Yang Guozhong took a deep breath next to him, ignored what happened just now, and continued to enjoy the dancers and music.
Yes, he has to endure it. When he reaches a certain height and has real power, he will get back all the lost face one by one!
On Li Bai's side, after talking about the matter, he poured wine again and again, even on Li Yunxiao's table.
The reason why he was like this was that, firstly, he felt uncomfortable in his heart, and secondly, he wanted He Zhizhang next to him to hear what he had experienced, so that maybe he could speak a few words to the emperor and he could enter the palace.
Because of what Li Yunxiao said many years ago, he finally figured it out, but he had a knot in his heart. If he was not appreciated by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and became an official in the dynasty, he would be unwilling to accept it for the rest of his life!
"Hey~~" Li Bai sat slumped with one hand behind his back, holding a wine bottle with the other hand and said with a smile: "I want to leave home and go to Sichuan for decades."
"Travel to Jinling, go down to Yangzhou, hide in Anlu, visit Xiangyang, enter Jingluo, visit the princes, and compete with the ministers."
"Brother Tianfeng, don't look at how good the rumors are outside. I seem to have unlimited glory, but look at me now. I am old and still dressed in cloth. Hahahahaha..."
Li Yunxiao called the waiter over, got some drinks, and then persuaded him calmly: "The pursuit of things always makes people crazy."
"Sometimes I feel that it is so close, but when I get closer, I realize that it is far away and boundless..."
Li Bai nodded: "Yes, this feeling of wanting something is really uncomfortable. I have been struggling with whether to stop pursuing it as you said, or to continue to persist... It always tortures me."
Li Yunxiao smiled helplessly, Li Bai was determined to enter the court and seek the throne.
"Guys, have any of you ever drowned?"
Facing Li Yunxiao's question, Du Fu and Gao Shi shook their heads.
He Zhizhang stroked his beard and said slowly: "Being in a barrel when I was a child should not be counted, hehehehe..."
"Of course that doesn't count."
After several people finished talking, Li Bai shook his head: "I am good at water and will not drown."
"Yeah, that's great." At this point, Li Yunxiao's eyes contained emotions that others couldn't understand.
"I've drowned once."
"You can't imagine the feeling of being suspended in mid-air, with endless darkness beneath you, and the surroundings constantly squeezing you..."
"This feeling is crazy and contradictory, because hanging in the water makes me feel very peaceful... It is an unprecedented tranquility..."
"After a while, it's like a pair of big hands hugging you under the water, whispering temptations in your ears, making you give up resistance..."
"Then you will find that as long as you sink, all the problems in this world will disappear...all your pursuits will be fleeting..."
"But then, an instinct will emerge from your body, an instinct that is difficult to control!"
"It crazily awakens every nerve in you, telling you to get up! It forces you to move forward! It forces you to surface!"
"Then a question will appear before your eyes that won't go away..."
"This feeling...have you had enough? Have you endured enough? Is this path the right one? If it is right, when will it end..."
Several people listened quietly to Li Yunxiao's words.
Yuan Tiangang's eyes were downcast and he wanted to say something, but he didn't speak.
Jiang Chen sighed, she did know many things about Li Yunxiao, but she had never understood them before.
Li Bai, Du Fu, Gao Shi, and He Zhizhang looked at each other. They all heard the feeling of helplessness, despair, and having to face it from Li Yunxiao's words.
"It turns out that Brother Tianfeng also has so many stories... It's all my fault. If I had known better, I wouldn't have complained. It brought back bad memories for you. I'll punish myself with a bottle of wine!"
Du Fu and Gao Shi cupped their hands and drank too.
He Zhizhang stroked his beard gently and frowned. He turned over and over again but did not expect that there was any official named Li Tianfeng in the court.
Li Yunxiao should not be an unknown person with such an experience.
Wu Zhao raised his arm to comfort him, but when he reached it halfway, he put it down again.
"sorry..."
In her opinion, since Taizong's death, Li Chunfeng's death, and Yuan Tiangang's disappearance, almost all subsequent calculations were made by himself.
And she was responsible for most of all of this, or even all of it!
Li Yunxiao turned around and gave Wu Zhao a faint smile: "It's all over, it doesn't matter."
After finishing the bottle of wine, Li Bai held up his hand and asked for advice: "I have long thought that Brother Tianfeng is not a mortal. How did Brother Feng get out of the predicament that day?"
He knew that Li Yunxiao was trying to persuade him, so he might as well listen.
Li Yunxiao smiled lightly and said: "That's too simple..."
"Oh? How simple?"
"That day...I drowned my weak and incompetent self with my own hands, and the new me was reborn."
"Encountering obstacles on the road, helplessness, and pain can make me collapse, but they can also make me stronger."
"The path I have chosen can make people shatter into pieces, or it can turn people into steel!"
Speaking of this, Li Bai and the others could clearly feel that the Li Tianfeng in front of them actually exuded the aura of a superior person.
It seemed that the person in front of them was no longer Li Tianfeng, but an... emperor...
Li Bai took a deep breath, feeling very depressed.
Looking over, among the group of people, Wu Zhao, Li Yunxiao, and He Zhizhang already had white hair.
And Li Bai's own head also had a trace of white hair mixed in with it.
"The journey is full of vicissitudes and obstacles. We are all chasing what we want, and today I, Li Bai, have learned a lesson."
"Brother Tianfeng is right, people should try their best for their ideals! At least I have persisted!"
As he said this, Li Bai slowly stood up and burst out laughing with the strength of his drink.
"Hehe...hehehe, hehehahahaha..."
He suddenly remembered the poem he wrote that day when he, Yuan Danqiu and Cen Xun traveled to the Yellow River!
Then, as if he was venting his anger, his voice directly overwhelmed the music!
"Don't you see it, the water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky! It flows to the sea - never to return..."
"Don't you see, Gaotangmingjing's sad white hair! The morning is like blue silk - the evening is like snow..."
After finishing the two lines of the poem, the music stopped, and just like King Shou and others, they all looked at the man who was holding the wine bottle and reading the poem loudly...
Li Bai walked around with a wine flask in hand.
"To be successful in life - you must have all the fun! Don't let the golden bottle - empty to the moon!"
"I am born with talents that will be useful! I will come back after all the money I have spent!!"
"Hahahahaha... Come, come, cook sheep and slaughter cows for fun. You will have to drink three hundred cups at a time~~"
"Come! Let's drink, don't stop drinking - hahahahaha..."
“I’ll sing a song with you, please give me your ear~~”
Li Bai laughed and ran around with the wine flask, clinking wine glasses with everyone.
Everyone was stunned as they savored the artistic conception of the poem, and uncontrollably picked up the wine and touched it, even the longevity king Li Hao, Yang Yuhuan and others were the same.
Li Bai raised his head and took a sip, then continued to vent loudly:
"The bells, drums, delicacies and jade are not expensive! I hope I will never wake up after being drunk for a long time!"
"All the sages in ancient times were lonely ~ only the drinkers left their names! Hahahaha...."
"In the old days, King Chen had great banquets, wine fights and endless banter!!!"
"Hahahahaha...."
With his laughter as if he was relieved, everyone's mood was aroused. Even those who didn't know how to drink sang a song unconsciously.
"Come, come, come, master, why do you say you have so little money? You have to sell it at your discretion!"
"Five-flowered horse - Qianjinqiu - Hu'er will be exchanged for fine wine -!"
"Let me share my eternal sorrow————"
"I'll let you go... Ha, ha ha ha ha ha... eternal sorrow..."
This time he took a swig and let Li Bai pour out the annoyance that had been pent up in his heart for more than ten years.
This time it was even more enjoyable than the time by the Yellow River. He felt unprecedented...
carefree! !
