"Lin Jue, the gift of seeing the emperor is a bow ceremony. You're rude. Guo Kun said coldly.

Lin Jue stood there with his hands bowed slightly, frowning, and said in a deep voice: "Above the temple, above the honorable position, you should make a great salute." Outside the temple, it is a regular ritual. This is the etiquette prescribed by the Ministry of Etiquette. No faux pas. Of course, if the emperor needs a bow at this moment, the minister can certainly satisfy you. Emperor...... Do you need it? ”

Lin Jue's words were as calm as ice, and there was murderous intent hidden in his words. Although it was a scorching summer, Guo Kun still felt a chill in his body. The implication is, I can kowtow to you, but can you afford it?

Guo Kun stared at Lin Jue for a long time, finally sighed, and said softly: "I don't need it, I don't need anything." ”

Lin Jue straightened up and slowly approached. At this moment, he saw Guo Kun's face, pale and disheveled, as if he was ten years old. The brocade robe on his body was full of stains, accompanied by a pungent smell wafting faintly.

The two were a few steps away from each other, and they didn't have anything to say for a while, only standing opposite each other, one staring at each other fiercely, and the other standing with his hands in his hands, looking at each other proudly, without giving in. Like two fierce beasts that meet in a narrow way, the saber is tense, and it seems that a battle will break out at any time.

On the tall trees around the lotus pond, the hoarse cries of the summer cicadas are like the last screams of a thirsty person, heart-rending. The wind blows, and the lotus leaves in the pond are rattling, noisy and noisy. In the distance, black clouds rose and expanded like splashes of ink, a storm that was brewing on a summer afternoon.

Finally, Guo Kun sighed slowly, turned around and sat on the stone bench, looked at the lotus leaves tumbling in the lotus pond, and said in a deep voice: "Lin Jue, is there no room for reconciliation between you and me?" Don't you remember the slightest old affection, and you have to put me to death? ”

Lin Jue also slowly sat on the stone bench opposite him, his eyes followed a pair of black swifts flying in the wind, and replied in a deep voice, "I didn't put you to death, although I have thousands of reasons to do so. You must know what I'm going to do, I haven't broken my promise to you, I'm not interested in being an emperor, you can rest assured. ”

"But...... What is the difference between you and killing me? I, the emperor, am just a name, just a puppet. Is that what you do to me? Father and I treat you well, we ...... at the beginning" Guo Kun turned his head and shouted angrily.

Lin Jue waved his hand to stop it, and said in a deep voice: "Don't go through old accounts, it's meaningless." You just want to say that you and the old prince are kind to me, and you will marry Cai Wei to me. One yard to one yard, if you have to regard these things as a favor to me, I can say a lot of things to give back to you Liang Wangfu. Including regaining the Queen Mother's birthday gift, exterminating the sea bandits, quelling the drowning of Kang Zizhen by Prince Liang, and even rescuing all of you from the capital after that, and finally assisting you to ascend the throne. Everything I do is worthy of the way you treat me. Do you see that I talk about these things every day? The biggest difference between me and you is that your father and son have always thought that it was natural for me to serve the palace, and when I have a favor, he wants me to remember it, for fear that I will forget. To put it bluntly, you are on top of the ladder, thinking that everyone else should work for you, and that everyone else is your dog. And I see the royal palace as a cooperative partner, an ally in the same boat. Between us, it cannot be measured by kindness, but a relationship of both prosperity and loss. So, I don't care about what you've done, and I don't ask for anything in return. That's the difference between you and me. It's ridiculous that you take my marriage with Caiwei as a gift. ”

Guo Kun said angrily: "What's ridiculous? I could have killed you when you tricked Cai Wei in the first place

。 Not only did we not kill you, but we also married Cai Wei to you in the end, isn't this a kindness? ”

Lin Jue sneered: "Then I want to thank you for your grace of not killing." You asked Cai Wei to marry me, it's just to entrap me. If I didn't win the championship, if my teacher, Mr. Fang, hadn't been in charge of the Regulations Department at that time, would you still marry Cai Wei to me? You're just trying to keep me in your hands. In addition to placing eyeliner next to me, even Wei'er's marriage can be used. I already knew that, but Vile and I are on a good relationship, and I don't mind you doing that. If you have to say that this is a favor, then it is up to you. ”

Guo Kun blushed and said, "You know the ambition of my father and son, we could have married Wei'er to someone else and strive for better allies." Do you know that Yang Jun's son was interested in Cai Wei at the beginning, and we can even marry Wei Er to Lu Tianci, in that case, we will get more benefits. What are you capable of? We're going to hold you on. ”

Lin Jue laughed loudly and said, "Haven't you seen my ability? Do you want me to show myself? It's not that you don't want to marry Yang Jun, Lu Zhongtian or even anyone else, you're just afraid that stealing chickens won't lead to rice. Wei'er is dedicated to me, and her temperament is fierce, you are afraid that you will end up making trouble. Your Majesty, if you want to see me today, do you want to go over these old accounts with me? Don't you think it's meaningless? If that's all there is to it, I don't think we need to talk about it, I still have a lot of things to do. Time is precious, and I don't want to waste a lot of time on these meaningless arguments. ”

Guo Kun sneered: "You are so big. This world is still my Guo family's world, and you are still a minister of the Guo family, so you talk to me like this. Sure enough, the rebellious ministers and thieves are all the same, arrogant and domineering, and invincible. ”

Lin Jue said in a deep voice: "You can think whatever you want, I don't care." Although the emperor scolded, I was leaving. You can scold here for three days and three nights. ”

Lin Jue stood up with a calm face and made a gesture to leave.

Guo Kun got up and shouted: "Lin Jue, you don't remember the old feelings at all, you don't remember the origin of you and me, do you have to put me to death?" ”

Lin Jue shouted coldly: "It's not that I'm going to put you to death, it's you who have driven yourself to a dead end." I originally wanted to reclaim the throne and assist you in ascending the throne, but what you have done is chilling. Your qi is so small, this is something I didn't think, I think maybe it was what Prince Liang said to you when he was dying that made you dizzy. It's not that I am disrespectful to your father and son, your father and son are originally ambitious and talented people, but they want to be self-righteous. He also wants to make the posture of a virtuous corporal, but he has no room for people. He has no strategic skills, but he likes to camp behind his back. has a thief's heart, but no thief's courage, he can only think that he has planned some good schemes, but in fact they are useless at all. ”

Guo Kun said angrily: "You...... How can you slander me and my father so much? ”

Lin Jue shook his head and said, "I'm not slandering, I'm just saying what I think in my heart." Isn't it? Your father and son have lived in Hangzhou for 20 years, if you have the ambition to be in the rich land of Hangzhou, I am afraid that you have already prepared money, food and all your needs, and you are secretly prepared. But you don't dare to do anything at all, you can only lie to yourselves. If I were you, then the pirates on the island of Zhedong would have already been subdued for their own use. At the beginning, I thought that the bandits in eastern Zhejiang were raised by you, so they couldn't be exterminated for only 20 years, but the result was that you were not able to exterminate them at all. What a blessed place to garrison troops on that island, just disguised in the name of pirates. But you didn't even think of that. Isn't this incompetence? ”

Guo Kun was shocked and speechless. He and his father did have such an idea at the beginning, but they didn't dare to do it after all. In fact, the father is already there

Liangzhejiang Road has a lot of business, just to be able to make some preparations. But after all, he didn't dare to take the step of contacting and recruiting the bandits, and secretly stationed troops to prepare for a big fight. After all, he was not brave enough to take a desperate gamble.

"Also, what's even more ridiculous is that your father and the king designed the bag drop scheme, which is simply ridiculous. The prince may have thought that it was a far-sighted and difficult move for the city, but he didn't know that to seize the throne by that kind of means was comparable to ascending to the sky. The three princes who dropped the bag will definitely be able to ascend the throne? That's the third prince, and there is Guo Mian and Guo Xu in front of him, why is he sure that he will be able to ascend the throne? With the emperor's favor for Concubine Rong? Can this thing be trusted? Lu Zhongtian: Are they ornaments? How did Guo Xu win the throne? Is it relying on the favor of the emperor? It's a joke. Not to mention these, even if the third prince who dropped the bag won the throne, he was not afraid that he would be the main guest? After the prince revealed his origin, he was not afraid of devouring himself? What's even more outrageous about this plan is that the prince actually risked the throne falling into the hands of someone who had nothing to do with the Guo family, and as a member of the Great Zhou royal family, he actually risked the risk of changing the banner to do such a thing, which is simply incomprehensible. This can only show one point, the prince does not have the social affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty in his heart at all, only personal self-interest. Of course, in this regard, your father and son are in the same line. Isn't it the same with what you do? And what you did was even worse, you risked the danger of cutting off the Great Zhou in the hands of the barbarians, stabbing the soldiers behind the expedition, and their behavior was even worse and more outrageous. Lin Jue said coldly.

Guo Kun's face was pale, and he didn't feel good in his heart. Lin Juezhi's words have no room for refutation, his father's plan seems to be exquisite, but in fact, it is just self-deception. Even Guo Kun could see that the probability of success of that plan was very small. The father was complacent, and thought that he had really devised some clever plan to seize the throne. In fact, it's just deceiving oneself and comforting oneself.

"I ...... I will not allow you to slander my father like that. Shut up. Guo Kun shouted angrily.

"I don't want to talk about that, I don't really want to talk about it at all. What your father and son did, I don't even want to get involved in at all. If I hadn't had to get on a big boat with you, I wouldn't have made any judgment on the actions of your father and son. But...... Creation is like this, fate dictates, we get on a boat, and there is no way. I think I've done everything I can, and I think I'm worthy of you father and son. But in the end, I didn't expect that the big ship did not capsize in the wind and waves, but the people on board fought among themselves. I never expected that you would be so suspicious of me that you would even want to kill me. I never expected that you would be so confused, putting the society outside of your personal desires, and doing that kind of behavior. Your Majesty, do you know how sad I felt when I knew that you contacted Shen Fang and Liu Sheng, even worse than the day you ambushed people under the trestle and tried to kill me. If you want to kill me, I can still understand that it is because of my high merit and the master, and you are worried that I will dominate the dynasty. At least it makes sense. But you took advantage of the fact that you were fighting the Jurchens behind your back, and I was shocked by the despicable behavior and short-sightedness of your knowledge. How I wish that hadn't happened. How I hope that I can't use the arrangements made by Shen Tan, and you can stop the precipice. At least you will let me know that you are an emperor who cares about the overall situation of the world and cares about the safety of the society. But you don't. When I received the news, do you know how disappointed I was? Lin Jue said in a deep voice.

Guo Kun stood there dumbfounded, speechless. The wind was blowing, and the wind carried the smell of damp rainstorms, and the dark clouds on the horizon had already obscured half of the sky, and there were already electric lights flickering in the dark clouds on the horizon. The fierce wind blew the lotus leaves all over the pond, blowing Guo Kun's hair in a scattered bun and dancing wildly.