On the high cliff near the sea of Yizhou Harbor, Lu Ren was sitting there, staring at the sea in a daze.

Zhao Yu sent a telegram to Lu Ren immediately after Cao Cao's meeting on separate actions, and Lu Ren knew that some things were a foregone conclusion, and he had no intention of continuing his vacation on Jeju Island, so he simply returned to Yizhou. When Lu Ren had just returned to Yizhou, and before he even had time to do something, Zhao Yu's telegram was transmitted back to Yizhou and handed over to Lu Ren.

Although he already knew that there would be such a result, it still made Lu Ren's heart suddenly empty, and even a little confused, so Lu Ren came to this seaside cliff and sat here alone.

Finally, Cai Yan came behind Lu Ren and called softly, "Yihao, what's wrong with you?" ”

Lu Ren turned his head, but he just smiled at Cai Yan a little and then looked at the sea again, without saying a word.

Cai Yan saw the telegram slip in Lu Ren's hand, and after a little hesitation, he sat down next to Lu Ren, and easily pulled the telegram slip in Lu Ren's hand. After a glance, Cai Yan exclaimed softly: "Guo Fengxiao is ......"

Lu Ren sighed, and finally spoke: "Lao Guo is dead...... Alas, what is it called? Wen Ji, I've been messing around for many years, but it's not until today that I think I finally understand what it means to be inviolable. ”

Cai Yan was silent for a while, then shook his head and said, "Did you expect something a longtime ago?" Otherwise, you wouldn't have been in a hurry to get Yi'er out and let Yi'er rush to the north. Looking back now, you expected Guo Fengxiao to die, so you asked Yi'er to rush to the north to mourn for your father, right? ”

Lu Ren nodded.

After Cai Yan was silent for a while, he suddenly asked, "Yihao, do you hate Lao Guo?" ”

Lu Ren smiled bitterly and responded: "I hate him, of course I hate him, but I don't know where to start." Wen Ji, in fact, it is not once or twice that you and I have mentioned this matter, and I still say the same thing, Wan'er was killed by his design, and I hate him for this alone. But...... If he hadn't come like this at that time, I might have died in the hands of Lao Cao a long time ago. So although he killed Wan'er, he did it to save my life, so how can I hate him in the end? ”

Cai Yan sighed lightly: "Yes, life is always so full of contradictions. But Yihao, since you have expected it, then you should be able to save his life, right? ”

Lu Ren said: "I tried, but there are some things that I can't control." ”

Cai Yan shook his head: "It's more than that, right?" You and I have been married for ten years, what kind of temper can I not know? If you are really determined to save him, you should have a way to save him. ”

Cai Yan's words touched Lu Ren's heartstrings, making Lu Ren lower his head, gently shaking his head and muttering to himself: "Yes, if I really want to save his life, where can I not save him?" ”

As he spoke, Lu Ren raised his head and asked Cai Yan, "Wen Ji, do you think I've become a little colder than before?" Knowing that his good friend will be worried about his life, he is indifferent here. ”

Cai Yan shook his head: "I believe that you made such a choice, it must be because you have your own hardships in your heart." Now you are still you, but you no longer have the youthful vigor and recklessness you used to be, so you have more considerations in acting for others. ”

After a pause, Cai Yan stuck to Lu Ren's side, and at the same time took Lu Ren's arm, and his voice was soft and soft: "Tell me why you gave up to save Lao Guo." First, I know that you will not abandon Lao Guo because of Wan'er's hatred, so I really want to know the real reason why you do this, and second, you have to find a suitable person to talk to what is in your heart, otherwise you will suffocate yourself if you hold it in your heart like this. ”

Lu Ren smiled, took Cai Yan into his arms, and then stared at the sea and sighed softly: "Yes, if you want to talk to someone in your heart, otherwise you will have something wrong sooner or later." And Wen Ji, you are the one who knows the truth of the original matter, and I can only tell you. ”

After closing his eyes and being silent for a while, Lu Ren spoke: "Actually, I thought about saving Lao Guo's life, and I also acted once." But Wen Ji, do you know? Lao Guo, that guy thought I had some other intentions, so he gave it to me for a while, so that I didn't want to save him, but I didn't dare to save him. ”

"Don't dare to save it?"

Lu Ren nodded: "I really don't dare to save it." Lao Guo's most powerful ability is to understand people's hearts, I think I have done a good job since I arrived in Yizhou, others should not be able to see the true purpose of my heart, but I didn't expect him to see my true intentions from some clues. If I really provoke him, and he stabs me here, maybe our years of hard work will be wasted. In a word, Lao Guo is too powerful. But it's a bit too powerful, so powerful that a lot of times I even wish he would never speak again. ”

At this point, Lu Ren no longer hid anything from Cai Yan, after all, many things have been suppressed in his heart but he didn't say it, it was really uncomfortable, and Cai Yan was not the kind of person who could talk nonsense, and it didn't matter if he talked to Cai Yan, so he told Cai Yan a lot of things. And these words, of course, include some of Lu Ren's true intentions and the fact that Guo Jia sent Jianban.

Cai Yan has been listening quietly, and with Cai Yan's ice and snow intelligence, many things can be understood with a little thought. When Lu Ren finished speaking, Cai Yan just kissed Lu Ren lightly on the cheek, and comforted him softly: "Lao Guo's matter, you are also helpless and involuntarily." At the beginning, you would only take care of a few of us, but now, you have to take care of the whole of Yizhou.

"Just like you said, Lao Guo is too good at calculating people, and he is the one who knows you best. If he hadn't died, maybe one day in the future, he would have set a trap for you to get into without knowing it, and I really don't know what would have happened. ”

Lu Ren looked at Cai Yan and said with a dry smile: "What you said, why do you seem to have suddenly become very insidious and scheming?" ”

Cai Yan said: "I'm not an uninformed woman. Now that you are in your position, there will inevitably be too much helplessness in acting as a person, and you must make trade-offs in doing things. To be honest, I actually hate this kind of thing, and I really want to live that kind of seclusion without fighting with the world, but I can't let you leave all these years of hard work for the sake of this selfishness, right? Besides, are you going to leave so many people behind for the sake of me? Yoshiho, you're not that kind of person. ”

Lu Ren smiled abruptly: "Before Wan'er died, maybe I was really that kind of person." Don't forget, I just wanted to take Wan'er with me in the first place. ”

Cai Yan shook his head: "But weren't you trying to leave a livelihood and a way back for us people at that time?" Yihao, you are always you, you have changed, but you have not changed. What has changed is your way of doing things; What remains unchanged is your still kind state of mind. ”

Lu Ren smiled bitterly: "Am I still a kind person?" Wen Ji, maybe you won't understand that when I really become a party one day, even if I don't want to do it in my heart, I'm afraid I have to do something ruthless. This is an inevitability in the world, because in many people it is not ruthless and cold-blooded......"

Cai Yan raised his hand and pressed Lu Ren's lips, and said softly: "I understand, those history books of mine are not in vain. I just want to say that if you can, you should try to avoid that kind of thing; Of course, if you really want to do something like that, I can understand you. ”

Lu Ren smiled and didn't say any more.

Cai Yan beckoned, and the attendants rushed over and handed over the wine they brought to Cai Yan's hands. Cai Yan turned his hand and handed the wine into Lu Ren's hand, and said softly: "I heard that you have been sitting here for a long time, and I know that you must not be in a good mood, so I brought you some wine." Now it seems that you may have to sit here a little longer, think a little longer, and I won't bother you...... Don't get drunk. ”

Lu Ren took the wine and nodded to Cai Yan, and Cai Yan left, leaving Lu Ren alone and looking at the sea. After a long time, Lu Ren unscrewed the cork, slowly spilled the wine into the sea towards the north, and said softly in his mouth: "Lao Guo, let's go!" Although the grievances between you and me have long been intangible, no matter what, I admit that you are my only good friend and brother in the true sense of the word in this era. It was my fault that I didn't do my best to save your life, and I admit that it was because I had my own selfishness, and I even wished you were dead sooner, but ......

"Well, I don't know what to say about it. Perhaps in the original history, Sima Yi sighed after Zhuge Liang's death, 'The genius of the world', which is to identify Zhuge Liang as his true confidant, and I probably have the same mentality towards you now, right? But our buddies are a little luckier than those two, and they have had a few years of real friendship.

"Now that you're gone, I think I'm like that Sima Yi, I don't have an opponent who can restrain me, and I can do a lot of things boldly and confidently...... You can also watch, without your restraint on me, without your judgment of my intentions, what I can do may be able to make many big people dumbfounded...... Forget it, in short, it's just a sentence, don't blame me for meowing to you, just don't save you when you die. I was in Jeju at the time, and it was really not difficult to rush to Liucheng to save your life. ”

As he spoke, Lu Ren took out a delicate small box from his arms...... It's not the box of this era, but the technology goods that Shirley brought from the base, and in the box are a few life-saving pills that can really pull people back from the line of death. This was specially brought by Shirley when she came through it just in case.

It's just that although Lu Ren was in Jeju at that time, where did he dare to run to Liucheng? If you are caught by Cao Cao, what is it? And Lu Ren chose to board the ship and return to Yizhou after receiving the telegram sent by Zhao Yu at that time, so why didn't he force himself to do something against his will...... (To be continued.) )