Young people may feel that the end of life is far away.
As for the old man, he seemed to be able to see that day and that moment.
Some people say that this is destiny.
Others say that this is reincarnation.
Listening to the old man telling his dream, Zhu Yunxi felt extremely bitter in his heart.
He gently took the old man's hand, leaned over, and then slowly stroked the old man's back.
The old man's hands are thinner than before, and they are still covered with age spots. The joints that were once strong are now as stiff as stones.
"It depends on what you said!" Zhu Yunxi endured the sadness in his heart and persuaded softly, "That's a dream. How can a dream be taken seriously?" He continued to smile, "My grandson looks at you. He's been staying here all the time lately."
The palace is too busy. I blame my grandson for not being able to accompany you every day..."
"You have your own business. We are not children, so why should we accompany you?" The old man said dullly, and then looked straight into Zhu Yunxi's eyes, "Grandson, we are actually not afraid of death!"
"Of course you are not afraid of death! Not only are you not afraid of death, the Prince of Hell will take a detour when he sees you!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "You are buried in a mountain of blood..."
"We are not afraid of death, we are afraid of suffering!" The old man interrupted Zhu Yunxi.
Then, he smiled and said very calmly, "We were thinking, if we really die, we can just close our eyes and just go and count the balls! Hey, we won't suffer any crime at all. It saves us the trouble, so can you.
save trouble!"
"Don't be afraid, don't be unable to move your arms or legs. You're lying there like a living dead. You know everything, but you just can't open your fucking mouth!"
"That way..." the old man said, lowering his lips, "it would be more uncomfortable than death!"
From the time we met until now, the two of us have always been talking about death, death, death.
Moreover, the old man's mood was a little low, so Zhu Yunxi deliberately made the old man happy and changed the subject by saying, "You will die early! You, please don't think wildly. Grandpa Huang, you are a great hero rarely seen in the past and present. God will take care of you."
....."
Unexpectedly, the old man interrupted Zhu Yunxi again, "We are not great heroes!" As he said, he sighed, "It is not a human thing, it is an unscrupulous thing. What we have done in this life is no less than anyone else! We will be killed by the sword.
, there are more innocent souls than thieves."
"Earlier, in order to survive, we killed people."
"Later, in order to climb up, we killed people!"
"Later, for the sake of territory and power, we killed people!"
"Later, in order to win the world, we will no longer kill people. But for the sake of our Zhu family, we have to kill people again!"
"The so-called benevolence and righteousness must be shown to the world. But we don't know what benevolence and righteousness are in our hearts. Think about it, it's like when we first joined the army to rebel. What should we do if we are hungry and want to eat steamed buns? Is it necessary?
Go and rob? But if the buns are given to us, will the people starve to death? Will they resist? So in order to fill our stomachs, we have to rob other people’s buns and kill them..."
"When we have a team of tens of thousands of people, will these tens of thousands of people want to eat steamed buns? No, they will also have to rob. In order to eat tens of thousands of people, we will kill hundreds of thousands of people and rob hundreds of thousands."
Household. People's good homes were destroyed like this, and good people died like this!"
"We have been killing people all our lives! Sometimes it's one person, sometimes it's a hundred thousand people... People of the older generation say that people will have their retribution in this life. It's God's fault that we can live so long.
Give us extra face!"
"But...we can't let it go!"
As he said that, the old man suddenly grabbed Zhu Yunxi's wrist and stared into his eyes, "Dasun, we are about to die, but our retribution hasn't come yet?"
"You..." Zhu Yunxi was speechless for a moment.
"Where is our retribution?" The old man continued to look at Zhu Yunxi, "Do you still remember that time we went to Qixia Mountain? A Taoist priest said that we have killed too many people in our life, and the karma we have created must be repaid to our descendants.
On me! My eldest grandson...you think, is it possible that retribution comes after we die? God dares not mess with us because of our stubborn fate, so he wants to impose retribution on..."
"Grandpa Emperor!" Zhu Yunxi stroked the old man's back and quickly advised, "There is no talk of retribution, you are the emperor..."
"The emperor is a human being too! We are human beings. We are emperors who are talented people first. The imperial power was granted by God. We snatched the position of emperor by ourselves!" The old man opened his mouth and said, "What is God's intention? What the hell is that?"
Mother's chosen one, those are just deceiving the common people. We are just human beings, and as human beings there will be retribution!"
retribution!
Zhu Yunxi understood what the old man meant by retribution, and he also knew what the old man couldn't let go of.
"We are not afraid of death." The old man continued, "What we are afraid of is that what we did during our lifetime will end up..." As he said, the old man touched Zhu Yunxi's face and said, "Grandson, we used to be
I don’t believe this. But the older you get, the more you realize that many things in this world have causes and effects!”
Zhu Yunxi felt the rough lines on the old man's palm on his cheek, and comforted in a low voice, "Grandpa Huang, even if it is cause and effect, it has been settled long ago!"
"No!" The old man shook his head, "The cause and effect of our first half of life has been settled. Your imperial grandmother left long ago. Your father, your second uncle, and your third uncle, these three unfilial sons made us give away the white hair to the black.
It’s amazing. But what about the cause and effect in the rest of our lives?
Speaking of this, the old man came closer and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear clearly, "Dasun, do you know what Li Shanchang said to us before he died?"
"this......?"
Today's old man is very unusual, but Zhu Yunxi can understand it. The old man is like this. Because of his physical and mental aging, the whole person is particularly fragile and sensitive.
But he really didn't expect that the old man would bring up this issue.
"He said, he smiled and told us!" the old man said word for word. "He smiled and said to us, Zhu Chongba, I'm waiting to see what the future will be like for your family! What will happen to your children and grandchildren in the future?"
As he said that, the old man patted the back of Zhu Yunxi's hand, "Grandson, what the hell did he say about our family? What he meant is that in the future our family will..." As he said that, the old man made a chopping gesture,
Then he stared at Zhu Yunxi, "Ah, do you understand?"
"He was just threatening you before he died!" A layer of cold sweat gradually broke out on Zhu Yunxi's back.
Because everything the old man said was not groundless, and it was not false words he said because of his old age.
"Threatening? Absolutely not! The lives of his family of more than 70 people, young and old, and hundreds of slaves. There are also the Marquis of Yan'an Tang Shengzong, the Marquis of Henan Lu Ju, the Marquis of Xingyang Zheng Yuchun, the Marquis of Ji'an Lu Zhongheng, the Marquis of Pingliang Fei Ju, the Marquis of Nanxiong Zhao Yong, and the Marquis of Yichun Huang Bin
.Yang Jing, Marquis of Yingyang, Gu Shi, Marquis of Jining..."
"They all said the same thing!"
For an instant, Zhu Yunxi was horrified.
The scene of those heroes, generals and ministers loudly cursing the Zhu family before their death came to mind.
"Actually, we plan to kill them all!" The old man continued to hold Zhu Yunxi's hand, "If you hadn't stopped me, Lan Yu, Fu Youde, Cao Zhen, He Rong, Wang Bi, Feng Sheng, Geng Bingwen...
We must kill these meritorious generals! Kill them all, kill them all so that no harm will be left."
Zhu Yunxi continued to pat the old man's back and said softly, "Grandpa Huang, outsiders cannot threaten the power of our Zhu family! They are even less likely to harm the descendants of the Zhu family!"
After saying that, he regretted it.
"Karma is not the karma caused by our murder. The karma of our murder has been repaid in the first half of my life. The karma in the second half of my life is not the karma of outsiders, but..." The old man looked at Zhu Yunxi, his white beard trembling.
Next, "Dasun, don't forget what you promised us back then!"