Even though he smiled as casually and lazily as before, Cheng Dalei could still detect the vicissitudes and bitterness in his eyes. In such a chaotic situation, no one could escape unscathed, not just Li Xingzai but also Cheng Dalei.
"Lin Shaoyu is dead." Cheng Dalei said calmly.
"But my father is also dead, many people have died in Chang'an City, and many people have died in Bingzhou." Li Letian looked into Cheng Dalei's eyes: "Lin Shaoyu deserves to die."
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became heavy, and Cheng Dalei's eyelids twitched violently. After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes, he deserves to die, but many damn people are still alive."
"You can't kill them all." Li Xingzai said: "Even if you kill them all, this troubled world will not get better."
Cheng Dalei responded with silence, Liu Bei and Xu Shenji both left the room, leaving only Li Xingzai and Cheng Dalei who remained silent.
"Spring and Autumn War without justice."
Li Xingzai slowly uttered five words, and Cheng Dalei nodded slightly, agreeing with Li Xingzai's view.
There is no righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period, and there is no righteous war in troubled times. Even if Lin Shaoyu holds the banner of justice, it may not be righteous. Cheng Dalei does not believe that there is such a thing as justice in the world. It is just you kill me, and I kill you.
Killing again and again, until everyone is killed in the end, the troubled times will end. Then the cycle starts over again and the next cycle begins.
"If the fight continues, both sides will kill each other, and your Toad Stronghold cannot be avoided." Li Xingzai said: "Let's end it like this. You offer a condition, a city, a title, and in order for you to retreat, the empire is very well prepared.
price."
"If I really wanted these, I wouldn't have ended up like this." Cheng Dalei smiled, and the bitterness in his eyes disappeared a lot.
"I understand. In fact, many people are wondering what on earth you are going to do. Even I don't understand." Li Xingzai.
"Okay." Cheng Dalei said: "Since you are here, I can't give you face. If you say to retreat, you will retreat. We will give you this face. I don't want the city or the title. According to you, Lin Shaoyu deserves to die, and so do I."
I think he deserves to die. He was killed by Li Letian. I can't say anything about the revenge of his father's death. Now, I want Lin Shaoyu's body. This request is not too much."
"Not too much."
Li Xingzai nodded. Lin Shaoyu's death has brought merits to many people in the empire. His weapons, armor, horses, corpses... can all be exchanged for merits, but he has not returned to Chang'an yet, and there is no time to discuss his merits.
reward.
Now that Cheng Dalei wants to take it back, it will naturally be a great humiliation for the imperial army, but the current situation cannot be said to be humiliating or humiliating.
Things went smoother than Li Xingzai thought, but he didn't think it was too difficult. Cheng Dalei was not a demon slayer after all, he wanted to kill all the imperial troops to avenge Lin Shaoyu.
He was just unhappy because Lin Shaoyu died. As for what he should do and what he shouldn't do, in fact, no one knew in this troubled world.
"Okay, Li Xingzai, I promise you. But you have to know that it's not you who persuaded me, but I want to be persuaded by you." Cheng Dalei looked at Li Xingzai: "How have you been doing recently?"
"Not good." Li Xingzai pointed to his left leg: "Look, you almost destroyed one of my legs."
"Isn't it possible to catch up? If I go to the battlefield a few times, I might as well save my life." Cheng Dalei said: "Take care of yourself. This troubled world has just begun, but it will eventually end. Like you, I hope this will happen."
The troubled times can end soon, and I hope that you are the one who can end these troubled times in the future."
"I'd like to lend you your kind words." Li Xingzai said, "Okay, I have to leave. I have a lot of things to do. If there is a chance in the future, let's meet again."
"We will meet again in the future..." Cheng Dalei smiled and kept the following words deep in his heart: I really don't hope that if we meet again in the future, we will become enemies.
At the top of Huangsha City, the sunset is almost setting. The setting sun has given the ancient city a layer of golden color, and there is new green emerging from the dead grass on the grassland.
But at this time, no one had gone down to the city yet, and they were all waiting for news from the Toad Army camp opposite.
A spy came on horseback from outside the city and galloped up to the top of the city.
"Report!"
"What's going on? Has His Highness the Sixth Prince come out?" Li Letian asked immediately.
"Your Highness has left the enemy camp and is returning." The spy panted.
Li Letian breathed a long sigh of relief. Although outsiders regarded Li Xingzai as a useless prince, he was the one who was most favored by Emperor Ming. Besides being jealous and envious of his sixth brother, Li Letian actually valued him very much.
Knowing that he was safe, the stone on Li Letian's chest was relieved. He immediately sent someone to pick up Li Xingzai. He, Yu Chili and others personally greeted him at the city gate.
I saw a small sedan slowly coming from a distance. It looked so small in the open grassland, but as it got closer, it became bigger and bigger in everyone's sight.
"Sixth brother..."
"Your Highness, Sixth Prince."
As soon as the curtain of the sedan chair was opened, everyone gathered around him. Now he alone was holding the hearts of countless people.
"It's settled." Li Xingzai was injured in his leg and couldn't get out of the sedan, so he could only sit in the sedan and talk: "He promised to withdraw his troops."
At this moment, countless people breathed a sigh of relief, but no one spoke for a while.
"What about the conditions? What conditions did he put forward?" Yu Chili asked.
"Don't worry about this matter now. I won't discuss it until we go to the city." Li Letian.
"Yes, yes," Cui Xiang said: "Your Highness, the Sixth Highness, saved the safety of tens of thousands of soldiers with one person's power. Every life here was saved by His Highness."
Yuchili gritted his teeth, thinking that Cui Xiang and Li Xingzai were really hateful. Li Xingzai, who had been performing poorly, used this incident to get back on the stage to challenge for the throne.
Cheng Dalei was also serious, why didn't he chop him with an axe? Wouldn't it have saved himself a lot of trouble?
Now, Li Xingzai has won a lot of people's hearts. Although he was dissatisfied, he was full of praise and said: "Your Highness, Sixth Highness, is so brave. I really admire you. It's cold and dewy here, and Your Highness is injured. Let's go back to the city."
The hall of the City Lord's Mansion was brightly lit, and Li Xingzai rarely sat in the position where Li Letian was taking action. Under everyone's gaze, Li Xingzai told Cheng Dalei's conditions.
"Is it possible that as long as Lin Shaoyu's relics are available, he can retreat?" Yu Chili frowned: "Is there a fraud in this matter?"
No wonder Yu Chili didn't believe it. In fact, the conditions offered by Cheng Dalei were too simple, so simple that they couldn't be believed by normal thinking.
"We shouldn't trust thieves easily. It's hard for bandits to have any integrity." Yuchili's men agreed.
Li Xingzai looked at Li Letian, who coughed lightly: "Prepare according to the conditions he proposed. Best, the handover can be completed tonight."