The undercover agent sent by the imperial court

Recently when going out, there is always a sudden sound of cannons, everyone likes to set off cannons, the noisy atmosphere successfully dissuaded Ling Xuan from going out in the palace.

And Dongfang Che Jian successfully entered the palace to meet Ling Xuan during this period of hard work.

"Even if you say that, I don't think it can be restored to the previous situation when the terrain is so severely damaged." Ling Xuan said after reading Dongfang Chejian's revised plan.

"What's more, this kind of formation is difficult to repair when the terrain is intact." Ling Xuan made the final conclusion and threw the book back into Dongfang Chejian's hands.

"I don't think it is necessary to use Ouyang Wangu's formation. This formation is indeed good, but there must be better ones." Dongfang Chejian said while catching his book.

Ling Xuan roughly recalled the situation before leaving the valley at the end, the landslides and the ground cracked and the lake water poured back, Ling Xuan waved his hand again, "You think too simply, that place has been destroyed and there is no point of repairing it, instead of being entangled in Helian It’s better to find a new land than a mountain.”

Dongfang Chejian's idea is good. If it can be repaired and restored to the original situation where the four seasons are like summer and the defense is not bad, it will be exciting, but the reality is obviously not so perfect. This is the gap between ideals and reality.

"Sure enough, I still have to go there?" Dongfang Chejian said while writing and drawing on a piece of paper, checking something, "But those stubborn old people will definitely not let me go."

"Really?" Ling Xuan turned his head to look at the results of his calculations. Ling Xuan didn't quite understand the inferred degree of geological damage, but it can probably be seen that it is very serious. If he didn't know some descriptions, he would think that this guy was at the scene Woolen cloth.

"Because they think this kind of thing is a waste of time." Dongfang Chejian raised his head, "The emperor asked me to come and study this. They seem to be obsessed with improving papermaking technology recently."

"En?" Ling Xuan made a questioning voice.

"Because the paper materials used by the royal family are the best, there will be no problems among the folks." Dongfang Chejian said, "Because of the need for wood and the roughness of the materials, there will be more paper used in the palace. There are several processes to ensure the fineness and smoothness of the paper, but folks don't waste materials like this."

Ling Xuan nodded, "I know that the paper they use is very rough and feels like it's mixed with fodder, and it's easy to get damp. If you write too hard, it will break."

"So we are improving the formula." Dongfang Che Jian pushed the calculated result over, "This is the worst case, and we need to prepare a new formation."

Ling Xuan opened it and looked at it. Except for the mixed technical terms, the overall situation is really miserable, "The master of the formation was sent out to work by the king before and can't come back for a while. If you come earlier, you can ask him gone."

"That's such a pity." Dongfang Che saw that the regret on his face didn't seem fake, so Ling Xuan comforted him symbolically.

"It's still possible to come back this year."

This is not consolation, my lord, Dongfang Chejian was lying on the table and peeking at Ling Xuan, oh my, my lord is so pretty.

Ling Xuan lowered his head and flipped through the pages, turned his wrist and put it back in front of Dongfang Che, "Since the emperor asked for repairs, let's do it well. Dongfang Mansion is also researching new gunpowder recently, come on."

Seeing that Dongfang Che took back the notebook and nodded, he didn't bother Ling Xuan anymore, "The grass-roots people will go back first, and next time I write a plan, I hope I can disturb the prince again."

"Yes." Ling Xuan nodded slightly in agreement.

It was mid-January when Chu Ziyan came again. Ling Xuan, who had just woke up in the morning and started practicing martial arts, heard that Chu Ziyan came to visit. Generally speaking, people he knew would not come to disturb him at this time. It seems that It was a very important matter, Ling Xuan wiped himself off, put on his clothes and went to the front hall.

"What's the matter, come to see me at this time?" Ling Xuan asked while looking at Chu Ziyan's outfit, "What have you been doing for half a month?"

"I found it." Chu Ziyan said to Ling Xuan with dark circles under his eyes, "Let's find a place to talk."

"Okay." Ling Xuan looked at Chu Ziyan's firm eyes and had no choice but to agree, and took Chu Ziyan into the dark room.

"Let's talk now." Ling Xuan said looking at Chu Ziyan who had lost weight and had serious dark circles under his eyes.

"I went to find the son of the Minister of Criminal Justice. Although he didn't know anything, I discovered the secret decree left behind." Chu Ziyan said this and paused.

"Secret decree... wait a minute, are you going to dig someone's grave??" Ling Xuan reacted with a frown, "Forget it, what did you find out?"

"At the beginning, after Chu Huai went to Chu State, he came back and handed over a child to the prime minister. At that time, the prime minister refused on the grounds that the seventh generation had passed, but the other party disappeared after secretly keeping the child." Chu Ziyan He said calmly, "Obviously this child is me, but Chu Huai just insisted on keeping this child, but didn't say a word about his life experience."

"Wow, this is too much." This Chu Huai is also big-hearted, the poor prime minister still has to raise such a child for no reason, "But since I said that I refused on the grounds of the seventh generation and named you Chu, Chu Huai should be your father or grandfather, right?"

"I probably guessed the same way, but the age doesn't match." Chu Ziyan tapped his knee, "I found out that Chu Huai left the dynasty more than 30 years ago, and he was already in his 40s at that time, and nearly ten years later. He came back again in 50, at that time he must have been in his [-]s, and he had never had a son in the dynasty, so it is unlikely that he was my grandfather, but if it were my father, this age would be a bit high."

"That is to say, it is very likely that it is his friend or someone's child?" Ling Xuan frowned. It would be very troublesome to find it. "It is also possible that it is more than 50?"

"That means the pampered royal family." Chu Ziyan waved his hands, "Is it possible for a person who is a slave to be a person who lives in another country?"

"But if you are more than 50, you can still bring a child to the Dynasty, which means that he must be a person with good martial arts. In this case, fifty is not too old."

"That's the problem." Chu Ziyan bent down and supported his knees on both sides, thinking, "How did he manage to come to the imperial court without knowing martial arts?"

It was not an easy task to cross the border at that time and come to the Dynasty. If you don't know martial arts, "I can't find out who helped him back then."

"Then you really can't do anything about it. If Chu Huai is still alive, he will be more than 70 years old. How can I find it, and I have to find it in Chu State." Ling Xuan spread his hands, "It was still a time of war. After the war, whether the opponent is still alive or not is a question."

"But I have another clue." Chu Ziyan rubbed his head, "Do you know who the general of Chu State is currently guarding the border?"

"Do you think I will know about this kind of thing?" Ling Xuan asked bluntly.

"It's Wei Cang. Although it's strange, it's very likely that he helped Chu Huai come to the dynasty."

"You need to figure out one thing first." Ling Xuan's eyelids twitched, "Wei Cang is only 28 this year. Back then, he was a little older kid who smuggled an old man and a child into the prime minister's mansion? He didn't even dare to do that Are you ready?"

"Anyway, it has something to do with him. Don't you want to go to the border to have a look? By the way, let's take a look at this person together." Chu Ziyan spread his hands and said, without embarrassment at all.

"Huh? Why should I help you?" Ling Xuan suddenly had a blue vein, "During the war, I ran to the opposite side and asked if you sent a child and Chu Huai to the imperial court when you were eight years old. You are not out of your mind ?"

"But this is the best way I can think of." Chu Ziyan spread his hands, "Because the whole thing didn't mention who sent Chu Huai to the dynasty, but Wei Cang was mentioned alone. "

"Who said Chu Huai didn't know martial arts, what if he lied to you?" Ling Xuan frowned and said.

"This news was found from the old man's study." Chu Ziyan said as he took out a black cover.

It was the cover of the previous black book. After Chu Ziyan took it out, he paused for a while and said, "I have something to tell you. Calm down and listen to me."

"Is there anything else?" Although he was so doubtful, Ling Xuan knew very well that the previous incident alone would not make Chu Ziyan like this.

"I wanted to tell you after the Chinese New Year, but I really couldn't do it, so I came to find you." After Chu Ziyan took it out, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, "After I couldn't find the clue, I looked for it. The place burned the book, but the cover still couldn't be burned, so I took it out."

Chu Ziyan felt helpless when he thought of the billowing black smoke, "The ashes are buried in the soil. It doesn't seem to be poisonous, but the smoke is poisonous. I sent someone to replant the nearby plants. It should be fine."

"I always feel that I will be discovered." Ling Xuan said while taking out Qiqi's antidote, and took the envelope that Chu Ziyan had wrapped in black cloth.

Chu Ziyan looked at Ling Xuan looking for a pair of gloves and came over and said, "Have you ever thought about what the late emperor wrote on it?"

"Father also wrote on it?" Ling Xuan said slightly surprised, "I thought he wouldn't write on it."

"Ah, I wrote something on it." Chu Ziyan paused, "something about the emperor."

Ling Xuan replied, "Is that so?" He opened the cloth and took out the black cover. There was no trace of being burned at all, and it was still the same as before. Ling Xuan turned it over, "Where is it written?"

"It was still there before." Chu Ziyan also leaned over to look at it, "It was written in golden fonts."

Ling Xuan casually lit a candle and put it on to burn, "Is that okay then?"

The black smoke that slowly emerged was sucked away by the wooden block on the side, Ling Xuan leaned closer to look at the words that appeared, it was written about the empress's marriage back then, the late emperor had no feelings for the empress, he just did it out of interest It's nothing more than marrying a queen.

It's just that the empress had nowhere to go, so the eldest prince was adopted by the empress. The mother of the elder prince was also a noble concubine. He was even more concerned, and Ling Xuan didn't feel that his mother had done anything wrong.

Later, the second and third princes were born. Since they were young, they were educated and well-educated, so they were trained according to the princes. The fourth prince and the fifth prince were born at the same time.

But here it is clearly written that the fifth prince and the fourth prince have the same mother, but the mother who is a concubine died before she survived, and the empress adopted the fifth prince at her knees.

Therefore, Huangpuwen...is not my own brother.

That's why the queen mother doesn't want to see my brother so much, Ling Xuan thought for a while and suddenly patted Chu Ziyan on the shoulder, "I now understand why you insist on looking for your father."

"Is that all you think?" Chu Ziyan suddenly felt that he shouldn't worry about this guy, because he didn't sleep well these few nights.

"My brother doesn't want to say that I probably understand, but why does the queen mother insist on watching my brother ascend the throne without saying anything?" Ling Xuan put down the cover and said doubtfully.

"Probably because that person is her younger sister." Chu Ziyan pointed to the concubine's name, "You were not born when she died, so you don't know."

"She is the queen mother's sister."

"So, in fact, did my mother only give birth to me as a child?" Ling Xuan blew out the candle, "Will it be discovered that I am not my own?"

"Although enough things have happened recently, I still think your imagination is a bit too much. It took the queen mother a day and a night to give birth to you and almost went into shock." Chu Ziyan glanced at Ling Xuan and said.

"That's right, my mother and I look so similar." Ling Xuan nodded in agreement, "Go back, and leave the things with me."

Speaking of which, Ling Xuan rewrapped the envelope and sealed it, "Let's go, I will try my best to see if I can find out the news for you when we go to the border, although I think the possibility of death is the greatest."

Chu Ziyan suddenly had a blue vein, "Can you speak?"

"I'm just telling the truth." Ling Xuan pushed Chu Ziyan out the door with an innocent face, "Okay, see you later, go back and have a good sleep. I'll take care of the rest."

As soon as Chu Ziyan was pushed out, he saw Ling Xuan shut the door, forget it.

Chu Ziyan pulled his clothes and stepped on the snow to leave, let him handle it alone.

Ling Xuan was facing one very important matter in the room, should he just leave it as if he hadn't seen it, or go to Brother Huang to clarify, if he cares so much about this book, he already knew it.

Are you going to ask your mother?Ling Xuan put away the cover, patted his clothes, stood up, put on his coat and put on a newly made cloak and went out to the Taixuan Hall. Sure enough, it would be better to ask his mother first.

Taixuan Hall, the smog is faint, the faint grass fragrance is not greasy, and it is very comfortable to smell. He took off his cloak and coat and changed a pair of shoes before entering the inner hall. where.

"Mother's Queen." Ling Xuan shouted and bowed before stepping forward, "Emperor brother is also here."

Why did people who don't come once every 800 years come at this time? Ling Xuan said hello calmly and sat next to the kind-hearted queen mother.

"Xuan'er is here too." He was obviously more concerned about Ling Xuan's attitude than Huang Puwen at the side.

"I missed my mother and came to see you." Ling Xuan said with a smile, "Why did Brother Huang come here?"