When the sun sank in the west, the door of the hall was pushed open again. It's just that after Gu Yu pushed the door open, no one walked out of the door.

Ding Ye, who had already slept by Yun Xuelan, yawned and looked at the hall, "It's time for a second meal?" As soon as the young man blurted out his words, he saw Gu Yu, a red cotton jacket standing at the door of the hall, staring at him, and the boy's eyes were as red as the red cotton jacket on his body. Ding Ye was excited, and his lazy strength was trembling and trembling by the young man.

There was silence in the hall, and there was silence in the small courtyard.

After a long time, there was a heavy sound in the hall, "Let's go, the old man is going to rest." The old man's tired scolding sounded.

There was a sound of Suo Suo coming from the hall, as if he was packing up the pen and ink of the books and putting them into the bookcase. Gradually, the noise became louder and louder, but it was not chaotic and noisy, and no one spoke.

After the sound of tables and chairs moving, several figures walked to the wheelchair one after another, bowed to the old man who did not say a word, and walked out of the hall after bowing. No one turned to the bamboo hut anymore, but walked straight out of the courtyard. There was no youthful spirit on everyone's faces, no joy at returning home after a day's schoolwork, only pursed lips and reddened eyes.

In the past, the scholar who could not even see his back would leave with a cup of tea, but today he spent about two pillars of incense time and the teacher to say goodbye. The boy named Cai Jian was the last to walk out of the hall. It's just that the young man ignored Yun Xuelan's inquiring eyes, but he made a fist salute of the Jianghu martial artist a little jerky, and left without looking back. Many years later, Xie Yan, who was already the first person of the young generation of the Great Xia military force, was no longer a young general, and when he saw Yun Xuelan, who was already clothed, he was doing a great gift from the student to the teacher, but this was a long time later.

There are two people in the hall, one old and one young. In the courtyard, the green shirt stands quietly, the black felt caresses the cheeks, and the red jacket hangs its head.

"Grandpa invited Childe in. "The frost of the green clothes came out of the hall. Yun Xuelan nodded in thanks when she heard this, but when she walked to the door of the hall, she was inexplicably stopped in front of her by a red figure. Gu Yu stretched out his arms and held his head high, his eyes were firm, and he seemed to be determined not to let Yun Xuelan enter the house.

The voice of the old man came from behind the boy, and the red cotton jacket hesitated, turned his head to look into the room, and after touching the old man's stern gaze, he foolishly let go of his body. The frost that followed Yun Xuelan closed the door after the former entered the house. The girl wanted to leave with the red cotton jacket, but the boy was angry, sitting at the door, holding his cheeks with his hands, and not saying a word.

"Sit down. The old man said softly to Yun Xuelan after saluting. The old man took out the jade toad that Yun Xuelan entrusted Frost Fall to hand over from his arms, and placed it in his palm to look at it quietly. Seeing that the old man didn't say a word, Yun Xuelan didn't rush to ask questions and kept sitting quietly opposite the old man.

The old man's gaze moved from the object in his palm to the face of the young man opposite, and when he saw the young man's calm expression, he smiled a little teasingly: "The heart is not bad, Zhongli Lao'er's ability to teach students can catch up with the old man's fifty percent." ”

"Mr. Zhongli once said that he is an old friend with Mr. Yun Xuelan didn't care about the old man's "big words".

The old man put the jade toad lightly on the table and said disdainfully: "Therefore, it is not counted, it is more appropriate to say that it is an old enemy." ”

Seeing the doubt in Yun Xuelan's eyes, the old man continued: "I am from the same door as him, but he is obsessed with medicine, and I just want to be a master of the school." We have been betting all our lives, and the biggest bet we have made is which of the healers or the teachers will benefit the world the most. What do you think?"

"The healer heals the human body, and the teacher heals the human heart. When a person is sick, he must be healed by a skilled healer, but when he is sick, he must be healed by the teachings of the sages. ”

"Oh?" the old man smiled knowingly and asked, "You mean that the teacher is more important than the healer?"

The young man shook his head and said, "Why does Mr. let the child have enough to eat before studying?" Yun Xuelan asked rhetorically, "If there is no teacher of the doctor to teach the profession, how can there be a wonderful hand to bring the dead back to life? If there is no holy hand of Xinglin to save the dead and help the wounded, how can the teacher answer questions and solve doubts? When the human heart and body are free of disease, human beings are human beings." ”

The old man nodded, "The old man doesn't know this truth, it's just that we have been competing since we were young, first competing for who understands more and faster knowledge, and then who has more unique opinions." Fight for who our husband is more proud of, and fight for who we also love more. Fighting back and forth, at this age, it has become a fight for the sake of gambling, a gamble for the sake of gambling. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, but you will feel lonely if you don't fight for a while. The old man lowered his head and looked at his legs and whispered, "In the end, it's not a lose-lose situation?"

Yun Xuelan pursed her lips a little embarrassed, but did not answer.

"Slippery, slippery. It's like Zhongli's old immortal. The old man stuffed some tobacco into the cigarette pouch in his hand, and when the spark appeared, he took a deep breath and exhaled smoke rings in intoxication. The smoke filled the not very bright hall, and the young man's face was blurred in the old man's eyes, just like some vague memories in the old man's heart.

The old man, who had been reminiscing for a long time in the smoke, seemed to want to see every wave and every drop of water in the long river of time, but a face that appeared in front of the old man's eyes was as vague and ethereal as a smoke ring from his mouth. The old man coughed a few times, his eyes seemed to be red with smoke, he looked at Yun Xuelan and said, "The person you are looking for is the old man." ”

Yun Xuelan nodded, "The student has already guessed. There's just one thing I don't understand. Seeing that the old man motioned for himself to ask, the young man continued: "Why did the gentleman change his surname to Du?"

"It's a silverfish," corrected the old man, "and it can only hide here like a silverfish that is afraid of light, wind, and all disturbances." ”

The old man's surname is Tao, and he has been praised by the entire literary world as a person who has taken up all the literary fortunes and romances of Daxia. When the old man was in the Guozijian in his early years, more than seventy percent of the officials in the Great Xia court were either under the guidance of the old man, or had been guided by the old man. Therefore, the peach and plum are full of "summer", and "Taoli" is all over the world. It was only later, for some reason, that the old man suddenly resigned and left the capital overnight, and his whereabouts have been unknown ever since.

Yun Xuelan didn't know the identity of the old man before he came here, but he learned from Mr. Zhongli that the old man was an old acquaintance with him, saying that if he found this person, he could hand over the jade toad to this person. When the old man was swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog just now, Yun Xuelan actually saw the old man's life in the smoke, but the young man was amazed by the old man's magical magic that could condense the image in the smoke and the identity of the old man, and for a while he ignored that the identity of the old man represented the cultural fortune of the Great Xia country.

The old man couldn't help but feel a little proud when he saw the dumbfounded young man in front of him, he took another puff of cigarette and said: "Back then, I and Zhongli Lao'er calculated the heavenly opportunity at the same time, as for what you will know later." Zhongli Lao'er made a bet with him, saying that it was a bet, but it was in their own layout. Sooner or later, there will be a battle between Nanliang and Great Xia, and this battle is the key to what we have calculated, and your Yun family is the key to Xia Liang's battle. Zhongli Lao'er spent a great deal of money to bet me and invite me to come to this champion village. This is the place where your state's cultural movements meet. After I came here, Zhongli Lao'er and I joined forces to set up a formation to cover the cultural movement of a state and my own weather. In order to prevent some people or martial artists who are familiar with the method of observing qi to discover the clues here. ”

"Why are you so cautious?" the young man asked, wondering in his heart, "Is it just because someone wants to deal with the Yun family?"

"There are too many short-sighted people in this world, and those who are short-sighted only think about whether their family can prosper forever, and they think that the world they control is the world, the world is too big, and the world in their eyes is too small. Since the disappearance of the old man, those people have tried all means to find the whereabouts of the old man, but they really let them detect some clues, so there was the temptation of the champion ten years ago to force Mei Jiao Niang to die. It's a pity that the girl became a dead chess piece in the hands of those people at a young age. The old man sighed lightly, and Yun Xuelan was terrified when he heard this.

Looking at the young man's pale face, the old man shook his head disdainfully, "That's it, I really don't know why Zhongli Lao'er values you so much, and he doesn't hesitate to ...... for you" The old man's words came to an abrupt end, he looked at the young man who was slowly recovering, "The heaviest bet I made with Zhongli was you." ”

Yun Xuelan pointed at herself with a look of astonishment, looking at the old man in front of him who put the cigarette pouch back on his abdomen.

"We are in the next game of chess, and everyone in the world is a chess piece. Zhongli Lao'er thinks that the key to victory or defeat is you. ”

Yun Xuelan wanted to ask, but the old man waved his hand. Pulling back the conversation, "Ten years ago, those people were trying to kill two birds with one stone. Not only can they take the opportunity to attack the Yun family and even sabotage the cultural movement in this state, but they can also test whether the old man is hiding here through your Yun family's reaction to this matter and the importance attached to this place, so as to confirm their speculation. After all, this is the territory of the Yun family, and it has a special meaning to your Yun family and even this state, and they are also afraid that their blatant actions will force you to lose both. It's temptation again and again. Over the years, they have made so many small moves, but they also want to kill the cultural movement in this state, so the old man will plan and make the reading seeds in this village change. Although some of the cultural sports will be lost to other places with the seeds of reading in various places. But it can always ensure that there is an endless cycle of cultural transportation here, and it fills itself. ”

If the literary fortune here is endless, and if the people who hold the cultural and cultural theories of the Great Xia family in the future can trace their origins from this place, then there will not be a champion or even a scholar for more than ten or even hundreds of years, so what's the matter? The old man surnamed Tao doesn't even calculate whether these students will switch to the teacher in the future, whether he will deny his ancestors and return to his ancestors, whether he will put a stick of incense on his husband after he turns into loess, whether he will teach these students, hang his portrait in the ancestral hall, and tell their students that this is your husband's husband. You, the Yun family, why should you care about the gains and losses in the eyes of these people in the eyes of the world? The old man only calculates the world, and the world is bigger than the world.

Ten years ago, under the arrangement of well-intentioned people, people from neighboring villages came to destroy the village middle school hall on the grounds that there was a "mourning star" in Zhuangyuan Village that almost ruined the prospects of a county, so that the circulation of cultural transportation in this place was damaged and the cultural transportation was lost. At that time, the old man, who was already a teacher in the school, did not hesitate to pretend to be powerless, and was willing to have his legs ruined, just to dispel the speculation and doubts of those who were snooping behind the scenes.

Yunyin Villa, which has a tacit relationship with the old man, to be precise, Zhongli Lao'er in the old man's mouth, also allows the situation in the village to deteriorate, and even takes action with the old man, so that Wenyun will be lost in real way to hide people's eyes. Yunyin Villa only did three things in secret, one of which was to do it on the most visible side, which was to arrange secret guards to guard the village from time to time. This is also for outsiders to see, if it is really completely left alone, it will really make people suspicious, but it is this kind of true and false clouds that really make those who are eyeing it dare not act rashly.

The second is to "covertly" provide the necessary supplies. This is also for outsiders to see, the so-called secret is naturally not to send things here with great fanfare, but under the investigation of others, the membership fee has been traced to find out that the source of funding is also from Yunyin Villa. The purpose of this move is the same as the first thing.

And the above two things are a cover for the third thing, which is to let the reading seeds in the village leave this place in plain sight, and on the way, the Cloud Hidden Mountain Villa will create various illusions that they have been killed, so that they can go to Great Xia and other countries under a new identity. The people watching this place are not from the same forces, so these illusions will be assumed to be the work of "allies" they have not seen, and instead become a real darkness.

The two old men who seem to have been facing each other all their lives, but they hold the same cloud in this game, had a covenant ten years ago. The details of the agreement are cumbersome, but if the person who comes here with a jade toad in hand ten years is Yun Xuelan, the old man surnamed Tao will have to fulfill his promise. And Yun Xuelan's experience in the past ten years has not been without obstacles and tests for coming here today.

The young man and the old man talked deeply for a long time, and when he said goodbye to the master, the young man had a silver hairpin on his head, which was transformed by the old man's silver cigarette pouch.

Almost all the old people of the cultural movement in Daxia and the state of Daxia dispersed the whole territory of Yin Xun Prefecture.

That night, it rained golden rain throughout Yinxun Prefecture.

Many years later, there is no Yunyin Villa's Great Xia, and there is no era of confrontation between Liang and Xia.

Good rain moistens things silently, and peaches and plums are all over the world. The good teacher is tireless, and the Tao Li is all over the world.