Prince's Mansion, garden pavilion.
Li Qinglin and Qin Yi sat opposite each other on the stone table. It was already dark, the moon was hanging in the middle of the sky, the breeze was blowing, and the garden was fragrant.
With no one to serve, Li Qinglin warmed the wine himself, watching the small stove beside the pavilion flickering lightly, and he was a little lost.
Qin Yi looked at him for a long time, and really felt that he was a super-contradictory person, and his perception was extremely complicated. In fact, he can see that some of Li Qinglin's gestures are not for show, just like he is warming the wine with his own hands at this moment, he is definitely not pretending to be a polite corporal, because it is unnecessary, what effect can a maid come to warm the wine? On the contrary, from the time of acquaintance, he has always been like this, and he does not look like a prince. Qin Yi often feels more like a warrior, or a pure martial artist.
But such a soldier has done a lot of things that cold-blooded politicians would do.
"You don't have to look at me all the time." Li Qinglin suddenly smiled: "Although my face is somewhat similar to Qingjun, I am not a woman disguised as a man."
Qin Yi was also made to laugh out loud: "You rarely joke."
"I said it because I don't have that much energy. If I'm still dreaming like Qingjun, then I'll like to joke." Li Qinglin smiled: "Who doesn't want to smile every day? A gloomy face, full of belly It's not a good taste to be thinking about things and doing calculations."
"Then you..." Qin Yi considered it for a while, and then asked, "Why did you choose such a taste?"
"People always have an ideal and go for it. Otherwise, what's the use of living numbly with the flow of life?"
Qin Yi was stunned, and remembered that Tassel said something similar to what it is to live at the banquet, but the two had completely different views. What's the point of living for one who thinks you can't have unfettered ideas? One thinks that you are like a salted fish without ideals in your life, what is the use of living
I thought Tassel would comment on this, but the stick was silent and did not respond.
Li Qinglin said again: "Brother Qin, what is your ambition? You can travel under the forest, pine and bamboo are friends, and you are free from the hustle and bustle of the mundane world?"
Qin Yi hesitated for a moment, then replied, "Yes."
Li Qinglin smiled: "Although our ambitions are different, I don't think there is anything wrong with this. This is a noble person. The most fear is that life is boring, but instead comforting himself is ordinary and valuable. This is a fool."
Qin Yi's face was a little hot, and he felt as if he was the latter...
But I also know why Liusu didn't comment, because in fact, what Liusu said did not conflict with Li Qinglin. In essence, they all have an ideal and pursuit, the essence is the same, and there is nothing to argue about everyone's pursuit of different.
On the contrary, he thought that Qin Yi was born indifferent, but he was actually a salted fish... Because he didn't know what he was after, even if he pretended to tell Li Qingjun that people should know what they were after, he actually didn't know.
He finally opened his mouth and asked: "So what exactly is Brother Li's ambition? Nanli Daquan?"
"Heh..." Li Qinglin laughed dumbly and didn't answer immediately. He slowly turned off the fire, raised the jug and filled Qin Yi with a glass of wine, as if he was arranging the language.
Qin Yi didn't rush, and looked at him quietly.
"Brother Qin is from Nanli, or a pharmacist." Li Qinglin held the glass and stared at the wine in the glass, "Is Nanli in your eyes a patient?"
"Well..." Qin Yi sighed: "Forget it."
"My father is devoted to Taoism and has no intention of state affairs. Even the news of the invasion of Xihuang is not as important as his use of Danhua." Li Qinglin said slowly: "In state affairs, listening to demons and bullshit is better than listening to loyal and good officials. It is even better than listening to my son. In the Southeast earthquake, it is not the first to fight the earthquake and disaster relief, but to go to the altar first; for the invasion of the enemy country, it is not to fight hard, but to pray to the sky.”
Qin Yi was silent.
"The king is like this, and his subjects are even worse. Above the court, they curry favor with Donghua, stalking horses, no one is doing business, and everyone learns Taoism. There are people who dare to wear Taoist robes to the court. It's like a joke." Li Qinglin laughed and said: "In the rivers and lakes, evil spirits are rampant, everyone disrespects the king, and worships Taoist temples. Every family's production is deserted, husbands and wives are cleansed, sexual intercourse is not harmonious, and even the population has dropped. Brother Qin, this country Not just sick, but a terminal illness that can kill you."
Qin Yi nodded slowly. He didn't know much about the national economy and people's livelihood, but Li Qinglin's words were obviously not false. If this was the case, the country would really come to an end.
"When did this all start? It was the father who listened to Donghua and began to ask about the beginning of longevity. This is the crux of everything." Li Qinglin said: "I have also persuaded me, and I have also formed gangs, framed and framed, trying to It's useless to oust Dong Huazi from the political level, I'm just a second prince, and the political capital is not enough."
Having said that, he finally drank the wine he had been weighing for a long time.
Qin Yi raised his head and looked directly into Li Qinglin's eyes.
"I asked Ye Ling to assassinate my eldest brother." Li Qinglin said calmly: "He is in the favor of his father, and he is also cultivating Dao, so that's fine. But he shouldn't, he shouldn't bring this wind into the army, That was the last bottom line of my Nanli. Since then, I suddenly had the idea that apart from him, if I come to be the prince myself, then maybe there is still salvation. Do you think I am for power? Yes, I want this Power, not in this position, can't save Nanli."
Qin Yi sighed softly and silently drank his glass of wine.
Liusu suddenly spoke: "Ask him, what would he think if there really was a method of longevity in the world."
Qin Yi asked. Li Qinglin thought for a while, then smiled: "Brother Qin himself is an alchemist, so he must believe this, no wonder he asked this question... But as I said, there is evidence for demons and ghosts, immortality is just a rumor, how many emperors pursue this way, no one lives forever, I don't believe this."
Qin Yi insisted: "I mean if, if there is."
Li Qinglin shook his head: "I am a prince, this is my country. My responsibility is to make the people live in peace, the country is strong, the inner life is prosperous, the outer is able to fight the foreign captives, and if possible, I can open up the territory and make a big impact. In the world, if I die immediately, I will not live in vain. Longevity? What is the use of longevity? Without my own responsibilities and forgetting my own aspirations, the flies and dogs will live in vain for ten thousand years, but they are nothing but a walking dead. "
Tassel smiled softly: "Interesting person." But Qin Yi didn't let Qin Yi continue to ask.
On the other hand, Li Qinglin asked Qin Yi, "Brother Qin, I haven't been to listen to your stories recently, but I still listen to Ye Ling's retelling of your Journey to the West on and off. The ending must be to obtain the scriptures and become Buddhas?"
Qin Yi nodded and said, "Each one has a position, but Tang Seng and Wukong have become Buddhas."
"Then... I have a doubt, I wonder if Brother Qin can answer it?"
"What's the confusion?"
"The story of the six-eared macaque..." Li Qinglin said slowly: "The one who was killed was the six-eared macaque or Sun Wukong?"
Qin Yi's heart jumped, and his eyes widened in surprise.
Someone mentioned this story, but he never thought about it. Li Qinglin, who listened to some clips on and off, would think so too. You didn't wear it back, did you
"Why are you so confused?"
"After the six-ear incident, Sun Wukong's actions were completely different, and he was no longer wild, so I was puzzled. I always wondered whether it was true that Sun Wukong had been killed by the Tathagata, and the six-eared macaque took his place to learn scriptures. ."
Qin Yi had to explain: "That's not a story I made up, there is indeed an original work, and the titles of these chapters and chapters in the original work clearly indicate the heart ape, so in general interpretation, it is believed that the so-called six-eared macaque is actually the heart ape of Sun Wukong himself, after being removed, Wildness is taken away."
Li Qinglin poured the wine silently and drank it all in one go.
"What's wrong?" Qin Yi asked curiously, "Is there any problem with this plot?"
Li Qinglin said lightly, "I would rather believe that the Great Sage is dead than accept that Monkey King who swept the heavens and the underworld with his knees clasped together and immortalized as a Buddha."