Chapter 625: Unwilling to give up

Li Shimin didn't remember how he left the Anlan battleship. Along the way, he felt his knees stiff and his steps heavy. From the Anlan exit until he boarded another Lingbo ship specially prepared for their Li family father and son, he always felt that Chen Kefu was staring at him.

After finally returning to the Lingbo, Li Yuan's smile disappeared. He looked around the ship. He saw that the Lingbo was only a hundred steps away from Chen Kefu's ship Anlan. Although Chen Kefu did not send anyone on the Lingbo, only their Li family was on the ship, but there were densely surrounded by hundreds of warships.

"Why did you say those words in front of Chen Kefu just now? Erlang." Li Yuan asked with a dark face standing in front of his son.

"The child is just considering my father and my Li family. It is not a wise choice for my father to join Chen Kefu. Chen Kefu has long wanted to kill my Li family, and he has never had a chance in the past. Now, my father wants to fall into the trap and send it to his door. How could Chen Kefu miss such a good thing? I'm afraid that our Li family will be swallowed by him by then, and I'm afraid that there will be no bone left in the future." Li Shimin said solemnly without fear of his father's eyes.

Li Yuan sighed, his expression calmed down a lot. He turned around and sat down, pointed to the other side and said to his two sons, "Dalang, Erlang, you can sit down too."

"How many people who have become kings and overlords in ancient and modern times are really smooth sailing?" Li Yuan shook his head. He could see that his two sons were a little disagreeing with him coming out to join Chen Kefu, and even many civil and military officials of Li Tang were not very willing.

"In order to fight the country, in addition to recruiting talents, respecting literature and martial arts, and being brave and decisive, what we sometimes need is strategy. Now we are defeated by Yang Hung and besieged by Wang Shichong, Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu and others. It is really a matter of life and death. Dalang, you are familiar with internal affairs and good at the logistics of the people. Erlang, you are familiar with military affairs, good at commanding troops, and able to fight and fight. Your brothers, one is a good son who assists the father. However, Dalang is too hesitant and not brave enough to do things. Sometimes Erlang is too strong and unrestrained, but this is the shortcomings of you two."

"Da Lang, indecisive and hesitant when encountering things, this is the real taboo for those who are superior. When you should make a choice, you must choose. You must never hesitate, otherwise why should you take on a great responsibility in the future? Erlang, you are too tough and a little stubborn, which is not a good thing. If you are just a general, that is enough. But you are not just a general, you are also the commander of my Li family army. You are easy to break, and at the right time, you must be able to bend. Only when you can bend and bend can you be a real man. If you two brothers can do these two things, what else can you worry about as a father?"

"Father, Erlang is right. The grudge between our Li family and Chen Kefu is too deep, so it can't be resolved safely. Now we are trapped in the trap, and we are afraid that he will not let us go." Li Jiancheng said worriedly.

"The two benefits are greater, and the two disadvantages are lesser!" Li Yuan said in a deep voice, "Dalang, Erlang, you must understand that the decision to temporarily surrender to Chen Kefu for the father is not an impulse, but a careful consideration. In the current situation, temporarily surrendering to Chen Kefu is our best choice, and in addition, we have no other better choice. As long as our Li family still wants to dominate the world, then this is our clearest choice now. As for what you are worried about, Father has never thought that those who do great things cannot care about the past and the family, otherwise how can we achieve great things?"

"You have seen and heard it from Chen Kefu just now. Chen Kefu wants to get involved in Hedong, but it is temporarily out of reach and needs the support of our Li family. So Chen Kefu wants to take Hedong, so he must rely on our father and son. Maybe when he takes Hedong in the future, it is possible to turn against each other again. But why should we wait until that day? As long as we temporarily overcome this difficult situation, major events are still expected. Only then will Chen Kefu understand who is the real smart person."

"Father is so smart, the child admires it." Li Shimin and his brothers suddenly realized.

Li Yuan looked at his two sons smiling, but he still had worries that he had never shown on his face. What he said just now can only be said to be his wishful thinking and best expectations. But what the facts can be done is not in his control. Planning is in people and success is in heaven, and all he can do is this. He came to Mengjin with unwillingness in his heart, and in addition to his unwillingness in his heart, he also had another plan. The situation in the Li family was extremely critical. The Li family has been rich for hundreds of years. He does not want to destroy the Li family when he is the head of the family.

He came to Mengjin and surrendered to Chen Kefu, hoping that his daughter Sanniang would return to Chen Kefu's side. In this way, if the Li family is not doing anything in the future, perhaps Chen Kefu is still a retreat here and can protect the Li family and prevent the Li family from destroying the Li family after the failure of the battle for hegemony. However, he cannot tell others about this negative thought, even if he is his two legitimate sons, he cannot tell them about it, and can only hide it in his heart.

"Okay, that's the matter." Li Yuan said with a little down, "You remember to understand our situation in the future, especially Erlang, don't contradict Chen Kefu anymore. We are now under his roof, so when it's time to bow our heads, you have to bow your head. Go down, and you have to take a shower, change clothes and rest for your father."

Li Shimin and his brother left their father's cabin, said a few more words to Li Jiancheng, and then went back to their cabin. The close-fitting guards brought a few sets of clothes and hot water, saying that they were sent by Princess Chen.

After he was stunned for a moment, he realized that Princess Chen was his third sister Xiuning. He sneered, but Li Shimin didn't even look at the brand new clothes. He turned around and left the cabin and went up to the deck of the fifth floor of the Lingbo.

Standing on the deck of the five-story boat, standing under the Chen-word flaunting in the wind, staring at the ocean. A small boat at the Mengjin Ferry on the Yellow River was leaving from the distance to the Anlan, rowing towards the ferry bank. The hull was striped, paddling up and down, breaking through the yellow waves, and moving forward steadily. The boat was under the banner of Wang, and he understood that it was Wang Shichong and his party who had just returned after discussing with Chen Kefu. He watched it disappear behind the ferry and thought: It would be great if my many fears could disappear so easily. He sacrificed his head for the Li family, shed blood, and even became a life-and-death enemy with his former friend and brother-in-law Chen Kefu for this, and even lost an arm and ruined his face. Could it be that he would witness such a tragedy in the end?

Although Lao Tzu once said, "I have a big or small amount to repay grievances with virtue." He never believed that there would be things in the world that would repay grievances with virtue. Confucius once said, how to repay grievances with righteousness? Repay grievances with virtue and virtue."

He did not believe that Chen Kefu would repay his grievances with kindness, and even if Chen Kefu could not repay his grievances with his third sister Xiuning for the sake of his third sister. Even if he had made grievances with straightforwardness, he could not have a very good ending for the Li family that the Li family had done to him in the past and the things that the Li family planned to do in the future. Whether Chen Kefu was fair or unfair, their Li family would not have a very good ending.

Li Shimin never refused to hand over his destiny to others and let others control it. When Chen Kefu fled from Luoyang, he found out that he wanted to go to Yang Adoumi. In addition to his suspicion that Li Xuanba's death was related to Chen Kefu, and Changsun Wugui refused him, he favored Chen Kefu. The biggest reason was that he felt that Chen Kefu betrayed the Li family and put their Li family in a dangerous situation. He faced the devastating disaster of the Li family, the life of his brothers, and the loss of his lover. Only then did he finally break up with Chen Kefu.

Although he was a little impulsive about what happened at the beginning, he never regretted it. Even if the matter happened again, he would make the same choice. The only thing he regretted was that the arrow that did not shoot Chen Kefu to death, which would eventually lead to disaster.

Now he and the Li family were forced to hold Chen Kefu's palm again, and all life and death were in his hands. This feeling made him extremely uneasy and he was unwilling to accept it. Especially after he had cut off his arm and disfigured his face, Li Shimin's personality changed greatly. He hesitated to a hedgehog. He hid all the thoughts in his heart under the sharp thorns all over his body. Once he felt that danger was approaching, or someone touched the things in his heart that he refused to show to others, he would immediately become anxious and violent, and would immediately open the sharp thorns on his body.

Xuanba died in Liaodong and Yuanji was killed in Dongdu. Since his mother Dou's death, his father Li Yuan, eldest brother Jiancheng, and third sister Xiuning, the four of them are the closest people. Although he is the youngest, he often feels that his father, brother and sister need their own protection. Since his mother's death, Xuanba and Yuanji were killed one after another, and he regards protecting his relatives as his own responsibility.

When Chen Kefu left his third sister, he had married and had children in recent years, and had many wives and concubines. When he was free and happy, did he ever think that his third sister shed tears in the Li Mansion every day and played the pipa alone in desolately?

When he fled to Luoyang in a hurry, he had thought about how the Li family would face the next dangerous situation?

The Li family struggled all the way before finally coming over and finally found a corner of Hedong.

But now that Hedong is lost, the Li family has to surrender to Chen Kefu who treated them like that back then. Even Chen Kefu can face his third sister calmly. If he really thinks of her this way, where did he go after so long?

Princess Chen? He thought it was funny when he thought of that title. Chen Kefu's only one concubine, that is Changsun Wugui, whom he had loved. As for his sister, although he was the first woman Chen Kefu married, there is no place for Chen Kefu's back room now? He could not imagine that after following Chen Kefu, the third sister had to face the bullying of other women.

Li Shimin clenched his one-arm into a fist, and suddenly punched heavily on the guardrail of the boat, making a loud bang.

He can't allow such a thing to happen, absolutely not!

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