On the Dangang pier, two medium-sized passenger ships sailed into the port at the same time. After the cable board was set up, two white-haired old men got off the ship. After they stood on the pier, they looked at each other and each carried a hand.
He raised his sleeves and bowed to the other side.
"Yu Gong."
"Kang Gong."
Both of them are over a hundred years old, and both became "scholars" of Tianxia sixty years ago. Now they have not set foot in Ruiguang for more than forty years. But this time they came here.
Prepare to participate in this "scholar's discussion" next year.
After Mr. Yu performed the ceremony, he joked: "I don't want Mr. Kuang to actually come to participate in the discussion. I thought you were just talking about everything as usual."
Duke Kuang glanced at him sideways and said, "You old guy can come, why can't I?"
"Who's calling me old?"
Mr. Yu seemed angry, "You are still one year older than me!"
Kuang Gong said matter-of-factly: "Isn't this just because I'm old, how can you not be old?"
Yu Gong glared at him and said: "You hurt others and yourself, you old guy are still so shameless!"
Mr. Kuang chuckled, patted his cheek, and said: "You still need this face. With our old faces, we can at least provide some protection for the younger generations."
Mr. Yu sarcastically said: "Old man, don't think too highly of yourself. If you haven't been honored for more than forty years, who will still remember your face?"
Kuang Gong said indifferently: "It's okay if I don't remember. Although my face is not as handsome as when I was young, my brain is still not confused. I can still give some bad ideas to young people."
The two of them were mocking each other, but a large group of people came to greet them on the pier, including many officials from the capital who held high positions in the capital. An old man in commoner clothes came out of the crowd, came up and bowed to him, his face showing excitement.
Said: "Master Kuang, Master Yu, the student has met these two teachers."
Yu Gong glanced at him and suddenly said: "It's Liu Zhan."
Liu Zhan said: "Yes, two teachers. The student has ordered his son to prepare a banquet in the mansion, and he also asked the two teachers to honor him."
Moreover, he looked at him sideways and said, "I know your son is the acting governor, so there is no need to bring it up to your lips."
Liu Zhan was a little embarrassed and said: "Master Kuang, that's not what the student meant."
Yu Gong waved his sleeves and said: "Don't pay attention to him. This old guy loves to ridicule people the most. He is unreasonable and makes trouble. He just happened to be hungry, so he went to your house to make trouble. By the way, let's see how Ruiguang is doing now.
Already."
Liu Zhan hurriedly took a step sideways and said respectfully: "Teachers please."
Time flies, and soon December 30th is here.
There were lights and decorations everywhere inside and outside Ruiguang City. On this day, Taiyang Academy gathered all the teachers and teachers in the academy and held a banquet on the platform. The banquet lasted until the appointed time.
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After Zhang Yu participated in the banquet, he invited a group of colleagues to enjoy the dance, and returned to his residence alone. He came to the top floor, looked at Ruiguang City in the distance with his sleeves down, and heard the sound of firecrackers in the distance.
Watching the scattered dazzling fireworks soar into the sky.
Lord Miaodan came to his feet, looked at him, and squatted down beside him.
At this moment, a loud voice suddenly came from below: "Brother Zhang, are you there?"
Zhang Yu turned around, took a few steps to the edge of the top floor, looked down, and said, "Brother Liu, why are you here?"
Liu Guang stood below, holding a celadon wine flask in his hand. He raised it to him and said: "Brother Zhang, I have a headache when I see the rules in the clan. I feel bored spending the old year alone, so I thought about it.
Come here and have a few drinks together."
Zhang Yuyi cupped his hands and said: "Brother Liu, please come up."
Li Qinghe immediately went down and opened the door. Master Liu followed him to the top floor. After bowing to Zhang Yu, the two of them sat down under the awning.
Liu Guang glanced at Ruiguang City shrouded in lights in the distance, put down the wine bottle, smiled, patted it gently, and said: "Don't worry, I know you don't like drinking, I'll drink this bottle of wine,
Just drink tea."
Zhang Yudao: "It doesn't hurt to have a few drinks today." He ordered Li Qinghe and said, "Go and get the jar of wine from the cellar."
Li Qinghe left as ordered.
Liu Guang's eyes lit up and he said: "Brother Zhang, it seems you have good wine here!"
After a while, Li Qinghe held a wine jar in one hand and a set of wine utensils in the other. He walked up carefully, placed the wine jar on the lacquer table covered with a cloth, and opened the seal. At first, he could not smell anything.
The smell, but after a while, I felt that the whole courtyard was filled with a fragrant fragrance, which made people feel intoxicated.
When Liu Guang closed his eyes and smelled it, his cheeks turned red, and his body couldn't help but swayed. He opened his eyes in surprise and asked, "What kind of wine is this?"
Zhang Yudao: "I have never drunk the spiritual brew given by Xuanfu."
Liu Guang couldn't help but become interested, rubbed his hands, and said: "So there is still such good wine, but this time it is Brother Zhang who gets the best of it." As he spoke, he hurriedly went to get the wine glass.
Zhang Yuque stretched out his hand to stop him and said: "Slow down."
Liu Guang cast a puzzled look.
Zhang Yu said sincerely: "Brother Liu, you are not a practitioner, so your glass of wine needs to be mixed with warm water. Otherwise, you will be drunk even after one sip, and you may not be able to wake up in a few days."
"Water it?"
Liu Guang's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but smell the smell. He shook his head helplessly and said: "It's so ungrateful, it's too ungrateful."
Li Qinghe took a wine glass, first poured half a cup of warm water, then held up the wine jar, tilted it slightly, and saw a crystalline jade line flowing down and falling into the cup. After a while, there was a ball of mist floating near the mouth of the cup.
The dew of ice and water condenses but never disperses.
Liu Guang waited for Zhang Yu to pick up the wine glass in his hand, then reached out and grabbed the glass in front of him.
At this time, he thought about it, looked at the brightly lit Ruiguang City below, and said with emotion: "The sun, moon, and sky are shining with auspicious light. After today, we, the people of Tianxia, have been based on this land for a full hundred years...
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Having said this, he looked serious, held up the wine glass with both hands, and said: "With this glass, I wish that 'the sky and summer will last forever, and all the people will be safe and peaceful'!"
Zhang Yu also raised his sleeves, raised his glass with a straight face, and said: "Heaven and summer will always be here, and all the people will be safe and peaceful!"
The two of them bowed to each other, raised their necks and drank, then held up their sleeves to show the cup, and then put it down.
Boom boom boom...
In the distance, there was a continuous dull sound of cannons outside the harbor.
Liu Guang looked at it and said: "This is the fleet of the Duhufu firing cannons and salutes to celebrate the New Year.
Zhang Yu nodded.
Almost half an hour later, the rumbling sound of cannons stopped, but this sound seemed to be just the beginning. After a while, the sound of firecrackers was heard in every corner of the city, and then the whole Ruiguang City began to set off.
Grand fireworks, groups of gorgeous fireworks blooming in the sky above the city accompanied by roaring and crackling sounds.
Liu Guang sighed and said: "After today, it will be the 374th year of the Great Xuan Calendar. I don't know when the Protectorate will return to Tianxia."
Zhang Yudao: "The time is not far off."
Liu Guang's eyes brightened slightly, and he moved slightly forward, looking at him and saying, "Brother Zhang, why do you say that? But is there any news from Xuanfu?"
Zhang Yudao: "The reason why the Duhu Mansion is cut off from Tianxia is because of the turbid tide. Now the turbid tide is continuing to recede. I believe it won't be long before the obstacles above the earth's boundary will be weakened to the minimum."
Liu Guang couldn't help but feel excited and said: "So, after the turbid tide completely recedes, the beacon fire can be lit in the Protector's Mansion..." Just as he said this, a gust of cold wind blew, and he was so excited that he sobered up for a few seconds.
He couldn't help but pause. He let out a laugh, shook his head and laughed at himself: "I'm drunk." He picked up the wine glass, raised his neck and drank in one sip, "Then you might as well get drunk."
Zhang Yu watched him drink one cup after another without trying to persuade him. Anyone who can understand clearly knows that since the battle at Honghe Pass sixty years ago, the resistance that ignited the beacon has never been on the turbid tide.
Liu Guang had a good capacity for drinking. After drinking more than ten drinks in a row, he couldn't hold on to the alcohol anymore and fell down on the counter. However, he seemed to be still mumbling something.
Zhang Yu did not drink anymore, but just looked into the distance silently. Lord Miaodan came to him and called him softly, and he reached out to touch him.
At this time, a huge sound of bells and drums suddenly sounded on the platform, echoing above the entire Ruiguang City, and then reaching the sea surface, traveling along the waves to the distance, and kept reverberating there.
The old year is gone and a new year has begun.
He poured the wine in the cup to the ground as a tribute to himself and the people in the past.
He raised his head and stared at the fireworks that rose up, bloomed and extinguished in the mid-air, but continued to come up one after another, always lighting up the night sky.
The turbid tide has always existed in the dark minds of some people, but the beacon is rooted in the hearts of millions of people. As long as these fires are not extinguished, they can be ignited one day.
As soon as his mind moved, Xia Jian flew over and fell into his hand in an instant. He stretched out his hand to hold the hilt of the sword and pulled it out with a clang. The blade was raised, reflecting the stars in the sky, and he chanted: "Go back across the sky and shine on the fire."
, My heart is as high as the clouds as it is over the ocean, when mysteries move, thunder will rise, and my sword will cut through thousands of miles and cut off the tide of the sky!"