Li Chaoyi's Anecdote

Chapter 23

Qinghe finally shook his head.Li Si handed Qinghe a bag of fine wine, saying that it was a century-old wine, which was rare. Qinghe smiled, but still did not take it.

"It's not that you think your things are bad, but I've been drinking all night." After finishing speaking, he turned the horse's head, leaving only the thin back of Li Si with a thin yellow mane.The suit was picked up by a short gun, dangling on his shoulders, not like a monk, but like a prodigal son chasing the wind and the moon.

It wasn't until the man and the horse melted into the afterglow of the setting sun that a young man limped and came out from the shadow of the ruined wall.

"After so much effort, even using bitter tricks, I still can't keep him... Fourth brother, you made a mistake this time."

"So what if you are a national scholar? It's just... an outsider." Li Si looked away, turned to his fifth brother and said, "Your injuries haven't healed yet, why did you get out of bed?"

The young man rubbed his shoulders: "It's all skin trauma, it's already been out of the way."

"I'm just you, a brother of the same father and mother..." Li Si suddenly sighed, "No matter how big the world is, the fourth brother can really count on only you."

The boy smiled and said, "I only recognize you as an elder brother."

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Yi saw Yan Wang holding the folding fan, slowly getting up from the ground, and walking towards him.He looked at his master, Qinghe had drawn his sword, ready to fight.

"I only have you as my elder brother, and only you can take my life..."

He spoke the words of King Yan, but Li Yan's voice came out.Yi Ze recalled that when he welcomed his fourth younger brother back to the court, many courtiers Kui Ye wrote letters, and each memorial had four words attached to it - cut grass and roots.

The emperor turned sideways slightly, and drew a tall and straight silhouette on the screen. He waved to King Yan, with two fingers protruding from the edge of the screen, which looked extraordinarily vivid in the withered yellow light.

The chains tied to King Yan's body gradually tightened. His face was covered with blood and tears, and the skirt of his clothes was sprinkled. Even with all the strength in his body, he couldn't move forward.

"Four...four brothers..."

A thought suddenly popped up in Yi Ze's mind. At this moment, he finally understood that the King of Yan might have hated that person, but those hatreds had already been burned away in the long cycle of reincarnation, and what was left in the end was only the love for the past friendship. Reminiscing and yearning, after many years, he came back to the world not for revenge, but because of his soul, he traveled thousands of miles to see him.Even if one is still young, the other is in his twilight years.

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At this time, Yi said in a low voice, fifth brother, you are here.

King Yan stopped struggling immediately, he was like a kite whose string had been cut, he lay on the ground exhausted, a few halos slowly separated from his brows, floating and moving, circling and flying, gradually forming a tall figure.He was dressed in luxurious princely attire, with a large black feather cloak, a long sword hanging from his waist, and a hard bow on his back. On the left side of his face was a mask of gluttonous patterns, which looked intimidating, while the remaining half of his face was young. Heroic and brilliant.

This was the first time that the emperor met the legendary King Yan, who came from a humble background and was brave but not resourceful, but he was also the most capable son of the Li family in Longxi, his uncle, and the one who killed him.

Seeing that Qinghe was about to activate the magic circle, Yi secretly gave him a look, Qinghe was startled, and then did not move.The emperor took out the Qushui from the bottom of his sleeve, and recited the formula silently, a silver light flashed on the tip of the spear, and there was a faint flow of precious light.

"Fifth brother, so you are here, but teach fourth brother that I am easy to find."

King Yan smiled shyly: "I have been waiting for you in a dark and cold place for a long time, but you never come... I suspect that you don't know the way back, so I came here to guide you."

Across a screen, Yi stretched out his hand to King Yan: "A hundred years later in the world."

King Yan raised his hand and responded, "I only know you and me."

"Wrong, wrong," Yi smiled and clenched his gun tightly, "I don't know me, and I don't know you." The fingertips of the two touched one place, and even the falling reflections were inseparable. The grievances and hatreds of the remaining years all collapsed at this moment. The magnificent Chang'an City and the bones under the icy spring were all thrown into the air and smashed into pieces, like fireworks in the wilderness at night, emitting pure and brilliant brilliance. Wang Jianzhuang's body cracked, shattered, crumbled, and fell in an extremely slow rhythm, and finally turned into dust like fireflies, flying loudly in all directions.

The Qushui trembled endlessly, making a thin neighing sound, which was both a cry and an echo.

Yi patted the tip of the gun, and said softly, "You stay inside for a while, and I will send you to Zhaoling tomorrow, and ask you to be good companions in the future."

Zhaoling Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Emperor Sheng Yuan, and it has been built since he was alive. Yi Ze was not finished when he ascended the throne, and it took 20 years to build it, which happened to be the same age as him when he became emperor.

The emperor turned his head to look at his fourth brother. The young man had been tormented so much these days, he was suddenly relieved, and immediately fell asleep. His fair face was full of peace, his breathing was long, and his snoring was soft, as if everything in the past was just a nightmare. When I opened my eyes the next day, the clouds were still high and the sky was blue, and the morning glow was all over the bed.

The emperor took the solitary lamp and blew it out himself, but there were stars and a bright moon in the sky, the sparkling light of the Taiye Pool in front of his eyes, and countless thousands of candles in the distance, maybe weak, maybe short-lived, eventually It is no longer pitch black, like facing an abyss.

"Master, look, the sky is about to dawn."

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A few days passed, and Li Yan's body was fine. Although he still couldn't get out of bed, his spirit had improved a lot. He wanted to go out for a horse ride every day. He was only 25 years old, and it was the best time of his life. Fresh Even Chun Guang is jealous.

Seeing that everything was over, Qinghe bid farewell to Yize in the early morning of a certain day. The emperor didn't keep him, but just rode a horse himself and sent him away from Chang'an.The horse was covered in snow white, and it was so handsome that Qinghe was full of praise. Yi Ze said, a friend gave me a white horse 20 years ago, and now this horse is already its grandson.

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A few months later, a talisman bird flew from the end of the blue sky, circled a few times under the eaves, and landed quietly on the emperor's desk. It had a silk ribbon wrapped around its leg, and Yi untied it. It is about three feet long and two inches wide, and the edges are slightly faded, showing that it has aged.Yi turned it over, and on the front it said "Fengtian Chengyun, Order Qinwang", and the last stroke brought out the slightly scattered stitches underneath, as if they had been dismantled.

The emperor looked at the weeping willows in front of the court and pondered for a while, then finally got up and went to the garden, found a secluded and sunny place to sit down, and carefully tore off the belt.

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"Gu knew early on that the country was falling and the building would collapse. How could he turn the tide on his own? On the day Ruoqing came back, Gu was lucky enough to be saved. Do you still remember drinking all night under the hibiscus tree? If you don't see Gu..."

If you don't see the lonely...

Yi turned his head to the side, only to feel the sunlight dazzle his eyes.

"If you don't see the lonely, you don't have to worry about regretting it, or go to another master, or send yourself to another world. The world is so big, and Wang Qing will cherish it. From then on, you can roam around the world with no worries, never mind." Finally, there is a small scarlet seal. , As time goes by, it has long since faded away.

When everything was silent, Li Yan's voice suddenly came from a distance: "Sanlang, come and watch me play polo, we are about to start!"

Yi Ze raised his head in response, put the belt away and put it in his arms, pushed aside the verdant flowers and trees in front of him, and walked deeper into the shade of the forest.

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In May of the next year, four years before the fall of the previous dynasty, the new emperor planted the first hibiscus tree in the imperial garden.

In October of the Dingsi year, six years before the fall of the previous dynasty, the sixth son of the Taishi family officially became a monk and practiced Taoism, with the name Qinghe.

In the twelfth lunar month of the Bingchen year, seven years before the fall of the previous dynasty, all the plum trees in the Immortal Pavilion died overnight.

In February of the Kuichou year, exactly ten years after the fall of the previous dynasty, the new emperor saw Qinghe for the first time at the bank of Taiye Pool, under the white plum tree.

At that time, there was a spring breeze, a warm sun, stringed songs, tree shadows, overwhelming wealth, and awe-inspiring authority.In a silent and secret corner, there is a jug of unfinished wine, a half-playing game of chess, warm and fragrant, still warm, everything is as hazy and complete as in a dream.

After a hundred years in the world, who will know me and you.

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