Chapter 9 One Year of Acquaintance and Ten Years of Farewell (3)
Li Congjing was startled by his hideous smiling face, and he came back to his senses with a cleverness, and looked up at the air death lamp on the door of the mansion, he felt that his back was wet, and he must have been full of sweat.
"Li Yanrao" Li Congjing beckoned Li Yanrao over, "You send someone to report again, no, this time you go in person, tell Yelu Min, just say that King Gu is unwell by chance, and it's getting late today, so come back to visit another day." ”
"This" Li Yan Rao Zhang's second monk was puzzled, the person who went to report had just walked on the front foot, why did Li Congjing change his mind on the back foot? But for Li Congjing's order, Li Yanrao naturally did not dare to question it, and immediately followed his words.
Li Congjing dragged his tired legs and left the mirage-like mansion step by step, without saying a word along the way. Meng Songbai and the others were extremely surprised, and they couldn't understand why King Qin stood in front of the mansion for a while, as if he was so tired that he was about to collapse?
Naturally, they didn't know that Li Congjing was in turmoil at this time.
Li Congjing finally made up his mind that he must not go to Yelu Min so rashly. He had thought he had prepared enough, but now it seems that this is not the case, and the big problem is that he is facing a woman this time, and most likely a woman who has not fully become a politician.
Li Congjing went to the MI stronghold in the West Building, asked the MI soldiers to move out all the information about Yelumin, and then plunged into the sea of papers and books. He decided to get to know Yelu Min well, although he thought that he already knew each other very well, whether it was her in Youzhou or after returning to Khitan, although there was not much time left for him at the moment, he hoped to grasp the most crucial glimmer of inspiration.
Tossed in the pile of papers day and night, Li Congjing's harvest is not rich, Yelumin's private life is almost zero, otherwise the people would not have spread that this is a woman who married a Khitan, which makes the information single, almost all about her political measures and style.
Of course, Li Congjing also has some discoveries that are not new, for example, Yelu Minduo has measures to pay attention to the suffering of the people, but they cannot be implemented because Yelu Bei does not agree, because hegemony needs to accumulate wealth for the use of the country, and improving people's livelihood is to hide wealth from the people.
After another table of food was waved back by Li Congjing, Tao Yaoyao's beautiful face appeared in the room. Of course, the first thing Li Congjing saw when he lowered his head was a pair of beautiful long legs, long legs with perfect curves without any flaws, and his eyes moved up along the long legs, and he saw the hungry wolf-like eyes.
I have to say that the terrifying color in this eye is a bit sour.
Tao Yaoyao sat down next to Li Congjing, and the two sat on a bench together, facing a room full of messy pieces of paper, folds, and booklets. Li Congjing smiled at Tao Yaoyao with his head sideways, and then said hello, and continued to flip through the booklet in his hand with red eyes.
"You're really not prepared?" Halfway through, Tao Xiaoyao asked, both a little puzzled and a little incredible, but the tone finally didn't mean to be angry.
"The world is impermanent, how many people can calculate and influence?" Li Congjing also wanted to have this "back hand", but it backfired, and many times people had to give it a go when they were not fully prepared.
Tao Yaoyao also saw that Li Congjing was indeed not too prepared, she dragged her chin with one hand and muttered for a moment, "The news that can be filtered from this information, you must know almost everything, if you want to know some other things, I have some goods here." ”
Li Congjing looked up and saw that Tao Yaoyao's face was a little weird, and what was the matter with the blush on the cheeks, could it be shy? He was stunned, and he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the peach gourd.
"I forgot, you went north this time, but you stayed with Yelumin for a long time." Li Congjing smiled, "Tell me, what do you know?" ”
Tao Yaoyao stood up, and her perfect waist swayed straight in front of Li Congjing, but Li Congjing had no time to appreciate it at this time, so she only listened to Tao Yaoyao say while pacing slowly: "Everyone has their own reason for living, for wealth and power, for relatives for pleasure, and the reason is either noble or humble, or shocking or plain, so let me ask you, why does Yelu Min live?" ”
Li Congjing didn't know how to speak for a while, he found that this question was not simple, such as Yelu Min, Ye Lu Deguang, Ye Lu Bei, including himself, these people, including himself, are not people who are alive in a muddle, everyone knows what they want, if the reason for the existence of Ye Lu Deguang and Ye Lu Bei is the top position, what is the reason for Ye Lu Min's life?
Eight years ago, when Yelu Min was just a young girl, she was dissatisfied with Yelu Abaoji and Shu Luping's indifference to her, and fled the Khitan in order to resist a political marriage, which can be said to be for freedom. In the past few years in Youzhou, from the beginning of idleness, to later devoted himself to civil affairs, it can be said that he can do whatever he wants, and do whatever he likes. So why did she decide to go back to Khitan four years ago? And now, four years later, Yelu Min, who has been the prime minister of the Khitan North Court for several years, is living for?
Power? Status? Rich? Or something else?
Li Congjing couldn't think through this problem, even if he hadn't neglected to understand the information about Yelu Minxiang all these years, and now he had been immersed in the sea of information for a day and night, he still couldn't make an accurate judgment on this issue.
He remembered the scene foreseen and deduced in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and his brow furrowed even deeper.
Li Congjing knew that in the face of the current decision concerning the fate of the Khitan and Yelumin, he would not be sure to persuade Yelumin to stand on his side if he did not solve this fundamental problem.
Slender and slender fingers slid lightly over the bookcase, Tao Yaoyao suddenly laughed silently, she turned her head, and looked at Li Congjing as if she was close to not near and far away, "Don't you know that women are complex beings?" ”
"It's complicated enough." Li Congjing smiled bitterly.
"Sometimes, however, women are very simple." An ethereal voice came out of her peachy cherry-like mouth, and her gaze rose slightly, a little elusive.
Li Congjing said weakly: "The peach master is the master, can you directly tell the riddle?" ”
Tao Yaoyao felt that all her rich micro-expressions had been wasted, she glanced at Li Congjing, left Li Congjing with a word, and strode out of the room.
And Li Congjing, who heard this, was stunned in the sea of papers and books, and did not come back to his senses for a long time.
I don't know how long it took, Li Congjing stood up from the pile of papers, and instructed Meng Songbai, who was waiting outside the door, "Order Li Yanrao to make an appointment to meet Yelu Min for King Gu, and the place is in Yipinlou." In addition, prepare hot water and meals for the lonely king. ”
Tao Yaoyao's words gave Li Congjing a glimmer of inspiration, maybe even Ye Lu Min himself didn't understand the problem, now he has figured it out for her, Li Congjing, who stood up, had a confident and calm smile on the corner of his mouth, and through the fog, he finally saw Ye Lu Min's essence. Naturally, he also had a draft and a grasp of how to persuade Yelumin in his heart.
After freshening up and eating, Li Congjing's eyes were still a little red, but the whole person was radiant, he went out by car and arrived at Yipinlou a little earlier than the appointed hour. Yipinlou is the industry of the Military Intelligence Department, and it is not a leader in Xilou City, which is full of restaurants, but it is not an ordinary place.
Li Congjing personally selected the private room for the meeting, and made some adjustments to the layout, seeing that the time was almost up, Li Congjing began to make tea himself. He likes to taste tea, although he doesn't often make tea, but he is also proficient in the doorway, and after a long time, there is a faint fragrance wafting in the private room, and the smell is refreshing, and it is at this time that Yelu Min appeared in front of Li Congjing.
There is no one else in the whole attic, and this private room is extremely spacious, and there are no walls on three sides, but it is arranged with curtains supplemented by curtains, so that not only the view is excellent, the air is transparent, and the fire is stuffy, and the breeze blows the curtains, adding a bit of interest, and what is more refreshing is that there are trees outside the building, and there is a river outside the trees, and there are no other people who are in the way.
There is no superfluous arrangement around, there is a low table in the center of the private room, there is a cushion in front and behind the low table, there is a stove next to it, and the tea kettle is steaming white, humming slightly, and the sound is like a string.
When Yelu Min saw Li Congjing, this guy with his hair tied back behind his head and only a hairpin simply inserted, with a friendly and long-lost faint smile on his face, he was dressed in a cloth and green shirt, in the rising water vapor and the fragrance of tea, his temperament was elegant and bookish, and he seemed to be far away and close as if he was leaving, as if he could not touch it, and it seemed that his dream would be shattered when he touched it.
At this moment, Ye Lu Min's nose suddenly became a little pantothenic, no one knows, how many times similar scenes have lingered in his mind in his dreams, Luo Ji is not tolerant of the five watches, Xiaolou listens to the wind and rain all night, and looks at the end of the world.
However, the two have not seen each other for four years, and now he is the king of Qin of the Tang Dynasty, and this is the prime minister of the Khitan, no one knows whether the other party is still the same person back then, and even if it was back then, that mind was buried deep in the ground, and he had never seen the light of day, not to mention that the Khitan was about to go west, and the relationship between the Khitan and the Tang Dynasty was delicate, and there were many melancholy places, which made people not know how to place their identities.
Holding back the complicated emotions that surged in his heart, Yelu Min bent down to salute, and smiled without revealing it: "His Royal Highness King Qin, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”
"Come, sit. This is the tea I specially brought from Shuzhong, taste it to see how it tastes. Li Congjing beckoned Ye Lumin to sit down, poured tea for her, and smiled as before, "I haven't made tea for a long time, and I don't know if the craftsmanship is rusty. ”
"Your Highness's craftsmanship has always been excellent." The familiar smile and easy-going demeanor as usual made Yehelmin's heart feel strange, and the touch of an instant made people feel as if time had never passed.
Does he still remember that girl back then, did he like the tea he brewed the most?
He should have remembered that only the kind of tea she liked, and she liked to put a little ginger core.