Let me eat a soft meal

Regardless of the truth or falsehood of these evidences, it is enough to be punished as a crime, and it is not impossible to kill everyone, and it is even possible to gain a reputation of not covering up and killing relatives for personal gain.

Ye Xuan put away the things, instead of just proclaiming them like this, instead, he did not say anything. Waiting for a suitable time, Xie Yushu probably guessed what he was going to do, he hesitated to speak a few times, but finally said nothing.

He knew that this was actually the best ending Ye Xuan could give Feng Zijian.

Xie Yushu's impressions of Feng Zijian were very complicated. When they met for the first time, Feng Zijian led 30 soldiers and horses to suppress Ye Xuan with weapons and silently forced Ye Xuan to ascend the throne. A sense of crisis of being targeted by wild animals.

Afterwards, the imperial court was at odds, and Feng Zijian and Ye Xuan had a quarrel, especially those Beirong assassins at the enthronement ceremony, who entered the city mixed with Feng Zijian's army.Even if Ye Xuan didn't reveal anything, Xie Yushu could guess that without Feng Zijian's consent, how could any sand have caught his attention.

On the one hand, Xie Yushu understands Feng Zijian's resentment and hardships that he has endured for many years, on the other hand, he feels disappointed and sad that the god of war who once saved the country has become a traitor colluding with the enemy's leader. He ascended the throne and pushed to arrange an assassination!

However, during later contact, Xie Yushu discovered that Feng Zijian seemed to be arrogant in the court, but in fact he did not abuse his power. Xie Yushu, as the head of all officials, had the power to oversee the country and regent with Feng Zijian. Xie Yushu observed for a long time At first, I thought that Feng Zijian would take the opportunity to squeeze his power, but in the end, he found that it was Feng Zijian who first proposed to return the power of supervision and return to the imperial power center.

Moreover, in the past half month, he got along with Feng Zijian and his subordinates a lot. According to Huang Mang and others, the Feng Zijian described by Huang Mang and others, except that his expression became less and less, was still the same as before many years ago, a loyal and patriotic hero General.

Now I learned a series of royal secrets... Xie Yushu couldn't see Feng Zijian clearly, and his senses towards him became more and more complicated.

He admires Feng Zijian from the bottom of his heart. He has defended his family and the country in border wars for many years. A generation of famous generals can die of old age or die in battle, but they should never die in the struggle for imperial power; Acting and character, as well as the style of doing things in one's own way and unscrupulous means, if they are enemies, they must be life and death.

A few days later, Xie Yushu was reviewing the memorial in Qianyuan Palace, and happened to approve the paper that Li Shangshu asked to transfer. He looked at it, and probably said that he was too old to adapt to the heavy job of minister of the Ministry of Industry, and he had the heart of serving the country Still wanting to make use of his remaining energy, there happened to be a lot of small officials vacant, so he planned to leave Beijing for training.

There is nothing wrong with this statement in essence, and it is not an excessive request. If it was someone else, Xie Yushu would have directly approved it, but this is Li Shangshu.

He hesitated for a moment, then handed the memorial to Ye Xuan who was reading the border secret report, "How should we decide on this matter?"

"Huh?" Ye Xuan glanced over, and couldn't help squinting his eyes and laughing, "Master Li has a keen sense of smell, if he took the initiative to resign a few days ago, I would agree, but unfortunately, it is too late to prepare everything. gone."

As he spoke, he put the secret report on the table, tapped it with his fingers, and signaled Xie Yushu to read it.

Xie Yushu picked it up and swept it down ten lines at a glance. His eyebrows frowned and his expression became tense. "30 troops are in the middle of the capital, and Cangzhou's defenses are empty. If the Beirong is in turmoil at this time, the consequences will be disastrous!"

When he raised his head, he saw that Ye Xuan was not nervous at all. Xie Yushu thought of something, which was quite inconceivable, "Is this... designed by the General King early in the morning?"

"Daliang and Beirong are enmities for generations. How many border people in Daliang have lost their homes because of the burning, killing and looting of the grassland nomads, and how many Rong people have become the souls of the soldiers of Daliang under the sword."

"Every year from the end of autumn to the next spring when the frost thaws, how many soldiers pretend to be grass bandits to rob border caravans, and there are many soldiers who participate in it. Even in the eight years I have been in Cangzhou, the army's food and salary always disappear twice a year. The caravans They died tragically at the hands of the army, and women were raped and used as military prostitutes. Most of them died unbearable humiliation. Wife, there are countless things about brothers who died and brothers followed wives, and they are as rough and arrogant as wild beasts."

"And Daliang was to protect the people at the frontier, and to stabilize the country, formed a frontier army to resist, led the troops to attack under the western capital of the Northern Army, slaughtered the city and buried the corpses all the way, and drove the innocent people to run barefoot in front of the army to act as a shield. The old and the weak, women and children No one was spared, the blood flowed for hundreds of miles, building temples, burning people alive...whether it is venting or plotting, there must be many violent methods."

Ye Xuan described the cruelty of the battlefield one by one in a calm tone.

After finishing speaking, he smiled slightly and said, "In this way, how can uncle use Rong people at ease, and how can Rong people obediently listen to uncle's words?"

"It's just that each takes what it needs and uses each other."

Xie Yushu hesitated for a while, and he already had the answer in his heart, but he still couldn't help asking, "Zixuan, what do you plan to do with Feng Zijian?"

Ye Xuan raised his eyebrows, "Is Yushu worried about me, or uncle?"

"Of course it's you." Xie Yushu replied without hesitation.

"Oh, how did Yushu know that I wasn't the one who lost?" Xie Yushu's words directly pleaded guilty for Feng Zijian, which meant that the final winner of this game would be Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan reached out and grabbed his hand, carelessly touched Xie Yushu's fingertips all the way to his wrist, and rubbed lightly on his protruding wrist bone, causing a burst of itching.

Xie Yushu blushed slightly, couldn't help but slapped him away, and gave him a reproachful look, "Speak well."

Ye Xuan let out a low laugh, quickly pulled Xie Yushu onto the dragon chair, stretched out his arms around him, rested his chin on his shoulder, and rubbed his cheeks like a full-fledged beast.

"Yu Shu's guess is my answer." Ye Xuan replied.

Xie Yushu was silent for a moment, then sighed inaudibly and said, "That's fine."

For dinner, in Chengtian Hall of Qianyuan Palace, the delicacies on a table were already a little cold. Ye Xuan sat upright for a long time, but Feng Zijian came late with a gust of air-conditioning. Cold and severe, looking like he just took a shower.

Mu Fengchun stepped forward to ask him to untie the knife, Feng Zijian glanced at him, and without saying a word, he directly pulled out the big knife hanging from his waist, without knowing how to do it, Mu Fengchun saw a cold light, and just said in his heart that he was not good , the knife was directly on his neck.

The cold blade was pressed against the pulsating blood vessels, and the smell of blood rushed towards his face. Although the blade was bright, Mu Fengchun smelled it as soon as he touched his face. The knife had just drank blood.

His face was rather ugly, but he was so crushed that he couldn't move.

"Ding Dang" sound of chopsticks colliding with dishes, Ye Xuan didn't lift his head, he pointed to the seat beside him, "Uncle, sit down."

Feng Zijian put the knife back into its sheath, sat down unceremoniously, and picked up the chopsticks to pick up some vegetables, before replying, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your seat."

Ye Xuan straightened up, wiped his mouth with a square towel, and poured wine for him himself, "Today's family banquet, there are only uncles and nephews, no monarchs or ministers."

Feng Zijian raised his eyes to look at him, took the glass of wine for a while, and drank it down in one gulp. Then he played with the empty glass, twitched the corner of his mouth, and said, "The beheaded wine is strong enough."

"Uncle was joking, what kind of beheaded wine is it? Even if you want to drink a few more glasses, my nephew will pour it for you."

Ye Xuan said to pour again, but Feng Zijian blocked the mouth of the wine glass with his hand.

Ye Xuan raised his eyebrows, but he was not angry, so he simply turned around and poured himself a glass, then he held it up to respect Feng Zijian, and said with a chuckle, "Uncle is a busy person, let me wait. I will pay my respects to Uncle with this glass." , do your best.”

Feng Zijian was domineering in the court, but he was doing practical things. Several disturbances helped Ye Xuan tear apart the old officials, so that he could establish his own team in the court.

Ye Xuan raised his head and drank it all in one gulp, and filled another cup, "The second cup, I respect my uncle for his hard work and courage, and finally he will be rehabilitated."

The case of Feng's family has been silent for nearly 30 years, and it involves a lot. If Feng Zijian hadn't made up his mind, it would be almost impossible to find out the truth.So even if he plotted against everyone, as long as Ye Xuan still has a line of Feng family's blood in his body, it is impossible to be ungrateful.

Drink it up and fill it up again, "The third cup, I respect my uncle for his life as a soldier, for the country and the people."

Feng Zijian's contribution to Daliang, no matter what he did now, would be indelible. If he hadn't raised his troops, the Bei Rong would invade and the border would not be peaceful.

"This is the fourth and last cup."

Ye Xuanman came up, looked at Feng Zijian seriously, under his gaze, he was right, and said in a deep voice, "Respect Uncle—a body full of loyalty, wrapped in horse leather."

The sonorous and forceful eight words fell into the silence of the room, and they had already expressed the thoughts in Ye Xuan's heart. Feng Zijian is a smart person, and he understood the meaning in an instant.

After a moment of silence, Feng Zijian said suddenly, "When I was young, I even read two or three volumes of books. I still remember that in the "Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin", Han Xin offered Zhongli Mo's head to Gaozu, but Gaozu ordered people to tie up Han Xin and wanted to kill him. Saying: "When the cunning rabbit dies, the lackey cooks it; when the high bird dies, the good bow hides; when the enemy's country is destroyed, the counselor perishes. The world is set, and I will definitely cook it."

Feng Zijian chuckled twice, and after laughing, he raised his eyes and stabbed at Ye Xuan, and asked straightforwardly, "You want me to die?"

Ye Xuan nodded and shook his head again, he said, "The Rong people from the frontier pass invaded, the Great General King, as the God of War in Daliang, should bear the seal of command, lead the troops to go out, and promise not to return until the enemy's country is destroyed, how long you live depends on your ability, 'death' is the only destiny .”

"Uncle, you should know that this is the only retreat you leave for yourself."

Feng Zijian didn't speak, and Ye Xuan didn't urge him, but he didn't let him leave either. The imperial guards surrounded Qianyuan Palace inside and outside, making sure that even if Feng Zijian tried his best, it would be difficult for him to escape. Quietly finished the meal.

After dinner, Feng Zijian asked Ye Xuan to ask for Go. Ye Xuan played two games with him, one win and one loss.

When he came back from washing, he found that Feng Zijian was still lying down, while the person sitting across from him was Xie Yushu in a long robe. Judging from his messy hair and the fact that he didn't even wear shoes, he seemed to have been grabbed from the bed .

But Xie Yushu did not stay in the palace tonight.

Ye Xuan raised his eyebrows, looked at Xie Yushu, who looked embarrassed, and then at Feng Zijian, who was pondering chess with a blank face, thought of something, and turned to the side hall of the secret passage.

If Feng Zijian really went in and out of the palace and captured Xie Yushu from the prime minister's mansion, then even if the group of imperial guards were eating dry food, Tai'an who was arranged in the dark would always be aware of it, let alone Ye Xuan. After calculating Feng Zijian's force, it is absolutely impossible to come and go freely in the heavily guarded Qianyuan Palace without any damage.

And the only one inside and outside the Qianyuan Palace that didn't set up troops was the secret channel.

Ye Xuan thought that he was careful enough, but unexpectedly, some clues were discovered.

Sure enough, Feng Zijian's tone was casual, and he said with a bit of sarcasm, "Earlier, I called my uncle one by one. I just asked my nephew to play chess with me. Are you unhappy?"

"Never." Ye Xuan walked over and sat down, "It's only just now that I realized that my uncle is really powerful. I'm afraid there is no one inside or outside the palace who can hide it from you."

Feng Zijian maintained a tacit attitude towards this identification.

The duel between black and white pieces on the chessboard has reached a fever pitch.

Feng Zijian's is a sunspot, and the sunspot looked like a hovering five-clawed dragon, but was cut in two by Xie Yushu's white one.Feng Zijian dismantled Bai Zi's siege and intercepted him, regrouped and planned to defeat Bai Zi in one fell swoop, but Xie Yushu always pulled out the bottom line, turning a bland move into a miraculous move, dismantling Hei Zi to pieces in one fell swoop.

At the end of the battle, the two sides played faster and faster, as if without thinking, they heard the sound of chess pieces falling on the board.

Finally, Feng Zijian took the sunspots to test several points on the chessboard, and threw them back into the chess box after a while, "You have won."

Xie Yushu let out a long breath of relief, "Accept."

"I'm willing to bet and admit defeat. I'm not Lao Jiang's stinky chess player." Feng Zijian had a rare smile on his face. He pinched his brows and said, "The previous conditions count. What do you want? Tell me."

Only then did Ye Xuan realize that there was still a bet between them.

Xie Yushu was silent for a moment, considering the words in his heart, but he called out "Uncle Feng".

Feng Zijian was taken aback for a moment, slightly dazed, he hadn't heard this name for many years.

He still remembers that fifteen or sixteen years ago, he brought Tai'an into the capital, if it wasn't for Jingong Miansheng who became afraid after hearing what the former emperor said, he would not have brought Tai'an into the palace.After Tai'an entered the palace, the little Pei Cheng who often played with him often cried and made noises. Little Pei Cheng's older brothers didn't worry too much. They were annoyed by this follower brother, so they dumped the child to him.

Feng Zijian had never raised a normal child, and it happened that little Peicheng was very interested in Tai'an's daily life, so he took out the excitement of practicing Tai'an to train little Peicheng, and within a few days, little Peicheng cried and never followed his brother again They are here, and they are very disgusted with martial arts. They are the only good-for-nothing in the Pei family who don't work hard and don't know the grain.

Besides little Pei Cheng, Feng Zijian still remembered a child, Xie Yushu, the third son of Prime Minister Xie.

Xie Xiang's family of literati students, happened to have a martial artist Xie Sanlang, who was also trained by him, but he gritted his teeth and persisted, and looked at him with admiration, and kept saying that he would go to the border with him to fight.

Xie Sanlang followed Pei Cheng to call him "Uncle Feng". Within a few days, little Pei Sheng called him "Big Bad Guy", but Xie Sanlang kept calling him until he left Beijing.

Hearing these two words after a long absence, Feng Zijian's eyes changed, with a little complexity and nostalgia.

Xie Yushu smiled gently, but said sincerely, "Uncle Feng, look forward to the confrontation at the border, our army will surely win."

"..." Feng Zijian didn't know whether he expected it or not, the expression on his face remained the same, and he only asked for a long while, "Do you regret it?"

"You don't care about the affairs in front of you, the merits and demerits will be judged by future generations." Xie Yushu spoke calmly, with a bit of helplessness and firmness.

Ye Xuan's first reaction was that Feng Zijian was asking about his request for a bet. Now when he heard Xie Yushu say it, he immediately thought of the words that Feng Zijian pulled Xie Yushu to say before.

His face changed suddenly and he narrowed his eyes.

Feng Zijian glanced at him, and said in a disgusted tone, "It's just for the sake of the so-called love that you have ruined your life's achievements, so you have to figure out whether it's worth it or not."

Xie Yushu said, "Whether it's worth it or not depends on whether I want it or not. If I get what I want, it's worth it."

Feng Zijian opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by Ye Xuan, who leaned sideways between the two of them, "Uncle, I can protect him for the rest of his life."

——"Princess, I can protect you forever!"

Feng Zijian's mind flashed what the young man himself said. At that time, he was full of spirit and wanted to fight against the whole world, but the person he loved said—"No, I am the princess of the Bohai royal family, and I have my mission."

Feng Zijian always wanted to ask her, do you regret it?

Feng Zijian knew from the beginning that she had no regrets.

Xie Yushu looked into his eyes that suddenly calmed down, and said, "Sometimes there are some decisions that we know are wrong, but we still choose to go on, and no matter how much embarrassment and pain in the rest of our lives, we will never regret it."

"If there is an afterlife, it will still be like this."

Feng Zijian was silent for a long time, he stood there silently, turned around and walked out after a while.

Ye Xuan watched him walk into Xiwei's morning light step by step.