Taiping Inn

There are many things that were not fully explained between Li Xuandu and Zhang Luanshan, but that is enough.

As Zhang Luanshan said, some things will be understood even if they are not said.

Li Xuandu once said to Yan Feiqing: "The human heart is like water with many ripples. Now that things have come to this, I don't know who to trust and who not to trust."

The "who" in this sentence refers to Zhang Luanshan.

Because many of Zhang Luanshan's actions made Li Xuandu confused, he had this question.

Now that he has met Zhang Luanshan, many questions have been solved, which makes Li Xuandu have a guess in his heart.

This is just a guess. Zhang Luanshan does have some kind of connection with the palace officials and even the female sect, or even cooperation, because the Northwest Five Sects can only establish a country with the support of the Golden Horde. Therefore, Zhang Luanshan used his identity and status in the Zhengyi Sect to leak the relevant information of the Twelve Sects of the Righteous Path to the Female Sect, and at the same time exchanged information about the Golden Horde from the Female Sect. From a long-term perspective, it is beneficial.

Because the Golden Horde is the real threat, in order to defeat this important opponent, there is certainly reason to cooperate with other forces. The Zhou Kingdom only occupies a corner of the country, with a difficult situation and weak military strength. Since ancient times, no one has been able to conquer the world with Shuzhou. Without the support of the Golden Horde, it is destined to be no match for the Wei Dynasty. Even if the Zhou Kingdom replaces the Wei Dynasty, the world will still be the world of the Central Plains people, and will not be replaced by the foreign race of the Golden Horde.

For this world, for the people, Zhang Luanshan must seek benefits by any means.

For the female clan, the same is true. Conspiring with the Golden Horde is tantamount to seeking the skin of a tiger. One day, they will turn against each other. Now, taking the intelligence of the Golden Horde in exchange for the intelligence of the mortal enemy is a sure win.

Therefore, the cooperation between Zhang Luanshan and the palace officials is mutually beneficial.

This time Zhang Luanshan came with the palace officials, presumably to clarify the matter to Li Xuandu, and also to explain many things, because he didn't want to lose Li Xuandu as a friend. Since he wanted to save the world, he must have connections with many people in the court, maybe the cabinet, maybe the Silijian, or even the King of Jin, so he had the motivation to save Zhou Tingchao.

This reminded Li Xuandu of the four roads.

The right result obtained by the right process, the wrong result obtained by the wrong process, the wrong result obtained by the right process, and the right result obtained by the wrong process.

Which one would he choose?

In essence, they have no intention of pursuing the right or wrong in the process, but only seek the right or wrong in the result, so they are still the same kind of people, and it is for this reason that Li Xuandu said that he respects Zhang Luanshan's choice.

But whether this road has an end, and what the end will be like, Li Xuandu is not optimistic.

The two drank the whole pot of wine in silence. Li Xuandu asked, "I failed to save Lord Tingchao. Now I plan to send her orphan to Xuannv Sect. I wonder what Brother Qingque thinks."

Zhang Luanshan said, "I'll say something that Zifu may not like to hear. I only want to save Zhou Tingchao this time. As for his wife and daughter, it doesn't matter. Since Zhou Tingchao is dead, how to arrange for his orphan will trouble Zifu."

Li Xuandu was not surprised by this answer.

People who do big things always don't care about the life and death of small people. In fact, small people are the same. Who doesn't sweep the snow in front of their own door and don't care about the frost on other people's roofs? No one should laugh at anyone. Even if it is Li Xuandu, if he didn't get along with the little girl, he wouldn't care too much about the life and death of a person he met by chance.

This is the bad nature of human beings, selfishness, greed for life, bullying the weak and fearing the strong. And those who can not be swayed by these are either saints or heroes.

After finishing the wine, Zhang Luanshan stood up and said goodbye.

Not long after, Yu Qingning came back with the little girl, but there was no sign of the palace official, so she must have followed Zhang Luanshan.

Yu Qingning did not ask what Li Xuandu and Zhang Luanshan had talked about, but just asked: "How is Shu Ning's matter?"

Li Xuandu looked at the two women, one big and one small: "Of course she agreed, otherwise what else can she do? Zhang Qingque is not the kind of person who will bring a child around."

Yu Qingning nodded, feeling much relieved.

She came to see Li Xuandu this time for two main purposes. One of them was to hand over the recipe of the "Five Qi True Pill" and the blood jade marrow to Li Xuandu, and the second was to take Zhou Shu Ning away from Li Xuandu. Now that these two things have been settled, she can be said to have put down the two stones in her heart.

At this time, Li Xuandu repeated a big talk that was not very new but made a lot of sense: "What is the Jianghu? Jianghu is not only about swords and swords, but also about human relationships and worldly affairs. No matter how high your realm and cultivation are, can you really jump out? You can't jump out. As long as you are a human being, you can't jump out until you have eliminated all emotions and nature."

At this point, he laughed at himself, turned his head and looked at Yu Qingning, and asked: "By the way, how are your eyes?"

Yu Qingning hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand to remove the black veil covering his eyes, revealing a pair of dull eyes.

The reason why these eyes are blind is due to Li Xuandu's sword energy, and it is an extremely powerful sword energy that does not hurt the flesh and blood. At first glance, these eyes are still intact, just like covered with a layer of gray mist, but in fact, the sword energy has penetrated into them, completely extinguishing all vitality in them.

Yu Qingning said, "It may be difficult to recover as before, but I have become accustomed to it. In the first few years, I relied on listening to the sound to distinguish positions. Later, I learned a "mind" method from Su Aiyun. According to her, this method is difficult to practice because the five colors make people blind, and their eyes are hindered by the "heart" but perhaps because my eyes are blind, they practice it very easily. After practicing, To observe people with divine thoughts, we can even see them even more.”

After hearing this, Li Xuandu felt a little guilty.

No matter how light Yu Qingning's tone is, no matter how mysterious the so-called "heart-eye" is, if you blind, you will be blind. Although Li Xuan doesn't know what a person looks like with "heart-eye" and it will definitely not be true. The eyes are the same, so if you lose it, it is irreversible.

The so-called "heart and eye" is actually a magical power derived from "other mind and enlightenment". Therefore, although Yu Qingning cannot see the eyes, she can sense what the people's heart is moved. She can't help but shake her head and smile, "The purple palace does not need to do this. But I blame myself, as the saying goes, misfortune is the basis of good fortune, good fortune is the basis of misfortune, and it is impossible to lose my horse. What is wrong with the loss of my horse? Perhaps this blind misfortune is the opportunity for my future creation."

Since Yu Qingning has said this, Li Xuan is not that pretentious person, so he stopped mentioning this matter and asked, "After Shuning is handed over to you, I will go to see Yan Xuanji and say Maybe I will meet Su Yunxian too. I wonder if you will go with me?"

Yu Qingning shook her head and said, "For me, Junior Sister Shuning is the top priority. I will immediately take Junior Sister Shuning back to Yunu Mountain to meet Master."

Zhou Shuning looked sad and sad.

Li Xuandu stood up and looked at the little girl and said, "There is no banquet that will last forever. Shen Shuangmei, Yan Feiqing, Hu Liang and others have left for various reasons. Now it's my turn, just like what you said to Hu Liang. , the world is so big, we will see you in the future.”

The little girl bit her lip lightly, feeling sore, feeling very aggrieved.

Li Xuandu's tone slightly heavier: "Girl, you have to remember that Jianghu believes in swords and swords, not tears, put away your tears."

When the little girl heard this, she sniffed her nose suddenly, and the tears that were already spinning in her eyes did not flow down.

Only then did Li Xuandu smile at the little girl and said, "That's right."

Yu Qingning asked softly, "If you encounter any difficult things in the Purple Mansion in the future, you can come to Yunu Mountain to find me. Qingning will do his best to help."

If it were the former Zifu Sword Immortal, he would directly refuse because there was no need to help the Xuannv Sect. He would not help the things that needed to help the Xuannv Sect. But now it is different, and Li Xuan is no longer The Zifu Sword Immortal did no longer a deviant thing, so he did not refuse, but nodded and responded to Yu Qingning's promise.

Then Li Xuandu took out a ingot of silver from his sleeve, placed it on the table, pushed the door open and left.