In the east of Changju City, most of the people living in it are official eunuch families.

Tian family, ancestors were the founding heroes of Ju State, to this generation, although there are no important ministers of the court in the family, but several outstanding children are also famous. The Tian family is very strict in governing the family, and does not allow the children to indulge in alcohol, and at night, most of the younger generation are studying hard behind closed doors, and compared with the surrounding courtyards, his house seems to be a little lighted.

The backyard of the Tian family is the residence of the female dependents. In a three-story attic, a gentle and beautiful girl held her chin lightly and looked out the window at the small garden. Between her eyebrows, there is a layer of faint sadness that cannot be dissolved, which is extremely lovable.

"Deng An, where will you be?"

The girl murmured in a low voice, almost inaudible. The breeze outside the attic window, accompanied by the low song of birds and insects, the originally bright flowers and trees of various colors swayed gently in the night, and occasionally fell petals, as if they were sad to lose their former style.

The girl continued to say to herself: "They all say that you have suffered misfortune, but I don't believe it, they must be deliberately lying to me, and you will definitely be fine......"

Speaking of which, she couldn't stop sobbing softly.

Suddenly, a man sighed and said leisurely: "Deng An is no longer in the world, what they said is right, why should Miss Tian remember it in her heart, so that he can't leave with peace of mind." ”

"Are you talking?" the girl raised her head sharply, looked out the window happily, but found nothing, and said to herself in disappointment, "Could it be that I miss him too much?" ”

Thinking of this, a faint flush swayed on her jade-like face, and the candlelight increased her delicate and beautiful, making it difficult for people to look at her.

"Deng An is so fortunate in this life that he can be so favored by Miss Tian, but you and I are separated by yin and yang, and the fate of Ximei Mountain is over, and I hope that Miss Tian will mourn. ”

The man's voice rang out again, filled with endless sorrow.

"Is it really you? why don't you want to see me!"

Only then did the girl realize that it was not an auditory hallucination. If you were someone else, I would be scared half to death when I heard this fluttering sound. The girl's love did not have any fear, but became very eager, looking forward to the person in her heart to appear.

"I hope Miss Tian can be mentally prepared. ”

A gust of yin wind blew through the window, causing the candlelight to flicker and dim, and in Miss Tian's surprised gaze, a cloud of yin qi blew into the room, and slowly turned into a human form, which was Deng An's appearance.

"You, are you a human or a ghost...... Miss Tian vaguely guessed the result and was mentally prepared, but in the face of reality, she was still frightened and couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time.

"What do you say?" Seeing Miss Tian's reaction, Deng An, who had expected it, smiled bitterly and comforted softly: "Don't be afraid, I just came to visit you, and there is no malice." ”

"You've really ...... I don't believe it! You're lying to me......!

Miss Tian, who seemed to be weak on the surface, suddenly yelled because she couldn't accept this cruel fact, and then burst into tears and cried bitterly.

Deng An's eyes were closed, his heart was like a knife, but he couldn't shed a single tear, he looked at the girl silently, and couldn't say a word of comfort.

Soon, there was the sound of stampeding downstairs.

"The world is impermanent, why do you ...... suffering?"

When the girl lifted it up to look at Deng An again, it was gone, leaving only such a simple sentence, lingering in her ears for a long time, she seemed to have returned to Ximei Mountain a few years ago, and saw the smiling young scholar.

"Miss, are you alright?"

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old maid heard the movement upstairs, worried that something had happened to her young lady, and hurriedly went upstairs, only to see Miss Tian's eyes red and swollen, looking out the window in a daze, and repeatedly chanting "You will be fine", so she anxiously stepped forward to ask.

"I'm fine! I just had a nightmare. The girl shook her head slightly.

The maid couldn't bear it in her heart, hesitated for a moment, and said tentatively: "Aunt An just came back from the front yard and saw the prince again, but he seems to have been persuaded away by the master." ”

The girl's silver teeth bit lightly, and said hatefully: "Even if I die, I won't marry him!"

Outside the Tian family's house, there is a secluded and uninhabited street. The breeze blew through the fallen leaves on the ground, and a cloud of yin qi floated out of the courtyard, transforming into Deng An's appearance. The love is gone, and there is no self. Although it was only in the form of yin qi, he could clearly see the melancholy on his face.

"Why didn't you talk a little more when you came out so soon?" In a dark corner on the side of the street, Meng Ping walked out slowly, laughing as he walked.

"What is there to talk about!"

Deng An was in a bad mood, did not give him a good face, and took the initiative to ask to return to the soul flag, Meng Ping did not care, and saw that it was too late, and immediately returned to the National Teacher's Mansion.

Ten days later, Meng Ping didn't want to listen to Wang Yiping's counts anymore, so he casually found an excuse, said goodbye to his master, and embarked on a journey back to Yanyin Peak with Deng An.

These days, in addition to visiting Miss Tian, Deng An only went back to the Deng family's house in the capital, and most of his limited life was spent there.

After the death of Deng Zhongshu, the house of the Deng family was taken care of by a subordinate with a foreign surname, and after the news of Deng Hong's death came from the border pass, Wang Yingde, the son of Wang Changshun, forcibly drove the subordinate away under the pretext that the house was ownerless, and classified it as his own name. Even if there is no certificate such as a title deed, no one will question the son of the prime minister of this dynasty for the Deng family, which was destroyed.

After Wang Yingde occupied this property, he didn't tell his wife, but secretly raised a concubine here, and often brought fox friends and dog friends over to drink flower wine.

Deng An didn't want to embarrass Meng Ping, so he didn't go to trouble Wang Yingde.

Regarding the murder of the Deng family, Meng Ping's call sounded surprisingly smooth. When he made an appointment with Chen Dongsheng and asked for the reward for arresting Deng An, he asked about it by the way. It may be that Wang Changshun recognized the national teacher Wang Yiping as his uncle, and Meng Ping was Wang Yiping's apprentice, Chen Dongsheng told him what he learned about the Deng family.

The ambush of the Deng family was indeed directed by Wang Changshun behind the scenes, but it was a distant relative of his, named Fang Erlong, who is now serving as the head of the guard of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Some of the people who participated in the siege of the Deng family's convoy were the palace guards, and the other part were the shear-cut robbers in the Xing'an Mountains, and the identities of these people were only clear to Fang Erlong.

Knowing this, Deng An did not forget to ask Meng Ping to inquire about the eldest brother Deng Hong and Deng Sanqun.

Deng Zhongshu was robbed and killed on the way back to his hometown, which caused a sensation in the government and the opposition, although Deng Hongren was at the border, but he also knew about it early, because of the tense relations between Ju and its neighbors, he was under the emperor's order, and could not go home to deal with the funeral, so he could only send his subordinates to deal with the affairs of his family.

Wang Changshun knew the truth that the grass should be eradicated, and secretly sent people to spread rumors in the capital, saying that Deng Hong was dissatisfied with the emperor, and then he instructed his own ministers to take the opportunity to jointly write a letter of impeachment, and the emperor was furious and sent envoys to the border to ask for guilt.

However, when the envoy arrived at the border pass, the guard told him that Deng Hong had led people to pursue a small group of enemy spies, and accidentally fell into a rushing river, and it was impossible to survive.

Wang Changshun didn't believe that things would be so coincidental, and secretly sent a lot of people to investigate, because Tingshui Town was Deng Hong's hometown, he asked Chen Dongsheng to find Deng Sanqun to help find out.

As for Deng Sanqun, it can be said that after becoming the housekeeper of the Deng family, he began to think about his own back path. Because Wang Changshun and Deng Zhongshu are fighting fiercely in the court, it is likely to come to the point of life and death in the future, as the housekeepers of the two families, Deng Sanqun and Chen Dongsheng will inevitably be implicated, and once their master loses power, they will be unlucky.

In order to avoid this situation, Deng Sanqun and Chen Dongsheng signed a "gentleman's agreement", between the two, no matter who is in trouble, the other person must help. With the two sides evenly matched and the situation unclear, this is a completely mutually beneficial agreement.

Chen Dongsheng heard that Wang Changshun was going to make a move on Deng Zhongshu, and he immediately pleaded with Wang Changshun because of his past friendship. Wang Changshun is a master of playing with power, so he naturally knows what his subordinates are thinking. Moreover, in order to better monitor Deng Zhongshu, the Deng family's high-level officials needed to make internal responses, so he proposed that as long as Deng Sanqun provided information such as Deng Zhongshu's route back to his hometown, not only would Deng Sanqun be released, but also the Deng family's property in Tingshui Town could be gifted. In addition, after killing Deng Zhongshu and his relatives, there will definitely be people who suspect him, which requires a strong "witness" to prove that the Deng family suffered robbers, and Deng Sanqun is a good candidate.

For these two things, Deng An has a certain speculation, and now it has been confirmed, and he is surprisingly calm, in his opinion, the people involved in this matter will have to pay for their blood debts sooner or later.

On the way back to Yanyin Peak, Meng Ping passed through a small town. This town is very similar to the town of Long An, where Deng An once passed, and the town is mostly filled with merchants who buy mountain goods.

Zhenguimen set up a medicine store in the town, specializing in purchasing medicinal materials for a long time. This medicine shop is also equivalent to a contact point for the Ghost Sect, and the disciples who travel between Ju Kingdom and Yanyin Peak often choose to settle down here to rest, and the person in charge of this business is the old man of the fourth layer of the famous Lian Qi, who was sent to take care of these trivial matters because he had lost the meaning of cultivation.

When the old man saw Meng Ping coming in, he immediately took him upstairs to rest. After some polite words, he saw that Meng Ping was a little impatient, so he got up and said goodbye. Meng Ping and Deng An both felt strange, Meng Ping had also been here before, every time the old man was ignorant of it, and arranged a mortal servant to entertain him at will, this time for some reason, he was extraordinarily attentive and personally led. They guessed a few reasons, but they still had no clue, so they didn't bother with the matter anymore.

The next day, as Deng An was about to leave, the old man knocked on his door.

"Senior Brother Meng, is this going for Yanyin Peak?"

"Senior Brother Yang, you have something to say, but if you can help, you will definitely do your best. Meng Ping didn't want to play guessing with him, so he said straight to the point.

Hearing this, the old man smiled awkwardly and said, "It's still Senior Brother Meng's refreshing, but it's not a big deal." Not long ago, I got the news that several medicine farmers accidentally found a thousand-year-old jade ginseng on the edge of a mountain stream, and when they went to pick it, they were attacked by a purple-crowned snake hiding in the nearby grass, and only one of them escaped. ”

Speaking of this, the old man secretly observed Meng Ping's reaction, and seeing that the other party did not have the expression he expected on his face, he couldn't help but be disappointed, so he had to continue: "The strength of the Purple Crowned Snake is equivalent to the fourth layer of Qi training, and it is difficult to take it down with my cultivation, Senior Brother Meng is now a fourth-level Qi cultivation person, and I heard that he also has a soul flag, so it should be extremely easy to deal with it, so I would like to ask my junior brother to help collect the thousand-year-old jade ginseng." Of course, I won't let my junior brother be busy in vain, the medicinal materials obtained are divided equally between the two of them, the market price of the thousand-year-old jade ginseng is four lower-grade spirit stones, after coming back, if the junior brother doesn't think about the medicinal materials, I can pay you two spirit stones. ”

"Millennial jade ginseng?" Meng Ping thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes!"