[Comprehensive] Cannon fodder, do you want to counterattack?

I set up a stall for half a day, made four deals, and earned 30 taels of silver plus 30 Wen copper coins—although the [-] taels was suspected of extortion, but this money-making efficiency is really high. He didn't care about those few scoldings, and said happily, "My lord, how do you know that guy's pig was stolen and sold by himself?"

Lin Ruo was reading a book without raising her head: "Forget it!"

Xiaoshu muttered in dissatisfaction: "My lord, you are playing tricks on me again!"

Lin Ruo was speechless for a while: In his mind as a book boy, the conclusion that "Young master's hexagrams are inaccurate" is really deeply rooted.

Forget it, don’t allow it!

Lin Ruo shook his head, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "How do you know that that man took other people's money and deliberately came to trouble us?" He was a little surprised by Xiaoshu's performance today—he knew The book boy of his own family is first-rate in observing words, observing colors, and understanding his own meaning, but he didn't know that he had the ability to see clearly.

"Ah?" Xiaoshu asked in surprise, "Is it really like this?"

He exclaimed a few times before saying, "I don't know! I said this on purpose to slander him—a lot of people around me are watching. How embarrassing it is to steal money in front of so many people!"

Lin Ruo rubbed his forehead, his hands suddenly felt itchy, and he wanted to hit the wall: Well, I was wrong, I really shouldn't have overestimated my little book boy.

The little book is still yelling: "Oh, just say the little one, the little one can guess more accurately than you, the young master! Just say it casually and you will hit the spot! Young master! Next time, it is better to go with the younger one too." Set up a hexagram booth, so we can earn twice the money!"

Lin Ruo sighed and stopped talking.

After Xiaoshu had been complacent for a while, he said again: "My lord, you haven't told me yet, how on earth do you know that guy's pig was stolen and sold by himself!"

Lin Ruo continued to sigh—if Xiaoshu, who was in an excited state, could not satisfy his curiosity, he would probably keep chattering on and on, so he could only say: "Look at the way that man and his children are dressed, life is obviously very difficult, for that kind of My family, the importance of a pig enough to cover the income of the first half of the year is self-evident. As a result, such an important thing was lost overnight and half a day, and he was already in a hurry to go to the doctor to the point of asking for a fortune-telling, but the man's face did not disappear No anxiety at all, only annoyance and irritability. So many hexagram masters who are prosperous in business and look at the spirit of the gods, he didn't go looking for them, but they came to our stall, which already explained the problem. And I asked him how he lost the pig , When did he lose it? He answered impatiently and didn’t listen carefully. He seemed to be in a hurry to find something? Obviously, he himself became a house thief to make a show to deal with his wife and children.”

Xiao Shu snorted, and continued to ask: "Then how do you know, my son, that he went to gamble and lost everything?"

Lin Ruodao: "When he was talking, the thumb of his right hand kept rubbing against the middle finger and index finger. This is the movement of playing Pai Gow. If it wasn't for a highly addicted gambler, he wouldn't have such a subconscious movement. For this kind of gambler To put it bluntly, how could he not gamble with the silver in his hand? Moreover, his eyes were bloodshot, and he yawned one after another. Obviously he hadn't slept all night. Is the pig that he sold a long time ago? I can see from his expression that he must have lost all the money, as for whether he has really lost all of it... Who cares about him?"

"That's not necessarily true," Xiaoshu thought for a while and said, "Maybe he deliberately looked for the whole night so that his wife wouldn't suspect her? After all, his wife is so fierce, so he must be afraid."

Lin Ruodao: "Have you noticed that there are many light-colored, sharp-looking strips of stains on his child's trousers?"

"Is there?" Xiaoshu scratched his head and said, "What's wrong with the stain?"

Lin Ruo sighed: "This is the trace left by the dew when I walked across the grass in the early morning. Apparently even the seven-year-old child has been searched all over the mountains and plains, but his trousers are clean. Doesn't that explain the problem?"

Xiaoshu said again, and suddenly became a little uneasy: "Master, their family is already so poor, and they lost their pigs. The children are so pitiful, and we took 30 taels of silver from them, isn't it too much..."

Lin Ruo snorted coldly and said, "Leave them the money they got from harming people so that they can taste the sweetness. Do you want to continue harming people next time? Obviously that woman knows about the 30 taels of silver. She came here." Why was she so emotionally stable at that time? Because her loss has been made up..."

He stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking, paused and sighed: "Well, these are actually excuses. The most important thing is that the person they want to kill is me! They hurt me, and I will give them the money they got from killing me Leave it to them... Do you think I'm such a stupid person, your son?"

Xiaoshu said again: His son is so reasonable, his son is always so reasonable!

The roots of the ears were finally cleared up. After this trip, Lin Ruo felt more tired than fortune-telling. She didn't even have the mind to read a book. She leaned on the carriage and closed her eyes to rest her mind. Just to put it bluntly, how can the young master be so accurate, he almost scared me..."

Lin Ruo: "..."

Speaking of it, the folk customs of this era are simple and simple, and most ordinary people don’t know how to cover up their emotions. Even if they don’t know how to divination, it’s not too simple to do a magic fortune. , asking when he would have children, but his eyes uncontrollably glanced at his wife's belly.And his wife, with that nervous appearance protecting her lower abdomen, she almost said that she was pregnant!

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Qin Wang Li Shimin has always followed his word, so Lin Ruo received a message from him shortly after returning home, asking him to have a gathering at "Huibing Pavilion" at night.

"Huibing Pavilion" is the largest restaurant in Chang'an City, but it is not limited to "buildings". Behind the restaurant, there are many elegant small courtyards. Let the guys in the store invite singing and dancing to add to the fun, because there are some wealthy people in Chang'an City, and most of them like to gather here.Lin Ruo is also a frequent visitor here, and the place where he and his classmates get together every day, apart from some beautiful places outside the city, is the Huibin Pavilion.

Perhaps King Qin had this in mind and made an appointment here.

Lin Boyuan looked at the post and sighed. This post was delivered when he was at home, and it made him a little dizzy to be honest.

"Ah Ruo."

Lin Ruo looked at Lin Boyuan innocently: "Uncle want to go together?"

Lin Boran patted his head casually: "Don't make trouble."

Lin Ruo had black hair, Lin Boyuan sighed, "Ah Ruo, uncle..."

Halfway through the talk, there was another pause, and he said, "Uncle also invited a few friends for a small gathering, so it's time to leave now. Come back early in the evening and don't drink too much." His nephew is not a fool, some He didn't need to remind him.

Lin Ruohan responded with a smile.

Lin Boran sighed and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't play with fire."

Put the post into Lin Ruo's hand, turn around and go out.

Lin Ruo looked down at the post and sighed slightly. He didn't know whether to say Li Shimin was cunning or grand.

In Luocheng back then, when he stated his position, although Li Shimin was a little annoyed at first, but in the end he made his choice.

But on the one hand, he helped him avoid the prince's suspicion, but on the other hand, he did not hide his friendship at all. First, he openly claimed that it was Lin Ruo's hexagram that saved him from the bloody disaster, and now he posted a banquet openly...but at the same time However, Lin Ruo has concealed the most crucial link—the hairpin that he took the initiative to save him.

This made it difficult for Lin Ruo to feel bad for him.

If Li Shimin's actions were not out of heart but out of intentions, he would be willing to bow down to Lin Ruo.

Lin Ruo wasn't too embarrassed when he got the post: Although he didn't know the truth, but judging from Prince Jiancheng's attitude, he had obviously become a favorite at the moment, and Li Shimin's actions undoubtedly made his favorite even more delicious.

Since Li Shimin's post has already been posted, if he is a sweet pastry, Li Jiancheng will have a pimple in his heart, but if he doesn't go, I'm afraid he will think again: "If he is alone A commoner scholar, uncle is only a fifth-rank official, how can he have the confidence to reject King Qin? Is it because they have a good personal relationship?"

On the contrary, he went, which was more calm.

……

Qin Wang Li Shimin's invitation was quite sincere. Not only was the place Lin Ruo used to go to, but he also brought only a few guards that Lin Ruo was familiar with.When Lin Ruo entered the door, Li Shimin was drinking by himself, Lin Ruo chuckled and said, "How come the guest hasn't arrived yet, Your Highness, the master, started to drink first?"

Li Shimin motioned him to sit down, and said: "This king is thinking, this king is also a prince, the king treats guests, the guests must come earlier, right? Who knows that neither the left nor the right will come, so I have to Have a drink by yourself first."

Lin Ruodao: "But if you arrive early, wouldn't it be even more impolite for the host to be ready?"

Li Shimin shook his head and laughed, and said: "Isn't this king coming early? Well, you always have a lot of fallacies to say, and this king can't talk to you. Come and drink."

Speaking of pouring a cup for Lin Ruo with her own hands, Lin Ruo raised her glass and said, "Let's borrow flowers to offer Buddha first, thank His Highness for not making trouble, and let uncle have a place to live in the Prince's Mansion."

Li Shimin knew that he was talking about the hairpin, raised his hand to drink, and said calmly: "In your heart, I, Li Shimin, am such a despicable villain, who will use your act of saving me to injure you into injustice?"

Lin Ruodao: "If you really think this way, the grass people will not make a move that day. But no matter what, I still have to thank you."

As he spoke, he filled the wine glass again and handed it to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin looked slightly relaxed, took the wine glass, and said leisurely: "Is it difficult for uncle to receive the post today?"

Lin Ruo smiled bitterly: "Your Highness did it on purpose?"

Li Shimin nodded: "Yes, it was on purpose."

He was so calm that Lin Ruo didn't know what to say.

"Don't ask why?" Li Shimin asked back, but before Lin Ruo could answer, he said, "Because I'm very angry!"

He drank slowly, and said: "I saw you riding away on horseback while I was assassinated that day. I was very angry. I have been on the battlefield for many years. It is not that I have never been betrayed in a critical moment, but I have never been so angry. ...Even if I was saved by you, I am still angry, no, it should be said that I am even more angry..."

Lin Ruo looked at Li Shimin puzzled, and said, "Caomin and the King of Qin are not fellow travelers, so why should we turn our backs?"

"Yeah," Li Shimin laughed at himself, raised his glass and drank it, saying, "That's why I'm very angry."

He clasped his five fingers together, and the porcelain cup in his hand made a crisp sound, and it shattered into pieces and fell: "...more angry."

Lin Ruo frowned, took another wine glass and filled it up, put it in front of Li Shimin, and said indifferently: "Thanks for the love, the grass people are flattered."

Sitting down, he drank his own glass in one gulp, his brows and eyes widened in an instant—it was really good wine, except that it wasn't strong enough.

Li Shimin stared at Lin Ruo for a while, seeing him drinking and pouring himself, and occasionally eating some snacks, looking very at ease, he smiled wryly and said: "Forget it, anger is my own business. I, Li Shimin, think that I have a clear sense of grievances and grievances." , never willing to owe anyone anything, today, let's settle the account first."

Lin Ruo smiled and said nothing, he and Li Shimin have different standpoints, so it suits him to settle the accounts so as not to be tied up in the future.

Li Shimin got up and took out two small boxes, and said: "As you said, what you pick up is not as good as what you bought. Not long ago, I picked up two more things. How much money are you going to charge me?"

He opened the wooden boxes, and as Lin Ruo expected, one of them was his jade hairpin, while the other wooden box contained a bamboo flute that looked familiar.

Li Shimin saw that his eyes fell on the bamboo flute, and he took it out to play with it, and said: "This king has always wanted to ask you, when you threw the Yaoqin back then, it could be said that you had no choice but to throw this bamboo flute, why did you throw it?"

Lin Ruo looked at Li Shimin and asked, "Your Highness, don't you know?" It turned out to be that one. Does this King Qin have a collection habit?An ordinary bamboo flute also needs to be fished out.

Li Shimin asked back: "This king should know? Could it be that Lin Caizi thinks that the sound of the flute has entered the ears of this rough man like this king, so that this bamboo flute can't be polluted?"

Lin Ruo laughed, and said: "Your Highness is really..." If you really deserve to be a prince, you can think of such an outrageous reason.

Shaking his head and sighing: "That day... I ate grilled fish and didn't wash my hands, Your Highness!"

Li Shimin was slightly taken aback.

Lin Ruodao: "I made this flute casually, and it's worthless. I made it dirty and oily at the time. If I don't throw it away, why don't I put it back in my pocket?"

Li Shimin was speechless for a while, well, this reason is very good, strong, and down-to-earth, thinking of the act of this great talent throwing away the piano and letting the young man secretly pick it up and sell it for money, he was not surprised at all.

Lin Ruo continued: "This bamboo flute is worthless. If Your Highness likes it, just take it. You just throw it away and don't want it. As for the hairpin... why don't you return it to me, Your Highness?"

Li Shimin asked back: "Then you take it and sell it?"

"Uh... um."

Lin Ruoyuan wanted to deny it, but when she thought about it, this hairpin poked people's eyeballs, so it can't be inserted into the head again, right?If you don't sell it, why don't you keep it as a family heirloom?

Li Shimin sighed: "Why don't you sell me?" He already knew it would happen.

Lin Ruo answered quickly this time: "Chenghui 150 taels of silver, thank you."

Li Shimin remembered the phrase "Chenghui 30 taels" he said to the gambler during the day, and felt uncomfortable for a while, and said: "I don't have any silver, but I have a hairpin, do you want it?"

Lin Ruo smiled wryly: "Your Highness, why don't you return mine."

Li Shimin ignored it, took out a jade hairpin from his bosom, put it in front of Lin Ruo, and said, "It's just this one, do you want it or not?"

Knowing Lin Ruo's scruples, he said again: "Don't worry, I won't harm you with the things I gave you. This jade is an accidental acquisition of mine. No one knows it's mine."

Lin Ruo said nothing, picked up the jade hairpin and played with it for a while. Although the shape of the jade hairpin was simple and the carving was so ordinary that it was almost clumsy, the quality of the jade was much better than his. She stuffed it into the sleeve with a smile and said: "Then Thank you, Your Highness."

Li Shimin smiled slightly when he saw this, and said again: "Although this flute is not worth much, I can't ask for your things for nothing, and I don't want to pick up garbage that people don't want, so let's count it as a penny."

Sure enough, he took out a copper coin from his pocket and pushed it in front of Lin Ruo.

Lin Ruo was most interested in the copper coins. He reached out to pick them up and played with them, and found that the copper coins were a bit heavier than the average ones, and the patterns were much clearer and more detailed. Obviously, they were not the popular ones on the market.

Only Li Shimin said calmly: "In the future, you can take it and change someone from this king... No matter what he has done, as long as you take this copper coin, this king will spare him from death."

Lin Ruo knew it well, and knew that this was his thank you for the hairpin. His Royal Highness Qin Wang's life was more valuable than others, and it was a fair deal to exchange one life with one hand.

He smiled and asked: "Is it okay for the grass people to take this copper coin and kill His Highness?"

Li Shimin glanced at him, and said with a half-smile: "If this king is fine, you will be fine. If this king is dead, who will cash you the copper coins?"

This person is not pedantic, Lin Ruo smiled, continued to study, and said, "What's so special about this money? Will your Highness recognize it next time?"

Li Shimin's expression faded, and he said indifferently: "After this king captured Luoyang and destroyed Wang Shichong, my father rewarded me with two workshops for making money, but it was a favor that no one else had. So I left the craftsmen to carve them out." My first mother's money, as a commemoration, thinking that my father treats me differently..."

He smiled and did not continue, but said: "But you are right, I may not recognize it when I see it again, so if you want to use it to replace someone, you'd better come in person. The other person, is this king I admit it."

The implication is that it doesn't matter whether you have copper coins or not, as long as the person who comes is Lin Ruo.

Lin Ruo was noncommittal, took the copper coins as well, and said: "Since Your Highness has a workshop for making money, there must be a lot of this kind of mother money, can you give me a few more?"

"Ok?"

Lin Ruo sighed: "My hexagrams are always inaccurate. I wondered if the copper coins I was looking for were wrong. Maybe I replaced them with some kind of mother money. Maybe it would be accurate?"

Actually thinking about his hexagrams at this moment, Li Shimin was speechless for a while, angrily and amusedly said: "I think your hexagrams are very accurate!"

After a pause, he said again: "Let's not say whether your hexagram is accurate or not, but the phrase 'blood and light disaster' has helped me a lot, otherwise I am afraid that I will lose a lot of people around me. This king was killed from the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, if he died on the battlefield, it would be fine, if..."

He paused slightly, and said, "How about using Lin Boyuan for this favor?"

Seeing Lin Ruo's silence, Li Shimin smiled faintly, and said: "If he follows elder brother and makes his way all the way, just pretend that I didn't say that. If he holds my hand for life and death one day, how about I let him live? "

Lin Ruo looked at Li Shimin, and sighed after a while, "Don't your Highness feel a little shallow?"

Li Shimin's words almost clearly indicated that he had the ambition to seize the throne, and he completely forgot that the person sitting opposite was obviously from the prince's side.

But having said that, just because he belongs to the prince, he is not afraid to speak out. Anyway, both parties are well aware of this matter.

Li Shimin sneered and said, "What? Until now, Ah Ruo still wants to stay out of it?"

Lin Ruo shrugged, and said casually: "I'm a small person." He is a small person, and it's not his turn to worry about the succession of the throne.

Li Shimin stared at him closely: "Are you a small person, or do you just want to be a small person?" Are you unable to intervene, or do you not want to intervene?

Lin Ruo was silent for a moment, drank the wine in the glass, and said: "Your Highness is a smart person, so the grass people don't hide it."

"On public affairs, Your Highness is talented, knowledgeable and well-utilized. His Highness the Crown Prince is wise, benevolent, calm and modest. No matter who succeeds the two emperors in the future, they will both be promising kings and the blessings of the people. In terms of private matters, which Highness is the same as me?" There is only kindness and righteousness," Lin Ruo said, "Since this is the case, I don't want to be successful, so why would I get involved in this unreasonable and unjust war, and some people who have no enmity against me, and even serve the people? Good people and good officials in the country, kill you to death?" What he was looking for was to be wise and protect himself, and he never thought of being both right and wrong, and Li Shimin was generous with these people, and he could express his feelings directly, saving him from endless temptations in the future.

While speaking, he looked directly into Li Shimin's eyes. Li Shimin has a bad temper, and after hearing these words, he would get angry again, but it will be fine when he calms down.

He waited for Li Shimin to turn his face, but Li Shimin looked at him for a long time, and suddenly burst into laughter, seeming to be talking to himself, but also seemed to ask Lin Ruo: "There is no reason, no just war?"

He came back to his senses, drank the wine in the glass, and said: "Not long ago, someone who claimed to be for my own good told me that I was not the eldest son, not orthodox, and that I should not seek revenge for my own self-interest. Seizing the country...isn't this reasonable? Isn't this justice?"

He didn't continue talking, and stared at Lin Ruo with his eyes, waiting for him to speak. Lin Ruo was defeated and sighed helplessly: "In this world, in this country, who is not fighting and robbing for their own self-interest? Shouting to do justice for the heavens and eliminate harms for the people, it can be seen that there are people who have given up the throne to others after the event? If the orthodox one can succeed to the throne... Please forgive me for asking, is the father of the emperor, His Highness, considered orthodox? "There is only one in the world, and there is only one throne. If you want it, you have to grab it. How can there be so many reasons?If you really talk about orthodoxy, I am afraid that it is still the system of abdication. Emperor Qin, Han, Wu and Zhou, which one is orthodox?

Li Shimin still stared at him, and said: "The man said, even if I win the country, this act of conspiring for power and killing brothers and brothers will cause endless troubles. Remnants, blood flowing like rivers..."

Lin Ruo asked, "Why do you have to kill your brother?"

Li Shimin looked at him and said nothing, Lin Ruo sighed, and said: "If your highness succeeds, the descendants of your highness will choose whether they will fight each other or live a peaceful life in the future. If your highness fails, the royal family will be harmonious in the future. What's your Highness doing?" How can there be such an amiable royal family in this world?The fratricide of the royal family did not start from him, Li Shimin, and it is even less likely that it will be destroyed because of him.

Li Shimin stared at Lin Ruo for a long time, then suddenly burst into laughter, stood up abruptly, raised the jug, poured it into his mouth with his head up, turned around and strode out.

Lin Ruo shrugged: Li Shimin's ambition rises early, how can someone else dispel it with just a few words?He just wanted to find peace of mind.

Since he wants peace of mind, then he should give him peace of mind. Anyway, he is full of such things as crooked reasoning.

Frowning slightly again, he took out the hairpin from his bosom—this was the real trouble.