The autumn wind rustles, and the grass and trees are covered with frost. Even if the sunshine is just right, it can't dispel the coldness of autumn.
On the majestic Jiugao Mountain, three people came down the path. The first one was wearing a Taoist robe, with a pure appearance, a slight mustache, and an elegant posture of immortality. The two young men and women behind him were also outstanding in appearance, really like
It was like a banished immortal came down to earth with a pair of golden boys and girls.
"The autumn air is crisp and the geese are flying high. This is a good sign. It means that our trip will be smooth sailing. How can we live up to such scenery? Let's just ride the wind and climb high to Zhongtian Mansion?" The Taoist-robed man said enthusiastically.
The young woman behind him sighed and said: "Second senior brother, why do you insist on walking? It will take ten and a half days to walk or ride a horse from here to Zhongtian Mansion. If you use the sword, you can get there in half a day.
.It’s better to hurry up early than to wait late.”
The second senior brother shook his head and said: "Junior sister, don't you know that 'accumulation makes little difference'? You and Junior Brother Tang are both swordsmen or swordsman seeds. An important part of your future practice is to cultivate your mind. How can you be impatient? Walk more, right?
There are benefits to practicing swordsmanship. What you should care about is not the destination, but the scenery along the way."
Seeing that the junior sister was disapproving, the second senior brother said: "Junior sister, you have to know that I am a Taoist priest who has been practicing for many years. No one knows how to cultivate the mind and nature better than me. You don't understand and are not humble. Just look at Junior Brother Tang, he knows
My painstaking efforts, isn’t it, Junior Brother Tang?”
The young man who had been thinking thoughtfully at the back was Tang Zhao. He said thoughtfully: "Brother, can't you really ride a crane down the mountain?"
Xu Zhongnan was furious and said: "Have you told me yet! Although I am a monk, Master Tao, I am not a living god. Why do I ride a crane? If you want to ride a crane, why not ask the old man for his precious crane? Besides, there are always people around you.
There is a 'buling buling' flashing light. It seems that your eyes are blurred after looking at it for a long time. Can you adjust it?"
Tang Zhao gently picked his finger, and a ray of light circled the tip of his finger like a ring, spinning slowly, and said: "It's my sword elephant. It should be blended into the sunlight, but senior brother feels it is dazzling because I am not good at it."
.Feel sorry."
Xu Zhongnan snorted: "One or two, it's really not cute at all."
Xue Yeyu suddenly sighed: "Brother, there are no outsiders here, and there is no father, why should we be secretive? Tell us the truth, are you unhappy in the capital?"
Xu Zhongnan said angrily: "That's nonsense...who said that?"
By the time someone said these three words, his voice had already dropped slightly.
Tang Zhao took back his hand, the light flew up to his head, and was like a hairpin on his bun. He said sincerely: "Senior brother, we are brothers from the same school, and we are the same as brothers. What hardships are there outside, and we don't want to let our parents do it?
If you are worried, why don’t you tell your brother if you don’t tell him? If you are really unhappy in the capital and refuse to go back to the mountains, I will help you ask, is it okay to find a job in Yunzhou? Or you
Is it okay to open a Baiyushenghui store with us?"
Xu Zhongnan hummed again: "One by one, they are all little people."
He didn't say anything, and the other two people stopped talking. The three of them walked a few steps in silence. Xu Zhongnan suddenly sighed: "It can't be said that I am unhappy. I chose the path myself, and I have achieved some success. The Imperial Master is very grateful to me.
Yes, you don’t have to worry about glory and wealth. It’s just that the capital is too big, with a lot of people, a lot of things, and a lot of power. You can get what you want, but the sacrifices are also amazing, and you can’t make mistakes. You have to always walk on thin ice. Living this kind of life
After a long time, although I can cope with it, I always want to take a good rest. But the old man kicked me out again, haha."
Since he said this, Tang Zhao and the others would not ask, "Can you really handle it?"
Xu Zhongnan said himself: "Actually, I also want to find some reliable helpers when I come back this time. The so-called "one tree cannot survive alone". Everyone in Beijing has to form cliques for personal gain. Isn't it because there are more people to gain strength? I have been operating in Beijing for many years, and that's not the case.
I have no confidants, but I really don’t have many reliable and capable talents. Most of the people I can trust have limited talents, and those who are talented have their own ideas. I really want to find someone of my own."
Xue Yeyu chuckled: "So you also want to form a party for personal gain?"
Xu Zhongnan said: "You girl can talk, do you understand? The promotion of chickens and dogs...forget it. If I really only want to form a party and win people's heads, I should actually go to Bai Yu and Mo Yu's disciples and tell them
How about taking them to the capital to enjoy the blessings and giving them as many benefits as they want? I really want to find a helper who can work together. This person can only be our own senior brother, and he must also have the ability, the city, and the brains. In fact,
The most suitable one is Junior Brother Tang. The second most suitable one is Junior Sister, and even Junior Brother Jiang is not suitable. None of the other Junior Brothers and Sisters can be great, so I can't let them take risks."
Xue Yeyu shook his head repeatedly and said: "I'm very grateful to you. If you want to go back to the villa to kill people, my father won't give you a stick? If you want to recruit Junior Brother Tang to join the gang, he will replace the stick with a mace.
La. He often said that the capital was the most disgusting place in the world. There was war and chaos outside, and people were about to eat each other. The top men were still drunk and dreaming in the golden rooms of the capital, and they didn't even know they were about to die. He thought
When you come back, I not only don't like you being an official, but I'm also afraid that you will be blamed for following those people and lose your life in a daze."
Xu Zhongnan smiled and said: "How can I let the old man know that I want to really pull Junior Brother Tang? The old man has some insight. The court is indeed in trouble internally and externally, but it is not in danger. The Imperial Master is still there, and the capital is still stable. But I do
I gave up on pulling Junior Brother. The mountain is really inseparable from Junior Brother Tang. If Junior Brother Tang were not in charge, you old, young, young, arrogant and stupid, wouldn't you be bullied by others? And..."
He pondered for a while and finally said it, "Third Junior Sister. Third Junior Sister was trapped in a small place and very lonely. I left her at that time and left her with no one to talk to. I always felt sorry for her. Now she recognizes her again.
I really can't bear to take away a friend. Junior Brother Tang——"
Tang Zhao looked at this senior brother whom he had met a few times at most.
Xu Zhongnan said seriously: "I don't know how much you know about her, but I heard that you advised her to go out for a walk and relax. Of course you have good intentions, but her situation does not allow her to appear in front of others at will. She
Living in seclusion in the mountains is to stay away from the sight of those people. Our first priority is to protect her, which is really not easy to do."
Xue Yeyu held his breath when he heard this. Tang Zhao was silent and said after a while: "I understand. Senior brother, can the situation of the third senior sister be improved? Is there still a day when she can regain her freedom?"
Xu Zhongnan sighed and said: "Actually, you can. But we can't. Our Zhuoyu Villa is just a place to 'hide' her, not a place to 'protect' her. In the end, it's not just a man who is not guilty, but the one who carries the jade is guilty."
? If she has a big backer that she can trust, maybe she can be more relaxed. We, from a small family, are beyond our power. But if we want to find a bigger backer for her, 90% of it is to seek skin from a tiger. That's the reputation.
The very good Marquis Gao Yuan may not be trustworthy."
Tang Zhao nodded and asked: "What kind of master does it take to truly protect her?"
Xu Zhongnan said: "Is this... As far as I know now, even the Imperial Master is interested in her. So you have to be able to resist the Imperial Master to be qualified, right?"
National Division……
Even Tang Zhao felt his scalp go numb when he heard the word "Guoshi".
This Imperial Preceptor is recognized as the number one expert in the imperial court and is the backbone of the imperial court. It can be said that the most important reason why the imperial court can maintain its arrogance after so many years of struggle is that he is still here.
All the princes in the world are wary of rebellion and dare not openly rebel.
So how strong is the national master and how high is his level?
The answer is: no one knows!
No one knows how strong he is, no one knows what skills he has, no one even knows if he is a swordsman. All he knows is that all his enemies are dead, and those who have seen him attack are almost dead, and a few are not dead.
They are all tight-lipped and dare not mention it.
This Imperial Master was granted the title of Imperial Master by Taizu when he founded the country. It has been going through ups and downs for two hundred years, and it has never changed until the end of the dynasty.
In the past two hundred years, there have been many powerful ministers, domineering warlords, arrogant relatives, and ambitious vassal kings. They or their subordinates often have powerful swordsmen and spiritual officers, but none of them dare to challenge him head-on.
The National Preceptor, at most, carefully tests within the tolerance limit of the National Preceptor, and will be eradicated in an instant if he crosses the line even slightly.
Legend has it that he is not invincible in a single battle, nor is he so powerful that he can respond to a hundred calls. He is the kind of power that can defeat ten thousand people with one and can grasp the overall situation by one person. This is unsolvable.
By now, everyone has figured out the bottom line of the Imperial Preceptor - he doesn't care about the power and party struggles in the court, he doesn't care about the local civil and political chaos, he doesn't care about the victory or defeat on the frontier, he doesn't care about the victory or defeat on the frontier, and when he was a young master, he had a female master who came to the court and took over as regent.
Even if the emperor is too fatuous and cruel, he can tolerate it if a close prince takes his place and is popular with the people. The only thing is that no one is allowed to shake the throne of the Jin royal family. Especially in the capital, anyone who dares to rebel in the capital will be wiped out.
And...about him. The Taoist temple under the name of the National Master has a transcendent status, and even a Taoist boy cannot tolerate disrespect from others. There is nothing that the National Master wants that he cannot get.
Xu Zhongnan was a Taoist official in the Taoist temple, so he felt deeply about the first one, and he also believed deeply in the second one.
"Even if Marquis Gao Yuan is suppressing one side in Yunzhou, he has to pay a visit to the imperial advisor when he arrives in the capital. If the imperial advisor wants something from Yunzhou, Marquis Gao Yuan will also take the initiative to collect it for him. When will you be confident that you can defeat Marquis Gao Yuan, then go
Let’s test the Imperial Master.”
Tang Zhao sighed, even though he had always been confident, he couldn't help but feel deeply powerless - after so many years of hard study and cheating, he had just become a swordsman, and there was still a long way to go.
Although he is now going to join the Yunzhou Prosecution Department, the outside world is huge and he really wants to take a look.
The three of them chatted about this heavy topic for a while, then turned away from it in a tacit understanding, and turned to talking about the scenery outside Yunzhou, such as the capital city. Xu Zhongnan invited Tang Zhao to visit the Taoist temple, not to join the group, but to gain experience. Tang Zhao
Zhao naturally agreed.
After descending from the mountain, there is a straight road leading to Zhongtian Mansion. Since Xue Yeyu and Tang Zhao knew that Xu Zhongnan wanted to travel to relax, they did not urge him to hurry up. When they arrived at Jichun City, Tang Zhao went through the formalities
, and Deputy Chi asked them to say goodbye. Xue Yeyu and Xu Zhongnan went to the market to buy some good horses. Xu Zhongnan felt that riding a donkey was more suitable for his otherworldly fairy temperament, but Xue Yeyu refused, so he had no choice but to do it.
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Tang Zhao went to Bai Yu Shenghui's shop for another inspection and found that everyone was working very hard. A large number of magic tools ordered by Snow Mountain Prince's Palace had been shipped. Even two Snow Dragon cars were built. Xu Zhongnan couldn't help but feel excited when he saw this car.
With stars in his eyes, he immediately ordered two cars, one for himself and one for the Imperial Guard.
Tang Zhao felt that it was inappropriate for the Imperial Master to ride a bicycle at such an old age, so he designed a four-way vehicle on the spot. He said that the front was pulled by wooden oxen and flowing horses. The Imperial Master wore a crown of heaven and sat on it with a feather fan. Beier felt it.
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Xu Zhongnan thought this design was strange, but Tang Zhao was already a well-known master and designer of the Great Talisman Sword, so he believed him and placed the order.
Since Tang Zhao went to Zhongtianfu, he thought he could take a look at the market there to prepare for opening a chain store. At that time, he brought Wei Se, who was familiar with store affairs, with him.
The four of them put on their mounts and headed all the way to Zhongtian Mansion.