Chapter 34 (2)
After staying in Chaozhou for a few days, I was sure that Nangong Xue was not here, so I was so excited that I didn't want to delay here for a long time, and rushed to the next town. He planned to make his way back to the capital, so he searched each town separately, and he didn't believe that he couldn't find a clue. After several disappointments, his faith was almost worn out, and he found a roadside tavern at random, and as soon as he entered, he immediately sat down with a big grin and beckoned "wine".
This tavern is remote and small, with only a few strong flavors of burnt knife wine. This wine is best drunk before the war, and it will soon make the blood boil and double the combat power. But it is also very easy to overdose, and after a few words of drunkenness, you can fall asleep on the spot.
Li Yijie is a sad person, the wine is poured more urgently, and after a while, he feels the warmth and heat in his body, and his eyes seem to see Nangong Xue standing in front of him, with two slender braids hanging behind him, smiling at him. He will rush forward and keep admitting his mistakes to her. Nangong Xue has also forgiven him more than once. But when I wake up and think that everything is just a dream, I wonder what a loss it will be?
Half-asleep and half-awake, I vaguely saw a figure, which seemed to be very familiar, and the name and surname were almost ready to come out, but it was clear that when it came to the mouth, my mind suddenly went blank again, and I couldn't think anymore, so I fell asleep on the table in a daze.
A few days later he arrived at the next town, and after going around as usual, he went to the tavern to get drunk, and saw the figure again before he fell asleep. I wanted to open my mouth to shout, but my lips were so numb that I couldn't move, my head was lowered, and I fell asleep at the desk.
When I woke up the next day, I was in the first-class room of an inn. got dressed in a daze, and suspected that someone was joking with him, so he went to the stage to ask, but said that a prince had already paid the bill for him, but he did not disclose his name. Li Yijie was so suspicious in his heart that he couldn't find out left and right, so he had to give up.
Since then, almost every town you have to go through this set of twists and turns. Slowly, Li Yijie was no longer curious about the mysterious person who arranged the inn for him, and rested at will, after all, it was a good thing that the person forcibly pushed to the door, and he didn't receive it in vain. If he has something to ask for, he has to wait for him to take the initiative, and no matter how much suspicion he has, it is useless.
On this day, when he arrived near the capital, Li Yijie held a wine jug, raised his head like watering and poured it into his mouth, his eyelids fought one after another, and his forehead slowly drooped little by little. The white-clothed young man standing silently in the distance walked over slowly and sighed, "Brother Li, why are you doing this. He draped a coat over him.
It's too late, it's fast, Li Yijie's wrist suddenly flipped, his stiff body stood upright, his five fingers poked out, buckled his pulse, and said with a smile: "This time, you can't escape, right?"
The man in white was really Yuan Yi, and when he saw that he noticed it, his face was also slightly embarrassed, and he said, "Brother Li, it turns out that you are pretending to be drunk and tricking me out?" Li Yijie smiled: "I also have no choice." If I don't do that, how can I meet the wonderful guy who arranged for me along the way?"
Yuan Yi smiled dryly: "The younger brother and Brother Li are old acquaintances, and I realized that your condition was different a few days ago, as a brother, I was afraid that something would happen to you, so I followed along the way, fortunately unharmed." Listening to what he said, he attributed Li Yijie's safety all the way to himself, Li Yijie was unhappy and snorted. Said: "Didn't the original prince travel all over the world? How could we meet here today? and followed me all the way, I'm afraid that I will delay you a lot of business, right?"
Yuan Yi said: "Going out is practice, but where is it not practice? After figuring out this section, I happened to be thinking about a group of old friends, so I hurried back to the Central Plains. Why, aren't you welcome?" his eyes fell on the table, but he saw three glasses and two light wines, and the plates were scattered everywhere, and they were in a mess. frowned and said, "Master Li only drinks alcohol, but doesn't order some snacks?"
Li Yijie said: "If you don't have money, people will come to you for nothing? Wine is always much cheaper than food." Yuan Yi waved his hand and said, "Today's meal, I invited! Brother Li is free." Li Yijie smiled faintly and said, "No merit will be punished." If you can help the original son, you will do your best. ”
Yuan Yi saw that he still refused to accept his kindness, and his tone was quite unkind, so he was secretly surprised, and said: "Brother Li said that he was joking, between friends, why do you need to force each other! It's just that along the way, I don't know why Brother Li has always been preoccupied? Could it be that it has something to do with Senior Sister Ling's Nangong girl?"
Li Yijie snorted and said: "With the vast power of the original son, do you still not know? Let's just open the skylight and say something, you must know where Xue'er is, right? Don't hang my appetite like this, bother you to show me a clear way, and I am grateful." ”
Although he is not familiar with Yuan Yi, he knows his style of conduct in detail and never fights unprepared battles. Every time he appears, he can put on an unfathomable appearance, which is admirable, but in fact, it is just more work beforehand.
Even if he didn't follow all the way from Shuiyuean, he should always know the origin of his troubles. Maybe even Nangong Xue's location was inquired in detail, but now he deliberately didn't say it. He is annoyed now, and he has no time to play guessing games with him to satisfy his innate vanity.
Yuan Yi's face was full of innocence, and he frowned: "No, I don't know! The junior brother has just returned to the Central Plains from the Western Regions, and even if there is any change in the martial arts, he will not have time to find out." However, your first question is the one I just wanted to ask. Hasn't Miss Nangong always been inseparable from you? Why didn't she follow you this time? And for many days, the ordinary petty fights should have passed. Unless it's where you have it...... If you offended her, can you tell me about it?"
Li Yijie stared at Yuan Yi, trying to find a little flaw in his words. In the end, he was still defeated in his concerned eyes, and he had to be reluctantly convinced, and said: "You really don't know? Alas, it's hard to say, this is a matter between me and her, and no one can help......
Yuan Yi said: "Then start from the beginning." Brother Li, don't you praise me for being omnipotent? Maybe I really have a way to make the impossible possible. ”
Li Yijie listened to his words categorically, and the doubts that he had finally suppressed rerose. But I think if he really knows Nangong Xue's whereabouts, at most he is just joking with himself, Xue'er will not be in any danger after all. I'm afraid that he is just playing tricks, and in the end he still spreads his hands and says he doesn't know. At that time, there is such a clue to the conversation, and it is effortless to capture Nangong Xue with this.
Yuan Yi called softly: "Brother Li, Brother Li, what are you still hesitating about?" Li Yijie's heart jumped suddenly, and then he was relieved, not everyone is like Jiang Yanchen, and Yuan Yi and Nangong Xue have no interests involved, and it is not beneficial to harm her. After pondering for a moment, he said, "Okay, then I'll tell you, and I can ask you to help me evaluate it." ”
told the incident in detail, including his thoughts on Nangong Xue and Shen Shiyun, and analyzed them one by one. After that, not only did I feel no sense of relief, but I also felt that all my thoughts were like a mess, and I had a lot of silk threads wrapped around my hands and hearts, and I couldn't find the final thread for a long time.
At the end, he raised the wine jug, raised his head and poured most of the jug of wine, until finally there was no drop left, and said with the intention of wine: "My heart is for the safety of Xue'er, and I will never shirk my responsibility." You say, 'Am I the one who is wrong?'
Yuan Yi pondered for a moment and said, "Brother Li, these words don't sound good, but they are indeed true. Throughout the ages, ordinary people have always judged heroes only by their success or failure. For anything, no matter what your motivation is or what your purpose is, if the final result is a mistake, even if it has nothing to do with this generation of fools, they will still chew their tongues everywhere and endlessly. Therefore, in the eyes of others, and even relatives and friends, you should also be regarded as a negative person. In order to cling to the power of Concubine Yun, he has to leave behind his sister who has lived and died together and suffered together. As a big man like the leader of the martial arts alliance, who wouldn't sing praises to virtue? Everyone is tired of listening to it all day long, and it is just about you to get out of the romantic debt, whether it is true or not, as long as there are still people who love to listen to it, it will be like a weed, and it will grow wildly all day long. ”
Li Yijie smiled bitterly and shook his head, every sentence was very contrary to his original intention, he repeatedly opened his mouth to argue, and heard Yuan Yi talk endlessly, but it was the same fallacy in his ears. After a short time, just because I want to refute every sentence, I can't refute it. The turbid wine in the pot has dried up, so I can only bite the spout sullenly, silently distracted.
After he finished talking for a while, he stopped for a while to take care of his emotions. At this time, he finally couldn't help but speak: "What about you? Yuan Gongzi also believes these rumors?" As far as he is concerned, he didn't expect to be praised by everyone, and it was really helpless to misunderstand the people in the world, but what he cared about was what his cronies and friends thought of him.
Yuan Yi said: "Those words, the little brother naturally treats it as the wind in his ears. said that Brother Li is indifferent to fame and fortune, but I am afraid that this is not true. But as far as I can see, you value the love of your children more than the struggle for power, but you are just a momentary obsession with Concubine Yun. However, you didn't judge the situation clearly, you pretended to be smart, and you ended up hurting Cher, in my opinion, it was your fault after all. If the Seven Evil Saints really did it intentionally, where could they hide away? In other words, the world is so big, but there is no safe place, and there is no place for you to live and live. You hurt her with words and drive her away, but you are only pushing her into danger, and you are not enough to stab her, and you have to stab her in the heart early. If you really care about Cher, you should understand her from her heart and understand what she wants. Instead of indiscriminately, you will give her all the things you think are beneficial. ”
Li Yijie snorted lightly and said, "Yes, even you think it's my fault? I'm a villain, what else do I have to say?" What disgusted him the most was that Yuan Yi said that he "looked away", so he became obsessed with Shen Shiyun.
"I have been in the palace for six years, and I have always been courteous to her, and I have always tried my best to reconcile the contradictions between the Manchus and the Hans, and I have never blindly obeyed her orders, so that the land of the Han people has been burned by war, what am I so stupid? Xue'er respects me and loves me, but it is only a dependence on her brother who grew up with her, this feeling is a moment of confusion, and when she meets her true destiny, she will fade away, why should I be responsible? Why do I have to love her if she loves me, and I have to marry her and treat her well for the rest of my life, otherwise I am a negative man with no conscience? Heaven treats me, why is it so unfair?"
This indignation had been entrenched in his heart for a long time, and he had no desire to explode until today. But it's one thing to have thoughts in your heart, if you really want to turn them into words, you will definitely mess up the number of roads, give Yuan Yi a few words, you can seize the loopholes, break them one by one, and teach him to believe that he is indeed a sinner through the ages. In terms of eloquence, ten of them can't match him. It's better to complain secretly, so that you can sit firmly on the wronged side.