The county government of Tugou Mountain has a visitor from outside today.

In the county yamen, there were several officials wearing wide robes and coats standing on the left and right, standing solemnly with their hands down, and when they saw the visitor in a black robe, they immediately shouted.

"Stop! who's coming?"

The visitor stopped honestly and said with a smile: "Please report to the county master, and say that his friend Wei Li came to visit." ”

A servant glared at Wei Li, looked at it carefully, and was quite white and handsome, and looked not like the thief, so he replied, "And wait here." ”

After that, the official hurried into the inner hall and went to find the county lord Linde. The remaining officials inside the door were still staring at Wei Li, not daring to relax. After all, wearing a black robe in broad daylight inevitably makes people suspicious.

After waiting for a cup of tea, Lin Decai paced out of the inner hall. It's not that he deliberately shirks the delay, but that there are some urgent documents at hand that need to be handled for approval, and it is inconvenient to delay. As for the visitor calling himself Wei Li, Lin De thought about it, he didn't remember meeting such an old friend, and he didn't know what the visitor meant.

When he left the inner hall, he saw a black-robed man of his own age, and Lin De became more and more sure that he had never seen this person. At that moment, Lin De's mind was in a hurry, and he carefully recalled his every move after coming to Tugou Mountain, for fear that in the eyes of someone with a heart, he had fallen into favor with Yang Zhizhi.

The officialdom is deep, bottomless, and if you fall down, you can't float up, and you drown. Therefore, the heart of defense is indispensable, Linde asked himself to be cautious all the way, even if he encountered a small puddle, he was willing to take a detour, just in case.

Lin De's face was calm, he stood in the county office, and he didn't go out, and asked softly: "This brother, I don't know what to do with me?"

Wei Li stood outside the door, shook his robe, clasped his fists, and replied with a smile: "I came here, hoping to talk to Brother Lin." ”

Lin De frowned slightly, shook his head, hugged his fists in return, and apologized: "I am busy with official business, I am afraid that I will not be able to entertain my brother, please go back." The implication is obvious, Linde is unwilling to entangle with this visitor who calls himself Wei Li. In fact, Linde only wants to work honestly within one acre and three points of land under his jurisdiction, and it is best to settle quietly alone, and does not want to get into the muddy waters of officialdom.

Wei Li saw Lin De turn around and want to leave, chuckled, and said a strange word, "I heard that the scenery of the five-color pond here is beautiful, and the five-color shrimp in the lake taste good. And in that Tugou Mountain, there is a mountain of fireflies, especially near the mountain temple. It is said that the mountain god named Yang Zhizhi is also a person who likes to read. ”

Linde stopped, it was obviously sunshine, but he suddenly felt a chill down his spine, this person actually knew everything about the two of them. Lin De slowly turned around and looked at Wei Li with a smile on his face, and after a while, he said with a smile: "Since Your Excellency is prepared, then please come in for a while." ”

"You're welcome. Wei Li smiled in response, calmly crossed the threshold, and followed Lin De into the inner hall.

Seeing the long couplet, Wei Li paused slightly and read it softly, "The mountain light outside the threshold, the spring, summer, autumn and winter, thousands of changes, are extraordinary. The cloud shadow in the window, let the east and west, the north and the south, come and go, Xun is a fairy residence. ”

Then, Wei Li said with a smile: "Yang Zhizhi is a good handwriter. Well, it's a little bit worse. It's nothing more than the morale of some literati, Si is a humble room, but I am Dexin, boasting and exhorting. ”

Lin De turned around, he was displeased when he heard this, so he retorted: "Brother Yang's feelings, how much do you know? ”

Wei Li took a small step forward, raised his hand and pointed to a small jade medal on the table in the room, and said with a smile: "Yang Zhizhi is just like this idle medal he likes." The chapter is engraved with 'officials must do it themselves', which means that they must bow down to each other, and they do not want to fake their hands to others. However, it also means that it is more or less stubborn. A catastrophe is coming, and I don't know how to change it. Maybe at that time he was still thinking that the traitor would be in charge, so he would die for the country, wouldn't he be strong? ”

"You're the one who laid out to kill him?" Linde turned pale and couldn't help but clench his fists. This person knows the causes and consequences of Yang Zhizhi very well, and what he said is the Tao, and most of them can't get rid of it.

Wei Li shook his head with a smile, walked into the house, and sat down in the main seat generously, and then said with a smile: "Scholars kill people by pulling up and down with a mouth. Does the scholar have the power to bind the chicken with his fist? No, this move is inferior and his heart is empty. ”

"Yang Zhizhi is not worth my killing, and it is not worth my hard work to lay it out. It is within the scope of an official to benefit the people wholeheartedly. At this point, Yang Zhizhi did a good job. However, if you don't know anything extraneous, you can reach up and down, and these Yang Zhizhi can't do it. Therefore, Yang Zhizhi is not a big official, and if he is humble, he will speak lightly. If you can't be an official, your temper still stinks, and you will fall into a dead end. ”

Lin De snorted coldly, he knew in his heart that today's events were a blessing or a curse, and he couldn't avoid it, so he no longer had scruples, and refuted: "As an official, beware of the world and be innocent." Making friends is really dismissive. Relying on low eyebrows and flattery, what if you are a high-ranking official, you are not ambitious and talented, and you are doing nothing. If it is further, the official will become the national teacher, and it will cause chaos and harm to the country and the people. In this kind of obscene path, Brother Yang is as sick as an enemy, and evil as an owl. I, Linde, admire it, and yearn for it. ”

Wei Li smiled dumbly, and said softly: "What a powder is not afraid of broken bones, and he wants to leave his innocence in the world." I look at Yang Zhizhi's death, it is not broken bones, and it is not much different. It's a pity that this innocence is not there, but it was stained with mud on his trouser legs, he was scolded by others, and he was smashed in the mountain temple. Of course, this is due to you, Linde, after all, it is your work to tarnish his reputation. You two are also interesting, Yang Zhizhi, I feel that I have done my best to be an official in this life, but I am the only one who is ashamed of you, and I want you to take this burden. And you, Lin De, have a clear conscience in everything you do, but you are ashamed of Yang's ambition and tarnished his reputation. Such a friendship deserves to be a gentleman's friend, but so what?"

"After benefiting the people of this side, do you feel satisfied? Do you still think that after the matter is completed, you will resign and retire and no longer meddle in this muddy and filthy officialdom? The Li Dynasty sits in the Southern Regions, how many people like the people of Tugou Mountain are looking forward to a good county official, who can eat and eat and have enough clothes? I can't count the vast sea of smoke? Then Yang Zhizhi still has a sentence that makes me more satisfied, when the people are better, the world will get better and better, it is true. As a county official, you can cross these tens of thousands of people. But if you are the teacher of a country, you can cross tens of thousands of people, what do you think?"

"Who are you?" beads of sweat oozed from Linde's forehead. This person's remarks sound absurd, but Linde thinks about it carefully, but he is powerless to refute it.

Wei Li shook his robe, his appearance was covered with an old man, his temples were white, and he smiled: "I? Am I not the confused national teacher who is in your mouth, making chaos and causing disaster to the country and the people." ”

Lin De's eyes widened, and he recognized Wei Li with a different appearance. Suddenly, Linde was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe, and he was a little at a loss. Lin De naturally recognized the national teacher with this appearance, and he had also heard that the national teacher had all the means to the sky, and he was a person who cultivated immortals. Lin De never expected that this visitor named Wei Li turned out to be the national teacher Wei Li, and it was not a coincidence that the name was repeated.

Wei Li picked up the idle seal engraved with "The official should make it himself", and gently threw it to the silent Lin De, and said with a smile: "I hope that in the future, no matter what you do, you can always remember the four words that the official should make himself, which is very good." ”

Wei Li got up, walked out of the house, and when he walked to Lin De's side, he stopped slightly and patted him lightly on the shoulder, "In the future, the national teacher of the Li Dynasty will be you Lin De." If you make a mess of the government, you will bring disaster to the country and the people. ”

Lin De was stunned, standing quietly in front of the threshold, and only then did he come to his senses until Wei Li walked away. He looked down at the idle chapter in his hand, and before he knew it, he was covered with cold sweat on his hands.

"Rulers should do their own thing. Linde muttered a repetition of the chapter, and sat down on the threshold with his ass slumped. Since Wei Li came and left, it was only half an hour. But Linde's identity was judged in an instant, and the humble county official turned into a national teacher who leaned towards the government and the opposition.

After a long time, Linde sighed lightly, stood up, entered the house, and continued to give instructions to circle some of the remaining official documents. Even if he became the master of a country with tens of thousands of people, Linde didn't think that he could relax on the tens of thousands of people in this place.

The Li dynasty, the government and the opposition were shaken. Emperor Chrysostom of the Li family issued an edict to the world, and the national teacher Wei Li told the old man to return to his hometown, and was replaced by a little-known small character, Lin De.

There was a lot of civil and military discussion in the Manchu Dynasty, and even many high-ranking and powerful ministers spoke out and opposed this matter. Emperor Li turned a deaf ear and only said one sentence, and Wei Li instructed him to say a word.

"This is the person recommended by the national teacher Wei Li, and he will prosper the dynasty. ”

As soon as Wei Li's name came out, most of the discussion suddenly disappeared. Those who can ascend the Jinluan Hall are not fools, and they all know it in their hearts. Since it was Wei Li's intention, it would be useless for them to discuss it again.

An old civil official wearing a rusty Danhe court uniform sighed lightly, a little emotional. At the age of twenty, he entered the Jinluan Hall in high spirits, and for the first time saw the national teacher Wei Li with a vicissitudes of life. After more than 40 years, it gradually grew flowery, until now the temples are white. The old civil official thought that maybe he had returned to his hometown, but Wei Li still stood straight on his waist, standing on top of the Jinluan Palace, watching the changes of the Li Dynasty.

"It's going to be a change of heaven. The old civil servant shook his head, lowered his voice, and muttered to himself. As the saying goes, when a new official takes office, he has three fires, and the old civil official does not seek to take advantage of the east wind to reach a higher level, but only seeks to be content without igniting the fire. In two years, he will reach the age of returning to his hometown, and he is still counting on going back to tease his grandson.

Suddenly, the old civil official frowned, and he was somewhat familiar with the word "Linde". Thinking about it carefully, some time ago, there was a junior named Linde, who dragged out some relationships, and sent him a letter of repair, hoping to transfer to the poor Tugou Mountain as a county official. At that time, he didn't think much about it, so he reviewed it, and praised it, feeling that this junior had a warm heart.

"How can there be such a coincidence. The old civil servant smiled and stroked the goatee on the tip of his chin, only to think too much about himself.

After Emperor Li announced this matter in the Jinluan Palace, after resuming the dynasty, he went to the back garden where Li Muzhi practiced boxing. However, Emperor Li just watched from a distance and did not step forward.

Li Muzhi practiced his fists heartily as always, his expression was focused, and he didn't notice the Li Emperor not far away. Cao Dong, who was on the side, saw it at a glance, and was about to kowtow and bow down, but found that Emperor Li shook his head lightly, waved his hand, and signaled him to stop.

Emperor Li didn't want to disturb Li Muzhi's boxing, so he only planned to take a look from afar. But when he caught a glimpse of the four-clawed python robe that was thrown on the ground, Emperor Li's heart chuckled, and his expression was a little gloomy. He sighed lightly, Li Muzhi was still determined to let go of his identity as a prince, worship under Wei Li, and become an immortal cultivator. In the future, his relationship with himself and the Li dynasty will inevitably become farther and farther apart. Immortal cultivators, after all, don't want to be contaminated with red dust.

However, Emperor Li will not stand in the way. After seeing Wei Li's many ways to reach the sky, he knew that the Li Dynasty was just a game of chess for Wei Li. That own son, Li Muzhi is expected to jump out of this chess game and not become a chess piece in the hands of others, and Emperor Li is naturally happy to do this.

In the world, how can there be parents who don't want their children to be able to leap into the sea and let the birds fly in the sky? Whether it is the emperor or ordinary people, as long as they have a conscience to speak of, they are all common in this regard. Even the majestic Emperor Li, at the moment of his death, didn't say anything to the current Emperor Li, but said in disappointment, "It's good to be an emperor of pleasure." "Isn't this a kind of protection? Emperor Li has a few catties and taels of strategy in his chest, and the first emperor of the Li family naturally knows everything about it, and he definitely can't fight Wei Li. There is nothing wrong with being a puppet emperor honestly and enjoying all the wealth in the world.

Emperor Li looked at it for a while, didn't stay long, and turned to leave. At the same time, Li Muzhi stopped practicing boxing, his expression was complicated, and he glanced at his father's back with some guilt, the corners of his mouth squirmed, and he hesitated to say something. But in the end, he could only sigh lightly, and he couldn't say anything.

...

In front of the Zhangji Martial Arts Hall in Qingluo Town, a foreigner came, and at a glance, he knew that he was a rich man. This person is dressed in silk and satin, and nine of his ten fingers are wearing bright and sparkling gold-inlaid wrench jade, and he also learns the gentleman's jade around his waist. It's just that the piece of jade he wears around his waist really makes people think of the word gentleman, for no other reason, the big piece of jade can be carved into a jade pot. Looking from afar, there are only four words, rich and powerful.

The rich master walked to the door of the martial arts hall, and happened to see a young man dressed in the robe of a martial arts hall disciple, so he beckoned and said with a smile: "Go and report to the owner of your house, an old friend of his has come to be a guest." ”

The young man glanced at the person and asked suspiciously, "Who are you? If you want to see the owner of my house, you have to report your name first." ”

The rich old man replied with a smile: "Qi Ruilong." ”

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