The fake daughter of a fallen ghost is reborn

Live in peace.

Today's events caused quite a stir, so Fu Ling naturally knew about it.

As soon as Fu Rongxin walked in, she felt that Fu Ling's expression was not right.

After the servants had left, she spoke cautiously, "Mother?"

But Fu Ling was furious and said, "Rongxin, do you still remember what you promised me before you left? I asked you not to do anything before the imperial examination, why are you so impatient?!"

Hearing this, Fu Rongxin's expression changed: "Are you blaming me, mother?"

She smiled bitterly and sat down slowly: "But it's been almost seventeen years, how can I not be anxious?"

Facing Fu Rongxin's stubbornness, Fu Ling was anxious: "Do you know that if you do as you wish today, your brother will most likely lose the qualification to participate in the Spring Examination?!"

Fu Rongxin couldn't help laughing. She bent over and almost cried with laughter: "After all, my parents used Xue Zhiyi, but they were also using me. They didn't consider my suffering at all, and they only looked ahead and behind for big brother. They didn't want big brother to bear any risks, nor were they willing to give up the glory that the Phoenix Fate brought!"

"you!"

Feeling touched upon, Fu Ling raised her hand, almost unable to hold back from slapping Fu Rongxin, but she stopped herself. She held her hand in the air with tears in her eyes as she looked at Fu Rongxin, who was now in a state of collapse.

Fu Rongxin just smiled and said, "Go ahead and hit me! Just beat me to death!"

Guilty of withdrawing her hand, Fu Ling glanced around and lowered her voice: "Stop messing around. You are the one that I love the most. Why do you have to say these words to hurt my heart? If you keep going on like this, are you going to sacrifice yourself for that bastard Xue Zhiyi?"

Fu Rongxin snorted coldly: "Is she worthy?"

"Of course she doesn't deserve it!" Fu Ling sat down in front of her, softened his tone, held her hand, and said, "So Rongxin, you are a phoenix of destiny, a daughter of a rich family, don't hurt yourself just to get angry with Xue Zhiyi, understand?"

Seeing that Fu Rongxin's expression had relaxed, she continued softly, "My heart aches when I see you like this. I carried you for ten months, so how could I not love you? I also hope that your brother will have a promising future so that he can be your backer in the future. Do you understand?"

……

At this moment, in Lin'an Marquis Mansion.

Huo Wuyou, who had been bandaged, leaned against the head of the bed.

His bony fingers were twisting a tiny plum blossom hairpin, which was made of pearls, round and white. It was small and very suitable for embellishing the hairpin at the side of the temples, and it also had a faint fragrance.

And the half blue scar left by the glass bead on the base of his right hand shone brightly.

This pearl flower was dropped by Xue Zhiyi today. Somehow, he picked it up as if possessed by a ghost.

Not knowing what he was thinking, his finger touched the agate pistil, but his mind had already flown to the Yongping Marquis Mansion during the day.

"Damn it." He cursed softly.

Could it be that he would be so easily attracted to the girl from the Xue family?

Why is he so easy to tease?

I am weak-willed! Too weak-willed!

At this moment, a sound of pushing the door rang out: "Second brother, second brother, second brother!"

Huo Wuyou hurriedly hid the pearl flower under his pillow: "Huo Wuhui, where is your soul calling in the middle of the night?"

A child of about ten years old ran in. He had a round head and wore an apricot-yellow brocade robe. His hair was half tied up and he had a golden unicorn collar around his neck.

Huo Wuhui couldn't hide his anxiety: "Second brother, I heard you were injured? What happened?"

As the youngest son of the Huo family, he was raised in the palace for a few years after his parents passed away. As he was getting old, it was not convenient for him to stay in the palace any longer, so he moved back to Lin'an Marquis Mansion this year.

Not wanting to make his brother worry, Huo Wuyou tapped the boy's head with his fingers: "What's wrong with you? You came back so late, where have you been? Did you skip classes again?"

"I...I..." Huo Wuhui immediately looked guilty and looked around, grabbing the hem of his clothes.

"You're so good! I'm just not at home for one day, and you dare to skip class again!" Huo Wuyou raised his hand to hit him.

But someone laughed softly: "I heard from Yan Gui that you couldn't even walk, and I thought it was serious, but I didn't expect you would still want to teach me a lesson."

I saw a man, tall and thin, wearing a white fox fur coat, as gentle as jade, walking towards me with slow steps.

"What a big scene, even Brother Yunlang was alarmed."

Huo Wuyou gave up on dealing with Huo Wuhui for the time being. Seeing this, Huo Wuhui felt as if he had been pardoned and tiptoed out of the house.

Sui Yunlang put down the medicine box and raised his hand and said, "Come on."

Huo Wuyou gave him his hand and let him take his pulse.

Sui Yunlang closed his eyes and hummed softly. After a moment, he looked at his wound again and said, "You are lucky. It's nothing serious. You should rest well these days."

After that, he glanced around quietly and asked in a low voice, "What's going on?"

Huo Wuyou lost his joking expression and just sighed slightly: "I wanted to take advantage of the fact that there were guests at the Zhao family today so that I could sneak in and collect evidence, but I didn't expect to be discovered by Zhao Shen. Fortunately, although I was injured, he didn't discover my identity."

After a moment of contemplation, Sui Yunlang asked him, "Are you so sure that the battle at Yueling Pass was Zhao Xu's plan?"

Huo Wuyou was half leaning on his arm, his phoenix eyes, which were always cynical, were a little cold at this moment. "Three years ago, my father and brother, along with 70,000 soldiers of the Huo family, were all buried at Yueling Pass. If it weren't for you and I guarding the rear and not following the army, I'm afraid we would have been dead by now... Everyone says that my father and brother were incompetent and fell into the trap of the Beidi people, but one of my father's old men escaped from death and told me with his last breath that everything was a false imperial decree by Zhao Xu, who killed the exhausted remaining soldiers after the bloody battle on the grounds of not obeying military orders."

After that, he sneered, "In fact, in the final analysis, I am not too sure whether it was done by Zhao Xu. It's just that this is one of the few clues left from the battle of Yueling Pass. I can only follow this information to investigate. In the past three years, we have investigated not only the Zhao family, but also the Zhao family's accomplices. Unfortunately, I don't know whether it is a rumor or Zhao Xu is really good at hiding. The sporadic clues we got are not enough to serve as evidence."

"Maybe." Sui Yunlang looked at him. "As a military general, the Zhao family has a title, but the two generations have not made much military achievements, and gradually declined. Zhao Xu really needs a resounding military achievement to save the Zhao family from its decline. In the battle of Yueling Pass, everyone thought that it was the Yongping Marquis who turned the tide in times of crisis and blocked the Northern Di people outside the pass. This battle made Zhao Xu be valued by His Majesty again, and the Zhao family once again became a distinguished family."

Recalling everything that happened three years ago, Huo Wuyou's eyes turned red and his breathing became so heavy that his throat and chest ached slightly.

"Your Majesty seems to be lenient now, but little do you know that Your Majesty originally intended to punish the entire Huo family on the grounds that my father and brother were incompetent in leading the troops... It was after my mother committed suicide that Your Majesty did not want to be criticized by the people for being harsh in treating loyal officials and bearing the infamy of forcing loyal officials to death, so my grandmother had the opportunity to come forward to save the three of us brothers and sisters."