For a long time, for a long time.

Li He spoke again, and his tone was a little unstable: "Forty years of knowing and intersecting, I, Li He, have no regrets in my life." ”

He used Li He, it's me, not me. Forty years of friendship, a promise of friendship, a lifetime of friends so far, when looking back on no regrets.

However, this summary sentence seems a little strange at this moment.

Since then, the yin and yang have been separated, the piano and flute have fallen, and the mountains and rivers have never met again.

"So do I. If you have friends, you have no regrets in this life. Xin Zhoushi smiled suddenly, and her girlish red smile reflected her entire eyebrows and eyes vividly.

The face that was obviously full of wrinkles and a little tired, but at this moment, it was like a cardamom girl in memory, blooming with the bright brilliance of an April day.

It's exactly the same as when he met her.

……

He is also the prince, the inconspicuous one among the many princes. She is just beginning to show her reputation, and even her father treats her with courtesy. Even though he was a high-ranking highness, he felt that in front of her, he was as humble as an ant.

On that day, she was only in her early twenties, and she had just walked out of the gate of the Lin De Temple.

Just finished as a woman, stepped into the man's court, and the royal test was summoned to the national policy and the ministers with wonderful teeth.

The world is watching. Luan Feng is in the beginning. She stood on the top of the white marble steps in front of the hall, proudly looking at the chessboard-like Chang'an City, and then saw him.

He took a little eunuch and stood alone at the corner of the steps, as if waiting for her.

He is not yet weak, and he is only seventeen or eighteen years old. It's still a python robe, a little big, the purple and gold crown is not worn properly, and the slightly restrained eyes are as clean as a teenager in two pools of seawater.

She listened to the eunuch beside him call him, the Eighth Prince. Among the fifteen princes of the Great Wei Dynasty, he was thrown into the crowd and could not be seen.

Maybe it was the court's countermeasures that aroused her spirit, she usually disdained these powerful people, or maybe it was the unique youthful shyness in his eyes that made her amuse him.

"Are you waiting for me?" she said with a chin raised, "you." There was no honorific language, no salutation, and a frank and straightforward smile.

The girl who stood tall and stood tall on the white marble dragon steps. Proud, bright, confident, indispensable, pointing the country.

The sea water under his eyes suddenly rippled.

He walked over in a ghostly manner, and there was no extra greeting, he suddenly folded his hands, bowed his head, leaned over, and solemnly saluted her as his prince.

"If you want to do whatever you want, please help. ”

Eight simple and straightforward words. But it is too easy to be misinterpreted, and it is easy to buckle some rebellious hats, not to mention that it is still in front of the court.

The little eunuch was scared silly.

Her face was calm, but as if she had heard a joke, she raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Why?"

"I am Li He. ”

He also answered plainly. The bent back did not move, and if she should not be, he would not get up.

She smiled even more cheerfully, revealing two lines of big white teeth: "Where's the pay?"

"Nope. ”

He replied with confidence. He looked up, his sea-like eyes locked on her, like a sleeping dragon locking onto its prey.

The heroes of the world are in the middle of it. For my use, those who oppose me will perish, and those who become kings will step on the road of white bones.

Such a look. still pouted with the peculiar youthfulness of a teenager, and the immature arrogance, made her set a lifelong follower almost at the same time.

She walked down the white marble dragon steps, folded her hands, bowed her head, leaned over, bent down in a lower arc than his, and saluted him back—

There are no words.

But the lower arc of his back speaks of the loyalty of submission.

He didn't get up for a moment. Maybe he didn't expect it to go so well, but at the age of seventeen or eighteen, he couldn't control his emotions at first glance, and he burst into tears with excitement.

In front of the Lin De Palace, the monarch and the ministers worshiped the king.

High-spirited, the country treats heroes more.

……

"You said that you are not an outstanding prince, and your mother family is not five surnames and seven hopes, and you have never even met me. Where did you get the courage to come up and say that kind of thing directly?" Xin Zhoushi glanced at Li He teasingly, smiling and showing his white teeth.

"I don't know. In other words, the moment I saw you who were independent on the white marble dragon steps, I had such courage. Li He's eyebrows floated with brilliance, as if he had returned to the heroic spirit of his youth, and his sideburns were gray and could not be erased.

"I'll be the new emperor. And you are my chosen courtier. ”

Xin Zhoushi sneered, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were squeezed into a heap: "How can people who are over half a hundred years old still have such childish words." Becoming an emperor? At that time, you could believe in yourself so much, even if you were crazy, you were crazy and crazy. Weigh the reputation comparison between you and me at that time, you can only be regarded as crazy and have found the right person. ”

"I'm crazy indeed. Li He bowed his head, "Now that Great Wei has become like this, the five surnames and seven wangmen are divided, the Wang family is rampant, and the Wang industry is weak. I've let you down. Sure enough, from the beginning, it was not crazy, but stupid. ”

Xin Zhoushi smiled, and his eyes swam into the night: "I don't blame you." At that time, we made an appointment to end the five surnames and seven wangs who had poisoned Great Wei for a hundred years, and you have done your best. Besides, even now, don't you all raise insects, raising a king who can only replace you to continue this mission and bring new life to Dawei. ”

Xin Zhoushi paused, and looked at Li He: "Li He, you are the king of the world, not the king of change." ”

"Yet even as you become aware of this, you still follow my throne. Sometimes I really want to persuade you to go to the Ming Lord, or do what you want to do, otherwise the king will not be useful, why should you be a virtuous minister?" Li He shook his head gloomily.

"Back then, a promise was enough. Xin Zhoushi spit out a few words lightly, and he may not have thought much about following it when he was young, but he has come to this day rain or shine.

Watch him ascend to the throne, see him reign over the world, see him have to admit that he is not the king of change, powerless to get rid of the cancer of the five surnames and seven hopes, and see him have to admit defeat like a broken general, swallowing all the hatred and resentment of himself.

In the end, seeing him become the puppet he is today, he chose to fight in another way, endured all the humiliation and cold eyes, and swallowed blood and tears in his stomach.

He had never lost the arrogance of his youth. If you want to do what you want, please help.

He never let go of the burning hilt of the sword in his hand. The imperial industry is unified, and Kyushu is clear.

"I can see it all the way. The pain you bear, the things you give up, the ridicule you endure, your undying obsessions. Xin Zhou's dreamy sigh, his eyes were a little red, "All this makes my Xin Zhou, even if I choose again in the next life, I will follow you Li He and rule the country and the world." ”

Ask about the next life, and also follow, open the imperial industry, and create a prosperous world. For the sword in the palm of the king, to stabilize the world, for the shield in the hands of the king, to rule the country and the people peacefully.

Li He nodded silently, and his eyes were a little sparkling: "You are always like this." I am so proud that I only listen to my own meaning, and I never ask what others think. Otherwise, you wouldn't have given Pei'er to you when I handed it over to you, and you didn't think about it at all, and Pei'er's future sword tip was aimed at me. ”

Xin Zhou's eyes blanked him: "If you hand over your son to me, I will do my best to raise him, and as for his sword pointing at you, I have no problem." I didn't teach him to do this, and you still blame me for coming?"

"Nope. I thank you. Li He shook his head with a smile, "If you let Pei'er find his chess game, even if he loses the whole line, he will probably have no regrets." Aren't all fathers like this, they are only happy that their son has something he really wants to do, and it doesn't hurt to aim the tip of the sword at himself. ”