The former dynasty was ancient, the first emperor led the troops to end the melee of the Warring States princes and unified the Central Plains, followed the old calendar, set the country name Dachu, changed the year name Yuanze, set the capital Tianjing, divided the eight kings, throughout the Central Plains. For more than a decade, there have been few wars, and the border has been stable. After the death of the first emperor, the prince was young, only fourteen years old to step on the dragon chariot, and hundreds of officials congratulated.

To exclude the people who did their best to lay down the world for the Great Chu Dynasty among the eight kings of that year, Yin Feng, the king of Qin, did not let him rank in the top three. As a rare king with a different surname in the dynasty, the king of Qin led the Qin land to the north to reject the western palace, and guarded the northwest gate of the dynasty alone, making great contributions to the Taiping of the Central Plains.

Late at night on this day, Jiang'an City, located in the northwest, was brightly lit. Half of the Changping army in the hidden guard of the Qin Wangfu United City was dispatched, carrying torches to lift Jiang'an City into a chicken and a dog jump, and almost ploughed three feet into the ground to clean up the entire Jiang'an. However, the result of this huge battle was that hundreds of people returned in vain. The culprit who disturbed Jiang An this night had already climbed over the city wall with a long knife, and made a grimace at the chaotic group of straw bales in the city and slipped away.

The sky is spinning in the city, but the palace of King Qin is surprisingly calm. It's been night for a long time, and everyone in the house has fallen asleep, only the lights in the Wang'an Pavilion are lit. On the middle and bottom floor of the pavilion, a man in black and a man in green clothes talked to each other, and the fall could be heard.

At the end of the chess game, the face of the man in black was indescribably proud.

The man in Tsing Yi said in an elegant voice: "Tonight, the ability of His Royal Highness the Prince of the World is really an eye-opener for Wen someone, and half of the hidden guards in the palace have returned in vain." ”

The man in black laughed and said, "Just let him go, if you let out a few old things in the pavilion, you can't break his leg and drag him back?"

The man in Tsing Yi suddenly said: "I see, no wonder I see that His Royal Highness the King of Qin has lost his son, and his face has not changed, and he has fallen calmly, how can I still have the heart to come to Wang'an Pavilion if I want to stay on weekdays." It turned out that His Highness did it on purpose. I don't know what kind of step the prince is doing?"

"What's so wonderful...... This game of chess requires a desperate life, and sometimes it is inevitable that the sword will go off the rails. These days, the situation in the DPRK is turbulent, and there are many government affairs in Jiang'an. Isn't it rare for me to have a free time tonight, so I'll come to the pavilion to find Mr. to play two games, sir, do you see that this king's chess skills have improved compared to last time?"

The man in Tsing Yi smiled and said, "It's much better." ”

The man in black dropped another son and said, "A month ago, I received a secret decree from the emperor, asking this king to immediately bring troops into the Hajj to meet him. Hmph, sir, you said that the old emperor is also courageous, seeing that his time is short, and he is not afraid that I, an outsider, will change his surname to Yin, which is obviously to ask me to go to Tianjing to stabilize the situation and handle the future affairs for him. Since the partition of the royal land, six of the eight vassal kings are his Liu clan relatives, you said that the first emperor did not say to go to find King Huai of Yue, who was closer to Tianjing City, but ran to the northwest to find me an outsider, and he didn't think that the will had not yet reached the boundary of Wuzhou, and the people were so killed, but it was really unpredictable, and the will of heaven was unpredictable......"

The man in Tsing Yi said: "Our former emperor was the best at imperial mental skills during his lifetime, and it can be said that he used the means of checks and balances to the extreme. It is better to seek the near and far than to find His Royal Highness the King of Qin to assist in the government, which is enough to see his far-sightedness. Since he dared to settle the prince and would not rebel when he entered Beijing, he naturally expected that those who coveted the throne in Tianjing City would not dare to openly oppose His Highness. It's a pity that the emperor lost to the will of heaven in the end, and he didn't live to the day when this secret decree was passed into the hands of His Royal Highness. ”

"What do you think, sir?"

The man in Tsing Yi continued: "The pros and cons are mixed. When the son is young today, he naturally urgently needs the assistance of the minister. His Royal Highness can use this secret decree to enter the court to confront the dynasty magnates and control the court, which is a benefit. In the name of the Son of Heaven, you can recruit talents and expand your power, which is two benefits. It is beneficial to be neutral in the DPRK and stabilize its own position. As for the disadvantages, there is nothing more than one. ”

"Come on. ”

"Leave it to death and be born. ”

The man in black sighed and said: "Sir, you said that when the emperor was alive, the grass snake gray line paved the country for thousands of miles, and even the damage method of dividing the royal land was used, which made the ministers and scholars of the world panic all day long. These few moves are left to the world to speculate. Do you say that the old emperor who sat firmly in Tianjing City back then will there be room for this. After calculating the aftermath in front of him, then this emperor is really unprecedented. ”

The man in Tsing Yi was not affected by the chess game, and said indifferently: "I heard that a few days ago, the Empress Dowager Jia, who was in the middle of the day in Tianjing City, ordered several doctors from Tianxue to create a word of sacrificial wine and hand it over to the historian to write into the annals of history, and changed her name to Yan, taking the meaning of the flying dragon in the sky, and was impeached by the ministers of the DPRK and China. This is clearly determined to take over the endgame of the first king and become the one who fell, if this is still the second hand of the first emperor, my generation is only worthy of sitting in the well and watching the sky. ”

The man in black burst out laughing, shaking the flame to the ground, and said, "Mr. Insight, this is not the frog at the bottom of the well. The king only wanted to live in peace for a few years when he took the northwest fiefdom back then, but he didn't expect the general trend of the world to change impermanently, and the first emperor died only a few months, and several people in Tianjing City were even more impatient, and they should enter the game when they broke the game, but they were just pitiful for the few vassal kings who were closest to the royal city, and they had to ponder and ponder the place when they spit under the nose of the queen mother. ”

After a pause, the black-robed man smiled and returned to the original topic: "Didn't I hear that the top card of the night was sealed tonight, my unsuccessful son was going to see it two days ago, and I also had some friendship with the old pavilion master, so I just spared him and watched the play." If I can win a game tonight, I Yin, someone, can blow for half a month with the people in this palace, this is a big deal. ”

The man in Tsing Yi laughed and said: "Your Highness is really thinking too much, that kid told me two days ago that he wanted to go to Shuzhou for a walk, and he was just scolded by me for a bloody head." Maybe if you go out of the city tonight and never return, Your Highness will lose more than you gain. ”

The man in black looked stunned, causing Tsing Yi on the other side to laugh.

"Go to Shuzhou to do something, there is still a mess between several vassal kings on the Wangcheng side, and then let the king of Chengdu, an old man with few desires, get involved, it will be a big chaos in the world. Is this going to drive pigs up the tree? Alas, this kid has never let me worry about it since he was a child...... That's it, let's end the game tonight, and I'm bothering Mr. to call the girl from Bai Yue. ”

The man in Tsing Yi shook his head: "Don't worry, the night theater is happy all night, why do you want to stay there for this night, even if you don't go back to the palace, you can't go far." It is rare that His Royal Highness the King of Qin is so interested, and it is good to finish this chess game. Bai Yue's side will arrange it by someone. ”

......

Under the eaves of gold and jade, the purple gold tent. After a long night, the largest theater in Jiang'an City was brightly lit. Nine floors, more than 1,000 seats are filled. The average rich child can go up to the sixth floor, which has been accumulated by his ancestors for generations, and the broken silver he waives and rewards is piled up with gravel comparable to the gravel that can be seen on the roadside. As for the children of the wealthy families on the upper three floors, Mo Yi is not from a century-old family in the northwest of the Central Plains, and this kind of person is no longer confined to money, and he is a priceless treasure that can cause a bloody storm on the rivers and lakes when he is released. At this time, a lot of effort has been put into the maintenance of the facilities on the lower three floors, and even the replacement of the mahogany threshold is a lot of money.

can lead such a battle except for Murong Xi, the world's first flower in the world, who is famous in the capital and shocks the world, there is only the head of this century-old theater in the northwest - night white clothes.

The owner of the theater took the meaning of the night and named the theater as the night diaphragm, which is also the origin of the name of the night white clothes. It is said that whenever this person sings on stage, he must wear white clothes and wear heavy makeup, and ordinary people do not know his true face. There are even more good deeds who say that this night Baiyi is the corner of many people, and he was suffocated by the triangular singing of the night Baiyi in a play.

In addition to the horns of the night, the night white clothes also have a well-known identity, which is the young class master of the night. Humanity is about to flourish, and some literati once said that the night night will be taken over by this son to a hundred years of prosperity, and it will be a good story.

Originally, the bigger the name of this family, the more money he could make, but since the name of the white clothes started this night, the old class owner just arranged his field to the first time of the year, and once in the middle of the year, he was personally invited by the people of the Qin Palace. Ordinary people have to wait for half a year if they miss it, so there are very few people who can listen to this song in the northwest, which makes the name of this night white. No wonder people say that the old class of the night is a good student, and he is well versed in the truth that rare things are precious.

At present, thousands of people are silent, waiting for the red tent on the stage to be lifted. The sound of the board eyes started, and the white clothes opened the tent and entered. On the high platform, a person's face was like snow training, with trembling eyebrows and closed eyes, extremely handsome. After the drum was beaten, the white clothes threw off the water sleeves, opened their lips, and opened the red curtain with a high voice-

"Mo Dao's drama is humble and shallow, and he doesn't see the blood of the three-foot high platform. Who cries that the wolf gathers in the north and leans to the north, who cries agarwood leads the way to the ...... of ten thousand bones"

“......”

This song originates from the folk song of Wuzhou, commonly known as "Wuzhou tune", after the night white clothes personally rhetorical tune, the momentum of great sorrow, tossing and turning in the middle, ups and downs, to the end of the final word, the sorrow of the mountain, the heroism of the sky, teach people to listen to it heartily, I can't wait to immediately put pen to paper from Rong to imitate the King of Qin when he was going to kill thousands of miles in the north. So some students privately changed their name to "Da Liang Song" and sang in the northwest.

The water in the cup is cold, and the people on the high platform are full of grief. The white robe was still singing.

“......”

The sadness in the play has only increased compared to the old times.

At the end of the play, thousands of people were silent for a moment, and suddenly the sound of thunder burst out, sweeping through the sky in the suburbs of Jiang'an City.

Among the spectators, a black-robed man smiled and applauded vigorously: "Good show! Good show! It's not in vain that the young master has waited for these hours!"

The play is over, and the voices are boiling, and some insiders sigh: "It's a pity that this is the last scene of the young class master." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"You heard the white-haired old man in front of the door say that after the young class master, he was called by the old pavilion master to enter the court as an official, and he will never be on the stage again. ”

"Hey, it's a pity......"

"This night is missing, and the young class master is always a little darker. Look at the pomp and circumstance of these thousand people, how many people must have rushed to this corner. Although there are no mediocre people in the night night, it is still a little inferior to the young class master......"

A play attracted the people of the three cities to move like a tide, broken silver everywhere like stones, and the sky was full of red as flying flowers, although there is a part of the reputation of the night white clothes, and half of it is a gimmick for this last scene, after all, this play is not more than poetry, it is one less to watch, not to mention the young class master who only performs two times throughout the year. Presumably, the battle of the sealed box in the capital is not much better than today. And those famous children who were unable to be present due to incidents, I am afraid that they have to beat their chests when they hear this news, and they will regret nothing more than this for the rest of their lives.

......

The black robe was half-crouched on a beam on the third floor, his left hand supporting his chin, and his right hand beating on the wooden frame. After a while, I came back to my senses from the aftermath, looked around, and saw that the next scene was about to go on stage, and I didn't have the heart to watch it anymore, so I turned around and left.

The pomp and circumstance of the sky will inevitably disperse, and when this unprecedented event is over, there is only regret haunting Jiang'an City. There is no white cloth on the stage in this northwest land.

After the play, the white clothes retreated to the backstage that night, called to retreat, and then began to put on makeup.

The rules of the night for a hundred years, the stage drama cannot easily teach people to know the true face. The same person, who stepped on the stage and caused thunder in all directions, stirred up the storm, but when he got off the stage, he could only be ordinary people, covering an eight-foot bed quilt and eating grains. It is only the stage name of this play, and even half of the portrait of the true face has never been left.

If it is said that the ordinary actors in the pavilion can still know each other when they take off their makeup backstage, but this young class master really never comes out with his true face, but whenever he removes his makeup, he must first withdraw from everyone, and he is alone in the house. In this way, even the elders in the cabinet for decades have never seen the appearance of the young class master.

And this day and night, Bai Yi was removing his makeup behind the stage, but a person with a folding fan in his hand, opened the screen and broke in, standing behind Ye Baiyi, Ying Ying smiled.

Ye Baiyi was not annoyed, he seemed to be accustomed to this, and the movements of his hands did not stop at all.

The temples of this person who broke into this person were white, but there was no half of the decline on his face, and he was heroic, not inferior to this freshly dressed and angry young man in Jiang'an City.

Today, who can see the true face of the white-clothed Lushan that night with his own eyes, besides the old pavilion master of the night?

The old man put away the folding fan and said with a slow smile: "You sang hard in this scene today." ”

Ye Baiyi did not speak.

"Still complaining about Dad?"

"Don't dare. ”

The old man sat aside, opened and closed the folding fan in his hand, looked at the delicate side face of the night white clothes, and sighed: "The young man is domineering, and he can't live forever, and I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing." Dad is a person who came over from the year of the crown, and he has lived for most of his life, and he has never seen any heart? No matter what they say, the south Murong and the north are white, the rules of the ancestors are there, no matter how well you sing, it is also the name of the night white, and a touch of powder is just a show, how many dramas have been passed down for centuries from ancient times to the present? ”

Ye Baiyi stopped his hands, looked at his half-undressed face in the mirror, and opened his lips slightly: "I don't want to mislead the country, but how can I have the heart to save the country." At present, the queen mother of the dynasty is in power, and the situation is chaotic, so what does it matter if I just sing a lifetime?"

The old man shook his head and sighed: "Since I was a child, I have asked you to read the Four Books and the Five Classics and learn the penmanship of the Spring and Autumn Period, is it to let you change the tune of Wuzhou for the rest of your life? Although the northwest is far away, it is also the world, and the wind of the Central Plains will soon blow, and how much pure land can there be under the whole world? You must know that mud and sand produce real gold, and troubled times create heroes." ”

Bai Yi was stunned. The two looked at each other quietly through the bronze mirror, and the atmosphere was delicate. After a long time, the old pavilion master took the lead in breaking the deadlock, took out a bag from his bag, and rubbed it back and forth in his hand.

"I won't say these words today, my father knows that these Chinese New Year's Eve owe you a lot, and it is a last resort to let you go......"

The old man paused, shook his head, and continued: "I won't say these words today, I won't say them. ”

The old man handed the bag in his hand to Bai Yi, "This night has a hundred years of heritage, and there are countless treasures inside and outside the pavilion. Daddy didn't give you any of the worldly things, but he gave them to you. The world is unpredictable, you will encounter life and death in the future, there is a token in the bag, you take it to Shuzhou Longmen Temple, no matter what, someone will settle it for you. ”

Bai Yi took the bag and looked in a trance.

After doing this, the old man slowly got up and stepped forward, stood behind Bai Yi, bent down and picked up the water and slapped it on Ye Baiyi's face. Ye Baiyi was taken aback, and reached out to pick the old pavilion master's hand, but he couldn't resist his great strength.

"Don't move. The old pavilion master's tone was tough, "Young man, when you travel the world, you can't live in a corner and feel at ease, the heart of being a man doesn't have to be higher than the sky, but the heart is gone, where is it still a person?"

"You left home at the age of five and traveled with me, but you are very clever, at the age of ten you watched a hundred schools, at the age of fifteen you became a swordsman, and at the age of seventeen you were famous for half of the world. I still remember the first time you were performing in the hook column, a play was broken five times, and in the end you were still knocked off the stage, at that time who would have thought that the little bastard who deceived people and copper children is now famous all over the world? I remember when you were ten years old, you fell in love with a famous family in Beijing, and the big fart baby dared to change the words so shamelessly, and was knocked off the stage only halfway through the play, and you don't blame your father for forcing you to cry and sing the play offstage, the play is bigger than the sky, the rules of the ancestors. To this day, there are still guests in the capital who mention the year and scold you for being a disciple of the Dengzi who was defeated in it......"

"The hardships and hardships of the world are as warm and cold as you have not fallen. Now that you have learned all the skills of my body, how can there be any reason not to drive you away? You hate me? But then again, what do you hate, it is nothing more than an addition, and it is not enough. ”

"I can't protect you anymore, being knocked off the stage by someone may be a life of death, and you must not act as flamboyantly as a child. The tips for you should be well received, and don't just run away to Shuzhou casually, relying on holding it in your hand is at ease. Remember what I told you, when you arrive in Tianjing City, you will go to Yanzhulou to find the shopkeeper there, and he will give you a letter of recommendation for Yun Ju Test. In a few days, it will be winter, and when it is cold, you will need to add clothes. It is inevitable to starve on the layman's road, and don't forget to teach your craft. When you go out, you have to make friends with people, Mo Chengtian has a straight face, and it is not difficult to put down his body and beg for food with others, the people in the rivers and lakes are affectionate and affectionate, and they can live more comfortably by pulling down their faces......"

“......”

The movements of the old pavilion master's hand suddenly stopped, as if he felt that there was something left untold, and opened and closed his mouth unsatisfied.

Ye Baiyi looked up and saw that the makeup on the face of the person in the mirror had been washed away, revealing the shocking facial features.

When the old man was young, he was also proficient in all the eighteen martial arts on the stage, and his palms were naturally not delicate, and he was careful to wipe his white face overnight, for fear of rubbing his eyebrows and eyes.

The old man suddenly laughed twice: "Fortunately, you follow your mother, otherwise you will not be pointed at in the rivers and lakes." ”

Ye Baiyi's expression was complicated, and he immediately got up and wanted to leave, but he didn't want a hand to suddenly stretch out and firmly clasp his forearm.

"Let me look at you again, look at you again......"

Ye Baiyi turned around suddenly, and saw the old man in the bronze mirror with tears in his eyes, crying silently.