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Long Ying's ability to strike back is really superb, but it was indeed Jiang Baizhou who extended his hand first, and he couldn't get rid of it.

Forget it, just hug it, Jiang Baizhou doesn't care.

He took a few bites, pushed away the bowls and chopsticks, and asked Longying, "Are all the people here as enthusiastic as you? Like rice cakes, always greeting others?"

"..." Of course, Long Ying would not admit that it was his own fault, so he had to smear the masses, he said, "Yes, the lower city has long winters and short summers, it is always cold, and everyone has to hug each other to rest in order to keep warm." , as time goes by... Cough, but you don't have to hug everyone, only those who are close to you do this."

He spoke nonsense in a serious manner, Jiang Baizhou believed it, and sighed: "The folk customs are so open."

Long Ying touched her nose guiltily.

After dinner, it was completely dark.

Jiang Baizhou was going to visit relatives, and Long Ying was his guide.But they didn't plan to visit directly. When Gongsun Shu and Jiang Zhu eloped, others didn't know how Gongsun would react. They must have been very dissatisfied. Moreover, Jiang Baizhou's identity had hidden dangers when Wu Wuhai was involved.

To be cautious, he decided to take advantage of the night to go to the upper city to explore first.

He was worried about identifying the wrong family, so he asked Longying, "Is there only one family in the Gongsun family?"

Long Ying said: "There is only one famous family."

Jiang Baizhou nodded, carrying his father's ashes with him, giving the latter a little homely feeling.

A month ago, before Jiang Baizhou went to sea, when sorting out Gongsun Shu's belongings, he found a book in the house where his father lived.

This book fell into the crack of the bookcase. Jiang Baizhou never noticed it before. He picked it up and saw that it was a popular legend on the island. But what was surprising was that there was Gongsun Shu’s own handwriting in the blank space of the book. record left.

Those records were complicated in content and in a messy word order. Most of them were written that he and Jiang Zhu had a dispute over certain things again. He hated Jiang Zhu for being cold-blooded and heartless. He tortured him year after year and refused to give him a relief.

Occasionally there are happy events.Gongsun Shu was deeply infatuated with his wife. He wrote: "On today's birthday, Xiaozhu gave me a peach blossom lantern. It turns out that she still has me in her heart."

In the next few pages, the handwriting on the book is much neater, and the gentleness when he writes can be vaguely seen from the lines.

But the good times didn't last long, they quarreled almost every day, to a certain extent, they simply avoided seeing each other.

Gongsun Shu's tone also turned lonely.

Jiang Baizhou patiently turned from the first page to the last, carefully reading each word. The handwriting on the last page was extremely messy. Gongsun was agitated for some reason, and even wrote a bunch of typos. Jiang Baizhou read it again and again. :

"Recently, Xiaozhu always avoids me, shutting herself in the room without knowing what to think about. I was being sentimental, thinking that Qixi Festival was coming, and she was going to give me a surprise, but it turned out not to be."

"She is always suspicious of me, but she is obviously more sneaky."

"Sure enough, sure enough! She has something to hide from me!"

"So that's the case, no wonder she was scared out of her wits... She is afraid that I will reveal such secrets!"

"She's really worrying too much. I'm waiting for ants. What's the use of having a secret?"

"Alas! Alas!"

"..."

Jiang Baizhou read in a daze. He looked through all the books on the bookcase, but found no other words.

He didn't know what the "heavenly secret" in the posthumous text referred to. It seemed that the matter was of great importance, which made his parents terrified. No wonder they couldn't get over it later.

So, is this the key reason why Jiang Zhu wanted to kill his own husband at the expense of his love?

But what "secret" can the endless sea have?

The temple, the elders' house, the forbidden area behind the mountain... Jiang Baizhou was trained as the successor of the high priest since he was a child. He went up to the sky and down to the bottom of the abyss. He knew everything about the endless sea.

After his master passed away, the jurisdiction of Zangshu Pavilion was also opened to him.

He is the new owner of Endless Sea, and the elders in the House of Elders don't know much about him.And how did his mother learn about things that the elders' house didn't know about?

Jiang Baizhou was full of doubts, and felt that it was not appropriate to say anything about it.

He thought that most of the truth is related to the outside world, not all in the endless sea.His time is only three months. If he can find out the truth, he will naturally be perfect.

After all, there is no misunderstanding or entanglement in his father's posthumous text, and now there is no way to verify it.

Jiang Baizhou and Long Ying put on night clothes together, and went out like thieves.

Long Ying is very proficient in this kind of thing. He has a fierce lion mask, which is pulled down on his face, revealing only a pair of eyes, so even acquaintances can't recognize him.

But wearing this mask is more ostentatious than showing off, Long Ying deliberately showed off, and asked Jiang Baizhou: "Brother, am I majestic?"

"..."

Jiang Baizhou smiled lowly, and praised him: "It's very majestic."

Long Ying's tail immediately turned up, not like a lion at all, but he was just trying to please a good word, how could he dare to change Jiang Baizhou's business because of the mask, and cautiously changed it when he went out.

There are four roads leading to the upper city.

There are four gates, which are located on the four corner towers of Buixing Town.

These four gates are heavily guarded, shaped like four fortresses, easy to defend but difficult to attack, common people are inaccessible, if you want to enter, you must show a pass token.

There are three types of tokens: one is a low-level licensed order, which is a trade token; the other is an intermediate-level amnesty order, which is distributed to approved people by the three major families and the Feiguang Temple. Those who hold this order can enter and exit freely; The second is a high-level token made of gold, each of which is engraved with the name of the owner of the token, unique and exclusive to high-ranking officials and nobles.

Long Ying has a golden order, but since he and Jiang Baizhou want to explore the high pavilion at night, they can't go the right way.

The two came near the north city gate. It was dark and windy at night, and the lights in the city were far away. Nearby, only the night lights on the city tower illuminated one side of the world. There were vaguely armored soldiers standing like door gods, guarding the entrance of the ladder.

"That's the ladder." Long Ying said, "When you climb the ladder, you can enter the upper city."

Jiang Baizhou followed Long Ying's gaze, but he didn't see the shadow of the ladder, only the gate on the city tower was closed, and behind the gate, a stone "tall tower" rose from the ground, reaching straight to the sky, with no end in sight.

Upon closer inspection, it has no door or window, not a tower, but a huge stone pillar.

Long Ying said: "The pillar is the channel of the ladder. It is hollow inside and is full of mechanical ropes. It can lift up to three ladders at the same time. But the load of the ladder is limited and it cannot carry heavy cargo. For this reason, they built another "road to the sky." '."

The so-called "Tongtian Road" is just a good name.

In fact, it looks like a mountain road, winding up around huge stone pillars. The road is long and winding, and it is difficult to walk.

Jiang Baizhou understood: "We will not enter the ladder, but take the road outside."

"That's right." Long Ying whispered, "The entrance to Tongtian Road is also guarded, but I have a way to go up."

He raised his arm, and a metal grappling hook flew out from under his sleeve, and a steel cable as thin as a gossamer was pulled at the end. Jiang Baizhou was surprised when he saw it, and before he could react, Long Ying suddenly grabbed his waist with one hand, Pointing to the ground, he soared into the air, hugging him and flying along the trajectory of the steel cable to the city wall.

In the same way, he flew from the city wall to the stone pillar, and then avoided the eyes and ears of the guards. He jumped several times in this way, successfully bypassed the entrance, and directly boarded Tongtian Road.

As soon as he landed, Jiang Baizhou left his arms and asked, "What is this?"

"Flying Hook, it's just a gadget." Long Ying led Jiang Baizhou up the winding steps, and said as he walked, "There is an organization in Feiguang Temple called Jishumen, which specializes in the creation and modification of machinery. Flying Hook Too small to be worth mentioning, the masterpiece they are most proud of is the half-armored man."

"Half armor?"

"Well, it's a kind of body modification, cutting off the arms and legs of living people, or pulling out their spines, and replacing them with mechanical parts, forcibly turning living people into inhuman monsters, they call it "" , half-armored warrior."

"..."

Jiang Baizhou had never heard of it, it was hard to imagine.

Long Ying said: "Xie Yan is from Banjia, if brother is curious, I will take you to visit him sometime."

What a "visit".

Long Ying has become more and more articulate in the past two days, how can she still look like a little mute?But Jiang Baizhou thought to himself, this is also very interesting.

They moved on.

The road to the sky is too long, and the more you go up, the closer you are to the black mist.

Looking at the fog in the fog, its color is so pale that it is almost transparent, and you can't see it clearly even with the ignition book.The smell was very obvious, and Jiang Baizhou could smell a strange fragrance in the wind from a distance. It was not unpleasant, but it made the chest feel tight and dizzy.

Long Ying reminded: "Try to hold your breath, brother, just go through this section."

Jiang Baizhou agreed.

Long Ying was afraid that he would be bored, so she took the initiative to find a topic and said: "The Gongsun family is the most prominent one in the Gaoge family. I have heard some rumors about them."

Jiang Baizhou was really interested: "Let's listen to it."

Long Ying said: "The Patriarch of the Gongsun family is Gongsun Bo. He is seventy years old and his death is approaching. He has a son and a daughter under his knees. The daughter is called Gongsun Jing. The son has not shown up for many years. According to the outside world, he died young. I assume it means your father."

Jiang Baizhou nodded.

Long Ying continued: "In short, there is only one daughter left in the Gongsun lineage, so it is inconvenient to manage the family business. The relatives in the side line are eyeing it. Gongsun Bo has no choice but to recruit a son-in-law named Yuan Mao."

Yuan Mao's family background is mediocre - of course, how could a son-in-law of an aristocratic family be someone's son-in-law?

He has no power or power, but he has a gentle temper. After "marrying" into Gongsun's house, Miss Gongsun was unruly and self-willed, beat and scolded him at all times, and he had no complaints at all. Instead, he was happy to make his wife happy.

Over time, Gongsun Jing was coaxed into submission by him, and the couple fell in love and gave birth to two sons.

The sons naturally have to follow the surname of Gongsun, and the grandfather named them himself, one is Gongsun Dai and the other is Gongsun Fu.

The two young sons grew up under the excessive pampering given by their mother, and without accident, they both grew into useless materials.

The boss loves wine and women, spends all day in the brothel, unconscious.

The second child is lazy and greedy, the more he eats, the fatter he gets, the fatter he gets, the lazy he gets, he doesn't do his homework, he even dismissed his teacher behind his mother's back and replaced him with a chef, he was found out and beaten, but he still didn't change his mind. Mud cannot support the wall.

Gongsun Bo had nothing to do, but he was old and frail, and could no longer bear a son himself, so he had to pass on the family business to his grandson.

Then there is a problem: there is only one head of the family, and the two grandchildren are useless, who will be better and less catastrophic?Even if only a little bit.

It was obviously not good, the old man Gongsun was very unwilling, so he had to delay.

It has been delayed for many years, and it can no longer be delayed, not to mention that it is not conducive to the stability of the family, and he himself is running out of time.

Therefore, it is reported that the Gongsun family will determine the result in the near future and choose an auspicious day to disclose the identity of the heir to the outside world.

After listening, Jiang Baizhou couldn't help feeling: "It seems that I came at the wrong time."

Gongsun Bozheng was suffering from bad heirs, and if he brought his son's ashes, wouldn't it be adding salt to the wound and adding fuel to the fire?