reverse spirit

"Your temper..." King Jiulan smiled and shook his head, "I don't know what to say about you."

While talking, there was a sudden knock on the door. King Jiulan glanced at the door and smiled narrowly, "It must be Yaoer. She likes you very much, so once she knew that I will meet you on this trip, she insisted on going with you." Come here, and specially made some tea and food from Jiulan Kingdom, you must try it later." After saying that, he said to the door, "Come in."

The dark red door slowly opened with creaks, and Yao Jieyu's pretty figure appeared at the door. She smiled at the two people in the room, saluted respectfully, and then entered the room with the maid.

The two maidservants held an exquisite food table in each hand, and the plate on the table contained several kinds of pastries. Yao Jieyu took a small bowl, picked out a few, put them in the bowl, and brought them to King Jiulan, Jiulan Wang Chaoli raised his chin: "Give it to the national teacher first."

Yao Jieyu replied softly: "Yes."

Just as Yao Jieyu turned around, King Jiulan suddenly said: "Since I intend to form an alliance with the National Teacher, I will work together with the National Teacher from now on and share the same taste. This plate of cakes will be shared equally with the National Teacher."

Yao Jieyu understood, sent someone to take the dagger, and personally divided the tea in the bowl into two one by one, and put half of it in another bowl.

After sharing the tea and food, Yao Jieyu put two bowls flat in front of Li Xiruo, and let him choose. Li Xiruo chose one of them, and she brought the remaining bowl in front of King Jiulan, saying, "Concubine I don't know what the national teacher likes to eat, so I can only make these few crude snacks according to the monarch's preference, and I hope the national teacher will not dislike it."

King Jiulan put a piece of pith cake into his mouth, and then picked up a piece of jujube cake and fed it to Yao Jieyu.

Li Xiruo couldn't refuse anymore, and after a few polite words with Yao Jieyu, he also took a piece of walnut cake.

Several people chatted for a while, Yao Jieyu packed her things and left the room.

King Jiulan took a sip of tea, Shi Shiran said: "The widow has made a covenant with Feng Wang three days ago, if I see you rashly again at this time, I will definitely be suspicious of Feng Wang, so I have to use this method-now in From King Feng's point of view, the widow was just passing through the city of Guqu, and he didn't know that the city thought you owned it, so he sent someone pretending to be a merchant to buy some food and clothing. and arrested you."

"In the letter sent by your majesty today, he only asked the foreign ministers to go to the outskirts of the city, but he didn't say that he wanted to see the foreign ministers."

"I planned to see you again in a few days, but the widow suddenly changed his mind later."

Li Xi Ruo was quiet for a moment, then murmured: "That's all." Then he stopped arguing with him, raised his hand and dropped a chess piece, but the expression in his eyes was still quite helpless.

King Jiulan didn't say any more, just picked up the chess pieces with a smile, and dropped the chess pieces with his hand.

The two played against each other for a while, and the chess game came to an impasse. King Jiulan twiddled Heizi and thought hard, and said, "Master, there is one thing I can't figure out—how did you and Feng Chen get together?"

This question was asked so abruptly that Li Xi Ruo didn't know how to answer it for a while, and after a pause, he replied: "If two people are in love, they will naturally be together."

King Jiulan dropped a son: "Although the widow knew that you met in Yanhan Mountain at the beginning, and you left Yanhan Mountain with him later, the widow has always thought that you are brothers. After all, there are many women around Feng Chen. , and you have always been insensitive to the matter of masculinity, and you have almost never been involved in matters of love. The widow really never imagined that you would come together."

Li Xiruo was silent for a moment: "Your Majesty, these are the private matters of foreign ministers, it is useless to talk about them."

"The widow has no other meaning." King Jiulan thought for a moment, and said, "It's just a little curiosity. If you don't want to say it, the widow will not force it."

"However, there is one thing that I must understand—whether Feng Chen is with you just because of a whim or because he really fell in love with you. After all, this conquest of the feudal kingdom was started because of you, but the person who really controls the military power is Feng Chen. It's not you, if Feng Chen suddenly backs down or turns against him again when he is in danger, you will definitely be implicated, and it will be difficult for the widow and Jiulan Kingdom to escape unscathed."

Li Xiruo looked at him with unusually firm eyes, and said word by word: "Even if everyone betrays the minister, Feng Chen will stand by the minister's side."

King Jiulan looked at him, as if he was quite surprised by his answer, and some ripples could not help but appear in his calm eyes. The two looked at each other for a long time, and Wang Fang said, "I have always known that Although Feng Chen is good at trying to figure out other people's thoughts, he still doesn't understand 'love'. Whether it is the old Feng Wang, Rong Zhaoyi, or even Feng Yao, they are all related to him but not family affection. He can't hate anyone , also can’t like anyone.”

King Jiulan sighed: "I believe few people in this world would have thought that he would be so devoted to one person."

"Actually, he..." Li Xi Ruo hesitated to speak, looking down at the chessboard.

"The widow and your master have known each other for many years, and they are as close as brothers. In this way, you can be regarded as half of the widow's disciple. If you have something to say, you may as well speak up."

"It's not an important matter, it's just..." Li Xiruo stopped his movements, looked at the scattered white pieces and the full black pieces on the chessboard, sighed softly, and said, "I wonder if your lord can do it?" Do the minister a favor?"

King Jiulan made another move, then lifted a few white pieces from the chessboard, and said leisurely, "What do you want me to do for you?"

"The minister doesn't want Feng Chen to intervene in this matter anymore. I wonder if your majesty can take him away from the feudal kingdom?"

King Jiulan raised his head in a little surprise. He flipped the chess pieces with his fingers, and suddenly laughed: "No wonder you agreed to let him stay. The widow was quite surprised when he heard the news. So you can do it." It's a tactic to slow down the troops."

"National teacher." King Jiulan put down the chess piece in his hand, picked up a black piece on the chessboard, and looked at Li Xiruo: "Do you think the widow can just take it away so easily?"

Li Xiruo looked at the chess piece and remained silent.

King Jiulan smiled and said: "No, since it has been put down, it has become a piece in this chess game. It is no longer like a chess piece in a chess box. It has no special appearance or identity. It is unique now. Once it Removed, the whole game will change."

King Jiulan put the chess pieces back to their original positions, picked up the tea, took a sip slowly, and said: "Actually, this game has already started, since the old King Feng wanted to get rid of him, the first piece has already been left behind." , these years, he has been retreating, but the grievances between him and Feng Guo need to be resolved after all, and it may not be a good thing to stick to it blindly. Since he is in the game, if you forcefully protect him, you may end up harming him instead. "

King Jiulan: "You do nothing, and all things transform themselves. This is the supreme way."