National teacher help

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the Yellow River was rushing to the east, and Yu Chigong was driving a carriage. He went on the road at sunrise and stayed in an inn at sunset. When it was snowing heavily, he stayed in the inn for a few more days.

By nature, Lu Zhongming likes the unfettered days the most, day after day, year after year, he doesn’t have to think about what he hasn’t done today, when will he get up tomorrow, and Yu Chigong doesn’t have to go to Tiance Mansion to be on duty up.They could hurry on the road whenever they wanted, and when it snowed heavily, the two stopped for a day and stayed in the hotel.Make a warm brazier, Lu Zhongming reads, Yu Chigong drinks, and makes some handmade objects.

Yu Chigong used to be a blacksmith. When he was free, he liked to play with some iron daggers and knives, and made some crafty boxes. On the boxes, he carved zigzag flowers for use when he moved to a new home.

In the afternoon, the two bought some chickens and some winter seasonal vegetables at a nearby farm, and returned hand in hand, handing them over to the store to cook.

The old year is coming to an end, and one more day will be the thirtieth year. Judging by that posture, he will not be able to reach Jinyang, and he can barely pass the courtyard. If he walks forward, there will be a deserted land of more than [-] miles. Yu Chigong is at the courtyard. I stayed in the former town and planned to leave after the Chinese New Year.

Years of wars and chaos, there is a lot of wasteland under Tianjingguan, and rice noodles are also expensive, so Yu Chigong took money and went to Tianjinguan to call the Tang army's barracks, to see if he could rob some rice noodles and come back.

And Lu Zhongming was shopping for vegetables outside, and he was going to buy some winter food to make dumplings. After watching the short episode a year ago, he watched it for a long time. He wanted to eat this, and he wanted to eat that. He wanted to wrap all kinds of strange fish and meat into dumplings together. , I also remembered that Yu Chigong taught himself that you must bargain when buying things, so he talked about the price in a daze for a long time, and felt that the purchase was still expensive.When I went back with the live fish, I just entered the farmhouse where I was staying, and I heard someone talking inside, and it was a familiar voice.

"Pharmacist Li!" Lu Zhongming said happily.

Li Jing rolled up his sleeves and was kneading the dough for Yu Chigong, while Yu Chigong was pouring water on the side, said with a smile: "Just now I went to the military camp to play the autumn wind, and happened to meet the pharmacist who was patrolling the camp, so I asked him to come with me."

"National Teacher." Li Jing smiled and said, "It's been a long time since I saw you."

Li Jing sent troops to guard the Yellow River in February, and now it is the end of the year, and it will be nearly a year. Lu Zhongming is naturally very happy to see his old friend, and said with a smile: "Come, come, sit, now we are not the national teacher, we are still Brothers call."

On that day, Yuchi prepared a table of dishes, took off the good wine and sealed them with clay, and the three of them ate and drank. After hearing the story, Li Jing felt overwhelmed. From the time he met Lu Zhongming at Yanmen Pass, Li Jing's fate can be said to be the same as that of him and Yuchi Gong. The one involved the most.

"The national teacher is also open-minded." Li Jing said with a smile: "If it were me, I would not be able to do it."

Yuchi said respectfully: "Brother Yaoshi has a family business, he is different from us, he can't just leave, come and drink."

If Li Jing thought about it, he talked about the matter of Chang'an. The news that Li Shimin was about to disperse the mansion had already reached Bingzhou. , Old Hei really wants to live his own life."

Lu Zhongming knew that Li Jing had always maintained a neutral position between the two brothers. Although Li Shimin tried every means to save his life, he wandered around and never favored any of the two brothers.Although Lu Zhongming only listened to Li Yuan's orders, but because of Yu Chigong's relationship, he might not be partial to Li Shimin.

"Everyone has their own difficulties." Li Jing said, "However, I can't get involved in the affairs of his two brothers."

Yu Chigong said casually: "I don't blame you. After all, you are guarding Jinyang. It doesn't matter if we stand in line. You can't stand in line. Only in this way, His Majesty is willing to hand over the army to you."

Li Jing nodded, and Lu Zhongming teased again: "Back then, Yanmenguan was an undisciplined man, but now, he is a frontier general with [-] troops."

Li Jing said with a smile, "According to the Taoist minister's precious words."

The three clinked glasses, and Lu Zhongming got a little drunk, so he went back to his room to rest, thinking of Luo Shixin who was far away in Yangzhou, and Qin Qiong who was in Chang'an, so he summoned his magic power and called for Longlin.

Luo Shixin was wearing a coir raincoat and was fishing by the boat in Yangzhou.

"Brother, have you eaten yet?" Lu Zhongming smiled.

It was dark over there, Luo Shixin closed his pole and said, "I haven't found him yet, I invited a friend to drink, how about you?"

Lu Zhongming replied that he was about to enter Bingzhou, and after a few pleasantries, Luo Shixin went back with a bucket and said that he wanted to cook fish, so Lu Zhongming put away the water mirror and looked for Qin Qiong.

Near Chang'an Qin Qiong was brightly lit and in chaos.

Lu Zhongming thought that the Qin family was busy celebrating the New Year, and when he was smiling to congratulate him on the New Year, Qin Qiong's expression was very ugly, and he said, "Thank God, you... Zhongming! Great, the people of the world are saved..."

"What's wrong?" Lu Zhongming was startled, sat up quickly and asked, "What's wrong with Shimin?"

"Long story short." Qin Qiong lowered his voice and said, "Shimin went to the East Palace to drink and came back. After lying down, he started to have a fever, his forehead was hot, and he started to vomit blood before a stick of incense. Du Ruhui accompanied him, and now... Xuanling?"

Fang Xuanling turned pale, squeezed to Qin Qiong's side, and said in a trembling voice: "National Teacher, King Qin has been poisoned..."

Lu Zhongming put away the water mirror and went downstairs quickly, and saw Yu Chigong still drinking, and Li Jing lying on the couch and falling asleep.

"I'll go back to Chang'an." Lu Zhongming said.

Yuchi Gong got up immediately and said: "Wait! Let me be clear first, what's wrong?"

After a while, Yu Chigong chased out wrapped in a coat, stepped on the back of the golden unicorn, and the golden unicorn mobilized the power of a beast and went all out, turning into a golden light and shooting towards Chang'an in the east.

In Chang'an City, the sky was dark on New Year's Eve, and the whole city was covered with light snow, and the golden light cast towards Tiance Mansion.Lu Zhongming and Yu Chigong rushed into Li Shimin's room like a gust of wind.

"Here we come!" Fang Xuanling said.

All of a sudden, all the generals in Tiance Mansion stepped forward one after another, Lu Zhongming said: "Don't talk—!"

The room fell silent.

Lu Zhongming wanted to feel Li Shimin's pulse, but Li Shimin said: "Zhongming... you... are back... where is Jingde?"

"Here." Yuchi Gong said in a deep voice.

The hall was quiet, only the breathing of a few people remained. Li Shimin panted with difficulty, and said intermittently: "I can't do it... Tiance treasury... Du Gong... distribute the money for me... to all the elder brothers, General Luo Shixin is still in Yangzhou ..."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Zhongming fed a pill to Li Shimin's mouth, and slapped his chin. Li Shimin swallowed the pill with a grunt.Du Ruhui was not familiar with Lu Zhongming's character, so his face changed: "What did you give him to eat?!"

"Okay." Lu Zhongming said: "Let's all go home to celebrate the New Year, and come back after twelve hours to pay New Year's greetings to King Qin."

Everyone: "..."

Originally, he was explaining the funeral, but Lu Zhongming's move changed the atmosphere immediately. Xu Shiji was the first to say: "National teacher, this matter cannot be joked casually."

"Don't worry." Lu Zhongming said: "Is there anything that cannot be done when the national teacher is out? Go back."

So the cronies dispersed one after another, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were speechless for a while, Lu Zhongming sat down beside Li Shimin, holding his palm with one hand, helping him dissolve the medicine.

However, Li Shimin has been poisoned for too long, the poison has dispersed into the internal organs and entangled in one place, even the nine-turn Dinghun Orb cannot completely remove the poison.Lu Zhongming had to forcefully inject his own immortal power to open up the meridians of Li Shimin's whole body, and in an instant he extracted all the immortal power from his whole body, and immediately felt a little exhausted.

Several people watched from the side and saw that Lu Zhongming's face was not good and his head was full of sweat. When he was about to go forward, Lu Zhongming raised his hand to stop him. He lost his life, so he had to fight his old life, mobilized his housekeeping skills, injected immortal power into his body vigorously with the wood and stone injection method, and continued his breath until the medicinal power traveled through the meridians of Li Shimin's body. In one breath, it consumes a lot.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Yu Chigong stepped forward nervously and said, "Are you okay?"

Lu Zhongming nodded reluctantly, and said, "It's okay, but the loss of cultivation base is too great, and you have to rest for a while to recover. Within a month, you can't use spells again."

Only then did Yu Chigong feel relieved, and went to look at Li Shimin again, and saw that his breathing was steady, and there was a layer of fine beads of sweat on his forehead.Lu Zhongming looked up at Qin Qiong with a questioning expression.

Qin Qiong said: "I knew just now that the East Palace had a banquet in the afternoon, and I asked him to drink, and when he came back, he complained of chest tightness, and he just lay down."

Du Ruhui checked Li Shimin and felt his pulse. Someone outside notified the imperial doctor. Fang Xuanling got up and sent the imperial doctor away, saying that it was just chest tightness and he had recovered.

Yuchi Gong said: "Who else is drinking?"

Du Ruhui replied: "Prince, Yuan Ji, Wei Zheng and others, His Majesty is not here."

Lu Zhongming asked again: "Does Your Majesty know about this?"

Fang Xuanling came back and said: "I have already sent people to inform, the imperial doctor was also sent from the palace, I will ask the imperial doctor to answer, there is no serious problem."

Du Ruhui said: "Looking at the situation, it should be poisoned by some kind of strange poison."

"Well, it doesn't look like he put poison on himself." Lu Zhongming nodded and said, just now he was wondering if Li Shimin couldn't beat his brother, so he tossed a bitter trick.But this kind of poison is weird, it doesn't come out in the East Palace, it starts to vomit blood only after returning to Tiance Mansion, even he can't recognize what it is, presumably Li Shimin is not so powerful.

Everyone looked at Lu Zhongming with strange expressions, Lu Zhongming raised his eyes and glanced at Yu Chigong, Yu Chigong said: "What kind of poison?"

Lu Zhongming said, "I don't know."

Yu Chigong: "I don't know, but I can solve it?"

Lu Zhongming said: "I gave him the nine-turn soul-fixing pearl. When I came to the mortal world, my father gave me twelve..." Lu Zhongming thought for a while, then poured out five more from the gourd, and put them in Du Ruhui's mouth. hand, said: "You keep it for him to use."

Fang Xuanling probed Li Shimin's breath and said, "When will King Qin wake up?"

"Twelve hours." Lu Zhongming said: "After taking it, the five senses will gradually fade away, the soul will be locked in the body, and the power of the medicine will disperse, avoiding the pain of being reborn. After a while, all the senses will gradually come back and wake up. It will be fine after that."

Du Ruhui took the pill, nodded and said, "Thank you, Master Guo, for giving me the medicine."

Lu Zhongming nodded, and Fang Xuanling got up to arrange a place for Lu Zhongming. Lu Zhongming glanced at Yu Chigong, knowing that Yu Chigong was still worried, and it was not easy to urge him to go back at this time, so he temporarily stayed in Tiance Mansion that night.

"You talk too much." Yuchi Gong sighed.

Lu Zhongming said: "I really thought he did it on purpose, but later found out it wasn't, so why don't we just say it?"

Yu Chigong couldn't laugh or cry, both of them knew that Lu Zhongming mentioned whether Li Shimin was really poisoned, so it was good to talk about it, so as to avoid everyone's suspicion, the national teacher made a final decision, and the hat was put on Li Jiancheng.

On the first day of the new year, the Tiance Mansion was empty and empty. At this time, almost the entire Tang court knew about the struggle between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, and no one came to pay New Year's greetings. Whoever came to pay New Year's greetings at this time meant that they would join Li Shimin's faction. They are all busy clearing up the relationship.

At noon, Li Yuan sent someone to ask about Li Shimin's situation, but Du Ruhui stopped them, and replied that he was still sleeping, and Li Jiancheng also sent someone. At that time, Lu Zhongming was watching Li Shimin's situation. Hearing the sound, he quickly hid behind the screen.

"Not here." Lu Zhongming said: "It's too easy to bump into someone you know, so you have to stay in another place."

Yuchi Gong said: "Go home? But the house is also closed, so it's easier to be known that we're going back to Chang'an."

Lu Zhongming pondered for a long time, then asked again: "When will I go back? Back to Tianjing Mountain, the things are still there, and I didn't say yes to Li Jing."

"Let's talk about it after Shimin wakes up." Yu Chi respectfully said, "Don't you want to rest? Let's rest in Tiance Mansion first."

As soon as Lu Zhongming heard it, he knew that he couldn't leave again, it was endless, and he didn't know when it would be the end, so he was a little angry immediately, Yu Chigong hurriedly said: "Forget it, don't wait, let's go back now."

Lv Zhongming couldn't laugh or cry and said, "Don't you want to stay?"

Yu Chigong: "You are already angry, how dare I stay?"

Lu Zhongming couldn't bear it either, he thought it's better to let Yu Chigong and Li Shimin talk to each other, let's forget about it, let's talk when he wakes up.

That night, exactly twelve hours later, Li Shimin woke up.

Lu Zhongming wasn't too sure at first, after all, no one had eaten the Nine-turn Fixed Soul Orb, if it didn't work on ordinary people, maybe Li Shimin would die, but this guy's life is really good, and in the dark, he actually did it. What should have happened in history, I don't know if it was destiny or a coincidence.

When Yu Chigong went to visit Li Shimin, Lu Zhongming stood outside and heard Li Shimin crying loudly from inside.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui comforted in a low voice, and vaguely heard the words "Prince..." "East Palace". Stop wiping your tears.

Lu Zhongming felt a little sad when he saw it, and said, "Is it better?"

Li Shimin stopped crying and nodded.

Yu Chigong said: "This matter has to be discussed in the long term. Now you finally understand that you want to hide from your brother, but your brother will not let you go. This glass of wine is probably given to you by Yuan Ji."

"Yuan Jiduan gave it to me." Li Shimin whispered.

Lu Zhongming said: "There are too many people in the mansion, I guess your brother has also put eyeliner in the mansion, I have to live in another place."

Yu Chigong got up, came out and said: "I still want to stay in Chang'an for a while, are you going back to Tianjing Mountain and waiting for me, or..."

Lu Zhongming said: "Oh, so you're not leaving again?"

Yuchi Gong said: "Isn't this discussing with you?"

Lu Zhongming: "Now that we're all saved, people are awake, and we've finished talking, shouldn't it be time to go back?"

Yuchi Gong said displeased: "Can you stop arguing in front of Shimin?"

Lu Zhongming said: "Others have chased you away, and most likely you will leave the house later and go to Luoyang or something. Why don't you rush into the palace and help him kill his brother? They will blame you later."

Everyone in the hall was speechless.

When Li Shimin came out, Lu Zhongming said with a smile in his eyes, "Go back and lie down. I gave Du Ruhui five pills, and I can ask for a few more glasses of poisoned wine."

Li Shimin sighed and said, "Zhongming, I'm sorry."

Lu Zhongming said: "Big man, move things, I want to live in Taiqing Temple in the west of the city."

At the beginning, Yu Chigong thought that Lu Zhongming was arguing with him, but now he realized that he was trying to teach Li Shimin a lesson, so without saying a word, he went out to pack his things, took Lu Zhongming, and lived in the Sanqing Temple in the west of the city.

Today happened to be the first day of the new year, and Lu Zhongming moved in. Several Taoist priests in charge recognized him and hurriedly saluted. Lu Zhongming ordered everyone not to say anything, and asked, "Has your Majesty been here?"

"Early this morning." The temple master replied: "Your Majesty and the prince came to pray for blessings and offer incense. There were also many people who came on the first day of the new year. They were so busy that they stopped just now."

Lu Zhongming looked up at the statue of Sanqing, and saw that the merit box was full of gold and silver, and incense was lingering in the view.The temple master took the list and said: "Recently, there are many laymen who are willing to enter Taoism and practice. According to the instructions of the national teacher, I dare not issue more certificates. I ask the national teacher to take a look."

All the Taoist temples in Chang'an and even the world respect Lu Zhongming, but Lu Zhongming has never taken care of them. Most of them are managed by Li Yuan's special personnel. It was a gold body plated by Li Yuan with a huge sum of money. Lu Zhongming brushed it up with one sleeve, and suddenly the purple air came from the east, the top was covered with auspicious clouds, and there was a faint multicolored auspicious light in the Sanqing Temple.

In the middle of the night, all the Taoist priests of the Sanqing Temple each held law enforcement weapons. Lu Zhongming, wearing a gossip robe, closed the gate of the temple and led hundreds of Taoist priests to recite "Buxu Ci" together. It reverberated under the sky of Chang'an, and even Yu Chigong, who was watching, couldn't help awe in this solemn atmosphere.

Lu Zhongming lived in the Sanqing Temple, and usually lived in the Cangjing Pavilion when he had nothing to do, and personally annotated the scriptures with a pen. In the early morning of the next day, Yu Chigong came over and knelt on one knee, saying: "I'll go to Tiance Mansion to see look."

"Go." Lu Zhongming replied.

He knew that Yu Chigong was worried about Tiance Mansion, after all, all his companions who lived and died together were there, Lu Zhongming only strictly ordered all Taoist priests not to let Li Yuan know that he was back.A few days later, when Yu Chigong returned to Sanqing Temple, he never mentioned anything about Tiance Mansion, and Lu Zhongming didn't ask about it, but he knew that Li Shimin was going to fight back.

Even if Li Shimin doesn't do it, Fang Xuanling and the others can't wait any longer, they must let him do it.