Chapter 163: Big Lie
When Shi Weng woke up, he didn't expect that Zhou Yi had accepted Jinghui's entrustment to worship him as a disciple. At the beginning of the Gongsun Mansion, Zhou Yi was also known as his master, but at that time, his reputation was not correct, and he remembered that Zhou Yi was a descendant of Baihe Mountain, so he kept shirking it. However, in his heart, the only choice for the heir of this Xuanyuan Sword is Zhou Yi.
From the time he granted Xuanyuan Sword Swordsmanship, until today, the master and apprentice are fighting side by side to fight against the enemies of the Xuanyuan Sword, and the status of the two masters and apprentices is no longer in doubt, but there is still an opportunity to solve the problem.
Therefore, Jing Hui's pen can be regarded as a help for his dream journey, and at the same time, he puts an unavoidable problem in front of him, that is, how to explain to Zhou Yi the reason why he lives in seclusion here. In this situation, although he had deduced all kinds of possible hypotheses and prepared all the questions that Zhou Yi might ask, even so, everything felt too sudden when things came to his eyes.
Helpless, he had no choice but to tell Ji Heng's past and present life and discernment. Instead of reluctantly concealing it, it is better to tell him that since it is passed down from one line, it is always necessary to let him know who he is bowing to!
Speaking of the Turkic invasion of the Central Plains, King Yanshan was ordered to be in danger, and Ji Heng turned the tide at the most critical moment, not only retreating from the Turkic entrenched male soldiers, but also smashing the conspiracy of someone in the court to deliberately frame King Yanshan. All of a sudden, Ji Heng became famous, and the government and the opposition had their own people who were in awe and fear of him.
It was in that situation that the unexpected appearance of a person completely reversed the situation at that time.
The so-called tree is a big wind, and Ji Heng is naturally placed in the bull's-eye of the dark arrows from all sides.
On the one hand, the main battle faction in the court tried their best to defend the king of Yanshan, and asked for merit for Ji Heng in front of the Son of Heaven, so that Dongguo Tan cleared up the suspicion of colluding with the Turks and raising enemies to stand on their own. Although he was slanderous and confused at that time, the king of Yanshan was awe-inspiring and upright, and he returned to the dynasty alone to restore his life, and kept every inch of territory that the army had worked so hard to recapture.
On the other hand, the relatives who were in power in the DPRK secretly released cold arrows, and a newly promoted Turkic strategist named Li Xuan joined forces with the outside world, and sent several soldiers who had absconded from the front line back to the capital to spread rumors, saying that Ji Heng was proud of his merits and bluntly said the emperor's nepotism in front of the battle. also fabricated Ji Heng's reputation for advocating the Xuanyuan Sword, saying that he Ji is the pillar of the country, and one day the world will be in chaos, just wait for his father to raise his arms, and the Central Plains martial arts can conquer the Turks on behalf of the Son of Heaven!
The ministers of the relatives took the opportunity to play the table, saying that the soldiers in the northern border had enshrined Ji Heng as a nameless king, and Ji Heng's anti-heart had been revealed, if he was not removed as soon as possible, the world would be disturbed by his father and son sooner or later.
Ascending is easy to fall heavy, and the emperor's grace has just benefited the Ji family, and such rumors have spread in the army, and the anger of the Son of Heaven can be imagined.
However, at that time, the Turkic plague had not yet been eradicated, and if the heroes were severely punished, it would be tantamount to cutting off one's own arm! The Son of Heaven forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and ordered the king of Yanshan to temporarily return to the palace to be claustrophobic and go to the north to investigate the truth with the military department.
At that time, the secretary of the military department was the grandfather of Li He, who is now Li Shangshu, and he had a deep friendship with Ji En, so he secretly told Ji En about the matter before leaving Beijing. Ji En has a heart to serve the country, but in his heart, Xuanyuan Sword's unswerving reputation is above all else, so even if he is the son of heaven, he asks Ji En to resign and return to his hometown.
Zhou Yi listened to Ji Heng's past, and the suppressed indignation in his heart could not be vented, and his two fists clenched and gurgled, because he saw that his master had an indifferent face, everything had turned into dust, and it was not interesting to pursue the blame again, so he had to give up. However, the reason why Ji Heng was killed and how he came back to life was not yet clear, so he asked, "Then later, how did Master return to the northern battlefield?"
Shi Weng sat firmly by the window, Wu Xin immediately poured a cup of tea and put it on the head of the bed, and listened to the recollection: "After the holy decree came down, the officers and soldiers of the three armies were excited, and all of them were incompetent and incompetent in their duties. But the more that situation is, the more I can't stay in the army, otherwise those charges of duty Xuanyuan Sword will be confirmed. ”
"With all due respect, when the battle reached that situation, the 50,000 ironclad troops under the name of King Yanshan must have barely reached half, if it weren't for the Turks who were afraid of your reputation, they were only afraid of the remaining defenders...... Vulnerable!" Wu Xin looked at Shi Weng with a firm look, and said this, but his tone was a little hesitant.
"It's not all that, but it's pretty much the same. Shi Weng lowered his head and sighed, his voice was like a sentence, and then he said heavily: "The 50,000 ironclad army, even if it is properly deployed, will drive hundreds of thousands of murderous Turkic soldiers out of the Central Plains, and the price they will pay can be imagined! When we are in a confrontation with the Turks, none of the generals in the army or above can sleep peacefully, and everyone knows that if the Turks raise their troops again, with our weak combat strength and no reinforcements in the rear, a crushing defeat will naturally be inevitable. The reason why they are willing to stalemate with our army, I think, in addition to the fact that their generals are worried about repeating Ashina's mistakes, is related to the military advisor named Li Xuan. ”
Zhou Yi also kept thinking about this person, so he asked: "The Turks have always ruled the country by force, and the status of literati is naturally very low. In addition, the prestige of the master has made the Turks fearful, and his appearance is inevitable. It's just that I don't know how he set up a situation for Master next, and I haven't heard of this person again, didn't his strategy work?"
Shi Weng couldn't help but smile, "The rumors in the capital were originally his strategy, and my father was forced by the pressure of the court to order me to return to my hometown and repent, this is his masterpiece." ”
"I heard Master Tai say in this paragraph, Master, you were also the Xuantian Divine Doctor you worshiped at that time, right?"
"Exactly. Father just wanted the Xuanyuan Sword he founded to have a reputation that would not disgrace future generations, so under the pressure of that kind of public opinion, he ordered me to worship the Xuantian Divine Doctor as a teacher and be a Langzhong ...... who stayed away from killing" Speaking of this, an inexplicable sadness suddenly appeared in his eyes, obviously this experience touched the past in his heart that he did not want to mention.
"Master, what's wrong with you?"
Wu Xin touched his pulse and said to Zhou Yi: "Let's let the old-timer rest first, his pulse is very weak!"
Shi Weng shook his head, and was helped by the two of them to sit down slowly, closing his eyes slightly, "I went with me to study medicine, and my younger brother, Ji Yin, ......"
At the mention of Ji Yin's name, his cheeks twitched slightly, and an unpredictable spirit filled the entire secret room.
Zhou Yi gently held his right hand, and said in a gentle and relieved tone: "Master, I can understand your feelings, there are some things that you can't control, and you can only do that when you are in it, you don't have to ......"
"Everyone understands the truth, but after all, he is the younger brother of my comrade!" At this, Shi Weng suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight ahead motionless. I don't know what I remembered in my heart, but in the blink of an eye, the green tendons on my forehead burst out, and my hands clenched by the window kept shaking!
"Master, the matter has passed, if you remember anything sad, I hope to put your body first, and don't let down the trust that those old people have placed in you!" Zhou Yi looked panicked, lest Shi Weng hurt himself in a hurry and make a mess again.
"Help him lie down, don't ask anything again!" Wu Xin gave Zhou Yi a look, and both of them were worried about the old hero's body.
"Zhou Yi, since you take me as a teacher, Xuanyuan Jianwei's deeds will naturally fall on your shoulders, one day you will not be able to ask about this mortal thing as a teacher, you must keep in mind your mission, protect your family and defend the country, and level the world!"
Zhou Yi felt a burning pain in his heart, and his eyes flashed with tears: "Master must put his body first...... What you have told me, the sword mountain and the sea of fire, will not be unswerving until death!"
Shi Weng smiled miserably, and then sighed again, the excited look on his face gradually released, "Then I will rest assured, I have to tell you the next thing, otherwise, you will not understand, I want you to verify something." ”
"Master, please command, it's just that you don't have to grieve too much for those deceased relatives, otherwise, they won't be at ease in the spirit of heaven......"
"Relatives?" Shi Weng smiled bitterly on his back, and his eyebrows were full of the helplessness of the creator.
"What's the matter, isn't what the disciple said right?Could it be that there are other people who make you feel uneasy?" Zhou Yi was extremely shocked by his reaction, because Ji Heng's life experience was so legendary, any of his reactions would inevitably imply an unknown legendary past.
"If the relatives are not fake, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are enemies!"
The two were dumbfounded, glared at each other, and then silently turned their gaze to Shi Weng's tearful face.
Shi Weng calmed down the turmoil in his heart, "Ji Yin and I have been apprentices in Xuantian Temple for nearly a year, and the master has taught me all what he has learned in his life. At that time, there were fierce generals like Yu Guangling and Dongguo Lie in the army, and the two of them had both cultural relics, and I was not worried that the Turks would be crushed again, so this treatment was a year. However, my restless brother never forgot his fledgling career, and in order to return to the court, he called the attention of the prince. ”
Zhou Yi continued, "I heard Master Tai say that Ji Yin's predecessor at that time was the prince James, and he befriended the prince at that time, which was also the most helpless choice. ”
"There's nothing wrong with this, but he shouldn't ......" Shi Weng sighed and stopped talking, "At that time, the prince was mediocre and lustful, and it happened that the general Hou Yue had newly accepted a famous prostitute from Jinling Weijin as a concubine, and the prince coveted it and wanted to take it for himself, but because he was afraid of Hou Yue's power in the army, he didn't dare to move. But all this was seen by Ji Yin. In order to curry favor with the prince, he secretly learned the disguise technique from his master, and when Hou Yue went to the north to sacrifice the army, he disguised the prince into Hou Yue's appearance......"
"Ridiculous!" Zhou Yi gritted his teeth and scolded angrily: "As the crown prince James, how can he do ...... Hey, too, as the prince of a country, he doesn't think about his family and the country, but does such a ridiculous and shameless thing, the world is unfortunate!"
Shi Weng was expressionless, and then said: "All this seems to have been arranged in advance, the East Window Incident, Your Majesty in order to protect the face of the royal family, and to soothe the minister's turbulent heart, put all the blame on Ji Yin's head! At the same time, the Turks raised troops again, Hou Yue withdrew his troops and horses, and Yu Guangling and Dong Guo Lie fought to the death with a mere 20,000 remnants......
"And then?"
"For the sake of the overall situation, Dongguo Lie traveled thousands of miles to let me go to the border to help. We have just won two battles, and His Majesty's secret decree to dispose of Ji Yin has been sent to Ji Mansion!" Shi Weng sneered, looking like he had nothing to love.
"Master......" Zhou Yi smiled with tears in his eyes: "Your pain apprentice knows that the love of brothers and sisters is implicated, but you are also forced to be helpless!"
Zhou Yi naturally knew very well about this past, after Ji Heng, who appeared on the battlefield as a foot pawn at that time, received his father's letter from home, he rushed home thousands of miles overnight, and finally got his father's order to let him get rid of his sibling brother with his own hands!
"You know the pain of losing siblings, even if Ji Yin is at fault again, as an elder brother, how can I send him to a dead end with my own hands?"
"However, the meaning of the holy decree is to let Ji Fu execute himself, and their spearhead is aimed at you, if you don't attack your own brother, then how can Xuanyuan Sword protect itself?"
Hearing this, Shi Weng Lao burst into tears, "But even so, I still decided to let him escape, even if I will bear the crime at that time, what they want is to make me ruined and never return to the battlefield, for the sake ......of my brother, I admit it!"
"You ...... him Let it go?" Zhou Yi asked with a look of astonishment, "But didn't he commit suicide by taking poison later?"
Shi Weng looked up to the sky and roared, two fists slammed into his chest, and a breath of grief held in his heart, suffocating him, as if only through this catharsis of emotions was enough to make him feel the existence of his soul a little!
"That night, I decided to let him go and let him wander incognito...... But he, he actually ......"
"Otherwise, you better rest first, and we'll talk about this later!" Wu Xin saw that he was coughing, and he became more and more worried.
How can we stop talking about it?
"I already knew about his conspiracy with the crown prince and warned him, so when I asked him to leave that night, he actually thought that I had told him his secret, saying that I had taken a step to the bottom in order to take the foundation of the Xuanyuan Sword for myself!"
"Ridiculous, it's ridiculous!" Zhou Yi couldn't help the indignation in his heart and rebuked awe-inspiringly.
Later, he reflected on his mistake and apologized to me for his suspicion of me. I thought this was the end of our brothers, but I never thought that he would say goodbye to me by drinking bitterly on the pretext of thanking me for saving my life...... He is my younger brother, and I must be sad in my heart, so I agreed to stay and drink with him......"
Speaking of this, Shi Weng slowly stood up and said to Zhou Yi: "Zhou Yi, have you guessed the next ending?"
Hearing him say this, Zhou Yi was already dumbfounded, and the conjecture in his heart couldn't be changed, but he couldn't believe it.
"Did he really do that?" Zhou Yi asked in an extremely low voice.
Shi Weng's eyes were tightly closed, and scenes from the past flashed in his mind, which made him heartbroken!
"Yes! He was poisoned by alcohol, and that night, he saw me die in front of him!"
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