This has nothing to do with the bloodline theory, but it is related to the innate inequality of human society. Xu Le remembered what Huai Cao Shi said in the past, and couldn't help laughing at himself.
Human beings hate betrayal, because it will bring extreme insecurity, and the cold shot from the companions behind is always the hardest to defend, so no matter the federation or the empire, among all moral norms, the punishment for traitors is always the heaviest. Yes, such as the current Mu En, but it does not include himself.
He has the "noble" blood of Bai Jinhuai's family. When he changed from a hero of the Federation to a prospective prince of the Empire, many people in the Federation did not think it was a betrayal, but only considered it to be a bloody arrangement of fate. In the territory, absolutely no one dared to mention or even remember how many imperial youths he had killed on the battlefield, and even assassinated the royal family.
If he was just an ordinary person, then he who once betrayed the empire in cold blood and then shamelessly betrayed the federation would have already died in the midst of countless cold words. The helpless choice of a little more understanding.
Under a big banyan tree on the side of the road, when the two were about to say goodbye, Mu En asked, "What are your plans in the future?"
"I once said to someone the other day that I have no choice but to hope for a truce between the two sides. This really has nothing to do with moral justice or humanity. To use a metaphor that may not be appropriate, For me, this war is like a father and mother slashing each other with kitchen knives at home, what can I do as a son?"
"That's right, it's a natural choice."
Mu En patted him on the shoulder sympathetically, and after thinking for a while, he said directly, "I may be going back to the organization soon, and I may have to use your name at that time."
"You want to go back?" Xu Le frowned and asked, "Now everyone, including the Federation, knows that you are a traitor. How can you respond?"
"Tang Zhizhong and Qi Dabing are dead. You should be able to guess that the people in the organization will attribute their deaths to you. My mission back to the organization is to expose the true face of Qi Dabing to them with the evidence provided by the intelligence agency. ."
"Who will believe the evidence you provide?"
"Evidence is something that can be believed when it needs to be believed. An organization that has fallen apart and has been scolded by countless people who originally supported him. The primary problem now is to survive, as long as these evidences can give them an excuse to change and survive. , they will believe."
"Can you be more clear?"
"Under the direct command of His Royal Highness, I will lead the entire resistance organization and cooperate extensively with the Royal Family to build a united front against the Federation invasion."
Mu En said calmly: "I believe that most of the comrades in the organization will agree with this approach."
Xu Le shook his head and said, "The two people that the resistance organization hates the most, one is the dead Caton, and the other is Huaicaoshi who leads the Intelligence Agency. They can't possibly agree to cooperate with her."
"The Highness I'm talking about is not Your Highness the Princess." Mu En said with a smile, "It's you, Your Highness the Crown Prince."
He held the fruit knife with steady fingers and cut it close to the thin skin. He was able to repair the precise structure with just his hands with the naked eye. It was extremely simple to deal with apples. In an instant, the seven circles of thin skin were gently peeled off. He was like holding a lantern. He held Bai Shengsheng's apple and handed it to Aunt Susan's mouth.
Aunt Susan looked at him with a smile, shook her head to indicate that she didn't want to eat, and still looked haggard, looked at him quietly and asked, "Little guy, who are you?"
Hearing this question, Xu Le didn't know how to answer. Whether it was escaping in the small courtyard or coming back this time, Aunt Susan could detect his difficulties and seldom asked about these things. In fact, he could have directly stated his identity, and I believed that the aunt would not treat him differently because of this. He just thought of her current physical condition and did not want her to be too stimulated.
Thinking of what the doctor said earlier, his mood was a little low, and the results of the comprehensive medical examination were not very good. The delicate noble lady of the past turned into an aunt who scolded her mother with her arms on her hips in the market. Behind the dramatic life, there are too many hardships in life, especially It was the ordeal in the early years, which caused great damage to Aunt Susan's body. Now, the combination of the cold and the panic has completely erupted. Although it is not life-threatening, it requires a long period of meditation.
"I work in the intelligence agency, um, I should be a big official."
Xu Le smiled and replied: "Those gangsters who kidnapped you are mainly for revenge on me. It's really my fault that you have been implicated."
"You've apologized many times." Aunt Susan looked at the black roots under his brown hair, coughed twice, and said with concern, "Is the palace no longer tracking you? Your hair will continue to be dyed. , otherwise it would be unbelievable for people to see.”
"Why am I not a fugitive?" Xu Le rubbed his hair and explained, "Dyeing my hair is mainly for convenience."
Aunt Susan sighed and said, "The little guy is always lying. This is the Second Royal Hospital. If you are just an ordinary official, how can I live here?"
"You know?" Xu Le replied embarrassedly.
"Don't forget, I was also a young lady of a noble family when I was a child. Although I was not qualified to see a doctor at the Royal Hospital, I visited a great noble with my parents. Even now, I have not forgotten the beautiful Merlin in the back mountain." Su Aunt Shan looked at him and smiled, her chubby round face flashing sweet memories of her girlhood.
"I said that I have a good relationship with Her Royal Highness." Xu Le said with a smile.
Aunt Susan's expression suddenly darkened, she gently grabbed his hand and said, "There is still no news from Paul's side, can you help me ask?"
Xu Le was slightly startled, remembering what he heard that day, and nodded.
Although not all the high-level officials of the empire knew who Xu Le was, when they asked in the name of the intelligence agency, they soon had an answer that was close to the truth, but that answer was not a good answer.
The reason why Paul's allowance has not been transferred to Aunt Susan's account is indeed because he does not have his electronic signature. Missing on the front lines.
Xu Le frowned as he looked at the latest list of missing persons sent by the military, and at the eye-catching name at the bottom of the page, the sunny smiling face of the young man from the empire in the courtyard back then appeared in his mind.
He has served in the federal military for many years, and he is very clear that the so-called missing person list often means the dead list, but because the soldier's remains have not been found, or because of the opponent's large fire weapons, it has become a piece of debris nestled with mountains and rivers. .
For the sake of Aunt Susan's health, he was not going to tell her the news. However, Auntie's observation skills, which she had developed in the mixed and difficult environment in the slums for many years, played a role at this time. She looked at Xu Le's eyebrows. Worrying about it, it took the middle of the night to force out the truth.
Aunt Susan suffered a tragedy when she was a young girl. When she was a little older, her brother joined the Xilin Expeditionary Force and wanted to earn military service to restore the family's glory. Unexpectedly, her brother never came back. It was not until decades later that she got the bad news of being buried in a foreign land. With a broken diary, after getting married, she could have lived an ordinary life, but her husband who loved her was killed by a disease.
In her life, she often fell into despair when she could see hope the most. Life was unfair to her, but she was strong. She took her young son and stubbornly survived in the most dilapidated slums of the empire. , until she heard the news of her son's disappearance on the front lines.
The endless pain and darkness instantly destroyed Aunt Susan's spirit. Her already extremely weak body lost weight. In just two days, she could see the deep depression on her cheeks. She could only helplessly and sadly. Lying on the bed, staring at the sky outside the window with the breath of plum trees in a daze.
Xu Le accompanies her silently, watching her aunt march towards death step by step, he gently holds her face, feeling the touch of being much thinner than before, and said with a smile, "It's fine to lose weight, even if it is to lose weight. Well, Paul must be happy to see a prettier mother when he comes back."
Aunt Susan pulled the corners of her lips with great difficulty, looked at him and smiled, and said weakly in a hoarse voice: "These days... you have worked hard for you, but you don't... no need to... make me happy."
"It's not to make you happy." Xu Le stood by the bed, looked at her face, and said calmly, "You must live, because I will go to the front line to find him, and I assure you that as long as he is alive, no matter whether he is Captured by the federal troops, or abandoned in the valley, even if he is lost in hell, I will bring him back alive and bring him before you.”
Very calm words, but there is a certain unbelievable firmness, like a stone silently smashing into the annoying wet mud, there is no earth-shattering sound, but it smashes a deep pit that is difficult to erase.
A certain kind of brilliance, a kind of brilliance of life slowly appeared in Aunt Susan's eyes, she held Xu Le's fingers with trembling hands and said, "I promise you, I won't… die, but you also have to promise. ... I have one thing."
"I will bring him back, don't worry." Xu Le replied.
"No, I want you to... promise me, you... can't be okay."
In the fresh morning, in the suburbs of Kyoto where the morning light had just woken up, Xu Le, who was carrying a suitcase, walked silently in the fields with the bell fireworks picked up from Master Fan's residence.
"Brother, are we really going to Mohuaxing?"
"Um."
"I remember that day at Auntie's grave, you said you wouldn't go to that place until you could solve a problem."
"Yes, I miss the Commonwealth, but I can't go back, or even see those people in the Commonwealth, because I still can't find a solution to that problem."
"Have you found it now?"
"Maybe soon."
"But still not."
"Yes, but I found a reason to go to Mohua Planet."
"Why?"
"I like Paul. He is kind and cheerful, and of course he has an untimely blood. He is a very good young man in the Empire, just like the very good young people in the Federation."
"I like Aunt Susan. Aunt is a good person. A good person should live a long life, just like the good-hearted aunts in the Federation."
"There is no reason for such a person to die because of the war."