"Remember!" Zhao Bufan nodded, thinking of the scribe who left in a hurry when he saw him, and he also said a lot of inexplicable things to Huang Sheng at that time.

Zhu Bocai looked at him, and then said: "It was Su Yu and the other three who secretly received your master in the palace back then, otherwise how could your master take a live baby out of the heavily guarded harem alone, but Su Yu didn't know too much, he was only responsible for taking you out of the palace at that time, as for who participated, I don't know where your master took you later, and after your master disappeared, there is nowhere to know."

It wasn't until he saw your face in the Dragon King Temple that he felt that you looked very similar to the saint when he was young, and he learned about your general birth date and experience, and immediately became suspicious, and then he came to me and told me about the secret in the palace back then, so that I could help confirm your identity. We immediately found many loyal old ministers, worked together to track down, and finally confirmed that you were the second prince who was replaced back then. ”

"Investigate, how to trace? The person who did the black hand against me back then is still alive?" Zhao Bufan's eyes flashed with a touch of murderous intent.

Zhu Bocai replied affirmatively: "Of course there is, although most of the insiders have been eliminated, but after all, a few people are still alive, in addition to the eight guards on duty in your dormitory, after they secretly reported to your master, when your master finished stealing the beams and changing the pillars, he immediately dragged his family away with the help of your master, and since then he has been incognito and changed his identity and lived."

Soon after we started to investigate this matter, we slowly found that Yang Jian's people seemed to be also tracking, but I was faster than them, because I knew the eight guards back then, and I knew their martial arts, so I quickly found one of them, confirmed it before and after, and finally confirmed your identity, but unfortunately we only found him in the end, and learned from him that five people had crossed the ocean to go overseas, leaving only him and the other two, but unfortunately when we found the other two, they had been killed by Yang Jian!"

Hearing this, Zhao Bufan instantly realized: "No wonder I have never offended Yang Jian, the great eunuch, but he tried every possible means to kill me, he should be the person who was responsible for killing me back then!"

"Yes! It was he who took a few little eunuchs to move back then, so as to gain the trust of the queen and queen, and slowly have today's status!"

"Does Tong Guan know about this?"

"It's not good, but I shouldn't know it, but Tong Guan has nothing to do with what happened back then!"

At this moment, the information in Zhao Bufan's mind was finally completely connected, and he secretly sorted it out in his heart.

According to the information revealed by the master in a few words, then he went to find the master and the little sister after falling out with the emperor, but because Zhu Bocai once said that they were not in the sea of flowers, so he did not rush to the first time, maybe he went to Xixia, he may have gone to another place, or maybe he also went to the sea of flowers later, but he missed it with the little sister, and the master died soon after returning to the Western Xia, and the little sister was also hidden by Brother Richard and trained to be a killer without humanity, so that the master could not find it after searching for thousands of mountains and rivers.

A few years later, perhaps disheartened and homeless, he remembered me again, and learned from the villagers that I was begging for a living in Tokyo, so they took me to the mountains, taught me martial arts, trained me as an adult, and treated me as his own child. ”

After going through all the causes and consequences in his heart, Zhao Bufan's spirit was greatly impacted, and he sat in the chair silently and didn't speak for a long time.

Zhu Bocai also fell into his own memories, his expression was sometimes sad, sometimes joyful, and he seemed to miss the lost youth!

............

After two hours, Zhao Bufan finally let himself accept the reality, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Father-in-law, since you have been planning together for so long, what do you want me to do? You are even willing to marry Lian'er to me and let me make two promises back then, what is your purpose?"

These words also pulled Zhu Bocai's thoughts back from his memories, and after looking at Zhao Bufan for a moment, he suddenly got up, knelt on the ground very solemnly, and made a big salute.

"Your Royal Highness, the ministers think that the root cause of many tragedies is all due to the sluggishness of the Great Song Dynasty, the accumulation of serious troubles, the corruption of the system, the loyal ministers and good generals either end in tragedy, or become treacherous ministers, so that the internal party struggle, the power struggle is endless, the people's customs are degraded, the people's hearts are sinister, the external Liaojin oppression, the country will not be a country!

Although the prince Zhao Huan is benevolent and loves the people, sympathetic to his subordinates, outstanding in writing, respectful and thrifty, but pampered, weak-willed, difficult to distinguish loyalty and treachery, does not understand the strategy of military and political affairs, and has no power to return to heaven, so the ministers and others are in charge of the decision, concealing the identity of His Royal Highness, so that His Royal Highness can experience the suffering of the people, the difficulties of the people, and sharpen the Wentao martial strategy, in order to achieve the posture of an emperor through the ages, when the time is ripe, the ministers are willing to help His Royal Highness seek to seize the position of the prince, and wait for the saint to return to old age for a hundred years, so that he can stabilize the world!"

After saying these words in one breath, Zhu Bocai still knelt on the ground and refused to look up.

Zhao Bufan was deeply touched when he learned the heartfelt words in his heart, and he no longer had the heart to care about his careful thoughts, thinking about it carefully, if he could get a wife like Zhu Lian, how could it not be a blessing from his previous life, he immediately stepped forward to help him up, and said with a wry smile: "Father-in-law, you really caught me off guard!"

"Doesn't Your Highness want to fight for the crown prince?" Zhu Bocai looked at him straight in an instant.

"Of course not!" Zhao Bufan replied very resolutely, he knew that he must not hesitate at this moment, otherwise Zhu Bocai would waver, because the risk was really very big, Zhu Bocai obviously blocked the life of the entire Zhu family, and there were even more ministers who were secretly involved, if he swayed a little, then they would definitely retreat.

"Fight! Of course we have to fight!"

Zhao Bufan smiled, and then said: "If Zhao Huan has the potential of Mingjun, I will definitely not fight, it is really too tiring to revive the dynasty, since I can be a prince, everything is guaranteed, I am happy to take Lian'er to play in the mountains and rivers, enjoy the glory and wealth, and even I want to go to sea by boat and visit exotic customs, but as my father-in-law said, he is not, he is a poet, he is a talent, but he is not a qualified emperor, he is in charge of the country, I can't sleep, I am afraid that one day the Liao State or the Jin Kingdom will hit my bed and use a knife to hold my neck!" I'm afraid that this great river and mountain will be shattered, and the blood will flow like a sea!"

Zhu Bocai breathed a long sigh of relief and shook his head a little frightened: "Your Highness really frightened me just now!"

Zhao Bufan said with a smile: "Father-in-law, don't call me Your Royal Highness, I've heard you call me by my name for a long time, and you suddenly call me so awkward, not to mention that my life experience has not been made public, and it is easy to have an accident if I get used to it, everything is better as usual, you are an elder, call me extraordinary, I feel more kind!"

Zhu Bocai thought for a while, nodded and said, "It's okay! But listening to what you mean, it seems that you don't want to make it public for the time being?" I think you have experienced a lot now, you can consider revealing your life experience, and there is no need to take risks!"

"Don't!" Zhao Bufan immediately waved his hand and said urgently: "Father-in-law, you suddenly told me about your life experience today, I was already a little caught off guard, and many plans have to be changed, if I really make my life history public now to fight for the crown prince, then wouldn't I be caught in the battle of the royal family, so what's the point?"

"And what is your plan?" Zhu Bocai frowned.

Zhao Bufan paused for a moment, re-sorted out his thoughts, and thought: "The matter of fighting for the prince is risky, we are obsessed with doing this, and we are completely tied hands and feet, these years I have brought up two elite armies in northern Xinjiang, although it has not yet been fully formed, but it has the potential to become an iron army, that is also my descendant, I must be completely in control, only with military power in hand, I have the capital to fight against the Liao State and the Jin State, and I also have the capital to fight for the position of the prince!"

In addition, if I disclose my background now, according to the practice of the Great Song Dynasty, I will inevitably lose my real power, which is equivalent to being locked in a cage, how can I determine who is a talent? Who is not a talent? Revitalizing the dynasty is not a few people can succeed, it takes a lot of talents, it needs to bring down many, many people, without real power, I can't move anyone, and I may even force Tong Guan and those in power to support the crown prince Zhao Huan, which puts me in an embarrassing situation, so I think the identity of the prince is a great constraint for the time being!

In my opinion, the biggest role of the prince's life experience is that I can do it boldly, and I can even openly encircle the famous generals, anyway, even if the incident happens, I show my identity, everyone's opinion will change, as long as I don't plot to rebel, it won't be a problem, but the key is that I was equivalent to holding the whole world in my hands at that time, and the capable people in the world are supporting me, and the position of the prince is naturally handy!"

Zhu Bocai couldn't come back to his senses for a long time after saying this, because his original idea was just to let Zhao Bufan practice, and then return to the court to be the prince, and then take the crown prince with the support of the ministers, and work together to squeeze out those traitorous ministers, and finally realize the change from top to bottom, until he ascended the throne, and slowly changed the Great Song Dynasty. He was a loyal minister, and in his eyes, the crown prince was a very important position, an object to serve.

But in Zhao Bufan's eyes, the identity of the prince itself is worthless, he only respects specific people in his thoughts, but he does not respect the royal identity, for example, he may be willing to be loyal to an outstanding emperor, but he will not be loyal to every emperor, which is essentially different from Zhu Bocai.

In fact, in Zhao Bufan's heart earlier, he basically planned to become a powerful minister in the world first, control the authority, and then treat the emperor as much as he can, and if he can't help him, he will be abolished, but today when he learned his life experience, it was really a little messy, and Zhu Bocai really caught him off guard!

At this moment, although Zhu Bocai couldn't understand Zhao Bufan's thoughts, he understood that what he said was very reasonable, and after careful consideration, he agreed, and then the two quietly discussed for a long time.

Before leaving, he also left a sentence to Zhao Bufan.

"Extraordinary, although you don't plan to disclose your identity for the time being, you should still find a chance to meet Empress Zheng, it is not easy for her to give birth to you, I heard that you died young, and I was in pain, when you returned to Beijing for the first time, I had already secretly told the queen that she knew, so she would come to your banquet, and angrily called the saint and the hundred officials. In the past few months, the queen heard that you returned to Beijing to recuperate, and often asked me when I could recognize you and when I could disclose your identity, but I said that the time was not right, you can decide for yourself!"

After Zhu Bocai left, Zhao Bufan was a little dazed, he was suddenly a little scared, because he really had no feelings for Empress Zheng, far less than the strong feelings for his adoptive parents and master, but after all, he was conceived and born in October by the queen, and there always seemed to be such a connection in the dark, which can be said to be a little want to recognize, but he was very afraid of recognizing, and he didn't know how to face it.

That night, Zhu Lian, who happened to hear everything, also persuaded at the bedside, thinking that he should go to secretly recognize Empress Zheng, but the more she persuaded him, the more upset Zhao Bufan felt, and his childhood memories kept echoing in his mind, recalling that his adoptive parents had worked hard to raise him in poverty, and he couldn't bear to miss it for a while!

............

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Bufan asked the servants to prepare the carriage, took Zhu Lian back to his hometown, and went to the grave of his adoptive parents to worship.

Now the graves of his adoptive parents have been renovated by the Zhu family, and there are special people in charge of taking care of them, so it is no longer the small grave of the year, Zhao Bufan took Zhu Lian to kowtow respectfully, put on incense, and said a lot of words to the tombstone, and then walked with Zhu Lian on the edge of the field where he grew up in his childhood, and told Zhu Lian interesting stories when he was a child!

For example, he made some small inventions at that time, but he was smashed to pieces by jealous people, foolishly framed him as a monster, and forced his adoptive parents to invite a Taoist priest to exorcise evil spirits for him!

For example, he once made a small calculation of scalping to make the difference, but the next day he was beaten all over the ground by the bullies in the town, and he was directly robbed of all the capital!

Too many ups and downs......

When Zhu Lian heard the happy place, he smiled forward and backwards, and when he heard the sad place, his beautiful eyes were full of tears!

But she heard a lot from Zhao Bufan's words, she was born in a wealthy family for the first time deeply felt the life of the people at the bottom, felt how hateful this dark and ignorant world was, and heard Zhao Bufan's ambition to change all this!

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Zhao Bufan and Zhu Lian went out to play for two days, and then returned home to continue to heal, and Huang Sheng also came to teach him and Zhu Lian to practice the Nine Yin True Scripture every three or five days, and his injuries improved day by day.

On this day, Zhu Fengying and Zhu Xuan, two little beauties, were pestering him to tell him the story of Northern Xinjiang, but the servant suddenly came to report, saying that there was a person named Yan Qing who asked to see him.

Zhao Bufan was overjoyed, and immediately got rid of the two pestering little sisters and went to greet them in person.

How could he have thought that when they first met, before he had time to say hello, Yan Qing had already jumped up directly and grabbed his arm tightly: "Extraordinary, something happened to him outside the staff!!"

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