Humane Yongchang

Chapter 585 What About Him

After Chen Sheng promised to continue to serve as the consul of the new government, the reform of the system and law finally opened up the situation.

But the advancement is still very difficult, and the progress is also unusually slow. It is often because the problem of one side has just been solved, and a new problem arises in the other side...

There is a small meeting every day, a big meeting every three days, a small quarrel every day, and a big strike every three days.

Chen Sheng and Han Fei had unrivaled military power, but they could only fight fires everywhere, explaining to various yamen and officials with earnestness and sincerity.

Not to mention Han Fei, even Chen Sheng had such bad thoughts as 'or else forget it' and 'if it doesn't work, let's do it' countless times.

But these thoughts, in the end, made his determination even stronger!

If even he can't do this matter, I'm afraid it will really have to be delayed for hundreds or even thousands of years...

Early October.

Bai Qi rushed to the occasion of the national celebration, and passed the good news of conquering the whole territory of Peacock back to Dahan. Once the good news spread, the joy was added to the joy, and the whole country rejoiced!
Because Bai Qi and Xiang Yu had killed the Peacock Kingdom into a white land and could no longer establish a colony, Chen Sheng simply named it "Heng", changed the soil and returned to call it Hengzhou, and changed the Seventeen States of the Han Dynasty to the Eighteen States of the Han Dynasty. The impoverished people in Guangdong, Guangdong and other places were recruited to settle down and divide the land to build houses.

Taking advantage of the jubilation of the whole country, he also low-key introduced the reform of the system from the court to the people.

I don't know that the people are all in the joy of the king's division destroying another country, and the territory of the Han Dynasty is more vast, and they don't even notice the official documents announcing that the imperial court is about to change the system and reform.

Or, as Han Fei said, the common people don't really care about the changes of the court, or whether they have the right to be born as human beings and everyone is equal.

In short, the notices he spread were like mud bulls entering the river, and none of them caused any splash.

He waited for more than a month like a big enemy, but he didn't wait for the feedback from the big rallies and strikes in various places. While he was suddenly relieved, he was still a little bit disappointed.

Time slipped away little by little in the busyness and tranquility.

In the blink of an eye, it was December [-]th, Chen Qi's wedding day.

Chen Sheng proudly set up over a hundred tables of flowing water banquets for the eldest son in Chang'an District, entertaining the guests from both sides.

He drooped a piece of empty sleeve, and acted as Chen Qi's father as the owner of a carpenter's workshop. He was busy arranging banquets and welcoming guests. This crippled old man with a funny big red melon skin hat is connected with His Majesty the Emperor whom they miss so much.

"Worship heaven and earth!"

"Two thanks to the high hall!"

"Bye husband and wife!"

"Licheng!"

Amidst the sound of festive explosions, the newlyweds, who had finished worshiping, went out with wine glasses to thank the guests amidst the booing of the young Chen family children.

Chen Sheng, who had been busy all morning, finally sat down, had time to look at the tall and straight back of the eldest son, and savor the joy of "my family has a son who grows up at the beginning".

But as soon as he took his seat, he saw his in-law Zhou Dashi, staring at a pair of piercing tiger eyes, scanning the water mat like a searchlight...

"Brother, what are you looking at? Do you think today's dinner is not decent enough?"

Chen Sheng greeted this old man with gray beard and hair with a charming smile. This old man is a veteran of the red army. When he was hired for a fixed term, he had dinner and chatted with this old man. , easy to get along with in-laws.

"Brother, aren't you shivering my old Zhou?"

Zhou Dashi pretended to be displeased and replied in a low voice, and finally lowered his voice and said: "Old brother, do you think His Majesty will let us have a banquet here?"

"what?"

Chen Sheng subconsciously looked left and right, and after finding no flaws, he replied: "Brother, where did you start talking about this?"

Zhou Dashi lowered his voice: "Old brother, please keep your voice down... I seem to have seen Meng Tian that bitch just now!"

Three black lines appeared on Chen Sheng's forehead, and he silently mourned for Meng Tian in his heart: "Brother, you still recognize General Meng?"

Meng Tian had already retired from the position of minister of the Ministry of War, and now he only retains a second-rank assistant general who continues to participate in and discuss politics.

A while ago, that guy was fighting with Fan Zeng, and Chen Sheng was furious at Yan Qing Palace. Several times, he almost rolled up his sleeves and beat that guy, but that guy's face was as thick as a city wall. When he learned of Chen Qi's wedding, he still had face Enter the palace to ask him for an invitation...

It is worth mentioning that today's running water mat is facing the people of Jinling. If there were no invitations sent by Chen Sheng, the officials of all sizes in the court would be blocked by the royal guards after several miles. .

Zhou Dashi snorted: "I recognize it, why don't I recognize it? If it weren't for that bear who was afraid of wolves in the front and tigers in the back, our red-clothed army could have asked the gang of Huben army to pick peaches?"

Chen Sheng scratched his forehead, then scratched the back of his head, but he didn't remember which battle this old man was talking about.

But it doesn't matter!
Chen Sheng said with a smile: "Brother, you have to keep your voice down. Qi'er and General Meng are officials in the same dynasty. Today, Qi'er and Yun'er are getting married. It's normal for General Meng to drop by to ask for a wedding drink. Besides, General Meng It's not His Majesty's close minister, whether he comes or not has nothing to do with His Majesty directly!"

"That's right..."

As soon as the old man heard this, the light in his eyes disappeared instantly. He picked up the thumb cup in front of him and took a sip of the wedding wine, but he still had a dull expression on his face.

Chen Sheng asked curiously, "What's the matter? Brother, do you want to find your old general?"

The old man forced a smile: "If I have anything to ask His Majesty, if I really need something, I can just go to the military area, there is no need to bother Your Majesty... I am not afraid of old brother's jokes, I just want to see Your Majesty again On the one hand, just take a look at it from a distance!"

Chen Sheng wondered, "They're all old men, what's there to see?"

"you!"

Zhou Dashi stared at his eyes suddenly, the eyeballs were about to burst into flames, looking at the opening where he was about to get angry, he suddenly realized that the person in front of him was his in-laws, and there was no malice in what he said, so he managed to restrain his anger. He said: "Brother, it's all right for you to tell me this. When you meet other veterans of the red army, you must never mention it. They are not in-laws with you..."

Chen Sheng wanted to laugh when he heard the words with guns and sticks, so he immediately lifted the wine pot and poured a glass of wine for the old man, hiding his smile: "We are not telling lies with empty teeth, but we have seen it with our own eyes. For those who passed His Majesty, in the 16th year of Renwu, when the Supreme Emperor held the [-]th birthday banquet, we saw His Majesty from a distance, and His Majesty looked no younger than you at that time."

"nonsense!"

Zhou Dashi vetoed it flatly: "I am 14 years older than Your Majesty, I am 55 this year, and Your Majesty is only forty-one this year. How could Your Majesty become so old and rotten like us? Besides, Your Majesty has great achievements and is invincible in the world. The old general People say that His Majesty can live for hundreds of years at least, he is only 40 years old now, he must still be as young and heroic as before..."

41?

Chen Sheng was in a daze when he heard this number, as if he just remembered that he was indeed only 41.

Over the years, he has not deliberately maintained his youthful appearance, allowing this body to gradually harmonize with his state of mind and soul.

Just like Sanqing and Sanhuang.

Those who think they are already old, show themselves as old.

Those who think they are young, vigorous, mature and stable, present themselves as middle-aged people.

Those who think they are forever young and vigorous, present themselves as young people.

This is also the inevitable result of practicing to the end... Can't there be a large group of ten thousand-year-old monsters, all of them wearing youthful and beautiful skins?If you can't even break through such simple barriers as beauty is easy to grow old and beauty is easy to pass away, then don't waste this time to practice, and you can't achieve anything famous in practice.

It's just that Chen Sheng obviously forgot that he has been a human being for two lifetimes, and his mental age has already exceeded 70 years old...

But even if he still remembers, he probably won't care.

Because even now, as long as he wants, he can still turn himself back into the handsome and heroic young emperor he once was.

But what would happen to an old soul even if it was replaced with a youthful skin?

Can you regain your youthful youth?No, it will only make the position of the soul more awkward!
Don't you hear: If you want to buy sweet-scented osmanthus and carry wine, it will not look the same. The young man swims...

As for the right arm, Chen Sheng really couldn't grow it in a short time.

Emperor Ziwei's astonishing and brilliant knife cut off not only his right arm from his flesh and blood body, but also the "existence" of his right arm.

It's like he cut off the Buddha's head with a sword, not only the head of the Buddha's body, but also the "life" of the Buddha.

Also in the imperial realm, even if Chen Sheng is much stronger than Emperor Ziwei, he still can't erase Emperor Ziwei's full blow.

But after reaching the Dao Ancestor Realm, he can try...

But it also depends on his state of mind at that time. If he felt that there was nothing wrong with having one arm at that time, he might not try to grow back the lost right arm.

This is like the Taoist God on crutches, Odin blind...

……

"Maybe you're right."

Chen Sheng picked up the thumb cup with a smile, and touched the thumb cup in front of Zhou Dashi: "We should have admitted the wrong person at the beginning."

"The old brother must have admitted the wrong person!"

Zhou Dashi said without hesitation, and finally heaved a heavy sigh, and whispered: "I don't know how your majesty has lived these years, he has a serious heart, and he remembers everything he said. No matter what you do, you always want to be worthy of others, and you are soft-hearted, and you don’t want to see others suffer or be bullied.”

"It has been 20 years since the founding of the country by the big man. I have heard how he changed ways to get money, fields, and food for us people. I have never heard of the rumors that he gave money, fields, and treasures to himself. Before. He would go out of the palace to eat noodles from time to time, maybe he was afraid of troublesome us people these years, so he never went out of the palace, just nestled in such a small place all day long..."

"A while ago, the imperial court made a new labor policy. When a group of old brothers gathered together to drink and chat, he felt that those old brothers who died on the battlefield were not able to come back because of him. , he is still thinking about how to be able to deal with them and us..."

"But this world is not only his home, but also our own home. How can he be the only one responsible for this?"

"Even if you insist on paying it back, you've paid it back for so many years, so there should be enough, right?"

"I don't want money, I don't want fields, I don't want fields, and now I even let go of power..."

"These of us are all comfortable, sitting at home, blessings come from heaven."

"What about him?"

After finishing speaking, the old man picked up his thumb cup and took a big sip of wine, and finally heaved a heavy sigh, looking gloomy.

At this moment, Chen Sheng's mood was complicated.

He suddenly felt confident and accompanied.

Perhaps, he was never alone...

"Brother, Your Majesty will know your thoughts."

Chen Sheng lightly patted his in-laws on the shoulder, and comforted him: "We just need to try our best to live a good life and live a stable life. If we live up to the good environment and morals that His Majesty has won for us, that will be the greatest help to His Majesty." !"

Zhou Dashi shook his head, and said stubbornly with red eyes: "I still want to see His Majesty again, and see how he is doing now. If I can say a word, I still want to tell him that my daughter is married. Don't worry about it..."

Chen Sheng looked at the old man's stubborn expression that he would never die without seeing him, and wriggled his lips to say something, but in the end it only turned into a low sigh.

He patted the old man's shoulder and said softly: "Calm down, keep your voice down, don't let people hear you..."

Zhou Dashi gave him a puzzled look in a daze.

Chen Sheng didn't speak, but raised his left arm and made a gesture.

In that room, Meng Yi was wearing a Gebu bunt and a gray apron around his waist. He was standing behind the earthen stove, chopping and frying vegetables swiftly. Seeing this, he immediately dropped the kitchen knife in his hand and walked towards him quickly, wiping his hands. come.

Zhou Dashi looked up at Meng Yi, and felt that this Chinese-character face, which didn't quite look like a cook, seemed familiar.

Chen Sheng pointed at him, and introduced in a low voice: "His name is Meng Yi, Meng Tian's younger brother, and he is the Emperor's servant...my servant."

Zhou Dashi was stunned, then slowly opened his eyes wide, the eyeballs were as big as a bell, and then stared at Chen Sheng in disbelief, looking up and down, repeatedly without blinking his eyelids.

Chen Sheng grinned and said with a faint smile: "I told you I'm old, you still don't believe me!"

After shattering the preconceived fixed impression in his heart, Zhou Dashi finally connected this thin, sharp-mouthed monkey-cheeked face with the high-spirited, heroic general who was like a god back then.

His lips trembled suddenly, he stretched out his hands tremblingly, took up Chen Shengkong's empty sleeves, and howled fiercely in his eyes: "Who did it, kill...kill him Nine Clans!"

Earlier, Chen Sheng lied to him that this arm was broken by falling wood. As an old soldier who crawled out of the dead, he naturally didn't take this disability to heart, and comforted Chen Sheng by saying, "It's unfortunate to take back a life." Luckily in '.

But now, since he is not the owner of the carpenter workshop, but the emperor Chen Sheng, it is completely different...

Chen Sheng patted him on the shoulder openly: "Hey, when you get old, there will always be such and such accidents...I made my brother laugh!"

Zhou Dashi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly burst into tears, and wailed in a low voice: "Your Majesty, why did you become like this, why are you older than me..."

Chen Sheng: "Look at what you are talking about, there is no one who is not old!"

Zhou Dashi: "I should always be old, but you shouldn't be old..."

Chen Sheng: "It's okay, I eat well and sleep well all day long, and I'm in good health. Don't worry about me, take good care of your health, and try to replace the invisible brothers. Take a look at the world we have brought down." ..."

The guests around looked at Zhou Dashi who was crying bitterly from a distance, and said with a smile: "These two relatives get along very well!"

Someone replied: "You know a ball, who doesn't howl when marrying a daughter as a father?"

(End of this chapter)