It's another year of cold time, Weiyang Lake, everything is bleak, the shadows are sparse, the pale lake reflects the gray sky, a few fishing boats are like tiny ink dotted on the vast lake, far and near, drifting and stopping, the sail mast moves with the wind, the shore is a withered scene, the willows are withered, the dense reeds are dry, the wind is blowing, such as hearing the hoarse crying, the sound is like complaining......

Between heaven and earth, a figure walked alone, in a green shirt and cloth, a plain cloak, carrying a long bamboo pole on his shoulder, and a bamboo tube tied to the end of the bamboo pole.

Yin Jiheng sat by the lake with a thick brocade in his arms, holding a fishing rod in his hand, but his eyes were closed, sitting there motionless, as if he was concentrated.

Beside him stood the eldest son Yin Chengyuan and the horse steward of the Yin Mansion, all of whom were silently guarding Yin Jiheng's side with bated breath, looking worried.

Gu Qingxuan walked up to them, put down the fishing rod and fishing tube, and was about to greet Yin Jiheng. Before he could say anything, Yin Jiheng, who hadn't raised his eyes, spoke first, "Brother Gu Xian, are you ......here?"

Gu Qingxuan looked at Yin Jiheng and said, "Yes, Gu has seen the Prime Minister." ”

Yin Jiheng slowly opened his eyes, his gaze was blank, he only looked at the turbid lake, and said, "It's good to come...... Cheng Yuan, you go first, it's rare to be idle, for my father to fish with Brother Gu Xian, don't disturb. ”

Yin Chengyuan glanced at Gu Qingxuan, who looked unpredictable, with some unease, and hesitated for a while before responding: "Yes, father......"

After they left, only Yin Jiheng and Gu Qingxuan were left on the stone platform by the lake.

After a year, they met here again to fish in the lake. Gu Qingxuan tied the fishing line, hooked, and baited, and the action was rusty, and it took a while to complete.

Yin Jiheng glanced at it and laughed: "A year has passed, and Brother Gu Xian's fishing skills have not made some progress?"

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, Gu is really difficult to be good at this. Gu Qingxuan smiled and did it side by side with him, "I wonder if the Prime Minister's chess skills have improved?"

Yin Jiheng nodded with satisfaction and said, "This year, thanks to Brother Gu Xian's teaching, the old man's chess skills have indeed improved, and I want to ask Brother Xian for advice one day and learn from each other......

Gu Qingxuan stretched out his hand and patted him on the back to help him calm down, looked at the cold water of a lake, smiled, and said, "It's a pity that there is no chance." ”

His hand was still on Yin Jiheng's shoulder, and he finally slapped it heavily, Yin Jiheng's whole body trembled violently, and then, there was a sound of grass and trees shaking behind him.

Suddenly, the atmosphere changed suddenly, and Yin Jiheng stared at Gu Qingxuan with bloodshot eyes, "What do you mean?"

Gu Qingxuan withdrew his hand, only glanced at the dense reeds behind him, and then turned his head to look at Yin Jiheng: "Do you still want to pretend, Lord Prime Minister? Is it interesting? You and I both know that we have come to a dead end, and Lord Prime Minister will never leave Gu Mou in the world to stir up trouble and stir up the situation, right?"

A hint of smugness flashed on Yin Jiheng's face, and he said with a smile: "Brother Gu Xian, what's wrong with you? Are you scared? Since you can see it so clearly, we really don't have to pretend anymore." ”

"Prime Minister, don't you want to ask Gu?" Gu Qingxuan put down his fishing rod and sat beside him casually, confident and fearless.

Yin Jiheng looked at him with disdain, and only said, "Brother Gu Xian, are you going to confess everything to the old man?"

Gu Qingxuan smiled sideways, looked at Yin Jiheng calmly and gently, and even had some pity, "Yes, Gu has been deceiving the Prime Minister for a long time, and I really can't bear it." ”

"Actually, from the very beginning, you Gu Qingxuan didn't plan to really cooperate with the Yin family, but just used the old man, didn't you?" Yin Jiheng asked.

Gu Qingxuan replied: "Each other." You said that the supreme position of power was willing to hunt with my Gu family, but you also understood that the supreme position was destined to belong to only one person, and how could you defend it together? So after you sat on the position of prime minister, there was not a moment when you were not on guard against me, openly and secretly preventing my children from being promoted to the official position and preventing me Gu Qingxuan from holding heavy power, which really made us suffer a lot...... But we endure, we go along with it, do you understand why?"

Yin Jiheng chuckled lightly and said: "Because you are waiting, you discovered the secret of the Immortal Sect and the Yin family, and you began to plot to bring down me Yin Jiheng, you want to wait until the best time to drive the old man crazy first and expose the crimes committed by the old man back then, for this reason, you did not hesitate to make Chang'an City in danger and panicked, so ruthless Gu Qingxuan, you did control my death hole, and it was when I had no time to take care of it." To be honest, if it weren't for my son finding out about you, it would be difficult for me to prevent you from doing this, and maybe you would have succeeded, but you didn't expect that the old man would have planned after suspecting your connection with the Immortal Sect...... Just waiting for you to show yourself. ”

Seeing that he looked a little proud, Gu Qingxuan stopped smiling, stood up, dusted off the soil on his body, looked at the fishing boat in the lake with his hands, frowned slightly, and said: "Prime Minister, you are wrong, what I am waiting for is not the best time to use the Immortal Sect, but when your utilization value is exhausted, even if there is no Immortal Sect, Gu Mou has other tricks to make the Prime Minister, you can't guard against it, you know, Gu Mou can do it." ”

Yin Jiheng was slightly stunned, his face turned blue, and he guessed coldly: "Are you waiting for the business reform?"

"Yes. Gu Qingxuan's direct confession: "If the Prime Minister thinks that Gu will only eliminate dissidents and chase power, then you are underestimating someone." From Lu Xiangguo to you Prime Minister Yin, what Gu cares about most is not your success or failure, life or death, but the big strategy I want to plan, Lu Yuanzhi is a stumbling block, so it must be eradicated first, and you ......"

He looked directly at Yin Jiheng's blood-red eyes full of hatred, slowly squatted down, supported the ground on one knee, got very close, condescendingly opposite Yin Jiheng, and turned his eyes, those eyes became as fierce and wild as a wolf.

“…… Just a stepping stone. I will give you the big policy of business reform, let you be the master of the implementation, and let you be in the limelight, because you are indeed the best person to open up a new situation, your Yin family's status in Chang'an City is much higher than that of the Lu family, and your asset business makes the biggest businessmen in Chang'an City ashamed of themselves, these are the most favorable conditions. The position of a prime minister, let you give up these hands, your value will be used up half, greedy like you, want to save Daqi through business reform, want to go down in history, and pay a great price for it. From the "Reward Order" to the "Rectification of Officials and Businessmen", and then to the "Business Reform Policy", if these are led by others, I am afraid they can die thousands of times, and only you Yin Jiheng can implement it so far and can be successfully carried out, this is all your value, and it is also the reason why Gu Mou is willing to contribute to the strategy and plan to let you show your strength. ”

"Prime Minister, in fact, you already know this, you understand that Gu is using you, but you are willing to be used, aren't you also waiting for Gu Mou's use value to be exhausted?

Yin Jiheng was stunned for a while, and laughed: "You and I know each other so well, Brother Gu Xian, your ambition and scheming are really beyond the reach of the old man, oh, there is one more, ruthless, the old man can't compare with you......"

"Yes. Gu Qingxuan also smiled, got up frankly, and looked at the lake again, a fishing boat was hovering not far from them, just when Yin Jiheng was focusing all his attention on Gu Qingxuan, it was already so close.

"Your Excellency, do you know what the market price of the fish you are fishing for? Do you know how many loads of grain the peasants in Chang'an City will receive this year, and how much tax they will have to pay? The government and businessmen have made huge profits, and the people have been suffering for a long time...... Let's take these fishermen as an example, during the winter fishing season, they get up earlier than those of us who are about to catch up with the court, and they set out with their families to cast nets on this lake, and they want to send the fish they catch to the market to sell before sunrise, so hard for a spring and autumn, they can earn less than ten taels of silver, and these silver are their livelihood for a year, and their fishing boats are the fundamental ...... of their survival."

Seeing Gu Qingxuan's unpredictable appearance at this time, Yin Jiheng was a little inexplicable, and asked impatiently, "What do you mean by this?"

Gu Qingxuan glanced at him, did not reply to his words directly, but continued: "...... Unless someone gives them a hundred taels of silver and buys their fishing boat to use as a separate figure, then the fishermen will be able to change their current poverty......"

Yin Jiheng looked at the ship and guessed in his heart: "What is it for?"

Gu Qingxuan said: "For example, hide more than a dozen killers in the boat in preparation for assassination......"

He made a gesture of waving, and the ship sped up to speed toward them.

Yin Jiheng exclaimed: "Gu Qingxuan, you dare to assassinate the old man?"

Gu Qingxuan shook his head, "No, Gu just wants to protect himself, if he doesn't prepare this, the sergeant hidden in the reeds by the Prime Minister will definitely cut me with a thousand knives, isn't it?"

When he was at his weakest, being alone on the riverside with Gu Qingxuan, who had the heart of a wild wolf, wasn't this the best time for Gu Qingxuan to kill him?

He gave Gu Qingxuan such an opportunity, and pretended to be vigilant-this morning he let people reveal the news of his transfer of sergeants from the patrol battalion to Gu Qingxuan, revealing to him that he wanted to kill him, Gu Qingxuan, who came to the appointment, naturally would not forget to guard and fight back-

Luring Gu Qingxuan to fight back was his biggest goal.

In this way, he could lure out the killers used by the Gu family and wipe them out.

As long as they appeared, dozens of patrol battalion masters would have legitimate reasons and motives to kill Gu Qingxuan and bring them to justice, thus exposing the layers of conspiracy planned by the Gu family.

Yin Jiheng was still ruthless to himself once, which coincided with his son Yin Qixiu's idea - using himself as bait.

Gu Qingxuan confessed his preparations to him, and Yin Jiheng pretended to be nervous.

One step is still missing, which is to let the killers on the ship show up before the patrol battalion masters make a move......

"Gu Qingxuan, you traitor, don't you want to harm me!"

Yin Jiheng's face was full of anger, he was horrified, and suddenly pushed Gu Qingxuan with a force.

"Bang!" There was a sound of water, and Gu Qingxuan fell into the lake, struggling for help.

And the ship, after he fell overboard, picked up speed and headed this way.

The people in the reeds were also alarmed, and several sergeants led by them stepped forward to visit, and they were about to save people, but they were stopped by Yin Jiheng.

These sergeants only knew that they were here to protect the prime minister today, and they didn't know Yin Jiheng's plans, and it was already shocking to see the prime minister personally pushing Lord Cheng Gu into the lake in the imperial history, and he stopped him from saving people, which was even more incomprehensible.

Gu Qingxuan floated and struggled in the cold water of the lake, "Save me, save me, the Prime Minister save me, how can the Prime Minister be like this...... Save me!"

The boat finally sailed closer, Yin Jiheng watched several big men jump out of the canopy, he was about to dodge and let the sergeants do it, but when he heard a few loud noises in the water, those big men just jumped into the water to rescue Gu Qingxuan.

When he looked back, there was nothing unusual about the fishing boat, there were no killers on board, only a few ordinary fishermen, and even women and children in between.

Gu Qingxuan was rescued by the fisherman and went ashore, he was soaking wet, trembling while spitting water, and he really lost half his life.

The two fishermen who crawled out of the water were also so cold that they shivered, they didn't know anything about the situation, they only witnessed what had just happened, and at this time, they relaxed a little, and looked at Yin Jiheng's eyes with great fear......

Those sergeants were also inexplicable, knowing that they might be involved in some kind of secret fight, and they couldn't help but panic.

Yin Jiheng was stunned, there was a moment of helplessness, followed by overwhelming frustration......

Gu Qingxuan's face turned blue from the cold, his lips turned white, and he thanked the fisherman.

"Gu Qingxuan......" Looking at the calm and waveless surface of the lake, Yin Ji couldn't slow down for a long time.

Suddenly, he was furious, his face was hideous, he pointed at Gu Qingxuan, stomped his feet and shouted: "You lie to me! Gu Qingxuan, you dare to fool the old man like this! What is your purpose! Where is your killer and your assassin hiding? Gu Qingxuan! You traitor!"

Gu Qingxuan barely supported his body, looked at Yin Jiheng blankly, and said tremblingly: "Prime Minister, what are you talking about? What assassin? What killer? Gu doesn't know...... It was just ...... Prime Minister, what are you talking about?"

Yin Chengyuan and Ma Bo, who had been watching the situation in the woods, rushed over, and at this time, Yin Jiheng was stimulated again, and became angry uncontrollably, if they hadn't come to stop them in time, I am afraid they would have pounced on Gu Qingxuan.

When the fishermen heard that they were all high-ranking officials, they were so frightened that they slipped back to their own boats.

Seeing that they were leaving, Yin Jiheng became even more frantic and shouted: "Cheng Yuan! Catch them! Go quickly! Arrest them back to the government for interrogation! There must be fraud in this!"

In fact, his thoughts were right, but he looked completely out of his mind at this time, which made Yin Chengyuan at a loss for a while.

Gu Qingxuan stepped forward and said to Yin Chengyuan: "Son, the fishermen are innocent, why should they be wronged?"

Yin Chengyuan hugged Yin Jiheng and asked Gu Qingxuan, "What the hell is going on?"

Gu Qingxuan shook the water on his clothes, looking very helpless, "Just now, Gu Mou and the Prime Minister are fishing and chatting here, they were all fine, but when they saw this fishing boat coming over, the adult suddenly said that the immortal sect or something, saying that he saw the assassin, Gu Mou had to persuade him that it was a delusion, but who would think, my lord...... Suddenly pushed Gu into the water...... Luckily, there were fishermen who came to the rescue......"

Of course, Yin Chengyuan would not fully believe his words, and Yin Jiheng's out-of-control appearance really made him feel uncertain.

When Gu Qingxuan explained, Yin Jiheng was furious and roared at Gu Qingxuan: "You are talking nonsense! Gu Qingxuan, you are full of nonsense! Cheng Yuan don't believe him! Don't believe him! He wants to be his father's life! He has been using our Yin family! He is a heinous traitor!"

"Father, calm down!" Yin Chengyuan saw some clues from the attitudes of the two parties, he tried to calm Yin Jiheng's emotions, but Yin Jiheng became more and more excited.

On the contrary, it is Gu Qingxuan, who is becoming more and more calm, and more and more thinking about his own business.

The most maddening thing is not the fierce attacks on each other, but the fact that you throw a punch with all your might, and in the end you only touch the soft cotton ball, and you shout hoarsely, but you don't hear a single echo......

Gu Qingxuan looked at him, wiped the water on his face, and smiled helplessly: "Prime Minister, calm down." ”

"Kill him!" Yin Jiheng glared at Gu Qingxuan. shouted such a voice, and the tone was not fierce but desperate, and the despair was terrifying.

He gave the order, and gave the order to the sergeants: "This prime minister orders you, kill him!"

Those sergeants didn't know whether to listen or not, and a few impulsive ones obviously wanted to do it, but Yin Chengyuan stopped them. He still kept his senses, knowing that there was no legitimate reason to attack Gu Qingxuan at this time.

Gu Qingxuan looked at Yin Chengyuan's gaze with a little appreciation, and then said in an extremely helpless tone: "Childe, let's take the adults back to rest quickly, this situation is getting more and more serious, you have to take care of it...... Gu Mou will not mind today's matter, Gu Mou understands that Prime Minister Yin is not intentional...... Eh, when you get older, you encounter these things again...... People are inevitably confused......"

"Is this your purpose?" Yin Chengyuan glanced at him with deep disgust, and suddenly this sentence came out.

Gu Qingxuan shook his head and said nothing, and walked towards Yin Jiheng, although he was furious, his madness became more and more obvious.

A carriage came from the shore of the lake, it was Gu Qinghuan, and he came to pick up Gu Qingxuan back.

When Yin Chengyuan saw him, he knew that what he guessed was right, Gu Qingxuan arranged people, but they were only in a place they couldn't see, and they wouldn't be easily lured out......

This one, is this the result?

What did Gu Qingxuan want?

Deep worries haunted Yin Chengyuan's heart, even Yin Jiheng couldn't see through such a Gu Qingxuan in front of him, let alone him?

Gu Qingxuan looked directly at Yin Jiheng's crazy eyes, the two were opposed, one was drenched, the other was richly dressed, but one was calm and calm, and the other was angry and even more embarrassed.

looked at each other and was silent for a long time, until the furious murderous aura in Yin Jiheng's eyes dissipated, he spoke: "The lower official retired, the prime minister ......"

Bow with a salute: "Take care." ”

Gu Qingxuan and Gu Qinghuan left the shore of Weiyang Lake, leaving too many questions and anger in the hearts of the Yin family's father and son.

However, after a day, everything became clear.