Better to live forever [Rebirth]

In the 26th year of Zhenyuan, May [-]th.

A ship flying the Pixiu flag disappeared without a trace on the sea. It did not cause any waves on the sea, but it set off a turbulent wave at the head of the Ning family, and this undercurrent quickly rushed to the Luojing Palace.

When Emperor Zhenyuan heard that Ning Heng disappeared into the sea together with the previous caravan, he couldn't help frowning.

"He found your whereabouts?"

Anshou, who knelt down, responded: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the Ning family and our party had a fight, but Anyi confirmed that the other party did not know our identity. Originally, we intended to let Master Ning leave, but they The party was attacked when they escaped, and the big ship sank into the sea. When we salvaged it, there was no trace of Patriarch Ning and others. And the group of people who appeared later should come to ask for Patriarch Ning's life."

An Yi is the leader of the Sima imperial family who is second only to An Shou, and he is also a person trusted by Emperor Zhenyuan. This time, An Yi is in charge of the treasure hunting team.

Unexpectedly, the past few years have been peaceful, and there will be conflicts with the caravans of the Ning family one after another, and even Ning Heng will be involved in it, and his life and death are unknown.

Emperor Zhenyuan felt pain in his head, he closed his eyes secretly and said: "Since the whereabouts of the people who came later are also missing, will Ning Heng be in their hands?"

"This……"

"Ok?"

He bowed his head secretly and said: "An Yi saw with his own eyes that Patriarch Ning was seriously injured when he fell into the water, and Lord Zhu Xiaohou was also brought into the water to save his life. The Ning family jumped into the water one after another, but the people who came after him had no intention of capturing him alive. , instead shot bows and crossbows at the water, and then destroyed the boat and cut off the back of the Ning family. When An Yi approached, the water surface was already stained red with blood."

Emperor Zhenyuan narrowed his eyes, "Did they find you?"

"No."

The dark head said immediately.

Patriarch Ning's status in Dajing is extraordinary, but they are the secret heads of His Majesty, and the only responsibility they bear is the treasure hunt entrusted by His Majesty. Other things - things that may make this mission fail — they will never interfere.There is nothing wrong with Anyi and the others standing by and watching, but the consequences of this matter... are unimaginable.

"Where's the corpse?"

Emperor Zhenyuan said.

Anshou replied: "That area is densely covered with hidden reefs, and the undercurrent is turbulent. When the subordinates went into the water to investigate, except for the Ning's boat that was stranded on the hidden reefs, everyone else had disappeared."

"In your opinion, Ning Heng still has a chance to survive."

The emperor asked, but he clearly knew in his heart that even if he was not injured, the reef was enough to kill someone.A Lord Changxin who was seriously injured and fell into the sea, and a grandson of the Zhu family who was too weak to practice martial arts. Even if the others survived by luck, these two people had little hope.

Sure enough, Anshou gave a pertinent negative answer.

Emperor Zhenyuan was silent for a long time before he asked aloud: "Is there still no clue about the bad money?"

Antou said: "I disappeared in Guangzhou Mansion. I said in a word that there was an unidentified boat that appeared near Zhuya Island, and my subordinates inquired about the news from Ning's family. The draft of the boat should be caused by heavy objects. Subordinates In my humble opinion, this may be the bait released by the group who tried to murder Patriarch Ning, making them think that the ship was related to Bad Silver, so Patriarch Ning went out to investigate in person."

"Do you think that pedestrian is not a person who steals bad silver?"

"From their actions, it seems that they are not the same person. The subordinates think... Maybe they have the same purpose as the person who stole the bad silver."

same purpose?

Heh, it is nothing more than a disaster to the foundation of Dajing, which leads to the instability of the national reserve, and profits from it.

And this pedestrian's methods are more decisive and more to the point than those who steal bad silver!

Patriarch of the Ning family, Lord Changxin.

As far as Dajing is concerned, his status is second only to the Ninth Five-Year Master.

When he was young, he cared very much about the existence of the Patriarch of the Ning family, but after he attacked Ning Heng once and almost shook the foundation of Dajing, he realized that he could not do anything to the Ning family—like his parents and grandparents, he could only acquiesce The existence of the Ning family.

The people are the soil, and the royal family is the big tree they support and believe in, but the Ning family is the root system of this big tree.

It is deeply rooted in the soil, and it also maintains the prosperity of the big tree.

He finally understood what kind of retreat the Empress Dowager Zhao had left for the Ning family, and since then he turned his eyes away from the Ning family.

But now, Ning Heng, who had just taken over the seal of the Ning family, died in the sea. If the Ning family found out that there was royal handwriting in it, he could not predict what those lunatics would do.

Emperor Zhenyuan said in a deep voice, "Let Anyi evacuate."

The head of the Ning family can be replaced by another person, which will not hinder the people's livelihood of Dajing.As long as Ning Heng's death has nothing to do with him or the royal family.

As for the Zhu family...

This news can be kept hidden for as long as it can be, but if it can't be kept, his life has to be explained by the Ning family to the Zhu family.

May [-]th.

Under the bright moon, Zhu Dingbei drank a toast.After putting down his wine glass, he looked out the window at the gloomy sea, turned his head when he heard the door opening, looked at Ning Heng and said, "They left?"

Ning Heng nodded.

Zhu Dingbei suddenly smiled, and the laughter gradually let go, becoming more and more presumptuous, as if he heard a big joke.

Ning Heng looked at him helplessly, but his eyes were full of indulgence.

Zhu Dingbei raised his head and drank another cup, threw away the cup and said, "I don't know, will the old emperor be so frightened that he can't sleep when he sees the Patriarch of the Ning family and the grandson of the Zhu family who have come back to life?"

Cleverness was misunderstood by cleverness, and the old emperor finally lost in front of him once.

Not bad.

The suspicious building boat that appeared on the sea for no reason a few days ago, clashed with the emperor's treasure hunting team, the assassination team that was relentless, and the location of the hidden reef in the sea.

All of these are interlocking and impeccable, but they are all deliberately arranged by Zhu Dingbei and Ning Heng.

And as they wished, Emperor Zhenyuan really gave up on Zhuya Island, the long-lost treasure destination, and withdrew the hidden guards who tied them down.

The dark guards, the most elite "scouts" and "vanguards" under the emperor, even Zhu Dingbei can't just show his sharpness, for fear that they will find any clues.Now, this stumbling block has finally been removed.

In the past few years, Zhu Dingbei has not concealed his dissatisfaction with Emperor Zhenyuan in front of Ning Heng, so Ning Heng didn't take it seriously when he heard his ridicule. Set off."

Zhu Dingbei waved and said, "Come, have a drink with me."

The old Hou Ye was strictly limited to alcohol, Zhu Dingbei often went to drink with the veterans in the mansion in Luojing, and his drinking capacity is not what it used to be.

Although Ning Heng didn't drink often, he was born with a lot of energy. Seeing that he was in high spirits at this time, he would accompany him to the end.

Unlike how much he drank without changing his face, under the light of the moonlight and the candlelight, patches of blush appeared on Zhu Xiaohou's white face, his pair of washed eyes were crystal clear, and there was a frivolous smile on the corner of his mouth. It's easy to be dazzled.Ning Heng watched him drink one cup after another, until Zhu Xiaohou restrained his hand, and then made a sound to chase him away.

He was the one who invited him, but when the show was about to end, he didn't have any nostalgia for it.

Ning Heng didn't know why he felt a little uncomfortable, maybe it was because of reluctance in his heart, he said softly: "You lie down and I will press it for you, otherwise you will have a headache tomorrow."

Zhu Dingbei had stopped drinking in time, and he felt that there would be no delay, but tomorrow he was going to go treasure hunting, which was the top priority, and it would be good to let Ning Heng relieve himself to avoid any contingencies, so he readily agreed.

Ning Heng took off his hair crown, his fingers shuttled through his long black hair, and accurately pressed on the acupuncture points.

Over the years, Ning Heng's skill has been superb, Zhu Dingbei sighed comfortably, and his breathing became calm after a while.Ning Heng didn't stop moving his fingers, and called softly: "Longevity?"

He didn't get a response, so he slowly relaxed the emotions blocked in his eyes, and overturned a piece of tenderness under the night.

Last night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, but the next day was indeed a good day. The boat shuttled smoothly across the sea, avoiding layers of barriers, and entered the area Ning Heng expected.

"here?"

Zhu Dingbei pointed to a place and asked Ning Heng where they were now.

What he was holding in his hand was the same tattered sheepskin that they took out from the tomb of the chief of Xianbei Langya Mountain a few years ago.

No one expected that the key to unlocking the location of the treasure in the end was actually on this roll of sheepskin.The discovery of this secret was entirely due to Zhu Dingbei's love of reading travel notes and anecdotes. If Ning Heng hadn't given the oldest unread businessman's handbook from the Ning family's library to Zhu Ding, who had read through the Ning family's business records. North, they would not have discovered the meaning of the drawn lines and strange markings on the parchment in that scroll of manuscripts by chance.

Those wavy lines represent the waters.And those strange markings are digital codes specially set up by the Empress Dowager Zhao, which correspond to the water depth and temperature of each wavy line.

It was two years after Ning Heng mobilized the power of the Ning family to investigate, and they finally finally set their sights on a water area south of Zhuya Island.

"Well, here it is. In a moment, we will reach the depths of the water."

Ning Heng's slender fingers tapped the place he said, and then told Zhu Dingbei: "Let them go into the water to explore the way first, and you stay with me, don't do anything that worries me."

Mrs. Zhu Dingbei had his own ideas, and he did many things as soon as he thought of them, and he would not explain the reasons to Ning Heng immediately, which often made him frightened.This time at sea, it was dangerous and unpredictable, so he had to say a few more words.

Zhu Dingbei rolled his eyes indecently, curled his lips and said, "You have said this sentence three times, do you still want me to promise you a third time?"

Ning Heng froze for a moment, patted his head and said, "You are obedient."

This time, Young Master Zhu was dissatisfied, and directly pushed his head hard against the chin of Master Changxin, successfully causing Ning Heng, who was squatting beside him, to fall to the ground.

Seeing his triumphant smile, Ning Heng simply sat cross-legged beside him.The two men compared the positions on the sea area with the parchment, and after a while, the building stopped firmly in one place.

Zhu Dingbei raised his head.

Facing the sun, he narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice:

"finally reached."