Great Sui Guoshi

"Yang Xuangan, I pay my respects to Master Guoshi."

Having known Duke Yue for many years, it was the first time he saw his family members. After Lu Liangsheng helped him up with his own hands, he handed him a salute, and naturally invited him to sit down together.

"The eldest son is coming back late, haven't you eaten yet?"

"Yes, yes, eldest son, eat quickly!"

The Fourth Scholar at the round table finally had something to say, and hurriedly called the maid to serve hot rice. Yang Xuangan hesitated for a moment, looked at his father, and the old man got up and sat down with a smile, "My son can speak when he has something to say. own people."

Ma Liu held a bowl of hot rice and put it down respectfully: "That's right, the eldest son has something to say, but it's okay to say it, he's not an outsider."

As soon as the words fell, Yang Su and Yang Xuangan looked at each other in unison. The four of them were stunned for a moment, then retreated, closed the hall door and waited outside.

"Duke Yue, I might as well go out too." Seeing that the father and son had something to say, Lu Liangsheng opened his mouth in a timely manner, and the old man waved his hand: "The national teacher is out, the old man's family affairs, just listen to it as you like."

The hall was quiet, and there was no one else around. The old man was talking, and handed the newly added bowls and chopsticks to his son. After some concerned questions, he asked about Yechu's arrest of the elopement concubine.

"Mysterious feeling, have you gained anything?"

Lu Liangsheng is actually not interested in these things, not to mention it is the family affairs of the Duke of Yue, but the room is so big that he can hear it no matter what. He said: "...the man has been captured, but he met a big bearded man on the way, chasing us relentlessly, if the horse hadn't run fast and entered the city first, he might have been rescued by the other party. "

"Didn't you meet that bastard Li Yaoshi?!" Yang Su frowned.

Holding the bowl and chopsticks, Yang Xuangan shook his head, "I didn't meet you." He looked at the flickering candles on the table, and thought for a moment, "Maybe it's because I haven't had time to meet Li Jing yet."

Big bearded man?Lu Liangsheng quietly listened to the conversation between the father and son. The eldest son of the Yang family in front of him had thick limbs and surging blood. His martial arts must have originated from the Duke of Yue. A first-class master is a person who cultivates the Tao.

"I know someone who can be said to be a big bearded man... and he is also jealous..."

Just as he was about to ask Yang Xuangan, who was talking to the old man over there, there were suddenly footsteps running over the eaves outside the door, and the four scholars with their sleeves tucked into their necks looked boredly at a servant running over in a panic. They went up to stop them, the servant didn't care so much, he pushed the short Zhao Tang to the side, and ran to slap on the door.

The tone was anxious: "Master, it's not good, a bearded man came to the door."

The father and son who were talking in the room looked at each other. Yang Xuangan got up and went to open the door. Behind him, Yang Su snorted and brushed the sleeves of his robe behind his back. top.

"Who dares to be presumptuous in the old man's mansion!"

When Lu Liangsheng walked out of the room, he felt the familiar aura, and couldn't help but smile on his face. Sure enough, as soon as the old man finished speaking, a loud voice resounded on the opposite side of the roof immersed in the night.

"Old man? Hahaha... I think it's an old dog. As a minister in the court, he doesn't restrain his own son and bullies men and women everywhere. If I didn't bump into him, I really can't tell. Among the acquaintances, there is such a nasty person as you!" ""

Yang Xuangan was stunned, and the old man beside him was also stunned for a moment. Hearing the word Lu Liangsheng, he instinctively turned his head to look at the scholar standing beside him.

"Master, do you know this person?"

"know."

When Lu Liangsheng heard this sound, how could he not know who it was? When he stepped forward with a smile, a figure leaped up to the roof and was immersed in the moonlight. When he saw the scholar walking into the light of the lantern, he was also stunned, carrying the wooden box With another leap, with the light click of the tiles, an old branch of an old tree was kicked down to the courtyard.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, why are you here?"

The figure carrying the wooden box strode over and walked to the area illuminated by the lights under the eaves, revealing Yan Chixia's face with a big beard.

Knowing Lu Liangsheng's character well, he suppressed his anger just now, "Fellow Daoist Lu, can you see the woman this man kidnapped?"

The person pointing at it was Yang Xuangan, who frowned and wanted to come forward to argue, but Lu Liangsheng stopped him, pulled Yan Chixia who was staring at him aside, and explained the whole story.

These days, when wives and concubines elope with others, it is justified for the man to put them wherever they are, and no one else can say anything if they are brought back.

"Is that so?"

Yan Chixia rubbed her beard, sighed, looked at the father and son opposite, turned around and was about to leave, Yang Su stepped forward and called him back, "Friend Yan, take a step, why not sit down and have a glass of wine."

As he spoke, he called the servant who reported the news just now.

"Go and release Hongfu, let her go away on her own."

"Yes, sir."

The servant bowed and left. Seeing that they were still stiff, Lu Liangsheng smiled and acted as a peacemaker, inviting Yan Chixia, Yang Su, and Yang Xuangan to come back and sit down.

"Everything has been said, don't take it to heart."

Yan Chixia has a free and easy temper, so it's okay to say that it's okay, she untied the wooden box behind her and put it at her feet, took the wine handed by the scholar, respected the old man opposite, and poured it into her mouth.

It means reconciliation.

Yang Su smiled, raised his wine glass and finished happily: "Speaking of which, I can't blame Fellow Daoist Yan, if my son Xuangan encounters such a thing, he will save others first."

"Hehehe..." Lu Liangsheng laughed along with him, and poured wine for the old man: "The man came back and let him go again, is Duke Yue willing?"

"Why don't you give up? It's her fate that she meets someone she admires, and this old man is the one who cares about fate the most."

Mentioning this, Yang Su and Lu Liangsheng looked at each other, and their chuckles suddenly turned into big laughs. They both remembered the scene when they met for the first time, and they had a fight outside the village.

Yan Chixia and Yang Xuangan looked at the old and the young laughing, feeling baffled, so they picked up the wine glasses and saluted each other, as if they didn't know each other.

Now that the matter was exposed, Yan Chixia was drinking with her again during the dinner. The atmosphere was hot, and there was a lot of laughter during the dinner.

Outside the door, the four people who were blowing cold wind squatted in a row under the eaves, covering their sleeves and listening to the lively sounds inside.

"...I heard that there was no Hongfu, so I let it go."

"The Duke of Yue is more magnanimous than us..."

Wang Feng turned his face back and glared at the three brothers behind him: "Wrong attention, why did we vote under the Duke of Yue? It was to find a family background for us, so that we could squeeze into the imperial court and serve the people of the world. A big deal."

However, no one paid any attention to him, and the three scholars gathered together, their faces almost getting together.

"I think... Xing'er is pretty good, I'll hook up sometime."

"Fart, let me tell you, Madam...'s maid is good-looking. She has big shoulders and a round waist. She can bear a son at first glance."

"Hmph, average beauty."

.........

The night was dark, and the four people who were talking excitedly yawned a few times. When they heard the creaking of the hall door, they quickly got up and stood up straight. They saw that there was almost everyone eating and drinking inside. Lu Liangsheng led the big bearded man out of the room.

The old man followed behind: "I'll see you off."

Passing over the four doormen outside the door and letting his son greet him, he and Lu Liangsheng walked in front, passing through the eaves, neither of them spoke much. When they were about to leave the courtyard, Yang Su stood at the door and suddenly spoke to the scholar who was about to leave.

"Before, you asked the old man how to escape unscathed in the future. In fact... I never thought about it."

After finishing speaking, he arched his hands, turned around and walked into the courtyard gate. Lu Liangsheng stood outside the mansion gate, looked at the slowly closed lacquered gate, and sighed, making the bearded man next to him look over.

In the deep and secluded long street, dogs barked occasionally. Lu Liangsheng looked at the gate over there, and turned away from the flames of lanterns hanging high under the eaves.

"Nothing, just lamenting the 'Tao' of an old man."

Walking through the quiet streets and alleys, he returned to Wanshou Temple, where he stood in a dark attic, and there were paper windows with warm yellow lights waiting for him.

Chapter 572 Morning, Toad, Scholar

The sun climbs up the majestic city wall and spreads out along the rows of houses, streets and alleys. The reeds by the Furong Pool are reflected in the sparkling water and sway gently. Amid the sound of cicadas in the morning, a toad with a short hexagram is wearing a straw hat and sits cross-legged. In the grass, I pecked my head bit by bit, dozed off with half-closed eyes of the toad, and suddenly moved the fishing rod with bi-fins, rounded my eyes suddenly, got up to pull, and scared away the dragonfly crawling on the straw hat.

The flapping wings brought the light body to the surface of the water, creating a circle of ripples, and Qi You folded a reed and shook it in his hand, reaching out to the young man holding the scroll.

wow~~

With the sound of a page being turned, Lu Liangsheng raised his hand and brushed away the reeds on the back of his neck. He focused his eyes and continued to read the content of the scholar. He asked about the worries in his heart last night, and he also knew Yang Su's thoughts. The emperor made a whetstone and read history books, but his end often did not end well.

At that time, maybe we can only think of a way at the end, maybe we can still help the elderly.

"Qiyou, if there is a very friendly person who wants to do a very difficult thing, or even lose his life, if it were you, what would you do?"

Lu Liangsheng turned his eyes away from the book, glanced at the master who was holding a fishing rod in the distance and dragging him vigorously, and his eyes finally fell on the woman in the black skirt who was playing with the reeds. Yang, pondered for a moment with 'um'.

"I'll just take him to play, forget everything after playing, won't it be fine?"

As soon as his eyebrows opened, a smile appeared on his face, he dropped the reed and ran to squat down next to the scholar, "Old demon, do you want to take me to play? Can you go without Hong Lian?"

"How much older do you know than Hong Lian, how do you talk like a child... Uh, I almost forgot, your soul has not fully recovered."

Lu Liangsheng looked at Qiyou who was squatting aside with his chin propped on his hands, hung down his book, and touched her head.

"After a while, I'll take you out to play, well, at least wait until I learn two supernatural powers."

He raised the "Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Supernatural Powers" left by Lu Yuan in his hand, and beside him, enjoying the gentle touch of Qiyou above his head, he nodded his head and gave a soft 'hmm'.

While one person and one demon were talking, there was a sudden "ouch" in the distance, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling into the water, Lu Liangsheng hurriedly closed his book and stood up, where the master was fishing, he could only see the taut fishing line on the green bamboo pole Pulled to swim around the lake.

And, a series of bubbles bubbled up.

"Master?!"

Lu Liangsheng walked over quickly holding the book, pinched out his finger and was about to perform the water diversion technique, when the lake suddenly broke open, and a black shadow lifted into the sky with a large splash of water, reflecting the morning sun, sparkling down.

Quack quack... quack...

Ducks screamed all around, flapping their wings and flying randomly on the water surface. Lu Liangsheng waved his robe to perform tricks to avoid the rain, and the water droplets falling from the mid-air fell to the ground along the top of the scholar's head.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, your master, you don't know how to swim, you just sank to the water mansion when you held a fish in your arms."

Daoist Toad, who was still holding a carp on the head of the old Jiao who rushed up to the lake, crawled to the shore in a hoarse voice, Lu Liangsheng reached out to take the master on his head and held it in the palm of his hand, looking at the mouth of the toad. Spraying water constantly.

"My master was transformed by a stone toad from the Old Mother Temple in Lishan Mountain. It is not a real toad. Once it falls into the water, it will naturally sink."

Lu Liangsheng explained, pointing his finger at Master Bai Huahua's belly and pushing it, the sound of gurgling water overflowed from Haadao's mouth, and then he gradually regained consciousness.

"So you don't know water?"

The long shadow with the upper body standing tall looked thoughtfully at the old toad who had woken up, white air was faintly wafting from the mouth and nose with its fangs bared.

"If I had known this secret back then, I wouldn't have been trampled on twice by him and hurt my demon bone. Alas~~ that's all, now there is no incense, and there are two huge rivers galloping. It's a blessing in disguise. report."

The thick and long figure said a few words, and slowly sank into the water. In an instant, there were only a few ripples left. Daoist Toad sat in the palm of his apprentice, shook the water stains on his head, and moved towards the surface of the water where the ripples were about to dissipate. With a bulging waist, he snorted heavily and sprayed out a stream of water stains.

"This old man is so majestic and majestic, he must be able to swim? Who has no weaknesses? When the old man returns to his peak, let me have two webs!"

Lu Liangsheng looked at the annoyed master, and thought that he had heard what Lao Jiao just said, and was about to speak to persuade him, when, far away, from the direction of Wanshouguan, there was a shout: "Master! Master Toad!" A woman in a plain white floral dress with fluttering sleeves floats faintly away from the reeds.

The embroidered shoes fell to the ground softly, stepping on the soft soil and weeds, Hong Lian carried the basket to the scholar, took the bamboo basket and uncovered the blue cloth on it, eight big white steamed buns were lined up inside, and a faint fragrance wafted out.

"Young Master, Master Toad, I made it with my own hands. Try it while it's hot."

Hong Lian quickly took out a piece of steamed bun and broke it into small pieces, and blew on the hot air. Taoist Toad quickly opened his mouth, and the broken steamed bun passed over his head and fed it into Lu Liangsheng's mouth.

"Is it fragrant?" Hong Lian pursed her lips, looking at the chewing scholar, her sweet cheeks showed a pair of shallow dimples, Lu Liangsheng smiled and nodded, the steamed buns in his mouth were as soft as cotton, and there was a faint fragrance, he stretched out his hand and He took the piece from the woman's hand and was about to put it in his mouth when two dry coughs came from the other hand, then he remembered Master and quickly passed the piece in his hand.

Taoist Toad bulged his eyes and turned his face away.

"Hmph, how could this old man eat this little ghost's gift... However, this old man is not an unreasonable monster. Since a good student is here, how can a master not accept it?"

As she spoke, she stretched out her webs to grab it, but she caught it completely, turned around quickly, and the piece of steamed bun was already in Xiyou's hand, she opened her mouth to Hong Lian, stretched out a few scarlet little 'tongues' and swung it outside. throw away.

"It was given by the old demon, not you."

He bit it into his mouth, bouncing and shaking his coiled bun, and ran to play with the old donkey.

"Qiyou is like this, don't be angry."

Lu Liangsheng comforted Hong Lian twice, took the basket from her, picked up two steamed buns and handed them over, Hong Lian pouted, but still took the steamed buns, the two walked to the river and sat down, watching the rippling lake surface softly Talking and laughing is like grinding ears together.

It was placed in a basket not far away, the blue cloth was shaken off, and Daoist Ha was lying on his back inside, his belly swollen, and he was gulping down the last steamed bun.

From the corner of the eye, through the gap in the bamboo basket, I looked at the men and women by the river, and shook my head.

"Children love each other, it's better to have a full meal, hiccup~~"

On the shore of the lake, Lu Liangsheng, who was chatting and joking with Hong Lian, was actually thinking about other things in his heart. The matter of the four kingdoms' national teachers wanting to fall into the prestige of the Sui Dynasty has passed, and what the Duke of Yue has to do is already clear. It is time to calm down , Stabilize the realm of supernatural powers, and learn one or two supernatural powers.

After breakfast, Lu Liangsheng took the empty basket and led Hong Lian back to Wanshou Temple. The guards around the gate stood up straight, and when they saw the national teacher coming back, their chests were even more raised.

When I changed the guard early this morning, I heard that the three kingdoms of Tuyuhun, Yiwu, and Turkic were not paying tribute sincerely. The person who heard the news from the palace even told the story of the fighting method vividly, as if he had seen it with his own eyes. You must know that the national teacher also showed the immortal method when he came on stage, and he never listened to it again. As I said, there was an uproar in the entire city of Chang'an.

"Have you heard that Tuyuhun Imperial Master has a waist circumference of eight feet and a body length of eight feet, that is a vicious..."

"Isn't this nonsense, who wouldn't be vicious when he looks like this?"

"...Listen to me, it's not too late for you to say it! You know, my friend's second uncle and his son's brother-in-law are working in the palace, so I can't see it straight. , there was a lot of wind, our national teacher raised his hand, and countless monkeys burst out..."

On the morning of the second day when the news came out, the news of the envoys from the four countries entering the city to pay tribute became more enthusiastic and quickly spread in the city. If you know the news first, tell your relatives, friends, and others to listen. When a group of people hear it for a while, let alone feel satisfied.

The sun rises above the clouds, southeast of the bustling city of Chang'an.

Lu Liangsheng carried the chair and walked out of the attic, put it under the shade of the trees, waved his sleeves sideways, and a short chair flew out and landed firmly in front of him.

Hoho!

ha~

hey ha!