"I don't want you to hate me even more in the future.???

Hearing this sentence, Liu Saner frowned slightly and hurriedly said, "How could I--"

"Shh--"

Before he could finish speaking, I reached out and gently pressed it on his lips. He was suddenly stunned. But I didn't say anything else. I just showed a faint smile, a little tired, and a little exhausted after struggling, but I never let go of his hand. I slowly closed my eyes and fell asleep.

.

From that day on, although Liu Saner still concealed her own affairs from Aunt Liu and the others, she did not have the need to hide it from me anymore, so she often went home.

People change slowly and quickly. Sometimes, some people may be self-satisfied and persistent for decades without changing a single thing; and sometimes, one thing can completely change a person's life overnight.

Liu Saner, but it’s different.

His changes were bit by bit, like a stream mixed into a river, without any trace, but by the time you appeared, he was no longer the same as before.

Perhaps it was because he had to do too much work in the Suanxiangyuan every day, not only did he do his hands, but his brain moved more. He had lost weight much more than before. His straight face was clearer and more angular, his nose bridge was high and straight, his lip line was clear, and he had a hint of handsomeness. His eyes were sunken due to fatigue, but he could not stop his gaze, and he became deeper and deeper every day.

That is a light that is more thorough than clarification.

...

Before we knew it, winter has arrived.

The winter in the south is not like the north. The cold wind whistles and ice and snow covers the sky. The moist air has a damp and cold feeling, but it is not permeable. Just like my poor days now, although I am poor, it is always delicious.

That afternoon, I sat in the yard and cut the dried fish into strips, while Liu San'er sat next to the table and lay on it to help someone write letters.

I had cut half of the basket of dried fish, but when I looked up, I found that he had not finished writing, but was stunned at the tip of the pen that was blown by the wind.

I looked at him several times, and finally couldn't help asking, "San'er, who's your letter?"

He suddenly woke up, looked up at me and said, "Oh, Aunt Zhao's letter."

"For her son again?"

"Well," he nodded: "The war at the border seems to be tight. Aunt Zhao hasn't received their letter for a long time and has been worried."

I frowned slightly.

These days, I have never left this small yard again, and I can't hear the sound of killing on the battlefield, but the bitter wind from the north will still blow to the south with a trace of blood and blow into my life.

The war at the border is indeed not optimistic, especially in early winter. If you cannot win at this time, the food and grass on the grassland will be decayed, and the war will only be delayed. This is what Huang Tianba had previously guessed that the Tianchao and Shengjing would form a long-term confrontation, which would not have any substantial benefits for Shengjing.

Therefore, they must do their best to break through the northern defense line at this time.

The war should be at its most tragic time.

And that man should be very difficult now...

Just when I was slightly ecstatic, Liu Saner suddenly looked up and said to me, "Qingying, what kind of person do you think the emperor today is?"

“…”

I didn't react for a while and looked at him foolishly. After a long time, I slowly spoke, "What are you asking me?"

Liu Saner simply put down the pen in her hand, turned around and looked at me, and said, "Qingying, what kind of person do you think the emperor today is? Is he a good person or a bad person?"

“…”

He looked at me seriously, as if waiting for my answer, but I couldn't speak.

For a moment, the whole yard became quiet.

In fact, now, I rarely think about the past, nor do I think about the past. Even if I think about it casually, I will no longer feel pain or sad, because everything is too far away. After the moment I jumped off the boat, everything seems to be in my previous life.

Pei Yuanhao is just a distant person in memory.

However, Liu Saner, my current husband, asked him in front of me, as if a picture of a previous life, unexpectedly breaking into the dream of this life, and was in a daze that it was both real and illusory.

I don’t know how long it took to be silent before I came to my senses. I slowly lowered my head and continued to cut the dried salted fish in my hand. While cutting it, I said, “Why did you suddenly ask me this?”

Liu Saner said: "These days, the students in Suanxiangyuan are talking about the emperor. Although I have been listening, I always feel a little strange in my heart."

"Oh? Why?"

"I think what they said makes sense, but not everything is right."

With a click, the last piece of salted fish was cut into two pieces by me. I gently put down the scissors in my hand, turned my head and looked at him with a smile: "Oh? Then tell me, why aren't you all right?"

Liu Saner frowned slightly and said slowly with a hint of doubt: "Over the past few days, what they have said is the emperor's fault of forcing the palace to seize the throne and harming his brothers and sisters. For his own selfish desires, he has been pursuing wars for years and levying heavy taxes regardless of the suffering of the people. He is the largest tyrant in ancient and modern times."

After hearing these "big rebellious" words, I didn't say anything, just asked, "Then, how did you think?"

Liu Saner said: "If we want to say that the emperor forced the palace to seize the throne and harmed his brothers and sisters, although we have not seen it with our own eyes, the rumors are extremely high. I think there should be traces to follow, not groundlessness. But if we say that he ignored the suffering of the people and was a tyrant, I think it seems to be an exaggeration."

"Why?"

Liu Saner said: "I still remember a few years ago, haha, the year we first met, hungry people from all provinces flocked to Yangzhou. I heard that he was still a prince at that time, and set up a cold wind banquet and set up a clear water table to lure those profiteers to take out rice and grain to provide disaster relief. Later, a plague broke out in Yangzhou. I heard that he did not leave the people in the city to escape by himself. Instead, he transferred medicinal materials from all over the country to find a way for the patients. He did not set off to return to Beijing until the medicine was made."

I listened quietly, with a slight smile on the corner of my mouth.

I am familiar with every word that Liu Saner said, and I have even experienced every thrilling moment in it myself, but now it seems that it is just a distant story.

Liu Saner continued: "These things are witnessed and experienced by people from Yangzhou with their own eyes. I think that those who can do these great things and those who can truly consider the people will not be a tyrant. On the contrary, only a rare wise monarch can do what he does."

I smiled and said, "So, what kind of person do you think he is?"

Liu Saner seemed a little hesitant, hesitated for a long time, and finally said slowly: "So, I think he may not be a good person, but he should be a good emperor."

For some reason, when I heard Liu Saner's words, I was not very shocked or surprised.

Just a moment of silence.

...He may not be a good person, but he should be considered a good emperor.

I don’t know why, but I think I should know it, but until now, just now, when Liu Saner said the last word, she suddenly realized it.

However, it was just a sudden realization.

What really surprised me was Liu Saner.

I have always known that people here have a not-so-good trait. They like to catch up with the wind and shadow, use their own ideas to speculate on others, and then criticize and criticize. As a scholar, the spearhead is particularly strong at the court. But Liu Saner is not such a person.

When he was confused in his heart, he did not listen to others' thoughts or accept other people's thoughts. Instead, he thought, thought and sought the truth by himself. This is not only a kind of wisdom, but also a good quality.

He is really like his father and brother...

Looking at his serious expression, I smiled slightly, and didn't say anything else. I lowered my head to clean up. When he saw him, he hurriedly walked up to stop me. He picked up the basket full of salted fish sections and put it on the bamboo rack. While working hard, he asked, "Qingying, do you think I'm right?"

I sat on the chair and smiled and said, "I think what you said is not wrong."

Liu San'er smiled happily. After tidying up the things on the bamboo rack, he slowly walked back to me and said, "Qingying, if I said nothing wrong before, then I think it's a little strange."

I raised my eyebrows slightly: "What's strange?"

"Since the emperor today should be considered a good emperor, why not only does the people not support him, but instead oppose him?"

My raised eyebrows slowly frowned.

Liu Saner also said, "Since he is a good emperor, he does what he does for the people, and the people just want to live a good life, but why are the two sides so conflicted like now? It's like---" He looked up at me and smiled stubbornly and said, "It's like two people. If you like me and I like you too, then we get married, and life is certainly like this now. Even if it's difficult, it's very happy."

“…”

"But if two people obviously like each other but are still unhappy together, then there will be problems between them."

“…”

"This is what the emperor is now. I think some of the laws he issued are not as serious as the students said. Just like this season, the court has imposed heavy taxes three times, but what you told me before is that the north is fighting a war. If the supply of food and grass is insufficient and the court is defeated, we may have to go through a massacre or even extermination of the clan. In other words, this war must be fought. There is nothing wrong with the emperor collecting food and grass, but since it is not wrong, why do the people oppose it? There should be something wrong with this."

As he said that, his eyebrows also frowned: "What's the problem?"

He murmured, lowered his head and thought, his whole body was completely immersed in his own question, and I sat in front of him and couldn't speak for a long time.

That familiar and uneasy feeling surged into my heart again.

Liu Saner...
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