Chapter 028: The End of Spring and Autumn, the Side of the Cottage Mats
Once was the Chu Yue Tang of the wolves and wild boars, now is the dog butchering donkey peddling slaves and thieves, the lofty Spring and Autumn, only a sad spring and autumn, laughs and sadness?
Rumor has it that Huang Longshi, the main culprit of the sinking of the Divine Kingdom, only laughed out loud when he saw the bleak scene of the scholar’s northward movement, and composed several gloating tunes for posterity to hum, claiming that not only was the martial arts world grateful to him for his inverted fortune, but also the literary world, as the country’s unfortunate poets were fortunate.
Spring and Autumn this game of deer in the big chess finale of the scholar north, Liyang only recorded in the official history of the Yong Hui north, Jia Mian to a paragraph of beautiful rhetoric, not stingy praise, praise to the eight surnames of the clothes over the Guangling, but in the history of North Mang, there are two times, in addition to the brief Yong Hui north, more written in the Xu Snapdragon in the North before the clan of North Liang the second north, this time to the complete disappointment of the court of Liyang in the central plains of the scholars and celebrities, began to madness! This time, the middle-plains scholarly and celebrities who were completely disillusioned with the court of Liyang began to pour into the territory of the present southern dynasty of Beimang, and the so-called great valves occupying the high positions in the southern dynasty nowadays, the vast majority of them are the high families of the great clans who scurried northward at this time like lost dogs. These great clans spared no effort to operate secretly in Tai’an City at that time, hoping to have the relatively mild-natured Gu Jiantang to be crowned king of Beilang instead of that executioner surnamed Xu, convinced that whoever of the two could be crowned king of a different surname would determine the direction of the wind of Liyang’s next state policy of strictness or leniency, but the result was a big disappointment, that cripple was going to be personally seated on the northwestern gateway of the empire in the capacity of a vassal king rather than as an ordinary feudal official, the In this way, they hope to rush before the door is completely closed, the tree moves to death and people move to live, for the family descendants in the Liyang court in the next “settling scores” to leave a few incense, even if it is to bear the name of dependence on the northern barbarians, but also do not hesitate to do so, for these behemoths of the four generations of the three dukes of the behemoths, a country change For these behemoths with four generations and three dukes, the change of a country’s surname is never a catastrophe, so the death of a country is a small matter, but the destruction of a family is a big matter!
A famous family lost the old tree roots, not to mention the other, only those hundreds of years down the generations cherish the genealogy of the ancestral map, in the north on the way to escape scattered all over the ground.
Spring rain, a young man squatting on the side of the road, he could not pick up the turn over those precious charts, can only look at the moment is spreading a page of the genealogy, the person who wrote the genealogy is obviously a calligraphy master, handwriting elegant and not lose the bones of this page of the genealogy of the written text, word for word, a few strokes will be able to write out a family ancestor’s achievements in full view. Then a tired mule carrying four gold lacquered boxes stamped its hooves and trampled the whole book, sinking deep into the mud and blurring the handwriting. The young man stood up, the eyes are an endless stream of people, a clan with a clan, a family name after a family name, common from south to north running, gently retracted the line of sight, to see that the mule carrying a box in the rope breaks crashed to the ground, splashing a lot of mud, mule driving people are completely blind, just a hard whip on the mule body, not the box of pain in that several generations of people to purchase a book of antiquity, but annoyed at mule s hooves were too slow.
This stallion and mule mixed and go after the panic caravan, the rear of the caravan to be much more orderly, and no mules and donkeys of these lowly beasts, all in the northern part of the escape route is very flashy and not real suspicion of the high head of the horse, the caravan is especially long, about no less than four hundred people, ride the car ride horse, regardless of the old and young young young and strong, are not like before and after the caravan of the same fear, and even a few of them behind the horseman curtain outside the position, clustered around the horseman, and the horseman, and the horseman, and the horseman, and the horseman, and the horseman. Even behind the curtain behind the driver of several of these vehicles, there are many white children, both male and female, whose lapels are slightly wet from the spring rain, and they do not need to hold books in their hands, reciting words and chapters in silence, which are very catchy. An old man who looks like a teacher of the clan school sits among the children, closing his eyes and concentrating, only occasionally following the students to make a sound.
Xu Fengyen, who dreamed of traveling in Spring and Autumn, did not follow this caravan and stayed at the same place, from the words “women admire chastity, men are talented”, to the words “insist on elegance and tie up their own ties”, and then finally to the words “high crowns accompanying the carriage, driving the hubs and vibrating the tassels”, the sound of reading only grew gradually. “The sound of reading only gradually dissipated in the ears.
The aged teacher who has been silent only recited loudly once during this period, and could not hide the old man’s moist eyes, “The righteousness and honesty are retired, the ups and downs of the bandits are lost!”
Xu Fengnian thought to himself, they are not what later history books everyone spurned the north run funeral dog, they probably count the real north ferry clothes, and they, should one day return home to pay homage to their ancestors, but the teacher, but surely will never see his hometown willows, moss and fireflies.
In the crowd, suddenly out of an old Confucian who had no one to rely on, just staring at Xu Fengnian, must be in the eyes of the living in the neighborhood of the Yang world, the old Confucian demented behavior, has long been accustomed to, all the way north, there are too many too many old people died of disease, gas, and threw himself into the water and died.
The head of the spring rain of the old Confucian twisted his beard and laughed: “Finally see this you.”
“You counted it early?” Xu Fengnian habitually opened his mouth, although mute, but the old Confucian who would later gift a bun, since he could see him, more should “see” him speak.
In the view of others is crazy talking to himself, the old Confucian nodded a smile, “Poor Tao said, oh no, is the future one day in the reverse horse pass will say to you, poor Tao Yuan Qingshan in this life is not counted as heaven and earth, but only counted as a person. The Great Dream Spring and Autumn granted by Zhao Xituan to your brother Xu Longxiang is a long night road, and that bun is considered a lantern to show the way.”
Yuan Qingshan smiled, “The two dynasties extinguished the Buddha, but only Northern Liang is sincere and pro-Buddhist, since you are willing to carry the burden, it’s time for you to get Liu Songtao’s portion of the qi, and from that, the lantern skeleton was built, thus the bowl of blood from the Dragon Tree monks should light up the wick in the cage as well. Unfortunately, ah, poor Tao still hasn’t been able to see the other two of you with his own eyes after all.”
Xu Fenian asked, “You are not worried about Northern Mang being overthrown by Liyang?”
Yuan Qingshan shook his head and said blandly, “Dynasties can rise and fall, and a great spirit needs to live on.”
Xu Fenian looked up at the gray sky and said softly, “This ‘me’, I have already witnessed Qi Xuan frame sitting on the Demon Beheading Platform and beheading the Heavenly Demon. Li Chun Gang’s green shirt and sword fight into Western Shu, his sword qi rolled the dragon wall. The Sword Emperor of Xishu guarded the gate of the country with a sword for the Son of Heaven until his sword was destroyed and he died, trampled by the hooves of a horse and turned into mud. Deng Tai’a rode a donkey and carried a branch into the Jianghu Lake. Wang Mingyang, the general of Xiangfan, killed himself after the city broke down, holding an old jar with the dead bones of his wife and children in it, which had been used as a cooking utensil. I have seen a lot of personnel, but I have never felt that I have not been able to find what I should be looking for.”
Yuan Qingshan said the heavenly opportunity but not to say through, “one heart, two three people dreaming of Spring and Autumn into Spring and Autumn, each have to find, is no more than Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism roots and goddesses. The latter two and your natural affinity, in fact, do not need you to find, has found you, water to the channel only, only owe the remaining two back to God, you do not have to worry too much. As for the Confucianism’s vast qi, if you want to deliberately look for it, you most likely won’t be able to find it. Even if you go looking for Cao Deyi of the Chess Waiting Imperial Edict’s Cao Qingyi of the Grand Officer’s son, and Zhang Julu of the Yellow Gate Lang’s Zhang Shoufu’s Biyiye, I’m afraid that after searching all over the Spring and Autumn Period, you’ll only be searching in vain.”
Xu Fenian sighed, “Then how to get in the way?”
Yuan Qingshan closed his eyes and pinched his fingers, after opening his eyes, he slowly said, “After all, Poverty Road is not a real immortal, and is destined to not be able to calculate the events behind him before he ascends. But here and now, no matter how hard I try to project, you won’t be able to stop Wang Xianzhi.”
Xu Fenian did not have any agitation, Yuan Qingshan again gazed at the weather of this “Xu Fenian”, pinching like flying, his face uncertain, “Strange, why is it that the more I calculate you, the more you are bound to die? If that’s the case, why would I trade buns for coins with you later?”
Confucian attire of the Northern Mang State Master fell into deep thought, after a long time raised his head and said, “This may be the Tao of Heaven leakage, poor Tao also can not count some people and some things. I can’t talk too much with you, so I’m going to escort these scholars into Beimang. Xu Fenian, take care of yourself.”
Xu Fenian nodded.
Xu Fengyen kept stopping where he was, padding the caravan on the muddy road, before following behind and watching them continue farther north at the border of Youzhou later on.
Then Xu Fengyen couldn’t help but close his eyes, he had many times closed his eyes after entering this black and white spring and autumn, always between one opening and one closing that is a dream, never guessing when and where his eyes will appear next time he opens them, let alone which people he will see again.
After that, he opened and closed his eyes several times.
Xu Fengyen saw the whole process of building the Qingliang Mountain King’s Mansion, and also knew why the old man in sheepskin fur would be suppressed here by the Great Pavilion, it turns out that this is exactly the ruins of Fengdu, which is the hometown of one of the four great masters, Fengdu Green Robe, and the descendants all thought that the most secretive gang at that time, “Fengdu”, would be a ghostly underground city, and did not think that the woman would choose a green mountain and green robe. I never thought that the woman would choose a green mountain and green lake, named Fengdu. Maybe it is just saying that people who are dead in their hearts live in the place where they are dead in their hearts, maybe there is no reason for it, that is, the woman is in love with this green pearl in the yellow sand of the desert and likes to have the same color with her clothes. One-armed swordless old man occupying the mountain, they refused to retreat from the new Liang Wang Xu Snap’s hundreds of elite horsemen, and then Xu Snap several times alone to carry wine on the mountain, are in the poor Northern Liang land thousands of gold can not be bought in the Central Plains of good wine, are sitting next to the old man, said some usually can not be said in the heart, several times are drunk, completely drunk in the old man’s side, still drunken, are to Li Yishan help down the mountain. Finally, one day, sheepskin fur old man took Xu Snap’s hand a pot of new wine, unprecedented openings asked the king of the Hall of Northern Liang how this wine, Xu Snap bluntly said that this no name of the poor wine, compared to the past good wine, the taste of the poor, but the price is cheap, not to mention the pain of drinking, but also can be very intoxicating, this is enough. The old man took a sip and said that this wine is actually called Green Ants, and he used to be persuaded to drink it, but he also disliked the poor strength of this wine.
The second sister later composed a poem, green ants wine for the first time by the north of Liang outside familiar, can be popular Liyang dynasty and field, should be from this.
Afterwards, eyes closed and reopened, during the time to see the first time to enter the wutong courtyard of Qingliang Mountain two girls, a she was still called red musk, green bird is still green bird, but more a family name, Wang, Wang green bird.
Only at that time the temperament of the two girls was very different from later, red musk with a strong northern Mang breath, eyes as cold as a knife, see anyone with hostility, even that little master who needs her to serve, the Northern Liang Shizi His Highness Xu Fengyin, is no exception. Green bird is the opposite, his father is the four great masters of the youngest is also the most late death of the gun fairy, Wang Xiu late in life to get a daughter, especially spoiled, her first into the government mountaineering, not as a servant girl identity present, but as a small guest, at that time has not yet changed the name of the Wang Xiu master brother Liu Yan Bing took the young girl to enter the king’s mansion, just did not meet with the teenager Xu Fengyen. Later occurred Chen Zhi Bao treacherous regicide huge change, Liu Yan Bing once single-handedly provoked the king of Beiliang with five hundred riders escort, until finally by the sword Jiu Huang used eight swords to be able to stop, on the jianghu martial arts has always been very nonchalant Xu Primrose actually let this martial arts genius leave, promised him three times the opportunity to take revenge. After three times, Liu Yanbing neither killed Xu Snapdragon nor Chen Zhi Bao, who was a rising star on the border. He and later has done a few years of horseman’s sword nine yellow not to fight, meet for a drink, Liu Yan Bing only know the life of the yellow front figure of the missing teeth of the old swordsman, the original is the West Shu sword emperor’s master, at first ran to the north of the Liang vengeance, and later also many times to kill the kill, there is no that hate.
Liu Yan Bing casually said, the ruler and minister died in the country, the swordsman died in the jianghu. Xishu Sword Emperor, both died well. Lao Huang smiled and returned a sentence, is this reason, but I can not say this kind of words.
The old yellow also said that he quite like that little highness, will not mind his own all horse sloppy flavor, look at people, is indeed looking at people, unlike in the past to go to the jianghu see many valiant princes and grandchildren, look at the door to the right guy is considered to look at people, look at the other people are looking at the dog. Of course, the most important thing is that this kid as long as to go to the stables to take the horse, will secretly give him this horseman to bring a pot of wine, watching himself drink is very happy. Old Huang said that this child always read the jianghu fun, the old horseman said that in the future there is an opportunity to take him to the real city jianghu walk to see, this child will be disappointed.
Speaking of this, the old yellow with missing incisors laughed so hard that he accidentally leaked a lot of yellow wine from his mouth.
It didn’t take long for the green bird to lose that surname not to be used. And Liu Yan Bing also changed his surname to Xu, and became the old Liang King’s personal escort.
Somehow, this Xu Fengnian learned that he was the last time he swam in Spring and Autumn with his eyes open.
He stood near the shrouded straw mat of a young girl and could only watch her being taunted and beaten, and then he saw the fresh clothes of His Highness, the young Shizi, i.e., his young self.