Chen Changsheng was about to return to the capital. After hearing the news, Zhuang Huanyu was silent for a long time, just like when he heard that Chen Changsheng was still alive a few days ago.
After Zhou Yuan and his party left Hanqiu City and returned to Kyoto, Zhexiu was taken by the imperial court from the palace. Everyone thought that Chen Changsheng died together with the collapse of the Zhou Garden, and Qijian was still unconscious after returning to Lishan. Moreover, the relationship between men and women is the most controversial in the world. He believed that no one would believe Zhexiu again. He argued with Qijian, so he was very happy and felt that life had finally returned to the right track, but occasionally he would think of Liang Xiaoxiao—the young genius who committed suicide with the last move of the Lishanfa sword in front of him, so his body It will start to become cold, no matter how many quilts are covered, it will not become warmer, as if there is a shadow of a devil standing quietly in the air around him.
However, what made him feel even colder was that Chen Changsheng was not dead.
He appeared in the wilderness in the north of Tianliang County, and it is said that he was with the legendary Li Shan Junior Martial Uncle. Next, I heard that Xue He will go, but Chen Changsheng is still not dead, they went to Xunyang City, and then, Liang Wangsun and Huajia Xiao Zhang appeared, Zhu Luo and Stargazer, two people from all directions When the wind and rain came, Chen Changsheng was still alive... Why didn't you die
Standing in the courtyard, Zhuang Huanyu looked at the night sky above that was as dark as an abyss, his face was pale, and he said to himself, "Why don't you die?"
He looked at the night sky in silence for a long time, and murmured: "No one will believe it."
A few months ago, following the night when Wang Zhice became enlightened, the capital of Dazhou was once again bathed in silvery starlight. That was because Chen Changsheng was practicing in the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books while observing the stele. After that night, the entire continent knew the feats he had made for the human world, and also knew Li Gong's true attitude towards him.
——Chen Changsheng became the youngest dean of the Orthodox Academy in history. His Excellency the Pope chose him as his successor. He is the successor of the Orthodox Church.
No one believes that the successor of the state religion will collude with the demons, because the demons cannot give him greater benefits. If he died in Zhouyuan at the beginning, or for the benefit of some living people, some people can try to believe that After a while, but Su Li returned to Mount Li alive, and Chang Chen returned to the capital alive, then all this will come to an end. Liang Xiaoxiao's conspiracy organized by his own death camp is about to break the situation. Of course, there are also people who hold different views on this, such as that terrifying Mr. Zhou Tong.
Because Zhou Tong knew that Taoist Ji was a student of Chen Changsheng, he believed that Taoist Ji would not hesitate to ruin the entire human world for revenge, let alone collude with the demons. But Zhuang Huanyu didn't know these things, so as more and more news of Chen Changsheng's return to the south came back to the capital, he became more and more silent, and never left his small courtyard, the lush forest of Tiandaoyuan. Li could no longer see his handsome figure, and he began to understand why Liang Xiaoxiao died so resolutely after seeing Zhexiu enter Panshan Linyu with Qijian on his back in Zhouyuan.
What else can I do but die
He lowered his head, looked at the secluded well in the courtyard, looked at the deep well water reflecting the dim starlight, and suddenly shivered.
He lived with his mother in the countryside since he was a child, lived in poverty, studied hard, and came to Kyoto to enter the Tiandao Temple. Because his father is the vice president of the Tiandao Temple, and his cultivation talent is extremely high, he has been loved by many teachers. , the respect and love of his classmates, but he never relaxed his requirements on himself, even in the cold winter, he insisted on bathing with cold well water.
It's late spring now, and Kyoto is very hot, even feeling like summer, but he feels that the well water is a bit cold.
That cold feeling makes people fearful and hopeless.
Looking at the deep well mouth, Zhuang Huanyu's face became paler and paler. After a long time, he finally turned around and left the well.
This was the first time in many days that he left the small courtyard where he lived. The students of Tiandao Academy who met along the way looked at him with surprised expressions on their faces, and they all stepped aside to greet him. Zhuang Huanyu didn't seem to see anything, and didn't talk to these classmates, and walked directly to a building deep in the Tiandaoyuan.
This is the residence of the dean of Tiandao Academy. Mao Qiuyu lived here at the beginning, and later Mao Qiuyu went to Li Palace to take over as the archbishop of Zhechong Hall, and this became the place for the new dean.
The new dean of Tiandaoyuan is surnamed Zhuang, who is his biological father.
Standing outside the quiet apartment garden, looking at the lights in the building and the figure of the man through the sparse plum branches, Zhuang Huanyu was silent for a long time again, but his face was no longer as pale as before.
His father abandoned their mother and son and went to Beijing to take the exam. He was ambiguous with the woman from the Tang family in Wenshui, and he was very ungrateful—this is the story Zhuang Huanyu insisted on believing. the opinion of. Therefore, he has always held great hatred and malice towards his father, so when facing his father, he will always have the greatest courage.
He didn't know why he came here tonight, but he found that because of his anger at the man behind the window, the despair and coldness in his heart improved a lot.
Then, he left Tiandaoyuan, walked to the stone pillar of Li Palace, stopped, and stopped moving forward.
He is a talented person of Tiandaoyuan, and he is also the next generation that the state religion focuses on training. He has enough qualifications to enter the palace, but he didn't, because he didn't come to the palace to see the scenery, but to see the last few night cherry trees. He wanted to see someone, but even if he walked into Li Palace, he couldn't see that person, just like even though he was the genius Zhuang Huanyu, he was not qualified to approach that person. Just like in the Tiandaoyuan before, he could only occasionally see the fairy-like junior sister in the garden of Dean Mao Qiuyu, and then watched her go away like a fairy.
Standing in front of the Li Palace, quietly looking at the Qingxian Hall in the night, imagining the life of that junior sister in the Pope's Qingye World, Zhuang Huanyu began to recall.
He wanted to sort out the past few years and figure out how these things happened.
A few years ago, he met her in the Tiandaoyuan, and then met again at the Ivy Banquet. When he thought he could meet, he saw her holding the sleeve of a young man named Chen Changsheng.
Yes, that's how it all started.
By the lakeside of Zhou Garden, when Liang Xiaoxiao suddenly attacked and the strong demons were about to kill Chen Changsheng, Zhexiu and Qijian, he was in the forest without drawing his sword or seeing each other.
Yes, because he was scared at the time, he was a teenager and he wanted to live.
But thinking about it now, isn't it because he always had deep jealousy and hatred towards Chen Changsheng
He really wanted Chen Changsheng to die.
Why don't you die
It rained suddenly in Kyoto, and Li Palace was no exception.
The air of late spring was immediately washed away by the rain, and the wet bluestone slabs gave off a faint cold air.
Zhuang Huanyu didn't hold an umbrella, just stood in the rain, silent for a long time.
A priest from the Li Palace came to inquire and found out that it was him. Thinking of the news that Chen Changsheng would return to the capital tomorrow, he thought he had guessed something, so he didn't want to bother him anymore.
Holding an umbrella in the rain, the priests and the students of the Sixth Ivy Academy looked at him who was drenched all over, with complicated eyes, some pity, some sympathy, and of course, some mockery.
Zhuang Huanyu returned to the small courtyard of Tiandaoyuan.
His clothes were all wet by the rain, so he didn't care about the heat or cold, but for some reason, he still didn't jump into the deep and cold well in the end.
At the last moment of his life, he held back some pride, and he used a sword.
He chose to die by his own sword.
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The news of Zhuang Huanyu's death quickly spread throughout the capital.
The gray courtyard not far from the imperial city was the first place to receive the news, because it was the Cleaning Department.
When Zhou Tong heard the news, he was holding a lantern and standing in front of a plant of Artemisia annua in the vegetable field, trying to find the Artemisia stalk insect that had bitten the orchid he raised to half death last night.
Zhuang Huanyu's death was naturally related to Chen Changsheng's return to Beijing. People on Chen Changsheng's side must feel elated, and those who tried to attack Chen Changsheng and even the state religion through this incident will inevitably be a little disappointed.
Zhou Tong should be the only person in the world who really thinks that Chen Changsheng might be in collusion with the demons, but instead of feeling any frustration, he laughed instead: "It's a good death."
He was really happy. Although he didn't laugh so hard that he couldn't fall back and forth, the lantern in his hand shook, so that the shadow of the Artemisia annua stalk formed many afterimages in the vegetable field, like a fence.
After the incident in Xunyang City was over and it was confirmed that Su Li was alive and Chen Changsheng was still alive, the situation in the capital suddenly changed.
Li Gong and the military exerted great pressure on the Cleaning Department and asked him to let go of Zhexiu.
Release Zhexiu, this is a gift, a big gift to welcome Chen Changsheng's return.
Of course Zhou Tong would not let him go. If Chen Changsheng's identity wasn't too sensitive, he would definitely put Chen Changsheng in the big prison in the front yard.
So he thinks Zhuang Huanyu's death is good, death without proof is good, and death without proof is good.
Of course, he knew very well that with Chen Changsheng's current status, Zhuang Huanyu's death didn't mean much.
But someone will take advantage of it.
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The new rain is light and the dust is light, and the spring in Kyoto has never faded, but has become deeper, extremely bright, and even looks a little sticky.
A convoy returned to Kyoto.
Sitting in the car, Chen Changsheng felt the fluctuations coming from the scabbard, knowing that the black dragon was about to wake up, he was very comforted.
Then, he heard a voice from outside the car.
"traitor!"
Many people knew that the person in the car was Chen Changsheng, and the people in Kyoto, who were used to the excitement, couldn't help but watch the excitement from both sides of the street.
After these two words sounded, the streets of Kyoto instantly became extremely quiet.