Chapter 17: The Inn
Liuyun was called to prepare the boat, and had to hire two innocent boatmen, so the time was not very rushed, and the three of them sat in the private room, and said a word from time to time, when suddenly there was a commotion downstairs.
I only heard an arrogant male voice, the voice was not necessarily very loud, but it obviously brought internal force, as if it exploded in the ears, and everyone present could hear it clearly.
"Hmph, what kind of Buddha reincarnated, I think it's a disaster star!"
Someone immediately reprimanded angrily: "The national teacher is dedicated to the people, where did you come from an ignorant child, you dare to speak wildly!" โ
"It was the National Teacher who prayed for the blessings of the people and moved the Buddha to relieve the winter drought in Gyeonggi."
Liang Cheng's heart sank, put down the dishes and chopsticks, and saw An Xiping shocked and angry, looking like he was going to rush downstairs, and shook his head gently. He put on his hat again, put down the white gauze covering, walked to the window, lifted the curtain on one side, and saw at a glance a young man with a sword in a purple robe and brocade belt standing on the podium of the storyteller.
I saw that he ignored the scolding of the people below him, and laughed wildly: "Hahaha! Laugh off my big teeth, let me ask you, since His Majesty ascended the throne, natural disasters have continued, five years of the Ming Dynasty, the birth of the national teacher, the snow disaster in Lingnan, seven years, the Yellow River invaded Huai, Hongze flooded, thousands of miles of landless, floating corpses in the ocean, twelve years and thirteen years, Yunnan and Guizhou successive droughts, fourteen years is the locust plague, the people are hungry, husbands and wives, abandon their sons, and even cannibalism is not uncommon, if the national teacher is the reincarnation of the real Buddha, why didn't the Buddha dream before, save the people from fire and water? โ
The crowd was dumbfounded by his question.
The madman then sneered with his sword: "I think the Buddha has long dreamed of him, saying that he was reincarnated as a demon star, and persuaded him to give up the throne and become a monk early, but unfortunately the national teacher is greedy for power and refuses to stop, watching the people displaced, and now the winter drought in Gyeonggi, he can be regarded as panicking, afraid that the world of Daqi will die because of him, so in front of everyone, he put on a good show, this is good, although he can't be a prince, he can get a national teacher to be a teacher, and he is respected and worshiped by all the people, is it not a good deal?" โ
Liang Cheng's hand holding the curtain tent tightened suddenly, but the next moment he was held, and he couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, he didn't need to look up, he also knew that the person next to him was Senior Brother Yinian.
"This person is Feiqiong Sword Lu Chongtai, the son of Lu Jingchuan, the leader of the Eight Desolations Alliance." As soon as he thought in his ear, Liang Cheng suddenly knew what to say.
He had heard of Lu Chongtai, because the young generation of martial arts today is the only one who can be compared with Meng Liujun.
The same young and famous, the same sword master, rumors in the rivers and lakes, the two chess opponents, each has a victory or defeat, but the temperament is very different, one is arrogant, jealous and hateful, the other is gentle and elegant, romantic, and the friction between each other has been incompatible for a long time.
Among them, there are not only personal likes and dislikes, but also the discord between the north and the south martial arts, not to mention the secret control of the imperial court.
Since ancient times, the court has never intervened in the disputes of the rivers and lakes, but the division of forces in the secret has never stopped, the small gangs are attached to the big gangs, the small dojo is registered on the avenue, and the forces of the major famous mountains and rivers generally have the shadow of the imperial court, such as the Great Xiangguo Temple, which can become the first male of the Central Plains Buddhism, behind which is the worship of the Qi royal family, and the Tianyuan Palace, the first furnace of the Tianyuan Palace, which is opened every year, must be dedicated to the imperial court.
Especially on this water, it is an important government of the imperial court, and the prime minister of the former dynasty said that "today's endowment is from the world, and the south of the Yangtze River is nineteen". Zu Shen thought so, this is the capital moved eastward, the eastern capital "has the Cao of Tongji, the age of Jianghuai rice millions of Hu, hundreds of thousands of guards to give here, the Tibetan heavy soldiers are all in Yan", the opportunity of Cao Yun, can be seen.
And this Cao Yun in addition to the official Cao to take the big head, โกโก is also through the north and the south of the existence, all roads to buy and sell, Yuntun fog gathering, in the meantime huge profits, how can not move people's hearts, five lakes and three rivers, eight hundred waterways, I don't know how many water gangs, the largest of them, is the Huaibei Eight Desolation League, Huainan Liuquanzhuang.
Meng Liujun studied under the first person of Daomen, Li Daoxuan, behind which there is the Taoist Tianyuan Palace, and is the owner of the first village in the south of the Yangtze River.
The Eight Desolations League was originally a martial arts league, and it has always been the bull's ear of the righteous path of martial arts, and the previous league leaders were elected by everyone, all of which are the benchmark of the martial arts character of the world, not to mention the Huaibei forces, the entire Central Plains martial arts, all of them are worshipped, and even the Mobei cult outside the Guanwai should also be feared.
However, since the previous generation of the alliance leader Lu Zhenkun took over, the Wulin League gradually controlled by the Lu family, and by Lu Jingchuan, it has become a hall of words for the Lu family.
And Lu Jingchuan married the sister of the commander of Long Wei, who was already an eagle dog of the imperial court, and naturally was despised by some famous factions, and his status was no longer as transcendent as before, and it was even more disgusting to be called Wulin League.
When Emperor Ming Yuan was still the prince, he had already taken a fancy to Huaibei Water Conservancy, he could not reach out to the official Cao, so he hit the idea to the โกโก, Lu Jingchuan was under his instruction to gradually subdue the waterways of the four canals in the north, and later Emperor Ming Yuan was through the Li family and water transport, secretly crossing the weapons and private soldiers, taking advantage of the first emperor's serious illness, when the king of Teng returned to Beijing, he surrounded the eastern capital, framed the king of Teng for rebellion, killed the first emperor, released a false edict, and ascended the throne as the emperor.
It's funny to say, it is also a relationship between women and the imperial court, and Meng Zhang, the owner of Liuquan Village and the father of Meng Liujun, has gained a good reputation.
It turned out that Meng Zhang was obviously a famous family in the rivers and lakes, and he didn't go to the sword world, but he devoted himself to the imperial examination, and what made everyone even more stunned was that Meng Zhang, a rough martial artist, not only won the Toad Palace, but also got the blue eyes of the eldest princess.
The unicorn brocade wears a Wu hook, and the sassy green Li jumps into the purple horse, earning all the romance in the world, and the cover is not as good as that, and the two of them naturally achieve a good story.
In this way, Lu Chongtai is not used to Meng Liujun, it seems reasonable that Xingyang gathered like a martial arts meeting, Liang Cheng in order to give Meng Liujun more power, deliberately asked his father for leave, went to see this martial arts meeting, Lu Chongtai lost to Meng Liujun with a move, and then fell silent for two years, before narrowly defeating Meng Liujun, he chose the opportunity to fight on Meng Liujun's grandmother's birthday, and then won the other party, which can be regarded as a ruthless fall on Meng Liujun's face.
Liang Cheng didn't see Lu Chongtai once, he didn't see him for a few years, this person was the same as that day, and he didn't change his arrogant behavior.
It's just that these sinister words obviously have ulterior motives, and I don't know if it's what he thinks or what others instruct.
Without waiting for Liang Cheng to clear his mind, he heard a very familiar voice, "Before the national teacher was born, from the end of the first emperor to the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, in the past few years, there have been great famines, great chaos and epidemics in the past few years, and there are ten rooms and nine empty rooms in the northwest and southwest, but since the birth of the national teacher, although the disasters have not stopped, I have not seen the disasters for many years, what is the explanation?" โ
Then, a person with a jade crown brocade robe shook out of the fan, it was Meng Liujun, the Cangshui Sword!
Liang Cheng was shocked, couldn't help but approach the window, and looked straight at the handsome and extraordinary fan-holding boy, Liang Cheng's eyes were too bright, the person seemed to feel something, the corner of his eyes swept over the private room on the second floor, Liang Cheng was shocked, flashed behind the curtain, and suddenly crashed into the arms of the person behind him, a thought seemed to understand his scruples, grabbed his waist, and carried light work, An Xiping saw a phantom floating in front of him, and the two had withdrawn from Meng Liujun's sight.
In a moment, when Meng Liujun's eyes swept away, he only saw the still curtain tent, empty, Meng Liujun crossed a trace of strangeness in his heart, and looked at Lu Chongtai with his sword eyebrows upside down again.
"Then what do you mean is that because of the first emperor and His Majesty, there is a lot of chaos?"
Lu Chongtai's sentence is really sinister, if Meng Liujun doesn't answer well, it will be disrespectful.
Although Meng Liujun hated Emperor Ming Yuan, he was not stupid, and immediately replied with a sneer: "Natural disasters are beyond human control, but the operation of the Heavenly Dao, such as the moon and stars, there are surpluses and shortages, this has a good year, and there is naturally a hungry year, otherwise how to conserve the Heavenly Dao, now the national teacher should be reincarnated as a Buddha, such as the ancient saint coming to the world, there will be a miracle, this time the dream of the Gyeonggi National Teacher is fulfilled, isn't it a miracle?" โ
Meng Liujun's words made everyone applaud again and again, Lu Chongtai snorted coldly, his backhand was shocked, and the Feiqiong sword came out of the sheath like a bright light, pointing directly at Meng Liujun, "What kind of ability is it to show your mouth, there is a kind of kung fu on the sword!" โ