Realistic Longevity

From the 15th, for a week in a row, Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai seemed to have taken root by Cheng Chuhua's side, leaving Zhuo Yiran with no chance to make a move.

Every morning, Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai walked into Time Restaurant with Cheng Chuhua almost at the same time. Cheng Chuhua went to the kitchen to cook, and the two sat outside waiting to eat.After breakfast, I don’t rush to leave. I have to spend an extra hour or two until the peak meal time in the store arrives and I need to use tables and chairs before I get up and leave.

Lunch and dinner are still the same, but they will stay longer during dinner time. When Shi Shi restaurant closes and Cheng Chuhua gets off work, the two will go with him, and they will personally send him to the gate of the community, calling it their work The venue is also near Yunhai Community.

Of course, the last sentence is actually the truth, but the range around here is relatively wide.

Relying on his identity as Cheng Chuhua, Tang Ran made up a reason why he was too lazy to change his habit of eating in a certain place, and stood by Cheng Chuhua's side openly.He blocked those peeping eyes, and he also interrupted a lot of claws stretched out by people with special abilities who came from nowhere.

Where Cheng Chuhua couldn't see, Tang Ran used a dagger to clear the way for him, sweeping away all the filth, and didn't even let his sword energy disturb him.

Poor Zhuang Shuai, who relies on force for a living, can only watch Tang Ran, the "clerk", beat a group of people and flee, except for trembling, he can only shout 666 and the boss.

He used to think that there was no great enemy within his rank, and the title of "clerk" was also for the convenience of doing tasks.But the performance of Tang Ran, a real clerk, taught him a solid lesson—never overestimate yourself and underestimate others.

Anyway, Zhuang Shuai must not be able to beat Tang Ran, a clerk.

Cheng Chuhua didn't know these things, but he guessed some of them.

Tang Ran is from the special department. He once said that the special department is short-staffed and everyone has a lot of things to deal with every day. During this time, he led his colleagues by his side uncharacteristically, taking three meals a day and supper to refresh his face and sense of presence. , I have to go with him at night.

He doesn't care too much about things outside his body, but he is not dull, and such an obvious purpose will not be invisible.

Tang Ran was protecting him.

Protected for what?Naturally, it is the Xuanjinyu brand.

Cheng Chuhua guessed Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai's intentions, but he didn't point it out, let alone reject it. Instead, he pretended that there was no such thing, and got along with the two new friends every day, talking and joking.

Tang Ran talks less, Zhuang Shuai talks more, and Cheng Chuhua is good at listening.The three of them stay together, often with Zhuang Shuai talking, Cheng Chuhua listening and answering a few words after a while, and Tang Ran getting impatient and stuffing Zhuang Shuai's mouth with whatever, very harmonious, not even a single link has a problem.

Zhuang Shuai is very good at babbling, and loves to tell Cheng Chuhua about the true and false rumors and anecdotes in the metaphysics world.Cheng Chuhua also reciprocated courtesy, reporting a few historical stories that were not recorded in official history and unofficial history from time to time, which made people stunned.

Tang Ran is more of a chicken thief, he just listens but doesn't talk, and finds something to stop Zhuang Shuai when he interrupts Cheng Chuhua's story.

Tang Ran cleaned him up when he went back.

"As expected of an immortal, you know a lot."

That night, Zhuang Shuai listened to Cheng Chuhua talk about a secret incident in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and not only expressed the above emotion from the bottom of his heart: "If you hadn't experienced it yourself, who would dare to believe the cause of such an important historical event as 'Zhou Zhaodi cleared the palace'?" It's so simple, because of a bunch of candied haws?"

Cheng Chuhua smiled slightly: "I still sell the candied haws."

"Beautiful!" Zhuang Shuai gave a thumbs up, and then pulled Cheng Chuhua's arm and asked, "I have been curious about a question for a long time. Do you think Emperor Zhou Zhao has broken sleeves? Does he have many male concubines in his palace?" ?”

Cheng Chuhua chuckled: "Not really. Emperor Zhao has married two people in his life, one is the queen of the palace, the other is Mrs. Ruixue, the broken sleeves and the male concubine are fake, and an old man who read too many scripts is drinking too much. A fabricated unofficial history."

"Huh?" Zhuang Shuai was stunned.

Cheng Chuhua continued: "Oh, by the way, that old man is the last surviving member of Emperor Zhao's dynasty, and he has dedicated his life to discrediting Emperor Zhao. If the black material about Emperor Zhao that you read today can be verified to be written by 'Yue Banweng', It's definitely a fake and didn't run away."

Zhuang Shuai raised his eyebrows in surprise: "How do you know so clearly?"

"Because that old man is my neighbor, so he lives across the door from me." Also because he always dragged me to yell at me to restore the former court when he was drunk and went crazy.

Cheng Chuhua slapped his forehead and swallowed the rest of the words.

During the conversation between the two, Tang Ran had already written down the story Cheng Chuhua told, and when he was about to go back, he would write it down to enrich the database at the headquarters.

It’s good to have a long-lived person as a friend. This kind of story can’t be verified even by historians who specialize in the history of the post-Zhou Dynasty.

In the time of a story, Yunhai District has arrived.Zhuang Shuai stopped to ask questions, Tang Ran also pulled away from the state of listening to the story, pushed Zhuang Shuai aside, and stood in front of Cheng Chuhua.

"Tomorrow is the opening time for the relics of Jixia Academy. I will pick you up at seven in the morning. Have a good rest tonight." Tang Ran said, and patted Cheng Chuhua's shoulder under Zhuang Shuai's dumbfounded gaze. Your amulet."

Cheng Chuhua smiled and nodded: "Okay."

The two stood in place and watched Cheng Chuhua enter the community.

It wasn't until his figure disappeared at the end of the road that Zhuang Shuai calmed down, and said to Tang Ran with a deep expression, "Brother Tang, can you pat me on the shoulder?"

Tang Ran turned to look at him, thought for a while, raised his leg and was about to kick back in the air, but before Tang Ran got into a stance and exerted force, he gave up and ran away, rolling and crawling.

After Cheng Chuhua returned home, he sent a message to his boss asking for leave, watched another movie recommended by Tang Ran, washed up and went to bed.

The next morning.

Cheng Chuhua walked to the gate of the community at seven o'clock on time, and a car with the license plate number "2B250" also stopped in front of him in time.

He stared at the license plate twice more, the window slowly rolled down, and Tang Ran, who was sitting in the passenger seat, poked his head out and waved to him: "Get in the car."

Cheng Chuhua withdrew his gaze, tried not to laugh out loud with a sullen face, and only smiled lightly after sitting in the back seat.

It was Zhuang Shuai who drove the car, and the car belonged to him. When Cheng Chuhua laughed, he immediately understood the reason, and laughed helplessly at himself: "How about it, my license plate number is not bad, right?"

Before the words finished, Cheng Chuhua laughed even louder, and Tang Ran also let out a muffled laugh.

"Let me tell you, don't look down on my license plate number, there is a big story in it!" Zhuang Shuai started the car, and chatted with the two while driving, chatting about an interesting past.

"By the way, the day I just mentioned the license plate, I also felt that the license plate number was weird, so when I officially drove out for the first time, I made a wrong operation and collided with an SKD200. Their car is [-] times more expensive than mine. Doubt it, I was stupid at the time, so I quickly got out of the car and apologized."

"Coincidentally, the owner of the other car is also a colleague of our special department. He is also a big boss, the kind who can fight. When he got out of the car, he was angry and wanted to settle accounts with me, but we both saw The license plate of the other party, I was stunned. Then we laughed three times and shook hands on the spot. Guess what is the license plate number of that big guy?"

Cheng Chuhua responded very cooperatively: "How much is it?"

Zhuang Shuai said seriously: "SB250."

Cheng Chuhua laughed out loud, and Tang Ran also laughed a few times: "I know that, Lu Yang's license plate number is SB250."

"That's right, I'm talking about Brother Lu." Zhuang Shuai smiled happily, "Our special department actually has a lot of funny license plate numbers, such as the vice minister's favorite car, the license plate number is NB250, which is probably the same as that of Brother Lu and me. A series."

Cheng Chuhua had already collapsed on the back seat laughing.

The three of them talked and laughed and arrived at the suburbs. Zhuang Shuai stopped the car, opened a space passageway that was about the size of a train tunnel, and drove into it at a high speed.

The huge spatial fluctuations changed the sky, and the strong wind blew up suddenly, and it took a long time to rest.

Such violent fluctuations answered Cheng Chuhua's doubts about why he didn't open a passage in the city.And the long road that followed answered the question of why he didn't walk into the passage.

"This is already the different space where the ruins of Jixia Academy are located." Tang Ran's expression and tone sank, and Zhuang Shuai stopped joking, "Driving half an hour further, we will be outside the safety line of the ruins. When you get there, you need to show your black gold and jade token, receive the equipment for entering the ruins and the decree sign, and then you can enter the ruins to explore."

Cheng Chuhua listened carefully, nodded occasionally, and never interrupted.

"Zhuang Shuai and I need to maintain the safety around the ruins, so we can't accompany you in. But don't worry, after entering the ruins, no matter how powerful a person is, most of their power will be cut off by the rules inside, and there are no traps and monsters inside. , not dangerous. Apart from this, all places in the ruins are open to those who enter, but you have to remember one thing, the Jixia Academy is now in ruins, and the special department and a group of scholars have studied countless You haven't discovered much in the past year, you have to calm down, don't be too concerned about gains and losses, just treat it as..."

Tang Ran paused, and then said: "Just take it as a visit to see the world."

Cheng Chuhua smiled: "Okay."

Speechless all the way.

Half an hour later, the car stopped outside the safety line constructed with spiritual power.

Cheng Chuhua got off the car with Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai, looked up, and saw many members of the special department outside the safety line were doing their tasks in an orderly manner, and within the safety line, a hundred meters in the air, a huge and magnificent Guided by the stone steps, the ruins quietly floated at the end of his line of sight.

It was a complete ruin. From a distance, except for the grandeur that has never faded since its birth, there is no other place to see that this was once the most prosperous place for the thoughts and ideas of various schools of thought.

All the contending voices of different schools of thought dissipated, leaving only a lonely echo in the wind. They lingered beside the withered peach tree, looking at the rubble and ruins above the long steps, as if thinking about the splendor of the past, It is a pity that we will never see the glory of that day again.

Cheng Chuhua looked at it from a distance for a while, and then took the black gold and jade card to the person in charge to get the equipment and the decree.

The equipment is a double-breasted ancient robe and a three-foot long sword, which are used to resist the ancient atmosphere in the ruins, so as not to get lost in it.

The decree sign is a three-inch long black jade stick, made of the same material as the black gold jade plate, engraved on the front "No separation, no difference between high and low, one is broken by the law", and on the back is engraved "Punishment does not avoid ministers , Rewarding the good and not leaving everyone behind" are all the ideas of the Legalists among the schools of thought.

Putting away the tokens, Cheng Chuhua put on an ancient robe, wore a long sword on his waist, greeted Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai, and walked into the ruins.

He walked through the desolate land, and first stopped by the peach tree.

Stretching out his hand to caress the dry tree trunk, as a matter of course, Cheng Chuhua didn't feel any strength from it.This is a withered tree. If you have to say that it is different, it is that it was born in the ruins of Jixia Academy.

In the same way, the stone tablet engraved with the four characters "Jixia Academy" is also an ordinary stone tablet. Only the font itself reveals an ancient atmosphere, ethereal and thick, which makes people know that it comes from ancient times.

Cheng Chuhua didn't stop here. Like other people who entered the ruins, he walked towards the ruins after seeing the peach trees and stone monuments.

The moment the footsteps stepped on the stone steps, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed, as if a torrent of time rolled in, and the endless past of the Taotao years reappeared in this instant, going back to the ancient times.

Cheng Chuhua saw many figures around him, they were either wearing high crowns, or wearing dark black clothes, or listening to the elders explaining, or arguing together in pairs.

There are swordsmen hitting the building and singing, "It's as fast as the wind, it invades like fire", and the robes are hunting with the wind, like the sound of war.

There is a Taoist riding a green ox and walking slowly, the purple air is dense for thirty thousand miles, and he tells the scriptures in his mouth to explain the way of heaven and earth.

A desolate prince rode his horse and drank wine. When he was about to get drunk, he wrote "Lonely Anger" to explain his ambitions, and denounced "Five Beetles" as misleading the country.

There are Confucian scholars who travel thousands of miles holding scrolls, and when they meet unknown people, they say, "Everything has its origin and its end, and everything has its beginning and end. If you know the sequence, you will get the shortest way."

When all the masters are present, all families are prosperous.

Keep the laws of heaven and earth, and shape the order of the ages.

Going to Kyushu here is to correct the thoughts of Kyushu and promote the name of Qianqiu.

contend!contend!

The author has something to say: 1. It is as swift as the wind and plundering as fire. —— "Sun Tzu's Art of War and Military Struggle"

2. Things have their roots and ends, and things have their beginnings and ends.Knowing the sequence is the shortest way. --"University"