Smack.

The fire was still burning, and the snow outside the window was lighter.

The boy raised his glass, his lips and teeth were lightly sipped, and the tea was slightly cold.

"The price?"

"The price of changing the world. ”

"How big is the world?"

The man reached out and tried to touch the boy's head, but the boy was extremely repulsive and quickly avoided it. The man's hand hung in the air awkwardly for a while, and then he withdrew his hand, coughed dryly twice, and then said: "There are immortals and Buddhas in the east and west, and there are two people in the north and south." ”

"Dayan is located in the north and is one of the nine kingdoms. ”

"Ningzhou is located in the eastern part of Dayan and is one of the four states. ”

"Wupan City is located on the border of Ningzhou and is one of more than 300 towns. ”

The boy turned his head sideways and looked at the man: "So, the world is so big, you can't even change a Wupan City, why should you change the world." ”

This is not a good question, although the boy who asked the question tried to make himself look as calm and mature as possible, his constricted pupils and trembling voice still revealed a certain irrepressible emotion in his heart at the moment.

A kind smile appeared on the man's face, and he said softly: "We are not overwhelmed, on the contrary, we have made many concessions, retreated again and again, and finally retreated to this Wupan City, and there is no way to retreat. ”

"If we retreat, we will no longer be us. Do you understand?"

Of course not.

At that time, how could the boy understand what the man said, he shook his head and asked angrily: "I don't understand, why can't I retreat? What can I do if I don't become the magistrate of this Wupan City? There will be someone else to do it, isn't it? Why does it have to be you?"

The man looked at the boy whose calm face had gradually collapsed, and the smile on his face became a little thicker. He held out his hand again, and this time, the boy didn't dodge, letting his hand rest on his head.

"Because, there will be no one else but us. ”

The boy was puzzled, he looked up at the man in confusion and asked, "Why?"

The man slowly stood up, glanced at the snow outside the window, and his expression suddenly became sad.

"At the age of twelve. ”

"I studied at the Qingyin Academy. ”

"It is said that the Confucian students in the world, seven out of boundless, three out of the Qingying, although the Qingming Academy is not as good as the Boundless Academy, but for me to be able to go to the Qingming Academy to study, it is an extremely rare thing. I cherish every day in the Qingyin Academy, and I also keep in mind every word and truth that my husband taught. ”

"Until one day, the gentleman said something that I was puzzled about. So he raised his head and looked at Mr., who was still unaware of it, and continued to talk through the school. And the classmates in the room were also unaware of this, they still bowed their heads, and there was only one person, who raised his head and looked confused like me. ”

Saying this, the man who looked out the window seemed to recall some happy past, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

"Is it my father?" asked the boy next to him.

The man nodded: "Since that day, your father and I have become friends, the kind of friends who talk about everything." ”

And the words of the sages, which the students were unaware of, have become something that your father and I have often talked about in the future. ”

"People say that a glimpse of the whole picture can be seen. Even in this Qingying Academy, which is famous for its academic governance in the north, no one can detect the problem with that sentence, and how many people in the north can know it?"

"Later, your father and I entered the official career, and the two of us woke up to the fact that it was not that no one knew the problem in that sentence at all, but that no one was willing to talk about it and change it. ”

"What the hell is that?" the boy asked, frowning, intrigued.

The man turned his head at that moment, opened his mouth, and whispered, "......"

......

"Childe!" Wei Lai had just stepped out of Mingyu Tower, and Ah Cheng's voice came from behind him.

Wei Lai stopped and looked back, and the girl in orange took three steps and made two steps to Wei Lai's side. opened his mouth and stopped talking, and finally could only say: "I'll send my son." ”

Wei Lai raised his head and looked at the high roof of Mingyu Tower, on the platform of the second floor, Yuan Sleeve Chun stood at the window, looking down at him with a smile, the eyes of the two met, Wei Lai arched his hand towards His Royal Highness the Prince, and then nodded to the girl beside him and said, "It's okay." ”

The news that the prince came to Ningzhou has not yet spread, but Ah Cheng is very familiar to the big people in Ningxiao City, since the widow of the Marquis of Chu came to Ningxiao City two years ago, there are countless how many geniuses and demons of the younger generation have been trampled under the feet of this woman, her identity and talent and the prince she represents behind her have made the magnates in Ningxiao City deeply remember this girl who always wears an orange dress.

And in the battle between the disciples of the Heavenly Que Realm before, Wei Lai's identity was also spread in the mouths of everyone on Ning'an Street, and the meaning behind such two people walking together was enough for these big people in Ningxiao City to ponder for a while.

But the two of them, as the parties concerned, did not stir up the consciousness of the current situation that seems to be calm in Ning Xiaocheng now, but has already been surging. The two walked out of Ning'an Street side by side, but the eyes that had been on them before did not dissipate, but were driven by people with good intentions to sink from the light to the dark.

Whether it was Wei Lai or Ah Cheng, they all felt this more or less, but neither of them was willing to pay attention to it.

"Are we friends?" After walking out of the scene for a full quarter of an hour, Ah Cheng finally broke the silence first.

"Of course. Wei Lai stopped when he heard this, he looked sideways at Ah Cheng, and said with a smile: "The catastrophe in Wupan City was coming that day, but fortunately, a girl came to help, so that I had a chance to repel the snake." The girl is not only my friend, but also the benefactor of the whole Wupan City. ”

Ah Cheng also stopped at that time, she looked directly at the young man in front of her, and said: "In this case, I apologize to Gongzi on behalf of the prince, can Gongzi accept it." ”

Wei Lai was stunned, and then smiled dumbly: "Ah Cheng girl thinks I left in a bad mood?"

Seeing that the wry smile on Wei Lai's face didn't seem to be fake, Ah Cheng couldn't help but secretly doubt his speculation: "Isn't Childe?"

"Why am I angry?" Wei Lai asked rhetorically.

Ah Cheng was silent, and thought about Wei Lai's question for a long time with a serious face, and then said seriously: "The prince has always been honest with people, although he knows the contradiction between the prince and the state pastor, but he is unwilling to hide the son, in fact, as the prince said, the son may have real skills, but before the prince grows up, the child's ability is difficult to influence this battle for imperial power." ”

"The prince's bluntness may hurt the son, but ......"

"The girl wants to say, the word is against the ear?" Wei Laijian suddenly paused when he saw Ah Cheng, who was talking about this, and then took over the conversation and said.

Ah Cheng nodded when she heard this, she was not good at words, but she came to be a lobbyist at the moment, and her wording was cautious but still dwarfed.

"I said that I have the ability to help the prince, and I am not lying. I don't care if the girl believes it or not, and I don't care if the prince believes it or not. will not be half resentful because of the prince's frank words. Wei Lai then shook his head and denied Ah Cheng's speculation.

Ah Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then pondered for a while, before he said: "That prince is dissatisfied with the prince's attitude towards the god of Wupanjiang?"

"The hatred of killing my father is not shared, I can understand the feelings of the child......"

"But the battle of Weishui is related to the survival of Dayan, once this battle is lost, Dayan will be harassed by Qi and Ghost Rong, and the people of Dayan will be in fire and water, and Gongzi should understand the stakes. ”

"Besides, the prince also promised that once the time is ripe, he will avenge the prince, and the prince can't ask the prince to tear the skin of the dragon king at this moment and put the billions of trillions of creatures in the fire frame to burn, right?"

"I think that even if Mr. Wei is alive, he will not want to see Gongzi so ...... for revenge," Ah Cheng said this, and fell into a pause again.

"So frustrated?" Wei Lai smiled and took over again.

Ah Cheng was silent, but Wei Lai didn't care.

"When I met Guan Shanqi in Wupan City, this senior reminded me more than once not to be blinded by hatred. ”

"When I met Marquis Yu in Gutong City, the little Marquis also made me think about what else was the Wupan Dragon King who killed my father and Lu Guanshan. ”

"I think they're right, so I always introspect and remind myself not to be like that. Therefore, Miss Ah Cheng did not need to think too much, I fully understood the prince's situation, and my decision had nothing to do with the word revenge. After all, it is the enmity of his father, and he has never thought of protending to others. ”

Hearing this, Ah Cheng became more and more confused, she looked up at Wei Lai and asked, "Then why?"

"I've seen the people of Wupan City, where they were sacrificed as livestock, and I've seen the absurdity that even killing people to pay for their lives because they were slaves. I don't want to get involved in the turmoil of the struggle for imperial power, but if I really can't be alone, then at least I want to find someone who can change all this, and do what I can to help him do it. ”

Wei said this, and his tone suddenly lowered a little: "But unfortunately, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not the person I want to find." ”

"Why? The prince has always had great ambitions and is willing to govern the world, how can the prince judge the prince's ...... just by looking at him" Ah Cheng said with some eagerness.

"Many years ago, Lu Guanshan told me a very strange thing. He said that there was a saying of his ancestors, which was enshrined by the rulers of the nine northern kingdoms. Everyone in the world knows what it means, but no one points out what is contrary to the way of the sages, but acquiesces to it. ”

"This is Dayan, and it is also the biggest root cause of the disease in the entire northern border. ”

"What did the ancestors say?" Ah Cheng frowned.

Wei Lai looked directly at Ah Cheng, his eyes were deep, and in a trance he returned to that snowy night in Wupan City many years ago, and he and the man stood face to face again, and together they spat out the words that had bothered his fathers.

"It is to rule the world with scholars, not with the people. ”

......

"What did he say?" In the Mingyu Building, Yuan Zhichun poured a cup of tea for Ah Cheng and motioned for her to sit down.

Ah Cheng held the teacup in both hands, lowered his head, and shook his head.

"Your Highness, Master Wei has made up his mind, and it is difficult for me to change his mind. ”

"Orange, didn't I say that when it's just you and me, just call me Sleeve Spring. Yuan Sleeve Chun said angrily.

Ah Cheng was stunned when he heard this, and his voice was a little quieter: "Yes, Prince Palace...... Sleeve Spring. ”

It is not difficult to see from her somewhat green tone that Ah Cheng does not seem to be very suitable for such an affectionate title.

But Yuan Sleevechun, who got this, smiled, stood up contentedly, and paced back and forth in this Mingyu Building.

"What do you think of that guy?" asked Yuan Zhichun.

"The talents of the heart are all the best choices, but the only character is quite similar to his father, and he believes in the truth of the book, and sometimes he doesn't know how to be flexible. Ah Cheng answered truthfully.

"Hmm. Yuan Zhichun nodded, "Before I set off from Tailin City, I heard about him from the eyeliner placed on the Jin family's side, and he had contact with Ji Huanxi in Gutong City. It seems that Ji Huanxi also threw an olive branch at him. ”

"The result?" Ah Cheng, who lowered his head, raised his head and asked, his tone a little more eager at that moment. Such eagerness doesn't seem to be just because of business, it's just that she doesn't know it, and Yuan Sleevechun on the side can't know it.

Of course, he didn't say yes. ”

Yuan Zhichun said this, and suddenly sat down again, his brows tightened at that time, as if he was thinking about something extremely important.

His fingers tapped lightly on the desk, slow and heavy, with a certain strange rhythm.

After a long time, he suddenly spoke again: "Orange, I don't think this guy is simple. ”

"Huh?" Ah Cheng, who was looking down and didn't know what to think, raised his head to look at the man, looking puzzled, puzzled.

"As you said, he has been stupid in Wupan City for six years, and he has not shown any cultivation before this, and when you first met him, he was able to condense seven or eight divine bloods, so even if he came to this day, it was only four or five months, in such a short period of time, a Wuyang Realm cultivator could grow to the point where he could compete with the demons on the Tianque Realm Star List, if he hadn't hidden it at the beginning, don't you think his cultivation speed was too terrifying?" Yuan Zhichun whispered.

Hearing this, Ah Cheng shook his head and said softly: "Gongzi Wei has obtained the inheritance of Guan Shan Lance, and according to my observation, it was Guan Shan Lance's Yin God who voluntarily poured his cultivation into his body before he died. The inheritance he had obtained was extremely complete, and it was even possible that he had touched the true meaning of the Holy Realm, which was not surprising in his cultivation speed. What's more, in addition to this, he seems to have some kind of secret method, and under the superposition of the two, his future is unlimited, so I try my best to promote the matter between him and His Royal Highness the Prince, which will be of great help to the upcoming battle for the heir, and the prince's rule of the world in the future. ”

When Yuan Zhichun heard that Wei Lai was carrying the complete inheritance of Guan Shanqi, a strange color suddenly flashed in his eyes, but he immediately covered it up. He sighed and said, "It's a pity that this Wei Gongzi doesn't know the general situation, how can the safety of my Dayan billions of living beings be put in danger for his personal vendetta?"

Ah Cheng in front of him lowered his head and heard this, and unconsciously remembered what Wei Lai said.

......

"What does Miss Orange want?"

"Just want to redress the grievances of Chu Hou? Or do you want something else?"

"If it is the former, it seems that the Jin family has a better chance of winning. But if you want to do something for the world in addition to this, then I'm afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will disappoint the girl. ”

"Do you remember the remarks I told the girl about the mountains and mountains in the dungeon of Wupan City?"

"As far as Dayan is concerned, the Yuan family and the Jin family are the handful of people standing on the top of the mountain, then the big clans like the Ning, Xu, and Xiao families standing on the mountainside, and finally the people at the bottom of the mountain. ”

"The people carry this mountain, and on the mountain stands the great clans, and the great clans also carry a mountain, and on the mountain stands the imperial power. ”

"The people at the top of the mountain want to sit on the top of the mountain and not let the people at the bottom of the mountain make a fuss and overturn them. They hold a piece of bread that they can give to the people at the bottom of the mountain, so that they can carry the mountain in peace. But this is too troublesome, there are too many people at the bottom of the mountain, and besides, they have to take care of the group of people on the mountainside in addition to the bottom of the mountain. Otherwise, the commotion on the mountainside would be much more troublesome than the group of people at the bottom of the mountain. So they simply gave the majority of the loaf to the people on the mountainside. The people on the mountainside have benefited, and in order to keep their bread, they will naturally find a way to suppress the people at the bottom of the mountain, so that the people on the top of the mountain will leave more bread for themselves, and also solve the hidden danger that they will be overturned, why not?"

"This is the common way in which the kingdoms of the north govern the world, and the people are only bargaining chips that can be used to be measured in their eyes. Just like His Royal Highness the Prince, who is full of benevolence and virtue in the girl's mouth, of course he said it well, the dispute over Weishui is related to the Jiangshan Society of Dayan, and the safety and fall of billions of trillions of life in Dayan. This is not right, to be precise, it is related to the rise and fall of the three states of Dayan except for Kainingzhou. Because Ningzhou was to be sacrificed from the beginning, the piece that was sacrificed. ”

"But on what grounds?"

"The Ning family doesn't care, the Xiao family doesn't care, and the Xu family doesn't necessarily care. Because they have a way out, they can go anywhere else and continue to multiply, while most of the people in Ningzhou have to lose their future and become food for others without realizing it. ”

"My father and mother and Lu Guanshan cared, they asked the people of Ningzhou why, so they died. ”

"I will take revenge, but I will not sacrifice the name of an irrelevant person for it, and I will not be blinded by hatred. ”

"On the contrary, it is Miss Ah Cheng, the prince of benevolence in Miss Ah Cheng's mouth, and the gate lord of the big clan on the mountainside of Dayan who is blinded by interests and power. You eat human flesh and drink human blood, but you call it righteousness. ”

"So. ”

"Forgive for being shallow, after all, I can't bear to be disgusted and in the company of man-eating beasts. ”

......

Besides, he really thinks too much of himself, there are countless talented people who are like carp crossing the river when he was young, but there are very few people who can push open the door in the end, and there are too many uncertainties and disasters on the long road. If it weren't for Jiang Huanshui supporting him behind his back, he would have followed his father and mother to sleep under the Wupan River six years ago, how could he be today? Yuan Zhichun didn't know what Ah Cheng was thinking at the moment, he was still talking to himself, and when he said this, he seemed to think that Wei Lai was too naïve, he couldn't help but shake his head, with a mocking smile on his face.

At that time, Ah Cheng, who heard this, finally came back to her senses, she looked at the man in front of her, and the expression on her face suddenly became a little complicated.

She hesitated for a moment, then finally gritted her teeth, raised her head and said, "Your Highness." ”

"I think maybe we're wrong......"

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