Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, although everyone has not been able to be rich and rich, and there is no guarantee that everyone's children can enter private schools or colleges, as much as possible, everyone can always have some surplus in the end of the year, and the days are not hard, and the daily work is not tiring.

So many people are very satisfied with their current life, people, in fact, it is simple.

But it is inevitable that there will always be some people who have been lonely since childhood.

Zhu Kui is such a person, he has lived in Yangtu Town, Wu'an County since he was a child, is an orphan, his parents died early, after the age of four, he all rely on the relief of the surrounding neighborhoods to survive, eat a hundred family meals, hungry and full, fortunately, although his parents passed away, but left him a room, not big, and not valuable, but it is better to be able to shelter from the wind and rain, which is not bad.

He has had enough of hard life, especially the white eyes of others, and he has to look at other people's faces every day even when he eats.

Such a day is undoubtedly difficult.

Until he was nine years old, he worked in a teahouse and delivered a cup of tea to Mr. Private School in Yangtu Town, and he had to deliver a cup every day after that.

This lasted for two years, and Mr. Private School decided to accept him as a disciple, he was just a small town teacher, and he didn't have much ability, but let Zhu Kui read and write and live a well-fed life.

I won't be looked down upon again.

When he was seventeen years old, Mr. Jiaoshu died, and Zhu Kui was left alone again, and the private school was changed to his name, but he did not stay in the town for the rest of his life.

He went to Wu'an County, and was appreciated by the county for his outstanding knowledge, and entered the official school of Wu'an County at the age of eighteen.

There is a lot of content taught in the official school, and this is also the first time that Zhu Kui has officially come into contact with cultivation, his talent is not good, not bad, not up or down, very modest.

But moderation is good, because not bad is good.

So he quickly set foot in the first realm, and it took him four years to enter the second realm.

This speed is definitely not fast, and it is even worse than some Tianjiao in the official school, especially compared with Song Daren, the only son of Juncheng.

But the relationship between the two is very good, they are almost inseparable when they are in the official school, Zhu Kui also goes to Juncheng's house most often, and is laughingly called half of Song Juncheng's son.

Later, after graduating from the official school, Song Daren entered the ups and downs of officialdom, and Zhu Kui didn't want to start being an official so soon, he wanted to do his own thing.

So after saying goodbye to Song Daren, he left Wu'an County and walked the world.

That's 10 years.

Thirty-five-year-old Zhu Kui met a girl, a very ordinary peasant girl, but he did not dislike the identity of the other party, after all, he was also poor when he was a child and could not afford to eat.

At the age of thirty-seven, they were married in a small town.

That town is called Fengming.

Fengming Town is a very quiet place, his life is ordinary but very tasteful, until one day Qishan mutiny, and Fengming Town is a small town in Qishan County.

All of a sudden, everyone was in danger.

At that time, he was already a monk at the peak of the Three Realms, and although he would not be famous, it was not difficult to protect himself.

In particular, many people know his relationship with Wu'an County and Song Daren, the squire of the Criminal Department.

But when the flames of war really ignited, no one was immune.

So when the flames burned all over Fengming Town, his wife died in the flames.

It was never the most painful thing, the most painful thing was that he was still alive. Love 999

When Li Laizhi led the northern border army to suppress the Qishan rebels, everything seemed to have returned to its original state, but Zhu Kui had not.

He lit a fire again, burned his home to ashes, and rode to Chang'an.

This year, he was forty-five years old, and he had already broken through the three realms and set foot in the wilderness, and at this time, Song Daren had already become a scholar of the Criminal Department from the squire of the Criminal Department.

The two met again, both of them drank a lot of wine, Song Daren introduced Zhu Kui into the Criminal Department as a director, a year later he was promoted to Langzhong, and three years later he became a waiter, officially becoming the second-in-command of the Criminal Department.

The two of them cooperated very tacitly, and even the people in the Ministry of Officials were a little annoyed, and they kept writing that these two people had crossed the line and interfered in the affairs of their Ministry of Officials.

This situation lasted for a long time, until Li Xiu left the Tang Kingdom two years ago, and the Taiwei took action to remove Ding Yi from the imperial history and promoted Zhu Kui, the squire of the criminal department, to the position of the imperial history Zhongcheng.

At first, Song Daren thought it was just a discord plan, so he didn't care until he went to have a meal with Zhu Kui that night.

Then he never mentioned this person again, and all Zhu Kui's descendants were cleared out of the Criminal Department.

The carriage always swayed a little on the road, no matter how smooth the road was.

Song Daren leaned on the carriage and closed his eyes to recuperate, his body then tossed slightly, the night tonight was very pure, because the stars were stars and the moon was the moon.

Pedestrians are still pedestrians, just as it is still late at night.

"Your Excellency. ”

Hearing a faint sound outside the carriage, Song Daren opened his eyes and knew that he had arrived at Zhu Kui's mansion.

If you want to kill someone, you have to wait halfway, or wait until there are few people or even no one to do it.

It's just that the relationship between the two is too complicated, even if they want to divide life and death, they have to share life and death in a dignified manner.

After getting out of the carriage, Song Daren walked towards the gate of the mansion, and was shocked to see the guards of the Zhu Mansion, although they didn't know much, they also knew that their master and the one in front of them were not dealing with each other, but they didn't dare to stop it, they just quickly said that the adults would wait a moment, and Rong Xiao hurriedly walked into the mansion after going to report it.

After a while, he came out again and saluted Song Daren, and said respectfully: "My family is invited." ”

Song Daren ignored them and walked straight into the mansion master.

He had been here many times, and he had lost count of them over the years, so he walked to the study and pushed the door open and walked in.

Sure enough, Zhu Kui was sitting in the study reading a book.

"This is the last time you gave me, it's a good book, and every time you pick it up and watch it, you will benefit a lot. ”

Seeing Song Daren enter the door, Zhu Kuiyang raised the book in his hand and said with a smile.

Song Daren nodded in agreement: "Of course Wei Yizi is a good book, otherwise I wouldn't recommend it to you." ”

Zhu Kui turned his head to look out of the window, the window was not closed, the night outside the window was very beautiful, there was no cicada in Zhu's mansion, and it felt like something was missing in this summer night.

Putting the book down in the corner of the table, Zhu Kui turned his head to look at Song Daren.

"Looks like I'm going to die today. ”

His voice was calm, not flustered or frightened, nor did he call out to the guards outside.

Song Daren was silent and did not speak.