The food was still warm, but the wine was almost finished. I don’t know why the two of them drank very quickly and urgently, especially Zhuang Yong, one cup after another. Not to mention a pot of wine, even three pots of wine may not be able to get drunk. However, he was drunk and his eyes were a little confused.

Chen Leng knew that he was happy, and there was sadness in his happiness. People were the most complicated, and it was impossible for them to have only a simple relationship.

Chen Leng wanted to know what he was sad about.

"Drink slowly, and you have agreed to make this pot of wine."

Chen Leng looked at Zhuang Yong and said, "You drink soon, and I won't give you mine."

Zhuang Yong smiled: "I just think the wine tastes too good and the dish tastes too good, so I can't help but drink."

"You've got white hair."

Chen Leng sighed: "People with white hair should not lie."

"Why shouldn't people with white hair speak?"

"Because it is difficult to see if people at this age lie. Time leaves not only wrinkles but also concealment on your face. If people at this age want to hide something, it is difficult for others to see your mood."

Chen Leng sat forward and said, "Master, are you worried?"

"Master?"

Zhuang Yong laughed: "This title is good, very good."

Chen Leng didn't say anything, just looked at him.

"When you just said that you left this and that, what you said is so obscure and elegant, it's nothing more than two words acting. People, when you were young, you act for adults at home, when you were young, you act for men and women you care about, when you were middle-aged, you act for everyone, and when you were old, you act for juniors and yourself."

Zhuang Yong looked at the wine glass: "It is said that children are simple-minded, but they are simple-minded. Children's plays are good. They know when to cry and when to laugh. When they were young, they were very comfortable in various plays to please the people they like. Whether it is joy or tragedy, they are good at it and can be easily played. That is easy to act, but in fact, the worst thing they are middle-aged."

"It's so difficult to have parents and children from above. If you have a boss and colleagues, look at distances and closeness, look at your majesty's wishes, and look at the people's opinions. If a man is not tired in middle age, it only means that he is not successful. If middle-aged people have to act, then when they are old, they like to act. They are not pretentious and not pretentious. The former makes people feel sad and the latter makes people sad."

He raised his head and looked at Chen Leng: "Only when he is lonely and no one else can he stop acting. Sitting there facing himself like a wooden man, people in this world are willing to give others smiles, but they are always stingy with giving themselves smiles. If they really say that, what everyone fails the most is themselves."

Chen Leng knew that Zhuang Yong was really old when he heard these words.

"You know I'm good at studying."

Zhuang Yong paused for a while and said, "It is because he is clean and free when he is studying. There is a different world in his mind. Sometimes, people will put down their books and enter a very immersive state. Others think they are recalling the contents of the book, but in fact they have entered a certain state they have made up, and they are very relaxed."

"My biggest wish was to have a vegetarian, a room of books, and tea, which would be enough in this life. However, the times are not allowed, and Your Majesty does not allow it, so I grabbed the knife and put on armor. I always said that I was not a soldier or a literati, but there was no literati."

Chen Leng handed Zhuang Yong a handkerchief, and Zhuang Yong took it and asked, "Am I crying?"

Chen sneered and said, "You don't know?"

Zhuang Yong didn't know.

He looked at the handkerchief that Chen Leng handed him, and did not wipe his tears, but folded it into his cuffs and put it away. The action seemed to turn into a knife and cut it into Shen Leng's heart.

"Stingy, let me go with a handkerchief."

Chen sneered and smiled, lowered his head to hide the sadness and guilt in his eyes.

"I just said something irrelevant."

Zhuang Yong finished drinking the wine in the cup, raised his hand to touch the wine pot, and found that the wine pot was empty. After he was silent for a moment, he pushed the wine pot away and turned the cup upside down.

“Very good, very satisfied.”

Chen Leng asked: "I really won't drink it?"

"Really, everything cannot be too full. I am already six points drunk now. People, seven points drunk can talk nonsense, eight points drunk can do whatever you want, nine points drunk can lead to crazy, and ten points drunk can lead to death."

Zhuang Yong smiled and said, "Now I'm six minutes drunk, just right."

Chen sneered: "Is it so pleasant?"

“Sweet.”

Zhuang Yong leaned back, and this action seemed to announce that the wine was over, but he stopped drinking and he still had to say something.

"Those unrelated words are said to you because I have no one to say these words. If I just want to pull a subordinate and say these words after drinking a few glasses of wine, they will scare their subordinates to death. They will think I am really drunk and are really confused. Next, I will say some related words, which are related to you and me."

Zhuang Yong looked at the cold eyes and said, "I know you are a person who will definitely do whatever you believe. You must have thought of finding an opportunity to tell Your Majesty to transfer me back to Chang'an. Lengzi, you are a smart person. A smart person shouldn't do things you shouldn't do. Your Majesty believes in you but cannot be used to indulge you. And now you have reached your bottleneck. Your Majesty cannot give you more. He used too much force before, and he gave you everything he should give you. What else he gave you will affect the balance of the court and the balance of Daning. Your Majesty is a check and balance person."

"You should remember what Your Majesty once said to you. What Your Majesty wants to give you is yours. If Your Majesty doesn't give you, don't fight for it."

Chen Leng suddenly remembered the conversation with the emperor. When the emperor said this sentence, he didn't understand it at that time, and always felt that it was different. Later, Chen Leng had vaguely guessed that his identity might be related to the emperor, so the meaning of this sentence became clear.

"I'll tell you a story."

Zhuang Yong pointed in front of him: "Change a cup of tea first."

Chen Leng got up, took away the wine glass in front of Zhuang Yong, and soon changed to a cup of hot tea.

"A story about His Majesty."

Zhuang Yong was silent for a while, as if he was sorting out his words.

"When your Majesty, the late emperor actually did not value him because your Majesty was not the Queen Mother's biological son, but your Majesty is born different. Whenever you ask questions, only your Majesty's answer is directly at the heart of the people. So the late emperor decided to send him out of Weiyang Palace, because the late emperor's sharpness was too prominent, which overshadowed other princes, and naturally overshadowed the crown prince."

"You know, Your Majesty was studying at Yanta Academy and taught the old dean. Now this is a beautiful story, but what about it? In fact, behind it is sadness. Other princes are studying in the Imperial College, but Your Majesty was in Yanta Academy. How painful was Your Majesty at that time? But Your Majesty never said or expressed it. At that time, the old dean felt Your Majesty's suffering, so he was really good to treat Your Majesty. How old was His Majesty when he entered the academy? His Majesty had never felt the family affection that His Majesty had never felt in the palace. He was sent to the academy when he was only ten years old, and he could not return to the palace. How could the child not miss his parents?"

Chen Leng felt ache in his heart.

"At that time, Your Majesty was sixteen years old and the black warriors came. The old president refused to let Your Majesty go, but Your Majesty insisted on going. Now everyone says that Your Majesty was responsible and brave at that time, but there is a saying that Your Majesty only told the old president that if it weren't for the old president mentioning it to me later, I wouldn't know."

"Your Majesty said, I am a person who is born to be useless, and this uselessness cannot be controlled by me. Therefore, if my useless body can kill the enemy in the northern border and die, he might think I am more useful."

Chen Leng's heart hurt even more.

He would think that he is His Majesty's father.

"Your Majesty shines in the northern border, but why did you shine? It's not because Your Majesty has a determination to decide the death with the desire to die. No matter whether it is on the battlefield or not, those who are not afraid of death will always be even more terrible. But just because Your Majesty is not afraid of death, the First Emperor thinks Your Majesty is terrible. After Your Majesty returns from a great victory, he dismissed all his military power and was named Lengzi, and have you ever thought about what the word Liu Wang means?"

Chen Leng never thought about it.

Zhuang Yong let out a long sigh: "At that time, all the civil and military officials in the court had already seen it clearly. Your Majesty was the one who was abandoned by the previous emperor. Later, there was another good story, that is, the queen married Your Majesty despite the opposition of his family and stayed with Your Majesty. But is this really the case?"

Zhuang Yong looked at Chen Leng: "If it weren't for the order of the late emperor, could the queen marry Your Majesty? The clan sacrificed a girl in exchange for the value of the late emperor. The reason why the queen stayed with Your Majesty was just because the late emperor was worried about Your Majesty. He was worried that Your Majesty would snatch him and fight. There is a saying that is a sin that should not be said by a minister. The throne can only be Li Chengyuan, but must be Li Chengyuan. Your Majesty's literary and military strategy is above Li Chengyuan. The late Majesty's struggle is so worried that Your Majesty's struggle will arrange for someone to monitor him. This person is the queen."

"The queen is a scheming person. After arriving at the royal palace, she has a quarrel with His Majesty for many times. She is unwilling to accept her fate. She is so unwilling to do so. All the love between husband and wife is an appearance. If she is willing to act, His Majesty will accompany her to act."

Zhuang Yong's hand trembled slightly: "Later, His Majesty met Concubine Zhen. At that time, His Majesty only wanted to be with Concubine Zhen until old age, and the queen was even more dissatisfied. Even the deposed prince had someone to snatch her, how could she bear it?"

"But fate is just to tease people, why did the late emperor die?"

He asked.

There were only two people in the room, so they were a little more presumptuous. Zhuang Yong would not say these words in front of anyone except Chen Leng.

"The late emperor cannot give birth."

The late emperor he mentioned was Li Chengyuan.

"The late emperor could not give birth, but blamed him for these. Empress Su naturally felt wronged. However, the late emperor would give her a look every day, and even beat her more than once. Not only Empress Su, but the concubines in the harem were beaten and scolded by the late emperor at that time. When people were forced to do anything, the late emperor suddenly died and suddenly died."
Chapter completed!