Origin Chapter 583: Offense and defense
Zhao Ying smiled lightly, holding up the wine glass and reaching out to Wu Zhongyuan.
Wu Zhongyuan was stunned for a moment before sending a cup to greet him. At this time, he did not have the habit of clinking glasses. Cheers are only available in later generations.
After clinking the glasses, Wu Zhongyuan drank half of it. Zhao Ying stopped after tasting it. After putting down the glass, she turned her head to look around and looked at the situation inside the wine shop. It may be out of curiosity, or it may be out of the professional habits of agents.
"Come on, try it," Wu Zhongyuan picked up his chopsticks and pointed to the vegetables on the table, "At this time, supplies are very scarce, it is difficult to maintain food and clothing, and there are not many delicious things. The food here is very good. That's a good time."
Zhao Ying didn't refuse politely. She picked up the chopsticks and tasted them one by one. This was not the first time the two had eaten at the same table, but it was the most relaxing one, at least for Zhao Ying, she didn't have to hide her true dietary preferences and meals. The way, Westerners do not have as many rules at the dinner table as Easterners, and they are more relaxed after getting the invitation and permission of the host.
Eastern people pay attention to eating and sleeping. If they need to talk at a banquet, they will temporarily put down their chopsticks. However, there is no such rule in the West. Zhao Ying has been tasting carefully, commenting immediately, and those who have appetite will eat a few more bites , and occasionally bring wine glasses to drink and accompany meals.
Wu Zhongyuan held the jug and poured wine for him. Since the dining table is relatively large and there are many varieties of vegetables, if he finds that he has an appetite for Zhao Ying, he will move it to a position closer to Zhao Ying.
"What does it feel like to be worshipped?" Zhao Ying wiped the front of the chopsticks with a tissue while speaking. She has always had this habit, which is also a more educated habit. The juices of the saliva are mixed with each other, and it can also avoid the chopsticks with their own saliva from contaminating the remaining food on the plate.
Wu Zhongyuan did not expect Zhao Ying to ask such a question, and after thinking about it, he replied, "Pressure, huge pressure."
"I also feel that although you rule the world, you are not happy," Zhao Ying said, "You have achieved such an amazing achievement in just over two years, which is really rare. But your mental pressure is too high, and sooner or later there will be problems, you have to try to slow down.”
Wu Zhongyuan smiled, a bitter smile, "I think so too, but the time is not for me, the time left for me is too limited, I have to integrate all the tribes in the entire Central Plains into one within a year, you should I know that unification is simple, integration is difficult, and it involves all aspects. While developing productive forces, I also need to consolidate national defense and prepare for war. I am the Yellow Emperor, and the following thousands of threads will eventually converge with me. I was in high spirits when I reviewed the memorials, any order I issued would become a national policy and would affect thousands of people, so I can’t be careless.”
Zhao Ying picked up the glass and took a sip, "You are the king now, and the people below will not dare to respond truthfully to you even if they find a problem, let alone criticize you, but I am an outsider, and they dare not say anything. I dare to say that I understand your situation and difficulties, but you are too purposeful now, and even your eyes are full of urgency and exhaustion. I feel that you are not controlling the situation, but the situation is controlling you. The severe situation is pushing forward, getting closer and closer to the king, and further and further away from Wu Zhongyuan."
Wu Zhongyuan was thinking about what Zhao Ying said, but did not answer immediately.
Zhao Ying added, "If I guess right, you should be desperate to send me away now, and then make time for the things you have to do."
"If you want, you can stay here for a while, and I'll accompany you around." Wu Zhongyuan said.
"No, I understand your difficulty," Zhao Ying stood up and took the soup bowl in front of Wu Zhongyuan to serve the soup for her, "I'm very touched that you can stay with me for a day, other people won't be like this. treatment."
"You are not someone else." Wu Zhongyuan laughed.
"You still like me." Zhao Ying smiled with a little relief
Wu Zhongyuan did not deny it, but did not continue the topic, "You said just now that I was too purposeful, and then said, after I have finished speaking, what do you think is the right thing for me to do?"
"We have all your test scores from elementary school to university," Zhao Ying said. "It is not difficult to find through these data that you can do your best in everything from childhood to adulthood, study very seriously, and also Very hard work."
"If you are studying with an old Taoist priest in his 70s or 80s and a senior brother who risked his life to dig coal, your study will be very hard." Wu Zhongyuan closed his eyes and sighed, thinking about it carefully, he was already very hard I haven't thought of my master for a long time, and I have not even thought of Lin Qingming very often.
Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan's bitter memories were recalled, Zhao Ying hurriedly changed the subject, "What I want to say is that you don't have to be the best in everything at all. Take a look at all the good things in life, don't live so tired, if you can't do everything well, you can give up some minor things."
"Haha," Wu Zhongyuan laughed, "If you were not my friend, I would interpret your remarks as the bewitching and corruption of the heads of state of other countries by enemy agents."
"Are we just friends?" Zhao Ying asked with a smile.
"Why?" Wu Zhongyuan rolled his eyes, "You, an enemy spy, a sugar-coated cannonball, want to seduce other heads of state?"
"Haha, do you accept it?" Zhao Ying also laughed.
"You're too direct." Wu Zhongyuan was a little nervous.
"It won't work if it's not direct, I only have one night." Zhao Ying is half-truth, to be precise, nine true and one false.
"If you don't get it, you won't lose." Wu Zhongyuan stretched out his hand to pick up the vegetables. "Some things are better to keep a little bit of beauty, and it's better to leave a little memory."
"Are you rejecting me indirectly?" Zhao Ying tilted her head to look at him.
Zhao Ying looked at Wu Zhongyuan, and Wu Zhongyuan tilted her head to look at her. This is a beautiful and familiar face. Before that, he never thought that he would see Zhao Ying again one day. Looking at this familiar face, he His thoughts returned to the time when he was with Zhao Ying day and night. He did all kinds of things, and he was vividly remembered. If Zhao Ying hadn't rescued him outside the cave where the little wizard was, he would have been killed by the bird warrior dressed as a Taoist priest.
After a moment of staring at each other, Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "It's very kind to meet someone in a foreign country, but there are some things I won't do."
"The reason?" Zhao Ying asked.
Wu Zhongyuan put down his chopsticks and chewed the bracken in his mouth, "Do you know why Chinese people like the number nine? Nine is the ultimate, more is ten, ten is full, full will change, we have reached nine now , I don't want any other changes, good or bad."
Zhao Ying smiled, "I have a set of data in my hand, which is a statistical survey of people before their death. The number of people surveyed exceeds 200,000, including more than a dozen countries in the East and the West. The people surveyed are different. their outlook on life and ideology, the content of the survey was what their biggest regret was, and the results were strikingly similar. Their biggest regret wasn’t doing something they shouldn’t have done, but something they’ve always wanted to do , had the opportunity to do it but did not do it, and left a lifelong regret.”
"Is this the reason why you Westerners are messing around with each other?" Wu Zhongyuan asked with a smile. This sentence must be asked with a smile, otherwise it will be too heavy and too sharp.
Anything has both active and passive sides. The passive side has the right to refuse, so it has the absolute initiative. Zhao Ying is very clear that Wu Zhongyuan wants to make her angry, and then breaks up in this unhappy way Ending the topic, she didn't get angry, but explained with a smile, "You don't want to change things, change concepts, and mess around. Dating is not doing in-depth understanding, just to satisfy the low-level instinct of sex, and it will be empty afterwards. Regret is not something that someone has always wanted to do, am I not clear about what I just said? It is regret that I have always wanted to do something I have had the opportunity to do but didn't do it."
Wu Zhongyuan smiled, changed the language, and ordered the man to serve rice, to be precise, porridge. At this time, people usually don't eat dry rice at night, but rice porridge.
Zhao Ying didn't eat much, and there were still a lot of vegetables left, and Wu Zhongyuan was also hungry, so he ate with his rice bowl.
Ideology determines the way of behavior. Zhao Ying is very bold and direct. The most important thing is that she knows that she will rest after eating, and there is no time for her to move slowly. "You may have misunderstood the agent. , agents also have human rights, and the superiors will not force us to do things we don’t want to do.”
Wu Zhongyuan knew what Zhao Ying meant by this, but he just pretended not to know, "You guys talk about human rights at every turn. You go to invade others for the sake of oil, and make their country a miasma. If you really talk about human rights, other people's * ***You can be sentenced to life imprisonment at most, but you are better off hanging someone to death, is this all a human thing?"
"Don't talk nonsense, you know what I mean." Zhao Ying glared at him.
"This fish is good, it's not available in modern times, you should eat more." Wu Zhongyuan delivered it in a plate.
Zhao Ying reached out her hand to block her back, "You have her and you marry another woman, your morals are already flawed, and you can't be a gentleman."
"This is ancient times, not modern times." Wu Zhongyuan retorted.
"Then what are you still worried about?" Zhao Ying was a little anxious, and her face was red.
"Oh," Wu Zhongyuan waved his hand impatiently, "Why do you force me to do something I don't want to do?"
"Hypocrisy, you are so hypocritical!" Zhao Ying raised her voice, "Do you want to do it, or do you dare not do it?"
"What do I dare not do?" Wu Zhongyuan stretched out his hand and pointed, "I am the Yellow Emperor and the greatest, and I can do whatever I want."
"You hate me so much?" Zhao Ying was emotional.
"I don't hate you," Wu Zhongyuan sighed helplessly, "I didn't do anything to you when you killed my father-in-law. Don't speak against your conscience and use aggressive tactics."
After Wu Zhongyuan finished speaking, he took out a Qi-invigorating pill from his waist pouch and put it on the table, then stood up, "Let's go, the hotel here is very good, there is a hot spring in the room, I'll take you there."
Wu Zhongyuan goes first, Zhao Ying can only follow.
Wu Mei and others have been guarding the door. There are too many vegetables and vegetables left on the table. Wu Zhongyuan is reluctant to waste them. After going out, he said to Wu Mei, "You have worked so hard. If there is any remaining exchange, you can order some warm wine and hot soup."
Wu Mei and others were moved and thanked, and watched Wu Zhongyuan and Zhao Ying leave.
Arriving at the West Street Inn, Wu Zhongyuan chose the best one, and brought Zhao Ying to the door, pushed open the door, and turned away, "You rest early, I have something to discuss with them."
"Don't make excuses, just go in and sit for a while, don't do anything else, just talk." Zhao Ying invited her softly.
"It counts when you say it." Wu Zhongyuan's soft-hearted ** is committed again. If she refuses strictly at this time, it will make Zhao Ying very embarrassed.
"Um..."