The old man walked into the village with Gu Changsheng, and the old man didn't seem to be particularly anxious about finding someone. Gu Changsheng thought that the old man should have nowhere to stay tonight, so he invited the old man to rest in his thatched hut, but the old man did not refuse.

The old man and Gu Changsheng walked into the thatched hut together, Gu Changsheng lit the oil lamp, in the dim light, the old man's face was thin, but his eyes were very sharp, and there seemed to be a kind of momentum all over his body, and he looked like he was fifty or sixty years old, but he was twenty or thirty years old. Just when Gu Changsheng looked back at the old man, the old man made a gesture that made Gu Changsheng feel overwhelmed.

The old man said first: "The old slave greets the young master" After finishing speaking, the old man knelt straight to Gu Changming, his body fell to the ground, his forehead was on the ground, and he did not move. Gu Changsheng was stunned on the spot, but Gu Changsheng reacted quickly, and reached out to help the old man up, but he didn't expect the old man to kneel and move back two steps to dodge, stand up on his own and say "The old slave doesn't dare", hunched over and looked up at Gu Changsheng.

Gu Changsheng was shocked by the old man's sudden behavior, and he said that he was not right: "Old man, old man, I, me, you recognize the wrong person, right?" What kind of young master is that, I grew up in this small village with my brother since I was a child, and I don't know the old man at all. And Gu Changsheng doesn't like the old man to bow down to himself, only the younger generation kowtows to the old man in the village, and the living kowtow to the dead, and the old man really can't afford to kneel.

"Young master, the old slave didn't recognize the wrong person, you are really the person the old slave is looking for. The old man said softly as he hunched his waist. Without waiting for Gu Changsheng's words, the old man continued: "Actually, the old slave already recognized the young master on the road just now, but it is inconvenient to recognize each other, this time the old slave came to take the young master back to the royal city." ”

Gu Changsheng was a little crying and laughing, thinking that the old man didn't know why he recognized himself as the young master of his family, so he had to continue to explain: "Old man, my name is Gu Changsheng, I grew up in this small village since I was a child, I have a brother, I have never even been out of the town, everyone in the village knows, you must be mistaken, old man." ”

"Young Master, your brother can be called Gu Congsheng, and now he is away from home, but the young master's father left home when the young master was born, and there is no news so far?" The old man asked three questions in a row.

Listening to the old man's three questions, Gu Changming's heart suddenly became a mess, and his mind was full of thoughts, who was this old man, how did he know his brother and father, what did he want to do, and how should he deal with it...... However, Gu Changsheng quickly calmed down and asked the old man, "Who are you? Do you know the news of my brother and father?" , When it comes to the word "father", Gu Changshou is a little unnatural, and the word "father" is really strange to me.

The old man replied unhurriedly: "Young master, don't worry, these old slaves will slowly tell the young master, it's just a long story, and please sit down first." ”

Listening to the old man say this, Gu Changming found a bamboo chair and a small wooden board, handed the bamboo chair to the old man, and asked the old man to sit down, the old man kept saying that the slave was standing and did not want to sit down, and the old man still agreed to sit down under Gu Changming's insistence, but as long as there was a small bench, let Gu Changming sit on the bamboo chair, and sit opposite Gu Changsheng. The old man looked even taller under the dim oil lamp, but sitting on the bench was as tall as Gu Changsheng sitting on the bamboo chair, which was still the old man's deliberate bending waist.

After sitting down, the old man began to speak: "The old slave is the master's domestic slave, and he is also a 'moving needle' among the official spies of the Win Dynasty, and the master of the old slave is also the young master, your father, who is the 'Wang Shi' of the current king, and also the 'weaver' of my dynasty, and the old slave came this time to take the young master to the royal city." ”

"What about him, by the king's orders? Is there any news of my brother? What is a weaver? What is a needle?" Gu Changsheng wanted to know too much, and he didn't know what to ask first, so he had to ask together.

Of course, the old man who claimed to be the "needle" in the dynasty spy knew that the "he" in Gu Changming's mouth was referring to his father, so he continued: "The young master misunderstood the master, when the master entered the temple at the time of the change of throne, the situation was weird, and he didn't dare to implicate his family, with the means of the master, if he didn't want people to know about you, then naturally no one would be able to know." Now the king has also recently learned that the 'Wang Shi' still has a family because of some things, so he sent an old slave to pick up the young master. And the old man disappeared into this great world six years ago, and no one knows a trace. ”

"That, that ......" Hearing this, Gu Changming's heart was even more bitter, there was just news of the person who had left home since he was born, but it was still news without news, Gu Changsheng wanted to say something, but he couldn't think of what he should say when he opened his mouth. So he nodded and motioned for the old man to continue.

The tall and thin old man also saw Gu Changsheng's mood changes, and comforted: "Young master, don't worry too much, the old man is just missing, it may be that the old man himself is tired of officialdom and wants to ......" Speaking of this, the old man realized that he didn't open which pot to mention, and quickly changed the topic:" The lord came to the royal city fifteen years ago, at that time the lord was just a young poor scholar, because in the policy pavilion and many Confucian scholars debated the rule of the royal road, after a discussion, no one dared to refute the first debate, coincided with the first king sitting behind the scenes, so the first king appreciated, by the first king called Wang Zuozhicai, the world Confucianism is unsurpassed, the scenery is the same.

After that, the lord became the object of the princes, so the first king asked the lord to give lectures to the princes in the palace for three days, and then choose one of them as a disciple. Three days later, the king chose the nineteenth son of the king, who was only eight years old at the time, who is now the king.

When the first king heard that the lord had chosen the nineteenth prince, he was furious, so that the lord would never be able to enter the court as an official and never be ordained. Because the nineteen princes were most disliked by the previous kings, the secret of it is unknown. Since then, the master has become a teacher without an official position, but there is only one student, the nineteenth prince. The old slave was also given to the old man as a slave by the king at that time.

And seven years later, the first king died, leaving an edict that was only fifteen-year-old Nineteen Prince Yingqian ascended the throne, and the edict was in an uproar throughout the dynasty, but the uproar was in an uproar, and the king's accession to the throne was not much hindered. Because all the opponents died the night before the king's accession to the throne, the red blood stained the bluestone slabs of the royal city, but they were not left even overnight, and they were washed clean and left no trace. The next day, the new king ascended the throne as usual, and the whole world celebrated.

There were too many big things that happened on the day the king ascended the throne, first the king ignored the threat of dozens of courtiers to kill the court, and wanted to worship the lord as the 'king teacher' and the ruler, and in the end, the lord saved the lives of those courtiers by only accepting the 'king teacher'; After that, the king showed his Longyuan realm cultivation at the age of fifteen to ring the ancient dragon bell to shock the world, and the county guards in various places swore allegiance; In addition, the Confucian Academy sent the word 'Zhengjun' to congratulate the king on his accession to the throne and recognize the king's throne; In the end, from that day on, the identity of the old man's 'weaver' was revealed to the world. The old man said that his voice raised slightly, because some old people participated in these things back then, and some old people witnessed them.

When the old man told it, he had already paid attention to omitting some bloody details, and he was afraid that Gu Changsheng would not like it, but there were some things that the young master would have to experience sooner or later, as the son of the old man, this could not be avoided, and he would have to experience it sooner or later.

But it's okay, although the young master doesn't like it, but the young master doesn't think about those hypocritical people, blindly refutes, the old man thought in his heart.

Gu Changsheng looked at this thin old man who claimed to be the "needle" among the dynasty spies, and didn't know what to say, the old man had already shocked himself greatly.

"And after that?" the oil lamp in the hut in the village remained unturned all night.