The fairy father

The road in Nanzhou is always like this, long, long, rugged and smooth in turn.

Li Pingan sat in his exotic beast frame, swaying towards the direction of Chaoge City.

The three brothers' car team was very long, with Ji Kao's gorgeous frame in the front, and many treasures hanging inside and outside the frame.

In the middle was Ji Fa's frame, which was modified from a chariot and was mainly durable.

Li Pingan's frame was just... ordinary.

They were on their way to Chaoge City. After a long journey of 35 days, they were very close to Chaoge City.

Along the way, Li Pingan saw many landscapes, appreciated the customs and customs of many Fang countries, and also witnessed the cultural diversity of Nanzhou.

Because of the barriers between Fang countries, primitive tribes, slave Fang countries, and relatively fair collegial fortresses can coexist here...

It's amazing.

Of course, most of the time, he let Ji Dan sleep, and he watched singing and dancing in the heavenly palace, listened to small songs, accompanied the three ladies, and lived a fairy life.

There may not be such an opportunity for a long time to come.

At present, Li Ping'an is equivalent to being on a short vacation - although the main soul is not idle, it has been enlightened.

The caravan slowly drove into a camp area for preparation.

In advance, there were generals of the Zhou Kingdom, riding shuttle horses, bringing a small group of soldiers and Zhou Kingdom's documents, making preparations along the way.

Each world is gradually evolving, and people and nature adapt to each other, and their own "rules" and styles will be born.

Observing these is also a kind of fun in practicing Taoism.

There is still more than half a day away from Chaoge City. The caravan began to set up camp, and Ji Dan also had an independent tent.

Li Ping'an still followed the old rules, had dinner in the tent, yawned, and began to prepare for sleep.

The few beautiful maids arranged by Ji Fa for him, even if they were wearing cool thin silk skirts and wandering in front of him, he had no intention of being moved.

——After seeing too many Chang'e, I really can't get interested.

However, Ji Fa was already worried about whether his fourth brother had any hidden illness, which was completely inconsistent with the Ji family's concept of "raising more offspring".

Before Li Ping'an could move his mind away, the voices of the maids' conversation came from outside the tent.

"Is the fourth young master asleep?"

"He just had dinner, so he should not have slept."

"That's great... The eldest young master wants to invite the fourth young master to come over for a chat, and there is something important to discuss."

"Well, okay, I'll go and call the fourth young master."

Li Ping'an frowned slightly.

He wanted to pretend to be asleep and didn't want to have too much interaction with Ji Kao, but his mind turned slightly, and he decided to go over and take a look.

They were about to arrive at Chaoge City. If Ji Kao was willing to give up his yearning for Emperor Xin, it was not impossible to save him...

He sat up, his eyes were clear and energetic, and he took the robe and put it on.

After the maid reported, he said, "I also want to go to my brother for something," and rushed to Ji Kao's tent.

Ji Kao was wearing casual clothes, accompanied by several beautiful concubines.

Seeing Ji Dan, Ji Kao immediately greeted him with a smile and ordered people to put two low tables together, indicating that Ji Dan and he should sit face to face, with delicious food and beautiful women as company, which was the standard style of the great Shang nobles.

Ji Kao said in a gentle voice: "Fourth brother, we are about to arrive in Chaoge City, do you have any plans?"

"Plans?"

Li Ping'an did not refuse the soft and fragrant girl beside him to pick up the dishes and add wine, but he did not take the wine bottle.

He said slowly: "What exactly does big brother mean?"

"That is, how to rescue my father," Ji Kao sighed, "The four great governors have lost two now, and the Jiang family is regarded as a thorn in the king's eyes and flesh. My Ji family can only take this opportunity to offer treasures to the king, hoping to make the king happy and pardon my father."

Li Ping'an pondered for a few times: "Big brother, are you serious?"

"Why not serious?" Ji Kao was a little puzzled.

"There are some deeper things here," Li Ping'an said seriously, "For example, what exactly should be done for the king to let Zhou go?"

Ji Kao was stunned.

Li Pingan sighed, "Brother, you should have the answer. You are a smart man, but sometimes you pretend to be stupid."

Ji Kao frowned and said nothing.

Li Pingan said calmly, "You all go down."

Several beautiful girls looked at each other, stood up and left, and retreated behind the screens on both sides.

Ji Kao lowered his head and supported his forehead. He found that his fourth brother's eyes suddenly became a little sharp, and he was a little afraid to look at Ji Dan.

Li Pingan picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of barbecue and put it in his mouth to chew, and said slowly:

"Brother, you really consider my young and weak body, and the medicine you use is not too much."

Ji Kao frowned and asked, "What do you mean, fourth brother?"

"Aren't these dishes made of herbs that can make you comatose?" Li Pingan said with a smile, "Some seasonings are also mixed in the wine... Let me think, it should be a small fruit. There are many on the east mountain outside Xiqi City. Eating it will make you sleepy."

Ji Kao's Adam's apple trembled.

Li Pingan sighed, "My second brother should have fainted and was just carried back to his tent."

"Fourth brother, don't talk nonsense," Ji Kao said in a deep voice, "Why am I doing this?"

"To show my loyalty."

Li Pingan continued to eat leisurely, explaining slowly:

"There is a beautiful girl in her twenties, she is a businessman, an eyeliner arranged by Uncle Wang Bigan, and also a mouthpiece for delivering news.

"You especially like to play some more interesting games with her, such as soaking her chest with wine, for example, letting her hit your back with a riding crop. You should still have some scars on your back now, right?

"Brother, you are twisted."

A little cold sweat broke out on Ji Kao's forehead.

He looked at Li Pingan with horror.

These, these are his secrets, only he and that Meiji know, why...

"Fourth, are you kidding me?"

"People are doing it, God is watching," Li Ping'an pointed to the sky above, "I didn't know this until I took the first bite of your food, but after eating it, I felt something was not right, so I asked For God’s sake.”

——Refers to his main spirit.

"God?" Ji Kao sneered, "Stop talking nonsense. Gods all favor merchants. Otherwise, how could they be the overlords of the world."

"If you use your logic, then God has no obvious preference now."

Li Pingan said seriously:

“Gods are biased towards order, etiquette, civilization and advancement, and I mean ideological advancement.

"And I don't understand it. Even though I have tried so hard to explain that there will be no interference from gods here, and there are no gods in Nanzhou anymore, neither you nor they believe it?"

Ji Kao whispered: "Because it's just you talking! It's just you and your father talking."

"So, you admitted to drugging me?" Li Ping'an looked a little more playful, "I actually lied to you. I took detoxifying herbs before coming here."

Ji Kao was startled.

He smiled bitterly and said: "Fourth brother, you are really, you are too smart."

"Actually, I am an ordinary person, but I can get a lot more information than you. You are in the game, so it is normal to get stuck here."

Li Pingan poured a glass of wine for Ji Kao.

Ji Kao didn't dare to drink.

Li Ping'an asked: "The next exchange between us is very important, very important to you... Brother, you are afraid of Di Xin, right?"

Ji Kao was silent.

Li Ping'an said: "Suppose that my father dies and my second brother and I are sacrificed to Emperor Xin by you, you can get the position of Xibohou. It's logical, right?"

Jikao's Adam's apple was bobbing up and down, and he whispered: "Fourth brother, you..."

"It's now, and there are dozens of soldiers you prepared outside the tent. Are you still unwilling to confess to me, a person who has no strength to restrain a chicken?"

"Ha," Ji Kao laughed miserably.

He looked up at Li Ping'an, as if his face had changed, becoming a little more gloomy and a little more determined.

Jikao whispered: "Then let me ask you, is our Zhou Kingdom a rival to Dashang?"

Not necessarily... Li Ping'an really wanted to say that.

But he couldn't, because he said this from the standpoint of a 'known result'. For Ji Chang, Ji Kao and Ji Fa, they were all under tremendous pressure at the moment, but they were facing this situation individually. Choices during times of stress are different.

Ji Chang asked the gods;

Ji Fa drills his troops and horses.

And Ji Kao...

"Yes, I want to choose one of you or the second child to take to Chaoge City overnight."

Ji Kao looked to one side and said calmly:

"I am the eldest son, and I think more than you. I have been in Chaoge City for so many years, and I have been watching their cruelty, their brutality, and their insensitivity cannot be described.

“Have you ever heard the screams of human beings being gouged?

"Do you know what the merchant's favorite sacrifice is? It's the leader, that is, the nobles of various tribes and countries. The higher the status, the more qualified they are to become the servants of the merchant's ancestors, and they will be sent to heaven through sacrifices.

"The place where the protons live is very close to the street where people and animals are slaughtered...very close...

"Didn't my grandfather get blistered like this?

"The king is afraid of us, isn't it because we are too strong? We went behind the merchants' backs to conquer Yu, and conquered seven or eight small countries. They are all our Ji family members. We can unite together when necessary.

"Your Majesty just wants to ensure that we are loyal to the Great Shang. Then, we can enjoy the position of Xibohou. Among the Great Shang, one person is inferior to ten thousand people. Isn't this good? Isn't this wrong?"

Li Ping'an looked at Ji Kao: "So, brother, you gave in to Di Xin."

"It's not that I gave in," Ji Kao sighed, "I'm just doing the right thing."

"What you think is right."

"Yes, I think it's the right thing to do," Ji Kao smiled bitterly, "What will happen if we continue to fight against Dashang? Dongbohou is dead, Nanbohou has been killed, Jizhou Suhu is not a Shang army at all Are our enemies going to let the Shang army come to attack us?"

Li Pingan was silent.

Ji Kao sighed: "I didn't give in, I just saw the situation clearly. It's impossible to keep Zhou Guo safe by fighting them."

Li Ping'an asked: "Then, if you cut off your arm and abolish your martial arts, please ask the king to let the Zhou people go?"

Ji Kao was silent.

Li Ping'an sighed: "Brother, if you were the King of Shang, would it be as simple as cutting off one of Zhou's arms after Zhou had seriously threatened him?"

Ji Kao didn't know how to answer.

Li Ping'an continued: "The reason why the Zhou Kingdom is as strong as it is is actually because the Zhou people were willing to endure hardships. They spent hundreds of years cultivating fertile land in Xiqi, herding sheep and horses, and raising exotic animals. Produce heirs.”

"Without the initial support of the great merchants, how could the Zhou state be established?"

"The initial support from the Shang Dynasty did not provide soldiers and food, but only sent people to invite the ancestors of the Zhou people to move from the Qiang people's territory and be enfeoffed as princes."

Li Pingan said quickly:

"Then the Zhou people guarded the borders and captured human sacrifices for the Shang Dynasty. They worked diligently for hundreds of years and paid tribute every three years.

"Who owes whom here?"

"But this world belongs to the Shang people!"

"This world belongs to the human race!" Li Pingan's eyes remained calm. "Whoever respects each human race more, whoever cares more about fairness and justice, whoever can push the world in a better direction, God will help him."

"Hehe, what you said sounds better than anything else. Isn't it the destiny of the Shang Dynasty that eight hundred princes surrendered to the Shang Dynasty?"

"I suddenly don't want to argue with you anymore."

Li Pingan shook his head:

"You have been deeply rooted in what you think. Not only you, but also your father..."

Ji Kao smiled bitterly and said, "No matter what, I have no room to turn back for what happened tonight. Come on! "

The sound of armor colliding was heard outside the tent.

More than a dozen guards rushed in, staring at Li Pingan.

Li Pingan stared at Ji Kao.

Ji Kao closed his eyes and said nothing.

The guards seemed to rush forward!

Boom--

The sound of thunder suddenly exploded in the tent!

The guards suddenly screamed and covered their ears, and fell to the ground crying in pain.

Ji Kao was stunned.

Li Pingan shook his head, picked up a glass of wine, drank it all, looked at Ji Kao and said slowly:

"Brother, you are a surrenderist, and it has nothing to do with me, but you want to use me and my second brother as sacrifices in exchange for you to be the Marquis of Xibo in the future, then I won't agree.

"I'll take my second brother away and return to Xiqi.

"No, don't you really believe that I have a good relationship with the gods? "

Ji Kao was stunned.

Li Pingan raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and suddenly a beam of golden light shone above the tent.

Beams of golden light lit up in the entire Zhou camp, and the magical thing was that only Ji Kao could see these golden lights.

Ji Fa, Zhou Chen, and the beautiful concubines, attendants, and guards brought by Ji Fa were all rising slowly in the golden light at this moment, and so was Li Pingan.

Above Li Pingan's head, there was a slightly fat middle-aged man in a red robe standing with his hands behind his back, with a cloud under his feet and a group of lights behind him, and the light and shadow illuminated Ji Fa's face.

The one who came was naturally Li Dazhi, who was called over by Li Pingan temporarily.

For such a thing, letting others come here would undermine the wisdom of the Taoist master.

Li Dazhi cleared his throat, and his voice was like thunder, which made Ji Kao tremble all over.

"I am a god in heaven, and I have come here to protect the Son of God. You are so ignorant and stupid that you even tried to harm the Son of God. It's funny to think about it. "

Li Dazhi waved his hand, the golden light gathered, and he turned around and returned to Xiqi on a cloud.

Ji Kao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up and chased in the direction Li Dazhi left. He stared at Li Dazhi's back and the golden light around him, his lips trembling as he shouted, "God! God!"

In the eyes of the beauties and guards around him, Ji Kao was just going crazy at the sky in front of him.

It was empty here, how could there be any human figures?

Ji Kao sat on the ground weakly, his eyes were already blank.