Chapter 50: The Good Guys, the Bad Guys
The wax moon is coming to an end.
Chang'an City is full of lights and prosperous scenes.
This year, the Great Zhou ushered in the first harvest in nearly 20 years, the whole country rejoiced, and the people showed their faces.
They naturally attribute such achievements to Yuwen Nanjing, who is known as the first emperor of the ages, and the people's support for this empress has reached the point of fanaticism.
And as the status of Tiance Mansion, which is the first to support the new monarch, is naturally rising, coupled with the trend of echoing the horns of the Jizhou Mujia Army and the Qingshan Mountain, the status of the Great Zhou can be said to be above 10,000 people under one person.
"Sister Ye, what are you doing? There are fireworks outside, why don't we go and take a look?" the young man with the long knife on his back walked up to the red-clothed girl who was sitting in the main hall of Tiance Mansion and asked.
The young Tiance Mansion Master is still the same beautiful and moving appearance, but the deep tiredness between his eyebrows can't be hidden.
Before the boy arrived, the woman seemed to be thinking about something, looking blankly ahead, until the boy's voice sounded, and she sat up straight as if she had just woken up from a dream.
Then, the woman squeezed a smile on her pretty face, and said, "Go and see, I want to rest for a while." ”
"Oh. The young man who received such an answer replied without sadness or joy, but did not leave, but sat quietly on the chair beside him, frowning and saying nothing.
Ye Hongjian was stunned for a moment, looked at the young man with some puzzlement and asked, "Why don't you go and see it?"
At the end of the year, whether it is the fireworks organized by the people themselves, or the dragon and lion dances sent by the imperial court can be described as a rare lively scene, such as Liu Mo and Liu Xiao, these children went to the streets of Chang'an early to wait to see this lively, and the young man in front of him is a little out of place compared with them.
The boy surnamed Su frowned a little deeper at that time, and said: "I don't like Chang'an, it's not good here, it's not good people, and it's not good land..."
Speaking of this, the boy seemed to feel that something was wrong, and hurriedly looked at Ye Hongjian, who was sitting on the high platform, and said, "I didn't include Sister Ye, I just... It's just..."
The boy's voice gradually became muffled at that time, and the look on his face became a little lonely and confused: "I just don't understand why..."
Ye Hongjian saw him like this in his eyes, a little funny, and a little distressed.
The more kind a person is, the more he will be unable to live in such a glamorous place on the surface and filthy inside. This is not hypocrisy or maladaptation, but a difficult synergy from the soul.
And Ye Hongjian was inexplicably at this time, a little envious of the clean soul that the boy in front of him had.
"Since you don't like it so much, why do you want me to watch it?" Ye Hongjian laughed, trying to make the boy's depressed mood a little better, "Could it be that you haven't heard that you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you?"
As he spoke, Ye Hongjian's face deliberately showed a touch of anger.
"No, no, no. The boy with a string in his brain suddenly panicked, waved his hand again and again, and tried his best to explain his meaning to Ye Hongjian, but he was not good at it after all, and he spoke inarticulate for a long time, but he didn't say why. "I'm just seeing that Sister Ye hasn't been happy these days, so I thought that if my sister went to see the fireworks outside, maybe she would be in a better mood..."
Speaking of this, the young man seemed a little guilty for proposing to let Ye Hongjian look at something that even he didn't want to see, and his head lowered at that time, like a child who had made a mistake, waiting for his parents' punishment in fear.
His appearance made Ye Hongjian, who was still tense just now, suddenly laugh dumbly.
The girl shook her head, a smile appeared on her face, and said, "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”
"Huh?" The boy was stunned for a moment, his expression was dazed, and he didn't seem to be able to adapt to Ye Hongjian's change of attitude so abruptly at the first time.
"Buy you rock sugar gourd?!" Ye Hongjian smiled slyly.
These words undoubtedly poked at the pain point of the boy who had just turned fifteen, and the boy who came back to his senses no longer thought about it, and followed the pace of Ye Hongjian's departure.
......
Bang!
With a huge roar, fireworks were sent into the sky, exploding in the air, and bursting into brilliant fireworks.
The crowd began to rejoice.
The faces of the people were filled with happy smiles, for this coming New Year, and for the harvest of the past year.
Above the crowd of black presses, Ye Hongjian and Su Mu'an sat side by side on the roof of the main hall of Tiance Mansion.
The boy ate the fine sugar gourd and watched the brilliant fireworks in the sky, his eyes blinking and blinking.
After all, it is the child's heart, and after all, he will inevitably be attracted by such a scene, and forget his previous remarks in the hall in a blink of an eye.
"Is it delicious?" Seeing him like this, Ye Hongjian couldn't help asking.
"Hmm. The boy nodded, his eyes curled, clearly enjoying the taste in his mouth.
"Could it be that they are deducting your monthly money? Why do you look like you haven't eaten for a long time?" Ye Hongjian looked at Su Mu'an's mouth full of sugar stains, and couldn't help laughing.
The boy waved his hand solemnly and said, "No, the amount of money that should be given every month is not less." But Brother Xu said that no matter how delicious things are, they will become tasteless if you eat them all the time, so I can't help it, and I won't buy it myself. ”
"Is it?" I don't know if it's because of the three words of Brother Xu, which made Ye Hongjian's somewhat relaxed expression suddenly lonely at that moment.
The boy who realized that he had said the wrong thing was in his heart and wanted to say something to comfort him, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back for some reason.
He gritted his teeth and groaned for a long time before asking, "Sister Ye, I've always had a question that I can't figure out..."
Ye Hongjian, who came back to his senses, had a smile on his face and asked, "What's the problem?"
"You said that Brother Xu is a good person, and Grandpa Lu is also a good person. ”
"But not every good person can do the right thing, so Grandpa Lu drove away Brother Xu...."
"Then why is Zhu Xian obviously a bad person, he killed my father, and hurt a lot of other people, then why, Sister Keqing still wants him to be an official again..."
This question made Ye Hongjian stunned.
A few days ago, the empress Yuwen Nanjing pushed Zhu Xian, who had lost power, back to the position of the head of the Long Night Division, although Zhu Xian still could not have the capital to compete with Tiance Mansion in a short period of time, but this practice attracted the dissatisfaction of the Mu family army stationed on the border in Jizhou, and Mu Qingshan played the imperial court to impeach Zhu Xian and flew to Chang'an one after another.
Mr. Lu, the actual ruler of Tiance Mansion, joined forces with Zhang Xiang and other court ministers to play several times, but Yuwen Nanjing, who has always been obedient to them, is now like a different person, and he has no intention of releasing his mouth on this matter, and at this moment, Mr. Guan Lu and others are still kneeling outside the palace, begging Yuwen Nanjing to take back his fate...
Thinking of this, Ye Hongjian's brows furrowed.
After experiencing the change in Chang'an, she was already interested in the affairs of the imperial court, although she was nominally the lord of Tiance Mansion, but the real power was probably in the hands of Mr. Lu and others, and she didn't care about it, but let it go.
It's just that Qin Keqing's recent situation is quite abnormal, which she noticed early on, but she couldn't grasp the key point for a while, and this incident of using Zhu Xian just proves that her previous worries were not conjecture.
So, she could only shake her head and say, "I don't know..."
"Maybe everyone will change..."
"What do you mean? Do you mean that Sister Keqing will become a bad person?" Su Mu'an asked puzzled, but there was a little more worry between his eyebrows.
Ye Hongjian smiled dumbly.
She stood up, looked up at the fireworks that were still blooming in the sky, and said, "The definition of good and bad does not apply to the adult world..."
"Each of us is a good person..."
"They're all bad people..."
"Is that so?" Su Mu'an was a little stunned when he heard this, of course he couldn't understand the meaning of Ye Hongjian's words, he just felt that what the other party said seemed to have some truth, but he felt that this reason was not enough to convince him.
"I don't think Sister Ye, you're right..."His straight temper flared up again, and he looked at Ye Hongjian seriously at that time and said.
"What's wrong?" Ye Hongjian asked with a smile, looking at the boy who seemed to be going to tell her about right and wrong.
"You say that some people are bad people and good people, and I think it makes sense..."
"Just like Grandpa Deer, he seems to have done a lot of good things and helped many people, but I just can't like him. I think he's the kind of guy you say—" the boy said with a frown. As if to make his words sound convincing enough, he spoke with some staccato speech, as if trying to find the right words to make his point.
"But some people are just good people, no matter how you look at them, they are good people. The boy said this, with a look of seriousness on his face.
"For example?" Ye Hongjian asked with some amusement.
"Brother Xu!" the young man replied without thinking.
Ye Hongjian was stunned when she heard this, then shook her head helplessly, she pointed to the boy and said: "You, you were brainwashed by Xu Han's helplessness, he just asked you to kill people and set fires, and you have to draw your knife forward without thinking." ”
It's just that who knew that this was a ridiculous word fell into the boy's ears, and the boy's face suddenly changed, and he muttered a little angrily: "That's not the case!"
"......" Ye Hongjian saw that he was a little angry, so he put away his thoughts and continued to laugh, and asked, "Okay, good, then tell me why your big brother Xu must be a good person?"
This question stumped Su Mu'an, the boy tilted his head and thought for a long time, scratching his ears and cheeks, and frowning, before he said after a long time: "I don't understand either..."
"Probably because..."
"He has never failed anyone who should not be let down..."
"I don't think such a person can be a bad person..."