Chapter 6: Breaking the Cocoon (IV)

I don’t know how long I had been sitting in loneliness, but the door of the Central Army’s tent was suddenly pushed open gently from outside, and a warm candlelight shone in.

"Brother?" Guo Wei quickly raised his head, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes. "Why are you here?"

"You don't see when it's time?" Zheng Renhui glared at him in dissatisfaction and asked with a smile. He turned around and took a tray from the personal soldiers behind him, and placed a portion of cooked beef, a portion of salt soaked edamame, a portion of steamed purple cucumber, and two pots of warm rice wine on the incense table one by one.

"It's so late!" Guo Wei turned his head and looked out the dark window, and smiled bitterly, "I've bothered you again!"

"Stop talking nonsense, eat while it's hot!" Zheng Renhui pulled Jindun and sat opposite Guo Wei. He raised his chopsticks and picked up a piece of beef for himself. While chewing, he said vaguely, "The situation is not as bad as Xiufeng said. Even if it's really bad, you have to fill your stomach first before thinking about it. The pillar of the head of the family can't cry poorly. If you are confused, our tens of thousands of brothers will only be scattered!"

"Brother is right!" Guo Wei smiled, poured a cup of hot wine by himself, and held it to his mouth and slowly savored it.

The wine was a little short, and there was a bitterness behind the spicy food, just like his current state of mind. After only a few sips, his eyes became hazy.

"Eat first, then drink!" Zheng Renhui reached out and grabbed the wine cup and whispered the order. Then, he pointed at the door again and ordered the soldiers, "Everyone is waiting outside. Without the orders of Privy Council and me, no one should be put in. Let us two have a meal!"

"Yes!" The soldiers agreed in unison and trotted away. Zheng Renhui took Guo Wei's wine cup and took a sip of it, and then handed the empty cup in front of him that he had never used to, one hand, "The wine is not very good! Nowadays, there is no need for anyone to hide the wine. We should drink less tonight, rinse our mouths. When we return to Bianliang one day, we will find another opportunity to enjoy it."

"One day I will hold a banquet at home to entertain my elder brother!" Guo Wei knew that Zheng Renhui was trying to persuade him not to drown his sorrow by drinking. He smiled and agreed in a low voice.

"Eat!" Zheng Renhui put down the wine cup, pointed to the dishes on the incense table with chopsticks, and added with a smile, "Your personal soldiers saw that you were not thinking about food and food, so they went to the kitchen to find someone to cook. They were all things you usually think were easy to eat. I was afraid that you would be bored by eating alone, so I made a special trip to invite me here to accompany you!"

"These kids are just worrying!" Guo Weiwen felt warm again when he heard this. He smiled and raised his chopsticks and challenged the cooked beef.

"Their future and wealth and life are all tied to you. Can you not worry about it?" Zheng Renhui smiled and quietly brought the topic to the point, "It's the same for brother and Xiufeng. We have long become grasshoppers on the same rope. So, although Xiufeng's words today are a bit extreme, they are also devoted to you!"

"I know!" When talking about what Wang Jun said in the afternoon, Guo Wei's eyes became a little dim again. He put down his chopsticks and reached out to grab the wine cup again.

"Some words are not suitable for you, nor are they suitable for me. Although you and I have noticed them in my heart for a long time!" Zheng Renhui raised his wine cup and touched him. While savoring the mellowness of the wine, he added slowly, "Xiufeng said it today, although it was a bit rash, but it was also timely. At least, let everyone know what the little emperor's attitude towards us."

"Yes, I let Guo see it. What do you think now?" Guo Wei suddenly smiled and sighed. On his neck, which was burned by wine, the family bird tattooed and flapped his wings and was about to fly.

"You..." Zheng Renhui was shocked, staring at Guo Wei repeatedly with his eyes wide open, as if he was about to get to know this person again, "You have already made a decision in your heart?"

"No!" Guo Wei smiled again, his face full of bitterness, "But I can't wait to die, right? There is a whole family behind him. If something really happens, I don't know how many brothers will be implicated by me!"

"It's good that you can think so!" Zheng Renhui quietly breathed a sigh of relief, raised the wine cup and drank it in one sip. "I'm afraid you won't make any preparations! Liu Chengyou is not a supporter. Since ancient times, few people who are life-careful ministers have ended up well."

Guo Wei also raised the wine cup and took a sip, then looked at the hollow patterns on the wine cup and smiled bitterly, "I am not a fool, I will not close my eyes and wait for death. I am just a little sad. The old emperor, I, and Chang Kegong, once vowed to support each other and end the troubled times together. As a result, the troubled times were not over, and the last emperor had already gone west. Before the last emperor went west, what he remembered was to set up a condom and put it tightly on my old brother's neck!"

"Yes, the five ministers who are life-threatening will definitely not always speak with one mouth. As long as there is a difference, there will be strong and weak. Then the weak side will naturally become ally with the little emperor." Zheng Renhui grinned and sighed.

"The two Privy Councilors, each leading an army, one inside and one outside. The one who is afraid of the inside and the one who is afraid of the outside, no one dares to act rashly." Guo Wei took a sip of wine and shook his head gently, "My brother is really thoughtful. I have never noticed it before. It was not until I heard that the young master had suspicious of me that I finally understood that in my eyes, I was the biggest threat to the Han Kingdom."

"He is the emperor!" Zheng Renhui added loudly, meaningful.

The emperor is the true dragon emperor, and the dragon is not a human being. When a person becomes an emperor, he can no longer view his words and deeds from a human perspective, nor can he think of his ideas from a human mind. This has been the case for all ages, and Liu Zhiyuan is naturally no exception.

"But I'm not!" Guo Wei's emotions suddenly became a little excited. He slapped the wine cup on the incense table and said loudly, "I always thought that the three of us could be Liu Guanzhang. Even if we couldn't live and die together, we would not wear iron armor under the burqa and put a dagger on our waist when we met."

This is the most sad thing he has ever been. For so many years, even if Liu Zhiyuan asked him to hand over military power to go home for retirement before his death, he would not hesitate at all. However, the latter dug a huge trap for him, and then waited in the nine springs to see how he went to death step by step, and see how his son killed five ministers and regained power.

This is not only a doubt of his loyalty, but deep down he had long regarded him as an enemy. However, he was still so sad about Liu Zhiyuan's death that he was in a daze and secretly swore that even if he fought to die, he would ensure that his old friend's son, the throne, would be worry-free!

"We don't care about you, but whether you have the ability to threaten other people's son!" As a bystander, Zheng Renhui saw it more clearly than Guo Wei. "From Zhu Wen, the emperor was a powerful soldier. After seeing so many powerful ministers usurping the throne with their own eyes, it is difficult for Liu Zhiyuan to trust anyone."

"But I have lived and died with him for so many years!" Guo Wei was so angry that he knew that Zheng Renhui was telling the truth. "In front of the two armies, we had blocked each other's knife countless times!"

"The problem is that he was about to die, but his son had no friendship with you. And he also knew what his son was!" Zheng Renhui took a sip of wine and slowly replenished.

This sentence finally made Guo Wei speechless. He picked up the chopsticks in hatred and ate the dishes in big mouthfuls. First, he killed half of the food on the incense table like a wind and clouds, and then poured a glass of wine in his hand. While savoring it, he said rudely: "Indeed, I have no friendship with that boy Liu Chengyou. I look down on him from the bottom of my heart for poisoning my brother. I am a minister of life. If he wants to take back his authority, he will have to move me, an old thing that is in trouble. I don't want to do anything to depose or wait for death. Brother, do you have any good ideas to teach me?"

"Hey—?" Zheng Renhui was so angry that he was grinning when he was thrown over to the problem. After a long time, he protested in a low voice: "I thought you had made some corresponding preparations? It turned out that this is the way to prepare? I don't want to fight with Liu Chengyou, and I don't want to wash my neck and wait for the whole family to behead him. How can such a cheap minister in the world be called?"

"Isn't there any Zhuge Wuhou?" Guo Wei sighed and said with a scoundrel. "To be honest, I don't want to kill people, especially I don't want to fight with my former colleagues. Even though I am a general, I can't count the number of people I slaughtered in my life. But they are all killed on the battlefield. They don't tie up people first, and then chop off their heads with a casual charge."

"Zhuge Liang was exhausted!" Zheng Renhui glanced at him, feeling a little sad about his misfortune and angered him not to fight.

"After Wuhou's death, Shu Kingdom will have 29 years of peace." Guo Wei suddenly became solemn, looked at Zheng Renhui's eyes, and added in a deep voice.

"You...ah!" Unexpectedly, the other party was so stubborn, Zheng Renhui really wanted to leave. However, he realized that it was because of Guo Wei's stubbornness and kindness that he willingly assisted him. Even if he often rejected the suggestion, he would not feel wronged.

"Brother, do you have a good idea to teach me? I don't want to ask Xiufeng about this. He is good at making changes in the face of the situation, but he is not good at seeking the long-term!" Guo Wei seemed to be determined to be unable to do anything to him, so he smiled and continued to ask.
Chapter completed!