"In this world, when there are two or more 'coincidences' in a matter, there is reason to suspect that it will not be as simple as a 'coincidence', but most likely due to someone's calculations.

For example, it is not surprising that the father and brother of Yanxin will choose to conceal and delay after learning the news, and they will secretly inform them after delaying for about how long.

For example, the secret official of the Supervision Department is a little young and vigorous, and he is a little prejudiced against his life experience or talent, and I only need to use words to provoke and plant hints, and the seeds of evil thoughts will be born, and I will successfully get rid of the 'secret official' with the help of Yanxin's hand.

For another example, Yanxin must be very impulsive in order to meet me in a hurry.

Everything is in line with my calculations. ”

Writing this, Gu Shuleng stopped writing, thought about it seriously, and then continued: "I have forcibly elevated my true intention to the fifth realm on the path of cultivation: the realm of knowing the gods, but I still can't really practice because of the limitations of "life". It will get closer and closer to "going back" every 16 years, and I hope that this gamble with the Supervision Department will pay off. Otherwise, if I don't find 'that person' and get that Guan Jianwu, my 'life' will probably come to an end." ”

The tip of the pen paused again, dipped the inkstone in ink, hesitated for a moment, and still did not write the sentence that had been weighed for a long time: "My talent's 'intuition' tells me that this heavy rain, which is rarely seen in Uehara City, is mostly the handwriting of a certain Great Monk of the Seven Realms, and it may even be the shot of the Eight Realms." In other words, it is very likely that this city will have a confrontation between the Great Monks of the Seven Realms or the Eighth Realm without changing the plot of the original book."

The Great Cultivators of the Seven Realms were able to achieve the transcendent sanctification of the 'Landscape Sitting Hall', and in the area where they 'sat in the Hall', they could not only stir up the weather and rain of the heavens and the earth, but also easily capture the heavenly opportunities and fates involved in themselves, and sense the peeps and calculations of others. Therefore, it was often very difficult for a Seven Realm Great Cultivator to confront them in the main arena where they were 'sitting', whether in the open or in the dark.

Gu Shuleng wasn't sure if this great monk who made a move would be proficient in the 'Heavenly Machine Technique', so he didn't have the confidence that after writing it, he would be caught by the other party from the 'Heavenly Machine' of the underworld.

After thinking for a moment with a solemn expression, he finally wrote only the date in the lower corner of the paper: Zhongyuan Festival on July 15, the eighth year of Yuanxiang of the Dafeng Dynasty.

Gu Shuleng sighed deeply, put the written paper aside to dry, and thought secretly: I am too weak after all, even what I want to do, I have to think carefully and carefully, even if I have the advantage of 'home', I still have to be a grandson obediently, and I feel aggrieved to think about it.

At this moment, the young Suning came over with tea and glanced at the 'runes' on the paper, which were lined up in regular rows. A little puzzled, he asked, "Childe, why do you write such strange 'runes' every day, can you understand it?"

He was puzzled, he and Childe had grown up, and they hadn't discovered where he had learned the strange runes.

Gu Shu smiled slightly, he naturally understands, but no one in this world can understand, and the only one who can understand has died decades ago. He wouldn't even talk to the second person, otherwise he would have written so many diaries and so many secrets, wouldn't it be exposed.

He didn't answer Suning's question, but just said to Suning: "Liushan Mountain and Pingyang Dynasty have come back?" ”

Liu Shanshan sent a letter back and said that he would wait for the rain to stop completely before he could transport the batch of medicinal materials back, after all, there was no sign of this rain, and there was no rain gear before going out. As for the Pingyang Dynasty..."

Suning's crooked willow eyebrows were raised, and he was a little helpless when he said Liushanshan.

Then, he frowned, and seemed to be a little disgusted by the name 'Pingyang Dynasty', but still said truthfully: "He said that he may not come back anytime soon, and he also said, and said.."

Suning hesitated and didn't know what to say, Gu Shuleng stretched his waist, his good-looking eyeliner was stretched extremely long, and he seemed to guess what he thought, and said with a smile: "Did he say that if I really joined the Supervision Department and was in the company of the black dogs of the imperial court, he would find another way out, that's what he said." ”

Suning was dumbfounded, and said indignantly: "He is so rude, and he wasted his son's life-saving grace and knowing grace." ”

Gu Shu smiled coldly, and didn't care too much about the complaints of this bookkeeping boy who had been very serious and innocent since he was a child, but he didn't say angrily: "Remember, just because you have saved others, you can take it for granted that others must die for you." If everyone is like those retainers and dead soldiers, then how boring this world should be. ”

The young man who listened to some contradictions was a little speechless, in his opinion, shouldn't saving people's lives be repaid with their lives. I wanted to refute it, but it turned into an indescribable "But, but..."

Gu Shu shook his head coldly and said softly: "Don't forget, he is also a hard-working person, and he can have a more miserable life experience than him, there may be many, many in this world, too many to count, but the most admirable ones are only their Lu Kingdom and the Cao family." ”

Suning was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered some rumors that have been circulated to this day, and his heart couldn't help but become a little complicated, and he was at a loss for a while.

It is rumored that in the era of the 'Tianxia Sect System', which was still the core of the sect as the ruling core, it was far less stable than it is today. There are two kinds of people in the world, one is able to practice, and the other is an ordinary person who cannot practice and can only be a lifetime.

Struggles between monks often affect innocent ordinary people without any scruples, and most monks never take it for granted, taking the phenomenon of ordinary people who cannot cultivate as cattle and sheep for granted.

It is not uncommon for those to rise up to resist, but it often ends in more tragic slaughter, and most ordinary people have accepted their fate in the long years that followed.

But later, there was a Cao family that had been Confucian saints for three generations, and in order to be able to ask for the lives of ordinary people, they established a place to live in peace. After paying a lot of sacrifices, he even used a large amount of Confucian qi to give gifts to most of the ordinary people in the world who could not practice, and found another way to resist the tyrannical monks in the world with mortals 'raising Haoqi'.

As a result, the Cao family should be "lucky" in Luyu Prefecture to establish a country, and at that time, countless scholars with Confucian morale were willing to give up "Confucian luck" and join the country of Lu as "wise men" who joined the WTO.

For a time, Lu became the most prosperous holy place of Confucianism, far surpassing the Spring and Autumn Academy of the Nanze Alliance in the south of the Yangtze River, resulting in a good scene of no sects surviving in the nineteen states of Luyu Prefecture.

It was only later, in the years when the Dafeng Dynasty swept the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, the three saints of the Cao family of the Lu State did not want the lives of tens of millions of people in the nineteen states to be ruined, so they accepted the surrender of the Dafeng Dynasty under the pressure of the soldiers at that time and became a vassal country.

It's just that Jiang Yue, the generalissimo of the Dafeng Dynasty who was negotiating at that time, died strangely and violently, and the Dafeng Emperor was angry and resolutely tore up the agreement and ordered the destruction of the Lu State.

But as a country that has lasted for hundreds of years, it can dare to fight against the world's sects for survival and freedom, how can it lead the neck to be killed.

It is tens of millions of people in the nineteen states of Yilu country, from the old people who can move around, down to the ten-year-old children, even the usually weak women, everyone is iron-clad. Like the fiercest sword cultivator in the world, he would rather die than break his sword, and almost everyone died in that bloody battle.

Even the national capital of Lu has become a ghost city comparable to the capital city of Guigu, and there are countless corpses in the nineteen states, and the desolate scene caused by it cannot be replenished to this day.

At that time, the sages of the Cao family of the Lu State took countless scholars and scholars to guard the country, and everyone sang to death in the rain of swords, and no one survived.

Together with the three saints who died in battle, they dispersed the contemporary Confucian qi in charge and dispersed into heaven and earth. Only then did the later generations of scholars do not need to worship Confucianism and worship Confucianism, and everyone can read to cultivate Haoran Qi and save righteousness. *(Notes 1 & 2)

According to later records, in that battle, even the great monks of the six or seven realms of the Dafeng Dynasty who were able to slaughter soldiers in large numbers on the battlefield, dozens of them ran out of true qi and died of exhaustion.

This is why there is a saying that "everyone in Lu is heroic" and "the spirit of Lu is immortal" that has been praised by later generations.

Therefore, in that turbulent twenty or thirty years, what people remember the most is not only the invincible iron hooves of the Dafeng Dynasty and the rune heavy weapons that easily slaughtered monks. It's not the heroic spirit of those powerful monks in the world who broke into the military formation with one person and one sword, and there are too many deeds that make people cry and cry.

Now, perhaps only the four of them know that the doctor in Gu Caotang used to be Cao Yangping. His family, a remote branch of the Cao family of the Lu State back then, survived a very small part of the battle in which the Lu State was almost extinct.

It's just that Cao Yangping was not born at that time, and probably there would be no idea of national hatred, even if he was instilled with the truth by his elders since he was a child, it still did not seem to be deep-rooted.

However, in addition to national hatred, there is also family hatred.

Suning still remembers that on a rainy night, Gongzi took him out of the city for the second time.

In a small village in the middle of nowhere, a young man knelt in front of the private school and wept bitterly, kowtowing to the door again and again. Through the rain curtain, you can hear the hoarse resentment and crying in his mouth from afar, and the sentence "useless is a scholar, useless is a scholar" still remains in the memory of the young Suning.

On that day, twenty years after the destruction of the Lu State, his family was still found by the spies of the Supervision Department in the northwest border of the south, tens of thousands of miles away from Luyu Prefecture in the south.

On that day, he discarded the pen and picked up the sword, and since then there is no one in the world who only studies to raise the righteousness of the Cao family, Cao Yangping, only the Pingyang Dynasty who bears the hatred of the country and the family.

At that time, Suning thought about it, shouldn't people in the world be able to have copper coins, fill their stomachs, and live peacefully. Fighting and killing like this, when is the retribution of grievances a head.

Gu Shuleng is neither as pure and innocent as Suning, nor as sentimental as Yanxin.

He just sighed a little that when he was writing the book, the tragedy about the Lu State was one of the foreshadowings written for the Dafeng Dynasty to gradually lose the hearts of readers after the Dafeng Dynasty swept the world, causing the national strength to begin to decline.

But there is nothing to blame, Lu Guo's paragraph was only temporarily added by his own enthusiasm for a while.

It's just that when I really got to the book, heard the deeds with my own ears, and saw the far-reaching impact of the follow-up of that part of the plot with my own eyes, I couldn't bear it.

He suddenly laughed at himself, and secretly said in his heart that he still wanted to build an archway.

If you follow the original book, there will be some bloody plots that are both hateful and sad in the back of this world, if you really worry about everything like Yanxin, you won't die of myocardial infarction.

Otherwise, do you have to change the original plot to a mess?

He was suddenly silent, remembering his previous life, when he was proud to write the work he thought he was satisfied with. In the end, I was depressed every day, watching one plot after another in the book circle being criticized by readers for being useless, and in the end, I didn't even have the courage to be proud.

These images are as vivid as yesterday.

Gu Shuleng couldn't help but ask himself, is there any meaning and what is the meaning of being reborn in the book he wrote.

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*(Note 1): Although the Confucian schools at that time were in the form of academies, they were still very interested in inheritance, and they were not as selfless as the three generations of sages of the Cao family.

*(Note 2): There are big similarities between the Confucian saying of "I am good at nurturing the spirit of Haoran" and "righteousness", but there are small differences.

'Haoran Qi' is broad and lofty. "Righteousness" lasts forever.