The abbot Liaochi led his little white-faced junior brother over, bowed his head to Gu Yun, and smiled with a brightly blooming dragon claw chrysanthemum: "I haven't seen you for many years, but Lord Hou's demeanor is still the same. It's really a blessing to me."
Gu Yun felt his stomach hurt by the ugly face of his old man, and said in his heart, "Isn't it true, I haven't been cursed to death by you yet."
Of course, as the Marquis of An Ding, it is not convenient for him to let his temper unreasonably make trouble, at least he has a decent face, and now he just nodded lightly: "Thanks to the master."
The white-faced monk with clear eyes and clear eyes followed him to greet him, but he just smiled and said nothing. Gu Yun couldn't help but glance at him.
Liaochi explained, "Don't be surprised, Lord Hou. Although my junior brother has a very good understanding and studies Buddhism, it is a pity that he is born with a closed mantra."
Gu Yun was stunned for a moment, this person is actually a dumb.
The monk took a step forward and stretched out his hands to Gu Yun. The monk was almost blindingly white, and his eyebrows became darker and darker, like a piece of burnt wood lying on the snow. If he were not a monk, he would have long hair as black as ink. , with red lips and white teeth, it looks like a monster made of white porcelain.
Gu Yun frowned slightly, thinking to himself, "What is this for, consecrate me?"
The monk Liaochi said: "Master Hou is in the frontier and is safe, and he must leave the capital again soon. Junior Brother wants to pray for Master Hou."
Gu Yun snorted: "With Master Lao, it's unnecessary - I haven't read a day's scriptures, and I haven't used a stick of incense, so I won't bother Buddha and his old man."
Liaozhi: "Amitabha, the Buddha Dharma is boundless, and it saves all sentient beings. What the Lord said is wrong."
Gu Yun wanted to hit people when he heard the words "Amitabha". His patience had reached the limit. He didn't want to talk to them anymore, so he said lightly: "The emperor is still waiting, so I won't delay any longer. I'll visit again at another day. Master, stay away."
After saying that, he dragged Chang Geng along with Zhu's feet and walked into the palace. Chang Geng inadvertently glanced back and saw that the monk was not affected by Gu Yun's attitude at all, and he was still as pious as kneeling on a Buddha's seat, silently speaking. There are words in the mouth, as if to involuntarily add the luck of the prayer to Gu Yun who is drifting away.
Believe it or not, it's up to you, and it's up to me.
Chang Geng was leaving when someone suddenly grabbed his hand, Gu Yun said in a low voice, "What's so beautiful about a monk, it's too dazzling to see."
Chang Geng looked back with kindness and asked Gu Yun, "Foster father, that master said that you still have to leave the capital, is it true?"
Gu Yun: "No."
Chang Geng asked, "When?"
"It's hard to say," Gu Yun said. "It depends on the emperor's meaning - if I leave, you will be the biggest in the Hou residence. You have the final say. If there is anything you don't understand, discuss it with Uncle Wang."
Gu Yun didn't instruct him to study hard and concentrate on martial arts, because Chang Geng really felt ashamed as an elder in this regard.
Chang Geng was stunned when he heard this, and after a long while, he asked with difficulty, "Isn't the foster father going to take me there?"
"Ah?" Gu Yun said inexplicably, "What are you going to do with me?"
Chang Geng stopped abruptly.
Before that day, Chang Geng had never thought of such a thing.
When Yan returned to the capital, Gu Yun always took him by his side. Chang Genggen didn't realize that once the little righteous father led the troops to the northwest again, he would be separated from him by more than half of the Central Plains.
In the blink of an eye, Chang Geng suddenly thought of a series of things as if he was stunned. In the eyes of his adoptive father, I am afraid that he is just a child who can't succeed in martial arts. When soldiers go to the frontier, they will carry knives, guns and armor. With a dragging family
In the future, Gu Yun will go to the northwest frontier. If everything is safe there, he may be able to return to Beijing to report once a year. If there is a little bit of unrest, he may stay there until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse. Fourteen years old, how many years are left before the championship
At that time, he will leave the shelter of Marquis Anding and move out of Marquis Mansion alone. He will live in an empty capital with an inexplicable name.
The adoptive father will always marry and have children. At that time, will he still remember the little burden that was left in the Hou Mansion for stocking
They are like father and son, but it turns out that fate is like a broken lamp an inch long, and it burns to the end before it is ignited. Only he is still immersed in the long-lasting dream.
Thinking of this, the entire palace seemed to have turned into a big ice cellar, freezing him whole in it.
Seeing that he suddenly stopped, Gu Yun turned around and looked at him suspiciously.
Chang Geng was a little anxious and blurted out: "I also want to go to the frontier with you, I can join the army!"
Gu Yunxin said: "Don't make trouble, it's so hard to dig you out for a walk around, what kind of army do you belong to?"
But after half a year of running in, he probably found a little trick to being an elder, he didn't attack Chang Geng face to face, he just smiled and said with an over-the-top, exaggerated encouragement: "Okay, go and join the army for me in the future, little highness. ."
Chang Geng: ""
Obviously, Gu Yun found out how to be an elder of a four-year-old child, and lived ten years too late.
Chang Geng's desperate nostalgia was swept back by the other side lightly, and he didn't take it seriously.
The young man then silently shut his mouth, no longer struggling, and stared at Gu Yun's long back, as if staring at a narrow door that must be passed in his entire life.
Long'an Emperor Li Feng is Chang Geng's brother in name, but from the appearance, it is not obvious that the two of them are related by blood. The emperor looks more like the previous emperor.
It was the second time that Chang Geng saw him. Compared with the last time when the army was in chaos, this time he saw it more clearly. The new emperor had just passed by. He was the best age in a man's life, and he had a good appearance. , Even if he is not the emperor, just by looking at his face, he will not go anywhere in his life.
Chang Geng is very careful, especially after arriving in the capital, You Shan is very careful, Gu Yun doesn't mention it much, but Mr. Shen doesn't have so many taboos. , but it's not.
Before Gu Yun entered the room, Emperor Longan had already ordered the servants on the side to get the brazier, and he said, "I told them earlier, the uncle must be early, come in and warm up, I think you'll be cold."
Emperor Long'an called him "Uncle Huang", which was actually not very polite, because Gu Yun was not named Li after all. Back then, the late emperor loved him in private, so it was fine to talk about it casually. preserved.
He didn't call me "Zheng" in front of Gu Yun, and he had a little casual intimacy in his enthusiasm. He didn't treat him like a courtier, but he seemed to be a family member.
"Little Chang Geng is also here," Li Feng looked at Chang Geng and sighed, "This young man has really changed every day. The last time I saw him, he was not this tall. I have recently succeeded to the throne, and I am always trembling. Yue is so devastated that she doesn't care about you, come over and let the emperor take a good look."
Chang Genglai was ready to be unwelcome, but unexpectedly, the emperor's "undesirable" was so hidden that he didn't feel it at all.
In this imperial city, the enmity and enmity are hidden, and at first glance, everyone and everyone are in harmony and joy.
Gu Yun and the emperor went back and forth to chat casually for a few words, occasionally recalling their childhood past, and Emperor Longan moved out the "New Year's money" prepared for Chang Geng.
Chang Geng, a wild child who grew up in Yanhui Town, has not had much contact with the world, and he has never seen anything in the world. He only knows that "no merit is not rewarded". Hearing Zhu Xiaojiao report one by one, he almost felt a little uneasy. It is suspected that Gu Yun picked him up early in the morning and led him into the palace, just to find the emperor to collect rent!
Emperor Longan asked Chang Geng the progress of studying and martial arts in a kindly manner, and then said: "You are a descendant of my Li family, you must be diligent in the future and have a long career, so that you can share the worries of the emperor in the future - what does Chang Geng want to do in the future? "
Chang Geng glanced at Gu Yun and said, "In the future, I would like to serve as the commander and guard, serve the front and back of the saddle, and expand the territory for the emperor."
Emperor Longan laughed loudly, and it seemed that Long Xin was very happy, and repeatedly praised Chang Geng for his ambition.
Gu Yun picked up the tea bowl and drank tea to moisten his throat. He didn't interrupt, he just laughed, and the corners of his eyes flew up from the smile, which was too warm.
"Who serves whom?" he thought helplessly.
On the one hand, he felt helpless, and on the other hand, he felt comfortable in his ears, and he was relieved from his ears to his heart, and even the bad luck of seeing the monk just now was swept away.
Emperor Long'an joked again: "That's what I said, but the soldiers in the frontier are suffering very much. How can your adoptive father let you suffer that crime?"
Gu Yun knew that the emperor was beating him around the bend, and he replied with a wink: "If the minister dares to bring the little prince to the battlefield, the emperor will be the first elder brother who can't spare the minister."
Emperor Long'an was satisfied, and beckoned to call Zhu Xiaojiao: "The foreigner Pope's messenger sent a large clock last time, bigger than the rockery in the imperial garden, it's like a small building, and every half an hour, there are puppets inside to perform. The singing and dancing are very lively, you take Chang Geng to see the fresh, I will talk to the uncle a little more gossip."
Chang Geng knew that they had something serious to talk about, so he immediately followed Zhu Xiaojiao with interest.
Zhu Xiaojiao was very attentive to this well-informed and complicated Fourth Highness, and led him all the way to the Warm Pavilion.
"Warm Pavilion" is a semi-enclosed garden, covered with bizarre glazed bricks, and steam braziers are installed in the ventilated places.
The grand clock mentioned by Emperor Longan is placed in the center, like a western landscape breaking into the mountain scenery.
Chang Geng sighed with emotion for the exquisite workmanship of the foreigners, but like most people in the Central Plains, he couldn't appreciate the rich and colorful pictures. After the novelty, he quickly lost interest, and his eyes fell on the corner of the warm pavilion. There is a person there. It was the monk Zhiran who I met on the road just now.
Knowing that he couldn't speak, he made a few gestures, and the little novice beside him immediately stepped forward to greet him and said: "Fourth Highness, Eunuch Zhu, my uncle and I received the grace of the Holy Spirit, and we stayed in the Imperial Garden to enjoy and play, and we met King Wei on the way. Master has gone to talk to King Wei, and we are waiting for him here, hoping that Yaxing of the Fourth Highness has not been swept away."
Chang Geng said politely, "I have disturbed the master."
Knowing that he made a few more gestures, no matter what he did, he had an immortal aura like flowing clouds and water, and people couldn't feel the awkwardness of this dumb monk at all. The little novice explained next to him: "Uncle Shi said that when he saw the Fourth Highness, he felt a connection. If you have time in the future, go to Huguo Temple and sit down, and you will definitely serve each other with good tea."
Chang Geng said politely, "Naturally."
Knowing that the monk extended his hand to Chang Geng, Chang Geng didn't know what to do, so he hesitated and handed his hand over.
Knowing it, he wrote in his palm, "Does Your Highness believe in me as a Buddha?"
Chang Geng didn't hate monks like Gu Yun did. The quiet temperament of these monks made him feel good at first sight.
But he also has no belief, because he has no concept and no understanding, so he can't talk about belief or unbelief.
Chang Geng didn't want to refute Ran's face in person, so he just laughed.
Immediately after knowing it, he didn't think he was embarrassed. Instead, he showed a little smile, and wrote word by word in Chang Geng's palm: "I don't know the hardships, I don't believe in Buddhism, fortunately, great kindness."
Chang Geng was stunned for a moment. The young man was looking into the dumb monk's eyes. Suddenly, he felt that his heart was pierced by the other person's eyes. For a time, Wu Ergu, Xiuniang, the origin of the real and the fake, and the delusional thoughts that were hard to tell. Everything slid through his heart like water, and was pierced by the words "unknown suffering, not believing in Buddhism".
Knowing that he gave him the eleventh salute, he was about to leave.
Chang Geng suddenly stopped him: "Master, I will visit Huguo Temple in the future."
He smiled and led his little novice floating away.
Just at this moment, when the sound of the big clock chiming in the warm pavilion, the brisk music sounded, Chang Geng turned his head abruptly, and saw that the twelve small doors of the clock were opened, and twelve small wooden puppets drilled out, playing the qin, Some danced, and some sang loudly. They sang happily, bowed, and turned back to the small door.
The hustle and bustle is over.
After this day, Gu Yun lived a life of leaving earlier and returning later than before. Emperor Longan meant to send him to represent Daliang to sign a trade treaty with the envoy of the Western Pope. Now a market has opened on the border of the Western Regions. If it goes well, Just open up the trade a little more.
In this way, he has to prepare to set off immediately. Gu Yun has to run several times a day between the capital and the Peking University camp. Before leaving, he has to settle the household department and keep an eye on the amount of Ziliu money allocated to the army this year. Busy.
On the 16th day of the first lunar month, Gu Yun and Shen Yi returned late as usual. They had already made an appointment to leave Beijing the next day. They had something to discuss, so they went back to the Hou residence together.
Shen Yi: "Why did the emperor entrust Calais Yinghuo to us for escort, not afraid that we secretly slaughtered that barbarian prince along the way?"
Gu Yun smiled bitterly and said: "The emperor rejected my memorial for increasing the ration of Ziliujin this year, saying that the Lingshu Academy stole a new kind of puppet machine from the foreigners, which can be farmed on behalf of others. I plan to promote it in Jiangnan first—Ziliujin has another source. I can’t tell it apart. What can I say? Can Xuantie Camp still compete with the people for profits? No one can short us, so the 10 percent of the tribute paid by the barbarians is allocated to us, do you think I dare to touch the barbarian prince?"
Emperor Long'an's meaning is very clear - if the prince of Calais loses a single hair, the iron monsters in the Black Iron Camp don't need to burn purple and gold, you Gu Yun push it by yourself.
Shen Yi thought for a while, and was speechless, so he could only laugh angrily.
The two passed the iron puppet guarding the gate of the Hou Mansion, and Shen Yi asked, "By the way, have you told the Fourth Highness that you are leaving the capital tomorrow?"
Gu Yun touched his nose.
Shen Yi: "What?"
Gu Yun lowered his voice and said in his ear: "I told him that I would accompany the emperor to Xiangshan, and I won't come back tomorrow night. If I see him later, remember not to help me."
Shen Yi was silent for a moment, and said with emotion: "Master, you are really kind!"
Gu Yun was also distressed. Ever since he unintentionally revealed that he might want to go back to the frontier, Chang Geng's whole person is not right. He used to be diligent in martial arts, but now it is a life-threatening situation. In the afternoon, he recklessly went to shoot arrows, so frightened that the master who taught him martial arts approached Gu Yun every day to accuse him of the crime.
Gu Yun felt that Chang Geng was a little too clingy to him. Are other people's fathers and sons so nauseous
The padded jacket was too close to the body, and it was really a burden for ironing to put on him with hot sweat.
The two walked into the Hou Mansion side by side. As soon as they entered the door, they found that it was one o'clock. The Hou Mansion was brightly lit, and no one slept.
A little girl with red and green flowers rushed out from the inside like a cannonball, and turned around and shouted, "Big brother, big brother, Hou Ye is back!"
Gu Yun thought in a daze: "When did the Hou Mansion have a girl, could it be that the big willow tree at the door has become a fine?"
Taking a closer look, the "little girl" was actually Lady Cao. He dressed himself up as a little lady, and she was still a little lady who was ready to celebrate the New Year.
Gu Yun wondered: "What are you doing?"
"Brother Chang Geng said that today is the Hou Ye's birthday, and specially ordered everyone to wait for you to come back." Madam Cao said, "General Shen is also here, so we can eat noodles together."
Shen Yi heard the words and agreed: "Okay, it's better to come early than to come by coincidence!"
Said, he gave Gu Yun a meaningful look, and skillfully conveyed his meaning with his eyes - you liar, do you feel guilty
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