Great Sui Guoshi

Taoist Toad looked majestic, and when he said these words, he also added: "Since someone else has chosen the path, why should Liangsheng bother himself, and congratulate him... ohhhhhhhhhhhh... ..”

As he spoke, Toad yawned, and the words stopped abruptly. Standing there, his eyes gradually closed, and his head drooped slightly, snoring.

Uh......

Lu Liangsheng was listening enthusiastically, but the master fell asleep. He went to put Taoist Toad into the bed and covered him. He yawned himself, sat back on the desk, flipped through the books, and fell asleep listening to the master. The sound of snoring, after a while, the tiredness hit, lay down in the bed, didn't even bother to cover the quilt, and fell asleep drowsily.

In the picture scroll on the wall, Nie Honglian sighed, floated out of the picture, sat quietly on the edge of the bed and looked at his side face, took the quilt to cover the scholar, turned around with a smile on her lips, and blew out the candle on the table.

Taking lotus steps to spread the hem of the skirt, humming a tune softly, and going to the scroll.

Chapter 639 Lantern Festival Night Lion Dance

The winter snow has melted, and firecrackers occasionally blare in the neighborhood. The Lantern Festival is approaching, and new couplets are posted in every household. Children in new clothes are playing with their companions at the door of their houses.

During the hustle and bustle of the new year, there are lively scenes everywhere in the city, monkey shows, juggling, guessing lantern riddles, restaurants, brothels, and teahouses are full of guests.

"...Brother Wen's poem is wonderful. It describes the beauty of solar terms and women living together in the same room. It's just like a gifted scholar and a beautiful woman, and it's a firewood!"

"Oh, by the way, speaking of which, you have noticed that many soldiers have taken to the streets recently."

"How dare you neglect the solar terms of the Lantern Festival."

"...I heard that someone seems to want to rebel..."

"Speak carefully, don't mention state affairs."

Outside the noisy restaurant, performances to celebrate festivals, gongs and suonas blowing and beating cover up the noise of the long street, and the people standing by the street watched the dragon and lion dancers, and the clanging sounds passed by.

The atmosphere on the street was extremely lively, a restaurant adjacent to Baiguanfushe Street, someone came in from the outside, passed a few men with their arms folded, and went up the stairs with a thud, there was a beautiful song in the private room not far away When the news came out, the man carefully knocked on the door, heard the creaking of the door, and hurriedly took out a folded letter from his arms and handed it in.

Then, the door closed silently.

A man with a beardless face was holding a letter, bowed around the singing tricks over there, came to a first place, and called out in a low voice.

"master."

Opposite him is a man with a bushy beard and a calm demeanor in fine clothes, holding a wine glass, looking at the fluttering long sleeves, twisting waist, hearing the words called, reaching out to take the presented letter, Taking a look, the corner of his mouth curled up into a smile.

"The national teacher is back..."

Yang Guang drank the wine in his glass and laughed loudly. He didn't care about another trick in the private room. He put his hands up and walked to the fence. He looked at the bustling long street outside. It was getting dark and the lamp was going to be hung On this street, he always likes to be lively. Tonight during the Lantern Festival, he happened to be out of the palace to take a look, and he also took a look at the Baiguanfushe Street opposite.

"When the national teacher returns to the city, I can rest assured that I can do it. How is the situation outside?"

"Everything is in order." The beardless man was an eunuch, his voice was hoarse and sharp, and he gesticulated with his orchid fingers while smiling flatteringly.

"The black dogs in the city have caught a lot, even if they are national teachers..."

"Ok?"

The emperor standing in front of the fence frowned, looked sideways, and realized that the eunuch who had said something wrong knelt down on the ground and slapped his face with a crisp sound. Startled, I don't know what happened.

Yang Guang stared hard at the servant, and waved his wide sleeves at the trickster over there: "Keep singing, keep dancing!" Turning around, he kicked the eunuch kneeling on the ground, and cursed: "You son of a bitch! "

The eunuch panicked, knelt on the ground and crawled over, kowtowed vigorously, the emperor kicked him to sit on the ground again, and heard Yang Guang's voice say: "If you dare to speak nonsense in the future, I will chop your head off! "

Whispered words floated outside, the night was getting dark, there were cavalry galloping on the bustling streets, the four gates of Chang'an were closed tightly, and the soldiers transferred from the imperial city took over the defense. In the distant imperial city, horseshoes and human footsteps pounded on the street tiles, rushing to Baiguanfushe Street from all directions.

In the light of the lit torch, Yu Wencheng looked at the outline of the mansion in the distant night, and ground his teeth, feeling a little sore.

He has known the reputation of the Duke of Yue for a long time, he has great prestige in the army, and he also possesses immortality and Taoism. He didn't believe it at first, but that trip to the south of the Yangtze River with the national teacher was not up to him. Be careful.

Fortunately, all the black dogs in the city collected by His Majesty, and the armor of the imperial city guards are all soaked in the blood of black dogs. As long as they are not affected by magic, in terms of martial arts, Yuwen Chengdu is still confident that they will be superior to one of them.

What's more, there are so many soldiers.

The Baiguan Mansion is surrounded by adjacent streets. Chang'an Mansion Yin, who had already received the order, sent the officials to clear the street. Including the soldiers of the government office, the imperial city guards were all out, and the entire street was besieged. The night sky spread towards the Duke's Mansion.

"...Duke Yue, if you want to blame, you can only blame you for having too much prestige."

Yu Wencheng subconsciously looked back at the restaurant with the emperor, took a deep breath, turned his head, and asked his subordinates to lift his gilt phoenix wing and slowly lowered it to the ground.

......

On the side of the mansion on the opposite side of the general's field of vision, the side door leading to the alley outside was slightly opened, and four flickering figures came out from the inside, and there was a faint murmuring voice saying: "Tonight's Lantern Festival, we are just waiting for four brothers You can't stay in the mansion every day if you recite poems and compose poems with those elegant people."

"What my brother said is that you can also guess lantern riddles and get some cheap money, haha."

"Maybe there will be a little lady who will be excited when she sees four Jiangnan talents waiting for me..."

After leaving the courtyard door, the man who was still talking turned around and bumped into the back of the scholar in front of him, clutching his sore nose and pushing him.

"Brother Ma, why did you stop?"

As soon as the words fell, even the two people next to them were stunned. At the end of the street, there were torch lights. Under the bright light, all armored soldiers with knives looked at them fiercely.

goo~~

The fourth scholar rolled his Adam's apple, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, slowly moved his feet back, opened the door again and dodged in, slammed the courtyard door against it, and gasped heavily against the door.

"Did you see it? There are many soldiers outside."

"Could it be that tonight, during the Lantern Festival, someone made a disturbance, and His Majesty specially sent soldiers to protect the Duke's mansion?"

When the word "Your Majesty" was mentioned, the eyes of the four people suddenly widened, and they looked at each other, remembering that not long ago, the eunuch led the guards to visit the Duke of Yue, their hearts skipped a beat, and the four scholars moved to live Running wildly in the side yard, the trays in the hands of the maids who met her were knocked and thrown, and fell to the ground with a crackling sound.

While screaming and screaming, the four of them jumped back to the courtyard, took the old bookshelf, opened the closet and took out the clothes in one go, rushed to the desk, picked up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Books and other things are stuffed into the bookshelves together, and carried on the back.

Four rooms, four people came out almost at the same time, nodded in agreement, and walked outside together.

"Wait..." Wang Feng said suddenly, calling the other three brothers to stop. "We are considered loyal people, how can we just leave like this, at least let Duke Yue know what happened outside."

"Brother Loyalty!" The three people over there were in awe.

At this time, outside the Duke's Mansion, the night wind blows through the street, Yu Wencheng strokes the horse's mane, estimates the time, and raises his hand: "Raise the lamp."

......

On the bustling long street, Lu Liangsheng led Hong Lian and Qi You to watch the lion dancers passing by the street, their manes fluttering, their big eyes blinking and shaking their heads under human manipulation, baring their teeth and wanting to growl .

Soon, the scholar seemed to feel something, turned his gaze over the roof, and a bright paper lantern rose into the night sky in the distance.

On Baiguanfushe Street, the sound of countless footsteps rumbled and spread.

6 Chapter Forty

The footsteps of the mansion, accompanied by the lights of the forest, the figures of soldiers holding the long soldiers slowly pushed towards the mansion in front of them. In the sound of the shaking of the armor leaves, behind the high courtyard wall, four scholars stumbled with their bookshelves on their backs. He ran across the corridor, shouted loudly, and pushed open a door in front of him.

"Duke Yue!!"

The door was pushed open, and the dim light flickered in the room, illuminating the well-dressed old man holding a book and sitting on the desk.

Hearing the words of the four people, he raised his eyelids, saw them, smiled, and stretched his fingers to the nearby tables and chairs, not as majestic as usual.

"Come and sit down."

The four of them rested their breath on their knees, and one of them pointed outside: "Grandpa, we won't sit anymore, if we sit again, I guess we won't have a chance to sit again in the future, outside...outside... "

Wang Feng gave him a push and took the conversation away.

"Duke, many soldiers have come outside, probably to arrest you."

Over there, Yang Su just smiled and didn't answer. He closed the book and got up, patted Wang Feng's shoulder, glanced at the faces of the four people, and pursed his lips.

"You have been under the old man's school for a while, but it is a pity that there is no chance for you to stand out. I am really sorry, and I am afraid that you will be implicated."

"sorry."

Yang Su repeated, walked to a bookshelf, found a heavy package from the small door in the lower compartment, and could hear the crashing sound inside.

"Old man Qiancheng can't promise anymore. If you take this money, the four of you will be able to live comfortably in the future. It's not in vain to follow this old man."

The four of them looked at each other, and slowly stretched out their hands to take the package. At some point, there were tears in their eyes, which flickered in the firelight. Wang Feng took a deep breath, his voice choked up.

"Guogong, the four of my brothers have gone all the way from Chen Chaonan Township to Chang'an. After going through hardships and hardships, they ended up achieving nothing. I never thought that I would be loved by the Duke... Today, I will not leave!"

The other three nodded in unison with red eyes: "Not leaving!"

"Let's go."

The old man looked at them, shook his head, and pushed the four of them to the door: "What are the four of you doing with me? There are only four more heads left."

Thinking of the bloody scene, Fourth Scholar subconsciously touched his neck and shuddered almost at the same time. Ma Liu, Zhang Ti, and Zhao Tang pulled his elder brother, hesitated for a moment, raised their hands with tears in their eyes, and gave a heavy arch.

"Duke, take care!"

"We walked!"

The four of them looked back at the old man who was still under the eaves in four steps, turned around and bowed again, stuffed the package into the bookshelf, walked quickly to the side door of the other courtyard, pulled the latch, and just opened the door , the tip of the gun with a metallic cold glow pierced out, and arrived at the faces of the four of them.

"People in the mansion, no one can leave!"

There was a voice shouting violently, and for a moment, ten..... Hundreds of soldiers rushed across the threshold into the yard, and soon the whole mansion gradually became chaotic.

The old man in the study in the atrium heard the movement and walked out of the door again. Under the eaves of the lit lantern, four figures came over under the eaves of the dark soldiers.

Ma Liu tremblingly put his hands on top of his head, forced a smile.

"Duke, we didn't make it..."

"Yang Su, accept the edict!"

The soldiers surrounding the atrium crowded the promenade and the eaves to the brim. In the middle of listening to the eaves of the promenade in the front yard, Yu Wencheng walked out in a row, opening a volume of imperial decree in his hand.

"The Son of Heaven issued an imperial edict saying, "There is Yang Su, who has only a little acquaintance with the late emperor, and his contribution to the establishment of the Sui Dynasty is indispensable. However, he is the Duke of the country, does not care about his family and country, collects wealth and monopolizes power, deceives the Son of Heaven, acts arbitrarily, and secretly makes friends with generals in the army. Suspected of treason, as a cultivator, holding the country unrighteously, using human corpses to make puppets, the sky is angry and the people complain..."

"shut up!"

Yang Su gave a majestic shout, and the tiles of the surrounding buildings slammed loudly, causing the vigilant soldiers around to take a step back subconsciously.

The old man under the eaves pursed his lips, his gray beard fluttered slightly in the wind, closed his eyes, and then opened them: "You wait for the servant to do something, I don't make things difficult for you, if you want to take me, let Yang Guang come over."

"Humph."

After all, Yuwen Chengdu has some experience. The shock just now subsided quickly, and the gilded gold in his hand banged on the ground. He took a step forward and shouted: "Duke Yue, you have no chance!"

As the voice fell, the front row of soldiers with guns retreated back, and the comrades in the back carrying copper basins quickly stepped forward, rushing towards the dark red blood rippling in the basin.

Ten water curtains poured into the air, but the moment they flew away, Yang Su just flicked his wide sleeves, and the blood of the black dog flew back instantly and splashed on the faces of all the soldiers, making them extremely embarrassed.

"This old man's Taoism cultivation base, how can you know how powerful it is?"

Over there, Yu Wencheng was stunned, looking at the dog blood all over the floor, turned his head slightly and whispered to a soldier under his command: "I'm going to delay here, you hurry to find your majesty and call the national teacher!"

The soldiers nodded and retreated quietly. The vacated positions were quickly filled by the rest of the soldiers. Yu Wencheng kicked the tail of the pole and held the long soldiers in his hands. !"

"kill!"

Kicking off his feet, he went straight to the eaves of the study, and the surrounding soldiers shouted in unison, swarming up with long soldiers.

.......

In the night, a knight ran wildly on the street, found a restaurant not far from Baiguanfushe Street, jumped off his horse, ran upstairs, knocked on the door of one of the rooms, and greeted the eunuch who poked his face. After a few words of conversation, the latter nodded and walked to the seat, and whispered the news from the Duke's mansion.

"Your Majesty, black dog blood doesn't work, so Yang Su clamored for His Majesty to go in person..."

...... Leaning on the railing and looking at the scholar in the window... Which day will be nominated on the king's list... Don't forget the prostitute in the Hongchen Pavilion...

The flowing candlelight, the soft female singing, and the waving long sleeves falling down, Yang Guang, who was sitting on the seat, narrowed his eyes after listening to the eunuch's words, got up suddenly, and walked straight to the door with his hands behind his back. The anxious eunuch and guards hurriedly followed superior.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, where are you going?"

"Meet that Yang Su!"

Once upon a time, when he first came to the throne, the originally kind Duke of Yue changed into a different person, just like Cao Mengde of the Han Dynasty. Cowardly again.

'Don't dare to face this old dog, doesn't it make me look cowardly! '

Shouting and embracing, the emperor walked straight across a street, kicked his robes and walked into the Duke's mansion. Before the guards came up, he pushed the soldiers blocking the way to one side, and passed through the densely packed soldiers. , When they came to the atrium, far away, a burly figure flew upside down and hit a pillar under the eaves.

There was a loud bang, the pillar broke, the entire eaves collapsed, and the surrounding guards screamed one by one, and used their bodies to build a human wall to go up to protect the emperor.

The tiles fell to the ground with a crash, smashed into pieces, and in a cloud of smoke and dust, Yang Guang didn't even look at the mess at his feet, and continued to move forward, looking at the old man in front of the opposite study.

"Duke Yue, I'm here!"

"Good job!" The old man threw a soldier who was caught in the air and wanted to sneak attack to the ground, patted the dust on his hands, stepped out of the eaves, and spoke slowly.

"The old man followed the late emperor to conquer the Great Sui Dynasty. He was born and died. He first destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty and then the Chen Dynasty. You can ascend to the throne, and I also have a share of the credit. How can you not be worthy of the honor if you follow the dragon in the two dynasties? There is no merit for this old man, even if the late emperor is still there, he would not talk to this old man like this!!"