The poem says:

Appreciating the general teaching's blue eyes, the four seasons are different.

When the flowers fall, the east wind is old, and the plum blossoms are more beautiful and the night snow ends.

The summer lotus dance skirt is reunited, and the autumn maple is hot-blooded and acacia red.

There are a number of causes and effects in the cycle, and everything is pushed into the void.

It is said that on the same day, Li Shijian returned to the palace and met with the two queen mothers and Murong Chan.

Murong Juan said: "Queen Mother, sister, Brother Khan and Brother Xu have been looking for Shijun in Qinglong Mountain, Brother Xu has also used the method of divination to help the horse, although Shijun is gone, fortunately he is not in danger of life, when he was rescued by the immortals, he went to cultivate the immortals." ”

Among the two queen mothers, Li Shijian's second mother and Li Shijun's biological mother couldn't help but shed tears in their eyes:

"Shijun went to cultivate immortals? He easily patted his ass and cultivated immortals, Juan'er, how did we live with our mother and son? And Xiao Kaiping, Shijun, this child, he can really give it up!"

Murong Juan said faintly: "Queen Mother, I think Shijun should also be out of helplessness, right? ”

The Queen Mother said: "Juan'er, it's better for you to live in the Khan's palace in the future and follow me." ”

Murong Juan said: "Queen Mother, I still go back to Kaiping Palace, after all, it is the home of me and him." ”

While he was talking, an attendant came to report: Murong Gui, the national uncle, and Murong Liang, the national uncle, asked to see him!

The two queen mothers said at that time: "Jian'er, hurry up and invite them to come!"

So Murong Gui and Murong Liang also arrived, greeted each other, and said that Li Shijun was rescued by the immortals to cultivate immortals, and Murong and his son couldn't help but sigh secretly.

Murong returned and said: "Emperor Khan, Queen Mother, the old minister learned about Shijun today, and specially went to Kaiping Wangfu to pick up Juan'er and go home for a few days. ”

Speaking of this, Murong returned to Murong Juan and said, "Juan'er, Shijun has such a big matter, why have you kept hiding it from Abba and your grandma?"

Murong Chan looked at her father and younger brother, then at Li Shijian, and said, "Abba, brother, today is the twenty-eighth year of the New Year, it is better to take Grandma over, we are all here for the New Year." ”

Murong Chan said to Li Shijian again: "My lord Emperor Khan, please allow you to do this, right?"

The two queen mothers immediately said: "Chan'er is right, our two families are one family, and it will be lively to spend the New Year together, right?" In-laws, you can take your mother-in-law over. ”

When Li Shijian heard this, he was about to express his approval, but Murong Juan had already said: "This year is the first big year I will have after I get married with Shijun, and the New Year is a big solar term, and it is not appropriate for Kaiping Mansion to be presided over at home without a master."

Queen Mother, Emperor Khan's eldest brother, Abba, sister, Brother A Liang, you are for me, you want to have a lively time together, don't worry, I still have a little Kaiping, I can't let the first New Year of Kaiping Mansion be overshadowed!"

When everyone heard this, they all knew that she had a strong personality and a strong mind, and she couldn't speak for a while. Li Shijian said: "Okay, everyone will go to their own family for the New Year, and we will get together after the New Year." What is in the Khan's palace, there is nothing in the Kaiping palace. ”

So Murong Gui said: "Juan'er, you two sisters, I will ask your brother to pick you and Xiao Kaiping to come home in the next year." Chan'er, as the imperial concubine, there are many rules in the palace, you pick a day by yourself, and I will pick you up. ”

Li Shijian listened to it and said with a smile: "Father, in the former Khan Emperor's court, there were indeed many rules in the palace, but when I am the Khan Emperor, I have to subtract those red tapes, otherwise, even if I am the Khan Emperor, I can't move freely, and I get in the way everywhere." ”

Murong Gui said with a smile: "The Emperor Khan has the dignity and majesty of the Emperor Khan, and there are many rules, just to maintain the dignity and majesty of the Emperor Khan!"

Li Shijian said with a smile: "The dignity and majesty of the Khan Emperor is not based on rules, but earned by the actions of the Khan Emperor. A Khan emperor who does nothing and is not beneficial to the country and the people, no matter how big the rules are, it is only to make the people respect on the surface, which is called being respectful and unconvinced. As the emperor of the Khan, I have to reform those red tapes and simplify them. ”

Murong Gui listened and smiled. So everyone spoke, and the atmosphere was a little better.

Not long after, a chamberlain reported: "The Queen Mother, the Imperial Concubine, the banquet has been prepared, please show the Queen Mother and the Imperial Concubine!"

Li Shijian said: "Queen Mother, haven't you had lunch yet?"

Murong Chan was the first to say, "We're all waiting for you to come back and eat together." ”

Li Shijian said: "In this case, Father and Brother Liang will eat some with us." ”

So they went to the side hall to eat together.

At this time, Xu Wenhu asked to see the Khan. Li Shijian said: "Please come Senior Brother Xu." ”

When Xu Wenhu saw Li Shijian, he said: "Senior Brother Khan, I want to go to Beihai Dadu Mountain, so I came to report to Emperor Khan." ”

Li Shijian said: "Senior Brother Xu, today is the Queen Mother's family banquet, Senior Brother Xu should also come and drink a few cups." The Chinese New Year is coming soon, Senior Brother Xu, it's better to stay in the capital for the New Year and then go. ”

Xu Wenhu said: "Senior brother of the Khan Emperor, foolish brother, I am alone, and I have nothing to worry about. I have already eaten, and I am in a hurry to go to Dadu Mountain, so I will not drink this wine, and when I come back from Dadu Mountain, I will talk about it when the matter is done. The Chinese New Year is not too old, and there are few people in my general's mansion. I'm rushing to Dadu Mountain, and I should be able to catch up with the New Year over there. ”

Li Shijian listened to it and knew that what Xu Wenhu said was for himself and Cuigu, however, Cuigu is not in Dadu Mountain now.

Li Shijian was hindered by Murong Chan's attendance, so he didn't say much, but said, "Senior Brother Xu, it's hard!"

Xu Wenhu smiled, said goodbye, and left the palace.

Let's say that Xu Wenhu came out of the palace and hurried up, and by the afternoon of December 30, he was only two or three hundred miles away from Dadu Mountain.

Xu Wenhu was full of joy and thought to himself: Since Master went to Dadu Mountain, I have only been here once, maybe I can see his old man today.

Xu Wenhu was full of joy, patted the neck of the silver hornebeest, and said: "Horses, horses, work harder, let's go to Dadu Mountain and rest well, there, there is your Chinese New Year's Eve dinner!"

However, the speed of the silver wildebeest slowed down after all, and two hours later, at the end of the unitary hour, Xu Wenhu came to Dadu Mountain, scattered the horse, and let it graze by itself, but he went straight to the True Confucian Residence.

Before arriving at the gate of the True Confucian Residence, Xu Wenhu shouted at the teacher, however, he saw that the True Confucian Residence had a New Year's arrangement in the middle, but he did not see the teacher respond. Xu Wenhu only said that Li Wenshan had already returned, but he didn't expect that he was in the air.

However, an eight- or nine-year-old boy heard Xu Wenhu's voice, so he ran out, flashed his eyes and asked, "Uncle, who are you looking for?"

When Xu Wenhu saw that the little boy was quite cute, he asked, "I'm coming to find my teacher, little friend, what's your name?"

The little boy said, "Uncle, who is your teacher?"

Xu Wenhu bent down to look at the little boy's face and said, "My teacher, his old man's name is Li Wenshan, little friend, you haven't answered my question yet, what's your name?"

The little boy said, "Uncle, my name is Huanhuan." ”

At this moment, a woman heard Xu Wenhu's voice, pushed open the door and walked out, shouting, "Huanhuan, it's time to eat, who are you talking to? Huh, aren't you Xu Gongzi?"

As she spoke, the woman came out of the True Confucian Residence, and it turned out that she was Mother Wu, who was in charge of the True Confucian Residence's diet.

Wu's mother is a veteran of the real Confucian residence, and she knows Xu Wenhu, so she smiled at the time and said, "Yo, it turned out that Xu Gongzi was here."

Xu Wenhu also smiled: "Aunt Wu, don't call me son-in-law anymore, I am also middle-aged, in my thirties." Aunt Wu, have my master and Cuigu come back?"

Mother Wu said: "Wenhu, your master and Aunt Cui have not even come to the letter since they left with the dervishes—you came just in time, we are preparing to have a New Year's dinner." Let's eat together. ”

While speaking, Shi Qiangsheng also heard it.

Shi Qiangsheng asked Wu's mother: "Aunt Wu, who is this brother?"

Shi Qiangsheng spoke to Wu's mother, but his eyes were stinging and hazy looking at Xu Wenhu, and he hugged his fists and saluted Xu Wenhu.

Xu Wenhu was not lazy at the moment, and gave a salute, saying: "My surname is Xu, and my cheap name is Xu Wenhu, I was originally the unscrupulous one among the second batch of disciples accepted by the teacher, dare to ask my brother's surname?"

Shi Qiangsheng said: "My name is Shi Qiangsheng. Please come and sit in the house. ”

So Xu Wenhu followed Shi Qiangsheng, Wu Ma and others into the house. This is the hall of the True Confucian Residence. There were three tables in the hall, and eight people were seated at each of the outer two tables, all of whom stood up at this time.

These people were all scholars collected by Li Wenshan, and the oldest of them were seventeen or eighteen years old, and the youngest was only fourteen or fifteen years old. The innermost table was not full, but there were only four people, all in their twenties. These four, when they saw Xu Wenhu, they all stood up.

Everyone saluted Xu Wenhu, and Wu Ma and Shi Qiangsheng introduced everyone to Xu Wenhu.

After a meeting and a lecture, Xu Wenhu learned that it turned out that since the teacher went, this Dadu Mountain True Confucian Residence was managed by Shi Qiangsheng on his behalf. Everyone also knew that it turned out that it was Senior Brother Xu Wenhu who arrived, so everyone shouted "Senior Brother Xu." ”

Shi Qiangsheng pulled Xu Wenhu to sit at the table in the middle. After sitting down, everyone began to eat the New Year's dinner.

Shi Qiangsheng loves to drink and does not like to talk.

But Wu's mother talks more. Xu Wenhu saw it in his eyes and thought to himself, I'll ask Aunt Wu to find out about the situation of Master and Cuigu Sister.

So Xu Wenhu asked, "Aunt Wu, where did the master and sister and the dervishes go?"

Wu Ma said: "I heard everyone say that they went out of Beihai by boat and went north, to a place called Wanlisha - they left on the eighth day of the eighth month of the third year of Kaiping, and now it is December 30 of the fourth year of Kaiping, and they have been walking for a year and four months - they have not come back." ”

Xu Wenhu asked, "Aunt Wu, what are my master, my sister and the dervishes going to do over there?" The North Sea is boundless, the wind and waves are uneven, and the sea route is not easy to walk. ”

Wu Ma said: "What they said seems to mean that there are a lot of immortal cultivators over there, and they are looking for fellow immortal cultivators." ”

Xu Wenhu listened and thought to himself silently: Master, since they can go by boat, I should be able to do it too.

So, Xu Wenhu secretly made up his mind in his heart, only to stay after the New Year, he left a letter for himself, and sent it to Tiantong Mansion to Confucianism Shi Qiangsheng, and handed it over to the Khan Emperor Li Shijian, and he went directly out of Beihai to Wanlishana to find the master, sister, dervishes and others.

Xu Wenhu made up his mind in his heart, and when he was about to tell Shi Qiangsheng, he saw that Shi Qiangsheng was already drunk, but he still said: "Little junior brothers, although I am a master, but I don't care about anything, you first respect Aunt Wu, then your Senior Brother Xu, and then you four senior brothers-they are the ones who are really in charge, I just drink my own wine, so you don't respect me." ”

When Xu Wenhu looked at it, Shi Qiangsheng's wine had obviously begun to overdose.

Xu Wenhu couldn't help but say: "Brother Shi, you drink a cup less, Brother Fool has something I want to ask you." ”

Shi Qiangsheng said half-drunk and half-conscious: "What does Brother Xu want to entrust me? I can't do it, I can't do anything." ”

Xu Wenhu said: "Brother Shi, after tomorrow, I want to take a boat out of the North Sea to find them." But when I leave, I have to leave a message: I want to ask Brother Shi to send someone to bring this message to Xijing to the Taiping Khan Emperor Li Shijian. ”

Who knew that Xu Wenhu didn't say that, but when he said this, it was like eating sobering soup for Shi Qiangsheng, and Shi Qiangsheng's drinking spirit disappeared all of a sudden!

At that time, I heard Shi Qiangsheng say: "Brother Xu, for the sake of being a disciple of Master Li Wenshan, I will leave you here to drink and eat New Year's dinner, not only to respect you, but also to respect Mr. Li."

But when it comes to Brother Li Shijian, they are all villains without morality! Their names should not be mentioned in front of me! Brother Xu, I, Shi Qiangsheng, am now the acting master of the True Confucian Residence, and my words are here, if you mention them again, I will be annoyed!"

Xu Wenhu was very surprised when he heard this, he didn't know why Shi Qiangsheng had such a big opinion about Li Shijian and Li Shijun.

Xu Wenhu naturally wouldn't have an unpleasant relationship with Shi Qiangsheng on the spot, he laughed at the time and brought it over, but he wanted to wait until after dinner, and then ask Wu's mother why?

After the New Year's dinner, Shi Qiangsheng was already drunk at this time, and said to Wu's mother in a daze that he didn't know what it was, and went back to the bamboo house behind Cuiwei Pavilion.

Among the scholars and brothers, some hugged Lele, some pulled Huanhuan, ready to set off fireworks, and some helped clean up, leaving Wu's mother idle. The reason is that it is usually Wu's mother who cleans up, and this is the New Year's holiday, so let her take a break.

Xu Wenhu saw that it was empty, so he said to Mother Wu: "Aunt Wu, why does Brother Shi have such a big grudge against Brother Shijian Shijun?"

So Wu's mother took Xu Wenhu's arm and came to the corner of the hall, so as not to affect everyone's cleaning up;

"I heard that the Khan Emperor Li Shijian and Cuigu originally had a marriage contract of a baby parent, but somehow, when the Shi brothers and sisters found the door, the Li family did not recognize this relative. Later, after this Brother Shi came, although he didn't say much, I heard Aunt Cui say before that Li Shijun killed Brother Shi's wife Xiaoyu again, so their grudge became bigger. ”

When Xu Wenhu heard this, he was surprised in his heart, so he said: "How could the senior brother of the Khan Emperor not recognize Senior Sister Cuigu? Based on what I have seen and heard, I know very well that the senior brother of the Emperor Khan will never forget Senior Sister Cuigu!"

Wu Ma said: "Yes, in the past, we really had to get money to live on our own, but since the Taiping army conquered Daxingzhou that year, our side has been provided by Daxingzhou for all the food needs, and this year, the imperial court has doubled the supply for our side!"

Therefore, if you want to say that Emperor Shijian Khan is treacherous and does not recognize the baby, I think it is unlikely. However, I think Johnson's pain is real, not fake.

We all wondered, but it was hard to ask him. ”

Xu Wenhu heard this and sighed: "According to this, my original beautiful man's plan has ruined the relationship between Emperor Shijian Khan and Senior Sister Cuigu! However, how could Senior Brother Shijun kill Shi Qiangsheng's wife? This thing is really strange!"

Wu Ma said: "The two brothers of the Khan Emperor, since they were seven or eight years old and studied art with the master, I watched them grow up, Shijun is not bad, if you want to say that Shijun will kill Qiangsheng's wife, I don't believe it, here, there should be some misunderstanding, right?"

Xu Wenhu said: "Aunt Wu is right. ”

Speaking of this, I saw that everyone had finished cleaning up, and all the disciples and scholars said to Mother Wu and Xu Wenhu: "Aunt Wu, Senior Brother Xu, let's go watch the fireworks together and celebrate?"

Wu's mother said, "Okay. You go first, I'll talk to you Senior Brother Xu and go over. ”

Xu Wenhu said: "Aunt Wu, you go first, I'll stay alone for a while, think about what kind of misunderstanding is here?—— I'm in charge of talking about Emperor Heshi Sword Khan and Senior Sister Cuigu." ”

Wu's mother said: "Since this is the case, then I will go and watch the fireworks with the children first, Wenhu, you are smart, maybe you can really figure out how they misunderstood each other." ”

Everyone left, Xu Wenhu thought about it alone for a long time, and couldn't think of what the misunderstanding would be. So Xu Wenhu wrote a letter and wrote down what he had seen and heard, and the end of the letter was:

- Senior Brother of Emperor Khan, I want to go down to Dadu Mountain, out of Beihai, to Nawanisa, to find Master and Cuigu, I hereby inform you.

After writing, Xu Wenhu put away the letter, and when he left the True Confucian Residence, everyone set off fireworks to celebrate, and they all went with Wu's mother to prepare the next day's meals, wine, and food.

When Xu Wenhu first arrived today, naturally no one arranged for him to do things, and they all said that he was in a hurry, so he was only allowed to rest. How could Xu Wenhu really go to sleep? Alone, he stepped on the night and came to Cuiwei Pavilion.

When Xu Wenhu approached the bamboo house where Shi Qiangsheng lived, he could hear the faint sound of crying inside, and when he listened again, the mountain wind blew and the crying disappeared.

When Xu Wenhu approached again, he felt that someone was crying, but his voice was extremely low.

Xu Wenhu came to the door of the bamboo house, raised his hand and knocked on the door, and then thought about it, Shi Qiangsheng was a big man hiding here and crying. The grief is deep, if I call the door rashly, I am afraid that it will not be appropriate.

Thinking of this, Xu Wenhu quietly retreated.

No, "Wang" barked, Xu Wenhu saw a dog shaking its head and tail at him, and came to the front.

This dog is naturally Ah Sui. Xu Wenhu was about to say that this dog was annoying, but a voice had already come from the bamboo house: "Ah Sui, don't bark blindly!

It turned out that on Shi Qiangsheng's side, few people usually came, and everyone had to be instructed to come and disturb him casually. Shi Qiangsheng himself knew this, so when he heard Ah Sui barking, although it was only a light sound, he also guessed that someone must come, and the person who came must be Xu Wenhu.