"I have been poor since I was a child, my temperament is silent, I have no friends, no friends and no relatives, I eat porridge and vegetables and no meat, I only like to read, in addition to reading, or reading, I have no ambitions in my life, I just want to be admitted to the Tiandao Academy after entering Kyoto, and later after I met Chen'er, I just want to study with her, although she is really not interested in reading. ”

This is the first paragraph of the opening paragraph of Wang Zhice's notes. Looking at this passage, Chen Changsheng spontaneously felt a sense of closeness, just like when he knew about Gou Hanshi's experience before the Qingteng banquet, although he knew that he was an opponent, he still had a feeling of closeness to him, because he was also a person who only liked to read.

"On the way to Beijing in the Tianliang County Palace, I met the then Taishou, and later the Taizu, and then, I met the King of Qi, and then again, in Luoyang, I met him again, and the eldest brother, yes, also in the alley of Luoyang, which was dripping with sewage, I met Chen'er, so I stayed. ”

"Luoyang paper is expensive, everything is expensive, that is, the baked cakes are sold more expensive than elsewhere, not to mention that there was a war every day at that time, and she wanted to return to her old business after the money was used up, I think it is always bad to kill people, she asked me how to run a family, I thought about it, or to enter Kyoto, even if I can't get into the Tiandao Academy, you can also go to Tianshuling to sell some fake rubbings, I always thought that I was useless as a scholar, and I wrote well. ”

"She came to Kyoto with me, and never left, even if she wanted to, she couldn't, because Emperor Taizu's army surrounded Kyoto, and it was then that I knew that after the eldest brother left Luoyang, he was never ready to come back, and finally on the day the city broke, I sat on the boat with Chen'er, looking at the King of Qi who was smiling on a white unicorn across the bridge, and knew that life should be better. ”

"His Majesty ascended the throne in front of the Heavenly Book Mausoleum, but the demon army came. Then two years later, the demon clan came again, and the King of Qi would occasionally come to the inn to chat with us, and it could be seen that his mood was getting worse and worse, I don't know if it was because his favorite unicorn died on the Falling Willow Plain, or because His Majesty had never been clear about who the prince was. One day I drank a little too much, he stared into my eyes and said, since Luoyang City, he has always wanted me to help him, I don't understand, I'm just a powerless scholar, what can I help him, and ...... I came to Kyoto just to go to the Heavenly Dao Temple to read. ”

"I was admitted to the Tiandao Academy, began to study, and lived the life she longed for, but she didn't like this ordinary life, I took her to the palace to see the green vine, to the National Education College to see the banyan tree, she didn't like it, said that the forest in Chaoyang Garden is too dense, the big banyan tree is too tall, and the most important thing is that Qujiang and the lake in the National Education College are too peaceful. One night, I looked at Luoyang Miscellaneous and laughed, she sneered, and said that Wen seems to look at the mountains and does not like peace, and people like me can endure such boring and boring days, I understand what she means, but I don't want to answer, so I have to be silent. ”

Later, she finally left Kyoto, I don't know whether to go to the old town of Snow or to look for the traces of the eldest brother, in short, she left me, I seriously thought about it for three days and three nights, confirmed that I could not change anything, and continued to study, but in the leisure time of reading, I began to think about the matter of cultivation. I always thought that my friends had always thought that I had no potential to practice, let alone any talent, but I don't know why, I didn't start practicing until I was over forty, and I didn't encounter the rumored obstacles, I spent one night, and I roughly understood what it meant to practice, and that night or the movement was a bit big, which alarmed many people, so it was very inexplicable, and I became a celebrity in Kyoto, and the King of Qi took the holy decree of Emperor Taizu and forced me to enter the court and start being an official. Many people think that I will be proud of the movement that night and proud of my spiritual talents, but in fact, the things I am really proud of are the little games I made that have spread in Kyoto and the whole continent. In short, I became a celebrity, and began to go in and out of the mansions of those dignitaries and celebrities, and several princes, including the King of Qi, became friendly with me, and the days seemed to have become pleasant again, except for her, and she never returned. ”

"Peaceful and happy days can't last after all, I understand this truth, but I didn't expect the end of this beautiful day, it came so suddenly, late one night, Kyoto suddenly imposed martial law, two guests came to my house, they are all guests of the Qi Palace, they want me to do something, I thought about it, I didn't agree, but I didn't want to stop the King of Qi, I know that with his temperament, no one can stop him from moving forward, the next morning, the carriage began to transport the body outside the city, I stood upstairs looking at the direction of the Baicao Garden, looking at the white smoke that slowly rose, silently praying not to die too many people, at least those princes I am familiar with don't all die, but unfortunately things don't go as expected, those princes still die after all, including their wives and children. ”

"I sat at home for three days, didn't go out, didn't inquire, and the two guests sent by the Qi Wangfu looked at each other and were silent, and finally, the King of Qi finished dealing with the outside affairs and came in person. At such a tense time, he actually took the time to meet me, and I don't know whether I should feel honored or wary. King Qi said that he didn't mind my silence these days, but I needed to show my attitude to the people of Kyoto now, I could only be silent, he stared into my eyes and asked me what kind of attitude I had, I thought about it and said, I don't have an attitude, so he started to be silent, and then he turned to leave, that was the last time I talked to him as a friend, because I later learned that in the early morning of that day, he had officially succeeded to the throne and became the emperor of the Great Zhou. ”

"I was not robbed of office, nor was I placed under house arrest, let alone imprisoned, I was just deliberately forgotten by the imperial court and those who I was once familiar with in this home in Kushui Lane, and there is another person who has been deliberately forgotten like me, that is, Emperor Taizu, King Qi...... No, it should be said that it is His Majesty, or because he wants to fulfill his filial piety, he is worried that Emperor Taizu will be too bored in the deep palace and will make trouble, or because he still remembers the friendship between us, he is worried that I will be too bored at home and make trouble, so he issued an order to recruit me as a secretary and let me enter the palace to accompany Taizu. ”

"I have to say that life in the deep palace is actually very interesting. In just a few months, Taizu seemed to have aged for hundreds of years, and became a real old man, not as irritable and frivolous as he was at the beginning, but became much kinder, and no longer cared about state affairs, of course, he had no way to care, and no one allowed him to care anymore, so he began to care about the victory and defeat at the card table and the beautiful maids in the palace, about the latter, I advised him several times, he didn't like to listen to it very much, about the former, it was difficult for him to beat me at the card table, but became more and more interested. In that deep palace full of green vines, at the card table under the melon and fruit stand, I played a lot of cards with the old man, and I always chatted in my leisure time, so I heard a lot of stories, and then kept them in my heart. ”

Chen Changsheng looked at the handwriting on the notebook, and his mood was difficult to calm down.

These are Wang Zhice's own accounts, the memories of a generation of legendary figures, he said very messy, very simple, but clearly told his own life course, and this process happened to be in the most turbulent years of the mainland, so these narratives naturally have a certain strong impact.

Looking at these words on the note, he seemed to see Wang Zhice back then, that was a young scholar who entered Beijing to take the exam but did not seek an official, and traveled thousands of miles to Kyoto just to read 10,000 books, who would have thought that on the way, in Luoyang City, saw the reflection of a girl, so the scholar's eyes had a lot of scenery, and stopped.

The young scholar finally began to walk again, arriving at his destination Kyoto, never forgetting his original purpose, but unable to live according to his ideas, the scenery in his eyes changed a lot, the girl's reflection shattered into the void, he became an official, became a celebrity in Kyoto, and then was forced to enter the worlds he did not want to enter and did not like.

Seeing this, Chen Changsheng's feelings gradually became nervous, Wang Zhice's travelogue or self-report, when he arrived at the note, he had to enter the most critical and what he wanted to know the most, what did Taizu say to Wang Zhice during the years when he was under house arrest in the deep palace, or, next, he may see the words of the person who changed his life against the sky.

He continued to read the notes.

"There are a lot of rumors about Emperor Taizu, the most famous of which is naturally to change his life against the sky, there has been a certain saying on the mainland, many years ago, Taizu got acquainted with the master of the contemporary Daomen, that is, the last pope in the palace, used some kind of secret method to sacrifice to the starry sky, so as to change his life against the sky successfully, in the emperor star in the night sky forever shining on the earth, and after the change of the Baicao Garden, there are many more specific contents of the starry sky sacrifice in the rumors, all say that Taizu in order to change his life against the sky, willing to leave only one son to pass on the bloodline, and the rest of the sons are all dedicated to the starry sky as sacrifices...... However, when Taizu succeeded in ascending the throne, he didn't want to fulfill the promise he made back then, in fact, those sons of his were so good, who could let them die? And who was willing to die?"

"I don't know if King Qi and those princes have heard this rumor, even if they believe this rumor after hearing it, but whether this rumor is true or not, as long as it appears, as long as it is heard, in their hearts it will turn from a dry branch into a terrible poisonous snake, constantly biting their hearts. From Po Luoyang to Kyoto, Taizu's outstanding sons have not been able to maintain a good relationship, which is related to the belonging of the imperial chair, and now that I think about it, it also has a lot to do with this rumor. It must be admitted that Taizu's sons are very good, but His Majesty is the most powerful person among them, when those princes are still trying to influence Taizu's choice and wait for the arrangement of fate, His Majesty Xià did not hesitate to take the lead and killed all his brothers......"

"I asked Emperor Taizu if there was such a thing as changing his life against the sky, he was drunk that day, the old spots on his face were particularly bright, he smiled like a child, and like a fox, he didn't answer my question directly, just burped while singing the local opera in Tianliang County, and kept nodding his head, as if he was about to fall asleep. ”

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(The words of the scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam, of course, are Wen Ruian, I want to have that picture in every book, how good Wen Ruian was when he was young, not about people, but about what he wrote.) ）