My house was confiscated and I was exiled. I emptied the emperor's warehouse and fled.

"Brother!" Qin Mu's eyes turned red and he immediately fell to his knees on the ground, huddled up with his head bowed and his shoulders hunched slightly.

Qin Junyi sighed, stood up and walked around the table to help him up: "When will you get rid of your kneeling habit?"

"It can't be changed." Qin Mu's voice was choked, with a bright smile in his blood-red pupils.

Qin Junyi smiled and shook his head, and his thoughts drifted away, recalling the master-slave time between the two of them.

Back then, Qin Junyi had just returned from the Shadow Guard Camp. Even though his father was inputting internal energy all night, his body was still very weak. It took more than half a year to nurse him back to health, and he only recovered 70% to 80%.

Qin Mu was controlled by the golden toad poison. In order to prevent him from making mistakes and not getting the antidote, he strictly abided by his duties as a shadow guard and did not dare to show any trace of brotherhood.

The two of them lived together peacefully as master and slave for more than half a year, until one snowy night, Qin Mu, who was guarding the eaves and beams, suffered from an old leg injury.

Being naturally intolerant to pain, he couldn't help but let out a small groan. Even though the sound was very small, it was picked up by Qin Junyi who had been thinking about it.

He immediately summoned: "Come here!"

Qin Mu rolled over and staggered into the room, kneeling on the ground to obey the order.

The cold air seeped into his knees from the cold floor tiles, making the already unbearable pain even worse. He could only manage to maintain his kneeling position with a trembling body.

Qin Junyi could no longer maintain his composure, so he stepped forward and personally helped him sit on a chair aside. He took off his cloak and covered him, and also brought a brazier and placed it next to his legs to keep him warm.

"Master, this is against the rules." Qin Mu was greedy for the warmth of the cloak and the brazier, but still did not forget his identity and wanted to get up and leave.

Qin Junyi stopped him and said, "Call me brother."

Qin Mu suddenly raised his head and stammered: "This...subordinate..."

"When there are no outsiders, call me brother."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Mu's heart collapsed and she cried bitterly while leaning on his hand.

The hot tears soaked his sleeves, making Qin Junyi's heart throb with pain.

Later one day, Qin Junyi was caught in the wrong by his father. Qin Mu took the punishment and delayed the medicine for one day.

That day became the most painful day in Qin Mu's life.

In order to prevent himself from hurting himself due to extreme pain, he was tied to the bed with chains, and was submerged in a sea of ​​pain that grew higher and higher until it exceeded the threshold.

When he collapsed, he had thoughts of death and begged Qin Junyi to give him a knife to help him escape.

At that moment, Qin Junyi had the idea of ​​​​removing the golden silkworm poison privately, and he got out of hand.

He secretly studied a lot of relevant books, and on his way to perform tasks in other places, he secretly went to Miao territory to find poison masters.

The hard work paid off, and finally he found a Miao saint who could help transfer the poison from Qin Mu's body to the altar.

As long as Qin Mu supplies half a bowl of blood every day, the poisonous insects can be hidden from others as if they were inside his body.

As a result, Qin Mu was finally able to get rid of the poison and secretly provided blood.

However, the good times did not last long. Even if he took the blood-replenishing medicine on time, Qin Mu still could not make up for the loss in his body.

After returning to the northwest, his health deteriorated due to long-term blood loss, and he quickly attracted the attention of the late prince's people.

Finally one evening, the person who planted the poison for him summoned him into the room, picked up the bottles on the table, and inexplicably told him about the habits of the poison inside.

At the end of the sentence, the man said lightly: "These poisons have another thing in common, which is that they will awaken the golden silkworm Gu within one foot, causing the person who is poisoned to have an attack on the spot."

Qin Mu immediately clenched his fists, and a fierce killing intent burst out from his whole body.

The other party looked at him with sarcastic eyes, silently mocking him for overestimating his abilities.

In the end, Qin Mu released his fists and asked dejectedly: "What do you want?"

"You are really brave." The other party shook his head with emotion.

Qin Mu suddenly became anxious: "This matter has nothing to do with my eldest brother, it was all my fault!"

"Your elder brother?"

"..."

Just when Qin Mu wanted to kill someone and silence him so as not to implicate his elder brother, and developed a stronger murderous intention than before, the other party said: "The Lord already knows that there is no point in killing me. Go back and wait for disposal."

Qin Mu immediately turned around to express his feelings to the late prince, but the late prince was not in the general's residence. When asked about his whereabouts, no one told him.

Also, how could he tell a lowly Shadow Guard the general's whereabouts?

Qin Mu didn't know how he got back to his eldest brother's yard. He waited until midnight before Qin Junyi came back with a sad look on his face.

"Brother, have you been punished?" Qin Mu rushed forward in a hurry, his eyes constantly scanning Qin Junyi's body.

Now that things have come to a point, he has no regrets about dying, and is only afraid of causing harm to his eldest brother.

However, Qin Junyi was not only safe, but also brought back twelve golden silkworm poison monthly antidote.

The late prince knew that the golden silkworm Gu had left Qin Mu's body, but still gave him the antidote for a whole year. His intention was chilling.

Qin Mu looked at the medicine bottle in his elder brother's hand, took it tremblingly, turned around and walked towards the house where the Gu insects were kept.

"Third brother!"

"Brother, stay here. I will put the medicine bottle away and come out."

The door closed, and there was deathly silence in the room, followed by an uncontrollable groan of pain.

Qin Mu personally planted the Gu insects in the altar into his body again.

As time passed, the muffled moans turned into uncontrollable cries of pain.

Qin Junyi quickly approached the door and pushed it to enter, but found that the door had been locked from the inside.

Qin Mu didn't want him to see her embarrassed side again.

A thin piece of wood would not be able to stop Qin Junyi if he broke into the door.

However, Qin Junyi felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave and froze in place, with his father's words not long ago ringing in his ears.

"Your grandfather left a secret lesson. All heirs of the Qin family need a special sword. This sword is forged from the blood of the Qin family. It abandons all family ties and distracts and is only used by the master."

It turns out that in order to expand the family's power, the ancestors of the Qin family adopted wives and concubines, gave birth to countless children, and trained their sons to be brave and good at fighting, and to stand alone.

However, several of those sons became ambitious either due to their own abilities or due to the support of their subordinates.

After he used his plan to liquidate these sons one by one, he learned from his experience and established an ancestral precept that he would only pass on to his successors.

As the head of the Qin family, he concentrates all his energy on the construction of military camps and fighting against the enemy.

In order to avoid backstabbing from within the family, a close relative who is deeply involved in the family is needed to become a sharp sword to eliminate hidden dangers.

This knife is only held in the hands of the family leader, and its blade is invincible, helping the family leader to eliminate disharmony within the family.

Qin Junyi's grandfather refined this sword for the late prince, who had also been looking for a candidate for his eldest son.

From the moment Qin Mu asked for help from his eldest son at the Shadow Guard Camp, he was selected by the late prince and put into the furnace for refining.