Brother is a heartless thing [Rebirth]

Gu Jue clenched his hands in his sleeves, his expression was calm and he didn't make a sound, he just looked at the two servants beside him.

Li Ruqi waved his hand, pushed away the waiter at the side, and looked at Gu Jue expectantly.

Gu Jue didn't say a word to him, straight to the point: "Li Ruqi, Yang Kingdom is about to perish."

"..."

Li Ruqi's eyes changed slightly, he knew very well that Gu Jue couldn't be joking with him, and he also knew the current situation of Yang Guo.But there was not much emotion on his face, he quickly suppressed the emotion in his eyes, and lightly raised his eyes to look at Gu Jue, "So?"

Gu Jue was silent for a moment, and then said: "I heard that in the past few months, the turmoil in the court has continued, and people's hearts have been panicked. Many officials have left the city overnight and escaped from Yang Kingdom..."

"So, you also want to escape?" Li Ruqi understood his meaning at once, and stared straight at him.

Gu Jue met his gaze calmly, "Yes."

Li Ruqi was silent for a few moments, then burst out laughing, tapped the table lightly, and looked at him playfully, "I really didn't expect it, it turns out that the national teacher who has always been loyal and loyal to the country would also be so greedy for life and afraid of death, betraying the country. The treacherous side?"

"I am loyal to serve the country, but I am not foolishly loyal. Now that the country is no longer a country, why should I stay here and wait for my life to die in vain?" Gu Jue said calmly.

"Well said." Li Ruqi put down the cup, and stood up slowly, with a loose robe showing half of her chest, standing tall and straight in front of Gu Jue, and said, "So, you want me to help you?" you run away?"

"No." Gu Jue's voice was deep, "I just came to tell you."

Li Ruqi raised his eyebrows, "Tell me?"

"Yang Kingdom has become a place of right and wrong. If possible, I hope you will leave here too."

Li Ruqi was silent for a while.

Suddenly, his shoulders trembled slightly, and he laughed out loud, the light in his eyes flickered slightly, especially with a smile, he said somewhat ironically: "You asked me to leave?"

Gu Jue remained silent.

Li Ruqi continued: "Where are you leaving? Yangguo? Lingjiang Monarch's Mansion? Leave the meritorious service that I risked my life to fight, leave the military power that I have worked so hard to control, and leave the high power and rich salary that I dream of being supported by thousands of people?"

"Haha... why? Gu Jue, you are too ridiculous."

Gu Jue looked at him quietly and asked, "Li Ruqi, are these things really that important?"

Li Ruqi chuckled lightly and said, "What? Does Gu Guoshi still want to preach to me?"

Gu Jue didn't speak, but looked at Li Ruqi with silent and complicated eyes.

Li Ruqi ignored him, lightly brushed off his wide sleeves, turned around and sat down on the soft bed covered with fox fur, poured two glasses of wine by himself, and said: "In half a year, Princess Mengxiao and I It's time to get married, and I originally wanted to treat Gu Guoshi to a drink on that day, but now it seems that I probably don't have that chance."

"Since Gu Guoshi insists on leaving, then..." He handed over a glass of wine, "I wish Gu Guoshi a bright future and a smooth journey."

Gu Jue looked at the glass of wine in front of him, clenched his fingers, and finally couldn't bear it any longer, and said loudly: "Li Ruqi! Wake up, Yang Guo can't last a year!"

"Don't talk about gold and silver treasures, fame and fortune, even your life is still unknown in the future! You can't let go of the things outside of you, so can you be willing to let go of your own life?! What's more, if the Yang Kingdom is gone, what is left of you What are you doing?! Why are you so stubborn!"

"..."

The smile on Li Ruqi's lips finally subsided, and he looked at him with serious eyes. After a while, he put the wine cup back, slowly put it back on the table, and said softly, "Gu Jue. Do you still remember the time when you and I were together?" Have you ever said, what is the most impermanent thing in this world?"

"It's fate." Li Ruqi said.

He looked at Gu Jue quietly, and said: "My life, Li Ruqi, has always been in my control, and only I can control it. I have worked hard for half of my life, and it doesn't matter whether it's the fame or fortune I got. Life is important. But how do you know that in the next year, I will not have life to continue to enjoy it?"

Gu Jue frowned slightly.

Li Ruqi didn't care about his expression, but said indifferently: "I told you a long time ago, Gu Jue, I'm an ordinary person. I love power and money, and I'm greedy for life and afraid of death. But there's one thing, I'm afraid you've forgotten... ..."

"I, Li Ruqi, how can I die so easily?"

"..."

He stroked the cup, and said with a calm expression: "Since you said that Yang Kingdom is doomed to perish in the future, and I am doomed to lose power and lose everything, then why don't I cherish the present moment, enjoy myself while I can, and continue to enjoy what I should be enjoying? ?”

"You want me to run away with you, but where can I go if I run away? I am originally from the Yang Kingdom, and I am from a noble family. My roots are in Yang. After treason, which country dares to take me in again? Reuse me? Give me power? Give me wealth? Let me regain everything I lost?"

His eyes were deep, and he finally smiled and said: "Gu Jue, I know you mean well, but I am not stupid. I know how to judge the situation and I will not let myself die for nothing. So if you have to worry about me, you don't have to."

After he finished speaking, he leaned back, raised his head and slowly drank the wine in his hand, then found a comfortable position to support his head, lowered his eyes and played with the delicate cup, and said leisurely:

"I'll help you escape."

"When the preparations are ready, send someone to give me a message." Without raising his eyes, he waved his hand lazily, "Come back, Gu Guoshi."

Gu Jue was discouraged.

He knew this person's temper, and the words had come to this point, and it was obviously irreparable, so he didn't try to persuade him anymore, but said in a deep voice: "Thank you, General Li, for your kindness, but... there is no need."

Li Ruqi raised his eyes and was about to laugh at him when he heard the other party say coldly: "I will personally enter the palace to resign from office in the morning tomorrow morning."

"..."

Li Ruqi's eyes changed.

Now everyone knows what the state of Yang Kingdom is like, Yao Kingdom is covetous, the court is troubled by internal and external troubles, even though Gu Jue has no position as a national teacher, he is also from a century-old family.If he escaped from Yang Kingdom privately, maybe there is nothing he can do about it, but if he resigned from office, wouldn't that be making himself a target, and presenting himself to the King, to the Yao Kingdom? !

Looking at Gu Jue's neither humble nor overbearing face, Li Ruqi knew that the person in front of him was not joking with him.

He can really do it.

Li Ruqi couldn't help grinding his teeth, and squeezed out a sentence: "...are you crazy?!"

He said: "Gu Jue, what did you tell me just now? You said I don't want my life? I think you are the one who really doesn't want my life?! You want to resign in front of the king, well, even if he agrees, you Have you ever thought about the consequences after you leave Yang Kingdom? Will those admonishers in the court let you go? Will those scumbags in Yao Kingdom let you go? Do you know that they—”

"I know."

Gu Jue said lightly.

"I know."

"..."

"Li Ruqi." He said calmly with still water in his eyes, "Actually, we are the same kind of people."

"It's just that you chose the rich and powerful, and I chose Xinyi. In the face of these two things, our lives are worthless."

"Is not it?"

"..."

Li Ruqi didn't make another sound for a while.

Gu Jue turned around, his toga slightly dragged on the floor, his figure was as thin as a bamboo in snow, and before leaving, he only left one sentence:

"Tomorrow, I will personally resign from the king."

"Take it as...my last bit of loyalty to Yang Guo."

……

After that day, Gu Jue really went to the palace to meet the emperor, and asked him to resign and leave the city face to face.

Li Ruqi didn't know exactly what Gu Jue said to Jun Shang that day, but heard that Jun Shang was furious at that time, stalemate for a long time, and finally let Gu Jue go, but detained all the property and assets of the National Teacher's Mansion , not even allowing him to take away a servant.

So Gu Jue just left.

Relying on his integrity and pride, he left Yang Kingdom and embarked on a future that even he himself did not know.

Since then, Li Ruqi has never heard of Gu Jue again.

A few months later, seeing that Li Ruqi and Princess Mengxiao's wedding was approaching, the monarch suddenly brought him into the palace privately on this day, and secretly entrusted him with a "Heavenly Edict".Let him lead tens of thousands of Zhaobei troops to the southwest to carry out secret missions under the pretext of capturing rebels and bandits.

Wen Xuan and Min Shao had roughly guessed it when they heard the word "Tianzhao".

This heavenly edict should be the culprit that Li Ruqi personally mentioned that day, and the beginning of all the crimes that happened later.

as predicted.

After Li Ruqi was ordered to go to the southwest, he was ambushed by the Yao army halfway.

He didn't expect at that time that the power of Yang Kingdom had already declined to this point.

The Yao army, which was three times larger than the Zhaobei army, was hiding in the southwest border, and countless dark arrows were hiding in front of them.Regardless of the way forward or the way back, everything was completely cut off, like hungry wolves and beasts dormant in the dark, they suddenly rushed out to kill them by surprise, and made them desperately powerless to fight back.

At that time, the war horses neighed, the sky was full of blood, the dust and sand were full of blood, and the clanging of knives and guns could hardly be heard in the ears, only the tyrannical and brutal slaughter, and the wailing of despair.

Tens of thousands of soldiers were pitted and killed by Yao Guo in the deserted mountains.

Their bodies were piled up into mountains of corpses and seas of blood, exposed to the wilderness.

Young and strong hot-blooded men have become cold skeletons that no one has buried. They were invisible in the prosperous life when they were alive, and their eyes can't be closed after death.

Everyone thought sadly that they had just fallen into Yao's trick.

Including Li Ruqi.

He understood that this matter had an inseparable relationship with the emperor, but he only thought that the emperor was bewitched by the counselors and sent him to the southwest for a while because of the edict of heaven, but was secretly hindered by the kingdom of Yao.

He thought that no matter how incompetent, incompetent, ignorant and ignorant the monarch is, he would not be so stupid as to harm his own soldiers and bury a group of virtuous and loyal bones.

But he was wrong.

Their monarch really destroyed them with his own hands.

Because just as the bloody storm was sweeping, the scene in the illusion suddenly changed, and folds opened like water waves, and the picture in front of him changed accordingly, laying out the truth in front of his eyes——

In the resplendent and resplendent hall, behind the veil as thin as mist, the supreme king sits on the throne, lamenting sadly through layers of veils.

He is pondering, repenting, regretting...

Condolences to his loyal soldiers.

He already knew those people would die.

Those sighs and whispers, like the death of a rabbit and a fox, penetrated into the ears and eyes like thunder and lightning, making people frightened, resentful and trembling.

Almost nauseated.

A gust of cold wind came, poured into the cold hall along the door, and rolled up a corner of the veil.

Wen Xuan saw the counselor standing beside the throne.

The man was dressed in dark black clothes, with a high collar, and his whole body was neat and tight. His face was covered by a silver and black mask, and he stood silently beside the king, almost eerily quiet.

Those eyes were hidden behind the mask, as if they were quietly hidden in the darkness, and seemed to cast a gloomy cold light, but in an instant, they were covered again by the lightly hanging veil.

Just as the king sitting on the seat sighed, mercifully and sadly thinking about his martyrs who died loyally, a palace official walked in outside the palace gate.

He was holding a small square brocade box in his hand, and after getting the king's permission, he approached him and respectfully presented the treasure box.

After a while, the man's voice came from beside the throne:

"Report to Your Majesty."

Through the mask, the voice was as hoarse as if it had been honed by sandpaper, as if it had been deliberately distorted, so low and cold that it did not resemble a human voice.

"With Li's daughter's Lingfu as medicine, the elixir of longevity has really come true."

Through the veil, the fuzzy black shadow moved and bowed slightly to the person seated, "I congratulate you, Your Majesty, from now on——everything will shake the world, and your life will be boundless."

The author has something to say: "Lingfu" is the heart.

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