Iron Armored Emperor

The soft light gold silk garment was not completely pulled up to the shoulders. On Gu Lie's shoulder blades, half of the wings of the red and bloody fire phoenix tattoo were exposed. At first glance, the silk garment seemed to be on fire.

The ancestors of Jingchu loved nature and worshiped the sun and the god of fire, Zhu Rong. The fire phoenix is ​​the bird Danzhu in Japan and China, and the incarnation of the god of fire.

Therefore, the fire phoenix is ​​a divine bird and the king of all birds.

"Spring and Autumn Playing Kongtu" records: Phoenix, the essence of fire, produces alchemy points. It is not a phoenix tree. It does not live in it. It does not eat it unless it is bamboo. It does not drink it unless it is a sweet spring. Then the birds sign it.

Therefore, the Chu people used the fire phoenix as their totem, and decorated the royal clothes, swords and jade seals of the king of Chu with phoenix patterns.

For example, the phoenix pattern on Gu Lie’s Zishuang sword. These phoenix patterns are usually dancing and singing phoenixes, or standing tall and flowing clouds, or subduing dragons and subduing tigers. It symbolizes that Chu people have the courage to not fear powerful enemies while loving a peaceful life.

The people of Jingchu even associate the fire, phoenix and green luan with love, and spread the myths and legends of the red luan and the stars.

However, the fire phoenix on Gu Lie's back danced lightly in the sea of ​​flames. It fluttered its wings wildly, spreading its angry wings, and the flames scorched its body. Gu Lie's back was burning.

Upon hearing the sound, Gu Lie immediately put on his silk clothes, tied his top belt and turned around.It really was Di Qiye.

After all, even a little beggar would not be so rude.

Gu Lie's clothes were not straightened, and his hair was only pulled up casually with a tie. He felt very bad about his general's etiquette.

With just one glance, the fire phoenix seemed to be burning on Di Qiye's eyes, lingering.

So bright and vivid red, how did the tattoo come out?

"Tattoos are naturally stained with paint and pierced out one by one."

Isn't such a big fire phoenix the same as torture?

Hearing Gu Lie's answer, Di Qiye realized that he had asked aloud, came back to his senses, and asked, "Fire Phoenix, does it mean the Phoenix's nirvana, rebirth from the ashes?"

Another strange word that I don't know where to look.

Gu Lie frowned and thought, and replied one by one: "The fire phoenix is ​​my totem of Jingchu, symbolizing the god of fire and the sun."

"Nirvana, the word comes from Western Buddhist scriptures. I have never studied Buddhism, but I only know a little bit. The original meaning of Nirvana is to extinguish the greed, hatred and ignorance of the world, and to no longer be entangled by desire. It describes the practice of Buddhism to a very high level. Nirvana The Great Nirvana in the book refers to the detachment from the cycle of life and death, and there is no longer the trouble of reincarnation and suffering.”

"At least the legend of the fire and phoenix of the Chu people has nothing to do with Buddhism, and there is no such thing as 'Phoenix Nirvana'.*"

"Rebirth from the ashes, the word is the same. It has never been heard of, and it is not seen in records. Is this an allusion for later generations?"

Di Qiye didn't expect that there would be no legend of the phoenix being reborn from the ashes at this time. Hearing Gu Lie's explanation, he nodded and said, "Maybe it's an allusion from later generations. It is said that when the phoenix was five hundred years old, a raging fire was ignited from the incense wood, and he threw himself into the fire* **, to be reborn from the ashes, and to live forever from now on, it is the phoenix."

This legend sounds interesting, and it seems to have a sad and beautiful feeling. Gu Lie savored it carefully, then lowered his head and smiled: "In this world, there is no one who is immortal."

"So it's a legend."

Di Qiye didn't know why he was so emotional, so he responded casually with a smile, and finally asked the serious matter: "Then beggar, what is the master's plan?"

After all, the bamboo hut was simple and crude, without too many utensils. Gu Lie put on his robe, sat down at the end of the bed, and asked, "General Di thinks, how should we arrange it?"

The lord has already sat down, and not on a high platform, so Di Qiye should kneel down logically, but Di Qiye really doesn't want to kneel right after taking a bath, pretending to forget etiquette, and evading in a grandiose way: "You are the king, and I am the minister. Of course, you can arrange it as you say."

Gu Lie laughed: "Since you're here to ask, you're guessing and pretending."

"You really want to adopt him?" Di Qiye did have guesses, but he was still surprised, "Jiang Yang and the others won't agree."

After finishing speaking, he probably felt that what he said was not very good, and added: "In your words, I messed up the eldest son."

What do you say?

Gu Lie shook his head and smiled, then turned around suddenly: "I said, what do you want to ask, one for one."

Di Qiye's long eyelashes drooped slightly, his eyeballs rolled restlessly, and then he raised his eyebrows and responded, "Then you ask."

"The phoenix you know will be reborn from the ashes," Gu Lie recalled the previous conversation, raised his head, and fixed his eyes on Di Qiye, "Then how is the me you know recorded?"

Di Qiye was stunned: "What are you doing?"

"how could I know?"

Gu Lie intercepted Di Qiye's words and explained: "That night in the bedroom, I deduced that you were nineteen years old. I said at that time that you opened your eyes in this life, and you were already eight years old, and then you lived in the valley for 11 years. You once I asked the clothes shop lady to comb your hair for you on the way, that is to say, you didn’t delay after leaving the mountain, and came straight to the Chu army.”

"You never refuted these inferences, did you?"

Di Qiye looked at Gu Lie playfully, without denying it: "So what?"

"Then, you must have known me in 'your time', otherwise, why would you come straight to the Chu army?"

Di Qiye asked back: "Can't I just hear the reputation of Huofeng Killing God along the way, yearn for it, and just do it on a whim?"

Gu Lie almost laughed out loud, and said decisively: "Mount Qingcheng is in Qinzhou, and at that time it was secretly occupied by the four famous lords. When you entered Shu from Qinzhou, you met people from the Yan Dynasty along the way, and you will only hear about me, a barbarian. How evil is Chu Fengxue, who would call me Huofeng Killing God?"

The daughter of the Liu family, who was born into one of the four famous clans, was fascinated by him and had never met him before, yet she treated him like a snake and a scorpion.

"Besides, Di Qiye, don't you know how critical you are?"

Di Qiye admired Gu Lie's deduction at first, but when he heard the last sentence, he immediately became unconvinced: "Where am I being too picky?"

Gu Lie mercilessly exposed it: "You are willful and reckless, and you are used to calling yourself a strong one. You are too clean and unwilling to tolerate flaws."

"Three points in the world, you choose me as the main one, presumably because I have a famous teacher and a good command of the army compared with Beiyan and the Fengzu, and I don't have any shortcomings that you can't bear."

"When we met in Shuzhou, you said that it is your ideal to serve the Ming Lord and conquer the world. But I am just the best choice for you to realize your ideal."

Di Qiye immediately retorted subconsciously: "No."

Gu Lie had a look of disbelief.

"Well, it's roughly correct. My lord is really resourceful." Di Qiye looked at Gu Lie curiously, and smiled, "But it's not the best choice."

"It's the only option," he stressed.

"There are so many heroes in ancient and modern times, but you are my lord." Di Qiye brazenly boasted, "This is the fate of monarchs and ministers. I am a hero with discerning eyes."

rhetoric.

Gu Lie raised his eyes to look at the thick-skinned man, but Di Qiye wasn't ashamed at all, he still had the natural and unrestrained appearance, but he lost his temper when he saw Gu Lie.

Di Qiye asked back, "I'm asking about that little beggar, why did you suddenly mention this?"

"You know me, how is it recorded?"

"This……"

The literati's pen and ink are like knives, and the general etiquette is profound. In Gu Lie's previous life, he abolished the willow queen and the little prince died in the cold palace. Know how to govern the country.

Some people even said that Chu Gu died not at the hands of Bao Yan, but at the hands of Gu Lie—this is such a piercing theory.

When Gu Lie was in power, this was his only fault worth catching, so naturally he never stopped criticizing.He is prepared for how future history books will be written, and he cannot escape the comment of ruthlessness.

Di Qiye frowned, and said cautiously: "The history books I read are incomplete, and there is no record of the lord's harem. The evaluation is only one sentence, saying, "Chu Zu, Ming Jun also. Know people and use them well, foresight and foresight. Selfless and ruthless, born emperor material.’ Other than that, it’s just a few volumes of battle reports, and the rest is mostly my guesswork.”

Sure enough, selfless and ruthless.

Gu Lie closed his eyes, turned around and thought about it, and felt funny again, muttering to himself: "You speculate, I speculate."

It takes more effort than fighting.

Di Qiye, who had lost another layer of vest, reasoned out what he had said before, and felt it was funny: "I followed the lord around for a long time, what do you want to say?"

Only then did Gu Lie say: "This king is twenty-eight years old this year. If he can calm down the world in two or three years, he will be proclaimed emperor at that time, and he will only be in his thirties."

"At that time, all the ministers will definitely rise up and ask the king to marry a wife and take concubines, and select girls to enter the palace."

Di Qiye took it for granted, "Isn't that the case?"

Ascension to the throne to establish a country, widening the harem, stretching the heirs, and attracting important ministers, but which one of the founding kings is not like this.

Gu Lie's calm caught Di Qiye by surprise: "But this king hates getting close to people."

Di Qiye's eyes fell uncontrollably, and he wandered around the hem of the invisible silk clothes.

"This king has no hidden illness," Gu Lie declared through gritted teeth.

"It's just a heart attack."

All kinds of things in the previous life are unbearable to mention, the queen's rebellion and poisoning, the relatives' family's turmoil, and the night's scent that was so strong that it hurt the heart, heart, liver and heart. Now, it's just four short words.

His brows were full of melancholy, as if a person had been carrying a heavy burden for too long, and the burden was getting heavier and heavier, and he was about to be unable to bear it, and finally, deep exhaustion was revealed between his brows and eyes.

"Well, just to ask," Di Qiye coughed, and brought out the gossip between the two of them, deliberately making Gu Lie happy, "Master, you hate being close to people, but you confine your general to the bedroom. Are you interested in the end general?"

Gu Lie was laughed angrily by him: "I think I didn't die fast enough?!"

"Tsk," Di Qiye seized the opportunity to return Gu Lie's words of disdain for him, "You don't have any taboos about what you say."

Bullshit.

Was he relieved by Di Qiye, Gu Lie said again: "Even if this king has no heart disease, or a few years later, this king healed his heart disease, married a wife and had children, and established a prince. You know, What happened to most of the princes of the founding king?"

That's mostly not going to end well.

"In the final analysis, this king is too young. If he is close to half a hundred years old, even if his heart disease is hard to get rid of, for the great Chu community, this king will definitely marry a wife and have children, and give an explanation to the officials."

What kind of love view is this, Di Qiye raised his eyebrows secretly.

Gu Lie restrained his mind and laughed at himself: "For me, this king will be self-willed."

"But Jiang Yang and the others..."

Gu Lie made up a story without changing his face: "When I was young, I met Gongzi Li's descendants. She couldn't help it. She gave birth to a son and took him back to Qingjian to live in seclusion. Unexpectedly, I accidentally discovered the truth of Gongzi Li's death, and was looked up by the servants. The king received the letter, and General Di came a step late, but fortunately, he saved the youngest son of the king."

This time, Di Qiye was not an ancient person, so he was shocked enough by Gu Lie's audacity.

"You want to give this beggar a real prince status? Then he is your legitimate eldest son!"

"I want to get rid of Zhongzhou Gu, how can I do it without my eldest son?"

Di Qiye wondered, although what Zhongzhou Gu did was stupid and disgusting, had he offended Gu Lie to this extent?He retorted subconsciously: "That doesn't have to be..."

Gu Lie asked easily, "Do you think this child is not good?"

"It's not a question of whether I think it's good or not," Di Qiye rarely felt helpless when facing Gu Lie, "I'm not a person of this era, and I don't care about the eldest son. I have nothing to say about a talented person in the prosperous age. This child is one in a thousand good children. If he is cultivated well, he will become a great talent in the future. But unless you explicitly deprive him of his inheritance rights, otherwise, if you have a legitimate son in the future, you will be regarded as his son. Know how to be grateful, don't fight or grab, will your son-in-law not fight or grab?"

"Then grab it."

Di Qiye looked at Gu Lie in astonishment again.

what did he say?

"Then grab it," Gu Lie calmly repeated.

The second emperor of Qin Dynasty died, and Empress Lu of the Han Dynasty seized power.His children, other people's children, are different.The brother who escaped death with the same surname as Gu, died because of the fire phoenix tattoo.

Who can guarantee that if that child is alive, he will do worse than Gu Lie?

He always felt that he was just a survivor who was burdened with his fate.

Then, let's fight, let's grab, whoever is the best, who can continue the prosperity of the Great Chu, will be able to sit on the supreme dragon seat.

Everything he does is for the revival of Great Chu, and his heirs are no exception.

In this life, he no longer extravagantly desires to have a wife and beloved son, just treat him as if he was bitten by a snake for ten years and is afraid of well ropes, so he simply gives it a go.

Compared with the mediocre Gu Zisun of Zhongzhou, the little beggar has already won a lot in terms of nature.

Di Qiye suddenly laughed: "My lord, you say I'm crazy, and you're not bad."

Di Qiye sighed, and finally persuaded: "But people are subject to change. When he is in the prime of his life, how can he know that he won't think of replacing you?"

However, Gu Lie smiled: "If he can win the country under you and me, what worries does this king have? I have no regrets when I die."

When he was dying in his previous life, he could only feel relaxed and happy, without any regrets.

... this person.

"Is it worth it?" Di Qiye thought about Gu Lie's life, unconsciously clenched the Azure Dragon Saber, and asked in a low voice, "You gave everything for Da Chu. Is it worth it?"

He was taught by his adoptive father to have no interest in life, and he was also harmed so that he could not get close to others, and it was difficult to have a lover and children.

Lively burn the soul, body and mind into a fire, burn all the blood and deep hatred, until there is only a handful of ashes left, which will be poured into the foundation stone of the Great Chu.

Is this person destined to be cold and windy, without any warmth at all?

does it worth?

Gu Lie didn't answer the question.

"No complaints... no regrets," he said.

Di Qiye stared at him blankly, speechless.

Suddenly, Di Qiye's eyes froze, he stretched out his fingers and pressed his lips, signaling Gu Lie to keep quiet.

He walked lightly to the door, looked through the gaps in the bamboo boards, and saw the little beggar lightly dragging the bedding to the small hall outside the bamboo house, like a night watchman, sleeping on the bedding against the wall, A dim oil lamp was burning on the ground nearby.

There seemed to be tears on his face.

Presumably there was a sudden change, he was afraid at night, he didn't dare to sleep alone, he wanted to be closer to the adults, but he didn't dare to disturb Gu Lie, so he slept in the small hall.

Di Qiye thought about the conversation he had just had with the lord, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse for the little beggar, and he sighed in his heart.

Di Qiye looked back at Gu Lie.

Why are there poor and honest children inside and outside the house.

Can't get close to people?

"It's a little beggar." Di Qiye answered with his mouth.

"My lord," Di Qiye said in a low voice, putting the green dragon saber on the side of the Zishuang sword, "I was anxious to find you for dinner during the day, so I tidied up a room, and finally I dared to stay overnight. "

Hearing these words, Gu Lie's already calm heart was furious, and he had the nerve to say that he was in a hurry to find me for dinner?

Di Qiye didn't treat himself as an outsider, took off his outer robe and lay down on half of the bed, planning to sleep like that.

Gu Lie finally fell asleep.

In the dim warm light of the oil lamp, Gu Lie was sleeping, his brows were still tightly knit.

Di Qiye opened his eyes and looked at his lord.

What a pity.

According to military doctors, nocturnal scent can cure headaches and has the effect of sleeping.

Di Qiye bit his finger, pressed the blood onto the clean silk handkerchief without a drop, and tucked it next to Gu Lie's pillow.

He couldn't smell the mint aroma, but he could see Gu Lie loosening his frowning eyebrows bit by bit.

So Di Qiye fell asleep in peace.

The author has something to say: *The theory of Phoenix Nirvana was fabricated by Mr. Guo Moruo borrowing from Western legends