"Yeah, watch out for the fire!"
"You can't even hold anything, Li Sheng, is there no seam on your paws!"
Li Yan grabbed the scroll just before it rolled into the fire, she took a righteous step, and narrowly intercepted it and picked it out.
Wu Chuchu stepped forward to pick up the scroll and carefully wiped off the dust. When he saw that it was an old scroll, he painted a very confusing portrait. The brush was very simple and unadorned, much like in ancient times. The kind of portrait used when selecting officials or palace maids.
The painting is of a child, in his early ten years, who looks a little childish. In the corner is written his birth date without a name.
Several people looked at each other.
He should ask, "What is this?"
"Twenty-one years of Yongping." Li Yan said aloud, "What year is the twenty-one years of Yongping?"
"'Yongping' is the title of the emperor's reign," Wu Chuchu explained casually, and then said, "If this person was born in Yongping twenty-one years ago, he should be almost old now, strange, what does this person have? What's special about it? Why does Qimen go to such great lengths to collect this painting... ah!"
Li Sheng hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"
Wu Chuchu suddenly pointed to a seal on the scroll and said, "This is my father's seal!"
General Wu has always played a mysterious and unpredictable role. He seems to belong to the same sea and sky in the courtroom and the same sea and sky in the rivers and lakes. His life is like a taciturn mystery. Not enough to come up with a guessing answer, his wife and children have never really understood him.
"Not only that scroll, I think most of the letters here were written by General Wu to Daoist Chongyun. Speaking of which, when General Wu's identity was exposed and the hidden place of Tong Qimen was discovered, it was almost a matter of front and back. There has always been a connection between General Wu and Qi Men, and it is not unexpected." Li Sheng knelt on the ground and carefully sorted out the letters that had fallen on the floor, "Well... the first year, before the first year... 'Empress Liang' is just one letter, strange, why are the letters sent to Liang Shao mixed in here?"
Wu Chuchu subconsciously clenched the corner of her clothes.
Li Sheng suddenly remembered something, raised his head and asked her, "Miss Wu, can we see it?"
It was only then that everyone remembered that although these letters were all relics, they were written by Wu Chuchu's late father.
Wu Chuchu tried to smile back at him, but was not very successful.
Since the first outbreak of Haitian Yise, these past stories seem to be less upright, and no one knows what kind of role Wu Fei, the general Wu Fei, who is almost praised as the "Second Master of the Living Guan", played in it. , and these are secret letters after all...
Li Yan was about to say something, but was stopped by Li Sheng's gaze.
Li Sheng looked at Wu Chuchu's face and hesitated: "If it's not right, we..."
"It doesn't matter, let's see." Wu Chuchu suddenly interrupted him, "My father told me when I was a child, 'Everything can't be told to others', and I believe him."
As she spoke, she knelt on the ground and tore open the letter addressed to Liang Shao herself, only to see that there was no beginning or signature in it, and the notes were even a bit messy, almost rudely writing: "After all, in the paper You can't contain the fire, Duke Liang, why should you be obsessed with it!"
As soon as Wu Chuchu finished saying "Everything can't be told to others", his father's face was covered in "the fire can't be contained in the paper". He immediately shook his hand and the letter paper flew out. Fortunately, he was by his side, busy Copy one in hand.
Ying He never looked at people's faces, and said to himself: "This letter was written to Liang Shao, but it did not reach Liang Shao in the end, and there has always been a connection between General Wu and Qimen Chongyun, so can we It is speculated that Qimen, who used the secret passage to hide the invisible, was the channel for General Wu and others to contact Liang Shao?"
He squeezed the letter paper between his fingers and shook it slightly, then said, "'The paper can't contain fire' and 'obsessed', which means that Liang Shao must be hiding something at the time. Risk wrote such an extraneous letter to question, but Daoist Chongyun intercepted the letter, why? Are they afraid of a dispute between them? I feel that the wording of this letter is not very polite, but it is also It's not like pointing at the nose and scolding, Master Liang shouldn't be too angry."
Li Sheng suddenly said, "Look at the envelope, when was this letter written?"
Li Yan hurriedly picked up the rolled envelope and said, "Jianyuan... Two years, brother, what happened to the second year of Jianyuan? You haven't even been born yet."
Li Sheng glanced at Wu Chuchu, Wu Chuchu understood immediately, reached out and wiped her red eyes, went to look for her thick notebooks with a lot of martial arts chores, and flipped for a while: "In the second year of Jianyuan ... Ah! The old village owner Li died in the Beidou conspiracy, and the big boss tried to assassinate Cao Zhongkun but failed."
Li Sheng: "Is there any more?"
"Well, it seems like... Wait, there are also descendants of the Northern Sword who entered the customs, wounded the Shanchuan Sword, and then..." Wu Chuchu was alert, and when he said this, he shuddered firmly and stopped his voice. The four people After staring at each other for a while, Wu Chuchu glanced around and saw that the refugees who were traveling not far away were all sleeping soundly, and there were no outsiders around, so he whispered, "So you are thinking, the old village owner and The matter of Shanchuanjian is related to Liang and Liang Xiangye, and Daoist Chongyun intercepted this letter privately, in fact, to protect my father?"
"Not yet conclusive." Li Sheng thought for a while, shook his head, and went to open other letters.
Several people were completely drowsy at this time, and even Li Yan, who was like a mother monkey, calmly stopped and helped to dismantle it together.
General Wu Fei is a Confucian general and a master of the art of war. In the early years, he met Qimen Chongyun, the Taoist priest of the formation master by chance, and the two immediately hit it off... It's just that the obvious connection between the two began when General Wu pretended to join the Cao family. After that, Wu Chuchu had no way of knowing that his father still had such an old friend.
Taking the thirty-two years of Yongping as the boundary, most of the previous correspondence was a heart-to-heart conversation between friends, most of which were long speeches, sometimes discussing the formation method, and sometimes worrying about the country and the people. A few words in layman.
But thirty-two years later, it can be seen from the letters alone that the atmosphere has suddenly become tense. There are only a few letters in the whole year. One was written in the early spring. Uneasy, after that, General Wu had no news for more than half a year. In the twelfth lunar month, he suddenly sent three urgent messages to Daoist Chongyun.
"In the twelfth lunar month of that year, it should be when Cao Zhongkun led people to force the palace." Li Sheng put together the three letters from General Wu.
The tone of the first letter was more urgent. Obviously, the incident happened suddenly, and General Wu did not respond. The second letter immediately became calmer. At this time, the late emperor had passed away. Wu Fei mentioned in the letter that they would stop at nothing. The price to keep the prince, a lot of handwriting has been blurred, I don't know if it was wet with tears in the past. Then came the third letter. Obviously, they backfired. The East Palace was killed, the prince died for the country, and the little grandson disappeared. In the end, they only kept the youngest son of the late emperor...
Li Yan interjected: "So after Daoist Chongyun received General Wu's letter, he gathered Yin Daxia and grandpa to escort them?"
"Yeah." Li Sheng stared at the third letter and answered absentmindedly.
Li Yan stabbed him: "What's the matter with you? Speaking human words?"
Li Sheng was stabbed by her, and it was rare that he didn't have the same knowledge as Li Yan. He was staring at the words in the letter thoughtfully: "Your Highness is frightened, full of grief and hatred, and has a high fever and is unconscious. ."
"This is the 33rd year of Yongping—that is, the first month of the first year of Jianyuan." Ying Hecong opened the following letters, and after the brief turmoil at the end of the 32nd year, General Wu Fei's gossip basically disappeared. , the wording is simple and direct, and even a few correspondence in the middle can only be regarded as notes, but the matters discussed are very detailed. Li Sheng and the others can only see the letters, but they can't see the letters, but they still seem to have witnessed the mighty South the whole process of crossing.
"Here I mentioned Haitian Yishe more than once," Ying He Cong said, "but I think this 'Haitian Yishe' should not be the other 'Haitian Yishe'. At this time, Shanchuanjian and the others were still on their way, and 'Haitian Yishe' should refer to It refers to the official who pretended to join the Northern Dynasty. In addition, General Wu also mentioned Liang Shao, Mr. Liang and other words many times. Obviously, it was not only General Wu and Daoist Chongyun who communicated at that time."
"Liang Shao, of course it's Liang Shao." Li Sheng said without raising his head, "The success of Nandu was largely due to Liang Shao's decision to kill... Ayan, you drew General Wu's hand-painted marching route. Pass me the picture."
General Wu Fei was the leader of the troops. The map was very detailed, and the bottom of the mountains, rivers and valleys were marked, so laymen could see it at a glance.
"Look," Ying Hecong said from the side, "two lines are drawn on the map, the troops are divided into two groups, and they will not meet until the Yangzhou defenders are stationed. The prince... the emperor goes to the south."
"At that time, they should have gone to the south of the Yangtze River in two ways. Master Liang mobilized the troops and horses from the southern half of the country to the north, and openly used the moat as the basis to rule the north and the south. The big inner guard and the remaining royal guards are used as a guise, and the other way is a few big masters escorting the real little prince. For the sake of safety, only a few people know about this plan, including the several pioneer teams that went north to meet up at that time." Li Sheng said , "I'm afraid they will think that they are trying to escort the real prince until they die. Wait, I heard that Young Master Liang was also trying to cover the prince back then, leading the army to lead away the northern army, and finally died for the country... Shouldn't he be covering... "
Ying Hecong said: "If it's me, I'll do the same - don't forget, Cao Zhongkun has Beidou in addition to soldiers. It's easy for those big wolf dogs to kill a child from a defeated general. Beside Shanchuanjian and the others, although there is no pomp, it may not be comfortable, but several masters guard, no one can approach, and Shen Tianshu of the year is not good, and they are a few rivers and lakes with a child, and they are fast and can't recruit people. Look, the Northern Army didn't notice them at all."
"Is it reliable?" Wu Chuchu suddenly said, "I have seen that Shen Tianshu before, and he is very fierce. If he really makes a move, he will definitely know if he is real or not. Isn't this play a smash? When the army of the Northern Dynasty once When I came back to my senses and turned around to encircle and suppress it, the reinforcements in the south didn't know the truth, and it was too late to rescue them, and a few masters alone could not stop the imperial army.
They had a deep understanding of this. If it weren't for the security of the gate for them to hide, Zhou Fei's martial arts would have almost been shot into a hedgehog, not to mention others.
Li Yan murmured, "Why didn't General Wu write clearly in the letter?"
"It's pretty clear," Ying He Cong said, "Look, the letter mentions 'it's not too late for your monarchs, be careful', and 'the young master suddenly changes, bear with me' and other words, which are enough to prove Li Brother is right."
Wu Chuchu: "But..."
Li Sheng suddenly remembered something and raised his head abruptly: "Wait a minute, what year were you born today?"
There was no ins and outs of this question, and everyone was stunned for a while.
Li Yan blinked: "The emperor? When was the emperor born, who knows?"
Wu Chuchu and Ying Hecong were both meticulous and thoughtful, and immediately heard Li Sheng's implication, and they both looked at the scroll at the same time.
Wu Chuchu said softly: "We don't know when the emperor was born, but we often hear people say that the emperor was only in his early ten years when he went south..."
The boy who was born in Yongping twenty-one years ago was exactly the same age as he is today in thirty-two years. Why did a little-known child draw a portrait next to his birthday... In order to prove who he looks like
Why did the private seal of General Wu, who set two southbound routes, bright and dark, appear on this portrait
Li Yan frowned: "That is to say, in order to protect the prince, they used an innocent child as bait?"
The other three turned their attention to Li Yan together.
"Look at what I'm doing?" Li Yan said inexplicably, "Anyway, this is too much, right? What happened to the child later?"
"No..." Li Sheng said with difficulty, "Ayan, that's not the problem."
Li Sheng said softly: "The problem is that after the two troops and horses joined the army mobilized by Jianghuai and Master Liang, the child in this portrait never appeared again, there was no record, no one knew him, and no one knew that he existed... "
"His Royal Highness was frightened and fell into a coma with a high fever..."
Fire cannot be contained in paper.
sea and sky...
sea and sky...
Li Sheng was stunned for a moment, almost didn't dare to think about it any more, he bit the tip of his tongue lightly, and said in a low voice: "Everything is cleaned up, don't tell anyone about this today, you go back first, I will take care of these things myself. Send it to my uncle—no one is allowed to say a word, Li Dazhuang, do you understand?"
Li Yan: "…"
The other three were horrified, and Li Yan was still in a daze. At this moment, a sudden change occurred, and a black shadow burst out at an unbelievable speed. Even Li Sheng couldn't resist and was already killed in front of him.
Li Yan instinctively pushed Wu Chuchu to the side, and handed it out by herself. Before the knife could be pushed away, she felt a force hit her chest. She suddenly felt that her thoracic vertebrae and ribs had been crushed and deformed. Delusional, without saying a word, his eyes darkened, he took a dozen steps back one after another, and sat on the ground.
At this time, Li Sheng and Ying Hecong had already fought with the person who came. They saw that the man was wrapped in a black robe, with no head and tail. He was as thin as a handful of bones, but his martial arts were incredible. He Cong and the two were forced into a rush by him, and they were unable to fight back at all.
The man stretched out a thin hand, grabbed Li Sheng's sword, swung his long sleeves, and threw him a foot away, and then grabbed Ying He Zi's chest.
Ying Hecong was lifted up by him, and the poisonous snakes around him did not dare to show their heads in front of the strange person.
The eccentric put his hand into his arms, took out the tightly wrapped Nirvana Gu Mother, and let out a terrifying high-pitched laugh, not like a human voice, and said, "So it is, haha, so it is!"
After he finished speaking, he grabbed the Nirvana Gu worm and threw the out of breath Ying He, two ups and downs, and disappeared into the night!