After hearing the news of Ji Gang's execution, Lin Linyou was not as excited as he imagined. Instead, he felt calm inside and even wanted to eat another bowl of tofu mixed with rice.
In the final analysis, he and Ji Gang are from two different worlds. Ji Gang's life and the lives of everyone in the Ming Dynasty will become a few pale words recorded in history books.
For Lin Linyou, hearing Ji Gang's execution with his own ears was no different from reading about it in a history book.
Dust to dust, dust to dust, no one can escape the fate of this time.
Immortality is just a beautiful fantasy. But for poor people, this fantasy is not a good one. They don’t even have such a fantasy. They only think about this remaining life. If they can get relief early, how can they think about immortality?
But history has always made a small change, and Ji Gang was executed a year early.
So, history can be changed?
But who is the person who caused this change? It doesn't seem like he is Lin Linyou. Perhaps there is a bit of him in it, just like a butterfly flapping its wings.
Lin Linyou returned to the courtyard and planned to ask Zhang Bi for advice on what he thought of this change.
"Did you sleep with the Taoist nun?" Zhang Bi's first words shocked Lin Linyou.
"Keep your voice down!" Lin Linyou covered Zhang Bi's mouth, walked carefully to the door, looked over, and closed the door to the living room, "I have returned to secular life... No, how did you know? Of? You are following me!"
"You are missing and I am not allowed to look for you?!" Zhang Ben said, "Who in the world cares more about you than me?"
"But it was Chen Wanran who saved me."
"So, you promised me your life and slept with her?"
"To be precise, it seems that she slept with me..."
"I don't understand why you can sleep with anyone but refuse to sleep with Rong'er?"
"Hey, this kind of thing is actually quite boring..." Lin Linyou looked like he was getting an advantage and still being obedient.
"Isn't it interesting that you keep running to Jiaofangsi?"
"I haven't run away for a long time." Lin Linyou said, "I always have anger that needs to be vented... If it's not mixed with emotion, it's still interesting, but if it's mixed with emotion, it's not interesting at all."
"Why do I feel like you said the opposite?"
"No emotions involved, it's just a battle!"
"Is it mixed with emotions?"
"It's sacred, not pure."
"Bullshit!" Working under Ji Gang, Zhang Ben also learned a bit of Ji Gang's native dialect.
Lin Linyou said seriously: "It's just physical pleasure, a savage primitive impulse. True love is holy. It's best to keep a sense of mystery. If you sleep, it will be tainted. This is why many men and women originally had So when you fall in love, the reason why the relationship fades away after you fall asleep is not because you succeeded, but because it was contaminated."
"Why is it contaminated?!"
"Just like Bai Yueguang, you can only watch it from a distance, not play with it." Lin Linyou said, "Do you know why Bai Yueguang can't get that smell back even if he comes?"
"Because I was molested?"
"Yes! We have been teased by time." Lin Linyou said, "We have all been teased by time."
"I have no control over who you sleep with." Zhang Bi returned to the truth and preached, "But you have to know that the Taoist nun is the woman of Marquis Yangwu."
"I know!"
"How dare you sleep even if I know you?"
"I said she slept with me."
"That's because Xue Lu wants to take advantage of you!"
"What are you using me for?" Lin Linyou disagreed, "I can't do anything against Ji Gang."
"Anyway, you have to take it easy." Zhang Ben said, "The political situation in the court is all about profit, how can there be any feelings?"
"What about us?" Lin Linyou looked at Zhang Bi meaningfully.
Zhang Bi was stunned, scratched his neck and said: "We are different!"
"What's the difference?"
"we are brothers!"
"You just said that the political situation in the court is all about profit, how can there be any feelings?"
“Between you and me, where is the political situation?”
"Then you left me in prison and refused to save me?" Lin Linyou asked, "Isn't it for the sake of the political situation?"
Zhang Ben was speechless.
Lin Linyou continued: "Brother, I suddenly feel that you are very similar to the same person."
"Who?" Zhang Ben said, "Is it Wu Yanzu?"
"Yang Shiqi."
"Where...where does it look like?"
"Low-key."
Yang Rong is very low-key, Jian Yi is also very low-key, but the most low-key is Yang Shiqi. So much so that Zhu Di thought Yang Shiqi was not a princeling and regarded him as a centrist.
Light but not shining, still water flowing deep. You should be low-key when doing things, and you should be low-key when you are an official.
Xie Jin lost his life because he was too high-profile. So does Ji Gang.
In the thirteenth year of Yongle, after the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhu Di decided to change his title to Zhu Gaoxu and go to Qingzhou.
Zhu Gaoxu said displeasedly: "What crime do I have to do to leave my barren land?" Still unwilling to go and join the vassal state.
"Yang Shiqi's sword has been unsheathed. Brother, where is your sword?" Lin Linyou said to Zhang Bi.
"We are already searching for Ji Gang's comrades everywhere." Zhang Ben said, "As for other things..."
"Just leave Zhuang Jing to me." Lin Linyou didn't want to worry about other things.
"What about my marriage with my little sister?" Zhang Ben asked tentatively.
"Think about it again!"
Zhang Ben was anxious: "Don't be like this! Even if you don't consider us, you and Rong'er should... Now that Ji Gang has been eliminated, what worries do you have?"
"No worries."
"If you don't have any worries, don't you think about your own life-long matter and your little sister's life-long matter?" Zhang Ben said, "Do you want to wait until all the traitors are killed? Can you finish the killing? After killing Ji Gang, there will be Wang Zhen in the future. There are Wang Zhi, Liu Jin, and Wei Zhongxian!"
"Will I be able to live that long in the future?" Lin Linyou smiled slightly and went back to his room.
Zhang Ben was stunned for a moment, thoughtful...
Lin Linyou lay on the bed, took out the book of impermanence in his arms, and touched the knife mark on the rhinoceros skin cover. Jia Quan should be the first time traveler he killed. If those who were imprisoned in the imperial edict were Not counting the time traveler who was tortured to death - after all, he was not the one who tortured him personally.
The blank pages of the Impermanence Book were stained red with dried blood and turned a little black. I don't know if it was his blood, Jia Quan's blood, or both.
As he watched, Lin Linyou suddenly jumped up from the bed. Under the blood stains, there were actually a few words hidden!
He put the paper under the oil lamp and finally saw clearly what those words were——
Those who wander in the forest will have thirteen years of life.
What does it mean to live longer by thirteen? My lifeline, extended for thirteen years?
Why were thirteen years of life added to my life inexplicably? Could it be that these thirteen years of life should have belonged to Jia Quan?
Apart from this, Lin Linyou couldn't think of a better explanation.
So, my path to immortality lies in the time traveler? To prove the truth by killing?
It's a bit cruel, it sounds like a demon...
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