Datang Almighty Dad

Chapter 555 Mao Shun's Choice
Seeing that Zhang Xiaojing didn't answer, Mao Shun said to himself: "When I was building this lamp building, I suddenly thought of this question, and I laughed for days!"

Zhang Xiaojing said in a deep voice: "You are the national teacher Mao Shun! Did the cockroaches kidnap your family as a threat? Where are they? I will help you save them."

Pain flashed across his face, and Mao Shun pointed not far away and said, "Please, go to the back of the Tianshu pillar in the middle, in a wooden box, and get me something. I'll tell you—the secret of this lamp building." !"

Zhang Xiaojing turned around and took it quickly. It was a simple wooden box one foot square. When it was opened, there was a box inside. It was obvious that the things inside were very important.It turned out to be an exquisite and scaled-down lamp building component, which seemed to be used for demonstration and simulation.

"The unicorn arm? This is the secret of the lamp house. Where is it on the lamp mountain?" Zhang Xiaojing asked.

Mao Shun drank a little wine and introduced: "This lamp mountain is just his initial appearance. At the end of the lamp body, it will transform into a statue of Lao Tzu. A saint will die in the eyes of the statue of Lao Tzu."

"How can I make it stop!" Zhang Xiaojing was angry and anxious.

"There are twelve lamphouses hidden around Lao Tzu, in which are placed twelve Taoist deities. When the ugliness arrives, when the whole lamphouse is lit up, the lamphouses as high as the sky suddenly light up and unfold in mid-air in turn. What a magnificent scene? Those Chang'an people who love to liven up, seeing this scene, I'm afraid they will go crazy with excitement!" Mao Shun said proudly.

Zhang Xiaojing has been studying how to crack it, "Kirin arm, the connecting rod of the lighthouse is a unicorn arm?"

"Ah, that's right. The biggest feature of the unicorn arm is that it can be replaced under the pretext of maintenance. In this way, before lighting the lamp, Longbo pretends to be a craftsman, transports the unicorn arm filled with stone grease, and slightly heats it up to replace it. It's done."

"Let me ask, throughout the ages, who else could have made it except me, Mao Shun?"

Zhang Xiaojing was so angry that he really wanted to grab the old man's neck, "How can I make it stop?! As long as the mechanism of the center is cut off, the center will not explode, and then the unicorn arm of the lighthouse will be cut off, and the lighthouse will not blow up..."

"Hehe, the kid has a bit of talent, but unfortunately, it's too late!" Mao Shun said no more.

Zhang Xiaojing asked angrily: "As a national teacher, why did you cooperate with the thieves to destroy my Chang'an?"

Mao Shun said with a bit of drunkenness: "I'm greedy."

"You have fame and fortune, what more do you want?"

"I just like fame. I can't just be a bad old man among millions of people in Chang'an City." Mao Shun said with narrowed eyes.

Zhang Xiaojing simply sat down cross-legged, "But now you build a lantern tower and assassinate the person who gave you fame and fortune."

With a long sigh, Mao Shun said desolately: "There is no way, some people's words are like sowing seeds. If you sow them in your heart, they will germinate sooner or later."

Um?When I got to the point, Zhang Xiaojing hurriedly asked: "Who sowed the seeds for you?"

Mao Shun raised his eyes to look at the lamp tower, and said sadly: "It cost Tang Dynasty 400 million yuan to build this lamp tower. At the beginning, the sage chose my proposal. I am very happy. After building this lamp, you can buy it.”

"However, as it was being built, there was a flood in Yingzhou, and there were 10,000+ victims, and the court had no money to relieve the disaster. Some people said that maybe the saints would stop building lamp towers, and 400 million yuan could save the lives of these victims. But they never saw An order to stop construction. One day, I was on the construction site of the lamp building, and I heard someone say this sentence: One money can buy two mustaches, so that a person can live an extra day, and if it is a baby, it can live two days!"

Zhang Xiaojing's heart skipped a beat, why do you think this tone is so familiar?
"Who told you that?"

Mao Shun said with emotion: "Since that day, this sentence has been circling in my heart. The higher the lamp building is built, the more afraid I am. I know, I lived a wrong life..."

"Who told you these words?" Zhang Xiaojing asked.

Mao Shun said with a chuckle: "I don't know anyone, I didn't see his face clearly. But what he said is right!"

"I want to be famous through the ages, notoriety! My father told me that a craftsman is looking for the merits of thousands of generations, not the merits of a moment."

"I turned this big lantern building pretending to be peaceful into a weapon, and let the emperor in front of me, at the happiest moment, be wiped out. From then on, my notoriety will be spread for generations to come, and all craftsmen in future generations will learn from me and understand Be mindful before making utensils, understand, and only make things that are really useful.”

"They will understand that, for the common people, cakes are much more beautiful than lighthouses, and no one will waste national power and create such an illusion."

After Mao Shun finished speaking, Zhang Xiaojing looked ugly, but there was nothing he could do. Everyone has their own choice.

But Xiao Doudou couldn't help applauding: "Wow, grandpa, you are so great!"

"Huh? Son, aren't you afraid? I'm going to die with the emperor today." Mao Shun asked in surprise.

"Scared? Didn't you say to send me out? Why are you afraid? I don't know the emperor. Besides, if you do something wrong, you should be punished. If you have money to build lamphouses, you don't do disaster relief, regardless of whether the people live or die. Emperor, damn it!" Xiao Doudou seemed to have returned to the era of angry youths who ran rampant in Chang'an and beat up dudes.

"Don't talk nonsense, this is not a personal enmity that can be explained clearly, killing the emperor is easy, but the consequences are not so simple!" Zhang Xiaojing shouted to stop.

Mao Shun laughed loudly: "Sure enough, he is worthy of being the descendant of King Qin. Hey... If His Highness King Qin is still here, it would be great. In this world, the Wu Zhou Dynasty reached its peak. How could it reach its peak in just ten years?" The people are in dire straits?"

After finishing speaking, he turned to look at Zhang Xiaojing and asked, "Everyone has a choice. Now, it's your turn to choose. Do you choose to save the emperor or the people? If you save the people, you'll blow me up first!"

After listening to the story, Zhang Xiaojing sighed, almost without hesitation, stood up and saluted Mao Shun respectfully, then picked up the jug himself, filled Mao Shun's glass, and saw him off.

He found a torch, lit the lead wire of the bucket of fire thunder, pulled up the small pocket and walked towards the top without looking back.

"No, grandpa is a good man, I don't want him to die!" Xiao Doudou struggled.

Zhang Xiaojing said: "No one can save a person with a dead heart. Let him be fulfilled."

Hearing this, Xiao Doudou was stunned, and reluctantly bowed to Mao Shun. Mao Shun squeezed out a smile and waved his hands, "Remember to tell Long Bo to send this child out. Chou is burning the lamp and it will blow up, you guys time is limited."

"Everyone should be responsible for their own choices, I think it's worth it!"

After finishing speaking, he drank the wine in the glass and closed his eyes calmly. After a while, there was a loud bang, and the whole lamp building trembled.

The power of a barrel of volleyball is limited, and it didn't affect the main structure of the whole lamp building. Zhang Xiaojing took Xiao Doudou and trotted all the way to the top floor.

(End of this chapter)