That night…
In the Corner Palace, four people sit opposite each other, just enough for a table of mahjong...
Yan Jiao unfolded the secret letter from Wangxi Tower that he had just received and put it on the table.
Gong Yaozheng's eyes changed as he looked at the densely packed letters on the secret letter. It turned out that there was no shortage of ink in Wangxi Tower!
Then why were the messages given to me before always so concise?
Yan Jiao noticed her sister's angry eyes and was a little confused: "Ayao, what's wrong?"
Gong Yaozheng picked up the secret letter and shook it: "The number of words in the secret letters you Wangxi Tower has given me over the years is not as many as this one. It turns out you can explain things clearly!"
Yan Jiao shrugged. Yan Xilou's letter to his master was naturally different from the secret letter to his guests. What's more, "Ayao, how good are the letters you send every time?"
Gong Yaozheng was startled, and he didn't know if it was because of revenge. The letters she sent to Wangxi Tower became fewer and fewer, becoming more and more concise...
The main one is to hurt each other!
But if the other party uses their brains, they can still understand it!
A world where only one person's brain cells are injured has been achieved!
At this time, Jin Fu also came in with an envelope: "Master, we have found out the identity information of Zi Yi who was injured by Master Yan and escaped before the Lantern Festival, and there is something strange about Wanhua Tower."
Gong Yuanzheng took the envelope, opened the secret letter, and took a look at it twice: "Sure enough, Wanhua Building is Wu Feng's stronghold in Jiuchen Valley. I don't know what Yu Gong has been doing in these years, allowing Wu Feng to open up under his nose. Wanhua Tower."
Hearing the words, Gong Shangjiao coughed slightly: "On the expedition, Yu Palace will only be responsible for the guards inside the palace gate. Once outside the palace gate, the Old Chen Valley is under my jurisdiction."
Gong Yuanzheng was slightly startled, put down the letter in his hand, and evaded his eyes: "Well, brother, you have been running around for the palace gate all these years, how can you have time to visit the Jiuchen Valley?"
Gong Yuanzheng saw that Gong Yuanzheng's expression changed very quickly, and he couldn't help but cover his mouth and chuckle: "Hey, brother Yuanzheng, why do you still have two faces?"
"Sister, tell me yourself, the Old Chen Valley is outside the palace gate, and Yu Gong is guarding the gate. Do you just guard the gate? Don't you care about the outside at all? Leave everything to Kakugiya. Does my brother have three heads and six arms?" Gong Yuanzheng could almost hang a teapot on his mouth, with an angry look on his face and a small mouth.
"Well, brother Yuanzheng is right!" Gong Yaozheng nodded in agreement!
Gong Shangjiao couldn't help but slightly raised his lips, but he still said: "Expedition, Gong Shangjiao Zhengyu, the elders and young ones are in order. Jiao Palace is the second largest palace in the palace, so naturally it has to bear more."
"That's right, the elders and younger ones are in order. I, Zheng Gong, don't care about it like Yu Gong!" Gong Yuanzheng's emotions came and went quickly. This sentence of elders and younger ones made him happy. He was happy, with a look on his face. Proud.
Gong Ziyu: ...Do I still have to call you Third Brother?
But when it came to the order of elders and younger ones, Gong Yaozheng asked something she had never known: "Since there is an order of elders and younger ones, why did the old sword come from Yu Gong?"
What really happened twenty years ago?
Gong Shangjiao's hand that was about to take the tea cup paused, his fingers were slightly bent, and his eyes were slightly lowered: "Twenty years ago, my father was the young master of the palace! My grandfather was the one who served as the swordsman of the palace. . At that time, among the palace gates, only my father and Lao Zhibian! The third uncle, Gong Wangzheng, went out to practice and had not passed the Three Domains Trial yet."
"I was still young at that time. I only know that that year, the corner palace was completely deserted. I asked my mother, but my mother just shed tears and said nothing..."
"Later, I saw my father's coffin..."
"When my grandfather learned about his father's death, he became so angry that he vomited blood and his health deteriorated! Three months after my father's death, my grandfather also went there! The old sword bearer was ordered to take over the position of sword bearer at the critical moment."
"The third uncle was also hurriedly recalled to the palace, but by the time he came back, everything had settled." Gong Shang clenched his hands slightly, as if he had thought of everything at that time.
Therefore, when he saw Gong Yuanzheng kneeling alone in Zhenggong's mourning hall ten years ago, he seemed to see his seven-year-old self.
The same seven years old, the same plainness...
He never regarded Yuanzheng as a substitute for brother Lang, he just regarded him as another one of himself!
He reached out to him just to redeem his former self!
"Then why is there no record in the file?" Gong Yaozheng was a little confused.
Gong Shangjiao reached out and tapped Gong Yaozheng's forehead: "When did you seriously read the file?"
Gong Yaozheng: "..."
"The palace gate archives are divided into two volumes, one is an external volume and the other is an internal volume. The death of the sword bearer and the death of the young master are both recorded in the inner volume and placed in the innermost bookshelf of the archives room of the Presbyterian Academy. You should have never been there!" Gong Shangjiao's eyes were full of teasing.
Gong Yaozheng took a sip of tea in a disguised manner: "Cough...cough..."
I accidentally choked...
Gong Shangjiao frowned slightly and handed her a handkerchief: "Why do you still choke when you drink tea?"
"Cough...cough..." Gong Yaozheng said that she might as well choke.
After coughing for a while, Gong Yaozheng almost choked with tears. He took a sip of tea and finally focused his attention on the secret message on the table again.
The contents of the two secret letters are different, but they are both about Wu Feng...
Yanjiao's secret letter said that Jackdaw Jiu and Beixu stayed in the teahouse in Luoyang City for many days, drinking tea and chatting every day, and recently left Luoyang City.
The little emperor has Wu Feng's defense plan and is now preparing to send troops to encircle Wu Feng's headquarters.
Wangxi Tower controls the ulterior secrets of most officials in the court, and the harem also waits for orders from the master.
The more Gong Yaozheng looked at it, the more something was wrong: "Yanjiao, do you want to kill the emperor and become the emperor yourself?"
"Why not? The emperor takes turns. This is what the Liu family owes to our Yan family. The Liu family was conquered by my Yan family, but in the end they ended up being like a rabbit to a dead dog!" Yan Jiao's eyes were filled with murder. meaning.
Yanjiao used Wangxi Tower to investigate what happened back then. The more he investigated, the more frightened he became!
He discovered that even without Wu Feng, the late emperor was still prepared to exterminate the general's family on unfounded charges, and his achievements would be overshadowed by his master's. In Luoyang City, people only praised Yanchuan, the God of War, and no one praised the emperor!
How could the emperor at that time not be murderous?
And Wu Feng just handed the emperor a knife!
After the general family was wiped out, the emperor also suffered retribution. His only son was lost and wandered around the world. He was also in poor health and finally died. The throne was passed to an adoptive prince from the clan.
In the next twenty years, civil strife continued. The father killed his son, his nephew killed his uncle, and his uncle killed his nephew... Several emperors were changed, and the Liu clan fought and killed each other. It was found that the current new emperor Liu Ziyu was the only one left, but Liu Ziyu grew up in Jianghu and was unruly. After he ascended the throne, he even implemented tyranny!
He not only hated the people in the Jianghu, but also hated the people of the clan. He threw him into the Jianghu and left him to fend for himself and endure hardships!
Now, he won't make it easy for them either!
Live, let’s see who outlives whom!
Just a blackened cub!
As for why the emperor who destroyed the general's family was still called the late emperor, it was because during the period of civil strife, no new emperor entered the ancestral temple. In his words: rebellious ministers and traitors are not worthy of entering the ancestral temple!
Therefore, although Wu Feng is hateful, the real enemy of the Yan family is the current royal family.
Rehabilitate?
Can an imperial edict settle the grievances of the Yan family over the past twenty years in exchange for the 372 lives of the entire Yan family?
As long as he can take revenge, what if Yanjiao becomes the emperor?
but…
"Don't worry, being the emperor is boring. I'm going to appoint Dangdang, the auxiliary minister, and raise a puppet emperor." Yan Jiao saw Gong Yaozheng's disapproving look on his face, and the murderous intent in his eyes subsided and returned to his gentle look.
Gong Yaozheng took a deep look at Yan Jiao. The Yan family was full of loyal people, and from the bottom of her heart, she still didn't want Yan Jiao to have the reputation of seeking power and usurping the throne.
This is something that will be recorded in the annals of history, and even after death, it will be poked in the spine.
The Liu family's filth is their own business. We are innocent and should not be tainted.
Jianghu people are not very interested in court matters, and Gong Shangjiao is not very interested in it, but he can still understand Yanjiao's thoughts.
If you destroy my whole family, I will seize your kingdom and destroy your country!
At this point, he and Yanjiao stand on the same line.
Gong Yuanzheng's eyes were also sparkling. People in the world didn't care about court affairs, but raising an emperor sounded so cool!
"Okay, let's not talk about this matter for now. What's important now is Zi Yi's identity." Gong Yaozheng picked up the secret letter that Jin Fu had just brought.
It had Zi Yi's identity information on it, and it didn't look out of the ordinary, but what Yan Jiao said couldn't be false.
Gong Yuanzheng had just read the secret letter and frowned slightly: "This secret letter said that Ziyi's original name was Ye Xiao, and his parents and brother were originally slaves of a wealthy merchant in the south of the Yangtze River. They were later sent to Baochang...Brother, what is Baochang?"
Gong Yuanzheng paused and asked Gong Shangjiao with some doubts.
A look of disgust flashed in Gong Shangjiao's eyes, and he explained: "It's the same as the hunting ground, but the prey inside has changed from animals to humans! It's just for the entertainment of the powerful!"
Gong Yuanzheng pursed his lips and frowned slightly. It was obvious that he didn't understand this kind of behavior. Do you treat people as livestock?
"Her father and brother died on the hunting ground, so she was sold into Wanhua House and named Ziyi." Gong Yuanzheng continued.
Gong Shangjiao had a gloomy look on his face: "That's a pitiful man!" I don't know who he was referring to with this pitiful sentence.
"It's poor Ye Xiao, not Zi Yi. Now Zi Yi is Wu Feng, so Ye Xiao should be dead!" Gong Yaozheng naturally heard who Gong Shangjiao was referring to in those pitiful words, and he spoke with some disapproval. The other two people who solved the problem explained.
Gong Yuanzheng suddenly realized, and he asked, when would his brother say the word "pity" to a Wufeng assassin?
"That Zi Yi's martial arts skills are very high. If she hadn't been accidentally injured by my flying fan, she would have escaped. If we continue to fight, I may not be able to beat her!" Yan Jiao said truthfully.
Gong Shangjiao naturally knows how good Yanjiao's martial arts are. If Wu Feng's martial arts is superior to Yanjiao's, it can only be...
"Zhao!" Gong Yaozheng said with a faint smile when he saw Gong Shangjiao looking over.
"Situ Hong!" Gong Yuanzheng and Yan Jiao said in unison. After speaking, they looked at each other in surprise.
Then he touched his nose awkwardly.
Among the four ghosts in Wu Feng, only Situ Hong is a woman, and the portrait he got was of a woman in blue whose face could not be seen clearly.
"Gong Ziyu, you idiot!"
Just when everyone was lost in thought, Gong Yuanzheng suddenly thought of something and cursed Gong Ziyu.
The three of them couldn't help but look at him. Gong Yuanzheng frowned: "If Ziyi had attacked him over the years, he would have died so many times!"
The sound of gnashing teeth made Gong Shangjiao's eyes soften slightly. He was such a hard-mouthed and soft-hearted brother!
Gong Yuanzheng naturally knew what Gong Yuanzheng was angry about, and he couldn't hold it back: "Indeed, if you say so, we have to thank Ziyi for not killing him."
"Thank you for what? Let me tell you, sister, Gong Ziyu revealed that you are allergic to white peach. Why does this big colander tell others everything! It would be better if Zi Yi killed him!" Gong Yuanzheng said angrily.
The three of them looked at each other and smiled when they looked at Gong Yuanzheng, whose lips were pouting.
"Second brother, hand me a teapot!"
"What do you want a teapot for?"
"Look, does this teapot look like the current brother Yuanzheng?" Gong Yuanzheng gestured to Gong Yuanzheng.
"...like!" Gong Shangjiao said seriously after being silent for a long time.
"Brother, why are you teasing me with your sister!"
"Hahaha..." Yanjiao couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Yanjiao, smile again!"
"No matter how big or small, call me cousin!"
"Bah, I won't scream!"
"Your sister calls me cousin, how dare you not call me cousin?"
"cousin…"
