A Sword of Frost

Chapter 62: two babies

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Li Jing came back to Prince Xiao's mansion, as expected, it was because of Wang Dong.

In fact, he could have summoned Ji Yanran into the palace, but after thinking about it, he felt that it would be good to go out for a walk.

In addition, there is another meaning - I heard from the imperial physician that Yun Yifeng is seriously ill this time, and I don't know if he can survive it. From the standpoint of his elder brother, he felt that he should come to visit him no matter what. Therefore, before leaving the house, he specially ordered Desheng to prepare supplements, carrying them in his hands like ordinary people visiting relatives.

Ji Yanran smiled and said, "If Yun'er knows, she must be very happy."

"Don't disturb Master Yunmen, let him have a good rest." Li Jing handed over another brocade box, "Look."

Ji Yanran untied the tie, and inside was a... like a sheepskin scroll. When it was opened, it was a map with the words "Secret Map of Zichuan" scrawled on it, which had lost some of its color over the years.

After tossing about this thing for so long, it appeared in front of him so easily and suddenly, even though he had guessed that it would be in Wang Dong's hands, His Royal Highness Xiao Wang's first reaction was still—is it true or not

"The reason why Wang Dong took the initiative to confess is to thank the master of Yunmen." Li Jing said, "He believes that if Fengyumen intervenes, the truth will be discovered sooner or later, and more importantly, he is also worried that the person behind the scenes will act first. Before Fengyumen found out the truth, they killed him first. In order to protect themselves, they presented this secret map of Zichuan that had been hidden for many years, and wanted to exchange a way of life in my hands."

"It seems to be around Changying Peak in Yongle Prefecture." Ji Yanran looked at the circle on the map, "What is Wang Dong's identity?"

"His identity is a bit complicated." Li Jing said, "The ancestral home is Beiming Fengcheng."

Like the Cangwei Snow Ridge, it is also a city very close to the north, surrounded by ice and snow, and there will be strong winds. How few people are there... In various folk tales, it is even said that the North Wind City It is a place where gods from all walks of life have endured hardships and cultivated. It is said that the people inside will all attain enlightenment and ascend in the future.

And Wang Dong was born in such a place. After he grows up, he will not be able to become a fairy, but he can live a decent life by sneaking into a rich family as a guard.

Looking at it this way, the living conditions in Beimingfeng City are actually not that bad—at least there are still a few landlords.

The landlord had an only daughter named Luo Ruhua, and instead of marrying a young man with a clean family background in the city, she married a foreigner whose origin was unknown. According to Wang Dong, when the foreigner first arrived in the city, his body was covered with They are all wounds, and you can tell at a glance that they are not good stubble. But he is indeed handsome and tall, even though he is covered in bandages, standing among a group of local men, he is still like a crane falling into a flock of chickens, no wonder Miss Luo can't get out of her eyes.

Ji Yanran hesitated: "The foreigner...isn't it General Lu?"

Li Jing said: "It's Lu Guangyuan's vanguard officer, Pu Chang."

The general is brave, and the vanguard is naturally not bad. Pu Chang was also a well-known number one figure back then. There are rumors that he died in the battle with General Lu in Heisha City, and there are also rumors that he risked his life to break out of the siege and wanted to return to the royal city for help, but was secretly bestowed to death by the former emperor.

But now it seems that neither of these two stories is true. Not only did Pu Chang not die, he even married a wife and had a family.

In the first period of time, Pu Chang kept concealing his true identity, and Wang Dong also believed that he was a knight from the Central Plains who was hunted down. Until that year, a fierce epidemic swept through Beiming Fengcheng. Luo Laocai and his wife died, and Pu Chang also suffered from serious diseases, which brought back old wounds, and he seemed to die soon.

"At that time, he and Luo Ruhua already had a child of one and a half years old." Li Jing said, "Seeing that there are more and more dead people in the city and less and less medicinal materials, in order to protect his wife and children, he took the initiative to tell the truth about himself. He also ordered Wang Dong to escort Luo Ruhua and the child all the way to the wild horse tribe in the southern border, and join a man named Partridge."

Ji Yanran said: "Lu Guangyuan once led an army to fight in southern Xinjiang. It's not surprising that Pu Chang would know people from the Yema tribe, but he didn't expect that the relationship would be so close that he could entrust his wife and children."

"Wang Dong was just a guard at the time, and Pu Chang would never tell him too much about the past." Li Jing said, "I only gave him this map, and said that only when the map and Luo Ruhua were with the infant baby, could he be Finding the treasure is indispensable. It should be because Wang Dong is afraid that he will get rid of the map and escape, or he will have evil intentions and harm Luo Shi's mother and son."

Shortly after confessing the incident, Pu Chang died of illness. Wang Dong also took Luo Ruhua and two babies, and the four of them left Beiming Fengcheng together.

Ji Yanran said, "Two babies?"

"One is the son of Pu Chang, and the other is said to be the nephew of Luo Ruhua's natal family. His parents also died in the epidemic, so we can't leave them alone." Li Jing said, "It's more than a thousand miles from Beiming Fengcheng to Southern Xinjiang. Yao, coupled with the fact that there were refugees and vicious people along the way, Wang Dong regretted it not long after he set off, so he tried to win over Luo Ruhua, hoping that she would tell the secrets in the map, and hunt for treasure together to make a fortune."

According to Wang Dong's account, he was only probing and not threatening at that time, but Luo Ruhua was startled by this, and in a dark night, he secretly hugged the child and wanted to escape. After Wang Dong heard the movement, he naturally wanted to go out to chase, but he accidentally forced the mother and son off the cliff.

"Wang Dong was naturally annoyed at the time, but everyone died, and regretting it didn't help." Li Jing said, "The treasure can't be found, so he continued to go south according to the original plan, taking the secret map of Zichuan to join the Mustang tribe. The other baby was abandoned in the tent, the Cangwei Snow Ridge area was extremely cold, and when the bonfire was extinguished, it was like falling into an ice cave, and I am afraid that he did not survive that night."

Without the encumbrance of the woman and the baby, Wang Dong arrived in the southern border smoothly, and found the leader of the wild horse tribe, Partridge. When the other party heard that he was Puchang's servant, he was really enthusiastic and immediately regarded him as a distinguished guest. But Wang Dong kept an eye out, Luo Ruhua and the child were dead anyway, and no one knew the truth, so he handed over a fake map, saying that the mother and the child were dispersed by the refugees, and let the partridge Partridge to find. But he kept the real map with him, thinking that one day he might be able to find the treasure and make his own fortune.

Ji Yanran asked again: "Then he became an official in the court, and he also got help from the Yema tribe?"

Li Jing nodded: "That group of people has a lot of background, they first created a fake identity for Wang Dong, and then took advantage of Yuchi Chu's influence in the court to let him enter the household department step by step."

The wild horse tribe disappeared five years ago, and now it seems that they may have secretly changed their nests and moved underground instead. Wang Dong was in contact with Yuchi Chu on a daily basis, but he didn't know who Yu Chi Chu was in charge of.

Holding the secret map of Zichuan in his hand, Wang Dong has never given up on treasure hunting for so many years. Although Luo Ruhua's mother and son are dead, there is no guarantee that there will be no other way to decipher the map, so he has been secretly looking for a way. That witch was one of the "superior people" who had been recruited by him with a lot of money, and it was said that she could psychic treasure hunting.

"Naturally, he is a liar." Li Jing said, "Wang Dong was cheated of a large amount of money by the witch, and she was unwilling to do so. Then she remembered that she had heard her subordinates call herself 'Master Wang', and was worried that the secret would be revealed, so she simply hired someone to kill her. "But who knew that things were not done cleanly, and when the witch was dying, she met the gangsters of the Lianhua Sect and left a last word.

It can be regarded as God's will in the dark.

"Wang Dong has been in the household department for many years, and he should be able to find a lot of melons along this vine." Ji Yanran said, "How does the emperor plan to deal with this person?"

"I promised to keep him alive." Li Jing said, "The tax reform in the Jianghuai area has just started, and he is considered a useful person. Besides, there are some past events about Puchang that need to be investigated carefully."

"That's right." Ji Yanran continued to look at the map, "Wang Dong must have been to Changying Peak many times, but he returned without success?"

"The terrain in that area is steep, and most of them are towering cliffs. Wang Dong didn't dare to go looking for them with a big fanfare. At most, he brought seven or eight cronies, but it is reasonable to have no results." Li Jing said, "And Pu Chang's entrustment before his death, said Only when the wife and son are with the map can the treasure be found, and I don’t know what that means.”

"Falling off a cliff in the Cangwei Snow Ridge, orphans and widows and their mothers are freezing in the cold, I'm afraid it's bad luck." Ji Yanran packed the parchment, "Can I go into the palace to meet Wang Dong?"

"Naturally." Li Jing nodded, "Why, do you still have something to ask?"

"I want to know on which day Luo's mother and child fell off the cliff, and on which day the baby in the tent was abandoned." Ji Yanran confessed, "It just so happens that I have a friend who was abandoned in Cangwei Xueling. Hearing these four words, it will inevitably be a little more distracting."

Li Jing was slightly surprised: "Oh?"

Yuan didn't intend to really match up, but just mentioned it casually after hearing it. In the palace, although Wang Dong didn't know why Ji Yanran asked this question, he also knew that the only way he could go was to "answer every question". So after thinking about it for a long time, he finally said: "In the thirty-two years of Yongkang, The tenth day of September."

Calculated to be about the same age as Yun Yifeng, so Ji Yanran went to ask the ghost again.

"When did you pick it up? On the tenth day of the lunar new year, on the tenth day of September in the 32nd year of Yongkang, in a dilapidated tent, the charcoal basin had been extinguished, wrapped in a gray brocade quilt, as cold as a cat Yes, covered in bruises."

Exactly the same time, exactly the same place, even the same tent.

Ji Yanran's heart skipped a beat: "Then Yun'er's parents were killed by bandits, so what happened?"

"That area is the Cangwei Snow Mountain. A lonely baby with no adults around him must have died under the knife of a bandit?" Ghost stabbed, "If the parents still have breath, even if they want to abandon them, they should die again." Take the area to the south and find a warm place, how can there be any reason to throw it in the snow and leave it alone?"

After finishing speaking, he did not forget to criticize: "Have you found the blood ganoderma? If you haven't found it, how can you still care about these old things!"

Ji Yanran continued: "When I found Yun'er back then, what did he have on him?"

"What can a baby who is a few months old have?" Gui Ci became more and more impatient, "It's just a longevity lock engraved with the horoscope of birth, the cotton jacket and trousers on his body, and a quilt, I didn't know I lost it long ago Where?" As he spoke, his voice became sharp again, and he wanted to urge a few more words of blood ganoderma, but his nose was almost smashed flat by the door panel that was slapped on him.

Ji Yanran went all the way to Yun Yifeng's residence, her steps were more hurried than usual.

"My lord." The disciple of the Fengyumen who was on guard at night saluted, "The master of the sect has already rested just now, if you have nothing important to do—"

Yun Yifeng coughed in time in the room.

Storm Gate Disciple: "..."

The Fengyumen disciple said respectfully: "My lord please."