Lu Shen is beautiful and beautiful, and he is rarely promising, since he entered the court, he has become a hot marriage object in Bianliang City, and there are countless matchmakers who come to the door for a while, and the little lady who loves him secretly does not know herself, and even the official family has moved the idea of marrying a daughter.

But Lu Shen has always adhered to the saying of "country first, then family", and refused to let go of his head in family affairs.

The official family is a person who cherishes talents, and he may also feel that this son can be of great use, if he is still the master, he will inevitably be a little wronged, and he still has a thought.

With an official family in front of him, Lu Shen took this as a basis more and more, and rejected all the family affairs, and no one gave face.

There is a little lady who loves her very much, because she has to marry when she reaches the age of age, she is a little crazy and gets up, and there are a few romantic lawsuits that are not romantic, and Lu Shen is also more determined to think forward, and he also said eloquently:

"I'm doing this for everyone's good. If I don't get married one day, those little ladies will have a day of hope, and everyone will fulfill their wishes, isn't it the best of both worlds? If I really become a relative, but I am a happy person and a thousand families suffer, how can I bear it? ”

These words were spread out, and some of those little ladies really believed in this crooked reasoning, and only said, "Lu Lang cares about us, and we should also think about Lu Lang", but there are a few more stupid.

That was a few years ago.

Now that Lu Shen has really fulfilled his promise, he has been stumbling year after year, Xu Qian has always regarded himself as an elder in front of him, so he naturally mentioned this topic.

Hearing what he said, Lu Shen's whole person suddenly seemed to be covered with dust, and he no longer had the brilliance he had before.

After a long while, he lowered his eyes slightly, and said in a rambling voice: "The son of a criminal minister, how dare he start a family before he has lost his previous business?" ”

Xu Qian was stunned, suddenly furious, slapped the back of the chair with a "bang", and said angrily:

"What nonsense are you talking about? Is there another nonsense that is not long-sighted? Tell me, I'll stand up for you! ”

His face was indignant, his small eyes were wide open, and his nostrils were bubbling out.

Lu Shen glanced up at him, his dark eyes seemed to be soaked in the night, and he was bottomless:

"What's the big deal about being talked to? Compared to the hundreds of thousands of people who died in vain, it is a sin for me to live in the world. The guilty are the ones everyone can say. ”

His tone was very calm, and the expression on his face was very indifferent:

"After all, it was my Lu clan who committed an unforgivable sin and owed an unrepayable debt, even if I was scolded by thousands of people, I should accept it."

Xu Qian looked at him without a trace.

For a moment, the calm face in front of him seemed to reflect another face, Xiao-like facial features and similar body shape, but the aura was very different.

In his memory, that person would never be like the young man in front of him, giving people a sense of inability, as if he was not facing a person, but a deep pool, a black hole, unable to explore the end, nor could he see a trace of light.

After looking at Lu Shen in silence for a moment, Xu Qian reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said with relief: "Your father was in Yincheng back then......"

He sighed as if he couldn't talk anymore, and the expression on his face gradually became empty, as if his eyes were covered by the past.

After a while, he said in a hoarse voice:

"In short, your father, your mother, your grandfather and grandmother, and your brothers and sisters are all heroes who died in the city, what is the crime? The officials have never blamed you, so why should you suffer yourself? In the future, you can only say this in front of me, and never mention it again in front of others. ”

The lecture hall fell silent.

And then, Lu Shen's voice rang out.

"Shepherd one side, but guard the land is not responsible, and even death is difficult to escape the blame. My father is a sinner. ”

His voice was low, but every word he spat out seemed to be embellished with lead, and when it reached his ears, it was particularly deep.

After finishing speaking, he suddenly raised his head and looked straight at Xu Qian, his peaceful lake-like expression as if he had been shattered by something.

"I don't share the sky with the golden people! Uncle Xu, do you understand me? ”

He said this sentence almost sincerely, and the word "Uncle Xu" was full of emotions that had not been expressed before, as if it was about to be spilled.

"I understand."

Xu Qian's eyes were burning, and he didn't dodge when he looked back at him, and even became a little fanatical: "That's why I came to you." That's what I'm here to talk to you about. ”

"Oh."

Lu Shen nodded, his tone did not change, but his eager eyes became cold in a moment.

At that moment, he looked at Xu Qian as if he was looking at a stranger.

Then, the corners of his lips hooked uncontrollably:

"What Xu Zhizhi wants to say, isn't it Lianjin to fight Liao? Or is it to drive Liao to chase gold? Otherwise, it will lead to the Liaojin fight, and my Great Song Dynasty will take advantage of the fishermen, and I can recover the old mountains and rivers without wasting a single soldier? ”

It could be seen that he was trying his best to restrain his emotions, but the ridicule in his voice still did not hide, or he did not want to hide it at all.

"That's right." Xu Qian didn't seem to see his ridicule at all, and the expression on his face was extremely solemn, and it could even be called solemn:

"I know you're against this plan, but you also have to open your eyes and take a look at the current situation of my Great Song. Not to mention the famine and bandits on the two roads in Hebei, nor the locust plagues and floods on the Li and Kui roads, but only the two roads in Jiangnan and Zhejiang.

This is the richest place in my Great Song Dynasty, the land of fish and rice, and the trade is developed. But in the past few years, even the taxes of these two roads have been extremely tight, only last year's taxes have been delayed until this summer to barely make up, the rest of the situation does not need to be said, someone at the court meeting, someone wrote in the newspaper, you should know better than me. ”

He raised his hand suddenly, and the fat palm slammed into the back of the chair again, and with a "bang", it shook the whole room.

"You and I are ministers in the same palace, you should know how weak my Great Song Dynasty is, with the strength of the Great Song Dynasty now, can I afford to fight on two fronts?"

The fat on his face trembled slightly, his eyes were full of red silk, and his expression was almost distorted:

"You are not a child anymore, when you know that the war of the soldier is the most consuming food and grass supply, if you don't have enough money and food to support, what kind of battle will you fight? Now you're here to tell me, where do these two things come from? Where did it come from? ”

The more he spoke, the lower his voice became, but the suppressed emotions were so intense that they seemed to burst, and the blue tendons on his forehead stood out, and his appearance was a little terrifying.

Lu Shen's expression was very light, and together with his voice, it was as if he was talking about something irrelevant.

"The Xu Zhi system still said what he got in exchange for the red carp sac."

He said, flicking his sleeves as if to remove something intangible.

The excitement on Xu Qian's face disappeared suddenly.

He calmly looked at Lu Shen, and the expressions of the two were the same.

"The abolition of the Joint Investigation Department will not be mentioned again."

After a long time, he said.