Chapter 4: The Little One

The four great Confucians were originally sitting there, but when they saw Shen Guoshi coming, they immediately didn't dare to sit down, and hurriedly stood up. Hearing Shen Guoshi's words again, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

All of them are in their sixties, nearly seventy years old, and everywhere they go, they are old people who need respect. However, in front of the older Shen Guoshi, their white beards and white hair were all useless. Shen Guoshi's hair is only a little gray, his appearance is dignified, his face is full of red light, he looks like he is in his fifties, and he is immortal, as soon as he appeared, the people of the capital have saluted endlessly, and some even knelt on the ground, calling themselves immortals.

Seeing the radiant Shen Guoshi, and hearing Shen Guoshi call them the four "little guys", these four Confucians could only smile bitterly. There is no way, the seniority of Shen Guoshi is placed here, and these four Confucian masters were even the juniors of Shen Guoshi back then. According to their seniority, they have to call Shen Guoshi their ancestor.

Back then, when these four people were studying, they followed their master's side, went to the Star Picking Tower to chat with Shen Guoshi, drank tea, and poured tea and water. Of course, they are juniors.

Therefore, in front of ordinary Taoist people, they can rely on the old and sell the old, and in front of Shen Guoshi, they are authentic "little guys".

Seeing the respectful appearance of these four people, Shen Guoshi was very satisfied, called a boy beside him, and said, "Okay, Mingyue's words, you repeat them and listen to these four little guys." ”

The boy stood in front of the four great confucians, his voice was clear, and he said Qin Mingyue's words fluently.

Hearing this, the Confucian scholars around them lowered their heads in shame. The onlookers clapped their hands and applauded.

Some people praised loudly: "There are also bad people in Daomen, but the national teachers who pick up the star tower, all of them are immortals." The people of our capital know it. Which of the national teachers of the past generations did not love the people like a son? Which national teacher did not predict all kinds of disasters and let the people take refuge in advance? Which national teacher didn't save the people after a disaster? This year's flood in the south of the Yangtze River, didn't the people of Daomen open a warehouse to help the people before the imperial court gave relief? ”

"You young people don't know that thirty years ago, Great Xia came to invade our Great Zhou. It's going to attack outside the capital. At that time, what did these Confucians, these officials do? The Zuo family fled from the city early. But what about the national teacher? The national teacher took the people, led the army and the Marquis of Xiangyang to repel the soldiers and horses of Great Xia. Otherwise, wouldn't we, the people of the capital, all die under the iron hooves of the soldiers and horses of Great Xia? ”

It was an old man who said this. It should have experienced the national war with Great Xia thirty years ago.

Similar words kept coming, and the Confucian students around him were even more ashamed.

There was also an old man who heard such words and said: "My grandmother's house is on the edge of the Lu family, when the soldiers and horses of Daxia besieged the city, the Lu family not only escaped from the city early, but also took the opportunity to buy a large amount of land in the south of the Yangtze River, and did not come back until the capital was stable." ”

There is also an old man who said: "Our family is next to the Lu family, and the Lu family not only escaped from the city back then, but the Lu family also produced a traitor." It's the brother of this old man Lu now. His elder brother, when he fled, was caught by the soldiers and horses of Great Xia, and immediately surrendered, not to mention, he also took people and ran to the mountains around the capital, and betrayed the villages hidden in the mountains. Let those people in the village be harmed by the soldiers of Great Xia. ”

Another old man said, "Yes, my aunt is from that village." After that, few people in the entire village survived. Those who survived were hiding in the shadows or in the mountains. They all said that they saw with their own eyes the village where the eldest young master of the Lu family took Xia Bing to search. What a sin deserves death. ”

The old man at the head said: "Later, after the Great Xia retreated, the eldest young master of the Lu family was also killed by the retreating Xia soldiers. It didn't end well. However, the Lu family, who returned to the capital, opened an ancestral hall and removed the eldest young master. That's all. What about those who died? Will you be able to come back alive? ”

"Back then, the eldest young master of the Lu family was promoted very early, and I heard that if it weren't for the military disaster, he would have to prepare for the top prize. After he died, it was the turn of this old man Lu. Otherwise, he is the second son, where will it be his turn in the family? ”

When these old things were pulled out, the Confucian people who had straight backs couldn't straighten up. Especially Lu Linzhao, the shame of his brother-in-law has not been mentioned by others in the past ten years. I didn't expect it, but now it's being brought up again. He wanted to find a crack in the ground and get in.

Shen Guoshi looked at the people around him with a smile, and looked at the four Confucians in front of him, who were originally upright, and now they were bent over their waists.

The scene suddenly became a little strange. Some strangers don't understand, so they ask, "What's going on?" Why do these four old men still have to salute this young Taoist master? Isn't that disrespectful to the elderly? ”

The people of the capital looked at this stranger with the eyes of idiots and said, "What do you know? The four Confucian masters are old, but they are only fifty or sixty years old. However, do you know how old you are? In fact, we don't know the longevity of the national teacher, but we, the people of the capital, remember it. Shen Guoshi has been a national teacher for 60 years. Shen Guoshi's age as a national teacher is almost older than the age of these Confucian masters. Which one should be honored, you say? Which is the old man? ”

The foreigner was taken aback: "How come? These four old men all have white hair and drooping old age, but the old man standing in the fairy wind bone, only his hair is a little half-white, and his face is even full of red light, and there are few wrinkles on his face? How can you be a national teacher for 60 years? So how old is he? More than seventy, more than eighty? ”

An old man in the capital snorted coldly: "Who is Shen Guoshi?" Everyone in the world knows that Shen Guoshi is a land immortal. You outsiders have not seen Shen Guoshi. We ordinary people in the capital often see it. Let me tell you, when I was in my twenties and thirties, I saw Shen Guoshi like this, and he is still like this. It hasn't changed much. Well, if you really want to talk about changes, since Shen Guoshi accepted Miss Mingyue of our Qin family, the prince of the capital city, as an apprentice, he may be in a better mood, and his Taoism is also profound. This looks a little younger. ”

Those outsiders immediately revered Shen Guoshi.