Moth

A person who lives too clearly and thoroughly, is smart enough to see through the vicissitudes of the world at a glance, and has a clear understanding of the world's affairs, then the four seasons of the year will lose a lot of meaning.Sometimes, it is a kind of wisdom to be confused.

Liu Changzhou is in this state right now.

After Qinghe said goodbye, Lu Hanzhang's candid "um" always echoed in his mind from time to time, and it always popped up unexpectedly when he was a little relaxed, making him always confused. It is true or groundless.

After years of goodbye, Huarong will meet again, everything in the past has been left forever in yesterday by time, but shamefully stretched his arms to grab the person of today.

He doesn't know what Lu Hanzhang is thinking now, and he can't always ask nervously, "Hey, what do you want... me".He felt that it was good to be so confused now, and he even thought that if Lu Hanzhang never mentioned these emotions that were constantly being cut and messed up, he could pretend that nothing had happened.On certain issues, the Chu River and Han Realms jointly maintain a bottom line that is not humane, as if in this way, they can continue the past unchanged.

If Lu Hanzhang mentioned these things again, what would he do?

Liu Changzhou lay down on the roof with his hands under his head, half startled by his own thought.

This question is like a door leading to an unknown realm, and the three thousand worlds behind the door seem to have a kind of magical power, so he can't help but want to push the door open and look inside.

But another voice in my heart was desperately shouting: Don't go!Don't think about it!

So he really didn't want to think about it any more, cut off all the clusters of curiosity with a knife in his hand, and silently recited "rarely confused" and "rarely confused" twice in his heart, and then all kinds of out-of-place thoughts disappeared.

Maybe it was just an illusion at the time.

Life is like a journey against the sky. We are both travelers who stand alone in the vast world. If we agree, we will plan, and if we disagree, we will separate. Where are there so many complicated things?

In the boundless Jiangbei moonlight, he simply thought, right and wrong, everyone will have a next step ahead.What's more, the joy, anger, sorrow and joy are always long and the border cannot be seen at a glance, and how many times a year can we see the bright moon?Instead of trying to guess what others think, it is better to hold a curtain of stars and moon in your arms and wait for the boat to arrive at the bridge.

The night is as cold as water, and all sounds are silent.

A very swift figure suddenly slid across the roof in the distance, gliding across the adjacent roof like a big bird. During the period, he hugged his fist neatly, and then the target went straight to Youlai Mountain.

Liu Changzhou's eyes were half-closed, and the corners of his mouth turned up—there was news from Zheng Xuange's end.

He got up and followed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, everything here returned to calm.

Zheng Xuange led him all the way north, and stopped on the mountainside near Youlai Mountain Yin.He pointed to a sizable bluestone not far away, jumped behind a big tree thick enough to be hugged by two people, picked up a stone and threw it towards the opposite side.

Behind the blue stone, he suddenly remembered the sound of footsteps. The footsteps of the visitors were deliberately light, but occasionally there was a "creaking" sound when stepping on dry fallen leaves. After a while, Liu Changzhou saw a big man with a long knife lying on his arms. He came out and walked straight towards the place where the stone fell.

Nearby burial mounds are interspersed between the gaps of the poplar trees. Almost all the mounds of the mounds are quite perfunctory with a few handfuls of soil, and some of the mounds can still see naked/exposed bones.Liu Changzhou understood, this is probably the mass grave where the execution room of the yamen handles public cases, executes executions and throws away corpses.

Picking such a place, on the one hand, there are only government servants coming and going, and on the other hand, no one is likely to be interested in coming here. It is a good place to hide people's eyes and ears.Follow the triangle-eyed Zhou Tai to such a place...

Then, some criss-crossing wheel marks on the ground caught his attention. Those wheel marks were layered on top of each other, and the land near the bluestone was already compacted. The traces of direction are easily reminiscent of the flatbed carts used to transport corpses.

He glanced at Zheng Xuange suspiciously, Zheng Xuange raised his finger and pointed to his mouth.He frowned, glanced away, and saw a white grain in the mark, which was in stark contrast to the surrounding black soil, and it turned out to be a grain of rice.

The big man who came out to see the situation turned around, then turned around and returned the same way.Liu Changzhou took a few steps on his heels, and walked around the edge of the bluestone to see a facade that was recessed inward.

The recess happened to be hidden behind another isolated rock, if he hadn't been chasing the man's clothes, he would hardly have found a place to hide there.

Liu Changzhou gestured backwards, signaling Zheng Xuange to stand by, and jumped up from the other side of the big bluestone.Looking down from the height, he saw that there was a hole under the smaller bluestone in the gap, which could only allow one person to pass through, which was very similar to a wolf's den or some kind of animal den.

Nonsense, can this damn thing push a flatbed into it?

A faint candlelight was faintly reflected in the entrance of the cave, and from another angle, some thick chains placed randomly on the ground leading from the entrance of the cave could be seen, as if some kind of mechanism was hidden.

Then he noticed the smaller stone.The stone was lying on the ground very awkwardly, or it didn't "lying" on the ground, but was deep in the soil, and the contact area with the soil was almost the largest girth of the bluestone.The soil laid along the bluestone is slightly sunken in, forming a plate-like terrain around the bluestone.

After careful identification, it can be found that almost all the disappeared ruts have gathered at the foot of the bluestone, and it is a coincidence that the part of the bluestone that is close to the ground can just accommodate a car.

Whose family has so much rice that they can’t put it in their own yard, and spend money to hire such desperadoes, transport them to the deep mountains and old forests, and set up an institution that is not liked by people, and it is so heavily guarded. The purpose is almost obvious.

Waiting until dawn, there was a sound of footsteps from far to near, and an old acquaintance jumped out of the cave like a fake corpse—it was Zhou Tai with triangular eyes.

Liu Changzhou stuck himself on the stone wall, and touched it after Zhou Tai took half a cup of tea.In the end, he followed to a downtown area and saw Zhou Tai walking into a shop with the signboard saying "Hongyun Grain Shop".

On the front door of the shop, there was an ink-stained Xingan notice: New Grain is on the market.

He turned around, told Zheng Xuange to stay, and headed towards the imperial envoy's office by himself, guessing in his heart that the news from Fang Bingbi and Du Heng was about to arrive.

As soon as he jumped into the wall, Jin Dou rushed over as if he had never eaten meat and bones, and stood up as a humanoid Jin Dou, hugging his neck and licking his saliva, his tail almost wagging like a gust of wind.

Liu Changzhou: "..."

He touched Jin Dou's head symbolically, and kissed Jin Dou reciprocally. He hadn't finished making out with Jin Dou when he suddenly encountered a powerful hug, which immediately swat him like a fly. It hit the ground, and then Fang Bingbi's bitch's face appeared on top of Jin Dou: "Master, I miss you so much!" After that, he still sniffled his nose twice, it's just... scumbag One floor!

Du Heng came out with a book in his hand, feeling that the chances of him getting in touch with his boss were very slim, so he followed suit and firmly put another layer on the "human flesh sandwich dog". The meat covered the face, and said unceremoniously: "Master, listen to him farting, he was still writing home letters to Miss Changlin just now."

Fang Bingbi: "..."

Liu Changzhou was suppressed to the point where he felt like scolding his mother.He has always felt that he has a lot of prestige. Although he has some convulsions occasionally, he is still a very cold person in the overall situation. Why are none of these grandchildren afraid of him, and one or two are so fucking good at it? behave in a spoiled manner.

He took out his hand and slapped the ground vigorously to express his protest, and said very coldly: "Fuck you all!" Then he heard this boss who thought he was very majestic gave a particularly wretched smile, and said quietly: "It's hard to do that!" If not, you want me to kiss you too?"

Fang Bingbi and Du Heng: "...kiss your sister!"

Facts have proved that there is indeed a problem with He Yun's grain platform and that scale, and the problem is very serious.The food handed in by the common people is shown as one stone on the platform scale, but in fact it is one stone with one liter.From this point of view, almost every hundred shi can get an extra shi of grain out of it. As for whose pocket it goes into, there is no need to say any more.

Hua Rong's annual distribution of grain to the capital is 20 shi, which means that almost every year, [-] shi of grain falls into private pockets.This is almost comparable to the salary of a senior official in a central agency.

He slowly returned to the Hongyun Food Store with his hands in his hands, and there was already a long queue in front of the open gate.

If the boss behind this fortune is He Yun, then it is almost the same as He Yun is empty-handed - the grain handed in by the common people, and then sold to the common people - his complexion suddenly turns ugly.

When he came out in the morning, he didn't pay much attention to his surroundings, only now did he realize that Hongyun was next to a silk shop.

Interestingly, people in Jiangbei mostly wear clothes to keep warm, and silk fabrics are rare. The emergence of this store is almost in a monopoly position.He could almost conclude that the owner of this store must be from Jiangnan, but a very familiar figure rushed out of the store like the wind, confirming his idea - Xie Yitong.

Xie Qingyun with small eyes followed closely behind.

Liu Changzhou turned his footsteps and followed behind, his heart pounding, what happened to Lu Hanzhang?Don't you just stay in Zhuge's hut?Why didn't his men come down to report to him?

It is Youlai Mountain again, but this time it is at the foot of the east side of Youlai Mountain.

There is an abandoned thatched hut there, which is said to be the former residence of a great writer in the previous dynasty. Now it is dilapidated, with spider webs everywhere, and walls full of fungus and mushrooms.Directly opposite the house is a large lake, where someone built a Diaoyutai deliberately.

But now the house was very strange.Its surface is wrapped with tens of thousands of filaments. Those filaments are not attached to the wall, but suspended around the room at a distance, parallel to each other, turning the whole room into a veritable "piano room". .The doors and windows of the whole house were all open, and there was the thin sound of the vibrating strings being blown by the draft from time to time in the wind.

Who else but Lu Hanzhang has this kind of leisure and intelligence and intelligence?

He leaned on the branch of the tree relaxedly, looked around for Lu Hanzhang's figure, and then saw the figure of Shengxue in white clothes on the Diaoyutai. He put a qin under his hand, and the qin seemed to be shining with golden light.

...and Cao Hu's snot-nosed group who were approaching with big knives around him.

Xie Yitong ran while howling: "Brother!" Xie Qingyun pulled him back.

The group was getting tighter and tighter, but Lu Hanzhang didn't seem to care.He raised his hand in the direction of Xie Yitong and made a "stop" movement, then he seemed to chuckle slightly, and started to pluck the strings in a circle, making a very subtle sound, Cao Hu's footsteps obviously paused .

Afterwards, the silk threads on the dilapidated house opposite to it began to vibrate very regularly, not because of the jumping caused by the wind, but in a neat and uniform way.Originally, the voices of Lu Hanzhang's subordinates were pushed round and round to the piano room, and the weak voices that were almost negligible were suddenly amplified.

As the strings kept jumping, those sounds kept hitting the empty room, as if they had been suffocated inside for a long time. When they first encountered an exit, they squeezed desperately towards the window and door. They are all tuned by the hand that has been magnified dozens of times.

The all-pervasive wind suddenly became much stronger.

Those sounds didn't seem to satisfy Lu Hanzhang, and his subordinates continued to increase the force, playing a few sounds hard.In just a split second, the sound of bumping back and forth in the piano room was forcibly amplified again, tiny cracks began to appear on the wall, and it began to sway from side to side with an amplitude visible to the naked eye.

The deafening sound of the piano seems to have been endowed with some mysterious and ancient power to smash the sky, wrapped in the momentum of sweeping thousands of troops, and began to spread around the piano room as the center, almost arousing a real shock in the surrounding air. The sound waves spread round and round.

Cao Hu tightly covered his ears, but the sound didn't seem to come in through his ears, as if it had penetrated his chest directly, beating directly on his heart, and he felt the place where his heart beat "chug". It was very fast, and the heartbeat seemed to be involuntarily accelerating along with the increasingly intense tones, hitting the front chest wall one after another, with a heart-piercing pain.

With a sigh of relief, he picked up the big knife at his feet and threw it at Lu Hanzhang in vain.The big knife brushed against the corner of Lu Hanzhang's fluttering clothes, and fell into the unknown big lake behind him, making a "gudong" sound.Lu Hanzhang didn't even blink his eyes, he tilted his head and glanced at Cao Hu, with a cold smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he was going to settle the grievances between you and me today.

Unprepared, the room suddenly exploded like a rotten persimmon shot at the core by an arrow, and exploded to pieces like firecrackers blooming. The huge and sharp roar finally began to gradually become smaller.

At the same time, those people around Lu Hanzhang, who were desperately covering their ears with painful expressions, fell to the ground and died.

Xie Yitong was stunned.

He has only seen this elder brother wash and cook, knock walnuts tirelessly every day, and tell him nonsense such as "If you can lie down, don't sit, and if you can sit, don't stand", he has never seen him before. The eldest brother who has been together day and night for a year can kill so many people so simply and neatly.

His elder brother stood with his back to the mountain, with lowered eyebrows and eyes, and his face was expressionless, as if something in his bones that had been dormant for thousands of years was gradually waking up, with a kind of freedom and ease that was as high as the sky and the earth.

He broke free from Xie Qingyun's shackles, paused, and ran over with a roar.

Lu Hanzhang came out with his hands in his hands and said, "Stand still."

"Do you still remember what I told you before, 'the sky will fall and you will be able to stand up'? If your innocence really collapses, you won't be able to do it, because you are too short, and standing up to the sky is not your strong point.

"You have to remember that there is no shortage of talents in the world, and there are endless talents emerging in every era. For one thing, there are as many people who can accomplish it as there are crucian carp in the river. Yitong, if you want to live a worthwhile life, you don't have to be A person who is indomitable, but must become a person who is indispensable in the world. But the world is so big, and there are four seasons of the year without anyone. Because at this time your opponent is nature, and the loser can only be you."

"It's not that you can do everything, but that you can do what people can't do. At this time, your opponents are people. If you defeat them, it's almost worth your life."

"There are so many people in the world. "Counseling" means that the word follows from the heart to the bottom. Those who are incompetent and cowardly follow their hearts and are called "trash". , if you are born with mediocre aptitude, I hope you can be a noble person. "A trace of Tongjiang, Jiuding of the Han Dynasty" is what people call noble. , the heart cannot live without Tunan."

He pointed at the scattered corpses around him, then opened his arms, palms up, and said in a calm voice: "Unarmed, a twist of wind is as proud as iron; no sharp weapon, all wind, moon, mountains and rivers are weapons. I want you forever Remember, good fortune can be friends but not enemies."

As soon as the words fell, the water surface of the unknown lake behind him began to make a "gurgling" sound similar to that made by boiling water, as if someone was hiding under the water and heating up the vast expanse of blue waves, and the originally flat and waveless water surface began to stir Rolling over restlessly.That trend got bigger and bigger, and suddenly, water columns about five feet high exploded from the water near and far, one by one standing vertically on the lake, like a delayed reaction after the roaring sound just now.

All of a sudden, the dry branches and leaves, birds and beasts rushed to flee in many ways, the water column fell down, and the loud sound of hitting the water surface brought an end to the roar that seemed to have lasted for a long time, and then a layer of fish belly white floated on the entire water surface. ——

If you don't make a move, it's enough. Once you make a move, the three of heaven, earth, and people are all in one bag and change color.

Liu Changzhou has always been aware of Lu Hanzhang's disposition in his bones, and he only asks for the word "to" in everything.But it was the first time for him to hear Lu Hanzhang say it word by word. This feeling was very strange. A person who had never shown his chest suddenly opened his arms, which always seemed to have a different meaning.

He glanced at the nearest Xie Yitong who was standing there, only to see the kid staring forward with a dazed face, his mouth opened wide into a circle... This fucking is educating the next generation.

Liu Changzhou didn't know how Cao Hu and his gang got involved, but they obviously stepped on the tiger's tail, but they still killed a few people anyway, so he had to go to Fang Bingbi to say hello to prepare a case and cover up the murderer offense.Just as he was about to retreat, he saw Lu Hanzhang who had been standing on his feet seemed to stagger, and heard him say: "Qing Yun, take Yitong and go first, I have something to say to Master Liu."

He paused, his heartbeat quickened suddenly, and he felt a little dazed for a while, and he walked over step by step as if he had to bite the bullet. Just before he reached Lu Hanzhang, there was a very strong smell of blood at the tip of his nose.The face of the person in front of him was covered with sweat and his complexion was pale, it seemed that Lu Hanzhang who was so loud just now was just an illusion.

Lu Hanzhang breathed a sigh of relief, and as if he couldn't hold himself back, he used Liu Changzhou's arm to straighten himself up, and said in a collapsed voice: "Little poor children are easy to deceive, and heroism can be easily deceived."

Liu Changzhou: "..."

Inexplicably, he felt a little more uneasy. He didn't know whether he was afraid that he would say something, or he was afraid that he would not say something. A surge of contradictions suddenly crossed his chest, and his heart was tightly blocked, screaming. For a moment, he was like returning to the small boat that traveled a year ago.

His eyes wandered around, looking elsewhere unnaturally, and saw that the strings on the qin not far away were actually made of gold wire, and blood was still dripping from them, and the entire qin seat was stained with blood.He grabbed Lu Hanzhang's wrists with some doubts. There were dense cuts and red marks on the palms and fingers of those hands.

Then he couldn't help but be shocked - he grabbed Lu Hanzhang's wrist, the pulse in his hand was slow to a certain extent, and it could only be caught once with a breath, but the strength of each beat vibrating on the fingertips was normal.

Lu Hanzhang rubbed his hand on Liu Changzhou's shoulder, then picked up his wrist and shook it, "hissed" and said in disgust, "Why are you standing still, don't you have any medicine?"

...So it turned out that he was called here for this matter.

His heart, which was a little up and down before, sat back in his pericardium, and his heart felt a little hot from the pounding.Then there was a faint sense of regret poking out his head, and along with the regret came the hidden worry about Lu Hanzhang's ghostly appearance.He took out the medicine, motioned to Lu Hanzhang to spread out his hands, sprinkled a piece randomly like a goddess scattered flowers, and asked casually, "Where did you find those silk threads?"

Lu Hanzhang laid out his hands honestly, and said nonchalantly: "In Jinglun, I dismantled all the pianos."

Liu Changzhou shook his hands, and said in disbelief: "Xu Fu will pick you up, but the old bastard can take your skin off, do you believe it or not?"

Lu Hanzhang raised his eyebrows: "Of course there is an exchange, okay? Isn't your Jinglun luthier forced away by those two grandsons, and I will be the next one. How? Call the head of the mountain to listen?"

Liu Changzhou put away the medicine with a blank expression, and said that "I am not interested" to leave, but was caught off guard by Lu Hanzhang who grabbed his wrist.