novelsmap Chapter 76 The Lone Goose
Chapter 76 The Lone Goose
Three days later, Cheng Ju packed up and was ready to leave Xuanzong.Because of the rules of the inner sect, the only one who can see him off now is Han Zhao.
The two stopped in front of the mountain gate, and the summer mountain wind blew by, shaking the corners of their clothes.
Han Zhao asked Cheng Ju, "Where are you going?"
What he asked was which force Cheng Ju would take refuge in.
Cheng Ju looked at the vast road ahead and shook his head: "It hasn't been decided yet. Ju has nothing else to ask for when he goes here, but he wants to destroy the puppet dynasty and kill Xu Zhongyan. If he is still alive at that time, he can fulfill his unfinished ambition for the senior."
Han Zhao suggested: "Zhongshan King Liu Ci is the orthodox next door, why don't you consider assisting him?"
His suggestion contained selfishness. If Cheng Ju could serve Liu Ci and be reused, then Zhao Ji could also take care of him.
Cheng Ju realized the reason why Han Zhao recommended Liu Ci to him after a short thought, and he smiled: "It's a good suggestion, but whether it is the best choice or not will have to be considered by Ju."
After speaking, he let out a long sigh: "Mr. Han is also a good master."
Just like his master, who said he didn't want to care about him anymore, but still gave him his life's painstaking efforts.
good master?
This word made Han Zhao silent.
No, he doesn't count at all.
He clearly knew that Jingzhou was not a good place, so he pushed Zhao Ji down in order to complete his task.
Now he can do nothing about Zhao Ji's misfortunes and blessings. Now these actions are not so much trying to help Zhao Ji, but rather he wants to seek peace of mind.
In the rustling mountain wind, Han Zhao watched Cheng Ju's figure go away.
Now that Liangzhou has been destroyed, the Puppet Dynasty has occupied the central plains and large areas of land in the west and north.
What kind of changes will Cheng Ju's departure bring to this divided world?
What kind of posture will Zhao Ji appear in the eyes of the world again?
How will the world be unified?
Everything becomes unpredictable.
The turmoil in the world has never stopped, and Han Zhao himself is just a solitary boat in the ups and downs of the world, trying his best to move closer to the future he wants...
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A few days later, Sun Yao returned, and Han Zhao went to visit him.
In the past eight years, Sun Yao has not aged much, and is still in good spirits.
After some conversation, Han Zhao was allowed to stay in Xuanzong.
Oh no.According to Sun Yao, Xuanzong never took in any Han Zhao, and some were just Gu Chongming, a military scholar who studied here.
In the blink of an eye for three years, Han Zhao has gotten used to life as Gu Chongming.
1.0 was recalled two years ago, leaving only a system with basic functions. Now Han Zhao can only rely on himself, but—he has always relied on himself.
The first thunderstorm in early summer accompanied the end of the Art of War class, and the washed hydrangeas beside the carved window lanyards were pitiful.
Han Zhao walked out of the lecture hall, and the students passing by him saluted him one after another.
"Hi Mr. Gu!"
"Mr. Gu!"
"Mr. Gu, Wan An!"
Han Zhao nodded in return.
Suddenly, Han Zhaoruo raised his eyes and looked to the right side of the corridor.
There, a child carved in pink and jade squeezed under the students and ran towards Han Zhao with short legs.
The child was wearing a Confucian shirt and a small Lun scarf, looking like a little Confucian student, quite clever and cute.
All the students couldn't help smiling kindly when they saw him, and made way for him.
The child kept going all the way, and finally bumped into Han Zhao's leg, hugged Han Zhao's thigh, and remained silent.
Just when the onlookers thought the child was stunned, they saw him raise his head, smile at Han Zhao, bent his eyes, and called Han Zhao softly, "Master."
This child is Liu Xi.
Of course, his name is now Gu Bin.
It seems that Han Zhao didn't take good care of him at the beginning, and Yaoguang's development was slower than ordinary children, but fortunately, his mind was not retarded.
Now Yao Guang can speak clearly, but even this "Shi Shi Gong" can't be corrected.
Han Zhao bent down and hugged Yaoguang, and Yaoguang handed the small fist he had been holding to Han Zhao as if offering a treasure, and opened it: "Tangtang, given by Aunt Liu, Shi Shigong eat!"
There is a small paper bag lying in Yaoguang's small fist, it seems that Liu Yun made candy for him again.
Han Zhao took the paper bag from Yao Guang's hand: "Thank you."
Yaoguang smiled sweetly: "No thanks."
Liu Yun, who was left behind by Yaoguang when one big and one small were getting close, also came over.
Just as Wei Yao was changed by the variables caused by Han Zhao, Liu Yun, who was the concubine of the Ming Emperor in her previous life, has not yet married, but simply put on a woman's bun for the convenience of walking outside.
Seeing that Yaoguang was already in Han Zhao's arms, Liu Yun smiled helplessly, and sighed: "I was clamoring to come to you before get out of class was over, I had no choice but to bring him here."
Han Zhao nodded towards Liu Yun: "Thanks for your hard work."
Liu Yun said again: "Bin'er is handed over to you. I want to deliver medicine to the uncle in the academy, so I'm leaving first."
Han Zhao nodded and said goodbye to Liu Yun.
After Liu Yun left, Yao Guang started clamoring to share his progress with Han Zhao again: "Master, Bin'er can memorize "Thousand Character Essay" now."
Han Zhao pretended to be surprised: "Oh? That's really powerful. Can you recite it to Master?"
Yaoguang smiled happily: "Okay!"
A few years ago, Han Zhaoding would never have imagined that he would have the patience to respond to the countless naive thoughts of a four-year-old child every day.
Amid Yaoguang's soft recitation, Han Zhao picked up the bamboo umbrella under the eaves with the hand that was not holding Yaoguang, opened it, and walked down the stairs.
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Going up the path outside the academy and along the undulating green hills, Han Zhao's thatched hut is located beside a pine forest.
Tianlai Mountain is quiet and quiet, no matter how the outside situation changes, there are only one year old and one dry and prosperous here.
Living in such a remote place with beautiful mountains and rivers, sometimes Han Zhao would suspect that he had really become a hermit who practiced seclusion.
But this illusion will disappear whenever news from the outside world comes, and he still can't let go of the disputes in the world. He is not a noble hermit, but a gambler who hides his strength and bides his time.
Han Zhao approached the small courtyard with Yaoguang in his arms, but suddenly stopped outside the bamboo fence—he felt something was wrong.
If you want to ask Han Zhao how to make such a judgment, he doesn't know very well.
Just like ordinary people, it is difficult to explain why one plus one equals two. This is the instinct for detecting crises honed by Han Zhao in his many years of life and death.
Perhaps it was because there were fewer pecking birds in the yard, or maybe there were fewer water droplets that should condense on the green taro leaves than expected. In short, Han Zhao judged that someone had come, and it was not the main entrance.
In the past, Han Zhao would rely on the courage of a skilled person to go in and tell the truth, but now that he is holding Yaoguang, he will not be in danger.
Han Zhao gently closed the bamboo fence and turned to leave.But a deep voice stopped his footsteps: "Nineteen, it's really you."
Han Zhao's movements froze, and now he shudders when he hears this name.
Han Zhao turned around, and walking out from the back of the house was the fifth child he had met once.
He was much older than the one Han Zhao saw when he first passed through, and he lost the youthful vitality in his eyes, revealing a sense of desolation and desolation.
At the beginning, the fifth child returned to the organization with Ji Liang and disappeared, but now Han Zhao is suddenly found. I don't know if he is an enemy or a friend, but in order not to hurt Yao Guang, Han Zhao will try to avoid doing anything.
He and Lao Wu were separated by dozens of steps and said, "What are you doing here?"
Lao Wu comforted: "Don't be nervous, I didn't mean anyone here."
Han Zhao didn't relax his vigilance, he asked, "Where's Ji Liang?"
Since the farewell three and a half years ago, Han Zhao had never heard of Ji Liang again, and the secret guards were always shady. Even if he heard some news, he might not know that it was Ji Liang who did it.
When Ji Liang was mentioned, the fifth child's expression fell, and after a moment of silence, he murmured: "I can't find him."
A little doubt appeared in Han Zhao's eyes.
Lao Wu added: "In the past six months, I have visited all the places he might go, but I can't find him."
He lost news of Ji Liang half a year ago.
At that time, Ji Liang said that he would go out of the courtyard, but he waited for more than a month and did not see Ji Liang coming back. Later, the second master came to the other courtyard where he was housed, and said to him, "You are free".
He asked the second master Ji Liang's whereabouts.
The second master said something meaningful: Ever since he was born, A Liang was doomed to be "the master's man in life, and the master's ghost in death", so he is naturally where he should be.
Then, he was kicked out of Dongdu.
In the past few months, he has searched all the places where Ji Liang might have gone, but there is no trace.
Ji Liang seemed to have evaporated from the world.
Lao Wu was very disturbed. He subconsciously felt that he could only find Ji Liang if he found his master, but he couldn't deal with the second master alone, so he had to come to Han Zhao.
After confirming that the fifth child was harmless, Han Zhao walked into the house. He put Yaoguang down and let him play by himself. Then he talked to the fifth child: "How did you find me?"
Lao Wu told the truth: "I heard the news from Lao Qi."
This news made Han Zhao's heart sink: It seems that the organization knows his whereabouts?Really, the ghost lingers.
But why did they tell Lao Wu?
He didn't think that Lao Qi's disclosure of the news was just out of kindness.
Han Zhao asked again, "What did Ji Liang say to you before he left?"
Fifth child: "He asked me to find a stable place to buy a house and land, marry a wife, and live a stable life."
Han Zhao replied in a deep voice, "You should listen to him."
He didn't know about the entanglement between Ji Liang, Lao Wu and the organization, but he vaguely sensed that Lao Wu's current peace was the result of Ji Liang's great sacrifice.The fifth child should cherish this hard-won freedom.
Why doesn't Lao Wu know Ji Liang's painstaking efforts, but he can't do it.
He has no self, and he doesn't know what an ordinary person will do in his life; he doesn't understand love, and he doesn't know how to be tender to a woman; He just wanted to find Ji Liang.
It's a bit strange to say that 19 is younger than him, but he feels the sense of security that the third brother gave him in [-].
Before he came to find Han Zhao, the fifth child had already made up his mind: "I want to find my third brother. I want to see people when I am born, and I want to see corpses when I die. If you help me, I will help you."
Han Zhaolue pondered for a while, and asked Lao Wu a question: "Who is the master?"
In the past few years, he has never given up on tracking down his master's whereabouts, but as Ji Liang said at the beginning: there is no result.
This person is like a shadow in the world, everywhere but uncapturable.
Lao Wu replied: "Only the second master knows."
Han Zhao didn't expect to learn anything from Lao Wu, this question was just an excuse for him to reject Lao Wu: "It seems that you can't help me."
The fifth child still refused to give up, he said eagerly: "But our purpose is the same, I can help you deal with the second master and help you find the master."
Han Zhao shook his head slowly: "I can't promise you, because I'm not sure that you won't go to the second master again for Ji Liang. You can't guarantee it yourself."
This sentence stopped Lao Wu.
Yes, he can't guarantee it, he doesn't have a correct view of right and wrong, and he can't talk about taking a position. Even the concept of self has only been touched one-sidedly.So if one day the second master or the master threatened him with Ji Liang and asked him to do something that was not good for Han Zhao, he would do it too.
The old fifth looked ashamed, and he begged in a low voice: "Then let me stay for a while, if you don't think there is any need to send it away, it's okay. The third brother said he was sorry for you, maybe I can do something for him. "
Han Zhao wondered, "Why would Ji Liang feel sorry for me?"
Lao Wu was taken aback, then shook his head: "I don't know."