Mu Sheng has been lingering in the inn for more than ten days. If nothing happens, he will run to the Guo Mansion to develop a relationship with this nobleman Guo.
In the morning, he received another message from Guo Huan, saying that he was going to introduce a friend to him. There would still be a family dinner to attend, and he hoped that he could keep the appointment. Of course he would go.
Arriving at the door of Guo Mansion, Mu Sheng saw Guo Huan greeting him at the door.
He hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Brother Guo, this is really a compliment to me. Say hello and I'll come over. I'd rather bother you to greet you in person. I'm so scared."
Guo Huan smiled and said, "What are you talking about, dear brother? Today I will introduce an old friend to my dear brother."
"Oh! Who is he?"
Guo Huan smiled slightly when he heard this and said, "Brother Xian, you will know it when you see him."
Mu Sheng followed Guo Huan to the living room, and saw a man in his forties sitting in the hall. He had a round head, a black face, and three strands of beard. At first glance, he looked quite dignified, and he was also dressed in the middle of the Lu people. The young man looked familiar to Mu Sheng. Wasn't he the traveler from Chang Pingjun who came to his house last month and handed over a greeting card in an attempt to visit him?
This person is none other than Zhu Ran. In the era of various kingdoms, the old Zhu family was also a famous surname in the Lu State. After the fall of the Lu State, the Zhu family was moved to Qingyang, the capital more than ten years ago. After the demise of the various vassal states, many of them were in the local area. The powerful families were all ordered by the emperor to move to Qingyang for fear that these people would have too much influence in the local area and take the opportunity to cause chaos.
I just didn't expect to see him here again after going around a big circle. Mu Sheng sighed in his heart, this circle is really small.
Zhu Ran? A native of Lu? It seems that Guo Huan is still not at ease with him and has found a real fellow countryman to find out his background. However, Mu Sheng is not guilty. Wu Xie's ancestors were also Lu people who had already told the local people when they asked him to pretend to be Liu Zhang. The local customs, various customs, including the family background of the old Liu family were all designed and arranged by Mu Sheng, and no details were left out.
Guo Huan waved his finger at Zhu Ran and pointed to Mu Sheng standing next to him and said, "Brother Zhu, let me introduce you to him. This worthy brother's surname is Liu Shanzhang. He is a descendant of the Liu family in Cheng County, Zhuo County."
Zhu Ran looked at Mu Sheng for a few times and immediately stood up and introduced himself: "Nice to meet you! Nice to meet you! Brother Liu, my surname is Zhu Danzi Ran, and I am from Hu County, Gui County. We are all descendants of the former Lu State. , I am half a fellow countryman, but this little brother, you are actually a descendant of the Liu family?"
Mu Sheng heard this and said, "Brother Zhu, you're welcome! After Liu's family in Xiacheng County, Liu Yuan, the high minister of Lu State, was under Xia Gaozu. When I was eight years old, I entered the Tiancang Mountain Taoist sect to learn martial arts. It was only now that my master allowed me to go down the mountain to practice... "
The two discussed a lot about the customs and customs of the original Lu country, as if Mu Sheng himself had really been there, and these were all carefully told to him by Wu Xie, a local.
Mu Sheng thought to himself, it seems that if he has the opportunity in the future, he will have to go to Orange County to see it for himself. Without personal experience, many details can only be covered up in the past and cannot be discussed in detail. Fortunately, he claimed that he went to the mountains to practice at the age of eight. Well, it makes sense that my impression of my hometown is not so detailed.
Since they had to do as much as possible to penetrate "the enemy's interior", Mu Sheng and Zhu Ran sang a few local folk tunes in time.
After singing these few lines of the ditty, this dear man may have met a fellow villager in a foreign land, or it may have aroused his homesickness and made him unable to help himself.
After a few glasses of wine, Zhu Ran said with a trembling voice, "Brother Liu Xian, to be honest, our country of Lu has been dead for seventeen years. I miss my motherland every day. I remember that my father Liu Kan also joined the army to serve the country to resist the war." What a pity! What a pity! What a pity! The general trend of the world is like this. It cannot be resisted by human power."
After Zhu Ran finished speaking, a tear slipped from the corner of his eye unconsciously. He took another sip of wine, and the sadness in his heart was beyond words.
Mu Sheng naturally understands the national feelings of his generation of intellectual elites very well. After all, since the founding of the Yu Dynasty, these vassal states have existed for six to seven hundred years, and for thousands of years. Even our country, Jin, has existed for six to seven hundred years. It has existed for more than 800 years. Although Liuhe was finally wiped out and the world returned to Jin, it only took a short period of seventeen years, but the feelings of this family and country cannot be erased in a short time.
Counting up, these descendants, old and young, have been Lu people for more than ten generations. How could they easily agree with the legitimacy of the Jin Dynasty's rule? It often takes at least three or four generations of long-term integration to truly live in a unified country. This kind of thing itself is groundbreaking, unprecedented and unprecedented. This was true in the Qin Dynasty in the past, and it is also true in the Jin Dynasty today.
It is understandable that these remnants of the Seven Kingdoms are emotionally unacceptable. Looking at the history of the world, there are almost no civilizations that established a unified centralized empire as early as the Chinese civilization. It seems that the Jin Dynasty in this other world exists in the history of this continent. The same is true for the evolution trajectory. I hope this Jin Dynasty in another world will not follow in the footsteps of the Qin Empire...
The reason why China was able to come together in the past was that it took more than 400 years of integration during the Han Dynasty to finally succeed. It takes time to imagine a super-large national community.
Mu Sheng was looking at these remnants of the old era, and he had some understanding in his heart. Even if the Qin Empire did not have traitors such as Hu Hai and Zhao Gao, the second emperor of Qin, to usurp the throne, assuming that Fusu succeeded to the throne normally, he felt that these remnants of the old era would Sooner or later, Yi Shao will still stir up trouble, no matter who comes to power. However, during the chaos at the end of Qin Dynasty, they did not expect that in just three years, they would overthrow an empire that once seemed extremely powerful on the surface. Maybe they The original idea was to restore the country.
After coming back to his senses, Mu Sheng could only pretend to be sad and toast Zhu Ran with a glass of wine and said, "Brother Zhu said it is true. The country of Lu was gone when I was born. When I was a child, I remember that my father would gather with friends at home every time. When I mentioned my homeland, I burst into tears, sighed, and couldn’t bear to get drunk. Because of this, my father died of depression when I was six years old.”
"Hey! After all, the world has returned to Jin after all, so what can we do? As long as the people in the world can live a good life, it will be good. Xing, the people in the world are suffering, perish, the people in the world are suffering, these days The hundred years of chaos among the nations must come to an end."
When Zhu Ran heard this, he muttered, "In prosperity, people in the world will suffer, and in death, people will suffer...Brother Liu said it well!"
Zhu Ran picked up the wine glass and toasted Mu Sheng and said, "It is better for monks like Brother Liu to achieve a higher level. Unlike ordinary people like us who always dwell on the past, as long as the world is peaceful, who can sit in the world? Why should we be obsessed with one family?" The country with the surname? Although the reason is this..."
Zhu Ran changed his tone and said, "But as long as I, Zhu, am still alive, I am a native of Lu. No one can change this..."
Guo Huan looked at the two of them and drank a glass of wine and said with some emotion, "I am from the Chen State. When Jin defeated Chen, I was just a small captain of the Chen army. In the battle of Yuyang, Jin The army defeated the main force of Chen Jun. Chen Jun's elite army of more than 400,000, 400,000! Almost the entire army was wiped out. I am not afraid of the brothers' jokes. I escaped by lying in a pile of corpses and pretending to be dead. It was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. , blood flowed everywhere, I will never forget that scene in my life, almost all the brothers who accompanied me on the expedition died in this battle, only I, Guo, is still alive."
"Now that the world is at peace, there have been no more wars in more than ten years. Brother Liu Xian said it well. When the world rises and falls, the people suffer the most. Now that the Jin people have unified the world, the people can be regarded as less suffering from chaos."
With tears in his eyes, Guo Huan stood up, held the wine and said, "Come! Brother Zhu, Brother Liu, we will drink this cup to our fullest to honor our motherland."
Mu Sheng and Zhu Ran also stood up and raised their glasses to drink. Although Mu Sheng's real identity was that he was from Jin, he understood the hatred of subjugation in their hearts. He felt the same and recited a poem "Life" by Li Yu, the later master of the Southern Tang Dynasty. How can sorrow and hatred be avoided, how can the love of ecstasy alone be limited! The dream of the motherland returns, and I shed tears when I feel it. Who can climb up the tall building? Remember the autumn scenery, the past has become empty, and it is still like a dream. "
After hearing this poem, a person with a strong character like Guo Huan finally couldn't stand it any longer. Thinking that Chen Guo had been wiped out long ago, and now meeting his old friend in a foreign land, he couldn't help but praise him repeatedly, "What a poem! Liu Xiandi is a great talent."
He stood up and toasted Mu Sheng with a glass of wine. Mu Sheng drank it without any ceremony, feeling ashamed in his heart! However, Li Yu's poems are indeed very suitable for the occasion.
Today, the three of them were worried about the country and the people, and sad about their homeland. They chatted about everything and discussed the past and present. It was not until dusk that they reluctantly dispersed. After leaving Guofu, Mu Sheng returned to the inn.
In the Guo Mansion, Zhu Ran, who was drunk and unconscious just now and was helped to the back hall to rest, was not drunk at all, sitting opposite Guo Huan.
Guo Huan asked, "Brother Zhu, what do you think of Brother Liu Xian?"
Zhu Ran stroked his three-inch beard and said, "Brother Guo, according to my judgment, Liu Zhang speaks with an Orange County accent, and his behavior is definitely from Lu. And being able to recite such poetry should not be an undercover agent of the Tsing Yi Envoy."
"Furthermore, the Liu family is a wealthy family of the Lu State. After the fall of the Lu State, the Liu Yuan family became scattered among the people. It was unexpected that a talent like Liu Zhang could come out. If the future prince wants to achieve great things, he will definitely have to recruit Liu Zhang." It’s important to include such young talents.”
Hearing this, Guo Huan said, "Okay! With Brother Zhu's judgment, Guo is relieved. It seems it's time for Liu Xian's younger brother to submit his name."
Zhu Ran said, "Brother Guo, I don't think we should rush to recommend Liu Zhang to work in the East Palace. I think we still need to observe him for a while."
"Brother Zhu, don't worry, I have my own opinion."
Mu Sheng returned to the hotel. He carefully reviewed his performance in Guo Mansion today. There should be no problem. In fact, he showed his true feelings in Guo Mansion today. It has been so many years since he traveled to this different world, and he probably knew it in his heart. Knowing that it is impossible for me to go home, sometimes people and things from the first half of my life flash through my dreams, and I can't help but miss my motherland and my hometown in my heart.
No matter how far this person goes, his longing for his motherland and hometown is fundamental. No matter when and where he is, this patriotism will never be erased. After all, broken bones are connected to tendons, so Only then did he sympathize with Zhu Ran and his family's feelings for their country. If Mu Sheng was really from Jin, maybe he wouldn't be like this.
When he recalled what happened just now, he felt like he was living a double life like an agent. It was quite exciting to think about it...
After retracting his thoughts, he stood up, sat on the couch, hugged Yuan Shouyi and entered a meditative state. At the same time, he used his five senses to search the surrounding environment. He felt that the vague feeling of being stared at had completely disappeared. It seemed that he had initially won. Lao Guo’s trust.
A few days later, Guo Huan asked someone to send a letter saying that they had something to discuss, and Mu Sheng guessed that he might want to submit a certificate of surrender.
Mu Sheng got up and left the inn and walked all the way to the lobby of Guo Mansion. Guo Huan greeted him to sit down and was silent for a while, as if he was thinking about how to speak.
After a while, Guo Huan said, "Brother Liu Xian, I have something to ask you to do. I wonder if brother Xian is willing?"
Mu Shengxin said it was coming.
"Let the big brother do whatever you want, but it doesn't matter."
"Okay, my dear brother is also a cheerful person, so I will open the window and speak frankly..."
