Before the age of twenty-three.

Inside the Laughing Villa.

A man was lying on his back on a couch like a corpse, his back muscles were not nourished, and he was infected with poison and sores. Even if the lady of the ninth room in the hospital competes to take care of her, however, she has no four bodies, does not say or move, lies on the sickbed for a long time, and is born by the moon and solar eclipse.

Chu Douzhen couldn't speak, couldn't walk, couldn't write, couldn't read, and those broken wounds on his body, after carefully taking care of them for a year, he would no longer be painful, numb, sour, or itchy;

Not only because of the loss of the tongue, but also because of the difficulty of manipulating the pen and ink, even if the mind turns nine times, it is just a tea kettle that is stuck in the tuyere, lying on top of the salary, allowing heaven and man to be full of water and fire, full of boiling, difficult to release the stuffy poison, and finally self-pushing and self-hurting, frying his own flesh and bones, boiling the only remaining essence and blood, but the mouth is not a single pain can not be screamed, and the ears are also a fart can not be heard.

As the saying goes, good words are hard to persuade damned ghosts, and great compassion is not self-exterminating. Now that the matter has come to this point, in addition to calling a "Buddha Heaven" and asking for a "forgiving word", what can this abolished human stick be?

Thirty-five years ago, Quanta left the palace outside the city.

There are three people under the seat, each of whom is Chu Douzhen, the general of the outer court, the head of the Song Building, and the prince of the dynasty, Gu Yunchu.

There is one person on the seat, the appearance is jade, the spirit is clear, the person is bright, not angry but mighty. This person is none other than Gu Yunwu, the lord of Juyan Country.

"Ladies and gentlemen, all of you at this table are brothers, and there are no guests or hosts, let alone kings and ministers. I hope that you will not follow the rules, and you will be happy with yourself. ”

The three people in the hall looked at each other in pairs, handed their eyes, and bowed their hands back and forth.

"Lord......" The corners of Chu Douzhen's lips trembled, he raised his palm and scratched his head, sullen for a moment, raised his eyebrows and then probed Gu Yunwu's face, shook his eyebrows and said softly: "Minister...... Ten Thousand Sins...... One after another, he misused the title and punished himself with three glasses first. Before the words fell, he was already raising his neck and frowning, and swallowed three glasses of warm wine in a hurry.

Seeing this, Gu Yunwu shook his eyebrows and smiled, rubbed his earlobe slowly with one hand, and held a cup with the other, and drank a cup with Chu Douzhen.

"The placket period is compatible, and the etiquette can be sparse. Dou Zhen has a bold temperament, I don't feel happy in my heart, but I can beat the drum and shout for you in the belly, cooing like thunder, and I have to sweep all the plates on the table if I don't wait. After that, Gu Yunwu took a dagger at hand, cut half a plate of beef leg meat, and then accompanied it with a small portion of osmanthus nectar fresh ginger, a small portion of fairy vinegar and Luo grass pickled melon, and put it away.

"If you can come here, you can be the heart of the country, and I don't have many eyes, and I don't need to lie - you can call me Brother Li, or, respect the 'master of the pinmill building'. ”

When the words fell, Chu Douzhen's face did not change, but he got up in a hurry, took the meal, and then bowed and raised his hand, and after a salute, he immediately pursed his lips, his eyes were certain, and his eyebrows and eyes glanced straight at Gu Yunchu's face.

Seeing this, Gu Yunwu pretended not to know, and from the seat, he reached forward with his hand forward, and motioned for everyone to sit down.

"Dou Zhen is often outside the border, but I don't know if I have heard of today's rivers and lakes?" After a pause, Gu Yunwu did not wait for anyone to answer, his eyes were slightly closed, and he sighed slowly: "Martial arts hawkers, more worship and grinding, wine and flowers, fragrant and lively." ”

"Children of the rivers and lakes, the weekday price is to walk on the knife mountain, the sea of fire comes and goes, and occasionally gets half a minute between the galloping electricity, and the edge of the dangerous strings is relaxed for a moment, and it is necessary to boast about Haikou and show off knowledge. As a result, I have heard a great deal of falsehood and truth, falsehood and truthfulness in the place where my mind is grinding. These secrets are not limited to Juyan, but mostly involve the three countries. ”

Gu Yunwu paused, and opened his eyelids to give a look to the Rong Yue place, "Thanks to the help of the Rong brothers of the Song Lou family, I can teach me to be related to this pin and grind the building, and become famous." ”

When Rong Yue heard this, he laughed loudly, "Brother Li said this, don't you have to be ashamed of Rong." If it weren't for the Dongfeng of the Pin Mo Building, how could my Song Lou business be so prosperous?"

"Stay, stay. You and my brother don't praise each other here, and then teach Yun Chu to fight with each other and joke. After saying that, Gu Yunwu shook his eyebrows, raised the lamp and handed it forward, and drank a big drink with Rong Rong in the air.

Chu Douzhen's face was still the same as before, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart that this banquet was really strange: he was not involved much in this court. Because he acted ruthlessly and facelessly, he was outnumbered, and every time he entered Guangda to report on his work, there were many donkeys in the court to see donkeys kicking and pigs to step on pigs, but I didn't know that there was a good flying star today, and he actually met the lord of the country in private, and he had warm eyes, and he could still be commensurate with his brothers? After thinking about it, he couldn't find a clue, so he only held the wine in his hand, and he didn't get close to his lips for a long time.

When Gu Yun first saw this, he didn't understand, frowned, and said to Gu Yunwu in a slow voice: "I said brother, I will surprise my younger brother." I really don't know if this banquet is going on, but what are the arrangements for us to be dispatched? Isn't it that the rivers and lakes are blowing a lot of demonic winds, and I am afraid that they will bring the temple and the temple and move me at all?"

The corners of Gu Yunwu's lips drooped, and his eyes darkened slightly. Swallowing his mouth and saliva, he responded slowly: "The shock wave is dangerous, if it is limited to the rivers and lakes, I am self-assured." Sigh only sigh that the sea needs to accept all rivers, and if you enter my country, the trouble of scabies can become a big poison, and there is a danger of messing with my cornerstone. The destruction of the suppression is not as good as the control of the subdued, so this pin mill building cannot be destroyed for the time being, and I, Li Siyou, cannot do without. ”

Gu Yun was stunned when he first heard it, and he didn't say anything, but Rong Yue slowly swallowed the deer tendons in his mouth, raised his eyelids, and said lightly: "Above the court, it is difficult for Rong to make a difference, in the rivers and lakes, if Brother Li does not give up, I Song Lou is willing to help." ”

When Gu Yunwu heard this, he naturally laughed out loud, raised his hand and rushed forward to salute, and said leisurely: "In the eyes of the Jianghu guests, the Pinmo Building, or the Yaofang Golden House, or the Yulin Qishu, or the deserted village and wild temple, or the deep mountain Flying Pavilion, what people see is different, and what people are looking for is not the way. Do you know why?"

Gu Yunchu's eyes turned back and forth many times, pursed his lips, and raised his voice to rush: "Brother, didn't you learn a few tricks from those excellent people who entered the palace to perform, which is enough to hide people's eyes?"

"Otherwise, it's your pin mill building, and there is nothing else to do. Before the words fell, Gu Yunchu's neck tilted, and he immediately said to himself: "I said brother, where is your pin mill building? Isn't it built in the world of Pengdao and built in the fairy cave?

Gu Yunwu and Rong Yue looked at each other, and they all ate and laughed.

When Gu Yun first saw this, he pursed his mouth, and he entered two cold wines as if he was angry, his eyebrows and eyes flew, and the clouds on his cheeks were slightly dyed, "I think that maybe my brother is virtuous and has become a Buddha, so I can suck the cold and heat, sneeze the rain and mist, and move mountains from the sea. ”

"You are really ......" Gu Yunwu raised his hand and clasped his palm, without saying a word, he glanced at Chu Douzhen sideways, paused for a moment, finally shook his eyebrows, and laughed slowly: "Yun Chu asked me where the Pinmo Building was, and this question really made me dumbfounded." If you ask me where it is, how can I tell me clearly?"

His words fell, and Rong Yue saw that Chu Douzhen was still full of doubts, so he couldn't help but put his spoon lightly, his chin was slightly retracted, and he laughed slowly: "Brother Chu, the location of the pin mill building is different from time to time, and it can be changed as you like." If Brother Li sprinkled a post on the rivers and lakes and invited someone to meet in the Pinmo Building a month later, I, Song Lou, would need to find someone to help, and build the Pinmo Building in the place designated by Brother Li within half a month. ”

"That's it, it's so fast! It's just ...... Isn't it ...... to build a building and throw it away It's not labor... It hurts money again......" Chu Douzhen sighed sadly, but his voice was humming and almost inaudible.

Gu Yunwu's ears trembled, there was no joy or dislike on his face, he snorted lightly in his nose, raised his lips, and said to himself slowly: "If the sales and grinding building is not a whim, then you have to find a way to do it once and for all, and it should not be as perfunctory as before - it will be demolished after it is built, and it will be demolished and rebuilt." ”

"Brother said this, but he has a plan?"

Gu Yunwu's eyes lowered, he smacked his lips, and muttered coldly, but he came out with a sentence that was borderless, "Escape to the ground and attack, travel thousands of miles in a day; ”

When Chu Douzhen heard this, he reacted immediately, his brain was full of blood, he pinched the wine lord with two fingers, raised his eyebrows and said, "The lord wants to fight?"

When Gu Yunwu heard the sound, he slowly got up, his eyes were certain, and his essence was revealed.

"If you are not a good general, you are a virtuous minister, if you are not a sibling, you are a comrade. Brave, clear, loyal, and righteous, it is difficult for me to have someone who is out of the right. Therefore, Lone here will also go straight in, tell the truth - now, like the prince of the total horn of the year, it is still difficult to break his heart, if it is similar to his ancestors, worship the Buddha and respect the Buddha, stop killing and killing, it is okay; if not, the vertical elephant is adjacent to my Juyan, one action, I will suffer. Lonely on the rivers and lakes, also heard that the five deer barbarians have gone through several civil strife, now its royal descendants Wulu Yi has emerged, fifteen years old, has shown the nature of killing, the sound of the jackal, the tiger looks at the wolf's heart, if the ancients do not deceive, its power will change, and the three kingdoms are all captives. ”

"Now in the middle of summer, the deer and elephant swallows stand side by side, and the giant swallow is the weakest. Although we are living in peace, we must not think about danger, but we must be prepared and prepared. Gu Yunwu let out a long breath, his neck was stretched, his face sank, and he said slowly: "Recently, I got a volume of lonely couples, which was left by a master in the rivers and lakes; Gu Yunwu sneered, swept the hall, and said to himself: "That master can be called the ancestor of the Qimen Dunjia of the rivers and lakes. It is said that the same Zhantai Fish Family and Sumeru Dragon Family both have a deep and extremely dense dry connection......"

"The two fish and dragon families, good at secret weapon formations, secret techniques, want to come to the treasure book obtained by Brother Li......" Rong Yue didn't finish his words, a cold behind his ears, he leaned over and gave a look, and when he opened his mouth again, he added more loyalty, "The Lord has obtained the treasure, congratulations!"

Gu Yunwu bowed his head slightly, and his eyebrows opened slightly, "The two fish and dragon are both vertical elephant people, the treasure scroll, there is one, it may not be the same, plus the people are unpredictable, if you don't start first, I am afraid that the neighboring countries will take advantage of the geographical advantage, once they are taught to take the lead, the darkness is Chen Cang, I am afraid that I will be caught off guard." ”

"The royal brother is painstaking, for the country and the people, Juyan is a soldier in the country, people do their best, respond to every call, and protect the family and the country. ”

When Gu Yunwu heard this, his face showed some frustration, he waved his hands together, closed his eyes and said to himself: "Life and death are mostly between a few thoughts about the monarch." If you don't have a long-term concern, you are afraid that the sun and the moon will be new when you blink. Although Lone does not want to commit a prisoner, he must save a strategy for self-protection as soon as possible, if he waits for the iron horse to cross my territory and the crossbow to line my border, he is afraid that it will be too late to regret it, and it will be difficult to get rid of the miserable situation of blood fragmentation and land loss. ”

"It's just that the king's spirit is reined in, and it's just that the army is surrendering everywhere. I'm afraid that I'm only afraid that the murderous intentions of foreign enemies will rise, and I will be able to do all of them, and there will be no home in the four seas, and it is rare to have a piece ......of tiles" The voice will fall, Gu Yunwu got up steeply, although he didn't say much, his face was full of awe-inspiring and inviolable colors.

"If this is the case, it is a subordinate who is responsible for the country and is ashamed of the heavens!"

When Gu Yun first heard Chu Douzhen's words, the corners of his lips trembled slightly, he hesitated, his cheeks trembled, and he finally squeezed out a smile.

At this moment, Gu Yunwu's expression was a little trance-like, his eyes narrowed slightly, he focused on his chin, and his heart couldn't help but give birth to a very comfortable feeling of "sleeping on a high pillow, embracing a brocade, and listening to the night rain falling into the empty steps".

Whenever Chu Douzhen remembers the situation of leaving the palace that day, he will always vaguely feel as if he has given birth to a pair of hands and feet; It's a pity that the hands and feet will never be born, and the empty eye sockets that have been gouged out have already flowed out a lot of eye water all the time, and I don't know whether the tears are clear or turbid, white or red.

At the first day of the first year, Chu Douzhen should undertake the work of digging tunnels and building underground palaces, and what he thought in his heart was nothing more than "the benefits of the world, and the merits of the world", "sacrificing oneself to avoid thousands of huge swallows and grasses, from being in dire straits, hungry and cold", "not wanting to be rich and prosperous, but seeking to be worthy of one's heart";

With Chu Douzhen's body unloading his armor at that time, it was really difficult to go to Guangda Face Sage in person, and he went to the palace to find it several times, but most of them returned in vain, and even Gu Yunchu's shadow could not be met, and he was forced to be helpless.

Song Building, study room.

Chu Douzhen's face was gloomy, and his two fingers kept knocking back and forth on the table, letting the smoke of the fragrant tea at hand be thick, but he didn't even bother to touch it.

Rong Yoona took a long breath, looked upright, reached out and took his own teacup, slowly exhaled a cool breath, and sipped his lips. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a bodhisattva in this world.

"I think at the beginning, Chu knew that it was a chore, but even if it was bitter, it was also bitter for myself, how could I ever think that I would take so many Li Yuan's lives?"

Rong Yue saw that Chu Douzhen couldn't hold his breath after all, so he immediately skimmed the tea, spread his eyebrows, hooked the corners of his lips slightly, and said slowly: "If you want to survive and be rich, you must die now." Those conscripts, although they lost their lives, didn't their relatives also get Brother Chu's pension?"

Chu Douzhen's forehead was hot, and he raised his eyebrows and scolded, "If you have money to spend but don't enjoy your life, which family's wealth is this?" After a pause, he put away his wide sleeves, swallowed his sullen breath, and continued in a deep voice: "The treasure scroll obtained by the lord, I don't know how many copies it has, and I gave it to you and me one by one, teaching me that this rough person is so confused, I don't know how long and deep this tunnel is, and how high and wide the underground palace is." ”

"Not knowing the whole picture is not necessarily a bad thing. ”

Chu Douzhen snorted, and replied in a cold voice: "I don't say anything about it, just say that there is a palace built by Chu right now-the end is a brocade wall, embroidered on the ground, Guidong Meiliang, Qiongshu Jade Gate; If this is the case, isn't this huge project a pleasure for one person and a detriment to the good of all the people?"

When Rong Yue heard the voice, he smiled skillfully, his eyes waved, and he responded slowly: "This ten thousand gold, after all, is not scattered by the good wealth boy to a dry cloth clothes? Brother Li is to all the people, just like the winter sun and summer yin, those who embrace him do not summon him, and this is true for you and me. If Juyan wants to survive forever and not be subordinate to others, he will eventually have to step on the tower of ten thousand bones and look far away, and step on the bridge of a thousand corpses to carry on the past and forge ahead into the future. ”

"Brother Chu only looked at the death of the current servant, why didn't he think that when the iron hooves of the five deer were trampled on and the vertical image was surprisingly defeated, what kind of situation should be in the territory of Juyan?

Chu Douzhen's face darkened, and he was busy reaching out to rub his black and whizen face.

"The Lord is loyal, and it is righteous to help his best friends. If Brother Chu wants to clarify the world, he needs to protect the whole world on behalf of the country; if Rong intends to consolidate Jinlan, he must take Brother Li as the leader. Rong Yu paused, his eyes were slightly less colorful, he swallowed his mouth and saliva, and said to himself: "Brother Chu is like a sac cone, if you want to hide your head with your hands or shine in front of you." Rong is talented, but he still has a few hard bones, and he will never be defeated in order to survive, and he will seek fame in his eyes. ”

Chu Douzhen heard this, and he really couldn't suppress the fire in his heart, so he stood up with a snort, clenched his fists and feet, and walked out of the door.

"Brother Chu will listen to one more sentence for the time being," Rong Yue raised his voice, paused for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "The matter has come to this, it's not you, it's you." Don't soften your heart for a while, and invite the danger of destroying the country the day after tomorrow. ”

Chu Douzhen sneered in his nose, and he didn't respond much, flicked his wide sleeves, and walked away.

The black rabbit takes turns, and the sun and moon alternate. Chu Douzhen is unpredictable death, Gu Yunwu actually gave him more than a dozen fragments of treasure scrolls before and after, and he was headless and flies like a hammer in the east and a pole in the west to dig and build, and sent away one stubble after another of the laborers, and saw that the underground corpses were like mountains of bones, blood was like rivers and resentments, and the strength of Gu Yunchu and the two of them were about Gu Yunchu, and the three-pronged approach took a total of ten and a year, and this party created this underground Qiankun for Gu Yunwu himself.

Thinking of the countless underground souls, Chu Douzhen was often speechless, feeling the souls asking for their lives day and night, and consciously being tortured day and night without stopping. It's not that he didn't think about picking on his son halfway, and those drafts of "pleading with heaven's grace and bowing down to retire" were typed over and over again. However, in front of Gu Yunwu, as soon as Fang moved his thoughts, he was first appeased by Gu Yunchu's national righteousness, and his mind relapsed, and he once again taught and asked those brotherhoods to extinguish the karmic fire.

"This is how fate should be, retribution and retribution. Chu Douzhen was still lying motionless on the couch, muttering over and over again in her head: no ears, no eyes, no tongue, no nose, no hands and feet, no blood and no air. Wouldn't it be good if you could lose your heart and lungs together, and you could also have less repentance and suffering.

"I can't protect Li Yuan, I can't keep the emperor's heir, one wrong move, there is no ...... of loyalty and righteousness" Chu Douzhen opened his mouth, wanted to shout but couldn't say a word, Langlang panted, his eyes couldn't stop fluttering again.