After the footsteps of Hu Yanhao and Dugu Leopard were far away, Lan Qianzhen and Lan Ziyi walked out of the cellar.

When the father and son got out of the rockery, the moon had sunk in the west.

Lan Ziyi looked at the moon and asked:

"Father, is this the only way to the secret room? If you do, you'll be easily caught. ”

Lan Qianzhen replied:

"There are still a few roads that can only be used when there is something to do. There's one that leads to your study in the garden. ”

Lan Qianzhen turned his head to look at his son, and when he saw Lan Ziyi's face was solemn and obviously full of concern, he sighed lightly and said:

"Come on, let's talk about father and son."

As he spoke, he climbed up the path of the rockery and walked into the pavilion on the top.

Lan Ziyi followed his father to the gazebo and sat down.

Although it has reached spring, the night of Luoyanguan is still cold,

A gust of north wind blew through the peach trees all over the garden and swayed gently with the wind,

Lan Ziyi sat in the gazebo with a tight neckline,

He looked down at the garden and saw that the ice had melted on the creek that twisted in the garden,

The grass by the river has begun to bud, and the buds on the peach trees have been swollen and will bloom at any time.

Behind him, the tall Luoyan Pass city wall separates the inside and outside of the pass,

From a distance, you can see patrolling soldiers walking back and forth with torches.

Even if he returned from a big victory today and held a celebration banquet, Lan Qianzhen still arranged for people to patrol the night in advance, just in case.

The night is silent, especially when the moon is still hanging in the sky.

In the past, Lan Ziyi would stop reading and look up at the moon at this time.

Because the moon always shines the reflection of man back to his heart,

Let people experience their own tranquility when they are lonely.

Lan Qianzhen was also looking at the moon in a daze, and said almost to himself:

"Some days I haven't had a good look at the moon, I think about fighting all day long, food and grass supplies, where can I have time to be quiet alone."

Lan Ziyi listened and did not speak. After a moment of silence, Lan Ziyi asked:

"I always thought you were a good man who was faithful and loyal, but today I found out that you were a conspirator."

Lan Qianzhen laughed loudly when he heard this

"Hah! In my opinion, these two identities do not contradict each other. ”

Lan Ziyi sighed and said:

"Father, the saint has clouds: Mu Ne is faithful and benevolent; The gentleman is the mean, the gentleman is in the middle, and the villain is the mean, and the villain is unscrupulous. As a town general, my father has a heavy army, so he should be devoted to the court and think about Kuang Fu Sheji. Today, when I heard my father's discussion in the secret room, I realized that what you were thinking about was fighting for power and intriguing. ”

Lan Qianzhen waited for his son to finish speaking, and said with a smile:

"I have the power in my hands to have the ability to Kuangfu Sheji, if I die first, how can I go to Kuangfu Sheji?"

"Sophistry!" Lan Ziyi said.

Lan Qianjin continued:

"My current status is based on a knife at the border, to say that I am fighting for power with others, no, my power is not fought for. A month ago, I only thought about one thing every day at the time of the Royal Court War, that is, how to live with 200,000 people under my command, and after winning the war, I wanted to enter Beijing and enjoy peace. But the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, I want to retire from the emperor, but he does not give me a chance to retreat. As you heard just now, the starting point of everything I do is to live, let me live, let you and your mother live with me. Struggle for power? Scold! Joke! The ministers in the capital who claim to be the protégés of the saints like to fight, but I am not that interested. “

兰子义 says:

"But father, you use intrigue and trickery in order to survive, and the saint does not seek to live to harm benevolence, but kills to become benevolent. Isn't it against your conscience that you do so? “

兰千array says:

"You will eat and drink when you are alive, and with your status, you can feed at least three hungry and half-dead poor people every day, so if you commit suicide now, won't you save a lot of food to save others? And why should you live to harm others? “

Lan Ziyi was speechless for a while, and said:

"Father, you can't say that."

Lan Qianjin continued:

"The teachings of the saints are to set a benchmark for the world, and everyone in the world should follow this and strive for good. But the rules are easy to set, and it depends on the individual whether to do it or not. Some people like to sacrifice their lives for righteousness, some people can kill and become benevolent, I have led soldiers to fight for so many years, how many people have blocked the sword for me, how many people have fought bravely for the banner of Taizheng, and sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, I know very well in my heart. Everyone has the right to be born, some people just want to live their share well, some people want to lead everyone to live better, and some people want to take other people's share of ingenuity into their own hands to live well. I just do my best to live, to protect my people and live with me, and for that I am responsible for everything I do, and I have a clear conscience. “

Lan Ziyi couldn't say anything when he heard it, although the teachings of the saint were in his stomach, he couldn't say it.

After being silent for a while, Lan Qianzhen said:

"Ziyi, your choice in the Murowei tribe after you left the fortress proves that you have the ability to choose the right path, which is the foundation of a person's life, and because of this, I am not forcing you to do what you are not willing to do. It's just that you haven't been deeply involved in the world, and you haven't been able to observe the world with your own eyes and gain insight into people's hearts. This trip to the capital is the beginning of your life, but it is also very likely to be the end of your life. The capital is simply sinister. After you go, you must find your way as soon as possible, because you are not alone, and behind you are the names of hundreds of people in the General's Mansion. “

Lan Ziyi took a deep breath and said:

"Father, I still think that being a man should be based on loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and I will not use conspiracies to harm others."

Lan Qianzhen got up and walked to the pavilion, overlooking the garden, turned his back to Lan Ziyi and said:

"Intrigue and harm are two different things, the former is the means and the latter is the end. You have the ability to make choices, and you have this potential. Everything in the world has its own reason for existence, everything has a working principle, and when you find your own path, you will naturally choose the right means. You are free, and you will eventually choose your own path. “

Lan Ziyi replied:

"I choose the path of becoming a loyal servant and a martyr."

"You choose to live by other people's judgments." Lan Qianzhen immediately replied, "At least that's how you choose it now." When you find that no matter how much you try to please others, you can't let people harm you, and you will understand that loyalty and heroism do not depend on others, but on yourself. ”

Lan Qianzhen was silent for a while, and after Lan Ziyi calmed down for a while, he sat back and said:

"Do you know your grandfather? Do you know the name of their gourd brothers? ”

Lan Ziyi nodded and said:

"When I went south from the Tiannu Pass, the army went straight to the old capital, my grandfather, seven brothers and my father, your two elder brothers led the light cavalry south, and were surrounded in front of the Tibetan horse slope, and the bloody battle lasted for more than ten days and finally the whole army was annihilated."

Lan Qianzhen said:

"How? Heroic, right? Loyalty, right? ”

Lan Ziyi nodded,

Lan Qianzhen then gritted his teeth and said:

"But this heroic battle has been arranged a long time ago!"

Lan Ziyi was taken aback by his father's sudden fierce tone, and Lan Qianzhen continued:

"Tiannu Pass is a small pass, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it can be said that one husband is a pass and ten thousand people can't open it, and the result is inexplicably broken. Back then, your grandfather was also a megatron grassland, sitting in the position of the governor of the five northern towns, and the capital side continued to issue edicts to hold your grandfather accountable without asking. That's it, what's even more amazing is that the army actually went south from Tiannu Pass, and hit the old capital without any resistance all the way. The documents of the Ministry of War accountability are one after another, but there is no document to transfer troops to help, and finally when the soldiers are under the old capital, they order your grandfather to lead the troops to come back. 30,000 people rushed south as soon as they received the order, and 30,000 people, except for Pingcheng, which is close to my Luoyan Pass, has always been in contact, so they prepared grain and grass, and the other state and county governments all closed the city gates, saying that they were on guard. At that time, there were 300,000 people in the army that aided the old capital and the forbidden army near the capital, and your grandfather was trapped for more than ten days, and sent messengers to break through the siege every day to ask for help, but the 300,000 reinforcements were just stationed and watched. On the fifteenth day of the bloody battle, a father and son were loyal and martyred, which is really good! Such a nice news spread back to Yanguan, and your grandmother was angry to death just after giving birth! ”

Saying that, Lan Qianzhen was already filled with righteous indignation and began to sob.

When Lan Ziyi heard that his grandmother gave birth, he thought to himself, does his father still have a brother? Have an uncle of your own? But why has no one ever mentioned it?

After waiting for a while, Lan Qianzhen calmed down, and then said:

"Back then, your grandfather was also a meritorious person, and there was no general in the Quartet and the forbidden army who could compare to your grandfather. His old man put loyalty first, but the court didn't think so, so he died in Zangmapo. Since I inherited the unification, I have always had the tradition of martial arts guarding the frontier, but what should I do if the martial arts family becomes bigger? In order to prevent Wuxun from rebelling, the imperial court supported young generals in other military towns to replace veterans when someone showed a big momentum; the second is to recruit veterans to join the court to be the third duke, and give the highest honor to retire in the capital; The third is to be consumed through war. Your grandfather was upright, thinking that he was young, and he was fond of hunting, he liked Saibei, and he didn't like Jiangdong customs, so he refused to enter the court in the book, and wanted to die at the border, okay, if you don't obey, you will die early. ”

After speaking, Lan Qianzhen fell silent, and was stunned for a while.

Lan Ziyi was thinking about how to comfort his father when Lan Qianzhen spoke again

"Do you know about your mother?"

Lan Ziyi was surprised for a moment, looked at his father and nodded.

Lan Qianzhen looked into the distance and said slowly:

"I Lan Qianzhen has been upright all my life, and I want to have a clear conscience, there is only one thing, and one thing I do is sorry for my conscience. At that time, the emperor issued a decree to let me recruit Maoren, and at that time I met your mother, and from the first time I saw her, I knew that I would not marry her in this life. It's just, it's just ......"

Lan Qianjin gasped, and it seemed that it would take a lot of effort to say the following words,

Lan Ziyi knew that his mother had told him about the Mao people, and he also knew his own bloodline, as well as the stories that happened between his parents.

gasped, and finally plucked up and said:

"It's just that that night I slaughtered nearly 10,000 people up and down the Mao people. There was a woman holding her child and handing it to me, begging me to spare her child's life, I looked at the child, and the child was lying in my arms and smiling at me, and I understood what I was doing, so I threw the child to death! Then send his mother to the underworld to accompany him. The first time, the first time blood splattered on me, I was disgusted. But that was the choice I made, whether I made an excuse that it was a disobedient fate or that I was going to take my people home, it was an excuse that I gave the order to slaughter the unarmed Mao, and I fell to the death of the child. My decision, I'm responsible! ”

Lan Qianzhen closed his eyes as he spoke, looking pained, but he still insisted on saying it,

I don't know when, Mrs. Lan quietly walked up to the pavilion and came behind Lan Qianzhen,

Lan Ziyi was about to speak out, but was stopped by his mother,

Lan Qianzhen's mind was turbulent at this time, obviously not aware of his wife's arrival, he continued:

"You know, Ziyi, I never hugged you when you were young, not because I didn't like your son, but when I picked you up, I felt like I picked up that child again, and I didn't want to fall to death! I don't want to fall to that kid! But I still did that, every time I picked you up, I had the urge to drop you to death, I don't know why, but I just did, I was afraid, the mother and child who I killed often appeared in my dreams, in the dreams I tried again and again to stop myself from killing the child again but I still fell to his death. Ziyi, this is the only thing that the father regrets in this life. ”

Saying that, Lan Qianzhen opened his eyes and looked at Ziyi,

Suddenly he found the lady behind him,

Madame's face was particularly calm in the moonlight, and her big clear eyes were full of compassion,

Lan Qianzhen couldn't control his emotions anymore, stretched out his hand and grabbed his wife's hand, and for a while he was in tears, speechless and choked.

Seeing this, Lan Ziyi said with interest, "The child retires"

Then I got up and walked down the rockery, and when I walked on the path, I felt a warm breeze gently blowing across the earth, and I came to the garden at a corner, and the peach blossoms in the garden were blown open.

Reflecting the moonlight, I only feel that the silver light is red, and it is very warm,

The fragrance of flowers is refreshing,

Lan Ziyi heard his father's cry coming from the pavilion on the top of the mountain

"Madame! Madam! I can't afford this pain! I was wrong, I was wrong, I shouldn't have killed that child, I shouldn't have killed that mother and son, I shouldn't have ordered the slaughter of Mao, I shouldn't have done such rude things to you that night. I beg you, I beg you to forgive me, forgive me, I beg you! …….”

Lan Ziyi took a few steps, looked back and saw his father kneeling on the ground, throwing himself into his mother's arms and crying silently, and Mrs. Lan's eyes were also filled with tears, and her face showed a warm and gentle expression that almost did not belong to this world, she gently stroked Lan Qianzhen's hair with her hand and let him cry in her arms without saying a word.

Lan Ziyi turned his head and took a deep breath, only to feel the fragrance of flowers wafting into his heart.

"It looks like the parents' affair is finally over." Lan Ziyi thought in his heart, slowly walking in the peach orchard, enjoying this rare moonlit night peach blossom scene.

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