The funeral ended at seven o'clock in the evening.
This time in Northern Xinjiang should be in the afternoon.
There are still not many people at some cold funerals, even during the busiest time at noon.
From the raising of the spirit, the burial, and the erection of a monument, there was a sense of tranquility from beginning to end.
Li Tianlan has left.
Wang Shengxiao, Wang Xiaoyao and Li Kuangtu stayed here for a day.
They did not enter the mourning hall.
Jiang Shangyu didn't see them either.
Wang Shengxiao and Wang Xiaoyao, who always retained some hope, finally left in disappointment.
Li Kuangtu, who had been sitting for a whole day and had to endure the ridicule of his uncle and nephew from time to time, slowly came to Jiang Shan and asked, "Where is Jiang Shangyu?"
Servants were tidying up in the mourning hall.
After a busy day, Jiang Shan sat on the steps in front of the mourning hall, looked up at Kuangtu Li, and handed him a cigarette.
"Xiao Yu has just been buried."
Jiang Shan smoked a cigarette and said slowly: "Didn't His Highness already see it?"
"You know who I'm talking about."
Li Kuangtu's expression remained unchanged.
Jiangshan is silent and has been silent.
"Take me to him."
Li Kuangtu said calmly, with a commanding tone.
Jiang Shan laughed. Holding his cigarette, he looked at Kuangtu Li and said softly: "Why bother..."
"Zhongzhou, the Parliament, the Prince Group, Li Huacheng, Li Tianlan...and you."
There was depression in his voice, and his speaking speed became slower and slower: "Why bother us?"
He stood up slowly on the steps, looked at Kuangtu Li, and then looked at the direction Wang Shengxiao and Wang Xiaoyao were leaving: "Compared to the Wang family in Beihai, your highness, don't you think what you are doing now is out of character?
"
"I have doubts and I want Jiang Shangyu to help me solve my doubts. Isn't this normal?"
Li Kuangtu asked back.
"unusual."
Jiang Shan said lightly: "This is just an embarrassment. I'm sorry, he can't see you, he can't, and he doesn't dare."
"Don't you dare?"
Li Kuangtu narrowed his eyes and seemed to be thinking about something.
"He has already met with Li Tianlan. The matter has been settled and the deal has been reached. From now on, the powers and responsibilities that the parliament originally promised to him will be transferred to Li Tianlan. No one can change this."
Jiang Shan said: "At least we can't do it.
Your Highness, you know it very well, don’t you?
It seems like this is his bargaining chip, but to be honest, it has never been ours.
He can trade with these.
With you, with the Beihai Wang family, and with the East Palace, but there is a prerequisite for this.
He can only make transactions with the permission of the parliament.
Do you think it is us who has the final say on who will give this bargaining chip to? What we can decide is only what we get and what we get."
Jiang Shan laughed at himself: "But you all ran here one by one. What's the point? In the end, it's just to embarrass us."
"The council will not give up on me, nor on Tiandu Purgatory."
Li Kuangtu's eyes flashed with a dazzling light, and he slowly spoke.
"I didn't say parliament."
Jiang Shan's voice was cold.
Li Kuangtu raised his head and looked at the still dazzling sunlight on the horizon. After a long while, he took a deep breath.
"I see."
He said: "Jiang Shangyu left Zhongzhou not of his own free will?"
Jiang Shan was expressionless and silent for a while, but said calmly: "He won't see you anymore. Your Highness, thank you for coming, but now, please give us some time, so please leave."
A cold wind blew through the manor.
The early spring in northern Xinjiang is still cold and cold.
Li Kuangtu's brows wrinkled subconsciously, and he took a serious look at Jiangshan.
"I have no ill will towards him
.”
Li Kuangtu's figure slowly disappeared, and his voice rang clearly: "Leaving Zhongzhou may not be a new beginning. I wish him all the best. If there is an opportunity for cooperation, let him contact me. He knows my connection.
Way."
His figure twisted into a sword energy condensed by spiritual power in front of Jiang Shan. The sword energy became weaker and weaker, and Li Kuangtu was the last to leave the Jiang family's manor.
Jiang Shan stood motionless.
no offence...
The corners of his mouth raised a little bit, and he looked at a German shepherd walking over slowly because of his appearance.
German Shepherd lay down at Jiang Shan's feet and whimpered.
Jiang Shan knelt down and touched the head of the big dog that the manor's housekeeper had raised for several years: "He said he meant no harm. Do you believe it?"
German Shepherd stuck out his tongue and wanted to lick Jiangshan's palm.
Jiang Shan's palm dodges slightly.
The German Shepherd's head and tail waggled together.
Eight o'clock in the evening.
In the Jiang family manor, which was completely quiet, Jiang Shan gave all the servants and even the housekeeper a holiday. After they all left the manor, he walked silently to Jiang Shangyu's grave alone.
Jiang Shangyu was buried at the back of the manor. He did not enter the cemetery, nor did he choose to enter the cemetery of his hometown with which he had no connection for a long time.
The lonely tomb is bathed in the orange sunset, and the newly erected tombstone is shining quietly.
Jiang Shangyu, who was pale and breathless, sat blankly on the grave, watching the sunset at eight o'clock in the evening, silent.
"Kuantu Li didn't bother."
Jiang Shan said: "It was quite easy to leave."
Jiang Shangyu came back to his senses and shook his head in distress: "There is another enemy, which gives me a headache."
"He said he has no ill intentions towards you, and if you need cooperation, feel free to contact him."
Jiang Shan continued.
"certainly."
Jiang Shangyu nodded: "At this stage, I have nothing and I am not particularly easy to mess with. What ill intentions can he have towards me?
Although Tiandu Purgatory looks quite miserable now, as long as he is still in Central Continent, the parliament will definitely give him enough support. If he is honest enough, within the rules, Li Tianlan will not be so easy to touch him."
He spoke softly and suddenly laughed: "But this is not Li Kuangtu's character. When the situation has reached this point, he will not be reconciled. When the situation in Zhongzhou stabilizes, he will inevitably collide with Li Tianlan. If I hadn't
If you guess wrong, this time should be after the election."
Jiang Shan understood what Jiang Shangyu meant and his eyes were a little gloomy: "He regards you as..."
"Think of it as a pawn exploring the path."
Jiang Shangyu took over the conversation: "Now that I leave Central Continent, after a few months after the election, no matter what, I should have a clear tendency. There will always be a place that can take me in, either in Star Country or Snow Country. I
You can manage your own power there and expand your connections.
These should be the things Kuangtu Li is targeting, so he won't have any ill intentions toward me now, and will even help me. Before I can gain a firm foothold, he will only support me.
By the time I stabilize, the general election should be over. At this time, Li Kuangtu will probably test Li Tianlan, and after confirming that Li Tianlan is not easy to mess with, he will deal with me.
What he was eyeing was the foundation and channels I was about to establish overseas, and he regarded everything about me as his own escape route.
As long as he kills me and secretly controls the framework I established overseas, he will have a way out. He will have no scruples in fighting Li Tianlan. At worst, he will leave Zhongzhou and take over everything from me. As long as he doesn't die, he will always
There is a chance.”
"This is probably Kuangtu Li. He is not bad at strength, skills, and talent, but he never has the courage to really fight with others. No matter what he does, he will habitually leave a way out.
The same was true when he conspired with the Wang family in Beihai. First, he secretly established Tiandu Purgatory in order to be fully prepared. In the end, Tiandu Purgatory just put up an airs and Beihai united with Kunming.
The treason case was detonated in Luncheng. The Li family was at the end of its rope at that time. Li Honghe was kidnapped by him. He could only pour his last bit of strength into Tiandu Purgatory. If not for this, the Li family would not be in this situation now.
Already.
But now, he is still looking for a way out for himself. This has always been the case. He always feels that safety is the most important, but in fact, opportunity is the most important."
"You think what he did was wrong?"
Jiang Shan raised his eyebrows.
"have no idea.
But if it were me..."
Jiang Shangyu said calmly: "I will do everything possible to unite the Beihai Wang family to my side and concentrate all my strength on another alliance operation. Li Tianlan is seriously injured and the opportunity is rare. Why not take a gamble? In fact, I am already prepared to do this. If
If it weren't for Li Huacheng..."
"Although the chance of such a big gamble is small, it is better than dragging it out. No one can afford it except Li Tianlan now. The dark world has never understood. They have never understood that giving Li Tianlan time is tantamount to committing suicide. Now, if you take a gamble, you can still
It can be regarded as a narrow escape from death. If you give him time, it will really be a narrow escape from death. If it were me..."
"if it was me..."
Another voice sounded from another direction, exactly the same as Jiang Shangyu.
"If it were me, I would simply not think about anything else. I would go overseas first to check out the situation, silently wait for the opportunity, and take advantage of it if there is an opportunity. If there is no chance... If there is no chance, there will be no chance. As long as I can survive, that will be fine."
Jiang Shan and Jiang Shang Yu turned their heads at the same time.
In the sight of the two of them, there was another Jiang Shangyu.
Jiang Shangyu, who was supposed to be dead and buried in a grave, came over from the other direction.
His face became paler and his breath became weaker.
He walked to Jiang Shan with some difficulty, looked at himself sitting on the tomb, and laughed: "Hey, we think differently, what does this mean? Who is telling the truth?"
silence.
Both Jiang Shangyu fell silent at the same time.
Two people think in exactly the same way, feel exactly the same, and have exactly the same views on the current situation. They are the same person, so how could they think differently?
No one speaks of duplicity.
What they say is different because...
contradiction.
Jiang Shangyu himself is in a contradiction.
Hesitating, struggling, hesitating.
"Are you willing?"
Jiang Shangyu sat on the grave and asked himself quietly.
"I'm already useless..."
Another Jiang Shangyu leaned on Jiang Shan's shoulder: "Although I didn't die this time, my foundation is completely ruined. It will be difficult for me to get into martial arts in the future. So what if I don't give in?"
"As long as my strength is still there, you will always recover."
Jiang Shangyu's voice was calm.
"What's the point? When I recover, Li Tianlan will be invincible long ago. No, he is invincible now."
"I'm not convinced. I want to fight him again."
"I'm lying down, do whatever you want, whatever."
"Are you willing to be a coward?"
"This is fate, what else can it do?"
contradiction.
Continuous conflicts.
Silence once again enveloped this lonely tomb.
Half past eight in the evening.
The sky in northern Xinjiang welcomes the setting sun, and twilight is approaching.
Jiang Shangyu looked at the sunset on the horizon and said softly: "I grew up here...it has the longest day in the entire Central Continent, but I have never seen the real light. Can I really be willing to accept it?"
Next to Jiang Shan, Jiang Shangyu, who seemed to be about to fall down at any moment, hugged his father's shoulders and said softly: "If you don't want to give in, then continue to play with Li Tianlan?"
Jiang Shangyu pursed his lips tightly on the grave.
"Of course, keep playing."
He whispered: "But...what should I do if I can't afford to play anymore?"