"It's not just dust, this king promises you, as long as you are willing to confess truthfully, and promise that you will no longer be enemies of the court from now on, even your capital crimes will be forgiven." Yang Guang replied solemnly.

"I know now, Gao Qinglian sent someone to appoint me as his heir to take revenge on our sisters." Gu Zi'er said quietly, "I remember that one night not long after I was ordered to accompany Chen back to the Gu family's ancestral house in Dongzhu City, Yan Shisan sent me a directive written by Gao Qinglian himself: designate me as his successor, and Yan Shisan will be my personal guard......"

"Is it really Gao Qinglian who appointed you as his successor, not Chen Shubao?" Yang Guang interrupted Gu Zi'er and asked.

"No, the instruction that Gao Qinglian wrote to me is still in my dormitory in the Gu family's ancestral mansion, if the prince doesn't believe it, you can send someone to find it, and you can see if it's true or not." Gu Zi'er said in a calm tone, "However, the two sisters have ended up with this result, and they have nothing to do with the emperor, if he hadn't pulled my sister and me into the 'goose's nest', how could there be so many grievances with Gao Qinglian." ”

"You just claimed that it was indeed Uncle Chen who ordered you to accompany Chen back to the Gu family's ancestral house to live, which seems to be contrary to human nature." Pei Yun also questioned, "Sister Ling and Chen Shubao had a relationship, and Chen is the daughter of Sister Ling and Yuwen Hu, it is not easy for Chen Shubao to accept Chen, how could he assign you, Mrs. Xiao to accompany Chen to return to Dongzhu City to live?" ”

"Maybe the emperor also has the intention of appointing me as the next big leader of the 'Wild Goose's Nest'. Before the emperor married me to Xiao Maha as his wife, he ordered me to spy on him. However, it is indeed Gao Qinglian who designated me as the leader of the 'Wild Goose's Nest', not the emperor, and there are letters written by Gao Qinglian himself, and Yan Shisan can testify for me. ”

"Madam, please go on, how do you think that Gao Qinglian appointed you as his successor out of revenge on your sisters? Is it because Sister Ling committed suicide after learning that you had taken over? Yang Guang was anxious to know what kind of grievances and grievances existed between Gao Qinglian and the Gu sisters.

"Your Royal Highness doesn't know, as early as more than ten years ago, Gao Qinglian asked me to marry and wanted to take me across the river to lurk, but my sister categorically rejected at that time. Most likely, he has always held a grudge and wanted to take advantage of his sister's fake defection to make a fuss and take revenge on my sister. After my sister surrendered, Gao Qinglian still designated me as his successor when she knew that her sister had activated the emergency plan and became the second Guan Zizi after him, that is, to kill my sister. ”

"According to your meaning, there can't be two Guan Zizi coexist at the same time in this world, once the next Guan Zizi initiates the succession process, then the other Guan Zizi must give up his rights, right?" Yang Guang pondered the implicit meaning of Gu Zi'er's words and asked.

"It's not just as simple as relinquishing power, the previous Guan Zizi must unconditionally obey the arrangements made to him by his successor, even if he wants him to die, he must not disobey."

"Hehe, in my opinion, Gao Qinglian appointed Mrs. as his successor, not putting his own life in the hands of Mrs., this is clearly confessing his affection to Mrs., how can Mrs. accuse him of revenge against Sister Ling?" Pei Yun interjected again and asked.

"When I received this order, I did have such a delusion." Gu Zi'er's face flushed slightly, and she replied, "But I just heard from His Highness that my sister has taken over as the leader of the 'Wild Goose's Nest, and the situation has become different. ”

"There is no need to say more about the grievances and grievances between your sisters and Gao Qinglian. This king asks you, since you have taken over the 'Goose's Nest', should you know the hiding place of Zhang Zhongjian, Xiao Rushui and others? Yang Guang was well aware of Gao Qinglian's intention to appoint Gu Zi'er as his successor, so he asked her a very urgent question.

"Maybe Your Highness doesn't believe it, since I took over the 'Wild Goose's Nest', not only have I never seen Zhang Zhongjian and Xiao Rushui, but I have repeatedly acted according to Xiao Rushui's instructions, as if I have become his subordinate!" Gu Zi'er complained angrily.

"What kind of instructions did Xiao Rushui give to his wife?" Yang Guang stared at Gu Zi'er and asked.

"For example, he asked me to hide my identity and was abducted to Tiantai Mountain with Lichen......"

"Madame couldn't bear Xiao Rushui's overriding of Madame, so she quietly left shortly after being picked up by the official army from Tiantai Mountain to Huiji City, and personally planned the operation of robbing the dust in Lao Yeling?" Li Jing, who was standing beside Yang Guang, heard this and asked.

"Not only that, but even the lie you told was the first to be seen through by Xiao Rushui, it was he who single-handedly planned the operation of dividing the troops into three ways to get a huge ransom from you to replenish military funds." It was precisely because Gu Zier made the mistake of underestimating Li Jing that she led to the failure of the sea transaction, and even she herself became Li Jing's prisoner, but somehow, she couldn't hate this good-looking young man.

"With the identity and status of a lady, how can you be willing to obey Xiao Rushui's orders? Xiao Rushui and Zhang Zhongjian, as Madame's subordinates, even if they didn't go to Zhedong to meet Madame, Madame should always know their respective division of labor and where they are hiding, right? Yang Guang promptly brought the topic back to Xiao Rushui and Zhang Zhongjian.

"Although I was designated by Gao Qinglian as his successor, I was forced to hide in the mountains because I had no soldiers and no generals, and I only had two or three hundred people led by Qian Wuxian, and I was forced to hide in the mountains. I listened to him and was willing to do what he told me.

As for the division of labor and hiding places of the two of them, I only roughly know that Xiao Rushui is mostly active in eastern Zhejiang, and Zhang Zhongjian is likely to be hiding near Jiankang, and the two assassination incidents in Jiankang City were carried out by Zhang Zhongjian himself. ”

"Between Madame, Xiao Rushui and Zhang Zhongjian, what ways and means do they usually contact each other?"

"Xiao Rushui's letter asked me to obey his arrangements before receiving a huge ransom, so he always took the initiative to contact me, usually using carrier pigeons to deliver messages. Zhang Zhongjian only sent someone to Yandang Mountain to see me once before the incident at Tongguangni Temple, and reported to me that he wanted to avenge the 5,000 'Yanchao' brothers who had been betrayed by his sister, and infiltrated Tongguangni Temple to assassinate his sister. Although I was reluctant at the time, because I didn't know whether my sister's surrender was fake, in order to calm the anger of the public, I had to agree to him......" Speaking of this, Gu Zier felt guilty and lowered her head.