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"Is this the human insight you have come to over the years?" After hearing Shangguan Yan's description, Huangfu Zhai looked extremely surprised, "Do you think that the land that calmed Ganges down again is to respect the seven warriors who sacrificed their lives to protect the village against the bandits? I really didn't expect you to be so stupid and so crazy..."

"Um?"

Shangguan Yan whispered suspiciously, sat back at his table, and asked Huangfu Zhai behind him: "Do you want to use your big truths to try to convince me?"

Huangfu Zhai said quietly: "Your understanding of human nature is too superficial. It is this superficial insight that creates a self-righteous and arrogant self. Don't think that you have seen through the whole thing after exploring the little truth of human nature.

That will only make you more unreasonable. When you talk big in front of me and show your limited and ridiculous cognition, I just feel that the air is full of foolishness. You really make me feel extremely sad.

After all, you don’t understand what human nature is. You just look at all from the perspective of the evil nature of human nature. This kind of extreme prejudice is not as smart as those vendors who observe words and expressions to seek benefits for themselves. I think you should work in this teahouse for three years, so that your knowledge may be slightly sublimated..."

"Continue, I'm listening..." Shangguan Yan gently stroked her hair hanging from her hair and said lightly, "I really want you to convince me again..."

Huangfu Zhai said: "Do you think I will still have hope for you? Wrong, you have been completely abandoned by me. Since you have seen the seven warriors sacrifice their lives for the people of a village,

I have also seen the treacherous and indifferent and selfish side of the people. Have you ever thought about what made all this happen? Have you ever thought about why the seven warriors paid the price of their lives just for a full meal?

You have never thought about these problems. Of course, it is indeed too harsh to expect you to think about such deep problems. For the sake of your willingness to help me investigate clues, I will spend more time analyzing for you.

Is the seven warriors rewarding to save the village? No, because they know the sinisterness of war and understand that the people who have no guidance want to survive in the war with their own strength, they are undoubtedly foolish. Therefore, they abandoned their personal interests without hesitation and devoted themselves to defending the villagers from the ravages of the bandits, and paid the price of their lives. You will not pay attention to these shining points of human nature.

Why do those villagers become treacherous and selfish? Are they born like this? No, that is the means of survival learned in endless wars and killings. It is the harsh environment that makes them give up their original simple and kind personality.

Unfortunately, you can't see all this, and you won't even think about it. You will only immerse yourself in the truth you see and cannot extricate yourself. It is your doing and what you do will push the human nature that originally appeared in the dawn again and again into the endless darkness.

Do you think that as long as the war fire rises, you are making trouble for the dead warriors? If you think so, I can only tell you that the dead warriors will not be grateful to you at all, and they even wish you could drag you into hell.

After all, you are just a foolish man in my eyes, just a reckless man who is a hundred times more stupid than those you think is stupid..."

Shangguan Yan listened to Huangfu Zhai's words, was silent for a moment, slowly spoke, and said in a hoarse voice: "I..."

"Stop talking..." Huangfu Zhai immediately interrupted Shangguan Yan's words, "Look at you now, even your voice and walking posture are imitating me. Are you stupid? You obviously have a beautiful voice but you insist on making it hoarse to cater to me. I hope I can accept you, recognize you, or even sympathize with you?

If this is the case, then I would like to advise you, I don’t need your morbid worship. In your words, the weak are not worthy of enjoying the glory of the strong, and the distance between you and me is simply out of reach..."

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Yan closed her eyes and was speechless for a long time. Her fingers that gently stroked her hair trembled slightly. After being ridiculed by Huangfu Zhai, a trace of vague fluctuations appeared in Ning Jing's mood.

After a long time, Shangguan Yan stood up and walked slowly towards the stairs. Before leaving, he said: "I'll collect information for you. I'll meet here before noon. I hope you can abide by the conditions I have proposed. There are equal transactions between you and me..."

Huangfu Zhai replied: "You have to remember that I gave you an opportunity to trade in an equivalent manner, otherwise you will not be able to leave here alive..."

"You are so presumptuous to your master!"

The cold smoke beside Shangguan Yan couldn't bear to see Huangfu Zhai being so disrespectful to his master, and immediately shouted angrily, trying to draw the sword to teach him a lesson.

Unexpectedly, before the sword was unsheathed, Shangguan Yan reached out and stopped him: "Leng Yan, don't be rude."

Leng Yan frowned and could only glar at Huangfu Zhai's back, stopping his impulse.

Shangguan Yan slightly turned his head to Huangfu Zhai behind him and smiled: "I didn't expect that after so many years, you still have this arrogant attitude, but I can't touch it..."

After saying that, Shangguan Yan left the teahouse with Lengyan and disappeared directly into the crowd. Huangfu Zhai continued to wipe the bronze mirror in his hand silently...

As soon as he left the teahouse gate, Leng Yan couldn't help asking Shangguan Yan: "Master, why are you tolerant of that person? I really wanted to kill him with one sword just now!"

Shangguan Yan stopped hearing this and said to Leng Yan: "Fortunately you didn't do that, otherwise I would be really worried about you and I wouldn't want to walk out of this teahouse gate alive today..."

Leng Yan was startled and asked in a low voice: "Master, please forgive me for saying that I have just said that you seem to be afraid of him..."

Shangguan Yan took a deep breath, closed his eyes and said nothing. Seeing this, Leng Yan hurriedly bowed to Shangguan Yan and said, "Sorry, Master, I should die, I shouldn't talk too much..."

"No, I don't mean to blame you..." Shangguan Yan said, "You are right. I am indeed very afraid of him, because this person will only realize that his terror is beyond imagination..."

Leng Yan was stunned when she heard this, looking at Shangguan Yan with disbelief. You know, in his impression, his master didn't take anything seriously at all, but a faint tremor was revealed in his hoarse tone just now.

"Don't you believe it?" Shangguan Yan seemed to feel the uneasiness emitted by Leng Yan's body and continued to speak, "This Mohist master is far more cruel than you imagine. Anyone who blocks him will end up incredibly miserable. When you contact him, you must walk on thin ice and take every step. Any words he says must be carefully considered the profound meaning contained..."

"Then I should have killed him even more..." Leng Yan said indignantly when she heard this, "This kind of person is the biggest threat to the master. I should have stabbed him to death with a sword in the teahouse..."

"Ha..." Shangguan Yan laughed dryly, gently stroked her hair and said to her, "I said, if you really wanted to do something in the teahouse just now, it would push things to an irreversible level. Maybe you and I won't stand here and talk..."

Leng Yan shook his head and said, "Impossible master, I have enough confidence to kill him with one sword. He revealed fatal flaws all over his body, and he had no martial arts at all. Killing him was easy..."

"Don't be confused by appearance..." Shangguan Yan said, "The flaw you see may be revealed to you on purpose, maybe it is to lure you into taking the bait and attack him.

There were eight people who had your thoughts back then, but only two died in three days. One of them was hemiplegic, and the other... ha... crazy..."

Leng Yan remained silent. Since Shangguan Yan said that, she could only obey him, but she still couldn't believe that Huangfu Zhai would be so terrible.

Shangguan Yan let out a sigh of relief and handed the sachet to Lengyan: "Do the main business first, inform Daersi, and ask him to stop what he had done for the time being, and first find out how many royal families were carrying this spice in and out of the imperial city yesterday. After exploring it, make a detailed list for me, and half an hour will be... "

"Yes, master!" After Leng Yan received the order, he quickly disappeared into the bustling sea of ​​people.

Shangguan Yan gently stroked his hair, looked back at the teahouse with deep pupils, but saw Huangfu Zhai looking at him with one hand on the windowsill.

"Ha, this trip to the Shencun is really different from the past. The lack of some stupid aura makes the fun really full of fun..." After a long time, Shangguan Yan shook her hair and chuckled, and also entered the crowd.

...

"Old Chen, it's been a long time since..."

"It turns out that Mr. Li is here, I am polite here..."

At the entrance of the largest "Tailao Academy", Li Yuankun and Chen Hantian met by chance and greeted each other very politely.

Chen Hantian's identity in Shendu was a copying official in Tailao Academy. He taught in a private school during his spare time, and specialized in copying the sage's calligraphy with the pseudonym "Chen Yingyan". Because he was kind and had a high seniority, he was affectionately called Chen Lao or Lao Master.

After the two of them politely greeted each other, Li Yuankun looked at the group of academy officials at the entrance of Tailao Academy and asked curiously: "Old Chen, why is Tailao Academy so lively today? Are there any distinguished guests coming?"

Chen Hantian looked back and nodded and said, "Today, His Highness Jing is going to come to the academy to borrow books. We are here to welcome the king's carriage..."

Li Yuankun nodded and said, "It turns out it's Your Highness Jing. No wonder there is such a ceremonial guard to welcome you..."

Chen Hantian stroked his long beard and said, "Your Highness Jing is very studious, and he is willing to support various schools and likes to make friends with talented literati from all walks of life. He is truly a master of the saints..."

Li Yuankun rubbed the jade toad in his hand, twitched his cheek slightly, and then said to Chen Hantian: "What Mr. Chen said is very true. Your Highness Jing is indeed rich in five cars, and he knows everything about astronomy and geography. Unfortunately, he has been weak and sick since childhood. The imperial physician said he could not live to be thirty years old. Alas, God is jealous of talent..."

Chen Hantian shook his head and said, "Mr. Li is such a bad word. After all, Your Highness Jing is still young. Although he can't find a way to save King Jing now, no one can tell the truth in the future..."

"The prince is here~"

Just as Chen Hantian and Li Yuankun were talking, a sudden call came to everyone's ears. Soon everyone immediately dressed, bowed and bowed, and saluted when King Jing arrived.

"The prince is here"

When the sound of the news sounded again, the officials of Tailao Academy headed by Chen Hantian immediately bowed to the voice that appeared out of the corner of their eyes and shouted: "Welcome the prince to Tailao Academy..."

Just as everyone was polite and bowed down, a cynical joke rang out.
Chapter completed!