Late at night, Princess Taiping lay on her side on the gorgeous round bed, with a loving smile on her face, and kissed her sleeping daughter Ning Jin with her soft red lips.

"Jin'er, Jin'er, your father finally went home, and he went out again in a hurry and hasn't come back yet." Princess Taiping said softly, "I can't stay up for my mother, I'm going to sleep...... It's time to go to bed first! ”

The next day, at nightfall.

When the dinner in the main hall was served for the third time, Princess Taiping sighed lightly and said, "It seems that she will not come back." Eat them all, don't wait! ”

Day 3, early evening.

Linlang took the written invitation card and other things to ask Princess Taiping, and asked which guests had not been invited, so she could add it immediately.

"When the husband comes back, you can ask for yourself!" Princess Taiping stood on the willow bank in the backyard, squinting at the sparkling water, and said softly, "Isn't it just to report good news, it will take three days and three nights?" ”

……

At this moment, Xue Shao and Xue Yi were still sitting opposite each other in the study, with a meal beside them that had already been cold and untouched.

The brothers are still talking deeply, in a fierce controversy.

Three days and three nights, no sleep.

No one can convince the other completely.

"Big brother, I want to ask you the coldest and most cruel question." Xue Shao said, "If one day, only one of my sister-in-law and I can survive, and the other must die." Who dies and who lives, would you like? ”

"Why do you ask such a question?" Three days and three nights of sleepless have made Xue Yi's eyes swollen like red hearts and his face turned yellow, but his spirit was morbidly excited, and he said in a hoarse voice: "This kind of thing won't happen!" ”

"If you little brother, you must know the answer?" Xue Shao has never been aggressive with Xue Yi, this is the first time.

"I ......" Xue Yi blinked his sour eyes again and again, shaking his head in confusion and pain, "I don't know, I don't know!" Don't ask me, don't ask me!! ”

"In fact, the cruelty and ruthlessness of this question is like making a choice between the Li family and the Wu family for the younger brother." Xue Shao said.

Xue Yi suddenly looked up at Xue Shao, and then understood his original intention.

Xue Shao had a smile on his face, he calmed down and said, "They are all raised by their fathers and mothers, so they will all have selfish intentions." Our mother is Li Tang's princess, and my wife is Li Tang's princess. We have many relatives, brothers, sisters, friends, and robes who are all relatives of Li Tang and loyal ministers of Li Tang. Big brother, do you think that the younger brother is really born with no king and no father, so he has to rush to put Li Tang's artifact into the hands of the Wu clan with one hand? ”

"Of course not." Xue Yi said, "I know better than anyone what kind of person Erlang is. ”

"On the other hand, Wu is my mother-in-law and my Bole." Xue Shao said, "No matter how she treats others, she treats me really well." The most valuable thing is that she married her most precious and beloved only daughter to me. In the past few years since he got married, the younger brother has been in the army of the Tang Dynasty with confusion and willfulness, and he has rampage without scruples...... If it weren't for her wrapping her arms around my waist from behind, I don't know how many times I'd died. Big brother, do you believe it? ”

Xue Yi nodded, "Letter." ”

"Bang Lang" There was a startling roar, and Xue Shao suddenly pulled out the Taiyi Imperial Sword on his waist, which scared Xue Yi and almost fell.

"Erlang, why is this so?!" Xue Yi gasped a few times in embarrassment and sat up straight again.

"If now, if you want me to cut this knife at my mother-in-law, my Bole, my savior." Xue Shao stared at the shiny knife face, and asked in a deep and hoarse voice, "Big brother, if it's you, can you do it?" ”

Xue Yi was silent.

"Back to that question, if my sister-in-law and I had to die, would you choose who dies and who lives?

Xue Yi's body leaned forward, his elbows propped up on the table, and he supported his forehead with his hands, looking painful and tormented.

"Nobody wants to face that choice." Xue Shao put away the knife and slowly slid the blade into the scabbard, his voice becoming more and more hoarse, "But, little brother, it's already faced!" ”

"Don't say it, don't say it!" Xue Yi buried his head and kept waving his hands.

On Xue Shao's face, a smile appeared, and he arched his hand to Xue Yi, and said loudly and hoarsely-

"Ask my eldest brother to teach me, I should ...... How?! ”

With a "plop", Xue Yi fainted and fell.

Xue Shao hurriedly stepped forward to visit, it was not a big deal, but he was too tired. So he helped him to lie down on the couch, took off his clothes, pulled a quilt over him, covered him, and set him in place.

Walking to the window, Xue Shao pushed open the window that had been closed for three days and three nights, and was so pierced by the sudden sunlight that he couldn't open his eyes. The fresh air outside made him cough.

Squinting out the window, the familiar and ancient Chang'an City.

Xue Shao let out a long sigh-

"What should I do?"

"What can I do?"

……

The ants are still stealing their lives, and since Xue Shao accepted the reality of being born in the Tang Dynasty, the three things he thought about the most were - life, life, life!

But man cannot live for the sake of living.

Over the years, life and experience have injected too many things into Xue Shao's heart. He has a family, a wife and children, relatives, Brother Paoze, who was born and died, a military career that he can't give up, and a love for the country of Datang, and a man should have ambitions and ideals.

Many people have all of the above, which is not surprising.

But Xue Shao also has a unique, unpredictable prophet of history.

Sometimes Xue Shao himself is conflicted and hesitating, is this uncertain prophet a secret artifact that God has given me invincible, or is it a poppy planted in my heart?

Because of this artifact, he has completely changed the life of the vase colt, and he is counting on it to help him swim against the tide and fight against fate.

Because it is a poppy, Xue Shao has not been able to quit since he got it. It is said that the ignorant are fearless, so knowing too much and foreseeing too much can sometimes be a burden, and even turn into fear.

Although he was not in the age of his establishment, his heart was too young to be young, which was the malaise that poppy brought to Xue Shao.

"Erlang, we're all going to die." Xue Yi, who was lying on the couch, muttered behind Xue Shao's back.

Xue Shao turned around and saw that Xue Yi was still asleep. He was talking in a dream.

"No one can live forever." Xue Shao replied casually, turned around and still looked at Chang'an City.

But it was such an unintentional sentence that made Xue Shao's heart flash!

"I know why my heart is full of panic and fear!" Xue Shao's eyes suddenly widened, and he said to himself, "Death is not terrible, because everyone has to die. What is really scary is knowing exactly when and how you are going to die!! ”

Waiting to die?

- I came to Datang just to wait for death?!

"Erlang, we are all ......going to die," Xue Yi let out such a dream again.

"Big brother, you're right, we're all going to die." Xue Shao took a deep breath, and the morning air in the capital of the Tang Dynasty said in a low and deep voice, "Either it will be beautiful for eternity, or it will be stinking for thousands of years!" ”

From early morning to late afternoon.

When Xue Shao just opened his eyes, he heard someone talking outside the window.

"Ministers welcome Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping!" It was Shaw's voice, and then a voice echoed.

"My family is here, why should my sister-in-law be polite?" Princess Taiping's voice sounded full of lightness and joy, "Jin'er, Jin'er, call Uncle Niang!" - Hee-hee! ”

"Come and give me a hug!" Xiao Shi was obviously a little anxious, "What a cute little beauty, like a dough!" When she grows up in the future, she will be like her mother, and she will become a great beauty who will captivate the country and the city! ”

Xue Shao was lying in the room listening to these homely chatters, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously rose to reveal a relieved and satisfied smile.

Like a beautiful flower, both children are complete. Flowers are blooming, and happiness wanders.

Compared with the crown on the head, these are more worth cherishing.

"Whoever wants to ruin my life, I will regret letting him reincarnate as a man!"

Xue Shao's self-muttering woke up Xue Yi, who was sleeping next to him. He opened his eyes in a daze, "Erlang, what did you say?" ”

"Big brother woke up?" Xue Shao got up and hurriedly stepped forward to help him.

"It hurts...... It hurts! "After all, Xue Yi's age is higher, and his body is far less robust than Xue Shao. The torment of three consecutive days and three nights obviously made him unbearable.

"The eldest brother forgives the sins, it's all the fault of the younger brother......" Xue Shao hurriedly rubbed and pressed him.

"I don't blame you." Xue Yi let out a long breath of turbid breath and said, "This is the calamity, the calamity of my Xue clan's life!" ”

"Princess Taiping is here." Xue Shao whispered, "I'm afraid that I haven't returned for three nights, and she has come to look for someone." ”

"Then you go and deal with it." Xue Yi said, and suddenly grabbed Xue Shao's hand a little nervously, "There are some things that you must not say to her." ”

"Little brother understands." Xue Shao nodded, and then said, "Big brother, little brother also has an important word, leave it for the end." ”

"You say?"

Xue Shao leaned into his ear and whispered: "The Li family clan is like Li Zhen, the king of Yue, who indulges in wealth and pleasure, and is not anxious for justice and selfishness. They are no longer the heroes of His Majesty Emperor Taizong's generation, who have expanded the territory of Dingding, but are just a group of powerful moths who are full of fat brains and do nothing. Now they are scurrying back and forth, just to get together a group of people to fight for them. However, what really made them anxious was not the dust of the artifact danger society, but their own wealth and skulls were threatened. Big brother, are we going to fight for such people and die? ”

"......" Xue Yi pondered for a moment with a frown, and finally nodded, "That makes sense—but!" ”

"But what?"

"But under the nest, wilting eggs?" Xue Yi said, "Once the artifact changes hands, how can we, the Xue clan, as relatives and diehards of the Li family, be saved?" ”

"Li Zhen and his ilk are weak, corrupt and incompetent, and they are not enough to achieve and more than to lose." Xue Shao pointed his index finger at his chest and said in a deep voice, "Even if you really want to do something, it's Xue Rentu's business!" ”

Xue Yi suddenly widened his eyes excitedly, opened his mouth wide, and held Xue Shao's hand tightly.

"Big brother, hand over the survival of the Xue clan and your own life to Li Zhen and others, and hand it over to the younger brother - which one do you choose?"

"Okay, brother understands!" Xue Yi raised his hand and said solemnly: "Today, Xue Yi swore to his parents in the spirit of heaven - he would rather die than be with Li Zhen and others!" ”