Chapter 60: The Past Is Like Smoke

"The past... It had to start a long time ago.

It's been a long time, and I've almost forgotten..."

"Let me think about ......"

The night is dark, and the bamboo shadows are shining.

The old man stroked the fan, looked up at the moon, and remembered the past...

"I remember, at that time, the era name was not called Yuan Qi, but also called Fang Qi..."

"At that time, the Tang Dynasty was only the size of the Northern Regions now. However, it is also extremely strong, worshiped by the Quartet, paid tribute from all directions, and the national test of the Tang Dynasty has made people with aspirations in the world rush to it. And your grandfather and I met at that time..."

"That should be the eleventh spring of Fang Qi..."

After passing the national examination, a total of more than 2,000 people broke into the palace examination. ”

"Hehe, my generation is the same age as you are now, but the people of that time were much more fierce than you. Those who dare to take the national examination, which one is not a first-class genius? There are many demons who have entered the sky. And those who can go all the way to the palace test are even more dragons and phoenixes in the demons. ”

As he spoke, the old man looked a little excited, and his voice was a little higher.

"The exam questions of the palace exam that year were also quite interesting, they were "thousands of miles of mountains and rivers". ”

"Hanlin's fan, you should know about it, right?"

"Yes. Xia Xun nodded in response.

"Your grandfather and I met in that fan. ”

"That's a coincidence... I, your grandfather and senior brother, a total of a dozen people, were actually arranged at the same entrance. At the time, we thought it was intentional on the part of the examiner so that we could get into a fight. ”

"Hehe..."

"He said that he would fight, and we just didn't fight, and we formed a small alliance temporarily, and we were angry with him. However, fortunately, I didn't fight, and I formed an alliance. Otherwise, our gang will have a miserable life in the future..."

The old man grinned, and he could feel the joy in it.

"On the second day of entering the fan, it was fried. ”

"Originally, the mountains and rivers were transformed into flat land, and at a glance, it was a swamp grassland except for people. The two thousand demons who broke into the palace test back then formed more than a dozen groups of people just a day ago, all of whom gathered hundreds of people. ”

"It's much more pitiful on our side in comparison..."

"With me and your grandfather, there are a total of eighteen little dolls on our side, and those who broke into the Apocalypse Realm are Feng Xian and Senior Brother. With this kind of strength, it's not enough to stuff the teeth of those thousands of demons..."

"No way, we can't beat it, we can't beat it, we can only run if we can't beat it......"

"Haha... Run..."

As the old man spoke, he suddenly laughed for a while, which made the two young listeners inexplicable.

"Haha, when it comes to fighting, they are outnumbered, and we are not their opponents. But in terms of conspiracy and trickery, those gangs can only practice with their heads bored, and they can't catch up with us......"

"We fled for two days, and their dozen or so men foolishly fought there for two days. It wasn't until we lost half of our manpower that we realized that we were still watching the show..."

"Hehe, they're not too stupid, and they know how to chase us in turn. ”

"They chased all the way, we fled all the way, hid all the way, ambushed all the way and calculated, what to bury traps, lead the mud, scheming in the palace, sowing discord, diverting the tiger from the mountain, as long as we can use the bad moves, we will go out of the insidious..."

"After chasing us for two days, the hair didn't touch a single of us, and we were so infighting that we fought again..."

"There were several times when they got into a fight of their own and forgot about our dozen little fish. If it weren't for your grandfather letting Feng Xian go back and slap them a few loud times, he would have angered them again. I guess they didn't bother to continue chasing..."

"Haha," the old man laughed again.

"In this way, we played a few tricks in the perineum, and a few tricks in the insine, and we took those big old and rough people to wander in the fan for more than ten days. In the past ten days, two thousand demons have been lost alive by us to hundreds of disabled soldiers..."

"Haha. ”

"When there were only a hundred or so of them left, we didn't run away. So what are you going to run away from? ”

"We just turned the gun and forced them to continue the infighting and beat their own people.

If they don't fight, we will let Fengxian and Senior Brother go up and send them away. Let them fight if they don't fight..."

"We didn't stop until there were forty-nine people left in the fan, and the temple test was over. ”

"Haha, it's funny to think about. A good palace test of dragon and tiger fighting, and more than a dozen of us acted into a big drama of conspiracy and trickery. When we walked out of the fan and returned to the Jinluan Hall to be sealed, the faces of those old ministers turned green when they saw it..."

The old man was already smiling from ear to ear, and he could see how exciting the scenery was at that time.

"Haha..."

"Majestic, eighteen to two thousand, what a great thing?"

"On the night of the end of the palace test, the old eighteen gave us the largest drunken fairy building in Kyoto. We were so happy that night, even Lao Yin and Feng Xian's popsicles were drunk like mud..."

"But it's no wonder, the girl in the Drunken Immortal Building is very smart, her waist is thin, and her calves are so tender..."

"Sir!"

The more the old man spoke, the more he became engrossed, and his words were a little out of place. Peony was said to be shy, and couldn't help but scold and interrupt...

"Ahh

The old man was frightened by a shout, and his thoughts were instantly withdrawn from his memories. Only then did I realize that I had fallen into a trance. I couldn't help but show a little embarrassment.

"Uh..."

"Uh-huh..."

The old man coughed dryly and pretended to be positive: "Forehead... Where did you just go?"

"Waist down..."Xia Xun answered.

"That's not right!" Peony glared at Xia Xun slightly angrily, so frightened that his eyes were weak. Peony then continued: "Sir said, drunk as mud..."

"Oh, yes, yes, yes. Blind drunk... Drunk as mud..."

The old man gradually slowed down and thought for a while.

"Hey... Drunk like mud, the top three in the palace exam, it is indeed worth being happy when you are titled. ”

The old man's smile gradually faded, replaced by a faint sadness.

"But that was the only time eighteen of us could laugh so happily, the only time we dared to get drunk together. ”

"That temple trial can be regarded as the greatest opportunity in our lives..."

"During our palace examination, the master happened to travel to Chang'an. By chance, we actually fell into his eyes. Personally asked for the eighteen of us by name in the Jinluan Palace..."

"A month later, the king of Tang promised to send us to Penglai, Nanzhen..."

"At that time, except for the second senior brother and Feng Xian, the rest of us were very happy. What kind of place is Penglai? That's where the gods live... Cultivating with immortals, that's not something ordinary people can ask for!"

"However, we were only happy for half a day, and the hard days came. ”

"Penglai, it's really not a place for people. During the day, he was whipped into the fairy forest by the master with a whip, and at night he had to squat in the cloud waterfall to meditate, and if he fell asleep, he would come over with a whip... It was a miserable day..."

"Compared to us, the dolls of your generation are much happier. ”

The old man looked at the two of them deeply: "At least for now, you are too much Xinfu..."

He looked up at the night sky again.

"Those days were too bitter and boring. Except for the kindness of the master and the skills he has gained, there is nothing worth recalling..."

"After five years, the repair period expired. Eighteen of us have broken into the Apocalypse one after another, and Senior Brother and Fengxian have even stepped into the level of the King Realm. The master then put us back to the East Earth Refining Red Dust. ”

"Eight people in Wen entered the heavens, and ten people in Wu entered Shenwei, and they cultivated for another two years..."

The old man smiled again.

"Compared with Penglai in two years, that's a lot more interesting. ”

"In our group, the oldest elder brother is only thirty, and the youngest eighteen is only twenty-one, but they are all young, and they have trained a peerless Tianjiao with a literary and martial arts strategy. As soon as we entered the WTO, how many wealthy families were attracted, and the princes and nobles immediately flocked to Lishan and Yueyang?"

"Hehe..."

"I don't know how much Kamui has led in Lishan. But the nobles of Yueyang can all drive the carriage with a large bag, from the west gate to the Wentianjing Building, and they can't drive away. At that time, Wentian was closed for a whole month. ”

"Haha, the Heavenly Pavilion Master of that generation was miserable by our little ghosts. Since we went, we haven't had a day of peace..."

"Haha, no problem, who made a few little junior sisters grow cute, and I and Lao Yin are also handsome? Who hasn't had a few relationships in life since ancient times, right..."

The old man looked at the night sky and asked himself, as if he was engrossed again.

"Besides, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, we all know hemp... Except for the old eighteen, none of us have any flowers and grass on the edge of the nest. If we want to eat, we all run far away to Yuyang to get drunk and eat, and ask how many Confucians secretly go to that place to eat grass?"

"The old immortal pavilion master still keeps saying that I am immoral and insulting..."

"Huh!"

The old man couldn't help but snort with disdain.

"It's better to say that he himself is disrespectful to the old..."

"The old eighteen have seen it with their own eyes, and that old thing has sneaked into the drunken and fishy thing today. Hmph, disrespectful for the old!"

"I'll just say, what's the place where you're drunk today, and the old thing hasn't been there?"

"Sir!"

"Grandpa Zhi!"

This time, it's not just Peony who is shy to listen to. It was Xia Xun, who was also stunned by this old man who was in a daze. Who would have thought that the divine will in the eyes of the world would have such a mundane time? Fortunately, there were no outsiders nearby, otherwise it would have spread out, but it would have been a major event that could subvert a piece of heaven and earth.

"Well..."

The old man shook again and was awakened.

"Oops, I'm confused..."

The old man patted his forehead with a fan, very embarrassed: "Hey... People are old, and they talk nonsense. Don't take it seriously, it's all crazy... Crazy talk"

"Where did you just say that?"

"Wen enters the sky, and Wu enters the gods. Peony replied angrily.

"Oh... Here..."

"Think about it..."

The old man put up his fan again, looked back at the night sky, and thought...

"Wen into the sky, Wujin Shenwei... Into the Divine Might... Kamui..."

He muttered to himself and pondered for a moment.

"There's not much to say about those two years, that's all. Let's not talk about it, let's talk about it later..."

"After that..."

"Two years later..."

"Eighteen of us were sent back to Kyoto and sealed.

I was canonized and went to Hanlin as a bachelor, Lao Yin and Fengxian went to the palace to serve as a civil and military Taibao, and the senior brother went to Si Tianjian. Except for the second senior brother who refused to return to Chunyang, the other senior brothers were all canonized to various important positions in the imperial court. ”

"That's it, except for some ups and downs, it was quite boring during that time, it was nothing more than doing some small things to teach and educate people, which was not interesting. ”

It can be seen that the old man spoke this sentence very carefully. Fang was afraid of saying something wrong.

"It's been years like this..."

"It's been almost ten years... It didn't go until the twenty-seventh year of Fang Qi..."

"That year, for some reason, around the Tang Dynasty, the vassal states of the Thirty-Three Roads suddenly attacked. Cheng, east, west, and south attacked the Tang Dynasty at the same time. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was not in danger, the border was urgent, and the letters and newspapers that had lost the town were constantly reported to Kyoto. In just half a month, the generals guarding the pass have lost more than half, and they are scared that many Qingliu are about to meet and move the capital..."

At that moment, the senior brother was suddenly summoned into the palace and spying with the Tang King in the Jinluan Palace for one night. As for the content of the discussion, the senior brother has never told us, so we will not ask. ”

"I only know that on the morning of the second day, the Jinluan Palace issued a holy decree to our sixteen brothers in Beijing to canonize important positions in the army, and let us immediately set off for the front line. However, only the elder brother was left in Kyoto. ”

"Hey..."

The old man sighed helplessly...

"It was at that time that the estrangement between our brothers and sisters began. ”

"The moment we received the decree, everything was clear.

The princes of the thirty-three roads suddenly attacked, and then, this holy decree of His Royal Highness Jin Luan must be related to the senior brother. During the years he was in Si Tianjian, it is estimated that he helped King Tang plan the overall situation of the world. And we, the brothers and sisters, have become the killers of his overall situation..."

"Although, that holy decree can be regarded as a great future for our senior brothers. ”

"But everyone is in the same vein, who have we served except for the master?Who likes to be called by people as pawns? This point must have been calculated long ago with the attainments of the senior brother..."

The old man was silent for a moment.

"Just fight, it's too late to know anyway, and it's hard to disobey the king's fate. ”

"In that battle, Lao Yin and Feng Xian lived in the southern region, and the rest of the brothers were scattered in the southeast and southeast, and they fought for nearly ten ......years in one fight."

"But it's worth it, in ten years, we have leveled the thirty-three princes around us, and expanded the map of the Tang Dynasty to what it is now. It's still a peaceful place in the world..."

“......”

The old man was silent for a long time, as if he had something to say...

"Only the hearts of our brothers and sisters have been scattered..."