Great Sui Guoshi

"It turned out to be Lu Guoshi."

As he said, he spread his hands sideways: "Please come inside."

"Please!"

Lu Liangsheng followed suit, and followed Chenghuang Ji Xin into the main hall. As soon as he stepped over the threshold, the clay sculpture of the altar in his sight rippled and receded quickly, turning into a gloomy courtroom. There are also a few desks where the directors of various departments handle official business and ask the crying ghosts, presenting a noisy scene in the Yangjian court.

"Master Lu, please sit down."

People looked at the seat, and Ji Xin brought the tea from the underworld and put it in front of Lu Liangsheng, and sat on the opposite side. Since the corpse demon incident hurt his soul, he has been staying in the temple to recover, and rarely walked around the city. In [-], when the imperial teacher of the dynasty paid a sudden visit, he was somewhat confused, so it would be better to ask clearly.

"The national teacher drinks tea, I don't know if the national teacher came to the Town God's Temple today, is there anything else he can do to find me?"

Lu Liangsheng sniffed the tea from the City God's Yin Division, and felt the fragrance of the tea overflowing his mouth, nose and throat like an ordinary person, and then put the teacup aside.

Let's just get right down to business...

"The City God is good at torture and punishment. Our national teacher happened to arrest one person. We need the City God's help to find something from his memory."

Haha!

Over there, Ji Xin was holding the teacup in one hand, brushing off his beard with the other hand and laughing, this interrogation was one of Yin Division's specialties, he nodded his head quite proudly, and stretched out his hand boldly.

"To tell you the truth, the City God's Yin Division has many interrogation tools, not to mention ghosts, even if the gods in the sky come here, Xin can tell you things."

"Oh? That's just right, what I caught happened to be a fairy."

Hearing what he said, Lu Liangsheng was very happy. It seemed that he had come to the right place. Seeing that he was not joking, the city god Ji Xin was stunned, hesitated, and asked in a low voice: "National teacher, what are you doing?" Really caught a fairy?"

"Well, Li Jing, the king of Tota in the sky."

Ji Xin shuddered suddenly, his body staggered a little and he almost slipped off his chair. The originally noisy courtroom around him was suddenly silent, and countless eyes intertwined and looked at him.

Chapter 7: In the past, you went, now, I go

"Lu... Lu Guoshi, this... this is not a joke..."

The tables and chairs trembled slightly, and Ji Xin, who couldn't be slow for a while, sat back slowly with the armrests in place. Seeing Lu Liangsheng opposite him looked serious, not joking, he quickly turned his head, and glanced at the surrounding departments. Poor, it seems that they didn't see the gaze cast by the city god, one by one retracted their gaze, and continued to immerse themselves in their own affairs. For a while, the originally dead court was noisy again.

"You...you!"

Ji Xin bit the bullet and turned back, looking at the snow-white-haired Lu Liangsheng opposite, wishing he could slap himself, even though he had a strong character back then, now he could only force a smile.

"National teacher, is it really Chentangguan... that Li Jing?"

As the first city god in the world, he is also the one who has held the god position for the longest time in the temple. He knows more about the gods in the sky than the later city gods. He can also be regarded as the number one deity, there are basically his statues in the four temples, and there are more incense sticks than him, the number one city god in the world.

Lu Liangsheng naturally saw what was going on in his mind, stood up and cupped his hands.

"The calamity of the demon star is caused by these gods. They came down to the world and hoped that the world would be chaotic, so that they would flourish and take the opportunity to destroy the magic circle of all spirits. Ji Chenghuang, my teacher knows your worries, but you Not the god of heaven, but my god of the sun, and it is your duty to protect the people."

"Ji also knows this truth."

Looking at the national teacher in front of him, Ji Xin knew that the other party must respond when he came to the door, but he was worried... Thinking of this, his condensed body was still a little trembling, and he trembled when he stood up and walked around.

"It's not that Ji doesn't want to help, but Li Jing has become a god for a long time, and he is also the king of Tota, the commander under his command..."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Liangsheng interjected: "They should all come down."

"what?!"

The figure walking over there stared wide-eyed, Ji Xin stared dully at Lu Guoshi in front of him, staggered to sit on the chair with his hands on his forehead, even without body, he could still feel dizzy, reached for the teacup next to him, trembling slightly Put the water stained mouth and nose away, and inhale lightly.

"National teacher, let Ji slowly... slowly... This is really too scary."

After taking a sip of tea, Ji Xin got up and was about to go to the inner room. Behind him, Lu Liangsheng suddenly stopped him: "Ji Chenghuang, where did you take the place of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty and let him evacuate Xianyang safely? Did Chenghuang sit in this position for a long time? , the conscience and blood that was a human being back then is gone!"

The noise in the courtroom quieted down, and the back in front of him trembled, and his steps slowly returned to the ground. Lu Liangsheng stepped forward: "Chenghuang, you used to protect the safety of Han Gaozu, and you also thought that he could bring the world back to life." Tranquility, let the people live and work in peace and contentment without suffering from the chaos of war, is it because of the high gods that you are afraid now?"

The back hung his head, standing still, and he could vaguely see Ji Xin's shoulders twitching, under the wide sleeves on both sides, his hands tightly clenched into fists, pressing down on the sides of his legs, and a low voice came.

"Master Lu...Ji Xin has never forgotten it, but I have already died once for the people of the world, what else do you want? Ji has been sitting in this position for a long time, but if I lose my conscience and blood, An Being able to sit for so long, An Neng guards the city and its people for countless springs and autumns!!"

The last sound was almost a roar. The outside temple, doors, windows, and tiles were all buzzing and shaking. The believers who burned incense and worshiped screamed and ran out of the building, watching the dust and tiles falling down. The eaves, hurriedly knelt down with hands clasped together.

In the main hall, Lu Liangsheng was speechless for the first time, yes, he had already died once for the unification of the world, and if he fell into desperation again, it would be because he was too selfish.

Lu Liangsheng pursed his lips tightly, silently raised his sleeves, silently cupped his hands towards the other party, turned and walked outside the hall, the moment he stepped out of the threshold, Ji Xin's voice sounded behind him.

"Master Lu."

Over there, the figure with his back turned his face slightly, unable to see his expression clearly in the darkness, "Leave the Heavenly King, and Ji Xin will give the Imperial Teacher an answer in three days!"

At the gate of the hall, the old face showed a smile. When Lu Liangsheng stepped out of the hall, he flicked his wide sleeve on the right side, and a wisp of golden air flew out instantly. Ji Xin turned around and opened a booklet to put it inside, and then quickly put the booklet close.

A voice echoed in the courtroom from far outside.

"This time it won't work. If there is no more chaos in the world, I will die. Not only the father, but also me, Lu Liangsheng!"

With Ji?

Ji Xin looked down at the booklet in his hand, and looked at the empty palace gate over there, with a smile on his face, his eyes swept over the ghosts all around him, and he snorted heavily.

"work"

After he floated to the court with his hands behind his back, there was still a vague and heroic laughter.

Hahaha.....

Ha ha.....

I am not alone!

.......

The sunlight slanted and shone on the corner of the eaves, casting it on the ground and moving slowly. The breeze stroked the ancient pine outside the temple. Inside the temple gate, Lu Liangsheng hunched and walked out in front of the eyes of others. On the stone steps below, Li Yuanba sat up from the stone and brushed past Drooling from the corner of his mouth, he patted his face to wake himself up, only to see that the old man had already walked in front of him.

"Master, why did you go in for so long?"

In the bookshelf behind the old donkey who got up to keep up, the voice of Taoist Toad also asked, "How did the talk with the City God go?"

"He agreed and will give me an answer in three days."

The ancient pine swayed, and there was a soft rustling sound. Lu Liangsheng looked back at the solemn City God Temple, pulled the reins and walked to the official road outside.

"The city gods of the world and the underworld are different from the gods in the sky. In this matter, they should be on the side of people, and they should be on this side."

As we approached the city gate, the road was full of cars and horses, and people were walking like a shuttle. It was almost time to close the city gate, and the number of people entering and leaving became more and more frequent. During the martial arts competition, all kinds of people from the rivers and lakes and green forests gathered towards Gyeonggi, and the already crowded and noisy city seemed even more mixed.

When Lu Liangsheng entered the city, his ears were filled with noise.

The restaurants were full, the waiters were busy and forgot to yell, the clean streets became muddy, and many people's footprints were left behind. Amidst the hawkers hawking in the streets, there was also a collision of swords and soldiers in a certain alley, and the police patrolling the street heard the movement , drew out his saber and hurried to it, chasing a few privately fighting green forest people all over the street, causing a crowd of bystanders to shout in panic, the booth was overturned, and the pots and pans were in a mess.

Lu Liangsheng took a look from a distance, and frowned even more. At this moment, whoever thought of such a stupid thing!

Soon, I disappeared into the street under the setting sun, and went back to the Wanshou Temple that I hadn’t seen for many years.

The setting sun hangs to the top of the city, and the temple in front of the Furong Pond is covered with a layer of rosy clothes. The children in the square are clad in Taoist robes and punching. The chopping board sounded, and the hard-working woman finished cutting a few vegetables, stacked them on one side, and urged the husband who was lighting the fire on the stove to add two more firewood.

Outside came the cheers of children finishing their classes.

Li Jinhua twisted her sore arms, raised her face to wipe off the sweat from her forehead, and looked outside the window lattice, the sun was shining on her face.

"It's night after all."

I vaguely remembered that I had just had lunch and had just prepared the food. After a while, there was a childish voice outside and asked when the meal was ready. Li Jinhua smiled, wiped off the water stains on her hands, walked outside the door, squatted down, Pinching a child with a tiger's head and a tiger's brain.

"It's almost ready, Xiaoyun, go and ask your mother to prepare dinner."

"Good grandma!"

The three-year-old child shook his head and ran to a wooden building in the distance. Li Jinhua pressed his knees to support himself, and when he turned and walked to the kitchen, he felt someone watching her from a distance.

Turning his head, on the stone steps beyond the mountain gate, old donkeys were chewing grass, walking around with their tails flicking, beside him, there was an old man with white beard and beard, standing there in a dusty robe, looking directly at them. come over.

There was a smile on her older face.

With a soft whisper.

"Mom... I'm back."

At this moment, the annoying cicadas seemed to disappear in an instant.

Chapter 7 Fifteen A Family, A Fate

The tree shadows fell on the ground and shook, and the cicadas came back again.

"Who is this person?"

The old woman under the eaves raised her gray hair slightly, glanced over there, and called her husband inside to come out.

"Old Shi, come out quickly, an old man with a white beard is coming outside."

Lu Laoshi, who was on fire from the stove, heard his old wife call him, threw the log in his hand, patted the dust and got up, walked to his wife, followed her line of sight, and saw the hunched old man in front of the stone steps of the mountain gate. , sighed, turned around and went back, muttering: "What is there to see for an old man."

"But I think he looks familiar...very familiar."

The woman didn't leave, she just stood under the eaves, looked at each other, pulled back her husband who turned away, Lu Laoshi sighed, his eyesight was a bit bad, walked into the sunlight outside the eaves, and took a few careful glances , Hastily stepped back and pointed over there.

"That...that...."

"What do you see?" Li Jinhua asked quickly, pulling his arm.

Lu Laoshi, who stammered and yelled, finally yelled out one word: "Donkey!"

"My old lady told you to watch people, but you watch donkeys?"

The old woman frowned, and stretched out her hand to pinch off her husband's ear, but the latter stamped his foot anxiously, and said vigorously, "It's Liangsheng's old donkey, I recognize it!"

"Really...really?"

"No, I know how many hairs there are!"

The couple looked at each other, ignored the food on the stove, walked out of the eaves quickly, and went over to ask a few questions. After all, the man was indeed too old, and he seemed to be older than Mr. Lu in the village, but beside him was the old man of Liang Sheng. Donkey, and there are bookshelves, their sons still don't know?How could it be possible to throw away the book at will.

'Could it be that Liangsheng had an accident and asked someone to bring things back? '

The preconceived idea made the old couple's hearts jump. Li Jinhua squeezed her husband's hand tightly. donkey.

"Old gentleman, why do you have my Liangsheng's donkey?"

Seeing his father and mother approaching, with gray hair mixed in their buns, Lu Liangsheng felt unspeakable emotion in his heart, forgot to answer for a while, just stared at them blankly, and the old donkey trotted forward, with his mouth and nose Going to arch the cuffs of the old woman, sticking out his tongue, turning to Lu Laoshi who was on the side, let out a groaning groan.

"Just say it's my Liangsheng's donkey, he really recognized me."

Lu Laoshi patted its head and mane happily, and for a moment still looked at the old man in front of him, and then asked the old wife's words: "Old man, please give me a letter, where is my Liangsheng?"

He had a meek temper and couldn't say anything else. His wife at the side took the conversation away, with tears on her face and her voice choked up.

"...We only have one son. We haven't seen him for many years. Can...can you tell us if he is still here?"

Hearing his mother's choking voice, Lu Liangsheng came back to his senses, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he was about to raise his hand to speak, but in the corner of his eyes, he saw the wrinkles on the back of his hands, some spots of old people's spots, and the words that came out of his mouth were abrupt. Swallow it back.

The slightly shaking bookshelf on the back of the old donkey, Taoist Toad hugged his fins and looked at his apprentice through the gap, muttering: "I want to see but dare not admit it, alas, I have to come out and break the hesitation of this nerd!"

With a creak, the small door was pushed open, and the old couple outside heard the sound and turned their eyes, and saw a big toad standing up in a short coat with a rope around his waist, and walked out with his fins in his arms.

"This toad is also a good student..."

The moment Li Jinhua hesitated, Taoist Ha nodded, "That's right, the old man is a good student..." Before he could finish speaking, the old donkey who was having fun wrapped around Lu Laoshi and was pushed away. He shook his body, and the bookshelf shook accordingly. The short black figure standing by the small door moved and stepped out.

"?!"

Toad's eyelids twitched, and the falling flippers stepped into the air, and fell instantly. The rope around his waist was stretched straight, and Taoist Toad, surrounded by his flippers, was hanging under the bookshelf, with a depressed expression, and wobbled on the swing.

"It really is Liang Sheng's toad!!" Lu Laoshi said with certainty.

Li Jinhua on the side nodded in agreement with her husband's words with tears in her eyes. At this moment, a faint scent of sandalwood came from the scroll on the bookshelf. The old couple who went to the opposite, their cheeks were slightly dimpled, and they bowed profusely.

"Uncle, Auntie, this old... man in front of you is actually the young master."

"Red pity..."

The old couple naturally recognized the girl in front of her who had never changed her appearance, and then looked at the 'old man' next to her. Li Jinhua's eyes became more wet and red, her body trembled slightly, and she took half a step forward, "Liangsheng?"

Lu Liangsheng was still a little hesitant at first, but when he heard his mother's choked cry, it seemed that a string in his heart was pulled, and he opened his mouth subconsciously.

"Mom, it's me."

Seeing her son's old face, white beard and hair, the woman covered her mouth and cried silently. Lu Liangsheng squeezed his lips tightly, took a deep breath, and went to embrace his mother in his arms.