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Chapter 537 The Box
"People in the former Dajing imperial family were obsessed with mysterious and mysterious things such as Taoism and physiognomy." Ji Chongyan said, "The incident on Jiulongling is the best proof."

He has gained much more from going to Jiangnan Road than he imagined.

An Guogong did not refute. He is a veteran of the former court, so he is naturally aware of the persistence of the Dajing royal family on this matter.

Or it can be said that the emperors of all dynasties believed in this regardless of their merits, without exception.

"Grandfather, do you still remember that beautiful Miss Jiang?" Ji Chongyan asked.

An Guogong glanced at him: "How could you not remember?"

Beautiful things always make people take a second look, let alone people?
"The one who can be called a 'fox spirit' by those Dajing loyal ministers will not be an ordinary beauty," An Guogong said here, with emotion in his tone, "Not everyone can be called a 'fox spirit'."

But as far as he saw, did Miss Jiang do anything to play with other people's feelings?No.On the contrary, there are quite a few ordinary-looking women with dignified names, with a cousin on the left, a childhood sweetheart on the right, and a fiancé-in-law who has made a marriage contract in front of her.

"Someone like your father wrote her a lot of poems to express his sincerity, and I have never seen her respond. She is not close to those sons, except..."

"Except for uncle?" Ji Chongyan answered.

Even if they talked about everything between their grandparents, they rarely mentioned this uncle who died young.

In many cases, deliberately seldom mentioning or not mentioning, in fact, some answers have been proved from the side.

Ji Chongyan's face remained unchanged, and he looked out of the carriage through the fluttering curtain: "There are never a few smart people in Chang'an City, and there are some things that everyone knows in their hearts." It's just that they all chose to keep silent.

An Guogong fell silent, and after a while he smiled wryly and said: "The old man is gone, now the prosperous world is peaceful, don't think about it."

When he was young, he also fought hard, desperately seeking a fairness and truth in everything.

But now, at this age, he has much more worries than when he was young. When he was young and alone, he dared to break the boat, but now he dare not.

Perhaps, as people get older, in addition to gaining experience and vicissitudes, they also lose something at the same time!

"I know my grandfather's worries, and I also know that my grandfather is thinking about me." Ji Chongyan leaned against the carriage wall, looked at the passers-by outside the carriage, and said, "But... I can't hide from it, I've been hiding from it since I was born." but."

The last sentence was harsh and hoarse.

"Grandfather, does the tyrant know why Miss Jiang must enter the palace?" Ji Chongyan spoke again without waiting for Anguo to open his mouth.

An Guogong moved uncomfortably when he met his elder grandson's gaze, but he still raised his head to meet his elder grandson's gaze, and said, "Because of beauty, there are no clansmen, and parents protect each other."

Beauty that cannot be protected will only invite disaster.

The tyrant is also a lustful person, and everything about Ms. Jiang seems to be logical.

"That's enough to ruin this face," Ji Chongyan said lightly, "Even if Ms. Jiang can't do it herself, the Jiang clan can do it for her. After a bump, it's so easy to stain the beautiful jade with blemishes." thing."

An Guogong paused for a moment, but immediately shook his head and said: "The members of the Jiang clan are not gentlemen, they are all hypocritical villains. If you send Miss Jiang to a tyrant, you will get a lot of rewards and rewards, including power and money. It’s a good deal for the Jiang clan.”

Although he was a person who came here back then, he was far away from these things, and he didn't bother to inquire about them.At that time, Duke Anguo, who was enthusiastic in his youth, had to consider his clansmen, younger generations, and how to protect the entire Duke Anguo mansion.

It doesn't matter if he regrets his life or he has to worry about it. In short, most people's instinctive reaction is to stay away from such dangerous things when they smell the danger and don't want to benefit from it.

"No, grandfather was wrong." Ji Chongyan said, "For the Jiang clan, it is the least cost-effective choice to give Miss Jiang to the tyrant."

Since the members of the Jiang clan are villains, there is no sense of righteousness, and it is not difficult to guess what villains will do.They will only choose the outcome that is best for them.

"The tyrant is temperamental." Ji Chongyan said. In fact, after breaking through the secrets on Jiulongling, he felt that the tyrant was indeed a little mad. It was not a curse, but a real madness.

"No matter how beautiful Ms. Jiang is, it's hard to guess how long she can live in the hands of a tyrant." Ji Chongyan said, "Before watching the tyrant's attitude towards a beauty who likes it for a while, when he likes it, he can throw a lot of money at it. She is a vegetable farmer who doesn't know how to write You can also become a third-rank member in one day."

This is true!As a veteran of the former court, An Guogong knew about this matter.The tyrant once passed a vegetable field on his way back from the palace. At that time, a peasant girl was farming in the vegetable field.That family of vegetable farmers was also taken back to the city for no reason, and then appointed as a third-rank official, and went to court with a group of ministers.

At that time, the tyrant favored the peasant girl very much, saying that she was so beautiful.Everyone in the city was also forced to praise the peasant girl for her amazing beauty.

Until one morning one month later, the tyrant woke up from his sleep, looked at the peasant girl who was still asleep, and suddenly felt that she was ordinary in appearance, and it was really difficult to be elegant.Then... the peasant girl was chopped down by the tyrant while she was still asleep.

Not counting beheading the farmer's daughter, the vegetable farmer's family who had been sealed as a third-rank official for no reason was also sent to the prison to have their heads beheaded for no reason.

The whole thing was inexplicable, and no one knew what the tyrant was thinking.

Such a tyrant, even if he is a fairy, it is difficult to guarantee how long he can live if he falls into the hands of the tyrant. When the tyrant wakes up and thinks she is not beautiful, or when he steps his left foot when entering the door, the tyrant feels that he should step his right foot They may all lose their heads.

With the nature of a tyrant who attains enlightenment alone, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven; if one person is unlucky, the whole family will beheaded. It is undoubtedly a dangerous and worthwhile thing to dedicate Miss Jiang to the tyrant.

What's more, uprisings broke out everywhere at that time, and it is unknown how long Dajing can last.

"If I were a member of the Jiang family, it would be more beneficial to the Jiang family in the long run to marry Miss Jiang to a stable and powerful family than a tyrant." Ji Chongyan said, "At that time, there was the title of Mr. Jiang's only daughter. Now, she is also allowed to choose the best lintel in the world."

The whole matter, no matter how you look at it, is a bad idea for the members of the Jiang clan, but they did it anyway. Why?
An Guogong looked at his eldest grandson and sighed heavily: He is not as good as his eldest grandson!Although he was a person who came here back then, he was inevitably involved, but his avoidance made him, a person who came here, still have to hear the reasons for that year from his eldest grandson.

"As you said, sending Miss Jiang to the tyrant is indeed a bad idea, but why did the Jiang clan do this?" An Guogong asked.

"Because as far as the tyrant is concerned, he must marry Ms. Jiang. Miss Jiang...even if she is not exceptionally beautiful, he still wants to. Why?" Ji Chongyan seemed to ask himself, "What I thought at first was The power behind Ms. Jiang, but Ms. Jiang is an orphan, and the members of the Jiang clan depend on Mr. Jiang. Without Mr. Jiang, the members of the Jiang clan are nothing. Apart from her clear name, what kind of power can such a Ms. Jiang have? Word?"

An Guogong said silently, "Why is that?" Qingming's usefulness lies in icing on the cake, not in giving timely help.

He couldn't find anything wrong with his eldest grandson's analysis.So why?What else is behind Miss Jiang?
"The emperor must want it, what does grandfather think?" After all, he was still in the carriage, Ji Chongyan didn't say much.

In fact, some things don't need to be said, they can be guessed.

The Dajing imperial family firmly believed in mysterious and mysterious things. The emperor called himself the emperor and was ordered by heaven.Especially in the last years of the former dynasty, when uprisings broke out everywhere, for the Dajing royal family and a group of Dajing loyal officials, there was an urgent need for something that could prove that the Son of Heaven was granted by God and that imperial power was inviolable.

Even if he deliberately stayed away from these things, those rumors from back then would still come to his ears inadvertently.At this time, those messy and complicated news seemed to be connected into a network with a thread, and connected together.

An Guogong's eyes flickered, and he leaned his head against the wall of the carriage and fell into deep thought as the carriage jolted slightly.

When uprisings broke out everywhere, a group of generals headed by the Zhao family army were dispatched one after another to suppress the uprising common people, causing chaos everywhere.

It was the cavalry of the army that suppressed Dajing's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

But... the high-ranking emperor in the imperial city obviously doesn't think so, he trusts more... the national teacher than the army cavalry.

Before the fall of Dajing, there was such a person.It's just that this person has never appeared in front of others.So much so that important court officials like him almost ignored the existence of this person.

Whether it was the court meeting, the Dajing Imperial City, or the final army rebellion, this national teacher never appeared, or it did appear, but he didn't know it.

But if he didn't know, then the entire Chang'an city could count on one hand the people who knew and had seen this so-called national teacher.

A national teacher who has never appeared before, if it is not recorded in the official register, it is afraid that it is equivalent to non-existence.

In fact, even many veterans of the Great Jing years felt that this was a nihilistic official position that did not exist.

Earlier, An Guogong also thought so.But... what if he thought it was wrong?Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

What if this national teacher has always existed?

He also knew about what happened on Nine Dragon Ridge. Probably, if the Dajing Duan family had been doing this, the group of Taoist priests on Nine Dragon Ridge would have been allowed to develop by themselves?Is no one spying and snooping on them?
This is impossible!The Taoist head of Ruiyuan Temple obviously died with a secret, and someone had contacted him.

What's more, thinking of those heavy treasures on Jiulongling, An Guogong felt that if it was him, he would not be at ease in handing these heavy treasures into the hands of these people.

After all, monks are also human beings. Who can guarantee that every monk can keep their promises, instead of digging up treasures and embezzling them?
Given the importance that the Dajing imperial family attached to this matter, now that I think about it again, this "National Teacher" may not necessarily be a false job, it may be a certain person, or it may be a certain force, in short, it may not be non-existent.

If the "National Teacher" existed, the "National Teacher" should have appeared when Dajing was in turmoil.

But what does the whole thing have to do with Miss Jiang?

An Guogong suddenly narrowed his eyes as if thinking of something: "In the few days when Miss Jiang was just born, the evening glow in the capital was extremely bright, and the sky was full of fiery clouds, which lasted for many days."

Such a situation is actually not weird to say that it is weird. It is not that Huoshaoyun has never seen it before, but it just burned for several days at that time.

"It wasn't a big deal at the time. After all, it was just a slight coincidence of celestial phenomena. It's not a big deal. At most, Qin Tianjian wrote down this and said it was auspicious." An Guogong said.

The emperor loves to see auspiciousness, and loves to hear people say that he is the son of destiny.Whenever there is a vision, Qin Tianjian always says it is "auspicious".

The Anguo Guild knew about this because after Miss Jiang died, the vision of her birth was changed overnight by the Qin Tianjian to "a bewitching star descended from the sky".

"Ms. Jiang is very good-looking, and she is too beautiful. At the beginning, she was the daughter of the famous Jiang Gong, and there were many rumors. Even your father wrote poems to her saying that she is a 'goddess has come'." Anguo When the father said this, he couldn't help frowning, and said, "The poem was read by the old man before it was sent out. It was written so pretentiously that I almost didn't ask the old man to spit out a bowl of wolfberry dumpling soup made by your grandmother." After coming out, the old man directly confiscated the poems and burned them to avoid embarrassment!"

Thanks to Master Ji's poem, he was deeply impressed.

Ji Chongyan played with a white jade in his hand, and said: "Since it is a 'goddess descending', it should match the emperor of the world. Someone has linked Miss Jiang's fate with the emperor."

Mr. An couldn't help being taken aback by these words, but he nodded quickly and said: "That's the case, but I don't know what those people said at the time, and what relationship it has with that person." "

It is obvious who this or that refers to.

Ji Chongyan did not answer An Guogong's words immediately, but directly handed an unlocked box to An Guogong after returning to the mansion.

An Guogong rubbed the box and didn't open it right away, he just raised his head and asked Ji Chongyan: "Brother Yan, what is here?"

Ji Chongyan shook his head, didn't answer his words, but said: "The answers to countless things are actually in this box, and my grandfather will know it at a glance."

An Guogong's fingers rubbing the box subconsciously trembled, but he didn't open it immediately.

Ji Chongyan didn't urge him either, he just sat there and watched An Guogong rubbing the box in a daze.

Known answers are actually not afraid to open, because opening is only for verification; completely unknown answers are not afraid to open, because they are completely unknown; what really makes people hesitate is half-knowledge answers.

Holding the teacup in his hand, he took a sip and lowered his eyelids.

Until now, he still remembers the man he saw when he was young, the man who climbed over the wall with the box and appeared in front of him.

He had never seen such a embarrassed man!He was tall and muscular all over his body, like a ferocious beast, rushing towards him with a forceful aura all over his body.

As a young man, he has not yet grown into what he is today, and he doesn't even know that this aggressive aura is fighting on the battlefield, licking blood at the edge of a knife, and the blood that is unique to soldiers.

And that man who should be extremely scary even standing in the crowd appeared in front of him, but he couldn't even stand upright. He knelt down on the ground with one knee, and the wounds on his body were scabbed layer after layer. There are knife scars all over his face, and it's terrifying that he can't see his true face clearly.Only those eyes were completely different from his whole body, big and bright, not scary at all.

The man opened his mouth, he didn't know what he had gone through before he found him, there was not even a single tooth left in his mouth, the man hesitated and urgently handed him the bloody box.

Seeing that the young man was not frightened or flustered, he was only silent for a moment, and when he stretched out his hand to take the box, the man's eyes were even more astonishingly bright, and he stretched out his scarred fingers tremblingly to point at the box he had taken. box, motioning him to open it.

……

The memory was interrupted by a "click", and Ji Chongyan looked up.

An Guogong opened the box that he had been caressing for a long time.

(End of this chapter)