Song Chu cut the citrus aurantium, fruitless, followed by the autumn harvest and winter storage.

The national strength of the Chu State can naturally take advantage of the situation to attack the Fang State again, but the fish and the bear's paw cannot be both, Xiong Ran is unwilling to pay the price to seize the remote land of the Fang State, and the pacification of Baiyue has cost a lot of national strength, so Gongsun Lin will no longer raise troops after withdrawing from Wuling.

After the battle of the Fen, Xiong Ran ordered to strengthen the Phoenix City, which was not as solid as an iron bucket, and it became a strong city with the well-guarded Ju Chen.

As for the northern border, Jing Se, the general of the north of the town of Chu, and Gongsun Lin, the general of the northern expedition to the north, guarded the army of the Song State everywhere.

The 50,000 heavy troops of the Song State guarded the Jianling Pass, and they could wave their troops south at any time, and the relationship between the two countries became more and more delicate.

Song and Chu were at peace for the time being, while Meng and Jiao, who were sandwiched between the two countries, were uneasy. Big countries fight, small countries suffer.

Beyond the Jianling Pass, not far from Luoyi. Luoyi School Palace seems to have become the private property of the Song Kingdom.

Meng Lan has been in the capital for almost two years, and was worshiped as a master by He Tianzi, but he did not make much waves, He Tianzi still has not lost a son, and the Li family is getting weaker and weaker day by day. This Heavenly Dao Saint has now been forgotten, but it is Zou Gu, the first disciple of Zichou, who is now thriving in the Song Kingdom.

On the winter solstice, Zichou came to Luoyi again, and first went to meet Zou Gu, the wine of the school palace.

"Meng Lan is here for that idiot?" Zou Gu asked first.

"Senior brother, how is Jue Ke?" Meng Lan asked.

"Meng Lan doesn't have to worry about it, Senior Brother will naturally treat him well." Zou Gu turned Meng Lan away, Zou Gu was inside, and Meng Lan was outside.

"Meng Lan heard that Senior Brother expelled Jue from the School Palace."

"Hearsay, Meng Lan actually believed it." Zou Gu didn't wait for Meng Lan to finish speaking before interjecting.

"Since Senior Brother dislikes Jue, please let Meng Lan take it away." Meng Lan arched.

Zou Gu asked, "Meng Lan prides himself on being a gentleman, why do you want to fight with me everywhere?"

Meng Lan scored another point, and replied without being humble or arrogant: "You and I are competing, why bother with the idiot."

Zou Gu sneered: "Meng Lan also said that he was an idiot."

Meng Lan's face turned pale, and he took a breath of heat and said, "Meng Lan must take Jue away today."

Zou Gu stepped out of the way, stretched out his hand and said, "Please."

Meng Lan entered the palace and attracted several Song princes to watch. The school palace is no longer lively and prosperous, and it is no longer a place for sages, sages, and talents in the world to lecture and debate, but has become Song Xiao's backyard.

"Where is Jue?" Meng Lan asked.

"The qualifications are dull, the rotten wood is difficult to carve, and it was sent to shepherd." Zou Gu seemed to be saying something inconsequential.

The snow fell heavily and fell on Meng Lan's shoulders. Zou Gu naturally knew that Meng Lan had been canonized as a saint by the Heavenly Dao, and it was really a rumor, and Zichou also said that Meng Lan's qualifications were dull, so Zou Gu returned his original words.

"Meng Lan, tell me, that idiot is really a descendant of Mr.?" Zou Gu knew it in his heart, but he just wanted to verify it.

Zou Gu is the first disciple of Zichou, Song Xiao is the Taifu of Dali, and Zichou has descendants and cultivates everyone knows. Zixiu's death in Xiao Guofa Zhongshan is a secret of Zhongshan, and whether Zixiu married a wife and had children is probably only known to Meng Lan, after all, Zou Gu had already begun to travel the world at that time.

"Zixiu hasn't married a wife yet, how can he come to his descendants." Meng Lan replied with a smile.

Zou Gu thought that Meng Lan was ridiculing him for being stupid, and he was indeed stupid, so he believed it with just one Yu Jue and Zi Kuang's words, and fortunately he was worshiped for a year and a half. If it weren't for Jue is Zichou's descendant, his identity was full of loopholes, and he was stupid and couldn't read, let alone learn the art of vertical and horizontal, he was afraid that he would still hold it in the palm of his hand as a killing move.

"There is another question, why did Meng Lan take such a fancy to Jue that he entered the palace three times?" Zou Gu asked suspiciously. Meng Lan came to beg again and again, but Zou Gu felt that Jue was not so simple.

Meng Lan opened her hand, and a jade jue lay in the palm of her hand.

Zou Gu also took out one, and the two jade jue were exactly the same, both carved a "jue".

"Sir, you have two jades?" Zichou asked.

"Could it be that Senior Brother really thinks that this jade Jue is the jade of the gentleman?" Meng Lan said with a smile.

"I don't believe it, why did Mr. pass on your Yujue but not me?" Zou Gu, who has always been elegant and easy-going, has a cloudy face, Zichou still prefers Meng Lan, this Yujue won't have any backhand, right?

"Senior brother misunderstood," Meng Lan saw that Zou Gu had fallen into a misunderstanding, and took the initiative to explain: "This jade Jue is held by Taibao Zikuang, passed on to Zitang, and borrowed by Meng Lan. In addition to what you and I have in our hands, there are two. ”

"Where?" Zou Gu was half-convinced and half-skeptical.

"Da Li Tianzi, the third prince of the temple." Meng Lan replied.

"Why didn't King Song?" Zou Gu asked.

"Before Song Taifu, Lang Xuan was lost; The remaining three, one in Lidu, one in the hands of the first master, and one in Zitang. Meng Lan said.

"Sir, Yujue is this one in my hand?" Zou Gu believed seven points, and it turned out that he was wrong again and again.

"Meng Lan wants?" Zou Gu stretched his brows, and everything suddenly became clear.

"Senior Brother Xie." Meng Lan bowed and saluted and reached out to pick it up.

"Since this is the jade of the gentleman," Zou Gu said with a smug smile, "I am the first protégé of the gentleman, so I naturally keep it for the gentleman." ”

Meng Lan was stunned and held a handful of snowflakes in her hand.

Xiao Han, Zou Gu got up early and said, "Prepare the car."

A horseman prepared a carriage, Zou Gu got into the carriage and went straight to Wuyi.

Song, Wuyi.

It was cold, Song Xiao had a recurrence of typhoid fever and was bedridden, and when he heard Zou Gu begging to see him, he got up.

"Wang, how are you doing?" Zou Gu did not bow down, but only bowed his hands.

Song Xiao returned the salute, coughed a few times, and said, "I'm old, I'm afraid time is running out."

"What did the Medic say?" Zou Gu asked.

"Old and sick, it can't be cured." Song Xiao waved his hand and said helplessly.

An official came to report that Pu Miao asked to see him.

"It's this quack doctor again," Song Xiao muttered, and the herald said, "Tell the doctor Pu Miao that the widow is not sick." ”

"Slow," Zou Gu called the stopper, and said to Song Xiao again, "Wang, Liangzhou Jiang Wangshu and Chu Guowu Shengfu Wujiang gambling battle was struck by lightning, both were defeated, and the dying people were also rejuvenated by dead wood through Pu Miao's hands, Pu Miao may really have the art of rejuvenation." ”

Song Xiao was moved, Jiang Wangshu not only did not die, but also turned the tide with his own strength, I am afraid that Pu Miao really has the credit. Now that he is sick in bed and barely surviving, why don't you ask Pu Miao to see him, what if he really has the art to return to heaven?

Pu Miao entered the palace and met Song Xiao. Zou Gu asked, "Where does the medical saint come from?"

"Pu Miao is from Liangzhou," Pu Miao asked, "Is King Song well?" ”

Song Xiao didn't dare to hold out too much hope for Pu Miao, who was half quack and half medical saint, and asked tentatively: "The medical officer said that it was typhoid fever, what does the medical saint think?"

Pu Miao replied, "Please let the old man give it a try."

Song Xiao was a little hesitant, after all, it was confirmed that Pu Miao's ability to heal the dead was stronger than that of the living.

"Pu Miao retired." Seeing that Song Xiao refused to stretch out his hand, Pu Miao guessed his inner thoughts, and was about to leave.

Zou Gu nodded at Song Xiao and said, "The medical saint can give it a try."

got Zou Gu's approval, Song Xiao had a bottom in his heart, so he stretched out his hand.

Pu Miao took Song Xiao's pulse and said, "The king is fine, just recuperate."

Pu Miao looked at the jade jue in Zou Gu's hand again, and asked: "I have seen this jade jue in Lidu, and the first saint said that it was taken from the natural jade of the four seas, which can be used to suppress the eight wildernesses."

Pu Miao retired, and naturally received twenty taels of gold.

Zou Gu handed the jade jue to Song Xiao and asked puzzledly: "Meng Lan said that the emperor of Dali and the three dukes both hold the jade jue, if it weren't for Pu Miao to mention, I thought it was just a token of the three dukes, and the king would know the secrets?"

"The widow didn't know that the third prince actually had Yujue." A glimmer of luster flashed in Song Xiao's eyes, and he shook his head and said.

"The king refuses to treat each other with sincerity, and Zou Gu is cold." Zou Gu said disheartenedly.

Song Xiao's face was solemn, and after repeatedly confirming that there was no one else, he said, "This jade is related to the fortune of the country, when Lang Xuan threw himself into the river, the widow chased him for several miles and saw no floating corpses, and only received an identical jade." ”

Lai, Li Du.

"Taishi, can you get Yujue back?" Da Li Taibao and Zhongshan Prince Tang asked with an earnest face.

Meng Lan shook her head and returned Yu Jue to Zitang.

"If you take it back, you'll have collected all three." Zitang sighed.

Song, Wuyi.

Song Xiao recalled that he ambushed Lang Xuan at the Luoshui Bridgehead, five miles west of Luoyi, and wanted to blame Qiao Guo, and a good teacher became famous to conquer Qiao Guo. How did the Qiao army appear, and the dead soldiers sent had to withdraw in a hurry, if there was no accident, Lang Xuan should be at the bridgehead Shenjiang.

"So the king already knows about these four pieces of jade?" Zou Gu asked.

Take the jade of the four seas, you can suppress the eight wildernesses.

Song Xiao hurriedly reassured: "I just wanted to blame Qiao Guo so that I could raise an army to attack Qiao, and then seek the position of the third prince, but I also heard from my sister later, but I just guessed."

Zou Gu looked angry and said, "So the king insists on taking advantage of the sacrifice of King Qiao's palace to kill Qiao?"

Song Xiao coughed twice, smiled like an old fox, and said, "This is also Mr.'s idea."

Lai, Li Du.

Meng Lan and Zi soup noodles see He Tianzi.

He Tianzi was full of energy and asked, "Can the Taishi have a smooth trip?"

Meng Lan shook his head and said, "Zou Gu refuses to return the jade, Son of Heaven, what is so peculiar about these four jades?"

Zitang frowned, and said, "The minister only heard my father say that the four jade jue are related to the national ancestor."

He Tianzi nodded and said: "Dali has Luoyi Academy Palace to raise the saints, sages, and talents of the world; There are also Qishan Sword Pavilion to raise four elephants, for the young yang, the young yin, the old yang, the old yin. ”

Only then did Meng Lan know that Dali still had such secrets, and he didn't blame He Tianzi for concealing it, after all, this matter was about Guozuo, and now Song Xiao was not subservient at three kilometers.

Meng Lan asked, and the Son of Heaven replied. He Tianzi is betting that Meng Lan can extend the Dali Guozuo, five hundred and eight years, five hundred and two years have passed, and only six years remain.

The jade of Lang Xuan was lost, the jade of Zi Chou fell into the hands of Zou Gu, Zi Tang had one, and Li Room only had one in his hand.

"The jade of the first saint actually fell into the hands of Zou Gu, and it is difficult to retrieve it." Zitang was worried that Song Xiao knew the secret of Yujue, and it would be difficult to get it back.

Meng Lan recalled the destruction of the Xue Palace, the Qiao royal family and the temple were besieged Luoyi Xue Palace, Zichou stepped forward to stop the Song and Lu coalition forces, and King Qiao begged Meng Lan to protect Gongzi Huai and Gongzi Yin to escape from Luoyi. Zichou is the first saint in the world, but he can't be a prophet, so he didn't leave a last word.

Zichou did not leave a last word, nor did he pass on his Yujue. What barely counts as a last word is that Zichou once said that there is a Taoli school in the west of Liangzhou, where you can take refuge and dive to study.

So Meng Lan and Qiao's two sons went to Liangzhou.

The first two times I saw Zou Gu was just distressed that Jue had suffered an unwarranted disaster, and the third time I saw Zou Gu was instructed by the Son of Heaven.

Meng Lan was ashamed in her heart, Jue had no prominent status, which was the descendant of Zi Chou, but she was just an idiot born and raised in the western part of the country, and her mother had always had little contact with outsiders, and she was very wary of Meng Lan.

Meng Lan is kind, since she took refuge in Taoli School, she went door-to-door to let children from all families come to Taoli School to study.

This group of children has the talented and intelligent Shi Yanzhou, and there are also idiots Jue, and Meng Lan accepted them all. Jue was unknown at the time, and his mother refused to say, so Meng Lan named him Jue.

The only thing that can explain that the jade of Zichou fell into the hands of Zou Gu is that it was obtained from Qiao Gongzihuai, how could Jue hold the jade of Zichou?

It's just an unintentional move, it's just a good fate, and I don't want to hurt this idiot in the end.

Song, Wuyi.

Meng Lan came to Luoyi School Palace three times, not fighting for the position of sacrificial wine, not fighting for the first saint in the world, as long as he is a person, he is still an idiot.

Zou Gu had to believe that what Meng Lan wanted was not a person, it was this Yujue, and it was instructed by the Son of Heaven.

Open the wooden tree, the jade of Langxuan is warm and gorgeous. Song Xiao took out the jade of Langxuan and combined it with the jade of Zichou, the lines blended, and it seemed to be a landscape.

"Map, I can't see it."

"Wang, you can slowly figure it out, the two ...... of Lidu," Zou Gu said.

Song Xiao and Zou Gu looked at each other and smiled, they coincided, they couldn't let the Son of Heaven see the attempt, otherwise the Son of Heaven would be on guard.

What about vigilance? The Song Dynasty has a million male divisions, and they can set foot in the Li capital, but the division is unknown, and they dare not risk the disapproval of the world, after all, the Son of Heaven is still the nominal co-master of the world.

Lai, Li Du.

Meng Lan was kind-hearted, and couldn't bear Jue to suffer an unjustified disaster, and he entered the Luoyi School Palace three times, I am afraid that Zou Gu would be even more suspicious of Jue's identity, and refused to let go, worried.

Jue worshiped Meng Lan as a teacher, and came together with Qin Huai by mistake, and Qin Huai swapped this idiot with Qiao Yin in order to retain Qiao Guo's bloodline. The humble took me to be an idiot and couldn't afford the blessings of the ugly descendants, and it became a disaster. Accidentally crashed into the Luoyi School Palace, entered the game in a hurry, and ended hastily, and now he is exiled by Zou Gu to herd sheep and horses somewhere.

is neither a prince who gambles the world, nor a hero who cooks wine and argues about swords, and he can't even memorize a piece of Mengxue "Jiahe", and it is impossible to become a hundred schools of thought on Taoism and learning, but he is just an idiot who forgets one day at a time, and forgets one year at a time.

Song, Wuyi.

The more Zou Gu thought about it, the more proud he became, it turned out that Meng Lan was just a sanctimonious hypocrite, and in the end, he was better than Meng Lan.

Zichou prefers Meng Lan, Yu Jue must have been passed on to Meng Lan, Qin Huai was captured, seeing that the matter was revealed, he disguised an idiot as a descendant of Zichou, plus the response of Zhongshan Prince Kuang, so the whole thing was seamless, after all, no one believed what the idiot said, it all depended on the words of a few people who set up the bureau.

It's a pity that Meng Lan still lost. Zou Gu is not a soft-hearted person, and it is only an expedient measure to let Idiot Jue sit in the sacrificial wine position, and now he is a useless person, and it is already a great gift to exile him to shepherd sheep and horses.

Zou Gu returned to the Luoyi School Palace, rarely did not take a car, but believed that the horse was slowly reined. Meng Lan, senior brother is a chess master. The world's moral senior brother wants to defeat you Meng Lan, and the senior brother from all over the world and Kyushu also wants to defeat you Meng Lan.

The four jade jue are maps, and Zou Gu guesses that they are Dali heavy treasures.

Take the natural jade of the four seas, you can suppress the eight wildernesses, what a treasure in the end, Zou Gu is looking forward to it.

Lai, Li Du.

Zitang saw Meng Lan bowing his head and was silent, he didn't know what Meng Lan was thinking, thinking that Meng Lan was wondering why he had the Qishan Sword Pavilion Four Elephant Heavy Weapon but didn't use it, so he explained his confusion and said: "Li Wen has Luoyi School Palace, Wu has Qishan Sword Pavilion, and the world can be flat." However, since moving the capital to Yanzhou, it has lost control of the Luoyi Academy. ”

Li Du was originally Luoyi, and there was no detailed record of the relocation of the capital, as if it could be erased, whether it was He Tianzi or Zitang, they only knew fragment information. It is certain that Li Dingran's national strength was weak at that time and he had no time to take care of the world, so he moved the capital to Yanzhou.

Li, that is, Li Tianzi is still the nominal co-lord of the world; The disadvantage is that the Li room has lost control of the fertile soil of the Central Plains, the etiquette has collapsed, and the Li room has repeatedly declined.

Zi Tang paused and continued: "Long before losing control of the Luoyi School Palace, there was a crisis in the Qishan Sword Pavilion. After moving the capital, Song Qiao and the two countries benefited from the water, and the Luoyi School Palace became the key to the game between the two countries. As for the Qishan Sword Pavilion, there is almost no news. ”

Meng Lan's mind was in a mess, neither the Son of Heaven nor Zitang knew the details, how did he know, so he didn't interject and listened.

"The Qishan Sword Pavilion has always been secretive, and no one knows about it except for the Son of Heaven and the Three Princes. When King Xiao knew about the existence of the Sword Pavilion, he invited the Holy Son to give a lecture first, took the opportunity to steal Yujue, and raised troops to attack Zhongshan, wanting to capture Yujue. Zitang thought of Xiao Guo's expedition to Zhongshan, and Zhongshan Guozuo was almost extinct, and his tone was a little heavier.

After all, he is the king of a country and the Taibao of Dali, Zitang quickly recovered from his grief and continued: "There is a thief in Zhongshan, named Yunliang, and my father invited Yunliang to enter Xiao to steal jade with a lot of money."

"At that time, the jade of Langxuan was lost, and three jade pieces were collected, and Lone and the first saint Zichou personally went to Qishan to invite the four elephants out of the mountain. So Shaoyang was born with Fu Bai and destroyed Xiao. He Tianzi said.

It turned out that Fu Bai, the world's most talented swordsman, turned out to be a person of the Four Elephants, Meng Lan sighed with emotion and had doubts. Meng Lan didn't say it, He Tianzi also knew, and said with a puzzle: "First, the Qishan Sword Pavilion is in civil strife, and only one vein of Shaoyang is left in the four elephants, and the three veins of Shaoyin, Lao Yin, and Lao Yang have rebelled, and after the Qishan Sword Pavilion destroyed Xiao, the vitality was greatly injured and could not be hidden; Second, the Sword Pavilion has always recognized Yu Jue and did not recognize people, and the widow came to no avail, which was the work of Zi Chou; Third, after the destruction of Xiao, the Sword Pavilion returned to seclusion again, and its strength may not be enough to carry the national throne again. ”

Meng Lan's heart was like a strong wind, the waves were monstrous, these four jade jue were very important, and they could not fall into the hands of Zou Gu no matter what, after all, there was Song Xiao standing behind him, and Song Guo, who was one of the best in national strength.

The Son of Heaven is willing to tell the truth about the secret of Yu Jue, how could Meng Lan not know that this is the trust of the Son of Heaven, and now I am afraid that only the three people present know the secret of Yu Jue.

This is a trust, and it is a heavy task, retrieving the jade is a top priority, and the whereabouts of the jade of Langxuan cannot be delayed.

Since he promised to make tea for the Son of Heaven, Meng Lan is duty-bound. Senior brother, between you and me, whether it is the morality of the world or the world, we must compete with each other.

In the past, Xiao Guo was strong and prosperous today, and now the Song State should have played the world, but it fell short and lost all the games, and it was completely erased on the chessboard of the four seas and Kyushu. Now that the Song Kingdom knows the secret of Yujue, how will it fall?