"First of all, what you have to learn is to respect the teacher." The old man popped and appeared in front of King Lanling.

"Secret Technique: Concealment?!" King Lanling was surprised! You must know that since I was a child, I have heard my father say that someone in my family once learned the skill of stealth, which is called the secret skill: concealment, and the person who releases this skill can completely enter the state of stealth!

"That's right, do you want to learn?!" The old man stood opposite King Lanling, looked into his eyes and asked.

"I want to learn!" King Lanling immediately said, he immediately put away the dagger, knelt on his knees, and wanted to kowtow to the old man, but the old man flashed and avoided the kowtow of King Lanling.

"It's just that I owe it to your family, today, your Mangyan country has suffered a great disaster, and your Mangyan country has been kind to me, I will definitely not stand idly by, but, remember, I am not your master, and it has nothing to do with me to walk the rivers and lakes in the future and restore the country and revitalize the country. You remember. The old man stood diagonally behind King Lanling and said majestically.

"I see!" King Lanling knew that if he wanted to restore the country, he would inevitably be the enemy of the Tang Dynasty, and the old man in the mountain was wise enough to protect himself and be able to teach himself kung fu, which had already made King Lanling grateful to Dade, and the master was not a master, but a verbal title. If you think he is a master in your heart, then he is your own master.

How many people in this world call each other Master, but they don't treat each other as their own Master at all?

At the end of the day, a title is just a meaningless form.

That night, King Lanling invited the old man in the mountain to go to the Xishan Courtyard together, and packed up the gold, silver, jewelry, and his simple clothes in the courtyard, which were the capital of the comeback. And King Lanling also knew what happened after he left the palace:

The demons and the barbarians broke through the last line of defense in the royal capital, and their parents jumped from the high city walls, both of which were killed.

Before the two jumped off the city wall, they set a fire in the palace, and the anger burned the palace of Mangyan Kingdom into a pile of scorched earth.

King Lanling looked at the direction of the palace from afar, knelt down and kowtowed three times, swearing that he would pay for his blood debts and revenge and restore the country.

***

The flickering candlelight of the wine shop, the pale face of the King of Lanling, and his low words stained this late autumn with a touch of sadness and grievance.

Hua Mulan stared at King Lanling's expression tightly, and his appearance did not seem to be fake at all.

But what he said was completely different from the rumors he heard.

The version I heard was that the most powerful country in the desert: Mangyan State, was willing to trade with the Tang Dynasty in a friendly manner, and in order to facilitate exchanges and trade between the citizens of the two countries, it deliberately closed the city, and the powerful and populous Datang was willing to defend the Mangyan country in order to maintain the order and harmony of the city, and specially sent 20,000 troops to guard the Mangyan country.

Unexpectedly, Mang Yan signed an agreement with the Western Regions Demon Seed Army and the Barbarian Tribes to kill all the 20,000 Tang Iron Horsemen! The Datang Iron Cavalry didn't expect that his neighboring allies would suddenly turn against him, and the soldiers who were originally welcome raised the butcher knife in their hands, and the Datang soldiers who didn't have time to react were killed by the soldiers of the Mangyan Country, the Demon Seed Army, and the Barbarian Tribes!

But there was another civil strife between the Mangyan Country, the Demon Seed and the Barbarian Tribes, and the weakest Mangyan Country was tragically destroyed!

The most powerful country in the desert collapsed overnight and disappeared from sight.

It is rumored that the family of three of the lord of Mangyan Country died in that battle.

King Lanling continued: "My master taught me kung fu in five years, and when he got up early in the morning, he didn't even say goodbye, and he has not heard from me since. And I, naturally, want to discuss with Datang for an explanation. I traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, but I found that the national strength of the Tang Dynasty became stronger and stronger within five years, and it was really impossible for the empress of Chang'an to see her. Chang'an City is full of masters, and several times he approached the palace of the empress, but he was almost discovered by Di Renjie, the magistrate of Chang'an. ”

"But my intention to sneak into the empress's palace was finally detected by Di Renjie, so he sent more people to defend the empress day and night, and after lurking for half a month, I gave up the intention of directly questioning the empress in person, and wanted to return to the desert and find a way again."

"Walking in the Tang Dynasty, I heard the people repeatedly mentioning the Great Wall Guards, how many foreign invasions they had withstood for their hard work, so I focused on destroying the harmony of the Great Wall Guards, in case the Great Wall Guards were destroyed earlier, then I could use the hands of the enemies of the Tang Dynasty to avenge me."

"You know what happened after that." After King Lanling finished speaking, he breathed a long sigh of relief.

I have hidden this past in my heart for many years, and now I am facing my mortal enemy, and I actually tell ......

What's wrong with you?!

King Lanling raised the white porcelain cup in his hand, the pear blossom brew inside was already clean, he took the wine bottle on the table and poured it, and found that the wine in the wine bottle was also clean.

Hua Mulan was pondering the words of King Lanling, after saying it for so long, her mouth had already been dry to death, she had not drunk for many years, and when she broke her vow today, she was even more addicted to alcohol, so she simply stood up and went to the counter to find wine.

The wine bottle was not kept secret, and soon let the king of Lanling find the pear blossom brew he wanted, he sat back down, poured himself a glass, and then helped Mulan pour a glass too.

King Lanling's actions woke up Hua Mulan who was in deep thought, she looked at the delicate man in a moon-white robe, his violet hair was dyed with a layer of sadness by the dim candlelight, and there was a strand of white hair on his forehead bangs, which showed that he had not had a good time over the years.

This moon-white robe was taken out by King Lanling from his own Xishan Courtyard, and was sewn by his mother with a needle and a thread.

The clothes are still there, but the people who sew them have already turned into a pile of bones.

The moon-white robe has become the spiritual sustenance of the King of Lanling when he misses his parents, and whenever he thinks of them, he will wear this clear moon-white robe to chat about comfort.

This man, with his gestures, exudes an aristocratic atmosphere, but in the aristocratic atmosphere, there is a trace of despair, which is heartache.

The white porcelain cup in hand was already filled with pear blossom brew, Hua Mulan drank it all, and said softly to King Lanling: "The version I heard is slightly different from the version you heard. ”

So Hua Mulan told the king of Lanling what she had heard at the beginning.

The more King Lanling listened, the tighter his brows wrinkled, and finally he slapped the table with an angry face and said: "Obviously, it was the dispute between the Tang Dynasty and the barbarians and the demon seed that caused the 20,000 iron horsemen of the Tang Dynasty to bury the corpses in the desert......"

Suddenly, his words stopped abruptly and looked at Mulan perceptively.

Hua Mulan naturally had the same expression, looking back at King Lanling, opening her red lips and teeth, and Mulan's golden and jade-like voice echoed in the tavern: "Although I am not the party to the tragedy back then, I believe that there must be something strange in it." ”