The peak of the monument is silent, still standing in the same place, but the original mountain path now seems to be covered with a layer of goose feathers, which has not been cleared for a long time.
It was already late, and every house was lit with lights. No one cared about what was happening outside the county or what was happening in Tiantai Mountain today. It would be better to put all these thoughts and efforts into making up for your own daily needs. Winter snow is about to come, so you should add more charcoal and firewood to your home, and you should also allow your children to make new cotton-padded clothes so as not to freeze when you go out to walk in the snow. At the end of the year, you always have to eat some rare things in daily life, maybe you want to be prosperous. It was necessary to buy more fireworks and firecrackers. It seemed that in an instant, many trivial matters flooded the minds of the people. Although they were not major matters, they were still like scattered snowflakes in the sky. Although they could not collapse the eaves of the houses, they were still difficult to clean up.
It was the first snow season when the two of them set foot on the Monument Peak. Mi Yuhuai obviously couldn't keep up with the gang leader in front of him. He almost fell down several times. Fortunately, he never fell down the mountain. After a long and hard climb, he wiped off the cold sweat from his forehead and stood up. On the top of the mountain, I couldn't stop breathing.
"Looking for some days, you should really exercise your body. You can't think about it all day long. You can't compare to those reckless men who only think about martial arts. I can't tell whether it's good or bad. In short, training your body and bones will be good for you. It's not a bad thing." He Zhaoling sat cross-legged on the ground, looked back and saw the embarrassed appearance of the scholar, and rarely smiled.
Mi Yuhuai shook his head and said angrily, "With a helpless gang leader like you, I have to lose ten years of my life and have to worry about everything. How can I have the free time to go out and enjoy the mountains and rivers? In addition to being a gang leader, I also have to worry about everything." I have to worry about you, the gang leader, not acting recklessly. Fortunately, nothing major happened today. If you ask the gang leader to kill him on the top of the mountain, I am afraid that I will not be able to control the thousands of people under my command. I will charge up the mountain. Chop that Ye clan leader into a pulp, in the end it’s me who didn’t handle the matter well.”
The resentment was not small, but after just a few words, the scholar took a deep breath, crossed his legs without restraint, sat next to He Zhaoling, and after a long silence, he asked, "Have you ever seen that disease?" He told me that he knew that you were determined to fight Ye Zhai to the death, so you didn't want to stop him. Now that this gambling battle has been abandoned, why not ask me to invite some famous doctors to come to Fengyou County to treat stubborn illnesses. Treatment cannot be delayed like this. Even if we invite a few practitioners, the caravan has been relatively wealthy in recent years and can afford it."
He Zhaoling lowered his eyebrows, but couldn't help but smile, without turning his head to scold, "Young man Mi, do you really think that my gang leader is a sinecure? The gang's income and expenditure this year, the money and food situation, may not be as familiar to you as you, but at least I know it in my heart, and together with the merchants headed by the Zhang family, and the overt and covert methods of our county governor, how can we compare with the prosperous scene in the past? If the stalemate is delayed for another two or three years, the merchants in the city and our caravan will probably all The losses were huge, and by that time the county governor had neither tripped up the caravan, nor had he gained any merit from the tax money. The three tigers were fighting each other, and no one took advantage."
"Under such a situation, even if the gang still has some money left, how can it deal with those immortals talking all over the sky? Instead of spending so much time and money, it would be better to be clean." After He Zhaoling said this, he looked outside the mountain like white characters on a black background. In an ordinary night, the flying snow is not huge, but it comes and goes at will, and I can't help but smile and narrow my eyebrows, "Things change and the stars change several autumns. If ordinary people can reach the age of octogenarians, I am afraid it will be enough to alert the government. In the end, many people passed away in their sixties before they reached their sixties. Now I have lived safely for nearly forty years and established a caravan. The situation is not bad now. Many people can have enough to eat because of me. When the winter snow comes, you can still have a strong house so that the strong north wind will not blow the thatch all over the sky. You cannot speak of merit, but at least you are worthy of your heart."
Mi Yuhuai frowned, his expression suddenly solemn, he raised his hand and grabbed the arm of the man beside him, and put it on his wrist, his face immediately turned pale.
"I once said that in the battle with Ye Zhai, I would neither lose nor win. Unexpectedly, all the inner energy in my body was poured out and fell into the four realms. However, my life is not long either." The man in Xuanyi smiled calmly. , and patted the scholar's back with his already somewhat cold right hand. "I am fighting to die, but that day when you and I went to Tiantai Mountain to receive Ye Zhai's letter of war, I realized that he also did not want to stay in this world for a long time. I think that for hundreds of years, he has lived as long as he can. We were extremely tired and wanted to die. We both couldn't stay in this world for long, so we worked together to perform a move. Only then did we have the power of the day. Only then did we realize that the four realms were like that. It was not a loss. .”
The scholar didn't answer, his shoulders were trembling, and his back, which had been bent at his desk for many years, was trembling.
"Sooner or later I have to drive Hexi to the west. I am very lucky to be able to choose this vigorous way to die. The sword I was supposed to use, I came out with great ease. When I entered the four realms I was supposed to enter, I almost cut the blue sky into two pieces with the light of the sword. For me, I have no regrets in this life.”
"I also want to thank you, Mi Yuhuai, for stopping those wild boys who were almost red-eyed, so that my life-and-death fight today could start well and end well."
The man stood up with difficulty. He was originally strong and strong, but now it was extremely difficult to even stand up in the wind. The meridians and acupuncture points all over his body were already empty, and his energy and blood could not flow. He could only hold on for the last breath and waited until now.
"You're not asking me what I wrote in the main hall. I'm an incompetent gang leader. I always want to leave you a few words of explanation before the lamp runs out. But I really don't have much left in my heart, so I can only write everything on rice paper. If you look carefully, although the caravan has lost a short-lived gang leader who was idle and idle, there is still a leader who does everything, works tirelessly, and can go very far if you think about it."
Mi Yuhuai's face was filled with tears, and she couldn't help wiping them off her sleeves. After almost a few times, her sleeves were dry, and she was wailing like a child. The man lowered his body and wiped off the scholar's messy face. He smiled slightly and said leisurely, "Back then, you were gritting your teeth very hard. Seeing that Yuexiu was almost kidnapped, you still raised your neck and glared, without even the slightest sign of crying. , why are you getting more and more useless now? I won’t last long, so you want to send your benefactor on his way with a face full of snot? "
Mi Yuhuai choked the cry in her throat, clenched her teeth and kowtowed slowly. The earth and rocks on the mountain were already wet and mixed with the floating snow.
He Zhaoling picked up the scholar and said, "We don't like that. Before you go out, I want you to take your bamboo flute and play a little tune for me. After listening to it, you can leave."
The sound of the flute is like crying and complaining.
Snow fell all over the sky.
The man in Xuanyi had no knife on his waist and no veins in his body. He was as innocent as when he came. He sat cross-legged on the cliff and slowly closed his eyes.
"Mom, that sounds really nice." He Zhaoling, the leader of the Ma Gang Li Gang, fought a life-and-death battle with the leader of the Baihu Sect, cutting off thousands of hectares of rain and cutting off most of Tiantai Mountain. They both stepped into the four realms and rode safely on the Bei Peak.
It was clear that the lights were on.
However, the governor's house was still not deserted. Officials and soldiers were spying on people like crucian carp crossing the river. The crowds of people cut all the lanterns and fire shadows in the scattered snow and dust into chaos. Just looking at it made you feel depressed and crowded for no reason.
"No matter how small a matter is, people in the world die from old habits. It's just a show of skill. How come it fell into your ears and turned into a big deal?" In the main hall of the county governor's house, Chai Jiuqing acted uncharacteristically. , not at all as civilized as usual, he called everyone together, put a single palm on the table, and almost shook all the bamboo slips of the file to roll down, "Eating the imperial salary all day long, but nourishing the heart and soul You are becoming more and more delicate. Is such a small thing worth so much effort? You guys are hoping to show off at this time. Normally, I report good news but not bad news. I really feel that I, the county governor, am too dim-sighted to distinguish between you. Blindfold?"
According to his usual temperament, even if the building is about to collapse, Chai Jiuqing will definitely not be so angry. At this moment, his face is ashen, he is pointing out the people in the hall who have lowered their eyebrows and dare not breathe, gritting his teeth and reprimanding, "In Xiban City, Fengyou County, it is enough." Dozens of families had their homes flooded by rainwater. They are poor families who use thatched roofs for tiles. How can they withstand this kind of sky? If this first snowfall freezes all these families to death on the streets, , the people poked my backbone, Chai Jiuqing."
"At the end of this matter, you have learned how to watch people's actions. Regardless of the people who were affected by the disaster at home, they have come to me and pretended. Just to visit the horse, I have come back and forth dozens of times today," the sarcasm on the county governor's face became more intense. , stepped in front of the officials in Xiban City, and smashed the rice paper with half a knife on the latter's chest, "These few people are more willing to get two more achievements after eradicating the caravan, but they don't care about the life and death of the people. At first glance, Rather, I think that all the people in Fengyou County are talented people with great ambitions and can achieve great things."
The official who was hit with rice paper did not dare to lower his head, so he had to squat aside and pick up the rice paper scattered on the floor, his face full of shame.
Chai Jiuqing took a deep breath and glanced at the people in the hall. There was a spacious inner hall, except for the sound of matches and the sound of a needle dropping. It took a long time to calm down the anger in his heart.
"If you hadn't picked up this stack of rice paper just now, your official career would have ended today," the man walked back to his seat and said sternly to the man, "Since you have picked up the conscience of an official, why don't you hurry up?" Go, are you waiting for me to dispatch a sedan to take you back to Xiban City?"
"Of the remaining people, who is not a pillar of talent, and who is not a scholar from a poor family who has also studied hard, and who is respected by today's emperor and recommended talents to serve. Although they are not as high as the children of the aristocratic family, they are still wearing the I am dedicated to working for the benefit of all people, even if I am just pretending to be considerate of the people, I think it will not delay your promotion, let alone your salary. Are you still here to add trouble to my heart?"
It was once a crowded place, but now it is deserted.
The soldiers, officials, and spies had now dispersed like a tide, leaving only Chai Jiuqing, sitting alone in the hall in silence.
