Several people sat around the table, and Tao Qiqi poured a cup of tea for everyone.
Watching Nangong Yi finish the tea in the cup in one gulp, Nangong Ye took the initiative and asked: "Tell me, why are you here? If I remember correctly, your fiefdom shouldn't be in the south, right?"
Nangong Yi replied: "Actually, if I don't tell you, the third brother must have already known it. It was the second brother who asked me to come."
Nangong Ye asked again: "Then have you been bribed by him?"
Nangong Yi replied anxiously: "No, there is nothing I can do about it. Third brother, you know that if I didn't agree to him, I would have already gone to see my father by now. Promising him is also an expedient measure."
"Then the purpose of your trip is to persuade me to help him?"
"No, I will not convince Third Brother of any of his decisions. I came here this time to seek Third Brother's support and to ask for Third Brother's protection. Since I heard some things about Third Brother, I have temporarily agreed to Second Brother's decision.
Brother's request, and then took the initiative to propose to the second brother that I come to get close to the third brother. In this way, I can justly come to the third brother. In order for me to successfully approach the third brother, the second brother will arrange someone to protect me on the way."
"Aren't you afraid of angering him by doing this?"
"As long as I get close to Third Brother, he won't know exactly what I said to you. Besides, if I can have Third Brother's protection, it doesn't matter whether I offend him or not."
After hearing this, Tao Qiqi couldn't help but say: "Then you are dragging your third brother into a pit of fire."
"How can you say that you are dragging my third brother into a pit of fire? The third brother also knows what the second brother wants. As long as the third brother does not agree for a day, even without me, the second brother will not give up on the third brother. This happened all the way
Don’t you know everything about ? How much effort did the second brother put in to get close to the third brother? "
Tao Qiqi nodded: "That's true. But is your second brother so easy to fool? While you promised to cooperate with him, you came to your third brother for protection. Why would he believe that you would not betray him?"
Nangong Yi replied: "He has already taken away what he wants from me. To me, I am just a pawn of his. Now that he is using me to get something from Third Brother, he can only choose to believe it."
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"Then it's a good choice you made, since neither party will be offended." Tao Qiqi mercilessly exposed Nangong Yi's plan.
Nangong Yi didn't quibble after hearing this, and even boldly admitted it.
"Yes, I don't dare to offend any of them, because I just want to live."
The words "live" made Tao Qiqi couldn't help but look up at him.
Although she has never personally experienced a power struggle, whether she read novels or watched costume dramas in her previous life, the royal family's overt and covert struggles were not simple.
Some do it for power, some do it for money, and some do it just to live.
Nangong Ye once did not fight or grab in order to survive.
Nangong Yi doesn't want to offend anyone anymore.
And isn’t she also trying to become stronger and make money in order to survive?
Then what reason do I have to laugh at others?
"Sorry." Tao Qiqi apologized to Nangong Yi and poured him a cup of tea.
Nangong Yi was not angry, but continued: "Actually, I don't care who sits in that position, I just hope that he will not attack his brother, and I just hope that he can think more about the people.
Since the eldest brother took that position, although he hasn't seen any action against us brothers yet, he is aware of the second brother's secret operations. If he doesn't stop him, he is actually waiting for an opportunity.
Not only that, he also didn't care about the life and death of the people. On the way here this time, the people were talking about waiting for relief food, but what they didn't know was that there would be no relief food at all."
"Why?" Tao Qiqi looked confused.
Nangong Yi replied: "There has been a drought in the north for more than two years. There has been no harvest for more than two years. The people have no rice to cook with and no rice to pay for food. Without food, granaries everywhere will be empty. Without food, what will happen to the soldiers at the border?
We promise to guard the country. Although the south is not affected at all, there are so many people asking for food that we can't control it."
Tao Qiqi: "If you really want to take care of it, you can still get some out by squeezing between your fingers. Just a little is enough for the people to survive."
After listening to Tao Qiqi's words, Nangong Yi nodded in agreement: "Indeed, a squeeze is enough for the people to survive. But the problem is that at this critical moment, he is not thinking about his people, but about his people.
How to expand territory."
歘——
Hearing this, Tao Qiqi stood up from the stone bench angrily, "If all the people in Dayong starve to death, it will be useless for him to expand his territory. He plans to bury all this land after his death."
Do you want to put yourself in the 18th level of hell?"
"18 levels of hell? What do you mean?" Nangong Yi asked doubtfully.
Tao Qiqi realized that she was rude. Fortunately, there was no such thing as 18 levels of hell at this time, so she hurriedly said: "It's okay."
Seeing that Tao Qiqi said it was okay, Nangong Yi did not continue to ask, but looked at his third brother, and then asked tentatively: "Doesn't third brother have any plans now?"
Nangong Ye understood what Nangong Yi wanted to ask, looked up at him, and replied lightly: "Yes."
When Nangong Yi heard this word, his eyes lit up, and he was about to say something, but Nangong Ye suddenly changed his words and said: "Take your Aunt Jiang to the fief safely and live your own life. This is mine.
Intend."
"Third brother, you know what I want to ask!"
"What is it?" Nangong Ye deliberately continued to act stupid.
"Among us brothers, I know that only you are the most suitable for that position. I believe my father thought so too at the beginning. But why are you? Now can you really bear to watch the people suffer?"
"What if that's not the case? Thousands of miles away to send someone to death?"
This is a sentence Tao Qiqi said at the beginning, and he picked it up and used it here.
But now he really understood the meaning of this sentence.
"Third brother, don't you still have Mr. Tao? At least you are stronger than me and second brother. Second brother is not willing to be weak, so you shouldn't remain unmoved. Or should I say, you are really strong from the beginning to the end.
Never thought about that location?”
"I haven't thought about it. I won't think about it in the future. So don't say these words again. If you want to live, you must understand what to say and what not to say."
It's not that Nangong Ye hasn't thought about it now, it's because he thinks so clearly that he remains unmoved.
A good hand can't beat two fists, and a pair of fists can't beat four hands. He thought very clearly.
Although he is currently protected by Qiqi, protection is one thing. There is absolutely no way he can let Qiqi risk his life to snatch that position for him. No matter how powerful Qiqi is, he is only as powerful as tens of thousands of elite soldiers.
As for the common people, he can only say that they should obey fate and do their best.
Nangong Yi saw that the third brother really didn't seem to have that idea, so he didn't continue the topic, but his mind obviously became a lot heavier.
The eldest brother is ruthless and the second brother is ruthless. Only when the third brother sits in that position can the country and the people be truly safe, but the third brother has no such intention.
Tao Qiqi on the side looked at the two brothers' conversation that suddenly stopped, and the atmosphere was a little tense. She wanted to say something to liven up the atmosphere, but the system's voice suddenly rang.
[System task: Ask the master to sign a secret book contract with Qingping Wang Nangongyi.]
