Speaking of this, the most powerful man in the world raised his head, looked at the senior brother on the table, and said slowly: "Dare to ask Mr. Big, if you were in my situation at the time, what would you choose." ”

The elder brother was not silent or smiling, but just quietly looked at a tree in the winter garden, as if recalling his own story many years ago, and said, "If it were me, I would probably be able to kill as many people as I want." ”

Xia Hou listened to his answer and laughed loudly: "Hahahaha, what a character Mr. Big, and there is a big mountain of Master behind him, who in this world dares to be disrespectful to you?"

Suddenly, his expression was solemn, and he said in a cold voice: "But I'm just a remnant of the Demon Sect who can't be destroyed by the world, and I'm just a dog who is panicking and losing his family...... Changing to a home as a dog seems to be the only option. ”

"But being a dog is a very difficult thing. ”

Xia Hou retracted his gaze, slowly tapped the table with his steady and powerful fingers, and said: "Because dogs all have owners, and I, a dog that seems to be powerful and can bite people everywhere, never know who my owner is. ”

"I am the guest secretary of the Xiling Temple, and I am the general of the Tang Empire, it is impossible for me to sell the interests of the empire to the temple, nor can I sell the temple to the empire, so what benefits can my dog bring to the temple and the empire?"

"I can only keep killing and conquering, conquer more and more territory for my Tang Empire, and destroy more and more enemies, only in this way will His Majesty the Emperor not suspect me, and at the same time, I must secretly obey the orders of the temple and deal with some things that are inconvenient to deal with within the empire for them, so that they will continue to trust me. ”

"This and life are really depressing, Your Majesty has always refused to fully trust me, and the temple is even more wary of me, and a child of Mingzong like Tang will kill me for the first time once he is born.

"I am a traitor, from the moment I left the mountain gate, I was a traitor, from this side of the river to that side and from this side to the other...... It's not capricious between light and darkness...... In fact, it is just a remnant of darkness that lingers under the light of light, looking for a glimmer of life and hope. ”

"However, sometimes I also think, death is not terrible, what is terrible is the past that you carry on your back, those past that you don't want people to know, those things that have grown on your body and your heart after a long time, you can't make it lighter, let alone hope to pull it out of you. ”

"But the world is always going to the waves, His Majesty sent the academy to practice on the side, obviously he doesn't want to use me, and if a dog is useless, it may be slaughtered at any time, I have lived in the Central Plains for so many years, and I only sit in this position now, I don't want to be slaughtered. ”

"How can you not be slaughtered? Unless you are not a dog, how can you not be a dog, but the owner of a dog? You have to have power, many people say that General Ben is the most powerful man in the world, but in fact, you and I know very well...... This and power are not otherworldly, and they are still in the world, so I always have a rope around my neck. ”

"That's why I want to get that book of heaven, because I want to have power beyond this world, and I want to break that rope...... No longer have to struggle repeatedly on both sides of the river, and you can get real freedom.

Xia Hou's speech was very long, and in the process of speaking, neither Senior Brother nor Ning Que interjected, but just listened quietly and silently, listening to the vague history, listening to the resentment and unwillingness hidden in the calm narration of the imperial general, and listening to the secrets that not too many people in the world knew.

The senior brother looked at him and asked gently, "Why are you saying these ...... to us?"

Xia Hou smiled, picked up the teacup and drank the cold tea, sighed softly and said: "Naturally, I don't want to change something with these words, it's just that these words have been hidden in my heart for too many years, and I haven't had the opportunity to say them to others, there are too few people in the world who are qualified to listen to me say these words, and Mr. Big, you are undoubtedly one of them." ”

The senior brother said with emotion: "Since it is useless to say it, why bother to say more?"

Xia Hou looked into his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Back then, I wanted to ask to see the master, and ask him to explain my pain and confusion, I thought to myself that the legend of the academy is a place where there is no class, since there can be a character like Mr. Ke, it is nothing to point out to me, the remnant of the Demon Sect, but it is a pity that the master has never wanted to see me, but he just asked His Majesty to pass me two words, and to this day I still don't know what to understand those two words." ”

The elder brother asked, "Which two words?"

Xiahou responded: "Do nothing." ”

The senior brother was silent for a moment, then looked at him and laughed, his gentle smile contained very complicated feelings, some pity, some emotion and some undisguised regret.

"Looking at the general's actions today, it seems that he really does not understand the master's intentions. ”

"Please also ask Mr. Big for advice. ”

"Doing nothing, that is, doing nothing, the general has come to my Tang since leaving the Demon Sect, everything he thinks and does is sharp, and he acts violently with military exploits, in order to be able to stand firm in the river of living drops, so as not to bring trouble to the person behind you, but you have not thought that if you don't do anything from the beginning, maybe it will be better. ”

Senior Brother spoke slowly, slowly raised his hand to stop Xiahou from speaking, and continued: "Let's talk about the matter of Murong Linshuang Holy Maiden back then, the first emperor was very angry when he took over the sect, and he was already ready to meet with Xiling's sword soldiers, but you were worried that the person would be exposed, and you preemptively killed Murong to win Xiling's trust, how can you blame the empire for not helping you?......

"As soon as the world is impermanent, if you do nothing, maybe all the troubles after that will not exist, but unfortunately you are too nervous about that person, and you will look at the wrong person when you make a mistake, until it is irreparable today. ”

Xia Hou clenched his fists and said sharply: "But the master didn't speak back then!"

Senior Brother's eyes were slightly cold, and he looked at his face and said in a deep voice: "What qualifications do you have to let the teacher speak for you? How do you know that if the temple does something, the teacher will not speak for you? Don't forget, if the teacher hadn't nodded back then, how could your sister become the queen mother of my Tang Dynasty!"

There was a dead silence in the Winter Garden, and all the subordinates in the General's Mansion had already been sent away...... No one could hear what the senior brother said, and Ning Que, who understood the meaning of this sentence, lowered his head and stared at the tea cup in front of him motionlessly, only the right hand under the table trembling slightly revealed his true feelings in his heart.

The queen mother of the Tang Empire is actually Xiahou's own sister!

A thin branch in the depths of the winter garden seemed to be unable to withstand the atmosphere of the field or the snow and frost hanging on the branch, and it broke off and fell into the residual snow with a clatter, and the senior brother slowly pushed the tea cup of the body farther, raised his head and looked at Xia Hou calmly and said: "If you have finished speaking, then I should say something that you probably don't like to hear." ”

Xia Hou squinted slightly...... Tapping the desktop with your finger has stopped.

The master asked, "Whose order is the horse thief on the steppe who dragged the grain and grass of the coalition army?"

Xiahou replied, "Me." ”

The senior brother asked, "Who transferred the more than 1,000 cavalry master Tang cavalry on the shore of the Hulan Sea?"

Xiahou replied, "Me." ”

The senior brother asked, "Yes, Mian wants to punch my junior brother to death in the mountain road." ”

Xiahou replied calmly: "It's still me." ”

Senior Brother was silent for a moment...... Then he looked at him and said, "In that case, you should return to old age." ”

Is General Xiahou old?

Whether it is the civil and military officials in Chang'an City, the emperor's trench...... Or the hundreds of millions of people in the world, and even the great priests of the Xiling Temple, will not think so. This martial arts powerhouse is still in the strongest stage of his life, and his spiritual will has no signs of being stunned, and many people think that when General Xu Shi is destined to leave the stage of history because of old age and physical decline, he will be the number one general in the world.

However, it was in the mansion of this invincible general...... In this lonely and cold bath, in the garden, the seemingly ordinary scholar in his old jacket and broken shoes said that he was old without reason or reason, and then let him return to old age.

When these words came out of the mouth of the senior brother, countless layers of sharp-colored winter clouds converged and came to the sky above Tuyang City, covering the winter garden layer by layer...... The sky was dark, and the trees in the garden were old.

Xia Hou squinted at Senior Brother.

After answering many of the same questions, he only asked one sentence: "Mr. Big wants to interfere in the government's affairs?"

The people in the Tang Empire who are qualified to know the mountains behind the academy know that the academy strictly prohibits interference in court affairs, which is an iron law set by the master for himself and all the disciples in the back mountain...... If there is no iron law, I am afraid that whether it is those gentlemen in the academy or the emperor in the palace, they will not be able to figure out who is the master of the empire.

Although there are many secular ant people in the world who have never heard of the Master's name...... But as long as the Master speaks the word, no one in the world dares to disobey it...... To be more precise, those royal ministers, Taoist monks, and monks who knew who the master was, never dared to disobey the master's will. The Momoyama Mountain, where the Xiling Temple is located, was bald in one day that year, which was the strongest guarantee of this will, but fortunately, the master often traveled the world, and he didn't seem to like to talk nonsense.

The master said that the academy could not interfere in the imperial government, so the academy that had cultivated countless courtiers and was most qualified to interfere in the imperial government had never interfered in the imperial government, and those in the back mountains were no exception.

Today, the senior brother wants to let Xiahou, the general of the empire, return to old age, does it mean to interfere in the government?

As a general of the Tang Dynasty, in the face of the pressure of the academy, he can still respond calmly, Xia Hou is worthy of being the pinnacle of the world, with confidence and strength that are difficult for the world to achieve, which is awe-inspiring and powerful.

However, with just one sentence, Senior Brother destroyed all of Xiahou's strength.

"The master didn't let the academy interfere in the government affairs, because he always thought that the government and secular affairs were the last thing, and the cultivators should try to stay away from it, the empire was turbulent or even destroyed, but I was afraid that he couldn't let the old man blink an eye. As a guest of the temple, you should be very clear about the matter of the master's visit to Taoshan back then, so you should understand what is the big thing in the eyes of the master, it is a small matter for you to hide from the court and the temple to organize a group of horse thieves in the wasteland, it is also a small matter if you want to snatch the Book of Heaven, you are the remnant of the Demon Sect is also a trivial matter, everything you have done over the years is a trivial matter in the eyes of the master, but if you want to kill the junior brother of my academy, this is a big matter. ”

For the strong people in the world, having calm in every major event is the temperament they must have.

However, in the face of the major events in the master's heart, even if he is as strong as Xiahou, he must be silent, and then think seriously, he has a short time to think, and the black hair like blood in the lamp is not completely cold, and he looks at the winter garden that has been with him for many years.

"If you're old, let's get old. ”