Early the next morning

Mao time

The eastern suburbs of Luoyang

Yuan Yu and Huai Huang walked on the hole road outside Luoyang City, and they were now heading east along Luoshui Road, and their destination was Bei Que, which was located south of Pingle Township and north of Luoshui.

In fact, early this morning, when Yuan Yu was in the Yuan Mansion, Yuan Yu was going to say goodbye to Yuan Zheng in person, and after expressing his intention to Guanyin Nu outside the hall, the other party told him that Yuan Zheng left the mansion at four o'clock in Yin and had gone to Dali Temple in Ziwei City.

"What? Your master is no longer in the mansion at this time?" Yuan Yu was suddenly a little surprised, he wanted to say goodbye to Yuan Zheng earlier, so he deliberately got up a little early, and he had already finished his words before the sixth watch, but he didn't expect to be a step late.

The girl smiled and conveyed to Yuan Yu that her master had specially explained to herself, and was ready to send someone to escort Yuan Yu home to her home in Qianjinli.

After hearing this, Yuan Yu hurriedly waved his hand and refused, and after letting Anu convey his gratitude, he hurriedly left the Yuan Mansion.

Thinking of this, Yuan Yu suddenly stumbled and almost fell to the ground. It turned out that he didn't pay attention to the road and tripped over the stones under his feet, and Huai Huang grabbed him when he saw the situation.

"What is Xuan Hui thinking? so absent-minded that he can't even look at the road. Huai Huang looked at Yuan Yu's worried look, and asked.

Yuan Yu woke up from his memories at this time, and then muttered: "I'm thinking about the recent strange things, maybe it's really not as simple as I thought at first. What the Dali Temple where Yuan Duxu is located in the face of the Lintoe Society is really suspicious. For a while, I couldn't tell the difference between black and white. ”

Huai Huang smiled when he heard this, thinking that Yuan Yu was thinking about this, so he asked: "This world has never been black and white, it has been like this since ancient times. This must be kept in mind. ”

Hearing this, Yuan Yu looked sideways at Huai Huang, with some hesitation on his face: "What does Huai Huang mean?"

"It's not interesting, it's quite complicated right now, and we just need to get out of either side. Nowadays, there are forces with different intentions, and you and I are weak and we can't tell the difference, so we must keep our eyes open at all times, and when necessary, we must get out immediately. ”

Get out of ...... Yuan Yu seemed to be secretly aware of something, he and Huaihuang had been swept into a strange torrent, as if there were silk threads manipulating behind the scenes, and it was not easy to quit.

He nodded ignorantly, he understood half of Huaihuang's words, but he didn't seem to really understand.

After a while, Yuan Yu suddenly turned his head to Huai Huang and said, "I have always had a question in my heart, and I suddenly remembered it again when I saw Luohe today. ”

"What's the problem?" asked Huai Huang.

"In the past, you taught me to read, and I once read a piece of Cao Zijian's "Luo Shen Fu", which said that Luo Shen's shape is also, like a shocking Hong, graceful like a dragon. Rong Yao autumn chrysanthemum, Huamao spring pine. The hair is like the moon covered by light clouds, and the fluttering is like the snow of the flowing wind. Looking at it from afar, it is as bright as the sun rising in the morning glow, and when you are forced to observe it, it is scorching like a hibiscus rising out of the waves. The image of Luo Shen described in this Fu is clearly a beautiful and refined fairy appearance, but Luo Shen Changchuan, whom you and I met in Bei Que, is an out-and-out man. ”

Huai Huang smiled when he heard this, and also fell into deep thought in the face of Yuan Yu's question.

He really didn't pay attention to this problem, when Luo Shen turned into a soldier to guard the border pass, it was a good talk in Luoyang, but no one seemed to care, Luo Ziyuan's gender should be male or female.

After a while, he pondered, "There is indeed a saying that Cao Zijian wrote Luo Shen in "Luo Shen Fu", which is actually the Empress Wen Zhaozhen depicted. It is rumored that Cao Zijian admires Zhen Mi, but because Zhen Mi is the queen and his brother and sister-in-law, he pins his love for her on the fact that he has never seen Luo Shen, and imagines Luo Shen as a beautiful fairy image. ”

Yuan Yu nodded after hearing this, "It turns out that there is still such a statement. No wonder since I first saw Luo Jun that day, I still wonder how Luo Shen is a man. ”

"But there's another possibility. Huai Huang suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, looked at Yuan Yu and said with a mysterious smile.

"What might ......"

"Cao Zijian did see the goddess on Luoshui back then, but it was not the Luo God deity, but the Erzhu or Jing'er in Beique. Huai Huang raised his eyebrows, as if he had discovered something terrible.

Yuan Yu opened his mouth wide, clapped his hands again and again, and praised: "It makes sense, if that Cao Zijian sees Erzhu Niangzi or Jing'er Niangzi, it is not impossible." It is normal to see a fairy with a long robe fluttering by the Luo River, and it is normal to mistake it for Luoshen. ”

The two of them walked while chatting, and walked for about half an hour.

This place has left Luoyang City for more than 20 miles, and the surrounding pedestrians have gradually become scarce. Yuan Yu felt a little tired, so Huai Huang proposed to rest on the side of the road.

The two sat under a boulder under a pine tree on the side of the road, Yuan Yu leaned on the trunk of the tree and closed his eyes to rest, just when he was so sleepy that he almost fell asleep, there was a crisp copper bell in the distance, and Yuan Yu immediately opened his eyes again.

Huai Huang turned his head sideways and looked at the place where the voice came from, and it turned out to be an old man carrying a donkey, who was slowly coming from the east road.

When the visitor slowly approached, the two of them saw the old man on the donkey's back.

I saw that the old man looked about his old age, wearing a blue linen robe, and although it was wrinkled, his face was full of red. He held the reins in his left hand, a small whip in his right hand, and a wine gourd tied with a red cloth around his waist, which looked to be shiny from the passage of time.

Huai Huang frowned and looked at the old man, thinking in his heart where this old man seemed to have seen it, but he felt that it was unlikely, most of his memories were more than a hundred years ago, how could he see someone he was familiar with......

At this moment, Huai Huang's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he slapped his thigh suddenly.

Yuan Yu, who was sitting on the side, was taken aback by the action of the person next to him.

The old man seemed to notice Yuan Yu and Huaihuang sitting on the side of the road from a distance, and when they were only more than a foot away from the two, the old man said "huh", and at the same time pulled the reins, and the donkey under the seat twisted his neck in pain, and then stopped in response.

Seeing this, Huai Huang secretly stabbed Yuan Yu, then quickly stood up and walked in the direction of the old man.

"The younger generation is desolate and greets the old man. Huai Huang bowed to the ground at the old man and saluted respectfully.

Yuan Yu was a little confused in his heart at this time, he didn't know why Huai Huang was so respectful to such an ordinary old man. But he still learned to make a big gift to the old man, and followed him to report to his home.

The old man looked at the two young men in front of him so modest and polite, and stroked his gray beard with a smile. Then he pinned the small whip to his waist, held the neck of the donkey with his right hand, and carefully flipped it off the donkey's back.

The old man tied the donkey to a pine tree by the side of the road, and sat down with them on the stone under the tree.

Huai Huang sat opposite the old man and asked with concern, "The old man looks like he is in the dust, where is he going?"

"The old man is from Bianzhou this time, and he is about to go to the capital, what about the two little Langjun, why are they sitting on the side of the road in this wilderness?"

Yuan Yu was hesitant to answer the other party, Huai Huang took the first step and said, "My husband has good physical strength, although he is young, I have to admire, our brothers plan to go to Luoyang Ancient City to play, so we are tired of walking, so we are resting on the side of the road, and I happen to meet my husband." ”

The old man was obviously stunned after hearing this, and then said with a smile: "It is really not easy for young Langjun to have such a nostalgic heart. The ancient city of Luoyang is indeed a good place, and I don't know how many emperors and talented people have lived there, which is the best choice for finding nostalgia for the past. From here, twelve and a half miles to the east, the ancient city of Luoyang will be reached. ”

"It seems that the old man must be very familiar with the ancient city of Luoyang, and he actually said the distance and direction so accurately. After listening to the old man's words, Huai Huang immediately asked excitedly.

"Don't hide it from Xiao Langjun, I don't know how many times I have been to the old city of Luoyang, I think of the city of Luoyang, the people are boiling and the traffic is busy, it is so lively. Who would have thought that now, but the walls are collapsed and connected, it is really lamentable. ”

"But old man, I've heard others say that the ancient city of Luoyang has been abandoned for more than a hundred years, how can you see what the old city looked like when it was prosperous......

Hearing the old man say this, Yuan Yu couldn't help but widen his eyes and said in surprise, and suddenly felt that this old man was talking upside down.

Different from Yuan Yu's reaction, Huai Huang was overjoyed when he heard this, he raised his hand and signaled Yuan Yu not to ask first, but he stood up again and bowed to the old man.

"Please forgive the younger generation for being abrupt, but the old man's surname is Zhao Zun Mingyi?"

The old man was shocked when he heard Huai Huang's question, he stood up suddenly, and asked in a trembling tone, "This ...... This Hu Lu Langjun, the old man has not revealed his real name for a long time, how do you know who the old man's surname is?"

Huaihuang accepted the big gift, sat back beside the old man, and said to him: "The seniors were rewarded by the Lord of Wei to pull a car, and often traveled in the market in Luoyang City, although the younger generations did not know the seniors, but they have witnessed it many times!"

The old man named Zhao Yi was even more shocked, he stretched out his hands to support Huaihuang's arms, and asked Huaihuang excitedly: "His Majesty the Emperor of the Wei Dynasty did reward me with a chariot, but that was an old thing one hundred and fifty years ago...... Xiao Langjun actually saw me at that time, isn't that also like old age, an immortal person. ”

He smiled with a smile, he did not deny Zhao Yi's words, but he was also unwilling to reveal his identity.

It turned out that the reason why Huaihuang recognized this old man named Zhao Yi was because he was a person with an extremely long life.

This Zhao Yi claimed to have been born in the era of Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty. Guo Pu, a famous scholar of the Jin Dynasty, once told him to live as long as 500 years. When he arrived in the Wei Dynasty, he appeared in Luoyang, claiming that he had personally experienced what had happened in the past few hundred years, pointed out many old sites of the Jin Dynasty in Luoyang, and said a lot of things that were contrary to the historical books, which caused a lot of sensation at the time.

Huaihuang pinched his fingers and calculated, Jin Wusheng was born with a lifespan of five hundred, and now Zhao Yi should be four hundred years old.

Zhao Yi heard that the young man in front of him actually knew about the Wei Dynasty, and he couldn't help but sigh: "The capital of the Wei Dynasty is in the old city, and the prosperity and luxury of the past are not inferior to today. It's a pity that the thieves in the state rebelled against the chaos and smashed Jingluo, making the ground full of fish, and the old city began to gradually fall apart. Later, Emperor Ming of the former Sui rebuilt the capital in the north of Yique and completely abandoned the old city. Although the new capital is just as spectacular, it is far less spacious than the old capital. ”

"Since the predecessors have lived for so long, they must have seen a lot of strange things?" Yuan Yu asked in surprise as he listened attentively.

"It's true, the old man has lived for more than four hundred years, and he has indeed seen too many strange things. The two Xiao Langjun reported their lives, one surnamed Hu Lu and the other surnamed Yuan, it shouldn't sound like Han'er?"

Huaihuang replied: "The younger generation is indeed a Hu person, and his surname is Hulu, because his ancestral home is in Huaihuang Town, one of the six towns in Saibei, so he got the name Huaihuang." Later, he moved from Pingcheng to Luoyang with his ancestors and Emperor Gaozu Xiaowen, and his hometown was also changed to Luoyang, Henan. ”

Yuan Yu was a little surprised after listening to Huaihuang's words, these were things that Huaihuang had never told him before, he scratched his head and hesitated.

"What Hu people? I should be Han Chinese. ”

Huai Huang didn't make a sound after listening to Yuan Yu's words, just lowered his head and pursed his lips and smiled.

Zhao Yi sighed, and then said: "It turns out that Xiao Langjun is a Han Yuan surname, and I only say that you are a descendant of the Wei Dynasty back then. In any case, I once received the favor of the emperor of the Wei Dynasty in Luoyang, and then saw that the Yuan family was almost wiped out by the Bohai Gao clan in troubled times, and I was also embarrassed. ”

In fact, Huai Huang is familiar with the six arts of poetry and books, and is familiar with the history books of the past dynasties, but he almost does not know what has happened in the past hundred years since he was in the Sleeping Lotus Venerable.

What Zhou Dynasty, Qi Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, Huai Huang's memory only stays on the day he jumped into the kiln. Hearing the old man in front of him say this, Huai Huang knew that there was such a tragic past in the Yuan family, a descendant of Lord Wei, and in addition to being shocked in his heart, he was more infinitely sad.

When Yuan Yu heard what the old man said, he was very curious about what this white-bearded old man had done for so many years, so he leaned over and asked the old man: "Since the predecessors have lived so long, they must have traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers in China, I don't know where the predecessors have been over the years?"

Zhao Yi squinted his eyes, sometimes smiling and sometimes reminiscing, and only replied after a moment.

"In the past few years, the old man has traveled to Shandong and Hebei, climbed Dai Mountain Hengyue, and drove to Lingnan Bashu, re-transferred to the Western Regions of Longyou, and then returned to Jiangnan to Tianmu to find immortals, and only arrived in Bianzhou by boat from Yuezhou two months ago. This time I returned to the Central Plains, planning to stay in the capital for a while and have a good rest. ”

After hearing this, Huaihuang followed Zhao Yi's words, "The predecessor is longer than Peng Zu, and he is good at wading mountains and rivers, so he is naturally well-informed. The younger generation is very fond of listening to stories, and I wonder if the seniors are willing to tell us about the strange things of the past. ”

Zhao Yi stroked his gray beard and laughed, and happily agreed to Huaihuang's request: "It's a good thing for the young man to read more books and listen to more stories, since Hu Lu Langjun likes to listen, it happens that the old man also likes to tell stories very much, if the two Xiaolang want to hear the story in the future, they can go to the Guiyi Fang in the north of Luoyang City to find me, I have a small house in the fang, and welcome the two Xiaolang to come at any time." ”

"The juniors will definitely visit more in the future, and please don't get bored with the seniors. Huai Huang was overjoyed, and hugged his fists to thank the old man.