Chapter 150: Wake up
Shangguan Yi was silent for a moment, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said indifferently: "Maybe the person who looks down on you is not us, but you."
Can talent decide everything? Can chance decide everything? What's more, as the young master of the Yue family, where is your own natural ability? How bad can you be? I don't believe that you are the only one in the huge Yue family who can take over the position of the head of the Yue family, and you are the only one who deserves to be the young master of the Yue family!
If you don't have anything remarkable, why do you live to this day? Why does Jun Yishen have a bad relationship with you? I say that he is a real genius, you have no opinion, right? Dragons don't live with snakes, if you are just a reptile, how can you get his attention? I won't waste time on what you say, with this time and effort, isn't it good for me to read a book for a while?
As for Huichen, you can't even get through such a difficulty, you are a weak person, how can he be willing to share such a precious resource as the Tears of the Moon God?
Take a step back and say, why should you chase others? You are you, others are others, your path is different, when you choose to chase others, you have already lost, you have no own path, you put yourself behind others, you subconsciously feel that you are inferior to others, you look down on yourself!
Shangguan Yi's words struck Yue Zhengdao's heart like a bell, his expression was uncertain, and he was obviously engaged in a fierce psychological struggle.
After a long time, Yue Zhengdao's expression calmed down and said, "It's a pity, it's too late, if I had understood this truth earlier......"
"Late?" Shangguan Yi raised his eyebrows, interrupted Yue Zhengdao's words, and then continued: "I think you still look down on yourself, you don't have ambitions at an advanced age, not to mention how old are you now? It's still too late to catch up." ”
"It's too late, if the rest of my life is without her, this life will be glorious, if I can meet you earlier, maybe everything will be different. Yue Zhengdao's mood was still a little low and gloomy.
"Bang!" This time it was Shangguan Yi who punched Yue Zhengdao in the face, he punched fast, and the force was not small, and Yue Zhengdao fell to the ground in embarrassment, his cheeks were red and swollen.
"Heh, I just said what you are pitiful, I haven't said anything about your hatefulness, don't jump to conclusions too early, even if you die, you have to finish what you should do before you die!" Shangguan Yi rubbed his fists, his strength was a little too strong, and his hand hurt a little.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Even if I am not a decent man and a gentleman, and I have some petty vices, how hateful can I be? And I feel that you are just arguing with words!" Yue Zhengdao covered his face, he felt a little better when he hit someone, but now he was severely hammered by Shangguan Yi, and it really hurt his heart.
"How hateful can it be?" Shangguan Yi repeated this sentence sarcastically, and then said: "The scumbag deserves to be a scumbag, and the scumbag never feels that he is a scumbag."
Do you know that your marriage partner was chosen by Jun Yishen himself?"
"Of course I know, I asked him why he did this, but he refused to say anything, I asked in every way, and he only said that he thought the two of us were suitable and chosen, I think he can't wait to help His Majesty remove the threat of the Yue family!" Yue Zhengdao said disdainfully. The cunning rabbit died, and the lackey cooked, he couldn't understand this reason, so Jun Yishen did this, although he was cold, he could understand it. The Yue family has stabilized its position, this kind of work from the dragon has made the Yue family's position in Beijing more stable, among the four major families, the Yue family is the first, and even the leader, and there is a faint trend of one or three points. You know, who is it up there? The Imperial Family! They are beginning to have the strength to threaten the Imperial Family, Jun Yishen is the emperor's lackey, and it is normal for him to help the emperor solve problems.
"You have power disputes in the East China Sea, I don't want to say anything, I don't understand, just one sentence, Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, you should consider it yourself. I'm only talking about this marriage, I heard Jun Yishen say that this is a marriage that he personally came to the door to ask for, and people were not very happy to marry their daughter to you before, do you know this?" Shangguan Yi's words are true, but they also contain traps, traps set against Yue Zhengdao.
Jun Yishen did come to the door in person to get this family business, yes, it's true that people are not very happy, but Shangguan Yi didn't say the reason, so there is an article to do.
Yue Zhengdao felt that he was both a braised chicken and a sauerkraut fish at this time, so he naturally blamed himself for the reason, how his reputation was known in Kyoto, of course, only a few people knew how he really was. What's more, whose daughter is not the pearl of the palm of the hand? Moreover, there is only that girl in that family, how can she be willing to send the Yue's family to be a cow and a horse? Of course they are unwilling, but in the end they are willing, and you can imagine how much effort Jun Yishen has spent.
His own friends know that Jun Yishen is not good at this kind of thing, he has never done this kind of thing, and he will not use the majesty of his prime minister, the power of the Yue family or something to oppress people in this kind of thing, if he is willing, he will find a way if he is not willing, so he has spent a lot of effort in this matter.
In fact, this is also something that Yue Zhengdao himself can't figure out, after all, if he really wants to balance the power of the Yue family, it involves the question of position, if one day Jun Yishen treats Yue Zhengdao and the Yue family as an enemy, Jun Yishen who is no longer young and good-hearted will not show mercy, he doesn't have to and won't deal with it at all, as long as he says a thing, there will naturally be subordinates who will handle this matter. Jun Yishen is actually a bit capricious in doing this, which is not his style.
This is also the reason why Yue Zhengdao and Jun Yishen are still good on the surface, but in fact, there has already been a deep rift between them.
Having said that, just like Shangguan Yi said, it is actually himself who looks down on Yue Zhengdao, even if he has a bad reputation, but on his terms, there are still many girls who want to marry him, at least the people in this family want to reject him not because of Yue Zhengdao, even if the issue of Yue Zhengdao's reputation is raised, it is just a pretext.
After all, Yue Zhengdao is handsome, and his posture is tall and tall, even if he has some vices, but as he said, it is actually harmless, after all, it is not a bad hobby. This is the appearance, what about the inside, who doesn't know that Yue Zhengdao has a lot of ideas in Kyoto, this East China Sea? In addition, his cultivation is not bad, and he conspires with Jun Yishen to do great things, which can be regarded as very young and promising. The background is even more coveted, the young master of the Yue family, and Jun Yishen is behind him to support him, basically Jun Yishen will not fall, Yue Zhengdao will not have an accident, and the Yue family also has someone to take care of, this is counted down, but any girl with vision will not refuse such a Wang Lao Wu.
In fact, the real reason is that the girl herself is unwilling, not that she has no vision, after all, Yue Zhengdao did be a scumbag back then, even if he forgot it, but the girl remembered it. Even if the girl didn't dare to tell her current father about it, and just said that she didn't want to, it was enough to add chips to the scale in her father's heart. Of course, this is only one of the reasons, other reasons such as: people also feel that their daughters are not worthy of Yue Zhengdao, and they are afraid that the true identity of their daughters will be exposed in the future, which is a crime of bullying and cannot bear it.
Just as Yue Zhengdao thought, he racked his brains to persuade the girl, but he couldn't pass her father's hurdle, and finally simply took the bow and invited his father into a secret room to "talk", successfully convincing people with virtue, so that his father also agreed to the marriage.
But what Jun Yishen didn't expect was that Yue Zhengdao would be so resolute, he refused without even looking at the wife he picked for him, and later ran away...... Maybe as long as he looked at Qianxian at a glance, Yue Zhengdao would like her again, but Yue Zhengdao didn't give this opportunity.
This is the general process of things, Yue Zhengdao and Shangguan Yi know the same beginning and end, but their understanding of the details in the middle is very different, Yue Zhengdao was successfully led astray by Shangguan Yi.
"This, what does it matter if I know or not?" Yue Zhengdao is a dead duck with a hard mouth, although he doesn't like what Jun Yishen does, and he doesn't know what his motives are, but it is very touching that someone is willing to help you do things so hard.
"What's the matter? Do you know that you are now putting Jun Yishen in the position of being unkind and unjust? He handled this matter single-handedly, and he worked hard to get the other party's side, as long as you make a bride price, you are ready to get married, you are doing such a show now, do you know how difficult it is for you to make Jun Yishen? He can't pay the emperor there, he can't give an explanation to the other party, how many people in Kyoto are laughing at him, do you know? The reputation of Jun Yishen, the famous minister of the East China Sea, is about to be ruined!" Shangguan Yi expounded this fact word by word, in a tone and frustration, which made Yue Zhengdao a little confused.
Yue Zhengdao really didn't think about this problem, but he refused to bow his head at the moment, so he gritted his teeth and said, "He deserves it, I don't need his help at all, and I don't like Qianxian at all!"
"Have you seen her?" Shangguan Yi also guessed that this Qianxian was the girl that Jun Yishen had chosen and that Yue Zhengdao had liked.
"Nope. Yue Zhengdao shook his head, Qianxian didn't go out of the door, he was not familiar with the Qianxian, and he was not interested in Qianxian, since he had never stepped into the door of the Qianxian, naturally he had never seen Qianxian.
"Then how do you know that you don't like her? Could it be that she is ugly and does not match your eyes?" Shangguan Yi asked.
"No, she is said to be good-looking, and she is a rare beauty in Kyoto. Yue Zhengdao shook his head.
"Then she has a bad personality, hot and irritable or vicious?" Shangguan Yi asked again.
Yue Zhengdao was stunned, shook his head again, and said, "It is said that she is gentle and virtuous, and her personality is quite good. ”
"Then why do you dare to say that you don't like it?" Shangguan Yi used his nirvana and asked in conclusion.
"I..." Yue Zhengdao was speechless.
Isn't it a little unreasonable that emotional things have to be inferred rationally?
Yue Zhengdao, who fell into Shangguan Yi's rhythm, faintly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find any way to crack the counterattack, so he had to let Shangguan Yi play.
"Even if you don't like it, you don't have a choice, because of your weakness, your stupidity, you can't fight the old antiques of the Yue family now, let alone Jun Yishen and the Emperor of the East China Sea, you only have this way to go. Shangguan Yi launched a killing move again, this time it was a declarative sentence, a declarative sentence that people were powerless to refute.
"No, I would rather be a broken jade than a complete tile. Yue Zhengdao retorted.
"It's not something you should choose, unless you really want to be a soft-ass through and through, a soft-ass to the end. The future of the Yue family was originally carried by you, but now you throw it aside, this is not a big problem, they can naturally pull out a tall one from a pile of dwarfs, but have you considered it for the Qianxian in your mouth?" Shangguan Yi vetoed Yue Zhengdao's statement, and the issues discussed also made Yue Zhengdao a little confused.
"Consider her?" Yue Zhengdao muttered.
"Miss Qianjia, if I'm not mistaken, naturally it can't be cultivated according to the women of the rivers and lakes, right?" Shangguan Yi meant something, but Yue Zhengdao, who was down, obviously couldn't receive the deep meaning.
"Yes, she is a lady of a scholarly family. Yue Zhengdao nodded.
"When we were dancing knives and guns, she was learning three from four virtues, we were wanton and hateful, and when we burned, killed, and smashed, she was in the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, embroidery and tea, so you don't understand her.
Women in this era are not as strong and equal as you think, especially a lady like her. If you ruin your innocence and reputation, at most you will be talked about behind your back, you are still you, you don't care about this, you are still living a chic and free life, but what about her? If her innocence is damaged and her reputation is gone, where is there a place for her in this world? She is not a woman in the rivers and lakes, and she cannot have the bearing of a strange woman, and she can treat these things as if nothing happened.
Unmarried to her father, she obeys his father's will and wants to marry you; If you are married to your husband, you will be her heaven and her land in the future, sheltering her from the wind and rain and keeping a peaceful place. Now her fiancé doesn't want her, it's like the sky has fallen, the earth has sunk, she is in the gossip of Kyoto, who will protect her? If you die, what will she do? Only one death! But why? If you pursue your love, you have to die, and she will not have anything to pursue all her life?
Aren't you hateful for doing such a thing? Aren't you a scumbag?" Shangguan Yi said this slowly, and it was also very long, and Yue Zhengdao was silent, clenching his teeth, and his heart hurt slightly.
Yes, she is his wife after all, even if she was not chosen by him, even if she has not gone through all kinds of formalities, but in her heart, in the eyes of others, she has already been branded as his Yue Zhengdao, and he has already embarrassed her by escaping from Kyoto, and if she dies, won't he force her to go on the road with him? People are terrible, how can he let her carry things that should not be carried for him? How can he abandon his responsibility and put it on her thin body? He is her God, and he should shelter her from the wind and rain.
"Love is not a noun, it is a verb, and you can control yourself to love her. She is good-looking, outstanding, gentle and virtuous, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, what else is there to pick such a person? Isn't she worthy of your love?" Shangguan Yi continued to add, he wanted to strike while the iron was hot and completely deal with Yue Zhengdao.
"You're right, I'm me, not someone else, I'm going to go my own way, I was indeed a little cowardly and conservative before.
You're right, I shouldn't throw the responsibility on anyone else, the affairs of the Yue family, and her, this is my responsibility, and naturally it should be borne by me.
You're right, how do you know I don't like her if you haven't seen me? Even if you don't like it, you can change it, you can be yes, you can be it, you can't be it; It's not that it can't be, it can be yes, everything is actually chosen by me, not someone else.
As a result of my own making, I carried it, and I will go back to Kyoto now. Yue Zhengdao took out the bottle containing the Qingxin pill, opened it and poured the contents directly into his mouth, swallowed it and threw the bottle away, and was about to leave.
He wants to go back to Kyoto, go back to find Qianxian, complete the wedding with her, and spend the rest of his life with her.
Now it's Shangguan Yi's turn to stare at the dog, this... Yue Zhengdao said that he would repent if he repented, he couldn't react a little, didn't he still look like he was unrepentant just now? He was going to fight with him and subdue Yue Zhengdao, but now he didn't have to...
"Eh, you wait. "How could Shangguan Yi let Yue Zhengdao go back like this? You must know that not to mention whether the poison has been solved or not, just out of various considerations, you can't let Yue Zhengdao do things so impulsively.
"Huh?" Yue Zhengdao turned his head.
"I'm not allowed to go back to Kyoto right now, it's not appropriate. Shangguan Yi said seriously.
"No, I want to see her. Yue Zhengdao was willing to listen to him and continued to walk forward.
"You have to think about it, you have to be her hero when you go back, you are a bear at most with a blue nose and swollen face! And you don't want a good reason, you can't cover up this matter after all, a scandal is still a scandal, and she will have to bear no less rumors. So... It's better to think about it in the long run, I believe that Jun Yishen will let people take care of your wife, rest assured. Shangguan Yi felt that it was so difficult, just now he persuaded people to face the reality, go back to Kyoto to get married, and live a good life, but now he wants to persuade people not to go back, let him plan and then move, and stay in the Great Light Temple for a few more days.
"What's the matter? " Yue Zhengdao raised his eyebrows and looked at Shangguan Yi teasingly.
"Hmm, what are you talking about, what am I trying to do? It's not that I'm getting married, I'm just thinking about you, and I want to try to eliminate the impact of this matter, isn't it?" Shangguan Yi pouted, who would instigate such a thing, anyway, he has nothing to do with himself, the one who hangs high, talk about it in advance, and then it doesn't matter to him what things will turn out of.
"How to eliminate the influence...?how to eliminate it?" Yue Zhengdao, who Shangguan Yi said this, was a little moved, if he loved someone, he had to give her the best, even if he just decided to love. So if he can eliminate the impact of his exodus this time, he will not have to wait a few more days, after all, some things will follow a person for a lifetime, if he goes back to marry Qianxian now, he can naturally give her protection to a certain extent, but the reputation of being disliked by her husband and almost abandoned still can't be washed away, even if time goes by, there will still be people who remember, and there will even be annoying guys to mention, which is very bad.
"How do I know?" Shangguan Yi rolled his eyes, what did he think he was, he really thought he was an all-knowing and all-powerful god?
"I see that you are so hard-working, and what you say is the truth, don't you know everything, and besides, you honestly confess, did you accept any benefits from Jun Yishen? Otherwise, you don't know each other, why do you go to such great lengths to be a lobbyist for him?" Yue Zhengdao asked rhetorically, he just thought of this question, although what Shangguan Yi said was very reasonable, but he always admonished as Jun Yishen's lobbyist, and he was also not in the same group as him Yue Zhengdao, which made him actually very unhappy.
"Yes, I accepted Jun Yi Shen's great benefits to be a lobbyist for him, but we still care about you, if you want to harm you, there is no need to make so much effort. As for the specific content of the transaction, don't ask, we won't say if you ask, that's a matter between me and Jun Yishen, what you have to do is to take care of your body, communicate with Jun Yishen, find a reason to turn decay into magic and make the world envious, and then go back to Kyoto, coax the emperor to be happy, let those old stubborns in your family have nothing to say, and complete this wedding smoothly!" Shangguan Yi said very frankly, even though he hadn't gotten any benefits yet, he wouldn't tell Yue Zhengdao. He wants to establish an image in Yue Zhengdao's heart that he takes money to do things and solves disasters for others, if Yue Zhengdao is unhappy in the future and begins to resent the person who persuaded him in the first place, he will be attracted by Shangguan Yi with some of the firepower, or even most of the firepower, so that Jun Yishen and Yue Zhengdao may still have room for relaxation.
It doesn't matter if he's stupid, it's okay to say he's pedantic and soft-hearted, he just can't bear to let a lover who should be a family member but miss the loss, he just can't bear to let two best friends who care about each other face each other, so he inserted a kick in the middle, maybe it would be a big risk, but he felt it was worth it, so he did it.
It's worth it, not because of the identities of Yue Zhengdao and Jun Yishen, not because of what kind of benefits these two guys can bring him, but because the world is ruthless, people are all looking at the court, there are too few people who are affectionate and righteous, this kind of person is stupid, but they are all considered by Shangguan Yi to be worthy of fellowship, so he has to make some efforts for the few people in this world, which is why Shangguan Yi took on this thankless errand.
Yes, thankless. Even if Jun Yishen promised such a favor, Shangguan Yi still thought that it was a thankless thing, just because Jun Yishen was from the East China Sea, and Shangguan Yi was Zhongzhen, what Jun Yishen could do to help Shangguan Yi was really limited, and if he was caught, a hat of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country would definitely be detained, and there was no need to say anything about the result. However, Jun Yishen didn't know about this, so he thought their deal was equal.
"That's the way it is, you don't know what to do when you ask you, Jun Yishen is smart, but he may not have any countermeasures, it's better to take one step at a time, I'll go back to Kyoto first. Yue Zhengdao was about to leave again, but as expected, he was stopped by Shangguan Yi again.
"Even if I can't do it, don't I still have Jun Yishen? You also said that there may not be any countermeasures, not that there are no countermeasures. What's more, we still have the last hole card, don't we? This is the Great Bright Temple, and there is an abbot in the Great Bright Temple named Huichen, who is the wise man of the Great Bright Temple. Shangguan Yi squeezed his eyebrows and said, deliberately reintroducing Huichen to Yue Zhengdao, as a wise man.
Yue Zhengdao was stunned, looking at the eccentric Shangguan Yi, and suddenly mourned for Huichen for a while in his heart, I'm afraid that this guy has already thought about throwing the pot to Huichen, poor wise man, not only to think about the things of the Great Bright Temple, but also the things of the two realms of righteousness and demons, and now there is another guy who is going to throw the pot at every turn, it's really miserable...
Although Yue Zhengdao thought so, and did understand Huichen, he felt that he was very uncomfortable and very sad, but when he really did it, he needed to throw off the pot and throw some dirty work to others, he would not hesitate to throw it to Huichen. It invisibly gives people a sense of security, and makes people want to ask him for advice when they encounter major events, and he can always give answers from an unexpected angle, which benefits people a lot.
"Well, that's fine, Master Huichen happens to be familiar with this place, and he must know more about the Great Light Temple than we do, so it's enough to just give a reason casually. Yue Zhengdao nodded with satisfaction and reached a consensus with Shangguan Yi.
"Hmph. Shangguan Yi touched his swollen high face, and went to get the lunch box very unpleasantly, he hadn't eaten yet, so he spent so much effort to persuade Yue Zhengdao, and was even punched by him, it was super painful, he didn't know how to explain this matter to Hua Xiangrong, he ran out early in the morning, and even forcibly couldn't hear her shouting voice, and then he was beaten and his nose and face were swollen and he went back, emmm, it will definitely be repaired very badly.
"I want to eat too!" Yue Zhengdao didn't forget that when Shangguan Yi came to him, he came to ask him to eat, and he also glimpsed the things in the lunch box, for a guy like him who almost forgot when the last time he ate and his heart knot was untied, it was simply a temptation that could not be refused. So at this time, he shouted and rushed over to the lunch box, without the slightest intention of being polite to Shangguan Yi.
"Get out, this is the meal that the chefs prepared for me! You are not allowed to eat!" Shangguan Yi was furious, grabbed the lunch box and was about to run, but Yue Zhengdao, who arrived in time, grabbed a corner of the lunch box, and after the two of them couldn't hold it for a long time, they simply took a step back, opened the lunch box and started the battle to grab the meal.
The sound of chopsticks tapping sounded from time to time, because it was going to be a war so they still used chopsticks, but the difference between this and hand grasping is only... It's just three fingers missing, after all, the two of them have worked hard in their hands, and they can still make a chopstick like an arm, and they can move as they wish.
If someone else is here, they will definitely look at the two of them without blinking, because in the blink of an eye, it may be that half of the dish is gone... Shangguan Yi and Yue Zhengdao swept the battlefield in the real sense, and Shangguan Yi brought a chicken, a few plates of side dishes, and four steamed buns, which were not enough to eat, and the kind that was not enough to fill the stomach...
"Hmph, you take these things back to the kitchen, I'm going back. Shangguan Yi wiped his mouth and got up to leave.
"Aren't you going to the kitchen to eat a little more?" Yue Zhengdao admired Shangguan Yi a little more after this contest, after all, he was still a foodie without a shelf, could he not be to his taste?
"Hua Xiangrong must have left me food, not enough to eat. Shangguan Yi left without looking back, leaving Yue Zhengdao, who was fed a mouthful of dog food, petrified in the cold wind.