Dragon Pattern Roll Set

Kaifeng, in the palace.

Concubine Pang sat in the yard, eating a pear, watching Zhao Zhen running around holding Xiangxiang in front of her eyes.

There was a lot of dust on the hem of Zhao Zhen's imperial robe, but he didn't care, and ran while holding Xiangxiang, coaxing his daughter to giggle non-stop.Xiangxiang is healthy and cute. She can already tell that she is a beauty at such a young age. The key is that she is well-behaved, courageous, and doesn't like to cry. She is very similar to Zhao Zhen when she was a child, with a very calm personality.

Zhao Zhen was arguing with Xiangxiang when he saw Eunuch Chen at the courtyard gate beckoning to the outside.

Zhao Zhen was taken aback for a moment, stopped, handed the already sweaty Xiangxiang to Concubine Pang, turned and walked out.

Concubine Pang wiped Xiangxiang's sweat while looking outside... she saw Zhao Zhen walking out of the yard, and Nangong Ji was waiting for him outside the door.

Nangong held a scroll in his hand and whispered a few words to Zhao Zhen.

Concubine Pang stood up holding Xiangxiang, and went back to the house. After many years of husband and wife, she could feel from Zhao Zhen's back that there should be something important.

Zhao Zhen and Nangong Ji went to the study together.

After Nangong Ji entered, he closed the study door with his backhand.

Zhao Zhen had already sat behind the desk, raised his hand and raised his chin to look at Nangong Ji standing in the middle of the room... To be exact, it was the scroll in Nangong's hand.

Nangong asked Zhao Zhen, "Your Majesty, do you want to see it now?"

Zhao Zhen nodded.

With a "swipe", Nangong shook off the long scroll in his hand.

As the scroll unfolded, a portrait as tall as a man appeared in front of Zhao Zhen's eyes.

Zhao Zhen raised his head and looked at it carefully, then frowned slightly, "It seems..."

Nangong Ji nodded, "Well, my subordinates also think that they look very similar, but..."

"The temperament is completely different." Zhao Zhen shook his head.

While talking, Zhao Zhen stood up, took the portrait in Nangong's hand, hung it on an easel, took a few steps back, and continued to look at it.

Nangong also came behind Zhao Zhen and watched with him.

On the portrait, there is a man in a black dragon robe, in his twenties, heroic and dignified, and his appearance - 20% looks like Yinhou.

"Where's the person?" Zhao Zhen looked at it for a while and asked Nangong.

"I brought it, but he is too old to walk, so he was carried by a chair."

Zhao Zhen nodded, "Bring it in, I have something to ask him."

"Yes." Nangong nodded and walked out.

After a while, several shadow guards came in carrying a reclining chair.

On the reclining chair was an old man in his dying years.Pale hair, a bony face, almost all his facial features were covered by folds, and the gray robe was very clean.

The old man's eyes were slightly open, and his calm eyes suddenly changed when he saw the portrait. His eye sockets were instantly moist, and a tear fell from his eye socket, and ran across his old cheek. , The feeling of vicissitudes and sadness made Zhao Zhen feel inexplicably emotional.

"The stars are as vast as the sea, and they will fall in an instant. The troubled times will no longer be over, and the glory will be destroyed..." Zhao Zhen looked at the old man and said calmly, "General Situ, I have long admired you."

"Hehehe..." The old man laughed, with a little phlegm in his guttural voice, "The world is different, people like you can be emperor..."

Nangong frowned slightly, with unfriendly eyes, but Zhao Zhen waved his hand lightly, as if he didn't care.He looked at the portrait not far away, and nodded, "Yes, the world is indeed different. People like me can sit firmly in the country, and it's no big deal to go to court every day. You don't have to worry about someone usurping the throne, and you don't have to worry about foreign enemies sneaking up on you." The wives and concubines in the harem are harmonious, and there is no monopoly of foreign relatives. I can still spare some time every day to accompany my wife, daughter and mother."

The old man listened quietly, without any expression on his face. After a long time, he seemed to be emotional, "Maybe this is what he wants...it's not bad."

"I found this portrait from Zhang Tang's old house." Zhao Zhen said, nodding to Nangong.

Nangong said, "Zhang Tang's old house has been locked all the time, and his children have had family instructions for generations. They are not allowed to open the door of that studio unless..."

"Unless... the flames of war resume and troubled times come again..." The old man smiled, "That old devil is also obsessed with his obsession."

"I have a question to ask you." Zhao Zhen looked at the old man and asked, "Is the one on this portrait the Eagle King when he was young?"

The old man raised his head and looked at Zhao Zhen, "What are you asking?"

Zhao Zhen said, "I have a friend who is very similar to this person."

The old man was slightly taken aback after hearing this, and then smiled, "Impossible."

Zhao Zhen was puzzled, "Why is it impossible?"

"If your friend is really similar to this person, you are no longer the emperor." The old man looked at Zhao Zhen narrowly, "Is it?"

Zhao Zhen was a little embarrassed, coughed lightly, and sighed, "To tell you the truth, I don't want to harm the descendants of the Eagle King, on the contrary... I'm afraid that someone will harm them, so I want to find out some things."

The old man didn't speak for a long time, and said, "You ask me such a question, and I can't answer you."

Zhao Zhen looked at him.

"Because the Eagle King was already dead when I was born." The old man said lightly.

"Then what about his descendants?" Zhao Zhen didn't give up, and asked, "Or, let me change the question, do you know the person in the portrait?"

The old man smiled, raised his eyes, looked at the portrait again, and sighed, "If you haven't experienced that era, you won't understand... People who haven't seen it will never understand."

Zhao Zhen stared at him for a while, then nodded, "You said you have never seen the Eagle King, so... this is not the Eagle King, right?"

The old man's eyes regained his composure, "It doesn't matter anymore... He's dead for 100 years. Those two people are dead... Those who fell together with the last star will never look back."

The old man slowly closed his eyes and stopped talking.

Nangong Ji looked at Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen nodded lightly, and Nangong sent someone to send the old man back.

After closing the study door, Nangong Ji walked up to Zhao Zhen who was still looking at the painting, and said, "Situ Lang fought with that person back then... So, this portrait should be of Yin Hou when he was young, Yin Hou His identity can also be determined."

Zhao Zhen nodded lightly, stared at the person in the portrait, and said to himself, "The only person I've ever seen who looks more like the God of War than Uncle Jiu..."

Nangong Ji seemed a little worried, "If we use this analogy, the identity of Tianzun can probably be confirmed... They are the two people in the legend, I can't believe it."

"The last star has fallen..." Zhao Zhen said to himself, walked to the bookshelf behind the desk, and took down a box.

Nangong Ji looked at the box, a little puzzled.

"This is a relic from Li Min's tomb." Zhao Zhen opened the box and said, "Li Min's body has never been found, only this box." As he said, he took out a moonstone from the box, and the stone also I don't know if it is carved or formed naturally, but it is in the shape of a star.

"This stone will be very bright at night." Zhao Zhen said, "This is what Li Min buried his own bones in the imperial mausoleum. I never knew what it was. Now that I think about it, it turned out to be him..."

Nangong Ji was silent for a moment. According to the background of Yin Hou and Tianzun, "Is the Silver Demon King? Does he have a relationship with Li Min?"

Zhao Zhen smiled, put the stone back into the box, and rearranged it.

Nangong was still waiting at the side.

Zhao Zhen asked him, "Have you eaten yet?"

Nangong was taken aback, "Uh..."

Zhao Zhen said, "Hurry up and go eat. You have been traveling for more than a month. I will let you take a few days off and have a good rest."

Nangong Ji saw Zhao Zhen walking out leisurely, as if he was going back to Concubine Pang's yard to continue teasing Xiangxiang, so he chased after him a few steps, "Your Majesty."

"Ok?"

Nangong hesitated for a moment, "With Yin Hou's status, is it really okay for Zhan Zhao to stay in Kaifeng?"

Zhao Zhen smiled slightly, patted him on the shoulder, and whispered, "Just pretend that what happened today never happened."

After all, Nangong obeyed Zhao Zhenyan, since he said so, he had no choice but to nod, "Yes."

"Don't be so serious." Zhao Zhen patted him, "Go and eat." After speaking, he flung the sleeves of the dragon robe and ran away.

……

At this time, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were also eating.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao with a bowl of soup.While eating, Zhan Zhao seemed to be competing with someone, and seemed to be pondering something, Bai Yutang felt that the cat was chattering today.

After finishing the soup, Bai Yutang saw that Zhan Zhao seemed to be full too, so he put down the bowl and chopsticks.

Bai Yutang was about to ask the clerk to pay the bill, when suddenly Zhan Zhao called him, "Yutang."

Bai Yutang looked back at him.

Zhan Zhao looked at him and asked, "Have you ever heard Tianzun talk about what happened before he was 30 years old?"

Bai Yutang was slightly taken aback, and looked at Zhan Zhao, "Uh...some...scattered fragments?"

"For example?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang thought for a while, "Drinking with friends, martial arts competitions..."

"Specifically?" Zhan Zhao asked, "The kind with a clear context."

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, thought for a while, then shook his head, "I've never heard him mention it since I was a child."

"Me too." Zhan Zhao nodded, "Grandpa's life has been roughly divided into three stages so far. The first stage is childhood. I know he was raised by the Silver Demon King together with Tianzun." Bai Yutang nodded .

"In the second stage, when he was in his 20s, until he met my grandma, it was the time when he was the master of the Demon Palace. He seemed to have all kinds of grievances and grievances with people in the Jianghu."

Bai Yutang then nodded.

"Afterwards, he met his grandma and retired from the world until now... Tianzun and grandpa's life trajectory is actually similar, and he also started not to care about world affairs when my grandpa retired." Zhan Zhao said, "But don't you feel that? , what is missing?"

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, and said, "Did you miss the experience from teenagers to twenties, before 30 years old?"

Zhan Zhao nodded and pointed to his nose, "It's our age! I entered the rivers and lakes when I was a teenager, and until now, during this time... my grandfather and Tianzun, what are they doing?"

During the day, he stretched out his hand and touched his chin lightly. He was inexplicably concerned about being so impressed by Zhan Zhao... Yeah, what exactly were they doing during that time?Why never heard of it?

"Have you heard your grandfather mention it?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang shook his head, "My grandfather is younger than them, and he lived in the extreme north since childhood, maybe, but Master Wusha should know."

Zhan Zhao was silent for a while, and said, "I never cared about it when I was a child... Now that I think about it, Grandpa is really similar to the Eagle King sometimes, especially in a certain way and feeling. Of course, only when he is distracted or alone time, that moment, and... the time to look at the stars."

Bai Yutang was slightly taken aback, as if Zhan Zhao's words "Looking at the stars" reminded him of something.

Bai Yutang frowned and said, "Do you know why my master lives on the top of Tianshan Mountain?"

Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Why?"

"Because it's the closest to the sky and has the fewest clouds, so the stars can be seen most clearly there." Bai Yutang said, "My master sometimes sits on a tree at night and looks at the stars. It feels like he's waiting for someone. Thinking about it now, he must be missing someone..."

Zhan Zhao stood up, "Let's go."

Bai Yutang also stood up, "Should we go find Shan Yiren?"

"En." Zhan Zhao nodded, walked out of the restaurant with Bai Yutang, and walked in the direction of Shanfu.

"There are some things that I have never paid attention to before, and I thought everything was taken for granted, but when I think about it carefully, there are reasons!" Zhan Zhao sighed inexplicably.

"For example?" Bai Yutang asked him.

"Well, do you still remember that I said that besides many children like my grandfather, all animals also like my grandfather?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang nodded, "Well, it's obvious that Bai Yunfan and Hei Xiao are obedient in front of Yin Hou, and Xiao Wu didn't dare to move when he saw him the first time he lay on his stomach."

Zhan Zhao nodded, "That's right, now that I think about it, those animals probably don't like him or hate him... Animals are not humans, and they don't think that anyone who is close to their eyes will be obedient... Mostly because of the aura that emanates from their bodies .”

Looking at Zhan Zhao during the day, "Aura?"

"To put it simply." Zhan Zhao said, "They are afraid."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao.

At this time, the two had arrived in front of Shan Yiren's mansion.

Zhan Zhao stepped forward, raised his hand, and knocked on the door knocker twice.

After a while, footsteps were heard.

With a "creak", a person opened the door and poked his head out to look out... Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang recognized him as the old butler from before.

The old housekeeper frowned slightly, looked at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "Who are you looking for?"

Zhan Zhao stared at the butler for a while, then suddenly smiled.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao puzzled, and the housekeeper seemed puzzled too.

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth and said, "My grandfather asked me to come."

The butler was slightly taken aback, and looked at Zhan Zhao suspiciously.

Zhan Zhao said, "I'm here to find someone."

The old butler asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Zhan Zhao looked at him and said, "The descendants of General Shan."

The old butler was stunned.

Zhan Zhao said, "There are some things that I want to take away."

The old butler stared at Zhan Zhao for a long time before opening the door.