There was a dead silence in the room, as if time had been frozen. This early autumn night brought out a hint of chill.

I don't know how long it took, Lao Dao slowly turned his head and pricked up his ears to listen around. Xiao Feng looked at him indifferently.

"Don't listen, with the ears of you and me, there shouldn't be anyone in this capital who can eavesdrop outside this house without being discovered."

Lao Dao looked at Xiao Feng with a wry smile, as if he had aged a lot all of a sudden. He didn't deny it, he didn't defend it, he just had a helpless face.

"It stands to reason that you shouldn't suspect me about this, right? How did you guess? ”

Xiao Feng said lightly: "Xu Fan said that this letter was quietly given to him by someone else, and he didn't know who wrote it, so he asked me to help him measure his words."

He wrote the word '牋' on a letterhead, and I told Lu Bing that I couldn't measure it. Lu Bing continued to scare Xu Fan and stunned him.

After I waited for Lu Bing to leave, I turned back again, and while Xu Fan hadn't woken up yet, I stamped him with a handprint of the deed of sale.

Of course, he's awake, and I can do a good job of knocking him out again. As Xu Fan said, the Shuntianfu prison is my territory. ”

Lao Dao poured wine into his wine glass, staring at the wine line: "Actually, you have already measured it, right?" ”

Xiao Feng nodded: "I felt very difficult to test this word, and at the beginning I really thought that Xu Fan didn't want me to test it from the bottom of his heart."

But then I still measured it, and then I found that it was difficult because the word test had something to do with me.

I can't measure my own words, and the closer the things that others measure are to me, the harder it is for me to measure.

The word "牋" left "piece" and the right "戋", "戋" is a double "Ge", and the word "Ge" is half of the word "I", which also shows that the writer is a person by my side!

The word "牋" is left "piece" and right "戋", "piece" is the same as "deception", and the writer should have been a liar.

The ancient meaning of the word "戋" has the meaning of "thief", and the letter writer should have been a thief. But the word 'Ge' is the word 'I' and the word 'hand', and this person has already washed his hands.

The people around me have been liars and thieves, and now they still wash their hands, and they have such good light skills that they can give Xu Fan unknowingly.

The second master, you say, this person, is it difficult to guess? ”

Lao Dao smiled bitterly: "It's not difficult to guess, no wonder you tell Lu Bing that you can't measure it, you just need to say two sentences, and Lu Bing will understand everything." ”

Xiao Feng stared at Lao Dao with burning eyes: "So, where did you know about this?" Why did you write to Xu Fan? ”

Lao Dao trembled and picked up the wine glass, drank it all, and looked out through the window, as if looking at the distant past.

"Why? I also want to ask you why. Why don't you kill all the strict party officials? Why do you always have the fortune of the Ming Dynasty in your heart?

How did your dad die, have you forgotten? How did Xia Yan die, have you forgotten? How did Zeng Mill die, have you forgotten?

How did Qiaoniang's family die, have you forgotten? How did Lan Niang's family die, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten how Rouge Tiger and Ruyu died?

Yan Dang, not Yan Song's father and son, Yan Dang is a large group of officials who follow the Yan family!

Yan Dang's evil deeds are not only Yan Song's rights, not only Yan Shifan's ruthlessness, but also a large group of shameless people!

Why? Why did Yan Song's father and son die, and those officials could take off the hat of Yan Dang and become innocent again?

I don't allow it, I want to let the Yan Party officials die one by one, I want them to regret it, why did they follow the Yan family father and son to do evil in the first place! ”

Xiao Feng looked at Lao Dao quietly, his eyes showed deep helplessness and tiredness, and he suddenly felt so tired.

"Those who are guilty must naturally be investigated, and those who are corrupt must also be investigated. However, not all Yan party officials are guilty, and they are all corrupt.

Among the strict party officials, many are doing practical things, and many are forced to do so. If all the strict party officials are wiped out, the world will be in chaos.

In a house, if you want to replace the pillars of the top beam, you must first have one that can be replaced, and then you can replace it.

If the new pillars are not properly supported, and the original pillars are broken with a hammer, the whole house will collapse at once, killing everyone who lives in it. ”

Lao Dao looked at Xiao Feng in a daze: "There are good people in the Yan Party?" You say two come out and I'll listen! ”

Xiao Feng smiled bitterly: "Before Hu Zongxian met me, he was an official under the Yan Party. If Yu Dayou hadn't seen me first, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to get rid of this relationship.

Yang Jisheng is recognized by everyone as a strict party official, and he was promoted by Yan Song all the way up. Although Ding Rukui later worked against Yan Song, he was also promoted by Yan Song at the beginning.

Yan Song has been in power for seven or eight years, and before I appeared, almost half of the courtiers had the label of Yan Party. ”

Lao Dao was silent, just drinking glass by cup, Xiao Feng looked at him silently, and suddenly said.

"I understand now, when you handed over the letter to Xu Fan, you expected that Xu Fan would use this letter to make waves.

He had just been defeated by me, and he would definitely find a way to get revenge on me. And the best way for him to retaliate is to help Xu Jie's strength increase against me.

As long as Xu Fan reveals the letter, it will certainly force Yan Party officials to stand in line, but Banzai and Lu Bing will never stand idly by, and will definitely investigate to the end.

In fact, after Xu Fan shouted the sentence 'Jiangnan Longfeng Store', not only the two hardcore strict parties, but also Liutai Peace Talks were imprisoned.

There is also a large group of Yan Party officials who were arrested by Lu Bing for various reasons, and the closer they are to the Yan family, the faster they will be arrested.

Second master, your scheming is not just like a thief wandering the rivers and lakes, and not just like the dean of a good hall. ”

Lao Dao smiled bitterly: "Then what do you think I look like?" ”

Xiao Feng suddenly smiled and said, "This letter was stolen by you after the defeat of the Yan family, and you sneaked into the Yan Mansion. Although Jin Yiwei has copied the house, their craftsmanship is not as good as yours.

You eventually found some gold and silver and the letter in the secret compartment they didn't find. You spent the gold and silver, and you gave the letter to Xu Fan.

As for the reason, Yan Shifan colluded with Miao Jiang Gu Girl, and once framed Xiao Dong as a descendant of Xia Yan, and almost killed you in the edict.

So if you want to take revenge, you spread this matter through Xu Fan's hand, the purpose is to make Lu Bing suspect that Yan Shifan did it, so that he can kill Yan Shifan's son.

As for the consequences of this incident, you didn't think about it at first, remember? ”

Lao Dao was stunned, looked at Xiao Feng blankly, and then lowered his head, his whole body trembling slightly.

Xiao Feng sighed: "Lu Bing is very alert, I didn't succeed in the word test that night, he should have been suspicious."

If I find out, and I refuse to say, then the messenger must be someone who is close to me.

And there are people around me who have the ability to send letters without knowing it, and you are the most suspicious. Lu Bing will sooner or later think that he will definitely find you.

That's what you can say. Lu Bing believes it or not, it can only depend on the will of God. Last time I was able to get you out of prison, but not this time.

Or you can go, now that there are many vassal countries of the Ming Federation, they will send Han people to live and integrate in the future, you can find a place to live.

But you can't take it away. If you take Xiaodong away, I'm afraid I won't be able to hide it. It's just that you go on your own, and they may not be able to think too much. ”

Lao Dao raised his head and said with a wry smile: "So, you can guess who I am?" ”

Xiao Feng said lightly: "When you send this letter, you actually kill two birds with one stone. Others, even including Lu Bing, now only see that it is the Yan Party officials who are unlucky.

In fact, it is not only the Yan Party officials who are unlucky, this matter is also a hurdle for Lu Bing, but he has not noticed it yet.

For the first time in so many years, Lu Bing was sceptered by the court, and even Lu Yi was a little shaken in his loyalty to the emperor because of this.

Therefore, you have to deal with not only Yan Dang, but also Lu Bing. has hatred for both Lu Bing and Yan Dang, and the identity of the person who can still know about that incident is not difficult to guess. ”

Lao Dao put down his wine glass in a dejected manner: "Why is everything so simple and easy when it comes to you?"

This matter is obviously so complicated, even Lu Bing and Jiajing are in the dark at this time. But listening to your analysis, it seems that it is indeed very simple.

But I'm still a little unconvinced, you don't have to play dumb riddles, just say, who am I? ”

Xiao Feng said lightly: "You should be from the Xia family." According to your age, you should be the same generation as Xia Yan.

As for the relationship between you and Xia Yan, I am not an immortal, so I can't guess. But judging from your attitude towards Xiaodong, the relationship will not be far away. ”

Lao Dao smiled: "I am very good to all children, why do you think I am special to Xiaodong?" ”

Xiao Feng smiled: "I am also a person with daughters in the fairy world, no matter how good I am to other children, it is always different from my own blood relatives." ”

Lao Dao sighed and said slowly: "On the day I was almost beaten to death by my father, the eldest brother who lay on top of me and took the board for me was Xia Yan. ”

The two of them were silent for a long time, only the lights were beeping and exploding, as if they were frightened by this shocking truth.

"I was very young when I was expelled from the house, and my father crossed me off the family tree, so very few people knew that there was such a person in the Xia family.

Later, I became a thousand-armed Rulai, and no one in the Xia family would recognize me. The old people don't mention it to the juniors, and they naturally don't know either.

But I occasionally contact my eldest brother, and with my skills and alertness, naturally I come and go without a trace, and no one knows. ”

Xiao Feng nodded: "Then, if you know the things in this letter, it is naturally related to Xia Yan." ”

Lao Dao nodded: "In the tenth year of Jiajing, I went to visit my eldest brother secretly one night, and my eldest brother was very anxious, and he was very happy to see me.

He said he was looking for people on the rivers and lakes, but he lacked a contact. It's easy to find people in the rivers and lakes, but it's hard to find contacts you can fully trust.

He couldn't get in touch with me, so he couldn't do it. Who knows, I just rushed to see him at this time, it was really providential.

The eldest brother asked me to bring a lot of money, find competent people in the rivers and lakes, go to Meilong Town outside Datong City, and take away the people in the Longfeng store and hide them.

The eldest brother said that someone had already been staring at the Dragon and Phoenix Store, and there might be deaths and injuries on this trip, so he repeatedly told me to be careful. ”

Xiao Feng sighed: "I knew that what Lu Bing told me was definitely not the whole truth, it turned out that it was not only Yan Shifan, but even Xia Yan was involved in this matter." ”

Tears flashed in Lao Dao's eyes, and his voice became much hoarse.

"That's right, in fact, I should have advised my eldest brother to stay out of the matter at that time. But then I also thought about it, and persuasion is in vain.

As far as his temperament and temperament are concerned, no one can persuade him to come back, just like me.

Later, I rushed to Meilong Town with my people, where the men and horses of the two uncles had gathered, as well as the soldiers and horses sent by Datong City.

I don't know who did it first, but anyway, the fight started, the sky was dark, and the blood flowed like a river. Then I saw Jinyiwei again.

The people who followed me to run errands were all dead, and I was seriously injured in the chaos. Fortunately, my escape skills were first-class, and I barely managed to get out.

There is a good hall at the very edge of Weston, and there is a group of orphans in it.

The dean was not at home, and an older child told me that the dean had gone to Datong City to make money and came back to buy them steamed buns to eat.

I was too badly injured to run, so I asked them to hide me and tell them to hide in the good hall and not go out. There are bandits outside.

I told them that when the thieves were gone tomorrow, I would buy them meat buns and be full!

The children were overjoyed, they bandaged my wounds, closed the door tightly, and obediently hid in the house. ”

Lao Dao suddenly stopped speaking, and the tears from the corners of his eyes flowed down the wrinkles on his face and fell on the table.

"Those kids...... Hidden me in the Zen Hall, in the house where the dean lived. I can hear them talking about how many buns they have to eat tomorrow.

Later, a fire broke out. When I woke up in a coma, the children were crying and running around, and I struggled to climb into the tank and passed out again.

By the time I woke up, the whole town of Weston was in ruins. I saw a man about my age, digging desperately.

One of his own legs was also broken, presumably from something that fell while digging. I also helped him plane, but all the children died, and none of them survived.

I told him that I was a passing merchant who was living in a good house, but I had suffered this disaster. He didn't suspect me, just stared blankly at the dead children.

Later, we helped each other out of Weston, and I told him never to mention his stay in Weston.

I can't tell anyone about it, I've been to Westgate too. Because I'm worried that this is not over yet. ”

Xiao Feng sighed: "Broken leg, it turns out that the dean of the good hall is the old crutch." No wonder you later opened a good church, and he helped you manage it so well. ”

Lao Dao nodded: "Well, Lao Dao's mouth is very strict, and he has never said anything about it." So in this world, the only one who knows that I have been to Westgate is my eldest brother.

I went to the south to hide for two years, and only when the limelight passed did I dare to return to the north to carry out activities. I've adopted quite a few orphans along the way, and it feels like I'm atoning for my sins.

Lao Guan didn't go to the south with me, he reopened a good church outside the capital, and the orphans I adopted were also sent to him.

Fortunately, Lao Guan is very good at taking care of children, and I only need to be responsible for making money. At that time, I didn't have a golden basin to wash my hands, so it wasn't difficult to get money. ”

Xiao Feng sighed: "That child in the Good Hall, their death is not your fault. Whether you lived there that day or not, they would all die. ”

Lao Dao looked at the lanterns with a smile: "Maybe, but I can't forget them." I can't forget the excitement they felt when they heard that they were going to eat buns tomorrow.

I will never forget the light of the fire that night, and the sound of their cries in the firelight, which I would hear as soon as I closed my eyes. ”

Xiao Feng drank a glass of wine and took a deep breath: "Who is the person in the Dragon and Phoenix Shop?" ”

Lao Dao shuddered out of thin air: "I didn't know before, but when I was doing things back then, my eldest brother didn't tell me.

But a few years later, when I went to visit my eldest brother again, my eldest brother suddenly asked me to take Xiaodong away. He also said that he would claim that he had been abducted by human traffickers.

I was taken aback and asked my eldest brother what was wrong. The eldest brother hesitated again and again and told me that his situation was not good and that something was likely to happen.

At that time, the eldest brother was still the head of the court, and although the holy grace was not as good as before, outsiders couldn't see any danger to him at all.

Although Yan Song secretly competed with the eldest brother, this kind of court battle, Long Live did not object, why did the eldest brother suddenly panic so much?

The eldest brother told me that he was not afraid of the court fight, what he was really afraid of was that he was looking for people from the rivers and lakes to go to Meilong Town to rescue him, but he was afraid that the news would leak.

Although it is not certain yet, it is said that he is a well-informed figure in the rivers and lakes who committed an accident and was arrested by Jinyiwei. In order to exonerate himself, he confessed to the incident.

I am relieved that this kind of thing is difficult to use as evidence. But my eldest brother told me that sometimes, it is enough to chase after the wind.

Yang Tinghe just wanted to calm things down and keep Banzai and Empress Zhang, and Banzai exiled his son.

If Banzai believed Lu Bing's report and knew that the eldest brother had sent someone to rescue the people in the Dragon and Phoenix Shop, what would Banzai think? No one can guess.

I was very puzzled, and asked my eldest brother, who is the person in the dragon and phoenix shop, and why it affects all forces and kills so many people.

The eldest brother hesitated for a long time before telling me: According to Yang Tinghe, the people in the Dragon and Phoenix Shop should be the heirs of Wuzong. ”

Xiao Feng's whole body trembled, and his mind was like a firework, and many things that he couldn't think of were instantly connected.

Why did his parents never tell him in detail about the details of saving Lu Bing, but only vaguely told him that they saved Lu Bing outside Datong City.

Why did Xu Fan's sentence "Jiangnan Longfeng Shop" make Lu Bing and Jiajing explode in an instant, chasing the Yan Party officials to the ground.

Why did Yang Tinghe suddenly become a leader at the peak of his power in Jiajing for ten years, and then even his son Yang Zhen was exiled.

Why did the relationship between Empress Zhang and Jiajing deteriorate sharply ten years after Jiajing, and it was not eased until her death.

Ten years after Jiajing, Empress Zhang's two younger brothers were imprisoned in the edict prison, neither killed nor released, and were not killed until Empress Zhang's death.

Why was Meilong Town, outside Datong City, slaughtered overnight, burned to the ground, and completely erased from the memory of the world, leaving no trace.

Xiao Feng felt that the wine in his stomach kept surging up, churning uncomfortably, and he took a deep breath before pressing it down.

"So, you took Xiaodong away and raised him in the Shan Hall. After a while, something happened to Xia Yan, so you not only hate Yan Dang, but also Lu Bing. ”

Lao Dao wiped his tears, and suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly; "Lord Xiao, do you know, in fact, my eldest brother had a chance to get out."