On the first lunar month and the New Year, thousands of households in Chang'an City happily bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and the streets and alleys are bustling with activity.
This year's Spring Festival seems to be a bit unusual. Emperor Tang, who never likes to be overly public, actually held a feast for the first time this time. What's even more rare is that he drank a few more glasses of wine.
At the palace banquet, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had a rosy complexion. With Wang Yanqing and Chang Zhishan as the civil and military leaders, they were arranged on the left and right sides of the banquet. They led all the officials at the foot of the steps to loudly wish the Holy Emperor a long life and endless prosperity, and wished the Tang Dynasty good weather and good fortune for the country. The people are strong and prosperous. During the banquet, the palace maids fluttered in colorful clothes and had graceful postures. The entire Tai Chi Palace was decorated with lights and colors, and bells and music sounded. It was like singing and dancing to bring peace.
In stark contrast to the bustling Chang'an City, is the courtyard on Qianniu Mountain.
Zichun, Cheng Daliang and Yuyin went down the mountain and went home respectively. Only Wen Junchen, Ji Yangyu, Qilang, Ye Changshan and Yingping were left in the yard. The yard, which was originally a little angry, was particularly deserted at this time. I can't hear Zichun's angry and nagging voice, I can't hear Chengda Liang's voice like a bell, nor can I hear the lingering sound of playing the piano and playing the flute... Originally, the flowers withered in winter, and the yard lost half of its vitality. At this time, Without the voices of these three people, even the remaining half disappeared.
In addition to reading, Ji Yang and Qi Lang swept the floor. If there was one more thing to add, it would be that they insisted on drawing those strange and incomprehensible figures every day, and then burned them.
In the past two days, Wen Junchen, for some unknown reason, actually joined the team of Lao San and Lao Seven - working hard day and night on writing. Even Ye Changshan and Yingping's schoolwork was temporarily put aside, and they were just asked to collect books. Go and study on your own.
After all, the two of them were teenagers at heart. Ye Changshan and Yingping felt relaxed in the first few days. After receiving "strict" discipline for half a year, they suddenly lost their restraints and felt extremely relaxed. But after staying in the library for a few more days, Yingping couldn't sit still. He pondered in the pavilion for a long time and waited for the arrival of the New Year. Then he went to Wen Junchen with great expectations and wanted to take a short leave to see if the master could be lenient and allow him to return to Chang'an to spend the New Year. Unexpectedly, Wen Junchen was Yingping refused righteously and told him that "the rules are the rules" and "there is no rule without rules", which made Yingping feel bored for a while. In the end, the master kicked him out and told him not to disturb him again. In the end, Yingping I had to leave extremely depressed.
In the attic, Yingping was upset, flipping through a few pages of a book in his hand, pouting and muttering in a low voice.
Ye Changshan was reading a book by himself, but Yingping's voice with "resentment" kept coming from beside him, so the rhythm of reading was disrupted. He closed the book and asked -
"what happened?"
"Huh, I'm not a master yet. I won't be allowed to go back during the Chinese New Year."
"You can't blame Second Brother for this. We promised ourselves not to go down the mountain for three years."
"If you don't agree, you won't agree. You're relying on your old man to educate me!" Yingping became angrier as he spoke.
"Educating you is for your own good. Just imagine how many people in the world want to be educated by Senior Brother Wen."
"Then give it to them! I don't want it anymore."
"Hey, are you really angry? Come and tell me."
Yingping was not in the mood to argue with Ye Changshan, so he sat morosely aside and said nothing.
Ye Changshan knew Yingping very well, and when he saw that Yingping seemed really angry, he put down his book and walked to him, asking nicely: "What's going on?"
"Look at my hands! Look at them!"
Ye Changshan took Yingping's hand and took a look. His originally white and tender hands now had one or two moderate chilblains.
"Just wait until Fifth Senior Sister comes back to apply some medicine on you to make sure it's accurate."
Yingping pumped his hands vigorously and said angrily: "This is not a simple matter of applying medicine."
"What's the problem?"
"This is a matter of principle! This is a matter of humanity!"
"Is it that serious?"
Yingping nodded seriously.
"Let me see again"
Ye Changshan picked up Yingping's hands again, looked at them a few times, then raised his head and looked at Yingping and said puzzledly: "This is a simple problem of applying medicine!"
Yingping was so angry that he almost vomited blood and wanted to hit Ye Changshan with his book.
"It's such a cold day. I braved the severe cold to wash clothes. Master, it's good that he blames me for not being able to wash them cleanly." Yingping looked very aggrieved. He lowered his head, flattened his mouth, and pretended to be crying, and said: "After that, you still taught me the principle of 'everything in the world grows from small to large'. It's really..."
Yingping really felt aggrieved. It was a rare thing for him, who had always been pampered, to be able to do this job. However, Wen Junchen always thought he couldn't clean himself up, and even taught him a lot of truths, which made him More uncomfortable.
Ye Changshan looked down at his stained collar and cuffs, and at Yingping's aggrieved look, and couldn't laugh at him anymore.
"I'll help you boil some hot water to wash your clothes next time."
"Hmph! This is what a brother would say."
Seeing that Yingping's resentment had dissipated a lot, Ye Changshan wanted to continue reading, but at this moment, a crisp sound suddenly came from his ears, attracting his attention——
With a 'click' sound, a book fell from the height of the attic, landing just next to the two of them.
The attic is very high, as high as two or three floors of an ordinary building. Ordinary people need to set up a ladder to take down the books on it. Considering that the two are still young and have rules, they are placed there. Those at the top are mostly 'banned books'.
When this book suddenly appeared in front of them, their first reaction was naturally curiosity. Yingping quickly picked up the book and saw five large black characters written on the gray book - "Yuanxi Neixing Jing".
'Yuanxi' is another way of saying 'Breath of Heaven and Earth'. This book placed in any sect or sect is just an introductory book for practicing the Breath of Heaven and Earth. It is very common and can be found in the library. , but placed it in such a hard-to-reach place, naturally for fear that the two teenagers would see it intentionally or unintentionally.
Ye Changshan and Yingping were both silent. Facing such an ordinary book, they felt at a loss.
The two of them looked at each other in unison, with a hint of boldness and excitement in Yingping's eyes, while a hint of caution and rejection in Ye Changshan's eyes.
Yingping blinked at Ye Changshan, who shook his head.
Yingping glared at Ye Changshan again, but Ye Changshan simply closed his eyes.
"you......"
Yingping felt helpless against Ye Changshan's behavior of pretending to be blind. He could only look at the book helplessly, struggling in his heart. What's going on in his head? Naturally thinking about that 'bold idea'. By some mistake, the curiosity in his heart drove his hand to touch the book...
Seeing that Yingping couldn't control his hand, Ye Changshan tried to dissuade him: "Let's put it back..."
Yingping stopped stretching forward, then raised his eyebrows and asked: "Put...put it back?"
"Since the teacher told us not to practice 'Breath of Heaven and Earth' within three years, I think there is a reason..."
"But this book is right in front of us...it will fall sooner or later...it must be some kind of fate..."
"Stop making trouble! Put it back."
Although Ye Changshan said that he was putting it back, his eyes were fixed on the book, as if there was a huge magic power that prevented him from taking his eyes away for a long time.
"Okay...I'll put it back..." Yingping responded to Ye Changshan's words, but his body was like a demon, his hand always placed on the book, unwilling to leave...
Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew in from outside the house, making a swishing sound among the books in the room, like an invisible hand quickly opening the books on the table.
Looking at those free-flowing books, Yingping's eyes narrowed into slits. He gently moved the book to his hand, pulled his hands away, and said to himself——
"Well...it just fell down on its own, and it just happened to land in this position..."
Ye Changshan surprisingly did not stop Yingping this time, but just stared at Yingping, wondering what other evil ideas he had in his head.
"So it was lying here naturally, and we didn't move it, and we didn't dare to move it..."
When Ye Changshan heard this, he nodded mysteriously, changing his usual righteous attitude.
"So we don't think we touched it. If master holds it accountable, we can't be blamed..."
"What you said...is not unreasonable..." Ye Changshan finally understood Yingping's thoughts, but as if he was bewitched, he did not say anything to stop him.
After that, the two of them sat there calmly and stared at the book quietly.
Ye Changshan hopes it will be 'opened' but does not want it to be 'opened', because in his heart, sect rules and reason still have the upper hand...
However, Yingping didn't want it to be 'opened' but wanted it to be 'opened', because with his curious baby's character, the rules and teacher's training were just small obstacles on the way to death.
But God seemed to be playing tricks on them. The more they looked forward to something, the less they found it. In the mountains where the winter wind was blowing in the coldest month of winter, there was no wind at all.
[The second day of the high school entrance examination went smoothly!
I still have it today, I’ll bring it later, Yingping is going to start tricking people again~]
