With Zhu Wen's hand-to-go posture and the elite of the Xuanwu Army's 100 soldiers, it is not easy for the 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses left behind in Pinglu to hold on to the tenth month.

Rao is Shangguan Allure led the fine cavalry, and the light and simple horses returned to help, and it is unlikely that the final word will be finalized.

Moreover, Zhu Wen has the help of the Immortal Court monks, and the demon clan may not be able to take advantage of it.

But Li Ye still has no intention of returning to Pinglu first to stabilize the general trend, even if he goes back to Pinglu, the impact on the battle situation will definitely be huge.

When Song Jiao asked about it afterwards, Li Ye gave his own reasons.

The reason couldn't be simpler: "Because of Trekley." He was a Confucian scholar. ”

With Song Jiao's intelligence and practice, she quickly understood the deep meaning of Li Ye's move: "Are you going to test the attitude of Confucianism and the layout of Confucianism in the world?"

Li Ye nodded, his eyes were deep: "The Daomen Immortal Court has ruled the world for a long time, and any class that has played the role of a ruler for a long time will have that annoying virtue." But Confucianism is different, their ideal has always been to rule the world and establish their lives for the common people in the world, which also determines that they will choose the main thing. Choosing the right monarch and realizing the ideal of universal harmony together is the foundation of Confucianism. ”

"So you think it's possible for Confucianism to choose you?" Song Jiao had a teasing smile in her eyes, although this guy was understanding, he was reluctant to show it easily.

Immediately, she changed her words and said with a smile: "Most of the officials in the world are from Confucianism, but if you look at their style, what is the difference between them and Taoists? No matter what ideals, once they encounter power and wealth, they have to give way to it." Dong Zhongshu can even say the words of 'divine authority of the monarch', which shows that in order for Confucianism to enter the center of power, they have not hesitated to forget their ancestors. ”

Li Ye was noncommittal: "After all, this is a troubled time. In troubled times, there will always be some changes. ”

Song Jiao pondered slightly: "What if the Confucian sect didn't choose you?"

Li Ye said lightly: "It doesn't matter whether the Confucian sect chooses me or not, the important thing is whether they choose Zhu Wen or not." After three days, I was impressed, and today's Zhu Wen is completely different from the Huangchao Rebellion. I'm going to fight Zhu Wen soon, and I have to find out the details of him. ”

Song Jiao asked, "How do you know?"

Li Ye said: "If the Confucian sect also chooses Zhu Wen, Cui Keli will open the gate of Pinglu to welcome Zhu Wen into the country." ”

Song Jiao was stunned: "Cui Keli is your uncle!

Li Ye laughed: "In front of the country, even father and son can kill each other, how can there ever be a place for family affection?"

Song Jiao said in a deep voice: "So you're gambling!"

Li Ye said: "The bet is Pinglu. ”

Song Jiao's voice became cold: "Pinglu is your foundation!"

Li Ye said: "Compared with figuring out the choice layout of Confucianism, the land of the five states of Pinglu is not impossible to put on the gambling table. ”

Song Jiao was dumbfounded.

Li Ye's gaze gradually became as sharp as a blade: "This is the great battle in the world!"

Influenced by him, Song Jiao's eyes also had a murderous aura: "So Hedong must be won, and there must be no loss!"

......

Willing to put Pinglu on the gambling table does not mean that he has to abandon it, otherwise Li Ye would not have sent Shangguan Chengcheng to lead the army back to help. Even if Cui Keli opened the gate of Qingzhou City, Shangguan Allure brought more than 20,000 elite horsemen, and cooperated with the demon monks, it would be enough to hold the two states west of Pinglu and hold on until Li Ye led the army to come back to help.

The sweep of the Hedong states went unexpectedly smoothly, and the reason why I said this was because before the army had even started from Taiyuan City, Li Ye received a letter of surrender from several states on his own initiative.

In fact, it is not a book, because the assassin history of these states all claim to be loyal ministers of the Tang Dynasty.

They sang praises to Li Ye in the book, praised Li Ye for driving away Li Ke with this wolf's ambition, and relieved the people of Hedong in the dire situation, and justified themselves that they never meant to be thieves......

Of course, Li Ye knew that these assassins were afraid that he would punish them, so seeing that Li Ke was gone, he rushed to show his loyalty.

This is also the effect of Li Ye's previous arrangements.

When he attacked Qinzhou earlier, he treated the assassin with courtesy and did not blame the Qinzhou officials, but when he attacked Fenzhou, his attitude was much harsher. After the war, under the pretext that the Fenzhou assassin did not welcome the king's division, they were taken into custody and prepared to be sent to Chang'an to ask the court for punishment.

But to get to the bottom of it, everything is because Li Ye's current power is in full swing, and sweeping Hedong is a foregone conclusion.

Things went so smoothly, and Li Ye was also happy. If there can be less fighting, there will be fewer casualties among the soldiers, and some money, food, and ordnance can be saved, after all, Zhu Wen will have to be dealt with next.

The prefectures and counties in Hedong that were not captured were reduced by half in the next few days, and the situation was very good. Li Ye didn't bother to say much to these assassins, and he didn't ask about his guilt. The soldiers who were originally going to attack these places naturally did not have to go out again.

This made Kang Chengqian, Xue Wei and others cry out for regret.

After all, they can all see that if they go to these states and counties, the war will not be difficult. And once you capture the city, you can take the opportunity to make a fortune. Now there is a lot less fighting, and they have less opportunity to loot money.

The money income is destined to be less, but the fame of following Wang Shi to rebel is still there, and after the war, he will definitely be promoted to a knighthood, and Kang Chengqian and others will not have any complaints.

Of course, not all Hedong prefectures and counties have fallen from the wind, and Daizhou is one of them. The reason couldn't be simpler, Li Keyong fled here with thousands of soldiers and horses, and took control of the city.

......

A few days later, Li Ye handled all kinds of government and military affairs, and when he was about to go north, someone found him at night.

Flying Hung Priest.

Li Ye finished reviewing the last official document on the bookcase in front of the window, and was putting down the jade pen and looking up, and through the windowsill, he saw Feihong Dashi standing on the roof of the temple across a courtyard.

The window lattices limit the width of Li Ye's field of vision, but they also outline a complete composition.

The clear full moon was setting on the wide cornices, the tiles were sprinkled with the snow-white light of Kaikai, the branches of the locust trees beside it were luxuriant, and the sound of salsa with a complete rhythm was heard in the wind.

Fei Hong, who was dressed in white and dressed in white, stood quietly in the corner of the cornice, his hair and feet dancing lightly in front of the bright moon. She carried a jar of wine in her hand, and she didn't know how long she had been standing there, so long that it blended with the moonlight and did not distinguish each other.

Li Ye has been busy with mundane affairs these days, but he has ignored the agreement with the other party.

"I'm about to return to the Buddha Domain, and you promised me wine, but you haven't invited it yet. She said.

Li Ye was a little distracted.

He never noticed that Fei Hong's body was also so slender, thin like a floating leaf that would disappear with the wind.

Maybe it's the backdrop of the full moon, maybe it's the blowing of the night wind, or maybe the parting that has come, some emotions that have never been discovered are just raised at this moment and sank into the heart.

It turns out that there are really some people who can make people feel the beauty of suffocation even if they don't look at their faces.

Li Ye stood up from behind the bookcase, swept out of the windowsill, and landed on the cornice.

But when he saw the face close at hand, he didn't know what to say. Although this face is like coagulated skin, the facial features are perfect to the point that there is no flaw, and it is delicate like a superb porcelain, but this is not the reason.

He has been facing this face day and night for forty years, but he has not been particularly touched. That's because the expression on this face is always the same, no matter how beautiful she is, even if there is a faint melancholy like Jiangnan Xiaoyu hidden in it, he has never used his heart to appreciate it.

And tonight, perhaps it was Qinghui that gave her mutton fat-like skin a strange luster, which made her look fresh and no longer the same.

But Li Ye knew that the moonlight was not the reason, and there were indeed other words on Feihong's face at this moment.

Feihong Master handed the wine jar in his hand to Li Ye, who was not without embarrassment, his movements were gentle, and his voice was the same, but it sounded a little different, because a bright smile appeared on her face: "When you want to drink, you don't particularly care who bought the wine." ”

The two sat down side by side on the cornice, and Feihong took out the mutton fat jade bottle, and the two drank it first.

Even if he is not qualified to be called an alcoholic, Li Ye is also a good drinker, but at this moment, when the wine is roaring, he fails to taste anything. Most of the spirits did go straight to the roar, and they didn't stop on the tip of the tongue.

Following Feihong Dashi's words, Li Ye smiled bitterly: "There is probably only one person who drinks too much, and one person who drinks too long, will feel happy when he has a suitable drinking partner, and will not have the heart to care about other miscellaneous things." ”

Fei Hong looked at the bright full moon and said in a distant voice: "How much is too much, how long is too long?"

Li Ye lowered his head and was silent for a moment: "There is so much sea water that it can be measured, and it will be so long that thousands of years have slipped away from your fingertips." ”

Master Feihong smiled, inexplicably smiling.

After a moment, she spoke, her voice fluttering far and near: "In the western sky, thousands of miles away, there is a place called the Buddha Domain. There are clouds and mist around the golden light, there are indescribable brilliant Buddhist temples, and pious monks can be seen everywhere. The purple gold flower blooms in the thunder pool, and the seven-colored rainbow hangs on the same day, which is the envy of the world. But you know, the only thing that's missing?"

Li Ye took a sip of wine: "The one who drinks." ”

"Not bad, drinker. Fei Hung turned his head, and his eyes were exceptionally clear but bottomless, but at this moment, the pool was so shallow that the meaning contained in them was so easy to understand: "Then do you know what is the most in it?"

Li Ye turned his head to stare at the beautiful face in front of him, and suddenly found that the rhythm of his heartbeat was a little disordered, which made him feel absurd, but when it came to the answer on his lips, he still blurted out: "Lonely." ”

"Yes, loneliness. The smile on the corner of Feihong's mouth was about to overflow from the dimples, probably sensing Li Ye's embarrassment, she didn't freeze the other party anymore, put away her gaze and looked into the distance again: "Then do you know that in fact, compared to the endless boring, boring, and boring, loneliness is also a vivid and precious thing? At least, it can make people feel a little vitality." ”

Li Ye was silent.

He suddenly found that when facing Li Xian and Fei Hong, especially when the two confided their hearts, he could often only be silent.

He has been a human being for two lives, and he can be regarded as having a lot of experience, but at this moment he can only admit that in the face of some heavy feelings, in the face of thousands of years, he still has too many untasted feelings.

The terrain of the palace is high enough to overlook most of Taiyuan City. From the direction where the two of them are sitting, Taiyuan City under the moonlight, the neighborhood is as neat as a chessboard, and when the long night is not rising, countless windows reveal a dim yellow light, like a summer night firefly.

The syllables spit out from between Feihong's teeth, with her faint body temperature, touched the heartstrings: "Back then, when I left the earthly world and ascended to the immortal world, I abandoned the prosperity of the world, thinking that above the white clouds, there would be countless beautiful mirages. ”

However, after a long time, after thousands of years, I realized that the lights of thousands of homes are the most beautiful scenery in heaven and earth, because there is always so much warmth in it. Only then did I wake up to the fact that the true meaning of the three thousand avenues was in the depths of this firecracker, and the so-called enlightenment of immortals overlooking the common people was nothing more than a dream woven by the arrogance of the monks. ”

"At first, I thought that I would break through the red dust, no longer be moved by emotion, unencumbered and unrestrained, and finally be liberated and have real freedom. Indeed, I have been at large for thousands of years. However, a thousand years later, when I suddenly looked back, I realized that I had lived as a statue, a majestic statue enshrined in front of the incense table in the temple. ”

"At that time, I realized that the years without heartbeat were no different from a pool of stagnant water. There is no remembrance, no fear of death, you can leave this world at any time, whether it is annihilation or rebirth, you no longer care, this is the freedom of the monk?"

"So I looked at the others, those Bodhisattva Vajra, I originally thought that I would see a similar loneliness, but I was surprised to find that they had already thrown themselves into the whirlpool of struggle for power and profit, and they were hideous and forgetful for the sake of cultivating resources and improving their status. What is the difference between this and ordinary people, the rich, powerful, and officials in the world who are looked down upon by them? This is the immortal who has his heart to the Great Dao? Is this the Great Dao?"

From that time on, the bottle was filled with an inexhaustible supply of spirits. ”

"Thousands of years have passed, I still like the bright moon reflecting the autumn breeze, the peach blossoms falling for hundreds of miles, the streets and alleys, and the silent warmth of thousands of lights. Because there was a heart that was not wooden, and it would be heart-warming, a heart that could be joyful, angry, and sorrowful, and a heart that would not feel boring after thousands of years. I buried it with my own hands...... That heart. ”

At this point, Fei Hong finally stopped, and she held the jade bottle and drank it up.

The wine overflowed and spilled all over the chest.

Li Ye could only drink with her.

Whether it is in his previous life or in this life, he is struggling on the road to becoming an immortal, and he has a precarious oppressive force. Struggling to survive, ordinary people are like mortals.

He can empathize with the high level of sorrow of Feihong Dashi, but he has never really experienced it. Instead of judging and saying innocuous words of comfort, it is better to drink all the spirits in the jar together.

In that case, at least for the moment, she is understood, not alone.

"I'm going back to the Buddha Domain. Putting down the jade bottle, Feihong said this sentence for the second time.

Tonight she is very different, maybe her mask has been removed, maybe there is no mask at all, only a dead soul. And now there is a wisp of vitality in her soul, so she comes to life, and even when she speaks, the melancholy is so obvious that it is within reach.

She turned her head and stared at Li Ye again.

She just looked at him like that, and her eyes were like rhododendrons blooming all over the mountain, beautiful and beautiful, but there was also the sorrow and cruelty of cuckoos crying blood. After a while, there was a smile on her lips, dimples, and the corners of her eyes.

She said seriously and playfully: "On the eighth day of the fourth month of the second year of Datang Guangming, at this moment when the time is about to end, you and I will sit on the eaves and drink. Enjoy the bright moon and the breeze, and there are thousands of lights in front of you. Because of you I will remember this moment. From now on, you and I are friends, at least we were, and you can't change it, because the time has passed. ”

These words made Li Ye stunned and looked at the other party in a daze.

This moment is so short compared to the years of thousands of years.

But so what, compared to the tastelessness of being exhibited on the cliff for thousands of years, the presumptuousness of crying on the shoulder of a lover for a night, it will be remembered for a longer time. Because the latter will be remembered from time to time.

The bright smile on Phihong's face didn't last long, she sat down again, and began to drink again.

Just like in the endless sea, no matter how beautiful the waves are, they are only for a moment, and everything will be calm again.

After a long time, she put down the wine bottle and whispered, "Some things, those people and those things, when you are destined to lose and can no longer have them, what can you do?"

Li Ye looked at her side face, the side face with clear contours, and said heavily: "The only thing we can do is not to let ourselves not forget." ”