The sun was very strong at noon, and Cao Dongli felt the dazzling strong light, and gradually woke up from the chaotic dream.

He found himself lying alone on a couch with a black cat sitting next to his pillow. The black cat looked at him quietly, her green pupils filled with sadness.

As for Ah Zhen, I don't know where she went?

In addition to him, there were two servants of Dali Temple who were in charge of serving him in the house.

One of them saw him wake up and said, "I'll call your lord!" and ran out of the house.

Cao Dongli hurriedly struggled to get up and grabbed the hand of the servant who was left behind, "Have you seen Ah Zhen, where is she?"

The servant was a little panicked, "This, you have to ask us!"

At this time, the black cat rushed over and shook his head at Cao Dongliang, "Meow!"

Cao Dongli and the black cat looked at each other, as if they understood something, and suddenly collapsed on the bed, covering their faces with their hands, and did not make a sound for a long time.

Under a locust tree in the center of the Dali Temple, Liu Yu was playing chess with Liu Lao Xue.

Old Scholar Liu pinched the chess pieces and frowned. The situation on the chessboard is very stale, and where his chess piece falls will be the key to determining the situation.

A servant ran over and whispered a few words in Liu Yu's ear, and Liu Yu nodded again and again.

"Is that man awake?" asked his son.

"Yes, I slept for three days and finally woke up. Liu Yu sighed softly.

"That girl is poor!" Scholar Liu shook his head and continued to think about the chess game.

Liu Yu understood that what his father was talking about was Lu Zhen, and said with a wry smile: "I hope her death is worth it, and Cao Dongli will not fail her." ”

"It also depends on your ability, Liu Yu. Old Scholar Liu stared at his son's eyes, "You have to be careful, the ancestor of the Cao family is Cao Cao, this person once said, 'I'd rather bear the people of the world than let the people of the world bear me'." ”

Liu Yu nodded, "I understand this!"

Old Scholar Liu picked up the teacup next to the chessboard, took a sip, threw the chess pieces in his hand back into the box, and frowned: "Go ahead, this game of chess will be played again when you come back." ”

Liu Yu got up and said goodbye, "Father rest first." ”

He went to visit Cao Dongli with two servants, one of whom held a brocade bag and the other with a lacquer box.

The lacquer box is crimson all over, with fine lines drawn by gold lacquer on the surface, and the material is golden silk nanmu, the price should be expensive, and it smells a faint woody fragrance.

When Liu Yu entered the house, he saw Cao Dongli lying sideways on the couch, facing the inner wall, and it was difficult to see the expression on his face.

The black cat sat on the quilt and let out a wail from time to time.

The servants stood cautiously aside, not daring to make the slightest sound, and the atmosphere in the room was heavy.

Liu Yu stood for a long time, but Cao Dongli still refused to turn around to look at him.

He let out a long sigh, knowing that it would be useless to stay any longer, and motioned for the two servants to place the bag and the lacquer box on the table.

In the lacquer box are Lu Zhen's ashes, and in the bag are Lu Zhen's suicide note left to Cao Dongli.

Liu Yu felt bitter in his heart and thought: "If this kind of thing happens to me, I'm afraid I'll go crazy too." Whether this person can survive this catastrophe is up to him. ”

He ordered the servants to stay behind to take care of Cao Dongli and turned around and left.

After a few more days, Cao Dongli still hid in the room and refused to show up.

Liu Yu knew in his heart that for this person, heart disease is easy to treat, and emotional injuries are difficult to heal, so he does not send people to urge, and everything is left to nature.

He sent people to deliver good food and wine every day, and for the first few days, the food and wine were delivered untouched. On the fifth day, the food and drinks were eaten slightly, but in very small portions.

Since then, it has been like this, no matter how many drinks and dishes are sent, Cao Dongli often only drinks a small bowl of gruel, and has no interest in the rest of the dishes.

The days passed quickly, and two months passed in the blink of an eye.

Outside the city, the siege of Huangchao and Wang Xianzhi's army became more and more intense, and the defenders of Chang'an City lost seventy-seven eighty-eight, and their morale was very low.

It is rumored in the market that the Huangchao army is about to break through the city gate in the near future. At that time, all the Confucian scholars will be killed, and the others will be caught by the bandits and thrown into a stone skull, and smashed alive into pulp.

Liu Yu didn't take these rumors seriously, but he didn't dare to take them lightly. He stepped up his efforts to contact the people of insight in the city to discuss how to deal with it.

In the past few days, people from the Xie Party have come to visit Dali Temple, and Liu Yu has tried his best to entertain them, bent on bringing these celebrities under his command.

At noon that day, he was having a long conversation in the hall with three former officials from the Xie Party, namely a Confucian scholar, an old man with a long beard, and a middle-aged man with a white face. Suddenly, there was a long howl from outside the city, which shook the wooden case and splashed the tea in the cup.

The whistling sound must have come from the throat of a man, full of excitement, vast and far-reaching.

Liu Yu's heart was shocked, "Who is this, his skills are so strong, rare in the world, I am afraid that the people of the entire Chang'an City have heard this person's whistling." ”

A Confucian scholar sitting on the side of the desk had an awe-inspiring face, and said after a long time: "This is the dragon's chant, and there is a real dragon on the land of the Central Plains!"

"What is the dragon yin?" Liu Yu was puzzled in his heart.

"Can't Lord Liu hear it?" Confucian smiled bitterly, "The dragon barbler should come from the bandit army outside the city, it seems that my Datang is really going to die." ”

The long-bearded old man should be harmonious: "The old man has been on an errand in Qintianjian for 30 years, and he is good at observing the heavens and looking at the heavens.

The white-faced middle-aged man stood up from the front of the case, "That's it, that's it, it's all over the years, and it's all in vain, let's go!"

The three Xie Dangmen all shook their heads, and got up to say goodbye without waiting for Liu Yu to agree.

The Confucian sighed as he walked, and when he reached the door, he groaned: "The high wind blows in the eternal night, and the sound of commerce is full of dragons." It's over, it's all over!"

The eternal night blows high, and the sound of business fills the ground with dragon groans.

Liu Yu wondered in his heart, why these Xie Dang were so strange, but he was so shocked when he heard a long howl from a certain martial arts master, it seems that the spirit of the people in the Xie Party is nothing more than that.

Depressed, he shook his head and walked to the study.

One of the servants ran up and said, "My lord, that man is leaving, he said he wanted to see you before leaving." ”

Liu Yu understood that "that person" was Cao Dongli, "I'll go now!"

In the courtyard, Cao Dongli stood under the old locust tree, his body was thin, and his cheeks were deeply sunken inward. He was carrying a cloth bag on his shoulder, showing a square and angular appearance, which should contain Lu Zhen's urn.

"Brother Cao, are you leaving?" Liu Yu stepped forward and saluted him.

Cao Dongli returned the salute, "Ah Zhen said in the letter that she was born in the capital and has never seen the scenery of Kyushu in the world. She wanted me to take her to travel all over the world, walk all over the green mountains, and see all the flowers. ”

Liu Yu smiled slightly, "This must be an excellent thing!"

Cao Dongli's eyes were gloomy, "I understand that she is afraid that I will find a short-term opinion, so she deliberately found something for me to do." But her wish, how can I bear not to fulfill it. ”

He touched his chest and muttered, "Her heart is mine, and her heart has been beating as long as I live." ”