Crown Sword

The mortuary in the library was small, and the news spread, and many people in Jinyang City spontaneously went to express their condolences.Gu Zai was alone, without a wife or children. The teachers and schoolchildren in the library were all dressed in mourning and kept vigil for him.

Gong Yangyue picked a time when there were few people, sneaked in and burned a stick of incense, then walked around the corpse, and then left the study.

Unfortunately, as soon as he turned around the backyard wall, he bumped into Chao Chen head-on.

"Why are you here again?" Even if he couldn't beat him, Chao Chen could only stare at him dissatisfied, like staring at a ball of ashes, "You are such a despicable, shameless, evil person who has done a lot of evil, you are not welcome in the library! "

Gong Yangyue was thick-skinned and was not moved at all: "It's as if you are welcome and will pick you up with eight big sedan chairs."

Chao Chen held his breath and pretended to turn a blind eye in order not to argue with villains.

"Aren't you afraid that I will find out the truth? You already believe in your heart that I did it, so you will slap yourself when you find out?" Gong Yangyue entangled again like a psoriasis that couldn't be shaken off: "Why? Saying hello, you are so poor in martial arts, you are kind to everyone, why do you have to be so hard on me, do we have the hatred of killing our father or taking our wife?"

"If you were you, would you greet bedbugs with a smile?" Chao Chen glanced coldly and passed him, "Besides, can you be the same as others?"

"It's different. Well, I'll take it as if you're flattering me."

Chao Chen flicked his sleeves: "It can't be taught."

Turning around the small corridor, hearing no more footsteps behind him, Chao Chen glanced back, wanting to breathe a sigh of relief, but worried that Gong Yangyue would regenerate here, so he went to discuss it with Yu Tong.

The more he thought about it, the faster he walked, and he turned his head frequently, and bumped into someone as soon as he stepped out of the doorway.

Gong Yangyue held his sword and looked at him lazily: "Are you looking for me?"

Chao Chen bumped it away, and said angrily, "Why are you following me?"

"You must be thinking now, this evil guy must have come to destroy the evidence, so someone has to watch over it." After finishing speaking, Gong Yangyue pointed at Yu Tong who had already raised his knife and walked towards them.

Although it was the mourning period, those schoolchildren did not abandon their studies. Now that they heard the movement, they all stood up and looked this way.

"Don't worry, that kid is safe and sound. You don't have to be wary of me. I'll just sit here in broad daylight, what else can I do? Please." Gong Yangyue walked over generously and sat on the ball mat. The children immediately shrank to a corner, Very frightened.He was not annoyed, but instead waved at one of them: "What book did you read?"

Yu Tong's eyes widened, he pulled Chao Chen and asked, "Why is he here?"

"Condolences."

As soon as the swordsman heard that he couldn't stand up anymore, he rolled up his sleeves and carried the knife and was about to go: "Look, how can there be such a brazen person in the world! If I were Mr. Gu, I would make me angry right now!"

Chao Chen hurriedly stopped him: "Awei is still in his hands, not to mention the brothers you summoned haven't arrived yet."

"Just looking at it like that?"

Chao Chen's face was gloomy, and he didn't answer. At least, the person in front of him didn't have any killing intent for the time being, and even had some inexplicable idleness.

Xiao Wu was afraid and refused to go forward.The Gongyangyue sword was not out of its sheath, but he only poked forward, and the scroll in his hand flew out, he grabbed it, and after a glance, he tore both of them into pieces: "Except for Shi Shu Li Yi Chunqiu , nothing else? Let me tell you something interesting."

I never thought that Gongyangyue really started talking.

"Which one is taller, the turtle or the snake?"

Xiao Qi said quickly, "Of course it's a snake."

"No, the turtle is longer than the snake. (Note 1)"

"How is it possible!" Xiao Wu didn't believe it.

Gongyangyue held her chin with one hand, and gestured in the air with the other hand: "There are giant pythons in southern Yunnan, but the small snakes can't break their shells an inch; the old turtles at the bottom of the water are as big as their palms, but there are tortoises in the East China Sea that can carry mountains. Why is that impossible?"

A Lu jumped: "You didn't say what kind of turtle or snake it is!"

"Yeah, I didn't say anything, but you've already made up your mind." Gong Yangyue smiled, and glanced at Chao Chen, who was beside him. Listen.

Chao Chen clenched his fists—if he hadn't had the past, he might really have believed it.

"Don't talk about this, change to another one." Gong Yangyue looked away disappointed, and continued, "Look at the apricot flower cake on this plate, how long will it last?"

"One... one day?"

"Two bites?"

"No, it's forever." Gong Yangyue stretched out his index finger and waved it, "You eat half of it every day, and it will last forever." After finishing speaking, he laughed loudly.

Yu Tong looked like a ghost: "What kind of trick is this? Break into us?"

Chao Chen walked over, picked up the fragments on the ground, and still on Gong Yangyue's face: "Crooked ways!"

Gong Yangyue suppressed her smile, her eyes became colder: "It's all the opinion of the family, why is yours orthodox and mine is heresy? Who established the rules?"

"Since Mr. Dong 'promoted the Confucian family and suppressed hundreds of schools', all dynasties and dynasties, whether they are sages, sages, or students, have all read the Five Classics, and everything else is a sect!"

Gong Yangyue snorted, and retorted: "It's the majority again, so what if the majority are wrong? Chao Chen, you are an elm bump!"

Chao Chen disdained: "Play the piano to a cow!"

The more he argued, the more Gongyangyue did not let go. Instead, he straightened up and added: "The reason why the so-called sages and saints in your mouth are saints is because most people recognize them. If one day, most people don't recognize them." , is a saint still a saint?"

"Deviating from the scriptures, using strong words to make sense!"

Chao Chen was trembling with anger, but Gongyangyue ignored it and stood up straight, stepped on the debris on the ground, and leaned over to press it: "The etiquette and dogma you uphold are not in today's world. In troubled times, there is no need at all. Scribes like you, what else can you do besides criticizing your opponents?"

"Gongyangyue, you are here to humiliate me." Chao Chen squatted down, picking up the trampled bamboo paper.In the past few decades, cities were massacred and set on fire, looting and looting abounded. Many classics were lost and passed down from generation to generation.

"Humiliation? Do you know what humiliation is? I'm just trying to tell you a truth: I'm stronger than you, and I'm the truth." He drew out his long sword, slashed across Chao Chen Subai's neck in the wind, and caught the branch falling slowly. pear blossom.

As soon as his footsteps moved, Chao Chen lost his strength and fell backwards to the ground.He hated it to death, the owner of the library was still dead, but this person spoke harsh words and uttered nonsense in the library.

Yu Tong rushed forward, momentarily tense with swords.

Gongyangyue didn't intend to make a move, she quickly sheathed her sword and sneered in a low voice.Chao Chen raised his head to reprimand, but when his eyes collided, he found that the hatred in the other's eyes was no less than his own.

What does he hate?What did he hate?What a moody lunatic!

"I... I actually think it makes sense." Alu, who was silently aside, glanced at Gongyangyue and spoke in a low voice.

Chao Chen got up, without bothering to dust off his clothes, he pulled the child back.Ah Lu had never seen his husband so excited, and immediately shut up in fright.

Yu Tong's eyeballs rolled around twice, it was rare that he didn't make any trouble, instead he pulled him back and said in a low voice, "The dead are the most important. Didn't you say earlier that Master Gu still has relics to be cleaned up? Be careful, don't worry about it." Tell him to bludgeon himself into chaos. Go ahead and do it, and I'll watch over for you, even if this guy is shameless, I can still give up my life!"

Chao Chen calmed down, and felt strange: Gong Yangyue said and acted strangely a few times, just kidnapped the naive, saying that it was a grudge to clear up his grievances, but there is no guarantee that it is not for some other purpose. Could it be that there are things he needs in this library?If this is the case, it may be a plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain.He didn't have to do it himself, although the girl accompanying him didn't know martial arts, she still had a sword assistant.

"You are a trusted friend of the old museum owner. You still need to worry about it for seven days, so don't worry too much about this guy..." Yu Tong deliberately emphasized the word "confidant", and Chao Chen suddenly understood his hint. , really endured it, pretended not to fight for a moment, and turned around.

However, after taking two steps, he still couldn't help looking back, and said word by word: "I've only heard that literati look down on each other, but this is the first time I've seen someone with a sword so disdainful. Gongyangyue, I don't know what happened to you, But I still want to say that not everyone in the world is as powerful in martial arts as you are. Even if the soldiers recruited into the army, many of them are just eating. It needs to be educated, let alone the north where there are mixed races, otherwise it will be unworthy for three generations, and I am afraid that all the ancestors will have forgotten their ancestors, and I am afraid that by then, no matter how high the martial arts are, they will not have the heart to resist."

Ram Yue paused.

"These are the original words of the old museum owner when he persuaded me to stay three years ago." Chao Chen held on to his cap, let out a long sigh, and disappeared out of the corridor, "In the life of uncle Ji, life is at stake, so why bother?" Reading? I didn’t understand it at the time, and I was even contemptuous and self-destructive, and I just wanted to die.”

One day there was a well turnaround between the study, the kitchen and the dormitory, Chao Chen kept an eye on it and deliberately went to the kitchen to prepare porridge, then took a shortcut and took a shortcut into the courtyard where Gu lived before my death.

The courtyard door was locked, and there was no sign of smashing on it.

The owner of the museum lives in peace and happiness, so the room is empty, except for the couch, desk and cabinets full of volumes, there are only a few paintings and calligraphy and some inscriptions for research, which are arranged in a regular manner on weekdays, but it is obviously not now——

The floor is full of debris, obviously someone has rummaged through it first.

After Gong Yangyue left last night, he obviously checked the house immediately, and the house was intact, with three locks locked.Because of the funeral rites, he and Yu Tong set up a small hall for Gu Zai me, and sent people to the township school to invite the gentlemen back. They each kept watch at midnight, and checked again in the morning. No problem at all.

Could it be that just now...

Chao Chen was a scholar, and subconsciously wanted to confront Gong Yangyue, but on second thought, since he was rummaged, there must be something important.The house is so big, and I usually take care of it for the owner. If there is any missing key evidence, I can see it.

Then, based on his memory, he reset them one by one, but nothing was missing.

"Didn't you find it?"

I had no idea for a while, so I could only put it down for now. After counting the things, Chao Chen felt a little sad in the sunlight. He sat by the desk for a while, endured his grief, went to the corner to open the empty box, and looked around to pick things out. , and finally his eyes fell on those steles: "The owner of the museum loved to study the inscriptions on the pre-Qin stele, so it is better to bury it with it."

Thinking of this, he lightly placed the steles in the box one by one. After placing the last piece, he was about to close the lid when the bottom of the box suddenly sank an inch, revealing a hidden compartment on the opposite wall.

The secret compartment is square, but the height of a fist, and there is only one volume of letters inside.

Chao Chen's heart was pounding, he glanced left and right, and took a look with both hands——

"Gongyangchi, the second of the seven elders of Jiangu, killed Shu king Zhang Yu in Mianzhu in the second year of Ningkang, led the Qin army into Kaicheng, the soldiers died tragically, and Shu fell. In the same year, Qin general Deng Qiang wiped out the Jin army in Fuxi. Yang An killed more than [-] people in Shu County...

Gongyang Qi, the son of Gongyangchi, who lived in Ningkang for three years, left in the clouds, clings to Tuoba Xianbei, kills his wife for glory, and his whereabouts are unknown..."

The space is limited and words are missing, but it is not difficult to see that the contents are all related to the school of Gongyang.

"Could it be that Gongyangyue came here for this thing?" Chao Chen hastily looked at the booklet again and again, and finally found a tiny seal at the end. After careful identification, it was the four characters "I don't see Chang'an".He once heard people say that about 30 years ago, there was a non-governmental organization that was very prosperous in the Northland. It used the words of Emperor Jinming to "look up at the sun, but not Chang'an". For righteous deeds, for heroic deeds, they help each other in private, and send the Jin people who have been persecuted to the south to return home.

Chao Chen realized that Gu Zaiwo was a member of this organization.

He didn't dare to delay any longer, he copied the letter into his sleeve, and hurriedly went to look for Yu Tong, but he didn't expect that there was a curled note wrapped in the gap of the bamboo slip, which was about to float by his shoes.

Looking at it, there are only eight characters - "Jiuyuan is dead, be careful, gentlemen!"

With a sound of "crash", the closed wooden door was pushed open, Chao Chen suddenly turned his head, sweating, and clutched the note tightly in the palm of his hand.

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Note 1: The tortoise is longer than the snake, which is a topic debated by famous scholars.

Small science popularization: The issue of half a day, infinitely divisible, is not advanced here. It has already been discussed in "Zhuangzi · Tianxia"-"One-foot hammer, take half of it every day, and it will last forever. "

Note 2: Quoted from "Book of Rites·Xue Ji"