In the sixteenth year of Yongli, the fourteenth day of July, the Midyear Festival.

Summer.

The sun is scorching.

Under the two jujube trees, Lin Shou and Zhong Yunyi played against each other in the shadow of the leaves, Lin Shou held the black, and Zhong Yunyi held the white.

"I always feel that after Lin Dao has grown a long way, it is a little different from before."

Zhong Yunyi's Go skills knew how much higher than Lin Shou, but he still played chess with Lin Shou patiently, and deliberately lost a game to him from time to time.

Victory or defeat is meaningless for Zhong Yunyi, and Go is also known as hand talk, which is to experience the opponent's state of mind when playing chess, and talk with chess pieces.

Lin Shou made a casual move, which was another stinky move.

"Oh? What does Mr. Zhong think is different? ”

Zhong Yunyi also slowly fell, and this move turned Lin Shou's stinky chess into a clever move.

"Lin Daochang is more casual than before, or more freewheeling, in the past, Lin Daochang always frowned from time to time, and the expression on his face would suddenly be gloomy, but now he has lost these expressions."

With a faint smile on his face, Lin Shou picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Burn out the fire before me, and today you will know that I am me."

"Good!" Zhong Yunyi clapped his hands and said in admiration, "It's good to know that I am me today, and Lin Daochang's free and easy, Zhong admires." ”

Lin Shou smiled, noncommittal about this admiration, and instead asked another thing: "How is the school opened by Mr. Zhong?" ”

Zhong Yunyi's hand paused when he heard this, and said with a wry smile on his face: "Alas, there was a rain in Dongsheng Province this spring, and the crops died somehow, and how many people were able to let their children go to school?" ”

"So far, I have only accepted nine children, and all of them are from the family, and the rest of the rich and noble families want to stuff their own juniors into my school......"

"Hmph, how could Zhong get their wish, they just want to borrow Zhong's reputation and become my protégé."

Lin Shou rubbed the orange he was holding in his hand, this guy was getting fatter and fatter the more he grew, he used to look like a cat, but now he has become an orange ball.

"Mr. Zhong really needs to choose his students well, after all, Mr. Zhong, you have to do big things, if you let your students ruin their reputation, it may not be a trouble in the future."

Listening to Lin Shou's words, Zhong Yunyi was thoughtful.

This kind of thing has not happened before, throughout the ages, at the end of the dynasty, there were not a few people who wanted to save the sky.

If you want to do this kind of thing, in addition to the ability of these characters themselves, the bigger obstacle is those with vested interests.

They don't care if you want to save the court or not, they only care about the interests of the three melons and two dates in their hands.

Once touched, it is like a mad dog, and perhaps those who save the sky themselves have no flaws, but their relatives and friends are not necessarily protégés.

"What Lin Daochang said is that taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall, and there are many people with such ambitions as Zhong in the history books, and we really need to pay attention to this aspect of things."

Zhong Yunyi took a sip of tea, and then said.

Lin Shou smiled, then stared at Zhong Yunyi, who was thinking in front of him, and then said: "Mr. Zhong knows that history is used as a mirror, so can these people end well in the history books?" ”

Zhong Yunyi was silent for a long time when he heard this, and then said with a free and easy smile on his face: "Throughout the ages, there is no change without bloodshed. ”

Lin Shou laughed very satisfied, and said in a somewhat ridiculous tone: "I can prepare Mr. Zhong's coffin for you." ”

"That's not necessary, hahahaha!" Zhong Yunyi was not angry, and said with a laugh like Lin Shou.

"Speaking of students, I have a student in the capital, and he sent me news the day before yesterday, saying that Su Province is about to fall......"

Lin Shou raised his eyebrows, he was a little surprised to hear the news of Zhong Yunyi, after all, he had only been to Su Province last month, and the situation at that time had not yet been so corrupted.

"Is the situation deteriorating so quickly, I also went to Su Province some time ago, and the army of the imperial court even wants to recover the lost territory of those counties, why is it that a month has passed, and it is facing a rout?"

Zhong Yunyi sighed, and said: "The Seven Holy Army Lin Dao Commander has heard of it, it was originally just a seven-group rebel army, and the names of the leaders were somewhat similar, but in fact, they were fighting separately, and the local military strength of Su Province could barely maintain a balance. ”

"But a month ago, the Seven Holy Army formed an alliance, and the local army in Su Province was not enough to support it, not only lost Wu'an County and Changlong County that had just been taken back, but even several counties that were originally under their control were also lost."

"And ......"

"And what?" Lin Shou asked.

"Moreover, the governor of Su Province was killed by Qi Shengtian, the leader of the Seven Holy Army, who called himself the Great Sage of Monkey King, and the provincial capital of Su Province fell."

Zhong Yunyi crushed the teacup in his hand, no matter what, he is also a member of the Daqian court, and now he still has some hope for Daqian, so he naturally stands on the opposite side of the thief.

"Monkey King......" Lin Shou muttered to himself as he read these four words.

He thought of what had happened in the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea.

Ah Liang told him that a person came to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea to ask for a weapon, and if he guessed correctly, that person was Qi Shengtian.

Lin Shou saw Qi Shengtian before, and the armor that the other party was wearing left a deep impression on him.

Wearing a purple and gold seven-star crown, stepping on the lotus silk steps, and wearing chain gold armor...... With a golden stick in his hand, he also called himself "Monkey King".

Haunting the Dragon Palace, rebellion...... If Qi Shengtian was a monkey, then all this would have become so natural, and Lin Shou would not have doubts in his heart before.

"Monkey King...... Lin Shou laughed in a low voice as if he understood something, "Hehehe, this element is complete." ”

Zhong Yunyi didn't understand why Lin Shou was laughing, but he didn't think Lin Shou was laughing.

In his opinion, Lin Shou is a mysterious master who is beyond the world, and he also cares about the people of Liming in his heart, but he does not go deep into the world.

"Do you remember what I said about the 'myth'?" Zhong Yunyi calmed down his anger, and then said slowly.

Lin Shou suddenly became interested and said: "Of course Poor Dao remembers, and later I went to Yue Daozang and found a lot of relevant information. ”

"I suspect that Monkey King, the leader of the Seven Holy Army, has embarked on the path of mythology!" Zhong Yunyi said in a deep voice.

Lin Shou's pupils dilated slightly, and he asked secretly, "How did Mr. Zhong know?" ”

"Some time ago, the descendants of the Confucian saint sent a Confucian codex that had never been published, and they said that it was left by the Confucian saint to all the Confucian and Taoist monks of the [Holy Master] realm, and the Confucian and Taoist monks of the third realm in the past have also seen it."

Lin Shou picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for himself and Zhong Yunyi, and asked flatly, "Only for the [Holy Master] to watch?" Could it be that there is something in it that only the Confucian and Taoist monks of the third realm can know? ”

Zhong Yunyi nodded very cautiously and said, "Has Daoist Lin ever heard of ascending to the god rank?" ”