That Person In That River and Lake

  External episode 1: The book of the book-turner——Gu Qingci!

There is a small teahouse outside Changling County. After a storyteller came in recently, this small teahouse became very lively. It has a radius of less than two feet, and seven or eight tables are full of people, and there are about ten people squatting on the ground. They all ordered a few dishes of peanuts, or drank two glasses of light wine and sipped two sips of bitter tea.

  A girl was leading the horse passing by. She happened to be a little tired, so she led the horse and found an open space outside. After spending a few pennies, she brought a glass of apricot blossom wine and took a sip.

"good!"

  This wine is full of flavor, with a floral fragrance on the lips and teeth.

  At this time, there was a commotion from the teahouse, and several men joked, "Old man, we are waiting for you so hard!"

  On a small stool, there is a small table next to it, a piece of gavel on the table, two or three jugs of wine, a large white bowl, a plate of peanuts, nothing more.

  An old man in a crumpled gray gown saluted all around with his clenched fists, which attracted bursts of applause, one after another, what a bustling noise!

"Pa" the gavel slapped, and everyone gathered together. The old man said: "If you talk about Jianghu, but don't talk about Jianghu, it's a kind of grievance, resentment, and hatred, and you can't express it in a few words. Let's pass the time, everyone. Think about it, think about it!"

Some listeners in the audience raised their voices and said with a smile: "You old man, you are so talkative! Last time you said that the mad student Du Ruo and his sworn brother Lu Wudao went to Gusu City together, facing hundreds of Jianghu men. It's about to explode, so you can't talk about it sooner? The big guy said, right?"

  The storyteller was obviously already familiar with such scenes, the old **** poured himself a bowl of wine on the ground, slurped, and relished it. As a matter of fact, at the end of each storytelling, the storyteller's trick of showing off his burden is to whet the audience's appetite so that they can have repeat customers. Listeners just like this stuff.

After the old man put down his wine bowl leisurely, he said with a smile: "Oh, it is said that Jianghu is full of Jianghu, and thousands of words can't explain the rivers and lakes of hundreds of generations. Just get used to it and say it. Today, the old man doesn't talk about mad life Du Ruo, nor does he talk about it. Lu Wudao, the Overlord of Western Chu, don’t worry everyone, let me listen to the old man slowly, the man in that Jianghu is the truly magnificent Jianghu.”

"In other words, three to five hundred years ago, the land of the Central Plains was divided into three parts: Xia Kingdom, Wu Kingdom, and Yan Kingdom. The rivers and lakes we are talking about today are the ups and downs of the rivers and lakes in the Three Kingdoms era. Those people in the rivers and lakes..."

  ...

  The beginning of that rivers and lakes began with the assassination of Gu Qingci, the county magistrate of Changling County in the fifteenth year of Tiance of Tang Dynasty.

This Gu Qingci was an official in Changling County not long ago, but he won the hearts of the people. He was known as Changling Qingtian, but he offended the local tyrants and was assassinated because of his official business. Since then, County Magistrate Gu has embarked on another path.

  After Gu Qingci was assassinated, he was in a coma for seven days and seven nights. Just when everyone felt that there was no way to save him, the old man Yan Bo, who had been working as a porter in the Yamen, pulled Gu Qingci back from the gate of **** with his amazing medical skills.

  Speaking of which, this Uncle Yan, who usually does not show the mountains and dews, has the appearance of a lonely old man, but in fact he is a hermit. He retired to the world because of some private affairs and wandered to Changling County.

  Accepting Yan Bo's life-saving grace, Gu Qing resigned and fell into his sect.

  With the relationship between master and apprentice, Yan Bo took action to solve the scourge of the two ethnic groups and gangs in Changling County for Gu Qingci. After that, he just asked Gu Qingci to read more books every day, and then disappeared without a trace.

  The winter of the fifteenth year of Tiance has not yet passed. Tang Yun, the third princess who went to Beimo to be a proton, returned to China, passing through Changling County, just as the army of Beimo went south and encircled Changling County.

Facing the Northern Desert Cavalry, Changling County was breached after holding on for only three days, and thousands of people were slaughtered. Gu Qingci, a scholar, put on his armor and mounted his horse, vowing to live and die with the people of Changling, but he was appointed as the county magistrate of Changling County by his classmate and friend. Ma Shilian was knocked out.

   Ma Shilian entrusted Gu Qingci to the third princess who was protected by a great practitioner, and then changed into Gu Qingci's county magistrate's uniform, raised a knife and rode his horse to cut him off, and died under the chaotic swords of Beimo cavalry.

  In order to frighten the people of Changling, Beimo soldiers even hung the body of Ma Shilian, who pretended to be the county magistrate, above the city gate for seven days and seven nights.

  ...

  At the time of the battle in Changling County, the Dong family in Fengling, Qingzhou was blocked by Yan Xiu, a hermit who had been a hermit for decades.

  Yan Xiu cut Fengling out of the second abyss with a single knife, took 30% of the Dong family's luck, and left in the air, appearing in the capital.

  After meeting Gu Qingci in the capital, Yan Xiu transported the Dong family's 30% energy to Gu Qingci, and Gu Qingci entrusted him to the world's second master, who suppressed Mr. Wuque for a century, and never appeared again after that.

In the capital, Gu Qingci is no longer an official, but is studying under Mr. Wuque. This book has been read for several years. These few years have been the most relaxing years in Gu Qingci's life. Carefree, free comfortable.

   Here, he met the real gentleman Ma Zhibai, and the two hit it off right away.

However, both of them fell in love with a girl named Tsing Yi at the same time. However, no one thought that Tsing Yi would choose Gu Qingci, a small person with no official position, instead of Ma Zhibai, the majestic son of the Ma family and a member of the Imperial Academy. academician.

   Soon, Gu Qingci and Tsing Yi became married, and the two have always treated each other like guests.

   Similarly, in the past few years, his younger brother Gu Qingshi joined the sect of Chen Tongxuan, the leader of the Longyuan Tianxia League, and gained fame in the world by virtue of his extraordinary talent.

  Gu Qingci’s life is still the same. Day after day, he reads and writes under the guidance of Mr. Wu Que, or meets Ma Zhibai for a hands-on conversation, or goes for an outing with Qingyi.

   Until, in the fourth year in the capital, Gu Qingci met the master of Cihang Jianzhai, such a fairy!

   In the fifth year, Gu Qingci married Rushi Fairy as a flat wife.

  In the same year, Gu Qingci's two wives suddenly went to Qingzhou and killed a scholar named Dong San from Fengling's Dong family. During that battle, Gu Qingci's regular wife Qingyi died.

  Gu Qingci went to Qingzhou, held Qingyi's body and cried for a day and a night, and wrote a song "East Phoenix Evil" on the Qijiang River, which aroused the resonance of the world, became a master of Taoism through reading, and became a master.

  On the day Gu Qing resigned and entered Taoism, the sky cried and rained blood, which caused a sensation in the world, and the emperor of Xia Guo personally named him a great Confucian.

   Coincidentally at that time, and also on that day, Gu Qingshi, Gu Qingci's younger brother, took the place of his elder brother and killed the Fengling Dong family. In the end, the two brothers joined forces to destroy the thousand-year-old Dong family.

   Also after Tsing Yi's death, Gu Qingci, who has always been gentle and refined, changed his personality drastically. He entered the imperial court, took over the six sects, and began to suppress martial arts.

In just three years, Xia Guo's rivers and lakes were completely cleared from north to south, and waves of violent winds and waves were rolled up in the world. He was called "the great Confucian with the imperial pen spread the world, and the **** wind Gu Qingci" he almost became public enemy of martial arts.

  In the twenty-fifth year of Tiance, Gu Qingci and his father Gu Yihuan planned a war between righteousness and evil, which completely overturned the world. In the same year, Emperor Xia passed away, and the royal family of Xia Kingdom was in chaos, causing chaos in the world, and all the heroes competed for the throne.

  During this year, all parts of the Xia Kingdom rebelled one after another, and there were eighteen groups of anti-kings encircling the capital, among which Gu Qingshi, the overlord of Western Chu, was the leader.

   At this time, Beimo moved southward in a big way.

Gu Qingci left the capital with a pen and lobbied all parties against the king. In the end, the anti-king led by the overlord Gu Qingshi formed an army of 250,000, and Xia Guo sent 50,000 troops, a total of 300,000 troops went to the north to defend foreign enemy.

  Rejecting the battle in Beicheng, Gu Qingci joined forces with the Grandmasters of the Central Plains to introduce dozens of Grandmasters from Beimo to Goddess Cliff, and finally died on the battlefield, along with the Grandmaster team of Beimo.

   Afterwards, Gu Qingci's wife, wearing a filial piety to support the corpse, led an army into Beimo and never came back.

  Beimo was defeated, and the Central Plains once again fell into the separatist regime of warlords. Among them, the Western Chu Kingdom established by Gu Qingshi ruled the world for 30 years.

  ...

   "The rivers and lakes ebb and flow, and the country remains the same. How can the prosperity of the rivers and lakes be described in a few words? If you are optimistic and interested, here is a book for you to read..."

  In the teahouse, the storyteller brought out a basket of books in a basket, each twenty Wen.

  The girl who led the horse and listened to the story for a long time also bought a book. The big words "The Man in That River and Lake" came into view, and she led the horse while flipping through it.

  The Biography of the Great Confucian Gu Qing, the Wine Crazy Liu Yiqing of the Seven Mysteries of the World, Qin Keqing of the Sword Riddle, the Empress Wu Yu, Gu Qingshi, the Overlord of Western Chu...

  Suddenly, the girl let out a soft "Huh",

   "Eight hundred li Huangquan Meng Po Zhuang Meng Po Mo Lanying..."

   It was written in a hurry, but there are a lot of book friends who have asked recently, so I wrote it roughly, and wrote out the original timeline. There is no charge, and you can take a look at it casually!

  (end of this chapter)