Chapter 22 The New Dynasty
I have been in the mountains for twenty years, and when I came out again...
“Things have changed, people have changed.”
Gu Changsheng struck him when he left. The clothes have returned to this small southwestern city.
The two strands of hair on the temples are slightly white.
There were also a few wrinkles on his face, but his eyes were still as bright as before.
Of course, these illusions of aging are all faked by him.
Gu’s recipe, which he has painstakingly studied for twenty years, is so awesome!
Slowly walking through the long, slightly empty street.
Along the way, I didn’t see anyone who looked like an acquaintance from back then.
The world has been in turmoil and war for many years. It can't be said that ten houses and nine empty houses were empty, but it also caused the entire population of Chu State to drop by more than half.
Many places are even completely empty!
Ten miles, a hundred miles, uninhabited.
Yuzhou City fell under the control of King Xuan relatively early.
So, this is relatively lucky.
It was already the great Chu state of the previous dynasty, and the state lasted for a total of four hundred and seventy-seven years.
It started with Emperor Gaozu and ended with Emperor Anping.
It has been dead for sixteen years now.
It has not been more than a year since Daxuan put an end to the troubled times, and the world is still in ruins waiting to be revitalized.
Daxuan is the name of the new dynasty that replaced Chu.
The so-called Daxuan refers to King Xuan, whose predecessor was the Purple Turban Army who resolutely rebelled against the two states of Yunchen and sounded the death knell for the Chu Kingdom.
Kill Baochu and defeat the unjust!
No one thought that the world of the fourteen states of Chu State would be like this.
In the end, it will actually belong to King Xuan.
Of course, he is now called Emperor Xuan!
After his death in the future, he can be called Xuan Taizu, the founding emperor of a generation.
Gu Changsheng walked through the familiar long street and soon came to the end of the street.
“This is my home?”
He looked at the ruins in front of him, as if they had been violently demolished. There was nothing left but a foundation.
Where can I find what a bookstore looked like back then?
"This is not my home. My home is definitely not this flat!"
The corners of Gu Changsheng's mouth twitched, and he was speechless for a moment.
He has only been out for a few years, how could it be like this?
However, it seems to be quite normal for it to look like this.
Gu Changsheng squatted down, reached out and picked up a piece of brick from the foundation.
There are traces of smoke and fire on this stone.
Obviously, his house must have been burned by fire.
Gu Changsheng quickly came up with many pictures in his mind.
I can’t say it’s 100% accurate, but it should be very reproducible.
"Immortality?"
But at this moment, an uncertain old voice sounded behind him.
Gu Changsheng stood up and looked back. He was an old man with a stooped waist and white hair. His dark skin looked very familiar.
"Uncle Wu?" Gu Changsheng replied carefully.
"It's you, Changsheng!"
When the old man heard Gu Changsheng's answer, his facial expression was filled with vicissitudes of life, and his facial expression immediately became a little excited. The hands on the crutches were trembling.
"Where have you been all these years, Changsheng?"
The Gu family and the Wu family have been neighbors for several generations.
When they were young, Wu Dalang and Gu Changsheng were very familiar with each other.
As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.
But more than twenty years ago, before the troubled times of Chu State came, Gu Changsheng had already packed up his bed and ran away with his bucket.
For so many years, there has been no news, no one alive, no corpse.
Wu Dalang had long thought that Gu Changsheng was dead.
But he never expected that after so many years...
He would actually be able to see Gu Changsheng again. This is so... elusive and magical!
He almost thought he was cold and wanted to see Tai Nai!
Fortunately, I finally stabilized myself and chose to ask a question.
Wu Dalang talked to him about the past, with a look of sadness on his face.
Liu's Tofu, Zhang's Cloth Shop...
There were also many neighbors who died in the troubled times one after another.
This actually made the business of Lao Liu's paper-making shop at the end of the street a lot better.
It’s just that this business is a bit useless for neighbors!
"Ahem..."
Wu Dalang was talking when he suddenly started coughing hard.
Wu Dalang, who used to be able to carry four full bamboo baskets and sell sesame seed cakes all over the city when he was young, now coughs incessantly just after saying a few words.
It’s no good if you don’t accept old age.
There was some self-mockery on his face.
Gu Changsheng seemed to see the hardship of life, the suffering of troubled times, and the difficulty of living in that face full of traces of time.
......
After coming out of Wu Dalang's home, Gu Changsheng first went to the Yamen in Yuzhou City.
The new property deed was processed very smoothly and there was no difficulty.
Of course, it may also be because there are fewer people and more land now, and the land deeds are not valuable at all.
The so-called change of dynasties is nothing more than a redistribution.
When the world gradually stabilizes, in a few decades, the exploitation will remain the same as before.
The general trend of the world is nothing but divisions and divisions.
This is the truth.
It’s just that the world is now thinking that no one who is still alive will ever see that day.
And he will definitely see it.
This is not something that can be avoided by the emergence of a so-called wise ruler and a wise king.
But, the human heart!
The Chu State of the past may not be what the Xuan State is today.
And today's Xuan Kingdom will inevitably become what Chu Kingdom was before!
Just like the boy who slays the dragon, he will eventually become a new evil dragon.
There are many things in the world that are just like this.
The white-haired fisherman and woodcutter on the river bank are used to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze.
Happy reunion over a pot of turbid wine.
Many things in ancient and modern times are all made fun of.
That’s the good thing about living a long life, you will always see a lot of interesting things.
If you give a pig tens of thousands of years, it will become a sperm!
Gu Changsheng's steps gradually stopped and he stood in front of the dilapidated doorway. Just like when he first came to the martial arts gym twenty-six years ago to prepare for martial arts training, he raised his head and glanced at his forehead. That sign.
Flying dragons and dancing phoenixes, iron paintings and silver hooks, four big characters.
——Izumo Martial Arts School!
The red painted door looked a little faded, and the two stone lions not far from the door seemed to have lost the majesty they had when he first saw them.
Gu Changsheng didn’t know if this was because he had changed, or if the martial arts school was indeed in ruins.
Stepping forward, he knocked on the door of the martial arts hall.
"What are you doing?" The side door of the martial arts hall was opened with a gap half the size of his body, and a young man showed his head and looked at him.
Gu Changsheng: "..."
Yes, it tastes exactly like before.
Is this sentence passed down from the ancestors of the gatekeepers of Izumo Martial Arts School?
When he came to apprentice at the martial arts school, this was the first thing Senior Brother Lin Jun said to him.
Walking into the martial arts hall, you can see to the naked eye that it is even more dilapidated than the outside.
The previously bustling practice ground was now only sparsely populated, with less than a dozen people practicing.
I haven’t seen you for a few days, why are you so embarrassed?
A flash of doubt flashed in Gu Changsheng's eyes.
(End of this chapter)