Apprentice of the Heavens

Chapter 121

Zhongnanshan

The snow falls heavily in the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the mountains and plains are all white. The mountains are covered with snow and covered with silver, just like a magnificent landscape painting.

Crystal-clear frost covered the pavilions in the Tibetan Army Valley, the sun shone with white awns, and the cold wind was blocked by the closed door.

Two figures in the pavilion knelt and sat on the cloud bed facing each other, Li Ming took a sip of the tea, and then dropped the white piece in his hand, Yuan Tiangang couldn't help frowning when he saw Li Ming, and then the black piece fell: "Your Highness is about to lose. "

"How can you see that, don't you think you won?" Li Ming flicked the sleeve of the chess piece on the chessboard and instantly changed its position. Seeing this, Yuan Tiangang secretly swore in his heart that he would never play chess with Li Ming again, even if once.No one would flip the chessboard if he didn't win!
Yuan Tiangang's face behind the mask was full of helplessness, and the chess pieces on the chessboard instantly fell into the chess piece basket as he waved his hands, but he couldn't do the same shameless thing as Li Ming, and said in a leisurely tone, "Your Highness, your chess skills are ingenious."

"Are you saying you won or not?" Facing Yuan Tiangang's praise and Li Ming's expression of acceptance, Yuan Tiangang waved his hand and removed the chessboard. In the future, no chessboard is allowed where Li Ming is.

"Your Highness has won this game. Can Your Highness know how to drink wine?" Yuan Tiangang took a picture of a jar of wine and asked. This wine has accompanied him for hundreds of years. Ming nodded slightly and stretched out his hand to guide him, he could smell the extraordinary quality of this wine across the wine jar.

Seeing this, Yuan Tiangang took pictures of two bowls, and the pattern was obviously an old object used by the imperial court in the early Tang Dynasty. It was probably stored away outside, but today he wants to drink with it.

With the opening of the wine jar, Li Chunfeng seemed to appear in front of Yuan Tiangang's eyes again. At that time, they were close friends, divination astrology and praying for the fortune of the country. One can drink with it.

After a long time, the figure of Li Chunfeng in front of him disappeared in vain, Yuan Tiangang continued to pour the wine, the amber wine line was poured out along the wine jar, the wine was thick and crystal clear, and a strong aroma came out
Li Ming couldn't help but took a deep breath, and a delicate and elegant fragrance filled his nose. When he returned from this trip, he collected fine wines and waited for hundreds of years before taking them out to drink.

"In the past 300 years, apart from my best friend Li Chunfeng and a few people, I disdain to drink with the world, but now you are qualified to sit with me. Come, I will present this dusty wine to your young highness."

"Please."

The two touched each other with bowls, and drank it all in one gulp. In an instant, a fresh fragrance bloomed in their mouths. Li Ming seemed to feel the precipitation of the years and the weight of history.

"How?" Yuan Tiangang asked, Li Ming opened his eyes full of aftertaste, and said: "The nectar and jade liquid have an endless aftertaste. It is worthwhile to drink this century-old wine."

Hearing this, the bad handsome picked up the wine jar and continued to fill it up, sighing: "It's a pity that this handsome will never know what it's like."

Li Ming's hand holding the bowl couldn't help but sigh, looking at Yuan Tiangang's ferocious and rotten face, he couldn't help but sigh, holding the bowls together and drinking them all in one gulp, is this one of the prices of longevity?I don't know the joys and sorrows, the body rots, and for 300 years, who knows the loneliness.

"Your Highness is pitying me?" Yuan Tiangang asked while pouring out the fine wine, Li Ming shook his head and regretted, "It's just a pity that this fine wine is nothing, why don't you give me the rest."

Yuan Tiangang couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, then he laughed dumbly and said: "Your Highness is really a wonderful person, since His Highness likes to take it for himself."

"That's a good deal, but don't feel bad about it." Li Ming said with a smile on his face, Yuan Tiangang nodded slightly and said: "There is nothing wrong with it, a little wine is a waste if you put it here."

The two looked at each other and couldn't help smiling, the imperial bowls collided
"Come!"

"Please!"

All in one drink.

There are only a thousand cups of wine with a bosom friend, and Li Ming couldn't help but feel sorry for the dozen or so empty wine jars on the ground, all mine is mine.

Seeing this, the corner of Yuan Tiangang's mouth twitched, and despite Li Ming's distressed eyes, he took another jar of vintage wine, and Li Ming felt blood dripping from his heart.

The two drank together until the moon hung high in the sky. Naturally, they would not be drunk by the ordinary wine in their realm, but they were very uncomfortable talking about metaphysics. Yuan Tiangang couldn't remember how long he hadn't been so happy, ten years ?century? 200 years?Or maybe it was too long after Li Chunfeng passed away, so I can't remember clearly.

The happy time is always short. After another bowl of wine, Yuan Tiangang put down the wine jar and looked at Li Ming: "Have you ever thought about becoming emperor, Your Highness?"

Hearing this, Li Ming silently put down the bowl, and looked directly at Yuan Tiangang's fierce eyes.

"So what if you want to, so what if you don't want to?"

There was silence in the pavilion for a while, and Yuan Tiangang's hoarse voice echoed in the pavilion after a long time
"If you want to be the commander in chief, I will help you become emperor, if you don't want to, there is no one in this world who can be called emperor!"

Li Ming narrowed his eyes and stared at the expressionless Yuan Tiangang for a long time, then suddenly smiled and put his arm around Yuan Tiangang's shoulder and said, "Old Yuan, you are really boring, if I wanted to become emperor, I would have ascended the throne long ago Even you can't stop it!"

Yuan Tiangang seemed a little unaccustomed to being hugged on the shoulders. He frowned slightly but did not avoid it. He stared at Li Ming and asked, "That's the supreme position. Don't you think you're not tempted at all?"

Li Ming's eyes narrowed slightly, and his thoughts couldn't help but return to the years of the Great Xia Empire, from vigorous to old, and a hundred years finally turned to loess.

"While talking and laughing in Huangtu Baye, I can't bear to be drunk in my life. Old Yuan, there is more than the dragon chair that is the highest in this world. My pursuit is not just a mere hundred years for mortals."

Ever since Li Ming learned about Dragon Qi, he discovered the meaning of the saying that emperors cannot gain longevity. The trust of emperors and people is that although they have great glory, they cannot live forever.

The prosperity of the dynasty is fortunate that the dragon energy can be used as a means to suppress the enemy. If the dynasty declines, even the existence of the realm of heaven and man will be wiped out by the resentment generated by the people on the dragon energy. Perhaps this is the balance of heaven The way, Zhu Wen was so high-spirited back then, didn't he end up like this?
The solution is that Li Ming still got nothing after studying for a long time. Of course, it is also possible that Li Ming’s realm is too low to realize it. Anyway, in this life, Li Ming did not intend to sit on that dragon chair. He did it for decades in his previous life. The emperor is tired of being an emperor.

"Everyone in the world pursues longevity, but who knows the poison of longevity? If you want to live forever, I will help you make longevity pills."

Li Ming looked at the persevering Yuan Tiangang and rubbed his eyebrows. This Yuan Tiangang was too persistent, but he suddenly had a flash of inspiration when he was in trouble.

"Old Yuan, do you accept disciples? As long as you nod your head, how about giving you an apprentice in a few months?"

Yuan Tiangang refused without hesitation when he heard the words, but he paused when the words came to his lips. A flash of light flashed in his mind, and he looked at Li Ming with proving eyes. Following Li Ming's slight nod, Yuan Tiangang frowned and thought up.

(End of this chapter)