In the Blade

"Wait a minute!"

Just when this fatal palm was about to strike, Jia Wen knelt down decisively.

"If you just want to fight with a master, why bother looking for me? I don't know martial arts at all!"

"...Huh?"

The palm that was about to strike stopped in mid-air.

"You can't fight?"

"I can't fight, I really can't fight."

Jia Wen nodded repeatedly.

"If you don't believe me, look at me. Can you see any signs of being able to fight?"

Having said this, Jia Wen simply took off the outer dragon robe, leaving only thin clothes.

Yes, although Jia Wen is well maintained compared to other old men of the same age, this tough body is only at the level of an ordinary person after all.

He really has no martial arts.

"How can you be an emperor if you can't fight?"

The huge strong man withdrew his palm with a curse.

This also made Jia Wen breathe a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough. With just a few words, he had guessed the purpose of the strong man breaking into the palace. It was because of this that his life was saved.

Now that the two sides have started talking, the next step is to move on to his expertise.

After just a few words of casual chat, Jia Wen already knew that the one who broke into the palace was Du Chengfeng from Yizhou. God knows why the rebel from Yizhou would come to Jiankang, and even the guards of the palace could not stop him. But now, he already knew that the rebel's mind was easier to guess than he expected.

"In other words, the strong man did not intend to rebel, but just wanted to fight with the master?"

Jia Wen stroked his beard and laughed.

Although he could not beat any master with his strength, once the master had a desire, the so-called master would not be so high.

"That's easy. I only need one sentence to find a place for the warrior..."

"No, what I want is to live and work in peace and contentment."

Du Chengfeng shook his head and explained.

"Just like that, it would be nice to have a small yard. Then you can raise a dog or two cats, and you can plant two trees in the yard, one is a jujube tree, and the other is also a jujube tree..."

"......???"

Jia Wen felt that his brain was not enough.

Aren't we talking about the masters fighting? Why did we talk about living and working in peace and contentment again? What about a jujube tree, and the other is also a jujube tree... Why not just say two jujube trees?

Is this man named Du Chengfeng really mentally okay?

"Huh..."

Spitting out a breath of turbid air, Jia Wen tried to calm himself down a little.

Well, this kind of thing is normal. After all, people who can release evil spirits have basically a little difference in their brains from normal people - not to mention that this is actually a good thing. After all, the Du Chengfeng in front of him is too stupid. Before he said anything, Du Chengfeng had already revealed his past.

Only need a yard to be satisfied? Just because of such an obsession, he was able to release his evil spirit?

If it were someone else, it might be a little unbelievable, but Jia Wen remembered that Du Chengfeng was originally from Jibei. In other words, he had been a refugee for some time, so he was indeed obsessed with a home of his own.

But for Jia Wen, it was very simple to fulfill this obsession.

"Isn't it just a house? What kind of man likes, you can just tell me, I will definitely..."

"But the problem is here, just a yard is definitely not enough."

Before Jia Wen finished speaking, Du Chengfeng shook his head.

"I bought a yard before, and it was pretty good, but it was useless. When the war came, everything was gone... So do you understand? The residence is only secondary. What is really important is the power to protect this life."

Du Chengfeng sighed as he said this.

"If you want strength, you have to fight with masters, so that you can at least know what level you are at and what your strength is."

"Ah this..."

Jia Wen was speechless for a while.

Although he didn't quite understand how the topic got here, what made him feel even more strange was that he actually felt that what Du Chengfeng said at the moment was right.

It seems to be true. If you want to live a good life, you must have the power to protect everything. As for whether this power is enough, you really need to fight with masters to verify it...But didn't he just say that he would find a master? Why doesn't this work?

"Hey, I'm actually a peaceful person."

Du Chengfeng sighed.

"I don't like fighting, can you understand? I'm actually not the kind of aggressive person. I just want to live my own life. This is what I want."

"...???"

Jia Wen became more and more confused.

What were they talking about just now?

"By the way, I've been talking for a long time. Let's talk about you."

Du Chengfeng put his arm around Jia Wen's shoulders.

"You must have a dream, right? What do you want?"

"I..."

Just as the words were about to come out, Jia Wen immediately became alert.

Shouldn't he be testing? Why did he suddenly have to confess himself? A person's obsession is the most secret thing, how can it be easily shown to others?

Or should I make up a fake one first, at least to stabilize this...

"Hey, you don't have a dream?"

Before Jia Wen could speak, Du Chengfeng sighed first.

"That's normal. After all, with your status, I can understand... Just a few days ago, I heard a story about a big tree."

After saying this, Du Chengfeng simply told Jia Wen the story of the big tree that Liu Bolun had told him before.

"So, once you are set up, you can't help yourself. This is really..."

"Yes, it is true."

Jia Wen forced a smile.

That is to say, he is very good at manipulating people's hearts, and now he can barely keep up with Du Chengfeng's jumping thoughts-after all, as a normal person, it is really too difficult to understand the evil spirit of a mentally abnormal person.

But fortunately, at this moment, he has already caught the flaw in Du Chengfeng's words.

At this moment, Jia Wen has already felt that the big tree in Du Chengfeng's story is clearly referring to Du Chengfeng himself.

A useful tree will naturally be coveted by everyone. People will always want to divide the usefulness of this tree in various names. Perhaps this is why Du Chengfeng has already released his evil spirit and is still pursuing power, because the insecurity in his subconscious has never been truly eliminated.

At this moment, Jia Wen felt that he had found the crux of the problem.

After finding the problem, the next step will be easy. Since he is facing a person who lacks a sense of security, he just needs to give him enough sense of security. In fact, as long as he can give this sense of security, Du Chengfeng may even be recruited by him and become his strongest general and the sharpest tool in his hand!

The first step to build a sense of security is to build mutual trust.

He has always been good at this step.

"Indeed, the tree is too pitiful, just like you and me."

At this moment, Jia Wen did not even use the title of "I". He was deliberately creating a sense of commonality to narrow the distance between each other.

But at this moment, Du Chengfeng shook his head again.

"Who told you I'm a tree?"

"...Huh?"

Jia Wen was stunned.

"Then you are..."

"I'm a tree cutter."

As he said this, Du Chengfeng pulled out the sword without a blade hanging from his waist.

"Since you think you're a tree, you should understand, right? Only if I kill you, will those masters come to trouble me..."

"Wait!"

Seeing Du Chengfeng's murderous intent again, Jia Wen was shocked and waved his hands repeatedly.

"Brave man! Calm down! We have no grudges in the past and no hatred in the present. Today we talked about so many things. How can you..."

"I have no hatred with you, but this sword does."

Du Chengfeng swung the sword without a blade.

"When you forced my teacher away with an oral order, you didn't expect this day to come, right?"

"Teacher? An oral order?"

After a moment of confusion, Jia Wen immediately remembered the old incident more than ten years ago, and the Situ who was forced away by the little emperor.

But the problem is, this matter...

"It's not me! Ruan Shantao's matter is not my fault! I just..."

Bang!

The heavy sword fell, and Jia Wen's brain was immediately blasted.

Du Chengfeng dipped his sword in the fresh blood and wrote the words "Murderer, Yizhou Du Chengfeng" on the ground, then wiped the blood off the sword and turned away.

Only Jia Wen's body was left, lying alone in the empty hall.

He even kept the posture of reaching for the jade seal.

The second update is here, and I rewrote it in the middle. It's a bit late, so everyone should go to bed early.

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I'm going to rest, see you all tonight.