"Who wants you to be pitiful? Who wants you to be pitiful!" I yelled at him, hoarse, "What right do you people have to pity me?" What qualifications are there to come here and pretend to be merciful!"

When Li Dai faced my questioning, he neither refuted me nor got angry. But he is so calm, it only makes me feel more dazzling, extremely dazzling!

"Uncle Thirteen was killed by your group! Imperial power and wealth are so important, right? Is the status interest so important? Why do you only have these cold things in your eyes, even your relatives who have the same blood can't tolerate them? Why? Why? Why!" I roared bitterly.

"Because it's fate." Li Dai pulled me up from the ground, and he calmly looked at my bloodshot eyes, "Gu Yuancheng, this is fate." ”

I froze.

"Everyone has their own life, Prime Minister Gu is like this, Mr. Jing is like this, you are like this, and so am I."

"If you want to change your life, you have to pay a price. Prime Minister Gu has always said this to me, and I am convinced of this sentence. ”

"Gu Yuancheng, take good care of yourself, if no one in this world loves you anymore, then please love yourself." Li Dai bent down to pat the dust off my robe for me.

I followed him, but there was a sad smile on my face, "yes, I don't have any relatives anymore......"

In the blink of an eye, everything disappeared in an instant.

Li Dai stopped moving, and after a while, he whispered, "I'll be your big brother." ”

I looked at him coldly, my eyes full of mockery.

"I know that Prime Minister Gu Cheng gave you half of the tiger talisman, and the imperial grandfather told me before he died, and he also gave me the other half of the tiger talisman." Li Dai patted the dust off my body and stood up straight, but he didn't look at me directly, but felt a little helpless, "I'm not trying to win you over because of this, I'm just ...... I just ......"

I pursed my lips, my face cold.

"Xiaocheng, I don't have any relatives either." Li Dai mustered up the courage to look at me, "You have a thirteenth uncle who loves you, but I don't have anything." ”

"From the moment I was born, my mother died in childbirth. I have no friends, my father doesn't like me, and I've always been alone in the huge palace. ”

"Eat alone, read alone, sleep alone, and be in a daze alone......"

"If you want a relative...... Li Dai opened his eyes, his voice trembling and longing, "Let's be brothers." ”

Silence, I'm just silent.

After a long time, Li Dai didn't hear my answer, he took a deep breath, smiled at me reluctantly, and turned around and fled away in embarrassment.

I looked up at the stars in the sky, tears in my eyes blurring my vision and the starlight.

"Uncle Thirteen, the path I chose by myself ......"

It's dead.

When the birdsong in the mountains sounded from the dense forest, I stood on the highest wooden pine rock in Qishan, and below the rock was a bottomless cliff, and in the middle of the cliff there was nothing but the cold mountain wind.

Just like my short, pale life.

Closing my eyes and feeling the bone-chilling wind, I slowly fell down.

"Gu Yuancheng!" With an exclamation, a hand grabbed my hand.

"Why do you always want to get in my way!" I looked at the man who had grabbed me in disgust, and I felt like I had nowhere to vent my anger.

Li Dai smiled at me, gritted his teeth and pulled me up.

"Ahem, ahem."

Li Dai turned his back and covered his mouth with his sleeve.

I didn't want to care about him, but when I saw that slick of blood, I couldn't pretend to turn a blind eye.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked uncomfortably.

Li Dai covered the bloodstained place with his hand, and he looked like he was fine, and said with a light smile, "After the death of the emperor's grandfather, my father did not find the tiger talisman, and he was furious. Concubine Zhen told me that my grandfather had secretly met me in the dormitory, and the tiger charm must have been given to me. My father will be suspicious, after all, everyone knows that I am not favored in the palace, but my father did not let me go, he ordered me to drink all the eight treasures of the poisoned soup, otherwise I would be beheaded and executed immediately. ”

"I drank."

There was a flash of consternation in my eyes, and when Li Dai saw my expression, he handed me back half of the tiger talisman I had put in his room while it was night.

"I also thought about dying, but I didn't want to die at his hands, I didn't want to die in the palace that I had never stepped out of my life."

I looked up at the look in Li Dai's eyes, but I only saw the gentle and shallow eyes, no hatred, and no self-pity.

I suddenly felt that his expression was so familiar, so familiar that I could guess who he was even through the middle of the night.

"Uncle Thirteen is your ......," I was shocked.

"He's my teacher." Li Dai looked at me.

I know, "Uncle Thirteen asked you to take care of me?" ”

Li Dai shook his head, "Yes and no." ”

I glared at him.

Li Dai smiled: "The teacher said that I should get along with you, but he didn't ask me to take care of you." I did it myself, and I wanted to have a loved one like you. ”

"Aren't you afraid that I will betray you in the future?" I stared into his eyes, "I'm the best example of this." ”

Li Dai shook his head slightly, "The teacher said that people will change. No matter how innocent and pure this person was at the beginning, he would change himself little by little for various reasons, but a person with firm beliefs, no matter how vicissitudes of the years, he will remember what he was like at the beginning. ”

I lowered my eyes and silently looked at the cliffs not far away.

"I don't have any convictions." Never.

"How old are you?" Li Dai is funny.

I glanced at him, unconvinced: How old are you?

"Let's go back, Mr. Jing will be in a hurry." Li Daidao.

I didn't answer him.

Li Dai didn't care, he turned around and walked back. I looked at him, then at the cliff, and was silent for a while, and finally followed Li Dai.

When Li Dai saw me coming, he didn't laugh at me, but deliberately slowed down and waited for me.

At night, because we left without permission, we were punished by Mr. Jing to kneel in front of the portrait of Confucius and think.

The curling cigarette floated up from the front of the desk, I stared at the pillar of incense in front of me in a daze, and Li Dai was also looking at the incense, but he was not as empty as me.

He kept thinking about something, and his brow never let go.

"I promise you, I will wish you to ascend the throne, so you don't look like you are worried about your life." I spoke.

Li Dai didn't expect me to say this, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"I don't want you to help me ascend to the throne."

I wondered, "Why?" ”

"The throne is my business, I will settle it myself, and if you can, I think you promise me another thing." Li Dai looked at me.

"What's the matter?"

"Protect my Great Qi for thousands of years, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment."

I jumped in shock.

"You think too highly of me! Besides, why should I hitch a ride for your Daqi for the rest of my life? ”

"It's our Daqi." Li Dai's eyes revealed solemnity: "Gu Yuancheng is our Great Qi, and the Great Qi of the people of our Qi country." ”

Looking at Li Dai, who was so serious, I had nothing to refute.

After a long silence, I said, "A good person never ends well." ”

Li Dai listened to what I said, he stood up, stepped forward and tore off the portrait of Confucius, took the pen and inkstone on the table, and then put them all on the ground.

Li Dai squatted down and wrote a few lines in front of me.

I wondered what Li Dai was writing, so I leaned over and took a look.

"My name is Li Dai, the heavenly certificate is the emperor, and I swear here that I and my descendants have no right to punish Gu Yuancheng and his descendants' relatives and protégés, kill and cut off, if you violate this oath, you will never be a person." Li Dai read what he had written to me.

I was stunned on the spot.

Li Dai rolled up the portrait and put it in my hand, "If you lose it, you can ask me again, and I will give you the same painting." ”

"You... You're crazy! Aren't you afraid that my power will grow in the future, control the government, and turn you into a puppet? "I just feel that the painting in my hand is too hot.

Li Dai chuckled, "If you want the throne, I can give it to you directly." ”

I stared at him stunned, seeing that he didn't look joking at all, and after thinking about it, I said, "Even if you regret it in the future, I won't give you a chance." ”

"Of course." Li Dai said with a smile.

This changed my brows deeply, to be honest, Li Dai can be said to have directly broken my perception of these emperors and nobles, he is obviously a very gentle and well-behaved person, but everything he says and does, he is like a rebel, betraying the inherent traditions of a king.

I closed my eyes and exhaled deeply.

This is the most unreachable thing about Uncle Thirteen, he always seems to be able to see things that others can't see, and do things that others can't do at all.

He made a perfect king, and he made a me who paved the way for him, even if he actually gave us another way to go.

"I promise you, I promise you both things." I opened my eyes and said.

Li Dai was not too surprised, and seemed to have known my final choice for a long time. He changed from kneeling to sitting, then patted the seat next to him and motioned for me to sit down.

I hesitated, but sat down next to him.

Li Daidao: "With your age, you must not have seen the scene when the teacher once dominated the court, right?" ”

I was silent.

Not to mention the court, I have almost never seen Uncle Thirteen have any other expressions besides smiling and indifferent. In the Guogong Mansion, it seems that anyone can not take the thirteenth uncle seriously, but now that they think about it, who would dare to provoke the thirteenth uncle?

Li Dai looked at me and said, "Let me tell you this, your thirteenth uncle is the most amazing and gorgeous person I have ever seen." In the year he was admitted to Tanhua, my grandfather told me that the 32 roads in Biancheng were all crowded with people who wanted to see the teacher's demeanor. ”

"Really?" I was surprised.

"Really." Li Daidao.

Listening to Li Dai's affirmative answer, I suddenly remembered what Uncle Thirteen wanted me to remember when he sent me away.

I still remember that it was a peach blossom scorching morning, and Uncle Thirteen stroked it out, and he suddenly said to the sleepy man, although there are many things in the world that are not worth it, if there are one or two things that I am willing to give everything, then don't care about what is worth it or not.

"Uncle Thirteen...... Be... When is it ......?"

"A month ago, when I was looking at the sun, the oil ran out and the lamp dried up."