The Eight Winds of Rebirth

The imperial examination system in Daye is held every three years. Although the atmosphere in the court may not be clean and honest, but two years ago, even if the two-ranked Jinshi and the second rank could not become a high official in the court for the time being, but in the border It's not a problem to find a small official with the size of a sesame seed and mung bean to do it. No matter how bad it is, some people who love money can be directly hired as a teacher of a rich family. How could he be so down and out?

For a moment, everyone in the room was puzzled and surprised, with complex expressions.

Gu Xiangtan looked at the young man without blinking, as if he was thinking.

After a while, he asked, "Dare to ask your name?"

The young man was stunned when he asked in such a gentle and courteous tone, before he said for a moment: "The student's surname is Meng, and each name has the word Su."

"Meng Su?" Gu Xiangtan was stunned.

Seeing his expression, Zhao Yuan leaned over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Seeing him bullying, Gu Xiangtan hurriedly recovered, and whispered: "No, I just feel that the name is a little familiar, but I can't remember it for a while."

"Although a glass of water and grains of millet are small, they add up to become big, and they are regarded as the sky. This is a good name." Gao Jinting nodded frequently there.

But Meng Su said: "It's just that my family was poor when I was young, and I lacked something to think about."

Gu Xiangtan looked around and said with a smile: "It would be a pity if there is nothing left for such a beautiful scenery, why don't you let Mr. Meng do it for you."

Meng Su asked, "What poem do you want to write?"

"Anything you want...the general, the son, Miss Qiu, and Mr. Gao, do you have any opinions?"

Everyone shook their heads, and just let Meng Su play by himself.

The young man was very winking, so he rubbed the ink. Meng Su thought for a while, and wrote a pen on the rice paper. I gave it to Gu Xiangtan.

Gu Xiangtan saw that there were four poems written on it.

33 days outside the sky,

There are gods beyond cloud nine,

Immortals are originally made by mortals,

I'm afraid that mortals will not be firm.

Gu Xiangtan's hand holding the paper paused, and Zhao Yuan couldn't help frowning when he saw these words.

Meng Su didn't change her expression, she packed up her things and didn't ask them for money, she just bowed and left.

Zhao Yuan watched his leaving back, and then wanted to get up to ask for clarification, but Gu Xiangtan suppressed his hand on the table, shook his head at Zhao Yuan, and then laughed again.

"I am still far away from the day when I attained the Tao. Otherwise, why would the abbot master not allow me to accept the precepts?" Xiangtan only lamented that even others can see it clearly. From this we can see that people's hearts Don't have too many distracting thoughts, otherwise you won't be able to hide not only the world, but also the sentient beings with clear eyes and clear hearts."

While talking, he looked towards Qiu Yilou, the smile on Qiu Yilou's lips froze for a while, and then he nodded to Gu Xiangtan with a feeling: "What Lingfo said is very true."

Gu Xiangtan handed the paper on which the poem was written to Su Xi and asked him to keep it.

Su Xi didn't know why he kept this thing, but when Gu Xiangtan said he wanted it, he obediently put it into his sleeve.

Everyone was waiting to continue, but at this time, there was a mess of footsteps outside. Looking down from the second floor, a group of tall and strong men dressed in black came towards the Jingu Tower with sticks in their hands. Not a moment later, the screams of the servants sounded from downstairs.

"Beat people, hit people... Ah, gentlemen, we still have to open the door to do business here. If you want to clean up people, you have to look at the place... Don't smash our things, arrest whoever you want Let's go, you can't afford to pay for what you smashed, ah..."

After a while of flying around, the group of men in black quickly left again, but before they left, there was obviously a half-dead man in their arms.

Qiu Yilou was sitting by the railing, he saw it clearly at a glance, and couldn't help asking: "The one they took away seems to be Mr. Meng?"

Gao Jinting was indignant: "What? Why is this? How dare you arrest people like this in broad daylight? Are they the government? Is it true that there is no law in Daye?"

Qiu Yilou watched those people go away, and said for a moment: "The clothes of those people seem to be thugs from Xiaoyao Gambling House?"

"Xiaoyao Gambling House?" Gao Jinting hesitated, then called the boy back with a loud voice.

The boy was downstairs ordering people to pack things, and he ran up in a hurry and anxiously.

"My lords were shocked, I will make up for my lords."

Gao Jinting said directly: "How did Mr. Meng offend the people in Xiaoyao Gambling Square?" Does he also like to gamble?So it's down to this?

Mentioning this young man also had a bitter expression on his face: "Hey, my lord, it's not easy for us to open this small building. It's rare that the landlord kindly took in such a poor scholar. Who knows that he is actually a careless person. Who is not good? Offended, but offended Xiaoyao Gambling House. Although he didn't gamble the money, he seems to be the guarantor for someone in the middle. It's been almost two years. I don't know if the huge profit will be paid back in the year of the monkey. Last month, someone gave him a deadline, and he still hasn’t come out. Now that people come here to question him, it’s their own fault, but it’s a pity that our small building is involved. The sapphire cabbage in the lobby is the first two. I bought it for a genius, but I accidentally smashed it, how can I explain to the little one..."

Hou Bingchen couldn't hear him talking, so he stared at him and scared people out. He felt very unhappy, so he asked.

"What is the origin of this Xiaoyao Gambling House?" According to the boy's tone, there will be no ordinary people behind him.

Qiu Yilou opened his mouth to explain everyone's doubts: "Xiaoyao Gambling Square and Huaju Square, where the slave's house is located, can be regarded as several famous gold selling caves in central Beijing."

She didn't shy away from her own background at all. On the contrary, Hou Bingchen showed a look of pity when he heard her mention the brothel Chuguan where she was. Dou Jin still depends on the faces of others. If the boss is not happy, this skinny man can scrape off two layers of flesh for you. Even the owner of the workshop, Boss Qin, has to move around among the various people regularly. Yes, but the people in Xiaoyao Gambling House don't need it. They just need to look at their own faces to open a shop, just like those people who rushed in just now. Three hundred of them are specially used to deal with gamblers who don’t pay back their debts. I have seen more than a dozen disabled, and I heard that many were killed, but I have never seen the government take care of them.”

Gao Jinting did not speak, Zhao Yuan frowned and remained silent, only Gu Xiangtan and Hou Bingchen looked at Qiu Yilou in surprise.

Qiu Yilou knew, presumably the young master of the Gao family and the sixth prince should know about it, indeed, as long as they lived in Beijing for a long time and had some dignity, who would not know about Xiaoyao Gambling Square.

Hou Bingchen was not afraid, he still asked, "Who is the boss?"

Qiu Yilou paused before saying: "Zhong Wei."

Hou Bingchen understood: "The property of the right minister?"

"Of course I don't dare to say it so bluntly. Zhong Wei doesn't show his face very much on weekdays, let alone Mr. Zhong, but..."

"However, without their support, would this gambling house grow so big? It's blatant enough!" Hou Bingchen slammed the table and stood up and said sharply.

He has been in the frontier for many years, and he has seen too many poor people who have no food to eat and are displaced. The family and the country are still unstable, so many people are suffering from poverty, and yet there are still people in the court who rely on their status to work for tigers. It is really deceiving!

Hou Bingchen also knew that his status was embarrassing, since he came back, he kept a low profile and seldom interfered with the affairs of the court, but now he couldn't stand it any longer. It must be because Meng Su offended Zhong Xuliang's precious son that he ended up like this It's so bad that the disabled people are trying to succeed, and they are short-sighted. This is really a good official of Daye!

After finishing speaking, he rolled up his saber and strode away without looking at the people in the room.

Seeing Hou Bingchen leave, Zhao Yuan and Gao Jinting were also a little anxious.

"The general got angry. I know Zhong Wei deserves to die, but he is the only son of Prime Minister Right, so it's really not a good time to do it now." Gao Jinting comforted him.

Of course Zhao Yuan also understood, and turned to look at Gu Xiangtan.

Gu Xiangtan hurriedly said: "You go, I will wait here."

Zhao Yuan thought for a while, then nodded: "I'll be right back." Saying that, she chased out with Gao Jinting.

For a while, there were only Gu Xiangtan and Qiu Yilou left in the room. Qiu Yilou turned his gaze back from the window and saw Gu Xiangtan looking directly at him without hesitation.

Qiu Yilou paused, and then smiled: "What advice does Lingfo have?"

Gu Xiangtan looked thoughtful: "I always feel like I've seen a girl somewhere."

"On the painting boat that day?"

"No, it should be earlier."

Qiu Yilou lowered his eyes and took a sip of tea: "Yilou doesn't know, Lingfo probably remembered it wrong."

Gu Xiangtan stared at the plum blossom birthmark on the back of her hand, and said softly: "Nine layers of Jinbao lotus lantern..."

With a shake of Qiu Yilou's hand, the water in the tea splashed onto her cuffs, she immediately took out a handkerchief and wiped it carefully.

Gu Xiangtan didn't let her go, and asked again: "Is it you? The person who offered the lamp."

Qiu Yilou didn't look up, and said after a while: "Oh, there is such a thing, my family has not been sleeping well these days, so I wanted to go to the temple to ask for a peace charm, and offered a lamp along the way."

"Can't sleep well? Miss Qiu still remembers what I said that day."

Qiu Yilou didn't respond, and her already pale lips were tightly pursed.

Thinking that she had forgotten, Gu Xiangtan said those two sentences again.

"The sea of ​​bitterness is boundless, and you need to realize it early when disasters are not imminent. There is a way to the fairy fate, and the heart is not a grass or tree to return to the truth."

"Whispers in the world, the sky hears like thunder, the dark room is guilty, and the eyes are like lightning."

With a crisp sound of "bang--", Qiu Yilou stood up abruptly, and the teacup in her hand accidentally fell to the ground and shattered.

"Slave, the slave family is rude."

As soon as the teacup was broken, Qiu Yilou felt that she had overreacted, and hurried to pick it up, but Gu Xiangtan stepped forward to stop her.

"Miss Qiu, don't be so panic-stricken. I don't know why you feel ashamed, but you are in a trance, and you can't even pass this test yourself. If you really make a big mistake someday, in the end, you will be the one who regrets it the most."

Gu Xiangtan looked at Qiu Yilou with warm and peaceful eyes, but it seemed to be soft and sharp, piercing through layers of fog, all the way into her heart.

For a moment, Qiu Yilou really felt that the person in front of her was like the legendary spirit Buddha who had the power to see the world, and there was nothing hidden in her eyes, but the next moment she suddenly came back to her senses Come on, no one will know about this matter except those few people and herself, so how did Gu Xiangtan know about it?I'm afraid he's just talking about himself.

She was lonely all her life, but she had never done anything harmful to the world before, and now she was suffering all kinds of things, but it was still the result of having to do it.

Qiu Yilou comforted herself again and again, hadn't she made up her mind a long time ago?Don't be disturbed by these commotions, if she is really guilty, at worst she will pay for her life, and this Lingfo must really not know much, otherwise she would have exposed herself long ago, so why bother talking so hard here.

Gu Xiangtan saw her eyes turn sharply, took a step back slowly, and didn't say much, just sighed.

For a while, there was a dead silence all around, which made the two people in it seem to have their own thoughts.

At this time, footsteps came from outside, it was Zhao Yuan who came back.

Gu Xiangtan hurriedly asked: "What's the matter?"

Zhao Yuan said: "Nothing, third brother didn't go."

"What about that Mr. Meng?"

"I gave the gambling funds to Jinting, and let him handle it." After speaking, he walked up to Gu Xiangtan, and said to Qiu Yilou: "The general is waiting for you downstairs, please."

Qiu Yilou was eager to leave quickly, so he just blessed the two of them at will and hurried away.