Bully

The weather is fine, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant.Mornings on the mountain are always a bit chilly.Xue Hui wore a satin gown with wide sleeves, and stood upright outside Rongshang's courtyard.He was more punctual than the watchman, and he stood here when the time came.

At this time, Ming Chuan was still asleep. He had a rough day yesterday and slept late at night. He couldn't wake up at this hour no matter what.Rong Shang got up from beside him, being careful not to wake him up.

Then he changed his clothes and went outside.

"Eldest brother." Seeing Rong Shang, Xue Hui saluted respectfully.

Rong Shang looked at him and said, "What are you doing here?"

Xue replied: "Read the rules to His Majesty."

Rong Shang sneered, and said: "You are getting more and more angry now, and you are constantly arguing with him. His childish nature is lawless, and you, are you also a child?"

"Brother..."

"What Jiuyi Mountain taught you is to make you a counselor and a famous minister, not to teach you to be angry with others. Be neither arrogant nor impetuous, neither humble nor arrogant, neither angry nor angry, what have you done!"

Xue Hui knelt down immediately.

"With your appearance, you still have the face to be the second senior brother of Jiuyi Mountain?" Rong Shang said, "Go and sweep the long steps, and reflect on what you have done wrong?"

"Yes." Xue Hui turned around with a face of shame.

Rong Shang turned and went back to the room, Ming Chuan had already sat up, rubbing his eyes, as if he was still awake.

"Get up quickly." Rong Shang changed his clothes, "We are leaving today."

Ming Chuan suddenly became sober, "Let's go now?"

"of course."

After having breakfast as usual, Rong Shang took Ming Chuan to the ancestral hall they had visited yesterday.The disciples guarding the ancestral hall did not dare to stop Rong Shang, and the two of them entered and exited the ancestral hall as if they were in a deserted land.

"Where's Xue Hui?" Ming Chuan remembered, "Didn't he block me at the gate of the courtyard every day?"

"I sent him away." Rong Shang told Ming Chuan to sit down first, and searched around the ancestral hall by himself.A door was found behind a corner with a picture hanging on it.

"It turned out that there was a hole here." Rong Shang said, "Later, I changed it into a door, and you can leave the ancestral hall from here."

Ming Chuan leaned over to look, and found that it was really a door, and the corridor behind could be seen when the door was opened.

Rong Shang turned back again, took a candle, and poured the lamp oil for the ever-burning lamp around.

Ming Chuan exclaimed, "Are you planning to burn down the ancestral hall?"

"Yes." Rong Shang wrote lightly.

Ming Chuan hesitated and said, "Will it be a little immoral?"

Rong Shang thought for a while and said, "Yes."

Although Rong Shang said it was immoral, his subordinates did not stop.After pouring the oil, Rong Shang threw the candle casually, and the flames shot up into a sea of ​​flames in an instant.

Mingchuan and Rongshang walked out of the small gate, and after running for a certain distance, they heard disciples everywhere shouting about putting out the fire.Rong Shang led Mingchuan to the main hall avoiding everyone's eyes and ears.

There was no one in the main hall, and the disciples went to put out the fire, and the master of the mountain and his uncles also went to see it. A fire in the ancestral hall is not a trivial matter.

Rong Shang didn't seem to be burning well, he raised his hand to light the fire again, Ming Chuan felt very strange in his heart, he felt that Rong Shang didn't hate Jiuyi Mountain so much, but this man's hand to light the fire was too smooth.

After clicking on the main hall, Rong Shang didn't hesitate any longer, and took Ming Chuan to the back mountain, leaving Jiuyi Mountain along the path.Walking to a mountain stream, and looking back, I saw that the fire was much smaller, and only strands of thick smoke came out.

"It turns out that there is still this road in Jiuyi Mountain." Ming Chuan sighed.

"There is a long step in Jiuyi Mountain. The first time you go up the mountain is the road you take. The people of Jiuyi Mountain also dug a very labor-saving and convenient road, which they usually use to go up and down the mountain. This road is very hidden. , there is also a section of stone steps near the foot of the mountain, which is a road that has been dug a little and then abandoned, only Xue Hui and I know about it."

Mingchuan's eyes moved, "Xue Hui also knows?"

Rong Shang glanced at him and said, "Yes, Xue Hui walked with me once."

Ming Chuan's eyes changed instantly.Rong Shang smiled, pinched the flesh on Ming Chuan's face, and said, "What are you thinking?"

"I was thinking, Xue Hui knew you earlier than me, Xue Hui is smarter than me, and he admires you so much..." Mingchuan said, with a sour taste in his mouth.

Rong Shang just smiled, Ming Chuan glared at him, and said, "If only I knew you earlier."

Rong Shang touched Ming Chuan's head and said, "I don't want you to know me earlier, I was very ugly when I was young, you won't like it."

"You haven't tried it, how do you know I won't like it."

Rong Shang thought for a while, and said: "When I first met you, your temper has become much calmer. Think about the time when you were not peaceful before."

When Rong Shang first met himself, he was in Gongbian, holding a sword in his hand, and the sword was dripping with blood.The eunuch pushed himself in front of Rong Shang, saying that this was the only remaining blood of the late emperor.

At that time, Rong Shang looked at him condescendingly, like looking at a cat or dog, and this was when he was peaceful.Ming Chuan couldn't help shivering, he couldn't imagine what it would be like when his temper was not peaceful.

"Look, my appearance has made you afraid of me for many years. If you had known me earlier, you wouldn't have run away without a trace?"

Ming Chuan thought about it too, and approached Rong Shang with a flattering smile, "Now that's enough for me to like you."

Rong Shang nodded Ming Chuan's nose, but did not speak.

The two of them continued to walk, turned around a cluster of vines, and suddenly saw a person standing not far away.

It was Xue Hui. He looked at the two of them with condensed eyes, holding a sword in his hand, and the light of the sword was cold and stern.

Ming Chuan and Rong Shang stopped.

Xue Hui's eyes were full of resentment, "Are you really going?"

Rong Shang's voice was flat, "I never planned to stay."

"Then where do you put Jiuyi Mountain!" Xue Hui became excited, "Don't you give them a way out for the thousands of disciples on the mountain?"

"According to what you're saying, my death is their way of life?"

"No one has to force you to die," Xue replied, "As long as you stay in Jiuyi Mountain, I will do the rest, and I can help you fool the world!"

Rong Shang actually laughed, he said: "You are so powerful, why do you stay on the mountain?"

"Because you are the one who wins." Xue Hui frowned, "You are the direct disciple who can be born."

The corner of Rong Shang's mouth curled into a mocking arc, and he looked at Xue Hui, "Do you know how many disciples there are in the first generation of Jiuyi Mountain?"

"You and I have a total of 310 eight people in this generation."

"Among the 310 eight people, there is only one direct disciple who can be born, and there are 310 seven people left."

Xue Hui didn't know what Rong Shang's words meant.

"The seven people in 310 are all talented people, but they can only stay on this mountain until they die. They can't use all the skills they have learned. Their ambitions and dreams became nothing the moment I won. " Rong Shang said: "Do you really think that Jiuyi Mountain is a good place? There are so many memorial tablets in the ancestral hall. That is not glory and inheritance. It is the fate of the disciples of Jiuyi Mountain who have been waiting until they die."

Xue Hui's eyes trembled. He himself was one of the seven people in 310, but he never thought about it.

Seeing Xue Hui's collapse of faith, Ming Chuan couldn't bear it.Rong Shang dragged Ming Chuan over, walked a few steps and stopped suddenly, "You have the ability to deceive the world, so you won't be unable to save yourself."

After all, Rong Shang ignored Xue Hui and walked down the mountain with Ming Chuan.

Ming Chuan looked back frequently, and sighed: "Back then, Xu Chengyu was depressed just because his father didn't allow him to leave the Imperial Academy. You, a junior, are so powerful, but you can't do anything for so many years. It's really miserable."

Rong Shang said: "Everyone has his own destiny, there is no need to feel sorry for others."

Ming Chuan tugged on Rong Shang's sleeve and said, "If you were the one who lost back then, what would you do?"

"If I am the one who loses," Rong Shang said casually, "This fire will probably be more than ten years earlier."

Ming Chuan smiled, looking honored.

Rongfeng at the foot of the mountain had already led people to meet him, and the group of people were extremely solemn, and they opened their mouths to call the national teacher.Ming Chuan felt a little uncomfortable when he heard this name at first, so he stopped sitting next to Rong Shang and went upstairs.

Rong Shang watched Ming Chuan go upstairs, and Rong Feng was reporting about the affairs of the capital. It was nothing more than Zhang Xinyuan's disobedience, trying to win over people everywhere, and wanted to break away from Rong Shang's bondage.

Once a person like Zhang Xinyuan took all the power into his own hands, disaster would surely arise.

Later, when Rong Shang went upstairs with food, Ming Chuan just woke up and came over to eat at the table.

Rong Shang kept looking at Ming Chuan, and Ming Chuan asked, "What's wrong?"

"Now that we have come out of Jiuyi Mountain, do you plan to continue traveling around, or go back to the capital with me?"

In just a few words, Rong Shang spoke very slowly, as if he had considered every word for a long time.

"If I continue to travel, will you accompany me?" Ming Chuan asked.

"Do you want me to accompany you?" Rong Shang asked back.

Ming Chuan looked at Rong Shang for a long time, then suddenly smiled, and said, "Go back to the capital, I want to go home. It will be the same when I come out when I have free time in the future. As long as you are by my side, it will be the same."

Rong Shang seemed to be relieved of his strength, and he looked at Ming Chuan with gentle and affectionate eyes.

"When Ming Nanqing turns 15, the government will be passed on to him. At that time, I will accompany you through the mountains and rivers. Where you have been and where you have not been, we will go again."

Ming Chuan looked into Rong Shang's eyes and nodded seriously.

In June, when the pomegranate flowers were so red, Ming Chuan returned to the capital, and the rebuilt Zichen Hall was still majestic, and the people in the hall were already different.Some people passed away, some people were far away, and some people went around and came back again.

After returning to the palace, after resting for two days, Ming Chuan was about to go to court to show his face. After a year, Ming Chuan finally recovered from his illness and remembered his duty as a mascot.

He was still sitting in the hall and dozing off, while Zhang Xinyuan and Xu Chengyu were fighting with each other.In just a few years, they got to know each other and became confidantes, and then went against each other until now. Time and people are amazing.

"I wonder what His Majesty thinks?"

Ming Chuan woke up suddenly, "It's all according to what Master Guoshi said."

He opened his eyes, Zhang Xinyuan and Xu Chengyu had just finished arguing, and now they pointed the finger at the national teacher again, but they had to stop after hearing Ming Chuan's words.

This made Ming Chuan wonder if Zhang Xinyuan was really an imperialist?

After the court, the national teacher boarded the carriage of His Majesty as usual.

While driving the car, Ming Chuan leaned on Rong Shang's leg and sighed: "Fortunately, you and I, we always have some things that haven't changed."