The woman in white sighed, and then said, "It's just that Master Zu's martial arts are really powerful. Daddy gave him a drink of venom made from the poisonous weed of Koriyama, and just one drop in the water tank was enough to poison the whole village. When he saw that Master Zu had drunk, he only said that Master Zu would definitely not be lucky, and he was afraid that if Master Zu hit him desperately when he was poisoned, he might not be able to stop it, so he took his leave and left, only to come to collect Master Zu's body on the second day.

"Daddy's plan, but he also has his reasons. He knew that although he had not cultivated the most powerful internal skills of his ancestors, the swordsmanship he had learned alone was enough to stand alone. As long as Master Zu dies, his martial arts will no longer be passed on to others, and he will be the number one master of Fusang. That night, he was very happy.

But the next morning, when he rushed to the house where Master Zu lived, he found that Master Zu was gone. Daddy was shocked, he knew what Master Zu was capable of, if he couldn't kill him, he would definitely have endless troubles. At that time, there were fifty or sixty killers under Daddy's command, and all of them were very powerful. It's just that if they are asked to kill Master Zu, these people may not be able to obey their father's words, even if they do, they may not be Master Zu's opponents. It was my father who had no choice but to hide this matter and planned to secretly find out the whereabouts of Master Zu by himself. To the villagers, he only said that the ancestor missed his hometown and had quietly left.

At that time, the whole village believed my father's words. I know that Master Zu often climbed the snow peak to look at his hometown, so he believed in my father's words. It wasn't until I saw my grandfather's dying appearance that I knew what kind of person my father was who I really respected. Master Zu said that after he drank the poisonous wine that day, he relied on his profound internal strength to force the poisonous wine out of his body, but all his internal organs were attacked by the poison, and it was not easy to escape. He hid alone in the stone cave at the top of the snowy peak for four years, and he had run out of oil. He told me that his real name was Liu Zongyan and asked me to bring his ashes back to Ming Kingdom after his death.

"Master Zu said that he didn't hate my father, because when he taught martial arts, he didn't teach the villagers benevolence, righteousness and morality, so that the villagers became reckless men who only knew how to use force to obtain benefits, which was his own sin. He said that my dad was very smart, just ambitious, and would definitely do something beyond his ability in the future. Master Zu advised me to leave my father so as not to be victimized by him.

Master Zu said a few more words, and said with a smile that he had been without food for seven days, and he only relied on drinking a little water to maintain it. God pity me, let me find him, he has no regrets. After finishing speaking, Master Zu slowly closed his eyes. I wept bitterly, carried his body to the woods on the mountainside, picked up some dead branches and leaves, cremated him, and then took his ashes down the mountain.

"It's just that since that day, I have been both respectful and afraid of my father, and his face is slightly gloomy, and my heart is pounding. I think that Mingguo is thousands of miles away from Fusang, and there is a sea in the middle, so I don't want to go in this life. After returning home, he put the ashes of his grandfather into the jar and secretly buried them under a big tree in the backyard.

"My father's reputation grew, and finally the generals of Heiankyo sent someone to invite him. Daddy took Feihua Zhuyue and others to Heianjing. The fishing village of Koriyama, where we live, is only one of the most inconspicuous villages in Koriyama Castle, and compared to Koriyama and Heiankyo, it is the difference between heaven and earth. The shogun is the biggest official in Fuso, and he is even more powerful than the emperor. Daddy was invited by the general to have a drink, which was a big event that caused a sensation in Fuso.

"Daddy lived in Heiankyo for half a year, and when he returned to Hanshan Fishing Village, he even brought twenty or thirty samurai with him. It turned out that the general made his father an official, and his father could already support his retainers. These samurai are the ones who have taken refuge in their father as retainers. Daddy returned to Hanshan Fishing Village and told everyone to leave Hanshan Fishing Village and move to Heianjing to live. Although the villagers were already rich, they were still overjoyed when they heard that they were going to Heiankyo.

"More than 200 people in our village followed my father to Heianjing and lived in a big house. Ah, the road to Heiankyo is so wide, so wide that we never dared to imagine. The people on the road walked slowly, swaying and shaking, and the women wore beautiful clothes, shaved off their eyebrows, and always covered their mouths with fans when they spoke. Everything about Heiankyo surprised the villagers.

"Daddy has always been very busy, and the people he has made friends with are all the big officials in Heiankyo. One day, he called me out of the blue, and told me that he had decided to marry me to the general's brother, and that after the marriage between the two families, my father would become a noble lord and his status in the court would be greatly enhanced.

"Daddy didn't have a surname, so he gave himself a name called Yanagi Soyan. After becoming a nobleman, our family also took Yanagi as their surname, and my father called me Yanagi Feiyan......"

Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan glanced at each other, and four words came to mind in their hearts at the same time: ashes.

I only heard Yanagi Feiyan continue: "Although I first arrived in Heianjing, I also heard that the general's younger brother is a tyrannical person, so I don't agree to this marriage. My father scolded me angrily, and even threw the sword from his waist in front of me, asking me to choose between marriage and suicide. I had no choice but to obey his orders, and the next day I was carried into the mansion of the general's brother.

"I had prepared for the worst, but when I entered the mansion, I found that the general's brother was even worse than I had heard. He already has four wives at home, each with children. These four women and their children often acted behind their backs, instigating the general's brother to bully me. The general's younger brother was a heavy drinker and often whipped me, and my father bought two maids to serve me, and he bullied and killed them one after another. Every time he gets drunk, it's Good Friday. At that time, although I had been practicing swordsmanship for nearly ten years, it could be said that it was easy to kill him, but when I thought of the Yanagi clan, I had to endure it.

"After my father married me to the general's younger brother, the Yanagi clan became more powerful in the imperial court. Several of my cousins have become high officials. It's just that the general and another minister have been at odds, the two have been fighting openly and secretly for more than ten years, and the general tried to kill the minister several times, but the minister was protected by the emperor, and although he was finally exiled to a remote and wild place, the emperor never agreed to kill him.

Although the general held the power of the imperial court and often executed officials, the minister not only had a very high official position, but also had a reputation throughout Fusang, and even the general did not dare to kill him blatantly, for fear of provoking a popular uprising. But if you don't get rid of him, but you are worried that you will turn him over in the future, the general's faction will be very bad. So the general approached my father and asked him to send someone to kill the minister on the way to exile.

"My father knew that this matter was related to the rise and fall of the Yanagi clan, so he personally took Feihua Zhuyue and others to intercept and kill this minister on the road. It's just that this minister is also an extremely powerful figure, and he has long known that the general will not let him go, so he invited the masters of the Iga family and the Koga family, the most powerful ninja families in Fuso, to protect him. The ninjas of these two families are very good, their whereabouts are strange, and there are many intrigues and tricks. It's just that the swordsmanship passed down from the ancestor is too powerful, and although the Yanagi family also killed five or six killers in battle, the patriarchs of the Iga and Koga families were killed by my father.

The minister saw that the situation was not good, so he thought of a way. He took advantage of the chaos to kill one of his retainers, changed his clothes, and threw himself into the fire, but he himself changed his clothes and fled. My father's killer found the body in the fire, and said that the minister had died in the chaos, so he took the head of the fake minister and a few others back to the general. The general was overjoyed and rewarded him with a lot of money. It's just that my father had become a rich man at that time, and he didn't pay attention to the money.

The general only said that the minister was dead, and he was even more unscrupulous in acting in the court, not only coercing the officials of the court, but even the emperor and the emperor in his eyes. These opponents were terrified to death, so they secretly banded together to get rid of the general. At this time, the escaped minister also sneaked back to Heiankyo, and he was clever and won the support of both the court and the people, so that when the shogun was out of the castle to inspect, he took the emperor's pardon, mobilized the army of Heiankyo, ambushed the shogun and his party outside the city, and killed the shogun's family.

"After my father learned the news, he knew that this minister would not let go of the Yagyu clan, and staying in Heiankyo would inevitably destroy the entire clan. Taking advantage of the minister's all-out efforts to hunt down and kill the general's retainers, his father escaped from Heiankyo with his clansmen. It's just that he only cares about himself and the men in the clan, and he didn't even think that I was still in the general's brother's mansion.

When the rebels stormed into the palace, the general's younger brother was drinking and having fun with several maikos. I grabbed a samurai and forced him to ask what had happened. He didn't say anything at first, but after I cut off one of my right arms, I said that the general and his retainers had all been killed. Knowing that the general was finished, I first grabbed the four wives and their children of the general's brother, killed them all, and then beheaded the general's brother with a single sword. Haha, haha. ”

Yanagi Feiyan said this, looking up to the sky and laughing wildly. Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan's faces changed together, and they really couldn't guess why these Fusang people were so vicious.

(End of chapter)