Lin Shou's fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop, and the peach blossoms bloomed and withered on his knuckles, followed by new flower bones.

"This guy can appear silently in front of Poor Dao, and his strength may not be lower than that of [Mythic] ......"

"But [myth] is clearly not able to walk in this world...... Unless you succeed in ascending to the gods in this world, how can there be no record of the movement of ascending to the gods? ”

"The Confucian Codex that Mr. Zhong showed to the poor Dao said that the recorded myths have all gone to the Star Boundary, or have been killed and fallen by the three Daomen."

"If it is a [myth] that came from the astral realm or subspace, the three people of the Daomen are not vegetarians......

"If, as he claims, he is only an incarnation of Him, then his essence is probably more powerful than mythology......"

"How do you feel that this world has become more and more dangerous since the birth of the poor road?"

Lin Shou smiled a little self-deprecatingly.

"The bull-nosed Taoist priest of the Lingbao Sect said before that the great world is coming, isn't it because of this reason."

"Speaking of Lingbao Sect, Yue Shanshan's Nizi hasn't replied to a letter so far, and I don't know what the situation is."

At this moment, Lin Shou keenly sensed that a sneaky figure appeared on the wall of Ping'an Residence.

Different from the arrival of the green-robed man, Lin Shou looked at this sneaky figure, but there was a smile on his face.

"Poor Dao will come whatever he wants, it's really a coincidence, just read the letter from Na Nizi and arrived."

It turned out that the sneaky figure was just a paper crane, Lin Shou snapped his fingers, and the paper crane obediently flew into Lin Shou's palm.

The paper crane gently pecked the palm of Lin Shou's hand a few times, and then spread it out into a flat piece of stationery.

……

On the official road on the border of Dongsheng Province.

A long convoy drove slowly down the official road, led by a horse-drawn carriage, followed by a few cars pulling a cart of books.

Zhong Yunyi's servant drove the carriage, and in the carriage sat Zhong Yunyi, his wife, and Zhang Baigui.

Zhang Baigui asked Zhong Yunyi, "Teacher, why are you suddenly going back to the capital?" ”

Zhong Yunyi was holding a copy of "University" in his hand, and was stunned for a moment when he heard Zhang Baigui's question, and then said patiently: "Now that the court situation is chaotic, Your Majesty is seriously ill and will inevitably need one person to return to the court to preside over the overall situation." ”

"And the person who presides over the overall situation must not only be strong enough, but also have enough prestige."

Speaking of this, Zhong Yunyi smiled a little self-deprecatingly: "Speaking of prestige, after the old man was scolded with that cane, the prestige in the government and the opposition was unparalleled, which makes it seem that I, Zhong Yunyi, am a person who sells his fame directly." ”

Zhang Baigui was ignorant when he heard this, but he also shook his head and said: "The teacher is dedicated to the country and the people, how can he be the kind of person who sells his name directly." ”

Zhong Yunyi rubbed Zhang Baigui's hair, looked at such a smart disciple in front of him, and felt a little satisfied in his heart, and continued: "The old man once taught you that you must follow your own heart to be a man, but what you do with your heart in the court is not what the world thinks, what kind of person the world thinks you are, what kind of person you are, and how your heart is not so important at this moment. ”

"Teacher, is it like this in the court?" Zhang Baigui's somewhat immature voice came, although he had studied with Zhong Yunyi for more than half a year, the court situation was still too difficult for him to understand.

"That's pretty much it!" Zhong Yunyi stroked his beard and said.

"Then why do you want to go back to the capital, teacher?" Zhang Baigui continued to ask, "The book says that if the world is filthy, then we scholars should be left alone. ”

"Bai Gui, the truth in the book is correct, but how much does life have to be for yourself? And everything in the world is so complex and changeable, and it can be explained clearly by a few strokes in the book. Zhong Yunyi said with a sigh.

"Bai Gui understood." Jang Baek-gyu said.

Mrs. Zhong answered at this time and said, "Old Zhong, what you are going to do this time, don't punish all our three clans. ”

Zhong Yunyi naturally heard the ridicule in his wife's words, but his face was still a little heavy.

"The old man can only say as much as possible, hehehe......"

Zhong Yunyi was halfway through speaking, but there was only a wry smile left.

Mrs. Zhong walked behind Zhong Yunyi and pressed his shoulder for him, and said in a gentle voice: "I think the emperor is seriously ill this time, maybe it will involve the battle for the crown prince, you should be careful, not to mention your ideal ......"

Mrs. Zhong didn't finish her words, but Zhong Yunyi understood what she meant.

Zhang Baigui said: "Teacher, I have never heard you talk about your ideals. ”

"The old man's ideal, in a nutshell, is Sanli; One is morality, the second is meritorious service, and the third is speech, and the old man thinks that he has a clear conscience, and the latter two are so difficult. Zhong Yunyi sighed, "The old man returned to the capital this time to make meritorious contributions, if he can complete the second of the three stands, then the old man will die without regrets." ”

"What are you going to do when the teacher returns to the capital?" Zhang Baigui looked at Zhong Yunyi with some admiration in his eyes and asked.

The young Zhang Baigui had a great yearning for Zhong Yunyi's three-position theory.

"Do you remember what you were taught when you were accepted as a disciple?" Zhong Yunyi said.

Zhang Baigui nodded and said, "Remember!" ”

"When I first met Lin Daochang, we also asked each other this question." Zhong Yunyi said.

Zhang Baigui also had a very respectful attitude towards Lin Shou, and asked, "What did Lin Daochang say?" ”

"There are many eaters." Zhong Yunyi let out a sigh, "How can the old man not know, it's just that he is not as free and easy as Lin Daochang, and he can say it directly." ”

"Why, why do you eat many people and your wealth does not increase?! Land annexation also! ”

"Who is the annexer? The powerful too! ”

Speaking of this, a wave of anger appeared in Zhong Yunyi's chest for no reason, and the book he was holding in his hand was crumpled.

"These elites take advantage of the unclear division of authority, unscrupulously exploit the loopholes of the system, and make a lot of profits from it."

"If the emperor really entrusts the old man with a heavy responsibility after returning to Beijing this time, then the old man must complete two things!"

"The first thing is to restructure, the official system of the three princes and nine kings has lasted for thousands of years without a trace of change, how can the system of the previous dynasty perfectly govern the affairs of the present dynasty, so it must be reformed!"

"The second thing is to divide the acres and fields, the magnates occupy a lot of land and squander it wantonly, but who of them has planted a grain and how can they be worthy of the power and wealth they have?!"

"If these two things are successful, the old man will not regret it even though he has died nine times!"

Zhang Baigui looked at Zhong Yunyi with admiration, and a heroic affection welled up in his heart, wanting to become a teacher with great ambitions.

Mrs. Zhong smiled helplessly, patted Zhong Yunyi's back, and said softly: "What are you talking so hard about, you are not a small man, even if you are a cultivator, you must pay attention to your body." ”

Just as the three of them were talking, there was a sudden noise outside.

Zhong Yunyi frowned, lifted the curtain and walked out.

However, he found that there was another convoy of vehicles parallel to him on the official road, but the contents of these convoys were not goods, nor pedestrians, but prisoner cars guarded by a large number of soldiers.

Zhong Yunyi stopped one of the soldiers who seemed to be of a high rank, and asked him, "What's going on, why are there so many prisoners?" ”

The soldier looked at the Confucian robe Zhong Yunyi was wearing and carried so many books, and subconsciously felt a little awe, so he arched his hand and said, "These prisoners have all committed capital crimes and are sent to the capital to be beheaded." ”

"According to the law of Daqian, death row prisoners can be directly beheaded after being reviewed in the local county town, and then the file will be handed over to the court captain, why should they be sent to the capital?" Zhong Yunyi asked.

"This ...... I don't know it below, but I just obey the orders from above. The soldier was stunned for a moment, as if he did not know much about this matter.

Zhong Yunyi was a little puzzled by this, it stands to reason that he would not waste time and energy on these death row prisoners so much, and wouldn't it be superfluous to send them to the capital to ask for beheading?

At this moment, there was a commotion in the team transporting the prisoners, and soon a big-headed soldier hurriedly came over and reported: "Captain Zhu, there is a ...... in the rear A group of moving corpses drove the refugees towards our ranks? ”

"What?!" Captain Zhu was furious, "Why is it a dry corpse?!" We can't let that group of refugees storm our ranks, or it will cause chaos, and if they dare to step into the official road, they will be killed on the spot! ”

Zhong Yunyi frowned, and when he heard this Captain Zhu's words, he glared at him angrily and said, "Why did you give the order to kill so easily?" If there are evil things that should be helped, how can you directly kill the people? ”

Unexpectedly, when Captain Zhu heard this, he directly pulled out the matching knife on his waist and said, "I have a military order with us, how can I disobey it without authorization?" These refugees have already committed a crime by boarding the official road without paying the road tax, and I have already had good intentions by not ordering the direct killing, not to mention that those dry corpses are so difficult to deal with, and those worthless refugees can be regarded as having some effect on our military sacrifice! Pass my command, get out of here quickly! ”

As they spoke, they could already see a group of ragged refugees struggling to flee towards the location where there were officers and soldiers, and they probably hoped that these officers and soldiers would save their lives.

When Zhong Yunyi heard the words of this Captain Zhu, he shouted angrily: "Brute, you are a general in vain, just because the evil is more difficult to deal with than the people, so you are ready to deal with those people?!" ”

Captain Zhu's face sank when he heard this, and he took a knife and said to Zhong Yunyi: "If you dare to say such a thing again, I will even cut you together!" ”

Zhong Yunyi was furious, and the righteous qi on his body suddenly exploded, crushing the dry corpses of those chasing refugees.

Seeing this, the people hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted the power of the immortals, and the dried corpses turned into pools of gray slime and disappeared on the ground.

Captain Zhu looked at Zhong Yunyi in horror, the knife in his hand had already fallen to the ground, trembling all over, and he didn't know what to do.

Zhong Yunyi took a deep breath and shouted, "Get out!" ”

(End of chapter)