Mu Sheng has been in the inn for more than ten days, and when he has nothing to do, he ran to Guo's mansion to get in touch with this Guo nobleman.

In the morning, he received a message from Guo Huan, saying that he was going to introduce him to a friend, and there would still be a family banquet to attend, hoping that he could go to the appointment, of course he was going to go.

When he came to the door of Guo's mansion, Mu Sheng saw Guo Huan himself at the door to greet him.

He hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Brother Guo, this is really lifting the little brother, just say hello to me and come over, and the eldest brother will greet the little brother in person, and I am terrified." ”

Guo Huan smiled and said, "Where is the virtuous brother, today I will introduce an old acquaintance to the virtuous brother." ”

"Oh! Who is he? ”

Guo Huan smiled slightly when he heard this: "Brother Xian, you will know when you see him." ”

Mu Sheng followed Guo Huan and the two to the living room, only to see a man in his forties sitting in the hall, with a round head and a black face, three wisps of beard, at first glance, he was quite a middle-aged man, and he was also dressed as a Lu person.

This person is Zhu Ran, in the era of the nations, the old Zhu family is also a famous surname of the Lu country, after the fall of the Lu country, the Zhu family was moved to Qingyang, the capital more than ten years ago, after the destruction of the various vassal states, many powerful families in the local area were ordered by the emperor to move to Qingyang, just afraid that these people would have too much influence in the local area and take the opportunity to make trouble.

It's just that I didn't expect to see him here again after going around a big circle, Mu Sheng sighed in his heart, this circle is really small.

Zhu Ran? Lu people? It seems that Guo Huan is still not very at ease with him, and found a real fellow to find out his bottom, but Mu Sheng is not false in his heart, Wu Xie Zushang is also a Lu person, and when he asked him to pretend to be Liu Zhang, he had already arranged the local customs and customs, including the family background of the old Liu family, for Mu Sheng's design, and he couldn't leak the bottom.

Guo Huan waved at Zhu Ran, pointed at Mu Sheng who was standing next to him, and said, "Brother Zhu, let me introduce you, this virtuous brother's surname is Liu, a chapter with a single character, and he is a descendant of the Liu family in Orange County, Zhuo County." ”

Zhu Ran glanced at Mu Sheng a few times, immediately got up and took the initiative to introduce himself: "Fortunately! Fortunately! Brother Liu, my surname is Zhu Danzi Ran, I am a native of Hu County, Gui County, and we are all after the late Lu Guoqing, we are half a fellow countryman, this little brother, you are actually a descendant of the Liu family? ”

When Mu Sheng heard this, he said, "Brother Zhu is polite! After the Liu family in Xia Cheng County, Liu Yuan, the secretary of the Lu State, was in the lower Gaozu, and I worshiped the Tiancang Mountain Daomen at the age of eight to learn the arts, and it was not until now that the master let me go down the mountain to practice......"

The two discussed a lot of the customs and customs of the former Lu country, as if Mu Sheng himself had really been there, and these were all carefully told to him by Wu Xie, a local.

Mu Sheng said in his heart, it seems that he will have to go to Orange County to see it in person if he has the opportunity in the future, he has not experienced it personally, and many details can only cover up the past and cannot be talked about in detail, but fortunately, he claimed that he went to the mountain to practice at the age of eight, and his impression of his hometown is not so detailed.

Since the homework of "going inside the enemy" is done as much as possible, during which Mu Sheng and Zhu Ran sang a few local folk tunes with the beat.

After singing these few lines, this benevolent brother may have met a fellow countryman in a foreign country, or perhaps aroused his homesickness and couldn't help himself.

Zhu Ran said in a trembling tone after a few glasses of wine, "Brother Liu Xian, to say something taboo, my Lu country has been dead for seventeen years, I miss my homeland every day, and I think that Liu Kan also threw a pen to serve the country from Rong to resist the tiger and wolf division of the Jin country, but it's a pity!" Alas! The general trend of the world is like this, is it beyond the power of man to resist. ”

After Zhu Ran finished speaking, a trace of tears slipped through the corner of his eyes, and he took another sip of wine, and the sadness in his heart was overflowing.

Mu Sheng naturally understands the national feelings of their generation of intellectual elites very well, after all, since the founding of the Yu Dynasty, these vassal states have existed for six or seven hundred years, and have existed for thousands of years, and even my Jin Kingdom has existed for more than eight hundred years.

Counting up, these old and young ancestors have been from Lu for more than ten generations, how can they easily agree with the legitimacy of the Jin Dynasty's rule? It often takes at least three or four generations to integrate for a long time to really live in a unified country, and this kind of thing itself is groundbreaking, no one before or since, this was the case in the past in Qin, and it is also the case in the Great Jin Dynasty today.

It is understandable that these relics of the Seven Kingdoms are emotionally unacceptable, throughout the world, there are almost no civilizations like the Chinese civilization that established a unified centralized empire early, and it seems that the historical evolution trajectory of this continent where the Jin Dynasty of this different world exists is also the same, I hope that this other-world Jin Dynasty will not follow in the footsteps of the Great Qin Empire in the end......

In the past, the reason why China was able to come together was that it took more than 400 years of integration in the Han Dynasty to finally succeed, and it took time to imagine a super-large national community.

Mu Sheng was looking at these remnants of the old era, and he had some understanding in his heart, even if the Qin Empire did not have traitors such as Qin II Hu Hai and Zhao Gao to usurp the throne, assuming that Fusu succeeded to the throne normally, he felt that these old and young remnants of the old era would still stir up trouble sooner or later, no matter who came to power, it was the case, but they didn't expect that in just three years, they would overthrow an empire that once seemed extremely powerful on the surface, maybe their original idea was to restore the country.

After coming back to his senses, now Mu Sheng had to pretend to be sad, saluted Zhu Ran with a glass of wine, and said: "What Brother Zhu said is very true, when I was born, the country of Lu was gone, and when I was a child, I had the impression that every time I got together with friends at home, I would burst into tears, sigh and get drunk, so my father died of depression when I was six years old. ”

"Hey! In the final analysis, the world has returned to Jin after all, so what can we do? As long as the people of the world can live a good life, it is already very good, Xing, the people of the world are suffering, dying, the people of the world are suffering, and the chaos of the countries for hundreds of years must have a head. ”

When Zhu Ran heard this, he muttered in his mouth, "Xing, the people of the world are suffering, and the people of the dead are suffering...... Brother Liu said it well! ”

Zhu Ran picked up the wine glass, toasted Mu Sheng, and said, "It's still a foreign monk like Brother Liu, who has a high realm, unlike me and other laypeople who always remember the past, as long as the world is peaceful, who sits in the world and doesn't sit?" Why cling to a country with one family name? Although the reason is such ......"

Zhu Ran's tone changed and said, "But as long as I have a breath of air, I am from Lu Guo, and no one can change this......"

Guo Huan looked at the appearance of the two of them, and also drank a glass of wine, and said with a little feeling: "I am a native of Chen, I was just a small Chen-army commander in the battle of Jin to destroy Chen, the battle of Yuyang, the Jin army broke the main force of Chen-army, Chen-army more than 400,000 elite army, 400,000 ah!" Almost all the army was wiped out, not afraid of the brothers' jokes, I was lying in the corpse pile and pretending to be dead to escape, the corpse mountain and the sea of blood, the blood flowed and drifted, I can't forget that scene in my life, almost all the brothers who went out with me died in this battle, only I, Guo someone, is still alive in the world. ”

"If it is peaceful today, there will be no war for more than ten years, Liu Xiandi said it well, the rise and fall of the world, the people are the most bitter, and now the Jin people dominate the world, and the people are less suffering."

Guo Huan's eyes flashed with tears, he stood up and said with wine: "Come!" Brother Zhu, Brother Liu, and I drank this cup to pay tribute to the homeland. ”

Mu Sheng and Zhu Ran also got up and toasted and drank, although Mu Sheng's true identity was a Jin person, he also understood the hatred of the country in their hearts, and he empathized with him and chanted a poem by Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, "How can you avoid the sorrow and hatred of life, and what is the limit of ecstasy and self-love!" The dream of the old country returns, and the tears are hanging down, who is on the high-rise building? I remember the autumn sunshine for a long time, the past has become empty, and it is still like a dream. ”

Hearing this poem, a person with a resolute personality like Guo Huan finally couldn't hold back, remembering that Chen Guo had long since disappeared, and now he met his old acquaintance in another country, he couldn't help but praise "Good poetry!" Liu Xiandi is talented. ”

He got up and toasted Mu Sheng with a wine glass, and Mu Sheng also drank unceremoniously, secretly feeling ashamed in his heart! However, Li Yu's poems are indeed very appropriate.

Today, the three of them are worried about the country and the people, and they are sad about their homeland, talking about the world and the world, talking about the past and the present, until dusk, a few people reluctantly dispersed, and Shi Shiran returned to the inn after leaving Guofu Mu Sheng.

In Guo's mansion, I saw Zhu Ran, who was still drunk and unconscious just now, and was helped to the back hall to rest, but he didn't see a trace of drunkenness, sitting opposite Guo Huan.

Guo Huan asked, "Brother Zhu, what do you think of this Brother Liu Xian?" ”

Zhu Ran touched his three-inch beard and said, "Brother Guo, according to my judgment, Liu Zhang's Orange County accent and behavior are indeed Lu people, and if he can sing such poems, he should not be an undercover agent of the Tsing Yi envoy." ”

"Moreover, their Liu family is a wealthy family of the Lu State, after the fall of the Lu State, Liu Yuan's branch was scattered among the people, I can't imagine that there can be a talent like Liu Zhang, if the prince wants to achieve a great cause in the future, he really has to include young talents like Liu Zhang."

Guo Huan heard the words and said, "Okay! With Brother Zhu's judgment, Guo was relieved, it seems that it is time for this Liu Xiandi to vote. ”

Zhu Ran said, "Brother Guo, I don't think I'm busy recommending Liu Zhang to the East Palace to do things, I think I still have to observe for a while." ”

"Brother Zhu, don't worry, I have my own opinions."

Mu Sheng returned to the hotel, he carefully reviewed his performance in Guo's mansion today, there should be no problem, in fact, he can be regarded as a true expression of his feelings in the mansion today, since he has traveled to this other world for so many years, he probably knows clearly that it is impossible for him to go home, and sometimes the people and things in the first half of his life flashed in his dreams, and he couldn't help but think of the motherland in his heart, his hometown.

No matter how far this person goes, this nostalgia for the motherland and hometown is fundamental, no matter when and where this patriotic heart will never be erased, after all, the bones are broken and the tendons are connected, so he empathizes with Zhu Ran's feelings for their home and country, if Mu Sheng is really a Jin person, maybe it won't be like this.

When he thought back to what had just happened, he felt like an agent living a two-sided life, which was quite exciting to think about......

Retracting his thoughts, he got up and sat on the couch and hugged Yuan Shouyi into a state of meditation, and at the same time expanded his five senses to search the surrounding environment, feeling that the feeling of being stared at around him had completely disappeared, and it seemed that he should have won Lao Guo's trust initially.

A few days later, Guo Huan sent a letter saying that he had something to discuss, and Mu Sheng guessed in his heart that he might be accepting the name.

Mu Sheng got up and walked out of the inn all the way to the lobby of Guo's mansion, only to see Guo Huan beckoning him to sit down, silent for a while, as if thinking about how to speak.

After a while, Guo Huan said: "Brother Liu Xian, there is one thing that the eldest brother wants to invite you to come out, I don't know if Brother Xian is willing?" ”

Mu Shengxin said.

"Let the eldest brother send it, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Okay, the virtuous brother is also a happy person, so I will open the skylight and say something bright......"