In the warm thatched hut, there was a faint aroma of wine and meat, and the white-haired old man sat on the couch, his wide robe was slightly open, and the silver-haired wooden hairpin, on his deadwood-like hazel face, a pair of kind and wise eyes looked at the young man kneeling opposite him in the Xuanyi gauze hat, quietly waiting for him to speak.

The boy outside insisted on the fire into the house and lit the oil lamp, under the jumping lamp, the young man slowly took off the gauze hat, revealing a handsome and extraordinary face, this young man has a pair of peach blossom and phoenix eyes half drooping, and his complexion is dazzling, but it is the son who is successful.

"I haven't seen Mr. for a long time, how is Sir?" Gongzi Cheng lowered his head slightly, and his flat voice didn't seem to fluctuate.

"It's okay, it's rare to see you today, let's say, what are you doing these days?" Mr. Zhou nodded, looking at him with love in his eyes.

Childe Cheng paused, and his beady pink lips pursed lightly. Mr. Lao asked, the kid has been worried a lot recently, and he is too much to disturb, so he came to seek advice from Mr. ”

Mr. Zhou glanced at him, leaned over and poured a glass of wine for Gongzicheng, the pale green wine refracted a crystal-like light under the lamp, slowly entered the cup, and immediately a fragrance wafted away.

"Zizhan, why are you unhappy?" Mr. Zhou said, pushing the wine glass in front of Gongzicheng, and leaning back on the couch again.

"Sir, Empress Qi wants to take my life, but the kid doesn't know what to do. Gongzicheng put his hands on his knees, his back was straight, a pair of black jade eyes stared at the black lacquer cup, his long eyelashes drooped, and the shadow of his eyelashes was reflected on his jade-colored cheeks, like butterfly wings.

"Zizhan, although Daqi has repelled Wei and made it a vassal, it has made Daliang uneasy and regards him as an enemy. Over the years, Prince Qi has repeatedly lost his morality, how can you, the son who has been leading soldiers outside for many years, make Empress Qi feel at ease?" Mr. Zhou opened the incense burner beside him, scooped some incense powder with a copper spoon and sprinkled it into the furnace, and the deep voice mixed with the thick sandalwood fragrance echoed in the room.

Childe Cheng bowed his head and listened to the training, and said very sincerely. "Please sir teach me. ”

"Zizhan. Mr. Zhou put the incense burner down, brushed the wine glass in front of him with his deadwood-like fingers, and shook his head. "You said that you have no intention of taking the throne, but now you are recruiting talents for the country outside, and supporting the soldiers of Qi inside, for many years, there is no fault, there is such a flawless son in the country compared to her child, Zizhan, if you are the queen of Qi, what will you do?"

Gongzicheng frowned, his beady pink lips moved, and he lowered his head to think.

"Zizhan, two years ago, you became famous in the first battle, and became a general and a talent respected by both Daqi and Daliang, and now that you have military power and a good reputation, the Empress Qi will not stop. Mr. Zhou looked at the fading glow outside and said softly. "If you are not the emperor, you must be afraid of the prince, and when the position of the monarch reaches the hands of the prince, you will be prosperous again, and I am afraid that your life will be in danger. ”

"That's what the gentleman said. Gongzi Cheng nodded and said in a low voice. "I have no relatives to rely on, I am only good at fighting, and I can be a good general, as for the emperor, I don't dare to think about it for the time being. It's just that Empress Qi has repeatedly bullied me, and then let her go, so the kid has taught her a lesson, I just hope she can understand that I am no longer the young boy I was back then, and I can let her bully. ”

"Well, this poisonous woman should also be taught a lesson, so it is better for her to know some advances and retreats. Mr. Zhou looked at Gongzicheng and said softly. "Zizhan, you have gained the reputation of this sage, and you need to reflect on yourself in the future, and you must not act willfully and mess up your long-term plans. ”

"Yes. Gongzicheng raised his eyes to look at Mr. Zhou, got up with a solemn face, took two steps back, and bowed to the ground. "Please come down the mountain with me, sir. ”

Mr. Zhou shook his head, smiled, tapped his withered fingers on the wooden table a few times, stroked his thin white beard and smiled. "Zizhan, I'm old, I can't be a messenger, Jiang Taigong is eighty-three years old, and the old man is eighty-two, but he is not an immortal, he is already a person who is about to die, how can I help you?"

"Sir. Gongzicheng's brows furrowed even tighter, he looked up at Mr. Zhou, and the longing in his eyes made the old man sigh.

"Alas...... Zizhan, I, Zhou Yuan, went out of the mountain, is it for you, or for the Qi country?"

"The one who helps the gentleman is naturally the boy, the boy has always served Mr. as a teacher and a father, and what he asks for today is also for himself, and has nothing to do with his family and country. Gongzicheng said very firmly, and he said sincerely. "Please, sir, do what I ask. ”

Seeing that Gongzicheng still refused to get up, Mr. Zhou sighed and said. "Zizhan, I am a relative of the Great Liang Kingdom, and I am also your uncle, if there is a war, helping you is helping Qi, as a national relative, I help Qi achieve hegemony, what is the difference between it and treason? I am old, and I only want to live in this mountain field for the rest of my life, and I don't want to participate in the strife of this world anymore. ”

Hearing this, Gongzi Cheng was silent for a while, he got up slowly, and bowed to Mr. Zhou, and said astringently. "Mr. is Zizhan's closest relative, Zizhan just wants to pursue filial piety, if it is chaotic today, the boy is afraid that Mr. will have an accident, so he is invited. ”

"How can I not know your intentions, good boy, the old man has calculated all his life, and I am afraid that the heavens will not allow me, but I can't imagine that you will still miss me when I am old, enough. Mr. Zhou said, raised his sleeves and dipped the tears in the corners of his eyes, and got up to help Gongzi to become enlightened. "Go back, I won't keep you today. ”

"Yes. Seeing Mr. Zhou's firm attitude, Gongzi had to get up and tidy up his clothes, take a deep look at Mr. Zhou, take the gauze hat on the side, put it on, and turned around and strode away.

Mr. Zhou watched Gongzicheng disappear at the door, shook his head and sighed. "Alas, the world only knows that Gongzi's achievements are ruthless, but they don't know his injuries, why bother with this child?"

The boy who lit the lamp came forward to refill the drink, and looked up in confusion when he heard the words. "Doesn't Sir often say that the mountains are deserted, isn't it good to go with my son?"

"Now that the troubled times are coming, where can there be peace in Qi Liang Erdu? Although Zizhan has the ambition of the emperor, but his heart is too good, it is difficult to succeed after all, I followed him down the mountain, but it was only for him to worry about it for two years, how could he completely obey me? This child can only be a good general, difficult to be an emperor!"

Mr. Zhou sighed lightly, took the long-handled jade Ruyi on the side and tapped the child's skull, knocking the boy to scream.

"Sir doesn't like it, just don't say it, how can you hit my spiritual platform? Oh no, no, I'm going to be stupid!" said the little boy, holding his head and jumping up, wailing again and again.

"What kind of Lingtai Shending? You give me a good copy of the "Jade Emperor Sutra", it really makes no sense! The more you grow up, the more there are no rules!" Mr. Zhou said, stretched out the jade Ruyi, and made a gesture to hit the little boy's buttocks, the little boy screamed, covered his buttocks and half-ran to the door, and threw his hand at Mr. Zhou, stuck out his tongue and ran away.

Watching the little boy run away, Mr. Zhou smiled, stretched the jade Ruyi into his clothes, and scratched his back.

Looking at the dark sky outside, Mr. Zhou lowered his eyes and glanced at the glass of wine that had just been poured for Gongzi above the case, shook his head and sighed softly, stood up, and slowly walked out of the hut.

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"Ahh

The night wind was cold, Ye Ziyi wrapped the leather jacket on her body, looking at the increasingly blurred mountain road under her feet, a little like crying.

People say that reading too many books will make people stupid, but Ye Ziyi really believes that this sentence is right until today, and it is very right.

Looking at the Yue people around him who were shivering from the cold, Ye Ziyi couldn't help but silently complain in her heart about the survivability of the scholar and lamented her tragic fate.

Just now, the two of them just watched the sunset and Huangmei in Merlin for a while, and when they turned out, they couldn't find where the carriage stopped, and they couldn't find it again, so they estimated that they could only walk back to the city, if they could find their way back to the city......

Looking at the vague and almost invisible mountain road in front of her, Ye Ziyi sighed silently in her heart, why did she come all the way to listen to people's stories, it's good now, I don't know if I can walk back to Jiankang City in the first half of the night.

A round bright moon slowly rose between the branches of the forest, and the two of them walked slowly down the mountain by the moonlight, and suddenly, there was a sound of horseshoe wheels behind them, and when they heard the sound of wheels, Ye Ziyi was overjoyed, and when she turned around, she saw a carriage speeding towards them.

Seeing the carriage approaching, Ye Ziyi was about to beckon, and then she saw five or six knights chasing after the carriage, and the long swords and broadswords in the hands of those knights flashed a cold light in the moonlight, so frightened that she quickly pulled Yue Ren to avoid the woods on the side, and watched the carriage run past in front of her with bated breath.

"Bang Bang!"

In the neighing of the horses, a dozen black-clothed people suddenly ran out of the downhill in front, these people all held blades in their hands, and the man who held the big knife did not hesitate to swing his knife and cut off a pair of horse legs of the horse pulling the cart, and the horse fell to the ground with a wail, driving the carriage behind to shake, almost crushing the horse that fell to the ground, and tossed over.

Under the moonlight, the driver jumped out of the carriage, waved the long sword in his hand, and killed the black-clothed man with a knife and chopping the horse in one fell swoop, and two swordsmen in green clothes also sprang out of the carriage, one of them went forward, the other backward, and killed those black-clothed men in an instant.

Seeing that the twenty-odd people who were torn apart were fighting with flesh and blood, swords fluttering, Ye Ziyi bit her sleeves and clinged to the trunk of the tree, and she didn't dare to make another sound, she finally resisted the urge to scream, she secretly poked her head out and observed the battle situation over there.

After a while, the black-clothed killer saw that he was at the bottom of the peak, but he didn't want to, and more than a dozen black-clothed people poured out of the forest, surrounding the three people and a car in the middle of it.

At this time, Ye Ziyi didn't have time to care about how those people tore and killed, she stared closely at a horse that ran out of the fighting arena, and when she saw the horse trotting to her side, she immediately ran out from behind the tree and grabbed the reins on the horse's head.

Bringing the horse that was more than a head taller than her to the dark part of the woods, Ye Ziyi beckoned to the Yue people behind her, and clumsily pedaled to get on the horse, the horse was just frightened, how could he be so obedient? Seeing that someone was going to ride on his back, he snorted at the moment, and turned in circles in place.