Great Sui Guoshi

"Just put it there, you don't need all the soldiers to do the rough work of building the platform, and you go back to rest."

Lu Liangsheng looked at the piled stone steps getting higher and higher, and dismissed Li Yuan who was chasing him. When he returned to the temple, Lao Sun and Lu Pan had already fallen asleep, and the master didn't know where in the attic.

I found a bedroom at random, lit the candles, spread out the scrolls, got some ideas on how to build a high platform, waved for a brush, and dripped green ink with the dim light.

rustling......

In the quiet room, with the candle light flickering, Qi You floated out of the bookshelf to take a look, then leaned over to the bed with her mouth pouted, propped her chin, and yawned sleepily.

The cool wind blows in through the window, and the swaying fire shines on Lu Liangsheng's side face. He looks intently at the drawing of the brush, and simply outlines little people with different appearances, old or young, in different poses. Squeeze on paper.

........

The moonlight outside the window is as silent as water, and the birch trees occasionally rippling their branches and leaves.

In a certain corner of the building, Taoist Toad showed his fine fangs, drooling and approaching the little yellow duck sleeping soundly in the corner step by step. The young body opened its eyes and moved its feet happily to get closer. The ferocious toad stretched out its long tongue. He took it back again, staring blankly at the duckling who was not afraid of him.

Finally, he patted his little head with the fins and sat with it.

The wind blew under the eaves, and tinkling wind chimes sounded. Outside the mountain gate, a sighing Li Yuan pressed his sword hilt, sitting on a rock by the lake, looking at the gently stroking reeds. Torches stand at their posts.

On the other side of the city, it was late at night when Min Changwen finished processing the official documents. He politely refused the maid's help and walked to the backyard with his hands behind his back. Thinking of the Xuanyi he saw in the afternoon, it was difficult to fall asleep. In front of the window with warm yellow light, I can hear my daughter reading a book softly.

After watching for a while, the old man finally sighed, shook his head and left.

......

The lake is rippling, and inside the Wanshou Temple, the picture scroll illuminated by the lights is full of little people holding tools.

Lu Liangsheng put down his pen and ink, pushed open the window lattice, unfolded the scroll in his hands, and then blew lightly, a chirping sound came out of the painting, and the still little portraits turned their heads, twisted their waists, and waved their arms. Holding the drill bit on the paper, they leaned out and jumped out, like scraps of paper, following the breath blown by the scholar, they floated outside one after another.

"Well, it should be faster."

Through the window lattice, looking at the clear moon behind the dark clouds in the night sky, Lu Liangsheng blew out the candle, lifted the tree demon on the couch to go inside, then went up, the primordial spirit floated out of the body, dissipated the magic power far away, ordered The little people in these paintings ran to the stone pestle to carve.

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"Supplements to Nanshui": "Heiyaoze, someone practiced witchcraft and killed several people. The officers and soldiers tracked down the murderer. He was dead, his body was broken into several pieces, and the humanoid paper holding a sharp weapon on the ground turned into ashes. "

Chapter 438 It's Big

The floating clouds in the night sky covered the crescent moon, and the cold silver glow dimmed in people's vision. Hearing the soft sound of the water in Furong Pond, Li Yuan got up from the stone, with the sound of water and the sound of wind mixed in his ears.

'Um? '

When he turned his head, the soldier guarding the mountain gate suddenly pulled out his sabre, raised his face and shouted, "What?!"

As the night wind blows through the forest, in the sight of Li Yuan and the soldiers rushing around looking for the sound, pale figures laughingly flew out from the mountain gate and landed on the ground, wielding pickaxes, chisels, and irons that were no bigger than a thumb. Hammer, swarming over there piled stone.

"This... what the hell is this..."

Li Yuan looked at a group of small people running past, took a step back subconsciously, raised his sword with a 'clang', and shouted to the surrounding subordinates: "Don't move around, be careful of spells!"

The soldiers rushing over there with long soldiers and swords stopped when they heard the order, and only then did they see something running on the ground a little further away, their faces were suddenly more horrified than seeing a ghost, and they all looked at Qian Qian over there. The cow is ready.

"Don't mess around, Mr. Lu may be casting a spell."

Seeing these paper-like little people going towards the pile of stones, Li Yuan quickly raised his hand to keep them still, the magic sword in his hand is also attached with magic power, although it cannot be used, it makes him feel a little different from ordinary people Keen, he turned his head to look at the empty mountain gate. In the night, only the birch trees on both sides were swaying slightly in the wind, so he hurriedly bowed and bowed.

"This technique, but Mr. is casting a spell?"

A group of soldiers nearby looked at the empty mountain gate and looked at each other. Could it be that Mr. Lu is still a ghost?

In the next second, a voice suddenly sounded in the air.

"These little ghosts were created by me. You don't need to panic, just abide by your duties and go back to your post."

In the air, Lu Liangsheng's primordial spirit floats in the mountain gate, which cannot be seen by the naked eye. As for why he called those small paper figures "little ghosts", in fact, he doesn't know how to call them. process, rarely write the name.

Moreover, the little ghosts in these paintings are not aware of it, and they all need his magic power to guide and induce them to do things. Stone chips, dug out the foundation, or more than a dozen together, carrying heavy stones to pave.

Back then, the several avatars who used their power to control the picture scroll and learn swords also came in this way. With the previous foundation, it is not difficult to build a sacrificial platform.

Pulling away the mana, Li Yuan, who was standing on the bank of the river, put away his sword, heaved a sigh of relief when he heard a familiar voice, commanded the soldiers to go back to duty, and stood near the mountain gate himself, with the side illuminated by the continuous torchlight On the stone pile, there are densely packed little people dragging huge boulders larger than them, clanging and carving rock blocks, and the mysterious scene fascinated him.

The water of the lake lapped on the shore in circles, and in the misty white mist that rose in the lake, it seemed that there was a giant swimming and peeking over here. It subsides, and after a night of silence, Chang'an gradually has human voices.

People in Quchifang and Qinglongfang, which are the closest to Furongchi, got up early, and people who washed rice, bought vegetables, and fetched water gathered in small circles to talk about strange things.

"Did any of you hear that in the afternoon?"

"What did you hear?"

"Noise, I was cooking in the house at the time, and there was a booming sound from the ground, which scared my old lady to smash the stack of bowls on the stove."

"Don't listen to me. I live not far from Furong Pond. You can go and see it. When I came together this morning, I saw another temple and a platform on the other side of the lake. Oh, old man It's tall, I guess it's six or seven feet tall!"

"Appeared overnight?"

"I'm afraid it appeared when it was getting dark yesterday afternoon, and it has something to do with the loud noise."

"Hey, don't tell me, I was shopping at the street at that time, and many soldiers came, and then one after another carriage came, and then the whole street was closed, and I saw His Majesty's carriage driving away from afar. I’ve been there, it looks like I’m going to Furongchi.”

"It's a temple, and it belongs to the emperor. Could it be that the gods have appeared?"

"...who can tell."

In the babbling market words, the morning light shines among the clouds, pushing away the early morning Qingming, in the mansions of hundreds of officials in the city, among the mansions with the word "Min" written on the gate, Min Yuerou returned to the house after eating breakfast, and opened the window lattice. Open it, and the morning sun shines in. She took the book that she hadn't finished last night, sat down at the desk, and flipped through it lightly.

This is a book on learning that he quietly took from Mr. Lu's room when he left Lujia Village that day. It contains his own annotations. The writing is powerful, and the content is simple and focused on explanations. Can't stop looking at these.

"Miss!"

On the eaves outside the house, the servant girl Tu Ling quickly ran out of the window with her skirt in her hands. Yuerou looked at her panting appearance and asked softly, "What's the matter, running in such a hurry?"

The little maid stopped panting, smiled and showed a pair of small rabbit teeth, and pointed to the back kitchen on the side of the corridor.

"Miss, I just heard from Aunt Wang that a strange incident happened outside, and it almost spread in half the city. Now many people are going there,"

"What's so strange? Could it be that there are some flower pickers who picked up men and were paraded through the streets?"

Tu Ling opened her mouth exaggeratedly, stared at her young lady with wide eyes, as if she saw something extraordinary.

"Miss, you didn't say these vulgar words before... how come you come back from the outside, don't be heard by the master, just now there are four swarthy scholars who were scolded by the master, bloody, gray Run away in a hurry."

"The four from last time?"

"That's right, but this time it's much darker than last time, and the clothes are also crumpled. I heard that he was an official once."

Looking at the chattering little maid over there, Min Yuerou's heart was also aroused to be curious. It wasn't the scholar, but what happened in the city from Tu Ling's mouth. She was not in the mood to read, so she closed the book, closed the door and window, Changing into a man's outfit, when he came out again, he looked like Mr. Pianpianyu, imitating someone, nodding his head and snapping his fingers at the servant girl.

"Go, go out and watch the fun."

Taking advantage of no one's attention, a master and a servant quickly ran to the back door of the kitchen and sneaked out. Out of the alley, the street outside was bustling with noise, shouting and buying and selling as before, but there were more pedestrians walking towards the south of the city in twos and threes. There are also women who have left home with their children.

"It seems that there is really some excitement, and Tuling will follow quickly."

The two masters and servants looked at the alley behind them, saw that no one was chasing them out, and ran into the crowd watching the excitement. Between their shoulders and backs, there were also four people walking inside, whispering to each other.

"What a rare thing, could it be that something fell from the sky?"

"That's right, when I read the books of sages and sages, how can I believe this nonsense..."

"Two brothers, we have seen monsters and ghosts..."

The two people who were talking in front turned their heads together and shouted at the shorter companion: "Get out!"

.......

Most of Chang'an is already bustling with noise, as the residents of Qinglongfang and Quchifang told about the strange things they saw, it almost spread to the nearby neighborhoods in one morning. Mysterious, almost no one can not be curious.

For a while, even people who rarely move around on weekdays left their homes, and those who lived further away even brought dry food out to watch the excitement with their friends and relatives. Once he got his belongings, he immediately rushed over there to look for business opportunities.

In such an atmosphere, the government tensed up and had to send a large number of guards to maintain order and strictly guard against possible smashing, looting, and stampede.

Before long, the people rushing to Furong Pond saw the outline of the temple and a high platform in front of them in Quchifang before reaching the lake, and the lake was much more turbulent than usual.

It all happened overnight.

Chapter 439 Great Sacrifice

"Fried beans, spicy fried beans, eat while watching!"

"Cooking cakes~~Cooking cakes kneaded by my wife, crispy and delicious~~"

"Crispy pears—"

"Come and have a taste!!"

At the end of spring, the morning sun spread lazily across the city, and many people walked in the city. The news spread that there were more temples and high platforms overnight, and they gathered in Furong Pond in the southeast from nearby and even further directions.

The nearest Quchi Square is already crowded with people. Shopkeepers and peddlers are carrying their burdens and walking along the street outside the crowd, yelling loudly. The attic windows near the top are also full of people at this time, looking at the temple not far from the lake shore. View, altar.

"There is really an extra temple!"

"How did the high platform come here? I didn't see it yesterday afternoon, but I saw it early this morning."

"...Look, there are four small platforms around the platform."

"Where is it, I can't see it, those in front, shrink your head!"

"Fart, shrinking a little, wouldn't it be a bastard! Stand on tiptoe and stretch your neck to see!"

"Isn't that bastard!!"

.......

Min Yuerou frowned slightly and glanced at the four dark-skinned scholars on the side, pulling the rabbit bell and walking a little farther, but the little maid was not reserved, she raised her small arms and squeezed in front of her lady to open the way.

"Rang Rang, my young master wants to see it, and he will recite poems and compose Fu along the way, which will be passed down through the ages..."

No one paid any attention to her, but there was still a bearded man at the side who saw her a little girl's house, her face was covered with sweat in the crowd, and helped to squeeze to make a way.

"Brother, thank you very much!" Tu Ling turned her head, "My lord, hurry up and catch up, or someone will come up again."

"Tu Ling, be careful, don't get knocked over."

Min Yuerou followed closely, and when she passed by, she also bowed her hands to thank the man, but the man's face looked familiar, and she was afraid of being recognized, so she hurriedly turned her face away, and followed the little maid to squeeze to the front.

The two masters and servants managed to get close to the southernmost point of Quchifang leading to the fence of Furongchi. From here, they could clearly see the high platform in the distance, which was eight feet high. The location of the gazebo that Min Yuerou knew before turned into a small hill at this time. , the temple stands on it, and there are thick branches and cang trees nearby.

"Miss, that's the temple that suddenly appeared last night. It's so big. Do you think there will be gods in it? How did it come to be, and why did it appear in Chang'an City? Miss, look at it. The water in Furong Pond seems to be much more turbulent than when we came last year."

The little maid who was holding on to the fence excitedly pointed to the square temple and the high platform, and after a while excitedly yelled about the lake, which made Min Yuerou pat her on the head with her hand, and then stopped for a while.

It's just a high platform and a temple, Min Yuerou looked at it for a while and didn't find anything unusual.

"Where are there any gods? There must be some people pretending to be gods and ghosts. If there are really good people, I have seen several of them..."

Tu Ling tilted her head, seeing that the young lady was in a daze at the temple, she pursed her lips and snickered: "Young master, you are talking about Mr. Lu, right?"

"Booty." Min Yuerou stretched out her hand and gently pinched her slender waist, "Let's go back, there's nothing to look at."

Outside the separated crowd, the bustling long street suddenly surged, and the officials maintaining order pushed people to the sides with water and fire sticks, and shouted for pedestrians to stand back. After a while, the street resounded with the sound of horseshoes, and hundreds of knights held long soldiers, banners, etc. Walking in front, there are horse-drawn carriages behind, with rivet-studded shafts pressing against the street and coming from the direction of the imperial city.

One of the carriages raised the curtain and glanced outside. The two masters and servants who were about to leave, with sharp eyes, called "Yeah" in a low voice: "It's the master!"

Min Yuerou was also taken aback, and hurriedly pulled the rabbit bell to bury her face. When the sound of the car shaft passed by, she took a look from the corner of her eyes, and then raised her face and let out a breath.

"Fortunately, Dad didn't find out, otherwise it would be necessary to hit the palm of your hand."

On the side, when Tu Ling nodded seriously, he suddenly asked: "My lord, isn't the master going to court?"

That's right, thinking about what the maid asked, Yuerou realized that not only her father came here, but all the carriages that passed by were marked with official signs.

Could it be that all civil and military officials have come?

Thinking about it, I heard the sound of booming footsteps. It was the sound of many people walking across the ground. When I turned my head to look, I saw a lot of banners spreading from Qinglongfang.

boom!

boom!

A line of soldiers cleared the way ahead, and their steps fell heavily to the ground, shaking the armor on their bodies, and the weapons collided, making metal friction sounds.

A long line of people came over, and the people standing under the eaves stood on tiptoe, stretched their necks and took a look.

"Isn't this a soldier in the palace?"

"Look at the carriage at the back, this...this is His Majesty's imperial chariot."