The history of Shangzhou is generally from Sanpin, and Chizhou was promoted to Shangzhou in May of the fourth year of Huichang, so Du Mu is a high-ranking official from Sanpin. And the priest Wailang is only from the sixth grade.

Du Mu's entry into Chang'an is a high-grade and low-grade position, and it is estimated that there is no suitable position, so he can only temporarily succumb to this, and it stands to reason that the person who transferred him to the capital will quickly promote him.

And Li Yuan is just the opposite, it is a normal promotion and release. Yuezhou is a Zhongzhou, and the history of the thorn is on the fourth grade, and the Beijing officials are popular, and the officials who are released will generally be promoted by one or three more grades as compensation.

In the second year of Du Mu Huichang (842), he released the Huangzhou Assassin History from Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was seven years earlier than Li Yuan according to his qualifications.

Of course, Guo Hong didn't understand this, so he could only ......

Hehe.

Li Yuan smiled and explained: "Du Mu's backstage is Prime Minister Zhou Qi, and he will be able to use it soon. Speaking of Zhou Qi, he is also a person who loves talents: in the first month of this year, the sage and the four prime ministers discussed who is the first in various places since the Yuan He, Zhou Qi said that he once guarded the soil of Jiangxi, and heard that the Jiangnan West Road observation made Wei Dan's merits be Ze Bazhou, and it has been 40 years since he died, and the people still sing songs to remember them, just like Wei Dan is still alive.

On the twelfth day of the first month, the sage issued an edict to let Du Mu write the "Dan Relics Love Tablet" to commemorate Wei Dan, and promoted his son Wei Zhou, the observer judge of Heyang, to be the imperial history.

"This Wei Zhou was released from the Duzhi Shilang, and he returned to Chang'an before he got hot when he arrived at the place, so it's still the old saying, someone in the court is good to be an official."

Finally heard the part that could interject, Guo Hong hurriedly said: "I came from Luoyang, and I heard that Zhou Qi has been released. ”

He overheard in Tanzhou and had already learned about Zhou Qi.

Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, got up and went to the bookcase to find the newspaper, and read it for a while before saying, "Yes, it was indeed released." ”

Guo Hong and Lu Yu glanced at each other and didn't speak.

This assassin is a little lazy, and he doesn't even read the newspaper.

Li Yuan smiled awkwardly, quickly changed the topic, pointed to a scroll next to him and said: "When the old man went to the banquet at the Chang'an Hanlin Bachelor's Decree and the Servant of the Military Department Linghu Mansion, he got acquainted with a man named Wen Tingyun, which he entrusted someone to transfer. ”

This one is inlaid with silver edges, and the treatment is quite inferior.

Lu Yu recited aloud:

"Sitting silently, the sky is far away, and Song Yubei is high.

After the remnants of the chess on the lake dispersed, Yueyang's light rain birds were late.

The early plum still has to return to the song fan, and the spring water should also take care of the fishing line.

Only Yuan Hong is haggard, a bottle of melancholy when the flowers fall. ”

Wen Tingyun's poem "Sending Yuezhou Li Wailang Yuan" (the title of the poem includes Li Yuan's two successive official positions Yuezhou Thorn History and Si Xun Wailang), although it is not a famous article, it is much more attentive than Du Mu's poems that are entertained back and forth.

Guo Hong said: "Good poems, good poems, catchy, and the rhyme is not weaker than Du Fanchuan!" ”

In addition to the full schedule of homework in the past two years, he also learned some poetry, after all, in the Tang Dynasty, everyone could chant two sentences, and you didn't know at all, and you were embarrassed to go out.

However, it is only limited to limerick poems, as for the two poems of Du Mu and Wen Tingyun, it does not matter how they are, it is important to express the following opinions.

This is taught by the fourth senior brother Tian Jingxuan, what if there are more than two poems for you to comment on?

When others obviously value one of them, you say that the other one is "not weak".

It looks very tasteful.

If the other party disagrees, they will generally go back to study, suspecting that they have lost their eyes, maybe there is a hidden allusion that has not been discovered?

Let Guo Hong choose for himself, he doesn't like to chat with poets at all.

Too tired.

After the three of them tasted the poems, they began to chat and decided to eliminate the disaster.

Li Yuan wanted to talk to the Zhongli refiner in front of him, but Lu Yu was afraid that Guo Hong would show his stuffing, so he hurriedly said: "It's better for me to accompany my uncle, the master needs to go first if he has something." ”

Li Yuan only had someone to accompany him, so he got up and sent Guo Hong out of the study.

Lu Yu took Guo Hong out of the house and said, "Senior Brother Guo, you go back first, and I will come back in an hour at the latest." ”

After Guo Hong left, Lu Yu went back to play chess with Li Yuan.

He knew that his cousin loved Go, and he played extremely slowly, and belonged to the long-term examination type of chess player, and once wrote a poem to boast: "Qingshan is not tired of three glasses of wine, and only one game of chess is eliminated in a long day." ”

That is, the rhythm of the next game a day.

They sat opposite each other on wooden couches, playing chess and drinking at the same time.

Li Yuan dropped a son and asked casually: "I came to the house in a hurry the day before yesterday, and my uncle didn't ask in detail, how is your mother?" ”

Lu Yu responded to a son and said: "My mother is in good health, but my father is more depressed after his demotion to the official position, and the second elder is now living in Luoyang, and my mother often accompanies my father to play around, dissipating the depression in my chest." ”

Lü Yu's grandfather Lü Wei served as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites and an observer in Hunan, and gave birth to four sons, the eldest son Lü Wen once served as a servant of the imperial history and the criminal department Langzhong, and was an important member of Wang Shuwen's party.

Li Jifu is Li Deyu's father, so during the period when the father and son were in phase, they wantonly suppressed the children of the Lu family.

So the Lu family naturally stood on the side of the Niu Party.

But Lü Yu's father, Lü Rang, was an outlier, and he married the daughter of the Li family in Longxi.

Lu Rang's father-in-law is Li Rong, the Duke of Wei, who has been an observer of Guifu and Zong Zhengqing, and Bai Juyi once wrote "Answer to Li Rong and Others Xie Xu Shangzun Table", which mentions him, this person is also Li Yuan's cousin, so Lu Yu called Li Yuan his cousin.

Under the promotion of Li Yan, Lu Rang got rid of the fate of the Lu family, and made Dali Siqing (from Sanpin) in the Wuzong Dynasty, and was deeply appreciated by Li Deyu, so the Niu Party thought he was a traitor, and Li Deyu fell in the sixth year of Huichang, and he was also demoted to the crown prince to wash horses and branch the Eastern Capital, simply put, it was to roll to Luoyang as an idle post......

Li Yuan also shook his head and sighed: "Time is also lucky, the party struggle is so fierce, do you know how desolate my nephew Li Shangyin is?" He was originally the protégé of the Niu Party boss Ling Hu Chu, and his son's current servant Ling Hu was the same brother, and married the daughter of the Niu Party Wang Maoyuan, so he was suppressed by Li Deyu for many years, and he has been struggling, and then he didn't know what evil he had, and after Li Deyu was demoted, he was invited by Li Dang Zheng Ya to be a staff member, and completely offended Ling Huxuan, who just returned to Chang'an last year, has no official position, and the family is about to be unable to open the pot. ”

"My uncle also had a relationship with Li Yishan (Li Shangyin) when he was in Chang'an?"

"The old man often helps him, and this person is also a talented person."

chatting while playing chess, and soon half an hour later, Li Yuan was surrounded and tried to find a way to survive.

Lu Yu saw that the time had come, so he got up and said goodbye: "Uncle think slowly, San Lang has to go back to help the master buy the things needed for the practice, let's temporarily seal the plate today." ”

"Slow down, this kind of thing is not in a hurry, and then go after this game!" Li Yuan sat up and tried to hold Lu Yu.

"Saving people is like fighting a fire, and you can't delay for a moment." Lu Yu knew his uncle's temper, so he turned around and ran away.

It can be regarded as a question of life and death, and my uncle wants to do it for at least half a day, and if he doesn't leave at this time, when will he stay?

"You wait...... This, this...... Run halfway down, are you going to kill me? ”

Lu Yu: I'm also anxious.

Li Yuan shouted behind him, jumped off the bed barefoot and chased him outside, the big man who was more than two meters old had already moved like a rabbit, and disappeared from the courtyard door.

Li Yuan smiled, paced back to the room, and took a pen to write down the chess score.

And then......

Began to repeatedly swing dead and alive.

Finally, I don't have to rely on space imagination, it's so easy, and if you're wrong, you can regret it, cool.

This set of familiar roads, it seems that this is not the first time to do it.

Why is it so slow?

Naturally, it is necessary to grind the opponent away......

Lu Yu left the Thorn History Mansion and returned to the inn, just in time to catch up with everyone and go out to the soup bath hall together.

Guo Hong has removed his makeup and returned to his original appearance.

"I haven't prepared what I need to do it!" Lu Yu was a little anxious.

"Senior Brother Lu, go buy it."

Guo Hong proposed, and everyone unanimously agreed, and sent Lu Yu to buy all kinds of things needed for the practice.

Who makes the big man anxious.

Those who are in a hurry work harder.

Yun Xuansu looked at it and shook his head, this kind of Daomen thing is particular about buying everything, and it is necessary to have someone who knows how to do it, and it is not good to let his servants do it for him, but in the end, he still asked Wang Wu and Wang Bao to follow and help carry the things he bought.

"After buying it, go to the soup bath and find us!" Wang Dudu had a good impression of him because Lu Yu gave him a big-headed doll, so he shouted, and then hid behind his master embarrassedly.

After Lu Yu left, He Qiong whispered among several women, "If Su Su Niang recovers from her illness, will she marry Senior Brother Lu?" ”

"Both of them are officials, they are the right people, and they are distant cousins and sisters, this thing will be done!" Yun Xuansu said with a smile.

Not far from the inn, the bathhouse is the largest enclosed bathhouse in the vicinity, and the pools are all indoors and there are many guests.

Men and women are divided on two sides, with a wooden wall in the middle, a five-meter-high roof, and a wall with windows open above four meters, making it slightly dim during the day.

There are many baths in the palaces left over from the Tang Dynasty, in fact, the same is true for the wealthy people, and public baths are more popular in the lifang.

The water in the baths is artificially heated, and there are no hot springs in the city.

Of course, there are natural hot springs in places where there are hot springs, but most of them are in the mountains.

The Tang people liked to take a bath, just like the Japanese people of later generations.

Lu Zhizhen, Cao Shouzhen and Guo Hong greeted each other at the door, said goodbye to Yun Xuansu and several other women, and went in wearing clogs.

The pool was filled with fog, and only faint figures could be seen.

The three of them waded through the water to a corner and sat down, soaking their bodies in it with only their heads exposed.

"Comfortable!" Lu Zhizhen groaned, he liked hot water the most.

"It feels like it's getting ripe." Guo Hong gritted his teeth, they were in the hottest pool.

The three of them chatted with each other.

After talking for a quarter of an hour, Cao Shouzhen was just saying, "I don't know why Senior Uncle Zhongli wants to accept Senior Brother Lu as a disciple?" He doesn't seem to be willing to give up his career and go to the mountains to learn the Tao! ”

Lu Yu just arrived, stepped into the pool and walked over and sat down, and said: "The family teacher is a good wine in his life, and when I was young, I also liked to steal the family's wine to drink......

He is sturdy, with long hair tied into a bunch and swaying at the back of his head, which is quite chic and uninhibited.

Guo Hong: Breaking the temple and passing on the swordsmanship, are you sure that you are not Li Xiaoyao?

And to buy those things that are done so quickly?

Do you see everything you bought?

Lu Yu is more than two meters tall, but he is not Yao Ming's square face, Guo Hong feels that if he wants to let one person play it, then the most suitable one is Yi Jianlian.

The movement of this giant into the water is very large.

Lu Yu sat down next to Guo Hong, handed over the wine gourd, and said, "The wine that has just been sold." Since the new emperor succeeded to the throne, the price of this wine has become more and more expensive. ”

"But why?" Guo Hong asked after taking a sip.

Lu Yu said: "In September of the sixth year of Huichang, the emperor issued an edict to set up eight roads in Yangzhou, Hedong, eastern Zhejiang, western Zhejiang, and Eyue. Where these eight provinces, the price of wine is three times that of other places, this Yuezhou is under the rule of the Eyue observation envoy, belongs to one of the eight provinces. ”

Rongqu is a liquor monopoly established by the government.

He continued: "It is said that the emperor was also forced to do so, and the wine tax money did not go into the treasury, but went into the pockets of the Shence army. Eunuchs in the palace to build a large number of buildings, spend money like flowing water, they built the Baifu Hall in August the year before last (the first year of Dazhong), it is said that there are more than 700 houses in the corridor, last year (the second year of Dazhong) and repaired the right Yintai gatehouse and the house, the south of the palace to the Ruiwu Tower of the city wall was completely rebuilt, and it took two years to build the Yingluan Temple......"

When Guo Hong heard this, it turned out that it was related to himself, and these eunuchs should be looking for the treasures of the Empress Dowager Guo in the name of building!

"These dog thieves control the government and loot the people's fat and ointment, which is really hateful, and my father was degraded to the Eastern Capital in conflict with them!"

Guo Hong nodded and asked, "Senior brother and Zhongli's predecessors have been out for a long time, right?" ”

Lu Yu took back the wine gourd, tilted his head and poured it in, and said, "Yes, what Master thinks about every day is for me to give up my career and go to Penglai with him to learn the Tao." He also always said: The geometry of life, when you sing about wine, you will not become an immortal Buddha, and you will eventually return to loess. ”

"Can you become a Buddha and live forever?" Cao Shouzhen asked.

Lu Yu smiled: "Well, what, junior brother, you want to study Buddhism?" ”

"No, I'm just curious, don't Buddhists always talk about cultivating in the afterlife?"

Lu Yu said: "In the next life, cultivation still requires immortality in the end, and the Buddhism sect has changed a lot after entering Middle Earth, and some of the sects are very weird, more like the outer Dao magic in the Daomen!" ”

Guo Hong nodded and said, "Senior brother is talking about Tantra, right?" ”

Lu Yu said: "Yes, Tantra started from a line of monks (monks) of the Xuanzong Dynasty, imitating the rituals of my Daomen to establish the method, but there are many differences, and later some of them practiced the secret method, claiming to be Vishamonism, worshiping the Yaksha like confusing believers and harming people's lives, when the previous dynasty destroyed the Buddha, Fujiao attacked it the most ruthlessly, almost swept away, and now there are still some residues left, which are called demon religions by people in the rivers and lakes. ”

Before Wuzong destroyed Buddhism, Buddhism privately crossed a large number of monks, these people were uneven, and some of them were paranoid about wanting to establish a Buddhist state, especially Bishamenism.

The Vishamanism is a sect of its own that is separated from the Tantric sect, and this scum in Buddhism is also despised by orthodox monks, and it is a real demon sect, which has been suppressed in Middle-earth because of its bad reputation.

Tantra Buddhism was gradually lost due to its involvement, and it was not until modern times that it was transmitted back from Japan, and the Lamaism and Tang Tantra in Tibet are fundamentally two different things, so there is no trace of Bishamanism in later generations.

The Ming Sect (Manichaeism), which Jin Yong called the Demon Sect, was in much better condition, and later developed into the White Lotus Sect, which spread until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

"Demon Cult!" Lu Zhizhen and Cao Shouzhen groaned slightly, they had heard relevant rumors before, but they didn't know what was going on, and today they can be regarded as having gained knowledge.

Lu Yu said: "Yes, it is the Demon Sect, it is natural to call it so, I once picked their altar with the master, those sects are very weird, causing countless harms, if you see it in the future, you should be careful." ”

He paused and then said, "Based on Su Su's description, I suspect that her nightmare is the Yaksha enshrined by the Demon Sect, named Mud Lan Po. ”

……

“…… Why don't we switch to a colder pool? "Cao Shouzhen can't stand it a little.

"No, it's comfortable here." Lui Zhizhen continued to insist.

"The pool here is square, surrounded by corridors, don't you look like a huizi?" Guo Hong soaked in the pool and thought divergently: "Do you know how many ways to write back words? ”

……

The four of them soaked in the hot pool for a while, and there were no other guests around.

Lu Zhizhen saw a person squatting in the distance on the wooden corridor by the pool, fiddling with his back to them.

The man was dressed in clothes and was of great build, and seemed to be a hired hand in the baths.

Then I heard a click.

Lu Zhizhen and Guo Hong glanced at each other and said, "I'll take a look." He waded through the water with his legs bent.

It was close to the wooden wall and opposite the women's bath.

Since this side is completely enclosed, it is dark.

The fog was too great to make it difficult to see the appearance of the people, and only the general outline could be discerned.

When the man heard the sound of water approaching, he hurried up and left, leaving something half a man high on the ground.

Lu Zhizhen climbed up the corridor to take a closer look, and it turned out to be a doll, with its mouth open upward, revealing the scene inside.

This is......

Senior Sister Yun......

Although it was very hazy, how could the person he thought about day and night admit his mistake?

Lu Zhizhen's gaze suddenly couldn't be taken away.

The doll seems to be a crystal in its mouth, with Yun Xuansu and several women in it, playing in the middle of the soup pool.

The light streaming through the window above was beautiful......

Guo Hong shouted loudly: "Senior Brother Lu! What are you doing? ”

Click.

The doll makes a loud noise.

The sound of screaming and clicking was strange on the other side of the wooden wall, and the people who were playing stopped and squatted in the water.

Someone swam over to check.

"This doll has a mirror in its mouth!"

"Someone peeked!"

The wooden wall suddenly fell in half with a thud and smashed on the water surface on the side of the men's bath.

There was a shrill scream from the women's bath.

Lu Zhizhen was a little confused.

How could a wall suddenly fall?

He fell into the water along with the wooden wall, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately sank down, lying on the bottom of the water and exhaling slowly, but fortunately there were bubbles in the hot water.

As soon as Guo Hong pulled Cao Shouzhen, the two also sank.

The water is so white that you can't see it clearly if you hide it.

Only Lu Yu was so tall that he didn't react, and he was still sitting in the pool.

And then......

A strange wind blew away the fog.

Yun Xuansu, He Qiong, Wang Dudu, Hongdou and another girl were all soaked in the water, exposing their shoulders and heads, staring at him.

Lu Yu smiled awkwardly and stroked his hair......

"Senior Brother Lu!" He Qiong said angrily.

"It's not me!"

Lu Yu saw that there was no one else around, Lu Zhizhen and they were all gone, he was stunned for a moment, suddenly grabbed the bath towel by the pool to block his lower body, and ran out of the bath.

A few clogs flew from behind and smashed exactly on the big man's ass and back.

Lu Yu bared his teeth while running, he was really ruthless!

Hidden weapon!

All are masters!

He didn't dare to turn back and fled.

As he ran, he shouted, "It's really not me!" ”

"Be a thief! Not what you run? ”

"Dengzi!"

……

Several women chattered.

The girl who was bathing with her asked, "Sisters, this person is so tall, but his surname is Lu?" ”

He Qiong was just about to speak, but Yun Xuansu preemptively said: "It's surnamed Lu, it seems that someone called Senior Brother Lu just now, and we don't know each other." ”

He Qiong came to her senses, nodded with a red face, and said, "Yes, I don't know this kind of person." ”

The girl also blushed and said, "Then let's go, the wall has collapsed, and I want to tell the shopkeeper." ”

"There's someone peeping here, there must be a hole in the wooden wall, let's take this doll to the store for review!"

So the women wrapped themselves in bath towels and left.

The fog is everywhere.

When they walked away as they spoke, Guo Hong and the three of them came out of the water and took a long breath.

Lu Zhizhen touched the water on his face and said, "Suffocate me." ”

Cao Shouzhen asked, "Why didn't Senior Brother Lu Yu hide in the water?" ”

Guo Hong said: "He is big, a northerner, and he is estimated to be a landlubber, so he wants to run away when he encounters a situation...... By the way, brother, what did you just see? ”

"The fog is too big to see." Lu Zhizhen said.

Cut......

The devil believes in you.

The three of them tiptoed out of the hot bath, waited for a while, and sure enough, they saw someone coming to check the wooden wall, and then casually went out with the other guests to change clothes.

I heard someone gossiping, saying that a big man who ran out just now was a disciple who peeped into the women's bath......

Back at the inn, He Qiong saw Guo Hong and asked, "You are not with Lu Yu?" ”

Guo Hong shook his head together and said categorically:

"Nope!"