The King of Liang, the feudal lords outside the town, and the generals inside

After dinner, Bai Yu and Yan Zun went back to the inn.Bai Yu was about to fall asleep after taking a bath, when he heard two knocks on the door, he walked over and asked, "Who is it?"

Ruan Haoyue's voice came from outside, "Young Master Bai, I really feel guilty for interrupting you, but I have some important things to say, may I?"

Bai Yu said: "Then please wait a moment, girl, I will put on my outer robe."

After a while, Bai Yu opened the door and let Ruan Haoyue in.

Ruan Haoyue sat down, holding a scroll in his hand.Bai Yu lit two more candles on the table, and said, "Miss, please tell me."

Ruan Haoyue stared at Baiyu intently by the candlelight for a while, her flat brows gradually frowned.After a while, she said: "Like, it's really too similar."

"Like who?" Bai Yu wondered.

Ruan Haoyue put the scroll on the table and spread it out. On it was a young woman dressed in a moon palace dress, which was quite beautiful.She has a clean body and her hair is like a cloud.The crescent eyebrows are swept lightly, and the lotus face is slightly even.Light and light, a fairy beyond the real thing, elegant and natural, with unspeakable gentleness and gracefulness in his eyebrows and eyes, but he looks familiar.

Bai Yu looked at it for a while, then wondered, "This girl really looks like me, who is she?"

Ruan Haoyue was stunned, and slowly said: "This is the first emperor's empress Shuyuan. Does the young master know her?"

"I've heard a little bit that others say she is a demon concubine who brings disaster to the country and the people."

Ruan Haoyue asked again: "During the meal just now, I heard from the young master that I was an orphan since I was a child and was raised by the master. So, do you know when is your birthday?"

Bai Yu thought for a while and said, "I don't know too well, it seems to be autumn, maybe around August or September? — I never celebrate my birthday."

"August and September..." Ruan Haoyue murmured to herself, holding her breath, and her breathing gradually became more and more obvious, "Yes, it's September, and my mother came back at the beginning of September."

Her eyes were bright, and she looked at Bai Yu eagerly, "That jade pendant was given to you by someone else, right?"

Bai Yu followed her gaze, looked at his jade pendant, and suddenly remembered that Chunyu Xuan and Yan Zun also often set their eyes on his jade pendant, with strange eyes.

"About ten years ago, Master took me to practice on Ziyang Mountain. There was a man in his fifties who brought a boy about my age to Ziyang Mountain to find my master. I was only six years old at that time. I know what they are going to do, and I don’t know who they are. The boy was playful and fell on the back mountain and injured him. I carried him back. After that, he gave me this jade pendant and urged him to I put it away, and I have to take it if I don’t want my life. After they left, I asked my master what was going on. Unexpectedly, my master almost cried when he saw this jade pendant. He took a red string and tied it around my neck. In clothes, I only wore it around my waist when I grew up."

"This is everything I know about this jade pendant." Bai Yu was silent for a moment, and said, "Does the girl know anything? My life experience."

Ruan Haoyue let out a sigh of relief, and said: "That poisonous woman is like seeing an evil ghost when she sees Empress Shuyuan, and she will definitely make everyone related to her immortal. How dare you go to Beijing?"

Bai Yu asked curiously, "Who is the poisonous woman you are talking about?"

Ruan Haoyue paused, clenched her silver teeth, as if uttering the most obscene words from her mouth, and said word by word: "The present empress dowager."

Bai Yu was shocked, "Why did you say that, Miss?"

Ruan Haoyue's complexion was extremely ugly, "Master, I don't know. Although Jiyue and I have the same father, we have different mothers. Her biological mother is my father's wife, while mine is my father's concubine. My mother was not beautiful. , my father never liked her at all, he just got me on a whim, and never asked about our mother and daughter. At the beginning, my father didn't even give her the title of concubine, and she was weak after giving birth to me. We couldn't do much work, so our mother and daughter stayed at my uncle's house. Later, my aunt didn't want to and wanted to drive us out. At that time, Empress Shuyuan had a wedding, and the late emperor recruited women who had given birth in the country to serve in the palace. Then choose the good one to be a wet nurse. The mother had no choice but to enter the palace as a slave. Because of her gentle temperament and quick hands and feet, she was very popular with Empress Shuyuan, and Empress Shuyuan often rewarded her with some money. At home. Because of this, I feel better at my uncle's house."

"At that time, I was still young, just over six years old. One day my mother suddenly came back and brought back this set of scrolls and a bag of gold and silver. She said that Empress Shuyuan was very kind to her. Now Empress Shuyuan and the little prince She died unjustly, she was going to defend her mother, please take good care of me. Uncle insisted on not letting her go, and finally stopped her. But the next day, a group of soldiers broke into the house, and without a word I took my mother away, and she never came back. I found out later that all the servants who served Empress Shuyuan were killed by that poisonous woman."

Bai Yu was fascinated by this, and said, "I've also heard that this Empress Shuyuan treats you kindly, and the servants who served her all praised her for being kind. But if this is the case, why did she die unjustly? "

Ruan Haoyue sighed slightly, as if she couldn't bear to look back, "My mother's life is hard. Before the little prince was born, the late emperor died suddenly, so that the whole court was covered by the empress dowager. The late emperor had three princesses, but there was only one prince born by the empress dowager. Naturally, there is nothing wrong with it." But if the son of Empress Shuyuan is born safely, the throne can be discussed. Do you think the queen mother would like anyone to threaten her son's throne in the slightest? What's more, empress Shuyuan entered the palace Being favored by the late Emperor, the Empress Dowager has long regarded her as a thorn in her side, wishing she could cook and eat her, so how could she let her son go?"

Bai Yu sighed, and said: "I heard that the little prince died at birth, it's really pitiful."

Ruan Haoyue pinched the table fiercely with five fingers, resisted the trembling of her fingertips, and said softly: "No, Empress Shuyuan clearly gave birth to two princes, and they were both alive when they were born!"

Bai Yu was extremely surprised, "Then why..."

"The empress covered one of them to death with her own hands, and gave the body to the queen mother to see, while the other was sent out of the palace by her confidants. She herself was buried with the late emperor by the queen mother's order, and she was nailed into a coffin and buried alive. Calculate the time, that The little prince who survived by luck is now exactly 16 years old. My mother came to my uncle's house on the sixth day of September 16 years ago, and Empress Shuyuan gave birth the day before."

After a moment of silence, Bai Yu's hands gradually began to tremble.

"The person who gave you the jade pendant is the current sage. The man in his [-]s is the emperor Jingrang, the emperor's grandfather." Ruan Haoyue said again, "My lord, your master's Taoist name is Zhengzheng?"

Bai Yuhun nodded absently.

"That's a match." Ruan Haoyue looked at Bai Yu and said slowly, "Qizheng Sanren was originally a close friend of Empress Shuyuan. He changed his name and surname after he had you, son, and came out of Taoism."

Bai Yu's heart suddenly brightened, as if countless snow-bright lightnings split the black-black sky, and suddenly became clear.

Many small questions that he couldn't figure out before overlapped and intertwined, Bai Yu's heart was like a wheel, and countless thoughts rolled through his mind like thunder, and finally a voice told him: "You are the son of the late emperor, the younger brother of the current emperor, Your mother, concubine and brother died at the hands of the queen mother, and now the queen mother wants to kill you. What should you do?"

Ruan Haoyue answered this question for him, "Young master, for more than ten years, I have been thinking about avenging my mother and cutting that poisonous woman to death. You hate her too, don't you? Let me help you, Help you get back what is rightfully yours."

Tempted for a moment, Bai Yu pinched herself severely, "No, I won't do it. There is nothing in this world that should belong to someone. I just want to live a good life now."

Ruan Haoyue still didn't give up, "When you arrive in Shangjing, it's like being in the hands of that poisonous woman. How can you live well? If you don't have power and can't compete with the poisonous woman, then you just sit and wait for death!"

Bai Yu said decisively: "Life and death are determined by destiny, wealth and honor are in the sky, no matter what, I will admit it."

Ruan Haoyue said anxiously: "My lord! The princes throughout the ages have risked their lives to fight for the throne, but why do you treat it like dirt? The reason why people want to climb is to get what they want. What are you doing now? No, you can only be bullied and manipulated by others, are you willing to do so?"

Bai Yu stared at her for a moment, then prevaricated: "This kind of thing is not about discussing what to have for dinner. It is a matter that often concerns the lives of many people. You have to allow me some time to think about it. How can I be in such a hurry? I promise."

Ruan Haoyue was stunned for a moment, then slightly dejected, "Okay, send someone to tell me when the young master has made up his mind. Yan Zun knows where I am."

She got up and said, "I'll keep this portrait, it's not convenient for you to carry it."

After sending Ruan Haoyue out, Bai Yu closed the door and leaned on it, only then did he feel the shock and panic that he didn't have time to experience just now.He only felt that all the strength in his body was drained, his heart was beating so violently that it hurt slightly, his mind was in chaos, he just thought in a daze, what Ruan Haoyue said was right, he should have the best thing in the world Everything, even if he can't be on the Ninth Five-Year Plan, he is at least a noble prince with golden branches and jade leaves.But now...

How can you not hate it?He was poor when he was a child, he often ate his last meal without a second meal, his clothes were torn, and he had no parents around, so other children made fun of him for being fatherless and a wild child out of rocks.He was very angry and sad, but he couldn't beat others, so he went back to find his master in disgrace, but the master could only look at him helplessly, and said, "You have parents, they are all in heaven, and they will protect you."

But no matter how Bai Yu asked, who are his parents, why are they in the sky, and why didn't they come to accompany him, the master always talked about him and never answered him even a single word.

One day, the master finally told him that his parents were killed by bad people.

Resentment gnawed silently in his body like an ant, and became more profound as time went by.A thought came to Bai Yu's mind, what would happen if he listened to Ruan Haoyue?However, his flash of dark thought was immediately suppressed by another voice.

That voice told him not to be an enemy of Yan Xun.