Thousands of times of haunting dreams, Xingzhen has dreamed of all kinds of scenes of reunion with the person in her heart, thousands of times of soft intestines, Xingzhen has imagined all kinds of scenes of reunion with him, thousands of times of treacherous clouds, Xingzhen will reunite with him sweet scenes as a thought to maintain her feminine side. But she didn't expect that her reunion with him would be in a temple, maybe she had her own true intentions, wasn't she and him separated in the temple of Jizu Mountain in her previous life?

In the courtyard in front of the scripture hall of Tianning Temple, he stood there, although his appearance had changed, but Xingzhen still recognized his usual focused and cynical expression at a glance, he still maintained the habits of his previous life, always like to hold his hands, and his fingers kept tapping on his arms.

Xingzhen forcibly suppressed the impulse in her heart, and maintained the last bit of rationality and said to Li Lianying: "You wait here." So saying, she walked slowly and alone, slowly and heavily, gracefully and solemnly.

Although it was already the middle of the night, the monks of Tianning Temple still gathered in the scripture hall to recite the scriptures, the wooden fish and the Buddhist Sanskrit sound made the meeting of the two covered with a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, the king of the west turned his head to look at the beautiful woman who came over, smiling, although her appearance has also changed, but her temperament and demeanor are still the same.

One step apart, the two stood still, and under the same eyes, the most powerful pair of men and women in the land of China today met like this, no one else was present, the monk was chanting the scriptures inside, Li Lianying was waiting outside the hospital, no one witnessed this moment, except for the two of them.

I didn't even know how to speak for a while, and the opening words I had thought of before seemed to become pale and weak at this moment. After staring silently for a moment. The two of them spoke at the same time: "How are you doing?" The plain and simple greeting separated the two, and silently thought that both of them unconsciously maintained the identity and distance of friends. Just like in the previous life, although the two are nominally unmarried. But I haven't been in love for a day, and my daily contact is like a friend.

Both of them laughed, laughing so easily, but in the laughter, they both sensed the bitterness in each other's hearts.

"I'm doing well." The second synchronization of the two brought the laughter to an abrupt end, and the West King's tone was cautious, for fear of irritating her, and the West King guessed that she was not doing well, after all, life in the palace was not free and her husband died early. And Xingzhen's tone was comforting and self-comforting, not wanting him to worry.

After another moment of silence. King Xi pointed to the monks who were still chanting the scriptures in the scripture hall and said: "Just now, this king arrived a little early, and when he saw that the monks in the temple were still chanting the scriptures so late, he stepped forward curiously and asked, do you guess why they are chanting?" ”

Xingzhen Sushou shook slightly, and the king of the West continued: "The presiding master told me that they were reciting scriptures, praying for appeasing the resentment of the world, praying for peace in the world, and praying for no war. ”

Xingzhen hummed softly and said, "These monks have a heart." The king of the west said, "Qingyun, this king asked you to come today for this purpose." Don't fight anymore, okay? ”

Xingzhen lowered her head and asked faintly, "Could it be that after these words, you don't have anything else to say to me?" ”

King Xi frowned slightly. He knew what Xingzhen meant, and sighed lightly: "In my previous life, I married you at home, and I know that you have always liked me." But do you know why I don't want to be with you? ”

Xingzhen gritted her teeth and said bitterly: "You are cynical on the surface, but you are very strong in your bones. You don't like the marriage your father arranged for you. ”

King Xi nodded slowly and then sighed lightly: "You are only half right, in fact, there is another reason. That's how I feel like I don't deserve you. ”

Xingzhen smiled, but the smile was so bitter, very old-fashioned way of refusal, she felt it, he just didn't want to hurt himself.

King Xi lowered his head slightly ashamed and said: "The love between men and women is a very delicate thing, I only have respect for you and no love for men and women, I always feel that marrying you is defiling you, so ......"

Xingzhen raised her hand to stop King Xi's words, and snorted softly: "Are you comforting me by saying such things?" Xiao Yungui, you actually never felt for me, right? In fact, what you have always liked in your heart is the Hong Yuner who is against you, right? It used to be like this, and it still is like this, but in fact, it has always been my own passion! ”

King Xi was silent for a moment and then said: "Qingyun, you were born noble, and I am just the son of an explosive family, since I was a child, my living environment is different from yours, we are not from the same world." I can play with women, I can have a lot of girlfriends, but those are all money and physical transactions, but when it comes to feelings, I don't feel worthy of you. In fact, every time I used to be in front of you, I felt ashamed of myself......"

Xingzhen interrupted him again, and said with a sad smile: "You don't need to say it anymore, I understand, just because my family background and life background are better than yours, you feel inferior to me, you are actually no different from Lu Sixuan's small peasant thoughts, you always think that men are stronger than women, right?" ”

King Xi was silent for a moment before nodding slowly, followed by him suddenly grabbed Xingzhen's soft shoulder, and said softly: "Qingyun, that was a matter of the previous life, we crossed back, now I am the king of the West of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and when I unify the world in the future, you will still be my woman?" ”

Xingzhen looked at the man in front of her, burst into tears, gently pulled his hand away, and said slowly: "Unify the world? Do you want to give me love, and then let me surrender to your Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with the Qing court? ”

King Xi did not shy away from it, and said in a deep voice: "This is not charity, I used to feel unworthy of you, but now it is different, I hold the world, as long as you surrender with the remaining forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Qing Emperor abdicates, I have many ways to make you my woman, whether it is a change of name or surname, or a deep palace Zangjiao, isn't it all good?" Qingyun, I just want to take good care of you in the future and let you live happily. ”

Xingzhen smiled faintly, gently wiped away her tears, raised her unyielding face, stared at King Xi and said, "Why are you men like this?" In order to achieve the goal, dare to say any promise? Dare to do anything? Gui, you make me feel so cold, so cold......"

King Xi still didn't understand what was wrong with his words, and looked at her, Xingzhen put away her gaze, lowered her head and asked quietly, "What about Yun'er?" ”

King Xi was stunned and said, "Yun'er? Yun'er is my wife, as long as you want, you are also my wife, is there anything wrong with that? ”

Xingzhen shook her head with a wry smile and said, "Agui, do you regard this matter as a transaction in your heart?" A political transaction? ”

King Xi seemed to be asked, and finally he said in a deep and firm voice: "No, Qingyun, even if you still fight with us in the future, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty still falls, I will still let you be my wife, and even I can let go with the little emperor, I will still take care of your mother and son, and let you live happily." ”

Xingzhen trembled slightly, raised her head to look at him and said, "Will your subjects agree?" King Xi smiled and said: "There will be many ways, such as taking you out secretly, and then finding two corpses and setting them on fire, who knows?" Qingyun, I don't need to talk about this kind of thing. ”

Xingzhen lowered her head and said softly: "Thank you, it is true that there are many ways to hide this kind of thing." ”

King Xi continued: "Qingyun, now that my army has arrived at the city of Beijing, it was already possible to carry out siege battles in the past few days, but I still did not order the siege of the city, do you know why?" ”

Xingzhen said slowly: "Do you want a complete Beijing city?" ”

King Xi did not hide it, nodded heavily: "Yes, Qingyun, as you said, we are now shouldering a heavy historical responsibility, this ancient Beijing city needs to be preserved completely, there are too many historical monuments in Beijing, I don't want to leave a ruin for future generations, this is our common responsibility." ”

Xingzhen smiled and said in a slightly mocking tone: "I didn't expect that the rhetoric I used to provoke the general was persuaded by you in turn." ”

King Xi shook his head and said: "Qingyun, in fact, from the beginning, I knew from the beginning that the historical responsibility mentioned in the letter you gave me a few months ago was to use the method of agitation, I have repeatedly calculated that the Taiping army is now going north for all kinds of harm and only one benefit, and the only benefit is also very funny, just for the so-called national integrity, just for the so-called national sovereignty." But in the end, I still led the troops to the north, the reason is very simple, I think it is better to do it vigorously than to live, and whether it is right or wrong will come from historical justice! ”

Xingzhen smiled bitterly and said slowly: "Actually, you are still taking risks, and you don't have to say that your speculation is so righteous and awe-inspiring." ”

King Xi's face froze slightly, but then calmed down, and asked pretending to be innocent, "Am I speculating?" If it doesn't work out, the Taiping army will go to war with Britain and France. ”

Xingzhen said slowly: "You are speculating, you are not willing to let Beijing fall into the hands of Britain and France, you are not willing to be involved in our civil war by Britain and France in the future, and you are not willing to draw the Yellow River with the Manchus in the future." So you went north in advance, wanting to muddy the water in Beijing, and your last speculative bargaining chip is my attitude! ”

King Xi looked at Xingzhen silently, as if he had some acquiescence, Xingzhen continued: "You fought with the Taiping Navy's maximum capacity to get more than 40,000 people to reach the capital, and besieged Beijing before Britain and France, but you are worried that you will not be able to defeat Beijing City in a short time, once it is delayed for a long time, Britain and France will definitely increase their troops or change their attitudes." Therefore, you are willing to take the risk this time to personally lead the troops north, just to use me, the biggest variable, hoping to persuade me to surrender Kaecheng, once I surrender with the Manchu Qing Kaicheng, not only will you be able to master the city of Beijing overnight, completely break the idea of Britain and France, and the Qing army in other places will also completely lose its righteous reputation, and in the end can only be gradually wiped out by you. You're taking a big gamble with our old love, aren't you? So, you just made all kinds of promises to convince me, right? ”

Word by word, sentence by sentence, word by word blood and tears, every word is like a knife and axe, cut in the hearts of the two, even the last bit of warmth and vein of the fig leaf has been torn off, reason still prevails over sensibility, or the sensibility at the beginning of the meeting between the two is just for rationality...... (To be continued......)