Lu Qishan stood on the pier waiting for the middle-aged man.
This middle-aged man with a graceful temperament landed ashore, took out a gold seal no bigger than a thumb from his sleeve, and handed it to Lu Qishan.
Looking at the patterns on the gold seal, Lu Qishan confirmed the identity of the visitor and his expression became serious.
He bowed respectfully and said softly: "My lord, please forgive me. I still need a certificate from the military department."
The middle-aged man smiled slightly and said, "It's natural. Mr. Lu is very cautious and cautious, which is well known to the world. Otherwise, His Majesty would not let you take charge here." While smiling, he took out a document from his sleeve.
"The general's eyesight is so stupid that he didn't know that Mr. Xiao Jin was coming." Lu Qishan looked at this document and was truly shocked.
The gold seal is the gold seal of the Xiao family.
At this time in the new dynasty, only the royal family was qualified to use the gold seal.
So before seeing the document, he already knew that this middle-aged man was from the subordinates of King Linchuan.
However, he did not expect that it would be Xiao Jin who came.
Xiao Jin is the adopted brother of King Linchuan, and he is King Linchuan's military advisor.
"Do you think it's a bit of a fuss?"
Xiao Jin smiled, but did not wait for Lu Qishan to answer. He just waved his hand and said, "Let the young man come here. I will wait for him here."
Lu Qishan bowed and saluted, saying he was leaving.
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"Are you from the Xiao family?"
Lin Yi walked along the wooden plank road towards the middle-aged man in civilian clothes standing on the dock with his hands behind his back.
At this time, thick fog is rising on the river, the middle-aged man is in a calm state of mind, and not far away are the distant mountains with alternating shades of light. All this should be a landscape painting of figures with a good artistic conception.
It's just that when he walked here from the stilted building above, this middle-aged man didn't even look at him.
Lin Yi knew that for the other party, he was just a matter that had to be solved, but the other party actually didn't have much interest in him.
It can even be said that young people like myself are not much different from other young people to the other party.
"Are you nervous?"
Xiao Jin finally turned around and took a real look at Lin Yi. His eyes did not linger too much on Lin Yi's face, but just noticed his soaked clothes, "So much sweat."
To his surprise, Lin Yiwei bowed and saluted, calm and peaceful, "I was practicing just now, so my clothes got wet."
Xiao Jin smiled faintly and said, "You should be able to guess my purpose?"
"Because of Xiao Shufei?" Lin Yi straightened up, looked at the middle-aged man, and said.
"You're not too stupid." Xiao Jin said, "But it's not enough. Even if you are still the son of a cavalry general, it's still not enough."
His two sentences are very jumpy.
But Lin Yi understood what he meant.
There was no feeling of being humiliated and Lin Yi was very calm.
He was silent for a moment and said: "Many things happen naturally, no one does it deliberately."
"I heard that you and the boys from the Shi family were known as the two tigers of Qitian Academy back then. I met you today and admit that you are very different from those young people. However, you should understand that this has nothing to do with whether a person is excellent or not." Xiao
Jin tried to make his voice gentler, "Some things are inevitable, but in life, when encountering these things, you must learn to choose."
"What kind of choice? Completely disappear from Xiao Shufei's world?" Lin Yi said: "Otherwise."
Xiao Jin frowned slightly.
Looking at Lin Yi, whose expression remained unchanged, he was sure that this was a young man who was very difficult to deal with.
He glanced at Lin Yi and didn't rush to say anything. He just took out a document from his sleeve. A thin but powerful real energy surged slightly, and the document fell in front of Lin Yi.
Lin Yi caught it and saw it clearly at a glance.
"The appointment letter from Guanshan College, is this for me?"
He didn't look at the appointment letter in his hand again. He raised his head and looked at Xiao Jin's face seriously: "If I accept it, I should be able to leave here directly and go to Guanshan College to teach."
Xiao Jin also looked at him and still didn't answer.
He had a strange feeling in his heart, feeling that this humble young man suddenly became proud and arrogant.
"Guanshan College is the largest college in Qi'an County. I heard that the climate there is pleasant, and you can often contact caravans going out to sea. You may even have the opportunity to go out to sea to see some strange small countries and have a different life. Guanshan College's teaching conditions
It should be quite generous, and it is the furthest away from the battlefield, so the flames of war cannot be ignited there."
Lin Yi looked at him and then said slowly: "If I go to Guanshan College to teach, I should be able to teach without any worries and live my life in peace."
Xiao Jin laughed, "I heard the food there is also very good, it will indeed be a wonderful life."
"But that's not the life I should live, it's not the life I want." Lin Yi shook his head, and he laughed. The smile contained many emotions that were difficult to understand, "And I am alone in this kind of thing.
I can’t make the decision either.”
"Why?" Xiao Jin stopped smiling and became serious. He really wanted to hear the boy's reasons.
"Because things like relationships are originally a matter between two people. If I agree to such a condition, she will be very disappointed even if she won't be sad for a long time. As for me, the identity and status of a well-matched person are just your thoughts.
, and it is not her idea, you may not need to consider her feelings, but I will definitely consider her feelings."
Lin Yi looked at him and said: "For me, even if I die, I don't want to make her sad and disappointed. I don't want to be that kind of person, and I don't want to hide like this for the rest of my life."
"You should understand who I have been seeing since childhood."
Lin Yi looked at Xiao Jin, whose expression had not changed, and continued: "I have seen too many soldiers who rushed up even though they knew they would die. I have seen many people's graves, and many people who fought side by side with them. Every year
As long as I can come back, I will definitely go to pay homage to them. They are silly, but they are respected."
"What if I can also give your father the opportunity to go to Guanshan College for retirement?" Xiao Jin smiled faintly.
"You said it was if, not for sure. If I agree to you, I will no longer be of any value to your Xiao family." Lin Yi also laughed, "Instead of trusting you, I might as well trust Xiao Shufei.
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"Then it should be difficult for you to walk out of Meishan." Xiao Jin turned sideways. He was slightly taller than Lin Yi, so his eyes easily passed over Lin Yi's head and fell into the darkness of Meishan.
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"If this is my destiny, then I can only accept my destiny." Lin Yidao: "Because this is the life I choose."
At this moment, there was something he wanted to say in his heart, but he felt it was a bit disgusting, so he stopped mentioning it.
"If you don't even have the courage to fight for your own destiny and the people you love, then there is no point in living."
Xiao Jin nodded.
He said nothing more and didn't even care about the document in Lin Yi's hand.
Because since the attitudes of both parties are like this, the document is already a piece of waste paper.
"This forest fox..."
Qi Zhuji was not too close to the two of them, and Lu Qishan didn't want to cause the displeasure of this important figure in the Xiao family, so he and Qi Zhuji stayed in a stilted building in the middle.
It's just that the mining area was very quiet, and the conversation between the two was not deliberately concealed, so everyone could vaguely hear the content of the conversation.
Qi Zhuji gritted his teeth. He subconsciously wanted to call Lin Yi an idiot, but he felt that if Lin Yi was not an idiot, maybe he would not like this person at all, let alone do anything for him.
"What now?"
After Xiao Jin uploaded and left, Qi Zhuji finally calmed down and looked at Lu Qishan with bright eyes in the darkness.
"Lin Yi sets out tonight to join the Tiece Army."
Lu Qishan shook his head and said: "That's the case, the most I can do is let you and Xiao Suxin be together." (To be continued)