"So you say you're a sheep?" Chen Baxian asked strangely, and the servant nodded, and said in a low voice: "My master has something important to discuss with the general, but in order to hide people's eyes, he sent a small one to infiltrate your army as an entourage. Chen Baxian was still suspicious of this person's identity, so he asked again: "Ben Jiang doesn't like to do things and hide the most, as if he can't see anyone, if your master has anything to do with him, let him come to me in person." ”

The servant had heard Yang Tan say that it was sometimes quite unexpected for this Chen Ba to speak and do things first, but now when he saw that it was true, he had no choice but to say honestly: "My master is now a different identity, and the things he wants to say to the general are not trivial, and I am afraid that I will be misunderstood when I come to meet in person." Chen Baxian asked in a suspicious tone: "Isn't your master the governor of Nansizhou?" What is there that is not visible? The servant saw that he spoke very badly to his master, so he also said unceremoniously: "What if it is about your deceased father, Chen Xianda, general?" ”

Now Chen Baxian stopped talking, Chen Xianda's death was not so much an accident, but a murder, so far Chen Baxian is very secretive about this matter, this servant said this to make him quite unhappy, so he asked: "Presumptuous, my father's affairs are very clear, what nonsense does your master have?" The servant didn't expect this Chen Baxian to be so upright, and it was too tendon to say that it was too unpleasant, so he had to tell the truth: "My master said that he knew the truth about the cause of your father's death, but the stakes were so high that he could only tell you alone." ”

Chen Baxian had already thought that his father's death was strange, how could anyone commit suicide innocently, and he also brought the old housekeeper with him. However, he suffered from the lack of evidence, and the emperor at the time, Xiao Zhengde, told him that Hou Jing had rebelled against Chen Xianda many times, and it was probably because of this Chen Xianda that he committed suicide. How can there be a reason to commit suicide if you are instigated?

Now that the servant said that Yang Tan knew the truth about his father's death, he naturally wanted to ask the truth. So he came to the Qingliang Temple outside Changsha with only one escort. The spiritual seats of Hou Jing and Princess Luyang were placed here, and no one knew about them and no one came to worship. Yang Tan is wearing a gray autumn dress and is incense to Princess Luyang.

Speaking of Qingliang Temple and the Yang family still have some origins, the host of this temple was originally in Jiankang's Jiming Temple as the protector of the law, at that time and Yang Kan had a very close past, and later came to Changsha's Qingliang Temple as the abbot, the contact between the two has not been broken, until this time Yang Tan came to the secret meeting Chen Baxian, was arranged in this Qingliang Temple.

Chen Ba first saw a young man worshipping on incense, so he stepped forward and pretended to worship the Buddha. Yang Tan clasped his hands together and said, "Is it General Chen?" Chen Ba nodded first and hummed. Yang Tan turned around and said, "Please follow me to eat some vegetarian food in the meditation room behind the road." The two of them entered the meditation room in the backyard one after the other. As soon as Chen Baxian entered the meditation room, he asked impatiently, "Are you a sheep?" You say you know the cause of my father's death? Yang Tan smiled and said: "Why should General Chen be anxious, since you are here, you will definitely solve the doubts in your heart." ”

Saying that, Yang Tan sat down, picked up the teapot on the table, poured a cup of tea for Chen Ba first, and also poured himself a cup, and then asked with a smile: "Does the general know who the original cultivator of this meditation room is?" Chen Ba sat down first, picked up the teacup, and said angrily: "How do I know who it is?" Don't go around the bush with me, if you have something to say, talk quickly. Yang Tan nodded and said, "This was originally the meditation room where Princess Luyang practiced. It's a pity that the people are gone. ”

Chen Baxian was not in the mood to be hypocritical with him here, so he asked, "What do you want to say?" If I don't get down to business, I'll be gone. Who has so much kung fu to accompany you. Yang Tan smiled: "Haha, the general is really anxious." Does the general know who his father is? Chen Baxian snorted coldly and said angrily: "Isn't it just Yang Kan." What is there to show off. ”

Yang Tan had an uncomfortable look on his face, and he looked impatient as soon as he entered the door, and he spoke aggressively. If it weren't for his mission, I guess he would have slammed the door a long time ago. Chen Baxian said this about his father, and Yang Tan could only suppress the anger in his heart and said: "My father has always respected the general of the Northern Expedition (the name of the general who was awarded the title of Chen Xianda after returning from the Northern Expedition), and he also agreed with his career, so he had the later Northern Expedition. It's just that Hou Jing is in chaos, Taicheng is in chaos, and General Zhengbei is suspected of communicating with foreign enemies, so that the first emperor and the new emperor Xiao Zhengde dare not appoint him. ”

Chen Baxian has always been proud of his father's Northern Expedition, Chen Xianda was the first person to propose the Northern Expedition in Liang, and also the first person to implement the Northern Expedition plan, he once successfully attacked the Shandong Prefectures of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, but unfortunately was later defeated and captured by Gao Huan's design, although Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang ransomed him with a heavy amount of money, but unfortunately because of this defeat his father was criticized, and since then he has been in a slump and lived in seclusion in the south of the city.

His own career and future were also affected by his father's defeat in the war, and he was sent to Jiangxi to serve as a small military attaché.

Yang Tan continued: "Hou Jing attacked Taicheng at that time, and some people proposed to use the general Zhengbei as the commander to fight to the death with Hou Jing, but then this person disappeared inexplicably, and after that, my father was appointed as the commander of the city defense army, and he was almost plotted by traitors many times during this period. Then one day it was said that your father and his servants committed suicide at home, and this incident went viral for a while, and there were all kinds of theories. My father was very curious and secretly investigated, and this investigation found out about this. ”

Yang Tan took out a few letters from his arms and put them on the table, Chen Baxian picked them up without saying a word, and read that the letter was written by Zhu Yi to Hou Jing at that time, which described in detail how he designed Chen Xianda. But the letter does not say who is the mastermind. Chen Ba first read these letters and wondered: "Then this can't prove that my father committed suicide and killed him." ”

Yang Tan then took out a jade pendant from his sleeve and said, "This was found later in your study at home. Chen Ba didn't know this kind of jade pendant at first glance, as if Chen Xianda didn't like to wear jade pendants either. So he asked, "This thing is definitely not my father's, and it can't be my family's, how did you find it?" Yang Tan smiled mysteriously and said: "It's inconvenient for me to disclose this, in short, my father didn't care about it when he found this thing, and it wasn't until the day of the meeting with Xiao Zhengde that he found out that he was wearing this jade pendant." ”

Chen Baxian was shocked when he heard this, but then said very carelessly: "Don't have anything to do with the dead person, he didn't kill my father." Yang Tan also responded: "I thought the same at the time, but unfortunately my father said that after Hou Jing invaded Taicheng, the first emperor had secretly summoned the general of Zhengbei once, and the reason for the summoning was not clear, but my father guessed that it might be related to Xiao Duo, the king of Xiangdong." Not long after, your father mysteriously committed suicide. ”

Chen Baxian took a deep breath, the things in this turned out to be so complicated, unexpected. So he asked, "Why does General Yang guess that it is related to the king of Xiangdong?" Yang Tan analyzed: "At that time, Hou Jing was in chaos, and several powerful princes in the world were either too far away to be rescued, or they were afraid of Hou Jing's strength and did not dare to rescue, only Xiao Duo, the king of Xiangdong, still had some strength and determination. ”

"But didn't he come after all?" Chen Baxian asked strangely. Yang Tan said: "That's right, so you can look at this again." He pulled out another letter from his left sleeve. Chen Baxian hurriedly took it and read it carefully, it was a letter written by Xiao Duo to Chen Xianda, the content was a bargain for him to go to Beijing to save his driver, which was nothing more than some conditions for asking for money and land. The content of this letter should be a reply, and Chen Xianda must have written one to him before.

Chen Ba put down the letter first and still didn't understand why his father committed suicide, so he asked, "Is this related to my father's suicide?" Yang Tan had no choice but to tell the truth: "It was because Xiao Zhengde found out about the matter between Ling Zun and Xiao Duo, and later took the initiative to come to him, and Ling Zun committed suicide after leaving." Chen Baxian completely believed it now, of course, if what Yang Tan said was true, then these things could be linked to his father's suicide.

Yang Tan looked at Chen Baxian and said, "Ling Zun is definitely not a suicide!" Chen Baxian's heart that he had just let go of was brought up again, and he asked in great surprise: "Do you want to say that Xiao Zhengde forced my father to commit suicide?" Yang Tan shook his head and said: "At that time, the secret envoy who sent the letter to Xiao Duo had not left, but lived in the hut in the backyard of your house, and after Ling Zun committed suicide, this person disappeared mysteriously. ”

The more Chen Baxian heard this, the more confused he became, the whole thing was indeed too complicated, he felt that his brain was really not enough, so he asked: "You can tell the whole story of the matter in detail, so that I don't have to guess." Yang Tan nodded and said: "These things are also the conclusions of my father's later secret visit to the court. At that time, the first emperor summoned Ling Zun because he wanted Ling Zun to go to Xiangyang to follow Xiao Duo, so that he could send troops to King Qin. But Xiao Duo bargained with Ling Zun for selfishness, but this matter was known to Hou Jing, so he asked Xiao Zhengde to come to your father, Xiao Zhengde wanted to buy your father, promised to be a high-ranking official, and even used his personal jade pendant as a token certificate. Afterwards, Xiao Duo learned about this from the secret envoy's mouth, and was afraid that Hou Jing and Xiao Zhengde would use him to open the knife, so he asked the secret envoy to kill your father, disguised as suicide, and destroyed the correspondence between them. ”

Chen Baxian realized that the whole thing was like this, but he suddenly found something that didn't make sense, so he asked, "Then where did you get these letters and jade pendants?" Yang Tan smiled and said: "Your housekeeper he has a son who was on an errand under my brother Yang Qiu at that time, Ling Zun at that time, for the sake of insurance, put part of the letter and this jade pendant in the housekeeper's place, the housekeeper in order not to cause the disaster of killing, so he handed over everything to his son for safekeeping, after Ling Zun and the housekeeper were killed, his son was afraid that he would also be killed, so he found my brother and begged him to send a message to my father to report something. So my father knew about it. ”

So it sees, it seems that the whole incident seems to be very complicated, but in fact, Xiao Duo killed his father. Chen Baxian got up violently and shouted, "Little thief, do you think you can confuse me with these tricks? Come on, tie up Lao Tzu and bring it back. Saying that, two tall guards broke in outside the door, and Yang Tan asked very strangely and frightenedly, "General Chen, what do you mean by this?" ”

Chen Baxian sneered and said, "Little thief, the trick you used with your father is too bad, and you still want to deceive me at such a level?" It took your hard work to forge so much evidence to deceive me. Yang Tan said angrily: "I kindly told you the cause of Ling Zun's death, not only did you not thank me, but also said that I was forging evidence, doing okay, if you have the courage to take these things and letters back and ask the one-eyed dragon in person, see if he admits it." ”

Chen Ba first looked at the sheep who was tied up with five flowers, and didn't say anything, but just said to the guard: "Plug his mouth for me, don't be found out and secretly take him back to the barracks." By this time the servants of the sheep had already fled. Chen Baxian remembered that there was still a fish that had slipped through the net, so he put the things on the table into his arms, turned around and went out, with the sheep behind him who was still whining.

This whole thing is actually a bureau set up by Yang Kan, of course, most of the things are true, but in some details what he told Yang Tan is his own speculation, Yang Tan listened to his narrative and felt that the whole thing was very reasonable and reasonable, so he believed it, Yang Tan thought that there was this matter to corroborate, and it was as easy as probing Chen Baxian to persuade him. But I didn't expect this Chen Ba to listen to his words first, he didn't believe it at all, and tied himself up and took him back to the barracks.

Back in the barracks, Chen Ba first withdrew his subordinates, took out the tokens in his arms and pondered them alone, these things and Yang Tan's words were repeated sentence by sentence, he also felt that this thing might be true, and the credibility was still very high, but he didn't dare to trust Yang Tan now, but he didn't trust Xiao Duo even more, he planned to secretly investigate again to see what the truth was. (To be continued.) )