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When Akashi was 16 years old, he spent time in Chang'an City.It's not all for scientific research. In fact, most of her energy is devoted to rebuilding the Qianyumen headquarters in Chang'an, as well as the information network that radiates around Chang'an.In any case, the land of the two capitals is the most important.Jinling City, which is located in the southeast, cannot get any important news.Letting Qianyumen regain a foothold in Liangjing is the most critical node for her to rebuild Qianyumen.

In Chang'an this year, many things happened.Among them, the most worth mentioning is that she and Xiongniang met Qin Zhen by chance in Qingyun Temple.Qin Zhen often goes to various temples and Taoist temples to pray for blessings, and discuss the Tao with the abbot. In his words, it is for peace of mind.That day when he came to Qingyun Temple, he didn't know why his heart was so sad that his blood surged and he fainted on the ground.Fortunately, it was the timely help from the bride, and she was able to get better soon.

After recognizing Qin Zhen's changed appearance over the past ten years, Chishi knew that she had seen her own grandfather again.Although she has never met her mother, Qin Lian, when she sees Qin Zhen, she feels admiration spontaneously.Qin Zhen had a middle-aged daughter, but not long after his wife's death, he also lost his beloved daughter. He was in his fifties and was alone.The lonely old man made Akashi's heart ache.How she wished to recognize the old man and serve him by his side so that he could spend his old age in peace.But she can't do it, and she doesn't know when she will be able to do it.She can only occasionally come to the door with some wine, food, and medicinal materials in the name of visiting the old man's condition, to sit and chat with the old man.

In the eyes of the old man, she might just be a warm-hearted scholar.Hearing that Chishi was here to participate in Chunwei, he gave a lot of advice.It's a pity that Akashi is not going to take the examination of Jinshi, she only intends to take the examination of Mingjing.The purpose of the Mingjing was that she didn't want to get too close to the center of power, and she didn't want too many people to know the existence of "Shen Sui".Right now, she still has a lot of things to deal with outside, and it is impossible to stay in Chang'an all the time.What's more, it took too long for Jinshi to enter the officialdom, and she couldn't afford to wait.She needed a shortcut that would allow her to enter the officialdom earlier and faster without attracting too much attention.

After finishing the Mingjing exam, she didn't even check the list, she knew that she must have passed the exam.She also signed up for the next martial arts exam and won it easily.During this period, she retained most of her strength, so her performance was not outstanding.People in Chang'an who knew about her only thought that the Yanling Shen family, the young clan who accompanied her at the bottom of the family, had mediocre skills, so they could only hand over such a report card.

The following year coincided with the first year when the recruitment system began.The military government in the Gyeonggi area recruited a large number of soldiers. Shen Sui left Chang'an, where he had lived for a year, and went to join the army with two transcripts of the Ming Jing Ke and the Wu Ju.Her purpose was to get as close as possible to Luoyang City, so that she could re-establish the Qianyumen branch in Luoyang, so she analyzed the affiliation of the Recruiting Tiaokou, and deliberately chose a new barracks that was most likely to be transferred to Luoyang.But things backfired, and she was assigned to Zhechong Mansion in Huaizhou.Although Huaizhou is also under the jurisdiction of Henan Prefecture, it is far away from Luoyang.

That was Chishi's first long separation from Yingniang and Qinnu.They are not allowed to enter the barracks, Chishi can only let them go to Huaizhou City to settle down first, and she herself needs to find a way to leave the army and enter Huaizhou officialdom.

Joining the army and politics is the way she has to go.She couldn't help herself in it, she had expected it.But if she doesn't follow this path, she will face many difficulties when she returns to Chang'an in the future, finds out the truth of the past, and realizes her ambition.After all, Qianyumen is a Jianghu organization, and Qianyumen has almost no access to political affairs in the court.If she wants to investigate the tragedy of that year, it is absolutely impossible not to enter the officialdom.Therefore, she must enter the officialdom, and she must also be an official of judicial punishment, so that it is convenient and will not be suspected.

Alone in the barracks, she is always tense. In addition to trying her best to win the favor of her superiors, she also needs to be vigilant about her identity being exposed.Fortunately, she has been pretending to be a man for a long time, and many habits have been integrated into her bones, so she will not be so easy to be seen.It's just that every time she meets someone who asks her to have a pee together, or go to the river to take a shower, she can only refuse.It can't help but always make people feel that she is unreasonable.

The most dangerous time was when Zhechong Mansion in Huaizhou held a military competition with the senior colonels.It was a scorching summer, her opponents were almost shirtless, but she could only cover herself with dark clothes.In the process of competing with others in marksmanship, she was accidentally scratched by the opponent's sleeve, revealing the phoenix nirvana spreading on her right arm.That night, countless brothers chased her, wanting to take off her clothes to see her tattoos.Fortunately, she ran fast, and then a superior officer came to scold her, and those wild boys finally gave up.

Afterwards, she invited the brothers to have a drink and explained the origin of Nirvana behind her, and finally resolved their curiosity.She said that Nie Wen was weak and sick when she was young, and a Taoist priest asked her to get it to resist the disease.But in fact, this phoenix nirvana pattern was tattooed on her by brother Chen, who was also the former "Nine Dragons Nirvana" when she was studying in Maoshan when she was 15 years old.Qin Nu also has a tattoo, near the back waist, is an eight-petal golden lotus.She initially thought the purpose of the tattoos was to cover up the extensive scars on their backs.It was only after many years that she understood why Master Sima asked Senior Brother Chen to tattoo the Phoenix Nirvana pattern on her back.Because she is the successor of the Luanhuang bloodline, the only remaining Nirvana Phoenix in the world, the king of a hundred birds and a thousand feathers.Sima Chengzhen knew this many years ago.

A lot of things about Sima Chengzhen were concealed by the bride back then.Akashi thought that the burn on her back was healed by her efforts.In fact, this is not entirely the case. The bride once visited Sima Chengzhen and asked Sima Tianshi for help.Many prescriptions for treating burns were taken out by Sima Chengzhen from the medical classics collected by Daomen and given to Xiongniang.If it weren't for these prescriptions, I'm afraid Chishi and Qinnu's burns wouldn't heal so quickly and so well.And Yingniang didn't hide it intentionally, but Sima Chengzhen didn't want Chishi and Qin Nu to know, he just asked Yingniang to take them to Maoshan to practice for a period of time after the burns of the two recovered, as an exchange for the prescription.

And why Sima Chengzhen knew the mystery of Chishi's Luanhuang bloodline is still unknown.

In the barracks, Chishi, because of his outstanding ability, was promoted from an ordinary soldier to Du Yu Hou, and gradually became the deputy commander of Du Yu Hou. Ding Fengyun, the governor, took a fancy to him, transferred from the army, and was promoted to a judge in Huaizhou, and began to specialize in judiciary adjudication.

That year, she was 20 years old, according to men's etiquette, she reached adulthood.

In those few years, Qinnu and Xiongniang were not idle in Huaizhou.The headquarters of Qianyumen was temporarily located in Huaizhou City, Qin Nu replaced Chishi in the barracks, and began to deal with complicated affairs of Qianyumen.She has more business acumen than her elder sister, and in just four or five years, she more than doubled the business of Qianyumen.When Chishi returned from the barracks, the preliminary network of Qianyumen has been established as a whole, and it is flourishing with the cooperation of Huyan Zhuoma, Xuanweizi, Congyun Congyu, Kutuo and other elite backbones of Qianyumen.

After Akashi returned, Qin Nu had an accident.Since the business route to the northwest of Luoyang was not smooth, Qin Nu personally went west with a batch of goods, intending to open up new routes.However, on the way, he encountered the most powerful robbers in the Guannei area. Qianyumen didn't protect him well, not to mention the loss of goods, and almost caused Qin Nu to die in Huangquan.At the critical moment, Qin Nu seemed to be inspired to survive. An inaudible scream erupted from her voiceless voice since she was injured, causing a large number of frightened birds to fly up. Save her.

Afterwards, Akashi realized that her younger sister also had the ability to attract birds, but it was a pity that she had to pay too much.After one experiment, unless it was an emergency, she would never allow Qin Nu to burst into such screams again.

At the age of 23, recommended by Ding Fengyun, Chishi was appointed by Henan Governor Xiaoqian and Xiao Ziliang as the Henan Governor to join the army, and was promoted from Huaizhou to Luoyang.Since then, she has taken root in Luoyang, and the east is the headquarters of Qianyumen, radiating the whole territory.

In the following years, she spent almost all of her time investigating cases.There were hundreds of old cases in Henan Mansion over the years, almost all of which were investigated by her alone.All the people involved in the case, no matter the victim or the prisoner, were convinced and no one complained.From that time on, she finally gained a foothold and began to investigate the situation related to the case of Princess Taiping's mansion.However, the case has been going on for a long time, and the credible testimonial evidence has long been like a needle in a haystack, and many witnesses that can be found seem to have been deliberately erased by the black hands behind the scenes. She has never made any progress.

In those years, many major events occurred in Chang'an City, among which were those directly related to Chi Shi's two best friends.On the eve of Chishi being transferred to Luoyang to serve as the judge of Henan Province and join the army, a case broke out in Chang'an City that the queen of the dynasty hated defeating witchcraft.The queen was imprisoned and died of fear three months later.The Wang family of the queen's family was involved in a wide range of cases, and the killings continued, bloody.Her close friend, the only daughter of the Queen, and the only direct descendant of the saint—Li Jinyue, was recalled to Chang'an.At that time, Li Jinyue was leading the troops in the Anxi Metropolitan Guard's Mansion, and was an important general in the Hexi Army. After the incident, she was dismissed from her real position in the army. Apart from some false and useless titles, she was deprived of all military powers and was ordered to return to Beijing to interrogate her.It's been a long journey, even if she is in a hurry, when she arrives in Chang'an, March has passed, and she has not even seen her biological mother for the last time.

The bad news was like a blow to the head, knocking Li Jinyue to the ground, losing both her husband and mother, the military power was lifted, and she was under house arrest for a long time. With her own strength alone, Li Jinyue might find it difficult to stand up again.At this time, a person walked into her world again.

Zhang Ruohan.

Chishi, who was far away in Huaizhou, realized his incompetence for the first time.For more than ten years, even if she worked hard for a moment, she was still powerless to almost everything that happened in Chang'an.She watched her friend have an accident, but she couldn't even go back to comfort her.After more than ten years, can her dreams and ambitions really come true?

However, the news that came later almost completely crushed her.

That letter was received not long after she arrived in Luoyang, and it was sent by Cui Qian, the head of Chang'an of Qianyumen.When writing this letter, it can be seen that Cui Qian's writing was difficult, and even he didn't know how to tell the sect master such an unspeakable news.

Li Jinyue, the princess of the Jin Kingdom, is getting better gradually because of the careful care of her old friend Zhang Ruohan who accompanied her in the past.Therefore, she secretly fell in love with Zhang Ruohan, and every time Zhang Ruohan went to visit, she would be obsessed with her, behaved ambiguously, and showed love frequently.This matter was reported by the servants in the princess mansion, and the mirror grinding scandal has spread throughout Chang'an.

That day, Akashi held the letter and read it over and over for a long time.She looked at the words and sentences on the letter, as if she couldn't believe her eyes, and then "poof" vomited a mouthful of blood, sprayed it on the letter paper, and fainted.

That day, Yizhuo and Qinnu were frightened by her, and thus finally learned of the sea-deep emotions buried in her heart.How big a blow this news is to her, I am afraid that only Akashi herself can experience it personally.They even felt that Chishi had vomited out her own soul for that mouthful of blood, and perhaps at that moment, in her mind, the hard work of more than ten years had turned into ashes and completely disappeared.

Mamao, maomao, I will try my best to return to you and help you realize our original vow.But why do you want to do this, why do you want to do this, how can you ask me to help you... What is the purpose of my ten years of hard work?

She was tired, tired, and broken.For several days, she sat on the porch like a walking corpse, staring at the sky blankly, just like how she was in the porch of the old Jinling house with burns all over her body.A letter knocked her back to her original shape, as if she was struggling to climb out of the abyss, and just as she was about to see the dawn, she was kicked back cruelly by fate.

If they don't need me, they can live well and happily without me.Am I... I shouldn't show up again.She thought so.

Lotus Maid... she murmured that name and sobbed in the corridor.

Qin Nu can't do anything, neither can Yi Yan, no one can do anything, this knot can only be untied by Chishi himself.The only thing Qin Nu did was hand Chishi's snow knife into her hand and tell her:

[Sister, you are Xuedao, hold your knife and make your decision.No matter what you decide, we will always follow you. 】

A few days later, Shen Sui, who was described as thin, put on clean clothes and stood in front of everyone again holding a knife.she says:

"What should be done, I must continue to do. Some things, I must find out, and some people, I must also face. Everything must be ended, and I will not have a beginning and an end."

If fate wants to destroy me, I must at least struggle until my last breath.

On December 16th of the [-]th year of Kaiyuan, Xue Dao clearly judged Shen Bozhao and went to Chang'an to investigate the case of the strange ape of mercy.

Cangque Huangcheng stands forever, sixteen years of time flowing eastward, nirvana in the fire, and wind and snow return to people.

The author has something to say: After writing this chapter, I am filled with emotions. I still remember that when I first started the article, a friend suggested that the opening article was not attractive enough.I once said that I started the chapter from this point because of my reasons.

Nirvana in the fire, wind and snow return to people.Go in the fire, return in the snow, sixteen years of original intentions have not changed.Akashi is the main heroine of my article, her story, her strength of character, should start from the moment when the wind and snow return.

PS: The three-day holiday of New Year's Day will be updated.