Xiang Qingniu clutched his stomach and trotted, and soon disappeared without a trace, and he didn't know where to get into the grass. Seeing the fat figure fly away in sight, Fang Jie smiled and shook his head. Speaking of which, I just met this fat man by chance, but he saw through when this fat man tried to blackmail him on the way. Then they walked together all the way, and the two of them were jokingly making fun of each other, as if they were in a mess.
Even Fang Jie didn't expect Xiang Qingniu to stand up and help him at this moment. Although Xiang Qingniu said it easily, he must have spent a lot of effort secretly to win such a chance for himself to turn around. It's just that people like Xiang Qingniu are afraid that they are too lazy to do things that most people take for granted, such as promoting their own favors after doing a lot of help.
Fang Jie has never been a person who is willing to waste opportunities.
He took a deep breath, and then walked slowly towards the man sitting in the middle of the tea shop. When he first came to this world, he was not used to the exciting life of being hunted down. Mu Xiaoyao once told him that if you are afraid, you should take a deep breath. When facing a crisis, a deep breath may bring you back to life.
Meditate, the more critical you are, the more calm you need to be. Since then, every time Fang Jie encounters a problem, he will take a deep breath, which has become his habit.
Walking over to stand not far from that person, Fang Xie felt a little uncomfortable.
There was only one stool next to this table, and the man sat on it. There was only a bowl of tea on the table, and the man was savoring it carefully. I don't know what that cheap tea brick can taste like. Although Fang Jie doesn't know who he is, he can let Xiang Qingniu say that his life and death are only in this person's thought. Obviously frighteningly tall. Fang Xie even suspected that the height of this person was beyond the scope of the stick, but the hand holding the stick.
There is only one Sui Supreme, and the Supreme also has only two hands. Fang Jie assumed that this person's height could reach the level of one hand, which shows how much he attaches importance to this person.
With no stool and no tea, Fang Jie could only stand and be thirsty. But there was no trace of displeasure on his face, nor was he overly humble.
"I have seen the seniors."
Fang Jie clasped his fists in salute.
The man who couldn't tell his exact age didn't look up, and was still concentrating on drinking the cheap tea. He seemed to be waiting for Fang Xie to continue, but he didn't seem to care about Fang Xie's existence at all.
Fang Jie remained silent, leaning forward slightly.
After a while like this, the man put down the tea bowl in his hand and said in a slightly displeased tone: "I'm very busy."
Fang Jie hummed, then stood up straight and said: "I don't know how to get rid of this matter, but I can't get rid of it. The person who broke into the military department at night belongs to me, so although I want to mention it, I can't." Because the people involved will make this matter more complicated, I can only say that she did something stupid that violated the laws of the country because she was worried that I would die unexpectedly. But this person is very important to me, and I can't just let her go die, so we can only escape."
The man frowned slightly, then raised his head to look for an explanation: "You are wasting my time, Xiang Qingniu really flattered you by saying that you are smart."
Fang Jie pursed his lips and said, "I can't do her life-and-death thing. Maybe in your eyes, this is a worthless woman's benevolence and an idiot idea. In fact, after I decided to escape When I was in the imperial capital, someone also persuaded me to abandon my companions in order to live alone. It’s not that I didn’t hesitate, but what I hesitated was whether I had the ability to do my best instead of being alone.”
"You go."
The man waved his hand and said, "I'm not interested in both stupid people and people who think they stick to the so-called moral bottom line. Because the latter are worse than stupid people, they are idiots. Go back to your companions, since you value love and righteousness so much Then you must be willing to die with your companions. I can make this happen for you, and let you die on the same day, the same year, and the same month.”
Fang Jie hummed, and bowed again to salute: "Thank you."
He turned around and walked away without any delay.
The man was slightly taken aback, but he didn't expect Fang Jie to actually leave. He didn't expect that this guy, whom Xiang Qingniu called a first-class smart person, would not even make an effort. Even if he won't kneel down and beg himself to let him go, at least try to convince himself. But the young man did nothing, he just emphasized the pitiful and worthless so-called bottom line he insisted on once.
"There is only one stool and a bowl of tea here... Do you feel that you have been underestimated, so you feel uncomfortable? So that you pretend to be very firm to show that you are not humble?"
he asks.
After walking three or four steps, Fang Jie stopped.
He turned to look at the man, slowly shook his head and said seriously: "If you can guarantee that my companion and I will not die, what kind of contempt is it to stand thirsty? If you say you can let us go this time, senior, Then let me get on my knees and crawl to your feet and lick your boots, I would love to."
Hearing this sentence, three people frowned at the same time.
One is this man who looks a bit domineering, one is the young man with perfect appearance and temperament sitting on the far left, and the other is the person sitting in the curtain of the tea shop.
"Okay then, you kneel down and crawl over here first."
The man sitting on the stool suddenly answered Fang Jie in a flat tone.
Fang Jie took a deep breath and asked, "If I climb over, will you let me and my companions go?"
The middle-aged man did not answer.
Fang Jie asked again: "Or, if I die, you let them go?"
The middle-aged man still didn't answer.
Fang Jie was silent for a while, looked at the man and said solemnly: "Although I don't know who you are, is it so tall that I can't even look up. But I am just a person from the border town of Fangu." The little scout is not outstanding among the hundreds of millions of people in the Sui Dynasty. In terms of identity and strength, maybe you are an eagle soaring in the sky, and I am just an ant exhausted. But if you are not an official of the Sui Dynasty, but It was Tai Sui's enemies who used this method to make me beg for a chance to live, and I will only answer you with a horizontal knife, even if I must die."
After he finished speaking, he lifted his robe and prepared to kneel down on one knee.
After saying these words, the eyes of someone who was already extremely disappointed in him suddenly lit up, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly. He raised his hand and tapped lightly on the table, then got up and left.
The man sitting in the middle of the tea shop heard this light tap, his face changed, and then he couldn't help laughing.
"You are his disciple, so you don't have to kneel to me... If you had told about your relationship with him when you first entered Chang'an City, who would make things difficult for you? Who would dare to make things difficult for you? Even if you did something wrong, It will also give you a chance to reform. You should be thankful that what you said just now saved you, because you have not forgotten your roots... You have not forgotten that you are a citizen of the Sui Dynasty, and let me see what your other persistence is. "
"very good."
He said.
The man stood up and said with a smile, "Let's go, I'll take you to a place."
He took a step forward, and suddenly turned his head to glance at the young man in white sitting on the leftmost seat. He frowned slightly, and a sharp look flashed in his eyes.
The young man in white was still staring at his teacup, as if nothing had changed. But no one noticed, he quietly loosened the seal of his left index finger, thumb and ring finger, and his fingers trembled slightly.
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Fang Xie knew that he had made the right bet, and he made the right bet again on the verge of life and death.
In the large courtyard of Ouchi's bodyguard, he looked at the almost ripe fruit on the peach tree in a daze. The man who brought him into the palace told him to wait here, and then left gracefully. Nearly two hours have passed since entering the palace, Fang Jie has been standing in the courtyard, no one has come to pay attention to him.
He looked at the peach and really wanted to pick one off and eat it.
He has not eaten water or rice since morning, and he is very hungry.
Although he knew that those unripe peaches would definitely not taste good, not to mention sour and hard to swallow. But after a whole day of hunger and thirst, even looking at a green peach can make people twitch slightly in their stomachs.
"What are you doing?"
Just as he was staring at a green peach in a daze, someone asked behind him.
Fang Jie turned around and saw a familiar figure.
"I met Mr. Zhuo."
He bowed in salute.
Zhuo Buyi walked over slowly, walked to the stone bench not far from Fang Jie, sat down and asked, "Why did I see you staring at that green peach just now, and you were so focused? What kind of feeling did that peach give you? It's your fault." Thinking of something else?"
Fang Jie smiled and said: "An expert always complicates simple things. Do you think I learned something about life by looking at that green peach? Really not... I just feel very thirsty now, and When I looked at the green peaches, I could imagine that the peaches must be very sour. When I think of the sourness, my mouth will drool, and the saliva is also water... Swallow more, and my throat won't be dry and sore."
For Fang Jie's answer, Zhuo Buyi was speechless.
"I really can't imagine that you would still be in the mood to joke in such a situation," he said.
Fang Jie shook his head and said, "I'm really not kidding, I'm really thirsty."
Zhuo Buyi glared at him and asked, "Do you know that you almost died in the tea shop outside the city?"
"Know."
Fang Jie smiled and said, "But I'm not dead."
"It's your luck." Zhuo Buyi said.
Fang Jie continued to look at the green peach, and continued to swallow: "Maybe, my luck seems to be good all the time."
Changchun Garden.
dome.
The emperor glanced at Luo Weiran who was standing bowed at the door, nodded and said, "Come in and talk... Where is that young man?"
"Wait at the Ouchi guard."
Luo Weiran entered the door, lowered his head and spoke.
"how do you feel?"
asked the emperor.
Luo Weiran thought for a while and replied: "Your Majesty has already felt it, so I dare not have my own feeling."
The emperor was stunned, and then laughed and cursed: "You flattering minister should be killed. Say what you want to say, your flattering skills are not good enough, at least you are far worse than Su Buwei."
Standing on the side and waiting on Su Buwei smiled awkwardly, poured tea for the emperor and retreated to an inconspicuous corner. Only at this time did Luo Weiran realize that Su Buwei was standing next to the emperor, but there was an illusion that he could not be found in this room. Standing there, he was like a clothes hanger and a stool. The furnishing rather than a person.
Therefore, Luo Weiran paid more attention to Su Buwei, the newly promoted eunuch who held a pen in the imperial study.
Luo Weiran bowed his head and said: "I didn't see what is so special about this young man, but since he can accept this young man as his disciple, he even gave the little golden pill as the best in the world to save this young man's life." There must be a reason in it, although I didn't see the reason. This young man's physique can't practice, and his knees seem to be too soft... "
He was referring to making Fang Jie kneel down.
"You are the commander of the Ouchi Guards Department. He is just a border soldier. Kneeling you is to abide by the rules of the Sui Dynasty, which is not soft. My disappointment is that... he cherishes his life too much. If a person is too cherishing his life, there will be no Loyalty."
"This is what I'm worried about, but fortunately... he still has the pride that a Sui soldier should have."
"I like the pride."
The emperor was silent for a while and said: "Bring him to the Changchun Garden, no matter whether the young man is qualified to be his disciple, but after all, this is something that cannot be changed. It has been ten years, and the young man is the last to see him." Seeing him, I want to ask that young man what he looks like now and where he went..."
"What about the military department?"
Luo Weiran tentatively asked.
"Of course we can't just let Fang Jie go, and think about how to kill him after I ask."
The emperor waved his hand and said: "In addition, go and check, a small person who is just a frontier scout, why there is an eighth-rank strong man as a guard, I am also very curious about this matter. Can an eighth-rank In order to save him, the strong men in the world even violated the laws of the country and rushed into the lobby of the military department... I want to know if there is something hidden behind this."
"Here!"
Luo Weiran responded, then bowed and retreated.
At the same time, in the courtyard of the Ouchi guards, Fang Jie saw that the green peach really realized something, he slapped his forehead suddenly and let out a cry.
"The old cripple lied to me again, where there are two people, there is clearly one person!"
At the same time, Miao Seng Chenya, who entered Chang'an City, looked at all kinds of beings on the street, at the satisfaction and pride on the faces of those people in the Sui Dynasty, at the vigorous vitality and vitality of these people without faith, He couldn't help frowning and said to himself: "Master is right, this place is indeed a place where demons run rampant."