Great Sui Guoshi

"Forget it, put a seal on yourself, if one day it becomes uncontrollable, at least there is Master to help."

Throwing away the thoughts along the way, pack up your mood and set foot on the official road back to Chang'an, using the art of shrinking the ground to make an inch, hurrying on the road, thousands of miles away, but passing through Huaiyi Prefecture, not too far away from the land of Gyeonggi Far away, passing through Luoyang all the way, turning to the west, passing through one after another pass, sometimes you can see mountain villages and towns.

In the afternoon when we arrived, Xiyun showed a burning red color, and we could see the ups and downs of Lishan Mountain in the direction of Chang'an. Lu Liangsheng looked at the time, took the old donkey and greeted the Taoist behind him, and passed Take a rest at the nearby tea stand and drink some tea to quench your thirst.

The evening glow dyes the top of the mountain red, and amidst the ominous crowing of old crows, there are still many travelers from three mountains and five mountains sitting in the tea shop to rest here, talking about what they have seen and heard from various places, and exchanging information with each other.

"...The price of cloth and silk in Hening Prefecture has risen, so I came here specially to buy some and sell them in the past. Is there any news from Chang'an recently?"

"It's the same as usual, but it's another piece of news, about the war in the northwest."

"tell me the story"

"Is it reliable?"

"Hey, I also heard it from a Hu businessman. As for whether it is true, who can say for sure, and I haven't seen it with my own eyes."

"Say it quickly, don't interrupt."

Seeing someone say hello, the vendors resting in the tea shop and the people in the green forest pricked up their ears, and there was a sudden silence. The man who mentioned the Northwest War cleared his throat, glanced at them, and said in a low voice:

"I heard that the first few battles were fought with prestige, but afterward, the more they fought, the more strenuous they became. We couldn't take down a single city, and many of us died."

6 Chapter Twenty

The autumn wind was blowing slowly, shaking the bare branches, scaring away the singing old crow.

From a roadside tea shop not far away, the phrase "I can't conquer a city, many soldiers of the Sui Dynasty died." 'At that time, there was an uproar.

Sitting at one of the tables, Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly, shook his head slightly at the Taoist who was about to speak, and took a sip from the tea bowl. The attire of a scholar and Taoist priest was not unusual in the eyes of people traveling north and south, drinking tea and resting The chatter continued loudly.

The merchant who started the conversation put down the tea bowl, picked it up with his big hand and waved it around.

"Oh, you don't believe it, and I don't believe it, but the Hu merchant in the Western Regions really said so. The road he often takes is to pass through Tuyuhun. Now there is a war there, the road is closed, and he turned back to Chang'an halfway. All the goods I bought were sold at a discount to me and sold in other states.”

I don't know if these words are true or not, but the tone does not seem to be false. Immediately, the vendors and green forest people who came and went here frown, and some of them are grumpy and slapped the table.

"I heard that the first few rounds were played beautifully, but why did it become like this later? It's really a waste of joy!"

The business travelers who came and went from south to north in this tea shop are not very knowledgeable, but they still have some knowledge, so they pulled the quack who slapped the table, "Brother, don't be so angry, victory and defeat often happen, what There are those who have been winning battles, Tuyuhun has managed the Northwest for hundreds of years after all, how can he be defeated so easily, calm down, my brother will have a drink with you."

"This is tea, what is there to drink! If you don't drink it, you will get angry when you hear it."

The quack took out the money for tea, slapped it on the table, grabbed the weapon and strode away angrily. Lu Liangsheng, who was sitting at the table by the door, watched the man go out and ride away, frowning without letting go, shaking the tea lightly Swing out circles of ripples.

"Yang Guang's personal conquest will more or less boost the morale of the generals in front, and there will be no shortage of food, fodder, weapons and supplies. Even if the veterans left by the former emperor Yang Jian are not used, the elite soldiers and strong generals of the Sui Dynasty will not be able to take down even a city. ? '

After resting for a while, he ate the rice cakes in his hand, paid for the meal, and left the tea shop with the Taoist. When they passed Lishan Mountain, they raised their sleeves and bowed to the mountain. golden hairs.

"Does the Great Sage want to meet your righteous sister?"

After a while, there was a subtle response from the monkey inside, just two simple words: "No see."

With such a bad temper, Lu Liangsheng patted his sleeves, waited for the Taoist to catch up, and hurried into the city before the sun set.

The sky is not yet dark, the shops on the street have hung up lanterns, and the hawkers who set up the stalls shouted loudly, enthusiastically inviting passers-by to come and taste their own tastes; Going to hook up the high-hanging red lanterns, the amused children laughed. The stalls passing by, smelling the aroma, found a seat and sat down, asking the hawker to bring a bowl to his daughter.I licked my mouth next to me and watched my daughter eat.

This scene is the same as in the past, probably the news of the unfavorable battle on the front line has not spread, or the vendor is bragging and lying, Lu Liangsheng took out a few coins and put them on the stove of the vendor, and motioned to the other party to watch over there The daughter's big man served a bowl, and then went elsewhere.

After strolling around for a while, seeing the dazzling array of calligraphy, paintings, porcelain, and silk on the street, I returned to Furong Pool comfortably.

Soon, the two men and a donkey walked to the mountain gate with the bookshelves on their backs. The soldiers on duty hurried up to greet them and saluted with fists clasped.

"Report to the national teacher, Grand Master Yuwen came to Wanshou Temple yesterday, and left before seeing the national teacher came back."

The Taoist followed at the side, moved closer, touched the tip of his beard and rolled his eyes, "That apprentice of yours may have come here to tell you about the Northwest War."

Lu Liangsheng hummed, and probably had the same guess in his heart. When he walked up the straight stone steps, there were bursts of immature children's voices, "Hoo! Ha!" Squatting out of a horse stance, following Lu Qing's movement in front of him, his face was flushed with sweat, and he swung his arms and punched out his fists.

"It's quite hardworking." The Taoist hugged the scholar with his arms in his arms. Lu Liangsheng smiled, took off the old donkey's rein, lifted the bookshelf, and let it go to play in the woods by itself.

"Old demon!!"

Falling off the bookshelf, before Lu Liangsheng could speak, a scent of fragrance wafted into his nostrils, and the woman in a black dress threw herself into her arms, wrapping her arms and legs around the scholar, not caring about the Taoist beside her, her high bun pressed against the The warm chest rubbed against the intimate one.

"Stop! Put your feet down!"

Suddenly a gust of wind blew up in the square, and the group of children who were blowing fists on the other side suddenly trembled with their arms folded. Hong Lian floated out from the bookshelf, and abruptly pulled Qiyou hanging on the scholar back to the ground. The air 'cracked' a few bounces and arced.

"Don't make a mess!"

Lu Liangsheng stretched out his hand and hit the old donkey, and the arcs between the two girls dissipated, and they ran into the woods whimpering and flicking their tongues.

The scholar sniffed his nose, "It smells so good, Xiyou, did you go to the street to buy rouge powder?"

Over there, Qi You frowned at Hong Lian, wrinkled her nostrils, raised her gauze-covered arm, and handed it to the scholar, "Old demon, smell it, isn't it very fragrant? I picked it myself and smelled it." It took me a long time to choose this one."

The Taoist approached, and Qiyou hurriedly hid his hand back to prevent him from smelling it. Old Sun raised his eyebrows and rubbed the mustache on his lips, "You definitely didn't choose it yourself."

Seeing Lu Liangsheng's suspicious gaze, Qiyou twisted her hands and toes on the ground behind her back, pouted her mouth, and said in a voice like a mosquito, "Yes... yes... that big black pig... ...he said he knew it best."

Everyone stood in front of the attic talking and laughing for a while. At the entrance of the main hall, Zhu Gangli came out wearing an apron and holding a long spoon. He knocked on the door a few times and shouted loudly: "Dinner is ready!"

On the square, a group of children who had stopped came running happily.

Over here, the bookshelf on the ground was shaking, the small door was kicked open, Taoist Toad held the bow tied on his head with a bandage, and held the small red rooster bowl with his flippers, and rushed out with his tongue flicking excitedly, and rushed to the hall. The door, and then, a burst of children's footsteps swept in...

Hong Lian, Qi You, a ghost, and a demon stared at each other, they all walked to the hall door, pushed and shoved a few times, neither would let anyone else, and slammed the door frame down, scaring the children standing by the door Shouting loudly, he ran to find Lu Pan.

In the hall, Zhu Erniang crawled quickly on all fours. The two hands of the person above scooped up the food, and the other two pairs of long legs hooked the edge of the bowl and handed it to the trembling children next to them. Taking advantage of the black pig at the door not paying attention, they scooped up some more.

Zhu Ganglian looked down at the Taoist who was not as tall as his belly, and glanced around with his expressionless round face, and quietly took out a yellowed book from his arms and stuffed it to him, who nodded solemnly , two fists, one big and one small, touched each other tacitly.

Lu Liangsheng picked up the master who was hanging his tongue on the ground, and watched the excitement in the attic.

"Although it's not as good as at home, it's still quite comfortable, isn't it Master?"

Daoist Toad, who was paralyzed on his apprentice's palm, lowered his eyes, looked at the figures coming and going in the room, and closed his eyes weakly.

His mother's... croak.

Chapter 621 A Strange Dream

As the night deepened, the bustling attic gradually became quieter. After the hazy moonlight faded into the clouds, the glowing red lanterns reflected the scholar's shadow dragging on the ground, and the cypress trees outside the building rustled their branches and leaves in the wind. Upstairs, feeling that the little people inside were sleeping soundly, and hearing the occasional murmur of sleep, he had a smile on his face, and returned to another attic with a lantern.

In the warm yellow room, Taoist Toad was wrapped in a small quilt, sleeping soundly, rubbing a flipper exposed outside, feeling the coolness and shrinking back.

Lu Liangsheng blew out the lantern, handed it to Hong Lian, who was singing, and took a book to read. Behind him, embroidered shoes kicked the hem of the skirt and walked softly. He flicked the wick, and the candle flame sprang up and became brighter. a little.

"My lord, when I came back today, I pretended to have something on my mind. If I want to say something, I am willing to listen." Hong Lian squatted down, and folded her delicate hands on the scholar's lap. The two had known each other since they were teenagers. There is nothing wrong with physical touch.

"There is something."

The scholar sitting at the desk turned a page, a little absent-minded, and couldn't read it anyway, simply closed the book and put it aside, turned his head to look at the sleeping Toad Taoist, and pondered for a moment.

"On the way back, the spirit of the demon star sucked from the Dragon King of Jinhu became restless with the other energy that was originally sealed in the body, but Master and the old man did not respond at all. Lu Yuan... Mochizuki Jinchan .....The demon star...I don't think it's a simple thing connected together."

Speaking of this, Lu Liangsheng paused for a moment, looked away from his worried pretty face, and cast his eyes on the master who was lying on the bed with his belly covered with quilts. It was for the demon star, and Taoist Toad wanted to find him a new master.

But...why is Taoist Hama and not others?

There is still a doubt, the two magic weapons in the unicorn cloak are both from the Qin Emperor's period... What secret does Lu Yuan have hidden, related to the demon star?

After thinking about it for a while, Lu Liangsheng shook the woman's hand, "It's okay, don't think too much about it, my national teacher is not so easy to fall down, and I have to wait until Hong Lian cultivates a physical body, and I will take you for a walk in Qixia Mountain , Travel all over Kyushu mountains and rivers together."

Hearing the scholar talking about what was in his heart, Hong Lian lowered her head shyly, hummed softly, walked to the picture scroll on the wall with one step and two turns, turned into green smoke and got in, and a faint voice came: "Young master, morning!" some rest."

Lu Liangsheng smiled, blew out the candle, took off the green shirt and the white robe inside, lay down on the couch, and fell asleep thinking about the previous guesses.

After a long time, the candle still had green smoke lingering, Hong Lian poked his head out, lightly floated down to the ground, walked to the bed, looked at the sleeping face, sat down on the edge of the bed worryingly pinching his fingers, exerted his mana, and gently touched his fingertips Press it on the scholar's head, before dawn, so that he can relax tomorrow.

.......

The night wind blows into the slightly open window lattice, and the green smoke curling up on the candlestick strokes, blows past the woman sitting on the edge of the bed, and falls onto Lu Liangsheng's face, between the soft fingertips kneading, under the closed eyelids, the eyes unconsciously turned up.

"Hahaha--"

Lu Liangsheng fell into a dream, faintly heroic laughter echoed in his ears, he suddenly gathered his consciousness, opened his eyes, the cold wind hit his face, looked around, there were strange peaks and mountains, lonely pine stands upright, and a sea of ​​clouds surrounded a mountain peak Surging, countless black flags wind down the mountain like a long dragon along the mountain road.

On that mountain peak, a figure held a jade seal and faced the sky.

"Mount Tai crowned the emperor... the first emperor?"

The moment Lu Liangsheng uttered these words softly, Lu Liangsheng's vision suddenly rotated. After he stabilized, he was in a spacious carriage with lights standing on it. A vague figure was sitting in front of the lights, holding a pen on the bamboo slips. what to write.

The other party seemed to know that Lu Liangsheng was standing in the corner, raised his face, and coughed twice.

"...The power of the emperor, you can't let it go. Even if I suffer three disasters and six calamities, and heaven and man fall five times, I will take it back! But my body can't bear it anymore..... It is my will..."

What was behind became hazy and hard to hear, Lu Liangsheng instinctively wanted to hear clearly, he took a step, and darkness swept over his vision, enveloping him.

"His Majesty the First Emperor!"

With a sudden cry, he opened his eyes suddenly, the golden sunlight shone into the room, and the sound of Hong Lian babbling and singing a ditty in the picture scroll was heard, the woman was walking dance steps, hooking her fingertips against Qi You, who was puffing up, There were children humming and drinking while exercising outside.

On the quiet desk, a small candle was burning, and a pot of tea was being boiled. Daoist Toad was sitting on a book, holding a small bowl in his fins, drinking steaming tea. Hearing the scholar's cry, he felt puzzled. Turn around.

"Liangsheng, are you calling me a teacher?"

The scholar on the bed rubbed his brows and sat up, put on his shoes and got down to the ground, smiling a little: "I had a weird dream, screaming randomly."

"Strange." Taoist Toad took a sip from the tea bowl and waved his flippers: "Hurry down and have breakfast, it's rare to see you get up so late for the first time."

Lu Liangsheng put on his clothes and sat on the edge of the bed, lost his mind for a while, then went to wash up, poured clean water on his face, recalled the dream he had last night, and stared at the undulating water in the copper basin with doubts, could it be that something happened at night? Thinking, dreaming at night?

...can be a second picture that I've never seen.

"Young master?" On the side, Hong Lian handed him a towel, Lu Liangsheng reached out to take it and wiped off the water stains rolling down his face, and went down to the attic with his brows tightly locked. Zhu Gangli had already changed his outfit and was ready to go out. Seeing the scholar coming down, he pointed to the kitchen.

"I'll keep a portion in the pot for you, eat it yourself. I'm going to help the cook at Chengtou Restaurant, and I'll be back at noon."

"Thank you."

Lu Liangsheng sent him to the door, and the Taoist at the square chased Lu Pan away, and put down a low table, teaching the group of children how to hold a pen, make a good posture, and how to draw a picture. Seeing the scholar standing under the eaves, he always raised He waved his hand to say hello, and continued to teach.

"This old grandson pushes and resists, but he teaches seriously."

After watching for a while, Lu Liangsheng went back to the building, brought out rice porridge and steamed buns from the kitchen, sat at a round table, chewed slowly, and thought about the strange dream of last night.

eccentric?

The scholar stopped chewing, raised his face slightly to look upstairs, and frowned, "I remember Master said before that he had a strange dream, could it be the same as mine?" '

"Master!"

Just when Lu Liangsheng was recalling the dream that Taoist Ha said before, Yu Wentuo came up from the mountain gate below quickly, and Mingyue's blushing face behind him tugged at the corner of his clothes, "We must behave, can we inform first?"

Thinking there was something urgent, the young man didn't bother to pay attention to the little man, he greeted the eight Lu Pan and Sun Yingxian over there, hurried over to the main hall, stood outside the door, and arched his hands.

"Yu Wentuo pays homage to Master!"

Lu Liangsheng put down the porridge bowl, raised his hand and asked him to come in and sit down next to him, "I heard from the soldiers guarding the mountain gate last night that you came to look for me, and you were so anxious this morning, not like your temper, what's wrong?"

Yu Wentuo poured himself a cup of tea and poured it down, and spoke up.

"Master, something has happened in the Northwest, which is not good for progress. His Majesty will suffer serious losses... I am a little worried about Junior Brother Yuanfeng. He is just an ordinary person now. If anything happens..."

The young man did not dare to say the following words.

Chapter 622 Fighting and Pulling the Valley

"...His Majesty personally led the army to push the land of Tuyuhun four thousand miles westward, and overthrew their capital city Fucheng. Murong Shun, who was trapped in Chang'an, whose father Murong Fuyun was Busabo Khan, was in a state of embarrassment. Fleeing, His Majesty took advantage of the victory to pursue, and wanted to open up the Southern Silk Road in one go. He ordered the four generals in the army to encircle Jinshan, Qilian, Pipa Gorge, and Niling. He was so angry that he was pursued, but he was ambushed instead, and two armies were sent to pursue him. Those who were defeated in Dadouba Valley were defeated. According to the news, the wind and sleet are dark and dark, and it is difficult to distinguish day and night. There must be someone who is proficient in spells. The people helped Murong Fuyun, attacked several times, lost as many as eight generals, and killed [-] soldiers, Master, Your Majesty may be in a hurry this time..."

Lu Liangsheng sat there silently, not knowing that the rice porridge in the bowl was cold, so he asked softly, "Is there any news from Yuanfeng?"

"Not yet."

"No news..." Lu Liangsheng picked up the bowl again, ate it with his chopsticks, and then put it on the table: "That's the best news."

The sun shone in the hall, pushing the shadows of the furniture and furnishings to move slowly. On the wooden ladder, Hong Lian and Xi You came down, feeling the atmosphere, pursed their lips and dared not speak, and quietly retreated upstairs.

"Yuanfeng is the least talkative among the four of you, but he is the one with the most thoughts. He wants to stand out so much that he dares to risk his life... The way of heaven does not allow cultivators to use magic to interfere with the human world." The imperial court has risen and fallen, otherwise the last time it would not have ended up in a situation where it almost died."

The scholar's voice was calm and calm, but Yu Wentuo who was beside him had been with his master for many years, how could he not know that there was anger hidden in this calm tone, even if he was as calm as he, he had to speak carefully.

"...but if something happens to Yuanfeng..."