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Ruan Zhengze, the servant of the Ministry of War, has been so proud of himself recently that he smiles at everyone. Even the servants who are in charge of cleaning in the Ministry of War are shocked to receive the kind smile from Minister Ruan, although that smile doesn't look like a good person.

Within a few days, the entire capital knew about it. King Duan sent away most of the people who came to the General's Mansion to propose marriage, but he summoned Ruan Zhengze and left a portrait of his sister.

No wonder he was so proud recently, everyone envied him.

If he is really favored by Duan Wang, then it can be said that the future is bright.

So what kind of fairy face does the Ruan family lady have to attract Duan Wang's favor?

"This is really, it seems like the moon is covered by light clouds, and the snow flutters like the wind blowing back, tsk tsk tsk." After drinking morning tea early in the morning, Wen Renhuang was tsk tsk at Ruan Lian's portrait in the study of the general's mansion Amazing.

Huo Xiao flipped through the bibliography expressionlessly and said, "This is probably one of the few poems you know."

Wen Renhuang secretly caught a glimpse of his handsome eyebrows: "Who said that, I also know that the cicada eyebrows are parting from each other, and the heart is broken when you can't see it."

Huo Xiao frowned and didn't speak again.

"My lord, there are rumors in the whole capital that you have a crush on Ruan Lian, what should you do next?" Wen Renhuang put down the painting, sat down on a chair and asked.

"Tell me, if this king goes to propose marriage, how about marrying Ruan Lian into the mansion?" said lightly.

His eyes widened immediately, and he said in disbelief, "Your Highness really intends to marry her?"

Huo Xiao's face was as frosty as ice: "Fake, neither male nor female, will you make yourself disgusted by marriage?"

Unknown in his heart heaved a sigh of relief, he said with a smile: "But even if you are neither male nor female, you are still beautiful and delicious."

Huo Xiao glanced at him lightly: "You are also pretty and delicious, and your gender is clear, how about marrying you?"

How about marrying you?How about marrying you? !How about marrying you? ! !

Huo Ting, who was about to come in to deliver tea outside the door, sharpened his eyes, glanced at Wen Renhuang and walked away with a cold snort.

He blushed and said, "It's business!"

Huo Xiao raised his eyebrows, noncommittal.

"It won't be long before the crow will make new moves. Now that the Holy Majesty doesn't move him, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know that the two sides are in fact at the same level." After a long while, Huo Xiao said slowly.

"Then what will the imperial court do to Qihuang Mountain?" He was a little worried.

Huo Xiao thought for a while: "The Sacred Heart is unpredictable, and Qihuang Mountain has been hindering the court for so many years, so naturally His Majesty will not let Qihuang Mountain go easily."

Wen Renhuang thought, I am afraid that in His Majesty's heart, there are few who will not hinder the court.

"Aren't you still trying to excuse Qihuang Mountain?" Huo Xiao asked coldly.

He was surprised: "No! I definitely don't have this idea!"

Indeed, apart from Fengtian, he doesn't care about Qihuang Mountain at all, he just hopes that Fengtian can live well...

"If they dare to attack the second prince on Zijin Mountain, they are already declaring war on the imperial court."

"But why do you know that the person who hurt the Second Prince was from Qihuang Mountain?" He wondered.

Thinking of this, Huo Xiao paused, looked at Wen Renhuang and said slowly: "Who was that man named Fengtian that night in Ningshuang Tower?"

He was also the one who injured Huo Xiao...

"He is Phoenix King." Wen Renhuang said frankly.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense.

Wen Renhuang thought to himself, since there is no way to hide it, why not tell you now, so as to save yourself from finding out in the future and tell me to hide it from you.

"So, you have always been by King Feng's side?" Huo Xiao asked softly.

He nodded with difficulty, and when he looked at Huo Xiao again, his eyes were extremely frank.

Huo Xiao's gaze tightened suddenly, as if it was covered with a thick layer of smog.

"But my lord... I am by your side, and I have absolutely no intention of doing you any harm!" He said hastily.

Huo Xiao pursed his lips and remained silent, watching him.

"I just want to get back my spiritual power, and help the prince get rid of hidden dangers..." The more I talked, the lower my voice became, and my heart gradually became unbalanced.

After getting along for many days, Huo Xiao took care of him bit by bit, and everyone could see the sincerity in it. Unless he was really hard-hearted, how could he betray such a person.

"Since this is the case, I will take you under my command now, and help me break Qihuang Mountain with one sentence, are you willing?" Huo Xiao asked lukewarmly.

He trembled in his heart, did he come again? He thought Huo Xiao could let go of it completely, but Huo Xiao still couldn't pass the hurdle of being called Phoenix King!

"My lord, can I ask you something?" He didn't answer, but instead asked Huo Xiao.

Huo Xiao frowned: "What's the matter?"

"You hate Mount Qihuang and King Feng so much, is it because of the old general and Consort Huo...?"

Looking carefully at Huo Xiao's face, seeing that the other person's brows were frowning deeper, he immediately held his breath and pretended to be innocent.

Huo Xiao narrowed his eyes and said, "I thought that this is something that everyone in Daqi knows about, but I never thought you would ask about it."

Wen Renhuang took a deep breath: "But the prince really believes that these are the acts of Qihuang Mountain?"

"What do you mean?" Huo Xiao looked at him coldly.

Wen Renhuang recalled the old general's letters with difficulty, and said: "Old General Huo has been diligent in training and fighting all his life, helping His Majesty take over the world, it can be said that one person is under one man and above ten thousand people."

"continue."

"I heard from my colleagues on Qihuang Mountain that the old general died on the way to escort Phoenix to Qihuang Mountain, and none of his colleagues survived." He looked at Huo Xiao, trying to make his words sound more convincing. "Why doesn't your lord think about it? There are very few people with spiritual power. Qihuang Mountain has always regarded young birds as the most precious. How can... just kill the old general?"

A trace of surprise flashed in Huo Xiao's eyes.

Wen Renhuang asked: "Is there any basis for what happened back then, and it was Qihuang Mountain?"

"My prince saw with his own eyes that group of rebels disappeared around Mount Qihuang. If it wasn't from Mount Qihuang, then where did they go?" Huo Xiao was furious, "If you want to blame Mount Qihuang? No need to do that!"

Wen Renhuang's heart is not good, Huo Xiao started to go crazy again: "My lord! I didn't offend anyone, it's just that you never thought about this matter!"

"I was only 14 years old back then, but I saw the person who killed my father and brother hide in Qihuang Mountain, but there was no one after him. Why do you make me suspicious? Huh?" Huo Xiao asked with squinted eyes.

That's your stupidity, my lord!

Wen Renhuang wanted to cry but had no tears: "My lord, they killed so many people, why did they let you go?"

Now Huo Xiao really stopped.

Wen Renhuang seized the gap and hurriedly said: "My lord, think about it, if it is really a traitor, why would you be left alive? It is precisely this that allows you to see them enter Qihuang Mountain and introduce you to get This guess!"

Huo Xiao lowered his eyes and said nothing, slowly clenched his fists.

"You mean, this king has pursued the bloody case for seven years, and in the end, it may be that this king thought the wrong direction at the beginning?"

"No, it's not that the prince is thinking in the wrong direction, it's the person who may have done this, who confuses your eyes and ears," Wen Renhuang said slowly, but he couldn't tell who was responsible for the death of the old general. Yes, I can only induce him a little bit, so that he will not keep hating Qihuang Mountain, "These are all my guesses, and the authorities are fans. It is also possible that you hated too much at that time and made your judgment unclear."

Huo Xiao stared at him, and said softly: "It was written in my father's letter, did you know this?"

……

"You, how do you know..." He swallowed.

"It wasn't my father's letter that I took from your arms that day, so you took the letter anyway." Huo Xiao said coldly.

He wanted to cry, but Huo Xiao's mood changed so quickly that he couldn't cope well: "My lord, since this is the case, do you believe it?"

"Give me the letter."

"……Burned."

"..."

Only now did Wen Renhuang realize how stupid he was...

I was afraid that the letter would be seen by others, so I burned it to save trouble, but I didn't want to... The content of the letter is one thing, but it may be a last letter from a father to his son is another...

At this moment, Huo Xiao might be really annoyed, his whole body exuded the chill of ghosts and gods retreating, he narrowed his eyes, and asked word by word: "You said...you burned my father's letter?"

"Uh, because at that time...the situation was quite special!"

"This king would like to hear about the special situation." He gritted his teeth.

Wen Renhuang straightened his face: "Because I was living in Wu Ya's prime minister's mansion at the time, it's not safe to carry the letter with me!"

"So you would rather burn it than bring it back to me?" The voice became more and more dangerous.

"Wen Renhuang, Wen Renhuang, sometimes this king really thinks that you are either too shrewd or stupid and hopeless. Tell yourself, which one are you?"

He said modestly: "There are all of them, all of them."

"Ok?"

"I'm stupid, I'm stupid!" Almost crying, "But I was so frightened at the time, I didn't have time to think about these things, please enlighten me!"

"This king... has always believed in you."

Huo Xiao said slowly, the spring in the cold wind was fleeting in his eyes

Wen Renhuang was stunned, as if he didn't expect Huo Xiao's anger to subside so easily, instead he felt an inexplicable fragility and helplessness.

He was dazed for a while, and then slowly said: "What the old general wrote in the letter, the current sage... killed his father and brother to usurp the throne, and ignored the guidance of the previous Phoenix King on Qihuang Mountain, resulting in the death of the previous Phoenix King. The general followed the Holy Majesty to kill all the opponents at that time, he was an extremely personable minister, and he held a heavy army, knowing that this dangerous glory might lead to death."

Huo Xiao's fists suddenly bulged with veins, and he said in a deep voice, "Speak clearly."

With a thump in his heart, he swallowed and said, "Because the heir to the throne chosen by the previous King Feng was not the current Holy One, and the old general said that he and the current Holy One have known each other since childhood, and in order to help the Holy One ascend the throne, he did not hesitate to disobey the then The old emperor...killed all the opponents."

Huo Xiao took a deep breath and didn't speak.

Wen Renhuang was not sure what Huo Xiao was thinking now, and regretted that he broke into the secret room and saw this letter, and the image of the great old General Huo in his heart suddenly collapsed.

Ordinarily, this event was an earth-shattering event many years ago, but until now, almost no one has talked about it. Thinking about it this way, perhaps those who knew what happened back then are no longer in this world.

Huo Xiao sat at the desk and couldn't speak for a long while, his eyes nearly narrowed into a single light.

"My lord..." Wen Renhuang called timidly.

Huo Xiao glanced at him impatiently.

"I think... the emperor and the courtiers, the old general is only doing this because of his allegiance to the emperor," he racked his brains to think of words to comfort the deeply shocked Huo Xiao, "Since ancient times, there has never been a coup without bloodshed !"

"Is this what this king cares about?" Huo Xiao looked at him seriously, "Do you think what this king cares about is who his father is loyal to?"

"Then... what do you care about?" Wen Renhuang was astonished.

Huo Xiao said slowly: "Now it's clear. If I believed it completely, why bother to suppress the military power?" He smiled self-deprecatingly, "It's ridiculous that the king always thinks that the Holy One is thinking of old feelings, and never beheaded me. From the family line, do you think that this king is just a child who is not a threat?"

Wen Renhuang remembered that day when he heard Feng Tian and the second prince said that someone had seized another part of the military power, he couldn't help asking: "Who else did the emperor give the military power to?"

"His younger brother, Prince Zhuang," Huo Xiao smiled indifferently, "What a big deal can a fool do, the only son who has some ability, and he can't walk long because of his son's affection."

"Is it... Lord Luan?" He thought of the young man he had seen earlier that day when he was hiding in Huo Xiao's closet.

Huo Xiao raised his eyebrows: "Did you see it secretly?"

He hummed without changing his face, without denying it.

Huo Xiao said with a half-smile: "Hei Luan, who used to live in peace, was pushed to the forefront because of his stupidity."

"Isn't it you who drove them all to death?" Wen Renhuang couldn't help but speak out what was in his heart.

"Why does this king want to kill them all? Even if my father's death has nothing to do with Qihuang Mountain, it doesn't mean that they are not Daqi's courtiers. Hei Luan is opposing them. Of course, this king has saved a lot of trouble." Huo Xiao said.

Wen Renhuang paused for a moment: "My lord, haven't you changed your mind yet..."

Huo Xiao sneered: "I'm afraid we couldn't know the truth about what happened back then by reasoning like this, but this just let me know a little bit."

"What?" He immediately leaned forward and asked eagerly.

"The emperor has never let down his guard against this king and the Huo family." Huo Xiao said coldly.

Wen Renhuang didn't understand these things very well, so he just nodded blankly. Seeing that he was so ignorant, Huo Xiao said in a low voice: "Since you told this king about this important matter, then this king will also pay you back."

He was clever: "What!"

Huo Xiao picked up a letter from the desk and said softly, "This is the letter I got from your clothes that day. I guess it was given to you by the crow before setting fire to it."

When he saw the familiar envelope, he smiled awkwardly.

Huo Xiao responded with a half-smile expression: "I'm afraid you won't be able to laugh anymore after seeing what's inside."

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