"I haven't seen you for many years, but the public security is good?"

Teng Zijing smiled and bowed to everyone, his waist was straight, with an elegant temperament and literati style.

"Good, good, everything is fine......"

Everyone nodded in a daze, and some people smiled, laughing and laughing, but tears flowed down involuntarily.

Twenty-one years!

Like-minded friends and comrades-in-arms who fought side by side are now in their twilight years.

At that time, the change they advocated failed, so those who were demoted were demoted, those who were dismissed were dismissed, and those who were degraded were demoted.

These people have family backgrounds, no official positions and hereditary titles, and they have a lot of industry, and they are still thriving in the capital.

But Teng Zijing was miserable, he was born in a poor family, and he was relegated to the desolate place in Baling County, and he could no longer turn over......

In the eyes of these old friends, it is equivalent to Teng Zijing carrying everything alone.

They all have a way out, but Teng Zijing didn't, this upright scholar, back then, was only with his enthusiasm, and he was accompanying them with his life!

As time goes by and they grow older, the guilt in their hearts becomes stronger and stronger, and they become more and more aware of the preciousness of this friendship.

After a group of old friends chatted for a while, Teng Zijing was invited into the pavilion and sat down.

"Brother Zijing, this is ...... Mr. Bai? ”

An old friend looked at Bai Ze, a little unsure, after all, it has been more than sixty years, and few dogs can live so long.

"Exactly."

Teng Zijing took a sip of tea and raised his head with a smile, with a hint of pride.

"Tut-tut...... It's rare for a dog to live so long. Someone stammered.

Immediately, someone laughed and said: "What's this, this is Mr. Bai, he has already opened his mind, you couldn't play chess back then." ”

"This ......" The old man's face instantly turned red, and after a short period of embarrassment, he glared and said: "Can you go down to it, who can do it, stand up!" ”

Suddenly, several people looked at each other and retreated.

They were crushed by this dog, and they didn't touch Go for a long time, because as soon as they saw the chessboard, a voice appeared in their heads - you can't even play a dog, a fart.

"Let me come!"

At this time, the host Qin Gong stood up and raised his head and said: "The old man begged for bones ten years ago, and he has been concentrating on studying chess games in the past ten years, and his chess strength has risen sharply. ”

After speaking, he looked at Bai Ze, stretched out his right hand, palmed up to the chessboard and said, "Mr. Bai, please." ”

Bai Ze was naturally not polite and sat on the opposite side of the chessboard.

"I'm the host, let you have a son, you come first." Qin Gong said heroically, everyone's demeanor was fully displayed.

"Smack!"

Bai Ze was not polite, he grabbed a white chess piece and slapped it on the chessboard at lightning speed.

The main thing is that there are no fingers, so there is no way to handle it gently.

"Hehe, this is an interesting start......"

Qin Gong's eyes narrowed, as if he saw a flaw, so his body, which was originally like a great enemy, became relaxed, and there was a kind of strategizing momentum.

However, a moment of effort.

His mouth was wide open, and his whole body stared at the chessboard like petrified, and he couldn't recover for a long time.

"Hahahaha! Lao Qin, haven't you studied chess games for ten years, that's all? ”

"Looking at the country of Dayin, there are few who can beat the old man...... Hahaha, you're laughing at me, hahahaha! ”

Several old men next to him burst into laughter, and they also pinched their voices, imitating Qin Gong's previous voice to make fun of him.

Qin Gong reacted, his old face turned red, and he shouted: "This game doesn't count, this game doesn't count, it's me who underestimated the enemy, come again!" ”

So Bai Ze gave him a chance.

But after a moment, he froze again.

"No, I just let you have a son, and the courtesy is still exchanged, and you also want me to have a son!"

After a moment, his mouth opened wide again.

"No, I'm old, you have to let me have two sons!"

After a moment, he froze completely......

After a long time.

He threw the black chess piece in his hand and sighed, "That's it, that's it...... It's just Go, not to play. ”

Laughter rang out again in the gazebo.

In fact, Bai Ze doesn't know any chess skills, but he is profound, as long as the opponent takes a step, he can calculate thousands of changes in an instant!

It's not that he has a good brain, as I said before, he doesn't have a brain.

In fact, he's just a calculator, in other words, he's just an emotionless computing machine......

……

After a long time, a group of old men stopped laughing and scolding, and began to become serious.

"The current situation seems to be a little chaotic?" Teng Zijing asked solemnly.

"Hey, yes......"

An old man sighed: "After we failed to change the law, the conservatives adopted a series of harsh policies, such as increasing taxes, increasing forced labor, and suppressing merchants. ”

"I have an old friend who is good at looking at qi, and he said that over the years, Dayin's national fortunes have been declining, and they are getting worse day by day......

Another old man gritted his teeth and said: "The most hateful thing is that the new emperor is blinded by slander and superficial prosperity, and is stubborn and self-serving, and in order to expand the territory, he is actually preparing to wage war against the Dongting Kingdom!" ”

"Dongting Kingdom completed the reform as early as a hundred years ago, how strong and prosperous it is now, the new emperor's move is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg and killing himself."

"It's just that the people of the world are pitiful, and they are going to suffer from war again, and I don't know how many soldiers will die on the battlefield......"

Teng Zijing sighed and said: "Xing, the people are suffering, dying, the people are suffering." ”

Qin Gong also sighed: "The world is difficult, we are young and fashionable and have no ability to turn the tide, and now, even if we look at the sky, we can't do anything, which is also the reason why the old man resigned angrily." ”

After speaking, he suddenly slapped the case and scolded angrily: "Shaft, not enough and so!!" ”

Hearing this, everyone's expressions changed slightly.

They knew who Qin Gong was talking about, and if this was heard by someone with a heart, it would be a big rebellion.

But they didn't say anything, because in their hearts, they actually thought the same way. They were disappointed in the man in the court.

"Okay, don't talk about this, there are talented people in the country, and they have led the way for hundreds of years. We're just a bunch of old men, and instead of being cynical here, we might as well sing about wine and have a drink! ”

"Hahaha, it's extreme, it's extreme, when old friends gather today, they must drink happily, and they won't return home if they don't get drunk!"

"If you don't get drunk, you won't go home!"

So, a group of old Confucian students hooked their shoulders and backs, walked out of the gazebo without any image, and looked for a place to drink.

Bai Ze silently followed.

He knew that this was the last time this group of people would get together in this life, and all the worries about the country and the people and cynicism would be relieved in a pot of turbid wine......

……

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

After Teng Zijing and his old friends reminisced, they toured the capital together, and then prepared to leave.

He revisited his old place and saw his old friends for the last time, and he has no regrets in this life.

After leaving the capital, the two met an acquaintance in a market not far from the capital.

Blessing!

That is, Xiao Qianyu's scholar, the tall and sloppy-looking man.

"Mr. Fan, it's such a coincidence that I met you here."

Duofu said politely, because his son-in-law had told him that this old man was not an ordinary person.

"yes. Where's your son-in-law? Teng Zijing smiled gently.

"Well, Childe went to the city to catch the exam, and asked me to wait for him at the inn outside the city." Dover said.

"Why don't you go with you?" Teng Zijing wondered.

"I don't know about this, Childe didn't say." Duofu scratched his head and laughed dryly.

And Bai Ze was very careful to find that there was a faint yin aura on Duofu's body. He took a closer look, and there was a red rope looming around the other party's neck, which seemed to be hanging a jade pendant.

"Sure enough."

Bai Ze knew in his heart that most of the female ghosts in the jade pendant could not enter the city, so Xiao Qianyu left Duofu outside the city and asked him to keep the jade pendant.

"This ...... Isn't it going in that direction?" An uncontrollable image flashed through his mind.

The Weaver Girl and the Old Cow.

"Forget it, what does this have to do with me? What's more, people and ghosts have different paths, which is a bad fate. Bai Ze thought silently in his heart.

After a few brief greetings, the two said goodbye to Duofu and continued on their way.

When you come, you come all the way, and the same is true when you return.

But this time, the two deliberately took a long detour to see the scenery they hadn't seen before.

Entanglement is not a problem, when leaving the capital, those old friends secretly stuffed a lot of silver taels into Teng Zijing's bookcase.

There are even silver tickets, to say hundreds of taels, and the two of them didn't count them, but they knew a lot.

So, one person and one dog traveled the mountains and rivers, went to see the magnificent mountains and rivers of different places, the customs and customs, ate the food of different places, and even occasionally stopped in one place, rented a grass house, and lived for a few days.

The man who worried about the country and the people all his life, in his twilight years, finally let go of all his burdens and lived for himself once.

Affection for the landscape, at ease.

"It would be nice if we could keep doing this......"

Bai Ze was in a happy mood, but at the same time a little sad, the good years were like an epiphany, and they were about to wither after they bloomed.

And under the shroud of this complex emotion, there seems to be something mysterious and mysterious in his heart that is sprouting and about to break through the ground.

In the end, he unconsciously realized a kind of supernatural power - Fanghua.

In an instant, the years are like knives!

As soon as Fanghua comes out, with the power of time, it can make people age quickly, and even supernatural spells will quickly disintegrate and die.