Great Sui Guoshi

But in the words he said, he teased the woman next to him in a joking tone.

"Now that I look like this, besides my own apprentice, who else can know me, maybe I was blown away as soon as I knocked on the door."

"Who dares?! The concubine took care of him!" Hong Lian glared, raised her fist in a timely manner to show a fierce look, couldn't hold back anymore, pursed her lips and laughed along with it.

The street is quiet, with silver bells and laughter echoing. I don’t know where I have gone in the city. There are few pedestrians, and there are mostly dilapidated houses around. Occasionally, there are still lights on. From the light, I can vaguely see the dark temple in the distance. building.

"I also said that I'm going to make a wild shop tonight. I'm really sleepy. I'll bring you a pillow." Lu Liangsheng took the old donkey over, and when he got closer, he saw that it was an earth temple with dilapidated tiles and eaves. The stone tablet was inserted askew on the ground. The gaps in the stone steps are full of weeds, the window lattices are broken, and the wind blows, and the cobwebs hanging on them shake slightly.

Fortunately, the gate of the temple was still intact. Lu Liangsheng opened the door and entered. The clay statue of the land stood on the altar, and there was a small cauldron of the priest under it, with paper ashes left in it. It was not considered abandoned when he came here.

"Taiyuan is an important town in the north, and the city is considered prosperous. How can a temple of the earth be so dilapidated?"

Lu Liangsheng picked up the futon and patted the dust on it, then threw it aside and sat down. After a while, the clay sculpture on the altar shone with divine light, and a small figure came out with a cane. The old man with white beard and hair felt the royal decree and an indescribable aura on the other party, his face changed and he immediately arched his hands.

"Small land, I have seen the national teacher."

"You don't need to be polite to the land master." Lu Liangsheng didn't expect to say something casually, but he led the land out, got up and bowed to the other party, "Just now, my national teacher just sighed casually, so don't bother to come out to meet each other .”

The hunchbacked Land Lord let out a breath, and nodded with an apologetic smile.

"It turned out to be like this, I thought it was something the national teacher summoned."

Having said that, the land still explained Lu Liangsheng's exclamation just now, "This is an old temple, and the officials in the city built a new one elsewhere, and invited my god to go there."

It turned out that there was another new temple, and he couldn't live here anymore. Lu Liangsheng didn't have anything to ask. After all, calling the land was unintentional. He said something, sent the land master away, and found it from the bookshelf The candle was lit and put on the altar. The old donkey was still crawling and rolling in the temple. He took the bookshelf and put it next to him, and flipped through the books by the light of the fire.

The street outside the temple became quiet, and the gray clouds revealed the crescent moon. The moonlight shone coldly on the dilapidated street outside. There were footsteps running in the wind. It seemed that they saw the light here and ran towards the Earth Temple. .

Hearing the movement, Lu Liangsheng raised his head, the temple door creaked and was pushed open, a skinny child came in, turned around and knocked on the door, jumped onto the temple pillar like a monkey, grabbed the hanging red cloth , Regardless of the dust on it, it swayed, let go of your hand, and jumped directly onto the altar table to stand firmly.

With the flickering of the candle, Lu Liangsheng finally saw clearly the child standing on the table not far away. His face was thin and his body was thin. He was wearing brocade and satin robes. They were all torn apart, exposing a few toes swaying back and forth outside.

The sickly-looking child seemed to have noticed that the old man holding the book was looking at him, squatted down, and picked his chin.

"Old man, what are you looking at?"

"The old man is looking at a child who doesn't come home at night."

Lu Liangsheng sized him up with great interest. The other party looked thin and weak, but his blood was unusual, and it was rare to see him. "Why did you come here late at night, this ruined temple?"

"Why did you come here?" The child didn't seem to be afraid of strangers, and sat down on the table, kicking with two legs hanging: "This is my place, of course you can come if you want..."

While talking, Lu Liangsheng suddenly looked sideways at the opened temple door, and vaguely heard shouts and footsteps spreading.

"Here, the young master must be here again."

"Quick!"

"When you talk later, try not to speak too loudly."

Lu Liangsheng retracted his gaze and said with a smile, "Looking for you?"

The child sitting at the altar also heard it, squinted and snorted, jumped off the table and ran to close the temple door, turned around and hugged the half-legged land lady leaning against the wall. It weighed over a hundred catties, and it was forced to be carried by children and sent to the temple gate to block it.

"That's a lot of strength." Lu Liangsheng saw this kind of strength for the first time at such a young age, and couldn't help admiring, "How did you do it?"

The child over there proudly raised his chin and wiped the dust off his hands.

"I am born with supernatural power."

At this time, the people outside had already come here, and someone shouted: "Young master, the little ones have seen you."

"Come back with us."

"Master, and Madam should be in a hurry, they will be angry."

"Ouch, the door is blocked!"

"Quickly, go through the window."

There were many figures outside the window, and several shadows ran along the window lattice, as if they had turned in. The child was a little annoyed, and clenched his fists.

"Young master finally sneaked out to play for a while, and everyone knew to ask me to go back!"

Suddenly, he turned his head to look at the white-bearded old man on the other side of the altar, laughed, kicked his feet, jumped over, and squatted beside Lu Liangsheng.

"Old man, when they come in later, can you just say you haven't seen me?"

After finishing speaking, he jumped onto the altar, climbed to the statue of the earth, and jumped to the canopy hanging above. The next second, several people came in from the window lattice on both sides of the temple, looked around, and whispered.

"...Strange, why is there only one candle, where is the person?"

"Look everywhere."

"I've looked for it, but there isn't one."

"Could it be that the young master is also playing with the Three Caves of the Rabbit?" "It can't be said that he deliberately led us here, but actually sneaked away from behind."

"Then who lit the candles here?"

"It must be the young master, who led us here. Only the young master can do it with such a heavy statue blocking the door."

"...Then hurry up and chase from behind!"

The few people who came in checked the surroundings, even the canopy, but they didn't even see anyone, they hurried out of the earth temple, went around and chased after it.

Bang!

Above the canopy, the child's figure jumped down, exhaled, and looked at the old man in front of him curiously, "Old man, they clearly saw me just now, why didn't they seem to see anything? They didn't see you sitting here in good condition. "

"I was born with magic."

Lu Liangsheng returned what the child said just now, but the other party's eyes lit up when he heard the word "magic", he squatted on the ground anxiously, stretched out his hand to grab his cuff and shook it vigorously.

"Old... old mister, can you teach me spells? My name is Li Xuanba! I can fight very well!"

"Don't teach!"

Lu Liangsheng smiled and moved his arm lightly, pulled the wide sleeve out of his hand without a trace, picked up the book and continued to read, the anxious child got up, walked back and forth scratching his head.

Chapter 7 Chapter Three

"Old sir, what are you willing to teach me?"

The immature child's voice came again, but Lu Liangsheng over there just flipped through the books and ignored him. The child named Li Xuanba frowned for a while, seeing that there was no response, he began to think.

 …My father always said that if you want to take, you must first give.

He clenched his small fist and slammed it on his palm, raised his sparse eyebrows, and suddenly remembered something at home.

"Old man, just wait, I'll go back and exchange something with you!"

Turning around and running to the temple gate, he kicked away the half of the stone statues piled there, opened the door and rushed out, shouting as he ran, "I'm here, I'm tired of playing, I'm going back first, you look for it slowly! "

Lu Liangsheng heard that the group of people who had run to the back of the temple turned back, chased the child farther and farther, got up and found some wood for the window frame, put it on the small cauldron and lit it, Taoist Toad poked his head out and looked, "Go gone?"

Immediately, he hugged the bed and put the futon on, and yawned comfortably at Xiao Ding's warmth, "Why don't you accept that child as a disciple? He is born with supernatural power, and if he enters Taoism with martial arts, he will not be more than ten years old according to his age. If you don't use the Xuanyuan Sword, you may not be able to defeat him."

There was a soft bang.

The pages of the book were turned at the fingertips, and the dim light of the fire shone on Lu Liangsheng's face. The corner of his mouth curled into a smile, and he turned his eyes to look at the master who was pulling the quilt to wrap him around him.

"That child's personality is too perverse and mischievous, unlike Suian, Tuo'er, and Yuanfeng who can be molded in the past. If you really want to teach him the Tao, I'm afraid he will do evil in the future and it will be difficult to deal with."

Over there, Taoist Toad lay on his side, with one web propping up the side of his head, and the other waved casually.

"It's up to you, being a teacher is just talking, don't take it seriously."

The wind blows in from the outside, the candles placed on the altar are flickering, and the red pity in the scroll turns into a wisp of green smoke and floats out. I went to close the temple door, walked to the broken window and saw that there was no one outside. Just came back, and sat beside Lu Liangsheng to accompany him, listening to the gentle flipping of the pages, looking at the old-looking Lu Liangsheng, unconsciously resting his head on his thin shoulders, stroking the strands of white hair, feeling overwhelmed in his heart. rejoice:

'Young Master, even if you are getting old, you are still so good-looking. '

Night Breeze whimpered and ran across the eaves, across the long street, on the misty street, the running child turned around the intersection in front of him, saw the brightly lit mansion in front of him, rushed up, and guarded the gate of the mansion A few guards and servants walked back and forth with lanterns and torches in their hands. Within the range illuminated by the fire, a short figure rushed forward and squeezed through the crowd, and the heavy mansion door slammed inward with a bang. Open, the six people who were startled reacted, and stopped panicking, and greeted each other out of habit.

"Okay, the young master is back, let's go in too."

"Leave someone and wait for others to come back."

In the backyard of the mansion, the rampant little people couldn't care less about the maids and servants coming and going in the mansion. The oncoming guards dodged quickly, and were thrown back by the wind, hitting the fence and falling into the pool outside the corridor. The maid holding the soup bowl cried out and fell down, the porcelain bowl cracked and shattered to the ground, and a piece of chicken and dog jumping went straight to a door in the backyard.

Bright lights.

In the study room, there were voices speaking slowly, and the shadow of a person illuminated by candlelight was projected on the wall. Li Yuan, who was walking around the desk, knocked on the corner of the desk, and looked at the two sons standing on the left and the right below.

"In the future, if your mother says anything about the Yang family's power over Yuwen's throne, don't talk to her, just pretend you didn't hear it."

"But... Dad, this is the truth."

A young man on the right looks handsome, with stubble on his lips, he is the eldest son of the family. He looked at the brother next to him, and whispered: "Even if it doesn't stop, mother will still talk."

Li Yuan sighed, and nodded his hand: "I know it as a father, but there is no way, the Yang family is still my father's cousin, how can this matter be cleared up! You have to learn from Shimin on this point."

In the direction he was looking, there was also a young man who was a little younger, and he bowed his hands to his elder brother with a pursed smile.

"Brother, the family affairs are complicated, so don't cause trouble for Dad, not to mention that the royal family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty is still alive, and the relatives on Mother's side are all living well, so it's just a matter of changing the head of the family."

"Listen, it's very comfortable to say this."

Li Yuan stroked his beard and was quite appreciative, and was about to continue talking, when hurried footsteps sounded outside the door, the two brothers standing at the door tacitly dodged to the left and right, the door slammed open, and a thin figure rushed in , shouted at the top of my voice.

"Father, where is your sword? Give it to me!"

Li Yuan, who was in a good mood, suddenly slapped the table angrily, "What are you doing!!" But then, he softened his tone and asked, "What sword?"

It was Li Xuanba, who was in the same temple as Lu Liangsheng, who came in. He restrained himself a little in front of his father and brother, and bowed his hands to the two elder brothers on the left and right. The one with the head of a tiger, give it to me quickly."

Li Yuan naturally understood that sword. It was given to him by the imperial teacher of the dynasty. It cut iron like mud and was extremely sharp. They touch.

I probably thought that the youngest wanted to see it on a whim. Li Yuan hadn't wiped it for a long time. He turned around and went to the bookshelf on the wall. He turned the switch to open a secret door, which made the three sons in the room stand on tiptoe and stretch their necks curiously. I want to see what else is hidden in my father's private treasury.

"Don't look at it! Don't tell your mother!"

Li Yuan glared at them from the side, deliberately covering the eyes of the three sons, walked in, and came out again after a while, holding a Xuanhua scabbard in his hand, a long sword with a golden handle and a tiger's head, caressingly brushed over it, turned and walked to the case. Show off behind the desk.

"Oh, time flies so fast, do you know the origin of this sword? In the past, when my father was still in Chang'an as a thousand oxen for the late emperor, and he had to go hunting outside the city one day, he met an expert. , I thought it was a down-and-out scholar in the rain, so I invited him to eat roasted rabbit for my father, but I never thought that I would give my father this magic weapon."

'clang~~'

The sword edge was drawn out of the scabbard, and the four people in the room felt the coldness immediately. Li Yuan held the hilt of the sword, and the face of the sword reflected his aging state day by day, and he couldn't help sighing.

"Time flies, people don't know it when they get old, but that expert still looks the same. One year, when he went back for his father, he saw the expert again. His face was still as young as before, which made people very envious."

Li Shimin frowned: "Father, is there really someone who is not old?"

"Why not, how could dad scare you." Li Yuan couldn't help laughing when he remembered that ordinary people rarely have such an opportunity, "haha...the things in this world are beyond your imagination, this sword is It was bestowed by the immortals, father relied on this sword back then..."

Before he could finish his words, his hands were suddenly empty, and the treasured sword had already gone to the third son, Li Xuanba.

"Dude! What are you doing?! Quickly return the sword to Father!"

Li Yuan is well aware of this son's temperament, not to mention his innate supernatural power, it has never mattered, if he wields this sword indiscriminately, and if he rubs against others, he will either die or be injured, he roared anxiously, but Li Xuanba over there is not Listen, Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng, who pushed away, turned around and ran away.

"return!"

Li Yuan was so frightened that Baimaohan came out, he turned out of the desk and chased out the door, and when he got to the door, he saw Li Xuanba running back again, he breathed a sigh of relief, opened his mouth and said, "Give the sword to... ...." Before the last word 'I' was uttered, the other hand was empty, and even the scabbard was snatched away.

"Father, two brothers, you should rest earlier, don't wait for me!" Li Xuanba raised the long sword and scabbard in his hand, and ran away wildly with his legs spread apart.

"you....."

Li Yuan looked at the empty hands, trembling with anger, turned his head to look at the other two sons, tremblingly pointed to the direction where Li Xuanba ran away, "Hurry up and take someone to chase after you!"

The two brothers looked at each other, nodded vigorously with suppressed smiles, and quickly ran to call for someone with the hem of their robes lifted.

oh~~

Standing under the eaves, Li Yuan became more and more angry as he thought about it. He stomped his foot hard, slapped his thigh, and sighed bitterly.

"Why did I give birth to such a son, what a crime!!"

Chapter 7 and Four: The Pagoda and Li Jing

Li's residence was a little chaotic, and for a moment, figures holding torches ran out from the side, and several figures on horseback passed the crowd first, calling out: "Follow!"

sigh -

Ma Ming neighed, Li Shimin and his elder brother Li Jiancheng looked at each other, unconsciously wanting to be one step faster than the other, they clamped the horse's belly together, and urged the horse to run out of the alley in the side yard and onto the long street. The man flicked his whip with a 'crack', and ran wildly on the street with a few riders and more than 20 guards.

"drive!"