Emperor Son Sang gl

At that time, the crown prince had left behind eight secret guards, namely the Tiandi Xuanhuang of the orthodox generation, and the universe prehistoric of the Ming character generation.Later, when Lianfu took over the training of the dark guards, another four dark guards were added, and the new characters were named Xindong, Xinnan, Xinxi, and Xinbei for the new generation, southeast, northwest, and each dark guard leader.

Since Zi Sangyu officially took over the dispatch of the twelve dark guards, he has sent a total of 48 people from the four new dark guards to Daning Kyoto, responsible for contacting the capital's eyeliner and protecting Bai Qingran's safety.

Now, these four dark guards have received new orders.

"The day when the young master will see the world is approaching. Counting the days, it will only take two or three months. In today's troubled times, there are many poor people who were born in this world but can't survive. You should pay more attention to this, and it is best to be with him Your Highness has a somewhat similar bloodline, but this is not the most important thing, the main thing is that this matter must be airtight, and any hands and tails need to be dealt with cleanly."

Since Lian Fu handed over the dark guards back to Zi Sang Yu for dispatch, Lian Xin was in charge of conveying Zi Sang Yu's intentions for the new generation of dark guards.Lian Xin has always been trustworthy, and he is quite concerned about Zi Sang Yu's affairs. Before Zi Sang Yu can speak, he has already contacted the secret guard to make all preparations.

Looking for a baby boy to be Zi Sang Yu's heir.

It is very difficult for the new generation of dark guards to take over.

It is not difficult to find a baby boy, and they can even find many pregnant people who are waiting to give birth, and choose one of several boys.But Lian Xin had stated in the letter that it is best to have a bloodline similar to that of Zi Sangyu.Although he later changed his words and said it was not important, but this point really caught the attention of the hidden guards.

Out of loyalty, I planned in my heart to find such a baby.

Although even if he resembles Zi Sang Yu, this child will not have any blood relationship with Zi Sang Yu.But if this child is like Zi Sang Yu from childhood, the feeling will be very different, as kind as his own.What's more, this child will inherit everything in Dayan in the future. As a child of Zisang's family, his appearance should not be too ordinary!

Zi Sangyu and Bai Qingran are all people with unique looks.

But what if the child born looks like a passerby? ...

"No, I have to find it anyway."

The dark guard chiefs of the four dark guards were sitting together to discuss after receiving the letter.The head of the dark guard Xinnan is a man in his 20s, tall and strong, with dark skin; he looked at Xindong with a determined face, and sighed: "It's easy for you to say, but where should we find it? Find a needle in a haystack .”

Xindong curled his lips, but he refused to give up.

The head of the dark guard, Xindong, is a woman in her twenties.Youth, beauty, and figure are also coveted by men; in many hidden guard tasks, Xindong often completes them effortlessly with such advantages.

Xinxi and Xinbei are men, and they are also a pair of half-brothers.Xinxi is the elder brother, three years older; there is not much difference in appearance between the two, except that Xinxi likes to grow a beard, while his younger brother Xinbei is as clean as a scholar.

"If you really want to look for it, then hurry up and start." Xin Xixia habitually pulled his mustache, squinted his small eyes and focused on a certain place. "We only have two months."

Xinbei patted Xinxi's hand.

"Brother, don't pull your beard all the time."

"Oh."

"Then Xinnan and I will look for it. You two brothers stay here to protect Madam." Madam pointed to Bai Qingran.Xindong didn't ask Xinnan for his opinion, anyway, this stupid big man would usually follow his own decision.

Sure enough, Xinnan just gave a muffled hum.

"clear."

On the second day after the decision was made, the Eastern Branch Dark Guard and the South Branch Dark Guard set off.The 24 people including Xinxi and Xinbei stayed at the original place, protecting Bai Qingran every day and night.

"You should also be familiar with His Highness's appearance and characteristics. Go now, find some newborn babies, and find the one that is most similar to His Highness's appearance and characteristics."

In fact, Xindong has no idea what he said.

"Boss, although there are many newborn babies in the world, many of them died early because of the turmoil of wars or disasters in various places. Or they were sallow and emaciated and sick all over. It is not easy to find a healthy one among such children. It is somewhat similar to His Highness..." A subordinate couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

Xinnan looked at him and said, "Do your best."

"Don't think about whether this matter is possible. Today, as the secret guards, we must make it possible for any order given by the master." Fan discouraged and extremely dissatisfied. "Two people in a team, separate to search, don't let go of any possibility. Do you understand?"

"Subordinates obey!"

Xin Dongpo sighed angrily.

Looking back at the silly big Xinnan standing beside him, seeing that he just smiled, he seemed to feel better.

"Don't be too impatient." Xin Nan patted her on the shoulder, feeling a little distressed.Looking back at the group of subordinates below, he added: "You can also look for your close relatives. Although the blood of the Zisang family is in the same line, after the first emperor, the prince's concubine, etc., you can find some clues. Coincidence. Among these people, the possibility of being similar to His Highness is much greater than those who have no blood relationship at all."

When it comes to close relatives, one person comes to mind.

"Boss, the crown prince's wife's natal family, the Shao family, is still alive, shall we investigate that?"

"No." Before Xin Nan could reply, Xin Dong interrupted him: "The Shao family doesn't know His Highness's real identity, if the news gets out, and one more person knows, His Highness will be more dangerous. And , the matter of the heir must be done cleanly, no matter whose family the child is, all relatives of this child cannot stay. If the Shao family is found out, is it possible that the Shao family will be wiped out?"

"Yes. And His Highness's appearance is just like the Crown Prince's, not much like the Crown Princess's."

This sentence of Xinnan seems to be more concise than that of Xindong.

"My subordinate understands."

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Antai Town, north of Daning Kyoto.

The prosperous town in the past, known as Antai Town in Beijiang, is now desolate.Since Zi Sang Yu wanted to oppose Ning, Bai Daocheng killed the county magistrate and Wei Cheng in Antai Town on the grounds that the village and town he belonged to did not report the knowledge, implicating the five clans.Originally, the crime in Lianjia Village was the biggest. Fortunately, the villagers of Lianjia Village fled everywhere before the incident happened.

In Antai Town today, there are no artists singing on the streets, and no children playing in the courtyard.

It seems that Bai Daocheng intends to abandon this place. Now, apart from the old, young, women and children, young and strong men have already left here, or they rushed to the battlefield because of the imperial court's conscription order.

"Xin Dong..." the big, stupid Xin Nan who was walking behind hesitated to speak.There are not many people on the street, only a handful.The person walking in front, a capable and strong female head of the dark guard on the surface, Xindong is actually a person who grew up in Antai Town.When he was a child, he was adopted by the villagers of Lianjia Village because he was separated from his family. Later, he was appreciated by Lianfu and trained as one of the new generation of dark guards.

Walking on the familiar and unfamiliar streets in the past, I don't know what it will feel like in your heart?

"Xinnan, come quickly."

"what happened?"

The two were lying at the corner of a courtyard, looking towards the end of the alley over there.At the end of the alley is a gambling house. Although Antai Town is not as prosperous as it used to be, the number of people who want to rely on luck to come to the gambling house has not decreased much.An elderly man was talking with a boy at the entrance of the gambling house, with a child about two or three years old by his side.

After a while, the boy gave the man a note and some silver; the man happily took it, and pulled the boy to the boy's side.Although the child is small, he still recognizes people. He immediately cried and made a lot of noise.

"Little bastard!"

The man yelled and slapped the child.

Xindong felt a pain in his heart.

The child cried even harder, the servant was obviously upset, and motioned for the man to take the child away with him.

"The world is declining, morality is declining..."

Xinnan shook his head, don't watch tragedies like this. "Xindong, let's go." After starting the war in this land, Bai Daocheng's policies suddenly became violent, compulsory conscription, high taxation, and writing became a prison. This half of the country is like a purgatory on earth.Coupled with local disasters, official corruption is rampant, and the people are hungry and homeless.Although Antai Town is desolate, perhaps it is a very good place for those barbaric places where people cannibalize people.

The two walked roughly around Antai Town, then searched for a way to start the mission.

First, I found a human trafficker in the town, and Xinnan pretended to be the bodyguard of a big family in Kyoto. After all, he was tall and strong; I also said that there was a big family in Kyoto who needed to buy a child, and I saw him in the past one or two months. , first of all a baby boy, preferably with good looks.The trafficker nodded knowingly, saying that there are many women and children waiting to give birth in the town, and there are also many newborn children, most of whom were conceived when the war started.

"However, the men in every household are now fighting outside, and those children are most likely posthumous. In terms of money..." The trafficker paused habitually, looking at the two of Xinnan.

Shin-dong stands beside Shin-nan, disguised as a skinny mustache man.

"As long as I can find a suitable baby, I won't treat you badly." With an indifferent expression on his face, Xin Nan took out a money bag. "Here is 50 taels of silver, which is a deposit. We need to see how many babies there are within a month. If we find what we want, we will have a higher reward."

"All right, all right!" The trafficker smiled.

Selling a cheap child is worth so much money!Hey, I don't know which family is so short of a baby boy?It must be a very rich and powerful family in Kyoto!

He will never know.

There will be a baby who is born to be regarded as a lowly life, and will be held high in the world.

For half a month, both Xindong and Xinnan lived in an inn in Antai Town in disguise.Since several human traffickers in the town have been found to disperse the search, the next step is to wait for news.If you can't find a suitable candidate this month, you can only go to other places to look for it next month.

Furthermore, I hope that the other hidden guards will make progress.

Two days ago, there was a letter from the dark guard.It is said that in a small village west of Kyoto, I found a baby boy who had been around for about a week or two. Although he did not look exactly like Zi Sang Yu, he had a somewhat similar nose and mouth. Xindong was considering it.Originally, I wanted to give birth to this child, but being similar to others is best for eyebrows, if I can find someone with similar looks...

In general, the group of hidden guards were desperately looking for them.

On this day, just as Xin Dong and Xin Nan were having lunch in the inn, someone came to their door.The visitor was a sixty-year-old boy, dressed in coarse brown clothes, who went around the inn to find the two.Not much to say, just say: Half a month ago, what the two masters wanted had already been found, and they met under the banyan tree in the west of the city after noon.

So, it should be the trafficker's eyeliner.

After lunch, Xindong and Xinnan rode fast horses to the largest banyan tree in the west of the city.

To the west of Antai Town, this has been the residence of the poorer people in the town since the past.This is the so-called eastern and western cities, with distinctions between high and low; the east of the city has always been the residences of wealthy families and merchants and officials, while the west of the city is home to ordinary people, those who live at the bottom of the society.

As soon as I got here, I smelled a strange smell on the street.

Based on their years of knowledge, the two dark guards knew that it was the putrid smell from corpses that had been left for a long time.

"Two!"

A head protruded from an alley on the side, it was the trafficker; he looked around and waved to the two of them from a distance. "Come this way!"

The two of them habitually fumbled for the weapons wrapped around their waists.

Guided by the human traffickers in front, several people walked in this alley, took a right turn and a turn for a long time, finally opened a broken door, and arrived at a small courtyard that was originally a Buddhist temple.This Buddhist temple has long been abandoned, and the courtyard is full of ruins and broken tiles, covered with gray-white spider threads and dust as thick as a finger.

"The little one came to find a lot of people in the past half month, and there are not many who are willing to sell their children!" The trafficker looked anxious, and his expression was very in place: "But I tried my best to persuade, saying that in this troubled world, it is the best policy to leave here with some money. It’s not like there will only be one child. After talking for a long time, it finally made sense that they sell children. Please come in, both of you are inside!”

Xindong frowned slightly.

"Let's see what happens first, there is always a way to get out." Xin Nan advised her in a low voice.

The reason why Xindong was dissatisfied was because he didn't want to meet so many people at once.If a child is really selected here today, shouldn't they all be killed?According to the rules, it has to be like this.

Inside the Buddhist temple.

I saw that the Buddha statue in the temple had already been broken into two parts, and I didn't know where the head went; there was nothing else in the temple except this Buddha statue. Carrying a child; what is more, a pregnant woman came with a baby.

"Be quiet, everyone." The trafficker coughed dryly twice, and faced the group of people: "According to the numbers you drew before, come forward one by one with the children in your arms!" After speaking, he turned his head and moved from behind the temple gate Two chairs came out, I pulled my sleeves and wiped them again: "Both, please sit down!"

This professional demeanor made Xindong Xinnan feel ashamed.

Under such screening, more than an hour passed.

About 20 to [-] children were selected, but the appearance of the first child was really unattractive.Although today's children are still young, it would be good if they grow up; but Xindong feels that some children can't grow up...some have flat noses, which is not allowed, both His Highness and Madam have straight nose bridges; Some have very small eyes, and some have too long faces. All in all, this has not been satisfactory for more than a long time.

The traffickers are in a hurry.

"You two, I've seen so many, but none of them are of my liking?" My good boy, it's a baby boy, it's the end of the family, why are there so many demands!But money can turn ghosts around. Since people spend a lot of money to do things, I must find a way to do it well.

"Is there any more?" Xinnan ignored it.

"There are... there are a dozen children behind. Hey, who is that, crazy woman! It's your turn!"

Following the call of the trafficker, a pregnant woman walked over with a baby in the corner.The woman seemed to be a little demented, with a cloth covering her head, and she followed the footsteps of the traffickers foolishly.

Xinnan only took a cursory look, and said: "Her child is one year old, right? Didn't she agree to have a child that will be seen in the near future, and dare to bring it when she is so old?"

"My lord, although her child is a bit older, I look pretty good..." The trafficker carried the baby boy to Xindong Xinnan: "Look, this child is so fat and fat! , the eyes are black, how angry! Although it is a bit big, but there is a big good, like Baiye crying, it has long been over, so you can avoid the pain of crying every night!"

Xindong took a look at the child. Compared with those babies just now, his appearance was actually much prettier.Turning around, he looked at this stupid woman again, and said in a hoarse voice, "Why are you wearing a headscarf?"

The trafficker smiled wryly: "Don't be surprised, you two. This crazy woman was disfigured in the early years, and now half of her face is very ugly, it's better not to see it."

Xinnan just gave him an indifferent look.

"Okay, I'll open it."

The trafficker had been entangled with the crazy woman for a long time before he took off the scarf. This scene was indeed shocking.It should have been corroded and damaged, half of the face's flesh was wrinkled into a pile, and the facial features could not be distinguished.Xindong felt a little heavy, and wanted to look away, but found something else on this face.

Xinnan understood, and nodded to the traffickers.

The trafficker hurriedly agreed happily, knowing that the two of them had decided to take this crazy woman's baby.After sending some money to everyone present, they urged them to leave.

The crazy woman didn't know what was going on, she held her child with a dull expression on her face.

With the other hand, he caressed his bulging belly.

According to what the trafficker said, this crazy woman was not crazy before, and she was a lady from a rich family in the town, and she was not bad looking.In the 15th year of Antong, that is, the year before last, the family betrothed her to the only son of another rich family, and she was living a good life.It's just that from the beginning of the war, the husband's family was bullied by the court and scattered all the family wealth; and this lady's original husband's family moved early and disappeared.

At that time, the girl was screaming every day should not be called ineffective.In order to repay the debt, the husband's family sold her to a brothel.After entering the brothel, the girl was pregnant with the guest's child. At that time, the guest planned to redeem her as a concubine, but no one knew which girl was jealous and ruined her face.

The person who originally wanted to take her as a concubine didn't want her immediately, and the brothel also kicked her out, so she wandered outside alone with her big belly, not long after, she went crazy.

After ten months of pregnancy, she gave birth to the child.At that time, the war had started, and there were many more gangsters on the street; although her appearance was destroyed, she was still a beautiful girl even when she covered her face. The violence caused her to become pregnant again now.

Some people shun her and treat her as a plague god; some people pity her for being bullied and take care of her and her son.I don't know if it is God's blessing, but she has survived until today.

Xindong Xinnan couldn't help but feel a tingle in his heart when he heard this.

"She has a baby in her womb, and it has been several months."

"About eight months."

Later, the human trafficker in the town disappeared somehow. Some people said that he made money and went to other places.Or only God knows, he died in a business, under the moonlight of a sale of a baby boy.

Xindong Xinnan secretly returned to Kyoto with the crazy woman and her son, and recalled all the hidden guards who were looking for outside.

This matter can be concluded.

Xindong recalled the first time he saw this crazy woman that day.

Recalling that ugly face, the other half was not hurt.This is a very dangerous bet, but this group of hidden guards decided to take a gamble.

Just because of those eyes that look like Zi Sang Yu.