Zhu Yunjiu was on the nine-story pavilion and brought a Xiangfei couch from somewhere. He was leaning on the Xiangfei couch and closed his eyes to rest. When he heard his subordinates report, he narrowed his eyes listlessly.

A few days ago, Qinghong came to her and said that her body had been almost conditioned for a while. He was going to leave for a while and went to Qingfeng Cliff to see Ye Yingxiang, and happened to find the child who had been separated for many years. Zhu Yun had not stopped him for a long time, so he left the next day after he finished speaking.

Qing Hong was speechless. He didn't realize how he was when he was there, but even though he knew that he would come back sooner or later, Zhu Yunjiu still felt a little relieved.

While he was drowsy, a subordinate came to her and said that a man named Li Qianchong had sent a visit. Zhu Yunjiu was so excited that he jumped off the couch chair. He didn't care about putting on his shoes, ran to the subordinate barefoot, grabbed his shoulder and shook it back and forth, "Is it true? Chong'er will come to see me in a while?"

The subordinate who was passing the message nodded and cried in his heart. I still remember the last time the poster touched a person's chest in the building, but later, somehow the leader of the Sect Yi found out, and a piece of meat on the man's chest was dug down and fed to the dog that afternoon. I guess that not long after, my two arms would be ruined...

Zhu Yunjiu was very excited and did not notice that the little subordinate in front of him looked as sad as after eating Coptis chinensis. After asking clearly, he flew out of the house.

She hadn't paid attention to her clothes for many years, and this time she found four or five maids to dress up and dress up her clothes, and took out the clothes in the closet one by one to try. Sometimes she felt that the cuffs of the clothes were not big enough, and sometimes she felt that the color of the piece looked old, and she didn't look good enough no matter how she dressed up. After choosing for a long time, she finally got dressed up, but she felt that she was old and would be laughed at by her son. She was nervous and unable to control herself, and her uneasy appearance looked like a young daughter of eighteen or nineteen years old.

The little maid she found kept comforting and persuading her, and then she quietly listened to a few words, especially because she was worried, and looked at the bronze mirror again and again, which was even more nervous than a big girl getting married.

Zhu Yunjiu was originally exquisite and beautiful. Although he was nearly forty years old, he was well maintained and there was no trace of time on his face. Later, when encountering changes, his temperament became lazy and perverted, moody. His pair of beautiful eyes like cutters were always filled with vague sinisterness, which rubbed the softness of her body a little and replaced it with sharpness.

Zhu Yunjiu was dressed in a luxurious and elegant dress. The Fengyun Pavilion was cleaned up in a spotless and refreshing manner, with all kinds of fresh and exquisite snacks, all of which were Li Qianchong's favorite food when he was a child. Even so, she was still afraid that her son had changed his taste for so many years and asked someone to go outside and bought all the foods named by the imperial capital, which was grander than welcoming the emperor, and she herself went to the palace to wait early.

For an entire hour, Zhu Yunjiu looked at the door without blinking, and he was calm on his face, but the sharp-eyed maid found that the handkerchief in her hand had been twisted out of shape by her fingers.

Listening to Wuyi's previous description, his son had grown into a man who stood up to the top, showing his calmness in every move, but his calm and composed spirit made people dare not act rashly. Li Qianchong loved riding horses when she was young. She imagined her son riding a tall horse and seeing her handsome appearance for a while, she couldn't help but chuckled gently, and her heart became even more anxious.

Baizhao waited and waited for a while. Finally, it was the time that Li Qianchong agreed upon. Just a sound of singing and coming. Zhu Yunjiu felt like he had passed the electric shock. His body trembled heavily. The next second he stood up and couldn't wait to run towards the door. Before the guard outside opened the door, she opened the door herself.

There were no tall horses outside the door, only four people were carrying a sedan chair with blue water cloud patterns, and next to them was a dark blue dress... uh... so light and cold... Is it a woman? The woman was pushing a wheelchair in her hand.

At first sight, Zhu Yunjiu's smile froze. In my memory, my son was lively and active since he was a child. He dared to ride a horse at a young age. He was the most disliked of those men riding in sedan chairs. Whenever he saw him, he would sneer that he had no manliness and had grown a man's body. Although he was not as tall as a horse's legs at that time.

Why has your sex changed now?

The visitor gently put down the sedan chair, Li Yi stepped forward, and said to the person in the sedan chair, "It's here." After that, he lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, carried the person inside out and put it on a wheelchair.

The moment he fell into the sedan chair, Zhu Yunjiu felt as if he had fallen into an ice hell, his whole body became cold, and he almost fell to the ground with an unstable stand.

The person sitting in a wheelchair could vaguely see his childhood appearance, but he was no longer as energetic as he was when he was a child. A head of dry and dark gray hair flashed with dazzling light in the sun, and a few strands had turned completely white, and his face looked more like the cold winter snow, pale and almost transparent, lifeless. Two thin and weak outlines could be vaguely seen under the outer robe. Zhu Yunjiu was not sure whether there were any skin bones under the two soft trouser legs.

I suddenly recalled the painting Wuyi gave me that day. The painting was Li Qianchong's vague back, his hair was gray and black, and he didn't look like a young man with high spirits. She thought it was not good, so she asked him to draw it again, but he seemed to say sadly.

——It’s the same how many times I draw it.

At that time, he probably knew the facts, but when he came back, he didn't mention a word.

Zhu Yun suddenly felt sad and screamed "Chong'er" and couldn't help but pounce on him and started crying.

At this time, the people in Jiuli Tower were all distant by Zhu Yunjiu, and there were only people brought by Li Qianchong around. Li Qianchong retreated everyone, leaving only one Li Yi, asking her to support Zhu Yunjiu into the pavilion first, and then she followed behind with the wheels of the chair.

Entering the pavilion, Li Qianchong's eyes swept through the exquisite food in the pavilion, and a bitterness flashed across his calm face.

After waiting for so long and searching for more than ten years, I finally got news about my son, but I didn't expect that he was disabled. Zhu Yunjiu felt so distressed that he was so painful that he could not even say a single word. And Li Qianchong, since he saw his mother, he saw the deep and terrifying scars on her hand, and his eyes suddenly became harsh and harsh.

When Li Yi arrived at the place, he was not infected by the emotions of the mother and son. He said coldly, "I'll go out first" and walked out. Li Qianchong was not in the mood to joke with her anymore.

"Chong'er..." Zhu Yunjiu gently stroked Li Qianchong's cheek and said two words. He just held back and burst into tears again, and he burst into tears in an instant.

Li Qianchong's eyes were sour and he stayed silently with her for a while. He waited until she was almost crying before he comforted her and persuaded her. After a long time, both of them calmed down.

Zhu Yunjiu asked with red eyes: "Chong'er, what happened after my mother left the mansion? Tell me, what's wrong with your legs... what..." Zhu Yunjiu's eyes fell under his wide trousers, and there was another sadness.

Li Qianchong did not hide it from her. After years of past events, he was already calm and said slowly: "Not a month after my mother left, the news of her father's communication with the enemy and treason came from the top. All the correspondence was full of letters. The evidence was as strong as a mountain, but his father's charge was confirmed in just a few days. Another month later, a conviction was sent from the palace, and together with the emperor's imperial edict and the empress dowager's imperial edict were passed to the Marquis' Mansion. He sued the crime, enfeoffed the mansion, and the house was confiscated. All the people related to his father could not escape. The men of the Marquis' mansion were exiled, and the women were taken into the army to become military prostitutes. The relatives of the Marquis' mansion were temporarily detained in prison and waited for the death. All the other tribesmen were beheaded and displayed in public three days, and none of them escaped."

In just a few sentences, he passed the treason case that shocked the world. Zhu Yunjiu was frightened when he heard it, and finally shook his head repeatedly, "Mr. Li is a mother. Sometimes he seems unkind, but he is loyal to the emperor and patriotism. Even if he betrays the entire Li clan, he will not be able to do anything treason."

Li Qianchong's eyes flashed, and then he turned to the side. His pupils were as faint as a thousand-year-old well, and he could not see his emotions in his heart.

"Mom, my father was so wronged by you back then and ended up like that. Don't you hate him?"

"I hate him." Zhu Yunjiu replied without thinking: "But I am not defending him, but telling the truth. Your father was born in the army and had a strong temperament and could not be betrayed. However, he is loyal to the emperor and patriotism, and caring for the world is true. He is worthy of the people of the world and the emperor's kingdom, but I am sorry to my mother, and I am sorry to you. My mother is completely ruthless and willing to kill him with her own hands, but she does not want to wrongly accuse him."

"My son understands." After a while, Li Qianchong said lightly.

"What about your legs? Your father promised me back then that as long as I die, he would never treat you badly. I promised him that he did. Although he survived by accident, what's going on with your legs?"

Li Qianchong's eyes stayed on his trouser legs for a moment, and a gloom came out from the corner of his lips. "After my mother was executed, my father did seek medical treatment for the child, but later he was in prison and his father was imprisoned, so he did not continue to see the doctor."

Zhu Yunjiu's tears were rustling, feeling distressed and regretful. If she had known that one day, she would never have promised her husband to commit suicide by slaughtering his martial arts skills and try her best to save his son, and he would not have fallen to such a point.

"My mother remembers that the imperial edict was the world, and it was said that the Li clan members had a total of 188 people, all of whom were beheaded. But if I remember correctly, there were 189 people in the Li clan members."

Speaking of this, a sarcasm flashed in Li Qianchong's eyes, "Mom doesn't know what it is. Li Qianfan is the one who has not written on the imperial edict. I don't know what method my father used, but the whole clan only protects him."

Zhu Yunjiu felt as if he had been cut by a dull knife. He was also the young master of the Li family, and they all called the man "Dad", but his situation was very different. If it weren't for him, he wouldn't have been biased to this point. Now one is strong, but the other can only be with a wheelchair all day long.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Yunjiu's hatred increased greatly, and there was also deep doubts, "Since he was the only one who was saved, why are you Chong'er..."

Li Qianchong's face was calm, as if he was an irrelevant outsider. He said slowly: "I had no hope of survival, so I no longer made any plans and waited for death in prison. I didn't want to do it on the day of execution. My father bribed the prison guards to see me, and brought wine and food, saying that he would have the last meal with me. I didn't want him to do it, but he thought, but not long after drinking it, I would have bleeding and unconsciousness. In a daze, I vaguely heard my father instructing the prison guards, saying that I was dead, and that there were also a useless person on the left and right, and asked them to take me to the mass grave." Li Qianchong said a hint of irony overflowed with the corner of his lips. The dignified general of the country, even if he was so depressed, there were always one or two people who thought of his former divine power.

"I don't know how many days I have been in the mass grave, but I only know that when I wake up again, Li Qianfan will dig me hard in the mass grave. At that time, I was already a useless person, and I can't speak or do my legs. Except for the consciousness still exists, the others are no different from the dead. Qianfan took me out of the pile of dead people, and I survived. Everyone in the world knows that Master Li is no longer alive, and I rarely show up in public since then."

Zhu Yunjiu was stunned when he heard this. It turned out that he was not not not saving him, but the time was a little late. He couldn't help but feel scared. If he hadn't sent that meal, if he hadn't sent that meal, if he had been a few hours late, if he had stopped planning for his eldest son because he was jealous of his jealousy, if Li Qianfan had not been looking for it in the mass grave... How difficult it would be for her child to survive? If something went wrong in any link, she would never have seen her son again today.

"Good child, I will protect you in the future. Give me some time, I will definitely let you walk openly in the world!" Zhu Yunjiu stroked Li Qianchong's cheek lovingly. Even though he had grown into a big man, in her eyes, there were always children who needed to protect themselves.

"If I want to be open and upright, I must reverse the case for Li's family first." Li Qianchong shook his head, and a trace of splendor suddenly flashed in his eyes, "I'm afraid I don't have to worry about this."

Zhu Yunjiu was surprised, "Why did you say this?"

"The boy's guy saw an acquaintance in Dijon a few days ago. Who is it?"

"Acquaintance... Dijon..." Zhu Yunjiu thought of the news he had heard these days and thought about it carefully. Soon after, he suddenly looked up, as if he was a little confused and asked: "Wen Xiang?"

Li Qianchong nodded, "It's Wen Xiang. The child has been staring at him secretly for years. Back then, he framed his father's marriage to the enemy and treason, causing the Marquis' Mansion to collapse, and the entire Li clan was killed. Unexpectedly, after more than a year, he became more and more intimate with Dijon..."

"It's him." Zhu Yunjiu's beautiful eyes were grim and sharp. "To be honest, the expulsion of his mother from the Marquis's mansion was also unrelated to him. This is just right, let's calculate the new and old hatreds together."

Li Qianchong's pale face looked like a ghost, and his eyes seemed to be flashing with the dark fire of hell, and he said softly, "I will give it to him with his own way. This time, I want Wen Jingliang to fall into the trap."

Zhu Yunjiu looked at this face that looked very much like his father, suddenly thought of another person, and felt a deep heart, and said hurriedly, "Not good". As he said that, he was about to get up and call people, but was stopped by Li Qianchong.

"What's wrong with mom? But what urgent things are encountered?"

"It's not that my mother has an urgent problem, it's your brother! I don't know that it was Qianfan who saved you. I used to think that you were no longer in the world, and I killed Qianfan with extreme hatred. Now that the man is in Dijon, Qianfan probably doesn't know yet. I want to bring the man back quickly. If it's too late, it's too late!"

"Then don't hurry..." Li Qianchong reached out and grabbed him slowly, his face was light and clouds were faint, and only a pair of brown pupils were stained with a strange excitement, as if the dim sky before the storm came, and one word was very slow and clear, "This time, I wanted him to never see the sunshine in this world again..."

A cruel smile appeared on the corner of Li Qianchong's lips. People who were thousands of miles away seemed to be attracted by this smile, walking step by step towards the deadly quagmire.

...

The dark sky is boundless, and the dark black like ink stretches for thousands of miles, almost swallowing the earth. A crescent moon hangs in the sky above the night sky, emitting a cold and cool light around it, looking shaky.

After Li Qianfan came out of the post office, he first used what he could do, and then bought some smoked horse meat that he could store, and then bought some light but sharp sleeve arrows to put them on his body, and then he set out toward the vegetable garden again.

When we came the first two times, there were many farmers in it. This time there was no one. The dark night was silent, and only the night owl that sometimes passed by the head left a hoarse chirping, which seemed even more silent and strange.

Li Qianfan searched for the entrance where the two men had just disappeared with his memory. With the lesson he learned from the last time, he walked with great care this time. He always held a sleeve arrow in his hand in case of emergency.

The vegetable garden was divided into two pieces, one with pineapple millet and the other with thistle mustard. The intersection of the two areas was the hinterland of the vegetable garden, which was where the two disappeared. It must be that there was some mechanism, but Li Qianfan stood there, perhaps because the night interfered with his sight, and at first glance, there was nothing wrong with it.

Li Qianfan pulled out the bronze sword behind him and beat on the ground to investigate. Because he was not sure whether there were secret whistles arranged by them around, he did not dare to make too much noise.

The land is no different from ordinary land. The thick soil is covered with thick pine nuts and thistle mustard leaves. Li Qianfan waved his sword to cut off some, revealing a large area of ​​gray-yellow soil and a few inconspicuous small stones.

Li Qianfan's eyes fell on it and counted exactly seven. These stones were the most ordinary grey stones, which could be seen everywhere outside, and the arrangement between them was always curved, which always made people feel that they had seen them somewhere. Li Qianfan stood up a little further away. When he saw this, the seven stones were arranged in an irregular spoon shape. I don't know whether it was intentional or coincidental, but it seemed to fit the Big Dipper.

Li Qianfan squatted down and poked one by one with the tip of the sword. Although the stone moved, he even grabbed a few of them and took them in his hand and deliberately scattered them to the side, but there was no abnormality around him.

Could it be that the agency is elsewhere? Li Qianfan was a little anxious. He had delayed some time and delayed it. Maybe the man had already left when he entered the ground.

Thinking of this, Li Qianfan couldn't help but feel a little anxious again. He kicked away the remaining stones on the ground, but when his toes crossed the ground, they hit a hard thing, just under the soil under one of the stones.

The thing was kicked like this and did not move, but the angle tilted a little to the other side. Li Qianfan was about to squat down to see, but suddenly the soil in front of him moved suddenly, revealing a three-foot-square underground entrance.

It took at least half an hour to walk from one end of the vegetable garden to the other end. There was only such a small entrance to such a large vegetable garden, and the mechanism was set up so secret and small. If he hadn't seen the man's disappearance with his own eyes, he would have never found the mechanism if he came ten times.

Li Qianfan took a deep breath and tried to get down the hole. As soon as he went to the bottom, a few mud particles on his head fell down. With the sound of grass leaves salsa rubbing, the entrance was sealed again.

There was not a half guard in the narrow and dark tunnel. A small torch was placed every few steps. Li Qianfan walked gently and could only occasionally hear strange movements coming from somewhere. He could not tell what was made, nor could he tell the source of the sound.

The corridor was turned around and there were many forks. If you accidentally went in the wrong direction and returned to your original place. Li Qianfan walked through it for a long time and finally understood why there was no guard here.

I don’t know which craftsman designed the corridor, which seems to be well-connected, but the only thing that really leads is one main road, which must be the core of the corridor. And the remaining many forks, each one is a dead end, no matter how far it is, not only that, there are different poisonous insects at the end of the fork.

Li Qianfan was lucky enough to encounter several insects the size of a fingernail. He was fed with some poison. He was filled with a blue light and had fine legs under his body. He could not count them like centipedes. He could only see that the legs on both sides were colorful, which made his scalp numb, let alone bite it, maybe he didn't even know how he died.

Similar bugs are found at the end of every fork, and their shapes vary greatly. These poisonous insects are extremely sensitive and usually dormant and pretend to be dead. When the strange aura appears, they immediately crawl towards Li Qianfan excitedly, and his speed is almost caught off guard.

Fortunately, Li Qianfan carried the poison avoidance sac that Qi Xiu gave her. The strange smell made the poisonous insects worry about it. They didn't dare to chase them too quickly and even dared not snuggle around. Li Qianfan then avoided it.

In addition to the poisonous insects, another thing that made him lingeringly scared was the clever voice transmission of the corridor. After walking inside for a long time, he finally understood where the strange sounds that were inaccurate to find came from.

The craftsman who originally designed the corridor installed many echo cylinders on the stone wall. The sound from the fork in this way was transmitted layer by layer through the echo cylinder. Soon, he could hear it from the other corridor. Several times, in order to avoid the poisonous insects, Li Qianfan accidentally made several obvious footsteps. When he appeared in another corridor, the sound was heard clearly. He didn't have to think about where the sound was finally transmitted, but he was not sure whether they could hear it, and how they would deal with it after hearing it.

With poisonous insects and such tricky designs, ordinary uninvited guests may not have the chance to get close to the core. Occasionally, one or two people who are lucky enough to avoid poisonous insects are afraid that they will have to face the layers of guards in the core to catch turtles in a jar. At that time, I don’t know what to wait for me.

It is no wonder that a guard can't see such an effective and labor-saving method.

After walking for most of the day, there were fewer and fewer roads around it. The main road and the fork were clearly distinguished. Not long after, I saw a huge fire in front of me. A corner of a stone wall was vaguely cast on the ground on the other side, motionless.

arrive.

Li Qianfan calmed his energy and concentrated his mind. He slid his sleeves on his wrist, and let his footsteps pass by like ghostly. He hid gently behind the stone wall and came out of the recessed gap, quietly listening to the movements on the other side of the stone wall.

There is no sound transmission tube here. Li Qianfan put his ear close to the wall. As expected, the conversation between two people came from the other side. He heard the sounds of one of them. He was very familiar with the voices of one of them. It was the young master who had disappeared in the hinterland of the vegetable garden that he had seen in the woods before.
To be continued...