Gao Zhao's pupils were as narrow as the eyes of needles: "Li Chengzhi, could it be that I saw that my Gao's Building was about to collapse and you were helpless, so you wanted to break your promise?"
Help me?
I have only been in Beijing for a few days, and I have already been promoted several levels. I have made acquaintance with many important ministers and dignitaries, and I have become a member of the emperor's heart. But which one of them is your success?
If it weren't for Gao Wenjun, we wouldn't have crossed paths in old age and death, right?
"Sikong misunderstood!"
Li Chengzhi sighed softly, "It's just that the lower official felt that at this time, Sikong was like a terminally ill person who had reached the point where he had to seek medical treatment in a hurry. At this moment: the lower official was no more than the seventh rank, his position was not in the central government, and he was only two years old in the capital.
It's been ten days, and the relationship between all parties has not even been sorted out. How can you dare to judge the holy will? I think Sikong should ask His Majesty?"
What a fart, why do you ask me to ask?
Besides, who asked you to figure out the holy will? I want you to give an accurate answer: Can I, Gao Zhao, survive this test?
Gao Zhao was so angry that he was about to smoke. He wanted to grab Li Chengzhi by his collar and ask him: Do you believe that I will tell you all the bad things you did?
Do you think I am an emperor and can be deceived by you with just a few words?
After decades of ups and downs in the officialdom, he still has the power and determination. Although Gao Zhao is angry, he will not break out.
He also knew better what Li Chengzhi was worried about: Can a person who has been given by heaven admit it casually?
If it were him, he would definitely refuse to let go...
But how can we let Li Chengzhi reveal something or give some hints?
In a hurry, he noticed a figure moving in front of him. When he looked up, it was Gao Wenjun who had brought two glasses of ice wine and placed them in front of the two of them.
It must be that his voice when he asked was a little louder just now, which made Sanniang mistakenly think that he and Li Chengzhi had a quarrel. She was worried and made an excuse to come over to take a look.
Gao Zhao's heart moved and he said in a deep voice: "That's okay, I won't force you. But I just want to ask you, how do you want to deal with Sanniang?"
Disposal?
Are you really good at using words?
While he was comforting Gao Wenjun with his eyes, Li Chengzhi didn't realize there was a deceit and said without thinking: "Counting the time, my mother will be coming to Beijing soon. Then we will visit Sikong together..."
In fact, it’s a marriage proposal!
Gao Zhao asked in a tight voice: "What happens next?"
After that, it won’t be easy?
When it’s time to accept the offer, do it; when it’s time to ask for your name, just ask for your name; when it’s time to get engaged, just get engaged…
Of course, Gao Zhao must agree first...
Li Chengzhi had some doubts: Could it be that Gao Zhao was forcing himself and wanted to tie the two parties into the same boat in advance?
But what's the use, the emperor is still your nephew, why doesn't he still have no hesitation when he prepares to deal with you?
I, Li Chengzhi, am so virtuous and capable that I dare to let you, Gao Sikong, be my life-saving straw?
You think too highly of me...
Li Chengzhi just felt a little bit fanciful: Once upon a time, he was still terrified about how to survive, and he couldn't sleep at night. He racked his brains to figure out whose thigh he should hug.
Suddenly, he became a person?
But it's a good thing. If the queen hadn't been assassinated and the emperor hadn't pushed Gao Zhao to such a point, God knows how long the matter between him and Gao Wenjun would have dragged on?
I just took the opportunity to finalize the matter.
While thinking about it, Li Chengzhi stood up and bowed deeply to Gao Zhao: "I know you shouldn't. This question shouldn't be asked by a junior. But Sikong also knows that the junior's father works in Jingzhou, so he really can't get away from it.
.I took the liberty to ask Sikong: Is it possible if my uncle Li Shiliang greets me on my behalf?"
Greetings?
Are you really good at hitting snakes and catching them with sticks?
How high is Li Shiliang? Ask him if he dares to sit down in front of me?
Are you really not taking me as a thorn in the Gao family? Li Chengzhi is really embarrassed to say it?
If it were normal, Gao Zhao would have been furious and walked away. But now instead of being angry, he was secretly ecstatic.
"When?"
No matter what, I have to wait for my mother to come to Beijing and prepare plenty of gifts. And I have to find a matchmaker who has enough weight and the right connections...
Li Chengzhi did the math: "It can take as little as seven or eight days, and at the latest it can only take twenty!"
Two ten days?
Gao Zhao seemed calm, but if you look closely, you can see that his beard has begun to tremble slightly: "Can I survive until then?"
How could he not survive?
Gao Zhao is too much of a loser. Isn’t it a waste of your half-life in officialdom? You were very prosperous and arrogant all your life. Just the slightest disturbance turned you into a frightened bird?
Calm down and think about it carefully. The emperor is scaring you, okay?
With Yuan Ke's secretive character, I really want to deal with you, so why bother with such a big fanfare? By the time you find out, you will either be in prison, or your head will be in a different place.
Furthermore, if you, Gao Zhao, are going to die, where will the emperor find such a handy knife, which can be used to balance the clan, the family, do all kinds of dirty work, and take all kinds of scapegoats?
Don't worry, as long as Yuan Ke doesn't die, you will definitely live well. And you are still the powerful Gao Sikong...
As thoughts swirled in his mind, Li Chengzhi unknowingly showed a sarcastic expression, which was clearly caught in Gao Zhao's eyes.
Are you clearly mocking me?
Haha, even I, Gao Shouwen, don’t look down on me, how dare you say that you are not a person given by heaven?
It's good to laugh, it's only right to laugh...
In an instant, as if a heavy shackle had been lifted, Gao Zhao suddenly felt relaxed all over.
"You are very good..."
As he spoke, Gao Zhao raised his wine glass, handed it to Li Chengzhi from across the table, and drank it all in one gulp.
This respectful gesture of gratitude made Li Chengzhi feel bitter in his mouth.
He obviously didn't say anything, but in Gao Zhao's view, it was no different than saying everything: If I can't survive this, everything will be over, why do you want to kiss me?
Sure enough, he is an old fox. A simple and ordinary conversation of two or three sentences is filled with holes?
But this really has nothing to do with whether gods or gods don’t grant it. Even a fool should be able to think of it?
"Sikong Ying has misunderstood this junior. This junior is not as magical as the world spreads. At most, he is more studious and has read more books!"
Li Chengzhi was very helpless, "This junior just thought that maybe the incident happened too suddenly. Sikong was too worried for the moment and made a mistake: Where can the emperor find a second minister like Sikong?"<
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Dark under the lamp?
After a moment of smacking, you can see Li Chengzhi's hidden meaning: it means that the emperor will not be able to find anyone more suitable to take the blame than Gao Zhao...
Gao Zhao suddenly burst into laughter and said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "I thought you were so profound that even I dare not take him seriously, but it's just like this? Don't show your clumsiness in front of others in the future, so as not to be ridiculed..."<
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It means that it is not what Li Chengzhi thought it was...
It's not that the emperor couldn't bear to let go of him as a scapegoat, but if the prince were not born to Gao Ying, Gao Zhao would have lost his position and motivation, let alone the ability to protect himself in the future.
Otherwise, why should he continue to take the blame? What does Gao Zhao want to do? Is he waiting to be confiscated and exterminated by the new emperor?
Gao Zhao could already imagine that if he didn't restrain himself and keep a low profile, sooner or later, he would be used by the new emperor to establish his authority and win over the Yuan clan and those who had been offended by Gao Zhao...
Gao Zhao didn't want to carry him anymore, but the emperor didn't want to let him go. This was the fundamental reason why the emperor pressed so hard!
"I know that you have always been cunning, so I don't force others to do anything. I just have some confusion in my heart, and I want you to help me sort it out..."
You just made fun of my political IQ as that of a rookie, now you want me to analyze it for you again?
Are you afraid that you still want to use clichés?
Cursing secretly, Li Chengzhi bowed slightly: "Sikong, please speak!"
Gao Zhao narrowed his eyes and spoke in a very low voice: "When the former Taishi ordered Geng Yan to stay temporarily in the mansion, he made several hexagrams for me. One of them was: die young, and the heirs will be orphaned... Can it be fulfilled?
?"
Died young and left no heirs?
Isn’t this nonsense? It doesn’t matter how old you are. Even if you die immediately, it has nothing to do with dying young...
While he was cursing secretly, Li Chengzhi was horrified.
This is not a hexagram written for Gao Zhao. Is this divination not for the emperor?
You said it wasn’t just to trick me?
Li Chengzhi shook his head like a wave: "Sikong really asked the wrong person. I don't believe in Buddhism, nor talk about strange powers and gods, nor do I believe in the fortune-telling and fortune-telling taught by alchemists and sorcerers..."
"Then what do you believe?" Gao Zhao pressed.
What else can you believe?
Li Chengzhi's tone was indescribably firm: "Juniors only believe that everything depends on man-made things!"
It all depends on human effort?
It means that Geng Yan's hexagram is not accurate at all. The emperor will have a son, and nine times out of ten, it will be the one in Hu Chonghua's belly?
"Hehehe...it's a matter of human effort?"
Gao Zhao laughed miserably, as if he had aged dozens of years in an instant, "No wonder you spared no effort to help the Hu family when you were in Jingzhou. It turns out that everything depends on human effort?"
Li Chengzhi’s hair almost stood on end: Why are you so good at thinking?
If you look into it more deeply, you can see that Hu Baozong and Anding Hu were indifferent at that time, but he was able to treat them kindly again and again, which is not so meaningless.
But what does it have to do with the divination that Geng Yan gave you?
What I said is that man can conquer nature, where did you think of it?
Knowing that Gao Zhao had misunderstood, Li Chengzhi didn't know how to explain it. I was afraid that the more he spoke, the more Gao Zhao would think about, and God knows what weird thoughts he would come up with?
Forget it, whatever you think...
Seeing that Li Chengzhi was silent, Gao Zhao even mistakenly thought that he had acquiesced. For a moment, he felt despair.
"That's all... Li Chengzhi, I have nothing else to ask for. If the Gao family is really going to be in disaster that day, I just hope that for the sake of Sanniang, I can help my Gao family leave a son and a half heir..."<
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As he spoke, tears welled up in Gao Zhao's eyes.
Li Chengzhi has a toothache.
Just look, you will know that you will scare yourself, and in the end you will be scared to death.
Even if he is an emperor, he must follow the basic laws. It is impossible for the new emperor to destroy all the Gao family after he ascends the throne?
Why?
Do you think it’s those lunatics from the Northern Qi Gao family?
"Sikong Zaimu doesn't want to scare himself, it shouldn't be that bad!"
Gao Zhao's eyes lit up: "Really?"
Li Chengzhi was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood: After half a day of co-writing, why are you acting in a painful love scene?