The night is deep, the noisy long street pedestrians are decreasing, and in the restaurant that has not yet closed, the shopkeeper weighing the broken silver raised his big round face, listened to the upstairs commotion, smiled, bit the broken silver and diligently took the hair note to write the account,

"Hurry up over there, go back to sleep at the end of the day!"

On the second floor, the Taoist put down his chopsticks and stood on the bench and shouted twice at a table with a greasy little face, urging these children to eat quickly, and after a while, more than 200 children got off the table after eating, and obediently lined up in a long line, followed Lu Pan and eight people downstairs, and thanked the fat shopkeeper behind the counter, and then went out of the restaurant.

Lu Liangsheng went over to reconcile accounts with the shopkeeper, and said, "I'm bothered." "Go out and walk to the street with the waiting Taoist, Honglian, Lao Pig, and Qiyou.

Late at night on the street, there is occasionally a sound of beating from a distance, the Taoist on the side with his hands on the back of his head, holding a toothpick, slanted his eyes and glanced at the scholar next to him, seeing his expression, put down his elbow and poked it gently.

"Where did I go in the afternoon, and I came back with a contemplative expression, and it hurt to spend money. ”

Lu Liangsheng smiled and did not speak.

Hong Lian, who was on the other side, turned his face sideways and glared at the Taoist fiercely, but Zhu Gangguan laughed: "Something must have gone wrong." ”

"Old demon, what's not going well?" asked Qi You, who was on the side of the street.

"Nothing. ”

Lu Liangsheng looked at them, continued to walk forward, looked at the lights of the building in front of him, thinking about the words of the old man in the afternoon, and didn't know how to talk to them for a while.

All the way back to Wanshouguan, it was the dead of night, Lu Panba, who came back earlier, had let the children sleep, back in the attic, the group was not light, especially Zhu Gangguan, busy with the meals of more than 200 people, Rao has mana, but also tired, said hello to everyone and closed the door, and there was a sound of snoring in a moment.

The Taoist was also tired, sleeping outside for half a month, wishing he would go to the bed now, go up the stairs, yawn and waved his hand at Lu Liangsheng, and pushed the door in.

Here, Lu Liangsheng returned to the bedroom, the candle had been lit, and he stepped through the door to enter the room first, and came to greet him with water, took off the green shirt of the outer cover for him, his eyes were bent into crescents, and he held back a smile.

Lu Liangsheng watered his face and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Hong Lian couldn't help laughing, stretched out her slender hand and pointed to the side of a bed, on the edge of the bed, the toad Taoist was wrapped in a sheet, only a pair of toad eyes were exposed, and his head was dozing off little by little.

I guess I woke up halfway through and didn't see anyone, so I waited on the bed.

"Master. ”

Lu Liangsheng flicked his fingertips, peeled off the water stains on his face and dropped the copper basin, wiped his hand over to the bed, and wanted to put the toad to sleep flat, but as soon as he touched it, the sleepy toad opened his eyes suddenly, jumped down in shock, stood on one foot, and spread out his webs.

"Monk Fang, dare to sneak attack the old man!"

Nie Honglian looked at this appearance, pursed her lips and whispered, "Childe, it seems that Master Toad is still confused." ”

Qi You, who closed the door, turned around, squatted on the ground with his skirt around his skirt, and wanted to tease him with interest, but was slapped on the top of his head by Lu Liangsheng, pouted and turned into green smoke with grievances, and went to the bookshelf.

"Master, it's me. ”

Lu Liangsheng stretched out his hand and pressed the toad's webs back, and in a gentle voice, the toad's drooping eyelids were all opened, and he saw the scholar in front of him clearly, with a smile on his face, and was about to speak, when he remembered the empty attic before, only himself, his face suddenly turned cold, and he sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed wrapped in a futon.

"Isn't it good to eat outside?"

Hong Lian floated over with her long sleeves, fell next to the scholar, covered her delicate face, and chuckled like a silver bell: "Master Toad, this is a angry boy who didn't call him, and he is becoming more and more like a child." ”

"You little female ghost can't speak. The toad Taoist wrapped himself in the quilt and turned back, "Old man, this is called rejuvenation!"

It turned out that this was the case, Lu Liangsheng sat on the edge of the bed with a smile, and suddenly there was a bowl of rice made of various dishes in his hand, wafting out a gluttonous fragrance.

"When the meal was served, I prepared one for Master. ”

Over there, the toad Taoist glanced at the bowl in front of him, and snorted: "It's still the old man's disciple who thinks about it thoroughly." ”

The scholar watched as the master took the bowl, took the chopsticks and ate one bite at a time, got up and walked to the desk, and took a book to pass the time by the candlelight.

In the sound of the soft turning of the pages, the toad Taoist on the side was holding the bowl and chewing the food, looking indifferently at the side face of the scholar illuminated by the firelight.

"Liangsheng, do you have something on your mind?"

"Hmm. ”

Compared with the Taoists, the master has experienced a lot of things, and he turned his eyes to look at the flickering candle flame.

“...... It's just that when I think of someone, my heart is a little complicated and a little uncomfortable. ”

"Your mentor?"

Seeing that the apprentice didn't answer, the toad Taoist swallowed the food in his mouth and laughed: "It seems that it is not, but it is not far away, come, tell the teacher." ”

Lu Liangsheng sat there and was silent for a while.

"Actually, it's Yang Su, the Duke of Yueguo, ......" He said in a low voice, remembering the conversation with the old man this afternoon, and told the master about it in 1510.

Among them is also its own feelings.

"Master..... You said that a person who has worked hard all the way from a good old age, almost lost his life, and is on the verge of whiteness, should enjoy the blessings, but he still thinks about this country, always thinks about making this country better, making the emperor better, and then, in the end, he becomes the emperor's whetstone and is stained with a stigma, Master, do you think he is worth it?"

The toad Taoist still had rice grains in his mouth, his eyes showed seriousness, put down the bowl in his arms, and stood up: "Is it worth it?" as a teacher, it is definitely not worth it, but some people are different, such as the old pedant, in his eyes, it is worth ......."

......

The night breeze blew outside the window, and went to the mansion in the city with 'Guogong Mansion' written on it, the old man sitting in the study looked at the books in the room, blew out the candles, went back to the backyard bedroom, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the old wife sleeping peacefully on the couch, stretched out his hand to brush her, in the dark, there was a smile on his face.

On winter nights, the air is cold.

In the imperial city, there were also people who had not slept from the bed, lit the candle, walked to the wall, pulled out the sword on the shelf, looked at the face reflected on the sword, Yang Guang waved twice, made a certain decision, and slammed back the scabbard in his hand, in the dim candlelight, there was the power of dominating the world.

......

“..... Can you remember what you said to you on the roof at night when you were a teacher? Living wisdom, no matter whether it is a human or a demon, only a living person can stand and walk out of his own way, the more public you are talking about, although the teacher does not understand his set, but after all, it is a way, even if the reputation is tarnished, how can a cultivator care about this? Even if someone throws stones and rotten leaves in the future, he can face it openly. ”

The Toad Daoist's eyes were majestic, and when he said this, he also added: "Since others have chosen the path, why should Liangsheng bother himself, congratulations...... Wow, ahhh......h

As he spoke, the toad yawned, and his words came to an abrupt end, and his eyes gradually closed as he stood there, and his head drooped slightly and he snored.

Belch......

Lu Liangsheng was listening hard, but the master fell asleep, put the toad Taoist into the quilt and covered it in the past, yawned himself, sat back at the desk, and then flipped through the books for a while, listening to the snoring of the master's snoring, after a while, tiredness hit, lying down in the bed, not even bothering to cover the quilt, and fell asleep groggy.

In the scroll on the wall, Nie Honglian sighed, floated out of the painting, sat quietly on the edge of the bed and looked at his side face, took the quilt and covered the scholar, pursed his lips and turned around with a smile, blowing out the candles on the table.

Spread the skirt with lotus steps, hum the song gently, and drill to draw the shaft.