Great Sui Guoshi

A group of people tugged at each other, separated left and right to make way for a spacious road, watched the handsome scholar just walk through the middle, and the master's bedroom over there, the uncle of the family was also standing at the door, his expression gradually become dull.

"Hey, have you noticed, my uncle...It seems to grow like this book..."

"What kind of scholar, didn't you hear that half-immortals are called masters? I'm afraid they are national teachers."

"National teacher? I don't remember being an old man of half a century. He is so young now... Oh, isn't it that he has rejuvenated and become a fairy!"

The word 'Chengxian' was exited, and in the crowd, their feet softened first, and they fell short, thinking that someone was kneeling down behind them, they quickly followed and knelt down to the ground.

......

The lights are dim, and the smell of herbal medicine is strong in the bedroom. A porcelain bowl with mottled medicinal residues is still placed on the bedside low cabinet, and in the opened curtain, the woman covered with a bedding on the couch is in her 40s, with disheveled hair. There are a lot of white marks, the once beautiful face is thin and haggard, the eyes are deep-set, and the corners of the eyes are covered with wrinkles, it seems to understand the movement outside, weakly opened the eyes, coughed twice, and the dry and peeled lips smacked , calling out:

"Husband... what's going on outside?"

The wind blows through the window lattice, the shadow of the lamp is cast on the wall, the room is empty, there is no answer, the woman stretches out the quilt, groping feebly, trying to find her husband's hand, turning her head with difficulty, the dim light Among them, the husband stood at the door motionless.

"Husband...jun..."

When the weak man called out again, the figure at the door turned around, showing a smile, his figure became blurred and turned into dots of light, a figure walked into the door, and the light fell on him and disappeared.

The woman couldn't see clearly, but just saw the outline of the figure, and an unknown warmth suddenly rose from the bottom of her heart and spread throughout her body.

"you....."

squeak~~

With the sound of another wooden door being opened, Lu Liangsheng lightly fiddled with the candles on the table, and the room became brighter. He walked slowly to the bed, sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the woman in her 40s on the bed, without any words in a daze, 20 For him, years passed in a flash, but for the mortals, they left many traces of the years.

The once heroic and handsome woman's skin became loose, and her face was covered with wrinkles. The eyes that were once bright and clear, looking at him, looked muddy and surprised in the candlelight.

"You are...his son." Min Yuerou's voice was a little hoarse, and she was placed on the back of her hand outside the quilt, and her big warm hand covered her and held her.

Lu Liangsheng shook his head, with tenderness in his eyes, "It's me, Lu Liangsheng, who heard about you and came to see you."

The eyes of the woman on the couch were moist, she turned her face away, and pulled up the quilt with her other hand to cover her cheeks.

"You were recruited by outsiders to lie to me... Young master, you can go and ask my husband to come in... I don't want to see other people."

Lu Liangsheng was silent.

Rubbing the back of the woman's hand with only a layer of skin with her fingers, looking at the hair protruding from the quilt, and speaking to the woman below, her voice became gentle.

"Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a mountain called Qixia, and there was a village under the mountain. There was a boy named Lu Yuan..."

Chapter 824 One encounter with Lu Lang mistakenly for life

The courtyard was quiet, the night wind blew into the room, the lights on the table flickered slightly, Lu Liangsheng sat on the edge of the bed, and an unknown story slowly came out from his mouth.

"...The young man worked very hard. After he had achieved something in his studies, he traveled to the north and met an immortal master who taught him Taoism. His official career was smooth, and he married the daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials as his wife, and later lived in the court, and was recruited by His Majesty as a national teacher."

In the curtain swaying in the wind, the woman who covered her face probably listened to the words, moved her hand in Lu Liangsheng's hand, and Min Yuerou's weak words sounded from the quilt.

"Young master Lu... you are actually Lu Yuan... right?"

"Lu Yuan is me, but I'm not him." Lu Liangsheng gently pulled off the quilt, exposing his thin cheeks, filled with tears, and reached out to scrape the water stains from the corners of the woman's eyes, "If it weren't for him, some tracks would have changed , I might follow his path, become Lu Yuan, stand in the court after going through hardships, and marry the daughter of a minister...that woman is you."

Min Yuerou's eyes lit up, she wanted to get up, but she didn't have enough strength after all, so she lay down again, her dry and chapped lips were slightly parted, and when she wanted to say something, she could only squeeze out a smile, and turned her face away slightly.

She found that these were just like fate, even if she knew this, what could she do, should she be happy or sigh that her life was not good?

As Lu Liangsheng said back then, he is a cultivator, and his years will be very long. Now that time has passed, he has grown old, his skin is loose, and he is no longer the best at the beginning, but Lu Liangsheng in front of him is still the same as before, elegant The scholar, as if he came to the house for the first time and saw his father, but she, who was watching secretly from behind the screen, was already on the verge of death.

"Mr. Lu... I thank you..." Min Yuerou's eyes were moist, and big tears rolled across the corner of her eyes to the wooden pillow. She stretched out a hand and took the man's hand away.

"Thank you...thank you for sending Lu Yuan to accompany me..."

She tried to raise her hand, but failed in the end. Lu Liangsheng grabbed her instead, pressed his hand to his face, felt the gentle caress of his weak fingers, and said in a hoarse voice, "You don't blame me?"

"Don't complain...don't complain..." Min Yuerou gently caressed the man's face, this was the first time she looked at him and touched him so closely, with a bright smile on her face, she shook her head.

"I'm very content... I want to complain, I just blame me for not being more decisive... Actually, one night, I saw a figure from the back, it was an old man, it was you... right ?”

Lu Liangsheng nodded, but did not speak.

Seeing his appearance, the woman smiled happily for the first time: "I knew...seeing your back, faltering through the vicissitudes of life, but I didn't expect it to be you...you were so old at that time, more than a concubine I'm still old."

Lu Liangsheng pressed her hand and squeezed it tightly.

"Yuerou, don't tell me, I will use my magic power to recuperate your body."

The woman on the bed tried her best to shake her head and came out: "Young Master Lu, there is no need, this concubine has lived a good enough life, better than many women... I sent my parents away , I have my husband and children to accompany me at the end of my life, so I'm not alone... I also know you, I don't want to face you like this now..."

She didn't want Lu Liangsheng to talk, so she paused, then continued to speak with her chapped lips.

"...The concubine grew up in an official's family. From elementary school, she has been playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting... I thought I would just pass my whole life like this, but I didn't expect to meet you by fate... Gentle and elegant...and mysterious everywhere...I sent it with a heart, and I didn't think about regretting it."

The woman laughed at herself: "Perhaps, only when the road has come to an end can I dare to say these words to you... But... But I am very happy, I was brave... ...I can meet you at the best time."

"do not talk!"

"Master Lu, do you remember what you said to my concubine back then?"

There was a layer of blush on Min Yuerou's skinny face, and she raised one hand vigorously, curled it up, and stretched out her little finger: "You say, if you owe me, pay me back in the next life, let's pull the hook... shall we? In the next life , wait... Concubine, don't make it hard to find..."

The lights swayed in the wind.

Shining in the warm yellow light in front of the couch, two little fingers hooked together, Lu Liangsheng nodded, looking at her with wet eyes.

"I'm waiting for you."

After the words were finished, the woman on the couch still had a smile on her face, she let go of her little fingers that were hooked together, and slowly let her white arm come down, and landed on the scholar's lap.

Night Breeze whimpered and ran across the eaves, the swaying flames reflected in Lu Liangsheng's eyes, and put the woman's arm into the quilt, watching the smiling face with tears sliding down, feeling a sore throat.

"In the next life, I will wait for you. If I can't wait, I will look for you." Lu Liangsheng took out a wooden comb and combed the woman's messy hair neatly. The sad words came along with the two shadows from the darkness, riding the wind.

Sensing that there is a cultivator inside, he said in the thin mist: "The fellow Taoist inside, I am waiting for the underworld messenger of the Chang'an City God, and I am here to lure Min Yuerou to the underworld."

"Wait outside!"

Suddenly a cold word came out, and the two ghosts were shocked, not daring to make a mistake, so they had to stand outside the door and dare not go in.

In the room.

Lu Liangsheng combed the woman's hair, gently took off the wooden pillow, covered her with the quilt, watched a wisp of green smoke float out from the seven orifices and fell to the ground, and bowed gently to this side, smiling, slowly Slowly turned around and floated out of the door, and disappeared into the night with the two ghosts.

"I'm waiting for you."

Lu Liangsheng sat on the edge of the bed, pressed his hands on his knees, stared at the flickering candles on the table, and repeated in a daze. In the quiet room, there was no voice responding to him. After a while, he walked out of the room and looked towards Min Min in the courtyard. Everyone in the family beckoned, "For your mistress, let's do the funeral... Be more lively."

Then, he looked at the kneeling disciple in the main hall.

"Cheng En, follow me as a teacher."

In the backyard of the Min family, who was going away behind him, there was a burst of wailing. Lu Liangsheng walked on the path in the flower garden in Fuzhong, looked at the gazebo by the pool, and looked back at the half-blind man who followed closely behind.

"I have to leave as a teacher. If you encounter difficulties in the future, go to the Qinglan Sword Sect to find Suian. He is your junior brother and will not ignore you. At least the rest of your life will be able to live comfortably."

Wang Chengen raised his old face that couldn't grow old anymore, looked at the figure standing by the pool under the hazy moonlight, staggered two steps forward, his eyes turned red.

"Master, ask disciple Cheng En to worship you again."

Over there, Lu Liangsheng nodded silently, turned his back, his figure blurred, and slowly dissipated.

The old man knelt down on the ground tremblingly, looking at the direction where the figure disappeared, his eyes were blurred with tears, and his head touched the hard ground.

"Disciple Cheng En, send Master!!!"

A hoarse and old voice echoed in the night sky. Outside the distant courtyard gate, Lu Liangsheng walked out of the range of white lanterns hanging under the eaves. Hong Lian and the old donkey came up to meet him, "Master, is sister Min..."

"gone."

Lu Liangsheng patted Hong Lian's hand, took the reins, and walked together to Long Street Misty. It was time to go to the imperial city, and it was the last journey.

he thinks.

.......

The moonlight was like water, brushing over the burning bedroom. Inside the curtain, a figure suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, and the side concubine who woke up beside him sat up, "Your Majesty, what's the matter? It's still early, let's sleep a little longer. "

"No, I think someone will come tonight..."

Yang Guang was in his early forties, and he dealt with government affairs all the year round. He was much older than ordinary people, and his hair was mottled with many white spots. As he spoke, he pushed away the concubine who was pale with fright, and got off the dragon wearing a single dress. couch, opened the door of the bedroom, ignored the persuasion of the eunuch on duty, and went straight out.

"Your Majesty, the night wind is cool, be careful if you catch the cold."

"Get out of the way." The emperor walked past the light of the lanterns under the eaves, and the moment he pushed the eunuch away, he subconsciously turned his head and looked in one direction. There was a pavilion not far away. Someone was sitting there, drinking tea for himself.

"National...National teacher..."

Joy appeared on Yang Guang's face, and his footsteps quickened immediately. Even the old eunuch who followed behind him was startled. He was an old man next to His Majesty, and he had seen the national teacher back then.

Rubbing his eyes hard, he shouted in surprise: "You are really a national teacher!" Immediately, he quickly caught up with the emperor and followed behind, "Your Majesty, wait for this old slave, wait for this old slave..."

The moonlight reflected ripples in the pond.

Lu Liangsheng poured out a cup of tea and put it on the opposite side. Hearing the sound of footsteps approaching, he turned his eyes and looked outside the pavilion. He smiled at the emperor who was coming towards him, and reached out to greet him.

"Your Majesty, I invite Your Majesty to drink tea late at night, are you disturbing me?"

Yang Guang pursed his lips tightly, nodded vigorously, and strode into the gazebo.

Chapter 825

Clouds drift away at night, the cold crescent moon, the brightly lit palace, the glazed tiles seem to be covered with silver frost, the lotus leaves in the pond, the frog kicks its legs, and jumps into the water with a 'plop', creating a circle of ripples.

"I have seen Your Majesty."

Lu Liangsheng smiled at the figure who came in, stood up and stretched out his hand, "Your Majesty, this way please."

The emperor who walked past the stone table paused, staring blankly at the young and handsome scholar, and quickly reacted when he heard the words. Now that he has been in power for more than 20 years, he has a heroic and courageous attitude. He put his arms around the single clothes and walked away. Sitting down opposite, the surprise at the first meeting gradually calmed down, and waved for the old eunuch who followed outside the pavilion to stay away.

"National Division!"

With no one else around, Yang Guang had other expressions on his face, he quickly stood up again, and raised his hands towards the scholar opposite, "I am so happy that the national teacher can come back."

Outside the pavilion, the patrolling palace guards heard the voice coming towards this side, and the old eunuch hurried over to say hello, for fear of disturbing the reunion between His Majesty and the national teacher, "Everyone disperses, all disperses!" Come on, our house is here, and His Majesty is talking to the national teacher over there."

The group of guards who came over were no longer those old people in the palace, but the national teacher in the rumor knew more or less, and subconsciously looked at the gazebo over there, full of horror in his heart.

...The national teacher is back?Gotta tell the other patrol brothers not to go this way.

His thoughts flashed, and he quickly waved to his companion behind him with his weapon in hand, "Go to the next place." When more than a dozen guards left, Lu Liangsheng also stood up in the pavilion over there, laughed, and cupped his hands opposite the emperor Returning the gift, they sat down together, took the teapot and filled a cup, and handed it to the other party.

The aroma of tea and hot air lingers in the nose and nose, and there is a refreshing fragrance. Yang Guang didn't have the heart to taste it. He was a national teacher for 20 years when he went there that day. Now that he is back, he is so excited that he wants to take the late emperor out of the coffin. pull out.

"His Majesty."

Lu Liangsheng looked at the faint smile on the emperor's mouth, and sighed in his heart. He came here late at night, in fact, he wanted to tell the truth that he could no longer be the national teacher. Seeing Yang Guang's expression, he might be disappointed if he told it. .

On the opposite side, Yang Guang was listening to the following. For a long time, the national teacher just looked at him in silence. As the emperor, he couldn't guess anything in his heart.

"When did the national teacher come back? There were three canals on the way. Since I sat on this great treasure, I have been thinking about the exhortations of the late emperor and the national teacher every day. I am walking on thin ice. I am afraid that things will go wrong. I am ashamed of my expectations. In the past twenty years, the national teacher... the people of Kyushu in this world, how are they doing? Do you have any complaints?"

Lu Liangsheng looked at him, knowing that this was to avoid what he wanted to say, so let's talk more with His Majesty.

"Your Majesty's sageness is the blessing of the people. If Emperor Wen of the late Emperor Quan knows it, he should be happy. However, your Majesty must keep in mind that the emperor's inhumanity is the beginning of a country's replacement. You should keep it in mind. Come this way, see The common people live and work in peace and contentment, and business is flourishing, which shows His Majesty's hard work in the past 20 years."

Saying that, he got up and bowed to Yang Guang: "I thank your majesty for treating the people well."

"Master, it doesn't have to be like this!"

Yang Guang got up and stretched out his hands to support Lu Liangsheng, holding Lu Liangsheng's hands, with some reluctance in his eyes, he couldn't understand the meaning behind these words, but it wasn't what he wanted, took a deep breath, walked out of the stone bench, and was about to bow Going down, the waist suddenly seemed to be disobedient, stiff and unable to bend down.

"Master, you are..."

"Your Majesty, listen to the minister."

The moonlight reflected the lotus pond, and there was a sound of frogs. In the pavilion, Lu Liangsheng raised his hand to interrupt the emperor's words, walked to the painted red fence, looked at the half-round clear moon distorted on the water surface in the pond, fell silent for a while, and talked about the way of heaven .

"These 20 years are fleeting, I feel that the last time we left the city, it only happened in a few days, but for His Majesty and many others, it was a long time... When you came to see Your Majesty , Passing by the city, in the Min Mansion, a woman I once knew had gray hair and passed away from a serious illness. This parting of life and death is a bit painful... Moreover, the way of heaven is already driving me away, so stay a little longer Time is already at the limit... However, I forcibly borrowed Guo Zuo from Kongtong Yin to continue my Great Sui for a hundred years, and the rest will be decided by His Majesty and His future descendants. "

The scholar turned around with a smile on his face.

"Minister, trust your majesty, just like your majesty trusts your ministers."

Yang Guang clenched his fists tightly, pursed his lips, looked down at the hot air curling around the mouth of the cup on the stone table, and trembled slightly. To outsiders, he was a majestic emperor who ruled thousands of lives in the world. , but in front of this scholar, he was like the young King Jin who went to Qixia Mountain to worship his teacher for the first time.

The clenched fist was pressed to the side of the leg for a while, and Yang Guang raised his face to look at the carved beams of the gazebo, and suddenly laughed.