Chapter 25: The Truth
As he spoke, he raised his hand and took a few sips.
"Tell me, what's the matter?" The old man squinted his eyes and gave a long burp in satisfaction.
"Master, please see." When Bai Chengjin reached into the cuffs, the ice-blue hibiscus flowers were wide, and the snow-white wrists between the sleeves loomed. After taking out the yellowed letterhead, he gently placed it on the wooden table in the four corners, and the white fingertips of the bamboo shoots shone with clear light.
The old man Hengxu's gaze swept over the letterhead on the table, and his blazing eyes flashed with a different color.
It's inevitable that it will come...
Heng Xuzi's short-term gaffe fell into Bai Chengjin's eyes without any omission. He lowered his thick eyelashes, flicked the smooth and clear jade wrench on his finger, and said in a low voice: "When you handed this letter to the apprentice, you said that when the time comes, you will tell the apprentice the story behind this letterhead. ”
"Now that Yinxiang has fallen, King Yu has become depressed because of a woman, and there is a new turning point in the court situation."
"It's time to tell the apprentices, isn't it?"
Hearing this, the old man Hengxu didn't speak, only sighed lightly, and took another deep sip of wine.
Bai Chengjin could hear it, and that long sigh seemed to rhyme with boundless resentment...
can make the treacherous Hengxuzi feel melancholy and resentful, it seems that the secret hidden behind this letter is extraordinary.
Heng Xuzi turned his head to look at the demoiselle crane that was entertaining himself in the shade of the tree. said slowly: "If the things in this world are like dreams, why should the disciples be obsessed with this."
"Master should understand Cheng Jin's temperament, if he can't get the secret behind this, Cheng Jin will use all means to get it!" Bai Chengjin's inky black eyes seemed to roll up darkness.
His own temperament, Heng Xuzi naturally knows that he never stops doing things until he achieves his goal, even if Heng Xuzi doesn't tell Bai Chengjin, he will do everything he can to get what he wants to know!
"You doll! That's it, that's it..." Heng Xuzi shook his head a little helplessly. Instead, he raised his hand and stroked Bai Huahua's goatee back and forth, and said, "Apprentice, do you remember the woman who handed over to you that day as a teacher?" ”
Bai Chengjin stretched out his hand, "Remember, Master once said that the woman was extraordinary and let the apprentice take care of her carefully, and during this time, Chengjin didn't dare to slack off for a moment."
"What? Could it be that there is a connection between the two? After speaking, he withdrew his hands and smoothed the slightly wrinkled corners of his clothes, and a sharp light flashed in his deep dark eyes.
"Have you ever heard of the rebellion of Jihai nineteen years ago?"
"But the rebel Shen family who shocked the government and the opposition nineteen years ago?" Bai Chengjin raised his eyebrows and said in a steady tone.
"That's right," Heng Xuzi paused and continued: There were two major families in the capital back then, one was the Zhen family, the mother family of the current queen, and the other was the Shen family of the Emperor's Mansion. coincided with the friendship between Zhen Qin, the eldest daughter of the Zhen family, and Shen Shuyao, the eldest daughter of the Shen family, and the two clans have had a great relationship since then. ”
"The weather in the imperial court was turbid and complicated, and the princes were fighting in full swing. And Shen Chong, the head of the Shen family who was high and powerful at that time, for some reason, chose to support Bai Zhen, the second prince of Zhao State, who was the most unfavored among the princes of Taizong, and he is the saint today. Shen Chong tried his best to support Bai Zhen all the way to the supreme throne, and the bloody wind and rain he experienced could not be explained clearly in a few words. ”
After ascending the throne, Bai Zhen married Shen Shuyao, the eldest daughter of the Shen family, and Shen Chong was honored as the "First Rank Emperor", not only that, but his third son Shen Chicheng was named the general of Zhenyuan, and was given a hereditary title, holding hundreds of thousands of male soldiers! Since then, the Shen family has been dominant, and the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, and no one can match it for a while. ”
The old man of Hengxu suddenly said: "Unexpectedly, a crime of rebellion overturned the entire Shen family in an instant, the emperor turned his face ruthlessly, and overnight, the Shen family was slaughtered!" The blood in the capital flowed like a river, and the piles of corpses burned for more than a month! I still remember that the city was filled with the stench of corpses, floating like a ghost with the smell of death floating in every corner of the capital. ”
In such a situation, how can it not be creepy!?
The old man Hengxu was so excited that his cheeks were slightly red, and his voice was moving.
This is a rare emotion for him.
Bai Chengjin frowned, his deep black eyes swayed a bottomless whirlpool, and the gray light flickered through a mist.
After calming down, the old man Hengxu took another sip of wine, and continued: "At the same time, the Zhen family jumped into the first-class army, and soon after, Zhen Qin also ascended to the throne of the queen from the position of concubine. Although Shu Yao was rescued by the master with great difficulty, because he had taken the chronic poison given by the Emperor Zhao all the year round, so that it was poisoned into the bone marrow, and he had to use medicine to maintain the body of the living dead for the rest of his life. ”
"I thought that I had returned to heaven and lacked skills, but I never thought that when I was looking through the ancient books, I accidentally learned that the bloodline of the high priest of the Western Regions can not only bring mortals back to life, but also be able to drive away all kinds of poisons and have the divine power to reshape flesh and blood!"
Heng Xuzi stared at Bai Chengjin and said, "Going around and around, going around a thousand times, you finally saved your biological mother with the blood of the high priest of the Western Regions... Shen Shuyao! ”
Suddenly, the air seemed to be frozen, and it was surprisingly quiet, except for the gentle breeze brushing through the hair, cheeks...
Bai Chengjin's frozen eyebrows burst into a shocked look at the corners of his eyes.
For a moment, he disguised his emotions.
looked at Hengxuzi with a calm face.
After a long time, he said in a deep voice with a very light voice: "Master, do you know what these words mean to Cheng Jin?" ”