The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is primitive, and the three thousand worlds are vast and boundless...
In the imperial city under the emperor's feet, it was almost night, and the world was in chaos. It was impossible to tell which was the sky and which was the mountains.
Because it was winter and there was snow.
A carriage was parked under the trees on the roadside outside the deep courtyard of a tall house.
The horse pulling the cart was breathing heavily, complaining that its owner didn't understand how to take pity on him. He went in for nearly an hour and didn't come out to take a look at the horrible weather in front of him.
The only thing that comforted it was that there was a fire on the roadside, and the burning flames warmed its gradually cooling mind.
Fortunately, there were two people sitting next to the fire. They used coir raincoats to build a gabled tent over their heads, temporarily blocking the falling snowflakes from the sky.
However, no matter how you look at it, the condition of the two of them is extremely miserable, because even in such a windy and snowy day, they are still naked, with a black singlet draped on their bodies.
At a glance, he was three times worse off than the beggars in the Imperial City.
There was an earthen pot placed on the fire, steaming out. The man was only in his early thirties, with a scholar's face under his black hair.
The boy was only six years old. Although his clothes were ragged, he could not hide the gleam in his eyes.
The two of them were drinking water from a pottery bowl each holding with their heads down, muttering something in a low voice.
Inside the high wall, a red light shines, and the fire is as bright as spring.
Only fifteen years old, a young man in a green shirt was sitting with his head lowered and his eyes lowered.
At the head of the table was the current left prime minister, and his wife was muttering something in a low voice.
Not far away, there is a young lady who is slightly younger than the boy, wearing a blue silk skirt, with slightly furrowed eyebrows, and the housekeeper who is looking up to the sky.
Just when the boy and girl were uneasy, a maid came in from outside the hall, whispered something in the butler's ear, then bowed and left in a hurry.
The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that it was already the time to light the lanterns, and it was time to have dinner in the house.
So he stepped forward and reminded the master softly.
The young man who sat down was startled, glanced at the housekeeper, then looked at the prime minister and his wife, as well as the young lady who lowered her eyebrows and nodded, and finally sighed softly.
The couple who followed the leader bowed to the ground and murmured: "In this case, I will go back home first."
The woman was stunned for a moment, then waved her hand calmly and said, "Let's work hard and try to get a good honor in the next year."
Mrs. Zuo Xiang actually dismissed the young man in an understatement and did not even want to repair his mouth after dinner.
The young man seemed to have expected such an outcome, and without saying much, he stepped forward to bow to the lady again, then turned and walked out of the house.
"Master, wait a minute, I'll see you off."
After struggling for a long time, the girl finally glared at her parents and followed the young man out of the house with broken steps.
The woman was stunned and said angrily: "Look at this Qing'er."
The Prime Minister sighed and said lightly: "Just this time, let her go."
The woman snorted: "Bring the food over, I'm starving to death."
It wasn't until the housekeeper left that the woman continued: "This toad wants to eat swan meat. He wants to be beautiful, and he doesn't even look at his own family situation."
The girl followed the boy all the way to the gate.
Looking at the young man with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes in front of him, he sighed again and again in his heart, not knowing what he was thinking about.
The two of them stood silently on the stone steps of the gate. They stood quietly like this for a long time, and finally the girl said softly.
Then he turned around and ran towards the house with his face covered.
Then there was a creaking sound, and the heavy door slowly closed.
In an instant, the girl and the boy were separated into two completely different worlds.
The young man looked at the hazy sky, looked up to the sky and sighed, thought again and again, and finally walked towards the carriage not far away.
"You two... let's go back."
After the young man finished speaking, he locked himself in the carriage, as if he never wanted to see the deep mansion in front of him again. When the boy heard this, he immediately threw away the pottery bowl in his hand, patted the man beside him on the shoulder and said, "Brother, you can go now. Hurry up."
The man grabbed a handful of snow and threw it on the fire. He picked up the boy and got into the carriage, then untied the reins tied to the tree.
The carriage moved forward slowly along the long street, and the young man in the carriage weakly gave directions to the man driving the carriage from time to time.
On a windy and snowy night, there were no pedestrians on the street. There was only a lonely carriage slowly rolling through the city's snow.
The boy in the carriage was complaining unwillingly, and the boy in the carriage looked around excitedly, whispering a few words in the man's ear from time to time.
After half an hour, the carriage stopped outside a courtyard in the west of the city. The young man stopped the man driving the carriage.
The young man got off the carriage and knocked on the courtyard door. The man and the boy drove the carriage into the courtyard from the side door.
Compared with the previous Zuo Xiangfu, the courtyard in front of me is like a chicken compared to a phoenix, and there is no comparison at all.
There is only an old man serving as the housekeeper and two maids in the mansion.
The man drove the horse into the shed, fed him some more fodder, and then took the boy to the front living room.
Just like they had agreed before, the three of them cooked a pot of meat around the table. The young man did not mind that the two of them were dressed in rags, but picked up the jug in front of them and poured a bowl of wine.
Without saying anything, he drank half the bowl and then sighed leisurely.
There were shallow tears on his stubborn face. It was obvious that he had just cried in the carriage. Perhaps it was because he was disliked by Zuo Xiang and his wife, or perhaps it was to mourn the loss of the girl.
The man gave the man a piece of meat, poured a bowl of wine, and took a sip.
Then he smiled and said: "Guan Guan Jujiu, in Hezhizhou. There are some things that you just need to take a look at. You don't have to own them."
The young man shook his head: "You are not a fish, how do you know the suffering of fish?"
The boy stared at the two of them with his big eyes, his round eyes rolled around, thinking that something was wrong, he had to stretch out his chopsticks and look into his bowl.
The man sighed, looked at the young man and said seriously: "I can teach you some things. When you stand at a higher place than them one day, you will naturally understand these principles."
When the young man heard this, he laughed angrily: "What can you teach me? You are just two poor guys. You don't have a penny on you, and you don't even have a place to spend the night."
The boy couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. He looked at the man and said, "Brother, this brother is calling you a pauper. What is a pauper?"
The man was happy when he heard this, touched his head and said with a smile: "The poor thing is that we really don't have a penny on us, and if the master doesn't take us in, we will really freeze to death in this strange place."
The young man was happy when he heard this. He did not expect that the two guys in front of him were not embarrassed by his situation at all, but instead started joking with him.
So the mood that had been gloomy all day finally shined with a ray of sunshine.
Looking at the two of them, he smiled and said, "Well, since I picked you up on the road, there are too many rooms in this house. I will go to the street tomorrow to buy some decent clothes for you."
Perhaps because he saw the sunshine on their faces, the boy finally felt much better.
The boy nodded and said softly: "Brother, let me tell you a secret. If you pick up my brother, you will get rich soon!"
The young man was startled when he heard this, touched the boy's head and said, "Is it possible that you are the son of that noble family?"
The man shook his head, held the bowl and smiled: "Tonight we will only drink wine and eat meat. If you have anything to say, we will talk about it tomorrow. Remember, today has passed. Don't keep your heart tied to Zuo Xiang's Mansion."
The young man sighed and said quietly: "Is it okay?"
"Believe me, tomorrow will be a brand new you. Is it possible that even if you are reluctant to let go, you can make them change their minds?"
The man took a sip of wine and continued: "Sometimes if you can't kill others, then be cruel and kill yourself."
The young man smiled bitterly upon hearing this: "I'll try."
…
The man was Li Xiuyuan who was undergoing a tribulation in the Tianshan Mountains of the Five Realms.
Because of a rare bright moon covering the stars in a thousand years, seven stars suddenly shined in the sky. He, who was transformed into a star, was summoned into the starry sky before he could fully survive the catastrophe of five people and five declines.
And with the power of stars that penetrated the heavens, he left the small world of Mount Sumeru and came to a place that was completely unfamiliar to him and Xiao Hei.
Because of the power of the stars, he and Xiao Hei were not harmed when passing through the black hole.
Xiao Hei regained his human body as he wished, but returned to the time when he was six years old.
Li Xiuyuan sadly discovered that because he had not completely transcended the tribulation, since he had not completely transformed into a mortal, nor had he achieved phoenix nirvana, he had not been able to survive the tribulation of his formless golden body.
He turned into the person he was when he first met his husband in Fengyun City's Zizhuyuan, a middle-aged man in his thirties with a scholarly face.
Xiao Hei didn't care at all about his brother's changes. His only regret was that the space ring between the two could not be opened.
Moreover, traveling through the black hole ruined both of their clothes, making them look like beggars.
Fortunately, not long after he landed in this world, he met the boy in white in front of him on the roadside. Maybe he looked at Xiao Hei with a pitiful look.
Maybe it was true, as the young man in white said, that there were only a few people in the family, and he wouldn't mind having two more people chatting with him.
So they took them in.
Until now, Li Xiuyuan and Xiao Hei have not come back to their senses. Where are they? Where did they come? Master, does the old Taoist priest know where he is going?
However, how could he, who had always been happy-go-lucky, care about his surroundings?
Since the young man in front of him took him and Xiao Hei in, he decided to help this poor guy come out.
Although he didn't know what happened in the Prime Minister's Palace, he saw a trace of determination on the face of the girl who sent the boy out.
The sad look on the girl's face was like a knife, killing the careless young man in the snowy sky.
Lying on the bed, listening to Xiao Hei's gentle snoring, Li Xiuyuan laughed lightly.
For some reason, he thought of many years ago, not long after he and Xiaobai came down from Tianshan Mountain, Dongfang Yuer's mother Li Mingzhu came to the Red Sleeve Tower.
He actually proposed to break off the engagement in front of his husband, even though his face didn't show the same expression as the young man now.
Thinking about it now, I must have been very angry and a little unwilling at the time.
Now that he is gone, he no longer hates even Li Mingzhu.
And Dongfang Yu'er was reborn with his help. Will he still care about other women's harm to him?
Like others, he was determined to help the guy in front of him come out of the girl's shadow.
Although he still doesn't know the boy's name, what's interesting is that the boy has never asked him or Xiao Hei's names.
Fate, sometimes it just comes out of nowhere.
It was the old Taoist priest who told him what he had to say. On the first day he came to the imperial city in another world, he forgot about his master's words.
Tomorrow I will buy some clothes, and then I will buy some books about the world.
After traveling thousands of miles, he and Xiao Hei wanted to read more books.
Right now, he and Xiao Hei were just as the boy said, so poor that they didn't have a penny, but he had skills?
Things in the restaurant are too complicated and not something he likes.
The bookstore decided not to open on Tianjie Street ever again.
After much deliberation, I realized that I still have another unique skill that I am good at, and that is opening a wine shop.
In the sky and on the earth, monks and mortals with different cultivation levels in all the worlds are always inseparable from a bottle of fine wine?
ps: The Great Qin here is this Great Qin and not this Great Qin. This is fantasy and it is impossible to write according to the timeline of the Great Qin. I just want Li Xiuyuan to experience burning books and entrapping Confucians... Please show your respect and think of it as joking about the Great Qin. Thanks.
