Spring and Autumn I Am King

There are many alleys in the inner city of Qufu, some of which are specially designed for the family of the public and the family of doctors whose families are run down but cannot afford to move to Waiguo. 【Read the latest chapter..】

There is an ordinary courtyard in the rough alley, which is particularly sparse in the rainy season in June. The drizzle was sparse and the sound of water tickled, mixed with the sound of chewing food.

A white-haired old man dressed in dark ge-ma was eating his meal under the rain canopy in the courtyard.

This old man's dark clothes are old but not tattered. His white hair is carefully tied with a black silk belt with moiré patterns. He has a pair of bare feet on a reed mat, and his nails are slender. .

Next to him was an old servant who was just as old as him, with a respectful face, and was serving his master's meal.

The morning meal was very shabby, just a bowl of wheat rice, a plate of sunflower vegetables, a plate of bean sprouts, no rice, no wine, but there was a steamed grass carp. Perhaps because of the fish, the old man had an extraordinarily sweet meal, and he had to chew each mouthful for dozens of times before slowly swallowing it.

Anyone who saw this scene would never have thought that this old man with poor clothing and food was once a monarch with fine clothes and jade food!

He is Geng Yu, the exiled monarch of Ju State. After usurping the throne of his nephew Ju Kuang, he ruled Ju State for nine years!

But his tyranny was unbearable for the Ju people. The public opinion among the Chinese people in support of Ju Kuang's reset became louder and louder. In addition, Geng Yu planned to betray the state of Qi, so the doctor and the Chinese jointly expelled him. He had no choice but to flee to Jijiancheng and asked Ju Kuang and the people of Qi to leave this town for him to spend his old age in peace, but was ruthlessly rejected.

Even this situation could not last long. The defenders in the city had secretly planned to sell him to Ju Kuang. One night, when the Ji barrier city was broken, he took four swordsmen to break out of the siege and escaped to Lu under the cover of night. Country, seek asylum from Ji.

In Qufu, Geng Yu was honored as a guest of honor. He had a large mansion with four entrances, where he planned his resettlement. At first, Duke Zhao of Lu and Sanhuan treated him with courtesy. But as the days passed, Ju Kuang became more and more stable in the king's couch, and the doors that had been opened for him were closed one by one, and their days became increasingly difficult.

His hopes of returning home are dwindling. The Lu people also believed that he had lost the value of use and stopped funding. The cronies walked away and died. The concubine Ji found in Lu State stole all the remaining money and silk. It didn't take long for him to be expelled from the spacious house. Moved to the alley.

Since then, Geng Yu has lost his mind, and he said to the only remaining old servant around him: "I can't even take back a mansion with a hall, let alone Ju Guo?"

After that, they started a difficult time. At night, when he dreamed of the years when he was still a monarch, Geng Yu would also burst into tears and tremble in his hands, but this life is probably like this. It is his luck that he survived the previous coups in the state of Lu. The only hope is to be buried in the motherland after death, buried in a place where you can smell the smell of the sea.

After swallowing the last lump of hard-to-chew wheat rice, the old servant took a wooden scoop hanging under the eaves, scooped a scoop of water from the water tank next to it, and handed it to the master respectfully. Geng Yu took a sip and drank it, and then he sighed with satisfaction. Out of the corner of his eyes, he glanced at the sword hanging in the house.

Geng Yu didn't speak, and the old servant didn't speak either. He just went over to take off the sheathed sword in a hurry. Hands to the lord. The master and servant have been dependent on each other for so many years, and he knows the habit of the master by heart.

Geng Yu loves the sword like his life. Love it more than beauty, more than the gods, and even the kingdom. He was tyrannical and good at forging swords when he was in the state of Ju. He looked around for craftsmen from Wu and Yue, or swordsmen from the state of Chu. Every time he made a sword, he often used people to test the sharpness of the sword. In the beginning, they used concubines, then they used palace maids, and finally they took to the streets to kill Chinese people who looked unpleasant, even the family members of doctors...

He lost his country because of his sword, and he didn't take anything else with him when he fled, but he tightly hugged the sword he bought from the country of Yue. For several years, in order to buy supporters in the state of Ju, Gengyu sold all the jewelry. Up to now, even all the money and silk from the cheap sale of personal jade pendants have been spent, but he will not sell this priceless sword!

The long sword was on his knees, and Geng Yu looked at it like a young man with vigor looking at a young girl in his arms. His mottled hands held the soft leather and gently rubbed it, wiping away those who were in the rainy season. A dull patina grows.

He can get old, but it can't get old!

After rubbing it several times, the dim light on the sword seemed to be swept away. It was covered with regular black diamond-shaped dark grid patterns. The front of the sword grid was inlaid with blue glaze and the back was inlaid with turquoise. The body of the sword is slender, with a middle ridge, two sharp blades, a concave forward curved arc, two convex hoops on the j, and concentric circular patterns on the round jewelry.

This is the authentic Wuyue sword! It can be exchanged for the sword of the township of the city and the horses and horses!

At this point, the white-haired Geng Yu let out a sigh of relief, looked at the treasure in his hand contentedly, and said with emotion: "The swordsman, the king of a hundred soldiers! It's a pity that I couldn't witness the rumored ten famous swords in the world with my own eyes."

However, at the same time as his admiration sounded, several black umbrellas just stopped at the door of his small courtyard, and several people did not knock on the door, but pushed the door sharply and entered!

…

The old servant who was wearing a mino coat to clean up the drainage in the courtyard held a wooden gill and stared vigilantly at the visitor, but was stopped by Geng Yu.

After the Zhao family took over in Qufu, the security in the inner city was excellent, and there were no bandits and thieves. Generally speaking, in this case, the officials of the shogunate should be handling the case.

Sure enough, Geng Yu watched silently as a clean official boot protruded from under one of the umbrellas. It was extremely eye-catching in the dark clouds of Qufu.

Above the official boots is the black official uniform, and further up, there is a young face, mean lips, two sagittal beards, eagle nose, sharp eyebrows, and deep and cold eyes.

The face of this person is unforgettable, but Geng Yu's eyes are fixed on the waist of the visitor. In addition to the sword scabbard, there is also a black-painted Xiezhi card tied to the silk belt.

Legend has it that Xiezhi has a very high intelligence and understands human nature. It is full of anger, can distinguish right from wrong, can discern good and evil, and is loyal. When it finds an evil official, it touches him with its horns, and then eats its belly. Therefore, the judges of the shogunate wore white scorpions and were responsible for convicting people in court; the supervisors wore black scorpions and were responsible for patrolling the counties and punishing corrupt officials.

The person who came was the head of the Shogunate Supervisory Office, who made the officials of the State of Lu feel terrified, Kan Zhi! Kanzi me!

Kan Zhi walked out from under the black umbrella, letting the autumn rain soak his official robe, he walked lightly under the eaves, then bowed to Geng Yu, and said, "Kan Zhi has seen Jun Jun."

There were several people behind him, all with swords around their waists. There is even armor in the dark clothes. If you read it correctly, all of them are skilled swordsmen in the military pawns, and they are experienced as soon as they enter the courtyard. They stood apart, blocking any openings that could lead to escape.

Geng Yu looked at the old servant, shook his head and told him to step back, and then he looked at the bronze sword in his hand, and then replied: "I can't be called Ju Jun. I'm just a man who fled in despair. It’s just a lost country, if the generals had not sent troops to shelter outside the alley for the past six months, let alone a fish for every meal, I’m afraid I’d already been killed several times by the assassins sent by Ju Kuang.”

"It turns out that Jun Jun knows." Kan Zhi smiled. As soon as he entered Qufu, Zhao Wuxi protected Geng Yu and other people who had been exiled to Lu from other countries. Knowing the master's long-term plans is not something he can speculate on.

Geng Yu opened his mouth with a miserable smile and said: "If people who have lost their country were no more sensitive, they would inevitably have no bones left in this foreign land. The long official Kan has a reputation for hating evil and killing corrupt officials like a dog. I know, but it's the first time you and I meet each other, and you come to the door for everything, and I don't know why you came here?"

"Come to express my condolences to Jun Jun." Kan Zhi saw that Gengyu was much more indifferent than he thought, and he couldn't help being a little boring. Perhaps twenty years of exile had worn away all his sharp edges and corners.

He paused slightly, then continued: "And borrowed something from Jun Jun for the general."

Geng Yu narrowed his eyes: "I don't know what the general needs?"

Kan Zhi didn't say a word, but took off his sword, raised the scabbard with his left hand, and gently pulled it out with his right hand.

Geng Yu's eyes suddenly widened. The sword had only been drawn a little, and he felt dazzled.

The blade is covered with crystal tortoise shell texture, which is made by mixing and forging countless times, and its blade is like autumn frost. Cold light flashes. Based on Gengyu's many years of experience in playing swords, this sword should not be made of gold and tin, but forged with evil gold. Compared with him, the bronze sword in Gengyu's hand is suddenly not enough to look at.

Looking at Geng Yu, who was sluggish when he saw the famous sword, Kan Zhi showed his pale teeth. He smiled and said, "What the general wants to borrow is the head of Jun Jun's item!"

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"Famous all over the world for his love of swords, he lost his country and went into exile because of the sword, and finally died under the famous sword.

Zhao Wuxi closed the wooden box containing the head, and stopped looking at the white-haired head.

"Can Geng Yu have any last words?"

Kan Zhi said: "The lord really understands Gengyu very well. Before he died, he smiled and said that it would be better to die under the sword of a cadre than an old man's bed, so he died generously, only to be kind to the old servant. He also said..."

Thinking of the smile on the head's mouth in the box, Wu Xie felt a little complicated and melancholy for some reason. Maybe this is the price of dominance. He asked, "What else did you say?"

"He cursed Ju Kuang that he would lose his country, and begged the general to bring his body back to Ju country on the day when the generals came to Ju country."

Zhao Wuxi cast his eyes on the overlapping streets and alleys in the distant twilight rain: "Wei, I promise him, if one day I can kill Ju, I will definitely bury him on the Langya Terrace and worship him with a sword! Climb Mount Langya with me and see the greatness of the sea!"

Now, it is only necessary to pickle the head with lime and send it to Juguo. This is the "sincerity" that Zhao Wuxi showed to Ju Kuang, who hated his uncle who was exiled in the state of Lu. As for whether we can get the tribute from the state of Ju.

…

In the middle of June, Zigong returned from the state of Ju, and drove straight to the residence of the general.

After paying an insignificant price through half-truth and half-truth diplomatic deception, Zigong deceived General Zhao from Ju State to get what General Zhao really wanted, and he can't wait to dedicate this harvest to the lord!

When he walked into the side room of the Great General's Mansion under the leadership of Qi Wan, he happened to hear Zhao Wuxi discussing matters with Chen Dingguo, a retainer of the Le family from Song Guolai.

When discussing matters with outsiders, they are also allowed to enter and listen. This is a treatment only for confidants. In the past, only Zhang Mengtan was treated with courtesy. Now, Zigong also enjoys it. Although he knew that this was what Zhao Wuxi had instructed in advance, he couldn't help but get excited.

But then Zi Gong's ears perked up and his expression became focused.

Because what the general and Chen Dingguo discussed was something that affected the minds of all the shogunate officials.

It's about the wedding of Zhao Wuxi and Le Lingzi!

ps: Zigong's occupation is a strategic counselor, so what he said in diplomatic occasions is naturally 70% false and 30% true, the supporting characters in the book are enough, and readers should not believe it all.

(To be continued.)

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