"Hiding behind a beautiful velvet curtain and making some shady compromises without the knowledge of the audience? This is probably the legendary insider trading?"
"People who do insider trading know very well that their faces were really ugly and ugly at the time, so they should hide in dark corners, such as this tavern, and whisper like thieves and don't want anyone to hear them?"
"But it's really a pity. My hearing is so sharp that I can still hear it so clearly even through a thick curtain or a street away."
The military pistol was loaded tightly in his hands, and the heavy marching rucksack was heavily loaded on his shoulders, hitting his back with the swing of his footsteps, hitting the bulletproof hard ceramic pieces in the tattered sports windbreaker, making a crack. Crackling sound.
"So many things happened, so many evils were done, just drink two glasses of wine and talk about leisurely days, hand over the position to the other party, and then you can retire with a smile, there is a small manor with good scenery, continue Write a few diaries, sum up the gains and losses, and then die in bed with peace of mind?"
Xu Le stopped, looked at the two familiar faces at the table, looked at the current president of the Federation and the young congressman who was most likely to become the next president of the Federation, and said, "Although this universe has never made sense, but your idea It's too unreasonable."
"Politics is not about reason." Tai Zhiyuan raised his head, looked at Xu Le's profile tiredly, and said with a slight frown: "In many cases, politics is actually all kinds of compromises."
"Compromise? You should be very clear, I never knew how to write those two words. When the federation wanted to compromise with Medellin, my answer was very simple. And I remember that at that time, Mr. President, you also refused to accept compromise. the word."
Looking at President Pabble, Xu Le said: "I remember in the Nebula Award speech at the George Carlin Art Center, you once said that if you make a mistake, you will pay the price, even if you are dead, you also once said, You're an obsessive follower of federal law, and if you die, people can dig up your grave and see what color it is inside."
The tavern was silent for a while, and then heard his voice suddenly sharp and indifferent, and asked in a cold voice: "dig a grave? You haven't lied in a grave yet, how can I dig!"
The simple words were filled with extremely persistent anger and hatred. Xu Le used these words to announce to everyone present that in front of him, it was impossible for President Pabble to retire gracefully. Send him to the grave!
Tai Zhiyuan frowned again, looking at the man who had not seen him for nearly four years, thinking about the uncontrollable variables that his sudden appearance might bring to the situation in the Federation, his face gradually became solemn and solemn, and he reprimanded: "Xu Le, Don't say it!"
Xu Le turned to look at him, and shouted unceremoniously, "Tai Zhiyuan, shut up for me!"
In the car at the end of the street outside the tavern, Banshan Lin listened to the fierce arguing from the tavern in the distance, and confirmed that it was Xu Le and his group of seven, and shook his head.
After a while, President Pabble's deep and deep voice broke the silence in the tavern. He quietly looked at Xu Le at the table, looking at the resolute and indifferent look, which once made him extremely admire, but now makes him feel extremely dangerous. He asked lightly, "If the letter you left behind when you left the Federation is true, and you still consider yourself to be from the Federation, and you love the Federation, then I don't understand very much, do I and my government really To make you hate so much? Even more worthy of your hatred than those rotten and dirty families?"
"I have been in power for seven years, and the federal government has passed the inheritance tax bill, the information disclosure bill, and the fund merger method. The federal government has never been stronger, the Seven Families have never been weaker than they are today, and the people have never been so proud."
"Don't always look at the silent marching protesters launched by Congressman Tai Zhiyuan in your eyes, you should also go and see what the people who support me are saying, they have better welfare, they have a better medical insurance plan, Their children can share in the fruits of education reform, yes, they are still being exploited by the capitalists by those families, but at least now those family dignitaries dare not be as reckless as they were back then.”
"Who made this change in the Federation? It's me."
President Pabble said calmly: "Without me, would the dignitaries at the top give out so many benefits? Withdraw so many steps?"
"Xu Le, if you treat yourself as a federal citizen, you should respect and appreciate my seven years of hard work. If you are only obsessed with certain moral views in your heart, then I would like to know, you are an imperialist. , who is qualified to manage the affairs of the Federation!"
Facing Mr. President's sudden anger and questioning, Xu Le's eyes narrowed, his right index finger slowly rubbed the metal pattern on the pistol handle, and replied, "This matter has nothing to do with morality, it is with me. It doesn't matter if you are from the Federation or the Empire, the things you and Li Zaidao have done, as long as they are human, they are qualified to manage."
"But the Federation doesn't need you to take care of it, because this is the Federation's own business!"
Tai Zhiyuan looked at him and said solemnly: "If you continue to make trouble like this, just to satisfy your poor and inferior spiritual world, the Federation is really in a crisis of civil war, how many people will die in the chaos? If the people can understand you I believe that all the federations will agree to this insider trading, this compromise!"
"Xu Le, please don't forget your identity, you are an imperial prince!"
Hearing the reprimand from this dear friend whom he hadn't seen for many years, Xu Le felt a little strange, his eyebrows thick as ink knives gradually raised, the smile on his face was a little astringent, he licked his dry and bleeding lips, and suddenly smiled. He got up, squinted his eyes and said, "Yeah, it's really like a nosy thing for an imperial prince to take care of the affairs of the Federation..."
His voice suddenly became extremely cold and calm: "But you should know very well that meddling is the most important hobby in my life. This hobby has been maintained for too many years and can't be changed. It's dead in the parking lot."
"And don't forget, the entire Xilin will listen to what I say from the empire, so no matter what agreement you reach, as long as I don't express my position, it will be meaningless."
Xilin is in a tense state of military confrontation. Everyone knows what kind of influence Xu Le, the imperial prince, has on the little princess of the Zhong family. If he insists on doing something, I believe that Zhong Fireworks will definitely bring Xilin's troops closer. Follow closely.
There was dead silence at the wine table.
"I hid behind the fence in the courtyard just now. I didn't think about coming out, but I really didn't think that things would develop into what they are now."
Xu Le looked at Tai Zhiyuan and Du Shaoqing behind President Pabur, his thick eyebrows raised like knives gradually subsided, and with a self-deprecating and slightly sad chuckle said: "Compromise is always compromise? I am the only one in the empire who refuses to compromise and refuses to let it go? This is really ridiculous and absurd, what is this? Is the world crazy or am I crazy?"
There was too much sadness and sadness in the plain and self-deprecating tone. Xu Le took a deep breath and clenched the hard handle of the pistol with his right hand. brighter.
"At the end of the story, you still want to play the style of a countryman, and the guardian is not betrayal, then I will come to play with you, I am here now, you can kill me, but I can guarantee that before I die , I will definitely send this shoe-polish president to the grave first!"
As his eyes became brighter, his voice became louder and louder, and his hoarse voice resounded through the tavern, but he was not excited, but was firm, persistent and powerful.
"You won't be held accountable if you step down? The dead waitress in the gym will not agree! The Xilin soldiers on the ancient Bell will not agree! The seven groups of dead brothers will not agree! Commander Zhong and his wife will not agree, but they have no way to speak. !"
"So I said on their behalf: I disagree!"
"Even if the entire Federation agrees, I still disagree!"
"Even if the Federation falls into a civil war?" Tai Zhiyuan stared at him coldly.
Xu Le didn't look at him, didn't answer his question, slapped the gun that he had held for a long time on the small wine table and placed it in front of President Pabble, and said without any emotion: "The civil war is indeed terrible. , but there are many ways to end this, other than compromise, to prevent the Federation from falling into civil unrest, and to my satisfaction."
"Sacrifice yourself." He stared into President Pabble's eyes and said, "Mr. President, don't you often ask the people to sacrifice for the Union? Didn't you tell me before that some innocent lives must be sacrificed for a great cause? ?"
"According to your concept, many people in the Federation have already sacrificed, so now that the civil war is about to start, and before the danger of separation and separation, why can't you sacrifice yourself for the Federation?"
"Don't say nonsense that the Federation can't do without you, the cause of justice needs your leadership, there has never been a savior in this world, and the people don't even need a savior, you are not, neither is Tai Zhiyuan, no one can be the real savior!"
President Pabble silently looked at the metallic pistol on the wine table for a long time, then raised his head to look at Xu Le and asked, "Do you just want me to die?"
After being silent for a while, Xu Le replied with a smile: "I always have a feeling, Mr. Young, he has been lying in the grave watching me. He killed the federal vice president. If I let the federal president run away, he will definitely laugh at me. And I… can't stand being laughed at by him."
"So yes, since there is no trial, it is important to me that you die."