The old dean Wan Xingchen bent down and untied the emperor from Su Buwei's back, helped the emperor stand up and said: "I thought His Majesty would die sooner, but unexpectedly, he died behind many people. But, like this Isn't it painful to live?"
In today's world, he is the only one who has this status and dares to talk to the emperor of the Sui Dynasty like this.
The emperor knew what Wan Xingchen meant. He looked at Su Buwei's mutilated body and sighed: "In my life, I have indeed caused too many deaths of people who shouldn't die."
Wan Xingchen didn't say much, because he knew the emperor's mood at this time.
The emperor turned around and glanced at Yang Chengqian, the new emperor of the Sui Dynasty who was standing timidly by the side, and waved to him. Yang Chengqian trembled for a moment, then quickly walked over and knelt down on the ground with a plop, and kowtowed a few times: "Father..."
When he was carried by Wan Xingchen on the way, he had prepared a lot of things to say, but seeing Yang Yi in such a mess now, he couldn't say those words anymore. In his impression, his father would never show his face like this. He is always so personable, always so graceful and luxurious. But now, although Yang Yi's clothes are still gorgeous, they are stained with blood and dirt, making him look like a poor beggar.
The emperor looked at his son kneeling in front of him, and after a long silence, he pointed to Su Buwei's body: "Go and bury him, use your hands."
Yang Chengqian was stunned for a moment, then quickly got up, and began to dig holes beside Su Buwei with both hands. With his status, he was destined to have a pair of very clean and beautiful hands, and these hands were also destined to be delicate. But now, he didn't dare to show the slightest reluctance, even though he was very afraid of looking at the mutilated corpse.
The old dean just stood aside and watched without saying anything.
When blood came out from Yang Chengqian's fingers, he managed to dig out a shallow hole. He subconsciously looked back at his father, but found that there was an undoubted coldness in his father's eyes. He was familiar with this look.
So he bit his lip and didn't beg.
After a full hour, he used his own hands to dig out a pit that could barely put Su Buwei's body in. And his hands were already covered with dirt mixed with blood and mud, which looked extremely miserable. The emperor seemed to turn a blind eye and just looked at him coldly.
"Dig deeper."
said the emperor.
Yang Chengqian's shoulders trembled again, but this time he didn't look at his father anymore, but continued digging out like crazy.
After another ten minutes, he managed to stand up, and then picked up Su Buwei's body with his numb hands, and put him in the pit. The emperor walked over tremblingly and kicked Yang Chengqian away. He no longer has the strength to kick his son, but his son also has no strength.
The emperor knelt down and covered Su Buwei's body with his own hands.
"The old dean... I wasn't sure at first if you would tell him before I came back."
While burying the earth, the emperor said, "I'm just worried, that's why I came back in a hurry to have a look."
Wan Xingchen was silent for a while and then said, "I told him because I'm going out."
"I guessed it."
The emperor said: "From the moment I saw Liu Enjing send someone to withdraw the cavalry, I knew you had told him. Because I told him that there is a big secret about the Yang family, and only you and I know it. Since there are so many people blocking my way back, I know that you have already told the secret. I have never been just a father, but also a damned emperor."
The old dean nodded: "After all, it must be passed on."
The emperor buried the soil, and then glanced at Yang Chengqian's bloody hands: "I don't really blame you, because everything you have done is what I have taught you over the years. I am also very relieved that you did not teach me what to do. I forgot everything I gave you. In fact, Su Buwei wanted to ask me on the way, but he didn't dare to say... If he didn't say it, how could I tell him in person? The one who didn't want me to go back was actually My son?"
Yang Chengqian glanced at the emperor in fear, then quickly lowered his head.
"My son knew I was wrong!"
"Are you wrong?"
The emperor shook his head: "When I met Liu Enjing, his respect for me was not feigned. He sent a thousand elite riders to protect me back to Chang'an, and it was not hypocritical. But when he was approaching Chang'an City, His cavalry suddenly withdrew, and they were already here... Besides you, who else could let the cavalry go back? Then I saw Yang Shunhui, who was also surnamed Yang, and he didn't want to kill me for treason. If he had that kind of thought, When the sixth child rebelled, he had already followed him."
"My son...damn it!"
Yang Chengqian kowtowed vigorously, and soon there was blood on his forehead.
"You don't deserve to die. As I said just now, I taught you these things in every word and deed. There is nothing wrong with you doing so. In fact, I came back to confirm that the old dean has told you the secret. I just wanted to test whether you can become a qualified emperor. Fortunately, you did not disappoint me."
Yang Chengqian just kowtowed and didn't defend himself.
"Very well, you didn't push this matter to others' instigation. What you want to do is what you want to do. The emperor of the Sui Dynasty must have such courage. I just want to ask you... Does your mother know You do this?"
"Mother... I don't know!"
Yang Chengqian looked up at the emperor and answered.
"Um."
There was a smile on the corner of the emperor's mouth: "I know, how could she do such a thing? With her temperament, it is not easy to hold you up to the dragon chair. She has never asked about it for so many years. I said something about the imperial court because she hated this kind of hypocrisy from the bottom of her heart... So, it's hard for her. You have to remember, no matter what happens in the future, you must not treat your queen mother badly. This is why I rushed back in a hurry. One of the things I want to tell you."
"My son, remember!"
Yang Chengqian nodded vigorously.
"Sooner or later, my country will be passed on to you. Since the current situation is like this, I have no power to return to heaven. Although you are still young, it is a good thing for you to experience hardships earlier. It is a good thing for you to control the world in the future. Remember, this world will always be Yang From the Yang family, no one is allowed to take it away from the Yang family!"
The emperor took a few breaths, and bowed deeply to the old dean: "Yang Yi thanked the old dean. Since the old dean is going to travel far away, I can only say that the old dean...go well."
Wan Xingchen glanced at him: "Of course I will go well, but you will not go well. I said when you succeeded to the throne, you should take good care of these two things, national weapons and private weapons, because I know What kind of person are you? But in the end you still used the national weapon as your private weapon, otherwise how could Da Sui have reached this point? So you are not pitiful, but hateful."
"I have only now realized what you meant by what you said at that time. I always thought that the national weapon is my private weapon, and my private weapon is the national weapon."
"People like you can't teach any good sons."
The old dean glanced at Yang Chengqian: "At this age, I have learned more than half of your viciousness, and I have to face the chaos of the world and the chaos of people's hearts. I really dare not think that if Da Sui can survive this test, the future What kind of person will he be... I have already forgotten, from whom did the descendants of the Yang family become like this?"
The emperor's body shook. He had never thought about these words.
That's right... Since when did members of the Yang family become like themselves and the prince
The old dean sighed: "Perhaps in your eyes, this is the choice a qualified emperor should make, but in my eyes, the emperor is still a person after all. Your Yang family has always treated others with this attitude, but you still expect more Is it ridiculous for others to treat each other with sincerity? If I were like you, then... "
He didn't continue to say the following words, because he knew that there was no need to say them at all.
The emperor had no words to refute, because he knew that the old dean was right. If the old dean was like him, then the world of Sui might have changed his surname to Wan long ago.
"I don't want to talk about you anymore. I have taught generations of Yang family descendants a lesson. There are at least four or five emperors who have been slapped. Outsiders say that the Yang family has not produced a foolish king in more than a hundred years. Who knows me?" How many misbehaviors of the Yang family have you taught me with a stick? Human, how could it be possible to maintain the same appearance for more than a hundred years? Unless you don't die... "
After hearing these words, the emperor knelt down tremblingly and touched his head to the ground.
"Yang Yi, the unworthy descendant of the Yang family, thank the old headmaster for his century-old kindness!"
"It's not wrong for you to kneel down, and I don't think it's a big deal for the emperor to kneel down to me. What I have done for more than a hundred years is worthy of your kneeling for me, and it is also worthy of being remembered by the descendants of the Yang family. But I don't want you to remember that I have been tired of it since a long time ago, tired of the shackles I set for myself. If I didn't stay in Chang'an, I could live another hundred or two hundred years... King Lun Ming can't even compare, because I live a long life and he is fake."
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The old dean looked at the pair of father and son kneeling in front of him, and suddenly smiled: "Do you know why I never taught you the same way I taught the Emperor of Sui before?"
Yang Yi froze for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't know."
"Because you knew that you would not live long before you became the throne, and I knew it too. I originally thought that I would let you spend more than ten years to consolidate the foundation of the Sui Dynasty, and then hand over the world to you in a smooth and stable manner." Son. However, I changed my mind later... Since your life is so short, I'd better let you live according to your own thoughts."
There was no bitterness or regret in the old dean's smile: "Although I know that if you mess with it, this country will be chaotic sooner or later. Your steps are too big, and you want to step out of a peaceful world with a thousand years of foundation. I remember Yang Qi said to me before leaving Chang'an, Master, you have been tired for more than a hundred years, don't be tired any more. Everything has its own course of natural development, and it is better to let it be free than to forcibly interfere."
"I remember that."
The old dean smiled: "He persuaded me, and it is the same as killing King Dalun Ming. I don't know what kind of thoughts he has. He doesn't look like a member of your Yang family from the bottom of his heart. It looks like a person. In fact, what I regret is that I didn't give him a good lesson and let him stay in the back mountain to continue to practice. He entered the world... I don't know whether it is right or wrong now. "
The emperor was startled, he didn't expect his seventh younger brother to say that to the old dean.
As a descendant of the Yang family, it is indeed a bit rebellious.
"The world is going to change."
The old dean glanced at the emperor: "Unfortunately, it didn't change because of you."
"Because of whom?"
The emperor asked subconsciously.
"outsider."
The old dean said two words lightly, and then carried the package on his back: "There are too many people and things that shouldn't exist in this world, and there are too many unreasonable ones. So God will always choose one that shouldn't exist. There are more irrational people to end all this, and you and I are just spectators."
The emperor still wanted to ask, but the old dean shook his head: "Don't ask, I don't understand why such outsiders appear."
He looked at the long sword in his hand: "This is the choice of heaven."
"What is the sky?"
asked the emperor.
"yes… "
The old dean hesitated for a moment, looked up and smiled: "After I die, ask it and it will know, because I don't know either."
"I gotta go."
He carried his luggage and held the ancient sword: "You should die too, right?"
he asks.
The emperor trembled violently, and then spat out a big mouthful of blood. In the blood, there were some worms the size of little fingers wriggling.
"When did you know?"
He struggled to look at the back of the old dean and asked.
The old dean didn't speak again, and didn't even turn his head.
Using poisonous Gu to extend his life, after all, he only lived two or three years longer.
In the first year of Emperor Xinghuang of the Great Sui Dynasty, Wan Xingchen, who did not know how old he was, played the leading role in the lobby of the martial arts academy, and entered the arena where he had left for more than a hundred years with a bag on his back and an ancient sword. , this rivers and lakes... don't know how many holes will be poked out.