Chapter 14: The Fish and the Bear's Paw
Li Moding was very helpless, he knew the embarrassing situation he and his son were in in Xu Han's team.
He also understood what was the most important thing for him and for Great Xia right now.
Although he was mixed in the rivers and lakes in his early years, he firmly remembered the way of being an official in his heart, so he was good at meeting the source left and right, and he was also good at "climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix". Of course, this rhetoric is somewhat inappropriate to use on Li Moding, who is already a royal family, but in fact, Li Moding's behavior in the rivers and lakes over the years is like this. It can't be said that he is bullying and flattering, but he always puts the interests of the royal family first, so he has close contacts with the Chixiaomen, which is in the limelight, and even does not hesitate to suppress Xu Han and others in order to have a good relationship with him.
This has proved to be not only not the right thing to do, but it can be said to be extremely stupid.
Chixiaomen became the fuse that provoked the contradiction between the Great Xia court and the forces in the rivers and lakes, and he even resolutely stood in the camp of the Chu State after the restoration of the dead Chu, all of which reminded Li Moding how stupid and ridiculous his previous decision was.
And now, he needs to pay the price for his stupidity, he has to curry favor with Xu Han, at least not to anger Xu Han's bottom line, and successfully complete this mission to envoy Da Zhou, before he can come into contact with the current crisis in Great Xia.
For this reason, he was cautious all the way, but his son did not seem to be willing to let him do so.
Li Dingxian is naturally a very good person, whether it is as a royal family or an ordinary monk, he can be regarded as outstanding, which both Li Moding and Li Yulin think. But probably because he has been in contact with too many people in the rivers and lakes, Li Dingxian's temperament is very different from Li Moding.
He is hardworking and serious, but he cares very much about the morality of the rivers and lakes, far from being like Li Moding's bureaucratic style, but has a bit of the temperament of a chivalrous man in the rivers and lakes.
This is not a good thing, at least not in Li's view.
For example, Li Dingxian's impulsive temperament almost brought them big trouble yesterday, and today, after Xu Han and Jiang Yue left, Li Dingxian, who thought about his friend, also secretly followed. There is a way that this knowing son is Mo Ruo's father, Li Moding knew that this child was afraid that he was going to cause trouble for him, so he hurried to follow, but he was still a step too late, and he watched Li Dingxian rush into the door where Xu Han was.
Jiang Lai and Li Dingxian have a very close personal relationship, and Li Moding knows this.
Jiang Lai is loyal and has the ambition to serve the country, and this situation is also because he is unwilling to be a slave of the Chu Dynasty, which Li Moding also knows.
But the way of the emperor lies in the trade-off, if Jiang Lai is dead, it is regrettable, but if he really rescues him, it will inevitably expose everyone's whereabouts, and then delay the major events of the Great Zhou, then the situation of Great Xia will be even more embarrassing.
In Li Moding's opinion, Xu Hanzhizhi obviously would not agree to such a decision, so when his son rushed into the door, the prince of the Li family also hurriedly followed and beat his son in front of Xu Han.
After doing this, he didn't forget to glare at his son fiercely, signaling him not to say much, and then looked at Xu Hanyan apologetically: "Pavilion Master Xu, the dog is used to acting recklessly, don't take it to heart, this matter is all up to Pavilion Master Xu." ”
It was only at this time that Xu Hanfang came back to his senses from such a change, he looked at Jiang Yue who was unknown beside him, and then looked at Li Dingxian, who was still angry on the ground, but did not dare to say more, suddenly smiled, and said: "This matter is according to the will of the little prince." ”
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Three days later, Jiang Lai's death came.
It is not easy to plan a suitable rescue method before this, according to Jiang Yue, there are nearly a thousand holy soldiers in this Yanguang City alone, including no less than twenty holy sons, and there is a terrifyingly strong saint Hou in charge, and these are not counting the other forces of the Senluo Palace, according to Xu Han's understanding, if there are still one or two Yamas in this secret, the rescue will become more and more confusing.
Therefore, the rescue plan should be as clean as possible, and the matter should be completed before the big people react, so everyone discussed it together and came up with a feasible plan when it was close to the sea.
Everyone stayed in Jiang Yue's mansion, it was late at night, everyone had already fallen asleep, but Xu Han did not feel sleepy, he walked alone in the courtyard of the mansion gate.
He thought about the fierce sword on Meng Liang's back, thought about the Sword Tomb, thought about the half-demon, thought about the essence blood of the Demon Monarch, all of these were connected, and he smelled a huge conspiracy.
It was a conspiracy that was enough to subvert the entire world, and Xu Han had a hunch that once his speculation really came true, whether it was Daxia or Chen Zhou, it would quickly collapse under the sweep of this conspiracy.
Thinking of this, his heart couldn't help but be a little heavy, but at this moment, a figure blocked his way.
Xu Han raised his head keenly and looked in front of him, but it was Li Dingxian who appeared in front of him, and the other party was looking at him with a complicated expression at this moment.
"Is there something wrong?" asked Xu Han.
Li Dingxian did not respond to Xu Han's question at the first time, he looked at Xu Han, his eyes were a little complicated at that time, and this situation lasted for more than ten breaths, and then he gritted his teeth and said, "Thank you for today's matter." ”
Xu Han was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted to what Li Dingxian was referring to, he shook his head and responded: "No need to thank you, I didn't help you." ”
In his opinion, Xu Han and Jiang Lai are not related, and they will not take such a big risk for him, so he said: "You don't have to say much, this kindness Li will remember in his heart, if he asks for something in the future, Li will go to the soup and die without giving up." ”
After saying this, Li Dingxian arched his hand towards Xu Han, and then turned to leave.
Li Dingxian came and went quickly, and it wasn't until the little prince walked away that Xu Han came back to his senses.
He smiled bitterly and shook his head, secretly saying that people in this world like this self-talk thing so much, he really did not deceive Li Dingxian, saving Jiang Lai was just a matter of convenience for him, even if there was no Jiang Lai who was imprisoned in the Holy Mansion, he had to go on a trip to see what kind of mystery was hidden in the Holy Mansion.
As for the importance of the lives of the envoys Da Zhou and Jiang Lai, it was a question that Xu Han had never considered.
Just like he had never recognized the name of righteousness given to him by Mr. Lu of Tiance Mansion, in Xu Han's eyes, one person's life was as important as the lives of ten thousand people.
He wants to save everyone he wants to save, just like Mr. Wei taught him, he wants both fish and bear's paws!