No dynasty can escape the struggle for imperial power.

Ten years ago, in the secret battle of the prince, Yunluan Chang Emperor Ji was originally a neutral force, because he held the Heavenly Command in his hand, which was an order that could call on the independent army of Nanwan, or was co-opted or regarded as a thorn in the side.

On that day, Emperor Ji of Yunluan entered the palace by edict, and was suspected of being temporarily placed under house arrest in the palace, because he was already on the cusp, and Gu Ning, who was a concubine and the head of a sect in the rivers and lakes, was inconvenient to use Peach Blossom Stream's own power, so he only left a regular guard in the palace and sneaked into the palace to find out.

But on this night, the undercurrent in the palace surged, and the palace minister's palace suddenly burst into flames, Gu Qingyan was still a little girl at that time, and she was awakened by Beiming in her sleep, and she was about to run out with her hand, and in a daze, Gu Qingyan smelled a strong smell of burning, and then she came back to her senses.

Suddenly, the guards of the Changdi Ji Mansion hurriedly put out the fire, but it was the dry season when the fire spread quickly, and it was already full of smoke for a while, so I had no choice but to protect the little Emperor Ji Gu Qingyan and leave, Beiming was one of Gu Qingyan's guards at that time, and the beam in the house suddenly fell on the way to run out of the house, Beiming couldn't care about anything else, so he threw Gu Qingyan out of the house first, and the falling beam smashed on his shoulder, Gu Qingyan saw this, was startled, and hurriedly asked: "Can you still get up?" ”

At this time, Gu Qingyan had already come back to his senses, thinking that he could only get by with light skills, and now it was not the worst situation in the house, and it should be no problem for the two of them to escape together.

Beiming felt a sharp pain on his shoulder, gritted his teeth and said, "Little Emperor Ji will go first, someone outside will answer, don't worry about your subordinates." ”

Choking into the smoke while speaking, coughing violently, Gu Qingyan was willing, a few steps back to Beiming's side, Leng helped Beiming escape from the beam together, just because of the force, as soon as he fell and sat on the ground, the flower shelf on his side fell and hit his right forehead, the vase porcelain piece fell and splashed, scratching his right cheek, this happened in an instant, Beiming had not yet reacted, and he didn't have time to think about it, the most important thing to take Gu Qingyan out of this ring of fire was the most important thing first, and with all their strength, the two finally escaped.

When the guards outside received the two, Beiming was already physically exhausted, and he was forced to protect Gu Qingyan, who was bleeding on the right side of Gu Qingyan's face, and felt painful.

The guards took the two of them out of the Changdi Ji Mansion and landed around the corner, but Gu Qingyan stopped, and her eyes fell on the front of the Changdi Ji Mansion, which was a figure she was familiar with - Yuan Zhao.

When Yuan Zhao entered the imperial capital to catch the exam, he met thieves and robbers on the road and robbed him of all his coiled and was selling calligraphy and paintings on the side of the road to make money, Gu Qingyan happened to meet him, appreciated his painting well, and saw that he had some unique insights when talking to others, so he found someone to inquire about it and recommended it to his mother Yunluan Chang Di Ji, and then Yun Luan Chang Di Ji recommended Yuan Zhao to the second prince, that is, the later King Qi.

In this way, Gu Qingyan can be regarded as Yuan Zhao's noble and benefactor. It's just that now, Yuan Zhao led a team of people to see the Changdi Ji Mansion on fire, but he just lingered at the door, causing Gu Qingyan to want to see what he was going to do, regardless of the guards' dissuasion to treat the injury, Gu Qingyan took out the stubbornness that he didn't know from, and squatted around the corner, half an hour later, the fire gradually decreased, and saw Yuan Zhao ordering a team of people behind him to say that it was to fight the fire and enter the Changdi Ji Mansion.

At this time, Gu Qing's smoke did not come out, and he was injured, and fainted.

When he woke up again, Gu Qingyan was already lying on the Second Prince's Mansion. The pain on the right side of her face reminded Gu Qingyan of the person she had recommended, and she suddenly hated herself for leading the wolf into the room, and the maid heard the movement in the house, and when she entered the house, she saw Gu Qingyan sitting on the bed, her eyes full of hatred.

couldn't help but shudder, Gu Qingyan saw the maid come in, retracted her thoughts, and asked, "How long have I been asleep?" ”

The maidservant replied respectfully: "Back to the little emperor, you have slept for two days." ”

"Where's Beiming?" Gu Qingyan remembered that the little guard, who was not a few years older than herself, desperately protected herself, if it weren't for Beiming, she was afraid that she would not just be scratched now.

The maid said: "The guard was sent back to the Peach Blossom Stream by Second Master Gu, and the eldest emperor Ji instructed the slave and maid to tell you as soon as he woke up." ”

Gu Qingyan nodded, the reason why Beiming was able to be by her side at a young age was that Beiming was capable, and secondly, Beiming was born in Peach Blossom Stream, and now Beiming has both protected her and failed to protect her, and he is seriously injured, and returning to Peach Blossom Stream is his best way.

After thinking about it, Gu Qingyan was about to get out of bed, but the maidservant couldn't stop her, so she had to let a few other people come in and wait, dress and freshen up and take Gu Qingyan to the front hall.

In the front hall, there were only Gu Qingyan's master Qianhuayu, and the third master Xing Ming, Qianhuayu couldn't help but hug Gu Qingyan when she saw Gu Qingyan coming, and couldn't hold back her crying and said: "My poor little apprentice, how can this be so good......"

Gu Qingyan's nose was sour for a while, and her tears began to flow down, and she kept calling her master with a whimper, and she didn't forget to ask her mother and father where they were. Xing Ming knew that this girl was frightened, and comforted her: "It's okay, your father and mother are fine, and now in the palace, I will ask the emperor for justice with your royal brothers." ”

Later, Gu Qingyan slowly calmed down, and listened to Qianhuayu say: "Actually, the matter of house arrest was originally just a scene made by the emperor and your mother, in order to pull out Concubine Lin, the four princes and their families, but who would have thought that the four princes would use their crooked brains to destroy the Heavenly Order on the occasion of the house arrest of the eldest emperor to cure the crime of negligence of the eldest emperor and weaken this power." ”

"What happened then?" Gu Qingyan believed that her mother and several royal brothers would not suffer a loss in the matter of imperial power, what she wanted to know was that person...... Qian Huayu saw Gu Qingyan's fierce eyes, and didn't know what it meant, so she just said: "Later, it was said that Yuan Zhao discovered something strange and took people to extinguish the fire and kill the traitor who sneaked into the Changdi Ji Mansion." ”

"Where is he at the moment!" Gu Qingyan is about to explode, could she be wrong about the truth of the facts? Xing Ming felt something and said: "Also in the court, girl, don't worry, Peach Blossom Stream and Dali Temple are thoroughly investigating this matter, and he is not alone in everything." ”

Gu Qingyan calmed down because of Xing Ming's words, and in the evening, Yunluan Changdi Ji and Gu Ning came back, hugging Gu Qingyan and the two of them for a long time without speaking, "Girl, the matter will be over soon, and then Daddy will take you back to Peach Blossom Stream." ”

Gu Ning saw that Emperor Yunluan was tired, and he didn't want this mother and daughter to suffer this kind of tiredness, so he said the decision in his heart, and when he saw that both mother and daughter nodded, he was also relieved.

Later, the outcome of the matter was naturally that the Lin family fell, and the fourth prince, Concubine Lin, was given to death, and all the blame was attributed to them, including the fire and the injury of the little emperor.

Gu Qingyan didn't ask any more questions, because one year later, her imperial brother told him that the world thought that Yuan Zhao was meritorious, and many scholars had written books, and Yuan Zhao himself did not leave a trace, and everything disappeared with the burning out of the fire, so even if they knew the truth, they were helpless, which may be involuntarily.

At first, Gu Qingyan would still wonder, is this matter too logical, is Yuan Zhao too scheming and lucky?

Later, Gu Qingyan became bigger, and the contact with the palace still made Gu Qingyan slowly react, Yuan Zhao was already a minion of the five princes at that time, and the five princes have been borrowing strength in the dark to fight all the way but only make money and not lose money, but unfortunately the first emperor was seriously ill two years ago, and the battle for the throne was launched between the second prince and the fifth prince.

It's just that the image of the five princes in the palace has always been an elegant faction, and the matriarchal line is a civil servant, but there are also many civil servants who support it, and it is a stalemate for a while. Until the death of the first emperor, the edict was made public, the successor was the second prince, there were still Wenchen struggling, soon after the second prince led the army to ascend the throne, by a lot of Wenchen discussion, the new emperor began to investigate the five princes in the court, while stabilizing his own power in the court.

After fighting in secret for a year, it was suddenly reported that the five princes were infected with a vicious disease, and they did not overcome the Mandate of Heaven in the end, and this battle for the throne was finally over. Yuan Zhao knows his knot very well, although he is already the right inspector of the imperial history, he is much more low-key in the court, who would have thought that this catastrophe will not be able to escape after all.

"How about it, Lord Yuan can finish recalling?" Gu Qingyan asked coldly.

Yuan Zhao knew that he couldn't refute it, but he was lucky. Gu Qingyan smiled: "Lord Yuan, don't say that you only wanted to destroy the Heavenly Order in the Thousand Paper Pavilion and didn't want to hurt others. ”

Yuan Zhao moved his mouth, the words didn't come out after all, his first reaction after that incident was to find Gu Qingyan, but he didn't see it in a pile of ruins, and the mood at that moment was not just joy or worry.

"It was a windy night and dry weather, and you took people to the door and didn't enter for a long time, watching the fire engulf you, what about your conscience!" Gu Qingyan was really angry, that night, there were more than 20 people killed and injured in the Changdi Ji Mansion, and some were killed by Yuan Zhao's people who went in later under the pretext of being a traitor, how could there be a traitor that night!

The one who set the fire and put out the fire was always him Yuan Zhao alone, if he wasn't an acquaintance of the Changdi Ji Mansion, who could easily light a fire in the Changdi Ji Mansion without being discovered.

Gu Qingyan never gave Yuan Zhao a chance to speak, she just wanted to see Yuan Zhao in pain, so she said: "I ruined my face because of that fire, how do you think I will treat you and let you die so easily, it is too forgiving." ”

Yuan Zhao looked at Gu Qingyan in front of him, and his intuition was terrifying, remembering that his daughter had disappeared since she went out: "What about Yuan Yin?" ”

Gu Qingyan was very relieved and finally remembered: "That girl, someone just fell into the water, and I don't know if she was rescued." ”

Deliberately, Gu Qingyan deliberately, fell into the water, falling into the water is true, and the loss can also be artificial, as for whether it was rescued or not, it was rescued, but unfortunately it was out of gas.

Then Gu Qingyan pointed to the lady beside Yuan Zhao, and Yuan Zhao realized that the lady who still had her breath was now weak, and there was only a little bit left. Yuan Zhao said: "The emperor will come to me alone if he has hatred, and my wife can still be saved, and I hope that the emperor will raise her noble hand." ”

Gu Qingyan shook her head, she didn't plan to let anyone go, saying so many words to Yuan Zhao was just a breath in her heart, it was bound to come out, now that the anger was almost smooth, she didn't want to talk nonsense anymore.

Yuan Zhao looked at Gu Qingyan unmoved, and he had nothing to say for a while, he would also dream of the fire over the years, and he would also dream of the little emperor Ji who grew up and came to settle accounts with him, this day turned out to be here.

Gu Qingyan didn't know when there was an extra ring on her finger, she patted the arm of the chair, and a silver needle flew out of the ring, and when Yuan Zhao didn't react, she felt her throat tighten, and she couldn't speak, only to hear Gu Qingyan say: "It's time to end, but don't worry, Lord Yuan, as a court official, you won't let anyone collect the body, and people will arrive in a while." ”

After finishing speaking, he flicked his sleeves and was about to go out, but at this time, Beiming had already moved Yuan Yin's body into the boat.

"Let those people out." Gu Qingyan said to Beiming that today she also returned a consolation to Beiming.

Not long after Beiming went out, three people returned to the boat with him, these three people were from King Yu's subordinates, and the three of them saw Gu Qingyan and saluted first: "My subordinates have seen four girls." ”

Gu Qingyan nodded and said, "People have put it down for you, and I won't care about the follow-up." After that, he took Beiming and the others back to his painting boat.

Since someone is here to finish, she doesn't have to care about anything else, how is it like Chao Zhongyuan, it's not for her to get it, whoever gives her the will, she just does it regardless of the consequences.

Su Xin saw that everyone was back, and greeted him, saying that he had already prepared wine and meat, and was waiting for everyone.

Gu Qingyan smiled and instructed everyone to have fun on their own, no need to be restrained, this scene can be regarded as revenge, they have been busy for almost a month, and today this matter is over, Gu Qingyan and Beiming also let go of this knot.

Speaking of Beiming, after being brought back to the Peach Blossom Stream that day, he was raised for seven days before he went to the ground, and the first thing he did was to think about it on his own, and when Qianhuayu and Xing Ming came back, they kept asking for guilt to take Gu Qingyan's disfigurement as their own sin, Xing Ming comforted Beiming a few words and told him that if he really had a heart, he would hone his skills in Shimen.

Since then, Beiming has been bent on polishing himself in Shimen, and when Gu Qingyan saw Beiming again, it was a year later, Gu Qingyan also entered Shimen, that is, the injury on Gu Qingyan's face had healed but left a scar, Gu Qingyan wore a veil to meet her to enter the first pass of Shimen, and she needed to escape smoothly surrounded by four hidden guards and reach the central arena first than the four hidden guards to beat the big drum.

Gu Qingyan's light skills were taught by the valley master Qianhuayu, and it was not a problem to escape smoothly, but the hidden guards who had been in Shimen were not easy to pass, and they were inevitably caught under the ring, Gu Qingyan finally won a little bit by relying on the hidden weapon, but the veil on his face also fell, revealing scars, and the four hidden guards saw it, and they were speechless for a while.

They didn't know who Gu Qingyan was at that time, they just thought she was an ordinary girl, but they didn't know what to say when they saw this girl with this face, they were worried that this girl was crying, so they came back to their senses and hurriedly apologized.

At this time, Beiming happened to come over, and wanted to come to pick up Gu Qingyan but saw this scene, so he was busy protecting Gu Qingyan, and put the veil back on Gu Qingyan, after that day, Gu Qingyan always practiced by himself in a place where there were few people, and fled in a hurry when he saw someone, for a girl, it is impossible not to care about the destruction of her appearance, Gu Qingyan doesn't blame anyone, but she can't get out of this layer of sadness.

Beiming saw it in his eyes, and then found the four hidden guards, and he didn't know how several people discussed, so he took the risk and secretly went out of the stone gate, spent the silver taels on his body to find a craftsman to make a mask for Gu Qingyan, and gave it to Gu Qingyan.

That was Gu Qingyan's first mask, and Gu Qingyan still remembered what they said to her at that time: "No matter what happens, the girl is the best-looking person in our eyes." ”

The vulgar words of comfort, but Gu Qingyan looked at the few people in front of him and accepted it for a while.

Later, Gu Qingyan slowly began to re-contact with people, only to find that there were always a lot of people around him who cared about him, although the three senior brothers did not do anything openly, but when Gu Qingyan practiced alone, the three senior brothers always took turns to silently guard in the distance, Beiming and the four hidden guards sneaked out and also had the help of Dongli, Nanke, and Xiduel three people to cover, these three people were Xu Shaolin, Zong Yue and Bailimo's guards.

And Qianhuayu has been personally passing on Gu Qingyan's kung fu, Xing Ming is committed to researching what ointment can eliminate Gu Qingyan's scars, and Gu Ning and his wife are watching their daughter's growth openly and secretly, giving her the best love and needs along the way to her growth.

A gust of wind blew, Gu Qingyan saw that the lights on both sides of the strait were still there, tonight I was afraid that Langjiang would be a sleepless night, there were waves of excitement in the boat in front of him, Beiming saw Gu Qingyan's stunned look, he didn't bother, just smiled faintly, and then joked with the other brothers, and the four hidden guards are now also among the twelve ghost guards.

Su Xin put on a coat for Gu Qingyan, and went with Gu Qingyan.