There is also a lantern at the entrance of the mansion, like a lighthouse guiding Ye Qing in which direction he should go.

Xu Qing took advantage of the light to watch Ye Qing, who was also carrying a lantern, walking forward alone, followed by a group of guards from a distance, escorting Ye Qing silently, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Ye Qing stood still at the gate of the mansion and looked up at Xu Qing: "If you don't sleep so late, who are you waiting for?" ”

The low tone and slightly depressed mood made Xu Qing swallow back into his stomach what he wanted to say, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I can't sleep, just stand at the door and take a look." ”

Ye Qing turned around and looked at the group of guards in Wuyang and Wuyang in the distance behind him, and then as if talking to the air, he said a word and dispersed, and then the group of guards began to spread in all directions silently like the tide in the night, until the department disappeared.

One of them carried a lantern and sat on the slightly cold steps at the entrance of the mansion, like two porters, chatting with each other.

"How did I get to where I am today?" Ye Qing put down the wine jug, smiled sideways and looked at Xu Qing, who was drinking with his head up, and asked.

"Smart, there is a city government that can calculate, there are means and ruthlessness, and it has a ...... of things that ordinary people can't reach Predictability. Xu Qing took a sip of wine and said.

"What do you think, or what others think?" Ye Qing still asked with a smile.

Basically, it can represent the opinion of most people, especially those political opponents above the court, who will also see it this way. Oh, by the way, this is what Lao Liu Tou and they got, and other officials of all sizes above the court, the pertinent evaluation in private is almost the same as my opinion, although there are some discrepancies in some places, but they are not far from ten, and the analysis is similar to ours. Xu Qing watched Ye Qing slowly reach out and take it, then paused and said, "So start to be careful now, they may have been a little contemptuous before, but now they have begun to study where the weaknesses are." In the future, every step will be like walking on thin ice, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss and be crushed. Everything you have now will become a thing of the past. ”

Ye Qing opened the letter directly, read it with a smile, listened to Xu Qing's reminder to him, and finally lifted the lantern cover and directly lit the letter to ashes.

After closing the lantern again, he took a sip of the wine jug, and said with a sip of wine: "So I always need a mirror, just like Emperor Taizong's evaluation of Wei Zheng, so that I can know what I am in the eyes of others." ”

"So you're satisfied now?" Xu Qing really doesn't understand, how can anyone do everything possible to know how the officials above the court talk about him behind his back, does he care so much about other people's evaluations?

With his style of doing things in his own way over the years, as well as his decisive and ruthless methods, he only needs to carefully take every step under his feet, why bother to make it like a march to fight, he also needs to know himself and his opponent.

Ye Qing shook his head, indicating that he was not satisfied with these evaluations and perceptions of himself, and said: "It's too biased, although most of what is said is true, but it doesn't say the point, it's just some evaluations that everyone knows, but they can't find a way to deal with me." ”

Xu Qing was a little surprised, he and Ye Qing have been friends for more than ten years, and since he joined the forbidden army, they have been mixed together until now, but how to listen to Ye Qing's meaning, it seems that he is not the one who really understands him!

"Lao Liutou, Po Li San, Zhao Qi'er, Liang Xing, I, etc., don't have a very thorough understanding?" Xu Qing asked in disbelief.

Ye Qing glanced at Xu Qing with disdain, pouted and said: "Don't say it's you, even Li Heng, Bai Chun, and Allure, including Qingyan, don't know me, but the only one who can understand me is Zhong Qing, she knows."

The reason why I have been able to come to this day, and why I can be in the court of deceit, has always been the winner. ”

Xu Qing listened to so many of them, and they couldn't compare to Zhong Qing's understanding of Ye Qing, so he couldn't help but say a little unconvinced: "That's to say, I really want to know what Zhong Qing's girl thinks of Ye Qing, and what different evaluations she has to make you think that what she said is right." ”

"Want to know?" Ye Qing asked with a smile.

"I'd love to know." Xu Qing said unconvinced.

Looking up at the night sky and sighing, Zhong Qing's face involuntarily appeared in his mind, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Actually, I am not much smarter than Shi Miyuan, Zhao Ruyu, Han Yanxuan and others above the court, of course, the little bit of intelligence is just better than their smart ......." ”

"It's all ......." Xu Qing said dissatisfiedly.

Glancing at Xu Qing who interrupted his words with dissatisfaction, Ye Qing continued: "Actually, my advantage is that my heart ....... Ye Qing touched his chest, his eyes were sincere, and he said in a frank tone: "My heart is less bound by ethics and etiquette, so I can have today's achievements." I am not bound by rules and regulations, I do not have the influence of some doctrines on the outlook on life, values, and the world that they have accepted since childhood, and my three views are useless in their eyes, because I lack the awe of faith and the recognition of personal values. In order to achieve the end of the means, anyone in the world will have some scruples, but only I value the result more than them, and I don't care about the process at the same time, and I don't care about what conscience and morality are, so I was able to succeed, and I have come to this position today. ”

After finishing speaking, Ye Qing seemed to have finally knocked down a wall blocked in his heart, yes, he often thought that he had completely integrated into this colorful world, so that no one could tell who was who, and when he was already a real Song man in his bones, when Lin'an and Zhong Qing parted, Zhong Qing's words made him suddenly surprised, in fact, he Ye Qing was far from really integrated, and all his value orientations were completely incompatible with this world.

Although he is of the same language and the same species, he, a "monk" who became a monk halfway, has lost his childhood, and after the cultivation and influence of cultural beliefs in this period, all his ways of thinking about interests in his bones are still stuck in the era of thousands of years ago.

Even if he Ye Qing has such and such an advanced and predictive nature, even if he Ye Qing can predict the future historical trend, but after all, in terms of values and beliefs, he lacks the traditional ethics and etiquette.

Just like the unconscionable and moral merchants in the previous life, for the sake of the greatest profit, in order to be able to make more money, and invest the least amount of money, they can sell counterfeit goods privately without the slightest psychological burden, even if these fakes will bring harm to the lives of innocent people, they can also sell them like the real thing without any psychological burden.

There are many people who lack conscience, morality, faith and value in their hearts, and who put interests first and can throw everything away in the previous life, but in this era, there are very few, and there are even more people who can have such a special situation as him Ye Qing.

Therefore, it was not Ye Qing's ingenuity that brought him to today's position, but the lack of conscience, morality, and faith values that brought him to such a beautiful position today.

Burning incense to worship the Buddha and kneeling to worship the gods are no wonder there are two kinds of people.

One kind of person is to live a more prosperous life, or to be safe and healthy, and the other kind of person is to do too many bad things, and conscience and morality are often condemned, so they pray for peace of mind.

Those who are willing to spend money in vain and buy very expensive incense to worship the Buddha are naturally the first type of people, and those who are willing to spend huge sums of money to build temples and reshape the golden body of the Buddha are almost all second type of people.

Whether it's the underworld or the six realms of reincarnation,

It is still an Infernal Hell, an eternal heaven, which was originally intended to remind people that they should be good or there will be reincarnation, but now, it has obviously become a way for people to repent after doing bad things.

Ye Qing is the same, the proposal of the great righteousness of China, and all the actions of initiating the Xia Kingdom, the Tatars, and the Jin people to help Liao fight against the Khorezmian people are actually Ye Qing's unconscious, self-saving repentance in order to atone for his sins, for his despicable means in the Great Song Dynasty, and after his conscience and morality were condemned.

locked himself at home in Lin'an for three days, and never went out in Yangzhou for three days, Zhong Qing's original words completely woke up Ye Qing, a dream person, but at this time, Ye Qing has already walked towards such a road of no return, what he can do is like lying and lying, only to continue to move forward, hoping that everything he will do in the future can make up for the mistakes he has made.

"So, don't care about the comments of future generations?" Xu Qing asked with a little surprise, thinking that he asked Lao Liu Tou and others to inquire about the officials' evaluation of him because now that his official position is high and his power is great, he has begun to think about his prestige.

After all, in the past, it didn't matter if you walked barefoot, won or lost, or evaluated, but now that you have put on your shoes and your status is rising, it's time to start paying attention to what others say about you.

Just like a beggar and a flower child, he never cares what others think of what he wears, etc., but once he becomes a merchant one day, he naturally begins to pay attention to things other than material things.

"I can't close the mouths of the people of the world, how they talk and comment, I don't count. All the rights and wrongs, in the long river of Chinese history, a person, don't expect to be able to become a god and become holy, if you think so, you can only be a mediocre person to disturb yourself. Ye Qing shook the empty wine jug, and then said, "Tomorrow morning, I said that I was feeling cold and I didn't see any guests." ”

"Who's coming? Zhao Ru is stupid? Xu Qing looked at Ye Qing who got up and hurriedly asked.

"He won't come in person, it should be Qian Xiangzu." Ye Qing's lazy voice sounded behind Xu Qing, and the tiredness in his tone was that even Xu Qing really listened to it.

The study was dark, and the room of the two little guys was already pitch black, except for the pavilion of Yan Chengcheng, which was still lit at this time, and through the soft-colored curtains, there was a warm dark light, quietly, which made Ye Qing's heart, which was still a little restless, and it calmed down a lot for a while.

"Just came back." Yan Qingcheng smiled softly, never asked where Ye Qing went, and said with a smile to herself, tonight, after Ye Qing left, she took the two little guys to hang around.

"Drinking again?" Yan Qingcheng, who helped Ye Qing undress, asked after moving his beautiful nose.

"I had a few drinks with Xu Qing at the door." Ye Qing said with a smile, in the other room, the water temperature in the bathtub was just right.

"Tomorrow he will cut off the money for his drinks." Yan Qingcheng stroked the scars on Ye Qing's body again, and the scars, every time she touched them, they could always bring different shocks and feelings to her heart.

Even every time she would caress those scars, quietly imagining in her mind that the shocking scars, no matter what, were actually for this family.

"Together?" Ye Qing turned around, looked at Yan Qingcheng, who had been staring at the scar on his chest with his eyes all the time, and asked, as usual, with his fingers stroking back and forth.

"I don't want to ...... the beauty of thinking." Before Yan Qingcheng finished speaking, he was picked up by Ye Qing, and hurriedly shouted: "Clothes, today's new ......." ”

"That's just the right time to wash ...... together." Ye Qing gently put Yan Chengcheng and the pajamas on his body into the water, and then stepped into the bathtub himself.

Again, a lot of words are omitted here.