A bottle of wine and a few dishes.

Gu Tianya picked up the wine glass again, glanced at An Yanbing on the ground, sighed and said: "Miss An, get up, let's all have a drink together before the food is cool."

He paused for a moment, and then said: "After drinking this glass of wine, you will not be left in the small courtyard. The mountains and rivers are high and the rivers are long, and I will see you again in the new year..."

Everyone was startled. An Yanbing got up from the ground and said in shock and urgency: "You want us to leave?"

Gu Tianya nodded and said with emotion: "You are all people who care about the ethnic group. Gu also carries a large family on his shoulders. How can people like us have time to relax? So after drinking this glass of wine, each of us

We all have to embark on the journey again. You go to serve the nation and the people, and I have to go about my business."

An Yanbing pursed her lips and suddenly said: "You just said, when will he meet again in the new year? May I ask Lord Gu, when is the wedding date?"

Gu Tianya pondered for a moment and then replied: "I can't be sure about this wonderful gathering. Maybe we will see each other in January or two months, maybe we won't see each other again in ten or twenty years."

This statement may seem vague, but actually it contains some kind of metaphor.

An Yanbing was so smart that she understood Gu Tianya's meaning in an instant. Her pretty face changed color and she said: "Gu Guozhu is telling us that we have to choose our own path in the future, right? If we choose well, we will be defeated in a few months.

You accept it. If we choose poorly, we will still be enemies in ten or twenty years, right?"

Gu Tianya did not answer her, but looked at everyone and said sincerely: "A person needs a few friends in his life. And I, Gu Tianya, regard you as my friends."

An Yanbing was stunned for a moment and said in astonishment: "You consider us friends?"

Gu Tianya nodded and said: "There are many smart people in this world, but unfortunately there are very few smart people who care about the ethnic group. Although we are in different camps, it does not prevent Gu from respecting you... just because I am just like you.

Likewise, I am deeply attached to the ethnic group in my heart, but we are of the same mind but cannot walk the same path, so I am afraid we will not be able to walk together in this life."

“Can’t we share the same goal?”

An Yanbing murmured and repeated it softly.

Suddenly, I saw a middle-aged scholar looking up at the sky and saying with a sad voice: "Gu Guozhu's words of "We are of the same mind but cannot share the same path" express the depression and desolation in our hearts. However, you are not among them."

Gu Tianya looked at him and asked solemnly: "Why?"

The middle-aged scholar stood up, continued to look up at the sky, and said: "Once upon a time, there was a sage among you Han people who recited a high-spirited and eternal song: 'The road is long and long, and I will search up and down.'

How broad, how ambitious... However, even such a sage and sage finally committed suicide in the river in grief, anger and melancholy."

As he spoke, he looked away, his eyes full of tears, and he looked at Gu Tianya and said: "Although we are not as good as that Dr. Qu Yuan, our situation today is the same. Our country is in ruins and the people are miserable. It is a pity that we have not been able to turn the world upside down."

With so much power, only the word pain lingers in my heart."

He paused for a moment, then continued to look at Gu Tianya, and then said: "But you, Lord Gu, are different. You are like a majestic sun covering the sky. All the three thousand hometowns of Goguryeo are in your hands, and millions of them are in your hands."

People of Goguryeo, life and death are only between your thoughts. When we disobey you, you send a golden fairy to make our lives worse than death. When we beg, you let a few children travel to Liaodong to spread benevolence and righteousness...

"

"Evil is you, good is also you. Turn your hands to become clouds, turn your hands to rain, like the blue dragon lying high in the clouds, overlooking everything in the land of Goguryeo. And the life and death of millions of Goguryeo people are just a game to you.

Game. You play happily in this game, but we are struggling in sinking."

"Gu Guozhu, is this what you mean by being of the same mind but different ways?"

"I don't see the so-called people of the same mind but different paths. I only see one in the sky and one on the earth. Lord, you cover the sky of Goguryeo, and we walk hard in the mud."

At this point, it was obvious that he had begun to criticize, but Gu Tianya did not interrupt, but continued to listen quietly.

Just listen to the middle-aged scholar say again: "People's situations are different, and their moods will naturally be different. Lord, you are now in a strong position, and everything you do goes smoothly. Therefore, you will show your generosity, and your friends will respect you. Maybe,

You are sincerely showing goodwill, but we cannot accept this goodwill."

"Because, this is charity!"

The middle-aged scholar finally finished speaking, with a resolute look on his face, as if he was not afraid that he had ridiculed Gu Tianya, and he put on a look of relief that he would die generously.

His posture made An Yanbing very worried.

The octogenarian man also showed worry in his eyes.

As for the Queen of Goguryeo, her face was anxious and panicked. She wanted to reach out and give a hand to persuade the middle-aged scholar to bow his head, but she was afraid of arousing Gu Tianya's reaction, so she killed the middle-aged man directly in anger.

…

After a long time, Gu Tianya slowly exhaled.

"good!"

Gu Tianya only said one word.

He neither ordered Bao Feng to kill anyone, nor did he refute the middle-aged scholar's words. Instead, he glanced at the four Goguryeo people present, and he had a panoramic view of their expressions.

After another long while, Gu Tianya finally spoke and said: "Your Excellency's words made Gu deeply moved. I suddenly realized that people will not be persuaded by words. Even wise men with broad minds will make mistakes.

It’s a mistake of being narrow-minded. No matter how sincere others are, it sounds like hypocritical sophistry to you. In this case, let’s see it as it is believed.”

He paused slightly as he spoke, and then continued: "Originally, I was thinking of letting you leave this small courtyard. But now, I have changed my mind."

The middle-aged scholar's face changed, and he said anxiously: "I am mocking you and letting you kill them at will. But the three of them did not do this. Lord Gu..."

Unfortunately, Gu Tianya suddenly waved his hand and seemed unwilling to continue listening.

He first looked at the octogenarian and asked solemnly: "Old General Yu, Gu wants to ask you something. If I let you go tonight, will you go to the mountains again to join the rebels?"

The old man seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then he said solemnly without any concealment: "Although I know that the rebellion will lose, I will still return to the rebels. In this case, I can turn into their shield. When they are strangled, I will

I can stand in the forefront. Even if I can't save a few people, I can protect them from dying a moment later."

Gu Tianya's face was full of respect and he nodded: "He is indeed a great hero."

He no longer asked the old man, but looked at the middle-aged scholar and asked: "If I let you leave, I'm afraid you will still keep running around, secretly teaching Goguryeo children and learning your Goguryeo writing, right?"

The middle-aged scholar said loudly without even thinking about it: "Even if Goguryeo will eventually become extinct, I will not give up any opportunity to work hard. Writing is the treasure of a ethnic group and should not be lost to power. Thousands of years later, if the world can

When they see the Goguryeo characters, they will know that there was a Goguryeo in history. Although the ethnic group is extinct, our characters are still there."

Gu Tianya nodded solemnly and said with respect: "Okay, you are worthy of being a great scholar."

After he asked the two people, he did not ask An Yanbing and the Queen of Goguryeo. Instead, he breathed out gently and said for them: "Miss An has a gentle temperament, but she has perseverance in her bones. I guess if you are let go by me,

, you will continue to do what you did before. And Queen Gao is very attached to her people and shows compassion like a loving mother. Presumably, she will not give up her previous efforts."

An Yanbing and the Queen of Goguryeo hesitated for a moment, then each nodded.
Chapter completed!