In the north of the second city in the south, there is a small courtyard with red walls and brown tiles. Against the backdrop of the surrounding tall gate buildings, this small courtyard looks depressed and lonely.

Two rows of tall pines and cypresses were planted against the courtyard wall, and although they were now dead, the yellow leaves still hung firmly on the branches, dense and luxuriant, as if they could be revived immediately after a sip of water.

Two rows of pines and cypresses block most of the light in the courtyard, making the small courtyard even if the sun is dazzling at noon, it is a faintly dim and dim scene, giving people a feeling of oppression.

The people around, whenever they pass by in front of the door and behind the house of the small courtyard, will always subconsciously speed up their pace, for fear that they will be contaminated with bad luck if they walk slowly. Because according to local customs, pines and cypresses cannot be planted in the yard, and these things are only planted in the cemetery.

There are many rich and powerful families around, although they have a lot of complaints about the pines and cypresses in the courtyard, they don't dare to blame in front of the owner of the courtyard, even if they complain in front of them, because the owner of the courtyard is something they can't afford to provoke.

Wei Ziyan, Duke of Wei, was the youngest son of the emperor of the previous dynasty.

When Emperor Su led a large army to break through the gate of the imperial capital of the Great Wei Kingdom, he had just turned 16 years old, with a dignified appearance, excellent intelligence, and the reputation of the living Duke of Zhou.

Zhou Gong was a great sage three hundred years ago, and his life was peerless, leaving countless legendary stories for the world to talk about.

However, when the banner of the Su character fluttered under the towering city wall of the imperial capital, it was he who led his five hundred guards to raid the city gate army by patrolling the city, opened the city gate and put the Su iron cavalry into the imperial city.

The Wei dynasty collapsed, and the royal family was slaughtered, leaving him alone. He naturally became the biggest sinner of the Wei Dynasty, he was nailed to the pillar of shame in the history of the Great Wei Dynasty, poked and scolded by countless old ministers of the dynasty, and was even spit on the street when he walked on the street.

However, from beginning to end, he didn't stand up to explain a word, and only said one sentence on the day when Emperor Su ascended the throne and rewarded meritorious deeds, he was going to Yancheng for the rest of his life.

Yancheng is an important place for soldiers in the south, and he is going to go there with a former dynasty's widow, who knows if he has another purpose, so he was strongly opposed by many new ministers and generals at that time, saying that he was born anti-bone, cold-blooded and vicious, and even his own relatives dared to rebel, and he was not sure that one day his wings would be stiff and he would raise a rebellion.

These remarks can be described as murderous, but Wei Ziyan's expression was flat, and he didn't blink his eyelids from beginning to end.

Emperor Su was a broad-minded person, I don't know whether he believed that Wei Ziyan would not rebel, or he was not afraid of Wei Ziyan's rebellion, and he overrode public opinion, not only approved Wei Ziyan's request to go to Yancheng, but also conferred on him the title of a duke.

After that, Wei Ziyan went south with Zhang's Butcher's Zhang Jiajun and made great contributions in the battle to recapture Yancheng. Emperor Su learned that after the Emperor Longyan was happy, he posthumously sealed a retirement with the country in front of the title of the duke of the other country. That is to say, as long as the Su dynasty is not destroyed, his Duke of Wei Ziyan can be passed down from generation to generation.

However, Wei Ziyan just laughed it off.

He did not continue the southern expedition with Butcher Zhang, but stayed in Yancheng, chose such a small courtyard, and lived for so many years.

I don't know if it is to make Emperor Su and his ministers and generals completely reassured, Wei Ziyan has never married, nor has he adopted a son and a half daughter, let alone recruited doormen and guards, etc., just playing with flowers and plants and listening to small songs all day long, and when he is interested, he will pick up the erhu to take a section or two, and he can also hum a few songs.

In the first two years, several slaves who were responsible for serving him died of old age one after another, and these servants were all rewarded when Emperor Su posthumously awarded him the title of retiring with the country, and they were all ordinary people who didn't know how to cultivate, and they should just be a simple reward, and there was no meaning of monitoring, because if you want to monitor him, you have to have considerable cultivation to be able to do it.

After decades of getting along, he formed a deep relationship with these servants, so after everyone died, he bought a good coffin, and did not send them to the cemetery for burial, but buried them directly under the pine and cypress trees in the courtyard.

Emperor Su seems to have forgotten his existence, did not reward new servants, and did not spend money to buy new servants, and lived alone for the past two years. Eat, drink, sleep, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, all by yourself, if you don't know his true identity, you will only meet him on the road as an old man from a poor farmer.

By noon, the sun of early May was already as hot as summer.

Wei Ziyan warmed up the leftover rice porridge in the morning, and ate two bowls of pickles cut in the morning. In the past, he loved to chew a few broad beans, but in the past two years, he has lost several teeth, and he stopped buying them when he saw that he was weak.

After eating, he washed the dishes, chopsticks and porridge pots, and then walked around the yard twice with his hands behind his back to eliminate food, and then opened all the doors and windows to let the sunlight shine in, and muttered to himself: "Let the sun be full of your grievances, save your grievances from accumulating for a long time, and bring disaster to the world." Don't worry, I don't have long to live, and I'll go over there soon to make amends to you. When the time comes, whether it is killing or chopping, listen to it. ”

If a living person comes to the courtyard at this time, when he sees the scene in one room after another, he will be frightened to the point that his scalp will tingle, and the cold air will blow on his back spine. I saw that every room was full of spiritual seats, and at a glance, there were thousands of rooms. With the pine and cypress trees in the yard, it is really a gloomy atmosphere.

These spiritual positions are not others, they are the ancestors of his Wei family.

However, on the ground in front of the incense table where the spiritual seat is enshrined in the main hall, there is a spiritual table that is upside down on the ground facing the incense table, and it looks as if it is kneeling on the ground.

If you turn this spiritual position over, you will see that the name engraved on it is Wei Ziyan's pro-Laozi, the last emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, and Wei Renen, the fifth emperor of Wei.

Obviously, Wei Ziyan hated his pro-Lao Tzu deeply, so much so that he opened the city gate with his own hands, let the enemy army enter the city and seize his Lao Tzu's throne, and let his spiritual seat kneel for decades after his death.

His hatred for Wei Renen can be seen to be in his bones.

"The seniors can sleep full of energy in front of these spiritual positions every night, which is really admirable to the younger generations. "Suddenly a voice sounded in the shade of a tree in the southeast corner of the courtyard, and if you didn't open your eyes and look closely, you wouldn't be able to see anyone there.

Wei Ziyan held his hands behind his back, looked at the tablet of the Wei ancestor in the main hall with sad eyes, and was not frightened by the sudden sound, and did not even raise his eyelids, as if he had long known that there was an uninvited guest in the courtyard.

He sighed and said, "If I can sleep full of energy every day, how can my hair be so pale, how can my strong teeth fall out, and how can my body gradually become rickety?"

"Senior, you are already seventy years old this year, and what you said are normal signs of aging. Could it be that you still want to have a beautiful face forever, and you will not be young?" The person in the shadow of the tree sneered, listening to the tone of his voice, his attitude towards Wei Ziyan was not friendly.

"Isn't that a monster? No, these ancestors and ancestors are in a hurry for me to go down and confess their sins, they have been waiting for them for fifty-eight years, and they can't delay it any longer. Wei Ziyan shook his head and smiled.

"Senior, Qi Wuwei sent 10,000 elites to Baihuang Mountain. The person in the shadow of the tree didn't seem to want to talk to Wei Ziyan anymore, so he changed the subject.

"I heard about it when I went out for a walk in the morning. Wei Ziyan nodded and said, "It is said that the second prince of the City Lord's Mansion was attacked by a big tooth dog when he was on patrol, and Qi Wuwei was anxious to save his son?"

"Yes. ”

"Let me ask again, does the big tooth dog have anything to do with your master?" Wei Ziyan's tone suddenly turned cold.

"Nope. ”

"Hopefully not. What are you doing here?" Wei Ziyan asked.

"My master wants his predecessors to go to Baihuang Mountain. ”

Wei Ziyan: "What are you going to do in Baihuang Mountain?"

"Kill. ”

"Kill whom?"

Qi Changkong. ”

Wei Ziyan frowned, and after a while, he spoke, "Is she okay?"

"The host was nice and missed the seniors very much. ”

"Good. ”

"Senior agreed?"

"Yes. ”

"Then I wish my seniors success in advance. The juniors said goodbye. ”

"Wait. ”

"Something happened to the seniors?"

"You've stood on someone's grave for so long, don't you say sorry before you leave?"

"It's just a lowly servant, do you think the seniors think he can afford an apology from the juniors?"

"Bearable. Wei Ziyan said in a flat voice.

"He can't stand it!" said the man in the shadow of the tree, whose tone was suddenly cold, word by word.

Bang!

However, as soon as he finished speaking, he fell to his knees, and his whole knee fell directly into the ground, and then his head slammed into the ground, knocking and knocking, and kowtowing three times in a row against the small grave.

"What's the matter?, can you afford it?" Wei Ziyan asked with a faint smile.