Aoyama Chronicle

After Zhong Yiwen personally brought the two brothers of the Zhong family to Dali Temple, they heard that both Zhong Xiaoliu and the Liu family brothers had died in prison, and they were so scared that they hugged each other with tears in their eyes.Li Wen led people to personally interrogate the two of them, and they didn't dare to hide anything. They told the whole story of how the people from the Nanman area came into contact with them.

It turned out that after the Zhong family's accident, their elder brother Zhong Yibin was busy selling his property and preparing to run away, and he didn't care about the two brothers at all.Later, when the government sentenced the Zhong family to them, Zhong Yibin fled in a hurry without taking the two of them with him.That's why the two of them were not implicated by Zhong Yibin, escaped unharmed, and were not hunted down by the government, and they left the state capital city smoothly.After the two left Zhoufu City, they originally planned to go to Zhongjia Village, but on the way they met the man from the Nanman area.It was that person who told them about Zhong Yiwen, and also said that Zhong Yiwen became an official, but he didn't care about the life and death of the Zhong family in the state capital. That person couldn't stand it, and wanted to send them to the capital to sue Zhong Yiwen.

The two brothers didn't know why, and they didn't know much. They were quickly persuaded and agreed to go to the capital to file a complaint. Then they got acquainted with the other two brothers, Zhong Xiaoliu and Liu's brother.The man directly sent the four of them from Yangzhou to Kyoto, and then left.Everyone knows what happened after this!

Li Wen frowned: "Do you know his name?"

The two brothers thought for a while, then shook their heads timidly.

Zhong Yiwen really admired these two bold brothers, who dared to trust such a stranger without even knowing their names.I am not afraid that what I meet is a human trafficker, who will be sold by others.

"Then what does this person look like, do you still remember?" Li Wen asked.

The eldest brother lowered his head and did not dare to speak.But the little brother nodded again and again: "I remember, I remember!"

Zhong Yiwen looked at his elder brother suspiciously. It is impossible that they have been in contact for so long, so they will not remember what he looks like.He didn't know what his elder brother was thinking, and what he had to hide at this time.

When the little brother saw Li Wen and Zhong Yiwen, he looked at his brother suspiciously, and anxiously wanted to explain to the big brother: "Don't blame my brother, he didn't even see the appearance of that person. They all wore bamboo hats, or covered their faces. I accidentally saw him once!"

I didn't know his name or what he looked like, yet he dared to follow him all the way from Yangzhou to Kyoto.These brothers really make people wonder whether to praise them for their courage, or how powerful they are, or to say that they are blessed by their ancestors. It is definitely their luck that they can live until now.However, Zhong Yiwen suspected that Zhong Xiaoliu and the brother from the Liu family were afraid that they knew something inside, so they would be killed to silence them. Otherwise, like the two brothers from the Zhong family, who didn't know anything, would it be necessary to kill them to silence them?

I only saw it once by accident, and it was seen by a nine-year-old child. Li Wen doubted whether he could restore the appearance of that person.

"I'll draw it for you to see!" The little brother anxiously wanted to prove his usefulness.

"You know how to draw?" Li Wen was a little skeptical.

The little brother nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, I learned it secretly at home, and often help my brother draw pictures on embroidery!"

The eldest brother reassured: "Yes, the ones drawn by my brother are very similar, there should be no problem."

This is really good news for a turnaround. I didn't expect there to be such an important clue.Li Wen was so happy that he almost jumped up, and immediately asked someone to bring a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and urged the little brother of the Zhong family to quickly draw the suspect.

The little brother sat by the table, picked up the brush seriously, thought about it and started to write.Not to mention how well the painting was done, just looking at the posture and the smoothness of the writing, at least made Li Wen's expectations a little higher. I only hope that the little brother can really draw this suspect.

Zhong Yiwen didn't have much expectations for the little brother at first, it's probably enough for such an older child to draw a crooked abstract painting.To see what a person looks like from their paintings, one must have the ability of detectives.However, he really missed his mark this time. He never thought that this little brother is really versatile. At least his brush painting skills are not inferior to those who have practiced for many years.Even Zhong Yiwen couldn't help feeling that the painting was much better than him.This person is really beyond recognition!

The little brother is very serious about painting, and only halfway through the painting, you can see the general appearance, which shows that he has not worked hard on it.

Li Wen began to frown unconsciously when he saw the painted-like appearance.If he was not mistaken, he had already recognized this person, and he had a hunch that things this time might not be simple.After the little brother finished writing, Li Wen's face changed drastically, it really was him!

Seeing Li Wen's expression, Zhong Yiwen suspected that Li Wen probably knew this person.However, it seems unreasonable how Li Wen would know people from the Nanman area!Unable to figure it out, Zhong Yiwen also leaned over to look at the portrait, shaking his head with certainty in his heart, it was very strange, probably not someone he knew.

Li Wen put away the portrait directly, and said to Zhong Yiwen and the others: "I'm afraid this matter will be very troublesome! You go back first, Master Zhong, please take care of your two brothers, it's still the same, don't let them until the case is solved Leave Kyoto!"

Zhong Yiwen nodded in agreement, and led the two brothers back home.Now because of this case, Shen Ying has taken the initiative to give him a long vacation in order to avoid suspicion, so he doesn't even have to go to the Imperial Academy for the time being, which is a rare time for him to rest in the past few years.

In the afternoon of that day, Wu Yuanheng suddenly asked a servant in their family to send a letter to Zhong Yiwen.Zhong Yiwen was shocked, this matter is probably really big!For so many years, it was the first time that my cousin did not come to the door in person, but explained the matter to him by letter.This time when Zhong Yiwen was sued, Wu Yuanheng did not come forward, and Zhong Yiwen handled it quickly, so there was no need for him to come forward to help.But what does it mean to send a letter all of a sudden?

Zhong Yiwen opened the letter, read it at a glance, and was shocked in the end.

The content of the letter is very simple, it is to tell the identity of the person drawn by the little brother of the Zhong family today.It was true that he was from the Nanman area, and this person was not simple. He actually had a record in the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple, so it was no wonder that Li Wen recognized him on the spot.He was the scholar who lured Princess Biyou to elope and stole the roster three years ago.The most important thing is that that person was captured in Jingzhou and sentenced to death on the spot, but now he reappeared, which probably involved a shocking secret.No one would doubt that a *year-old child would cheat, and the painting was directly drawn by the little brother of the Zhong family in front of Li Wen and the others, so the credibility is almost [-]%.

Zhong Yiwen was no less surprised than the others, it was the person who should have died a long time ago, this truth is really unacceptable.What Zhong Yiwen doubted even more was the reason why they directly dealt with Zhong Yiwen.It stands to reason that Zhong Yiwen and him are in harmony with each other, so if you want revenge, you should find the right person!

Zhong Yiwen racked his brains and couldn't figure it out, so he had to call He Jianghai over to discuss this issue.

After He Jianghai listened to Zhong Yiwen's narration, he was also baffled: "If you talk about revenge, it definitely doesn't look like it! You didn't meet them directly, and what is doubtful is the matter of Princess Biyou. But looking at it comprehensively, Biyou County The Lord is basically a pawn, that is, Wang An Le's pawn, and their pawn, will anyone take revenge for a pawn?"

"No!" Zhong Yiwen shook his head and said, "Ahhhhhh... what are these people thinking? Can Jiang Mo be a little bit more forceful, quickly deal with the other three parties in the Nanman area, and let the emperor directly send troops to destroy them!"

"Is it pointless for them to do all this?" What He Jianghai said, he didn't believe it.

Zhong Yiwen suddenly had a flash of light in his mind: "Maybe what they did was just a cover-up? Maybe they didn't really want to deal with me, but just wanted to disturb the pool of water in Yan Kingdom. The reason why they chose me may be because the Holy Majesty There are indeed a lot of controversies about my favoritism towards me!"

Zhong Yiwen felt that he might have guessed right.

He Jianghai frowned: "But why did you choose this time, and still do it full of loopholes? Such an approach might make the emperor become angry and speed up the pace of recovering them. If you want to keep the place they occupy now, you should not directly ask Yan Would it be more beneficial for the country to surrender to the Holy One?"

"Maybe there is some terrible reason why they have to do this? Or maybe they will get more benefits if they do this?" Zhong Yiwen guessed.

"Greater interests?" He Jianghai murmured, as if he had thought of something, but couldn't grasp it.

Zhong Yiwen is now the first two big: "Damn Zhang Zhaofeng, he must know something. Obviously, Qin Jiu and the others have been looking for him for a few days, but he hasn't appeared yet, so he won't die in some corner, right? "

Just as he was talking about Zhang Zhaofeng, Qin Jiu knocked on the door with an arrow and came in.

Zhong Yiwen looked curiously at how Qin Jiu brought an arrow in, but looking carefully at the arrow, it didn't seem to belong to his family!Take a closer look, huh?It looked a little familiar, and I looked back at the branch hanging on the wall of the study, and then at the one in Qin Jiu's hand, damn, it was exactly the same.

"Brother-in-law, did the brothers pick up this arrow in the yard? There is a piece of cloth on it, take a look!" Qin Jiu directly handed the arrow in his hand to Zhong Yiwen.

After looking for Zhang Zhaofeng for a few days, this guy actually brought an arrow over, how busy he is!Zhong Yiwen took down the small piece of cloth in a huff, and looked at it carefully. After reading it, his face changed drastically.

The content on the small piece of cloth is: "The sky is about to change, pay attention to safety!"

The speed of this change is so fast that it is unimaginable. Zhong Yiwen only had time to send a few boys in the family, together with the two brothers of the Zhong family, to a house secretly purchased by Chen Yinuo on the outskirts of Kyoto. The news of the shocking change in the palace has already spread.

When the emperor went to court early, he passed out directly on the dragon chair.After the imperial doctor diagnosed the pulse, it turned out to be a symptom of poisoning, and everyone was shocked.King Anle joined forces with Lu Bonian and Shen Ying to investigate the cause of the poisoning of the Holy One. As a result, within half a day, the same poison was found in Concubine Tian's palace.After interrogation, the servants around Concubine Tian confessed that they had poisoned the Concubine Tian when the Majesty was resting at Concubine Tian's place the day before.The witnesses and material evidence are complete, even though Concubine Tian has repeatedly complained, there is no result.King Anle gave Concubine Tian a foot of white silk without waiting for the Holy Majesty to wake up.Concubine Tian, ​​who had been infinitely favored by the Holy Majesty, even directly took charge of the harem after the Empress Yu was deposed.

On the second day after this happened, the Fourth Prince Yan Tianzhi hanged himself by leaving a book in his mansion.In his suicide note, he directly stated the reason why Concubine Tian was poisoned.It turned out that two years ago, he was ordered by the Holy Majesty to assist the second prince and the seventh prince who had made no progress in investigating the Jingzhou roster. In order to win credit, he lied that he had found the person who seduced Princess Biyou and sentenced him to death on the spot. Fake.Now that there is evidence in Dali Temple that this person is still alive, the fourth prince is worried that the matter will be exposed, and after discussing with Concubine Tian, ​​Concubine Tian will take the risk and directly poison the saint, trying to push him to the throne.Now that Concubine Tian has been subdued, he feels sorry for his concubine Mo, and feels even more hopeless about his future, so he thinks of dying.

As soon as the matter of the fourth prince Yan Tianzhi and Concubine Tian came out, the entire Yan Kingdom was really shocked.Although some people suspected that the matter was too coincidental, the fourth prince's suicide note was too complete, it didn't seem like a person who wanted to die could write it.But everyone is dead, no matter how much you doubt, no one will really stand up and say a fair word for them.

The Holy Majesty only slowly woke up on the third day after the death of the fourth prince. Hearing that Concubine Tian had been bestowed to death, the fourth prince hanged himself to death. He spit out a mouthful of blood, and his body was extremely weak.Feeling that he could not recover in a short time, the Holy Majesty had no choice but to hand over the affairs of the court to the remaining three princes, and at the same time asked An Le Wang, Lu Bonian and Shen Ying to assist the three princes.After explaining this, the Holy Majesty fell into a coma again.

After Zhong Yiwen heard about this incident, he thought that fortunately he was put on a long vacation and didn't have to worry about those things. Before he had time to express his emotions, another major event happened.

It turned out that An Le Wang, Lu Bonian, and Shen Ying all encountered assassins on their way back home.Lu Bonian was the most seriously injured. If his groom hadn't risked his life to protect him, he might have died long ago.King An Le himself was a military general, and the guards around him were not bad. After suffering a slight injury, he directly captured two assassins alive.The luckiest and most fateful person belongs to Shen Ying. Originally, he was the same as Lu Bonian, with only one driver beside him, but unexpectedly, he met two masters of the rivers and lakes to help him. Those two easily beat the assassins away. Shen Ying Yingcai returned home unharmed.

In fact, only Shen Ying himself knew what kind of masters in the rivers and lakes, those two were the nursing homes of Zhong Yiwen's family, and one of them was Zhong Yiwen's uncle.Shen Ying didn't believe that they would pass by so coincidentally to save him, Zhong Yiwen probably knew something in advance, he hid it really deep!

The most surprising thing was that the two assassins caught by King Anle betrayed their master directly, and actually admitted to the people sent by their Qingzhou Li family.

At the same time, there were also many posts impeaching the Li family in the court, which made the Mingyuelou student gathering incident, which Zhong Yiwen had always disagreed with, the most attacked point of the Li family.The Li family desperately wanted to clarify themselves, but instead they became more and more black, and there were more and more posts impeaching them.Originally, after the death of the fourth prince, the officials who waited and turned to the seventh prince also immediately changed direction.The person with the highest official position in the Li family originally got his position thanks to the connection of Concubine Li, seeing this situation, he actually abandoned his position and fled.Fortunately, among the juniors of the Li family, there are still many powerful people like Li Wen. Seeing that the situation is not right, they immediately asked the seventh prince Yan Tianxin to pretend to be sick and hand over his power.With the Seventh Prince's actions, it was tantamount to giving up his chance to fight for the throne, but the entire Li family survived.The Li family also took the opportunity to admit their fault to the outside world, and the related Li family immediately resigned and returned to their hometown.After this incident, the Li family's power has shrunk by more than half.However, they never admitted to the assassination. With Li Wenzai who has been the Minister of Dali Temple for so many years, those who wanted to frame them would not be able to succeed.

Two consecutive princes have accidents, no matter how reasonable they are, they will still be guessed by interested people. Could this be the last time to seize the throne?Some people also suspected that the matter of the Fourth Prince and the Seventh Prince was not that simple.But so what if there are these speculations, now only the second prince and the third prince are left, can they have other choices?

Shen Ying found Zhong Yiwen secretly, and the whole person was crying: "Boy Zhong, Master Zhong, Great God Zhong, Great Immortal Zhong, can you show me the way? I heard that although Master Lu saved his life, his legs are also disabled , the old man really doesn’t want to die like him in such an ignorant way!”

"You are one of the three important ministers appointed by the emperor, what are you afraid of?" Zhong Yiwen spoke while standing without pain in his back.

"It's dangerous to have this name! You see, both Wen and Wu of An Le Wang have been injured. What use can I be, a scholar who has no strength to restrain a chicken?" When threatened, also fear.

Zhong Yiwen leaned over to Shen Ying's side, and asked in a low voice: "I have a question for you, have you seen the emperor recently, and is there any major problem?"

"I saw the emperor once when he was awake, and I heard that he has been in a coma. Now that the harem is heavily guarded, it is difficult for me to see the emperor." Shen Ying sighed, "If this continues, it will be I also plan to resign and return to my hometown. The current situation is really too dangerous, and I will lose my head if I am not careful!"

"However, it is also possible to seize the storm and make great achievements for thousands of years!"

"Huh? Do you have any good suggestions?" Shen Ying looked straight at Zhong Yiwen.

Zhong Yiwen put on an inscrutable look, and said: "The time is still early, and now is not the time. Mr. Shen, you should be responsible for making things right now! Don't say anything, don't ask anything, and don't do anything." Guaranteed, let alone stand in line now, how deep is the water?"

Shen Ying thought for a while, then nodded: "Okay, I will listen to you first. In this way, your nursing home will lend me two first, and what's more, I will ask them to send you news every day. Help me After I analyze and analyze, send it back to me! Don't forget!"

Zhong Yiwen was speechless about Shen Ying's thick skin, but it was better to have Shen Ying's help to send first-hand news every day than him to know nothing and be completely blind.As for the nursing home: "My nursing home won't borrow money for nothing, remember to pay the money by the day, five taels a day, and temporarily rent it for a month, just give it to them directly!"

"Five taels a day, 150 taels a month, 300 taels for two people, are you stealing money?" Shen Ying couldn't help shouting.

Zhong Yiwen waved his hand: "Don't forget it!"

"Yes, of course!" Shen Ying said through gritted teeth.

"Inviting people from the Jianghu to do nursing homes, the price is inherently high. The stronger the ability, the higher the price. This is a small thing for you, and I have to help make up for it!" Zhong Yiwen said without shame.

Shen Ying couldn't find anyone for a while, so he could only let Zhong Yiwen kill him.However, he has heard of the high price of people from Jianghu to do nursing homes.

Shen Ying really trusted Zhong Yiwen, and from the second day on, they really got along with each other.When people ask for their opinions, it either means that I haven't considered this issue, or I agree with everything.In short, it is impossible to get any accurate answer from him.

On the contrary, King Anle went to the court with injuries, and he answered many questions, and gradually his prestige among the courtiers became higher and higher, far surpassing Shen Ying.There were originally three people assisting the government, Lu Bonian was seriously injured, Shen Ying ignored the matter, and the courtiers became King Anle alone.

On the other hand, the remaining two princes, the second prince Yan Tianyi's performance has always been mediocre, and now he even shows that he has no interest in the affairs of the court.But the third prince Yan Tianren suddenly became outstanding, not only not as arrogant as when he was the prince, but also not as low-key as before. On the contrary, he advances and retreats politely, with the feeling of a wise king.At this time, many officials began to switch to the third prince's side.

There were also sharp-eyed people who noticed that there seemed to be a young counselor beside the third prince. When they asked about the third prince, the third prince did not hide it: "This is a friend I just made. He is so talented that I am very envious. Don't look at him strangely. In fact, he just passed the Juren examination this year in the provincial examination, and now he is preparing for this year's general examination in Kyoto. Moreover, you may not know that he is the brother of the previous champion Lang Zhong Yiwen. Zhong Yiwen didn't give up too much!"

The third prince, Yan Tianren, was abolished as the crown prince because of Zhong Yiwen's incident, but now he has drawn his brothers from the same clan into his camp.If there is nothing tricky in it, I am afraid no one will believe it.

When Zhong Yiwen heard the news, he thought for a long time before he came back to his senses, and sighed leisurely.Zhong Yilang came to the third prince's side, and all the previous things have basically surfaced.Zhong Yiwen never thought that he and Zhong Yilang would meet again in this way.No wonder Zhang Zhaofeng repeatedly reminded him that Zhong Yilang is dangerous.It turns out that Zhang Zhaofeng is the most powerful, he really knows everything!

However, Zhong Yiwen will never give up easily, and their duel will really start from this moment.