According to Xue Dingshan's usual temper, when he heard Xue Chen's rebellious words, he would have raised his hand to beat someone a long time ago.

But today, Xue Dingshan didn't make any moves, the pair of hands as big as a fan, one holding a tea cup and the other holding a tea lid, calmly seemed to have been downplayed after several twists and turns.

Xue Chen realized that something was wrong.

"What's wrong, Daddy? You don't look right today, what's going on? ”

"I heard that after the ring match, Princess Wenhui came to you and said a few words alone." Xue Dingshan put down the teacup in his hand, looked at Xue Chen, and asked in a deep voice.

"Yes."

Xue Chen nodded, he didn't explain too much, he said a lot, he made a lot of mistakes, rather than saying a bunch of useless things to Xue Dingshan, Xue Chen wanted to know what Xue Dingshan wanted to hear.

Looking up, Xue Dingshan looked at Xue Chen's calm appearance, and frowned Xue Chen's first brow since entering the house, and in Xue Chen's opinion, this is what Xue Dingshan should look like, not what 'looking at the clouds and clouds' and 'looking down on the hot and cold world'.

"Why would Princess Wenhui talk to you alone?"

"Because she's got a crush on me." Xue Chen said generously, without panicking at all, and Xue Dingshan, who listened to it, almost didn't come up in one breath.

"You speak well to Lao Tzu!" Xue Dingshan slapped the table and roared.

Seeing this, Xue Chen hooked his lips and smiled with satisfaction, right! Xue Dingshan should be such a stinky old man, what kind of elegant and good father appearance, not suitable for him at all.

But no matter how well he said it, what Xue Chen said was also the truth.

Shrugging helplessly, Xue Chen pondered, "Okay, I'll change my words...... It should be said that she wanted me to go to Silla to be a colt for her, but after she finished talking to me, she didn't want to marry me so much, and she was still a girl who was quite easily shaken. ”

As he spoke, Xue Chen began to add his subjective nonsense again.

Xue Dingshan listened to Xue Chen's unreliable words beside him, looked at Xue Chen's self-righteous inferences, and couldn't wait to go up and slap Xue Chen's head to make him sober.

"Hey, Dad, is it possible that she thinks I'm going to do this game?"

As soon as Xue Chen's words fell, Xue Dingshan flew out with a teacup, but fortunately, Xue Chen reacted in time, otherwise it would have smashed a teacup on Xue Chen's head and would have fallen directly.

Steadily taking the teacup, Xue Chen looked at Xue Dingshan with an uncertain expression.

"Dad, what are you doing here?"

"I'll let you talk nonsense!"

Xue Dingshan's face was flushed with anger, and he almost stood up to beat Xue Chen, but fortunately, the housekeeper was pulling beside him, so he didn't rush out, even so, Xue Dingshan still didn't forget to point at Xue Chen, and said angrily, "Look at you, I don't know where you are, how can people take a fancy to you!" ”

"You also admit that she has a crush on me, why do you still say that I am scared nonsense?"

As he spoke, Xue Chen put the tea cup he had caught on the table, and turned his head to look at Xue Dingshan with an innocent face.

"I've never seen such an annoying turtle son as you!" Xue Dingshan was angered by Xue Chen again, "Other people's women take a fancy to you, even if you know that our family's current situation can't agree, what should you say?" Kindness? How can there be anything like you, who makes up something when he opens his mouth...... I have a sweetheart! ”

The more Xue Dingshan talked about it, the more angry he became, and he even felt that he could fly even if his hands were trembling.

Xue Chen smiled dumbly when he heard this, "Dad, you are too much to put gold on your face, as if you taught me how to treat women politely since I was a child." ”

Xue Dingshan almost fainted when he heard this, and he scolded in his throat, "I didn't teach you the fuck, and you can't make this kind of thing for me!" ”

"What's the matter?" Xue Chen didn't understand.

"Play stupid!?" Xue Dingshan said, "You know in your own heart that now the emperor is there, you are still the first candidate for Princess Ping'an's concubine, Princess Ping'an recently went to the imperial tomb to worship her father, not in the capital, if you really let Princess Ping'an hear your nonsense, I am sure to kill you!" ”

"Are you afraid?" Xue Chen stared at Xue Dingshan's eyes and asked unusually calmly.

"I'm afraid she's a little kid?" Xue Dingshan wanted to slash Xue Chen, "You Laozi, I'm troublesome!" ”

"But what if I'm not talking nonsense?" Xue Chen said.

"What?"

Xue Dingshan was stunned, he didn't expect Xue Chen to say such a thing, he originally thought that this was just a deliberate provocation by Xue Chen.

"I said, what if I'm not talking nonsense? I really have a sweetheart, and you know who she is. Xue Chen said, "To be precise, you already knew it. ”

At this moment, Xue Chen felt like a bastard for the first time in his life.

There was a bottom line in everything he did before, and some bottom lines he would never touch, such as matters involving the interests of the family and the imperial court, Xue Chen avoided them.

But from the moment he came back, Xue Chen was constantly piercing the bottom line he had established before.

From entering the court as an official, even if it was temporary, he was coerced by the emperor many times, and he did a lot of things that he would not have participated in in the first place.

In the eyes of outsiders and even Xue Dingshan, these seem to be good things, symbolizing that Xue Chen is constantly stepping into the right track of life like ordinary people, but for Xue Chen, all this is chronic suicide.

Compromise once will have a second time, he has always been a hard-necked person, and he resolutely refuses to do what he doesn't like.

What kind of talent, wisdom, if it is wasted, it will be wasted, Xue Chen doesn't care at all, maybe in the eyes of others, this may be a kind of willfulness, but Xue Chen knows that these achievements are also affecting him.

Sometimes Xue Chen even hoped that he could go back to the time when he was in Qingcheng County, and at the moment Zheng Ren came, he refused Zheng Ren's request to return to his home.

Xue Dingshan is not as cold as water like Xue Chen, he is now more like a volcano.

"I know? I know what! ”

"Dad, last year's Linxiang County, the Spring Festival of the year before last, if you didn't know, you wouldn't have sent someone to pick me up at all." Xue Chen said in a deep voice, "Although Zheng Yi and Zheng Ren are good to me, they are also your people after all, they know, how can you not know?" ”

In fact, Xue Chen is very sober, for him, the only person in this world who is worthy of complete trust is Su Qiange, and the four good people who grew up together since childhood.

After he saw why his mother died, he naturally had a layer of estrangement from Xue Dingshan, the shadow of childhood was an insurmountable mountain, what Xue Chen needed to do was not even to climb over, but to break it and move it away little by little.

"I thought you were just on a whim." Xue Dingshan gritted his teeth.

Xue Chen's current state made him unable to get angry, because Xue Chen was neither cynical nor dissolute, but very formal.

This kind of formality made Xue Dingshan also have a lot of premonitions and pressure.

Xue Dingshan knew that he had to face and solve this problem in order to make Xue Chen give up, after all, his son had an iron neck and followed him.

"She's the one who saved you, right?" Xue Dingshan said, "If you are in debt, then give her money or help, I think you have helped her for so long, if you are moved, you don't have to sacrifice so much, all the touching will pass." ”

"Are you like this with my mother? Because the touching passed, when she died, you can also not shed a single tear. ”

"I'm different from your mother!"

"Mother is not your savior, or have you never loved her?" Xue Chen's face was calm as if he was simply reading the numbers, but if he looked closely, Xue Chen's pupils were vibrating, and he was restraining himself not to lose his temper in this situation.

But now he has no way to maintain a respectful attitude and continue to call Xue Dingshan "you".

Xue Dingshan opened his mouth to explain something to Xue Chen, but quickly let go of such an idea, changed the question, and asked Xue Chen rhetorically.

"Don't want the emperor to object, just say that you two, you and her are not in the right household, and the scholars and businessmen are together, how long do you think this relationship can last?"

Xue Dingshan was bitter.

"Dad is a person who has come over, and it is impossible to maintain such a thing as feelings, and sooner or later he will be submerged in ordinary life, just for a feeling that will disappear after all, do you choose to insist like this?"

"It's going to disappear, so don't you choose not?" Xue Chen looked at Xue Dingshan, "From the moment I was born, you should know that I am going to die, right?" Don't rule out the possibility of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person, right? But why did you give birth to me, Daddy? Shouldn't I be left without me because I'm going to die? ”

Xue Chen can always find some strange angles, and use another thing to confirm the things in front of him.

Sometimes Xu E's Nangong Mountain will be happy because of Xue Chen's ability, but most of the time, he hates Xue Chen's way of thinking like this, just like now.

"The meaning behind everything is different and cannot be compared!" Xue Dingshan felt that he might be holding back his anger again.

Xue Chen also sensed Xue Dingshan's anger, but he still didn't stop questioning.

"Since the meaning behind everything is different, why do you think that we will be like yours and can't hold on for a lifetime?"

One sentence hit Xue Dingshan's sore spot, and Xue Dingshan was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"What do you mean by a mere lifetime!? Since you feel that your life is just a mere life, why can't you do this kind of thing for the sake of the righteousness of your family and country, but for the sake of your children's affection! ”

"It's because life is short." Xue Chen looked at Xue Dingshan calmly, "I am different from you, father, you can sacrifice everything for the righteousness of your family and country, my mother, even today, you have to sacrifice me for the sake of other people's children." But I can't, I can't sacrifice myself and do things I don't want to do. ”

Saying that, Xue Chen stood up.

"Since I was a child, you have said that I am a hard neck. I like to do everything against you, but I have never refuted you, because you are right, I am a hard neck, and no one can force me to do what I don't want to do. ”

Pretending to be stupid, pretending to be prodigal, avoiding suspicion, and avoiding the prodigy hat that the emperor gave him, Xue Chen has secretly resisted for so many years, and he has persisted for so many years, and he doesn't want to be caught on fire because of his Pingnan Hou Mansion, and he himself is tired.

He thought about so many things in the Hou Mansion, but in the end, his father actually asked him to contribute his whole life.

Xue Chen couldn't do it.

"Don't think that I am against you this time, even if there is no Su Qiange, I will not accept this arrangement, it's just that Su Qiange appeared so I chose her, what she does, yes, it's all my choice."

Xue Dingshan raised his head and looked at the roof of the shed, and took a deep breath.

"That's your choice? Then how are you going to explain to the emperor? ”