Mother's smile, Mu Ziyu will never forget for the rest of her life.

So beautiful, yet so sad.

After the death of his mother Yuyu, forced by the environment, the young Mu Ziyu became sensible very early.

Know what you should do and what you shouldn't.

In his memory, his childhood was spent in this way in a trembling and treading on thin ice.

Even so, when he was a child, he was often punished by his father and eldest wife.

At every turn, he knelt outside the ancestral hall for a day, kneeling until his knees were purple and there was no food to eat.

He didn't even dare to cry.

Because crying is not only useless, but will bring him a heavier punishment.

The grievances and pain in his heart are hidden, and he can only secretly wipe his tears alone.

From his father, he didn't feel anything, even a trace of warmth and fatherly love.

There is only fear, infinite fear.

And buried in the bottom of my heart, deep hatred.

At that time, the only thing that made Mu Ziyu feel some warmth was that every time he was punished, he was hungry and returned to the small courtyard with trembling legs, there would always be someone who secretly brought him something to eat at the risk of being known and severely punished by Mu Xuanji.

That person is Chao Gong.

Chao Gong is an old servant of the Mu family.

grew up with Mu Xuanji and lived in the Mu family for many years.

It's just that Mu Xuanji is unkind, cold-hearted, and has no human old feelings at all.

By chance, Chao Gong made a big mistake and offended a certain VIP who came to Mu's house, which made the other party extremely unhappy.

Mu Xuanji's expression remained unchanged, but he even wanted to kill Chao Gong alive to thank him for his sins, and to correct his family law and routine.

Up and down the Mu family, seeing Mu Xuanji's anger, which one dared to step forward to persuade? !

Only Mu Ziyu's mother, Shi Bingyun, stepped forward, smiled, and said to the nobleman,

"Mr. is less angry, Shi Bingyun is willing to use this song to make amends. ”

With that, she took off the pocket jade flute that she wore as an ornament on her dress and played a tune.

This song is fluttering and curling, lonely and high, and the music is moving, like a fairy song.

Listening to such a fairy song, the anger in the nobleman's heart naturally disappeared without a trace, and he couldn't help but praise him.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shi Bingyun held the jade flute in his hand and persuaded again,

"Adults don't care about villains, Mr. is noble, it's better to forgive him, so isn't it just that Mr. is a lot?"

With Shi Bingyun rescued, Chao Gong was saved from death.

Afterwards, Shi Bingyun's actions angered Mu Xuanji, and also attracted the jealousy of other wives and concubines of the Mu family, making her already precarious situation even more miserable and difficult.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this that Shi Bingyun's depression and death were accelerated.

But Shi Bingyun is very gracious, and Chao Gong has never forgotten it!

Mu Ziyu has lived in the Mu family for seventeen years.

When he was thirteen years old, he was the first in Hong County and was admitted to Xiucai.

After becoming a showman, Mu Ziyu's status in the Mu family finally improved slightly.

Then at the age of seventeen, he won the state capital test.

Although it is not in the top ten, and it does not get Xie Yuan and Yayuan, it is still favored by Song Xian of the White Deer Academy and included as a disciple!

The laws of Great Qin stipulate that there are twenty rank officials and lords.

Mu Ziyu suddenly became the existence of the Mu family, second only to Mu Xuanji.

After all, even Mu Xuanji only won the promotion, and did not enter the ranks.

Not to mention his prestige in Confucianism, Mu Xuanji himself is only twenty rank officials.

After the move, Mu Ziyu left the Mu family to study in Leizhou Prefecture, and when he left, he took Chao Gong with him.

After studying in the White Deer Academy for six years, Mu Ziyu learned a lot from his mentor Song Xian, and also understood the Confucian idea of true benevolence and integrity.

After that, he was recommended by the White Deer School Palace and released to serve as the county magistrate.

In office, by chance, Mu Ziyu met his wife Lou Dai.

The two fell in love at first sight.

Two years later, Xiao Ling'er was born.

All kinds of memories emerged from front of him, and a bitter and inexplicable smile appeared on Mu Ziyu's pale face.

The cold yin wind howled, and in the midst of the ghost crying wolf, the long clothes on Mu Ziyu's body fluttered fiercely.

In his hand, he held a long sword.

On the body of the long sword, the three characters of Cangchu sword are carved.

These three words, the font is thin but strong and powerful, like a caryophyllus rooted in the rocks, tough and high.

Mu Ziyu's surroundings were all hazy and vast, filled with ominous darkness.

In the darkness, nothing could be seen, only a cold and cold ghostly aura.

In addition, faintly, you can feel that there is one terrifying and ferocious aura after another hiding in the darkness.

The monsters hid in the dark.

Being watched by the fierce eyes of these monsters, Mu Ziyu had a creepy feeling all over his body.

On the top of Mu Ziyu's head, there was a large seal hanging in the air.

The Great Seal was in all directions, and from the Great Seal, a breath of great beauty hung down to protect him, and also illuminated the area around him.

The big seal is engraved with the four words of honesty and benevolence.

These four words are the right path that Mu Ziyu believes in.

He used these four words as his personal seal to remind himself of this time.

And this big seal was conceived by the righteousness in his heart, and it was also like a Confucian treasure, which could be used to protect himself.

Three zhang in front of Mu Ziyu, Chao Gong was half-kneeling on the ground.

Chao Gong's eyes were deadly open, his old face was full of anger, and his expression was full of rage.

But in his eyes, there was a dull light.

There was a deep bloody hole in the center of his brow.

The blood hole was about a finger wide and ran through Chao Gong's head.

A mixture of white and red brains gurgled out of the blood hole.

The fatal injury on the center of the eyebrows has cut off Chao Gong's life.

Even so, Chao Gong still clutched a broken knife in his hand.

And his body stood upright.

It's like a stone statue that refuses to fall down until it dies.

In front of Chao Gong, there were three dead toads the size of calves.

The corpses of these toad spirits were very miserable.

One was disemboweled, and died, with entrails flowing all over the floor.

A corpse that had been chopped into seven or eight pieces by a sharp knife.

The remaining one, the half-truncated knife, was inserted into its skull, directly piercing its skull, killing it.

He protected the Dharma for Mu Ziyu, fought against the demons, did not take a step back, and killed three toad spirits alive with the body of a mortal, only to die without being defeated.

It can be described as a tragic death!

Mu Ziyu's gaze fell on Chao Gong's straight back, and his eyes were full of misery and grief.

Chao Gong is to him, where is the master and servant!

For him, since he was a child, what Chao Gong brought him was the care of his father!

He had thought countless times that if his mother did not marry Mu Xuanji, but married Chao Gong, what a lucky thing it would be!