Chapter 22: A Pleasant Conversation
"Third Senior Brother?"
Xiao Huaishu was originally standing at the door reading a book, and when he heard this, he put the book away.
Gu Zhizhi hadn't had much contact with him before.
Looking at it now, I found that although Xiao Huaishu was a little haggard, he was still magnificent, and he was born with a noble aura that was difficult to hide.
Perhaps this is something that the royal emperor is born with.
Even if you haven't worn gold and silver since you were a child, you can wear fine clothes and food.
Gu Zhizhi stepped forward.
"Third Senior Brother has something to do with me? Let's go in and talk about it. β
"Hmm."
Gu Zhizhi made tea.
The two sat at the table.
"I came here this time to ask the sixth senior sister if there was anything else she encountered when she went down the mountain in addition to the Hantan Jiaolong?"
After thinking about it, Gu Zhizhi caught some clues.
"Third Senior Brother, have you received any news?"
Xiao Huaishu said bluntly: "It was the imperial brother who suddenly sent a message to greet him." β
"Huh?"
It seems to have gotten more complicated.
It should be Luo Qichen's mouth that he borrowed Xiao Huaishu's name.
Gu Zhizhi told the truth about Orion being forced to hunt tigers.
"Senior brother, I'm sorry, we didn't mean to cause you trouble." She felt sorry in her heart.
"I see." Xiao Huaishu said: "You are right, if I meet it, I will not sit idly by." β
He took a sip of his tea, his gaze falling on the void.
"It should be that after you left, the county magistrate made an excuse for not being able to find the tiger skin and pushed everything on your head. This matter is also related to me, so it reached the ears of the imperial brother. β
"What did His Highness write to you, didn't embarrass you, did you?"
"No, he said that he was not strict under his control, and he would purge the imperial court in the future, and then he implied that I was born in Qingyun Sect to recuperate and cultivate."
Xiao Huaishu paused.
"It's best not to go down the mountain for the rest of your life."
There was a long silence in the room.
In the end, Xiao Huaishu broke the peace.
"Sixth Senior Sister won't persuade me?"
"What do you advise?" Gu Zhizhi asked rhetorically, "Because it is impossible for His Highness to purge the imperial court, and it will be more and more difficult for the people to survive, do you persuade you to go down the mountain to seize power?" β
Xiao Huaishu's eyes showed surprise and appreciation.
"Senior sister is a person who understands."
Gu Zhizhi smiled: "I don't really understand, but I know one thing, too much effort will hinder your health." β
Xiao Huaishu was stunned.
In fact, before the imperial brother, many loyal ministers in the court and China quietly wrote letters repeatedly.
shows that His Royal Highness is not the best candidate to inherit the unification, and hopes that Xiao Huaishu, who is the prince of the emperor, can go down the mountain to preside over the overall situation.
They are all for the country and the people, and their starting points are impeccable.
But no one asked him, the body of the prince who was born with a loss, whether he was allowed to participate in the dragon fight.
Xiao Huaishu admired these courtiers with great righteousness.
But in his selfish heart, he hopes that someone can put aside the righteousness and tell him
- Take care, don't care about the people of Dawn, just take care of yourself.
What honor and wealth.
He had been sent to the Qingyun Sect since he was born, and he had never enjoyed a single penny.
What obligation do you have to take yourself for the identity and responsibility of the prince?
But now this man has appeared.
This sixth senior sister, who had only met once at the apprenticeship ceremony, was actually thinking about him.
Seeing that Xiao Huaishu didn't speak.
Gu Zhizhi found a topic.
"I've heard a question before about a horse-drawn carriage running on its own fixed route, every day, and everybody knows it's dangerous, and there's a sign next to it."
"But one day, while the carriage was moving, five children ran out onto the road to play despite their parents' warnings."
"The carriage was too fast to stop."
"There is a fork in the road next to it that you can turn around temporarily, but there are children on that road, and there is only one."
"If you're driving at this time, you choose to drive the same way."
"Or do you want to change course and sacrifice one to save those five?"
Xiao Huaishu's index finger clicked the wall of the teacup twice.
"It's a difficult question, and there are pros and cons to both options, and it's worth exploring. It's just that it seems that the younger sister chose to drive the same way? β
Gu Zhi knew: "To put it coldly, in my opinion, it is an inevitable accident to kill those five. I am responsible, and so are the parents of their children who fail to take good care of them. β
"If it was a temporary turn, it didn't matter if the parents of the five children would thank me. But I know that I will not rejoice in avoiding more casualties. β
"It will only fall into self-reproach in front of the parents of the child who sacrificed, and be condemned by conscience for exchanging life for self-righteousness. And repeated self-doubt, self-torture, maybe for the rest of your life. β
"So I'm going to be a selfish person, for the sake of that innocent child, and for myself."
In Gu Zhizhi's cognition.
Yu is probably the end of the country's fortunes.
Even if Xiao Huaishu ascends the throne and becomes a Ming monarch.
But as soon as he ran out of oil and the lamp ran out, everything went back to square one.
The surrounding tiger and wolf powers will covet this land.
Yu Guo just looked back in his hands.
Chaos is inevitable.
Since she knew that the five children would not escape no matter what, why did she let the carriage be rerouted and take Xiao Huaishu's life in vain.
But after Xiao Huaishu heard it, he was thoughtful.
There was silence again.
Gu Zhizhi diverted from this heavy topic.
"By the way, Senior Brother San, I still want to discuss something with you."
"What?"
"The little senior brother gave me a valley full of spiritual herbs and elixirs. This time I went down the mountain, I heard that there are many scammers in the Kyushu Continent who pretend to be immortal cultivators and sell pills and spirit herbs to make a profit. β
Gu Zhizhi laughed, "I have an idea......
Xiao Huaishu seamlessly connected her words.
"Do you want to get an official approval document to prove that you are a genuine disciple of the Qingyun Sect, and then go to sell medicine openly?"
"The third senior brother is wise!"
"The immortal sect prides itself on being pure and high, and rarely gets involved in the world, lest it fall into the faΓ§ade. Dealing with the mortal world is at most a few daily trivialities, such as food and clothing. Even so, the town at the foot of the mountain can be fully equipped. So you really haven't implemented this idea yet. β
Xiao Huaishu was afraid of pouring cold water, but still said: "I'm just afraid that the government's approval will be easy to handle, and the head elder will have a hard time." β
"I'm not worried about that." Gu Zhizhi waved his hand, "What I'm afraid of is that I will enter the WTO in the name of your junior sister and cause you trouble." β
Xiao Huaishu was moved by her thoughtfulness from the bottom of his heart.
No one has ever been able to put himself in such a shoesht for him.
"Don't worry too much, if my business becomes an obstacle for my junior sister, I will be uneasy."
"That's good, the next thing is left for the head and the elder."
"Senior sister is confident, does she already have an idea?"
ββ¦β¦β
The two had a great conversation.
I drank a full pot of tea.
Gu Zhizhi's business plan has been improved a lot under the guidance of Xiao Huaishu.
The latter's attitude made her a little skeptical.
The cold nature mentioned in the book really describes Xiao Huaishu?
How do you feel that he is really easy to get along with, not a superficial disguise.
It's just that before leaving, Xiao Huaishu left a sentence that she couldn't guess.