After being forced to marry an enemy tyrant

Zhaoyan sat in the hall until late at night.

Until the guard came to report: "Your Majesty, Ye Xiao who was sent to Qingqiu has returned."

Zhaoyan stretched out his fingers, pinched his forehead hard, and said with a splitting headache, "Qingqiu?"

"Yes. It seems that there is something new in Qingqiu."

After the four clans occupied Qingqiu, Zhaoyan deliberately left a group of night owls to closely monitor Qingqiu's movements so as to keep abreast of the situation.The other one is to prevent the other three clans from making moves behind their backs.

Qingqiu.

Now just hearing these two words, Zhao Yan felt as if a knife had been dug into the flesh.

Slowing down, he said, "Let him in."

A figure who was hidden in Fu Yu Xuanjia appeared silently in the hall, kneeling on one knee.

"Subordinate Meng Chen, I have seen Your Majesty."

Zhaoyan: "Speak directly."

Meng Chen presented a secret report, solemnly reporting: "Yesterday, a batch of Huoque Yu and Jianglongmu sent by Suzaku to the three cities of Xueyang, Fuyang, and Qingyang were captured at the junction of Xueyang and Bingyang. People were robbed. The escort officer of the Suzaku clan insisted that the Chiyou clan was behind the scenes, and wanted to enter Bingyang to search, but was sternly rejected by the Bingyang guard. The two sides refused to give in to each other. Standing up to reconcile, I'm afraid it will affect the stability of Qingqiu. Now the second prince Chi You, the head of the Suzaku clan and the Fox Emperor Bo Hui are all in Tianhuan City, and the subordinates dare not make any claims, so they report to the king."

Zhao Yan closed the secret report lightly, and asked: "Who is in charge of Qingqiu now?"

Meng Chen: "His Royal Highness of the Fox Clan, Zhu Long. I heard that the city guards of Bingyang and Xueyang have reported this matter to the capital, but Zhu Long has not given a clear answer. But..."

Meng Chen glanced at Zhaoyan's face, and said: "However, since the four clans occupied Qingqiu, the affairs of each clan's territory are almost decided by each clan itself, and they rarely pass through the capital. Zhu Long dare not come forward to mediate, most likely It's because I'm afraid that if one is not handled properly, both sides will be offended."

"In addition, this is not the first time that goods like this have been robbed halfway. It's just that the items that were robbed before were all rewards transported from the capital to the north. Bo Hui didn't dare to offend the other three clans, so they swallowed the matter. It went down, and there was no trouble. This time, the military supplies of the local garrison that Suzaku transported to the three cities of Xueyang for the next year were robbed for no reason, and I am afraid that they will not let it go easily."

Zhao Yan pondered for a moment, then said: "The fire sparrow feather and the subduing dragon wood are both raw materials for making crossbows and arrows. Chi You's heavy cavalry are mostly armed with long knives and rarely use crossbows and arrows. There is no reason to take the risk of offending Suzaku Go and grab this batch of supplies."

"That's right, the guard of Bingyang City also replied in the same way, but Suzaku didn't believe it."

"Why?"

"Because there have always been rumors that... Chu Yunfeng was taken in by the Chiyou clan after he fled to the northern border. Chu Yunfeng has a new-style spiritual crossbow made by the Fuyu people in his hand. Chiyou cast these spiritual crossbows in large quantities, so he took advantage of the absence of the Suzaku patriarch. Snatched those batches of Suzaku Feather and Jianglong Wood."

Zhao Yan frowned.

"Is there any proof of this?"

Meng Chen shook his head: "I'm not sure. My subordinates have investigated it. This theory first spread from some teahouses in the Northland. The reason was that one night, the waiter in the teahouse heard a faint sound of earth-shattering horseshoes in his sleep. If the army passes through the border. But afterward, the subordinates asked the people living nearby about this matter, but the people all agreed that there was no such thing, and said that the storyteller suffered from delusion. But because the matter was too bizarre and mysterious, this rumor It still spread around. The subordinates thought that among the tribes in the north, the Yu tribe was on the decline, and other small tribes attached themselves to Chiyou. It is impossible for Chu Yunfeng to evaporate out of thin air. Everyone thinks that Chiyou secretly took in the spirit crossbows of the Fuyu people. It is also reasonable to get Chu Yunfeng."

Zhao Yan's eyebrows sank.

Meng Chen hesitated for a moment, then said: "There is one more thing... I don't know if I should report it to the king."

"Say."

"While my subordinates were lurking in the Qingqiu Palace, I accidentally discovered a few fragments of the family tree of the Fox family buried in the Lengdian, which were about the Young Master of the Elder Spirit."

Zhao Yan was startled.

Meng Chen took out another "secret report" sealed with the sealing technique from his bosom, and presented it with both hands.

Zhao Yan took it, his eyes fixed on the cover of the secret report for a long time, then he untied the seal, opened the seal, and took out a few pages of yellowed paper inside.

The light from the glazed lamp sprinkled on the paper, making it a hazy yellow.For some reason, a strange thought suddenly crossed Zhaoyan's mind. These few pages would be a key, a key to unlock the secrets of that little thing, a key for him to formally begin to understand that little thing. .

Although his mother's words were a bit harsh, she was right.He didn't understand the little thing at all, and never tried to understand it.

Zhaoyan's depression of the night was suddenly swept away, and he almost excitedly unfolded those pages, intending to outline the little thing's past life trajectory from the pile of old papers.

Time passed slowly.

After reading a few pieces of paper, Zhaoyan's expression changed several times, he raised his head, and said in disbelief: "The little thing tested in the spiritual realm when he was one year old... the result of the test is Tianlinggen?"

In Xianzhou, regardless of the fox clan or other races, Tianlinggen is an extremely rare gifted spiritroot.Tianlinggen not only means excellent aptitude and excellent comprehension, the cultivator can break the barriers of the five elements and manipulate spells of various attributes at will, but also means that with the same or even less effort, the cultivator can obtain much higher than ordinary Cultivators have several times or even dozens of times the chance of ascension.Specific to the fox family, as long as there are traces in the genealogy of the spirit fox with Tianling root, the number of tails after adulthood will be more than five.This little thing, who was only half-opened at three hundred years old, turned out to be a heavenly spirit root?

Zhaoyan suddenly panicked again.

This really overturned his previous cognition, and further verified the fact that he really didn't know anything about that little thing.The ink marks on the paper are the ironclad evidence, and every word was beaten on his face and heart.

Meng Chen replied: "Yes. After each fox in the royal family of Qingqiu is born one year old, it has to enter the 'Weaving Moon Spiritual Realm' behind the altar for a spiritual root test. One of the reference standards for selecting the next Fox Emperor, no deceit is allowed."

"According to the genealogy records, Young Master Changling was born in the moon worship ceremony at the altar of the fox clan. He was worshiped by ten thousand foxes right after he was born, and he was regarded as the 'son of auspiciousness'. When he was young, he was able to absorb the essence of plants and trees with his spiritual knowledge, and thus destroyed the medicine garden that a farmer in Qingqiu worked so hard to plant. But Tu Shan Boyan seemed to be very taboo about this matter, and only said to the outside world that the young master stole the palace for fun The magic weapon, because the magic weapon went out of control, destroyed the farmer's fertile land. Later, Tu Shan Boyan died in the battle in the Northern Territory, and the fox queen Jiang Yin committed suicide. The young master disappeared for a while, and when he came back, his temperament changed drastically. After moving into the Chenfeng Palace, you must wear a cloak when you go in and out, and you become dull, and you rarely speak."

"The personality is lively and active..." Zhao Yan chewed on this sentence in a daze, and then thought of the appearance of the little thing who was only willing to hide in the cloak and refused to be seen easily. Time, where did the little thing go?"

Meng Chen shook his head: "Not yet. My subordinates have tried to verify this matter, but no one in Qingqiu Palace can confirm it."

Zhao Yan asked urgently: "What about the old injuries? Is there any record in the genealogy that he suffered from old injuries, especially serious injuries that may have broken the bones."

Meng Chen still shook his head: "No. But maybe it's because the subordinates only got a part of the records, and maybe there is something about the young master Changling in the fox clan genealogy."

"I don't believe that there are things that people don't know about in this world. Continue to investigate and make sure to find out the truth of this matter."

Zhaoyan pursed the corner of his lips coldly, and said with a cold gaze.

Meng Chen respectfully said: "This subordinate understands."

After finishing speaking, he bowed on one knee and disappeared into the depths of the night like a ghost.

Zhaoyan held the papers and sat until dawn, and told Yin Zhu: "Go to the posthouse and call Bo Hui, I have something to ask him."

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