Before the attack on Rouyuan Palace, the rumor that the son of Tang Chen, the commander of the Iron Guard, was injured by the armor had spread throughout the entire Shendu City, because Tang Chen did not deliberately keep it secret, but deliberately leaked the news. Because of this kind of thing, the more it is covered up, the more suspicious it is, and Tang Chen himself is a foreign-blooded person and will not be infected, so his son will naturally be fine.

At that time, the reason why Tang Chen wanted to lock up all the people involved in the Tang Mansion was that even if the alien blood himself had contact with the Jiajia, he had to be isolated and observed, because everything was afraid of just in case.

However, Sang Luo linked all this current events with the old events of eighteen years ago, which shows that the things of that year were not so simple.

Perhaps, Sang Luo didn't kill the celestial child with his own hands at all.

Therefore, when he walked to a secluded place, Hu Shen asked bluntly: "Sang Luo, are you struggling with killing a child back then?" Or are you struggling with the crime you committed back then? ”

Sang Luo looked at his teacher with frightened eyes, at this moment he regretted it, he regretted coming to the teacher to confide, because the teacher was once also known as the great strategist of the world.

Sang Luo can deceive himself for eighteen years, how can he deceive Hu Shen, who taught his own knowledge and single-handedly sent himself to the high position of the great strategist?

Hu Shen didn't ask Sang Luo for the answer to that question, but went back to the school and let the children go home to study on their own, and then went to the tea room with Sang Luo and asked Sang Luo to boil water to make tea.

Sang Luo knew that Hu Shen asked him to do this in order to let him meditate.

Although Emperor Shunhe had already died and died, Sang Luo was still afraid that this matter would be discovered, if Tang Xiaohao was really the celestial man back then, he still committed the crime of bullying the monarch, and he was going to punish the nine clans.

When Sang Lu poured the tea into the teacup, Hu Shen spoke: "You came to me just to find someone you trust to talk to, but before you speak, you first ask yourself, am I worthy of your trust, will I betray you?" ”

Sang Luo said without thinking: "In the whole world, the only person I can trust is you, the teacher. ”

When Hu Shen heard this, he asked rhetorically: "Have you forgotten what I warned you on the day you succeeded as the Great Strategist?" ”

Sanglu replied, "You warned me not to trust anyone. ”

"Yes, don't trust anyone," Hu Shen pointed to himself, "even I don't want to believe it." ”

Sang Luo understood what Hu Shen meant, Hu Shen was asking him to rot that incident in his stomach, don't say it again, don't mention it again.

Hu Shen looked at the chessboard next to him: "The nine points on this chessboard are called stars, and the point in the center is called Tianyuan, and the whole chessboard represents the cosmic space-time, and all things exist in the cosmic space-time." The position of the line around the chess piece is called qi, and people are like chess pieces, and if they don't have qi, they die. ”

Sang Luo understood that what Hu Shen meant was that everything should be carefully considered, and once the air outlet was blocked, it would be completely over.

Hu Shen asked again: "Do you know what the most annoying thing is in the life of a teacher?" ”

Sang Luo shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

Hu Shen smiled and picked up a chess piece: "It's just playing chess." ”

Sang Luo was very surprised, he thought that Hu Shen's favorite thing was to play chess. Because since the day he became Hu Shen's student, he has often seen Hu Shen sitting in front of the chessboard, drinking tea and contemplating.

Sang Luo couldn't help but ask, "Why?" ”

Hu Shen explained: "As a strategist, you must be good at scheming, and there are so-called rules for scheming. To put it simply, it is to calculate what the other person is going to do and then respond to it, or let the other person think they know what I am going to do, and then let the other person fall into your own trap. Although Go is a game, the rules are not difficult, but the variables are very large, you take a step, you have to count the next ten steps or more of the opponent, playing chess is like the life of a strategist, the reason why I play chess, is to keep myself clear-headed, and a person keeps himself awake all the time, it is equivalent to tightening the string, the saddest thing in life is nothing more than this. ”

Sang Luo nodded slightly, he finally understood why Hu Shen seemed to like to play chess, but he hated playing chess in his heart.

Hu Shen asked again: "Then do you know what you like to do as a teacher?" ”

Sang Luo smiled: "Don't use your brain, because it's hard to use your brain." ”

"Yes, my favorite thing is to enjoy the tranquility, even for a moment," Hu Shen picked up the teacup, "Sometimes, I envy those ordinary people and think that they are very happy, but they also need to think, use their brains to think about how to live, in the end, you and I are the same, we use our brains above the court, they think in the streets and alleys, in the fields." ”

Sang Luo nodded: "Every life has its own unique meaning, some lives live just to live, while some lives find other extraordinary meanings in the process of living. ”

Sang Luo also picked up the teacup, but did not drink the tea, just looked at the tea, although he did not discuss anything substantive with Hu Shen, his heart was much calmer.

Hu Shen continued: "On the land of the Nine Plains, everyone knows that there are still nine heavens above our heads, starting from the Kunlun Dynasty in ancient times, the people in this land think that everything is given by the gods of the Nine Heavens, but later the Kunlun Dynasty was destroyed, do you remember how the history books recorded the fall of that ancient dynasty?" ”

Sang Luo replied: "It is recorded in the history books that the Kunlun Dynasty fell because of the way against heaven. ”

Hu Shen smiled: "Yes, against the heavens." Are just three words enough to explain why? Ridiculous, pathetic, what is the way of heaven? Could it be that the Kunlun Dynasty was destroyed because it went against the heavens? No, it was the later rulers who had to let the people of this land know not to disobey the Nine Heavens, and the ruler was the spokesperson of the Nine Heavens, which was equivalent to not disobeying the ruler, and they used a subtle way to let generation after generation of people accept this, first let those Confucian scholars accept it, and then the Confucian scholars spread these ideas on the land of the Nine Plains. ”

Why don't you understand these truths? But everyone only needs to understand these words on weekdays, but I didn't expect the teacher to dare to say anything after stepping down as a great strategist and becoming a university scholar, which can be regarded as "open-mouthed".

"It was precisely the fall of the Kunlun Dynasty that made people begin to wonder what the Nine Heavens gods we worship are?" Hu Shen said, and subconsciously glanced at the sky outside, "Is the Heavenly Man really the ruler of the Nine Plains designated by the Nine Heavens God?" If so, then why did the Kunlun Dynasty fall against the path of heaven? Or, there is no such thing as celestial beings, everything is just a lie, and even the gods are not worthy of worship. ”

If gods really exist, it must be because of fairness and fraternity that they can be worshiped by the general public. But if the gods are really fair, why do they send natural disasters? And why do you turn a blind eye to the suffering of the world and the demons that roam the world?

Because of doubt, people began to think, and thinking gave rise to philosophy, and philosophy also promoted the civilization on the land of Jiuyuan not to disappear because of the fall of the Kunlun Dynasty, but to continue to progress.

Theology, philosophy, and even science, which has not really been produced on the land today, will eventually become a cycle.

Sang Luo understood that everything Hu Shen said was to comfort himself, and told himself that the so-called descendants of the Kunlun Dynasty were by no means the saviors on the land of the Nine Plains, they were just an excuse to be used by people, and it was a dirty excuse that would be buried deep after it was used up.

Sang Luo said: "Teacher, even so, people still need faith, if the belief in the Nine Heavens God completely collapses, then what is left of everyone?" ”

Hu Shen asked rhetorically: "How many gods are there above the Nine Heavens?" So far, no one knows that this belief is just people's self-comfort. ”

After that, Hu Shen got up and walked slowly to the courtyard: "Fate is in the lower country, feudal blessing, what is feudalism?" Feudal statehood. Hu Shen said and glanced at Sang Luo, who came up, "After the fall of the Kunlun Dynasty, every emperor in all dynasties understood that the so-called rulers of the Nine Plains Land were not designated by the Nine Heavens Gods, but they couldn't tell the people clearly, because in this way, the people would understand that everyone could become emperors." ”

Why did Emperor Dingyuan, who established the Dachang Dynasty, shout the slogan "The prince will have a kind of Xiangning" when he raised his army, why was it not mentioned at all later? And because of that. But a good emperor knows very well in his heart that what he believes in is not the Nine Heavens, but in the safety of the people in the whole world.

Just as Hu Shen and Sang Luo said before, people are born different, the so-called dragon gives birth to nine sons, even Mingjun can't guarantee that his descendants are also Mingjun, so it will eventually lead to a change of dynasty.

The world is not the world of one person, and the world of the world is also.

Sang Luo finally said: "What the students did eighteen years ago is not necessarily wrong, do you mean that?" ”

Hu Shen said: "The right or wrong of something depends on the final result, but when it is the end, it has to be decided by future generations." ”

Sang Luo asked again: "The students are also thinking, who is Tang Chen?" ”

Hu Shen said: "Who is Tang Chen, it's not a question you should delve into, what you should ask yourself is, why did you become a great strategist?" ”

Hu Shen asked Sang Luo this question back then, and Sang Luo's initial answer was high-sounding and vague.

Hu Shen said: "When I was young, I just wanted to become a Confucian student, because Confucian students have status and do not need to work, and later became a great strategist because I wanted to be embraced and worshipped, and I wanted to be clothed and fed. Later, when I got what I wanted, I finally understood that even as a great strategist, I was still a human being, an ordinary mortal, and everything I wanted came from the desires of a mortal. ”

Sang Luo suddenly realized that the gap between himself and the teacher was not in the degree of intelligence, but in the ideological realm. Hu Shenzhi can have this kind of realm, all in exchange for life experience, and his life is naturally indispensable when his hands are stained with blood.

It is even possible to be directly in hell on earth.

Sang Luo didn't know what to say, because he couldn't say some words when they came to his mouth, not because he had forgotten, but because he thought that he was still in need of learning, accumulation, and comprehension at this moment, just like those children in the school.