Tao Li smiled indifferently when he heard Li Qiu's words.

"We are the disciples of Da Sima's door, and our words and deeds are related to Da Sima, so we naturally know what we can say and what we can't say. ”

"I call you Gongsun because you are indeed of Zhou Hou's bloodline, and you are one of the grandsons of Old Zhou Hou. ”

"But Master told me that I am an orphan who he picked up from the door of the Taoist temple eighteen years ago. Li Qiu's face was obviously a little incredulous.

"Eighteen years ago, the old Zhou Hou died, this generation of Zhou Hou ascended the throne, your father is also Gongzi Dang, is the most powerful contender for the position of the monarch among several sons and Zhou Hou at that time, in the process of competing for the throne of the monarch, your father and Zhou Hou will inevitably have some grudges. ”

Tao Li slowly came to the events of the year.

"After Zhou Hou ascended the throne, your father, Gongzi, fearing Zhou Hou's liquidation and retaliation, fled from Zhou overnight with his mother who was pregnant with you. ”

"But the people sent by Zhou Hou have also been chasing and killing behind, and your father and son and your mother can only keep fleeing all the way to get rid of the pursuers, and finally fled all the way to the north. ”

"When you fled to Shuoguo, your mother was about to give birth, and the group had to stop, delaying some time to bring the pursuers closer. ”

"After your mother gave birth to you, your father and mother felt that there was little hope of escape, and had to abandon you in pain in order to keep you alive. ”

Li Qiu's brows furrowed, and a touch of awe-inspiring killing intent appeared on his face.

He didn't come to this world to take away, but to reincarnate, if this thing is true, he is really the son of the son of the son who this person said, then Zhou Hou killed his biological parents!

As long as he has the ability, he will definitely kill Zhou Hou to avenge him!

But......

When this person mentioned Zhou Hou, there was no respect in his tone, which may be strange. ”

A strange glint flashed in Li Qiu's eyes.

"After the people of Zhou Hou killed your parents, they also wanted to find you and cut down the roots.

But fortunately, the other party doesn't know when and where your mother gave birth to you, and in the process of chasing and escaping, they traveled half the world, and those people searched for a long, long time and did not find you.

Zhou Hou felt that even if you survived and grew up smoothly, there would be no threat to him, and the hope of finding it was too slim.

Most of the staff were stopped, and only a few people continued to track down your whereabouts, and finally after more than ten years, you were not found. ”

Li Qiu quietly took a step back, clenched the long sword in his hand, and said with a vigilant expression.

"Is it possible that Your Excellency is mistaken?

There is indeed such a grandson of Zhou who is exiled, but it is not me. ”

"My parents may have been just an ordinary couple in a nearby village or city, and they couldn't afford to add another mouth and didn't want me to starve to death, so they thought of sending me to a Taoist temple. ”

On the side, Xiong Boming noticed Li Qiu's movements, and a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes.

Tao Li's eyes moved and he smiled.

"Gongsun is afraid that we are Zhou Hou's people, and we came to kill you to cut the grass and eradicate the roots?"

"You don't have to worry. ”

Tao Li paused, a cold smile curled up at the corner of his mouth, and continued: "Because...... Zhou Hou is dead!"

"Zhou Hou is dead?!"

Suddenly hearing the news of Zhou Hou's death, Li Qiu looked stunned: "How did you die?"

Li Qiu's astonishment, eight points were false, but two points were true, and Zhou Hou's death did surprise him a little.

He thought that Tao Li's previous narrative was to arouse his hatred for Zhou Hou, and then it was used by his master Nangong Wan to deal with Zhou Hou, but now it seems that finding him seems to have another purpose.

"Killed by our big Sima!"

Xiong Boming on the side, suddenly answered in a cold voice.

Li Qiu's body shrank, and a trace of horror appeared on his face.

Xiong Boming saw what he wanted to see, and there was a hint of mockery in his eyes.

Tao Li waved his hand and explained.

"After the previous generation Zhou Hou ascended the throne, he was deaf and unreasonable, and often recruited people to build luxurious and luxurious palaces for himself, exhausting and dying of many people, and the people were miserable. ”

"Some time ago, Zhou Hou wanted to build a big high-rise building in the north of the national capital again, to watch the stars and admire the moon with Meiji, this time I don't know how many people will be tired to death, how much people's money will be consumed, the doctors in the court have advised many times, that Zhou Hou is also bent on going his own way, Da Sima finally couldn't bear it, for the people, resolutely raised troops to attack the Zhou Palace and killed the faint king!"

The great Sima Nangong Wan mentioned in Tao Li's mouth is a hero who would rather bear the infamy of killing kings for the country and the people, but Li Qiu didn't believe that things would be so simple.

Li Qiu listened to what Tao Li said, and his expression gradually changed.

Tao Li saw it, and the corners of his mouth secretly hooked a smile, and continued.

After the Great Sima led the army to attack the Zhou Palace, due to the long-standing grievances of the people, the soldiers could not suppress their hatred for Zhou Hou, and finally not only killed Zhou Hou, but also killed all the heirs of Zhou Hou. ”

"Old Zhou Hou's other sons, just like your father's son, have been killed after Zhou Hou succeeded to the throne by assassination or other reasons. ”

"But fortunately, it may be that God can't bear to see the position of the monarch of the Zhou Kingdom vacant from now on, and Da Sima unexpectedly learned that there is another Zhou Hou bloodline alive, and it is you!"

"The grandson of Lao Zhou Hou, the son of Gongzi Dang, the only bloodline of Zhou Hou in the world!"

Tao Li's expression was straight, and he slowly gave up his hand.

"Our trip is in the name of Da Sima, to take Gongsun back to Zhou and become the monarch!"

Li Qiu's expression was stunned and ecstatic, his eyes were a little straight, and he seemed to be a little stunned by the position of the monarch who suddenly fell from the sky.

In fact, he felt in his heart that it was really a creation and a trick, he only recently deliberately supported a descendant of Luan Hou to ascend to the throne of the monarch for the sake of source power, and he was found by someone with a heart so soon, telling him that he was the only descendant of Zhou Hou alive, and it seemed that the purpose was not pure.

He also guessed more or less where Nanyun Lao Dao went.

After a while, Li Qiu calmed down, pressed and excited, and clenched his fists and said.

"Your Excellency still doesn't seem to answer me, why can you be sure that I am the grandson of the Zhou State who is circulating?

Since the people of Zhou Hou have been looking for me for more than ten years and have not found me, how did you find me?"

Tao stood up and smiled.

"Although Zhou Hou's people didn't find Gongsun You, they also investigated most of the places in more than ten years, and they were almost about to find Shuoguo, after Zhou Hou's death, I took over this matter from Zhou Hou's people and continued to investigate. ”

"It didn't take much time to find this Qingquan Temple, we learned from the mouth of the master who adopted you that the time when we found you outside the Taoist temple, and the swaddling clothes that wrapped you at that time were a piece of brocade of great value, which ordinary people couldn't afford to use, plus your master's description of your appearance, we can already confirm that you are the son of Gongzi Dang back then. ”

As he spoke, Tao Li took out two pieces of silk cloth from his arms, on which were painted two people with similar appearances, one elderly and the other middle-aged, and they could vaguely see the handsomeness of their youth.

In addition to the fact that the two of them are somewhat similar to each other, they are also very similar to Li Qiu's appearance, at least four or five points.

He introduced.

"This is Old Zhouhou, this is Zhouhou, you should be able to see how similar they are to you. ”

"A baby who was held by brocade and abandoned during the time when Gongzi fled to Shuo happened to grow up and looked very similar to Zhou Hou and Old Zhou Hou.

Neither Da Sima nor we believe that there is such a coincidence in the world, so there is only one reasonable explanation......"

Tao Li didn't go any further, but the facts were already obvious.

Li Qiu actually believed that there was really a possibility that he was the grandson of Zhou Guo who was exiled in this life.

Otherwise, if Nangong Wan wanted to fabricate a grandson of Zhou Guo who was circulating outside to facilitate what he did, he could find a child from a poor family who had not gone through school, and better control it.

"Where's my master?"

Li Qiu asked.

"Life on the mountain is too hard, your master raised your grandson, so that our Zhou State does not have to fall to the position of the monarch and suffer the ridicule of the world, it is the great benefactor of our Zhou State, and the Great Sima has invited his old man to the Zhou capital first. ”

"You ......"

Li Qiu looked angry.

"Are you trying to threaten me with Master?"

"Gongsun is angry!

In fact, our Da Sima is also a painstaking for the Zhou State, for fear that you will not accept your identity, we can only invite your master to the national capital first, and the country cannot be left without an owner for a day!

Zhou Guo needs you!"

Tao Li's expression was serious, and he bowed down.

Xiong Boming also bowed down, he also knew the seriousness and proportionality of the matter, if he ruined his master's business, he was afraid that his life would not be guaranteed.

Li Qiu looked at the two people who bowed down, his eyes moving slightly.

Even if these two people are smart, they didn't say that Nanyun Lao Dao took the initiative to go to Zhou Guoguo before him.

Nanyun Lao Taoist is in line with Taoism by nature, there is never glory and wealth in his eyes, prosperous and lively, although the life in the mountains is bitter and lonely, but he is willing, it is impossible for him to take the initiative to leave here.

Sure enough, as he guessed, Nanyun Lao Dao was captured by Nangong Wan in Zhou Capital and used as a means to control him.

This is also why, he felt that Nangong Wan was not a good person from the beginning, and it was ill-intentioned to invite him, the exiled grandson of Zhou Guo, to go back to inherit the throne of the monarch, and it was estimated that Nangong Wan just needed a puppet monarch.

As for why he wanted to use Nanyun Old Dao to threaten him with Nangong Wan's intentions, he made it clear.

It's because as long as you are not a fool, you can see what Nangong Wan wants to do with Nanyun Old Dao.

And although his previous performance did not match his usual behavior, he didn't look like a fool no matter how he looked at it.

Only by directly singleing out this matter without thinking about it and without the city government will Tao Li and others establish an impression that they have no scheming and are easy to control.

If he hid this matter in his heart and didn't mention it at all, on the surface, it was as if nothing had happened, but he was afraid that Tao Li and the others would be secretly guarded and vigilant.

Whatever he does after that, when the other party's vigilance and defense are lowered, it will be easy for him to do it.

People who really have the city government and scheming will not make people feel stupid as a cow, that would be too much.

It's just that people think that this person is just a little smart.

After a while, Li Qiu seemed to suppress the anger in his heart, stepped forward and smiled and stretched out his hand to help the two of them.

"Why do you have to do this, gentlemen, please get up quickly. ”

"I also know that Da Sima is a sincere heart for the country and the people. ”

"In that case, I will immediately rush to the Zhou capital with you. ”

"That couldn't be better. ”

Tao Li was overjoyed, waving his sleeves to condense an auspicious cloud.

"Gongsun, please. ”

Li Qiu never seemed to have ridden the clouds, and first stepped on it with his feet with his secret caution before stepping forward.

Tao Li and Xiong Boming glanced at each other, a hint of mockery flashed in their eyes, and they immediately followed.

"Gongsun, stand firm, let's go. ”

Tao Li drove the clouds and flew in the direction of Zhou Guo with Li Qiu and Xiong Boming.

From Shuo to Zhou, almost half of the world, even if Tao Li is the peak of the law phase, he only flew there after a day.

Zhou is located in the Central Plains, the climate is warm, far from being as cold as the north, and you can see green mountains and green waters everywhere, which can be described as pleasant scenery.

Li Qiu enjoyed the scenery of the Zhou Kingdom on the ground all the way, and soon arrived at the national capital.

Looking down from the sky, a majestic city like steel casting, appeared in Li Qiu's sight, its area was far wider than the capital of any vassal state he had ever seen, the streets inside the capital were bustling, pedestrians were weaving, very lively.

The capital of the state of Zhou, Zhongyang City.

"Mr. Tao, I grew up in the northern Shuo country, and I have never seen such a prosperous and lively capital, so it is better for us to go down and take a turn before going to meet Da Sima and my master. ”

Li Qiu said.

Tao Li said with a smile.

"Of course, Gongsun doesn't say, I also want to take Gongsun to experience the liveliness of our capital, after all, the Zhou Kingdom will be ruled by you in the future, I hope that after you become the monarch in the future, when you issue a decree, you can think more about the people's livelihood and suffering. ”

Tao Li strictly plays the quality of a disciple of Sima of Zhou Guoda who is sincere to the country and the people, and never forgets to advise.

"This is natural. ”

The three of them pressed the clouds, and after entering the city, they began to wander around the capital.

Li Qiu stopped in front of a stall from time to time to take a look, and Tao Li and the two accompanied him behind him.

Xiong Boming looked at Li Qiu, who had never seen much of the world, and his eyes were full of disdain.

Li Qiu watched while paying attention to the movements around him.

He wanted to go to the city to take a closer look, naturally not because he had never seen such a prosperous and lively scene, but because he wanted to gather information and figure out the ins and outs of the matter.

He didn't believe it, things were just like what Tao Li said, Nangong Wan led his troops into the palace and killed Zhou Hou because Zhou Hou was mediocre, built a lot of construction, and worked hard to kill Zhou Hou.

It should not be long after Nangong Wan broke into the palace to kill Zhou Hou, and it was such a big thing, he didn't believe that there were no people talking about it in private.

He stood in the middle of the city, and all the movement within a thousand feet could not escape his ears.

As long as anyone talks, he will know.

Li Qiu walked and stopped, took a long turn in Zhongyang City, and then followed Tao Li and the others to Sima Mansion.

Li Qiu, who was walking in the direction of Sima Mansion, already knew the truth of the matter, why Nangong Wan led the army to break into the palace and kill the king.

Although he didn't believe it when he first heard about it, he thought it was ridiculous, but after walking around the city and finding that it seemed to be the truth, he had to believe it.