Sealing Sword

For a while, the small courtyard was so quiet that a needle could be heard.

Even though Qin Lanshang had already had an idea after hearing Dr. Li's words, but the news came so unexpectedly that she never guessed it anyway.

Staggering on her feet, when she heard the news of Ruan Feiyu's death, Qin Lanshang was not as happy as she had imagined to be avenged. All the blood on her face faded, she looked at the people around her helplessly, and murmured: "How could... When you left, no, wasn't it still fine?"

Lu Mingyuan said: "I'm not lying. Master really passed away. Just two nights ago, he was stabbed to death in Prince Li's mansion...I saw it with my own eyes."

Ye Fusheng raised his eyebrows: "What's going on?"

"That night, Master and King Li discussed the matter of returning to Beijing, and went into the room to rest. Before leaving, I asked me to find him at the time." Lu Mingyuan's expression was dull, but his words were still very orderly. I saw him sitting behind the desk with his head drooping, bleeding from his orifices, dripping from the books on the desk..."

Qin Lanshang suddenly became excited: "And then?"

Lu Mingyuan said: "I alarmed everyone in the palace, and the imperial doctor also rushed over, saying that Master was killed by a master who hit Tianling hard with his palm."

Chu Xi frowned slightly: "With the ability of Nanru, who in the world can do this?"

"The imperial doctor detected a chronic anesthetic in the cloth that wrapped the master's wound, which can slowly paralyze the warrior without anyone noticing it within three hours."

Qin Lanshang's voice was hoarse: "The wound was wrapped by the people of King Li, didn't you check it? If an important minister died in his own house, King Li had nothing to do with it?"

Lu Mingyuan suddenly twitched the corner of his mouth: "Of course he couldn't get away with it, so he searched the entire palace, but the doctor who bandaged the wound before committed suicide, and found Wang Chuyu's jade pendant in his residence."

As soon as this remark came out, the three of them were stunned. They already knew what happened to Duan Wang Yupei.However, this thing should have been in Ruan Feiyu's hands, why did it appear next to the poisoned doctor?

Qin Lanshang's mind was in a mess, she looked at Chu Xiwei helplessly, but she didn't get a look.

Ye Fusheng suddenly let out a long sigh and said, "I finally understand."

Qin Lanshang turned to look at him, Ye Fusheng raised his eyes and stared at Lu Mingyuan: "Ms. Ruan didn't die by human hands, he committed suicide... right?"

Before Lu Mingyuan could speak, Qin Lanshang's eyes widened: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Before she finished speaking, Lu Mingyuan said, "Master said that Mr. Ye would understand, and it really is."

Qin Lanshang was stunned, and Chu Xi frowned slightly: "Be clear."

"Six years ago, Master resigned from office and left Beijing, and was assassinated on the way. Master kept the matter on hold for the sake of the overall situation, but although the injury was not serious, it was infected with the poison of the weed that almost killed him on the spot," Lu Mingyuan said. Looking at Qin Lanshang, the sadness on his face solidified into a thick ink that will never fade, "Although many methods have been spent in the past six years, Master's health is also deteriorating. At the end, so Master sent someone to send a secret letter to His Majesty, proposing to return to court and reinstate."

Qin Lanshang didn't understand: "Since he knows his situation, why did he go back to the court?"

Ye Fusheng said lightly: "Because Prime Minister Ruan didn't intend to really return to the court, but Lianhe Jin staged a play to deceive the world."

Chu Xiwei turned her mind, and said: "Before, I thought it was strange that at the time of Anxi Mountain, King Li might not have appeared too coincidentally, and the incident happened suddenly, and he went all the way to Taniguchi. People who didn't know stepped on it. When the time comes, they will definitely suffer heavy losses, but they have taken the path from the very beginning."

Qin Lanshang suddenly understood something. She looked at Lu Mingyuan, and the other party said: "Yes, although King Duan was quite ambitious in the early emperor's time, he restrained his minions because of the Duke Qin case. Based on what Master knows about him, he doesn't know what to do. I think he still has the heart to rebel now, otherwise he wouldn’t have stayed in Tianjing under Jinshang’s nose for a long time.”

Qin Lanshang: "So, the one who really cooperates with Burial Soul Palace... is actually King Li?"

Ye Fusheng said: "Everyone is suspicious, that's why Prime Minister Ruan made this scene, releasing the news that he is going to recover, and those who are interested will naturally move after hearing the news. This is treating himself as a bait, waiting for those who wish to take the bait."

"Master said that when he saw the jade pendant of Duan Wang in the underground palace, he had already doubted Li Wang, because after the jade pendant was broken ten years ago, although Duan Wang repaired it, with his arrogance, he would not use it to fight with him again. Let's meet." Lu Mingyuan lowered his eyes, "When I see King Li at Mount Anxi, and the master of the Burying Soul Palace retreats without a fight, Master will be sure that it is him."

Because of this, on Mount Anxi, Ruan Feiyu belittled them without a trace, separated the relationship with each other, and allowed them to retreat unscathed.

Qin Lanshang murmured: "Then why did he go with King Li? Why... die?"

"Silly girl, as you said just now, the sudden death of Prime Minister Ruan at Prince Li's mansion is like poking a hole in the sky." Ye Fusheng raised his eyebrows, "If I'm not wrong, it should be King Li that night. Before Lu Mingyuan went to find Xiang Ruan, and wanted to work with him, but Xiang Ruan committed suicide."

Chu Xi raised her eyebrows slightly: "Everyone knows that Nanru is going to return to court, and his death will never be suppressed. Even if King Li really didn't do it himself, if he looks back, he might find out about his previous deployment, so he can only do it." Change the plan and blame others."

Lu Mingyuan sneered, this scholar has always had an unbelievably good temper, this sudden sneer was kind of harsh.

"The anesthetic on the medicine cloth was applied by the master himself." He said softly: "In fact, I sneaked into the master's room very early that night, listened to him tell me various things, and then watched him change his palms to make himself a god , I couldn’t make a sound, I couldn’t move, and I kept hiding on the beam... Sure enough, King Li came, he was shocked, and then he was furious, took away the jade pendant that Master had specially held in his hand, and closed it again The doors and windows pretended that they had never been there.”

When he said this, Qin Lanshang felt creepy, and Lu Mingyuan continued: "After he left, I sneaked back to my room, and no one found me. When Shen Shiyi said, I went to see Master and pretended to be frightened. Come on... Prince Li is indeed ready to kill people and silence, and leave the jade pendant to blame King Duan, what Master said is absolutely correct."

Qin Lanshang murmured, "Why did he do this?"

Chu Xiwei said: "Because when two tigers fight, one must be injured."

King Li asked Burial Soul Palace to use King Duan as a cover, and released news to attract the remnants of the old case, one to persecute and the other to set blame.Ruan Feiyu was forced to the end of the road all the way. If he wanted to return to the court alive, he had to conspire with him. This was his goal.

If it succeeds, it will have the help of Southern Confucianism, and all scholars in the world will cooperate with each other, and they will be happy; if it fails, they will try to kill and kill their enemies, and then bring disaster to the east.

"Prince Duan has lived in Tianjing all these years, but it doesn't mean that he is a tiger whose teeth have been pulled out. Don't forget that among the princes of the late emperor, he was the first to gain military power." Ye Fusheng hooked his lips, "The late emperor Although he has passed away for a long time, most of the court is still old. After all, Jinshang is fledgling. Even if he has the means, he still has more than enough energy in many aspects... The existence of Ruan Xiang has always been Jinshang's arm, but he His life is not long, if we don’t want the new law to be blocked by these people, we must leave a new support for the present world before death.”

Qin Lanshang shuddered: "King Duan?!"

"The king of Li designed the king of Duan to protect himself. At this time, it can be big or small, but at this point, no one dares to bear the crime of killing important officials and intending to rebel." Lu Mingyuan raised his head and slowly clenched his fingers. Fate calculated that King Duan had planned to stay out of the matter, so he had to defend himself. However, King Li was well prepared. Winning the letter and convincing King Duan all depend on the secret letter written by Master during his lifetime."

The corner of Ye Fusheng's mouth twitched: "The letter is in your hands."

Lu Mingyuan said: "Yes, I must return to Sanmai Academy as soon as possible, and send my confidantes to send these two letters secretly, but at this juncture, King Li is already suspicious of me, so naturally he will not let me go."

"That's why he asked us to stay here for three more days, just to be your support, and to use the power of the Hundred Ghosts to protect you back to the Samadhi Academy." Chu Xi sneered slightly, but there was not much annoyance, "The court's affairs have their own schemes. In comparison, after all, Jianghu affairs are in the Jianghu. Burial Soul Palace is already a scum of the Jianghu if it dares to intervene in the treasonous matter, but to deal with it, it has to rely on the power of the Jianghu. The Hundred Ghosts Sect has been sent to the door again this time, which is very appropriate ,right?"

Three birds with one stone, even his own life can be used as a chess piece to plan strategies, and one move can move the whole body. In the whole world, there is only Nan Ru alone.

It's a pity that such a person who calculates the latitude and longitude is gone after all.

Qin Lanshang's throat choked, and she finally managed to say: "He clearly said that he wants to give me an explanation...he is Nanru, how can he miss the appointment?"

"Speaking of which, Master once asked me to tell Miss Qin some things." Lu Mingyuan reached into his arms and fumbled, and kept talking: "I think Miss already knows that Master's real name is 'Zhou Shen', so tell Miss one more thing... 45 years ago, the head coach who was beheaded by Duke Qin’s father, Qin Jingyu, to win the trust of the king, was named Zhou Ye, and was the real father of the master.”

Qin Lanshang trembled all over, and heard him say again: "More than 30 years ago, among the [-] Qin family troops who were submerged in Anxi Mountain, the military commander Zhou Xi was the elder brother of the master, and also the last relative."

Surprise flashed in Chu Xiwei's eyes, and Ye Fusheng's expression also changed.

I saw Lu Mingyuan took out a yellowed hand-stitched book from his pocket, it was the one that Ruan Feiyu never left with him before, but it was stained a little red, I don't know if it was Lu Mingyuan's blood or Ruan Feiyu's.

He held the book to Qin Lanshang with hands full of blood, sweat and dust, and said, "The explanations that Master gave to the girl are all in this book."

Qin Lanshang froze on the spot, stretched out his hand tremblingly to pick it up, then suddenly retracted, his face was unbelievably pale, and his voice was trembling: "I, I don't want it! You let him speak for himself! I won't watch it!"

Lu Mingyuan said in a deep voice, "Miss Qin, please take it."

Qin Lanshang looked at Chu Xiwei and Ye Fusheng, they didn't even look at her, and silently reached a tacit agreement that she was going to accept this confession by herself.

She has no way to retreat, and she can't retreat anymore.

When Qin Lanshang took the book, she almost dropped it on the ground, and flipped through it several times with trembling fingers before turning to the first page.

She finally knew that this was not a book, but was bound by dozens of envelopes.

There are 37 letters in total, but only the same name is signed, Zhou Shen.

There was only one person who received the letter, Qin Hebai.

The signing time has been from the beginning when he changed his name to Ruan Qingxing's family to the beginning of this month, one letter per year, one year at a time.

She suddenly had a feeling that she was not reading the letter or the so-called confession, but the hardships of the past 37 years.