But the green-shirted woman did not go back to live, but took advantage of the night to sneak into the ancient words of the village and stole a thousand-year-old seal enshrined in it.

The process of stealing was unusually smooth, and she handed over the seal to Ling Yan smoothly, and told him how to use it - watering it with the blood of the pure yin person, and the more blood was poured, the more powerful the seal became.

Relying on the power of the seal, Ling Yan turned defeat into victory in that battle to conquer the south, and repelled the southern barbarian army led by Lü Mu Abel in one fell swoop, and won the victory. But just when Ling Yan was about to return to Beijing with the green-shirted woman in triumph, she was discovered by the clan for stealing the seal and was sentenced to death by the clan, and in the end she didn't even leave a corpse.

In the end, Ling Yan returned to the capital with the son he had born to the green-shirted son, and fostered the son in the home of Ling Dafu, a wealthy merchant in Yuejing at the time.

The son he brought back is the current emperor, Ling Yu.

——Ten years after the great cause of Zhenzhen, that is, fifteen years ago, Zou Yu, the champion of the new department, was assigned to the Rongzhou Yamen as the post of prison master. At the beginning of late spring, there was a riot in the city of Rongzhou. Taking advantage of the opportunity of fishing and trading, the Japanese people of the island nation in the northeast of Daye Kingdom began to invade and try to seize an offshore island under Rongzhou.

In order to meet the battle, the whole city was armed.

In addition to looting property and plundering the common people, the main target of the Japanese invasion was the yamen. Zou Yu was still very young at the time, and had just married Wu, because he was afraid, he didn't care about his position, and secretly took Wu to her sister Wang's house in the countryside overnight.

But tragically, as soon as he came out of the yamen. The whereabouts were discovered by the Japanese people who had entered the city, and they quickly sent a team of men and horses to follow behind. But Zou Yu didn't know it at the time, or rather, he pretended not to know.

Because he attracted the Japanese people, the village where Wu's sister Wang was located, dozens of families were all killed overnight, and she herself was naturally not spared - more than a dozen people up and down the Wang family were all cut down by those who entered the city by various tragic means, except for her son, who had just turned five years old and had not yet returned from a trip.

Wu was seriously injured in order to save Zou Yu, but Zou Yu had his own plan.

He used the whole village as bait. Scatter the Japanese people. Then report to the yamen, and the sound of the east and west will be broken, and each one will be broken.

It was a plan he had planned long ago.

Because of his plan, in the end, all the Japanese people were exterminated. He was also reused by the imperial court because of this. In the following year, he was promoted to the prefect of Rongzhou.

Thirteen years of great cause. That is, nine years ago, Ye Qing, the prefect of Qingzhou, was beheaded all over the house on charges of plotting rebellion-

The booklet in my hand has turned to the last page.

Zou Youheng raised his gaze from the booklet, although what was written on it shocked him. But this has nothing to do with the information he wants, except for Zou Yu's paragraph, of course.

He finally understood what Wu said to him before he died, and he couldn't imagine that Zou Yu, who had always been upright and upright, would start like this when he was young.

The enemy who destroyed the door turned out to be his adoptive father?

And for the sake of this so-called adoptive father's order, he was willing to run to Yuejing City for him, and almost gave his life.

The so-called "recognizing a thief as a father" is not talking about him.

"How? Confused? ”

When Goatee saw Zou Youheng raise his head from the booklet, he asked with a smile.

"It's not the information I want."

Zou Youheng said coldly.

The continuous losses and blows made him a little numb.

"Don't worry, it's just part of the front. What has happened in the last few months, in this book—"

With that, Goatee threw another copy over.

The thickness of the booklet here is the same as the previous one, but the paper is obviously new, and at first glance it looks like it is new.

——In the sixteenth year of the Great Cause, Ling Yan died, and the crown prince was not established, and Empress Tao Wan temporarily presided over the government. The eldest prince Ling Xi and the second prince Ling Yu secretly competed for the throne.

——In the seventeenth year of the Great Cause, the contest between the two princes turned from dark to light. There were many factions within the imperial court, and the wind was surging. Rongzhou wealthy businessmen Zhou Yifu and Lin Wushou were involved in a factional struggle, and were later killed by the killers sent by Ling Yu and Ling Xi respectively.

Zou Youheng flipped through the pages and found that the records in this booklet ended here, and all the rest were blank.

"You mainly want to know how the Zhou and Lin families were wiped out, right?"

As if seeing Zou Yu's doubts, Goatee said.

"It's too simplistic, and if that's it, it doesn't seem worth my life."

Zou Youheng raised his head and said directly.

There is a lot of information in the booklet, but very little is useful for his revenge plan. Only Zou Yu has more complete information, but Zou Youheng did not plan to seek revenge on him. Whether he is soft-hearted or cowardly, he really can't do anything to a person who has raised him for more than ten years. Moreover, the Wu family also died for saving him, and now, he doesn't have much time, and he doesn't want to mention many things that can be concluded.

"There have been great changes in the city recently, and the historians have been beheaded one after another, so naturally no one dares to write down the facts."

Goatee looked at Zou Youheng and said.

"Actually, it's not complicated. The Zhou and Lin families have been friends with your Zou family, and the two people in charge have been friends with your father Zou Yu for many years. When he was dividing the factions, he naturally joined the second prince at that time, that is, the current emperor, Ling Yu's faction, together with Zou Yu. That year, Ling Yu came to Rongzhou in person, ostensibly to confirm that Gu Xiaoshu was a fake, but in fact, it was to discuss with Zou Yu about his future plans. ”

"What does this have to do with what I'm asking?"

Zou Youheng frowned.

"You listen to me when I'm done."

Goatee casually picked up a cup of tea and took a symbolic sip.

"It doesn't matter how things just go so far. But the struggle between the various factions in the imperial court, where can people retreat. Soon the eldest prince Ling Xi knew about this, he needed a lot of money to recruit troops and horses, so he sent people to find Zhou and Lin, hoping to help him. But the results can be imagined. If it is not my race, Ling Xi will naturally not be soft-hearted, he soon secretly sent someone to arrest Zhou Yifu and his family, and while threatening him to take the capital, he asked his son Zhou Ming to assassinate Ling Yu by taking the opportunity of entering Beijing to take the exam. You've seen what happened later, so I don't need to say more......"

"The people of the Zhou family are really all-"

Zou Youheng couldn't ask.

"Of course. Do you think the court fight is drinking at the player's house? ”

Goatee smiled.

"The situation of the Lin family is similar. However, the person who wiped out the Lin family was not Ling Xi, but Ling Yu, the second prince at that time. ”

"What?!"

Zou Youheng shouted out in surprise.

Isn't the Lin family from Ling Yu's faction? Why did he turn his eyes on the killing?

"There's nothing surprising about that."

The goatee coat looked unusual.

At that time, Ling Xi also had the Lin family arrested, but unlike the Zhou family, during the detention process, Lin Wushou agreed to Ling Xi's request, and he was willing to take out his family's assets to help him achieve his great cause. So all the people of the Lin family were released. But that's not the end of the story. The paper finally couldn't contain the fire, Ling Yu found out about it, he immediately sent someone, and overnight, dozens of people up and down the Lin family all died——"

"Does Zou Yu know about this?"

After being silent for a long time, Zou Youheng asked slowly.

"What do you say?"

Goatee shook the question back and didn't answer it directly.

"Then how could he?"

Although he knew a lot of Zou Yu's old history at once, after more than ten years of getting along, he still couldn't believe that Zou Yu would be such a person to his friends.

"Back then, he could let your whole family be bait for his career, so why not?"

Goatee glanced up at him.

"Not only that, but the people who went to poison this time were all arranged by him."

This sentence, like a huge stone, smashed on Zou Youheng's head on the spot, making him dizzy.

Therefore, he has seen the wrong person for more than ten years.

——The so-called uprightness, the mirror hanging high is an illusion, and he will do whatever it takes for his career and power, is Zou Yu's true face?

"Okay, I've already said what I need to say, what else do you have to ask?"

The goatee suddenly began to change his complexion.

Zou Youheng was trapped in his own world and did not answer his question.

"If not, it's time for you to pay......"

"Who is Ye Qing?"

Zou Youheng suddenly remembered what was recorded on the last page of the old booklet just now, since they had to be paid, he simply asked more clearly.

"The prefect of Qingzhou nine years ago."

Goatee replied.

"Does he have anything to do with any of this?"

"It's hard to say. There are too few records in it, and this person is from Qingzhou, and I don't know the specific situation. It's just that I heard that Ye Qing was beheaded all over the house, which is related to the war of conquest of the south thirty years ago. ”

Goatee shook his head.

Although there is a lot of inside information about Juyitang, it is limited to Rongzhou, and he only relies on some rumors about other places.

"Did you take the seal later?"

Zou Youheng asked again.

"There is no record in the history books, but it is rumored that Ling Yan took it back to Yuejing and hid it in a very hidden place. The terrain is treacherous, and it is full of traps, and even if the average digger can find it, he will not be able to enter it. ”

The terrain is treacherous, full of institutions?

Such a description made Zou Youheng feel inexplicably familiar.

He suddenly remembered that when he was in the main hall, Ling Yu and Ling Xi were both very nervous and asked him if he had brought anything out, and then he vaguely heard that the thing hidden in the cave had been taken away......

Zou Youheng wiped the cold sweat that kept breaking out on his forehead, and tried to calm himself down.

Temporary changes in the content of the examination, strange assessment standards, the sudden appearance of a sunny day, and the killing of each other among candidates - (to be continued......