If Yuwen Tianlu has any hobbies, it is the Chishui wine of Yinyang, the Chishui wine aged by Li Ji, which is well known in the capital.

And because of Yuwen Tianlu's love, Chishui wine has also been popular in the capital for a while, becoming the choice of vassal elegance or clinging to the powerful. Moreover, the price of Chishui wine is not expensive, and ordinary people can afford it, but because of the bitter taste, the Chishui wine that circulates in the capital is added with honey.

Zhao Lanjiang had heard of Yuwen Tianlu's family affairs, so he also made a special explanation for the Li Ji Aging, even if he didn't confess, the grocery store owner Xu Yang would secretly take care of it.

It's just an empty study, where does the smell of wine come from?

He closed his eyes, mobilized his internal force, and his sense of smell instantly became sensitive, and finally, under the bookcase, Zhao Lanjiang found that a stone was a little different from other places, and there were traces of lifting. The traces are faint and cannot be detected unless you look closely.

Perhaps because of the poverty of Yuwen Tianlu's family, the people who raided the house did not find it here.

He leaned down and lifted the stone with a slight force, and under the stone slab, there was a three-foot square casset, and inside the couch there was a jar of wine.

It was the most ordinary red water wine that I had ever seen in Hidden Sun City.

The wine jar is sealed with yellow mud and has not been opened, it looks like it has been aged for a long time, so there will be a faint smell coming out, if it was before, the study was often ventilated, and no one would have noticed it at all. When I came here today, there was a seal in the study, and no one had been here for a long time.

He took out the wine jar, and next to the jar, there was an iron box.

Zhao Lanjiang took the iron box on the bookcase, and after opening it, he saw a stack of letterheads.

There are more than 100 letters.

The letterheads were neatly stacked and wrapped in oiled paper, and they were not damp.

More than 100 unsent letters.

A letter to the proprietress of Lee Kee Aging.

One is a powerful person in the dynasty, the other is a folk wine seller, what story has happened between the two?

Zhao Lanjiang didn't have a hobby of peeping into other people's privacy, but he wanted to know Yuwen Tianlu too much, so he didn't hold back and opened these letterheads.

"Ah Xue's beloved, seeing words is like faces. Today, Shuang'er has learned to walk, and when I see her staggering towards me, I am very relieved, if you are here, life is like this, what more can you ask for?......"

"Today is Shuang'er's sixth birthday, the ministers have come to celebrate, His Majesty also named her the lord of Ningling, during the banquet, she suddenly asked me, Daddy, why don't I have a mother? I don't know how to reply......"

These letterheads are full of affection.

After all, Yuwen Tianlu studied literature in his early years, and only moved the capital, if he didn't offend the powerful, he was very likely to enter the office, and his writing was also quite beautiful, and the letter was recorded in a trivial matter, written in an ordinary sketch tone, which was very moving.

Even a person like Zhao Lanjiang, who is coarse and well-versed in writing and ink, was moved by the content of these letters.

He tied up the letter and was about to put it back in the box, when he suddenly felt a slight shaking sound at the bottom of the box, and he looked closely, but found that there was a mezzanine under the box.

After opening, a token fell out.

Gold Pass.

The back of the token is engraved with the word "Yi".

There is also a piece of yellow silk, which reads, "On the sixth day of October in the seventeenth year of Taiqi, Concubine Qin gave birth to a dragon son and gave her a name." "Then there are some relevant identification documents and so on.

There is also a brown paper bag inside, which is sealed with the fire paint of the Dengwen Academy, and the word "top secret" is written, which is a confidential file of the Dengwen Academy, and the name on the file is Zhao Yuanxiu.

Zhao Lanjiang's father's name.

Zhao Lanjiang's hands trembled, he didn't know what was inside, but he knew that this file was related to the matter of the prince of the previous dynasty twenty-two years ago, and related to the massacre in Dingzhou that year.

He opened the paper bag anyway.

"Dengwen Yuan Secret File Ding 9527, Zhao Yuanxiu, a native of Dingzhou, joined the forbidden army in the sixth year of Taiqi, served as the dragoon guard of the forbidden army, and for eleven years, served as the commander of the forbidden army......"

It turned out that his father had been a forbidden soldier in the palace back then, but in his memory, his father never mentioned this.

There was a sentence that caught Zhao Lanjiang's attention.

"In the seventeenth year, due to dereliction of duty after drinking, he was dismissed from the forbidden army, repatriated to his hometown, and gave birth to a son Zhao Yi, and in the nineteenth year, he gave birth to a son Zhao Lanjiang......"

This sentence is not right, Zhao Lanjiang said in his heart.

"I was obviously born in 17 years, and Zhao Yi is 19 years old. ”

In the second year of Zhengyuan, when Yuwen Tianlu led the army to occupy Dingzhou, he was five years old, and his younger brother Zhao Yi was three years old.

Looking at the payment of the secret file, it is the second year of Zhengyuan.

It was this secret file that made his younger brother suffer a murder and was picked to death by Yuwen Tianlu in Dingzhou City, and the person who was picked up by his father successfully escaped the catastrophe. He never had any

Fa forgot that before his father left, he told him that no matter what happened, he would save the child's life.

But why is it completely different from what is recorded in the secret file?

He picked up the yellow silk again and read it again, and one line of words suddenly rushed to his face like a mountain, and he was overwhelmed.

“...... The right arm is upper, and there is a purple birthmark......"

Zhao Lanjiang lifted his sleeve and glanced at his right arm, which was covered by a scar. After Zhao Lanjiang joined the army, he experienced a hundred battles and countless wounds, but he can never forget that in his childhood, because he made a mistake and knocked over a bowl of rice, his father used a soldering iron to burn a wound on his right arm.

Now that he is old, the wound is the size of a bowl, but he still remembers the situation vividly.

That night, my father got drunk and went up the mountains with a bow and arrows to hunt, and the next morning he came back from hunting a badger and used badger oil to help him smear his wounds. The mother, on the other hand, has been hiding in the room and crying.

He didn't understand that Ming Yuwen Tianlu could kill him at any time, but he never started, and he also gave the power in his hand to himself.

Until you see these things, all the mysteries are solved.

Zhao Lanjiang's chest was tight, the corners of his mouth were dry, and he wanted to yell loudly, but when he opened his mouth, he found that he couldn't speak.

Yang Xiaoxiao walked in with a bowl of ginseng soup.

"I can't afford to prepare things in the house, those maids are clumsy, I boiled you a bowl of ginseng soup and drank it while it was hot. ”

Zhao Lanjiang held the ginseng soup and couldn't swallow it for a long time.

"Heaven-send?"

Mom fell asleep. Yang Xiaoxiao saw that his face was wrong, and asked, "Husband, are you uncomfortable?"

Zhao Lanjiang shook his head and threw some distracting thoughts out of his mind.

"It's just some business. ”

Yang Xiaoxiao is also sensible, she saw the mess on the bookcase, and wanted to help him clean it up, but Zhao Lanjiang shouted, "Slow!"

Yang Xiaoxiao was puzzled and felt a little aggrieved.

Zhao Lanjiang also realized the gaffe and explained, "These are all things left by the Metropolitan Governor of Yuwen, and I will clean them up." ”

Yang Xiaoxiao walked out of the study.

Zhao Lanjiang folded the letters and put them back in their place, he took the brown paper bag, pondered for a long time, and the internal force vomited slightly, shaking it into crumbs.

And that golden token, he held it in his hand, and felt extremely heavy.

Because of this, his father, mother and younger brother were killed, and 30,000 people in Dingzhou City were slaughtered, resulting in a ghost town.

30,000 lives!

In their eyes, is it so worthless?

Yuwen Tianlu once asked him, "Kill one, save a hundred, kill or not?"

Zhao Lanjiang thought the question was ridiculous at the time and did not answer it. But the question now is, kill 30,000 people, save one, kill or not kill?

By extension, if that person is himself, kill 30,000 people, save himself, kill or not kill?

This was exactly the choice that Yuwen Tianlu faced back then.

Yuwen Tianlu slaughtered Dingzhou City and killed his relatives, in order to save Zhao Lanjiang's life!

As he said, killing people is not something to brag about.

In this life, he was infamous for being slaughtered because of this incident, especially after he was convicted of rebellion, Yuwen Tianlu's evil deeds were further revealed to the world.

It can be expected that in the future, Yuwen Tianlu will be set on the pillar of shame in history by historians.

Zhao Lanjiang felt chills all over his body.

His blood was cold.

Even when he faced the enemy generals of Western Chu alone in the western Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty, he had never been like this now.

Hidden Sun City?

Hidden Dragon City?

The Hidden Sun King?

King of the Golden Sword?

I'm afraid that Li Qiuyi, the king of the golden sword, also guessed this, so he gave the golden knife to himself. Because of this, Yuwen Tianlu has always let him develop in Western Xinjiang, even for his future son-in-law, he has never been so concerned.

This account must be calculated.

Zhao Lanjiang has always been a person with clear grievances.

Immediately after, a thought came to mind.

Emperor Daming, why did he let him come to the capital?

Did he find something?

He had never been afraid of anything in his life, but this thought made Zhao Lanjiang break out in a cold sweat, especially this time, he even brought his wife and children to the capital.

Thinking of this, the gold token in his hand was crumpled into a ball by him.

......

Palace.

In the northeast corner, an annex was built.

The yard is not big, covering an area of no more than one acre, and the dark courtyard wall looks a little gloomy, and it is surrounded by all sides

Ouchi master guards.

It's not so much a yard as a cage.

An old man sat in the courtyard, holding an ancient book in his hand, and was looking down to read it. The old man was dressed in a white single coat, his hair was messy, and he was obviously much older.

No one expected that, without warning, Li Chuntie suddenly lost His Majesty's favor, and after entering the palace, he never came out.

This spy leader of the Dengwen Academy, who was one of the right-hand men of the country with His Majesty, has now become a prisoner.

There is no incrimination of sin, nor is there any incrimination against the world.

Just shut.

No one is allowed to visit or talk to anyone.

He had been locked up here for four months, and during these four months, he had never been to anyone except a deaf and dumb eunuch who came to deliver food every day.

But today, a visitor came to the annex.

The man was dressed in a scarlet robe and walked towards the courtyard. The guard at the door said, "See Lu Guogong." ”

It was the new magnate of the dynasty, Lu Guogongzhang, and Shihe.

Lu Guo said fairly, "Remove the ban, I have something to ask him." ”

"This person is cunning and has high martial arts, I'm afraid of ......"

Lu Guogong snorted coldly, "Your Majesty's will, don't you listen to it?"

The leader of the generals did not dare to be disobedient and withdrew the forbidden troops from all around. Lu Guogong carried a pot of wine and came to the courtyard.

"Dean Li, I haven't seen you for a few months, have you ever been used to living here?"

Li Chuntie put down the book and glanced at the other party, a year ago, even if this Lu Guogong knelt in front of him, he would not look at it squarely, but in less than a year, he became the leader of the number one "Inverted Yuwen Party" in the court, and jumped from Zhengliupin to a cabinet scholar.

Li Chuntie said slowly, "I've been busy for so many years, it's good to be idle, I have time to read books and raise flowers, but there are more flies and mosquitoes here." ”

Lu Guogong smiled, "I made a note of it, go back and let the forbidden army help you catch more in." Save yourself from being too bored here. ”

Li Chuntie said, "So I thank Lu Guogong." ”

"They are all officials of the same dynasty, so why be polite. ”

Li Chuntie said with a smile, "Don't dare to be, when the old man was out of the Taiji Palace, you didn't even have the qualifications to kneel outside the hall, how could you be regarded as an official in the same dynasty?"

Lu Guogong showed a trace of anger in his eyes, but he concealed it well, and soon laughed, "Thanks to the emperor's grace, this time and that time are also the same." ”

Li Chuntie said, "Nothing waits for the Three Treasures Palace, if there is a fart, let it go." ”

This was rude, but it was more in line with his character, Lu Guo was fair, "Entrusted by His Majesty, I came to ask on behalf of Your Majesty, do you have anything you want to say about the thing he wants to know." ”

Li Chuntie said, "The sacred heart is unpredictable, dare to ask Lu Guogong, what does Your Majesty want to know?"

Lu Guogong hesitated.

He just came to pass the word, and he didn't know what it was. This is a very special relationship between monarchs and ministers, and there are some things that do not need to be clarified, and the monarchs and ministers know each other.

His Majesty imprisoned Li Chuntie, but no one knew why he was convicted.

Lu Guogong had tried it, but Zhu Liye's look scared him out of his body, and he didn't dare to ask half a word more.

"Seeing that autumn is about to begin, Your Majesty is worried that the dean will suffer from the cold, for the sake of the feelings of the year, let me see if the dean has any intention of repenting. ”

Li Chuntie suddenly sneered.

"Love, I'm afraid in the eyes of His Majesty, there is no love at all, right?" He took the wine brought by Lu Guogong, poured a glass, drank it slowly, and said lightly, "If I dare to say it, do you dare to listen?"

"I ......"

Before the word "dare" could be spoken, Lu Guogong stopped talking.

This matter has dragged on for so long, it must be a big thing, although he is a favored minister, but after all, he has not gained a stable foothold in the court, especially within a year, he has been promoted ten levels in a row, and the courtiers are polite to him on the surface, but they have great opinions in private. And he also understands that the more this is the case, the more he must show his loyalty to His Majesty and be willing to be a dog of His Majesty, so wherever His Majesty's eyes see, his teeth will be bitten.

But the person in front of him, even if he was already a prisoner, he didn't dare to bite it.

was able to become a marquis, especially after witnessing the ups and downs of Yuwen Tianlu and Li Chuntie, he acted more cautiously.

He naturally has a set of officialdom philosophies and rules of survival, one of which is that he must never touch His Majesty's private affairs.

"No, you just need to tell me, yes or no, so that I can reply to Your Majesty. ”

Li Chuntie shook his head, turned away, and ignored him.

Lu Guogong touched a nail and was about to leave, but he heard someone say angrily, "Li Chuntie, how much else do you have to hide from me!"