Chapter 40: Sword in the Snow (2)
It's not that I don't know how to answer this question, everyone understands the truth, and I will never ask these questions as stupidly as I used to, but the person in front of him, he is still obsessed.
Yu Wenhua saw that I was stunned and looked at the flying snow outside the pavilion without speaking, and laughed: "You also understand? There was indescribable bitterness in the laughter.
I nodded, drank the wine in my glass, and understood a little bit of the feeling of being drunk.
Yu Wenhua said: "You know? Let's talk about it. β
I said: "I heard the master say in the past that you have an old relationship with the abolished prince, and now that he is so down, you probably can't bear it." β
His hand stopped suddenly, holding the wine glass in the air and looking confused, he glanced at me, and sneered: "It seems that Lao Tzu didn't kill you." But you're wrong, Lao Tzu doesn't know what to bear, he suffers by himself, he deserves it! If he hadn't despised me back then, maybe I'm ...... now Hum! β
I smiled and said, "Thank you for not killing." He touched the glass he was holding and drank again.
As for Yu Wenhua's abnormal performance, I actually know the reason through the conversation just now. After the abolished prince was deposed, he always thought that he was not at fault, and the so-called attempts to collude with foreign ministers to rebel were simply framed by others, so he wanted to see the emperor, just to argue in front of the emperor, but how could the current attendants of the East Palace let him get his wish? Therefore, the abolished prince struggled for a long time and never saw the emperor. In addition, Yang Su often said in front of the emperor that the prince might have a mental problem, and the emperor hated him even more, let alone seeing him, and he didn't even want to listen to anything about him.
The abolished prince had no choice but to go to Yu Wenhua again, hoping that he would help him in his past friendships, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is such a smart person, what the abolished prince wants, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to get, so he has reminded Yu Wenhua in advance.
Not only that, but his father Yuwen Shu also made an obstacle from it, threatening the future of the Yuwen clan, telling him that if he helped the abolished prince, their Yuwen family's current status might not be able to be maintained.
He had no choice but to drink. And I absolutely believe that what I just said was self-defeating, because I understood this feeling early on, and I really didn't care that it was definitely not what he was.
"Do you know what makes me angry even more?" He smiled bitterly, "Although I was locked up in the East Palace all day, he still came here to look for me and tell me...... Hmph, if he can see the emperor, he can give me whatever I want. Hahahaha...... his laughter became weird, "Just like ten years ago, he still thinks that I can be bought, don't you think it's ridiculous?" β
I don't know why, I can understand his mood - in fact, he is just a gangster dressed in the shell of the prince and grandson, and he is also a qualified gangster, light on wealth and righteousness, but he has made friends with people who should not befriend, and I finally understand why my father said that the abolished prince is just a golden mean.
I cleared my throat and said, "Since the friend is not human, why should Zuo Shuzi be too concerned?" β
He watched me take two more sips of wine, smiled wryly, and did not answer.
Ta Xue Xuan was silent for a long time, he looked at the snow outside the pavilion and suddenly said, "Wasn't you unconvinced just now?" Okay, after drinking this pot of wine, let's move on! He kept the glass on his side, picked up the flask and poured it into his mouth.
I just looked at him with a little curiosity, this well-known light boy in Daxing City, his attributes are actually similar to me, the difference between us is that he feels like me before, he may know more than me, but he does the same bastard, and now I may be very similar to him before, the difference is that I know what loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness are all about, and I also know that there is absolutely no way to survive here by relying on these.
I was still thinking about it when I heard him shout outside the pavilion, "Go and fetch me a sword!" With that, he pulled me outside the pavilion.
We stood outside the pavilion for less than five minutes, and a layer of snow fell on my clothes, and he held my arm unsteadily and said, "Hey, if you win the hatred in the Qizhou military camp back then, I won't care about you anymore, do you hear?" β
It suddenly occurred to me that I had such a big bond with him, and if he hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten about it.
There was a servant with two swords, and he took one of them, took a few steps back, and gently picked up the other, which was plunged right into the snow in front of me.
As soon as I pulled the sword out of the snow, he had already made a move, and I thought of the fact that I had just looked down on him in the East Palace, so I stopped messing around, only protected my chest, and waited for his sword move. Unlike what I thought, his sword momentum was much slower than before, I thought he must be a little drunk, so he didn't care too much, and waited until the sword reached the front of him before raising his sword to check, who knew that my sword just touched the tip of his sword, it didn't feel right, I didn't feel any strength at all, as if it wasn't blocked at all.
Sure enough, before I could react, my sword had been swept away by a force from nowhere, and its blade grazed against the blade of my sword, straight to my throat. I was shocked when I saw this, and hurriedly retreated, but he did not advance, withdrew the sword and attacked my lower flank, I was shocked, knowing that his sword move had a ghost, so I no longer dared to take it lightly, thinking of the false move just now, I tried to calm down, carefully identified his sword in the snow, and stabbed his sword to the side, and at the same time stabbed at his sword, only to hear the sound of "dang", his sword deviated outward.
This time I remembered Xun Yi's self-defense skills that Xun Yi taught me, he said that the most important thing in fighting against people is not to win, but to be undefeated, if he has no chance to take advantage of it, he will be invincible. As I thought about it, I turned my sword in a circle in front of me, thinking that this would block his path.
I was wrong again, and somehow his sword broke into the circle I had drawn, and was about to pierce me in the chest before it touched my sword. I thought I was going to lose again, so I had to withdraw my sword and slash at him, trying my best to miss his sword.
We've gone through so many tricks, and I'm at the mercy of others everywhere, if I continue like this, I won't have the strength to fight back at all, so what can I talk about winning him? I thought about it for a moment, and when I looked at him, I felt him turn around and smile at me in the gap between the snowflakes.
He made another move, the situation remained the same, or he attacked me and defended, I knew that I couldn't prevent it, so I simply didn't take it seriously, and I remembered a sentence in "Lao Tzu" - "If you want to take it, you must stick to it". That's right, that's it! I watched his sword come slowly, deliberately trying to block it, but it was deflected, only a small angle away from his sword, and his sword stabbed at my left shoulder, but the sword in my hand slammed out from under his side.
I expected his sword to stab me, and I thought that if you were going to hurt me, I would return it...... But, hey, forget it, I still don't know him in general, so I deflected the tip of the sword upwards at a large angle.
I almost couldn't stand on my feet with a sharp pain in my left shoulder, just as the blade of my sword was pressed against his neck.
I took advantage of the momentum to stand firm, and caught a glimpse of blood falling down his blade drop by drop, and the sword in his hand suddenly loosened, and there was another sharp pain! As soon as I let go of my hand, my sword fell to the ground, and there was no way to stand still and fall straight forward.
He grabbed me and said, "Forget it, you won!" β
I breathed a sigh of relief and reluctantly stood still, and smiled at him, "Promise...... Acceptance. β
He helped me into the room, bandaged me indiscriminately, and still looked at me with a ruffian look on his face, saying, "I finally know now why you didn't shoot me at that time." β
When did that happen? I endured the pain and thought about it hard, but I only remember that I taught him a lesson with Sanniang in the barracks, who remembers why I didn't shoot him? And I forgot why I shot him, so I asked, "What?" β
He pointed to my wound and said, "You just had a chance to give it back to me, but you didn't. For this sake, I can give you a little advice. β
I said, "What advice?" β
He smiled strangely: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince values you, and you do have the wisdom to know people. But I want to advise you, you are now following His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, don't fall too deep. The crown prince is the same as his Lao Tzu, he is seriously suspicious, you can just look at the fate of Shi Wansui and Gao Gong, do you think they are just because they participated in the battle for the East Palace? To tell you the truth, it's all an excuse, they are just too stunned and don't know how to use power at all. Yang Su and my father were just pawns of the emperor, and they thought they had succeeded, but they were just being manipulated. β
I listened to him and forgot about the pain in my left shoulder, it didn't look like a thug would say it.
"To tell you the truth, you are very smart, but if the prince knows that you are smarter than him, you will be finished." He pointed to himself, "You should learn from me and plan for the future." It's not a good thing for young people to be too high-spirited. β
He didn't look like a scoundrel at all when he said this, and the deep gaze reminded me of my father, which made me confusedβmaybe people live to their age to have a little bit of a sense of life?
I think I've known Yu Wenhua and it's not been a day or two, in my impression, he's just a bastard who is slightly older than me in age, and I've been mixed for more than ten years before, it's basically in vain, and he has done this in the East Palace over the years, if he really has any heart, he should have taught me a lesson a long time ago, I thought he could be in the same room with me in the East Palace because of cowardice, but I didn't expect it to be.
"You became like this because of the waste prince, and you also pretended?" I said.
He shook his head and said, "I've known him when you're the only one, and it's been twenty years now. When he had said this, he stopped talking about it, and instead asked me if I needed someone to send me back, and reverted to his drunken and nondescript appearance.