"Interesting."

The ghost took Tianzun to drink the tea in the cup in one gulp and slowly stood up.

"I'll take a walk around the neighborhood to see what's going on, and I'll be back in the evening."

"Master, I'll go with you."

Xu Ning also quickly stood up, Ghost Cheng Tianzun obviously wanted to go out to investigate the cause of the strange things in the village, and he had to follow whatever he said.

"No need."

Ghost Cheng Tianzun shook his head and said lightly.

"I think Mr. Xu and Mrs. Li must have a lot to say to you at this moment, so you better stay and accompany them."

As soon as the words fell, a red light flashed, and the figure of the Ghost Riding Tianzun floated away.

Seeing her leave, Xu Huizu and Li Zhiwan raised their eyelids slightly without a trace at the same time, and their calm eyes turned to Xu Ning.

"Ning'er, don't you have anything to tell us?"

A month ago, my son was still full of ambition, shouting, "Look up to the sky and laugh and go out, how can my generation be a penny person", and he was determined to enter Beijing to take the exam and vowed to fight for a bright future.

But who would have thought that he would turn back before the test even started.

"Ahh

Xu Ning scratched his head, and briefly described how he was murdered by the Heishui Shuanglong on the Heishui River, and was forced to eat a bowl of wontons and float down the river, and then happened to be rescued by the passing Ghost Cheng Tianzun.

Of course, in the process of narration, some plots that are not suitable for parents to hear, Xu Ning concealed them in line with the purpose of "hiding for His Holiness".

"Ning'er, you're really... Alas..."

Li Zhiwan looked at her son with distress on her face, and reached out to caress his cheek gently.

"Mother asked you to bring a few guards before, but you didn't listen, now you know, right? If it weren't for your master passing by, you would have died in the water and died in the belly of the fish. ”

She was distressed by her son's suffering, but at the same time she was a little angry.

But no matter what, Xu Ning finally returned safely.

"Now that you've made up your mind to follow your master's cultivation and stop being enthusiastic about scientific research, that's fine."

Xu Huizu looked at Xu Ning calmly and sighed softly.

"Dad, the child has always had a doubt in his heart, that is, why are you always not interested in your child participating in the scientific examination?"

Xu Ning thought about it, and finally asked this question that had been in his heart for a long time, which can be regarded as a big regret of his predecessor.

Xu Huizu's gaze became a little deep at this moment, and Li Zhiwan beside him waved her hand lightly and quietly and withdrew a few maids standing on the left and right.

For a while, only their family of three was left in the entire hall.

"Ugh."

Xu Huizu let out a long sigh, and looked at Xu Ning with a little more approval in his eyes.

"Ning'er, you are much more mature than before when you come back this time."

"Ahh

Xu Ning was slightly stunned, and then smiled lightly: "The child does have to be sensible after experiencing life and death, as well as the teachings of the master. ”

"When you grow up, there are some things that your father won't hide from you."

A trace of melancholy flashed in Xu Huizu's eyes, and he said in a somewhat gloomy tone.

"Ning'er, even if you succeed in entering Beijing to catch the exam, even if your article is first-rate, your hard work will be empty after all."

Xu Ning's pupils suddenly constricted slightly, in his memory, for the matter of reading, his father and mother have always only let him read wisely and reasonably, and did not say anything about entering the imperial examination.

On the contrary, they often persuade themselves not to spend too much effort to participate in scientific expeditions.

"Dad didn't want you to go on a scientific expedition, but you said, 'I'm a phoenix in the south of the mountain, how can I be like a flock of birds?' , helpless, only by you, let you go to the capital to meet the wall will understand. ”

Xu Huizu continued, "People, sometimes they just can't listen to any advice, and they have to go through it yourself to find out. ”

"Dad, did our family offend anyone?"

Xu Ning asked in a deep voice, no matter how well the article is written, it is still not on the list, this is no longer a problem of his own ability, but a deeper reason above.

"It can't be regarded as offended, it can only be regarded as implicated, otherwise with that fake cow's nose smaller than the tip of a needle, how can our family still survive until now?"

Li Zhiwan snorted coldly and said in an unkind tone.

"Ning'er, do you know how Emperor Xuanning inherited the unification today?"

Xu Huizu said calmly.

Emperor, Imperial Throne ...

Xu Ning's expression became more and more solemn, and if he was not careless about this kind of thing, it would be a tragic end of death and annihilation.

The current Emperor of the Great Liang Dynasty, Xiao Yuanji, inherited the unification fifteen years ago and changed the Yuan Xuanning.

But compared to the official title of Emperor Xuanning, Xiao Yuanji prefers another title.

He respected the Taoist sect, built a palace, and proclaimed himself the Taoist Emperor.

In terms of political measures, Emperor Daojun, a pampered and frivolous artist who has been pampered since childhood, can basically be said to "do what he wants".

On the temple, the rotten wood is the official, and between the places, the birds and beasts eat the Lu; As a result, the wolf-hearted dogs are violent, and the servants are in power.

The court is full of black smoke and miasma, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and the atmosphere in various places is also the same, the country is declining, and the people are miserable.

But Emperor Daojun is still indulged in flattery, and still thinks that the world is peaceful and the Haiyan River is clear.

Under such a crisis, I don't want to help the building to dump but intensify the wanton pleasure and construction.

There are also flowers and stones, rice fields, longevity gifts...

Thinking of what this Daojun Emperor did, Xu Ning suddenly felt awe-inspiring in his heart, if this noble thing was surnamed Zhao, he would have great fun.

Xu Huizu's face remained unchanged and continued:

"Fifteen years ago, when Emperor Shaoyuan was critically ill, the crown prince Xiao Yuanyou was ordered to go to Mount Tai to pray for the emperor.

Seven days after the prince left Beijing, the emperor collapsed.

There are edicts, and the prince is negligent, and he is abolished as the king of Wei because of his immorality, and Xiao Yuanji, the king of the fate, succeeds to the throne.

The new emperor ascended the throne, respected the first queen's mother-in-law, Gao, as the queen mother, and listened to the government.

And all the concubines in the harem of the first emperor were martyred except for the queen, including the prince's biological mother, Xu Guifei.

Soon, the king of Wei also died because of his worries about Emperor Daxing and Concubine Xu. ”

Xu Guifei?

Xu Ning's face suddenly became gloomy, and the mother of the abolished prince Xiao Yuanyou was surnamed Xu...

So...

"Dad, mother, we and Xu Guifei..."

Xu Ning clenched his fingers, if he was really implicated because of this matter, then everything would make sense.

"We are just a branch of the Xu family, although we haven't gone out of the five suits yet, we are not far away, so we are just the whole family being driven to Lingnan, which is a poor mountain and a bad water."

Xu Huizu sighed and gently patted Xu Ning's shoulder, who had a gloomy face.

"I didn't tell you these things before, because I was worried that Ning'er, you are young and vigorous, and after learning that the imperial examination would not have results from the beginning, you would do some impulsive things and say some impulsive things. Now you are no longer obsessed with your career, but you are less of those pickled things. ”

"Father, mother, the child knows."

Xu Ning shook his head, and then took a deep breath.

"The child is a little tired all the way, so let's go back to the room to rest first."