Gu Xichao picked up the teacup in front of him and said with a smile:

"With Zhu Qingyun's prudence and ordinary snails out of the hole, he naturally cannot deceive him, but everyone has the person he trusts the most. In front of the person he trusts the most, no matter how cunning the fox is, his vigilance will be minimized.

And you have Miss Long'er on your side. If you want to use a trick, no one can prevent it."

Zhu Yushou frowned slightly and said:

"The person Zhu Qingyun trusts the most is his son Zhu Yuchun, and the great elder Zhu Qingfeng, who is far above him, but is still loyal to him.

But Zhu Qingfeng is dead. If he suddenly appears again, Zhu Qingyun will definitely be alert. Zhu Yuchun has been by Zhu Qingyun for a while, and he may not have any chance!"

"Young Master is such a bad word."

Gu Xichao smiled and analyzed:

"It is true that Zhu Qingfeng and Zhu Yuchun are Zhu Qingyun's closest people, but their relatives and confidants may not be consistent. As a person in power, he is naturally wary of his brothers and sons, because these two types of people are most likely to replace him."

"The relatives are not trustworthy?"

Zhu Yushou was slightly stunned and nodded immediately.

Indeed, many emperors in history trusted foreign ministers and even eunuchs far more than clan relatives or even princes. The reason was to consider their own rights.

Gu Xichao continued: "If the head of the family is compared to an emperor, then who would the emperor trust the most?"

"I understand." Zhu Yushou's eyes flashed with inspiration and said:

"What the emperor trusts most is naturally the person who controls the imperial guards in the imperial city for him, because it will never be entrusted to the hands of the emperor's own wealth and life.

Therefore, the person Zhu Qingyun trusts the most should be Zhu Qingli, the general manager of the Zhu Mansion’s guards.”

Gu Xichao nodded with a smile and said, "If you speculate based on common sense, this should be the case."

"I'll go back and arrange it now. I'll take a good rest for you and leave first."

Zhu Yushou patted Gu Xichao's shoulder with satisfaction, and got up and left.

...

In the evening of the next day, it was just dawn, and a fast horse ran into the city and rushed straight to Mengyu Villa.

Before Mengyu Villa, two guards stopped him.

But on the back of the horse, a middle-aged man turned over and got off the horse, but staggered and fell to the ground.

He was covered in blood, his face was extremely pale, and he was obviously seriously injured.

The two guards quickly stepped forward and helped him up, but saw the man take out a black token from his arms and said weakly:

"I am Zhu Qingli, the chief supervisor of the Zhu family's guards. I want to see our heads. Take me to see our heads."

Seeing this, the two guards quickly helped him into Mengyu Villa.

Not long after, Zhu Qingyun hurried to the guest room of Mengyu Villa. When Zhu Qingli, who was covered in blood, saw him, struggled to get up to salute.

Zhu Qingyun hurriedly stepped forward and helped him up, saying, "Qingli, what's going on? Who hurt you like this?"

Zhu Qingli shook his head and choked:

"What my subordinates suffered was just skin trauma and there was no major injury. However, there was an internal strife in the Zhu family. Several guest elders summoned their disciples to rebel. The head of the family quickly rushed back to Jiangning City to take charge of the overall situation. Otherwise, our Zhu family's foundation for hundreds of years would be destroyed."

"What?"

Zhu Qingyun's face changed drastically and he hurriedly said:

"What the hell is going on? Explain it carefully!"

"Ahem cough cough..."

Zhu Qingli coughed in pain and said, "Yesterday afternoon, the Great Elder suddenly rushed back to Jiangning City with wounds and found his subordinates, saying that you were in danger in Guangling City, so he asked his subordinates to lead the guards of Zhu's mansion to support him."

"Great Elder, are you saying you saw the Great Elder?" Zhu Qingyun's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he grabbed Zhu Qingli's hand and asked repeatedly.

"No, that great elder is fake!"

Zhu Qingli shook his head with a sad face and said, "I heard that the head of the family was in trouble, and without saying a word, he immediately selected the elite guards to come to rescue him.

Unexpectedly, shortly after leaving the city, they were sneak attacked by a group of disciples led by Dong Tianbao and the deadly scholar. They had a yellow poisonous smoke, which was very powerful. After the guards were poisoned, they could not resist it at all. Just as we were defeated one after another, the fake elder took the opportunity to sneak attack his subordinates.

My subordinates were seriously injured and fought to escape the siege. Then they rushed to Guangling City at a fast pace."

Zhu Qingyun asked anxiously: "What's going on in the Zhu Mansion now?"

Zhu Qingli said: "After the subordinates were injured, they thought their subordinates would die. They once said proudly that they would lead their subordinates and the elite guards out of the city to cut off the people loyal to the head of the family one by one.

When Dong Tianbao and the deadly scholar attacked their subordinates, Zhang Xiao, Chen Qun, Cheng Youdao and Nie Li had already taken advantage of the emptiness of the Zhu Mansion and captured the Zhu Mansion.

They wanted to kill all the elders and deacons who refused to be loyal to Zhu Yushou and replace them with them.

In this way, when you return to the Zhu family, everything has changed a lot, and it is too late."

"It's extremely messed up."

Zhu Qingyun's face turned pale and said in a cold voice: "Where is Zhu Qinggang? As the elder of the Zhantang, there was such a civil strife in the Zhu family. Why didn't he lead Zhantang to help?"

Zhu Qingli smiled bitterly and said, "It was the rule you set by the head of the family. The token of the Zhan Hall is divided into two, and the elder of the Zhan Hall is in charge, and the other half is in the hands of the head of the family.

On weekdays, the half token of the elder Zhantang is only in command and training, and can only mobilize less than ten people. If you want to mobilize the entire Zhantang, you must combine the half token with the token in the elder Zhantang’s hand to get it done.”

Zhu Qingyun slapped his forehead in pain and sat down dejectedly. Zhu Qingfeng, who had skipped the Gangqi realm in the cultivation level of the marrow cleansing realm, inherited the position of the head of the family and became the only sect leader in the Seven Star Alliance with only the cultivation level of the marrow cleansing realm.

Naturally, many people within the Zhu family were dissatisfied, and he could not fully trust his subordinates.

Especially the eldest brother Zhu Qingfeng, who had the opportunity to take the position of head of the family, and Zhu Qinggang, the elder of the Battle Hall who mastered the elite combat power of the Zhu family.

In order to check and balance the forces of Zhantang, Zhu Qingyun took office, formulated some strategies to limit the power of Zhantang elders.

Now at a critical moment, I have become a self-bound hand and foothold. I really regret it.

Zhu Qingli said anxiously:

"The head of the family, for the sake of this, you can only rush back to Jiangning City immediately and mobilize the Zhan Hall to quickly quell the rebellion. Zhu Jiafang can turn the danger into safety."

"Okay, I'll rush back to Jiangning City immediately."

Zhu Qingyun stood up and made a quick decision and said:

"Yuchun, there are three roads from Guangling City to Jiangning City. You can immediately give instructions and let the people in Xuanbing Pavilion close the store immediately, and everyone is divided into three teams and all are rushing back."

"yes!"

Zhu Yuchun bowed to take the order, then hesitated slightly, "Father, which road should we take?"

Zhu Qingyun shook his head and said, "We don't go either. Guangling City is 600 miles away from Jiangning City, and is blocked by Thorn Ridge and Qianqiu Wall in the middle.

Of course, ordinary people can only walk three paths, but with your and my skills, the rarely-traveled thorny ridges and the towering and steep walls of Qianqiu cannot stop you and me.

After the three teams attracted the attention of Zhu Yushou, the father and son, after it was dark, they used the night to cover the city and directly crossed the Thorn Ridge and Qianqiu Wall, returned to Jiangning City, and transferred the Zhantang people to quell the chaos."

"yes!"

Zhu Yuchun took the order and left.

In the evening, it was dark and the new moon was gone. Only the lights hanging on the streets on the ground reflected the sky, but it was too dark.

In Guangling City, two agile figures flew out of Mengyu Villa, passed through the winding streets and alleys, then climbed over an unguarded city wall, and quickly ran towards the forest outside the city.

Thorn Ridge is more than 800 miles long and lies between Guangling City and Jiangning City. It is densely covered with thorns and roads, making it difficult for ordinary people to pass through.

However, these two figures were both possessed of excellent light skills and skills. They were still walking on flat ground among the thorns all over the ground, and were quickly and uncoherent.

"Why is the head of the family so in a hurry?"

A chuckle sounded out of thin air, and the two running figures were shocked, and they quickly stopped and stood on a bush.

Zhu Qingyun looked at the figure on a towering tree in front of him with a blue expression and cursed:

"Zhu Yushou, you ungrateful little thief, the Zhu family has raised you for sixteen years, but you are heartless and betrayed the family."

Zhu Yushou looked indifferent and sneered:

"This is strange. It was the first murderous intent of the head of the family that asked the elder to set up a plan to kill me. Why did the head of the family want to kill me? Can I still have to wait for death?"

Zhu Qingyun gritted his teeth and said:

"So in order to revenge, you asked Dong Tianbao and his friends to gather their friends and attack the Zhu Mansion? That's where you have lived for sixteen years, how can you do it?"

Zhu Yushou smiled and said, "I didn't attack the Zhu Mansion. If I do this, my parents will be the first to spare me. Master, who did you hear me?"

"What?"

Zhu Qingyun was stunned and said in disbelief: "This is impossible, Zhu Qingli cannot lie to me, and no one can pretend to be Zhu Qingli in front of me."

"The Zhu Qingli you met is of course true, and he really cannot lie to you, but we can lie to him!"

Zhu Yushou said while admiring the desperate expression on Zhu Qingyun's face:

"He was only attacked outside Jiangning City, and we cut off his way back to the city, so he had no chance to go back to the city to investigate. All the news, such as besieging Zhu Mansion, and instead, was told by our people.

But after he was seriously injured, he was panicked and believed it was true. Why was the head of the family so wise that he was deceived by such a child's trick of playing house?"

"you……"

Zhu Qingyun's eyes were about to break, and his fingers were trembling at Zhu Yushou, but he couldn't speak.

Since Zhu Qingfeng went to kill Zhu Yushou and never returned, his nerves have been too tight.

When Zhu Qingfeng, who was even a small-scale genital realm, might die at Zhu Yushou's hands, Zhu Qingyun was extremely cautious and afraid of Zhu Yushou.

Zhu Yushou had already had more than once the nightmare of besieging Zhu's mansion and forcing him to give way.
Chapter completed!