The outermost layer of the pheasant was already roasted to brown, Li Ze carefully slice the outermost layer with a knife, put it on a plate, hesitated a little, and took the lead in handing it to Li Anguo on the other side.

Seeming to be satisfied with Li Ze's performance, Li Anguo nodded slightly, poked a piece and put it in his mouth, chewed it for a while, and swallowed it only until his teeth were full of fragrance, and said with appreciation: "Sure enough, there is a difference." My husband and grandson, the same raw materials, the taste we make is indeed worse. ”

"It's just a different approach." Gongsun Changming said with a smile, but his eyes were still staring at Li Ze's constantly flipping pheasant.

Eating the thin mountain chicken meat on the plate, Li Anguo looked at Li Mi and Chen Changping, who were busy not far away, and asked, "That's the archer under you?" ”

Li Ze glanced back at Chen Changping, who was helping Li Mi with his work, nodded and said: "His archery skills are indeed good, he used to be from Henghai, but because he was dissatisfied with Zhu Shou's rebellion, he followed me later." ”

"I heard my husband and grandson say, you also have a general named Shi Zhuang, whose origin is quite mysterious, have you figured out his origin?" Li Anguo asked.

Li Ze shook his head: "There's no need." ”

"Then you dare to use it? I heard that he is the most useful general under you? Do you value him more than Tu Lichun? Li Anguo said in surprise.

"When people have fellowship, the most important thing is to know their hearts, and when he is willing to tell me, he will naturally tell me." Li Ze didn't look up, and said lightly: "Exhaustively digging into the bottom of the matter, hurting feelings in vain." ”

Li Anguo sighed, this son's principle of employing people seems to be very different from himself.

When Li Ze delivered another plate of good chicken to Gongsun Changming's hands, Li Anguo suddenly asked, "Does Che'er's death have anything to do with you?" ”

Gongsun Changming was happily bringing a piece of chicken to his mouth, and when he heard this earth-shattering question, he immediately froze somewhere, and the meat held up to his lips also stopped at the edge of his teeth.

Li Ze didn't raise his head, he was still concentrating on roasting the chicken, his subordinates didn't stop, but he replied without the slightest hesitation: "It's okay." My hand doesn't reach that long. ”

Li Anguo looked up at Chen Changping in the distance, and sighed: "Suning is sure that you did it?" ”

Li Ze smiled: "When the Chinese New Year was just now, he also sent hundreds of elite cavalry to kill me?" Until now, I haven't seen him, this is a mad dog, and now he catches me and bites me, and I can't help it. ”

Li Anguo retracted his gaze, looked at Li Ze calmly, and said, "Yes or no, it doesn't matter now." Che'er is dead, and I only have one son left with you. Speaking of which, it's all my fault. ”

Li Ze finally raised his head, looked at Li Anguo, and said in an affirmative tone: "What you said is right, this is indeed your fault, sixteen years ago, you were wrong." ”

Li Anguo's face flushed, and he was a little angry: "What do you know about what happened sixteen years ago?" How much do you know about me and your mother? ”

Li Ze smiled lightly: "If there is anything you don't know, you can guess it." One respects but has no love, and the other loves but can't. It's just a complaining husband and a woman, but I, who came into this world, suffered so many sins for no reason. It is a sin to be born and not raised, or to be raised and not taught. ”

Li Anguo blushed, staring at Li Ze viciously, it seemed that he wanted to swallow Li Ze in one gulp, after all, he was a thrifty envoy, and under the anger, the power of being in a high position for a long time was naturally revealed. Liang Han, who was originally standing behind them, involuntarily took a few steps back, and Chen Changping, who was a little farther away, straightened up and looked at this side, this person has been fighting on the front line for a long time, and has an intuitive reaction to danger, when he looks here, his hand involuntarily touches the quiver on his waist, but Li Yu realized it later, and saw Chen Changping's movements, so he straightened his waist and looked here.

Chen Changping's actions naturally couldn't hide from Li Anguo, he sneered a few times.

Li Ze turned his head and glanced at Chen Changping, who immediately lowered his head and continued to pluck the pheasant, as if nothing had happened.

"You're a man, you're really loyal to you." Li Anguo sneered: "In this place, he actually has the courage to make a move." ”

"A guy with muscles all over his head." Li Ze smiled: "It's not worth your anger." ”

Li Anguo stared at Li Ze for a long time, and his face finally softened.

"It doesn't matter whether Che'er died at your hands or not, and I don't want to explore the truth, as you said, these are the causes I have planted, and I must bear the consequences. But then again, you are my only choice, but this is either the best choice or the worst option. ”

"What's the explanation?" Li Ze stopped what he was doing and asked with some curiosity.

"Your sophistication and ruthlessness are beyond my expectations." Li Anguo put down the plate in his hand and said, "I asked Gongsun, he didn't teach you this, your mother, let alone such a person, so how did you grow up to be like this?" ”

"Living in peace and thinking about danger. A person who is always worried about whether he can live a long time naturally thinks more. Li Zedao: "As for some things, if you read enough books, as long as you are not stupid and good at thinking, you can naturally learn them." ”

Li Anguo was stunned for a moment, and then nodded slowly: "In this way, over the years, I have also suffered you." The reason why you are the best choice and the best choice is because it is possible for you to lead the Li family to the peak that I have never reached, but it is also possible for the Li family to fall into the bottomless abyss, and from then on disappear and cease to exist. ”

"You have a point." Li Ze cut off the head of the pheasant with a knife, stuck the knife in the head of the chicken and raised it in front of his eyes, looked at the bright red crown on the head of the chicken, and said: "But this is not what I want, but the situation dictates it." Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Just like you, you want to be a soil emperor in the land of Chengde, but in the end, isn't it involuntarily wrapped up in the torrent of history and unable to retreat? ”

Li Anguo was silent and did not get angry because of Li Ze's sarcasm.

Li Ze shook the chicken head in his hand and said with a smile: "Either do this chicken head, let your life be up to you, and let yourself dominate the general trend of the world, otherwise you can only go with the flow, or be lucky to survive, or be swallowed by the big waves." I, on the other hand, do not want to go with the flow, I prefer to have my own destiny in my own hands. ”

"How difficult is it to compete in the world?" In just a few words, Li Anguo has already glimpsed Li Ze's deepest thoughts.

"How do you know if you can't do it without giving it a try?" Li Ze laughed, fed the head of the chicken into his mouth, and bit off the cockscomb in one bite.

"If there were any other choice, I really wouldn't choose you, and if Che'er was still alive, I wouldn't choose you." Li Anguo sighed.

A hint of anger flashed in Li Ze's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "You still have Li Yuan to choose now, isn't Shenzhou Zhaozhou clamoring for an heir?" ”

"A nephew is not a son after all." Li Anguo sighed: "And if I really do this, Chengde will fall apart immediately." At least Yizhou Cao Xin will definitely follow you. And looking back, whether it is An Min or Suning, it is impossible for you to be your opponent. At that time, Chengde will have civil strife first, and they will all die at your hands. When that time comes, I'm afraid you won't even be willing to recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors. ”

Li Ze smiled silently.

In other words, his identification with the Li clan is really not as strong as outsiders think. Yes, of course it's help, no, with his current ability, it's not impossible to grab it in the future.

"You summoned me this time, didn't you just want to send me some emotion?" Li Zedao, "I'm very busy, it's the autumn harvest now, after the autumn harvest, I'm going to start fighting Henghai, Henghai is unlucky now, it's also a town, it's not so easy to get along with." ”

"Gongsun, can you talk to him? This little cub said that his hand was not stretched long, so what was the matter with Hu Twelve? Li Anguo seemed a little tired, and waved his hand to Gongsun Dao.

Li Ze was stunned, and his angry gaze turned to Gongsun Changming, this matter must have been revealed to Li Anguo by Gongsun Changming.

Gongsun Changming did not have the slightest consciousness of being a traitor, and while eating pheasant, he said: "Li Ze, Jieshuai is your father, you are too rude, do you know that Jieshuai has worked hard and worked hard for you to get on the throne?" With your current position, you should also know how difficult it must be to make a smooth transition to Chengde into your hands, right? ”

Li Ze had to admit this.

"Of course, there is no problem with simply killing Suning, but this will bring a lot of problems, so starting from Shenzhou, even if the commander is still on the hospital bed, he has already begun to lay out. Beside Suning, Jie Shuai has already buried the chess pieces, do you know who this person is? Gongsun Changming said.

Li Ze pondered for a moment: "Could it be Du Teng?" ”

"You're so smart!"

"It's not that hard." Li Ze said with a smile: "Huang Shang has been killed by Suning, a dead chess piece is naturally not a chess piece, and other people don't seem to have this weight." ”

"That's true!" Gongsun Changming smiled and said: "Everyone thinks that Huang Shang is the pawn of the Jiedu envoy, but Huang Shang has been in Shenzhou for more than ten years, his family has a big business, and he is too deeply entangled with Suning, but he is the most loyal person to Suning." ”

"It's really unpredictable!" Li Ze sighed. "But Mr. Gongsun, have you ever thought about a question, Suning not only colluded with Zhaozhou, he is very likely to collude with Lu Long?"

"In collusion with An Min, I believe that in collusion with Lu Longren, Suning will not be able to do this, right?" Li Anguo interjected on the side.

"Why can't it be?" Li Ze said seriously: "Since he believes that Li Che died at my hands, then the biggest obstacle to colluding with Lu Long has disappeared, and now he doesn't need to worry about Li Che's death, but I'm afraid he just thinks about the survival of his Su clan, right?" ”