That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 17

Early the next morning, the old man appeared in front of Xu Beiyou and Zhiyun as if nothing had happened, took them to have a simple breakfast in the main hall of the inn, and left the inn to go to the downtown area of ​​the city.

Along the way, Xu Beiyou and Zhiyun, the two young people, have long since lost the embarrassment of last night, and Xu Beiyou finally opened up this time, and took the initiative to buy Zhiyun a few gadgets that girls like. Adopted by the old master of Longguan, he grew up in Chonglongguan, but he has never seen these gadgets, so he was very happy for a while, and he couldn't put it down.

The old man gave Xu Beiyou an approving look, and then he walked forward on his own. Xu Beiyou was going to take care of the little Taoist nun who was looking around with wide eyes.

Xu Beiyou looked back at the little Taoist nun who saw everything new, sighed helplessly, and simply dragged her to a stall by the side of the road to watch a puppet show.

The puppet show tells the story of the war in Houjian back then. The cause was that the five kings of Houjian Wanyan killed the young Emperor Houjian with a cup of poisoned wine. The general Murong Yan brought his uncle Wanyan Beiyue and a group of courtiers. Fleeing to Julu City in a hurry, he asked for help from Daqi Taizu Emperor Xiao Yu who was still the Northwest King at that time, and then built the Northwest Army after the Northern Expedition. Give it to him, and from then on, he will build a surrender and become a country of brothers.

Since it is a play, it is inevitable that it will be biased against the official history. In the battle, all kinds of gods and masters will come to help, show their magical powers, and fight.These big figures who used to be powerful and powerful in history could not escape the fate of being made into faces. Xiao Yu naturally had sword eyebrows and star eyes, and was upright, like a savior of the world, while Murong Yan and Wanyan Beiyue were weak and cowardly. Obsessive, without any assertiveness, only a few lines back and forth, nothing more than "What Prince Xiao said is very true", "Your Highness is really a god", "Your Highness is mighty".As for the five kings of the later period, they were all gloomy, ferocious and frightening, and they were out-and-out images of treacherous sycophants who would harm the country.

After reading it, Zhiyun whispered to Xu Beiyou: "I heard the master said about this matter. In fact, the young emperor Jian was unwilling to be controlled by the five kings and wanted to regain his power. He intended to introduce the five kings into the palace. In the name of throwing cups, he slaughtered them with swords and axes, but accidentally leaked the news, and was preemptively attacked by the five kings of later Jian, who led his troops to break into the palace, and ended up with a cup of poisoned wine. Too smart, but missed Qingqing's life."

Xu Beiyou suddenly said, "So that's how it is."

Zhiyun said again: "However, what happened later was correct. The emperor's uncle Wanyan Beiyue became the emperor of Houjian, concluded the Daliang City Alliance with the emperor Taizu of this dynasty, recognized the emperor as his brother, and married the emperor's wife. The younger sister of the ancestor emperor, Wen and the eldest princess, after the founding of Da Qi, the two countries will naturally become a country of brothers, and future generations will still talk about it."

Xu Beiyou suddenly asked: "Who is the current Emperor Houjian?"

Zhiyun took it for granted, "Of course it's Wanyan Beiyue. Although he is over 80 years old this year, he has the cultivation of an immortal. I heard from my ancestor that there are two great exiled immortals in the world, the north and the south. This later emperor is one of the Northern Banished Immortals."

Xu Beiyou was a little shocked and said, "That is to say, the current emperor still has to call Emperor Houjian uncle?"

Zhiyun nodded and said: "If it is still based on the future generations of the brotherly country, His Majesty the Emperor will call him Uncle, and if it is based on relatives, he will call him Uncle. In fact, it is not only the emperor who was built later, the sister of King Khan of the Grassland married After Emperor Taizu, who was later the Empress Dowager, the birth mother of His Majesty the Emperor, His Majesty the Emperor still has to call him Uncle Grassland Khan.”

It was only then that Xu Beiyou realized that the gang of emperors and princes who had feelings for each other were all related inside and out, and wasn't that what the master said about the world!

After watching the puppet show, the master still disappeared, and the two of them wandered aimlessly for half an hour, bought a few useless gadgets, and each held a bunch of red candied haws. I can't eat it, but holding it in my hand is also pleasing to the eye, I just feel full of joy.

Xu Beiyou held Zhiyun's little hand in one hand with peace of mind, and in the other hand he held a bunch of gadgets including candied haws, and he was carrying a long strip of cloth on his back. If he was a baby in swaddling clothes, then Xu Beiyou at this moment looked like a poor man who was so burdened by his wife and children that he couldn't hold his head up.

Zhiyun was held by Xu Beiyou's hand. I don't know if it was because of the cover of the robe and the face scarf, so Zhiyun was not as shy as before. He just felt that he was no longer in constant fear as before, and even had a feeling of solidity.

After the freshness passed, Zhiyun felt a little tired, so the two found a remote place with few people, sat together under the shade of a tree by the side of the road, and watched the people coming and going nearby and those in the distance. Bustling.

Zhiyun lifted his face towel a little, revealing the alluring little mouth that once made the captain of the secret guard covet, bit half of a hawthorn, and chewed carefully.

Xu Beiyou took a small tree fork and began to outline the sword four he had just learned on the ground.

Zhiyun bit the hawthorn, and asked in a vague voice: "Brother Xu, where do you think we can go in the future?"

Xu Beiyou stopped the movement of his hands, then threw away the small tree fork, wiped away the lines on the ground that ordinary people couldn't understand, and sighed: "Yes, where can I go? This is the place under the whole world. They all belong to the Xiao family."

Zhiyun was a little sad, and looked down at the big and small kits in his arms and the unfinished candied haws in his hand, feeling a little guilty, and asked in a low voice, "Did you spend a lot of money buying these things?"

Xu Beiyou shook his head and said, "It's less than a penny in total."

Zhiyun let out an oh, accompanied by a half-understanding nod.

Xu Beiyou gave her a funny look. This little Taoist nun grew up in the Chonglong Temple since she was a child. Naturally, she has no worries about food and clothing, so she might not be able to tell the difference between a penny and a tael.In the northwest, this money is a month's ration money for a family of three, and only the children of the poor will understand the hard work and hard work of every penny, so sometimes it is not because of being stingy, but because of a poor word With more than enough wealth, who would want to throw away face and worry about it instead?

Xu Beiyou sighed and said, "I can only practice the sword. If you practice the sword well, nothing will be difficult."

Zhiyun said in a low voice: "You can't practice swords well with this mentality. I heard that those swordsmen all pay attention to the unity of one's sword. This is the same reason as our Taoist school pursues the unity of heaven and man."

Xu Beiyou rolled his eyes, "I can't comprehend such a sublime realm."

Zhiyun covered his mouth and smiled.

Xu Beiyou closed his eyes, compared the index finger and middle finger of his right hand to a sword finger, and imitated the fabled sword fairy's gesture of guarding a sword.

If one day, with just one finger forward, he will be able to travel [-] miles with his sword.

Then there will be no regrets in this life.

(End of this chapter)