Chapter 238: Gongsun Shu's Choice
Although Rong Sleeping Crane in Western Xinjiang was not in a panic, Gongsun Shu of Chang'an was in deep hesitation.
"Sea Lord, although the rumors are ill-intentioned, the things sent over two days ago also prove that there may not be no reason!" Luan Yusi, one of his confidants, gritted his teeth and said, "Although the old sea lord does not regard the county king as his own, he finally gave him the identity of his righteous son, and agreed to let him go to that person's place to study! If it weren't for this, how could he have today? I don't want him to take revenge and do this to the old sea lord......
"You calm down!" Another henchman, Kang Gui, frowned and interrupted dissatisfiedly, "You know that the rumors are ill-intentioned, why don't you want the so-called evidence to be true or false?" King Gaomi and the Meng clan are both powerful ministers who cover the sky with one hand, and with their power, the perjury they have made, and we are reckless people, so we can tell the difference?"
"The Meng family is also okay, King Gaomi is the biological father of the county king, but he also fell into the trap to deduct the charge of 'killing his father' on the head of the county king, which can be imagined!"
"Tiger poison doesn't eat children!"
"What kind of good thing can such a prince be!"
"This is clearly because he is afraid that the king of the county will replace him after he sits big, so he will do whatever it takes!"
"If we believe in his evil, it's a joke!"
Luan Yusi said angrily: "What benefits did Mizhen give you, you want to speak for him like this?!"
"Don't you bite people like mad dogs, okay?" Kang Gui said angrily, "I'm speaking for the king of the county? I'm thinking about the sea lord and all of us! The king of Mizhen County has finally survived the war in the western frontier, and now it is the time when his wings are about to be full, and he is about to flourish, and we people will all be from the dragon's glory in the future! A good future is ready-made, because some people are obviously uneasy and kind, they will bury themselves, are you stupid to death for eight lifetimes!"
Luan Yusi sneered and said: "So, just because Mi Zhen sees a future at this time, the death of the old sea lord doesn't matter to you?! It's just that you can forget the kindness of the old sea lord, but my surname Luan is not this kind of person who has no conscience! Even if you go to hug Mi Zhen's thigh, I, Luan Yusi, have to get to the bottom and seek justice for the old sea lord!!
Kang Gui shouted: "I see that you are simply drilling the tip of the horns! There are rumors and nonsense outside, saying that the county king does not know his life experience at all in the morning, so he is afraid that the old sea lord will suppress him when he is alive, so he can't allow the old sea lord to live! However, even if the county king never admits that he remembers the things before he was exiled to the tortoiseshell island, we people, looking at words and feelings, don't know that the county king has always remembered his life experience! In this case, as the nephew of the Son of Heaven, what else is there to be afraid of?!"
"On the contrary, the old sea lord is alive, with the old sea lord's wrist and eyesight, he can be more of a helper?!"
"If he always remembers his life experience, can he prove his innocence?!" Luan Yusi said coldly, "At this time, he has teamed up with the Meng clan to pit his Gaomi King, and he can count on such a biological father?!If the old sea lord is here, isn't the happiest person the one is the king of Gaomi? As long as the old sea lord is persuaded to go into battle together, his father and father-in-law will go into battle together, and he is afraid that Mizhen will not be anxious?!"
"Now that the old sea lord is gone, it is difficult for King Gaomi's father to support it alone, and Mizhen's Yue's family, for the future of the princess of the county, he indiscriminately pulls Mizhen to the shelf, and relies on the old to sell the old and make trouble in the palace at every turn...... King Gaomi can't make a fuss about filial piety, so wouldn't it be logical to poke out this matter head-on?"
Kang Gui looked at him with strange eyes: "How much benefit did King Gaomi give you, and you want to spare no effort to pour dirty water on the king of the county? Not to mention anything else, let's just say how thrilling it was when the king of the county rescued the sea lord and Miss Gongzi? Just save a son, and assist the son to ascend to the position of the lord of the sea as an uncle, isn't everything up to him?!"
Luan Yusi scolded: "Your mother! You are the one who received the benefits of Mi Zhen, right? When Mi Zhen saved the three of the sea lord's father and son, Lao Tzu was trying his best to save his life from Han Pan's group of straight thieves, and he still cared about observing whether he pretended to be with the enemy. !"
"What's more, what proof is it that he saved the sea lord!"
"You must know that at that time, the old sea lord's brothers were still there, and they were all ambitious!"
"Mi Zhen is an outsider, if he only saves one son, how can the Gongsun clan let him be the master of the house as an outsider?!
"In that case, what black camp or tortoiseshell island has nothing to do with him, where did he come from?!"
"Only the sea lord is here, he is the only son of the old sea lord, and it is natural to inherit the throne!"
"Mi Zhen took the grace of saving his life, as well as brotherhood, didn't he let the sea lord obey him, and gave him all the Wuyi camp?!"
"What's the difference between this and Mi Zhen's own decision?"
"The most important thing is that he is extremely ambitious, and he is not satisfied with a mere tortoiseshell island!"
"The reason why the head of the Sheng family took a fancy to him as a son and became a son-in-law at this time is because he desperately saved the three fathers and sons of the sea lord, which is a very interpretation of the point of knowing the grace of retribution?!"
"Eighty percent Mizhen did that just to get into Sheng Lanci's eyes?!"
"Otherwise, after he saved the three sea lords, he escaped from the encirclement by luck, how could he be so coincidentally met by Sheng Lanci?!"
"Sheng Lanci, as the head of the Sheng family, one of the three powerful families in Nanfeng County, is busy with affairs, is it so easy to meet by chance?!"
"What's more, the heirs under the sea lord's knees are prosperous, and there are several who are better than Ying Dun Gongzi, except for the eldest prince who has always followed the old sea lord, several other outstanding sons, at that time, there were two who were closer to Mizhen than Ying Dun Gongzi, and they also called him for help, but he ignored all of them, and specially went to save Ying Dun Gongzi, not to mention, and later he would rather spend effort to save Miss Ying Jiang and a female streamer, rather than save a male heir for the sea lord!"
"What kind of intention is this?!"
"What are you doing now?" Kang Gui sneered, "When the county prince was about to come to Chang'an and bring the princess of the county to the tortoiseshell island to say goodbye, Ying Dungongzi planned to make a change, you didn't say that!"
Luan Yusi said coldly: "At that time, Lao Tzu didn't expect that the old sea lord was made by Mi Zhen! Otherwise, Lao Tzu could still let him come to Chang'an to take the exam safely, and he would have already sent him down to ask the old sea lord for his guilt!"
Kang Gui continued to sneer: "It's as if you want to deal with the king of the county, I don't know who put a good right path and doesn't take the right path and wants to be crooked, but if it wasn't for the sea lord to stop you, you would have almost been beaten to death by Gongsun Xi! Gongsun Xi's martial arts are not as good as the county king, do you want to send the county king down to see the old sea lord? If you really want to do that, I'm afraid that the grass on your grave will grow a few stubbles!"
Without waiting for Luan Yuhei, he said, "Oh, no, the people who cook at sea generally don't have graves!"
"Lao Tzu is blessed to see Gongsun Xi!" Luan Yusi was already full of anger, and when his old scars were revealed, he became more and more annoyed and angry, and shouted, "A little white face of unknown origin has been eating and drinking for so many years on the island, and he is not even allowed to touch it, why? Lao Tzu is not his own father, he deserves to be eaten and drunk!"
Kang Gui said coldly: "When has there ever been a person on Tortoiseshell Island who can eat and drink for nothing? Is it that as soon as the king of the county first came to the island, he had to be looked at differently by the sea lord, and became the righteous son of the Gongsun clan, didn't he start from hard labor? ! Gongsun Xi's errands at that time were even more onerous than those of the county king, and you gave him a bowl of water and a steamed bun? Later, he became the scholar of the county king, and that was the person of the county king! You still want to beat him, if it weren't for the county king to give the sea lord face, according to the temper of the county king, your eight hundred lives would not be enough!"
After a long time, Gongsun Shu, who listened to the big head, sighed and asked his henchman Shao Yan, who had not spoken: "What do you think about this matter?"
At this time, Luan Yusi and Kang Gui were also a little tired of arguing, and when they heard this, they both stopped their mouths and looked at Shao Yan.
Shao Yanren is as his name suggests, he is a taciturn person, his identity on Tortoiseshell Island is a bit special, and he is the most learned person except for the master and apprentice of Kairong Sleeping Crane and Huan Guanlan.
This is because his father is a down-and-out boy, because he has emptied his family funds after repeated attempts, and in a fit of anger, he went to sea to seek death, but he met a bandit, saw that he was literate, and got to the island to make an account office, and taught the children of the Gongsun clan to write by the way.
Because there are few people on the island who can read and write, and the old sea lord Gongsun Tu does not want his children to be blind, so he is very courteous to Shao Yan's father, who feels that living on Tortoiseshell Island is much more nourishing than on the shore, so he is determined to stay, and also married a daughter of Gongsun as his wife, and gave birth to several Shao Yan brothers.
However, in the previous raid where Gongsun Lao Haizhu was killed, Shao Yan's entire family, including his maternal grandfather, maternal grandmother, uncle, aunt and other cadres, all died cleanly, and he was the only one who survived.
Since then, he, who doesn't like to talk in the first place, has become more and more silent.
But also because his maternal grandfather and grandmother died, after Gongsun Shu inherited the position of sea lord, there were no close relatives of Shao Yan among the people who embarrassed the young sea lord, but because he had always stood firmly on Gongsun Shu's side, and the relationship between the two was cousins, he was more and more trusted and relied on by Gongsun Shu.
At this moment, he pondered for a while, and then slowly spoke: "What Yusi said to Agui makes sense, and the most important thing now is that we are not from a high background, our foundation is weak, and we don't know the truth of what happened back then." And in this matter, once the decision is wrong, the consequences are unimaginable: if the king of Mizhen County did not murder the old sea lord, we will listen to the rumors at this time, but the relatives and enemies will be happy;"
"If the king of the county is indeed the real murderer of the old sea lord...... Then if we miss this opportunity now, we are afraid that we have no hope of avenging the old sea lord!"
Luan Yu was anxious, and hurriedly said: "Everyone understands these truths, Ah Yan, tell me quickly, what is the truth of this matter? I don't think Mi Zhen is innocent! This kid will be repaid when he is young, how can he not hold a grudge against the old sea lord for treating him as good as a brave son?!"
The Yong son he said was Gongsun Yong, the righteous brother who was killed by Rong Sleeping Crane, and the one that Gongsun Lao Haizhu really regarded as a righteous son.
"The county king is indeed very good at holding grudges, but he is even more grateful!" Kang Gui retorted dissatisfiedly, "The others don't say it, just say that the county princess, when the county prince entered the Sheng family before, the county princess called an egg to pick a bone in the egg, and when she saw the sky, she asked the county king to get out of trouble, and it is said that every day she yelled to let the county princess get out! The county princess is also playing tricks on the county princess, not only is he not ruthless, but he even became a couple with the county princess, isn't it?"
Luan Yusi sneered: "How can it be the same between men and women, and between father and son? Besides, that world-famous rich girl, except for the one with a bad brain, who doesn't want to marry?! Not to mention that this princess of the county has only been married to the county king for a few days? Maybe she will be removed from the court by crossing the river and demolishing the bridge in the future?
Kang Gui said angrily: "You are simply messing around!"
"Aren't you?!" Luan Yusi shouted, "You ......"
"Enough!" Gongsun Shu interrupted distraughtly, "I'm going to make a noise!" Shao Yan, you continue!"
Shao Yan lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, as if he hadn't seen the quarrel between Luan Yusi and Kanggui at all, and after listening to Gongsun Shu's words, he said: "In fact, the most important thing now is not the truth or falsehood of the matter, but the choice: Sea Lord, there are no outsiders here at this time, and we still use the old name, so my subordinates, please say it sincerely, do you think that the truth of the old sea lord's death is important now, or is our future important?"
"After you choose between these two, you can decide what we do next!"