Chapter 29 Jingzhou Great Change 1

Several beautifully dressed and beautiful women ran through the path under the shade of willows. Their crisp voice rippled on the water in summer, suppressing the occasional frogs.

When they bypassed a rockery, the whole lotus pond appeared in front of them. Looking at such a beautiful scenery, the young women would have expressed their feelings of comfort loudly, but they stopped their voices and slowed down and walked solemnly along the path of the lotus pond.

There is a long curved bridge on the lotus pond. One side of the Quqiao is built on the river bank, and the other side is connected to the pavilion in the middle of the lake. Although the pavilion is small, many people gathered outside the pavilion. Those people are all servants. They are busy fanning and snacking without saying a word; only three people sitting in the pavilion are talking. While tasting tea, they talked pleasantly.

"Can you return the cabinet yesterday?" The speaker is the youngest of the three, but he is the most gorgeously dressed one. Judging from his demeanor, you can know that he is the highest among the three.

"Returned."

"Has he ever opened the cabinet to check?"

"I've seen it."

The young man had an unstoppable smile on his face, but he was a little dissatisfied with the other party's brief answer, because that was not the result he wanted. The other man completely ignored the conversation between the two and had an inquisitive expression on his face.

The young man smiled at the man, turned his head and asked, "What was the situation at that time?"

"After I met Brother Changkang in Gufu, I personally presented the cabinet. Brother Changkang opened the cabinet to check for a while, with a suspicious look on his face. He picked up the title and looked left and right, and said nothing for a long time. After that, he smiled at me and said, 'The wonderful painting is psychic, and it changes and goes away, and it is also like a person's immortal.'

Hearing this, the young man laughed.

This young man was Huan Xuan, the governor of Jingzhou and Guangzhou at that time. In fact, in terms of age, Huan Xuan is nearly middle-aged, but in terms of appearance, he looks like a young handsome man. The long bearded person who talked to him was called Bian Fanzhi, and his name was Jingzu. He was the first counselor in the Huanxuan shogunate. Another person wearing a purple crown is Huan Xuan's brother Huan Wei, who was the assassin of Yongzhou at that time.

Gu Changkang they said is a genius named Gu Kaizhi. Last month, Gu Kaizhi sealed some of his treasures of paintings in the cupboard, pasted the seal, and gave them to Huan Xuan for safekeeping.

Huan Xuan knew that it must be a peerless treasure, so he tried his best to take it out, and then patched the seal on the seal and pasted it on the cabinet intact. When Gu Kaizhi came to return the painting cabinet yesterday, Huan Xuan asked Bian Fanzhi to send an empty cabinet.

Huan Xuan originally wanted to listen to Bian Fanzhi's description of Gu Kaizhi's depressed and angry expression after finding that the painting was lost, but he didn't expect Gu Kaizhi to say that the painting became an immortal, which was even more interesting. No wonder people say that Gu Kai's bosom has three unique qualities: "talent, painting and infatuation", but they all think that compared with his "infatuation", the other two can only rank two or three.

Huan Xuan's father Huan Wen is very valued by Gu Kaizhi, and compared with Huan Xuan, who is much younger than him, is quite similar to the doting of his elders. Gu Kaizhi is an unruly person. Naturally, he doesn't care about Huan Xuan's little tricks.

Although Huan Xuan can also have the affection for Gu Kaizhi, it is more out of a kind of curiosity of teenagers: these half a hundred old men are also very interesting!

Huan Xuan couldn't help talking about a widely circulated story:

Gu Kaizhi loved the woman next door when he was young. After he confessed face to face, the woman did not agree. Gu Kaizhi then painted the woman on the wall and nailed a nail in her heart. Soon, the woman suffered from heartache. Gu Kaizhi repeatedly found excuses to visit the woman during her illness and confessed many times. Finally, the woman agreed. So Gu Kaizhi removed the nail from the portrait, and the woman's heartache healed.

I don't know who is the originator of this story, but the world often uses this story to prove the magic of Gu Kaizhi's painting.

Once Huan Xuan confirmed this to Gu Kaizhi. Gu Kaizhi laughed and said, "The real is virtual, and the virtual is real. There is nothing, there is nothing. Why do you need to confirm it?"

The story itself is too fantasy, and people just use it as a joke after tea and dinner, but Gu Kaizhi's paintings are indeed the wonders of the world. Even Xie An spoke highly of his paintings: "It has never been seen in the world." Xie An's mouth with such a description and tone of self-disposed solemnity shows that Gu Kaizhi's talent is absolutely very humaneable.

After Huan Xuan talked and laughed with Bian Fanzhi and Huan Wei, he returned to the main story.

Huan Xuanping retreated his servants around the gazebo and asked the other two in the seat: "Dongtu encountered the chaos of Sun En. I wanted to mention the army to help the court calm the chaos, but I was repeatedly rejected by Sima Dao's son and his son. What do you think of me?

"I foolishly thought that since the court had spared the strength to suppress the thieves," Bian Fanzhi saw that Huan Wei did not say anything and expressed his opinion. "You might as well wait and see what happens."

"What does meditation mean?" Huan Xuan hurriedly asked.

Bian Fanzhi was the one who encouraged Huan Xuan to lift Jingzhou soldiers down the river before, but now it is suggested that he still be Bian Fanzhi, so he is very puzzled by Bian's suggestion.

"We thought that Sun En's disciples were just unscient grass bandits. Our Jingzhou army came to Jiankang in the name of suppressing thieves. Once we wipe out all the thieves, we can spread our troops all over Yangzhou and seek to weaken the power of Taoist father and son. However, now Sun En is indeed an ordinary thief. If the father and son, Liulaozhi and Sun En compete, they will eventually lose both sides. Xie Yan's death is an example. Can't we get the benefits of fishermen?

Huan Xuan nodded with a smile and turned to look at Huan Wei with an inquiring look.

Huan Wei did not answer immediately, but got up and walked to the pavilion, pointed to a lotus leaf in the lotus pond and said, "In the morning, there is still dew on this leaf, but now it is completely gone."

Huan Xuan understands the meaning and understands that Huan Wei means that the opportunity cannot be missed and the time will never come again. So he also stood up and walked to Huan Wei and said, "Brother, why worry about the timing? The words of respect for the ancestors are not only to look for opportunities, but also to rest and cultivate their strength. We destroyed the two enemies of Yin and Yang, and defeated the two states of Jing and Jiang. Although the soldiers were strong, they hurt the tired people, almost to the end of the crossbow. Isn't it good to sit high and watch the tiger fight?"

Huan Wei brushed his sleeves, brushed away a dragonfly lingering in his chest, and said, "I hit Yuan Xian's tired soldiers with strict soldiers, which is my human power; I hit Yuan Xian's close soldiers with distant soldiers, but I lost my position. The two have the same power, one win and one loss, who knows the end?

Huan Xuan listened to Huan Wei's words and couldn't help worrying. This is actually the question that Huan Xuan has been thinking about. When he expressed to the court again, he expressed that even if he was not allowed to enter King Jiankang, he was expected to be stationed in Jiangzhou, which is close to Jiankang. But the court also vetoed his proposal.

At this time, Bian Fanzhi also stood up and said, "What Yuan Xian relies on is also the North House. In a few months, Xie Yan's body was dead, and Huan was not talented, Sun Wuyu, and elegantly retreated to Zhejiang. Today, the only remaining Liang general in Beifu is one of Liu prison. If there is no need to worry about it, there will be no worry that Sima and his son will not invite Duke Huan to Beijing. Isn't it a good job to clear Jiankang at that time?"

"This is very true!" Huan Xuan agreed deeply, so he said to Huan Wei, "Brother, don't worry too much. And let the soldiers rest for a year or two months, and don't worry about health.

The three returned to the table and began to taste the iced snacks.

For months, Huan Xuan has rarely had such leisure to taste tea in the house. Such leisure from the magnificent battle, such a leisurely death of the ghost, including his strong enemies Yin Zhongkan and Yang Qiqi in Jingzhou and Jiangzhou. Since then, no one in the western part of the empire has been able to compete with Huan Xuan.