Chapter 001: The Past (Wedge)
Luojing Imperial City, in Ziwei Palace, when approaching Zi, the palace was solemn, only the guards of the inner courtyard who patrolled from time to time shuttled back and forth, but their footsteps were extremely light. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the inner court guards were skilled in martial arts, and they wore cotton-soled boots, which were quite light, so as not to disturb the emperor's sleep.
In the Hall of Great Cause, Emperor Pingwu couldn't sleep. He fought with his father for nearly ten years before he won the world from the ruins of the previous dynasty. It also took his father nearly twenty years to rebuild the dynasty from the ruins. However, a few years ago, his father, who was close to the old age, suddenly drove to the west, leaving behind this great beam.
The bright moonlight shined through the curtain of the hanging window, swayed on the jade floor, and was reflected on the old face of Emperor Pingwu. At the age of fifty, his face was already full of wrinkles, and his temples were gray. Emperor Pingwu sighed, although he sat above the position of 10,000 people, he still couldn't stop the flow of time.
"I don't have much time!" Emperor Pingwu sighed, starting from the weak crown, killing the world for ten years, and pacifying the territory for twenty years, reaching the Bohai Sea in the east, crossing the Yumen in the west, until Mobei, and swallowing Jiaozhou in the south. The father was in charge, and the eldest son commanded the three armies, so he won the whole world. In the years since he succeeded to the throne, he has been entangled in the trivial affairs of the world, and his ambition has been wrinkled.
"The Central Plains chase the deer, who will kill the deer?" Emperor Pingwu savored this sentence, now, the world's largest deer, has been in the hands of the Liang Jiang family, just need to straighten out the world, you can become the foundation of the world, and you can also put your name like a father, enter the Taimiao, and be admired by future generations?
However, the thousands of thoughts in my heart are not just a few words, and the merits of the world are not to be commented on by future generations.
However, the lord of the world is like sitting on pins and needles, and he can't sleep all night.
"When the previous dynasty collapsed, the world was reckless, but after the world was calmed, the recklessness was still hidden in the city, spying on the fortune of the world!"
"Who!" Emperor Pingwu didn't know if he was in a dream or reality, faintly an elder in a green shirt was talking to him, but he was surprised to say what he was thinking, he couldn't help but lose his voice and said: "How could you~~"
"It doesn't matter who I am, it doesn't matter how I know, as the emperor of the world, do you know how different you are from the reckless?
"You mean...!" Emperor Pingwu couldn't help but shout: "Could it be!"
"I have a plan, how about letting you sit in this Ziwei Hall?"
Emperor Pingwu suddenly startled, the dream just now was so real that he wondered if he was in a dream. The eunuch on night outside the window knocked on the door and asked about the situation in the hall.
"It's nothing, it's just a nightmare!" Emperor Pingwu's brows condensed, and he whispered silently: "It's time to cut off."
On the bank of Qianli Yunmengze, in Ba L County, downstairs in Baling City, there was a divination stall, which was called: "Baixiao". The diviner turned out to be a nine- or ten-year-old boy, dressed in short clothes, with two pigtails on his head, seemingly childish, but skillfully shouting: "The past is in a dream, the insight is in the sky, and the blessings and misfortunes are all here!"
The correspondents could not help but be amazed, but they did not believe that this boy had such a strange ability, and for a time no one was divinerable.
"Huangkou Xiaoer, can you tell the hexagram? I'm not afraid that we will pull you to see the official!" "That's it, I know all the divination in this Ba L county, where did this yellow-haired child come from, didn't he steal two feet of brocade cloth from home and pull up this deceitful stall to play?"
Several onlookers laughed, but the boy didn't pay attention to it, and kept shouting: "Look at the fate of the sky, debate life and death, and know parting!"
On the top of the city tower, several literati enjoyed the lake scenery and chatted about the interesting things in the world in their spare time.
"You look at the thousands of miles of Dongting Lake, the ancients called Yunmeng Daze, even this Yuezhou giant Tang family, also want to pay homage to Yunmengze's name, called Yunmeng Tangmen!"
"Speaking of this Yunmeng Tangmen, it is said that it came from Shu more than 20 years ago, and it has a lot of connections with the Tangmen, a martial arts family in Shuzhong, and this Yunmeng Tangmen is not only a famous family in the Central Plains, but also one of the top businessmen in Yuezhou!"
"Shinong industry and commerce, although the businessman is inferior, it is said that the Tang Sect is proficient in the art of drug production, and it is a big merchant of medicinal materials, and dozens of medical halls and pharmacies have been opened in Yuezhou, which not only kills people invisibly, but also hangs pots to help the world, treats diseases and saves people, it is a strange door, so people dare not despise it!"
"The Jingjiang River at the mouth of Dongting Lake, along Yangzhou, and this Yangzhou Jiangdu is the territory of the emperor's younger brother King Yue, also known as Longcheng, the outlet of the Golden Waterway Grand Canal. Recently, there have been rumors in the court that there will be an emperor list in the near future, and this golden waterway Grand Canal will be chased by people all over the world, I don't know if this Yunmeng Tangmen will also go to the appointment to win the bid!"
Inside the castle tower, above the attic, there was a wooden screen, and behind the screen, a middle-aged man walked out. His face was majestic, dressed in a brown brocade round-necked robe, with a purple and gold belt around his waist, embroidered with golden leaf-like stripes, and the air of wealth and nobility came to his face, but his steps were steady, tiger-like and samurai-like, and he was followed by a dignified young man and a kind old man. The young man had a leaf-shaped tattoo on the left side of his face, similar in shape to the middle-aged man's belt embroidery, dressed in a tight-fitting military uniform, and wore a four-foot long sword at his waist, with a piece of jade and jade inlaid on the hilt, which was also expensive. The old man was dressed in an ink-colored brocade robe, and in his hand was a fine iron abacus, the abacus beads were crystal clear, and it was also a rare thing.
"Door master, we have been searching for a few days in Ba L County, who are we looking for?" the young man said puzzledly, and the old man on the side smiled hehehe: "Hugh is rude, what we are looking for is not ordinary help, naturally we have to be careful!"
"It's okay, the young man's temperament is a little dry, but fortunately, the eldest girl in the family didn't follow, with her temperament, I'm afraid it's going to be bad!" The middle-aged man heard the discussion of the literati, smiled, and turned to the old man and said: "This time, the target of my Yunmeng Tangmen is bound to win, for this, I must ask for everything!"
"The old man has been in accordance with the instructions of the door owner, passed the book to the Gao family, yesterday the little guy reported, the Gao family's reply has arrived, and it has not yet been sent to the door owner, with the side force of the Gao family, the door master will be able to come out on top!" The old man fiddled with the abacus in his hand, but his fingers full of wrinkles were extremely flexible, "It is said that the Northern Sword Gate Liuyun Jianzhuang and the Jiangnan Salt Gang Jinghai also intend to seize the target, and the value of this golden waterway will be dazzling!"
"Connect the south of the Yangtze River, cross the river, go straight to Luojing, control this waterway, and half of the wealth in the world will be in his hands!" The middle-aged man condensed and said: "I'm afraid that the iron abacus in the hands of Manager Xu will also collapse!"
"The master of the door laughed, the old man has an iron abacus, and there is no calculation that cannot be made!"
"Mr. Xu, are you bragging, then you can calculate, where is the person we are looking for?" said the young man teasing the old man. The two people who accompanied him seemed to be different from the middle-aged man, but they were intimate, and the middle-aged man smiled: "Mr. Xu's iron abacus is not a divination, you have to find this divination to know!"
The middle-aged man walked in the direction of the boy's shouting, this boy, who seems to be childish, but the voice of the shouting is very penetrating, faintly containing mellow skills, and it reached the ears of the middle-aged man through several door walls, and the middle-aged man smiled at the corner of his mouth, "The person we are looking for, I have found it!"
The middle-aged man walked to the boy's stall and looked at him quietly, and the young man who followed behind him preemptively asked, "Xiao'er, can you divination?"
The boy stopped shouting and said, "Nature, fate when you are born, astronomy and geography, if you don't believe it, how about I use 'human counting' to calculate the identity and meaning of several people?"
"In this county town of Ba L, there are many people who know my master, only I am outside all the year round, and there are not many people who know me in Baling, you tell me, who am I, yellow-haired boy, if you are honest, be careful that I throw you into Dongting Lake to feed the fish!" the young man sneered.
"This crooked eldest brother, with a heroic spirit between his eyebrows, is a rare master of swords in the Yunmeng Tang Sect, known as the "Thunderbolt Sword" Qin Huan. The boy seemed careless, and quipped: "Acting like the wind, the word thunderbolt, is also very compatible with this noise!"
"You~" Qin Huan wanted to speak, but was stopped by the old man, "Hugh is rude, listen to this Bu Shi finish speaking." ”
The boy smiled and continued: "This old man with an abacus is over sixty years old, but he has an iron abacus in his hand, but he is very stable, and he must be a master of the inner family. There is an internal affairs manager in the Yunmeng Tang Gate, known as 'Xu Tieshu' Xu Tiexin. It's a pity that it can only be counted as gold and silver, not luck!"
"The iron abacus of the old decay is naturally used to divide the gold and silver, but the decay has been for more than 60 years, and there is still a basis, do you know?"
"Yunmeng Tangmen, who is good at making drugs and curing diseases, is a medical master. Among them, the best medicine is the 'Wonderful Hands and Iron Heart'!" the boy smiled mischievously: "That is, Your Excellency, Xu Tiexin is also, am I right?"
"Good!good!good!" the old man laughed, "Outsiders only know that Yunmeng Tangmen has an iron abacus in charge, but they don't know that the iron abacus is also a Langzhong, and the old man admires it." The old man has not asked about medical skills for several years, and Xiaoyou is really well-informed and clever!"
The boy looked at the middle-aged man, blinked his eyes and said: "This last one, dressed in brocade, silent, with a sharp weapon, hidden in his sleeve, must be the master of Yunmeng Tang Gate, known as "Yiye Zhitian" Tang Beiyi. It is said that the kung fu of the master of the Tang Sect is superb, and he inherited the secret weapon mastery of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong, and he had the hidden weapon stunt of picking leaves and flying flowers in his early years. It is said that in recent years, martial arts have been refined, and with both hands, you can send out hidden weapons, which can hurt people invisibly?"
"I have won the award, I haven't asked the master of the divination with the name of Gao, the inferior servants under the door, how many offenses, I don't know your Excellency's surname?" Tang Beiyi arched his hand and said, and the boy continued: "Don't dare, I'm just a generation of Bu, the master of the Tang Sect doesn't have to care!"
"Come to think of it, the master of the door should not come here to divination, but to interpret the hexagram, right?" the boy smiled evilly, and made a grimace at Qin Huan, although Qin Huan was furious, he had to give up.
"Exactly!" Tang Beiyi solemnly took out a note from his robe, the seal of the note was golden fire seal paint, which was also in the form of a leaf, "Contemptible people are not talented, ask the master to solve this hexagram for me!"
"Do you know the rules for interpreting hexagrams?" The boy didn't take the note, put away his smile, and looked at Tang Beiyi, "Asking for life and death can be counted, and the hexagram that the Tang Sect Master wants to solve may be expensive?"
"I still know the rules of divination, so I am naturally prepared!" Manager Xu on the side did not wait for Tang Bei to give an order, so he took out a fist-sized brocade box from his sleeve and respectfully put it on the hexagram stall, "This is the pearl of the night, the right to be the compensation of the hexagram master's hard work, as for the cost of interpreting the hexagram, please feel free to open your mouth, I Yunmeng Tangmen, Wanguan family wealth, can be used!"
The boy stretched out his hand to open the brocade box, the pearl in the box was crystal clear, the size of a child's fist, it was noon, under the illumination of the sun, the night pearl shimmered brightly, attracting everyone around to watch.
The boy glanced at the night pearl in the box, and put it back on the stall like an ordinary plaything.
"Well, Tang Men is also an old customer, I'll help you convey this hexagram!" The boy took the note in Tang Bei's hand and smiled coldly, "This hexagram will come to listen to the hexagram three days later, whether it is a blessing or a curse, and look at the heavens!"
The people around who were attracted by the night pearl surrounded the hexagram stall, and some people recognized the identity of Tang Bei and his party in amazement, and even the scribe who was talking in the attic just now also heard the wind. For a while, the crowd surged, and the startled Qin Huan pressed his hand on the sword, and shouted back to everyone in case of an emergency, and the fierce momentum forced everyone to dare not approach.
The boy stroked the night pearl, just for a moment, the boy's figure was like a shadow in the water, ripples, and disappeared without a trace along with the divination stall, everyone couldn't help but widen their eyes, and a few timid people were shocked to come to the world for the gods, and they were so frightened that they kowtowed to the ground.
"Good body method, I didn't expect this boy to know how to use the mirror and the moon!" Qin Huan couldn't help but widen his eyes, and asked Tang Beiyi in surprise: "This is really amazing, what we are looking for is this boy?"
"No, this boy is just a 'servant', and our real help is 'heavenly machine'!"
The old capital of Chang'an, burned in the fire of the previous dynasty, more than half of the 108 squares of Chang'an were burned in the fire, the Daming Palace is only the mottled battlements, the former dynasty guard will rebuild the original city outline, become a small city garrison, and then become the seat of Jingzhao Mansion, but no longer the glory of the past.
In the silent night, there were no more lights in the sky, and even the soldiers guarding the city were few people, and after more than 20 years of peace in the world, it was as calm as if the fire had not happened decades ago.
A fiery horse pierced the long night, and the pitch-black horses blended into the night. The horseback rider was in good shape, and quickly passed through the ruins of the previous dynasty and stopped at the position of the city wall of Chang A County. The rider dismounted, came to the city wall in a few moments, jumped up the wall with his sharp hook claws, and then turned over and jumped off the wall, and disappeared into the night.
In the dark underground passage, a pearl yellow light suddenly lit up, and a shuttle figure quickly walked through the corridor, passed through multiple intersections, and came to a dark golden gate. Among the two gates, it is combined into an eye pattern, the upper left corner of the left fan has a seal script "life" character, and the right fan has a wild grass "運" word. There are short couplets on the left and right sides of the door frame, "Heaven has a calculation, and there are countless institutions", and there is a gold-branded plaque just above it, with the book "Heavenly Machine".
The door opened with a bang, and in an instant, a strong light spread along the doorway, behind the door was a wide cave, and thousands of bright lights on the dome were like stars in the sky to illuminate the cave like day, and in the hole was a wide and silent lake, and a small bridge with a shimmering light led to the center of the lake like the Milky Way, a round island in the middle of the lake, in the middle of the island was a throne of jade, and one person stood on each side of the throne, one black and one white, each wearing a mask, looking at the costume, like a man and a woman.
The visitor walked to the lake, half-knelt down, took out a brocade box with both hands, and shouted: "Yuezhou Ba L County Servant's 'Fortune Operator' has newly received a 'Tian' character level 'life', Pegasus will report it, please let the two servants take a look at it!"
As soon as the white-clothed envoy stretched out his hand, the brocade box in the outsider's hand flew straight into her hand. She opened the brocade box, and the pearl in the brocade box suddenly emitted a dazzling light and went straight to the dome. Inside the box is also a piece of paper sealed with a fire seal, and the golden fire paint is in the shape of a leaf.
"Yunmeng Tang Sect, but it's just a mundane thing!" the black-clothed envoy glanced at the contents of the brocade box, "But whoever asks for my door is a person who has it, and this Tang Sect has set up a situation without it, and this is the first time I've seen such a strange fate." ”
"It's quite generous," said the white-clothed envoy, "Maybe we will definitely take this order! The only 'envoys' near Yuezhou are 'Dawn' and 'Night'. ”
"Just 'Dawn', it's also a peculiar 'destiny', the child left by 'Wushuang', this time it's a tailor-made 'dead end'. ”
The white-clothed envoy raised the book in his hand, and the book was broken into countless pieces in the air, and a few golden rays of light were condensed, and finally gathered into a golden token, one side of the token is the word "life" of the seal script, and the other side is the word "luck" of the wild grass.
"Go, return this 'Heavenly Machine Order' to the Tang family, and let them go to find the 'Dawn'!" The white-clothed envoy waved his hand, and the golden token flew into the hand of the comer, who quickly exited the cave, and the door slammed shut.