Chapter 69 Flowers Blossom Beyond the Sky (Part 2)
Chapter 69: Flowers bloom on the other side of the world (Part 2)
If life wants to do something to you and you can't resist, then you can only do what you want. If you are not very resistant, then how to do it will definitely become a lot easier. Based on this understanding, Ning Que was shocked and distressed. He escaped very quickly. He scratched his head, looked over Xu Chongshan's thick shoulders, through the window grilles of the dark duty room, and said, "Can I ask another question?"
Xu Chongshan replied simply and neatly: "I will answer those who can."
"Why me?" Ning Que asked.
Xu Chongshan replied: "Lao Chao admires you very much. He thinks that if you have better luck, your future achievements will even be higher than his. In addition, because of what happened last night, Chang San, Chen Qi and others also value you very much... According to the guards Regarding the rules of the office, whether it is the manpower in the open office or the secret guards, the opinions of the seniors are relatively more important."
"Sir..." Ning Que covered his forehead and said: "If so many people know the identity of my secret guard, then I would like to ask you what the meaning of the secret word in secret guard is? Do you want me to come back to Alley 47? A few firecrackers and two banners to tell everyone in the world that I did this job?"
Of course Xu Chongshan heard the dissatisfaction and anger in his words, frowned slightly and explained: "The Tang Dynasty is a place with rules. Even if the nobles in the palace know your identity, no one would dare to expose you at the risk of His Majesty's wrath. As for the Chang San and the others... have already proven their loyalty and reliability."
Ning Que put down his arms, shook his head and said, "Only time is the only criterion for testing truth." (Note)
"They have spent more than ten years proving all this." Xu Chongshan said expressionlessly: "But I like what you said very much, but it's a pity that if you want to take the college entrance examination, you can only take the dark road, otherwise you can rely on the old court to Thanks to your appreciation and these words, I really want to train you to be my successor."
"Although I, Xu Chongshan, was born in the military, I still have some blood left, but I can't be as cool and unrestrained as Lao Chao. I don't even know who you are, so I dare to put my life in your hands. After all, the guards are related to me. Your Majesty’s safety is in danger, so the bodyguard office has checked your ancestry’s eighteenth generation beforehand,”
"It's a pity that when the guards checked your information, they only found out that you were seven years old and confirmed that you were an orphan. They couldn't find out your ancestors. But we know your behavior in Weicheng and the military camp very well, and we like it very much."
Xu Chongshan stretched out his generous palm, slapped Ning Que heavily on the shoulder, and said, "Your military experience and military exploits accumulated over the years are enough to prove your loyalty to His Majesty and the Tang Dynasty."
Hearing that the guards had checked his details, Ning Que was not panicked because he knew that no one in the world knew who he really was except Sang Sang and the dead Xiao Heizi.
He slowly pinched the slightly wet waist tag in his palm, and after a moment of silence, he continued: "According to what you said before, no one should take the initiative to contact me, so how can I report to you if I have a situation? I don't think it will be the case when we meet in the future. In the palace, right? I never imagined that this kind of thing could be done in such an open and aboveboard place."
"Why not?" Xu Chongshan said proudly: "There is no safer place in the world than my Datang Palace."
Ning Que sighed, reluctantly accepting the fact, then raised his head, raised his face and said with expectation: "The honorary reward cannot be known to others, so when will I... meet the saint?"
Xu Chongshan stared at him blankly, then he laughed out loud, rubbing his round belly and said with a smile: "You kid...did you think that when you enter the palace today, you are going to meet the saint?"
"Is not it?"
"Gui Geng?"
"sixteen."
"What's your last name?"
"rather."
Xu Chongshan looked at him and asked seriously: "You are not a centenarian, and you are not a distant relative of the royal family, so your face is bigger than others?"
Ning Que touched his pretty face and shook his head.
Xu Chongshan sighed, looked at the young man and shook his head and said: "Chang San and the others have not seen His Majesty for several years, so why do you think you are qualified to meet the Holy Spirit alone?"
Ning Que was silent for a moment and then said seriously: "My handwriting is really good. If His Majesty likes it, he might not be willing to let me be a bodyguard and just send me to the palace to be a bodyguard or something."
Xu Chongshan suppressed his smile, looked at him and said mockingly: "Apart from the guards, the only ones who can stay in the palace for many years are the eunuchs."
Ning Que's expression froze slightly, and he smiled awkwardly, not daring to continue the topic.
Xu Chongshan is the deputy commander of the guards of the Tang Dynasty. He is naturally very busy. Today he specially took time out. In the end, he had no choice but to spend more time summoning the young man alone. He had already given Chao Xiaoshu a huge face. After talking about the matter, he was naturally at a loss.
He drove the other party away without hesitation, and then hurried back to the Council Hall to wait on him.
Ning Que walked out of the empty guard duty room, and was worried about how he would get out of the palace. Will he accidentally enter the Chunliu Palace somewhere like he accidentally entered the imperial study, and meet a cold woman who complained about the palace?
Something really fucked up happened, or maybe he bumped into a certain princess whom he defined as an idiot but still remembered from time to time... Then he saw the little eunuch who introduced him into the palace like a ghost at some point.
Standing next to him.
Although he wanted to question the other party's explanation of the matter, which caused him to be tempted and frightened by pen and ink drugs in the imperial study room, for safety reasons, he finally shut his mouth tightly and followed the little eunuch honestly through the silence.
He walked through the stone gate of the lake with willow flowers, got on the cramped carriage, passed through the laundry department and drove towards the outside of the palace.
Just when he was about to pass through the palace alley building of the Laundry Bureau, Ning Que suddenly felt something, and his chest felt tight. He ignored the stern warning look from the little eunuch next to him, raised a corner of the car curtain, and looked out with a frown.
go.
My eyes passed through the skylight in the narrow alleys, past the sound of bangs and the smell of soap locust that filled the alleys, and landed on a corner of a magnificent palace in the distance. On the eaves in the high pale blue sky were squatting eight or nine eaves with different expressions.
beast.
He didn't know what the names of these beasts were, and who they were. Looking at that place in a daze, he felt that his chest was getting more and more stuffy, and his heart was beating faster and faster, as if his ribs were about to break.
The jump is about to come out, and as the heart beats faster, the distant canopy beasts in the sight become more and more clear, and the lines of tiles and stones that have been washed by wind and rain for hundreds of years become more and more agile, and it seems that they will become the next moment.
Living thing.
He groaned and covered his chest. He couldn't help but think of that rainy day and the feeling when Sangsang saw the Chang'an Suzaku statue for the first time. He looked at the eaves beasts in the palace fiercely, his face became paler and paler, but he didn't
Be willing to look away.
Earlier, an extremely fierce quarrel broke out in the imperial study room. Xu Chongshan, the deputy commander of the bodyguards, and Eunuch Lin, the deputy general manager of the palace, stood guard outside the imperial study room like two statues. No matter what sound they heard, their faces were full of expressions.
They didn't dare to show the slightest expression, because deep down in their hearts, these two big men had grandsons sitting inside. They were scared, scared, confused, and shocked to the extreme. At the same time, they felt that the one in the imperial study room was really damn smart.
Thirteen years have passed since the Apocalypse in the Tang Dynasty. No one has ever seen His Majesty the Emperor so angry. Even after the Chunfeng Pavilion incident last night, His Majesty only slammed the table a few times and cursed more than thirty idiots. But today in the Imperial Study Room
His Majesty the Emperor broke countless teacups and cursed many curse words that must not be heard.
"Chao Xiaoshu! If you are still so disrespectful, don't blame me for punishing you!"
"How to deal with you? I...I...I really don't fucking know!"
"You are an extremely stupid guy, how come you don't even understand the principles of the world!"
"Okay, okay, I will call you Brother Chao for the last time today. Do you want to stay or not?"
There was a sudden silence in the royal study room. Xu Chongshan and Eunuch Lin outside the door couldn't help but turn their heads and look at each other. They confirmed that they saw the look of shock and envy in each other's eyes that was no different from theirs. They turned their heads again without saying anything in a tacit understanding.
Look at the flowers and trees.
There was silence in the room for a long time, and then Chao Xiaoshu's calm, gentle but extremely firm voice sounded.
"Do not stay."
There was a dull snap, and it should be that His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty broke his most cherished Huangzhou Chenni Inkstone. Xu Chongshan and Eunuch Lin who were guarding the door could no longer remain silent, especially Xu Chongshan was very
I was worried that His Majesty would make some decisions that he would regret later in his anger, so I took two steps ahead and prepared to knock on the door to remonstrate.
At this moment, the door of the imperial study room was pushed open with a creak, and Chao Xiaoshu, dressed in green shirt, calmly stepped across the threshold and walked out. After the door closed again behind him, he turned around, lifted up his lapel, and knelt on the ground.
He kowtowed three times with great solemnity and made a great gesture of saying goodbye to the emperor and his ministers.
Then he stood up, smiled and bowed to Xu Chongshan and Eunuch Lin, left the imperial study and walked out of the palace. There were no eunuchs or maids around to guide him. He just walked slowly and alone, as if visiting a garden. More than ten years ago, he
I have come to this palace many times and I feel very emotional about it. I have visited the palace less often over the years and I miss it very much.
Walking to the shore of the big lake called Lihai, I looked at the small tree thoughtfully. I clasped my hands behind my green shirt and looked at the lake quietly. I watched the golden carps swimming happily in the lake. Suddenly, the corners of my lips curled up slightly, and a smile appeared.
A refreshing smile that shines through the willow shade.
Where his calm and smiling eyes fell, the figures of those happily swimming golden carp suddenly froze and became completely still, as if they were jade fish suspended in the crystal green waves, full of life but completely lifeless.
He murmured towards the small tree: "After being in a cage for a long time, you can return to nature."
Heaven and earth are like cages, people are trapped, and the heart is like cages, and the body is trapped. If the cage in the heart is broken, the cage of heaven and earth will also be broken.
In the imperial study room, the golden crown was randomly thrown into the scrap wood in the corner. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty stared angrily at the painting "Fish Jumping into the Sea at This Time" written by himself in the early morning on the case, with a look of unwillingness and regret on his face.
He didn't know that in the corner of the bookshelf, someone secretly added the sentence "Flowers bloom on the other side of the sky" for him.
Suddenly he raised his head and looked through the window in the direction of the imperial garden. His brows slowly furrowed and then slowly relaxed, and finally turned into a feeling of calm and relief. He laughed lightly at himself and said: "Maybe you are really right."
In a palace somewhere, a Taoist priest who was about forty years old was taking the Queen's pulse. Suddenly, his brows suddenly raised, his fingers scratched the Queen's plump wrist very rudely, and he turned his head to look behind him.
go.
The Empress frowned slightly, thinking that the Imperial Master had always been calm and gentle, why was he so rude.
The Taoist priest stared blankly at that place, then suddenly beat his chest and screamed: "I was wrong, I was really wrong. I should have advised Your Majesty to let Xiaoshu leave earlier, or simply let him enter the academy..."
"With Master's ability and Xiaoshu's understanding and state of mind, our Tang Dynasty will definitely gain another peerless strong man in these years, and maybe even be able to fight with that fellow from the Southern Jin Dynasty. It's a pity, it's a pity, it's a pity that it's too late.
More than ten years!"
In a side alley of the laundry department, Ning Que sat on a carriage and stared stubbornly at the several beasts in the distance that seemed to be coming to life. His face became paler and paler, his heart beat faster and faster, and suddenly all his feelings disappeared.
.
In front of the Zhuque Gate of the Imperial Palace.
The middle-aged man looked back at the stone beasts on the eaves of the main hall, and laughed loudly. The laughter was unusually free and bright, without any distracting thoughts. The eaves beasts seemed to understand the meaning conveyed by his laughter and regained their composure.
serene.
Amidst the laughter, he walked out of the main gate of the imperial city with his green shirt fluttering.
After today, Chang'an City is missing a leader named Chunfengting Laochao.
There are many strong men in this world who can watch the fish in the lake and enter the realm of understanding destiny.