"'The wind shakes the boat, and the old people come to meet.'" Hua Shurong Bingxue is smart, she must have guessed it? Wan Zhaoyi was the first to speak, although it was a question, but it was an affirmative tone.

I pondered, "Shake Lan, Lan Yao." Zhou, homonym 'Zhou', does Wan Zhaoyi mean this? ”

"Sure enough, it's you." Wan Zhaoyi's clear eyes as clear as snow stared at me, and she decided that Lan Yao's death had something to do with me.

"It's me, so what." My faint eyes fell on her, and the cool words were like a cold wind cutting her face, "I know Wan Zhaoyi's details very well, if you want to avenge her, in my place, you can't please me, Wan Zhaoyi has to think clearly." ”

Wan Zhaoyi's undulating eyebrows like green mountains moved slightly, her wonderful eyes fluttered, and she returned to calm, "Your Majesty treats Hua Shurong very well, Hua Shurong should not live up to Your Majesty's affection, and those who will take revenge will be retributed." ”

I looked up at the darkening sky, and said to the left and right, "Looking at this sky reminds me of a bird." ”

"What do you do with birds?" Wan Zhaoyi was surprised by my sudden change of subject.

The white jade fingers brushed the sideburns like clouds, and I said slowly: "This bird's name is starling, quite spiritual, good at imitating human words, and very likable. The world thinks that the starling is clever and pleasing and pampered, but they don't know that the starling was born in the mountains and forests, and the elves of the mountains are originally free bodies, but they are trapped in a cage for no reason, and they have to suffer the punishment of cutting their tongues. Suffering from this, it is only a little selfish desire of the human heart, and there are still people who regard humiliation as a generous gift, thinking that the offering of good food and drink is a gift? It's ridiculous! "At this point, my heart was like a torment on fire, and my eyes flashed with gnashing hatred.

Although starlings can imitate human speech without cutting their tongues, the world has many misunderstandings about this, and they are often tamed by cutting their tongues.

Soon, I grinned, as if Fang Cai's hatred never existed, "What Sister Fang Cai said is that Your Majesty treats me well, and Qing Qiang will never forget it and repay it twice." "I deliberately bit the pronunciation.

A star flashed in Wan Zhaoyi's eyes, and soon disappeared without a trace, and the center of the calm eye wave contained a clear understanding, obviously understanding that it was impossible to persuade me to stop with Chen Qian's affection, "The collusion between the concubine and the courtiers is nothing more than seeking power, and those who have sought power since ancient times will not die well, you and King An Cheng, it is better to stop, don't hurt the prince, but also yourself." ”

There was a little perseverance between my eyebrows, "It doesn't matter if you die well, or not, this is always the path I choose, so I fought for myself once." Accept fate or something, I don't accept it, I always believe in a sentence, things are man-made. ”

Wan Zhaoyi reminded lightly: "Things are man-made and depend on whether people's hearts are reliable or not, and allies who rely on interests can last for a long time?" Once there is no benefit, it will be like a plate of scattered sand, and it will not be able to form an army. You and the prince, Zuo is just using each other, aren't you afraid, in the future, there will be no use value, you will become a waste, and you will be ruthlessly thrown away? ”

"Interests are the least reliable thing in the world, but at the same time, they are also the most reliable, because interests are eternal, and with interests, we can be connected. If it doesn't depend on interests, does it depend on sincerity? How long can there be sincerity, Sister Zhaoyi has also paid her sincerity to the prince, but now where is this sincerity? I gently hooked my lips, appreciating Wan Zhaoyi's fluctuating eyebrows and slightly trembling pink lips with satisfaction.

I continued: "I'm not afraid of being used, I'm afraid that I'm useless, I can only be trampled on by others, and there will never be a day. Only by being used and daring to be used can we use others in turn and borrow the hands of others to achieve what we want. ”

"There is something to do and nothing to do, can Hua Shurong guarantee that the path you are taking today is the right one? There is no regret medicine in the world. ”

"Right and wrong are in my heart, and I have never regretted it, and I will never regret it. Well said, do something and don't do anything. I glanced at her sharply, "As a meticulous worker, is it Wan Zhaoyi's work to be moved by the enemy?" ”

was poked in the heart, Wan Zhaoyi's face turned pale all of a sudden, her slender figure trembled slightly, her beautiful lips were pursed, and she couldn't spit out a word.

I didn't have the heart to listen to how she tried to persuade me not to seek power with Chen Ji for the sake of a person I hated, so I took my dress and took Qinglan back to Yilan Palace.

These days, Princess Ancheng often brings the prince to visit my palace, one and the other, the son is also familiar with me, sometimes follow his father into the palace to ask for peace, and often come to the Yilan Palace alone to see me, treat me very kindly, listen to the laughter of children, my mood is also happy.

"Chaos is born in governance, cowardice is born in bravery, and weakness is born in strength. Chaos control, number also; Courage and cowardice, momentum also; Strength and weakness, shape also. Therefore, those who are good at moving the enemy will follow the form; Give it, and the enemy will take it. Move it with profit, and hold it with a pawn (2). ”

In the Yilan Palace, the female voice that was as clear as jade flowing water made a gentle sound.

Chen Ji was recently teaching the prince to read the art of war, and when the prince came to my palace, he asked me for advice on the art of war.

Shizi listened in a daze on the side, and his black pupils were full of the confusion of the smoke of the mountains, "Niangniang, this passage is so long, I don't understand." ”

I patiently taught, "It's okay if you don't understand, I'll tell you." ”

The prince raised his head and listened to me carefully, and I summed it up, "Soldiers stand by deception." What this passage tells us is that disguise, deception, is also a ploy. We must be good at making illusions to confuse the enemy to achieve our goals, so that the enemy feels that we are cowardly, that we are in chaos, that we are weak and can be bullied, and that we can be bullied, and let down our guard. In this way, they will be carelessly paralyzed and unguarded, and then we will lure the enemy to come with a disguise of 'profit', and we will be able to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop. ”

I muttered, as if to the son of the world, and as if to say to myself, "To deal with the enemy, we must learn to disguise and learn to forbear." Show the enemy weakness and lower his vigilance, so that he can be taken by surprise, attack his unpreparedness, and deal a heavy blow to the enemy! ”

Shizi's dark black eyes turned slightly, and he said a little deflated: "I seem to understand, but I don't seem to understand." ”

I softly reassured, "It's okay, you're still young, you'll understand later." ”

How long can I disguise myself as a weaker enemy? Every day I force myself to laugh, submit to the enemy, do dirty and disgusting things, and it seems that I will never see the end, how humiliated, how desperate. Bear it, can I really bear it?

The slender ten fingers gradually tightened, and the eyes drifted, getting farther and farther away.

"Mother." The little hand shook my body, and I came back to my senses.

But I saw Shizi staring at my lower abdomen, and in the black pupils, there was worry and sadness, "Niangniang, are you unhappy again, is it because the little doll in your belly is gone?" ”

Because he always didn't see me smiling, thinking that I was depressed due to a miscarriage, Chen Qian asked Chen Qian to bring the prince into the palace to see me and comfort me. But how did he know why I was unhappy?

"It's not." I shook my head, and although I felt guilty about losing my child, I was not sad. As for that child, let me pray for him every day to pay for my sins.

"Then why is the mother always unhappy?" Shizi frowned in confusion, "Every time I come to see Niangniang, I think you are not good, even if you laugh, you don't laugh happily." ”

As he spoke, Shizi made a grimace at me, and when he saw that I wasn't smiling, he suddenly said in frustration: "It seems that I didn't do it like it, and I didn't make my mother happy." ”

Then, his eyes rolled, and his smile was as pure as spring snow, "Or, I'll tell my mother a joke, I often tell jokes to my father in the palace, and every time he is unhappy, I tell him a joke, and he is happy." ”

The prince really spoke, "There was a man who was forced by the people who came to collect the debt that he had no choice, so he hurriedly said: Do you have to tell me? The debt collector suspected that he would reveal his shortcomings, so he walked away silently, several times in a row. One day, the debt collector finally couldn't bear it anymore and said fiercely: If you want to say it, you can say it, I'm not afraid of you. And the debtor said, "Do you really want me to say it?" The debt collector said, "I really want you to say it." The debtor said, "I will not pay the debt." ”

Shizi said vividly and interestingly, vividly, even he laughed out loud when he said it, seeing that I still didn't laugh, a smiling face froze, and said angrily: "Niangniang, why are you still not smiling, is it that I didn't speak well?" ”

"No, you're right." I comforted him softly, "It's just that I've seen this joke a long time ago." ”

"You saw this joke from "Xiaolin", can you tell it so clearly and completely, it seems that the prince has recently learned a lot from the prince and the teacher?" I asked him.

Shizi smiled proudly, "My father not only taught me martial arts, but also invited a teacher to teach me to read and write, I have learned a lot!" ”

As soon as I became interested, I said: "Then I will test you, since you just talked about "Xiaolin", then I will test a few words in your book to see if you can write it." ”

Without thinking, Shizi replied, "What's so difficult about that. ”

I instructed someone to bring a pen and paper, hold a copy of "Xiaolin" in my hand, flip it casually, and read a few rare and easy-to-mistake words to him, and let him write silently. As soon as he heard the words I read, his smiling face wrinkled into a ball, and he was no longer brisk and bright, and he thought about it for a long time before he started to write.

When he finished writing, I took it and looked at it, and I couldn't help but laugh, half wrong. Looking at the words he wrote, he either lacked arms and legs, or had an extra tail, one less here and one more horizontal there, or the wind and horses and cows were not related.

"Shizi, half of the mistakes are wrong, it seems that your words need to be strengthened."

I took the pen, corrected him word by word, and patiently explained. With a blushing face, Shizi honestly stayed beside me and was taught, his eyes wandering with my pen.

"Niangniang, your handwriting is much better than mine." Shizi's eyes sparkled, and he looked at me with envy.

Exegesis:

(1) The title comes from Wei Yingwu's "Sending Li Dan Yuanxi" in the Tang Dynasty, "The world is vast and unpredictable"

(2) "The Art of ▪ War"