In the twenty-third round (below), Helan Que's new deputy general defeated the old steward of Wuhou Mansion and resigned

The Thunder Empire has been in the eighteenth year of Jia, the first day of the Lunar New Year. Cangyun County, Liuye City, the snow is sunny.

At dawn, when the sky was still in the belly of a fish, the guards and slaves of the Wuhou Mansion dismantled all the lanterns and tore off all the red colors under Shi Nianyuan's orders. The half-melted snow on the ground was trampled back and forth by shoes covered in black mud, making it look muddy and dirty.

Li Shutu's mourning hall is located in the pine and cypress courtyard, and an umbrella shed has been erected in the courtyard. According to the customs of Cangyun County, Li Shutu was not directly buried. Not according to the customs of Cangyun County, Li Shutu did not change the deceased's longevity clothes.

The pine and cypress courtyard is full of pines and cypresses, and next to the loquat tree, a wooden bed has been erected, and there is no cotton wool on the wooden bed, let alone a sheet. Li Shutu was lying flat on the bed, with paper money as a pillow under his head, and paper money as a cover on his face, and a brand-new stone-shaped military uniform on his body.

At night, when the husband rang the second watch, the maid went to add firewood to the fireplace in Li Shutu's house as always, Li Shutu's sleep has always been shallow, every time he will wake up at this time, and every time he will be happy to tease the maid without getting tired of two sentences, but this time, Li Shutu has no sound. The maid, who had long been accustomed to the lame housekeeper's kind jokes, had the courage to walk to Li Shutu's bed, only to find that Li Shutu was dead.

When the maidservant knocked on Shi Nianyuan's door with Li Shutu's men, Shi Nianyuan smashed the wooden wall of Lin Shenyuan.

Shi Nianyuan had been standing silently under the loquat tree and next to Li Shutu for a long, long time, motionless, expressionless, and not speaking.

At the foot of the wooden bed where Li Shutu was lying, there was a double-layer blue and white porcelain brazier on the ground, with incense of different lengths inserted on the upper layer, and paper money about to become embers on the lower layer.

Ruohu, who was silver-haired like a waterfall, walked to the brazier and knelt down without pretentiousness, picked up a pile of paper money from the incense paper piled all over the ground next to him, counted three carefully, reached out and handed it to the residual flame to ignite, three and three, Ruohu burned the paper money in his hand, and then took three pillars of incense and lit it on the flame, held the incense in his hand, bowed three times, solemnly inserted the incense on the second floor of the brazier, walked back to Shi Nianyuan's side, and continued to stand quietly.

A group of martial slaves in the pine and cypress courtyard silently continued to drive the umbrella, arrange the mourning hall, only wrapped in a pajama Mao Caishen from outside the courtyard gate rushed close, Li Shutu, who had been in the martial arts land immortal realm, for the immortal road to cut off all the meridians of the body, and now finally set foot on the immortal road, and has been in the gnosis realm after the old friend entered the hospital, he actually fell twice in a row, used his hands and feet together, and came to the side of the wooden bed where Li Shutu's body was lying.

Mao Caishen gasped for breath, and stretched out one hand to the paper money covering Li Shutu's face, stretching more and more slowly, and shaking more and more. As if this small action had exhausted all his strength, Mao Caishen took down the covering paper money, and after seeing Li Shutu's whitened face, his legs were weak, and he knelt beside him, and his eyes were red and he suddenly turned his back, not daring to blink his eyes.

As the sky became brighter, more and more people came to the Li Shutu Spiritual Hall of Songbai Temple.

Under the leadership of Yao Song and Liu Zisu, all the ghosts were there, and they knelt together.

Scar-faced Captain Liu Shan and the commander of the 10th Company of the Yulong Battalion, wearing the regular uniform of the Shizi Army, saluted the army.

Wang Hu, a blacksmith in the south of the city, turned out the old army attack under the wardrobe and put it on, spilled a pot of wine on the ground, and drank a pot of wine with his head up.

Shi Nianyuan remained motionless from beginning to end, except for the occasional blink of his eyes, he didn't even turn his eyes a little.

Outside the Wuhou Mansion, in front of the pair of stone lions with angry faces, there was a huge square incense tripod, and many people in Yecheng spontaneously changed out of the red clothes they wore to welcome the New Year, and came to burn incense and pay tribute.

The group of ruffians and hooligans in the south of the city were standing in front of the huge incense burner, holding incense sticks, and bowing three times.

The ruffian leader heard the discussion of his subordinates while paying respects, turned around and roared, then turned back and whispered: "Lao Li, go all the way." ”

For three days, Shi Nianyuan did not sleep, did not move, and kept in front of Li Shu Tuling, during which Murong Shan brought a blanket to put on Shi Nianyuan, and Mao Caishen left several times in the vigil, brought food and wine, and put it in front of Shi Nianyuan.

Ruohu, who has silver hair like a waterfall, always stood behind Shi Nianyuan without saying a word, did not pick up the blanket that fell to the ground for Shi Nianyuan, did not care about the already cold food and wine bottles blown down by the cold wind next to Shi Nianyuan's feet, only when the incense on the double-layer brazier was about to burn out, Ruohu, who was like a clay sculpture and wood carving like Shi Nianyuan, would move, burn a pile of paper money, and continue to burn three pillars of incense.

In the past three days, Liuye City has been sunny and the ice and snow have melted.

On the main street avenue, there is a stone-shaped military standard carriage slowly driving towards the Wuhou Mansion in the north of the city.

After not returning for three years, Li Qingyun was a little uneasy in the carriage.

"Luo Yi, I didn't turn my collar over, right?" Li Qingyun once again straightened the collar of the regular uniform of the Lishi Zi Army, and asked his wife Luo Yi uneasily.

Luo Yiwan said: "No, no, no! It's very neat, my Li Ying...... No, my lieutenant General Li, how many times have you asked after entering the city!"

Li Qingyun once again sorted out the rows of military merit medals hanging on the left chest of his regular uniform and asked, "Where are the military medals? Are they all together?" Are there any crooked ones?"

Luo Yi covered her mouth and smiled: "It's not crooked, it's not crooked, it's so upright that it can't be more correct!"

Li Qingyun said with a smile: "I heard Deputy General Xu say that when my father was the deputy commander of the left before, he was the most sloppy new pawn. ”

It was the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and the whole area of Liuye City was still full of strong New Year's flavor, Li Qingyun sighed with a little regret in his tone: "A few days ago, the heavy snow closed the mountain, and it was difficult for cars and horses to travel, otherwise you could arrive a few days earlier, and you can catch up with the New Year." When Li Qingyun said this, he leaned down and knelt on the floor of the carriage, and put his face and ear to his wife Luo Yi's lower abdomen: "Luo Yi, trekking through mountains and rivers, running around and working hard, hard work for you and your children." ”

Luo Yi stretched out her hand, stroked Li Qingyun's face, and said softly: "It's not hard......"

Li Qingyun suddenly thought of something, raised his head and asked, "The kid didn't kick you along the way, did he?"

Luo Yi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled helplessly: "Silly husband...... It's only been a few months since you've been pregnant, how could you kick me......

"Ah, is that so?" Li Qingyun scratched his head and continued with a smirk: "When we get to the Wuhou Mansion in a while, let's ask Dad to name the child, right?"

Luo Yi's eyes were full of gentleness and nodded.

On the streets of Liuye City, there are many children chasing and playing, throwing a firecracker from time to time, which explodes after a few breaths, but fortunately, the cart and war horse are trained, except for the occasional neighing, they are not too frightened.

Li Qingyun sighed: "When I was a child, there were no such things to play with, but in recent years, Cangyun County has changed really much. ”

Luo Yi nodded and replied: "Lord Wuhou is majestic and strategic, and Cangyun Natural County is obedient to the people." ”

Li Qingyun shook his head and explained to his wife with a smile: "My lord guards the western frontier, and the number of times I return to Ye is less than mine. ”

When Li Qingyun said this, the carriage slowly stopped, and before Li Qingyun could lift the curtain to watch and ask, the flag bearer of the night wolf battalion who had traveled all the way from Western Xinjiang and served as a coachman for Li Qingyun had already rushed into the carriage, his eyes were red, and he couldn't stand on his knees.

"What's going on?" Li Qingyun asked in a deep voice.

The flag-bearer opened his mouth several times and swallowed again, and when Li Qingyun was about to become impatient, the flag-bearer's voice trembled and said, "Please mourn on ...... adult's day."

Li Qingyun was stunned at first, and then suddenly shook off the flag-bearer who was blocking the front and rushed out.

Li Qingyun stood in front of the middle gate of Wuhou Mansion, and saw the huge square four-legged incense tripod full of incense ashes and incense sticks, and saw the dazzling yellow paper obituary on the courtyard wall next to the middle gate.

Li Qingyun walked heavily, walked to the obituary step by step, and kept his eyes firmly fixed on the three words "Li Shutu".

......

Shi Nianyuan, who had been standing for three days and three nights in a row like a clay sculpture and wood carving, suddenly realized something, turned his head stiffly to look at the gate of the Songbai Courtyard, his pupils dilated, and when he opened his lips, his chapped lips had been glued together, and his teeth were torn out of the inner lip that had been bitten for three days, bringing up flesh and saliva, and his voice was hoarse: "Li ...... Li Shutu ......"

Mao Caishen, Liu Shan, and Liu Zisu, who were sitting next to him to guard the spirit, were stunned at the same time, and they all raised their eyes to look at the courtyard gate.

Li Qingyun strode closer, lifted Li Shutu's covered paper money, held Li Shutu's hand and wanted to lift it, but the bones were cold, and his hands and feet were stiff, where could he lift it?

Li Qingyun knelt with his legs bent, and his teeth bit the tip of his tongue: "Unfilial son Li Qingyun, meet your father......"

Looking at Li Qingyun's face that was seven points similar to Li Shutu, Shi Nianyuan, who had been expressionless for three days and three nights, turned red in his eyes, his vision suddenly blurred, and tears slipped down: "Li Qingyun, I'm sorry ......"

It's night, and the moon is bright.

Shi Nianyuan stood in front of the bookshelf of Li Shutu's house, flipping through the collection of books one by one, and unintentionally turned to a book of Li Shutu's reading hand, laughing from time to time, and cursing from time to time.

Then, I don't know what I saw, Shi Nianyuan said "Oh?", and the scene of Murong Shan and Qin Mo fighting against each other in Guanpu City, Shaxi County, came to mind.

As if he was tired of seeing, Shi Nianyuan walked out of the door, glanced at Li Qingyun who was guarding in front of the spirit and his wife Luo Yi who was accompanying him, and walked out of the Songbai Courtyard and came to the tall old honey locust tree in the Wuhou Mansion.

The snow-white little fox jumped into Shi Nianyuan's arms from the top of his head, arched hard, Shi Nianyuan smiled, stroked the little fox's round head lovingly, pinched the snow-white pointed ears from time to time, and did not speak.

I don't know how long later, suddenly there was a movement under the tree.

Murong Shan jumped up with an instantaneous turn and stood lightly on another branch.

"Condolences. Murong Shan said softly.

Shi Nianyuan didn't look at Murong Shan, his fingers hooked, scratched on the neck of the snow-white little fox, and said calmly: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, life is normal, I am just pretending in front of outsiders to maintain the good image of the prince of Wuhou Mansion." ”

Shi Nianyuan raised the little fox high, looked at the cute pattern of the little fox's hands and feet, and continued with a smile: "The immortal path is ethereal, the so-called immortality and long-term vision, who the hell knows if it is true or not? After all, from the ancient times to the present, thousands of years, only the legend of the ancestral dragon preached the Tao and soared to the immortal realm. ”

Murong Shan couldn't tell whether what Shi Nianyuan said was true or false, and was silent.

Shi Nianyuan turned his head to look at Murong Shan, Danfeng's eyes were as calm as a deep pool: "You and I have actually known each other for a short time, even if the ancestors have a marriage contract, it is not a reason for you to stay in my house for the New Year, right?"

"Luoyuan County is far away, there is no spiritual boat to rush, and there is not enough time to go back and forth. Murong Shan replied.

"With the foot strength of the monks of the Ning Yuan Realm, copying the shortcuts of mountains and rivers, supplemented by the official road galloping horses, you can still stay at home for a few days. Shi Nianyuan said.

Murong Shan's brows froze and asked, "Are you driving me away?"

Shi Nianyuan scratched the little fox's nose affectionately, and replied: "No, some of the Wuhou Mansion eats, some wears, and some sleeps, it's no problem for you to live as long as you want, I'm afraid you're bored." ”

After a moment of silence, Shi Nianyuan turned over his hand and took out the paper of the herald of the Burial Palace from the Sumeru ring, and his voice was cold: "You can clearly understand the meaning of the above, why don't you tell me?"

Murong Shan was stunned, and her words stammered a little: "You...... How do you know I can read ......"

Li Shutu said. Shi Nianyuan's words were quiet: "For this secret letter, I have tried all the commonly used decryption methods in turn, but I can't study any meaningful text information at all. However, just now I found similar words in Li Shutu's reading hand, and it turned out that these were not words, but puzzles. Although Li Shutu did not write down the decryption method in detail, he drew a crooked fan. So, after I modeled the sea of knowledge, extended the content of the secret letter to the fan surface, and tried to change the structure of the fan bone and the size of the rubbing painting many times, guess what I found?" After a pause, Shi Nianyuan continued: "If I am not mistaken, in Guanpu City, Qin Mo once said, your fan is called 'Wordless Autumn Wind'? ”

Shi Nianyuan said, stood up with a long body, adjusted his spiritual power, jumped down from the canopy with the little fox in his arms, and walked back to the Songbai Courtyard.

The funeral procession has entered the venue at some point, and according to the customs of Cangyun County, they are beating gongs and drums in front of Li Shu Tuling, and blowing the sheng excessively.

Shi Nianyuan walked up to Li Qingyun, glanced at Luo Yi who was beside him, and said loudly: "Li Qingyun, come here, I have something to tell you." ”

Li Qingyun nodded, got up and followed Shi Nianyuan, who was walking towards the hall.

In the room, Shi Nianyuan picked up the two brocade boxes at the head of the bed, handed them to Li Qingyun and said: "Here is a Spiritual Pill and a Purifying Pill, which were given to Li Shutu by my mother and me, and he hasn't had time ......to use them yet" Shi Nianyuan's spiritual sense stretched out to perceive and confirm, and continued: "You have spiritual pressure fluctuations close to the combined products of the Dust Micro Realm, I have seen this kind of spiritual pressure, you should be a second-grade martial artist now, right?"

Li Qingyun replied in a low tone, "Yes, young master." ”

Shi Nianyuan looked at Li Qingyun and said: "The martial artist has not cultivated to the first grade, the true yuan has not been completely integrated with the meridians, it is easy to disperse the martial arts, if you want, you can try to disperse the martial arts cultivation and use these two pills to set foot in the immortal path." ”

Li Qingyun shook his head without hesitation and said: "Thank you, young master, I am now promoted to the left deputy commander of the Shizi Army, with this martial arts cultivation, I can save the lives of more brothers on the battlefield, and I must not disperse." What's more, I had no intention of stepping foot in the Immortal Dao. ”

After a pause, Li Qingyun continued: "On the day of today's son's accession to the throne, on the imperial capital Xuanyang Imperial City, a long song was sung aloud - whenever the country encounters major events, men will worship and sacrifice to the country. Even if the bones become mounds and rivers overflow with blood, they must not humiliate the land of the country and lose the territory of the country. The soldier is clothed with liver and gall, and will be parasitic with a blade, handsome and full of blood, and the king's sharp blade is glowing. Regardless of the old and the young, regardless of the order of the noble and the low, we will work together to pour the water of the Yellow River, break the waves of the East China Sea, conquer the land of the Deed, suppress the cave of Gaomi, beg the Loulan Kou, and kill the barbarians, so that the sea is crossing, and I am worthy of standing up, and let the corpse cover the border, only the soul can be relied on! In this life, I just want to serve the country loyally, defend the frontier, accompany Luo Yi, have no regrets, and I don't want to cultivate any immortal Tao and ask for immortality. ”

Shi Nianyuan listened quietly, nodded, but still handed the two brocade boxes forward: "Leave them to the child in Luo Yi's belly." After that, Shi Nianyuan suddenly thought that Li Shutu had inadvertently mentioned that he wanted to hold his grandson, and Shi Nianyuan let out a long sigh.

Who can say the regrets of life?

The day before, there was still talking and laughing during the day, and at night I was pushing the cup and changing the lamp, who knew that it was the last side?

......

Lin Shen Yuan.

In the bedroom, in front of the table, Shi Nianyuan drew a map according to the intercepted secret letter of the funeral palace, and the map was the indication of Cangyun County, and the detailed focus pointed to Tonghe County.

Shi Nianyuan muttered to himself: "Tonghe...... Mu Zitao's house is ......"

Ruohu, who had silver hair like a waterfall, brought a glass of water from the hall and handed it to Shi Nianyuan: "You want to go?"

Shi Nianyuan nodded: "Naturally, I want it, I have to figure out what the Funeral Palace wants to do, and I can't let my mother hide in Jiang Taoyuan every day and cough up blood." ”

Ruohu Peach Blossom's eyes condensed, and she struggled in her heart, and said: "I can't go with you, I want to stay and help my aunt preside over the Soul Covering Array, you have to be more careful yourself...... Huh?" Tianxin sensed the abnormality, and Ruohu was stunned: "Why did my aunt come out of Jiang Taoyuan." ”

In Songbai Courtyard, Zhu Xianlan half-squatted on the ground, burned a pile of paper money for Li Shutu, and recontinued a pillar of incense: "Vice General Li, go all the way." ”

Tianxin felt it, Zhu Xianlan raised her eyes and looked at the courtyard gate, Shi Nianyuan was running close with a snow-white fox fleece hat.

"Mom......" Shi Nianyuan called: "Ruohu said, you'd better not come out of the Soul Covering Array." ”

Zhu Xianlan shook her head and said, "It's okay, I know in my heart, the deceased has passed away, and it is inappropriate for me to say goodbye today." ”

Suddenly, a mysterious spirit fluctuated in the void, Zhu Xianlan's face changed in vain, if the lake could not be watched by everyone, he used his spiritual power to stimulate the dazzling spiritual light, and took advantage of the momentary blindness of the mortals present, directly turned into a human form, and supported Zhu Xianlan to rush directly towards Jiang Taoyuan.

Shi Nianyuan used the instantaneous turning method and followed closely.

Four days later, after Shi Nianyuan got rid of the pretending to be a divination, he proposed to bury Li Shutu in the cemetery outside the city to the funeral Taoist priest, and together with Li Qingyun, he covered the last piece of soil and buried Li Shutu under the loquat tree in the Songbai Courtyard.

Stay in the western suburbs of Ye, the station of the fish and dragon camp.

After a day's training, Zhang Kui Zhang Niupi, mad dog Zou Feng, and Yudanyu returned to the camp tent, and saw Shi Nianyuan in a green shirt.

The three of them were stunned for a moment, half-knelt down and bowed, Shi Nianyuan had no intention of saying anything more in his helplessness, and after handing over the recommendation written by Li Shutu for Yu Dan to Yu Dan, he left quietly.

The next day, Shi Nianyuan, who was alone out of the city, met Liu Zisu, who had been waiting at the city gate for a long time, and rode towards Tonghe County, Cangyun County.