"Brother Yunxiao."
"Brother Yunxiao? Your Majesty is asking you something."
Li Yunxiao recovered from his daze: "Huh? Oh... don't worry, I will do my best!"
Li Shimin burst out laughing and raised his arms: "Bring me the wine!"
After a while, the eunuch brought three jars of wine and placed them in front of the three people.
Li Shimin directly raised the wine can and said solemnly: "A thousand dollars and a thousand pieces of silver are not worth the promise of both of you. Come on! Let's have fun with me!"
"Done?"
"Yes! You are not allowed to use your internal strength to resist!"
After the words fell, the three people raised their heads and walked in.
After drinking, Li Shimin smiled and patted Yuan Tiangang on the shoulder:
"I have something else to tell you. You are too stubborn and don't know how to adapt. You are just as stubborn as I used to be. But now it is different. You have to act according to circumstances when doing things. Sometimes you can bend and stretch. For a man!"
Yuan Tiangang cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for your teaching, I will correct myself!"
"Okay, stay with me tonight until you get drunk!"
The two agreed. That night, the three of them just chatted and drank. They were all drunk and lay on the ground without any image.
At noon the next day, Li Yunxiao slowly woke up, rubbing his eyebrows, but the two of them were no longer around him.
"Hey...he didn't even say a word when he got up."
Li Yunxiao complained and quickly used his internal strength to clear away the alcohol smell. He felt like he had a headache now.
Yuan Tiangang was still refining medicine in the courtyard at this time, with Li Shimin's words echoing in his mind.
He knew that Li Shimin found the two of them after careful consideration.
Since ancient times, those who interfered with government affairs have not had a good end, except Yuan Tiangang and Li Yunxiao.
Only the two of them would take on such a big deal. If it had been anyone else, they would have been frightened and refused.
Because if this thing is done well, it is a good thing. If it is not done well, it will be the execution of the nine tribes and the whole family will be executed!
And Yuan Tiangang also understood why there had been no news about Wu Zhao. It was because Li Shimin had known everything for a long time, but he still tolerated it for so many years.
"Hey, Brother Yuan, you are so uninteresting. Why don't you call me when you leave?"
Just as he was thinking about it, Li Yunxiao's voice came from the bottom of the cliff. The next moment, Li Yunxiao turned over and jumped up.
Yuan Tiangang sneered: "I won't wake you up, but you are sleeping soundly, how can I wake you up?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this is not the time when you were going to prick me with a needle."
"Huh? Where is Brother Li?"
"Let's go to other places to investigate. I heard that the ground in the south was shaking. I suspect it was an earthquake."
"oh."
Li Yunxiao sat directly next to Yuan Tiangang, quietly observing how to refine the elixir and medicine.
"Hey, Brother Yuan, if you don't serve as an official in the future, there is no heavy burden on you, and the world is unified, what do you want to do most?"
"That depends on how big Brother Yunxiao's world is."
"It's very big. Wherever the sun and moon shine, it's all Han soil!"
Yuan Tiangang was slightly startled: "Then your demands are too high. Do you know that the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the monkey grandson is also the king, so you can't control it."
"Then just kill us."
Yuan Tiangang turned his head and said in a serious tone: "If that's the case, what's the point of this world? Brother Yunxiao, you have to find some meditation books and read them. I suspect that you have signs of becoming obsessed."
"Hahaha... I'm just kidding, so many people can drown me with their saliva. Come on, first tell me what you want to do most after the world is unified."
"Strange, why do you ask this?"
"I'm curious. You won't even answer this question, right?"
Yuan Tiangang put down the pill in his hand and looked at the sky, seemingly lost in thought.
"Well...if the world is unified and you retire from office and return to the fields, then you can just find a place to walk around and be a wandering cloud and wild crane."
Li Yunxiao took a deep look at Yuan Tiangang, chuckled, and lay on the ground with his head on his hands: "I knew you liked Xianyun Yehe, who is as free and carefree as me."
Yuan Tiangang shook his head: "I am no better than Brother Yunxiao. I am a restless person. You also know what Brother Li is like. If I am free, he would like me to go out for more walks."
"Because of what?"
Yuan Tiangang smiled lightly and said: "To protect the destiny of the country and join the world to help the common people, this is the chivalrous way of my generation. If you are not an official, then you will be a chivalrous person."
"I protected the country's destiny and joined the world to help the people..." Li Yunxiao murmured to himself: "But I once knew a person similar to you, but he changed later. You said... he must have experienced a lot of difficulties. Just imagine it."
Yuan Tiangang picked up the alchemy recipe and replied: "Who knows? How can you know someone without doing anything about them? By the way, is your friend still there?"
"Yes, or maybe not."
Yuan Tiangang was slightly startled: "When did you learn to be as verbose as Brother Li?"
"I'm not verbose, I just had something in my mind and remembered it for a moment..."
Li Yunxiao yawned and slowly closed his eyes, listening to the sound of the wind blowing the leaves around him.
After a while, Li Yunxiao said softly: "Brother Yuan."
"Um?"
"We will let the prosperous times continue, right?"
Yuan Tiangang nodded solemnly: "Heaven is destined to win over man, and man... is determined to win over heaven!"
....
Fourteen days later, Yuan Tiangang's elixir refining has reached its final chapter.
"Brother Yuan, I don't think I can give you this elixir yet. Why don't you listen to me and give me some time to study it?"
Seeing Yuan Tiangang going to deliver medicine, Li Yunxiao stretched out his hand to stop him.
"Don't worry, there won't be any mistakes. The efficacy of the medicine has been tested many times. Don't you think those insects and animals are still alive and well?"
Li Yunxiao rubbed his eyebrows: "Anyway, I just think there is a problem, so I'd better wait until I study it with Mr. Simiao."
"No need." Yuan Tiangang stood up and walked outside: "I know you are worried, but when it comes to medical skills, you are far from being as good as my brother."
"Damn it! Why don't you believe me?"
Li Yunxiao looked at Yuan Tiangang leaving, pondered for a moment, then got up and went to Sun Simiao's residence.
In the Taiji Palace, Yuan Tiangang was taken to a main hall as the eunuch led the way.
Li Shimin was sitting on the bench at this time, holding the book left by his eldest grandson Wugou in his hand. He was looking at things and thinking about people. He slowly put them down when he saw Yuan Tiangang coming over.
"Are you looking for me?"
"Yes, I have lived up to your majesty's trust. The elixir of longevity is ready!"
After finishing his words, Yuan Tiangang took out two porcelain bottles from his arms.
Li Shimin stared at the porcelain vase in Yuan Tiangang's hand for a while before slowly walking down.
"Two elixirs?"
"good!"
Li Shimin picked up an elixir and looked at it repeatedly. After half a stick of incense, he asked: "How can the imperial master prove that he can live forever?"
Yuan Tiangang took out a locust and placed it in front of Li Shimin.
"what for."
"Your Majesty, the lifespan of a locust can only last three months, but this locust has been around for more than a year, and it is no different now than it was at the beginning. Not only that, I also used many animals for testing to prove that this elixir is feasible!"
Li Shimin nodded and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, you did a great job!"
"But the Imperial Master must know that it is not as good as a human body. Since there are two pills, why don't you try them for me?"
Yuan Tiangang frowned slightly: "Your Majesty, you can't trust me?"
For the first time in twenty years, Li Shimin nodded and admitted that he could not trust Yuan Tiangang.
Seeing this, Yuan Tiangang slowly poured out a pill and put it in his hand.
Immortality, something that countless people pursue is within easy reach, but it is not what he pursues.
But the emperor's order was on his side, and to prove that his elixir was feasible, he raised his head and ate it directly.
After seeing Yuan Tiangang take the elixir, Li Shimin seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"National Master, I will keep this pill for now. You first..."
"Well..."
Yuan Tiangang was fine just now, but suddenly he felt as if there were ants crawling all over his body, as if thousands of ants were eating his heart, and at the same time, several tiny cracks appeared on his face!
