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Chapter 950: The Seven Sufferings of Life

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    Li Tai found that today was an unlucky day, or rather, every day had been unlucky recently, especially today.  When he lost his power, his former enemies came to visit him. He was so clueless and angry that he was half dead. In the end, he actually blamed him for not buying his wine Li Tai was hesitating whether to call the imperial guards in and blast this guy out. He lost his wings.  A phoenix is ??also a phoenix. How can you think of yourself as a chicken?  Li Su sat at the low table, took a sip of wine, smacked his lips, and said: "His Royal Highness, the visitor is a guest. You should greet him at least, such as ordering food and drinks.  If you don't become a prince, you must not lose the prince's manners" Li Tai said coldly: "What are you doing in my house? If you don't tell me, you are really seeing off guests. Even if I am not a prince, I am still dignified.  Prince Tian, ??I don¡¯t allow you to be so presumptuous in my house.¡± Li Su put down the wine bottle and said, ¡°Your Highness, you may not believe it, but I am here to make friends with you today.¡±  Stunned: "Make friends?" Then Li Tai laughed loudly: "I am in such a situation, and someone actually comes to make friends with me. Is this person sick?" Li Su didn't laugh, but looked deeply.  Staring at him: "I'm not sick, you are the one who is sick." Li Tai sneered: "I can eat and sleep, how can I get sick?" Li Su sighed: "Of course you can eat, but you eat too much Of course  "The disease I'm talking about is not your fatness, but your heart disease." Li Tai raised his eyebrows, his expression still stern: "What's wrong with me?" Li Su said leisurely: "Buddha says that all living beings have seven sufferings: birth, old age, illness, and death.  Resentment and hatred, separation of love, and not being able to ask for it. Your Highness, your suffering belongs to "not being able to ask for it." What you had at the beginning has now been lost. What you were afraid of at the beginning now has to face it. What you wanted at the beginning is destined to not be available now, Your Highness.  , This is your suffering, drinking, taking drugs, and having sex. You use depraved methods to alleviate the suffering in your heart, but it is of no use." Li Tai looked stunned and murmured: "No, please.  No way" Li Su said with a smile: "The seven hardships in life, in the final analysis, are just the word 'greed'. When greed dominates your reason, you will often do whatever it takes to get it. Once the facts go against your will, people will  Collapse, Your Highness, you are on the verge of collapse, so I am here today." Li Tai came back to his senses, and his expression became cold again: "It's just a winner and a loser, what's the use of saying more?  The king doesn't need you to comfort him!" Li Su sighed: "You look like an ignorant naughty child, I really want to slap you" Li Tai sneered: "You can try it.  It¡¯s so thick that I can¡¯t even twitch" Li Su shook his head and continued: "Your Highness, you and I have been enemies and friends over the years, but in general, there is no inextricable hatred between you and me. I rejected your offer at the beginning.  Recruitment, decided to assist King Jin, this is my personal choice, you can't control me, and you can't blame me. Apart from these grievances, we were at least friends. I am sitting here now, trying my best to persuade and comfort you. This is a friend.  "Your Highness, even if you don't listen to what I say, you should at least treat me with courtesy, right?" After all, Li Tai is a prince who is familiar with the books of sages and has received a good upbringing from the Tian family since he was a child, so Li Tai hesitated.  He snorted unwillingly, then straightened up and formally saluted Li Su.  Li Su also saluted him solemnly.  After Li Tai finished the ceremony, his expression still showed a bit of resentment, and he said coldly: "I have fulfilled my etiquette, but coming to the door without warning is a bad guest. Mr. Li County, please forgive me for the inconvenience of entertaining you. Please come back." Li Su  Blinking: "Your Highness has just woken up from drunkenness. Do you want to go out for a walk?" "No." "Your Highness, please don't refuse in a hurry. I have another purpose for visiting today. I want to invite Your Highness to go hunting outside the city. Please consider it a friend."  For your own sake, please agree to it." Li Tai said coldly: "I am not in the mood to hunt." Li Su sighed: "In that case, please forgive me for being rude. Your Highness heard about that crazy pool management last time.  Today I have a story about a perverted old farmer. I don¡¯t know whether to tell it or not¡± Before he could finish his words, Li Tai was furious: ¡°Shut up! Go away, I¡¯ll hunt!¡±  A unique repertoire of the dandies of the Tang Dynasty. There are hundreds of dandy boys in Chang'an City. They call for friends every now and then. A group of people ride fast horses and swagger out of the city. They find a mountain forest or plain outside the city to hunt.  It has to be said that the ecological environment in this era was still very good. Prey can be found everywhere in the wilderness mountains and forests outside Chang'an City, from hares to sika deer, as well as poisonous snakes, wolves, tigers, black bears, etc. These wild animals became the targets of the dandies to kill for fun.  Of course, whenever the dandies go out to hunt in the city,At that time, the most unlucky people were not only the wild animals, but also the farmland on the outskirts of the city. A group of people and their entourage, about one or two hundred people, were galloping on the plains. When they encountered a ruthless dude, they would jump directly from the farmland.  Speeding by, farmers' entire year's harvest was wasted.  Li Su doesn¡¯t like hunting, mainly because he is lazy and can lie down instead of sitting. Li Su refuses hunting, an activity that requires physical strength.  Today, Li Su made an exception and led Wei Wang Li Tai and his respective tribes. The two of them and dozens of people left the city.  Li Tai is essentially similar to Li Su. They are both reluctant to move. The difference is that Li Su is lazy, while Li Tai is fat.  It is very inconvenient for a fat man to travel, especially a fat man weighing about 300 pounds. It is difficult to find a horse that can bear him.  The horse Li Tai rode was still given to him by Li Shimin during the Eastern Expedition. It looked very strong, but Li Su also noticed that the horse's hoofs occasionally trembled, and couldn't help but look at the poor horse with sympathy.  ¡°This horse must have done a lot of evil in its last life, like killing people and setting fires. Otherwise, it would not have been so bad in this life. Not only was it reduced to a beast, but it was also ridden by a 300-pound ball-shaped human being.  After leaving the city and heading west, everyone rode their horses on the country road. Not long after, Li Tai suddenly said dissatisfied: "Isn't this the way to Taiping Village? Li Zizheng, what on earth do you want to do?" Li Su smiled and said: "I won't go.  Taiping Village, I'll take you to a place you haven't been to before." Li Tai snorted and looked up at the sky. It was already noon, so he said coldly: "You can go anywhere, but I can tell you that I will go there before evening.  You must return to the city. " "I know, I know. If you can't return to the city on time, I will build a trebuchet and airdrop you into the city, so that you can appear on time in the deep hot land of Prince Wei's Mansion.  No matter, don't worry." Li Su said perfunctorily.  Li Tai: "" "I'm so angry, I'm so angry that I want to kill someone" Running to a fork in the road, Li Su pointed in the direction, and the group walked onto another rural road, running in the opposite direction from Taiping Village.  After walking for less than half an hour, Li Su suddenly reined in his horse and stopped, and the followers behind him dismounted one after another.  Li Tai did not move on the horse. After looking around slowly, he said coldly: "Didn't I tell you that we can hunt in the city? Where is this place?" Li Su smiled and said: "After two hours of riding, why don't you, Your Highness?"  Dismount and rest for a while? This place is called Xianlong Village, which is dozens of miles away from Taiping Village. There is a forest outside the village. We can hunt there for a while. " Li Tai had no choice but to dismount and look around at the surrounding environment.  It is undeniable that this village is very barren. It is surrounded by low adobe houses. There are not many farmers in the village, probably only about a hundred households. There are many old people, women, children and children, but there are very few young adults. The old people are hunched over.  , with a bit of numbness on their faces covered with vicissitudes of life, the children were half-dressed, many with half their buttocks bare, squatting on the grassy land, looking at Li Su and his party cautiously and curiously.  The atmosphere of poverty and depression filled the air of this village. Li Tai frowned tightly after looking at it.  He doesn¡¯t like it here. It feels very depressing. All the poverty in the world seems to be gathered here. A kind of lingering temperament can be found on everyone¡¯s face in the village. Life is very difficult, but they have to live desperately.  Li Tai is the one who has read the most books about sages among all the princes. He can't be said to be kind, but he still has a trace of conscience. Seeing the poverty and hardship of this village, Li Tai's plump face showed a trace of compassion.  color.  "This place is only a hundred miles away from Chang'an City, why is it so barren? What is the Jingyang County Magistrate doing? The lives of the people under his rule are so difficult, why does he ignore it?" Li Taiyu said angrily.  Li Su glanced at the villagers with pity and sighed: "It's not that the Jingyang County Magistrate has failed in his duties, but that he really has nothing to do. Apart from allocating grain for relief every year, he can't think of any other way." "Your Highness, take a closer look, this village is different from other places.  What's the difference? In other words, did your Highness find anything strange?" Li Tai looked around carefully, and a look of doubt gradually appeared in his eyes: "You see, why are there no young people in the village?  "Where are the young men?" Li Su sighed: "Some of the young men in the village died in the war, some were infected with the plague and died, and some were conscripted into hard labor and could not return for three to five years. That's why this village has changed.  "It's like this." Li Tai opened his eyes: "How many people died in the battle?" "About a hundred people, most of the soldiers in the Tang Dynasty were hereditary, and the soldiers returned to their fields.  Keep going, didn't His Highness realize that many old people in the village have many disabilities?They are all veterans who have returned from hundreds of battles. They followed the generals in the north and south decades ago. They were lucky to survive. Although they were missing arms and legs, they still survived. From the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the present, several famous  They were present in almost every battle. These old men were all heroes of the Tang Dynasty. As the heroes grew old, their descendants inherited their identity as soldiers and continued to fight in all directions" Li Tai was moved and sighed: "For  It is commendable to fight for the country and bring peace to the world, and to serve the king's ambition.  " Li Suhan glanced at him with a smile and said leisurely: "Your Highness, you forced others to add drama, did you ask for their consent?  " Li Tai was stunned: "Why do you say this?  " Li Su did not answer. After glancing around, Li Su smiled and said: "Since you are resting here, why don't you take me to take you around the village?  " Li Tai nodded. The scene he saw in front of him suddenly made him curious about this village. At the same time, some questions couldn't help but arise deep in his heart. These questions were knocking on the seemingly hard shell of his heart.  The barrier formed seemed to be slowly cracking. Li Su's expression was very calm, and he led Li Tai slowly into Zhuangzi. Under the leadership of Li Su, the group walked casually without any purpose.  I carefully observed everything in this village, and the more I looked at it, the more frightened I became. The word "barren" seemed to be insufficient to describe the extent of this village's dilapidation. If I had to use one word to describe it, the word "desperate" seemed more appropriate.  The old people look numb, as if the purpose of their lives is to wait for death that is not far away, or in other words, they hope that death will come as soon as possible so that they can be relieved. Most of the women are middle-aged, wearing simple coarse cloth hairpin skirts.  With dead wood branches, their hair was tied up in a bun casually. They didn't care about their makeup. They silently took care of the farm work. There were no men in the family. They silently shouldered the heavy responsibility of supporting the family. They had completely replaced the men's role.  , have become the backbone of the family. For them, life seems to be a practice in purgatory. There is no love for life at all from their faces. They just repeat the same heavy busyness day after day, shouldering their shoulders.  They are always burdened with heavy responsibilities that should not have been borne by them. Perhaps, the innocence that occasionally flashes on the children's troubled and confused faces is the only ray of sunshine in this barren village.  As he walked and watched, Li Tai's expression became more and more serious, and finally he stopped and couldn't help but said: "Can't the local government do something for them?  " Li Su sighed heavily and said: "In the past, the government had basically nothing to do except provide food relief. Before the Eastern Expedition last year, Princess Dongyang made a special trip to the Yongzhou Governor's Mansion and proposed to the Governor to relocate the village. The elderly, women and children  They and their children all moved to relatively affluent villages and lived together with them. The women were encouraged to remarry, and the elderly were taken care of by the young men in the village in turn. In this way, they could barely find a way to survive.  " Li Tai murmured and sighed: "How could this happen?  There are still such miserable and poor people in the Tang Dynasty, and they are only a hundred miles away from the capital Chang'an. The Tang Dynasty shouldn't have such miserable people. In recent years, haven't my father and courtiers said that the Tang Dynasty is already a prosperous age?  ?  " Li Su shook his head and said: "It's just a whitewash of peace. Today's Tang Dynasty is still far away from its true prosperity. Most of the people are still poor. They are still worried about food and clothing. Unfortunately,  The princes in the court could not see these people in front of them.  " Li Tai looked at him: "How did you find out?  " "I also discovered this place by chance. Last year I went on an outing with Princess Dongyang. Dongyang said that she wanted to revisit the dilapidated Taoist temple that was hijacked by the rebel general Ashina, because that was the place where I rescued her, so  I passed by this village accidentally" Li Su said with a wry smile and said: "After all, I am also one of the 'lords of the court'. I only care about enjoying wealth and peace, but I have never thought that besides my wealthy life, there is such a thing.  Many people are still struggling to survive. If Dongyang and I hadn't accidentally discovered it, I'm afraid this place would still be an unknown hell on earth. It's my fault.  " Li Tai's eyes flashed: "So, the real purpose of what you said today about 'hunting' is to ask me to come and see these poor people?  " Li Su shook his head and said: "Now, I can answer the question you just asked. Your Highness, you just said that the young men who died in the village had a commendable ambition to serve their country and their country. I dare not say this.  I agree, they are all ordinary people. If we talk about the desire to serve the country, they may have a little bit of it, but what they care more about is surviving and how to make themselves and their families live a better life. These people who died in the war or are alive  People, most of them have never read books and do not understand the great loyalty and integrity mentioned by the sages. It doesn¡¯t matter whether they die in battle or linger on."The purpose is just to survive" "Being born in this world, it is already very difficult to survive. How can we talk about 'ambition' and 'righteousness'?  It's all nonsense. Only when you truly live a life without worries about food and clothing can you talk about your ambition to serve your family and country. You join the army because you were recruited by the imperial court, and you die in battle because of military orders. You worry about the country and the people.  Probably only those of us who are not engaged in production would consider it.  " Li Tai was thoughtful, and after a long time, he said: "You brought me here today just to tell me these truths?  " Li Su said lightly: "I just want Your Highness to see with your own eyes what the real 'seven sufferings of life' are, birth, old age, illness and death, resentment and hatred, separation from love, and not being able to ask for anything. They are the ones who have truly experienced these seven sufferings.  , not you. They have tasted all the hardships in life, but they still have to live. Even if they cannot live a better life, they must at least maintain the current situation of not having enough to eat and not dying of hunger" "Your Highness,  What you have experienced is nothing more than "not getting what you want", nothing more than not being able to win the crown prince, so you have surrendered yourself in the house, got drunk and taken drugs, as if the sky has fallen. Compared with these people in front of you, how can you suffer?  What does the suffering count?  " Li Tai was silent for a moment and said: "I am different from them. I am a nobleman of the Tian family, and I am born to be higher than them" Li Su sneered: "These words make me really want to slap you, you  Firstly, you have not conquered an inch of land for the Tang Dynasty, and secondly, you have not achieved any benefit for the people. Why should you be superior to others?  Even your father said, 'Water can carry a boat, but water can also capsize it.' His attitude towards the people of the world was awe and humility.  And you, from birth to now, do not produce or farm, and your limbs are not diligent and you cannot separate the grains. Instead, you need the taxes of the poor people to support you. You have lived like a moth that sucks the people's fat and nourishment, and then you tell me that you were born to be poorer.  Are others superior?  With a lot of meat, it¡¯s natural to be thick-skinned?  " Li Tai's face suddenly turned red. Li Su's words were sharp and merciless, and Li Tai was completely unable to refute. Li Su stared at the fat face in front of him and said slowly: "Your Highness, I  I was born into a peasant family, and my situation at the beginning was not much better than that of these common people. Ten years later, I have become a powerful person in the Tang Dynasty, but I dare not forget my roots for a day. You are a noble person of the heavenly family, born noble, and familiar with the sages.  Book, then let me tell you, a truly well-educated nobleman will never think that he is superior to others. Even if he thinks so in his heart, he will not say it with his mouth. You are doing very poorly in this regard. This is also what I decided at the beginning.  One of the reasons why I assist King Jin but I don¡¯t want to assist you.  "
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