As Zhang Lu guessed, Xuan Jian Yuanjie was accepted by the eunuch as a guest, this person was not him, it was the Yanzhou assassin Cao Cao Cao Mengde is also. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It is said that although Yangcheng is not far from Luoyang, it does not belong to the jurisdiction of Henan Yin, but belongs to Yingchuan County in Yuzhou. Originally, this place did not encounter many soldiers, and the city was basically intact, because Zhu Jun and the Guanxi army fought repeatedly in Henan, and often took Yangcheng as their base camp nearby. But when Zhu Jun left the team and threw himself into Chang'an, Yangcheng would inevitably be in chaos. Although Xuan Jian does not enter the deep mountains, does not leave the red dust, and hides in the city, he also needs a quiet place to practice.

It just so happened that at this time, his master Zhang Jujun also ascended to immortality after Pei Xuanren. Zhang Jujun didn't hide it from Xuan Jian, and specially summoned him to Songshan and allowed his disciples to watch him fly away - anyway, this apprentice is close. After returning from Songshan, Xuan Jian had the heart of traveling, Zhang Lu had not yet visited him, he planned to find Zhang Lu first. I plan to live in Jingmuro Mountain for a while, and have a good discussion with Zhang Lu, and then ...... I heard that Liu Jingsheng's governance of Jingxiang has been quite peaceful recently, so why don't I go there and find a city to live in seclusion.

But before he went out, someone led the soldiers to come to the door, and Xuan Jian was no stranger to it, it was Ding Chong and Ding Youyang, who had met in Cao Ying.

Cao Cao had good words to persuade him that day, wanting to keep Zhang Lu and Xuan Jian by his side, but unfortunately the two claimed that they had a heavy responsibility on their shoulders and were very decided, plus Cao Cao had just defeated Yuan Shu, Runan had not been completely pacified, and he didn't have much to pay attention to these monks, so he finally had to let go. Then there was a vicious incident in which his father was killed, which led to Cao Cao's second attack on Xuzhou, and then Zhang Miao and others rebelled against Lu Bu, making Cao **** almost desperate......

It was not until the spring of this year that Cao Cao finally attacked Dingtao and drove Lü Bu out of Yanzhou, and then made every effort to consolidate his territory in Yan and Henan. Not long ago, the general Xiahou Yuan came to report that I had taken the entire Yingchuan County, and even the northernmost Yangcheng had fallen under the control of my family, and asked the lord if I could continue to advance north and go to Henan to get a few blank lands? When Cao Cao heard the name of Yangcheng, he suddenly remembered: Didn't Xuan Yuanjie claim to live in seclusion in Yangcheng?

Zhang Lu is in Dingmur Mountain, that place is too far away, he can't stretch out his hand, Yangcheng has been taken, it is better to try to ask Xuan Jian to help. Of course, Cao Cao also knew that these worldly masters were not so easy to invite - besides, Zhang Lu also told himself in person that day that the real cultivator was not a monk and would never be attached to the powerful - so Cao Cao did not mention the matter of solicitation, but just sent his old friend Ding Chong to pretend to have a banquet.

Since we're acquaintances, it's always okay for you to come to me for a meal.

Xuan Jian wanted to go out for a walk, so he agreed. But when he arrived at Cao Cao's base camp in Juancheng, he was asked about the current situation during the banquet, and Cao Jian told him the truth, Cao Cao took the opportunity to say, since you don't want to stay in Yingchuan anymore, it is better to live in Juancheng.

Xuan Jian said with a smile: "When I came, I knew that Cao Gong had already obtained all Yu, then Yangcheng was safe, and I should return home." ”

Cao Cao said that you are not the same as where you live in seclusion and cultivate? Come to Juancheng and live closer, and it will be convenient for me to invite you to dinner again-"I don't want to disturb Zi Qingxiu, but Mu Dexing, I wish to benefit day and night." "I don't treat you as a guest, and you don't depend on me, let's just live close to us as old friends to facilitate communication, why not?

In fact, Cao Cao said in his heart, I am the assassin of Yanzhou, Juancheng is under my rule, as long as you come, even if you don't have the name of a guest, you have the truth of a guest, can you easily escape from the palm of my hand?

Cao Cao Yin persuaded him, Xuan Jian was not used to rejecting people thousands of miles away, and finally had to reluctantly agree - besides, Cao Cao is not annoying, much stronger than Yuan Shu, he once calculated that Yuan Shu has the destiny of the Son of Heaven, but he does not intend to pay attention to it, and at the same time calculates that Cao Cao's son also has the destiny of the Son of Heaven, but he is also curious, I want to see which of your sons is the creation, he is born now?

But Xuan Jian also put forward several conditions. First, I can come and go freely, and I can go whenever I want, and second, you can come to me at any time for a drink, chat, or even ask me for divination, but if I am not happy, you must not force it, and I am not responsible for the results of my divination. Of course, the most important thing is the third -

Xuan Jian said: "My roots, Cao Gong knows, will eventually be the remnants of his sentence, and it is not appropriate to expose people's ......" In theory, I should be a dead man, or a sinner in the imperial court, I lived in seclusion in Yangcheng before, and I only interacted with some countrymen, so just changing the way I wrote my surname, covering my ears and stealing the bell, I can barely say it. Now that I want to live in your Juancheng, I may often meet with your subordinate bureaucrats, and my old identity will be easily exposed, and if I don't change my name, I won't look good with you at that time.

Cao Cao agreed, so Xuan Yuanjie changed his name to Hao Mengjie, claiming to be from the Shangdang, and since then he has lived in Juancheng.

If Cao Cao is not superstitious, it is relative to the scholars of his time - the social environment is there, and it is impossible for him to completely break away from the Han Confucian prophecy - although he does not look down on scholars such as Liu Gen, it is still more important for a monk like Xu Jian. Because his power gradually expanded, there were people who were chattering with gods and gods to fight the autumn wind and beg to be taken in, Cao Cao, according to what Zhang Lu said that day, did not hire those pure scholars, and for those who were born as scholars or had the style of scholars, he asked Mr. "Hao Mengjie" to help screen them, and those with real talents and real learning were retained, and the liars were all blown away.

Of course, Hao Mengjie is just assisting in the screening, and there is also a type of person, even if he thinks that even if he is not a liar, everything he is used is sideways, which is useless, but Cao Cao insists on staying. For example, Gan Shi, Dongguo Yannian and Feng Junda, these three people have different practices, but they all call themselves "good royal women", and they can prolong their lives by picking yin and supplementing yang-this Cao Cao likes it, even if Hao Mengjie is not happy, he will stay for me first.

And said that in the spring of the first year of Jian'an, Liu Xiecai arrived in Luoyang, and Dong Zhao pretended to be Cao Cao to write a letter to Yang Feng, and Yang Feng was overjoyed, that is, Cao Cao was the general of Zhendong, and worshiped Dong Zhao as Fu Jielang. Originally, according to Dong Zhao's plan, the next step was to summon Cao Cao to King Jingqin, but who wanted to be preempted by Dong Cheng.

Cao Cao also had the heart to protect the Son of Heaven for a long time, but he didn't plan to go in person at first, and sent Cao Hong to lead thousands of soldiers and horses westward, which means: I'm just here to help, and I don't compete with the generals. But even so, Dong Cheng didn't dare to let him go easily, and sent troops to join forces with the remnants of Yuan Shu's Chang Nu to block Cao Hong. waited until Dong Chengtan heard that Cao Cao gave Yang Feng a flattering look (in fact, it was Dong Zhao's plan), then he panicked, and hurriedly asked Liu Xie to issue an edict to summon Cao Cao into the palace and let go of the passage.

When Cao Cao received the edict, he couldn't help but be slightly taken aback -- the emperor wanted me to go in person? If I went, I would inevitably have a conflict with the generals, and with my temperament, it was impossible for me to be used as a spear by them, or if I didn't go, I had to hold the emperor firmly in the palm of my hand! What are the pros and cons of this, and should I do it? I summoned the generals to discuss. As a result, most of the generals objected, only Mao Yu persuaded him to "serve the Son of Heaven to order not to obey", and Xun Yu advised him to "serve the Lord to follow the people's popularity".

Cao Cao basically made up his mind, but he was idle, and finally found Hao Mengjie and asked for help with a hexagram. Hao Mengjie got the result of "good luck", and at the same time said to Cao Cao, you go to Luoyang this time, why don't you take me with you - "There seems to be an image in the hexagram, it should not be a Ming Gong, but should be a festival, and it should be a deceased." "Said that if I went along, I might meet an old friend.

So Cao Cao reorganized his troops and horses, first sent Cao Hong to defeat Changnu, take the Yuyuan Pass, and then went to Luoyang to meet the Son of Heaven.

Besides, Zhang Lu didn't meet in Yangcheng to find a thrift, so he simply went north to Songshan and revisited Fawang Temple. There are still monks in the temple who remember him, and they hurriedly opened the door to welcome him in - but the monk of the mirror had passed away last year, and the current host was invited from other places before his death, and the name of the law is quite weird, called "heart model".

Zhang Luxin said that your name is not good, it is called "heart demon", which is not very lucky...... Of course, the mold is the front vowel, and the magic is the back vowel, although the pronunciation of the two is similar, in fact, there is still a difference.

Talking about his last visit and being attacked by people at night in the temple, the heart model monk said that Senior Brother Fajing had mentioned this to me - "Where did the demon come from, and why did he attack Mr. It's not known." Zhang Lu asked, is the monk who attacked me still alive? Can I see him again?

"Zheng" is like a sharp sword hanging above his head, even if he has now cultivated to the realm of refining the truth, he feels that under normal circumstances, no matter who he possesses, it will be difficult to harm himself again, after all, he will rely on the toad jumping on his feet - it is not scary but disgusting. He couldn't wait to really cultivate to the ascension, and then go to the heavens to discover the truth, but Zhang Jian and the others refused to show up, and they refused to tell him if there were any new clues. So when Zhang Lu was in Yangcheng, he wondered if I might as well go to Songshan Fawang Temple to see if I could find some clues from the monk who had attacked me.

He also thought of the technique, so he used that trick "Lingtai Mirage", and threw himself into the monk's subconscious, searching for any traces left.

In the genuine "Lingtai Mirage", the caster has no way to spy on and participate in the illusion of the recipient, and the basic setting of the spell is like this, and there is nothing to change - and this also involves moral issues. However, Zhang Lu made a mistake and practiced this trick crookedly at the beginning, and there is a seventy or eighty percent chance that he will repeat the old trick, and he will be able to run into other people's illusions. As for the moral issue...... The other party is an ordinary monk, he knows a fart, as long as I don't find out, will he understand if someone has spied on his privacy?

But after seeing the monk again, Zhang Lu felt a little unable to do it—although I can't say that I am not virtuous, I don't have voyeurism after all...... So he asked the monk, "Do you still remember the events of that day, and why did you attack me?"

The monk's Dharma name is really round—and his head is indeed round—and he kowtowed to Zhang Lu and apologized, saying that I don't know what demon possessed me, and that day I slept at night until I woke up the next morning, and I don't know what happened in between. Afterwards, the old host told me the reason, and I also felt very sorry for Mr. - just ask Mr. for the sake of me as a victim, please don't be harsh, and forgive me.

Zhang Lu told the truth, saying that I have a spell that can go deep into your heart to find out if the "demon" has left any clues, but this may peek into your privacy, are you willing to try?

Monk Zhenyuan nodded in agreement, indicating that he didn't care. In those days, there was no such thing as "privacy", and only those high-ranking officials, eunuchs, or cultivators would try their best to protect their deep consciousness from outsiders, and ordinary people did not have the concept of maintaining the independence of personality. So Matsuki said, "I have nothing to hide, Mr. is at his own convenience." ”

Zhang Lu said that was good, so he stretched out his hand and pointed to the Lingtai acupoint on his forehead, where he was really angry, and with a sound of "BIU", the spell was successfully cast, and he even got into it directly with the shallow consciousness and deep consciousness.

When I went in, I basically didn't move my nest, and I was still on top of the main hall of Howang Temple. It's just that he was originally sitting in the guest seat, the heart model monk was in the main seat, the true circle monk knelt down, and there were only three people in the hall; now the heart model monk is gone, and an old monk who looks quite familiar occupies his place, and there is one more person at the entrance of the hall, vest and pants, and a cigarette in his mouth, which is his deep consciousness - the bald muscular man "Brother Lingtai".

It seems that the monk Zhenyuan didn't realize that this was an illusion, so he first looked at the old man at the top and pointed at him, and asked in a daze, "How can the old host live?"

The old monk smiled slightly: "Death is not death, but fate." If you are not dead, how can you live?"

Zhang Lu said that the mirror monk, don't play any tricks, your apprentice has limited qualifications, and it is impossible to be enlightened at all, and you will only be more and more dizzy the more you talk. Then he turned to the true circle and explained, "This is not reality, but an illusion born of your mind. You can see your master in the illusion, don't you have to admire it?"

Monk Zhenyuan jumped up and hugged the magic mirror, first crying for a while, and then laughing for a while. Fa Jing rubbed his bald head, soothed with kind words, and then turned his face to explain to Zhang Lu: "This son lost his cowardice at a young age, sent to the temple, and treated the old monk like a father, so he had the illusion of an old monk, and it was reasonable to ...... things."

- Donor, didn't you come in to look for clues? Then don't stay still, let's walk around, just staring at our grandfather and son hugging and crying, is it interesting?

Zhang Lu bowed, then stood up, walked to the door of the hall, and greeted Brother Lingtai. Brother Lingtai turned his back to the sky, spit out a long string of smoke rings, and then tilted his mouth and squinted his eyes, glancing at Zhang Lu: "You can deceive others, even yourself, but you can't deceive me—why did you come in here? Are you looking for trouble, or are you looking for me?"

Attached: "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Fang Shi Lie": "Gan Shi, Dong Guo Yannian, and Feng Junda are all Fang Shi. The rate can be performed to become a royal woman, or drink urine, or hang upside down, love the essence, and do not despise big words. Gan Shi, Yuan Fang, and Yan Nian are all recorded by Cao, and ask them to do it. Junda's "Green Bull Division". All of them were 100 years old and 200 years old...... Wang Zhen and Hao Mengjie are all members of the party. Wang Zhen is 100 years old, and his face is shiny, as if he is not fifty. Ziyun: "Zhou Liu, climbing the famous mountains of Wuyue, can do the prescription of fetal rest and fetal food, cough under the tongue and swallow it, and never stop the room." "Meng Energy contains jujube kernels, and it can be eaten for five years and ten years. He can also be angry, and his body will not waver, and he will be like a dead man, and he can reach half a year for a hundred days. There are also room houses. As a hostage, he is cautious and does not speak falsely, like a gentleman. Cao Cao led all the scholars. ”