Li Yunxiao has been waiting in the pavilion since he came back. Yuan Tiangang is still in the palace now. It's not that he wants to stay in the palace, but that Li Dan's body needs to be recuperated. He may have been disturbed by Li Yunxiao's words today. Depressed, sick.
After looking at the starry sky for a long time, Li Yunxiao turned his head slightly and heard someone coming.
"Emperor Master! I'm back! Oh, your place is really too high."
An Lushan shouted outside the courtyard carrying two jars of wine.
"Come in, the door is unlocked."
"okay!"
An Lushan opened the door and walked in. After looking at Li Yunxiao who was sitting alone in the pavilion, he walked over with a smile.
Li Yunxiao looked at An Lushan through the light of the pavilion: "Did you get hit on the head?"
"It's okay, it's okay, I accidentally fell."
Li Yunxiao smelled the alcohol on An Lushan's body, and there was a hint of a different smell.
"I fell down... Let me ask you, did Yang Yuyao ask you to get mead or drink mead? And what does this mead taste like...?"
An Lushan laughed: "To be honest with the emperor, I did have two drinks after I went there."
Li Yunxiao said lightly: "It seems that Yang Yuyao 'personally' drank with you, right?"
"Uh...this..."
Before An Lushan could say anything else, Li Yunxiao stood up and came to An Lushan with his hands behind his back.
"Do you know why I want to keep you by my side?"
"Are you looking at the young ones who have little talent?"
Seeing that Li Yunxiao didn't speak, An Lushan continued: "Do you think the young ones are worth cultivating?"
"Forgive me for being blunt, is it because I want to go against His Majesty, so I left you as a pawn to fight for?"
Li Yunxiao shook his head: "None of them."
"What's the reason for that?"
Li Yunxiao lowered his eyebrows and looked at An Lushan: "Because I see unstable factors in you..."
An Lushan was startled: "Emperor Master, does your instability mean that Xiao Xiao is unstable? Or does Xiao Xiao offend the Emperor Master in some way?"
"I beg the Imperial Master for clarification!"
Plop!
An Lushan knelt directly on the ground.
Li Yunxiao walked slowly around to the side of Anlu Mountain, looked at Chang'an and said calmly: "I have heard of you a long time ago."
"You were born in Turks. Your father is a Turk and your mother is from the Central Plains. You have been extremely smart since you were a child and are good at fighting and setting up formations."
"Your parents didn't treat you well, and you felt that being in the Turks was not as good as being in the Central Plains, so you fled the Turks at a young age."
"In the following years, you learned the languages of the Western Regions, Tubo, the Central Plains and other places. Because of your talents, you were adopted by Zhang Shougui as his adopted son."
"Not long after, because there was no war, you were still not allowed to be promoted, so you were transferred to the border of the Tang Dynasty, under General Liang's tent."
Having said this, Li Yunxiao pulled An Lushan up.
"You are smart, but you know how to be patient. You know that the Emperor will celebrate his birthday soon, so you raise an army and stir up trouble, just to use your honest appearance and your flattering words to get yourself re-used. I'm telling you. ,Right?"
Boom!
After hearing these words, An Lushan's mind felt like thunder.
He was even a little confused, just looking at Li Yunxiao in a daze.
What Li Yunxiao said was absolutely correct, that's what he had in mind! And his plan has been planned for nearly ten years!
Why should a person who is proficient in various languages be wronged in a small place?
He felt that with his talents, he was definitely qualified to serve as a high-ranking official. Even if he died in battle, he would still be famous in the world!
Therefore, he made this plan after asking around. He knew that the emperor liked to listen to good things in recent years, which was what he was best at, so he desperately looked for opportunities to come over.
But only he himself should know these things. He has never told anyone else. How did the Imperial Master know about it?
"Master Imperial, that Khitan is indeed insulting..."
Li Yunxiao interrupted An Lushan: "It's normal for them to scold me, because they don't know what I've been through, and you just need to say it's right or wrong."
An Lushan sighed deeply: "I'm so ashamed! Everything the emperor said...is true!"
"Look." Li Yunxiao pointed at An Lushan and said calmly: "This is your cleverness. When you know that you can't hide it, you will tell the truth to win my forgiveness."
"Your journey has been quite bumpy. You have been unpopular since you were a child. You have the heart to serve the country, but you can only use sweet words to make yourself look ugly in front of others in order to be reused."
"Emperor Master, now that the matter has come to an end, I will kill or behead you as you wish, but I am unhappy with what I have in my heart."
"tell me the story."
"You are indeed proficient in the language of clinging, but if you don't climb to a high place, how can you serve your country?"
"Then have you ever thought about it, if everyone in the world is like you, and they have to stand on high places and enjoy glory in front of others to feel that they are serving the country, then wouldn't the number of official positions in the Tang Dynasty be greater than the number of people? ?”
"Besides, who said that those who stand in the shadows cannot be remembered in history and are not heroes?"
An Lushan sighed deeply and lowered his head: "I can't help you, so please give me a good time!"
Li Yunxiao slowly put his hand into his arms. This action made An Lushan close his eyes and clench his fists together.
For a moment, a variety of emotions, including unwillingness, anger, despair, and cowardice, were flowing through his mind.
"then."
"Um?"
When An Lushan heard the words, he opened his eyes in confusion.
Li Yunxiao took out a token from his arms and threw it over.
After reaching out to catch it, An Lushan began to look at it carefully.
[Xiaolou·Anlushan]
"This...Emperor Master, you are..."
"This is Xiaolou Boss's token. This token has many privileges. One of them is that it can be cheaper to buy items under my name in Chang'an."
"Secondly, you don't need to kneel when you see officials below the seventh rank. Thirdly, this symbolizes that from now on, you are my Li Yunxiao. If you don't trouble others, others will not easily trouble you. "
Li Yunxiao cut off a branch from a nearby tree and placed it on the oil lamp. When the flames were almost scorching, he took it out and placed it in front of An Lushan.
An Lushan felt a little confused and didn't know what it meant.
As Li Yunxiao cut open the burnt bark to reveal the tender color inside, An Lushan suddenly realized...
Li Yunxiao put his arm on An Lushan's shoulder:
"Since Taizong left, I have firmly believed that people will change and can be changed, whether it is because of things or self-control."
"Xiao Tower means a lot to me. It is mine, and it will be yours from now on. I don't care what happened to you, whether you were an unwanted bastard or an outcast before."
"But from now on...you won't be anymore."
"Emperor Master..."
An Lushan raised his head slightly, looked at Li Yunxiao who was watching him, and his heart trembled.
An indescribable feeling was like a warm current running through his body. He had never heard these words since he was born.
Over the years, what he has received the most is ridicule and bullying from others. Now, can he change his ways and start a new life?
An Lushan took the token with trembling hands, and a sour feeling suddenly surged into his heart.
boom!
An Lushan suddenly knocked his head to the ground and shouted: "Emperor Master! I am guilty!"
