Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 801 Time flies
The next day.

Li Xiuyuan left Qiufu with Qiurong and Xiaoxie, and returned to Yangzhou with his car.

During the period when he became the governor of Yangzhou, the overall national strength of the Song Dynasty declined, and the people were still withered. It seems that Zhao Jing's coming to power did not change anything, but Yangzhou under his rule became more and more prosperous and peaceful, so that in the past A few years later, more and more people came to Yangzhou to seek life.

In the next few months, Li Xiuyuan paid attention to the movements of the court.

After Zhao Jing took the throne firmly, he also showed some emperor's means. The civil and military officials changed in just one year, and those civil and military officials who were replaced did not return to their hometowns. Yes, it just disappeared inexplicably.

The traces left by Guoshi Cihang are gradually disappearing.

After all, without this big monster sitting in the town, the monsters under his command would not be able to become a climate, let alone the situation where Li Xiuyuan's way has been accomplished.

And on a certain day, a murder case also occurred in the capital.

Du Ze, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment who resigned, was stabbed on the mansion.

The murderer is Du Ze's son, Du Wen.

According to the people nearby, Du Wen stabbed Du Ze to death with a mahogany sword, and shouted such words as revenge for his father.

Cui Wei of Six Doors was in charge of the case and sent someone to arrest Du Wen, but he escaped. Since then, Du Wen has never appeared in the capital again, as if he disappeared.

Only a year later, when a literati who knew Du Ze in the capital was sent out to be an official, he met a Taoist who looked exactly like Du Wen on the road. Hanging a cloth bag, saying that there was a demon in a certain place, and he was going to kill the demon in a certain place, and there was no news from Du Wen after that.

In the north, rumors about the bull head and horse face holding the soul gradually began to spread among the people.

In the south, some people also began to spread the story of black and white impermanence.

But within this year, apart from official duties, Li Xiuyuan spent his daily life traveling with his wife and concubines, sometimes going fishing by the East China Sea, sometimes climbing strange peaks and dangerous mountains, and sometimes swimming in big lakes and rivers.

Because of the close relationship on weekdays, the wives and concubines around him gradually became pregnant, and even Du Chunhua next to him became pregnant.

His father, Li Dafu, was very happy. After a wife and concubine next to Li Xiuyuan had a child, he set up a banquet with wine.

As a result, Guobei County kept on drinking and feasting, and the people in the town could tell how many descendants the Li family had from the number of times the Li family served wine.

Since then, the bad luck of several generations of the Li family has come to an end, and it is inevitable that the branches will spread.

Within two years, Li Xiuyuan's children were born one after another. Among them, the son born to Third Sister Hu is the most handsome, with the beauty of a fox, and he must be a handsome man when he grows up. It's still a baby, but it can be seen that the beauty that will surely come out in the future is extraordinary. Among them, Du

Chunhua is a bit special, she was pregnant again after others gave birth to their first child.

No wonder Third Sister Hu said that she looks good at giving birth.

A peaceful, peaceful life always passes quickly.

Ten years passed by.

Li Xiuyuan's sons and daughters are already eight or nine years old, and they are all in elementary school. His father, Li Dafu, has also fulfilled his wish, and his children and grandchildren are full, but he is over [-] years old, but he does not look old at all. Maybe it is because he has eaten Polygonum multiflorum essence. , I still have a great time playing with my grandchildren every day.

During the ten years, there were several wars in the north of the Song Dynasty.

But because of the existence of Han Shizhong, the border defense of the Great Song Dynasty was kept safe, but the world became more and more difficult. Only Yangzhou still maintained the prosperity of the prosperous age, and more and more people came here to escape.

At the same time, Wang Ping, who is in charge of the book of life and death in the underworld, has become more and more burdened with the management of ghosts and gods. One day, he suggested to Li Xiuyuan that he should recruit another person to manage affairs, one to manage reincarnation, and the other to manage punishment.

Li Xiuyuan thought it was reasonable, so he asked Wang Ping to choose a virtuous and capable ghost among the dead ghosts to share with him.

Yan Kuan, who was in charge of the six gates in the capital during his lifetime, was chosen because of his uprightness, Yan Jin.

Li Xiuyuan was also taken aback when he heard Yan Kuan's name, and then he very much agreed that Lord Yan was in charge of the punishment in the underworld. After all, he took good care of the six gates during his lifetime, and he was capable and qualified for the affairs of the underworld.

since then.

The names of Yan and Wang gradually spread among ghosts and gods.

20 years later.

The malpractice of the weakening national power of the Song Dynasty finally broke out.

In this year, the barbarians from the north went south, crossed the border, and killed all the way, they broke through the capital, the emperor was taken into captivity, and many civil and military officials died for the country, among them was Zhang Bangchang's name.

I heard that Taoist Guo Jing in the imperial palace of the capital cast spells and set up an array before the imperial city to protect the capital. Wu Zhan died in the capital city, and in the same year Yan Chixia heard the news, got drunk one day, and died in Lanruo Temple the next day, leaving the orthodoxy passed on to a former apprentice named Ye Zhiqiu.

After the capital was broken, Han Shizhong led the troops to rescue.

But the [-] elite riders under his command are no longer the [-] elite riders formed by Li Xiuyuan back then.

In 20 years, the war horses will die of old age, and the warriors will grow old. Even if recruits are recruited later, how can they compare with the group of brave warriors back then?
Han Shizhong did not rescue Zhao Jing, but only rescued the prince and some civil servants, but he also suffered heavy losses, so he had to abandon the capital and go south to ask for help.

The northern barbarians gave chase.

It was not until they chased to the banks of the Yangtze River that the soldiers and horses were stopped.

Li Xiuyuan, who hadn't shown up for 20 years, stepped forward.

With a wave of his arms, he ordered the generals from all over the country to gather. In an instant, the Yangtze River was surrounded by flags like clouds, and swords and guns like forests.

Li Xiuyuan put on black armor as usual, rode a snow-white dragon colt, held a newly cast golden spear, hung a Tai'a sword on his waist, and wore a golden cloak. He immediately led the army to press down with the gun.

The years did not leave traces on his face, only adding a bit of majesty and maturity.

"Han Shizhong, you are getting old."

Before the three armies, Li Xiuyuan looked at Han Shizhong who had fled in a hurry and said with emotion.

Han Shizhong, whose temples have turned white and his face is full of wrinkles, is now in his fifties. He bowed his head and knelt down in shame: "You let the young master down."

"No, you didn't disappoint me. It's God's will. I want to protect the country for 20 years. Now that the 20-year period has come, the fate of the Song Dynasty has been ruined, and we are making the previous agreement." Li Xiuyuan said: "The change of dynasty is not far away. But not today"

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the son of Zhao Jing behind Han Shizhong, who is now the current prince.

The crown prince dared not raise his head when he saw Li Xiuyuan in fear. He had heard his father mention it when he was young, that anyone in the imperial court could not take it to heart, but Li Xiuyuan, the governor of Yangzhou, must be afraid.

At that time, he asked Zhao Jing: Father, why is a mere governor worthy of the imperial court's fear.

Zhao Jing said earnestly: "Because Li Xiuyuan has the ability to win the Song Dynasty, he is still alive, and the court will always avoid him and rely on him."

At this moment, the prince understood what his father Emperor Zhao Jing said back then.

When the barbarian commanders who went south saw the [-] elite soldiers, they stood still on the banks of the Yangtze River, facing each other across the river.

The barbarians felt that Li Xiuyuan led an army of [-], which was nothing more than that. The capital of the Song Dynasty was broken, so what kind of brave army could there be?So they clamored to build a pontoon bridge and cross the river to capture Li Xiuyuan alive.

But the third day of confrontation between the two armies.

A detachment of [-] cavalry crossed the Yangzi River and charged out from the flank, while [-] elite soldiers crossed by boat.

The barbarians were defeated, and their commander-in-chief was killed by Wu Xiang, so he fled wildly on horseback. On the way, he looked up to the sky and shouted: "Why did the Song Dynasty lose the capital with such an elite?"

Since then, the barbarians retreated to the north and stopped going south.

As a result, Li Xiuyuan's reputation was revived, resounding throughout the Song Dynasty.

The next year, in a certain county in the south, a scholar named Zhang Bairen rode a donkey and carried a sword, and went into Yangzhou to meet Li Xiuyuan and ask him to be a great scholar in governing the country and calming the chaos.

Li Xiuyuan taught him for three years.

Three years later, Zhang Bairen left Yangzhou. As for where he went, no one knows, only that Zhang Bairen did not become an official.

The Great Song Dynasty is still the same Great Song Dynasty, but half of the country has been lost. The prince ascended the throne in Jinling City and established a new Song Dynasty.

And because of that battle, Han Shizhong retreated to the background, only guarding the city and the land, and lost his aggressiveness and sharpness, and the one who led the army in the foreign war was a rising star named Yue Fei.

Li Xiuyuan ignored this.

30 years later.

During this period, many people passed away, and the little concubine Xie Shouyuan around her was exhausted, and was sent to the underworld by Li Xiuyuan himself. Xiao Xie was not sad when she left, because she was waiting for her husband to be reunited in the underworld.

40 years later, Li Xiuyuan was 60 years old.

He retired and returned home.

Although he still looks young, only in his early twenties, he knows that if he continues to serve as the governor, it will only surprise people. After all, his appearance has not changed for 40 years. This is a very unbelievable thing. After all, ghosts and gods Within 40 years, it has decreased a lot, the common people, officials
The party members are becoming more and more unfamiliar with the events of ghosts and gods.

Li Xiuyuan didn't want to be treated as a monster, so he resigned from his old age and returned home.

50 years later.

There are more relatives who have passed away. Parents Li Dafu and Li Shi died of no illness, and lived to be over [-] years old.

But he didn't go to reincarnate. According to Li Zhong, Li Dafu stayed in the underworld, saying that he wanted to wait for his son to go to reincarnate here. For this reason, he asked Li Zhong to find a few female ghosts to serve him.

Looking at the posture, he wants to be a master in the underworld.

60 years later, all the wives and concubines around Li Xiuyuan are gone, Fu Qingfeng, Qingmei, Xiaodie, Du Chunhua...
But they are also unwilling to reincarnate.

Taking advantage of Li Xiuyuan's status as wife and concubine to gain privileges, there is an extra Li's house in the ghost town of the underworld.

70 years later.

Li Xiuyuan's appearance remained unchanged, but according to Wang Ping, his lifespan had not yet come, and it was not time to die.

He felt that his appearance would scare future generations, so after arranging family affairs in the early years, he left Li's mansion and moved to Lanruo Temple.

If you are with ghosts and gods, at least you won't cause trouble for future generations.

(End of this chapter)