Zhongnan Mountain is beautiful and towers in the southwest of Chang'an.

Sixty miles away from the most magnificent and majestic capital of Chinese civilization, there is a legendary palace, Taiyi Palace.

Taiyi Palace, located in Dayukou, was built in the second year of Yuanfeng in the Western Han Dynasty.

To put it mildly, this is a palace that cannot be seen or touched, but it is recorded in the annals of history. To the extent of it, it is an old market town. Seven hundred years ago, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was amazed by the storm and respected Confucianism, once led hundreds of officials to come here to pray for auspiciousness for the country. However, with the passage of time and the passage of time, Taiyi Palace has turned into smoke.

Instead, it is a market town rebuilt on the site of the original Taiyi Palace.

Here, a large number of Louguan Taoist believers gathered, and it slowly evolved into a place with strong religious significance.

There is a Taoist temple in Taiyi Palace, called Qingniu Palace.

It is small in area, located in a mountain pass, and is surrounded by Cuihua. The Taoist temple is dedicated to Lao Tzu, named after the statue of an iron ox that respects up to 3,000 catties on the square. The Taoist temple is divided into two entrances before and after, planting pine and cypress. Although it is a scorching summer, when you enter the Qingniu Palace, you will inexplicably feel a sense of calm, and the whole person will be cool.

Yang Chenglie, dressed in a yellow crown, put incense in the main hall, and then sat alone in the pavilion in the backyard.

It's been more than half a month like this.

In another half a month, he will leave the Qingniu Palace and return to Luoyang.

This is a kind of expectation and a trace of fear for Yang Chenglie, who has been in seclusion for more than ten years.

He is very unfamiliar with today's court. In the past, almost all the old ministers of the court and the central government that he knew had disappeared. And now those noble elders in the court. Almost all newcomers. He didn't know most of them.

This time, I came to Zhongnan Mountain to worship my teacher Ming Chongyan. In fact, I also hope to have a buffer and learn more about the court.

The situation in Shendu is very complicated, and Yang Chenglie can't intervene in it for the time being.

And Xijing Chang'an, although the same is a constant fight, the battle between the Guanlong nobles and the Wu family, and the Shandong soldiers is very fierce, but it has always been maintained in an orderly category. What's more, he's here, through some past connections. Understand the current situation. Although Yang Chenglie has been gone for many years, whether it was Yang Dafang or Ming Chongyan back then, there were still some old relationships, which were far more convenient than Luoyang, the god capital......

The priest of the country, Gao Rui, has visited Yang Chenglie several times.

In the conversation with Gao Rui, Yang Chenglie further felt the turbulent undercurrent hidden in the calm situation.

Fortunately, Gao Rui is indifferent.

After a tumultuous period in Pingthorn, he had withdrawn from the battle in the court.

Most of the time. He lives in his hometown in Chang'an, instead of running to Shendu to be sent like everyone else. Wu Zetian to him. Not very concerned either. If Gao Rui is willing to do this, he will continue like this, and it is good to be honest.

If it weren't for Gao Rui being Yang Rui's godfather, even if Yang Chenglie was in Zhongnan Mountain, he wouldn't necessarily come forward to greet him.

It was precisely because of some rumors that Gao Rui felt that it was necessary for him to talk to Yang Chenglie and ask him to be more careful.

After talking deeply with Gao Rui, Yang Chenglie became more careful.

Every morning, he went back to the Taiyi Pond on Cuihua Mountain, swept the tomb for Ming Chongyan, and then accompanied Ming Chongyan to talk, and in the afternoon he returned to the Qingniu Palace, read a book, meditate, or practice swordsmanship in the backyard of the Qingniu Palace.

To be honest, over the years, he has really wasted what he learned back then.

"Yang Jushi, there are people outside asking to see you."

Not long after Yang Chenglie sat down in the pavilion, a Taoist boy came from outside and respectfully saluted.

The Taoist and Taoist children of the Qingniu Palace were invited by Ming Chongyan's son, Ming Jue.

On the other hand, Qingniu Palace is like the family temple of the Ming family, and it is also a unique courtesy given by Wu Zetian to the Ming family.

The Taoist boy's name is Qingfeng, twelve or thirteen years old, with long teeth and white lips and red lips, quite handsome.

Seeing him, Yang Chenglie couldn't help but think of Yang Shouwen's "Journey to the West", the Taoist boy of the Yuan Daxian family in Zhenyuan, who was the same as the world in Wuzhuangguan. His face softened suddenly, and he beckoned the breeze into the pavilion.

"Who's looking for me?"

"He spoke with a Hongnong accent, but he didn't identify himself."

Hongnon accent?

Yang Chenglie frowned, and then stood up.

He vaguely guessed the other party's origin, but he didn't know the other party's intention.

"Invite him to the wing."

"Yes."

"In addition, what fruits to go to, everyone who comes is a lesson, and this quiet place also needs to have items for entertaining guests."

"Whoa."

"Also, if you see that the situation is not right later, you will go and call the Taoist to come."

"Yes."

Qingfeng said yes and hurried away.

Yang Chenglie closed his eyes, and let out a faint sigh after a long time: There are some things that can't be avoided after all.

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Yang Chenglie came to the wing, and after a while, he saw Qingfeng with two men coming to the door.

"Brother Wen Xuanxian, don't come unharmed."

The person at the head saw Yang Chenglie and said with a smile: "I don't know if the virtuous brother still remembers me?" ”

"Where is the seventh brother, how can the younger brother not recognize the seventh brother, please come in quickly."

He was of medium height, slightly fat, so bloated that he looked. It was very hot, and he was sweating profusely, and even gasping slightly. Behind him, there was a middle-aged man of the same age as Yang Chenglie, born burly and strong, about the same size as Yang Chenglie, and his gestures revealed a kind of military atmosphere.

"Yang Zhiyi has seen Brother Nineteen."

He walked in and bowed.

"Wenxuan, do you remember Shichiro?"

When Yang Chenglie saw the man, he was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Yuqilang, I didn't expect you to come too." ”

This slightly chubby middle-aged man is the contemporary Hongnong Yang family, the patriarch of the Guanwang Room, the former local official Shangshu, and Yang Zhirou of the three products under the Tongzhongshu Sect.

The Hongnong Yang family is an extremely large family, and its scale is not inferior to the five surnames and the seven families and the four surnames of Hedong. Although Yang Chenglie is not a child of Guan Wangfang, he has been living in Hongnong before, so he is also included in the Yang family sequence.

Yang Chenglie said: "Thirty Qilang, don't say the title of Nineteenth Brother anymore, I am no longer a child of the Yang family." ”

Yang Zhirou said: "Is Wen Xuan still holding a grudge against his father? ”

"What did Seventh Brother say, how could I hate my uncle?"

Yang Chenglie looked light-hearted, and his words gave people a sense of enlightenment.

Yang Zhirou's father, named Yang Sizhao, is the third son of Yang Xu and the patriarch of the Yang family in the previous generation. At the beginning, the person who insisted on expelling the three generations of Yang Dafang's father and son from the Yang family was Yang Zhirou's father. In addition, Yang Sizhao also has another identity, that is, Wu Zetian's mother is the nephew of the Yang family, and he can be regarded as a member of the Wu family. (To be continued.) )