Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Flying Ahead

The final "coincidence": In his later years, Li Feiyang met a traveling monk by chance. During the conversation, the monk's views on the general trend of the world were somewhat in the prototype of modern geopolitics. Li Feiyang was greatly shocked, but in the end he was relieved and only said: "What the master saw is very sublime. However, managing a big country is like cooking a small dish. It cares about the heat and the original taste of the ingredients. In my life, I just guarded an inch of the stove and didn't let the pot burn." The monk clasped his hands and smiled and walked away. Epilogue: On a spring day, Li Feiyang passed away peacefully under the peach blossom tree in front of the Taoist temple, holding in his hand an old wooden chip that he used to record his time in the service camp. Shi Lan, A Luo, Li An and many other villagers paid their respects to the funeral. The peach blossoms are flying, as if the final curtain has fallen on that era full of suffering, struggle, glimmer and dust. The fairness, rationality, tolerance and respect for life he insisted on have been silently integrated into the cultural genes of this land like spring rain moistening things. In the distance, the unification war of the Northern Song Dynasty is still going on, but in this former borderland, with smoke from cooking stoves and the sound of books, a new, ordinary and prosperous age is being nurtured.