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"Where's the dark guard?" Han Tuo asked out of nowhere.

Ji Yueliu snorted lightly, and said with a sneer, "General Han really doesn't know where the hidden guards have gone?"

"Since I don't know, I'll tell you," he lowered his head, poured himself a glass of water, ignoring his gloomy expression, "Some of the hidden guards were sent to protect you, some of the hidden guards were sent to protect Lu Yunshu, and the rest They basically follow Qingming."

Han Tuo didn't think about the ambiguity in his words, he just assumed that Qingming sent all the hidden guards around him to him and Lu Yunshu, and didn't ask any further.

"Then, was the penetrating injury caused by the bow and arrow on his body also suffered at that time?" Han Tuo continued to ask.

"It was caused at that time, but it was not caused by the killer of Heimen. The killers who went to assassinate the emperor that day used long swords instead of bows and arrows."

"Then why did he suffer from such a serious arrow injury, and it seems that the meridians were blocked and his internal energy was lost due to the untimely treatment." Han Tuo finally asked the key question.

"About this, I don't know. I wasn't there when he was injured." Ji Yueliu said irrelevantly.

"do not know?"

"Yes, I don't know." Ji Yueliu nodded.

Han Tuo saw that he didn't seem to be lying, so he got up and said goodbye, "That's how it is."

"No more questions?" Ji Yueliu confirmed.

"I didn't think of it at the moment, but if I think of other things, I will come again." Han Tuo walked towards the door, "I will send someone to deliver the money to your house later, goodbye!"

The door was closed, and Xiao An stepped aside and sat where Han Tuo had just sat.

"Why didn't you tell him the truth?"

Ji Yueliu raised her eyebrows, "Why should I tell him the truth? He should be honored if I didn't lie to him. I haven't forgotten that Qingming used me to blackmail you and seriously injured you! Why should I Tell him everything, so that he and Qingming can resolve the misunderstanding? Besides, even if the misunderstanding is resolved, they may not be able to be together. In this way, I did nothing wrong."

Xiao An stared at him intently.

"What are you looking at me like that for?" Ji Yueliu glanced at him and poured tea.

"I'm very grateful to him. Once and for all, I don't have to worry about you being married again."

"Heh~ You still worry about this kind of thing. Even without his promise, you wouldn't let me marry a wife and start a family." Ji Yueliu smiled lightly.

"I'm really worried, I've always been worried in the past;" Xiaoan stared at him without blinking, with a serious expression, "I can kill all the women who want to marry you, but I can't hurt you at all. If you insist on marrying a wife , I can only die at your hands."

"My life is yours. If you don't want it, I have no reason to live anymore. Do you understand?"

This was probably the longest sentence he had ever said in his life, and Ji Yueliu couldn't help being stunned.

After all, in the past, he never knew that there were so many complicated emotions hidden under that expressionless face.

Putting away her indecent smile, Ji Yueliu got up and walked to his side. Like many times before, she sat on the foot of the couch, leaned her head on his lap, and rubbed her head full of nostalgia, "You used to always You just kept a cold face and didn't say anything. I always thought that you were only superficially obedient, but in your heart you didn't want to be subservient to others and not be free. Today, after hearing what you said, I realized," he paused After a pause, he continued, "I always laugh at others as duplicity fools, so why are we not the same?"

Xiaoan stretched out his hand to gently caress Ji Yueliu who was leaning on his leg, with infinite tenderness.

When he was still a little one, Ji Yueliu liked to sit on the ground and lean on his lap to take a nap in the morning. Whenever this happened, he couldn't help but want to hold him in his arms, and even rub him into his own. In my body... until now, it will not change in the future.

Feeling his increasingly long breaths, Xiao An showed a soft smile on his face, which rarely showed any expression.

Time is the same as before, and the years are quiet.

Han Tuo left Fangcao Pavilion, thinking about the past all the way.

How does it feel weird?

Since he was not injured by an arrow when he was assassinated, when was he injured? Why was there no news?

Moreover, in his capacity, if he was injured, he would definitely receive comprehensive diagnosis and treatment. In addition, there were so many good medicines in the palace, how could there be repeated injuries and loss of internal strength?

Could it be that the arrow wound was coated with poison, caused by poison?

However, even if it is poisonous, it is unlikely, right?

Han Tuo couldn't understand it.

There must be something hidden in it, maybe Ji Yueliu concealed the truth?

No, no, he really didn't look like he was lying just now.

Halfway through, Han Tuo suddenly stopped.

Who should I ask about this?

"Han Tuo?"

Suddenly a voice came from behind, Han Tuo looked back and found that it was Lu Yunshu and King Gudan.

"Yunshu~Are you going out with King Gudan?" Han Tuo asked clearly after taking a look at their outfits and the horses under them.

"No, I went to visit my old friend. King Gu Dan said he wanted to see him too, so he insisted on accompanying me."

"Really? Then hurry up and don't waste your time." Han Tuo was about to say goodbye, but suddenly remembered that Lu Yunshu didn't go out often, and there was no need for an old friend to ride out of the city to visit, so he stopped him again.

"Cloud book!"

Just as Lu Yunshu was about to leave, when he heard him calling him, he quickly reined in his horse and looked at him, "Is there anything else?"

"Oh, it's nothing. I just want to ask, who is the old man you want to visit? Of course, if it's inconvenient, don't mention it."

"It's nothing inconvenient. Speaking of which, you know the person I'm going to visit."

"I know you too?" Han Tuo looked puzzled.

"That's right, you do know each other, but you're not very familiar with it. When the emperor returned to Beijing, didn't his senior brother come back together? Five years ago, the emperor was assassinated, and he died protecting the emperor. After I came back, I didn't have time to see it." Looking at him, I just remembered that I got up early today to go there, so that he can feel at ease."

"Brother?" Han Tuo heard the words, and the appearance of that person appeared in his mind.

Indeed, he didn't have much contact with Zigui, but at least he had talked to him and knew his appearance. Thinking about it, he suddenly felt that Zigui and Qingming looked alike.

Han Tuo stood there with a serious expression on his face.

Lu Yunshu looked at the sky, it was getting late, and reminded, "Han Tuo, is there anything else? If there is nothing else, I should leave the city, otherwise I may not be able to make it back before dark at night."

"Wait for me, I'll be with you. Although I don't know him very well, I was an official at the same dynasty. Now that I know he's gone, I should pay my respects to him. It's a gesture of my heart."

"Huh? This..." After hearing what he said, Lu Yunshu looked hesitant.

"What's the matter? Is it inconvenient?" Han Tuo looked at him with a perplexed expression.

"It's not inconvenient, it's just... hey~ Forget it, the emperor won't mind what you say," Lu Yunshu looked at him seriously and said, "Let's go together, but you have to hurry up. In addition, no matter today What do you know, you can't reveal anything, can you?"

Han Tuo heard something in his words and nodded.

Han Tuo bought a random horse from the street, and galloped out of Beijing with the two of them, heading towards the royal ancestral mausoleum.

At the foot of Huangling Mountain, the three left their horses in the forest.

Looking at the endless stairs, Han Tuo wondered why he was brought here, but he still held back and didn't ask.

Han Tuo and Mu Lei are highly skilled in martial arts, with more than 3000 steps in the area, so it is naturally not a problem; Lu Yunshu has no internal strength, and his martial arts are even more mediocre. Although he has been training in the march in recent years, he is still only at the level of physical fitness, so he climbed to more than 2000 steps When I reached the first level, I couldn't hold it anymore.

Seeing that he was sweating profusely and panting heavily, Mu Lei walked up to him and hugged him, "Seeing you are panting like this, let me help you!"

"You, you, what are you doing? This is outside, besides, there are other people around, no, the point is not this, you put me down quickly, how decent is it for a man to hug another man?" Lu Yunshu blushed and couldn't help struggling He spoke, a little incoherently excited.

Han Tuo noticed Mu Lei's movements at the beginning, and was really surprised, but soon returned to normal, and guessed a little bit about their relationship in his heart, turned his eyes away, and walked up on his own.

"Don't move any more, let me carry you up, or else with your speed, I'm afraid you won't be able to go down the mountain after dark. Besides, look, General Han is in a hurry and left first. Let's follow up quickly. Let's go." Mu Lei held him steady, exerted strength on his legs, and jumped up the ten steps, the speed was indeed faster than before.

Mu Lei originally wanted to take this opportunity to spend a day alone with Lu Yunshu, but he didn't expect that someone would get in the way halfway, so he could only go and return quickly.

The rest of the more than 1000 steps were completed in less than half an hour.

At the top of the mountain, Lu Yunshu found the ancestral hall according to the route given by Qingming. After explaining to the guards, Lu Yunshu and Han Tuo went in.

Mu Lei knew that his identity was not suitable for worship, so he waited outside the ancestral hall, quietly watching them go in to worship and offer incense.

Gazing at this magnificent ancestral hall, Mu Lei silently promised in his heart.

Although I am from Gudan, I am sincere to Yunshu.

I know he is your descendant, so when he acknowledges our relationship, I will officially come to pay respects.

If you have spirits in heaven, you will fulfill my sincerity and let him recognize our relationship as soon as possible.

Inside the shrine

Han Tuo looked at the tablets one by one, and stopped when his eyes fell on the last one.

The bottom layer is people of their generation, and there is only one ranking.

On it was written the name of the person represented by the ranking——Ji Yueli.

There are two small characters engraved next to it: Zigui.

"As you can see, brother Zigui is also from the royal family." Lu Yunshu walked to him and explained while looking at the rankings.

"Brother Zigui's father is my youngest uncle, and also the youngest brother of the Supreme Emperor and his mother, but because he was born prematurely and weak, his mother and the Supreme Emperor loved this uncle very much, and helped him marry him when he was just an adult. , it’s just that Uncle Huang still couldn’t last until brother Zigui was born.”

"What's worse is that brother Zigui was as weak and sick as the emperor's uncle when he was born. Fortunately, the emperor's master was a close friend of the emperor's when he was traveling abroad. Dijing, take care of your body, teach literature and martial arts, and it was not until the emperor returned to Beijing that he returned to Dijing for the first time."

"Therefore, except for a few members of the royal family, no one knew about it. Because it was not sure whether brother Zigui would be able to come back, he declared that he died prematurely."

Han Tuo stood in front of the ranking, countless clips and various voices flashed through his mind, entangled and disturbed, trying to sort it out but couldn't figure it out...