After a moment of surprise, Yan Meng smiled: "That's right, Xiao Hou and Xiao Seventeen have such a heart-to-heart, Xiao Hou must be even clearer about what Xiao Seventeen knows." ”

"If Xiao Hou is interested in Yan's life experience, he can ask him directly, and he doesn't have to go to such great lengths to investigate."

Yan Miao lowered his eyes and looked at the clear tea soup that was swaying slightly in the teacup in his hand, and said with a smile: "That's right, I lost my parents when I was young, and I was fortunate to be rescued by Shu Guogong's father and son. ”

Xiao Mu looked at him, and his voice was slightly low: "I didn't know before, over the years, you have been carrying these things, when you left the Shuguo Mansion and returned home, you were only ten years old——"

Yan Meng narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling that something was wrong, and subconsciously retorted: "What about the ten-year-old child? The Shi family is the place where I was rescued and raised, there are elders who are better than my biological parents, and there are brothers who protect my stability, teach me to read and write, and grow up with me...... As for leaving the Shuguo Mansion and 'returning home'? ”

He laughed sarcastically: "Yan's ...... What kind of home is the devil's cave that designed to kill my parents in order to seize the family property? So, Xiao Hou said something wrong—"

He looked at Xiao Mu and corrected slowly: "When I was ten years old, I left home, not home. ”

After speaking, he raised his eyebrows with interest: "I just don't know, in the old case of the Shi family, Xiao Hou found out something worth mentioning, which can be called by Xiao Seventeen will make Yan 'regret late'?" ”

Looking at the person who couldn't hide his inner obsession and hatred when he mentioned the past, Xiao Mu's eyes were full of emotions: "When my father sent you back to the Yan family, he didn't want you to be involved in the troubles of the Shi family——"

Yan Ming's face froze, and he looked at Xiao Mu for a moment: "-Father? ”

He clenched the cup in his hand, and there was an undercurrent in his eyes.

Something was strange, and for a long time, he was not unaware.

But the reason why a delusion is a delusion is because it is clear that it will not become a reality -

Therefore, even if there is a momentary delusion, he will choose to avoid it out of instinct, and dare not let himself indulge in it, in case the defense line that is not easy to erect collapses and completely become a madman.

No, he wasn't completely shy away......

He insisted on choosing to cooperate with the person in front of him, subconsciously, why not because the other party had a trace of his brother's old shadow?

But that's about it!

"There's a long way to go, and there's a way to go. When everything is settled, it is time to meet again. Xiao Mu looked at him, with a hint of shame in his eyes: "I broke my promise to take you home when I didn't keep my promise." ”

Yan Ming's pupils shook, the teacup in his hand fell, and he stood up suddenly.

"Why do you know my brother's parting words back then?"

He looked at the young man in disbelief, whose face was very different from the one in his memory, and under the impetus of surging emotions, he finally asked tentatively: "...... Brother, is that you? ”

In my sight, I saw the figure slowly get up.

"Ah Jin—" He called him as he had done when he was a child, and said to him, "I haven't seen him for a long time." ”

Yan Ming's eyelashes twitched, and his eyes were red.

Step by step, he walked towards the figure, each step seemed to be in the broken light and shadow of the old days.

"Brother......

His voice suddenly became softer, and he didn't dare to let his expression shake too much, so as not to disturb anything and shatter the dream in front of him.

Xiao Mu raised his hand, landed on his shoulder, and looked at him with a smile: "When you were young, you were injured and weak, and you raised it for a long time, and you didn't see it for a long time, and I was worried that you wouldn't grow tall. ”

Hearing this, Yan Luo pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled with red eyes.

"Sure enough, it's my brother......" He dared to reluctantly show a hint of happiness, and reached out and grabbed one of Xiao Mu's arms tightly: "Brother is still alive!" ”

Grabbing that arm, he finally regained his grasp of the life-saving driftwood like a drowning man: "My brother is still alive...... Heaven treats me well! ”

He found a glimmer of thought in this great surprise: "It's just...... Why hasn't my brother spoken to me all these years? Why do you want to hide it from me? ”

Xiao Mu replied to him truthfully: "I am the son of a traitor, and it is not appropriate to involve you." Later, I heard that you were in charge of the Yan business, and as long as everything went well, I did not want to implicate you in the old affair again. ”

Yan Jin's expression seemed to be crying and laughing, bitter and helpless: "My brother is really still the same as when he was a child......"

As he spoke, he suddenly thought of something, held Xiao Mu's arms with both hands, and asked nervously: "My brother was poisoned before, how is his body recovering now?" What are the after-effects? ”

"It's fine."

"It's going to be all right! My brother has been poisoned for a long time, and the poison is a strange poison...... Yan Meng was ashamed and blamed: "It's all my fault that I'm stupid, and I actually poisoned my brother...... When I go back today, I will have the best doctor find to treat my brother! ”

Xiao Mu smiled: "No need, the best healer is already in my house." ”

"The one who detoxified my brother in the first place?" Yan Meng felt extremely guilty: "I really deserve to die, I almost killed my brother, my brother was seriously injured by stabbing at that time, if I can't find the person who detoxifies in time, I'm afraid ......"

Thinking about it at this moment, he just felt cold all over his body—what stupid things had he done!

If my brother really lost his life because of his stupidity, even if he died ten thousand times, it would be irreparable!

Seeing that he was emotional and hateful, Xiao Mu said: "There is no need to mention this matter again, sit down and talk." ”

"Brother, I'm so shameless—"

"Sit down." Xiao Mu interrupted him, pressed half of his shoulder, and asked him to sit down.

His attitude is tolerant and gentle, still like the towering tree that shelters from the wind and rain in the memory of a child-this made Yan Ming's mood gradually calm down a little, and he smiled with red eyes: "Brother is much more silent now...... The rest, for the rest, is really unchanged. ”

"Ah Jin, you have changed a lot." Xiao Mu also sat down.

"I ......" Yan Meng smiled bitterly: "That's true." ”

He suppressed the tears in his eyes and looked at Xiao Mu: "Brother...... What have you been through all these years? Can you tell me a little bit about it? ”

"I'm not in a hurry, I'll talk to you slowly in the future." Xiao Mu looked at him: "It's better to talk about yours first." ”

"My ......" Yan Meng smiled with mixed feelings: "When I first saw my brother, I didn't know where to start for a while...... Why don't you ask my brother and I'll answer. ”

"Okay." Xiao Mu asked: "When the King of Jin rebelled, was there any instigation and instigation from you behind it?" ”

Yan Ming's face was slightly stunned for a moment: "It turns out that my brother knows about it......"

He said truthfully: "When the King of Jin was stationed in the north, he was already dissatisfied in his heart, and he was also unable to let go of what happened to the Shi family, so I persuaded him a little and promised to fund him for grain, grass and horses...... And he agreed. ”

Xiao Mu didn't comment on anything, but only asked: "At that time, the Yun Dynasty was poisoned in the Jin military camp, was it also your doing?" ”

"Nope." Yan Meng shook his head: "Jiang Jialangjun is not my victim-even though his father Jiang Zhengfu is an accomplice of the imperial court, but I know that he is a brother's best friend, and his act of persuading the King of Jin can also be seen to be a person of great affection and righteousness, how can I easily attack him?" ”

"It can be seen that in addition to you, there were also people who secretly fueled the troubles, wanting to make King Jin have to rebel." Xiao Mu asked, "Do you know who the person who poisoned the Yun Dynasty was?" ”

Yan Meng shook his head again: "I tried to track it down, but the King of Jin has never found out about it, and I have been a businessman, so naturally I haven't found anything." ”

"You instigated the King of Jin to rebel, in the final analysis, because you were dissatisfied with the current imperial court-" Xiao Mu asked again: "Why are you so sure that the initiator of the disaster of the Shi family must be the emperor?" ”

Yan Meng couldn't help frowning: "If it's not the emperor, who else can it be?" If it wasn't for the emperor's doing, why didn't he even investigate the case of the family back then, and he was in a hurry to convict and behead? ”

"The Emperor is not innocent, but I am referring to the initiators of the plot to frame my father's collaborators—"

Yan Ming's eyes were shocked: "Brother is saying...... The murderer is someone else?! ”

"Yes." Xiao Mu's expression was determined.

"Who could that be?" Yan Ming's eyes repeated: "Who would have such a skill...... Jiang Zhengfu? ”

"I used to suspect that he was responsible." Xiao Mu said: "But at the moment, all kinds of clues gradually point to another person. ”

"Who?" Yan asked in a fixed voice.

Xiao Mu: "Borrow your hand to encourage the Jin King to rebel—"

Yan was puzzled: "Brother...... What does this mean? The matter of King Jin is my will alone. ”

"Even if there is no explicit guidance, invisibly inducing is also being used, and the person who is being used does not realize that he has been used by others." Xiao Mu looked at Yan Meng and asked, "After you returned to the Yan family, you took over the position of the head of the family in just a few years, and made the Yan family firm the first business in Dasheng, is it all up to you?" ”

Yan Luo paused and replied, "It was Her Royal Highness the eldest princess who secretly helped me a lot to make it so smooth......

Hearing this expected answer, Xiao Mu's eyes no longer fluctuated: "Then do you know that after I left Beijing, I faked my death in the north and got out smoothly, and who helped me?" ”

Yan Miao's brows tightened, and he was extremely surprised: "Could it be that he is also His Highness?" ”

Xiao Mu nodded: "Over the years, everything about me, the eldest princess knows it all too well-"

"Yes...... Why did Your Highness never mention to me that my brother was still alive? There was a brief chaos in Yan Ming's mind: "Is it my brother's order?" ”

"No, I didn't know that you had a secret relationship with her over the years."

Yan Meng was stunned for a moment: "Why is this ......?"

Xiao Mu said calmly: "A chess piece, naturally there is no need to know the existence of another chess piece. Otherwise, it will not be easy to be completely controlled. ”

Yan raised his eyes and looked at him: "Brother...... What does that mean?! ”

He got up from his chair abruptly and said categorically, "No...... No way! ”

"Then brother asks you—" Xiao Mu pointed out: "Did she really know nothing about the poisoning you gave me in the first place?" ”

Yan Ming's figure, which trembled slightly with excitement, suddenly froze.

Although she didn't indicate it, she did know about it......

What he has done over the years has never been hidden from her.

So, she acquiesced to him and poisoned her brother at the beginning?!

Now that I think about it, she has been taking advantage of the affairs of the Shi family to invisibly use you and me to deal with the current court. It's just that I stuck to my own opinion, and I didn't do what she wanted, so she let you do the poisoning and push me. Xiao Mu said: "But at first, your plan didn't go well, so she assassinated me in Yingzhou, and blamed the Pei family, so that I found Jiang Zhengfu through the Pei family's Shun Teng, at that time, Jiang Zhengfu impeached me many times in the court, in such a situation, I had a rebellion, it is almost a reasonable thing——"

Yan Meng shook his head in a daze: "How can it be ......?"

Xiao Mu continued: "And in that assassination, Ah Heng accidentally found a crucial clue. ”

"What clue ......" Yan Meng asked almost every nerve.

"Ah Heng has been secretly investigating the truth about Mr. Qinghan's death, and in the robbery nine years ago, she had recorded the tattoo pattern on the inside of the murderer's wrist." Xiao Mu said: "And in the assassination that came at me in Yingzhou, she found the same tattoo on an assassin. ”

"And the reason why Mr. Qinghan was robbed and killed back then was because he sensed that someone was trying to plot against his father at the border of the Northland, and after sending the message back to Beijing, he was killed on the way."

That is to say...... The person who killed Mr. Qinghan was the mastermind of framing the enemy? Yan Ming's face was almost bloodless: "But how can my brother be sure that those assassins with special tattoos, the master behind them must be Her Royal Highness the eldest princess?" ”

"The crown prince was killed in the city, and some of those assassins also wore this tattoo." Xiao Mu asked him rhetorically: "The prince heard that the eldest princess had a sudden emergency and was in critical condition, so he would temporarily leave the palace." When those assassins took action, they just avoided the patrol of the guards in the city, and prepared the fire oil early, and ambushed the place where they had to leave the palace of the eldest princess of Yongyang-Ah Jin, do you think that in this capital, at the critical juncture of the change of the throne, there will really be such a coincidence? ”

He really came to this conclusion after the assassination of the crown prince yesterday.

Some long-standing mysteries, as long as a trace of key clues are found, you can peel back the cocoon, connect the past piles, and connect the real answers.

No matter how incredible and unbelievable this answer may seem –

Yan Ming's voice gradually flattened and slowed: "According to this, Mrs. Xiao's matter ...... It's hers too, isn't it? ”

"Mother is by no means such an imprudent person, and the person who can lead her out of the public eye alone must be someone she trusts very much, although my mother has rarely met the eldest princess, but she has always been grateful and regards her as a benefactor."

Speaking of this, Xiao Mu lowered his gaze slightly: "It was also since that night that Ah Heng and I really began to suspect her. ”

"She used her mother's death to force the prince to choose between the Turks and me—the more chaotic the situation, the better it was for her." Xiao Mu recalled: "Previously, with the case of King Hedong, I was in a predicament, and the heart of forcing Lu Longjun to rebel never died, and at the moment, it seems that it was also what she did - the person who was willing to bear all these crimes was my father's old department, and before he died, he knew my identity and wrote down the identity of the person behind me in my hand. ”

"The eldest princess led the troops with her father in her early years, and she was quite prestigious in the army, and she was the only one who could drive her father's old department."

After saying this, Xiao Mu had no intention of going on.

Needless to say.

If you think about it backwards, everything will become "logical".

Because this answer is the truth.

Only the real truth can withstand such scrutiny, unlike when he was suspicious of Jiang Zhengfu before, he always felt that there were still strange things everywhere.

Yan Meng stood there for a long time before he looked at Xiao Mu again: "But, why...... Why did she attack the Shi family?! And why do you do all this? She was physically weak, had no power in her hands, and even had no children...... Brother, ...... of these Could there be any misunderstanding? Could it be that someone else was trapped, deliberately framed against her! ”

Xiao Mu didn't answer, just looked at him.

"I don't believe it, I don't believe that she was laying out the ...... from beginning to end" Yan Ming's eyes were red: "I'm going to ask her in person!" ”

Xiao Mu raised his hand and blocked his way.

"If you kill the prince, you can't wait to get what you want. I don't need to ask, just look at what she does next to see if my guess is right or wrong. ”

Yan Luo paused at his feet, and his clenched hands trembled slightly.

The wind passed through the bamboo forest outside the window, and there was only a rustling sound in all directions.

……

Early the next morning, Hengyu ignored the persuasion of her sister and sister-in-law out of worry, and insisted on entering the palace.

When she arrived, there was a panic in the East Palace.

"What's wrong?" Heng Yu stopped a familiar Gong E and asked hurriedly.

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A chapter of more than 4,000 words, good night everyone

(In the rewinding line, I am really tired of this pig brain...... If I have a foreshadowing of forgetting, or if you have something that you don't understand, I forgot to write it, and you are welcome to let me know. The lines are laid down long before the opening of the text, and there should be no bugs, for fear of omissions

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