Whoever wins the crouching dragon wins the world

Irregular geometric shape, uneven black and white spots, the fruit on the surface is curled up in the light yellow cream, and under the insufficient sunlight, it has a color that makes the stomach uncomfortable...

I looked at Liu Xi hesitantly: "Are you sure, it can be eaten?" Although it bears the name of mousse cake, but this ugly thing in front of me really makes it impossible to connect it with the attractive pastries that are popular all over the world later. Together.

"Of course I can eat it! Why can't I eat it!" Chef Liu, who had locked himself in the kitchen for ten hours before finally finishing the cake, had a rare look of shame turning into anger, and bluffed, "Bella cakes are world-famous. It’s hard to find, people line up every day from the third street to the 100th street, how dare you dislike it? Love it or not!”

Such an ugly cake, why can't I dislike it!

I rolled my eyes unconsciously: "Don't think that you can have the cake as your own if you put your name on it! You have to show some face, that cake was obviously made by Guo Jia, which is why it attracts so many diners. Instead of this one you made..." I poked the black unknown solid in front of me with a fork, and said suspiciously, "This one might eat dead people, right?"

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If I hadn't dodged quickly, Liu Xi would have smashed the whole cake on my face.

A year ago, Kong Ming and I traveled to England leisurely and leisurely. Because of my hometown complex, we went to the location of my grandmother's house in the previous life. We stayed for three months before deciding to travel again.Unexpectedly, before the carriage crossed the border, a long-lost black-haired and black-eyed boy hurried over and told us that the distinguished guest was about to visit, and hoped that we would wait for a while in England.

At that time, I guessed that Liu Xi had also come to the UK.

Shortly after Kong Ming and I left Beiman, great changes took place in the city of Luoyang.Liu Xi, the lord of the Ming Dynasty, unfortunately fell ill, and his beloved nephew Zhuge Zhan took advantage of the opportunity to enter the palace. He raised troops to force the palace, and was forced to issue an edict of abdication before passing away.Needless to say, the risks and turbulence caused by the alternation of power during this period need not be mentioned. After Liu Xi's "death", Zhuge Zhan's infamy spread loudly in the streets and alleys. The upright speech officer admonishes him with death, and almost kills him.

In the precarious situation, Zhuge Zhan promulgated the strictest speech control decree in history, stipulating in black and white that "anyone who discusses the government indiscriminately will punish the nine clans."

"In troubled times, heavy codes should be used. Even if those admonishers are not afraid of death, they have to take care of their parents, wives and children behind them." Recalling the danger at the time after a few years, Liu Xi, one of the parties, still feels sad, "You This son is not burdened by fame, and his methods are swift and resolute. He is really a natural emperor." Although Zhuge Zhan became what he is now thanks to Liu Xi's years of upbringing, but as a "first emperor" who had no intention of political affairs, After hearing the great achievements of his successor, he will inevitably feel the emotion of the waves behind the Yangtze River pushing the waves ahead.

In just six years, Zhuge Zhan suppressed all criticisms and more than doubled the territory of Ping'an Han. The prestige of the Great Han Emperor has been heard even in distant England.

If it is said that Liu Xi started to retire after he unified the Central Plains, and he wanted to hand over the affairs in his hands to his nephew and travel the world with his sweetheart, Zhuge Zhan has made it his lifelong goal to build Pingan Han into a powerful empire since he was a child .In the job of emperor, Zhuge Zhan is more dedicated and ambitious than Liu Xi.

"Zhan'er became what he is now, and it's not all because of you!" Although I didn't know it at the time, but I think about it carefully in the past few years. I was worried that Kong Ming and I would object, so I kept hiding it, "He could have been a mediocre son, inheriting his father's title, finding a moderately high official position in the court, playing with dogs and walking birds every day, and living a fairy-like life. But you just want to put him on the fire and instigate him to willingly cook in the fire, this uncle is a bit unkind."

"I never forced him. It's your son who has ambitions. You should thank me for giving him a platform to display his intelligence." No matter how many plans and schemes he had before, now things have changed and Liu Xi is a bachelor. Playing foolishly, "How many people in the world want to be emperor, just go to the street and ask anyone, if I give him the throne, will I still harm him?"

Without morals, anything is possible!I despised him with my eyes: "You can get cheap and act like a good boy!"

If Liu Xi had simply thought of Zhuge Zhan at the beginning, he should have lived to give up the throne to Zhuge Zhan, instead of feigning death and pushing all the criticisms on Zhuge Zhan's shoulders.But after all, he was still selfish for a while, impatient with the courtiers' accusation that he passed the throne to a foreigner, so he simply chose to settle everything.

Originally, Zhuge Zhan could be an emperor who gave three speeches and three concessions to the imperial edict, was helpless to his wayward uncle, and after making enough gestures, was finally forced to take on the burden of governing the country.But now he is a black-spotted emperor whose throne is of unknown origin.

Liu Xili argued frankly: "If I passed the throne to him, I would have to stay in Luoyang for at least two or three years, right? Otherwise, the new emperor would die as soon as the old emperor took office, and everyone would have to suspect that there was something tricky in the middle. For two or three years, I had to endure repeated bombings from various people, and because Zhuge Zhan wanted to care about me, he had to be shy in doing things and was not free."

As the founding king who started from scratch and conquered the world, Liu Xi has many loyal supporters around him. These people are the biggest stumbling block for Zhuge Zhan to succeed to the throne.It can be said that without Liu Xi's intentional connivance, Zhuge Zhan would not have been able to snatch the throne from Liu Xi even if he had great abilities. Growing up, they have a natural closeness to him, but as long as Liu Xi is still "alive", they will never really turn to Zhuge Zhan.

Liu Xi didn't want to be the overlord, if he wanted to hand over power, he just handed it over completely.

The most important thing is that in life, Liu Xi asked himself that he couldn't be completely hard-hearted.If he didn't feign death, how should he deal with the royalists who disobeyed the imperial edict?When Zhuge Zhan wants to kill the diehards who wholeheartedly support Liu Xi as emperor, how should he deal with himself?It is considered inhumane to watch the brothers who used to go through the bloody road with him through the hail of bullets not die under the enemy's sword but die under his will, but if he saves one, it is tantamount to acquiescing in their resistance to Zhuge Zhan's behavior, how should he explain to Zhuge Zhan at that time?

He even thought about the worst scenario: Manchu civil and military refused to accept the new emperor, and he couldn't raise his butcher knife to slash at his former colleagues, and he was unwilling to meet their demands and continue to be the emperor. He was in a dilemma, no matter what. There is no way to get the best of both worlds.

"Zhan'er is a good boy, he himself proposed to bear the charge of usurping the throne." If Zhuge Zhan insisted on Liu Xi's escort, as an uncle, Liu Xi had to bite the bullet, but since Zhuge Zhan understands his difficulties, Liu Xi Xi naturally wished for it, "Without my thoughts, the courtiers would be more likely to accept the new emperor."

Zhuge Zhan did a great job.

After taking over the crown from Liu Xi, he violently killed several admonishers who took the lead in protesting, promoted a group of trusted officials, and calmed down the court as quickly as possible.

He doesn't ask for fame, so he is unscrupulous.

And Liu Xi didn't plan to cheat corpses in Ping'an Han territory, so he took Guo Jia lightly, walked all the way to England, and finally opened a cake shop in our previous life's hometown to make a living.

Who would have imagined that Liu Xi, who has lived an elite life for two consecutive lives, would actually open a cake shop facing the ocean and spring flowers blooming in the depths of his heart?She and Guo Jia lied about being brothers, and adopted an orphan with yellow hair and blue eyes during the trip, and settled down in England.

The cake recipe from later generations is far ahead of the times, so the business is booming, and the stock is sold out every day.

In this era, Chinese living in Britain were as rare as dioramas, but as Pingan Han's iron cavalry conquered more and more territories, black hair and black eyes gradually became an enviable blood mark.On the west coast of the English Channel, many local ladies can afford expensive fuel to dye their hair black, which is an elegant fashion.

Over the past few years, businessmen from Ping'an Han have come to do business with the British with all kinds of novel oriental specialties. Whether it is traditional tea or bicycles that the locals have never heard of, they are very popular in the UK.Against such a background, the Chinese cakes sold by Bella Cake Shop seem childish.

Sunbathing, counting business funds, and quarreling with Guo Jia, Liu Xi is very satisfied with the leisurely life now, but Kong Ming and I can't cleanly put aside everything in the past like him.Although we have traveled abroad for several years, we always remember that in Ping An Han, thousands of miles away, there is an eldest son who was abandoned by his parents and is looking forward to it.

Under Kong Ming's careful teaching, Zhuge Gu grew up to be a noble and modest gentleman as he wished. Compared with his popularity, Zhuge Zhan, who was cruelly cut off from his father by Kong Ming, is a bit pitiful.The father and son had exactly the same temperament, one was sullen and determined not to answer a single word to his son, the other complained repeatedly that his father was a stubborn old man, leaving me in the middle in a dilemma.

Fortunately, we are blood relatives. When we handed over Beiman to Fengcha before we left, although Kong Ming was angry, he finally left an order to "send troops to assist Mr. Zhan if necessary", and although Zhuge Zhan hated us for not telling us, And don't, but never demoted Kong Ming.Therefore, even if we have not made any contribution to the stability and unity of the Northern Man in the past few years, in name Kong Ming is still a king of a different surname guarding the border for the country. Unswervingly sending someone to send the prince's salary to Kong Ming every month, without fear of the long and difficult journey.

When Liu Xi made up his mind to open a new Bella Ice Cream restaurant next to Bella Cake Shop, Kong Ming finally prepared himself mentally and was ready to return to China to face the eldest son who usurped the throne.

Zhuge Gu happily played "Yue Tiao" at home for two days.

He was still young when he left Luoyang, and he had no impression of his elder brother who doted on him when he was young, but this did not affect his admiration for Zhuge Zhan.From childhood to adulthood, he was surrounded by people who had great kindness towards Zhuge Zhan. Even Kong Ming, who hated Zhuge Zhan the most, would at most keep silent about him and would never say a bad word about him.So Zhuge Gu has always heard positive comments about his brother. In his heart, he is a hero who dares to risk the world for the well-being of the people.

"Pingan Han has developed very well under the leadership of my brother." Influenced by Liu Xi and me, Zhuge Gu's expression is more modern than Zhuge Zhan, "Although outsiders may think that he is seeking power and usurping the throne, I know the inside story. The throne was obviously handed over to him by my uncle."

When Zhuge Gu was six years old, he wrote Zhuge Zhan a letter full of typos on a whim, and got Zhuge Zhan's reply as he wished. After that, the two brothers became pen pals who wished they could wear a pair of pants.

When he learned that we were packing our bags, Liu Xi’s reaction was very straightforward: “It’s not easy, he finally figured it out.” Because he was suspected of abducting his young and ignorant nephew, Kong Ming changed his previous respect for Liu Xi, and for a long time did not respect him. Giving him a good face made Liu Xi helpless.

Time can smooth everything out.When Kong Ming and I saw the long-lost South and North Palaces again, Zhuge Zhan, who had grown up like an emperor, stood up from the glittering golden dragon chair and gave us a warm hug.

I taught him as a kid that hugs can solve a lot of problems, and he never forgot.

I almost shed tears.

The era that belongs to me, Kong Ming, and Liu Xi is over, and the remaining history will be written by Zhuge Zhan and Zhuge Gu.

This is inheritance.

Luoyang is the place where I first descended in this life. Now it seems that I will grow old and be buried here.Regardless of life or death, Kong Ming will always be by my side. In the dead of night, he whispered in my ear: "My children and grandchildren will eventually have their own world, but we, husband and wife, will stay together for a long time."

Stepping into the threshold of 50 years old, it seems that it is no longer far away.

That's it, forever.

The years are quiet and good, happiness is forever.

The author has something to say: I can finally mark it as the end of the whole play, thank you readers for your company all the way, you are the driving force for my renewal and progress, bow and spread flowers!