Great Sui Guoshi

Shops, stalls, and shopkeepers yelled loudly, inviting people from the past.

"The stall is closed, buy what you want quickly..."

"Cooking cakes! Cooking cakes are delicious and affordable!"

"Guest officer, don't you want to buy some rouge and gouache for the little lady at home? I promise to make her little face look flimsy..."

The voices are noisy and lively.

In the busy city, Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey, looking around.

Suddenly, there was an illusion like a world away.

"The people in one place are destitute, but the other place is prosperous..."

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At this moment, outside of the border crossing hundreds of miles to the north of Chen Chao, in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, in a dark hall in a mountain, in front of the four-armed god statue, a figure sitting cross-legged opened his eyes, opened his mouth, and spat out a mouthful of blood .

"Lu Liangsheng... there is such a powerful monk behind him to help. It's a miracle... But I have to go to Wuse Village first. The thousand-year-old flower has bloomed for a long time, and it should bear fruit."

At the same time, Pudu Cihang, who returned to the altar, remembered the flames emerging from the round jade, and opened his eyes slightly.

"Good, good, this person's hostility is too strong, which has compromised the cultivation of this Dharma Master, and urgently needs to be saved."

The fate of the world is ingenious and difficult to understand. Sometimes a good relationship is formed due to a coincidence, and a good story spreads, and sometimes it becomes an enemy inexplicably...

The night is getting darker, and beyond the deserted inner city, there is the brightly lit palace, and the burning candles surround a warm atmosphere.

The sound of falling chess pieces was a bit heavy.

It could be heard that the emperor sitting in the curtain seemed to be in a bad mood.

Chapter 1 Eleven

The night wind blew past the Linguang Hall with the coldness of spring.

The eunuchs and maids stood outside the lights with their heads down, the curtains were dim among the burning candles, the emperor dropped a piece heavily, the sound of chess was heavy, and he seemed to be in a bad mood.

"I feel that it was a mistake to transfer Min Changwen back to the court."

On the opposite side, the silhouette who was also sitting in the curtain was a woman, with dark temples that could be vaguely seen, with a beautiful appearance and a considerate disposition, holding a sunspot with her jade fingers, she followed the emperor closely, pursed the corners of her mouth, and said softly:

"Your Majesty will never do anything wrong, shouldn't it be the courtiers who are wrong?"

"Lihua...you don't understand."

The emperor was only in his 30s, with a good appearance, and his gestures were more elegant than imperial. At this moment, he sighed, stared at the chessboard, and smiled.

"I became a prince at the age of 17 and continued to be a prince until I was 30. It was not easy. I built a few buildings and let the ministers say: Your Majesty should not be extravagant; when I wrote a few articles, they said: Your Majesty handles state affairs more; please have a priest by your side." Asking about the well-being of the world, he also said: Your Majesty must not entrust the fate of a country to ethereal ghosts and gods;

... I feel that besides you, everyone else is going against me. "

In the words between gnashing teeth, the woman on the opposite side reached out and rubbed the back of the emperor's hand, her words were gentle.

"Your Majesty is actually in charge of government affairs, they just can't see it."

snort!

The emperor seemed to feel aggrieved, and when he clasped the chess piece with the other hand and slapped the table, he felt the warmth from his weak palm, and his tone softened.

"My concubine is right. I am concerned about the affairs of He Liangzhou. Can they see it? The abbot said that the natural disaster in He Liangzhou was only a short period of time. Didn't the news come a few days ago? It has already started to rain heavily. Another few days of heavy snow."

On the opposite side, the beautiful woman pursed her lips and smiled lightly, and took the sentence.

"Auspicious snow heralds a good year, He Liangzhou, there should be something to look forward to next year."

"So, those ministers' persuasion is not as good as Fa Zhang's predictability."

As the emperor who finally came to the throne, Chen Shubao also felt unspeakable pain in his heart, and his palms slapped and slapped.

"They thought that I didn't know who was jumping up and down behind me. I gave them such a high position to make them block me? Especially that Min Changwen, I didn't know what was wrong, so I called him back..."

Most likely he was extremely annoyed, and when he said what he said about "what's wrong", the maids and eunuchs who were waiting around turned pale and retreated quietly outside the palace. They couldn't listen to these words casually.

In the hall, the woman got up and sat next to the emperor, stretching his back: "By the way, your majesty is the king of a country, so it's better not to say such angry words. Look how scared the people below are."

"If they dare to talk, go outside and die with sticks." The emperor said angrily.

The noble concubine who played chess with him wisely didn't continue the topic, brushed her fingertips over the emperor's back, and turned the conversation to something else.

"Recently, Jing'er has become more and more sensible."

"He is the prince."

Speaking of his son, Chen Shubao finally had a smile on his face. This child is very much like him when he was a child, with a sincere and gentle temperament. More importantly, he also likes poetry and vocal music just like himself.

Last year, after returning home with the imperial concubine to visit relatives, she became much more sensible, and she was not as absent-minded in her studies as before. The prince of the East Palace who taught Jinger said that this is the appearance of a wise monarch, which made Chen Shubao happy for a while.

But there was one thing, that was the assassination on the way back to Beijing. When asked the reason, Chen Shubao didn't believe it when he said it was from Fa Zhang's sect.

他 说:

"Pudu Cihang is a virtuous and eminent monk who is proficient in Buddhism and saves the world from adversity with compassion. He is also the guardian of the country. How could he harm Jing'er? It must be someone else who is pretending to be alienated."

During the period, the emperor also found out that since the imperial concubine came back, he suddenly became interested in the theory of ghosts and gods, and set up a shrine in her Jieqi Pavilion, and occasionally worshiped it, most of which were folk gods.

Maybe it's because I admire the father-in-law, so I fell in love with me...

This kind of thinking probably dispelled the emperor's doubts, and he was happy to see it succeed.

Boom!

dong dong!

At this time, an eunuch outside the palace door pushed the door and came in: "Your Majesty, Concubine, His Royal Highness is here."

"Isn't Jing'er someone?"

When the woman spoke lightly, the eunuch stepped aside, a small figure dressed luxuriously trotted in, and a jade pendant with pearls containing Pisces on his waist swayed as he ran.

"Father, mother."

The curtain was lifted, and the woman inside also walked out quickly, with gold hairpins and precious jade in the coiled hair on her head, her face was delicate and slightly powdered.

If Lu Liangsheng and Sun Yingxian were here, they would definitely recognize her as He Jingqiu who arrived in Beijing together.

Over there, Zhang Lihua dragged her crimson dress and gown to meet her, and led the little man who ran over, and they went back into the curtain together.

"It's so late, why don't you go to sleep?"

Chen Jing snuggled up beside his mother, with the daze of just waking up still on his face, he rubbed his eyes and yawned.

"Jing'er can't sleep, and wants to visit mother and father."

"Okay, then you can enjoy the family relationship with your father first, and mother goes to change clothes."

Facing her son, Zhang Lihua withdrew her usual obsequiousness, said softly, and sent Chen Jing to the emperor's side, which was a blessing.

"Your Majesty, I will go down first, and bring some soup to warm my body later."

"Go."

The emperor waved his dragon sleeves with a smile, and stretched out his hand to pull the prince to sit beside him. After studying in the school for the past few days, he noticed the jade pendant on his waist.

"Jing'er, who gave you this?"

"A gentleman."

"In the East Palace?"

"No, when Jing'er and mother came back, they met a very nice gentleman on the road. Nuo, is this jade pendant any good?"

Speaking of this, Chen Jing lost all sleepiness, and held the Pisces Hanzhu Pei to his chest as if offering a treasure. He almost forgot what Lu Liangsheng told him before.

"...Also, that gentleman can do spells, he is very powerful, and he is also a very nice person."

The emperor frowned: "Can you spell?"

"Mm! My name is Lu Liangsheng." The villain blushed and nodded excitedly: "Mother said he was very powerful."

Chen Shubao's expression darkened when he remembered the move of the imperial concubine setting up a shrine after returning to the palace.

However, after a while, he smiled again and hugged the prince.

"You are the prince, you can't wear a fish, and put it on the father's side for the time being."

"Is it a rule again?"

"Yes, the palace has palace rules."

Not long after, Chen Shubao looked as usual and enjoyed some family happiness with his wife and children, and returned to Linchun Pavilion alone.

Looking at the Pisces with pearls in his hand, he couldn't sleep all night, until the sky was bright, and he gradually fell asleep.

The morning light shone from the cloud gap in the east, pushing away the color of Qingming, pushing past the palace, and wrapping the whole city. In less than a moment, the sky and the earth were soaked in this golden color.

The winter snow has already melted away, and the wet treetops sprout new buds, and the water droplets accumulated overnight fall silently to the ground.

"Oh... oh oh..."

The roosters raised in the kitchen of the Min Mansion stretched their necks and crowed loudly, and the whole mansion became lively with the sound of people's voices and footsteps.

"...Walk away the cold winter and put it in front of you. The old tree welcomes the spring and sprouts new branches. Under the phoenix tree, there are immortals on the stone."

Lu Liangsheng pushed open the door of the bedroom, stretched in the morning light, walked to the water tank in the corner of the side yard, took a sip of clear water, wrapped it in his mouth, gurgled a few times, and spat up to the root of the plane tree.

It has been two days since I returned to the capital, and it was less than seven or eight days before the spring on the second day of February. The Taoist left the day before, saying that he was not used to living here, so he might as well go wandering outside and come back after the spring.

"Also, it's not beautiful to stay here by force."

After Lu Liangsheng finished washing, he shook off the water stains on his hands, and the water drops automatically fell to the ground, and he returned to the room refreshed. Taoist Toad was still dozing off under a small quilt, and most of the quilt was kicked off at some point , feeling the coolness, smacked his lips, lifted his webbed hands and scratched his white belly a few times, turned over and continued to sleep.

The scholar reached out and pulled the quilt to cover him, found a book, leisurely walked to the courtyard, sat on the stone bench under the plane tree, bathed in the morning light, and quietly recited each chapter.

Heaven rewards diligence, and knowledge is accumulated step by step.

"Mr. Lu!" Outside the crescent door in the side courtyard, a maid came in with breakfast and porridge, smiled slightly, and put the plates and porridge bowls on the stone table, and glanced at the side face of the scholar illuminated by the morning light from the corner of her eye.

Holding the book, Lu Liangsheng smiled and responded politely.

The maid blushed and lowered her eyes, and said softly: "Master Lu, please take it easy." She walked away quickly with lotus steps and kicked the hem of her skirt.

At the same time, the door of the dormitory was gently opened, Taoist Toad hissed at the picture scroll on the wall, carefully stepped out his short legs, stared at the apprentice who was reading on the stone bench, and gently pressed against the wall, standing upright. The round belly moved slowly.

In an instant, Taoist Toad ran into Wang Shuhua's study, holding a brush and a piece of paper, his long tongue was excitedly dragging to his mouth, and he spread his frog webs and ran back.

Lu Liangsheng put down the porridge, turned his head to look at the room, shook his head with a smile, held up the book and continued to read quietly.

The sycamore trees in the courtyard swayed gently, making a soft rustling sound.

a piece of spring

Chapter 1 Twelve

Lu Liangsheng had already noticed the movement of Toad running into Wang Shuhua's study to get pen and ink.

"Master, what do you do with these, so that you won't be idle and draw a map?"

Lu Liangsheng put down the book, stood in the light spot and stretched again, the side yard was quiet, only an old sycamore tree swayed its branches and leaves, rustling softly.

Mr. Shuhua, the mentor, went out to visit friends the day before and hadn’t come back yet. At this moment, Lu Liangsheng was the only one in this courtyard. Looking up, he looked up like a big tree with a canopy.

The light spots cast on the face, feeling the warmth of spring.

After a while, before he brought the breakfast and half a bowl of porridge on the table, Lu Liangsheng pushed open the door, and on the edge of the desk by the window, Taoist Toad climbed on it with his webbed legs, kicked a few times with his legs hanging outside, and Didn't go up, waited until it was put on the table earlier, the scholar stretched out his hand and pushed behind the toad, and then managed to climb on it.

"Master, what are you tossing about so early in the morning?" Lu Liangsheng smiled and handed over the pastry.

The panting toad sat down, leaning his back against the bowl, took a small bite of the red bean cake, swallowed slowly, and looked at his apprentice calmly.

"Hmm... Teacher likes to climb mountains, looking for feelings."

Well…..

Obviously saw you running around against the wall.

The corners of Lu Liangsheng's mouth twitched, he squeezed out a smile, and said, "Master is very interested." At that time, in the picture scroll on the wall beside the bed, Nie Honglian poked out half of his head lightly, and his figure was a little erratic. Forcibly receiving Zhu Ziyi's sword qi, he lost a lot of yin qi.

She still had dimples on her cheeks, and she smiled lightly.