Peng Ying focused her eyes on him and chuckled, "I know, the prince wants to know when I joined the Yufeng Hall after being by his side for fifteen years, right?"
"Yes." This is a very strange thing about Ye Xiudu. Logically speaking, Peng Ying should have no chance to join Yufeng Hall.
Peng Ying had moved to the side of the pillar and leaned slightly there.
It seemed that losing his martial arts was indeed a bit painful for him, and he was still breathing slightly even when he spoke.
However, now that the matter has come to this, there is no point in hiding it.
"Does the prince know what my previous name was?" Peng Ying asked.
Ye Xiudu squinted his eyes, and he naturally knew, "Huo Mingfei."
"Yes, Huo is my father's surname. Back then, my father was an official of one parent. Although he was only a seventh-grade sesame official, he was domineering, corrupt and derelict in his duties, and took the daughters of the common people as concubines. As a result, he was banned from traveling in the world and was A couple whom the people called knights were killed, and my mother and sister were also implicated to death."
Ye Xiu pursed his lips and remained silent. Indeed, this incident was a big shock back then.
When the emperor heard that someone had killed a court official, he was also furious. He ordered a thorough investigation at that time. Unexpectedly, such an investigation revealed that the Huo family was guilty of serious crimes. In anger, he sent the entire Huo family to the border. As for the There is no further information on whether the couple was arrested again.
At that time, Peng Ying, as the only descendant of the Huo family, was naturally on the list of allotments. But he escaped by himself and disappeared.
At that time, he was just a child of six or seven years old.
"Back then, after I escaped, I was so hungry and cold that I almost starved to death on the roadside. Unexpectedly, I met someone from Yufengtang. That person seemed to have a high position at the time. He saw that I had good muscles and bones, and was a good candidate for martial arts training. He could help Yufengtang, so he took me back."
"Yufengtang doesn't care if I'm the son of a criminal, or if I'm a fugitive on the run. They are not afraid of these things, but they agreed to keep me and started training me."
However, Yufengtang didn't know that Peng Ying was actually ambitious and eager to achieve success in martial arts, until he went to the library to steal Yufengtang's martial arts secrets.
This happened to be known by the person who took him back. He immediately went to Peng Ying, asked him to hand over the book, and stabbed him on the spot.
Originally thinking that the sword had killed him, he had even thrown Peng Ying into the mass grave.
Unexpectedly, Peng Ying was still alive and was rescued. What the person didn't know was that Peng Ying had already copied another copy of the martial arts secret book.
However, with the martial arts secrets, he had no place to stay.
Until that day, I accidentally saw Wen Tian next to Ye Xiudu on the street.
Wen Tian's mother and Peng Ying's mother were sisters, but when they got married, one married to the south and the other to the north.
The Wen family has declined by this generation. When Wen Tian was still very young, he encountered great changes and both his parents died in the plague.
At that time, Wen Tian was escorted by his servants and went all the way to the Huo family to seek refuge with Peng Ying's mother.
Wen Tian lived in the Huo family for a period of time. During that time, Wen Tian and Peng Ying also became familiar with each other, and the two of them had a very good relationship.
But I didn't expect that Huo's father was narrow-minded and unwilling to raise an idle person, so he tried every means to drive Wen Tian out.
Wen Tianyuan was a man of character. Although he was young, he saw that his aunt was becoming more and more unpopular with his uncle, so he quietly left the Huo family at night.
It was also his luck that Huo's father was killed just a few days after he left.
Later, he came to the imperial capital and was spotted by Ye Xiu alone. He became a guard and was trained since he was a child.
Therefore, he came to Ye Xiudu a year earlier than Peng Ying, and he was highly regarded by Ye Xiudu.
Peng Ying saw that he was quite dignified when staying by Ye Xiudu's side, so he went to seek refuge with Wen Tian, and at that time he also deliberately showed some of his skills in front of Ye Xiudu.
Wen Tian was very kind to Peng Ying, and he didn't know that Peng Ying was still alive until he met Peng Ying.
He originally misunderstood and thought that Peng Ying was also killed by the knight couple. If he knew that Peng Ying was alive, he would definitely ask Ye Xiudu to rescue him.
Just like that, Wen Tian and Peng Ying got together, and they both became the guards that Ye Xiu had trained since childhood.
But compared to Wen Tian who could go out alone with Ye Xiu, Peng Ying mostly chose to stay in the palace and not go anywhere. On the one hand, if he went out, he might meet someone from Yufengtang and be recognized. On the other hand, he also took this opportunity to show Ye Xiudu that he was low-key and hard-working and would not squeeze in front of him desperately.
However, at that time, Ye Xiudu was in a situation where Concubine Meng wanted to get rid of her, so it was not easy to save the son of a criminal minister.
Therefore, it was also intended to prevent Peng Ying from showing up, and even concealed Peng Ying's identity, and asked for his opinion to temporarily change his name, and then let him change it back one day when he has the power to make the decision. .
Peng Ying originally wanted to change his name, but the name Huo Mingfei was too detrimental to him. No matter whether Yufengtang or the emperor heard about it, his life would not be saved. He did not expect that Ye Xiu would take the initiative to propose it.
He also took the opportunity to express his deep hatred for Huo. If it weren't for his father, their family wouldn't be in this situation, and his mother and sister wouldn't have died. He didn't want his surname to be Huo, so he took his mother's surname and changed his name to Peng Ying, with the intention of never changing it back.
Peng's surname was also the surname of Wen Tian's mother. When he heard this, he naturally jumped for joy and was extremely happy.
Peng Ying, on the other hand, was secretly practicing Yufengtang's martial arts, and his martial arts improved a lot.
When he first met Yu Qingluo in Jiangcheng, when he was brought in seriously injured, he actually knew that the knife would not hit the vital point. As long as he stands in the way of Ye Xiu, his status will skyrocket.
Sure enough, Ye Xiu was willing to sacrifice half of his wealth for his life.
But what he didn't expect at the time was that the dagger that struck him was highly poisonous.
Fortunately, his life was not destined to end, and he happened to meet Yu Qingluo.
When Yu Qingluo heard this, she regretted, "Humph, if I had known, I wouldn't have saved you then, but I wasted a good antidote."
"Haha, I didn't expect that you would come to the prince's side, but it would make the prince even more powerful." Peng Ying snorted coldly.
But Ye Xiudu pursed his lips tightly, his face looking very ugly.
Wen Tian gritted his teeth. He did not expect that the reunion between him and Peng Ying after a long absence was also part of a conspiracy. He was really stupid. It was his fault that he brought such a white-eyed wolf to his master.
"Then how did you become Concubine Wan?" Ye Xiu asked in a cold voice.