History Book Meticulous Brushwork Series - Jin Guangyao

After wandering around Jinlin Terrace for a few days, occasionally when I came to a place, Lan Xichen would talk to me about the past, but most of the time he was silent.

I don't think he was so silent in the past, maybe he had finished talking with Jin Guangyao in more than ten years of candlelight talks.

Today Lan Xichen took me to a place, the corpse refining ground.

I brought it up by myself. Since we want to understand a person who is no longer alive, we must understand everything. After Jin Guangyao died, the trees fell and the monkeys scattered. position, but there are always some people who are not so determined, in order to continue to survive in the fairy gate, they will not hesitate to sell the privacy of the former fairy governor in exchange for a way out.

Human nature, roughly, can only be like this.

The corpse refinery has not been used much since Jin Guangyao boarded the Immortal Governor and dealt with Xue Yang. It is said that Jin Guangshan wanted to refine the Yin Tiger Talisman, so he recruited Xue Yang, and Jin Guangyao found this place for Xue Yang. Most of the cadavers were sinners from Jinlintai and some Wen family prisoners of war, but there were also people killed by Jin Guangyao because of Jin Guangshan's obstacle in removing the obstacles of the Immortal Governor.

The He family in Tingshan is here, so the resentment has been lingering for a long time, and no one has set foot here.

I asked Lan Xichen to come with me, firstly because I was afraid, I am a mortal, there is nothing to be ashamed of being afraid, and secondly because I heard that Lan's has a secret technique - asking the spirit.

Lan Xichen summoned He Su's soul, He Su's soul was very excited, I couldn't see him, but I could feel his resentment and anger.

I figured it out, Jin Zixuan is not dead yet, Jin Guangyao is still doing things for Jin Guangshan, maybe when he killed someone he didn't realize that he was not eradicating dissidents for Jin Guangshan, but paving the way for himself.

But maybe he thought of it too, who knows.

Lan Xichen sent Ling away, lowered his eyes and said, "He heard Jin Guangshan say, son, don't mention it, it seems to be around the time of He Su's death."

I looked at this bloody and terrifying corpse refinery, the bloodstains looked bright red as if they had just been stained, and suddenly said: "Mr. Zewu, do you know why the heroes of the world are heroes?"

Lan Xichen said, "The historian please tell me."

I said: "Looking at history, since ancient times, heroes have only been judged by success or failure. The reason why heroes are heroes is because they lose. Yao is indeed ruthless and venomous to outsiders, he already has the character of a hero, the reason why he didn't become a hero but became a hero, I think he is not cruel enough."

Lan Xichen looked at me silently.

"Look, he didn't kill Xue Yang, he left a little room for him to fend for himself, which caused Daoist Xiao Xingchen's... fall. He didn't kill Sisi, he didn't annex the Nie family, he caused his own Destruction, since ancient times, those who have achieved great things, are not cruel enough, and will always bring tragedy."

"He obviously has the brains to do things cleanly, but he still cares about his old feelings. It's not that he can't do it, it's just that he didn't do it. If you say he doesn't do these things, does he still have hope in the world? "

"There are many dividing points in Jin Guangyao's life, which can be said to be legendary, Yunping, Qinghe, Qishan, and Lanling. But there is also a dividing point. It did not start with Jin Zixuan's death, but with Jin Guangshan's death. It started with death, after Jin Guangshan died, he began to shine, built a watchtower, served as the governor, no longer fearful or oppressed by others, and did what he really wanted to do."

"He makes good use of people and understands people's hearts. Otherwise, he wouldn't have so many people loyally following him, and Su Zongzhu wouldn't have died with him in Guanyin Temple."

"But people, once they fail, as long as they do one wrong thing, they will be regarded as a stain and will be infinitely magnified. This person will never be a good person. Even if he has done a hundred good things, as long as he has done one bad thing , he will be finalized, and forever, he will be just a hero."

"It's a pity, he should come to the court to be an official, an emperor, a national teacher, whatever, but it's a pity that he was born in Xianmen."

I suddenly understood Nie Huaisang's sentence that success is Xiao He, and failure is Xiao He.In all the past in Jin Guangyao's life, there is the shadow of Lan Xichen. Lan Xichen did nothing, but the subtle influence may have given Jin Guangyao an illusion.

Not everyone is a sinner, not everyone must be wiped out, maybe there are still people in the world who are as compassionate and kind as Lan Xichen.

I only know that it was normal at that time.

...I only know that it was normal at the time.

After listening to my words, Lan Xichen just stood there quietly, surrounded by blood and resentment, but he was very clean and bright, as if the world's filth could not stain him.

Lan Xichen didn't say anything at the end, he just asked me if there was anything else I wanted to go.

I said: "I want to go to his coffin, Sisi asked me to burn incense for him."

Lan Xichen agreed, but he didn't take me to the place where the coffin was sealed, which is known to everyone in the Taoist sect, but took me to the Guanyin Temple.

Guanyin Temple in Yunping City.

Standing in front of the wreckage of the temple, Lan Xichen turned his head to me and said, "Historist, I hope you don't tell anyone that his body is in the Guanyin Temple. In order to protect the Yinhu Talisman, I also want to give him peace."

I said: "This is as it should be."

The outside of the temple looks like ruins, but the inside of the temple has been repaired. A red sandalwood coffin was sealed with many runes, and many peach wood nails were nailed around it. Jin Guangyao and Nie Mingjue were buried here.

There was still some paper money dust beside the coffin, and I saw Jin Ling's name on the unburned ashes.

I quietly burned three sticks of incense for him, and another three sticks of incense for Sisi, Lan Xichen hesitated for a while, and burned three more sticks of incense.

After the incident, the two of us stood in front of the coffin and watched the green smoke curling up quietly. The incense used to be prosperous here, but now the incense offered by the priest to the people in the coffin is the only incense.

I said: "I always felt that Jin Guangyao lost his position in the last second encirclement and suppression of mass graves, but I have seen all the way that he is a very organized person, and he is not like a person who is in chaos. Before and after the second encirclement, What else happened?"

Lan Xichen slowly took out an old jade tablet, and said: "This is the jade order I gave him, but it can be unimpeded in Yunshen. Before the second encirclement, I revised the restriction, and the jade order became invalid. He Return the jade order to me, and then there was...the second encirclement and suppression."

Oh, it turned out that besides being pressed by Nie Huaisang every step of the way, the disappointment with Lan Xichen was the last straw that crushed him.

I took the jade token and looked at it, but felt that the mantra jade token on my body seemed to vibrate slightly, but it was just that, probably my illusion.

The jade ring is very smooth, presumably it has been often rubbed in the hands of people in recent years.

I suddenly felt that Jin Guangyao's failure was not due to bad luck and lack of ruthlessness, perhaps because he was defeated by the beauty test.

"Zewu-jun, I'm a little curious, if Jin Guangyao can come back, what will you do?"

Lan Xichen was stunned, looked at the coffin, and after a long time, said, "If he is still willing to come back to me, I want to resign from the position of suzerain and accompany him wherever he wants to go."

"But... there is no such opportunity."

"You love him." I resolutely said, "It's like how Lord Hanguang loved Patriarch Yiling."

Lan Xichen did not deny it.

"you're right."

"I love Ayao."

"It's just that I didn't dare to do it before, but now I can't."

This is the first time I heard Lan Xichen address him as Jin Guangyao.

A Yao, so close.

-TBC-