The day after Huang Wenmang left, Yan Longyu and others also left Guihua Town and continued southbound.
In order to thoroughly find out the "big shot" hidden in the Fushen Pavilion, who wanted to secretly prevent the son of the Sword Immortal from going to Sichuan, the young manager of Fushen did not continue to travel with Yan Longyu and others, and chose to stay in Osmanthus Town.
Mo Fei knew very little about the interests of all parties involved behind Yan Longyu. He only knew that this orphan of the Sword Immortal played a decisive role in the current situation in Western Shu.
But at the same time, as a person of the same age, I am looking forward to what such a young man with an exquisite mind but a simple mind will experience and what will happen after he goes to the rich and charming Jinguan City in Xishu. What kind of action?
In fact, everything about the boy will be seen and experienced with his own eyes in the future.
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On the second day after leaving Guihua Town, Yan Longyu and his party worked hard and arrived at the southernmost border of Xing'an County in Qinzhou before the sun went down.
Xing'an County is different from Hanyuan County, which is thousands of miles away. There are many mountain roads in the territory, and the roads are dangerous when it is dark. Therefore, for the sake of safety, at Qin Ruoyang's suggestion, everyone found a dilapidated inn at the foot of the mountain and stayed there. foot.
Although there were not many guests in the inn, because Dugu Haodang and Yan Gui were worried that Yan Longyu, who had just entered the third realm of physical training, would encounter another dangerous situation, the six of them only had two rooms.
Three young men, Yan Longyu, Dugu Haodang, and Yan Gui, lived in one room. The old Confucian scholar Qin Ruoyang and his servant Lao He lived next door to the young men. Hua Fengju slept alone on the carriage outside the inn.
at night.
The inn has old furnishings and constant noises. In addition to being hot and humid, it is also filled with various unpleasant smells. Although Dugu Haodang grew up in the mountains, Qin Ruoyang had taken good care of his daily life since he was a child. His living environment had never been as simple as it was tonight. Therefore, he tossed and turned, but couldn't sleep.
While Dugu Haodang kept turning around, Yan Longyu, who was sleeping next to him, heard the noise and squinted his eyes slightly, "Dugu, it's so late at night, why don't you sleep!"
In the darkness, Dugu Haodang touched the sword beside him and sat up straight, "Long Yu, I don't know if you heard it, but there are footsteps outside the door. If I heard correctly, it should start from the gentleman next door. , like Lao He’s.”
"You must be dreaming. I often confuse dreams with reality." Yan Longyu also rubbed his eyes and sat upright, as if he hadn't woken up yet, and said drowsily.
"Now that you're awake, come and go out with me."
"Oh...what did you say?"
Before Yan Longyu could react, Dugu Haodang grabbed his arm and pulled him off the bed, and walked out the door in a daze. When the two of them went out, they saw Yan Gui sleeping in the corner of the door, still chirping in his sleep. , so naive.
The two first went to Mr. Qin's room next door. When they walked to the door, they found that the door was ajar. After pushing the door open, there was no one there. There was a letter on the table, and the handwriting was not dry yet. But in the darkness, the two of them couldn't see what was written on it.
Yan Longyu immediately regained his composure and asked doubtfully: "It's late at night, sir, if he's not in the room, where will he go?"
Dugu Haodang picked up the letter and thought: "As long as Lao He is here, nothing will happen to you. If I am not wrong, I would like to leave without saying goodbye."
Yan Longyu suddenly remembered what Qin Ruoyang said, "When you enter Xing'an County, that's when Lao He and I will say goodbye to you."
Thinking of this, the two of them turned around at the same time, ran out of the inn regardless of the darkness.
Next to the stables outside the inn, there was no light. Only Hua Fengju turned his back to the inn and looked at the winding mountain road in the distance. Beside him, the only three remaining bay-red horses neighed from time to time. Of the two carriages parked here, only one remains.
Hearing the two teenagers running out of the inn, Hua Fengju turned his back to the two of them and did not turn around, "Your Mr. Qin said that he has lived his whole life and is not afraid of farewell in death, but in life. He cannot bear the scene of being separated from you, so He left without saying a word," the middle-aged man smiled, "If you ask me, he just wants to save face and suffer, and he is looking for trouble for himself."
Under the moonlight, the two teenagers unfolded the letter that their husband had left for them, and couldn't help but blush slightly.
The old man said in the letter:
"I have already walked with you on the road that I should walk with you. Now we say goodbye and we will never see each other again.
Looking at the young man
There is always a cool breeze in front of you, and you are not blinded by the secular world;
Always hold the rules in hand and do not follow the ugly trend;
Always hold the truth in your heart and never bow down to troubled times.
Wu Zhaoli, Chunfeng fifteenth year, mid-autumn.
Gift from Mr. Wentian. "
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The bright moon is in the sky, and the mountain breeze penetrates my bones.
The servant Lao He galloped on the winding mountain road.
In the carriage, Emperor Dahuan's master Qin Ruoyang was sitting cross-legged, his tall body swaying from side to side with the bumps of the carriage. Suddenly, the old man felt a sweetness in his throat. After covering his face for a heartbreaking cough, the old man was weak. He lowered his hands, and between his fingers, bright red blood oozed.
"Lao He, if you hurry up, I'm afraid I don't have much time left."
Hearing the weak voice of his old friend, He Lanxu frowned and tightened his grip on the horse's reins. He was a martial arts immortal, and he still had half a century to waste, but his old friend Qin Ruoyang But he is just a mortal scholar with a sick body. He has a destiny of life and death, wealth and honor are in heaven, and his time is not far away!
Sitting in the carriage, the octogenarian Qin Ruoyang couldn't help but have a lot of thoughts. He first thought of Yan Longyu and Dugu Haodang, two children with full personalities. In a daze, he seemed to remember those things from his youth...
Exactly seventy years ago, the emperor of the Wuzhao Dynasty was not Emperor Chunfeng or Emperor Shenwu, but Emperor Chunfeng's great-grandfather and Emperor Shenwu's grandfather, Emperor Jingqing.
In the spring of the sixth year of Jingqing's reign, the dust of the Great Examination had settled. Emperor Jingqing decreed that on March 15th, in the Jinluan Hall, six people who had passed the first-level examination of the Central Hall would be awarded official positions.
Qin Ruoyang, who was only fourteen years old at the time, was among these six people, ranking second on the list, ahead of the three top picks.
The whole country was extremely shocked by such a fourteen-year-old child. While other children could not even recognize words at the age of fourteen, this child named Qin Ruoyang was already able to step into the Golden Palace wearing red flowers. After meeting the emperor, "having a son should be like Qin Ruoyang", this sentence swept the entire Yuhua capital for a while.
But while some people envy this child, others are jealous of him and even slander him.
I don’t know since when, rumors suddenly spread in the streets of Yuhua City that the second best student in Jinke took the exam for himself, brought in cheat sheets, and even bribed the examiner. Although the rumors were self-defeating, they still gave him the name Qin Ruoyang. Many stains were left.
On the very day when he was awarded the official position, many people in the court had ill intentions towards this talented young man, making sarcastic remarks and speaking to each other. If it was just this, Qin Ruoyang could barely endure it, but what happened next made the talented young man laugh sarcastically in the Wuzhao Jinluan Palace, then turned and left angrily.
Just when the canonization edict had just been read out, the five top students except Qin Ruoyang seemed to have colluded and knelt on the ground with a plop. They reported to Emperor Jingqing and said, "It is disgraceful to play tricks with ghosts and gods." "People whose virtues are not worthy of their position will be officials in the same year." If the emperor does not dismiss Qin Ruoyang on the spot, the five of them will resign!
It was obvious that this was a long-premeditated frame-up. It was said that he took the exam, but there was no witness; it was said that he plagiarized, but there was no physical evidence; it was said that he bribed the examiner, but neither the stolen money nor the person who received the money could be found.
Is it because I am only a fourteen-year-old child that makes you, the pedantic scholars who studied hard and turned gray, feel shameless and ashamed?
In this regard, Qin Ruoyang, who was dressed in red and wearing flowers, did not give any explanation. He used his immature but arrogant and stern face to sarcastically glance around the court hall, only to find that there were only stupid and ugly people in the Golden Palace. Apart from the greasy skin, nothing can be seen.
The child lost his mind, laughed like a fool, turned around and jumped out of the hall, truly like an innocent child. I was stunned by the sight of Emperor Jingqing and the "Manchu civil and military forces", and let him laugh up to the sky and go out!
A few days later, the child named Qin Ruoyang disappeared into Yuhua Capital City like a flash in the pan. Some people said that the child went crazy and drowned in a lake. Others said that he saw the child leaving the capital city overnight. , heading northwest.
Later, there was a young official in the court with the surname Ouyang who wanted to complain about the child and secretly found out the reason why he was slandered. After the child was dismissed from office, one of the original second-class Jinshi became a first-class Jinshi. Jia Tanhua, and that person's surname is Wang, is from the Longhuai Wang family, whose family power has great influence in the court.
As for Qin Ruoyang, he was just young and ignorant, ignorant of the sinister officialdom, and became a victim of someone's interests.
The young official whose surname was Ouyang once accidentally talked about the child named Qin Ruoyang while drunk at a gathering. He sighed with tears: "It's a pity, it's sad, it's a shame that our Central Plains has lost a wonderful young genius." ah!"
In the following years, it was not until the past twenty years that the name Qin Ruoyang was remembered again in Dahuan.
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On the bumpy mountain road, the sound of ruts sounded a bit desolate.
Recalling his ridiculous behavior when he was young, the old Confucian scholar Qin Ruoyang's bloodshot eyes suddenly glowed with a gleam of light, and unconsciously, he slightly raised the corners of his mouth.
There are some things that you will regret if you do them, and you will regret if you don't do them.
Qin Ruoyang, Mr. Wentian, laughed slowly, and was full of energy as if he was looking back. He said to the outside of the car: "Let's go, old man, to go to Jiangnan and Yuhua to support the orthodox lineage of our Dahuan Dugu family!"
"Although I am old, my ambition is thousands of miles away."
