Minister Gu Ming can't take care of himself

It was already August when the imperial edict calling Xu Guanchen back to Jinling reached Yanbei.

In August in Yanbei, it was snowing heavily.

When the messenger arrived, Xu Guanchen was sitting on the tower and meditating, his clothes were flapping in the wind, looking from a distance, it looked like a snowflake falling from the sky, innocent and selfless.

Xinren stood below and watched him for a long time, but he couldn't climb up by himself, and he didn't dare to call him, thinking that he had entered meditation.In the end, it was Xu Guanchen's cousin Zhong Yao, the major general who was stationed in Yanbei, who took over the order for him.

After the man left, Zhong Yao waved to him from below.

Xu Guanchen made a closing gesture, slowly opened his eyes, and then stood up—his legs trembling.

I don't know if it's cold or scared.

He didn't dare to look down any more, bit the whisk in his mouth, turned around, turned his back to the outside, and slowly climbed down from the tower using both hands and feet.

When he was about to fall to the ground, Zhong Yao hit him with a long sword on his waist: "Aren't you afraid of freezing to death?"

Xu Guanchen sniffled and opened his sleeves to show him: "I'm wearing several layers of rabbit fur."

Zhong Yao looked away with a complicated expression, and walked forward.

Xu Guanchen followed him and asked, "Which family does that person belong to?"

Since he came to Yanbei a year ago, all the forces in Jinling have taken a little interest in him and sent people to look for him.It was precisely because of this that every time Xu Guanchen received news of someone coming from Jinling, Xu Guanchen would climb to the top of the tower to meditate.

I have to say that the effect of this method is not bad. Everyone in Jinling City now knows that Xu Guanchen is a little Taoist priest who does not think about making progress and is obsessed with seeking immortality.

What's more, he also said that he would form an array to pray for rain, cast spells to sacrifice to the sky, and soon he would ascend to immortality.

Zhong Yao replied: "That is His Majesty's messenger, sending you back to Jinling."

Xu Guanchen slipped and almost slipped out of the snow.

Never fall down in the snow, if Zhong Yao comes to help him, he can kick him two feet away.

He grabbed Zhong Yao's sleeve and stood firm.

Xu Guanchen said: "Is it because His Highness the Fifth Prince refuses to let go..."

Zhong Yao said, "I'm afraid His Majesty's health is not good..."

The two of them opened their mouths at the same time, but the words they spoke were one south and the other north.

Zhong Yao still looked at him with a complicated expression: "What are you thinking?"

Xu Guanchen shook his head like a rattle, hastily denied: "No."

"That's true." Zhong Yao walked forward with arms folded, "You have always been on good terms with His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince, but this time you go back, if something happens, you must help him. It's just that your son had an enmity with His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince again. He is a man of prey, and his methods of teasing people are too powerful, if you confront him, how will you deal with yourself? You can't come to Yanbei again?"

"I……"

Xu Guanchen was staying in the Zhong Mansion, he had just stepped through the gate of the mansion, and now he entered the courtyard, a figure under the eaves of the courtyard flashed by, and in the blink of an eye, that person came out holding a bowl of ginger soup.

That was the young boy Xu Guanchen took in in Yanbei, named Feiyang.The one who was rescued from Xiling was raised as a martial puppet since he was a child. At the age of thirteen or fourteen, he only has the mind of a seven or eight-year-old child.

Holding the ginger soup in his hands, Feiyang walked up to him steadily.Xu Guanchen took the ginger soup and blocked his mouth in time.

"Guan Chen." Zhong Yao asked him, "Do you really want to go back to Jinling?"

"Your Majesty personally issued an edict, I have to go back. I am the only one left in Dingguo's mansion. If I don't go back, there will be no one in Dingguo's mansion."

The ginger soup made the corners of Xu Guanchen's eyes red, he stopped talking and just looked up at the sky.

Poor.Zhong Yao paused, then took out a crumpled handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to him.

Xu Guanchen was very disgusted and didn't answer.The taste of ginger soup stuck in his throat, he coughed twice, his eyes were red from coughing.

Although Zhong Yao disliked him very much and always said that he stayed at his home for a year, eating and living for nothing, he still sent Yanbei's elite cavalry to escort him back, and also prepared two big boxes for him.

"Thank you cousin..."

Xu Guanchen opened one of the wooden boxes——

A pair of meteor hammers.

A pair of male and female swords.

A life-hooking chain.

……

Xu Guanchen scratched his head: "So I went to the rivers and lakes to perform art?"

Zhong Yao casually picked up a treasured sword and drew it out of its sheath: "If His Highness the Fifth Highness bullies you, you'll just click——"

Xu Guanchen continued to scratch his head: "I dare not."

Zhong Yao put the sword back into its sheath with a swipe: "Are you from Dingguo's mansion?"

Xu Guanchen scratched his head, the pain made him gasp.

He raised his fly whisk, and said to the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable: "I have been studying literature since I was a child, and now I am practicing Taoism. I am a monk."

Zhong Yao sighed, took out a sleeve arrow from the box and threw it into his arms, Xu Guanchen put it away, and Zhong Yao took out a stack of bank notes from his arms and stuffed it to him.

Xu Guanchen casually stuffed the banknote to Feiyang who was beside him, and Zhong Yao said, "You tell him to keep it, be careful that he burns it for fun, it's all Zhongfu's property."

Between the two big men, even if it was a farewell, there was nothing to say. After telling the important things, the two hugged each other, said goodbye to each other, and said goodbye.

Xu Guanchen led Feiyang into the carriage, and then asked Feiyang to send the banknote back.

He sat in the carriage for a while, and Feiyang came back.

Xu Guanchen breathed a sigh of relief: "Send it back?"

Fei Yang nodded: "Yes."

Xu Guanchen asked again: "Where did you put it?"

Feiyang said seriously: "The courtyard."

"Huh? Did you sprinkle it in the yard?"

Xu Guanchen supported his forehead, leaned listlessly by the small window of the carriage, suddenly felt a headache.

After nearly three months of journey, one evening in the winter moon, Xu Guanchen and his party arrived at the last post house.

After passing this post house, and walking south for half a day, you will find Jinling.

The escorting cavalry paid special attention to their horses, fed them water and grass, and if they could do it themselves, they must do it themselves, Xu Guanchen let them go, and went up and down the post by himself.

Probably the fire was burning in the hall, and the door of the post house was closed.

Before Xu Guanchen got close, he heard laughter from inside.

"The few snow foxes that General Pei hunted this time are enough to make a cloak for His Highness the Fifth Highness."

After a while, a voice said calmly: "Your Highness doesn't like to wear white."

General Pei.

General Pei, the uncle of His Highness the Fifth Highness.

General Pei, the uncle of His Highness the Fifth Highness who had a falling out with him.

Xu Guanchen paused, looked down at his white clothes, white shoes, and white whisk, and turned to get the meteor hammer that Zhong Yao had prepared for him before leaving.

The hammer is heavy, so that he can feel at ease, and also for self-defense, so safe.

So Xu Guanchen held a meteor hammer and pushed open the door of the inn, like a robber.

The banquet in the hall was just when the wine was intoxicating, and Xu Guanchen also knew that the moment he opened the door, the cold wind would pour in, so he moved very quickly, slipped in quickly, closed the door quickly, and gave General Pei the door quickly. salute.

"Meet General Pei."

There was no sound, General Pei didn't let him get up for a long time, and the people around him didn't speak. The most difficult thing was Xu Guanchen, who was still holding a heavy hammer in his hand.

The charcoal basin in the hall was too hot, and his back was sweating profusely.

Xu Guanchen bravely raised his eyes to look at it, and with just one look, he was so startled that the hammer in his hand dropped, almost hitting his foot.

It turned out that General Pei's sentence "Your Highness doesn't like to wear white" was not casual, he was speaking for His Highness Fifth.

His Highness the Fifth Highness is named Xiao Zhi, and he is right in the middle of that honorable man whose face is so gloomy that he can squeeze out water.

Xiao Zhi casually picked up the teacup and threw it at his feet.Xu Guanchen stood still, the celadon teacup was broken into thousands of pieces, and the warm tea splashed on his clothes.

Only throwing a teacup and nothing else, Xiao Zhi left in a wooden wheelchair.

Xu Guanchen's face remained unchanged, he bent over and bowed: "Respectfully, Your Highness."

An unprepared first meeting after a long absence.

In order to avoid unnecessary meeting again, Xu Guanchen never stepped out of the room after the posthouse arranged a room for Xu Guanchen.

He asked for a wooden basin and some hot water, and squatted on the ground to wash his clothes.

The hem of the clothes was stained with tea stains, and it was not easy to wash them off. After rubbing them for a long time, he finally threw the clothes into the basin and sat on the ground, refusing to move.

Xiao Zhi.

He repeated the name over and over in his mind.

At this time, Feiyang finished washing, opened the door and came in, knelt down beside him, and helped him rub the hem of his clothes.

Xu Guanchen patted his head, said thank you, and got up to make the bed.

The quilts in the inn were not thick, Xu Guanchen dug out the thick clothes they brought from Yanbei, made a bed for Feiyang, and went to another small couch to meditate by himself.

The daily homework of Taoist priests.

When Xu Guanchen opened his eyes again, Feiyang had already put his clothes to dry beside the charcoal basin, turned on the lamp, and climbed onto the couch to sleep.

He tossed the whisk away and covered himself with the quilt to sleep.

Just closing his eyes, what he saw was Xiao Zhi.

He was afraid that Xiao Zhi would send someone to kill him at night.

Really unable to sleep, he got up from the quilt, went down to the ground in the dark, gently took out the hammer, sword and iron chain that Zhong Yao had prepared for him, and placed them one by one beside the couch.

He put the quilt back on and went to sleep. This time he felt much more at ease, and he soon fell asleep. The last impression was only the snow light outside the window reflecting the moonlight, and the cool color of the window paper.

People who practice Taoism are calm and divine, and they have no dreams all year round, but this night Xu Guanchen had a dream.

I don't know who it is, hugging his waist and pressing his feet to keep him from moving.In the end, she squeezed into his couch and rubbed against his temples, making him drenched in sweat.

This dream was really not like a dream, he reluctantly stretched out his hand to touch the side of the couch, and felt the man all over, but he didn't find any of the hammer, sword and iron chain.

When he was about to cry, the man kissed the corner of his eyes, and disappeared like a puff of smoke.

Xu Guanchen opened his eyes suddenly, and in a blink of an eye, the weapon in front of the couch hadn't moved a single bit, it was just within reach of his hand.

I was still sweating all over, because the charcoal basin in the room was too hot.

He climbed out of bed, washed his face, and opened the window to take a look.

At this time, the sky was bright, and the hunting team was cleared up and was about to go back.The carriage in the middle belonged to Xiao Zhi, and his mother's uncle, General Pei, rode beside the carriage, and the lieutenants and soldiers followed behind.

Xu Guanchen closed the window sash, took the dust whisk, and climbed onto the couch to meditate again.

He said in his heart that women are tigers and men are tigers.

This is what people in Buddhism say.But Xu Guanchen thought again, everyone is a monk, so it's okay to learn from each other.