After staying in Chaozhou for a few days, he was certain that Nangong Xue was not here. He lost interest and didn't want to stay here any longer, so he hurried to the next town. He decided that on the way back to the capital, he would search each town separately. He didn't believe that he wouldn't be able to find any clues. After being disappointed several times, his faith was almost completely worn out. He randomly found a small wine shop on the side of the road. As soon as he entered, he casually sat down and called out, "Wine!"
This wine shop was remote and small. It only had a few strong Shaodao wine. It was best to drink this wine before a battle. Soon it would make one's blood boil and increase one's fighting strength. But it was also easy to drink too much. After a few drunken outbursts, one would fall asleep on the spot.
Li Yijie was a heartbroken person, so he drank even faster. Not long after, he felt his body warm up. It was as if he could see Nangong Xue standing in front of him, her two long braids hanging behind her, smiling sweetly at him. He would rush forward and apologize to her incessantly. Nangong Xue had forgiven him more than once. But when he woke up and realized that it was all just a dream, how disappointed would he feel?
Half asleep and half awake, he vaguely saw a person's shadow. It seemed very familiar. He almost remembered the person's name. But when he was about to speak, his mind suddenly went blank. He couldn't think anymore. In a daze, he lay down on the table and fell asleep.
Several days later, he arrived at the next town. As usual, he wandered around and went to the wine shop to get drunk. Just before he fell asleep, he saw that person again. He wanted to open his mouth to call out, but his lips were too numb to move. He lowered his head and fell asleep on the table.
When he woke up the next day, he found himself in a first-class room in an inn. In a daze, he put on his clothes. He suspected that someone was playing a joke on him. When he went to the front desk to ask, he was told that a young master had already paid the bill for him, but his name was not revealed. Li Yijie was very suspicious, but he couldn't find out anything. He could only give up.
After that, in almost every town he went to, he had to go through the same thing. Slowly, Li Yijie lost his curiosity about the mysterious person who had arranged the inn for him. He rested as he pleased. After all, that person had forced him to do such a good thing. It would be a waste if he did not accept it. If he had something to ask of her, she would have to wait for him to take the initiative to bring it up. No amount of suspicion would be of any use.
On this day, they arrived near the capital. Li Yijie held a wine jug in his hand. He tilted his head back and poured the wine into his mouth as if he was watering it. His eyelids drooped and his forehead drooped bit by bit. The white-clothed young man who was standing silently in the distance slowly walked over. He sighed and said, "Brother Li, why do you have to do this?" He draped a large coat over Li Mu's body.
Li Yijie suddenly flipped his wrist, his stiff body straightened up, his five fingers stretched out to grab Wei Xiaobao's wrist. "Hey, hey," he laughed, "This time you won't be able to escape, will you? Mister Yuan? "
The white-clothed man was indeed Yuan Yi. Seeing that Li Yijie was aware of his presence, his face showed a bit of embarrassment. "Brother Li," he said, "So you were pretending to be drunk to lure me out?" Li Yijie laughed and said, "I had no choice. If I didn't do this, how could I meet the good man who had arranged everything for me along the way? "
Yuan Yi laughed dryly and said, "Xiao Di and Brother Li have known each other for a long time. Several days ago I sensed that something was wrong with you. As your brother, I was afraid something would happen to you. Therefore, I followed you along the way. Fortunately, you are safe." Listening to his words, it seemed like he was taking all the credit for Li Yijie's safe and sound journey. Li Yijie was displeased. He snorted and said, "Didn't Mister Yuan travel around the world? How did you meet me here today? You even followed me along the way. I'm afraid you delayed a lot of your business, didn't you? "
Yuan Yi said, "Going out is cultivating, but where is not cultivating? When I thought about this, I remembered a group of old friends. Therefore, I hurriedly rushed back to the Central Plains. What, am I not welcome? "His gaze fell on the table. There were three cups and two cups of light wine. The plates were scattered everywhere. It was a complete mess. He frowned and said, "Alliance Head Li only drank wine, but you didn't order any dishes?"
Li Yijie said, "If you don't have money, do you think other people will bring you food for free? Wine is a lot cheaper than food. "Yuan Yi waved his hand heroically and said," Today's meal is on me! Brother Li, please do as you wish. "Li Yijie smiled faintly and said," I don't deserve a reward without any effort. If there is anything I can do to help Mister Yuan, I will do my best. "
Yuan Yi saw that Li Yijie was unwilling to accept his good intentions and his tone was somewhat unfriendly. He was secretly surprised and said, "Brother Li must be joking. Between friends, there is no need to force each other! But I don't know why Brother Li has been so worried all along the way. Could it be … it has something to do with your martial sister, Miss Nangong? "
Li Yijie snorted and said, "With Mister Yuan's vast magical power, how could you not know? Let's not beat around the bush. You must know where Xue 'er is, right? Don't keep me in suspense like this. If I could trouble you to show me the way, I would be eternally grateful. "
Although he and Yuan Yi could not be considered close, he knew his way of doing things very well. He never fought an unprepared battle. Every time he appeared, he would put on an unfathomable appearance, which was very admirable. In fact, it was just that he had a lot of work to do beforehand.
Even if he did not follow Li Yijie all the way from Shui Yue Nunnery, he should at least know the cause of Li Yijie's troubles. Maybe he even found out about Nangong Xue's whereabouts, but now he deliberately did not say anything. Li Yijie was troubled right now and did not have time to play guessing games with him to satisfy his innate vanity.
Yuan Yi's face was full of innocence. He frowned and said, "No, I don't know! Little Brother has just returned to the Central Plains from the Western Regions. Even if something happened in the Wulin world, I did not have time to find out. However, your first question is what I wanted to ask just now. Hasn't Miss Nangong always been with you? Why isn't she by your side this time? Moreover, she has been with you for so many days. The usual small fights should have already passed. Unless you have … offended her in some way. Can you tell me what happened? "
Li Yijie stared at Yuan Yi, trying to find a flaw in his words. In the end, he was defeated by Yuan Yi's concerned gaze. He could only reluctantly believe him and said, "You really don't know? Ay, it's a long story. This is between me and her. No one can help … "
Yuan Yi said, "Then let's start from the beginning. Brother Li, didn't you praise me as omnipotent? Maybe I really do have a way to make the impossible possible. "
When Li Yijie heard his resolute and decisive words, the doubts he had suppressed with great difficulty rose again. However, if he really did know about Nangong Xue's whereabouts, at most he was just playing a joke on him. After all, Xueer would not be in any danger. Li Yijie was afraid that Yuan Yi was just deliberately mystifying him and in the end would spread his hands and say that he did not know. When the time came, with clues from this conversation, it would be as easy as blowing off dust to capture Nangong Xue.
Yuan Yi called out softly, "Brother Li? Brother Li? What are you still hesitating for? " Li Yijie's heart skipped a beat, but he immediately felt relieved. Not everyone was like Jiang Liechen. Moreover, Yuan Yi and Nangong Xue did not have any interest in each other. There was no benefit in trying to harm her. After pondering for a moment, he said, "All right, I'll tell you. I'll ask you to help me evaluate it."
He explained everything in detail, including his own thoughts about Nangong Xue and Shen Shiyun. After that, not only did he not feel relieved of a heavy burden, he felt that all his thoughts were in a mess. His hands and heart were entangled with a large number of threads, and even after pulling for a long time, he still could not find the end of the thread.
In the end, he raised the wine pot and drank more than half of the wine until there was not a drop left. Then, under the influence of alcohol, he said, "My whole heart is for Xueer's safety. I'm definitely not trying to shirk my responsibility. Tell me, am I the one in the wrong? "
Yuan Yi pondered for a moment, then said, "Brother Li, these words may not be pleasant to hear, but they are the truth. Since ancient times, ordinary people have always judged heroes based on success or failure. No matter what your reason is, no matter what your purpose is, if the final result is a mistake, even if it has nothing to do with the ignorant people of this generation, they will still gossip everywhere, endlessly. Therefore, in the eyes of other people, even your family and friends, they will see you as a heartless man. Just to cling onto the Noble Consort Yun, you want to abandon your Shimei, who has shared life and death with you, who has gone through trials and tribulations with you. As the Wulin Alliance's Meng Zhu, who does not know how to sing your praises? Everybody is tired of hearing it all day long, they need this little bit of romantic debt from you. Whether it's true or not, as long as there are people who like to hear it, it will be like wild grass, growing crazily all day long. "
Li Yijie forced a smile and shook his head. Every sentence was completely contrary to his original intention. He repeatedly opened his mouth to defend himself, but Yuan Yi kept talking non-stop. In his ears, it was all a bunch of fallacies. A short while later, because he wanted to refute every sentence, he did not know how to refute. The wine in the pot was already dry, he could only sullenly bite the mouth of the pot, lost in thought.
After he finished talking for a long time, he pretended to take care of his own emotions before he stopped temporarily. This time he finally could not help but open his mouth, "What about you? Does Yuan Gongzi also believe these rumors? " In his opinion, he did not expect to be praised by everybody. If he was misunderstood by the common people of the world, there was nothing he could do. The only thing he cared about was what his trusted aides and friends thought of him.
Yuan Yi said, "Those words, Xiaodi naturally turned a deaf ear to them. To say that Brother Li is indifferent to fame and fortune, I am afraid it is not entirely true. But as far as I know, you have always valued love more than power struggle. It was just a momentary lapse in judgment that you were truly infatuated with the Noble Consort Yun. However, you were not able to judge the situation clearly, you thought yourself clever, and in the end you harmed Xueer. In my opinion, after all, it was your fault. If the Seven Evil Spirits really wanted to do this, where can you hide? In other words, the world is big, but there is no safe place, there is no safe place for you to settle down. You used words to hurt her, you drove her away, but other than pushing her into a dangerous situation, you still think you haven't stabbed her enough, you want to stab her in the heart ahead of time. If you really care about Xueer, you should understand her from her heart, understand what she really wants. You shouldn't indiscriminately give her all the things you think are beneficial. "
Li Yijie snorted softly, "Is that so?" he said, "Even you think it is my fault? I am definitely going to be the bad guy, what else do you have to say? "What irritated him the most was that Yuan Yi claimed that he 'made a momentary lapse in judgment', and that was why he was infatuated with Shen Shiyun.
"I have been painstakingly waiting in the Palace for six years, all along I have maintained a stalemate of courtesy with her, I have always respected her. I have always tried my best to mediate the conflict between the Manchus and the Han, I have never blindly followed her orders and set the Han people's land ablaze with the flames of war. How can I be muddle-headed? Xueer respects me and loves me only because she is dependent on her Gege, who grew up together with her. This kind of feeling is temporary confusion, when she meets her destined Son of Heaven, it will fade away. Why should I be responsible? Why should I love her just because she loves me? Why should I marry her and treat her well for the rest of my life? Otherwise, I am a heartless man without conscience? Why is the Heaven so unfair to me? "
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