Nalan Shanyue slowly put an ancient manuscript in his hand back on the desk, paused for a moment, and got up calmly.

There was only one candle lit in the study, which seemed a little dim, and his long, thin shadow was reflected in the big tent, and he pushed open the door and walked out step by step, slowly, but not sluggishly.

As soon as he opened the door, the breeze hit his face, full of cool and comfortable feeling.

The sky is clear, under the light of the sunset and sunset, the shadow of the king mountain in the east is towering like a giant, and the golden tent of the palace is brightly lit, and the mountains are slightly glowing with turquoise, and it is a spring full of vitality.

"It's a new year!"

Nalan Shanyue muttered in her mouth, looking at the crowded Shuofeng King City, she couldn't help but have a light face, a distant gaze, and a reminiscing expression, "Sir, the troubled times you said are coming, I seem to be doing well, but I don't seem to see the time to do better!" ”

Ordinary people often account for tomorrow's oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, for their wives and children, they are obsessed with copper smell and food and clothing all day long, they are undoubtedly destined to become people who cannot change history, and they can't see the people who promote history and stand quietly beside them.

But there is no doubt that they are themselves making up history, all such ordinary and ordinary people, they are like waves in the endless river of time, although they only bloom for a moment, but they are already their small and great life.

And for those heroes, those great people, they stood on the embankment of the long river and chose to push the direction of the long river with their own hands.

For the old man who lived in the old town in the mountains, Nalan Shanyue always called him "Mr.", but never said his name.

The people who lived in the town had been listening for a long time, but they had never received the slightest news of any old man from the mouth of this young man of very different appearance, which added a mysterious color to the grass house in the deep mountains.

But after all, it's not a romantic affair, it's just a good story, it's just a pair of different masters and apprentices, and gradually the people in the town are less interested in this young man who often comes down the mountain to buy things.

If you talk about mystery, not to mention those ignorant town residents, even Nalan Shanyue, who was not very calm at the time, always felt full of mystery to his husband.

He had never been in close contact with the old man, and he was separated from the old man by an inky curtain in the past, and he was vaguely unreal, and whenever he was a little relaxed, the old man's voice would come from behind the curtain, like an ice fountain in winter.

That was the last time he went to see the teacher, and he had been in the mountains for a long time, and it was already the day when the old man had first agreed with him.

The small yard is full of snow, a thick layer, stepping on it makes a creaking sound, and the red of several plum blossoms in the yard is becoming more and more red under the reflection of the snow-white snow, which is thrillingly red.

There was a long sound of the piano in the snow, the tone was cold and cold, and the faint aroma of peach wood emanated from behind the bamboo curtain along with the sound of the piano, and the piano player heard the footsteps, so the piano slowly dispersed.

Nalan Shanyue heard the sound of the piano and stopped, walked quickly across the small bridge, and opened the small door of the thatched hut.

There was a straw mat covered with snow in front of the thatched hut, and Nalan Shanyue gently brushed off the snow on it, knelt on it respectfully, and bowed deeply: "Sir, student Nalan Shanyue bows." ”

The air was silent for a while, and an old man's indifferent voice came from behind the ink-colored bamboo curtain, "You have reached the deadline, you have completed your studies, and you don't need to come to see me again in the future." ”

"Nalan didn't dare to disturb Mr., but there was something wrong, I think the teacher would be interested." Nalan Shanyue replied respectfully.

"Oh?"

"After the students went down the mountain this time, they overheard the rich businessmen of the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce talking in their spare time, and the emperor insisted on making the six princes the crown prince despite the obstruction of the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and even did not hesitate to strike for three days."

There was no movement in the empty hut for a long time, and Nalan still knelt on the cushion with respect, and waited for a long time.

"Haha, the prince does not establish a virtuous or a long, but by virtue of his mother's favor, he does not listen to the minister's dissuasion to establish a prince, the emperor of the Zhou family is really not as good as the generation, after all, it will not be a climate!"

There was a hoarse and crazy laugh from the hut, and it suddenly sounded a little desolate and lonely, and the old man said hatefully, and the voice at the end sounded a little old.

For a while, Nalan Shanyue knelt in place but didn't know how to reply to the old man, so she had to be silent.

"This world is going to be chaotic!"

"Why did you say that, sir?"

When Nalan Shanyue heard the old man's words after a long pause, she couldn't help but have waves in her eyes, and her fingers quietly clenched a little unconsciously.

"Humph! Since the birth of the six princes, the emperor sent someone to ask the Qin Tianjian diviner to take a look at it in order to measure the variables of life.

The invited soothsayer used the twelve secret techniques of the heavens and latitudes to calculate, but he was a god for a long time, and his face was difficult and he was silent.

Under the emperor's questioning, he shirked and said that he was not good at learning, and that the dragon son had the protection of the dragon qi of the country and the dragon was not real, and he couldn't guess randomly, so he left in a hurry regardless of the emperor's retention! ”

The old man, whose face was hidden behind the bamboo curtain, snorted heavily, and his tone was not good, "That's not possible, it's obvious that I don't dare to say it, the left envoy of the Qintianjian Library Pavilion can't calculate a baby numerology variable."

Jokes, what kind of national Zuo dragon luck, Qin Tianjian can even calculate the variables of a country's national fortune under the Jingtianyi, let alone a dragon! ”

"Why don't you dare to say it?"

"Why don't you dare to say it? The eyebrows are close to the palace, the two fingers are not allowed at the Yintang acupoint between the eyebrows, the bridge of the nose is collapsed and distorted, the philtrum is short and flat, and the lips are as thin as paper, what is this? This is an unblessed and premature death! ”

The old man shook his sleeve robe violently, his mouth was like a spring thunderbolt, and Nalan Shanyue's ears were buzzing for a while, but Nalan Shanyue's heart trembled violently, and he couldn't help but fall to the ground.

"That's why he didn't dare to say it!" , The old man's eyes were like eagle doves, and the tragic momentum between his every move rushed through the bamboo curtain and rushed straight to Nalan Shanyue, who was kneeling on the ground.

"After I first saw it, I concluded that this baby would not live for more than ten years, even if Qin Tianjian used Guozuo Longyun to suppress numerology, it would still be useless, and at most it would be delayed for three or five years to go west early, and now he will be elected as the crown prince?

At that time, the emperor died young, and the new lord was just a young child, not to mention that the ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty formed a party for personal gain, and the local princes supported the army and respected themselves.

I'm stupid, the 800-year-old Guozuo of the Great Zhou Dynasty is about to break, I didn't expect that I really used the dragon slaying technique! ”

The old man didn't see his expression, his tone seemed to be smiling rather than smiling, as if he was sad but not sad, his mouth slowly sighed with relief, a pair of cloudy eyes were extremely sharp at the moment, looking at the white clouds outside the window, with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he had seen through the rise and fall of history, the vicissitudes of life.

"Please...... Please pass on the way of the emperor to the teacher! Nalan Shanyue's face froze, her fists clenched, her eyes firm, and she suddenly leaned down and bowed.

"The Way of the Emperor?" The old man behind the bamboo curtain suddenly sneered, "Being the most jealous and greedy, when you came to the door and insisted on worshipping under my door, I couldn't refuse, so I had to agree to pass you the way of slaying dragons through the country."

Your deadline has arrived, your studies have been completed, and you should not leave quickly!

With your talent today, even if you can calmly perform the position of the three princes and three secretaries, are you still not satisfied, do you have to learn the way of the emperor who changed the day? ”

"Heaven and earth are about to overturn, and now the king is perverse, in vain to the will of his ministers, the situation in the Eastern Continent is changing, and the great chaos that Mr. said is coming!

The three princes and the three secretaries are also dying in the twilight of life, rabbits and dogs are cooking, and there is no place for the way of the country. ”

Nalan Shanyue's eyes were calm and firm, "Mr. also said back then that the way of the country is the art of governing the prosperous world, and the world will already be a chaotic era, if there is no means to change the day and change the day, how can it turn from chaos to prosperity!" ”

"What does it have to do with you in prosperous and troubled times?"

"When the prosperous times meet me, I will rule the prosperous times, and when the troubled times meet me, the troubled times will calm the troubled times!"

Nalan Shanyue saluted and straightened up, his eyebrows raised slightly, and his face was pale, but the spirit between the words and sentences was like the moon of the nine heavens, towering into the clouds.

There was silence in the small courtyard, and the figure behind the bamboo curtain seemed to be thinking, and Nalan Shanyue just knelt in place and waited.

"It's a good Nalan Mountain Moon, and the spirit is overwhelming, I made an exception to accept you as a student, I'm afraid I was raising tigers for the world, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be a disaster for the Eastern Continent in the future."

The old man smiled coldly, and changed his words, "But with your talent, since you have entered my sect, I should not have any reservations." But I refused to teach you the art of war, do you know why? ”

"The students don't know."

"The way of the emperor, like the art of slaying the dragon, how many people in the world want to learn but can't, learn but have no use, lucky to have the opportunity to show their hands and feet, but how many people die because of the way of the emperor?

Your cleverness is rare in my life, but I preach your way of the country, but not your way of the emperor, I pity you.

Everything can not be counted, there will be a catastrophe coming before you know it, you will lose one, Tianyan forty-nine escapes one, the avenue will spare you a point, if the two account for all, it is a disaster.

I want to leave you a way out, but I don't want to see you end up like the merchant who was torn apart by the noon gate one day. ”

Nalan Shanyue listened to the solemn expression behind her, but she didn't speak, just got up and took a step back, her palms first reached the sky and then fell to the ground, leaning down and bowing so nine times, and then kneeling down deeply at the bottom of the steps, kneeling in the snow, and couldn't stand it for a long time.

This is the etiquette of the original Nalan Shanyue apprenticeship, and it is also the most serious and solemn gift between the master and apprentice.

"When you worshipped me as a teacher, I received this gift from you." The old man behind the bamboo curtain shook his head lightly and sighed lonely, "But I didn't expect that I would have the opportunity to receive your nine bows in this life." ”

"Please sir pass me on the skill of slaying dragons!"

In the empty courtyard, a firm voice slowly echoed for a long time.