The cover, the back cover is a thick dark blue paper, very old, the corners are rolled, soft and collapsed to the touch, there was no word on the cover, in the process of circulation, some people think they are smart, and write "Chun Yu Xiao" three big characters crookedly on it, the word "Xiao" is missing a little, and the handwriting is completely different from the text inside. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The guards and the imperial physician investigated for seven days, and indeed could not find any trace of poison, so they handed over the remnants of the book at the urging of the emperor.

In these seven days, Han Ruzi was stunned.

Yang Feng actually left like this, even more resolute than those heroes who were unwilling to be loyal to the imperial court: Du's grandson chose to return to the rivers and lakes, the cook chose to disappear without dying, and the ugly king chose to send to the frontier, Yang Feng ran directly to death.

Han Ruzi didn't go to see the body, the people around him didn't agree, and he himself felt that it was unnecessary, Yang Feng left a message for the emperor, not through the corpse, but through a broken book.

Han Ruzi didn't go back to the dormitory tonight, nor did he summon any concubines, sitting in the Lingyun Pavilion, watching by candle at night.

The original book was indeed very thick, at least 300 pages, but now only three pages remain, removing the two incoherent words at the beginning and the end, and the rest of the content records a story.

This story is not in the official history or the wild history, and the author does not give the source, and writes it in the tone of an insider.

The protagonist is Han Fu, the Taizu of Great Chu, and according to the Holy Military Master, most of the content of this book is related to the tripartite struggle for hegemony among Chu, Qi, and Zhao, and the same is true for this little story.

The story directly refers to Taizu as "Han Fu".

The gist is that after Han Fu destroyed Chen Qi and Zhuang Zhao, he sat on the world, but his heart was not stable, the Zhuang family had been completely wiped out, but the Chen family had orphans fleeing, and with the appeal of the Chen family in the Qilu area, it could make a comeback at any time.

Han Fu sent a large number of cronies to various places to supervise the government to search for the whereabouts of the descendants of the Chen family, and at the same time, he moved a large number of Qi people out of the country to enrich the northern and southern counties.

A cronie found a clue.

It turned out that the descendants of the Chen family had been protected by the heroes, hiding in Tibet, and were less than a hundred miles away from the capital recently.

Han Fu was furious, he himself used to be a third- or fourth-rate hero, and when he was hunted down by the government, he had also received the help of many heroes, but he was now the emperor, the only emperor in the world, and he couldn't stand the illegal behavior of the heroes, so he passed the decree that within a month, the descendants of the Chen family must be handed over, otherwise, all the heroes who have received the descendants of the Chen family will be sentenced to death, and even the three clans.

On the day of expiration, seven heroes from all over the country went to the local yamen to surrender, but they refused to reveal the whereabouts of the descendants of the Chen family, but chose to commit suicide.

Three days later, a descendant of the Chen family suddenly appeared on the streets of the capital, and after loudly announcing his identity, he committed suicide in public to thank the heroes for their protection.

The public opinion in the world was turbulent, and Han Fu was also afraid, so he pretended to grant amnesty and release other people related to it, and from then on, the public pursuit turned into a secret investigation, but until Han Fu died of illness, no other descendants of the Chen family were found.

What exactly is this story trying to say? Han Ruzi was confused after reading it.

After reading it three times, he decided to seek the advice of others.

"Meng E, come and take a look."

Since living in the palace, Han Ruzi is busy dealing with court affairs during the day, and rarely sleeps alone at night, Meng E is still nominally the emperor's personal maid, but there are not many opportunities for the two to meet, but there is no alienation and strangeness because of this, Han Ruzi casually called her name, she hummed, and walked over, as lukewarm as usual.

There were three pages in total, and Meng E read it quickly, put down the paper, and looked at the emperor.

"What do you think this story is trying to say?"

"I think this story is fake, in the records of Yishi Island, the descendants of the Chen family were protected by a group of loyal ministers and fled directly to the sea, and it has nothing to do with heroes."

"This is a book that teaches people how to rebel, all stories should be examples, used to illustrate a truth, it doesn't matter if it's true or not, I'm wondering, what is the truth of this story?"

Meng E picked up the paper again, and looked at the last half, all of them were praising heroes, and they didn't say "reason".

She thought for a while, "First of all, the people who write the story don't like Da Chu Taizu. ”

Han Ruzi snorted, this is an obvious fact, he glanced at the Taizu Sword on the table, since the sword was returned to its original owner, he has always been with him.

Meng E thought for a while, "Probably saying that heroes can also embarrass the emperor and make the emperor bow his head, didn't the Taizu in the story let the others go in the end?" ”

"Why did Yang Feng leave this story? Or why did the person who killed Yang Bong do this? ”

"Your Majesty still suspects that Yang Feng was assassinated?"

"Luan Banxiong said that books can kill, Yang Feng really died, but there are only three pages left in the book, I can't help but doubt it."

"Then this is a provocation, the assassin wants to tell the emperor that he will escape without a trace like the descendants of the Chen family, and His Majesty will never be able to catch him, the best option is to give up like Taizu."

Han Ruzi nodded, feeling that it made some sense, but it was not the reason he wanted.

Meng E thought more, "Maybe this story also wants to say that it doesn't matter if you can find the descendants of the Chen family, Taizu will run Da Chu well, the world is peaceful, and the descendants of the Chen family are powerless to return to the sky." ”

Han Ruzi smiled, "What if this is Yang Feng's old suspicion array?" ”

Meng E didn't understand.

Han Ruzi explained: "There may not be any assassins at all, Yang Feng felt seriously ill, and in order to make a deep impression on me, he personally created the illusion of assassination. ”

"Yang Bong is a liar?"

"It's not that simple, Yang Feng must be trying to say something to me, the content is all in this story."

"Can't he let Chao Whale relay it directly to His Majesty?"

Han Ruzi shook his head, "He wants me to keep this story firmly in mind." ”

Meng E was even more confused, "Yang Gongzhen doesn't need to do this. ”

Han Ruzi was silent for a while, if this was Yang Feng's purpose, this eunuch had indeed succeeded, and Han Ruzi had no way to remove the story from his heart.

"Go and rest, I'll sleep later."

Meng E retreated, did not go to rest, still stood in the corner, silently looking at the emperor.

When she was gone, Han Ruzi stared at the broken book for a long time, then suddenly stood up, picked up the Taizu sword, and drew the sword out of its sheath.

The sword was still shining cold, and when it fell into the hands of the robbers, it seemed that it had not been used.

"It's a good sword, but it's not very useful." Han Ruzi forgot that Meng E was no longer "away", and spoke to her again.

Meng E remembered, silent.

"On the battlefield, bows and spears are fought, and there are occasional melee combat, and machetes are better than swords. Jianghu people like to use swords, and Taizu may have always regarded himself as a hero. ”

Han Ruzi looked at the sword carefully by the candlelight, and put the scabbard on the table.

The sword is a good sword, just because it is too good, but he is reluctant to use it, Han Ruzi sighed lightly, and planned to put the sword back into the sheath, but when he lowered his head, he saw that there was a small piece of paper at the exit of the sword sheath.

Han Ruzi was taken aback.

The piece of paper is smaller than the finger cover, one side is blacked out, and the other side is turned over and there is a word, a "hand" character.

The Taizu Sword has also been inspected, but since Chao Whale, everyone has great respect for this sword, and every time the sword is drawn out of the sheath, they are all careful and have not brought out the scraps of paper inside.

Han Ruzi put down the sword, picked up the scabbard and put it upside down, knocked it lightly twice, and a few pieces of paper fell out of the sheath.

There are four pieces in total, all of which are blackened on the back, and there is a word written on the front, which are "hand", "please", "owl", and "receive".

Han Ruzi simply arranged it and turned it into the four characters "Please put it away".

"Hey, Chun Yuxiao told me to stop and stop tracking down his whereabouts." Han Ruzi sneered, and then he was even more confused.

According to Chao Whale, on the day he arrived at the military village a month ago, he got the Taizu Sword from Yang Feng's hand, and since then, the sword has never left his body, and Yang Feng has never wanted to go back.

It is speculated that the piece of paper was not put in on the night of Yang Feng's death, and it was difficult for him to get out of bed at that time, and it was impossible for him to do anything else.

"You're giving me a problem again, and this time you won't even tell me the question." Han Ruzi muttered to himself, thinking that at the beginning, Yang Feng often gave questions to the emperor, and each question needed to be thought about for several days or even a month.

Han Ruzi went to bed and lay down.

Meng E walked to the table, put the sword back into its sheath, glanced at the four pieces of paper, rearranged them, and turned them into "Please stop", and then scrambled, reached out to pinch out the candle, and walked out of the room in the dark.

Lingyun Pavilion was big enough for her to sleep in the next room.

Han Ruzi couldn't forget Yang Feng, and finding out the truth suddenly became more important than the world's major events.

In the afternoon of the next day, Han Ruzi summoned Jin Chunzhong, "You go on a trip to find out if there is anything suspicious about Yang Feng's death." ”

It was a time-consuming and arduous task for Jin Chunzhong to take Yang Feng's path back to Beijing and ask everyone who had been in contact with Yang Feng in the last month.

Han Ruzi still felt that it was not enough, so he called the eunuch Jing Yao again.

"Has Gong Jing investigated Yang Feng's origin?"

Jing Yao once checked the origins of Meng Che and Meng E, and the news he got was very accurate.

"It was investigated, but it was quickly stopped by the Empress Dowager Cishun."

"Any clues?"

"There are some of them, they are incoherent, they don't say anything."

"Continue the investigation."

Jing Yao looked at the emperor in surprise.

"Yang Feng has no problem, I just want to know...... Where is his family, Yang Bong said that he has a son. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. It's a long way off, and it can take a little time. ”

"I'm not in a hurry, but you have to investigate carefully."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Jing Yao retreated, he was very happy to receive this task, he was also interested in Yang Feng, he had always wanted to find out, and now he finally had a chance.

Han Ruzi still felt that it was not enough, Yang Feng gave the emperor a problem, and Han Ruzi had to think about and solve it as the emperor.

Yang Feng died, and the Holy Army Master and Luan Banxiong, who had read that book, were also executed, but there was still one person alive, although he had not read this book, but he could somewhat understand the meaning.

The Qi Seeker Lin Kunshan once made meritorious service and went to Yunmengze to help Yang Feng suppress the bandits, maybe he could interpret that story and solve the problem left by Yang Feng. (To be continued.) )