The Last Mecha

Chapter 203 True Love, False Love

Zhang Li threw out a word, then grabbed the tea bowl on the table, took a big sip which was rare, and rolled his wrinkled eyelids straightly, looking at Guo Penglai quietly.

The man with thick eyebrows and big eyes opposite heard this, his eyelids twitched, and he almost couldn't sit still.

But then his brows and eyes darkened, his legs crossed, and there was no other reaction, he just grabbed the teacup in his hand and drank it leisurely like tasting it.

Seeing that Guo Penglai was silent, Zhang Li leaned slightly, with old tree-like lines appearing between his brows and eyes, "You know, I know, why...why do you have to do such a thing today?"

"I'm not good at learning, and I can't understand the teacher's meaning." Guo Penglai's neck was bent, "Please advise."

"You cough cough cough." Just as Zhang Li was about to poke out a finger, a violent cough forced him to take out his handkerchief, and sporadic crimson blood spots fell on the white surface with the swan pattern on it, "You Colluding with the Bretons, the number of Jiangsong Qi mines smuggled into Europa has more than doubled during the years that the city secretary has been in office. "

"Since the teacher already knows, then there is no need to talk nonsense, just arrest and bring him to justice."

"you!"

"Everything that a person does has a price. This is the teacher's teaching. Although the students are stupid, they still have some words."

"I'm saving you, why don't you understand?"

"I don't know that the students are mediocre and mediocre. How can He De let the governor spend so much trouble?"

"You are my student."

"Just your students."

"Penglai——" Zhang Li took a deep breath and waited for a while before saying, "You are my student. When I first met you, you were just a seventh-rank magistrate. That day I was at the teahouse door. When I saw you come out, the smile on your face was so simple and honest that you were almost recognized as a buddy. Now, for more than ten years, I have supported you all the way and watched you come over, this person."

"That is to say, even a dog should have feelings?" Guo Penglai interrupted coldly.

"You bastard, why don't you understand? I can't bear to see your official career end on this crooked path. Are Breton people so messy?"

"What the teacher said is that you said that profits can be made and the country cannot be broken. You also said that you should not make yourself a national humiliation at this time. This makes sense." Guo Penglai stared at the old man in front of him, and there was no ups and downs in his tone. , "Then why are you going to collude with the Fusang people?"

"Snapped!"

Five skinny knuckles slammed on the table, and the hot tea in the bowl flew over the table.

"That's different! It's not the same." Zhang Li gasped and looked at him, "You must stick to the bottom line, but you can be tactful. Yes, I got close to the Fusang people, but what did they get? Some innocuous things Business license and some low-quality Qi mines. In my hands, I also have the technology of the corners and corners, and even the blueprints of the implants."

"The blueprint of the implant, this is a good thing, don't make it look like your ass is clean."

"Yes, it did cost a lot of money, and it was the only important information I gave to the Fusang people. I used her information to negotiate a good deal with the little girl from Annan, but I turned around and revealed the news to Jiang Mulin, Fusang People didn't get anything. Although the blueprints they gave were also faulty, we still got something. Do you understand? Do you understand? And what are you doing? Qilin veins, that's the country! You dare to use this thing to do with Russell Trading, are you crazy?"

"The blueprints are in hand, and the piecemeal technology is also available, but is Master Zhang doing it for the country? Isn't it for two more cards in front of Emperor Zhenghe, or is it for the power that you will never let go of in your heart!?"

"...Listen to me, Penglai, there is no distinction between right and wrong, but pros and cons. What I do is not clear and innocent, but if I talk about it with others later, it is always well-founded and most of them are clear. Sometimes people make decisions. It’s too late to think about it, the Qilin mine you sold to the Britons is not large, and other Qi mines are nothing to worry about, stop it, it’s not irreparable yet.”

"Master Zhang, what I want to say is, are you also confused?" Guo Penglai glanced at Zhang Li, the corners of his mouth slightly pursed.

The old man on the opposite side was obviously taken aback when he heard his words.

"I am very clear about these things. I, Guo Penglai, have been admired by you all these years. I have climbed all the way here. Not to mention how smart I am, at least I am not a fool. Can I not understand what you are talking about?"

"Then what are you doing?"

"Old thing." Guo Penglai frowned, and poked his dark fingers at the old man in front of him, "Don't pretend to be confused with me, you are as clear as a mirror in your heart! I don't do these things for money. Because of you, all because of you!"

After a long silence, Zhang Li sighed and said leisurely, "Do you really hate me?"

"Hate." His faint words were mixed with the noisy and sultry cicadas outside the window.

"I treat you like my own son."

"Like your own life? Mr. Zhang, you have responded to the call of the new wind. You do not take concubines. You are middle-aged and widowed. You have no children. You are ruthless to distant relatives and have no affection for close friends. You have been immersed in officialdom for many years, and power is the only motivation for you to live. , there is no family affection in my eyes."

"I'm risking the risk of sacrificing my career to save you now! Do you understand? How could you be where you are today without me for more than ten years? When you offended King Chai Cheng back then, it wasn't me who forcibly saved you?"

"Yes, you brought me up, and then everything in my position belongs to you. I was a county magistrate back then, and you were just a inspector! Do you dare to tell me that you didn't choose me because you thought I was easy to manipulate?" The puppet? At that time, you made me the deputy inspector, and then took away everything except the hat for this position! Everything! The whole Jiangsong is in your hands. This city is the core, so when no one is more powerful than you, you just became the governor, how dare you say otherwise?!"

"Penglai."

"I'm fed up with those gossips. Those people look at me like they're looking at a dog behind their backs!" Guo Penglai blushed and his voice grew louder.

Zhang Li gritted his teeth, swallowed his saliva and said, "After I die, these are all yours!"

"I can't wait! I can't wait! I don't want to wait a day, I don't want to see those stinky faces of Minggong and insinuation again, I don't want to live under the shadow of your old age, one day! Even one day! I will be ridiculed in the future. You waited until you died to get this poor piece of heaven!"

"If you do this kind of thing, you can't do anything with the support of the Breton people. You can't bring me down." Zhang Li looked at Guo Penglai with gloomy eyes.

"But at least I tried, Mr. Zhang, take off your hypocrisy, you are just reluctant to part with me, a useful pawn. You have been an official for a long time, and your thinking is frozen. I have helped you for so many years in disgrace, Can you please do me a favor—" Guo Penglai's tone suddenly became strangely calm, "Go to die?"

As soon as he raised his hand, outside the round window of the small room, the flames of the gun illuminated the shards of glass flying all over the sky.

(End of this chapter)