Chasing King

After Shen Hexuan agrees, Yan Sikong leaves a letter to a Li, explaining that he is afraid that he will stay, so he will leave without saying goodbye. After meeting with she Zhun, he will go to Liaodong and ask him to take good care of Ying Mei and her baby. In the letter, Yan Sikong leaves two names: a son and a daughter, which are requested by the young couple.

At the beginning, he wanted to give Ali a home, in order to keep him on a piece of land, and no longer have to follow him. Now with his wife and children, Ali can't let go. He hopes they will never see him again. In this way, he won't bring bad luck to the people who are here.

Yan Sikong's hands and feet were shackled and put into the carriage. Just as he came to Bazhou quietly, he left quietly.

Shen Hexuan's leg is exactly what he said. It's disabled and he has to rely on crutches everywhere. When Yan Sikong sees that he can't move easily, he doesn't feel no guilt in his heart, but guilt is no more than regret - regret that he didn't kill Shen Hexuan completely.

Bazhou is only half a month away from Taiyuan, but Feng Ying is now in power and eyes are all over the world. In order to avoid any change in the road, they dare not dress up as officers and soldiers, dare not go to the city to live in the inn, and try not to take the official route around the path, and travel slowly at night.

Yan Sikong always wants to find a chance to escape, but Shen Hexuan defends him tightly, with people staring at him all the time.

One day, they are resting in the mountains. Shen Hexuan asks Yan Sikong to play chess with him.

Yan Sikong raised his hands: "Lord shen wants me to play chess with you in chains?"

"What's wrong? All you have to do is move your fingers. " Shen Hexuan nodded again, "and here."

Yan Sikong put down his hand and sat opposite Shen Hexuan: "I haven't played chess for a long time."

"I haven't played chess for a long time, either." Shen Hexuan gently fiddled with Baizi, "it's a great pleasure in life to win a chess match. If you always win, it's meaningless."

"I think so." Yan Sikong twists a sunspot with two slender fingers, "it's just a step ahead." Then he put the sunspot in a corner.

Shen Hexuan also picked up a white son and landed in the other corner of the star.

"Do you know what the world has become like these days when you are recovering?" Shen Hexuan road.

Yan Si empty light way: "she Zhun every other period of time, will send me information."

"Then you should know that Fengye was the Regent..."

"Today, the situation is turbulent, and what he has done is really criticized, but the end result is not entirely in him. If it is not for domestic and foreign troubles, the four sides are not equal, he has many counsellors around him, and he is unreasonable and bad at politics." He didn't mean to defend Fengye, but the fact is that Fengye is not an emperor's talent, but it's not a mediocre talent. However, he should always guard against internal disasters and external enemies. Where can he manage the country with heart and power.

"You know in your heart what will happen when you are in power. Now all the vassals are confining their lands and respecting themselves. As the capital looks like this, the place is bound to be big. General Zhao died of illness and Liaodong is in danger. Within a year, the world will be in chaos." Shen Hexuan fell a sharp son heavily.

Yan Si said in a deep voice, "I know."

Shen Hexuan said coldly, "you know, you sent him to the Forbidden City. You know, you burned the food of the king of Chu."

"In fact, Fengye would have won with or without me. Without me, he would have won earlier than the king of Chu." Yan Sikong held the sunspot and thought about where to fall. "I once wanted to control the trend of the situation by one person, with the king of Chu as the emperor and Fengye as the assistant. Finally, I found that I was out of my power, and the situation was not controlled by human power at all. When I play chess, it's just a chessboard, black and white. I can take ten steps at a time, but my life is full of changes. Even the next step is unpredictable. "

"Do you have a trace of repentance when you make a mess of the world?"

"The mistakes I have made and the murders I have created are too numerous to record, and the ninth reincarnation is hard to repay. But without me, the world would not be in chaos? " Without me, Feng Jianping would have been killed unjustly. Without me, Chen would not have been willing to be an exiled Prince for life

Shen Hexuan looked at the chess game and did not speak.

"After so many victories and defeats, right and wrong, joy and sorrow, I finally understand that people are like a ladle of water in the current of the times, some of which are more abundant, some of which are less abundant, but even if I plunge into them, I will splash a ladle of water at most." Yan Sikong looked at Shen Hexuan and said, "of course, this doesn't mean that we should go with the flow, because one scoop of water after another and gather water to form a sea. Some things have to be done by someone."

Shen Hexuan sneered: "arrogance. You always feel that you are saving the world and the people, but you don't think about the innocent soldiers who died in vain. Why do they have to kill each other? "

"I'm saving the nation." Yan Sikong calmly looked at Shen Hexuan, "big break and then big stand, without sacrifice."

"How do you know that you can turn the tide by sacrificing all this?"

"How do you know you can't?"

Shen Hexuan clenched his teeth and said, "open your eyes and have a look at the country full of holes."

Yan Sikong said indifferently: "you have to drag the sick body to climb forward. I want to pick the bone to heal and then go to battle lightly. Mr. Shen, right or wrong, maybe there will be no answer in this life. Maybe today's answer will be repeated tomorrow. Maybe if we look at it again in a hundred years, it has nothing to do with right or wrong. You and I are all in the game today. Why should we argue on this basis? Let's leave it to later generations to comment. "Shen Hexuan heaved a sigh: "today, only the king of Chu is able to sustain the crisis. He is the only one who ascends the throne. He is able to serve his courtiers internally and appoint his vassals externally. He will continue to let the wolf king Regent. The great Shengjiang mountain will be destroyed once. You can't put all the people in the middle of fire and water for your own sake. "

"If it is the king of Chu who is sitting on the throne today, will Fengye give up? He will fight against the king of Chu with all he has. Dasheng's destiny has arrived. Today is not chaos, tomorrow is chaos, tomorrow is not chaos, and tomorrow is chaos. Can you cover this disaster? "

Shen Hexuan looked at Yan Sikong gravely: "if it is true as you said, his two kings are destined to compete in the Central Plains, is the situation what you want now?"

Yan Si paused: "No."

"Is it what you want to let them fight for the emperor's power, engage in militarism, provoke the princes to rise together, and let the barbarians take advantage of the situation?"

"No Yan Sikong is determined by the way.

"Although you can't attribute all of today's mess to you, you've contributed a lot to it. You can't deny it, can you?"

Yan Si looked at Shen Hexuan calmly and said, "if you want to say anything, you may as well speak up."

"You still have a chance to bring things out of order and turn the world around, as you originally thought, so that the king of Chu can ascend to the throne."

Yan Sikong shook his head lightly: "I don't have the ability to let Feng Ye give up the supreme imperial power. In fact, you know in your heart that Feng's army has already lived in the Forbidden City, and it may not be able to defeat him even if they pay the price of heaven. If you can persuade the king of Chu to support the new emperor and help the present court to rule the four directions, many crises will be solved. "

"Closing the field can't rule the country at all."

"Fengye can't govern the country, but there are many capable people in the world. Now, all the officials I recommend to him are capable of governing the world, but he can't manage politics well because he resists the pressure from all sides."

"The wolf king won't give way, the king of Chu won't give up, and our atomic people will fight each other. Isn't that a big opening for the Jin people?"

"That's why I'm going to Liaodong."

Shen Hexuan hummed coldly: "what can you do when you go to Liaodong? You're the guilty Minister of thousands of people! "

"Liang Huiyong, the deputy chief of Liaodong, is the old headquarters of my adoptive father. Now he is in charge of Liaodong military power. I want to help him." Yan Sikong said with no expression, "moreover, only when I show up in Liaodong can Fengye send troops to save Liaodong."

Shen Hexuan narrowed his eyes: "are you sure he will send troops to Liaodong for you?"

"In order to fight against the king of Chu and the vassal kings, he would never move the army without permission, but if I were in Liaodong, at least I would ask the soldiers to help me." Yan Sikong stares at Shen Hexuan's eyes. "At this time, he doesn't expect to save Liaodong. Does he expect the king of Chu who is too busy to take care of himself?"

Shen Hexuan gazed at Yan Sikong for a while and said, "OK, I'll take you to Liaodong."

Yan Sikong was stunned: "you Why did you suddenly change your mind? "

"Because I received the military news today, zhuoletai has already taken the golden soldiers to the Huangshui River." Shen Hexuan said in a deep voice, "Liaodong is in danger."

Yan Sikong stares straight: "it's just winter..."

"Not bad."

"You were just talking to me." Yan Sikong narrowed his eyes. "Do you think Chen can attack the Forbidden City when he sends troops to Liaodong?"

"No, I thought the door of my northern border of Dasheng was unbreakable. Now it's more important than who is the emperor."

Yan Sikong took a breath and began to shake slightly.

Shen Hexuan said: "I will give you to the king of Chu, but it's just to coerce Fengye. But he can't give up the throne for just one person. Liaodong needs you more at this time."

Yan Sikong squinted at Shen Hexuan: "Mr. Shen is very clear and righteous. I admire him."

"You don't seem to believe it."

"I believe Lord Shen has a good eye on Liaodong, but I don't believe you don't have the heart to turn the tiger away from the mountain."

Shen Hexuan said with a smile: "if we can save Liaodong and recapture the capital, we will kill two birds with one stone. Fengye may not save you or Liaodong, but if he has a chance to save you and Liaodong, I guess he will send troops, just like you. In this way, sending you to Liaodong is more useful than sending you to the king of Chu. "

"Lord Shen is very resourceful." Yan Si Kong gently dropped a sunspot, "but you are also in this game, it is inevitable that a leaf blinds your eyes, don't be careless." Shen Hexuan looked down and saw that during the conversation, sunspots and Baizi were all over the chessboard. Yan Sikong dropped the last one and trapped Baizi in the corner, blocking the way out.

Shen Hexuan glanced at Yan Sikong.

Two people hang their eyes staring at the chessboard, quick calculation, finally, Yan Sikong smile: "in the next half, accept." He stood up.

"Yan Sikong." Shen Hexuan said, "you are just a frog in the dry now, and your life is at stake. If I find out that you have any wrong intentions..." He patted his lame leg and said, "I won't be soft on you."

Yan Sikong said softly, "please take care of me, Mr. Shen."