The idiot smiled disappre一门ly, his eyes couldn't help but look at the sword on Zhang Shaoyang's back, and asked, "This sword is not the white dew of Yao Lao Sword Immortal?"

Zhang Shaoyang tilted his head back and replied, "No, the name of this sword is Honghu, the name taken by my master." ”

"Honghu has the ambition to soar to the sky, and he is very courageous. The idiot said seriously, the news of the death of the old sword immortal had already reached Jiangling City, and the personality of Zhang Shaoyang in front of him had changed a lot, the idiot knew that most of the news was true, but he was never good at talking, let alone comforting Zhang Shaoyang, and after being silent for a long time, the idiot said, "What are you going to do next?"

"I have already told my father, I will go to Kunlun Mountain after the New Year, and you will go with me when the time comes. ”

"Good!"

The idiot didn't ask much, this is the case between him and Zhang Shaoyang, as long as they need each other, they will help each other without asking the reason, and the so-called love and brotherhood are probably like this.

"But before I do that, I'm thinking about doing one thing first. ”

Looking at Zhang Shaoyang's gloomy face, the idiot knew what he wanted to do, and said calmly: "Didn't you say that you don't have feelings for Miss Gao anymore?"

Zhang Shaoyang smiled and patted the idiot on the shoulder, and said: "Then you can't watch her fall into the abyss, today I saw the one surnamed Liu, if Gao Jingshu marries him, life will definitely not be easy, with her strong temper, she may do something that she can't think of." ”

"Then Liu Han's family background is not simple, you'd better not provoke it, so as not to cause trouble for the master. ”

"Don't worry, my father is so anxious to get rid of the relationship with the capital, I naturally won't blatantly cause trouble, seeing that there will be more than ten days before the Chinese New Year's Eve, this surnamed Liu should also return to Beijing, when the time comes, give him a big gift, ensure that he will not dare to come to Jiangling again in the future!"

On the whole person, Zhang Shaoyang has endless ideas in his stomach, as soon as he heard Zhang Shaoyang say this, the idiot was already secretly a little pitiful to Liu Han in his heart, the two walked side by side for a while, just Zhang Qingyuan walked out of the side room, after seeing Zhang Shaoyang, he said with some complaints: "I can't find anyone this morning, where did I go?"

Zhang Shaoyang smiled indifferently: "I couldn't sleep in the morning, so I went out for a walk." ”

"It just so happens that Dad is looking for you, come with me. ”

The idiot retired to Zhang Qingyuan very interestingly, and Zhang Qingyuan took Zhang Shaoyang through several layers of courtyard and walked to the Zhang family ancestral hall.

"Dad, is there something wrong?"

"You haven't been at home on your birthday this year, have you forgotten your mother's death date?"

Zhang Shaoyang shook his head: "Mother's death day, how can you forget it!"

"Well, I was afraid that you would be too tired to travel yesterday, so I took you to see your mother early this morning, and by the way, I gave her some paper money on the pillar incense. ”

The father and son were relatively silent all the way, and followed Zhang Qingyuan to the ancestral ancestral hall, many tablets of the ancestors of the Zhang family stood on the ancestral hall, neat and neat, and were wiped quite clean, the incense ashes in the incense burner were new, obviously Zhang Qingyuan often came here to incense.

Zhang Shaoyang seriously lit a stick of incense, kowtowed three times in the direction of his mother's tablet, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner, and then turned around and put a few pieces of paper money in a brazier in front of him that was dedicated to burning paper.

The light in the ancestral hall was relatively dim, and after these pieces of paper slowly burned, the room was much brighter, and the firelight reflected on the faces of the two, flushing red.

"Burn more, don't let your mother suffer below. ”

In fact, Zhang Shaoyang never stopped in his hand, and kept throwing the paper money in his hand into the brazier, and Zhang Qingyuan stood aside for a while, and slowly squatted down, took a handful of yellowed paper money from Zhang Shaoyang's hand, and threw them into the fire one by one.

"Dad, do you have anything else to say to me? ”

Zhang Qingyuan let out a low 'hmm', not knowing if he was answering or making a random sound.

"Shaoyang, do you know the reason why our Zhang family moved to Jiangling back then?"

Zhang Shaoyang's hand paused, and his eyes moved from the brazier to Zhang Qingyuan's face, which had a blank expression.

"My father wrote me a letter that the child remembers. ”

"Well, now that you've grown up, there's something you should know. ”

"Listen to my father, is there anything else hidden?"

Zhang Qingyuan knew that this ancestral hall was the safest place for the Zhang family, in addition to the fact that he had been strictly ordering non-Zhang family members not to enter, the brothers who had never been seen had also been guarding around the ancestral hall, so he could say anything with peace of mind, but he still stood up, walked to the door, and looked around, only then did he close the door of the ancestral hall, and his cautious appearance made Zhang Shaoyang understand that this matter was not trivial.

Zhang Qingyuan returned to the brazier and began his narration: "I have always warned you that the descendants of our Zhang family are not allowed to enter the office, but I have never told you the reason, and I will tell you today." ”

"Back then, your grandfather was Emperor Taizu's most trusted subordinate, and he made great achievements for the Great Song Dynasty, it stands to reason that even if your grandfather handed over the military power in his hands, he should be crowned an official like the Li family, but the final result was that your grandfather resigned and returned to his hometown, and finally died of depression, which can involve a lot of things. ”

Zhang Qingyuan paused, and then said: " In addition to the traitors in the court, in fact, there is one of the most important reasons, that is, the 300,000 Zhang family troops who swear allegiance to our Zhang family, most of them are soldiers of the former Tang Dynasty, and your grandfather was also anti-Tang and raised the Song Dynasty, in the heart of Emperor Taizu, there will be some mustard, because of this, after your grandfather resigned, Emperor Taizu was angry and allowed to play with him, but this move affected the whole body, and the soldiers of the Zhang family who were loyal to the Zhang family also resigned with your grandfather, which was obviously to oppose the court and make Emperor Taizu more vigilant。 ”

"So my father said that we left the capital and came to Gangneung to reassure the royal family. ”

Zhang Qingyuan sneered: "That's just our Zhang family's own thoughts, since ancient times, who has been the emperor, which one is not extremely suspicious? Before we moved to Jiangling, Jiangling Zhizhou inexplicably changed people, let you Uncle Gao take over, after I arrived in Jiangling, your Uncle Gao went out of the city ten miles to greet him, for a family that has lost power in the imperial court, the dignified and four-grade Zhizhou, why do you need to make such a gesture?"

Zhang Shaoyang was stunned: "What does Dad mean..."

"Isn't this just telling me that even if I move to Jiangling, there are still people staring at our Zhang family, and once we do something restless, I'm afraid that it will immediately reach the emperor's ears. ”

"So for so many years, Uncle Gao has been treating our family with courtesy, but it's all fake?"

Zhang Qingyuan threw the few remaining pieces of paper money in his hand into the fire, slowly stood up, and sighed: "That's not true, your Uncle Gao is not the person who doesn't know how to change, our two families have had a good relationship for so many years, and there are always three or four points of true friendship in it, but these friendships are all on the basis of our peace and self-control." ”

Zhang Shaoyang thought for a while and said: "What is my father worried about this, our Zhang family has been in business for generations now, and we have long stopped asking about political affairs, so we can always do business in peace, right?"

Zhang Qingyuan glanced at him meaningfully, and sighed: "It's difficult!"

Zhang Shaoyang inexplicably felt a chill on his body, he stood up suddenly, stared at Zhang Qingyuan for a long time, and then said in a low voice: "Dad, do you mean..."

Zhang Qingyuan smiled bitterly: "Dad is old, do you think Dad still has that mind?"

Zhang Shaoyang breathed a sigh of relief!

"What does Daddy mean?"

"Shaoyang, my father told you before, in the 300,000 army of the Zhang family, there are many tiger generals, many of them resigned with your grandfather and returned to their hometowns, some of them lived a secluded and idyllic life, and some of them were ignorant of the world like your uncles, and a few others were deeply dissatisfied with the Great Song Dynasty, so they took refuge in the Northern Liao, which was the enemy of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Your grandfather once had a proud subordinate, called Ning Menghu, who was commensurate with my brother, this person is just not jealous and hateful, and at the same time has a brave ability, every time he goes into battle to kill the enemy, he can always go deep into the enemy's position, and the enemy who kills is terrified, he resigned and resolutely went to the Northern Liao to seek a way out, and now he is the deputy commander of the Northern Liao Army. ”

Zhang Shaoyang settled down and asked, "Has my father met him?"

"Yes, he came here to see me the other day. ”

"So that's why Dad came to me?"

Zhang Qingyuan glanced at Zhang Shaoyang and said indifferently: "This person asked me to raise the banner against the Song Dynasty and cooperate with him inside and outside." ”

Zhang Shaoyang didn't know what to say for a while, he held a handful of paper money tightly in his hand, and his hands hurt when he squeezed them.

"Shaoyang, Dad wants to hear your thoughts. ”

Zhang Shaoyang stood there for a long time, and Zhang Qingyuan didn't bother during this process, the atmosphere was a little weird for a while, until Zhang Shaoyang squatted down again, and the expression on his face had become extremely calm.

"Dad, you really look up to a child, you can rest assured that I can make up my mind about such a big matter?"

As soon as he saw Zhang Shaoyang's appearance, the corners of Zhang Qingyuan's mouth curled slightly: "After all, today's world is the world of you young people!"

Zhang Shaoyang disagreed, and said: "I know that my father already has an idea in his heart, and asking the child is just a test for the child, the child doesn't understand this, if you really want to ask me, I can only talk to you about this trip to the rivers and lakes, wonderful, much more wonderful than the rivers and lakes in the mouth of Mr. Fumanlou's storyteller, but I don't know if this river and lake will be so exciting once the Northern Liao Army comes in." ”

"Maybe it's even more exciting!"

Zhang Shaoyang smiled, walked to the door and opened the door of the ancestral hall, the sky outside was a good blue, and there was not a single cloud in sight.

"Dad, my master is willing to die for this world, proving that this world is not so unbearable, are you right?"

Zhang Qingyuan laughed and strode out of the ancestral hall.