Brocade tears

While talking, Zhou Jintong brought a bowl of stew to Guo Dayou. Guo Dayou took it and asked first:

"Has the spies you sent out come back?"

"Not yet, those who went to the rear to search haven't sent back any news, and those who went to Fushun Pass ahead will probably get news soon. What's the matter, we have to wait." Zhou Jintong replied.

Guo Dayou sat across from Meng Kuang and Sui Er, and started to eat with the bowl and chopsticks, while Zhou Jintong did not disturb his conversation with Meng Kuang and Sui Er, and went to the other side to greet Li Laosan and Zhu Yan.

"This kid seems to be a different person, he has matured a lot." Meng Kuang looked at Zhou Jintong and couldn't help sighing.

"I was proud before, and my self-confidence has returned. Now the prestige in the team has been established, and naturally I have the spirit of taking responsibility as the leader, knowing that I need to take care of my teammates." Seeing the rapid growth of the soldiers under his command, Guo Dayou is very pleased.

Meng Kuang looked at Li Laosan again, and couldn't help asking Guo Dayou:

"Old Guo, how much do you know about Li Laosan?"

Guo Dayou frowned, and with the food he was chewing, he said:

"I don't know much about it. He was gone when I entered Jinyiwei. I read his record in the file, but I don't know much about it. What's wrong?"

"Sui'er and I have been unable to figure out why he took such a big risk to rescue Sui'er from prison. At first we speculated that he was under Zhang Juzheng's orders. But now it seems that he should have his own purpose The rescue of Sui'er happened after Zhang Juzheng's death. Could it be that Zhang Juzheng had predicted that Sui'er would be arrested by Jin Yiwei and sent him to prison, so he specially arranged for Li Laosan to save her? This is unlikely, maybe Zhang Juzheng expected it My own death is approaching, and there are speculations that the emperor will target the Zhang family after my death, but it is unknown whether the family will be ransacked and arrested. There are too many variables. Even if it is arranged, shouldn't Zhang Juzheng send Sui'er away in advance? Why? Waiting for her to be rescued before she was arrested. Wouldn't this make the rescuer take greater risks? This is not in line with common sense. And, in the final analysis, why did Lao San Li fall in love with Zhang Juzheng? A boat?" Meng Kuang said angrily.

Guo Dayou was a little confused by Meng Kuang's question. He grabbed his messy beard and said slowly while thinking:

"As far as I know... Li Laosan's file mentioned that he had a former name, but the page recording his former name is missing... You know, the Jinyiwei file used to assassinate the Yarkand envoy. Tuan and Sui'er's mother died in the fire and were destroyed. Many old Jinyiwei were also cleaned. After that, many materials were incomplete, and no one knew where they came from. That is to say, the name Li Xuming was only later Li Xuming. The third child started by himself.

Why do people hide their names?In addition to being hunted down and needing to remain anonymous, the most common purpose is to conceal one's family and origin.Li Laosan is the old Jinyiwei. He has been in the Jinyiwei for at least 20 years since he faked his death. According to the file, he joined the Jinyiwei in 42 years of Jiajing.The 42nd year of Jiajing... Did anything special happen in that year?It's been too long..."

Thinking seems to be in trouble here. Guo Dayou grabbed his beard and thought hard. After a while, he continued to speculate as if talking to himself:

"Let's put aside the direction of the desperado who was hunted down. I don't think it is possible. If Jin Yiwei wants to enlist in the army, he needs to investigate the background. If he is really a desperado who needs to cover up his identity, where can he come in? It is also clearly recorded that he once Name? Let’s start with the current big shot, because if Li Laosan needs to conceal his identity, then his background may be more prominent at the beginning, and he is related to some big shots. If the big shots want him to do something secretly It’s a matter, his identity is inconvenient and he has to hide it. In addition to the two methods of enlisting in the army, Jin Yiwei, and the inheritance of military status, there is another extremely important way of enlisting in the army, which is to award honors. , are willing to stuff their own children in, so most of Jin Yiwei's military expenses are eaten by these noble children every year. The way Li Laosan joined the army has also been erased along with his original name record. If it is necessary to conceal him If the method of enlisting in the army is different, then he is likely to be a descendant of Feng Xungui's relatives.

Jiajing entered Jinyiwei in 42 years, think about it, who in Jiajing 42 years has reached the sky in one step, became a relative of the emperor, and even has the ability to stuff his own family's children into Jinyiwei? "

Guo Dayou's face suddenly froze, and his brows were furrowed. He quickly glanced at Li Laosan who was communicating with Zhou Jintong not far away, and then turned his gaze to Sui'er.Under his gaze, Sui Er seemed to have a glimmer of understanding, but Meng Kuang was still at a loss.Guo Dayou approached and whispered:

"It's Empress Dowager Li... In the 42nd year of Jiajing, Empress Dowager Li, who was only a native of King Yu's capital, gave birth to King Yu and was named a side concubine..."

Meng Kuang suddenly felt goose bumps all over his body over and over again, and his scalp was numb.

"Li Laosan...is the Empress Dowager's person..." Meng Kuang murmured with wide-eyed eyes.

"Li Laosan... His surname is not Li, his surname is Li. He has always been called 'Lao San' because he is the third child in his family. Why has no one thought about his family? Now it seems that he is The Empress Dowager’s natal family’s Li family’s third-generation children.” Guo Dayou took out a notebook from his pocket, looked through it carefully, and remembered all the relationships between the royal relatives and various relatives. The name of the character is the homework he did when he first entered Jinyiwei.A moment later he found it, and read it:

"The third son of the Li family, named Hu. The second son of the second uncle of the Empress Dowager Li, Xing San in the family, one year younger than the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager's cousin. In Jiajing 42, he was entrusted with Jinyiwei, and in Longqing [-] years he died for suppressing bandits."

"It's him." Sui'er said softly but firmly, "Li Hu, Li Xuming, they can't be wrong."

"Even I was deceived. Back then, I copied it from the genealogy of the emperor's relatives, and I also marked it on the back, saying that this noble relative was really a Jinyiwei who had been in charge of the army. It was not a false job. I dreamed Unexpectedly, this person is Li Laosan..." Guo Dayou shook his head and sighed.

"How did Li Laosan get the scar on his face? Was it also at that time?" Meng Kuang couldn't help asking.

"Maybe it's the scar caused by the so-called bandit suppression. This scar has greatly changed his appearance, making it impossible for people to see the resemblance between him and the queen mother." Guo Dayou put away his notebook and said .

"This person...has not only faked his death once. After my mother died, Jin Yiwei was cleaned up, and he changed his identity. This is the first time he has faked his death." Sui'er felt chills in his heart, "Suppressing bandits... Could it be that he was sent to assassinate The Jinyi Guards of the Yarkand Mission?"

Guo Dayou said: "It's very possible... It seems that the Jinyiwei team that was sent to assassinate the Yeerqiang mission back then still has a lot of secrets hidden in it. Now it is known that there is a relationship with that team, except for Mr. Li Third, there is also Feng Cheng, a thousand households in the management office. Feng Cheng still does not admit his relationship with Wang Daoming. Now I seem to understand that Feng Cheng may not really belong to Wang Daoming, and Feng Cheng may also belong to the Queen Mother. People. The Jin Yiwei who survived the assassination of the mission, as well as the family members of the Jin Yiwei who died, were gathered by the queen mother for her own use."

"Feng Cheng went to follow Zhang Yunxiu to do something for the Queen Mother? So the Queen Mother discovered Zhang Yunxiu's trace early in the morning! According to Feng Cheng himself, he has found Zhang Yunxiu's trace since the end of last year and has been following him until now. That is to say, before I left Before entering the palace, the queen mother may have already grasped Zhang Yunxiu's whereabouts. Then she will let me out of the palace..." Sui'er became more and more frightened as she spoke. The queen mother, who was hiding behind her, seemed to be doing nothing, but she seemed to be in control of everything all the time.

"You are the Empress Dowager's trump card, Sui'er. Only by letting you out can you bring back the picture of thousands of beasts and flowers. The Empress Dowager knows this well. It's just that after you go out, you will encounter competition from many forces. After all, your The matter has already been disclosed by Wang Daoming to Chen Ju and the Zheng family, and the queen mother can only let Zhang Cheng act as his agent to obstruct Zheng's actions." Meng Kuang said.

Guo Dayou clicked his lips suddenly, and said: "Who did Wang Daoming know about the relationship between Sui'er and the picture of Wanshou Baihua? Logically speaking, the secret of Sui'er and the picture of Wanshou Baihui At the beginning, the number of people who knew about it was very limited, but now we count with our fingers, there are only the Queen Mother and her confidants, Li Laosan and his companions, Zhang Yunxiu and Nurhachi brothers, and finally Zhang Jing. No one will be so stupid Let the news out."

"Could it be Chu Yidao from the imperial prison? He belongs to Li Laosan and the only person who knew about the prison robbery. He should know about Sui'er." Meng Kuang said.

"What purpose does he want to achieve by revealing this secret?" Sui'er asked, but Meng Kuang couldn't answer, she hadn't thought about it carefully yet.

Guo Dayou shook his head and said: "I think the queen mother leaked this news on purpose. She wanted to catch Wang Daoming and the Zheng family in one fell swoop, suppress Zheng Guifei, and clean up the obstacles around the eldest son of the emperor and his mother, Wang Gongfei. What she wants to achieve is Political purpose. At the same time, she also hoped to use this news to catch Zhang Yunxiu. She hoped to use Sui Er to catch Zhang Yunxiu and take back the pictures of beasts and flowers. But this goal was not achieved. Zhang Yunxiu was not fooled, but went to the coast of Zhejiang Province first. , made a trick of throwing himself into a trap. It may be that Zhang Yunxiu noticed Feng Cheng who was following him.

I don't know if Zhang Yunxiu had reached some kind of cooperative relationship with Wang Daoming in Jiulong Bay. In short, he instigated the civil strife in Jiulong Bay and created an opportunity for Wang Daoming to escape.Then he intentionally waits for Sui'er to take the bait at the snack shop at the foot of Jiulong Mountain, guides Sui'er back to Jiashan, and then throws himself into the trap.Maybe it was because he knew that Jiang Yunping was in Jiashan. He was afraid that if he was arrested in other places, Jiang Yunping's absence would cause him to encounter uncontrollable accidents.Before that, Zhang Yunxiu must have been lurking in Beijing for a long time. Judging from Shuerhaqi's activities, they went in and out of brothels, listened to various news, and contacted various spies.I guess at that time, Zhang Yunxiu had already contacted Jiang Yunping.At that time, Jiang Yunping became Zhang Yunxiu's inside line in Jinyiwei, sending him news.

Now it seems that Zhang Yunxiu was the one who played against the queen mother. He played with the queen mother and led us to Liaodong, leaving us in a state of isolation and help, and gradually introduced us into the territory of the Jurchens.He knows that we can't give up tracking him, and we must risk breaking into the Jurchens to catch him.These are all traps he arranged. "

"But we have no choice now, we can't let the pictures of beasts and flowers flow into the hands of foreigners, otherwise there will be endless troubles." Meng Kuang said helplessly.

"Maybe we have a choice..." Guo Dayou rolled his eyes, as if he had thought of it.

At this moment, a shout came from outside:

"Report!"

One of the spies sent by Jin Yiwei rushed into the fortress and rushed towards Guo Dayou:

"Speak!" Guo Dayou immediately stood up and said, he recognized this spy as the one he sent to the rear to check whether the teams of Zhang Yunxiu and Shuerhaqi were left behind.I thought their news would come out after a while, but I didn't expect it to come so soon.

"Qianhu, we found in the rear that there is a rapid march of about a thousand people coming towards Fushun Pass." The detective said out of breath.

"Can you see the banner clearly? Who is the leading general?"

"Under the banner of Li Zi, the leading generals and subordinates don't know it, but they all wear the uniforms of the Liaodong Army." The detective said.

"It can't be that Li Chengliang is chasing after him!" Inside the fortress, all the Jinyi guards suddenly became restless.

Guo Dayou frowned. He originally planned to delay leaving the customs for a while, but now it seems that the situation forced him to take a risk.

He ordered loudly: "Everyone pack up immediately, we are ready to break through Fushun Pass!"