At that time, Mo Tiancheng had fallen off his horse with an arrow in his back, and the guards around him were almost dead, and even his horse had left him.

Li Zhao turned over and dismounted, and walked towards him step by step with a spear in his hand, and where the spear slashed, patches of dust were splashed.

Mo Tiancheng looked at Li Zhao who was approaching step by step, he already knew that he couldn't hide today.

The corners of his mouth coughed up blood, and he sneered: "Come on, let's do it, kill me, and avenge your Li Mansion." ”

Li Zhao has been waiting for this moment for several years.

But Mo Tiancheng, who closed his eyes, didn't wait for his shot, Mo Tiancheng hesitated for a moment and finally opened his eyes, he didn't understand what Li Zhao was waiting for.

Li Zhao's spear stopped in front of him, as if as long as he advanced an inch, the person in front of him would die on the spot.

But there was no fear in Mo Tiancheng's eyes at the moment, only the peace in the heart of the dying man, he looked up at Li Zhao who was standing in front of him, and heard him ask:

"For so many years, there is only one thing I don't understand, my father once regarded you as a confidant, when you were most down, it was my father who sponsored you to study, and he also funded you to gain fame, he thought that he and you were a gentleman's friend, and between you and the Li Mansion, he even wrote to the saint to raise you as a deputy minister, did you treat him like this?"

Mo Tiancheng smiled bitterly, if he wants to say regret, he did regret it, after the Li Mansion raided the house, someone took Li Fengnian's letter to him before his death, and he didn't know until that time that Li Fengnian wanted to promote him as a deputy minister, but at that time it was too late.

He has lived under the Li Mansion all his life, and there is only one chance to stand at the peak of Daliang's power, people like Mo Tiancheng know too well that there is only one opportunity in a lifetime, once he misses it, he has to seize that opportunity, and he can only be sorry for his best friend.

Mo Tiancheng regretted not being at the beginning, but even if he was given a chance to do it again, he was afraid that he would make the same choice as he did at the beginning:

"I do regret it, but it's too late, I believe that what you are waiting for is not my apology, when you see Fengnian on Huangquan Road, if he is still willing to see me, I will apologize to him like this."

In fact, when the Li Mansion raided the house, it was he who led the troops to surround the Li Mansion, he stood outside the Li Mansion, and heard the crying in the courtyard, when his subordinates reported to him that Li Zhao was not there, he was both unhappy but at the same time relieved in his heart, and he even hoped that the only son of his best friend could survive.

People are the most contradictory things, and his feelings for Li Fu have always been complicated.

"You don't understand, you were born in the Li Mansion since you were a child, like your father, and the Li Mansion has been a prince for generations, and you are naturally more noble than others, but I am different, I don't understand how many things people like us have to sacrifice to climb to that position step by step."

Li Zhao didn't understand, people should not be treacherous, let alone repay virtue with grievances, their Li Mansion used to be so kind to him, but in exchange for one hundred and twenty-four lives, they were wiped out overnight.

Li Zhao looked at the person in front of him and frowned: "I don't understand you, no matter what the reason, you shouldn't be like this." ”

Mo Tiancheng's gaze fell on the gloomy sky overhead, this scene was very similar to the epidemic a few years ago, the sky was so gloomy that it seemed like it was about to rain heavily, and at that time he had just ordered to burn the pit alive and kill tens of thousands of people outside the city.

As if it were karma, he would not escape death.

"If you kill me, it will also relieve me, I can often hear the cries here when I dream these days and nights, not far from here, and those cries can repeatedly drill into my ears like the ground."

The cries were deafening with the sounds of cursing him for not dying, and every midnight dream disturbed his peace.

"I destroyed the Li Mansion, and now dying at your hands is karma, so let's do it."

As soon as Li Zhao waved the cold spear in his hand, Mo Tiancheng's head rolled to the ground, and some scorching blood splashed on the ground and also splashed on his spear.

He finally avenged himself and the Li Mansion.

This was a burden that had been pressing on his heart for many years, but when this moment really came, Li Zhao did not experience the ease he expected, and he did not usher in the relief he expected because of Mo Tiancheng's death.

Because the more Li Zhao thought about it, the more strange he felt in his heart, why did Mo Tiancheng, who had never mentioned the epidemic all along, mention it before he died.

Right now, Li Zhao is drinking with Li Hanning, there are not many of his old people, Li Hanning is a very important person to him, the reason why he has not gone to her during this time is because he heard that she defected to Luoyang, Li Zhao knew that Xiao Ce would not treat her badly, and then he was relieved.

It's just a pity that they finally laid down Chang'an, but he is going to leave Chang'an in the next few days, but in the future, the Central Plains will be too peaceful, and sooner or later they will have a day of drinking and talking in the Chang'an wine shop, standing on the highest floor of the restaurant.

Thinking of this, Li Zhao suddenly felt that it was not so pity.

Li Hanning was the same in her heart, when Li Zhao's whereabouts were unknown in the past, she originally wanted to send someone to find him, but later she also understood that if he didn't want to be found, no matter how many people were sent, he would not be found.

Li Hanning now understands why when people grow up, even if they meet their best friends once in a while, because they all have their own things to do.

It's as if the wine of the Li family in Chang'an is still the wine of the year, but they don't taste the same as before.

"No matter where Childe goes, take care all the way, if you need me, Childe can send someone to find me at any time."

Li Zhao looked at Li Hanning in front of him seriously and shook his head and said: "I don't have anything to trouble you, but you, I saw you today, and I think you are much calmer than before, but you are too calm, just like you have to consider eight things at the same time, this is not bad, but I am too tired, and now there is no battle, and the days when you lead the troops in the future should be less and less, I hope you can live an easier life." ”

Her son-in-law has always been as careful as dust, and she can't hide anything from him, but fortunately, he is about to leave Chang'an temporarily, and she doesn't need to hide it from him.

Li Hanning drank another bowl of wine, then glanced at Li Zhao, hesitated for a while and then said:

"By the way, Gongzi, Luoyang has just laid down Chang'an, and the foundation of the imperial court is unstable at the moment, it is the time to employ people, if Gongzi can serve the new dynasty, His Royal Highness will definitely be-"

Li Zhao, whether it is a military book or a governing country, has a talent that has been famous in Chang'an, if such a person can serve Luoyang in the future, she knows that Xiao Ce will also be unable to ask for it.

But before she finished what she had said for Xiao Ce, Li Zhao raised his hand and flicked his sleeves and said:

"I understand what you mean, it's just that I don't have that kind of mood after I left Huai'an, I understand your kindness, Xiao Ce is very good, long before the situation in the troubled times was undecided, I vaguely felt that he would be the last person to win, and now it is true, he is indeed the master, but I am not suitable to re-enter the court as an official."

Li Zhao now just wants to find out about the epidemic, and when these questions in his heart are settled, he will say goodbye to Li Hanning and them, and from then on, he will travel through the mountains and rivers and rivers for the rest of his life.

Li Hanning understood what Li Zhao meant, some things are destined to come reluctantly, and some people will never want to enter the court as officials, she is willing to respect Li Zhao's ideas.

"I see."

Li Zhao suddenly opened his mouth to say sorry, but he also understood that this was not what Li Hanning wanted to hear now, so he simply didn't speak, everything seemed to be in the wine they drank.

Li Hanning suddenly asked, "I don't know when Gongzi plans to leave Chang'an?" ”

"I'm going to leave tonight, and this time I'm going to go for as little as half a month, or as many as a few months."

The reason why I left in such a hurry is also because this matter is so easy to do sooner rather than later.

Li Hanning bowed slightly.

In fact, he was able to see Li Zhao again today, until he finally stabbed the enemy and completely let go of the past, which was already the fulfillment of Li Hanning's wish.

After the two of them finished drinking, they talked about the past again, and talked until the sun set in the west, until the night slowly shrouded the sky over Chang'an, the sky of Chang'an seemed to be very late, and after a while, you could see the twinkling stars.

Li Hanning remembers that when he was a child, he came here to see the stars, and the stars in Chang'an at night would be different from other places, and they would always be extra bright.

It was still the same night sky, but now it seems to be a different scene.

They suddenly learned about what happened when they were young.

The corners of Li Zhao's eyes and eyebrows also seemed to be a little drunk, and he looked at the sky with a bit of distraction:

"When I was a child, I didn't know that the Li Mansion had a Deadpool, and every time someone as big as me entered the mansion with a strange face, I would occasionally see it from afar, do you know who the butler told me at that time?"

Although he didn't know, Li Hanning guessed that they would not tell the truth to Gongzi, and they didn't dare to tell Li Zhao, who was still young at that time, so he still shook his head very cooperatively.

Li Zhao remembered the scene in the past, the housekeeper always wanted to speak and stopped, and felt a little funny and sad: "The housekeeper was about to lie to me and say that they were homeless children, and we adopted them to study and practice martial arts with me, but my father told me directly that they would all die for the Li Mansion, for me, and for Daliang in the future, and he told me that they were our benefactors, let me remember everyone's appearance, age, and name one by one, in fact, I knew you not long after you entered the mansion, but at that time I remembered that your name was Li Han." ”

The action in Li Hanning's hand paused, and she knew at this time that Li Zhao knew it so early.

"But fortunately, I sometimes wonder if it's good that the Li Mansion is not there later, so I haven't cultivated Deadpools like you batch after batch."

Li Zhao looked half melancholy, half sighed and said: "But it's finally all over, when I returned to Chang'an a few days ago, I passed by the place where I lived back then, and the glorious Li Mansion at that time is now in ruins." ”

Only then did he truly realize that the Li Mansion in the past was no longer there, even if he Li Zhao was still alive.