Great Sui Guoshi

"My country is divided into Kyushu. There are still many people who practice Taoism like me. As for the gods you mentioned, they rarely walk in the world. They are not born of fiction, but just like me. , become a god after death, or become an immortal in the flesh, even if there is no temple to enshrine, you can still survive. Speaking of it, people in China actually believe in ancestors more."

"It turns out there is such a method. Then, Your Excellency, will you become a god in the future?"

These words choked Lu Liangsheng from asking, he was silent for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't know."

One person and one god, in the moonlight and the oil lamp, chatted with great interest about the secrets and anecdotes of the East and the West. Isis talked about the Great Flood, and Lu Liangsheng also talked about the Great Flood in the East with a smile. difference.

"We only know how to flee and drift by boarding a ship, but in the east, our ancestors led the people to subdue the flood and form a river that can irrigate farmland in the future."

In the cold moonlight, Isis did not refute, and listened quietly, knowing that the rooster was crowing on the roof somewhere in the city, only then did he realize that the moonlight had faded, and the eastern sky had turned pale.

"Dear Easterners, Isis is going back, and I hope to have the opportunity to listen to your teachings."

The figures gathered by the blue light gradually dissipated in the blooming sunlight, and the sky was bright. Lu Liangsheng packed up his books, woke up the sleeping master, and the four people next door. They had breakfast provided by the hotel and were about to leave. The road to the East.

As soon as he left the hotel, the pedestrians on the street suddenly became noisy and hid on both sides. A group of half-armored knights came towards this side. The leader was wearing a half-covered helmet with a red mane. Those eyes made Lu Liangsheng a little bit familiar.

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Ma Ming let out a long hiss, and the approaching team reined in their horses in front of the five of them, threw off their cloaks and dismounted, and the leader took off his bronze helmet and put it under his arm.

"Hello Oriental, we meet again."

"You are..." Lu Liangsheng stared into his pale blue eyes, remembering the person who bought his painting yesterday, and arched his hands with a smile in the other party's language: "So it's your Excellency, I don't know how to stop you?" What's the matter with us?"

The man held the helmet between his faces, and with a smile on his face, he bowed slightly: "It is a great honor to have a painter from the East pass by in the remote Kalabsa. Governor Tiberius, sincerely invites you to visit the Governor's Mansion."

Presumably, the painting yesterday was seen by the local officials. Lu Liangsheng wanted to see him, but he nodded and did not refuse. He should ask some questions about Byzantium, which should be more detailed.

"Then Lao will lead the way."

As he said that, Lu Liangsheng spread his hands and made a gesture of invitation. The other party was stunned for a moment, then understood the meaning, got on his horse and led the way.

"Let's go together too."

Lu Liangsheng was worried about leaving the four people behind him here. If something happened, he would die in a foreign country. After finishing speaking, he pulled the old donkey to follow slowly, and took a look at the various conditions in the city. This is also a kind of practice.

Chapter 667

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The horse team of more than ten people was divided into two columns and passed through the noisy market. The city called Kalabosa was not even half the size of River Valley County as a whole. The houses were low and there were few tall buildings. The filth left by camels and sheep can be seen everywhere, attracting many flies and insects to fly around.

Lu Liangsheng sat on the back of the old donkey, between the donkey's hooves that were slowly moving, watching the scenes in the city.

Waving the sleeves with the four scholars on the left and right, sweeping away the flying insects, the streets passing by were dirty and crowded, besides some novelty, they were more disdainful, the low houses were only covered with a layer of mud The shops selling alcoholic beverages, flying insects, and guests coming in and out can be seen everywhere. The woman wrapped in linen is a thick woman, holding a wooden stick and smashing the old grain in the jar vigorously, staring viciously at this side like a she-wolf.

"A foreign land, the more you look at it, the more desolate it is. It's a pity that it is too far away from us. If it is closer, maybe you can listen to the words of the sages and get some enlightenment."

"How can they understand the words of the sages? What I can see is the blade swung by His Majesty."

"Makes sense. Makes sense."

Lu Liangsheng glanced at the four of them, shook his head with a grin, and followed the cavalry in front of him through the noisy long street. The road became wide open, the ground was paved with rock bricks, neat and flat, and there were many palms on both sides shaking in the wind. Thick leaves, and the pool of fountains in front of it are carved with female sculptures, and the exposed parts are only blindfolded by four scholars.

In the tall mansion, several rock pillars stood at the open gate, and a figure in a loose white robe was lying on the reclining chair. He took the preserved fruit held by the maid and chewed it in his mouth, and continued to flip through the parchment.

Outside, a half-armored guard came in, stepped aside and bowed his head.

"Your Excellency, Dael has brought the oriental painter back."

A grape was chewed in the man's mouth, and the juice flowed from the corners of his mouth to his chin. The maid held a silk handkerchief and gently wiped it for him, then retreated to the side, on the reclining chair, and the man put down the parchment scroll and folded it and handed it to the guard in front of him. When he got up, A smile suddenly appeared on his thin face, he walked between the rock pillars, and raised his arms to meet him.

"Daer, my loyal chief guard, let me see the painter in the east."

The chief guard who stopped his horse in the distance got off his horse, raised his hand across his chest, bowed and saluted: "Your Excellency, it is my honor to serve you."

Immediately, he respectfully stood aside and introduced the man in front of the five people invited behind him.

"Dear oriental painter, this is the governor of Calabosa, Your Excellency Tibes."

"I'm from the Eastern Sui Dynasty, Lu Liangsheng, and I have met the governor of this side."

Lu Liangsheng arched his hands and said these words, and looked at the official in front of him. The open-fronted black robe had a circle of gold thread sewn around the neckline, and delicate buckles around the outside. There was an embroidered gold pattern on each side of the robe. , the latter was also looking at the person from the east, with a bun on the top of his head, and a gorgeous and soft robe, he couldn't help but take a second look, then he opened his thick beard, smiled and bent his body slightly with his left hand on his chest.

"Lu Liangsheng? Hehe, it's a weird name, but you can speak Greek, which is really rare, but it's impure, like the accent of an Egyptian native, a painter from the East, come with me."

Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly, probably thinking that people from this side spoke like that, he nodded casually, and walked to the mansion ahead at the invitation of the other party.

Sitting on the golden upholstered chair, a few women in white robes brought fruit plates and drinks, bowed and slowly pushed them away. Tibes took the drinks and saluted Lu Liangsheng, and then greeted the four who followed him. A scholar gestured with a smile.

"This is the wine that is abundant in Egypt. Has anyone in the East ever drank it?"

"National teacher, what did the brown-haired and high-nosed barbarian say? Why do you feel such a complacent expression?"

Among the four scholars, Wang Feng was good at observing words and expressions, and immediately felt that the other party seemed to be showing off. Lu Liangsheng didn't answer him, but just looked at Tibes opposite him, with a smile on his face, and took a sip of his sour wine.

"Your Excellency, the small country on the western border, this kind of wine is offered as a tribute every year. In our Great Sui Dynasty, it was just a taste of the early adopters when entertaining guests, and it was not allowed to be served on the table."

Lu Liangsheng couldn't see that this person was showing off. If so, how could he still humiliate his home country, "The Sui Dynasty in the East has a vast land. Go to the vast desert, the land is vast and the resources are abundant, and the products produced are innumerable."

After the description, Tibes was stunned for a moment, and his eyes could not help falling on the scholar's robe: "Your Excellency's clothes are also..."

"Of course." Before the other party finished speaking, Lu Liangsheng waved his hand to interrupt, and put the gold cup containing the wine on the table, "Your Excellency, please invite the five of us to come over, is there anything else? If not, we will leave gone."

The scholar's tone was calm, and Wang Feng and Ma Liu, who had been with him for a long time, couldn't help hearing that they were getting angry, and quickly put the wine glasses in their hands on the table, showing their fierceness with bared teeth and brows.

"Ha ha......"

Tibes leaned on the swan cushion, and gracefully put down the wine glass. No matter how powerful the five of them were, they traveled a long distance to Egypt, and there were only five of them.

"Your Excellency sold my guard yesterday a painting. I appreciate art very much. Art from the East is rare here. I like your painting very much. If it is not a landscape but a portrait of me, then Even better, respect the artist, are you right?"

Lu Liangsheng just sat across from him and stared at him. After a while, a smile appeared on his face.

"Your Excellency Governor wants one, so I will draw one for you, but in exchange, can you tell me how to get to the east?"

"The respected artist only needs to know this?"

Tibes saw that he spoke sincerely, and he had nothing to lose. He happily stepped on his foot, waved to Lu Liangsheng, and asked him to follow him. He got up and walked to the study room of this mansion. Inside, there are red carpets and several bookshelves. There are many books piled up in parchment. Tibes went to the back of the desk, picked up a reed pen, dipped it in ink made of fine charcoal and lamp black, and drew a line on a piece of parchment. At the last mark, there was a line huge trench.

"When you reach Constantine, go further east, but when you get there, you can ask other people."

Handing the parchment to Lu Liangsheng, he left the study room, raised his finger and shook it a few times, reminding him: "Master Dongfang, I have already paid, and I should be rewarded by you."

Lu Liangsheng glanced at the extremely crude map in this chapter, put it in his sleeve, and went out of the study room, motioning for Wang Feng and the others to move the bookshelf over there, without saying anything, after grinding the ink, he took out the brush and put it on On a blank scroll, heavy brushstrokes were written, and while looking at Tibes sitting on the chair with his legs crossed, he carefully outlined it.

Unknowingly, two hours passed, and the last stroke of the portrait drawn by green ink was completed. Lu Liangsheng put down the brush, blew on the ink that was still wet on it, and stretched out his hand for the guards waiting to come and take it away. Then he packed up the brush and got up. leave.

"I owe nothing to the governor, so I will leave."

Arching his hands, he went straight out of the mansion, put the bookshelf on the old donkey's back, took the reins, and walked to the gate of the mansion. From the gently shaking bookshelf, he could feel his apprentice's displeased mood, and Taoist Toad's voice sounded.

"Liangsheng, this kind of person should be killed, anyway, he is also a barbarian."

"Ha ha."

Lu Liangsheng looked ahead, just smiled, and led the old donkey to continue heading north amidst the chattering voices of the four scholars.

The wind blew up the sand, and between the swaying palm roads and the mansion, Tibes, who was sipping wine, leaned against his back and looked comfortably at the oriental painting framed by the two guards.

The figure above is himself, except for the color of green ink, it is almost lifelike.

Soon, he raised his hand to call for the chief guard.

"Daer, look at how beautiful this painting is. There are many exquisite things in the bookshelves of the oriental people, but these are not mine... It's a pity. If it was mine, it should be How nice, don't you think so?"

The man standing standing next to the governor lowered his face in silence, took a few steps back knowingly with his helmet in his hands, walked out of the mansion, waved his subordinates to get on their horses, and chased after the few orientals who had left just now.

Chapter 668 A foreign country, no kindness

The sun slanted slightly, shining on the brownish-yellow soil, the sand swayed in the wind, and the withered grass swayed slowly with the tips of the grass.

In the halo of the sinking west, the long wind and sand covered the obelisk building in the distance with a layer of gauze, and the old donkey with its tail swung lowered its head and rolled over the dry grass, shaking the copper bell on its neck, and pouted the sand grains in its mouth , and continued to walk leisurely forward with the scholar on his back.

According to the route on the sheepskin map, I don't know how many miles away from the big city named Constantine. If you use magic to drive, you may pass by in a flash.

Although Da Sui is worried, His Majesty has grown and cannot interfere too much. Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and correct it later. With the seal of Kongtong in your hand, you can directly intervene in the replacement of dynasties in the world. right.

Lu Liangsheng put away the sheepskin map in his hand. He could almost memorize this simple route after a glance. He tossed it casually, and the sheepskin map floated to the rear along the wind, and it was lightly covered on the tumbling lantern grass.

His eyes still looked around and the buildings standing in the golden desert in the distance, with obelisks, which were difficult to see in the Central Plains, which made him feel fresh.

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The old donkey flicked his mane, and with the bookshelf shaking behind him, Taoist Toad pushed open the small door, stretched his waist with his flippers up, dragged the rope and kicked a few times with his short legs and struggled to climb up, untied the rope around his waist, He bypassed his apprentice and jumped on the donkey's head, and sat down with his back to his back facing his pair of long ears.

"I want to tell the teacher, what kind of governor, just kill him directly. This kind of person is greedy, and he will never give up so easily to satisfy his greed. You return the portrait, hum, a waste of pen and ink."

On the back of the donkey, Lu Liangsheng turned his gaze back, looked at Master's back, and then looked forward: "Why does Master think I will not do it?"

"Ok?"

Taoist Toad originally wanted to say something, but suddenly his eyes widened, he turned around in surprise, looked carefully at Lu Liangsheng in front of him, raised his furthest webbed head to compare him, and loudly praised him.

"it is good!"

"Hehe, Master said it was too early."

Lu Liangsheng stroked the mane of the old donkey, and beckoned sideways for the four scholars behind to follow up quickly. One of them performed a little trick by Mu Chun to restore their physical strength, and then turned around and said with a smile: "It's all about greed. Not to death, everyone has it, just to show off deliberately, but I am not used to burying Da Sui, a small punishment is just to let him improve his memory, the Eastern Kingdom is no better than Xi Chui, who has no power Savage."

"You already did it? When?" Toad blinked and tilted his head.

"When drawing his portrait."

Thinking of the small punishment he brought to the other party's portrait in the morning, Lu Liangsheng couldn't help but twitched his lips, "Here, I have to represent my appearance in the Sui Dynasty. Punishment without killing can still show my dignity."

"It's another way of you, a bad guy."

Taoist Toad sat back, and when he muttered, he seemed to hear something, turned his head, and looked at the smoke and dust rising in the distance.

"Liangsheng, you can't be a bad person."

On the donkey's back, Lu Liangsheng tilted his head, and several streams of smoke and dust flew into the sky in the distance and gathered into a huge dust cloud, sweeping towards this side.

The four scholars who were walking along felt the movement under their feet. Zhang Ti and Zhao Tang hurriedly listened, and before they could speak, they were slapped on the back of the head by Wang Feng.

"Do you still need to listen? A group of cavalry has come."

Following the direction he raised his finger, a group of more than ten cavalry spread across the road, spreading with the sound of rumbling hooves.

"I saw them!"

"killed!"

The smoke and dust rolled into the sky, and the cavalry rushing down below, the leader saw a group of people walking in front of them, and the clothes that could be remembered at a glance on the other party, and knew that they had caught up.

For the oriental painter, Daer still has a good impression, gentle and elegant, like a nobleman from the upper class, but it is a pity that Governor Tibes wants to kill them, and as the head of the guard, he can only carry out orders.

After all, this is his vocation.

"Prepare--"

Looking at the Easterners who were getting closer and closer, he slowly raised his hand holding the rein, and with a loud shout, he took out the cloth pocket on the side of the horse, took out a short spear, held it in his palm and held it high over his shoulder .

Behind him, the galloping horses on both sides, and the following knights also made the same movements, and the sharp spearheads reflected the coldness, and they looked up to the sky.

The next moment, a voice shouted: "Throw!"

The head guard in front tightened his grip on the horse's belly, threw his muscular arm upwards suddenly, and at the same time the short spear flew away from his palm, more than a dozen short spears shot out from behind at the same time.

In the distance, among a group of people more than 200 steps apart, Lu Liangsheng's gentle eyes sank, he swung his left arm back, and the wide sleeves swayed with a "wow", and more than a dozen short shorts fell across an arc in the sky. In an instant, the spear was pulled backward by something invisible, and fell to the horses running wildly below.

Bah!

A short spear whizzed down and landed directly in front of Darel's mount, causing him to rein in the reins in shock. The horse neighed and stood up with its forelegs bent. The cavalry behind also stopped in panic.

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More short spears followed and fell on the ground, and the short handles were still swaying. Daer looked at the row of short spears in front of him in horror, and couldn't figure out how the other party could do anything. Yes, but the governor's orders, dare not do it!

"Chase again!"

With a low hoarse growl, as if to give courage to himself and the subordinates behind him, he pulled out the blade at his waist and jumped over a row of short spears on the ground with his horse's belly. More than a dozen cavalrymen looked at each other and followed closely. superior.

"Come on, this is really going to kill me to seize the treasure."

Lu Liangsheng frowned, and casually took one of the several scrolls stuck in the bookshelf, untied the red string on it, threw it backwards, flew over the heads of four scholars and quickly unfolded it, and then fell to the ground, lying quietly with.

The sound of hoofbeats from the rear sounded on the ground, and the mud and sand surged up under the feet of the chasing Calabosa cavalry, directly pushing one of the knights, man and horse, into the sky.