The night was as dark as ink, and Hua Fei stood outside the hall door, quietly waiting for Yan Yan's arrival. The cool night breeze full of fragrance made his clothes "hunting", and such a night was obviously not hot.

However, Hua Fei felt that his body was unusually hot in the rapid beating of his heart, and even made his mouth a little dry.

In his famous book, Luo Dada said that Yan Yan finally surrendered to Liu Bei. However, Hua Fei, who has read many books, does not want to believe that this is the truth.

Hua Fei still remembers the great poets, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Wen Tianxiang and others all commented on Yan Yan. It's like that sentence: "Yan Zi He Duxian, talk and laugh arrogantly." It is even more unforgettable.

Hua Fei is more willing to believe that, after Zhang Fei released Yan Yan, Yan Yan did not surrender, but on the contrary, after learning that Chengdu City was broken, he made a statement that he was a decapitated general.

"The decapitated general - Yan Yan" is a representative figure of loyalty, and Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, even because he felt his loyalty and righteousness, gave his birthplace Linjiang County, Ba County, the name of Zhongzhou.

Just ask, how could such a loyal martyr surrender?

Hua Fei took a deep breath of fragrant cool air and calmed his excited mood. He looked at the dark night sky and muttered, "Loyal 'decapitated general', your death is really too worthless and a pity!" Your tragedy should not be repeated again! ”

In this inaudible whisper, the slightly cool Buddha beads in his hand also began to rotate rapidly, and the faint sandalwood diffused in the night breeze.

When Hua Fei was thinking about how to come and avoid the recurrence of the tragedy, the stern face like a knife and an axe had already followed the guards to the front of the council hall.

"General Yan!" Hua Fei hurriedly hugged his fists and said loudly, "Fortunately, I will be lucky!" Hurry up inside first please! ”

Yan Yan didn't know what he summoned late at night? Seeing that he treated him politely, he hugged his fists and saluted back: "The general of the defeated army, how dare you greet the prince of the palace, and dare not be ashamed!" Dare to ask the prince of the mansion to summon late at night, what is the matter? ”

"Sure enough, it was his old master Liu Zhang who descended!" Hua Fei heard him call himself "Mansion Jun!" He muttered secretly in his heart, but stretched out his hand and said, "Don't worry, General Yan can come to the hall first, and it's not too late to drink a cup of fragrant tea." ”

Yan Yan glanced at him deeply, but he didn't know what he wanted to do. Then he returned the salute again, and said in a high voice: "The prince of the mansion is invited first!" ”

Hua Fei smiled slightly, knowing that he was polite, so he no longer stepped in politely. Yan Yan glanced at his back suspiciously, and then followed him.

Hua Fei invited Yan Yan to sit down in the bright red swaying firelight, then raised his glass to invite him, and opened his mouth to taste the fragrant tea.

When the teacup was put down, Hua Fei already had a plan in his heart. He felt that a loyal martyr like Yan Yan, who would rather die than surrender, had nothing else to move his heart except to use the word loyalty to move him.

Therefore, after he put down the teacup, he said to Yan Yan: "I have heard that General Yan is a person who is loyal and righteous, but I don't know what you think of the word 'loyalty'?" ”

According to Hua Fei's original intention, it was because Yan Yan was loyal and martyred, thinking that it would be easier for him to accept what he said about loyalty and righteousness, so he wanted to use the word "loyalty" to open up the topic of each other.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Yan Yan heard this, he stood up and clenched his fists and shouted: "What does the prince of the palace mean by this, could it be that he summoned him tonight, but he deliberately came to insult Yan?" ”

"Bold!" He Man, who was behind Hua Fei, saw that he was stern, and he was angry at Hua Fei. Naba stepped and roared, "How dare a thief be rude to my lord? With a loud roar, an iron rod raised, and a fierce wind was brought up, and it struck Yan Yan, who was looking at Hua Fei angrily.

"Stop!" Hua Fei was so shocked that he jumped up from his seat and stretched out his hand to shout, He Man stopped when he heard the sound, his stick stopped three inches above Yan Yan's head, and the strong wind pressed Yan Yan's hair messy.

Hua Fei was so angry that he pointed at He Man and scolded: "He Man! How dare you do it without my orders? If you kid dare to fool me like this again, then I will punish you to feed the war horses every day! ”

"Uh......" He Man glared at a pair of bull's eyes when he heard the voice, and he was stunned! He thought to himself, "Lao Tzu is now the personal guard of the lord, how many people are so red, if this is to let the war horses feed the grass, then it will not break everyone's belly." ”

At that moment, he hurriedly put away his stick and stood up, and said loudly to Hua Fei with his legs: "Lord! I was wrong, I will never dare to fool around without your order in the future, please don't let me go to the horse to feed the grass. ”

"Humph!" Hua Fei glared at him angrily, but turned around and said with Yan Yan, who did not change his voice.

"General Yan! My subordinates and I are reckless, and please don't be surprised! I have nothing but admiration for your loyalty, and I don't have the slightest hint of teasing, and I hope you can believe that. ”

Yan Yan glanced at the ugly man who was glaring at him angrily, and thought to himself: "Although this person is reckless and vicious, he is up because of my words against his master, and he is not a loyal man. ”

I also saw that Hua Fei was very sincere and thought to himself, the fate of the old master was all in the words of others. Nai waved his hand to Hua Fei and said, "That's it!" But I don't know what happened when the prince summoned Yan late at night? ”

Hua Fei secretly thought that there was no way to go on like this, but he turned the Buddha bead and thought quickly, and only after a long time did he start to speak: "General Yan! You haven't answered me yet. ”

"Humph!" Yan Yan let out a rush from his nose, stared at Hua Fei for a while, and then said loudly, "Eat the king's Lu, the matter of loyalty to the king, why do you need to say more?" ”

"Good!" Hua Fei clapped his palms in praise with a "snap", but asked again, "I understand what General Yan said just now that the reason why I want to be loyal to the monarch is because of the Lu of the king, I don't know if it's right?" ”

When Yan Yan heard this, it was no different, so he nodded disapprovingly.

Hua Fei smiled slightly on the corner of his lips, but asked Yan Yan: "Dare to ask General Yan what he thinks, where does the 'Lu' in this Monarch Eater come from?" ”

"That's from taxes, of course." Yan Yan responded when he heard this, but added loudly, "It can't be out of nowhere!" His voice was a little louder, but it provoked He Man, who was holding a stick, to glare at him angrily again.

"Hmm......" Hua Fei nodded, and said to Yan Yan with his hands in a negative pace, "From taxes, that is, from the people, you don't deny this, right?" ”

Yan Yan glanced at him and thought to himself: "Isn't this nonsense, doesn't this come from the people, does it still come from you and me?" ”

Thinking about him, he thought to himself, "It is said that this Hua Fei is very wise, it seems that he is not worthy of the name!" So he shut up and didn't bother to pay attention to Hua Fei.

Hua Fei didn't care, and paced slowly, and said slowly: "Then since the food you give you is from the people, can I also understand that the object of your loyalty should be the people?" ”

"Hiss......" Yan Yan opened his mouth when he heard this, and gasped, but he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Hua Fei continued to say loudly with a hot iron: "So, why do you, who think that loyalty comes first, only be loyal to Liu Zhang, who is the 'king', but not to the people who sweat for your 'Lu'?" ”

"What is this......" Yan Yan was embarrassed for a while, he dared to bet that he had lived most of his life, but he had never heard of such remarks.

Hua Fei paced to himself, and continued to talk to himself: "Like you, you don't calculate the consequences, don't think about the fundamentals, don't want to think about the gains and losses, pros and cons, and don't have your own ideas of 'loyalty', I think it seems that you can only be called foolish loyalty!" ”

"Foolish?" Yan Yan only felt that his mind was clouded, and the concept he insisted on in his heart was once again violently impacted. He opened his mouth involuntarily and repeated with Hua Fei.

"That's right!" Hua Fei said to him, "Smack!" He clapped his palms and spread his palms and said urgently.

"If you don't go allegiance to someone you think you should be loyal to, but you desperately do your allegiance to someone you shouldn't, and in the end it has bad consequences? Isn't this a foolish act of loyalty? ”

Yan Yan, who already felt that his head was "buzzing", was bombarded by his words that seemed to be tongue twisters and not like tongue twisters, and he directly opened his mouth wide, and his eyes were stunned in place.

"Loyal! Foolish! Should be loyal, should not be loyal to ......" At this time, in Yan Yan's mind, Hua Fei's words were like the continuous thunder exploding.

"Loyalty!" It was the belief that he held on to all his life. However, he couldn't find a reason to refute Hua Fei's words, Hua Fei was not wrong, he took the people's money, and used the people's property, but he was not loyal to the people, only loyal to the Lord!

"Oh my God! Could it be that the beliefs that I have pursued all my life for Yan Yan are all wrong? At this moment, in Yan Yan's closed eyes.

As if flashing, it was the people who were sweating hard on the terraces of the mountains and under the scorching sun; It was the slender men who were naked by the Yangtze River, carrying fibers on their backs, arching their waists, and shouting hoarsely to move forward......

Yan Yan clenched his fists, half-tilted his head, and was speechless for a long time. With his lips closed and his body trembling slightly, it is difficult to know whether his heart is happy, sad, painful or annoyed at a moment......

However, Hua Fei, who was standing opposite him, could clearly see that on his knife-like face, two tears rolled down from his closed eyes, and shattered on the cold ground in the bright red firelight.

"He actually ...... Crying? The tears of this man who would rather cut off his head than surrender suddenly made Dehuafei feel that he was very cruel!

But he secretly hated that he couldn't catch it in time, and the two tears that flowed from the eyes of the 'severed general'.

Unfortunately, he had no other way to prevent this tragedy from happening again. It can only be brutally defeated, and the belief of this person who would rather die than surrender can be able to prevent him from cutting off his head or being unheard of for the rest of his life.

Thinking about it, Hua Fei approached Yan Yan, stretched out his hand to gently cover his trembling back, and tried his best to persuade in a softer tone: "General Yan! The first saint has a saying, knowing that mistakes can be changed, and the good is great! ”

"How are you going?" Yan Yan suddenly opened his eyes and clenched his fists and shouted angrily, and then pointed at Hua Fei and scolded fiercely, "You turtle son, don't you just want Lao Tzu to be loyal to you?" Don't tell Lao Tzu better than you sing! ”

He Man was taken aback, and hurriedly raised his stick to scream angrily, but he was worried that without Hua Fei's order, he would be punished for fooling the grass.

For a while, he held a big stick high, and was stunned in place, only staring at a pair of bull's eyes, panting "whirring".

But he saw Hua Fei in the bright red firelight, and said loudly to Yan Yan with his chest and hands: "Not bad! That's what I want you to do to me! ”

"Hahaha......" Yan Yan raised his head in the cool night breeze and laughed loudly. That hoarse laughter sounded so bleak and unwilling in this silent night!

Suddenly, Yan Yan stopped laughing, but said sharply at Hua Fei with gritted teeth.

"The parents of those who gave birth to me with a strict face, and the one who raised me with a strict face was Xichuan! I Yan Yan eats the grain planted by the people in Sichuan, and drinks the water flowing from the land of Xishu. But why does Lao Tzu want to come to pay allegiance to you, the unrighteous person who invaded my state and county? (To be continued.) )