The black-robed monk standing by the Taihu Lake is the Daoyan monk Yao Guangxiao who helped Zhu Di, the king of Yan, to seize the Daming Dynasty not long ago, and was awarded the first merit in the Battle of Jingjing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but this is only his title above the temple, in the rivers and lakes, he has a more resounding title, that is, one of the six heroes who are on a par with Zhang Yuchu, a Xuandao person of the Quanzhen Sect, Nie Guangyang, a hundred sword gods, Drunken Taibai Luli and the red-eyed phoenix Fu Hai.

The young man beside him was his apprentice Zheng He, but Yao Guangxiao did not teach this apprentice any martial arts, what he taught Zheng He was Wen Taowu strategy, Sun Wu's art of war, because in his opinion, only the warrior of the puppet is embarrassed after all, and only those who know Tao strategy can become the backbone of the Ming Dynasty. Although his apprentice is a eunuch, Yao Guangxiao doesn't care about this, he cares more about whether a person is pure and good-minded, broad-minded, and whether he can have energy beyond ordinary people, just like Sima Qian, physical defects are never the most important, in the end, what is needed is whether a person's heart is complete.

Just yesterday, King Yan's envoys came to report that the enthronement ceremony was set the day after tomorrow, and Yao Guangxiao was of course a role that could not be absent. Now he only has one day to return to his hometown in Cheung Chau to visit his sister and friend Wang Bin, who he has been with for many years.

He was a guest back then, and now he is back.

Counting on his fingers, Daoyan monk Yao Guangxiao has never returned to his hometown since he followed King Yan to the border, whether it is a thing or a person or everything is the same, he is not sure in his heart, and even hesitates. But under Zheng He's persuasion, he decided to visit his sister, after all, this is already his only relative in this world.

Yaojia Village is not very big, it is noon at this time, most of the farmers go down to the field to farm, except for the occasional dog barking, it seems particularly peaceful and quiet, Yao Guangxiao and Zheng He walked into the village, walking slowly in the rugged path.

Everything didn't seem to have changed much, and Yao Guangxiao was amazed at the current situation of this small village. thought that assisting Yan Wang Jing could change the face of the whole world, but now he found that even such a small village had not changed because of him.

If you are too obsessed, you will be lost. Yao Guangxiao came here to find his former self.

At a farmhouse at the east end of the village, Yao Guangxiao stopped. Zheng He knew that this seemed to be the residence of the master's sister, and it was also all the memory of the master's childhood.

With its brick ridges and fence walls, this cottage is no worse than it was before, and it is no better than before. This makes Yao Guangxiao not know whether to be relieved or melancholy, everything seems to have not changed because of his departure, so what will be the meaning of his return this time?

After a slight hesitation, Yao Guangxiao reached out from his wide black robe and gently knocked on the firewood. After a long time, I saw a crisp and immature voice inside: "Who?"

Immediately afterwards, a little girl who was only about five or six years old, wearing a small floral cloth shirt, first poked her head, and then jumped out of the crack in the door, her goose-egg-like round face was sunburned in this summer day, her cheeks were red, and two pigtails hung behind her ears, although she saw Yao Guangxiao and Zheng He, two people, but still showed a bright smile.

"Who are you looking for? Daddy isn't at home. The little girl came to the courtyard and said softly to the two of them through the firewood.

Yao Guangxiao guessed that this girl must be his sister's granddaughter, so he squatted down, raised his head with the little girl, and said softly: "Little Yu Niang, has your old man ever been at home? ”

The little girl was too young to understand what the visit meant, so she looked at Yao Guangxiao in a daze, her eyes blank. At this time, Zheng He, who was beside him, leaned down and said softly: "Little Fish Lady, is your grandmother or grandmother at home?" ”

Now the little girl understood, and did not move, and shouted in the courtyard in a child's unique sharp voice: "Grandma, you come, you come!"

After a while, I saw the door of the farmhouse in the courtyard being pushed open, and out of it came a woman in her fifties, wiping her hands on the cloth in front of her, and walking briskly.

"Xiaohua, what are you messing around here again, if you are so disobedient, I will let him spank you when your father comes back. ”

"Grandma, someone is looking for you. The little girl named Xiaohua pointed out the door with her hand and said to her grandmother with her head tilted.

The woman looked in the direction of Xiaohua's finger, and saw that the two of them could indeed be seen standing outside the door in the gap of the firewood, why is this figure so familiar, is it ......

The woman walked slowly to the door, looked at the two people outside the door with suspicious eyes, and slowly opened the wooden door.

The door creaked open halfway

It's her! Yao Guangxiao had already seen the woman outside the door, it was her sister who she thought about day and night, but this firewood door seemed to have blocked the two from seeing each other for so many years. Now that the door is open, Yao Guangxiao's tears are one step ahead of the words.

"Sister, it's me, it's Tianxi, do you still recognize me?" Yao Guangxiao said in a choked voice, stretching out his hands to hug his sister.

The woman froze, staring at Yao Guangxiao, as if she had seen some strange scene, she did not hug Yao Guangxiao, but took a few steps back, and said in a trembling voice: "You...... Are you really a god?"

Tianxi is Yao Guangxiao's nickname, and almost no one knows about it except for his parents and sister.

Yao Guangxiao nodded desperately, and his tears had already broken the embankment.

"Oh my God, it's really you!" the woman hid her face and cried bitterly, she often saw her brother in her dreams, but she and her brother in the dream were still the same as when they were children, when she would sew clothes for her brother and put vegetables in his brother's bowl, and the younger brother would stand up for her when her sister was bullied and fight with the children in the village. The two in her dream never grew up, because the memories when they grew up were already so vague.

Yao Guangxiao fell to his knees with a thud, and said excitedly: "Sister, it's Tianxi, you are not mistaken, if you have already got ahead today, now you have to take Sister and me back to enjoy the happiness, and our sister and brother will never have to be separated again." ”

"No, no!" Sister suddenly shook her head, the smile on her face gradually disappeared, and her eyes revealed grief and resentment.

"Sister, what's wrong with you? Don't you know Tianxi?" Yao Guangxiao said in surprise.

"Yes, you are not a god! My family's Tianxu is a sensible and good boy, he will weed for his father and mother, and help Sister Ah fetch water, but he never harms others, you are not, you are a murderous demon king!" Sister A's voice suddenly became sharp.

Yao Guangxiao couldn't believe his ears, he didn't expect his sister to say this about him anyway.

"Sister, I'm ......" Yao Guangxiao also wanted to explain, but the door in front of him was shut, he was looking forward to seeing his only relative, but what he saw in front of him made him unbelievable and even more incomprehensible.

Yao Guangxiao still did not give up, in fact, with his martial arts, jumping over the wall is just a simple thing like walking on the ground, but he is unwilling to do that, he slapped the firewood hard, but he can only hear Xiaohua's voice: "Grandma, who is that person, why are you crying? Xiaohua doesn't let grandma cry......"

Zheng He has been watching all this, and the master in his eyes is a calm and calm person, but now he is like crazy. Zheng He couldn't bear to see the master like this, so he hurriedly went over and helped: "Master, you get up first, don't hurt your body, you can say it slowly." ”

At first, Yao Guangxiao still refused to give up, but slowly found that there was no one in the courtyard, and his sister had disappeared into the courtyard with Xiaohua in her arms.

Yao Guangxiao wiped his tears with the sleeve of his robe, stood up with his almost collapsed body, calmed his mood, and said slowly: "Go find Wang Bin, he was the best friend of the teacher before he became a monk, he will definitely be able to tell me what has happened over the years." ”

Yao Guangxiao met Wang Bin in the west of the village, but not in Wang Bin's farmhouse, but on a terraced field far away from Wang Bin's house. Wang Bin didn't want Yao Guangxiao to enter his house, even if it was just very close.

"Brother Wang, have you been okay all these years?" Yao Guangxiao asked with concern.

"Master Daoyan, thanks to his love, Xiaomin is still alive. Wang Bin was very polite, but he seemed very rusty.

"Brother Wang, do you blame me too? Why is this?" Yao Guangxiao smiled bitterly.

Wang Bin looked directly at the young friend opposite and said, "I don't blame you for not being important, your sister is the most important." ”

"But she ignored me, and I don't know why. Yao Guangxiao said distressedly.

Zheng He didn't follow him this time, he deliberately avoided the conversation between the two under a tree, but his eyes never left the two, he only saw that the two were still talking at first, but after a while, Wang Bin turned around and left, leaving Yao Guangxiao's figure standing in the wind, and then he saw Yao Guangxiao look up to the sky and let out a long roar and fell to the ground.

Zheng He hurriedly ran over, and when he saw the desperate eyes of his master, he couldn't help but be very worried: "Master, what's wrong? What did that brother Wang say to you?"

"My brother-in-law, in the Battle of Jingnan, was conscripted by Emperor Jianwen to be a fireman, in a battle Li Jinglong abandoned the army and fled, the people and horses of the King of Yan came like a torrent, and those Jianwen soldiers who were left behind did not know what happened, and they were slaughtered by the Yan army. Among them was my brother-in-law, who was cooking on the fire, and ......," Yao Guangxiao said, already twitching.

"And what?" Zheng He asked with concern.

"Those Yan soldiers threw my brother-in-law into a hot oil pot and cooked him alive. My sister got the news from the soldiers who fled back to the village, but she couldn't find my brother-in-law's body, how could she not find it......" Yao Guangxiao looked up at Zheng He, but his eyes seemed to be empty, Zheng He didn't dare to face this kind of look, he felt unprecedented fear.

"The monk is mistaken, the monk is wrong......" Yao Guangxiao then kept repeating this sentence, and this sentence was the last sentence Wang Bin said when he left him.