Gu Zhan sat motionless in the chair like this, if it weren't for the surging tears, the whole person would be silent.

There were also Gu Chongting and Lian standing on the Zhongxiao Hall, and the expressions of the two of them were extremely similar, both full of resentment and meanness, as if they had been treated poorly in the world.

The first to break the dead silence was Gu Chong'an. What he saw and heard today was too shocking, and it was completely beyond his understanding for more than 30 years. Especially the fact that Gu Chongting was not Gu Zhan's biological son directly stunned him.

The father's answer obviously showed that he knew about it. This, how is this possible?

"Father, may I ask what is going on? The second brother he ...... Second brother, he ...... "Gu Chong'an's words were not finished, but the meaning was already very clear.

Gu Zhan opened his eyes, still with misty eyes, looking at Gu Chongting like a stranger, and then said: "The matter has come to this, so tell me, how did you know that you are from the Jiang family?" ”

His voice was too calm, so calm that it made people feel frightened, Gu Chongting couldn't help but feel his throat dry when he met such a gaze, and his eyes began to wander.

How did he know that he was part of the Jiang family? Hearing Gu Zhan's question, Gu Chongting remembered the events of that year. At that time, he remembered the scene repeatedly for more than ten years, and even sometimes thought, if no one came to him at that time, no one told him the truth, then what would his life be like?

Ignorant and relieved, he is the second young master and second master of the Gu family, he doesn't know his life experience and hatred, and enjoys Gu Zhan's favor, like an ordinary father and son in the world. Will he be more comfortable?

If, after all, it is if, it can't happen again.

At that time, he was only fourteen years old, but he had already entered the national school. At that time, Gu Zhan had already emerged in the court, and he was the first emperor who was quite watching. Everyone knows that Gu Zhan has a smart and sensitive second son, who is envious and jealous.

At that time, Gu Chongting felt that his life was incomparably beautiful, and he always thanked God for his favor. He was born in the Jingzhao Gu family. At that time, the Gu family had already produced three Shangshu. What a glorious thing this is, he has always been proud of his identity, and he is also determined to be a scholar in the future to continue the glory of the Gu family.

But. One day. An old man intercepted him. Said words that he will never forget in his life.

"You recognize the thief as your father, Gu Zhan is not your biological father, he is your enemy! Your biological father. It was Jiang Nai, the recorder of the Western Xinjiang Mansion at that time! The entire Jiang family was killed by Gu Yunning! The old man shouted in a low voice, with bitter hatred in his voice.

At that time, Gu Chongting, who heard these words, was stunned, he wanted to immediately refute this old man's nonsense, he was definitely not someone else's son, he was a member of the Gu family! However, he could not say anything, but listened to the old man's words.

Because, Jiang Nai, he had heard of this name.

It seems that when he was not yet ten years old, he was hiding in Gu Zhan's study, and he overheard Jiang Nai, he only remembered that his father Gu Zhan sighed quietly: "Alas, Jiang Nai...... This matter must not be known to Chongting. ”

What is it that he can't let know? Gu Chongting actually wanted to know, but he didn't expect it, so he knew so.

The old man cried intermittently, saying that in the Battle of Yong'an that year, Gu Yunning, who was the secretary of the Ministry of War, supervised the army in Western Xinjiang, and Jiang Nai was the record in his account to join the military. Jiang Naitian's talents, outstanding in military affairs, made great contributions to the victory of the Yong'an Battle.

And in order to seize Jiang Nai's military exploits, Gu Yunning actually accused Jiang Nai of collaborating with the enemy, killed him, and let people go to Jiang Nai's hometown Dingzhou and killed all the people in the Jiang family. Because Gu Zhan's wife gave birth to a stillborn child, in order to avoid the ominous statement of war, Jiang Nai's son was substituted, this is Gu Chongting's life experience!

"The Gu family takes the merit of greedy heaven as their own, and they will be punished by heaven! That stillborn child is retribution! Have pity on you...... Pity you for recognizing the thief as your father, ignorant and being used without knowing it! The old man cried like this, and rushed up to fight Gu Chongting.

Later, Gu Chongting began to investigate the matter quietly, and he found that Gu Zhong, the servant beside Gu Zhan, would go to Dingzhou once a year; He found that the records of the military department of that year had a lot of unknown records about the battle of Yong'an that year, and it was obvious that someone had done something secretly; He also heard a lot about Jiang Nai's life from the veterans of Western Xinjiang, including his inexplicable death later.

The down-and-out old man received Jiang Nai's life, and it took more than ten years to vaguely know the truth of the year, and then he sued Gu Chongting. Then, he died soon after, holding his hand until he died, crying and begging him for revenge.

In the past ten years, he has been like this, deliberately letting the Gu family have an accident, Gu Chong'an's eldest son was murdered by him, Fu's infertility for many years is the hands and feet of the second room, and Gu Daozheng is also his medicine dumb, just to avenge the Gu family!

"I just can't wait for everyone in the Gu family to die, otherwise it's too cheap for the Gu family!" Gu Chongting said fiercely, his mind was on the verge of madness. In fact, he would have been mad a long time ago, otherwise he would not have done these crazy things and said these things!

Gu Zhan listened to this qiē in disbelief, and felt like he was listening to a wild night. No one could know better than him. However, what is Gu Chongting talking about? What he said is not the truth of the year at all!

"Just by listening to the words of an old man, you firmly believe that the Gu family killed Jiang Nai's Jiang family? Do you have revenge and done so many evil things? Gu Zhan muttered to himself, slowly walking into Gu Chongting, wanting to hear his answer.

"Yes! I want to avenge the Jiang family! Gu Chongting stiffened his neck and roared viciously.

"Smack!" With a sound, Gu Zhan slapped Gu Chongting heavily. With this palm, he used all his strength, Gu Chongting's face immediately went to the side, and blood escaped from the corners of his mouth.

"You are indeed Jiang Nai's bloodline! This ingratitude, this hatred of profit, is exactly what Jiang Nai looked like back then! However, Jiang Nai's repentance and return to justice in the end and hundreds of thousands of people in Western Xinjiang survived. And you Gu Chongting, what did you do? Jiang Naiquan has knowledge, and he must be dead! Gu Zhan gritted his teeth and said, and couldn't help but slap Gu Chongting again.

"You want to know the truth back then, why don't you come and ask me? You know your background, why don't you come and ask me for verification? I can't forgive you, and I can't forgive myself! My son, whom I have raised and loved for decades, turned out to be such a white-eyed wolf! Gu Zhan squinted, and his body trembled, as if he had been hit hard.

He looked at Gu Chongting, and suddenly laughed out loud, tears appeared in the corners of his eyes, but everyone felt that he was now immersed in great pain.

"Do you want to know so much about what happened back then? Then I tell you in detail! You are not worthy of being a child of my Gu family at all, you are not even worthy of being Jiang Nai's son......" Gu Zhan said with a smile in his eyes.

Although more than 30 years have passed since the Battle of Yong'an, but every time the court officials and ordinary people think of this battle, there will be a deep respect and admiration, and there will be a deep pride, this battle can never be erased from the history of Dading, this battle most profoundly reflects the heroic tenacity of the soldiers of Dading, and reflects their determination and courage to defend the country.

As a witness of the Battle of Yong'an, Gu Zhan not only admired the bravery of the soldiers, but also deeply felt the injury and helplessness caused by the war, and even more profoundly that the Taiping Chengcheng years were too difficult, too difficult!

An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, today's Dading is peaceful, and the soldiers and people of Dading don't know how much blood they have shed. The fate of the individual, in the face of the iron and blood of war, there is no choice at all, no, in the era of turmoil, there is no personal destiny at all.

There is no side to the world, and things cannot be glamorous forever. The same is true of the Battle of Yong'an, in addition to the heroic and tenacious defense of the homeland and the country, there are many dark and ugly things that cannot be recorded in the file of the military department. These hidden ugliness are indeed people's instinct to be greedy for life and fear of death, and they are also forced by the iron-blooded war, so they have no choice......

More than 30 years ago, Jiang Nai, the secretary of the Western Xinjiang Prefecture, was like this. He collaborated with the enemy and treason, not only because he was afraid of the Xisheng Iron Cavalry who was about to set foot in Dading, but also because he had his wife who was about to give birth in Dingzhou, Western Xinjiang, and because he had the military deployment that Xisheng desperately needed in the position of recording and participating in the military.

Therefore, in order to get the military news he needed, Xisheng used one to lure Jiang Nai, and the other to force Jiang Nai to leak the military and soldiers in Western Xinjiang. At the time of the first battle, Dading was defeated and retreated, and human lives were harvested like grass mustard, because Jiang Nai leaked these defenses, and because Jiang Nai collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country!

In the end, he repented, and under Gu Yunning's plan, he used his example as a bait to send an extremely important and false military information to the hands of the Xisheng military. Because the military information that Xisheng had obtained from Jiang Nai's earlier had enabled them to achieve victory, they did not doubt him, so they fell into Gu Yunning's trap, and the Dading soldiers were able to annihilate Xisheng's army and lay the foundation for the victory of the Battle of Yong'an.

Later, when the Xisheng soldiers learned the truth, their hatred for Jiang Nai was so aroused that they couldn't even take care of running for their lives, and even fought for the price of their lives to wash Jiangjia Village in Dingzhou in blood!

Jiang Nai regretted self-determination, his wife died in childbirth, and the only bloodline left behind was Gu Chongting, this is the truth of everything!

"My grandfather, Gu Yunning, has never been greedy for merit! Your father, even if he collaborated with the enemy and treason, still survived hundreds of thousands of people in Western Xinjiang in the end! It's just you who take care of the court...... And me, so wrong! Gu Zhan finally sat down on the ground and said in tears.

(Extra: An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, this truth must be very clear to everyone.) I firmly believe that the era of peace is the premise and guarantee of personal happiness. Peace is not easy to come by, what annoys me the most is the so-called "public knowledge" spew, lest the world is not chaotic, there is no country, there is no peace, what else is there for the individual? (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the peace charm that only misses! Thank you!