Just as the heat was scorching, the sun was raging, and the sun at noon was quite poisonous, but fortunately there were a few small sheds built by the leaders on the rooftop, although they were locked and difficult to enter, they could be relied on, barely forming a small thin shade.

Under the thin shade, four young men sat in a circle on the floor, with newspapers in the middle and a few playing cards upside down. They looked intently at the cards in their hands, their expressions serious and nervous - although two of them still had a torn strip of paper on their foreheads, which hung down to the end of their noses, and even affected their vision to a certain extent, which contrasted their expressions, which was really quite funny......

Suddenly, a young man sitting in the west and east drew out a card, threw it on the newspaper in front of him, and said loudly: "Hua Taizu has a cloud: 'There is no master of heroes in the world. That's why if it's a man, it's going to fight the ownerless! ”

Seeing this, the opponent in the east was dumbfounded at first, and then even shouted bitterly - "I'm X, do you know what cards I have in my hand, and I dare to throw the cat and play the ownerless?" That's crazy! ”

"Hehe" laughed at one person on the side: "Since there are quotations from Hua Taizu, even if you catch a handful of, even if he catches a handful of himself, Li Ji will definitely beat the ownerless." While motioning to the other party to put away his hole cards, he asked casually: "I heard that you plan to choose a new topic, and it should be verified that Pei should be a traverser—won't you?" ”

"How is it possible, I'm not crazy," replied the questioned, snorting — presumably from the slip of paper sticking to his face — "and that's just a couple of game texts written on the Internet......"

This bright card wants to play the ownerless person, called Li Ji, a young researcher at the Institute of History of the Weinan Academy of Social Sciences, who mainly studies the early history of Wei and Jinhua, and is most interested in Hua Taizu Pei Gai - or rather worship. The cultural shirt that Li Ji is wearing now is the one he specially found someone to customize from the Internet, and wrote the couplet of the front hall of Huajing Mausoleum:

"One Liu in the west, one Liu in the east, borrowing the corpse to return the soul, the Yanji is difficult to recover; The former three kingdoms, the latter three kingdoms, the carrier Jianye, Pei Bai evergreen. ”

Western Liu and Eastern Liu, of course, refer to the Han Dynasty before and after, and "borrowing corpses to return the soul" refers to the Hu and Han regimes; The first three kingdoms were Wei, Shu, and Wu, and the last three kingdoms were Jin, Han, and Zhao—this is a couplet that describes the environment of Pei's time and praises his great achievements.

As soon as Pei Gai was mentioned, Li Ji's conversation box opened at that time, and while sorting out the cards in his hand, he said to his companions: "Don't you think that Hua Taizu has a lot of knowledge, and many of his policies are beyond the times?" It really doesn't look like a simple eunuch family or the child of a bureaucracy. If you want to say that there are only two people who are most like a traverser in Chinese history, one is Wang Mang, who shamefully failed, and the other is Pei Gai, who won a complete victory and had a profound impact on later generations......"

The other family interjected and asked, "Didn't you say that Liu Xiu is the son of destiny?" ”

Li Ji pouted: "The son of destiny and the traverser are two different things, Han Guangwu believes in Weishu and engages in superstition, even if he crosses, eighty percent of them are worn back before the seventeenth century." It's not like Hua Taizu's ...... "I was excited, I was inevitably dancing, and I don't know why, the index and middle fingers of the right hand slipped, and a playing card flew out to the side in a whirlwind, just landing on the edge of the rooftop, on the outside of the iron railing.

Li Ji straightened his waist, stood up, and hurried over to pick it up. His companion behind him reminded him: "The railing over there is not very strong, be careful not to fall." ”

Li Ji didn't care, and turned his head unguarded, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you fall, eighteen floors, you will die in the end, there is no pain......" At this time, he was already close to the edge of the rooftop, and he didn't know which one raised a fat pigeon, which was perched on the railing to watch the scenery, and when he saw someone coming, he was shocked to "flutter", flapped his wings and flew quickly, just grazing Li Ji's sideburns and jumping out.

Li Ji was only more shocked than the pigeon, and his body couldn't help but stagger, and he hurriedly reached out and held on to the railing. But his weight of more than 100 catties can be all pressed on this iron railing that has been in disrepair for a long time - only to hear the sound of "click", the railing broke, Li Ji's hands were empty, the soles of his feet slipped, and his head turned out of the rooftop!

He was on his head and feet, in mid-air, and he was still thinking in his heart, it's over, it's okay to set up a flag...... Just see that playing card fluttering and fluttering in front of your eyes, and then, all of a sudden, it becomes a leaf?

Li Ji felt that countless thoughts and even emotions that did not belong to him instantly poured into his mind, and then his eyes went dark, and he didn't know anything......

——————————

Li Ji felt that he was in a dark field, and there was a vague figure in front of him, standing at a fork in the road, with his back to him. He took two steps, perhaps hearing footsteps, and the man turned slowly.

I saw that this person was dressed in ancient costume, wearing a black gauze soft hat, wearing a collared robe, wearing a jade belt around his waist, and holding a three-foot-long green bamboo cane in his hand. Li Ji was not only not surprised, but instinctively felt that he knew this person, so he naturally bowed his hand and asked, "Could it be His Majesty Hua Taizu?" ”

Thinking about it again, "Taizu" is the temple number, Pei Gai himself must not know, and when he was about to change his words, the other party smiled at him and said, "You are here, where are you going?" ”

Li Ji glanced behind the other party, and there were seven or eight forks in the road radiating into the distance, diverging and drifting apart, until they reached the dark and invisible depths of chaos. He scratched the back of his head in confusion: "I don't know where I'm going...... Excuse me, which is the way back? ”

The person who looked like Hua Taizu Pei Gai suddenly muttered softly: "Go back? The same person cannot step into the same river of time. ”

"What do you mean?"

"I cannot turn back to the place where I came, and thou shalt not go to whence thou came, for all entanglements are accidental." As he spoke, Pei Cai lifted the bamboo cane, and seemed to just point at it: "Try this way, and see where you will go." ”

——————————

When Li Ji woke up, he felt that Zhou's body was in pain everywhere, and his head was also groggy. Before he opened his eyes, he first felt that his mind was stuffed with a life experience that did not belong to him at all, and he seemed to realize it naturally:

I'm X, Lao Tzu even crossed the ...... There's really such a thing as crossing over!

I heard the voice of the call - "Changwei, Changwei, are you still alive?" ”

Who is Changwei...... Li Ji suddenly realized that this Changwei was referring to himself, right? Himself, born in Ji County, Weizhou, so he was named Li Ji, the word Changwei.

He slowly opened his eyes, and saw a clear face close together, a look of anxiety. Seeing Li Ji open his eyes, the other party breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's good that I'm still alive." ”

This person should be his own...... From brother? His name is Li ...... Lee: What's coming from?

What age is this? Li Ji was a little dazed, trying his best to search for the memory in his mind that did not belong to him...... It's a little uncertain at this point - is this really ancient, or is it another world?

Because the history of this world in his memory is very different from his original timeline.

In fact, it can't be said that it is completely different, it seems that the history before the "Yongjia Rebellion" of the Jin Dynasty is roughly understood by this shoehorned consciousness, which is in line with his own timeline. All the differences started before and after Yongjia, as if they had completely embarked on another fork in the road.

Because in this world, there is no Hua Taizu Pei Gai, or there has been, but it has not played the slightest role and has left any influence......