Proton's Journey
Chapter 59 Chapter 59
The one that can subvert a country overnight is actually a slogan agency called No. [-] slogan agency in King City of Qi.
No. [-] Slogan Club, it is said that they hold a booklet called "Strange Records of Immortal Township", which has a total of [-] pages, and records the hidden things of all the big and small people in the court of Qi State.
The boss of No. [-] Slogan Club released a slogan that those who want to get back their own page must do one thing for him.
All the important people whose names were mentioned in "Strange Records of Immortal Township" have now received a willow leaf, a green willow leaf, a green willow leaf that should never exist in the snowy royal city of Qi.
The homonym of "Liu Ye" is left on the page. If the big man who receives the willow leaf receives the task within three days, then he will look down on No. [-] port agency.
The big boss of the No. [-] slogan agency said that there is only one chance, and those who give up will be permanently blacklisted by the No. [-] slogan agency, and they will be ruined.
For those big people, ruining their reputation definitely means something more terrible than death, and many of them would rather die head-on than lose their reputation.
Facing the green willow leaves flying all over the sky in the heavy snow, Dongfang Meng could no longer calm down.
"The big boss of the No. [-] slogan club seems to have overheard our conversation last night, and then immediately rushed to do it in front of us. Not only did he understand the secret of the "Xianxiang Jiwenlu", but he also stole it from our noses. Get rid of those secrets."
There are many dishes prepared for lunch, including more than a dozen cold and hot fried dishes, and a large jar of appetizing plum wine to accompany the meal.
Because of the willow leaves flying all over the sky, Dongfang Meng has been a little bit stuck since morning, so he didn’t eat much of the dishes, but drank several glasses of plum wine. This is something ordinary people can never do when making plum wine. Thinking of this, Dongfang Meng suddenly had a doubt in his heart. After all, he was also a person who had learned how to make wine in a winery. There is no way to make such plum wine.
"Yokane, how is your plum wine made?"
Yokan's complexion immediately turned ugly, turning blue for a while, and turning pale for a while.
"Yangkan, just tell me, the king and I will never reveal your secret to others." Guan Lu also noticed that there was a difference in Yokan's expression. He thought that Yokan probably wanted to keep the exclusive secret recipe. So he opened his mouth to persuade.
"If you ask him again, he won't be able to answer, because he didn't make the plum wine at all."
Amongst the heavy snow, there was a visitor who came in the snow, and the white snow dyed his black cloak.
"Because the yokan also received willow leaves from No. [-] slogan company this morning, and his task is to make King Qi drink the plum wine prepared by No. [-] slogan company at lunch."
"The reason why this jar of plum wine has such a strong plum flavor is because it has been brewed from poisonous plums for a long, long time."
"You probably know by now that the big boss of No. [-] Slogan Club is my humble servant."
Snowwalking visitors take off their storm hoods.
It turned out to be Gao Yun.
"You have been drinking the poisonous plum wine for half an hour. Don't get angry. Getting angry will speed up the blood in your body and make the poison develop faster. Don't use force. You will die faster if you use force. Although I am not a master , but I can still withstand a few blows to some extent, and since I can easily enter the palace, it means that the guards in the palace are already under my willow leaves." Gao Yun pulled a stool and sat down, facing Zheng Guan Lu, who was about to get up and draw his sword, waved his hand to stop him.
"Dongfang Meng, Your Highness King Qi, while you are still a while away from death, let's make a deal, anyway, you will leave everything behind in a while, write me a Zen edict, so that I The new King Qi changed his name more logically."
"Nine times out of ten, your ministers in the court have accepted the willow leaves I sent, and they will support me in the future. Whether or not your edict is written will not change anything, but I hope that my enthronement The ceremony could be more perfect."
"The Qi State in the future will have a new name, Gao Qi, a Qi State that belongs to the Gao family, and the Qi State that allows the Gao family to remain in history forever. The last wishes of the ancestors can finally be fulfilled here. If they know, they should be able to leave with peace of mind."
Gao Yun scratched his chin, looked at Dongfang Meng and smiled, like a child who successfully exchanged toys with you when he was a child.
"According to the information I found out, the real Gao family of Qi State has been extinct since the orphan of the Gao family. It is ridiculous that you keep talking about the establishment of Gao Qi. You are not even a member of the Gao family. They're just a group of bullies who don't even dare to have their own real names." Dongfang Meng stood up and sneered.
"It doesn't matter if they are not their own. They all got a noble surname, a good birth, and what this surname gave them, they will definitely repay it back tens of thousands of times in the future. In time, they will be able to enter the court..."
"At that time, most of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty will be young Gao surnamed children, and Qi will not be far from changing hands..."
"However, after decades of hard work, they suddenly discovered that the surname they got was no longer eligible to enter the court, let alone leave a name in history."
"A foolish king, with his self-righteous and ridiculous feelings, destroyed everyone's efforts and hopes for more than ten years..."
"They are all obviously talented, but they will never have the chance to be famous in history..."
"Such a country without justice, of course it should be destroyed, and then a new Qi State should be established, a Qi State belonging to the Gao family..."
At this time, Dongfang Meng felt that his mouth was parched and he was a little speechless.
I hope this thing, whether it is good or bad, can defeat it for a while, but it seems that it can never be exterminated...
"Hurry up and write the edict of the Zen position. I have something good to exchange for you. For example, Mr. Li Kan, whom you miss so much, has fallen into the hands of Young Master Fei. Now Young Master Fei obeys me. You have dug out Li Kan's eyes, or his heart..."
As Gao Yun said, he had already prepared the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Young Master Fei dragged Li Kan into the palace gate, shaking the snow off his body.
"Choose one, write the edict of the Zen position or watch the eye-gouging performance? I will count to three. If you don't choose, I will assume that you chose the eye-gouging. Young Master Fei's sword is a very sharp and good sword. It's called Wu Ti, it's Mrs. Xu's masterpiece of Zhao Guo, but I'll let him dig it out slowly, so that you have enough time to appreciate and feel heartbroken."
"I'll write you an imperial edict!" Dongfang Meng shouted just as Young Master Fei's sword touched Li Kan's eye socket.
"However, I've been poisoned now, and I'm afraid that you will renege on my debt. You first ask Young Master Fei to bring Li Kan behind me so that I can watch, so I can rest assured."
"Deal!" Gao Yun, who was already sure of winning, promised with pride.
Young Master Fei dragged Li Kan towards Dongfang Meng.
Dongfang Meng looked up and exchanged glances with Guan Lu.
Just one glance, between them, at this moment, they can confirm each other's intentions.
The moment Guan Lu's sword stabbed down, Young Master Fei's lips moved, and the word "thank you" was almost inaudible.
When Dongfang Meng's sword stabbed down, his eye circles were red, and blood gushed from Li Kan's chest, but Li Kan was still sleepy, unaware of the pain at the moment, and the upcoming parting.
"I didn't expect Mr. Dongfang to be so ruthless. It's no wonder that he was the king of Qi. I actually admire your ruthlessness. However, I'm afraid that you don't have time to write the edict for your use of force. It's really a pity. , my enthronement ceremony was not perfect."
Gao Yun licked his lips, watching Guan Lu and Dongfang Meng fall one after another in front of his eyes, there was a hint of disappointment in his eyes.
Gao Yun bent down to check Li Kan's breath, the disappointment in his eyes seemed to be even heavier.
Looking at the heavy snow falling outside the hall, Gao Yun said to himself, "Li Kan, Mr. Li, you used to be my ideal, I wanted you to see with your own eyes how I beat you, but, You didn't get to see it."
"But it's always me who wins. It doesn't matter if you see it or not. I win anyway."
When Gao Yun said this, a lot of disappointment that he hated was added to Gao Yun's heart. He actually felt that he had never been so lost. He obviously won, and after ten years of hard planning, he overturned it overnight. a country.
However, he failed to obtain the imperial edict written by Dongfang Meng himself, and it was inevitable that people would say that he was suspected of stealing the country. He also failed to allow Li Kan to watch him visit the Great Treasure of Qi State and establish a prosperous high Qi Dynasty. The enthronement ceremony is still not perfect, it is not perfect!
Gao Yun began to feel irritable. How could he have miscalculated? He never thought that Dongfang Meng and Guan Lu would be such two cruel people. It will make Dongfang Meng have to write down the Zen edict.
Something even more unexpected happened to Gao Yun.
Li Kan, who was abandoned in the wilderness, slowly became alive, and there was a winding bloodstain on the ground.
Li Kan, who crawled to the hiding place, took out a piece of jade from his chest. Many years ago, a boy named Jianyu gave him a stone. Later, he asked a jade craftsman to cut the stone. A flawless piece of jade came out, when Dongfang Meng's sword stabbed down, the piece of jade just blocked his heart, and the sword passed through the gap in the jade.
Dongfang Meng once laughed at the heavy piece of jade hanging around his neck, which looked a little ridiculous, so he found a tailor to sew a hidden pocket inside his underwear to hold that piece of jade.
When Gao Yun came to check his breath, he had already woken up, so he held his breath reluctantly.
The snow was falling even heavier, and the road ahead was a vast expanse of whiteness, with no end in sight.
But Li Kan is still alive, and being alive means that everything is not the end, and the story with him will never end.
Many years later, in Yunmengze in the state of Chu, a reclusive expert appeared, known as Haoshou Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens is very knowledgeable, and it is said that he is familiar with the knowledge of the three tombs, five classics, eight Suo and Jiuqiu.
Homo sapiens has a head of white hair whose age cannot be discerned, but his appearance seems to be in his early thirties.
Homo sapiens was accompanied by two talented boys, who were said to be the outstanding ones who had been carefully selected for three years from countless people who had come to be apprentices.
After many years, those two clever boys grew up to be outstanding teenagers.
On the square table in the hall was an overturned lottery holder.
The boy in the indigo shirt approached the boy in the blue-gray shirt and asked, "Ah Xuan, what did you get?"
"Ah Qing, first tell me what you got?" The young man in gray clothes quickly snapped back the bamboo stick in his hand, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.
After arguing for a while, the two teenagers spread out the bamboo sticks on the square table together.
"Unite Qin and destroy Gao Qi!"
"Lian Chu destroys Gao Qi!"
Ten bright red writings that looked like they had been stained with blood.
"Then why don't we compare, which one of us will destroy Gao Qi first, and the one who will be the Marquis and Prime Minister will return! A Xuan, do you dare to compare with me?" He raised his eyebrows and said.
"It's better for us to unite and do it. I think it will be faster to kill Gao Qi that way. After all, the body of Homo sapiens may not last long."
Another three years passed, that is, the No. 16 year of Gao Qi's founding of the country.
The Gaoqi Kingdom was attacked by Qin, Chu, Zhaoyan and Wu, and Gaoqi was destroyed.
Ah Qing was lying on a snowflake basking in the sun with a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth. The seal of Qin Zhaoyan and the Three Kingdoms hanging on his waist was a little dazzling in the sun, and the snowflake leisurely circled around. While eating grass, Ah Qing was not in a hurry, he was waiting for a "chance encounter".
A cloud of dust rose not far away, Ah Qing jumped up from the horse's back, and urged the snowflake to go forward.
"What a coincidence, what a coincidence, I don't want to meet Ah Xuan here, it seems that you and I are really destined!"
"What a coincidence, everyone came back to report to Homo sapiens. You left earlier than me, and you are closer. Wait here, and you will naturally meet."
The two horses galloped into Yunmengze side by side.
The place where I learned art in the past has long been a cobweb of shabby rooms and empty rooms, but it is also forbidden for idlers to enter. Only those who know the formation method taught by Haoshou Zhiren can enter.
There were two swords stuck in the place where the bamboo stick was drawn three years ago.
One is called Magpie.
One is called Wuti.
(When writing this story, when I wrote a short paragraph, this ending popped up in my mind. Later, I always wanted to twist the ending to be better, but I felt all kinds of awkwardness and perfunctory after twisting, so I had to follow the original idea. Therefore, I will attach another hilarious episode, if you don’t like this ending, you can use the episode as the real ending...)
No. [-] Slogan Club, it is said that they hold a booklet called "Strange Records of Immortal Township", which has a total of [-] pages, and records the hidden things of all the big and small people in the court of Qi State.
The boss of No. [-] Slogan Club released a slogan that those who want to get back their own page must do one thing for him.
All the important people whose names were mentioned in "Strange Records of Immortal Township" have now received a willow leaf, a green willow leaf, a green willow leaf that should never exist in the snowy royal city of Qi.
The homonym of "Liu Ye" is left on the page. If the big man who receives the willow leaf receives the task within three days, then he will look down on No. [-] port agency.
The big boss of the No. [-] slogan agency said that there is only one chance, and those who give up will be permanently blacklisted by the No. [-] slogan agency, and they will be ruined.
For those big people, ruining their reputation definitely means something more terrible than death, and many of them would rather die head-on than lose their reputation.
Facing the green willow leaves flying all over the sky in the heavy snow, Dongfang Meng could no longer calm down.
"The big boss of the No. [-] slogan club seems to have overheard our conversation last night, and then immediately rushed to do it in front of us. Not only did he understand the secret of the "Xianxiang Jiwenlu", but he also stole it from our noses. Get rid of those secrets."
There are many dishes prepared for lunch, including more than a dozen cold and hot fried dishes, and a large jar of appetizing plum wine to accompany the meal.
Because of the willow leaves flying all over the sky, Dongfang Meng has been a little bit stuck since morning, so he didn’t eat much of the dishes, but drank several glasses of plum wine. This is something ordinary people can never do when making plum wine. Thinking of this, Dongfang Meng suddenly had a doubt in his heart. After all, he was also a person who had learned how to make wine in a winery. There is no way to make such plum wine.
"Yokane, how is your plum wine made?"
Yokan's complexion immediately turned ugly, turning blue for a while, and turning pale for a while.
"Yangkan, just tell me, the king and I will never reveal your secret to others." Guan Lu also noticed that there was a difference in Yokan's expression. He thought that Yokan probably wanted to keep the exclusive secret recipe. So he opened his mouth to persuade.
"If you ask him again, he won't be able to answer, because he didn't make the plum wine at all."
Amongst the heavy snow, there was a visitor who came in the snow, and the white snow dyed his black cloak.
"Because the yokan also received willow leaves from No. [-] slogan company this morning, and his task is to make King Qi drink the plum wine prepared by No. [-] slogan company at lunch."
"The reason why this jar of plum wine has such a strong plum flavor is because it has been brewed from poisonous plums for a long, long time."
"You probably know by now that the big boss of No. [-] Slogan Club is my humble servant."
Snowwalking visitors take off their storm hoods.
It turned out to be Gao Yun.
"You have been drinking the poisonous plum wine for half an hour. Don't get angry. Getting angry will speed up the blood in your body and make the poison develop faster. Don't use force. You will die faster if you use force. Although I am not a master , but I can still withstand a few blows to some extent, and since I can easily enter the palace, it means that the guards in the palace are already under my willow leaves." Gao Yun pulled a stool and sat down, facing Zheng Guan Lu, who was about to get up and draw his sword, waved his hand to stop him.
"Dongfang Meng, Your Highness King Qi, while you are still a while away from death, let's make a deal, anyway, you will leave everything behind in a while, write me a Zen edict, so that I The new King Qi changed his name more logically."
"Nine times out of ten, your ministers in the court have accepted the willow leaves I sent, and they will support me in the future. Whether or not your edict is written will not change anything, but I hope that my enthronement The ceremony could be more perfect."
"The Qi State in the future will have a new name, Gao Qi, a Qi State that belongs to the Gao family, and the Qi State that allows the Gao family to remain in history forever. The last wishes of the ancestors can finally be fulfilled here. If they know, they should be able to leave with peace of mind."
Gao Yun scratched his chin, looked at Dongfang Meng and smiled, like a child who successfully exchanged toys with you when he was a child.
"According to the information I found out, the real Gao family of Qi State has been extinct since the orphan of the Gao family. It is ridiculous that you keep talking about the establishment of Gao Qi. You are not even a member of the Gao family. They're just a group of bullies who don't even dare to have their own real names." Dongfang Meng stood up and sneered.
"It doesn't matter if they are not their own. They all got a noble surname, a good birth, and what this surname gave them, they will definitely repay it back tens of thousands of times in the future. In time, they will be able to enter the court..."
"At that time, most of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty will be young Gao surnamed children, and Qi will not be far from changing hands..."
"However, after decades of hard work, they suddenly discovered that the surname they got was no longer eligible to enter the court, let alone leave a name in history."
"A foolish king, with his self-righteous and ridiculous feelings, destroyed everyone's efforts and hopes for more than ten years..."
"They are all obviously talented, but they will never have the chance to be famous in history..."
"Such a country without justice, of course it should be destroyed, and then a new Qi State should be established, a Qi State belonging to the Gao family..."
At this time, Dongfang Meng felt that his mouth was parched and he was a little speechless.
I hope this thing, whether it is good or bad, can defeat it for a while, but it seems that it can never be exterminated...
"Hurry up and write the edict of the Zen position. I have something good to exchange for you. For example, Mr. Li Kan, whom you miss so much, has fallen into the hands of Young Master Fei. Now Young Master Fei obeys me. You have dug out Li Kan's eyes, or his heart..."
As Gao Yun said, he had already prepared the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Young Master Fei dragged Li Kan into the palace gate, shaking the snow off his body.
"Choose one, write the edict of the Zen position or watch the eye-gouging performance? I will count to three. If you don't choose, I will assume that you chose the eye-gouging. Young Master Fei's sword is a very sharp and good sword. It's called Wu Ti, it's Mrs. Xu's masterpiece of Zhao Guo, but I'll let him dig it out slowly, so that you have enough time to appreciate and feel heartbroken."
"I'll write you an imperial edict!" Dongfang Meng shouted just as Young Master Fei's sword touched Li Kan's eye socket.
"However, I've been poisoned now, and I'm afraid that you will renege on my debt. You first ask Young Master Fei to bring Li Kan behind me so that I can watch, so I can rest assured."
"Deal!" Gao Yun, who was already sure of winning, promised with pride.
Young Master Fei dragged Li Kan towards Dongfang Meng.
Dongfang Meng looked up and exchanged glances with Guan Lu.
Just one glance, between them, at this moment, they can confirm each other's intentions.
The moment Guan Lu's sword stabbed down, Young Master Fei's lips moved, and the word "thank you" was almost inaudible.
When Dongfang Meng's sword stabbed down, his eye circles were red, and blood gushed from Li Kan's chest, but Li Kan was still sleepy, unaware of the pain at the moment, and the upcoming parting.
"I didn't expect Mr. Dongfang to be so ruthless. It's no wonder that he was the king of Qi. I actually admire your ruthlessness. However, I'm afraid that you don't have time to write the edict for your use of force. It's really a pity. , my enthronement ceremony was not perfect."
Gao Yun licked his lips, watching Guan Lu and Dongfang Meng fall one after another in front of his eyes, there was a hint of disappointment in his eyes.
Gao Yun bent down to check Li Kan's breath, the disappointment in his eyes seemed to be even heavier.
Looking at the heavy snow falling outside the hall, Gao Yun said to himself, "Li Kan, Mr. Li, you used to be my ideal, I wanted you to see with your own eyes how I beat you, but, You didn't get to see it."
"But it's always me who wins. It doesn't matter if you see it or not. I win anyway."
When Gao Yun said this, a lot of disappointment that he hated was added to Gao Yun's heart. He actually felt that he had never been so lost. He obviously won, and after ten years of hard planning, he overturned it overnight. a country.
However, he failed to obtain the imperial edict written by Dongfang Meng himself, and it was inevitable that people would say that he was suspected of stealing the country. He also failed to allow Li Kan to watch him visit the Great Treasure of Qi State and establish a prosperous high Qi Dynasty. The enthronement ceremony is still not perfect, it is not perfect!
Gao Yun began to feel irritable. How could he have miscalculated? He never thought that Dongfang Meng and Guan Lu would be such two cruel people. It will make Dongfang Meng have to write down the Zen edict.
Something even more unexpected happened to Gao Yun.
Li Kan, who was abandoned in the wilderness, slowly became alive, and there was a winding bloodstain on the ground.
Li Kan, who crawled to the hiding place, took out a piece of jade from his chest. Many years ago, a boy named Jianyu gave him a stone. Later, he asked a jade craftsman to cut the stone. A flawless piece of jade came out, when Dongfang Meng's sword stabbed down, the piece of jade just blocked his heart, and the sword passed through the gap in the jade.
Dongfang Meng once laughed at the heavy piece of jade hanging around his neck, which looked a little ridiculous, so he found a tailor to sew a hidden pocket inside his underwear to hold that piece of jade.
When Gao Yun came to check his breath, he had already woken up, so he held his breath reluctantly.
The snow was falling even heavier, and the road ahead was a vast expanse of whiteness, with no end in sight.
But Li Kan is still alive, and being alive means that everything is not the end, and the story with him will never end.
Many years later, in Yunmengze in the state of Chu, a reclusive expert appeared, known as Haoshou Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens is very knowledgeable, and it is said that he is familiar with the knowledge of the three tombs, five classics, eight Suo and Jiuqiu.
Homo sapiens has a head of white hair whose age cannot be discerned, but his appearance seems to be in his early thirties.
Homo sapiens was accompanied by two talented boys, who were said to be the outstanding ones who had been carefully selected for three years from countless people who had come to be apprentices.
After many years, those two clever boys grew up to be outstanding teenagers.
On the square table in the hall was an overturned lottery holder.
The boy in the indigo shirt approached the boy in the blue-gray shirt and asked, "Ah Xuan, what did you get?"
"Ah Qing, first tell me what you got?" The young man in gray clothes quickly snapped back the bamboo stick in his hand, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.
After arguing for a while, the two teenagers spread out the bamboo sticks on the square table together.
"Unite Qin and destroy Gao Qi!"
"Lian Chu destroys Gao Qi!"
Ten bright red writings that looked like they had been stained with blood.
"Then why don't we compare, which one of us will destroy Gao Qi first, and the one who will be the Marquis and Prime Minister will return! A Xuan, do you dare to compare with me?" He raised his eyebrows and said.
"It's better for us to unite and do it. I think it will be faster to kill Gao Qi that way. After all, the body of Homo sapiens may not last long."
Another three years passed, that is, the No. 16 year of Gao Qi's founding of the country.
The Gaoqi Kingdom was attacked by Qin, Chu, Zhaoyan and Wu, and Gaoqi was destroyed.
Ah Qing was lying on a snowflake basking in the sun with a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth. The seal of Qin Zhaoyan and the Three Kingdoms hanging on his waist was a little dazzling in the sun, and the snowflake leisurely circled around. While eating grass, Ah Qing was not in a hurry, he was waiting for a "chance encounter".
A cloud of dust rose not far away, Ah Qing jumped up from the horse's back, and urged the snowflake to go forward.
"What a coincidence, what a coincidence, I don't want to meet Ah Xuan here, it seems that you and I are really destined!"
"What a coincidence, everyone came back to report to Homo sapiens. You left earlier than me, and you are closer. Wait here, and you will naturally meet."
The two horses galloped into Yunmengze side by side.
The place where I learned art in the past has long been a cobweb of shabby rooms and empty rooms, but it is also forbidden for idlers to enter. Only those who know the formation method taught by Haoshou Zhiren can enter.
There were two swords stuck in the place where the bamboo stick was drawn three years ago.
One is called Magpie.
One is called Wuti.
(When writing this story, when I wrote a short paragraph, this ending popped up in my mind. Later, I always wanted to twist the ending to be better, but I felt all kinds of awkwardness and perfunctory after twisting, so I had to follow the original idea. Therefore, I will attach another hilarious episode, if you don’t like this ending, you can use the episode as the real ending...)
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