Marshal, your wife is trying to die again

"What do you think?" He didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

Du Muqing showed a struggling look on his face, but Du Mingzhang didn't urge him, but just waited beside him.

Finally, he raised his head, looked at his old father, and said word by word, very seriously, "The Lu family is not Mingzhu."

Only then did Du Mingzhang show a slight smile.

Du Muqing was very surprised when he saw it, because such an expression rarely appeared on his father's face.

"You can see this, which proves that you have figured it out. Do you know how many founders of the Du family have helped us since the beginning of the family?"

This is very presumptuous, but Du Muqing doesn't think so.

The Du family is far from what it appears on the surface.

As far as he knew, when his father was younger than he is now, he was told to start keeping a low profile.

It's been almost 60 years, and the Du family still has a rule of thumb, keeping a low profile.

"Five." He said directly without thinking too much.

"Then have you read the genealogy carefully, how did you choose them in the first place?"

Du Muqing nodded, and immediately recited it.

These are the things that every child of the Du family has to learn when they are young. When they grow up, they seldom think about it.

With his back on his back, he discovered something unusual.

Every time the Du family assisted the monarchs, they were the ones who really achieved great things. Compared with their temporary partner Lu Hongwen in front of them, there was nothing the same.

His voice didn't know when it gradually disappeared, and he was in a daze.

"Don't think too much, Lu Hongwen has never been our target." Du Mingzhang said lightly.

Only then did Du Muqing come back to his senses. Hearing what his father said, he seemed to have finally let go of a stone in his heart.

He had always had a faint thought that the Lu family was definitely not their goal, but there was no good choice at the moment, so he kept hiding his clumsiness and did not try his best.

Now that I get a negative answer, I feel relieved.

"Then Ji Xiuyuan?" Du Muqing asked hesitantly.

Their ancestors were all in the south, and they rarely interacted with northerners. Many, many years ago, Suizhou didn't even belong to Huaguo.

In the eyes of generations of Han people like them, there are foreigners there after all.

And Ji Xiuyuan, along the way, is by no means a kind-hearted person.

"Don't look at things with narrow eyes, I've been telling you this since childhood, but you haven't fully realized it yet, alas..." Seeing his expression, Du Mingzhang muttered.

When Du Muqing heard this, he immediately lowered his head with guilt on his face.

"Do you know that they have been investigating the matter of who else in Jingzhou is Ji Xiuyuan's accomplice?" Du Mingzhang seemed to be thinking for a long time before he asked.

Du Muqing was not an idiot, upon hearing this, he immediately raised his head with shock on his face.

"That's right, it's us."

"This...?" Du Muqing was speechless in surprise, because he didn't know about it at all.

"On the surface, our Du family cultivates and reads family heirlooms, and the most powerful thing is the pen, hmph."

Du Muqing saw that the old man's face was full of sarcasm.

"For so many years, if our family doesn't have any self-protection ability, so what if the article is well written?"

"But I never knew!" Du Muqing shouted in surprise.

Du Mingzhang didn't even move his beard, just glanced at him sideways, and then said, "You don't know, it's because it's not time to know, only the fewer people who know, the tighter the secret will be, don't worry, those people It was carefully cultivated by the Du family, they will only appear when they are needed, and they are usually just ordinary people in Jingzhou."

After hearing this, Du Muqing was extremely astonished. He didn't expect things to be like this!

It turned out that the Du family had already made a choice.

"Then why did you cooperate with Lu Hongwen in the first place? Have you considered him too?"

"No." Du Mingzhang said without thinking.

Looking at his son's puzzled eyes, he slowly said, "Do you know Lu Hongwen's background?"

"Bandits, they became warlords later on."

"What happened before the bandits?" The old man picked up the teacup, brought it to his mouth and took a sip.

Du Muqing was speechless when asked, the news was really too difficult to find out, and it was too easy for people to ignore it.

Thinking about it now, he didn't even investigate those old things.

But now that his father asked this question, he must know something.

"Father, what do you know?"

Du Mingzhang glanced at him, then turned his head away, his eyes suddenly lost in memory.

"40 years ago, I hadn't taken over the Du family. Although our family said it was silent at that time, some old relationships were still there. At that time, the Qing Dynasty had not completely perished, so in Jingzhou City, there was a real big brother who was also Du friends at home."

Du Muqing didn't ask any more questions, and waited for the answer with bated breath.

"It's Eunuch Zhao who used to be the head of the palace in the imperial city."

Du Muqing was simply astonished.

It all happened when he was born, so I don't remember it.

"Eunuchs, most of them are uneducated. They entered the palace because their families were poor, but this Eunuch Zhao was not. He entered voluntarily, because even if he was a clever beggar, he couldn't survive. He offended the rich and powerful at that time. , someone crushing him is like crushing an ant."

"In order to save his life, after entering the palace, the colleagues who are careful to survive have read a lot of books, and they didn't waste their time like this."

"Our Du family has never been a narrow-minded family. After your grandfather, that is, my father, found out that he was so studious, he gradually became familiar with him and often walked around behind him."

"Eunuch Zhao has read a lot of books and climbed higher and higher, but he still can't let go of becoming a eunuch. This is what he said himself. He always feels a suffocation in his chest and wants to destroy everything."

Du Muqing was sweating when he heard it. He knew who the father-in-laws were, but when he heard the news, it was also when they were dying.

"But what does this have to do with Lu Hongwen?"

Du Mingzhang sighed, and then said slowly, "I met Lu Hongwen at that time, even though he was only ten years old at that time."

Hearing this, Du Muqing breathed more and more tensely.

"That's right, because of his clever mind, he looks pretty good. He is the godson of Eunuch Zhao's godson, but he is not the only one, because there are a total of 18 people like him who recognize his godfather and can show up in front of him."

When Du Mingzhang said this, he picked up the cigarette bag and took a puff, exhaled a puff of green smoke, and then continued.

"Lv Hongwen... worked very hard. At the age of ten at the time, the only thing he did was serve as a human stool when Eunuch Zhao got into the carriage."

This Du Muqing knew that when he was young, many wealthy families had this habit. In order to reflect their superior status, it gradually disappeared later.

Du Mingzhang's memory gradually recalled that a long time ago, it was a snowy day, the snowflakes in the sky were still floating, but the ground had already frozen.