The sun rose above the clouds, the huge city was far away, and on the official road where pedestrians and merchants traveled, Lu Liangsheng pulled the old donkey and looked back at the large group of people who followed, turned around with a smile, and continued to walk slowly with Yang Jian.

"Your Majesty is chasing after you, what's the matter?"

"I heard you're gone, so I'll come and talk to you. ”

"It just so happens that I have something to tell Your Majesty. Now that I have no cultivation, I am not considered a cultivator, so Your Majesty still has the title of 'real person' who has been sealed. ”

"Is it really possible to recover?"

"I don't know this, but the cultivation mana is gone, but the whole body is relaxed. ”

"Without cultivation, there is no burden?"

"Maybe, if you want to say that you don't have a burden on your shoulders, it's impossible to be afraid, and you still have to take care of things that you can't get used to, but you don't have mana, and you have to take a lot of effort. ”

"Haha, this is the Mr. Lu I know!"

In the laughter, Yang Jian's face was full of relief, looking at the green leaves around him, pointing at them and turning his head to look at Lu Liangsheng on the side.

"Look at how beautiful these scenery are, there are better ones out there, but I rarely have the opportunity to come out and have a look. ”

The scholar followed the scenery of his finger, glanced at it, and said with a smile:

"Your Majesty said with a smile, the whole world is yours. ”

Yang Jian waved his hand, his face full of disapproval: "What if it's me, the world is Kyushu, I haven't had a chance to look at it again, how much dirt is hidden in it, how many demons and evil are causing chaos, I don't know, Mr. Lu ......"

Speaking of which, the emperor didn't seem to be slacking off because of the age gap, let go of the reins of the war horse, stood in the roadside pavilion, and arched his hand towards the scholar.

"Mr. has traveled through the mountains and rivers, and now that so many years have passed, it is time to put down the matter of Nan Chen, and follow me into the court as an official. ”

Lu Liangsheng, who kept bowing slightly, lowered his face and fell silent, then smiled, stretched out his hand towards the pavilion, and invited Yang Jian to sit down.

"Your Majesty, the old things in the south, Lu Liangsheng is not worried in his heart, but at the moment I have no mana, and I have no ability to help Your Majesty, last night outside the city gate, your Majesty also saw it, the people in the cultivation are more powerful than me, such as the carp crossing the river, countless, if you find me to enter the court as an official, wouldn't it make people laugh. ”

Outside the pavilion, the old donkey flicked his tail and looked up, Yang Su also looked at Lu Liangsheng on the stone steps at the entrance of the pavilion, and the guards who followed around were silent one by one, some of them had seen the scholar in the pavilion, and even knew that the bald donkey who was leisurely gnawing grass and walking there, but it was an auspicious beast, goodbye at this time, subconsciously rolled up the hem of the robe, and wanted to take the 'rain and dew' again.

At this moment, the emperor in the pavilion got up, pursed his lips, and suddenly raised his hand and bowed down.

"Mr. Lu, how about others, I don't know, but Mr. Virtue is very well known, I am the emperor, is the Son of Heaven, to accept capable and virtuous people, is a taboo for the monarch, only Mr. is virtuous and talented, even if I look at the thatched house, I will not complain, but also ask Mr. out of the mountain, with me to let the thousands of people in Kyushu, live and work in peace and contentment. ”

When the guards saw the emperor bowing, they turned their eyes away one by one, Lu Liangsheng's face was a little moved, and he stepped forward to help Yang Jian up, looking at the other party's gray temples, his face was old, and his heart was also very complicated.

...... When he has mana, the other party can understand it, but now that he has lost his cultivation and has become an ordinary person, he can still do this, Lu Liangsheng can't make up his mind for a while.

Helping the other party up, he took a step back, and the scholar gave him a hand.

"Your Majesty is sincere, Lu Liangsheng feels the ......"

Slowly straightened up, turned his head to look at Yang Su at the entrance of the pavilion, the rows of guards standing outside the arch guards, and the city where thousands of lives were resting in the distance.

His eyes were deflected, and he looked at Yang Jian opposite, pursed his lips, and hesitated for a long time.

Bow down.

"Lu Liangsheng, I am willing to watch the prosperous scene with Your Majesty!"

"Lu Daoyou!" finally saw Lu Liangsheng nodding, Yang Su was also overjoyed, rushed in quite excitedly, and patted the scholar on the shoulder.

"Even if you don't have mana, with the ability of Lu Daoyou, you are a hundred times stronger than those who only know the cultivation in the mountains!"

As soon as these words came out, Yang Jian next to him laughed, the brothers glanced at each other and laughed louder, Lu Liangsheng hooked the corners of his lips and smiled.

"Your Majesty, Duke Yue, although I promised, it is not now. ”

The two people on the opposite side suddenly stopped smiling, and Yang Su was a little anxious: "Lu Daoyou, why is this?"

Lu Liangsheng kept smiling, waved his hand to signal the emperor and Yang Su not to be careful, whistled outside the pavilion, and the old donkey who was buried in the grass in the distance ran over.

The scholar took the reins, walked out of the gazebo, and smiled at the two:

"After coming out for a long time, I was quite homesick, so I went back to live for a while. ”

After all, I promised Zhu Gangguan to take him to Qixia Mountain to see, and I had to paint him by the way, and I couldn't break my promise, now that I have no mana, Lujia Village has to be re-planned, so that he can feel at ease.

"Your Majesty, I have taken my leave. ”

After speaking, he turned over on the old donkey's back, patted the donkey's buttocks, and gradually walked slowly along the road in the creaking sound of the bookshelf.

Yang Jian chased out of the pavilion, stood in the middle of the road and shouted: "Mr. Lu, when will you come back?"

"When the autumn leaves are gone next year!"

The voice came from afar, and outside the pavilion, the guards with swords stepped forward and stood behind Yang Jian, and then raised their hands one by one and bowed down in unison.

"I'm waiting to send off the national teacher!"

"I'm waiting to send off the national teacher!"

The voices of more than 100 people sounded around, the birds in the forest were flying wildly, and the old donkey who was far away was a scholar on his back, bathing in the sunshine, turned his face slightly, smiled and waved his hand.

The copper bell shook gently, jingled the bell, and gradually drifted away in this morning [fo] sun.

"Even if he has no mana, Lu Daoyou's dust-free temperament can't be changed for a while. ”

Yang Su looked at the scholar who had gone away, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Brother, don't annoy him." ”

"What am I worried about? It's too late to be happy. ”

The guards brought the horses, Yang Jian turned around, turned over, turned around the horse's head, and laughed: "Go, go back to the palace, I am in a good mood today, drink with me!"

A whip snapped, and he shouted: "Ride!!" The horse galloped wildly, and Yang Su and a group of guards got on the horse and turned the reins, and galloped to follow.

The horses' hooves rumbled and galloped and disappeared at the city gates.

......

The sky spreads, the cicadas chirp one after another in the mountains, on the narrow and rugged mountain road, the scholar who has no mana and cannot drive the spell to hurry, after a while, dismounts the donkey and holds the reins, through the shade of the trees mottled one by one.

The mountains were silent, and in the sound of brass bells, the small door of the bookshelf opened, and the toad poked his head out, then kicked his legs a few times, and slowly crawled onto the donkey's back.

"Liangsheng, what kind of national teacher are you going to be?"

The scholar who was dragging the reins in front of him, looking at the dense tree cage, the sun was scorching between the gaps, he squinted his eyes for a while, and nodded.

"If I don't become a national teacher, I'm afraid I won't be able to raise a master. ”

Lu Liangsheng joked with a smile, and looked back at the master lying on the back of a donkey, as if he didn't care too much about the gains and losses in cultivation.

The toad man twitched the corners of his mouth, slowly crawled over the donkey's back to the old donkey's neck, and almost fell off when he heard this joke.

Grabbing a handful of manes, hanging outside, he didn't go up after kicking a few times, and exhaled in discouragement.

"Good Life..... Do you regret it?"

"Never ....."

Lu Liangsheng whispered, slowed down, and looked at the rolling mountains in the distance outside the mountain, as well as the vaguely visible outline of the city.

In the mansion where 'Yuwen' was written, the door of a certain room was pushed open, Yuwen Tuo entered, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the junior brother who was still asleep, and covered the quilt for him.

Thinking of the night when Master was besieged, his clenched fists were trembling.

Time passed, the sun gradually tilted, the northwest wind and sand became bigger and bigger, and the four scholars with weathered faces, wrapped in veils and excitedly pointing at the fields, instructed the nearby old farmers how to reclaim, however, no one paid attention to them, and soon, the four of them sat on the ridge of the field dejectedly, and how it was different from what they wanted to be officials in the past.

On the desolate ridge in the northwest, the thin and peaceful old monk walked through the cave where the big demon was entrenched, came to a lonely grave somewhere, peeled off the canes on it with his own hands, closed his eyes and sat as if he was accompanying the woman in the tomb, sometimes talking softly.

The sunset outside the mountain has not yet set in the distance, gradually verdant foothills, pig just followed the old donkey with a red face full of red light, turned over the picture scroll in his hand, at a certain moment, stepped on the air, rolled down the hill like a ball, covered with grass clippings, and crawled back in embarrassment, looking at the scholar, hey smiled and took out the crumpled painting from his arms and raised it.

The birds chirped softly, crossed the red sun, gathered their wings and landed on the head of the old donkey walking slowly, and the scholar who looked at the sky next to him smiled on his face.

“....... Along the way, I thought I had said goodbye to immaturity and innocence, because of the Chen Dynasty's refusal to look back, and later, I traveled to many places, felt mature, and grew up, in fact, in the final analysis, I gradually forgot that I was full of books and ideals. ”

"The path of cultivation is long, and the path of life is not the same, starting all over again. ”

Lu Liangsheng turned around, looked at the toad with a stunned face tilted his head, and led the old donkey Xinting to stroll through the foothills, all the way to the mountains and rivers, sometimes encountered unique scenery and beautiful places, set up an easel, spread out the picture scroll, and wrote down the landscape with pen and ink.

When you are thirsty, you wash away the dirt by the stream, and when you are sleepy, you sleep peacefully in the stone cave and under the tree......

Summer goes to autumn, and the mountains are verdant and yellowed by the wind.

Under the treetops of Lei Lei's fruit, Lu Liangsheng climbed up and picked one and threw it to the master and the pig demon, jumped down and wore old clothes, wiped off the leaves on his body at will, took a bite of the fruit, his mouth was full of sweetness, and he stretched his waist comfortably, letting the old donkey follow behind, shaking some tattered cuffs, and walking in front freely.

The mountains are full of gold, the dead leaves are drifting down, Lu Liangsheng walked across the ridge and stopped, leaning on the Qixia Mountain in the distance, the wind stroked the hair and floated on the side of his face, showing a smile.

It's homecoming.