"What scholar, you are dazzled, hurry up! Otherwise we will lose money this trip!"

The man did not give up, pushed the cart, and took another look. The foothills and forests between the sky and the earth were soaked in this water vapor and rain, and almost all travelers and traders from the three mountains and five mountains passed by in a hurry.

wow~~

The continuous rain curtain fell on the road, and the water-logged potholes made circles of ripples. Suddenly, a hoof stepped on it, splashing water and spraying it on the road.

The old donkey shook the bookshelf behind him, and the owner in front was walking slowly. Sun Yingxian, who was following beside him, looked back. Back, snorted.

"Bad guy."

"When the road encounters heavy rain and the goods are wet, it will lose money. It will be worthless for almost half a year."

When Lu Liangsheng was still in the village, he saw a lot of traders who came and went to the village to buy and sell fish, shrimp and grain, and he heard about some accidents that happened on the way. It would be almost half a year, or even a whole year, for nothing.

After finishing this sentence, I stopped talking about it and changed the topic, "Master, the matter is basically done. You said that in the future, all cultivators will..."

"Master, I don't want to talk."

In the shaky bookshelf, Taoist Toad was sitting on the quilt, outside the slightly open door, shaking the cigarette stick, "I'm just a little hungry, little Taoist priest, grab some frogs for the old man."

"What time is it... Hey, I'll go and see if I can catch it."

Sun Yingxian was bored staying in Chengyun Gate during this time, and now he didn't care if he had any frogs, like a horse that had lost its rein, he ran to the small ditch outside the road, rolled up his sleeves, and stretched his hand into the small hole beside the ditch , I didn't know what I caught, so I scoured it in the water and stuffed it into the cloth bag around my waist.

"We'll wait for you at the tea shed in front."

Lu Liangsheng's words carried the voice of the Dharma, as usual, and he called out to the Taoist in the distance. The latter raised his hand and waved it casually, and continued to walk along the small ditch while watching.

"Master, there is a tea shop over there, where can we go for a rest and drink some tea to quench our thirst."

Looking away, Lu Liangsheng said something to the bookshelf on the donkey's back, and walked along the official road holding an umbrella. In the midst of the steam, the rest shops on the side of the road were overcrowded, and the tea sheds were surrounded by the shafts of the carts, serving tea. The man pouring water was sweating profusely, and when he saw someone coming in, he hurriedly greeted: "Guest officer, you can find a seat by yourself, the younger one will come later."

"It's okay, I'll do it myself."

Tie the old donkey to the awning outside the tea shop, Lu Liangsheng put away the umbrella, shook off the water stains outside, went in and found a table with only one guest, and bowed his hands politely to the other party, that person should be walking alone The traveler leaned against the foot of the table with a knife, and when he saw the scholar clasping his hands, he nodded as a response, and continued to eat the cake with big mouthfuls, without any intention of talking to the scholar.

Over there, the clerk finished busying the two tables of guests who came first, and came over to report to Lu Liangsheng what was in the store, but there was nothing to choose from, such as vegetarian cakes, meat pies, and herbal tea.

"Five meat pies, two vegetarian cakes, three bowls of herbal tea, that's all."

Hearing the scholar's words, the guy was stunned for a moment, and hesitantly glanced at half of the pancakes and herbal tea on the table. Although others paid for them, he still couldn't help but speak.

"Guest officer, can you finish eating by yourself? Life is better now, so don't waste it."

"It's okay, someone will come later."

Sure enough, a Taoist priest walked over in the rain with a yellow cloth bag on his back, and was tied to the back of an old donkey on a wooden post. The bookshelf opened halfway with a creak.

"Little Taoist, where's the frog?"

"There is no frog, you take this and make do with it."

Sun Yingxian reached out and touched the yellow cloth bag a few times, opened the small door with a huge object and stuffed it in, clapped his hands and strode into the tea shop, sat on the stool next to Lu Liangsheng, raised his legs, and took it with him. I took a sip of herbal tea.

"There are also frogs at this time?"

"No, I just caught one..." The Taoist was holding a tea bowl, before he finished speaking, the small door of the bookshelf on the back of the old donkey outside opened with a bang, revealing a dark shadow It was thrown out directly, and what fell into the rain was a big toad crawling towards the middle of the road with its eyes bulging and panicking.

Bah!

Over there, the small door of the bookshelf closed by itself. The corner of Lu Liangsheng's mouth curled up, and he held back, and said in a low voice, "Did you find a toad for my master?"

"Except for the difference in appearance, it's similar to a frog, so let's make do."

When the Taoist put his mouth against the tea bowl and said something in a rather casual tone, there was a shout of "drive!" from the dirt road outside, and a knight ran wildly in the rain. On the steamy road, the black shadow crawling instantly Submerged under the horse's hooves, in the blink of an eye, the knight quickly passed the tea shop and went straight away.

In the tea shop, a group of guests yelled: "It rains so much, and you ride so fast, rushing to reincarnate!"

"That's right, what should I do if I hit someone to death?"

"Even if you can't kill people, it's not good to hit flowers and plants."

In the rush of words, the Taoist also stood up and took a look. When he saw the toad lying in the stagnant water, his intestines protruded, he shook his head and sat back down again.

"...I can't make do with it now."

"You..." Lu Liangsheng naturally saw it too, and glared at him: "If you make my master angry, you are finished."

While talking, the sound of horseshoes that had been in the past suddenly came from far and near, and ran back again. The knight in coir raincoat and bamboo hat turned over at the entrance of the tea shop, swept towards the tea shed, and finally stopped at Leaning on Lu Liangsheng at the table inside.

Suddenly he opened his mouth and shouted: "Fellow Daoist Lu!"

Over there, Lu Liangsheng put down the pancakes, turned his head, and saw the man striding in with a steamy body, and he took off his bamboo hat, revealing a face with gray beard and thick eyebrows.

It was Yang Su who came out of Chang'an.

"If I hadn't had some impression of your donkey, I would have almost missed it with my fellow Taoist!" Yang Su leaned on his bamboo hat, and sat across from the scholar with a big horse and golden knife, just in time to pick up the third bowl of herbal tea, which caused someone to look over there The guy opened and closed his mouth slightly, but he didn't even react when the guest called him.

"No more, no less, exactly three bowls of tea, does that young master know how to count?"

Chapter 531 There is no trace in the sky, there is no shade

It rained heavily, the water vapor filled the mountains and roads, and the wind mixed with raindrops blew into the noisy tea shed. Amidst the shouts of the shop guys, Lu Liangsheng put down half a pancake, wiped the crumbs from the corner of his mouth, looked at the opposite side, and drank tea Yang Su.

Because there was a swordsman next to him, he used secret language to address him.

"Duke Yue, did you come here specifically to find me?"

The sound of the Fa sound came into his ears, and Yang Su drank comfortably, and put the empty bowl on the table with a bang, then he cupped his hands at Lu Liangsheng, and said with the sound of Fa Yin, "Of course, in Chang'an City, there are so many things going on every day, how can there be any chances?" Free to hang out."

"Then why are you looking for me?"

Hearing this, Yang Su suddenly raised his hand and slapped the table, "Quickly, the national teacher hurried back to Chang'an with me, Your Majesty wants to see you."

On the side, the Taoist turned to look at the bookshelf quietly placed behind the old donkey, and said, "I will see you if you want to see the emperor, if you say anything, the legs of the people below will be broken."

With a sneer, he picked up the bowl and took a sip.

"If you want to tell me the truth, just go back slowly. Anyway, the sky is high and the road is far away, so the emperor should forgive me."

The green forest swordsman sitting on the other side of the table looked at the three people in front of him and didn't speak, just made eye contact, as if cutting a code word, and he knew something strange in it at a glance.

Subconsciously, he stretched out his hand to grasp the weapon placed at the foot of the table. The moment he grasped the handle, his hand seemed to be electrified, and bounced off the handle. He raised his face in horror, and looked to the side. The old man turned around, smiled at him, and continued to look at the scholar opposite.

Ouch... I'm afraid I may have encountered a monster.

He raised his weapon, got up and ran, stuffed a few pennies to the guy who bumped into him head-on, drenched in the continuous autumn rain outside, and went into the rain curtain in a blink of an eye.

Here, around the table, the three of them looked at each other silently. After the swordsman left, there was no one else around, so Yang Su spoke with a deep voice.

"If you go slowly, I'm afraid His Majesty won't be able to wait for the national teacher to go back."

Lu Liangsheng frowned, his originally relaxed expression sank.

"What happened to Your Majesty?"

"Two days ago, Your Majesty fainted suddenly in Renshou Palace..." Yang Su talked about what happened in the palace outside Chang'an City, and then he used magic to check the emperor's kidneys and six internal organs.

"Your Majesty tried too hard to pacify the Northern Qi Dynasty in the early years, and Prime Minister Ren worked so hard. Now he is suffering from overwork and illness. Counting the backlog of the demon star and the corpse demon, his body collapsed. He fell ill in Renshou Palace and dared not publicize it. Then let me look for fellow Taoists first, and go back to the palace first."

Sun Yingxian, who wanted to make some money at first, swallowed back the words and smacked his lips: "He is a good emperor."

Over there, after hearing these words, Lu Liangsheng tightened his hands under his sleeves and pursed his lips. After a while, he took out the meal money and put it on the table, took the remaining few pancakes, and said to the two: "Let's go, don't keep His Majesty waiting."

Then he walked out of the tea shed silently, untied the reins from the stake, cast a magic spell to avoid the rain, and led the old donkey up the road. The Taoist came out holding the oil-paper umbrella root, jumped on the donkey's back, and sat with the scholar. .

In the bookshelf, Taoist Toad yawned and pushed open the small door a little, "Liangsheng, what's the hurry, I haven't eaten yet for the teacher... What are you doing?!"

Faintly seeing the old donkey stretch out his hand to "crack" and bounce the lightning, he quickly closed the small door, and fumbled for the rope to tie it around his waist in a panic.

Outside the tea shop, Yang Su also put on a bamboo hat and strode out, got on his horse, reined in the horse's head and came to the side: "Then the Duke of the country and the teacher of the country..."

Just as he was raising his hand, before he could finish speaking, the old donkey neighed, raised its hooves, kicked off the muddy ground, and disappeared into the rain curtain with a swish.

"...Let's go back to Chang'an together."

Yang Su's last words came out, and the man and the donkey had gone to a distant place with a bluish-white flash of light. He hurriedly cast a spell, clamped the horse's belly, and galloped wildly.

wow wow wow...

The stagnant water splashed everywhere, and Lu Liangsheng lowered his donkey's back. The mountains, roads, and rain curtains in his field of vision were all stretching backward quickly. He shook the reins and shouted in a low voice: "Old donkey, hurry up!"

Son~~

The donkey's hooves wrapped in lightning gradually become thicker, and the limbs that are sprinting wildly are gradually lifted up. Dark scales appear on the short and stubby donkey's body as it runs, and the slender body is slender, with a row of mane stroking on the back of the neck It also turns into a lush lion's mane and spreads in the wind.

As the electric sparks flickered, the dragon's head raised its antlers and roared towards the rain curtain connecting the sky and the earth.

"Roar~~~"

With the sound of thunder and a long cry, the Lin Beast's figure directly turned into a blue-white electric light. In the trembling bookshelf, Taoist Toad was holding a purple gold gourd, dragging the rope around his waist, puffing up his cheeks angrily, Up and down, tossing left and right.

"I knew it was like this... croak... Liangsheng...slow down... croak..."

Sun Yingxian, who was close to the scholar's back, covered his head with one hand, and his bun was scattered in the wind blowing in front of him. Hearing the whimpering wind in his ears, he narrowed his eyes, and the words he yelled sounded like vaguely.

"Ahhh... Slow down, old Lu, I'm going to vomit."

Among the barren mountains and wild ridges, a lin beast blooming with electric light carried two people on their backs, hanging bookshelves, over mountains and ridges, through forests and across rivers, riding the dust.

......

The lead-green rain curtain gradually stops towards the west, and the white clouds swim lightly across the sky. The bright morning sun shines on the prosperous Chang'an. reflective.

At this time, in the Xuanzheng Hall, there were voices shouting disobediently.

"Father! Why did you choose the position of the crown prince?!"

Yang Yong struggled hysterically in the hands of the two eunuchs who came over, watched helplessly as the crown was taken off his head, and looked at Longting with a low growl.

"Father! Why, you tell my son why, so that my son will be convinced!"

The figure sitting upright on the Dragon Court slightly raised his hand to let the guards who were blocking Yang Yong back down. Yang Jian slowly opened his eyes, and glanced at the civil and military figures in the hall who lowered their heads and did not dare to show their breath, and then their eyes fell on On the son with disheveled hair.

"You want to know? Well, I'll tell you."

The voice paused for a moment, as if waiting for his strength to recover. After a while, Yang Jian supported the eunuch's arm and stood up slowly.

"If it is an ordinary official family, it would not be like this today, but your father is the emperor, and your son will become the emperor in the future. If you are an emperor, you can be interested in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but for the Sui country and the people. If you carry the burden, you can't be obsessed with these things..."

Yang Jian pursed his lips, walked up to the painted red fence, slammed the railing, and must have burst into anger: "...the hero and enlightened master who is wanted by thousands of people in the Kyushu of the world, is not a person who drinks all day long and writes, The emperor who indulges in poetry, I can’t let the people of the country follow you to get drunk and die together!!!”

The words were like a heavy hammer, and Yang Yong's chest felt tight when it hit him, he stumbled back a few steps, and fell unsteadily to the ground, staring blankly at his father who was towering like a mountain on the Dragon Court, his ears were full of buzzing There was a chaotic sound, and the emperor's mouth was vaguely moving, as if he was saying: "Abolish the crown prince and demote him to Fangling king!"

Soon, the guards came up, picked up the confused Yang Yong, and led him out of the hall.

In the Dragon Court, watching his son being taken down, Yang Jian stabilized his legs, looked at the silent courtiers, and waved his sleeves weakly.

"Retire too...no one is allowed to persuade you anymore, it's settled like this, I think Yang Guang is more suitable for the crown prince...you go down."

Repeatedly waving, Yang Jian endured the weakness, walked down the dragon court step by step, turned to the side hall, walked through the long veranda, and glanced at the sun in the sky. The old man almost had a headache and held his forehead He said in a low voice, "Go and call... Go and call King Jin."

His steps softened, and he fell directly into the arms of the eunuch next to him, scaring the nearby guards and the eunuchs, who followed closely behind, into panic, carrying the emperor and rushing towards the harem.

At the same time, the entire imperial city was under martial law.

Chapter 532 The Candle Slightly Shaking in Front of the Dragon's Bed

The bedroom hall is quiet, the reddish sunlight shines on the west window lattice, passes through the hollow carved flowers and casts on the bed curtain, Yang Jian smells the fragrance from the incense burner, and wakes up slowly.

"His Majesty....."