Fang Xie got down from the carriage, smiled and asked the captain of the garrison who was catching up quickly, "Master, what else is going on?" ”

The lieutenant, who looked to be about forty years old, strode up, looked at Fang Xie and was silent for a while, and said, "If you can after you go back, you can say congratulations to everyone on my behalf...... I was a pawn under Prince Zhong that year, and on the day of the opening of the Red Sleeves, the prince did not humble himself as a pawn, and specially opened dozens of tables to invite those of us who couldn't be on the table to eat and drink...... The banquet was gone, and we were divided into the armies, and we never saw the prince again. Eleven years later, I often dream of that night of drunkenness. ”

This person turned out to be a personal soldier of Prince Zhong back then!

Fang Jie's heart was shocked, and he said solemnly: "Don't worry, everyone will tell me when I see it." ”

"Thank you"

The lieutenant clenched his fists and turned to leave.

The big dog let out a long sigh of relief, and took off the steel thorn gloves that had been quietly put on and stuffed them into the cuffs. Fang Xie looked at the back of the departing captain, and didn't know why his heart was filled with a sad emotion. In the past few days, he had heard the name of Prince Zhong Yang Qi many times, and every story about this man made his heart surge.

Assisting the current emperor to ascend the throne is unparalleled. If he doesn't leave the court, he will always be the one who stands at the forefront of the civil and military officials. But he quietly went down the mountain when he was about to stand at the peak of his life, and managed his own scenery at the foot of the mountain.

The more he thought about it, the more curious Fang Xie became about what happened ten years ago, allowing a person with great wisdom to abandon everything he had and go away.

Ten years without any news, where did he go?

Is he alive?

But soon, Fang Xie shook off all these sad thoughts. What he has to think about now is not whether the legendary figure of the Great Sui is still alive, but how his own people should live well. Shen Tianfan said that the original mastermind behind the scenes set a time limit of fifteen years, and after fifteen years, the mastermind behind the scenes will have a way to let Fang go back. It had already reached the fifteen-year period before he came out of Fangu, but half a year had passed, and nothing seemed to have changed.

So Fang Xie is more worried.

Since that person has spent all his effort to arrange this fifteen-year situation that makes people feel clueless, there is no reason to give up halfway. And what kind of role is he in this game, and what kind of identity was imposed by others at the beginning of his coming to this world. These make people have to be very tight in their hearts all the time.

It's just that no matter how he analyzes and speculates, he can't guess why the fifteen-year period has changed.

Because there was one man who turned a place in the west upside down. The person who laid out the layout back then had to deal with the current crisis first, and temporarily ignored the control of the other party's solution.

But that doesn't mean he's giving up.

The carriage left Chang'an City smoothly, and several people couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Fang Jie, who was sitting in the carriage, looked back at the majestic city, at the high city wall, at the people coming and going at the city gate, at the soldiers in armor, and at the Great Sui flag displayed above the city gate...... The meaning in the eyes is complicated.

During the three years of Fan Gu, he spent all his time preparing for how to gain a foothold in the imperial capital and stabilize, but after only half a month in the city, he had to leave this place. All the previous efforts have turned into water, rushing into the sea and never returning. All the planning, calculations, are not as unstoppable as the changes, and the dream is washed away by a bubble of yellow urine and disappears without a trace.

"Fang Jie, why don't you notify Heng Stick and Qilin of them?"

The big dog couldn't help but ask.

"If the four of them are notified, the strength around us will not be so thin. It's a long way to Qingle Mountain...... After all, the four of us seemed a little powerless. ”

"It's four people now, and there were only three people when we came from Fangu."

Fang explained.

The big dog was stunned, and was about to say something when Fang Xie interrupted: "Everyone has the right to choose how to survive in the future, and the four of them finally broke free from my dream that has made them suffer for fifteen years, why bother to force them back?" And...... Today, even if you pull it, you may not be able to pull it back. ”

The big dog was silent, he knew that Fang was right.

The fifteen-year period has passed, and the four of them have finally survived to this day, and they have no reason or need to follow Fang Xie to take risks. Now they are following Mo Ning Fat, following the Taoists of Qingle Mountain, and they are in the imperial capital, they are very safe.

Fools will continue to take risks.

Fang Xie smiled and said, "Most people in this world are normal, and fools are always rare. It's not easy to get together four fools now, at least when you're bored, it's enough to play the leaf card by hand. Four fools playing cards...... It's definitely interesting. ”

At this moment, Fang Jie's eyes suddenly froze.

Directly in front of the official road, a man squatted in the middle of the road.

He crouched there with his head down, not knowing what to look at intently. The man held a small wooden stick the thickness of a finger in his hand and drew circles on the official road. He was wearing a black robe, and his clothes were embroidered with very complex patterns. You can't see where those lines started, where they come down. Endlessly, the circle is as good as you want.

Daoist Daoist can see his identity by looking at his clothes, the one wearing a gray cotton robe is the most ordinary disciple, and the disciple in the cyan robe has a higher status. The blue robe can only be worn by the elders of the sect, while the red robe is the attire of the priest, and the status is respected. There is only one person in the One Qi View who can wear a jet-black robe, and that is Xiao Zhenren.

But the person squatting in front of him was obviously not the world-famous Taoist leader.

Fang Xie waved his hand to signal the carriage to stop, and he walked slowly over by himself.

"Xiang Qingniu, what are you doing?"

Fang Xie walked over to the fat man who was squatting on the ground and asked.

Xiang Qingniu raised his head and glanced at Fang Jie, then pointed to the official road. On the official road, he drew several circles on top of each other, and there were a few ants running back and forth in the circle, as if they couldn't find their way home.

"I just want to see if a few panicked ants can break out of this circle."

Xiang Qingniu replied seriously.

Fang Xie looked at the few ants in the circle that were crawling back and forth but couldn't find their way out, and was silent for a while and said, "No matter how big the circle is, the ants can still climb out after all." ”

"Not right"

Xiang Qingniu said word by word: "The ants can climb out of the first circle I draw, but I can draw the second circle, the third circle, many circles." No matter how hard the weak ants try, they will never be able to escape. Because I have a small stick in my hand, I can draw hundreds of circles at will. How could an ant escape? One circle can't be circled, what about a hundred circles? ”

Fang Xie didn't answer, because he knew that what Xiang Qingniu said was right. The ants are too weak, and the people who draw circles are too strong compared to the ants. As long as the person drawing the circle wants to, he can continue to play like this until he loses interest. If he is annoyed, tired, and tired, he will easily crush the ants to death with that little stick.

"Well, what you just said is very profound? I'm squatting here to draw a circle to light you up, isn't this a very worldly demeanor? ”

Xiang Qingniu, who was squatting on the ground, asked.

Fang Xie nodded and said, "The truth doesn't seem to be wrong at all, but your image is squatting here and drawing circles to play with ants...... It's really stupid-. ”

……

……

"Why are you here?"

Fang asked.

"Wouldn't it be just to pretend to be an unfathomable Taoist, and then steal a jet-black Taoist robe and squat here to play with ants, waiting for me to come and quickly pretend to force me to take a look, right?"

Without waiting for Xiang Qingniu, who was angry and speechless, to answer, Fang Xie suddenly had a serious expression and asked seriously: "If you are really waiting for me, then ...... How did you know I was coming? ”

Xiang Qingniu snorted coldly and said: "I just said that you still don't understand anything for a long time, and in vain I blew it for you for a long time in front of my senior brother, and I forced you to say that you are the first smart person in the world." I ask you, what was I doing? ”

"Draw circles and play with ants."

Fang Xie replied.

Xiang Qingniu asked again: "Who is the ant?" ”

Fang Xie was silent for a while, raised his finger and pointed at the tip of his nose and asked, "You mean me?" ”

"Congratulations, you're hopelessly not stupid."

Xiang Qingniu snorted and said, "You think you can leave the imperial capital unnoticed, just because you have never appeared here?" Fart! Do you see this stick in my hand, it is the strength that can easily crush you ants. For example, the Da Nei Guard Office, such as the Dali Temple, such as the Criminal Department, these yamen are all this stick, as long as you poke you lightly, you will become a puddle of rotten meat, and it is inconspicuous rotten meat. ”

"The reason why this stick is only drawing circles instead of crushing you to death is because someone has spoken for you at a very high level that you don't know that the stick has not been pressed down so far, but that doesn't mean it won't be pressed."

Fang Xie frowned, and then asked, "It seems that the only one who can keep the stick from poking it down is the hand holding the stick." ”

Xiang Qingniu couldn't help but applaud and laughed: "I'll just say that you are still smart enough, so guess who made this hand holding the stick stop for a while and didn't poke you to death with a small wooden stick?" ”

"Could it be you?"

Fang Xie asked in surprise.

Xiang Qingniu took a breath and straightened up the chest that made the girl jealous, and said proudly: "Of course it's me!" ”

"Let's go"

He said.

"Where?"

Fang asked.

Xiang Qingniu smiled and said: "There is a tea shop on the side of the road not far ahead, although the tea sold is only the cheapest tea brick, but when you walk to that place, you will see that the pedestrians who are about to enter Chang'an City, because they have been walking for a long time, must be thirsty, so the sound of this tea shop is outrageous, it is said that at least hundreds of bowls of tea can be sold every day, and each bowl of tea is a penny is also a lot of income...... Of course, that's not the point, it's ...... There's a stick waiting for you in front, very hard stick, it's better to go fast if you don't want to be poked. ”

Xiang Qingniu said seriously: "If he doesn't like you, or you don't show the strength to make him decide to be merciful, then he will still poke you to death." ”

"Then why should I go?"

Fang Xie glanced at him and said.

"Because you can't run."

Xiang Qingniu turned around and said as he walked, "If you don't believe it, you can try." ”

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A few wooden huts built on the side of the road, a dozen clean tables and dozens of wooden benches make up the tea shop that welcomes at least a few hundred people every day, and, of course, a large pot of boiling water.

Fang Xie asked Mu Xiaoxiao, the big dog and Shen Tianfan to stay where they met Xiang Qingniu, and he followed Xiang Qingniu here.

Far away, Fang Xie was keenly aware that there were a few people in this tea shop who deserved special attention. At the table on the right, sat four men in brocade robes. There were large tea bowls in front of them, but the water in the tea bowls had not been drunk in a single sip, and they were still very full.

There was only one person sitting at the table in the center, a man whose age was unrecognizable. Meng looked like he was thirty years old, but if you looked closely, he felt that he was already fifty years old. There are no wrinkles on his face, but the vicissitudes in his eyes would never be so strong if he had not experienced many joys and sorrows, and even life and death.

At the table on the far left, there is also a person.

A flawless son dressed in white who looks handsome and beautiful. Sit quietly, like a white lotus outside the world. He was drinking tea with his head down, his eyes looking at the tea bowl in his hand. didn't know why, Fang Xie always felt that this person's eyes were always staring at him.

In the innermost part of the tea shop, there is a curtain around it, which is obviously the resting place of the owner of the tea shop. There was a faint person sitting inside, sitting very straight.

"Let's Go Over"

Xiang Qingniu pointed to the man sitting next to the table in the center and said, "Death and life are only between his thoughts." I can only help you get him to listen to your explanation, as for whether he can listen to it...... Do your best. ”

After saying this, Xiang Qingniu turned around and left, Fang Xie asked in a low voice, "What are you going to do?" ”

Xiang Qingniu said without looking back: "Three things, the first is that I can't hold back and want to." The second is to use the time to to recall how to recite the mantra of blessing in "Daozu Said". Third...... Go buy the cheapest willow coffin and prepare, I can only help you get here. ”