Sheriff, give me a smile~

Li Bai jumped down from the tree.

Zhang Liang raised his eyebrows in surprise when he saw someone suddenly appearing in front of him, but after seeing that it was Li Bai, he smiled again: "What a coincidence, we meet again."

Li Bai's eyes were complicated: "Zhang Liang."

"Yes, is there anything you want to ask me?"

Li Bai thought for a while and said, "Shouldn't you be in the palace with the King of Han at this time? Why did you come here?"

"It's reasonable to know my identity so quickly." Zhang Liang paused and said: "Today, your majesty and your majesty are negotiating about Chu-Han affairs, and I will not participate in it for the time being. He proposed to take a walk in Chang'an City, so I went out with him, but I accidentally got separated, so I came here."

To be able to walk from the bustling city center of Chang'an to a remote wilderness, what a road idiot...

Li Bai: "Do you know where you are now?"

Zhang Liang: "I don't know."

Li Bai: "Do you know how to go back?"

Zhang Liang: "I don't know."

Li Bai: "What will you do if I don't pass by today?"

Zhang Liang: "I don't know."

Li Bai: "What else do you know?"

Zhang Liang looked calm: "The principle of the universe."

Li Bai: "..."

Seeing Zhang Liang's serious and foolish appearance, Li Bai felt a little hard to say: This is really the person who gave me advice on the maze in the Chu and Han Dynasties a few months ago

Zhang Liang said abruptly: "You are thinking."

The corners of Li Bai's mouth twitched slightly, thinking that I'm not dead, can I not think?

"The content of thinking is relevant to me."

Now Li Bai was a little surprised, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why do you know that?"

Zhang Liang smiled slightly, with an expression of "mortals, I have already seen through you": "The probing eyes are too obvious after all."

Li Bai: "..."

Seeing that Li Bai was silent, Zhang Liang took the lead and said, "Is there anything we can talk about later, let's go back now."

Li Bai raised his eyebrows: "When did I say I was going back?"

Zhang Liang seemed puzzled: "You...don't want to help me?"

Seeing that Zhang Liang had returned to the stupid mode, Li Bai deliberately wanted to tease him: "Master Military Advisor, when did I say I would help you?"

Zhang Liang lowered his head and pondered for a while: "...It seems that you didn't say this, but the third question you asked me revealed that you wanted to help me."

Li Bai laughed: "My lord, a little meaning doesn't mean that's what it means. Just because your clothes are a little white, you can't say it's white, right?"

Zhang Liang's frown deepened, seeing him thinking like this, Li Bai couldn't help chuckling, opened the wine gourd he carried with him and took a sip.

Li Bai wiped the wine from his lips with his hands, and continued to smile: The knowledgeable and talented military adviser next to the King of Han seems to be a person with no knowledge of worldly affairs, um, he seems to have discovered something serious.

Zhang Liang raised his head: "Language and matter are very different. What you just said is more like changing concepts secretly."

As if he didn't expect that Zhang Liang would find words to refute, Li Bai raised his eyebrows, and then applauded with a smile: "That's great, Mr. Military Advisor. Let's go, let's go back to the city."

The palace, the imperial study.

"Ten cities on the edge of Chu, the final price." The purple-haired monarch pointed to the Chu-Han map on the table, and said to the empress sitting opposite him: "The future will be long, and there will be more time to cooperate. Which one is more important, Shengming?" If your majesty, you will understand."

Although Liu Bang had a gentle and frivolous smile on the corner of his mouth, his eyes were rarely tough.

Wu Zetian looked at him with a faint smile, and tapped the table with her fingers, as if thinking about whether this business would be worthwhile.

Sending troops to help Liu Bang conquer Chu, the condition is to cede ten cities in Chu.

Wu Zetian withdrew his hand and smiled at Liu Bang: "Yes, but I will choose these ten cities myself."

Should the right to choose be handed over to Wu Zetian? I'm really...not reconciled.

The smile on Liu Bang's face remained undiminished, but the hand under the table was clenched tighter and tighter.

Beside his ears were the gentle words of that person: "Your Majesty has always been resolute in his imperial demeanor, and he is determined not to be criticized by others, but this time he entered Chang'an because he asked the Empress for help. As far as the Empress is concerned, whoever wins and who loses in the battle between Chu and Han She can reap the benefits, but as far as we are concerned, once she loses to Xiang Yu, her fortune will be ruined. If you can't bear it, you will mess up and make big plans. I hope that you will think twice when you encounter problems, and don't get angry for a while."

The clenched hand was finally released, and Liu Bang smiled with relief: "Then follow what Your Majesty said."

It's just ten cities. What I, Liu Ji, want is not just mere Chu and Han.

Finally returned to the city.

The afterglow of the setting sun fades to silvery white night.

Li Bai and Zhang Liang are walking side by side on a stone bridge.

"Actually, I have always wanted to ask you, how did you know that my memory was lost?"

"Perception."

"Perception" Li Bai was puzzled.

Standing by the bridge, Zhang Liang pointed to the slowly flowing water under the bridge and asked, "Can you see where the water flows?"

Li Bai nodded: "Yes, from west to east."

Zhang Liang withdrew his hand: "Yes, but not entirely. What you see is only the surface."

"surface"

"There are actually two water flows in this river channel. The one on the surface runs from west to east, and there is an undercurrent in the depths that is a countercurrent, running from east to west."

Li Bai's heart trembled, and he suddenly remembered that Di Renjie had told him before that all the rivers in Chang'an City flowed from west to east, except that there was an undercurrent at the bottom of the river under the stone bridge in the east of the city, which flowed from east to west.

"...How do you know there is an undercurrent under here?"

Zhang Liang smiled: "The sound, the direction of the flow, the breath, everything is enough for me to perceive that there is an undercurrent at the bottom of the river, just like your memory."

The wind blows a leaf, Zhang Liang reaches out to catch it: "After all the language barriers between heaven and earth are broken, everything in the world will be within my perception."

Li Bai looked at Zhang Liang with extremely complicated eyes: seeing the heaven and the earth as one, understanding all things as one sound, how strong is this person?

"Then why are you helping me?"

Zhang Liang turned his head: "Because amnesia is rare, I am also very curious."

"...What happened to that little wooden box?"

Zhang Liang shook his head: "I don't know either. It was left to me by my master. He only said that all human memories can be found through it. It looks like you haven't opened it yet."

Li Bai nodded: "Yes, but... since it was left to you by your master, you just gave it to others so casually"

Zhang Liang looked indifferent: "Anyway, I don't need it, so what else can I do if I don't give it to you?"

Li Bai: "..."

"You knew who I was from the start"

"Yes," Zhang Liang nodded: "During that time, you were in Chu Han, and you had heard the name of Sword Immortal."

"Ovary!" A voice came from the side.

Zhang Liang looked for the sound, not far away a red-haired man came towards him.

Li Bai took a look: "Someone is coming to pick you up, then I'll go first."

Zhang Liang nodded: "Well, thank you for today's matter."

The white shadow flickered and scattered into the boundless night.

residence.

The dim light reflected the gentle and elegant profile of the person at the table.

Liu Bang propped his head and looked at Zhang Liang quietly: "Why are you so stupid, Zifang?"

The tone of criticism was unusually gentle indeed.

Zhang Liang was helpless: "Your Majesty, Liang just doesn't know the way."

Liu Bang laughed softly: "I didn't let you go alone, and you got lost after following the tautology, um"

Zhang Liang was speechless: "I..."

Liu Bang said softly: "Silly Liangliang."

"Well, what did you just say, Your Majesty?" Zhang Liang tilted his head, and accidentally bumped into Liu Bang's eyes, which were so gentle that he couldn't understand the emotion.

"I said to discuss the war with the empress today, and she will send troops to help me on the condition that I give up ten cities in Chu."

"Yeah." Zhang Liang's expression remained unchanged, as if he had expected it a long time ago.

Liu Bang suddenly approached Zhang Liang and looked at his eyebrows carefully.

Zhang Liang was startled, and moved his body away: "Your Majesty, what are you doing?"

Liu Bang returned to the original place and said with a smile, "Liangliang is so beautiful."

Zhang Liang was helpless: "...Your Majesty, I have said many times, don't call me Liangliang."

Liu Bang was full of grievances: "But I think it sounds good."

Zhang Liang was speechless.

Zhang Liang has never been able to understand why the rogue monarch, who is resolute, majestic and even unscrupulous in front of outsiders, sometimes acts like a child in front of himself, making all kinds of cute and unreasonable troubles.Even in front of Han Xin who has a good relationship, he is only kind and kind from time to time, but he has never been like this.Could it be that he is easily bullied because he is ignorant of the world?

Zhang Liang sighed.

"Why is Liangliang sighing?"

"Because I don't understand."

"I don't know what"

"Emotions in the world."

Liu Bang was taken aback for a moment, and for a moment he suspected that Zhang Liang was a god from the sky who descended to the earth, untouched by the mortal world, and came here just to help him, and after the help was over, the god would return to the sky.

Can man stop God?

"Liangliang..." Liu Bang lost his mind for a moment.

"what happened?"

"Will you one day...leave me"

"Everyone's gathering and parting in this world is nothing more than fate. If fate exists, it will stay; if fate is not there, it will break up."

The illusory answer can't catch anything.

"Liangliang, can I... give you a hug?"

Zhang Liang was both surprised and puzzled, he hesitated for a while and nodded lightly: "Okay..."

Liu Bang hugged Zhang Liang slowly from behind, the warm body in his arms comforted him a little.

how can there be such a strange person

He is obviously rich in learning and has the ability to shake the world, but he is ignorant of the world and pure like a blank sheet of paper.

You say he's not smart, and you say he's stupid, it's really... helpless.

Liu Bang himself did not know when he had such feelings for him.

Sometimes I drank with Han Xin until I was half drunk, and called out Zhang Liang's name in a daze. Han Xin said that Ovary is not an ordinary person, why are you bothering, my lord?

Liu Bang said that I did my own crimes and couldn't live.

Liu Bang understands, Han Xin understands, Xiao He understands, but Zhang Liang does not understand.

Sometimes I want Zhang Liang to understand, sometimes I don't want him to understand.

Too complicated.

Liu Bang took a deep breath and buried his head on Zhang Liang's neck.

The fine and dense hot air sprayed on the skin, and Zhang Liang felt a tingling sensation. He stretched out his hand to move, but was hugged even tighter.

Zhang Liang felt an unspeakable feeling in his heart, what was it?I don't know either.

The night is long.