On the way back to the palace that day, Fengchen and Xiwei sat in a sedan chair. She was very apprehensive all the way. It wasn't until Fengchen told her that he would not pursue them for leaving the palace without permission that Xi Wei was relieved.

At that time, Xi Wei noticed that Feng Chen had a sword by his side.

The silver hilt is slightly glowing with jade, crystal clear, and the relief is a few delicate pear blossoms, the flowers are blooming, and they are so beautiful that they are incomprehensible. Xi Wei looked at the sword for a long time, and how he looked at it, how he felt that it was extremely similar to the handle of his own horsewhip.

"Didn't you never use a sword?" Xiwei asked.

Feng Chen looked at her, picked up the sword beside him, and stopped at the hilt of the sword: "It's good-looking." With peace of mind. ”

What kind of strange reason is this, Xi Wei took out his whip and leaned over to make a comparison: "How do these two grips look almost identical?" ”

"It was made by the same master." Maple dust's thin lips opened lightly.

Xi looked at Fengchen in confusion. Feng Chen continued: "The master is the master of the Wei Kingdom, and this horsewhip was obtained by my father by accident back then. It was given to Emperor Yan. I don't know how it ended up in your hands. I think it is delicate and beautifully carved, and this time I went to Wei, I wanted to find a master to make another one. ”

In the past, she remembered that the pear had been, and this horsewhip was extremely precious and rare. This kind of jade-light silver can only be obtained on a mountain in the Wei Kingdom, and the master who works it becomes a stalk in thirty years.

"With this silver, with the flower, that master has only made two things in more than 80 years, one is the silver whip in your hand, and the other is the sword in my hand. He dedicated the sword to Emperor Wei. "Maple dust seems to be in a story that has nothing to do with Fengyue.

"Emperor Wei gave it to you?" Although Xi Wei didn't ask much about the government, she knew that this campaign was to settle the disputes between Chu and Wei, and what reason did Emperor Wei have to give him the sword.

"Now there is no Wei State, the Wei royal family is dead, and there is no Emperor Wei anymore." Fengchen's words were indifferent.

Xi Wei looked at him, with a little shock and fear in his eyes, he destroyed the Wei State. A huge Wei State, decades ago, was still the hero of the Five Kingdoms. In this way, in just a few years, the country was destroyed by a young man in his early twenties

The young man in front of him was in his heart, and his hands were not stained with half a drop of blood. But how many lives will be died because of him. Xi Wei didn't feel that the annexation of Wei was something worth celebrating, and she was more stunned, uneasy and worried in her heart.

"Why do you look like this, are you upset for the royal family of the Wei State?" Feng Chen's gaze shifted to the sword, and he gently wiped the sharp blade with a silk handkerchief.

Xi Wei was in a trance, and said in a panic: "The concubine doesn't dare." ”

"I named this sword Pear Rain."

"Why Pear Rain?"

Feng Chen took the silk handkerchief that wiped the blade of the sword, closed the sword lightly and raised his eyes and said, "The hilt of the sword is engraved with pear blossoms, which is very beautiful." The blade of the sword is as light as rain. ”

His gaze paused on her face.

She looked at her whip as if she had never thought about naming it.

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Soon after returning to the palace, Fengchen ordered someone to thoroughly investigate the case of the death row prisoner. He was really wronged.

The death row prisoner is named Xiao Zhi, who was an orphan since childhood, and became an official in the capital city of Kyoto a few years ago. He is meticulous and intelligent, and in just a few years, he has solved many big and difficult cases. Kyoto has become famous.

But when it came to solving a case a few months ago, he was behind bars. It was a case of a family of three who died tragically at home, and later various evidence showed that Xiao Zhi had a dispute with this family, so he killed people and ransacked his home. Xiao Zhi still has that Rao item in his home, and there are also witnesses who saw Xiao Zhi entering and leaving the deceased's house on the night of the crime.

The human and material evidence was complete, and the prefect was quickly convicted. Murder pays for life, but capital crime cannot be escaped. Xiao Zhi also pleaded guilty.

But that's not the case. The real mastermind behind the killing is actually the prefect of Kyoto. The prefect wanted to demolish and build a building, and the family of three was unwilling to relocate. Soft and hard do not eat, the male owner is an ancestral house, and he has lived there for generations. His parents died young, and both brothers died before the country went to war, and this house has all the memories of their family, and they are unwilling to move out of anything.

So the prefect made a dead hand. Previously, Xiao Zhi was assigned to persuade the family to relocate, but Xiao Zhi understood and sympathized with the family, and instead wanted to persuade the prefect to find another place. The family was grateful to him, so they gave the family antiquities, but Xiao Zhi did not accept them. Later, I just received a fine but not very valuable hot pear flower enamel glass vase.

It was this vase that later became one of the evidences of his conviction. The prefect found a false witness, so he pushed Xiao Zhi to take the blame for him.

There are many cases involved, because what the prefect plans to build is actually a teahouse, and this teahouse is actually built for Nian's eldest son, Nian Sixiao. And the prefect was also promoted by Nian Sixiao all the way.

Later, Fengchen only punished the prefect and did not blame Nian Sixiao. Meantime. Xiao Zhi was promoted to become the prefect of Kyoto. What's even more surprising is that in just a few months, Xiao Zhi has been promoted several levels in a row and has become the Minister of Military Aircraft, on an equal footing with Nian Sixiao. Feng Chen is often, Xiao Zhi is the only general he has met in the past 20 years that he recognizes.

Feng Chen and Xiao Zhi talked about the art of war and strategy, and the situation in the imperial court, they were always very tacit and coincided. The only difference is that Xiao Zhi doesn't want the war to continue and the people to live in poverty. And Fengchen seems to have been born to dominate, and for this, he will do whatever it takes.

Fengchen greatly values and trusts Xiao Zhi. But for Xiao Zhi, Fengchen is not just his own Bole. He gave him this life. Moreover, he had never seen a person so wise and boneless, and it was effortless to win thousands of miles away. He is willing to smear his liver and brain on the ground and fulfill his long-cherished wish in this life.

Xiao Zhi later also visited Xiwei. Frankly admitted that he was the beggar back then, when Xi Wei saved himself, he was deeply moved, so he kept the sachet in his collection. Unexpectedly, there will be a goodbye day. Not to mention, when she said goodbye, she saved herself again.

He has nothing to repay in this life, and if he needs it in the future, he will be sent.

What he didn't was that he had been abandoned by his parents since he was a child, and he had never felt any warmth or anyone to help him for so many years as a beggar.

In just a few years of life, I am like a worm in the quagmire and ashes, struggling to live, and living to be spit on and disliked. has always lived a life of being frozen, beaten, unable to eat, and cared for by no one. He didn't know what hope was, and he didn't know what the meaning of being alive was.

On that day, he went to grab the string of sugar gourds, not because he wanted to eat the string of sugar gourds. He can starve to death, he can freeze to death, but in his bones he is not willing to do evil things in order to satisfy himself.