Daomu Biji: A Thousand Faces

Zhuxia, it seems that many things have happened in the past ten years of Huaxuan, but the affairs of the court marquis, royal family and nobles have nothing to do with common people like us.

I am just a tea farmer in a small village near the Imperial Capital. This village has made a living from tea production for generations. It is known as the "Tea Township" and is famous all over the world.The tea produced in the tea town has fat and green tea buds and a rich and mellow tea fragrance. Not only that, it is included in tributes every year, and there is an endless stream of famous people who come to buy tea. Although they are not rich, the life of the villagers is also comfortable .

There is also a younger sister in my family named Jinger. There are several acres of tea gardens on the mountain. From time to time, we will send the collected tea to the teahouse in Dijing.

I still remember that it was the seventh year of Huaxuan, when the Tai Tuo got married, he seemed to be married to a talented woman from the Wu family in the imperial capital.

The big wedding was extremely lively, with red makeup, carved cars and BMWs, the emperor even ordered the whole country to celebrate together, and officials from the Ministry of Rituals handed out wedding candies on the street.

We delivered the tea, just in time to see the team distributing wedding candy, a group of people had formed a long queue on the street, Jinger had to join in the fun.

"Let's go, there are too many people." I tugged on Jing'er's sleeve.

"They said that the Tai Tuo is also here..."

I just responded blankly, "Oh."

"Brother idiot!" Jing'er stared at me with her hands on her hips, "Teacher! Do you know who the current Taifu is?"

I shook my head cooperatively.

"You'll know when you go to the teahouse and listen to the storytelling. Think about it. Since I established the country in Xia Dynasty, the Fu family has been ministers for generations, and the family is full of loyal ministers and generals. The current Taifu has devoted all his efforts to supporting Jinshang in the past years. Three years ago in the spring Hunting and assassination, the Tai Tuo blocked an arrow for the Holy Master, his life was at stake, and he fell into a coma for three days and three nights. Let the Tai Tuo die..."

"However, the Taifu's younger brother, General Fu, fell off the cliff in order to save the Holy One, and there was no bones left... The Taifu and his brothers are deeply in love. Hearing the bad news, he even vomited a big mouthful of heartache, and then had to retire from the temple. Lingering sick bed all year round..."

"Speaking of which, when their army came back back then, I took a look at it from a distance, and that General Fu was...really good-looking..." Jing'er blushed as she spoke.

"Wouldn't it be a waste for that talented girl to marry a sick person...?"

Jing'er seemed eager to goug out a piece of my flesh with her gaze, "I've said so much, do you understand or not? What kind of person is the Tai Tuo, to be able to marry such a person..."

I shook my head and didn't understand.

While we were talking, we followed the flow of people to the front without realizing it. A mahogany table was placed in front of us. Behind the table sat a potbellied official who grabbed a lot of wedding candy for us.

There was a teahouse behind him, and there was no one there at that time, the bamboo curtains of Concubine Xiang were all down, and if you looked carefully, you could see the silhouette of a person behind the bamboo curtains.

Jing'er glanced at it quietly, and couldn't hide her excitement even though she lowered her voice, "It's Taifu..."

I really don't know what the master is doing here.

"I've taken the candy and the joy, let's go."

I'm lacking interest.

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In the tenth year of Huaxuan, the Grand Tutor passed away.

Speaking of which, he has been married for three years, his wife is beautiful, his child is only one month old, and he is only in his thirties, but it is a pity that there is no holiday.

It is said that it was also because of the arrow he blocked for the saint back then that he suffered from an old illness.

The whole country has a new funeral, and today it is even more grieving at the great funeral of the Taifu. He personally wrote the four characters "virtuous minister and good teacher" on the tombstone, which is a running script that he seldom uses.Then Fubei burst into tears.

At that time, the imperial capital was full of desolation and decayed white, with countless paper money fluttering in the wind, like broken butterflies.

Even Jing'er cried profusely.

But life still has to pass.

In March of the next year, spring is in full bloom, everything is revived, and the whole Zhuxia seems to have come out from the shadow of Taifu's death.

Once again, the Holy One went hunting in spring and returned with a full load. He wanted to have fun with the people and distribute the prey on the street.

It's just a small piece of meat per person, not enough for me to squeeze between my teeth.

Jing'er went to join in the fun again.

I found it hard to bear, so I delivered the tea to the teahouse and agreed to wait for her in the teahouse.

The owner of the teahouse is also an old acquaintance with me. He treated me to a cup of Yuqian tea.

I lowered my head and took a sip of tea, only to feel the refreshing and refreshing fragrance of tea seeping into my internal organs along the warm current, making it warm and comfortable.

I pursed my lips and looked around boredly.

There were all kinds of people coming and going in the teahouse. Although good and bad people were mixed together, they couldn't get on the stage, but it was a good place to inquire about various news in the imperial capital.

The man in brocade clothes and fine clothes couldn't hide his belly, but his face was full of flesh but he had a pair of extremely shrewd eyes. He must be a businessman who has recently come to the capital to do business.The man and woman sitting opposite each other without even looking at each other, but they both ordered the same glass of red/sleeve water dragon chanting, they must be a pair of Jianghu heroes with important affairs in mind.That……

I like to look at these people, to observe their words and demeanor, but I can't help it, it's an old problem.

That's when I saw him.

It was an inconspicuous young man, sitting alone by the window, dressed in plain white clothes, with a flat face, and was drinking a cup of Junshan silver needle with his head down.

After waiting for a long time, Jing'er finally returned happily holding a small piece of venison.

"You, you just like to join in the fun."

She stuck out her tongue playfully, split the venison in half and stuffed it into my mouth.

I was too busy chewing the venison, but I didn't bother to talk about her, and I didn't take her back. I shook my head and left with her.

The next time I came to the teahouse, I saw that young man was still there.

When he comes next time, he will still be...

I almost doubt that he has never left the few inches of ground under his feet.

It's the cold spring season, Jing'er likes to go out with her playmates in the village, and she catches a cold within a few days. I put her on the bed to rest, and made her a medicinal porridge.

On this day, I had to deliver tea alone.

When we walked halfway, it became cloudy, and the sky was clouded with dark clouds, so I yelled that it was not good, so I quickened my pace, and after delivering the tea, a torrential rain suddenly fell, trapping many people in the teahouse, and many passers-by rushed to the teahouse. Hide in the teahouse.

For a while, the teahouse was bustling with people.

The boss came to greet me when he had time, and yelled at me through the crowd, "Ayu, just sit down and wait until the rain is over before leaving."

"it is good."

The teahouse was full of people, I looked left and right, only the young man in white shirt by the window was still occupying a table by himself.

It seemed strange that I didn't go over, so I had no choice but to walk towards him, but someone caught up with him and sat on him.

Alas, what a pity.

I was about to take back my steps when I heard the young man say, "This is not the place for you."

The man flew into a rage and slammed the table to his feet.

The young man just glanced at him indifferently, and he couldn't tell what kind of glance it was. It was probably the look that a person in a position of power would have. He was impassive and possessed a dignified appearance. The man was cursing, but he obediently left...

I was taken aback, hesitated, and walked up to him and sat down.

After being silent for a while, he spoke, but he didn't drive me away.

"Meeting is fate, little brother, what's your name?"

"My name is Ayu."

His eyelashes trembled slightly, and he said, "It's so pleasant to taste tea and listen to the rain, but unfortunately no one talks about storytelling today, Ayu, may I tell you a story?"

"I do not want to hear."

He turned a deaf ear and said to himself, "It's a long story... My family has been a poet and book official for generations, accompanying the emperor and the tiger, and there has never been half a branch of the family, which has brought shame to the family. Thinking about the Wei family and the Bai family in my dynasty I once covered the sky with one hand and had unparalleled power, but the tree was so big that it aroused the suspicion of the monarch, and in the end it just ended up in the end of killing all the families and implicating the nine clans, but my clan has been standing still."

"Speaking of it, it's just that the emperor has the emperor's policies, and the ministers have the ministers' ways."

"My family has secretly handed down a copy of "Chen Gui". When I was a 16-year-old official, I opened this book for the first time. After reading every single word, I was shocked and enlightened."

"If this book falls into the hands of people other than my clan, I'm afraid the world will be in turmoil and people will be devastated."

"Above it are all the old and secret stories of our family and the royal family. There are many private secrets in the palace, and even the division of peaches/sleeves, upside down the rules..."

"There was a person in my ancestors named Fu Xuechen. His name is not only the most famous in the Fu clan, but also a person who will be famous forever in the history. , to quell internal strife, fight against foreign aggression, support the Yuan Emperor, and start the prosperous Yuanzhao..."

"The fu family's courtiers also have his pen and ink... It turns out that he and Emperor Yuan have a habit of breaking sleeves..."

"He was originally a very smart person, and he was born with an exquisite heart. It's strange to say that he was born to be able to see through other people's minds..."

"In this world, who else can understand people's hearts better than a person like him?"

"He took the emperor's heart as a strategy, and he climbed step by step to the position where one person is below one person and above ten thousand people..."

"No, apart from not sitting on the dragon chair, the emperor is just a pawn in his hand..."

"It's not that he has never been suspected or suspected. When Emperor Yuan moved these thoughts, he was the first to understand. He cleverly devised tricks, planned layouts, and repeatedly risked his life to protect Emperor Yuan. He risked his life. All fears have been dispelled..."

"Being a minister for one life, holding great power, and shining on the lintel, is just one life to control the heart of the emperor."

"Controlling emotion, controlling heart, is the worst policy, but also the best policy."

"Love and heart are the most unpredictable, let alone your own heart. It's not that people in the Fu family can't be emotional. You just need to remember that if you do one thing for him, you want him to do three for you. If you can control a person heart, you win."

I couldn't help but slander, what kind of courtship is this?It's just a crooked way to seduce the Lord.

"Let's talk about me, the first emperor passed away, and he left Gu at the end of his life. King Yu was a sinister man, but he was too aggressive. I didn't regard him as a worthy opponent at all. I knew that he poisoned the first emperor, but I didn't stop him. Well, the little emperor has no relatives, and the only one he can rely on is me..."

"The little emperor was brought up by me, cultivated carefully, and he has some friendship. But after all, he is a member of the royal family. When he grows up, the nature of the royal family is revealed, and he even began to suspect me and guess me...even, he wanted to kill me. ..."

"So I imitated my ancestors and resorted to a 'bitter trick'."

"Chunshou, I know that the emperor arranged for assassins, but I also arranged for assassins. Although the arrow is aimed at the heart, it will deviate a little bit. Beforehand, we have captured several death row prisoners from the prison and tested it several times. "

"I'm just betting, betting on my own life, betting on the emperor's remaining sliver of admiration for me, but I'm also betting on another person's feelings for me, and his life."

When the rain stopped, I held the venue and clapped my hands, "Good story, but I have to go."

Said, got up and walked out.

I heard him ask from behind, "Ayu, the story is not over yet, will you come?"