by Zhi Bai
He poured the third cup of wine and downed it in one gulp, "What's wrong is that such a powerful figure had gone missing. Swallow King was not worried at all. The Ministry of Rites was already in a frenzy. Even though he had met with Swallow King a few times, Swallow King was still worried, but he did not take the initiative to talk to him. Logically, when Chen Zhongqi and his followers all go missing, Swallow King would definitely dispatch all of his experts to search for them. But Swallow King's order was … All the experts in the Military Department, the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court and the Tiantong Palace are not allowed to act rashly.
Li Yannian looked at An Zheng: "Are you saying that it's strange?"
An Zheng nodded: "It's indeed strange."
However, An Zheng knew in his heart that the moment Swallow King ordered for all the experts to not leave the Fanggu was when those experts from the Da Xi Empire were ambushing him.
Li Yannian continued to speak: "Things were originally like this, when Chen Zhongqi came over with his letter, saying that they had already returned to the Da Xi Empire, we can end it here. Although it's strange, nothing happened. And I, am not involved at all. "
As he drank, his face turned from pale to a little red, "But one day, a wounded person came to the inn and said that he was from Da Xi. He had encountered a demon beast in the Mount Cang Man, and could only escape after a fierce battle. However, he had fainted in the Fanggu. At that time, the people at the relay station quickly sent the news to the Ministry of Rites.
"That person gave me a letter, telling me to personally hand it to Her Majesty. He passed out after handing me the letter. Although he was treated in an emergency, he still died in the end. "
An Zheng clenched his fists inside his sleeves. He knew that the truth would surface soon.
Li Yannian said, "At that time, I was also a little curious. Why did the emissaries from the Da Xi Empire send such an important letter not to the Swallow King, but to the Queen at the time?"
An Zheng asked: So you stole a glance at that letter?
Li Yannian nodded: "This is the beginning of the disaster... I was so curious at the time that I always felt that there was a big secret behind this. Although the envelope was sealed with wax, it was nothing to me. I have been in touch with letters all year round, and it is not difficult to restore the lacquer to its original state. So I found a secret place and opened the letter to read it. "
A look of fear flashed across his eyes: "I really didn't expect that... That secret is so big, so big that I can't bear it. The letter was written by King Da Xi Hui, Chen Zhongqi. He told the empress dowager to get rid of those who knew about it, including … Swallow King! "
An Zheng's heart immediately lit up... Yes, not long after my accident, Swallow King sent someone to bring Mu Changyan back to great swallow.
The more Li Yannian spoke, the more agitated he became. He stood up and trembled as he said, "That bitch, she actually wanted to harm the King! She colluded with the Da Xi family from the inside to destroy my State of Yan … As an official of the great swallow, I cannot sit idly by and do nothing about this matter. But I know that I won't be able to see the Swallow King. Because at that time, the palace had already announced that the Swallow King was severely ill, and the court matters were left to the empress and the old prime minister, Zhuge Yan. My position is low, I am simply unable to enter the Tiantong Palace. "
"At that time, Zhuge Yan's rights were almost taken away, but she was still respected and respected. Furthermore, in the entire imperial court, only he could come to the Swallow King at any time. "So, I told this to Zhuge Yan."
An Zheng's face changed, "So... "A few days ago, Zhuge Yan died."
Li Yannian nodded, his eyes filled with pain: "I was the one who killed the old prime minister, I … When I told the old Prime Minister about this, he went to court the next day. However, Swallow King was surrounded by the empress dowager's men at that time, so it must have been difficult for him to tell Swallow King about this news. Zhuge Yan asked me to reseal the letter and send it to the Embroidery Palace to give it to Empress Su at that time, because the matter of the relay station cannot be concealed. "
"At that time, I had no choice but to seal the book and personally send it to Embroidery Palace. "Because the letter appeared to be intact, there was nothing unusual about it at the time."
When Li Yannian said till this point, he suddenly dropped onto the chair as if he had lost all of his strength. "But who knew that Swallow King still failed to protect him … The day after Zhuge Yan entered the palace, the Swallow King passed away.
Li Yannian's face was filled with grief and indignation, and that rage nearly ignited the sky.
"That slut killed the King just like that."
By the time An Zheng heard this, he had already understood the whole situation. Chen Zhongqi wanted to kill him, but he didn't dare to do it in the Da Xi Empire. That was why he asked Daxi Shenghuang on purpose to send him to State of Yan. When he reached State of Yan, he immediately sent someone to inform his that he was in danger. At that time, the Sacred Emperor was preparing for a huge matter and could not send his clone to go personally, so he immediately informed An Zheng.
This was because the Sacred Emperor knew that amongst the ministers, An Zheng and Chen Zhongqi had the best relationship in private.
All of this is intertwined... Now, the State of Yan's empress dowager, Su Qingnuan, wanted to eliminate all the loops in the State of Yan. Swallow King was the biggest link, followed by Zhuge Yan and Li Yannian who only had the smallest link.
Chapter 85 - Dare to Dare
An Zheng didn't really understand one thing, but that wasn't the main point. The empress dowager Su Qingnuan had dared to kill Swallow King at that time, so why did she wait until a few years before starting to clean up the people who knew about her? He was curious, but for An Zheng, the most important thing was to confirm who his enemies are.
An Zheng calmed down and pondered for a moment. He guessed that most of the people who had been cleared away were those who the Empress Dowager Su was not sure if they knew or not. Although Zhuge Yan entered the palace that day, no one knew whether he told the Swallow King or not. Even if he said it, Zhuge Yan would definitely not expose himself. Furthermore, the Swallow King was murdered the next day, so Su Qingnuan had kept Zhuge Yan here until now.
At that time, all the people who knew about the incident had probably been eliminated. Or perhaps, for some reason, Su Qingnuan had to wait more than four years before starting to make her move.
Li Yannian was already drunk and fell asleep on the table. An Zheng did not wake him up. Instead, he found a set of clothes and put it on Li Yannian.
An Zheng walked out of the room alone and sat on the ground, staring at the moon in a daze.
His original intention was to approach Li Yannian and see if he could uncover some of what had happened at that time. The result was unexpected and obtained a lot of truth, but An Zheng was not at ease at all. Because the closer he got to the truth, the bigger the split in his heart became.
Why Chen Zhongqi?
An Zheng had never been able to understand this question. He and Chen Zhongqi were true good friends, and could be considered as brothers. Back then, when An Zheng had just risen from Ming Fa Si to become a small law enforcer, they had bumped into each other. At that time, Chen Zhongqi had concealed his identity as a prince and followed behind An Zheng to help him with his case.
Maybe, at that time, Chen Zhongqi's life was just too boring. Following a small law enforcer to handle a case was a novel and exciting experience for him. But after a few perils, the two of them had become best friends.
He was clearly someone who could have relied on his life, but why did he suddenly have the urge to kill?
An Zheng lay down on the ground and stared at the sky in a daze.
It was unknown when Qu Liuxi walked over and sat beside him, then extended her hand to hold his.
An Zheng was slightly startled,
then he laughed.
This was the first time Qu Liuxi took the initiative to express her feelings. Even though everyone knew that she liked An Zheng, she deliberately avoided this question. She took the initiative to hold An Zheng's hand because she felt his sadness and an unexplainable helplessness.
"Why aren't you asleep yet?"
An Zheng asked.
Qu Liuxi said: "If you don't come back, I won't be able to sleep. When you came back, you were crying in your room, and I knew you had something to do with it. and then saw you go into a daze by yourself, so I came over to sit with you for a while. "
Her voice was light, but An Zheng felt her heart warm.
"A long time ago, when you told Du Shoushou that you were a bestowal holder, I had started to look through the records in this area."
Qu Liuxi lowered her head and looked at the ground, her hair fluttering down, hiding half of her face. Under the moonlight, her face was as beautiful and quiet as a flower that had quietly bloomed in the night sky.
"I collected a lot of books on this, and one of them said... "In truth, the Inheritor of the Heavens is not an Inheritor of the Heavens."
Qu Liuxi's hand tightened, and An Zheng could feel the warmth of her palm. "I was very worried about you at that time, and I felt that there must have been some kind of hatred or something very heavy in your heart, causing you to be very, very tired. It was said in the book that divine bestowment was a transfer of the soul. In truth, most of the Inscriptionists were dead, their souls dead. The reason why they were able to know so many things they didn't know before after they woke up is because another soul had entered the body. "
"And anyone who is able to search for a new body with an indestructible soul is extremely powerful, so they will understand many things. This is why, after the Inheritor wakes up, he is very different from before. "
Her hands were tightening, and she was clearly nervous. Qu Liuxi had never been a person who was good at expressing her feelings, but at this moment, she mustered all of her courage.
"I don't know if you are, and I don't want to know. In my heart, you are just An Zheng, a simple and simple An Zheng. Regardless of whether or not you bear any hatred, or whether or not you have any secrets that you cannot tell me, you are still An Zheng to me, the An Zheng who would risk his life to protect us. "
She looked at An Zheng and said seriously: "In my eyes, you have never made any difference to me."
An Zheng also tightly held onto Qu Liuxi's hand. He didn't know why, but at this very moment, he wanted to tightly hold onto her hand and not let go.
"I just want to tell you not to work too hard."
Qu Liuxi suddenly lay down on the ground beside An Zheng. The two were so close together that the light fragrance on her body floated into An Zheng's nose, and then, it lingered for a long time in his mind.
Qu Liuxi looked at the sky and said, "What has already passed, to pursue an outcome, is not a big deal. But if you really fail to live up to your current self in order to pursue the results, it's not worth it. "
She did not understand An Zheng very much, and the reason she said all these was only because of her speculation regarding the bestowal person in the book, so her worry was not towards An Zheng. It was because she wanted to say what she had said to An Zheng a long time ago.
"I …" None of us want to lose you. "
The pause behind "I" made Qu Liuxi's face turn slightly red.
An Zheng laughed, and used his other hand to rub at Qu Liuxi's bangs: "Don't think anymore nonsense, you're right, I'm just An Zheng, your An Zheng. "Don't worry, I won't do anything out of line."
Qu Liuxi nodded her head: "Promise me that you'll think of another person before you do anything. Think about if this person has any effect on you, and whether she'll calm you down."
An Zheng asked: "Who?"
Qu Liuxi bit her lips: "I …"
Then she stood up and hurried back to her room.
An Zheng sat up, and looked at Qu Liuxi who was running far away and suddenly felt a sense of guilt. The girl was so focused on himself that it might affect her life. However, An Zheng was unable to explain anything and could not use an ice-cold method to hurt the girl.
In the distance, at the door of Gu Qianye's room, Gu Qianye who was holding onto a jug of wine had a complicated expression on her face.
She turned around and closed the door. Then, she drank all the wine in the pot, "I don't care, I'm not angry, I just feel that guy is pitiful when he's alone, that's why I went to pity him. I just found a pot of wine, so I slowed down a bit … AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! What am I regretting, regretting that I went to find a bottle of wine? "Yeah, what should I do to find a bottle of wine?"
She staggered a few steps and then threw herself onto the bed. She dug a hole in the bed's pile of pillows and buried herself in it. "I'm so sleepy, I want to sleep … "Sleep well, dream well, dream well of handsome men."
An Zheng laid on the ground alone for a good while, before he thought seriously about what Qu Liuxi had said.
That's right, he wanted revenge, but he couldn't blindly seek revenge. He couldn't throw his rebirth into the fire just because of revenge. Now that he had everyone in the Heavenly Awakening Sect, he had responsibilities. Although these responsibilities were a lot smaller compared to his responsibilities as the head of the Ming Fa Si, they were much more genuine, realistic and warm.
When An Zheng was around, Ming Fa Si was Da Xi's law enforcement machine. Because An Zheng was a cold and merciless machine, he had no emotions in his eyes. Even though Tian Haogong's Xu Meidai repeatedly expressed goodwill to him, he still pretended that he did not know anything.
But this time, he discovered that he had changed.
He liked to joke around with Du Shoushou and Xiao Qi Dao, he was so happy that he couldn't even close his legs … The mouth. He also liked Qu Liuxi's childhood sweethearts, liked Gu Qianye's eccentricities, liked Old Huo and his mannerism.
Everything was different now. The original An Zheng took eliminating evil as his responsibility. He felt that if he was born like this, death would also be the same.
Maybe it was because of the method of death that exceeded his expectations, which changed An Zheng. Or perhaps, the interactions he had with Du Shoushou and the others all these years had changed him?
An Zheng did not want to pursue an answer.
Thinking up to this point, he realized that he was truly affected by Qu Liuxi. Just a moment ago, he had been feeling annoyed and angry at himself. However, thinking about the happy days he had spent together with everyone, he instantly expelled all his worries and anger in an instant. The killing intent that had been faintly rising in his heart quietly disappeared without a trace.
Actually, when An Zheng was lying on the ground and watching the moon, he was trying his best to take deep breaths and suppress his killing intent. At the moment he found out the truth, he almost couldn't resist rushing out of his room to kill a member of the Su Clan. But the moment Qu Liuxi held onto his hand, this killing intent was immediately dissolved by a gentle power.
An Zheng stood up, took a deep breath, and then returned to his room to sleep.
Gu Qianye struggled out of her blanket and walked to the window to see An Zheng unexpectedly return to his room with light steps. She rolled his eyes as he muttered to himself, "Truly heartless." Then, she walked backwards and fell asleep on his bed, more heartless than anyone else.
Just at this time, the's Empress Dowager Su Qingnuan was furious.
"A bunch of trash!"
She smashed the jade cup in her hand, "It's only to get rid of the head official who can't even cultivate. Killing a scholar, more than ten people and a magical beast … It was actually wiped clean by someone! "
Su Zong, who had been promoted to general, lowered his head and said, "Empress Dowager, please rest assured that I will send more people to investigate this matter thoroughly tonight. If the sky is dark and t
he city gate is not opened, Li Yannian will not be able to escape. As long as he is still in the city, this subject will definitely dig him out. "
Su Qingnuan was silent for a while, before she said: "Tonight, the best thing to do is to complete the task. Those people who died in Li Yannian's family, as well as the people from Fanggu and the Ministry of Justice, have already started a fire. If they couldn't find Li Yannian before dawn, then this matter could be classified as a feud by the Fanggu, they could just arrange a random enemy family for Li Yannian. Tomorrow morning, arrange for our men at all the city gates to stare fixedly at Li Yannian and prevent him from leaving the Fanggu! "
"This subject understands!"
Su Zong turned and left, his footsteps very hurried.
He had only killed a small official of the fifth rank, yet he had caused such a commotion, which made Su Qingnuan extremely furious. Killing Zhuge Yan did not cause much trouble, yet a mere Fifth-rank official caused half of the people in Fanggu to not be able to sleep at night.
Su Qingnuan turned around and saw the young man, who was trembling a little due to fear, lying on the soft patch. She sighed in relief before walking over: "It's none of your business, there's no need to be so afraid."
It was a very beautiful man. He had a strong and slender figure, chest muscles, stomach muscles, and a sharp angle. Most importantly, a certain part of him was so big that it was somewhat outrageous.
Empress Dowager Su laid down in the arms of the young man and gently caressed that thing with his hand. "Look, it was completely terrified … "What a pity."
When she said it was a pity, she really felt it.
This was her favorite one, but unfortunately, she heard about Li Yannian's incident, so she could only kill him.
