Second master!

The answer that everyone expected.

Grandpa Guo still couldn't help but be angry: "You are talking nonsense! ”

Qiu Hagi kowtowed and cried, "The slave doesn't dare to talk nonsense." At that time, the second master suddenly appeared, and the slave maid was frightened. The second master threatened that if the slave and maid committed a capital crime, they would be sold to the Qinglou, and they would be ridden by thousands of people and pressed by thousands of people. The slave maid was so frightened that she kowtowed desperately and begged for mercy, and the second master asked the slave and maid to slander Tianqingzi, saying that if I obeyed, he would definitely save my life. The slave had no choice, she was confused for a while, and she made a big mistake! ”

After Akihi went down, Grandpa Guo muttered to himself, "How can this be? How so? I've treated him a lot over the years! I regarded him as a brother, obeyed him, and respected him. He, how could he be so ruthless that he wanted to kill my whole family. How is this possible! ”

Madame looked at him angrily, and stopped talking.

Grandpa Guo sighed: "Say whatever you want." ”

The lady said angrily: "I don't dare to say it, I'm afraid of being divorced." ”

Grandpa Guo smiled bitterly: "It's all this time, and you still care about these things with me." That's it, just now I lost my words, and I apologized to my wife. ”

"Madame, you know who he is. How could he do this to me? ”

The lady sighed, "Husband, you are really confused. If you think about it, it is precisely because of his identity that if he is grateful in his heart, he will naturally be of the same heart as us. But if he has hatred in his heart, I am afraid that he is the person who hates us the most in this world. ”

Grandpa Guo stood up, thought carefully, and sat down on the master's chair again. All of a sudden, his forehead was sweating profusely: "Yes, why didn't I think that if he had hatred in his heart, the person who hated us the most in the world was really him!" ”

Seeing that the little Taoist priest was confused, Grandpa Guo sighed: "This matter is top secret!" A scandalous incident involving his father's generation. The only people in the house know are me and my wife. ”

"Well, I'll tell you about it now."

"These two masters are actually my half-brothers!"

At this moment, the little Taoist priest suddenly realized, why the grandfather and Mrs. Guo regarded the second master as a brother and trusted him so much, so it was!

Grandpa Guo continued: "My grandfather is the prince of Guzhuang Wen, he is the son of the first emperor Xiaozong, and he was made the crown prince, and he was deeply valued by the first emperor and the courtiers. Unexpectedly, my grandfather died young, and the throne fell into the line of the current emperor. ”

"Because of this, Emperor Xiaozong took care of my family. When my father became an adult, he wanted to marry the daughter of the Xu family at that time. This aroused the suspicion of the first emperor Guangzong. The first emperor Guangzong was only the crown prince at that time, and he was deeply afraid that my father would threaten his position after marrying the daughter of the Li family, so he conspired with his wife, Qingyuan Junjiedu, to make the Li family, and brought down the Xu family on the pretext of checking the accounts of the three divisions. ”

"The Xu family's end was miserable! The account deficit was too large, and Emperor Xiaozong was furious, and he dismissed Xu Jixiang and exiled him, and his wife and daughter were sent to the Jiaofang Division. My father's marriage to the Xu family was broken. After this, my father was so frightened that he hurriedly married my mother, because my mother was just an ordinary family. ”

"That's the end of it. Unexpectedly, after the covenant was made, my father had a private relationship with the daughter of the Xu family, and let her get pregnant. After such a major incident happened to the Xu family, my father was ashamed and secretly rescued the daughter of the Xu family from the teaching department and sent her away from Lin'an Mansion. Before parting, he also left a token. ”

"Ten years ago, the illegitimate son of the Xu family's daughter found me with that token. When I saw that the token was correct, I recognized this half-brother and left him in the house. ”

"That illegitimate child is, second master!"

I see!

Grandpa Guo sighed: "Hey, our branch has always been thin, and there is only one daughter in the family except for my eldest son." So for this half-brother, I respect him from the bottom of my heart, and I really regard him as my own brother. I didn't expect it, I didn't expect ......."

He shook his head: "Madam is right, if he is grateful, I am of the same blood as him, and we are naturally a family." But if he has hatred in his heart, hey, the Xu family was also prominent back then. If I didn't marry my father, the Xu family would still be a wealthy family, how could it end up like that? ”

"If there is no such accident, his mother is my father's wife, he is the eldest son, my position as Li Guogong is naturally his, and everything I have is naturally his. How can you stay in your own home like now, but be seen as an outsider! ”

"Therefore, if there is hatred in his heart, it is, great hatred!"

After speaking, Grandpa Guo and Mrs. Guo sighed relatively.

The lady said in a mournful voice: "Husband, the second master has been in my house for many years and is very trusted. If he is plotting against us, he is afraid of provoking it, and it will be a monstrous disaster! Our government has always kept to itself, and he is not afraid of other attacks, but if he falsifies some evidence, saying that my family has a heart of disobedience. I'm afraid to be, I'm afraid it's ......"

Grandpa Guo shuddered suddenly, stood up, walked around the room, and said, "Not bad. Now I am named Li Guogong and given to live in Prince Gong's Mansion, this grace seems unique. But if you think about it carefully, this is not a plan to kill! ”

"Although the heirs are difficult today, and several sons have died early, there is still a prince here. It is rumored that the crown prince is weak and will not live long. It is precisely because of this that many people in the DPRK and China have different ideas. Even I, even I, for the past two years, just wanted to prepare early. Fortunately, when needed, I can take a few steps ahead. ”

"I never thought that as long as the prince was in one day, he would be the undisputed prince of the present day. If the prince is unlucky, I, Li Guogong, can naturally fight. But if at this time, someone attacks the liaison minister of our government, intending to make his son the crown prince, then it is touching the scales of today's rebellion, and it will inevitably provoke the thunder of today's anger. The majesty is immense, I'm afraid that it will be, I'm afraid that I will be full of people! ”

The more Grandpa Guo spoke, the more excited he became, and the more he spoke, the more frightened he became, until his whole body trembled with fear. But after a few turns, he thought about it and said, "No, it shouldn't be." In any case, if he and I were born of the same father, and he lived freely in this place, what good would it do him if he cut off my blood? In this world, who is willing to do things that harm others and themselves? ”

When the lady heard this, she hurriedly persuaded: "Husband, you need to know that people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, how do you know what he thinks?" Maybe he's going to have something else to do? Husband, we must not put our lives on the thoughts of others! ”

Grandpa Guo stopped and gritted his teeth there, but he still hesitated.

The lady wept and bowed to the ground: "Husband, you only think of brotherhood, but have you ever thought of your wife and children! If you really want to end up with a knight for the people, or even behead all over the house, what good will it do you to regret when you regret it, and what good will it do if you regret it! “

Grandpa Guo sighed and shed two lines of tears: "That's it, that's it, I'll send someone to investigate now." If he did do such a thing, then don't blame me for not thinking about flesh and blood; If he doesn't do this, I'll kowtow to him again to make amends!" ”

After speaking, he looked at the little Taoist: "Virtuous nephew, I am in a lot of confusion now, and I really can't think of where to start." Can you teach me? ”

The little Taoist priest thought for a while and said, "According to the previous inference, we should start from the inner house and the second master's bedroom to see if we can find anything?" ”

After he reminded him, Grandpa Guo suddenly realized: "I understand!" Dafan Wangfu will often leave a secret room when it is built, just in case. In this kind of secret room, there will be several secret passages that are connected. One leads to the inner house, where family members can be transferred in an emergency; a shelter leading to the outer courtyard where belongings and important items can be transferred; One leads to the outside of the house to facilitate escape. ”

"Rou'er must have inadvertently discovered the entrance to the secret passage in the inner house that day, and followed the secret passage into the secret room, and then discovered the secret."

"Okay, let's divide into two places and find the secret passage."

"Husband," Madame reminded, "this fact should not be carried out in a big way, but only in secret. If the secret is discovered by someone with bad intentions, it will be a catastrophe. ”

"Back then, the second master came to Prince Gong's Mansion a few months in advance to take care of everything. Later, he took the initiative to ask to live in the west courtyard, and we only thought that he was quiet and quiet, and the picture was remote. Thinking about it now, he must have discovered the secret passage by then. Therefore one of the entrances and exits of the secret passage shall be in the west side of the court. ”

"The scope of the inner house is too large, so the husband might as well send a few loyal and reliable people to search only in the west courtyard."

Grandpa Guo patted his head: "Madame is very right." ”

Grandpa Guo arranged people, and the three of them waited at Qingyunxuan, and no one had the heart to speak. After waiting for a long time, the little Taoist priest and his wife could still hold their breath, and Grandpa Guo didn't know how many things he had smashed.

After waiting for an hour, the chief manager finally came to report and found it!

The group came to the west courtyard. The entrance to the secret passage was actually at a corner at the back of the house, and it was so cleverly designed that there was nothing unusual about it from the outside.

Lifting the camouflage plank, he saw that the entrance to the secret passage had been locked by a finger-thick iron chain.

It took a lot of effort to remove the chains. Grandpa Guo couldn't wait to go down to take a look, and the little Taoist priest hurriedly shouted: "Wait! ”

This tossing back and forth, before I knew it, it was already time.

God, it's dark!

The little Taoist priest persuaded in a low voice: "Grandpa Guo, if the second master is that person, now this secret room will never be able to go!" ”

"That man is a top ghost cultivator, and he has at least one extremely powerful ghost under his command. When the ghost chased and killed Rou'er, I combined the strength of my fellow believers and killed more than a dozen people before seriously injuring it. When it came after it again, I fought to the death, and in the end Rou'er almost lost her soul, and I almost died on the spot, so I hit it again. ”

"The second master dragged Grandpa Guo for most of the day today, so that it should be at this moment. It was already dark at this time, and it was the evil spirits that were on the run. If the secret room is the place where the man raises ghosts, it is extremely dangerous for us to go! ”

Grandpa Guo thought for a while, but said, "This matter is sooner rather than later!" Now that there is a commotion in the house, the man should have gotten the news. If he slipped into the secret room through the secret passage outside the mansion, he would transfer the big secret. Our government can only sit back and wait! ”

"Virtuous nephew, since that evil ghost has been hit hard twice, it can't pose much of a threat in the future. Even if there are some threats, we can only take a risk now. ”

Grandpa Guo's worries are indeed very reasonable. Seeing that he had made up his mind, the little Taoist priest had no choice but to go back to Xiangyunguan and retrieve his magic weapon.

A group of several people, the grandfather and his wife, the little Taoist, the iron-legged Li and the other three nursing homes,