I feel more and more that life is actually like playing a game, people who survive one level after another enter the next game, and die at a certain level - such as Lu Kaiming - for him the game is over, there is no second life, there is no place to add blood to resurrection, nothing. And Daddy is just a clever player in this game.

Thinking back to my previous experience of playing games, my interest in this place has increased a lot.

The spring of the twentieth year of the emperor's reign was frighteningly cold, it was already the time of March, the city of Qizhou was still snowing, the dense snowflakes in the sky covered the city of Qizhou with layers of white clothes, the snow outside the house was not related to me, and I still had that thought in my head - in this game-like world, only advanced players can survive, such as Dad, this is based on the conclusion that I already knew that several ministers of the court and China had been assassinated. As for the most advanced player, it is the person who can influence the overall situation of the world, and at present, it seems that this person is Yang Guang, the king of Jin.

Speaking of the King of Jin, that is, the Emperor Yang of Sui as I know it, I suspect that this Emperor Yang of Sui is not the same person as the Emperor Yang of Sui that I have heard of. In all the stories I heard before and watched a lot of messy TV series, Emperor Yang of Sui was a tyrannical and mediocre king of the dead country, but now I listen to my father's analysis, and I only have one feeling - this person is scheming and calculating, and he is by no means a foolish emperor like Chen Shubao.

I'm also interested in King Jin - a super player in this game world - I didn't bother to mention this person at all before, but now it's different, his series of actions to be the prince shows a problem, what he heard about what he did in Jiankang City may be rumors at all, how could such a scheming person be unable to hold it when he saw Chen Shubao's favorite concubine Zhang Lihua? This matter does not stand up to scrutiny at all.

At the time I was here, what I heard was no longer true, so what about thousands of years later? From this point of view, not only are most historical stories fictional, but even the so-called historical truth is not credible. This thought directly touched the deepest fear in my heart, that everyone dies, but I don't necessarily die as I think I do now.

I was only eleven years old, and I had already come into contact with the superstructure of this vast empire and the gloom that lurked within it, with my father's connivance. I remember fooling around behind Master's ass at my age, and I kept messing around for more than ten years, until finally, Master said that I was still too innocent, and that was the last time Master and I drank, and I forgot which street in Xi'an I forgot which street to sit in the open air at a roadside stall -

"Xiao Ke, you are a clever person, but it is too simple and boring." Master was already drunk when he said this.

Of course, Master can't compare with me in terms of drinking, I drank much more than him but was still very sober, and after hearing this, I replied very unhappily: "Am I simple? Master, you really don't know me at all, and to tell you the truth, my city is deep, and I just don't bother to play with these people. ”

I still remember Master's reaction when he heard this, with a playful face, he pointed at me with a laugh and said, "Xiao Ke, you are drunk!" ”

I replied, "Master, you're just drunk." ”。

Now I realize that what Master said is not bad at all, he is the one who brought me up from childhood, although I don't want to admit it, in fact, in fact, he is barely half my father, "knowing the son is not the father", where could he say wrong? I always thought that it was because I didn't like complexity, so I thought about everything simply, but in fact, people who pursue simplicity must also be simple in their bones, and this simplicity constitutes a barrier against the world, and it can also be said to be an escape from the complex world of reality. And this explanation is so appropriate for me, who used to be Yu Ke.

I still don't care about these intrigues that I have heard of, and the reason is indeed as Master said before, I am simple. But I found that I gradually became more and more innocent, I don't know if it was when I wanted to kill Li Shimin that day or when my father told me that everything we saw was a conspiracy of King Jin. I can now really feel that the conspiracy is lurking in the invisible shadows, and it often catches people off guard, just like Lu Kaiming, in the conspiracy, simple people are simply live targets, and I don't like to be a live target.

The first time I saw His Royal Highness the King of Jin was after the snow covering Qizhou City had melted. Spring came very late, I never paid attention to the changes in the surrounding scenery before, and now I don't know why, I actually have a very leisurely and leisurely view of the flowers, I put a vase in my study, it was Yuru and Sanniang to help me get it, they think my study is too monotonous, there are a few flowers in it, the flowers are very beautiful, each flower has several petals, from the inside to the outside is a layer of gradually deeper red halo, each flower feels like a beautiful face that can be broken, Sanniang said that this flower is called Begonia.

When the petals have fallen off, a thin purple layer was laid on the wooden platform, and Yang Guang, the king of Jin, returned to Beijing from the governor of Yangzhou to report on his work, passing through Qizhou, and came to visit his father.

When the next person came to report that His Royal Highness the King of Jin had arrived, I saw a middle-aged man with a long figure, who came alone, wearing a simple ink-colored gown, his wide forehead and thin face, sword eyebrows and almond eyes, straight nose, thin lips slightly pursed, his beard was not dense or sparse, and there was a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth. He was personable and deep-eyed - how could such a person be a tyrant of the dead country? I had long forgotten the old saying "no one should be good-looking", and stood behind my dad like a nymphomaniac and stared at him.

As soon as he saw his father, he arched his hand and said, "Brother Shude, has you always been good?" ”

From his words, I couldn't hear the slightest bit of the arrogance that a prince should have, and he was so humble that I didn't believe that the person in front of me was King Jin.

Dad also saluted: "His Royal Highness King Jin has been tired all the way, please sit inside." ”

Dad didn't let me sit in on this time, waved my hand and drove me out, I guess they were still discussing some conspiracy - forgot to say, Dad said that the King of Jin did tell the emperor that he was assassinated outside the palace gate, in the face of the mountain of ironclad evidence that Dad gave to the King of Jin, the emperor was furious, and reprimanded the prince, and the prince was depressed and drank too much wine after returning to the house, and the words were quite resentful, and as a result, he offended Yang Su, who was ordered to come and see, Yang Su spoke in front of the emperor and said something very unfavorable to the prince, As a result, the emperor finally mentioned the abolition of the crown prince at the court meeting.

The crown prince is the capital of the country, it is impossible to say that it will be abolished, and most of the ministers of the court and China are opposed, so this issue has been shelved for the time being, but the problem of being shelved does not mean that it does not exist, and the emperor recalled the king of Jin from Jiangdu at this time, which is self-evident.

King Jin and Daddy talked for a long time in the study, I don't know what they talked about, but after Daddy's relay, I also roughly figured out the purpose of King Jin coming to Daddy - he hopes that Daddy will stand up at a critical moment, in fact, this is also good for Daddy, standing on the emperor's side can make the emperor not appear too isolated in the matter of abolishing the prince, as for standing on the side of the future emperor, at least it can ensure a bright future.

After that, I didn't hear my father mention the matter of the abolished prince, because at this time the Turks repeatedly violated the border, and the king of Jin was sent to Lingzhou to block the Turks, and he had no energy to do things in Daxing City for the time being, and then I knew that I was wrong, because less than a month after the king of Jin set out on the expedition, Yu Qingze, the supervisor of internal history, was killed by the rod outside the Daxing Hall because of a trivial matter, Yu Qing has always opposed the abolition of the prince, and once said that the prince is the foundation of the country, the country is not solid, and the country will not be a country. Chinese scholars have been a bit pedantic from ancient times to the present, since the emperor said that the prince was abolished, what else can he distinguish? Struggling in front of the imperial power, the end is obviously doomed.

Dad said that Yu Qingze's death was not simply to anger the emperor, but because he offended the king of Jin, Yang Su repeatedly slandered in front of the emperor, and even pulled out old things, saying that he had fornicated with foreign enemies, and the emperor finally felt that this old man was too much of an eyesore, as long as there was a chance, it would be a matter of time before he was killed, and now things just happened as expected.

Daddy's story about Yu Qingze's killing process seems very calm, I found that in ancient times, human life was too worthless, these dead or alive people were actually small soldiers in the game, and those who died one or two would not attract attention at all, and the people who paid attention to their life and death were all small soldiers like them.

On June 20, the twentieth year of the emperor's reign, Qin Wangjun died of illness. I knew he was poisoned.

Since he was transferred back to Daxing Chengge a few years ago, the sick King of Qin has been grounded in the palace and can't go anywhere, in fact, if he is really allowed to go, he won't be able to go at all. During this period, because of the affairs of King Qin, several ministers in the court were moved by the emperor's feelings, and the emperor not only forgave him, but also warned the ministers who interceded for him, I know that there are only two people named Gao Gong and Shi Wansui, and there is another person, Yang Su, who also pretended to mention that of course he has nothing to do, because everything is premeditated. The minister's actions would only make the emperor feel isolated, and the more people who pleaded, the less likely it was that the king of Qin would be forgiven.

When I heard my father talk about this place, I was impressed by the wisdom of King Jin, and at the same time thought that when King Qin was sick, the emperor would definitely send someone to see him, but the emperor didn't know that King Qin was poisoned, which can only show that the people in the hospital were either quacks or all of them were bought by King Jin and stood on his side. This made me realize that being an emperor is actually a very sad thing, unless the emperor is extremely sensitive, it is difficult to escape the fate of being blinded, the current emperor is like this, his sons have killed each other, and he himself still has the dream of father's love and filial piety.

The only effect that Qin Wangjun's death had on me was to recite Buddhist scriptures for a few days, because the queen is a person who believes in Buddhism very much, and she wants to spend her soul on behalf of her dead son, and the emperor ordered all officials to recite Buddha for three days, which is my first contact with Buddha. I heard that King Qin wanted to become a monk when he was a teenager because he believed in Buddhism, but he was persuaded to come back, and I think if he really became a monk at that time, maybe he would still be alive and well.