"Master, there's news of my brother." Xiao Xinyi raised his tear-stained face and looked at the master who had taught him for ten years.

"Yes, but I'm not sure where." Sima Zhengqing looked at Xiao Xinyi, who was much haggard in front of him, and said slowly.

Xiao Xinyi was taken aback again: "What do you mean?"

"In fact, in the past ten years, there have been disciples in the mountain who are out to inquire about Xiao Gongzi, the reason why I didn't tell you is because I am afraid that if I really can't find it, it will only make you sad, just a year ago, the disciple who was in charge of looking for Xiao Gongzi sent back the news, saying that Xiao Gongzi was very likely to go to the military camp."

"Barracks? Why did my brother go to the barracks. Xiao Xin asked puzzled.

"Because of the Praetorian Guards who cooperated with the people in the martial arts, although He Zhiyuan, the commander of the Tiger Wing Left Army, was executed, there were more than 30,000 direct subordinates under him, and it was impossible for the imperial court to execute them all, but they didn't dare to use them again, and all of them were distributed in various military camps in the frontier, Xiao Gongzi was probably going to find the former Praetorian Guards who were close to He Zhiyuan ten years ago. Although after the execution of He Zhiyuan, the imperial court beheaded a few of his henchmen, but there may be people who knew the inside story of the year who survived, but more than 30,000 people, how can it be so easy to find. Besides, I don't know who stole the Five Lakes Order back then, and Xiao Gongzi is afraid that it will be more than lucky to stay in the martial arts. ”

There was silence for a long time.

"Then does Master know who stole the Five Lakes Order and blamed my father back then?" Xiao Xinyi finally asked this question that had been held in his heart for ten years.

Sima Zhengqing turned around, looked at Xiao Xinyi very seriously and asked, "Xin'er, do you have an answer in your heart?"

"Yes." Xiao Xinyi finally said what he wanted to say. "Zhuge Haochu."

"There's a reason." Sima Zheng asked lightly.

"Ten years ago, Zhuge Haochu and his father were brothers and sisters, and almost all the sects in the martial arts were involved in that war, but the Zhuge family did not participate in it, and then only three months, Zhuge Haochu stood out and sat on the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance." Xiao Xinyi said clearly word by word.

"Anything else?" Sima Zheng said lightly.

"And." Xiao Xinyi hesitated for a moment before he spoke, "It wasn't until after the Five Lakes Order was stolen that I knew that there was a secret grid in the study at home, and the Five Lakes Order was placed in the secret grid, and my father's study never allowed outsiders to enter casually, except for my mother and me, even my brother had to get my father's consent to enter, but my father trusted Zhuge Haochu very much, and his study Zhuge Haochu could enter and exit at will, and he would definitely know the secret in the secret grid." ”

"Anything else?" It's still a faint voice.

"Nope." Xiao Xin looked at Sima Zhengqing puzzled.

"Xin'er, do you know why the teacher never talks to you about this." Sima Zhengqing asked.

"I don't know, but I ask the master to teach me." Xiao Xinyi replied.

"If I had told you back then that it wasn't Zhuge Haochu's doing, you would have been guessing who did it, and over time, it would have become a demonic obstacle in your heart, and you wouldn't be able to practice mental forensics with peace of mind. This is one of them. ”

Rao is blows to Xiao Xinyi today are one after another, but at this time she was still shocked by what her master said, and the matter of harming Cang'an Villa was not the one Zhuge Haochu she had always thought had done.

"Second, as a teacher, I also want you to understand a truth, things in the world, seeing is not necessarily believing, let alone guessing, it is not advisable. Don't jump to conclusions until you've done a thorough investigation. This time let you go to Zhuge Villa, but also to test your heart, if you only rely on your own guess and make a random move, then the teacher will never dare to let you investigate the events of the year, fortunately, you did a good job. Sima Zhengqing stroked the beard on his chest and said with great relief.

"Master is willing to let me go down the mountain to investigate the events of the year." Xiao Xinyi was shocked again.

"Yes, it's time for you to go down the mountain to find out what happened back then, as for Xiao Gongzi, I will release the news that Xiao Xinyi is in the Double Holy Gate, I believe it won't be long before he hears the news." Sima Zhengqing replied.

"But... Master, the grievances of the late father have not been cleared, and the apprentice is still the daughter of a traitor, if this matter is known to the court, I am afraid that it will affect the master. This method is not advisable. Xiao Xinyi said anxiously.

"It doesn't matter." A fluttering sentence came.

"What else happened after Uncle Qin fainted?" Xiao Xinyi asked.

"Ten years ago, when I rushed with the Poison Saint, I passed by Quzhou and saw that Zhuge Haochu was surrounded by a group of black-clothed people of unknown origin with all the guards of Zhuge Villa, Zhuge Haochu originally intended to go to the imperial city to chase the leader of the Xiao League." Xiao Xinyi was stunned when he heard this. "When I rescued Zhuge Haochu and rushed to the imperial city, the martial arts people were defeated, and the emperor hated these people besieging the imperial city, and wanted to kill them all. The army was transferred batch after batch, and the situation improved after we joined the war, and we fought for three days and three nights in that battle, and we were both defeated. In the end, I broke through the siege and went to the palace alone, and reached an agreement with the emperor that he would let go of the martial arts people and no longer pursue the matter, and I promised him that the people in the martial arts would never do such a rebellious thing in the future. As for letting you hide your identity, it's not that you're afraid that the emperor will pursue it, it's just that you're afraid that the people behind the scenes will be unfavorable to you, but now you have enough ability to protect yourself. ”

Sima Zhengqing said that the clouds were light and light, but I don't know how he walked against the light of the sword back then, passed through the layers of secret guards in the palace, and how he stepped on the blood all over the ground like an immortal, standing in front of the stunned emperor and making an agreement with him.

Xiao Xinyi read more than once in "The Legend of Martial Arts" about this incident ten years ago, but it did not record that her father had stopped the martial arts people, nor did it record that her master entered the palace alone. It is not difficult to understand that if these two events were really recorded above, how could the emperor tolerate the circulation of such a book that damaged his image of majesty and benevolence?

After this battle, not only the people in the martial arts were impressed by the Double Holy Gate, but even the emperor was afraid of the Double Holy Gate. But the Shuangshengmen suffered heavy losses in that battle, and returned to the mountain with the corpses of a few disciples and thousands of disciples, and this closure of the mountain gate was ten years.

After saying goodbye to the master, Xiao Xinyi didn't know how to return to her room, the stove in the room was burning, but she didn't feel a trace of warmth.

It turned out that her father did not die in the melee, but was assassinated by the emperor. It's ridiculous that he still thinks that one day he will find out the truth, so that the emperor can return the Xiao family to innocence. It turns out that his brother is really still in the world, how did he come over after so many years, if he knew that he was also alive, would he come to her immediately. It turned out that the youngest daughters that Uncle Qin left in his former cottage had grown so big. It turned out that she herself had been in a daze for the past ten years, and she didn't know anything.

The quilt covered her head, and there was a warm smell left by the sun on it, Su Yuexian must have dried the quilt for her. Now that she's finally alone, she can cry properly. is no longer a silent cry, it is a real cry, hysterically turning all the anger and self-blame in the bottom of my heart into crying and venting it. In the dimness, there seemed to be a soothing sound of flute coming from a distance, which was a reassuring tune.

The tip of his nose was the smell of sunshine, and his ears were hypnotic tunes, and Xiao Xinyi, who was tired of crying, finally fell asleep deeply.

I don't know how long I slept, Xiao Xinyi was awakened by a knock on the door, got out of bed and opened the door, and saw Su Yuexian standing outside the door with a food box, and asked her to come in, Yuexian took out a few meals from the food box, and the gentle voice came as always: "Are you hungry?" Let's eat something to cushion your stomach first. ”

"Senior Sister Yuexian, you don't have to be so troublesome, I'm not hungry yet." Xiao Xinyi squeezed out a smile that didn't know if it looked like a smile.

When facing Su Yuexian, Xiao Xinyi will try to keep smiling no matter how irritable she is, a beautiful woman like Su Yuexian deserves to be treated gently by everyone.

"How can you not be hungry, you haven't eaten breakfast or lunch, and now it's time to eat." Although Su Yuexian has a soft personality, she has her own persistence in some things. Xiao Xinyi picked up the chopsticks and barely ate a little, which was indeed much more comfortable.

"What about the eldest brother and the third brother." Xiao Xinyi put down his chopsticks and asked. Xiao Xinyi did not deliberately hide the matter of the four of them worshipping from Su Yuexian.

"They haven't come back from the back mountain." Su Yuexian said while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks. Xiao Xinyi helped her clean up and went to the back mountain.

The sun was sinking in the west, pulling out long shadows from the branches of the mountains, and the road to the back mountain was quiet and winding, Xiao Xinyi rarely came here because there were things she didn't want to see. The stele engraved with Ji De's name and the small earthen bag behind the stele were under which her second brother slept.

Before passing through the dense bamboo forest, Xiao Xinyi had already smelled the aroma of "burning love". In front of Ji De's tombstone, more than a dozen empty bottles were stacked crookedly, Zhong Yuan and Yunliu each held a bottle to drink at this time, and the twilight reflected the faces of the two, adding to the sadness. Xiao Xinyi walked over, picked up an unopened wine bottle on the ground, ripped off the lid on it and drank it gently, the mouth was spicy, and the lips and teeth were fragrant.

The three of them sat in front of the tombstone and drank together, just like many years ago, the three of them and Ji De, who was still alive, sat around a table to eat, and even the position did not change, Xiao Xinyi's right was Zhong Yuan, and Ji De was on the left, and Yunliu was opposite.

It's a pity that two years ago, Ji De ran into Yunliu when he went down the mountain to run errands, and the two stayed in the same inn at night, but they didn't know where Yunliu got into trouble, and was followed all the way to the inn, and was rescued by Ji De when he wanted to kill him in the middle of the night, but Ji De died because the other party's moves were too vicious and despicable. Yunliu blamed himself for this and collapsed several times. knelt in front of Ji De's grave for seven days before he was knocked out and dragged back by Zhong Yuan. In fact, Xiao Xinyi felt that with Yunliu's state at the time, he would not have the strength to resist if he was not stunned.

After drinking the wine, Yunliu left, and when he left, he said to the two: "Big brother and little sister, no matter what happens in the future, I will protect you." The two only said that he had drunk too much and touched the scene, and comforted him and sent him down the mountain. As for what happened in Jiangcheng that night, he didn't say anything about them and didn't ask, who didn't have a few past events that he didn't want to mention.

Qin Zhen and his daughter Qin Youyou did not go down the mountain and stayed on the mountain. Soon after Leng Moyan returned to Rinfeng, she came to Xiao Xinyi with her amulet "Purple Dove", which was usually coiled on Leng Moyan's wrist, and if she didn't look closely, it was like a purple bracelet with warm jade. Although the little snake is beautiful, it is highly poisonous, and if you bite it, you can take a person's life in an instant. So the last time she went down the mountain, the poison saint was afraid that she would hurt others by mistake, so he didn't let her take it.

However, in one day, the news of the Double Holy Gate coming out of the mountain spread quickly in the martial arts like a tide, and people from all walks of life blocked the Double Holy Gate with their elite disciples and large boxes and small boxes. The Double Holy Gate is just a re-emergence of the mountain, which does not mean that it will open the door to welcome guests and do some courtesy.

The Holy Gate of Medicine did not even open the door from beginning to end, and only sent a disciple out to say that the Old Man of the Holy Medicine was in retreat and it was not suitable to meet guests. After a few days of this, it was quiet in front of the Twin Holy Gates.