"Young uncle, why are you doing this?"

In late February, on a dark and windy night, he had just returned to Wucheng from Zhu Fang, and after returning to Gou Jian's mansion after attending Gou Jian's celebration banquet, he welcomed an uninvited guest that night, claiming to have something important to meet. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Wen Chong came to the back door to light the lamp and saw that it was his friend and colleague, Fan Li, who was called "the first hero to destroy Wu" at the Gou Jian banquet!

But at this moment, Fan Li is not the famous doctor who was given three glasses of wine by King Yue at the banquet, and was helped back to his residence by being drunk, he was dressed as a shabby fisherman, with a hat covering his handsome and extraordinary face, and a fish basket tied around his waist.

Wen Chong was shocked, and the wine also woke up, and after letting Fan Li enter the door and ask, he learned that Fan Li planned to leave overnight, and this time he came to say goodbye to Wen Chong......

Wen Chong was shocked and inexplicable, and hurriedly asked Fan Li why he was leaving?

"Don't you remember the situation at the banquet tonight?"

Fan Li seemed to be smiling, as if he was indifferent to Gou Jian's promise of his hundred-mile fief, and he didn't care about the status of a very human minister.

Wen Chongyi recalled, but also found that tonight's Gou Jian was a little unusual, after the death of the husband, the king of Yue had regarded Wucheng as his own city, and set up a banquet on the literary platform to have fun with the ministers. The husband is dead, the state of Wu has been destroyed, and the ministers are relaxed in their hearts, and they have toasted to Gou Jian, flattering Gou Jian: "The king will kill the unrighteous king, subvert the Wu State Sheji, take revenge and be ashamed, Weijia Jianghuai." Gong can be like a picture, virtue can be engraved in gold and stone, sound can be entrusted to the string pipe, and the name can be left in the bamboo silk. “

Wen Chong also stepped forward to congratulate: "I, Wang Xianren, destroy the enemy and break Wu, reward without sparing, and the evil will be stopped." Monarchs and ministers are in harmony, and blessings are 100 billion. Two liters of wine, long live it! ”

After that, the ministers on the stage laughed happily, but King Yue was not happy, until Fan Li also got up to toast, he barely showed a smile, and at the same time began to reward the ministers, almost everyone got a fief in the old land of Wu. The atmosphere was jubilant for a while, but Gou Jian, who was supposed to be the protagonist of the banquet, was silent, and in the end everyone didn't dare to laugh, but only dared to drink and eat food carefully, and the scene was very embarrassing.

Since being a hostage in Wu for a few years, Gou Jian is gloomy, only he can guess the thoughts of the ministers, but the ministers dare not figure him out, except for Fan Li, of course.

At this moment, he reminded Wen Chong: "The great revenge that has endured for fifteen years has been avenged, but the king has no intention of being happy at all, he must be worried about other things." ”

"It must be worrying about the victory of Bai Gongsheng of Chu State, or the protection of Wu State by Zhao State."

Wen Chong went to Zhu Fang to meet Bai Gongsheng, and the relationship between the two sides was cooperative and competitive, and it could be seen that Bai Gongsheng was very interested in the land of Jiangdong. In addition, Zhao Guo's actions in Jiangbei are also very disturbing, I heard that after the death of Fucha, there was a funeral for him, and continued to increase troops, completely from the disarmed and surrendered Dazai Boyao to take over Jiangbei and Hangou.

"No, I'm afraid it's more than that, the king's face is uncertain, it's because he is stingy with loam, and at the same time he is calculating the pros and cons, calculating whether it is worth keeping for these heroes who destroyed Wu......

Wen Chong was taken aback by this sentence and asked, "Young uncle, what do you mean by this?" ”

"The king is a man, the long-necked bird pecks, and the eagle looks at the wolf. It is possible to share in the suffering, but not the blessings, and to help them through the crisis, but not to be happy with them. ”

Wen Chong didn't believe in the love of the monarch and the minister for more than ten years, Gou Jian would do something to cross the river and tear down the bridge, and scolded Fan Li: "Young uncle, aren't you drunk?" It is a great sin to speculate on the king's intentions! ”

Fan Li shook his head: "I learned Lao Tzu's natural art from Mr. Xin Wenzi, so I know that there are four alternating seasons between heaven and earth, everything grows in spring, and decays and dies in winter; There are also changes in prosperity and decline, and when the attainment of nobility reaches the extreme, it will inevitably turn to poverty. Although Fan Li is not talented, but also knows how to advance and retreat, so I want to leave the king, I wanted to leave as early as two years ago when Wucheng was besieged, but I was afraid of losing the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, and was despised by the people of the world, so I stayed until today. Now the situation in the country of Yue is that the high birds have been dispersed, and the good bow will be hidden. If you stay any longer, I'm afraid it won't end well...... Would you like to go with me, son of a bird? ”

"I ......"

Wen Chong believes what Fan Li said, but it doesn't mean that he can let go of all this in his hands: the brocade clothes and jade food that he got after many years of forbearance, the delicate and beautiful concubines, and more importantly, the status above ten thousand people under one person, the glory of the heroes, isn't this what he left the Chu State to pursue in the Yue Kingdom? If you give up everything when you see success, what is the purpose of the suffering you suffered in the first place?

He no longer persuaded Fan Li to stay, but he still asked suspiciously: "Young uncle, since you knew this, why did you assist the king so wholeheartedly?" ”

"It's just the responsibility of being a minister...... Fan Li sighed and said frankly: "Perhaps, there is also the selfishness of becoming famous and leaving a name in history, at the beginning, it was like this." ”

"But when I went to Zhao to offer beautiful women and bid farewell to Mr. Xin Wenzi, Mr. saw that I didn't belong in my heart, so he wrote a few words on my hand: Who is the name and body? What is the body and the goods? Sickness or death? If you love much, you will have a great expense, and if you hide too much, you will die. Contentment is not humiliating, knowing that it will not be destroyed, and it can last for a long time. ”

"Mr. said, this is a sentence from Lao Tzu, which makes me think about it. At that time, I felt something in my heart, and now I have some understanding. The longer I stayed with the king, the more I saw that the revenge of the Yue Kingdom was just around the corner, and the strength of the country was also thriving, and the more I received courtesy and respect, but the more this happened, the more I felt that in the past fifteen years, I had lost more than I had gained. ”

He lost the people he loved, lost the heart that was once easy, and even began to do whatever it took to achieve his goals.

After Zheng Dan's death, Fan Li found that he had lost his conscience, lost the criterion of weighing good and evil, and the appearance in the bronze book had become uneven recognizable.

It's time to leave, stay any longer, even if Gou Jian doesn't poison him, Fan Li will become a person who makes him even more hateful, a person who is unrecognizable!

Fan Li smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's not too late to understand this now, although I have lost a lot of things, but I can save my life, as long as I have a life, in many things, I can make a little remedy, so that my heart can be settled a little......"

Like the original history, Fan Li planned to retreat bravely after his success, but the difference was that this time, he did not try his best to persuade Wen Chong to leave together.

Because in the original history, Gou Jian destroyed Wu and dominated the East, when there was no hero, so he made the Zhuzi famous, he assembled the princes in Xuzhou, and the king of Zhou was forced to recognize his hegemony, and the momentum of the Yue Kingdom was unparalleled for a while, so Gou Jian could kill the heroes indiscriminately without scruples.

But now......

"Yue Guo still has the ill-intentioned Bai Gongsheng in the west, and Zhao Hou who is more interested in annexing the world, and the Zhao Hou who reproduces the matter of Tang Wu is in the north, the king should not be really cunning and the rabbit will die, the lackey cooks, and it is not impossible for you to stay." Although he doesn't know the history of later generations, Fan Li knows how to judge the situation.

"It's a pity that I'm different from the birds, you can be a shield to protect the country, but I'm just a bow and arrow to find the enemy's weakness and fly out to hurt people."

After saying what he had to say, he was no longer nostalgic, and after leaving a letter to Gou Jian on the case, he got up, saluted, and said goodbye: "After I leave, my family will ask for the birds." There is a saying that when a gentleman is in time, he does not calculate, he is not suspicious of death, and he does not deceive himself. Even if I say goodbye, the king will not embarrass them. ”

The friend who has worked with the "young uncle......" for many years is about to leave, Wen Chong was a little choked up for a while, and asked with concern: "Where do you want to go?" ”

"The world is so big, as long as you break free from the barrier of fame and fortune, where can you go?" Fan Li said lightly: "Or take a flat boat, enter the three rivers and five lakes, and be a fisherman who does not ask about the world among the green mountains and green waters; Or cross the river to the north and look at the great mountains and rivers of Zhaoyan; Or go west to Chu, return to your hometown and continue to be an incognito Fan madman, and when you go to Chu to ask questions, maybe you can still see me......"

He burst out laughing, then disappeared from the night without looking back......

When the literature was sent, I only heard a song sounding along with the bangzi of the watch: "The hall is full of gold and jade, Mo Zhi can keep it, rich and proud, he is to blame, he retires after success, and the way of heaven is also ......"

He came from time and space, he was nameless, and he was alone when he went.

"Young Uncle should be a national scholar...... "Wen Chong was in awe, and bowed down in the direction of Fan Li.

……

The next day, after Fan Li had escaped into the Three Rivers and Five Lakes, Wen Chong took his letter and informed Gou Jian, who lived in the palace of the husband and sat on Concubine Wu.

Who would have thought that after Gou Jian heard about it, his first reaction was to change color in a daze, and asked Wen Chong: "When did the young uncle leave, can you still chase it?" ”

PS: There is one more chapter in the afternoon