Chapter 57: Sanqianyuan

The hall was very quiet. Xiao Yan picked up the candle and lit it with a fire stick.

The faint candlelight illuminated the rather sturdy figure on the edge of the collapse. He held his forehead with one hand, and Xiao Yan saw that his entire face began to tremble, and then from the forehead to the neck, the entire face skin was pulled down in an instant.

Then, a most ordinary face appeared. This face had ordinary features, the kind that once thrown into a crowd, no one would remember its features.

But Xiao Yan didn't think that this was his original appearance, so he didn't try to remember it. Now he leaned closer to the candlelight and saw the lifelike face. Now that he was held in his hand, he felt a strange and new feeling in his heart.

"In fact, if you were any later, I would not be able to continue pretending."

Sanqianyuan's voice was a little rough, which did match his current appearance as a middle-aged man. He put the dough over the candlelight to toast it slightly, and little flames slowly rose.

After he used his inner strength to brush away the ashes on the ground, he said, "The news you sent was too hasty. After all, this mask is not real human skin. Although it can be maintained every night, the material is slightly inferior and the effect cannot be maintained for too long."

Xiao Yan thanked him sincerely, "These few days have been enough. If it weren't for the chief leader's rescue and letting me learn a little bit of disguise, I wouldn't have the chance to hang out this time."

But Sanqianyuan just squinted his eyes and looked at the skin on Xiao Yan's face, then walked around with interest.

"Your face is quite unique. If I'm guessing correctly, someone must have slowly operated on it a few years ago to change the facial bones in order to encourage the flesh to grow in the expected shape. This ability is indeed worthy of the title of Master Lin."

"That's true. Three years ago, my father and Uncle Lin started planning this." Xiao Yan pondered, "At that time, Uncle Lin also mentioned the 'Heavenly Sin Star', but I don't know what their relationship is."

Sanqianyuan stroked his chin, thought for a moment, and said, "That guy Jing Xin Mo did have some interactions with Lin Shengshou many years ago..."

Xiao Yan was stunned when he heard this. In his memory, the existence of Sanqianyuan has always been a mystery. Looking at it today, it seems that it has only existed for several decades.

But I don't know whether all he did was instructed by the Bad Leader.

He then asked, "Since the disbandment of the Bad People, has the Chief Leader received any orders from the Marshal?"

Sanqianyuan looked at him meaningfully, "Why, what do you think?"

"That's true. Now that Zhu Wen has usurped the Tang Dynasty, half of the princes in the world have been forced to submit to him under his tyranny, but this has also caused him to be criticized by various towns. Last year, when Zhu Wen first proclaimed himself emperor, King Jian of Shu and Yang Wo of Huainan issued a letter of accusation, jointly inviting the two towns of Qi and Jin to attack Liang."

Xiao Yan placed the candle on the table, then rested his hands on the eaves, his eyes flickering: "At this time, if the commander-in-chief is willing to show up, the bad people in the world will surely gather together to respond. At that time, they can also spur the various vassal states, restore the emperor, and first punish Daliang. It is possible to slowly plan and restore peace to the world."

Sanqianyuanshai laughed, then shook his head and said, "The Marshal always does things with one mind and does not consider the other. When Emperor Zhaozong ordered the Marshal to disband the Bad Men, it was to prevent the Marshal from interfering in government affairs. Now, more than ten years have passed, and the Marshal still abides by this decree and has never contacted us."

Then he continued, "However, the Marshal's disbanding of the Unruly People may have been a backup plan. Although the Unruly People in the world have gone into hiding, many of them still have their hearts set on the Tang Dynasty and are still doing what they did before the disbandment, and are quietly waiting for the day of their revival."

"So..." Xiao Yanxu covered his eyes and asked, "No matter what we do, the Marshal won't interfere, right?"

"Ok?"

Sanqianyuan was stunned, as if he felt that Xiao Yan's thoughts were a little erratic.

He frowned and asked, "Did you do anything in Luoyang?"

"It's just that I made friends with colleagues from Tiansu Star and Luoyang Branch," Xiao Yan said with a smile, "I took up the chief's time just for the piece of meat from Huanyin Square."

Sanqianyuan was actually a little suspicious, but he did not ask too much, and just said: "You are now living in Daliang as the deposed emperor, which is almost certain to kill you. If you want to take risks, there is no need to involve so many people."

"Under the overwhelming force of the situation, if no one goes against the current, they will be held down by the current and unable to turn over." Xiao Yan looked at the Three Thousand Courtyards with a calm expression and asked, "Even if it is the chief leader, do you want to stay dormant like this?"

After saying this, his voice rose again.

"Since the reign of Emperor Taizong, the Bad Guys have been the driving force behind the ups and downs of the entire world. But now that Li Tang is dead and the people of the world are still being engulfed by war, what is the meaning of the Bad Guys' existence?"

"In the future, when the situation is irreversible and the world can no longer enjoy the peace and prosperity of the Zhenguan and Kaiyuan eras, what is the point of the bad guys rising again?"

The space inside the hall has been isolated by the two people using their internal strength to prevent the sound of their conversation from being heard by outsiders.

At this moment, Xiao Yan's voice echoed in the room, causing Sanqianyuan to frown deeply.

He said: "You are still young and have never experienced the peak of the Bad People. The Marshal has already made plans. Li Tang will not perish, and the Bad People will continue to exist."

"I don't doubt the Marshal's ability to plan, but the fact is that when the Bad People rise again, the Tang Dynasty may never rise again. Now the various princes have become powerful, and by then, the world will still be torn apart and wars will break out everywhere."

"If the Marshal appears, all the monsters will probably only respect the Tang Dynasty."

"According to the chief leader, the Marshal used his power to subdue all the princes, but even so, although the appearance is stable, the inside is still rotten." Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes and said, "Besides, if the Marshal dies, won't the world become a mess again?"

"How could the Marshal die?"

Sanqianyuan frowned and said, "Boy, don't you know that the Marshal has lived in this world for three hundred years? The Marshal's plan is the best in three hundred years. He has always been the only one who calculated the death of others, so how could he die himself?"

"But if the Marshal wishes to die, who can stop him?"

After these words were spoken, Sanqianyuan seemed to have suddenly understood something. He was stunned for a moment, his eyes fixed in amazement.

Xiao Yan looked down at the candlelight at hand and said, "Perhaps this world can really be ruled by one person. But if the world is really like this, why would there be the current separatist regimes and wars?"

"There are always uncontrollable factors in the world. If the chief leader is really concerned about the bad people, he should not lie dormant any longer. It is better to do something or follow the tyrannical way of heaven than to deal with the vague things in the future."

"..."

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Outside Yanshi County, in the shadows of snow, the figure of Sanqianyuan gradually faded away.

He frowned, not expecting that Xiao Yan would say these words on this only second meeting.

The Marshal died...

He tried hard to think about it, but he couldn't figure out why the Marshal would seek death.

That kid is talking nonsense!

Sanqianyuan had a gloomy face, but his body slowly stopped.

The wind and snow blocked the road to the north. He thought for a moment and finally turned around and headed west towards Luoyang.

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