Chapter 1: Knowing and doing, a gentleman should know and act in one
The world is divided into three parts, during which the pattern of the world is unpredictable, and Qingyang has been the leader in this troubled era for 270 years. After the Northern Great Xia came to prominence and annexed Yu Ning in one fell swoop, it eyed Qingyang.
In the 33rd year of the auspicious calendar of Qingyang, Emperor Xuan Zhao Jing ascended the throne, changed the country name to Xuanyang, changed the year name to Xianghe, and the new emperor ascended the throne for one year of auspiciousness.
Five years of peace.
This is a small courtyard by the lake.
The small courtyard is built with bamboo, and the man who just passed by is skillful and has built this small courtyard in a good way. Half of the bamboo hut is on the shore, and the other half of the terrace peeks out into the lake, where you can see far away, and the air here always smells good with the scent of earth and bamboo. The boy always liked to lazily slump on the chaise longue on the terrace in a shirt that he didn't know how many times he had sewn, shaking his fan and humming an unknown little song that he had secretly gone to school in town, but every time his father would run around the yard with a bamboo stick the thickness of his thumb.
And that lake is called Junxing Lake. The name of the lake was given to a gentlemanly poet who wrote a sentence on a strange-looking boulder by the lake when he passed through the place on his way to the royal capital.
'The foundation of a gentleman, the unity of knowledge and action. ’
This is also where the child's name comes from.
Meng Zhixing.
He had just turned five years old, and he was pulled by his father to practice martial arts every day. It is said that it is a martial arts practice, that is, Zama Bu, with a bamboo tube on his head and knees, and a stick of incense under his buttocks, whether the bamboo tube falls off or is scalded out of a hole by the incense, he has to be beaten, and he has to add half an hour. Because of this, Meng Zhixing, who can't even know a few types, remembers his father's name the most.
"Meng Chenghe! You want to train your son to death, don't you! ”
These words would ring several times a day in this small courtyard, and he was naturally greeted by his father's smile with a knife hidden.
The days passed like this, on Meng Zhixing's birthday, Meng Chenghe rarely said that he would go to the town to buy him some delicious food, but the child was full of joy and waited for his father to bring back a beautiful woman he had never seen before, but the belly was ridiculously big.
I have never seen anything like this, his face is handsome, his eyebrows are like willow leaves, and his eyes seem to be able to see the soft spring river water in them. The hands and legs are thin, but the belly is getting bigger and bigger day by day. Meng Chenghe was very good to her, which made the young child think that it was his mother, so he called his mother for a long time, and called Meng Chenghe to give him a look, but he still wanted to call, his mother was so good-looking, it was too late to be happy, and his father would eat it if he wanted to give him white eyes.
It wasn't until the crying little man landed that Meng Zhixing finally knew how he came here.
Looking at the gadgets in the swaddling clothes, Meng Zhixing was very curious, but there was only one question in his heart, why was she so white, as white as her father made tofu. couldn't hold back, pinched her hand, she started crying again, Meng Zhixing was so annoyed. The baby has a shallow heart-shaped birthmark on the ankle, like a flower blooming proudly in the snow.
The beautiful woman said that the child was destined for Meng Zhixing and wanted to order a doll, but Meng Chenghe shirked it, because the family had no money and was not worthy of her. Seeing that the beautiful woman did not give up, Meng Chenghe named the child, saying that if the two could meet in the future, it would be really fateful.
At a young age, Meng Zhixing finally had a deep memory of the second name.
Knowing etiquette, women should know how to be knowledgeable.
After giving birth to Zhili, the beautiful woman became more beautiful, Meng Chenghe bought her a blue shirt, and wore it on her like a mortal immortal in a painting book, Meng Zhixing also liked her more and more, including the white and tender little Zhili.
It was a Lantern Festival, and there were a lot of soldiers wearing armor just after dawn, wearing swords and swords in green clothes and black armor, and their eyes were like a bottomless abyss, which made people afraid. Meng Zhixing hid in the bamboo house and watched them take away Sister Tianxian, but Meng Chenghe never appeared.
After the fairy sister left with Xiao Zhili, this small courtyard became deserted again, and she couldn't ask about the smell of fragrant food and couldn't hear Xiao Zhili's cry.
Later, Meng Zhixing was trained for two hours that day, and he went to bed early at night, and before he could start dreaming, he was picked up by Meng Chenghe and stuffed into a place where there was no light.
"Stay here! Don't come out until dawn! ”
Meng Chenghe said in a hurry, and after finishing speaking, he didn't care whether Meng Zhixing heard it or not, and rushed out of the door.
Outside, there was the crisp sound of swords colliding and the incessant screams. The smell was pungent, like the smell of Meng Cheng and slaughtering game. Meng Zhixing was a little scared, covered his mouth and held his breath through the gap to see what was happening outside, and what he saw was the roof.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise outside, the sound of a heavy object hitting a bamboo raft. Meng Chenghe was beaten into the bamboo house and fell heavily on top of Meng Zhixing.
Blood dripped down the tip of Meng Zhixing's nose through the cracks, and his father's eyes had never been so gentle.
"Zhi Xing! Walk, go as far as you can......"
As soon as the words fell, Meng Chenghe was grabbed by the hair and lifted up, and then several people rushed into the bamboo house and smashed the house like bandits.
"My lord, there's no one."
"Hmm... Go back, put it here...... Go up in flames. ”
"Yes!"
Torches fell into the bamboo house like autumn leaves, lit the bedding, lit the tables and chairs, and ignited the hatred in the hearts of children. With the sound of bamboo being blown apart by fire, Meng Zhixing heard the last sentence.
"What about the greatness, this world, it's not ours?"
It's getting hotter and hotter, and the fire looks like it's about to burn. Meng Zhixing moved and touched some foreign objects, like a wooden stick, but it was piercing cold, and somehow Meng Zhixing wanted to take it away.
He jerked himself to his feet, and ran with all his strength toward the terrace. Tongues of fire were running rampant behind him, like a large insect in the mountains that saw its prey open its bloody mouth. Meng Zhixing jumped and jumped towards Junxing Lake.
Meng Zhixing opened his eyes suddenly, he was lying on the bed, the cold of early spring had not wiped the fine sweat on his forehead, and his mouth was constantly panting. It was raining today, and the roof leak happened to leak in his face.
Meng Zhixing adjusted his thoughts, got up slowly, and beside him was the foreign object he touched in the cellar back then, it was a long sword, and the gauntlet was only a small circle, so it felt like a polished and smooth bamboo, and there were two words engraved on the blade of the long sword.
Raccoon. Legend has it that the dragon gave birth to the seventh of nine sons.
When he first met him, Meng Zhixing was about the same height as him. Fifteen years later, it is now a weapon in hand.
For the dream just now, Meng Zhixing has also become accustomed to it. After the woman gave birth to Xiao Zhili and left, it didn't take long for Meng Chenghe to be arrested. Meng Zhixing hid for several months, and finally saw the portrait of his father on the Wangdu bulletin list, Meng Zhixing was young, he didn't know much words, and he could only understand five words in the whole notice.
Meng Chenghe, dead.
These five words are like thunder and a giant hammer. Meng Zhixing's heart tightened, and his whole body trembled, he was trying to restrain himself, trying to make himself look normal, but he was also walking fast, he was afraid of attracting the attention of others on this crowded street. No one knew where he had gone and what he had done, so he picked a night when no one was around, tore the notice away, and carried it with him until now.
Over the years, he has traveled north and south, entered cottages, worked as a bandit, and even worked as a bounty hunter, and helped the government catch fugitives. But what I did was to find the mother and son, and then ask them who they were, and why Meng Chenghe would be arrested and die after they left.
When he was fifteen years old, he returned to the royal capital, which became more prosperous, and the streets were full of delicacies that he had never eaten, and rare things that he had never seen before. Meng Zhixing, who had two sleeves and a breeze, saved the eldest brother by chance. His name is Fang Su, Meng Zhixing knows him, he is the head of the four departments of the Tongcha Mansion, and his subordinates are in charge of the forbidden army of the whole royal capital. Fang Su is a man with a face that is not angry and arrogant, but has a kind personality, he wears a sleeved robe every day, and puts a long shirt on the outside, which is beautiful and can fight as soon as he takes off his shirt, in fact, he thinks it looks good and looks younger.
He took Meng Zhi to the Tongcha Mansion, and this area was five years.
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