The autumn breeze of Qixian Mountain is rising, the sky is high and refreshing, the boundless blue is like velvet paving, quiet and quiet, only the sound of the chessboard falling can be heard, crisp and firm.

"If you don't play chess well, what useless things do you think? Isn't this palm-sized place in Qixian Mountain enough for you to be free? Lifting a piece of white and throwing it into the chess basket, Qiu Shuishui, the owner of the Junzi Building, who temporarily had the advantage, didn't look very happy.

"I haven't had any news for a long time, isn't the owner of the Autumn Mansion more anxious than me?" Tong Ruchu settled down, and in the blink of an eye, a large piece of dead chess was activated, reversing the unfavorable situation in an instant. Picking up the sunspots one by one, Tong Ruchu smiled flatly: "The owner of the Qiu Mansion hasn't played chess with me for a long time, and suddenly he came here to inquire about the situation, right?" It's a pity that I'm the same, except for a few broken words sent by others, I don't know how Xiaoqing is doing. ”

The water surface of the autumn passed with a gloomy color, and he snorted angrily and disrupted the chess pieces: "It's good to have news, be content!" That bastard himself didn't tell me about his situation, and he didn't allow other brothers to reveal it to me, my master should be like a fool, it is better for you to hide on the top of Qixian Mountain and be chic and comfortable, and you can still be respected by people in various ways. I don't think I need to find anyone to inherit the Junzi Building in the future, just leave it to you! ”

Qiu Shushui said naturally angry words, but Tong Ruchu could understand that he was in a hurry.

Seeing Wen Moqing grow from a somewhat arrogant smart child to a young master of the broken army who is now in charge, no one knows better than Tong Ruchu that the young man who once threw himself in his arms and cried bitterly has multiple feelings. Tong Ruchu knew that the reason why Wen Moqing didn't tell his master what happened to him was just because he didn't want the cold, warm-hearted stranger of Qiu Shui to ride a tiger for him.

When the Junzi Building was created, Qiu Shui once left behind cruel words, and he had nothing to do with the court in this life.

Wen Moqing is the son of King Dingyuan, and sooner or later he will inherit his father's business and become the new King of Dingyuan after the unfortunate death of King Dingyuan. At the beginning of the war, Qiu Shui can still indulge Wen Moqing with a disregard attitude, and others can't find fault with anything, after all, it is Wen Moqing's private matter; But now that the war is spreading, Wen Moqing has become a key figure in the war between the two countries and the cusp of the power struggle in the imperial court.

The curse that refuses to be broken in a lifetime, if it is broken for the apprentice of Wen Moqing, the autumn passing water will no longer be a sacred existence.

"You're not a fame seeker, so you don't need to care too much. Xiaoqing is too, there are a lot of worries, and I am worried that it is not appropriate to do anything, and if I continue like this, I will be forced to a dead end sooner or later. ”

Tong Ruchu's brainless words made Qiushui's eyes wide: "Who is famous?" I just said that I would never have anything to do with the imperial court, why did I sell my reputation? Oh, does it mean that I have to watch my apprentice die on the battlefield and sit in the middle of the building and watch by myself, isn't this called fame and reputation? I don't know what you guys think! ”

"If you start looking for people to be angry again, you can't listen to me carefully?" Tong Ruchu was not angry, put away the chessboard and put it on his lap, his eyes sank a little, "The rules of the Junzilou are known to the rivers and lakes and the imperial court, so no one has dared to speak disrespectfully for so many years. Careful and thoughtful, knowing that his marrying a girl has already attracted criticism to Junzilou, so he will never implicate Junzilou again unless he has to, after all, he is now doing more to balance the power of the government and resist foreign enemies. ”

"Where do you have so many scruples? I just said it casually, why is it all a golden rule? What I hate the most is that you guys, who like to drill the horns when you have nothing to do! ”

Qiu Shui was so angry that he pounded the table, and Tong Ruchu on the other side leaned in the wheelchair and smiled blindly, but there was a little melancholy in his smile.

"Because what you care about is those children, and what those children care about is the reputation of you and Junzilou."

Qiu Shushui was sullen, glared at Tong Ruchu a few times in a row, and snorted: "Old monster, I know that you have a lot of eyes." Say, is there anything you can tell me, just a little bit, you can't let me, who is a master, even know how the apprentice is, right? Mo Qing's stinky temper, Lao Tzu is really out of line. ”

I knew that the autumn water had nothing to do and went to the Three Treasures Palace, and I must have asked for myself to suddenly come to play chess, but Tong Ruchu was not surprised. After a little groaning, Tong Ruchu picked up the tea on the table and snorted: "It depends on what the result of the Qiu Mansion Lord wants." ”

"What else can it be, saying that you are so wise that you are close to a demon, and you still need me to say it myself?"

The old monster who has been called for many years, Tong Ruchu seems to have become a habit, shaking the teacup and sniffing the fragrance of tea, his eyebrows are indifferent: "Back then, the owner of the autumn building said that the children of the gentleman's building were not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the court, so he was forced to leave without thoughts. Now the abyss is stormy, Xiaoqing is running around to turn the tide, and the banner is Dingyuan Wangfu instead of Junzilou, which is probably only known to him, what can we old people who sit on the side and play chess leisurely share? The autumn lord really hopes that helping Xiaoqing will not teach him so hard, then you have to let Xiaoqing know that that sentence should be abandoned, and now, it is a critical juncture for the world, even if it is the autumn landlord, you no longer think about the past grievances. ”

Past grievances.

The four words seem to touch the heartstrings of the passing water, a tingling, a loss, and a dullness.

After many years of grievances and grievances, those feelings are still there, even more intense than in the past, but in the face of the catastrophe that the world is about to suffer, should this obsession continue? Autumn fell into a brief silence.

Seeing that the autumn water was no longer talking, Tong Ruchu tilted the teapot and poured himself a new cup of tea, raised the cup to his lips, and looked at the distant mountains and Yanlan for a long time.

"I still remember my youth, the wind and rain, and the depression. The iron horse swept, a hundred bones and thousands of bones, a few crying? Barbarian invading, revenge is difficult to revenge, the imperial court, and the emperor is returning to the court. "When the fragrance of tea enters the throat, there is a bit of bitterness. Tong Ruchu put down the teacup and sighed softly: "This is a ballad that my great-grandfather sang to me when I was a child, I can't remember the tune for a long time, but I remember the words clearly." It's probably about the Biansai Rebellion more than a hundred years ago, in which my great-grandfather lost his parents and all his siblings—"

"How many times have I told the story, and my ears are calloused." Qiu Shushui was interrupted with annoyance, but his mind was not confused, "Don't you just want to tell our country that the current grievances should be put aside?" I don't really understand that. After a long silence, Qiu Shushui shook his hand in annoyance: "No matter, Moqing, this little rabbit cub has a virtue with you, I can't control him, or you go!" ”

Tong Ruchu looked stunned, and her lips were slightly raised: "What does the owner of the autumn mansion mean ......"

"The court is still the rotten court, Lao Tzu is too lazy to pay attention to it, but my group of disciples and grandchildren all grew up in Dayuan, they are in a bad mood and are bullied, and I am considered a derelict master as a master. When you have time, you tell Mo Qing how much trouble he likes, don't care what I said before, it's all fart, don't take it seriously. Also, I will hand over these children in the building to the wine song transfer arrangement, and they will be forgotten for too long, and my gentleman's building will have to make some noise and show its majesty! ”

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."

Tong Ruchu poured tea for the autumn water, tapped the chessboard on his lap silently, and secretly clenched a brief letter in his sleeve.

Just like his thorough understanding of Wen Moqing, Wen Moqing is also very aware of his ability, and trying to make Qiu Shushui get out of the grievances many years ago and agree to Junzilou to join the battle, which is the most important thing Wen Moqing asked Tong Ruchu to do.

After everything that needs to be done is done, the autumn water naturally has no intention of continuing to play chess, and after drinking a cup of tea to precipitate and precipitate restlessness, he looked up at Tong Ruchu: "I'm leaving." ”

"Can I ask a question?"

Being stopped by Tong Ruchu made Qiu Weishui a little surprised, and just got up and sat back on the wooden chair.

"If you don't mind, I'd like to ask something sensitive." Tong Ruchu rubbed his somewhat sore knees, and his understatement tone seemed a little careless, "I rarely ask Xiaoqing what he did, but there is something I care about very much recently - Xiaoqing's bloodbath in Qinglian Palace that year should not have been proposed by him, what I want to ask the owner of Qiulou is, is the person who instructed Xiaoqing to kill Qinglian King behind the scenes You, the owner of Qiulou, or is there someone else?" ”

The owner of the gentleman's building, who has always been neat and decisive, was silent for a long time.

"It seems that this matter related to the Qinglian King is not only unspeakable, but even the owner of the Qiu Mansion is also, so I have a bottom in my heart." Tong Ruchu smiled, a trace of regret flashed in his eyes, "I always thought that I was a sad victim of a huge conspiracy, but I didn't expect that many years later, my most beloved junior also followed my old path and was involved in a conspiracy...... Lord Qiulou, do you know, if the prince hadn't suffered misfortune, I really wanted to ask him at this time, how could he bear to let his son live so hard? ”

Qiu Shuishui's fingers trembled, and he stood with his hands: "Are you blaming King Dingyuan?" ”

"Yes and no, after all, it wasn't the prince who asked Xiao Qing to slaughter Qinglian Palace."

The topic that should not be talked about made Deqiu Shuishui give up his mind, turned around and sat down in the wooden chair again, and without using cups, he lifted the teapot and poured a large sip of warm tea.

Bang, put down the teapot heavily, and Qiu Yushui's face turned cold: "I'm most afraid of your head, you can see through everything with a slight turn, and even things that have been in the past for so long can be dug up and speculated." At the beginning, Mo Qing did find me in advance, because there are many guards with martial arts in Qinglian Palace, and if you want to have a bloody bath, you must use the children of Junzilou, so I know this matter very well before and after, openly and secretly. To be honest, I had already guessed that Mo Qing was going to clean up the mess for the Dog Emperor, but I never imagined that the person who was behind Mo Qing's command and desperate to get rid of the Qinglian King-"

"It's not the prince or you, the lord of Qiulou, but the first emperor."

Raise a glass and drink shallowly, with low eyebrows and eyes, Tong Ru tasted the fragrance of tea for the first time, and there was a hint of bitterness hidden in the corners of his lips.

The culprit who killed him, let Qiu Shushui live in his thoughts, and at the same time, he was also the one who pushed the blood debt of a massacre on Wen Moqing's head, it was the person who looked mediocre and very innocent, the first emperor Wen Shaojun.