"Go and call Li Dunian. "At meal time, Emperor Zhengxi suddenly gave an order.

Liu Changhuan just saw that His Majesty had eaten a bowl of porridge and several pieces of meat, and his heart was suddenly happy, His Majesty had a bad appetite since the beginning of spring, and he had obviously lost weight. But this is suddenly not a good meal, what is it called Li Dunian, alas, Your Majesty, when do you take care of your body - Li Dunian is the capital supervisor of the camp in Beijing, this Liu Changhuan knows by himself, it seems that His Majesty will stay up late tonight to talk about military affairs.

If there is a chamberlain, he will immediately go and proclaim the decree.

"Your Majesty, are you going to the front hall?" asked Liu Changhuan cautiously.

"No, let's go to Jingzhai. ”

Liu Changhuan's heart sank suddenly, and he went to Jingzhai, His Majesty is really going to stay up late tonight.

He sighed, and could only quickly order someone to arrange in advance and wait for the royal driver.

When Li Dunian stepped into the palace gate, the stars could already be seen in the sky.

Without saying a word, he was ushered into the small door of Jingzhai.

Kneel down and salute.

"Get up, sit down and talk. Zhengxi's voice has a homely flavor.

But Li Dunian didn't get up, but sat on the ground, raised his head and looked up at today, this is the first man in the entire Dongliang Kingdom, and he has the power of life and death in his hands, including him Li Dunian.

He said one, and no one dared to say two.

Tonight he was suddenly summoned, and in this quiet fast, what was he going to do, what was he going to say?

Li Dunian was apprehensive.

"I can't sleep—that's why I called you overnight—" Zhengxi said, taking a futon and throwing it to Li Dunian, and bringing one over himself, sitting on the ground like Li Dunian, and facing Li Dunian.

Li Dunian was nervous, he didn't dare to look up at the man who was close at hand, he had always only raised his head to look up at the dragon chair, and rarely had such an opportunity to sit on an equal footing face to face.

Emperor Zhengxi was actually quite a handsome man.

Although it is not as good as Li Dunian, it is by no means a fierce and brutal appearance.

But he has a bad temper and his methods are quite cruel.

Li Dunian's thoughts flowed in his heart, and the little kindness that had just sprung up disappeared away.

Bai Shuai died. At noon today, he secretly cried in the big tent.

What kind of medicine is this suspicious tyrant going to sell in his gourd?

"Bai Feng is dead. Tell me about it. The Emperor asked suddenly.

This question came so suddenly, Li Dunian originally thought that the emperor would not be so direct. But he has already gone straight to the point.

Li Dunian held back the sorrow in his heart, pretended to be unhappy or sad, and nodded: "The last general knows." The news reached the camp in Beijing at noon. The last general tracked down, it was the food battalion soldiers who went out to buy ingredients, heard it on the street and spread the news in the barracks. The last general has already tied up this ignorant food battalion soldier and punished him when he returns. ”

Since he was destined to face this problem tonight, Li Dunian needed a room to change his mind before he could find out what this Renjun was thinking, so he opened his mouth to say some inconsequential little things to delay and buy time.

"I don't mean to blame you. Zhengxi looked at Li Dunian earnestly, "I want to hear your judgment on this matter." I believe you have heard about the fact that the DPRK and China received two urgent war reports on the same day. One said that Bai Feng was a robber, a bandit, a traitor who defected to the enemy and betrayed the country, and the other said that Bai Feng was a loyal minister and good general who went deep behind the enemy and sacrificed his life, and the southwest battlefield was thousands of miles away, and it was difficult for me to determine which one was true and which one was false.

Li Dunian's heart was surging, he held back the tears in his eyes, and shook his head, "Your Majesty, the last general is dull and difficult to decide." ”

The refusal was straightforward.

"You—" The Emperor was surprised. Then he was angry: "Are you also like those wall grass that fell with the wind, seeing that Bai Feng is now dead, so you want to stay out of the matter and don't want to have anything to do with him?"

"Your Majesty-" Li Dunian kowtowed slowly, the tears in his eyes were no longer hidden, and slowly slipped down: "Your Majesty understands better than anyone else in your heart, since you understand, why bother to persecute the last general again." ”

Air solidification.

Liu Changhuan was guarding outside the Jingzhai Gate, he couldn't hear the sound in the room, he looked up at the starry sky, and silently thought in his heart: Bai Feng, Bai Feng, you old guy, now that you are dead, you still make our Majesty so worried, you really don't make people worry.

Zhengxi nodded slowly, and his voice was painful: "I'm not persecuting you, it's just that I feel uncomfortable and want to find someone to talk about it." ”

Li Dunian quietly stared at the emperor in front of him and looked at him, would he be uncomfortable? He actually said that he was uncomfortable? Among them, how many points were true and how many were false?

"You don't have to doubt my sincerity. "I didn't expect Zhengxi to say through Li Dunian's thoughts," I feel really uncomfortable. The moment the court heard that General Bai had died in battle, my heart was as uncomfortable as a knife. ”

In the small quiet fast, the air of the spring night is stagnant again.

Li Dunian lowered his eyelids.

"I can't forget it, since I can remember, the first person I admired was General Bai. At that time, he was in his prime, dressed in white clothes, two thick black eyebrows, a pair of bright eyes that could see the bottom of people's hearts, especially when riding a horse, the white robe was flying fiercely in the wind, that momentum was really enviable, I looked at him and couldn't help but think, if I were a woman, I would definitely have the idea of marrying him and following him for the rest of my life. ”

Li Dunian still drooped his eyelids.

But his mind fluctuated rapidly.

He once had such a thought, looking at Bai Shuai who was studying the strategy map under the lamp, looking at Bai Shuai galloping and fighting on Daqing's back, and looking at Bai Shuai who was talking and laughing with a bow and archery, he also thought again and again that as long as he was a daughter, he would definitely follow such a man for the rest of his life.

I can't imagine such a ridiculous idea, His Majesty the Emperor has also had it.

At this moment, Li Dunian's heart suddenly became hot, and he had a feeling of meeting a confidant.

"He is the general of his father's family, and he is the person who accompanied his father from the time of a peasant child's army, and for decades, he accompanied his father to die in the mountains and fires, and many of his original children and friends betrayed his father, only he was a consistent person. It is no exaggeration to say that without him, there would be no world in my Dongliang country, and there would be no country in our family. ”

Li Dunian listened quietly.

In fact, such a past, any village farmer in Dongliang Kingdom can recite it, and the story of Emperor Dongliang I fighting the world with his hands is well known to the world, and it is also clearly written in the history books.

It was just from the mouth of the current emperor that he personally recognized Bai Feng's merits, and Li Dunian still couldn't help but feel his heart fluctuate.

The first emperor of Dongliang Kingdom and the old general Bai Junchen joined hands to create the world, which is indeed a beautiful legend that people envy.

However, such a legend soon dispersed like the wind - Bai Feng did not end well.

"Li Dunian, tell me why this is happening, why is this happening?" the emperor suddenly raised his voice and asked in a trembling voice.

Li Dunian trembled slightly.

"I really don't want this result, I don't want it—but I'm still here! What are the people saying in the world? They say that the cunning rabbit is exhausted, the lackeys cook, the birds are exhausted, the good bow is hidden, the enemy country is broken, and the ministers are killed! In the eyes of the world, I am the ungrateful man with a small belly! But I really don't want this- Step by step, why we have come to this situation, I can't say clearly, it seems that there is an invisible force pulling us and pushing us, and we have come to the edge of the cliff step by step, to the point of not sharing the sky. ”

He stopped talking, covered his face and cried.

Outside the door, Liu Changhuan suddenly went limp, and called softly: "Your Majesty—Your Majesty take care—"

No one paid any attention to him.

Liu Changhuan didn't dare to speak up.

Li Dunian's tears could no longer be controlled.

"Although I have sent Qin to investigate the battlefield, I have a clear mirror in my heart, Bai Feng cannot defect to the enemy and commit treason, on the contrary, he is the one who went deep behind the enemy and burned the grain and grass of Moro, except for him, no one has such courage and strategy. But why is it that I still don't want to insist that I believe in his innocence? sometimes I can't see my own heart clearly—"

Li Dunian sweated down.

Contradictory, suspicious, capricious emperor, what does he mean by that?

He brought out all the discomfort in his heart and put it in front of a courtier, then there were only two endings, and this courtier would either become a favored minister with him with one heart, or he would be regarded as a thorn in the side of the repentant emperor afterwards.

When everyone is weak, as a human minister, how can he share the weakness of the Son of Heaven's heart, and who is willing to admit that his heart is weak afterwards!

Li Dunian suddenly kowtowed and interrupted the emperor, "Your Majesty, the minister believes in Lord Wang Ru, and the minister also believes that Your Majesty has a clear judgment in his heart, and there will be justice to General Bai." The minister now has only one thought, to go into battle to kill the enemy, to repay the national court with this blood, and to avenge the old general Bai. ”

Jeong-hee seems to have been pulled up from an abyss.

The emotions he poured out faded.

looked coldly at the courtier in front of him.

"Let's wait for Wang Ru to come back, and then I will make a decision. If someone really reverses black and white, tries in vain to deceive the superiors and subordinates, takes the risk of substitution, and openly does something that goes against the conscience and the hearts of the people, I will definitely kill - no - forgiveness!"

Li Dunian kowtowed again: "Your Majesty Shengming, Old General Bai must be smiling at Jiuquan if he knows underground." ”

At this point in the conversation, suddenly the mood was suffocated.

"Go, it's late at night, and I'm tired—"

Li Dunian stepped out of the door, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and then walked quickly away from Jingzhai.