The girl paused for a moment, sat down on a large stone that had been washed and smoothed by the river, leaned down, stretched out her hands and took a pinch of water, washed her face, and then took off her silk shoes, revealing her white feet, and stirred her little feet to hit the slow flowing water, splashing the waves. The girl rested for a while before telling the man in black and Momiji about the legend of this strange book of the court:

It turned out that two hundred years ago, the world was in turmoil, the heroes rose together, the eastern capital Luoyang was attacked on all sides, Emperor Yang of Sui came to Yangzhou in order to take refuge, so Guanzhong was empty, the Central Plains had no owner, and the people's hearts were turbulent, for which Taizong had persuaded Gaozu several times to raise troops in Taiyuan, turn the family into a country, and achieve the emperor's business. However, Gaozu was afraid of fame and honor internally, and he was very cautious about the uprising, and he couldn't decide when to raise righteousness for a long time.

Taizong was anxious and secretly discussed with his close ministers Liu Wenjing, Pei Lin and others. Liu Wenjing thought that Gaozu hesitated because he didn't know the destiny of heaven, and decided to ask a strange magician to give Gaozu a face, and make a hexagram, so that Gaozu could understand that the destiny of heaven and the hearts of the people had already belonged to my Taiyuan Li family, and that the righteousness was a move to obey the heavens and the people.

So Taizong quietly recruited troops and horses, and at the same time asked Liu Wenjing to secretly search for strange people in the world.

Liu Wenjing set off from Taiyuan, all the way to the south, crossed the surging Yellow River in Linfen, entered the vast Guanzhong Plain, perhaps Liu Wenjing's determination and will to visit the virtuous and save the people of Li moved the heavens, he finally came to the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, but I don't know that there is a virtual cloud view on this Zhongnan Mountain, and there are two masters of the world who do not eat the fireworks of the world, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, the master and apprentice, the master and apprentice have lived in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain for nearly ten years.

This Yuan Tiangang turned out to be a face-to-face warlock, when he was young, he often walked on the rivers and lakes, traveled south and north, traveled all over half of China, experienced the war of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the war in the south of the Yangtze River in the early Sui Dynasty, the destruction of people's lives, and since then he has seen through the world, and lived in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain to study the celestial calendar. He only accepted Li Chunfeng as a disciple in his life, Li Chunfeng was in his twenties at the time, and he followed the master all the year round, and he was particularly open-minded and studious, smart and wise, so he got the true inheritance of the master at a young age, and he was able to understand everything and predict the future. On weekdays, the master and apprentice are idle and wild, and they are against each other for tea.

On that day, Yuan Tiangang put a congenital hexagram of King Wen, knowing that a distinguished guest was coming today, he quickly ordered Li Chunfeng to wait at the foot of the mountain, and Li Chunfeng also secretly calculated a hexagram, knowing that the distinguished guest would not only come to Zhongnan Mountain, but also be a little frightened. Sure enough, Liu Wenjing encountered a white-haired tiger at the foot of the mountain, and he was so frightened that he fainted, but fortunately, Li Chunfeng arrived in time to save him from the tiger's mouth and bring him back to the Void Cloud Temple.

After Liu Wenjing woke up, she first thanked the master and apprentice and explained her intentions. Yuan Tiangang excused himself from being old and inconvenient to go down the mountain to help, but seeing Liu Wenjing going over the mountains and wading through the rivers along the way, he was sincere, coupled with the fact that the Tang King of Taiyuan had always been benevolent and righteous, and loved the people like a son, and finally reluctantly agreed to let his disciple Li Chunfeng go down the mountain to help the Tang King calm the war and save the people of the world.

Besides, Liu Wenjing and Li Chunfeng returned to Taiyuan together and went to the Tang Palace, where they met Gaozu. Gao Zu saw that Li Chunfeng was dressed in a fairy style, and his demeanor was extraordinary, and he was extremely important to him, and he was also obedient to his words.

Li Chunfeng met Gao Zu, divined the hexagram, and told him: "Congratulations to King Tang! You will be noble in less than 100 days, and you will have a noble son to help you in your life!"

Gao Zu was very surprised when he heard this, but he said quietly: "By borrowing the words of Yishiji, the old man has become a prince, a very popular minister, and he is extremely rich, so he doesn't dare to ask for a false name anymore!"

Li Chunfeng said with a smile: "I have heard that the Tang King is noble, if there is a dispute today, and the lives are ruined, why don't the Tang King conform to the will of heaven and the people, and save the people from fire and water!"

Liu Wenjing also persuaded on the side: "Since the heavenly phenomena and people's hearts have been revealed, please don't hesitate to King Tang, now that Guanzhong is empty, the acting king is too young to guard, and all the people are looking forward to the Lord like a long drought and looking forward to Ganlin!

Gaozu nodded silently, and called out Taizong and other three sons to meet Li Chunfeng, Li Chunfeng gave Prince Yin Jiancheng, Taizong and Xiwang Yuanji one by one, and praised Taizong alone: "The posture of the dragon and phoenix of the noble son, Wen Tao Wuluo, will definitely be able to help the world and the people in the future, and help the Tang King achieve the emperor's cause." I hope King Tang won't sneer him!"

Gaozu listened to Li Chunfeng's hexagram and rhetoric, and also made up his mind to advocate for the world, and finally, with the assistance of Taizong, it took seven years to sweep away the remnants, pacify the world, and establish the foundation of my Tang Dynasty for nearly 300 years.

As soon as the girl finished speaking, the maid and the man in black beside her sighed at the same time, and sighed: "It turns out that my dynasty was established in this way, without the words of Warlock Li, there would be no thousands of miles of my Tang family." ”

The girl paused for a while, and said with emotion: "Yes, how can there be no Li Chunfeng, not only would I not have the splendid country passed down from generation to generation in the Tang Dynasty, but also my father, I don't know where I was born?"

The girl gently broke a slender reed with her hand, and continued: Later, Taizong ascended the throne, worked hard, and sought governance with an open mind, and there was the famous Zhenguan Zhizhi, Taizong sent Wei Guo Gong Li Jing, British Gong Li Tao, Hou Junji and other generals to pacify the East Turks to the north. The Western Turks; to the west pacified Tuguhun and the countries of the Western Regions; to the east and south to let Goryeo, Silla, Baitoe, Annam and other countries submit to our Tang Dynasty, the territory of my Tang Dynasty is rare in ancient and modern times, 18,000 miles long from east to west, and 14,000 miles from north to south.

The girl spoke, her tone high-pitched and excited, as if she had returned to that desirable era. The man in black and Hongye were also stunned on the side, and Hongye asked in surprise: "Princess, that Li Chunfeng has also been dead for nearly two hundred years, how do you know so many stories about him?"

The girl replied talkatively: "These stories of the previous dynasty are recorded in the palace. ”

The girl in red continued: "After Li Chunfeng assisted Taizong to pacify the world, he has been an official in the Taishi Bureau in the palace. ”

Xu Zhi also listened with relish in the dark, only to see the girl continue: But in July and August of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, the weather was abnormal, and it rained continuously for two months, and the Jing River, Wei River, and Luoshui swelled, and the water rushed into the palace of Luoyang, the eastern capital, destroying more than 1,000 palace houses, drowning more than 6,000 soldiers and civilians.

Taizong listened to the report of the Eastern Capital, and was very angry, and while severely reprimanding the local government for repairing the palace and providing relief to the victims, he ordered hundreds of officials to write and say things, and said that he was extremely wrong. The ministers are also called to make statements, and they will pay more attention to the disadvantages of the times.

At this time, the opinions and judgments of the officials in the Taishi Bureau were even more highly anticipated by Taizong. Taizong hoped that these officials could prove from the perspective of astronomical almanacs that the rainstorm was only a warning that the court's policy was a little wrong, and not that the Tang Dynasty was about to face a big disaster as the folk legend suggested.

Of course, these officials of the Taishi Bureau understood the emperor's good intentions, and they all tried their best to explain at the court meeting that this natural disaster was just a common natural phenomenon, which would occur in all dynasties, and even Yao Shun would have such a vision.

Li Chunfeng did not lose himself in the flattery of the Taishi Bureau, he looked at the sky every day, asking hexagrams, hoping that God could have mercy on the common people and end this catastrophe as soon as possible, he did not obey the opinions of the adults, because he felt the wrath of God from the heart, which also indicated that the newly established Datang was about to face new changes, which he also did not want to see.

So he asked Taizong for a month's long vacation, returned to Zhongnan Mountain alone in the rain, and decided to ask the master for advice on this matter, listen to his old man's opinion, and solve the confusion in his heart.

Yuan Tiangang was meditating in the Void Cloud View of Zhongnan Mountain, and he was also taken aback when he saw his disciple Li Chunfeng suddenly coming back from the rain. Li Chunfeng ignored his own dust, and hurriedly explained his intention to the master.

Yuan Tiangang pondered for a while before he slowly said: "Apprentice, the teacher understands your hard work for the people in the world, but the teacher also told you that it is very difficult to understand the will of the heavens, because the heavens contain an irresistible mysterious power, which cannot be changed by all things in the world, this is the truth that the way of heaven is infinite and manpower is limited. ”

Li Chunfeng said: "The disciple understands that what Master said is the truth that 'man is not as good as heaven', since all things in the world are born according to the way of heaven and die against the way of heaven, can't all living beings peek into a little bit of heaven's intentions?"

Yuan Tiangang shook his head and said: "Disciple! It is impossible for people to know the arrangements of God in advance, otherwise all people will follow what they know in advance, seek good fortune and avoid evil, and what do they need to be diligent and hardworking? If there is no success and failure, happiness and pain, then there are still all kinds of things in the world?"

Li Chunfeng also sighed and said: "Yes, Master! The disciple also understands the nature of God to reward and punish laziness, punish evil and promote good, but this disciple is not for personal gain, but to save thousands of people from natural and man-made disasters.

Yuan Tiangang saw that although Li Chunfeng went deep into the officialdom, his kind and righteous nature did not change at all, and said with a smile: "Fool, for the sake of the teacher, you still can't jump out of the world's love, you can't understand the way of heaven like this, in fact, God has both the virtue of a good life and the heart of killing and punishing, but it is just for different people and different situations!"

Li Chunfeng sighed: "Heaven is impermanent, there is righteousness in the world, and I ask Master to have mercy on the hard work of his disciples!"

Yuan Tiangang saw Li Chunfeng begging bitterly, and he was also moved by compassion, after all, the two have more than ten years of friendship between master and apprentice, and they are accompanied day and night, and finally he said to Li Chunfeng:

"Apprentice, for the teacher in an ancient book to see the ancient three generations, King Yu in order to control the water, once in Yushan worshiped the heavens, got the will of God, thus changed his father Wang Kun's water control strategy, changed the blockage to sparse, only to cure the hundreds of years of floods in Kyushu, saved the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the world, maybe this ancient method is feasible. ”

Li Chunfeng said excitedly: "Thank you, Master, for your guidance, even if there is only a glimmer of hope, the disciple is willing to give it a try!"

The next day, under the heavy rain, the master and apprentice built a three-zhang high altar on a vacant lot on the golden top of Zhongnan Mountain according to the ancient method, and placed sacrifices on the high platform, surrounded by five-color flags. The master and apprentice bathed and fasted for three days in advance, ascended the high platform, knelt down to the heavens and worshipped, burned incense and prayed for nine days and nine nights to express their sincerity.

The master and apprentice persevered in the wind and rain for six days, physically and mentally exhausted, coupled with the fact that his clothes were soaked, Li Chunfeng actually had a high fever, became ill, shivered all over, and gradually couldn't support it, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered with thousands of people in his heart.

On the seventh day, the rain was a little lighter, and the master and apprentice were secretly rejoicing, but there were gusts of wind blowing around, and the ground was blown with sand and rocks, so that Li Chunfeng couldn't open his eyes, stood unsteadily, and accidentally fell off the high platform, breaking his left leg.

Li Chunfeng gritted his teeth, endured severe pain, dragged the inconvenient broken leg, climbed the high platform again, and persevered until the eighth day.

These eight days were also very strange, with a long roar, a tiger jumped out of the mountain forest. The fierce tiger opened its bloody mouth, wagged its tail, and pounced on Li Chunfeng. Li Chunfeng was shocked, sweating all over, and fainted, and when he woke up, he saw that he was still standing on the high platform, and the tiger was like a cloud of smoke passing by, and he had long since disappeared.

Li Chunfeng looked around in astonishment, as if in a dream, only to see his master come over and ask with concern: "Apprentice, this place is too strange and dangerous, we have come up the mountain well, not to mention the evil wind and strange rain, and also attracted a fierce tiger, almost losing our lives, and we don't know what kind of catastrophe and catastrophe will be waiting for us tomorrow?

When the man in black heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "Princess! These things are too evil, why did all the disasters in the world happen to Li Chunfeng alone?

The girl smiled and didn't speak, and the maid Hongye on the side replied: "Princess! General Zhou! I also think it's very strange, maybe his master is testing Li Chunfeng's sincerity, and it is possible that the hallucination that was deliberately changed!"

The girl smiled and said to the maid: "Red leaves! You guessed it right this time! People who worship immortals and seek the Tao often insist on their beliefs, and this Li Chunfeng is not afraid of danger in the face of difficulties and dangers, and he can be regarded as able to withstand the test of the master!"

The maid saw that the girl had been talking for a long time, and she must have been tired, so she let her rest for a while, and then talk about the following story. The girl said "um", bent down, plucked the strings with her hand, and got up again, picked a leafy reed, and used it to chase the glowing fireflies.

The man in black hurriedly dissuaded: "The princess likes fireflies, don't tire yourself, let the old slave serve His Highness!"

The girl smiled and said, "Uncle Zhou, let Xiuyun play to your heart's content for a while! Xiuyun has been in the palace for a long time, and she has not seen such a bright moonlight for a long time, you see that there are so many fireflies here, just like the stars in the sky, and they can't be counted!"

Seeing that the princess suddenly changed her name to her uncle, the man in black hurriedly knelt on the ground and replied: "My subordinates dare not restrain the princess, and I ask Your Highness to forgive your sins!"

Seeing that the man in black was very uneasy, the girl giggled out loud: "Uncle Zhou, please get up quickly, this is outside the palace, let's not be bound by the courtesy of the monarch and the ministers!

Momiji hurriedly replied, "No", and ran to chase the fireflies with the girl.

Xu Zhi saw that the girl put down her reserve, no longer being high, and made people much closer, and smiled secretly in her heart: "Although that girl is a princess, she is usually quiet and quiet, but she can't change her innocent and romantic nature in private, just like Yuan Zhi." ”

Xu Zhi stared at the graceful figure of the girl, and suddenly remembered Zhou Yuanzhilai again, I don't know how she is in Caizhou, whether she is still thinking about herself at this moment.