Chapter 262: They Are Brothers
"Grandfather!"
Chu Zishan saw that Chu Hao didn't speak for a long time, and pulled his wide sleeves, "You, is there anything difficult about you?"
Chu Hao smiled bitterly, "About this Mo family, I have to think of some topics that I don't want to mention, think about it, now that the old man is unofficial and clean, there is nothing to avoid."
"Grandfather, you...... Hand over the Tiger Talisman for me?"
Chu Zishan blinked his beautiful eyes and looked at his grandfather with a gloomy expression aggrievedly.
Chu Hao nodded, and sighed faintly: "It's over, and I'll be at ease from now on."
Chu Zishan bent over his grandfather's broad shoulders, and said to him, "Grandfather, you are right to do this, I know that you are not greedy for power, but you just want to keep your promise to An Guogong, and live to protect Great Xia in this life until the last drop of blood is shed.
However, this protection also depends on the monarch's will, he does not want you to keep it, and we, as courtiers, can only let go."
Chu Hao raised his head, and a line of tears cut down his face, calming his emotions for a while.
"Today's Great Xia, even if I can defend all the external enemies, but the inside is already full of holes due to the poor government, this is like a solid walnut, but the inside has been corroded by moths, looking at such a Great Xia, I have the courage of a man but I have no way to do it, such a Great Xia will die sooner or later, and my powerless heart seems to be burning on the fire."
Chu Zishan stroked his grandfather's arm and said softly, "You have already seen the decline of Great Xia, and you only want to do your best to save something with a loyal heart, but you are also self-deceived and unwilling to face the reality."
"Therefore, you deliberately killed Wang Zhi in such a high-profile manner, in order to give the emperor an excuse, in order to let my grandfather see clearly the emperor's murderous intentions for the Chu family, and to make my grandfather completely disappointed in the Great Xia Dynasty."
Chu Zishan sat up straight and looked at his grandfather timidly, "I can't hide anything from you, you are like a mirror in your heart, but you still have a foolish heart, if you continue like this, the price will be the slaughter of my Chu family."
"No, I've handed over the tiger talisman, and I'll take my family back to my hometown in a few days......
"Grandfather, do you think that after handing over the Tiger Talisman, the emperor will read the merits of the Chu family and will not kill us all?"
Chu Hao took his granddaughter's hand, his eyes were full of desolation: "No matter what, Zishan, you have to remember that the Chu family can't rebel."
Chu Zishan raised his head slightly, biting his red lips and smiling bitterly, "Grandfather, I can only promise you that if the emperor really thinks about the Chu family's merits to Great Xia and lets my Chu family go back to his hometown, I will never rebel in this life, otherwise, I will fight to protect my family."
Chu Hao lowered his head and tried his best to hide the grief and indignation in his heart.
He has been a great Xia Rongma all his life, but he can't get the king's sincerity, and even his family is not treated well, how can he not be cold.
But he swore to An Guogong that a noble person is trustworthy and righteous, and even if he dies, he will never break this promise.
"As soon as you talked about the Mo family, you hesitated, and persuaded me not to come up, is it possible, can this Mo family be determined to be in Great Xia?"
Chu Zishan pulled Chu Hao's wide robe sleeves and dangled them.
Chu Hao stroked her hand, and sighed again, and there seemed to be a trace of determination in his bright eyes, "Yesterday, I came out of the imperial study and almost fell, and Mo Xiao came over to help me, I saw ......
Chu Zishan heard his grandfather's words inexplicably, and when he saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, he asked anxiously, "Oh, what did you see when you came to talk about it?"
"I saw a scar on the wrist of the ink owl, and that mark ......."
He picked up Chu Zishan's hand and lit the jade bracelet on her wrist, "That scar is very similar to the scar left by the staggered Qiankun bracelet."
"How is it possible that the ink owl has worn the Qiankun bracelet?"
Chu Zishan's brain is running fast, Mo Xiao, his surname is Mo, is this ink the Mo family?
Mo Xiao is a descendant of the black family, is this possible?
"He is an internal official who grew up in the palace since he was a child, how can the Mo family giant let his son, the inheritor, become a eunuch. Grandfather, why do you think that Mo Xiao is the son of the Mo family, and what do you know?"
"You once asked me about the death of the first emperor, and that was the last thing I wanted to recall.
Everyone in the world says that I, Chu Hao, have been loyal and benevolent all my life, but I dare not admit it. Because, at that time, I had foreseen the death of the emperor and queen, but I did not stop it, and became an accomplice of the traitor."
"How did you become an accomplice, what the hell is going on?"
Chu Hao shook his head, and the old man's face was full of remorse and guilt.
"Twenty years ago, the eldest princess and the first emperor went to a neighboring country to pick up Princess Lanyu back to China, and I led the army to protect it.
When I left Kyoto, I found out that King Keiwang was also secretly traveling.
King Qing is the current emperor, at that time he was the prince with the most military achievements among the princes, but the old emperor liked the benevolent and benevolent emperor, and finally passed the throne to the emperor, which made King Qing very angry.
The ambitious King Qing secretly formed a party, and tried his best to be a filial son and grandson in the childless eldest princess, and the bewitching eldest princess listened to his words, thinking that the first emperor only loved beauties and did not love the country, and he was cowardly and unworthy of being the king of a country.
The eldest princess was dissatisfied with the first emperor as the queen, there was no harem, and she could not reproduce more royal heirs.
Looking at the delayed government, the eldest princess finally made up her mind to set up a new monarch.
But it is so easy to set up a new monarch, King Qing came up with an idea, and used the heart knot of the first emperor to deceive the first emperor and queen to leave the palace by marrying Princess Lanyu far away, and forced the first emperor to write the edict of the god in a remote place far away from Kyoto, and then put the first emperor and queen under house arrest in a small mountain villa.
The eldest princess wants the emperor to love the beauty and not the country, so let the two live a happy life as a small civil couple, and then let the decisive King Qing be the emperor, which is a win-win-win situation.
Unexpectedly, King Qing's methods of persecuting the first emperor were extremely brutal, and even more shameless and indecent, resulting in the tragic death of the first emperor and the queen, and the eldest princess was extremely angry, but it was too late.
After returning to Kyoto and experiencing some twists and turns, King Kei became the new emperor as he wished, and the day after the edict was issued, King Kei was assassinated, and three days later he ascended the throne with serious injuries.
He ordered me to investigate the matter, and I found out that the person who assassinated him was the Mo family.
King Qing was furious, and personally led the army to encircle and suppress the Mo family, and this time I was among them again.
The Mo family was hidden in a cottage deep in the mountains, and the entire cottage was almost slaughtered, and blood stained the valley red.
I heard a child's cry, and I saw a soldier pulling the bracelet on the child's wrist, and I stopped the soldier.
I couldn't bear to see a four- or five-year-old child die under a butcher's knife, and when I took him into a cabin and cleaned his wounds, the bracelet was so deep in his flesh that I couldn't take it off, so I could only simply clean his wounds and tell him to hide here and not move.
I thought that when the emperor was gone, I would turn back and bring the child back, but when I went to look for the child, the man was gone."
Chu Zishan asked, "That kid is Mo Xiao? Are you sure?"
"I remember the shape of the scars on the child's wrist very clearly, it is the same as the one on the hand of the Mo Xiao, it should be the child in the Mo family's cottage."
"Mo Xiao became an official in the palace, he must have been discovered by the emperor and brought back to the palace later, the Mo family is all over the world, the dragon is hidden very deep when he sees the head and the tail, it is not a cottage that can be killed, and the heirs of the Mo family giants are imprisoned by his side, which is the best barrier."
Chu Zishan rubbed the Qiankun bracelet on his wrist: "The bracelet of the ink owl was taken off, it should be in the emperor's hand, how could it be left in Gu Yimo's hand and transferred to mine?"
"That's a couple." Chu Hao said.
"This bracelet can command the Mo family, will the emperor not know?"
Chu Zishan frowned tightly, speculating in his heart, Gu Yimo said that this bracelet was his mother's, could it be that his mother was from the Mo family, and the person who could have this bracelet must be the closest person to the Mo family giant, for example, brothers and sisters!
The Mo family found out that their relatives were killed by the emperor, so they went to assassinate the emperor to take revenge, but the emperor surrounded and suppressed the nest, lost the child and another Qiankun bracelet.
If what Gu Yimo said was true, he and Mo Xiao were likely cousins.
These speculations are not important, the important thing is that Mo Xiao is the Mo family, and the emperor is his enemy.
This news is simply not too good.
The carriage stopped, and Chu Zishan helped Chu Hao to get off the carriage, when she faintly heard a sad cry, and her heart tightened.
She raised her hand to open the curtain of the car, and saw the middle of summer sitting under the courtyard and crying.
"What are you crying about, what happened?"
"The girl is back, let's go in and have a look."