Fang Xie had heard the sentence of Grandma Liu's entry into the Grand View Garden countless times in his previous life, and when he walked into Chang'an City, he completely understood what this sentence meant. Because when he entered Chang'an City, he should have the same mentality as Grandma Liu who walked into the Grand View Garden.

It's not just that the eyes aren't enough, it's not just all kinds of shocks, but also the sense of insignificance that comes out of my heart irrepressibly. Anyone, when standing in the big city of Chang'an, will feel that he is just a speck of dust. A city is so big that no matter which direction you look at, you can't see the edge, no matter which corner you look at, it is full of prosperity, then this city has become an immortal legend.

The Chinese and foreign cities recorded in the history books of the previous life, such as the ancient Roman city, such as the city of Baghdad, and the imperial capital of Byzantium, Constantinople. Compared with Chang'an, which is now in front of Fang Jie, these famous cities are like the comparison of weeds and giant trees. The ratio of fireflies to the bright moon.

And what surprised Fang the most was not the huge and prosperous imperial capital, nor the solemn and majestic buildings in the imperial capital, nor the glamorous women in bold clothes on the street, but the red sleeves actually had real estate in the imperial capital!

And it is also on Minghua Street, the most prosperous street in the imperial capital, a three-story wooden building that looks magnificent. The two compounds in front and back occupy no less than ten acres of land in Chang'an, where every inch of land is valuable!

When I looked closer, I found that the wooden building was covered with dust and paint and had lost its bright color, and the chain locks hanging from the door were also covered with rust. I don't know how many years it has dutifully sealed this wooden building, and how much wind and rain it has experienced. Or, what kind of mission is carried like a human being?

And just when the team of red sleeves stopped in front of this wooden building, and the Xi Thrush with a somewhat solemn and sad expression stood in front of the iron lock door, Fang Xie felt that the surrounding atmosphere had changed in a trance, and he subconsciously looked around left and right, and suddenly found that the crowded street had become quiet, and everyone was focusing on Xi Thrush.

The businessmen from the nearby stores also poured out, and the expressions on their faces were strange when they looked at the red sleeves.

Fang Xie didn't know what this expression meant, but he was now sure that the Red Sleeve Move must have had a very glorious past in the imperial capital.

At this time, someone suddenly shouted loudly.

"Red Sleeves recruit back to Chang'an!"

"Red Sleeves is back!"

With this shout, the whole street even fell into a boil. The crowd began to crowd this way, especially all the men, with a gleam of excitement in their eyes. The most strange thing was that although the onlookers did not shout along, there was not the slightest trace of disgust in their eyes.

How mysterious and glorious is the past of a singing and dancing company that will cause such an enthusiastic response from the people of the most proud imperial capital of the Great Sui?

"There's something you don't know."

Xiao Ding snorted a little proudly, arched his shoulders and explained: "Back then, the red sleeve move was very famous in Chang'an, the imperial capital, so big that you couldn't even think of it even if you wanted to break your scalp. More than eleven years ago, when the Red Sleeves opened in Chang'an City, do you know what kind of big people came to congratulate them? ”

She proudly raised her round little chin, snapped her fingers and said: "The bachelor of Shuhua Pavilion, the left servant of Shangshu, the Shangshu of all departments, the squire, the iron-faced and selfless Dali Siqing, and even the high-minded and arrogant people who supervise the imperial history and these noble figures in the imperial capital have all arrived, and sent congratulatory gifts in person." Even the queen sent someone to send a screen, on which were written four autographed inscriptions in the world. ”

The pride on Xiao Dingdian's face can't be pretended, it's very real.

"Eleven years ago?"

Fang Xie frowned slightly and asked, "At that time, there were no you in the red sleeves, right?" ”

Xiao Ding glanced at him and said seriously: "Whether there is me or not, but I am now a member of the Red Sleeves." None of the girls in the building now are the same people from eleven years ago. But you see, is that pride on each of their faces fake? No matter when we join the Red Sleeve Move, we must be proud of the glory of the Red Sleeve Move. What you have to know is that at that time, even if the princes and nobles wanted to come to the red sleeves to watch the song and dance, they had to pay the money in a proper manner. If the girls don't want to jump, the first- and second-grade adults are not qualified to let them jump. ”

"How come I haven't heard you talk about such a glorious and proud past?"

Aunt Xi said that as long as you don't return to Chang'an for a day, don't mention the past for a day. No matter how glorious the past is, it is only the past after all. She also said that as long as the red sleeves return to Chang'an, they must get back the glory of eleven years ago. ”

"Aunt Xi is so bold, as long as she comes back, those dignitaries will still be like eleven years ago, and they will flock to it."

Fang Xie couldn't help but sigh.

Xiao Dingdian's expression darkened slightly, and he muttered: "The reason why the red sleeve move has such a big face in the emperor is actually not that Aunt Xi's hands and eyes are all over the sky." But...... The original owner of the red sleeve move was the imperial capital, and he was originally a figure under one person and above ten thousand people. Only people like him can make those adults with high eyes willingly come to send congratulatory gifts. Only a person like him can make a singing and dancing company transcendent in the imperial capital. ”

"One man is under ten thousand people, and ten thousand people are above ......"

Fang Xie couldn't help but repeat it, and then a name suddenly appeared in his mind.

So he asked in surprise: "How can a character like him open a singing and dancing company?" And...... Ten years ago, he disappeared without a trace, why did the Red Sleeves appear in Fangu a few years after he disappeared? ”

"Just because he was the most outstanding figure in the entire Great Sui at that time, even His Majesty the Emperor, who had just ascended the throne, respected him, so you should know that a person whose status has reached his point must consider the relationship between himself and the emperor after all. His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui couldn't stop him from opening a singing and dancing house, he didn't enter the court, and His Majesty the Emperor couldn't leave him to stand at the forefront of the ministers. How can anyone understand the ease and ease in this? ”

It wasn't a little bit who said this, but an old cripple.

Fang Xie pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Knowing how to advance and retreat is the greatest blessing." ”

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The entourage of the red-sleeved recruits were cleaning the wooden building, and many people in the neighborhood also came to help. Aunt Xi sent someone to buy fresh fruits, made fragrant tea and put it aside. She looked like a noble and honorable woman, but she also changed into a cloth dress and worked with her neighbors.

It's not just her, all the girls with red sleeves are cleaning up.

There were only two people who didn't follow along, and one of them was a mysterious candle wick that made people itch when they thought about it at all. The other is an old lame man who sits on the stone steps and drinks.

Of course, Fang Xie and Shen Tilt Fan didn't help either.

After entering the city, Cui Luoshang went to visit the patriarchs, and his background naturally had a lot of politeness that could not be ignored. The unreliable Xiang Qingniu was said to be going to see Xiao Zhenren in Qingle Mountain, but when he left, his eyes kept drifting to the Shuxiang Building on the side of Chengmen Street. The big dog went to find a place to stay, and stood under a oleander to watch the flowers.

Fang Xie went to a tavern next to him to buy some cooked meat, wrapped it in oiled paper and came back and sat next to the old lame.

"Would you like to have a sip with you?"

He asked with some flattery.

The old lame man gave him a blank look, and as if he was juggling, he took out a wine glass from his sleeve and handed it to Fang Jie. Fang Xie took it, poured a glass, looked at the busy crowd and asked, "Can you tell me about the past of the Red Sleeves?" ”

"You want to know about that man, don't you?"

The old cripple asked.

Fang Xie nodded, and said with some distraction: "How could such a stunning and brilliant character suddenly disappear?" Although I don't want to admit that the current emperor has done something, I can't find a reasonable explanation. ”

The old lame man said: "If you let the people in the government hear this, they will lock you out of jail immediately." If you can't get to the autumn queen, you can chop off your head without even asking for guilt. ”

"You're not like that."

Fang Xie said with a smile.

The old lame man took a sip of wine, was silent for a while, and said, "Aunt Xi is a woman with affection and righteousness. Although that person was just her proprietor and had no intimate relationship, after hearing that he had left Chang'an, Aunt Xi left Chang'an alone to find him. Because he is kind to Aunt Xi, and if he is gracious, he will repay it...... Although Aunt Xi at that time didn't know how to repay her kindness at all, it was on the way to find that person that Aunt Xi met the man in green shirt you saw in Fan Gu that day. ”

"Love at first sight?"

Fang asked.

The old cripple smiled, but there was some sadness in his smile: "Sort of, he stayed with her for a month, and then left." This farewell is ten years, and she has changed from looking for one person to finding two people. ”

"The red-sleeved move has infinite scenery in Chang'an City, but it has only been open for more than a year. After the proprietor of the red sleeve trick disappeared, Aunt Xi left Chang'an City, and not long after, when the proprietor was there, those people in the official mansion who did everything possible to stammer with the red sleeve trick came, announcing the dismissal of the red sleeve trick, and so many good girls were expelled from Chang'an City. After so many years, I don't know if those people were doing well at the beginning...... I've heard that some of them have fallen into the dust...... These are all debts. ”

"Were you there?"

Fang asked.

"I'm in"

The old lame man nodded.

"You can't stop it either?"

Fang Xie asked again.

"Me?"

The old cripple snorted coldly and said, "What's the use of a person's cultivation no matter how strong it is?" Can one man stand in the way of an empire? Although the government did not seize the Red Sleeve Trick at the beginning, it carried the handwritten edict of a big man, and none of the courtiers who had given congratulatory gifts to the Red Sleeves before could not afford to provoke the big man, so they could only watch the Red Sleeves trick fall into ruin. What I hate the most is not the ruthlessness of that big man. Rather, it was the indifference of the man sitting in the higher seat, and from beginning to end, he did not stand up and say a word for the Red Sleeves. ”

"If he had said a word, the red sleeves would not have disappeared in Chang'an."

Fang Xie sorted out the old lame's words, and then thought about them carefully. A conspiracy that made people's hearts blocked and even disgusting gradually became clear, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that this world was dark and cold, and people were at a loss.

If his speculation is true, then this conspiracy is shameful enough to nail the person who now sits on the throne of the supreme power of the Great Sui to the rack of shame forever.

After the old cripple drank a few sips of wine, he didn't know whether he was a little drunk or in a painful mood, his eyes became a little misty, he looked down at the wine gourd in his hand and muttered: "If I had enough courage to kill a few people and poke this one out without fear of death, I am afraid that that person's seat will shake for a while even if he will not lose it." ”

"It's just speculation, isn't it?"

Fang Xie patted the old lame man on the shoulder and said, "Perhaps, it's not what we think at all." ”

"Perhaps? We? ”

The old cripple smiled, and his eyes regained some brilliance: "Then tell me, how did we guess?" You've only listened to that, and if you can guess it, I'll admit you're smart, old man. ”

"What's the use of admitting I'm smart? No benefit at all. ”

"If you can speculate on everything from what I said before, whether it's the same as we speculated, whether it's right or not, as long as it sounds reasonable...... I'll pass you twenty-four hands and bones. If you guess the same as we guessed back then, I'll pass you on a knife technique. ”

"Slam the door!"

Fang Xie pouted and said, "One style knife technique...... Why don't you say half-style? ”

"Don't be ...... satisfied"

The old lame man stroked his beard and smiled: "Old lame, my style of knife is not something that anyone can learn if they want to." If I am not happy, the talented eight-rank master kneels down and begs me, and I will not teach. ”

When he said this, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and glanced at the person standing under the oleander flower.

And Shen Tianfan, who heard this, picked the corners of his mouth and looked cold and arrogant.