After several years of slavery, the husband has become more and more wary of this former father-killer. One day three years later, Fucha contracted the disease, and Fan Li, who was about to recover soon, once again offered Gou Jian a plan: he pretended to know the medical skills of the partiality, and tasted the feces of Fucha to diagnose King Wu.

Gou Jian did so without hesitation. In the depths of the palace, a hurried and worried-looking horseman pleaded earnestly to inform the palace guards that he could diagnose the king's illness. So Gou Jian got the opportunity to enter the palace, and then, the former king, made a shocking move: he put the feces of his husband in his mouth and tasted it.

It seems that this low-eyed and pleasing person is like a real slave. A lowly person who really has no desire and ambition, and only wants to be able to live in humiliation.

Soon after, Wu Wangfucha's illness was not serious, and even if there was no special treatment or panacea, he was able to recover naturally with his strong physique trained in the military for many years. For Gou Jian's approach this time, Fucha is very satisfied, a deceased monarch who even tasted his own feces in order to survive and please himself, is no longer an opponent of his own level, and even for Fucha, the idea that this slave who dares to do such a disgusting thing will become a threat to himself is gone. At least, he felt that if he had been himself, he would rather die than do such a humiliating act. And isn't he just a great qualified king? Gou Jian should no longer deserve to be a king.

Under the unremitting bribery and efforts of Wen Chong and other Yue courtiers, some officials above the Wu court also began to help Gou Jian exonerate him, intentionally or unintentionally. So, not long after the Gou Jian dung tasting incident, Wu Wangfu decided to let Gou Jian return to China after consulting with the courtiers of all parties, so that Gou Jian could feel at ease to be a puppet of a vassal state that pays tribute every year and is called a vassal state every year.

After Gou Jian and Fan Li returned to China, they selected domestic skilled craftsmen every year and gave them to King Wu regularly to build a palace for ultimate pleasure. And it is not only craftsmen who are sent, but also real money and jewelry gifts that dazzle people's eyes. And visited the people all over the people, and selected two stunning women to be dedicated to the husband. One of these two stunning women is the first of the four beauties that will later be passed down through the ages - Xi Shi.

A girl who was in the village was selected by Fan Li and Gou Jian, and began to bear the heavy responsibility of shaking the Wu State and recovering the Yue Kingdom. For three years, Xi Shi has been learning dance and court etiquette, and finally became a beautiful woman with a myriad of manners that can make any king unable to extricate himself. Similarly, Fan Li, who chose her, also left a lot of beautiful legends and stories in later generations.

However, the real Xi Shi, in Fan Li's eyes, is not a materialized bargaining chip. Fan Li was able to persuade a tough king full of sharpness to become a hero who could achieve his goal without a bottom line in order to restore the country, in his heart, there seemed to be no right or wrong at all, only pros and cons. A beautiful woman, in Fan Li's heart, may only exist in the most primitive male appreciation, for beautiful things.

For the Yue State, Xi Shi is a spy with a political purpose, and for the Wu State, this is a great gift for the Yue State to express filial piety, so for Fan Li, what should Xi Shi be?

It's not about love, it's about profit. Just like the praise of Fan Li in later generations, this "Shang Sheng" has a strong business mind, and everything is a commodity that can be exchanged, including himself. Accompanying Gou Jian into Wu as a slave, it seems that there is only humiliation, but in fact, there is no huge danger to life? When he advised Gou Jian to leave the literature in the country and go to risk himself, wasn't it just a gamble to throw himself into the trading room?

People are always full of appreciation and love for beautiful things, especially beautiful weak women, which stimulates the most primitive protective desire of the scholars from males. When everyone hoped that this poor woman could have a proper fate, the beautiful legend of Fan Li taking Xizi to sail away came into being. However, what Fan Li himself needs is not a confidante who is as beautiful as a fairy, but a kind of absolute freedom. Everything he does is working hard to pursue this goal, even if he is in prison, even if he is humiliated as a slave, in his opinion, it is just a means and process to achieve the goal.

Such a Fan Li, who can gamble everything in order to achieve his goal, is obviously absolutely difficult to be bound by beauty. In his world, everyone is a commodity and a bargaining chip that can balance profits and losses. Whether it is Xi Shi, or Gou Jian, or even Wu Wangfu and his friend Wenzhong, they are all jumping up and down in the abacus in Fan Li's heart, interpreting the life they think they are satisfied with, but they don't notice that Fan Li has already controlled everything about them.

Therefore, in Fan Li's eyes, Xi Shi should be just a high-quality commodity. Even if this product is so beautiful that people can't extricate themselves, for Fan Li, how can a wise man with absolute freedom as the ultimate goal be emotional about a product?

It's not ruthless, it's just that in the process of pursuing oneself, all emotions are making way for oneself, a lone wanderer who is enough to turn his hands into clouds and rain between powerful state apparatus, he will never trust anyone, and he will not love anyone, because he must only love himself the most. His love for himself is incomparably fierce, enough to turn everything that may affect him into ashes.

Fan Li has been pursuing the absolute freedom proposed by Taoism all his life, in his calculations, whether it is as a general of the defeated army who went to the side of the king of the dead country to apologize for his sins, or became the guest of honor of the overlord of the world in the future, and even abandoned his fame, fled the rivers and lakes, and ran the business tirelessly, he kept dancing on the edge of birth and accession. What he desires, no one can give, only himself, with his talent and wisdom, constantly let fame and fortune linger around him, but he has never been trapped by it. And the fame and fortune in the eyes of others have not become the shackles for him to enjoy freedom, but have become the best stage for his happy life.

It's not that no one sees through Fan Li, but the people who see through Fan Li are not bound by some factors, they praise Fan Li, slander Fan Li, and evaluate Fan Li, but they are still in the hands of this wise man who has calculated the profits and losses of heaven, rising and falling, just like a better than Xi Shi, or worse than Xi Shi, labeling themselves with value labels and shackles. Fan Li, on the other hand, always smiled, fiddling with the roulette wheel of fate and heaven, and in every transaction, he turned profits and losses.