Li Jing was still a little worried, but he still gave his father face and said, "This matter is indeed His Highness's carelessness." According to His Royal Highness the King of Jin, Tang Guogong sent a chapter to the province, which was accidentally seen by Lu Kaiming, the right Cheng of Shangshu, who had always admired the East Palace, and was friendly with His Royal Highness the Prince, and because of his outstanding literary talent, he was quite appreciated by the emperor, and he informed the prince of this matter. According to the intention of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, this person should be eliminated as soon as possible. ”

They talked about these things back and forth, and I listened to them as if I was poked by something, and I thought that my father really wanted to avoid these senseless disputes, and often secretly laughed in my heart that he had no ambition to be an emperor. As a result, he was much more complicated than I had imagined, and I had been worried about whether he would be able to establish the Tang Dynasty as he had historically done during the turbulent years, and now I realized that my worries were too much.

I despise such an act in my heart, but my dad can do it without thinking about it, and my values have been impacted again - with my father's cleverness, I know that I shouldn't do it, what is it for?

After Li Jing left, I still looked at my father with loose hair in confusion, looking at his sturdy back, he was not the gentlemen I knew—Fang Bushi, Cheng Buyi, Xiao Deyan—they were the real literati of this era, but my father was not. I seemed to see a turbulent river surging around my father's body, and my father stood in the center of the whirlpool, turning clouds and rain, stirring the world. I stood far, far away, like a thin blank sheet of paper, teetering on the edge of a whirlpool, out of step with this chaotic world—not only me, but the gentlemen who taught me how to read and write, how to behave, and taught me the affairs of my family and country, all of them were like me, and they did not belong to this world at all.

Daddy must have looked at me for a long time when he spoke, and he must have seen the unmistakable confusion on my face. asked: "What Li Jing sent was the ears of the person who stabbed him that day, and you seem to be very puzzled." ”

I came back from my trance and asked, "I'm really puzzled. ”

Dad said, "What's the problem? ”

Dad's question reminded me of Mr. Fang, the last time I argued with him, and I couldn't help but feel a little timid when I thought of the consequences of that argument, but until now, I don't think what I said at that time was wrong in the slightest. Thinking of this, I boldly asked, "Father, why did you conclude that the assassination was instigated by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" Nowadays, there is no evidence to prove this, but to fabricate evidence to frame others out of thin air is not the act of a righteous gentleman. ”

Dad looked very tired, he walked to the chair and sat down, and said slowly, "A righteous gentleman? Built, have you heard of Lu Kaiming's people? ”

I shook my head, I hadn't heard half a word at all except for what came out of Li Jing's mouth just now.

Dad said: "Lu Kaiming is an old minister of Qi State, and his literary talents are written in the world, and the people of the time are known as national scholars. The emperor loves his talent and gives him the position of Shangshu Youcheng, and he can be regarded as a righteous gentleman. ”

"But it was this person who peeked at his father's recital, and he ......"

Dad interrupted: "Whether he has read the recital, my father doesn't know, my father only knows what Li Jing said today, which is undoubtedly telling my father that Lu Kaiming's death is not far away." He was already friendly with the crown prince, which was what he wanted. ”

I was ignorant, and I roughly understood that Lu Kaiming did not commit a heinous crime, but just because he was standing on the opposite side of King Jin, King Jin wanted him to die.

"Do you know that the young owner of the 'Seven Don't Kill' Villa is not hateful, and in the eleventh year of the opening of the emperor, he broke into the Yue State Mansion to assassinate Yang Su, at that time the King of Jin happened to have a banquet in the Yue State Mansion, and saved his life under Yang Su's knife, and the owner of the village was grateful for the kindness of the King of Jin to save his son, so the entire villa actually became a bargaining chip for the King of Jin to seize power......"

Before I could finish listening, I asked, "Do you want to be revenge?" What does he have to do with Qiu Yuandu? Are they alone? "Actually, I don't need my dad to nod my head to know that they must be the same person, Jiangdong Sijun is like an agreement, and they all changed their names after the fall of Jiankang City.

I saw my father nodding, and I wondered, "Wasn't his father killed by Yang Xuangan?" ”

Dad shook his head, "His father is the most powerful killer in the north, and it is not so easy for Yang Xuangan to kill him." Qiujiazhuang suffered a disaster, and his father fled back to the north alone, and after several years of work, he rebuilt the 'Seven Do Not Kill' Villa. ”

"But father, Yang Xuangan almost wiped out the enemy's family, so hateful, how could the father of the hatred not be able to work with Yang Su to work with King Jin?"

Dad sighed: "The owner of the village only contributes to the king of Jin because of the morality of the rivers and lakes, if the king of Jin inherits the unification one day, he and Yang Su father and son are still enemies." ”

I had new doubts and asked, "But father, the person who assassinated us that day was the same person from this mountain village." According to my father, they were sent by the prince, how does this make sense? ”

"You're asking a good question. In fact, King Jin didn't know much about Jiangdong Sijun's father, so from the beginning they appeared, his father knew that they were actually ...... It was instructed by the King of Jin. ”

I was stunned when I heard this, "Father......"

My father didn't give me a chance to speak, and continued, "Let them go for my father, I know that they can't live anymore." The people of the "Seven Don't Kill" Villa, although they are outlaws, but they are many loyal and righteous people, they are grateful for the grace of their father not to kill, and when they see the King of Jin, they will only say that the Assassin Mansion is more guarded, but they will not say that they are defeated under the sword of their father. If they all died here, and there were no high-ranking people in the Assassin's Mansion, how could they kill the five of them? And it is true that the father cannot kill them, which is to retreat into advance. Today, Li Jing only sent four pairs of ears, so it seems that among those assassins, it is not easy for some of them to be alive. ”

"Then what if they tell the truth to King Jin?"

Dad smiled lightly: "Then the person who came today is not Li Jing, but the person from the 'Seven Don't Kill' Villa." If they kill me, they can blame the prince, so the prince has one more crime. ”

I was terrified to hear this, so in fact, Dad was just gambling, and he was gambling on other people's character, and Dad just happened to be a little lucky to win.

Moreover, the father is nothing more than giving away to others what the prince has given him, and it is not for the father to care about how they will use it. All a father can do now is to draw a line with the crown prince. ”

After speaking, Dad stood up and walked up to me, leaned over and patted me on the shoulder, "Father has said so much to you, what questions do you have?" ”

I said, "Why does my father want to talk to him?" ”

Dad said: "You listen to what your father and Li Jing talked about, what do you think of being a father?" But it doesn't hurt to talk about it. ”

I thought for a moment and said, "Father, don't be angry. Jiancheng thought that his father's actions were not square, but after listening to his father's analysis just now, his father must have had some concerns and had to do this. ”

Dad touched his beard and smiled: "It's against your will." It's better for you to be a father and be a villain. ”

I saw that my father didn't look angry at all, and said, "I can only say that I am not a gentleman." ”

"For what my father wants in his life, only the four words of openness are just open. These things are things that your father doesn't have to say, and your mother can understand. But you are still young, and you may not understand in your eyes that there is indeed a last resort to doing this for your father. Tell you about it, and because you are the eldest son in the family, the father hopes that you will not encounter these things, but the world is changeable, and the father cannot say for sure. Gentleman and benevolent, Mr. Fang taught you well. Daddy continued to stroke his mustache and said, "But it doesn't have to be a gentleman." King Jin is cruel and suspicious by nature, and Mingzhe can't protect himself, so he naturally has to do a little bit of these things against his will. The father is not alone, the person who is connected to the heart, your mother, A-Yao, Yuru, you, Sanniang, Shimin, and everyone up and down in this house, do you understand? ”

Daddy said the names of everyone in the family word by word, and I began to understand a little bit of what Daddy was doing. It's like a helpless thug - like me in the past, it doesn't matter if I died for some inexplicable reason; But if it were me now, I would never dare to mess with my life, because I am not just me. I remembered the feeling of being like a knife - the disappointed look of my mother came to mind, how could I let her, make them disappointed, sad or sad?

I can abide by the way of a gentleman and the righteousness of filial piety taught by Mr. Fang, but if I give up my life in vain because I keep this illusory way of a gentleman...... Or rather, it cost them all their lives in vain, and even if they die, they will be upset.

I nodded and replied, "Got built." ”

To be honest, I love Daddy's honesty, and it makes me feel forgivable for all the things he did as a last resort – because I know why he did it, and I understand his struggle. I also admire his cleverness, if he hides these things and doesn't give half an explanation, I will only think that he is unfathomable and unpredictable, not to mention understanding, even a little understanding may be a problem. I think the same is true of how people get along with each other, because they are honest and close to each other, and because they are secretive and alienated.

Somehow, when I thought about it like this, I thought of the word sincerity that Master taught me in the past, and my father let me understand what he did, which is called sincerity.

As expected by my father, in less than two months, Lu Kaiming, the right man of Shangshu, was impeached and imprisoned by Yushitai for accepting bribes, contracted typhoid fever and finally died of illness in prison.

When I heard the news, my dad looked serious. Not only my father, but even I, a person who is not deeply involved in the world, can feel as if there is a big net covering my head, which makes people breathless and panic even when they move. To be honest, I couldn't understand my father's feelings, and when I looked at him, he just silently looked up at the sky, and then lowered his head again, as if he was thinking, and he felt like he was mourning.

But one thing is clear, when things really happened as Daddy expected, I knew that there were a lot of misunderstandings about Daddy before. I finally understand that life does not give too many choices to the people in it, such as Dad, between the prince and the king of Jin, all along, in fact, he has no choice at all.