That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 73

Chaoyang Prefecture, the capital of Liaozhou, borders Beihai in the south, Yanzhou and Youzhou in the west, and grasslands in the north. It was once the capital of Houyan built by Murong Longcheng and Murong Fenghuang, the ancestors of the Murong family, so this place is also called Longcheng. .

Xu Beiyou came to Longcheng after a difficult journey. He did not enter the city in a hurry, but stood in front of the city gate and looked up at the majestic city, without saying a word for a long time.

The Great Yan Dynasty of that year has disappeared, but the Murong family still exists. He heard from his master that since the two pillars of the Murong family, Murong Yuan and Murong Yan, have passed away one after another, the current head of the Murong family is a woman, named "Xuan" .

Speaking of this Murong Xuan, although she is a woman, she is quite a legendary figure. When she was young, she made friends with the future head of the Ye family at that time. She was considered a childhood sweetheart. If nothing happened, she should have married into the Ye family. Become Mrs. Ye Family.It's just that the Ye family respected Taoism, and later that young master of the Ye family worshiped in the Taoist sect, while Murong Xuan was sent to the Buddhist sect to practice by the Buddhist family, and the two separated.

More than ten years later, Murong Xuan walked the world on behalf of Buddhism, and good people called her, the unmarried Empress Lin, Zhang Xueyao, who was just a junior sister of Gongsun Zhongmou at that time, and Qin Mumian, the saint who later established Xuanjiao, as the four. Among the great beauties, Murong Xuan is the most beautiful, so she is known as the most beautiful woman in the world.

People in the world say that the beauty has a rough life experience, and it is generally true.

After Zhang Xueyao married Gongsun Zhongmou, the couple worked hard for the revival of Jianzong for many years, and finally parted ways and became a pair of resentful couples.

Qin Mumian once had some love-hate entanglements with Xiao Huang and Xiao Yu, but in the end it turned out that Xiao Yu only married Empress Lin, and Qin Mumian remained unmarried all his life.

As for Empress Lin, who seemed to have the best fate, her mother loved the world, her husband only married her, and her son became emperor, but she and Xiao Yu passed away early, which may not be considered good.

Only Murong Xuan can be considered complete in this regard.

Women are jealous, just like literati.Among the four beauties back then, they were roughly divided into three factions. Murong Xuan and Empress Lin were close friends, while Zhang Xueyao and Qin Mumian each formed a faction. The former and the latter were hostile to each other because of men or other reasons, such as Empress Lin He and Qin Mumian became enemies of life and death just because of Xiao Huang.

In short, the account between women is a muddled account that can't be settled.

Back then, Murong Xuan went to Zhongdu to visit her close friend Empress Lin. At that time, Xiao Yu made friends with the Taoist sect, and the two planned the world together. It was the young master of the Ye family who worshiped in the Daoist sect back then.

Because of this opportunity, the old friends reunited, the old relationship continued, and there were various other reasons. The final result was that the two became Taoist couples.

Just a few years later, Xiao Yu completed the first Southern Expedition into Shu and the second Northern Expedition to build, and sent his troops east to enter the pass, sweeping the world.After that, Xiao Yu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and the first disciple of the Taoist sect also became the new head teacher of the Taoist sect.

The two women rose accordingly, one became a queen, and the other became the wife of the head teacher of Taoism.

Now Xiao Huang and his wife have passed away, but Murong Xuan and the Taoist head teacher are still alive and well.

The head teacher has lived in Yujing, the capital of Tianfeng Xuandu, for many years, but the head teacher's wife spends half of the time at Murong's house every year, dealing with family affairs. In the early years when Queen Lin had not passed away, Murong Xuan would still be there. Went to the imperial capital to visit old friends, but later both Xiao Yu and his wife passed away, and Emperor Xiao abandoned his father's strategy of making friends with the Taoist sect, and began to try to suppress the Taoist sect. Since then, Murong Xuan has never set foot in the imperial capital.

Xu Beiyou suddenly came up with an absurd idea, this Longcheng in Liaozhou can be regarded as the ancestral home of the Murong family. I wonder if there is a chance to meet the former most beautiful woman in the world?

It is possible to see it, but it is not something that Xu Beiyou, a younger generation, can see.

Gongsun Zhongmou, who carried the sword box on his back, walked in Longcheng City for a full hour. Instead of going to the Liao Palace, he stopped before a mansion in the west of the city.

The pitch-black door was closed tightly, and the whole mansion, together with the word Murong hung high above, was full of vicissitudes.

There are only two black-armored guards standing at the door holding their knives, their realm is close to the first rank.Aside from the current royal family, the Xiao family and a few other families, only the Murong family, which has been passed down for thousands of years, can guard the gate with first-rank masters.

When Gongsun Zhongmou came to the door, the expressions of the two black-armored guards of the first-rank realm changed, and they pressed their fingers on the handle of the knife, but they were caught by the invisible power that Gongsun Zhongmou didn't deliberately hide, and they didn't dare to speak for a while. .

It is of course a joke to draw the saber in front of Gongsun Zhongmou, the immortal of this world, but the two of them were trained by the Murong family as dead warriors since they were young. Do not take half a step back.

At this moment, a gentle voice came from inside the door, "Don't be rude to the distinguished guests, open the middle door to invite the distinguished guests in."

After hearing the voice, the two guards fell to their knees and said in unison, "No."

The next moment, two pitch-black doors slowly opened from inside with creaking sounds, and Gongsun Zhongmou was not surprised, and walked straight into the Murong family's ancestral house.

Gongsun Zhongmou is no stranger to this place. In fact, the five great families of the Wei Kingdom were married to each other. Gongsun Zhongmou's mother was from the Murong family.

Arriving at the main hall, all the servants and maids here have been dismissed, leaving only a woman in white standing here alone.

The woman's face looks like a woman in her 30s, her beauty is worthy of the four characters of national beauty and heavenly fragrance, as if she just stands here, she will take away all the colors around her, her air is like an empty valley orchid, she is left behind and independent .

What's even more amazing is that the woman's face is not old, but she has three thousand white hairs. Unlike Gongsun Zhongmou's dull white hair, the woman's white hair is extremely bright and pure, and is tied neatly by nine hairpins from top to bottom. Live, coupled with the woman's unsmiling face, adding three points of majesty.

This woman is Murong Xuan, the current owner of the Murong family's ancestral home.

Murong Xuan's attitude towards this cousin who has been hostile to her husband for many years is flat, neither loathing nor closeness, as if she just met by chance. brother and sister?
Gongsun Zhongmou was the first to speak, "Murong, I have nothing else to do when I come to see you this time, I just want to..."

The woman calmly said: "Explain the funeral?"

Gongsun Zhongmou was startled, but did not speak.

She asked, "Are you 83 years old this year?"

Gongsun Zhongmou nodded and said, "Time is merciless."

Murong Xuan's tone was flat, "At your age, you should have let go of a lot of things, right? I have been a mediator for these years, and he has already decided to let the two of you live together. Now that you are out of the sea of ​​suffering, why should you be obsessed with the past? Zhang Xueyao let it go. You can’t let it go, you still insist on going your own way, travel the world, make friends with Murong Xuanyin and others, you are forcing me to fail to be the middleman, and you are also forcing him to do it himself.”

Gongsun Zhongmou didn't make a sound.

The "him" that Murong Xuan mentioned naturally refers to the head teacher of the Taoist sect who sits high in the Xuandu Yujing.

Today's younger generation only know the status and respect of Master Zhangjiao, only the older generation know how powerful he is.

After a long time, Gongsun Zhongmou said slowly: "Although there are tens of thousands of people, I will go."

A faint sullen look appeared in the woman's eyes, as if she was annoyed at Gongsun Zhongmou's ignorance, she said in a deep voice, "Gongsun Zhongmou!"

Gongsun Zhongmou, who was called by his name, still said in a calm tone: "Man, what you do and what you don't do. Women can hide from this kind of thing, but men can't. Murong Xuan, what you have done these years, The old man has everything in mind, but this favor may not be repaid."

Murong Xuan's voice became colder and colder, "I don't need you to repay favors, I just ask you to behave in peace and stop stirring up troubles, wouldn't the world be peaceful?"

Gongsun Zhongmou sighed lightly: "You are Taiping, not the Taiping of a bereaved dog like us."

Murong Xuan said coldly: "Enough! Gongsun Zhongmou, how about the destruction of Jianzong? The Gongsun family didn't send you into Jianzong to let you be buried with Jianzong! So what if the Gongsun family is destroyed? That is Xiao Jin's death Leaving the Gongsun family has nothing to do with my Taoist sect!"

Gongsun Zhongmou, who was carrying the sword box on his back, said indifferently: "One generation does the same thing as another generation, and these grievances and grievances will be settled completely between me, master and apprentice."

Murong Xuan turned her back with her arms behind her back, her white hair neatly draped over her shoulders and back, "Since you insist on going your own way, then if you don't see each other in the future, you won't see each other again. You can do it yourself."

Gongsun Zhongmou smiled and left the Murong family's ancestral house.

Murong Xuan turned around, looked at the old figure, and sighed faintly.

Among their peers from the five great families, could it be that Gongsun Zhongmou was the first to leave?
(End of this chapter)