Chang'an is good

Zhanxin, first of all, it is just two lines and four characters.

safe.

keep the way.

Is this answering his question?

Is it safe? ——Anyway.

What do you want, where do you go? - keep the way.

Keep the way...!
In the deepest part of Chu Taifu's heart, because of this seemingly familiar word, suddenly set off a turmoil.

He has one more question...the most important one...why?
At first glance, there was no third line of answer on the letter, but it was signed in a formal manner.

It's a five-character signature...

"Anything"

"Keeping the Way"

"Student, Chang Suining"

"..."

student?

student!

The old man's vision suddenly became hazy.

As the old man trembled and blinked, the handwriting on the letter paper also trembled, as if it was a letter from heaven, extremely unreal.

Looking at the trembling nine characters, Mrs. Chu murmured hoarsely, "...the teacher has nine characters, and the student can't write one more? Beg for a beating, really beg for a beating..."

Sure enough, it's still such a fight!

The old matriarch's blurred vision stayed on the word "student" for a long time, and he was reluctant to leave.

The old fingers trembled and caressed the word, as if wanting to determine whether this was an illusion that he had imagined before he was about to die of old age due to his depression.

After a long time, the old man's finger moved lightly and stayed on the word "Shoudao".

He had heard these two words from his student.

That was before she went to Beidi to get married.

He tried to stop him, but couldn't eat because of it, but when she came to see him, she was very calm, and even turned around and made fun of him—"Teacher is an example of literati in the world, so he should put the people of the world first."

At that time, hearing these words in his ears, he felt very heartbroken.

Why does he put the world first?Who said that the people of the world must be the first?

If he can't even protect his own students, how can he talk about protecting the world!
He has never had a crush on anyone in his life, and he managed to raise a student he likes so much. Knowing how hard and difficult she has been all the way, how can he watch her go to purgatory alone?
Hasn't she done enough for the world?
But what did the world give her?
There are many ignorant, vicious, hopeless and selfish people in this world, why must his students come to save this muddy world?
If the world is full of such unfair and rotten principles, then let the world go, and let it do what it wants!
In a sense, people who are too smart and sober often have no "concept of right and wrong" in the secular sense.

He taught people to read the books of sages, and practiced the rites of sages, but more often than not, he would sneer at those pedantic principles, and he looked down on them, let alone being imprisoned by them.

He also said that he is not a saint at all, he is just an old guy who can only curse people with a pen.

In short, he said a lot of angry words that he didn't care about that day.

On the contrary, his students have always been calm, and even sighed in turn to remind him: "Teacher must always be a role model... Be careful that these words are spread, or you will lose them at a later date."

He was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while, so he walked back and forth behind this desk, and asked the student who was sitting and drinking tea—"Then I ask you, what are you going to do? Are you going to die!"

The student finally got a serious expression, and answered him seriously: "Keep the way."

He asked again: "What way to keep, and whose way to keep!"

"Keep the student's own way."

keep her own way.

What her own way is, only she has the final say, so no one can persuade her, no one can persuade her.

He looked at her fixedly, and said to her word by word: "I will die, it will be thousands of times more terrifying than death..."

"Every time you go to the battlefield, you may die." She said: "For the students, they are all adhering to the Tao, and there is no difference."

He finally fell silent in anger.

He vaguely remembered that he was gradually unwilling to look at her anymore, and slowly turned around, facing the window lattice behind the desk, only facing her with his back.

"Since you are stubborn and stupid... then let's go." After a long time, he said: "I just pretend that I have never taught you as a student."

He didn't see her expression, and didn't know what her expression was at that time.

Will be lost, will be sad?

If you think about it, she won't!

After an unknown amount of time, he heard the sound of her gently putting down the teacup.

Her tone was still aggressive, and she didn't seem to be sad. She even said shamelessly, "Teacher, don't be angry. The students will come back alive to take care of you."

He didn't speak, his expression was still tense and angry.

Then, she was probably saluting, and finally said: "Teacher, the students have gone."

Go on!

Go and keep your way!

Until she left and closed the door of the study room, he never looked back.

Was he angry that night?

of course.

So, he soon regretted it.

Later, he thought, if he hadn't been angry with her as a kid at that time, if he had said to her, "Take care, and come back alive to take care of me", would she have thought about it more, wouldn't she? ...wouldn't have died in a foreign land?
This idea is like a sharp knife, it will stab his heart once he thinks about it, so he didn't dare to think about it easily, and shut it tightly.

Therefore, he would just call her a liar over and over again.

The liar student...is back now.

Before she could recognize him, she went to keep her way again.

Looking at those two words, Taifu Chu let out a soft sigh with a complicated smile.

He is also a liar.

In fact, he never blamed her, never felt that she was wrong, never felt that she was not up to date, and never felt that she was "taught in vain".

On the contrary, as a teacher, he is very proud to have such a student.

He was really just too distressed, too distressed.

This simple word "keeping the way" is at the price of her bloody life and self-esteem. As a teacher, he is better than a father. How can he not feel distressed?
This heart-pounding pain has caused regret and unwillingness that he cannot reconcile with the world in this life, making him wish he could be an enemy of all the principles in the world.

But his stupid student, whose ambition to keep the Tao can coexist with the heaven and the earth, died, and then returned, this ambition was still alive, and still told him of course that she wanted to keep the way, and she was keeping the way.

Taifu Chu took a deep breath, and tears fell on the letter paper.

"Just come back..." He looked at the letter paper, smiled with tears in his eyes and whispered, "Just come back."

If you want to keep it, just keep it, just come back.

Taifu Chu looked at the closed study door, and seemed to see the situation when the girl withdrew and closed the door 13 years ago.

This door has been closed for 13 years.

Now, he finally saw the girl push the door open again, after 13 years, she came back to him again.

He slowly stood up from the chair, put away the letter, and took out a painting.

The old man moved slowly and carefully, and hung the painting he took back from Dayun Temple in the twelfth lunar month where he could see it when he looked up after sitting at the desk.

He didn't dare to hang up before because he was afraid of failing, but now he is not afraid.

The night outside the study surged up, spreading between the sky and the earth.

A twelve or thirteen-year-old boy ran over, but was stopped by the old servant outside the study.

"...I want to invite my grandfather to watch the lanterns together!" The young man said with bright eyes.

The old servant was startled, stopped the young man, and said in fear: "Mr. Eighteenth, please don't mess around..."

Dare to invite the old master to watch the lanterns, don't die!

How could the old master go out to join in such a lively party, let alone go out with a big family.

Just as the young boy was about to speak again, the door of the study room opened from the inside, and his grandfather came out.

"Grandfather!" The boy hurriedly saluted: "Father asked grandson to invite you to go out to see the lanterns!"

The old servant secretly sighed in his heart that people's hearts are sinister, this father really doesn't care about his son's life or death.

"Festival lantern?" Taifu Chu glanced at the full moon on the Lantern Festival, and said with a smile, "Okay, then let's go see it!"

The old servant stared.

what happened?
Recently, you have talked about Buddhism, have you talked about going out?

The young man was also overjoyed, and hurried forward to help his grandfather's arm.

Taifu Chu had a smile on his face, and he didn't dislike his grandson's clinginess anymore.

He has only two sons, and neither of them became an official under his advice. They spend all day as companions in calligraphy and painting, and are quite well-known in the literary world.

But the bad thing is that he was too idle, so he gave birth to children every now and then, and turned his family into a cicada nest. He actually gave him nearly twenty grandchildren, and this was the youngest one. The grandson, the most mischievous, also likes to push his nose on his face.

Now Grand Tutor Chu suddenly realized the cuteness of his little grandson. There is nothing wrong with the little grandson, who is rascal and innocent by nature.

But as soon as he walked out of the residence, Mrs. Chu stopped suddenly, changed her mind, and didn't want to go again.

At the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, there was a mixed flow of people. At his age, what if he bumped into each other?

And with the coming of spring, those gentry's overt and secret counterattacks became more and more dangerous. I don't know how many people were staring at him, hoping that something unexpected would happen to him.

The little grandson looked at the old man who suddenly changed his mind in puzzlement: "Grandfather..."

"Grandfather is afraid of death." Taifu Chu smiled and patted his grandson's head: "Grandfather wants to live longer than a hundred years."

The little grandson blinked.

Is this still his grandfather who always said "death is clean", "that's the only way to live", "it's better to go to the ground earlier and be safe"?
"Okay, you go on your own." Mrs. Chu said with a smile, "When you come back, just bring a lantern for grandfather."

He wants to hang a lantern in the yard to respect the kind-hearted gods, Buddhas and demons.

He also needed to hang a lamp, waiting for his student to come back, like she used to do when she went to war.

Now, he finally has students to wait for, and he has a return date to look forward to.

"This is the most fortunate thing in life..."

Taifu Chu looked at the full moon with his hands behind his back, sighed with a smile, and then suddenly raised his hand and put it in front of him, posing as a martial artist on the stage, with his brows raised upside down, and walked with clang clang clang.

He sang a Qin dialect: "The order of the general is passed on from within the treasure tent, and you listen to the three armies, big and small. Hundreds of thousands of troops are surging like a tide, chasing and killing Liu Bei will not stop!"

Old servant: "...?"

Why are you still singing!

And it's still Wu Sheng who is singing... Why did it suddenly become surging?
Seeing the old master making an appearance of leaving the stage, staring at him with a pair of opera eyes, the old servant weighed his sleeves, and could only put on the attitude of going on stage, and sang: "Liu Bei immediately burst into tears, crying Jingxiang King Liu Zongxiong ..."

"..."

On the night of Shangyuan Jia, there were bursts of opera in the old lady Fu's courtyard, and the performance was very lively.

……

The capital tonight is also rare and lively, there is no curfew in the city, and the lanterns illuminate the entire capital as bright as day.

Thousands of Lantern Festivals are held in both eastern and western cities. Looking around, the eyes are full of splendor. This illusory and prosperous night makes people temporarily forget the turmoil and war outside the capital.

Today happened to be the day when Qiao Yumian came to Changfu to seek Dr. Sun's eyesight consultation. When he left Xingningfang, he happened to meet Yao Xia, Wei Miaoqing and others, and was dragged to the Lantern Festival with him.

Although it was to go to the Lantern Festival, a group of girls gathered together, and the three sentences in their mouths were always inseparable from Chang Suining.

Qiao Yumian also shared the news about Ning Ning that she knew with the other girls, but she was reserved, and most of the time she just listened.

Her eyes were still covered with light blue silk cloth, and there was faintly intertwined light and shadow in front of her eyes, which made her want to reach out and touch it unconsciously.

Those lights and shadows were mottled in color, still a little glaring through the silk cloth, and after walking a few steps forward, Qiao Yumian could see a group of faint shadows walking towards her quickly in the haze.

She still couldn't see what it was, until the exclamations and reprimands of the girls who were traveling with her sounded around her.

"You man, why are you so reckless!"

"Which family's gentleman is this?"

"..."

"Cui Liulang?" Qiao Yumian asked tentatively.

"It's me!" Cui Lang grinned and said out of breath, "...I'm still treating me like a pot! It turns out that Miss Qiao really came to the Lantern Festival!"

Qiao Yumian frowned: "Why is Cui Liulang running so fast?"

Just as Cui Lang was about to speak, the voices of Qiao Yubai, Hu Huan and others came from behind him.

Qiao Yubai came over and looked at Cui Lang strangely, once he heard that Mianmian was coming to the lantern festival, how could Cui Liulang run faster than his elder brother!
Although he saw his elder brother, Qiao Yumian still preferred to go to the Lantern Festival with Yao Xia, Wu Chunbai and other girls, so Qiao Yubai had no choice but to tell her maid.

Soon, Qiao Yubai was dragged by several classmates to guess lantern riddles.

Since Chang Suining's deeds spread in the capital, Qiao Yubogui became "Ms. Chang's only elder brother in the capital", and her net worth has risen even higher, making her extremely popular.

Yao Xia walked around with Qiao Yumian on her arm for a while, and finally couldn't help but whispered: "Sister Qiao...Why does Cui Liulang follow us all the time?"

Qiao Yumian was surprised, and subconsciously turned her head to "look".

Seeing her "look", although Cui Lang knew that she saw that he was not there, he still looked away guiltily and directed a pot in his mouth: "Go, buy me that butterfly lantern!"

A Pot: "...Why does your lord want a butterfly lantern?"

Cui Lang's face turned ashamed when he heard it, and he kicked a pot: "You don't care about my master!"

For a pot, you can only hold your butt to buy a lamp.

Qiao Yumian pursed her lips and smiled, then turned her head.

Yao Xiayuan's eyeballs moved, and after a while, she whispered in Qiao Yumian's ear, "Sister Qiao, why do I feel that Cui Liulang seems to be..."

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly heard a shout: "A-Xia!"

It was the voice of her elder brother Yao Gui.

Yao Xia stopped and followed the sound.

Yao Gui pushed his way through the crowd and came quickly, with an anxious expression on his face.

Yao Xia handed Qiao Yumian's hand to Wei Miaoqing, and went to the side with his elder brother to talk: "Brother, what happened?"

Yao Gui was out of breath: "It's Miss Ran..."

"Cousin?" Yao Xia suddenly became nervous: "What's wrong with cousin?"

There was a lot of noise everywhere, Yao Gui couldn't speak clearly, so he said, "Follow me back, and I'll talk about it on the way!"

Yao Xia didn't dare to be careless, nodded quickly, and explained to his companions that "there is an urgent matter at home", then hurriedly left the lantern festival with his elder brother.

When the brother and sister rushed back to Yao's house, they went directly to Mrs. Yao's place.

The whole family was there, and Yao Yi stood beside the old lady, looking at her kneeling daughter with a complicated expression.

Yao Xia was sweating from running, and saluted hurriedly to the elders, then threw herself to the kneeling Yao Ran, grabbed Yao Ran's hand, and said anxiously: "...why does my cousin have to become a monk! "

My cousin has been worshiping the Buddha in her small Buddhist hall for nearly a year. These days, she seems to be thinking about it, but why does she suddenly want to leave home to become a nun again!
"When did I say I'm going to become a monk?" Yao Ran explained to her with a smile: "I'm afraid you misheard, I'm going to leave home."

Yao Xia subconsciously looked at his brother.

Yao Gui scratched his head, A Niang hurriedly asked him to find his sister and come back to persuade Ran Ran, maybe he didn't understand.

But... What does it mean to leave home like a monk?

Yao Xia still felt uneasy: "Where is cousin going to leave home?"

"Go look for Mrs. Chang, General Ningyuan." Yao Ran's eyes were clear: "Join the army."

Yao Xia's eyes widened in surprise: "Cousin... wants to join the army?!"

Yao Gui was also shocked: "Sister Ran, why did you suddenly think of going to join the army today..."

Yao Ran interrupted him softly: "I didn't think of it suddenly today, I've thought about it for a long time, but I just received a reply from Mrs. Chang yesterday."

As she spoke, she looked at the reply letter in her father Yao Yi's hand.

Yao Yi's expression fluctuated.

Years ago, his daughter asked him to deliver a letter to the girl, but today he found out that the letter was actually his daughter's "self-recommendation letter"!
But one dared to mention it, and the other dared to answer, the girl's reply was only a few lines, which meant that there was no restriction on the background of the army, but it was extremely difficult, and her life would be in danger at any time. , and then negotiate with the family properly.

There was no encouragement, no instigation, no rejection, no persuasion, only the right to choose was given to Ran'er and the Yao family.

Yao Yi's mood was indescribably chaotic.

The one in front ran away to the army without saying a word, and now she has become the first fifth-rank female general in Dasheng, and I heard that she even became the head coach in the army... She is very majestic, but he has become a leader in Beijing. Day and night, I was worried and frightened, burning incense three times a day, more diligent than eating!
This is good, here comes another one!
He seemed to see lambs jumping out of his eyes one after another, he was in a hurry and couldn't catch any of them!
"...Compared to being stuck in a small Buddhist hall and a few pages of Buddhist scriptures all day long, and repeatedly begging for the method of redemption, I want to go to a wider place, do something truly meaningful, and find the true way of redemption .”

Yao Ran kowtowed again: "Ran'er has made up his mind, I implore grandma, father will do it!"

That night, the Yao family was sleepless.

Three days later, a carriage left from the back door of Yao's house, drove out of the gate of the capital city, and headed to the south where the flames of war were raging.

At this moment, Jiangnan is becoming more noisy and restless because of a call to action that has suddenly spread.

There is a thousand-word update today!Good night!