While Wang Chuyi was busy dealing with the traitors, Deng Yougang was entrusted by him to enter the world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
In the West Quarter of Lin'an City, at the Cavalry Commandant's Mansion, a young man in white clothes was holding a three-year-old baby girl, sitting at a steaming tea table. He held a paper book with color illustrations in his hand and gently told the story of the Hundred Schools of Thought.
Opposite him, a beautiful young woman in fox fur was looking at him in astonishment, shock hidden in her beautiful eyes, as if she was digesting some news.
After the young man in white finished telling a story, Han Lanyun also came back to her senses from the news she had just heard. She smiled reluctantly and praised, "My uncle still has a way to deal with Xiao Zhuer. If I were to tell this story of a hundred schools of thought, I think this girl would start to make a fuss just as it started!"
"Sister-in-law, you are too kind. I am actually the same. This girl probably just thinks my voice is better. Look, she has fallen asleep, hasn't she?"
The young man in white lowered his voice, smiled bitterly, and showed the sleeping face of Xiao Zhuer in his arms to Han Lanyun opposite him.
Han Lanyun smiled, and her beautiful eyes glanced at the cover of the paper book - "Five Thousand Years of Chinese History"
What does this mean? Does it mean that the Chinese Taoist tradition is only five thousand years old?
Han Lanyun's mind was full of thoughts. She suppressed her surprise and cautiously asked, "Uncle, according to what you just said, you and my husband are actually the reincarnations of the gods in heaven?"
"...Your understanding is not wrong!"
After all, to a certain extent, the soul of every time traveler has the great potential to become an immortal. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the reincarnation of immortals.
Deng Yougang nodded calmly and said with a smile: "If not for this, based on my understanding of Brother Wang, do you think he would trust a stranger he just met not long ago so much that he would even be willing to entrust his wife and children to him?"
Of course not. Not to mention a stranger he had just met, even his wife, who shared the same bed with him, only truly entered his heart after they had been together for several years and gave birth to Xiao Zhuer for him.
No one knows her husband's character better than Han Lanyun.
Because of this, when Deng Yougang revealed his cards, Han Lanyun's first reaction was shock, and her second reaction was excitement. Her cautious probing was just like the uncertainty after winning the lottery, not real doubt.
Looking at the uncontrollable excitement on Han Lanyun's face, Deng Yougang smiled and said, "It took me a long time to find Brother Wang. Now that I have found him, I naturally have to send him back to see him. Sister-in-law, don't worry. I estimate that Brother Wang will be back in ten days or half a month!"
"Uncle, there's no need to comfort me. I'm also reasonable. The matter of Heaven is important. A few days of delay is nothing..."
Han Lanyun had a smile on her face and seemed reasonable, but in fact she was testing the true identity of the alliance through her words.
...Heaven?
Deng Yougang was speechless, but he neither refuted nor admitted it. He just smiled and let Han Lanyun fill in the blanks herself.
Regarding the external name of the Time Travelers' Alliance, the alliance members had a serious discussion, and finally, they unanimously decided not to disclose the real name of the Time Travelers' Alliance to the outside world. This is because some time travelers have traveled through time, and if the name of the Time Travelers' Alliance is spread everywhere, wouldn't it be telling the families of those time travelers that your child has been possessed by my fellow villager?
Moreover, even if the souls of the time travelers have traveled through time since reincarnation, their families will definitely be worried after knowing the name of the Time Traveler Alliance, wondering if their children have been possessed by someone else.
With this in mind, the true name of the alliance will only be made public among official members.
In the eyes of affiliated forces and other outsiders, the image of the alliance will be portrayed as a huge and mysterious organization. Its name will not be made up by the alliance members themselves, but will be left to the imagination of other affiliated forces.
All the alliance members need to do is to remain mysterious by not explaining, not admitting, and not refuting.
Looking at the mysterious expression on Deng Yougang's face with a smile but no words, Han Lanyun became more and more certain of her guess.
She carefully took Xiao Zhu'er from Deng Yougang's arms and chatted casually, "By the way, uncle, you said you have been looking for a husband for a long time, but my husband is now the first general of the Northern Expedition under my father's command. Before he returned to secular life, he was also the world-famous Jade Yang Zhenren. Why did it take so long?"
Deng Yougang laughed when he heard this: "Sister-in-law, have you ever heard of the Three Thousand Worlds?"
"Of course!" Han Lanyun nodded subconsciously and said softly, "The Great Wisdom Treatise" says that hundreds of billions of Mount Sumerus and hundreds of billions of suns and moons are called the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds. Similarly, the three thousand great thousand worlds of the Ganges sands in the ten directions are called one Buddha world..."
After all, Han Lanyun was a lady from a famous family, well-read, intelligent and beautiful, and she understood things quickly.
She had only said half of her words when she realized what was happening. She said with a hint of excitement on her face, "You mean, the Great Song World is only one of the three thousand great worlds?"
Deng Yougang smiled and nodded, praising her: "As expected of a lady from a prestigious family, she is indeed smart!"
Han Lanyun smiled a little embarrassedly, and then said seriously: "Uncle, you suddenly explained all this to me today, it should not be just to reassure me and Xiao Zhu'er, my husband is usually busy with the Northern Expedition and military training, sometimes he stays in the barracks, and it is common for him not to go home for ten days or half a month. If it is just to reassure us, there is no need to tell such a shocking secret..."
Deng Yougang exclaimed: "Sister-in-law is really smart. In this case, I will tell you directly. Due to some reasons that I can't tell you for the time being, Brother Wang may go back to work frequently in the future, but this will delay the Northern Expedition of the Southern Song Dynasty. After discussion, we unanimously decided to directly help Brother Wang solve his biggest headache, the Northern Expedition!"
Han Lanyun subconsciously asked: "How to solve it?"
Deng Yougang thought about it and said with a smile: "According to your understanding, it probably means sending some heavenly soldiers and generals!"
Heavenly soldiers and generals!
My husband is indeed a god from heaven!
Han Lanyun couldn't help but feel excited.
Before the Song Dynasty, myths and legends about heaven were not that popular. The people mainly believed in Haotian God, or what we usually call God. Until the infamous Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng, in order to cover up the shame of the Alliance of Chanyuan, he lied that the Jade Emperor appeared in his dream. Then he began to flatter and posthumously confer the title of Jade Emperor on the Jade Emperor, and even made him the supreme god of heaven in the national worship.
At this point, Haotian God became Haotian Jinque Supreme and Ultimate Natural Wonderful Miro True Jade Emperor, or simply the Jade Emperor.
Following the example of the superior, Taoism also gradually gave rise to classics and legends that regarded the Jade Emperor as the Emperor of Heaven. In these legends, the Five Elders of the Five Directions would welcome him, the Four Imperial Gods of the Golden Palace would assist him, the Four Saints of the North Pole would protect him, and the Emperor of the Nine Palaces of the Divine Sky would guard him.
Thanks to the national sacrifice, the myths and legends of the so-called heaven began to flourish in later generations.
The version Han Lanyun knew was the YY version that had been continuously sealed and modified by Emperor Zhenzong of Song.
Now, hearing that her husband has a place in this noble and powerful heaven, and seems to be highly valued by the higher-ups, Han Lanyun naturally feels extremely excited and honored.
After Han Lanyun calmed down, Deng Yougang took out a white jade coin engraved with the seal of the void and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, Brother Wang said that you and him were acquainted when you were still a poor Taoist priest. Your father wanted to grant you a marriage. Among all the girls of marriageable age in the Han Mansion, only you were willing to marry him despite the huge age difference of more than 20 years. This is a favor, and he will always remember it."
"Now, he has recovered his memories of his past life, but he is still willing to spend the rest of his life with you. In order to put your mind at ease, he specifically asked me to summon the heavenly soldiers and generals from the upper world..."
“…Is this what he said?”
Han Lanyun's eyes were slightly red, and she pursed her red lips tightly, as if she would cry in the next second.
Deng Yougang smiled and nodded, placed the white jade coin on the table, pushed it towards Han Lanyun, and at the same time sighed in his heart.
It's really not a human job to fool the family members of the members. Next time I meet a new time traveler, I will let him do it himself no matter what!
Touching the mysterious pattern on the white jade coin, Han Lanyun indeed shed tears, but she quickly calmed down and smiled embarrassedly.
"I'm sorry to make you laugh. My husband has been busy with the Northern Expedition in recent years. It's been a long time since I said any decent love words to him like we did when we were first married..."
"I understand." Deng Yougang nodded with a smile, then asked, "Where do you want to summon the heavenly soldiers and generals?"
Han Lanyun lowered her head and pondered for a moment, then raised her head, looked at Deng Yougang and said softly, "Let's go to the training ground at the Genshan Gate in the northeast of the city. That's where the Dingyuan Army is stationed. The Dingyuan Army is my husband's hard work, and we can't let them clash with the heavenly soldiers and generals my husband has invited. Uncle, go to the study and get my husband's tiger talisman and seal. I'll take Xiao Zhu'er with me, and we'll go together!"
"good!"
Deng Yougang readily agreed.
A quarter of an hour later, at the training ground in the northeast of the city, Han Lanyun and Deng Yougang gathered all the Dingyuan troops with Wang Chuyi's tiger talisman and seal.
The Dingyuan Army was the result of Wang Chuyi's hard work. It was equipped with muskets and gunpowder bullets that he had devoted many years to developing. At the same time, based on his military career in his previous life, he implemented a new three-three organization, that is, a platoon had three squads, a company had three platoons, a battalion had three companies, a regiment had three battalions, and so on.
Each squad has about eight to ten people, the platoon has about thirty people, the company has about one hundred people, the battalion has about three hundred people, the regiment has about one thousand people, the brigade has about three thousand people, the division has about ten thousand people, and the army has about thirty thousand people. Although the Dingyuan Army is called an army, it actually has the organization of only a reinforced division, with about twelve thousand people.
As the saying goes, if there are a thousand people, the earth and the sky are connected; if there are ten thousand people, there is no limit...
Looking at the densely packed Dingyuan Army soldiers and generals who were whispering in the training ground, Han Lanyun took a deep breath, forced down the uneasiness and nervousness in her heart, and climbed onto the high platform of the training ground holding Xiao Zhuer.