Patriarch, he doesn't want to take the imperial examinations

When the servant shouted outside that the master was gone, Deng Zhaozhao had already woken up and heard it clearly.

Although she heard it clearly, she couldn't believe it. Her father-in-law was fine when he had dinner last night, but he said he was gone this morning.

She married into Meng's family last autumn. Although her father-in-law said little, he was not picky about her at all. She really felt that Meng's family made her much more comfortable and happy than her mother's family.

But why such a good person suddenly disappeared, Deng Zhaozhao couldn't accept it for a while, and cried loudly on Meng Hong's body.

She was also to blame, Meng Hong said last night that he was going to see his father-in-law, but she was the one who stalked him and refused to let him go. If she hadn't stalked him back then, maybe his father-in-law would have been fine.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault..." In addition to being sad, now there is a little bit of self-blame and guilt.

"I don't blame you, it's none of your business." Meng Hong wiped away his tears, got dressed and came out of the house. Deng Zhaozhao followed closely, and the two went to Meng Zhen's place together.

As soon as he walked into Mengzhen's yard, he heard crying from a distance. Menghong and Deng Zhaozhao walked in, and Mengqing and his wife were lying on the edge of the bed crying hoarsely.

"Father, you were alive last night, why didn't you die this morning? It's hard work for you to pass the Jinshi exam, why don't you enjoy it."

Meng Qing was crying with snot and tears, his father's death was too sudden, he has never been able to believe it is true since he got the news.

Meng Hong came to him and saw that his father had a peaceful face, he must have been very peaceful when he left, he was pasted by someone's hand, his temperature was gone, he probably left in the middle of the night.

"Father..." With this cry, tears wet his eyes again, Meng Hong plopped and knelt beside the bed, "Where did you go, father and son, why did you leave without saying goodbye, I don't know if we will tell you. "

Meng Hong also lay beside his father and burst into tears.For a while, the room was full of crying and choking.

Not long after, Meng Che called "Daddy" and came in from the outside.He slept soundly this morning, and was suddenly told that his father was gone. Naturally, Meng Che didn't want to believe it. His father had dinner with them last night, so how could he be gone.

"Father, father..." Meng Che rushed to the bed. When he saw his father lying there motionless with his eyes closed, he stared at him for a while, then threw himself on him, and burst into tears.

"Big brother, second brother, why did dad die?" Even though he saw it with his own eyes, Meng Che still didn't want to believe that his dad just disappeared.

Meng Qing was also puzzled, since he didn't know why his father died.After the three brothers knelt by the bed and cried for a while, Meng Hong got up from the ground first.

He didn't believe that his father left just like that, at least leave some words behind.Meng Hong looked around the room, and came to the desk where his father often wrote articles, and then noticed the note under the paperweight.

Meng Hong took the paperweight away, picked up the note and looked at it, and saw that it read:

For six years, I am grateful for the generous treatment.There are other secrets behind your father's death, but it is inevitable. If you want to know the whole story, please come to Lingshan in the suburbs of Beijing to tell the story.

The name underneath is Mengzhen.

It turned out that his father went to Lingshan, Meng Hong wiped away his tears, although he was still sad, but not as sad as before.

He handed the letter paper to Meng Qing, and Meng Qing was even more puzzled when he read it, what was hidden, but it was inevitable.Then he noticed that the signature at the bottom of the letter was Meng Zhen, Meng Qing was in a trance, meditated for a while, and seemed to understand the hidden and inevitable meaning of it.

In his previous life, his father died, on the night of August 11th, [-]th year of Zhaoping.He originally thought that his father had been reborn like him in this life, but his father had changed too much, and his character was completely different from the previous life. He even wondered if his father had been possessed by something.

Now it seems that maybe his father is really possessed.Meng Qing got up from the ground, because he was crying so much just now, when he spoke, his voice was muffled.

He said: "Since there is something hidden, let's go over and have a look, and go together when Mengze comes back." Mengze is still in the capital, and when the servants in Mengzhen's room found Mengzhen had died in the morning, they had sent someone to the capital to notify went.

The three brothers knelt in front of the couch and waited, and it wasn't long before Meng Yuan was led in.

Meng Yuan is now six years old, and he still doesn't quite understand the meaning of death. Seeing his father lying motionless on the bed, unable to shake it no matter how hard he tried, he burst into tears.

When he cried, Meng Qing, Meng Hong, Meng Che and the others who had calmed down somewhat also started to cry.

The capital is more than an hour's drive away from Xianghe County, and after going there and coming, it was already 45:[-] ([-]:[-] am) when Mengze arrived home.

Like the other brothers, Monze could not believe the news of his father's sudden death.Last night after the medical center closed, he went to the house rented by his father to inquire about the results of the palace examination, but unfortunately he couldn't see him. He heard from Tong Zisheng that his father had gone back to his home in Xianghe County.

Tong Zisheng also said that his father passed the imperial examination this time with 77 second-class candidates, and that tomorrow there will be an honor banquet held by the imperial court for Xinke Scholars, and his father will definitely come to attend.

Monze thought, after the banquet, he would take his father to his place to celebrate again, but this idea has not yet been put into action. When he was busy in the hospital this morning, his family suddenly reported that his father passed away last night up.

This news was like a thunderbolt. Mengze's first reaction was that it should not be impossible. His father has always been in good health, and the father and son met each other one day after the palace examination. They were still alive at that time. Why? However, his father died suddenly in two or three days...

Sitting in the carriage home, Mengze was in a daze, unwilling to believe that this was true, maybe his family was joking with him, and he could still see his father after returning home.

But now he is kneeling in front of his father's bed, no matter how much he cries, his father remains motionless and does not answer him again.Only then did he realize that it was true, that his father was really gone.

"That day you swore that you would heal my leg after the palace examination. You asked me to believe you. Although I hesitated, I couldn't believe you, but you...you shouldn't break your promise...Father..."

Mengze lay beside his father and wept uncontrollably. Meng Hong hugged him and coaxed him for a while, and showed him the note left by his father.

Meng Ze is neither reborn nor time-traveled, he is not as calm as Meng Qing and Meng Hong, he does not understand that there is something hidden behind his father's death, but it is inevitable.

"Second brother, what's going on?" Monze pinched the note, his voice trembling like his hands.

Meng Hong shook his head: "I don't know, I'll probably understand after I go." Meng Ze was still at a loss, but he still obeyed the two elder brothers, cleaned himself up, changed his clothes, and the five brothers went to Lingshan in the suburbs of Beijing together. go.

Before leaving, Meng Qing told him to thank the guests behind closed doors today, no matter who came, he was not allowed to enter.

On the outskirts of Beijing, Lingshan, the highest peak.

Smoky mountains, clouds and trees, curling up leisurely.Mengzhen meditated while refining Qi on the edge of the cliff. The cool morning wind blew slowly, and the unique fragrance of vegetation in the mountains lingered constantly.

He was wearing a blue Taoist robe, and the moment he got up after training, the mountain wind was blowing, the robe was blowing, and the mist in the mountains was transpiring, making him as cold as a fairy, with an icy demeanor, although he was not a fairy, he was better than a fairy.

Coming out of the Meng Mansion last night, he came to this mountain, found the physical body of his previous life, and after that, his spirit and body became one, and his appearance in his previous life was restored.

When he saw it in the mirror, he felt that his current appearance was much younger than his previous life.

Ascetics do not need to eat.Just now he was meditating to absorb the aura of the mountain, Meng Zhen felt that his body was like a newborn, light and ethereal, and blended in between the heaven and the earth.

Looking up from a distance, the mountains are verdant and the snails are monsters, but when Meng Zhen sees them, his heart is like calm water, the ancient well has no waves, he is neither happy for the mountains nor worried about the past.

【Do you know why you came to this mortal world to go through this experience? 】

At this moment, the cold voice in his mind sounded again, Meng Zhen paused for a moment, he naturally knew this, in his previous life he was born in a scholarly family, his parents wanted him to study for the imperial examination, but he had to be enlightened by a Taoist when he was a child, yes Daoism yearns for endlessly, and does not want to take the road of imperial examination.

At the age of 16, the emperor confiscated his father's house because his father was in the wrong line in the court. At that time, the Taoist priest came to his house again.

As for what happened behind him, he didn't know what happened to his parents.But Taoist ascension pays attention to chance, he failed in ascension in his previous life, presumably there was not enough chance, and he missed a catastrophe.

Falling into the mortal world to study the imperial examination in this life is just to make up for the unfinished mistakes of the previous life, and to go through the calamity of studying the imperial examination.

[Exactly, this catastrophe has passed, and there is another catastrophe. 】

Meng Zhen was puzzled: "Which calamity is there?"

【Child's Tribulation. 】

The robbery of the son?Meng Zhen couldn't figure it out, he had left that body now, and he was no longer their father.Today, he only needs to tell them the ins and outs of the matter, and say goodbye to them, to end this relationship between father and son, and what happens to them in the future has nothing to do with him.

So Meng really didn't understand where the calamity of this son started, could it be that he would soften his heart and stay for them?Obviously impossible.

Mengzhen stood on the top of the mountain and waited for a long time. The sun was rising high. Seeing that it was almost noon, there happened to be a puddle not far away. The carriage drove quickly and stopped at the foot of the mountain. The few people who got off the carriage were the five brothers of the Meng family.

Finally came, Meng Zhen heaved a sigh of relief, and saw him reciting formulas in his mouth, his fingers lightly touched the water surface, the five people seemed to have been tricked, and fell out of it all at once.

Then with a wave of Mengzhen's sleeve, the puddle disappeared.

The five brothers sat on the ground, puzzled. They had just got out of the carriage. Looking at the steep mountain in front of them, they were wondering how to climb up, when suddenly their bodies were restrained by something. Before they understood what was going on, they suddenly The child fell to the ground.

The brothers got up from the ground, raised their eyes and saw Meng Zhen standing in front of them.It's just that they still don't know that the person in front of them is their former father. They only feel that this person is immoral, alienated and cold, not like a mortal person, but like some fairy descended from the world.

"Who is he?" Meng Yuan pointed to Meng Zhen and asked his brothers.Meng Qing pulled him to his side, no matter who it is in this barren mountain, they should be more or less vigilant.

Meng Zhen just looked at them and didn't speak.

"This brother," Meng Qing cupped his hands in a salute, "Excuse me, is this the boundary of Lingshan Mountain?" Meng Zhen nodded and said "Yes".

"Then have you ever seen an old man?" Meng Qing still thinks that if his father is still alive, he must still look the same as before.

Meng Zhen shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it."

"Excuse me!" Meng Qing dragged his younger brothers to leave, but Meng Hong said "Wait".

Meng Hong looked at Meng Zhen, thinking that they were pushed here for no reason just now, and they just happened to appear in front of this person, and he always felt that this was not a coincidence, someone did it on purpose.

And then he thought about Meng Zhen, if Meng Zhen is really a fairy descended from the sky, then he has this kind of supernatural power to manipulate people, such as throwing people from here to there all at once.

"What's wrong?" Meng Qing asked, following Meng Hong's gaze, "Is there something wrong with this person?"

Meng Hong didn't know what to say, he looked around, the vastness of heaven and earth, and the vastness of Lingshan made them seem like a drop in the ocean, not worth mentioning.

Besides this man, there were no other living creatures with two legs around them.Of course Meng Hong didn't want to believe it, but he still asked cautiously: "Father, are you my father?"

This question was serious, and the brothers present were all shocked, and Meng Che even asked: "What does Second Brother mean by this, how could he be our father?"

Meng Hong ignored him, just looked at Meng Zhen, waiting for what people would say.Meng Zhen didn't hide any more, and replied: "Yes, it used to be, but it's not anymore."

This sentence can be described as a shock on the ground, and the brothers could no longer calm down, and looked at him one after another, what was once, is not now.

And Meng Qing has sorted out the reason of the Central Plains in this short sentence. It turned out that this man possessed his father's body and became their father for several years. It was just why, why he came here in the past, and now And why did you go...

Standing with his hands behind his back, Meng Zhen turned around and faced the distance.

He explained in detail the cause and effect of occupying Master Meng's body, but he said it without any emotion, as if he was talking about other people's affairs and had nothing to do with himself.

The brothers were still at a loss after hearing this, only Meng Qing and Meng Hong understood the ins and outs of the matter, but they didn't know what to say for a while.

Meng Hong had long known that his father was an extraordinary person. He had thought that some god would come down to the earth to experience calamities, like Taibai Jinxing, but he did not expect that he was a Taoist patriarch who was about to ascend to heaven and was still so young...

Tall and tall, full of spirit, it was completely inconsistent with the image of an old man in his mind.

Everyone has something on their minds, thinking about what Mengzhen said just now about occupying their father's body.

Meng Yuan was young, so naturally he didn't understand anything.Mengze and Meng Che have slowly digested it. It turns out that their father died six years ago, and what they usually come into contact with is the Taoist priest who has occupied his father's body.

The Taoist priest took up his father's body to experience calamity in the mortal world, and now that the calamity is complete, his soul will naturally leave.

No wonder his father's death was sudden, it was because this man did it on purpose, he was caught off guard when he came, and he was silent when he left, but he was worried about their feelings.

They used to treat him as their own father, but now he just left them like this. The friendship between father and son over the years, every little bit of getting along, was covered up by his cold words, as if he had been deceived, stuck in his throat, very uncomfortable...

"Monze!" Meng Zhen called out suddenly, Mengze raised his head with panic in his eyes, not knowing what he was going to do.

"Come to me!" Mengzhen said.

Monze didn't know what he was going to do, but his legs and feet didn't listen to him, and he limped over step by step to reach the person.

Meng Zhen squatted down, put his hand on his broken right leg, and crossed over with his own magic.

Mengze only felt a warm current enter his body, flowing through his limbs, and his leg that had been numb for a long time and had no sensation suddenly came alive.

Not long after, Meng Zhen withdrew his hand, got up and said to him: "I promised you at the beginning, after the palace test, I will definitely heal your leg. I mean what I say, and I didn't break my promise. Now try to walk, See if it's all right."

Monze listened to his words and walked in front of him twice. Sure enough, his right leg was back to normal, no different from that of ordinary people.He was overjoyed, he shed tears excitedly, he quickened his pace, and even started to trot at the end.

Mengze ran up to him with tears streaming down his face, wanting to say thank you, but looking at his face that was too young and dusty, he wanted to call him dad, but he couldn't.

"You don't have to thank me, father and son, you treat me well, and you have the right to repay me." Meng Zhen said again.But his words were too plain, Mengze could no longer feel the warmth of his father, and felt very sad, his tears were uncontrollable, and flowed even more unscrupulously.

"Can you stay..." He thought he was crying stupidly, and said such words. He was going to ascend, so how could he stay.

As long as he can stay, stay in his house in what capacity, his father's body must not be used again, if it is in the status of a fairy...

"You go back, I won't stay." Just when Mengze was dreaming, Meng Zhen suddenly said something, interrupting his wild thinking.

Monze was sad and sad, and returned to his brothers in a daze.At this time, Meng Yuan suddenly raised his face and asked: "Brother and second brother, didn't we come to look for dad? Why didn't we? Where did dad go? Did he not want us?"

Meng Zhen felt a sudden movement in his heart, but quickly calmed down.After finding his physical body last night, he first recited the mantra of purifying the heart a hundred times, in order to get rid of the worldly taints in the mortal world over the years, with no distractions, no desires, no thoughts, so as to ascend as soon as possible.

"Found it." Meng Qing said.

"Where is it?" Meng Yuan asked again.

Meng Qing didn't answer, just looked at Meng Zhen.

"Taoism is natural, and so is fate. I have been father and son with you for six years, and it is due to fate. Now that the fate is over, I will go back, and you don't have to force it. I have already told you about the hidden cause of your father's death, and you will also It's time to go back. I and you, father and son, have ended, and we will never see each other again in heaven and earth. You brothers love each other and cherish each other..."

Meng Zhen cut the mess with a sharp knife. Today he is about to ascend, so he can't concentrate on the father and son bickering. Just when he was about to use a magic spell to send their brothers home, Meng Che walked over at this moment and walked towards him step by step. Approaching.

"Are you really my father?" He asked three times, walked up to him, and knelt down with a plop.

Let Meng really unexpected.

"I once asked you, father, if you want to be a Jinshi in the future, you want to be a foreigner or stay in Beijing. You said you don't want to be an official. I asked you why you didn't want to be an official. At that time, you said, in order to fulfill your youth. A dream, I don't understand it for a while, you tell me not to think about it, I will understand it then."

"Now I really understand that you are studying for the imperial examination to fulfill your dream of ascending. But father, he was born in this world, not a stone or a tree, so how could he not have a trace of affection. Obviously you also care about us, and you also care about us. Cherish and like it, but why is it like a log today, indifferent to our words, without desires and desires, as cold as a stone. Could it be that you can’t love people after practicing the Tao, or that loving people will affect your ascension... "

"Father, people are not wood and stone, how can they be ruthless..." Meng Che took two steps on his knees, and hugged Meng Zhen's leg, "Father, please stay, we will take care of you, raise you for the rest of your life, just like before."

After all, he is young and ignorant, saying what is in his heart, not caring about the consequences, and not asking about gains and losses.

Meng Che hugged Mengzhen's leg, crying with tears, soon the tears wet Mengzhen's clothes.

He practiced the way of ruthlessness in order to get rid of the world's distracting thoughts and human turmoil, so that he could calmly deal with life and death, not happy with the living, and not sad with the dead.

But after all, he has not cultivated into a fairy body, so he is still a human being. Although his mind is very comparable to that of a human being, he is still a flesh body.

Hearing Meng Che's cry, he suddenly remembered every detail of his time in Meng Mansion. In the past six years, he really integrated himself into the role of father. When his sons are not good, he will be sad, and his sons will be happy. He was also happy when he was in love, but he would ask carefully about everything related to his son, and his heart was really attached to them...

Meng Zhen squatted down and wiped Meng Che's tears, but Meng Che hugged his neck and cried in his ear: "Father, please stay, okay? I don't want you to be a fairy, I want You are my father. Whether you are old or young, no matter you are ugly or beautiful, in my heart, you are my only father...Father, stay here, okay..."

These words are emotional and tear-jerking.Several other people standing not far from the two of them were already in tears, tears streaming down their faces.

People are selfish.Like Meng Che, they want Meng Zhen to stay from the bottom of their hearts, but they are already adults, and they can no longer do whatever they want like Meng Che.

Even Meng Hong, a modern person who has traveled through time, has such thoughts in mind. He knows that he shouldn't prevent people from ascending, but he still has illusions in his heart, and wants his father to stay here and accompany them all the time.

The brothers were crying sadly, Meng Zhen, as their former father, couldn't remain indifferent.

He finally understood what the phrase "The Tribulation of the Child" meant. He thought that he could cut off all emotions in the world by practicing the path of ruthlessness, and that he could get rid of distracting thoughts by reciting the mantra of purifying the heart thousands of times. .

But just like Meng Che said, people are not grass and trees, so no one can be ruthless.Meng really felt that this idea was very scary, if he continued like this, he might not be able to ascend today.

Just at this time, a few thunderstorms suddenly fell from the sky, followed by a burst of lightning and thunder. The sunny day just now was covered with dark clouds, the mountain wind howled, birds and beasts wailed, and there was a tendency of mountain rain and wind to fill the building.

"It's going to rain, find a place to hide!" Meng Qing yelled, while holding Meng Yuan's hand by his side.

Others also started to get anxious. Rain on the mountain was not a good sign. They called Meng Che and Meng Zhen to evacuate quickly.However, Meng Che still lay on Meng Zhen's shoulder, begging him to stay, his voice was already hoarse.

There is no more time, Meng really thought, this thunder is a sign for him to overcome the catastrophe, after suffering he will be able to ascend.

He patted Meng Che with his arms around him, and whispered in his ear: "Che'er, I'm not a good father, I'm sorry I can't answer you..." Without waiting for Meng Che to react, he pointed out, and clicked on the left side of Meng Che neck, Meng Che passed out.

"Meng Che..."

"Che'er..."

Seeing Meng Che lying in Meng Zhen's arms, the others were startled and ran over to check the situation. Meng Zhen handed Meng Che over to Meng Hong, "Don't be afraid, this lightning can't hit you, I'll send you off right away." go home."

Meng Zhen wanted to cast a spell to send them back, but Meng Hong grabbed his hand, "Father, father and son, I am the same as Che'er. In my heart, you are my only father. Father, take care!"

When Meng Hong said this, he couldn't stop crying.Meng Zhen couldn't bear to see it, and cast out a spell to send them back.

Just when a thunderbolt struck, Mengzhen sat on the ground, chanting the mantra of purifying the heart, and the thunder struck him one after another.Not long after, the green-robed Taoist priest sitting here to cross the tribulation disappeared.

It should have ascended.

Two days later, Mengfu.

After the news of the death of the great master of the Meng Mansion came out from the mansion, some acquaintances and strangers came to express their condolences.

This old man of the Meng family is really despised, and he has just passed the Jinshi exam, so he let go and returned to the west. No one can bear it if he puts it on anyone. The five brothers and three daughters-in-law of the Meng family knelt in front of the coffin, crying heartbroken. Absolutely, almost silently.

The people who came to express their condolences all shook their heads and expressed regret when they saw it. Alas, what a pity. .

The master of the Meng Mansion, as a new scholar, was already a member of the imperial court. He died suddenly and suddenly. The death was very strange. The emperor sent people to the Meng family to investigate carefully. After learning that the person died naturally, he also expressed his regret. , I sent officers and soldiers to send a pair of elegiac couplets, and there was nothing to say.

Master Meng's former classmates, Deng Bowen, Liu Chan, Xu Jiaxing, etc., and even Chen Qiushi, as well as his in-laws Wang Xiucai, Wang Xiucai's son Wang Huan, and his cousin Tong Zisheng, all burned them for condolences. A few stacks of paper, wiped a few tears, it is not in vain to know each other once.

Seven days later, Master Meng's coffin was carried, and the five sons woke up in front of him, and they were buried in the Meng family's ancestral grave that afternoon.

It was night, and the sons stood in Mengzhen's yard, looking at the sky, one two, four five, eight nine, and countless stars, trying to guess which one was their father.

If the stars can be picked off, will their father be able to come back.

The sons watched and suddenly burst into tears.

They were looking forward to his father coming to their house again, but they all knew in their hearts that his father would not come again.

This time, Meng really stayed in their hearts forever and ever.

The author says:

Thanks to the friends who followed up here, very very grateful!

When I was writing this chapter, my mind was full of Cheng Xiang's "Waiting for Your Return", alas, I can't wait...

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