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Chapter 361 Loss of Soul

"Our Qingfu County..."

After Li Xia left, Fang Yankai repeated it in a low voice. Looking back at the entire conversation, this was the sentence that impressed him the most.

I thought that Li Xia would put on airs in front of him when he became a county magistrate because he was a young man, but the expected embarrassment did not happen.Li Xia has an attitude of talking about things from the beginning to the end.

Fang Yankai then felt that he was a little petty.

In the evening, he once again found time to have dinner at Li Xiling's house on the other side of the Fujiang River.

He never brought his family to celebrate, and he ate alone for two years. Now Li Xiling is his only friend.

He could be friends with Li Xiling, but he couldn't be friends with North returnees like the father and son of the Han family.

Opening the door and entering the hall, Li Xiling was tasting tea, turned his head and said with a smile: "You have a good nose, Taoist Master Hao caught a big snake on the mountain today, and Zhao Cheng is stewing snake soup."

Fang Yankai smiled and said: "The snake that Mr. Hao caught, could it be a snake demon?"

He has an old-fashioned face all day long in the county yamen, but he was also a poet and wine youth before he became a Jinshi, and he also has a funny side in front of his friends.

"Naturally, it is a snake demon. If you and I eat it, it may become a feather and ascend."

"Don't talk nonsense, Li Zhixian came back today, didn't he call you over?"

"He's gone to the barracks." Li Xiling said, "I've done my job well, so I don't have anything to say."

Fang Yankai had already sat down at the table, holding his chopsticks and waiting, looking quite at ease.

After a while, Li Zhaocheng brought snake soup and some dishes, Hao Xiuyang also took a seat, and the four of them shared the wine with the soup.

The dishes were delicious, and Fang Yan's regular script deliberately praised a few words, but took them back.

Because he has become good friends with Li Xiling, he knows the matter of the Li family father and son the most... Li Zhaocheng likes to cook and doesn't like to study for imperial examinations.Li Xiling thinks that it's okay to cook occasionally for pleasure, but it's not the right way for a man.

Then, if you praise Li Zhaocheng's cooking skills, you will add chaos to your friend's house.

After eating and drinking a few glasses of wine, Fang Yankai sighed and said, "Today, I really work under Xiaoer's rule."

"Zhengshu just bullied him when he was young." Li Xiling held his wine glass and said, "Aside from age, Lizhi County's character and ability, are you convinced?"

Fang Yankai smiled wryly.

Li Xiling said: "The reason why I came to Lizhi County to work under the curtain is precisely because he is young. He has achieved such achievements at such a young age. What will happen in the future?"

"I understand the truth." Fang Yankai said, "Since he became an official, he has been conscientious and conscientious, but he has always been in this first-level and half-job. Even the young man who has just entered the official position is also climbing on his head..."

"When I go back to my hometown, how can I hold my head high among relatives, old friends, teachers and students?" Li Xiling suddenly interrupted Fang Yankai, and asked with a smile.

Fang Yankai was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.

Li Xiling's words just hit the bottom of his heart.

"They will say, 'I heard that Li Feiyu, brother Zhengshu, was only seventeen years old when he was appointed magistrate of Shangna County'? What face is there to be an official so far?" Li Xiling asked again.

"I also know that these are all false..."

"The world is like this." Li Xiling said: "Therefore, there are many mediocre people in the world, who can't let go of their poor self-righteousness. But there are very few people with discerning eyes."

He moved closer to Fang Yankai, and said: "Brother Fang, do you want to be with the mediocre people, or do you really want to use your talents for the people under your rule?"

Fang Yankai understands the truth, he is probably too lonely and needs someone to talk to, after the chat, he suddenly feels relieved...

~~
"The landlord is gone?"

Liu Susu entered the hall, asked a question, and cleaned up the leftovers on the table.

"Well, he's been around for too long, and his vision has narrowed." Li Yong said casually, and asked, "Have you eaten?"

"I ate it in the back. I have never seen such a big snake in Lin'an. It was so scary that I lost my appetite."

Li Yong looked at the concubine's room and sighed.

"It is said that Su Dongpo was demoted to Huizhou, and once sent veterans to the city to buy snake soup. His concubine Chaoyun did not eat snakes, so Dongpo said it was seafood. After Chaoyun learned that what he ate was snake meat, he vomited and became ill. After a few months, the fragrance faded away and the jade fell. Then there was a sentence of "high love has disappeared into the sky", which is a pity."

Liu Susu turned her head and said angrily: "Ah Lang is talking nonsense again. When Dongpo lured Chaoyun's soul, he clearly wrote that he died of the epidemic of the time. Did he eat snake soup by mistake?"

Li Yong just smiled.

He saw the snake soup on the table, thought of Su Shi and his concubine Chaoyun, and thought of more.

Su Dongpo mourned his deceased wife and wrote "Ten years of life and death are boundless". After that, his concubine Chaoyun accompanied him for 23 years. He worked hard all his life and followed him thousands of miles.

Li Yong has also experienced these things.

But recently, what he thought of was Su Dongpo's mourning for the loss of his son.

Thinking about this, Li Yong murmured: "Everyone adopts a son who hopes to be smart, but I have been fooled by being smart all my life. I only hope that the child will be foolish and reckless, and come to Gongqing without any disasters or difficulties."

Liu Susu understood Li Yong's thoughts best, so she couldn't help but stop her movements, and comforted her: "Ah Lang, I'm so sad. If I look at it personally, what Taoist Hao said is right, he must be suffering from the disease of losing his soul, and he will feel like a different person. generally."

"It's not sad, it's just... I don't know what to do."

"It's a disease, there will always be a good day."

~~
Over there, Li Zhaocheng took a food box and entered the Qingfu barracks.

"Where is Lizhi County?"

"In the lobby, the villain led Li Langjun over."

When Li Zhaocheng entered the military council hall, he saw Li Xia looking through the roster by the candlelight.

The two looked at each other, Li Zhaocheng lifted the food box in his hand and said, "I made some snake soup, do you want to eat it?"

"I'm sorry I don't eat snake meat," Li Xia said.

"You weren't so picky before, what to eat."

Li Xia said, "It's not the same person anymore."

Li Zhaocheng sat down opposite him, opened the food box, took out a box of pastries and put them on the table, and saw the empty plate on the table.

"It seems that you have eaten it, but try this, the sugar cake I made, you used to love it the most."

Li Xia shook his head again, and said, "I don't eat sweets."

He looked into the food box and saw that there were two plates of seasonal vegetables, and said, "Those two dishes look good."

Li Zhaocheng smiled wryly, brought out the food, looked around, saw no one else was there, and said, "Second brother doesn't recognize me?"

"I don't know."

"Well, my real name is 'Li Jing'. I can be considered your elder brother and also your elder brother. I am my father's cousin and his adopted son..."

Li Zhaocheng explained with some difficulty that these family relationships were somewhat complicated, but Li Xia still understood.

To put it simply, Li Zhaocheng is the direct grandson of Li Renben, and his aunt was Princess Rong.Later, the Li family was persecuted by King Rong, and he was adopted by Li Yong, so he changed his current name.

Speaking of which, Li Yong also lost his father since childhood and was adopted by his uncle Li Renben, like a reincarnation.

"Oh, no wonder people say that our family used to live in seclusion, that's why." Li Xia said.

After the words "our family" came out, he was also taken aback for a moment, put down the roster in his hand, and looked at Li Zhaocheng.

Li Zhaocheng looks like a man and a woman. Although he is tall, he is quite beautiful. He blinked and said, "Yes. Our family lives in seclusion."

"I plan to talk to Mr. Li about King Rong and King Zhong, but wait until I'm busy."

"We have been inquiring about you since you were imprisoned, but we haven't been able to save you yet. You have already gone north..."

"I know."

Li Zhaocheng asked, "You don't blame your father, do you?"

Li Xia said: "I am really a different person, not because I blame myself."

"Haven't you ever thought about it, are you suffering from soul-loss disease?" Li Zhaocheng asked.

Li Xia said: "I know my situation best."

"If you were a different person, would you have a past life? Who was it?"

Li Xia ate with the food on the table, and said casually, "I was originally... a swordsman, the one who ranked number one in the world, and my soul occupied this body after death."

"What have you done?"

"It's nothing more than practicing sword hard every day."

"Why?"

"Life is meaningful in order to win."

Li Zhaocheng was silent for a while, he didn't agree with Li Xia's words,
"Perhaps, you imagined it. These years, the Li family has been in trouble and has suffered many catastrophes. Father had no choice but to participate in the downfall of King Zhong. You saw him like this, and you imagined someone to replace you, shepherding the remote A place to train private soldiers. Is there such a possibility?"

"This is your imagination."

"This is the most reasonable conjecture, and it is consistent with the symptoms of soul-loss disease." Li Zhaocheng said, "You are a person who is too prone to distraction when doing things since childhood."

Li Xia was silent for a moment, and understood that the "soul loss" he was talking about probably referred to "split personality".

He suddenly also thought, in his previous life, was he really imagining it?

It was only for a moment, Li Xia shook his head.

With his firm will, he will not be aroused by self-doubt by a few words...

(End of this chapter)