It was already past the afternoon, and the sun was getting more and more vicious, Li Siye walked down the stairs of the side hall of the Calyx Tower, and Yan Xiaosi was already leading the horse and standing in front of the steps waiting.

Li Siye took the reins from him, turned over and got on the horse, ready to go back to the mansion. An Lushan's Baoluan car drove past him, and the ruts squeaked in the loess, and it seemed that the weight of the car was not light. An Lushan doesn't pay attention to exercising and losing weight, and he is no longer able to ride a horse at his size.

Fat Ann lifted the curtain from the carriage and smiled at him with a fat face, then threw down the curtain and got into the car.

When they crossed the Hengjie and arrived near Xingdaofang, An Lushan's carriage caught up unhurriedly, and the man opened the curtain again and said: "Doctor Li, drinking too much wine is easy to get lucky, I know that there is a tea hall in Anfufang, Chang'an County, and the decoction of tea can not only relieve hangover, but also drive away the fat in the abdomen. I want you to come and have a good and real talk between you and me. ”

Li Siye asked him rhetorically: "Didn't you talk about it in the Calyx Building of the Male Sage just now?" ”

"Have you talked about it?" An Lushan asked as if confused.

Li Siye laughed, turned his head to look at the front and back, and then nodded and said, "Then ask Dr. An's carriage to lead the way in front." ”

The so-called teahouse is a secluded narrow courtyard of less than two acres, and both of them left their retinues outside the courtyard to wait, and along the road in the center of the long flower garden in the courtyard, they came to the end of a hanging hilltop house in the Jiangnan style. The maidservant at the door of the teahouse opened the door and invited the two distinguished guests in.

An Lushan took the initiative to introduce: "This place is very elegant, and few people in Chang'an City know about it. ”

The hostess of the teahouse put on heavy makeup and greeted her warmly, An Lushan raised his fat hand and patted her buttocks, and a man in the tea room next door subconsciously lowered his head, squirming his Adam's apple and pinching a long-handled shovel to fill the teapot with charcoal.

The hostess raised her hand and ordered the two maidservants to wait, went into the tea-making room, dragged the man's back coat and pulled it out of the door, and closed the door with a bang.

The two sat in front of the two desks, and An Lushan pointed to the maid beside him and said, "The two of them are deaf and dumb women, and what we say here will definitely not reach the ears of the third person." ”

Li Siye knocked on the case and said: "Why does Doctor An bother so much, what comes out of my Li Siye's mouth will not be afraid of anyone hearing it." ”

"Heh, this is not the sage's calyx building, you and I don't need to cooperate with the acting, we are in charge of Longxi and Hebei respectively, and there is no big festival between them. Although I, An Lushan, have caused you some minor troubles, they are far less than the troubles that Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong have given you. In charge of the border town, the trouble for both of us is the same, we have worked hard to guard the frontier for Your Majesty, but when we return to the court, we will be slandered and suspected by a few corrupt Confucians and some people. ”

Li Siye lowered his head and pinched the tea cup that the maid had just poured over, puffed half of the tea into his mouth, felt that the taste was a little astringent and bitter, and said with a smile: "This tea doesn't taste very good, if it's just to understand the wine or drive away the fat, you can still drink some." ”

An Lushan saw that he didn't take advantage of this stubble, so he had to follow and said: "Otherwise, you will feel bitter when you drink it now, but you will feel the aftertaste of your mouth this day." This is just like us, if we want to achieve meritorious deeds, we naturally have to endure hardships first. I thought that I had been almost captured by the enemy in order to survive, and I had jumped into the icy river and floated all night, and when I climbed ashore the next day, there was not a single part of my body that did not sting. ”

"Doctor Li, you can also understand this feeling, although we have earned most of the merits from the bottom with a knife and a shot, although we have benefited from Your Majesty's holy grace, most of the credit has been earned by ourselves. Unlike some people, who have neither talent nor merit, they only steal the phase by relying on the honor of the concubine. What is even more annoying is that this kind of person has no self-knowledge, and even criticizes you and my brother, and even wants to slander us in front of the saints. ”

Li Siye took a rare sentence from him this time: "What I said is that since ancient times, loyal ministers and good generals have mostly died at the hands of traitorous ministers. ”

An Lushan leaned back and laughed: "Those heroes who were killed by flattering villains are just stupid, blindly foolish and loyal to others and themselves, do you have to wait for others to hang us on the shelf like cattle and sheep before you think of resisting?" By that time it will be too late. ”

Li Siye understood his heart and asked a clever and heart-wrenching question: "So how should Dr. An distinguish and define this point?" Is it a matter of hearing the wind? Or do you smell the changes and move? ”

Fat An clenched the wine cup tightly, and a pair of small eyes like eagles stared at Li Siye's face, as if he wanted to find something he was interested in from above.

"Before I started my career, I was in the sheep business in Yingzhou, and I found that there is one animal that is the smartest, and that is the rabbit. The rabbit burrows into the grass to make a nest, and if it hears the wind, it is too much, but if the hound pounces into the hole, it is too late. But it can smell the hounds, and even if it is a not-so-intelligent rabbit, two smells are enough to make it react. ”

The analogy was not so appropriate, but Li Siye understood whether he was trying to use the delusion of murder to justify his ambitions, or whether the Sogdian's three views had not been brainwashed by Confucian loyalty.

An Lushan continued to smile and said: "I know that Dr. Li is not a foolish person, the most important thing in life is to live, and then you can realize your ambitions and achievements. ”

"It's important to be alive, but Dr. An should consider other aspects, measure his own ability, and don't push everyone around him into a situation of no return because of his personal desires."

The mustache on An Lushan's face curled up, revealing an oozing smile: "Does Dr. Li think that by maintaining the status quo and doing nothing, he can live a stable life?" Although An Lushan has not read much, he also knows that there are many people who have made great achievements in war throughout the ages, and most of them have died violently. ”

Li Siye didn't answer, nor did he confide in any of his thoughts, picked up the tea cup that the maidservant had poured over, and tasted it slowly. An Lushan looked at him head-on, with a playful look in his eyes. Li Siye suddenly put down the teacup, laughed and said: "You think a lot, but it's a little impermeable, Dr. An is fifty this year, right?" ”

An Lushan's face changed: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"It's not that there are people who live a long life, but it's not like those of us who work hard in the first half of our lives and work hard in the second half of our lives. Confucius said that fifty knows the destiny of heaven. If I reach the year of destiny, I will choose a safe way to stabilize my power, instead of thinking about fighting for a donkey and turning into a horse. ”

He put the teacup in his hand on the desk, stood up with his hands on his knees, hugged An Lushan and said, "This is my suggestion, the doctor should be cautious." ”

With that, he turned around and walked out of the tea room, leaving only An Lushan and two maidservants, and walked out of the courtyard through the long flower bed.

Two hurried steps down the stairs in the tea room, one of them holding a feather fan and the other wearing a brown hat, it was the noble and solemn two major military divisions of An Lushan.

Gao Shang looked a little anxious and said: "Why did the lord reveal his heart to this person as soon as possible, I am afraid that he will have to make a speech to the emperor when he goes back now." ”