The courtyard was quiet, the night wind blew into the room, the lights on the table swayed slightly, Lu Liangsheng sat on the edge of the bed, and a story that he had never known slowly came out of him.

"......... The young man worked very hard and after he became a successful student, he traveled to the north and was taught by the Taoist master. Later, he was promoted to the list of Chang'an and was transferred to the local area. Many years later, his political achievements were significant and he returned to the capital. From then on, his career was slow. He also married the daughter of the Minister of Personnel as his wife. Later, he lived in the court and was recruited by His Majesty as his national teacher."

In the curtain swaying in the wind, the woman with her face covering might have listened to her words, her hands moved in Lu Liangsheng's hand, and Min Yuerou's weak words sounded from the bedding.

"Young Master Lu... Actually, you are Lu Yuan... right?"

"Lu Yuan is me, but I am not him." Lu Liangsheng gently pulled the bedding down, his cheeks were thin, and he was covered in tears. He reached out to scrape away the water stains in the corners of his eyes. "If he hadn't changed some trajectory, I might have gone on his path and become Lu Yuan, after hardships, stand in court, marry the daughter of a Shangshu...that woman is you."

Min Yuerou's eyes showed luster. She wanted to get up, but she didn't have enough strength to lie back, her dry lips were slightly opened, and she wanted to say something, but she could only squeeze out a smile and slightly turned her face away.

She found that these are like fate. Even if she knows these, what can she do? Should she be happy or sigh that she is not in good condition?

As Lu Liangsheng said back then, he was a practitioner of Taoism, and the years would be long. Now that time passed, he had grown old, his skin was loose, and he no longer had the best appearance he had before. But Lu Liangsheng in front of him was still the same as before, a graceful scholar, just like the first time he came to his house and saw his father. She was hiding in the screen and watching her secretly, and she was almost dead.

"Mr. Lu... I thank you..." Min Yuerou's eyes were wet, and tears as big as beans were dripping through the corner of her eyes and tried to stretch out one hand and hold the man's hand.

"Thank you... Thank you for sending Lu Yuan to accompany me..."

She tried hard to raise her hand, but she couldn't succeed. Lu Liangsheng grabbed her and put his hand on his face, feeling his weak fingers gently rubbed it, and his voice was mute: "Don't you blame me?"

"Don't blame...Don't blame..." Min Yuerou gently stroked the man's face. This was the first time she had seen him so close. She touched him, and she smiled brightly on her face and shook her head.

"I am very content... I want to blame me, I just blame me for not being more decisive at the beginning... Actually, one night, I saw a back, an old man, that's you... right?"

Lu Liangsheng nodded and said nothing.

The woman smiled happily for the first time when she saw him: "I knew... I saw your back, and I was staggering, but I didn't expect it to be you... At that time, you were so old, even older than I am now."

Lu Liangsheng pressed her hand and clenched it tightly.

"Yuerou, don't say it, I will use my magic power to regulate your body."

The woman on the bed shook her head hard and broke out her hand: "Young Master Lu, no need, I have lived a good life in this life, and I live a better life than many women... I sent off my parents, and I have my husband and children to accompany me at the end of my life, so I am not alone... I also know you, and I don't want to face you like this now..."

She didn't want Lu Liangsheng to speak, so she paused, and her chapped lips continued to speak again.

"...I grew up in an official family. I have been studying in elementary school, all of them are piano, chess, calligraphy and painting... I thought I would just live like this for a lifetime, but I didn't expect that I would meet you in my life... Gentle and elegant... and there is mystery everywhere... I sent a heart, and I never thought about regretting it."

The woman smiled self-deprecatingly: "Maybe, only when the road reaches the end can you dare to say these words to you...but...but I am very happy that I have been brave enough to meet you at the best time."

"Stop talking!"

"Young Master Lu, do you remember what you said to me?"

A layer of blush appeared on Min Yuerou's thin face. She raised one hand vigorously, curled it up, and stretched out her little finger: "You said, I owe me what I owe me, I will pay me back in the next life, let's hook it... okay? In the next life, wait..., don't make it difficult for me to find..."

The lights sway in the wind.

In the warm yellow light in front of the couch, the two little fingers hooked together. Lu Liangsheng nodded and looked at her with wet and red eyes.

"I'm waiting for you."

After the words came, the woman on the bed still had a smile on her face. She loosened her little fingers, and her fair arms slowly lowered and fell on the scholar's legs.

The night wind whimpered across the eaves of the corridor. The swaying fire reflected the light of water flashed under Lu Liangsheng's eyes. He put the woman's arm into the bedding. Looking at the smiling face, tears slid down, and felt a soreness in his throat.

"In the next life, I will wait for you, but I can't wait for you." Lu Liangsheng took out a wooden comb to combed the woman's messy hair neatly. A gust of wind blew outside the door. In the sound of clanging iron chains, sinister words floated from the darkness with the two shadows.

I noticed that there was a Taoist practitioner inside and said in the thin mist: "That fellow Taoist inside, I am a member of the Chang'an City God, and I will lead Min Yuerou to the Yin Mansion."

"Wait outside!"

Suddenly, a cold word came out, and the two evil spirits were shocked. They did not dare to act rashly, so they had to stand outside the door and dare not enter.

Inside the house.

Lu Liangsheng combed the woman's hair, gently removed the wooden pillow, covered her with a quilt, watched a wisp of green smoke float out of her orifices and fell to the ground, gave her a gentle blessing, smiled, slowly turned around and floated outside the door, and disappeared into the night with the two evil spirits.

"I'm waiting for you."

Lu Liangsheng sat on the edge of the bed, pressing his knees with his hands, staring at the shaking candlelight on the table in a daze, and repeated a moment. In the quiet room, there was no sound to respond to him. Soon, he walked out of the door and waved to the Min family in the courtyard, "Let's do your mistress, let's do the funeral...it's more lively."

Then, I looked at the disciple kneeling in the main hall.

"Thank you for your kindness, follow me and walk around."

The Min family's backyard was far away, and there was a loud cry. Lu Liangsheng walked on the flowerbed path in the mansion, looked at the pavilion beside the pool, and looked back at the half-blind who followed closely behind.

"I am leaving. If I encounter difficulties in the future, go to Qinglan Sword Sect to find Sui'an. He is your junior brother. He will not ignore you. At least he will be able to have food and clothing for the rest of his life."

Wang Chengen raised his old face, looking at the figure standing by the pool under the hazy moonlight, staggering forward for two steps, his eyes turned red.

"Master, let me be kind to you again."

On the other side, Lu Liangsheng nodded silently, turned his back, his body blurred and slowly dissipated.

The old man knelt on the ground tremblingly, looking at the direction where the figure disappeared, tears flowed across his eyes, blurring his vision, and his head touched the hard ground.

"Disciple, I'll give it to Master!!!"

The hoarse and old voice echoed in the night sky. Outside the courtyard gate where he was gone, Lu Liangsheng walked out of the eaves with a light ray of white lanterns hanging under the eaves. Hong Lian and the old donkey came up, "Young Master, is Sister Min..."

"Go away."

Lu Liangsheng patted Hong Lian's hand, held the reins, and walked to the long street mist together. It was time to go to the imperial city and leave the last journey. As for what you haven't seen yet, it will disappear.

He thought.

.........

The moonlight was like water, and it brushed across the lanterns. In the curtain, a figure suddenly opened his eyes and sat up. The awakened concubine sat up, "Your Majesty, what's wrong? It's still early, let's sleep for a while."

"No, I think someone will come tonight..."

Yang Guang was in his early forties and was dealing with government affairs all year round. He was much older than ordinary people. His hair was covered with mottled white traces. As he spoke, he pushed the concubine, whose face was so scared that she was pale, got off the dragon couch in a single dress, opened the door of the bedroom, ignored the eunuch who was obedient to persuade him and walked out.

"Your Majesty, the night wind is cool, be careful to get the wind and cold."

"Get out of the way." The emperor walked past the eaves of the corridor and shone the lights of lanterns. The moment he pushed the eunuch away, he subconsciously turned his head to look in a direction. There was a pavilion not far away, and someone was sitting there, serving tea and drinking it.

"National...National Teacher..."

Yang Guang's face showed joy and his steps accelerated. Even the old eunuch following behind him was shocked. He was an old man next to His Majesty, and he had seen the national teacher back then.

He rubbed his eyes hard and shouted in surprise: "It's really the national teacher!" Then he hurriedly chased the emperor and followed behind, "Your Majesty, wait for the old slave, wait for the old slave..."

The moonlight reflects the pond and ripples.

Lu Liangsheng poured out a cup of tea and put it on the opposite side. He listened to the sound of footsteps approaching, turned his eyes to look outside the pavilion, smiled at the emperor who was bowing to him, and reached out to invite him.

"Your Majesty, I'm asking Your Majesty for tea late at night. I wonder if I'm disturbing you?"
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