Lu Siyi touched the bright red Shougong sand on her arm, her heart was full of melancholy, she sighed and said softly: "I approached Shi Jingjiao back then, but it was just to avenge my brother, how could I commit myself to that old man." ”

Yelu Ruan didn't know the details, he looked at the beautiful woman who looked like a fairy, his chest was arrogant, and he said calmly: "Although the girl is in the palace, she is not with the royal family of the Jin Kingdom. I, Yelu Ruan, have clear grievances and grievances, and I will never let my subordinates embarrass you. I just heard that you are here to avenge your brother, I don't know why Brother Ling has a grudge against Shi Jingjiao?"

Lu Siyi remembered the past of the year, and tears couldn't help but flow out. Yelu Ruan gently handed over the handkerchief, Lu Siyi glanced at him, and took it without thinking. Bei Yuanqing noticed that the master was not disgusted with Yelu Ruan, and that he seemed to be in the way by standing here, so he walked away with amusement, standing twenty or thirty feet away, vigilantly watching the movements in the alley.

Lu Siyi slowly told what happened more than ten years ago, and when she talked about the scene of Lu Guanyan's death, her heart was sour, and tears kept flowing out. Yelu Ruan hurriedly comforted: "Girl, Brother Ling is a great hero who stands up to the sky and the earth, if it weren't for the creation of people, he must be a prince now." Lu Siyi smiled bitterly: "Fame and fortune are just clouds." As the saying goes, one will make ten thousand bones dry, let alone those who break halfway. Before my brother could make a mark, those who followed him died in the encirclement. ”

Yelu Ruan nodded and said, "The girl is right. This king has always been opposed to conquest. If it weren't for the emperor's decree to let me go south, this king might still be living in seclusion in the mountains and forests of Shangjing. Lu Siyi's face was full of doubts after hearing this, and said: "The prince is the mainstay of the Khitan, and he has the idea of returning to the dust, which is really unbelievable. Yelu Ruan smiled slightly and said, "Although this king is above ten thousand people under one person, he is still inevitably suspicious. Lu Siyi said: "The Khitan Emperor is your own uncle, he won't even worry about you, right?"

Since the death of the Khitan Emperor Yelu Abao, there has been chaos among the members of the royal family. Now Yelu Deguang has passed the age of not being confused, and the crown prince has not yet weakened the crown. Both Yelu Lihu and Yelu Nguyen could become the emperor's heirs. Yelu Lihu is the younger brother of Yelu Deguang, and he is favored by the Empress Dowager Shu Luping, and he is generous, and he is also quite supported among the ministers. Yelu Ruan is different, his father Yelu Bei fled from the Khitan after the Tang Dynasty, and finally died in the Luoyang fire, Shu Luping is angry about this matter, and regards Yelu Bei as an unfilial son. Yelu Ruan was innocently implicated and was snubbed by the Queen Mother for a long time.

Yelu Ruan is very self-aware, in order to dispel the doubts of the emperor and the queen mother, he often leaves the matter of military training to Xiao Yejin and Cha Muhe, and he indulges in the mountains and rivers, and shows great concern about the affairs of the court. In this Khitan southern expedition, Yelu Deguang specially asked people to go and announce that he was the commander of the former battalion. After Yelu Ruan finished sending the messenger, he was conflicted. If you are ordered to march south, it will be difficult to succeed in retiring in the future, and if you do not respect the order, you will be reproached by the emperor. After thinking about it, he finally decided to lead his troops to the battle, in order to avenge his father's hatred and annihilate his old enemy Jin State in one fell swoop.

Lu Siyi listened to Yelu Ruan's life experience, sighed, and said, "Lord Wang, I didn't expect our encounters to be so similar. Now that you have conquered the Jin Kingdom and achieved great merit, what are your plans next?"

Yelu Ruan took a deep breath and said: "This king has been familiar with the Central Plains classics since he was a child, and I remember that there is a passage in the "Historical Records: The Family of King Goujian of Yue" contains a passage that Fan Li said: The birds are exhausted, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackeys are cooked. The emperor has always been wary of me everywhere, and if I don't retreat bravely, I'm afraid I won't even be able to save my life. When the emperor moved to Kaifeng, I resigned as the commander of the former battalion, and An An returned to the palace of Shangjing to be a hermit, self-cultivation, and no longer care about the troubles of the world. ”

After Yelu Ruan finished speaking, he took out a piece of white silk from his arms, handed it to Lu Siyi, and said: "Girl, thank you for sacrificing your life tonight, there is nothing valuable on this king, this volume of articles is written by this king, and I have been putting it on my body to police myself, and now I will give it to you as a souvenir." Hopefully we'll have a chance to meet again in the future. Lu Siyi wanted to reject him at first, but when he thought that the other party was so sincere, he stretched out his thin hand like white jade. After taking it, she slowly unfolded the silk, looked at it with the help of the moonlight, and found that there were a few paragraphs written on it in Khitan and Chinese.

Lu Siyi thought to himself: "This is an article written by Yelu Ruan himself, and he has never discarded it between the horses, but now he has given it to me, I don't know what his intentions are." "Yelu Ruan is good at calligraphy, and once copied Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface", which reached the point of being fake and real. Yelu Zhong Yinggui is a princess, and her talent is extremely high, and even she can't help but clap her hands after seeing it.

Lu Siyi looked at the beautiful words written in small letters, and couldn't help but read softly: "The behavior of a gentleman is also in self-cultivation." Good on the inside and visible on the outside, extreme. However, it is not a fool who can understand it in the world. In the past, I heard that Dr. Sanlu was erudite and knowledgeable, and he was good at rhetoric, but he didn't use it in the end, why not? The world is turbid and I am alone, and the world is drunk and I am awake. Solid and turbid cannot be in one place, and it is difficult to be virtuous and foolish. Its clarity is also clear, its turbidity is also turbid, and it is still a thousand minoru. To show oneself and fall into the faintness of others, but it is not believable. It is appropriate for a gentleman to do, not a vulgarity. Xu, You, the downfall, Confucius praised, Xu, Tao, not the good reputation of the times, thousands of years of inheritance. Judge, discern. Don't fool yourself, don't muddy yourself, and ask for what you want. If so, although I say that I have done nothing, I will say that it has been done. After reading it, he praised again and again: "What a "Gentleman's Behavior"! I didn't expect the prince's golden body to write such a hearty and dripping text!"

Yelu Ruan heard Lu Siyi's praise and said excitedly: "Thank you girl for your compliment! Doing nothing is the highest state of life, and this king often encourages himself with this." Whether it is a temple or a river or a lake, it is just the difference between doing something and not doing something. ”

Lu Siyi smiled and said, "Lord Wang, these truths are too big, and I, Lu Siyi, don't understand them." You gave me the self-police thing, what should you do yourself?" Yelu Ruan accidentally learned her name, and her heart was full of joy. He pointed to his chest and said softly, "Miss Lu, I have already memorized these words with you. Lu Siyi immediately understood, but remembered that there were still important things to do, so he hurriedly said: "Lord Wang, Siyi is flattered. On the occasion of parting, Si Yi had something to ask for, and hoped that the prince would agree. ”