Chapter 112: The Storm Rises
When Zhang Huang came back to his senses again, he found that he was already outside the view of Fang Xianguan, and the fifth palace Yuan used the Taoist technique he didn't know to send him away from Qingcang Tower.
In all fairness, Zhang Huang wanted to go back to the Fifth Gong Yuan very much, because he still had too many questions in his heart, but the Fifth Gong Yuan's attitude at that time was very clear: what should be said, he had already said it, and what should not be said, even if he continued to ask, there would be no result.
[This Yang World has been reset thirty-six thousand times?] ]
Walking on the streets of the inner city of Luoyang, watching the passing people on both sides come and go, Zhang Huang couldn't help but feel a strange trance. It was as if he had come to Luoyang at some point, looking at the pedestrians coming and going.
Sometimes, when people do something they have never done before, or when they come to a strange place, they occasionally have a fragmented memory of that thing or place in their minds, and this phenomenon is called immediacy.
However, after listening to the words of the fifth palace yuan, Zhang Huang became more and more unsure of whether it was a sense of immediacy or 'what he had experienced in the past'.
His own existence and future ambitions, all of them seemed to have quietly changed after talking to the fifth palace Yuan, which made Zhang Huang, who was full of thoughts, a little confused.
[Those who have died 36,000 times......]
Smiling self-deprecatingly, Zhang Huang casually walked into a wine shop, found a table facing the street in the hall on the first floor and sat down, looking at the flow of people on the street with a complicated expression.
He had a lot of doubts in his mind.
For example, the meaning of his name 'Huang' has any special meaning. For another example, it is clear that his father-in-law is called Zhang Jie, but why does the fifth palace Yuan insist that his father-in-law is Zhang Jiao of Taiping Dao?
Since being pointed at by the Fifth Gong Yuan, the chaotic memories of Zhang Huang seem to have gradually become clearer, but the more this is the case, the more sure he can be that his stepfather Zhang Xie will never be the sect master of the Taiping Dao, the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao.
In Zhang Huang's clearer memory. His father-in-law, Zhang Jie, also seems to be a Taoist of Xuanmen. Before Zhang Huang descended the mountain at the age of fifteen, his father-in-law Zhang Xie always sat on the futon in front of the waterfall on the mountain to meditate and meditate, and never left. It is incredible that his father-in-law Zhang Xie can last for a long time with only a little food, as if he has reached the so-called Bigu realm in the legend. Even if I don't eat or drink for a long time, I'm still in good spirits.
[The stepfather could not have been.] ]
After thinking for a while, Zhang Huang secretly affirmed. After all, during the period when his stepfather Zhang Xie raised him on the mountain and taught him Taoism, Zhang Jiao, the great sage and teacher of Taiping Dao, had already become famous in Jizhou for his ability to use water to save people, if it was the same person. You can't do it both ways.
After affirming this, Zhang Huang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
It may be that it is close to the time of dinner, and there are more and more customers in the restaurant, and it has reached the point where customers need to share tables.
No, two men who knew at a glance that they were foreigners came to Zhang Huang's table under the greeting of the guy in the wine shop, and said politely, "This son, there are few small tables in our shop, can you share the table with these two?" ”
"It doesn't matter." In the spirit of goodwill for the convenience of others. Zhang Huang nodded kindly to the two guests.
What kind of drinkers are they? The first person seemed to be about thirty years old, nine feet tall, burly, and an expensive brocade robe with silver trim on a black background, as if to declare the unusual identity of the visitor.
You can see it. This uncle is a martial artist, with thick palms, rough fingers, and a hearty smile. As soon as he sat down, he patted Zhang Huang's shoulder familiarly, and said with a smile, "Thank you." Brat! ”
Beside this warrior, his companion was a well-mannered Confucian scholar, dressed in a proper Confucian robe, who clasped his fists at Zhang Huang and smiled kindly, as if to thank Zhang Huang for agreeing to their table.
"Boy, go out to eat alone?"
Truth be told,
For this kind of self-familiar martial artist, Zhang Huang not only did not dislike but had a good impression, and after looking at the person in front of him, he asked curiously, "Uncle is a foreigner?" ”
"Uncle?" The familiar martial uncle showed a slightly stunned expression on his face, and after touching the beard on his chin, he sighed, "Have you reached the age when you are called uncle?" Beside him, the Confucian scholar chuckled twice, only to laugh so that Uncle Wu's face couldn't help but be a little wistful.
Rolling his eyes helplessly, Uncle Wu smashed it and said, "Yes, my generation is from Longxi." I want to see the prosperity of Luoyang, so I came here to have a look. ”
"Luoyang...... It's not a good place to be. Zhang Huang said happily, and after he finished speaking, he realized that he seemed to be repeating what Cheng Pu said to them at the beginning.
"Oh?" Uncle Wuren's eyes were a little different, he looked Zhang Huang up and down a few times, and said with a chuckle, "What?" Isn't Luoyang prosperous? ”
"......" Zhang Huang shook his head and stopped talking.
Seeing this, Uncle Wu and his companion Confucian glanced at each other, and no longer asked, but called the guys from the wine shop to order a large table of wine and food, and ate and drank by themselves. And Zhang Huang was drinking the wine he ordered, while looking at the crowd on the street in a daze, and sometimes sighed softly, which made the martial uncle frown.
"Boy, do you have something on your mind?" Uncle Wu asked lightly.
"......" Zhang Huang shook his head.
"If you don't have a mind, what kind of anger do you sigh for? Seeing you like this, the wine in the glass is hard to swallow even if it is mellow! Uncle Wu glanced at Zhang Huang and said meaningfully, "People, just live in the moment!" …… When there is wine to eat, eat it happily, and if there is any trouble, wait until the wine wakes up. ”
"Live in the moment......" Hearing these four words, Zhang Huang couldn't help but think of Guo Jia, and then couldn't help but sigh.
"Tsk!" Uncle Wu put down the wine cup with some displeasure, frowned at Zhang Huang and said, "You little baby, if you have any troubles, just say it quickly, don't be like a woman, you just know how to sigh there." …… How many times do you sigh, and the troubles will be solved? ”
Inexplicably being beaten by the martial uncle he first met, Zhang Huang didn't feel a little crying and laughing, and after thinking about it, he whispered, "I'm thinking...... The way out in the future. ”
"Big!" Uncle Wu glanced at Zhang Huang disdainfully, and said nonchalantly, "When you are alive." Eat, drink, eat, and when it's time to die, obediently close your eyes, and that's it? ”
[What kind of consolation is this?] ]
Zhang Huang looked at this martial uncle with a smile and said strangely, "Uncle means to live this life in a mess?" ”
"What else do you want?"
"I ...... I think...... I want to do something big......"
"......" Uncle Wu stared at Zhang Huang a few times and chuckled, "What's the big deal?" ”
"I don't know." Zhang Huang shook his head.
Uncle Wu suddenly became angry, shook his head and said, "It's really tiring to talk to you kid!" …… Brat. To be a man, it's best to be down-to-earth, don't think about something ambitious! As he spoke, he smiled at the fellow Confucian scholar, "Look at this young man today. ”
The Confucian scholar smiled slightly, and said gently, "It's not a bad thing that young people are hot-blooded and ambitious. ”
"Tsk!" Uncle Wu pouted disdainfully. said, "I think it's full of food, if it's a hungry boy for a few days, I won't think about those who have it or not." ”
Zhang Huang couldn't help but feel a little angry when he heard this. frowned and said unhappily, "I think uncle, you better take care of yourself, if you don't have ambitions, what's the difference between people and the walking dead?" ”
"At least you can open your mouth to eat and drink, can't you?"
"You ......" Zhang Huang was suddenly angry. After thinking for a while, he mocked, "There are some people who are dead but alive. And there are those who are alive but dead. …… I think you're a living dead, uncle! Let's find a place to bury yourself! ”
"......" Uncle Wu looked at Zhang Huang with his mouth wide open, and suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhang Huang over, and at the same time laughed and said to the Confucian scholar, "Ah Ru, I like this kid!" ”
The Confucian who had been replaced with Aru smiled and did not speak, but nodded.
Zhang Huang was forcibly picked up on the same bench by this martial uncle, and he didn't react for a while. When he reacted, he saw that this martial artist uncle was hooking his shoulders while holding a wine jug to pour wine for him, and said with a smile in his mouth, "Boy, just kidding, don't you have such a straight face, right?" …… Come on, come on, you and I eat wine! ”
[This guy ......]
Zhang Huang was a little surprised by the martial uncle's measurement, and drank the wine in the cup suspiciously.
Seeing this, Uncle Wu said with a smile, "In our Longxi, as long as you have eaten wine at the same table, you can be considered a friendship." …… Tell me, why are you bothered? ”
Zhang Huang looked deeply at the hearty smile of the martial uncle in front of him, hesitated and said, "There is a person who has a fight with another person, saying that I am the key to it, and I don't know what to do." ”
"That's it? What a! Uncle Wu smacked his lips and said casually, "Boy, you don't have to get too involved in other people's affairs, you just need to be yourself...... Live happily! If you want to eat wine, buy wine and eat it; If you want to eat meat, buy meat to eat; If you want to achieve your ambitions, you have to achieve your ambitions...... What ambitions did you just say? ”
"I ...... I have an ambition to recruit a group of like-minded companions to do chivalrous deeds together, hoe the strong and help the weak......"
"That's good." Uncle Wu patted Zhang Huang on the shoulder while eating and drinking, and smiled approvingly.
Zhang Huang didn't feel happy when he heard this, and said in a low voice, "But later, someone told me that just a few people and a few swords can't change the entire world......
"......" Uncle Wu was drinking for a moment, and even his companion Confucian Aru showed a little solemn and cautious on his face.
I don't know how long it took, Uncle Wu put down the wine bowl in his hand and said earnestly, "Boy, that person is right, just a few people and a few swords can't change the entire world. ”
"What then?" Zhang Huang asked suspiciously.
Uncle Wu played with the wine bowl in his hand, looked at Zhang Huang Zhengse and said, "Actually, daydreaming is not much different from the ambitions and ideals you said, the key is whether it can be realized and whether you have the strength to achieve it." …… You want to change this chaotic world, which is very good, but in the uncle's opinion, your strength is not enough, far from enough! ”
"How?" Zhang Huang asked tightly.
I saw that Uncle Wu shook Zhang Huang's shoulder heavily, and said, "You have to stand taller!" ”
"Ah Zhuo, stop at the point!" Confucian Aru reminded with a solemn face.
Unexpectedly, the martial uncle ignored his companions, looked directly at Zhang Huang and said in a deep voice, "A few people, a few swords, really can't change the entire world. But what if it's tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands of swords? ”
"......" Zhang Huang's face changed slightly, as if he had comprehended something.
"Ambition needs strength to support it. Without strength, it's just empty talk. …… To achieve ambition, you must first survive and be not afraid of anyone; Secondly, you have to stand taller than others, and only then will others obey you. will be used for you......"
"Zhuo!" The Confucian Aru rebuked in a low voice.
Zhang Huang glanced at the Confucian scholar Aru with a different color, and asked in a low voice, "That's ...... So what do I do? ”
"Uncle, I just said, first of all, you have to survive! …… As long as you can survive the torrent of troubled times, then you have the qualifications to influence or change the way of the world...... It doesn't matter if you are weak, there are a lot of battles in this world that cannot be understood, and you go through them one by one, slowly accumulating experience. Your horizons, and your position, will grow higher and higher, and one day, you will have the strength to change the way of the world......"
It was at this time. Suddenly, there was a commotion in the street, and an armillary sphere landed in front of the liquor store, blooming with a strange blue symbol, spinning incessantly.
"Oops. Overdone? ”
Uncle Wu smiled bitterly and patted his head, then said to Zhang Huang with a look in his eyes, "You should go." Brat! ”
At this time, Zhang Huang also realized that this armillary sphere was probably coming at them, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but look stunned, and asked, "Then ...... uncle?"
Uncle Wu poured himself a glass of wine, and said slowly, "Uncle, I have my own way to protect myself, and I don't need to worry about you, a little ghost!" …… Remember what Uncle said, if you want to change the way of the world, you need to stand taller! than whom...... All high! But first, you have to survive, otherwise it's all just talk! ”
"Uncle......
"Get out of here!"
"......" glanced at the martial uncle, Zhang Huang gritted his teeth, ran to the back door of the wine shop, and left.
Looking at Zhang Huang's back when he left, Uncle Wu slowly drank the wine in the cup, and said with a chuckle, "There are still some, this kind of hot-blooded fool...... Compared to them, the purpose of our waiting is less glorious. ”
"Huh." Confucian Aru smiled faintly, took the wine jug and poured a glass for Uncle Wuren, and suddenly recalled the crazy words of two and a half boys on the grass pile behind the village nearly twenty years ago.
[…… Aru, how high do you say the status of the Son of Heaven is? How old is he? ]
[Son of Heaven...... That's the Emperor, right? The emperor of my Han Dynasty, to put it mildly, is the biggest official in the world......]
[Will I be able to stand taller than the Son of Heaven one day?] ]
[Are you crazy?] After the Son of Heaven is the biggest official in the world, at most he is on an equal footing with him. ]
[On an equal footing?] Hey! What's that? Someday, I'm going to stand taller than that...... No, I'm going to stand taller than I did...... Higher! ]
[……]
"Click, click......"
A team of well-armed guards of the Imperial Forest Army broke into the wine shop, and the captain in his thirties and forties who led the way coldly glanced at the martial uncle and said in a deep voice, "Since you have come to Luoyang, why don't you go to the General's Mansion or the Sili Captain's Mansion to report?" ”
"Hey!" Uncle Wu eats and drinks by himself.
Seeing this, the captain's face was a little unswerving, but he unexpectedly did not have the slightest intention of being rude.
"Come with us...... The evil Jiao of Longxi, Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhongying! ”
Uncle Wuren, no, it should be Dong Zhuo, he slowly stood up, shook his clothes, and walked out of the wine shop as if no one was around.
"This guy is arrogant......," said one of the soldiers of the Imperial Guards with an angry face, and he even drew half of his sword faintly.
However, the captain stuffed the soldier's half-unsheathed sword back, and after shaking his head as a gesture, he turned his head again and looked at the backs of Dong Zhuo and the others.
[The Tigers of Jiangdong, Sun Jian, Sun Wentai...... The evil Jiao of Longxi, Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhongying...... What did General He do when he summoned these well-known local warriors to Luoyang? Are you finally ready to attack the Dong family? ]
Glancing up at the armillary sphere-covered sky, the Imperial Forest Captain's face flushed with a little worry. Although he didn't guess the reason, he could still have a hunch that there might be a big change in Luoyang in the near future.
At the same time, Zhang Huang was still fleeing in fear.
But after escaping a few streets, he suddenly found that none of the armillary spheres in the sky seemed to be searching for him.
"That uncle is going to be fine, right?" Looking back at the way he came from running desperately, Zhang Huang showed a little worry on his face.
[I hope that uncle will be fine......]
Zhang Huang secretly prayed, after all, he did have a lot of good feelings for the so-called martial uncle, after all, the other party only made Zhang Huang wake up to something that had been confused for a long time with just a few words.
Suddenly, as he walked, Zhang Huang suddenly felt someone tap him on the shoulder.
[Hmm?] ]
Zhang Huang turned his head in surprise, only to find that there was an acquaintance standing in front of him, an acquaintance like a brother who was very close to him.
"Don ...... Brother Tang Zhou? ”
It turned out that the person who patted Zhang Huang on the shoulder turned out to be the Taiping Dao disciple he had met earlier in Taishan County and taught Zhang Huang the art of runic water, Tang Zhou.
"I didn't expect to meet ...... here. Long time no see, Xiaohuang. ”
Tang Zhou greeted Zhang Huang with a smile.
Zhang Huang couldn't hide the joy in his heart, and asked repeatedly, "Isn't Brother Tang Zhou in Mount Tai?" Why did you come to Luoyang? …… Could it be that something is coming to Luoyang? ”
Tang Zhou glanced at the direction of the palace when he heard this, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, and he disappeared in a flash.
"Ah, Tang has something important...... Gotta do it! (To be continued......)