In the early morning, a light and moist mist pervades the sky and the earth, and the Yinhui City shrouded in the mist is made of silver-glazed stone all over the body. Under the clear sky light, there is a hazy and Soft silvery glow.
Outside the city gate, two tall and strong purebred "Dragon Elephant Horses" with snow-white manes like lions and as strong as elephants came in the moist morning mist, pulling a plain-looking horse behind them. Strange black carriage.
An old man in gray clothes and a shawl on his head is sitting on the shaft of the car as the driver.
A tall dragon like a horse galloped forward like the wind, and the gust of wind blew up the curtain of the carriage, revealing a snow-white clothes and faint brows and eyes that were invisible.
The carriage rushed all the way, without any intention of stopping, and was about to rush directly into the city. The guard at the gate of the city was about to step forward to stop the carriage, but the old man who had been sitting quietly in the front acting as the coachman raised his head. The guard who was trying to stop the carriage with anger on his face suddenly changed his face, and immediately became busy. ? Backed away to both sides.
"—Damn it! How could it be? The steward of Copper Mountain? How could he? Return from outside the city?"
"Fortunately, I saw the opportunity quickly, and almost offended the confidant of the city lord!"
A few people secretly thought it was unlucky, glanced at each other, and couldn't help discussing in a low voice with a bit of gossip.
"... Is the gossip about the city lord's mansion true? The city lord wants to bring the grand prince back to inherit the family business, so he secretly sent a housekeeper to pick him up?"
"No? Right. This is not? It's something that can't be seen? Why do you have to hide it?"
"Hey! Isn't it? I'm guarding against that one..."
As residents who were born and raised in Yinhui City, they knew very well that not long after the eldest prince ran away in anger, the young lady was also married to the outer city. In order not to repeat the same mistakes, I also specially found a marriage match for the second son, and now even the eldest grandson is more than ten years old.
Everyone has already acquiesced that the second son is the future heir of Yinhui City. Unexpectedly, when the old city lord arrives, he will start to miss his obedient eldest son. Who knows what is going on in his mind? Do you only want to see your son, or do you plan to make him the heir
Or, even if the old city lord only wanted to see his son at first, what if the grand prince, who has been away for many years? What can I do if I have other thoughts
——If the second son thinks this way, he will definitely? No? Will? Willing to let the eldest brother come back; and if the old city owner is worried that the second son thinks this way, naturally? He can only pick him up quietly.
A group of guards gossip and gossip while they can't help but live in the dark and maliciously speculate on the minds of those big shots, right? It's a very boring pastime.
The situation in the City Lord’s Mansion, was it not? I heard that from the steward, but he didn’t participate in this house fight. He just wanted to use Yinhui City as a springboard to let himself own Just a proper identity
As for who ultimately owns the inheritance right of Yinhui City, it depends on the old city owner. If the other party is really dead, then the only heir candidate is the second son. Even if you really want to choose grandchildren, the first son and one daughter of the Grand Duke's line are still young, and the second son has two older sons who have been cultivated for a long time. In any case, it is impossible to find the two children who came back halfway.
The only chance for these two little ones brought back by Yuan Buwei is that the old castellan can survive and live long enough to have enough time to choose and test heirs, and if they can There is still hope for rapid growth in the future.
Regrettably, God probably didn't care about it. When the carriage returned to the Santo's Mansion unimpeded, the two little guys had just been led off the carriage by the steward, and the indistinct cries had already disappeared from the depths of the Santo's Mansion. from everywhere.
The old butler's complexion turned pale immediately, his body trembled, and he ran towards the place where the old city lord lived.
The two children ran behind him in a daze.
When we arrived at the place, we saw the door of the bedroom was wide open, and all the servants in the yard were mournful. A middle-aged couple with two teenagers, one big and one young, gathered around the bed. From the exposed gap, one could see An old and pale face, with the last light in his eyes.
Probably seeing the old housekeeper, the light suddenly lit up and fell directly on his face. It seemed that there was something he wanted to say urgently, but he couldn't make a sound.
The old housekeeper suddenly understood his thoughts: "Do you want to see the Grand Duke? The Grand Duke..." He really couldn't bear to stimulate the old city lord by telling such bad news at the last moment of his life, so he had no choice but to First, pull the two children to the front, "Look, my lord, this is the young lady and the young master, and the eldest son is right behind..."
The old city lord on the bed stared straight at the two children, probably also trying to understand why the other son didn't show up, and a look of sadness suddenly appeared in his eyes.
"Ho ho..." He wanted to raise his hand to say something, but he couldn't move his body, couldn't speak, and gasped a few times with difficulty in his throat, but his eyes became more and more dim.
The middle-aged man next to him quickly stepped forward and grabbed the arm he was about to raise, and called out in a low voice, "Father!"
"... Father, don't worry, I know you are worried about the future of the two children, don't worry, my son will take good care of them, so that you will have no regrets when you return to Jiuyou."
Immediately? There was another cry in the room.
Amidst the crying, a layer of light iron gray spread from the old man's skin, the color became darker and darker, and finally almost covered his mouth and nose, as if he was about to completely petrify his whole body, leaving him in pain die.
His eyeballs still move? Don't move? They fall on his son. I don't know if he still cares about this world.
The two children were still ignorant, didn't they? They knew the situation too well, and saw that the second uncle had already embraced them and started crying loudly at the old man on the bed.
In the yard outside, why not? Why not? Is it important? Walking slowly, I heard this grief-stricken wailing.
"It smells so good! It smells so good..."
At this moment, Ye Miaomiao's voice sounded in his mind, with a bit of eagerness to move. It's like a drunk who has drunk his head? His tone is dizzy and he's so excited that he can't help himself.
"Sword Master, I smell a very fragrant smell. I have a hunch that it must be a treasure that is very useful for the Excalibur..."
Hearing her twitchy talk, why not? Because she was also curious, she indulged, "Then go and have a look."
Based on his understanding of Ye Miaomiao, the other party's three views were shaped in a peaceful age. He would not take the initiative to hurt innocent people, nor would he cause any disasters.
As soon as the words fell, a streak of light flew out impatiently.
In the bedroom, the second son was holding his father's dying hand, crying and crying, but it was thunder and rain.
"Father, don't worry and go... oh!"
Suddenly, the crying stopped abruptly, and the second son held his swollen forehead and raised his head, uttering a painful moan with a different tone, mixed with shock and anger.
—At that moment, a black shadow suddenly came in from the door, brushed past his forehead, and flew directly towards the old man on the bed.
—That seems to be a dark, hard brick? !
Unexpectedly, someone dared to commit murder in broad daylight in the city lord's mansion, and couldn't even wait for a moment? He insisted on putting a dying old man to death with his own hands? ?
The most important thing is, didn't that thing? It swelled up a lot of his forehead just by brushing against him. If the target was aimed at his forehead, wouldn't he? already? die
—What a cruel and daring lunatic!
The second son, who was clutching his forehead, was startled and angry, and immediately shouted for someone to arrest the assassin, but saw that the "assassin" had already walked in with a calm posture and an even more calm expression, as if he was strolling around in his own home.
"Wait a minute, Er Gong? This may be a misunderstanding."
As the city lord's confidant, the old butler still has the right to speak in the city lord's mansion. Although it seems that the old and the new are about to change, the old butler Yu Wei is still there. When he spoke, the people who wanted to go forward to catch the assassin hesitated and stopped Come down, a bit hesitant.
But the old housekeeper looked at Yuan Bu in astonishment and said, "Mr. Yin Yuan, what are you?"
"Okay, it seems that you are all in the same group!" The second son's angry voice interrupted the old butler's words, "Butler Tongshan, it's in vain that my father trusts you so much, you actually betrayed the city lord's mansion , Could it be that my elder brother, whom I haven't seen for many years, has already been killed by you?"
Speaking of this, the second son is already very serious.
As the city lord's confidant, the old butler has a special status in normal times. Even the second son? The son didn't call him like this, but treated him like an uncle.
Now that the old city lord has not been buried yet, the second son has already assumed the posture of the master, asking him like a servant, and wronging him so much, without even evidence. It seems that he is completely impulsive? Murderous intent is hidden, as if? It is a gesture to take the opportunity to sweep it away.
After rushing back all the way, the old butler, who was seriously injured and hadn’t recovered, was filled with grief and indignation, and after a moment of silence, he finally couldn’t help but said, “Second Lord, who is the eldest son? right!"
The surrounding atmosphere suddenly? became? extremely weird.
The second son was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect the old butler to speak so bluntly, and then he became furious. This anger was no longer as superficial as he pretended just now, but rather It was indeed infected with a bit of killing intent.
"What do you mean? Do you still want to frame me for killing my brother?"
He glanced at the servants who were stopped by the old butler's words, and at Yuan Buwei standing there like a melon-eating crowd, raised his trembling hand and pointed at the old butler:
"Okay, okay! I knew that you were a wolf with ambitions. Did you plan to cheat? Do you know how many people were secretly recruited? You killed my father and my elder brother, and now you are accusing me of crimes. Maybe you are trying to make me Lost the right of inheritance, why don't you take this opportunity to use my poor nephew as a puppet and hold the power of the lord of Yinhui City..."
The old butler was trembling all over because of what he said, but he didn't try to refute it anymore, and argued hard.
He knew in his heart that the second son had made a foolish attack at this time, just to pin the blame on him, and then take the opportunity to clean him and many people who were not used to by the second son in one go. A different day!
Even if the second son's words are full of loopholes, even if he knows that the other party is talking nonsense, so what
Now that the old city lord has passed away, the second son is the real owner of the city lord's mansion. Even the servants who didn't understand the situation just now should understand.
Even if the second son just thinks he is too ugly and wants to drive him away, it is right, but he will inevitably be called cold. Now that he has been accused of forming a party for personal gain and murdering the old master, people outside who don't know the truth will not say that the old man left behind by the second son's mean father.
"City Lord, Grand Duke? Why did you go..."
For a while, the old housekeeper felt sad and couldn't restrain himself.
The second son was heartbroken. He held his father's hand at the bedside, bowed his head, and sighed, as if he was a filial son: "Father, this is the confidant you have trusted for so many years in the past, and killed him." Don’t you, big brother? Say, and frame your son with such a vicious crime…”
Suddenly, there was another cry in the room.
"Father, the world is so dangerous, why did you just leave your son behind?"
The second son did a full set of plays, and at this point, he thought it was enough, so he made a gesture, ready to let the housekeeper wait for a long time, and the old guy who has long been disliked by him in the past will be dealt with together , Make room for your cronies.
"Yeah, the world is so dangerous, let the old man take care of it myself."
A familiar old voice sounded faintly, as if there was a cool wind blowing by the ears of the second son.
The second son was suddenly taken aback.
And at this moment, his hand? was suddenly? clenched!
The old hand in the palm, which should have gradually become cold and stiff, pinched his hand tightly, and pinched it inch by inch along the wrist, reminiscent of "" in a series of story books. Resurrection of the dead", "Dead change", the second son turned his head stiffly.
The old man who was still lying on the bed before, whose whole body was covered in iron gray, who was obviously about to be petrified, actually sat up slowly from the bed, and the layer of gray that originally covered the surface of the body faded away little by little. There are still many left, but at least his life has been saved.
Half an inch above the top of his head, there is a black lacquered brick floating slightly, it is like a magnet, wisps of gray fade from the old man's body, constantly attracted by the brick, all floating past.
At this time, this brick attracted everyone's attention.
"Hi~"
Ye Miaomiao hiccupped loudly, ignoring the sparkling eyes around her, and flew straight back to Yuan Weiwei's side.
Wasn't it because his expression was always calm, as if everything was under his control, showing an indescribable mystery.
But in fact, what he knew was not much more than the crowd, even more surprising than them.
... If I read correctly, it is the essence of the Sky Star Stone, right
It has been known that a catty of Sky Star Stone can condense one gram of essence; to find out, how many catties of Sky Star Stone is worth the essence of Sky Star Stone precipitated from the main body of Yinhui City? How much improvement will be made to the natal sword embryo
But, judging by the attitudes of these people, could it be said that the Sky Star Stone, which is incomparably precious to the human race, is poisonous to the Jinling race
For a while, it turned out to be a fantasy.
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In the city lord's mansion, a farce came to an abrupt end.
The old city lord actually came alive!
He was half leaning on the bed like this, even though he was pale and emaciated, and his body had not recovered from his illness, he had a majestic aura of being in a high position for a long time.
One hand pinched the forearm of the stupid son, and his pupils coldly swept towards the son like sharp swords.
The second son grinned with difficulty and pulled out a smirk, but he looked very stiff because he was too shocked and disappointed:
"Father, you, you are alive? This is really great!"
The old city lord withdrew his gaze in disappointment, then turned it to Yuan Buwei who was standing aside, and said solemnly:
"The old man thought that he would return his soul to the Nine Serenities, and that he could get his life back by luck. It was all thanks to the kindness of the son who saved his life. There is no way to repay your kindness. I shouldn't have regenerated delusions. It's just that... now the city lord's mansion The current situation of the young man has also seen, the old man is still not able to die, so he can only be cheeky and beg the young man to help him!"
"I know that this matter is really embarrassing for Mr. Gong. Since ancient times, no one has been able to cure the backlash of the blood vessels. Mr. Mr. is able to suspend it for a while. With this disease, I just hope to live a few more years? At least I can take care of my grandson.”
Speaking of this, the old city lord got out of bed stiffly, and bowed deeply, didn't he
There was a sudden silence in the room.
Originally not? Thinking is running at high speed.
From the words of the old city lord to the scene he saw just now, he vaguely understood something.
Symptoms of blood backlash? Once the blood is backlashed, the essence of the Sky Star Stone will appear on the surface of the body? Until finally the whole person was completely petrified and turned into a big pile of star stones? In this way, isn't every Jinling clan a walking star mine? ?
... Miserable, too miserable, the Gold Spirit Clan actually? It's so miserable!
… Tears? Well-behaved, streaming down from the corner of his mouth.
After a long silence, the hopeful eyes of the old city lord gradually dimmed, and a wry smile appeared on his mouth.
—It was also he who went to the doctor in a hurry. Even the royal family has never heard of a cure for this backlash of the blood vessels. It is amazing that this mysterious young man can resolve one or two of them? Wow, how can I expect too much
That's all...
He was about to take back what he had just said, and while he still had some breath to arrange his funeral, he would repay the benefactor by the way, but he heard the white-clothed man sigh softly.
"I didn't mean to make a move..." His voice was clear and light, with a touch of helplessness, "The backlash of the blood is difficult to resolve, and everyone knows it."
The old city lord, who could hear the words, immediately raised his head, with hope in his eyes, and nodded while listening.
"If you want to cure this disease, you have to pay a small price."
The old city lord nodded repeatedly, and assured him: "This is natural. Don't worry, my son. I will never let my son bear the price for nothing."
—Compared with your own life, everything else is secondary. As long as there is hope of survival, everything is worth it.
"Forget it, I'll stay temporarily..." Under the old city lord's pleas and promises, Yuan didn't seem to be persuaded at last, and finally said lightly, "But, I still need to prepare for a few days , can we make a move?"
...Now he doesn't even know what the blood backlash is? It's all based on guesswork. What can be used to cure it? It is also necessary to do your homework in advance to collect wool, nothing? Clearly, even if you can devour the essence of the Sky Star Stone by relying on the natal sword, it can only be superficial.
... Get to know it in the past few days, and when he has figured out everything, it will be the time when he will bald? :)