"Come here and pinch your shoulders!"

"Yes, Master......" Gem walked over and pressed it on Li Mu's shoulder. But he was thinking about things in his heart, and once he thought about it, he was a little distracted, and his hand movements were no longer serious.

"Tap you!" Li Mu was pinched in pain, so he opened his eyes and glared at him.

Gem hurriedly slowed down, twisted his eyebrows and said, "But Master, I really don't understand what you mean." Could it be that in this way, you will be able to get the favor of the lord of Huanzhu? ”

Li Mu didn't answer this question, but asked; "Boy, how many teachers do you have?"

"One, two, three, four, five......" Gem counted with his fingers, and found that five fingers were not enough, as long as he added another hand, it was finally enough, and said; Six teachers. ”

"So, Master's ability is not great?"

"Great!" Gem suddenly smiled hurriedly.

Li Mu waved his hand and said, "Keep thinking about it, let's talk about it after you figure it out." ”

"Oh." Gem muttered, tried to think, and after a while, when Li Mu was really about to fall asleep, he spoke up, and suddenly realized: "I understand Master, you are honing my heart!" ”

"Huh?" Li Mu was stunned, he looked at Gem, but Gem thought that he was right, and Li Mu was surprised, and said with a smile: "Master's meaning, I have already understood, the lord of Huanzhu didn't like me before, he must have seen me as frivolous and not stable enough, Master asked me to do the work of subordinates, just to make me stable, so that the lord of Huanzhu can look down on me, isn't it?" ”

"It's not too stupid...... Li Mugan laughed, thinking that this was also a good excuse, so he borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and said with a pretentious feeling: "You are too impetuous, too proud, you don't even understand the truth of being humble and full of losses, such an unreliable appearance, and you also want to marry our county lord of the Tang Dynasty?" ”

"Yes, Master......" Gem couldn't help but be ashamed, thinking back to all the things he had done since he came to Datang, he was really impetuous! The Tang Dynasty is an outstanding person, and the lord of Huanzhu is the phoenix among the first-class people, and her vision must be very high, and it is also very normal for her to look down on herself!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sweat like a pulp, and said to himself: "Fortunately, I got the master's allocation, otherwise the apprentice will continue to be impetuous, not to mention pursuing the lord of Huanzhu, I'm afraid that I won't even be able to marry a daughter-in-law, so I can only return to Tubo and accept my father's arrangement!" ”

"It's good to know...... Remember, Master will not harm you, and all the hardships you endure are tempering and testing. Li Mu nodded with satisfaction, and said in his heart that there is nothing wrong with this person's exaggerated imagination, everything is made up by his own brain, saving himself nonsense.

"Yes!" Gemden had a new look, and he pinched the master's leg seriously, and said in his mouth: "Master rest assured, the apprentices will never complain again in the future." I will follow Master's teachings to change my past mistakes and hone my will, and I will never complain in the slightest. ”

"Well, you can teach." Li Mu became more and more satisfied, and said in his heart that there are not too many such apprentices, and if there is a suitable one for him, he can charge a few more, and even save the money for hiring maids and maids.

But he didn't get mad enough, he really asked Gem to learn massage, so he waved his hand and said: "It's good to have this attitude, subtly transform yourself, and you can't stay in your mouth." But there's no need to be too involved, after all, you can massage, and you can't marry a wife. ”

"Yes, Master." Gem responded honestly this time, he knew that he would definitely not be able to guess Li Mu's thoughts, so he simply didn't guess, just be obedient.

"Well, you are the prince of Tubo, the future king of Tubo, you have to think about things from a macro perspective, and you can't be obsessed with the private feelings of your children. Don't you have any ideas about your country? Li Mu pulled his words to the side of the country and secretly glanced at Gem: "If you become the king of Tubo in the future, how should you govern the country?" ”

"I ......" Gem was suddenly silent, and the movements in his hands were much lighter, Li Mu waited for his answer, his eyes were always on him, Gem was forced to have no choice, sighed, and said: "Don't dare to deceive Master, if you can, I don't want to go back to Tibet." ”

Li Mu raised his eyebrows and said, "Why don't you want to go back?" ”

Gem sighed, squatted opposite Li Mu, looked up at Li Mu, and said, "Master, I don't like Tibet, although I was born and raised there, I don't like it there." ”

After a pause, Gem continued; "Tell me about one thing I don't like the most, Master, do you know why Tibet and the Central Plains have to fight every few years?"

Li Mu sneered and said, "You ask me?" Nine times out of ten, the war was provoked by you in Tibet, this is a fact! ”

"That's what I hate most about Tibet." Gem sighed and said, "Master, you should know that although Tibet has a vast area, there are not many places where food can be grown. There are cattle and sheep, but there is no good pasture, and the products are barren. On the entire plateau, there is no powerful tribe like the Tang Dynasty to unify the plateau, so each place is independent. ”

"Because of the limited pasture and arable land, everyone has to fight for land, pasture, and water. If you win the war, you can get pasture, arable land, and slaves, and if you lose the war, you can also die some people and reduce the food consumption of your own tribe-"

At this point, Gem was a little speechless, and was silent for a while before continuing; "I can understand all this, but what I can't understand is that sometimes, it's not for grassland, it's not for arable land, it's just for reducing the population, they also fight!"

Gem gritted his teeth and said, "When I was seven years old, I heard my father and several uncles discussing whether to find an excuse to fight and clean up the old, weak, sick and disabled in the tribe. The war with the Tang Dynasty, nine times out of ten, is also for this purpose, because they know that the Tang Dynasty disdains to occupy Tibet, and it doesn't matter if they win or lose the war, but as long as they fight, they can reduce the population, and the pressure to deal with the winter will be less. This is also the reason why most of the wars between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo took place in autumn! ”

Gem burst into tears and said, "They don't think of people as human beings at all!" In their eyes, a man is inferior to a cow or a sheep! I don't like that, and I don't want to be like that! ”

"When I came to Datang, I learned a lot of things. I know what courtesy is, what law is, what righteousness is, and what filial piety is. I want to live in such a country, Tibet, it's really cruel. ”

Li Mu looked at Gem in a daze, he had always thought that Gem was the kind of reckless man with muscles in his head, who did things straightforwardly and didn't think much about anything. But looking at his words and deeds today, he looks like a person who hides bitterness in his heart and has a bit of forbearance in his character. His idea coincides with Li Mu. Li Mu hates slavery very much, although under the feudal system, the human rights of the people are not much guaranteed, but at least the people can still have a choice, and the people under the slavery system are already completely inappropriate.

The reason why people are human is that they are different from livestock. Whoever becomes an animal himself, or treats a man as an animal, should not exist in this world.

Gem's idea, relative to his father, uncles, was already an improvement. This was the progress of slavery to feudalism, and it was also a great leap forward in the history of mankind.

What Li Mu needs to do now is to give him encouragement and confidence. If you can help him complete this, it can also exchange for decades of border stability in Datang.

Li Mu didn't think about the idea of once and for all, because it was impossible. Maybe the day when Li Shimin is here, the day when Li Mu is here, the day when Gem is here, Tubo and Datang can maintain peace, but when the founders of the contract are gone, then the so-called peace will eventually be broken one day.

But that's the way it is, you can't stop doing it just because you're going to fail someday. Peace, even if it is short-lived, is very valuable.

Li Mu got up, pulled Gem up, and said, "There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of people with hearts." Now your identity is your greatest reliance. I will help you succeed to the throne, do you dare to try to change your country? Give it a makeover to your liking! ”

"I ......"

"I'll just ask you, do you dare?"

"Dare!" Gem didn't hesitate anymore, and suddenly, he seemed to understand what it should be like to be a man, and he seemed to understand what direction he should work towards!

Yixiu, who was watching this scene, stopped cleaning, he stopped and stood for a while, as if he also remembered something, his eyes were confused, and after a while, he resumed sweeping the floor and continued to sweep the floor.

In the evening, the two of them who had been tired all day could finally take a rest. Li Mu asked someone to bring a table of food, and the three of them ate together. Li Mu has been resting all day, there is no consumption, and the amount of food naturally can't go up, while the two of them are gobbling up, they are both at the age of growing their bodies, and they have worked for a day, how can they not be hungry.

After eating, it was already evening. Li Mu watched the two of them clean up the scraps, and then called them over.

Li Mu turned his back to the setting sun, and the afterglow wrapped him, as if the gods had descended from the heavens, and he seemed more and more sacred. Seeing this, the two disciples couldn't help but be solemn.

"When you are old, you will be proud of what you have done today, because you two will learn my true skills." Li Mu said with a serious face.

"Listen to Master's teachings!"

"Heh," Li Mu chuckled lightly and said, "It is rumored that your master and I are immortals from the sky. This is true for fools, and for smart people, it is false, and regardless of whether it is true or not, today I will take you to see it first, a different world, you can understand it, watching a corner of the fairy world. ”

"A different world? A corner of the fairy world? ”

Li Mu said it in such a cloudy and foggy way, and the two of them couldn't understand it.

"One of you is a monk, the other is from Tibet, and you also believe in Buddhism, so naturally you are no stranger to the four words of Buddha's light, right?"

The two of them nodded in unison, these four words are not unfamiliar to ordinary people.

"Then do you know how the Buddha light came about?"

Yixiu raised his hand and replied: "Buddhists believe that the light of the Buddha is the light emitted by the bodhisattva's head chakra, which is not beyond the power of great sages and great virtues. The most virtuous and capable, the light of the Buddha is the color of seven colors. ”

Li Mu nodded, and asked again: "Then in addition to the Buddha's light that you haven't seen with your own eyes, what other light can you see in your life is colorful?" ”

"What other light?" Gem thought about it, suddenly remembered something, and said: "The rainbow that has passed the rain and the sky is also colorful!" ”

Yixiu also thought of it, but he was a step too late, so he had to say: "There is colorful glass, and it is also colorful!" ”

"The color of the glass is the glass itself, not the color of light, so let's not talk about it here." Li Mu continued to ask the two of them, "Then do you know where the light of the rainbow came from?" ”

"Master Huiri said that the rainbow is a dragon sucking water." Ikyu replied.

"Really?" Li Mu smiled faintly, picked up the fragrant tea, took a sip of water, and sprayed a saliva mist with the sunset on his back.

I saw that in the mist, there was a colorful rainbow looming.

The two of them were stunned, and subconsciously exclaimed: "Master can also absorb water from dragons, and Master is also a dragon?" ”

"Nonsense."

Li Mu rolled his eyes and handed the teacup to Yixiu, who drank his saliva and sprayed out, and in the mist, the rainbow loomed again.

Li Mu asked Yixiu to stand behind Gem and spray water, the mist fell, and the back of Gem's head seemed to have a colorful Buddha light.

"What's going on!" The two apprentices were stunned, if Li Mu was the reincarnation of a dragon, they could barely accept it, but if they wanted to say that the two of them were the reincarnation of a dragon, the parties concerned couldn't believe this kind of thing, there must be a means in this!

"Come, come in." Li Mu took the two of them into the house and closed the door. The windows of this small courtyard are not glass, they are ordinary window paper, close the doors and windows, the house is dark, Li Mu pokes the window paper, and a beam of sunlight shines in through the hole.

Li Mu took out something from his arms, which was a prism he made out of glass. The sunlight hit the mirror and refracted to the wall on the side.

Ichiyu and Gem were stunned to see a colorful ribbon like a rainbow appear on the opposite wall!

"Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple......" Gem read out the order of the colorful lights in turn, and couldn't help exclaiming aloud: "This shadow is exactly the same as the order of the rainbow!" ”

"Colorful Buddha light—" Ikyu muttered, suddenly feeling as if something in his mind had collapsed. He remembered the Buddhist stories that Hui Ri had told him, and what he had believed in before, now all of them were doubted.

"Master, what's going on?" Gem asked with a bewildered expression: "Why does the sun shine on the water mist, and on the three-edged glass, there are colorful Buddha lights?" ”

"Because light is originally made up of these seven colors." I heard Li Mu reply in a deep voice: "So as long as it can make the light diffuse, it can produce a rainbow, as long as there is such a prism in hand, anyone can have the light of the Buddha!" ”