The visitor in the middle of the night turned out to be the old emperor, and what was even more shocking was the old man Qingshi next to him, the old man Qingshi came with the emperor, indicating that the old man Qingshi and the emperor had long been there, and it may even be an undercover agent sent by the emperor to Tianfu, after all, the old man Qingshi was the apprentice of the old man Baishi, and the old man Baishi was best at the traitor.

The old emperor stood in front of the door, his eyes were no longer sharp, just like an ordinary old man, he raised his head slightly and said, "Don't invite me in yet!"

When a beautiful family member behind him heard that the emperor had arrived, they all knelt down and bowed: "The people's daughter Ji Wuyao, the people's daughter Liu Wanci, the people's daughter Tang Qingxue, and the people's daughter Xia Yanran 、、、 to meet the emperor." ”

The old emperor looked at Wu Yao, his expression showed a look of remembrance, and he looked at Wu Yao in a daze for a while, but Wu Yao just lowered her eyebrows and was pleasing to her eyes, and her expression was calm and flat.

"Shen Feng, I know what you think, go in, I'll tell you frankly. Daoist Qingshi's expression was calm, as if he had expected such a day.

Shen Feng glanced at Wu Yao, made a decision in his heart, and calmed down: "Your Majesty, Uncle Shi, please come in." ”

The three of them came to a dilapidated house, the house was clean, and it had been repaired by the disciples of Tianfu, Shen Feng had too many questions in his heart waiting for the old man Qingshi to explain, his eyes looked at him, waiting for him to speak.

The old man Qingshi was silent for a while, as if he was thinking about it, and after a long time, he said: "When I was a teenager, I suffered a serious illness, and when I met a good man, he invited Lang Zhong to cure me, and then sent me to heaven, so I made a vow that he would repay this good man one day, and it was only this year that he found me." ”

Shen Feng's gaze turned to the emperor, there was no doubt that this good man was the emperor, the emperor was more than ten years older than the old man Qingshi, the emperor was nearly sixty years old, and the old man Qingshi was in his early forties, and he was not as old as a pot of wine.

The old man Qingshi said: "I didn't know that the original good man was the emperor, and the emperor didn't show up, but asked me to check on someone." ”

"Old man Shiraishi?"

The old man Qingshi nodded: "This old fox is brewing a conspiracy to endanger Dahua, and he is the driving force behind the Xiahou Tuxi expedition, but it is time for him to appear, the flood in the capital is getting shallower and shallower." ”

Shen Feng said: "As far as I know, the old man Baishi is a eunuch, and he is lurking in the palace. ”

The old man Qingshi: "The emperor and I think the same as you." ”

Shen Feng didn't know what he was thinking, his expression was calm, and he raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, have we talked frankly?"

The old emperor's body has entered the point of weakness, as if he is a twilight old man, no longer has the majestic imperial authority, he stood beside him with his hands in his hands, turned around, and showed an unwilling look in his eyes: "Shen Feng, to this day, I still want to kill you!"

Shen Feng smiled and said, "This is the truth. ”

The old emperor said excitedly: "There has been a legend since ancient times, it is rumored that as long as you solve the mystery of the three major ruins of the Zhaolie Emperor's Mausoleum, Huaqing Tianfu, and Loulan Ancient Kingdom, you will be able to look at the world and win the country!

Shen Feng was about to speak, and the old emperor said: "I know that you don't have the heart to seize power, but if you are really loyal to me, you will not be in today's situation, I miscalculated, I miscalculated you, you are really worthy of the chosen one!" His words meant a lot, he misestimated Shen Feng's ability and ruthlessness, although he had given Shen Feng high expectations, otherwise he would not have chosen Shen Feng to balance Puyang Palace.

The old emperor's breathing was rapid and chaotic, and he sat down on the armchair weakly, stabilized his body for a moment, and said with a sigh: "You must think that I am greedy for power, and in order to keep the throne, I will destroy humanity and make the people's lives miserable." ”

"Sitting in the position of the emperor, many things are unavoidable. "Shen Feng is not a person who likes to accuse, things have come to this point, and it is meaningless to talk about who is right and who is wrong.

The old emperor sneered, "I know that you don't think so in your heart, otherwise you wouldn't have found my daughter and not told me." ”

It was not surprising that the old emperor knew this, if he didn't even have this ability, he wouldn't have been able to become the emperor at the beginning, "The palace is very dangerous, I don't want Wu Yao to get involved, but I have planned to tell Wu Yao, but the emperor came first tonight." ”

"Good thing you didn't tell her. The old emperor said a strange thing, and under Shen Feng's doubts, he said, "I tell you that she is not my daughter!"

Shen Feng was shocked: "Wu Yao is the daughter of Li Xiaoyue, Li Xiaoyue suffered misfortune at the beginning, and handed Wu Yao to Tianfu before she died. ”

The old emperor squinted his eyes and poured: "Why is Li Xiaoyue's daughter my daughter?"

Shen Feng was confused all of a sudden: "Mrs. Lin told me that Li Xiaoyue had a relationship with the emperor, and a portrait of Li Xiaoyue was also hung in the emperor's palace. ”

The old emperor sneered, and his face showed a look of remembrance: "Xiaoyue did fall in love with me back then, but no one knew about the entanglement. ”

Shen Feng asked, "What the hell is going on?"

The old emperor said: "At that time, Xiaoyue was a famous talented woman in ten miles and eight towns, at that time Hangzhou held a poetry meeting, and talented women and ladies in Jiangnan gathered, and I also happened to travel to Jiangnan, so I met Xiaoyue and Shi Zhenxiang in the spring of that year, and also met Li Bian and Liu Zongli, at that time I fell in love with Xiaoyue at first sight, and Liu Zongli was infatuated with Miss Shi. ”

Shen Feng suddenly said, "How did I hear that the emperor and Uncle Liu are jealous?"

The old emperor said: "At that time, Liu Zongli was very knowledgeable, and I wanted to use it, and when I saw that he was addicted to women and couldn't extricate himself, I discussed with Miss Shi and Xiaoyue, pretending to fall in love with Miss Shi, and let Liu Zongli regain his original intention to serve his family and country. ”

In order to let Liu Zongli break off his thoughts about Miss Shi, the emperor also issued a holy decree to let Liu Zongli marry a wife, so that he could work hard, but Liu Zongli took care of the examination to gain fame, but forgot his pregnant wife at home, and after his wife miscarried, Liu Zongli was willing to be a petty official in Shengzhou in order to make up for the debt.

"At the beginning, I intended to sharpen Liu Zongli, but I didn't expect you to become his son-in-law, and I learned about you at that time. The old emperor said: "I don't reuse Liu Zongli, but also because he knows about me and Xiaoyue." ”

Shen Feng said again: "What about the emperor and Li Xiaoyue later?"

"After I dated Xiaoyue, I found out that she already had a love in her heart, Xiaoyue treated me like a brother, others saw us talking and laughing together, they all thought that we had affection for each other, Miss Shi was the same, but Xiaoyue had someone else in her heart!"

Shen Feng exclaimed: "Could it be Li Bian!"

The old emperor sighed and said, " Li Bian's knowledge is far above Liu Zongli and me, and Xiaoyue's favor, I am jealous, so I designed to let Li Bian and Xiaoyue die, that Xiaoyue was too depressed and unconscious, but Li Bian came to Xiaoyue with the strength of wine to confide in love, that night Li Bian and Xiaoyue had the reality of husband and wife, when I found out, hatred from the heart, so I designed to disassemble the two, Li Bian woke up, found himself in a strange woman's bed, and disappeared from then on, after which he went to look for Tianfu, Qingshi Dao Chang saw that he was not dusty, so he asked him to ferry. ”

"And Xiaoyue woke up and saw me, thinking that she had a husband and wife with me, I was angry, so I didn't explain, Xiaoyue knew that she had no face to see Li Chang again, and when she found out that she was pregnant, Xiaoyue didn't explain to the neighbors, I was often restless after returning to the capital, so I woke up to myself, and when I wanted to tell Xiaoyue the truth, I realized that Yue had been killed. ”

Shen Feng was furious when he heard this, it turned out that the truth was like this, if it wasn't for the emperor's jealousy back then, Wu Yao must have a happy family, and Li Xiaoyue would not be innocently involved in the palace struggle.

"I have asked Li Bian to come here, which can be regarded as compensation for their husband and wife. ”

Shen Feng said angrily: "You could have told Li Yan why he didn't say it until today." ”

The old emperor snorted angrily: "I have my own reasons! Shen Feng, I can't take your turn to teach you a lesson, if you are loyal to me, you will not be in today's situation, you have no idea of loyalty to the monarch in your heart." In fact, the old emperor only learned about it in recent years, and he did not explain it because of the emperor's majesty.

At this time, Wu Yao, who was standing outside the house, had a very complicated expression, and there were two long tear stains on her face, thinking of the ferryman under Tianfu, who was born to conclude a family relationship, so she could trust the words, and stood still for a moment before leaving silently.

Shen Feng glared at the emperor angrily, but seeing that his face was weak, he couldn't help but stimulate him again: "Your Majesty, I really don't want to fight with you, and I don't want to argue with you, but as you said, I can't stop all this." ”

The old emperor's expression turned lonely, and he let out an old sigh: "Now the palace is full of people from Puyang Palace, the ministers of the court have different intentions, and there is coercion from Tiance Mansion outside the capital, I have no power to return to the sky, I have lost!"

Shen Feng looked at the emperor in a daze, he didn't expect that the extremely proud emperor would also admit defeat, what did he mean by this, he seemed to have another purpose tonight, Shen Feng saved his mind and waited quietly for the next words.

"Zhang Tianshi deceived me, he knew that I couldn't fight you, and I couldn't fight the chosen one. In an instant, the old emperor aged a lot, and his face was full of helpless and self-deprecating: "I am not reconciled, so I intend to control you, if I can control the chosen one, this world is still mine, I was wrong, I found that you have no ambition, I feel that I am right, I am wrong, I am wrong." His words kept repeating that I had made a mistake, and his tone was silent.

"Even though I am a Shu person, after I ascended the throne, I have been working hard, but I still do not receive the favor of the mandate of heaven. I am unwilling, Puyang Palace wants to rob my country, but I don't give it, Tiance Mansion threatens me, and I want to kill you. The old emperor pierced his heart and put it in front of Shen Feng with blood, and the old emperor no longer hid this conversation: "The more I struggle, the more my hands and feet are forced, and I am overwhelmed, I am tired, and the general trend has gone——"

Shen Feng said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

The old emperor's eyes suddenly burst into a fine light: "I am a country, you take it!"

Shen Feng was shocked suddenly, and then sneered: "What about the conditions!"

"Cough-" The old emperor's eyes suddenly became terrifying, revealing monstrous hatred, his face was twisted into a terrible one because of anger, he coughed up a ball of blood violently, his skinny hand grabbed Shen Feng's shoulder, and roared in a low voice: "Kill the prince for me!!"

What the!!!!

Hearing this, the old man Qingshi and Shen Feng left their seats in shock, their minds seemed to be exploded, and they went blank all of a sudden, and they lost their voices: "Prince?!"

The old emperor had a cruel sneer on his face, and then laughed self-deprecatingly: "Yes, my son!

After the old emperor left, Shen Feng sat alone in the room for an hour, and after a long time, he walked out of the house, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, held a note in his hand, and ordered someone to hand it to him.

At this time, the sky is not yet dawn, the violent wind and snow steal the idle, compared with yesterday's raging scene is much calmer, last night, the capital is another bloody night, the capital died overnight four high-ranking officials of the court, the criminal department of Shangshu Su took the initiative to resign because of the misjudgment, the killing of the Puyang Palace, the framing of the frame, has forced the loyal people of the court to a dead end, the situation in the capital is out of control, only the power of Qin Cao alone can not keep all the loyal ministers and righteous people, Puyang Palace will lay the huge net unreservedly scattered, pour all the energy it has, at the cost of bloodshed, only one step away from the usurpation of the court。

After the bloody eradication of those opposing ministers, on this day, the Puyang Palace will capture the palace by even more brutal means! An urgent letter came, with only a few words on it: The Puyang army is assembled.

In front of the gate of the palace, the Puyang army was assembled, surrounded by the gates of the palace, overnight, the Puyang army hidden in the capital quickly assembled to surround the imperial city, and the soldiers came to the city to abdicate, and the entire imperial city except for the palace has been occupied by the Puyang army, and at this time, the Han Tiance army of the Song marching army got a fake secret decree, which was not to let the Song marching army withdraw to defend the imperial city, but to let the Song marching army wage war against Gu Biluo's Tiance Mansion.

——Qi Shui——

"Report, Shu Tiance Army Gu Biluo asked General to meet in Hanting!"

Song Xingjun was hesitating, a soldier came to report, the two soldiers confronted, Gu Biluo came at this time, he wanted to persuade, but Gu Biluo came in person, what was the intention, Song Xingjun said in a deep voice: "Come here, go to Hanting!"

Song Xingjun took his soldiers to the Han Pavilion, in the Han Pavilion, Gu Biluo only took a few soldiers, Song Xingjun stopped to observe for a while, and then entered the Han Pavilion, looking at Gu Biluo standing in the Han Pavilion, he sighed with emotion in his heart, sank down the mood of remembrance, and paused: "Biluo, I never thought that I would meet you in such a situation." ”

Gu Biluo turned around and sighed lightly, "I'm not not." ”

Song Xingjun's face changed, and he said: "If you are here to persuade me today, then you don't need to bother much, Shen Feng is rebelling, why did you commit such a rebellious thing with him, have you forgotten how Uncle Qu died?"

At this time, Qu Chuxian walked out from behind.

Song Xingjun exclaimed: "This-Uncle Qu, aren't you already?"

Qu Chuxian said: "I'll talk about this later, marching, did your father take the emperor's edict to order you to start a war with Shu Tiance Mansion!"

Song Xingjun suppressed his doubts and frowned: "How do you know, could it be-"

"There are no spies under your army, just because Tiance Mansion has been staring at your father, Song Zhiqiu!" Qu Chuxian said: "I guess you also have doubts in your heart, why didn't the emperor order you to withdraw your troops and rush back to the imperial city, but ordered you to start a war with Tiance Mansion." ”

Song Xingjun said: "Shu Tiance Mansion and Puyang Palace are both traitors, what's wrong with the emperor ordering you to attack Shu Tiance Mansion?!"

Gu Biluo said sternly: "No, it's not right at all, this secret decree is not from the mouth of the emperor, brother may wish to think about it, now that the palace has been surrounded by Puyang Palace, and the entire imperial city is under the control of Puyang Palace, how can the emperor send someone to pass on the secret decree!"

This is exactly what Song Xingjun doubted, but at this time, Shu Tiance Mansion was a rebel, and Song Xingjun also had to doubt Gu Biluo's motives, "The siege of the imperial city is not a matter of one day, this secret decree may already be on the way, Biluo, if you want to persuade me, you don't have to bewitch the people here!"

"My brother doesn't have my words, so I have to let you see this. Gu Biluo sighed and took out some envelopes from his hands, the names on the envelopes were all Huangshi, and each letter had a negative code.

Seeing the code, Song Xingjun was startled, he had entered his father's study, and he also saw such a strange envelope, which was also printed on his father's chest, Song Xingjun hesitated for a moment, picked up the envelope and opened it.

Gu Biluo said heavily: "Your father is a disciple of the old man Baishi of Tianfu, and the old man Baishi is a spy lurking in the imperial court and Puyang Palace, the old man Baishi uses it between the imperial court, Tianfu and Puyang Palace, so that Dahua continues to fight internal in vain and tries to mess with my Dahua, Shen Feng is precisely because he discovered the conspiracy of the old man Baishi, so he wants to stop this civil strife!

Song Xingjun looked at the letter in front of him, his expression changed drastically, he believed it, he had doubts at first, and now he believed it, how could he not have doubted it, otherwise he would not have entered his father's study several times to investigate.

Gu Biluo held up a letter and said: "Do you remember the Western Expedition, the old man Baishi planned a war between Puyang Palace, Manichaeism, and the imperial court, but that war came out of nowhere and destroyed the conspiracy of the old man Baishi, and then it was an internal struggle between the Tiance Mansion, the imperial court and the Puyang Palace. ”

"And this time, he repeated his old tricks, and falsely passed on the secret decree to let the Han Tiance Mansion and the Shu Tiance Mansion start a war, no matter which side wins, it will be a disaster for our dynasty, not to mention that the Puyang army has been bloodbathing the capital. ”

Song Xingjun sat in the pavilion, closed his eyes and pondered her words, and after a long time, he suddenly frowned and said, "Since you can find these letters, you must know who the old man Baishi is, then who is he!"

At this point, Song Xingjun still had some suspicions, he was right, these letters were forged by Uncle Shu, and they were Gu Biluo's tactics, and that mark was the only gain from Shen Feng sending someone to investigate Song Zhiqiu, Gu Biluo's heart froze, but there was no panic on his face, and he said calmly: "Among the people who came to pass the secret decree today, in addition to Uncle Song, is there a eunuch?"

Song Xingjun was stunned and said, "Yes!"

Gu Biluo said categorically: "That's the old man Baishi!"

Song Xingjun frowned and said, "You still haven't told who the old man Baishi is!"

At this time, a soldier hurriedly ran over and handed a small note to Gu Biluo, Gu Biluo opened it and looked at it, his face gradually showed a hint of joy, raised his head and said calmly: "This person has been lurking by the emperor's side for decades, and knows almost everything in the world. ”

Song Xingjun said in a deep voice: "Who!"

Gu Biluo said with a solemn expression: "Gonggong Li!"

Gonggong Li, the emperor's confidant.

——Beijing——

The stopped wind and snow began to storm again at this time, and his body obviously felt cold, but his heart couldn't help but get hot, Shen Feng gently pushed open the door and went out, and the disciples of Tianfu prepared their horses early, and rode the horses to the direction of the palace.

Along the road, there are untidy blood marks, the earth-shattering shouts of killing are endless, for a hundred years, this is almost an unprecedented riot in the capital, before this, it has been quiet for a long time. From this point of view, the emperor is right to forbear Puyang Palace, if the emperor starts a war in Puyang Palace early, then more innocent people will die in the capital.

At this time, he is not going to the palace, but to go to the empty Yuefu, Yuefu has always been the blind spot of the Tianfu scouts, the fast horse came to Yuefu, Yuefu seemed very quiet at this time, pushed the door in, the old man had been waiting for a long time.

"You're here, Yuefu and Puyang Ce, and the ink painting have not changed at all when they left, you can go in and have a look, or you can find something. "The old man is drunk with vocal music, although he is in his prime, but he looks only in his forties," in this case, you are still strolling around, you are really a hero out of a teenager. ”

"It seems that my aunt praised me in front of my mother-in-law, whether I am a hero or not is difficult to say for the time being, if history stays at this moment, I will definitely be scolded to death by the world. Shen Feng smiled and said, "Mother-in-law, my inner son Qinyin is also fond of vocal music, you can play with your aunt and inner son another day." ”

The old man smiled lightly: "This is also the wish of the old body. ”

Slowly detoured into the stage, looking at the stage in front of him, as if he saw the life of Pu Yangce and ink painting, without hesitation, turned over and jumped on the stage, and lingered on the stage for a long time with his eyes closed, before turning from one side to the back of the stage.

There are curtains in the narrow passage, Shen Feng turned around and asked the old man for a candle, and then slowly walked in, the candle flame reflected those curtains, only to see that the curtains were a Danqing painting, the painting skills have reached the peak, and the characters on the painting scene are like floating in front of them.

Shuttle in from the Danqing painting, came to a dark room, this is the place where the ink painting and Pu Yangce makeup, walked to the bronze mirror, under the reflection of the candlelight, it looked like a terrifying ghost, raised the candlelight, and suddenly saw a mask hanging on the wall, the mask was painted with strange patterns, which looked eerie and terrifying.

Why did Pu Yangce and Mo Hua have makeup on their faces, and they also wore masks - there were many doubts in their hearts, outside the Puyang army was approaching the palace, and he had no waves, but being behind the scenes of the Yuefu stage made him feel like a fish in his throat.

For the subordinate, indulge in the things that have passed and cannot extricate themselves, for the middle of the people, tired of dealing with what is happening in front of them, for the master, do not worry about what is happening in front of him, because of the future things, the most worried thing in his heart is nothing more than the ink painting and Pu Yangce never showed the hole card, this hole card must be slight, quiet, difficult to find.

What exactly?

Holding a candle close to the wall, reaching out to touch it, but found that the original wall was made of paper, the wall was wrapped in a Danqing painting, and in the middle was a door, carefully pushed open the paper door, for fear that the candle would burn the paper, behind the paper door is also a room, holding a candle to come in, the candlelight will illuminate the room, look around along the candlelight, and the room is impressively displayed in the paper figures.

It's even more eerie.

Carrying the candle flame past, the face of a paper person with different identities, as if it has become a small world, there are some candlesticks next to it, one by one the candlesticks are lit, the square candlelight will illuminate the room, the paper people constitute a colorful world, this is the world of Puyang Ce and ink painting.

"Blood—"

A bloodstain caught his attention, the bloodstain condensed together, on it was a paper piercing man, there was a gap in the lower jaw of the paper piercing man, it seemed that the blood was dripping from the lower jaw, and he seemed to think of something in his heart, stretched out and slowly stroked the paper piercing man, tearing the paper from the lower jaw, and it turned out to be a bloody human face in his eyes.

"This—this—" Shen Feng stood stunned and muttered to himself, "Ink painting—Puyang Ce—I don't need to know who you are anymore!"