Golden Greenery

Mu Yue discovered that Zhang Guo, the old man, was a liar, and a super liar.

Mu Yue is Yang Yi.

Out of caution, he decided to change his name when he came out of Zhongnan Mountain. Anyway, everything he called was just a title, and the same was true for 'Yang Yi'. No matter what he called himself, it was not what he was looking for.

But you have to be careful about what you change it to. The surname 'Yang' is not suitable. When he was in Yulinwei more than eighty years ago, someone asked him if he was born in the Hongnong Yang family, and the Hongnong Yang family was really Someone asked him. After learning that there was no connection, he was warned not to do anything under the banner of "Hong Nong Yang".

Some people even jokingly asked him if he was a remnant of the former Sui clan, which made him very nervous at the time. He walked out of the mountains without a father or mother, and his origins were unknown, and he even suspected it.

Therefore, the surname must not be Yang, nor can it be the surname of any famous family, lest other family members come and cause trouble. Li, Cui, Wei, Wang, Zheng, Xiao, Lu, Pei... these are not allowed.

So, being as stupid as a stone, he had an idea and decided to separate the "Yang" from "Yang Yi", and the new name was "Mu Yi".

He was simply stunned by his own wit.

After arriving in Chang'an City, Lao Zhangtou looked at him showing off with pride and couldn't laugh or cry.

"If people with the surname Yang want to hide their names, twelve out of ten will be called Mu Yi. If you are called this name, you might as well just tell others that your surname is Yang, and others may not be able to remember it. You must be called Mu Yi whether you die or not. Yi, when others hear it, they will immediately remember your surname Yang."

Although he didn't understand why twelve people came out from ten people, he still felt that what Lao Zhangtou said made sense.

"Then...Old Zhangtou, you look very knowledgeable. Please pick one up for me."

"I don't just look like... Humph!" Zhang Guo stroked his white beard that was almost dragged to the ground. "Wood is not as good as Mu. When wood meets water, it grows. There are dozens of families with the surname Mu living scattered in the countryside of Xingzhou County. They are all descendants of the Duanmu clan of the former Han Dynasty. It makes sense for people with the surname Mu to come to me."

Zhang Guo is from Xingzhou, and his donkey is also a Xingzhou donkey. He and his donkey live in seclusion in Hengshan Mountain all year round. There is a local specialty delicacy in Xingzhou called Huoshao, invented by Lao Zhangtou.

"You come from the mountains, so you should be named after 'Yue', okay?"

"Okay." He felt that Lao Zhangtou was indeed very knowledgeable.

As a result, a brand new Mu Yue appeared in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty.

A year ago, when Lao Zhangtou left his cabin in the mountains and came to Chang'an,

Said to Mu Yue: "After you enter the city, it should be easy to find someone by mentioning my name."

To be honest, Mu Yue was doubtful about this when he entered the city a year later, but he never expected that the name "Zhang Guo" would become a household name in Chang'an City in just one year.

The emperor granted him the title of 'Doctor Yinqing Guanglu', who was a third-grade casual official, and he was also given the title of 'Mr. Tongxuan'. So people in Chang'an now call Zhang Guo 'Zhenren Tongxuan'.

A real person is an immortal who has attained enlightenment, or at least a half-immortal. Is this really a big deal? So as soon as Mu Yue mentioned Zhang Guo, the enthusiastic people in Chang'an City rushed to lead him to the mansion of Qinrenfang Lao Zhangtou, which was also awarded to him by the emperor.

"Go and inform Master Zhang that old friends from the mountains have come to surrender."

Lao Zhangtou personally came to pick up Mu Yue at the door and trotted all the way from the top.

Although there have been some renovations and renovations in the past eighty years, Mu Yue still knows this place. He came here eighty years ago, when it was the home of Junji, the Duke of Lu State.

The city of Chang'an has become bigger, and there are more people. There are densely packed people living outside the city. Almost all the people in the mountains have moved out in recent years because the world is peaceful. The era name of the Tang Dynasty also changed from Zhenguan eighty years ago to Kaiyuan.

The women in Zhenguan Chang'an all wore collars, and the Kaiyuan women also wore clothes, but they all had their breasts exposed, and the bottomless white flowers made Mu Yue dizzy.

Mu Yue missed Luo Ji a little.

Hu and Hu women are everywhere in the market. Eighty years ago, Kunlun slaves were rare things, but now they are everywhere in the streets. Some Kunlun slaves speak Chang'an Mandarin more authentically than Mu Yue.

People must have changed. The current emperor is the great-grandson of the former one, and the current officials are basically the grandsons and great-grandsons of that time.

Hou Junji's family was gone. I heard that he was beheaded for rebelling, and the rest of his family were driven to the south of Miaoling.

Li Jing did not rebel, but his eldest son Li Derjian, who looked nothing like him, followed the rebels and made noise. He was not beheaded, but the whole family also went to Miaoling. The other descendants of Li Jing's family have basically fallen into decline, and they are no longer in Chang'an now.

Mu Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

Mu Yue felt that Hou Junji must have eaten something unclean. Otherwise, if he had such a good relationship with the old emperor, why would he rebel against him?

Li Ji also had a very good relationship with the old emperor. His surname was given by the old emperor, so he did not rebel. However, Li Ji's grandson later rebelled against the female emperor. Their family was completely killed, and even the Miaoling people were killed. Didn't make it. It can be seen that women are much crueler than men.

Li Ji's original surname was Xu, and his name was Xu Shiji, also known as Xu Maogong. It is said that his great-nephew ran away before being beheaded and went to Tuyuhun.

To Mu Yue's relief, no one in Cheng Zhijie's family rebelled. Today, the descendants of Old Cheng are living a pretty good life. Although they are not as prosperous as they were eighty years ago, they are far better than going to Miaoling and becoming savages.

Lao Cheng's grandson Cheng Boxian is very capable. This grandson is now a sworn brother with Gao Lishi, the general of the Hussars and the Duke of Qi. That year, Gao Lishi's father died. Cheng Bo Xian, wearing sackcloth and filial piety, shouted "Daddy~" and fainted from crying several times.

When his grandfather Cheng Zhijie and his biological father Cheng Chubi died, Cheng Boxian only howled a few times.

After waking up from crying, Gao Lishi became sworn sworn brother to Cheng Boxian, and then he became prosperous.

Although Gao Lishi's 'General Hussars' was only a casual official and his rank was not very high, he was Emperor Li Longji's personal eunuch, which was more powerful than any other official position.

Moreover, Gao Lishi is still one of the three highest-ranked martial artists in the Tang Dynasty.

Eighty years ago, the most powerful martial artists in the Tang Dynasty were Lao Yuan and the dog thief Zhang Zhongjian. Eighty years later, no one remembers the dog thief anymore, but Lao Yuan's fame is much greater than it was 80 years ago.

Not because of his martial arts attainments, everyone said he ascended to heaven and became a god. Is there anyone more powerful than a god?

Lao Yuan and his good friend Li Chunfeng are now immortals of the Tang Dynasty. Lao Yuan came to Chang'an more than 80 years ago just to visit Mu Yue, mainly to find Li Chunfeng.

There are two demi-gods in the Tang Dynasty. In addition to Lao Yuan and Li Chunfeng, the other half is Lao Zhangtou and Zhang Guo. He is a living god, so he is so famous.

Mu Yue admired Lao Zhangtou very much because he heard that as soon as he came to Chang'an City, he said to Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan seriously: "You are not human beings, you are gods from heaven who have descended to earth. I will meet you in the fairy palace in heaven." Pass you."

As a result, Lao Zhangtou had Da Zhaizi and Zhenren Tongxuan, as well as Doctor Yinqing Guanglu.

Of course, if it were anyone else who said this to Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan, they would probably have their heads chopped off on the spot. But it’s okay if Lao Zhangtou says this, because he is a living god.

Lao Zhangtou said that he served as a bodyguard for Emperor Yao, the Emperor Yao, Shun and Yu, and lived to be more than 3,000 years old.

If other people had said that, they would have been beheaded on the spot, but it would be fine if Lao Zhangtou said that, because he knew magic.

With a 'bang', the apparently empty bowl was filled with water, and there was a goldfish with bubble eyes floating on it;

With a 'tsk', the paper man stood up and could dance. With a 'pop', the paper man caught fire again, with the flames a foot high;

With a 'swish', the white silk handkerchief in his hand turned into a white dove, and with a 'pop', the dove turned into a ball of fire and instantly burned nothing.

If he wasn't a god, how could he have such a magical spell?

Lao Zhangtou also took out the black pottery bowl he used to eat while riding a donkey from his pocket, and introduced it to the emperor and the ministers of civil and military affairs: "Although my bowl looks ordinary, it can hold a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals, as well as rice and soup."

The emperor asked him: "Have you ever pretended to be a heavenly soldier or a general?"

Lao Zhangtou answered very confidently: "Not yet."

Thunderous applause erupted in the Jinluan Palace, and everyone was deeply impressed by Lao Zhangtou's boundless magic power.

But before Mu Yue had time to admire him, he knew that Lao Zhangtou was a liar, and it was Lao Zhangtou who confessed it himself.

Zhang Guo said: "Three thousand years old? That's just to coax them to play. I am seventy-seven this year."

Mu Yue entered Zhongnan for seventy-nine years.

Then Lao Zhangtou showed Mu Yue what kind of hand tricks those spells were, and explained the ratio of materials required for combustion one by one.

He is indeed a super liar.

But Mu Yue didn't hate this old liar at all. On the contrary, he was very touched because he only told him these secrets that he relied on to make a living. Mu Yue has determined that Lao Zhangtou is the second person who is truly good to him besides his senior brother Lao Yuan.

More than a year ago, Mu Yue and Zhang Guo walked all the way from Shuzhong to Zhongnan Mountain and lived in a wooden house for two months. Mu Yue hid nothing from Zhang Guo. He told Zhang Guo about himself and Lao Yuan.

"Mu Yue, do you think everyone in the Daming Palace is a fool? The emperor, concubines, and civil and military ministers, those who can enter the Daming Palace are all top-notch people, and there is not a single fool."

"They know that what I said is false, and they also know that what I said is not magic. But this peaceful and prosperous age needs an immortal, the emperor needs it, and these smart people need an immortal like me. Without Zhang Guo, there would still be Chen Guo and Wang Guo , maybe Hugo, at least I look the most like a god."

Mu Yue couldn't understand, but he knew that these two sentences meant speaking sincerely.

But it is true that Lao Zhangtou practiced Taoism. He often gave sermons to the people of Chang'an, and every time he came to listen, there were huge crowds of people. Moreover, he has written more than a dozen books on spiritual cultivation, which is absolutely untrue. Senior Brother Yuan was so talented that he only wrote five books. The most famous one, "Tui Bei Tu", was painted in collaboration with Li Chunfeng.

But Lao Yuan was a great martial artist and carried the Tiangang Sword wherever he went. Zhang Guo couldn't compare to him. Old Zhangtou doesn't know how to play a sword. He just carries a flute and a fishing drum wherever he goes. The old man is a musician.

Not only was music more popular in Kaiyuan than in Zhenguan, but music, chess, calligraphy and painting were also popular, as was martial arts.

But because they don’t fight much anymore, martial artists on horseback are not as famous as they were in Zhenguan. Now when martial arts masters are mentioned, they are usually referred to as swordsmen.

There were as many martial artists with superb swordsmanship as stars in the Tang Dynasty, but according to Mu Yue’s understanding, there are three people who are recognized as the most accomplished, and they are called ‘Sword Sect’, ‘Sword Saint’ and ‘Sword Immortal’ respectively.

The sword sect is Gao Lishi, and the sword master is called Pei Min, who is a member of the Pei family. Gao Lishi and Pei Min have never competed, but everyone agrees that Pei Min is the most powerful among the three, because the swordsman among the three is Pei Min's apprentice.

When Mu Yue entered Chang'an, the first friend he made was the Sword Immortal.

"I've met Brother Mu, Li Bai."