Chapter 1103: Chapter 266: Lord Qu’s Ingenious Plan for Peace, Lost Both Wife and Soldiers (Part 2)
Dao:
"A person’s struggle doesn’t rely solely on personal effort, but also on the influence of historical progress."
"The big trend?"
Jing Renli paused and said:
"I wonder, Brother Zheng, do you think that the current situation is the big trend?"
"There is definitely a trend, but who knows whose trend it is? Will it elevate you to great heights, or will it simply crush you with a wave?"
"Oh, what kind of trend do you think it is, Brother Zheng?"
Zheng Fan shook his head.
Jing Renli asked again, "It seems, Brother Zheng, you aren’t sure either?"
Then,
Jing Renli wiped the protective mirror on his chest,
and said:
"Indeed, the great trend of the world, who can truly see it clearly or distinguish it?
Think of Master Zang from Qian State, who came to Yanjing City with the art of dragon-slaying, yet now the Yan State still suppresses Qian and Chu.
Consider the three families of Jin State, who formed a climate for years, who established a pattern, yet in just two years, two families vanished into smoke, and one humbled itself.
The trend is like the tide, the tide sees the weather, fate is unpredictable, unpredictable indeed."
"You’re wrong."
"Oh, may I ask, Brother Zheng, where did Renli go wrong?"
Zheng Fan looked at Jing Renli very calmly and said:
"To borrow power, it’s just because you need to borrow it, but not for the sake of borrowing power itself;
your need to borrow proves that you’re currently lacking;
so,
the ultimate goal of borrowing power is so that in the future you won’t need to borrow it anymore, but rather,you become the power."
"Ah... oh, I see."
Jing Renli got up, bowed respectfully to Zheng Fan,
and said:
"What Brother Zheng said is enlightening, Renli, is taught.
It’s just a pity,
that Renli is a Chu person; otherwise, I really would have wanted to join you under Brother Zheng’s command to become the power together, seems like it would be an extremely interesting thing.
Someday sitting in front of Lingxiao Pavilion, drinking fine wine from the sky;
What a joy, what a joy."
"Even a princess from Chu State can marry me as a daughter-in-law, you, Jing Renli, are merely a child of the Jing family who isn’t valued by their family. To put it bluntly, even if you were to die here today, not many in the Jing family would care.
So,
why can’t you come to me?"
"Because it’s useless." Jing Renli quickly gave the answer, "Because I haven’t shown my value yet, so, even if I were to follow you now, and join your ranks, you would quickly forget about me.
Renli is a man, though bearing the Jing surname, remains unknown in reputation, Brother Zheng taking me in wouldn’t gain any face, two nations at war, each has their defectors, a quite common occurrence;
The rebellion in Xue Rang’s division a month ago, wasn’t it due to a general secretly defecting to Yan?
Moreover,
To say something extremely disrespectful,
A princess is a princess, she is after all a woman, Renli is a man.
Women are like flowers,
Flowers cannot be eaten, they don’t endure being eaten, and they don’t fill the stomach,
But flowers are beautiful;
Carrying a flower around town arouses envy;
Hiding a flower indoors allows for solitary enjoyment;
Thus, alas, Renli is no flower."
"Hehe, got it."
"Thank you, Brother Zheng."
"Thank me for what?"
"For understanding Renli’s thoughts."
Lord Zheng looked at him, said nothing more, but rose slowly, as the Lord had already gone far, he had to catch up.
He wasn’t afraid of Jing Renli by his side, for this person after all came from a cultured family, his martial skills were ordinary;
But the road back to the military camp was quite long, and in the late night, Lord Zheng walking alone on such a path, would feel frightened.
Jing Renli then finally called out:
"Brother Zheng, next time, Renli hopes to personally bring the dowry from our emperor to you, Brother Zheng."
Zheng Fan waved his hand and said:
"Okay."
"Brother Zheng, the time after that, Renli, will..."
Thinking for a moment, Jing Renli suddenly felt that shouting these slogans was meaningless, harboring great ambitions is not something you shout about, ambition is like fine wine, needing to be settled.
Jing Renli quietly picked up the wine jar, with little wine left in it, but enough to moisten his throat again.
He looked up again,
gazed at the sky,
and with force, swung,
"Smack!"
The wine jar shattered heroically against the ground, yet, perhaps really drunk, when swinging the jar, he was slightly exhausted, the jar struck Jing Renli’s foot.
"Hiss... ouch ouch!"
...
Lord Zheng still hadn’t caught up with the Lord, fortunately, nothing happened on the way back to the camp.
The Lord had already returned, but Zheng Fan did not disturb him, instead, he was led by a guard by the Lord’s side to the tent where he would rest tonight.
Inside the tent, the princess had already lain down and fallen asleep.
All the while fleeing, as a princess of Chu State, she didn’t get a sound sleep until entering the Yan Army’s camp.
Lord Zheng sat down beside her.
She seemed to sense someone had come, also seemed to recognize this feeling, then she turned sideways, stretched out her hand, and embraced Lord Zheng’s arm.
Lord Zheng reached out to help her tend to the strands of hair by her temples, gently moved her hand away, putting it back under the blanket, he himself got up, walked outside the tent, and sat down.
He pulled out a cigarette from the iron box and lit it.
In this world, most people are indeed scum.
At least, that’s how Lord Zheng felt because lying in the tent was a princess, a girl who followed him leaving her motherland;
Yet at this moment,
Sitting outside the tent, what he thought of was A Ming, San’er, and... Siniang.
Now that he has returned safely, it’s up to them.
They,
Shouldn’t have any issues.
"Oh hehe, look, little Fan is back, hahaha, heard he even brought back the princess of Chu State."
This was Li Fusheng’s voice.
The power of the great Yan court had already penetrated into Li Tian City, Quhe City, and Ying Capital City, the bureaucratic system was gradually being covered, on this point, Lord Jingnan completely relinquished convenience.
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