Great Sui Guoshi

"Brother Jing, is this the residence of Director Li?"

The flower gardens and waterside pavilions are elegant, and the high buildings and low houses are carved with hollow flowers. Zhang Chuchen, who grew up in the Duke's mansion, feels that it is not luxurious, but relatively simple and simple. The big man with a beard nodded in approval, but Li Jing, who was asked by the woman, He didn't say a word, just looked around indifferently, but lost interest, and followed the steward leading the way into the living room.

Not long after, the maid put down the teacup and left. A man in a cloud-pattern robe with a black background came out, with a neat bun, and looked over with a smile.

"Hehe, the pharmacist is here, don't be too polite, just sit down quickly."

"Li Jing pays homage to the Chief Manager." Li Jing clasped his fists and replied before sitting down with his companions again, "I and two companions passed through Taiyuan and came to visit on the way. I don't know if I will disturb the Chief Manager."

"Haha, what did the pharmacist say?"

After receiving the teacup handed over by the servants, Li Yuan laughed. Although he and Han Qinhu were ministers in the same palace, the latter was a meritorious minister of the late emperor Conglong. It stands to reason that Li Yuan is also a junior, and the nephew of Han Qinhu He should be about the same generation, but in terms of age, he is much older than Li Jing.

"By the way, when you came, how was Han Zhuguo?"

This question stumped Li Jing, he had been out of Chang'an for a few years, and the memory of the situation there still remained in his mind when he fled overnight with Hong Fu.

Over there, Zhang Chuchen looked worriedly, but saw Li Jing pondering for a moment, then laughed: "Uncle is in good health, and he can even shoot bows and arrows."

"As long as Han Zhuguo is in good health, I can rest assured that the former emperor's old officials are gone one by one."

Li Yuan nodded and sighed, while Zhang Chuchen and the bearded guest who followed Li Jing frowned. They turned their heads and looked at each other. The voice that the other party could hear spoke softly.

"What's the matter with Li Jing recently? He's also learned this trick. It's so frustrating."

"Maybe Brother Jing should deal with the Chief Manager." Zhang Chuchen knows Li Jing best. She has seen all the changes in the past half a month, especially when she originally planned to go back to Chang'an, she suddenly changed her mind. For example, when she came to Taiyuan all the way north, she used to be close to many people, but she kept a distance from her on the way, and now she looked at the man who talked to Li Yuan, which made her feel suspicious.

"Haha, talking to the pharmacist is quite enjoyable, so it's almost noon anyway, if you don't mind, you can have dinner at the mansion today."

"The food in the house, the pharmacist naturally wants to taste it."

The two of them talked about the same thing. Looking at the time, Li Yuan summoned the steward who was waiting outside, ordered a banquet, and then sent someone to call his son. At this time, a servant came running outside and whispered in the steward's ear. After a while, the latter hurried into the living room, walked around to the main seat, and whispered in Li Yuan's ear:

"Master, Qu Lang will send someone to send a post, saying that he will come to visit."

"Haha, it's a coincidence that we're here. We just have dinner together. You go to the door and wait. Qu Lang is coming, so bring him directly."

"Yes."

After the old steward left, Li Jing was a little curious, but he didn't feel comfortable asking, so he followed Li Yuan along with Hong Fu Nu and Qiu Xu Ke, got up and went to the side hall.

At the same time, on the long street outside the mansion, a carriage came from the downtown area of ​​the city, ups and downs, and came to the gate of the mansion along the road. The driver stopped slowly in the sound of "wow". Beckoning, a servant moved the step stool to the carriage, Qu Yuanfeng opened the curtain and came down, bowing respectfully towards the curtain.

"Master, here we are."

The curtain was caressed, and Lu Liangsheng who was sitting inside slightly opened his eyes. When the urging voice of Taoist Toad came from his sleeve, he shook his head and looked at Li's residence outside the curtain.

"Sure enough, here...Master, it seems that this banquet will not be finished."

As he spoke, his figure slowly disappeared into a wisp of smoke.

Qu Yuanfeng, who was waiting outside, couldn't help repeating before the voice responded.

"Master?"

He opened a corner of the curtain, and there was no figure of Lu Liangsheng inside. In the curling smoke, there was only a piece of paper left there, carefully took it in his hand and looked at it, then crumpled the piece of paper and stuffed it into the gap in the carriage.

Turning around, straightening the collar of his robe with a solemn face, as if nothing had happened, he strode towards the mansion, and was quickly invited in by the steward.

"General Qu Lang, this way please."

On the gravel path leading to the front yard, the old steward of Li's mansion was walking in front of him attentively, constantly stretching out his hand to point the way. This Lang general has seen it many times, and he is quite familiar with it, "It's really a coincidence that Lang general came today. An old man from Chang'an happened to be here..."

While chattering, Qu Yuanfeng nodded with a smile, glanced around, and saw a blurry figure quietly drifting to the side yard through the skylight.

In the scorching sun and the breeze, the cicada that had shed its heavy shell stretched its wings, and the first hoarse cry of "Zhi" sounded. Then, a stone flew over, and the scream stopped abruptly. Even the piece of bark was broken, and the whole body was shaken. Shaking slightly.

Not far away, under the eaves of a corridor, a child with a pointed mouth and a tuft of yellow hair on his head sat on the fence in every possible way bored, holding a stone in his hand and throwing it muffledly, scaring the guards and servants around him. He hid far away and dared not approach.

"I didn't succeed in the apprenticeship... I have guests, and they all call me big brother and second brother, and they don't call me, and they don't let me go out to play... I want to suffocate me, I already know the severity Ah, but who told me that I was born with supernatural power..."

know know know~~~

The cicadas rang hoarsely from the old trees in the side yard. Li Xuanba was upset when he heard it, and roared: "Shut up!" With a crackling sound, it broke abruptly, dragged the tree cage and fell to the ground, hitting the nearby roofs, causing the surrounding guards and servants to rush to check.

"Everyone has something to do, but I don't..."

Li Xuanba mumbled a few words, threw the last stone, jumped off the fence and was about to return to the room, when there was a sudden sound, he turned his head and lowered his gaze, and the stone thrown just now rolled around his heels.

Ok?

He picked it up again, looked it up in his hand, and threw it tentatively towards the grass in the distance. The next second, a black shadow flew over, hit his leg, and fell to the ground.

Still that stone.

"Who?!"

Thinking that someone was teasing him, Li Xuanba yelled in that direction, picked up the stone and was about to go there, when suddenly he felt something strange with his fingertips, looked down, and saw a few tiny characters carved on the stone.

——Come and meet me at the Earth Temple.

"...Good guy, who is so good at writing such small characters on stones, how good it is for reading, writing on stones is such a waste."

Turning around, he threw the stone out. However, before taking a few steps, he turned around again, picked up the stone on the ground, and rushed directly to the courtyard wall beside him. When the surrounding guards reacted, he saw Li Xuan Ba had climbed over the courtyard wall and jumped outside.

"Young master!"

"Tell the master quickly!"

A group of guards shouted in alarm and rushed to the front yard. Seeing the steward guarding the door, they hurriedly told what happened just now. step in.

Li Yuan, who was holding up his wine glass to drink and talk with Li Jing, Qu Yuanfeng and others, frowned.

"What's the matter?"

The old steward looked at the sight around him, approached his master, and whispered in his ear: "Young master ran away over the wall again."

"This bastard!!"

Li Yuan stared angrily, and slapped the table with a 'bang' in anger, overflowing with wine, seeing the eyes of Li Jing, Qu Yuanfeng, and his two sons, he waved his hands.

"Not about you."

.......

The sun shone through the dilapidated streets, and the running children stopped at the collapsed earth temple, shouting over there with some panting.

"Mister, here I come!"

The words echoed, and sparrows flew away in a panic among the surrounding weeds, some of them stayed at the corner of the eaves that had not yet collapsed, chirping and jumping to look at the ugly child below.

"Sir!"

Li Xuanba repeatedly shouted, when he approached the ruined temple, a gust of wind blew, and the surrounding grass and leaves swayed slightly. He seemed to see a figure in the corner of his eyes. In the grass not far away.

"Xuan Ba, come here."

The wind stroked the snow-white beard, and the voice was old and kind.

Chapter 7 and Seven

The sparrows were chirping and jumping in the corner of the eaves. Listening to the old man's words, the children below trot forward excitedly, opened their mouths and wanted to shout again, suddenly remembered the teachings of their father, suppressed their excitement, imitated the appearance of the elder brother and the second brother, and arched their hands Come.

"Li Xuanba pays his respects to the old gentleman."

"Not naughty anymore?"

Lu Liangsheng, who was looking at the front, turned around with a smile. Between the swinging cuffs, something seemed to cut open on the ground, push through the weeds and recede inch by inch, revealing the clean ground made of white rocks, and then, the man standing there Li Xuanba only felt a vibration under his feet. The place where he was standing, and the feet of the old man opposite him, suddenly split open and rose up. The speed visible to the naked eye shot up into the sky. In the blink of an eye, the surrounding earth temples and the streets in the city in the distance When the line of sight became small, white clouds floated in front of his eyes, and pedestrians on the street came and went like ants.

The air has never been so fresh, making Li Xuanba take a few deep breaths back and forth. After all, he was still a child. He ran to the edge of Shifeng to overlook the human world below. run wildly.

Couldn't help shouting down, "Father, second brother!!" Excitedly, he turned his head and looked at Lu Liangsheng, who had white hair all over his bun, raised his hand and spread out his palm. It was the stone in the yard before. For a moment, he forgot to ask why he agreed to accept him as a disciple again.

"Mister, I want to learn! Teach me this too, okay?!"

"One cannot be greedy."

Lu Liangsheng walked to the side, the wind was blowing on his face, and his beard and beard were slightly stroked in the wind, "The same is true for the journey of Taoism and Dharma. Only one that suits you can do it."

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to look at Li Xuanba carefully, and for a moment, suddenly raised his hand to touch it. In the past, except for the second brother and mother, if anyone stretched out his hand like this, he would either dodge it or hit him with a fist. In the past, now I hurriedly closed my eyes, and even leaned forward slightly.

...The old man wanted to touch it, so let him touch it, and there were quite a few pieces of meat.

Feeling a wave of warmth caressing the top of his head, Li Xuanba's thoughts that he was still thinking about gradually disappeared. It was a warmth and tranquility that had never been seen before.

After a while, he opened his eyes, looked up at the old gentleman with his thin face, Lu Liangsheng withdrew his hand expressionlessly, turned his back, his beard fluttering.

"Xuanba, your name Xuan and Ba are both extremely strong, especially Xuan. You must not take the title randomly, otherwise there will be damage. As a teacher, I changed my name from Xuan to Yuan. The word Yuan contains multiple meanings. In addition, I will teach you another method "Hunyuan Tiangang Jue", but I think you are too playful to learn it, I have sealed it in your head, when you want to learn it, read it carefully Just think about it."

head?

Li Xuanba touched his head subconsciously, and knocked twice on his forehead. As for asking him to change his name, it doesn't matter. Anyway, Xuanba and Yuanba are similar, as long as they don't change their surnames. Otherwise, his father will definitely not agree. .

"Then... Yuanba thanked Mr.... thanked Master!"

Over there, Lu Liangsheng turned around, still expressionless on his face, just looked at him, stretched out his hands to help Li Xuanba up, flicked his robe sleeves to the outside, and the surrounding suddenly fell crazily, creating a blur, instantly, His field of vision stabilized, and he returned to the open space in front of the ruined temple.

"Yuanba, come here." Lu Liangsheng said to the child who was looking around in amazement, and held a hand behind his back, which turned into a purple gold gourd, brought it to Li Xuanba, and instantly turned into a gourd the size of a human head hammer.

"Take it and do something for me."

Li Xuanba took the golden hammer and weighed it in his hand a few times, it was too light, since it was not given to him, he didn't care too much.

"What's the matter? Master."

"Come here with your ears."

Over there, Li Xuanba, who was listening with his ears, nodded repeatedly, his eyes were even bent into crescents, and he grinned and said: "Success, Master, wait for the news."

Immediately, excitedly holding the golden hammer and waving away, Lu Liangsheng looked at the children who turned to the street, his sleeves fluttered, and a black shadow jumped to the ground, standing in the grass about as high as him, squinting his eyes .

"How did you give away the gourd for the teacher? Do you know that back then, it was knotted on the Kunlun fairy vine, and how many people broke their heads and wanted to snatch it from the teacher."

The footsteps walking on the side stretched forward, Lu Liangsheng was still looking there, did not answer the master's words, and suddenly laughed out loud.

"Master, don't you think this is a bit insidious?"

"It's not insidious, are you dead against them?" Taoist Toad nodded slightly, and when he heard the buzzing sound, he opened his mouth and stuck out his long scarlet tongue to wrap around a flying insect, quickly dragged it into his mouth, and continued: "One of those gods If you want to deal with them, it is even more insidious than a sinister one, and no one can survive, so how can you deal with it."

The corner of Lu Liangsheng's mouth curled into a smile, and he picked up the toad on the ground and put it on his shoulder.

"Master's words are becoming more and more reasonable."

On the shoulder, Taoist Toad turned his face and snorted: "Why did you say something unreasonable for the teacher, by the way, when will you know "Hunyuan Tiangangjue" as a teacher, why haven't I seen you use it before?"

"That's because there is none at all. The names are all made up now. Passing them on to him is just some body-building methods. If you really want to teach Taoism, now is not the time. Even so, it makes me feel a little guilty."

"..." Taoist Toad looked at his apprentice speechlessly, "Why do you feel guilty, maybe that child will thank you even more."

As soon as the words were finished, Li Xuanba, who was running far away, stopped, turned around and bowed respectfully to this side, "Thank you, Master!" Then, he turned and ran away again.

Taoist Toad spread out his frog webs.

"look."

Lu Liangsheng, who walked out of the wild grass, looked at the master's god-like expression in confusion, and sighed, "I'd better settle the matter here quickly." '

Thinking about it, he disappeared and went to the other side of the street, quickened his pace, walked through the noisy market, returned to the apprentice's house, took the unicorn cloak from the bookshelf and put it on, then jumped onto the roof, dragged The hunting robes flitted towards the surrounding heights, mana flooded the bottom of his eyes, and looked in the direction of Li Xuanba.

.......

On the long street leading to the Earth Temple, there are few people. The sound of horseshoes roars and spreads, and the shouts of "driver" rise and fall. Li Yuan, who was riding in front, suddenly saw a running figure in front of him, with a beard around his mouth trembling, and shouted: "Nie Zi, come here soon!"

With such a son, he is really worried all day long, even a slight bump, ordinary people can't bear it, if it happens, it will be a life lawsuit, and as the general manager of Taiyuan, he can't play favoritism and cheat, right?But if he really wanted to torture his own son, he would be even more reluctant.

After venting his anger, Li Yuan felt a little better when he saw him walking with his head down, and immediately looked sideways at Qu Yuanfeng, Li Jing and others who came with him, feeling a little embarrassed.

"General Qu Lang, Pharmacist, let you also go out with me, and I will sue you on behalf of this scoundrel."

Seeing his son approaching from the corner of his eye, he turned his face back, his smile restrained and turned serious.

"Apologize to the guests!"

Over there, Li Xuanba, whose hair was still disheveled, lowered his head and was still muttering what the old man said to him just now. Hearing his father's stern tone, he raised his face in dissatisfaction, and lifted the pumpkin casually. start.

"I'm sorry..."

His lazy gaze swept across Qu Yuanfeng, and when he fell to the second face, his eye sockets opened wide unconsciously. On the head of the young man who had never seen it before, he vaguely saw golden smoke slowly rising from the sky, thinking of the old man If so, the corner of his mouth grinned.

Over there, Li Jing on horseback nodded and smiled at him, and said, "It's okay." At the same time, his eyes couldn't help falling to the gourd in the child's hand, feeling the flow of mana.

"Young master is really extraordinary, and the weapon in his hand is also rare. I wonder if I can show it to the pharmacist?"

Li Yuan frowned, and only then did he notice the pumpkin hammer in his son's hand, and was about to ask him where he got it, when Li Xuanba took two steps forward, and the corners of his mouth opened, his smile became more ferocious.