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Lao Mama Tibetan is very famous in Fu County. Just ask anyone, and you can get a clear understanding of her life history, basic recent situation, and even passers-by in the county can point out the mansion she lives in now.It was a mansion with three entrances and three exits that occupied the largest area in the county, but the gate still looked a bit poor.

There is a red lantern hanging at the door, with "King" written in black pen on it.

The wealthy businessman that the old lady Tibetan married was surnamed Wang. It is said that he was in the grain and oil business. He started from scratch and was very inspirational.

However, the most profitable business of the Wang family is neither food nor oil, but the "entering the palace" that almost everyone knows. The "beautiful and kind-hearted" Tibetan old lady came out of the palace, served the empress before, has contacts and skills, and can help the big guys send their children to the palace to "get rid of poverty and become rich".Even if the identity is sensitive, sinners who cannot enter the palace in theory have no problem. After a change of appearance, they can still go to the palace to fight for their future.

In the process of chatting and inquiring with passers-by, Chi Ning actually discovered that Fu County is one of the few places that is not afraid of eunuchs, which is a bit like Zhennan.

After hearing the "common and usual" words from the other party, Chi Ning frowned even more, almost exactly the same as the eunuchs from the East Factory behind him.

The story told by the other party was too familiar to them.

"There are such 'capable people' in our village, otherwise I wouldn't be 'sent' into the palace by my parents." Finally, an eunuch told the bloody truth.

Some people think that entering the palace is a way of making money, while others turn helping people into the palace into a way of making money.

Including the one-stop service of cleansing, recuperating, and teaching rules.

The service is in place and the integrity is stressful.

In other words, there is essentially no difference between Zhennan and Fuxian, except that one is poorer and the other is even poorer.

Yuan Jun took the initiative to ask Chi Ning: [Do you need help?I kill and steal. 】

Yuan Jun doesn't know how to comfort people at all. It is only recently that he has developed feelings that are close to human beings. He really has no experience in comforting people. The only thing he can think of is to kill the person who sent him into the palace for Chi Ning people.

Chi Ning was surprised and replied: [I entered the palace voluntarily, why did you kill my nobleman? 】Chi Ning and the clan elders in the village are some relatives who are about to leave the fifth service. Although their parents are gone, the clan elders have also given Chi Ning a choice, either to leave it for the squire to herd cattle, or to enter the palace to fight for the future .

Chi Ning was only a few years old that year, but he had already seen through the essence of wanting to live a better life.

It's not that he can't bear the pain of herding cattle, but he can't see the future of herding cattle for others.If he had chosen to stay back then, he would be an illiterate and unlucky guy who might not even be able to marry a wife.This has nothing to do with whether he is smart or not. Some things related to class are difficult to break through purely relying on smartness.

Ordinary people with a happy life probably cannot understand this "insurmountable". They believe that hard work can lead to success. If someone stays at the bottom all the time, it can only be because that person is not diligent enough and cheats.

But that's not the case.

Chi Ning is less than five years old, so he will no longer be so naive.

Dare to ask, he has no access to reading at all, so how can he know the truth and understand the way to change his destiny?

[I won't even meet you. ] Chi Ning picked up Mr. Yuan on the way to Beijing.It was also because he chose to enter the palace that the clan elders wrote him a letter, allowing him to embrace the thigh of Zhang Jingzhong, the leader of the Zhennan faction as soon as he entered the palace.

Chi Ning is less than 20 years old now, and is already the governor of the East Factory.

This was a future that he could never have imagined when he was only a few years old and lived in the mountains.Because he didn't even know what Dongchang and Duzhu were.

A peck and a drink are all determined by God.

[I am a person with a strong desire for material things. I like to eat the best, wear the best, and enjoy the best. ] Chi Ning told Yuan Jun all the truth. Compared with these lives, what is being a man or not?

Whether it was the clan elders who sent him into the palace, or him who chose to enter the palace, they just made the best choice they could make.Few prominent eunuchs would take revenge on those who sent them into the palace, and even be grateful in turn.

This logic is twisted, but this is reality.No one is wrong, it's just that the times are wrong.

Chi Ning is powerless to change and can only go with the flow.

【Then why are you frowning? ] Mr. Yuan was taken aback.

【Don't you think this old lady Tibetan is scary?Not only did she survive being on the wrong team, but she lived exceptionally well. 】Even started a strange business based on my past experience,【My initial thought was that the old lady Tibetan was actually the Empress Dowager’s. It's a playbook for spies. 】

But now Chi Ning doesn't think so anymore, because this Tibetan old lady is too high-profile, she has made her business known to everyone, if the Queen Mother really uses the other party to do something, the Queen Mother's iron blood and indifference...

[This old woman cannot live to this day. 】Yuan Jun completed Chi Ning's words.

【right. ] Such a reality almost completely negates Chi Ning's initial guess.He is also a little confused now, if Madam Zang belongs to Concubine Wei, then what is the Queen Mother's plan for keeping her?

That's why Chi Ning frowned. He couldn't figure out the Queen Mother's layout, which made him a little uncomfortable.

Should not be!

How could there be something that he couldn't see through?

It's not that Chi Ning thinks that he should be omniscient and smarter than everyone else, it's just... Although he is currently standing on the same front as the queen mother, in the not-too-distant future, when they overthrow their unanimous enemy, the new emperor, After that, there is bound to be a dragon-tiger battle between them.Just like after Emperor Tianhe ascended the throne, the ally relationship between Eunuch Zhang and the Queen Mother only stopped in the first year of Tianhe.

This will also become the future of Chi Ning and the Queen Mother.

What could be more distressing than realizing that you can't see through the plans of your future competitor, and admitting that you might not be able to beat them either?

Yuan Jun still said the same words: 【You will win. 】

This is not an encouragement, nor a consolation, but a firm statement.

[You can't figure it out now, it's just because the information you and the Queen Mother know are not equal, I...] Yuan Jun changed from waiting for Chi Ning to beg him, to wanting to provide information on his own initiative.

Unfortunately, it's still a step too late.

Yu Xingchui just walked out of the low gate of Wang's house, and met Chi Ning face to face.He was really not surprised to meet his junior brother here, he said, "Ah."

"Brother." Chi Ning had already raised his smiling face, "Long time no see."

"haven't seen you for a long time."

In the blue sky and white sun, a person who looks like a banished immortal stands against the wind, shining brightly.

Yu Xingchui beckoned to his junior brother, and then took him to the largest restaurant in the county, where Yu Xingchui and his party stayed now.

A well-regulated small second floor, home-cooked dishes that are neither salty nor light, and brothers who are frequently looked at by others.

The two of them were sitting in the private seats on the second floor where they could see the bustling market downstairs, talking about some irrelevant things.

I haven't seen each other for three years, the senior is still the same senior, but the senior has changed a lot, completely changed from a child to a slim teenager.Yu Xingchui sized up Chi Ning's eyebrows for a long time before he had to admit that the junior brother looked even better than him when he opened his eyes.In Yu Xingchui's world, how could anyone be more beautiful than him? !

Yuan Jun: [...Your senior brother is quite narcissistic. 】

Chi Ning sighed towards fate: [Yes. 】Just like the orchid garden back then, the gorgeous tea is like a rich flower in the world.

Yuan Jun was inexplicably relieved of such a second senior brother.

Chi Ning's master's criteria for accepting apprentices can be said to be "good-looking" or "weird".The elder brother with a bad mind, the second senior brother who is narcissistic about cleanliness, and...

[Compared to my two senior brothers, do I look extraordinarily reliable? 】

Otherwise, why is it that although Chi Ning is a junior, he is unanimously considered by the Zhennan faction to be the key to revitalizing the entire faction?It's not how good he is, but because of his brothers.

Yu Xingchui also spoke directly from his heart, not afraid of embarrassment at all, with a terribly poisonous tongue, and a smell of Sichuan spicy: "I'm a good boy. Don't you always say the old saying, when you are young, it may not be better? You were so pretty when you were young, and you didn’t leave any room for growing up, how can you look better when you grow up?"

"You were not bad when you were young." Chi Ning could only reply to his senior brother like this.

"You are such a melon." Yu Xingchui raised his chin proudly, "Of course I can grow up from childhood, I am not an ordinary person!"

He is a little fairy, thank you.

For Yu Xingchui, when you don’t meet him, you will miss him very much, but after you meet him, you will start to question your own judgment—why do I miss such a thing?

"Are you coming to Fu County to be Sazi?" Yu Xingchui took a sip of the tea he brought with him from his own teacup, it was refreshing and sweet aftertaste.If possible, he would even bring his own tables, chairs and benches.

"Come to take you back to Beijing." In such a public place, Chi Ning would naturally not reveal his original purpose. They even chose to sit on the second floor for a while, just to tell others in a fair manner.Chi Ning just hinted at the senior brother: "I know from the senior brother that you are about to arrive in the capital, and I can't wait for a moment, so I will come to pick you up."

Yu Xingchui nodded, perfectly receiving the signal from his junior brother.

"What about you?" Chi Ning asked back.

"Look at what my old lover is talking about." Yu Xingchui also thought of an impeccable explanation for his whereabouts. In this way, the two brothers and sisters have already made a confession.

Chi Ning was stunned for a moment before he remembered that the Imperial College student that Yu Xingchui fell in love with back then seemed to come from a wealthy county.

What happened to the other party later, no one knows, and no one cares.From the looks of it now, he probably didn't hang around in the capital and could only go to his natal relatives, or because of other reasons, he happened to settle in Fu County for the time being, so Yu Xingchui used it as an excuse.

It's really a relationship to make the best use of everything.

Yuan Jun suddenly became a little curious: [When your senior brother sees that person, will the old relationship rekindle? 】

Chi Ning pondered for a moment, he couldn't make up his mind, logically speaking, no, but it's hard to say, love is always very unreasonable.He could only reply: [I don't want my brother to be hurt again. 】

There are only zero and countless times of cheating.

"Here, are you familiar with it?" Yu Xingchui leisurely raised his slender hands like jade, and pointed out the window.A young man in a worn-out robe was hurriedly walking down the street.It's hard to say exactly what fate did to him, but the years must have played a role, making him no longer as stunning as before, only remaining indifferent.

If Yu Xingchui hadn't pointed it out specifically, Chi Ning would hardly have dared to admit that this person turned out to be his senior brother's old lover.

However, Chi Ning can also be sure that his senior brother absolutely despises the other party.

"Time is like a pig-killing knife," Yu Xingchui shook his head, always carrying a strange sense of humor, "He used to be too good-looking, so he doesn't leave any room for the grown-up present."

Chi Ning looked at the elder brother who was full of Sichuan spicy flavor, and his heart was also very complicated. The elder brother did not leave a way for his exile appearance.

"You went to Wang's house with a bang?" Yu Xingchui has already jumped back to the dialogue between his seniors and brothers.

"I'm going to find my senior brother." Chi Ning was too lazy to think of an excuse. He pushed [-], and he believed that his senior brother would find a good excuse.

Yu Xingchui choked, thinking why don't you be so lazy, you bastard, and said: "Yes, Master had some friendship with Mrs. Zang back then, so I'll visit his old friends for the old man."

"It turns out that there is still this old relationship, I don't even know." Chi Ning's acting skills are top-notch.

After eating and drinking casually, the two brothers went upstairs to Yu Xingchui's guest room.Yu Xingchui is too lazy to continue acting below, while Chi Ning wants to know the information he doesn't know as soon as possible, and then deduce the real relationship between the old lady Tibetan and the queen mother.

Just now I said it on purpose outside to outsiders, and now it's my turn to really dig my heart out.

With Mr. Yuan, you don't have to worry about others eavesdropping.

But whether it's Chi Ning or Yu Xingchui, they're actually not used to expressing their hearts in a serious way, except when they're acting.Therefore, they invariably chose to talk while doing things, so as to make themselves seem less sincere.

Chi Ning chose to sit at the table and peel peanuts. Look at this peanut, it is white and round.

In the luggage he brought, Yu Xingchui repeatedly picked and pulled the gadgets for Chi Ning and Jiang Zhiwei, which were common in Sichuan, but not in the capital.Inexpensive, but heartfelt.

They just stood and sat, and finally got to the point seriously.

So serious that Yu Xingchui was unconsciously brought back to Mandarin by his younger brother, after all, this is what he has been speaking for most of his life.

"Is it really okay?" Yu Xingchui glanced outside the door.

"Don't worry." Chi Ning waved his hand.He couldn't tell his senior brother Yuan Jun's existence, but he still revealed his one or two hole cards as much as possible.

Yu Xingchui is a smart person, and he quickly understood.If the younger brother didn't say anything, he wouldn't ask, but just started again: "I haven't seen you for three years, you're okay, okay?"

"Extremely good." Chi Ning thought he was ready to discuss this with Yu Xingchui, but it turned out that he was not.

"Master..."

Chi Ning doesn't want to discuss with anyone about his master Zhang Jingzhong at all, but now he has to make it clear to his brother.This is really annoying.On the day when Yuan Jun was found, the first thing Chi Ning did was to ask Yuan Jun about the whereabouts of his master.No matter what price Yuan Jun needs, he can pay it.

Yuan Jun also answered Chi Ning honestly: [Zhang Jingzhong is dead, I can't feel his energy still exists in this world. 】

Chi Ning should have told the elder brother Jiang Zhiwei the news as soon as he returned to Beijing.However, looking at the heartless and happy look of the senior brother, who firmly believed that the master would come back sooner or later, Chi Ning really couldn't open his mouth. He didn't want to destroy the senior brother's hope, just like he used to do.

Among the three senior brothers, the eldest brother is a hopeless idealist. He has his own way of life. Chi Ning can't understand it, but feels that he should respect it.He didn't know if what he thought was good for Jiang Zhi was really good.

In other words, he was just a little undecided whether he should tell Jiang Jiang...

He needs second senior brother Xianxian to come up with an idea.

He said to him, "Our master is dead."

Really dead, the kind with no room for turning around.As far as Mr. Yuan said, Eunuch Zhang died heroically, he died to protect Tianhe Emperor, and it can be regarded as the implementation of his old man's lifelong belief and persistence.Except for not being able to see the three apprentices for the last time, he has no regrets in his life.

He is a really good eunuch, but unfortunately, no one knows, and no one cares, and now everyone is scolding him.

Chi Ning wanted to prove his innocence for Master.It is far from enough to rely on Chi Ning's current strength, and it will not even work on his own.That's why he wanted to climb up so eagerly after he came back, and that's why he has been reluctant to mention these things that would make him appear incompetent.

Returning to Beijing is a funeral for Chi Ning.

A silent, secret funeral.

"Ah, that's right, it's also..." Yu Xingchui finally uttered some fragmented words after a long time.In fact, he was psychologically prepared for Master's death, but he didn't expect that one day he would hear it so unexpectedly that he didn't know what to say for a while, and he lost the ability to form words into sentences.

After a while, Yu Xingchui said to his junior dryly: "I will accompany you to find a way to bring Master home, and we will definitely succeed."

"us?"

That's right, I'm a senior brother, the boss is unreliable, and the second child has to be strong for everyone.Yu Xingchang's smile was really pretty: "It must be hard work to keep this secret."

"It's okay." Chi Ning's answer began to be a little dry. His hands never stopped, peeling the peanuts and peanut skins all over the table, red, white and white, but forgot to put them in his mouth Said, he just said at the end, "I am no longer a child, hard work is a normal life."

"Yes, ha," Yu Xingchui smiled awkwardly, the beauty is so beautiful even when embarrassed, "I forgot, you are already an adult."

"Elder brother..."

"Don't tell him for the time being." Yu Xingchui subconsciously denied, "He's impulsive and obsessed, it doesn't make any sense to tell him now. Wait, wait..."

In the end, Yu Xingchui couldn't continue talking, and he didn't know when it would be the right time to tell Jiang Zhiwei.

Anyway, he shouldn't have received a piece of news that exploded in his mind suddenly like him.

But think about it, it seems that there is nothing wrong with doing like Chi Ning, there will never be a suitable and more acceptable time.It would be better to say it like this, and everyone will be relieved.

Chi Ning and Yu Xingchui looked at each other speechlessly, almost unable to find a topic to continue.

Until Mr. Yuan hardened his heart and acted as the person who broke the strange deadlock, he reminded Chi Ning: [Mother Tibetan is what you should pay attention to now. As for your master, I promised you that sooner or later I will help him Bring it back and do what you say. 】

Chi Ning is not an emotional person.

Neither was Yu Xingchui.

Therefore, Yu Xingchui let Chi Ning see the qualities of a person who "breaks up one second, and can still be the first in the country in the next second". After a short time, he returned to his usual expression, as if The embarrassment and silence just now never existed.

It seems like this happened many years ago.

Chi Ning clearly saw that his brother was so sad that he seemed to be dying just now, but then he was able to say auspicious words to the women in the harem and ask for golden beans as if nothing happened.

Chi Ning has already forgotten which year's New Year's Day it was, he only remembered that his brother lost his last relative outside the palace on that day.

He is always the one who recovers the fastest, because life has to go on, and no one can share it for him.

The brother said: "One of the missions of the master during his lifetime was to monitor Lao Mama Zang."

"Why didn't I know about this?" Chi Ning paused unconsciously for a moment when peeling peanuts, then stabilized and started peeling again. Under the influence of his senior brother, he was also trying to adapt not to be affected by emotions Reasonable, "Elder brother, does he know?"

Yu Xinghang shook his head. Of course the boss didn't know: "I also discovered it by accident. Master doesn't want us to know."

Chi Ning's heart was finally balanced, and he began to chew peanuts.

"Master has already broken up with the old lady, so why should he keep an eye on Old Mama Zang for her?" Yu Xingchui muttered to himself.

"I don't know." Chi Ning began to recklessly drink the good tea brought by his senior brother, "I just know, I can finally be sure, this old lady Tibetan is really not from the Queen Mother."

Otherwise, no one would need to watch her.

"Not only is it not, but the empress dowager is extremely afraid of him, and for some reason she can't do anything." With the ruthlessness of the empress dowager Youqin, what makes her feel so tricky is that the old lady Tibetan is very difficult to deal with. , or something she has mastered is difficult to deal with.This thing could be some kind of power, or it could be a certain secret.

After reasoning like this, it is only reasonable for Yu Xingchui to suspect that Mrs. Zang has something to do with the blood mist that suddenly appeared in the capital.

but……

"How can you be sure that the blood mist is related to the Queen Mother?" Chi Ning only knew about it because Mr. Yuan helped him cheat.

"I'm not sure it's related to the Queen Mother, I just know it's related to the old lady Tibetan." Yu Xingchui and Chi Ning's logic bases are actually completely different, but in the end they lead to the same result by different routes.This combination of two lines can almost make Yu Xingchui sure that they are right: "I continued his surveillance mission for Master on the way back to Beijing."

This is also the reason why Yu Xingchui returned to the capital so late. He had done many tasks that he couldn't continue after his master died suddenly.

Tibetan Laomo is just one of them.

In the process of monitoring and checking, Yu Xingchui discovered that someone had replaced his master and continued to control Old Mama Zang.The other party was not as meticulous as Eunuch Zhang, nor did he have anti-reconnaissance skills, so Yu Xing Chui quickly found out more things, such as the strange and evil blood mist.

"You mean, she's raising that monster for the Queen Mother?"

"No." Yu Xingchui shook his head, he had an even wilder thought, "It's the Queen Mother who needs her to take the blame for this blood mist."

Chi Ning nodded, this really makes sense, waste utilization.

But the reason why the Empress Dowager allowed Lao Mama Zang to live was definitely not just this, there must be other deeper things that they hadn't thought of.

"What is it?" Chi Ning expected his brother to give him an answer.

Yu Xingchui happened to think so too.

The two brothers fell silent at the same time, seeing the same accusation in each other's eyes: why are you such a waste.