The son is responsible

The crack in Pan Yunjian was not deep, but a faint light could be seen inside.

The family-inherited sword turned out to be hollow. Xue Muji was even more curious than Lu Zhao. In his previous life, his soul was inside the sword, and Shen Chu threw it in the sword box for a long time. I didn't realize that the sword was hollow.

He found a shovel from Zangshu Pavilion, Xue Muji smashed the sword hard, but the gap on the sword did not change at all.Thinking of this seam, it was cut by Ji Ming's sword, but Ji Ming has already left, where can he find such a big sword.

"The Panyun Sword is a thing passed down from generation to generation by the royal family of the Li family. My adoptive father and the emperor may know how to open the sword." Lu Zhao lifted the Panyun Sword and looked at it from left to right. "Since you can put things in, you can also take them out. come out."

You don't know, brother, this sword was passed to me by Princess Qi'an. I had no idea that this sword was hollow!Lu Yu definitely didn't know. If he knew, someone would have smashed it open. After the death of Princess Qi'an, Lu Yu turned the princess's mansion inside and out many times. thing.

Xue Muji dragged his head, trying to recall, what could his old lady in the previous life put in it?

Princess Qi'an knew that her son was not good at practicing martial arts, so she left the Panyun Sword to her son, as if she wanted to keep this secret at the bottom of the box forever.Then why did she stay again?Was she expecting someone to uncover it?Really tangled!

Although Princess Qi'an was not the princess of Empress Feng's direct lineage, she was very intelligent and heroic since she was a child, and she had a good relationship with Crown Prince Jiayu. She could be regarded as the most beloved princess by the emperor back then.The Princess Mansion is very close to the East Palace. Princess Qi An followed the crown prince to participate in state affairs, so even if the son-in-law chosen by Li Qi An was born as a servant of the Xie family and had a low status, she was still a powerful woman who no one dared to underestimate in the Yongdu Imperial City. .

In the game between Empress Dowager Feng and the East Palace, Princess Qi'an naturally stood on the side of the eldest brother, which also caused the East Palace to lose power. After Prince Jiayu died in prison, Princess Qi'an was the first to be listed as the first accomplice. Empress Dowager Feng was confined to the mansion.

In order to force the eldest princess to hand over the details of Prince Jiayu's lineage and the secret guard network, Empress Dowager Feng decreed that everyone in the princess mansion should be exiled to an outlying island. punish.However, Princess Qi'an carried the Panyun Sword to the main hall. In front of her father and courtiers, she said that the relatives of the Feng family had monopolized power, the emperor was weak and incompetent, and the Queen Mother interfered wantonly in politics. The sword, sharpened to the neck, killed himself in front of the palace.

With her death, Empress Dowager Feng completely cut off the clues, and the power of the Eastern Palace was deeply hidden. The eldest princess's mansion was left with a son-in-law who was born as a slave and didn't care about anything, with an ordinary daughter who couldn't be more ordinary, and a boy who had just been weaned. , and thus fell into a state of desperation, and became a deserted family that everyone in the imperial city of Yongdu couldn't avoid.

Xie Manxing's Xue Muji heard about this rather tragic history from his sister.In fact, his impression of this old woman was not very deep, and he had no way of imagining that a woman who could give birth to a daughter with an ordinary appearance and a cowardly personality like her sister would be a beautiful, charming and courageous female hero.

Also, what Ji Ming said just now said that the Pan Yunjian should belong to his elder brother, what is it all about?

Just as he was thinking, suddenly, with a bang, the sword in Lu Zhao's hand split in half along the edge of the sword.

From the sword, a piece of paper floated out.

Seeing the broken sword in two, Xue Muji opened his mouth into a circle and exclaimed, "Brother, how did you do it!!!"

In the palm of Lu Zhao's hand, he held a jade bi, which was the one hanging around his neck all the time.

Just now when Xue Muji was distracted and didn't know what he was thinking about, Lu Zhao looked at the blade of Panyunjian, and there was a very light circle at the thin crack. He was sure that there was no one before.

Maybe it's showing up because of the split?Lu Zhao observed carefully that the pattern was clear. It seemed that it was engraved not long ago. There was still a hollow in the circle, like a coin, but Dajing's round coin was obviously larger than this circle. Looking at it, he felt that the pattern in the circle It was very familiar, very similar to the pattern on the jade bi that he had worn close to him since he was a child.

He just wanted to have a try, he took off the jade bi around his neck and put it on, and it fit perfectly.

The Panyun sword was broken into two sections, and he was startled, this is the sword Xue Muji gave him, if Xue Muji hadn't insisted on opening it to see what's inside, he absolutely didn't want to cause any damage to the sword.

Xue Muji didn't think it was a pity, although the Panyun sword was more valuable, but with his current status, his brother didn't need any sword. After all, it was the sword that the former king brought to the battlefield.Compared with the sword, he looked forward to the piece of paper floating out of the sword.

"Brother, look." Xue Muji had already picked up the paper, "What is drawn on it? A map? Was it drawn by third uncle?"

Lu Zhao immediately judged, "That's right, the painting is the topography of the Xiliang Mountains to the south of Yongdu. The ink mark on it is a mark, and it seems to point to something. Unfortunately, there is only half of it. The ink mark is gone here."

"Xiliang Mountain Range?" Xue Muji's expression was gloomy.

"What?" Lu Zhao asked.

"It's nothing." Xue Muji sighed, how could he tell his brother clearly that his real body is still buried in one hundred and eight different places in the Xiliang Mountains.

Really, I obviously don't want to think about the tragic ending of being dismembered back then.There are so many lands in Dajing, but they all point to this broken mountain.

I don't know if the boss of the gang who was no match for drinking and killed people to silence him is still there.

The picture is only half.

What about the other half?

Xue Muji saw a figure in the window next to him, he pushed it open, and sure enough, it was Fuyun, his own secret guard.Does Fuyun have something to look for him?

"My lord, these ceramic shards seem to have carved patterns on the back."

Fuyun was ordered by his son to reglue the broken incense burner of the old lady, but handwork is not his specialty. He struggled for a long time, but he still couldn't make it into the original shape, but he found the back of the broken porcelain, which seemed to have twists and turns. Swirling ink blots.

Xue Muji took out two pieces, and felt that this method was very familiar.

"Third Uncle's characters? Map?" Xue Muji took a few more pieces and put them together for a while, "Brother, come and see?"

It's the second half of the map.

Xue Muji found paper, drew the second half of the map, and put the two together.

"Xiliang Mountains. This location is the valley in the center of the mountains." Lu Zhao pointed to the place where the ink marks were finally marked.

Xue Muji sorted out the clues in his mind, the third uncle hid something in the Xiliang Mountains, and then drew a treasure map.He divided a map into two halves, and hid the other half in the incense burner in his Buddhist hall, which was hugged by the old lady every day.The other half was given to Princess Qi'an. Princess Qi'an once visited Pingjiang City with Prince Jiayu, and she was an old acquaintance with the third uncle. She helped the third uncle hide the map in the family heirloom, Panyunjian.

It is said that the third uncle wants a specific person to find the treasure, which is why the treasure map is so tangled and complicated, but this specific person does not exist no matter how he thinks.If it hadn't been for his rebirth, the people of the Pingjiang Marquis and Xie's son-in-law would have had no contact at all, and it would be even more impossible for Xie's son-in-law to give the Panyun Sword to the people of the Pingjiang Marquis.

But if it is said that the third uncle doesn't want people to find the treasure, then what's the point of drawing a picture when you have nothing to do?

Even more confused, Xue Muji patted his head, unable to figure out why.

Let’s put aside the strangeness of the treasure map, anyway, there is already a definite point, and they will go and look for it to see what the third uncle wants to tell them.

Right now, there are more important things.

"Brother, wait for me." Xue Muji walked up the stairs to the third floor. The books in the library are arranged randomly. There is only one book on the bookshelf.

When Xue Muji was a child, when he came to the library to look for his brother, he didn't want to disturb his study, so he just walked around on the lower floors, and happened to see this book.He flipped through it casually, and it was an ordinary painting collection, which contained all kinds of men and women, some were acquaintances in Pingjiang Hou's mansion, and some were unknown, all of which were written by the third uncle.

He didn't know at all back then that one day, he would open this book again.

He decided to come back just to read this book.

He rummaged through the pages one by one, and finally turned to the familiar page. On that page, there were pictures of many people, all dressed in black, with indifferent and numb expressions. The leader was the one with a longbow behind his back.

The people who assassinated his brother twice are all in the painting.

Xue Muji's back was drenched in sweat. He had been the eldest son for many years, so of course he knew who the third uncle left behind in the Hou's mansion.He had never seen the people in these paintings, but they had the same origin as the secret guards and martial arts masters left by the third uncle to the Hou Mansion.

Learn from the same source...

East Palace.

Before Prince Jiayu was imprisoned, he was entrusted to the eldest princess of Qi'an, and disappeared because the eldest princess committed suicide. Now it is the secret guard camp serving the regent Lu Yu.In the past few years, Lu Yu did not stay in Yongdu for a few steps. He patrolled around with excuses, stayed away from state affairs, and handed over all the secret guard camp and secret operation camp to the emperor.

"Be careful, Your Majesty." That's what Ji Ming said when he left.

The truth is right in front of you, why?The elder brother is Lu Yu's adoptive son, and he sells his blood for Dajing. Lu Yu is cultivating ministers for Dajing's court.Why did the emperor deliberately hide from Lu Yu and send elite secret guards to assassinate his brother!

No, no, when the elder brother was hunting in Xifeng Mountain Hunting Ground, before he became Lu Yu's adoptive son, the emperor suddenly proposed hunting. It was not a whim, nor was it setting up a trap for the Feng family. Could it be for...

He dared not think any further.

But why?

The elder brother lived with him since childhood, and only went to Yongdu with him once, and the number of times he met the emperor could be counted with five fingers.At that time, he couldn't show up because of his bet with Lu Qian, so he sent his brother out to take care of everything.

Could it be that brother said something wrong and offended the emperor?Would that innocent little emperor who smiled innocently send elite secret guards to hunt down and kill him several times because of just a few words?

Illogical.

The wind blew, and the page of the book was turned again, Xue Muji was stunned for a moment.

On this page, when he was just looking at the flowers, he didn't turn to this page.