The young eunuch was still staring at the water well wheel, as if he didn't realize that there was another person beside him.
A horse-drawn carriage stopped at the end of the street stepped down an old man in cotton clothes. He looked at him from a distance, and then his pace became faster and bigger. Running fast, the old man who was nearly seventy years old obviously didn't run often, and his bones were also very old. When he was approaching the well, he fell hard and splashed a cloud of dust. The old man whose eyebrows and hair were as white as frost did not He stood up, prostrated himself on the ground, raised his head to confirm the identity of the young eunuch, burst into tears, kowtowed vigorously, repeated "Daddy" with sobs and sobs. And the young eunuch just glanced down at the poor old man who looked like an old dog, and frowned, as if he was remembering who the old man was. After remembering, his brows slowly relaxed, but in the end he still didn't speak.
After he frowns, before stretching his brows.
The young eunuch standing casually beside the mouth of the well gave Mi Fengjie and Fan Xiaochai who were standing very far away, an invisible coercion that trembled involuntarily, their faces were pale, and they worked hard. After the brows of the unattractive young eunuch stretched, the two of them seemed to be in the spring breeze again, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from their shoulders in an instant. The two Fushuifang masters who have always regarded young eunuchs as ordinary masters in the palace did not see the secret until this moment. The young eunuch who acted as a groom for Chen Shaobao in Tai'an City is definitely a top-notch figure in martial arts in the world, and even extremely powerful. It may be among the land gods, otherwise it would never be so back to the basics, the body and the world are as good as they want.
The identity of the old man kneeling on the ground is extraordinary. He was the eunuch in the capital who escorted Gao Shulu to Guangling Road to deal with Cao Changqing in the early years. After his dark chess game became an abandoned son, Zhao Siku devoted himself to climbing in the twenty-four divisions of the Tai'an City Imperial Palace. Song Tanglu's master, who was in charge of the chief inspector of ceremonies, was also a close friend. After Song Tanglu became the first eunuch in the world, he didn't miss his master, but he only held the junior ceremony to Zhao Siku. Zhao Siku has been in charge of the Yinshou Prison for eight years. He has never made a mistake in his work for decades, so he has won the trust of the three emperors of the Zhao family. Otherwise, Liyang would not have given him full power to take over. Gao Shulu's 400-year-old "Fengshan" and the 400-year-old division of martial arts in Jianghu, especially the first-rank and four-level realms, all came from Gao Shulu's handwriting.
This time, Eunuch Liu, the palm print eunuch who was in charge of sending the decree to Liang, had to retreat to the base of the wall and stand with his hands tied if he met the very senior Zhao Siku in the palace. But at this moment, Zhao Siku actually knelt on the ground, kowtowed desperately to a young eunuch who seemed to be his grandson, shouting the word "Daddy" over and over again. After eunuchs cut off their descendants and enter the palace, the first thing they do is often to recognize a senior as their adoptive father or master. They respect far more than their own fathers. This great eunuch who eventually became Zhao Diao Temple is no exception, but Zhao Siku I have recognized two masters in this life, and the second one was an errand in the Yumajian. His position was not high. He was a familiar face in the imperial palace in the capital. Promising apprentices can be described as extremely mournful, but Zhao Siku's first master has long been forgotten, and Zhao Siku himself never mentioned a word to anyone.
The reason why Xu Fengnian came to Youzhou this time was because Zhao Siku, who had been spending his retirement leisurely at Qingludong Academy, suddenly went down the mountain and said that he had a big secret to tell him, the young feudal lord.
After Zhao Siku hurried to Qingliang Mountain, he told Xu Fengnian about his "father", a strange eunuch who kowtowed to recognize his father for no reason when he first entered the palace. At that time, Zhao Siku only thought it was because he was born in Liyang and entered the palace early. At that time, the eunuch Zhao Siku respectfully called Dad was already very strange, like the total of the twelve supervisors, the fourth division, and the eighth bureau in the palace. In the twenty-four yamen, there is no place where Dad can’t hang out. Zhao Siku once followed this young master to purchase a screened bed for the royal family, go to the Taimiao to sweep and add lamp oil, paste yellow for the North Shenwumen on the Double Ninth Festival, go to Shangbaojian’s treasury wiped the seal of one general. Five years later, after the annexation of the Central Plains, Liyang’s orthodox position began to stabilize. Zhao Siku’s master began to fade out of sight, and even Zhao Siku, who was gradually rising to a high position, could not be found. There are clues, his master does not have a single word in the archives of the internal affairs office in the palace, his surname, hometown, when he entered the palace, and his errand history, all of which are missing. It seems that this person has never appeared in the palace of Tai'an City.
Zhao Siku saw "Daddy" again, the night before he left the palace, he returned to his residence from the forbidden area of the palace where Gao Shu exposed his body. In the moonlight, he caught a glimpse of a vague figure from behind, which disappeared in a flash. But Lao Diaosi was very sure that the figure from behind was his first master, the real guide of Tai'an City Palace, an eunuch whose surname he didn't even know.
But Zhao Siku has only the simplest feeling for this father, this master who made him search through the secret files in the Tai'an City Palace and couldn't find any clues. Report to each other.
Perhaps in the eyes of the "young eunuch", the gray-haired Zhao Siku is just an insignificant passer-by in his dark and heavy life, but Zhao Siku's wailing lying on the ground at this time is sincere and true.
Xu Fengnian didn't know the true origin of this eunuch, but compared to the old eunuch Zhao Siku who was more of an official mindset, Xu Fengnian's identity as a master of martial arts could help him grasp some key points, so the first question he asked In one sentence, the words are not shocking and endless: "Did you persuade the invincible Wang Xianzhi to retreat to a corner of the East China Sea and not leave Wudi City so easily?"
The eunuch, who looked young and handsome like a man with a weak crown, ignored them and bent slightly to turn the wheel. The creaking sound was especially obvious in the evening street where there were occasional cocks crowing and dogs barking in the distance.
Xu Fengnian said to himself: "I was very surprised before, why didn't I fight back madly before my death when I knew that the half-inch tongue Yuan Benxi was cooked by a rabbit and a dog? In Tai'an City, there is Han Shengxuan, the human cat on the bright side, Liu Haoshi in the dark, Gu Jiantang who sits in the Ministry of War, and the Immortal of Dragon and Tiger Mountain enshrined in the Qintianjian. Is it impossible to kill the late emperor Zhao Dun? Why did Cao Changqing, who turned from Confucianism to domineering, come to the city for the last time, and the masters he faced were nothing more than the defeated Chai Qingshan and Xuanyuan Qingfeng, but he still didn't go directly into the city to kill the current emperor Zhao Zhuan? I have never figured it out, and I The last time I entered Beijing, I never felt the slightest aura of you, but Huyan Daguan, who broke into Tai'an City, said something similar to Hong Xixiang after he arrived in Beiliang, reminding me that the Zhao family in Liyang might still have a hidden secret. The backhand at the bottom of the box. So this time Zhao Siku found me and mentioned you to me, and I began to understand the reason, and after seeing you with my own eyes, my guess was further verified."
Xu Fengnian waved his hand, signaling Mi Fengjie and Fan Xiaochai to back off, the farther the better.
He looked at this "young" eunuch who fit the vision of "realizing the true meaning and rejuvenating the old" in the Taoist scriptures, and said with a smile: "Do you know how I feel when I see you?"
Xu Fengnian asked himself and answered: "If you were in a small place outside Tai'an City one day, you might suddenly see a child happily eating candied haws on the side of the road, and you would realize that that guy was the number one martial artist at that time. , probably is this kind of feeling, a little absurd, but also a little aggrieved."
The young eunuch straightened his waist and twitched the corners of his mouth, as if he felt that the words of the young feudal lord had some meaning.
Seeing no movement from the young eunuch, the elderly eunuch who was lying on the ground got up on his own like flying through the clouds and then swept out, only stopping at the end of the small street.
It can be called superb.
Xu Fengnian faced this person, just like he faced Wang Chonglou, the old head teacher of Wudang when he had never practiced martial arts, like he faced the aggressive Han Shengxuan outside Shenwu City, and it was also like meeting Wang Xianzhi who entered Beiliang when he was at the peak.
Xu Fengnian knew very well that if he hadn't been severely injured by Tuoba Bodhisattva in the Longan'er Plain, the outcome of the two sides would be between five and five, but now if the two were to divide life and death, he would undoubtedly lose and die.
Of course, the opponent also dies.
Because this is Beiliang, not Liyang Tai'an City.
Xu Fengnian said slowly: "The solitary yin does not last long, only the dragon's energy reaches the rigidity and the yang in the world, so you have made a feat that has never been seen before or since, and achieved longevity in the world."
The young eunuch didn't speak, but there was a sound coming from the bottom of the well. The ding ding dong dong was very pleasant, as if someone just tapped the water surface with their fingers, and then played a piece of fairy music that lingered endlessly.
"Since you have figured out the mystery, you should also know that I am a person of longevity in Suian City. If I leave Sui'an City, I can't be regarded as a real longevity person. I believe this is also the reason why you didn't retreat immediately after seeing me."
Xu Fengnian nodded, then wondered: "Sui'an City? This is the old Huangli from a long time ago."
The young eunuch turned his head to look in the direction of Tai'an City, this time the sound came from the turning of the wheel.
"At the beginning of the founding of Liyang, I was already a servant in the palace of Suian City. At that time, the place where the Zhao family stood was not renamed Tai'an City. In the past two hundred years, I have seen many lives and deaths. Those who wanted to sit on dragon chairs, those who read books, those who carried knives and put on armor, all died, even their grandsons’ grandsons died, but I am still alive.”
Hearing such shocking legends, even Xu Fengnian felt unimaginable. It is not easy for warriors in the world to ascend, and there is even a saying that longevity is only in the sky. Solve the reincarnation on your own like that, otherwise the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth would not allow such "unruly" human beings to exist in the world. For this reason, Buddhists abandon their physical bodies and go to the Buddhist kingdom of the Pure Land in the West Heaven. It is not easy for the longest-lived people in the world to live to the age of two sixty years like Song Zhiming, the old real man of Wudang Mountain. The reason why Liu Songtao is better than Song Zhiming is that he is no different from the living dead when he is in a prison in Mount Lantuo. Compared with the people in front of you, and the same age as the country, you are not the same.
Seeing through Xu Fengnian's doubts, the young eunuch "closed his mouth" again: "I'm not a cultivator, I never thought about ascension, life and death are only in this world."
Xu Fengnian asked bluntly: "Then the ancestors of the Zhao family had an oath with you? Want you to protect the descendants of the Zhao family and Liyang Guozuo?"
The young eunuch shook his head, his voice came from the autumn wind.
"Emperors of the Zhao family knew of my existence, but they may not be able to see me. I need to absorb the dragon's qi, nourish the qi, blood and essence in order to prosper forever, but it is not convenient to see the real body of the dragon at close range. What's more..."
The young eunuch finally showed a smile for the first time, and his words were less murderous.
"What's more, a thief can steal something and put it in his arms. If he appears in front of the owner of the stolen thing, it's too shameless."
Xu Fengnian couldn't help but laugh.
The young eunuch sat on the mouth of the well, neither sitting upright nor lazy, just so natural and casual.
In the distance, the elderly eunuch who had left Tai'an City and retired to the mountain forest in Beiliang kept praying in his heart.
Don't fight.
There is an old saying in the market that even gods can't stop, to describe the embarrassment of certain things.
And those two people in the eyes of the old eunuch are veritable gods who can't be stopped.
It's almost as if they stopped the gods!