[Comprehensive martial arts] A scholar who is useless

But Gong Jiu said to him: "I'm afraid it's not suitable to stay here for a long time. Since Ye Gucheng knows that you are here, other people may not know about it. In case more troubles come to you, we'd better leave here quickly... "

Dongfang Bubai snorted coldly: "Just kill as many troubles as you come."

Gong Jiu covered his lips and coughed twice. Seeing this, Shu Ming hurriedly asked the other party with concern. Gong Jiu shook his head at him to express that it was all right, and then said to Dongfang Bubai and the others: "Of course, you are not afraid of them. , but the target of the other party is Brother Shu. The enemy is in the dark and we are in the open. It is hard to guarantee that the other party will not use some sinister and vicious means to harm us. Naturally, it takes effort to guard against them..."

"What's more, I have something I want to tell you, this is not a place to talk," Gong Jiu said: "My mansion is not far from the city, and it is heavily guarded, no one dares to rush in, yes Therefore, I hope that you can move forward.”

"..." Dongfang Bubai glanced at Gong Jiu and said nothing, Hua Manlou also agreed with Gong Jiu's opinion, so the group walked towards Gong Jiu's mansion outside the city.

By the time everyone arrived, it was already completely dark.

Gong Jiu had been bleeding heavily and was weak all the way, so he looked groggy all the way, and Shu Ming sat on the side carefully taking care of each other.

It was not until everyone came to the gate of Gong Jiu's house that they finally discovered the problem.

"Prince Taiping's Mansion?" Lu Xiaofeng looked at the majestic characters on the plaque in front of the mansion in surprise, then turned his head to look at Gong Jiu, and said in surprise, "Don't tell me you are the heir of Prince Taiping!"

Gong Jiu seemed to have just woken up, his face was still a little ugly, and he said angrily: "I am indeed the Prince Taiping's son, and I have been hiding something from you before. It was not intentional, but the situation forced me to do so. ..."

"..." Shu Mingshen couldn't help being a little stunned when he saw this.

Gong Jiu turned to look at him, lowered his eyes and said, "Brother Shu, you won't blame me for lying to you, right?"

Shuming heard the words and thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "Ninth brother is so kind to me, and I didn't hide it intentionally, how can I blame you, ninth brother!"

Gong Jiu then smiled and nodded slightly, and then led everyone into the Taiping Palace.

"..." King Taiping was circling anxiously in the center of the hall. After hearing that Gong Jiu had brought someone back, he finally took a deep breath and calmed down his excitement or nervousness. People invite each other in.

"Father..."

After hearing Gong Jiu's sincere father and queen, the flesh on King Taiping's face couldn't help shaking three times. He turned his head and wanted to say "My son has worked hard" with the same affection. He saw a pale Gong Jiu who was seriously injured and had to be supported to barely walk into the living room.

King Taiping's breath was stuck in his throat for a long time, and finally he said tremblingly and suspiciously: "How did you get hurt like this?"

Gong Jiu heard the words and was about to answer when Shu Mingshen, who was standing beside him, said in front of him with a face full of self-blame: "Reporting to the lord, Brother Ninth was injured only to save me..."

"Save you?" King Taiping looked Shu Mingshen up and down, and asked in confusion, "Who are you, why did he save you?"

Shu Mingshen bowed respectfully to the other party and said: "My book, Mingshen, is a friend of the ninth brother. Just now, the ninth brother took the sword from the Lord Ye in order to save me. I am really ashamed and ashamed. I also ask the lord to come down." !"

"..." King Taiping heard this, and stared at the frail scholar in front of him with wide eyes. He originally wondered why Gong Jiu would hurt himself in order to save such an ordinary person, until he heard Shu Mingshen's name .

"So you are Shu Mingshen." King Taiping walked around Shu Mingshen in a curious way, and asked curiously, "Do you really have a red birthmark on your shoulder?"

Shu Ming couldn't help being stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and just didn't know how to answer, Gong Jiu's voice came at this moment: "Father, let me introduce you, this is Lu Xiaofeng, Mr. Lu, Wanmei Villa The owner of Ximen, Huamanlou, and the Oriental girl..."

Although Gong Jiu still spoke with the same tone, the eyes he looked at King Taiping were obviously much colder than before.

"..." King Taiping hurriedly coughed lightly, retracted his overly direct gaze on Shu Mingshen, turned around, and greeted Lu Xiaofeng and Ximen Chuuxue.

Gong Jiu said apologetically to Shu Ming: "My father has always been straightforward, please don't take it to heart."

Upon hearing this, Shu Ming quickly shook his head and said, "It's okay, Brother Ninth, don't mind!"

Although Shu Mingshen is also very curious about how the Prince of Taiping knew that he had a birthmark...

Everyone chatted for a while, and the doctors in the palace also re-treated Gong Jiu's wound, and finally everyone returned to the topic.

"My lord, you seem to know something about this young master," Lu Xiaofeng said to King Taiping thoughtfully, "I wonder if you can tell me about this, so that we still don't know what those people are. to kill him."

King Taiping glanced at Gong Jiu when he heard the words, then turned to Lu Xiaofeng and the others and said, "Actually, it's a long story, and I don't know all the inside information, so I can only tell you what I know."

King Taiping asked Shu Ming who was beside him and said, "I wonder if you have a birthmark in the shape of a beast on your body, Mr. Shu?"

Shu Ming nodded deeply when he heard the words, but still couldn't help but wonder: "There is indeed one place, but..."

King Taiping raised his hand to stop his words, and said: "At first we were not sure whether this matter was true, after all, there are quite a few people with birthmarks in this world, until I sent someone to investigate this young master's life experience."

"The thing is like this, about 20 years ago, when the Supreme Emperor—that is, when my brother was in power, there was a vision in the sky one day. According to the calculation of the current national teacher, there will be someone who will carry the order of the emperor. Born in the world at a certain time on a certain day of a certain month," Taiping Wang said: "My imperial brother was overjoyed at that time, because although there were already several princes in the palace, all of them were mediocre and not outstanding, so they were not favored. My imperial brother was worried. A suitable prince can succeed him as Datong, who would expect such a strange sign to come into the world, naturally very happy."

"However, the strange thing is that although there were several concubines in the palace who were pregnant at that time, none of them would be born on that day. Naturally, my imperial brother refused to believe it, so I specially calculated it. Burning incense and praying on that day, offering sacrifices to the heavens and praying to the gods, hoping to get the destined crown prince."

"But until that day is almost over, there is still no child born in the palace," King Taiping said here, and he couldn't help sighing: "My imperial brother was furious, thinking that the national teacher had committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. , was about to kill him all over the house, the national teacher had no choice but to tell at this time that he had not lied, nor had he made a mistake in his calculations. The son of Prince Zhennan who was born to Princess Zhennan, and he has a birthmark of auspicious beasts on his body as the seal of the emperor to prove it!"

King Taiping sighed and said: "You must have heard about the later things. The king of Zhennan was executed by his family because of his rebellion more than ten years ago. No one in the family was left behind. Even I thought they were all They all died in that rebellion..."

"Actually, there was no real evidence at the time whether the other party intended to commit rebellion, but if the emperor wanted to kill a person, no matter how powerful that person was, he would probably be powerless to resist," King Taiping said to Shu Mingshen and the others: "Ben Wang said here, you must have already guessed who this Shu Gongzi is?"

Hearing this, everyone in the room couldn't help turning their gazes to Shu Mingshen's direction.

Shu Ming was furiously watched by the other party, couldn't help but raised his hand and touched his nose and said: "This doesn't mean that I have something to do with this matter, just as you said, my lord, there are more than thousands of people with birthmarks in this world, how could it be possible?" Such a coincidence is next..."

King Taiping blinked his eyes when he heard this and said: "That's why I sent someone to check your identity. You should have moved to the place where you live now 19 years ago, and Lingtang passed away when you were seven years old. Yes, hasn't she said anything to you before?"

"..." Shu Mingshen couldn't help being a little confused at the moment. After all, he was still young at that time, and he might not be able to remember everything his mother said.

Seeing him drooping his eyes in thought, King Taiping glanced at Gong Jiu at the side, coughed and continued: "Actually, if it wasn't for my son who came back last time and said that he had seen a similar birthmark on you, Mr. Shu, and your The age is also similar to him, and he was assassinated by an unknown person, and this king may not send someone to investigate this matter..."

"..." Shu Ming deeply remembered that Gong Jiu must have seen the birthmark on his body when they spent the night in the brothel that day, and his face couldn't help turning slightly red, but he remembered what King Taiping said just now , still couldn't help but shook his head and said: "But even so, why did those people from Jianghu come to kill me?"

Even if someone wants to eradicate him, the son of a criminal minister, it should be someone from the government, so what's the matter with those Jianghu people?

Gong Jiu said at this time: "Actually, this Jianghu is not as simple as you imagined. Many times, many forces gather together, such as the Baiyun City Lord who wanted to arrest you just now. According to me and As far as my father knows, there is a lot of connection between the convenience and the current Nanwang lineage."

"Perhaps the other party already knew your identity, Brother Shu, that's why they called Ye Gucheng here to arrest you." Gong Jiu looked at Shu Mingshen, and said jokingly, "Besides, Brother Shu, what you have is the Son of Heaven. If what the national teacher said is true, then not only people like Nanwang and Ye Gucheng, but also everyone in the world who covets the Ninth Five Lord will want to snatch you, Brother Shu! "

Shu Ming was so frightened by the other party's words that his hairs stood on end, but he waved his hands again and again and said: "No, you must have made a mistake. After living here for twenty years, you still haven't heard of such things!"

"What's more, if Jia Yanruo was really the king of Zhennan, he should have been executed long ago. How could my mother and I escape...?" Shu Mingshen was a little uncomfortable with the crowd in front of him, and said righteously : "These are just inferences and have no real evidence. Please don't believe such nonsense, my lord!"

Lu Xiaofeng stroked his chin, looked at Shu Mingshen and said, "I don't think this is just nonsense..."

"Think about how many people came to catch you or simply wanted to kill you." Lu Xiaofeng said, "They must have heard something about it, so they set their sights on you."

"It's fine for one person to make a mistake, but it's obviously impossible for so many people to make a mistake." Lu Xiaofeng looked at Shu Ming with compassion and said, "Brother Shu, I'm afraid you will be in big trouble in the future!"

Shu Mingshen still doesn't think this is the case. After all, he has been living peacefully for the past 20 years, and almost no danger has happened. Now that so many unreasonable things suddenly appear, he can't accept it no matter what.

"I also find it a bit strange," Hua Manlou said with a slight frown, "If this is serious, why hasn't anyone come to trouble Brother Shu before? Those people obviously only got the news recently, could it be that there is something Someone deliberately revealed this news...?"

"I'm afraid you can only ask them about this matter." Lu Xiaofeng shook his head and said, "Anyway, as far as we know so far, there are at least two groups of people who want to kill or snatch nerds. If the news continues to spread, the situation will only I'm afraid it will get more complicated."

And the most worrying thing is not these people in the Jianghu, but the imperial court. If the news of this incident reaches the ears of the emperor, and the other party orders the arrest of Shu Mingshen, a traitor and remnant party, then the matter will be the most troublesome ...

Shu Mingshen was on the verge of crying when he was told by the other party. Who did he provoke? Why did such a strange thing find his head? Shu Mingshen has never admitted that he is the King of Zhennan until now. Son, things like the "Order of the Son of Heaven" are even more nonsense!

If he really was ordered by the emperor, how could he continue to be an ordinary person here?Even if those people got him, it would be impossible for them to realize their ambitions!

As there is no real evidence at present, the only evidence is the birthmark on Shu Mingshen's body, but the other party refuses to admit it, so everyone has to put this matter on hold for the time being.

Fortunately, the Taiping Prince's Mansion is relatively safe, and with Ximen Chuuxue, Lu Xiaofeng and others sitting here, ordinary people would not want to break into the Palace.

Although these two days have been inseparable with the ninth son, Shu Mingshen still couldn't help feeling a little depressed. Fortunately, taking care of the injured Gong Jiu diverted most of Shu Mingshen's attention, so he didn't call the other party. His hair turned gray because of this.

Shu Mingshen waited until the soup in the medicine bowl in his hand became warm, then filled it with a spoon and carefully handed it to Gong Jiu's lips who was leaning on the bed, saying: "Brother Jiu, it's time to drink the medicine."