Guo Yangtian's figure was crumbling on horseback, as if it was about to fall. However, he has rich life experience, and the two changed hands, and he stabilized in an instant, looking at Yao Miaoyi's back coldly.

Who is she? Is it the rebel party of the Demon Sect lurking in the princes and nobles, or is it that the emperor sent secret agents to deliberately test his loyalty?

No way! I can't mess around until I get to the bottom of it. Over the years, so many winds and waves have come, and I'm still afraid that a little girl who has not dried up will not be successful?

Just thinking about it, Yao Miaoyi seemed to turn around inadvertently, smiled at Guo Yangtian, and pointed at him as a blade defiantly, and made a gesture to wipe his neck.

Guo Yangtian's cold eyes suddenly burst out with a touch of murderous intent.

That's what I want. Yao Miaoyi said to Zhu Shouqian: "Cousin, that Lord Guo is so powerful, maybe I will run around." ”

Zhu Shouqian glanced sideways, and happened to see Guo Yangtian's murderous eyes, he did not show weakness, and glared back like a tiger guarding the territory.

After all, Zhu Shouqian is the king of the county, Guo Yangtian didn't dare to make a mistake, and immediately lowered his eyes.

Zhu Shouqian and Yao Miaoyi walked side by side and said: "Up and down the government and the opposition, there are mostly sinister villains who praise the high and step on the low. This Guo Yangtian was originally a rebel of the Demon Sect, and his father saw that he abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, so he made an exception and appointed him as the deputy commander, in fact, this position should be Mao Xiang's turn. ”

"Guo Yangtian saw that you were a medical girl, and he may have contempt in his heart. In fact, when he faced Deng Ming and King Qin, he was courteous in every way, and the way he knelt and licked his bottom was really not as backbone as a dog. ”

Yao Miaoyi looked at the anger in Zhu Shouqian's eyes, and felt a faint pain in her heart, "In the past ten years, my cousin has secretly suffered a lot of grievances. ”

Zhu Shouqian did not deny it, and said: "Such a slut doesn't dare to do anything to me on the surface." The trick in the dark can't get into my eyes. Cousin, I have been crowned the king of the county, and the emperor has ordered the Ministry of Engineering to choose an address to supervise the construction of the Jingjiang palace in the capital, and I will also have my own fiefdom, mansion and guard army in the future, and I will not be subject to others as now. When the time comes...... I'll protect you. ”

Yao Miaoyi felt a warm current in her heart, she has been flying like a lonely goose in the past ten years, even in the face of her biological father, she dare not recognize each other, only Zhu Shouqian can be honest with each other, and she is the only person who can release the pressure and grievances in her heart.

"Cousin." Yao Miaoyi looked at Zhu Shouqian in a daze, a thousand words, and didn't know where to start.

Zhu Shouqian seemed to see what she was thinking, and smiled, "Okay, I know everything." God has mercy, leaving us two Xie family bloodlines, we all have to live well, only by surviving can we have the opportunity to help our grandfather's family clear their grievances. ”

When it comes to grievances, there happens to be a vast snow scene in front of me, and I can't help but touch the past. Yao Miaoyi, who was riding on the horse, clenched the stiff rope, and the coarse linen woven rope grinded away from the tiger's mouth between her fingers, marking blood marks one after another.

Yao Miaoyi muttered: "The people of my grandfather's family all hanged themselves in the ancestral hall, wearing white clothes, and there was a word of injustice written on their chests. Later, the assassins chased after me, and my mother, in order to protect me, broke her lumbar vertebrae, and was unable to move, so she committed suicide by lifting a hairpin. ”

"I still have nightmares about what it was like. The source of a qiē comes from the grandfather's betrayal of Emperor Hongwu and his refuge in Zhang Shicheng, if he finds evidence that his grandfather was wronged, the Xie family will rest in peace under Jiuquan. Cousin, you have also read the ledger found in Zhou Kui's secret room, and found that there is something strange in it? ”

Zhu Shouqian looked at Yao Miaoyi with pity, and shook his head helplessly, "I deliberately looked through the files of the previous uncle and Zhang Shicheng, judging from the handwriting and seals, it is indeed Zhang Shicheng's secret account, which shows that my grandfather did secretly have a private salt transaction with Zhang Shicheng." ”

Yao Miaoyi said: "I also inquired through the Duke of Wei and King Yan, in fact, the army and the people were short of salt at that time, in order to survive, many people secretly went to Zhang Shicheng to buy salt, this matter is not a secret, even the lord Zhu Yuanzhang later knew, he also opened one eye, closed one eye, he couldn't watch the soldiers fall because of the salt, and he didn't even have the strength to hold the weapon." It can be seen that selling illicit salt does not mean surrendering to Zhang Shicheng and betraying Emperor Hongwu. ”

Zhu Shouqian pondered for a moment and said: "The wealth is moving, if the amount is particularly huge, it is unknown if it is transferred to Zhang Shicheng's command. ”

Yao Miaoyi was puzzled, "Cousin, do you think your grandfather really betrayed Emperor Hongwu?" ”

Zhu Shouqian shook his head firmly, "No, no, no, at that time, my grandfather was the most trusted by Emperor Hongwu, and one of his two daughters married Emperor Hongwu's nephew.

One is married to the general Xu Da, and he has no son, what is the picture? Even if it is a mountain of gold and silver, it will not make my grandfather apostatize. I suspect that someone surrendered to Zhang Shicheng, and when his grandfather found out, he bit back, framed him, and the thief shouted to catch the thief! ”

Yao Miaoyi suddenly brightened up and said: "By the way, when Emperor Hongwu convicted his grandfather, his grandfather had not been traced, as if he had disappeared from the world, and there was no chance to refute it. Therefore, Emperor Hongwu was furious and beheaded the Xie family. My grandfather has not been found, could he have been killed by the man who really surrendered? ”

"He should have been killed." Zhu Shouqian's eyes were full of pain, and he said: "Grandfather's most painful thing is you and me, if he is still alive, no matter what, he will not sit idly by." ”

"Cousin, can you get more ledgers? If we look closely, we'll definitely be able to find clues. ”

The problem that had been bothering her for a long time had a new direction, Yao Miaoyi lifted her spirits and said: "I have already obtained the whereabouts of Zhang Shicheng's daughter Yongping County Lord, who is under house arrest in Xiaozhu in the middle of the lake in Bafutang, and is already pregnant. King Yan asked me to pretend to be a traitor to the Mingjiao and stabilize the county lord of Yongping. ”

Zhu Shouqian was not suspicious, and said: "This is also an opportunity, Zhang Shicheng's whole family is dead, there is only one Yongping County Lord, she should know a lot of secrets back then." It's just that everything is careful, King Yan is scheming and unfathomable, and he set up a series of plans to kill two birds with one stone, and the purpose is also to get words from the mouth of the county lord of Yongping, don't show your flaws. I still think it was before, being a medical girl Yao Miaoyi is freer than being the eldest lady of the Wei Mansion, Xu Feng, and it is as deep as the sea when she enters the Hou Gate. ”

Yao Miaoyi said: "Cousin, I know. It's just that the father is ...... I was very unwilling and said that I would compensate me. ”

Zhu Shouqian smiled sarcastically, "Don't believe a man's rhetoric, how can he compensate you?" He kept saying that his aunt was the true love of his life, but how many concubines did he take in at home? There are a room of concubines and concubines in the family, why didn't you think about your aunt when you hugged left and right? ”

"When my grandfather's whole family was in trouble, why didn't I see him pleading for mercy? Even when my father was slandered and rebelled, he just stood by and watched, how could he help my father's brother-in-law! Looking at the Xu family in the past ten years, only the second cousin Xu Zengshou still has a little conscience, often defends me and exposes me, and the rest of the Xu family, including your father, are all people who tend to be inflammatory. ”

"Cousin, don't trust anything, including your father."

Zhu Shouqian's words made Yao Miaoyi's guilt for her father lighten a lot, and she wanted to question Zhu Shouqian's questions in front of her father, but she is now Yao Miaoyi who is pretending to have amnesia, and she does not have a sufficient position to question her father.

Alas, it's complicated. Yao Miaoyi frowned deeply, Zhu Shouqian caught a glimpse of the blood marks on the tiger's mouth where she was holding the reins, and her fingers were stiff and white from the cold wind, so she took out her own handkerchief, carefully bandaged the bloody tiger's mouth, and wrapped it around the back of her hand to keep warm.

After wrapping it, Zhu Shouqian put her hands in her palms to warm up like she did when she was a child, "Cousin, do you remember when it snowed when you were a child, and we had snowball fights and played?" ”

Yao Miaoyi smiled: "Of course I remember, my mother didn't allow me to go out to play, saying that my hands and feet were frozen." It was you who snuck me out of the window to play. ”

Zhu Shouqian also smiled, "You had a small hand at that time, and the snow ball couldn't be thrown on me, so you wrapped small pebbles in the snow ball, and my forehead was smashed by you and bleed." ”

Yao Miaoyi looked ashamed, "My cousin is magnanimous, saying that he was injured in a fall, and his aunt and uncle beat you up and scolded you for bringing your cousin badly." ”

Zhu Shouqian's smile gradually faded, and he was stunned, "Yes, I was naughty at that time, I didn't fight for three days, and I went to the house to reveal the tiles." Now if you want to be beaten again, you can't ask for it. ”

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded from far and near, Zhu Shouqian hurriedly put down Yao Miaoyi's hand and patted the horse forward, it was Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

"Fourth uncle." Zhu Shouqian gave a salute on the horse.

Yao Miaoyi said secretly, if you talk about seniority, I also have to call my fourth cousin.

The snowy hunting ground was very cold, Zhu Di's face was even colder, he glanced at the handkerchief on Yao Miaoyi's right hand, and said: "The Chinese who hired the killer was caught by me when he escaped, and the person confessed that it was Mrs. Zhou, the widow of Zhou Kui, the servant of the Ministry of Officials. At present, Wei Guogong has sent someone to confine down the Zhou Mansion, and Mrs. Zhou was taken to Jiming Mountain Heavenly Prison for interrogation. ”

Mrs. Zhou? Yao Miaoyi recalled that after burning the study that night and destroying the body, Mrs. Zhou seemed to have an injury to her forehead, why did she hire a killer to assassinate me? Does she know something?

Zhu Shouqian sighed and said, "Didn't this Zhou Kui be burned to death in a fire on the night of the Double Ninth Festival?" He used to be the most proud staff member of Wei Guogong's side. ”

Zhu Shouqian was not used to Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, but when he heard the news, he became even more suspicious of Xu Da: The assassination of his aunt back then was difficult

Dao is uncle Xu Da killing his wife?

Yao Miaoyi looked incredulous on her face, and followed Zhu Di in the direction of the prison.

Jiming Mountain Heavenly Prison.

Yao Miaoyi came here for the second time, and it was a coincidence that Mrs. Zhou was locked up in the same cell where she lived at that time. The cell of Elder Bright Fox Trace was empty and nowhere to be seen, but the bedding utensils and so on were all there, and Mrs. Zhou should be detained for this reason, which was a matter of confidentiality, and Fox Trace was temporarily transferred to the place of detention.

But what surprised her even more was that her father-in-law, Zen Master Daoyan, actually came!

"Father-in-law, aren't you practicing closed-mouth meditation?" Yao Miaoyi asked.

Yao Jitong carried a large bookcase, carried a pen and paper, and handed it to Dao Yan, who wrote a few words, "The monk does not move his mouth."

Doesn't speak, but can write.

Yao Jitong said: "My father-in-law was very worried about your safety, and Wei Guogong also wanted to talk to my father-in-law about how he adopted you back then, so he went to the prison together. ”

In the prison cell, Mrs. Zhou was covered in vegetarian clothes, and there was a scar on her forehead that was smashed by the beam that fell to the ground when the study caught fire that day, and the scar did not stop until the corner of her eye, which showed how dangerous the situation was at that time, and she almost pierced her eyes.

Xu Da said: "Mrs. Zhou, Zhou Kui has always helped me take care of various military affairs before his death, and he is my most trusted guest on the screen. I have always been kind to your Zhou family, after the emperor ascended the throne, I recommended Zhou Kui to go to the Ministry of Officials to be a high-ranking official; also came forward to give your eldest son the status of a prisoner of the country. Mrs. Zhou, after Zhou Kui left, I took care of the Zhou family in various ways, why did you take revenge and hire an assassin to kill my own daughter? ”

Mrs. Zhou smiled coldly, pointed to the scar on her forehead, and said, "I'm not blind in my eyes, and I'm not blind in my heart. What you men do thinks you are clever and don't know what you do, but what can actually fool the real pillow person? ”

"One report and one report, when I killed your wife, your daughter killed him to avenge, and I killed your daughter to avenge her husband, you killed me to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, it is a natural and righteous thing, how to say that it is a grace and revenge? It is clearly retribution. ”