Nightfall Chapter 165: Back Mountain
Volume One Early Morning Empire Chapter 165 Back Mountain
When I got up early in the morning, Sangsangtining was short of combing his hair, and after he finished the hot water, he went out of the shop and bought two bowls of hot and sour noodle soup. He also added two spoons of beef glutinous rice. After washing his face and brushing his teeth, Ning Que put on a single shirt and began to eat breakfast, while Sangsang opened the box and took clothes and socks to match. Last night, the spring clothes of the academy had been ironed very tightly, and the shoes and socks were all new. Over the years, Ning Que’s clothes were treated so seriously and solemnly, only on the day when the academy opened last spring.
Ning Que began to dress under the service of Sangsang. He held the new densely woven fine flower belt with both hands and pulled it vigorously. Sangsang picked up a lot of signs from the head of the bed and stuffed it into his belt. It was a long time before they were finished.
Ning Que took the simple and small wooden plaque from her hand, and slowly rubbed the smooth lines with her fingertips, thinking secretly that His Majesty gave himself the waist plaque at the Tianshu last night. I don’t know what it means. , And this brand feels like it should have been used by many people.
The waist card should have been tied to the belt instead of stuffed into the clothes, but Ning Que now has too many waist cards in his hand—the dark guard’s waist card, the college’s waist card, the second floor of the college His waist card, a Keqing waist card given by the Yulong Gang last year, plus the Tianshu waist card that was freshly obtained yesterday, if all were hung on his waist, he would be able to do a local dance.
Ning Que touched the bulging protrusion on his waist, frowned, twisted his waist in front of Sangsang, and said with a smile: “I have made a lot of money in Chang’an City for one year, and this brand has also been earned. Quite a lot, but my waist isn’t thick enough for your young master. If there are more brands in the future, I’m afraid I won’t be able to hold it.”
Sangsang raised his small face and looked at him with a smile: “Master, can’t you be so proud?”
Ning Que said triumphantly: “Be quiet and far-reaching outside and pretend to be gentle. Why can’t you be proud at home?”
Out of the main entrance of Lao Bi Zhai, under the dim morning light, the old coachman and carriage had already stopped quietly and waited at the lane, but today the old coach did not wait in the car, but stood honestly outside the shop door , Looks very respectful.
The old coachman did not know the second floor of the college, nor did he know what flowers bloomed in the sky. He was called to Haosheng by the owner of the cart and horse shop last night. The boss said that he had good luck and that he must serve Ning Que well in the future, so he honestly took out the energy of waiting for his wife at home. I got up in the middle of the night, changed into clean clothes, brushed my teeth back with Yang Zhi dipped in precious medicine, and brushed the carriage clean and black and bright, and then went to Lin 47 Alley in advance to wait.
Looking at the clean coachman and the carriage, Ning Que couldn’t help being a little surprised. After asking a few words, he guessed that the boss of the cart knew something, and couldn’t help but smile and shook his head. I thought this was both unpleasant and difficult.
The wheels crushed the bluestone slab road in the alley gradually away, drove away from the east city into Zhuque Avenue, and then exited the south gate of Chang’an City, went on the imperial official road, and headed for the academy like a fairyland in the distant morning light.
Ning Que looked at the green trees and wild flower fields beside the road outside the window, his face calm as usual. He Chunming Jing on this road was seen too many times, and he couldn’t arouse any more thoughts. After watching it for a while, The curtains were lowered.
Sitting in the slightly swaying carriage, he slowly closed his eyes, and the fatigue and nervousness of the past few days had already left his body, but this was the first time he had the opportunity to calmly recall the experience of these days.
The morning light outside the window passed through the eyes and turned into a very dim light, which was extremely close to the intensity of the wasteland where the dark night was approaching. His thoughts instantly floated back to those strange dreams and what he saw during the climbing process. In those strange illusions.
Don’t know how long it took, Ning Que opened his eyes and shook his head.
In the previous time, he once again relived the interweaving of light and darkness, those calls from the farthest part of the world and the deepest heart, and then found that these had nothing to do with himself, if the last step The choice is the test of the academy. Why would the major practitioners of the academy create such a mysterious illusion, and why would he be correct?
The test of choice before the summit of the back hill of the academy was too metaphysical and too solemn, and Ning Que was just a weak practitioner who had just entered the realm of no confusion. Let him answer this question, just like a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University. A child who has just entered elementary school: who are you, where are you from, where are you going. The child will never hold his head in pain as a thinker, thinking about it for half a century until it becomes a statue, but still can’t answer. He will definitely reply with a loud voice: I’m from Frankfurt, I’m going to Neka. Fishing in the river.
Maybe the philosophy professor at Heidelberg University also teaches theology, maybe this professor is similar to the Zen masters in ancient China, and he likes to play the routine of turning back to the original, and he lost his weight when he heard the answer. The child’s answer seems simple, but it’s not simply pointing to the heart and finding the ultimate path. He feels that the child is an unborn genius.
I will formally enter the second floor of the academy to study, but to be honest, I still don’t know why the academy, why the long mountain road and the big figures who set the illusion choice will choose him. Ning Que thought for a long time and could only draw This conclusion.
“The Master was so profound and confused, and I am the kid.”
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On the broad and straight official road to the southwest of Chang’an City, a team composed of several carriages and dozens of knights is moving forward in silence. These carriages are mainly decorated in black and gold, revealing an indescribable luxury and solemnity. It means that although dozens of knights are not wearing armor, their neat black robes and the determined expression on their faces still exude a fighting spirit.
These knights are the guardians of the Kingdom of Xiling, who are known as the most elite cavalry. The carriages that are eligible to be protected by them are undoubtedly the great figures of the temple. It was still early at this time, and the motorcade appeared on the official road in Chang’an South, indicating that they left Chang’an City as soon as the gate was opened.
The team composed of the great figures of the temple and the **** army, if it is walking in other countries in the world, it will definitely attract countless people’s onlookers and cheers. It is even believed that there will be many believers and fools on the roadside, but now they It was in the territory of the Datang Empire. It was still early days, no one on both sides of the official road cast their eyes, and no one shed pious tears. The team just moved forward silently and quickly, giving people a way to leave as soon as possible at all costs. a feeling of.
Prince Longqing sat in the luxurious but solemn black-gold carriage in the middle, looked calmly through the window, at the houses of the Tang Dynasty and the rapeseed flowers in the fields, listening to the rushing horseshoes around With the breathing of the knights, feeling the suppressed atmosphere and weird silence, suddenly smiled and said:
“When I came, the whole city of Chang’an was joyous, welcoming in the middle of the road, melons, fruits and flowers were thrown at the carriage, but when I went there was so silent and quiet, I even had to deliberately choose to leave when the city gate opened. Isn’t it like a bereaved dog?” /
The vice-president of Tianyu Academy, Mo Li, who was sitting opposite, changed his face slightly, wondering why Prince Longqing would say such a sentence, suppressing his anger forcibly, and said: “Why do you humiliate yourself?”
Prince Longqing showed a faint mocking look on his face, and said: “No matter where in the world, the guardian army is wearing golden armor, radiant like a god, but when entering the territory of the Tang Dynasty, you must remove your armor and shoot. Otherwise, Tang people are not allowed to enter, this is humiliation.”
Without waiting to leave the mouth, he continued to smile and said, “Vice President, do you know why I live in Taohua Lane in Chang’an City?”
The priest Mo Li’s heart was slightly distressed. I don’t know if Prince Longqing’s question was trying to test himself. However, looking at the other person’s smile, his heart is getting colder and colder for some reason. After hesitating for a while, he honestly replied: “Because The prince’s destiny is the peach blossom.”
“Yes, do you know why I chose peach blossoms as my destiny?” Prince Longqing asked.
The priest Li shook his head. The Xiling people discussed this in private for a long time, but could not find a definite answer.
“Because the Master entered Xiling, he cut down all the peach blossoms on the mountain while drinking, but no one dared to stop him at that time.” Prince Longqing looked out the window and said expressionlessly, “This is what I have suffered in the Xiling Temple for a century. The biggest humiliation that I have come, I chose peach blossom as my destiny to remind myself not to forget this humiliation.”
Prince Longqing said indifferently: “I surrendered my identity this time. I wanted to enter the second floor of the academy. I wanted to study with the Master, hoping to recover this humiliation for the temple in the future. However, I didn’t expect that, unexpectedly. I was humiliated by Ning Que again.”
The priest Li Qi wanted to comfort him, but found that he couldn’t find any suitable words.
“You just said that my remarks were self-humiliating… Actually, it’s not right. Humiliation has nothing to do with who initiated it. It only cares about my strength. If I am better than others, then those remarks are ridicule. We are weaker than others, those words become self-humiliating.”
“The Tang people can disarm my guardian army, the Master can cut all the peach blossoms, and Ning Que can force me to flee Chang’an like a dog. It is not that they deliberately humiliated me, but because of certain On the one hand, they are stronger.”
“But I am very grateful for this humiliation. I can tell you a good news. Maybe I have already taken that step. Now I only hope that Ning Que can really become stronger quickly so that I can recover the humiliation. Opportunity.”
The priest Mo Li was shocked when he heard the words, and immediately ecstatic, thinking that if Prince Longqing can advance to the realm of fate during the journey, then the temple might look at this matter and spare himself the envoy brought to the temple. The humiliation coming.
After repeated congratulations, he had secretly made up his mind to hold the prince’s thigh tighter in the future. Suddenly he thought of something and asked in a low voice: “Prince Chongming has returned to the country of Yan. The good news that the prince has reached the realm of life knowing, is it right to let people inform the Emperor Yan as soon as possible?”
The prince Longqing laughed slightly to himself and said: “What is the point of letting the father know about this? Fighting for the throne? Is it possible that the throne of Yan Kingdom is more attractive than Haotian Avenue?”
The priest Mo Li sincerely suggested: “But the emperor should have belonged to you.”
“It’s mine, it will always be mine.”
The prince Longqing recalled the illusions that he had seen on the hill behind the academy, especially the great light and fear he saw in the last few steps. His complexion was slightly pale, and he immediately said firmly: “Anyone who wants to take away Everyone with my stuff will be dead.”
He took his hand back from the window, and he didn’t know when there was a peach blossom in his fingers.
He put the peach blossoms on his clothes at random, wondering if there is a transparent cavity under the life-filled petals?
Prince Longqing looked ruthlessly at the **** blossoms in the smoke-cooking field of the residential house outside the window. After a long silence, he spoke slowly and said: “In a few years, I will overthrow all these ugly houses in the Tang Dynasty. All the rapeseed flowers are eradicated, and then they are all burned in a fire, burning away the sins and filths, and burning a holy and bright world.”
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The carriage stopped by the meadow outside the academy as it used to be. Ning Que got out of the car and found that the atmosphere in the academy today has become very different from the past. There are still many students standing in the distance watching him discuss. But their eyes are no longer full of contempt and disgust as they used to be, instead of shock and envy.
Under these gazes, Ning Que walked into the academy, nodded slightly with Chang Zhengming beside the stone steps, and saw a little book boy standing in the morning light waving his hand, he couldn’t help but startled slightly.
The young boy student’s eyebrows are clear and beautiful, and his small face is extremely supple, like a jade makeup. He watched Ning Que come to him, bowed respectfully, and said: “Little sir, I am the young master’s book boy in my family. I am ordered to take you up the mountain.”
The little book boy was born to behave like an old master, Ning Que couldn’t help but smiled and asked: “The problem is who is your young master? And why do you call me the little gentleman?”
The little book boy chuckled, touched his head, and explained: “My young master is the second line. The name is the rule set by the young master. You are the youngest person in the back mountain, so I will call you Mr.”
Ning Que asked with great interest: “Then…Who is Chen Pipi?”
Xiaoshutong responded in a childish voice: “He used to be a little gentleman, now since you are a little gentleman, he is the twelve gentleman.”
Ning Que was taken aback, shook his head and smiled and said, “The big fat man and the little man… always feel that they don’t match.”
The little book boy said seriously: “Actually… I think so too.”
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Today Ning Que entered the back mountain of the academy. Of course, it could not be the mountain road that had tossed him half his life. The little book boy took him down a back alley and inserted him diagonally from the old stone path. Then he stopped before the dense fog.
“Mr., there is also a road in the old two-story building, but the master said, today is the first day you are here, so please go here.”
Ning Que looked at the clouds and mist in front of him, and subconsciously remembered the mist on the long mountain road the day before yesterday. His body was slightly stiff. After a moment of silence, he looked at the little book boy and asked gently: “There is nothing strange in the mist, right? “
The little book boy laughed and said, “Of course not, I always go.”
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There is really nothing weird about this mountain fog, such as bamboo leaves that turn into flying swords, mountain springs that turn into waterfalls, and small ponds that turn into the sea.
This mountain fog is very strange, Ning Que only took a few steps to walk to the mountainside of the mountain behind the academy.
He waved his sleeves and brushed the last few mists in front of him, staring at the mountainside scenery that looked like a fairyland in the morning light, and couldn’t help being stunned.
Looking at the extremely steep mountain from the direction of the academy, facing the east, there is such a large flat cliff.
There is a small mirror-like lake above the cliff, with blooming wild flowers, quiet grass, and towering old trees.
There are thousands of kinds of flowers, including peach blossoms, but they are not conspicuous between them.
Under the towering old trees, there are more than ten simple houses, and the smoke is rising.
There is a silver line pouring down between the cliffs behind the house, and it turns out to be a waterfall far away.
A flock of black birds sings and flies among the cliffs and waterfalls.
In the morning light, such a beautiful scenery came into view, and Ning Que was dazed at what to say.
Feeling the quiet heaven and earth vitality and the taste of life in the back mountains, a thought rushed into his mind without knowing when.
——Whoever wants to destroy such beauty, I will definitely destroy you.
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(The detailed outline has been scrapped for a long time. I used up the detailed outline a few days ago, so I wrote it very hard. I will try my best to work out the detailed outline later and tomorrow. The update will be the same. It will be late.)