Nightwatcher Chapter 640

Published at 21st of April 2023 06:36:35 AM

The old man narrowed his eyes when he heard the speech. His eyes moved away from Xu Qi'an and looked into the distance.

There is a sense of twilight in him. Twilight is not a derogatory word, but people yearn for a new life, so this word is often not in line with people's preferences.

The old man's twilight is the precipitation of years, more than the vicissitudes of life.

He was the same age as Guo. He was born at the weekend and witnessed the rise and fall of the two dynasties.

He rose up in troubled times and led a volunteer teacher to overthrow tyranny. He experienced too many things and saw too many people.

The dusk naturally permeates the bone...

It's strange that Xu Qi'an didn't see this kind of twilight in JianZheng, Duqing Luohan, or even two vajras.

Is it because he has been in the world of mortals... Or because he is a vulgar warrior Xu Qian thought.

After a long time, the old man said slowly:

"when Emperor Wuzong rebelled and usurped the throne, I was not closed. At that time, the emperor Dafeng was close to treacherous officials and made a mess of the government and the field.

"Of course, a moment of political obscurity is nothing compared with the chaos at the end of the dynasty.

"Wuzong is the grandson of Gaozu. His talent is not inferior to his grandfather's, and his character is the same. He is a hero with great talent and strategy. He took advantage of the dissatisfaction of the government and the public with the treacherous officials, and recruited soldiers and horses to launch a rebellion under the name of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

"It's very clever. If he directly revolts, he won't win the support of the people or the help of people of insight.

"At that time, he was just a third class martial arts man. It was very difficult for him to rebel under the eyes of the early prison authorities.

"So he cleverly asked for three helpers: Confucianism, Buddhism, and contemporary JianZheng."

Hearing this, Xu Qian had to interrupt and said in surprise:

"but I heard that when Emperor Wuzong rebelled five hundred years ago, Confucianism stood idly by from beginning to end."

The old man said with a smile:

"to stand by is the greatest help. Otherwise, with the foundation of Confucianism at that time, and an early Dynasty supervisor, can Wuzong succeed? Unless the Buddha does it himself.

"The Confucianists were dissatisfied with the emperor at that time for a long time, but the early prison was checking and balancing them, which made the Confucianists helpless."

After waiting for a moment, he saw that Xu Qi'an had no doubt and continued:

"at the beginning of emperor Wuzong's uprising, there were not enough soldiers under his hand to compete with the whole Dafeng, so he decided to fight with the Wulin League.

"And the one responsible for persuading me to send troops is the present supervisor.

"I didn't agree at first. It's over. What can I get from it? Wuzong can't cut Jianzhou to me. If I fail, my Wulin League, which I have been working hard for more than 100 years, will probably be destroyed.

"Guess how he convinced me."

Xu Qian's heart moved: "is it related to this agreement?"

The old man nodded and then shook his head:

"to be exact, it's a deal.

"In the more than 100 years since I returned to Jianzhou and founded the Wulin League, I had already been promoted to the top of the third grade, but I still couldn't get along with the way.

"The most terrible thing in the world is not the difficulties and setbacks, but the lack of hope. Ji's accomplishments were similar to mine at the beginning. After he became emperor, he was endowed with good fortune. His accomplishments went thousands of miles every day, and finally he stepped into the ranks of first-class martial artists.

"I'm not convinced, so I haven't been shameful to ask him about the experience of he Dao Jing."

, a good one, you can't make complaints about this. Your old man, the bamboo shoots of dog Rong mountain have been taken away by you... Xu 7 An has no heart in his heart.

"At that time, I didn't know the rule that lucky people can't live forever. Decades later, before I had time to convince myself, Ji became a short-lived ghost and died..."

the old man shook his head and sneered:

"I'm afraid that the first generation of women were crying, hahaha. I always suspected that he was a rabbit. All in all, I've been at the top of Sanpin for many years, and I can't make a breakthrough, and I don't see any hope for a breakthrough.

"Until that day, the contemporary supervisor came to me and said that as long as I was willing to help Wuzong win the throne, he would help me to be promoted to the second grade."

Xu Qi'an laughed:

"I see. You've been jailed. I didn't expect that Jizheng was also an old politician. "

The old man looked at him with a smile:

"I used to think so, but now I'm promoted to the second grade."

Within ten seconds of this sentence, the smile on Xu Qi'an's face remained unchanged, and then he seemed to think of something. The smile was a little stiff, solidified on his face, and finally slowly disappeared.

If there is a camera to capture the whole process at the moment, his "acting skills" are absolutely amazing.

...... Xu Qi'an looks at the old man with dull eyes. His lips move and he says with difficulty:

"you mean, nine color lotus root, no, my help is that the supervisor is fulfilling his original promise?"The old man said, "well, I can't think of a better explanation."

Deng! Deng! Deng!

Xu Qi'an took three steps back and looked at the old man in a dazed way. His face was suddenly distorted and he could not tell whether he was surprised or frightened.

Or both.

Outsiders have no way to know his inner activities. Under his dull face, there is a tumultuous emotion and explosive information boiling.

What does it mean if things are really like what the old man said?

"I remember Xu Pingfeng said that the destiny master has the ability to spy on the secrets of heaven, and can predict the future to a certain extent. Because of this, the supervisor can't intervene in the things he foresees. It can only be arranged in the dark, with side effects.

"It's against heaven to spy on the secrets of heaven. If you reveal the secrets of heaven, you will be directly punished by heaven. But it's still not the key, the key point is......

"five hundred years ago, Chien Zheng was not the destiny master, how could he predict the future, how could he!"

Xu Qian's face became very ugly, like the collapse of Sanguan.

"What do you seem to think of?"

The old man asked with a frown when he saw that something was wrong with his face.

Xu Qi'an didn't reply. He kept an ugly face. It took him a long time to calm down.

Then, based on this information, he extended three guesses and one doubt.

Conjecture 1: it was not the prison that predicted the situation 500 years later, but the early prison.

If so, the secrecy involved is terrible.

Conjecture 2: there is something wrong with the identity of the contemporary supervisor. He is probably the first supervisor. The original disciple may be the vest of the early generation.

But in this case, why did the early generation take great pains to commit suicide? What was the purpose?

In addition, the Bodhisattvas of Buddhism participated in this event. Each Bodhisattva had the magic power to seize heaven and earth. It was very difficult for the first generation to open the vest without telling them.

Conjecture 3: neither of the above two is true. The contemporary prison authorities can predict what will happen 500 years later because they have their own problems.

As for doubts...

now, recalling the warlock system, there is a paradox in the curse of the apprentice stabbing the master.

How terrible the present prison is, how terrible the early generation is.

The present supervisor can foresee the future, so can the early Dynasty. He can find a way to get rid of emperor Wuzong before he rebelled.

Even if the destiny master could not intervene in the future, Xu Qi'an believed that emperor Wuzong must have had countless situations in his military life.

The emperor Wuzong would die as long as he seized the opportunity and exerted influence on the other side.

Don't doubt it. The first generation of supervisors can definitely do it.

There are many other similar methods. The early chieftains were fully capable of making emperor Wuzong unable to find a chance to revolt.

At first glance, this paradox seems to verify conjecture one and conjecture two, but it can also verify conjecture three.

If there are problems in the contemporary supervision and correction, it can really break the paradox.

"Another explanation is that the early chieftains foresaw the back stab of the present age, but did not stop them and chose to play chess with him. Just like the contemporary supervisor's attitude towards Xu Pingfeng.

"I know you're going to stab me in the back, but I won't stop you. We'll fight to the death in the way of a warlock.

"In the words of Xu Pingfeng, this is the curse of the warlock system, which can not be avoided. Unless we want the warlock system to be cut off, as long as we want to inherit it, we must accept the apprentices, and then accept the back stab of the apprentices.

"Commonly known as the rules of the road!"

In addition to the above three guesses and one doubt, Xu Qi'an had a realistic reasoning in mind.

There are not so many conspiracy theories in this reasoning. The truth is that the prison was really an old politician in those days, just fooling old people.

As is known to all, politicians in the world always pay a good price in advance and go whoring for nothing afterwards.

Anyway, when the time comes, the supervisor will be promoted smoothly. Are you afraid of retaliation from a vulgar warrior?

Five hundred years later, the old man really relied on the nine color lotus root to be promoted to the second grade. Maybe many years later, the supervisor found that he could fulfill his promise with the help of the nine color lotus root, so he made arrangements.

In essence, there is no such thing as predicting 500 years.

To be fair, Xu Qi'an thinks this is the truth.

The reason is very simple. It is impossible for a friar to accurately predict something 500 years later.

Not even super.

He's not a rookie now. He's killed Joan of arc of the second grade and played FA Xiang of the first grade. Even if he hasn't been in touch with Chao pin, he has some idea in his mind.

In order to collect his divergent thoughts, Xu Qi'an asked:

"how do you judge that the promise of the supervisor is me?"

The old man sighed:

"the old man said at the beginning: live well. The day when you are in harmony with the Tao is the time when the people in the Central Plains need you.

"Of course, maybe it's just a pretext. The magician is always nagging. But now that I've been promoted, it's as if he has made good on his promise... Xu Qi'an's scalp is numb.

At this time, someone rushed to the top of the cliff, stopped in the distance, arched his hand and said: "the old ancestor, the younger Wen Chengbi."

The old man's face was a little confused.

Xu Qi'an helped introduce:

"this is the deputy leader of your Wulin League."

The old man suddenly nodded and asked, "what's the matter?"

Wen Chengbi explained the troubles faced by the Wulin League once again, and said tentatively:

"if we expand the headquarters with the military town as the core, we can really save a lot of manpower and material resources. The leader of Cao League hesitated and ordered me to ask for your advice. "

The core problem is that the funds are not enough.

In the era of underdeveloped equipment, large-scale construction was a waste of money and manpower. In the history that Xu Qi'an is familiar with, there are many cases of the subjugation of the country due to large-scale construction.

Sui and Qin Dynasties are examples. Although there is not only one reason for the demise of a dynasty, there must be other factors, but it can be named as the reason for later generations.

It is enough to show how hard the infrastructure projects cost people and money.

The old man pondered:

"it doesn't matter about silver. I will be responsible for finding out the silver buried at the bottom of the mountain. There is no doubt that the headquarters are still built on the mountain. "

Xu Qi'an understood what he meant. Chaos was coming, and the headquarters of the Wulin League was like a dangerous pass, which could be defended by retreating and attacked by advancing.

If it was built in a flat military town, the enemy cavalry would be defeated in an instant.

Wen Chengbi said in a deep voice:

"but in this way, I'm afraid that the savings of the alliance and China for many years will be... Just for ordinary days, at most the brothers will be frugal. But now the disaster is everywhere. Without money, the situation in Jianzhou will be chaotic. "

The old man said immediately, "let the brothers and soldiers in the league work together."

Wen Chengbi shook his head: "there are still not enough people."

The old man frowned and thought for a moment, then turned to look at Xu Qian and said:

"what do you think?"

Xu Qi'an has no good way:

"it's a simple matter. It's not enough to work as a relief. It's necessary to gather the victims, build the headquarters and give them food instead of money. It can not only provide food and clothing for the victims, but also save money. "

Wen Chengbi's eyes suddenly brightened, and he was pleasantly surprised: "Xu Yinluo has a brilliant idea, worthy of Xu Yinluo, and can come up with such a clever plan."

It's not a trick, it's a tradition Xu Qi'an nodded his head.

"Out of order!"

The old man frowned.

In recent years, there is no precedent for work relief. The victims drink the porridge given by the imperial court or rich families, waiting for the end of the disaster and the recovery of the earth.

Even if there are occasional small-scale work relief incidents, it is difficult to become the mainstream.

"Ancestor, this is a wonderful plan." Wen Chengbi said in a hurry, "in an extraordinary period, we should act in an extraordinary way. Please give me your approval. "

The old man waved his hand and didn't care about these little things:

"go."

Seeing Wen Chengbi leave, Xu Qi'an said: "senior, I'm already a third grade, and the next step is to unite the way. But so far, the truth is unknown. "

The old man knows everything:

"he Dao is the transformation of" Yi ". I call it the completion of one's own martial arts. Every master of four grades can only understand one kind of "meaning", which is his own choice of martial arts.

"Meaning is the rudiment of Tao.

"To perfect the way you go is the essence of the two-way combination. But it's easier said than sat up.

"All my life, I've practiced Sabre techniques hard, and I've got all my Sabre techniques together. But in the end, he was still stuck at the top of grade three and almost died of failure. "

Xu Qian immediately asked: "how did the predecessors combine the Tao?"

"There are thousands of Dao ways. If you understand the true meaning, you can be in harmony with Dao. But there are countless ways to the true meaning. During my seclusion, my body turned into pieces of meat, none of which represented different Dao Dao. They have their own ideas and think they are right. "

"Can the nine color lotus root help people to join the Tao?"

"The nine color lotus seed can enlighten everything, so can the lotus root, even stronger. Its function is to enlighten the tens of millions of "I" who are trapped in the mire, and to determine a "I" as the dominant position. Lotus seed is not effective enough to achieve this effect, but nine color lotus root can. This is also the reason why Qingyang wanted to take the nine color lotus root for me. "

Nine color lotus root is equivalent to a stabilizer, which plays a catalytic and stabilizing role.

I still have a small section of nine color lotus root to keep. Well, let Nanzhi continue to cultivate lotus root for me. In this way, if I step into the second grade, maybe I don't need to take her spirit.

Before Xu Qian handed over the nine color lotus root, he chopped a small piece of it and left it by his side, just like the original nine color lotus root.

Such natural resources and local treasures, we must make it sustainable development.After saying goodbye to the old man and returning to the military town, Xu Qi'an finds a yard and invites mu Nanzhi and Chai Xinger out. The latter is due to Qi deficiency and weakness due to long-term imprisonment in the pagoda of futu. Xu Qi'an plans to release them for a while.

She is also useful. The tomb of Chai's ancestors can be noticed by Xu Pingfeng. The owner of the tomb is unusual.

Mu Nanzhi was wearing a plum colored cotton padded jacket and a plain pleated skirt, which showed the temperament of her children Wenqing and rich wife.

Even if the beauty is mediocre, it is difficult to conceal her unique charm.

Taking advantage of Xu Qian's departure, Xiao Baihu said: "aunt, I want to pee."

Without saying a word, he jumped out of Mu Nanzhi's arms and ran away.

It uses its magic power to turn into a white shadow, twinkles a few times in the military town, then goes far away from the buildings, and then plunges into the lush Canrong mountains.

A cup of tea time, Bai Ji sneaked into the mountains, away from the main peak of the dog Rong mountain.

It glanced around and picked a high rock to jump on.

The empress comes in a row.

PS: Skull pain. Today, I went to the front page to find some forgotten pits

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